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The only reasonable design is to have two kinds of API keys that cannot be used interchangeably: public API keys, that cannot be configured to use private APIs, and private API key…

> Is there something less cooperative than a task that doesn't yield its control back to the main thread? Of course it does yield back to the main thread in my example, at each awa…

Then someone should really update the official python docs that explain the fire-and-forget pattern ( https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#asyncio.... )! I had a Fas…

The thing that burned me with asyncio primitives is that calling an async function doesn't even schedule it (by default). The pattern for fire-and-forget is impossible to guess whe…

But if you release the O2 and convert it into diamond, then by my highy-suspect back of the envelope calculations, it'd be a diamond that would fit into one square kilometer, 87 me…

If you do speak Hebrew, you would know that Netanyahu and Gallant have been heavily attacked by the extreme right specifically because they have been refusing to cut off food.

My argument is that is not the choice we are given. We are given only the choice between too much regulation and too little.

I am sure that new designs would be better on paper. I am also sure that a regulatory regime in which nuclear plants are allowed to be exactly as unsafe as fossil fuel power plants…

Not to pick on you, but every time this discussion happens on HN, someone argues that the nuclear power industry is burdened by far more red tape than other industries (probably tr…

Complete anecdata, but a few months ago a neighbor of mine successfully resuscitated another neighbor with CPR. There was an AED present, but from what I heard, it did not recommen…

Maybe it knows the answer, but since it was trained on the internet, it's trolling you.

The real story in Israel is more complicated; the courts have taken power from the other branches; it's about time for there to be some kind of correction, and is often the case, t…

Quick turnaround! July 14, 2022: Reported vulnerability to the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center. July 15, 2022: CERT/CC reported vulnerability to SQLite …

To hijack the thread a bit, if you are still with Dropbox, could you get them to implement what you did in #2 in the official Dropbox JS SDK? Right now it still does a pre-flight r…

I'm having trouble reconciling the rest of the article with this: > If a death occurred either on the 18 hottest or the 18 coldest days that each city experienced in a typical year…

Thanks! I actually got as far as your [1], but incorrectly assumed that 'site' meant 'origin', so thank you for explaining.

And can someone explain how I'm supposed to implement SSO? We have a bunch of subdomains that support SSO by communicating with an iframe that has the logon status stored, but it a…

"Doesn't work how you'd expect" reminds me of the time that we had users receiving responses from other people's requests. Why? Our API is idempotent, but we needed to use POST ins…

His whole point is that the occasional person who IS "phoning it in all the time" will appear to be very good at their job, possibly better than the people who are really trying th…

I basically agree with you. The counterargument says that some innovation simply doesn't happen for centuries, until it finally occurs to someone. You want to incentivize those kin…

I like this idea, but the pro-patent argument says that some things become obvious only after you see them. Once a company starts selling a product with the new idea, everyone will…

I was interested to note that the Dropbox API offers a hack to avoid the extra CORS request - among other details, their server accepts this: - Set the Content-Type to "text/plain;…

Why would you expect a company that pays for buffers to be able to compete with a company that doesn't, even if the first company is owned by benevolent founders? Shouldn't the com…

They're not making money from the person who defaults (well, maybe if they default after a long series of payments). They're making money on average by lending to a lot of people, …

Without the (old) extra inconvenience, it would probably be higher than 1%. Also, it could be that this mechanism substitutes for some of the previous anti-theft measures, so it's …