skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but (...) truly people need to be responsible for what they post online.

I strongly disagree. Anonymity is an important and integral part of the internet and the free speech it enables. Moving towards this sort of thing will only be used for abuse and censorship. It saddens me how much this has become an accepted position, even on hn, and I'm quite tired of all the justifications for giving up important rights, anonymity is closely related to privacy for example, just because of some scarey boogeyman of the day.

Anonymity offers the ability to criticize entities (governments, corporations, people), to communicate in ways more freely than otherwise, to discuss personal issues without fear, to have a presence online without stalkers or other abusers attack, it also avoids the most common rhetorical abuse I see, which is overreliance on argument from authority by separating the identity of the person making the argument from the argument itself, and I could go on. I could go on...

Do you really think the vast amount of negatives that come with your proposal would be worth the tradeoff?

https://youtu.be/sKOk4Y4inVY?t=518 [1]

1. "In 1995, there was a debate at Harvard Law School – four of us discussing the future of public key encryption and its control. I was on the side, I suppose, of freedom. It’s where I try to be. With me at that debate was a man called Daniel Weitzner who now works in the White House making Internet policy for the Obama administration.

On the other side was the then Deputy Attorney General of the United States and a lawyer in private practice named Stewart Baker who had been chief council to the National Security Agency, our listeners, and who was then in private life helping businesses to deal with the listeners. He then became, later on, the deputy for policy planning in the Department of Homeland Security in the United States and has much to do with what happened in our network after 2001.

At any rate, the four of us spent two pleasant hours debating the right to encrypt and at the end there was a little dinner party at the Harvard faculty club, and at the end, after all the food had been taken away and just the port and the walnuts were left on the table, Stuart said, “All right, among us now that we are all in private, just us girls, I’ll let our hair down.”

He didn’t have much hair even then, but he let it down.

“We are not going to prosecute your client, Mr. Zimmermann," he said. “Public key encryption will become available. We fought a long, losing battle against it, but it was just a delaying tactic.” And then he looked around the room and he said, ”But nobody cares about anonymity, do they?"

And a cold chill went up my spine and I thought, all right, Stuart, and now I know you’re going to spend the next twenty years trying to eliminate anonymity in human society and I am going to try to stop you and we’ll see how it goes.

And it’s going badly. We didn’t build the net with anonymity built in. That was a mistake. Now we are paying for it." -Eben Moglen
> Nope, and show reluctance to even bother trying. We communicate via Signal

Not all of us. Many of us realize the benefits of federation and the security implications of having a single point of failure.
What's evil about helping consenting adults transmit money?

Stripe isn't a monopoly like Visa.
That's not true and credit cards are one of the few cases where the fine print does not matter.

That's because by regulation you (the consumer) will not be liable for credit card fraud if they steal the number and other info and use it elsewhere. If they physically steal the card and use it elsewhere your max liability per regulation is $50.

Regardless of fine print these are the max limits of your loss. That's why nobody worries about it.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/unauthorized-credit-...
I've spent the last two hours playing with a few but most seem to crash or fail silently, aren't supported any more, or are Mac/iOS only. I was remembering the two mentioned above (one by google, can't remember the other but it was epic). Thanks, I'll keep working through the list.
What is “OSX”?
Ad filled junk. Even shows modals with ads between pages. Horrible
Anxiety is in that list of things that can be termed "depression". [1]

Anxiety for something like a test is normal -- since you can take the test away and the anxiety goes away.

If it's worse than that it could be depression, including things like panic attacks.

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depression/sy...
I know that some of the people who were singled out to their classes as the smart kid (and thereby encouraged to keep learning, because they felt they were doing well at it)... suspect as adults that other kids were discouraged by it (like the other kids felt they didn't have the special aptitude).

A different message than "obviously, this is a Smart Kid" would be "this achievement is within reach of kids who put the effort into it, and we should be supporting all kids to reach like this".

The piece had some bits in it were hitting the first message, rather than the second.
Vegan diet, intermittent fasting (18/6), exercise, meditation cured my depression.
Note there are DMCA-like provisions enforced by trade treaties. And hosting in China has its own set of problems.
This is why alternative operating systems like AROS, HaikuOS, ReactOS, OSFree and others need more support and third party apps like modern Internet apps. They don't track you and are open source and easier to use and configure than Linux.
I draw my strength from the yellow sun. Over the last two weeks my home has tilted ever farther from it. I feel the familiar ebbing of the light.

