skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brazil would require a "CPF", which is a unique number assigned to individuals. If you are doing something simple such as an online purchase or monetary transfers(to someone else's account), the number alone could be sufficient, coupled with other information like full name and address.

Many places will not be happy with just the number and will require at minimum a scan of the actual document - if you are lucky. Most likely, if you need to send in a copy, that copy has to be notarized. Which means that you have appeared in person with the actual document and got it notarized. You'll then send it by mail or drop off in person.

Sometimes this is not an option and you need to be present with the actual document - like if you were selling property or opening bank accounts, or even starting a business (which requires trips to many governmental agencies).

If you are filing taxes, then CPF is required, as well as the ID card, voter registration card(voting is mandatory). They have started to combine documents, but even then the actual hardcopy is required in most cases.

Medical care... well that's free so there's no fraud needed. If it's for private insurance, you'll have to have your insurance-issued card, plus your ID card. Unless it's an emergency, but even then you'll have to provide these sooner rather than later.

Financial institutions like banks: you'll either use internet banking, in which case any credentials or devices needed will have been issued in person by a branch, or you'll have to go to a branch.

If your physical documents get stolen or lost, you need to report to the police and get issued new ones. In that case, ID theft can happen if they were indeed stolen, but it's unlikely to have long-lasting implications if you have made the police report. This usually requires some corruption as some of those documents have photo ID. In that scenario, you may have to do some work to clear your name and it is not very different from US ID theft.

The bureaucracy is ridiculous so often you can have issues doing things even if you are who you say you are . But actual ID theft is not that prevalent. If you search for 'identity theft' most of the results are about getting website credentials compromised.

The main issue in the US is the use of a 'unique ID' which was never meant as ID, can't be changed and has no built-in security measures.
Sterile and soulless? Even Sicario?
And left switches for you to turn all of it off, should you choose…
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Another good reason for having unbound is enabling internal DNS resolution for things that are in the VPN. For example, resolving build-server.mycompany to the in-VPN IP of your build server, and so on.
So many entrepreneurs "drinking the kool aid" building their great idea that depends on others platforms of which on the surface appears warm and receptive however welcome to the real world which is cold and shunning. If you do not own your hardware and software systems your weakest links are the 3rd party providers which do not even know your name.

Interesting again to see that "fees" started the core battle fight. Visa and MasterCard, along with other brands, are acutely aware of the coming payments swing and continue on buying sprees to protect their toll road. Whether it be crypto, RTP, FedNow or remains to be credit card is yet to be known however these events and more will continue to push businesses to bring payments in house cutting out more and more middlemen. This is long overdue.
But what if they can iterate and fix the problems on the next car on the line. That's an advancement, as long as all the differences are well documented, it should be a step forward in car manufacturing and repair.
As the parent to my comment posted:

> The USA is being hobbled by a strange belief that the only options are "masks, hand-washing and bunkering down must be done forever and are sufficient", or "ignore it and just let as many people get infected as will under business as usual." With one of those seen as a "left" position and the other as a "right" position.

In practice, what does this look like? You have Fox reporting on Nancy Pelosi's haircut everyday on the week. You have 1 op-ed from CNN. Both sides think the each other are bad actors. Funding that needs to go out to the people are held up for election purposes.

Your political affiliation should have no bearing on your thoughts on how to handle a pandemic. It leads to people, who might otherwise be rational people, doubling down to support their side. Whether or not they agree with it. Because both sides are polar opposites, there is no compromise for a middle ground solution.
Still owned by Corel (they have a weird "Corel Advantage" logo at the bottom of that marketing site and the Contact Us link goes to a bunch of Corel info).

The Corel of 2020 seems a fascinating Enterprise Licensing zombie. They appear to make all their revenue from (very) legacy Enterprise Licenses and government contracts and all of the software seems stuck in a time warp stasis with only the bare minimum of maintenance (presumably just enough to keep the Enterprise Licenses alive and well). It's almost sad to see how many classic computing brands they own and let languish in this state.
Yes, I'm usually strongly opposed to lossy transcodes, but for portable listening of speech heavy content on a space-limited device, that plays Opus easily, it can be a worthwhile trade-off for many.
You're cherry picking Portugal's screwup in general healthcare response when there are much better comparisons. The excess death rates in Sweden are much higher than all its neighbors which are much more comparable. At the peak z-scores of almost 15 in Sweden compared to less than 5 for Denmark, Finland and Norway. Right now Sweden is still of the 4 the one with more excess mortality.

https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/

And yet we keep hearing the same argument. You just wait and enough people will die in all those places to make up the difference.
Tesla doesn't seem to have entirely endorsed the procedure:

> To give an idea of the magnitude of the discharge the experimenter is sitting slightly behind the "extra coil". I did not like this idea but some people find such photographs interesting. Of course, the discharge was not playing when the experimenter was photographed, as might be imagined!

