skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a proponent's perspective that's a big point in favour of cryptocurrencies. AML has been completely ineffective; there's absolutely zero evidence to show it's reduced drug usage or terrorism, drug gangs now are richer than ever before. What it has been effective at is making banking and achieving financial privacy way harder for the average individual. AML is like the war on drugs: it makes normal people's lives more miserable while being completely ineffective at stopping the thing it's supposed to stop, and is used as an excuse to give authoritarian governments more and more power.
Old Memes and China
If we can properly manage the traffic, I do think that we can slowly reduce the pollution produced by cars. One of the best alternatives is to go EV, but it is not yet heavily adopted by the public; thus, we can utilize our public transportation to reduce carbon emissions.
CO2 growth is mostly something that happens in China and India. Unless this technology can be exported and used there, it is pointless.
I actually feel the same way. I miss those earlier eras.

I just think that exaggerating scares is part of the problem, not the solution, regardless of which side of a debate is doing it.
Windpowered vehicle 2x speed of the wind – I laugh
m8, to me it seemed like all the news I read in the last years, about England and the road to surveillance state, put your country ahead. I'm sure Boris will soon announce they'll do the same.
With zero birth rates we will have saved the planet but there will be noone left to appreciate it.
The alternative is to do file transfers through WebRTC which is supposed to be end-to-end from my understanding.
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I non-sarcastically switched to Window Maker (https://www.windowmaker.org/) on my main desktop for a little while out of curiosity and was very impressed by the experience. I even installed GNUStep and made a crappy little GUI for an old software renderer I had with the Project Center IDE (http://www.gnustep.org/experience/ProjectCenter.html) which is surprisingly powerful and full of features.

Sure, it was all old and ugly by today's standards, and a big step backwards overall from the Plasma desktop I was used to, but it felt really good to use.

The whole GNUStep ecosystem is crazy impressive too, and idk the history around it, but I assume interest for it died off a long time ago. Which is a shame, because having that development environment on a modern (free as in freedom) desktop would be awesome. Objective-C gets a lot of hate, but IMO it's the better answer to a C successor than C++ was, as it's literally just "C with classes" and none of that other bloat.

But apparently development for GNUStep is still alive (last stable release was ~2 months ago), so maybe there is still hope that it will take off one day!
It seems analogous to air guns, which use compressed air to expel a projectile. Yes, the ATF says "welp, not a firearm". About half of US states have some kind of explicit regulations though...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_gun_laws#United_States
Anyone know if scale(0) shares any properties with the other methods to hide things in CSS? https://stackoverflow.com/a/34529598

I'm guessing it still takes space, is in flow, and takes clicks?
"direct democracy" is a no-true-scotsman type fallacy, as you can use it to keep moving the goalposts indefinitely. Even Switzerland, the much-touted example of "direct democracy" has a parliament of elected representatives.
> its also blown waaaayy out of proportion.

Can confirm, media likes to report on it because it gets a lot of clicks. It's a loud minority that knows how to use (online) media for their means and profit.

> The "police brutality" used against the QAnon, Nazis, and the so called "Querdenker" demonstrators here in Germany is laughable, when you compare what the police does against left-leaning demonstrations here in Germany on a regular basis.

Initiators of (not only) left demonstrations like to cry about the oh-so brutal police but there is definetely truth to this. I've never seen protesters get away with so much bullshit in germany.
I’m also bullish about tech; and the more I think about it, I expect any attempt by a government to force uneconomical solutions would result primarily in that government being outcompeted by others, so I see techno-cake as the only solution rather than one of two.
The stupidity filter
I'm not sure what point you're going for here, but at the end of the day, when the Delta variant results in 1000x the viral load in the nose/mouth for both unvaccinated and vaccinated folks, the only responsible solution is for everyone to mask.

Had we not ended up in a situation where we're nowhere close to herd immunity because of the anti-vax sentiment through so much of the US population, the Delta variant might never have taken hold like it has. So I stand by my original statement.
Vaccinating whole world takes so much time that it begs the question what is the game plan for countries with zero covid policy? Keep the borders locked forever so the dirty immigrants won't bring them sickness?
A different way to look at it is that the CEO provides >$2M in value to the company, whereas many of the engineers were not providing their $100k+ salary of value.
Maybe in the west, but us from ex Yugoslavia and other comunist/socailist(the bad kind) countries, do care about inflation.

And I suspect economists are manipulating how they calculate inflation, since I am creature of habit and mostly buy and consume same things for the past 15 years.

