skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of the CLOUD Act was to say that if you are a company in the US you can't ignore an order to turn over a copy of data you control just because you happen to have stored that data with a third party storage provider that is not in the US.

It doesn't matter that the third party storage provider is not under US jurisdiction because the US government isn't trying to compel the third party storage provider to do anything. They are trying to compel the US company to access its own documents that it stored with that third party, using the same mechanisms the US company normally uses when it wants to access its data.

From the third party storage provider point of view there is no difference between the US company retrieving the data because it wants to do something with it itself or the US company retrieving the data because they are being compelled to by law enforcement.

This is really just clarifying that the rules for electronic documents are not very different from the rules for physical documents. If I am in the US and own a document that a US court orders me to produce a copy of I'm not going to be able to get out of that by telling them that the document is in a filing cabinet in a storage unit I rent in Canada or Mexico. No, they are going to order me to either go get that document or have someone go get it for me and give it to the court.

If it didn't work this way every US company that has any documents they think might get them in trouble if they are ever investigated would rent some storage space outside the US, physical space if the documents are on paper and cloud storage space if they are electronic, and store everything there. Boeing for instance would have all its information about the 737 MAX outside of the US. Tesla would have everything related to full self-driving outside the US. Everyone would keep HR records outside the US to make it harder for plaintiffs if the company is ever sued over alleged discrimination.
Please don't take HN threads into tedious ideological and political flamewar. This is against the HN guidelines because it leads to lame, dumb, repetitive discussion and we're trying to avoid that here. We want curious conversation.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30282558 and marked it off topic.
> There are a lot of passionate people willing to put content up online just for the feeling of helping others and getting their work recognized

I had the same thought. Ads enable people who previously put up their content out of passion to do the same thing to commercial gain. Is this good or bad? On the plus side, it incentivizes the creation of more quality content. On the other hand, "labor of love" content is homier, less corporatized, and the extent to which they will help you on a given problem is not biased by their ability to earn money from said problem.

It's a similar situation between mom and pop restaurants and chains. Now it's hard to say that one or the other is definitively better -- depends on what you're looking for. I wish there were resources out there to help understand the nature of this tradeoff and how it has played out in different areas of the economy.
> Do accountants and lawyers routinely use or sell their customers' aggregated data for commercial purposes?

No, and that's the point I was making! It's a fallacy to say "all analytics providers are selling my data". That's not true, it's Google.

OP was claiming that any third-party analytics are unacceptable, simply because of how Google operates.

That's the discussion in this subthread.
That's my belief. At my company we don't have them (or I would be applying to those roles). It's seems most companies know they can save money by combining that with the developer role. I don't see postings for them.
Well, all dns except that over ipv6, DOH, DOT, software using a separate resolver hard-coded to a specific ip... The amount of work to force dns to your dns server these days is nuts.

I use a pi-hole and these days I have to:

- block dns advertisement of my ISP's dns server for ipv6 (which, there's no UI for that on my router so i have to edit the config by hand)
- maintain a list of dns over https ips and block them in my firewall (since mitming this traffic is a huge pain)
- force all traffic to port 853 to my pi and setup a masquerade for that traffic so the client doesn't know
- force all traffic to port 53 to my pi and setup a masquerade for that traffic so the client doesn't know
That's an issue with all cryptocurrency infrastructure though: projects need to be proven to demonstrate robust value and it's probably one of the most adversarial spaces in software. History has shown that hacks and exploits of projects hurt the price of the native taken but do not really damage the long-term earned trust.
That's enormously faster than I was getting on a 286-12 with POVRay, which was more like 0.05 fph.
Modern Monetary Theory got a pandemic tryout. Inflation is testing its limits
Lol, I actually realized that the other day, hacking on the golang compiler. The amd64 cpu instruction definitions are in a file called asm6.go and I was all "wait a minute, I recognize this from plan 9", where the amd64 compiler, linker, and assembler are 6c, 6l, and 6a respectively.
it depends on the type of job, in some cases yes. i would say in most other cases 5 star leet code skills doesn't help at all.
But surely an US private investigator would have to respect french laws when following people in France?

The core of the issue is about fundamentally transnational transactions, and who has jurisdiction in that matter.
Datadog Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2021 Financial Results
Peloton is a great product and Foley built it up from nothing, what's the point of keeping all that voting power if you don't use it to tell these private equity groups to fuck off?

I hope they don't sell.
Yes, OVH experienced force majeure episode. I didn't follow exactly how the compensation was rolled out. I know it was messy. I am not going to defend their actions, I am sure they could always handle this better.

Disaster recovery planning is practice we should all adhere to. Hindsight is 20/20. Not trying to be a smartass. I know it was painful for a lot of folks.

