skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people pull out this idea as being something neat and I think it's a completely inappropriate technique when other options are available and safety is on the line.

But we do this with all things all the time. You didn't take a ruler/micrometer and measure tolerances between parts of the last car you bought, nor the last cab/rideshare/friend's car you got into. Instead, you make some assumptions and use some cues to inform those assumptions.

Perhaps you're about to get into some ride share vehicle and you notice the exhaust looks a little smokey for the age of the car, and think maybe they aren't taking care of it. Then maybe to take a closer look at the tires and notice they're bald, etc. This is definitely something that would be considered "literally life-threatening", but there's a statistical likelihood that makes it something that not everyone checks every time.

> But if someone dies at your concert, you'll probably think it would have been worth it to have more than one person playing safety checker.

But it's not "your" concert, as much as it's billed that way. It's a joint operation between the artist and the venue, and each have their own responsibilities. It's the venue's responsibility to do certain things. This is just the artist trying to use one technique of many that are likely employed (like outright asking) to gauge how well the other party has fulfilled their responsibilities. You can't check every single thing, otherwise there's no point in there being another party (and they may not give you that access to check), but there are things you can do let you know a closer look is warranted.

> Looking back, I think we were the dumb ones. If 20% of groups are showing up unprepared to my ropes course, then that's my problem.

To some degree, maybe. I think the best outcome would be both cases, "look out" when stuff looks awry, but also examine why it doesn't seem to change. But what if you can't eliminate the problem? What if, no matter what you iterate on and try to get the contact to correctly relay your information, you can't always get he info to all the relevant people either yourself or through the contact, and 5% still show up like that? Do you stop with the "watch out" notice? No, most likely you still do that because it's useful and better than nothing, and still provides a little benefit on top of everything else that was done.

That's what we should assume the rock band was doing. They have contracts that stipulate how stuff is supposed to be, and different staff to coordinate with the venue reps for aspects of the production, and they should be doing what they can to make sure stuff is set as expected. But if brown M&M's show up, maybe it's worth paying those people a little overtime to grill the venue on what they did and didn't do that they said they did and check their work, because who knows, maybe this is the time it saves a life.
I wonder when we'll see the last GUIs, and everything will be speech-based.

Not in our lifetimes.

People have been promising speech recognition since at least the late 70's. Today's "digital assistants" are little more than parlor tricks, on those occasions when they work.

They don't seem much more accurate than my old Covox Voicemaster.
There's tons of variants, probably the most out of any of the roguelikes. ZAngband "Zelazny Angband" took the tolkien elements and added elements from Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber series. SAngband "skills angband" added weapon skills and probably tons more. OAngband "opinion angband" scratched the itch of its developers about how Angband should work. MAngband was (wait, IS! it had a release in 2020) a mind-blowing multiplayer Angband variant.

Sil http://www.amirrorclear.net/flowers/game/sil/ is kind of an Angband variant but embraces the middle earth theme a lot more and has removed a lot of stuff.

Tales of Maj'Eyal https://store.steampowered.com/app/259680/Tales_of_MajEyal/ is the continuation of an angband variant called Tales of Middle-Earth / T.o.M.E., which name change I gather was necessary because DarkGod wanted to go commercial.

I wanted to link to [0] for a complete list but it's having struggles today. [1] and [2] have lists but I would guess that roguebasin's list would be more authoritative.

[0] http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=List_of_Angband_va...

[1] http://angband.oook.cz/variants.php

[2] http://www.thangorodrim.net/variants.html
Microsoft exchange runs SMTP and web. It needs a minimum of two names to function, and can require several others depending on features. Microsoft just released a vulnerability fix that actually requires you add a new unique name to your certificate. That sort of annoyance often leads people to use wildcards. And prior to let's encrypt, a wildcard is often cheaper than a cert with six names like I've been dealing with. So in that situation, there are a lot of SMTP wildcards on a web server in the wild.
Since widely-publicized OSS work can be a prerequisite for top jobs, it often isn't really a "free choice."

But if it is a choice, then it's a choice that undermines fellow workers. By working for free, you're taking away jobs from people who might genuinely need them and be unable to work for free.

In this way, OSS work can serve to entrench inequality by giving a hiring advantage to those with more time and resources, while reducing the salaried jobs available for others in the industry.
A government that ignores climate change loses far more trust than one who pays attention and acts in response. Permitting the building of new pipelines is absolutely a sign of an untrustworthy government.

A government needs to be able to change its mind and always act in the best interests of the people. Building a pipeline because some rich corporation has some sunk costs is insane.

