skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it's not your point, but it's mine.

Why would you upload a copy of your passport to Discord, via a third-party or not? The issue here is just trusting people you shouldn't be trusting with things you shouldn't be trusting them with.

The alternative isn't WhizzBangApp doesn't request you upload documents, the alternative is they roll their own WhizBang ID service, or use a Stripe Identity competitor.

I know my bank needs to verify my driving licence or whatever, and I tr.. well banks are heavily regulated anyway, so I'm happy to upload it without caring whether they use Stripe Identity or their own or whatever.

I know Discord has no business with my passport or whatever, so they're not getting it whatever they use under the hood.
This is coming, it’s just taking Government Time (Login.gov, USPS for in person proofing, etc).
That works for documents you previously opened but not documents just shared. You have to jump through hoops to open them in the native app. Once you do they're in the list but it's frustrating that it won't just do that by default.
I find this funny - Dogecoin has as much value as Bitcoin. It still takes energy (and therefore money) to mine, and the resulting "coin" has value - that being how much someone is willing to sell it for, and how much someone is willing to buy for it, driven by factors such as mining cost as well as speculation. The only real difference being the name of the coin.

If they're worried about price influence by social media influencers, this is also a problem for other coins. Elon tweets, and the price of BTC varies. It's not just "meme coins" that's susceptible to this.

The logic that's been applied here is highly suspect to me.
to nitpick: windows also needs to provide a main function(why shouldn't?)

but I agree that the fact that the standard allow for 2 different declarations of main in a language without poliformism doesn't help.

Not to start with the whole implementations are free to define extra entry points part.
>For example, you'll almost never see CNN write an article critical about Democrats, and you'll almost never see Fox News write an article critical about Republicans. So you end up without much overlap between the two.

Except for everything Democrats and Republicans agree upon.

Which is a lot.

There's a massive amount Americans miss because thet witness very lively debate on very circumscribed topics.
Arguing uptime is a bit out of scope here, considering that especially in the US rolling blackouts are very common and the reason is basically the net, not the suppliers. On the contrary a decentralized PV grid would probably open opportunities for a lot of micro grids.
Also, the concern needs to be around 'accidental' collisions of the same uuid within the same logical namespace. For example, generating the same UUID as a key for two rows in the same table. Even with weak non-v4 uuids, this is extremely unlikely with any dataset you are likely to be working with, just because even the worst UUID versions still have a fair amount of entropy, so population sizes have to be absurdly large to get even a tiny probability of a collision.

UUID's are not meant to be 'secret' or 'hard to guess', and implementations can not be relied on to take care in generating the right kind of random state to ensure they aren't predictable.

From the RFC: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4122

Do not assume that UUIDs are hard to guess; they should not be used as security capabilities (identifiers whose mere possession grants access), for example. A predictable random number source will exacerbate the situation.
If you had Gmail on your own domain, then it was the legacy Google Apps Free Tier. You can still create a Google account for free with a non-gmail address, and people can use that email to add you to docs and such, but it doesn't have Gmail. The days when it was called Google Apps was the last time you could get free email hosting on a custom domain.
> a good compromise would be for them to collaborate

If you read through the thread, the author makes it extremely clear that he has zero interest in collaborating or coming to any kind of mutually agreeable solution.
Agreed. The center is the glue the holds the populace in check. We need these people. Once the center is eroded things will not go well.
Am I the only one who feels Tucker Carlson is so popular because he (a lot like Donald Trump) was willing to challenge the false idols of the Republican establishment (e.g. we need to be at war in Afghanistan/Iraq, the free market isn't always the best especially if it leads to outsourcing and offshoring, etc.)

Might just be me. I dislike 90% of fox news but I listen to Carlson sometimes and never find him to be horrible or BS-y (admittedly I don't listen in all the time so I may be missing some stuff)
There are two centrisms that can't be confused.

The first kind of centrist examines each issue on its merits and arrives at a principled conclusion, regardless of how other people think about an issue. This kind of centrism is reasonable. This person can't really even be called a centrist. He's just non-partisan.

The second kind of centrist looks at the existing parties to an argument and averages their viewpoints: "Group A insists 2+2=4 and group B insists 2+2=6, but I'm a virtuous centrist, so I believe that 2+2=5."

I don't think anyone has any issue with the first kind of centrist. But there are far too many of the second kind.
> * More of the energy we use will come from the electric socket. And we aren’t ready.*

I don’t get this argument that increasing electricity generation is going to be particularly hard. From 1950 to 1959, the US more than doubled electricity generation.

The article says by 2050 we’ll need about double current electricity production. That’s three times as long! From 1950 to 1973, just 23 years, electricity production increased by over 450%.

