skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a very different person on an SSRI. Considering the state I was in when I started taking it, that wasn't really a problem. I was generally content with everything on an emotional level, but at the same time if I sat down and payed attention to how I felt I found I was still depressed, I just wasn't experiencing most of the emotional effects of it. Worse, when I took a look at how my personality had changed, I didn't like it.

After I changed jobs, and therefore healthcare providers because yay America, I didn't bother getting a new prescription. It was a rough ride coming off the stuff. I remember distinctly crying, like really intense honest crying with sobbing and tears and everything, over some plot point in a stupid TV show I was watching and, honestly, it was delicious. I was so grateful to be able to experience again, instead of just passively existing.

After several more years, none of them involving doctors, I finally found my way to more-or-less normality. For me, and I suspect many depressed people, it was philosophical. I had this idea of how the world should work, how I felt it should work, and I knew the world didn't work that way, and the dissonance of that manifested as depression. I think this is probably the normal reaction of the mind to this state, and under normal circumstances it is supposed to serve to motivate us to reconcile our model of reality with our observations of it, but for various reasons I once elaborated on in a different post, I think our current cultural mind-set is not only ill-suited to helping us with this, but actively making it worse.
with hosting I agree, but I'd recommend vultr, so you can run openBSD :)
Kubrick is known to destroy all existing prints of his films other than the one his original, so that people don't create other versions of his films.
>are doing so long as the bottom half are seeing improved living conditions

I dont think much has changed for bottom half living conditions. Especially since QE.

>People spend less as a percentage of income on food and housing

Is that true though? If you take any housing prices and rent and compared to salary in the last 10 years.
>" it's just that the public keys here are just for signing things, whereas RSA public keys serve a bunch of purposes."

Well but its still for "just signing things" in TLS when DH is used no?

>"Nope. In the almost-published TLS 1.3 you proceed as follows: 1. Use ephemeral Diffie-Hellman to agree random new symmetric encryption keys, and immediately use those to do AEAD encryption for everything further 2. Send (encrypted) your Certificate. 3. Take a transcript of everything that happened so far, and _sign_ that transcript using RSA, send (encrypted) the signature."

I haven't read the draf but in TLS 1.2 with DH and RSA, RSH is used to sign the DH parameters. Is this different in TLS 1.3? I guess I don't understand what you mean by "transcript" though. Is that word in the spec?
There's a bit of a logic issue in the proposed attack.

> 7. Change the email for the Netflix account to eve@gmail.com, kicking Jim’s access to this account.

This assumes that Eve is 1) still logged into the session despite the fact that Jim has changed their password and 2) that Netflix does not require a user to provide the current account password to change the email.

I have no idea if Netflix does item 1; it's debatable, although it might be a good idea in some cases.
But item 2 is a super basic security; I can't imagine they don't do that. And if they do that, then there's no real attack here.
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A Denver Post editorial[1] links to the Digital First Media Workers campaign site[2] which aims to "win fair contracts with wage increases for the nearly 1,000 Guild-represented employees of Digital First Media."

The campaign site tries to lay out in more detail(s) how Alden Global Capital is supposedly taking profits from DFM media properties. As majority shareholders, Alden might be in their rights to do as they see fit, but at least a pattern of behaviour being called out.

[1] https://www.denverpost.com/2018/04/06/as-vultures-circle-the...

[2] https://dfmworkers.org/about/
With respect, I disagree.

You won’t experience what happens after you die, but you will certainly experience the process of dying.

Being dead doesn’t scare me. But the concept of the process of dying scares the crap out of me.
The most annoying/stupid thing i found is one can not change sound volume using Settings. One can change sound volume using hardware buttons only.
Store your files in backblaze then proxy them through some cheap vps (to cover bandwidth) and add local cache through something like nginx so you're not going to the source frequently.
'hagiography' - Thanks for a new word! ('a biography that treats its subject with undue reverence')
I bought a cheap windows phone for my mother four years back, even after 4 years, it works like the day I bought it (fast, no heating issues..), The big fonts and tile interface makes it easy for her to use it without her glasses.
You can see what pharma companies pay to your Dr. at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/
Show HN: Music Hit Back – Listen to music hits from any year
The article notes a difference between Chinese "kidnappings" and US "extraordinary rendition": it's different to threaten people's families back in China as a tool of coercion to leave vs. physically kidnapping them. However, in both cases the sovereignty of the hosting state is being violated.

I wonder how the US will react to having a competitor in that arena...
India spends a lot of money on roads which should have last year's but fails every monsoon. Aadhar expenditure might be a small blip compared to those.