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tesla_colorado_adjus...

If the only issue was one of lighting it, I don't know why he'd express reservations. He says that it was only done to give a sense of scale, not to demonstrate safety ("of course" he wasn't actually sitting there- why "of course" if not for the issue of safety?). If he'd wanted to defend the image on the basis of being basically accurate (ie if he really did have a habit of hanging around next to his apparatus in full force) then it seems like he'd have mentioned it. Why would he "not like" such an image if he didn't think it was a little deceptive?

This book reads it exactly the same way:

> Perhaps the most memorable image was of Tesla calmly reading a book in front of a deluge of sparks; yet this photograph proved little about the inventor’s experiments. Alley had cleverly used a double exposure since it would have been too dangerous for the scientist to actually sit so close to such an electrical storm. Tesla later admitted, “The streamers were first impressed upon the plate in dark or feeble light, then the experimenter placed himself on the chair and an exposure to arc light was made and, finally, to bring out the features and other detail, a small flash powder was set off.”54 The publicity-conscious experimenter claimed he didn’t like such trick photography, but he argued, unconvincingly, that “some people find such photographs interesting.”

https://nvhrbiblio.nl/biblio/boek/Munson%20-%20Tesla%20inven...

This guy hanging around a Tesla coil at point blank range seems to be taking some precautions in the form of a full-body Faraday cage:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/colorstream/3379339449
You might have been the average apple user 20 years ago, but times have changed.
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I'm not sure why people keep repeating this. Epic already had standing to sue from the $300 million that Apple has collected in Fortnite IAP fees.
...the US did do this... it's what led to the Iran-Iraq War
> To prevent unauthorized access, Advanced Protection only allows Google apps and verified third-party apps to access your Google Account data, and only with your permission. - https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/

I didn't realise until now that third-party apps could work with Advanced Protection.
>Epic now has a very good reason to collect a working email address from every past iOS customer

Not just epic but any business really that obtains most of their customer base through sign in with apple.

Losing your entire customer base because of making apple mad is a risk that most businesses will now be unwilling to take.
I think you are spot on, but that your explanation is only one half of the truth. The other is that a lot of people in this community despise "manual intervention" into algorithmic systems, as in lawyers and judges ordering Apple to change their perfectly integrated, fully controlled app store deployment system, which radiates some kind of "elegance", especially when compared to Google's less well integrated (and less sealed) system. It is a bit like the fascination for smart contracts - purely algorithmic elegance, ideally without any human intervention, is considered "beautiful" and there is an urge to defend such a thing against "dirty" human influence - especially if those humans are of a different profession than we are (like, lawyers, or economists, all those non-technical people who don't understand all this stuff anyway).

Of course the truth is that smart contracts are close to useless without human intervention (see: the oracle problem), their inability to be changed is more problematic than useful because humans make mistakes writing them or change their mind later or are forced by law to change it, and Apple's app store system is already riddled with exceptions for entities that even Apple can't deny too many wishes (see: exceptions for Amazon) and weird constructs that draw artificial, blurred and very much human-defined lines in order to fix contradicting or nonsensical rules (see: the so-called "reader" app exceptions). But all of this is easily ignored when necessary to construct a seemingly contradiction-free world view and picking a "side". Also a very human imperfection...
What's the point of wireless power if you use a wire?
Baarle-Nassau - The town is the site of a complicated borderline between Belgium and Netherlands, with numerous small exclaves of Belgium, of which some contain counter-exclaves of the Netherlands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Nassau
> Politicians and bureaucrats want immediate results

This makes me sad. The entire point of Government is to be an enterprise spanning multiple generations.
Beep beep I can neither confirm nor deny that I work for the NSA.
I tried to search for it and and... well, google is so ad-infested that's its useless, but doesn't seem so. Anything with large core count comes with 192GB or more.
Hello. Looks amazing. How does the command completion compare to fish? That's the feature I like about fish because it seems very predictive. But just the other day I needed to parse JSON from curl or whatever and ended up writing a Node.js script which would have been unnecessary with Elvish.
You can do that with just pihole FYI

You can set up DNS records
Leaving out Germany, which is the single most populous state in western Europe, is some world-class cherry picking. If you want to narrow it down, the next logical comparison would be to Sweden's neighbors, and that doesn't look good either. What's the rational reason for choosing the very unique sample that you did?
Maybe it's time to stop separating sports competitors into binary genders.

