skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are lots of testers on the market, but it's hard to differentiate them and I'm sure many of them are garbage. I need one myself, but I haven't had the time to do the research yet.
The point I was trying to make that is actually more general than PayPal was: When you want to take back control over convoluted and untrustworthy systems that end up accessing your account in some way, you can't really do it at the level of the payment mechanism.

I've done this a fair amount in the past: When I would do business with a vendor that I don't trust all that much with the way they do their billing, I would give them a credit card number for a prepaid credit card with tightly controlled balances, instead of giving them anything that's linked to my main bank account.

But it doesn't really help. When the untrustworthy party wants to deduct a payment from the mechanism you've given them and it can't, then they will instead just turn to bullying and threatening legal action, and you end up paying them whatever is in dispute because you won't want to risk them taking legal action.

Another consideration that enters into this is the dark and murky territory of consumer credit rating. If there's an account that's in your name, regardless of whether it's PayPal, a prepaid credit card, a bank account or whatever, and there's a charge that hits the account and there's no balance, then this is an event that they'll collect data about, and that may be disseminated in ways that you may not realize, and it may come back to bite you in the ass when you want to apply for a mortgage or something. So it's best not to go that route.

At the end of the day, the only thing you can do is to not do business with certain kinds of entities at all. And PayPal is definitely on my list of entities not to do business with.
In my experience you should avoid doing business with your friends and family. Countless times have I seen relationships get destroyed when money are involved. Heck, I've been there myself more than once ("this time it'll be ok" I thought).

If you start asking yourself this question you should probably part ways. If you're going to hold that to yourself, chances are you'll start hating him slowly like boiling a frog.
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I'm sure the people doing the meta studies would be delighted to have other, independent people attempt to replicate their studies, but as they did it, and in other ways to verify their findings. Unlike many of the groups that did the studies this meta is studying, who often don't want any group do anything except confirm their findings because of the money and status behind their studies.
While I'm in favor of nuclear energy, this is something that bothers me. We rarely takes that into factors when comparing it to wind or solar.

Indeed, wind and solar projects can be of much smaller scales. You can iterate on them. Try several places, several designs. And of course, retiring wind turbines or a solar panels, even when you multiply it to get to the same scale of a full blown nuclear reactor, it way easier and cheaper.

In fact, those costs and scales are in such disfavor to nuclear that when officially calculating it, we are not including cheap wiring for the reactor, while we are including expensive underground wiring for wind turbine in my country. It looks better on paper.

The problem is so important, building and retiring reactors is such a pricey thing that we keep postponing it. In France, we are still running reactors that should have been decommissioned long ago.

So I hope we will be able to build some of those awesome new designs. But our society will be more independent, safe and stable if we diversify, and keep investing in wind/solar massively. A mix of energy source is much better right now.
What happened to Tom's Hardware? This webpage takes forever to load all the ads and things.
This is the opposite of what Hans Rosling says in his book Factfulness.

According to Hans Rosling's findings family size is linked to child mortality which is linked to poverty. When mothers see their children die then they want to have more children. When they see their children grow to adulthood then they have fewer children. You can also play with the data yourself on his site https://www.gapminder.org/.

He also looked at family size relation to culture and religion and found even in religions that promote large families, family size is still declining.

Family size has dropped world wide everywhere except for Africa. There is an unfortunate link between poverty and family size in Africa. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is tracking this exact issue.

I am not a data scientist, but the heritability of large families seems a difficult thing to pull out of the data when environment plays such a large role. In my personal family history child mortality and religion did play a large role in family size. We all now have small families.
Was the whole medium article really pointless regurgitation?
The funny thing for me is that I met for first time this scalators on last month
There are assholes who are "constraints" (in the "Goal" or "Phoenix Project" meaning of this word). The newer incarnation of the BOFH. How do you get around this? This is a problem at the core of devops (as an idea not as the pseudo position). Management should look at constraints to see where the likely conditions for assholery are.
But meanwhile, they still have to conform to all existing regulations required by previous designs.
I have done similar and I have devices that have USB-C ports and only charge on USB-A chargers using an A-to-C adapter.

If you haven't run into a device or charger that has quirks, I'm surprised and happy you're that lucky. I'm sure not.
I understand that, "operate at a loss" being the key component there. Is that what's happening?
I think even if you had complete control to re-write the Wikipedia system from scratch, creating effective moderation systems is a super challenging. Trying to change the current system given the existing entrenched interest is damn near impossible. If you have a specific system change you thought could and should be made by Sanger, let's hear it (though I won't be able to assess).
The title made me hope for a quite literal way to run your website: using some kind of energy harvesting (bicycle?) used to power a small computer with a web server.

