skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometime last year I wanted to stop these early child tax credit cheques being mailed to me. I was shocked that I had to use ID.me to even do this one thing.

OK fine, whatever. But then even after filling up all kinds of info, uploading pictures of my driver's licence and having literally scanned my face, it wouldn't let me login, because it can't "verify" me.

I've been filing taxes online for many years without issue.

I can't believe a private company gets to decide whether I can access IRS services.
Ahh, must have missed that. Thank you very much!
You should read some memoires from higher-ups in the military instead of trying to lecture people about something you have no experience with. Military leaders will say they don't need more equipment, but politicians will spend a ton on it anyway because the equipment is built in their district. Military advice is often ignored by politicians in order to score political points, like when Obama ignored advice to increase military presence in Afghanistan to regain control, and instead let it drag on with insufficient resources, ensuring it was a waste of time and life.
I think it's a bit hard to separate the two, however: cryptocurrency had been developing a bad reputation and NFTs feel like they were ramped up as a marketing push to finally give people a reason to buy in. The large holders who want to recoup the money they put in have a lot of influence and media presence so any time you see someone like @cdixon talking up the benefits of web3 you have to remember that his company has a couple of billion dollars on the line and adjust your credulity to compensate.

I do think it'll eventually correct but never underestimate how long the market can remain irrational, or the damage which can be caused if they start getting connected in to other industries. There's a good argument that, for example, the real estate bubble was in part pumped up by the big sovereign wealth & pension funds who lost money on poor dotcom choices and were seeking new high-return investments. I really don't want to see that happen again if someone convinces them that they should go long on NFTs.
Within their legal rights? Sure. But they are advocating for others to be silenced in the same breath, not just silently pulling their content. In other words, they are using power (financial power, celebrity influence) to silence others. That is incompatible with the ideas underlying a classically liberal free society.
Ethereum plans to scale is not just on the switch to PoS. It will also include layer-2 systems.

In any case, currently there are ~300000 validator nodes running the beacon chain, which does not require powerful hardware. For comparison, 13.4M units of the Playstation 5 were sold since 2020. 116.6M units of the PS4 were sold since 2013. I'd like to know the number of servers runnning Minecraft there are around, but you can unarguably say that people waste more energy playing videogames than with the ethereum network.
That linked graphic seems to show Burgers is the main go-to in Chicago. That said, I'm a huge fan of Chicago deep dish. I know some don't call that a proper pizza (esp New Yawkers, and I'm in the area), but I do love that Gino's pizza.
Frogs regrow amputated legs in breakthrough experiment
Some "robots", like tractors, cars, elevators, etc... have indeed replaced many jobs.

I don't buy the idea that we need increasing population to have positive economic growth. I don't think that technology ("robots") are a magic bullet, but they can be part of a future in which we have a stable-size (or even decreasing!) population
> In that case, if there are dirtied pages in the page cache, the question is what can you do? Sooner or later the writes will time out, and if you leave the pages dirty, then it effectively becomes a permanent memory leak.

FreeBSD keeps the dirty buffer (always marked as dirty) in memory as long as the device exists:

* https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/e4e8fec98ae986...

You only toss the data when the device associated with the data goes away:

* https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/46b5afe7b1ae0e...
Seems like they should have just standardized one (Volts, Amps) tuple so you can at least always charge, even if slow. Like the (5V, 0.5A) we had...
How sensitive are such devices to stray EMI? Those people would be at risk from all sorts of everyday emitters such as welders, motors with skipping brushes, vehicle ignitions, radio transmitters, etc. If this was the case, they'd need to stay home in a shielded room.
I agree with you. In fact, I'd go further. If I had my way these kinds of misdeeds would result in sanctions against the prosecution, or the judge if involved. But our justice system is deeply protected from any accountability by layers and layers of both practical and legal moats. It is virtually impossible to sanction a judge[0]. It is difficult to even sanction an attorney. The key problem being no working attorney wants to take on either target, because it will ruin their relationships upon which they make a living. The entire system is "don't rock the boat" writ large. A state mints 20k new lawyers a year, and disbars maybe 4, and each of those disbarments are uphill battles. And literally no one cares about this.

I absolutely hate the way the system is. But that is how the system is.

0. The only exception I've ever heard of was the recall of the judge in Brock Turner's rape case, and that only happened because of lightening-in-a-bottle once-a-century national attention. Judges have incredible power in the US, and virtually no oversight. Almost all judgeships are corruptly acquired by backroom finagling among lawyers trading favors with each other. Do you think they'll allow something stupid like malfeasance ruin the careful spending of political capital it took to install that judge? Hell no.
Well in this specific case a couple of easy reasons.

