skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Revenuers! It's not so much about the suppressors, because they're legal almost everywhere. They're also legal to build and fairly cheap to do so. It's they want that $200 tax to be paid on all of them!

I do dispute his assertion that suppressors so nothing. Guns are loud, like stupid loud. Movies give us a distorted view of how loud they are. Even suppressor they're still very loud, loud enough that hearing protection is still recommended. Suppressed they are barely under the maximum safe limit for impulse noises. So still loud enough to make your ears ring. That includes professionally made ones too.
The UK has a similar law [0], which has been used in the past to prosecute people for not disclosing their passwords [1].

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

[1]: https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/10/poli...
Just last month I had a DJ company ask for an ID and selfie for a $200 software purchase.

Maybe these things are designed for KYC’ing crypto and buying alcohol but it’s definitely a trend to apply this process broadly. All for the fear of generally preventing everyday fraud, piracy, and maybe just collecting data for some nebulous future use. Of course they rarely do the actual basics and apply any thought to not treating your real customers like criminals.

I don’t doubt Stripe can make the process better and do it in a good way, but can Stripe minimize what this process is even applied to in the first place and avoid manufactured consent.
It's in your meeting settings (sadly on their website, not in the app) under "Who Can Share?".
> this is no different than making someone “empty their pockets.”

Except they can take your key, search your house, take your work key from there and drive with your car to you workplace and search everything there you can access, as well. So metaphorically as well as actually (home server etc.), your home is not safe.
I'm not a voter, but isn't 51% vs 47% is basically a flip of a coin result?
Once a certain threshold is reached, your account can flag posts. However, for things like FT you can use archive.is to view it past the paywall [0].

At the moment your karma is -2, I'd perhaps recommend you try to make insightful posts that add to the conversation.

[0] https://archive.is/yauDm
Both of those are on Libera, with ~500 users in C and ~300 in C++.
when did you buy?
> They dont talk about or even cover the same things, which makes it hard to compare liberal vs conservative perspectives.

https://ground.news has an interface that highlights which news outlets with what general bias are covering which stories, which is sometimes fun to take a look at
which tier are you that you still have unlimited? i was on the $10 tier (which went to $12) and then i got a nasty gram a while ago and upgraded to the $20 tier, i 100% only use my account for the unlimited storage.
> It’s the same reason that it’s virtually unheard of to cut salary, even when revenue is collapsing in a deflationary recession

Yes, that’s why companies prefer lay offs rather than broad base salary cuts. Lay offs are a temporary hit to morale, while pay cuts are more permanent. Moreover, in lay offs, you can fire least productive workers, while after pay cut, it’s the most productive that will leave first.
EDF says informed of build-up of inert gases at Chinese nuclear facility
Laws being passed at the state level that limit trans rights, or restrict access to reproductive medical care, or erect barriers to voting that disproportionately impact people of color are not parody, they are very real and binding.
Christmas isn't Christian
All for $72/year. I'm pretty sure I could already do all those things.
I'll get around to watching it at some point. :P
I didn't express things very well, Sure, I know lots of independent consultants who are legitimately work full-time or at least on a regular basis. I was more referring to someone who just sticks "consulting" on their resume so they don't have a gap but didn't actually do anything.
They're not necessary, so I suspect some combination of reflex, consistency for consistency's sake, or, possibly that they were added automatically by his editor/IDE at some point.
Shotguns where more for trench raiding along with improvised clubs etc
The main problem with a structure like this is that when individual project maintainers go AFK the project grinds to a halt without a clear way to start it back up.

As a simple example gnome-characters is way behind on Unicode. Luckily there is a script to import the data dump, however it also should have some code updates to support things like skin tone. However different parts have been done with no maintainer response. It isn't clear where one can go to try to find a new maintainer or at least someone who can help manage changes for now until a new maintainer can be trusted.

And it comes back to the question, what is the GNOME project if it is mostly a bunch of self-governed individual projects. Is GNOME just hosting infrastructure to make these projects possible? It is clear that it is more than just that.

So I guess this grass-roots power structure is nice when everything is going well. But maybe a clear "executive" structure would be helpful for herding the individual projects from time to time.
This is very true. It makes me wonder, what has driven this change? Human nature didn't change over the course of a few decades.
> Unsurprisingly, other oil companies had no hope of offering lower or even equivalent rates and still making a profit. If any of them seemed like they might pose a threat, Rockefeller could use his influence over the shipping companies to restrict their ability to transport oil.

The chess analogy is interesting, but I'm not sure it applies to Rockefeller. If anything, his strategy is closer to cheating than actually being good at the game.
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I think that two things can be true at the same time: there are people piling on rage about “cancel culture” to gain following/money; cancel culture is real and a bad thing.

