skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in the bad old days of version control (thinking of VSS here), I was overall pretty satisfied with how the check-in/check-out mechanics worked for Word docs and the like. In this case you have the benefit of the sequential workflow, in fact enforced or hinted by the tool itself, while also getting rid of the recurrent weakness of email-based document storage. There were plenty of other things to dislike about VSS (like, pretty much the rest of them) but it wasn't so bad for maintaining documents.
I'd guess that the need for genuine civil libertarians would go down with the witch density. The super majority of people is probably fine with seeing one witch per day, but they really don't want to live anywhere where they feel surrounded by witches.

The dynamics involved in city districts rising and falling and rising again might be similar. Online communities lack the rent-dynamic however. A "difficult" part of town gets more attractive because the rent is much cheaper. I don't know whether there's anything equivalent in online communities that would "gentrify" a toxic community.
It's a long term effect.
Trees can take over 100 years to break down in an aerobic environment. Decomposition time doubles in an anaerobic environment.
Maleness as a risk factor was being reported in Chinese statistics before Covid was prevalent in the rest of the world.

As was the weird underrepresentation of smokers among the infected. Which persisted through at least New York, there were several papers about it, but I haven't seen anything on the subject since.
There is also the alias of googlemail.com on the domain level... Always a cause of big headaches.

johnsmith@gmail.com
john.smith@gmail.com
johnsm.ith+foobar@gmail.com
j.oh.nsmith@googlemail.com

all are pointing to the same logical email address.
AliExpress is where people go when they want a fake.
Perfectly good oven gloves are already available, though, and they don't have a hazardous waste disposal charge tacked on. You also don't have to call in specialists to decontaminate the kitchen if you damage one.

> Things that very cost sensitive and aren't gonna see much human contact and will almost certainly enter a recycling stream before the paint wears off. 55gal drums come to mind.

People work around those all day. And lead wasn't added to paint to make it cheap, it was added mostly to increase durability. So you probably don't really want it for short-lived products.
What do you think a normal person thinks when he sees a witch being burned?
IIRC, this is because the aveoli in the lungs can still expel the CO2, but have a tough time with oxygen intake. It is CO2 build up that makes you feel distressed, not necessarily the lack of oxygen.
They do the same thing with vinyl records. I opted to roll with Amazon because I was impatient and wanted it soon, even though I'd rather have given my money to an actual record shop. Sure enough, they packed the record like they pack everything else - in a box that's too big and not specifically made for the product, with a couple of InstaPak air sleeves; it was almost comical. Lots of cosmetic damage on the record sleeve, unfortunately. My immediate thought upon opening it was, "Of course."

Record shops or folk on Discogs will always ship them in boxes specifically made for records, and (knock on wood) I'd never received a damage record in the post until that point and haven't since.

Never again will I buy vinyl through them.
You'll get the same performance, but you'll see a decline in the battery charge when really putting the hardware to the test. I've seen it happen just using a Google Hangout.

Modern macbooks can ship with a 40 or 60 amp power supply, whereas they should have 90 or 120 amp power supplies. They assume, mostly correctly, that the really intensive workloads will complete before the internal battery is in trouble.
Devices that need access restrictions without network connectivity have to use something to protect credentials. You can't hand wave your way out of that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24274968
I'd have to resist the urge to walk up to that manager and stare them in the eyes while peeing on their shoes.
Not even web browsers, Twitter should go first
I think you just described TikTok. There is an extreme level of censorship due to how many children use the app. They've achieved a level of family-friendlyness that YouTube is trying very hard to get. Regarding politics, TikTok has often said that they just aren't a place for politics, and now they are being pressured to let up on political censorship because of issues about China and the coming US presidential election.
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I like the philosophy, but tricking people isn't very hard. Apparently, some shaking camera footage of a computer monitor was all it took to discredit a political dissident https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/world/asia/cambodia-faceb...
> While SuperTokens is not currently open source...

Might want to update your Twitter, then?

@supertokensio
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john.....smith@gmail.com is not a legal email address: the local-part is a dot-atom (or quoted-string) production, so successive dots are not legal outside of a quoted string.
While I agree with the sentiment of what you're saying, I take issue with this part specifically:

> For the vast majority of developers, bcrypt, scrypt, argon and PBKDF2 provide functionally equivalent security

1) The "vast majority of developers" should not be implementing login systems, period. The chances most people have of not falling for any OWASP gotcha, making sound security choices, and implementing them correctly, is pretty much nil. Leveling the argument to this makes many things that should not be done sound passable.