This is an issue that is quite simple to solve. Many podcasters (espescially Joe Rogan) like to talk about being afraid of getting removed from a platform without having your own hosting set up.

Most of the controversial big names of youtube and other platforms can and should stay as independent as possible. Twitter and others’ aim is to lure as many people as possible to their platforms. Once you are big enough you should probably seek out an independent way to distribute content.
Alipay users planted 100M trees in China
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Yep a simple WOG value you can buy for $9 dollars at home depot costs $500 dollars after it is certified and tested and approved for use in a plant.
Doesn't even work with unlimited funds since casinos have table limits.
>many optimizations

Not many, mostly simple peephole optimizations.

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/compile/int...
I hear you. But this teeters dangerously close to gatekeeping, elitism, or something along those lines. I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, but I think how others feel after reading our comments does matter.

Better put, because everyone is on the internet now, the real world's problems are now the internet's problems. It used to serve as an escape, true. It has made the world a smaller place, where problems from a distant state or country can reach me and I can't help but be aware of them. I may even be affected by them.

Is that good or bad, for us as individuals or as global citizens? That's heavy stuff.
Twitch spun out of Justin.tv and then they killed Justin.tv :(
safer ones are always on the way but they need to be built for upgrade cheaply. Vogtle is building additional capacity from new reactors but the old ones are still expected to keep working, afaik. Also they're years over plan and billions (with a B) over budget.
What is crypto fake media?
I'm talking about eBay and Craigslist sellers, not companies. Anything I buy from companies I can just put on a credit card and chargeback if scammed.

Edit: also googling around none of those seem to have the solid buyer protection that PayPal has. With PayPal I can just open a dispute with a picture of the error (color is off or whatever) and within a relatively short time period the seller is forced to reimburse me the full purchase cost, including shipping. That's very valuable as a customer.
Imo, it is more that having children has often effect of isolating you quite a lot. It can get very lonely as a result as you miss adults around. You miss friends with common interests as your social group become exclusively those with same age children but not much in common otherwise.

It is not necessary that entertainment is so great.it is more that routine and isolation can be quite big.

TV is compatible with kids. But most social activities are nowdays are not.
The mistake they made is really easy to make accidentally. The USB-C spec is complicated and cables aren't marked. Many folks still don't know there are multiple types of cables.
> It's easy to "imagine" what you would do if you were a minority. Especially when you haven't lived it.

A better way to run the argument would be to address the substance of raxxorrax's argument here, for example by pointing out any specific problem with the way he imagines what minorities feel. Instead, you doubted his ability to imagine it, despite you don't know him at all.

This is just an ad hominem attack.
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Software engineers don't scale (but comments does)
Where are you getting the figure "$30"?

The components of an active cable are not that expensive. You and I may pay premium markups at retailers because of parasitic incentives, but that doesn't mean folks sourcing their own cables would.
If you forget your password then there is basically no way of contacting them. I lost my 2FA phone number, and wanted to know if there is anything I can do to get my account back? There is no contact form, no customer chat/phone number, and their issue tracker is only available if you log in. Finally, I found an email address on some other website, contacted them, then I got an email saying they answered my issue, and if I'm satisfied with their answer?

Of course, I never was able to see their answer because I cannot log in to open the issue tracker. So, in the end I just gave up.
https://medium.com/policy/medium-terms-of-service-9db0094a1e... says:

> You own the rights to the content you create and post on Medium.

> By posting content to Medium, you give us a nonexclusive license to publish it on Medium Services, including anything reasonably related to publishing it (like storing, displaying, reformatting, and distributing it). In consideration for Medium granting you access to and use of the Services, you agree that Medium may enable advertising on the Services, including in connection with the display of your content or other information. We may also use your content to promote Medium, including its products and content. We will never sell your content to third parties without your explicit permission.

In practice this lets them do literally anything they want with your content. I’m not sure what lawyers would make of the bit about not selling your content to third parties, but I cynically imagine that all it takes is for them to classify such an arrangement as one of their Services and they’re off the hook. Do note that they did not include the word “non-transferrable”, only “non-exclusive”.
You may wanna look at what Alipay is doing with their Ant Forest, which is a behavior gamification turning into planting trees.
https://www.alizila.com/how-alipay-users-planted-100m-trees-...
Your wife is a saint. Just imagine how fucking pissed you would of been...
>If a caller demanded to know the rep's HIV status, we wouldn't insist the company disclose it.

Because it has no bearing.

