skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disney's Covid shade in S Johansson lawsuit is darkly comical and flawed
The product is at least 2 years old (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19845607)

Judging by all the comments on the thread, seems really buggy for something that old.
That I had missed - but that is also not the topic of IT or business, so the point stands

> I feel you are pushing a narrative here.

Your feelings are beyond my control
This sort of goes to how much society should or shouldn't step in as a parent for people who are shitty parents. The vast majority of underage sexual assaults in the US are committed by family members or family associates. Right there in the trailer park. And there ain't shit that breaking into everyone's email is going to do to change that.
>Is it "representation" if it's only seen by people who want to see it?

Why is that objectionable? It's not like people don't know about queer or trans people and tiktok is shielding them from knowing, people know and just aren't interested. Forcing people to watch things they aren't interested in only makes them resentful and fed up with them, instead of simply uninterested. Interest can't be demanded.
What's wrong with Gmail to-address autocomplete ? (2020)
I found that no single "pure" paradigm is a best response to development needs. By pure I mean pure OOP, FP, TDD, etc.

Instead I am currently working on mixing various paradigms together to achieve better result.

Some examples:

-- I use OOP to flesh out the domain model of my application, but use FP for most of the infrastructure and application around it. Some processes within OOP model are implemented using FP. I use OOP for its strength in bringing meaning and clarity to the most important part of the model.

-- I use unit tests only for the important, non-trivial constraints on the tricky parts of the code. For the rest I prefer functional tests -- focusing on testing external application behavior lets me refactor the code easily without spending time on a huge mass of unit tests that need to be brought to shape after every refactoring. I still test the application -- the test suite ensures I will get notified if application misbehaves, but now it is not tied to actual internal implementation.
Except for Australia...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Australian_bus...
More pixels provide more details, but not always more quality, as poor lens quality is also "enhanced". This is useful for large prints which require a high dpi. In low light, less pixels in a greater sensor area perform better. Dense pixels result in more iso noise
The photos show large vertical openings. Which makes more sense for ‘catching’ the wind. For a negative pressure a black painted vertical pipe would have been sufficient?
Small questions, Arab countries used to build cooling towers a few centuries ago. Would that help for countries you were thinking of?
No technical details of the kernel or userland, ie. monolithic kernel, microkernel?
That would introduce incredible lag for gamers of every kind, and network engineers on every AS would immediately notice the BGP hijack.

Your scenario is far more unlikely, if not impossible.
I just wish you could downvote to tell the algo to not play on my morbid curiosity and stop recommending my that.
I'll need to read the paper carefully first though. Again, thanks for pointing it out.

>> It's also incredibly flattering if you can ask intelligent questions or give intelligent appreciation about their papers.

It's true. I usually only get those from reviewers, often the ones who reject my papers...

Re: Exercise 3, I wish we had such insightful teaching when I was studying for my degree!
> As a wind catcher requires no electricity to power it

Another fun gem putting things into perespective. Placed in the middle of article where it was already firmly estabilished that those windcatchers were built in ancient times.
> Is it "representation" if it's only seen by people who want to see it?

Yes. Definitely. The representation matters most to the people in that bubble. I just think about how great it would have been to see more queer media when was growing up.
Bank has their own system which uses a token to authenticate. It used to be a 2FA with a physical device but now it's a mobile app.

Government services have multitude of methods to log in, they include using a government issued ID with a card reader or using on of lesser auth methods like using the bank token.

I don't think you can use your government ID to log into your bank, even though it would make sense.
The British Library puts 1M newspaper pages online for free
But the only kind of application that would even theoretically benefit of running on the Blockchain is a finance application, and it's not better at that than the current system. In fact, it's worse.

The whole idea of "code is law" is deeply flawed, and I think the hard forks prove that. The problem then is that smaller financial injustices that do not get the attention of the core Devs, will go unchecked and unfixed forever.

The idea of zero trust financial applications is intriguing, but in practice "zero trust" means "trust Vitalik", and to be honest, I trust my current bank more than I trust some random dude in the internet, thank you very much. (Not that I'm a fan of my current bank, they suck, just slightly less than any alternative I'm aware of)

I know some people develop other kinds of applications too, but I completely fail to see the point of running (for example) a video game on the Blockchain other than the novelty..
Talk to these guys: https://feinternational.com/

They are experts for selling online businesses.

IIRC they also have a list of people who are ready to move fast. It's not uncommon to sell an online business within a few days.

Alternatives:
https://quietlight.com/
https://dealflowbrokerage.com/
https://empireflippers.com/
https://microacquire.com/
https://www.tinycapital.com/
How tens of millions people can escape underground or rivers? I think that there will not be space available for most of them.
The usual stuff (SQL, ksh, etc) and COBOL.
Home Depot Tech Will Brick Power Tools. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Thank you for the link. It’s as relevant today as ever.
I'd love to see a toggle button on the URL bar for every website.

