skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> They collected a ton of my sensitive information (address, phone, bank account, etc)

> Yep. OP's only real recourse is to just try again in 6 months or a year or whatever and hope that their ML algorithm evaluates their data differently.

And what change their identity? They already have their PII and banned them for life.
Using VS Code + Markdown All in One (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yzhang.m...) has honestly been the most productive blogging tool I've used in a very long time, moreso than dedicated Markdown blogging tools like iA Writer. (granted half of that is due to "Paste link on selected text" which is an embarrassingly common workflow for me)

Adding Prettier (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=esbenp.p...) for its underdiscussed Markdown formatting keeps READMEs and blog posts clean as well.
if I take some of your money and you have to starting buying low-end $40 dollar bottles of wine to have with your dinner I've certainly harmed you. but every night I do that 10 starving people get to eat. yes, I have harmed you. and no, maybe we don't really want to live in a place where people can take your things because they think its a good idea.

but lets not pretend that its an even trade - not even close to zero sum.
The terrible quality of their APIs does suggest it's a mess behind as well yeah.
Protobuf as a Scapy dissector, with Farsight's SIE as an example: https://github.com/m3047/tahoma_nmsg
Hmm, interesting. I've not yet come across a situation where I'd need diffing or going back to a change or looking for one. I just use git for syncing.

Nice heads-up to look out for.
As someone growing pawpaws, I'd be interested to know if this also holds for progressive supranuclear palsy.
That's actually how it works though. See "Parallel Construction".

Except instead of saying "Access Denied" which immediately makes you suspicious and comment on the internet, they construct an alternative evidence chain so you waste your effort defending against the wrong thing, and the true techniques never come into question.
Exactly right — what an odd statement to make. It reads to me like: “Society should be equal but not measurably so.”
Wordle in Python using literate programming
Hey HN!

I wanted to demo TDD with Python, as well as showcase some BDD practices I've been blogging about recently[1].
So I used literate programming to implement Wordle, and rendered the narrative into this "Show HN" webpage.

I'm certainly no Knuth, but I'm pretty proud of the result. Proud enough to chance myself to a HN post, and risk HN's mockery and ire: my first "Show HN".

I hope this crowd will enjoy this annotated walkthrough of Wordle implementation in Python. Codebase available on Github[2].

Relevant for folks here (though not covered in the main narrative) is how the Gherkin files are listed as Requirements[3] via Sphinxdocs extensions[4]

[1]: https://jiby.tech/
[2]: https://github.com/OverkillGuy/literate-wordle
[3]: https://jiby.tech/project/literate_wordle/_collections/gherk...
[4]: https://github.com/OverkillGuy/literate-wordle/blob/6d51eb6d...
social standing is even less zero sum than capital. if I choose to respect you, that doesn't mean I have to kick the next person I see in the groin.

edit: sorry, now I see. how can you lord your wealth over the peasants if they are as rich as you? why should we as a society care how much you get you put yourself above others for no good reason?
Is that any different than me typing 'gite' and it autocompletes to my gitea DNS, or 'jell' and it autocompletes to my jellyfin?

I'm guessing if you are self-hosting these things they are used often enough that they would be in the top of your autocomplete?
From a magical castle called the Federal Reserve, which creates it out of nothing.
Ah, I recall doing that in a very old version of the sims, by having someone destroy all their money and live on an empty lot without a house. Placing some items was pretty much required (IIRC a cable spool that counted as a table or a chair because some animations/actions were impossible if there were absolutely no surfaces to place stuff or sit down in the lot) but you could do a lot with the (free!) newspaper and with various things accessible in town to clean yourself, etc.
Awful? Ignoring the crypto coins, I'd love to see all spending/funds in for governments, ONG, non-profit orgs, (mass)media channels, public hospitals, all companies that have shareholders/sell shares, anything that runs on public funds and so on should be tracked via publicly available blockchains. You can probably see where I'm going with this.

I have mixed feelings about banks, national banks, lenders, art trading, casinos, pawn shops and such though. I'm a bit worried about tracking private individuals at that extent because of these.
I don't really care about passwords for forum websites.

You want strong passwords for any website that retains credit card information.

And super strong passwords for Google, email, bank and credit cards. These are all in my head and looong.

If your phone gets simjacked, you most definitely do not want to allow Google password recovery by text to "your" phone number.
the amount of code that was

- point to a structure / object
- declare a variable
- access the object / structure field and assign it to var
- repeat for every information you want to extract from the struct / object

is large and now replaced by something transparent
Board Game Design Day: Board Game Design and the Psychology of Loss Aversion
That's not what relative social standing means.
The lovely thing about this "old knowledge" or "old ways" fetishism is that the knowledge economy is a superset of all previous paradigms.

