skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am cautious on the purported facts of anything reported when it comes out of "Bloomberg News investigation" that "has filled in significant new details."

In my opinion, they jump to conclusion on insufficient circumstantial evidence. I have not forgotten the SuperMicro debacle.

In this article, they repeat the some jumping and aggrandizing on multiple fronts.
Tor has known limitations. Pretending like all communication channels with limitations are equal is like saying X minus Y always equals five.
Yes, but even you are recommending automation as the solution here (a sign to direct people is automation).

If restaurants do it poorly that is of course an issue, but it's not like rude servers and bad service don't exist.
> Everybody needs to start diffing javascript served by them.

It would be nice if there were something like Perspectives[0] or Binary Transparency / Sigstore[1] to raise the alarm when something like this happened, but the threat would also be avoided if ProtonMail was available as a SecureBookmark[2].

[0] https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/data-center/ssl-tls-certif...

[1] https://security.googleblog.com/2021/03/introducing-sigstore...

[2] https://coins.github.io/secure-bookmark/
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Okay, and how do you explain the fact that the statistics don't bear this out? The North East has the second-lowest proportion of young people attending university in England.

Everything that I said is also based on data. There are stats on who is attending uni, there are stats on sexual violence in schools, there are stats on bullying.

What is surprising is that you imply that my account is not representative in some way, and then say that I am wrong because you did it...how does this make sense to you? What you did makes no difference.

And, unless you are more specific about where you came from, it makes no difference because, as I took great care to mention, the issue is not about poverty. There is nowhere else poorer than Middlesbrough in the UK but the issue is that there is nowhere else with lower opportunities for you in life. So this is a problem that is specific to regions, it is largely non-existent below Birmingham. In all of these areas which have poverty, there is high social mobility...this is least true in the North-East, some places along the East coast, some places in the Midlands, many places in Wales and Scotland.

Also, I think it is truly tragic when someone points out things like bullying in schools and sexual violence against children for someone to say..."Oh, you must be a Guardian reader"...is it only people who read the Guardian who care about children being raped? Well...at least we know your views on the subject. I bet the moral high ground feels great. University was wasted on you.
I'm also a proton mail user. It sounds like you have privacy as long as you don't break any European law. That's certainly not the "Swiss bunker" style of service I was expecting
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Future generations will inherit a very different world with new challenges, and this is the very least of them. It wasn’t that long ago biometrics were being called the doorway to dystopia and the mark of the devil. Now fingerprint scanners and facial recognition hardware is in every device and we all benefit from the convenience. Apple didn’t create an online database of our faces and fingerprints and give it to the US government so everywhere we go and everything we touch gets recorded forever. Why would they need to when we all posted our photographs on Facebook for the world to download anyway? See you’re actually dealing with superstition and prophecy of doom. Those memetic structures rely on genetic behavioral traits derived from when religious influence created selective pressure. Those psychological hooks are being commandeered by stories/memes that mimic superstition and religion. So I’m saying you don’t have objectivity.
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This attitude works for personal projects but will probably be somewhat career limiting working in a team.
It has also caused a lot of joy when a game arrives unexpectedly and unasked for. I still clearly remember the day decades ago when my father drove up next to me and my friends while we were riding bikes with 3 computer games for me on his passenger seat.
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> His calculations suggest it’s possible to repay the energy costs, including orbit, after only a few years.

No. No they don't. that's not what his conclusions are at all. How did you even get that?

He's comparing space-based vs. land, not space-based vs. nothing. His conclusion is that it's pointless to build solar power collectors in space for terrestrial power applications. In all cases, if you want power on earth, build the solar on earth.
I have an idea for a new research paper : On the intersectionality of pre-existing conditions, previous prophylactic treatments in the priorisation of treatment, or how to redefine the Hyppocratic oath through Hegelian dialectics.
I remember an old lady talking about the diner her daughter and son in law were going broke running. She came in and raised prices 10 cents here, 15 cents there, and buck there. And after a few months the books were a lot better.
> I'm a programmer, not a wizard!

What if I consider those to be the same thing? Programming is an alchemical process through which we can contribute to humanity beyond the time-limit imposed by our physical bodies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Work_(Hermeticism) :)

"The magnum opus is pre-eminently the creation of man by himself, that is, the full and complete conquest which he can make of his faculties and his future; it is pre-eminently the perfect emancipation of his will."
I really don't see how you can look at the changelogs for the weekly releases of the AWS provider and think that nobody's working on it. If you want to see what a neglected provider looks like, spend some time with the poor Vault provider, where I have a two-year-old bug report about a reproducible crash condition without so much as a reaction emoji on it.
Thanks. For anyone who’d rather not watch a video: it’s a short clip of Monica Ghandi at a June 15th mask/ribbon cutting ceremony, jumping with excitement as happy days are here again plays.
I bet this follows the same difference we saw with books, music, videos, etc.: when you had a great store conveniently located, the experience is better with knowledgeable staff, a good selection, and better support.

