skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Laser weapons intended to blind are against the laws of war

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

I have seen laser pointers marketed to military personnel on the pretense they are going to be used for presentations and maybe pointing out the enemy but I am sure they get pointed at people's eyes.

That said laser pointers are unlikely to cause permanent harm unless somebody is looking at you through binoculars or similar instruments.
Rural living can be inefficient, especially for people who want the best of both worlds: lots of space and quick access to amenities. Fossil fuels are what made this possible, in moving away from them, rural living might mean living closer to how things were 100+ years ago. Or maybe it means living an rural lifestyle is just an expensive luxury.
Like everything, in a few years we'll standardize around the most mediocre option.
Well, I guarantee you those idea-only founders either have some pedigree (Stanford, MIT, Facebook, etc.) or have started successful startups before.
Not for everybody. Quite specifically, not for the person in TFA.
I think it would be more useful if it were more concise and practical.

> tl;dr Trust + Ownership + Mindful communication = Win

the tl;dr doesn't tell you anything.

The rest tries to reform the other person rather than indicate preferences. I would be more ok with one that says:
- I prefer emails to meetings. Don't invite me to meetings that could be emails
- I decline meetings without an agenda.
- respect my time and don't double book me. If you double book me, I may not come, dont act surprised.
- I voice my opinions and sometimes it might sound harsh. You can voice yours and I won't take it personally
Yes, the ability to set an expiration time on a drift would be huge.
> It likely takes the agency away from people

Everything we do around the topic of obesity is about palliative care for people's feelings. Health At Every Size, societal disdain for fat-shaming, etc. Medicating people with statins and insulin management drugs instead of directing them to put down the fucking fork and move occasionally.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans eat themselves to death every year. It is far and away the leading cause of early death, with COVID years additionally highlighting the fact that the VAST majority of deaths under the age of 60 were among the cohort who think donuts and beer constitute an appropriate dinner.

But instead of trying to save these people's lives, we are trying to spare their precious feelings, with the insane irony of the situation being that obesity itself is a STRONG predictor of depression. As if telling people that chugging a case of Pepsi per day is totally fine because you're beautiful as you are is going to save their mental health from the vagaries of the practically inevitable Zoloft drip they'll need to be on to keep the 9mm out of their mouth.

> and apologizes for the failures of the medical industry.

Our culture around obesity is absolutely batshit insane. And yes, medicalizing the symptoms rather than public hangings for food industry executives and widespread re-adoption of fat shaming is a HUGE factor in this.

edit: Sorry to be somewhat animated about this topic, but I am a former fatass who was, like many many Americans, victimized by the food and advertising industries, and eventually came to hate myself enough to strip off the fat and keep it off for well over a decade. And my "negative self talk" has led to being a MUCH happier person. It drives me INSANE that this culture is killing so many of us and wrecking our mental health, but we choose to make it worse.
I mean more so in a way that they're eating that cost. Much harder to do when you're not making huge cash from another segment of your offerings.
No, it makes votes in all states count equally. The current system makes votes in certain states orders of magnitude more valuable than votes in others.
I've worked in multiple European environments (gov & private sector) that mandated usage of European anti-virus & firewalls.

In finance I had a client that didn't trust any vendor and asked me to reverse engineer VPN appliances (they negotiate a special clause with the vendor), which makes more sense then trusting based on country of origin.
They just want some of the sweet web VC money. I mean, when you have federal prosecutors turned 'web3 investor' why not?

Total shit show.
Containerization is great. It allows you to write all the infrastructure for you Java app as code and then just simply type 'docker-compose up' to get it running (or whatever your orchestrator).

This makes it super portable.

Just something to think about.

I personally think the win's from Containerization are greater than the challenges.
I've only prototyped adding HTMX to my Django app (currently using React & DRF), but there seems to be a great alignment between Django and HTMX. HTMX wants you to send back a partial HTML tree for the node being updated, and Django's template inheritance machinery lets you very cleanly separate the "parent page" from "partial sub-tree" (since you can just say `{%
include "foo_table_fragment.html" %}` in the parent page template, and then render the "foo_table_fragment.html" template directly on the GET/POST with HTMX headers).

It's all very easy to wire in to a normal Django page to gradually add interactivity (say, partial updates to filter/sort a table to instead of full-page reload).
Totally agree. If it was so genuine, it should immediately mention existing alternatives like Monero as possible options. Why recreate the wheel when there is already a successful cash like digital asset that meets all requirements _and_ is technically infeasible to be screwed with later by politicians.
"Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to www.narrativesproject.com. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR"
You are you are absolutely right that this will be a more beneficial attitude to carry into their futures because it is exactly what has allowed me to succeed, but only after unlearning some terrible internalized anxiety about failure caused by being told I was smart.