Similar to how I think that racism is bad and systemic and must be eliminated and there are people who make a good living on raging about stuff. People building on a cause doesnt mean that the cause is bad.
I’d go for a Peloton but for weight lifting for sure!
I know there are some of those but haven’t found any for free weights, can’t say I have been looking too hard yet however.

Edit: tempo.fit seems interesting!
My of-the-top suggestion would be to put it at the end, that way there would be some value in it (as I would want to keep the routine going), and I can test-drive the editor first, to see if it makes sense to me.
I'm not sure this is news or reflects any actual trends in 2021. I work in this area and almost all of the tools/websites in this article have been around for years — since Trump's election or even before.

If I had to guess, this seems like a well-placed piece to raise awareness for the startup Ground News, which has begun advertising heavily in recent months (and is the only new tool mentioned in the article). Either way, congrats to their team on the work they're doing, and on being mentioned in this piece!
How’s this take:

What is the minimal computer you can both compile and run Doom on?
As with any metaphor, one can take it too far.

I agree with you that life doesn't come with symmetric information, but to argue that "Chess is a well-defined form of computation" is a bit much. Go/Weiqi is also a computation problem given this argument. What precludes asymmetric info games like poker from being "computation" problems, if one takes a wide enough view (to include the unknowns as the modeled state)? Quantum computing inherently probabilistic.

Your second argument is about zero sum stakes, and I think this criticism applies to virtually all "toy" games we play.

> They involve uncertainty, risk, and occasional deception

As do decisions in chess, because the players aren't perfect computers.
Agreed. His book is also highly recommended:

https://www.amazon.com/Solving-Procrastination-Puzzle-Concis...
It depends on the person. I think I'd rather go windsurfing in my 20s then try to do it in my 60s when my health is not as good. I probably won't remember posting it on Instagram, but I will remember going wind surfing.
Am I the only one who doesn't think these are that big of a deal? I'd gladly take this over a big ugly ad. Hell ANY ad at all.
I think that both, freenode and libera will end up dead. I sure hope that Libera stops spamming soon though...
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Isn't fictional media rather enforcing the stereotypes? And by saying there is a certain way in which media could portray, say, Muslims, are you not implying that there are certain stereotypes that apply? Without stereotypes, how do decide what group certain people belong to?
You may want to be able to run highly resilient databases even on non-error-detecting hardware. (Most consumer disks, and even a lot of enterprise disks, don't reliably detect/report disk corruption)

You might also be building a distributed system, where blocks are spread across multiple disks. In that case, an "error" you're trying to correct might be the loss of a disk or server in the distributed system; there is no one single disk or OS responsible for all the relevant blocks in that case.

But, both of these are assuming you're building some kind of data-store, which is not a typical user application. Writing robust data-stores is hard for many reasons, error correcting is just one of them.
I was recently looking at it, but the only thing I can see it gets me is the ability to add a custom domain name to my emails.
Instagram may be verifying identity now (I didn't know... letting FB scan my id would be one of the last things I would want), but I'm pretty sure they reached a massive scale without such a measure.
Your experience with remote work is not at all unique. And if your team would like to move onto something a bit more accommodating of higher productivity and remote work than their are new tools available also.
They're not told it's there, there is no tool for them to view the data, to see what kind of data is there, or even delete data short of deleting the entire apps data. Airbnb the company can access it at approximately any time by pushing out an app update.

Legally you may have an argument, morally I don't think there's much of a difference. I would certainly not be pleased to find out an app was doing that.
May not be enough to pull the trigger, but definitely enough to transition down to a part time or remote web dev gig in a low cost of living area. Once you have such a net worth secured, you just have to keep from pulling from it for a few years while it compounds.

The big thing is that around 900k is when you get diminishing returns on savings vs market fluctuations. Bumping that amount by 10% would require saving $90k, which is a tall order. Or you could wait for a 10% market increase (it's up 14% this year). Not that the market is guaranteed to go up, or even by that much (we're in an unusually good market at the moment with inflated optimism). But at a certain point you hit a tradeoff where the market on average increases your wealth faster than savings off your salary will. At that point it makes sense to transition to a job that just covers your cost of living - one that you like more and offers more freedom.
But not everyone in infosec have good security because it is a pain in the ass. I would say people with good personal infosec is at most the same order of magnitude as criminals but probably fewer.
Trump’s positions included his belief that people should be able to be fired solely for being LGBT+. You know, like cancelled.