I think a more interesting question is if they wanted to know health information that would be relevant, such as specific mental abnormalities that would influence a person's ability to lie. Then again, even that question is moot because when you ask someone if they are a liar, the truth tellers and liars both answer no.

Current location matters because of laws. If the other individual is in the US, I have a better idea of what recourse I have if my information is misused.

And I don't think this can be dismissed outright as contrived and unreasonable, especially in some cases like doing business in China where IP is treated very differently

But if we use the excuse of the customer having a right to know the laws that bind whom they are talking to, gender and race become an interesting case as well. In a fair and just world, they shouldn't matter one bit. But given our current world, we know that the legal system is not applied to them equally. Racial and gender disparities in sentences can be off by a factor of 27 (this was a back of the napkin estimate I did some years ago based on sentencing data, and was based on the same crime, so it does not include any disparity in what charges are brought). Does a customer have a right to know that the person they are talking to is privileged when it comes to laws being applied and thus has less disincentive to engage in illegal behavior?

>If some portion of the population strongly believes that foreign call centers are lower quality, are you going to get the best possible answers on a survey if you say, "this was a foreign call center, how was the quality?"

Self reports are one of the worst forms of data collection, so it is a bit sad that so many companies still depend only among it when rating their employees. More objective metrics have massive problems with being gamed, but at least they are more objective.
I was under the impression that carbon dioxide was largely a global problem. I don't have the knowledge to comment on that, or the other problems you brought up - in fact, I don't have much of an established opinion on the topic at all. I just wanted to present some math on how you could theoretically contribute to there being 62 times less CO2 in the atmosphere overall - if that's in your interests. I can't comment on the other intricacies (I'm not trying to be sarcastic or anything, I hope you understand what I'm trying to say.)
Twistor memory looks like one of those technologies that was not quite competitive with core for one reason or another and never really caught on. As far as twistor ROM, it used a small permanent magnet per bit, so I expect that its density was worse than core rope.
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Sadly, he would rather play games than work on your common future. This is like swimming with a 150 pound toad on your back who also eats your food, a good job if you can get it...
Analyze this as if you were speaking with a friend who had this exact problem - what would you tell him to do?
From another point of view. you are creating a fail mode system for him to operate in. He has no success mode, apart from that of a tapeworm, just keep on suckin' on little bro, when he is sucked dry, find another host.
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Excellent point, and you are right that I did not realize Ford's early growth curve was that steep. Oops. I also did not realize how much Ford dominated the automotive sector in those early years or how widely variable sales were in that era. The numbers here were really interesting to look at in detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Automobile_Production_Fig...

So maybe I should move my statement around a bit. Ford is the fastest growing automaker over its first 20 years of existence (clearly). But Ford also built cars in its first year.

Who was the fastest from the first car off the line to the 11 year mark (Tesla's current state)? Hmm, its really close, with both at ~300k for the trailing twelve months, if I'm not mistaken (Ford in 1914). And the following year, Ford did about 500k, which is remarkably close to Tesla's goal for the next year.

I've been thinking for a while now that history was repeating itself in more ways than people realize and this kind of confirms it for me. This is all really interesting stuff. Thanks for pointing out my error! :)
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The firm with 900 staff and no office
I personally blame the spec for making it far too complicated to build compliant devices and far too easy to build non-compliant devices
This isn't a surprise, nor is it evidence of individual greed or stupidity. What's wrong with betting when there is no house edge? In which case, some people are inevitably going to wrongly pick heads or tails and thus lose their $20.

Had the OP actually properly described how to build a useful Monte Carlo simulation, you could find your article, get the actual rules, run a simulation and check whether 33% was in line with expectations.
> If a caller demanded to know the rep's HIV status

What the hell are you talking about?
Here's an example of a site that is doing something like this - https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html
I sent the first three that I saw. I have to admit that in my eyes all those sites have the same lack of credibility. Here's a few more mainstream, I think.

"Analysts suggested that one of its possible missions could be disrupting communication cables on the seabed." https://time.com/5619197/russia-navy-submarine-fire-deaths/

"Western military experts have suggested it is capable of probing and possibly even severing undersea communications cables." https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/putin-russia-submarine-fire-nu...

"Analysts suggested that one of its possible missions could be disrupting communication cables on the ocean bed." https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/02/sailors-killed-in-russia-sub...

"Russian ships may be using underwater cables to spy" https://nypost.com/2018/03/30/russian-ships-may-be-using-und...

etc.
Any spec will always have some way of building devices that violate the spec but happen to work some of the time. There's no way around that, which means that blaming the spec and complaining that you "need to throw out working devices" isn't going to help you.
I do run my own site. Moreover, I do all the coding, styling, and layout manually and without any 3rd-party libraries or frameworks. Or even in-house libraries for that matter.

