skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My bell plan is 95 CAD and gives 4GB/mo so I’m not sure where your numbers came from. I must have missed that deal
Token vs. Session Authentication
At some point many of us considered VSCode "dead on arrival", either because "Microsoft" or because "electron".
How would you describe an M, and why?

I mentioned in another comment, it seemed to me that books of fiction would be exceptionally boring if I couldn't visualize them. Really good books, I stop seeing words as I read.

I asked someone else this: what are your dreams like?
That really reinforces the root comment's point about fashions in vehicle choice / driving what everyone else does being the 'safe option'. The countries most similar in culture and affluence to the US don't seem to buy those passenger utility vehicles and passenger cars in nearly the same proportions, so fashion looks like a big part of vehicle choice.
> The situation in Quebec is slightly better thanks to a 4th telecom company, Videotron, which brings mobile plans and internet prices lower than in the rest of Canada.

Saskatchewan also sees better prices and promotions due to the presence of Province-owned SaskTel iirc.
> For example, my kid needs to get from school to swim practice multiple times a week.

Oh, of course, we wouldn't want to make the streets safer so that you kid might miss out on swim practice, or have to go at some over time, or go to a close center, or a 100 other solutions?

> If your main objection to cars is pollution, we’ll mosey on over to electric cars as soon as charging infrastructure gets off the ground.

And how will that fix plastic pollution you leave everywhere from the tires on your car?
Honestly, that's why I'm moving into real estate. People will always need a home to live in. More affordable housing will always be in demand.

The price of homes is pushed up by everyone except those who want to buy their first one: Banks, Insurance companies, incumbent owners, construction companies, land owners, real estate agents, governments.

Everyone wants higher home prices except people who don't own a home.

I will work against that tide. I am going to build a company that will build me an affordable house and then I will sell affordable houses to people.
There's also a recent trend - robots and automation as a service, i.e. rental.

This together with simple installation(since newer robots aren't risky to humans and don't require a cage), and fast programming leaves relatively little barriers for adoption of robots.

So it would be interesting to see what will happen.
> The names change but the game's the same.

It's certainly true. Even though Gates was universally mocked for his approach, and although it was widely interpreted as making Microsoft look more guilty, it's exactly how Zuckerberg and Larry Page will respond when their embryonic anti-trust parties get to that point. Their lawyers will advise that that approach is still the safest way to go, despite how it will look. When in doubt, play dumb.
On my opinion no reason to switch if you paid for the licensed version and don’t use safari on Mac.

Definitely consider it over the $5/month subscription to 1Password or if you need shared vaults.
Good Linux support and no issues
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I remember the spectacular pricing of around $10-15/MB in Canadian mobile networks back around 2004-2005, just when 3G was getting started. (So it was really 2G pricing.)

As a reference, typical European pricing was around $2/MB at the time, IIRC. The US of course had their typical "plans" that made price comparisons hard.

It's fascinating that the network owners in Canada have managed to keep prices so high, for so long.

We were launching a mobile J2ME-based service back then; I remember thinking we'd get back to Canada when they'd got their data pricing in order but that never happened...
>It seems fairly obvious that any new automated technology removes more jobs than it creates.

This argument seems to suggest that if, hypothetically speaking, 65% of the population had jobs that were automated away such that only 1% of the population were needed to do that work, that 64% of the population subsequently would become unemployed.

Given that that example is actually not hypothetical and is very, very real (agriculture), why do you think we never struggled with 64% unemployment?
Purpose specific tokens make sense when the scope is "limited enough". The public does actually use laundromat tokens, food tickets at fairs, arcade tokens and similar things. They wouldn't take them seriously outside of the appropriate context but they definitely take them seriously within them.
I'll see your mid-2012 mbp and raise you a late-2010 mba. It's slow now, and the processor lacks some features I need for work (docker stuff), but otherwise it runs well enough. I'm hoping it lasts another year so it can claim a full decade of service.

