skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I spin thinking I see:

- information is mostly everywhere

- computing is mostly everywhere, can turn knowledge into instructions

- most machinery is accessible and can be replicated (not saying cpu fab)

- what's missing in that frame is an open faucet of clean energy
Is it illegal to wear a mask? If the answer is no then the police have no right to stop him for wearing a mask. Police having the leeway to determine what is suspicious vs having to obey the law is what leads to thousands of minorities being stopped, roughed up and arrested for resisting arrest. If you are a minority and do nothing wrong, how many stops for being black would it take before you became a little defensive or frustrated? Imagine your life being constantly interrupted by uniform wearing people with a track record of killing people with your complexion.
They don’t have a way of knowing! Exactly!

This is why we shouldn’t be employing people whose job it is to snatch people they don’t know anything about, who just assume you’re a threat until YOU PROVE that you’re innocent.
There are many reasons you could legitimately hold a drive with a zip bomb; maybe you're researching them for security? Maybe you collect interesting examples to teach the concept?

(Note: this doesn't mean you should go on record with such a defense without an attorney present, just saying why it shouldn't legally be regarded as malicious without a lot of other evidence.)
“Good” cops regularly stonewall investigations into bad cops, and vote for police unions that will do everything in their power to literally allow bad cops to get away with murder.
Realpolitik.
automated panel cleaning is probably solved by now
People taking ketamine in clubs usually use much less than k-hole or anaesthetic doses, because the effects are more conducive to partying. They generally take small bumps over the course of a night.

I really doubt the club kids to saw had taken anything like the equivelant of 300mg or 500mg taken IM (2x the bioavailability of intranasal), or even intranasally. If you are standing, 50-75mg taken intranasally can cause transient, trance-like states like you describe. 100mg taken intranasally (50g IM equivalent) is enough such that most people couldn't safely walk, and would have closed-eye visuals almost like a lucid dream. 150mg intranasally will guarantee a k-hole for most people, and 300mg plus would render all but those with extreme tolerances unconscious.
And yet it has become extremely popular. It looks like the team made an excellent trade-off.
They are [1]. It’s a self reinforcing cycle. For example, batteries are already cheaper than most gas peakers. That demand (along with EVs demand, primarily Tesla) ramps manufacturing capacity, realizing further cost declines along the way.

Remember, the sun and wind are free once the turbines and panels are installed (both which last at least two decades). That’s what fossil and nuclear are competing against, and it’s a losing battle. Sounds like those companies that sell batteries to utilities and consumers are in a very favorable position, considering the storage requirements you note.

[1] https://about.bnef.com/blog/battery-pack-prices-fall-as-mark...
There are a few comments advocating Godot as a solution here and while it is indeed promising, its domain-specific nature hampers it for general application development in certain key ways, namely terrible host-filesystem support. Investigate it deeply before committing to avoid painting yourself into a corner later on.
I wasn’t aware that refusing one police instruction was grounds for summary execution.
FedEx. Don't carry the devices on you.
Travelers left behind nearly a million dollars at security checkpoints last year
“People at google are pretty product focused”

Oh so they just don’t think about it at all. To be product focused is just to do what your boss tells you to do. Sometimes the easiest way to go about things is just to fully embody one’s role as a cog with no agency.
There's nothing like seeing your friends and family struggling to breath to keep you being careful.
Surely you'd need to be a person of interest to have them process your data. The data is likely encrypted so how do they decrypt it? They can socially engineer a way in but does that work? Do people break down and give up their passcode?

Would they really process the data just because? It seems like a severe amount of data to process and evaluate. How much compute power is set aside for this and how much online storage is used? Do they use a cloud service for this?

It'd be interesting to hear from somebody in the know about what is they real can do and what is heresy.
I wonder what implications this would have for business travel. Devices may be required to be encrypted and giving a business password may violate employment law in the home country for non US travelers. It could be illegal to grant US border agents access to the phone and also illegal not to.

Even if you could grant access, businesses may very rightly feel the content shouldn’t be accessed by US border agents and if it’s stored by border agents, it means now some US government server could fall under the juris diction of GDPR or something (eg my work phone or laptop had a photo with sensitive customer data or something).

On top of that, it’s increasingly mandatory to use your personal phone for business data, eg PagerDuty, Slack, company email, company social media tools. So while it may be your personal device, you may still run into crazy conflicting issues of whether you are allowed to unlock it.

How are you going to comply with “delete my account” requests when some business data is on US government servers for 75 years?

US agencies have deeply poor and incompetent information security, so how long before this is subject to a data breach, or a rogue employee exfiltrating and selling it? Will people be able to sue the US government for substantial per-person damages when that happens?