The average, however, wasn’t so great and probably had issues with location/hours/atmosphere which turned off many people (e.g. how many women avoided certain shops due to common behaviors of male clerks?) so there was a large enough underserved market for online stores to tap into.
Ah, they're sitting in a restaurant in protest. Clearly insane terrorists.
Sending out invoices for example.

You can work on automating it and hooking various payment providers.

Integration with payment providers is a lot of hassle and engineering work. So when you have 5-10 customers it does not make sense to automate that.

Sending invoices manually does not scale of course - but that advice is given in specific context of company. Where you should focus on working on your product and not on automating invoices "because somewhere in the future it will be needed."
Yes, Protonmail requires a phone number to register over Tor!

Even though they claim no identity is required to register.

I confirmed this today when I created a fresh Protonmal account over Tor:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28428092
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28422196
Which ones? South Korea, Vietnam, China and Australia all come to mind, they are all facing Delta waves now.
It's always been insane to me that databases aren't better at migrations. There are so many blog posts out there on how to do zero downtime migrations, and I feel like a lot more of that could probably be abstracted away.
Financial literacy is in the same class of policies as abstinence-based sex education and "just say no" anti-drug campaigns. Unless this education is about giving the poor access to capital and lucrative, reliable investment opportunities, all that penny-pinching gives you is an awareness of being trapped in an interlocking web of systems of financial predation: risks, costs, fees, and liabilities systematically offloaded onto you, a mostly defenseless consumer of necessary basic services.

What really works is giving up on yourself and admitting that you will die broken, sick, and poor, and putting all your energies into your offspring who will vindicate your sacrifice. Pressure your children into challenging academic pathways, reduce their leisure time, and help them get into prestigious occupations. That's the only reliable path to building family wealth.
Writing code is easy. Writing understandable, maintainable and documented code that is easy to read, is hard.
I checked your link, and even did a "command + f" search. I saw no mentions of the words "audio," "sound," "input", nor "output."

Without some sort of fancy hardware or hacky software, I am not sure if it's possible -- at least not as of 6 or so months ago when I was looking for it.

To test:

Use the link above and try to record the audio of something like a YouTube video while recording the screen playing the video. If you can manage to get this to work, please share your results. I would be so obliged. This is not my goal of the software, but it's a quick test to show you what I am looking for.
That's a great point. This should be better publicized. Protonmail requires a phone number to register through Tor.
That doesn't whiplash. They all run at normal speed, no bursts in demand getting bigger and bigger, then suddenly becoming negative demand, then jumping back up.

It's just some parts can't keep up and everything after goes as fast as it can with the supplies it gets, running pretty steadily. It's what you want to happen when supplies are low, for the most part.
It's more like, trust institutional medicine, and if your doctor doesn't, then find a new doctor.
Songshan's not a large airport, it's mostly used for domestic flights, and a few nearby international destinations. Single runway, immediate obstacles on both ends (no matter which way you land). Although, runway 10 is eastbound & it's just a fence and small parking lot, minor traffic, and then you land in the river.

Sounds like it would have been stressful.
Right, so this should really be .orReturnErr , by analogy with .await . We just overload the dot symbol to mean both "method call" and "weird monadic stuff is happening here".
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Not sure why I chose to watch that but I have to agree, that's comparable to The Room (if not as funny on it's own like The Room is, absent the jokes added by the MST3K hosts this one would be getting fast-forwarded constantly).

Things that are "bad" like that are uniquely bad. It's not just annoying or purposefully bad, it's a side effect of a series of poor judgements that make it amusing.

The most revealing part was in a Youtube comment that explained the master's helper guy (who takes up a ton of screen time) was clearly on acid the whole time, which makes his totally unusual behaviours understandable for anyone who has tried that before. But still very very socially awkward and creepy.
> the passengers likely never knew anything went wrong.

If the deceleration varied as much as the report said, then the passengers probably could tell. That was very different from a normal landing. If that wasn't enough, being towed to the terminal might have given them another clue.

> One extra thing going wrong here, in the wrong direction (anything that impaired braking or pilot reaction time) would likely have led to loss of life.

