skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What we have right now are three options : fossil fuels, renewable sources like wind/solar/hydro, or nuclear.

Fossil fuels kill millions a year related to pollution, and does make whole areas unlivable. About 16% of all fracking oil in the US gets spilled in nature every year[1], on top of crap like Flint. Coal is responsible for 80% of energy-generated related air pollution, worldwide[2]. They are not a good solution.

Natural sources are simply extremely limited in terms of access. Few countries can realistically really rely on these as a main source of electricity.

The, there's nuclear. We have fission, which is, while relatively safe (5 major impactful accidents since the rise of nuclear power, 3 of those being the three Fukishima plants), pretty damaging _when_ shit happens. However, are the damages realistically worse than fossil fuels? I'm not exactly qualified to figure this out myself but just looking at the numbers really doesn't make fission look that bad. Finally, there's nuclear fusion, which is a lot safer, while we've been making decent progress in the recent years, doesn't look like it's gonna run our cities any time soon.

So no, we shouldn't be burning coal, obviously, but if nothing's perfect, the logical option is the next best thing.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39032748
[2] https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-energy/decrease-coal-use
It would not have holes in it. The main reason why the gamma radiation makes it through is because it never interacted with any of the lead. And even if a (unlucky) gamma photon interacts inside the lead sheet it would not do much damage there. The only thing that really do damage to the material is neutron radiation and even there the damage is on the microscopic level (atoms getting knocked out of place) than anything macroscopic.
I like the game and it is very impressive from a development perspective, but the amount of chat moderation combined with the slow (by design, probably) pace of the game made me stop playing. Might pick it up again, however.
Super Mario Bros. game cartridge sells for $100,150
A problem I have run into with x25519 and ed25519 is that in Nacl, both use different public key 'formats'. While they are the same curve, you cannot use an x25519 for signing (ed25519 only) and you cannot use an ed25519 for encryption. PGP allows binding encryption and signing keys together in a profile. So far I have not been able to 'bind' an ed25519/x25519 key in a similar configuration.
tldr-shortcut: expectation doesn't "meat" crushed tech-stack.
Maybe there is a wet-ware problem 2b solved. (It's friday night,guess - i'm too drunk to be xpected gentle conv.)
You don't understand payments if you think they can just replace Visa/Mastercard. The whole value add of Visa/Mastercard is the networks they have with the hundreds of thousands of banks, etc, which Stripe doesn't have.
Except that's already SOP in New York. You're familiar with One57, the skyscraper with $100 million apartments? It received over $60 million in tax abatements. And the first $100 million apartment's owner paid less than $20,000 in property tax in 2014.

https://www.6sqft.com/one57-received-66m-in-tax-breaks-in-ex...
I came here to specifically complain about TreasuryDirect. Thanks for the bookmark fix. I've just been going in to devtools and manually deleting the readonly. This will save me time and frustration.
What a joke of a "release" why are all such products almost immediately out of stock. Do they make 20 units? They don't even bother to say on their website when if ever they'll have more units available.

Imagine if you worked months to develop a product based on this chip and after all this work you can't use it because it is out of stock with no further info. This is why it'll make no sense to use such chips until they can be bought at digikey, mouser etc in serious quantities.
I just searched for TPUG on Google in both my logged in profile, as well as an incognito window. Both searches returned primarily results about the Toronto PET Users Group, including a knowledge panel specifically about the Toronto PET Users Group (founded in 1978 by Lyman Duggan).

That's either very quick turnaround to fix, or a deeper mystery!
There are two major flaws in your logic:

First, you correctly outline a problem but fail to solve the bug so to speak. These rural communities are poor and already have trouble supporting their communities, and most of these rural communities have very few immigrants in the first place. Not enough to cause a drain on local infrastructure, but they serve as a scapegoat for the actual problems which is that said rural areas are dying out whether it be due to aging population or lack of funding. Having a homogenous culture as you mentioned wouldn't fix this problem, it's an excuse.

The second is that you believe having a homogenous culture in the rural areas would be enough. If it was, then you wouldn't see those same rural people rallying against sanctuary cities and blaming coastal cities for destroying their culture. They don't just want a homogenous culture, they seek the destruction of immigrants altogether. That's why we've seen the rise of white supremacists, neo-nazis and abhorrent policies being pushed by our officials.
Correction noted! Thanks!
KeePass allows you to program a delay between entering the username and password, but I agree having two separate screens is annoying.
It should probably be the other way around from a product perspective. The box is super simple, it's basically a black box, and having some ISP serving you an ad instead of your video link would make it seem like it 'doesn't work' for most customers. A device like that is more likely to be returned than to go through support. However, if you're competent to care about which DNS server you use, or you're doing something like blocking DNS traffic that doesn'r originate from your DNS recurser, you have the capability to change the DNS settings yourself without incurring a bunch of support burden or returning the device out of frustration.

