skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One problem (among many) is there's no such thing as "the" government. It's a relative term and its meaning depends on context.

If we take it to mean all governments, then that means China gets a copy of the key and can use it to spy on the communications of the Australian government.

If we take it to mean just one government (or a few select governments), then what is the criteria for deciding the government of country X should have a key but country Y should not?

Ultimately of course it comes down to a matter of coercive power and jurisdiction, which particularly complicates efforts trying to build products or services that are intended for global usage. I believe we need to push back against anti-encryption laws in the west so we have some ground to stand on when making a case that they shouldn't be accepted elsewhere.
6 cows doesn’t seem like a significant enough sample.

Anecdotally, I tend to attract mosquitoes a lot more than some other members of my family. I would imagine the same phenomenon is true among cows.
Somehow we can thank german car makers, which through the eu have imposed the so called “euro” emissions “standards” that have 0 health benefits and non eu made vehicles are taxed to death. Europe is filled with cars made in that country that have been polluting for decades and consumers dont really have options.
Yeah, going from horse drawn carriages, mercury cures and cloth biplanes to antibiotics, atom bombs, the invention of the computer and landing on the moon: totally in the same class as ... better batteries and being able to look at porn on a packet radio equipped nerd dildo instead of a magazine.

You can say "shit" and "fuck" all you like; it won't help you: 1919->1969 vastly eclipses 1969->present in all ways. Any one of dozens of breakthroughs in 1919-1969 (atom bombs, digital computing, spaceflight, antibiotics ....) eclipses all subsequent ones.
Lower bounce rate? +1 pageview?
There isn't a clear "right" answer to what metadata should be stored and displayed. And, increasingly, metadata doesn't even need to be explicit, e.g. with facial recognition.

So, generally, having software make decisions on its own about how to handle some aspect of metadata seems like a poor choice.
>> the most respected blockchains technologies such as Ethereum, Cosmos, Wireline, and Radicle / Oscoin.

The most outstanding thing about Etherium was the owner jumping the ship with the millions of real paper dollars. Him and the light coin guy. Now that was really impressive.
It isn't overstating. A key escrow for a country being secure is about as viable as a five year old's plan to run away to disney world with a sippy cup and a bag of snacks. The scale and logistics are wrong and it shows laughable naivety in what it requires of other actors.

At this point the anti-encryption spooks and politicians have shown they don't want to listen so reaching them is impossible.

The rational debate has been over for decades and we won. Only irrational remains which means it is time to get downright mean. Instead cut them off and discredit them. Show no mercy to the evil fools.
Hey author I like this! It's very close to what I use for simple forms, my library `forn`:

import forn from 'forn';

export default () => (
<form onSubmit={forn(data => console.log(data))}>
<input name="firstName" placeholder="First Name" />
<input name="lastName" placeholder="Last Name" />
<button>Send!</button>
</form>
);

Test it: https://codesandbox.io/s/agitated-johnson-3hv96

Why do you need the register though? Is the hook needed to hold the refs? Is it only for compatibility with React Native or are there other reasons? With forn I use `e.target`, which should not be available in RN.
There’s a bunch of more stuff available on it nowadays.
No can do. This will be the first macOS that I will never install. And when support for the current OS runs out, I'l have to move to a Linux box, assuming that 32-bit support still exists by then.
I don’t stay silent, I will either make caveman grunting noises, push some random digits, or ask for ‘Mom?’ in a fake accent.

And then they hang up.
Southern Europe & South America is clearly Catholic.
Northern Europe & Northern America is clearly Protestant.
Starting from state support for church funding through the tax system to political correctness of politics, christian state holidays, laws, values and culture - Christianity forms the base of "western society" or where christianity has come to "bless" the native cultures.

Less said about the Islamic countries the better, where kaffirs have no rights and religion commandments are above everything.

The poster children of liberals, France & Denmark have both banned the hijab.

Some facts about the history of religion in India.

India has been under Islamic invasions, raids and plunder for 700 years. The vast majority of the ancient temples, universities & libraries in the north of the country had been destroyed under this reign of terror.

When the European traders landed in India, India was producing 70% of the industrial goods traded globally. The civilising mission and superiority complex of christian evangelism is what allowed the colonial takeover by hook or crook. The church is today the largest non governmental land owner in India, so much for the myth of colonialism not favouring christianity.

In 1947, India gives up 24% of its territory to create Islamic Pakistan to accommodate 10% of the Indian population. Pakistan immediately starts ethnic cleansing, increasing the muslim population from 76% to 99% today. This repeats in Kashmir in the 1990's where 76% muslim population is today 99.9%

India with a majority 80% Hindus today has remained secular, where minorities enjoy special privileges. Hindus literally have millions of deities, like music or food, it encourages creation of new gods. There are even 6 major schools of atheism within hinduism. Other major religions like Sikhism, Buddhism or Jainism which took root in the same culture have no significant conflicts in contemporary India. Parsies, Syrian christians, native muslims and others who have accepted India as their home and cultural centre have no conflicts with the "majority" population.

