skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose I wasn't clear, but I am referring to media coverage. What's weird is how people continue to view East Asia as some exotic strange place. We're all human and we should be promoting more cultural understanding. I'd love to have the power to affect that through my posts but I don't. I am not a member of the media! This article is published by the LA Times, which has enormous reach. Reach I think is wasted on yet another post on Japanese convenience stores (seriously, go look at how many of these there have been)

just the fact that Taiwan compares is almost certainly less known to Americans than the contents of this piece
It had both.

The tsunami that disrupted its power systems was well outside design parameters. The controversy around the plant's operation was around whether the parameters should have been altered given proximity to the ocean, not whether the plant (given the parameters) was well-built or well-maintained.

To this day, Fukushima's meltdown is responsible for zero deaths (in contrast to the tsunami that instigated the meltdown, which killed over 15,000).
> Doesn’t matter what you think about the event and it’s authenticity as described

Interesting small mention. Is it common in America to disbelieve in the mainstream history of 9/11? I’m just getting glimpses from the new world via the internet and have no ear to the ground there
> Apple has confirmed that it’s automatically scanning images backed up to iCloud to ferret out child abuse images.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/01/09/apples-scanning-...
It's hilarious to this English speaker.

My mind was blown when I realized the same had been done with the Japanese word "mamachari" — that is, a popular bicycle for women that allow them to carry a child and grocery bag.
My theory: they are buying out a potential competitor, and thier IP, before they become a threat. Killing them in the cradle as it were. It sends a strong signal to anyone else talking about satellite-based network services.
Also higher carbon and heat seem to cause the ice caps and the glaciers to melt down faster than plants can absorb the excess heat. You could also say that it’s a regulator but I’m not sure it’s good the humanity in any way.
Did you ever experience that you turned some setting off but it was "accidentally" turned on again after some update/reboot?
Note that you could probably „weaponize“ this addictive personality to achieve what normal people cannot (eg dedicate an extreme amount of time to a difficult task and achieve it)
I remember reading Snowcrash (late 90s?) but even then I was stunned by how far ahead of its time it was. I had to double check the publish date. I've never had a Facebook account (largely for privacy reasons and also because I'm a bit of an introvert) but the metaverse may just push me into it. I really don't know. Mostly I'm concerned about privacy and consent. What does consent even mean inside the metaverse? Maybe now is the time to start building a meta-identity. And is this really the future or just one mans pipe dream, a fad for the next 30 years? Are children born today likely to spend most of their waking hours looking through VR goggles? Has the oculus generation been born?

Edit: typo
Genuine question, have you ever recovered from addiction yourself?

Because that phrasing is a bit odd, IMO.

No-one chooses to become dependent, and there's a lot of optimism bias/hubris when people start dabbling in addictive substances - I won't get addicted like _those_ people, I'm different...

But the hard bit, as you've noted, is making the choice to end your dependence. The choice to face whatever in life your vice of choice was numbing you to, to face it naked and vulnerable.

...that takes a lot of guts. And a lot of repeated attempts.

And you're right about the need for intrinsic instead of external motivation.
I'd interpret that as "this is incredibly sad for your", as in, it's so sad it's hard to even begin to explain it. Do you interpret it as "if anyone could explain how sad this is it would be me, and I can't"?

(It would be helpful if you could link to an example in context, where we can see that the speaker is using it your way)
> To clarify, in 1Password 7 we had two types of vaults: vaults used with the 1Password.com service and what we called "local vaults" or "standalone vaults" which were synced however you decided to, typically Dropbox or iCloud.

> Assuming we're talking about the same feature, then the answer is no, they are not implemented as the new releases do not have support for local/standalone vaults and 1Password 7 will be the last version to support them. The new apps rely on the server to perform a lot of the heavy lifting so we will not be adding support for local vaults as they existed in earlier versions. ...

"We took away a feature that let people not pay us a subscription for no reason and are now maybe gonna think about re-adding it but making it more complex to setup so nobody uses it and we'll get more money."

Can anybody tell me why HIBP still supports them?
Covid vaccines are not covered under that program:
https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/covered-vaccines/i...

They are covered under https://www.hrsa.gov/cicp
Which has notable differences (worse) in injuries covered, appeal possibilities and benefits.
Differences:
https://www.hrsa.gov/cicp/cicp-vicp
Train Up a Child in the Way He Should Go
Train up a child in the way he should go: When he’s old, he will never depart from it, up bring a child up in

the discipline and instruction of the Lord because a child that isn’t brought up with the discipline

always brings shame to the family. But when a child is brought up with the discipline and the

Instructions of the Lord, that child will never depart from it and he/she will bring honour and respect to the family.
> in India where companies generally don't even shortlist candidates of interviews if they don't have a degree...