My work machine on the other hand is a 2016 mbp (with touchbar and butterfly keyboard). I swear the thing is haunted from all its weirdness and glitching. Then there's the keyboard...
I'm waiting for the app to come out that lets you drive your car using your phone. Then people could play with their phones as much as they want while they drive, and do it safely.

The smartphone is the true center of modern life. All other interfaces are just artisanal horse and buggy bullshit.
You can always self host if you're worried about that
Verizon’s price drops by 50% once you get to 4 lines. You won’t find that in Canada.

And once you hit 15gb, you’re still getting 600kbps.

Freedom limits you to 256 (or 128 outside their limited footprint) once you go over.

T-mobile’s $40/month plans (if you can string in 4 friends/family) will have unlim streaming video, 5gb of roaming in Canada, an SD Netflix subscription, 1 hour of in-flight wifi and start throttling you at 50gb.

edit: That's $40 with taxes and fees included. They advertise it that way!

Each of the above are unthinkable in Canada. We choose phone plans based on their restrictions, not their extras.

I know, population density and all, but compare to Australia, Russia or Iceland, and Canadians are still getting hosed.

Don't even get me started on France. Going in a month and will soon order a SIM card. And the provider will mail anywhere in France at no charge...
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Thanks! That's useful.
Are you doing this manually or you programmed a bot?
The perception of time passing faster with age is well known phenomenon. An important secondary character in the novel Catch-22 is obsessed with this. I used to think I was just impatient as a kid when ten minutes felt like forever. Now having passed 40 I can say that I was actually experiencing time very differently.
> people had kids to care for them in their old age

Bringing kids in this world to take care of you when you are old is probably the most selfish thing you can do.
Depends on province. Freedom is creating some competition, hopefully they don’t get crushed.
I’m sure the fundamental issue is that one person wrote the code of conduct, and another is enforcing their interpretation of it.

If the code of conduct says “you must use a person’s preferred pronouns,” I would not expect to mean that I have to use pronouns at all. But if I do use pronouns, I will use that person’s chosen pronoun.

I can’t speak for anybody else, but if I write that my real first name is “Max,” and I prefer “he,” I wouldn’t consider it a firing offense if somebody were to say “Max’s post” or “Max’s answer,” or “the advice Max wrote is ridiculously bad,” even if they could have written “his post,” “his answer,” or “the advice he wrote is ridiculously bad.”

The claim (at least as I understand it) is that somebody able to fire employees believes that a rule along the lines of “you must use users’ preferred pronouns” creates some kind of obligation to use pronouns.
Can you give any specific examples?
Drozdek is a great intro text, imho. Very clear and concise, I wish he wrote more computer science texts besides on this and one on compression
Should be available in book form. Lawyers basically knows it as a christian knows the bible.
Have you seen celebrities from that part of the world? I mainly know comedians. Ricky Gervais, Al Murray, Dara O'Brain... those are all considered normal looking people over there. They'd be considered circus attractions in Australasia. Or speaking of Gervais, compare the cast of the UK office with the cast of the US office. It's night and day. The only person in the UK office who would be considered even average is Tim (Martin Freeman). Martin Freeman is a heart throb by UK standards, but let's be honest - put him in Australia and give him an Aussie accent and no one would look at him twice.
People forgot that there is loads on unused grid and generation capacity at night that could be used for EV charging.
It’s also not always about intentional inbreeding.

Many people don’t know who their biological parents are. While not a significant issue with adoption, if a guy has multiple kids who don’t know their siblings in the same area. Then they are likely geographically close and of similar ages...
As someone building his own house right now, I exactly understand the complexities here. It's outrageous. Many of the laws are counterproductive and the use of certain products is lobbied for by the companies making them.

Drywall, insulation, plumbing, electrical all these products work their way into the laws encoded in building codes. Many of the companies have members on the committees of these "non-profit" organizations.

It's terrible. It's part of the reason houses cost so much.

