skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That reminds me of dot com times when two ad supported businesses would trade ads for themselves on each others platform and then both book some big and sales without any money changing hands. Like yahoo would show AOL ads for $100M and AOL would show Yahoo ads for $100M.

I don’t know why people can’t stop themselves from fraud, but the whole auditing/financial controls stuff is proven again and again as of vital importance.
Not really. It’s just another datapoint. People like seeing it though.
> To be fair, a lot of those concepts were invented, at very least popularized, by the members of the Go team 30+ years ago.

Er... no? Not even remotely?
Man ‘facing £7k energy bill’ after switching to £25,000 ‘green’ heat pump
I don't think CLEAR would exist if Pre were more expensive. Its price seems to be the only gate keeping its lines short.
I think the answer is that the investors aren't OK with this and they've all closed their positions! The stock is down 65% in TTM.
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Freezing is different from vitrification.

With proper storage maintenance vitrifified organs can be stored indefinitely while frozen things eventually get freezer burn.
I found out that the most important skills in the IT industry is the bullshit skill. That's the kind of skill you need to build.
The irony is that every single crypto enthusiast I know, builder or speculator, has invested in shitcoins and scam coins just to hedge their bets in the off-chance it pumps…

They’re fully aware and will tell me it’s shady, and yet, do it anyways.
Cool! Added a link to your project
Only in terms of popularity.
Haha, indeed. The "other" Lagos in Portugal.
....BUT, WHY?! ..... WHYYYY?! WHY, OH, WHYYY?!

just check this out:
https://enchroma.com/
If someone tells you:

This secret image contains a Bitcoin wallet recovery key
If you can crack the secret, the funds are yours!

You can check the status of the wallet here:
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa

Now here's the secret:

0002146273a3774b3828effff3382000someGarbageSecretThatsActuallyIs{https://youtu.be/eBGIQ7ZuuiU}EnctyptedUsingARandom4096BitStringAsPassword

Which "verifiable and public" part helped?

- Anyone can point to a random link on blockchain.com

- the encrypted secret can contain anything
I feel like London, for example (along with many other European cities), achieves this goal as well or better than any rigidly grid based city I’ve ever visited.
mysql has a datetime type that can be an index, and should be able use for a range scan. that is, with the appropriate data type, it sounds like you would've had a better time...

> [2] Storing the date and time parts separately would have been sensible but the schema was set in stone a couple of years old before I arrived.

The real benefit of postgres*: offline transactional schema changes. mysql would've done a table copy in order to change it. if mysql supported offline schema changes, perhaps you'd have been able to change the data type, solving the root cause of the problem.

* I haven't had the pleasure of using postgres in production, so I can't speak to how effective any given feature is -- only what the marketing appeal is.
You do realize nobody writes code like that, right? Even in static typing land people rely on type inference.

list[SomeAPIResult] in your example is redundant. You can get all the benefits of types without it.
If you add terms until a search engine gets out of results it considers relevant, it will start rewriting your query until it finds relevant results again.

Your examples only work because there are plenty of popular sites that talk about this stuff.
My best friend since college once sent me the book "Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing". Lots of positive reviews on Amaz*. I remember getting sent an essay, too, that argued that most eminent scientists gravitated towards a belief in g8d later in life.
> I just renovated my driveway and slightly increased your property value, pay me.

Sounds similar to the result of having an HOA/condo association, shared payment for maintenance upkeep and improvements
... rocket-propelled blue whales? (I mean, if we have sharks with lasers...)
The purpose of things like Clear and TSA Pre is to ensure that anyone remotely proximate to power won't experience the full unpleasantness of the TSA system. That way they'll have less incentive to challenge the system.
I looked up a show that is in reruns on the Comet TV network (which I get with my antenna), there are no schedules for it for it on your site

https://tvnfo.com/tv/2100451

but i can see it here

https://comettv.com/schedule/
I went to 12 years of Catholic education and the mindset you describe was never mentioned once.
Functionally, no.

Denial of evolution often goes hand in hand with denial of the age of the Earth, which requires mental gymnastics to explain away the blatant evidence of Earth's age that are similar to the mental gymnastics required to explain why a spherical Earth is flat.
> I trialed major security vendor's enterprise product

> just give them to us anyway, because it's easier this way

Wow. The state of security is still sad in our profession, if even major security vendor(s) don't adhere to basic principles like "principle of least privilege".
do u mind sharing drug and dosage? Sounds really extreme. I am working as a healthcare provider but never knew sideffects can be that harsh. I guess clopazine right?
Regarding your edit: the ire comes from (at least in my reply) the idea that your logic or example is so shallow as to “by default” support the class of people who can afford to treat homes like investments.

