skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> well the experts were saying in March, 2020 that masks do not work and are not recommended.

As I recall, at the time experts were saying "Don't recommend that everyone wear a mask, we have a shortage and need to save them for health care workers."
What a beautiful and strong story. I feel like everyone alive should read this. To take such a curse and such despair and transform it into something of gratitude—into saving other lives-is powerful and the kind of thing that makes humanity worthy.
Trump shared Lindsey Graham’s phone number on Twitter during the 2016 election primary.
Many have made the claim that the known Egyptians had the tools and expertise to do the job. Few have demonstrated convincing evidence of this claim. Very few. The closer experts look, the more questions arise.

Explorer Flinders Petrie spent decades there and was left with a lot of thoughtful questions about how those artifacts might have been made with known methods. Modern engineer Christopher Dunn has the pro and evidentiary background to have raised challenging question about such facile assertions.
There are no reputable ones; they are (>99,99%+ probably) all based off of unwanted adware or malware/botnet exploit installation. There are some fake ones that also commit wire fraud, fraudulent letters of authorisation and do BGP hijacking, which is arguably significantly worse.
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Experts haven't exactly done themselves any favors.

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"Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!

They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus"

U.S. Surgeon General, February 29, 2020 [0]

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"Stigma, to be honest, is more dangerous than the virus itself. Let's really underline that. Stigma is the most dangerous enemy."

Tedros Adhanom, Director-General of the World Health Organization, March 2nd, 2020 [1]

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Have the experts always been like this, and it's simply more obvious now that the world is much more interconnected? Or has the quality of experts gone down dramatically? Both?

[0] https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/12337257852839321...

[1] https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/transcr...
There was an interesting case of that in Australia recently, when ISPs colluded to block a bunch of websites that wouldn't take down the Christchurch shooter's manifesto (some of those were forums with very liberal rules on what goes, and their members posted that content). There wasn't any law or government directive or anything like that, not yet. But there was also nothing anybody could do about that, since it was just a bunch of private companies exercising their judgment.

Whatever you think about their cause, you should be worried by the precedent set here. This is censorship at the same scale a government might do, but snuck in through the backdoor, and completely outside of any democratic mechanisms.
I rang a radio station once. I think the segment was some sort of community help. Anyway I hummed a tune that was from my earliest memory (like when I was 3 or 4). Anyway it turned out to be Elizabethan Serenade based on a couple of callers working it out from my very poor rendition. I'll need to try Google's new tool out
Depends on how much you want to earn.
Hi HN, I made this post because I thought it'd be useful to show people how you can derive rules of thumb on your own. Let me know if there are any approximations you're aware of that you'd like me to help justify!
> At a glance sounds like a reinvention of Tor, but less secure.

...and with every client also acting as an exit node, which is kinda a big deal.
Twitter and Facebook are not just any domestic firms, they do control a major part of social media. They may not have a legal responsibility to hold every post to the same standards, but if they enforce their policies selectively on political grounds, that should surely raise some eyebrows.

Anyway, if Twitter/Facebook ever had the intention to stop dissemination of that NY Post article, it surely backfired.
I am unreasonably excited about this.
It reeks of being fabricated too. Who uses v.pozharskyi.ukraine at gmail when vadym.pozharskyi at gmail is unused? Is there a cultural thing where avoiding the first name in an email address would be normal? I grabbed the latter about an hour ago.

I think it's sketchy to have `ukraine` in the email address given the effort to push the "ukraine scandal" as a thing.

https://pastebin.com/yF7ZvS3m
This is all very unexpected actually! (No one from FreeVPN made the post here!) We've been doing some early market testing in a few Linux communities on Reddit, but full disclosure, the product is currently in an early-alpha stage (it’s only available on Ubuntu and Gentoo Linux currently, and very much under construction). We have big ambitions for the project, but it is still very early days.

Love hearing the feedback from everyone here — some very valid criticisms from a lot of folks — and on a lot of points that have been brought up here, we actually have plans to address. A few bullet points on where we are as an organization / project:

— the marketing copy isn’t set in stone — I’ve been working on the site a bunch recently & it’s very much in flux (we’ve been posting in a few Linux communities to see what the response looks like)
— when we posted a few months ago about the project, in all honesty, it was a demand test to see if this would be something worth pursuing — but we’ve been trying to take the feedback from those posts to heart in our development process
— we market ourselves as a VPN, but to be clear we _are_ a dVPN (distributed VPN). The peer-to-peer VPN wording on our site is mostly for the sake of simplicity. I’d point most folks to our project README on GitHub for more in-depth technical details.
— right now FreePN is structured as a 1-to-1 peer connection, but we eventually plan to build in multi-tenant peer support as well as optional multi-hop routing (similar to Tor) and selective whitelisting of domains so that as a peer you can elect to categorically block certain types of sites — say torrenting. These blocklists would draw from open-source category site-lists like Fortiguard.
— we do currently only route web traffic (+ DNS) — so only traffic on ports 80 and 443 is being routed (optionally port 53)
— we don’t currently support IPv6 (though we have plans to add support in the future)
— we don’t log traffic (you can see in the repo), and while peers logging traffic is a potential concern, that’s only true if you’re using non-HTTPS connections (we have plans to bake in something similar to HTTPS Everywhere, automatically upgrading connections).

