skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even if your provider stores and transmits only encrypted email data, once sent it does not maintain that guarantee while being passed by another entity's MTA.

What? If Alice encrypts an email to Bob, using Bob's PGP key on her laptop, then it doesn't matter how many MTAs that email passes through, the email stays encrypted at every hop.

> it could wind up being archived to tape

I guess you're saying that an encrypted email could travel through a provider that keeps a copy of it in the hopes that quantum computers will one day be cheaply available enough that they can crack the private key and read the email.

That seems expensive (and illegal) for a company to do just on a whim (assuming the sender and recipient are periodically deleting old emails), and I'd like to think that a judge would turn down a request for a warrant that covers data that won't be readable for a decade or more.
Increased lifespan may be a consequence of increased healthspan.
Who in their right mind would refuse increased healthspan for themselves and their loved ones. The moral argument is moot.
CAP theorem.
You can't have guarantee for having all three all the time.
But you can still have nice thing most of the time.

Even better, sometimes you can change which guarantee you need.

We can do better then "pick two"
WA has as well, after a bit of media attention about police misusing it.
> Whitebox solutions can be adopted by corporations that can afford to have dedicated teams to maintain the software stack.

Pretty much. Unless you have some remarkably top-notch people, this proposal is just security theatre. The chances you'll compromise yourself through an error in a complex area are much higher than the liklihood a sophisticated attacker will breach you.
fill out the form, go from there, let us know how it goes please.
Increases reaction times is right == slows reaction
Tulip mania can go on for years, as it has in all previous bubbels. Maybe they are good investments, but they still show all the signs of a bubble to me.
> They're greedy because they think the world owes them cheap housing

People want affordable housing not cheap housing.

> The person who owns multiple houses actually did some work to earn the money to pay for them

So if I hide my income in tax havens and evade taxes or if someone uses their wealth from a foreign country which they got using shady methods and then use that money to buy multiple properties, is that ok in your books?
>I never understood why people get so angry at other people for showing solidarity, even if they aren't part of the oppressed group.

There's a pretty wide gulf between solidarity and getting offended on other people's behalf. If a slight doesn't effect you then you shouldn't be the first mover. Let the slighted people decide they are in fact slighted before you get all up in arms over it

>Why does it make you so mad? Seriously, I don't get it.

Because it's selfish behavior that makes everything worse. It's the social discourse equivalent of tossing a cigarette butt on the ground. Society can absorb a couple bad actors but if everyone starts doing it the park will be trashed.

>Standing up for a minority group that you are not part of is called being part of a community,

There's a fine line between standing up for others and making the decision for them. A lot of this outrage on others behalf is

>By your insane logic, the only person who can stand up for someone is that one person. Maybe that is what you want?

You're intentionally taking his position to an absurd extreme because that's the only way to make yours look reasonable. Of course we can all get pissed off about known bad things, racial slurs and that kinda stuff. But a quip about crazy cat people being twisted as somehow being a sexist joke? Get the F outta here.
technology or civilization doesn't require our recognition, it exists or not regardless.

Our combustion-based technology is rather a fluke of having a huge amount of one-time crude oil reserves. Other planets won't necessarily have that.
If you're upgrading to a paid account, isn't that even worse than the initial step in terms of anonymity? I get that they need to make money to survive, but this requirement isn't displaced by e2ee - it provides a misleading and false sense of security.

Anonymity toward state actors is compromised in either situation, whether phone verification or payment validation.

Doubt I'm the only one who thinks this, but the value proposition of their service is cancelled by their stated terms, which at least they make available. I have similar doubts about the veracity of claims by VPN providers (including mine) in terms of not keeping logs.

tor remains the only usable anonymising method with a decent track record. It's a shame Protonmail discriminates against it.
Maintaining the fork as a stack of patches using something like Stacked Git can make it a little easier than rebasing: https://stacked-git.github.io/
We're talking about fiction. If you can't recognize it as technology or civilization, how do you plan to write about it?

As for combustion, indeed, other planets may not have it. So how do you propose that they would start to develop a technology which would lead to building spaceships?
You have a very grim and victim-based view of financial reality. While you are partially correct, the system is working against the individual, you are also dismissing that there is some wiggle room for these people to improve their financial standing.

By improving your own education, working hard, and learning good financial habits, you can be at least somewhat better off. You will always suffer at the hands of this capitalist machine that chews the poor and spits them out. But with some level of self-discipline you can (at least slightly) improve your life and the lives of your offspring.

Lots of success is based on probability, so with luck, hard work, and financial literacy you may even be much better off.
I don’t see any that look plausible. I would prefer a liberal democracy but I think we’re going to veer into right or left wing fascism because eventually we have to stop the bleeding and an authoritarian element will be required to do that.

