skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if everyone is done having kids by their mid 30's, the increase in heart disease risk in their 50's still wouldn't show up as an evolutionary pressure. Especially when you consider humans are tribal animals and parental survival is not critical to offspring survival as long as the tribe keeps going.
See, I totally agree that you shouldn't require identification for most services.

But, for things like banking, car registration, etc... we require strong ID'ing, and it behooves society to make it secure.

I still think municipalities should own their own data rather than have it stored at a central federal level, but we need municipalities to rely on something better than a serially-issued social insurance/security number which I have stored in a million databases that can pop at any second.

It's easy to dream of the future dystopia and ignore the one we live in now, where identity theft is trivial.
There's a massive cultural blind spot at Google IMHO. And it's not as black and white as "if you're not the customer you're the product".

I used to be a paying Google Workspace customer and I cancelled my account through the usual process. After my account was closed _and deleted_ they sent some unknown invoice amount to collections, sent threatening emails.

Was there a reply-to? Was there a phone number? No, "log in with your account and raise a support issue". The account that you deleted. And another threatening email with no help about how to answer. I emailed the Collections address and I got auto-generated responses.

And I spent days combing help pages. Finally sorted it out by opening a new trial account (and then the help agent was very helpful). But even then it was awkward.

I will never send a cent their way.

Oh, and I know a google employee who was kind enought to look into it. He followed the internal channels to try and help and ... it was broken. Best he could do was file a bug report.
A more accurate label would be "Ideologue Strawman" teams. The idea failed, but not for the reason you think - even when doing a decent job with a very hard problem, the corner cases create a lightning rod for criticism that results in a breakdown of public trust.

But still, a bureaucratic committee that produces relatively stable results instills a lot more trust than a single forum addict who then buys the forum so he can ban anyone who argues with him.

We, which very much includes myself, had come to take bureaucracies for granted. We focused on their failures, got frustrated at their stifling nature, and concluded the whole concept was worth raging against. But the resulting rise of individual-autocratic personalities has shown the value that bureaucracy had been bringing - slow moving predictability. All hail our Beige overlords?

Having said that, on the larger topic, I've been waiting for "web 2.0" to be revealed as the authoritarian dumpster fire it is since someone coined the term "AJAX". The obvious answer is decentralized systems that get the meddlesome third parties out of our personal interactions completely. And if this rampaging petty tyrant will help many more people to realize the intrinsic tyranny of centralized webapps, then I guess these events are a good thing?
What Is Cloud Computing? According to ChatGPT
This is a use case that public blockchains could solve for us. Having a decentralized proof of digital rights ownership on a public blockchain could separate the content provider (Amazon / Google / EA) from the actual media they provide by storing it on IPFS or some other decentralized file store.

There would need to be a lot of work done to make this happen and big companies would have to get on board. It doesn't seem likely now, but it might happen with enough pressure or the right disruptive catalyst.
Google logs everything about everyone, but somehow doesn't have a record of themselves telling the user to do something.

Man it sure is a great gig being google!
> It’s a private company and he has every right to do so, but for the love of god, his governance will not increase the amount of freedom that people using Twitter have.

Coldtea pointed out that this exact line was being used by conservatives when they were getting banned, but everyone was fine with it. But now that others are getting banned, it’s suddenly not ok.

I think double standards are bad in general, and we should just quit with the banwaves. But that would mean letting people like Andrew Tate stay. Are you sure that’s what you want?
> Is Vault something that can handle this without getting into my app code? Basically, if i gave a someone root access to my supabase instance is that encrypted data safe?

The answer is slightly offset from your question, so let me start by pointing out that the Vault is about Encrypted Data At Rest. This is mentioned in the docs and in the blog and video, but it's something that I like to always mention first in discussions. The main purpose of the Vault is to store your data encrypted, so that it's encrypted on disk, and in backups. In SQL the decrypted secrets are available to you, because that's where you are using them and encrypted data must be decrypted to be useful.

If someone roots access to your database, then yes they can access the decrypted secrets through the view. This is by design, the secrets must be decrypted to be useful in query code. This risk is similar to someone rooting your application code, they will see decrypted secrets via your environment key, so no it won't protect you against anyone rooting processes in your stack that need useful access to secrets and it's not meant to. Like all security you must take a layered approach, the Vault is just one storage level layer strategy.

One big difference from the env var approach though is that the key Supabase uses to encrypt your secrets with the Vault is stored outside the database, it is inaccessible to SQL, which is an enhancement over sticking the raw key into an environment variable or a table that is accessible to your application. Instead of revealing the raw key, pgsodium has a feature called [Server Key Management](https://github.com/michelp/pgsodium#server-key-management) where you do not have access to the raw key, but instead reference keys by an key identifier. It is safe to store this identifier alongside the data it encrypts. The raw key itself is never stored. I'm very intentionally overusing the word "store" here, because that's specifically the layer of security that the Vault provides.
AI needs computation power, it needs data processing. Focus on the tools, processes and hardware.
There is quite a lot of slipper slope going on here.

