skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will be difficult with a new domain for a highly targeted keyword like planning wedding. The longer keywords you mentioned are more specific, but they all include planning wedding, so competition will be fierce. A better bet would be to try to curate local guides on planning wedding. I.e Austin.planning.wedding or something. I don't know if subdomains rank better than subpages though. Planning.wedding/Austin might be even better. There will still be huge competition for big cities though.
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Sure, however this has the effect of showing any eavesdropper exactly which certificates you're trusting (and when), and thus in most cases which web sites you're visiting. It also tells the Certificate Authorities the same things about sites they've issued certificates to.

Now, I assume that the list of people who visit Porn Hub isn't valuable enough to justify the CA (DigiCert again) explicitly monitoring who visits the site and selling it when they already charge PornHub good money for a certificate. But who knows?
> People ask questions. How to start planning a wedding? Turns to: https://how.to.start.planning.wedding

Why not just https://planning.wedding/how-to-start-planning-a-wedding ?
That paper has been discussed on HN a few times ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26994741 ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24216764 ). The conclusion I came to in the comments on those threads is the authors of this paper discuss webasm program correctness ('insecure C is still insecure, whaddyaknow'), but they don't even attempt to break the host barrier (aka the whole point of the spec) so this doesn't really say much about the WebAssembly spec from a host security perspective.

I am also interested in new papers that directly discuss webasm host security.
Something tells me you might have a difficult time convincing say Qualcomm with just that reasoning.
> As you know if you read enough about banking, and as the intro points out, banks already invest your balance in risky stuff.

When the bank screws up and loses 90% of my money, I'm guaranteed by the FDIC to get it all back (as long as it's under the insured amount).

When I screw up, I lose money.

Sure, that's the way investing works, but people generally separate "funds I can afford to invest/lose" from their day-to-day checking accounts.

These days, you can just electronically transfer your money to your broker and it's available "instantly". I am not really seeing an advantage.
Having been in a couple BBC offices, they really do just have strange furniture all over the place. It wouldn't shock me if those tables came from one of the top floor meeting rooms rather than being made bespoke for this purpose!
Generating Sortable Stripe-Like IDs with Segment's KSUIDs
RFID chip t5577 EM ID injection (2 IDs on 1 chip)
I disagree - if they are covering for a minor, understood and embarrassing mistake, then it does not mean they haven't learned lessons or that they aren't improving those standards and changing processes internally. It simply means they don't want to talk about it to the public, and want to keep it off the 6pm news.

I'm not saying they *have* learned any lesson or that there isn't incompetence/laziness somewhere. I'm just saying that trying to keep the incident low-key is not itself an indication of that.

As someone who has worked in IT operations, there are plenty of times where I have seen a near-outage occur because of a bad process. And many times, the offending team would quietly get their shit together but also not publicize their mistake, so as not to incur the wrath of execs.
Switzerland is very conservative, I'm not all that surprised if it didn't pass.
> But mitigations aren't bad

I support wearing a mask for individuals who are symptomatic or have a positive test result.

Beyond that, it's likely that mandatory nonpharmaceutical interventions such as masks and lockdowns will be bad for public health in the long run.

Consider the possibility that all the masking and isolation we've done is setting us up for an extremely bad flu season in the coming year or two [1]. We see the same pattern in forest management, where by constantly preventing the small natural forest fires, we unintentionally set the stage for massive record breaking wildfires.

[1] The impact of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions on the future dynamics of endemic infections https://www.pnas.org/content/117/48/30547
The most striking argument against "I've got nothing to hide" is that it's wrong, because many of us in fact must hide something: Take for instance the terms and conditions that you have to agree to when you sign up for a Visa card or Mastercard:

https://www.cardcomplete.com/media/medialibrary/2021/03/AGBs...

Quoting from the text (section 5.5):

"The Cardholder must not disclose the assigned PIN, nor any personally
chosen PIN (see Item 17.8.), nor the Secure Code to anyone, not even to
employees of card complete. The Cardholder is responsible for ensuring
strict secrecy concerning all card security details – PIN, Secure Code
and mobileTANs received on his/her telephone (to be used
for authenticating a ViS/MCID transaction and valid for a maximum of 5
minutes after receipt) – and must take all reasonable precautions to
ensure that they cannot be discovered by others."

Thus, if you sign these conditions, you are obligated to keep this information secret. Similar obligations are imposed on customers for other cards and in other circumstances, in communication with banks, insurance companies etc. To keep these secrets, we need secure ways to store this information, and secure ways to communicate.
I don't think I said "compassion" anywhere. But today they do obviously care about having an economically strong nation with a good standard of living. It's what will help keep them in power.
Ahh yes that makes perfect sense, thanks. I do indeed see the Cloudflare one from a year ago.

