skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title "Restricted access to accurate news accountable for political divide" is utterly misleading. First, it's not the title of the linked article, which is an opinion piece. There is zero research or data in the linked piece to support the conclusion in the title, and I highly doubt that if the NY Times or Washington Post did away with their pay walls that the political divide would go away.
Stop Procrastinating
That wasn't the claim made in the original post though, was it? The claim was that the Python snippet would be quicker than the jo snippet.

"Even though Python isn't the fastest language out there, it's likely still faster than the shell command above."

Which is most definitely is not - it's 5x slower.

(Probably not a huge issue in the real world if you're writing a shell script, mind, given that bash itself isn't a performance demon. But claims have to be tested.)
Initially my account was registered for sole proprietor in Belarus. I’ve changed linked legal entity when moved to Poland. That was almost a year ago.
You are seriously misinformed on CHOP/CHAZ. Likely 1-5% of the area was devoted to a garden. The rest was filled with protesters waging nightly war on the police and surrounding businesses. More than that, CHAZ/CHOP protestors were directly responsible for multiple killings of black people.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, and certainly not flamewar tangents into deeper circles of hell.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I spent a good deal of my professional life in the last decade dealing with the problem of de-identifying medical data. You are correct that it's hard, but the HIPAA rule is actually not a bad go at it. See https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/special-....

For the kind of data in this particular database (mostly insurance claims data), it's highly unlikely that you could learn much through re-identification of the data.
The service is not meant to cater to the lowest common denominator. If you unsubscribe from critical notifications and get screwed over.. that is on you.

It is not fair to the rest of us to be inundated with endless spam just so some screwup can be kept from doing something stupid.
IIRC the only reliable way to check if a domain is registrable is to rely on a public suffix list. ICANN's TLD binge has made keeping those PSLs up to date a challenge.
Game Raccoon – A Prototype Game Development Cartridge
> Cool, imagine if I passed a law saying donate 20% of your life savings to Trump or go to jail. Don’t worry, you aren’t forced to, by that logic.

But the threat of jail is actually being forced. No on is going to jail for being unvaccinated. Are you equating finding another job to being incarcerated?

> Or in a more realistic world from the past, you’d better not employ that German Jew or your business will get forcibly shut down. Don’t worry, you’re not forced to not hire him.

Race is a protected class. Vaccination status without documented medical reason is not. Also, no one is forcing these businesses to shut down. They simply can't employ unvaccinated people.
My trick to avoid this has been to use single-use credit card numbers that I generate via privacy.com.

You can create credit card numbers and assign a spending limit to them. Some service can detect that and will refuse the card, but many don't.

Once you're done signing-up, simply delete your generated credit card.
Sneering is all they have left. Their credibility is in tatters with all but out of touch pmc types.
Oh that's a nice move from apple to bring developers from Belarus, Russia and China together...nothing better as having a common enemy....maybe one more day thinking about it Pentagon?
Good question. Monero is essentially everything bitcoin was supposed to be. Private, anonymous, more decentralized, you can actually mine it using general purpose computers, it's actually usable as a currency due to low fees and fast transactions. I've actually gotten paid for code in XMR, it's awesome.

It's not even a good investment since it doesn't increase in value as fast as bitcoin but gets slaughtered whenever the market goes down. Would be nice if it stabilized in the $200 range.
What you're describing is how "vote with your wallet" works when the number of people voting exceeds 1.

Like, what exactly is it do you think they are coordinating, other than individually choosing to vote with their wallets for similar reasons?

>It might still be a market decision (in the sense of it being an economic consideration of Spotify's behalf, as the ultimate threat was to their image and ultimately bottom line) but it wasn't a free market decision

What you're describing, making business decisions based on weighing the economic costs of losing customers vs. the economic benefits of keeping the content, is indeed a free market decision. The fact that there are no options that make everybody happy doesn't negate that.
The atmosphere (people dropping by for a visit at any hour in their pjs) reminds me of a university dorm. I'm not a particularly extroverted person, but I remember enjoying my time living in a dorm. I'm not sure I'd like it so much now though.
> Medical data mining companies have made a business of scraping the details of consumers’ daily lives into medical dossiers that, if combined with MarketScan’s de-identified information, could be used to re-identify the individuals within its databases.

De-identification is unreliable. If you have enough context, then the patients can be re-identified.
At least in the US, paper money is exempt from nemo dat but crypto isn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemo_dat_quod_non_habet
If you wanted to use Toyota oil, why did you buy a Ford?
It's a bit like a Wiki, except with more centralised editorialship. Confusing title indeed.
Seems the world isn’t all black and white.

