skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been several "we'll store your stuff til the end of eternity" companies.

But, in my estimation, they're little more than scams because the customer has no recourse once they've died. Just like cryogenic freezing - take the money in the sure knowledge that it doesn't matter if you don't uphold your end of the deal.
I agree that wage-theft specifically is a tangent here. But I do believe there is more to talk about, this isn't something to dismiss so easily.

Why are we allowing the victims of shoplifting to hire armed guards with not enough training or accountability to selectively enforce laws in public spaces as they see fit, sometimes abusing law abiding citizens, as mentioned [0] earlier in this thread? Is that ok? Isn't the state supposed to have a monopoly on violence?

Even though it is easier to go after shoplifters than some other criminals, does that make these private police forces in public spaces ok? Wouldn't it be better if the store owners lobbied for more police and/or reforms (to make additional police more palatable to the public), or maybe move their businesses or close? That's what other crime victims have to do. Lots of crime victims are ignored by the government. There's nothing special about the victims of shoplifting, there are many other crimes that impact more people, as the parent poster mentioned with wage theft.

Or do we want a society where those with the resources can hire their own enforcers, armed guards for hire with 40 hours of training roaming the streets, and let everyone else fend for themselves? That might be a bad feedback loop, where those with money have their own police, and those without live more in danger. There are a number of other countries that have devolved to this.

Hopefully I did a better job describing what I was thinking, above. I don't see the justification for this one set of victims to be able to hire armed guards roaming the streets and harassing law abiding citizens, opting out of normal police protection, leaving other more numerous victims to fend for themselves. I trust abuses such as described in the original parent comment's linked article are the exception, but there is a history of problems (like Pinkerton) related to such things.

I game for feedback or your thoughts on the above, if you have any.

[0] https://www.opb.org/article/2021/12/02/part-two-police-prose...
Think of this: can you possibly learn all aspects of a subject strictly using A priori knowledge? How about knowledge that comes through serendipity? The Manhattan project had to gather the knowledge of multitudes of thinkers in order to workout (risking the eventual leak). I see no reason to think in private unless you’re thinking of strictly personal ideas (which might benefit from other people’s critiques) or if you’re a philosopher trying to prove that you can gain extensive knowledge strictly a priori (Hegel comes to mind)
I was in NC recently and totally baffled by the selection and availability of different cannabis products. I'm still not sure what I was buying/smoking half the time, but I mostly enjoyed it.

Here in NY, we have a different kind of "gray market" that has been filling the vacuum created by a lack of legally sanctioned stores. It started as weed vans all over the city (selling products of questionable quality) and then it was bodegas and smoke shops selling flowers and prerolls on every street corner. Now we have full-blown recreational shops with bright lights and branded packaging selling nothing but weed 24/7, and they are completely illegal.

The first legal stores finally opened up a few days ago.
Shop in this context does not mean a place where you buy things, it most likely meant workshop originally but in this idiomatic phrase it just means place.
I just accepted a new job offer as a senior engineer so this year I’m working on leveling up my career and raw coding skills as well as my management and leadership skills. Remote work has been a challenge for me and so I’m trying to combat that more effectively in 2023.
Is there any site that hosts reviews of properties outside of airbnb?

Maybe even something that verifies the trustworthiness of these reviews?

I haven’t checked but it might be against some rules, but if there is a link to it, it seems possible to have reviews/comments on the contents at that link. I guess Airbnb would be mad about this if it was counter to their interest, so there might be some liability for hosting.
What's the difference between whether my money is individually given to the artists I personally listened to and similarly for all other subscribers, or whether all subscribers' money is pooled and then re-apportioned out based on the cumulative listening tallies of all subscribers? Aren't these the same results in the end?
This is excellent, you can see the love that's been put into this. Feels like something that will do really well, keep going.
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Its really not a step in the right direction. Imo its even a bit into the wrong direction because they are opting to sidestep the vastly easier step that would actually solve this problem for good: updating the zoning to keep up with job growth. Blaming foreign investors for today's home prices is like blaming the boogyman, because its zoning that explains everything about today's home prices and its the zoning creating a supply crisis that attracts investors in the first place (foreign and domestic lest we think this investor problem poofs into thin air with this).
According to the article author it requires costly infrastructure on the moon, compared to their proposal of beaming energy through microwave from Earth.
Because the web distribution model for apps is extremely cost efficient. This has caused exponential growth in web app development. To support this, frontend frameworks have grown almost exponentially as well. Every corporate app is a webapp nowadays. This wasn't the case 10 years ago. When we talk about web development, we are now not just talking about websites but about apps as well. So the industry has changed significantly.

