skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is it not comparable... When it comes down to money transfer, imagine if you are the one blacklisted by Visa and Mastercard... now you suddenly cannot make online payments, oops, you also can't even have a bank account at a major bank.

Things like this are in fact happening. From people who've used a bitcoin exchange connected to their Chase bank account to people that are a bit too right leaning for those at Patreon, regardless of where those opinions are expressed. While they allow similar language with a different bent on their actual platform.

When the gatekeepers of money start acting as censors, is that really not as bad or worse than the telephone company doing the same?
> Companies lobby to keep, even coerce, laws that benefit them

This is true. But politicians are playing the exact same game. Back when I was a tax lawyer, I asked my boss why the R&D credit was temporary but always renewed. Why not just make it permanent? He said it was because then the companies had to keep donating to the politicians in order to maintain the status quo. If they'd made it permanent, there would be very little chance of repeal, and therefore much less need to stay cozy with the politicians. It's a 2-sided game.
Oh, wow, reading it more carefully I see you're right. That's much worse than I thought.
My gut instinct is there's both technical and business reasons.

From a technical perspective, traditional CDNs are struggling to grasp what it means to be a CDN in the peer-to-peer space, their networks have been built to support traditional HTTP traffic, and they've been fairly successful delivering that. Adapting to cacheable peer-to-peer objects would mean large architectural changes.

From a business perspective I suspect they also see a challenge where encouraging people to chase peer-to-peer oriented solutions may increase adoption, and start to reduce the amount of traffic they're serving from their private edge as more viewers start to peer between each other.
More of a non-technical question, do you see demand for outdoor lights at the red end of the spectrum?

Supposedly that's better for night vision, light pollution and various animals. But everywhere I go I see yellowish sodium vapor lights replaced with white LEDs.
Yes, while they were founded in Australia, the parent company Atlassian Corporation Plc is located in the UK (presumably for stock market reasons?).

But they still have subsidiaries in Australia, which arguably does a lot of work given that at least a third of their employees are in Australia, and so would be subject to the local laws. The employees could be compelled to bypass things and not be allowed to talk about it to anybody, including the parent company.
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> if you always scan your Family Card

i.e., if you agree to be tracked.
How do you predict product lifetime?
So if Google paid more taxes than necessary (legal loopholes), there would be no fines (for bad privacy etc.)? That sounds wrong.

I don't support the legal tax loopholes but don't think there should be much relation between legal taxes and fines for bad practices (unless ofcourse the bad practice is illegal tax evasion).
It's perfectly safe here. Come now before the crowds get much bigger. Around the tourist sites you will meet plenty of people trying to get you to ride a horse, or pay a tip for any little service. You can just ignore them, and there's no tip necessary. Take Uber everywhere and you won't even have to worry about taxis.

The real locations in Luxor and the Egypt Museum are much more interesting than the exhibit in London (though the exhibit in London has better labels).

*I'm a white guy writing this from Cairo. https://www.DavidDegner.com
He will put the receipt in the original LED box. Usually stores them indoors and not in an attic.

I had a Lowe’s receipt do exactly what you describe out in my shed.
For a while, I got into doing this in hi-sec with destroyers that cost 200k-2m each.
Getting a 404 for that too.
If you're getting a pale white, "operating room" color - look into "warm white" (instead of cool white or "sunlight") LED bulbs. I've found them to be the closest to an incandescent you can get. Be aware, though, that some "warm white" bulbs are toward the "cooler" end of the range and look more white; you'll need to try a few brands to find the color temp you like.
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Rust is quite good for that. Also, you can always get a very clever person to write a very small piece of C code.

Or perhaps, we just need our programs to be 20% slower? Would you buy a house which was 20% cheaper, but if a plumber was having a bad day there is a significant chance your house will explode if you turn all the taps on at once?
The "link-clicking" can be done using a Google App Script. I've used it before to auto-accept AWS opt-in notifications for Elastic Beanstalk environments.

My code was tied to a Google Sheet that would hourly pull matching emails, use a regex to extract the link, send an HTTP request to the URL, and record the URL and response in the spreadsheet.

Having a high level description of the code isn't as useful as the code itself. Alas, my code was part of my Google account at a previous employer.
Is there a business opportunity to figure out how to cut out these expensive middlemen? Some kind of bidding market? TaskRabbit-for-the-enterprise?
As long as you're just replacing the fixture and not running new line a handy man type person can do it legally.
> Thus, the group is able to centralize and organize their fraudulent activity around a small set of email accounts, thereby increasing productivity and making it easier to continue their fraudulent behavior.

