skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CA state govt is, by its own admission, swimming in cash

these are the people you elected...again and again and again...to address these issues...CA Democrats have the votes to pass any legislation they want (Republicans cannot stop any Dem measure even if they all vote as a bloc)

if a government with no legislative barriers and a giant warchest won't address these issues, why should tech cos?
I consult with large companies, and right-to-be-forgotten generally just isn't a priority for them. It keeps getting moved down the backlog. Furthermore, accounts get deleted accidentally all the time, so managers are reluctant to hard-delete.

Then there are the peripherals - global db backups with x expiration date, random documents on various cloud providers, etc.

In short, I 100% agree that you should keep your main email (at the very least) off of anything possible.
I think the fundamental issue that we need so much personal information to open an account but there is no law protecting that piece of information. We have to take the fallout by ourselves. I can't really think of anyway to get out of this, except that to use as much tailored information (email and phone can be tailored to a specific financial service, and even address can be, but the most important ones, names and birthdays cannot sadly) as possible.
> Is there some legal mechanism to compel companies to delete your data rather than this "soft-delete" garbage?

You could take a copy of the original e-mail and a copy of the notice and send them, with a cover letter, to your state securities regulator [1]. If you want to turn up the heat, submit a complaint to FINRA [2]. If you want to be peskier, and live in California, submit a CCPA complaint [3].

[1] https://www.nasaa.org/contact-your-regulator/

[2] https://www.finra.org/investors/need-help/file-a-complaint

[3] https://oag.ca.gov/contact/consumer-complaint-against-busine...
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This is an almost universal problem in any endeavor. Everyone loves heros and visionaries, few give any respect to diligent maintainers, so we have a world of shiny, fragile new things on top of crumbling older ones that haven't kept up. Whether its software, infrastructure, equipment or corporate structure or whatever, incentives make it always like this.
> Is there some legal mechanism to compel companies to delete your data rather than this "soft-delete" garbage?

Yeah, GDPR and California's equivalent thing. Hacker News seems to really dislike it for some reason though.

I guess if you're building a business you don't see it from that perspective, just another hurdle stopping you from moving fast and leaking things
What do you mean? jq can modify data:

$ jq '.foo += 1' <<< '{"foo": 2}'
{
"foo": 3
}
I really wish I had other viable options. I live in SOMA and I have 1Gbps service from Comcast, which did go out last night.

My other options are DSL, so it's going to max out at 20Mbps or so.

I do have roof access, so I guess I could also see about MonkeyBrains.

All that said, during the outage, I just tethered to my iPhone on an AT&T unlimited plan, and was able to stream full quality video to my laptop. I think I speed tested it to about 80Mbps.
Funny you mention that. My work is building course content and assessment delivery systems that can be plugged into any LMS. It’s the leading (modular) solution to this exact problem.
"Here's What You Need to Remember: Men like Denard but perhaps a little less theatrical—many of them South Africans—took the next logical step. They founded businesses with boring-sounding names but a deadly purpose: to fight Africa’s nastiest conflicts on behalf of corrupt, inept governments, and for profit"

I'm heartily sick and tired of the way white South African men are portrayed as the 'new bogeymen'.

Each country has its good and bad men (and women for that matter), and if you could do a census I can almost guarantee the distribution would follow the usual Bell curve.

Get your facts first, then you may distort them as you please.

PS: I'm a white South African male
Hey,

I'm personally like short 3d video's, like was for typefully https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oUnCiGqBoo&t=1s

That's why I'm working on my app to make such video directly from website, so no need screenshots
https://talevideo.com/blog/introducing-talevideo
Yes, I agree, but when confronted with a bunch of 'cups' in a US recipe you want to follow, IMO using cups is better than a metric jug and a calculator, and also better than scales, calculator, and looking up densities.
> NFTs are the digital equivalent of designer clothes, luxury watches, and fancy cars.

