skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK sure: If you are sophisticated enough to completely fool the SEC investigators without leaving a paper trail, email, or text message anywhere that points back to you. If you are amoral enough to steal money this way. And smart enough to pull it off while dumb enough to do something so risky. Then yes in theory you might be able to do what you propose.

Perhaps you highlight a good point though: make sure to CYA if someone is pressuring you to do something borderline. Make sure there is an email or text message trail where you highlight your concern about the legality of the operation, ask if we should consult a lawyer, etc. If someone above you only speaks in person and insists that you are the originator of all documents/proposals that may be a sign they're trying to make it look like it was your idea.
That sounds more like a lack of backups and disaster recovery than it does soft deletes.
i bet i could bring a kryonengine desk fan to market by monday :)
Even McDonalds had "whales" (yes I know that sounds horrible in context). In the 80's, they were very aware of customers who frequented the restaurants 2-3x a week. Of course, they didn't call them whales, instead using "Super Heavy Users," as if that's less offensive.
That's nice, and healthy. We do similar small trips. Many people who like big beaches are looking for different things. Big breakers, doing more with boards and watercraft, and of course the social element of seeing and being seen at the beach.
This is a sensationalized study that only looked at COVID cases that were serious enough to end up on someone’s electronic medical record:

>The authors mined electronic health records identif[ying] 353,164 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 between March 2020 and November 2021. They then matched each COVID-19 patient in a ratio of one to five with 1,640,776 control patients. All of the survivors and controls were monitored for at least a month and up to a year. Overall, 38.2 percent of COVID-19 survivors developed a post-COVID condition, compared with 16 percent of uninfected controls.

(Also note that the “post-COVID conditions” include things as minor as a persistent cough.)

The real headline should be "More than 1-in-5 COVID cases serious enough to be noted in medical records may result in long-term symptoms, greatly ranging in severity."

Upwards of 60% of the US had been infected with COVID as of April 2022 [0]. If serious long-COVID symptoms indeed occurred in upwards of 20% of COVID cases, that would mean >12% of Americans are currently suffering from debilitating long-term illness, which would be obvious on a societal level. We simply do not see this.

[0] https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220426/almost-60-percent-i...
Oracle Cloud data center down in London due to heatwave
"Let's use the safety buffers provided by the original designers to ignore the problem as long as we can" has been our national infrastructure plan so far this century.
I would not keep bike I cared about outside in any major city. Doesn't matter if it's locked.
So you think this is something that only came about over the last two decades?

In 2000, the death rates were very similar. Since then they have steadily widened and continue to grow.
There's a fun blast from the past! InfiniD was my first serious 3D graphics software package when I did that for a while way back when on the Mac. I'm trying to remember how I even discovered that one, I vaguely recall Ambrosia Software used it for creating the sprites in Escape Velocity? I think one of my first personal learning projects was using it to make my own ships and plug-ins for EV (all done by hand with ResEdit) which felt pretty neat at the time. Thanks for your part in what MetaCreations did back then, what a wild time that was.
It seems crazy to say but I think it may all boil down to a massive influx of inexperienced readers. That plus the fact that most content on on the internet is not to be taken quite at face value.

Counterintuitively I believe there are more people reading and communicating textually than ever before. Way more! That would be good except they are doing it all via the Internet which is an absolute free for all of weaponized content, created for commercial or political purposes.

Critical reading and thinking skills are needed to navigate the internet.

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This book is kind of funny: [The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind](https://www.amazon.com/Origin-Consciousness-Breakdown-Bicame...) ... but it is good for hypothesizing about how consciousness has evolved. The relevant part to this discussion is when he writes about people literally being driven insane by the birth of writing. They were just unable to integrate the new influx of information quickly enough. Imagine your dog for example, learning to read. It would be quite the experience for poor Fido.

The printing press, in time, caused the reformation, the enlightenment, etc. But it was a bumpy road along the way.

My point is that, everyone having the internet in their pocket will have a larger impact than anyone anticipates today.
Wait, why are books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, pamphlets, & flyers a bad faith analogy?

Those are exactly what hundreds-of-years of copyright law, by explicit statute and court interpretation, have addressed. The precedents for private actors, and especially noncommercial entities like libraries & schools, to retain those copies, and to a large extent, reshare/redisplay them, are very strong.

Further, by design, every delivery of content across the web necessarily creates copies at every network node, and perhaps multiple proxies/caches, on the way to the web browser. The web browser necessarily creates & displays a copy – and normally keeps one, at least for a little while for user convenience. Anyone choosing to core web protocols has already implicitly authorized lots of necessary copying.