UIs always have been complex btw. A lot of different states, and keeping backend and frontend in sync is hard too. So many edge cases need to be considered, orders of magnitude more than in the backend. The UI is also your first line of defense against unexpected user input.

Summarized: (1) app distribution has shifted to the web, (2) UIs are complex
There are a few reasons I'm just another dog on the internet. Things can get awkward with coworkers or it could made finding employment difficult.

1. Mental health

My last job creatively fired me because HR got pissed at the increasing number of accommodations I needed due to new policies.

I really don't want to be thinking about it or discussing it at work anyway.

2. Fiction Writing

You know... some people don't really think about who writes the stories they read. It's always that amorphous someone, until they find out their coworker's favorite poison is strychnine.

As my friends say, you're not a writer until your search history has more red flags than a Chinese New Year. :)

3. What I think about my job

I've talked about places I've worked many times. Since all of it is from my perspective, I'm likely wrong about details or people's motivations. My memory isn't perfect. There's more than a fair amount of bitching. I do try to be accurate, but my opinions and perspectives change as I get older and look back.
Avionics manufactures are moving to all touchscreens. I’m wondering what that will do for safety. for example the G700 has touchscreen on overhead panel.

I also suspect that one day the yoke might be gone.
I didn’t say it was installed! I said it was unclear if it was installed or it was a link as you describe. Thanks for the additional info though.
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I'm amazed sometimes at the datasets KFers uses for doxxing. If you care enough, you just need to pay attention to leaks and store them all and you can make a mini NSA X-Keyscore.

During the whole Cloudflare banning thing I remember coming across a dox that deanonymized someone via the Patreon hack dump [1], where a simple Twitter username match turned into a name + address (via credit card details stored by Patreon).

Anonymity and OPSEC requires some serious effort and knowledge.

[1] https://www.christianpost.com/news/patreon-hack-almost-14-gb...
I really hate making narratives about race and class and privilege, rather than just sticking to the general concept of rights we should uniformly enjoy, but that is an example of one of the major reasons police cannot be universally counted on to help.

You yourself admit this when you throw out the following, as if it is a correct and just answer:

> They do that by checking the other party of the transfers, if its known scammers, then in both cases you get your money back. If not... tough luck for both check and payment.

So if you appear to be more dodgy than the account opened by whomever defrauded you, you're just out of luck? And that's a sensible outcome?

> more difficult if not impossible to fall victim with alternatives

You continue to say this as if it's an unquestionable benefit, when the point of this entire thread is there is a downside to people generally thinking things like this.

> and easy to set up on your phone

A phone? One of the least secure types of devices, that's easily lost or stolen due to carrying it everywhere? That's really your suggestion?

Envision this scenario - you are walking down the street, get jumped, your attackers force to you transfer a decent sum to them, authenticating the transaction using your bank's most advanced anal probe technology. You go to the police, they actually do the work of questioning the person whose account the money went to, who says that the payment was for buying a used phone from them on Craigslist. The police think this sounds an awful lot like a euphemism for drugs, but don't have any evidence to investigate further, so they just conclude they'd rather not help you rip off your dealer and send you on your way. You talk to your bank who says the transaction looks fully authorized, the police don't think there has been a crime, and oh by the way even if you were jumped you still shouldn't have pressed send if you didn't want to lose the money. This is the type of bureaucratic nightmare that's created when a model becomes unassailable.
>"making everyone wealthier"

That's not the case. More like "making everyone suffer the consequences of inflation more". And even more stronger point is that Canadians shouldn't be more wealthier. Especially so if the excess wealth comes from foreign countries. And if the country of wealth origin belongs to the third world it's outright evil, nothing less. It's just another form unholy imperial colonialism and I can't believe somebody still defends that kind of immorality.
> A lot of people - dare I say most - have a higher tolerance for risk than the health authorities do.

