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Can only speak from my personal circles but the current bushfires aren't having a direct impact on personal responsibility (those who were interested were already interested; those that weren't still aren't).

We just had a political cycle where the Labor party lost on (among many reasons) a more climate-change focused agenda in the federal election, so we won't know for another three years if there is any any voter backlash. Additionally, parliament is not in session and the major parties are currently focused on crisis response (instead of attacking each other), so the political football has yet to truly begin.

Aside from the considerable pain and hardship for these local communities and the potential increase in politicization of environmental issues, the tourism sector is being obviously effected as you simply can't drive to many parts of New South Wales right now, tourists are being asked to leave many areas, and Sydney has been smog filled for the last month.
>The bone turned out to be the very first Denisovan fossil ever found because the specimens found in the Denisova Cave in Siberia's Altai Mountains were unearthed 28 years after the monk's discovery. But researchers didn't know that at the time.

Interesting, so the Denisovans might have been called something else if they had only looked at this?
While I haven't used the bike lanes in cities like Copenhagen, Stockholm, London or Amsterdam they at least look better than in Oslo. In London I was was impressed by the sheer amount of bike lanes, but then again, people drive like madmen there, so perhaps that evens things out.
pedestrian always has the right away at cross walks

Isn't that the very point of a crosswalk?
or maybe it suggests that google has a monopoly
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I think it's important to be on the same page about what free speech and hate speech mean, the definitions, the limitations, otherwise we'll go nowhere. Hate speech is "public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation".

The example you gave (with the details provided) doesn't sound like hate speech on either side. And I don't think people were imprisoned for speech promoting or rejecting "alternative sexuality" over the past decades in any free country unless they were also promoting the hate and violence to go with their opinion. Being pro or against something is free speech. Promoting violence against someone is hate speech.

Can you help with an example of what you'd say is a step too far or is any speech free (never hate) speech? If a significant group of people would advocate violence against you and you felt your life is in peril every day would you want that (hate) speech to be limited in any way?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the signal servers are hosted on google cloud, using encrypted traffic to obfuscate the point of exit for a signal user.

This is why in the past, governments were unable to block signal without blocking google or all google cloud customers themselves.
Certainly not the producer without taking into account that if the countries exported gas to didn't burn gas they'd burn coal.
Norway exports lots of oil that is burned in other countries, causing emissions there.
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As always it all depends on the use case. If you have a lot of persistent connections from clients async might be a good option.
My only contention with text captcha apart from those of bots is that these require you to be able to read, understand and know the answer of the question, and that too in the language that captcha is being served.

This might sound like a nonexistant issue, but lets take the example of a country like India with a huge number of internet users. There are many who use the Internet without being completely literate in English or even their mother tongue. Use cases like checking exam results, train tickets etc require captchas to be filled and the normal deformed letter ones do well. I doubt text captchas will be accessible to them.

But then again, user base matters a lot too and that should be taken into account always!
This comment prompted me to google. Apparently there are still 100000 pay phones still in operation in the US. In Sweden we have none left.
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I like the idea because, according to ReCaptcha, I am officially a bot! And it works! Whenever I see one of those, I just close the tab and go away.
> Succeeding.

Perfect.

I can't tell you how much luck and right place / time comprises my career as a (middling but largely satisfied) entrepreneur.

I decided that would be my path about a year and half out of college. Six months later I resigned to start a competitor to the company I was with. I was only able to because I found two willing partners and then had the stars align on a project big enough to bootstrap the company.

Businesses I started later (the successful ones) also had a significant timing / luck element.

If that first company didn't materialize? Maybe I would have decided it wasn't worth the effort. And that's a pretty wild thought given how much of my identity is tied up in the successful businesses I've built -- and how much that's shaped my life.

I think the only reasonable prediction to make is the very obvious: You can't succeed if you don't try.

Beyond that there's a massive amount of survivorship bias. There's nothing particularly wrong with that until you start giving unqualified advice to others -- or worse, start believing that advice yourself.
The solution with multiple locks is to always take them in the same defined order on any code path - that guarantees that you can't get into deadlock situations.
But shouting at strangers is also a bad example. I hate the unbeatable "but think about the children" argument that seems to haunt many discussions. Let the families educate their own children. Educate the drivers that children may randomly jump to the street, may also stay there and not try to evade or do who-knows-what so they should be more careful driving through the city. That's actually the case in Germany, training for a license includes learning to be ridiculously (but usefully) defensive.
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For private use, certainly not. In case of distribution, yes. The EUPL consider as distribution "providing on-line access to essential functionalities of a software". This is tha case of SaaS.
I'm sure those pipes are very efficient but burning the gas at the other end is what is killing the planet right now.

