skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have yet to encounter any real solution to this problem that allows someone to prove they are who they say they are

I think the solution is third-party attestation.

The government can offer an identity service - it doesn't need to be linked to your real-person, but could simply require proof of residency (by say, mailing you a postcard that you would bring in), but once established, you could use this service to attest your identity to third-parties.

There are companies that increasingly offer this service (like Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple) but I think they struggle to avoid conflicts-of-interest in offering this service, so they make me nervous how popular they are becoming in the US and UK.

Where I live, the government provides a smartcard which you can use with government websites and a few non-government sites, and this is used as a second-factor for making critical changes. If I lose this smartcard, I have to go into a government office with some documentation to start the process of getting a new one (where it will be mailed to me, and I can bring it in with documentation to be activated).

I don't find this onerous; I don't have to use the smartcard to do any "normal" things -- the non-government sites (and some of the government sites) allow me to log in using just a password and a mobile-app, but if I were to lose my phone (or my password), I know I have a government-provided recovery mechanism.

Finally, anticipating a particular antagonist of this idea: As far as I know, the government doesn't actually know what services I use this smartcard with (unless the company shares this information, but we already know Facebook and Google and probably Amazon and Apple do) and I have multiple cards with different identifying details on them, so I think any privacy risk is minimal.
Genuine question: can you explain how phonetics can be used in a character encoding for text?
Except that experienced devs could well have forgotten (at least to the point of it not being in immediate recall) more than they currently "know".

I couldn't remember what happens when you sum two arrays in JS, just that it's weird and you probably shouldn't do it. So I remembered the useful part, but not the trivia.

(FYI, array1 + array2 casts the arrays to strings and then concatenates them).
Revolut just launched the same feature this week [1]

[1] https://www.revolut.com/payday
Then we had better start studying the consequences at small scale, no? Oops, that's been banned. (Perhaps that's an unintended consequence of moralizing science?)
I have a Basic iOS Hardening MDM profile which disables iCloud Backup, ad tracking identifier, etc that I deploy on all my iOS devices the moment I set them up.
I don't get why they'd refuse you a checking account, even if you were the founder or one (or several bankrupt) companies. Would they be worried you wouldn't pay their crummy fees? :-)
The mosquito gains nothing from carrying the disease.
RE point 4, I believe that this was initially a descriptivist rather than prescriptivist step.

People were using emoticons, showing that emoji might be desirable. Some cell phone manufacturers/carriers added their own emoji [1]. They were very popular. Unicode added emoji to the standard, since lots of people were using it.

Not adding emoji would have been _more_ prescriptivist, and since it was desired anyway would have just caused fragmentation.

[1] https://blog.emojipedia.org/correcting-the-record-on-the-fir...
In the whole of USSR (and after its dissolution too), the order of addresses was big-endian: from the larger administrative unit to smaller (which seems quite logical — first you enter the country, then find the district, then the town, then the street, then the house, then the person therein, thus the address replicates the travel path of the package).

Some countries (doubtless those that entered EU, also Ukraine, can’t say for the rest) officially changed the order to be little-endian, but many older folks, who still use snail mail and write letters and postcards, don’t bother.
No, any euphemism people invent to talk about things that are negative will inevitably end up as slurs, because people view these things as negative. It's inevitable. Even when they invent inscrutable acronyms like DAMP or ADHD, people will use them as slurs when they denote things that are undesirable.

This is not an example of that though, since "retarded" is not a slur in WSB, it's the opposite.
3. Yes, sadly.

4. Can you expand on that?
Non ASCII is a mistake, the only reason for it are humans that don't want to learn English.

English IS humanity's final language, so I'm going back to ASCII so I can use a simple char* for all my strings.
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> Why do nerds always give instructions as questions haha

Why don't you look it up and tell us?

:-)
many thanks for this great nugget of information

This could be used as a great art project, even young kids could do
This is the perfect use-case for cameras. Here in .nl you dont get a ticket from a police officer. The camera takes the picture and the fine is there in your mailbox the next week ;-)
I'm guessing this was due to Intel's node issues, as Intel consumer CPUs with high core count were also having thermal issues. AVX-512 can theoretically double the throughput over AVX2. That's like doubling the core count.

And with new instructions added in AVX-512, even more workloads can be vectorized. That means even bigger theoretical performance bump.

https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph16495/122770.png
People in European societies still feel need for some thrill. I think the problem is a bit different. Language and cultural barriers are still meaningful. I am a Czech and I know shit about selling to Romanians or Portuguese customers; even if I was able to pay for professional translation of my products AND customer support in 20-25 languages, my cultural ignorance would be still a significant hurdle.