We already separate people into performance levels - why not do that irrespective of 'gender'? People would still be able to be 'top' of their performance level, it just wouldn't be called a 'woman' level or 'man' level anymore.
I see this argument a lot, and I think it's fine if not a tad flawed. If that's what you want, you can keep it. I don't really see anyone saying "kill the review process" and "open everything by default". This would all go away if Apple simply made it a setting to allow other IPAs AND allowed outside payment / subscription management. Keep the garden if you want it. Don't enable outside installs. If you don't want to support a company not using Apple Pay and the like, then don't! You're the consumer! The difference here is Apple doesn't give you a choice. Even if the developer does all the legwork to build a payment system (for example, they have a web app as well) and market the app on their own, they have to give Apple their cut. You don't get a choice and neither does the developer.
That would make this super interesting: https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/9/21318978/sony-epic-games-f...
If you are in a cell with low congestion, probably the 4G speed is enough. Since, the mobile data consumption is increasing rapidly though, cells will start to become congested. 5G ensures that more people will be able to stream video at the same time.
GDP of Sweden still shrank by 8.6% in Q2 (compared to 12.1% for the Eurozone or 10.1% for Germany). It's true that they did better economically, but on the flip side, their death toll is rather high.
What is wrong about 1995? Nothing fundamental has happened in the last 25 years. Trains are the same (TGV, ICE etc.) planes are the same (a little bit more efficient), TVs are worse with ridiculous colors, house prices are way up and the press is a farce now. And everything spies on the "user".

Only thing is that cat pictures can be transferred faster now.

Going back to ed would be a regression, but vim and WP are very good editors.
-- I have deleted a long comment I was going to reply with as I'm sure you are not open to hearing actual counter arguments. I don't want to waste my time. --

My reply instead is to read more carefully, think more carefully, and do not throw puerile thoughtless sentences out like the last one in your reply above.
technically, he actually hid away by faking his death and traipsing around as a blind beggar, but I see your point about "hiding" in plain sight :)
pls make linux version
I do not look to China's Covid-19 response as worthy of emulation. People were literally bolted into their apartment complexes. China has a gross disrespect for individual rights that the West should never, ever adopt. We don't even know what the extent of Covid deaths are in China. We actually have no clue, because all information is tightly controlled by the CCP. Anything coming from China should be viewed through a lens of skepticism.

Meanwhile, from the viewpoint of Covid, I think Sweden showed that it would have been just the same results if we simply left people to make their own choices and decisions about how to react based on their own personal risk profiles and tolerance. This idea of centrally managing a mega region like Europe or the United States is absurd, and bound to fail. The states in the U.S. with the tightest regulations on Covid have had the highest death rates and the highest amount of social unrest. It's really hard to argue from that perspective that tighter, more centralized control of the citizenry is warranted, even without addressing the moral implications of it.
They’ll just quit maintaining the wireline infrastructure until it’s so bad no one wants to use it. Where I’m from they cut out the copper infrastructure when they install FTTH. They need to share infrastructure where it exists, but I’m guessing there’s nothing that bans the “owner” from tearing out the shared infrastructure.
I want to support this but man is this a botched launch. If your blogpost is so low on details that you have to spend hours answering the same questions over and over in the comments, then maybe you should write a better blog post. It feels like I've just visited a "we are under construction" website; I still have no idea what this is or what it does or what I'm supposed to do.
Is it actually that common? Using a higher order function that returns member fields/methods which you then actually call?

Higher order functions are common in JavaScript, and closures are as well, but I don't recall seeing them used as substitutes for classes or vice versa for years at this point. With JavaScript you don't have to use closures and higher order functions to do modularization because you have classes, and you don't have to use the functor pattern (like Java before Java 8) because you have higher order functions.

ES5's syntax for object types looked a lot more like "closures with syntax sugar" than ES6 and later JavaScript syntax with explicit class declarations.
Hey Prophesi, on Replica (https://replicastudios.com/) you can generate voices from our stock library for free, and of course you can create your own Replica voice too.

If you have more audio data you would want to upload to improve the quality of the voice, you can also get in contact with the team and they will help you out!

You can also access your own voice via the API as well as other stock voices.
If there is one thing I have learned, it is this - most people don't care about anything other than themselves. At least in part, it is not their fault - they have their own crappy life to deal with, so why bother having good intentions and care for others (work or otherwise)?

It is tolerable most of the time, except when it comes to powerful jobs like cops/doctors/lawyers etc where even a small mistake can wreck someone's life. I had a colleague whose lawyer made a mistake while filing paperwork. He lost his visa and move back to his home country, all because a lawyer (well paid one at that) couldn't bother to do simple paper work correctly. I don't know if it was incompetence or I don't care attitude, my colleague's life is ruined either way.
Survival of the Fittest
>That law explains how an item that was not originally sold in the US can have no US warranty at all, for anyone.