The conflicting and incompatible privacy issues of this are bananas. What an arrogant and deeply stupid thing to do by the border agency.
A gif of the launcher in action in the reader would be much appreciated
If you encrypt it, presumably they'll try to store it just in case they can decrypt it later. At lest that's what the NSA does.
Any reasonable response to this ridiculous bothsidesism understates how willfully ignorant it is.
>our team didn't have any LGBT representation

That's an incredibly ignorant assumption to be making on his part. Not everyone who identifies as LGBT is going to volunteer that piece of information (out or otherwise). Nor should anyone ever feel pressured into doing so.

You were absolutely right to throw him out.
I see you're wearing your bootlicker boots today.
"Ente" means duck in German; always check what things mean in other languages as well!
Apple didn’t sue Woolworths, they just filed an opposition to the trademark to IP Australia. Same sort of thing as is happening here.
If you want to frame your outrage, Africa is a continent. This is mainly about Mali and its fight against Al Qaida/ISIS.

France sent troops in with UN support in 2013 after a plea for help from the Malinese government (1)

That government was overthrown by the "National Committee for the Salvation of the People" very recently (2) so it's hard to say what the future holds, and if they should remain there. Most of the west (including the US) is not too excited about the new leadership though.

1) https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35863/the-french-army-...

2) https://www.voanews.com/africa/france-keeping-close-eye-mali...
I think they're useful for targeting search intentions and monetizing through SEO, ads, affiliate links.

People are unlikely to visit "programming.io" and then search something specific, but if it becomes popular for a particular type of content or tone or niche purely through organic search, people will include an easy-to-remember domain in the search query. Remembering "programming.io <query>" is easier than "johndoereactjsdev.blogger.com <query>".

It's not uncommon either. Just run a random tech search and notice how many hits are under generic "tec*" domains that publish how-to articles on multiple topics.
> The diesel-powered carrier needs to refuel every few weeks, while nuclear-powered carrier needs to refuel every 20 years.

True, but while refuelling only takes hours, ROH operations on a naval reactor are usually scheduled to last 46 months [edit] and cost several billion dollars [/edit].

That's just insanity :D
I guess the studios wanted to get their copyrights extended one way or the other.
It's mentioned in the second paragraph of the article.
Yes, the Delphi licensing cost is horrible. However, if you are using Lazarus you don't need to use Delphi at all.

The lack of sufficient developers who are familiar with Lazarus/Freepascal is a problem though. But again, this is a chicken and egg type of issue.

Getting up to speed in Lazarus does not take very long though because the IDE itself guides a person through in the components and you can clearly see the properties and components they have etc.

Compared to the challenge of wrangling many of these cross-platform frameworks to develop a desktop, it is a piece of cake in Lazarus.

Sadly, what keeps Lazarus back is the fact that most people aren't even aware that it exists and a perceived notion that it is not a cool/capable framework.
"I don't think it is entirely fair to put 100% of the blame on the police. A much healthier solution would be to try de-escalating general tensions between the police and the population." Right, its not the fault of the armed people with godlike power to kill, arrest and detain to their hearts content based on nothing but a feeling or bias. Its the fault of the people being harassed and killed for not properly genuflecting before the the ones killing them. I am sure your user name is meant to be in jest but I am having a hard time thinking you are not just a human bot in a call center that is bad at their job.
I tried, and build my own widget (not sure how it was called), and the IDE kept crashing constantly.
great pitch! i dont work in ecommerce so i cant attest to the appeal of it but sounds like it might work to layperson ears.

one nit - "we lift revenue by 4-6%" doesn't feel like a very impressive number (it may be within the bounds of normal noise for a smaller ecom site?). that said, im very much not an ecomm guy. is this a bigger deal than it initially reads?

i also feel like recommender systems work much better for netflix (infinite consumption) than for ecommerce (where if i already bought a shoe i normally dont want another). perhaps this tech is better applied to media than to ecomm?
Or stacking blocks

https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surpris...
The article says this is for people both entering and leaving the country. And applies anywhere within 100 miles of a "border" (including coasts).
Apple isn’t suing and this isn’t going to court. It’s just a bit of paperwork that will be ignored.
From experience 99.9% of the time unless I visit a porn site purposely or some warez site by accident, or questionable reddit channels, I see no NSFW. However I do see some benefits if this was for kids.
Literally in second paragraph.
US law enforcement has such a great sense of humor afterall...
I'm not talking about races. Mostly big groups, like countries, which don't have to be races.
This is way less work than being a session musician for your beer money, though.
I struggle with lists like this in part because they are all recall and no situational precision, like a cavalcade of "thens" with no "ifs". That said, I'll offer an additional technique, "waiting for the problem to go away", which can work when damped responses are good. I guess lists like this would benefit from "when not" as well as "when".
Results with such confidence intervals should not be allowed to be published.