That happens because there are so many applicants! The companies then decide to set initial filtering criteria to reduce their workload by setting arbitrary constraints for e.g. whether you have a degree, whether you have distinction etc. The same happens with larger US companies who get so many applicants that they try to set automated filter in the form of online coding tests to reduce their workload. You will get this everywhere. It is not specific to one country or company.
90% of the functionality is written in rust components and the UI is a very slim wrapper around those APIs; it seems.

And even then it looks like the JS is WASM compiled from rust.

It’s not implemented in JavaScript/typescript is what I mean. As such it seems to be lean on my system.
Indiana Jones wouldn't get tenure, yes he found the ark of the covenant, but what did he find afterwards (which was delivered to the gov/museum?)
The values from Dukes's paper are illuminating.

- The fossil fuels burned in a year represent about 400 years' worth of accumulated ancient biomass. That is, you'd need to capture all the biomass grown for four centuries to give the fuel we consume in one year.

- But conversion and preservation aren't perfect. So it took five million years to form just the oil we consume annually (or did in 1997, though values have remained reasonably constant since). That is, only about 0.008% of ancient biomass was stored as petroleum.

I don't know the figures for carbon-cycle sequester and release rates, though at best we're looking at centuries to remove what we've put into the atmosphere in decades, if not longer.
I tried to learn Japanese by sheer force of effort and managed to make "do-eet-su" stick in my mind to mean "German". It was years later that the penny dropped and i realized it was just "Deutsch" transliterated.
And more and warmer oceans provide more space for plankton to eat carbon. Nature almost always a regulatory process at the ready. The question is only its capacity.
Same here. In the back of my mind I was always kind of looking forward to what he would create next. I grew up watching WKUK and am a bit biased, but in any case he'll be missed.

Also, if you're a fan and haven't seen it, it's worth checking out the movie-length Civil War On Drugs: https://archive.org/details/thecivilwarondrugs.
We’ll Know It’s Finally Time to Stop Masking
I haven’t seen the 3D iphone animation shown in the embedded Twitter video. Is it something specific to the charging mat?
What I learnt from first 100 email subscribers on Substack
So do I. That doesn't excuse Google's other forms of exploitation though. Like ads and private information collection, they're just yet another thing we should be working to block.
I like the title of the book!
So do they provide official authorization to these extremely disruptive gilets jaunes protests?
> making your little temper tantrum even more ridiculous.

Discouraging activism in the open-source realm by branding it as a "temper tantrum" seems counterproductive at best, and quite reductionist at worst.

> Mind, they’re doing it in a way that is better at privacy protection than others

I don't think it matters if the method used is better than the competition. The main point of contention is: people shouldn't be having their images scanned anyway, especially on their own device.
It should be prevented by law in most cases.
oh yeah i didn't expect such a large chunk off
I went to AA when I was concerned about my drinking. A fair few people there seemed to have swapped alcohol dependence for AA meeting dependence.

Definitely better to be reliant on a supportive group of peers than something that'll eventually kill you, but felt like swapping smoking for vaping - definitely better for you, but not solving the underlying cause.

And their view that you're always going to be an alcoholic, for the rest of your life feels like a belief rather than scientific fact, and sometimes, a self-fulfilling prophecy when members relapse.

But ultimately, it works for some people, so more power to them.
To me we don't even consider the actual worse case scenario.

Is there any doubt 50 years from now all this will be on algorithmic autopilot for digital authoritarianism? All societies will have Chinese style monitoring but to an unimaginable degree even to people in China right now.

People outside IT were barely even using the internet 25 years ago. We are at the very start of this and already too far gone. You just have to enjoy these times and what we still have.
It's surprising how often this just isn't necessary. The example in the code is one I've often seen in production:

const { stdout, stderr } = await exec(`curl ${line}`);

Javascript has fetch(), PHP has a curl library built into the language, python has requests, etc. The majority of shell() calls have the same exact situation.
I used to use Emacs for all of those things and more.

I think I used Emacs as my email client for around 20 years. There was never really any email client that did IMAP well and storing mail locally doesn't work when you have a couple of laptops, two home machines you use for work, a couple of workstations at work. I can't remember which email client I originally used, but over the years there wasn't much left of it since I had rewritten large parts of it to offer tolerable IMAP support that could deal with having 3-4 different accounts for work, personal, hobby etc.

What broke things was when maintaining a mail infrastructure became too much work and I that I had to use services for work that didn't play nice with most mail clients.

And this sucked since I had something like 10kLOC of elisp to deal with sorting, categorizing, prioritizing and filtering email. So I had this specialized email client nobody was willing to touch (can't blame people since the code was probably garbage) and I had a choice between continuing to spend time maintaining it and just use more convenient options.

It depends on what people think when they say IDE.

