skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For context, the author (who lurks around here) is a sci-fi author who has some background in online banking (from the first dot-com boom!)
His novels often feature aspects of economics, and in particular his novel Neptune's Brood [1] features a slower-than-light interstellar economy (and scam!)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune%27s_Brood
I was wrong to use the phrase rent-seeking. My mistake
ok but do you offer custom scraping services if i needed to hire someone to build it?
We're talking about a high of nearly 120F experienced on a single day, in a place that last experienced nearly the same temperature decades ago.

Climate change is clearly a problem worth dealing with, but that doesn't turn every exceptionally hot day into some kind of "The sky is falling!" end times event.

It's no coincidence Italians historically have eaten dinner relatively early, around the hottest time of day, followed by a nap until the sun is lower.

Civilization can tolerate an occasional high of 120F no problem.
Doesn't matter, laws of thermodynamics still apply.
But only iPhone send your pictures automatically to the police without your consent, just because some unreliable Apple-AI suggest it *could be* something illegal...
48.8°C
Blocking it? Unconstitutional (I hope) for US nationals.

Countering it? If an employee of a government contractor shows up here, says "Actually AnimalMuppet is a Russian disinformation operator, don't believe anything he says", is that a violation of my constitutional rights? IANAL, but I would say no, not if my original post isn't removed. (It might still be libel, though.)

Saying that someone else is wrong is not censorship.
> Subscriptions are not rent seeking.

Subscriptions for expensive products that relies heavily on deals, licensing and huge cloud infrastructure like Netflix, Spotify, etc? Yeah, it's not rent-seeking.

Now, for an app that store your passwords, maybe some attachments and, since forever, allowed local vaults. Nowadays being intentionally crippled unless you adhere to this, comparatively, expensive annual subscription?

Yeah, that's totally textbook definition of rent-seeking behavior.
Maybe convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius?
One day we'll be opening “personal messages” from CEOs and feeling no more special or warm inside than we do from the “happy birthday!” phpBB emails we get from long-forgotten forums on the day we pretended was our birthday for security reasons.

And, let's be real, that day is probably tomorrow now that we all know the SaaS [Sincerity As A Service] industry 2.0 exists.
I agree this feels like cheating. I read the Valorant page and they've basically re-implemented information that is available to you in game generally, but takes skill/timing/awareness to track and made it more obvious and automatically tracked. How is this not just a low-grade cheating program? If the game developers wanted you to have that information in the format Senpai.gg is giving it to you in, they would provide it in that format in the first place rather than using their own audio queues, omitting specific timers, etc.
Free men don't ask permission
> Adding to this, they've also left showstopping sync bugs in the standalone version, and the customer support team uses this as a reason to push people to switch to the subscription service.

Woah, really? Would you mind linking some threads for the benefit of everyone else skimming through this?

(I'm still on 1Password 6, and the experience is mostly smooth-sailing except for browser extensions.)
Hopefully that's a record in Fahrenheit...
It's Fahrenheit.

I'm not even sure if this is deliberate clickbait or not, but that the article puts Celcius before Fahrenheit elsewhere suggests it is.

I could hardly believe these temperatures; it's 49°C apparently.
that's 48.8 degrees, in europe (and elsewhere in the world)
Maybe because of its historical position in the scientific/data science ecosystem?

Django and Flask are also very popular libraries, so the language and culture gap isn’t as large as it may seem.
In a highly desirable major metro. There are many metros in the US that have been stagnant or declining for many decades.
48.8C [0]

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58130893
You can start drawing a DOD pension after you've worked for 20 years (so potentially as young as 37). That also gets you tricare (health insurance for you and your family).

It's not rare for people to double-dip: do your 20 in the military, then go work as a teacher or DOD civilian or something that'll give you a second pension.