Please keep it up. I hope I run into your kids in the workplace and they are running circles around me with their productivity and goal setting.
> One of my strategies in college was to really study on the first exam

Why did you really have to study if it was so easy? Right, because you didn't know it. For others who came in knowing it, they didn't have to 'really study'. And this still holds true for every successive test.

I feel like that kinda negates your negation.

To speak of specifics, I took calc 1 twice. First time was due to inconsistencies in the teacher's grading, but whatever; the second time I took it, I was very familiar with the concepts, and made an easy A. Others struggled. It's fair to say I should have gotten the A at the end because I knew the material, and it's fair to say the people who got an A on every test (those 'easy' first ones you mention being included) should receive an A, but was it fair to say others, who by the end had the same understanding I and the other A students did, should have gotten a B even if they aced a cumulative final, because they struggled with the concepts initially and did less well on the earlier tests?
This makes me thing: When we are going to see those Windows software directly on the web?

For me makes a lot of sense being able to sell a software subscription instead of a one time product sell, and for the other hand making available to use in any device in the world with internet connection.

This also can be done like Chrome apps (like Docs) or some Electron apps (like Spotify), where you can use content without Internet for some time without any problem.

For a mechanic who is looking for the amount of torque needed on a bolt this could be perfectly viable, for example.
I'm always paranoid about things catching fire though.

I rarely leave anything turned on when I leave the house.
Yes. Just stick to cash.

Its been tested and its proven. It works. Its stable.

Lets focus societal change on fixing climate damage instead of gambling with our economic structure adapting to new high risk changes.
This wallet contains the $625M funds in what appears to be the largest crypto defi hack in history.

https://etherscan.io/address/0x098b716b8aaf21512996dc57eb061...
I’m really confused as to how this relates to what is being discussed here.
You're a person to be loved, not a problem to be solved.
If it's just a binned 12900K without AVX512 then what place does it have? People are better off with AMD Ryzen if you're going to be stuck with AVX2 anyway.
I'd love more data on this kind of thing in general. I developed a neurological disorder as a teenager with no apparent cause that affects me to this day, it's not like some bitter life-long crusade of having to know but I've always had a vague hunch it was a genetic disposition triggered by some external event and I'd be so curious to have that confirmed or debunked.

It's one of those ones that doesn't show up on an MRI but an fMRI shows characteristic changes, which suggests something wrong at a lower level I think.
The most impactful idea I’ve ever had is that the us government procurement system is broken.
Use it or lose it creates waste, programs are planned and executed by people who don’t understand them, rules are not tied to outcomes.

A new system for procurement and allocation could save trillions of dollars of waste. A couple economists and game theory specialists might be able to crack it. It’d be worth a million to try.
I didn't read the article, but I'm guessing humans are better at spotting the hedgehogs?
$1m in 2000 is $10m today is $100m in 2040. Maybe dollars is the overrated thing?
We have a multi-project gradle build, all our code is in Kotlin, we use micronaut as our base framework and we use IntelliJ as our IDE - this setup has worked great for us over the past year.
Aah, TIL.

Do we have paravirtualized Metal support in Linux guests yet? That would probably neatly brush away any legal claims against third-party hosts for implementing it on non-Apple hardware.
<3 this. For technical courses, where work can be objectively right and wrong, specifications grading, aka standards-based grading, aka mastery based grading, is 100% the way to go.

There are some "ungrading" practices that are useful, but the grade earned serves an important credentialing step, and clearly showing students the skills they need to master is the whole dang point.
The government has to know about your transactions and has to know where your cash is in these cases.

The point is privacy like _cash_ -- not like digital bank transfers.
People made a religion out of turning others into schmucks with the dual whammy of sorrow and shame. The only correct use of sorrow is to attain stillness when someone uses humor to deflect emotions, but that doesn't keep a priest gainfully employed.
This is actually the main reason I haven't applied to YC. I can think of things that would be awesome if they were 10x better, but I feel they are either too ambitious (drone delivery), already being done (ai robot that packs boxes arbitrarily), or too difficult (general AI, jetpacks)
You say "Democrats and Republicans work in parallel". And then you say "Republicans have moved so far right". Which is it?

Also, some Republicans have moved far right. Some Democrats have moved pretty far left, too. I will admit that more Republicans moved than Democrats. But both parties have sections near the center, and both have extreme parts. And both are having trouble maintaining unity in the face of that tension.
I can only guess, but it looks like they want to ride (and got VC funding to ride) the Web3 hype wave, but they don't want to be lumped in with "the other Web3 people".
I'm not super familiar with HTMX but lots of people in the Elixir/Phoenix/Liveview world are using Alpine JS for these types of problems.