You don't get to claim this and also simultaneously make claims about low prevalence myocarditis from Covid vaccines. Sorry, I'm not letting you get away with that rhetoric.

People like to think they have higher risk tolerance--until their bet comes up snake eyes. At that moment, you find out what their risk tolerance really was.

Lots of anti-vaxxers thought that they had high risk tolerance about Covid and vaccines--until they came down with Covid and landed in the hospital. Suddenly, their risk tolerance went out the window and they all wanted lots of heathcare treatment and suddenly were asking for the vaccine (without the understanding that the vaccine was now useless).
This is gorgeous. Very Reacty (Reacthonic?) API as well, which is nice.
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There are hybrid designs for separation of storage and compute that are aimed at mixed workloads[1]. They avoid writes to remote storage on transaction commit (i.e., act like a shared nothing databases for commits, but still push data asynchronously to a shared remote disk that can be used for scale up/point in time restores/branching).

[1] https://www.singlestore.com/blog/separating-storage-and-comp...

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Natural doesn't imply good.
What name-calling did I do? I said it is how cultists behave.
Gotta say, I absolutely love the UltraStrong concept. Are you being particularly selective about the strongman events you're entering? I've come across a few that have one or two events where even the opening weight/implement might cause issues for anyone trying to run the next day, let alone run an ultramarathon.
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If I post these thoughts on social media, there’s a chance I’ll spark Socratic debates that I don’t particularly care about leading. When I do post the thoughts online, it’s usually because I hope my words land on the right person at the right time.
> Many of the APIs of projects I've worked with look like essentially like RPC style calls.

There are two correct responses to this:

- Use a decent RPC framework to hide HTTP's semantics (which are not appropriate for RPC) and to get generally better but still widely-accessible tooling; I use gRPC but at this point there are a dozen good-enough ones (JSON-RPC not being among them).

- Design a REST, or at least REST-ish, API. Map your URLs to entities not actions or methods. Make each entity have a canonical URL. Use content negotiation. And so on. It's more work but you're also available to a lot more real HTTP clients.

There is also a wrong answer:

- Continue trying to do RPC over HTTP semantics with an inefficient format and assume that having a standards document per se solves literally any problem.
I couldn't tell you without a specific example, but I would suspect distributing an edited ROM would be much easier than save state hacking.

In a general sense, I suspect the latter is more popular because it's not illegal to modify/distribute save state data; ROMs certainly can be.
I've been working on a site to track game purchases across a lot of the platforms, to help people manage their libraries and avoid duplicate features: https://trackmy.games/

Lots of potential places to take this in the future, so looking for ideas for more features to add!
Ask HN: Best typing training for symbols and numbers?
I type words very fast (90-110 WPM). But as a programmer, I also type many symbols and numbers. Most typing trainers teach how to type words. What is the best one that teaches how to type symbols and numbers?
What's the Americans obsession with checks? I worked and lived in other countries , including Asia, Europe and Latin America. Most of them moved on to digital payment (especially China) where I found the US and Canada still heavily relied on a piece of paper to process a large amount of funds with no security.

In US, I realized even buying groceries they accept checks written at the counter.

Why can't the US just move on from checks?
"The foreign ban is only for high density areas."

Is this correct ?

Under these new laws a foreigner can still purchase farm, or ranch land or, for instance, a ski chalet in Golden ?

Asking for a friend ...
You're comparing apples and oranges.
On not in.
Such assertions are nice, but easier done with normal assert(). No need for a plugin.

Much better is formal verification though, which I do on all my containers. cbmc is your friend.
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I would say not many data structures requires hierarchy, which kinda is the point of JSON or XML before that.

Those structures that do, are often persistent; so the right trade-off might be to make your protocols more lightweight (I use |;, separation of just text) and then use JSON for your database objects (fits well with my |;, separators).

Here are two examples of "packets":

Movement: "move|<session>|<x>,<y>,<z>|<x>,<y>,<z>,<w>|walk" (where x,y,z,w are floats)

Storage: "save|<session>|{"name": "torch", "amount": 3}"

You can read more here: http://fuse.rupy.se/doc/game_networking_json_vs_custom_binar...
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That is a common misconception. But! Field Corn is 100% edible by people. All varieties of corn are. We eat it as corn meal, corn syrup, corn flakes, etc.

