skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It was the only way we could both protect the incredibly sensitive information about lots of people while allowing analysis work to proceed.

Meanwhile this data is getting leaked every other week by other companies. Didn't Equifax leak pretty much all sensitive information for the entire nation. What happened there?

I haven't formed a constructive thought out of all this yet, I'm just frustrated that we'll get surveillance software to allegedly protect data that's already been leaked by a hundred other companies.

Often this will be like the "think of the children" argument. Of course we should be concerned about security and make efforts to protect data, but many times the same people who push surveillance software in the name of security will later turn a blind eye to other security practices or concerns that might be an inconvenience to them. Their concern for security will extend only as far as it gives them power.
I've also experienced this, which is why my Git configs all use my noreply GitHub email address now. Commits written with this email address are properly linked to your GitHub account on the website, but anyone who attempts to email it goes to dev null.

I understand someone might want to contact me, so I have alternative contact instructions on my GitHub profile, but no one has ever done so.
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> Why would a company like DataDog act like such an asshole to someone they want money from?

Because it's a numbers game. These companies scale their cost base and need to make up the difference in more sales. From the sales-person point-of-view, it seems reasonable to reach out to someone and ask if they need X/Y/Z but, of course, it is only reasonable when you don't have 100 other people doing the same thing every day.

As others have said, actually sometimes I am looking for X and someone happens to cold call and offer it so I buy it (not me, but some people do). So it works. I do think that there should be some way of opting out though like using the UK's TPS system.
When I switched from PC to Mac about 10 years ago, for the most part I was thrilled. But I missed a few features. The two big ones I remember are cut and paste files with Cmd-X/Cmd-V, and selectively delete specific files from the trash.

I can't tell you how many times fanboys told me that neither of those features made any sense, and I was silly for even wanting them. Yet within a few years Apple added both features.
This is all much simpler than the post makes it sound.

It's usage-based pricing and customers are using more of it.

> a customer that joins a year ago and spends $1 is paying out well over $1.7 a year later

The entire article is based on this 1.7x "net dollar expansion" statement.

After integrating Snowflake, customers have found value in using Snowflake and are using more of it 1 year later.

Since Snowflake is billed on usage, that explains the net-dollar expansion.
While I generally agree, I think this is a late-stage capitalism problem more than a marketing problem. The fact that there are ads on every square inch, but jail time for graffiti artists, is a major clue that this is a bigger problem.

What I'm trying to say is, marketing in its current incarnation is a symptom, not a cause.

It's not a coincidence that we outsource all manufacturing to the cheapest bidder. Deforestation, acid oceans, wars for oil, kayfabe geopolitics, the anthropocene extinction, and all the other shit you'll never hear about on corporate news - they have the same root cause, which I think can be called late-stage capitalism.
There is not, and never has been, anything going on in the world of monetary economics other than tech. Going back thousands of years.

"Tech" is a force multiplier, whether that tech is factories, steam engines, gunpowder, chariots, printing presses, or software. The people who have the best mastery of the currently-most-useful force-multiplier tech at a given time tend to do very well.

Software, broadly, just currently happens to be the most useful force multiplier. That may change to the subset of software that is ML, or it may change to robotics, or something else entirely like synthetic bio.
I used Skype. I distinctly remember that my grandparents were not able to set up Skype on their own: I had to visit them and install the thing and set up their account and add everyone they wanted to into their contact list. I also distinctly remember the video/audio quality often being close to white noise when chatting across multiple international boundaries.

I used MySpace for a bit. As far as I remember, it was a network targeting teenagers. Not a place where, say, one could search for an electrician or a dentist, discuss the relative merits of the vegetable selection at nearby groceries, or look for baby formula in a time of shortage.

I used ICQ and IRC and MSN and AIM and plain old SMS. None of them invested much design effort in internationalization. IRC in particular was brutally hostile to non-English alphabets. None ever considered the possibility of auto-translationg a conversation between people speaking different languages; perhaps there were third party addons that tried to do so, but I never encountered them.

You are correct that Facebook did not invent its portfolio of technologies. What Facebook did is integrate them, implement them extremely well, and made them ridiculously easy to use for non-technical people, which is extraordinarily useful given that much of one's social circle is non-technical.
Seriously. I don't think the researcher realizes how many people try to bypass hackerone because H1 would have flagged their finding as invalid.

Using h1 isn't about bug bounties, it's about not having to spend a 1-2 of your team's full time engineers triaging security researcher reports.
> Well, repairs are usually warrantied themselves.

I don't know if this holds when the issue occurs more than one year after the repair, and has, at first sight, has nothing to do with it (Won't get into the details as it's not that interesting. The most important part being that the company's logs did not acknowledge a potentially-related issue reported while the servicing technician was still there).

