skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Obvs D&D evolved out of a literal wargame (chainmail). And there are a lot of influences from wargaming, but 90% of the focus (from the beginning) was on:
- Characters who grew and changed each time you played
- Exploring party dynamics having more to do with narrative than mechanical intricacies
- Unreal places that were presented as living breathing spaces to explore
- Module design was a mixed bag. Most of the places didn't make literal sense. I could see someone making the argument they were just a loose collection of wargame-like scenarios linked by hallways. But if memory serves there was a balanced mix of fighting, tricks, traps, and puzzles, as well as other non-combat encounters

I'll admit I didn't play until AD&D in about '84 - was the original edition really that different in focus?
Longines makes a high-accuracy (± 5 seconds-per-year) quartz watch called the Conquest V.H.P. that is respectable. Both your mechanical and their quartz movements are produced by ETA (Swatch Group).
This is suicidal.
> (infringing on what?)

In case you were asking seriously, infringing on the 2nd Amendment right of US citizens to keep and bear arms. The amendment specifically uses the word, ie "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

So the word "infringe" is commonly used in that context.

> making it easy for people to apply violence

Not to delve into politics, but IMO it's easier to "apply violence" without a weapon, or with less complicated weapons. I'm sure most of us can infer your actual point, but it might be worth it to come up with a less-easily-defeated argument.
For the rest of us that read no snark, please enlighten us into what words/phrasing led to your reading of snark in the parent's post. Curious minds would like to know answers to the actual questions posed by the parent, but also to what sensitivities are being upset by asking those questions.
> Data is and should be a massive liability.

My thoughs as well.

If you don't want there very dangerous weapon you have thought out to be abused, don't create a physical assembly of it and don't tell anyone who has a habit of abusing powerful weapons.
Analyzing Website TTFB
US also emits 100,000,000x CO2 per year as Leichtenstein!
The particular bands the cell providers run in were sold to them by the government (or bought from someone else who got them from the gov). If I remember correctly it was mostly the antennas lengths and what the tuner was set to for the chipsets (some being fixed, some being more SDR). Some bought those particular bands because they tend to penetrate buildings better than others.

But yeah if you could keep inside the power levels, and stay in the unlicensed bands, and keep out of trouble with the patent courts you probably could make an LTE network. I would not be surprised if many of the chipsets already could do it. Power levels would be your biggest hurdle for something more than a test network.
Case in point: former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. He was obviously quite intelligent, in the sense that he was well educated and would have scored highly on any standard IQ test. Yet he consistently made stupid decisions with drastic consequences for the entire world.
And France, weirdly.

It also is quite low resolution in many areas, making it not super useful at the moment.
NVMM Hypervisor Landed in DragonFly
Phishing sites targeting scammers and thieves
Nature (and some others) now have started the IMHO awful practice to allow reviewers to be named after the paper is accepted. Beside the obvious question of bias etc., this also blurs the lines between author and reviewer.
There's a chart in the article from the IPCC report showing observed vs simulated global average temperature changes. How are the scientists making these models guarding against overfitting?

I am not a climate change skeptic - I am simply asking an honest question that I don't know the answer to (which will be useful for dispelling the common argument that I hear some of my friends make). I also shouldn't have to place this kind of disclaimer in my post in the first place.
My motorcycle with me on it can weight 700-800 pounds and has a much smaller cross sectional area than blackbird. And yet it still gets pushed around sometimes by crosswinds .
The parent comments are talking about direct democracy and its tendencies in Switzerland. Not specific policies (for you see, such extremes haven't come up for voting there lately). Perfectly comparable.
We mostly used boxy layouts, sliced up images and flash hacks.
I do it in C (good enough for most purposes, although a little slow and bloated - most people do it straigh in ASM with extensions).

