skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There's no reason to believe it's a "full" account delete even in the countries covered by the GDPR considering they brazenly breach the GDPR with their "consent" flow.

Given FB's business model, and the fact that they create "shadow" profiles for folks who don't even have FB accounts, I have no doubt that while their UI might pretend that your account has been "deleted", all the data still exists for their use.

Which is why, when I left Facebook in 2014, rather than attempting to delete or disable the account, I posted a goodbye to those on FB that I cared about and explained exactly why I was leaving (their predatory and invasive business model).

I then logged out and haven't returned. I did this because I figured that any activity on their platform would be logged and stored with everything else they'd already collected.

And that was seven years ago. Given what we've seen from them since then, it's pretty clear that I was right.

Just go away and don't look back. Otherwise you'll just give them more data.
Where are there any reports that discuss concerns such as these? E.g. why is it hard to find the argument for why environmental rights could be at odds with civil rights?
Was going to say this and I'll further add that the GP, when referencing US or UK objections, is referring to the veto power that the permanent members of the security council, often referred to as P5, have on security council resolutions. Any one P5 member can veto to block the adoption of security council resolutions.
Reverse for me... The white noise "floor" on my Sony ones is very audible and pretty annoying after some time.
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Are you using VHS for said taping? I suddenly wonder if this is one of those anachronistic phrases, or if people no longer use it and you're revealing your age.
Nitpicking perhaps, but there's definitely measurable food energy in black coffee. A small mug of paper-filtered might be <1 kcal, but a double espresso might be 5+.
Who is to provide, say, "a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family", which is also a basic human right, as listed by the original (1948) Universal Declaration of Human Rights[0]?

The fact that there's nobody to provide it, doesn't mean that it's not a basic human right.

[0] https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...
I'm very interested in your friend's opinion. If you can't post a link, perhaps just a pointer to a web presence.
Technically very smart solution, but legally way too risky.

If there's ever a breach, for example someone steals the key and then accesses the data, the fine will be super high given that the company has retrained data after the user asked to delete it.

To mitigate such risk, the company would at least need explicit consent of the user, at which point it's just as simply asking the user to not really delete their account.

A viable option, legally speaking, could be to send the dump to the user, in a way that can be easily imported back if the user ever wants to login again.
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ANC never cancels out the sounds I want it to. It does great at eliminating the constant hums and thrums that weren't bothering me in the first place but does nothing for the roar of engines, motors, the wind, saws, tools, etc. "Make it so I can't tell whether my house's AC is on" is not really my use case.
Am I the only one a bit disappointed by the gross earnings for the top 5 earners given how much the media has ben hyping the money made by e-gamers. For some reason I would have thought they would make more money over 2 years. Top earner was grossing $ 9.6M ($4.8M/yr), 10th was $2.9M($1.4M/yr), at 81 you drop below $1M (500k/yr) on twitch pre-tax revenue. After 81 you drop below the %1M over two years threshold.

Actually the more I think about it - that does seem like a lot if you add in their other rev from youtube channels and other compensation. I understand why all the pro players started working on their twitch stream content more than winning competitions. More stable business and viewer base.
That's is why I don't use mines for more than maybe one hour per week with the NC on. In fact, a few years ago there was a tone of complaints regarding a supposed noise reduction decrease set by a new version of the firmware of different brands (iirc Sony and Bose) and I wouldn't be surprised to learn it was an attempt to reduce this kind of secondary effects.

edited for correcting my English.
> This is unhelpful whataboutery. China isn't directly relevant.

It is. Because it is one of the biggest threats to human rights and to a clean environment. If UN can't tackle China, they are feckless, but of course we all know this. This is a stick to beat the west with while China and Russia and the new axis of evil get to keep running rough-shot over the rest of the world.
Yeah, point the phone camera to the sun will saturate the camera sensor and not lead to an accurate value for flux.
Isn't this the exact argument search engines have been fighting for years in relation to piracy? The data hasn't been provided, a link to the data has been provided
So long as you're fluent in the underlying language in this case JS (and I guess TS too), you'll be fine.

All the frameworks and tools are just built on top of those, once you know the basics you're set.
> Is there a difference between your (c) hypothetical future ideas and hypothetical future scaling problems?

Hypothetical future ideas require development. Hypothetical future scaling problems block current development.

For example, suppose that Amazon Marketplace wanted, as soon as possible, to have all customers pay through bitcoin including through lightning network). The question is, would the average fee per transaction average 1c or less?