Prices are going up significantly. Some of it might be due to global shipping increase, but over all my total spending on consumables has increased to between 15% and 20% in the past 2 years.
Also, one wonders if EU states would have been better at closing their borders at the start of the pandemic (like Australia or New Zealand did) if it wasn't for the EU. Maybe not, because there are always big trade networks on a landmass on this size, but I do think that the 'free movement' ideology played a part as well. (Free movement is wonderful in general, but why in a pandemic??)
Regardless, robbing people of the ability to consent, even if 90% of them would anyways, should be intolerable.
"A California man has set a world speed record for RC aircraft by using an aerodynamic oddity to push his glider to 548 MPH. Spencer Lisenby used a technique called dynamic soaring to whip his heavily reinforced composite glider to almost Mach levels over a mountaintop near Los Angeles on Jan. 19. The Santa Anna winds were blowing at 65 MPH up the slope of Parker Mountain, setting up the correct conditions for dynamic soaring. By performing loops that exploit the boundary layers of the moving air, the pilot can use the energy of the wind to accelerate the aircraft to speeds much higher than the wind itself. With every loop, the action adds far more energy and speed to the aircraft than it loses in climbing back up the hill and the result is a head-snapping series of climbs and descents."
Article continues... video is amazing.
But the power and potential disruption of cryptocurrency is the anonymity. It's the benefits of cash brought to the digital world. I understand the dangers of the criminal element, but underground economies benefit oppressed people when governments turn tyrannical. If you're response to that is only that "it can't happen here", I don't know what to say. They can and do happen faster than anyone realizes. And they are not quick to give power back.
It is shameful the cryptocurrency community hijacked the term crypto. Cryptography is the very thing cryptocurrency relies on to make their technology working in the first place (if we may call it 'working', YMMV). Cryptography is used in vastly more important systems, it is much more important than cryptocurrency. I mean, without cryptography you could not even use something like Git to develop software such as Bitcoin. You wouldn't be able to distribute a C library securely, something on which Bitcoin relies on.
Right? I think it says a lot about the OSS community that they've latched on to that instead of doing the bare minimum completely logical thing that was asked for and then closing the issue: add a note to the documentation.
Interesting. I didn't get the feeling that they were targeting embedded 6502 but, rather, the Apple II platform. To that end I'd think being "friendly" to the ROM routines would have made good sense (since they get all that functionality "for free").

I guess I'll fire it up in an emulator first to see if it's worth hitting the real hardware with it. Thanks for the heads up!
So why can't we vaccinated let them reap the consequences of their irresponsible actions? Why are we obligated to protect people from their own conscious decisions?

In a world where vaccines are widely available, there is little value in forcing the vaccinated to collectively protect people from their decisions to remain unvaccinated. If anything, it just sows more social discord and ill will in the population that is doing the most good from a public health perspective. If some parent doesn't want their kids to get chicken pox vaccination and their kid gets chicken pox and dies, so be it. They made their choice, I made mine to vaccinate my kids against varicella.
If you use HTTPS, they're pretty much as secure as HTTPS itself is. Anything that would let you obtain or modify the token at that point would be a break of HTTPS.

(Unless you're using some weird system where the secret is in the domain name, in which case it can be a bit more complicated, but who does that?)

If you use HTTP they're not secure at all.
Some people just refuse authority of any kind. I know people who litter to stick it to the government as they saw a "no littering" sign.
And here's the obligatory rebuttal against such tweening models from an animator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KRb_qV9P4g
Looking at human faces greatly enriches our sense of connection to the people around us. I feel much more isolated when everyone is wearing masks.
Why is that lame? Because they have a machine helping them? Is motocross lame?
True, Switzerland (who I view as a "green" and progressive country) recently voted against those taxes in a referendum. I think it would be much worse in other countries.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57457384
> Believe it or not, western countries have reduced carbon emissions over the last ~15 years, in both absolute and per capita terms (despite a growing population). The only countries that are growing their carbon emissions are developing countries; mainly China, India and Russia.

USA: 15.50 metric tons (2016)
India: 1.82 metric tons (2016)

Source:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?location...

One American is emitting 15 Indians worth of carbon emissions.

In terms of your claim that "western countries have reduced carbon emissions" it is important to realize that increasingly developed countries have been outsourcing most of their high polluting industries. https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/4/18/1533104...

