skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can’t find a con to protecting the children. But what’s doubtful is whether you actually are protecting the children with this policy.

This is the result of government taking over the protection of specific children:

https://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/article23820...

If the government has any intention to protect children, and intention at all, this is where they'd start. These kids really need it, and the government has all the control they could possibly want or need to do it. They not only utterly fail, they regularly cut funding to what little efforts exist to help these children.

So no, government does the opposite. Therefore their intention cannot be to protect children.

So what OTHER effects does this have? Well it greatly increases the government's ability to directly interfere in the lives of citizens. Which they, not seeing any irony, use to send more kids to their foster care -> juvie -> prison carrousel. In fact that this enables them to do more of that, is one of the main reasons to do this. Seriously.

When there are studies that show that, as a kid (on average, discarding extremes), you're better off abused at home than "taken care of" by the state. On average, you're better off without government help. For example:

https://sci-hub.se/10.1257/aer.97.5.1583

(I do not deny that there are situations where state help is necessary. However, anyone that knows anything about the foster system knows that they don't help in such situations. These situations are too difficult/too much violence to deal with/no expected positive result/... and explicitly target kids with small or nonexistent problems because they're paid per child, based on the care provided. So 24/7 care for a problem-free toddler is where the financial incentives are for them. This even applies to medical problems: child has cancer? You're entirely safe from youth services. Why? Because caring for that child is too expensive ... the EXACT opposite you'd want to see them do, but, of course, financially it makes total sense. Ironically this means effectively random (poor) kids go to foster care, then juvie, then back home, because it's a financial disaster for foster care, institutional or otherwise, to take them back, so suddenly there's "no more need" for care. It's a financial disaster for the parents too, of course)

In fact there are studies that show that social workers REFUSING help to children (in reality to parents and schools) works very therapeutically, and actually fixes problems, by (amongst other things) creating a great need for the problem to get solved, rather than taking away the child, which of course takes away the problem without solving it, doing incredible permanent damage to kids in the process.

So, in THEORY they do this to protect children.

In PRACTICE they do this to damage children, and to do more damage to more children.
We had a team that we were making look bad, and their solution to this problem was to complain about every procedure we weren’t following exactly.

One of the ones I was more sympathetic to was developer docs. We had docs, but not where and in the official file format as required. After dorking around with jcite for a couple weeks I was able to clean up our integration tests enough to work as examples for the docs, and the rest was just rearranging wiki pages into a different set of files.

By the time I was done, I had an almost compliant version of the doc that took our tech writer one hour per release to fix up the company footers and some formatting issues. The rest was handled by a CI/CD job.
I wonder where TypeScript would fall on this language continuum?
I agree. There's a ton of stuff where either the acting or writing makes it unwatchable. Or potentially good foreign (to me) language content where the quality of the dubbing and/or english captions make it useless to me. There is clearly a quantity > quality thing going on.

It also hides some of the good stuff because you can't typically filter, sort, or search based on things like reviews.
Did the same thing in high school hijacking the remote management software to log into machines and mess with people.

The password was stored in plaintext in the config file on every machine. They kept changing it but couldn't figure out how we'd instantly find the new one.
I'm one of those weirdos who still uses checks to submit quarterly taxes. I'd rather pay the $20 every few years for new basic checks instead of digitally integrating with the IRS. I'm not doing anything bad or sketchy either, I just feel more comfortable doing it by check.

I've thought about converting to digital next year but with this new policy, there's no chance of that.
I agree with you that the 1Password UI is superior. I also didn't mean to imply that KeePassXC would be equal in every regard. That said, feature-wise, both of them solve the same problems for me.

But do you believe 7000 years of work is a realistic estimate for how much effort is needed for KeePassXC to catch up?

I don't.
No burning man is no wing. It is a middle finger to a false dichotomy. Thats just your opinion of what a better future is, stop trying to enforce your opinions on others. Practice more radical self reliance, be your own, don't just vomit others thoughts, don't do what you are told, don't conform.
>" All of American social services seem designed to delay, deny and deprive from some fear of "welfare queens." "

There's also a massive amount of fraud against the social services. Just look at the auditors' reports on the COVID relief money, and you can see the patterns.
It looks like (I'm inferring based on a couple different docs) that login.gov offers its own identity verification service (you scan your drivers license or other government ID): https://developers.login.gov/testing/#testing-ial2

I'm not sure why that's not enough, and given login.gov is free(ish) to government agencies, there must be some requirement they are missing. I was promised government SSO, why don't I have it yet?
I'm 100% with you man, I think its a net social good to give everyone a free ID, while I think voter ID not needed as a policy, once everyone has an ID it causes little if any harm.