There should be an option in the box settings that lets you choose, google, dhcp, or manual dns servers. Probably in that order.
Maybe my argument was too nuanced for you.
With lightning network, the fee could be less than 1 cent.
kubernetes should be able to be compiled for power? Go works on POWER no problem.

A quick google shows docker working on power too, so there really should be little to no work to run k8s on power.
My point is that you need to roll your own cryptosystem, whereas PGP, for all its flaws, is a working, IND-CCA2 secure cryptosystem (provided you use the correct primitives). This whole blog is justification for removing PGP from Golang stdlib. I dont agree with Valsorda deprecating this.
Your argument that people with good credit pay less to use the network is sound, and in that sense it almost constitutes a minor poverty trap. But to call it taxation ignored all of the remarkable innovations that the card brands have made. They have successfully managed to connect nearly all of the worlds banks together in a way that facilitates almost instantaneous payments between them. Sure this innovation is old, but that doesn’t make it any less valuable to consumers. It’s still so valuable today, that a lot of our modern day payment innovations are still based on those very networks. Try and think back to a time before payment brand networks, and how tedious payments were then (especially international one) before dismissing the value of the card brands.
How NASA's Opportunity Mars Rover Lived So Long
Having something more akin to typescript's strict compilation might be more reasonable.

You'd mark out older syntaxes/APIs as restricted or deprecated and compilations would yield warnings or errors (when those features were used) depending on the compiler level.

This would allow new projects to be developed using only the newer (standard) syntax, while allowing a transitional vector for older projects.
BodyPix: Real-Time Person Segmentation in the Browser with TensorFlow.js
In other words, don't anything like this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/aqwplw/more_o...

> must be at least 8 characters, but no longer than 30 characters, with at least 1 number, but no more than 15 numbers, with the first characters not being a number or symbol and various special characters being forbidden.
Then just split on the first space (I do that a lot with text files that I parse, like `for line in file: date, hours_worked, comment = line.strip().split(' ', 2)`.

The real issue starts when you have spaces in your username. We should just use some non-printable, like, I don't know... tab?
Something tells me Trump would be the most unlikely so most likely person to start disclosing.

I feel psychic abilities will be a breakthrough in our lifetime. Time travel never. Communicating with the spirits or dead quite possible or completely foolish. Time will tell.
My company is planning to roll out a new login form with a "don't remember me" checkbox. The guy who implemented is standing by it because that's what the mockup showed, and the designer essentially covers his ears and shouts LA LA LA LA when you try to address it with him.

So yeah, I expect some fun comments when that eventually rolls out.
My first thought when people bring up deleting things is backup tapes. Sure it might or might not be "deleted" from the live data set, but it's almost always gonna live on in backups for probably forever.
One good justification for this is so it doesn't hinder accessibility for users that have difficulty typing.
If a car brand did, I would find it surprising that a buyer of that brand would complain about it.
I mean the actual reason these companies are able to levy these taxes is because they provide contractual consumer protection. If we had strong consumer protection laws in the US in the first place, there wouldn't be much value left in Visa/MC etc.
A space error: $370M for an integer overflow
In big cities (shanghai, beijing), some public services are tied to housing. e.g. public schools are only provided for local residents or people have houses in that area.
> I suggested that a c# lite or a rethinking of c# would be awesome.

"a rethinking of C#" is a good description of F#.
An Insect-Bot Mimics Desert Ants by Looking at the Sky to Navigate
It is not recommended to use any keys for more than one purpose any more, this can allow attacks. So this is by design.
Cult classic TV show Veronica Mars is Hulu’s latest resurrection (2018)
A new robot can navigate without GPS, using the same light-sensing abilities as desert ants. Desert ants survive in searingly hot conditions in the Sahara. They sometimes have just a few minutes to forage for food before they risk burning to death. As a result, they are very efficient navigators, using bands of polarized light, invisible to humans, to get around. They also carefully count their steps. These two tactics help to keep them alive. AntBot: The bot, described this week in Science Robotics, is fitted with UV light sensors that can detect polarized light from the sun. This is known as a "celestial compass" and is designed to mimic the way desert ants see the sun's light. This helps it work out the direction it's going in. The robot also counts its steps, much like its desert muse. In tests, it successfully managed to complete an outdoor homing task, where it was required to go to several checkpoints and then return to a fixed location within a range of 14 meters.
For certain definitions of fine. If fraud does happen the consumer is usually not believed, because of course, fraud does not happen.
Chromecast isn't a browsing device.
Nope, someone fought that issue since there is no law that says a business must be profitable and won.