> if you can afford to self-insure you'll probably come out ahead on average.

Yes. But if two parts of my TV broke in its first year and it needed to be serviced a second time just after because the replacement parts sent the first time randomly shut down with the company refusing to acknowledge it because "Yeah, the first technician said this, but the second time a technician came, it was not having issues" or missing logs, my guess is that buying the extended warranty at that point would probably cost less on average for that TV as I would not put any trust in it surviving long without needing another repair.
It's pretty easy to limit the number of results returned by each partition to by limited to 10, then have that further reduced to 10 total during the reduce step.
if (the_world_is_evil && the_world_hates_the_word_of_god && the_world_hated_jesus_enough_to_kill_him_despite_him_doing_nothing_wrong ){

console.log("maybe it's something you should look into");

}

So if you care so much about evil you should ask yourself, who was the only person to walk the Earth who had no evil. That would be Jesus. And what did Jesus say? He said he was God, and quoted the old testament that correctly spoke of his coming.

Shouldn't you look into it?
Hi gardenfelder, we've got a whole page on our site explaining the thought process and our intentions around the license - https://surrealdb.com/license !
Rosetta 2 runs on Linux. There's also FEX.
Please enlighten me. How can a shipping service be free and why do you think I’m naive to assume that they bundled the shipping cost in the service fee?
10 Years of Research in Technical Debt and an Agenda for the Future
From the article: "JOIN's are also not nearly as performant as in other cloud data warehouses." This seems like a pretty significant limitation.
> What happens when a Chromebook or your MIL-SPEC LG laptop breaks?

Chromebook: if in warranty fix, if out of warranty, buy two more Chromebooks for the price of one M1 Macbook Air screen.

LG Gram: LG has a pretty good repair network. My team (5) has been using LG Gram 17" laptops running Ubuntu for about a year, and one person managed to chip the paint (it's anodized black on a metal body), but that was about it. They've been surprisingly sturdy despite weighing a few ounces more than a 13" macbook air. Also, battery life is on par with the M1 air I carry for occasionally dealing with App Store issues.
> Try working as a “contractor” on less than full time hours.

Is there more info about this somewhere? Sounds kind of vague, like i have no idea where to start.

The only contract jobs I had treated me as a full time employee, i just didnt get benefits
if it is safe and you can control your motions, touching the face or holding the hands are a start
For the iMac panel: I did some research because I wasn’t sure if it actually had a problem (I just had a hunch on the brightness and the monitor symbol had changed) - then I found one that worked as expected on alibaba, but dealing with all the glued on panel etc. Was a real pain.

For the battery: probably. I didn’t bother searching replacing that one though and gave away the laptop. I would have changed it myself but at that time my government was subsidizing small shops with half price coupons so it was actually cheaper to go to a store than to change it myself (looking back I should have just registered as a repair shop and taken the subsidy myself)
The big case of equipment is optional. You’re not required to rent it to repair your own iPhone.
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I agree. But although I've never used GCP, I get the feeling that an account of my size would not get the same treatment.
,> There’s a free market to sell laptops in.

But there is not a free market for Apple laptop repairs.

That is the unfree market. So yes, that specific market is not free.
"we probably won't consider riding in the bed of a pickup acceptable child safety."

On a private road (my example) at low speeds <15mph, it seems acceptable to me, especially with older kids (not talking about <7 or so). This is quite common in some areas and really shouldn't be a safety issue.

"As I understand it the rear facing childseats are only required until the age of two. If you can only fit one in the back of your truck, doesn't that mean that really you just need to stagger out your children if you want to have multiple?"

Which is covered in the article and goes over the inconvenience and how that leads to lower birth rates. For example, as those kids get older and are spaced out you have a logistical issue due to different age groups meaning different friend groups and different sports teams.

If you're responding to my comment about everyone being rear facing in the prior comment, my point is that being rear facing is safer even for adults yet we don't enforce that in car design. Thus the laws are largely not based on safety but on society's views of what is safe enough. With fewer laws, those determinations are left up to the individual. With more laws, society is making that determination and imposing it via force (criminal laws), removing the person's discretion. I think this ignores edge cases, and leads to more people feeling ostracized, powerless over their own life, and oppressed by the masses.
> is a problem with the government, not any tech company. You almost certainly live in a western style democracy, and so you possess mechanisms to modify the government behavior (if you don't, I suggest moving)

Yeah, I'll get right on voting for the candidate that has "limit the tracking of data by internet companies" as one of their issues. I mean, come on. This is a niche issue that has little public awareness. To suggest "Oh, you just need to vote better" is simply laughable. I (and I'm guessing most people) don't live in a government where you can simply vote in new laws or regulations, we vote for candidates and whether or not those candidates care about privacy rights is a crap shoot. Most people don't have a cursory understanding of how data tracking works.