USA and Anglosphere in general is HUGE. China is HUGE. The closest thing to that in the EU is DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), about 100 million rich people speaking the same language.

But precisely Germany is a fairly technologically conservative country with median age close to 46, where people are much less keen on new technology than in, say, Estonia; ironically, the fact that older systems work reliably reduces the drive to adopt new ones.

And smaller markets like Estonian or Danish one will not provide you with as much growth opportunity.
> Hindsight is always 20/20, early on the virus was not believed to be airborne, only spread through relatively large droplets from coughing/sneezing which you'd likely only encounter in close contact with an actively ill person.

This isn't about hindsight. Coronaviruses are not an unknown and airborne spread should have been assumed unless ruled out. And it was assumed by many: Taiwan immediately mobilized their military to ramp up mask production, even before the WHO admitted there was a problem.

> Plus, Fauci had the responsibility to preserve masks for those that would be exposed directly to infected people - the medical workers and first responders.

Then he and other leaders should have communicated that. Treating people like dumb idiots that you need to lie to to get what you want results in those people mistrusting your future recommendations, e.g. to get vaccinated.
Buttplug with yubikey integrated. Startup idea of the year :P
> In a world of free instant automatic electronic payments, there's no good reason to delay salary payments until the end of the month.

Salaries are usually paid in arrear simply because employers want you to deliver the work first then get paid. When you call a plumber do you prefer to pay upfront or only after he has fixed the leak?

Then, of course the number of payments adds accounting overhead for everyone, so monthly in arrear seems like a good compromise.
By comparison, recently I bought some small homemade electronics thing from Germany. The sender had written Ålesund on the package. Deutsche Post, or possibly whatever system Posten bought from the lowest bidder, declared that Å isn't a real character, so they dropped it. Unfortunately Lesund is also a place.

After it had been stuck in the sorting facility for three weeks, I called them up and eventually reached a guy who could explain that oh yes, the system does that and the package gets stuck in a loop, but eventually a human will look at it.

It did in fact arrive eventually.
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> what I'd like is on a per-URL-pattern basis, so that <google.com> is disabled but not <google.com/maps>.

Try out uMatrix.
Thank you jamil7 <3
there is also a lot of money thrown in businesses in the form of EU subsidies. YC gives a miniscule amount of money ($125K), i believe european entrepreneurs can (and do) milk naive US VCs for a lot more than what YC offers.

The YC data is clear about one thing: if you remove the need to travel to the US , a lot more europeans flock to YC. We 've become a terribly sclerotic continent and it's very visible now. I believe things will get a lot better after we hit rock bottom.
Thats your personal experience. Most of my friends who got covid without the vaccines never had any major issue you had. They took rest for a week and problem solved. One of my other friends, who was vaccinated, got covid and had to be hospitalised because he couldn't breath. Luckily he survived. A coworker, who was vaccinated, still hasn't got his taste back after getting covid around a month ago.

Vaccine or not, you can still get covid and suffer the consequences depending on your body. So I dont see the point in getting a vaccine and suffer its long term consequences when it basically does nothing.

If you are saying it prevents covid death - you are wrong. Check England's data. More unvaccinated people are getting covid but they are dying less. Vaccinated people are getting covid less but the ones who died after getting covid are more. The math isn't adding up for the vaccines.
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And? Your monthly income is $200 over expenses.
Yes, lock up 6000 people for one month to save one life that had 10 years left.

Still not worth it to me.
I've seen a lot of both private (MGM properties in Vegas, at least Vdara) and public (CA DMV) using id.me for this purpose. It actually works really well.
Back in the day I learned cp437 and its mapping to cp866, and was able to read cyrillic DOS programs without altering the character generator in the graphics card.

This was useful on a computer with a sort of Hercules graphics card which didn’t have the capability in text mode and behaved like IBM MDA.

Needless to say, my knowledge got outdated fairly quickly.
I don't know other people, but I personally have never in the 10+ years I used "gaming" mice accidentally mispressed a button because I wanted to move the thing. Maybe logitech makes weird mice where this doesn't happen?
This is why I cringe every time when I hear about "data-centric approaches". Data-centric gives you this.
Correlation does not imply causation.

Bear with me.

If there's an impassable mountain range, the bears might stay on one side, and so might the humans. There's a few outliers (especially among adventurous humans) but geographic features do separate populations of both people and bears.
No, he's saying that if you enable it, you'll end up with a lot of screenshots. There is no implication that they were not triggered by a tap. He even says "accidentally being triggered constantly".