Well, it would have lead to the plane running off the end of the runway. What's past the end of that particular runway? A cliff? A river? Or just another 100 meters of grass leading up to a perimeter fence, then more flat ground for some distance beyond it? If it doesn't overrun the runway too far (say, 100 or 200 meters), no, that doesn't seem likely to lead to loss of life - not unless there's some specific hazard there.
No it will not give you financial freedom. You still need to earn the money .this should be obvious.
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And according to other countries at 3 months, or at conception. I'm just pointing out the irony that the most restrictive interpretation now in the US is in a place that supposedly prides itself on individual liberty. The principle of least governmental interference seems not to apply in this case, even for the same people who are up in arms about, I don't know, the government telling them to wear a mask in situations where they might kill a full grown human? I've seen them marching at antivax protests with signs reading "my body my choice"... well, is it or ain't it?

I know, I know. The real mark of being "Texas" isn't being conservative or having some kind of consistent view of liberty and governance. It's the lack of coherent logic and the fun of gaslighting.
I don't know of a games store doing this, but there are other retail startups working on putting experts in touch with buyers, such that experts can earn commission for reviewing & recommending items. It seems like a good development to me that can be applied across many areas of online retail.
Why don't NZ and Australia join into one state that could be called Oceania? At least it would provide a good start for the future Ingsoc party. Then there's also a whole empty continent nearby that can be used to deport wrong-thinkers. /s
I gave an example in another post. Basically "Hey, we respect your needs. However, we have to tell you that you should treat us as a bit of an adversary. We will do what we can as a private company, but ultimately we can be compelled by the government, rogue employee, or if somehow we get hacked. This is the case for any company, they just don't tell you it. We do. As our customer, here's what we recommend you do: Use Tor, fund open source, vote, etc."
Logistics, risk management, and customer acquisition mostly. The latter is less of a thing nowadays with digital distribution but was a bigger deal when people would go to local game store to find something new to play.

It’s so much cheaper to ship units to a few central warehouses of your distributors and then let them handle getting it in the shelves into 100,000+ stores nationwide. And your distributor handles all the retail risk for you, you don’t have to figure out where to build stores, how many to have, how to attract customers, worry about real-estate or rents.
My point is that the state of not even knowing how to cook and expecting to eat cheaply at a restaurant every night -- at every point in history besides the last 20 years or so that notion would be absurd.

I do feel that I can judge people for that, because other people work like dogs to cook their meals for them at below poverty wages. I'm judging, and I'm also raising the point that the current state of affairs is the absurd one. Not a possible future state of affairs where restaurants are again a luxury and people have to cook meals at home.
A lot of growth opportunities for entitled children as well.

But yes, while distributors can in theory be useful to customers, I think we’re seeing the end of that business model. And not just in games; car dealerships no longer provide a necessary service. Bookstores and music stores too. Apple made a killing by bypassing distributors, primarily because they could afford to give greater hands–on access to actual phones when people visited the stores.

If a bookstore or game store owner wants the business of recommending things to remain, they shouldn’t try to tie it to a physical store, to inventory and payment processing. All of those things are commodities, while the recommendations need not be, if they are good enough. They should make it a subscription service of it’s own; provide none of the store–related things, just the one–on–one conversation and recommendation.
For a lot of people there was an intermediate step in there. Ski boards (aka ski blades) were super popular with the rollerblading crowd and suffered a similar fate as rollerblading (I remember being called a fruit booter a number of times on my ski boards). It was in the X-Games before skiing was, but they eventually just cancelled ski boarding and pretty much all the pro's went on to ski, and that was more or less the last nail in the coffin for the sport. It's actually way more dead than rollerblading, as it didn't really just move "underground". People figured out that twin tip skis were actually much better at nearly everything than little 100cm ski boards.
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If the city survives at 7 feet below sea level, I don't understand what's stopping it from surviving at 8.5 feet.
Ah I see. It's an issue for my use of Protonmail, in that I may cancel and move to another vendor who is more forthright. Here's what I would expect my future vendor to say about this:

"Hey, we respect your needs. However, we have to tell you that you should treat us as a bit of an adversary. We will do what we can as a private company, but ultimately we can be compelled by the government, rogue employee, or if somehow we get hacked. This is the case for any company no matter what they promise or avoid telling you. We do tell you. As our customer, here's what we recommend you do: Use Tor, fund open source, vote, etc."
> Multiple countries have eliminated the virus. In fact, virtually every country that aimed at it succeeded at this goal.

