jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Keybase got it right before Zoom acquired them. They decoupled identities from your account data. Basically they allowed you to claim identities via a dozen or so different things they supported (email, phone, twitter, github, domain names, public pgp keys, etc.), and then prove that you owned it by posting some token, sending a message,. Which would then associate the identity with the account. The more identities you claimed, the stronger the proof that you were you.

Taking a new device into use was as simple as authorizing it from one of your existing devices. All the data would sync over and be encrypted with a device specific key locally. And you could disable that key from any of the other devices.

Too bad that company more or less failed. They never really figured out a business and the zoom acquisition looked more like an acquihire than a long term commitment to the product. But it's a good design that is worth copying.
Using Fedora 35 here, still using i3. The trick is to modify /usr/lib/systemd/user/plasma-kwin_x11.service, here's mine.

[Unit]
Description=KDE Window Manager
#Wants=plasma-kcminit.service
PartOf=graphical-session.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/i3
BusName=org.kde.KWin
Slice=app.slice
Restart=on-failure

The only downside is that you will need to wait a bit more for it to start.
I think getting to grips with Haskell and the like is worth it even if you are not going to end up using it day to day.
In the pst I have been running a program where I was introducing devs to Haskell (immutable data, purism and quickcheck lostly) and then watching how their code evolved in their classical language projects. Over all it always was a great benefit.

Still, I think our industry is seriously behind in the adoption curve of pure force languages. It is mindblowing really that important software is still mainly written in Java C and the likes…
Thanks! Fixed the typo for next drafts.

Who knows, maybe this is the origin story of Kyle as a hedge fund supervillain? :)
Sad case. Hard to think about. I tried to figure out if a "misunderstanding" was plausible or not.

This reddit post[1] claims to have a human translation of Peng Shuai's original accusation. In the comments there are a few people talking about whether words should get translated as rape or not.

Other commenters go back and forth over whether America has the moral high ground to condemn this behavior among the Chinese. On the one hand, if Joe Biden had sent a car to pickup a young tennis player, bring her back, and then pressure her into having sex, then it would have been a national scandal. On the other hand, if the US irresponsibly blew up 80 innocent women in Syria most people wouldn't bat an eye and there would be no repercussions, and isn't it worse to murder 80 than rape?

If I'm understanding her post correctly then there is no real way it could be a misunderstanding - unless she means she was lying about some part(s). I can't tell, per translation difficulties, whether this was forcible rape or something slightly lower on the coercion scale, but either way, seems bad. How she was treated after the fact seems bad too.

I find it very depressing to think that there will be no real accountability. Peng Shuai is just one woman, and surely other and more extreme, abuses must be happening regularly. A culture of authoritarianism that punishes those who speak out must be crawling with bad behavior just beneath the surface.

And yet, the worst part is that American and Western people will continue to enable China's bad behavior by continuing to work and trade with China. It's profitable to do so.

1 - https://www.reddit.com/r/tennis/comments/qmn69a/full_transla...
Lots of large mature companies almost run themselves. You could have 'X' in suit running it and it wouldn't make a difference to performance. So doubtful an AI would be good since the valuable aspects in such scenarios are the interpersonal element.
I was sorta hinting at the last part of your comment. RPGs are filled with AI characters. I've read some crazy things the AI was doing in some of the Elder Scrolls games before release, aside from running into walls (someone kills his neighbor because he needed a rake, neighbor had one; chickens reporting crimes).
I think you give too much credit to stories.

I fully agree with listening to people. You need to respect them first, though. Every human being tries to live a good life. The filthy beggar on the street, the greedy wall street trader, the corrupt cop, the geeky programmer. I listed stereotypes. If you get to know people, you learn how they are not stereotypes. It does not matter if you travel around the world or around the block. You can meet very different people everywhere. Usually people love to talk about themselves. Just ask questions.

More concrete? Find something you dislike (folk music, Pokemon, PHP, Justin Bieber, conservatives, art museums, baseball, soap operas), then find out why other people love it.

Learn about biases, fallacies, psychology, persuasion. We meatbags are so broken, confused, and warped.
Doesn't every browser get exploited at Pwn2Own every year?
Thanks a lot - I'll definitely be checking out alleyNY! Currently working at harlemgarage - a nice and very comfortable place too imho.
I decided, that my next job will be remote. But it's hard to find something allowing european timezones, that would not be web dev.
In Soviet SciFi, headline titles Must-Rewrite By You! :)
I started to get tired of comments like "but that's less than X!!1".
It just seems like you want to tell somebody they can't appreciate the value of money or that they can't put an amount in relation to some other amount.
For the record, that's not German, that's Russian. Moscow, to be specific:

> 111398, г. Москва, ул. Перовская, 20
I definitely do-- I'll open a tab for each comment stream of links I'm interested in. After browsing the comments, I'll then make a decision re: whether I should open/bookmark the link.
Sigh, now that idiot-in-chief has been banned, who am I going to use as a proof that Twitter is a garbage fire and anything said there should be treated with contempt?