Everyone wants their piece of the pie. If you want to house yourself, first you must feed everyone else.
"What is being asked of people in the gendering debate is to go against this correlation sometimes."

Yes. Exactly. That's what's being asked of them. To follow someone's request out of courtesy. Again: why is this difficult?
> Other moderators said this last option likely would have been fine had Monica not made known her reason for doing so.

That reason being that it's "confusing and grammatically incorrect"? What does that have to do with the distinction between "people who preferred singular they" and "everyone"?

> even after being told that she was making colleagues uncomfortable

Where is the evidence that she was legitimately making colleagues "uncomfortable"?

If I claim to be "uncomfortable" at work because my colleagues do X or don't do Y in their interactions with me, should that be taken at face value? Is my claim enough to have them removed if they don't correct their "problematic" behavior?
Wearable face projector to avoid face recognition
Some Canadian carriers are indeed still selling plans with local calls only. In 2019. It's depressing.
At the moment AMD has no APUs on the 7nm Zen 2 package. This could be why MS went with the older Zen+
I had not tried in a long time. They have for a long time not allowed you to put airport into monitor mode easily, so I always just bought a USB wifi antenna for any wireless penetration testing.

I'm surprised by this thought... is it not changable at all or just by the user? I know in iOS they had a feature to randomize the mac when searching out networks to increase privacy...
Bitwarden can be self hosted and has apps for all the things.
That's a different, but related, Shannon limit than the channel capacity discussed in the article.
Did anyone else read to the end of this linked story expecting the "discovery" or answer at the end? Like... how he cheated?

Instead it just ends implying he must be cheating because statistics. Great, he probably is. But if he's actively cheating and people are onto him he'll be discovered eventually, just write a real article once that happens.
I used to use freedom. My wife used to say it was short for “freedom from service.” There were a lot of dead zones in the town I lived and it was useless on road trips.

Good prices and terms at least
I’m a very happy user (Firefox and iOS). Switched from LastPass about a year ago (found it on hacker news back then) and never looked back. I can’t compare it to 1Password, since I never used it.
Even with the stock firmware, you just turn it on (USB-powered), connect to its WiFi network, connect to the hotel/captive network within its UI, and you’re done. Join all your devices to your own network. It even runs a VPN client you can activate with a little external switch.
I’m also in CA, and I ran the numbers on my plug-in C-MAX. It is roughly a wash (and the gas mileage is pretty unimpressive, at 35 MPG). It’s convenient to never have to go to the gas station (we average 110 MPG overall), but it’s sad that there’s no savings/incentive to actually be on electric with this vehicle).

It could be different for other vehicles that are more efficient (don’t have ICE components to lug around), or for people with their own solar charging.
Tax relief is pretty much exactly the same as subsidies though. If the Norwegian govt didn't bother doing EV tax relief, they would get another x billion NOK in taxes sitting in the treasury. It's no different to giving the billions of NOK as a discount on the purchase price like other countries.
One of the providers[0] in Sweden: 8 GB data - $7.52, 25 GB - $12.6. $17.6 for 100 GB. All accounts carry over unused data up to 100 GB indefinitely. 13 GB data anywhere in EU/EES.

[0] https://www.hallon.se/mobiltelefoni
Switched to it after the most recent data problems with LastPass. It’s pretty good for me overall. The app and browser plugins are very similar but you do drop the icon on the right of text fields you can click to auto fill (There is an auto fill option but it’s in beta and slightly buggy). Overall though, I’m happy with it especially since it’s open sourced.
The feeling is mutual, you piked my interest. Thanks for the food for thought.

About positive emotions in work, my personal take-away — took me two decades to figure this out, but I think it's really true:

The goal is not to try really hard to always do what you love.
It's about trying really hard to always love what you do.
(Now or ever.)