I would say I used Emacs as an IDE for C, C++, Java and to a certain degree, Go. For me an IDE needs to do syntax highlighting, have some semantic understanding of the language, be able to do sensible completion, understand symbols (find definition, find uses), show me documentation, interface with version control, be able to do simple refactoring, run builds, tests, perform debugging etc. It doesn't matter whether it is a clicky or GUI'y interface - what matters to me is that I can have 90% my needs as a developer served within the same environment.

Or let me put it another way: I don't use VS code for anything I didn't use Emacs for in the past when I develop.

But the thing is that Emacs doesn't have enough active developers maintaining stuff. For instance, if you program Go, things worked okay - and then the semantic bits moved to language servers and Emacs extensions were slow to adopt this. Making Emacs a lot less useful. Every so many weeks you'd sit down a weekend to try to cobble together something that would minimally work and it became tiring.

And yes, a lot of basic stuff is missing or simply just too low quality. From how you configure stuff to how you install and manage extensions to how you manage configuration across workstations. This isn't a new problem and the fact that Emacs has struggled with this for too long suggests that you won't see this solved in, for instance, GNU Emacs any time soon.

If you are a developer today learning VS Code is a better investment than learning Emacs. It has nothing to do with disliking Emacs - it is a simple matter of what environment manages to attract a sufficiently large active developer base for developing extensions and tools.

As I said, I still love Emacs. But evolution is making it a dead end.
In my experience, I find DDG results less relevant.

I settled on Yandex. The only problem sometimes is that results from "internationalized" sites are in Russian.
This article seems weird to me, because I view non-substance addictions as a way of procrastination, which in turn is a way to fix a bad emotional state.

When your environment is hostile and depressing, and it certainly is for many people now thanks to covid and the faceless megacorps we have to deal with to get through daily life, then it kind of makes sense to disassociate from reality and get lost in a good video game.
Sorry if off topic, but if you're going to link to Reddit, at least link to old.reddit.com

I just clicked "view all replies" 3 times, and never got shown more than an additional 5, then got a pop-up that I'm assuming was supposed to tell me how much better the app experience is (for the 3rd time), but it never actually populated, and just blocked half the screen.

It's amazing to me that a relatively benign ux change/"upgrade" was the determining factor in digg v reddit, and yet reddit seems determined to make their site as unusable as possible.

You'd think reddit would understand how easy it can be to trigger a mass user exodus. Especially since their success can probably be explained more by digg's downfall than any proactive actions on their part.
Actually this was one of the first 'signs' for me. When I started to really relax, say a 1-2 hour walk in one of our parks, embracing the void as I like to call it : I noticed I didn't smoke. After a while I stopped carrying the cigarettes.
The food prices in most countries follow the international prices of several commodities. If cars, and gas are more expensive, then food becomes more expensive in most parts of the world.
What is the end goal of this?

Google is to still have infrastructure and people working on putting code/binaries on phones but not be compensated for it?
Or is it to get Google completely out of it and let the phone provider do it?
Or just willy nilly and you are on your own?
Or finally will other stores popup instead of Google?

I think if I was Google I would want some percentage of the end revenue or a flat fee every time you push new code out. Maybe force them to lower their fee.

I dislike the idea of there being no store. End users will be tricked into installing god knows what...
you're using the wrong browser
Funny thing is that this difference of passed time that remains after the spaceship slows down has more to do with acceletation and GR than speed and SR.

The fact that you can describe this effect from the point of SR (by swuinting a bit) means that you can get GR time dilatation from SR time dilatation with no additional input.

The moment that we knew that the acceleration is the same as the gravity and that the speed of light in vacuum is constant we only had to think long and hard to see that gravity causes time to flow differently in different places.
Interesting edge case, this one. Rich text is commonly called that because there is a GUI editor that transparently converts the markup to different styles.

However, that clearly doesn’t apply to markup that is common enough to become a medium of communication.

Then, the question is, where to draw the line? One could argue that markdown only provides minimal semantic structure, and as such is akin to punctuation, which hasn’t always existed in ”plain text”, either.

I think some new categories are needed. Effectively, the standard ones would be something like:

1. Unstructured text: edited and viewed in plain text editor, formatting limited to whitespace

2. Rich text: edited and viewed in GUI editor with unconstrained structured and unstructured formatting

3. Structured text: markdown, LaTeX, etc. Edited as plain text with minimal markup, viewed by rendering source document in GUI, with automatic formatting based on structure and chosen style

4a. Program code, human-written and -readable

4b. Program code, automatically generated (JS bundles, etc)

5. Machine code as binary
Sure, this particular move strictly improves privacy. But it has some terrible implications:

1. That there are circumstances in which it's okay to design an electronic device to work against its owner: an accusation is all it takes to ruin your life. Existing cloud services only scan their own computers, of course.