I think this is a limited definition of what an NFT can be.
> Hitchens was unbelievably wrongly wrong about Iraq and would never admit it

This absolutely disintegrated the UK left, especially the more "modern liberal" end, because they'd got on board the idea of gunpoint liberation of post-colonial countries run by strongmen and/or Islamists. When this turned out to be a disaster, there was nowhere ideologically to go that didn't involve admitting error.

Like Orwell, they came to Iraq with no choice other than to shoot the elephant.
I'd like to hear more from sam0x17 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29163439) on this topic.

I think OP has confirmation bias. Lots of armchair criticism != only armchair criticism. I've lived in plenty of buildings that don't rate a rant and yet I would never live in again. And I've had friends who've lived in worse and I was so glad when they moved so I didn't have to visit their old shithole. Are we gatekeeping complaints from visitors?
Direct question. Do you agree with the aforementioned commenter and why or why not.
I'm nowhere near 100K in Spain but I wouldn't make 300K in that job in SV either :)

I think it would work out worse in SV though in terms of spending power. With the exception of tech toys which tend to be around the same price everywhere so relatively expensive in Spain.

But I'd give up a lot. Being half a world away from family and also the other drawbacks I mentioned. No, I'm fine here.
I just finished up my masters in CS from OMSCS at GT and some of the classes allow a sheet of notes. It's still a thing, even in the days of online education and proctor software.
Here are some good UK sites to consider including:

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/tone/recipes
BBC Good Food: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com
Jamie Oliver: https://www.jamieoliver.com
Delicious Magazine: https://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/
Great British Chefs: https://www.greatbritishchefs.com

I should add that there are legal restrictions on scraping and re-use of content from third party websites; I haven't checked if the above permit this.
The hough transform generalizes to other shapes as well
Tangent: Rather than killing pilots, work on preventing them from becoming pilots in the first place. Perhaps join neighborhood efforts to close all the small airports where people learn to fly.

Now apply the "reverse thinking" described in the article. To enable the development of more pilots, work on increasing the number of small airfields.

Apply this to your own world. What do you need to do to increase the pipeline of talent available to your company?

The origin story for the RaspberryPI is a prime example:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/we-thought-wed-sell-1000-the-i...
Thievery is illegal in Russia too.
Sure, but light and heat are pretty fundamental to meeting a basic level of comfort. Whether or not I can listen to my favorite album without internet access isn't.
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We are building a data platform that focuses on research:

https://github.com/The-Dev-Effect/reliquery

More information can be found on a blog post detailing the big picture ideas:
https://www.deveffect.io/blog-1/reliquery-cj247
> Grant Permissions on Specific Columns

This feature might be great for OLAP systems, but it's awful for OLTP systems. The last thing I want is debug permission errors bubbling from my database into the application layer. It may not be as efficient, but you should always manage your ACL rules in the application layer if you're building an OLTP app.
> The point isn’t really that phone calls are better than video calls or that Slack is better than email or whatever.

One challenge with calls is when callers are ignorant that their unscheduled call can wipe-out the recipient's mental flow state.
Yes, but the Pis are cheap, easy to find, basically interchangeable, and have low power draw, all of which makes them more attractive for this kind of project.
> For many reasons, including lower fees (see [1])

The lower fees derive from the medium used (crypto instead of traditional payment processors). You didn't need to involve a NFT to send crypto to the artist's wallet.

> acquiring ownership of an artist-signed asset, rather than a digital media file (the limited-edition token is cryptographically signed by the artist, the media file is not)

I'm going to refer to the rest of this comment thread about whether 'ownership' is a suitable word for having a cryptographic signature applied to your blockchain address, when the media file in question is bit-for-bit identical.

As you can guess, I hardly think so. There is nothing you can do as an 'owner' of a digital ape picture that anybody else who right-clicked it and saved it can't also do, with the possible exception of getting kudos from the artist for the money you gave them. But a simple donation would have had the same result.