People trying to make it sound like this will be unprecedentedly hard either forgot about the time when America used to grow electricity quickly, or they’re pessimistic about modern America’s ability to build anything big any more.
Ground News handles aggregating and showing each source that is discussing the same topic event. It has become the first site I go to for news and from there I can easily access virtually everything else while knowing what the perspective that I'm stepping into is in advance.
He later says he will relicense it so only specific projects can use his code. I think that would likely invalidate their own licenses, so I'm not sure how that would work.
Does anyone watch TV anymore? I read Fox News online, which is fine, but I don’t think I’ve ever tuned into shows. My parents have CNN on a loop, and even my dad (a die-hard Carter fan) calls it “DNC talking points.”
I recommend the newsletter The Flipside [1] by Annafi Wahed. She and the team are doing an amazing job bringing the two sides together.

Shout out to Annafi– how are you all doing there?!

[1] https://www.theflipside.io/
Ah, the bag feature is very new, and sth we're still working on to improve. Sorry for the disappointment, but thx for the feedback.
>The idea that the right understands the left better than the right is silly - how many Fox News profiles are there of Whole Foods shopping Democrats in Arlington? Of Black voters in Gwinnett county? Meanwhile, NYTimes did countless stories for four years about rural voters in diners that still like Trump despite the scandal of the week.

myfavoritedog's point is that the default position in the Times is of Whole Foods-shopping Democrats in NoVa. You couldn't read a book review, or sports column, without anti-Trump snark suddenly appearing in there regardless of the subject matter (seriously, it was like there was a quota to meet),

The pieces you mention invariably

* treat the subjects like they're a new, just-discovered animal species

* frame their fears and hopes, needs and concerns, in very patronizing ways. Example: <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/us/politics/trump-macho-a...>, which a) attributed Latin male support for Trump to their desire for the same kind of authoritarian machismo that ruined their home countries (as opposed to the same reasons that other blue-collar workers, Latino or not, voted for Trump) and b) made wanting to provide for one's family sound like a bad thing. Outcome: Trump in 2024 didn't just again outperform expectations with Latinos in 2024 (<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/us/politics/trump-latino-...>), but also increased his Latin support.

(Needless to say, there's never, ever any Times article discussing how Latinos' support for a large welfare state hearkens back to their home countries' social models.)

* dismiss those being profiled as aberrations. Example: In 2016 the Clinton-friendly media backfired on Clinton by missing the facts on the ground. If in Ohio—for the past 150 years perhaps the quintessential swing state—and Iowa Trump was 10 points up in the polls, the right conclusion was that the rest of the Midwest was swinging to him too. The wrong conclusion was to come up with imaginary reasons why Ohio is suddenly no longer representative of the region or country (<https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/30/us/politics/ohio-campaign...>). One guess on which the press and the Clinton campaign chose.
A fair point, but I don't think the concession is worth what you get out of it. A citizen whose sole news source is Fox is considerably less informed than a viewer who might watch exclusively CNN (or possibly even nothing at all, see [1])

Fox News really is worse, and while there may be lessons learned there which can be applied to the other outlets, such as insisting on clearer labeling of opinion content vs reporting, I think it's an all-lives-matter-style distraction to throw up our hands and say there's nothing that can be done and they're all equally bad because it's a problem inherent in the medium.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/study-watching-fox-news-make...
On a fresh reboot and login to a KDE desktop, the total memory use (minus disk cache) on my system is just a hair over 1GB. This is on a ~10 year old Phenom II with 16GB RAM, and KDE is smooth as butter. It runs great on my Thinkpad X220i, too.

Firefox or Chrome will absolutely dwarf your DE in memory usage, so I don't think it's really a major differentiator between KDE and Gnome. If your PC has less than 2GB of memory, you'll run into other issues first.
Thanks. But did the reflections off the man create the image or did the dolphin create it after the man was gone?
I love fastapi I wish I knew about this before!
Ground News points this out every week in their Blindspot newsletter.
Daredevil (a Netflix series)
Repressive Tools in Myanmar Expose Gap Between EU Tech Investment and Regulation
> Dogecoin has as much value as Bitcoin

Correct, and that is zero (or really negative) value. I see crypto as a plague on productive society. People think they can just get rich by investing in currency. It's insane. Value is being destroyed with all the attention wasted in the space. Governments need to step in and protect their citizens from this nonsense.
Thanks for the insight. It will be really interesting to see were bitcoin and altcoins land in 20 years. I'm a crypto-noob personally and have only dabbled, but in the short term the world outside of bitcoin looks pretty damn interesting.
"are there election irregularities" pretty well is a slavery argument.