How were Gmail's dot-addresses a central feature of this fraud? It looks like it just made it a tiny bit more convenient. And regarding the Netflix example, why isn't it 100% on them for not verifying email addresses?
Just some anecdata and personal experience, feel free to disregard:

Smoking marijuana for 11 years is a long-term habit. I, personally, wouldn't expect to just be able to stop and not have something else to fill the gap that used to be filled by cannabis. To me, it totally makes sense that you're now drinking every night. Have you tried tapering off of alcohol slowly? I have an extremely addictive personality and whenever I have had to quit a substance (tobacco, caffeine, etc), slowly tapering has been the most effective method for me. Rather than suddenly opening a large habitual gap, it slowly shrinks the gap and allows me to acclimate gradually.
I didn't know that the fixtures themselves had dimming features. I put "dimmable" LEDs in my can lights in the basement, and I'm really unimpressed with them. They don't flicker[1], but they don't get very dim, either.

[1] Except after a power outage - then they eerily flash on and off like something out of Stranger Things.
So which led light bulb do you install in your house?
Cloudflare for example allows 0-RTT for "only GET requests with no query parameters"

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-0-rtt/
Obviously someone hasn't thought this through.

If you can discriminate against someone based on their political views, or even ... "something they once said" -which seems to be the substance of all this patreon deplatforming and nazi-calling, you can do so based on their race, sexual habits, color of their shirt, gender, religious identity, ethnicity, cut of their jib, or what city they live in. So, like, welcome to the legal arguments used by "whites only" restaurants and hotels in the south under segregation.

FWIIW someone like Ron Paul who is a "freedom speeches zealot" agrees with you that the whole public accommodation thing violates the rights of businesses.
>His last advice is for me to get a "combo" router/modem from Comcast, instead of my leased modem and third-party (new) router.

Bad idea. However, you shouldn't be leasing a modem. Buy them outright. Breaks even in a few months.
There's also a namespace collision on Freenode IRC. The #notabug channel is definitely not for notabug.io it's for the free code hosting group https://notabug.org
I'm saying that "airing grievances" "for money" has prior art. I'm a busy person, and the opinion stated says that it should be illegal for me to hire a person to represent my views before, say, a congressperson. Or it should be illegal to hire a person more eloquent than myself to state my case; a professional, as it were. We hire lawyers because navigating the law is difficult. Should we not also be allowed to hire professionals as we take part in the making of those same laws?
But you should consider not trying so hard.

I suspect that's not going to be a popular thing for a lot of people. I agree with the advice but I'd re-word it slightly because -- at least for me -- it's not about trying. I'm paid, so I will do the work and it will be solid but I might also destroy myself in the process which kind of defeats the purpose. So I'll go with "Do something that the effort/reward properly matches how much it will drain out of you to complete"

I used to be an absolute minimum 50-hours/week guy, often around 60-80, and I did it without much pain, but I also didn't realize what I was missing out on. In my last two positions, I have managed to rarely work more than 40 hours (he says coming off of a 75 hour week last week). I'm accomplishing more on every front. This would not have been possible a few jobs ago. My new responsibilities are no "less important" in the grand scheme of what I think of should be "important in life" and they're far more important/fun for me, personally. I found an employer that operates in a more Agile fashion, with fewer deadline emergencies and I'm mentoring more, writing less code but getting to tackle much more difficult problems (which is why there's less code -- it takes a lot longer when you have to refer to docs/RFCs because there's no answers from the usual corners of the web).

I've learned that if at least two out of every five days of the week (averaged over a month, maybe?) I don't get out of bed at least reasonably motivated to work on the thing I'm working on, it's time to evaluate where things are in my life. The last two jobs I've had, "reasonably motivated" has typically been "bolt upright excited" to get up and start work.

Don't put everything into your job

It's probably not a good idea, especially if you work for someone. They won't put everything in to you, so it's going to be a very uneven relationship. But it is a stupidly important thing in your life (especially if you're supporting a family and working full time). It occupies a large portion of your waking hours so if you're miserable there, the rest of those hours are probably not going to be great, either.
There’s an episode of Silicon Valley that talks about how hard it is these days to be a Christian and work in the valley.

For workplaces, I think that ship has sailed. But it probably won’t help you with awkward thanksgiving or high school reunion conversations yet. All the kids I know hang out with the atheists but I can’t tell if that says something about these kids or kids in general.
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Isn't that what politicians do?
I have multiple questions.

> In addition, Money Button has banned the user that uploaded the material.

> It has also put in place filtering systems to spot when anyone tries to upload similar content.

> "We have all the information we need to track down criminals and prosecute them."

Doesn't blockchain technology exist to prevent censorship and provide anonymity (in terms of not being able to link transactions to a real life identity)? So why would anyone want to use a client that collects and stores this kind of information about them? Doesn't it (almost) completely erase the point of having a blockchain in the first place?