> centrally managed, and cryptographically-backed state identification cards, complete with RFID.

Does not necessitate:

> universally mandated

> No access to anything

> felony to do so intentionally

> Your 2FA and disk encryption is mandatorily tied to your ID card

All the latter things are awful, but we can have the first thing without any of the latter things.
> Saying that something is hard to clean up later isn't “close to useless and potentially harmful”

The "close to useless" is based on it lowering any risk with very little, it's not a big payoff security wise in most cases. "Potentially harmful" refers to the cost of potentially having to re-encrypt data, that is cost/effort that could instead be spent on other security mitigations with better cost:benefit ratio.

You have a limited amount of resources, and with those resources you want to lower the risk as much as possible. I consider re-encrypting data to fare badly in such calculation. It's a high effort low benefit mitigation in most cases. If encryption is done correctly, it might cost little effort and gives little benefit and might therefore be worth it. It's very common to not do it correctly though, and that requires re-encrypting. I have not found an SCP that allows KMS keys but not default encryption keys, which means manual effort is spent on teaching developers and/or build/use tooling.
How was he lying to the public? He said this in 2020 when the R0 (spread factor) for the original strain of Covid was around 2. The most recent strain of COVID, omicron, has a R0 of around 19. The calculation for herd immunity is based on the R0 value of the strain in question. With a R0 of 20 you have to get to like 95%+ to get herd immunity.
It's not a slight against the engine; it's a concern about the support one can expect to receive for customizing it. Sufficiently complex games generally require deep cutting engine modifications, regardless of the engine used.

Even Indie developers hit these hurdles from time to time, when their games explode in popularity and they find themselves porting to other platforms, adding multiplayer and social features, growing into new design elements, and so forth. I think it's a safe bet that, for instance, Innersloth and Klei have at least considered paying for such support.

It doesn't matter if the engine is proprietary or not. It really doesn't. Once the cost of development of deep-cutting features in-house reaches six figures it's easy to open doors to proprietary engine developers and pay for high-quality development of those features. Generally for less than you could expect to pay if you were to pay your own developers. Well, hopefully so. ;)
The terms I remember (note that there are so many different Microsoft licensing agreements, so yours could’ve been totally different) were that you weren’t charged if the problem you called for was indeed a problem with Microsoft software.

And that definition was quite liberal: not just obvious software bugs, but also confusing documentation, etc.

In other words, as long as you RTFM before you called, it was free.
This seems like a good starting point: https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle
Absolutely nothing brave about regurgitating Democrat rhetoric on HN: https://i.imgur.com/taGzsZP.jpg

To them there are no wrong actions (homophobia, body shaming et), only wrong targets (their tribe).

Now telling the truth in the face of that propaganda...
A organization is just a bunch of people, and some number of them have been caught red handed enriching themselves, or in other words profiteering.
https://blog.decred.org/2022/12/14/Bison-Relay-The-Sovereign...

The blog post explaining more why and how.
So the question becomes, why do you continue to give them money? I can't think of a single service they provide where they are the only game in town.
The cPanel interface has an email deliverability section, which consolidates this. You get more options if you also have WHM, but that costs more money as well.
That's pretty much what happened[0] (given the PIA situation with changing plane numbers mentioned elsewhere in the thread), with the only difference that the person camping out and watching out for the plane didn't do the stalking of the car ride afterwards themselves. They just reported the data on the flight landing, it got publicly updated on the tracker, and then another person (who actually approached the car later, according to Elon's claim) stalked them using the info posted on the tracker.

[0]. Assuming the allegations about it happening are true.
I don't I know I think it's kind of neat. Obviously this stuff is worthless but if people want it then who cares. Let them collect Donald Trump trading cards if they want to.
I mean... Was not a rhetorical question, I saw more than one thing about Lisp this week and when searching about it, I saw it was an old language. Really just curious about it.
Seconding Manager Tools podcasts. Use their "Map of the Universe". Professional Success -> Professional Skills -> Meetings gets to most of the meeting casts.

Having an agenda and sticking to it plus setting ground rules helps a lot, whether it's remote meetings or in-person.

https://manager-tools.com/map-of-the-universe#269
Just installed Gitlab again yesterday.