2) They do not, categorically, provide "functionally equivalent security" (especially not for bare PBKDF2). This is a myth people believe in because they normalize their perception of deviant behaviour[0], and frame the situation as "if my database never gets pwned, any one of these is fine", which is just an argument based on wishful thinking, akin to "I can drive recklessly as long as I don't crash", but we don't use this reasoning to nullify seat-belts: the choice of algorithm is important precisely, and perhaps exclusively, for when all your other security mechanisms failed.

The reality though, is that more often than not, when databases gets pwned you never find out about it because monitoring and security practices is often lackluster, and then you keep believing that these things don't matter.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance

As a general rule for their security properties: Scrypt > Argon2 > Bcrypt, and PBKDF2 should be avoided. You should prefer the first one of these you can find with a robust implementation (which as @lanecwagner pointed out may not always be Scrypt, and that's fine, as is Bcrypt if you have implementation constraints)
More than that. General direction was negative. They’re removing kernel extensions (bye bye corp vpn), terrible historical direction on browser extensions, bugs galore, crazy expensive hardware. I’m done.
I want an epistolary murder mystery that takes the form of a thread on a popular website that includes the killer dropping hints and evidence of his crime. When it comes out half the fun will be figuring out which anonymous posts belong to the same person and letting the readers solve the mystery of figuring out which one of the trolls was also the killer.
I actually only notice it about 5% of the time I use it, and it is almost always plugged in at the same outlet, with the same charger (in this case, the two prong adapter). I seem to recall having tested all of the outlets in the house with an outlet tester, but it was two years ago so I'm not 100% sure.
A couple of things:

1. I wouldn't call The Matrix cyberpunk. That's the first time I heard that; and

2. I don't see cyberpunk as having died in the 1980s, so much as it was simply the zeitgeist of that era and there have been lots of those in sci-fi (and more generally).

For example, if you look at sci-fi from the 1960s you have lots of material about mental powers (eg telepathy in Stranger and a Strange Land). Star Trek was a utopia that mirrored a rosy view of America. All of this in an era of personal freedom and society wrestling with the lingering injustices of slavery a century earlier I think is no accident.

What happened in the 1980s was the rise of Japan and the loss of manufacturing jobs in America. This stoked fears that corporations would replace governments and we'd face a dystopian but technological future. I still see cyberpunk as interlinked with anti-Japanese xenophobia.

So the issue with cyberpunk is that this xenophobia faded, the genre didn't really evolve (and probably peaked with Blade Runner) and apart from the Internet virtually nothing predicted in cyberpunk came to pass. We still have governments. We don't live in a dystopian future (mostly). There are enhanced humans with implants.

But I wouldn't describe it as dying. We simply moved on.
If you say so - BuzzFeed have done some really great pieces like the Tennis match rigging scandal. Having these kinds of prejudices are your own loss.
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I don't see the word 'law' showing up anywhere in kbensons comment. It's disingenuous to claim that kbenson was making a legal argument.
There needs to be some sort of shopify solution for Libary stacks and small bookstores
My elementary school students’ Chromebooks’ Zooms keep the webcam light on when they click the Zoom button to turn it off.

https://my.fsf.org/give-students-userfreedom
> Dude pulls the gun and it bringing it around to shoot the kid.

But the kid had already pointed his own gun and actually already shot someone.

If seeing someone pulling a gun and starting to point it at you is justification to shoot in self defense, then the guy who got shot was acting in self-defense, according to you. I guess the only thing he did wrong was not shoot quicker than the kid.

How can your self-defense logic only apply to the guy doing the shooting but not to the guy not shooting?
Is this really a problem that needs solving?

Generate a secret, hash it, and store it in your database. Set the secret as a cookie in the client. On every request, hash the cookie value on your server and compare it to your DB values.

It seems like very little effort to implement this yourself in a way that doesn't involve completely trusting a different company.
Housing is included in CPI.
I think there would be better luck using satellite imaging, both thermal and regular vision. You could then change the satellite to look for fires in different areas based on the risk factors - eg California might have gotten a lot of rain recently so you want to watch Montana. There are some restrictions on the satellite imaging, so that and cost would be a concern.
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Didn't Vice run this same story, but for California a month ago?
Many people use books for tasks other than pleasure.
Thanks for pointing that out :) But we also are going to release an open source version soon (if not make the whole thing open source).

Also, for now, we have removed that claim from our Twitter.
If you're into anime, Psycho Pass had a few episode subplot that pretty much was that, minus the in letter format.
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What makes you believe this? I don't think there's actually much evidence for it in the recent past (previous 300 years, say). Part of the reason that the British Empire was able to get rid of it with minimal fuss in the early 19th century was that it was no longer considered economically viable, and was already in a natural decline in many places.