If you don't blow all your expendable income on a sports car financed at 30% APR, it's also possible to build up a good nest egg by the time you retire. You can also take advantage of other veterans benefits. A friend of mine got more money from his GI bill benefits (tuition + stipend) than from the actual salary he made during his army years.

Quick edit: the military has a mishmash of different retirement plans depending on when you signed up. I think the most recent one is more defined contribution focused and makes it harder to get money before you're in your 60s
Tip: the world uses Metric system. USA is the exception.
OP called it a modest proposal. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
I work at a K-12. Digital citizenship and online critical thinking is 100% a part of the curriculum at every grade level. I've gone into classrooms at elementaries, middle schools, and high schools and seen materials explaining how to evaluate the credibility of information online.

Unfortunately, approximately 85% of the voting population will never benefit from these classes, because the idea of them being necessary or useful had not occurred to anyone when they were in school. It's the same reason nobody over 50 learned how to use a computer in grade school. They did not exist.

This is a problem that will become vastly less serious three generations from now.
RS Ophiuchi in a rare outburst to naked-eye visibility
"The recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi (RS Oph), located in the constellation of Ophiuchus, is in a rare outburst, its first for more than 15 years. RS Oph brightened rapidly on 8 August 2021 from around magnitude +12 to shine presently at about magnitude +4.8, a 600-fold in just a day. This is its first outburst since February 2006 and only five other eruptions have been observed since 1898."

"Make the most of any clear nights in the next week or so for an opportunity to witness a piece of astronomical history while RS Oph is hopefully visible with the naked eye. If your sky conditions are not up to the task, or RS Oph fades unusually fast, it still should be an easy capture in a pair of binoculars or a small telescope."
Any plans for C++ support? I've had some ideas for making C / C++ courses.
>FIRE is exactly that. It is living like a poor person on a well off person income and banking the difference to retire early.

No, it's living below your means, saving and investing, because you value your time more than you value stuff. Your anecdotes are exactly that. The average person saving for FIRE is no miser.
Sure, it's a valid area of discussion. There are valid ways to critique the effectiveness of masks. To say, however, that:

"Most of the masks you get over the counter don’t work. That's because the virus particles can go right through them. That's still true. They don't work, there's no value. ... There's no signs to say they're preventing disease."

Simply discards the science and overall consensus without addressing it. There simply is no consensus that cloth masks do not work, at all, to any degree. Sen. Paul presents this as fact. That's misinformation.

The original video is here: https://rumble.com/vkyc0u-dr.-paul-addresses-dr.-faucis-mish...
And who exactly decides what is misinformation and what is not? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Yes, this place looks like its going to have an HOA with $472/month fee, a bunch of annoying people on a power trip to tell you how your house should look like.

I'd want more of an "ground-up" place, not "top-down" neighborhood. Independent people, businesses and families getting together in an emergent fashion without a planner.
Jeopardy selects executive producer of Jeopardy as new host of Jeopardy
Devs have enough UX dark patterns in their toolkits to funnel the vast majority of their non-technically savvy userbases into the their favored payment systems and away from Apple's. It is way easier to enforce a blanket ban than trying to play whack-a-mole with those.

Apple doesn't even do a great job enforcing its blanket ban either. Lots of shady developers will skirt the rules around subscription apps still being functional without subscription by having it function while under review and then flip something on the server side to lock it down once approved.
The UK outdoes Sweden on all of those points. London is the SV of Europe.
Ive been using enpass for a while, I really like it but I dont see a lot of love for it on HN which worries me a bit…
Not even half way to boiling really. Although it refers to Europe, it is using farenheit as its scale, as it is a US based publication.

Although for that reason temperature measurements should always include the type for reference.
A lot of that covid “misinformation” is simply stuff that goes against the narrative that covid is Black Plague 2.0. The fact that anybody who disagrees with our covid policies gets cast as a spreader of “misinformation” is exactly why crap like this $1B contract has no business existing.