I'm generally opposed to anything that smacks of 'papers please', thats my personal root of opposition, but its very weak, and if someone promised a policy that gave everyone a free passport but mandated voter ID requirements, I would gladly show up and vote for them.
It's a different type of virus. We have never, ever, successfully achieved the level of immunity against a rapidly mutating airborne virus as we have with SARS-CoV-2. Our greatest successes, Polio and Smallpox, were both extremely stable and without animal reservoirs, making vaccination much more straightforward.

You're demanding perfection and insisting that anything that falls short is worthless. That makes no sense.
This is what I’ve noticed about TED talks as well. In the beginning they were amazing. Now amazing is rare. Perhaps it’s just because even amazing becomes boring if you are inundated with it.
You can parse it to the dynamic type too. Everyone is happy...right?
Constructing a Bushcraft Waterwheel
Those don't matter, because while you can't build your own in Go, the built in types provide the same functionality.
My electricity use is 5kWh/day, which you're correct actually averages to 200W. My mistake. We have gas heat/hot water.

My household's _baseline_ power usage is 100W, which is probably mostly the refrigerator based on some energy meters.

So you're correct, my total power consumption would only go up by 50%, but one of these dishes would double my household's idling power use.
I'd wager voting (federal elections) kill way more people than Americans who die downstream of booze. Its just a question of locality, really.
It would stay the same. And nature would reduce current concentrations back to normal over the next few centuries.
Welcome to Alabama! Many many towns and cities use the 1.5 mile jurisdiction [1] to rake in extra revenue from neighboring unincorporated areas.

https://www.annistonstar.com/the_daily_home/state-supreme-co...

Basically for the cost of a city attorney whose job literally rests on loose interpretations of state statutes, you can collect monies from all sorts of people outside of your official city limits.

Think safety codes and enforcement and then make the easy jump to Dollar General business licenses which are a percentage of turnover.

Policing I22 in Brookside is the tip of the iceberg
Lispings ala John McCarthy (2011)
Some of them, but the GDPR covers a lot more than just the data collected for targeted advertising.
That sounds like a terrible experience. Please modify your body (albeit non-permanently) in this particular way in order for this app to work.

What if I said you had to sing "mary had a little lamb" exactly in the key of F# in order for a login to work? I think we'd classify that as a terrible experience.
Oh yeah the easiest code in the world to read is some contorted type system and function signatures that look like hieroglyphics that you need a PHd in CS to comprehend.

Python is easy to grok, and if you have programmers writing code like bar(foo,baz) then the problem is not Python. You can write crap in any language.

Unit tests do much of what typing checks anyway ... and here's the thing ... you NEED unit tests no matter what. No typing system can tell you that you wrote > when you should have written <.
I'm excited for them to meet my local CPA.
There are many people who do not have a stable address, something which is needed to apply for and receive an ID.

Why should those citizens be deprived their right to vote?
My point is that it's incongruent. The reasons brought forth supporting an id-free voting system are absent when any policy that requires more government papers and over sight are put in place.
Correct, and I saw somewhere on twitter that someone near the antipode did see a huge pressure wave from constructive interference.
I wonder if Google will support a workflow for users "leaving", whereby the can keep their "Google Account" under the same email address, but with Gmail disabled.

This could be a reasonably low friction way to keep the system working without breaking the "email address is unchangeable per-account" assumption - the underlying Google account can continue to exist, even if the associated MX record disappears, or Google Workspace ceases to provide service.

This is how Google accounts work today if you ignore the "default" sign-up path, and take the route where you create a Google account under an existing external email address.
Wasn't the interlaced video patent asserted against Microsoft, along with a bunch of other H264 stuff?
But the thing is, don't you have to worry about structure? You have to unpack the elements from the JSON, so you will need to encode its structure explicitly, which includes type information. The only reason this would be useful is if you're just shuttling data to another API that expects a dict structure (that will then validate everything) and not JSON and you aren't really doing any real work yourself.
The political opportune believer is this case is Associate Professor of Family Health Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco. UCSF is one of the top ranked in medical field. It does not merely smell like the Soviet Union, when ideology can be successfully used to attack scientific opponents and, maybe, even within top scientific institution, it is the Soviet Union.

The so-called normal distribution of statistics assumes that there are default humans who serve as the standard that the rest of us can be accurately measured against.

When she so casually misinterprets normal distribution in medical application in SciAm, what stop her from brining this notion into the classroom. And this is how we end up with Lysenkovschina, but in medicine instead of agriculture.
UK drops Covid-19 restrictions, scraps mandatory face masks[video]
That's fired, not quit.
I created an enhanced multilingual T9 keyboard[1][2] for iOS in 2014 to play around with Swift. It's been doing 600$ on average since then, still going strong. Still use it everyday myself and can't live without it
[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/typenine-ultimate-t9-style-k...
[2] https://medium.com/porsager/a-better-iphone-typing-experienc...
Everyone can easily move to email at their own domain. A com domain is about $14/year and you can get free email hosting from your domain on zoho.

