skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like I said, I don't know what to call it. Crony capitalism probably fits, which goes along with your link.

Libertarianism is about liberty, or individual freedoms. Are you free to purchase any drug or test or service or device that you want from whoever you want? Of course not, the state is heavily involved in making these decisions for you.
Even if older devices are less secure, it’s a shame that GrapheneOS doesn’t support them. I have a Pixel 3XL that runs great with the latest Android, but to run latest I’ve had to opt for Pixel Experience since most other Android distros leave the 3XL with only old versions.
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Eliminating either by the customer is very difficult. You can try boycotting or contacting the owner to complain. Even then, removing the chemicals is even more difficult, because even if your boycott gets the attention of the owner, the owner will have a harder time removing the chemicals than removing the facial recognition.
It would be an understatement for me to claim that I'm not an expert in forensic psychology ... but I suspect that spotting the potentially dangerous people is relatively easy but that the really difficult part would be circulating that information in a way that won't be used maliciously, both by people discriminating unnecessarily against people who are a bit strange and by people deliberately wrecking (or threatening to wreck) other people's lives with false reports.
In a way, its kinda like financial debt where if the monthly payments on principal/interest are not too bad, I'd rather not refinance.
On 9 August 2019 there was a significant power cut due to lack of inertia. This duration was significantly reduced because of batteries [1]. Since then, gas turbines have been repurposed to provide inertia without generation [2]. Check out the documentary series "Guy Martin's Great British Power Trip" [3] for more national grid facts.

[1] https://www.theblackoutreport.co.uk/2023/08/09/9-august-2019...
[2] https://www.nationalgrideso.com/news/deeside-power-station-b...
[3] https://www.channel4.com/programmes/guy-martins-great-britis...
I am not even aware that any are planned at scale. I think their plan is to keep using LNG to offset.
Ask HN: Best HN Comments of 2023?
Lots of great comments can be spotted via the "Best Comments" list (https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments) but there has been a lot of great comments during the year, many surely have disappeared from any lists by now...

Are there any comments people would like to spotlight from 2023 as "outstanding comments"?
Why is there a Yubico server involved? Why can't it use public and private keys? What does the Yubico server do?

Hopefully this isn't using Yubico OTP, which is phishable:

https://developers.yubico.com/OTP/
Some people's livelihood is dependent on whether kids are at government school or at home.

Of course there will be attacks.

Homeschooling resources have never been better due to technology, especially in regards to extracurricular meetups.

Also, families that travel a lot benefit from the flexibility.
Partially, but China is also struggling and needs to export to offset the shitshow in the property market and slumping demand.
They are sleeping somewhere, some will be displacing citizens
Thank you for raising this important concern. I completely understand the apprehensions regarding inbox content and privacy. In Sunnybox, ensuring the security and confidentiality of user data is my top priority.

To safeguard your information, I've implemented several security measures. For instance, API keys are handled with extreme care, akin to passwords, and are shown only once. The only data stored and encrypted in the database are the necessary credentials – your emails are not synced to our database. This 'minimal data necessary' approach extends to handling log files, which are regularly filtered and cleared.

My goal is to offer a service that's not just efficient, but also highly secure and trustworthy. GDPR compliance is a must as Screen Island GmbH is located in Germany as are the Sunnybox servers.

I'm further continually working on enhancing Sunnybox's security features and am always open to feedback or specific concerns. Ensuring peace of mind in this category is paramount for me.

Additionally, for those seeking extra control, there's the option to deploy Sunnybox on your own hardware, giving you complete management over your data.
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Had the same experience with one of the prompts: Venus Flytrap to Willy Wonka with a missing link from Uncle Sam to Willy Wonka.
If Spotify wants to keep my business for years to come, pretty much regardless of their monthly price, this is a good way to do it.
Yeah this is pretty glaring.

Changing the biometrics should automatically invalidate all FaceID tokens and block falling back to device PIN. It should effectively log the device out of all services, perhaps even delete browser cookies etc. since it should mean the person holding the phone is not the one who logged on to those.

Of course, this could have other implications so a lot of care has to be taken when designing and implementing this.
Not all code has equivalent carrying costs. I think the ideal behind tests is that they reduce maintenance costs of the code they cover by more than they add themselves (ideally).
That's the key word however, subpoena. With this system you don't even need it.
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I think your surprise is sort of the point of the article, it seems so simple and logical and that makes it kind of crazy how often people do things without a good reason and without fully understanding nor solving the problem they have and are trying to solve.

I thought the article did a good job of explaining this issue, the intro with the cover is a nice analogy
I mean, how Apple is letting someone change my Apple ID password just by knowing my iPhone pass code, that's insane.