I’ve gotten better at mitigating it over the years. Vitamin D supplementation, light box therapy every morning, and near daily exercise is key. Getting the routine dialed in before mid-November is crucial.
Rubber hoses still exist. I think GP was trying to correctly point out that having a single point of failure is a weakness in any system, cryptographic or otherwise.
I’ve gotten update notices for a large percentage of my apps where they call out that they are now compiled for M1 Macs. I think it likely that most actively maintained apps will publish M1 natives version in short order.
Thanks for sharing! That article is very good food for thought as a current student.
Thanks, yeah that's the current approach. I tell myself that consistency is more important than intensity or duration, like just 1 set counts, but it seems like what happens is I build up to larger workouts, then subconsciously set an expectation to match it, then psych myself out (even if I technically only need to do one small set)
https://yandex.com/search/?text=the pirate bay

https://yandex.ru/search/?text=the pirate bay

Takes less time than writing that comment.
Do they mean hydrogen fuel cells or hydrogen as fuel?
Yeah, it hasn't been easy. But I still count myself lucky, since a lot of people everywhere have had it much worse.

Regarding work, I was a dumbass actually. I didn't share with any superior what was going on, spent months both hating myself and also fearing being "found out". But recently I felt so overwhelmed that I had to bring it up. I was afraid to do it, only to find out I should've done it much earlier. My manager and my skip-level were incredibly understanding and accomodating once I shared with them, and even offered to reduce my "available capacity" when planning next quarter's work, with no reduction in salary or anything. Truly amazing.

I'm still quite low in productivity, but it's great to have the space to be so while I sort things out.
...but definitely think about why you are better than excel and email, because they are a solution to almost every data & workflow problem. You need to move them from "good enough" to "painful compared to" your solution.
> that MS was a software maker, not a hardware maker.

This doesn't matter. If microsoft built all of the computer hardware in the world, as well, then there is absolutely no way that society would let them engage in anti-competitive practices. Instead, that would be even worse, as it would show microsoft having even more market power.

Take a look at the railroads as a similar example. The railroad companies built their own railroads.

But obviously, even though railroad companies built their own railroads, they still got hit with anti-trust. The railroad companies lost. Building the hardware, or railroads, is not a defense.

> Apple doesn't seem to be leveraging their market position (in any market) to force suppliers to pay Apple even when Apple isn't involved.

Sure they are. Once someone owns a phone, it now belongs to them. It no longer belongs to Apple. Apple is no longer involved in any way, with the hardware that the consumer now owns. That is now Apple getting involved in a different market.

> Sony makes their own gaming hardware

From a high level I would not say that Sony has nearly the same amount of market power as Apple does. Thats why the same arguments don't apply. It has nothing to do with them making hardware.

But, on the other hand, if there were only 1 major game platform, then anti-trust law would absolutely apply. If only xBoxes existed, then they would have significant market power.

> but not Sony or Microsoft. I think it's a good question.

The reason is because Apple has way more market power than the playstation and the xbox. Thats it.

> a strong case against the iOS App Store

The very strong case is that it is very clear that Apple has significant market power. That is the only thing that matters. The only thing that matters, at all, is that Apple clearly has significant market power, and that means that it cannot engage in certain actions.

There is nothing at all in the sherman anti-trust act that says "If you build the hardware entirely, then you can engage in anti-competitive actions".

Please show be the paragraph in that law, that says that. It does not exist. The only thing that matters is market power.

> I think Apple is too big

I don't care about them being big. Instead what I want is for them to not engage in anti competitive practices.

> we need to do something, and this annoys me

What we need to do is end the anti competitive practices, and force apple to allow all major 3rd party app stores to be installed on the iphone.

That is not a vague proscription. It is very specific.

The government needs to force Apple to allow 3rd party app stores in the same way that they forced microsoft to allow people to easily choose a different web browser.
'Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.'
whatever happened to letting the user decide which application they wanted to run? now the mothership has to give their blessing before they let you run it... sounds insane.
I'm glad someone does! It has been super useful for me, which is why I decided to go to the trouble of making it widely available.
It's the only reliable source of urls now in the shifting sands of registrar removals.
If your needs require high CPU utilization for extended time periods, you might be better off what the new MacBook Pro. The Air is intended for more causal use cases.
They spend their whole day in training to stay accurate

That's what I mean-- for some, there's a way to overcome the speed-accuracy trade-off with extreme effort.

And yeah, kudzu is crazy. I remember seeing it in the south (US) when I had family there as a kid and thinking "wow, that place must have been abandoned like 50 years ago". Then I found out about kudzu not long ago & was amazed.
The good news is if you never had it in the past there’s a chance it may go away and not come back. Everyone goes through rough spots and this has been a weird year. Depression is a serious thing though, so don’t feel any shame in asking a professional about it.
Former name for macOS.
War must always be considered, if you want to keep existing as a nation.

People have been repeating "Si vis pacem, para bellum" for thousands of years for a reason.

Semiconductors and aerospace are important to war efforts, and having domestic manufacturing capability is a big deal if you have serious, wealthy, technically advanced adversaries.