Govt were anyway required for most things in India. This is just another card. The main issue would be accepting it without finger verification.
These companies are stupid and not worthy of respect. Not only Netflix, but Apple and even some banks don't (or didn't) verify email before sending private information.
It begs the question - exactly what kind of problem does paying with a smart speaker solve over just using your phone? Also, how much is that worth to you?
I think I'mma have to use this quote somewhere, if permitted.

'It's funny how small scale engineering problems are rooted in code and large scale engineering problems are rooted in people.'
I agree, and again anecdotally I found the same to be true when I was a kid at school. At most you had a few sub-groups, like the guys who were into Transformers, and the guys into GI Joe. We were not a sophisticated bunch, but then as you pointed out, our brains were still larval. When Lunchables came out, we all wanted them. From my recollection we didn’t even like the taste, we just wanted them.

There was some variation, but it was all on a predictable theme.
Why are you blaming Aadhar instead of hospital. What kind of hospital turncoat aways critical patients. Btw the hospital in my area were not accepting card payments before demonization. They wanted only cash.
When your legal system gives the benefit to the police about NOT knowing the law and to everyone else that not knowing the law is no excuse and when your legal system does not apply the same penalties to the police for infractions of the law as to the citizens (slap on wrist to police, throw citizen into prison for long periods of time for the same offence) then you have a problem.

For the USA, there is an endemic problem with all law enforcement and there is various serious documentation about this. That is not to say that the USA is the worst, there are many other countries that have a much more deadly situation. However, for a country that is supposed to be the leaders of the free world, it is rapidly getting the reputation of being third world in this matter.

When other countries warn their citizens not to have interactions with any US law enforcement then you should realise that there is a serious problem in the USA.
You should realize that there is no additional gmail account registered with no dots. Just your wife's account. And somebody simply signs up for things using your wife's address, because they feel like it should be theirs. This is a very common thing. https://xkcd.com/1279/
That is a great summary, while i am a big privacy advocate myself, having observed India's ills from so close Aadhar's benefits outweights its costs.

I just hope that we have better security systems, lot of third party auditing and limits to the areas where Aadhar would be needed.

Unfortunately in a country like India to reduce corruption, improve PDS we need a better system and a well designed, maintained Aadhar system is one of the solutions. India being a democracy so many voices against it are raised unlike China, many points are valid though. However what gets me is the large scale fear mongering especially from people who have no idea about third world problems and priorities. These are the people who would give answers like 'why would X not find a job if he is so poor' ?
If what the GP said is true it sounds like nobody else signed up for the "non dot version" before Google normalized accounts. Gmail would only treat the accounts different if first.last and firstlast weren't the same people.
I'm receiving other peoples mail all the time. My first gmail account was about 13-14 years old. Recently i'm receiving mails from Argentina constantly about museum trips, school meetings of people. I reply them explaining that i am from far far away and notify the person about the situation. When i check the "To:" section, the mails sent myhandle67@gmail.com or myhande.78@gmail.com.

My other gmail account is namesurname@gmail.com and i receive about 6-7 of different peoples mail with the same name surname combination. It happened in hotmail also btw.

I got phone bills, cargo shipment details, hospital working schedule documents, private messages from a marriage social network kind of a site. I can easily login to the site with link in the mail and can read all his really private messages, flirting with the ladies.

I called the phone bill guy, his parents answered it a little panicking, i explained them the situation. But the mails keep coming, so i call the phone company. They said they take action immediately but nothing changed.

I called the cargo guy tell him his cargo is on his way and who i am. He surprised and confused like others when he heard a guy with the same name surname called him.

I called the hospital, someone else answered. Explain him the situation to let him know. He was surprised and asked me if i have the last months schedule pdf because it got lost or something.

I couldn't reach the old womanizer guy, contact the site and mails stopped.

I'm not using the dot feature myself but somethings not working correctly with it i guess. In this particular case i think Netflix should validate the e-mail addreses.
Off-topic, but does anyone feel that his last what-if is eternally shaming the asker?
Blacklisting doesn't even work. I blocked a channel and clicked "not interested" on about 10 videos and still keep getting videos from that channel
Amazon would rather you buy one of their devices instead of using your phone to read.
That is the federal government.
If you’re into etymology at all, it’s worth knowing that originally a hagiography was the biography of a saint, focusing on their miracles.
The list misses Koos Bekker which would hands down be on top for turning the initial $30m investment in Tencent into > $160bn.
That's 9.99 Euro's. I use Time4vps.eu. Their prices are the same, but I have an older plan that was cheaper. They do offer specials occasional as well.
I have their 1TB plan for about $15 /quarter.
xkcd is now the first site I've allowed pop-ups on in over 10 years. Last one was Hotmail.
Some hints: ovh is good for eu/(northern) us (loadbalancing ip + vps behind it to spread load - be prepared to ditch vps if you're getting horrible performance), scaleway if you can live with just eu
Probably as cheap as it gets from big providers

Obviously going to have to compromise (round robin dns > ~1gbps, self managed stuff), but thats just expected
If it's just images probably just go with cloudflare
No, it is the government of Massachusetts.
> But write the next chapter in "Dystopian AI" cinema.