Edit: Also, I only addressed the environmental issues, but the article also cites "U.S. landowners, Native American tribes". Don't you think its also good that they get a say in what gets built? And that it is likely that the early construction was done without full understanding by those groups impacted directly?
This site is hilarious. It says .eu but supposed European news are just UK news. Need I sa more?
I would not have been revoked if it wasn’t illegal.
This is true, but it's still an exception made for their specific situation. Email app Hey tried doing the same thing recently, and Apple rejected the update and refused to push further feature updates until they removed it. It's a double standard, no matter how you cut it.
It's odd because I'm all over the place on the political spectrum, and I didn't even take a side here other than to discuss how it makes me feel thinking about the place of my birth, which will suffer, and expressing my uncertainty in whether this is a good or bad thing overall - which is more honest than what any of those politicians have done.

Maybe people don't like nuance and prefer to see the world in black and white where it agrees or disagrees with their views. I don't like to believe that's true, but it probably is in general.
Oxford University Press closing its printing arm
Very valid point - the main problem to solve here isn't storage and encryption. We think the clouds do a great job for that, hence our self-hosted approach.

It’s important to note that the goal here is not to replace Vault. Vault pioneered a lot of best practices in this space, which we build on top of. The gap we want to fill is of complexity and developer-experience, while playing well with existing tools, as stated.

Re: identity – it’s on our immediate roadmap to integrate with identity providers (similar to Vault). We offer a similar model of pluggable secrets backends inspired by Vault (currently supporting DB’s such as Postgres and Mongo). If you want to use your existing SSO provider, our private enterprise beta comes with WorkOS integration. Please reach out at support@usegarnet.com if you’re interested, and we’d love to talk more about your specific needs!
Sure.

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/09/665994751/judge-puts-keystone...

Edit (add NEPA info): https://www.epa.gov/nepa/what-national-environmental-policy-...
What are atomic bomb quasicrystals, and why do they matter?
Exactly. Verifying an algorithm is easy. Writing it is hard.
The most objectionable part of real-world communism is the authoritarianism that goes along with it. Singapore is extremely authoritarian.
(DarkGod is a recurring guest on Roguelike Radio http://www.roguelikeradio.com/ )
The insidious thing that people never get taught or notice is that while, yes, you get 5% cashback as a customer, the store will eventually raise its prices by 5% to make up the higher CC fees.
> But you also cannot pay for Netflix in the iPhone app. You have to do it on their website

The App Store explicitly rejects smaller apps that attempt to do this. See Hey, the email client that tried the exact same thing and got the cold-shoulder.
Let's not forget about Ireland.
It’s Surprisingly Common to Misremember Where You Were on a Specific Time (Cont)
> super Swedish

Hah, what does that mean?
Considering the number of people I've seen on buses and trains shouting "OP-ER-AY-TOR!" into an IVR system, we're already halfway there.
Net-zero amongst companies is often a matter of paying a tax on what you still emit or shifting the accounting of emissions to not fully measure the entirety of your emissions (or to offload that onto other parts of society).

It's fine to encourage companies to try and do things like that, but it's also important to keep that congratulatory tone in check when it comes to a world that still incentivizes profits singularly and doesn't necessarily put the price of ecologic externalities that they might deserve.

Net-zero sounds perhaps cool but there should be some important education done for everybody to understand that it's far from Gross-zero (or near zero), which would be much closer to what we actually need to avoid some pretty cataclysmic collapses sooner than most people realize.
Never, because speech is a terribly ambiguous and low-bandwidth communication technique to transfer technical information and commands. Not to mention that it is terribly inconvenient if several people in the same room use it at the same time.
How I raised 500k€ created a game studio hired 20 people and CRASHED it
>revoking the permit afterwards is the worst possible outcome

It seems like many people feel that it's the second to worst possible outcome.
I know. I am European. I've been bilingual my entire life. Today I speak four languages. The point was not that speaking two languages is enough, what I meant is that I believe having more languages around in general increases the diversity also of our ideas and thoughts. That is why I, today, feel like protecting languages have a very valid point.
Bitcoin and Etherium's use cases are still just limited to providing means of bypassing regulation and being a ponzi scheme. NFTs are just the latest iteration on that.
Removing features is a shitty move (Philips Hue app)
it's not against the rules to complain about downvotes, common misconception! I know you didn't know and this isn't a commentary, or question of, or related to, your mental state or character.

I'm genuinely unaware what part of the unedited tweet includes the factors you mention, namely questioning mental state or character. Reproduced here, I can't find anything, I'm trying really hard:

It feels like this analysis is missing something, ex. have you had any property rights taken away in the ensuing 5 years? If discourse hinges on a 2 minute YouTube video and refusing to accept any downplaying of it, what hope does discourse have? There's approximately infinite two minute YouTube videos

I recognize that the edits include the factor you mention, those edits occurred enough after an unusually high number of downvotes, and the scored has rebounded since. Note this has nothing to do with anyone else's mental state or character, nor questioning it, or in anyway intended to relate to it.
It's at least 15 sockets, each providing at least 19 amps. Probably following some plug/socket standard.
Apple doesn't support a lot of modern web api or the api they provide is crippled. just few examples: there is no full screen mode Web api on iPhone - only on ipad - games pretty much require those.

