skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You point out some problems, but how do we actually do these?

Without emails as the keys to the kingdom, what would you use?

Without a global identifier for a human person (like social security in the US), how would we declare that an identity is compromised?

While I believe your ideals are well-intentioned, I think they're impractical in our current society.

I would propose that an email is the key to the kingdom, that people running custom domains and use them for email must deposit $500 in registration to do so (to ensure the domain is registered for their lifetime), and that they should be protected by a password plus 2FA with your phone being the other factor. And I propose that each person should be uniquely identifiable by an email address stored in a global publicly-accessible database.
I think you must be talking about another situation than the US, can you explain? The us border patrol can do this to citizens and non-citizens, and they assert their right to do it to anyone within 100 miles of the border, which is much more than half the us population. I don't want this for noncitizens crossing the border either. One reason for that is I don't want this to happen to me either.

During the bush 2 administration, they were harassing people traveling to the us who were making documentaries about the us in the iraq war. This is just a convenient way for them to invade the lives of privacy of people coming through the border.
I found that stopping 20 minutes before I intend to leave and making a list of things to do (and their current state) allowed me to start the next day a lot more easily. And it also produces a log of things done which is additionally useful.
I once "solved" a tricky issue with a random bug in an FPGA processing data from DDR. The issue was hardware "malfunction": DDR can flip some bits if accessed in some ways.

No one on the team did know about that, no one believed my fix could work (a one line for a bug we investigated on and off for months). It did. I had read a computer security article about how row hammer can be used to gain privilege or something and made the connection.

During my yearly evaluation, I mentionned it as the most impact that year. I was nearly laughed at. This bug precluded the product from functioning more than a few minutes, and we targeted at least several hours without any glitch. No one noticed that without me in the team, the product was dead for a few more month at least.

I left a year later. The company is dead now.
Were you a 68k-era Mac dev, by chance? That's my biggest mental association with "Object Pascal". I was only old enough to be a beginner-level user in those days and never got to ('had to'?) program anything on them, but it always seemed like it would be fun to revisit and see that Other Side of my childhood System 7 :)
Hey! Grattis! Really happy for the success of my fellow Stockholmare!
Can I ask how do you integrate with your customer's online stores? I've always puzzled how third party recommender services integrate with someone's existing shop. Is there some sort of JS widget or similar you add to the customer's existing site?
> Yet over the years the US has managed to force massive changes on Switzerland's financial institutions, and for decades now there's been much more transparency, and Switzerland's banks are not nearly as secret nor as effective at hiding assets as they used to be.

Eh not really unless you're a US citizen, which is a US problem not a Swiss problem. When I arrived, several years ago, and was opening an account I was asked multiple times If I was (or ever was) a US citizen and had to sign (again multiple times) that I wasn't a US citizen. Many small and even cantonal banks will outright refuse to open accounts for US citizens.
How are they competing? Either the court rules that what Apple is doing is lawful, and is the single payment provider, or they decide it’s not, and Epic becomes the single payment processing provider for unreal games.

Either way game devs have no choice
A good example of something similar that's actually very useful is Numba which is a Python-to-LLVM JIT compiler; extremely useful for writing fast numeric algorithms without leaving Python-land, sort of.
There's literally no way to get a guaranteed reliable product with shortened phase-3 trials.

You can't accelerate time. You can get huge numbers of subjects, even do challenge trials, and throw every scientist in the world at it, but you cannot look at the 1-2 year effects or efficacy without 1-2 years.

What you said is a very nice platitude which is simply not possible given the time constraints involved.
No matter how you try to write it politely, "I don't agree with your position, kill yourself" is a shitty comment.
Doesn't really matter if their vectors still point to the same general direction...
That might be part of the problem; if it turns out that everyone is in the same boat and will hit the same endpoints, then it's not going to be possible to politicize it, and there is an impending presidential election in the United States where the challenger and a lot of the press are relying on the idea that the US could've done massively better if not for the current incumbent to try and unseat him.
Generally this is the case, very often because either dead men tell no tales or the victim was a minority (see Breonna Taylor) . A while back though in TX there was a case where cops executed a no knock raid beginning with a flash bang and the homeowner shot 3 of them. The homeowner was not the target of the raid. He was found not guilty of attempted murder. I am sure the court fees and lost job destroyed his life though. Mug shot also appears to show he was very much roughed up in the process.