I claim the answer is no. Lightning channels require broadcasts (though much less frequently than 1 per merchant transaction) on the main network. Let's suppose someone does 100 transactions with amazon per 1 broadcast to the bitcoin network, which seems generous to me. A google search[0] suggests that the current average transaction fee on bitcoin main network is about 2.5 dollars, which then averages to 2.5 cents per lightning transaction with Amazon. This is close to the desired goal of 1 cent per transaction, under the listed assumptions.

However, Amazon adopting bitcoin for all transactions would drive a ridiculous amount of traffic to the bitcoin network. If we go to recent history, march-april 2021 saw about $20 average transaction cost (or more - peak at $60). Going back to our same calculations, $20 per broadcast puts us at a fee of 20c per amazon transaction, far beyond our goal of 1c per transaction. Furthermore historical data has not yet seen Bitcoin as a primary transaction network for a large commerce site like Amazon, so it's reasonable to speculate we could see per-broadcast fees average above $100.

In simpler terms, while Lightning network greatly decreases the fee per real-world transaction, it's not enough to handle large scale adoption unless ratio of real-world transactions to bitcoin broadcasts increase in direct proportion to the fees on the bitcoin network. Realistically, if a large amount of US commerce occurred on the bitcoin network, the most optimistic access pattern would have users broadcast to true-up their channel liquidity roughly in line with receiving paychecks - maybe twice a month.

The simple fact is that if you take millions of humans and have them broadcast twice a month on the bitcoin network, the bitcoin network would not be able to handle it (bitcoin volume is roughly 10 million transactions per month[1]). Forget even hoping to scale to billions of humans.

[0] https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_f...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_scalability_problem#/m...
This is disappointing to read, I guess it is true what they say: you don't become a billionaire by being a good person.
It was extremely uncomfortable to me when I first started using them. I was surprised how much and how quickly I was able to get used to it - it only took a week or so of frequent use.
I don't follow your feed too closely, as it's usually not within my time budget, so I missed that.

Thank you very much for doing what you do! You are an inspiration to me and I admire the calm and structured way you work. Hope you keep enjoying what you do!
We were talking about the phrase 'founding fathers' specifically and invocations of 100+ years old 'founding' principles of the state generally. If you want invocation of individuals and their writing, here's president Macron again, a year ago:

In the Paris Pantheon, a mausoleum to France’s heroes, Macron handed five new citizens their French papers in a solemn ceremony to mark the 150th anniversary of the Third Republic.

“At the start of the trial of the attacks of January 2015, I say that to be French is to defend the right to laugh, jest, mock and caricature, of which Voltaire maintained that it is the source of all other rights,” Macron said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-politics-macron/to...

Voltaire, a man born in the 16th century and who is buried at said Pantheon - a temple to the secular saints of France, dedicated in the 18th century - "On April 4, 1791, the Assembly decreed "that this religious church become a temple of the nation, that the tomb of a great man become the altar of liberty.""
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> In an announcement Wednesday, the Education Department said it will "restore the promise" of the debt relief program through a series of actions that will be mplemented "over the coming months," according to an agency memo.

"Restore" not "fulfill".

As in "maybe we can get another set of suckers to buy into this again"
I've always been wary of ANC in traffic, even as pedestrian. What if you don't hear the ambulance coming through, or the crash happening nearby?
All rights subjective and temporal. Just take the question of freedom of speech, and how that evolves in time, how it varies between countries (even between allied countries, such as the US and Canada).

One could argue that the desire for an increased level of comfort of one set of people should not happen at the detriment of the right to clean water, for example, of another set of people. Many countries will have their own standards, or their own double-standards. I think it's a very relevant debate.
I think the word you are looking for is entertainment. You may not appreciate the value of said entertainment, but then I don't really see a merit of donkey shows, Kanye or just about any other entertainment figure. That is the value.

And by its very nature, it is ephemeral.
For people that don’t expect the entire internet to be stored on their device, it should be an option.
When exactly did Napoleon exterminate and enslave the people of the countries he "conquered" (he usually defeated them in a decisive battle and then had them sign treaties, he never dissolved, e.g. the Prussian Empire). He did reintroduce slavery in the French colonies, and should be called out for it. As should France and all other countries on their colonial history, and they are.

A civil war is different in the regard, that the defeated party is part of the same nation. So yes, I think the better analogy would be Napoleon statues in the UK. Or Wellington ones in France. And aren't there some of these statues on federal property as well?
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Most helmets do not integrate electronics or sound. Instead, they contain small recessed areas behind the lining for you to put two speakers that attach to your choice of sound system (e.g. a bluetooth headset with mesh intercom).