(Rhetorical question, please don't answer.)
> An online petition by a scientist at the NASA research centre had demanded that the scheduled lecture be cancelled as it mixes mythology with science.

I really want to see this lecture because I want to see where the evidence for this claim comes from. Mythology or not it'd be interesting to hear. Does anybody know anything about this?
Hmm probably about a third of my graduate level QED class and considerably less in my undergraduate QM but you'd be surprised at the cross over between potheads and high level physics.
Tailwind is great but the horizontal alignment of all classes is definitely not ideal.

Is there a vscode extension that possibly aligns classes in new lines? Alphabetical sorting could be nice as well.

Is this on the horizon for the Tailwind team? The intellisense extension is quite good so it’s possible this is a problem they are working on as well.
Yes, but most people use laptops and not desktops.

So there needs to be a good solution for them without a boom mic. But also, a boom mic with quality noise canceling (a lot sucks right now, kinda like the backgrounds) will still be useful.
In the absence of some technological breakthrough that would allow new capital investment to pay for itself, interest rates just can't be that high. We can lend each other money to buy stuff (ex. mortgages) but there are strong limits to the value of that sort of activity (as has recently been demonstrated).
mostly the numbers are coming from this "leaked" document. whether it's authentic or not is a separate issue.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/209050732/MtGox-Situation-Crisis-S...

look at the "financial assets and liabilities" section.

32,430,000 usd + 2,000 btc held, vs 55,000,000 usd + 744,408 btc owed.
"burning platform" not "burning bridges" (although the number of bridges burned between Nokia leadership and employees, suppliers, developers, distributors/retailers and carriers was nothing short of astonishing. And catastrophic).
There are problems with taking high doses of Vitamin D3 that may be an allergic reaction or genetic, and controversy that the amount of non-supplement D3 consumed by people on average may be a lot higher than we think.

http://www.mgwater.com/vitamin_d.shtml
http://www.livestrong.com/article/302715-risks-of-too-much-v...

(result of random refference googling)
That's not the proper chronology.

Nokia announced they were abandoning Symbian/MeeGo for Windows Phone BEFORE announcing and releasing the N9.
10+ javascript files loading. Nice to know i'm being tracked left right up and down.
And if you use haXe instead of Adobe's tools, it's not hard to put together a reasonably sane Flash development environment.

I agree, Flash is a decent choice for the same reasons BASIC was awesome in the 80s - kids love to make noises and draw/animate graphics. Javascript is catching up on the graphics front, but sound is sadly still just not there.
In some of the cases, the word translated 'fool' is the Hebrew word nabal which should better be translated as 'perverse.' Thus the verses which says, "The fool hath said in his heart there is no God, They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good." (Psalm 14:1; Psalm 53:1)
The previous distribution of python will only remain usable as long as it installs and runs on whatever machine you're using.

PyGame might be fun, but I don't really see it as a true beginner's environment. It's a serious library, so it takes a lot of initialization, requires flip() calls, and runs in event-oriented style. It's also not included in the standard library.

In fact, for graphics, anything that doesn't create its own window and give you calls like drawPoly/drawEllipse is probably not simple enough to approach AmigaBASIC or QBASIC.
update, I fixed the first error, by supporting auto save now!

for 2, ideally, it would support revert by cmd+z for those changes, what do you think? Confirming each time could be too windows-y
It's also a great example of how a well-trained human brain can take in a large amount of information, crunch it together, and spit out a solution that closely approximates a detailed analysis, all in a few seconds.

That kind of clarity and intuition is what drives so much technical decision making, because you rarely have the time and information you would want to make a decision.
OMG, I forgot the preview mode! Thanks! working on fix that now!
for 2, how would you feel for browser print (then pick pdf)? I don't have better technology to generate pdf than the default browser print right now :<
for 3, great point! I can see that happen a lot, I will fix that
for 4, yes, that is on the horizon for sure! More to come when i launch!
for 5, great idea! I thought about it, I am currently working on adding more, along with new template that emphasize on different aspect of resume

Thanks so much!
I know an older gay man who survived the AID's epidemic in the early days of San Francisco. He said people tried creating bubbles to wall off the virus. And they all died because once the virus got through everyone got infected. I also know someone that was part of a '12 person covid bubble' Half of them got infected in May.
how does the p2p payment app work? No middle man?
If you don't want to get screwed on FX, you need to use a brokerage intermediary with entities in both currency domains. Direct international wire usually causes problems. So if I'm sending FX, it looks like

US Bank -> Wire -> IBKR -> Wire -> SG Bank (or whatever)

Usually this takes at least 5-9 business days end-to-end. (Wire delay, withdrawal hold, wire delay on the other end.)