At the same time, unless you paid for managed service with clear SLAs, then responsibility is yours.

Cloud is just someone else's computer.

FYI: we started with OVH before the fire
When have traffic stops ever influenced driving behavior? If that really worked, then there should be no more speeding. Millions upon millions of speeding tickets have been written, and people still speed. Cops can patrol an area, and as soon as they leave, people go back to speeding.
Yeah, you have missed the entire point and evidently context. You have been sold a narrative, which you choose to believe. There is evidence, some of which I have referenced, that you ignore. Nothing will be compelling for you because you have attached worth to the brand and by extension of possession, inhabit that worth. This was the intent of the brand marketing. We are taking about marketing
I'm from Switzerland and don't use WhatsApp because of Facebook. So I have to contact with some people just over SMS/MMS.
Not just for years. For centuries now. Wasn’t that people’s main concern about Darwin, after all? “Once it is proven that we have descended from apes, where does that leave us?“
> but what stuck for me was he could not argumentatively distance himself from the most obvious ulterior motives, making money, the gain from it.

Sure, that could be influencing my reasoning, but it goes the other way too. It's easy to criticize ads as a business model when you don't have skin in the game (ducks). That's why I decided not to bring up either of those points: I'd rather write for people who are willing to focus on the argument instead of assuming bad faith.
Starbucks has internal titles as well!
The GP's premise was that wanting things is bad because the "thing" in question is generally "nature converted into object we temporarily use and discard", leading to environmental devastation. It's not the same as "wanting", say, to spend time with friends and family.

I would additionally add that "wanting" is not good, in general. It's unavoidable, sure, in the same way that pain is. But to take someone from a state where they do not want anything, and convert them to a state where they do want something, is to lower their happiness. Unnecessarily inducing a state of dissatisfaction in someone should be categorized similarly to causing them pain. You have lowered their well-being.
There was a Cloudflare article posted a couple of days ago, I'll post my comment which agrees with you, Wireguard and a cheap VPS are hard to beat: "Similar, I use a cheap AWS Lightsail VPS $3.50 (Lightsail has DDOS protection)-> Wireguard -> Apache Reverse Proxy mod -> my local services."
The eZ80 is quite a different beast than the original Z80 though :)
Now you can find out what's available from the internet, on demand, when it suits you and not when it suits the advertisers.

There is so much choice now that you suffer from analysis paralysis unless you get recommendations on what to get, or know how to curate and ruthlessly filter down the firehose of choices down to a manageable trickle. Of course you don't need ads adding their 2¢ to that stream.
It's psychological warfare, plain and simple.

Even the father of modern advertising and PR admit this in his own literature:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays#Books

https://www.slideshare.net/reneehobbs/excerpts-from-bernays-...

Of course his is a sort of perverted view that focuses on the supposed good that comes from the shaping public opinion to the exclusion of the form of slavery that is inherent in its successful application.
If you consider a point on the sphere it means choosing a bunch of xi such that:

x1^2 + x2^2 + … + xn^2 = 1.

Suppose wlog you pick (1,0,0,…,0). Then the distance from your point to a random point is:

D = (x1-1)^2 + x2^2 + … + xn^2

And from the first equation we know:

x1^2 = 1 - x2^2 - x3^2 - … - xn^2

Intuitionistically, your point will be far from a random point if x1 is close to zero, and x1 will be close to zero because everything is close to zero.

But we can be more mathematical about it. Our (very reasonable) assumption is that the volume of a n-dimensional disk is proportional to the nth power of its radius. The third equation shows that x1 is going to be big (meaning the distance to the chosen point above is not so close to the diameter) if a corresponding[1] point on the n-disk is close to the middle. But the distance from the origin, R, of a random point in the n-disk is distributed with pdf proportional to p(r) = r^n for r in [0,1]. So the cdf is just r^(n+1) and E[x1^2] = 1 - E[R] = 1 - (n+1)/(n+2), which tends to 0 as n grows.

Therefore we get E[D] = E[(1-x1)^2] + 1 - E[x1^2] which tends to 2 as n grows large.

[1] the correspondence is that if I give you a point on a disk, you can turn it into a point on a sphere by flipping a coin to decide if it goes in the upper or lower hemisphere and then projecting up or down perpendicular to the disk from the point onto the sphere. But thinking a little more, I’m not sure this preserves the metric as it favours points on the sphere that correspond to the middle parts of the disk. So I think the actual expected value of x1 should be smaller.
You want me to take the headlines about inflation with a grain of salt? Fair enough. All headlines should be taken with a grain of salt.

