skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every IT procurement by Canada is a failure, this is not a surprise. The cost is a rounding error though compared to all the other harm this did. We shouldn't get distracted by the easy target of government waste on IT projects, and should focus on the real problems with this app (that it was mandatory, probably illegal, used to police health info, plus caused massive economic damage). These are all bigger problems than the well known cost overruns that happen in this sort of project.

Also, I saw a social media post from a "founder" yesterday about how his company could have built a CRUD app with the same functionality for much more cheaply. Obviously a lot of people with no government contracting experience armchair quarterbacking the cost angle
The evidence is very clear that it's beneficial if you have a dietary deficiency (which you almost certainly do). If not for the proven physical benefits, the cognitive benefits alone are likely worth it. Where the evidence is ambiguous is how beneficial it is for someone who meets minimum daily dietary intake to then supplement it.
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I live in Europe, where the prices may be different.

I have selected vendors just by using Amazon and searching for "Schizochytrium" and also for "vegan omega 3", and then studying the specifications and computing the prices per gram of DHA+EPA.

After eliminating all those with outrageous prices and those where the exact content of DHA and of EPA were not specified, for the remaining I have also checked the Web sites of the producers to see if they are credible, e.g. if they show detailed chemical analyses of their products made by independent laboratories.

I prefer to buy pure oil (in bottles) instead of capsules, and that is usually a little cheaper than capsules, while also having no useless excipients.

Even if someone does not like a faint sea food flavor, the oil containing omega-3 can be mixed with another cooking oil, e.g. with olive oil, and added to a salad or any other food that is not heated after the oil is added. In that case any flavor will be masked.

Examples of brands available in Europe (which have similar prices, of about half of the $1.63/g that you pay): SinoPlaSan, Norsan, Arctic Blue, Spoon of Change.

Your supplement appears to be the old kind of vegan omega-3, including only DHA and negligible EPA. Now there are better vegan supplements where EPA is about half of DHA, which is a good ratio.
Beating everyone head to head is not beating the field. He came in third against the field. He only wins when you eliminate all other choices except one opponent. Peltola beat the field. In a FPTP system, she would have just won.

Democratic second choice votes for Begich only exist because Democrats would prefer him to Palin. They don't want him so much as don't want her. And if they can't get Peltola, they much rather have Begich.

The only reason there's noise about Peltola's win and RCV is because she's a Democrat. Look at all the hubbub being thrown about trying to say Begich should have won. You'd rather the person who came in third in the general win. And don't think people wouldn't complain about that.

STAR is RCV/IRV with extra steps that doesn't scale.

There was a time, not too long ago, that both parties could accept losing an election. I'd like to see that come back.
>>I have to explain why people shouldn’t park their car on their front lawn? Seriously?

Yes, yes please. Is it their front lawn? As in - they own the land? And they aren't causing any harm or damage to anyone, other than the fact that you don't like it? You mentioned "property value loss" in another comment - that's not a thing. Certainly not due to a car parked on someone's lawn.

Again, I find your intention to get into other people's business just.....strange.
It didn’t make sense at all. Obama was selected for the Nobel peace prize after 6 months of being president. What exactly had he accomplished?

Obama was just another warmonger, in my opinion.
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I wouldn't say "fraud". I think it's similar to the legal reasoning that says it's still a crime to open and enter a locked door even if the key is "hidden" on top of the door.
but nobody ever advertised phone numbers to be assigned "for life".

People lose their phones all the times, I personally lost countless phones, and I am very far from being homeless.

The problem is forcing 2FA on everyone
I really wish I had just got in shape when I was a teenager. I was a lot more athletic then, and I’m not even very old now, but I’ve managed to fuck to my knee and various bad habits and choices have butchered my lung capacity.
That’s mostly sport wear brands. You can’t wear that at work in most of the world.

I doubt Uniqlo clothes last five years while tumble dried. I hand dry the few t-shirts I own from them and after three years I wouldn’t wear them as anything else than bed wear.
Is there a way to host my own micro-instance/identity server instead of always migrating from one public instance to another?
It's an American passtime to get involved in other people's business.
I don't think "encryption at rest" is what you want, because it doesn't help you against the admin if the app still can/has to be able to decrypt it?

Encryption at rest protects against someone walking away with the database, not an admin.
will they be able to migrate their profiles?
Bosses need to accept that employees choose what the future of work looks like
Central heating is fairly uncommon in Norway.
I’m thoroughly confused.. all of those things listed are cheaper than the former listed item.
Yes, but that's a highly technical solution. I've been trying to get my girlfriend to use Authy for 6 months now, and the solution we landed on is that my Authy app has all of her 2FA codes, and she just calls me if she needs one.