This works for me in terms of freedom. I can do interactive plots, quizzes, games and all kind of programmable things I can imagine. No restrictions.

In fact, I left Medium because I was restricted to text and images only. I want more. I want words and buttons: https://wordsandbuttons.online

But it's not really aligned with the reasons from the post. It's not a resume. It would have been an awful resume. I wouldn't hire myself by this resume.

And keeping record is, of course, nice. But it has nothing to do with running your own website. You can keep record on Medium, too. In fact, it would be more effective since it works wonders for the small notes.

Still, I totally agree that keeping your own site is a fascinating experience and it's well worth time and effort.
I never tested a url with a port number so that could be it. I'll have to look at that this weekend.

It will be smart enough to grab everything but I'm still working out the issues. The extension version only runs once, but for the desktop version it has a list of Device Resolutions to run through (typical Desktop, iPad, Mobile is default) and for the extra resolutions adds more styles to the list of rules by iterating through all the elements again. That seems to get almost all media queries so hopefully I can release that soon.
I drive by this thing every day and didn't know that. Also didn't know coquina was so rare.
Wait, what?
I see "Tyler Ward", not "Benson Leung".

Unless you're telling me they are one and the same.
You even put U-233 in there

How proliferation of fissionable U-233 is different from proliferation of fissionable Pu-239? Both share ability to be separated from fuel without enrichment factories, both can be used to build a bomb.

I like thorium cycle, but proliferation should not be used as argument for it.
> In the UK, ISPs are legally forced to block certain types of websites, such as those hosting copyright-infringing or trademarked content. Some ISPs also block other sites at their discretion, such as those that show extremist content, adult images, and child pornography. These latter blocks are voluntary and are not the same across the UK, but most ISPs usually tend to block child abuse content.

It does give the lie to the "for the children" argument when blocking copyright infringement is mandatory and banning child porn is optional.
You don't store spent fuel. You reprocess it, getting out new fuel and a much smaller amount of waste that is much less hazardous and only needs to be stored for a much shorter time.
In addition to the post I will add here a nice video[1] that was recently uploaded
from the very well known in Clojure community Sean Corfield which demonstrates
the functionality and power of Deps.edn.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWjUccpFvrg
A decade ago, there was a Chinese proposal for a non-stop bullet train: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Ig19gYP9o

I don't think anything came out of that, but it's a cute idea, especially for high-speed stuff.
If they are bypassable, they are not secure...
It is not just foreign phone number, but IBAN too (last time I checked). I live in Spain, and wasn't able to add my German bank account.
But we have.
Yeah I'm from South Africa and thought I knew heat but this week had been insane!

Another fun fact - because the material absorbs shock so well, the Spanish were able to dig undamaged cannon balls out of the wall. They'd etch messages on them and fire them back at the English!
It looks pragmatic and reasonable to me. You give them the non exclusive license they need to publish it. You allow them to show ads. You allow them to use your content in ads. If they get bought, well their successor would have the same rights.
That's fine, but you'll still only be able to block on one promise at a time. If you want to wait until all promises have resolved you still have to use Promise. all.
I'm a bit of an internet novice so excuse me if this is dumb but won't the ISP still know which IP I've connected to? Just because I haven't conveniently looked it up in their giant DNS dictionary doesn't mean they can't just follow the traffic, right?
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I agree with you, especially on the bit about making something entirely and fundamentally different. I do see an alternative that the tech-savvy will flock to, perhaps they already have by deleting social media etc. How do you get the rest of the internet population to care about using an alternative that respects their privacy though?

And it's not just privacy on the internet, but in meatspace too. Thankfully I'm still from a part of the world that hasn't gone completely digital, but there are annoying advances like absolutely needing a phone to have a bank account. Or having my face scanned for certain things.
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Those are the reports, not the facts.
> It is incredibly ironic to me that anyone in a leadership role at Wikipedia would criticize Zuckerberg or Dorsey.

According to (ironically) Wikipedia[1], Sanger left the project in 2006^W the early 2000s:

> Frustrated by sustained content battles and feeling he had a lack of support from Wales, Sanger eventually left the project.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger
A HN moderator has just swapped the link (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20362538). When the above comment was written, the article this pointed to was still Benson Leung's.
So they nominated Firefox for implementing DNS over HTTP but not Chrome? Does anyone know their rationale for that?
Yes, just like hydrocarbons.