skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a password so offensive that it doesn't matter who asks you, they won't believe that's your password.

If they don't believe it's your password, then you haven't really avoided the punishment for not disclosing your password (although you might take some comfort from a kind of moral victory, having told the truth and complied with the letter of the law).

Instead of coming up with a password that offends the police, a better approach is to come up with one that interests them, specifically a detailed admission of a crime. For example, the password could be of the form "I killed John Doe, and buried the body in my garden".

Assuming your jurisdiction has protections against self-incrimination, and you can convince a judge that your password really does contain such information, they may have to choose between not learning your password, and giving you some sort of immunity deal.

Of course, if this approach leads to innocent citizens routinely committing crimes just to come up with a unique password (or worse, criminals baiting police into giving them immunity in return for access to dummy encrypted data) then the only law that will be followed is the Law of Unintended Consequences.
You are not a credit bureau's customer - the stores, public utilities, cell phone companies, banks, and so forth, are. They share that information to minimize their risk in extending credit (even something like billing you at the end of the month for services rendered is a form of credit) to you.

And frankly, if Stripe is offering any form of credit, it's likely working with the credit unions too.
Heather Humphries. She is a stand in while the Minister for Justice is on maternity leave. She can get away with politically toxic stuff because she enjoys staunch support in her constituency. She’s not known for being the brightest so could not have held such a brief under normal circumstances but she is great for doing dirty jobs.
Author here. Linux, MacOS, and Windows all work A-OK! I'll update the readme to make that clearer.

Also: whoa, didn't expect to see my project on the front page of HN this morning! ^_^
At what threshold would you change it? A thousand users? Three users?
Genuine question: why can't Vulkan Compute be used instead of CUDA and ROCm?

Julia has all the tools required to "magically" transform code into SPIR-V kernels. Couldn't `:()` syntax be used to create kernels?
Nice, seems like a useful tool!
Obviously if your parents are paying your largest expense, you can save a ton of money. I would assume most people aren't that fortunate.
The filesystem api would actually be a godsend regardless of whether if it would be limited to a single site owned directory or not. Right now we're limited to indexedDB, which is better than before where we only had localStorage, but persistence is a constant concern. I am always worried about whether the browser will just up and delete things. If they make everything be private and unsharable i.e. limited to a single domain, that includes no sharing between subdomains it would be perfectly viable.

The most important thing to note here is that we're looking to escape vendor control. A lot of people miss that. If browsers can get feature parity with apps that means no more app stores. no more app stores means more freedom of choice. Maybe that's not good for grandma but it's good for you and me.

There are a few decisions by chrome developers that I will never support, like a bunch of stuff in Manifest V3 but hopefully with other browser companies will provide a way around boneheaded, selfish corporate decisions while we reap the benefits of better integration with the operation system.
More likely for offline caching of web content. But unit tests too!
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You copied from the "Capital Costs" section of your link [0] and apparently didn't bother to read the rest of the document.

You shouldn't compare energy sources based on capital costs alone. For that, your link references LCOE [1], which is essentially (total cost) / (total energy produced).

Your link further has a "Global Studies" section [2], which references numerous studies that compare LCOE by power source, worldwide, and a "Regional Studies" section [3] which does the same for specific regions.

If you look at the relevant sections from your own link instead of cherrypicking irrelevant data that suit your position, you'll see that nuclear isn't so clearly uncompetitive. Whether it's cost-effective or not seems fairly contentious.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...
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In very few of those use-cases does the entity 1) _retain_ any of that data, 2) posses an internet-scale database of identities.

And as we've all come to know the distinction between "able to surveil" and "collect it all" crosses a threshold to make it of a different kind.

If one's mindset is that in general, tech companies, unlike those other entities store it all, then there actually is a recent "trend" to migrate a normal behavior into an abnormally socially adjusted space.
I wish Stripe would go public so I could invest a good chunk. Who wouldnt want to invest in the backbone (or soon to be) of the entire internet payment infrastructure.
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> Pass by value vs pass by reference - something that js programmers had to always understand in the past for the sake of handling primitives and objects in js.

Noob question. Aren't primitives immutable? Does it need distinguishing between Value & ref types?
Exactly right.

Trust and goodwill is enough to get me to consider a service, not enough to sign up.

Also, data outlives management regimes. Eventually, any data set that can be used will be used.
Varies by province. In Quebec, they have a similar absence rule to what you described (for being outside Quebec even if in another Canadian province), but they entirely exclude absences of under 21 days from the calculation, and they have a bunch of exceptions, including a "once every 7 years" exception for miscellaneous personal reasons including leisure vacations that just requires you to notify them in order to qualify. And in theory they will reimburse expenses outside of Quebec, even outside of Canada, but only at Quebec's very low rates.