What's the point of having an Apple ID password if you can change it with the phone pass code ? It just bother the regular users to have 2 passwords to remember, but adds no security whatsoever...
No, but at some point there will be a reckoning just like with cigarettes and alcohol. Garbage food won't go away, but the individual and societal costs will eventually be recognized.
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The problem with that is that is shifts the burden from the clerk to the company. Right now, these places can claim ignorance and/or take whatever is the highest moral high ground.

At that point, the company itself is under scrutiny in the public eye. They can't blame their front-line staff.
UK government pays for energy projects in Scotland to help Scottish economy.
Scotland makes up 7% of UK economy.
Scotland claims 100% ownership after independence.
Genius SNP.
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Apparently he did get kicked eventually, but he just made a new account. Definitely sounds like Couchsurfing could have done better.
With hundreds of billions of dollars per year on the line? I’m certainly open to arguments as to how it can’t get worse, but that’s a pretty obscene incentive to make it worse.
Simply because some cops can be brigands doesn't really mean that we shouldn't have expectations of people.

Bullies are always going to bully. Roll-over-and-take-it is a terrible corporate strategy!
Pretty much everything client sided can be easily defeated. I don't think geofencing should be used for security purposes.
Yes agreed - the internationalization of the college application process has changed everything. The other factor is that when you have such competitiveness, you start seeing a professionalization of the process - so admissions consultants, high-end tutoring.
It says in the article that its 653,000, not 40 million. Not really sure where you are getting that figure, however it appears that the actual number is under a million people
Canada has extremely few physicians, like USA. For healthcare to work well you probably need to reform your system to get more physicians, I don't think any system works well when you have too few physicians. You can see the countries with good public healthcare has twice as many doctors as Canada and USA does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
For a second I thought there was a new album that had flown under my radar, and I wondered why a review of it had been shared on HN.
The dark side of skills-based immigration is the huge hole left behind in the home country that prolong societal poverty.
"US homelessness up 12% from 2022" =/= "40% of americans are homeless"

Also, the first sentence of the article literally says

>653,000 people in the USA were homeless at the beginning of 2023
"only" 653k. up 12%, not up to 12%
A round of funding in between major rounds of funding, often in the form of more cash from existing investors.

https://learn.angellist.com/articles/bridge-round
Yet this one does.
I have not tried Obsidian yet.

I don't remember why I paid for it, maybe syncing wasn't in the free tier before? I don't know, but I got the yearly sub.
The standard corporate policy would be that pharmacists aren't authorized to release records. To do otherwise would risk their jobs and whatever other action follows an unauthorized release of records.

With this policy across chains, judges would be skeptical of a cop who tried to bully a local records release. Even a rogue cop could understand this reality.
Federated Identity Community Group
“Find a solution that works for your particular situation.”
Thanks for your insights! It's great to see others, like emailengine, navigating similar paths in the email integration space. Your product is impressive and was indeed an inspiration in some aspects.

I agree, the landscape, especially considering compliance and security (as highlighted by Nylas), is complex. With Sunnybox, my aim is to offer a simpler yet secure alternative, focusing on ease of use and essential features, which I believe there's a niche for.

I'm navigating these challenges with a 'learn and adapt as I go' approach, aiming to keep things as streamlined as possible while ensuring compliance and security.

It's definitely an interesting journey, and I'm curious to see how it unfolds too. Appreciate the good luck wishes, and I extend the same to you!
I mean, you could try and read the full article.

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Administrative Costs [total] : About 30 Percent

Salary and Wages for Physicians and Nurses: About 15 Percent

Prescription Drugs: About 10 Percent

Medical Machinery and Equipment: Less Than 5 Percent

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Administrative Costs of Insurance: $1,055 per person on “governance and health system financing administration” in 2020, compared with the OECD12 average of $193 per person.

Administrative Costs to Providers: A 2021 study by McKinsey estimates hospital administrative costs at $250 billion and clinical services administrative costs at $205 billion, representing 21 percent and 27 percent respectively of 2019 NHE spending in these settings [aka 48% in sum, troupo]

---
A Lighthouse Keeper Hangs Up Her Bonnet
https://slint.dev/blog/slint-1.1-released mentions that there is AccessKit integration.
The same power structure exists irrespective of where you jump into the value chain - The police are a legal gang that goes all the way to the President

Instead of the Mayor, the Sheriff will go to some State Rep or congressperson and the same results happen.