I could write a book about why and how but this is probably not the place. One key though is exactly this playful mindset, it lets us redefine, in thought only, how we feel while doing something. We can always at least choose to love our effort, our doing it, try to mini-game quality or production — whatever makes it easier and ourselves better in one fell swoop.
How about sharing password with a team?
I’m not really looking to self host, just sync with an vault
File via Dropbox, drive, iCloud etc.
wut...does the CEO come to your house and shine your shoes too? One local provider in my country does 6GB for 12CAD (equivalent), and they have great coverage...I think most unlimited plans are actually cheaper here.

I would invest in a carrier pigeon or something at that price. Sending tasty memes by pigeon...the future is now.
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PGE EV-A rate plan has been $0.13/kWh. Fiat 500e gets about 4 mi/kWh, so about $0.0325 per mile. Assuming gas price over that period averaged $2.50, then at 40mpg gas cost $0.0625 per mile. Which looks like twice as much, not nearly the same.
I use on Mac (Firefox & Safari) and iPhone, wife uses on Mac (chrome) and Android. Neither has had any issues in the past year and a half outside of mild confusion about the new Safari extension after Apple removed support for the old extension format.
You need a high birth rate or high immigration rate to grow economies. You are right everybody should be screwed; you need more people.
That’s a terrible plan, you should definitely shop around. I’m paying $50 CAD for “Unlimited” (8GB before throttling) with Freedom.

The problem with Freedom is that their network is tiny, but even Telus and Rogers are both offering 10GB for $75 right now.
It's even easier in a language like Estonian where there's no grammatical gender or gender pronouns at all. Everything is neutral/universal.

Example: He wanted her number -> Ta tahtis ta numbrit.

If for some reason you want to give info about the gender you can use words like girl/woman/lady/grandma instead of the pronoun.
I use it daily on Linux, Android, and OS X (Firefox on both desktop platforms). It works great for me. My wife and I share an "organization" that holds credentials we both need (banking, etc).
You know,

I just had a thought. What I would like is password protected, "password notepad". When activated, it remembers the text of passwords, shows it to you in text when you go to a website and then you type it into the site. (people looking over your shoulder is a way overestimated danger, the password-hiding thing dates to shared terminals).

The thing I hate about password managers is I am afraid I would stop knowing my passwords. This would allow me to remember my passwords since I would type them each time.

I've only seen Firefox and Chrome's built-in password managers so maybe this exists already. But it seems a decent way to do it.
I have been using Bitwarden because its free for about 1.5 years. The UX experience is so bad on both mobile and extensions. If the extensions closes, like when you copy the password and paste it into the box, it looses its location, so you have to re-find the account, click on it, and then copy the username. You get what you pay for.
It's not as simple as left vs. right. Authoritarianism can build a power base on either.

Those who reject authoritarianism still have the paradox of tolerance and tyranny of the minority to deal with.

Those who band together have more power than individuals. Those who use their power to gain more followers gain more power. Eventually it doesn't really matter what they're selling, because absent any other forces, the majority will buy it.

What needs fixing is human nature on a majority scale, and no one's figured out how to do that.

It's a bit like geoengineering: we can hack it a bit in the short term, but the longer-term consequences are still beyond our comprehension/attention span.

And besides, whose 'fix' would we trust...

'Be excellent towards one another' is probably the best guidance we'll get. Enforcing that? Well, then we need definitions and rules and people exploiting them.
Lempel-Ziv isn't a language, it's a class of compression algorithms. And personally I have a hard time directly consuming compressed text.
I insist on the pronunciation "jayfeg" for JPEG, for the same reason.
There's compatible Bitwarden server written in Rust called bitwarden_rs[0] for those who don't want to run the official Docker image with the requirement of Microsoft SQL Server and the demand for 2GiB of RAM.

[0] https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs
> The empty bed idea

What's the "empty bed idea"?

> This is one of those rules

Which rule?
Firewall and VPN for all your devices, no limit to the number of devices, no need to re-join and re-enter your hotel info periodically, and my favorite: use a chromecast dongle on the hotel TV.
Not when you realize that everyone else is too busy doing their own thing to pay any attention to you.
Over the years, I've narrowed my focus to: d3.js via dc.js and crossfilter.js.