To you and me 2FA doesn't seem that complicated. But to less technical people it's just overwhelming and they don't want to bother with the learning curve.
Yes, a blog cannot claim to be "purely for personal or household use" because it is an online publication and so the GDPR applies.

I think you are falling down the "GDPR rabbit hole" here, though. As said, for a personal blog the most probable scenario is that no-one will care about your following the law strictly to the letter.

Now, you can reasonably argue that you have a legitimate interest in logging IPs and to keep them for a sensible duration for security audit purposes. So in any case, you can just inform visitors that you will log IPs for security/spam prevention purposes and move on.

Commenters do not necessarily have a right of erasure and as you have said you probably won't be able to check that requests are genuine, anyway. So I think a sensible approach is not to worry about that until and unless you receive such a request and then decide what to do to make your life the easiest possible. For instance, if one day someone claims to be the author of a comment and wants it deleted you might decide to just delete it and to move on whatever the strict legal position and procedure might be.
what are good alternatives?
samczun has a thorough Tweetthread explaining how this hack worked, if you’re looking to dive deep into the nerdy rabbit hole https://twitter.com/samczsun/status/1578167198203289600?s=46...
I'll just butt in at this point to note that 'federated' systems are more or less FidoNet and Usenet warmed over, neither of which managed to overtake commercial systems, and in the latter case was rendered useless by spam... much like Mastodon and friends which are rendered useless by racism and porn.

Speaking of which... there's supposed to be a Mastodon Server Covenant(tm)(c)(pat. pending) in regards to such matters, but the https://joinmastodon.org/covenant where it's supposed to be documented is 404. Looks like it was quietly removed sometime after August of this year.

In any case I'll make a prediction: Mastodon will remain a haven for people too racist and/or porn-obsessed for even Twitter and Reddit to tolerate and adoption will be hampered accordingly.
My comment is perfectly within the community guidelines of this site. You’ve unwittingly proven my point - communities have guidelines and by-laws.
Indeed he uses it here [1], which also gets used in lambda-8cc.

[1] https://github.com/woodrush/lambda-calculus-devkit
How do you read these articles with a pay wall? I tried the usual tricks but no go.
Wow, my sense of time is horrible. I thought it was about 1-2 years ago :D
I don't think access to email is the biggest concern the homeless have.

It sucks, but there are alternatives besides gmail and if google is going to spend time on this, I'd rather they not and instead spend time on getting homeless into homes.
Earthquake resistance is increased by strengthening the concrete, but it mainly depends on how the structure is built, not just the shape but additoinal measures used to strengthen the structure. We've been stuck on rebar for so long that research on alternatives has stalled, but there are interesting opportunities and developments in that area. For example, basalt fiber and bamboo have potential.

Sustainable, innovative building structures that don't require energy-intensive and corrosive steel will depend on a convergence of strengthening technologies and archtectural techniques, maybe even including ones like described in the original article.

Considering all the environmental and social problems we have with modern housing and construction, this is a prime area for innovation!

https://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/two-natural-reb...
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Not sure about this one, especially if pension funds collapse like they will probably do in Germany
The phone number decision is stupid. I up and jump countries every few years. Each time, I'm switching to a new number. I'm the opposite of homeless, I'm that jet set elite. The idea that you want, need, should or will tie your identity to a phone number where people can always reach you is long outdated.
Water evaporating absorbs energy - the transition from liquid to gas takes more energy than changing the temperature of the water, so drying the clothes is a net reduction of energy in the surrounding air.

It relies on the air not being saturated (and for real effectiveness, requires relatively low humidity). It's quite popular in dry climates in the form of a "swamp cooler".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler
SMS 2FA needs to disappear (or be relegated to a strictly optional, discouraged method) yesterday, and so does using a phone number as the primary user identifier.
You call them busy bodies but I call them neighbors.

You are possibly antisocial?
Fair enough and certainly access right of ways can be an issue requiring lawyers especially if a property is being sold. That said, issues relating to a tree branch being over some property line tens to be less likely to become an issue when everyone has a fair bit of land.
So? Do you always use all audio players on all websites you visit?
The city you are referring to is not Odessa. Now it is Odesa (from 24.02.22)
Wouldn't it make sense for there to be a cryptographic verification based on a private key held by the user, so that they can prove to other servers/users that they are the same account as one that existed on a server that has shut down already? Is there something like that in Mastodon?
Ok, let me say it more precisely: You can have ventliation without an HVAC system.
My biggest regret is wasting so much time regretting things.
My partner and I had a big night at a friends engagement party and we drunkenly stumbled upon the fact that we have a shitload of laundry to do and wished there was an Uber for dirty laundry. Someone better do this, otherwise I will!
Yeah, similar but not so bad. Spent a lot of nights and weekends with drinks and friends. Now I'm finding we're not so well connected if we're not all drunk and you can't keep on like that too long without great cost. Too many of my friends have slipped into alcoholism or major health issues.

