skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
USMCA plugs a hole in NAFTA. It had been easy for non-NAFTA countries, particularly China, to import things into the USA via Mexico. USMCA mostly stops that. Canada isn't so alienated. The prime minister may be unhappy that his own failure was exposed, but the people got cheaper dairy. Even if Canada were alienated, it just wouldn't matter much.

It is usually best for the USA to act in a unilateral way. This is due to power. Working with multiple other parties is typically a harmful distraction. I get that some people are horrified by this, but it's clearly true, and the president's job is to put the USA first. Coalitions are for the weak.

His style is fun. There is nothing wrong with fun. It's a nice bonus, though hardly a reason to vote for the man. The same goes for getting globalist communists angry. It's a nice bonus. There are far more important reasons to support Trump.

The definition of "lie" has become absurdly biased. It's a "lie" if Trump makes a joke, exaggerates a bit, uses sarcasm, or has a few percent error on a number. Meanwhile, his opponents endlessly repeat proven falsehoods. Partisan division and anger were ramped up by his opponents, particularly in the media. There would be no division at all if people would simply accept the Trump plan for America.

We haven't had a non-narcissist president or candidate since Eisenhower, so clearly that isn't anything that matters.

You say he "is in the process of undermining confidence in the democratic process itself", as if it is his responsibility to sweep flaws under the carpet. His opponents have fought hard against anything and everything that could be used to prove fraud. (suspicious...) How can you support this situation, purposely being unaware of the extent of fraud? Unjustified confidence should be undermined. Unjustified confidence is harmful. We should not blindly trust a supposedly democratic process that would be easy to corrupt.

I'm looking back at you in disbelief. To use your wording: I would truly like to understand what could bring a reasonable, knowledgeable person to vote against Trump. (in either election) Are you in fact knowledgeable? DKIM proves corruption for both Hillary and Biden. The first time I chose Trump, I didn't trust him, but I knew that Hillary despised normal Americans and that she had committed crimes that would put any normal person in prison. I was shocked that Trump actually followed through on most campaign promises, and that earned him my enthusiastic support.
Will it defeat the advantage or lessen it? For example, some people still need glasses after LASIK but still opt for it since they get end up with needing weaker lenses.
Thinkpad X1 is great laptop. Lenovo has one of the best keyboard on the market.
Yes, it would be good to see results with two images of fireworks.
A good blackmail attempt could then be devastating for you, on the other hand.
I've got to applaud you for thinking about distribution first. Many tech folks turned entrepreneurs (myself included) think that if they build a great product, they'll get usage. Doesn't work that way.

But I will also say that I suspect your strategy is possibly a little naive. I hope it's as easy as you've laid out, and I'm envious of the viral aspects of your proposed product. However, I suspect the "top of funnel" portion (hypothesis 1) won't be enough to drive your "land and expand" portion (hypothesis 2). At least in my own experience currently trying to build a B2B SaaS tool [0], it's an absolute grind. And while some of these communities you're mentioning will engage, it's hard to convert that to people entering your funnel in a reliable fashion. You've got to combine it with 19 others things like content marketing, speaking at events, etc.

That being said, we're not engaging in as transparent way as you are so YMMV. I wish you the best of luck!

0: https://kitemaker.co - a crazy fast issue tracker that connects all of your other tools (GitHub, Figma, Slack, Discord) better than anything else out there
That is how I did it: https://github.com/wesleytodd/short/blob/gh-pages/p2/index.h...
If mega.nz can keep user attention during download and decryption - yes, that happens all client side - then I don't see user doesn't wait for local transcoding process to finish. Show them pre/post processed keyframes as progress indicator.
Similar to Doordash and other companies who have seen increased usage due to the lockdown, I wonder if all of the new cyclists and runners will revert to not using Strava as much post-lockdown. I guess cash in while you can!
I'll state that my wife -an ICU nurse- has stated the same thing. A man dying from COVID19 claiming its a fake virus as he was being sedated to have a tube shoved down his throat passed away days later still believing it was fake. He was one of the first deaths in our region. She broke down hard that night, things are just ramping up here.
That's like using poor ROI to argue against curb cuts.

There are intangible, non-quantifiable benefits to doing things better. Our inability to concoct a price is not a defensible reason to let entropy and chaos win. Sometimes Freedom Markets™ just need some TLC.
Sending emails from a “no-reply” is no good
Not worth the risk/harm due to lockdown, at least for this virus.

I'm still open to the idea that a lockdown would work but not for this virus.

>For your own greater good. For a net gain in freedom

You mean for your greater good because it definitely not for my greater good.
Be curious to see Yelp's "culture" booklet
They - Grubhub not Yelp - record every phone call, as the article points out, and even make it available to the restaurants, with personal details censored (unless of course their algorithms fuck up, and it does fuck up).