Most of the resistance to the abolition of slavery in most places was social; it was an upheaval in the way things were done. "GDP will drop" was not, as far as I know, a major concern, nor did it generally happen.
There are other options though. Things lit jitsi are growing in popularity. Its frustrating that a few "big companies" decided to use these tools so the rest of the world followed suit without doing their own research
U.S. tech stocks are now worth more than the entire European stock market
I think you and I are there now. But there's a looooong gap of knowledge between you and me about this stuff versus, say, grandma and grandpa who live out on the farm.

To be clear, I'm not a luddite, I think this tech is/can be extremely fruitful for creatives -- a new paradigm of creativity. But the fruit can also be plucked by many propagandists, and IMO there can be serious consequences right now unless we educate people about this stuff right now. I'd argue that the approach can't be fear alone, but it also can't be all sunshine and rainbows.

Edit: I also just want to say that the work you're doing/referencing is very helpful toward this education
Because you need to actually get your work done and need to interoperate with files from others?

Being dogmatic and pure about the license of every piece of software you use might win internet points but it’s not going to actually get the job done.
yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24210623
I've been wanting to switch to Windows from Mac for years. The thing that holds me back is the quality of the Mac touchpad vs any Windows laptop, and I recently ordered a Surface Book 3 having heard how great the touchpad is. I've already returned it.

The touchpad is pretty good but it's still not as precise as the Mac touchpad - there is a slight hysteresis that makes it imprecise for short movements. No amount of tweaking settings could overcome this. The only way to be accurate at short range is to slow the overall pointer speed so it takes more than one finger swipe to move across the screen. (If anyone from Microsoft is reading this - why don't you fix it? It can't be that hard.)

The other problem with the Surface Book is the Home and End keys are not accessible at the same time as the function keys - a show-stopper for smooth editing and debugging in an IDE.
I use bettertouchtool to get window snapping. And you can turn off the animation when switching desktops in settings.
They recently banned every popular Marxism/Leninist subreddit. They claim it was for advocating violence but I know for a fact it didn't happen with any more regularity than any other political subreddit, including /r/politics.
Can I get some laptop recommendations with similar specs (and most importantly battery time) as the MBP from you? I've been looking around for a new one.
Tamper evidence. The blockchain link would include a hash of the contents, making it impractical to modify rather than disappear content.
Sure but do people hang out on them to chat?
I feel that the goalposts here have been shot out into space and are orbiting the barycenter where the point is.

Let's maybe spell out separately whether or not these two situations are equivalent or not a) legally, b) ethically, c) in principle.
>I’m so sick of people on either “side” faking data to prove their presuppositions on this.

I don’t think this research is carried out with ulterior motives. Scientists make mistakes, and are prone to biases whenever they have a hypothesis. The progression of repeated studies is the final arbiter of truth. Saying that long-term heart abnormalities would be faked to push an agenda is suggesting the existence of a conspiracy. Beyond the usual “publish or perish” drive, nobody stands to benefit from reporting results either way.
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Isn't that why F-Droid was created for in the first place?
> I am thinking Apple is like a union for their users.

Unions are broadly democratic institutions. Apple isn't.
I was on a direct flight from Heathrow to DFW when the captain announced that we needed to divert to Ottawa because "Air Traffic Control was down". We landed safely and were the first flight to re-enter US airspace two days later on 9/13.

When things go sideways, keeping everyone calm is a big part of the job, even if it means fibbing a bit.
I don't want to be that guy and say to effect, "well, welcome to the real world". There are trade-offs involved for every side, good and bad.

Your book discovery process may be optimal for you, but I couldn't be further away from that. I don't really care to know Bob or Sally's taste at the local bookstore, don't know them, have 0 trust in them. (There's probably exceptions, insignificant ones though, in big cities like Austin with really cool book stores & a niche collector-kinda collection, but that's a different market to me)

Why would I care about human curated isles and shelves when I could go look up what Tyler Cowen's reading and recommending, or Marc Andreessen or Patrick Collison? Not to mention, Twitter's fantastic for this. There's very interesting people that post snippets as well of what they're reading, and build up a credibility that gives you insight into the book as well as knowing this person has a reading taste that aligns with your own.

And then once I evaluate the options, I can easily go on Amazon and get whatever I want to read in a timely manner (Not to mention using Amazon's reviews as an additional filter, the 2/3 star reviews for more critical analysis)
>Electrical devices should be properly grounded to protect the user from faulty wiring though. I assume this is probably not life threatening but it could under some conditions be a fire hazard.

Not if they are double insulation/class II:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appliance_classes#Class_II

that is the whole point.
We tried to write tests, but they took too long to run. Also there was a great debate over which of the numerous testing frameworks to choose from? Chai? mocha? Cypress for end to end? How it all fits in the CI pipeline? For unit testing, go has a great built-in solution, and with testify you can get the rest of the way there.