My point is that Norway has a unique responsibility as a democratic nation with outsized oil revenue to take a global lead on climate change and I don't see that happening.

Edit:let me say though that I am genuinely pleased Norway is investing in traffic safety as opposed to supersized aircraft carriers or weapons of mass destruction
There's a big confusion here:

- your $55 billions is only public debt.

- the private debt is way higher (more than $130 trillions).

Sources:

- public debt: https://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock

- total debt: https://blogs.imf.org/2019/01/02/new-data-on-global-debt/
Is Norway responsible for the emissions? It's the buyers who decide to burn the oil rather than use it to produce other stuff.
> The answers are the MD5 hashes of correct lower cased answers: you should be able to check responses from real users you challenge with the question against these checksums.

That's a somewhat concerning choice of hash function. MD5's collision resistance is broken. It is well known to be broken, for more than a decade.

There's references to PHP on the page. 10 years ago [0] this message appeared in PHP's manual:

> The well known hash functions MD5 and SHA1 should be avoided in new applications. Collission attacks against MD5 are well documented in the cryptographics literature and have already been demonstrated in practice. Therefore, MD5 is no longer secure for certain applications.

[0] https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.hash.php#94104
Which wallet forced you to do the math in your head? Don't they all just display the result of that calculation as the total transaction cost?
> Are they just trying to prevent the spread and wait till the fire kills itself?

Basically this whenever possible, often if it's not near a populated area they won't even try to limit the spread, they put themselves out eventually with the right conditions (wind, rain, geography). Near populated areas they do what they can, mostly controlled burns and having fire breaks that allow them to effectively concentrate resources (firetrucks, water bombers) where they can actually be useful, a firetruck can be effective where there's a firebreak but without one it would be suicide to be there.
Surely kids should limit themselves to only crossing on green (well, until they grow out of it) but I've taught my children to watch the cars first, not the lights. A green pedestrian light doesn't mean there are no stray cars running red lights or turning-but-not-yielding. It's cars that injure people, not lights, so focus should always be on cars.
RISC-V is meant to be a simple, unsurprising, boring architecture, with any clever stuff (such as macro op fusion) being done at the microarchitecture level. It's not a project for researching new architectures.
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Singapore is a good example of road crossing habits being culturally influenced. Jaywalking is unusual behaviour everywhere except the Little India district, where it appears to be compulsory ;-)
I work in healthcare (or health-tech), I sometimes forward articles from HN to colleagues or higher management. Often times I regretted that based on comments that came in later on articles. So now I muster up the discipline to wait some hours, keep the tab with comments open en refresh every now and then. I hardly ever get disappointed and the comments reveal the true value of an article almost without fail and always with extra resources to back up why a claim is true, false or questionable. I love this community for this reason and it provides a lot of value to me and via me my colleagues.

A good example is the recent discussion on the amyloid plaque "cabal" [0]. The comments confirm, but also attenuate the article, and together with my own experiences in science I feel confident to forward the article. Comments and discussions such as [1] are clearly from people deeply involved in the field or at least from very knowledgeable people, and they nicely balance the often polarizing articles.

Imho the HN algorithms seem to work very well in getting quality content to the top, given time (an article may well be gone from the home page by then).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21911225

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21912471
No, if not gas, it would be coal. Pollution would be magnitudes worse.
its not implemented yet. there are few streets here and there with limited traffic but its far from car-free.
Apologies if the tone of my frustration came out as negative towards your project - not intended to be negative at this - in fact I am really glad that there is an open source option(?) for this kind of thing, as I normally only use things that are self hostable.

I am more disappointed in the jargon surrounding these chat systems in general and the other web page that I surfed. Perhaps take this as a suggestion if you make a web page for a different audience perhaps make it easier to understand that the others from the get go.