IIRC it was drag racers or something similar.
Here's another one:

Don't do what some banks do when they separate the password field into multiple boxes for various characters in your password. It's enough of a hassle trying to remember the password sometimes, let alone when you've got to randomly work out what the 3rd, 7th, 10th and 15th characters of it are too.

They also do this for the pin number too, which is obviously much easier to figure out but again adds unneeded stress for little extra security.
Again. Can you point to the evidence that billions will die?

People die every day from nature already and already have. We've become better and better at dealing with nature.

Many things are in the realm of possibility big astroid hitting earth is certainly going to be quite dramatic and in the billions.

We aren't just dealing with one scenario here there are many ways that billions can be affected.

So why try to force solar and wind when they can't even deliver the amount of energy we need, they aren't stable and they aren't even close to being green either.

It's much more responsible to keep using the resources we have, become better at utilizing them keep developing new methods.

This idea that we can push some pause button and still get people out of poverty and make peoples lives safer or whatever it is people are suggesting is simply out of touch with any reasonable measure up against the consequences of climate change we can actually predict.
FWIW, the logged in view of this is an alpha-sorted list, basically this view https://exercism.io/tracks

I would guess the design choice on the front page change on reloads to try to surface something potentially interesting to everyone, but I am not affiliated with them/have no additional insight. I can see how it would be frustrating.

They must have removed the link you are referencing, because I don't see it now. Clicking it from the front page works (probably because it is an anchor link).
I think you meant to reply to the parent comment.
Transparent DNS proxy is a thing, plenty of ISPs have been using them for more than a decade. I know mine does because occasionally they hit a snag and setting your DNS to 8.8.8.8 wont help because any request over port 53 is silently intercepted.

Like somebody said below, this is pretty much a non issue unless google starts to force DNSSEC and certificate pinning.
> I like go lang cause of this

I'm a huge fan of C#, but the lack of features makes Go so damned pleasant to read. As an extreme example, the new C# record type really breaks the neurons I have dedicated to the language:

public struct Pair(object First, object Second);

As soon as I see parenthesis, it's a method. I want record types, but that syntax is foreign. I wish Anders would spend a few months back on the C# team, he has a great knack for keeping things as consistent and minimal as possible.
Progressive disclosure works with password managers as long as the hidden fields are still in the DOM and are simply rendered invisible to the user. For example, Apple's login forms work this way where they don't show the password until you've entered your Apple ID, but it still works just fine with 1Password (and with Safari's built-in password manager).
Its never been part of the stdlib, its part of x/crypto. They also aren't going to remove it, just deprecate it.
A coworker and I were just playing with this, and were able to send the ~$100 worth of BTC back and forth, and paid $0.00002 in fees (and no, we weren't directly connected). The actual send took less than a second.
The stats are for India only BTW. UPI does close to 700M transactions a month and growing around 20% month on month.

Compared to that Visa, MasterCard and Rupay combined do around 150M transactions a month. Of course if we add ATM withdrawals (which is actually a cash transaction to think of) than that number is around 800M per month for all of them combined.

All numbers are for India only. in USA Mastercard alone does around 12B transactions a year and globally around 75B transactions a year. Large but India's UPI had a fair chance to even overtake than in next 5 years.
It's not. C#'s switch can pattern match on value and type: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2019/01/24/do-more-w...

Java's switch still operates only on String, int, short, byte, char, and their wrapper types: https://blog.codefx.org/java/switch-expressions/
But I do find it puzzling how such deals are even legal. Isn't the law supposed to be the same for everyone - including tax law?

The same for everyone....do you mean everyone paying 0% taxes, or the max, close to 50% (state + federal) ?

>>In New York, California, Connecticut, Maryland and New Jersey, the top 1 percent pay a third or more of total income taxes. Now a handful of billionaires or even a single individual like Mr. Tepper can have a noticeable impact on state revenues and budgets.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/business/one-top-taxpayer...
We believe the data to be extremely DURABLE (survive), but if your strategy is to "host content" in a highly available fashion where people will die if your content is offline for an hour, we recommend you use two different providers with some sort of fail over

Do your durability metrics take datacenter failure or human error into account?