The conflicts today only exists where a foreign church or the Islamic brotherhood is involved. The church & the brotherhood which have no experience living in peace in a pluralistic society need to reform themselves. They need to accept the right for free, pluralistic societies and sane civil laws like homosexuality and right to abortion. They can not continue using their enormous economic & political capital to bully others into their narrow tunnel vision.
Also, during a transition period, before particle filters came generally in use, a few manufacturers burned the exhausts at high temperatures in order to reduce particle size and to pass tests. These nano particles become irreversibly embedded in lung and heart tissue and even pass the blood/brain barrier. Where I live, the percentage of diesel engines was pushed over 50% by a "green" engines campaign during these critical years. We're going to find out, what this may mean in terms of long term health implications.
I find this for a lot of maths - I have often wondered why they don't include the intuition and the process that led them to the result.
yeah I debated trying to bring that up, but felt it would make the point a little more complex and he's still wrong even if the money wasn't laundered
> The worst thing about C++ is the endless sequences of choices you need to make about tooling before you even write a line of code.

I don't know about endless. CMake is supported in almost every IDE toolchain these days, so there's your build generator. Compiler choice may as well be down to the platform you're developing on.

> I'm a professional C++ programmer, but setting up a development environment required so many choices

Me too, and it's about as complicated as Java or any other language I've worked in.

> I would love a Dropwizard-like bundle that just gives me a pre-set-up config with everything I need to write a C++ CLI app or daemon.

Visual Studio, CLion, QtCreator all do this. They'll even add your main.cpp to your CMakeLists.txt for you.

Now, if we're talking dependency management on Windows, I'm all about griping there. vcpkg is not quite the drop-in solution Microsoft makes it out to be.
The WoT originated with PGP (though obviously GPG implemented it as well), but yes, that was the joke.
> How would that work? A basic principle of encryption systems is that only relevant parties have access to the secret information.

Well, the government is now one of the relevant parties. It doesn't change anything fundamental about the encryption. It just adds the government as a party. I get that you think that is bad (and I do too), that you don't trust the government. But it doesn't break the encryption, that keeps working perfectly, just like it did before. Just more parties have access.

The problem here is so many people are going around arguing against this by saying it "breaks" or "backdoors" encryption. And all those people are being completely ignored because the government is getting perfectly reasonable advice that says that it isn't breaking anything.
Particulate matter is about 60%-20%-20% between engine, brakes and tyres. Electric cars eliminate the emissions from the engine, greatly reduce the brake emissions because of regenerative braking, and slightly increase tyre emissions because of increased weight. And of course Nitrogen dioxide is eliminated by electric cars. Overall you’re taking about a 100% reduction in NO2, and a 70%ish reduction in particulates.

One other point also is that tyre particulate emissions vary hugely according to composition and manufacture. So we will need both a switch to electric and proper regulation of tyres, then we’ll really be getting somewhere.
I imagine there's an element of solipsism to these sorts of situations. Perhaps you can only get so obsessed before the object of your obsession starts to become literally an object to you.
>From an insurance "at fault" perspective it's basically always going to be the fault of the following driver.

It is a quick simple rule that avoids dealing with he said she said situations in the days before dashcams and the inaccuracy of this approach would roughly balance out across the insurers. Sure it screws the people who aren't actually at fault but they can't (or couldn't, before dashcams) prove that anyway. This kind of thing will probably go away in the future because everybody will just have dashcams.
Sorry, I should have been more clear in my whining. The largest cities are being talked about, be they located in Europe or Asia. It's the smaller ones who suffer the most and whose population has zero hope for any progress (or simply doesn't care).

Beijing is a health resort compared to where I am located. At least my friend claims so (he spent about 3 months there on a business trip back in 2011.)

I know of at least 3 cities in my country suffering from extreme air pollution. You won't find any news articles about any of them.
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I think it may be possible to get some signal from body measurements. Skin color, sex organs, teeth health (wealth proxy), scars/injuries (been in fights before?), maybe you could find some marker of chronic stress.

But yeah it's going to be pretty poor and not really actionable.
I personally found the disparity between my individual opinion and the crowd consensus was really interesting. It seemed to be a great game that fixed all of my gripes with hearthstone and magic. There was just this tidal wave of negative opinion that seemed to come in large part from people that didn't understand or in some cases never played the game themselves.
An Unknown Submarine Object, USO, a torpedo catcher. Probably foreign military, because they really do care about US torpedos. It's vital for them. Hypothetical extraterrestrials wouldn't care that much.
If you are a B2C site then banning based on IP in today's multi NAT layered internet with non-fixed IP's and mobile devices is probably going to be wildly ineffective and cause far more collateral damage than you think.
It's turtles all the way down.