There are entire cohorts of people who cannot. Who own one home, barely, or are beholden to a landlord’s (sometimes corporate) whims.

Saying “what if they leak oil from junk cars” - resolved via environment law already.

“Noise complaint.” - resolved via law already.

Too many cars, too much blight? - laws already.

Every single example provided couches this as a potential harm to someone else’s investment, and strengthens the divide in class between those who can afford to “invest” and those who cannot and strive to simply exist.

Yes, people DO worry about investment. I do. I own my home. My only home. It’s paid off, largely speaking.

But it’s my home. I have NO desire or assumption that its value will go to my children or provide retirement income.

Because it’s a home.

And I look at my fellow working class neighbors in the same way.

If someone complains my home needing paint (it does) will affect (effect? I always forget) their investment - I will happily let them paint my house or they can f off.
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I had a weird experience in high school as well, with my now-partner. She was completely surprised by the age of the earth and everything else that comes with it (dinosaurs, evolution, etc.)

Her parents did not even feel this way, but the home school co-ops they sent her to had taught her this.
<watches on iPhone>
Does anyone truly believe in a flat Earth in this day and age? I think it's mostly a joke, except maybe for some people with actual mental illnesses.
> Do you use the same peel to launch and to extract? Typically this is not recommended as the extraction can make that peel hot and moist, which would affect the next launch. Launch off wood or aluminium. Extract with aluminium or other metal peel.

Alternatively, scrub the peel with cornmeal between launch and next pizza.
What are examples of private p2p cash?
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Is believing in a flat Earth any different from being religious?
That's a good point, I wasn't very specific about this (trying to keep it concise). To be specific here, the con is that there isn't what the industry calls Cryptographic Agility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_agility.

It is not true this con applies to all cryptography (e.g. look at TLS). It has more to do with how cryptography is configured, parameters are negotiated and keys are managed, than with point-in-time choices about algorithms. The con here is that unlike other deployments of cryptography, this one doesn't have parameter negotiation and key management - and therefore doesn't have cryptographic agility.

Re: "I'd wager that... AES..." is a also a good point. Modern cryptography has shown to be robust for decades and past their deprecation point. However, as you said, it IS a wager. There have been catastrophic failures of cryptographic primitives in the past. The con of this system is you will need to make a wager and tie yourself to the fate - you can't mitigate the risk if the catastrophic event comes or appears to be coming to pass.
Perhaps UK Citizens should get their government to sort out their declining GDP instead of creating bullshit laws around sharing Netflix passwords.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-21/brexit-ha...
The code uses AES. Likely that will remain for longer than most secrets are relevant.
Track your ISP performance over time
I just signed up for this to try for a couple of weeks. I was always interested in doing a project like Jeff Geerlings Pi based metrics dashboard, but never took the time to set it up. This is an interesting, but paid, alternative to that.
For one thing it exacerbates inequality and makes it even more in your face. Inequality is the cancer that is destroying the US and other "democracies."
I appreciate the thoroughness of your response! In my journey to writing this article I definitely stumbled on your blog (so cool to "bump" into the author on HN).

I'll update the article with a production build. I originally planned to do it, but then copped out (partially because I wasn't sure how to, so thanks for the pointers).

I agree with your final statment, but have begun to wonder whether there's a simple enough way to accomplish the same goals, while being performant by default. We'll see where I land after further explorations.
I don't see how it couldn't be the key factor.

At my undergrad, there would be after hours "talks" by religious leaders about the foolishness of plate tectonics, the fallacy of radiocarbon dating, etc etc. At least for hardcore Bible literalists, believing that the world is older than X generations (with the lineage spelled out in the old testament) is to believe that the Bible is false, and therefore their whole religion is disproved. My family was raised this way too.
Flat-earthers have invented a modern controversy over a topic that has been considered settled ever since Aristotle, while evolution has only been widely accepted in the last 200 years. The one is a recently invented conspiracy theory, while the other is a rejection of a relatively recent scientific development.
>Also why can we not get better syntax for C?

Backwards compatability.

>Function pointer syntax is so bad that people actively avoid using them.

That is because C syntax mistakenly put the return value before the parameters. You use function pointers if you have to.

>#pragma once is a hack.

It is a hack to prevent the previous hack of #ifdef'ing the thing.

>but this is awfully low-hanging fruit that hasn’t been fixed in 50 years.

It is literally impossible to fix.
I heard it was "Rust".
Yes, most do but may not have adequate driveway space.

People I directly have contact with, not yet. A few of them have stories of their friends/family/other neighbors getting warned for it, but I haven’t seen anyone directly ticketed for that as an offense alone.
I’m not talking about FPS. At all. It doesn’t matter how many FPS there are. I’m talking about the refresh rate, ie, how many times per a second the hardware updates the screen which is in no way related to FPS, which is how many times per second your video card fills the display buffer.
Monetizing misery in the security screening lane.