And how is this case handled now? Money Button said they forwarded the identity of the uploader to the authorities but is anyone gonna do anything about the problematic data?
That is the constant frustration of this economic model. Either you buy the driver (or the LED bulbs for that matter) from a shop in your own regulated economic area (like the EEA) and have them handle quality assurance (including the selection of the product) and warrantee, or you get the same product directly from China for a fifth of the price and have to handle the occasional failure yourself.

The sad thing is that the latter is still cheaper than buying from a 'local' shop.
That’s probably mostly due to different price categories selling out. I have the feeling that people come up with conspiracy theories about airline pricing way too quickly.

Even the “private browser window” trick seems mostly anecdotally or very specific to some airlines. I could never verify it myself.

This is a good starter: https://youtu.be/72hlr-E7KA0
I know what it is, it's specific.
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I think I'd prefer to use a disposable glove than washing my butt with my bare hand. That smell doesn't come off easily, and gloves are cheap.
This isn't the mob burning someones shop down. This is more like pointing out, hey dude, your door is open, you should close it.

They don't owe apple anything, and they are not causing the damage (apple's negligence did). If apple doesn't want to handle this in private, they will have to handle this in public. I don't see the problem. Coordinated disclosure is a courtesy, not a rule.
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Please, for the love of all that is holy, stop blocking ICMP! It's needed for things like Path MTU Discovery. With the increasing use of VPNs and tunnels (IPSec, Wireguard, GRE, etc) PMTUD is more important than ever.

At a minimum, any node on the internet routing or serving traffic needs to keep ICMP open. If you're running a DNS server, ICMP should be working.
I have only my anecdotal experience, but I'm happy with the Philips & GE bulbs. As I said, they both seem to run pretty cool. Philips makes what seem to be inexpensive-but-quality bulbs, as well as dimmable LED's that red-shift like incandescent used to. They also make a 60W yellow bulb that has very low blue emissions, uncommon for LED bulbs. Some of GE's LED bulbs have really high CRI which I like for making the basement more cheery.

One thing to pay close attention to on the package is whether the bulb can be run in an enclosed fixture. The package should always specify. Following this guidance and picking the right bulb for the fixture will help ensure you get the service life you expect. I don't think I've found any 100W equivalents that are OK'd for fully enclosed application, and 60W equivalent is like 50/50.
It is complicated, imagine EU putting some american CEO in prison.
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I agree, but I think things are moving. Increasingly few projects are started in C and C++, and people are making serious efforts to convert som existing projects to (for example) Rust.

Also, looking at things like the Linux kernel, they are moving to add as many safety checks to C as is reasonable. Clang is adding a "all stack variables are initialised" mode.
> Simplifying the tax code, regulations, and laws removes the opportunity for well-funded operations to exploit the existing complexity.

I think most people would agree with this statement, but the devil is in the details. Republicans have been trying to accomplish this type of tax reform for decades, but even with control over both houses and the executive branch, they couldn't overcome the influence of special interests. The question isn't whether a simplified tax code is beneficial -- it's how we get from point A to point B that is contentious.
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I was recently excited to find an ”award winning” Ikea Riggad LED lamp on the ”take for free” shelf by the recycling area of my building.

Plugged it in, did not work. Tried dismantling it with the help of these photos — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhfZ-vwau8c — but some screw sockets seemed damaged and the screws would not come off. I could not see anything wrong with cables or soldering as far as I got, so I wonder if the LED or circuit board is the problem.

Good design needs to consider sustainability, longevity and ease-of-maintenance in addition to how something works and looks.
[The EU] see this as a "tax" as well

Fines imposed by the EU go straight to the EU commission itself. Tax doesn't.
I agree, it implies they were using the . as a means to generate new emails vs the . actually playing a pivotal role in a specific compromise. I've actually used the . and + feature for years to manage different accounts.
I believe the reason, besides the fact that docstrings can be consumed via a REPL, is that the docstrings get compiled into the final classes. So if we had huge JavaDoc style docstrings, it would negatively affect loading times.
I guess it's going to be an individual preference for what counts as a meaningful relationship with friends. For me doing shared activities together on a regular basis is what brings me a lot of enjoyment in a friendship. I have long-term friends who I mostly only stay in touch with via the phone/internet, and it's just not the same.

To be clear this isn't a value judgement, but perhaps a point to consider when thinking about trying this lifestyle.
A week ago re-activated my 10 year old account.

I'm already bored.

From my experience EvE is a space ship simulation in name only.

I just can't get over how the physics in the game are completely wrong.

- Natural objects in the game never move. Planets, asteroids, moons, stations, etc are always in the same spot.
- Objects in the game can not add to their velocity. There's a max speed limit and no it's not speed of light.

The fastest ship in the game is a Pontifex outfitted like so: https://i.imgur.com/4GsgdYw.png

Maxes out at 15.5 km/s. For a game where most ships can hardly break 1000 m /s that's huge. Escape velocity for earth is 11.2 km/s.