I'm ruminating on the potential for "regular" electric signals to carry quantum information, that's the next aspect of security to consider with quantum around the corner.

So don't worry, there are and will be bigger things to worry about.
Surely this should be a camera feature or image editing plugin (which Android already supports today).

The swipe against Android is absurd, since Google could easily slurp that information before letting you edit it (as the do with your browsing activity) to prevent others from accessing that information, if they wanted to (which they don't).
Private equity is not, in itself, a problem.

Leveraged buyouts however are starting to become a serious problem. They allow the hollowing-out of functional but low-profit companies into debt-ridden shells. The most recent example in the news is Pizza Express: what is a restaurant chain doing with £1bn of debt? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49957551

This is bad for staff and bad for creditors.
Londoner with a diesel car (2016 Ford that is ULEZ compliant), here:

London's air is far, far cleaner than many other cities around the World. I was in Paris last weekend, and I think that's more polluted because congestion seems much worse in a much larger area than it does in London.

That does not mean it is clean or safe, however, there are challenges:

As the article points out, for many years the government pushed diesel, so there are a lot of cars out there. They have advantages that make them attractive to a lot of people (myself included), so if they're ULEZ compliant, we'll buy them in part because the turnaround has made them cheaper on the second hand market. Fleets of German cars are being bought, depreciated and sold at knock-down prices.

Go to the biggest 2nd hand dealer in London (Cargiant), go to the Merc and BMW hangar, and find me a petrol car: you'll be hard pushed, and when you do find them, they're more expensive.

Electric is also not a viable option for the vast majority of Londoners. Where I live (TW1), we're way outside central London, in Zone 4. Even here, off-road parking is very much a rarity and exception.

The local council (Richmond) has thrown money at lampost charging stations, and is installing around 250 of them across the borough. A borough of 195k people are going to share 250 charging points. This is absurdly low.

What about public transport? It's true, London is one of the best public transport cities in the World. I use the bus frequnetly, often to get to my nearest tube (a 45 minute walk away), or use the train.

However, it's also expensive, and for most people driving - even with the ULEZ and congestion charges - can make more financial sense.

It's interesting as well that the article calls out Marylebone Road and Hyde Park corner as the most polluted spots.

Marylebone road is party to 4 major train stations: Marylebone, Euston, Kings Cross and St Pancras International. Almost anybody trying to make a train journey to the North of London or to avoid using a plane to get to Europe is going to travel along Marylebone road. It's taking one for the team: those taxis and cars are normally carrying people to get to those stations.

They're well served by public transport, but heavy bags and suitcases on the London transport system is fractured: it prompts us to use cars instead. I did this myself just this weekend when getting to and from St Pancras for the Eurostar, because the alternatives were utterly draining.

And as for Hyde Park corner, well it's a central crossing point for many routes out to the South, West and North of London and its centre. The alternative would be to build ring roads that were once planned, but would turn London into a motorway-centric city like Birmingham, which would just encourage more driving.

Diesels need to get more expensive to own, electric needs to get easier to own for those of us without driveways, public transport needs to get cheaper, and the concentration of rail terminuses into a mile long stretch of road needs rethinking long term (it's going to get worse with HS2).

But at the same time, we have it way better than many other cities.
That's the whole point of these projects - they're preventing that type of attack.

If you implement your bootstrap C compiler entirely in machine code for instance, it doesn't matter if the "original C compiler" is compromised, since it's not being compiled.
Because then you aren't on the article anymore.
Southpark.cc.com is and has always been visible from Italy.
I have former colleagues working on some of these systems, and they tell me some pretty scary horror stories of the simple and obvious ways in which they fail. Some of the stories that I have heard just blow my mind - and seem all-too-reminiscent of the VW emissions-test defeat-device scandal.
I have a pure-javascript library that works like that, "forn". No hooks or any local state needed:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/forn
Until all affected vehicles are fixed or scrapped. This works out to forever because it isn't practical to prove either. The law might allow less, but any smart company is going to have the above policy because you can pull it out in unrelated court cases to show that you care about safety and so whatever the current situation is doesn't warrant punitive damages.
> iOS and macOS is basically the same OS.

I'm aware of that. But they are not exactly the same, are they?

> Of course features still need integration to the respective form factors and UI paradigms.

Isn't that what usability and polish are all about?

> And yet, Snow Leopard was created exactly because people complained Leopard and earlier were not stable enough. It was the release to focus on stability and polish over new features (and they even admitted this was alluded in the name change, "Leopard" -> "Snow Leopard" as opposed to a whole new version-animal).