By default it's off, and it means that cookies as deleted as soon as I close the last tab for that website.

Clicking it whitelists the website and cookies are retained until I turn it off again.

This is kind of like the approach we had in the nineties. You used to get a prompt for each website, asking if you wanted to allow cookies or not. This is like a second iteration on that.
A voyeuristic nanny is probably a more accurate description.
Mobile apps for effective tasks management
Amazon will pay up to $1k in damages caused by defective products
By "compose in both directions" you mean like arithmetic operators like + and * ? No doubt it is useful to have built-in operators for array operations if you have to do a lot of array operations.
https://archive.md/2EPal
Well, of course I forgot the ETC HF, that one was indeed contested. But yeah, generic for a HF out of differences that cannot be reconciled and which leads to a viable new project like BCash, BSV, ETC.
> I'd recommend looking at Project Catalyst out of the Cardano ecosystem.

Could you maybe provide some examples of these /real/ problems they want to focus on? No DYOR, since you seem to be actually involved in the project.

Providing banking services for under-banked regions is yet again, for the crypto. Avoiding KYC is not a feature; I would argue that developing countries need robust infrastructure that incorporates societal laws, for positive outcomes.
In the US, the harmonization of legal ages of consent operates under what are called "Romeo and Juliet laws", which vary from state to state, but essentially aim to prevent minors from falling into the criminal justice system as a result of sex with someone within a few years of their own age.
https://legaldictionary.net/romeo-and-juliet-laws/
Sad the name is Culdesac though

Immediately triggers the idea of empty soulless suburban community dead ends that are the opposite of walkable
According to the article, the current plan says yes:

"The draft stipulates that people who cannot be vaccinated for health reasons like expectant women and children under 18 will continue to be entitled to subsidised tests."
I've implemented the Constant Q transform before, and it does work well for western music. Are you using an autocorrelation to boost the fundamental? It can work well, particularly when there's just one note being played
“Proof of Humanity, a system combining webs of trust, with reverse Turing tests, and dispute resolution to create a sybil-proof list of humans.”

This is their mission, and the rest of the website focuses on ID and such services. Not one mention of poverty alleviation.
You don't because you are living in a period where everything is wonderul for Australia.

You know what they say: everybody is a genius in a bull market.

So you have sun, good food, plenty of money and little immigration.

Life is good (if you are not living in the desert naked).

Unfortunatly, there is nowhere in the world where things stay nice and easy. The run ended in europe after 1970, it ended in the US after 1990 and it will end in Autralia.

Now, when things are getting hard, having weak democratic institutions, no political awareness and corporate medling is going to hit hard.

But I wouldn't be too cocky because it's not like we didn't mess up loads of things in our own countries, even if we have strong political commitment.

Besides, if I could enjoy your life style, I would probably be way less sensitive to privacy issues.

So don't take what I said as the words of someone who has the ethical upper hand, because I certainly don't.

And Australia is damn comfy.

Also my partner will probably convince me to go back live there with her at one point, so I'll enjoy it as much as I can.
Are they harming or helping Tesla's business actually? Bad publicity is still publicity.
I can speak for the countries I've lived in. In Spain they use regular digital certificates since ages, in Italy they've recently introduced a weird cloud system. In the UK it's username and password (+ 2FA).
Not for the government, it seems. And you can't really include either Climate Change or the Vaccine rollout as issues the government may care about because they've fucked up both of them pretty royally.

Possibly, for the political class, metadata logging is THE issue of the moment.
> I know, I’m in the minority on this.

That’s because it doesn’t make sense? Even if you consider you might hit a tree, another bicyclist, or a unlighted lamp post on the regular, it’s still much safer than being hit by a two ton car just a single time.

Everyone knows the rules and uses signals on bike lanes as well.

I genuinely do not understand how you arrive at feeling a road full of cars is safer.
Welcome to the ‘plastisphere’: the synthetic ecosystem evolving at sea
The gloom and doom posts on HN seem to be increasing lately. I can go to CNN if I want this kind of content.

That being said I would be ok with posts talking about fixing climate change especially if it preserves human rights and dignity.
Status Monkeys – NFTs as Social Networks Using the Status-as-a-Service Framework
K3s for example is more lightweight than upstream kubeadm because it compiles all the required components into a single binary. That also leads to considerably less operational complexity.
Optimal layout of a dining room in the era of Covid-19
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.04233.pdf
Australia's covid policy of indefinitely banning citizens from leaving was the last straw for me. I won't be back.
Apparently so:

> Exceptions are planned for people who - for health reasons, for example - cannot be vaccinated or for whom there is no general vaccination recommendation (especially pregnant women and children and adolescents under 18).