So, people who are or care about LGBT+ share the information that Cawthon voted in a way that could harm them. That’s not ‘siccing a tiger’ for any disagreement whatsoever.
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Remember Stripes main offering - credit card data. They are already PCI compliant
Sniper rifles in ww1 where custom conversions of the standard infantry rifles or in the early war actual hunting rifles.
It looks like it's done this way on purpose to prevent the SSH client from bypassing restrictions imposed on the user's login shell.
Your point is valid, but I don't think that's what we're talking about in this thread. Rather, we're talking about Europeans and Americans who have the perception that the overall economic situation of professional employees is dramatically rosier in Europe.

Personally, I think we should have a single payer system if only for the fact that it likely better serves poorer Americans.
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> Literal interpretation of Genesis is a fairly recent phenomenon.

Um, no, it isn't. It's how Genesis was interpreted by most people of the Jewish and Christian religions throughout most of the time since it was written. What is a fairly recent phenomenon is people of those religions not interpreting Genesis (and the Bible in general) literally.
Counter-point: Enjoy your youth while you're young.

There's a balance to find between saving for retirement and not spending your entire adulthood just working towards it.

You may not be able to windsurf anywhere in your 50s...
Maybe not in your country(?) In the US there are quite a few commercial systems built on Thread: Apple HomePod mini, Google Nest security system, etc. Don't get me wrong: we are still very early in real-world deployments. It was just 2 years ago that the consortium/Google released the open source OpenThread which is when momentum really picked up.
Despite being in software I had no savings until my late 30s. I am forever grateful that our field is one that allows for huge earnings, as it has enabled me to flip that all the way around.

I'm now in my mid/late-40s and show up as low/mid 80s on that calculator depending on if I include my home equity. When I punch in my net worth at 40 I was around 20%. If my current glide path holds I'd be low-90s when I turn 50. While unlikely to be feasible, it's in the realm of possibility that I could retire by mid-50s.

That's a privileged position simply not available to most human beings. Really remarkable when one thinks about it.
> The idea that people's political beliefs, what, don't affect other people who live in that country? Is insane.

Yes, that is insane, but I don't think the person you're replying to or the FNAF guy believe that. It sounds like Mr. FNAF might actually be opposed to Trump to some extent on LGBT issues. However, he feels more strongly about other things (USA-China relations, abortion), and he, like all of us, only gets two choices. So he chose the mix of good and bad stuff that he thought was better than the other mix of good and bad stuff. I disagree with him so I voted the other way, but I'm not going to hold him accountable for everything Trump says or does, and I hope I am not held accountable for everything Biden says or does.

Presidents cause unnecessary death and suffering without exception. That's not to say that "everything's a gray area so nothing matters", rather it means that you can't just take one issue and be like "I can't imagine how you would vote for somebody who believes this". Maybe the other option was somebody who is ~3% more likely to start a bad war, for example. Or 3% more likely to lose an inevitable war. I might take a bible-thumping evangelical with a slightly higher chance of winning WWII over somebody with exactly my ethics in office with less strategic acumen. It depends on the actual degree of difference. I'd have to assign weights to things and sum them up, because it's democracy and that's what you do.
If anything, given how many of them link against gnu genopt I wouldn't be surprised if there's an excellent tool that could be made…
Yeah, doom advanced the state of the art by maybe a decade(?). Instead of needing a silicon graphics workstation or a Graphics accelerator, it allows a generation of kids to play on any hardware.

If you want to know how the world would be like without video game programmers, just like at internal corporate software and how slow it is.

How many other advances are we tossing away because people don’t know how to optimize and code for speed and fun!
This makes me half-wonder whether or not concerns about this are preventing Apple from implementing multiple iOS accounts.
The BBC and the Guardian do differ on takes, but both are very far cry from the right-leaning outlets. Both are part of the same left-leaning echo chamber in that nobody on the right trusts either source.

Good luck getting a Breitbart/Newsmax reader to switch to even the NY Times or Reuters or AP, much less The Guardian.
All media does that, not just Fox news. They all try to get you enraged all of the time, no matter what political side you are on.
Are you saying fictional media are incapable of having a barely adequate portrayal of immigrants?
> They can ask you to reveal the password but they have no way to extracit it from your head.

I wouldn't be too sure of that. I recall reading about some experiments where by monitoring brain activity the researchers could fairly reliably tell if a person shown a photo of a place had been to that place before.

I can't think of a way to adapt that to extracting a passcode or password, but it does suggest that the head is not as safe a storage place as we might have thought.

Isaac Asimov had some mystery short stories set in a future where there was a machine that could probe a mind and extract any information the subject knew, but there was a very small chance that a probing would drive the person incurably insane.