Reality is complicated and many-faceted, and there are a number of reasons to keep Intel alive as far as the govt goes: war, staving off brain-drain, keeping a lot of jobs, etc.
Could you please clarify what you are referring to by "non-binding eugenics guideline" and whom you are quoting? Also, could you explain directly why gene editing is unethical without making a vague analogy to eugenics? If the analogy is sound then you should be able to.
The former. For it to be the latter, Apple or FBI would have to explicitly state as much.
Speaking of which:

I don't normally post things like this out of the blue, but if anyone has small software things they might be willing to commission me for within the next few-to-several months where turnaround time isn't “right now”, that could help a lot, so don't hesitate to poke me at my profile email address, low-effort one-liners accepted. (I have a partial source of work lined up for once I can focus again, but it's fraught in its own ways.)

My most native domain is oldish/systemsish/Unixish (Go, C, shell scripting, Perl…) but I can be fairly polyvalent in environments overall. Have done some previous work on things like Tor and OpenVPN. Ideal is something like “this bug/feature-request has been nagging at us and could use a fresh set of eyes”. Specific strengths historically include informal-methods precision of modeling and ability to haul The Good Stuff out of semantic mud. Specific weak areas include PHP being too psychologically taxing, Node.js likely being the same (which, ah, er, ouch given current SV culture), and flakiness from the depression itself (expected to improve with medication, but not 100% and exact curve unknown).

Posting this as a separate comment so it's easier to delete on its own if it turns out to be inappropriate. Also, to avoid surprise: I don't make my legal name too immediately visible from profiles etc. presently, but anyone who's transacting with me will get a confirmation of it privately.
>So is that depression?

Yep, but the cause in your case is unknown. For example, it could be work burnout causing it. It could be not going outside that is causing it. It could be not socializing that is causing it. It could be your diet. It could be ...

If you can identify the cause you can find a solution. Unfortunately, the best most people have is a shotgun approach where they try a combination of solutions attempting to address every possible cause.

When in a depressed state it makes you want to lay down, to do less. It's exhausting and depending on how bad the depression is sleeping seems better. For the majority, doing the exact opposite of how you feel works to get out of that state, which isn't easy for many, so it helps to take it slow. Sometimes just walking around in a circle in your house for 15-20 minutes can sometimes be enough. This can be done without getting dressed or even thinking about it. It can be done while cooking food or going to the bathroom. It's only 15 minutes and for many that is enough exercise to start feeling not drained again.

For many today depression can be caused by doing too much instant gratification type activities in your free time, which can cause that feeling drained feeling. I find having a hobby can help a lot, because then you're not bored. I find getting a hobby can be hard. It can come from a need, like being aggravated with something and wanting to improve it, but it also comes as a side effect from socializing with people. People talking about what they've been up to, what they're passionate about, or even what they hate, can all plant seeds of inspiration that can eventually lead to a hobby. So for some the solution to this kind of depression is socializing.

And it goes on. This is why talking to a professional (preferably someone who specializes in CBT, but it's not required) can help. It typically only takes a few months of therapy to get out of most kinds of depression.
This sounds more like depersonalization. It can be a symptom of cPTSD or schizoid personality disorder (which is sort of like cPTSD-as-personality).
A link shortener for Notion that able to custom meta description?
First an app for just broadcasting transparency is fine, but there is no control here. Well any app within the walled garden of the OS is powerless to remove the embedded trackers of the advertising companies owning them, so moreso an app isn't the solution here but a complete switchoff onto a more secure OS would fit, and once there you can have a privacy app (though in insecure hands a "privacy app" will just be another heavy invasive tracker).
A letter from Gödel to von Neumann
> What's wrong with selling your vote?

Depends on your point of view, I suppose. Some might argue that it distorts the democratic process, some others could argue that it's merely an extension of exchanging promises for votes.

Unfortunately, this is not an area I'm very familiar with, so you'll probably have to look elsewhere for well-reasoned analyses.

> Politicians get to do it. Why can't I do it?

Someone else doing something wrong is rather poor justification for you being able to do something wrong.

Of course, this is contingent upon you believing vote selling is wrong; if you think it is acceptable, then the unequal treatment can be something worth addressing.

> How does it open the door to voter intimidation? Someone steals my ballot receipt and checks who I voted for?

It basically boils down to someone with power over you sitting you down in front of a computer and asking you to prove who/what you voted for, with some kind of negative consequence if you refuse or picked the "wrong" candidate/issues.

Stealing a ballot receipt in lieu of asking you to show the result yourself is another way to go about it.
One suggestion: lobby your representatives to put a stop to this insane time-changing business, which is basically engineered to engender the symptoms people are reporting in this thread.
Medians are misleading. Some random high school in Missouri probably has outliers that it just doesn't know how to deal with. Additionally, maintaining low expectations perpetuates a cycle of underachievement.
Probably depends who's reading it. For a non-technical person reviewing this resume, the first one doesn't mean anything. And at most companies, there are still non-technical people who screen resumes before forwarding them to the hiring manager (to make sure you have at least 10 years of experience working with a framework that has only existed for 5, etc.)