When the only voices allowed to speak are a very specific set of voices, that is some scary shit.
37GB virtual might just be a mostly-harmless convenient fiction for something like a BIBOP-style[1] allocator. I haven’t observed this with Electron apps, but WebKitGTK-based web browsers like Epiphany and Eolie do do funny things to my process list with their dozens of processes consuming 100+ GB virtual memory (in reality, address space) each.

[1]: https://foldoc.org/Big+bag+of+pages
-insert comment about that hacker news comment about how dropbox could be replicated with linux here-
I look forward to seeing how you differentiate yourselves from Blitz.gg in a crowded market place given you are starting with the same supported games.
Even if pick-and-choose subscriptions weren't cheaper than cable (which they are, for me so far at least), I'd gladly pay up to 2x the cost of Comcast service just to avoid subsidizing Comcast's evil monopoly, and how Comcast is intentionally keeping much of the US from having real, modern internet service (read: fiber with symmetric speeds, instead of their bullshit where they pretend a 1000Mbps down/20Mbps up link is lightning-fast and don't even TELL customers what the upstream speed is).
> that's a great point and reminds me of the 'quantity trumps quality'

Quality versus quantity is a false dichotomy. You actually need both quality and quantity (or more accurately: speed of delivery). Don’t ship bad code for the sake of shipping code because this will damage your reputation.

The actual tradeoff most people are up against is speed versus complexity. If you find yourself in endless process meetings or talking about new architecture changes over and over again but it takes forever to actually write code, then you’re stuck on the complexity end of the spectrum. Complexity feels good in the moment because it feels like you’re doing the right thing and reducing risk, but the more complexity you add the less product you actually ship.

Learning how to simplify to the bare minimum, reduce process overhead, and ship quality, minimal code quickly is the art you want to learn.
Question: you built it in Rust for performance reasons, right? Wouldn't Electron take it away?
Many upon many. The _vast_ majority of species are left out, and for ones that do have fossils the _vast_ majority of individuals are left out.

Something getting fossilized is basically a miracle, and us finding it is another on top.
Yeah i'm in central europe which is somewhat approaching continental climate - so bitter winters and toasty summers (not quite as bad as some parts of Ukraine and Russia ofc). But I'll def read into it, I'm glad I at least have another option even if it might not work out. Thanks!
I'm thinking you must be Danish because of the Monty Python joke - Danes love that damn movie.

Unfortunately it looks like someone who didn't get it downvoted you. Welcome to HN!
"Halfway" from where?
The wtf-duh dichotomy... I know it too well!
It doesn't matter if people care about it being decentralized. It is decentralized and that's why it's going to stay around.
I'm under the vague impression that if you wanted to get in on Chia "farming" it's already too late. Anyone know if that's true? Is there still an effect on the SSD market?

Conceptually, this can be thought of as generating Bingo cards (expensive, requires SSD's.) and playing Bingo (cheap, can be done with regular hard drives and a network connection).

So many Bingo cards have been generated that there's probably not much point in generating more.
New Senate bill takes aim at Apple and Google's app store dominance
https://fstoppers.com/news/apple-plans-scan-all-your-images-...
China has significant influence over AU - this isn’t surprising at all. China is a dumpster fire and so is any country that follows their lead.
I agree with that, but I also think that of the US issued a formal guarantee they'd only imprison him for 4 years, then a British judge would likely choose to believe it whether or not we think it should be trusted.
I mean, that sounds fine for a few years in your 20's. Do you really want to live like that long term?
Your understanding is completely incorrect. N95 prevents you from getting the virus first and foremost. The only question was how well does the mask need to be put on, but that's a training issue, much like washing your hands properly is a training issue.
> At least "what is a drug?" can be defined fairly easily.

go on...
Scars imply healing; you can only look to the world after the industrial revolution to see how heavily wounded the planet has become.