To be fair, if someone goes through the cost, time, and privacy invasion to get line cutting, more power to them. Pre I think is okay, Clear seems dubious. Clear, similar to public-private partnerships, generally shouldn't exist.

Airports and airlines are businesses, not government facilities or public commons. The primary reason the TSA exists is so profit motives don't trump security standards and end up with another 9/11.
TypeScript Classes Are Giving Me Carpal Tunnel
It's a Protestant thing, I believe. Catholics have a central authority that is in charge of telling people more or less what to believe, but Protestants are free to make their own interpretations so they sometimes choose to believe stuff that sounds crazy to outsiders.

The Catholic Church happens to believe in evolution, so most Catholics accept evolution as well.
My grandpa took up knitting in the 1950s. He was a chemist (all he did was make vinegar which is enough to make him a chemist, but doesn't actually need much education) who often had to sit around waiting for tanks to fill. (20,000 gallons of water into a tank). He couldn't leave the room the tanks were in for hours, but there was nothing to do, so he started knitting.

He used to knit sweaters for the bulldog on the mac trucks making deliveries at the plant.
It’s a slow process due to American fundamentalist culture.

“The church first brought evolution into the fold in 1950 with the work of Pope Pius XII.

At the same time, Catholics take no issue with the Big Bang theory, along with cosmological, geological, and biological axioms touted by science.

In fact, the Roman Catholic Church has recognized Darwinian evolution for the past 60 years. It openly rejects Intelligent Design and Young Earth Creationism saying that it "pretends to be science.”
“
It's altruism if GP stops the recursion at some point and actually uses the money to help people and do good.

It's effective altruism if they use the money in a smart way, that reasonably maximizes the good it does for others, instead of doing something stupid or just extremely suboptimal.
Yes it is. To put it bluntly a large portion of the American population is scientifically illiterate. Some of them believe the earth is around 6000 years old. They even have museums dedicated to such things.
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Challenge: make it possible to use something like Diffie Hellman[0] to exchange a key securely even over an unsecure channel but where they resulting key is actually the password to type in and "reads" like https://xkcd.com/936/ i.e. something my grandma could type in. Without reducing the key space too much to be insecure ;)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exc...
You don’t have to call them grifters. Under capitalism everyone is a grifter.

And who in the world is not dependent on someone else right now, when it comes to getting anything on the Internet.
Looking forward to it becoming more mature. Really cool language.
Is this an internal meeting?
Richard Dawkins, enter even more impressive credentials here, also wrote a book "The God Delusion" in which he - as part of the overal story that there is no god - spends some pages completely debunking the claim of Collins.
You have the luxury of sitting on a train instead of in traffic. Don't listen to podcasts, watch a movie or something. Make your commute a bit more fun.
Well, I learned about the InteliJ plugin, I guess.

Which I don't use hence why I wasn't aware of it.
I wouldn't doubt that this was a regional or a diocese/parish/whatever thing.
What do I use?

- Pipenv?

- Nice deterministic builds

- Dogslow to lock

- Has some quirky defaults (pipenv install also updates other packages)

- Poetry?

- Pretty

- 10x locking speed

- Heard (in several places) problems about it failing to deterministically resolve a dep tree in some edge cases, which makes me a little scared (am I going to hit the dep jackpot at some point?)

- PDM?

- Hatch?

- Bawl in a corner?

Thanks in advance.
> "the minor exception is trash dropped by thoughtless people."

In many parts of the world, this is completely normal, unfortunately, not a "minor exception". Even here the UK, canals and rivers are often full of floating plastic bottles, bags, and other litter. I know because I've volunteered to clean it up: the quantities we pull out is insane. And a few weeks later, it's all back again. Frustrating and sad.
The section "Improve FPS/VPS Counting and Revamp Appearance" I found super interesting. Is using a "Euler Average" a common way in the games industry for calculating or visualizing frames per second?
Exactly. They “hedge” their investments through monied expression and bullying of others enjoying their own property.

Pretty standard sociopathic capitalist formula, to be honest.
Thats my line of thinking. My property is my property and I will do what I damn well please on it. You don't like it? Sounds like a you problem and not a me problem.
Catholics believe in evolution.
> Is that some weird American thing?