Why wouldn't the recipients of such display-copies, and especially non-profit libraries, have on the web the same assumed right to keep/transfer/format-shift/redisplay that freely-delivered copy, in the same way they've always had the right to do with copyrighted books/magazines/newspapers/newsletters/pamphlets/flyers?

If copyright maximalists & DRM fans want a new right to remotely recall/destroy such copies – indefinitely, retroactively, and unlike the traditional copyright balancing-of-interests – they should make the case to lawmakers & courts for that, or use the technical measures already built-into the web for expressing such limits, and opting-out of the web's and copyright's defaults. You shouldn't let them simply assert that right without reasoning or a case for why it's better than tradition. Nor, allege criminality or 'bad-faith' against people just using the worldwide-web as it was designed, and enjoying readers' rights as they've been traditionally interpreted.
Do you want to throw your life away selling ads? Or do you want to build open source software and solve self driving cars?
In almost 30 years of dealing professionally with MS I have never once been able to get an answer to any licensing question, without the MS rep needing to consulting with others and get back to me.

The licensing is complex by intention.
I don't think this is true, at least in the UK. The BBC computer literacy project meant that there were BBC Model Bs in every UK school, with tie-in educational materials. In the early 90s my entire class at a run of the mill state primary school took turns pair-programming LOGO on the school's BBC Micro. I don't think you can get more ubiquitous than every single human having programmed a loop and subroutine.
Before Trump won the Republican nomination for 2016, during one of the debates against Rubio and Cruz and whoever else had not yet dropped out Trump actually brought up universal healthcare as a reason to support him over Cruz and Rubio, saying we'd get it under him and not under them.
You are approaching it like a problem to solve with the mindset of somebody who is trying to get self-confidence as a step in the direction of building something or achieve results.

If you manage to get the self-confidence at a sky high level you won't care about building something or achieving goals.

Mentally they'd be redundant and sort of pushing on a string given that your self satisfaction is maxed out already.

You can't grasp it now because you imagine a person like that as deluded and 'not going anywhere' or even worse regressing, but if you manage to get in that state of mind, you'd be the one living it and having a blast inside your own head, not being an external observer judging.

If you think about it's a way of cheating Mother Nature, for the rules are that she releases endorphines and satsifaction after a job well done. The person who manages to get in that state of mind endogenously would be de-facto ambushing Mother Nature and beating her up until she releases the endorphines without anything in exchange for it.
Netflix loses almost a million subscribers
Ah. ! for factorial was not an obvious parse. I suspect it has alternative meanings in mathematics as well.
Sorry, I'm referring to the actual quantum computing hardwarw that this is emulating. My question is poorly phrased considering the topic.
C++ has many many issues other than memory safety. For example implicit type conversion, template duck typing, the include system, the very very very complicated name lookup system, a gazillion footguns inherited from C.

You can definitely massively improve upon C++ without touching its actual computation model.
There is something about hearing the crack of the bat in person that cannot be replicated on TV, even with a very powerful sound system.

And if you sit in the same seat for a number of games over a season, you'll start to anticipate things in ways you can't on TV (though the best radio announcers would anticipate them the same way).
> Since I can no longer rely on ON DELETE CASCADE relationships

Cascaded deletes scare me anyway. It only takes one idiot to implement UPSERT as DELETE+INSERT because it seems easier, and child data is lost. You could always use triggers to cascade you soft-delete flags as an alternative method, though that would be less efficient (and more likely to be buggy) than the built-in solution that cascaded deletes are.

If you look at how system-versioned (or “temporal”) tables are implemented in some DBMSs, that is a good compromise. The history table is your audit, containing all old versions of rows even deleted ones, and the base table can be really deleted from, so you don't need views or other abstractions away from the base data to avoid accidentally resurrecting data. You can also apply different storage options to the archive data (compression/not, different indexes, ... depending on expected use cases) without more manaully setting up partitioning based on the deleted/not flag. It can make some query times less efficient (you need to union two tables to get the latest version of things including deleted ones, etc.) but they make other things easier (especially with the syntactic sugar like AS AT SYSTEM_TIME <when> and so forth) and yet more things are rendered possible (if inefficient) where they were not before.

> I tend to prefer a CDC stream into a separate historical system of record.

This is similar, though with system versioned tables you are pretty much always keeping the history/audit in the same DB.

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FWIW: we create systems for highly regulated finance companies where really deleting things is often verboten, until it isn't and then you have the other extreme and need to absolutely purge information, so these things are often on my mind.
Back from the Future: Global Tables in CockroachDB
Global Tables let database clients in any region read strongly consistent data with region-local latencies. They’re an important piece of the multi-region puzzle — providing latency characteristics that are well suited for read-mostly, non-localized data.
When I was trying to name my own business, it was amazing to see how many names were already taken just in my state.