Rogan’s deal was $100M which is way more money than Young. So if it’s a business move than keeping Rogan is the obvious choice as he provides way more value to Spotify.

I care less about that though and more about the principled position here. In this case I think they’re the same.
So it's fine as long as the mob is ultimately unsuccessful?
None. But no one is making that claim.
yeppppppp

That's the downside of living in IL and it being mostly a D voting base.
how did this article gloss over the fact that the second time you use an app, it's infinitely easier than calling, because all the information is already stored inside. It literally could be 1 single click to be done.
Yeah while that may be a reason, and I say that with respect, that's not the reason we let corporations do what they do.

That's just temporary embarrassed millionaire syndrome and financial greed.
I have a real lab that is 12 beefy servers in various data centers. My home lab is a smaller version of that which is only 5 not-so-beefy servers. I test all of the things I want to try there before making them somewhat permanent in my data center.

I currently have 5 openstack environments because I wanted to test rapid iteration of those environments. They are all publicly accessible thanks to a /25 I have on my home network. And since it’s my home network I have to maintain some sort of a production stance otherwise the end users will get uppity. So just like in the datacenter, I have a “production” network that is highly available and runs all of the 24/7 services for my house (home automation, file server, etc)

I run all the services you would expect a cloud to offer.. vm workloads, container workloads, serverless functions, orchestration, managed services for things like Java servlets, MySQL or Postgres, s3 layer, web based office apps, Kanban, project mgmt, etc.

This all started as a hobby project to learn software features or experiment enterprise ideas outside of work. I flipped it into a side-gig a decade ago. Adding the side-gig experience to my resume 3x’d my salary over the past decade. The income from services technically made that 4x. I no longer host services and the servers sit 90% idle. They are technically paid for for the next decade but I keep it around in case others want a starting point..
You would be approximating a cooperative. You just have a lot of founders.

That is essentially what I was suggesting, yes. This kind of arrangement doesn't seem unusual in many other industries, yet in software it seems very rare, even though the potential for 5 or 10 top class people to outperform 50 or 100 mediocre contributors or basically any number of juniors is higher than many other fields. It has always puzzled me that we don't see it more often.
> But there is no "freedom of speech" side here.

There is. Rogan is not trying to remove Neil Young's music from anywhere.

I've heard this unfruitful line of argument too often recently. Besides being unfruitful, I think it is based on a subtle fallacy/diversion.

The idea of free expression reasonably includes the right to criticize the principle itself. For example, in the US, you absolutely have the legal right to criticize the First Amendment. However, by doing so you would rightly be labelled as being against free expression.

If you like free expression, I think you should be cheering for Spotify and Rogan in this case.
Why does the orientation matter if the end result is the same? My point is your suggestion is no better than OPs, so who cares which way the brick points?
You couldn't be more wrong. I just ordered my go-to pizza order from Dominos today with 3 button clicks. Was already signed in, click easy order, add tip and place order.

As for "why do they need the last name" = credit card?
As for adding my address in... It was already saved from last time.
As for the pizza place mishearing my order on the phone... o wait, that didn't happen.

And lately, I don't want to wait on hold or talk to another person. This is just displacing personal opinion on everyone else.

Also: Please avoid posting the "dominos sucks" comments. Let's focus on the tech here.
A classic bit on the theme is Taleb’s “The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority”

https://nassimtaleb.org/2016/08/intolerant-wins-dictatorship...
> parroting dangerous untruths

Like what? I feel like almost everyone parroting this accusation against Joe Rogan doesn’t actually listen to his podcast.

There’s so much discussion of Joe Rogan and the problem of what he’s actually said is curiously, conspicuously missing from the conversation.
It's worth noting Trump was the first US President to not start a war in half a century.
Looks like you created this account today to specifically bash Indians.
Pizza Hut is just as easy. Grub hub and other online ordering platforms have also been working fine for years now. What the author completely ignores is that you only enter your data once. Also there’s much less chance for any miscommunication and repeat orders are much easier and faster. It’s like having a shortcut for pizza.
Here's a relevant article from a similar position by Molly White: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29943733

I hear all your data points. If cryptocurrency fails to take off 10 years from now, we can look back and say "oh we should have known back in 2021". But what do these data points mean if cryptocurrencies take off and change the world over the next decade?
Setting aside the appeal to authority and the outright condescension, POLA still can't be dispelled using a "nasal demons" argument.

In practice the intentional vagueness is indistinguishable from obfuscation, and doing so to please every vendor for conformance's sake is straightforward intellectual dishonesty. In this regard, the informational section is tantamount to an extended reprimand from the editors.