> participating in a digital art community

Which hardly requires NFTs, only your involvement and communication. Online art communities go back to Elfwood.

> supporting decentralized systems, etc.

Tautology. "I use NFTs because I want to support the use of NFTs".

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> A simple way to frame Hicetnunc is a social media platform that is not driven by FAANG, advertising models, and "Like" buttons, but instead by artists, collectors, and OSS developers participating in a digital economy: selling and trading tokens, and also exploring ways to steward and maintain that work without solely relying on traditional centralized third-party services.

I'm a Fediverse user and I want to nuke the FAANGs, so I'm fully on board with promoting alternative, decentralized social networks. I just don't believe that adding glorified baseball trading cards to the recipe makes them better or stronger in any way.

I never heard anyone saying that Team Fortress 2 became a better community after it became an online market for ugly digital hats.
The value of being used in money laundering.
The Squid Game one looks kind of okay but the rest are uninspired.
Read Pirates of Silicon Valley. There's a history of Microsoft doing really really shady unforgivable stuff. No matter how much they've changed, the history's there.
It's not news that facial recognition is best at white male-presenting faces and bad at all the others. ProctorU is also pretty hard to use for the differently abled.

I think you just reflexively dismissed this because you saw a basket of words that normally go along with things you disagree with, but the argument is pretty solid.
I've been using https://joplinapp.org, which is an open source Evernote alternative. It has Linux/Mac/Windows/Android/iOS clients, supports multiple sync methods, and end-to-end encryption. Truly a great app.
Appliances is kind-of an incestuous industry. All of the high-end brands are owned by "low-end" bigger brands.

Example: KitchenAid is a subsidiary of Whirlpool, a huge competitor against Haier/GE Appliances.

Viking, who makes perceivably high-end ranges and refrigerators, is owned by Amana, who makes all of the cheap appliances you see at Costco.

See here for more: http://www.appliance411.com/purchase/make.shtml

As for me: I absolutely love my GE appliances. Have their washer and dryer set as well as one of their newer french door refrigerators; love them all.
The reason why volume measurements developed in the US rather mass measurements can be traced back to Frankie Farmer’s The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book of 1896. The first cookbook with accurate and repeatable recipes. Volume measurements were a practical matter. Every kitchen had measuring cups. No one had a scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boston_Cooking-School_Cook...
As far as I could divine a few years ago from the code in this repo, a deep dive into the OCI (Open Container Initiative) spec and the docker hcs shim should make it possible to figure this stuff out. I ran out of patience though and wish it was better documented.
I've seen five star recipes say things like "Hawaiian pizza - add pineapple, tuna fish, and lasagna". So, yeah, the star ratings are meaningless - but then there are too many recipes to sort the wheat from the chaff.
you’d think that but you would be wrong. Kids today happily buy skins and items from games and are quite proud of them.
> Dark territories where there is no remote control or indications feeding back to Metrol and Voice
Communication is the only means of control.

I did not realise just how much of the network is Dark -- for instance, everything beyond _Burnley_ (just 3 stations away from Flinders St) is Dark!
It may be very difficult to fully delete an account. Assuming there are various backups laying around. I assume most companies mark a "deleted" flag as that's the safest. Some maybe delete the record, but I doubt most if any purge you from backups.
No, but I think that raises the question of why you think the quoted bit above is a bad argument. It tracks with various reports I've seen linked in HN on this topic over the past couple years.
Me.

I want all of it (except the bit where any of it comes from Facebo^H^H^H^H^H^H Meta.

I am convinced AR/VR will eventually give a miles better working experience than PCs. Even sooner for mobile where you're severely limited in screen real estate already. It's nearly there now. Can't imagine it'll be more than 2 years.

I am convinced that group audio/video calls are a totally different (and usually much inferior) experience to face to face meetings, even with the best 2D collaboration tools, and that VR/AR can and will (does already, to an extent) make remote face to face meetings possible for the first time. I have had some great meetings in Walkabout Mini Golf on the Quest 2 — try it! Sometimes being together is what counts, and after a while it really does _begin_ to feel that way.