Still, yeah, very different than how US health insurance works, agreed.
I mean, the idea of trading one coin for a "new" coin is pretty wide spread now. And the coin can be printed by the contract owner, if they specify it that way. So if people want to buy in to that system they totally can, and it can exist now. Its surprisingly easy to create your own coin, and the nice part about creating smart apps on blockchains is that you don't have to worry about hosting.
It's not actually hard at all; instead it's just that the easy methods are not well known, since most crypto news is all about crypto investments and get-rich-quick schemes. Easy to use payments systems are absolutely in place. lobstr, for instance, looks dead simple to me
I live in a suburb of a quarter million directly north of Dallas. They are building up some decently dense mixed-use areas along the 4 major highways that bound the city. Mostly on the north-west side (Legacy West) so far, but they are trying to revitalize the strip along the highway to the east as well, including an old mall over there.

We just had elections, and several candidates, including for mayor, campaigned very hard on the platform "my opponent is in bed with developers and wants to turn our sleepy suburban town into a dense urban hell hole!"

Surprisingly to me, those candidates lost.
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I would suggest reading news from other countries about USA.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world/us_and_canada
They would probably have to bag the devices as evidence.

But let’s be serious here it has to be at a place where a warrant is issued right? Tech folks are super paranoid. Like, try to make sure no warrants are out for you and your cousins and you should be fine. If you’re in the wrong place at the wrong time: sucks to be you anyway!
>It doesn't sound "suspiciously like gravity manipulation" at all?

Try adding some rotary effects and then it may. You gotta think outside the globe.
Where did #infra-talk go to?
Renewable can't provide energy on demand. They work only as long as you have an equivalent alternate source for times with no wind or no sun. A grid running 100% on renewables isn't physically feasible, or at a prohibitively expensive price.
The information tends to be of lower quality (despite the love). For example, I wanted to know why left and right bicycle pedals are threaded differently. Three youtubers gave reasons that I could tell didn't quite make sense. But Sheldon Brown's website explained it ("precession"). https://www.sheldonbrown.com/pedals.html

Looks like he added this detail later - it's easier to increase the quality of information like this with text, than with video.

Some people add VO later (jarring); Khan Academy re-does videos (breaking references between, confusingly). Most youtubers don't do either.

Videos often have paid product placement, unacknowledged. It's very effective promotion, because it feels grass-roots.
I worked for an organization where this was the case but most people vastly preferred zoom.

IT went as far as remotely disabling the use of zoom after months of pleading with people not to use it.

This was ostensibly done for security reasons (citing zoom bombing, of all things, coz it was in the news).

When teams had a raft of really bad zero days, of course, nobody in IT batted an eye.

MS reaaaallly got its hooks in to that place.

It made me wonder how startups are supposed to compete with this type of thing. Zoom was free and better liked and it still got shut down.
AmazonBasics alkaline batteries leak consistently.
I have often wondered about the effect of magnetic fields on nuclear processes like decay rates, or cross-section relative to the applied field. Apparently no such effects have been observed, but not much evidence of that in google searches.
Heh, I did "independent consulting" for over a decade.

It's also the most densely packed section of my resume because it was by far the most interesting and diverse range of work in that time.
I feel like this was part of a William Gibson short story (Johnny mnemonic maybe) where data gets encrypted with a key unknown to the bearer. The key is sent through some channel unknown to the bearer. The bearer meets up with the key holders / some Dropbox location and decrypts data.

The enhancement here would be some little unencrypted portion/vm so the bearer can play FarmVille in transit.
> The amount of birds killed by wind turbines is non-zero but negligible.

Wind turbines don't equally affect all species. Raptors are much more vulnerable to them than are other birds in the area.

When raptors are hunting they are looking down to spot prey, and they have an eye ridge and feathers that try to block out other directions (to keep the sun out so as to not interfere with spotting small prey down below). This means that they have trouble seeing what is in front of them, reducing their chances of noticing that they are going to fly right into something.

Some wind farms are trying to address this by having spotters that keep a watch and when they see a raptor approaching shut down the section of the wind farm the bird is hunting in.

There's a company that has a system for automating this, using cameras and computer vision software to spot the approaching raptors [1].

[1] https://electrek.co/2021/01/29/wind-farm-eagle-deaths-cut-by...
I think immutability isn't really a feature with use cases.

