skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fake IDs in EU don't really work, since anyone who really cares (banks, police, ...) will just read the info from the machine readable zone and run that against the relevant database. So EU IDs are more like a web-server session cookie, you can't just make one up.

There are online services who also provide this for a cost: https://www.idcheck.io
I prefer the convenience that doesn't eventually set the atmosphere on fire because of mass CO2 release. Car free areas, especially integrated with housing drastically reduces the amount of travel necessary.
That single thing right there is the answer: freedom isn’t harmed, but the benefits are huge. It would solve housing issues because you wouldn’t need to live near work. It would solve transportation issues because commuting would be vastly reduced. It reduces pollution for the same way. It also reduces the need for commercial real estate. It would lower costs to business, so prices go down. Encouraging widespread remote working helps everyone with minimal impact on freedom. If all office workers would stop commuting, we could eat whatever we wanted. We wouldn’t need to spend as many billions on public transportation. The way to encourage this is to provide significant tax incentives for businesses for remote workers. Instead of lowering quality of life by restricting things (such as air travel,) we could increase quality of life by eliminating unnecessary commutes. There also wouldn’t be too much political disagreement because tax incentivized remote working wouldn’t be that controversial and it wouldn’t require the average person to give up anything other than a commute nobody likes in the first place. I, for example could move out of the Bay Area to a cheaper, less crowded area and eat steak without the climate police having a coronary. I could fly my Cessna without the enviro-crusaders losing their minds. Combining remote-first policy along with nuclear energy for electricity and we could substantially reduce pollution with no net impact to freedom or quality of life.

The problem with that however is that many climate activists don’t actually care about the climate as a first priority, they care about wealth redistribution and larger, more powerful government. Climate policy is first and foremost an anti-capitalist masquerade. While that might seem to be a weird assertion, from where I sit, Climate activists also seem generally to share a strong anti-capitalist, anti-market perspective.

Nuclear power and profound incentives for remote work would get us much further than eating a fake-hamburger.
Who else would sue? The EPA, which is currently headed by a self-professed climate change denier?

I would be surprised if the NY AG didn’t run for president some day. They clearly seem intent on finding creative ways to do others’ jobs. E.g. the sting on supplements that’s didn’t contain their supposed ingredients (FDA, which should at least close loopholes in this kind of fraud), promises to prosecute Trump for tax evasion (IRS), and fraud over climate change (EPA)
> I'm not the one who wrote the UN report on climate change that recommends reducing meat consumption. Maybe take it up with the UN instead.

Appeal to authority.

> There are plenty of valid reasons to restrict what people are allowed to eat.

Name one. Sounds very tyrannical to me.
I think people would be happier if we could restructure society in a way where this would be possible.

More robots are needed.
The parentheses show something similar to your first, where this is the +- read from the right hand side of the number. So you could write yours:

45.73490534578(2000000)
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You know, this is quite prejudicious. You think that most common service dog, labrador or german shepherd, won't cause you harm if it wanted to?
I would have sympathy for you if you weren't a landlord.
I deleted my linkedin account couple of years ago.

My main reason for that has been how it is used in doxxing people. After returning to employment after spending a decade being my own boss, I realized that if you have opinion on the internet and no matter how careful you are about expressing it, people are always going to be mad at you for it. And they will do everything in their power to make it uncomfortable for you to keep expressing your opinions. And telling your employer that you have some opinion that they dont agree with is a low hanging fruit.

Hope linkedin introduces better profile visibility controls, where my public profile has extremely or essentially no information. And visibility of private profile can be tuned to my own comfort levels.
Technically the certification is part of the development and iirc quite expensive and high risk since it can make or break a drug. But I dont think its unreasonable to either loosen standards a bit or simply slow down the development of new drugs (in the US).
If you've wandered in from another language and are wondering what it might look like in a less terse language, here's an attempt:

static IO<Integer> getSocketApiPort(@NotNull final Integer defaultPort) {
return lookupEnv("socketPort")
.flatMap((Optional<String> maybeEnvPort) -> {
if(!maybeEnvPort.isPresent()) {
return IO.of(defaultPort);
} else {
String strEnvPort = maybeEnvPort.get();
Optional<Integer> envPort = readMaybe(strEnvPort);
return IO.of(envPort.orElse(defaultPort));
}
});
}
You want to find a rare issue with bipartisan support? Try raising the price of food and seeing how people like it.
Only at the beginning. I found the first couple of chapters around algebra to be a turn off. But once I got past that, I found it a lot more engaging.

(Not that there's anything wrong with those chapters. If someone happens to like them, great. It's your time. Read the book the way that works best for you.)
Love buying Thai curry pastes for quick curries. Also I know the grandparent poster asked for easy recipes, but if you want one that's ridiculously involved (~30 min of prep if you're really quick, and ~3 hours of intermittent watchful stirring) but also ridiculously tasty, check out beef rendang. Lovely, very spicy, 'dry' curry with incredibly tender beef.
I don’t like it, but I can see where they’re coming from. Because, technically, this would be a business opportunity; what if you get hired because you posted on their site?