It's slightly more complicated than that.

It has to be a name that hasn't already been registered to cover one of the pre-existing business categories for your state.

And, it also has to be a name that isn't registered nationally to cover one of the federal pre-existing business categories.

It's possible, and very common, to register a trademark within a single state only. I've done it about a half-dozen times in two state. You do it if you have a product or service that you never expect to go national.

It's how you can have multiple unrelated "#1 Quick Mart" and "Danny's Cleaners" in different parts of the nation.

However, in this case, the complainant is in Iceland, so the American rules you and I know don't apply.
It's perfect name for Facebook because now when we hear stories of "FBI Data collection was just the Meta Data" it will mean everything about you, your friends, your call voice data, pictures of your genitals and everything else!
In realworld, there's no concept as deletion from DB !

There's only deactivate account, archive a legacy product,...

Because there's no such thing as delete something from real world.
Whatsapp is overwhelmingly popular, no? I'd guess much more so than Oculus.

And anecdotally, IG users seem to feel very positively about it in a way that isn't true for fb or Twitter users. Most of the handwringing about IG that I've seen comes from commentators
The big architectural (and business strategy) difference between Tesla and more or less everyone else (Waymo, Cruise, Apple...) is:

- doesn't rely on lidar

- doesn't rely on pre-mapping areas

- ships intermediary products vs. big bang approach of "100% self-driving or nothing"

- makes money on those intermediary products (vs. loosing money until the big bang)

- while everyone is using Deep Learning for solving the problem, I believe Tesla is betting on DL / AI harder than most

On those big points Comma is exactly like Tesla and unlike almost everyone else.

I'm not sure which caveats you meant.
I use the free Carrot Weather myself. I love the app and would actually love to pay for it, but they only offer subscription options-- and oh my, what options!

These payment options vary from $1/month to $30/month. For a weather app.

They seem to be intentionally obtuse. It's extremely difficult to parse out which one you might want. I believe you need "Premium Ultra" to get weather notifications, to let you know it's about to rain, and that's $8/month. The listings in the Apple store are different from the documentation on their support website, so that's no help.

Seriously, check out the in-app purchases at the bottom of the Apple app store. How could anything be more anti-consumer? And I like this app. If they sold a new version every year for, say, $10 I'd buy it.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/carrot-weather-alerts-radar/id...

http://support.meetcarrot.com/weather/
If you are using a state manager with models in something like rails/django/etc then it is trivial to support soft deletion without it infecting your entire code base.
Flying was definitely better back before de-regulation. Google Pan American and look at how big the seats were and the food served. Much better, but roughly 4x the price (comparing LAX to Heathrow).
How do you know I’m not Rossman?

Just kidding. Yes, I wasn’t sure which document that was from and I didn’t want to use exact quotes without knowing. But I should have cited it (not that he’d mind), so I edited my post.

It was a smooth turn of phrase if you ask me. It helps that it’s the truth.
I'm not sure if you're just being disingenuous but the title says 'as temperatures in UK near 40°C', not specifically at the location of the runway, which I guess is overtly incorrect in the sense that it's an understatement, as it exceeded 40C at multiple places today.

This article has at least some stats about hottest days going back before the 30's: https://www.rte.ie/news/weather/2022/0719/1311135-uk-hottest...
Where this conversation is inevitably going to go: https://xkcd.com/1987/
Probably just heatstroke, pretty sure that is usually how people die from heat. Though, good chance that info just isn't out there.
Raymond Souster, the Bard of Toronto
Ah yeah - I've been bummed that people now think https://metacademy.org/ is about meta.
I thought these guys did a pretty good job of deterring bike thieves in the area temporarily...

Rope bike prank (2018)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-OwjoP96Rc
Some relevant twitter threads (pointed to nitter so you don't have to log in)

https://nitter.net/TrentTelenko/status/1544472452373389312#m

https://nitter.net/Warinthe.../status/1546968367315111936...

https://nitter.net/TrentTelenko/status/1547767629602910210#m
If you want to retain anonymous statistics, fine. I'm not keen on you retaining my actual data so you can monetize it after our business relationship has concluded. The biggest thing a small team can learn is why they failed to retain a customer or a trial that didn't convert. For that, usage metrics are considerably more valuable than user data.
I found Qubes too difficult to install.

It’s a real pity, since nothing comes close security wise.
I would disagree, that operating a computer or computerized system is not necessarily being computer savvy. That is what the author is trying to say.

I have long felt that when you have experienced the lower or lowest levels of abstraction, even in archaic times, you develop an intuition about how a thing works or how a problem might be fixed, or how to properly scrutinize or be suspicious of a particular new form of tech (itself often implemented at these higher levels).