Even if it were only equal in experience, a desktop class experience in AR/VR will soon take up way less space than the smallest useful laptop and have all the screen space I get when sat at home. I love to travel. This will be great!

And that's not to mention games (VR "toys" already often feel more immersive and compelling than most AAA games to me — on a $250 all-in-one headset that costs less than a Nintendo switch), media (ever tried watching a movie or live sport with friends in BigScreen? …it's great!), etc.

I expect a lot of people will be really surprised how far this goes in the next few years, as costs come down and hardware shrinks. A lot of people get surprised by every new tech…
You could sign it forward. Slightly harder to validate, but maybe if the original PDF included your key - that should maintain a clear chain of custody on the PDF itself.
Thank you for your feedback. The tutorial was moved over to an interactive notebook that you can find here:

https://colab.research.google.com/github/RumbleDB/rumble/blo...

The easiest way to get started locally is described here: https://rumble.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Getting%20started/

We no longer recommend the installation of Anaconda -- instead, the Spark tgz file can directly be downloaded, unzipped, and the bin subdirectory added to the PATH, which is considerably simpler. Likewise, the RumbleDB jar is just a download. Using the RumbleDB shell is the easiest to set up; Jupyter and the server require a bit of additional work.

For a cluster, this is even easier because most cloud platforms can create one with the push of a button, and one only needs to download the RumbleDB jar on the remote machine and get started right away.

Use of RumbleDB on a cluster is explained here:
https://rumble.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Run%20on%20a%20clust...
> White supremacy: darker skin tones tend to photograph worse than lighter skin tones. Laptop webcams are notoriously crappy and can make this effect worse. Is this white supremacy or physics?

I’m not a photography expert, but it seems to me that cameras are physically equally capable of overexposing an image and underexposing an image. If a particular camera which is used in a facial monitoring system tends to do one rather than the other, I would ask why that is the case.
he labeled your talking points as right-wing. And he'd be correct. Your thoughts are not your own.
You can't embed this in language because it's fundamentally a contingent property, not intrinsic to the statements themselves. You end up with inadequate words like "settled" science.
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Some sort of youtube celebrity I had never heard of before giving his take on why he's quitting. Makes a lot of sense. Seems like the issue is no matter how good and honest you are, people will assume bad stuff and make you feel bad 24/7 if you keep posting stuff on youtube and it has a large audience.
- raise 20M

- spend 10% of it on the domain "you.com"

- denounce "vertical results"

- introduce some real innovation: "horizontal results"

give me a break
Legally speaking, the Land Registry (in my country) is the arbiter of whether or not I own my house. Because of, like, the law. There is no corresponding law that says owning an NFT means I own [any rights to] an artwork.
Genuinely! “Here’s the list of commands to reliably solve this problem” is an actual service to the community. Not everything needs to be a doctorate-level dissertation in memory management on obscure 90s hardware.
You're right that lawsuits don't always cost millions. However, they will cost at minimum tens of thousands of dollars. Filing fees are generally a few hundred dollars per document, and median lawyers' fees are somewhere around $300/hr, depending on jurisdiction. And--in the US--it is generally expected that you pay your lawyer's fees whether you won or lost.

The advice I have gotten from actual lawyers is that it's literally not worth it if you expect to get only a few thousand dollars.
The claim of "transphobia" is extremely weak, for one. Clicking through the maze of links, the argument appears to be that because algorithms that attempt to guess gender based on photos sometimes guess wrong when trans people are involved, all attempts by computers to look at faces must therefore be transphobic, even if those computers do not attempt to guess the gender of the person whose face they're looking at.
Great read. As someone not very familiar with Stargate, is the internal communication via gRPC (e.g. from most services to bridge) totally new to v2? Or does Stargate v1 use gRPC internally as well?