The world can recover from a dozen Chernobyls and Fukushimas, but not so easily from a species that kills its defenses and continues to fight against it.
How far back do the records go? That wasn't in the article. I'm also interested in where the temperature was taken - hard surface aircraft runways, sun traps etc are often a lot hotter than the overall average temperature.
No he means that Bitwarden's extension does not remember state. When you go back and forth between the form and opening the extension window, you always start at the default page. It does not remember you had an item open before. This happens with your credit card for instance which is typically not linked to a particular url.
The median income is brought down by two factors: 1) people completely out of the workforce (the labor force non-participation rate is nearly 40%), and 2) single-earner households. Neither of these are relevant to what we'd expect to be "reasonable" or "modest" for a married, employed couple.

$100k/year for two full-time workers is $25/hour. This is a pretty reasonable wage for someone with a modicum of stability and employment consistency. For example Bank of America tellers now start at $20/hour and move to $25 in a few years.[1]

[1]https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2021/05/18/bank-america...
Freezing (0C). Halfway through the liquid phase of water. Seems like an at-least-somewhat reasonable starting point.
I could envisage combat of a misinformation with misinformation or information... hm so... who ever first says you are a bot wins? :D

God forbid saying something anti-war or anti-oil you will be labeled as communist immediately
A forgotten email’s password cost him $6,225 in fine
Halfway from 0°C, the freezing point of water.
0? To 100?
Here's street view from the Cresta Dam:

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8762603,-121.3726288,3a,50.4...

You can see the Bucks Creek 1101 line in the background crossing the river and then going uphill.
In India there is a running joke amongst physics teachers/professors that whenever a student forgets to write unit of measurement of the final answers they are mocked by saying 120 degrees what ? Banana ? Apple ? Centigrade ? Applies to this title too.
> But also, in such setup, the security benefit of 2FA/OTP codes are negligible at best since there are no conditions under which only one factor could be compromised without also having the other factor leaked (assuming you're using unique passwords for each identity, which is the entire point of a password manager).

Phishing and good ole fashioned human error are two methods by which a password can be leaked without exposing the 2FA token.
"HPGL or HPGL/2"

It's been a long time since seeing the version like this. It seems more like they are halving the original. Anyone have a back story on this style of versioning?

Also, trying to copy that highlighted text from the Medium article is click-jacked/mouse-up-jacked/whatever to some lame social pop-up. It prevented me from highlighting at first, so a simple click-drag-highlight-keep-clicking-keyboard-shortcut-for-copy before releasing the mouse button. FUCK YOU!!!
Europe and °F in the same sentence is a terrible choice.
VS Code is a heavyweight. It is almost a full IDE, handling hundreds of files, doing a lot of complex things, including laying out documents and networking, things that browsers are good at. I still prefer Sublime Text for performance reasons, but overall, the overhead of using a full browser is not ridiculous.

But a password manager is supposed to be a small, unobtrusive app, something you forget unless you need a password. Not the big thing you are working with all day long.
J6 Political Prisoner Database
Resident Xiden has some explaining to do.
> These hackers have now published almost 2,400 files to the Dark Web, according to CNBC analysts at Q6 cyber. The files appear to be PowerPoints, case studies, quotes and the like. No comment yet on the theft from Accenture.

Sounds like Accenture didn't pay.
I don't doubt your word that fringe environmentalist groups are pretty well established in Oregon.

That said, the idea that these groups (or prevailing attitudes behind them) are preventing some form of logging that would actually help with wildfires (and yet is commercially viable) is something that you're more or less just making up from your hunches and anecdotes.

At least here in Australia they just pull mature trees out and leave scrub as well as highly flammable waste behind.