One example would be diagnosing "bad internet" by evaluating the wifi signal strength & interference from similar channels, the cable/fiber modem basic functionality and firmware version, the cable quality and function, the networking card in the computer, the function of the software behind it, the browser behavior, caching, or getting "wedged" somehow, the DNS resolver or its cache, an OS bug... it goes on and on.

The flip side of this is: everything is fricking multilayered and complicated! And it sucks! But that's unfortunately what we've got when you have so many layers involved.

Disclaimer: I'm firmly in the demographic described in the article.
I feel like the biggest problem is the lack of "tooling" (not necessarily in the strict software sense) for doing iterative designs.

In software development, we've already developed approaches on how we can iteratively deliver features (sometimes half-baked or "unfinished", but still delivering "value"), and we've developed an understanding that this is how we get to a final solution (and an understanding that we might need to cut scope, and any one of those iterations might be the final result for the time being).

Even with all the rage tools like Figma get, it still requires each designer to come up with an approach that will effectively communicate intermediate usable design steps on their own, and it feels like that's still missing with most designers.

Perhaps the agency background that a sibling comment mentions is what's part of the problem, but just like with "design systems", I am sure even better "tools" are going to come soon as this problem is better articulated and taken upon by designers working embedded into software teams.
news consumers should be the last line of defense. Not the first.

If the police tell the media they shot someone in a robbery it gets reported. It’s reasonable to assume that’s not fake.

If police say they shot 5,700 people during a robbery at a McDonalds this morning, no one would report that uncritically. They’d look for some kind of confirmation because the story is so far out there.

That’s what I expect of science reporting. At least the most basic cursory check. I’m not asking for the media to duplicate studies themselves. But blindly reporting what someone tells you uncritically is likely to lead to obvious mistakes like this.
> Who decides what is allowable declaration of a domain to be mine?

Basically, there is a list included in all browsers: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Public_Suffix_List. That's why you.github.io can't read other github.io cookies, but if you make your own domain, you can share cookies between a.example.com and b.example.com. (Also why example.com can't read .com cookies.)

> Is there currently any way to fine someone on the internet for violating a rule?

Many governments do this. In the US, the FTC has fined a number of companies for things like supercookies: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2012/08/milking-c...
That seems super unlikely to be a problem. For long term storage, I'd expect that we'll dig a deep shaft, or use an existing abandoned mine, and then seal it back up. Any group of humans who are willing and able to make a hole through several meters of concrete in order to get at the stuff will almost certainly also have the technological sophistication to know what radiation is, and that radioactive isotopes are dangerous.

Also, if you do decide to leave a message anyway, you'll just have to make it interpretable to a human, not to any possible "creature". 10 000 years is nothing on evolutionary time scales, so it will still just be us humans around, (or nobody at all, if we happen to go extinct first).
In SoCal Disneyland was widely considered as being "for the babies" amongst my crowd - the real deal was to go to Magic Mountain where they had a ride that went upside down.
You can try, just like how you can try to steal your own car for the insurance money, but you'll be in a lot of shit when it doesn't work out.

Without a paper trail, without coworkers collaborating your story, the investigations might not have the outcome you desire. Also, if the firm is well run, internal audits can catch you, and then you'll be in a lot of trouble.
When I was younger, I was into autohotkey. My PC would go off because of a powercut and the ups failed in 4-8 minutes while beeping.
Found "tonedet" or something that listens to a specific tone and does something via ahk which in my case was proper shutdown.
That was a success.

Then I thought of a project that would give me status via soundbeep,500,400.

I never got around to doing that but it wouldn't have been half bad.

Three small beeps in a succession, repeat, internet is down or some combination of deep or low beeps to say something else.
If you implement soft delete, you should surface it to your user. That's who is accidentally deleting things, and that's who will want to un-delete them. As for side effects like spinning up/down servers, build that into your data model (of course, in a case like Heroku's that can be prohibitively expensive, so don't).

Source: I write back of house software for resale store owners, and accidental deletes happen occasionally. Being able to restore things instills a lot of confidence for our customers.
Vs having 100% of your worse case capacity in gas plants sitting around idle?

The solar/wind numbers aren't even remotely comparable at this point because no one factors those in until the power bill shows up, then somehow the price goes up as we add more "cheap" renewables.
I have to say for a site that gather so much brain power in its comments, HN is so climate blind it's infuriating. The UK registered its highest temperature since records began and here, it's business as usual.
> and the greens

That's an odd claim. In Germany the Green party was the only party promising to scrap the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Russia before last year's elections.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-election-greens-n...
What about the plankton impact?