Seems it was now renewed as a Let's Encrypt one.
I see them walking embedded in the crowds in Paris. They tend to follow the action if a particular place 'dies out'.

> it was particularly shocking.

Why so vague?
Hm, I suppose common denominator is correct. But, the gauss gun falls pretty easily withing the overall definition you've quoted. There are plenty of "and similar" stipulations that pretending it doesn't would seem a bit silly.
Fortran has never been used seriously for systems programming. It got text processing capabilities and a ton of other stuff, but we do not see operating systems or web servers written in Fortran.

And C got the floating point operations B did not have, and was actually used for lots of numerical work for a while (and it still is, up to some point), but nobody was totally happy with it so we got C++, new Fortran versions, Python, now Julia... Although it always is an option due to the availability and quality of C compilers, I would not say that C succeeded in becoming the language of choice for scientific computing.

Of course, this does not mean that C or Fortran are failures.
As far as I'm aware, there is none, though the EARN IT act that passed the Senate last year would have brought us closer by opening a company to liability if they provide E2E encryption without a mechanism for CSAM detection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EARN_IT_Act_of_2020
Do You Need Another Covid Shot?
You might find development class sailing interesting. For example, the Moth started off as a fairly normal dinghy and is now a really fast foiling boat: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moth_(dinghy)

I’m not sure if there are similar things in other sports, but with Moths and foiling boats, there are plenty of people who say this isn’t real sailing. Fun to watch, though.
Saw an electric car from the 1920 at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Really, until then - I had no idea.
"Pointless" is a massive and silly exaggeration. Regardless of growth, over a third of CO2 is emitted by developed countries. Reducing CO2 is valuable whether or not it happens in China and India.
When Thomas E. Dickey [1] stops taking care of Xterm (and much else), it will be the end of an era.

[1] https://invisible-island.net/
I met an American guy around 2005 who told me something that got me to think: He did not use any "public" email service (gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc). When I asked him why, did he believe the government could do something to him? his answer was (heavily parphrased):

"It is not about what the government can to today with it, it is what the government will be able to do in the future"

You may believe that your dick picks are OK now and laugh at the thought of some FBI/NSA official having to comb those on a friday afternoon. But in 10/15 years time you may be in a situation where, said official will bring your dick-picks as evidence of how since so long ago you were a crazy sex maniac.
That's usually true of so what arguments.
Mechanical watches are a fashion accessory that also happen to show time.

This does not prevent them from being feats of engineering, because of the technology limitations, and the need to show off (ever saw a tourbillion watch?). I would compare them to Fabergé's eggs of our time.
Got my device. It's super. A warning if any Linux user considers this though: Lenovo specs said Intel WiFi, but it came with Realtek 8852AE, and drivers for this aren't included yet in current kernels. It was straightforward to get it working with https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89 (latest KDE Neon), but for the time being that will then have to be done after all kernel udpates.
It was mainstream long before that.

It was in common use with the Digital Research GEM desktop in the mid '80s (which used a .app suffix for applications), but was not particularly unique to GEM.
> Hundreds of times less accurate. Yikes!

Everyone knows this; you're making it seem like it's some kind of conspiracy.

Mechanical watches are awesome. I bought my first "semi-luxury" one (a Longines Diver for like $3,000) two years ago and I love everything about it: the style, the complication, the fact that I need to wind it if I want to wear it. Everything is so interesting and neat. Everything has so much history: watchmakers were the pinnacle of human engineering for centuries!

It's something special I'd love to leave to my hopefully future kids. I like my Casio F-91W for different reasons[1], but it's certainly not as special.

[1] https://dvt.name/2019/06/03/hacking-the-casio-f-91w-to-handl...
> if there is no killswitch for the speakers, that can be used as a microphone, too?

Speakers can be wired to do that, but this is not something you can change with software.
Masks and vaccines are orthogonal. Staying at home protects me infinitely times better than masks or vaccines, but yet I can't rely on that completely either. I stopped mask usage with friends and family, but see absolutely no downside of continuing to wear a mask in stores.

Others' perceptions of me are arbitrary and socially defined, and who is so worried about fitting in at the grocery store? If people were grounded in any type of reality, they'd realize that a chemical warzone requires, at minimum, a full face respirator and chemical cartridges.
The legislation, sure. But not the infrastructure or data: Turkey can legislate whatever it wants, but they’re never going to see my bank records (except for under some truly extraordinary and unlikely circumstances).
Vaccines drive the evolution of more virulent covid strains. Vaccinated people infected with delta have measurable viral loads similar to those who are unvaccinated and infected with the variant. They don't get as sick but spread the virus nearly as well as unvaccinated folks. The spreading rate is correlated with the mutation rate.