If you really want to trade language-lawyer broadsides, then leaning on the phrase "implementation-defined" was a tragic mistake, because this makes the Linux documentation normative for the circumstances, yet the behaviour occurring is not described in the Linux fsync(2) manpage, nor are there cross-references to anything FS-specific. It gets worse: the engineering solution to this schmozzle is switch to direct IO, but the documentation of Linux's open(2) then describes the behaviour of O_SYNC|O_DIRECT in terms of fsync(2) (and similarly for O_DSYNC). All this simply highlights that the whole line of thinking is an unproductive pissing contest; the root cause of the postgres issue is vendor politics.
Phone is the only method that supports all pizza places and prevents any barrier to ordering. It is the best method by default.

I've lived all over the USA, and I like pizza. In big cities, the closest pizza place is not a franchise. In small towns, often no pizza place is listed on an online service, the closest pizza place is literally a gas station, nobody takes credit cards, and delivery makes no sense. People in the suburbs are the only ones whose closest pizza place is a franchise with an app.

I have run into a slew of tech problems when trying to order online. Often I am not ordering from a chain, so I have to either walk through some bizarro custom website that doesn't work half the time, or I have to call anyway. If I want a deal, I'll look online, but I make the order by phone and pay at pick-up. The phone is the only thing that always works. Speaking my order is literally faster than clicking through a form. Even if you're deaf or blind, you can order pizza over the phone without issue.

And besides all of that, "ordering services" (Slice, GrubHub, Uber Eats, Doordash, etc) are actively detrimental to small business. Because people aren't calling in and ordering and are instead trusting these websites' listings (that the business owners did not list), the customer doesn't get their order or it's delayed or screwed up, and then they leave a negative review for the business on Yelp/Google, even though it's not the business's fault. More people should order over the phone, if only to ensure they actually get what they want, and how long it will take before they order.
> Phone is still the best way to order Pizza

Best for whom? [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/dining/restaurant-phone-l...
As an aside, if you're using ssh-rsa the latest openssh server removed the RSA encryption module for pubkey verification, by default.

You can add it back into the sshd_config in /etc.
I don't know anything about ENS and was wondering does it work if DNS is down or unavailable in your location?
> When you contact someone who does not represent you, you're sort of stepping outside the bounds of the democratic structure. You're also consuming resources that are apportioned to a legislative district that's not your legislative district.

That is no longer relevant when they step out of the bounds of representative politics and form special social groups that dictate the laws and behavior of offices that we have to deal with. You can't just have your cake and eat it too.
Well they're in the seed selling business and make seeds that can survive being sprayed with herbicide. Farmers agree not to save the seed when they purchase them. But no one is forcing them to buy those seeds, they could buy different ones and use different and less effective herbicides. The one guy they drug into court was not only saving them, he was reselling them to other farmers which seems like a straightforward violation of the agreement he signed.
This is more or less the conclusion I've come to as well. All forms of government end up as aristocracy, including representative democracy. It takes a lot of money to fund "grass roots" campaigns, think tanks, lobbyists, and political campaigns. Normal people get to vote, but they don't participate in any meaningful way in the selection nominees or the policies they write.

If you really want to have an impact on politics, you have to either get rich or secure the backing of someone else who's rich. For the vast majority of people this will not happen nor will it be worth it. It's better to just hunker down, focus on yourself and your family, and survive any way you can.
I highly recommend visiting the Museum of Science in Boston and attending a lightning show. https://www.mos.org/live-presentations/lightning

The lightning show (with Tesla coils) is absolutely wonderful.
NFTs are content-free DRM.

Not sure where I first read that, but it seems to be the most succinct description that nails it for me.
> Even for a NAS, you're just making yourself a system administrator of something you really don't want to go wrong.

It's really not as difficult to maintain as you're making it out to be, if you're comfortable with some hardware and software tinkering. Good deals can be found on ATX rack mountable cases and it's just a matter of building a PC at that point. Servers don't need to be these heavy machines with outdated hardware and loud fans.

As for software, LUKS and SnapRaid have served me well for years, and I haven't had any maintenance issues so far.

> Save yourself the hassle, put it all in an S3 bucket and spend your hours on something else.

Right, and pay up every time I want to access my data, or deal with free egress services and slow speeds. And always be at the mercy of the provider and their ToS. No thanks.
Free speech? On a platform that is explicitly designed for profit? Despite knowing the story about how wealth and money works and how class mobility is essentially non existent?

Americans and American-lite people have just adopted this weird view on free speech that doesn't really make sense when you actually realize it's all about wealth and money.
Wrong on both accounts. Technology Connections spent a while trying to figure this one out and did a fairly decent video: https://youtu.be/udNXMAflbU8

the tl;dw is "They're for manufacturing purposes" -- Alignment for when you're injection molding around them. Any other use is entirely secondary. NEMA sockets don't have any mechanism to hold onto the detent.
My typical phone order for pizza lasts about 20-30 seconds, and goes as follows:

> "Hey could I get a large house special for pickup?"