2. Because it provides more privacy than existing cloud services, people (esp. governments) might come to see this as an acceptable compromise between user privacy and law enforcement power.
I think they meant "Web 2.0"
Ask HN: Is domain squatting still profitable? Is there a solution?
I have nothing to do with domain squatting, but I do own a .co.uk domain for over 20 years and 18 years ago I tried to buy the .com from what I then found out was a squatter, out of principle I turned their offer down and the .com domain remains vacant, it’s not a particular interesting or valuable domain, so I’m not surprised no one else bought it.

Fast forward to a few months ago, and I let one other domain expire, it was for a brand I was creating, the domain was a made up word and a squatter registered that domain as soon as it expired, assuming some service registered it without any human supervision as that made up word holds no value to anyone else and I consciously decided to let it expire.

Since I made up that word and it was 14 characters long, are they just going to keep it for 20+ years?

This just made me wonder how many vacant domains we have today, that it must still be (unethical and) profitable and if it’s time to do something about it?
Yes, you are right. The real problem is the ubiquity of Google Mobile Services (GMS) though, rather than the app store itself. For example, GMS are pre-installed on all Samsung devices, but Samsung's equivalent is not installed on all Google devices.

This means, that everyone will still use Google Play for in-app purchases out of convenience.
I fully understand that the free software movement believes that they are doing things for the rights of end users.
I read that article and see this new method as work around for the FBI complaints, and once again allowing E2EE to move forward.

Technology doesn't live in a vacuum. Given the calls from the government for backdoors to encryption, I think it's safe to assume this is Apple getting out in front of what could likely be heavy handed legislation to add actual backdoors like master keys.

But, we'll have to wait and see if Apple starts adding more services to E2EE again. It also may all be moot if legislation gets passed that forces companies to be able to break the encryption for warrants.
> They made the standalone license almost impossible to find and get, forced a subscription on users, and made the password vault storage online for the subscriptions.

1Password recently raised $100 million at a $2 billion valuation.

Looks like they're going down the Dropbox path. Shame as 1Password used to be one of my favorite apps.
Math.js does the same thing. Demo on lucianmarin.com/num for some math, works on the phone too.
Sure life will adapt or change or not. But I am not sure we will. We have now reached the point where we can stop using fossil fuels and dumping carbon into the atmosphere.
Isn't it actually down to sub instructions?
FWIW, though it's hard to find nowadays AFAIK the standalone license is still offered and I still use mine with the latest version. You can use unlimited local vaults and network sync them via Dropbox (or a janky WiFi thing). The local sync hasn't gotten any TLC in a while but it works same as always without any limits.
I believe some of the outer planets or their moons are made of methane of have loads of methane on them.

So if without life there they have so much hydrocarbons, why then do we need to believe that our hydrocarbons come from the remains of some dead creatures, whether plankton or dinosaurs?
There may be another attack.

Given some CP image, an attacker could perhaps morph it into an innocent looking image while maintaining the hash. Then spread this image on the web, and incriminate everybody.
I've actually been contemplating doing exactly what you've done. Good to hear about your positive experience. Thanks much for sharing your experience.
Having gone down the indoor hydroponics/aeroponics rabbit hole, I find it likely that you could buy leds with the exact frequency or spread of light needed to counter the light perception issue - seasonal depression is probably a complex of deficiencies, though, so light alone probably wouldn't be sufficient. Some combination of atmosphere, temperature differential and duration, physical activity, and recurrence could all come into play. And vitamin d and possibly other nutrient deficits depending on seasonal food in your market.

If it was as simple as light exposure, leds on glasses would be an easy cheap fix - wear light therapy glasses x minutes a day while you work or listen to podcasts, etc.
The fact it is state built and state funded doesnt give me confidence that it protects you against state level adversary.
> Since you could get to anywhere in the universe almost instantly by travelling sufficiently close to the speed of light

But the universe is billions of light years across - if someone is travelling at just under the speed of light, wouldn't that mean it would take them billions of years (as experienced on the ship) to traverse the universe?

> why do many science fiction writers and science fiction movies want to introduce faster than light travel?

My thought on this, from a purely sci-fi perspective, is that accelerating close to light speed would use a phenomenonal amount of energy, and take a long time to do. Furthermore, time is experienced differently for those on the ship and those outside it. So with these points in mind, some kind of "hack" that allows you to fold spacetime and jump several lightyears instantaneously (as experienced by everyone) makes sense.
When I was in college in the 70's we went to a Miller brewery where they told us about some blue liquid they poured into Miller High Life that allowed them to ship the beer in clear bottles instead of brown. It came in tanker cars full; they claimed the FDA didn't know what it was (don't think I believed them).
TBH A24 are pretty exceptional. These days, outside of A24, I think there's better depth and quality in TV series overall. And TV is great visually too these days thanks to being all digital.