A lot of people need their asses kicked over this sort of issue: higher on the list are people who build right into the bush then yell bloody murder about controlled burns. CA definitely has a lot of these people, and there's probably a fake "greenie" undercurrent in the attitude (a sentimentalization of the bush). But the "greenies messed it all up" is a simplistic morality tale usually promulgated by people who know nothing about fire management and are looking to find something other than climate change to blame for our recent dire years.
That comparison would be $2.99 for 1Password. It is the family plan that costs $4.99, and Bitwarden's family plan is not $0. It also assumes you don't want the features in the paid version of Bitwarden, so it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. 1Password doesn't offer a free reduced-feature version, true.
I hate all Electron editors as well. Sublime is so much faster to use.
48.8 °C. Degrees alone means a vector.
How is it possible for someone to teach a class to identify deception without first being able to identify deception?
Maybe, with the right lens...
Somewhat like the miracle of Wörgl https://thetchblog.com/2020/06/15/silvio-gesell-and-the-worg...
TikTok brain drain as head of AI lab leaves ByteDance
Drag and drop, touchID, AppleWatch unlock, I suppose native menubar (1password mini) access might be on the table... Maybe keyboard clearing (of OTPs).. Universal clipboard?
Major releases of MacOS and iOS happen once a year. And most of the time they don’t break existing applications (iOS 12 notwithstanding). Almost everything from early iPhone OS to 12, and from 12 onwards worked ok, even with major resolution changes.

And the fact that we need to constantly change stuff just for the sake of change is the problem.

To add to this: I’m perfectly happy to pay a premium price for software when I need a new version. I did this with Photoshop for years, $399 per copy was perfectly fine for me because I spent that money every 3 or 4 years.
I guess I'm trying to figure out why it costs more than some 3d printers
I remember using Bitcoin to buy coffee in town back in the day (2014, 2015-ish). All the retailers stopped accepting it as payment due to the results of the scaling debate. Steam, WordPress, Microsoft and others. If its current design under the block size limit was clear to you, it very much wasn't clear to me back then.
Smarking (YC W15) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering
Educate people to be independent thinkers capable of assessing facts rationally. That is a threat to some people who don't want their sacred cows challenged so we are where we are today.
> 120 degrees

please stop using dumb people units of measure.
My coworker has over a petabyte that isn't worth running. Its too late.
As slownew45 points out, Github does not make money from individuals who use it for free. Of course such use will become increasingly difficult over time for Microsoft pinheads to justify from a business perspective. Telemetry, full-on surveillance and ultimately subtle manipulation of individual software authors seems an obvious choice to try to justify why Github should continue to allow non-paying individuals to use their repository.

The Facebook web browser. Never say never. If we knew what we know today about privacy, we would have pointed out the idiocy of anyone choosing to use a web browser released by Google.
> Anyway, folk with low IQ's making bad choices isn't really a problem.

You don't seek out the advice of the mentally retarded when making personal decisions. Why would you do so when determining how to run your society?

> Most of the uniformed, just vote along family lines.

The point of a democratic elections is to get the considered input of the population. People who 'just vote along family lines' are noise in the signal. If they want to, then fine. But why would you force them to contribute their arbitrary, uninformed opinions?

> Anyway, everyone has a right to vote and a duty in some respect.

Of course they do.

> Making it harder for some, by making it opt in, will lead to more problems then having disengaged voters participating in haphazard ways.

This is nonsense. Forcing older kids to go to school doesn't result in more engaged school-kids, it results in rooms full of angry, disengaged kids who cause problems for the people who want to be there. Similarly, forcing people to vote just adds a bunch of random votes to the pile.

Democracy is a great thing. But democracy doesn't work because more human hands touching ballots makes for better government--it works because you can get good advice by asking the input of a large number of responsible, conscientious people.

We know that the least educated among us are the least likely to vote. We also know that IQ predicts academic achievement. So why would you go out of your way to increase the proportion of Prec
It's called the Wildland Urban Interface, and unfortunately we've already built millions of houses here. Now we are paying the true cost of our foolishness.

Most houses will need 100 to 200 feet of cleared vegetation around them. Instead we love the look of large pine trees and brush right against our homes. The term is 'built to burn'

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/