There is no web push notification support on ios - only on desktop safari.
I agree - it’s a well reasoned post and I enjoyed reading it.
Push is supported by all competent browsers, which of course excludes Internet Explorer, Android WebView (the shitty built-in one) and Safari (iOS and desktop) [0]. Firefox (on every platform but iOS) even supports a limited amount of silent pushes. I personally wouldn't want silent background pushes to an installed web app anyway, I don't see what data is important enough to sync but not important enough to notify about. Such a mechanism would absolutely ruin the device's battery life.

Google, being Google, have developed a Background Sync API [1] that can achieve background sync without notifying the user. This also extends to Edge and Opera and such because they share an engine.

I can see the use in a system where you sync data to a device that has intermittent connectivity, but I've honestly never seen such a system work for native apps when I've had intermittent connectivity myself. Even Google's automatic weather notifications don't show the right weather until I tap then and a web search loads.

Your background sync requirement is a nice to have and it'd certainly be a reason to use the app instead of the web version of a service for users with limited connectivity, but they're not really strict requirements for most applications. The applications we use today mostly consist of scrolling and connected browsing, with some data management and sync in between. For example, I browse twitter through the web app and outside the "fleets", whatever they are, that Twitter simply decided not to port, I'm not missing anything. I get notifications, I can browse, I can compose, there's really nothing more I need.

In the end, Apple's (intentional, probably) nerfing of Safari is what primarily stands in the way of proper mobile app support on the web. Notifications are a feature that I'd say most apps would require these days and Apple simply refuses to allow them. There's plenty of other WebKit gripes that developers have to overcome to program for iOS, but the complete lack of certain features is absolutely the worst.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API
[1]: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/12/background...
Not really. Lingua Franca is not really related to French.
Nothing more needed to refute an argument of said quality. If I delivered one million finished apartments to your city anywhere in the world today, the average price would go down. How about ten or a hundred million? Q.E.D.

Housing scarcity is real, whether you believe it or not.
Telling people that the web is a suitable replacement for native apps is an empty promise, especially when your only option for a browser on iOS is one that is notoriously outdated and incompatible with the modern web.
It doesn't say it is illegal rather that the analysis wasn't as thorough as necessary.

>In Thursday's ruling, Morris wrote that the State Department's analysis of potential environmental effects fell short of a "hard look" on the effects of current oil prices on the viability of Keystone, cumulative effects of greenhouse gas emissions, cultural resources and potential oil spills.
Ask HN: Should a User Subscribe to a Blog
Many platforms have a way in which users can indicate that they would like to be notified about future content of a creator. What is the best equivalent for independent blogs?

I can think of four potential ways to do this, and none are without downsides:

- RSS or Atom: high setup cost for user due to no builtin support in browsers.

- Web Push notifications: at least in Firefox, push notifications only appear for a few seconds and then seem to disappear forever, making it likely that the user will miss the notification. Also requires custom software on the server-side — I'd be curious to know if there is anything ready-made for this.

- Mailing lists: potential concerns about spam — there is no secure way of unsubscribing.

- Relying on a platform, such as Twitter and Mastodon: low specificity. Potentially off-putting due to off-topic or low-effort tweets.

Am I missing something? This seems like an obviously desirable feature, and yet there's no obvious solution. What's your opinion on this problem?
If you don't understand the legislative history of tobacco regulation in the US, you should probably not comment.
Which still works out in favor of the debtor, because: (a) they reap the benefit in the meantime; and (b) rising prices benefit retail workers at the expense of those living off savings and investments
IPFS would face a similar challenge as the “keep torrents seeded” problem mentioned by GP. Wouldn’t there be risk to peers who host the PDFs?
The problem with that though is that legally, there is no difference between whether hardware is sold at profit or not as to whether you can have an App Distribution monopoly.
I was incredibly lucky. I got to a point where I felt like I wanted to stop (which happens often to a lot of addicts), which coincided with an opportunity to move far away from my hometown, and then also coincidentally found myself surrounded by a fantastic support system. It’s the addict equivalent of flipping a quarter 50 times and having them all come up head.

As for a general answer to your question, there isn’t one that I’m aware of. Everyone I know that’s gotten clean has wildly different stories.
Economic productivity increases, but so does the amount of units of stuff consumers want, the number of consumers demanding stuff (and the number of retired consumers) and there are also real resource constraints, especially affecting energy prices.