Google can cut off your account on a whim with no recourse and God forbid you want to escape your isp but keep your email address with them!
Well unknown is not a type (by definition), so you have just stepped outside of a type system, which is very common in TS if I understand.
I always figure the parties hire consultants that tell them how changes to election laws will affect turnout. If it works in their favor, they'll push for it. You're not going to support something that hurts your side, even if the change may be a good idea in and of itself.
> If you don't want birthplace on the passport, that's totally separate from SSN vs public keys vs blockchain.

Not really. If you don't put it there, it can't be collected. A blockchain solution should NOT have provision for fields you don't want out there, like say religion.

> Isn't this all information they already have (and would presumably keep)? Ultimately, it's the governing body that's dealing out these keys to access data they already have about you. What data is stored is completely separate from how that data is stored.

Information gets stale, so what's already out there become less relevant as time goes.

Also, if you don't put everything in a nice convenient form inside a all-in-one document that's ripe for harvesting, you're making the job harder. That's the goal.

> It would need to also be public, no? Otherwise, it boils back down to "who says it's true".

Hence, blockchain

> If you don't want to be taxed, that's also a separate issue.

I tried to explain the origin of the current systems. I'm all for taxes at the point of origin (ex: wage, capital gains) without exposing more information than what's strictly required to do the job.
I started making Power-Ups (add-ons/plugins) for Trello in July last year: https://www.tinypowerups.com

It just hit $500/month on Monday and it seems to be increasing by $100 in MRR per week.

I'm only charging $1 per user per month for unlimited access to all of my Power-Ups. I'm thinking about increasing this price to $2 or $3 next month (existing customers get to keep the $1 price tag).

Some of the Power-Ups I offer:

- File Manager: lets you search through and bulk download files on a board.

- Board Chat: adds a simple chatroom to your Trello board

- External Share: creates a link and snapshot of a Trello board that you can send to clients so they don't need to sign up for Trello to see the board.

- Office File Viewer: lets you preview .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx files directly in Trello

- Card Approvals: adds a "approve" and "decline" section to a Trello card
Logseq is somewhat different from Obsidian, since it's an outliner. IMO Dendron would be a better replacement for Obsidian. Particularly so if you're already using VS Code.
I recall a poll in England where something like 1/4 supported closing all bars and nightclubs forever.
Maybe you should look at a model where your chess mmo runs on top of another platform? That way a lot of your costs would go down and you could focus on the core parts that you want to build. E.g. you dont really want to spend time paying for or optimizing for hundreds of simultaneous users from multiple countries.
> absolutely hate Joplin’s “every note is a folder” approach

that's not true. They have notebooks and sub-notebooks, which form a tree on the left. To the right of that is a list of notes within that notebook.
From my personal experience, Golden Meadow in Louisiana is exactly that sort of speed trap. Those cops will absolutely pull you over for doing 1 over the speed limit even though the limit for the area is unnaturally low for the stretch of highway they police.

So is Boutte, but only between the Walmart and Dominoes on Highway 90... that'd be the blackest section of the local community, which is essentially the color of every person you'll ever see pulled over in that area, despite it being a busy part of the highway.
Was thinking exactly the same. Same thing with oil companies changing name to portray a different image. Statoil->Equinor comes to mind.
Dan Brown's class on writing thrillers was the most helpful writing instruction I've had. Really helped me organize my process.

I think it's a result of three things- He's very good at what he does, he understands in detail how he does it, and he knows how to explain what he does.

The downside is I think very few people meet all three of those points. Most Masterclasses fall short.
Structure is a tool. Like any tool, it can be misused or overused.

For anything even remotely production-y I'll always prefer explicitly parsing JSON into a known structure, but there's a lot of value in in being able to do some exploratory scripting without those constraints.
My bad, you are right.
He said they paid.
The short history of ransomware shows whenever the ransom was paid, the attackers came back again to threat and solicit more money. It's advised not to pay. But only the business owners could have the right "feeling" as they are the only ones who communicated with the attacker(s)
Fixing the “system” comes with tangible downsides - subsidies are designed to make local industries competitive on a global scale. Removing them will have a tangible impact on jobs, opportunities and a country’s economy. The alternative is limiting the energy used on something that adds 0 value to a countries broader economy.

Long term I’m all for removing subsidies but this is political suicide if done to offset the impact of crypto mining.