I think Person of Interest is the most interesting exploration of Dystopian AI to hit popular culture in a while. I thought it was fascinating how they turned the gimmick of a standard episodic procedural crime solving TV show into the all encompassing theme of a serialized TV epic.

Person of Interest starts pretty slow, but his ability to progress the show without losing his audience is the reason why Jonathen Nolen was trusted to produce as ambitious a TV show as Westworld for his next project.
I've always loved 2001 since I saw it as a kid on opening night. I was just a little guy, but I couldn't get enough space stuff, so my dad took me to 2001. He and I were both so excited about the experience it gave us of our future in space even though neither of us had any idea what the movie was actually about.

And that's a legitimate problem for many people. I have lots of friends (and family) who find it unbearable. Even today, my dad and I will watch it together, but everyone else will leave. "BOOORING!"

(I read the book as a kid so I could figure out what was going on and explain it to my dad. No one else wanted to know.)

I think it could have given me all the things I loved about it AND been less artsy about lack of explanation, but I wouldn't have wanted to spend less time enthralled by a slow, graceful docking maneuver or observing daily life on the centrifugal deck, or witnessing the full interaction between HAL and Dave. Lots of people get very bored by these and want to see more forward movement in the plot, more action, but I just sit there fascinated. (Less so today, but that's only because the content is now somewhat dated, and I'd rather watch an updated equivalent.)

I suspect the kind of movie that appeals to people like me may not get made again.
What "MKUltra patterns" do they follow?
I totally missed your comment when writing mine, I should have refreshed the window :)
That looks way more expensive then time4vps.eu. I have a storage server with them.
THis is my affiliate link, https://billing.time4vps.eu/?affid=1881
I tried to watch 2001 again about 8 years ago and had to put it on fast forward, at 10X speed, and even then I was still falling asleep through most of it
Haha, same, except with PowerPoint and VBA!
Apple AirPods: The Audiophile Review
File > Find > Who > 's On First > .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTcRRaXV-fg
I worked at a university in Australia in from 1991 to 2003 in the IT department. Before the www there were huge open software repositories like info-Mac (and another that escapes me atm, maybe at Berkeley) openly accesible through ftp.
I can only think of China as an example of purposely limiting reproduction, what others are there?
This very much. You can also save all your media with content hashes in their filename, then tell cloudflare to "always permanently cache" everything behind a certain path using a page rule.

I have a site set up like that which serves over 1TB monthly and <5GB of it actually goes through to S3. (And obviously you don't have to use s3 to back it, you can use anything)

Bonus points: If you do it this way you can also use immutable caching for clientside savings. More info: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/01/using-immutable-caching-to...

This may be dependent on how large your media is however. 5TB sounds like it could be large videos, so some of this may not apply to you. I don't know how well Cloudflare caches videos.
The safest way to use YouTube with kids is to download videos offline using youtube-dl or one of its front ends and use an app like VLC to play them.

Kids shouldn't be accessing YouTube directly. It really is bad. A simple example: looking for videos for a school women's history day thingamajig, YouTube kept recommending outright twisted videos which were sort of women's history but algorithmically generated and just plain wrong.

The other interesting thing I found with YouTube is that it's very hard to find good parent curated playlists. The bad stuff overwhelms the good.
No way Amazon could buy PayPal. Their customer service is the polar opposite, it'd be a giant culture clash.
The suspicion is that a passenger's harness belt got looped around and then pulled the fuel cutoff handle, which is on the floor between the front seats. The pilot thought he was dealing with an engine failure and didn't notice the fuel handle until it was too late. Sort of surprised that it didn't register some kind of alert such as a "FUEL OFF" indicator but I don't know anything about helicopter instrumentation.
The US election system is dominated by two parties. And the two parties do not have purely Democractic processes as they are not considered part of the government.

For example there are super delegates which are fundamentally undemocractic. There are also "winner take all" caucuses which has a tendency to support and overrepresent the majority.
Elon Musk Urges People to Watch Paine's A.I. Movie While It's Free (today)
I started a "song" and I couldn't get it to stop via File -> Close, or Shutdown, or any other option. By then I lost interest and just closed the tab before I could explore more. Too bad.
I still use my Lumia 950 as my every day cellphone. When it dies, my plan is to just go back to whatever the most basic dumb phone will be at the time. I've experienced Android and iPhone and neither of them hold a candle to the experience I've had with Windows Phone / Win10 Mobile, so I'd rather just reset back to a point where there weren't things like apps or mobile internet if I can't keep mobile-friendly Windows on my phone.
I do not know about other points and there may be rings of truth to all the issues

but #2 and #3 are definitely false.
You should also be aware that U.S. governments routinely acquire data from third-parties to circumvent constraints in place that prevent them from doing so, directly.