Yes I did make the leap, because it doesn't seem like a relevant issue if it's not done on purpose by Apple.
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There was an article on this in The Economist recently. Apparently what you're describing is no longer the case.

https://www.economist.com/business/2021/08/14/one-way-to-mak...
Yep that same scary regulation that is intended to hinder businesses from selling me food with hydrogenated fats, overloaded with sugar or salt, that same regulation that forces auto manufacturers to not create exclusive overpriced repair consortiums for basic parts, and that generally makes life a bit less corporately tyrannical.

Shareholder value is only nice if you're a significant shareholder, and it is disproportionately nice to those shareholders at the cost of others, when lobbying overtakes regulation.
I hate and love that. Someone must have seen those characters enough times to have become good at deciphering them.

What a waste of time for the postal system though, I’m surprised they didn’t just return to sender.
But cutting off Bitcoin or other major coin purchasing would have a big impact beyond OnlyFans. Not that you’re wrong, it’s just that the credit card processors would sort of be declaring war on crypto.
Well it isn't the only way to make money. So far, Apple is not (yet) big on all this stuff, yet they make quite a lot of money. Though even they are starting their descent to hellscape.
Ok, how many years would be worth it?
Is there any good reason to take Apple on their word that all their scanning for is CSAM? How certain can we be that they're not already using this technology secretly to look for other types of content when the government asks? I doubt they're going to announce every time the government requests they add detection for a new Pepe frog meme and other "far-right" content, and it seems almost inevitable governments will want them to do something like this at some point, if not already.

I feel like we're giving Apple too much trust by labelling this CSAM detection. In reality the technology can (and probably will) be used to detect anything they want to.
AFAIK many queries are mostly a lot more efficient if the UUID is in insertion order which is facilitated by including the timestamp at the front of the UUID
> At boundaries between our code and calls out to external packages, make an effort to always wrap the result with xerrors.Errorf. This ensures that we always capture a stack trace at the most proximate location of an error being generated as possible

I've been doing something similar for a while, using `errors.WithStack` from https://github.com/pkg/errors

The error can then be logged with https://github.com/rs/zerolog like this `log.Error().Stack().Err(err).Msg("")`

For human readable output (instead of the standard JSON) use a console writer, see https://github.com/mozey/logutil
You should read or watch Wim Hof. He advices cold weather exercise. His method involves swimming in freezing waters.
They at least need to incorporate in the US, Canada, Singapore, or the Cayman Islands.

https://www.ycombinator.com/faq#q25
It's funny how some of those systems try to correct anything that doesn't look like one of the big email providers. I use a custom domain for mail, and I can be 100% sure that it doesn't even look remotely like any well-known mail provider's domain, yet a very well-known website I tried to sign up for warned me that there is most likely a typo in my email address.
OK, so "no limitations" wasn't correct. But still, you can use chrome on ios, you get all the ui and behaviours you are used to, no?
It is really sad but in my experience the only improvement provided.bybthese tools are regarding developer experience (and some times, not even that!). We're trading our own dev experience and sacrificing our user's. For proof, look at the new reddit, and so many other react apps which even with modern macs feel terribly slow and clunky
The irony is, not even the world's best mathematicians and engineers could safely predict what JavaScript would do when summing two arrays.
I have done this? I'm not particularly great at interviewing either.
If you're selling a technical solution, why would you even touch cultural differences? I bet you'd be successful if you could afford the extra costs of translation/marketing.
It’d be kind of ridiculous that a national service would not recognize their own characters as a default. It’s more likely that the general-use OCR failed in your instance.
I don't want to insult Romania (and I actually am looking forward to an opportunity to visit it, there apparently are many spectacular places, nice people and delicious cuisine), but AFAIK it's rather far from the best places in the EU from the economic/social points of view, no surprise many people prefer to emigrate on a good opportunity. I would be more curious if founders still move to the US from Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Ireland etc.
I'd guess it's that particular model, as none of the trackballs or mice I've tried have been like that. Maybe try a Kensington Expert Mouse? Same form factor as SlimBlade, but the buttons look more like proper buttons. I have several of them, and have never had any clicking problems (it's quite a bit easier than a mouse, in fact, because the pointer stays still). I haven't tried a SlimBlade, and don't plan to (I like a physical scroll ring), but I can recommend the Expert Mouse (though I wish they'd called it an Expert Trackball or something!). I recommend the wired version over the wireless one.
The term "european" is meaningless.It's all just bunch of countries working under some framework.
As a european there's no shared success if one european company succeeds.And because of that there's no synergic effects that would help "european" companies to grow and improve.
> there is also a lot of money thrown in businesses in the form of EU subsidies.