But what do you want me to do about the actual inflation I'm experiencing in day-to-day life, that indicate to me the inflation numbers in the headlines aren't even telling the full story?
It is for VERY HUGE n, as siblings explain.
YouTube floats ideas of verifying NFTs, watching games in metaverse
Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates
I understand that HTTPS doesn't protect you, and that's the reason why you'd normally add a hash.

If your goal is to make the build fail for vulnerable applications, you can run a local repository with upstream proxying functionality like Nexus Repository and kill the package there. This won't let you kill production (but why would you want to kill it this way?) but it'll give you the same benefit without risking remote code execution.
> Or, it's because supply chain disruptions have caused shortages, and there's more demand post-reopening chasing a smaller base of supply.

Here's a thought. Supply chain shortages mean people are buying less and obviously some prices are sticky. For instance, I can't buy a new car regardless of price. The price takes a while to adjust wand when "supply chain" clears up, I'll just be able to buy my car at a higher price, further driving inflation. Repeating "supply chain" is not a counter argument.

> Japan more than tripled its money supply since 1990 and CPI remained dead-ass flat for thirty years. It's not sufficient to say that an increase in the money supply necessarily leads to an increase in prices. [1, 2]

While it is true that not every money supply increase has led to inflation, almost all high inflationary periods coincided with the money supply growing.

> The NASDAQ [5] and S&P 500 [6] P/E ratios are actually roughly in line with historical averages, give or take. Check again. There was a correction recently.

I think you need to check again. We're at 26 S&P. Last time it was this high was 2008. Time before then was briefly in 1890s (not a typo)

> Thanks to the COVID response, we very narrowly escaped another lost decade. [7] A few months of inflation means nothing in the long run.

It's not nothing to the pensioners that saw their wealth evaporate 7.5% in one year and likely more to come. Hopefully social security keeps up...

https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio
I have a nSpire CAS. While those features are really, really good, it does have a significant flaw compared to older graphic calculators (including the TI-89, which is probably more of a predecessor to the nSpire CAS than the 84 is as the 89 also has CAS): actual boot up time.

The 84 and 89 are instant on while the nSpire has significant boot time. I guess you are suppose to leave it on but let it “sleep” like a modern smartphone, but the battery life is bad even when the screen is off. I’m not sure how the 84 CE compares, if it’s “just” and 84 with color or it’s something much more modern locked to running an 84 emulator.
There's a database? It feels collusion-y. "We don't trust what you're telling us. We might end up paying you too much. Let's consult the database and see if you're actually a Level 5 Wizard.
Well, that's more or less what I was saying in a sense, though I'm a little surprised that anyone would prefer that experience to running outside, supposing it wasn't mid-winter. I personally would prefer to spend the money on snowboarding or something, or living somewhere without winter, or somewhere more interesting to run, but I'm sure there are circumstances that you favour living in that place for.
Manas HNSW Realtime: Powering Realtime Embedding-Based Retrieval at Pinterest
Historical material is always welcome here, and the only criterion for a good HN post is gratifying intellectual curiosity. I had no idea that the New Yorker had profiled Bill Hicks while he was still alive. That's already interesting!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Someone one hacker news pointed this out to me before. I'm not convinced. Poor planning law allowed bill boards to be thrown up every where, I've no problem with advertising in my own country (UK), as it requires planning permission.

Also would Time Square be better with no advertising? Another extreme example for comparison.
The problem is that some employers DON'T understand that is what's going on and come to the conclusion that you're lying.
Ironically the Gropius Bau in Berlin is itself far from being a Bauhaus Gebeude.
That was quite Nietzschean! What are ye but a bridge into the future.
Self-starting generalists
I'd like to think that there are gradients between opposite peaks.
Coping recently have taken on a negative meaning that was previously served by "apologist" among others. In this case, OP just became an apologist for the advertisement industry, because he found that it can make him money that he couldn't previously achieve.
> this is transitory, there was nothing to worry about. Worrywarts we’re exaggerating… and now the chickens come home to roost.

Thing is, the recent volatility in inflation is a bigger concern than the actual average number (which is still within historical ranges), and also harder to address via policy responses. 7.5% is a bit scary but it's also just the latest residual. We'd like some more meaningful data before we can tell just how much of this is noise. (AIUI, market forecasts also reflect this outlook: sure, they're up, but not that far up.)
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, please don't fulminate and please omit name-calling from your comments here. Those things are also in the guidelines.
GitHub claim this is 93% C and 3.8% C++, despite it being entirely in C++ (and a bit of ASM). I guess GitHub just consider that a .h file is a C file
Heck, you can get a decent enough actual bike that you can actually ride places and a Wahoo Kickr for less.
This is neither an employer-employee relationship nor an accessibility requirement.