Datacenter failures are rare, but they do happen and can cause data loss if all of your data is in that data center.

Likewise, human error can cause cascading failures across a datacenter (or beyond) if there are no firewalls between zones that prevent a single person/command/software update from affecting all copies of the data.
Note that the site has several more entries with extensions to that base raycaster, which you can find in the index.

Interesting note about this technique: you get perspective correct texturing for free. "Real" 3D rendering usually had to cope with affine texturing due to performance costs until dedicated hardware for it came along.
Maybe you should (delete your comment and then) send them this thread
Nice! I also wrote a script, but yours is much safer.

```
var s = 'PASSWORD';
for ( var i = 0; i < s.length; i++ )
{ PasswordVK(s.charAt(i)); }
```
>Every PI in every lab he touched should have seen this coming.

People are surprisingly willing to let you accidentally pour your life in to something that only marginally benefits them, that's why you have to be ever-vigilant against the many opportunities you'll have to do that. Some people are prone to slipping into the mentality of the ideal feudal peasant: "life is bad here, but the lord of the estate isn't going to grant me any freedom, so I'm just going to focus on making the best of it." A mentality like that would be great for someone who had no freedom, and indeed it would make the best of an immutable bad situation, but I see a lot of people slip in to it even when they do actually have the ability to jump to a different life track. Scientists are especially prone to this because they're pre-selected for high levels of tenacity and low levels of impulsiveness.
Shedding? Why? The point of supporting "legacy" crypto is batteries-included and for many instances where it's vital for backwards interoperability. Makes me glad I left Go because the populist noobs have definitely taken over and ruined it with their toxic, myopic, fashionablism ideas.
> What if your React components ran on the server-side?

Huh? React components can run on the server side, that is one of the primary benefits of React compared to its predecessors.
I remember getting a free polo shirt with the AltaVista logo embroidered on it. I don't recall the specific circumstances that led to being sent a shirt, and I wore holes in it so I no longer have it, but it really was superior to the alternatives before Google came along.
8-Character Windows NTLM Passwords Can Be Cracked in Under 2.5 Hours
Obviously it couldn’t melt through to China but AFAIK the way Czernobyl played out was that they had to somehow stop it from melting down to a flooded basement due to the fear of a long lasting series of hydrogen explosions that could have been truly disastrous for the region, if not Europe. Thus I think that the true worst case has so far never happened: A reactor without any of the modern safeguards (such as boronic sand pits) melting down to groundwater. Though, I guess subcritical core melts would not lead to hydrogen explosions, rather the creation of a lot of steam - it would be interesting to know how likely such a worst case would be and whether any of the world‘s reactors are configured to make this possible. Incredibly, 10 Chernobyl-type RBMK reactors are still in service.
Now do one of these for Captive Portal WiFi please!!
HashCat, an open-source password recovery tool, can now crack an eight-character Windows NTLM password hash in less than 2.5 hours. "Current password cracking benchmarks show that the minimum eight character password, no matter how complex, can be cracked in less than 2.5 hours" using a hardware rig that utilizes eight Nvidia GTX 2080Ti GPUs, explained a hacker who goes by the pseudonym Tinker on Twitter in a DM conversation with The Register. "The eight character password is dead." From the report:

It's dead at least in the context of hacking attacks on organizations that rely on Windows and Active Directory. NTLM is an old Microsoft authentication protocol that has since been replaced with Kerberos. According to Tinker, it's still used for storing Windows passwords locally or in the NTDS.dit file in Active Directory Domain Controllers. It's dead at least in the context of hacking attacks on organizations that rely on Windows and Active Directory. NTLM is an old Microsoft authentication protocol that has since been replaced with Kerberos. Tinker estimates that buying the GPU power described would require about $10,000; others have claimed the necessary computer power to crack an eight-character NTLM password hash can be rented in Amazon's cloud for just $25.

NIST's latest guidelines say passwords should be at least eight characters long. Some online service providers don't even demand that much. When security researcher Troy Hunt examined the minimum password lengths at various websites last year, he found that while Google, Microsoft and Yahoo set the bar at eight, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter only required six. Tinker said the eight character password was used as a benchmark because it's what many organizations recommend as the minimum password length and many corporate IT policies reflect that guidance. So how long is long enough to sleep soundly until the next technical advance changes everything? Tinker recommends a random five-word passphrase, something along the lines of the four-word example popularized by online comic XKCD, "correcthorsebatterystaple." That or whatever maximum length random password via a password management app, with two-factor authentication enabled in either case.