And that money is mostly a complete waste. EU money comes with so many strings and baggage that you are either big enough and have the resources to deal with it (and thus you don't actually need it), or you are small and make it your entire business model to live off EU funds and not produce anything of value ever.
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> It was deemed the problems were bigger than the new possibilities. I mean, we could speak Finnish/English just fine and there was usually no need for any other languages.

It also excluded a large part of the world from participating on IRC.
Maybe if it was more proactive, IRC would have a larger role to play than it does now?

Another example is punycode. unicode URLs are super unreadable, so no wonder the rest of the earth's population doesn't care enough about the open web, the importance of URLs vs Apps.
Meanwhile Mr. Nissan's legacy(he passed away last year) lives on:

https://nissan.com/
Yes it’s a trap which is why a lot of people see it as predatory particularly as the interest rates are (used to be?) obscene. Payday lending companies can become a leech on poor people.

This looks a little different to the usual structure of payday lending but still has the issue you point out.
Well by that logic, why stop at masks? Let's make everyone wear rubber gloves whenever they leave the house. Let's legally mandate that everyone carry antibacterial handgel on them at all times and wash their hands after touching any surface. Let's ban handshaking - hell, why don't we just permanently ban everybody from ever leaving their homes? That'll be sure to stop the spread of respiratory viruses and thus totally worth it, amirite?

And why stop at respiratory viruses? Sexual infections cause all kinds of harm too - the obvious response is to ban sex. When people want to reproduce they can just use IVF - thank God we live in the modern era.

And by the way, do you have any idea how many people are killed every year in road accidents? I propose we ban cars. Let's also ban walking in case anybody trips over. And let's ban eating so that no-one ever chokes on their food.

Am I doing this right?
> So you’ll end up having the same problem every month

Yes. This led to the UK FCA trying to ban rollover loans: https://www.fca.org.uk/news/news-stories/tougher-rules-payda...

> employed people’s income doesn’t vary between months (or maybe it does for some?).

Exactly: gig economy, variable shift patterns, tipping, benefit payments, delayed cheques, freelancers of all sorts, delayed payment of debts by customers, seasonal employment, sudden unemployment, seasonal expenses, etc.

(That said, this app only works for payments from one employer, but I can see it working well for the service industry)
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Agreed, for most services anyway. I like my country's ID card and electronic ID system and use it happily for state-adjacent services or where regulation requires IDs. I am however very much against using it for things like online shops, SaaS or even phone numbers. Most services don't need to and shouldn't identify me as a unique human, they just need enough information to bill me and provide me with their services.
> that same regulation that forces auto manufacturers to not create exclusive overpriced repair consortiums for basic parts

My diesel jetta would like a word with you and your picky-choosy.

Just kidding, America cracked down and forced VW to buy it back with a penalty kicker.

Point is - these sorts of arguments are silly.
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I don't think this is the case, in France or anywhere.

And I'm certain it's not the reason SV creates more startups. The real reason is that this is where startups were invented, so for historical reasons the concentration of capital and talent is extremely high.
Use Google Voice for SMS 2FA. Almost every service I use supports it (except for the ones that ping telecom companies to verify your address) and Google seems for now committed to keeping it alive as they’ve added voice as a service for Google for Business
I used to have popular books about computers which had character maps of popular encoding in the appendices. Every book about programming, or using DOS/Windows 9x had them.

Each book for system users (not even power users!) had a chapter about different character sets and common problems like this. This was important.

I think the post office worker was enough of a geek or they took the package to the computer guy.

Still more interesting thing to me was that the sender got the address in the wrong encoding and instead of asking via email, just must have thought that Russians have their little ways and dutifully copied all the gibberish (Russians even have a specific term for misencoded characters: krakozyabras).
employed people’s income doesn’t vary between months.

As you mentioned for some it does (overtime etc.), but even if 'gross' income doesn't vary month to month, expenses can vary massively and so your total 'net' income can be very different month to month.
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The West had some influence over that, we were busy propping up the opposition.
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This is cool! Thanks for sharing. I've played around with some random Colab notebooks that have surfaced on HN but the results have been underwhelming compared with some of the polished AI Art I've seen in the wild. Some questions that popped into my head:

What's your setup (Cloud/Colab/Custom hardware)? Did you borrow the code in its entirety or is there a secret source? How long did it take you to fiddle around with the hyper-parameters until you were happy with the results? How many iterations did you settle on before stopping? Thanks!
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> On the top of that, regulation in the EU is much worse than in the US

Worse as in better for consumers and citizens, but more costly for companies that can't do exactly what they want?