You know this because you did not have an established mask mandate or legal requirements for facilities to validate that patrons were not ill. Either of these would infringe on the rights of other groups. Like it or not, there are established groups of people who are unable to wear masks. The other route of validating that customers are not sick would paradoxically infringe on the rights of the immunosuppressed.
I think tunneling is going to be the core of the real web3 over the next 10 years, and my current primary side project is banking on it.

Imagine if you could take an old Android phone, install a Nextcloud app, do a quick OAuth2 flow to set up a tunnel, and now you have 100GB of cloud storage, sync, calendar, etc all running from a desk drawer.

Port forwarding is too hard. DNS is too hard. IPv6 is going to take another 10-100 years and people will still have to figure out how to manage firewalls.

IMO web3 is going to come by lowering the barrier of entry to self-hosting.
Swisscom launched RCS a year ago. That is the next gen beyond MMS.

Also no sign up, no extra costs, handled by the carrier, needs a data plan though.
In general I would agree. I was thinking about what you wrote in my current context. I very much don't like ads. I don't like the described feeling of generated want.

On the other hand I am currently trying to help a local rural coworking space find an audience and customers.

So I plan to additionally to other means also employ search advertising targeting keywords that people use when looking for a coworking space. Locally targeted and so on.

Am I creating demand? Or am I trying to shift demand from potential others in the market towards my client?

I would say a bit of both. Because in targeting keywords I will probably also reach people not looking for a coworking desk right now, but are informing themselves. In them I might create the wish to try it. But others might look at the place and decide to give it a try instead of the place in the next big town.

So I am actually torn between both views.
I think you and I have worked at very different companies.

In large organizations, typically, promotions come from proving you are working at a given level. It's not a competition at all.

Promotion also doesn't mean "becoming the manager"- I mean promotion to a higher level as an individual contributor. Junior Dev, Senior Dev, Staff Dev, etc.

And the question was very well received when I asked it.
The anti-advertising stance taken to reasonable conclusion is indeed absurd. You couldn't even mention your sofa to a friend without risk of "inciting" unnatural demand in them for a sofa.

And you couldn't even allow third party mentions either as are fundamentally indistinguishable in terms of effects on artificial demands.

But hope isn't lost. A natural limit on advertising is completely eliminating surveillance capitalism. Even the kind enable by credit cards selling your purchase history. Or stores issuing loyalty cards.
I believe they always existed, but were not widely used until the late 1980s when pressure to reduce size and cost became dominant and pin counts on packages rose above the limit for DIP. I worked in the industry at the time and remember the transition. You had to ask assembly houses if they had reflow capability, automatic pick and place, etc, otherwise they couldn't manufacture SMT.
hm okay, room for nuance, there are at about a dozen L2 technologies in deployment right now, each with multiple competitors using a specific technology.
Your assuming he has other motives besides profits.
It's L2, but you can have different types of L2s. With lightning network, you're opening and closing channels with a counterparty using on-chain transactions, so each channel can be tied back to an on-chain transaction.

Before someone points out that it would require tons of on-chain transactions to onboard everyone onto it, you can batch thousands of channel open/closes into a single transaction with new protocol upgrades.
While I'm sure they probably were people that got offended by it I like to think that we've grown to be more sensitive to these kinds of issues in the past 100 years to not tolerate present day xenophobia based on past xenophobia.

TIL that there were "German measels", in Germany we just called them "measels".
Show me a smartphone that can't ring, and I'll grant you that PWA's don't need notifications.
I like to look at this through the lens of push vs pull.

I don't want people pushing things at me that I'm 100% uninterested in in the off chance that 1% of those ads is actually interesting to me and I otherwise wouldn't know it exists. I do want to be able to search a database of vendors (with degrees of trust associated with them) with objective descriptions of available goods and services at known costs, either one-time or recurring. If I'm looking for something that's completely new, I should still be able to find it by using relevant terms and weightings (cost, materials, origin of materials, shipping distance, labor chain, etc.)

So, no, I do think someone using their front yard to sell a couch is bad provided we have the internet and a good marketplace built on top of it. Who wants to see human junk covering nature solely so it can impinge on others' field-of-view in order to be sold? I don't think it's bad for them to register the availability of said couch in the hypothetical regulated marketplace.

And, for those who consent, they can ask to have relevant categories of ads pushed at them. But leave people like me out of it. No such consent can be obtained when you just e.g. put it on a billboard.

Yes, I know what I'm saying is probably naive and would never work, or something, or that's where governance is supposed to come in, but it's a nice dream.
> Having the full client state available on the backend is really incredible.

Got the exact same feeling writing my latest app with Laravel Livewire. The ability to use backend state seamlessly on the frontend without explicitly passing state back and forth reduces complexity so much it's like writing 1 application instead of 2. I was able to build rich, fully interactive apps with minimal JS -- I'll never go back to React again.