I use Ubuntu, good old Sublime Text with C extension, FCEUX (Windows version on wine) and YY_CHR (for working with graphics). To compile, check out the awesome CC65 suite (it has a compiler, assembler, linker... the whole thing).
I tried using the Spotify desktop player a few years ago when I first subscribed to their service. I found the application to be a real resource hog compared to any other desktop music player (such as VLC, Audacious, Foobar2k or Winamp). It also lacked the usability and many of the features of these older players but the deal-breaker for me was that it didn’t support gap-less playback which ruins the experience of listening to live albums or DJ mixes.
Taylor provides alot of other equipment within McD's - and IIRC from reading the Wired article and discussion a few months back, it (or comments) alluded that McD's corporate specifies which equipment that franchisees are allowed to use - and therefore there could be some sort of financial aggrangement between McD corp and Taylor...
> You'll discover that you are mistaken.

Mistaken about what? That the assumption of doping is not unreasonable? After all, I didn't say the assumption of drug-use was likely correct, I said that the assumption itself is not unreasonable.

> So, "show your familiarity" is a jabby heuristic to prove the point.

Being involved in the subjects (say, by following their career?) is evidence of bias when drawing conclusions from data points.

In other words, the heuristic is actually the other way around - if you're "familiar" with the subjects you're the wrong person to be drawing conclusions from the statistics.

It's why we insist on double-blind trials for some things - the researcher has to be ignorant of the subjects involved. Being familiar with them means the conclusions are invalid.
In other words they made something work that really didn't before.

Even if they made the best theoretically possible solar cell, the starting point of 1/1000th of that would not have been considered useful for anything.
One of the core points of Bogleheads is to never time the market, and I actually fully live by that. This is one reason why I like what we do at Financial Choice, it removes another way for me to try and time the market: Before FC I would manually move extra funds in to an investment account on a sporadic fashion, but this was definitely prone to market timing either explicitly, or implicitly. If when I tried not to time the market, you often think of moving the extra money when you hear news about markets, so this was definitely not uninfluenced by that. With FC I take myself out of the loop and remove a source of trying to time the market.
Carbon taxes disproportionately hurt low income people. Rich folks will still drive their cars, fly on jets, and use tons of energy in general. Carbon taxes also make your nation less competitive in a global economy. That’s not good when enemy states have zero compunction about using fossil fuels to overtake you economically and militarily. Carbon taxes also incentivize industry to move production to nations with little or no carbon tax. In general I find it extremely foolish to think that carbon taxes would be a good way of going about this.
May I also recommend this excellent video[1] from Hamilton made in 1949 that thoroughly explains how mechanical watches work.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL0_vOw6eCc
I mean, if the numbers are right (they match what I'm reading here in Europe), I suppose we're lucky, because it's totally possible that given a slightly more contagious virus or a slightly higher rate of vaccine breakthrough that even at 100% vaccination/infection rate there is no herd immunity.

On the other hand, if immunity decreases over time, we might need something like 90-95% vaccinated or infected during the past 3 months (just as an example).

I'm not sure that we know where along those dimensions we are.
Apple come out a few days ago,

then there is a thread «Canberra asks to introduce detection capabilities in encrypted communication (zdnet.com)»
at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28112827 ,

then this one.

All of these at the same time?
My only initial guess is that the financial incentives are not the same. The "problem" of people getting murdered or non-consensually tortured specifically for entertainment and distribution is much lower than the problem of the economics of child sex abuse.
Sure. You are rich, living in a rich country. The poor living in poor countries will pay the price.
Jesus, yep. Big "Brother", always watching. What lives can we destroy today?

Privacy is being hit hard now, on multiple fronts - it's very sad, scary.
One of my favorite videos: a Japanese watch repairman repairs a watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbpgNSvWHOo
Except crypto is global, and even easier to move across borders than drugs. Despite the government's sincerest hopes, American laws don't extend to foreign countries.