If you were to ask a blacksmith 400 years ago what he thought about people living in a modern air conditioned house and all the luxuries it affords, with a backyard hobby forge, making steel swords, he would probably be freaking miffed. A hobby?!? Forging stuff for a past time?!? I have to make 20 swords a day or my head gets cut off!

Short of catastrophe, we will not be going back. The future may look different, but the knowledge and technology will continue to improve. If we stop driving cars and stop making cars because we have clean cities with many avenues of public transportation the knowledge of 'how to make a car' still exists.

And there will be some dude in that hypothetical society building a car for a hobby.
I think you're underestimating how much scientific weight the Gaia hypothesis actually has.[0] Despite its, admittedly unfortunate, name, it's main proponents include really influential figures in biology[1][2]

[0] https://aeon.co/essays/the-gaia-hypothesis-reimagined-by-one...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Margulis
I share your frustration, but I doubt this problem can be resolved by actual physical warfare.
fusion takes is to a straight line to exceeding capacity of the planet to radiate waste heat fast enough to keep it habitable. free energy is self destruction. still better than fossil fuels, though.

electric engines require batteries and batteries are super duper enviromentally expensive to make at scales needed right now, let alone the 10y forward predictions.
+1. Also, Copy Image to File. Very very handy for snipping and just pasting it in the Markdown document you're editing.
and also request all info they have on you including the reason for termination. however getting this executed is another matter, but it would be a nice court case to win.
It feels like the mentions of Signal and its protocol in this blog post overlook the reality that you can't really do true secure encrypted Twitter DMs, at best you could do a loose approximation of it that may not provide much security value in exchange for the inconvenience. Why?

A significant % of Twitter usage is through the website (either twitter.com or tweetdeck), which means the decryption would all have to happen in javascript in an effectively untrusted context - it doesn't even have the moderate protections offered by a chrome app/extension, and there's no clean way to securely store encryption keys for a webpage (afaik) without the aid of something like a Yubikey or Windows Hello. Secure cryptography in the browser is still (generally speaking) adjacent to a joke, and the idea of doing it in Twitter.com - a very complex website with a huge attack surface that gets loaded into iframes/popups and targeted by various extensions - is probably exciting to people looking for easy ways to claim Twitter's bug bounties. There are lots of other factors that will make this difficult but as long as the core of your product is a webpage with a history of severe quality issues you're basically using encryption for branding, you're not going to protect messages from anyone except perhaps disgruntled customer service staff.

That's ignoring the UX issues as well - when Line rolled out E2E encryption for messaging, they had to coax every user into enabling encryption and authenticating all of their devices to have access to their personal keys, so you had a patchwork of encrypted and non-encrypted conversations. And now if I lose my primary device (the keyholder) there's a convoluted process to attach new encryption keys to my account and the only way to recover my DM history is from a backup.

Am I supposed to believe they'll convince every Twitter user to jump through all the hoops to enable e2e encryption for DMs and manage encryption keys securely? Absolutely not. They'll have to do a ton of work to provide a comfortable user experience, at which point it'll be trivial for an attacker to get their hands on the encryption keys if they already had access to DM content.
Which would be easily resolved by having them off by default?

Having said that, I don't know how window snapping being on by default isn't incredibly frustrating for someone who is simply trying to precisely position a window near a corner only to have it snap in a way they didn't want it to.
In terms of making it available to a wider audience - Dendron comes with a NextJS Template: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/4ushYTDoX0TYQ1FDtGQSg

This makes it easy to publish your notes as a static site. The plan is to add optional server side capabilities here so that it becomes possible to read *and* write notes, at which point it becomes a web interface for note taking. It also helps with the distribution problem (Dendron is used by teams to publish documentation to non-technical folks so it helps that they can access it as a regular webpage)
> Any advice for anyone else who wants to take silver or gold through an airport?

Solid metal will out like a sore thumb on an x-ray scanner, so don't even think it won't be detected or that it won't attract attention. (Even a bag of low-value non-precious coins in a carry-on bag can attract attention at screening. I've had that, too). Depending on how much you've got ask for a private screening? I ended up unpacking a pack of 1oz silver coins for the security agent to inspect and had bystanders watching the show. The coins didn't have that much value, but that's not what you'd want if you were planning on moving gold without attracting attention.

Make sure you're within any limits/restrictions on transporting cash or cash-like valuables, eg for the EU it's €10k[0], this now includes gold coins/bars but apparently not silver. You could carry €10k of silver and still be able to walk, 1kg of Silver is about ~$720/€680/£580 at the moment.

FWIW, I would feel considerably more comfortable taking - let's say - $10,000 (or equivalent) of cash through an airport than the same value in precious metal. With the right denomination bank notes it wouldn't need to even show as a bulge in your wallet.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/customs-4/prohibitions...
You can actually do it in the US to an extent. Basically create a LLC with owners masked. Enable an authorized user to be an attorney and register with bank. Then use bank and routing number.