It’s not like those companies have “destroy democracy” as their mission.
Agreed.

A Django-specific skillset I found very important is to know where that limit/line of the admin sits - you can push it very far, but there's absolutely a point where it becomes unmaintainable and more costly than building it yourself. The line itself can be a bit of a moving target depending on the project though.

The Django admin is simultaneously one of the greatest tools of the past two decades while also being a massive footgun if you're not careful.
Your last link says it all: "COVID-19 has triggered lockdown measures for billions of people around the world."

A lockdown at such a scale never happened before covid. Your "counter-fact" is incorrect.
I just hit something like this with Amazon Prime. I haven’t used Amazon in a while and forgot that they push it very hard during checkout. Well, they got me. I accidentally clicked on the wrong button. I immediately realized my mistake and hit the back button before the next page loaded. Too late. A second later an email arrived letting me know my Prime account had been activated.

I immediately went looking for the cancel link. It’s not as terrible as some. (You don’t have to call them or anything.) But it’s still pretty bad. I didn’t need to confirm even once that I wanted the Prime subscription, but had to confirm 3 or 4 times I want to cancel with a bunch of confusing options to only pause my subscription, etc. I did eventually cancel, but I don’t see how this can be legal. If you accidentally press the wrong thing, you’re suddenly obligated to pay for something you didn’t want, but if you try to cancel, it’s a bunch, “Are you sure? Are you really sure?” nonsense. I don’t think I was charged as it was still during the 30 day “free” trial.
See this abstract and it's citations about how anger rumination (catharsis via aggression) reduces self-control and self-control failures predict aggression. Bolstering self-control decreases aggression. Cognitive neuroscience observed the same link between emotion regulation, cognitive control and aggression.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Does-Venting-Anger-Fee...

Anger rumination is a significant predictor in displaced aggression (aggression aimed at undeserving targets) as well.
Thank you, something like this is exactly what I was looking for. Balances out nicely with the original posted link.
By all means contact and organize on Senators, it's good practice. In my experience they are completely unresponsive to anything smaller than the largest and most funded groups. Still, making noise is only good.

You may find your local house rep to be much more persuadable and willing to listen to your educated points of view. Getting their position stated publicly and on the record in either direction can be very meaningful.
Wow! Thanks a million! This comment alone is worth all the time I've spent on HN this year :)
On my iPad mini 5th gen, the message and background appear identical at about 95% brightness.

I think it's pretty weird trying to get more than maximum brightness from an Apple device. I think it would be far more useful to get a spectrum of usable levels of lower than minimum brightness. Apple's maximum brightnesses have always been close or the brightest devices available, but Apple devices minimum brightnesses have always been way too bright with no reason for it.
Microsoft comes close - my most personally irritating example was them trading “Lync” (short, wonderfully searchable, very little rubbish returned) for “Skype for Business” (impossible to search for specific technical matters, and the site itself was blocked by most corporate web filters for the first several weeks)
Modern Algebraic Geometry is a field that encompasses and somewhat unifies so many different areas of mathematics that it is extremely difficult to distill down quickly. So it really depends on what your currently mathematical background is. If you only know some Abstract Algebra (ring and field theory in particular) and Topology at the undergrad level, it will take a long-time for you to contribute to research mathematics, but you could probably get a feel for the subject after a couple years (shorter if our a graduate student focusing on it full-time). If you don't know anything about those two subjects, it's a very long slog. If you know differential geometry, category theory, complex geometry in addition to the above, you could probably pick it up relatively quickly.

The definitions and machinery make sense if you have enough background, but the why and how we got here is often very unclear.

If you don't care about schemes, stacks and current modern viewpoint of Algebraic Geometry, it's not hard to get a decent understanding of algebraic varieties which are the original motivation in the field. An undergrad book on the subject Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms by Cox, Little, and O'Shea does a great job of introducing the subject. And has a really cool project on calculating Groebner bases for polynomial equations in sin and cosine to define the configuration space of different types of robotic arms.
No one sane is using UCEPROTECT.. I would not even care. If someone is using them as blacklist(s) they have more problems than my mail not reaching them. Spamhaus/Spamcop/truncate.gbudb.net/Barracuda with some "premiums" like Abusix is all anyone should need
I believe that all of these companies have some smart employees who are capable of tasteful design and who know about real problems with their products but who are screwed over by layers of self-serving bureaucracy. The project manager for some dumb feature in some corner of the OS wants to ensure their project is successful so they get a good review: that's often their key motivation. They're not as incentivized to expend engineering hours from their team and try and coordinate with 5 other teams to get something cool done.