The way they balanced the right of privacy and the need to protect people from crime was to only allow any given person to be involuntarily probed once in their life. Of course this led to many criminals trying to arrange so that they would get involuntarily probed either over something they were actually innocent of or over something they did but that did not have too long a sentence. The criminals recognized that for really serious crimes juries would be reluctant to convict without probe evidence, so once you were probed you could take your criminal career much more safely to the next level.
I was responding to this sentence in the parent:

"A typical silicone valley company's contract usually have some clause saying that all your creative work while contracted with the company, even on off hours, belongs to the company."

My experience, working for a number of silicon valley companies, has been the exact opposite. There is a clause that says (in legalese) "we don't own stuff you do on your own time with your own equipment if it isn't related to what you do at work"

It is my understanding that California public policy actually requires companies to put this disclaimer in work contracts.
As self-employed, you'll be paying social security rates set to cover what would otherwise be paid by the employer via payroll taxes, as otherwise using self employed people would be an easy way of evading tax.

(My point was not to dismiss that you might well pay a very high tax rate, by the way, because the rate you gave is certainly possible, but to point out that paying a rate that high is highly unusually high, even in Sweden)
These 2 papers helped me better understand some more practical aspects of it.

https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/...
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/fast08/tech/full_papers/...
Since we are storing these IDs on behalf of businesses using Identity, we need to retain non-biometric information for a period of time to support their use cases.

For example: KYC is a core use case for identity, which requires us to retain ID information for audit purposes.

For businesses who don’t need to keep the ID for as long, we provide a deletion API that lets them automatically delete the IDs from our system.
The US is not much better. Germany [0] is not much better. This seems to be a general trend right now.

If I had to guess, police has a hard time accessing anything on smartphones and PCs - which probably is a major holdback for them - and hardly anybody involved in the making of the legislature has enough technical understanding and/or political stake to defend the privacy side of things.

[0] https://www.heise.de/news/Cyberbunker-Klausel-in-StPO-Durchs...
Interesting, thanks for sharing. And thanks for the heads up about the mailchimp settings!
if you read the details of private relay you see apple doesn’t know the details of the request, so the idea that apple gets filter specific content is nonsense.

It’s specifically set up so apple doesn’t know the content of the request and cloud flare doesn’t know who made the request. It’s like tor-light
Identity is the step that comes after Sift (or Stripe Radar).

If Sift flags that a user may be suspicious, you may need to collect more information about them to confirm if they are legitimate or not. That’s where Identity comes in.

Oftentimes, this is handled manually via an ops team asking a user to reply with a photo. Instead they can collect this automatically by surfacing Stripe Identity.
Yes. Inflation happens.

So you think everything should cost 10x what it cost last year? Doesn’t seems reasonable to me. Seems like some things are up that much because of supply and demand.
And chat. You forgot “chat”!

I’m still puzzled at what’s new and what’s different from what people with (free and paid) Google accounts have.
I personally only own bitcoin, but obviously there's other opinions out there. The way I see it, the goal of bitcoin is to store value, whereas the goal of other projects is to achieve some non-SoV utility (payments, smart contracts, etc). First, solving the money problem is a much bigger deal than solving utility problems. Second, as the bitcoin ecosystem evolves, I believe technological solutions will be developed on top of bitcoin for those utilities, negating the need for separate tokens.
They have the power of the purse though, which is why some people believe funding, or limitation thereof, is the only viable recourse.
Just curious: what kind of lifestyle does 100k USD get you in Colombia?
First thing I do with my Chrome is opening Settings/Site Settigs, Additional Permissions and blocking almost everything in this list. There's surprising number of APIs that I'll never need (MIDI devices? I have no idea what MIDI device is and I definitely don't own one. Payment handlers? I'm using cash, thanks. Augmented reality? I'm fine with ordinary one, thanks.).
It's gotten significantly worse over time. Are there better alternatives that collate news, by topic, from multiple sources?

Newsvoice was an app that tried to crowdsource that job instead of using algorithms. It very quickly became an alt-right cesspool, presumably because those are the same people who feel disenfranchised by FAKE NEWS LIBERAL MEDIA and so flock to alternative communities.
> But what exactly is this "cancel" attempt?

Basically it’s just like calling for a boycott and removal of apps and removal from social media platforms.

It’s not calling for execution, just for reducing the person’s ability to communicate and/or make a living.

This seems like a basic understanding of what “cancelling” is although it gets spun up quite a bit because lots of people like arguing about it.

But I think it’s a “bad thing” TM to call for boycott and removal from social media. Not that it’s illegal or shouldn’t be allowed, just that it’s dumb and people who do it are dumb.

Similar to how Tipper Gore was dumb in the 80s/90s for calling for the “cancelling” of rappers and whatnot.