As far as our vision for the product — our goal for FreePN is to eventually become a ‘privacy all-in-one’. We started FreePN because we care deeply about internet privacy — but trying to protect yourself online practically is a very technical and time-consuming endeavor (basically — it’s really hard to protect your privacy online, and we’re trying to make it easy). In terms of features, we’re working on building in ad-blocking as our next major milestone.

I’ll do my best to respond to everyone’s questions and concerns here this evening / in the morning & tomorrow as I’m able!
I agree it kinda sucks. I found it (and alternatives) to be flaky, and had an audio delay when I had them running. Plus the setup experience each time you want to use it (put iPhone in tripod, position in correctly [because you moved the tripod], plug it in, launch app, check focus etc..) is enough of a pain that a dedicated webcam is just way better even if the picture quality is lower.
There could also be no correlation, or otherwise. Humans often associate too much and too little.
We have courts for that. Currently these platforms cannot even be taken to court because they have immunity.
> If we can't do anything about the network effect then having a disinterested network should be preferable.

I don't want a disinterested communication platform. I want a highly interested communication platform that actually cares and maintains standards. I've tried both, and I find moderated platforms far more enjoyable. I'm not telling other people what kind of platform they should prefer; I'm stating that both such platforms should be available to those who prefer them. Freedom of association is valuable.

> let the userbase collectively handle the moderation

First, it's not at all obvious why user moderation would avoid the liability, and why that wouldn't put either the site or the user at risk under this new draconian liability scheme.

Second, user moderation like that requires some form of meta-moderation ("which users get to moderate"), and then you're back to the same problem.

Third, you're arguing that a site isn't allowed to pay people to moderate, and instead should rely on unpaid labor by volunteers to make the site more useful.

Fourth, you're effectively arguing that people who run websites (as opposed to those who use them) are not allowed to have standards. (And "not allowed without incurring liability" means "not allowed", in practical terms.) No. If I host a chat server, and someone comes on and starts chanting "butts butts butts butts" (saw this one happen) or "you should be gassed" (also saw this one happen) or "good ban all (slur)" (saw that one in a flagged comment on this website today) or "such-and-such group are mentally ill" (I've seen this one too), they're getting banned, whether I own the server or not, the same way they'd get kicked out of a party, or a cafe, or a business. Do you believe that, because I have standards and norms, I should not be allowed to run a server? Because if that causes me to incur liability for user's content, I cannot run such a server. Why is that a problem? Use someone else's server. I do, in fact, have freedom of association, and (modulo protected classes) believe very strongly in "we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone".
I can’t speak for all English speakers, but we would call that a great-aunt. Basically any time you go up a generation, you add “great-“ so my grandmother’s grandmother is my great-great-grandmother.
Fascinating story! Thanks for sharing it.

Where would the ice form in your room?
Something that occurred to me last night: "politics" comes from the greek polis (city).

I agree on the spectrum[1] of shared trust.

As for the state/non-state status of loosely connected cities, consider the case of my own: in the thirteenth century it got a charter of freedom from the bishop who previously administered it as property of the diocese, and in the fourteenth century its self-administration was formalised to the point of reporting directly[2] to the Holy Roman Emperor.

As modern wags have said the HRE was none of the three, I believe that means that a free city was much more on the state[3] end of the spectrum.

For an example of how recent nationalism is, Triumph of the Will has a scene[4] where a Nazi repeatedly calls out "where are you from, comrade?" and is answered by another Nazi proudly saying "I'm from X" (where X ranges over locations around the country), which I take to imply that in the 1930s, part of what Hitler had been selling was the notion of a Deutschland that was superior to the sum of its regional[5] affiliations.

[1] Pedantically, my usage of granfalloon is consistent with Vonnegut's, as he explicitly uses "Hoosiers" (a demonym for the state of Indiana) as an example of a granfalloon, so if regional identities already count then national ones certainly do. (End of Pedantry)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_imperial_city

[3] During its quarrels in this period with neighbouring Ducs and Freiherren, my city deployed its own military, both building and sacking castles, in pursuit of its own foreign policy.

