skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I discovered this issue last night with the selfie requirement and ID.me when I attempted to log in to the IRS website to make a payment with my already verified ID.me account.
Today I sent a letter via form to ID.me. It is my belief that this is part of the continued agenda to track us and violate privacy - this includes the Real ID agenda, which is also unnecessary when you have a government issued passport. Data will be linked to identity and movements and we don't yet know how they all use this additional video and camera access on our "smart" phones.
If you also find this a violation of our privacy and overstepping necessary ID verification, please join me in writing a letter to ID.me demanding a change in policy or simply copy and paste my letter below. Link to submit "https://help.id.me/hc/en-us/requests"

"Hello, I attempted to login to my IRS account to make a payment. Even though I've already verified my ID.Me you are now mandating that I give you a selfie video.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON for me to give ID.Me access to my phone camera or further visual of my person or likeness. This is a total violation of my privacy and I DO NOT CONSENT.
I'm writing to notify you that I am vehemently opposed to this requirement by ID.Me and I urge you to stop this requirement.
I attempted to access the IRS.gov site from my phone and desktop. Both required me to provide a selfie video. I am extremely upset by this new requirement and even more so by the fact that I can't contact you to notify you as such without filling in a form.
Please contact your product team and management and tell them to roll back the selfie requirement now. It is not necessary and it's a privacy violation.
You are overstepping your boundaries and I won't be complicit. Moreover, I've been notified that you, in lockstep with the IRS, plan to make this the only way that American citizens can access our IRS accounts.
The IRS is not a federal institution. It is a private entity that is run by banking interests and earns interest on printing US dollars.
I demand access to my account with the existing government-issued identification and verifications points that I already provided to you.
I look forward to your response outlining how ID.me will resolve this concern immediately."
I have been on a similar trend lately. Trying to first focus on low gluten/no gluten and nothing with processed sugar in it. Often hard to eliminate it all but even a dramatic cut back in processed foods has made a difference on my sleep.
That's neat, but you have to get rid of the quotes somehow.
What elevates this specific vscode extension beyond my description? You personally knowing some of the people behind the project?
Long-term 1Password customer here, no affiliation with 1Password or AgileBits.

> They have been doing some pretty unfriendly moves towards their long-term customers

From my point of view this was not hostile at all: I used 1Password with Dropbox sync for years and absolutely loved it as a personal password manager _for myself_. But sharing of passwords with family was a real pain. I gleefully signed up for cloud-hosted 1Password Families at launch and haven't had a bit of regret. Of all the subscription services I use, at $4/mo 1Password is easily the best bang for the buck.

For sharing, it's just sooo much easer than trying to use Dropbox:
I can invite family members just by entering their email address and 1Password walks them through the setup.
I can create new vaults with the click of a button and easily select who I want to share them with.
I can revoke access to members just as easily
I don't have to have a Dropbox account and I don't have to wonder about whether I've set the right permissions on my vault files or whether my free Dropbox quota has been reached.
I don't have to share _my_ vault keys and passwords with someone else to give them access to a vault.
I can still export and back up an encrypted vault whenever and however I want.

It's no accident that all of these features are the same ones that make their product so attractive to businesses as well: ease of access and sharing are both essential for adoption by businesses.

One more note: I still have my old standalone licenses and can still go back to 1Password 4/6 with Dropbox sync any time I want and not pay another dime, as 1Password still has links to download the older versions on their website: https://1password.com/downloads/mac/
body treats everything carbs (except for dietary fiber and sugar alcohols) as glucose eventually. getting under 50g net carbs a day is fairly easy. staying under 20g net is harder but not impossible these days.
Housing doesn't just grow on trees. It's capital-intensive to produce. Capital that needs to see a return on investment, since it doesn't exist in a vacuum. There are a certain class of people that simply cannot be relied on to pay a mortgage. These people still demand housing, so are served by the renters market. If you force every landlord to sell their housing, you're basically punishing them for investing. Since your heavy-handed regulation has now scared off all the capital from housing, how will you build new houses?
Shannon's Demon, Parrando's Paradox
Made around $1500 in a month from https://hyperpaper.me/

It's a customized dayplanner pdf for large eInk devices like the reMarkable 2. I built it for myself initially but realized I could provide a customized build for other folks. There's still a small amount of manual work to generate them, but I should be able to automate it end-to-end soon.