"During the early 2000s, these “emissions transfers” were growing at a stunning pace, nearly 11 percent per year, as more and more Western manufacturing was shifting to Asia. Factories making computers, electronics, apparel, and furniture would close in the US, open up in China, and then ship their products back home to the US. Americans got the goods; China got the pollution (and the jobs)."
This whole thing was the final straw to get me to switch away from iPhone. I decided to get a PinePhone, even though they are not ready for primetime, I am an embedded OS developer by trade, so I figure I might as well give it a go and see what I can contribute. I only use my phone for web browsing and Telegram anyway which are apparently usable on PinePhone.
I'm not familiar with WunderList
This is exactly what they are doing right now. Decoding voucher applies when their system thinks that too many hashes goes into CSAM category.
I mean, do we really need Jupiter as is? Everything Jupiter has done for us with clearing out the trash from the solar system would have been done by a 2nd smaller sun as well.
You sound very upset.

It sounds like in Scandinavia you don’t worry about corporate welfare. That’s news to me, but good to know.
As I've said in another comment, the science is demonstrating that the vaccinated can spread Covid just as easily (though likely for a much shorter duration) than the unvaccinated. And the vaccinated can still (rarely) get severely sick. So it's still a danger to everyone.

Given that reality, the only responsible choice is for everyone to suck it up and wear a mask.

Now had the unvaccinated in the US bothered to get vaccinated, the Delta variant might never have taken hold.
There's probably less than a hundred public securities that would have the liquidity and spreads needed to do this without wasting your money. If you're talking about making a sale with every debit card purchase, it's going to be impossible to avoid wash sales.
Once you're the dominant search engine, crappy organic results plus highly targeted ads is the optimal revenue machine.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html <ctrl-f> motives
I've seen the same thing happen in other engines as well (Unity and Frostbite). Not with entire projects, but sizeable deliverables. Luckily most times it's explicitly been treated as a prototype made by designers before the feature is implemented by the programmers. Sometimes, however, you'll have a manager in the middle of the process object that we obviously already have a working implementation.
> I know there's a case for larger feature branches that accumulate an entire large feature before being merged into master,

I think you are tempering your stance in the name of arguing charitably, but I’ll push against that.

No, there is no case for this. Branches are pain accumulators. The longer they live, the more pain they will bring to everyone involved.

If you need to work on something big, that’s what feature flags are for.
> I think it’s important to at least know that these fundamental operators exist.

And some inkling of what they're good for. I have that too, although I'd have to look up the exact syntax of the operators (i.e. even what symbols they're actually written as) in pretty much every language I know that has them. Heh, look up if it has them to begin with...

> Also, whenever I see code that takes a number, converts it to string, does some manipulation and then converts back to number, I always assume that this was a quick hack

It's usually the other way around, IME: You get what should be a number as a string, have to clean it up (thousands separators, different decimal "point" (comma, dammit!) symbols, etc), convert it to a number to do some calculation, then apply the formatting back onto the result.

(Die besten Spätzle habe ich ironischerweise weder in Bayern noch im eigenen Ländle gegessen, sondern in der Dampfbäckerei in Berlin.)
Depends on how you count.

If your process is 30% efficient, it wastes 70% of input. If you increase efficiency 1000x, it wastes 70% / 1000 = 0.007% of input, so it's 99.993% efficient.
They still fill up and cripple the hospitals.
If they kill crypto, we will always still have barter.

If they kill barter, then we've got serious problems.
It just turned every outing into a chore. I've been enjoying being able to smell the places I go to again.
> subjective, rather than absolute

This is a false dichotomy. If I am trying try accomplish X, it is absolutely true that I am trying to accomplish X. Both you (the observer) and I can acknowledge this fact.

> adjudication of what is stupid is inevitably subjective

No, because as you yourself say...

> it depends on the objectives and interests of the subject

and what objective you're pursuing is factually the case as I already stated.

Furthermore, objectives and interests are not arbitrary and brute facts, but ultimately related to human nature. It is possible in principle, even if not in practice, to determine whether an objective being pursued is wrong, stupid, etc. It makes no sense, for example, to say that someone isn't stupid because he is pursuing the objective of suicide successfully. The objective itself is stupid because it is objectively (not "subjectively") contrary to the good of the subject (euthanasia supporters notwithstanding) to kill yourself and because it is factually the case that the ("subjective") understanding the person has of what is good for him is stupid.
Because an auto-incrementing id column has to be coordinated between processes that are writing to the database. That means allocating ids in blocks that are large enough that processes aren't blocked in getting an allocation, but they still need to request a block to maintain writing.