Yes, but no. It's still quite common in other places as well (take a guess), but none you are as likely to hear of as the US. The US may also be the developed nation in which such belief is most common and - more importantly - openly discussed.
At https://discord.gg/unstablediffusion people are already organizing around other platforms, such as, Patreon. I think this might even speed things up in the end.
The common interpretation of the 8th is that bail should be set to reasonably ensure that the accused show up to court. With billions on the line, with his billionaire friends involved at FTX who don't want him to narc, the cost benefit analysis of skipping town is absurd. It isn't an eye for an eye. If he pays the bail and shows up to court, he'll get it back if it wasn't ill-gotten.
I would say that remains to be seen. I think the goal is to ultimately asking incentives to longer term views instead of quarterly ones, which may end up taking a different form down the road.
I don't know what to tell you outside of my first hand account but I did not experience any stack ranking nor heard of such a practice. It's possible parts of the company had difference policies.
Yeah same here; not catholic but, for the Netherlands, very strict Christian (I do not know the particular name in English); we were taught evolution, dinosaurs and carbon dating etc.
Flat Earth is trivially falsifiable. Beliefs about the origins of the universe are not so it's not really the same thing.
The stdlib needs a modernization much more than the language, unlike 'C the language', 'C the stdlib' is still stuck deep in the K&R era (together with POSIX).

For a different language syntax it makes a lot more sense to consider using a different language in the first place though, because everybody has a different opinion what such a 'better C' syntax should look like (e.g. it sounds like you'd actually want Zig).
I don't understand how developing tech for energy recovery makes sense. Why not just idle and descend at a reasonable speed for a reasonable L/D, the way practically all airlines do for practically all routes today? This is energy recovery; turning your altitude into distance traversed.

Hard to believe that putting a vortex-generating turbine and a generator into the airstream will improve efficiency against that.
Yeah, as a Catholic-school graduate, that seems bizarre. It would be more likely to hear my teachers deny transsubstantiation than to deny evolution.
Directions are easier with grids. Numbering systems that ascend and descend from a particular central point make sense. State and Madison is zero. Anything else is a higher or lower number in the direction you are relative to that intersection. 100 numbers is one block. All streets have numbers, even if they also have names. Most of the South side also uses numbers for names of east-west streets... so 30th street is 30 blocks south of Madison, and addresses will be 3000 S.

North-south streets you can memorize, and would likely get by with only knowing a half dozen main ones. North side has a bunch of main through streets that you can orient around. You can get a rough sense of how far north or west you are. Or you can fall back to the numbers. 5000 north is 50 blocks north, which is pretty far north.

If you don't have google maps you can usually go in two straight lines to just about anywhere. Just keep going until you are at the right east-west spot, and then do the same until you are at the right north-south spot. And use the handful of diagonal streets to be fancy.
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> Con: Any issue (there have been many) in WebCrypto implementation at time of encryption can not be fixed by browser upgrade (because of secret caching).

has there ever been an issue that made WebCrypto produce invalid ciphertexts/hashes/PBKDF output?
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The search concept might not be that disruptable in a lot of niches, because chat tends to provide an answer without context.

The traditional search-box-and-list-of-URLs at least provides attribution, which can be of huge value in some search scenarios.

If I have a health-related query, I want to see the links from research papers from legitimate institutions, or trusted authorities like the NHS. A human-language answer doesn't necessarily say "based on the groundbreaking research of wificausesherpes.com" at the end.

Any sort of comparison and recommendation searches are similarly iffy. That's why there are a trillion "best 8k webcam under $30 December 2022" affiliate-link-farm sites, but The Wirecutter and Consumer Reports still have some minor level of clout.
That sounds strange, Catholic church and schools never had problems with evolution and enforcing literal creationism. It's a issue predominantly common among some of the Protestant denominations in the US.

While attending school in Poland, I met only two people my age who believed evolution was a hoax and could be considered to be young Earth creationists. One of them was a Jehovah Witness, and the other was a member of an American-style Pentecostal and evangelical church.
he gave musk the 'buddy' treatment.

musk went with the tried and true 'who are you?'.

'total rewrite' is comedy gold.

unless you're a Tesla investor maybe.
The analogies are garbage, not even remotely relevant to the issue. I have tried ChatGPT for myself. It's a great technical achievement, and has some practical value in writing rough drafts on certain limited topics. But you haven't provided any evidence that it is a form of AGI in any meaningful sense.
> I don’t know why people can’t stop themselves from fraud

It's clearly a valid strategy that yields some desirable results in the short term. From history, it seems people usually convince themselves they can come back and fix it if they can just make it to the long term.
Every solution in the space is bad and it's a wonder that any python software is maintainable and I think the only real answer is everyone gets fucked all the time with these bugs and rough edges

I say this as someone who has done an unfortunately large amount of work in the python packaging and python package distribution space and still get bitten every few months
> real property on the real world like land and physical possessions

That's "real" only because the government enforces it. My point was that the comment I replied to was ridiculous.