I don’t like the landscape. Not one bit.
The knowledge currently exists on how to manufacture all this from minerals to final output- probably a good idea to spend some of those trillions in infrastructure spending tempting some retirees to come and help us re-establish a full chain of manufacturing in critical areas.
I’d very surprised enterprise corporate legal departments don’t have that covered.

Ring doorbells record everything, including peering into other homes.

Outrage? People love them.
The challenge is that it just doesn't flood often enough to justify investing in significant defenses. If this were the type of event that occurred annually, or multiple times a year - I'm guessing we would see investments in the sorts of thing that Tokyo builds such as https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181129-the-underground-...
Please, link some goog links and literature to enforce financial literacy :)
Sharding is not the same as natural clustering, because eventually you’ll need to reshard and then you’ll be writing a lot more code.
I similarly have a bunch of 2000-2006 era PowerPC Mac hardware from the crazy aesthetic hayday that time was.

The iMac G4, in particular; is such a work of art. I’ve got two.

You can actually get little adapters to put solid state drives in a lot of them, and a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser gets rid of a lot of scuffs and makes things like new.
Who are the "we" in the we shouldn't? If it is possible, rich enough people will do it, shouldn't or not. Even if it makes even more unsustainable the current conditions (rich enough individuals/families/countries consume/pollute/etc more than poor ones). And eventually, if you get enough rich people living till, I don't know, 150 years, that will be democratized (shouldn't or not, again, different countries will have different policies).

Of course, that would be unsustainable in the long term, but we might not have a long term to worry about anymore. The climate clock is ticking faster than the life extension one.
Couldn't this be for practical reasons, to keep the receiver from moving when you pick up the phone?
People don't seem to understand what I'm saying. If the OP at least gives numbers you can compare them to easily looked up estimates and find out if they're reasonable or if you can ignore him in a couple minutes.

Without that I'd have to search projected sea level rise, then read all about the elevation, vulnerability to storm surge, levees, flood risks, etc for New Orleans. It would take hours to know if the OP has a valid point or not. You might have to do that anyway, but at least if his numbers are bad you can shortcut the process and ignore him.
If that was the conclusion you drew, I suggest you read what I wrote again.
HackersNews is a experiment.
>I have even less confidence that we can do anything about the disinformation

>Google putting an info box like that on conspiracy content is even more evidence that it must be true, because Google is in on it.

Yeah, it's disheartening to say the least. I know someone who was sucked in and her thought processes have completely changed. These ideas are like living parasites: fiercely self-protective to the point of impenetrability. The ideas become fused with their identities, so criticizing the theories is attacking the person and the world becomes binary: you're either in or out. And, if you're out, well then you're part of the conspiracy (or duped by it). It's very much like what you read about cult-conditioning.

So, I've seen the logic: If Google instead removed it altogether, someone would screenshot it and make the claim that "Google tried to hide it". If Google just disallowed it in the first place or banned accounts, then that becomes evidence of a bigger conspiracy and, additionally, the freedom of speech arguments enter (as if there are no exceptions).

So, I'm not sure that it's winnable in our current social media formats. Too many motivated bad actors with troll-farms and bots; and too many fertile minds who are growing more and more agitated, and whose worldviews and identities now rely on the disinfo.

So, we've got a problem with both supply and demand.
Wow! Thanks for the insight!
It's defined relative to the ecliptic plane: the north pole is the pole that's on the same side of the ecliptic plane as Earth's.
Problem is the wealthy can't act poor. When you have a ton of money putting 10k in a designer purse you use once isn't a factor to your net worth, so why not.
> I might be off here, but I imagine console.log early exits if there's no console open, so it doesn't call toString

The point is to avoid calling toString when the console is open, by using some other way of displaying logged values.
What's Holding Electrification Back?
The addendum appears for me.
Sooo many products have this. Sometimes it actually serves a function of keeping the item stable but usually I assume it is for perception of quality.
My very first job was at the Electronics Boutique (now GameStop) at the local mall. I was 15 (too young to be legally hired but corporate turned a blind eye) and worked there the summer of 1999, when Pokémon cards were at their apex, the Dreamcast was about to come out, and the PlayStation was truly at its peak. Aside from some sexual harassment from the cliental for being the only girl who worked there (I was the first female that store had ever even hired and it had been there for 7 or 8 years), it really was such a perfect first job.

We had a policy at the time where people could returned open copies of most games (Microsoft productivity software or anything else with a license key was often an exception), provided it was still in sellable condition and employees got to “check stuff out” for a day or two to test/play at home. As a result, the recommendations we could make were much better and people trusted us and our opinions, which was important when gaming segments on TV were nascent, YouTube didn’t exist, and glossy magazines and the IGN websites were where you would get your game news/reviews.