I don't expect it to make much at all over the next 10 months, but I'm already excited about other things I'm planning to add for the 2023 version
Alarm about climate is overwhelming greater among voters than politicians. But US politicians (and the US Supreme Court) have arranged not to need to care if voters are alarmed, so long as lobbyists are not.
My point is that I don't want anyone to see my WIP commits in the first place. Squashing only in the end when merging to master means the code reviewers get to see my messy commit history, which is what I'm trying to avoid. (Yes, my commit history is that bad that it's embarrassing. But at least I commit early and often, which has saved my ass more times than I can count.)
I'm sure people are always telling you things to try, but in case it helps - have you tried the 4-7-8 breathing technique for sleep, or Wim Hof? Both are fairly rapid in effect, and help manage cortisol.
1) Business accounts aren't used for advertising.

2) Not paid business accounts.

3) Not for paid business accounts.

For 20 years people have complained of 1,2,3 for free accounts, and said that they'd prefer to pay to avoid these issues. Now that there's an option....

https://workspace.google.com/learn-more/security/security-wh...

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Our philosophy
Google Workspace customers own their customer data, not Google. Customer data that Google Workspace organizations put into our systems is theirs, and we do not scan it for advertisements. We offer our customers a detailed Data Processing Amendment that describes our commitment to protecting customer data. Furthermore, if customers delete their data, we commit to deleting it from our systems within 180 days.

No advertising in Google Workspace
There is no advertising in the Google Workspace Core Services, and we have no plans to change this in the future. Google does not collect, scan or use data in Google Workspace Core Services for advertising purposes. Customer administrators can restrict access to Non-Core Services from the Google Workspace Admin console. Google indexes customer data to provide beneficial services, such as spam filtering, virus detection, spellcheck and the ability to search for emails and files within an individual account.

Limited data use

Google does not use any of your data for any purpose except to provide you with the relevant Google Workspace service. For example, when customers use the Cloud Translation API, Google will not make the content of the text that you send available to the public, or share it with anyone else, except as necessary to provide the Cloud Translation API service.
"Abstracts of all sort have room for me in them; photorealism doesn't." and the rest of your post heavily implied that the only options are abstract art or photorealism, and doesn't even mention the many different traditional styles. But you are correct that you never say so explicitly.
The US Supreme court has ruled that the First Amendment allows us to call ourselves engineers, so at least in this jurisdiction – yes, we are (if we choose).
I wasn't familiar with Matomo until I read this article. Of course it ends up being basically an ad for themselves, which made me skeptical... so I decided to look for other sources.

It seems to be accurate, though: https://fortune.com/2022/01/13/austria-gdpr-google-analytics... https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-analytics-europe-aust...

I should start this discussion at work, I'm not sure if we serve customers in Austria but I know we use Google Analytics.
With dd. And normally when I do this I drop the caches with "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" but this doesn't work with ZFSOnLinux as it has a separate ARC cache that doesn't get cleared by that command (and I don't believe it's possible to clear it, other than by exporting and reimporting the zpool.)

So I read a 10GB chunk of a file that I know is not cached:

$ dd if=/some/large/file of=/dev/null bs=1M count=10240
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB, 10 GiB) copied, 11.3378 s, 947 MB/s

The 947 MB/s figure printed by dd matches the speed reported by a "zpool iostat tank 1" running during the benchmarking, which confirms I'm not reading from the cache. When I repeat the same command, dd completes almost immediately reporting a speed of about 6-8 GB/s on my machine, while the zpool iostat command shows zero read bandwidth.
If you just want page views and referrers, then your webserver logs should have all the data you need already. There is no need to inject 3rd party JS or tracking pixels into your pages.

Personally I use GoAccess to visualise this data.

> GoAccess is an open source real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

> It provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that require a visual server report on the fly.

https://goaccess.io/
I don’t doubt working on game engines is hard (I do web development). If you build game engines then you are probably a game engine developer. I don’t hold a degree in engineering myself; no shame of not having the “engineer” title.
No one really is, it has majority support from both sides of politics.

Because it would be a change in the system it's used as a wedge by politicians. Additionally they know that it's harder to get out of the vote among left leaning voters, so any extra requirement would be risky in swing states. Democrat strongholds (ie Delaware) already have voter ID.
> Until I hear someone completely reject rock and hip-hop

Isn't that electronic music? No recognizable instruments, often no lyrics or song structure.
> If software engineers were engineers, testing would be a higher priority, and visible regressions would happen rarely, if at all.

That would mean they were doing their jobs badly. All engineering requires balancing priorities such as physical strength (or in software, correctness), and cost. An engineer who overbuilds everything 10x will quickly be out of work.
I think there's one key term that hasn't been mentioned in relation to this debate much: accountability.