On their 'Pricing' page, the different setups are listed - https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/

Click "Self-Managed" takes you to https://about.gitlab.com/install/

Fairly easy to find. If not, Ctrl-F.
I think they mentioned SQL modelling being part of the core software.
> If principles mattered more than convenience

What principles? Is this another BSD vs GPL licensing turf war you're trying to start here? I think there are obviously coherent sets of principles on which it makes sense to prefer the latter.
Settlement in Europe is T+2, there's talk of T+1 settlement, but there are complications around some classes of securities, things like ETFs, where the underlying might be in a different country/exchange/timezone with bank holidays and stuff like that which complicate matters.

I'm also interested in this idea that large investment firms can trade out of hours - this has never been the case in any market that i've seen. There are some 24/7 markets though (CME is like this I believe?) so maybe there is a disconnect between the hours offered to customers vs the exchange hours? I suppose the other possibility is that the broker trades the opening auction and doesn't offer this to their customers, but i'd have thought they would simply bundle everything into the auction from overnight.

Back in the day, the UK settled twice per month, with the various brokers having tracked all of the trades for the fortnight then the accounts departments moving the difference once they had agreed the actual total (which of course would never match with a word of mouth + paper based system). It's amazing it worked so well for so long, all basically based on trust and hence why being an exchange member was so important for trading.

The move to a rolling settlement date part of the Taurus/Talisman project in the 1980s. This got cancelled, lots of IT companies had invested heavily to be ready for this got burnt, but what emerged was the less extensive CREST system which is still in use today.

The original move was to a T+5 rolling settlement, which moved to T+3 in the early 2000s and is now T+2.
EA got hammered by the Aussie government consumer organisation in 2015 https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/electronic-arts-undert...
Canada has one of the worst housing markets in the world, mediocre pay for software engineers, and a slowly collapsing public healthcare system (and private healthcare is illegal). Many of those issues are exacerbated by Canada's ridiculously high per capita immigration rate. The US has its own dysfunctions, but Canada does not look like a model to emulate.
"Investors" are the same people who don't lose sleep over laying off thousands of people at a time (depriving them of their livelihoods) at the slightest market dip just to improve profits. Why should I care if they're angry?
I don’t know what consumer support looks like, but Google Cloud support (with a premium support contract) is significantly worse then their competitors.
Did I express an opition on Elon Musik? I was just urging people to wait for the facts before getting all hyped up. Is that too much to ask for? If all the news here would be posted with a one week lag or so, we would all have a much more fruitful discussion than what we have now where people are reacting instinctively with their own guesses of what happened.
Faith in humanity: destroyed.
I believe the comment you’re responding to was saying that the dig at Oracle[1] was savage, not IBM’s lack of response.

[1] “why create a powerful CPU for a low-end database?”
I bought some stuff yesterday on Hearthstone via google, payment got out never got my stuff. Was exactly afraid of that, wont risk it for $10, but also will never buy again
Okay -- I really like that idea! Would be interesting if all of your posts and content were similarly your own and federated node servers could only decide whether to suppress some or all of what you post but not delete them.
Berlin aquarium bursts, unleashing flood of devastation
if jfk and his brother were guilty in marilyn's death then you could blackmail them. having a president who is susceptible to blackmail is a threat to the country. killing jfk would remove that threat.
I feel like the page size in mass market paperbacks has also increased in size since high school/college. Perhaps it's just that I'm buying less-cheap prints?
House may or may not be real
How do you feel about 999-year leases?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/999-year_lease
Perform at Your Mental Peak
Thanks! I just submitted it as an OP:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34017545
Raymond single-handedly carrying the entire Windows C++ team, or what's left of it, these days.
Whenever I see that word, it reminds me of Radiohead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxOO8YkB_Og
150,000mi is approx break-even, taking the price difference into account.
I'm not sure how a quote by a musical composer about how he imagines conservatives must think is very helpful or convincing. I agree that "the opposite is clearly worthwhile," but most conservatives I've read also agree. Of course, in some corners the word "conservative" has become meaningless, it just means "person I don't like."
Even websites using Google's advertising platform to serve those advertisements get horrible support.
> The fact that it's their own government?

There are a lot of examples in history when this was not a problem.

> It's really not that hard to understand.

It is. When all their actions show something else.

> We pay the CIA to forward American interests.

Yes. But your's "American interests" might not be CIA's "American interests".
A lot of projects also started on ocaml and then later moved off of it once they had succeeded by showing the concept works and got some momentum going. People like it for exploratory compiler dev, then switch off it when their language can self host. IIRC both rust and elm started like this, certainly others as well.
How is that hilarious? Do you expect Exxon or Facebook to fund studies on honey?

If you believe honey has good properties, and you even go into the honey business because you believe in it so much, do you just need to wait around until an independent researcher gets the idea to study honey to find out about it?

How about this: can you point to any part of the study which is improper or wrong or looks like this bias may have affected it?