There are many instances of people using weapons in self defense and then police arrive and kill the gun owner. For instance; Jemel_Roberson' a black armed security guard that subdued a shooter in a bar. Cop showed up and immediately killed the security guard then lied that he was given multiple commands to drop the weapon. Witnesses said the cop arrived and shot the guard within 5 seconds. Later police changed their story and said it was just a case of friendly fire, very sad nothing can be done. And nothing was done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jemel_Roberson
Primaries in gerrymandered districts weed out moderate candidates. Their goal is to win the majority in their district or state, so they can sometimes ignore all other parties.
"Ultimately all physical retails spaces have the same common problem -- why should someone go into your store when they can get the same products online. ...I personally think there are two answer, one is to move the core retail business online, and the other is to create experiences people will keep coming back for."

This is a great observation. I think that every business looking at option 1 would run away in terror, as that would mean competing directly with Amazon. My local bookstores have pursued this to some degree out of necessity in covid times, but it doesn't seem sustainable, and I never got the impression that they prioritized it.

The bookstores local to me that have thrived have pursued the latter strategy with events, but primarily by having an opinionated selection that is a joy to browse. Amazon cannot compete on this for two reasons:

First, they cannot have a uniquely opinionated selection. They can have an "Amazon" selection, which will by its nature be the lower common denominator, or they can have a "personalized" selection, which will by its nature play to the customer's pre-existing interests and the generic global recommendation insights from Amazon's ML models. People do have lists on Amazon, but this isn't a profitmaking endeavour worth a full time commitment. No single perspective will be rich enough to engross the consumer for more than a minute or two, or call them to return regularly.

Second is that Amazon does not provide the physical experience of browsing physical books.

As you said, this still leaves the problem: even given all the above, why wouldn't someone just browse the in person bookstore and buy the books online? Thankfully, the survival of these stores shows that there enough buyers are "non-rational" to financially support the experiences they enjoy.
I love the idea of this! It reminds me of the megaprocessor project[1] but much more accessible in its scale, and way easier to understand.

The writeup is very clear, and the boards themselves are very easy to follow in operation. The more I think about it, the more I feel the need for a wall sized array of them acting as a clock. Maybe with a flipdot display for the time? The main issue I see is that the busses are pretty narrow and the there isn't a dedicated crossbar for the routing so the placement is going to be really challenging and probably involve a lot of 'inactive' modules that are just acting as a passthrough for the wiring.

[1]http://megaprocessor.com/
I actually really appreciate second-hand books. It sounds weird, but it makes it feel like there's more life to a book knowing others have read that exact copy. I also find it interesting and often helpful reading notes or underlined/highlighted parts of the book.

I recently purchased a few books from thriftbooks.com and noticed they shipped from different locations....I'm not sure if they're run as a marketplace where individual sellers can post books, or if they have multiple warehouses.
It absolutely does matter, because every "app store" you install on your computer is one more attach vector you open up.
I don't believe they support the individual's right to own a gun beyond what a state or the Federal government allows. The Feds could outlaw individuals rights to own a gun tomorrow and the ACLU wouldn't bat an eye. Check out their position on it. They flat out state it's only for militias and anything beyond that for individuals is not supported Constitutionally (aka left up to state/federal laws to dictate) https://www.aclu.org/other/second-amendment. I think this article reasonable says what I'm trying to say much better. https://reason.com/2019/04/12/the-aclu-defends-the-rights-of...
What the NSA does is just as constant and ubiquitous as what China does.
> Support Epic not for their moral reasoning, support them because their interests align with yours.

How do you know? I don’t
> This in comparison to the wild west of submitting your payment information to every Tom, Dick and Mary out there.

Somehow capitalism survived this situation in all of history prior to 2008. Also, Visa and Mastercard have a duopoly over payments, so it's not entirely accurate to say that it's the "wild west", or even that there weren't "trusted parties" before Apple.

In my experience, the credit card companies are actually quite protective of customer payments, and you don't have to pay if there's fraud. They just cancel your card and send you a new one. It's largely the merchants who have to eat that cost.
I wasn't responding to the specifics of that case. I was responding to the implied assertion that a crime is required before police interaction is justified, which is wrong. I tried to make that clear but apparently I wasn't clear enough.

Using that flawed assumption to argue that the police did something wrong in the McClain case is just noise. It distracts from understanding the facts of the matter.
Agree.

Compared to renewables - nuclear is a big risk (financial and operational). Also nuclear needs a lot of water, which is getting to be a serious problem. Compared to coal/gas/biomass they look great though in our current terraforming predicament.

There is no way we could build enough of them in the near term to matter, so that makes this discussion moot anyway. There is simply not enough expertise and production capacity left. Very few nuclear plants have been completed recently and the institutional knowlege is fading. It takes a lot of time and effort to reinvigorate that, especially since the nuclear industry is so extremely conservative.