At least at our mall, we had regulars who lived closer to another location but came to our store because of the staff and because of our selection. I almost never buy games in retail stores these days — buying digitally or buying physical copies online is just more convenient — but it makes me sad that my favorite places as a kid/teenager: video/DVD stores, music stores, video games stores, and toy stores, have all basically gone extinct. At least Best Buy is still a thing, I guess. And the Apple Store. But as convenient as it is to buy stuff online, there is something special about getting to touch/feel/listen/play with stuff before you buy it and something cool about being amongst a community of people as passionate about your interests.
You're correct that each server has separate accounts, and you can't log in to, for example, but mastodon and bookwyrm and pleroma using the same account. You can do more than just like or repost though - a bookwyrm user and a mastodon user can do a variety of things like follow on another, send DMs, and reply to each other's posts.
If it helps: I was strongly discouraged and guided away from actually being a nerd throughout my upbringing. I found my way to nerdy interests and footnotes I’d visit later on my own from creative pursuits that were less discouraged.
Ancient Pyramids of Sudan from the Nubian Empire
Oh I see. So you associated the physicality of the console with it's operation and made new designs based on that. Curiously, that never dawned on me in even though I was really into mechs, which clearly is in the same milieu (that is, superficial design implying physically un-realizable degrees-of-freedom). I think I was entranced by the idea that you could write to both sides of a disk by snipping the floppy just so, and even defeat copy protection in a similar manner. It was all black magic to me, and I enjoyed being the magician at my school. But it would be a lie to claim I understood what I was doing: the primacy of causality would only really sink in during college.
It's always funny to me to see Charlie's blog these days, but kind of sad. So much of it comes down to "there's nothing new under the sun," which is so disappointing coming from someone who used to be one of the most imaginative authors around.
>We can remove this much rain with wooden screw pumps that still run on 25 cycle power.

To clarify, those are metal pumps invented by a man named Albert Baldwin Wood, not pumps literally made out of wood.
Lazy? Or noble lie?
Absolutely ... it needs to be designed from the ground up - why I think it fits the question of something a modern database could do that Postgres would struggle with.
Basically trying discredit people who communicate in any way the possibility that covid-19 will be endemic.
Pick a world superpower or megacorp that shares your paranoia, work for them and use their gear. Though it won't be your phone...
Beyond Dopamine: New Brain Reward Circuitry Discovered
Yep, the flash player just worked everywhere.

YouTube was so popular on MySpace (that just allowed you to add random HTML… yeah that was a thing) that MySpace panicked for a while and added some javascript to make youtube videos not “clickable”; you could not click through to the YouTube page, just to play the video.
I really want to do streaming queries over updates and inserts in a normal SQL database. Imagine writing

SUBSCRIBE SELECT customers.id, customers.name
FROM EVENTS(customer_purchases) AS cpe
LEFT OUTER JOIN customers ON cpe.row.customer_id = customers.id
WHERE cpe.row.product_id = '123abc' AND cpe.type IN ('update', 'insert')

in postgres itself and just getting every incoming purchase for a particular product.
I got my hands on a brand new iPhone 3GS for free recently. I don't have any for one but it's kind of cool to own.
> It must take a lot of hard work to make a simple game run slowly on modern hardware.

The arrogance of this comment is wild.

Risk is built with Unity. Unity games are harder to optimize than older custom engines because it's not custom. Unity and UE allowed games that wouldn't normally exist at all to get made. The complaint "I'm mainly just depressed at how slow games are now" is interesting, in that really you're comparing slow games now to games that would never have existed in the first place before.

Personally, I'll take slow games.

Also, as a general rule, games built on licensed content are mostly just a cash grab/pump and dump system.
> Before that the NSA was doing good work shoring up our digital infrastructure

Yeah, like introducing the Clipper chip!
This was not a problem in Solaris, Annihilation, or Story of Your Life.

Some stories very much are about aliens who use tech or have civilizations that are very very alien to us.
I'm basing this on nothing, but at the time I thought Google figured that if Youtube lost the lawsuits it would destroy the video market for everyone, so they bought them with the intention of defending the lawsuits better than Youtube could have on their own.
I would presume that if you can't move out, perhaps they'd prescribe an air purifier.

Turns out we have devices that can control the environment to some degree.

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EDIT: I also believe that the topic of air pollution and its effects on people is an OSHA issue, not so much a medicine issue. Regulations exist to reduce the air pollution from plants (ex: why coal is so expensive these days), and workplaces (again: why coal is so expensive). We've found lower pollution sources of energy, such as natural gas.
>> Its supporters claim it can meet today’s global challenges by providing nuanced reporting, presenting possible solutions to problems and fostering unifying discussions.

nuanced reporting - sounds like making things complicated.