The law is not about what wasn't originally sold in the USA. Instead, it's specifically defines "grey market" imports and the whole purpose of the following text is for resellers to disclose the product's grey market status to inform the buyer. The California law does allow for resellers to "hide" the grey market status only if the reseller (not the manufacturer) has a "reseller warranty" equal to or better than the manufacturer's warranty.

>So the claim that "manufacturers must honor warranties regardless of who you bought the product from" is still true.

No it isn't. Please read section 1797.81 again carefully.
Read the actual text excerpt:

"1797.81 (a)(1) The item is not covered by a manufacturer’s express written warranty valid in the United States "

I.e. You can't buy Nikon/Canon grey market cameras or Cartier grey market watches in California and force the manufacturers to honor the warranty. California law does not force this.

>If it ever had a US warranty, that warranty will not be invalidated by any selling or reselling.

You're inadvertently trying to say something else here but it's missing a word. I will correct your statement to be: "If it ever had a [VALID] US warranty, that warranty will not be invalidated by any selling or reselling."

The "grey market" products such as cameras/pianos/watches through side channels never had a valid US warranty in the first place.

>But the "grey market" that we're talking about with AMD processors [...] You're using a much narrower definition that doesn't fit this entire conversation.

I thought mleonhard was making a general statement about "grey market" outside of these specific AMD chips.
The motor vehicle inspection agency isn't the one who is notified when a Tesla car is modified, Tesla is.
Anything that improves carrier capacity is ultimately good for consumers because it means some improvement in reliability, price or speed.
Xbox's Dev Mode is a bit complicated and limits a lot of functionality of the console. I think there's a good argument that it's actually easier and less limiting to side load an app using Cydia Impactor, Xcode or AltStore with an iPhone.
I disagree with everything you've said, as a user and a developer (who used to be on the Microsoft boat for far longer than on Apple's).

As a user, I desire a curated platform.

As a developer, I want to have access to all the users of that platform by publishing on just one store.

> Apple is a company that needs to be brought down a peg or two

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome

> it's far too 'valuable' in terms of its market worth

Because many consumers agree with how Apple does things.

Why is that simple fact so offensive for some of you?

Nobody is being forced to buy Apple products or develop for them, they choose to.

Microsoft and Google, on the other hand, are much much harder to avoid even if I don't choose to directly buy any of their products.
Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
24k?? Those city council members should be ashamed of themselves. They could have gotten a lot more.
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Try Natural Color-Fire (CIRA)
Noticed that Paul Atreides says 'There's a crusade coming' in the trailer. In the book they specifically use the word 'jihad' repeatedly and the book draws from a variety of influences in the Middle East. I hope they haven't toned things down too much for a modern audience. Part of what made the book so special was its vocabulary.
No, I’m saying that video game consoles are a very apt comparison because they’re x86. I made no mention of ARM or whether Apple is right or wrong.
They're looking at us, wondering exactly the same thing.
Arizona Iced Tea...haven't bought it lately but they used to put 99 cents on the packaging. In some places like liquor stores, I've seen it sold for over 99 cents.

Also, the comparison between Apple and retail isn't fair. If Walmart doesn't want your product, you can sell to Target. If Apple doesn't want your software product, you have no alternative.
> Your political affiliation should have no bearing on your thoughts on how to handle a pandemic.

On the flip side, one would think one’s opinion on how government handles things would have a rather large impact on one’s political affiliation, and the more significant those things are the stronger a factor it would be.
It depends on how often you change phones. If you change phone, keep your phones more than 3 years I would wait. If not, by the time you will really need to have 5G you would be about to buy the next phone, which will certainly have 5G.
this.
I will pay $50 for such an App for Fastmail (or really, just IMAP speaking please)
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Everything I ever learned about creating online courses|ep1: Product Development
No shade being thrown as I recognize this is a beta, but I seem to be crashing with regularity. I submitted reports, but was wondering if I'm alone.
All other things being equal (and I take it your point is that they might not be), lower fees are generally considered an improvement by the developers and users who pay the fees.
Thanks for the measurements. That's much faster indeed than on my laptop and even quite decent (besides the peak memory use). Compared to the C++ native version of similar apps on my Linux i386 and Windows x86 this is about factor 10/20 (Linux/Windows) more RAM in steady state and factor 25/30 (Linux/Windows) in peak. Start time of the C++ apps (not QML) is factor 6/3 (Linux/Windows) slower.

Btw. I noticed that on my machine memory use is higher on Chromium and performance even worse than with Firefox. So it seems to depend on browser type/version, and someone in this thread said that there is no support for Safari.