I'm in a city so there are options, but figuring out the social world without booze is a lot.
I can still read my backup CDs from 1998. I recently invested in M-disk DVDs and a compatible burner. Not cheap ($10/disk), I only use one every other month, I use the regular DVDs the rest of the time.

BTW I calculate and write MD5 checksums on the backup DVDs, so each file can be validated years from now.
Maybe we don't need to meet all those requirements simultaneously. The on boarding process could try to determining if 2fa would actually benefit you or not.
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This problem, and the not-my-problem responses, really highlight the self centered mindset we have encouraged. What if that homeless person was your substance-abusing sibling? A friend from school with mental health issues? We need to collectively take more responsibility for those in the worst situations.

If you've every tried to teach an old person how to use 2FA you know it's an uphill battle. Using a fingerprint reader isn't even doable for some. And we're all going to be old one day.

Practically, we need ideas like to 2FA to gain tractionas widely as possible, while realising that isn't everywhere. And some people will never use 2FA, need higher thresholds for triggering lockouts, and need alternative methods for re-establishing identity to their ID provider (google in this case). For some people that might be their local librarians or community shelter, legal aid groups, and banks.
Neither does any point on the Fediverse. As long as operators think they can run their site any way they want instead of obeying a common protocol then they're federated in name only. To put it another way: If I can never trust that my email will make it to someone on gmail due to the opaqueness of their spam filters, with no way to be whitelisted by a recipient, then email has been thoroughly decommoditized and centralized... and so too a 'federated' system where operators set arbitrary rules that result in whatever server they don't like being unreachable.
while I was learning lisp I did one as a way to learn the language a bit, and it was absolutely delightful. I feel like this sort of problem lent itself very well to the core features of the language I was trying to learn, so I highly recommend it as an exercise. Peter Norvig also has "his" solution to it in Python on the plane, and it's just remarkable how just looking at it I could tell that there was just a clarity of thinking to that man's code that was something I could only ever hope to emulate some day.
If you have a permanent address the are lots of ways to ensure you keep your phone number when you loose your phone. This is a very different problem.
So use one of the other 2FA options.
The reason I use a note-taking system is point 1 for what I'm working on now, point 2 when I'm following a tutorial and want to assimilate the subject, but there is a third point which is why I'm trying so many of them : I need a way to store information that's useful to me and be able to recover it when I need it.

3 examples would be :

1. An API is broken at work and you need to log a bug. who do you log it for? Who do you ask for help?

2. There are a few commands I need to remember to do stuff with kubectl, but can never remember the details. What are the exact commands i need to run to do this <specific use case to me>

3. I work in an area I've worked in a year ago and don't remember the definiton of business stuff. I want to be able to just look up how I defined it a year ago.

The big problem for me was this is completely different from school where you just learn stuff for 4 months, vomit everything on a test and then never re-use the notes again. I find the way I took notes at university competently inadequate because it's basically impossible to retrieve specific information.

After playing with a bunch of stuff I find I need 2 features :

1. hierarchical notes : instead of folders, notes are below other notes.

2. A good search function.

3. (optional) I also want markdown so I can write code blocks easily since I'm a programmer

I'm trying Dendron right now because it hits all 3 points, but honestly Zim Wiki is dead simple and is unreasonably effective if you don't care about markdown.
Interesting.. that might be part of why I fell in love with this ugly monster called Bash scripting.
There are several models of DVD called “M-DISC” which have gold plating. They are advertised as lasting hundreds of years.
Similar "voluntary" deed covenants were used to keep neighborhoods white, before they were overridden via state laws. While on a drastically different moral scale, and with some legitimate uses for HOAs, the world would be a better place if most types of their bylaws were similarly nullified.
I would advise against soapbox actually. The developer got kicked off the Pleroma project after badgering other maintainers[1] (which he admits to doing) for reverting a technical decision he forced through after it was deemed to be not very useful to the project and encouraged bad practices (the fediverse uses a protocol called WebFinger to find other users, the developer wanted to add a bunch of alternate endpoints to avoid having to use WebFinger for his personal frontend).

He also had a history of more bad technical decisions to make Pleroma's backend cause problems with with the rest of the fediverse if the rest of the fediverse doesn't use his custom frontend and insulting developers who pushed back on that decision[2].

Better maintenance seems like a really dubious claim when the lead maintainer is this unwilling to co-operate with the existence of other tooling and openly insults anyone disagreeing with his technical decisions. There's also a couple of PR reasons to not want to associate with him, but those are largely off-topic.