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/corona-ungeimpfte...
And our gombeen men followed them
Why is a sponsored article by Klarna and the Swedish government on the HN frontpage?
That whole idea always seemed like a meme.
Just work hard, go to college, save your money!
For some of us this has worked out. For the large majority of people in the west, however, this has resulted in modern day slavery.
Probably? With SPI or much slower the UART and pppd.
Do you have a source for this. I wouldn't say from for example actors and musicians(ultimate popularity contests) that most of them would even be remotely good leaders.
Last Stand for the Rule of Law?
The PDP-11 was last century.

Modern computers aren't much at all like the imaginary machine the C programming language is defined against.

The compiler's job is to wrestle what you wrote, for that imaginary machine, into machine code that will run on the real computer somebody actually owns which is quite different. This is a difficult task and it gets harder all the time.

Programmers who believe they're writing "bare metal" programs in C are delusional and are particularly likely to get a very rude awakening when they try to write concurrent software. What the machine really does is too hard for you to sensibly reason about at scale, so C provides SC for DRF and says if you do anything else (and you will) too bad your program's meaning is undefined and you lose.
Tolkien fought in the trenches of WW1 and it left a mark on him. Mordor and the way orcs treat land are especially influenced by his experience. People started to call this type of landscape "moonscape".

https://acoup.blog/2019/10/18/collections-the-battlefield-af...
Really?

Is that the path you're choosing to go: that everything is justifiable because governments can have nuclear reactors and you can't?

But I'll go the extra mile: it's hypocritical because it's a citizen right within EU, it's a double standard, and it's being enforced on public/private organizations. You can't have rights and not have rights at the same time, you either have them or you don't.

In EU there are no rights for owning automatic weapons, nuclear reactors, organized armed groups, etc etc.
It’s funny that this meme of “Sweden has the worlds highest taxes” is prevailing when they in fact barely make the top 10 anymore.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18200119

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17908028
I think the working class in crypto would be the nocoiners.
You contradict my uni SWE professor: my understanding was that waterfall was SWE’s almost-cargo-cult adaptation of engineering practices from other fields (civil eng, mech-eng, etc) which “worked” in many use-cases but was/is entirely inappropriate for continuous delivery, which is how I’d wager the majority of software gets delivered thesedays (as opposed to them all being “1.0” releases burned to a CD on the client’s desk, with no further changes made, ever).

Agile, XP, Scrums, Sprints, etc, do not represent a dumbing-down of engineering practices to accommodate coding-camp-types: it requires just as much discipline and understanding as the techniques of yore, but it overall works-better which makes doing our job easier. Do not equate “easier” with dumbing-down. And I’d wager a faangma summer intern SE today would run laps around a decade-burned SE from the 1980s - not least because they had the benefit of learning from the mistakes of the past 40 years.
An oppressed class has every right to be a asshole.
Same here. I think these effects could get annoying super fast and turn many meetings into memetings.
A competitor of Paypal would've been iZettle (from Stockholm), but Paypal bought them!
That's not true afaik.

Someone under 18 could have sex with someone over 14 (but also still under 18).

As soon as one of them is older than 18 it becomes child molesting, and the grown up is in serous trouble.

The law makes not sense of course. It was a more or less recent change. The old regulation may seem bizarre given that example of the parent, but it was more close to reality in most cases.

Before that a 18 year old was not in trouble when sleeping in consent with a slightly younger friend (which is a common situation in reality). Now you would automatically get prosecuted as child molester if authorities would find out; no matter a relationship and consent!

That's the outcome of the CP witch-hunt in Germany… Quite normal things are now outlawed and can ruin lives of young lovers quite substantially.
I think you and many crypto enthusiasts and crypto skeptics miss the forest because of the trees too

What happened to accepting things as they are simply because it's obvious the market can bear it?

The ideology and sales pitches of that ideology are not really relevant. These are platforms. No different than Shopify being a platform. You build on them, extract value, walk away. Who cares if Shopify - for example - said "our platform is decentralized and fixes clean water in Africa" and it didn't. Who cares? Does it still allow you to extract value? Yes? That's the whole equation. Figure it out at Harvard Business School a decade from now, or figure it out now.
> It seems fine to me if someone makes an error in recollection to correct them (if it's about something material).

What sort of error? The GP said "where other parties recall a verbal conversation differently than me", and what's the benefit there? You have two differing views of a conversation, you can say "oh well I meant X" and move on. There's no benefit in figuring out who got it wrong just to apportion blame. Just leave it ambiguous and clarify the intention when you realize there was a misunderstanding.

> Maybe you have a particular personality archetype/pathological behaviour in mind that I'm not familiar with?