I've seen similar moves play out in the past in real life
There is basically no production-ready free hardware on the market, the pinephone (which is in the toy category, let’s be honest) is also full of proprietary firmware.
"drilling" is "practice for understanding"

It really isn’t. The essay makes this point as well. The acquaintance of his who was most interested in math dropped out of the contest team. He went on to become a mathematician because he was actually interested in understanding higher math and how things fit together.

Drilling is just practicing computational tricks to be able to execute them by heart. This would be true regardless of the amount of time pressure or lack thereof. I’ve taken many math courses that had exams in this style and I always hated them. I much prefer trying to figure out a proof I’d never seen before. For any real work, those computations would be done by a computer anyway.
I wonder if this stat includes the economic migrants, if not it could very well be much larger. This news article mentions there have been 2.8 million encounters at the border this year from Sept 30.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/30/how-ma...
Ireland is generating 75% renewable today also!

https://www.eirgrid.ie/grid/real-time-system-information
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If we had pills you could take that would mitigate most of the downsides of cigarettes and alcohol, then no we wouldn’t. Then the question would be whether cigarette and alcohol manufacturers could innovate their way around those mitigations. I don’t know that’s possible with cigarettes, alcohol, or food, but food especially it seems very possible.

Also cigarettes and alcohol don’t crowd out healthier alternatives on retail shelves the way that unhealthy foods crowd out healthier ones.
That's quite the bandwidth-delay product at 3.3GB.
So what's the point of this comment then?
You really think GB/T will prevail? Mexico is a very common destination for used vehicles from the US and Canada. The GB/T standard maxes out at 250kW speeds right now. I have also read that the locking mechanism is fragile.
I suspect you’re underestimating what it takes to train a technician for his kind of work. I imagine that could easily be a multi-year process (10 years even), and require a lot of attention from your highly skilled and already in-demand master practitioners.
Yes because they don't ask for immigration status when they do the count. Any reason for assumption that they are asking for immigration status ?

I do see a lot of migrants here sleeping outside in the parks.
Ugh. Tell me about it.
Relay liability is going to depend on knowledge. What’s going to happen in practice is that someone at, say, the FBI gets a lead that something prohibited is being accessed in some group and they’re going to look for evidence. If your IP serves them anything dodgy, they’re not going to roll the SWAT team (probably) but they’re going to see if they can find evidence that you are an active participant before they contact you or your hosting company.

What’s going to happen after that is going to depend on what they’ve found and how innocent/unaware you look, and your reaction. They don’t raid Dropbox’s hosting center because it’s unlikely that a large business is a secret criminal front operation and they have an established practice of sending warrants and getting information or takedowns but if you’re a single person or small business there’s more room for doubt and they might be more aggressive. If you do look like an innocent whose service is being abused by criminals, I’d expect the initial impact to be only blocking that material / user and turning over all of the information that you have about their activity. If that keeps happening, or you tell them that you don’t keep logs, etc. that might change to them thinking you’re actually trying to help their targets, and the next time it happens might be less charitable.

Anyone operating a relay should think about how that’d look sad what the damage could be: don’t run it on hardware you couldn’t afford to lose if it’s seized as evidence, your business partners and people you live with need to know & accept the risk, and you want to think carefully about the personal impacts of any investigation. For example, if you work at a school or church running a Tor exit node is probably a bad idea because even an investigation finding nothing could have significant damage to your reputation since there’s always that “what if he just hid it well?” question which can’t be un-raised.
Migrant workers usually live in some kind of shared housing with other migrant workers and send money back home each month.
I’m sure some do end up homeless especially if anything goes wrong
They used 331.9 million * .12 not realizing it was a rate of change rather than a percentage of the population
A test is worth a thousand words. Let's repurpose the arsenals.
Only some carbon taxes apply to farmers. They are specifically exempt from the tax on any gasoline or diesel for their equipment.

They aren't exempt from the tax on (for instance) natural gas to heat a barn. Though I believe that is changing with Bill C-234.
Looks like five new sets added since last time I visited that site a few years ago. Thanks for the reminder! Should get back to using a RSS reader to not miss updates from sites like that.

Last time I tried it seemed to work quite well to import the Photoshop-brushes into Krita. I do not remember if it had built-in support for that or if there were extra steps, but a quick search shows there are several tutorials available on how to do it anyway. On the other hand the terrain images extracted from those maps are quite useful also as just images to copy-paste without setting up fancy brushes.
> Wikipedia also has "islands" of pages which cannot be clicked out of to other islands.

Wonder what the largest island can be where you can't get out. At some point you must have a person who invented, created, discovered, explored, dismissed, destroyed, ... a key concept of what is discussed in that island and from there you get to a country and then have the world.

Having links back might be a bit more limited (depending on categories)
Its already pretty cheap right?