So chances are if you ever called via Yelp into one of such Grubhub numbers, they got at least your voice and your food preferences (which might include medical/dietary needs) on record, maybe even your full details and CC number etc (depending on the quality of their automated censoring algorithms and on whether or not they store the original unredacted calls as well).

“This call may be recorded to ensure awesomeness”, as their phone robot tells you :P
People's healthcare gets nationalized and there's surprise that healthcare becomes politically driven? Who would have thought?
He replied to me telling me to behave and I would normally be banned. Looks like the "disabled bonus" was not getting banned for speaking up. GO figure. I am massively disappointed by what turns out to be the true nature of my fellow hacker community.

Frankly, if there was a way to fully delete my account including all the posts I have ever done here, I would do so. Sadly, there isn't.
Yes, Strava's main mistake IMO was not differentiating enough between free and premium versions. I am a long time subscriber because I like the social aspects of Strava but I almost never use the premium features. The basic free plan does almost all of what I need.

The most annoying part of Strava's changes this year was removing access to segment leaderboards from their API (https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/05/strava-cuts-off-leaderbo...). This broke a bunch of 3rd party apps, including some that seem completely innocuous. For instance, I used an app that displayed a list of segments for mountain passes in the Alps and the number of times each had been crossed so far this year. The goal of this was to help people figure out when it was possible to cross a pass (which might be well before the road is officially open), but now that's broken.
Yes, it's a belief/acceptance/trust/whatever you want to call it. I believe demonstrated science is fact, but that's still a belief about the world. My parents are in scientific fields, I received a science and engineering based education, and generally have faith in the scientific method as performed by most scientists.

But we DO have to convince people, we have to convince people by showing them how it works, and letting them decide that that makes sense, you can't just mandate belief as a science authoritarian.

And science is still performed by humans, and we're fallible, and our incentives aren't always good, and every time there's a public failure of the process, and every time a scientist goes on record to shill for a company's chosen viewpoint, it dings the general public's faith in science and scientific experts in general.
A NASCAR login is a stack of login options (Login with Apple, Login with Google, Login with Facebook, Login with Twitter, Login with Github...) where you end up having so many stacked logos that it starts to look like a NASCAR racecar (because they have tons of logos on them.)

https://nascar.nbcsports.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2020...

Google Identity reference to NASCAR Login: https://developers.google.com/identity/toolkit/images/federa...

NASCAR logins are particularly great (easy entry to convert interested users) and at the same time having a huge number of super-ugly edge cases:

1. If you log in with john.q.doe@gmail.com but originally had registered your gmail as johnqdoe, then your login automatically changes to the non-dot form.

2. If you have already registered via email on john.q.doe@gmail.com, then you cannot login-with-Google in the above case, as both accounts are separate and distinct in the host system.

3. If you have two accounts under your school and work account, but log-in-with-Facebook, and Facebook has both your emails, it gets confused.

4. There are cases where you simply cannot log in due to the network of conflicts across the identity services.

...and yet this is also awesome because you get to convert a registered user ASAP in 95% of the cases.
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I mean, I'm not close to Little Snitch's development but I'm pretty sure they used to use a kernel extension. Kernel extensions are deprecated but they aren't going anywhere anytime soon since it seems like Apple just built a brand new kext loading system to handle static kernelcaches
More relevant practical experience: NZ's lockdown shows that we were able to eliminate COVID19 within the country. Six weeks of a pretty hard lockdown followed by six more weeks of gradual relaxing of restrictions.
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People popping up out of the woodwork to argue passionately for an out-of-favor technology reeks of a dying industry trying to revive itself with public relations. Is there any reason to believe that this isn’t just an industry group with a friendly, activist face?
We're even getting it super cheap.

This is already a $10+ trillion pandemic in terms of economic destruction (we'll see economic damage spread out for more than a decade, so the final tally will be even higher). The vaccines are a couple billion dollars each, including manufacturing at scale. A lot of drugs now cost that to bring to market and don't have a small fraction of the positive impact on humanity.

If all that existed were market forces, Moderna and Pfizer could charge ten times what they are. They obviously knew the extreme blowback they'd suffer if they did that (including likely nationalization of their vaccines).

$20-$30 per dose in affluent nations is absurdly cheap to end this nightmare. That's a couple order-out pizzas.
Quite right! Hence "cautiously".

Regardless, one may still "cautiously note this is the exact scenario that Andrew Wakefield complained had happened with MMR", without contradicting anything you (quite rightly) pointed out about the nature of later events.

And just as with this story, and as others have commented elsewhere, this behaviour by the government (pushing a solution they were aware had a high probability of being substandard) may or may not be more related to political than medical factors, and may or may not have involved malicious intent.
This is a very nice and surprisingly readable write up. I think it is the best explanation of the incompleteness theorem I've ever read. Thank you for this!