As if we don't have enough fake news/hype going around.
If you have a good rng it will be indistinguishable from encrypted data. In fact the more uniform the seemingly more cunning.

Be sure to put he proper headers on the data so it self identifies as an encrypted file.
It’s not a case, Apple isn’t suing anyone.
Luckily we live in an age of video sharing, so we can see how silly it is to think of that large community as being wholesale evil.
You’re not programming in natural language and you’re trying to bring some natural language semantics into programming.

Please don’t. VerseFake is because the natural sorting will sort VerseFake together with Verse.

You, on the other hand - seem to have never worked with codebases that are large enough to find anything in them.

Good luck finding the right function when you call everything starting with a verb.

In programming you start with an Entity and are given a set of Verbs that are applicable to that entity, not vice versa.

You obviously studied philosophy and not engineering if you are asking questions like that.
Use netron to visualize model:

https://lutzroeder.github.io/netron/?url=https://raw.githubu...
I'm not in the discussion above, but I would never recommend GTK for any cross-platform application because it enforced a Gnome-only look and feel that is completely alien on any other environment (even on Linux).
Mali and the surrounding countries were a French colonial territory for about 80 years from the late-19th through mid-20th centuries.

France has maintained relationships with its former colonies in West Africa, and frequently performs counter-terrorism operations there.

Some local West Africans are OK with it, others are not. A 2016 attack on a beach resort in Côte d'Ivoire was claimed by the attackers (AQIM - Al'Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb), to be directly because of the foreign presence in West Africa, and the beach resort was targeted specifically because it is popular with foreigners (4 of the 19 killed were French).

France's history in West Africa is complicated but it's probably because of that history that they continue to operate there.
I've been doing this while going between the US and China. Once you get used to it, it is only a few minutes of hassle to restore everything. If it is so suspicious, they should have no problem articulating that to a judge and getting it from my email provider or my storage provider. But I suspect they only do it because they can and if you add even a tiny bit of friction, they won't bother unless there are other things that make them suspicious.
That reminds me of some story I read back in the 90s about some famous hackers (I think the ones who testified to Congress from MIT).

One of them knew their apartment was going to be raided by the FBI so they left a suitcase full of encrypted cassette tapes in there for the FBI to salivate over.

After finally decrypting the first one, I believe it was just static noise :)
ive been working the granny porn for a looong time
To be honest, if your decryption process is "just" a passcode you "know" then you've already failed.

You could have a key and a passcode that relies on 10 steps (such as using a web service) that is reliable for you to know but not easy to "explain" how to obtain (and, as a bonus, easy enough to build in a dead man's switch, if I don't visit script.php within 24 hours the key is gone and even I can't decrypt now).
Congratulations guys. I met two of you when you visited our agency and told your story. Very impressive, and for those of you reading, these guys were still in high-school when we met them, maybe still are?
Stoked that you got into YC!!
I believe a bit of both. I'm no expert on it, so my response here may not be completely accurate.

Tor relays, while more numerous than exit nodes, are still limited (we're discussing a custom onion service communication setup here, not using Tor for general purpose BT which would use exit nodes). Anyone can run one, and please do so if you have good bandwidth each way. Relays are opt in because not only does it open you up to lots of bandwidth usage, but Tor shouldn't default to running a relay for those that may be philosophically opposed. Relays pass all data through anonymously and encrypted, but some still may not feel comfortable doing it. So there are limited operators.

As for the nature of Tor itself, to keep both the client and onion service operator anonymous, they communicate through a rendezvous which means a Tor circuit for each side (each Tor circuit is 3 hops iirc). And geographic distance is intentionally disregarded, so it may traverse the world multiple times over.

I have considered running a private Tor network with directory servers replaced with a DHT, forcing everyone to be a relay, and then essentially running a private BT over that, but it'd need significant adoption to be viable. Also, there may be Tor limitations in huge numbers of relays (and definitely issues with slow relays), I haven't checked. Finally, in addition to traffic analysis attacks that always exist, it is believed iirc lately that federal agencies are sitting on Tor exploits (granted may only be for exits and/or Tor browser).
It's probably obvious, but the doses I mention are regarding pharmaceutical ketamine, straight from the vial, rather than for street ketamine.
That bit I don't get. Why are they happy to upload arbitrary data to their servers unless it's porn?
I think they just missed the memo that Windows now has a modern Chromium-based Edge option for a web view component. I mean, before that, the situation was really pretty bad, but now I'd expect it to be fine. (Have not tested it yet.)
> Better to put them on home roofs, and arrange for them to be owned by the homeowners, designed so that the occupants are (literally) empowered when the grid is mismanaged, as in California.