Engineers are a countable for their work. I am accountable if my code fucks up in production. An engineer is accountable if a foundation fails. Not "how bad are the consequences", but "am I accountable if something does goes wrong"
Many chemical engineers do mostly plumbing. If you're really great at optimizing plumbing for a large range of conditions, then yes you're doing an engineer's job.
Imo, Aella's taboo-breaking questions comes from breaking out of the orthodoxy of her background. "If what previous authorities told me X,Y,Z was a lie, what lies are the new authorities telling me?" I can't condone people conflating everything a terrible group did with what you're not allowed to even ask questions about. It feels like it leads to people screaming "Commie!" if you ever advocate for social safety nets in support of a more egalitarian society. While rationalists do discuss from first principles and question a variety of orthodoxies, they in no way advocate Nazism or superiority or anything like that. From a superficial glance, rationalists often get conflated with a different similar-sphere (they debate them on blogs) group called "neoreactionaries", who do advocate for far right monarchy and fascism. Maybe that's where some confusion lies.
JPGs are not security, and moving JPGs can be fabricated very easily. Some v-tuber software with a deepfake GAN strapped to it I feel like would fool 1-on-1 meetings too.

I got my weekend project.
Not a product or something exciting, it is a service. I run a VA firm (tbh I work as the VA) and I kinda almost make $500/month. https://www.ITNAdigital.com

Trying to scale up the business to cater to data and software businesses. But working in real estate industry for a while now.
I made a p2p NFT trading webapp that's totally free & open-source over the course of a month or so of evenings and weekends, and I've received a couple thousand $ in various cryptos as donations from my in-site donation link.

https://vaportrade.net/
Their owner generally also owns an advertising business or similar and wants to make a point.
I’m curious what you mean by SELinux features not being well-defined? While poorly documented, they are extraordinarily precisely defined, allowing fine-grained control of pretty much everything, all enforced by the kernel with no workarounds, at least in enforcing mode.
Learned a couple of things that really helped me around sleeping:

1. Sleep is when your brain shifts processing power from consciousness/etc to maintenance. Like defragging a disk drive. When I can't sleep, I'll just try to focus on my body with this in mind, and it kinda works like sleep, and kinda helps me get closer to sleep.

2. If you're having trouble falling asleep, gently wrap the fingers of your dominant hand around the opposite thumb (you're just holding it). Do that for an estimated (do NOT count, or set a timer, or anything that requires focus) two minutes, then move to the next finger. It's fricking magic.

When I can't sleep and do these things, even if I don't wake up rested, I don't wake up still tired, either.
Thats how the API returns it. I am not doing any adjustments. Let me check again.
And when, presumably the real Satoshi, did so in 2014. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/03/06/bitcoin-...)
There's also significant fanout and sometimes very short layovers. One plane might have luggage that goes to five other planes. Also, the vehicles that transport the luggage are not airtight, so bags can fall out of them. This isn't to mention human error in the scanning process (forgetting to scan something, scanning a bag and then not moving it, etc.).
Oh, I totally agree with all your use cases for committing, I'm just wondering why the reset. I would either go off on another branch to preserve my temporary work and then clean that up and commit or merge to one of the main branches or I would just push all my intermediate work.
It’s a simplistic definition. Since the topic of calling developers engineers is rather superfluous, I think we should go for simple definitions.
I just don't understand how people afford Canadian cities. Moving to Toronto or Vancouver would be completely unaffordable. I would take a massive salary cut but then housing would increase significantly alongside that.

Also, is Canadian culture really that different from the U.S.? I'm genuinely curious about that.
It is said that the core services will stop working. Google Photos, YouTube and purchases/subscriptions are not considered as core services.
What was the original side project that had 300k users?
Complexity is but one component. I enjoy a lot of music that uses simple chord progressions. But when you have simplistic music, with artificial vocals, and every human elements digitally normalized out, with uninspiring melodies, it's just empty and tedious. I feel like I'm being spoon-fed by mommy and daddy.
My 1st girlfriend's mom told me "never marry someone you can't fart in front of". My sister easily farts (and laughs) in front of her husband. In fact for Christmas he was given a plaque that says "I didn't fart, my ass blew you a kiss"
Yeah, lots of man-childs in the USA.
> If you multiply two numbers together, shouldn’t the result be greater than each part?

Well, it is. 0.16 is bigger than 0.2 and 0.8, because it has 3 digits instead of 2, and 16 is bigger than 2 and 8. (and 4/25 is obviously bigger than 1/5 and 4/5 too)

The problem actually is to (really) understand that the opposite is true. As soon as the denominators are different enough, we can't easily (just by looking at the numbers) compare two fractions like 26551/3690 and 26545/3689
The Dart VM supports stateful hot reload and it's used heavily by Flutter developers. There are some kinds of structural changes that necessitate a full restart that wipes state away, but the VM is suprisingly good at migrating the existing objects in the heap to match any changes to the underlying classes and preserve as much state as possible.

https://docs.flutter.dev/development/tools/hot-reload
Haha thank you for the nice memory! I've been running the site for 8 years, it's crazy that it's been that long
It is a thing for software engineering students at University of Waterloo. They take physics and chemistry courses and learn all about safety and various standards. They write exams and at the end they become licensed professional engineers with iron rings.
What was the tweet? I couldn't find the information in the article.
When you go to the doctors, the title "doctor" is a "customary title". They don't hold doctorates.