A bitcoin transaction takes a few minutes, and if your counterparty doesn't want Bitcoin, there's probably an exchange with an entity in the destination country, so you only need to wait for the second wire delay.
I listen to Scott Locklin. It appear to me A16Z more sophisticated threat to world than Russians even CIA combined.
No offense but I think they should be focused on common scenarios (income types and deductions that are likely to have many users), methods of verifying correctness, and long term maintainability in the face of a changing tax code.

Expat workers seem so niche and there may be different requirements depending in their specific situation.
I'm not sure the argument that Ti lasts longer is really valid anymore.

I have 2 carbon mountain bikes that I've put thousands of miles on. Both are about 7 years old at this point. Early carbon as a bit fragile, but newer carbon seems pretty damned solid.

Even if you do break them, they are repairable. My wife broke the frame on her bike not long ago and she wound up getting it repaired. It was surprisingly affordable and the fix is likely stronger than the original.
Which is actual Sheldon Wolin's term and if you haven't you owe it to yourself to read some of his work. Very apt.
"Most of us, if we do not deal in high-speed digital signalling, have a kind of "DC Circuits" understanding of wiring where the most important thing is simply that the wires connect the right points together."

An example of this is thinking that the order of wires in your crimps doesn't matter so long as it is consistent at both ends. This is emphatically not the case! Each twisted pair in a cat5 cable is intended to carry a signal and it's inverse. If you add a signal to it's inverse you should get nothing, but if noise has skewed both signal and inverse, the result of addition will be the isolated interference you need to subtract from your signal. Cat5 connections rely on this noise cancellation to work, as the wires used have little or no shielding. If you put wires into the wrong order so that signals are not paired with their inverses, this noise cancellation system is totally fubar'd and will likely make things worse than if there was no noise cancellation at all. It might work over a few meters, but longer cables are almost guaranteed to fail.

Pick a wiring standard (568-A or 568-B) and stick to it. If you do this, it's pretty hard to mess up anything else so badly that your cables won't work. Bluejeanscables is a cable manufacturer, so they're probably exaggerating how hard it is to make a good cable. In particular, their "buy american" schtick is not very applicable to cabling. Monoprice is functionally equivalent, even if it's from China.

Note: If you're wiring your home, be sure to use plenum grade cable. Other cables may be flammable and fire codes tend to disapprove of having flammable cords running through your home.

Also Note: I am not an electrician. I just found out the hard way by making bad cables for my home. If you buy one $50 spool of cable, $5 of terminations, and a $20 crimp tool you'll never have to pay for network cables again. I'm not sure if it would be worth it now, but it certainly was 10 years ago!
It's been several years since I last drove with a monitor (my sim rig doesn't have one nearby), but from what I remember not as much. One of the biggest things I remember noticing when I switched to VR was I very quickly got better at car control. I had a much better sense of where my car was, what it was doing, where the edge of the track was, and where other cars were.

This actually had a fair effect on my race performance, too. I was typically around the middle of ACRL's second split in performance for GT3. You can see the effect VR had on my results (split 2 unless noted otherwise):

* Imola: 18th

* Red Bull Ring: 19th

* Monza: 6th (split 3)

* Spa: 16th

* Paul Ricard: 10th

* Bathurst: 4th (got VR the week of this race)

* Silverstone: 2nd (my first podium)

And then from the season 3 months later:

* Mugello: 8th

* Donington: 3rd

* Zandvoort: 8th

* Nurburgring GP: 5th

* Interlagos: 21st (got into split 1 for the first time)
Yes, admins can mute and kick. And if you allow anonymous channel creation, the first to enter a channel automatically has admin right. I don't know if kicked participants (especially unauthenticated) can re-join at once, after a delay or any other rule.
Yea, looking at P/E ratios based before COVID most companies only fell to a reasonable level. I’m looking at the market and thinking it’s still a little high.

A rising or falling stock market is not inherently good or bad thing. It’s only really relevant as a prediction of future trends.
If these links are why this is marked as a dupe then that is wrong.
"the existence of a "lender of last resort" such as the Fed "

This. The moral hazard here is enormous. And why should the Fed serve the interests of equity owners over the national interest in a strong, reserve dollar?
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"Anything that does not have a limit will eventually be abused by someone."

There should be a law named for this.