Liveview(HTMX analog) for anything with data and state that needs to go to and from the server; Alpine JS for client side interactions with ephemeral state like opening a modal.
I would argue that if a project can't fit into Eclipse with 32 GB RAM then perhaps the code base has become too large to manage and ought to be split into separate projects with dependencies.
> Shouldnt i have the same concerns with software from the US? You dont really have to nationalize to force devs to push malicious code (looking at you Australia)

You should have the same concerns about software from anywhere, including the US. I believe it's a couple orders of magnitude more likely I'd be harmed by Russian government malicious code than any other nation.

Russia is in crisis, striking indiscriminately, and has no reputation left to lose. So that's where my concern lies.
trying to figure out how this compares to Phoenix's frameworks LiveView, does HTMx use websockets to communicate state change? Seems like I could just end up using HTMx in lieu of learning Elixir and Phoenix
Could go one layer further and use the 1MM assets as a base/collateral to write options against and generate cash flow from the principal. Say 20% on 4 etfs you like, & 20% cash, then wheel it out (write ~20delta calls+puts ~45 days out). rinse lather repeat. Naive take, written crudely, but feedback nonetheless.
I've had uBlock reject an image served from my server because it was a particular size and had the substring "ad" in its URL (the image names were just GUIDs, and "ad" is, of course, valid hexadecimal).

There's a two-way communication problem with expecting ad blockers to work on arbitrary sites without breaking the sites; they aren't a web standard so developers can't code against them, and there's no way that blockers can predict every valid configuration. False positives will, of course, occur, and since code is changing continuously in both pages and the blocker, making them work with each other is a moving target.

When someone reports an issue with my sites, "disable uBlock and try again" is the first thing I recommend. Failing to do so is like trying to debug an issue in MacOS back in the day without asking the user to first disable extensions.
I admit we do miss that part. Instead for us it's `sudo apt -y install app-name`
React v18.0
It didn't all work out for many: when real estate crashed in 2008 a lot of people lost everything: they had huge negative equity in a house that was suddenly worth 20% or more less than what they paid with 5% or less down payment, lost the house and their savings and wound up bankrupt, at a time when the economy was tanking so many lost their jobs as well. Many people had invested their retirement savings in bonds based on all these crappy loans, thinking that this was a conservative investment (real estate! Only ever goes up!).
>And how do you identify the real government for some small town? There are many that don’t even have websites.

This was the question I responded to. I'm not sure how else to explain it?
I bet you are right. Would love to see some kind of metric on this.
I wonder how they will deal with theft?

You wouldn't need to be at an ATM to be robbed of all the money in your bank. A thief could just walk up in broad daylight, hold you up, make you put your card in and transfer everything out of your bank right now and then walk away.

If you made the mistake of having everything available right now you could lose it all in a matter of minutes.
> this system forces you into over-committing to the course.

This is a good point! This is why I always say getting a 4.0 doesn't mean you understand the material more than the person with a 3.8 but means you put more time into the class. Getting 4.0's is less about understanding the material and more about jumping through the teachers hoops and doing everything you can to get every small bit of credit. I've spent ~2 hours to get a few extra points on one small assignment just because you cannot miss a single thing if you want a 4.0. Did that extra 2 hours give me a great understanding of the material proportional to the time spent? No, not at all!
Signal requires a phone number and doesn't allow anonymous usage as I understand.
>So your solution is to get rid of speedy emergency requests entirely?

Who said that?
Sorry, I had mis-read the question, thought you were talking about WhatsApp. That’s news to me, the US server thing for Telegram.
AMPRNet https://www.ampr.org/
In methodology this is similar to an ancient scam, where scammers would send fake yellow page/phone book invoices to companies. Many companies would just pay the bills.
How to keep your technology skills current as a leader
There are 1.5 million housing units under construction, which is an all-time record. It'll be interesting to see how quickly that get absorbed in a market with rising interest rates and questionable valuations. There appears to be lots of demand but what I'm seeing in my corner of the world is most of the demand is at the lower end of the market, which I'm guessing isn't what is primarily being developed. People moving up does free up properties at lower ends of the market, so in effect, a trickledown effect, but that takes a while to happen. Maybe we're going to see more and more house sharing and renting of individual rooms (legal or not).
Why, because bills have serial numbers? Presuming that ecash "units" will also have serial numbers, that would mean getting caught with a flagged unit in your possession could land you in hot water (just like getting caught with marked bills). But without a public ledger, ecash still wouldn't be amenable to forensic accounting in the way bitcoin has proven itself to be.
Naming things is indeed hard, using multiple keywords for searching is not (both Google and DuckDuckGo supports this). "Drift pastebin" turns up two hits that would lead me to this project. This HN submission will make the repository score even better for those keywords, so expect it to be even easier to find in a day or two.
Greenpeace, Crypto Billionaire Lobby to Change Bitcoin Code
Note the "Are we wrong..." kind of phrasing and use of unspecific hypnotic language right out of Milton Ericson. This is aimed to provoke FOMO in the clueless; people like us will read this and realize the author is clueless but the clueless will struggle to find the wisdom here and assume they aren't getting it because they don't understand the text, not that the text is meaningless.