So while this is definitely not the best way to get people on the platform, HN’s wording is vague enough where they don’t seem to be blatantly breaking the rules, just using some annoying community building tactics.
That is exactly why I bought the Affinity Designer instead of Adobe Illustrator.
Ask HN: What books are you reading this month?
Remotely we generally use digital verification, my ID card has a secure chip that's usable for online authentication (available to third parties by redirect through a gov't website) and for e-signatures of digital documents; so I could send a GDPR request in a PDF where the recipient can verify that this indeed was signed by Name Surname ID123. However, things like this are still a bit fragmented between different EU countries, some harmonization would be really helpful for cross-border businesses and it will probably take many years.

What I'm probably saying is that the question "is a GDPR request-er providing valid ID" is solvable; it's not solvable easily (yet) but this BlackHat experiment shows that large companies already can do it internally and smaller companies probably can outsource it to someone who can do the required integrations/processes to match all the EU states.
Show HN: I'm building a robot that cuts hair, starting with beard trims [video]
Thankfully, I have never been subjected to one of these when job hunting in Canada, and to the best of my knowledge, no candidates I have interviewed have ever been subjected to one. Of course, my experience is limited to tech companies.

Any hiring manager or HR department pushing one of these is showing you an early red flag about what kind of place they're like to work for. Avoid at all costs.
I'm curious about this too.

Every once in a while I try going through the editor setups in this chart - https://github.com/rainbyte/haskell-ide-chart. But I run into lots of friction in any one I try. Between using the REPL, getting harmony in the project libraries and the IDE engine libraries, and learning a new editor, I run out of energy to also learn the language ecosystem (libraries, concepts, idioms, package managers).

An IDE that that surfaced everything the language encodes seems like it would lower the learning curve of Haskell. And every year it seems a little closer. Is there anything close to a jetbrains/visual studio/xcode yet?

It seems like all the type safety would be valuable enough that companies would pay for/invest in the ecosystem. Learning the ecosystem has been more challenging than learning the language at this point for me.
Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchell translation)
Not at all, it was more that the tree didn’t belong to me so I made sure the landlord was aware of the kids’ request, and that’s when he told me the previous tenant and he had allowed it. I was mostly worried about liability (kid falls and the parents sue me).
When I first heard about the GDPR I imagined that this kind of thing might happen.

https://devrant.com/rants/1400805/you-know-gdpr-compliance-i...
Using Satellite TV to Send Any Digital Content Anywhere Encoded in Video Stream
There are lots of SaaS services that will scan your app for vulnerabilities, but they aren't cheap. I think the security distro for Kali Linux has a lot of tools you can use for free.
I remember a few years ago we used to talk a lot about LinkedIn, mostly negative things. How scummy they were, how they tried to trick you into entering your gmail password to spam your contacts. LinkedIn definitely wasn't "controversy free".

I don't know about other people, but I'm an IT professional and mostly gave up on LinkedIn. I get the occasional contact from recruiters, but I almost never actively check the website. I classify most of LinkedIn's notifications as spam/noise.
Stanford had a specific mandatory CS ethics requirement when I attended.
I do find the first sentence of the abstract to be quite interesting: "How do theories which are generally considered interesting differ from theories which are generally considered non-interesting?"
I think that 'street fruit' is a great resource. There are many fruit trees in neighborhoods that are under harvested, with piles of 'ground fruit.' I've always played by the rule that if I could reach it from the sidewalk, and it was overflowing, I would take some. For sure though, don't harm the fruit-producing plant, or any property surrounding it, because that's not considerate.
Imagine it more from the perspective of a component altering it's style based on some sort of global "state". That global state could simply be a class on the body like "page-contact", so your css can alter itself much easier if the style isn't defined up front in a list of prescriptive class names.

It's less theming in the sense of css zen garden and more encoding variations of style in css instead of relying on more class names.
When you use words like "more powerful" without even defining what that means, its going to be met with skepticism.

Also, Apple doesn't make these claims. They compare to their own previous generations when they want to make a comparison. They rarely mention competitors.

I really don't think your concern is warranted in this case.
Conversely, pets are allowed in many restaurants in Europe, but not in the US.
I used to think linkedin was a low hanging spam machine but some people are claiming it does make useful networking..
> Gazpacho

Not really an example of an easy to make recipe (lots of ingredients), but Yotam Ottolenghi's green gazpacho (made with green vegetables and walnuts rather than tomatoes) does really well when you are entertaining guests. It's listed in his Plenty. It's one of those cookbooks you can find in many homes around the globe due to its popularity — and it's all vegetarian.
What early stage startups can learn from the NBA free agency
I don’t think activity is bad on LinkedIn, if it’s relevant. Some of the best articles I’ve read in 2019 haven’t been in places like Medium, Dev.to and all those other “blogs that are mostly just wordy twitter opinion posts” places. It’s been on LinkedIn. I’ve also seen some fairly interesting discussions on things like ageism in the workplace, hiring practices and some such and I’ve seen a lot of people find jobs, make sales or simply share code by reaching out. All that is great in my personal opinion.