When it comes to building good stuff, having a powerful central figure like a Steve Jobs who can just murder bad features and force the implementation of good features is probably one of the best things a company can have.
I use Swinsian and it's pretty nice, but no dark mode (don't know why).
I know it needs improvements, there is even a disclaimer in the top of HOW.md. I'll go over it and improve sentences like that in a future.
it's used in the sense of 'a wiki project which tries to act like an encyclopedia' unlike for example the wiki wiki web. a similar kind of wiki is scholarpedia.org.

the emphasis is on the encyclopedia part.
"Do X or you're fired" -- this is coercion by any reasonable definition. If you think it's easy to just "get another job", you are speaking from a position of immense economic privilege. It's tantamount to "let them eat cake".

Urbanites will regret their fickle treatment of the key workers who provide them with food and Amazon deliveries.
I was under the impression the exchanges chose not to list Monero voluntarily. After all, Binance does have it.
I have a Pixel 6 and I've noticed an app from some Wi-fi lights with an app called TCP Smart copies my clipboard whenever I open it. I was disturbed by this and definitely didn't do anything special to permit it, so that seems somewhat at odds with what you're saying?
>Why does it matter if it's on while you clean the screen/kb.

It's a lot easier to see streaks / material stuck to the screen with the screen off.
Right, hence why fngi is "in it's spirit."

Although... you can do anything in FORTH with sufficient knowledge of the interpreter, even write C syntax which gets compiled to forth-like words inline, so I'm not really sure what _isnt_ FORTH :)
It would require people willing to be single-issue voters, the way many are on abortion or firearms.

Would anyone here switch party votes to a candidate who sided their way on tech privacy — even if they disagreed on other core principles like abortion, gun rights, religion in schools, etc?

Maybe a few, but I'm not convinced many.
Microsoft:

1. Set up on https://sendersupport.olc.protection.outlook.com/snds/

2. Read everything at https://sendersupport.olc.protection.outlook.com/pm/

3. Make sure everything is fixed, then use the link to the form hidden under Troubleshooting > "Sender services, tools, and issue submission" (the link's label is "here") to contact support. Make sure all fields are provided, including a website. It may take a few days to get a response. You may have to try multiple times until someone actually helps you.

Google:

Pray
I had Time Machine fail on me, and a customer (I'm the HashBackup author) had it fail on him. Details at https://www.hashbackup.com/hashbackup/customers.html search for Time Machine.
Please do not post unsubstantive or flamebait comments here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the guidelines more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note this one:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
I'm pretty sure cash falls into the "stolen goods" category, and you don't get to keep them even if you didn't know they were stolen. You'd have to give the bagel cash back just as much as the barrel of oil.

(Well, in my jurisdiction. Source: family member is a lawyer)
Sorry if I misunderstand you but you could just say that it's ridiculous if you think it's ridiculous. I personally don't like there is comments with "isis" and "nazi" inside in a discussion about Adobe (and I don't specially like Adobe at all).
And Mozilla Corporation’s entire business model is built on Google’s financial support. Does that make Mozilla’s (or the ACLU etc.) work inherently suspect or anti-democratic?
I only use Django because of the admin.
I like the idea. This could be a VR simulator.

Hypothetical question: Would this game be realistic enough to get some understanding of the psychological and physical risks? e.g. Player has a mental breakdown and damages a pod. Everyone in that pod not in a space suit suffocates and their account is deleted. To that end will players be vetted for psychological aptitude to take the mission seriously? Assuming they get past that barrier will there be somewhat random events that test the players ability to adapt, improvise and overcome mortal risks, testing their knowledge of science, space technology and all other facets of living on a hostile planet?

Would there be a training mode and a realistic mode described above?
There's some room in the missing ~295 million IPs
A few of us inherited two code bases from a previous team, both for what are now products but were essentially prototypes.

Every release includes new things and rewritten things. If we add new on old, we grow technical debt; if we rewrite too much, fixes and features are delayed too long.

It’s a tough balance. Our code and issues are full of comments re how things should be done, with cross references we added as we figured out what things need to change together.

As Joel Spolsky notes in the twice-linked post, reading code is harder than writing.

Just today I eliminated hundreds of lines of code after writing maybe two dozen over the last few days.

The writing and deletion took no time at all. The reading and forensic mental compilation and execution took days and days.

That’s our golden rule: change nothing you do not completely understand - and you only really understand it if you can explain it in plain English to someone who doesn’t know the code.

The coolest thing is that as we go along doing cool things becomes easier and doing wicked cool things becomes possible.