This argument reminds me of back in the day how republicans lambasted al gore for both caring about climate change, and being invested in solar panel companies. Maybe the reason he invested in the companies is exactly because he cares about the issue.
But by who? There’s nobody to hire for that role, because the role has been automated.
Ask HN: Can we stop talking about Elon Musk for a while please?
[0]

It is turning HN into another social media circus - sucking all energy, joy, mental bandwidth from other things here.

All I am asking for is to let it go and not pay much attention to EM related stories for some time. They are precisely to elucidate a dopamine reaction and are no longer constructive.

[0] I understand the irony about talking about not asking to talk about it. One way to go about is to not comment to this thread.
Neat. Just in time for a project I'm working on. Thanks for sharing!
Maybe HN should ban any site that isn't proffering a valid SSL certificate - highscalability.com.
They have little codes that designate the genres they're interested in, like MG (middle grade) and YA (young adult). And of course, LBTQ etc.

> Books are no longer commodities whose primary purpose is to be read. Rather, they are meant to capture an upswing of interest in a particular topic, and then become more widely celebrated than widely considered.

Well said. A book to display on your coffee table, not necessarily to read.
It's the best proxy for retail space consumed.
I lost the ability to use adwords. It has always been denied. I was never given a reason, and any attempt to appeal the decision were declined. I used my own email account to set up an account for a business, and the traffic may have been unusual because it was banner ads on the website of the local ISP. So, the ISP owned all of the IP addresses even though they were uniquely different people. And the office had multiple people in it so there is a chance that someone in the office may have, at some point, clicked on a banner advertisement themselves. I have no idea.

I have not tried in a few years, but I was nearing the 10 year mark previously, and they still would not allow me to use adwords. I am not sure if it is a lifetime ban or what.
Internet 1.0, Internet 2.0, ...
I saw my question bother more than one person. I was really just trying to understand.
Sulfonating polycarbonates is an effective way to prevent fog. It just hasn't become widely adopted. Tech has been around for decades.
Aaah, ok! Sorry for the misunderstanding, and thanks for the explanation.

(I was mostly in agreement with the OP and was surprised by the level of opposition to it in the comments.)

Yes, it's better if the information asked for in the original post is in the SOP, but if it's not, then asking for it each time somebody sends something to production, while suboptimal, is better than nothing IMHO.
Similar experience (Google charged me for a phone that was never delivered). I was debating doing a chargeback, but the fear of losing my stupid google account was causing me to pause. I finally DM'ed Google Fi support on Twitter and they eventually were able to get me in contact with someone that could help. It took about 2 months to get this resolved. Buying from Google is a nightmare (I like the product, why do they ruin all my good-will toward them?). I have never had a worse experience with a company.
That's great that it was clearified. _Now_ we can actually have a discussion about it rather than reacting based on assumptions and guesses, which was taking place when I wrote my comment. That was all that I asked for.
yeah as a haskeller, there is a LOT that I wish haskell had that was better... if it had taken more of the good ideas from common lisp early on in its evolution, would be in a much better place.

I'm looking forward to a replacement; Unison might be it, a lot of its choices are better oriented towards interactive development, but the jury is still out on this. Other candidates imo are lean, agda, roc, verse (this one I heavily doubt), or ghc fixing itself so this discussion is unnecessary. But there is space for a language that cuts out the historical baggage. For a while, I hoped that would be purescript, but I think that unlikely at this point.
I just consider myself the owner of the content once I have paid for it, regardless of platform. I also consider that as meaning I have carte blanche to gain possession of that content however I see fit, since I have paid for it. Torrents and cracks to the rescue, no need for blockchain technobabble.
It's been tried https://people.csail.mit.edu/mikelin/ocaml+twt/
The thing I don't get is that a common retort to critiques of the usage patterns is "who can afford to buy two vehicles!?", but if you look at the cost of these trucks, and the number of comfort features they are marketed with, the market could provide a work truck at a lower price point with enough left over for a comfortable more reasonably sized vehicle. And that's what tradespeople in other countries (where purchasing vehicles is usually felt more in the purse) do: own a base model work van and an everyday car. But people who work in offices that own trucks? Those are purchased not to move the odd couch while also giving a lift to 6 people, it is pure cosplay.
I need some librespeech
PFOF is what gets you rekt.

Just ask the humans who trade with alpaca and robinhood.

Robinhood had citadel.
Alpaca has the Japanese counterparty... where it’s legal to front run.
I wonder where they get their prime numbers...
https://archive.ph/sVNVU
Name is only inspired by esperanto, but no literal transcription.
If 2022 democrats are far right republicans, what are 2022 republicans?
I am selfhosting TimeTagger on a Hetzner vps with backups to a hetzner storage box. No issues so far and TimeTagger is great.