Which countries have eliminated the virus? Aren't you playing out the exact same kind of baseless optimism you accuse Monica Gandhi of?
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Much as I like hard and realistic science fiction I feel the most impactful science fiction is one that is a lens with which to examine humanity. That may include the impact of specific technologies on humanity. The setting is a means to an end rather than and end in its own right. Overfill it with details and it's hard to see the forrest for the trees. And for the schlock side of it the details don't really matter compared to the characters, action, romance or whatnot. I'm reading it for the protagonist hilariously killing fifty aliens with a spoon and not the realistic setting.
Interesting that NSW (the most populous state in Australia) isn't mentioned in this.

This is the privacy policy for the NSW ServiceNSW app: https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/covid-safe-check-privacy-coll...
This is a really nice clock and far from what I am able to do.

Several years ago I went through several phases of "hands-on junk-to-art". The "third phase" was putting together clocks from found material.

So now I have a handful of unique clocks, lamps, and metal-pipe figures throughout my living space. Only one clock is misbehaving, but I'm taking my time in debugging and correcting it.

But it's a lot of clocks to circle about twice a year. I don't mind so much but it does remind me that perhaps something should be done.
Seems like someone who cares about this open source project should fork it as the maintainer is obviously absent.
They are wrong. Native speakers just don't use definition 2 in a literal way. Maybe this usage will evolve (now that the dictionaries are wrong) but it doesn't explain any of the common usage.
Personally I wish Postgres would add support for optimistic concurrency control (for both row-level and "predicate" locks), which can be a big win for workloads with high throughput and low contention.
I have two thoughts on the matter:

1. I tend to be pretty wary of assuming that poor people make poor financial decisions because they don’t know any better. Often their choices may be sensible given the circumstances or better options may not be available. See: http://www.businessinsider.com/check-cashing-stores-good-dea... which has some US examples (going to a check-casher is expensive but you get money immediately, which can be important for paying bills if you live paycheck-to-paycheck, and you don’t risk expensive overdraft fees—these don’t apply so much in the U.K. where overdraft fees are less insane and electronic payments typically come in faster, but a separate advantage to cash is having more control over money)

2. For wealthier people, I think it is hard to get good advice. Most people in financial services will be trying to make a profit, people you work with/know personally are unlikely to have truly good advice as they have similar problems getting it to you, and there is little media interest in repeating basically the same bits of advice every week. If you listen to Money Box (a radio programme about personal finance in the U.K.) then you may get the impression that the sensible way to invest is by finding obscure lucrative schemes that aren’t scams rather than going for simple broad-ranged ETFs or Index funds (or maybe talk about savings accounts or REITs.) This is because each episode typically contains some discussion of changing laws (regarding tax) or some kind of scam/fraud that some people fell for. It is probably good to put pressure on such schemes and if some listener writes to the show about one, the reporting often leads to them being reimbursed. But little thought is given to why people fall for them and what one should do to avoid them. For example, there was a case of someone who wanted a really really safe investment and went for making loans to (or maybe buying bonds from) some dodgy German company that was apparently building luxury houses in Turkey, and offering a return over 10%. The lesson here is that high returns tend to correspond to high risk, scams tend to promise high returns (at low risk), scams tend not to sell liquid products, and the listener should probably have bought gilts or some investment grade fixed income ETF/mutual fund. But none of that gets discussed (I think partly it is generally difficult to publish general investing advice) and one gets the impression that it is easy to fall for such scams in the ordinary process of investing. I also like Matt Levine’s tongue-in-cheek suggestions for improving personal finance: brokerages should have “technical difficulties” during a market crash and anything other than simple investments in diversified products (and maybe single stocks) requires getting a “stupid investment certificate” which involves being slapped in the face by a civil servant and promising not to tell the New York Times that you didn’t know what you were getting into)
My dog is pretty tolerant of having his ears pulled when playing with other dogs. I don't what it is about the skin of dogs but they are pretty resilient to this.
Which is why Room 641A is filled with Juniper gear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
This Twitter is interesting. How and where it gets such mails?
If you entertain the MWI (many worlds interpretation) of quantum mechanics, then maybe you could say these moments did end humanity on other branches of spacetime. The idea is useless in practice, but fun to think about, if the popular fiction of the day is any indication. :)
Thank you for superb advice. Like all good advice it is clear, general, based on experience, and anthropocentric.

It may not be earth-shattering, but that's probably a good thing.

I especially like numbers 1 and 10. If I was looking for a job I'd like to work with you.
> Batteriser/Batteroo

Stay away, they are a well known and debunked scam.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/batteroo-reboost-make-rec...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batteroo_Boost

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-751-how-to-debunk...

Don't miss this one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU08zwBH-wo
IIRC what made it a superstorm was that several weather patterns combined and amplified each other. Same thing happened with Ida: there were storms already moving upwards into NYC and Ida just came through and gave it a push.