You can also use crypto and have a crypto wallet.

Prior to 9/11 it was far easier and widespread among elites to have effectively anonymous bank accounts.
I got added to some twitter DM groups recently where people talk about fast moving trends. what a shitty interface. can't @ mention people in the group without it trying to search all of twitter, you don't know their usernames because its different from their profile names, and the @ mention search doesn't even try to link them. can't quote reply or link to a prior message.

Encryption is the least of the things, all that means is that two of my devices probably won't see the same conversations.
Generational wealth transfer and government subsidies are the only way out. At least that's what "The Sims 1 §0 starving artist challenge" shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A9HvZ4vz74 (10min)
> As a group expands in size, don’t the opportunities for an individual to amass wealth, and then translate that to power, also increase significantly?

Yes and no. Human societies in general have concepts of personal property (i.e. something you use, like your toothbrush).

Not all societies have concepts of private property that we have today i.e. something you never use but still control. This is a complex set of viewpoints with many conflicts. They changed a lot over time. Many are very modern.

E.g. you can become owner of land by adverse possession.

In many egalitarian societies a person hoarding excessive amounts of objects is seen as unhinged.
How do you use WebAssembly without JavaScript? I thought it still requires glue code in order to access the DOM.
FanzyZones is absolutely essential if you're using large monitors.
As an EU citizen I was de facto forbidden to enter other EU countries until relatively recently (because of the pandemic), not sure why do you find that conclusion far-fetched.

Also, because I may want to actually visit the US sometime in the future I've been making a conscious decision not to visit Iran, for example (even though I find Iran to be a beautiful country, at least from the photos I can find on the web). I know there's no explicit "if you have visited Iran you cannot visit the USA anymore" policy coming from the US visa officials, but I feel like that's the direction things are going right now so why risk it?
The article title doesn't have backtick-quotes either, so it certainly looks like they did something manually.
Can unequal outcomes be an indicator of unequal opportunity? Yes. Can unequal outcomes exist despite equal opportunity? Yes.

There are many non-intrinsic reasons for groups of individuals to not be equally represented.

The most obvious is human ethnic group migrations, and the most consistently studied is career-choice differences between men and women.

Equal opportunity does not guarantee equal outcomes - especially in only one or two generations after a migration. ...and in the case of gender differences in career interest, forcing equal outcomes is counter-productive. Humans are different. Different outcomes are evidence of diversity, not malice.
It's absurdly easy to scam people on eBay as both the buyer and seller. They probably saw the pattern of a new account selling electronics in an amount equal to a month's wages in a lot of places and instabanned.

Back when I was selling a lot of electronics there they just had restrictions where you couldn't increase your volume much until after some successful purchases had gone through. I guess that was too easy to game and they've taken a harder stance?

If you do want to sell there eventually (sounds like you don't) you just need a new address, new IP, new cookies, new phone, new bank, .... As long as you're not actually scamming people and don't need true anonymity there are cheap/free services for all of those things that usually require some kind of personal information (so that if you do use them with nefarious intent the courts can find your real identity), and you'd just be violating eBay's terms and conditions. As you've seen though, adhering to their terms doesn't give any better personal outcomes, so I dunno that I'd give a flip about breaking them (not legal advice, please don't sue).
Yes, the required precision from the electronics is extremely high. I wasn't that much interested in the physics other than semiconductors before, but with the new job I began learning much more about the physics side of the things and it is very enjoyable. However, you don't need to know that much physics for designing the interface electronics as long as you know what you want to measure in terms of electrical parameters (like capacitance, inductance, charge, etc.) and you know the transfer functions of the system to be measured.
This is the difference between public and private entities.

However when a monopoly starts to take over, what is a private entity starts to have governmental powers.

In the US, there has been a century long politics effort to reduce anti-monopoly protections, to the point that the standard is now "are consumers being actively harmed in pricing" and what you experience would likely never be considered something that could now result in anti-monopoly action.

And without those anti-monopoly protections, eBay gets to collect economic rents—pure economic waste that profits eBay and hurts everyone else.

We need a return to Georgism to help fight some really bad politics that have developed over the past century.
Outcome is not opportunity. Those words are not synonyms.

With equal opportunity people are free to make choices on how they live their lives. With equal outcomes nothing an individual does matters. Failure is as valuable to society as success. We learn what works and what doesn’t.

What is important in a free society is that everyone has a chance to try and that we have adequate safety nets in place so failures aren’t ruinous.
A lot of car parks here have switched to RingGo, but for some reason I just can't get it to work on my phone.

The verification SMS simply never comes though. I've tried calling them, and the customer service can't help, my phone provider can't help, and I've tried using other SIMs, changed my phone and it still doesn't work.