Crypto mining benefits an exceedingly tiny percentage of people while using massive amounts of power.
Likewise. I've tried and failed to pick up Zettelkasten, mostly because I can't really grok the idea of atomic notes and what they're supposed to look like. I'd love to see someone else's.
Each person in the US is a constituent of multiple regional legislators, from city council (or local versions) to Representatives and Senators (and President, sure).

I've found luck in starting with emailing the office of my lowest (closest) representative at the smallest unit of government, telling them my problem, and asking them who I can talk to about it. "Who's responsible for pothole repairs on (street that might be state or county controlled instead of the city)?" This puts the ambitions of the office to work. Oftentimes they will rather get credit for solving your problem and do work for you than just give you a phone number or email address, and in the event of a roadblock you can go back to them for more help. "Hey, I tried X but Y happened, got any other ideas?" Your state rep's communications intern doesn't just sit back alphabetizing checks from Walmart executives and police unions.
I'm not quite there yet, but I'm up to $300/mo iteratively building an uptime checker: https://onlineornot.com/

I started with literally just a Lambda function that checks if static websites were still online, added an email alert if it's offline, wrapped authentication around it, integrated Stripe, and shipped it.

Eventually, I added Slack/Discord/SMS alerts, team invites, support for checking APIs for both uptime and correctness, support for checking JavaScript apps, and more.

My trick for launching into 200 competitors providing the "same" service and still getting customers?

- I work two hours a day, every weekday on OnlineOrNot, and no other side projects. I've had this streak going for about nine months now.

- I focus particularly on features that solve my customer's pain (and I ask my customers what that pain is)

- I'm ruthlessly iterative. If I can't get a feature done in two hours, I figure out how to cut scope down to a two hour block, and ship that. Then iterate on it.
I don't know what kind of construction materials your house is made of, but most wood construction doesn't just vaporize into the atmosphere as CO2 unless it's burnt down, which is considered an undesirable outcome to be prevented.
And now imagine the compiler would actually enforce that practice, and you have static typing, with less boilerplate.
Static languages unfortunately don't save you from that. You find automatically inferred types, or types that refer to some abstract interface or template-class-mess but you have no idea where the actual implementation lives until you compile with RTTI and run it under a debugger... and as tfa posits, people working with the limitations of static languages often end up reinventing a dynamic structure.

Is this somehow supposed to relevant to the posted article or did you just want to start a tangentially related dynamic-vs-static flame war here in the comments section?
Have a connection broker on another IP address that you authenticate against prior to getting connection details for the real system. Rotate the IP addresses the real system uses every couple of days. Let brokered connections live for 48 hours so the DDOS attack has to last that long to do anything. If the real system gets attacked, drop that IP and pick up a new one, noting what users received that IP address as they are potentially the attacker.

Not perfect but it would probably stop these kids.
And getting that will cost money, often requires traveling non-trivial distances (note the demographics of the areas where state offices are opened or closed, and viability of public transit), and requires proof of residency / identity which can be hard for some people to satisfy (there are plenty of people who’ve hit issues about things like maiden names, being able to prove continuous proof of residence when they e.g. weren’t on a lease or other legal document, etc.).

I still think ID is good but it really needs to be paired with a robust improvement in making the system of getting ID work better. If we’re requiring it, the government should be required to provide it for free and meet a legal standard of proof for denial.
Fastmail's UI is so nimble compared to the beast that is now Gmail. Normally I get IMAP or whatever set up on my laptop but I get email so infrequently that it's really not a problem to open the web version.
How is being a landlord any more exploitative than offering any other service?

Tenants are under no obligation to rent to a given landlord or in a given area.

Your example doesn’t really make sense - someone living paycheck to paycheck would default on a mortgage even if they got one. It’s for those people that renting makes the most sense.

You originally implied that renting out property is not a job, which implies no work. To receive money for doing nothing would be “free.”

Anyway, you seem to have an irrational hatred of landlords based on falsehoods. Hopefully you can find solace.
Thanks for the article! It's interesting to see how your notes cluster and what you can glean from them. I have a single file, people.md, that I keep important notes about 1-on-1's I've had with others in.

Also: I'm a big fan of customized personal note-taking using open standards. I didn't intend to do this, but somehow over time I ended up rolling my own note-taking approach and "software" (if you can call a shell script that) which is too lightweight to have any kind of visualization piece. If you're interested in reading about that journey, it's found at https://dev.to/scottshipp/an-amazing-note-taking-system-with...
Right, but now you're on the hook for setting up MTA-STS yourself, which as this post shows is no easy task.
Trains don’t really have a hard weight or length limit. Just stick another few battery cars on it.