This is a simple way to divide the expertise between two firms who specialize in different things. Integrating noise-cancelling electronics into the product itself is not this simple. Bell Helmets doesn't employ firmware engineers.
> Any other QC35 owners do the right-hand-switch-on and left-hand-double-click to turn ANC off dance without thinking any more ?

Glad I'm not alone!
I'm always curious how diplomats and politicians regard the "rights" in the U.N. declaration of human rights. They don't conform to a defensible set of natural rights (even if it's agreed that such things exist), so are they considered a goal or a declaration of how the UN thinks people should live? Does it matter that few UN members conform to them? Or that they represent quite a specific ideological viewpoint in many cases. Or that some rights seem to conflict with other rights? In short, what's the point of a lengthy declaration of "rights" that almost none of the members seems committed to.
I use ANC headphones but it seriously feels like a gimmick to me.

So ANC is great for removing car noise? I don't really need it, prefer to hear the oncoming traffic.

Oh they help for aeroplane engine hum? Well, it's not really bothering me. Quite the opposite, helping me fall asleep more easily and cover other, more annoying noises in the plane.

Now, if some manufacturer could produce a comfortable headphones that block human speech and laughter, and more importantly toddler noises, I would be first in queue to buy them.
In Paris you just have to visit the suburbs. Tourists don’t go out there because none of the attractions are out there, and if I didn’t get lost rollerblading I would have never have noticed.
Interesting. Can you expand on an example of a 'new' human right that would be authoritarian in nature? I don't really understand the "right to development" example. It looks like it was adopted by the UN already in 1986 and I'm not sure if the authoritarian implications.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/righttod...
I notice the pressure and exhaustion over time, but both exist somewhat with any set of headphones. Noice cancellation almost completely negates my tinnitus, so I don’t mind the trade in comfort for that temporary relief from noise.
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How does china building nuclear imply that they are not ignoring climate change? They could recognize that nuclear is a better source of power than coal, which most people would, and still not give a damn about the environment and/or climate change.
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No matter what advice you ever see (even good ones) — the weakest security point of failure is always a human being.

As a simple advice for protecting files from hard drive breakdown:

1. buy mac and use built-in timemachine backup (can be encrypted). Works like a charm, nothing to think about, nothing to worry (except keeping your backup drive in safe place).

2. sync important files to cloud (dropbox, googledrive whatever). But be aware that this way you create additional door to steal your data.
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I have no idea why are you being downvoted. Your argumentation is sound and consistent, and your adversary argues in what looks like a bad faith.

Calling it an (attempted) "insurection" or a "coup" just doesn't check out. I'm not sure, but I think nobody with any power (who could be forced to pass that power to someone, hence making it a coup) even was there in the building during that time? What would be the point of attacking target like this, if the goal was a "coup"?

Anyway, I'm not that interested in this in the first place, but I think your argument is well laid out, it was a pleasure to read this thread.
> Counterintelligence officials said in a top secret cable to all stations and bases around the world that too many of the people it recruits from other countries to spy for the U.S. are being lost.

So Top Secret we're reading about it on HN.
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It's one of the reason I dislike physical terms that has words like "ideal" or "perfect" as their part. They subliminally suggest that their properties and behaviours are the "true" ones while the real material things are their imperfect counterparts whose imperfections you can sometime disregard.

Of course, it's exactly the opposite: it's those "ideal" concepts are imperfect approximations of the real things, omitting lots of details which sometimes are not that important but sometimes are absolutely crucial.

My personal favourite example is attaching a perfect source of voltage (zero internal resistance) to a perfect wire (zero resistance). You can't arrive to this scenario starting with the real world entities: both the battery and the wire will have non-zero resistances and depending on their proportions, you end up with approximating either one of those as zero, or none, but never both.
How is any of that Backblaze's fault?
I do not have any personal experience, but sadly it does not sound too surprising from what's been out publicly. The moment he dropped out and immediately got the CNN job really changed my perception of him. Then after some events from his mayoral campaign, such as his Israel comments or the Staten Island ferry cowboy incident, it's pretty clear he is a politician like many others.
> I wonder if this'll lead to software engineers in big companies having more restricted access to code?

I don't think that Twitch has closed source code because they want to keep code private. It's probably more a matter of don't want to show commit message in case there are some bad words inside it. And don't want to show the world in case their source code look bad.

Twitch without its code source can't work yeah, but imagine if all the commits of Twitch were public I doubt it would change anything for them.