This is a google problem. They don't have regulations pushing them to track their users in a way that makes their data easily accessible and consumable by government agencies. There aren't regulations out there forcing it. This is made evident by Apple's run ins with the FBI because their encryption wasn't crackable.

And frankly, while this is an issue, there are so many other issues I care about politically that a candidate running on the "limit google tracking" platform wouldn't have enough to win my vote. It's important, but so are so many other issues of the day.

> You've not suggested a workable alternative business model that, on balance, provides more net good.

More net good? Or more profit for google? These are not the same things.

I did, in fact, suggest an alternative business model, ads without tracking. One that was particularly popular throughout the internet right up until google took things over with doubleclick.

Again, this is not a business model that will be as profitable, but you are conflating "good" with "profit".

And as a counter example, duck duck go appears to be doing fine even though they aren't tracking users like crazy.
Reminds me of a User Story.
"if you know you know" isn't an argument. This is just empty rhetoric -- dogmatically asserting that tracking ads damage society and that I'm being controlled by it is a pretty strong claim, and a claim that requires evidence to support it.

If this is the typical quality of your privacy argumentation then it should be no surprise that your children don't buy your arguments.
The reason isn't just income tax, considering the tax deductibles in Belgium the income tax doesn't go near that for starters.

Belgium is a net beneficiary of the EU, because the European institutions housed there.

The reason that you don't know high value services is likely because drivers of the Belgian economy are not hyped products.

Take a peek at the BEL20 and you'll see some internationally influential businesses.
To be honest, I think it’s usually obvious when a ‘news’ source is deliberately telling falsehoods to a less than well-informed audience in order to further a political and / or ideological agenda.

The issue seems the belief that attempting to run an objectively true and reasonably balanced news service is itself ideologically biased, in that it interferes with the desire to conduct ‘the politics of narrow interests’ - something that often requires one group to discount the interests of the others using dishonest speech.
That's not quite correct, though, at least with classic SL. While a lot of the calculations are done server-side, the actual graphics are rendered on the client. It's not a video feed.
People had flown before the first powered flights, so 120 years isn't a good measure for that. You probably have to go back a lot further to find natural philosophers or physicists asserting that manned flight was totally impossible. Maybe claims that heavier than air vehicle couldn't fly would be more recent.

Hot air balloons had been around since the 1700s, and gliders were developed in the 1800s. Those were the first "heavier than air" aircraft, and a manned glider was flown by the end of the 19th century. Powered flight was an extension of that model.

We have no model of faster than light communication (or travel) that holds up to scrutiny, let alone has been demonstrated.
Interesting info, and thanks, but I still contend that a large economic zone shrunk by 20%, and that this has an impact.
You said "most government services" but eID is usable with all Estonian government services and a significant amount of private sector services.
Tell it to Meta who used that pattern on Whatsapp to obtain consent to merge data with Facebook.
I can't wait for the next big article complaining about Apple renting you exactly the same equipment they use, at cost, because it's all just too big and complicated.
I think it's fine not to express ourselves through consumption.

That aside, neutral colours are just more practical. They're easier to match, easier to clean, and suit more occasions. It's more economical all around.
Another good question is why the defendent was picked as a suspect by the police.
Show HN: Online SQL Client for low code data management
We wanted to go a bit further, beyond a SQL query, beyond simple views or CRUD operations. We wanted to give people tools to leverage SQL robustness and power to allow anybody with fundamental data engineering skills (like citizen developers, business analysts, data analysts and even business people) a low code platform to make robust data management tasks much more straightforward.
Yes, though in the US the capital gains tax (for investments held over a year) is quite often lower than the tax on dividends (which are treated as income).
IPX worked very well for LAN games, it required no configuration. Compared to how difficult it is to play together now (steam friends. xbox...), it was much better.

Of course it had drawbacks, but for that it was great.
- Super Smash Bros Melee

- Super Mario 64
Even if we could go back 120 years, just knowing it's possible to create aircraft doesn't do much without the domain knowledge to build one.

FTL may or may not be possible via physics we don't understand. Until we have that physics and a system to exploit it FTL is a very real constraint to work around. Don't mistake "Nothing we can do" for "nothing we can ever do".
Flutter desktop? Anyone tried it?
Of course: those who move north do so because they do not share the cultural shortcomings of the south. Therefore they are self-selecting.
The sentence is poorly written even before it even gets to the “punchline”.
hey I just spent some time using this and found quite a few songs from artists I would've other missed which is great. I have some feedback on a couple visual items. Let me know if there's some way I can send to you directly.
Pretty ironic to release your anti-spam startup by spamming a [mostly unrelated] thread about marketing emails originating from one's GitHub profile.