> Now, say he wanted to write when. He could just write 17.

Shouldn't it be 19?
EU has 8.57m active cases for a 11,500/1M active case rate.

US has 4.23m active cases, for 12,800/1M active case rate.

Note that Spain, UK, Netherlands, and Sweden don't report on active or recovered cases. Nor does the US state of Oregon.

The margin is much thinner, though reported data still give the edge to the EU. Given that Spain and the UK represent large current EU outbreaks, that margin could shift to the advantage of the US.

I'll note that US cases are continuing to grow largely unhindered whilst several EU outbreaks (notably France) may have peaked as lockdowns' impacts are seen.
A login page that has a million logos on it (login with facebook, login with google, etc)
I’ve never been a huge fan of Strava. The segments feel really messy to me. Go for a ride/run and in popular areas you can get hundreds of irrelevant segments.

I primarily use Garmin connect now with Strava serving more as a backup. Sad that Endomondo died when it was acquired.
The First Amendment applies to government. How many @#@$ times do we have to say this.

You have no right to free speech with a private company. Stop talking about it.

They don't want you publish your phone numbers, they don't have to.

Relevant XKCD -

https://xkcd.com/1357/
David Foster Wallace actually wrote this essay, it's called "Consider the Lobster". I believe it caused a not-insignificant number of chefs to start killing the lobsters first instead of just boiling them alive.
Minimizing turn upkeep (over head) is worthwhile. Ignoring it is ludicrous.
> Yes, because it ignores the sentence that precedes it.

This sentence? "Serious secure messengers have been designed to avoid non-repudiation since OTR." I don't see how this sentence supposedly alters the meaning of the sentence that comes after it? At this point it seems like you just want to sow confusion. If I had misinterpreted your words in some way, you could have clarified the misunderstanding like 10 times by now. Instead, you choose to reply in snarks like saying I'm confused, or asking me to read your comment again. I don't think there's any misunderstanding. You took an extreme position that didn't hold up to scrutiny, and you don't want to defend your position or back down, so you just reply in snarks instead. If there is some kind of misunderstanding, please do go ahead and explain what the misunderstanding is.
Counterpoint for some situations.

Sometimes it seems necessary to use words like "obviously" or "of course", otherwise a setting-up part of my explanation will be rebutted as condescending with "but that's obvious", and the rest, my actual point that follows, will be ignored.

If I acknowledge that something is obvious to both of us, there's a chance that the listener won't think I'm being condescending and will instead give enough benefit of the doubt to keep listening until the conclusion.
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GitHub is owned by Microsoft, who is a member of the RIAA who created this legal action.

For Microsoft to pay for the lawyers to take it down (via their RIAA membership payments) and also pay for the lawyers to keep it up seems... rather silly.
Wow, that was a smashing watch! Historically interesting for 1987 Central London, as well as tense and exciting.
It is also weird that there is now a sports car that at various points in its orbit is moving towards Andromeda.
Read my comment more carefully before straw manning my argument. I specifically said:
> And no, that isn't because some small amount of "selfish" people
Perhaps that distracted you, but my point was that even if everyone intended to comply, there are practical limits to that compliance in practice.

Although I will say, if "freedom" is the "one argument [you are] not open to" I don't think you have the moral high ground.
In response to 3. I'd argue it's a much bigger factor than we'd think. Instagram as a platform is now based almost entirely around influencers creating an idealised and unattainable representation of a lifestyle and then selling ad space for your product to be seen as part of that lifestyle.

All social media enables/encourages this to a certain degree and I think the personal touch and reach that individuals give to the products they promote is potentially far more subtle and harmful than the banner ads we typically think of as problematic.
Only if you turn on FileVault, AFAIK. And if so, then that’s the sensible encryption story.
Just today Redpanda hit HN front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25075739 and I cannot see how would you give a demo of such a system without having such a system developed in the first place. At the very least, the whole of HN would laugh at such a salesman trick. I do think there is a spectrum of fake-it-before-you-make-it ability for each idea. For some like Instagram is close to 100% and for things like Redpanda it's close to zero.
I would prefer it if it was not necessary to learn "how to use Google". AMP makes that even more necessary than it used to be. I would prefer it if Google faced more real competition (DDG as I understand it is still fundamentally riding on the back of other lesser-used engines).

But "fundamentally broken" is hyperbole.

I think that "Deities" is also hyperbole. The people under 40 that I know regard Google as a corporation that does useful stuff, sometimes almost as if by magic, but not godlike.
"features" is the wildcard there.