It's nothing pathological, some people just tend to want to go back to prove they were right, but proving the other person wrong doesn't tend to be productive.
> also totally free with ads revenue is an option

Would that mean showing ads on stream during the meeting?
I'm not arguing against democracy: it's the worst system except all the other ones. I didn't think much of Brexit, I think they really shafted themselves, but at the same time I get the strong impression that EU governance is hopelessly broken.

I don't have to bring a solution to notice that the system we have is not working. (That's not to say I don't wish I had one, I just don't.)
I wish other social networks could offer different views on their feed. Imagine being able to navigate Facebook by location or maybe by your friends network graph.

I liked when feeds used to be predictable and time based but I guess the money was too good to pass so they took over control of what you see and when.

It's refreshing to see some apps trying to innovate on that front.
German banks have had HBCI later FinTS for decades[0]. What I don't know is why that standard ended up in new Fintech banks rolling their own standards later on. I suspect the implementation, certification and licensing must be a nightmare, but I really don't know.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FinTS
Who is this aimed at exactly?

I can't think of a single business-oriented use where this would be appropriate, so perhaps some sort of use in kids education or targeted at a teenage audience?
> It's basic, but it's valid.

I wrote basic framing.

It is a valid and effective marketing technique but not something you should rely on in a technical discussion.

> if whether it's E2E-encrypted matters in your threat model, then whether it's E2E-encrypted still matters in your threat model even if other aspects of the system are secure.

Then we agree :-)

I've been communicating over email, irc and lots of other channels that were not E2E-encrypted for years and I still have to.

I'll have to live with the fact that my bank, my government and a number of others have unencrypted, realtime access to far more sensitive data than Telegram.

The fact that someone can read my Telegram messages consisting of perfectly innocent photos is way down on my list as long as they who do it has a lot to lose by doing it ;-)

(I.e. if you had access it would be a problem. If any serious agency has access they will never use it against me because then they give away that they have the capability. In the same way Telegram has everything to lose by letting employees snoop. Same as Google: I do not fear them snooping my mail, I fear their AI will kill my account and no one will tell me why.)

> Citation? I don't remember it happening that way at all; Telegram marketed themselves by attacking WhatsApp on a couple of minor vulnerabilities in side features like video handling (which was legitimate in some ways, but extremely hypocritical given the bigger weaknesses in Telegram's own implementation). If message text was readable that would have been a much bigger deal.

I've followed Telegram quite closely so I am fairly certain about their marketing message early on. As you can see it also put them in a bad light so thats something too.

I've been unable to find references for the point about just being encoded, not encrypted so take that with a grain of salt for now. Some evidence can probably be found in an old unofficial client repo or someone who wrote one of those can confirm.

I might be wrong but remember this was back in 2009. It was a whole different world back then.

I used and liked WhatsApp despite all this because just like with Telegram perfect security didn't matter for the kind of communication I have on messengers back then either.
Why are you distracting from Russian warcrimes? Whether or not the Turkish mercenaries are in Libya doesn't change that Wagner is killing prisoners and civilians. So why wouldn't the BBC report on this?
I'm going to quibble. This is all unfounded, you're probably right and I'm a fool.

the statistic, adding 1 degree to the temperature isn't that bad. That statistic nicely glosses over the huge amount of energy added to the system. 1 degree isn't going to melt the icecaps. 1 degree is a huge amount of energy. I think, that energy is going to make things hotter and colder and less predictable.

Moving the mean is, well not fine but that's what we're doing. Have to accept reality as it is. But as far as I can tell, we're not shifting the distribution to the right. We are flattening the distribution, the median is moving +X. So, we've got fatter tails.

Those fat tails suck. we're finely attuned to current variance, we can deal with a cold or hot day. But that fatter tail, that's the fucker. A cold or hot week is deadly.
Kubernetes Benefits
> It uses GPUs.

Many miners buy purpose built servers for crypto mining.

> Was there not enough warning before the changes?

That's the main plaint of the article, and reiterated multiple times. The article claims that the prices was dropped with 2 of the forks, each time it was promised (including at the very beginning) that changes would never be made. Each fork seemed to be of gain to the people who were part of the ICO, but at an income loss to miners. There were several broken promises of no further forks.
In Belgium bank sends you a token generator that allows activating your account. You put the bank card in and it produces numbers you can use for the internet banking. I only had to use it once with the KBC bank, as it allowed to authenticate with the mobile app after the initial set up.

The Belgian resident card also allows you to log into government services. You need a card reader for that(~20EUR). Same as with the banking, you can set up a mobile app that can be used for authentication without a card reader, after you complete the initial set up.

When I was living in Germany, my first residence permit(2014) was similar to the Belgian one. However, they stopped issuing those to foreigners in favour of a piece of paper which they stick into your passport. Consequently, I couldn't use any eID in Germany up until 2019 when I moved away. So if you want something done, you get an appointment with the local citizen office. Any paperwork is, well, done with paper. Most of the companies send you a ton of letters.