That would be nice if their was a mental change about source code and that it is fine to show it even if it looks shit.
This is going to BLOW up the twitch gaming community with all the infighting now that everyone knows how much everyone else makes. Wow.
"Any publicity is good publicity."
> “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”

The prize is about artificial catalysts. A catalyst is a substance that speeds up a reaction without being consumed. Another way to speed reactions up is to heat them, but that consumes energy and often leads to by-products that must be removed and disposed of.

The "asymmetric" part has to do with one kind of by-product. Some reactions produce 50% of a by-product that must be separated out and disposed of. This happens because some molecules have 3D structure that's different than its mirror image. Think of the way that certain objects like bottle caps and screws only turn one way to tighten. Molecules can have that property (including many drugs you may have taken), and if the handedness is wrong, in many applications, it's a by-product and/or poison. An asymmetric catalyst can make molecules of one handedness selectively, saving material, money, and energy.

The "organocatalysis" part has to do with what the catalyst is made of. Prior to the awardee's research, catalysts tended to contain metal atoms. A few Nobels have been awarded for catalytic processes that use metals.

So metals are great in principle, but in practice have issues. Some metals are linked to toxicity at trace levels. So when preparing drugs, you need to be very careful about purifying out the metal contaminants. Palladium is an example of a very versatile catalytic metal that causes problems during drug manufacture. Metals can also be quite expensive. Platinum and Rhodium are used in both chemical manufacture and in automobile catalytic converters. The price of Rhodium hit $25,000/oz recently. Not all metals are this expensive, but the cost and availability are often a problem.

The awarded work uses catalysts that don't contain metals. Instead, the catalysts contain the elements carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and possibly some other non-metal atoms. In other words, these catalysts are made of the same kinds of atoms as life. (Enzymes catalyze biological reactions.) So now there's a link between biological catalysis and artificial catalysis that didn't exist before.

This work solved a number of practical problems, really went against dogma at the time, and opened up an important area of research that intersects with big questions like the origins of life.
Notice how there are no clear criteria for evaluation in this space? No math. No models. Just loose concepts strung together with words and sprinkled with calls to authority (e.g., Andy Grove) to add credibility. No evidence. No science.

As an organizational "scientist" it's amazing to me that organizations are ubiquitous and yet we know so little about how to construct good ones. Software design is in a better state IMO but not by much.

Here's a simple question that should be answerable in any approach to org design. What's the optimal *span of control* for management at each level in the organizational hierarchy? If you can't answer this question, you can't "design" an organization.
That's not what salting does, and different hashing methods are irrelevant. The danger of having your hash leaked is that it can be cracked and the plaintext password recovered. The hash itself is entirely useless for logging into other services.
Dumb question from a non-biker - does that not present a danger to the motorcyclist? Do you not rely on your hearing to stay safe?
>being defiant by deleting WhatsApp doesn't accomplish anything because others don't care to switch to reach you.

I disagree. It accomplishes at least one thing -- WhatsApp isn't tracking/recording your messages any more. That's what I would care about.
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Voltaire is an author, not a politician. Hardly the same thing.

EDIT: Today Voltaire could be regarded as an anti-semite it seems. Maybe more due to his disdain for religion, and Judaism being the oldest mono-theistic religion, than a true hate for Jews but still. Always nice to read up, even just quickly, on people and things. And he corrected these statements after being called out for them, specifying he disagrees with Judaism as a religion and not the believers. More than can be said of most people being called out for BS they publicly say.
Yeah, I definitely mushed the context here; this wasn't the correct spot to put this.

Thanks also for the reference to the time factor. The text took a good maybe hour, maybe (while doing other things) to put together - and at that point I just wasn't considering that text might actually take some time to read. Time to start paying attention to how long I take to read...

There is indeed also a bit of subtle intermixing of "I help!" vs self-centeredness in there too. That one seems to be proving a bit of a real challenge.

Thanks very much for the clarification.
You are right, I have misunderstood what you have said, because it indeed looked like if "mass" would have been some traditional word having anything to do in any language with what are now called "weight" and "mass" instead of a recent post-Newton word choice for naming one of the 2 quantities, while keeping the old names for the other.

I still think that the choice of which of the 2 should get a new name was bad, because the traditional quantitative meaning almost always referred to what is now called "mass"(with extremely few exceptions such when somebody would be described as so strong as to be able to lift a certain weight).
There surely is a need for a sql linter, but if it wants to be strict about syntax style, it should better familiarize itself with not-noob styles first.

Eg. some people like to align the clauses vertically and use a leading, not trailing, comma.

select a
, b
, count(*) as count
from table
where cond1
and cond2
group by a, b
order by count desc
ANC without anything playing is also an excellent “isolation chamber” for meditation.