It's a way of programming without modifying data structures in place/in memory. It's also enables us to retain old values by generating new ones without modifying them.
To learn the value of immutability, I suggest watch rich hickeys talk titled "The value of values".

Coming back to freezing a python object, the most obvious way to use that is to ensure that the object isn't modified by another function when passing it around, this may not seem like a feature at small scale but when working it large code bases it absolutely is.

Immutability's main feature is that it makes concurrency easier, if you have some data that's immutable, you can share it freely and everyone can read from it and is guaranteed to get a consistent view of the data without placing any locks or synchronisation.
> Isn’t KYC reasonable in that case

No. This is something we’ve become dangerously desensitized to.
A host asking you to do something is not Airbnb asking you to do something.

I know in China, the host have to submit a copy of your passport to the government for regulatory reasons. I don't like and I don't want to travel to China for similar reasons (Government is constantly spying on you). But it is not fair to say Airbnb is asking you for your ID.
> "The usability is going to be there."

This was also the refrain in 2017. Billions were raised to make it happen.

Four years later, what does the cryptocurrency industry have to show? Mass market adoption seems as unlikely as ever.

QR codes don't solve anything when the basic design is so user-hostile — for the end user, crypto is unsafe money that you can lose at any time even if you think you're taking precautions. The only reasonable solutions available are centralized, and at that point you're competing against Apple, Google, Visa, etc.
Given their docs state that they use third-party services to offer this service, isn't Stripe just providing a wrapper API around Onfido and charging a premium? If so, how is this really a useful proposition?
I think some kind of IOUs would work really well here! While we are at it, we also could do this for USD on the blockchain. We could say "tether" them while embezzling the real USD.
Google's Workspace suite is now available to anyone
In Germany, I can buy travel health insurance that covers an unlimited number of trips abroad of up to 8 weeks each (including basically any doctors and hospitals abroad, as well as transport back home when medically recommended) for about 15 USD a year, and similar insurance for trips up to 1 year for about 500 USD a year. (Valid worldwide, or excluding North America for a cheaper rate.)

(Recommendations (in German): https://www.finanztip.de/krankenversicherung/auslandsreisekr... )
There needs to be much more upper back work, especially in the full body strength routine, to avoid shoulder injuries.
I can easily provide a fake address to protect my privacy. Harder and legally risky to provide a fake ID to protect privacy.
There is a wide distribution of wealth in capitalist societies, and a lot of it is hidden from sight. Financing a relatively low-budget formative and educational gap year is something thrifty and financially conservative people would do for their kids.

I had my moments, worrying about a friend's finances and professional decisions, only to learn later that, well, there was clearly nothing to worry about.
Greatly amused that were a little later than the other comment but arrived at the same acronym
Though I suspect it's a lot more complicated than calling them up, telling them you've decided to take a gap year, and asking for your insurance card. It also wouldn't surprise me, never having looked into it, if the coverage is US only.
AllSides buys wholesale into right-wing framing. By what measure is CNN's news coverage on the leftmost side of the spectrum? Is MSNBC really the equivalent of Jacobin or Mother Jones, especially when it devotes 3 hours each morning to center-right Morning Joe?

https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings
IRC is not dead but I was also surprised by those numbers. Random Discord servers for niched things have more users than those combined and the big ones have hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of users.
Well, call me when you're two months into dealing a deal and realize you didn't place a ladder breaker and end up in a completely untenable position.
Files is the iOS equivalent of Windows Explorer in Windows. They both allow you to view and transfer files within the filesystem.

Dropbox provides it's functionality by integrating into Files on iOS and Windows Explorer in Windows.

Installing Files does absolutely nothing to disadvantage a Dropbox install, so your entire premise is false.
"can result in injury"

please.... just lift super light and find your form.
Supply and demand example: governments have created a lot of money to pay for extraordinary expenses in 2020 and 2021. Supply of money is now greater and this leads to rising prices (i.e. inflation).

What I mean by recuperation: We don't create more value just from creating money. So if there is more money to go around but the same amount of goods produced, that leads to inflation. We're talking about inflation to adjust for the money created to cover expenses.
His point was that they lied about not retaining ID.
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Thanks! I was looking for a summary as well from someone who understands that their take is just THEIR take. I find it funny that it seems like the most objective people are those that confront their subjectivity. And Isaac Saul seems to do it well here.
> You are not getting health insurance in most European countries unless you are working or registered as unemployed and remain at disposal of the local job centre.