Of course that may not matter - getting direct hits to a site these days are not so easy even if you try and have something good.. a project like this may get hits to the project pages 99% from clicking on links of other sites that are using it - in that case the people would already know what it is and then would be more interested in how much, what's different - and not care if it's called bot or chat or 'business communicator better than the whatever widget'.
Right, you can't trust any one VPN service. But you can use nested VPN chains. Sort of like Tor circuits. To distribute trust, so no one VPN can pwn you.

Orchid is a P2P VPN network that offers dynamic multi-hop connectivity.[0] Users buy bandwidth with supposedly anonymous Etherium-based cryptocurrency. But so far, it's only available on Android and (soon) iOS.

Some years ago, I wrote a guide for IVPN for doing static nested VPN chains (aka multi-hop connectivity) using pfSense VMs as gateway routers for various VPN services.[1]

And not long ago, published on GitHub about doing dynamic nested VPN chains, with recursive NAT forwarding within a single Debian router VM. There are iptables rules that forward one VPN through another, and restrict traffic to the chain. That's lighter, and easier to setup. And it's dynamic, more like Tor. But there's no compartmentalization between OpenVPN processes.

Unlike Orchid, that's not limited to smartphones. But there's are no ~automatic payments and reputation management.

0) https://www.orchid.com/

1) https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides/advanced-privacy-and-ano...

2) https://github.com/mirimir/vpnchains
> Then there came async frameworks a la Node, Twisted et al. and changed everything. Again in my opinion, async code is harder to reason about versus synchronous code.

One change here which has also made this less important is the trend toward serverless/microservice architecture. In a world where you were running your MVP on a single VPS instance somewhere, and you were running a monolithic webserver which handled everything from request parsing to business logic, then moving from one-thread-per-request to a runloop implementation represented a potentially huge win in terms of performance.

But nowadays we largely work with more atomized bits of logic: business logic is implemented in terms of small, self-contained operations, and the problems of scale are delegated to some other system or orchestration framework. In that world it matters much less if your database access is blocking a thread or not, because throughput issues can be solved at a different level.
I learned to ignore them. The speed limit on the streets where children frequent are max 40 and even lower around traffic lights. Drivers should keep looking and assume neither children nor adults will follow traffic rules. You just need to learn to be defensive if you are navigating tons of steel inside a densely populated area.
This happens in Norway too. For instance lots of zebra crossings were scraped away where I live a few years back, because they argued (from accident statistics) it gave pedestrians a false sense of security.

That may be, but it also made 95% of drivers (those obeying traffic regulations) actually stop for you to cross. Obviously they don't if there's no crossing, and you have to wait ten times as long to cross safely.
Fuck no. A bit faster does not mean fast.
It's slow as fuck basically across the board.
I'm not sure "thinking like a programmer" is a concrete goal, what would be accomplished. Getting a job?

Programming is a thing, but it's always been very diverse, creative, individual, personalized and wide variations of requirements. No two programmers will solve the same complex problem the same. The best programmers will solve it without programming!

For programming itself, I think the fascination with computing itself is enough. You can go the academic route, hobby route, enterprise programming route or make your own way in the world. Being able to cobble up the pieces in order to build solutions is often enough skillset needed. There's never been a profession where you learn more on the job.

If there's one goal the profession should embrace it's simplification and interfacing with the users, aka userfriendliness!
Great details, thanks very much! Glad to see that this designation is widespread across a decent number of countries as well.
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> We'd still be doing MVC in frontend apps if someone at Facebook didn't miss a deadline.

After working with React for some tine I'm not so sure the good old Mvc is a bad thing, not always at least.
Could they both share some responsibility?
> I don't think engineers use frameworks because they think it makes them look cool.

Or, management tells engineers what tools to use because they think it makes them look cool.

Our company recently got word from above that "all these old technologies go out the window, you're now all becoming JS devs and we'll use microservices for everything".

The result is that for one project I could probably build entirely by myself with a LAMP stack in one week, we now have 15+ people in 3 teams & 3 different countries each working on tiny parts of a very small simple app barely used by anyone, using a whole shopping list of tech that you simply don't need.

When I asked one of those management "evangelist" guys during an informal dinner "so why all of a sudden JS frameworks?" his answer was something honestly along the lines of "I don't know it seems the thing to do nowadays".