People who have already demonstrated they're trying to give you money is a relatively known payoff when that bug is fixed. "New features" that may never see the light of day, or may actually have a negative revenue impact... those are somehow sexier and often manage to take priority over mundane issues like... hundreds of peoples' payments failing over a month.
Had we gotten it over and done with your freedom would have been materially improved over the subsequent months would it not? You're unhappy with this awful compromise, as everyone should be -- caused by a refusal to adhere to either opening the economy and paying the cost, or to a proper lockdown.

And you should be upset about it, I am, it's been an abject failure. We've compromised so much, but just not quite enough, in part because of the uneven distribution of compliance. That has led to huge cost for zero reward.
Google allows you to turn it off.
He provided an authoritative source - official death stats - and a rational explanation as to why that source suggests the nurses claim may be a lie. As others in this thread pointed out, the attention of getting on to CNN is unfortunately enough to encourage people to lie.

You don't need to trust him personally.
If you want to follow along you can use without using Mathematica you can use the Mathematica clone https://github.com/mathics/Mathics
Ok I'll try this :-)

Work is fun though and getting up in the morning too, but ... Well there are a bunch of other things I've postponed for months now soon
I've found this: 100B in 2015 (worldwide). It probably didn't go down since then

www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/05/05/global-cancer-spending-reaches-100b
backgrinding - similar to how back illuminated sensors are made: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-illuminated_sensor
Or they do it because they think/feel it's making a difference. Or they want to avoid other people thinking they are making a point of not wearing one. Or it's just the routine they've gotten into. Or if they're not just on a walk they wear it because they find fiddling with it when they get somewhere they need it more annoying. When I see someone on a random street wearing/not wearing a mask my first thought definitively is not "oh, they are trying to make a point"
Maybe they ran out those property list updating chisels.
No, their vaccine protects them.
That is not how things work in the real world. Sure, the fix itself might take 30 minutes. But then you have to validate it. And run a canary. And crosscheck your revenue numbers to make sure it didn't have an adverse affect elsewhere.

That's a lot of work for something that will probably mean very little extra revenue.
It's the privatisation that is making people suspicious: the private companies who've been awarded public money with inadequate scrutiny inevitably turn out to be linked to the ruling party or their donors.

(see linked footnote https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n21/peter-geoghegan/cron... )
> In Oregon it is legal to record telephone conversations with the consent of at least one party, but recording in-person conversations requires the consent of all parties except for in certain circumstances, such as when all parties reasonably should have known they were being recorded. Illegal recording is a misdemeanor that can also give rise to civil damages.

OR Rev Stat § 165.540 (definition & penalty), § 133.739 (civil damages)

source: https://www.justia.com/50-state-surveys/recording-phone-call...
Ahh, brings back memories of this classic post from ~15 years ago...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/14850/microsoft-an...

'Major computer resellers such as Compaq, Gateway, and Dell are already lining up for premier placement on the new and improved BSOD. Ballmer concluded by getting a dig in against the Open Source community. "This just goes to show that Microsoft continues to innovate at a much faster pace than open source. I have yet to see any evidence that Linux even has a BSOD, let alone a customizable one."'
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How can you be sure that the censors will always be on the side of the angels?

Follow-up question: how can you be sure that you, personally, are on the side of the angels? Especially if you have never been allowed to hear the opposing point of view?

Seriously, the growing support for censorship in the previously libertarianish Tech community has been the worst development of the last decade.
I'll be at home in bed, infecting nobody. And yes, I do wear a mask in public. I doubt their efficacy, but's not such an imposition that I will give it the benefit of the doubt. Injecting something of unproven safety into my body is an entirely different matter.
We definitely wanted fun! I guess there are two ways to slice and dice it: 1) fun because the application is exotic / iconic, or 2) fun because the chip is exotic. This is definitely a case of the latter: an exotic chip with interesting history.
> Science™, as it exists today, is a deified Organization, filling the vacuum of religion in the secular West.

I don't really agree here. I can see the argument that most fields are so advanced that people need to have "faith" in scientific leadership because they can't hope to achieve a deep understanding of most fields of science. At least that trust is given to a group who is ostensibly equipped to refute false or misleading findings via the scientific method.

But that's not replacing the role of religion, which is more political, social, & ethical in nature. I'd argue political systems have displaced religion in most of the West.

Also, shouldn't your username be YuenglingLight
Regarding at least Australia for not being nuked:

Have you ever heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap ?

While that is only one target, and in the middle of nowhere at that, do you still think so? For me that looks like a very valuable target to disrupt the operations of anyone who operates from there.
The first wave of vaccines are destined for frontline and high-risk individuals. They may have a different perspective on the vaccine than your Average Joe, and I doubt uptake will be a big concern. I don't think distributing and administering will be difficult since it will be on a limited scale. The later rollout to the general public is where most of the problems may be.