Or your partner has health insurance. Or you are studying (even if you take gap year at university). Or you happen to have farming land. Etc, etc - lots of exceptions.

Or you pay for it yourself from your savings (under 100 USD a month last I've checked).
Snipers were pretty frequent in Iraq, despite the US's technological superiority.
This marketing page is really delightful. The ID scan is a nice touch.
You're what I'm aiming to be in the future. Fully remote, ditch the city, live in peace on some acres I can call my own. I used to get pretty bummed about life because of how long you have to work to retire, but being fully remote during the pandemic has been even better than I had dreamed. Now I can easily imagine a long and happy career, if I can manage to never see an office or coworker in person.
Thank you, going to take a look to that talk!
People are pro-vax because they want this pandemic to end! The majority of Americans have taken it and it's safe, I have taken it and feel happy knowing I won't have to worry about getting long covid. Anti-vax people are only extending this pandemic and fail at the most basic reasoning. I mean I can understand people being hesitant when the vaccines were first authorized, but now that most Americans have taken it, the idea someone would still risk COVID over getting vaccinated is insane.

Wanna know what does have high risk for long term side effects? COVID.
Drop the sarcasm, it's annoying and obfuscates the dialogue.

WFH employees get paid too, we're talking about the differences between costs of WFH and WFO externalized to the employee, which are not trivial e.g. commute, access to wider and cheaper housing market, all the associated stresses etc.
For anyone interested in this blog post here, the full conference paper version is here: https://www.peteresnyder.com/static/papers/easylist-sigmetri...
If so, it's a recipe for disaster.

Easy enough to booby trap discreetly to delete things if not accessed the 'correct' way.

Maybe this is to show that this approach is so crazy that it could never work (hence the written reports to gather data), and that they do
actually need <insert some crazy power> here in order to do it properly because "we tried to do it the nice way and it didnt work"
This sounds exactly how Onfido does this as well. Either it's inspired by this, or they are just wrapping the Onfido APIs.
This seems like an odd take to me. What is the point of film and fiction if not to see and experience things you otherwise cannot or would not?

The question I have is what is being preserved by not having a diversity of backgrounds, ethnicities and belief systems in films?
If you enter an address in as text you're in control of the data you're supplying. If you have to upload/scan a document then there might be other information they extract/store. I'm not someone concerned with such things but it's easy to see how they're different.
>By “quitting” they mostly mean getting new jobs or career changes

I actually had someone on my team quit until WFH was over. They couldn't take WFH any more and plan to return to the job market once they're able to go to the office.
The book is much better than my one-sentence summary of it. As a small example, the author notes that Communist forces would often set up bases on the boundary of two warlords' areas, so that they could not be surrounded.
The cost of land doesn't add a whole lot. PV in Texas, for example, is going on land costing $1200/acre. How much do you think an acre of installed PV modules costs, compared to this?
People don't want to admit it, but cryptocurrencies will absolutely go the way of tulips & beanie babies.

Various -technological aspects- from bitcoin and co's innovations will be lifted and utilized in new ways, but right now we should just be calling them "crypto-hold-forevers" or "crypto-get-rich-quick-schemes" or "crypto-buzzwords-to-sell-contracts" instead of -currencies-.
Not the original commenter, but this is the situation in Argentina. I would love to do a remote gig and get 100k a year. I am a programmer with over 20 years of experience and I can program professionally in over 10 different programming languages.
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Same root, indeed. And yes it would be extremely respectful. No one would have an issue understanding what you mean though. As you mention words with the same root are very common ( the root is for joy) and also it is used in expressions from ecclesiastical texts that are adopted as part of the vernacular.
I'm curious how those numbers compare. There seems to be a significant majority in favor of remote work in online forums, but that's not a perfect sample.
As I understand it, Lee paid for the domain name and generously donated hosting -- and had done for years. Thus, he had keys to the house, and when he decided that he owned it, nobody could stop him short of a court injunction. But apparently there was no clear legal agreement, so nothing can be done.
People bash them because they suck 99% of the time.
IRC is not exactly booming. Those who have fled during this exodus will probably not return. And trying to get people who don't already use IRC on board will be even more difficult.
The End of Just-In-Time is Near. Are you ready for what comes next?
Judging from the page description they make the same mistake of simply ignoring definitions and coming up with their own.

Is there anything special to this experience? Historically, all kinds of delusions were "widely shared". This is true even today. People "talked" to trees everywhere around the world.
Mind if I ask: was it for grammar, a label-hunting lynch mob, interpersonal politics, or not agreeing to immediately apologize for having "majority privileges?"