> "Yeah it'll be ready in 15-20"

Then I go to the shop, tap the card while they grab the box with my phone number on it, and I leave. If it's a Friday, the time estimate is usually longer. Sometimes I'll order two.
I’m not sure Common Criteria has much to do with it. Companies only get CC certification so their devices or applications can be used by certain government organizations.

And so no company is going to target a cert level higher than the minimum they need to meet whatever business requirements are driving them to get CC certified.

And CC certainly isn’t a good reference for good security and cryptography engineering practices. It’s not bad, but it misses a lot.
You are splitting hairs here, but if you want to be pedantic, it's technically extortion with them aim of getting someone censored.
> None. But no one is making that claim.

They did.

> But, I will never stand behind people wanting to deny him the exact rights they're exercising. Young and others are doing exactly that.
The gym can be helpful. I would go at the same time and eventually befriend the regulars.
This isnt a free speech issue. Neil Young is not the government nor is spotify. If Neil Young didn't want to be on the same tv show as joe rogan nobody would care. This amounts to the exact same thing.
As builds go, a power plant isn't really all that big. Even nuclear ones.
> nor is opposition to GMO technology an immediate grave threat to public health

GMO panic is at the heart of a lot of COVID vaccine refusal, so I think it at least has a somewhat negative effect on public health.
The quality of the discourse on HN continues to hit new lows.
Domino's was best when they sold only pizza and Coca-Cola. Just Coca-Cola. No diet, no Sprite, no other choices. No choice of crust. No choice of sauce. That's what they built their empire on.

I'd go further, actually, and offer only one size; cheese, pepperoni, or sausage. No half this or that -- if you want two different toppings, buy two pizzas.

The apps suck (and ordering on the phone can suck also) because there are too many choices and apps suck when they have to offer lot of choices. That's why Apple tries to eliminate choices and options wherever they can.
NYC pizza by the slice in its own unique category. It’s so iconic that living near Washington DC, there was a pizza place that imported the city water of NYC in order to be able to make authentic NYC pizza dough. Blanking on the name of the place unfortunately.
That makes no sense. Its hard to say how much its going to help - today's fringe trend can easily get "hot". Look at vinyl record consumption, which dipped for decades and then came back with a vengeance. Plus, if even a 10% of a fanbase switches to traditional media, I bet that would have an impact on the artists bottom line. And anyway, it's a good thing to do regardless for all the reasons people have mentioned (I buy physical media myself, mostly on discogs, alibris, and sometimes ebay. sadly there are no record stores in my area anymore).
Sorry Neil Young isn't the all powerful boogeyman that you think he is. He isn't censoring joe rogan because he doesn't have that power.
Right, but the article claims that you'll be pressured into VC-fueled hypergrowth because, if you don't take the VC cash, they will throw boatloads of money at a wannabe competitor who will then start... if not successfully competing against you, at least annoying you.
My favorite laser safety poster, seen in a high-power laser lab:

"WARNING: Do not stare into laser with remaining eye."

There was, of course, a full set official warning posters as well. But that's the one I remember.
Sounds like another cut of the >$1,800,000,000 IT budget of the IRS.

They couldn't store more than 500MB of emails per employee, which was ~45TB uncompressed in 2014. Because of budgetary constraints.

Because they paid some dude rosemaro a half billion for an IT contract, among other things
Further the nuclear excess mortality is in my opinion likely to be overstated, as - correct me if I'm wrong - they are primarily computed using the LNT (linear, no-threshold) dose-response model. This model is quite controversial and at best represents a worst-case. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model
I've been reading 'Brave New World revisited' by Huxley..:

'Under the relentless thrust of accelerating over-population and increasing over-organization, and by means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms—elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest—will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial—but democracy and freedom in a strictly Pickwickian sense. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit.'

https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/huxleya-bravenewworldrevisited/h...
They are arguing their position on its merits. This case is being tried in the court of public opinion.
One argument in favor of offering BOTH phone and textual ordering interfaces is accessibility. If someone is deaf or hard of hearing they might not be able to call and order, and they may not be able to find someone at the moment to do it for them
You don't need to buy the lossless plan.
The current lie is that there is a threat of a new invasion. Not even Ukrainian leadership agrees with this, but it doesn't seem to affect planning in the United States.

"They invaded 8 years ago"

hm ok. Do you know what a US color revolution is?

https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2014/03/11/pierre-omidyar-c...
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