If I see you posting one of those “a great leader...” or any meme/Facebook types post, you’re removed as a connection instantly however. Because I really don’t want my LinkedIn feed to turn into Facebook. That’s not activity though, it’s a matter of what content people share, and I value a lot of activity if it’s interesting.

But maybe I’m alone in this?
> Looks like Google's CDN works so well that creating resized versions to save bandwidth is not worth it. :)

Worth it to them, maybe; what about the poor reader?
Good evidence is given by the global burden of disease project. Funded by Bill&Melinda Gates, over 2000 scientists aggregated 15‘000 publications into the largest epidemiological study. Addressing 14 health risks concerning your diet into actual life years lost (DALY) respective per region, age, gender. Unsaturated fats is not the biggest contributor, but nevertheless.

http://www.healthdata.org/gbd
It is unfortunate that we will probably never see a modern Formula 1 car racing hard at the Nordschleife again.
You have to strike a balance between reusability + a central base of the design/theme which defines the consistent look and feel on one hand with the composable LEGO style building blocks which Basscss https://basscss.com/ and Tachyons http://tachyons.io/ and other similar functional css frameworks made popular.

The problem with the latter is you’ve coupled the styles to names embedded in the HTML which means a whole lot of grep and replace when things change.

Taking that further with actual custom values being applied in the class names in the view the way Atomic sounds like it’s taking that idea too far. Those values should be constrained the way it’s done in https://rebassjs.org/ where customization of base values is handled with CSS in JS.

The removal of unused classes can be achieved using tools like PurgeCSS https://www.purgecss.com/

Ultimately I’ve found Tailwind to have the best balance between a composable utility class base approach, with consistent base values, and a mature and good looking parent framework. Otherwise I’d go with one of the smaller utility kits mentioned above for simple projects.
What a completely out-of-touch and borderline unethical experiment.
> You can install it on your PC or Mac if you want.

1. Same problem. There is still no Linux client, for example.

2. It's a different API. Most services specifically require Mobile BankID these days. Desktop (regular) BankID won't work there.

3. Many applications are only useful on the go, such as Swish.

> Access delegation not being part of BankID itself is a feature not a deficiency, it would undermine the concept of secure digital ID if someone else could digitally impersonate you with it.

Different kinds of services have different security requirements. If multiple people live together then it makes sense that any of them should be able to send requests to their cleaning service.

There is also already a clear precedent to allow delegation of access that require strong authentication IRL. For example, PostNord allows you to retrieve someone else's mail as long as you provide ID for both yourself and the recipient. You can issue a Fullmakt which authorizes someone to take legally binding actions on your behalf. Hell, you can even vote by delegate.[0]

Why should those rights not extend into the digital world?

> Instead, services can choose whether they let you allow someone to log in for you.

And they don't, because they are lazy and think BankID has magically solved all of their authentication woes.

[0]: https://www.val.se/servicelankar/teckensprak/satt-att-rosta....
Nitpick: It’s the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, so FDCPA
Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
Sure, but there's also an assumption that the computer faithfully executes (w.r.t hardware spec) the machine instructions the compiler emits, and that is only true with probability. So system correctness is, therefore, always probabilistic. Whether, when and how it pays to absolutely guarantee certain aspects of it is a complex question (or, rather, a large set of questions) that can only be answered empirically.
Fullstack React: https://amzn.to/31Di7Af

As it turns out I chose to learn Vue.js but nobody is really hiring for that. It's all react these days with a little Angular sprinkled in. Although after 25 years of doing this job I still feel Vue is superior to the other two in every way.
The presentation is just lazy and javascript defaults to double. No mystery.

You can use digits to indicate accuracy but if you don’t know whether the measurement stored as a double is accurate to 2, 4 or 12 decimals then you can’t really do much in presentation. The reader has to interpret the number. Usually the reader doesn’t care much about accuracy, and simply copies the numbers to another system. The coordinates with full double precision is then basically a machine readable format.
I understand all the indignation about people who lie about having a service animal. But are people so rage-filled about this issue that they're not even the least bit fascinated by the fact that the ADA explicitly includes miniature horses as permitted service animals?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/35.136

Dogs and miniature horses--that's it. There's clearly some hidden history and science here. Come on, this is HN! Shouldn't there be several ranchers and at least one legitimate miniature horse service animal owner-operator eager to explain to us the world of miniature horse service animals? What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of miniature horses as compared to dogs? How small can the horses get?