You'll notice that surgeons are usually called "mister".

Perhaps it stems from how the two professions arose. In ye olden days, a lot of surgery was performed by barbers.

So when people ask if someone is a "real" doctor, their actual understanding is the wrong way around. In their minds, the words "Philosophy" in PhD somehow means they aren't proper doctors.

Note that there are also higher doctorates, such as DSc (doctor of science, which will be specifically scientific), DD (doctor of divinity), etc.. I don't think I've ever met someone with a higher doctorate, though.
(As already said, no, you will have to choose your own insurance and pay for it)
And you are required to have basic health insurance but can't get rejected if you have prior conditions. There is also a market for additonal insurances or higher tier ones (so you get your choice of doctor and single bed rooms in hospitals).
My understanding was you had to either not allow connections from that country to access your site or have some version that doesn’t track them.

Your probably not at risk for anything, as your using googles service, but I’m not a lawyer. I’d assume if your using google analytics, google would be responsible for following these guidelines?

Google will probably release info on this if they haven’t already. But I find it hard to believe unless your rolling your own analytics anyone would come after you.
Thank you! They're made with Java-based Processing (https://processing.org/), although I have a new JavaScript/WebGL version in the works.
Random note, but the only way to tack is into the wind. Not sure how this expression came to be, but if the nose of your boat goes into the wind, this is a tack. If your boat's ass goes into the wind, this is a gybe.
I'm currently using Obsidian, but was thinking of moving to LogSeq. I guess I should give this a look also. So many choices...
Google is a domain registrar since 2005 [0]. But that service was launched for public use in 2015. Before that though, Google used third parties (mainly Enom and GoDaddy) to provide domain registration for the public.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Domains
No, we are (mostly) software gardeners [0].

Yes, there are a few things out there that were actually engineered, but mostly it's an activity that involves a lot of growing, pruning, and manure.

[0] https://medium.com/@cmaitchison/are-you-a-software-gardener-...
One can write extraordinarily short FC files using regexp to apply specific SELinux labels as desired, and control access to those labels with only a few rules.

Unlike systemd, they then apply to everything.
I think people are misunderstanding your comment.

If I'm reading correctly, you're saying that it's sad that their hard work went to waste.
> Engineers do that too.

Right, they do. Not everything an engineer does is engineering.

> A structural engineer I know uses software to design beam strengths in buildings. He understands what the software is doing, but he didn’t write the software and he uses the outputted parameters at part of his designs.

I've worked with formula-plugger engineers, too. But they would, now and then, misuse the formulas because they didn't understand its limitations. And, if the problem didn't quite fit the formula, they were dead in the water. While they had engineering degrees, I considered them mechanics.

> A mechanical engineer I know needed to design a gear to mesh with an outer ring gear. He uses proprietary software to define the shape of the gear, entering necessary parameters and the output is generated into a CAD file.

Could he design the gear without the CAD tool? If he could, he's an engineer. If not, he's a mechanic.

P.S. I'm all for using labor-saving devices. But they are not a substitute for understanding.

P.P.S. The guy who programmed the CAD tool is an engineer.
I agree with your point of it being a hassle, but I never understood the huge outcry about this. If I work part-time at Burger King and make $10,000/year, I would pay taxes on that. Why should the IRS not be taxing side-hustles that make 10k/year?

The argument of them not taxing the rich is sad, but also irrelevant; they didn't add a new tax on side-hustles, just re-inforced an existing one. You technically should've been paying this anyway.
The reason it is easier for programmers to transform into software engineers is the same reason we are having this conversation. For the most part, I think this is because software is so cheap and accessible. Anyone can become a software artisan with just a laptop and time. For traditional engineering, you need resources.
Here's a quote from the second post:
"When it comes to things like making circuit boards, it’s pretty common for things not to work the first time. You have to do it again, and you have to send it out to the factory and do it again. You know it costs you another however many £1000 and another two weeks on the schedule. -Mike (electrical)"

If building software was expensive like engineering in the physical world, we wouldn't have to have this argument. It's too bad that physical engineering is so expensive, because we'd probably have a lot more people trying it out.
Haha. Absolutely, that has been my experience in and out of work.
In a tongue-in-cheek tone: Woah, so old school. We would never hire you! You have to show that you know ES6!

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