Also the conversation is not being done on technical merits - but political inertia, an unwillingness to change and special interests by established energy companies (coal, gas).

As you say, renewables are still winning (slowly) because of the low risk profile and generally being price competitive.

Not that it matters much, we are mostly over the point of no return. It's just a matter of time before this ball is getting very unpleasant, sadly. We are just playing with the dial on how quickly that happens.
> Note that the "border" here is not the coastline, but the limits of territorial waters (12 miles)

No, the Border Patrol interpretation of the “reasonable distance from the external boundary rule” is that it extends to at least 100 miles from any land border or any part of the US coastline (whether or not it is or is in proximity to an international border.)

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone/
Also performance - make sure you use this tool https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
This (no penalties) is false. Reread your linked article to learn more. Also

https://www.facebook.com/facebookmedia/blog/working-to-stop-...
Because the story is an absurd lie. The guy has gotten 100+ upvotes for that hysterically dumb bit of fiction.

HN has proven to be outrageously gullible time and time again, and this one takes the cake.
What you describe is not what happened. Look at republicans who ended up with Trump and the base was pretty happy to move far away from the middle, demonizing black people and other minorities. This move from the middle energized a large part of the population in the us.
Yes, I agree, margin over the price of a manufactured good does harm consumer welfare. I didn't write the legal opinions, but it's much more interesting to talk about them this way!

The consumer welfare thing is just one factor of many to make a status-quo antitrust law case a real battle. There hasn't been antitrust victories for consumers in a very, very long time.
Personally I find it suspicious for the first alien object detected to be of a shape of standard human poo.
He already posted twitter link. That's all. That is the guide.
> A wind turbine’s blades can be longer than a Boeing 747 wing, so at the end of their lifespan they can’t just be hauled away.

This is wrong, the trucks that bring those blades could well re-take them to recycling plant. It would be a special transport, but a well pre-planned one.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.1966.001...

My apologies, here is the article and citation. And no, not the reciprocal Pythagorean theorem -- learning about Pythagoreanism is a real rabbit hole, highly recommended :)

McGuire, J. E., & Rattansi, P. M. (1966). Newton and the ‘Pipes of Pan’. Notes and records of the Royal Society of London, 21(2), 108-143.
Ask HN: Best way to digitize old family photos and slides at home
Hi HN,

With the growing number of wildfires in California, I've been thinking about the best ways to digitize old family photos and slides. I imagine there are a number of services that you could send boxes of photos, but since I'm at home anyway, I figure this may be a good project to tackle.

I'm curious if you have recommendations for the best ways to do this. In particular:

- What is the best way to scan photos that are laminated in photo albums?

- What are some good tools for digitizing old slides?

- What is the best way to efficiently load photos for digitizing?

I'm sure there are plenty of other questions I should be asking, so if any of you have done this already, I'd love to learn from you experience.
Now just make a version that whites-out NSFW text in e-books and market it to Utahns as a way to read PG-13 versions of Game of Thrones books and you'll be rich.

However, you'll probably also be sued into oblivion by angry authors/publishers who don't like people modifying what they read in any way.
The parent is giving an example where it is clear cut.
California Fires View from Santa Cruz
Apple Offered to Halve App Store Fee to Get Amazon Prime Video on iOS
Similarly, here in Canada, after Bell's UBB plan (forcing TPIAs to the same restrictive 25GB cap as the telcos) fell through, they wasted no time coming up with unlimited plans.
Until nuclear waste is taken into account (specifically, its radiotoxicity).
Some have the camera behind the screen, but still at the top, far away from the center.
It may still be useful to the endless parade of hackers that get access to the confidential documents "procured" by CBP in this way and stored in what I sincerely doubt will be some impenetrable database.

Not to mention that given their track record regarding things like facial recognition software, individual unmonitored CBP agents will probably be able to just you know, steal all the private information taken on people they're stalking.

The police have already been caught abusing these databases when they were minimal, increasing the amount of available stored is idiotic until we solve the problem of oversight and security.
So reducing the commission from 30% to something more reasonable by having competing app stores would harm the consumer?

If the underlying structures wouldn't change it would be a smaller pile of cash more parties share. On the other hand, if it opens up for innovation the pile would grow allowing better products for all. Though I guess the innovation angle is hard to prove in court.
also see how bad the fires are from Santa Cruz
https://twitter.com/robwormald/status/1296709260429029378
Racism. They were celebrating their victory.
Blood clots and lung injuries found in patients who have died of Covid-19
I know they are not personally injecting the drugs themselves.