The rest of the Pleroma project by contrast is fairly stable and it's developer team has been nothing but polite when it comes to handling support issues.

[1]: https://blog.alexgleason.me/pleroma-is-dead/

[2]: https://hacktivis.me/articles/Update%20on%20Pleroma%20Mainta...
This is most banal and boring answer, that is also most likely to correct answer.

Just simple example of good enough design are our eyes; they evolved inside out (we have nerves in front of instead behind the eye) and our brain just fills the gaps, but its good enough to see lions in the bushes. And so we are stuck with it.

If black and white was good enough for survival we would have black and white vision.
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space cooling: 15.5%

space heating: 15.2%

water heating: 11.6%

refrigeration: 7.1%

lightning: 3.9%

television: 3.7%

computer: 2.4%

other: 40.7%

source: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/use-of-elect...
they are definitely priced like high range, last one i got would heat up if I played a game or recorded a video, returned it. if i'm gonna pay $$$$ then might as well get something that is built like one. Btw all phones are overpriced.
Yes, you can. However, you will also encounter nothing but grief because of jerks who want to screw it up. For a historical example of how this turns out, see FidoNet.
Sticking my German sim card into my phone for fifteen minutes in all sorts of random countries and continents and waiting for a number to come through always feels absurd.

I pray for the rise of esims! I feel like it's on the cards.
From my experience, commercial CD/DVD seem to have way higher quality and longevity than your personal CD-R/W etc.

I've purchased lots of 80s second-hand CDs that often have awful case conditions and they all read totally fine (as in, the CRC32 checks out with online database).

Is there a reason for that? Do they simply use better material or they have better tech to write them?
I think this might be a poor article and there could be more to the story.

I don't see them fighting for the right to hang laundry. No action has been taken against the woman, and the man was fined by an association (I don't like associations, but they have tons of restrictions that he voluntarily entered into).

If you look at that picture, it seems the woman is hanging her laundry in the front yard. It seems the article is all her side of the story without talking to others. There's a very real possibility the neighbors leaving notes may just want her to dry the laundry in the back yard, which is the normal thing to do.

You have every right to do things that are atypical or even antisocial so long as it's not illegal. That doesn't mean other people can't ask you to stop or ridicule you.

Flagging this because it's a click bait headline with substandard content that seems to be misrepresenting the situation.
When people talk about AI taking over the world, a funny image pops up in my head where a robot is trying to enter a frying pan. When you ask it why it's doing that, it says "because I feel like [NaN, NaN, 2.45e24, NaN]", which is a perfectly valid reason.

I'm not at all caught up with the this side of ML but my first instinct is that faulty weights would lead to interpretability issues. The numbers represented by NaN/Inf vastly outnumber the ones within precision range, so interpreting them is much more of a guess.
I would trace the rot back further. I would point to this guy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Law_(economist)

as the father of financialization and currencies as we know them. The aftermath is talked about

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

(Maybe the best book ever written about crypto) and the financial instability from using these methods to finance a cold war with England was a major reason for why France doesn't have royalty anymore.
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yeah, gosh, it'd be a shame if the house were damaged such that it lost its heritage status.
I hate to be the pessimist that a recent article was lamenting, but this is one of those problems that we might be better off not solving.

It would be a much larger change than say the advent of the internet and smartphones. And just like that change, there will probably be a neat little honeymoon period where the future is bright and everything seems possible.

And then all the brainware developers with mortgage payments to worry about will get to work implementing in-brain purchases and mental advertisements and thought mandates, and the last true freedoms and privacy will have been eliminated.

(Edited to include that we're probably just the folks to bring about this change)
I find it to be less time consuming than the machine. I dry most of my clothes on hangers and store them on the same hangers.

The machine was a pain in the ass. I had to check it so the clothes didn't get too hot or go too long. Once done, you have to fold or hang immediately or you get wrinkles.

Now I just put them up and forget about it until later, often the next day when I want something
“Anne Chow (the author) is lead director on FranklinCovey’s Board of Directors and co-author of the best-selling book, “The Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias.” Chow is the former CEO of AT&T Business and was twice featured as one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business.”
I could at least tell you why HN dislike SPARC and POWER ( probably to some extend the rest of the industry );

It is because they dont like Oracle and IBM.
> The most expensive bit in a building is the land it sits on

This isn't always the case even in smaller cities, let alone truly rural areas. I live in a suburban area of a small city and empty lots around here go for under $100k, and only the very cheapest houses built on top of them cost less than that to build.

Remote work is nice, but only a minority of jobs can be performed remotely; and there is a certain degree of economies of scale in "human farming" (nice phrase!), so I think the majority of jobs will always remain in denser areas.
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