The bank's target is symmetric, but inflation was on average much higher in the decades before central banks' target became CPI inflation
I think it's important to also realize that Canada domestically (outside of Alberta) has been strongly opposed to expanding natural resource exportation[1]. The Kinder Morgan pipeline through BC was ~shut down~[2] - as have been multiple propositions to get the oil out through the maritime provinces. If Alberta had a coast they would never consider the keystone pipeline as an option but this is sort of a effort of last resort - every direction except south wants nothing to do with this and the constantly shifting political winds in America mean it's extremely unlikely that this project would actually be complete while the tar sands remain profitable.

I think it's a bit unfair to talk about this permit being withdrawn without warning when literally every other route open for export has been shut down - it's like asking your dad for candy after your mom said no, they might go along with you for a bit but the outcome is likely to be swayed by the same basic facts.

1. Existing transportation is also highly problematic, one of the really big questions for Canadians here is whether the additional safety of pipelines is worth the cost to the environment, we've specifically paid that lack of safety cost several times including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-M%C3%A9gantic_rail_disaste... and more generally https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/lac-megantic-crude-... this is very much not a simple issue in Canada.

2. Oh hey - no it isn't - this is still actively ongoing as pointed out by the comment below
That's... a wild contortion of what it means to be legal. When the government grants a permit for me to do something, the sane thing is to assume that it is a legal thing to do.

You can redefine, or re-interpret the law later to make something _now_ illegal, but that absolutely does not mean it was illegal at the time. That's 1984-style history rewriting.
Most criminals are stupid and eventually get caught. Can you show an example of large-scale ransomware where criminal could convert Bitcoin into fiat currency? Most of them store Bitcoin and wait, probably realizing it is not easy to clean that bitcoin. This idea of using mixers is a myth.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090728102853/https://www.ycomb...
Georgism in general, that is not only LVT but also analogous concepts for anything which ought to be commons (natural resources, pollution, etc) would go a long way into solving a significant amount of issues.
Open source software is bizarrely sticking it to capitalism. RMS and his ilk developed these licenses pretty much because they wanted free shit out there with no stipulations. It's insane that anyone with skills would care enough to work on GNU instead of making 6 figures to write the same code for IBM. OSS kinda proves that humans are deep down pretty alright
I have no idea how this website works, could you explain?
The argument is that it's industry standard. Microsoft and Sony also take 30%

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/05/07/playst...
The entire Library of Congress books collection is on the order of 40 million items.

At 5 MB per book, this works out to about 200 TB of disk storage.

At about $12/TB, hosting the entire LoC collection would cost roughly $2,400 presently, with prices halving about every three years.
They should have known going in it was a sham permit. When you take advantage of one of the most corrupt and inept administrations in modern times, you get what you pay for.
> I'm not sure which outcome is better for Canada, the USA, or the world. I'm pretty sure neither Obama, Trump, not Biden had any accurate idea either.

> Or because you think any of those politicians actually have a solid, fundamental analysis including unintentional consequences? Get real, they did it for political reasons, that's why they came out on different sides of the issue based on party lines.

Or maybe Obama, Trump, and Biden had different ideas about what "better for the USA" meant that led to them making reasonably rational but different decisions? Maybe, maybe not. But I'm not sure your assumption that all three of those presidents have a worse understanding of this issue than you do is justified.
I too watch porn for the historical education it provides me.
The application I mentioned is written in JavaScript and runs in both the browser and with node.

I don't think you know what Dunning Kruger is. I have never claimed to be anything great. I only mentioned I wrote an application and other people used (continue to use) it.
You actually can run unsigned code on the Xbox. It's a bit of a hassle to get the developer account working, but completely possible. It's how Retroarch made a native Xbox app.
You’re saying this thread is about the big players and not the small ones? And that’s why this open question to HN developers isn’t really asking for their experiences, not unless they’re in the hundred million territory?
Do regular users also get super horny but unable to perform due... shrinkage?
This has just reminded me about this:

http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/jokes/european-commission.html
For an institution, it's a rounding error.

AWS is not the cheapest bulk-storage hosting possible.
Some estimates end up being negative, is that intentional? E.g AAPL.
I will simply converse on substance henceforth.

I believe their current focus is on injecting secrets into apps through the CLI, and they’re not natively syncing with cloud provider APIs as of yet.

Integration with identity providers is definitely a feature that would be required for adoption in the enterprise. It seems like that is on their roadmap, and their closed enterprise beta comes with WorkOS integration.
Revocation is one of the first terms in the permit:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/04/03/2019-06...

(in that permit, it comes right after revocation of an earlier, similar permit)