I don't think go is a silver bullet solution, but when I see something I know can be a lot better and simpler, I generally tend to gravitate towards that.
So did anyone build a twitter-over-bitcoin microblogging platform yet? That would be pretty hard to censor.
No one is forcing Google or their employees to write hate speech on a cake or an app though, that's a pretty massive difference in analogies. Nor are people asking for a free-for-all where Google can't delete any speech on their platforms.

People were fine when they were deleting spam and had a limited content restriction policies against things like directly promoting violence or posting gore/cp and other obvious tier stuff.

I haven't heard many people pushing for governments to force Google et al to not be able to delete things from their platforms either - outside of some tiny fringes who don't understand how the internet works.

Which is therefore still consistently pro-freedom. Likewise compelled speech + censorship of an arbitrary and ever expanding list of wrongthink is consistently authoritarian.

I really don't see the contradiction in either of these worldviews.

It's the classic centralized top-down puppet-mastery of individuals choices vs embracing the chaos of freedom of individual choice (within some limited boundaries). This battle has been waged for as long as society has been around and is a natural side-effect of power structures.
I just shoot you an email. Thanks in advance!
> They've lost faith in democracy

"Democracy" is a principle - our current implementation of it is but one of many possibilities to go about it.

Democracy (in general, and our rather arbitrary flavor of it) is only one form of governance, is there some reason we're bound to this approach? Nothing else shall be considered?

> and have given up on the country

This is speculation - it is not possible to know the thoughts, dreams, intentions of other people with accuracy.

> If you have no faith in the system and don't want to participate then I'm not sure what you want or you're expecting.

I believe I want something similar to what the BLM protesters believe they want, who are also displeased with the outputs of "the system" as it is. I'm weary of the "my way or the highway, reality is what we say it is" approach to "Democratic" governance theatre.
Thanks I'll add that to the list
Sorry you had a bad experience with TDD ! Mine is pretty good actually.

But life is long, anyone could benefit from trying before decide wether or not such method/techno fits ;-)
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Fair. By my own admission, I don't know much about gab.

I think the first time I ever heard about it was when Firefox banned Dissenter from their addons. Dissenter to me was a genius idea that has an ugly userbase. I'd love to have a version of Dissenter that isn't populated entirely by bigots.

I think the idea of Dissenter really has some value, you walk along the web for all sorts of reasons, and then up in the corner in your toolbar you see "oh, someone from my community has said something about this". Rather than the social network taking you to a site, the site takes you to the network.
Wow nice. I'm a big fan of git's `--word-diff` option for text edits. The output is almost as good as `latexdiff` and so much faster.

Another useful trick is to pipe the ANSI-colored terminal output through `aha` (https://github.com/theZiz/aha or `brew install aha`) which produces HTML output, e.g.

git wdiff | aha > ~/Desktop/mydiff.html

You can then send the file mydiff.html to collaborators by email or add to CI build script.
The goal isn't to have macros but to be able to do what macros are used for. Zig has found a different and simpler way to do what macros do. comptime gives you generic types, typeclasses/concepts, typesafe printf, conditional compilation and much more, all without macros and with a simpler construct than macros.
Thanks for taking the time to write about so many of your thoughts! I used to be atheist when growing up, but over time I've become agnostic. I'm not sure that's even really the best term for how I feel and what I believe, but it's the best term that I know. In that way, I found it compelling to read the path you took to your current beliefs, because I know that when I find the inspiration to read more deeply into religion, I will also likely start by reading more about religions with origins in the East. Mainly because, as you said,

> they are great works for humanity to better themselves they tend to be more philosophical than religious in their nature.

Right now, that's what resonates with me the most, and the closest I can envision myself to becoming spiritual. At least, at this point in time. As a result, I can't say there's a lot more I knowledgeable enough to respond to with regards to Judaism, Islam, Christianity (and its various offshoots). I've read a few stories from pieces of the Bible in high school, but I can't remember which ones specifically, and we approached them from a literary perspective rather than a religious one. I actually remember being unreasonably disgruntled at having religious texts assigned for reading. I like to think I've become much more open-minded since then, and hope to continue to develop in that positive direction.

I was going to say something about understanding why people believe in god or God, and why that is, but I realized it actually sounded condescending when I don't mean to be. All I can really say is, I have a very hard time taking leaps of faith, and with respect to God, I'm not ready now and not sure I ever will be. But I really appreciate your taking the time to say so much about the path you took to get to where you are with your beliefs today. I also really love your perspective on Jesus. Thank you!