It turns out that the same California that you criticize now requires solar on newly built homes, just as you recommend, and much to the chagrin of people who feel like the state government is impinging on individuals' rights to build however they please.
History of Coffee: The Most surprising and interesting facts
The BN-800 reactor was an engineering nightmare, though.

Those things had more downtime due to technical issues than operation time. The issues were indeed so severe, that the follow-up project (BN-1200) required a redesign and was put on hold indefinitely...
Sorry, I meant public discussions, not behind a login page just to read those.

I kind of already knew that engagement info, even though I'm not American, and I'm looking at a bigger picture and a solution to apply to any government for the ease of engagement for the citizens.

Thanks for the appreciation.
Solo founder, one-man-shop here--14 years in.

There's lots of great advice here, and I'll add getting in the habit of sending out monthly update emails.

Pick a group of people (friends, family, maybe ex-colleagues) and once a month summarize what you accomplished in the last month, what you want to accomplish in the next month, and some goals you want to accomplish 4-6 months out.

One of the hardest part of going it alone is lacking perspective. Monthly updates are a really helpful tool in keeping you oriented.
I've run into that exact situation too.

The Pi is the only SBC with an excellent OS ecosystem.
Free Pascal is the language and Lazarus is the IDE. In the case of Delphi, Object Pascal is the language and Delphi is the IDE.

So it is best to see Free Pascal & Lazarus as the free and open source alternative to Object Pascal & Delphi respectively.

Of course, now the term Object Pascal is not used at all. Delphi is used to refer to both the language and the IDE now.

About Free Pascal, it is largely compatible with Delphi/Object Pascal but there are minor differences.
https://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_For_Delphi_Users

Here is a write up on the advantages of Free Pascal:
https://www.freepascal.org/advantage.var
> bikes don't pollute,

The making of bikes, and the concrete for them to ride on, involves pollution and externalised costs. Bike tyre dust pollutes, abandoned rusting decomposing bikes pollute. Less than cars, no question. "they don't" - not true.

> And what, exactly, are the problems we actually have with bikes? Not the fear-mongering made-up FUD, but real problems that exist already.

They aren't good enough to replace cars. They aren't a good improvement over not needing to own transport. They aren't a good improvement over walking in most dimensions, and the ones they are are dimensions that would be better eliminated than papered over with bikes.

> What does it mean - exactly - to design around humans?

Design around what the human body can do (mostly) unaided. Glasses bring your eyesight back up to human norms, we don't design imformational screens so everyone needs magnifying lenses to be able to read them. Hearing aids bring your hearing back to human norms, we don't make important announcements quietly enough that everyone needs a hearing aid to be able to partake in society. Walking sticks aid balance for the disabled, we don't make waterbed rolling walkways so everyone needs an extra third point of stability to avoid falling over. If it's too far to comfortably walk every day, it's too far. If that can't be helped, mass transit. Personal transport should be a thing people don't need, but the 2% of people who ride bikes today can be the 2% who ride bikes tomorrow if they want.

> Is removing all vehicles entirely a realistic goal? Is redesigning all the largest cities on earth, and getting everyone to work within a mile of where they live realistic?

Is preventing catastrophic global climate change realistic? Is ignoring mass transit so you can strawman that everone needs to work within a mile of their home instead of everyone having work or train station within a mile of their home, reasonable?

> Why are you trying so hard to lump non-motorized vehicles together with motorized vehicles?

Because that's where they belong. The only way bikes are going to become as popular as they need to be to satisfy the pro-bike agenda is when they become motorized. They will approach "electric cars" closer and closer.

> where are people designing cities primarily around bikes?

Good question. If bikes are so great and the answer to pollution and the future, where are people designing cities primarily around bikes? Nowhere? It's old places designed around walking, and new places designed around driving, and occasional neighbourhoods redesigned around walking. Bikes are incidental in both approaches, like nobody is redesigning cities around skateboards, unicycles, Segways, hoverboards, Kangaroo boots, rollerskates, rollerblades, monowheels, pogo sticks, velocipedes, stilts, or spacewalkers. Bikes belong in the category of those things. Fine where they are, not a thing to promote for daily commuting and mass transit of world populations.
true, the client still downloads the image so you'd still violate a work related policy... This plugin would have to operate as a proxy and filter the actual images that are NSFW so your client never downloads the actual image.
My simple answer: we became afraid. 9/11 showed us we were not invincible. Technology to enable mass surveillance had quick answers for our collective fears. Stoking our fears is a profitable industry. Here we are today.
At the end of the day, its a fun project. Plus tmux can get annoying configuring behavior to feel like something more native in terms of mouse use consistently. Either it works great scrolling up in the shell or it works great scrolling with an editor open, never both.