Its a thinly veiled "I don't think black people should have been allowed to vote" and you can verify that by the laws states are implementing to ensure they don't vote next election
The inability to make a rational counter point to something like the holocaust is the reason why the "paradox of tolerance" exists.
I think there’s some emotional nuance here. After a certain point he basically said all of his technical justification and the request does boil down to “because I said so and I’m the author.” The Nix maintainers explicitly do not want to respect the author’s wishes (which is fine) but that makes the whole thing turn adversarial because “okay we won’t include it” wasn’t even something the maintainers considered for even a second. It was pretty level headed discussion until it was clear that their only motivation was getting to yes or enough justification to ignore him.
None of the cost estimates on this subject really make sense because of the period of time involved.

For instance "no nukes" think it is a scandal that we could spend $100 billion on Yucca mountain, but the average nuclear plant makes about $500 million per year in electricity so that is about 2 years of energy production. It's significant, but it's not crazy.

A reprocessing cycle could easily take a century to fully burn U238 so "what it costs" is influenced by what you think interest rates will be (or should) be for next 100 years.

Fuel cycle costs are nearly zero compared to the cost of the steam turbine at an LWR. If the price of uranium tripled, it would make little different in the basebar price of electricity.
Well me selling off my $1200 video card (my midlife crisis gamer “Ferrari”) and quitting video canes completely has a lot to do with it too. I just don’t have a compelling reason to stay. My work laptops have always been MacBook Pros, they’re nice, and funnily enough my favorite feature is things like iTerm that just doesn’t something as good on Linux.
NixOS is quite ready to handle home-assistant but did not yet package every python package that it could depend on. That is just taking a bit more time and will be eventually done. Until then you should take a quick look at your logs if something is broken/not working and you should easily find which package is missing. If you need help with that you can always jump on the NixOS matrix channel and people will help you with that.
> This agrees with my personal experience, except for news stories in the "woke" category, where CNN seems to skew far left.

You do realize that “woke” as a pejorative originated in left-wing criticism of bourgeois, centrist identity politics?

So, unless you are saying that CNN has joined that leftist critique, I think what you really probably mean is that CNN represents a strongly-held centrist position in that area, not a far-left one.
Stripe has lost it's way.
Nah. It’s pretty easy to electrify heating, too. A ground source heat pump or even a good (not mediocre) air source heat pump can reduce the energy cost of heating with electricity to the same as gas.
if i've learned one thing from this thread:

don't like the idea, use the idea!
A lot of "local" subreddits started declining around 2015. It's like all the local news website commenters discovered their local subreddits and started posting there.
It's a semantic debate, and not a particularly interesting one at that.

"Classical liberal" and "conservative" are not necessarily at odds. "Liberal" in the sense that you are using it is a political philosophy, conservative is just a slot to fill in.
Your proposal is for a government-run identity verification system.

The "we" in this context (ordinary users) also comprise the majority of voters and regulators who will ultimately decide how the system you propose is built and what restrictions it will have; and that is a group that is not solely motivated by your business interests -- so it is kind of important for you to be able to convince them that your system benefits them, and not just a few businesses.

Why should a Congressperson vote to build the system you propose instead of introducing a harsh privacy law that restricts which businesses are allowed to collect identification?
Like his request, the submitter can simply submit this to HN for us to simply look at it and, like the author, we can simply share our thoughts, and everyone is free to think and feel whatever they do. We are human too, social animals and all that.

Are HN readers/commenters known for harassment? How alone are folks supposed to leave him?
My first impression was similar. I thought that perhaps Google would publish their ideas of ergonomic, healthy, efficient and friendly workplace as some proposed standard that would be open to collaborations and continuous improvements.

Apparently, I was wrong.
Qt offers 3 licenses: Commercial, LGPL, and GPL. The LGPL option is quite business-friendly.

However, recently Qt's own marketing people seem to be undermining it by incorrectly suggesting that all commercial development requires a commercial license. Which is not the case. Commercial developers can use the GPL or LGPL versions as long as they comply with the license terms. Complying with LGPL is generally quite easy.
A lot of people don't RTFM.
Surprised to see you downvoted when so much complaining in this thread is already covered by Ground News. I suppose Hacker News itself is unable to escape its own echo chamber.
Google actually admitted their 'elite' leet code interview process didn't actually help the outcomes... This is the first link I dug up about it:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/06/google-...
Ratcliffe was a big Trump supporter, not sure how much anything he said can be trusted. The letteris lacking in detail and hard proof. It even acknowledges "The IC does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to
which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication."
Home Assistant itself uses the Apache 2.0 license, which is pretty permissive. It doesn't impose much requirements on derivative works, so it can use a dependency with a restrictive license without problem.