A good mask, N95 or above, can prevent covid transmission and contraction. Cloth and surgical masks on the other hand are like trying to stop mosquitos with a chain link fence.

People that have the vaccine and walk around indoor spaces without a mask are actually causing their own eventual demise, as they will be giving the virus hosts (themselves included), allowing the virus to mutate to its next more virulent form that vaccines have no chance against.

I know it's painful to wear a good mask as you cannot show off your pretty face. Do it for your country, for Biden and for our hero Fauci. :-)
Its also worth noting the cleaning process for McDonald seems to be different than other companies that use the similar machines. The documentary I watched (youtube) pretty much accuses them of purposely making the McDonalds machines fail cleaning by setting unrealistic requirements.
"Economic output per ton of CO2" looks like a red herring to me. To borrow a phrase from elsewhere in this thread, the climate doesn't care about economic output.

I'm not saying we won't see costs from decarbonising. We will. I'm saying that worrying too much about the economics will significantly impede the necessary work (as it has done for the past 50 years). It's quite likely that the current financial system is the wrong tool for the job in fixing this problem, now.
Based on their current GitHub contributions, I'd say they have quite a few folks. 50+ across opensearch, opensearch dashboards, and the various plugins if I were to guess.

https://github.com/opensearch-project
Musk is proposing to make an expensive part, boring tunnels, cheaper. But then he also proposes a fundamentally boneheaded change that makes any improved efficiency there much worse: individual vehicles which are fundamentally unscalable.

So I wish he would keep the good part, cheaper tunnels, but not sabotage those tunnels with an unworkable vehicle proposal. It also gives a ton of power to the obstructionists to sabotage real transit projects and increase their costs, because they can say "let's try what Musk is proposing".
More context:

"The GR-1 is capable of accepting 3 different standard projectile lengths (32 mm, 42 mm, and 52 mm) with a unique variable magazine system"

"Muzzle Velocity: 75 m/s."

75 m/s is slower than a lot of bows, and those are fairly big slugs, as compared to a .22 bullet.

What you should expect with this gun is a very curved trajectory and, likely, low accuracy. At the very least, it will need sights similar to what's available for bows, since a few meters of distance in range will have a large impact on where the bullet lands.

The large size of these bullets means they might actually not penetrate much, if at all. (I'd appreciate more spec's than just their length). Yes, they have half the kinetic energy of a .22 round, but that's going to be spread over a much larger impact area.
NeXTSTEP also supported SPARC and PA-RISC.
Air rifles don't fall under this definition (in the US, felons can own them). Air rifles are pretty serious, like guys are hunting bears with them in some larger calibers.

I have no idea if it's been tested in court, though.
The opposing forces in the US Civil War sustained large armies in the field for years even before widespread industrialized agriculture. In some ways it was a preview of WW1, showing the difficulty of breaking through defensive positions.
We have debated this question a fair bit at Financial Choice. I agree, the barrier does seem low, but also keep in mind that this is often the case for new companies, and the barrier is often higher than it seems for existing companies. For really established players, it's often hard to move fast (anyone who has worked at a big company probably knows this, there is often so much red tape).

But I also think for others, this is quite a mental shift on how to look at checking and investing accounts. There are some investment companies like Wealthfront and Betterment who are starting to move into checking accounts, but it feels very much like a afterthought to a customer.

We are hoping to truly unite the two account types.
git commit --amend is a lifesaver as well
I think it would be really cool if we had a time slider on a product like Google Earth, where we could go back in time and see how cities and roads changed and what we think they might have looked like based on all the archeological knowledge we possess.

For example, the city in this article is currently submerged under water. What was the world like right before? How about right after?

Think of it like a visual reconstruction of all of human history. It would be fascinating.
That's quite false.

I live in Southwestern Ohio and get probably 75% of my power from coal. My pot of coffee emits far more CO2 than someone in Portland, who gets 0% from coal and most of their power from hydro. It's the same pot of coffee. Our cost of energy is similar and our standard of living is similar.

Where you get your power greatly affects how much CO2 you emit doing the exact same things. All energy is not created equal.

There are two huge barriers to doing anything about this problem. The first is denialists and those with vested interests in fossil fuels promoting denialism. The second is well-intentioned people who understand that there is a problem over-complicating the issue, promoting misunderstandings, or promoting the idea that this can't be solved without massive decreases in standard of living.

The latter, which I term "abstinence based environmentalism" by analogy with abstinence-based sex ed, will work about as well as politely telling teenagers not to have sex. If you tell people they need to become poorer to save the planet, they'll ignore you... especially if they are already poorer than you in which case you look like a hypocrite.

This problem is actually pretty simple. The following steps won't solve it 100% but they'll go pretty far.

(1) Phase out coal for electricity generation in favor of... almost anything else except maybe oil shale.