It isn't quite a sweet as, well, sweet corn when boiled/roasted on the cob. But it's no problem at all as a food.

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/corn/dent...
>the emails are only sent when the customer selects to receive an email, and we include a visible unsubscribe link.

Just for what it's worth, sometimes when a company's marketing is really obnoxious I'll mark it as spam just to fuck with them.

If there are enough people doing that, one could imagine that Google's internal filters would begin seeing the whole domain, or some random boilerplate string in the emails as an indicator of spam.

Have you started manually flagging messages as "not spam" on mass?
Marketing (relaunching?) and/or finding the user base for my no-workflow CSS framework[0], working on a self-hosting solution for creators, and maybe an HHS[1] demo project if they ever get proper documentation up.

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I struggle to believe that if a hostage with military training can notice and decipher the hidden morse code, that a hostage taker with paramilitary training wouldn't also spot it. But then it's probably not too much of a problem if they did, except for maybe shutting of the radios.

The section of the song with the morse code almost sounds like there is interference. Maybe when played on the radio in the jungle it would be less obviously "odd" than when in a high def digital format.
I mean, look at the facts:

- permanently archiving posts they know people don’t want them to

- gave early access to known trolls

- is now publicly crowing about how there’s nothing you can do about it

- on a throwaway, because like most bullies they’re cowards

Personally, I’m left wondering if there needs to be an organized crime investigation into KF, for organized harassment campaigns which violate local stalking or other laws, and the role people like this account play in orchestrating it.

I think there’s be a certain irony to HN’s record of this comment being used to prosecute an accomplice in organized crime.
> To me, that would be the other way around: a chance to stand out and be one of a kind, act in a way nobody else had acted before, and reap the benefits of being unique, or the first at least

This is a great attitude to have. I know that not everyone has this ability (yet) to function this way, but it really should be the goal of how to operate.

For me, it took me years to get there. Variety of reasons, but I realized much later in life that I was still carrying around traumas of being targeted in public by random strangers at a young age just by being out in public (yes, just walking down the street). That sort of stuff can erode psychological safety that we bring with us and unknown situations can cause us to react rather than respond. This is one of the reasons I think representation matters. Not just that it creates a mental model of what's possible, but proof (hopefully) that it's also safe and allowed.
> US currency is made of a cotton-linen blend, so (pedantically) it is not paper

Perhaps it isn't paper in the US but rag paper is quite definitely paper in the UK.
Is there a 10+ year old framework that does responsive UIs well?
Looks like cool project but would help if landing page details or give example of what this service is or what unique. it is not clear and i don’t want to create account just to figure out purpose
Black and white would be ideal, I imagine. I've heard that there are salt mines full of color separation black and white film that serve as archives for large collections of films. And it makes some sense; it's a human readable optical medium, so you can always just look at it or scan it.
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Our cat goes nuts for some plastic bags - licking and licking them like they’re the best thing ever.

Granted he’s a little weirdo, but I looked into in on the off chance there was something wrong with him or the plastics could be harmful, but the only thing I could come up with was that some bags have more tallow in them than others and that was what he was reacting to.

So, therefore, tallow in plastic = tasty for cats.
You appear to be introducing three new tangential topics, and I don’t think you are addressing the point you originally raised.

Your original comment says that we should take a system that is there to provide insurance for the unfortunate (social safety net) and use that system to fund people’s desires (art, open source, or whatever).

I very strongly disagree with that idea: different systems have different purposes and commingling a safety net with creative goals will likely lead to very unfair outcomes.
Because everyone is prentending that they need to be infinetly scalable like the FAANGs, exacerbated by Cloud providers marketing spiel. In reality nobody knows how to build distributed systems but everybody needs to build them as resume fodder, because they might one day apply for a job at a FAANG... sigh...I sometimes pine back to the days where I saturated the NICs of two quadcore servers with C++ std::unordered_map and FastCGI. Especially the days when I ask what problems the service mesh solves which isn't solvable with internal DNS and loadbalancers in our use case.