"presenting possible solutions" - telling people how we our our backers think it should be handled.

"fostering unifying discussions" - trying to get consensus for our plan.

Yeah, I dont see how this is different except the last part changing from "creating echo chambers and creating division" so I guess it's a start.
> To simplify how things work, there are two sets of systems in the plane.

If the plane was not simplified, how many systems would there be? It seems to me that the goal is not simplicity, but automation and safety. Otherwise, there would still be flight engineers.

> This includes the anti-skid functionality.

Fly-by-wire includes anti-skid? Direct law includes anti-skid? What is 'this' referring to?

> If they all fail, the plane reverts to a known, extremely well tested, working systems.

Well tested compared to what? Well tested compared to flying with flight computers?

> Adding another failure mode is a bad idea.

Why is the anti-skid toggle a physical switch if it is only available in some systems of laws? It's physical presence means pilots will think it is always available. Isn't a misunderstanding a failure mode in itself?
The whole NES era really was the last terrible period in video game history. No console after the NES had so many games that were so bad and so expensive.

New PS2 games cost around $50 USD back in the 2000s and most new PS4 games actually cost less now when you account for inflation.
Materialize.io does something like this, although in a separate system from Postgres, and I'm not sure it's possible to push live queries to a client.
Show HN: Matrix Multiplication, direct use on Linux shell
> Also, what you have told the GTkeddit developer was very likely not correct, users can still load their own theme and libadwaita will not override that. The libadwaita change is about the platform theme, not the user's theme, the user theme still has top priority.

Haven't Clasen and several other devs on the issue tracker you and I linked above clearly has statements like "linking to libadwaita is an explicit decision to use the Adwaita theme" and "core GNOME applications linking to libadwaita will then thereby require that every distribution shipping GNOME is forced to consent to having Adwaita as the theme".

The only way a user's own custom theme will be used if a proposed opt-in flag is added to libadwaita (doesn't seem like it will be, recoloring API is being favored) and app developers use that flag.

Correct me if I'm wrong in this point and I'd be happy to go back and talk to the GTkeddit developer again but from what he independently tested, he seems to have reached the same result as I think.
"Evergreen" compiler is enemy of reproducible build.
So cat owners can pay $1 per month more on their car insurance?
> Someone needs to rent and service the servers, update the software, bandwidth costs money, etc..

Scientific papers use approximately zero bandwidth.

As a point of reference, if I hosted such a website on my home internet connection I would be paying approximately 0.00013 cents per upload. Even users downloading millions of papers would cost me less than a coffee.

Setting up and managing a proportionate payment system would cost more than just eating the bandwidth costs would.
In the northern hemisphere, the worst quarter of a cyclonic storm is to the NW. That's where winds blow in toward, driving storm surge, and it's where the warm tropical moisture tends to meet cooler northern continental airmasses, triggering rain (cold air can hold less total moisture than warm). Storms tracking east of New Orleans produce less overall damage as the primary storm surge is directed further east, and the city itself is subjected to the less-damaging, and already somewhat moisture-depleted NE and NW winds as the storm passes.

Ida tracked just west of downtown New Orleans. The eyewall didn't interact with downtown proper, though it did cross the Mississippi a few miles NW of New Orleans. Storm surge was significant, though because Ida was a smaller (though intense) storm, total surge was less than for Katrina, 16 years earlier (14 ft vs. ~20). Katrina's peak surge was far closer to Lake Ponchartrain, whilst Ida's was further to the SW, being highest near Grand Isle.

https://www.weather.gov/mob/katrina

https://www.weather.gov/mob/ida
Covid-19 could end the fax
> Where does it say that?

Literally the first paragraph on the refunds page.

> You can request a refund for nearly any purchase on Steam—for any reason. Maybe your PC doesn't meet the hardware requirements; maybe you bought a game by mistake; maybe you played the title for an hour and just didn't like it.

https://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds/
That's good for Australia. I'm definitely expressing a US-centric observation here where I'm hoping we can avoid polarizing this.
This is a good point and probably should not be downvoted.

Telsa may not really have a problem with financing this, and subsidies might have a better impact where financing has structural problems - charging infrastructure has exactly that problem. The economics are not clear, and it's probably going to boil down to public investment. Moreover, the money might be more effectively distributed through Europe instead of being concentrated in one or two places.

In short - let capitalism do capitalism and government do civic infrastructure.
Well Neptune's Brood had a vaguely blockchain based economy. That was neat.
Evacuations from outlying areas also helped tremendously. Those were hammered.
You might like https://getfreewrite.com/ as well.
This is awesome! I made a similar app that works with a kindle and your mobile device: https://msolomon.github.io/solarwriter-website