So, yes there will still be tons of VC funded crypto startups, they'll just be based in Malta or Israel or Singapore. And even in the most draconian enforcement regime, the US government will be incapable of stopping even 1% of American citizens who choose to interact with these protocols. VPNs are ubiquitous, highly secure and dirt cheap.

It is possible to nearly completely stamp out crypto usage in a single country, just as it is possible to nearly completely stamp out drug usage in a single country. But it requires CCP-level authoritarianism. Neither US voters nor the US judiciary has the stomach for that. You'd have to be extremely anti-crypto to think it justifies the creation of a Chinese-style great firewall and the associated surveillance state.
Exactly this. There are tons of essentially new old stock mechanical watches from all over the world (Vostok and other similar brands) that can be had in the $100 range, and the $300-500 range has lots of solid watches (maybe also Hamilton?).

I'd take an equally functional and/or reliable Japanese movement over an ETA that is used in the "luxury" categories where you're just paying for the label on the watch.

But quartz watches (~90% of my collection) are way more practical. They last longer (most mechanical watches need servicing every 5 years at $150+ per pop), keep better time, can be picked up and put on without setting if not worn every day and are only like $3 to swap out a battery. The key is finding a neat "gimmick" with quartz watches from quality brands. Things like Tritium luminescence are good if you like field watches. Or Citizen/Casio atomic watches that are super accurate through the use of the WWVB signal. Or "other uses" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W#Usage_in_terrorism
This is such a journalistic dark pattern, throws the credibility of the whole article through the window.
I don't share your vision. Things are always obvious in the hindsight, but in reality, at least in Western Europe we did quite well. The challenges that governments faced were huge and numerous (if you account for social, economical, technical and political aspects).

Of course we can always do better, but the reality is that today, we have dozens of millions of people double-vaxxed here, and we're making progress.
Tarsnap exists so either it is legal when done right or tarsnap is a walking dead and I haven't heard anything to that effect from any credible source.
> You don't build this and take the PR flack for something you can already do server side

That’s exactly what you do if you plan to enable E2E.
The right approach here is to market it as a brokerage with a game changing UX for deposits / withdrawals / risk modeling, rather than a checking account with a shocking amount of risk.
In jest, I'd point out Purdue and the Sacklers
No. I just logged in to that very same account using different browser on a different computer. The email was displayed just fine.

Protonmail keeps generated public and private keys on their servers.
Strike the Earth!
Apologises. You are correct. Good find

They did the same with a 'job ad' on the hosts web site -

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2Uw0_n...
Why exactly are we believing the author's claims? The link on the supposed "2.0" announcement on mandatory CSAM scanning leads to no such annoucement. Nor does any of the other 50 links on the page, as far as I can tell.
In a short term time horizon, sure. But what if you use a service/strategy like OP over a decade, or more?

Since 2016; I have more or less keep all of my cash, minus a small emergency fund, invested into equities at all times.

I have nearly twice as much wealth as I would otherwise have, if I didn't do this and kept cash.

I'm not worried whatsoever on what analysts predict. They are consistently as wrong as they are right, and I've been hearing calls for overvaluations and market crashes for years and years ever since 2013.

You can't time the market.
I would argue that the problem is that we care far to much about what the talking heads in the media and the shouting on social media. That's the source of misinformation and inaction on climate change.
To get the 1000x figure, the research is comparing photocurrents from bulk BTO and their special crystal-aligned BTO at a specific wavelength of incident light (306nm).

They also compare photocurrents under a solar simulator and achieve 100x increase vs bulk BTO.

At no point do they make comparison to state of the art BTO cells, which almost certainly aren't just bulk BTO but are likely doped, nanostructured, or have some other novelty.
> If it leaves your device

Even this is naïve with Apple's new plan. How long do you really think they'll wait before a software update makes it apply to even things that don't leave your device?
No it's not. Head locked huds are simply very uncomfortable. You want to move you head to look at them and can't. It just doesn't work.
Could More Progressive Taxes Increase Income Inequality?
That would be a... double-whoosh?

http://wordpress.mrreid.org/2015/04/18/the-nuclear-double-fl...
We have an interesting company doing this (high-efficiency landfill methane capture and reformation), if any HNers are interested in joining such a company: https://www.archaeaenergy.com.