Just this morning we had to force ourselves to remember that entire blocks of code with poor reporting of errors are as they are because until changes we made elsewhere just weeks ago, there was no point in doing better: the better reports had no place to go.

But after a major refactor initiated primarily to make maintenance and addition easier, we can now do things with dramatic - and wholly positive - UI/UX impacts that were simply impossible before.

Read read read read digest digest cogitate muse read read correct read confirm, explain, write.
Why should it be? Dollar genuinely adds value for most of human population and yet a single dollar "token" costs 1 dollar.
If anything, the flat price of a token I would consider a very small but anyway a sign of maturity and usefulness, as opposed to speculation tokens. (stabletokens excluded of course)
> Its value is essentially zero.

No it's not. It's worth a bit less than face value, but you can cash it out by swapping to other cryptos.
> Do you control the inflation rate? Do you control how much currency is being minted?

Exchanges are essentially banks. They offer bitcoin loans, essentially creating new coins out of nowhere. Fixed money supply is utterly powerless before the inflationary power of debt.
If an asset (i.e. land) is 4 billion years old, then the whole idea of "fair ownership" of it is a dubious legal fiction rooted in violence.
https://caniuse.com/?search=webgpu

Sorry, who is lying again?
I bought into monero hoping it would be the next big thing. Fungibility/no public ledger made it seem like it had way more utility, but it turned out 1) virtually nobody buys crypto in order to spend it, and 2) its only real world use was on the dark web.
In what sense is disputing vaccines not challenging prevailing orthodoxy? I think most people who challenge the prevailing orthodoxy will probably be wrong. But, it seems like only people who correctly challenge it get respected.
I had not heard of Hatreon so went looking.

According to a few sites, Visa shut them down. After that Hatreon didn't (yet) get another payment processor setup. Their homepage [1] says:
"This site's services were suspended by VISA in November of 2017."

Kicking alt-right people off platforms is a band aid solution. A storm is forming that will explode at some point. You can't just silence people like that an expect good outcomes long term.

I imagine the next big wave of cryptocurrency use will be by alt-right users. They're coordinated, resourced, and tech savvy enough.

Crypto-enabled Spotify, crypto-enabled Patreon/Kickstarter, Crypto-enabled YouTube...basically writes itself at this point. I wonder if there's an alt-right HackerNews out there already.

[1] https://hatreon.net/

Also the founder is the 3D printed gun guy!
There's likely to be strong bipartisan opponents to this bill in the Senate as well. Their issues are likely aligned with another senator's response.

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-on-re...
This article doesn't really report on the reporting, just says how some prominent Republicans didn't like one article. I don't see how a rather straightforward news post on the then President's comments makes NPR look petty and partisan, either.
Sure. Bunch of angry devs will pressure a lifelong dictator lol People living in a fairy land. What will happen is that ordinary people will suffer the most and loose whatever decoupling to government they have, and government will have the same power over people or even greater under pretense that they now have to do bunch of random horrendous things to fight evil foreign powers. And I speak from first hand experience. Yugoslavia in the 90ties.
Do you expect us to believe that you thought you’d be able to install Linux when you bought your iPhone?
Web3 + Lightning fixes this.
Re: Bungie

> Talks between Google and Bungie made "considerable" headway, according to a person familiar with the plans. Sony, which owns PlayStation, announced this week that it would acquire Bungie for $3.6 billion. While Bungie said it would continue to support Stadia, insiders did not know if the merger would affect plans between Google and Bungie. Sony has a deal with Microsoft to support its cloud gaming service. A spokesperson for Bungie did not respond to a request for comment.
> Are the US intelligence "demanding to be blindly trusted" ?

They totally are. They were downright shocked that AP's Matt Lee didn't just go along with it.

The question is not whether Russia would ever do such a thing. The question is if the USG actually has evidence that they plan to do such a thing.

One particularly ugly thing Russia did in Syria, was send out warnings that "the rebels are planning a false flag attack" to give Syria cover for actual attacks they were making.

That illustrates that Russia is untrustworthy, sure, but we already knew that. However, it also illustrates how worthless unsubstantiated claims of forthcoming false flag attacks are.
We're not even close to "all" territory.

> The requirements changing for a job they may have had for decades is also a legitimate reason to be upset.

People are fired all the time because their job requirements changed, or they were made redundant. Where have the mass protests been for that?

> Let's not pretend there aren't legitimate concerns here.

Some concerns are legitimate, other's are not. But occupying the nation's capitol, and assaulting people who wear masks are not a legitimate avenue to express those concerns.