Needless to say I'm job hunting like my life depends on it.
I have one additional type of external deadline:

"The marketing campaign already promised it would be ready by X"
What is post-rational. His blogs are mostly support right wing views, religion. Is that what you meant by post-rational ?
Expecting first-party cookies to work is a reasonable assumption on site's developers part. Blocking these is rarely well-justified, so supporting this case is largely pointless.

Session cookies is a perfectly fine option that eliminates the need to pass the session id in each every URL. Sticky cookies are also something that most people will actually want because it helps improving the UX on the site on return visits. If you don't want either, in principle, clear them. This can be trivially automated in a wide variety of ways.

* That said, I agree that the site rendering shouldn't depend on the cookie access. But it's almost certainly an oversight of not testing for a marginal case that vanishingly few people have. So loudly moaning about it looks very odd - you are complaining about something that nobody needs. Just like a website not rendering well in Lynx.
This seems like exactly the sort of questions a big language model a la GPT-2 would be able to answer.

I'm curious how TextCaptcha would fare in terms of complexity compared to the other language understanding benchmarks.
pedestrians do cross the street when it's red for them

You have to think what pedestrian lights are for. They exist solely to improve the flow of car traffic. Pedestrian lights are in gross contrast to the rights and benefits of pedestrians. Without lights, pedestrians would always have first priority on a crosswalk. Cars would have to stop for any pedestrian crossing the street. However, drivers (of inefficient but fast automobiles) don't like waiting for a more efficient form (on the city centre scale) of traffic (i.e. pedestrians) to cross the street so pedestrian lights exist to ensure enough green time for cars so that they don't always have to stop. Thus, it is no wonder that any sensible person wouldn't cross the street on red if there are no cars coming.
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Put that way, most successful founders are successful at exiting, not building businesses. Those are often related things, but not the same. An exiting founder's team size is proportional to their last funding. But for building a business, they'll go through funny math to tie that to show they won't implode ("no, we're not losing money for every customer, we're aiming for 3yr payback with strong disruption moat and stickiness for net-negative-churn..."). Both kinds can be successful, just a very diff operational mindset.

The more I understood various silicon valley ecosystems (ex in sales/marketing/apps/...: "idea -> sales/marketing/discount/hype/first-to-market-driven sales -> race to acquisition by a monopoly who doesn't need the business to be profitable, to find a bigger investor, someone figures out a magical pivot, or else implode"), the more I see most SF->google/yahoo/fb/BigMonopolyCo acquisitions as likely failed businesses with somewhat burnt customers... and materially successful founders, teams, & especially investors. The numbers can be nuts (including > $1B acquisitions squarely in this camp.) I've learned to bucket advice from such founders as being primarily sensible within insider-y & exit-minded frameworks vs. optimizing for building big, meaningful, and sustainable things. The former solve political fights for monopolies and the latter can move societies, so both create value: To each their own.
Is that a problem for this use case?
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Focus primeraly on your job, unless your sideproject is capable to support you financially.
If you project has some traction, try taking mini vacation of month and work fulltime on it to achieve initial milestones.
I've seen stuff like this in use for domain specific knowledge for forums for years - either there is a near infinite question pool or you're reduced down to something that's broken easily given a site-specific bot.
if you combine the red light for pedestrians with no fine for jaywalking if you don't cause issues, then the british/irish model starts to make sense :)
Co-founder here. My girlfriend and I(https://ippad-itn.eu/researchers) quit our jobs 4 months ago, and have been working on this day and night off of our savings since then.
FlyOut is born to address a problem that is driven by a "need" and this "need" is a global problem and wanted by the sheer volume that addresses the average middle class who study or work abroad and consistently miss the products from their culture back home or who are addressing their family members that are anxious to get in touch with foreign local products. More than 8 million people travel/day (https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/pr/2013-12-30-01). Apart from our technical solution, what matters to us is how many of them know our product!!. Massive market awareness is our 24/7 strategy.

with regards to safety: We are making it mandatory for the sender to put up detailed images and description when the need is posted. Furthermore, we have an integrated notification system to make the traveller aware to check items before acceptance from the sender. And there are also clear mention of caution every step of the way and all marketplace legal implications will be automatically inserted as soon as the items are added. A legal disclaimer that says : the contents that user wants to be shipped does not contain any narcotics, etc. will also be inserted as part of the algorithm.