Later this year, Archaea will turn on the world's largest garbage-dump-to-nat-gas factory:

https://dailyenergyinsider.com/news/29202-ugi-utilities-in-p...
No, it's important to gauge how competent the researchers are, i.e. how trustworthy the remainder of the paper is. The problem with review process is that the reviewers typically cannot reproduce the work itself -- take a physics experiment for example. So they can only do a smell test, and getting basic concepts wrong is a rather bad smell.
i bought one of these used back when i was in high school. at the time mono 040 slabs could be had for a few hundred dollars. without a doubt, the coolest thing about it was the hardware. oversized flat screen monitors, 2.88mb disk drives, onboard mc56k dsp.

the audio output hardware only operated at 22khz when in stereo, if i recall correctly... however, the presence of the mc56k dsp made realtime resampling of any stream possible without burdening the mc68040 cpu.

perhaps the most interesting component of the next hardware was the "geekport" which was some oddball connector, like a db-19 or something that was a mix of ttl digital lines and analog in/out attached to a/d and d/a that were convenient to the dsp.
For those of us who need more security, which most of us expect from the state, mass surveillance will surely help. For those of us who insist on breaking the law this will become a problem.
When I was in school, it was mentioned often during the school's programs on why sexting was bad that sexting was technically child pornography distribution. I don't understand what consent has to do with it. Children's consent is not legally valid for anything sexual.
Episode 5?
You must also advocate a ban on driving until there are zero deaths then? One death and go into national lockdown too?
I used Window Maker back in the 90s, and now that I’ve gotten back into Linux on Pi and other hardware, I use it again as my preferred desktop (usually on DietPi). It’s just fast, clean, and easy to configure, as well as port or copy the configuration wholesale.
Not only they can be forced to do it by governments, but in addition, they will not even be able to say that it is technically not possible anymore!
That's my theory as well. I see all those people selling their iPhones that will instead use Android, upload all their photos in Google Photos, and Google will happily share all those those same photos. Yes, yes, yes, I know, one is done on device, the other one is done in the cloud, for me that is pretty much 2 sides of the same coin.
This is an interesting idea but the mass enforcement of NPI's is likely to have second and third order consequences for public health that may actually weaken our collective immune system [1].

So while the masks will reduce transmission of COVID-19, it will also reduce the transmission of other endemic illnesses like the seasonal flu. And while you might think that's a good thing, it's likely to backfire as we set the stage for massive outbreaks during the flu season, which puts further pressure on limited healthcare resources, and so on.

The same patterns can be seen in forest management, where by constantly putting out all the small natural forest fires, we set the stage for record breaking wildfires that cannot be contained.

[1] The impact of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions on the future dynamics of endemic infections https://www.pnas.org/content/117/48/30547
bko's comment upstream says otherwise, with situations. ~90% is consumption.
I think it's alleged that Taylor acquired Kytch's devices them under the table whereas Kytch acquired them outright and in a way Taylor isn't disputing.
If you’re doing consulting. Check out the DAFT visa for the NL. Death stares or not, spend 5 years, get a permanent resident status and move to Spain.
When people tell me they have nothing to hide, my response is usually, "Do you close the door when you use the bathroom?"

Alright, then.
but they did choose the NeXT interface. not so much visually, but having worked with the original NeXTstep, OpenStep, very early and later versions of OS X and also various linux GUIs and windows, i have to say that at least the early versions of OS X were quite faithful renditions of the NeXTstep GUI. all the pieces of functionality were recognizeable, and the interface was just as comfortable to work with.
> Mechanical watches are an emotional rather than rational technology, and hey if that's what you're into: mechanical watches and horse-drawn-buggies and gas lanterns then that's totally cool.