It's like that puff piece on crypto that was in the NYT last week.
Hmm ok, so am I right in thinking that it would be used for natural language API integrations? Like a search-based interface or an Alexa Skills type thing? Interesting nonetheless - I'm unusually out of touch with the industry development of ML, despite it being extremely adjacent to my interests, so sometimes these ideas don't make immediate sense to me. Good luck in your endeavours, regardless!
Interesting that you took a quote that _specifically_ said "basic understanding" and took that to mean "expert in everything there".
For the same reason that streaming services don't really give you the ability to filter by cast/crew or hide stuff you've already seen: to gently guide you into avenues that are more profitable for them, regardless of what you say you really want.
Wow, I’m gobsmacked at your example. Are you really arguing that transgender people are somehow abusing and disrespecting others by asking to be acknowledged as they wish to be? Would you be ‘abused’ if I mentioned my same-sex spouse and it violated your assumed reality?
To be clear I’m not saying to move to the extreme end of the spectrum.

My point is that the West often seems to consider low costs and efficiency above long-term implications.

I’m not saying the West should pull an Argentina [1], but the West also shouldn’t always be metaphorically choosing the lowest bidder.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/02/17/515850029/epis...
Too bad it includes just a 500m radius around Shinjuku station at night. Tourist fantasy version of Tokyo.
I wouldn’t put it past them. But hacking an admin portal would probably suffice.
Since there seems to be a lot of interest in Illinois energy subsidies, maybe we could get a tally on how much they spend each year and whom the benefactors are.

I got one news article that said they gave nuclear $130 millions each year in 2019, but then other sources say it is a number between $19 and $52 millions. Then in 2021 I find an article that they increased subsidies for renewables by an additional $350 millions per year. In one article that the total subsidies to build new solar and wind has a total of $600 millions per year. An other said that the total of subsidies for renewables are well above $1 billion per year. I couldn't find an article that estimates Illinois fossil fuel subsidies, but one said that the US spend around $20 billions per year.

Naturally each article want to either inflate or deflate those numbers to drive a political point, so it would be nice if anyone could bring some authoritative numbers that give the exact number of what Illinois actually spend in terms of energy subsidies.
This is also one of the use cases that Vue targeted specifically and it greatly accelerated its adoption.

Vue positions itself for anything from jQuery replacement all the way to a full SPA and everything in between.
Hmm... it seems trivial to do a lookup of the A records for @ and www, and see if there's any overlap with the MX records.

If so, then it was likely set up a long time ago and not maintained well.
Nope, but for cities to be prepared for such emergencies before hand by completing some basics of bureaucracy by being properly authenticated, much like you expect a city fire department to have some fire trucks purchased already instead of expecting to purchase one in seconds when they need one from the dealership 1000 miles away.
Thank you for making this. It is very needed!
fungibility is a binary quality where one thing is indistinguishable from another. Sites like whereisgeorge.com use this feature of non-fungibility, as an example, to show where the money has been.

By virtue of this non-fungible quality, not all dollars are equal. Imagine you are a business owner, and someone pays with cash, and part of those bills are marked, or observed, as part of a criminal act like bank robbery or drug buy, you name it. As the business owner, that money can and will be seized and your operations will be complicated as a result of something outside of your control.

In a perfect world, you just show how you got the money and there is no problem, but what if you couldn't? What if you as the business owner have paid your rent with this cash, and your landlord is the one who is targeted for questioning, and deciding to avoid the hassle or speculation they just decide to terminate your lease agreement?

Fungibility means every dollar is indistinguishable (in value) from the rest, and for this reason, cash is not fungible.
>we should try to get people what they want without destroying the planet/creating infested hell pits.

I completely agree. I know there are a large number of people (perhaps a majority?) who prefer dense urban environments. I certainly don't want those to go away. I just also don't want to lose rural spaces.
Not really a new idea... a group called kPoint was doing something like this years ago but I am sure it is easier today.

> kPoint scans every frame of every video so well that users can search through every spoken word or important text on screen to find precise points where a phrase was said or shown

https://kpoint.com/blog/video-indexing-and-search-technology...
Operation is cheaper, but it is not cheap. The steam based thermodynamic cycle is very expensive compared to CCGT and even worse compared to gearbox into generator for wind power and solid state for solar.

In this graph you have the marginal cost of traditional generation compared to total cost of new built renewables.

https://www.lazard.com/media/451885/grphx_lcoe-07.png

From Lazard Levelized Cost of Energy 2021.

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...