This 3 punch combo creates an incredible user experience. The only downside is that dc.js doesn't have all the charts. The interactivity with the basic charts they do have is worth the absence of other types of charts.
This is insane... how can the Canadian populace (and by extension, the government) not pass laws that forbid this nonsense? Its incredible that the Canadian people are not up in arms over this shit.
Ad hominem arguments are always unacceptable. People with various mental illnesses (depression, autism, asperger, OCD, etc.) can still hold perfectly valid claims. The fact that somebody might see the world in a different way does not discredit them.
Chicago has a very heavy cab presence and yet you'll get a lot of strange looks if you're standing on your residential street with your arm out expecting to get a cab. They'll drive by when dropping people off, but you'd be standing there awkwardly for a very long time.

I can have an Uber at my door in < 3 minutes with two clicks on my phone.
What has Europe sowed and what is it reaping?
Can you have different permissions from different users? If so it could be a setting to "backup to github", and then request that permission then.

Is there a place I can put suggestions/requests? Because I have some for the editor.
RISC is a generic term for ISAs with few instructions (in comparison to CISC ISAs).
It also means people keep changing their phone number when they move.

Whereas US family all still have the same phone number they got in HS/college.
The first film with computer generated imagery would be 1958's Vertigo, and the computer in question an M5 gun director mechanical computer.
Come on. We’re all children of the Earth. Half of the shit we consume is made in China. Let’s not spread xenophobia about an entire nation that makes 30% of the world’s population
Tele2 Sweden "Unlimited" - 50 GB/day @ $50/month. Works very well as a replacement for FTTH in rural areas.

But the prices in e.g France, eastern Europe and Taiwan all put us to shame.
It won't progress this discussion because you avoided engaging with the question at the end. If I ask you to use a pronoun for me that in your judgement is "incorrect," why is your judgement more important than my request? If you say, "You asked for 'he,' but you look like a 'she' to me, so I'm going to use 'she,'" then why aren't you the one being the jerk just as much as the person who insists on calling someone the wrong name?
pretty sure the only people that call it ten-are are apple store employees
I imagine compressed text would take some time to learn, like another language. But once learned, it might be more efficient.
> I am pretty sure the recurrent small errors and weird phrasings undermine my reputation as someone that could teach the reader something

I'm living and working in London and English is not my native language. I'm doing lots of grammar and orthography mistakes every day. They really don't matter as long as I'm able to get my point across. That's all it matters. Even if someone was in the position to tell me that they don't trust me, I would leave BUT I would go somewhere else, I wouldn't go back to my home country.

Well maybe the above doesn't completely fit your case, I just wanted to share my 2 cents.

OS: I have been writing in my tech blog in English the past 5 years. Often times I'm catching my self reading my older posts and just can't stand them. They are awful. :D
Corporate media control is just as dangerous [1], but much better hidden. They present themselves as countless different TV stations and newspapers, yet we allow them to conceal their common ownership: "In 1983, 90% of US media was controlled by 50 companies; as of 2011, 90% was controlled by just 6 companies and in 2017 the number was 5." [2]

We could force them to identify their owners, just like drugs have to list side-effects. Make them change 'NBC' to 'NBC (Comcast)'.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial%E2...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownersh...
I just moved from Quebec to the UK.

For a plan with exactly the same conditions and data amount, I am paying 10 GBP = 16.43 CAD instead of 46 CAD after tax. And that was a competitively priced plan in Quebec.

Telco in Canada is embarrassing.
You should you have to follow the rules
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I don't understand. Don't you have the site URL stored with the password to allow bitwarden to automatically find the password entry for you?
Switched about two years ago from LastPass and I haven’t had any issues.

I have the Firefox extension and use the iOS app, also. Chrome extension works well, too when I need it, but I don’t use Chrome often.

You can self-host it since it’s open source if you’re worried about their servers shutting down for whatever reason.