> you respond with back with a stern GPDR/CCPA request that they delete your Gmail- and replace it with

You can demand the data be removed but that's pretty much where it ends. There's not really any legal backing to demand that your data be replaced with other, specific data.
Off topic but Lock In (by John Scalzi, blog author) is a great listen/read!
> focus on the cleanliness of the shop, politeness of the staff or their hours

I was in a European country at that time, so all of this was pretty much standard for this tier of shop (reasonably clean, not very polite, bad hours), anything higher would have cost as much as the Apple Store, so it would have almost been worth replacing the whole device
America has always paid 1x for a TV without ads.

It is the TV and media companies that are a) using lies and deception to convince America that it's ok to instead pay (1x + advertising + a hidden loss of privacy) for a TV, and b) colluding to raise the prices of 'dumb' TVs as an added lever against consumers.

Educating people on the real costs, and pointing out better alternatives are the best ways to combat this.
Ye it is all baloney. Higher rates gives more money to those with piles of money. Low interest rates does the same but in form of loans.

Neither sounds like they decrease inflation.
Might it be something to do with how your account is registered with Spotify? Mine was signed up for with Facebook (ugh) and I'm seeing that bug.
> There are certainly better ways to communicate your point than this.

Well, do tell.

Passing along a petition sounds like a very low impact way of collectively asking for something. It's not like they are starting off with a strike.

Or are thinking of a "mgmt's way or the highway" type of deal?
It would be very interesting to pull a history of complaints about e.g. Apple’s white power cords and their failure rate from reddit and then examine the self-similarity of the “what are people doing, this has never happened to me” responses.

Of course to do this properly you also have to realize and account for the idea that others are just as incentivized to fund artificial critiques as Apple is to artificially defend themselves.
I imagine Netflix gathers a lot of viewing data, and I can see a time when ads make it into the streaming platforms natively. Cable TV started out as an ad-free offering, and now it's almost 50% ads.
The fallback is having a second method of authentication or even a second ID card. If getting access to a new document is too difficult then that's a risk you should personally work on reducing.
Do you have a source for Tesla's scrap rates and the scrap rates for other large manufacturers?
I knew that about the speed of light (but thank you for writing it out). My knowledge of entanglement is limited, but haven't we observed entangled particles seemingly communicate faster than light?

While time travel may not be possible, maybe time traveling data is?
I agree with you. I didn't mean that all defense of Apple is for identity reasons.

I am often an Apple critic because of their lock-in/closed/proprietary nature, but i think this is a good move. Personally I think it's a cave to pressure from the right to repair movement, and they won't be sad about killing independent shops, but that doesn't make it a bad move. I'm happy to see it.
FWIW, BigQuery tables can be configured to require a partition filter clause [0] in the SQL query, so that you cannot shoot yourself in the foot like that. Now if they'd just make an Organization Policy to let you turn it on by default for all new tables.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/querying-partitioned-...
> Don't be intimidated! If you can turn a screwdriver, you can build a PC.

However, be prepared to sacrifice some skin and blood.

Many times you need to get into awkward angles with your hands with a bunch of sharp edges all around.
I see this for actual service providers that have full control over their business, but if you have resellers of similar size as your own org, don't you end up with the problem that they are about as important for the big provider as you are and you are as screwed as before when things go wrong?
Never mind any down-votes, this is a reasonable question, and many here at HN would relish the opportunity to answer.
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Ugh, that "modern" all-gray home decor style. I can't stand it. Not saying everything should be purple and gold and rainbows, but for the love of all that is good and decent in this world, please: it's OK to add some splashes of bright color in your home!!
The material is not so static. Finding square roots by hand is no longer taught as part of the curriculum.¹ Interpolation from data tables is also not typically taught since students are expected to have a calculator that can at least handle trig functions and logarithms. Graphing calculators enable solving problems as part of classwork that weren’t possible before the calculator. When I was in high school, the lowest-level math class offered was Basic Math which didn’t even cover fractions. Some schools (but not the one I attended) topped out with AP Calculus BC which was roughly equivalent to a Calc II college class (integration and series). Now, the lowest-level math class available at the high school level is Algebra and students cannot graduate without passing Algebra and Geometry.² Some schools offer AP Calculus CD which covers multivariate calc (e.g., Calc III) as well as AP Statistics, neither of which existed when I was in high school.

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1. I’m sure that there are occasional classrooms where this is still taught, but it’s more an enrichment topic than part of the curriculum.

2. I was in high school when Illinois raised its graduation requirement from one year of math to two years of math. The year after that happened, my high school began offering Basic Math 3/4 in addition to the Basic Math 1/2 class it had previously because too many kids were unable to do fractions.