[4] anticipating the Starship Troopers movie's "I'm doing my part" commercials.

[5] I don't know where you're from, but although in our day I think the idea of a german nation (especially post-reunification) is very strong, regional dialects remain more actively differentiated than in, say, france.
> And meetings will all still be on Zoom.

Replace Zoom with whatever meeting solution you like, but it's probably for the best that all meetings be on some sort of meeting platform long term.

At least in my experience, people seldom take notes during meetings; they rely on their memory and forget about everyone else that didn't attend. Not to mention that if you're typing on your machine during a meeting it's assumed that you're not paying attention. Even just recording everything can be good so you can go back later to review critical decisions.

> People don't really want to be fully remote at a company where most of their co-workers go back into the office most of the time

At least from my perspective, I dread this idea because, as employees who were already mostly remote found out a long time ago, employees at the office will typically neglect remote coworkers. Be it through not meeting in an accessible format, not sharing important decisions, or similar oversights.

I've personally experienced great improvements in terms of team coordination due to WFH: we've scheduled meetings in advance, we have notes for key decisions, there are proper documents for inter-team coordination (instead of relying on memory and ad-hoc discussions), etc..

> people mostly don't want to go back into an office where it's mostly just teams having all-day meetings now and then.

Do you mean the scenario where employees come in a limited number of days for meetings? Or where everyone is in the office 100% of the time with certain days that are all meetings?

Personally, I think the former makes best use of in-office time. This does vary per person, but I think the best use of the office is as a collaborative space; it's the main feature everyone seems to be lamenting. So use it for its advantages.

So get the collaborative benefits and then let everyone else get their work done. This is much more personal, but I absolutely hated people dropping into my team neighborhood and interrupting me with questions/trying to locate someone. If you want some of my work time, that's OK, but you can't do it whenever you feel like it; schedule time and stop pre-empting my tasks.

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WFH in general seems to require more structure than in-office work. This adds some overhead for individual employees, but likely will result in massive gains long term. If your meetings are scheduled, there's more time to prepare. If everyone is taking notes, then there's less need for meetings to understand decisions made elsewhere.

Ancillary communication tools were severely under-used before WFH. I'd be happy if we went mixed-office after learning how to coordinate more effectively, but I consider it likely that in the rush to get back people will drop the ball and work will reset to in-office vs WFH.
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What about to use WordPress.com rather than Medium? I'm annoying to read on Medium.
The block diagram of the Raptor engine is just sick - it's brilliantly simple! I suspect that parts of it are 3D printed because of the difficulties in machining the shapes necessary. That may make it worthwhile to use lower-strength 3D technology and compensate by having more weight, but I'm just speculating.

I'd love to just set one of those engines on a bench and take it apart.

It's interesting to see von Braun's turbo-pump innovation is still the go-to technology after nearly 90 years. Also the fuel pre-heater used as the nozzle cooler.
This is a naive take on it. When someone asks you a question they know the answer to, because you have answered it before, they’re not trying to enlighten themselves. They are accusing you of something. In the case of Trump, they’re accusing him of being a white supremacist. In fact, Chris Wallace asked Trump the exact same question during the 2016 election debate, and he condemned white supremacy in no uncertain terms.

A diplomatic person would break out the canned condemnation for the 50th time. Trump is not a diplomatic person.
First, Hungary was part of the largest country in Europe at that time (ignoring Russia, which also had a huge Asiatic part), the Austro-Hungarian empire, so it was a cultural and intellectual center. There is also the legacy of the famous Eötvös competition, started by Baron Loránd Eötvös, which inspired the math Olympiad.

Winners of the competition include Teller, Leo Szilard, von Karman, … So this emergence was hardly a coincidence.

Hungary at the turn of the 20th century was well poised to create the intellectual legacy it had in math and physics in the coming 100 years:

http://www.batmath.it/matematica/raccolte_es/ek_competitions...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loránd_Eötvös
Smaller class sizes and discussion groups. The best courses I took in college had less than 10 people and were discussion-based, not lecture-based.
Compared to many different programming things its really easy. You just have to understand that their reason is to fix all networking problems. Its really _NOT_ complex!
What’s so bad about it? The thumbs up emoji or the Medium plug?
Do you need residential IPs for this? As far as I've experienced, YouTube doesn't block dedicated server providers, as such you may be able to use a commercial VPN provider, some of them have 1000s of IPs and offer easy or automated ways to switch frequently.
Why would you smoke crack when you know the navy would drug test you?

Why would you knock up a stripper while cheating on your dead brothers widow who you were also dating?