I know, and that's why we all love Snow Leopard. Why the regression since then?

> >They've shown themselves utterly incapable of releasing a quality update each year.

> Given that they ship 100 million or so updates, they have almost immediate adoption (far quicker than new Windows version), and the complains always subdue after 1 point release or so, I don't think so.

They release updates alright, but what about the quality? The fact is overall, macOS has gotten slower, buggier, and uglier with every release.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law#/media/File:Moore'...

It slowed down a bit, but who knows.

Might be a good read, too: https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/optoelectronics/is-...
>One of the purposes of the dog is to discourage arrest for petty offences

Also works great for letting you trespass anywhere you could conceivably want to walk a dog that isn't obviously posted.
If the threat of an invasion is not "forced", then what is?
What kind of cooking were you doing? High temp ( near smoke point) with oil is supposed to be very bad for health. Gas ramge?
You're right that the average air above London is often (not always) pretty clean compared to the world's most polluted cities. Right now I can look out my window and clearly see buildings that are several km away. Today, at least, there is very little visible haze.

But the real problem is London's narrow, busy streets with heavy motor vehicle traffic in very close proximity to where Londoners live, work, walk, go to school, etc. Anyone who spends much time in Central London is spending a significant portion of their lives in close proximity to the exhaust fumes from thousands of vehicles daily, so exposure to toxic pollutants in London is much worse than many measures of average air quality suggest!

On the bright side, there has been a noticeable improvement recently thanks to initiatives like the Central London ultra-low emission (ULEZ) zone, and the increasing numbers of electric taxis replacing the old diesel ones. One major area that still needs improvement is the buses - there are now some electric buses, but still far too many old, polluting diesel ones.
>my standard response has always been "I'm sorry, as a rule I do not discuss personal details with someone who called me, since I don't know who you are"

Amex got quite offended when I did this, and almost chastised me when I got through to an agent after making the outbound call myself. They argued that because they only asked for limited personal information (DOB) it was fine...

I would still do it again!
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I should have explained the 30 days better. I would edit my comment if I still could.

But yeah, since I kept the computer online and Backblaze app running _after_ I lost the files, Backblaze marked them up for deletion in those 30 days. To be fair, I didn't try to contact them and ask to help me, maybe they would.

I spent several days trying to download the backup and then I gave up and ordered the drive.

Good to see that you have a new retention policy since then.
Not surprising considering how heavily taxed non-EVs are in Norway.
> ...wrangling c++ dependencies

Yep, I think this is my main gripe with C++ on Windows right now. vcpkg is meant to work with CMake or Visual Studio, but you still have to manually tell it where your toolchain file is - which means it's additional work for the rest of your team. In Visual Studio, it's seamless.

On Windows, it's gotten to the point where I try to build dependencies as part of the build chain and hope the tooling is smart enough to not rebuild them a million times. Would be really nice if Windows 10X (or whatever) could come with a package manager or integrate vcpkg.
Awesome! We now identified someone, other than our own politicians, as an alternative who can be blamed for all the problems that have undesirable effects...
> "If you have a few extra billion you might not want to tie it all to the performance of the US equity market."

Yes, but... Vanguard's S&P 500 fund isn't the only index fund on the planet, either. You can include a broad international fund, a region or country-specific fund, or any other number of factors. Diversification and passivity are orthogonal.

> "if the fund is beating the S&P by 1-2% after fees"

Yes, but:

1. You're taking on a higher degree of risk, because the information available to you is much more opaque and unregulated (e.g. EBITA as a valuation metric, when it's so easy manipulated). Bubbles are hard to time, even when you do have decent data available. But investors in that world are just completely flying blind. And historically received only a small net premium for that additional risk.

2. Even that historical premium seems to be gone now. As I pointed out from the article, that "1-2%" is looking back over a quarter-century timeframe. Over the past 10 years, half of PE has UNDERPERFORMED the market. The direction of the trend does not look favorable.
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Seems like they’re missing a critical all white painted cow group
I had an experience indistinguishable from the phishing attack being discussed - with the only difference that I initiated the phone call. A transaction I had initiated had triggered some fraud warnings and my account was locked.

They asked for my account number, name, and address for verification. When they got to the point that they sent me a code over SMS and wanted me to tell it to them over the phone, I stopped them and explained that this is also the exact set of steps required to reset my account and that I wouldn’t do it.

I went to a branch in person to unlock my account and the person helping me asked me to enter my password on their terminal so that they could “see the error message”.

I’m still not sure if some parts of this were a more advanced phishing scheme than I had thought was possible, even though it does just seem like a set of confusing practices by the bank.