What about Limit's Law?
I was fortunate enough to have a presentation, when I was in Elementary School (Golden Elementary in Placentia, CA), that featured bringing in Shuttle Tiles in the 80s. They put a blowtorch to once and let us touch it, right after. It was mildly interesting for a 9 year old.
Wait, what?

It's linear, and it only applies to capacitors. Batteries are a completely different beast.

The cost reduction we have been seeing for batteries has completely different reasons, and no relation at all with that.
The Israelis recently passed an emergency law for tracking everyone with even suspected covid-19 infection:

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/818327945/israel-begins-track...

We’ll see how it works out. Imagine trying this in the US?
Making an exact copy of an experiment is the lwest level of reproducibility.
In science , reproducibility means reproducing the results with different components (people, tools, methodology), showing robust Independence form potential confounders.
> and let these cars fly on orbits 500km below ISS

I understand the point you are trying to make, but the ISS orbits at an average height of only 400 km.
I have printed version. The diagrams are ok, but seem to be on wrong pages, too much flipping back and forth
Both set union and number addition are examples of monoids, a maths concept from the field of abstract algebra. So there is a maths abstraction that unites these ideas.
Thanks, it’s early here. Fixed.
" The only scalable way around that is to find a treatment that significantly lowers the need for hospitalization."

This isn't quite true.

Taiwan, Singapore and S. Korea have not 'shut-down' their economy, and they have tamed the problem.

Massive and widespread testing, assertive isolation and tracking of individuals who test positive can work on some level.

Combined with some other things like maybe keeping 'big gatherings' or 'social gatherings down', requiring people to wear masks on trains, busses, airplanes - we may be able to reasonably suppress Corona without a medical discovery.
I looked through some of what's here. I don't really have the vocabulary to understand if these items are significant or not. Some of them seem like they might be, some of them seem like they're probably not significant, and some seem to point to evidence that claims of fraud are in actuality a farce.

I do have some trust in our institutions and our court system, though. The fact that there has been bi-partisan dismissal across the board of claims of election fraud - even from judges and officials who are on-the-record Trump supporters - leads me to believe that there is little here of substance. Why would Republican Trump supporters who are proud (perhaps to a fault) of defying the mainstream media suddenly fall in line? They didn't fall in line with the other 'fake news' events throughput the presidency, why this one? Imagine the credibility they'd gain if there was actually enough fraud to change the election, and they found it!

I've seen people point to the fact that many of the cases were dismissed by judges without actually hearing the evidence, due to clerical or timing problems. I am incredulous. In order to accept that, I have to believe that a Republican judge who supports Donald Trump and presumably wanted to see him back in the presidency looked at the lawsuit, understood the situation and it's urgency, and shrugged his (or her) shoulders and said 'sorry, you might be right, but I'm not gonna look at it.' I don't buy it.
Just the other month I read it's Amazon's owner, forgot the correct spelling of his name.

What to believe?
I'm manager of about 100 independent people in Germany, where almost nobody uses Facebook. Maybe 5 of them.

We are currently organizing via 5-7 WhatsApp groups, and in a couple of months we need to switch, by my estimate. This is only India, but the rest will follow, and the change is not acceptable at all.

So I'm preparing now a slow switch to Signal, which seems to be most acceptable here. So far nobody took the initial bite, so I'll have to prepare a longer massmail.
Telegram not, this stores all messages centrally.

It will be longer process, esp. since our groups are Corona affected and we are doing nothing. But in about 2 months I hope to have everybody switched over.
No, I've only heard of libertarianism in the context of America. The people I know call themselves anarchists. I don't have much knowledge about anarchism so I don't know if there's different flavors of it. Like I've heard of anarcho-communism which must be fundamentally quite different. Based on the conversations I've had with them, my own understanding was that the idea would be almost like Laissez-faire, but even more extreme since there's no government at all.
A router is rather easy to create, so I reckon this sort of easy projects are appealing to people as beginner projects and pet projects, so they implement them and put them on the internet just for kudos or karmas or for merely showin' off to potential employers.
If anything does break you can use your modern 3D printer to make hard-to-find replacement parts.

Everything new is old again. o_O
depends on how you calculate average. More than half the population could be dumber than the mean intelligence. Intelligence is not a normal distribution, but skewed left.
For general NFT insurance: it seems early discussions of the need for this have started: https://www.pillsburylaw.com/en/news-and-insights/insurance-....

Likely large providers such as Coinbase will roll NFT insurance and custody into their existing crypto projects, for premium collections with sufficient liquidity and cultural status.

Should Color NFTs reach values that make obtaining insurance on it rational, then I'm sure we will see such activity.

As for the possibility of stealing Color NFTs or NFTs in general, unsophisticated users could be tricked in confidence scams to reveal their Ethereum private key which controls access to their NFTs.