EDIT: The above link is for a regulation regarding government entities; here's the regulation for places of public accommodation: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/36.302
This is nice work.
Water Activities in Turkey
> The majority of overdose deaths in Scotland involved multiple drugs; for reasons that are not entirely clear, Scottish addicts are particularly prone to concurrently use opiates, benzodiazepines and alcohol in an indiscriminate manner.

I don't believe this is specific to Scotland. My layperson understanding is that heroin is relatively safe in the sense that most opioid deaths fall into one of the following categories: multiple drug interaction (benzos/alcohol being a very common combination), tolerance change due to relapse and, more recently, increased variance in potency due to strong synthetics (fentynyl, carfentanil, etc.). This is the theory behind people who advocate for maintenance prescriptions.
Could you provide the source for this quote?
Unpopular opinion: real problem here is unreasonable restrictions on taking pet animals with you. In US it's a particular problem, because you can't make rules based on judgments on the spot. Allow pets in restaurants/planes, people would sue because you denied them service because pet peed all over the place or owner can't control their pet.

So, here we have blank prohibition on any pet anywhere, which is, IMO, worse than service ponies on a plane.
Great, thanks. I'll explore it and try to understand it better! Looking forward to seeing where this goes.
If the page in question listed something that could be construed as a property boundary, sure.

It doesn't.
Isn't this good for privacy. Now only facebook should be avoided because legally no other company can claim end to end encryption and do shadow banning.
> To me it sounds a bit dubious that you can both have a valid reason for keeping personal information about someone and not have a valid way of verifying that you are actually communicating with them.

Suppose I run a matchmaking site that stores a real name, username, and sexual orientation for registered users.

To avoid over-collecting data, that's all I require. I don't need strong verification at this stage because there's little risk if someone creates a fraudulent account, and collecting strong verification can add other data security risks.

However, if someone demands the data already in the system, it's of a presumably real person. And revealing whether user X is gay can be very sensitive information.
I paid $30 for a beard trim the other day.
Is Harmony open-source? Would go a long way to addressing spyware / hacking claims if so
'The Night Is Ours': Inside the Elite World of Coast Guard Ship-Boarding Teams
Are you comparing these to what is happening in China? Please.
Just what I want, a phone OS from a less privacy conscious company (China, Inc.) than Google.
>Policymakers are reluctant to announce a recession for fear of harming consumer and business confidence and worsening the downturn (“Business cycles: theory, history, indicators and forecasting”, Zarnowitz, 1992).

Not these days.
Low fruit does carry that risk.
The 2D pixels in the projected satellite image will never map to a precise gps lat lng coordinate. These gps coordinates are also just a rough approximation of dead reconned coordinate systems that actually define the parcels.

You can easily try and overlay county parcel data into google earth and see how many features don’t align with the sat imagery.
This is completely knowable, by taking repeated measurements of a reference object, one which was either checked by a more precise instrument or is definitionally correct (e.g. the old reference kilogram or the Greenwich meridian)
That is globally, in the U.S. it skews much differently.
Cisco built the Great Firewall. Huawei just maintains it.
Enough is enough! I've had it with these motherfucking off-topic comments in this motherfucking place of high discourse!
For one, it’s great to see startups tackling hard problems like this: generally I believe there is huge benefit and opportunity for startups in providing government services like this. It certainly helps to dispel the feeling that our brightest minds are working on ads.

Secondly, this really seems like the initial phases of product development and fit — agencies would be foolish to simply rely on a startup like this to coordinate 100% of disaster response, I’m sure FEMA has similar models. With startups, especially ones tackling more “serious” domains (for lack of a better word) I’m willing to have a longer leash and proceed with caution.
Similar to what they do with/in Tibet: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-16689779
No, "harmony" is already a buzzword in China. See, for example, "harmonious society".
> companies are required to make any lower doses to help people "taper off"

pharmacists are trained, allowed and encouraged to prepare different doses of drugs when needed for the specific needs of their individual patients. Not sure why you expect pharma companies to take on their role here.
This. Despite what many people think, the IRS doesn’t want to bankrupt people. They’ll work with you and set up a payment plan if necessary.
The World’s Largest Forest Has Been on Fire for Months
Isn't it open-source, though?
The first figure shows the percent change from the previous year, so it’s basically a moving slope of the actual trade volume. If it’s positive, trade is increasing. Compared to the slope in 2009, I wouldn’t call the current decrease a recession (but I’m not an economist). It may be negative but it’s still pretty close to zero.

The author’s thesis is that mistaken protectionist policies that affect trade are not in the interest of business and the economy. I don’t know that we can conclude that, as changes in policy tend to create new opportunities for businesses, both entrenched and new. The same cannot be said for policy that is continuous and non-changing.