How the contents of that laptop made their way to the news is a bizarre story. But that dude also made some bizarre decisions.
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> This is trying to sell the concept of a chrome-less browser-window ("install as app"), a feature your browser already has.

As a dev, service workers are a PITA and getting them to work with with our products is a bit of a hit and miss. Installable / pinnable web apps are only available if the original web dev has made them available. Web catalog and electron wrappers are for people who want to wrap apps and sites that are not nor ally available.
Explicit partisan bias is legally protected speech. The conservatives you refer to have no problem with bias when it comes to the mediums they dominate (cable news, talk radio), but when it comes to the wide open internet they now want to bring back the fairness doctrine, as if it's even possible to establish consistent standards for the political composition of a given post on the internet.
The web developers are starting to realize there's a whole operating system underneath the browser that might actually be of some use.

The article doesn't mention anything at the OS level. Every technology suggested runs in the browser.
It's also easier than ever to publish, so we're surely seeing the effect of putting less time and effort into speaking out. At the same time, the rise in political and social polarization especially in America rewards choosing sides and expressing emotion-driven opinion in order to to bond with your home boys. This practice has never been more evident than it is today, in an election year dominated by a prez candidate not known for thoughtful informed rational discourse.
The clips are almost exclusively him denouncing it in response to being criticized for not denouncing it. It's like a child that will say anything to get out of time out by the time he gets to it. It shouldn't take so much work.
Ah that's been happening sometimes with the email input - thanks for the heads up though. Site's getting hugged right now, so that might be the issue!
Can you flash Tasmota on to devices without using additional hardware (other than a Linux desktop with Wifi, for example)? Last I checked you had to do soldering, etc.
Of course you could hack a billboard to show a picture that would distract human drivers. Infact most billboard ads aim to do just that, since most humans on the road are driving (most cars commuting with 1 person).
As a long time vue user and Svelte convert, I absolutely love it. Much nicer to use, than any other framework I tried.
I very much second this. Have no idea why to use Openland when there are so many more alternatives with an optimized vision for their usage.

Openland vs Slack

Openland vs Discord

Openland vs Facebook Groups

etc.

The classic of course is hubspot -> https://www.hubspot.com/products/sales/salesforce-vs-hubspot
So explain to me how do you get distracted in a presidential debate and when asked to condem a white supremacist group you say "proud boys stand back and stand by" that's not how you get distracted and forget to say something, that is how you talk to what you consider "your troops/team".
That was my exactly my experience. Many of those soccer team mates became the closest colleagues ive had largely BECAUSE of the time we spent winning and losing!
That is not how Section 230 works. It has nothing to do with “neutrality” — it simply shields platforms from liability for legal content created by third parties.
By unfork I mean merging into a single source tree, single software project name (OpenOffice) and single web site (openoffice.org) rather than two of everything. Adios Apache OpenOffice 2014 and TDF LibreOffice 2020, hello OpenOffice 2021!

I don't particularly care about the mechanism or whether it's what TDF or AF wants or doesn't want, so long as it happens.
We're a private company based in SF actually!
> Counterintuitively, people love reading about and engaging in what they consider "stupidity".

What is the intuition that this runs counter to?

I don't see it as counterintuitive. It seems to me a reflection of human nature. I imagine people have always been that way.
I don't give two flying farts how you chose to punctuate or emphasize your comment. I fully appreciated it and agree with it a lot. Unsure why downvoted as well. (Also new here, so will make note of rules).
> The POP3 protocol still works. You can still get Mozilla Thunderbird and grab POP3-style emails from GMail or whatever. But people want IMAP instead, an always-connected model provides better idea of which emails were "read" or "not read", for example.

Well, IMAP isn't always-online, it supports it but you can just as easily use it, download the messages, and disconnect. With IMAP you do get push notifications for email instead of polling, though, which is nice.
- Apache ECharts: https://echarts.apache.org/examples/en/index.html

- VX (React + D3): https://vx-demo.now.sh/gallery
Low chance of any justice.
I think it's fairly obvious that the humans are better in this particular circumstance.
FreePN is intended (long-term) to be a general purpose privacy-protection tool.
Yeah... most of this is highly theoretical and hand-wavy. Needs a real marketing department to handle this narrative, not the CEO.
Yes:

https://twitter.com/blue_leaks

This one is more also nefarious than it looks, because it includes private information on victims of crime.
I think it's okay for now do give svelte a try, but to stick with react for serious projects.
Isn’t a 70 metre miss still effectively “a blond one” in terms of defunct satellites? LeoLabs’ only crime here seems to be that their model or measurements were a bit too fuzzy.
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