Checking Octopus it seems to be averaging about £140 a month on my account.
Turing and Wittgenstein: an entanglement of math and philosophy
Now we can finally turn Street View into a game world!
My experience is a few years old and apparently this system has changed, see this Reddit discussion[0]. But 0.5L and 1.5L bottles in Finland used to be made from much thicker and more durable plastic than in most other EU countries so they could be washed. They were then stamped, and once a certain number of uses was reached, they were finally disposed of.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/Finland/comments/w703w4/plastic_and...
The big wind projects aren't "owned" by the UK/Scottish governments, they are private* assets built under a government license. Most likely an independent Scotland would continue to license these wind farms and the energy trade with the rest of the UK would continue under very similar terms.

* Actually, many of them are owned by non-UK governments.
Yes, why wouldn't they? If someone is homeless, they are home less.
Certainly. Lots of ways to blunt sugar's effects on blood-sugar by eating it with something else. And this can be specific to individuals. Apples don't impact me much at all, but do for other people.

My contrived sugar-cube-diet is dumb. I only mean, if insulin resistance is a problem you want to avoid, don't demand your body produce tons of insulin all the time to counter consuming things that spike blood-sugar.

I'm only weirded out by the specific "Type 2 diabetes is not caused by sugar, but by genetics and lifestyle factors." when the "lifestyle factors" listed in the pamphlet include diets high in sugar.
Hamas is still launching rockets at Israeli population centers as of this morning. Israel has every right to do everything within its power to stop them. This is a war, Israel is not responsible for the Palestinian population beyond following the rules of war, which they are.
It depends, many asteroids are quite porous, maybe it would burrow into or through it.
Multiple Chat GPT instances combine to figure out chemistry
Cisco to acquire Isovalent
That reminds me of SpaceX saying the most reliable part is no part at all!
The test for "old" here is, when you read "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.", do you think the sky is more grey or more blue?
Software is a depreciating asset which has maintenance costs.

Rushing out poorly architected and implemented software systems means that the asset depreciates at a much greater rate than otherwise, just like a crappy vacuum cleaner.

Since we’re mainly in the business of building a single
self-updating vacuum cleaner per business we’re fully capable of taking a cheap design and a cheap implementation and making it better over time… at a cost!
If you call this unhinged, you'll run out of words to describe mass murderers.
It’s too bad law enforcement don’t seem to be held to any standards at all, then maybe folks who are not generally equipped to make legal determinations won’t be accountable for erring just because an unscrupulous officer or prosecutor misleads and/or intimidates them.
So you have a commercial product under a proprietary license, which forks a BSD-3-clause shell and an MIT-licensed terminal emulator? I don't think you can do that.

Edit: My apologies. I was mistaken. Carry on :)
I Love the End Result
Would you rather use a product that somebody treats as a vehicle to "Michelin star dinners, travelling, live music, skiing, etc.", or a product that somebody deeply cares about more than those things?

My point is not "care 100% about your job/company/product/idea and 0% about everything else", but rather striking a better balance.

To bring it back to the OP, selling Figma to Adobe was, in my view, part of an epidemic of SaaS companies valuing payout above creating a long-term sustaining business.
That HN comments don't always have a point. On the other hand, that observation is also a point in and of itself.
About tech specifically or more general quality publications? Looking through my RSS feed there's a few newsletters/blogs I really love.

- Casey Newton's Platformer - Maybe slightly more media than tech focused

- Noahpinion - Economics and policy

- Matt Levine's Money Stuff - Entertaining financial analysis

- Silver Bulletin - Nate Silver's sports and political analysis newsletter

EDIT: Sorry misread your question—Platformer would be my recommendation.
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Firecracker, yes
I agree. I think most such books could be easily summarized into perhaps a quarter of its original word count, without significantly affecting any value that its readers may gain from it.
Many European countries found a compromise where both public and private health cares coexist.

The overall point though is not to sit on the laurels and try to hammer in "one right way" of doing it, but to iterate until you find a legislative healthcare framework that works for your country and benefits most.

The lack of progress in US on health care front is an indictment of its political rigidity first and foremost.
Speaking of gajde, one of my favorite ever music recordings is this rendition of Delio Haidutin on Music Idol Bulgaria of all places [1]. That song is also what was sent up on the golden CD on the Voyager. But I like this version better :-)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuaE8i-aFJU
Americans weren't fat a few decades ago, it isn't genetic.
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Benchmarking becomes more important as we build more and more applications and tooling for runtimes like Node.js and Bun. This article discusses macro and micro benchmarking, and explores options we can use today to benchmark code. The article includes code examples and a CodeSandbox to try and implement in your own work.