I just can't get over the shit physics.

It's more like airplanes skinned to look like spaceships in not space.

The lore is that the warp drive is dragged by space time and that's why you slow down. If that's the case why not turn off the warp drive until you're ready to use it????

I have a fully outfitted Rokh for Insurrections that I am considering getting into to make money.

Shows like The Expanse make me want to play a game with space battles but the way Eve Online does it is so unrealistic and just plain wrong that it kills the game for me.
I've used dot addresses in referral queues to bump myself up the queue.

Remember the Oneplus referral based phone ordering/shipping? Yep, I cheated that one just to see if it would work.

It did.
By this logic, there is no need to compel Cloudflare to handover the private TLS key. They can just compel any CA based in Australia to sign a fake cert. Or directly compelling OS vendors (Google, Apple, Microsoft,etc) to make government cert as a root CA.
Students spent $3000 testing the Infinite monkey theorem using real monkeys-2003
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Made me think of this tweet from @patrickc

"The high-return activity of raising others' aspirations."

https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1092676941902012416

https://siepr.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/publications/...

Abstract

> Only a minority of high-achieving, low-income students apply to colleges in the same way that other high-achieving students do: applying to several selective colleges whose curriculum is designed for students with a level of achievement like their own. This is despite the fact that selective colleges typically cost them high-achieving, low-income students less while offering them more generous resources than the non-selective postsecondary institutions they mainly attend. In previous work, we demonstrate that the vast majority of high-achieving, low-income students are unlikely to be reached by traditional methods of informing students about their college opportunities since such methods require the students to be concentrated geographically. In this study, we use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate interventions that provide students with semicustomized information on the application process and colleges' net costs. The interventions also provide students with no-paperwork application fee waivers. The ECO Comprehensive (ECO-C) Intervention costs about $6 per student, and we find that it causes high-achieving, low-income students to apply and be admitted to more colleges, especially those with high graduation rates and generous instructional resources. The students respond to their enlarged opportunity sets by enrolling in colleges that have stronger academic records, higher graduation rates, and more generous resources. Their freshman grades are as good as the control students', despite the fact that the control students attend less selective colleges and therefore compete with peers whose incoming preparation is substantially inferior. Benefit-to-cost ratios for the ECO-C Intervention are extremely high, even under the most conservative assumptions.
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Why is it wrong? Halogens are a fire hazard and a heat nuisance.
I actually like this. I need it.

I once walked into an office for an interview and it was too quiet for the number of devs in there. I knew it wasn't right for me.

I guess listen for the background noise?
It's not only about speed. I was more thinking about programming close to hardware. There you need all the tricks.
I always like to point out that, as IQ, ZIP code is also heritable. I lived for about 49 years in the same city my mom lives.
This is disgusting. What is the point of sacrificing so much? A few more years?
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Boarding pass and passenger's data exposed to hackers
I assume it means there are other things in your life that don't spark joy like those instruments. That's where to focus.
It was initially where I was going to go with this, but as I thought through the argument the recursion caused a stack overflow in my brain.
I feel like I must be misreading, because my first-pass interpretation is that companies would terminate all of their Australian citizen employees, and add terms to the remaining contracts saying that employees must notify them if they become an Australian citizen.
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Why do you call this a "startup"? It's a nice hack for sure but I'm not sure if it's has a prospect of being a business.
In some jurisdictions.

IIRC, Australia requires an electrician for even this sort of minor work.
You need to be more pedantic. The EFF is a 501(c)(3) organization, and that's a type of corporation.

If you want to outlaw lobbying by for-profit corporations, then they'll just create subsidiary lobbying organizations. The NRA is a 501(c)(4), which is also a tax exempt non-profit designation, and realistically it serves primarily as a lobbying group for gun manufacturers.
Generally, a landlord wants someone licensed with insurance to handle something like that on the off chance something goes wrong. I was going to fix the fixture in my bathroom that was shorting a bit and burning out bulbs myself. Thankfully I called my owner and he had an electrician come in because it turns out a lot of the conduit above the fixture needed replacing due to age.
Human beings are also an emergent behavior that are a product of complex biological processes and their environment. Is it pointless to become outraged at a person?
if you don't pay cash, you are also being tracked (credit cards)... and soon/now you will also need a mask/burka to avoid being tracked (facial recognition).
Hyperapp isn't Web Components. We're able to freely mix Polymer and LitElement components because the browser does it for us.

LitElement really is just Web Components with reactive properties and lit-html rendering. Everything else is plain HTMLElement. Hopefully there's very little to learn that's not standard and transferrable to any other web-based code.

I'm not exactly sure what Meiosis is, to be honest.