You could say the same thing about people who are into classic muscle cars. "Hey, if like driving around in a model T and braking down every 5 miles then that's totally cool." Everything is emotional. Does anyone really need a GPS synced watch that is accurate to the nanosecond? No, people want it because they think it's cool. Some people want mechanical watches because they think they are cool.

You must be so fun at parties.
> The stuff we buy from China doesn't take that much energy to create compared to, say, driving 10 miles to the grocery store a few times a week.

Transporting the said item overseas, through customs, driven on a truck and a UPS van to my home is less than uhhh what?? Why are we comparing driving 10 miles to grocery store a few times a week?

If you want to objectively compare, you need to analyze kWh of energy spent in the entire supply chain per unit of production whether it is a USB cable from China or a tea pot from a local ceramic shop.
> The possibility of losing funds exists, but bugs are something you would expect with any in-development technology.

Bugs exist, sure... but bugs that have the potential to cause direct revenue loss, and that cause the core purpose of the product to fail? That isn't a bug, that is a deal-killer.
I think this is demonstrably false. The value of Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Friends and The Office is probably higher than they have ever been, given the proliferation of streaming networks. The Beatles catalog only went up in value, which is why Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson had a little tiff. David Bowie sold bonds based on future royalties. And have you noticed what's playing at the movies? It's all superheroes invented 50+ years ago.
In the US only one or two states bar employers from setting up cameras in the bathroom or changing areas.
My results testing a crypto trading bot that buys coins based on Reddit posts
I don't think there's any way to turn it off but I'm like you. I only ever use the default text area and never place free-form. So I just ignore the feature :)
The basic example most others are built on is a locked smart contract, where none of the participants can control the funds until the smart contract is programmed to release them. Most crypto developers conceptualize this scenario as the smart contract having custody (you can only steal the money if you trick the smart contract into giving it to you), but the smart contract can't exactly report things to the IRS.
I work in an office with a 100% vaccination rate, and yet we've recently been instructed to wear masks at all times. Wearing a mask 8 hours a day is very uncomfortable, the benefit is likely extremely marginal at best, and the policymaking class pushing this nonsense is off partying maskless at Obama's birthday party, because they're "sophisticated" enough to make their own decisions. The whole situation is just very frustrating.
So nice to see an actual personal blog not on Medium, nice design too.
my Prius Prime plug in hybrid is great. 40KM full EV range which is 90% of my yearly trips in town so only have to fuel up on longer trips. Highway range (with extra drag of a roof rack and bike on top per my last trip) was 800km per tank.
Don't traditional bank already have brokerage accounts?
I do personally use interactive brokers, but my bank is HSBC and I know I could have a dedicated brokerage account to buy stocks, ETFs, etc there. How is that different?
> That may have been true a decade ago, but today renewables provide the cheapest electricity.

I think that depends on where you are. Certainly in the US I’ve seen articles claiming that new wind is cheaper than running already built coal plants, and fully believe it. That seems unlikely to be true everywhere, though. Why would China be building expensive coal burners if renewables are so cheap?
> Custody doesn't have an agreed-upon definition when it comes to crypto.

This is not true, custody is very well understood when it comes to blockchain assets. Legal definitions of ownership are another question altogether that do require continual legislative attention, see Wyoming’s work in this area.[1]

You’ve also repeated the sins of the top comment by glossing over the actual issues with this provision by focusing on facts that almost everyone in the cryptocurrency space are in total agreement on.

> Tether and Binance are exemplars of pathological noncompliance.

The amendments to this provision are focusing on who should be excluded from these new requirements, of which Binance & Tether (or terms that could be construed to mean Binance or Tether) are nowhere to be found. The exceptions focus on miners, node operators, noncustodial software providers, and alternative consensus mechanism validators.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/slate.com/technology/2021/06/wy...