That sequence allocation needs to be ACID as well, so that there is no chance of any allocation being repeated.
Sulforaphane may provide a treatment for Balding
I haven't read that one. I've always recommended my devs read The Little Schemer if they ever need something to read on a plane ride. I always recommend reading it while NOT in front of a computer.
Let’s say I’m from Netherlands and create dozens of companies, local, nearshore and offshore to both reduce the taxes I pay and to top up my carbon emission quota.
Yes.

Okay, is DigiCert having problems today? That's CloudFlare's primary provider, so the LE certificate might be a stop-gap applied by CF.
In fact it's just plain wrong to divide the world this way between 'developed' and 'developing'. There is no inherent progress towards 'development' and no natural staging of these things towards lower CO2 emissions or advancement generally. The reality is that the world economy is combined and uneven.

Environmental laws and protections put in place in western countries are one of the many things that leads to the wholesale export of industries into places where regulations are laxer or unenforced. The dirty work is sent elsewhere.

Considered as a whole, there is no "third wave" economy, and mass industrialism has never left us. The world's industrial working class is larger than it has ever been. Industrial production is bigger than it's ever been. Industrial pollution is larger than it has ever been, by far. And all of this is tied into a world economy facilitated by global trade.

This should be entirely obvious to people who work in a tech sector where almost all hardware is produced in China.

So it is nonsense to try to divide responsibilities between "developed" and the "developing" world. The whole world continues to be "developing."

And the distribution of wealth itself isn't close to even either, there are areas within the "developed" world that look very similar to the "undeveloped" or "developing" world in terms of living standards.
Kind of a niche for HN, but there's a few watchmaking programs catering to US military veterans that began after WWII, dried up a bit but seem to be making a bit of a resurgence.

https://www.veteranswatchmakerinitiative.org
Isn't a democratic governing body representing the will of the people and society?
They had a legal avenue in China called leaving. That was not profitable though, so they compromised their ethics in exchange for money.
And we all now that these governments stop carrying about their citizens at the border. Not.
https://graphmetrix.com is using sbcl common lisp for the entire conceptual AI system and decentralized server with the Solid protocol https://solidproject.org/
FCC has issued guidance for manufacturers to protect against modifications that would break FCC rules. The easiest way to do that is to have a closed-source baseband firmware.

https://prplfoundation.org/fcc-open-source-router-software-i...
A virus allowed to spread will mutate.
Why isn’t there a metric like:

Cumulative CO2 emissions per capita, per consumption, etc.

Would that give us a better sense of how much more the developed countries have emitted so far vs the developing countries.
This has everything to do with socialism. Socialism is about trading individual liberty, power, and ability to consent for centrally-managed services provided with government authority. This is exactly what's happening here.

The ease and comfort with which this trade is made speaks exactly to the trend GP was referring to.
Because they were afraid that they'd be here for the long term, and didn't want to tolerate that? Articles like this just confirm those fears.
Cryptocurrency is also a hedge against tyranny. There seems to be a naive belief that it can never happen here, just because it never has.
There are two related but different things going on here.

1. Revocation is broken. The obvious way for revocation to work (your browser checks if the certificates it sees have been revoked) not only has negative privacy implications (so e.g. Firefox does not implement this) it also plain doesn't work. It has "fail-open" behaviour for a bunch of sad but inevitable social reasons. In theory we have viable fixes for this, but in practice we can fix really big problems (e.g. a whole CA is compromised) with a lot of effort and smaller problems (e.g. your IT guy emailed your private keys to a scammer) mostly not at all. Thus, expiry is the hard stop, if your certificate expires in six weeks, the scammer loses any benefit [edited] in six weeks. Problem "solved" or at least mitigated.

2. The Web PKI can only evolve at the rate permitted by certificate expiry. Anything faster will set important stuff on fire, because no matter how hard you try you can't publicise changes enough to ensure people are aware of them. e.g. Everybody needed to stop using SHA-1 certificates, that took several years, when the same happened for MD5 it took so long to be effective that even though it was deprecated before a reliable collision was known there were multiple successful attacks anyway. Under Apple's current 12 month rule, if we need to fix something ASAP, we can either break the world, or we wait until late 2022. But under the historic Five year rule that becomes break the world or don't fix it until 2027. That's a pretty big difference in how agile we can be without telling everybody, "Sorry, we broke the whole Internet, reinstall and try again".
Is this really true in Wal-Mart, though?
It may be worth taking very seriously that you might be overestimating both how quickly regular people become aware of such events and how emphatically people will react.