To that audience, the two examples might as well be something like:

> Remodulated the warp core using Coaster.js

vs.

> Made the company oodles of big money with this one neat trick.
Counter anecdata: This year has been an insufferable slog, but in the last month or so, I've felt better than I have at any other time this year. It started a week or two before I quit Twitter, which I think rules out quitting social mass media as a factor?

It's been a long, hard year, and for once I'm doing better in it, even if the outside world seems to be going to hell. It seems the inverse of what should be going on as we head into winter, but I'll take it.
What's the point of this? Yes, I am severely depressed among other issues I am facing. I haven't had a job in 3 years, after burning out and started having panic attacks. The finances are so stressful that are making me just numb. I can't make any decision, the executive part of my brain appears to have shut off.

Also, depression is not an illness. It's a defensive mechanism, just a symptom of a certain body state. It's a completely natural response.
We have been warned and ignored the warning:
https://prism-break.org/en/
Copying my comment from the straw poll post:

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I had severe depression for a few years that became debilitating at the start of 2020 causing me to be unable to socialize or work or do anything but sleep. I was a terrible friend, parent, spouse, and employee. I tried multiple anti-depressants and therapists, but nothing helped. This august I found a psychiatrist that also did ketamine treatment and it was a miracle. Literally the day after my first treatment I wasn’t depressed and have had zero depressed feelings since. It was surreal. Depression had define my life for so long. I wish the treatment was more accessible, but unfortunately it is very expensive and not covered by insurance. If anyone is struggling and would like to learn more, please reach out.
>>there's no screen on a microcontroller so printf("hello world") does nothing.

The article is specifically about ARM Cortex-M4s, which support semihosting. So most of the tools listed in the article will just automatically spit printf out to the semihosting console without any effort.

Even if there isn't semihosting on a platform, the first thing I almost always do with board bring-up is pipe printf to some debug port (uart, ethernet, usb, etc).
> Anytime someone insists on HN that virtual particles are real, you can just tell them that Arkani-Hamed disagrees with you and that he is also smarter than you.

So, argument from authority then?

Are all experts in agreement on virtual particles? If not, which are we meant to 'follow'?

And BTW, I have no position on virtual particles.
Very well paid teams of lawyers have spent considerable time and effort writing these terms of services. In the case of Google there is so much of this stuff, for all the different services, that Google doesn't even have a single conclusive ToS document, but instead a whole website [0]

Good luck finding anything explicitly stated in there.

[0] https://policies.google.com/terms
You do realize that there are millions of satisfied Mac, iPhone, and iPad customers out there, right? The profits speak for themselves: clearly there is value both for freedom and for security. And it never was a binary question anyway.

Besides, you can still run non-notarized binaries if you want to. The UI does make it difficult, but not impossible.

If you want a totally open computer, that's fine (to the extent you don’t spread it via negligence), but everything has tradeoffs. If you're comfortable with the risk of malware, that's also fine; but not everyone is -- and certainly not the business world.
DNA from a mummified bishop’s lungs shows tuberculosis infected us only recently
I wouldn’t say I feel depressed, but there’s an overarching feeling of claustrophobic suffocation that the confluence of current events is causing. It’s a feeling of foreboding. Some subconscious part of my brain is predicting a future that none of us wants to see. So depression? No. Fear? Definitely.
No. Grove never understood disruption. Celeron was a strategic error. Otellini was right in foresight and wrong in hindsight on the iPhone. “Disrupt yourself” is a terrible strategy. That’s the entire point of “The Innovator’s Dilemma”.

Intel’s real disruptive strategy was the Pentium Pro architecture that disrupted the mainframe market, proven by ASCII Red in 1995. But you don’t hear about that because the business leaders didn’t even know it existed (same with multi core btw). The problem with this, as with all disruption, was low margins, so IA-64 was an attempt to enter the mainframe market as a peer of the high-margin encumbents, and was itself disrupted by the broadly inferior but cheaper AMD64. Low-margin ARM disruption also should have been expected as normal and unavoidable.

The big question is what market Intel can disrupt next. I have criticisms I’ve held back on, but one thing I will say is that Intel’s portolio of disruptive technology is greater than I had expected. Leadership has to be able to put together the pieces. NVidia, for example, probably has less core technology, but their direction is more aligned.
The Apple defenses are all over HN today. Honestly feels like astroturfing after the OCSP fiasco.

If it's not astrptufing, I don't think I can understand the mindset of a consumer who feels the need to defend the world richest corporation from criticism.