However, this would become problematic if Home Assistant also uses a GPL dependency (which it probably does). That dependency would impose a requirement that all other libraries used by Home Assistant use a GPL-compatible license (which his license likely wouldn't be).
Apple just announced that iCloud+ will include custom domain support later this year, wouldn't be suitable for teams but might be a nice choice for individuals.
I think for people who got two very senior levels but stayed as hands-on engineers don’t really have the option of consulting. I am extremely senior and while I could do contract dev, they are actually aren’t that many low-commitment consulting jobs for people like me.
wow, that's awesome, thanks! Any suggestions / improvements? Most retailers are asking for diverse body shape supports -- super hard, we're working on it.
Wasn't there a famous startup doing this in 2000/2001 ?
What is the one most important thing you would like the panelists to talk about? Let me know! :)
It does. <! reads from a channel that closes in the specified timeout. It is non-blocking. (similar to the away/async JS magic - rewrites the go block to a state machine)
Google translate says: "I don't work for free for small multinationals. Your cheap and spare credentials can be filed wherever it suits you. I don't know if this is the answer you were waiting for."
Thanks for this suggestion - Hadn't seen this before but previewed and really liked what I saw. Sub'd.
> very little is actually factually incorrect

This is why we need more than just fact checkers.

It’s extremely easy to construct a biased, opinion-manipulating political hit site composed entirely of truthful statements.

Proof by politically-neutral analogy: imagine a newspaper that published an article every time a roulette wheel stopped on 6, but never for any other number.
> or they’re pessimistic about modern America’s ability to build anything big any more.

This wouldn't be an entirely unfounded concern.
It's a problem because Google is constantly implementing new APIs, creating new file formats that are "open-source" but de facto controlled by them, and "advancing" the web by advancing their own interests rather than the interests of consumers of the web.

There are so many web apps that fail ungracefully on Safari and Firefox that work perfectly fine on Chrome. Or apps that have significantly better performance on Chrome, including Google's own products like Gmail and Youtube. As a tech enthusiast I know that the reason is because Google makes it work that way, but for a typical user they'll likely blame the browser that is being shoved on them by their tech-literate family member and run back to Chrome because it "just works."

The only check against Google's hegemony of the web is Apple not allowing anything but webkit be the renderer on iPhones. It's the only platform that is large enough and important enough that Google doesn't have completely unfettered access to implementation of features that advance their ad-tech needs.

There's a difference between being disruptive and destructive. Google's a destructive force to the web.
> The reason is that when you have a mortgage, you're making a highly leveraged investment.

You can lever up an equity portfolio as well. Moreover, the going interest rate for a margin loan is only 1-2% (less than the cost of a mortgage).
no, what you do is make a second password for the same account that opens a secret profile with different access.
Nike Super Spikes Are So Fast That Rivals Are Wearing Them
The problem with aggregators like this is they themselves have their own implicit bias in how they define the boundaries of the left and right.

While sites like The Federalist and Breitbart may offer an accurate sampling of palatable far right viewpoints, this does not extend to the far left. The deficiency is exposed with the inclusion of CNN and MSNBC in the far left category. You need only look at the 2020 Democratic primary and observe how these cable channels reacted to the Sanders campaign[1] to get a sense of how incoherent it is to place them there.

What is lost in defining the left border as such is the erasure of publications on the far left that help describe some of the ideas and thought that drove Bernie's popularity. Of course he eventually lost the primary but can we really call CNN and MSNBC far left when they played a role in the demise of the most viable left-wing candidate in recent US history?

This is an important consideration because a news diet of the CNN, NYT, WSJ and Ben Shapiro may appear to be balanced but there is no left source that is the same magnitude of the right wing Ben Shapiro.

[1]: https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1231353446336548867?s...
google admitted years ago, it didn't help..

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/06/google-...
Nothing wrong with patching

Part of the beauty of Nix is it's easy to maintain patches - this can be nice cost-wise compared to upstreaming in many cases.

Not saying upstreaming isn't a generally good thing, but it's nice to have this other option.
> And once you install enough storage to make the 9's comparable, the solar/wind is quite a bit more expensive than the nuclear.

This is not at all clear, especially going forward. The key is to shave off the last 10% or so with hydrogen and combined cycle, not batteries.

https://model.energy/ for actual model results
That would be natural selection, which might be preferable in a free market. Small constant corrections, rather than larger distasters we experienced the last 50-100 years (bailouts and going to war every 10-12 years)

It would arguable allow people to safe their wealth rather than being forced to spend money all the time.
Fox News is the mouthpiece of the Republican Party.

CNN/MSNBC the Democrats.

Democracy Now is essentially the American grassroots left. Not generally fans of either party.
> There are not very many OSS apps on the iOS app store, probably caused by the difficulty in getting an app published.

It's also because OSS apps on iOS often need to be dual-licensed, especially if they're *GPL licensed. That's because the App Store imposes additional restrictions on the software it distributes, and the GNU licenses mandate that *GPL software cannot be distributed with additional restrictive terms.

For Apple to distribute *GPL software via the App Store, it would mean violating those licenses.

Take a look at the iOS VLC situation. It had to be taken down and re-released under a dual license because of this problem.