They also sell their own data, when not constrained against doing so. The many state budget crises have apparently exacerbated motivations to do so.

All that said, I can't view this DHS initiative as a positive development, WRT domestic monitoring.

Actually, I can see the point of passive monitoring. And I can't help but believe it's already done. The difference here may be the DHS, specifically, and the public nature -- announcing the initiative. Therefore perhaps also who will have access to the resulting system or systems.

Maybe I'm biased by my news consumption habits, but I worry about politicizing and agendas, when the DHS is involved.
THere is SO much more to worry about than 'dots'
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/7wnz7e/this_years...
It's a one-party regime, and that has its downsides, but it's not the same as a dictatorship. Just because it's not as Democractic as the US does not make it a dictatorship.
StepGrab: Offer discounts to only new customers
Hi, I'm a founder and currently applying to Ycombinator with this.

I've just launched it. Looking for feedback.

If you're a small business or have someone in family who has a small business and need new customers, then Great news, I'm offering Early Adopter discounted Pricing.

Groupon failed because small business are not skilled enough to do calculus of optimizing discounts to maximize profits.

Stepgrab doesn't offer unlimited discounts. It lets you give one time discount to new customers, using their phone number.

Users sign up using phone number, app keeps track what discounts they have used and they don't qualify for it again. Unless business owner wants to retarget them.

https://stepgrab.com
That's only 25g of storage
I've been using https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net since 2007 and haven't had any complaints thus far. No-frills but cheap & reliable.
Global cyber attack that left U.S. flag on screens
Send an email and see if that email shows up in your inbox?
One step closer to the only thing I ever wanted, an app that lets me whitelist the channels. Without having to create an account too. The list will be small enough to store locally and pass with every list request. I never want to see another video about colors wrapped in bible verses for the rest of my life.
You could have reloaded the page. That worked for me.
THere is SO much more to worry about than 'dots':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxX81WmXjPg&ab_channel=FOSDE...
I have a server from here: https://www.nocix.net/dedicated/

Not necessarily the most reliable provider but hard to beat the prices, especially for their larger servers.

Since you said you were working with media, a vps will probably have pretty poor performance if you're doing any transcoding or the such.
I, too, would expect that the most common pieces of software with massive amounts of engineering time invested get it right (but almost certainly with a performance hit). But I'd be unsurprised to find that one doesn't handle the http parsing spec correctly somewhere.

The issue is that such a spec is entirely unneeded and overly complicated. No benefit, only downsides. And for something as simple as basic parsing rules! Not even getting into anything that should be difficult.
Email addresses should only be used as contact info, not as a login name (and login names should also be different from your display/user name). Maybe I’m paranoid, but many sites will gladly tell anyone who knows your email that you at least have an account there. As the browser/password manager already fills in the password, why not just randomly generate the login name too? I currently use email aliases and burner email addressees on sites that don’t handle this well
So, if you were a salmon, you could swim up from the Pacific and back down to the Atlantic--theoretically. Is there anywhere else you could do that?

There are some really long salmon runs in Idaho. The Salmon River is one of the longest, I believe. Fish travel several thousand miles up it to spawn in their home creek.
> Everything you've pointed out are great examples of technical demerits... but none that really transfer over in any negative way to the business besides developer frustration.

> Most businesses don't know what they need until they're a few years in, and database software isn't going to be on any execs top 100 list of things troubling the company.

A database is a developer tool, it should be evaluated on its technical merits. If its frustrating for developers, it means its harder and more expensive for the business to get what it wants.
Note:

> By then I lost interest

An extended futile search for a way to make music stop in a browser doesn't do much to keep ones interest in a novelty web comic...
> First, you need ffmpeg (ymmv.. this assumes macOS, for others installing ffmpeg is also possible but left as an exercise for the reader):

> $ brew install ffmpeg

FWIW, there's a `brew` fork for linux: https://github.com/Linuxbrew/brew

It's not especially useful in this case as ffmpeg is available in linux package managers, but it's handy for tools that aren't.
Wasabi (S3-compatible) recently released an "Unlimited Egress" plan with unmetered bandwidth: https://wasabi.com/pricing/

That puts 5TB storage at $24/mo.
Google bought the Weird Stuff building. Their last day is tomorrow
There's a mild difference, in that China has been kidnapping people to take them back to China, where they can be coerced mercilessly. Because we have Constitutional protections in the US, we sent people to other countries... where they could be coerced mercilessly.

Given the relatively recent poisonings of travelling North Koreans and former Russian agents, I don't think that China is the first competitor in extra-territorial clandestine human rights violations.