If it is new, what drove the decision to use gRPC? Performance?
Their twitter feed was hilarious - individuals were reporting outages as part of a collective 'me too' and instead of Comcast saying there's a big issue with our network, they replied (probably with a bot) to every message asking to be be DM'd with the account details so they could look into it.
To get to the outage map, the default path from their site (which was also down), you had to sign in to see that your very specific region had an issue. They really didn't want to show that (likely) millions of people were affected.
Nice, learned a few things about awk here.
I have found that two to three strong points far out weight a list of 5-10 weaker points. This extends to the case when the original two points are included in a longer list.
> Charlie inverted the problem in a similar way to the TRIZ practitioners — if he wanted to kill pilots, he could get them into icy conditions whereby they couldn’t continue flying, or put them in situations where they would run out of fuel and fall into the ocean. So he drew more applicable maps and better predicted the weather factors that were relevant by keeping in mind the best ways to do the exact opposite of bringing his pilots home.

I actually like this train of thought. Though, to be fair, this is the basis for chaos engineering. How can we destroy production? By actually actively destroying production ALL THE TIME! This way, we design our production systems to be as reliable as possible
The term "normie" predates crypto, though. It goes back to describing anyone who followed the mainstream.
Dead on. So much "research" is modern western Lysenkoism, accompanied by endless demands to "listen to the science".

Corrupting science, whether for political or financial gain, is existentially threatening, but seems incredibly popular.
the whole "centralization = bad, decentralization = good" argument strikes me as very half-baked. The assumption is that decentralization is inherently liberatory. That assumption isn't guaranteed.

Every cryptocurrency that exist is built on the same fundamental principle: people with the most existing wealth (hash power in PoW, existing crypto in PoS, storage space in PoST) make the most income (whatever crypto in question). All cryptocurrency fundamentally is built on the basis of enriching the already-rich. Yes, cryptocurrency is decentralized, but decentralization alone is not a magical recipe for something being of benefit to all mankind.

Take BAYC, for example. Tradeable membership to a "community" whose only significance is that you purchased membership into an ever-expensive community to belong to. We can say what the price of a membership is quite easily, but can we say what the value of that membership is? If the price of membership goes up, does that make the community "better"? It is decentralized, is it therefore good? The drug trade is decentralized, is it therefore good?

In non-crypto assets, what percentage of wealth is owned by the top 1%? How about in crypto assets?

as for IPFS: You put something on IPFS, what is the guarantee that it will continue to exist on IPFS? It's entirely consensual; there's no guarantee that such a thing will continue to exist on the network unless someone consents to store it. So if you want to actually deliver on that guarantee, what do you do, run an IPFS node that always hosts that file? Feels like you're back at square one, needing to run a server to guarantee that a given file continues to be available.

Now, that's not to say IPFS isn't useful at all! It's very cool! The promise of duplicability and the way in which frequently-accessed data will be more widely replicated is incredibly fascinating on its own, and has tremendous value. I'm a server operator, so the notion of setting up a node to permanently host a particular item in IPFS doesn't bother me. But we shouldn't pretend that IPFS is a magic solution that guarantees the permanent storage of everything put on it. It's a nice addressing and content replication system.

I'm really optimistic about the concept of NFTs in the long run, and about the applications of solutions to the double-spend problem generally. My pessimism is not in the concept of NFTs, it's in the concept of blockchains, which are fundamentally only capable of increasing inequality. The entire concept of what makes blockchains secure is "in order to attack it, you have to have a lot of wealth, so you'd be destroying your own wealth": the security paradigm is "a rich person would not elect to sacrifice their own riches". The entire system is based on this premise.

When we have non-blockchain solutions to the double-spend problem, or NFTs that can be implemented without this promise of increasing inequality, I'll be excited about the space.
The word "always" should always be avoided in architecture discussions.
That's why I always laughed at those security "tests" and very strict software installation policies put up by licensed security people. I'm not saying that those are not useful, but frankly the worst leaks usually comes from some unexpected sources.