But if they are requesting, ordering and even determining dosages is completely disturbing and inappropriate.
"Your honor, the man didn't die because I pushed him down the stairs, he died because he hit his head against a wall at the bottom of those stairs.".
For the sake of clarity, and because it's your primary point, I do think it's worth to point out even in the article you cite nuclear is the cleanest, but safety depends on how you perform the estimate.

I found the comparisons in analysis they performed here: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy#why-do-b... interesting. One estimate results in nuclear being more deadly per TwH produced than wind, hydro, and solar (about 2-3x), and the other results in it being less deadly by the same amount. It is important to note that a significant portion of deaths from nuclear seem to come from a few large events; with this in mind, one study includes Fukushima, and the other includes Chernobyl. [1]

A larger factor in the discrepancy is one study's very conservative estimate of "deaths from occupational effects", which I interpret as the net added risk versus background from radiation exposure for all workers involved in the maintenance and fueling of the plant. The true relationship between radiation exposure and death risk seems to be under dispute: the more conservative estimate now appears to be an overestimate because it assumes a linear relationship, while the article states consensus is shifting towards a threshold model where one assumes that very low exposure to radiation (the type of exposure most nuclear plant workers experience, I presume?) does not increase cancer risk.

[1] perhaps this is an instance of a more general difficulty in statistics: that of estimating the mean of heavy-tailed distributions (see e.g. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.04280.pdf). I'd guess that deaths from nuclear events follow a heavy-tailed distribution, which implies the mean could not be a good estimate of the true impact. But as I have not actually taken the time to investigate the analysis of nuclear deaths performed in the studies, I can't say how well existing analyses do this.
The developer tools are free for anyone with a free developer account. So they still have access, just not with the account they used for distributing Fortnite. Any 3rd party dev using Unity will use it’s own account.
The opposite of your view is what is happening for both parties. It's laughable to look at Republicans and think they are moving to the middle. The democrats have partly moved to the middle (Biden being a great example). But in primaries, which have the most energized voters on both parties tend to get less people in the middle. In practice, in reality, it doesn't work that way. Also gerrymandering tends to make districts even more polarized.
Finland at 87, Australia at 16. Hilarious.

I came to Finland from Australia and asked what the limit was. 40Mb/s I was told (quite some years ago).

No, per month.

They didn't understand the question. There are no limits. 40Mb/s, times the number of seconds in a month.

Quick check: Optus is 10AUD per GB extra on all the plans. They don't mention the speed, of course.

This is a bad piece of research.
I’ve been a fan of Synology for years, and if you’re running Intel-x86 based hardware, you should be able to run almost all of the standard docker containers plus all the Synology apps that have been developed over the years, including Plex servers, cloud backups, etc....

However, even their biggest boxes don’t have a great deal of CPU power, because for serving storage you don’t need that much CPU. And you don’t want to overload them with apps and containers at the cost of hurting their primary purpose.

In your case, I might be inclined to do the storage part with a Synology NAS, and then add on a separate server component to handle the more CPU-intensive operations and have it access the Synology NAS over the network.

I do also like FreeNAS, and you can install it on hardware you build yourself, or you can buy one of the TrueNAS Mini configurations (see https://www.truenas.com/truenas-mini/). I’m definitely planning on going this route for my next home NAS.
This kind of rhetoric is making my vaccine safety alarm bells go off. We are considering administering this vaccine to a decent percent of the world population. If it has 1% deadly side effects, it's as bad as corona, but self inflicted. Maybe we should rethink whether rushing this is a good idea in the first place.
How many websites out there - who don't use a trusted third party like Stripe or PayPal - are you willing to submit your Visa or MC information to?

My answer is pretty close to zero, with a few exceptions for large companies who have earned my trust with my payment information.
Anything organic.

Apply as much energy, heat and oxygen you want to mercury and it’s still mercury.
The unusually downvoted answer holds the key to the riddle: it's the hardcoded tribalism making us justify our purchases as if they're political statements.
Show HN: ASimpleGallery, a Python powered photo gallery website generator
The last time I had an estimate for solar, the break-even was 18 years, so it made no sense whatsoever, financially speaking.

When you mention after 25 years they would have paid for themselves many times over, based on what criteria? I'd love to revisit this topic -- power costs in Florida are very high.

Edit: Just curious on why the downvotes? Not enough context? Negative sentiment? (not intended, genuinely curious about revisiting solar)
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