I just rely on my girlfriend's phone where it does work. It's an interesting case of the government forcing a dependency on private companies with no recourse if things don't go as planned.
New ‘retirement’ home could be a cruise ship
You’d still have to pay the corporate tax rate in Panama I assume?

How would you eventually obtain beneficial use of that money? Ie how and when would it reach your personal bank account? If it won’t, how do you plan to use the money for your own gain? I assume (haven’t done any research) that Panama wouldn’t let you treat things like paying for Netflix, movie tickets, supermarket shops, clothes shops, etc as business expenses?

At some point you’d need to transfer it from Panama to yourself and at that point it would be taxable (capital gains or income tax depending on how you transfer). If you time things right you could be resident in a country without income tax eg UAE. But you would have still paid Panama corporation tax I believe.
Torque is more important than wattage, because there is no gears.

Now if we want to calculate the actual wattage of a direct drive, with 622mm rim and 25 km/h and 23Nm, it is simply 3.14 x 0.622 x 25 x 1000 / 3600 x 23

311.95027777777784 Watts exactly

-- 25km/h is the EU-maximum for electric bicycles, otherwise it is a moped or motorcycle.
Is it just me, or are the salaries much lower in UK than in US? Why?
I travel a lot, I spend 50% of time at home in city A, 25% in city B and 25% in city C. Often when I travel it’s election time in some locality. Once in a while it’s an issue I have a strong opinion on, and I spent a lot of time in that city so I understand the issue. I’d love to be able to split my voting power by where I spend my time and offer 25% of a vote to city B’s impactful referendum. Instead I’m forced to pick only one city to call home even though I feel a sense of being at home in multiple places.

I think voting should be about where you physically are and where you spend your time.
> Buying shares of stock in a company that doesn’t pay a dividend isn’t investing, it’s the textbook definition of speculation.

Yeah but this reflects the fact that starting and growing a company in itself is a type of speculative activity. Any optimism about the future is a type of speculation.

If you have a proven profitable business model, that you see no way to scale, there's no reason to list the company in the first place.

The main reason to even list a company is to take it through a growth phase, and companies get taken off the stock exchange all the time when they don't see any forthcoming growth, because then it's only annoying for them to compromise with the power/ownership for no reason.

The stock market is an accelerator for companies, not a central bank that makes absolute valuations.
`git diff --word-diff` solves this by showing changes inline. Example: https://blog.ipspace.net/2020/04/git-tip-word-diff.html
jury is still out on q2, I expect sub-1% growth, so technically not a recession, but it hardly matters. it's going to be interesting for the next 4 quarters anyway.
I think if you succeeded in making a game that successfully simulated the experience of poverty, it would be extremely unfun to play.

There is a popular misconception that poverty amounts to having your bank balance reset to zero. “Damn, guess I’ll have to earn it all back”. But what you can’t reset or simulate is the human capital embodied within you that got you to this point. Your lifetime of education, your experience of problem solving, your strong network of contacts, your history of good decision-making. You also can’t ignore the physical comfort that you, the player, would be in as you play the game. With all of that, you very likely could just earn it all back.

That’s not what poverty is about.
> I know if I like too many photos on Instagram, they will block me temporarily, and if I repeat it within certain period, they can ban me for a few days and so on. Having these thresholds and other rules spelled out would be helpful to users

It would be far more helpful to spammers, who could then set all their bots to send threshold - 1 likes and invitations than the average user who rarely ever considers liking enough stuff to trigger it (and is able to take the hint and just not like stuff as much if they do get a warning). Plus in practice it's probably not just a simple threshold, but a function weighted by timing and topics and relatedness of accounts and which is completely unintelligible to the average person (but potentially informative to more advanced spambot developers).
Yeah, we have small claims where this sort of matter is settled. It’s very inexpensive in most places to file a claim and you don’t need an attorney/solicitor.
Less efficient than classic JS 'arguments' in the case where you would use that, but in most cases it won't be a problem.
I save monthly into index funds and have 1 year of living expenses in an emergency bucket (my target is to grow this to be 3 years of living expenses). But I'm not actually sure how I will transition from this accumulation/investing phase into a drawing-out phase when the time comes, nor do I have any concrete rebalancing plans all worked out. I think I might need to talk to a financial advisor at some point to just go over the general strategy and come up with something concrete for that later stage.
I agree that causality isn’t established in the human studies. But with the population studies and the mice studies where causation is established that is a strong suggestion for further research as you said. If I were a betting man I would bet a lot of money on this link though, based on my experience and these studies (and there’s more). I think you would too, to a lesser extent :)

And I’m pretty sure one of the human studies does establish causation, although I don’t have time to see which one
This is not the right take. People see equality as a threat because equality is never stable, and the odds might turn against you.