(2) Push electric vehicles, not because all EVs categorically emit less carbon than gasoline cars but because it's a hell of a lot easier to replace a few point source power plants than it is to replace a vast fleet of millions of internal combustion engines. (That and your typical EV is indeed better... even if your electricity is 100% coal an EV is generally no worse than an ICE car due to the superior efficiency of large power plants and the high embodied energy of gasoline.)

(3) Continue to subsidize renewable energy and grid-scale storage.

(4) At least stop shutting down perfectly good nuclear power plants before renewables are in place to replace them, and at best put some serious funding behind next-generation nuclear efforts. Fusion is also grossly under-funded. Ignore the "it'll always be N years away" idiots. There has been substantial progress even with very limited funding available.

There is no point in quibbling about small contributors like aviation (<5%) while we are still burning shitloads of coal and coal is far easier to replace than jet fuel. You don't solve a problem like this by making the solution maximally inconvenient.
There are reverse-vending-machines in New York State that operate like this.

I'm thinking more like consumer electronics.

If the product was damaged beyond recognition, obviously that's not the manufacturer's fault, and the person bringing the item to the landfill should pay the fine in that case.

As for efficient transportation, perhaps special garbage trucks that pick up consumer electronics could scan the item at the curb before weighing/crushing it and carting it to the landfill?
"Amoral" means neither moral nor immoral. That's exactly how I would describe a transactional relationship, so yes, I'll stick with that word.

> Most companies have slack and generally avoid doing layoffs unless there's a special situation.

You're just making arbitrary claims here - the fact that companies can and do lay people off without notice and, sometimes, without severance, still confirms the nature of what I'm saying. It's all feel good until it isn't.

> why on earth would anyone think it's anything else?

I don't know; ask the others in this thread. There are plenty of people here claiming that they owe their company things (time, emotional investment) that go beyond the scope of their employment contract simply because it's "nice."

> once people are employed, they're not doing to drop them instantly.

This is simply not the case. Or, rather, it can be the case so easily and at any time that it's foolish to assume otherwise.
I 'have nothing to hide'. But I also am of the mind it is none of your business.
It's possible folks used that merely as a conversation opener. Sure there was some concern but primarily they wanted to reach out and talk. Concerns for hysteria are valid, but there are more plausible explanations.
Here's a simple explanation:

Let's assume that the windspeed is 10 km/hr. We all agree that the wind can push this vehicle so that it is now going 10 km/hr downwind, right? From the vehicle's point of view, the wind is now 0 km/hr. But its wheels are turning, which turns the propeller, which behaves like a fan, pushing the vehicle forward in the still air, so that it is now traveling faster than the wind.

This isn't perpetual motion, though, because eventually the thrust generated by the propeller is insufficient to overcome the additional drag created by the vehicle's faster speed.
So, mortality due to COVID is similar to mortality due to stroke. Most of deaths probably in similar age groups, although probably COVID may kill younger people more than stroke does.
> It's pointing out that there is no realistic scenario in which western countries can prevent CO2 from getting to dangerous levels.

There is one scenario, which isn’t probable. That is for western countries to pay a retrospective “sin” tax that gets distributed to other countries to fund climate action programs with better oversight. After all, if some countries benefited a lot from polluting in the past, it would be fair to expect them to pay up too.
China is good at pretending to be good at collective action.
Well, is it really entertaining?
Well, at least I was able to get you to tap out instantly. Okay.

Please understand, your strawman is very shallow and doesn't address the core issues at all. Yes, we all know that money laundering is not free speech. AND?

Besides money laundering, end-to-end encryption enables:

Terrorists and criminals coordinating violent activities
Planning shadowy Silk Road type sales and arrangements
Violating copyright and robbing the RIAA and MPAA of profits
Posting child pornography
Enabling sex trafficking
and much more

Tons of these things are arguably far more dangerous than money laundering. The fact that they are NOT money laundering, doesn't mean we should just ignore the fact that end-to-end encryption and allowing people to "self-host" their own peer to peer software, is dangerous to law and order.

On the other hand, if we don't have the ability to do "small things" anonymously, like pay for food and shelter with cash, our societies will become more centralized and authoritarian, as we have seen with the social credit system, crackdown on religious activity throughout China, and the coming central bank digital currencies across all countries. The FATF actions will make it a global regime, and the deplatforming and social credit systems may become the norm depending on how the geopolitical players like USA and China leverage these global organizations.

PS: I am probably more vocal against proof-of-work than you are. See my public statements in ArsTechnica, BBC, Newsweek: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/there...: Magarshak went on to note that he has long criticized what he says is an "arms race to waste electricity to solve hashes." Such arms races are created by currency mining based on what's known as "proof of work" computing.
Of disposing of the item in the landfill? How so?