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> Nevermind that your VPN might have the purpose of bypassing shitty, insecure public wifi.
> Nevermind you may not be trusting your local/national internet infrastructure.

Routing traffic onto the public Internet through a 3rd party adds absolutely nothing to security. You shouldn’t trust the Internet in any case.

If you use it to ‘bypass shitty security’ and then all you’re doing is trick yourself into a false sense of security. VPN services like that are complete and total bullshit.
Would be stupid and naive to ignore or belittle every other contribution but open source and hacker culture has pushed the human race forward by leaps and bounds within just last two decades alone.

This spirit and culture must live on forever.
I mean historically communism is intrinsically genocidal.

This is a much more serious charge than saying communism results in a bunch of products that people don't like very much.

As to why it is genocidal, and whether this is intrinsic or just a factor of having the wrong people in charge, I think the computational complexity of the problem gets at why genocide is an intrinsic property of communism. Namely, it is just way too innefficient to supply the actual needs of a nation, and so millions starve, or must be killed to make the system work.
As discussed elsewhere on HN already, this is about the 2013 and 2014 models.
How to write a thank-you email after a job interview
Cue ewok celebration. However by episode 7 everything we'll be back in the same situation sans ewoks.
https://www.amazon.de/Future-Shock-Alvin-Toffler/dp/05532773...
What You Need to Know About Parental Regret
That's what Trump effectively put in motion by withdrawing from WHO.

https://youtu.be/7g0Jh4h5E1E
Am I misunderstanding or are you looking for Unicode normalization?

http://site.icu-project.org/design/normalization/custom
How much of that metadata is not normally downloaded alongside the video?
It's a basic feature of the growth-at-all-costs financier mindset. A complete and total misunderstanding of closed vs open systems, zero sum games, and "innovation".
Any format can be subject to submarine patents, even the ones that require licenses.
Sounds like she's on mobile considering the ads
Because we can extrapolate from our scientific understanding of both?

We know fairly well what damage covid-19 does to the body, and we know fairly well what other similar Corona viruses have done.

Similarly we know the qualities of these vaccines and the likelihood of their success and failure rates.

The vaccine isn't created by pure chance. It's a result of an iterative scientific process.
What's the magic going on in substitutions like:

Sin[a+b] /. Sin[x_] -> Cos[x]

which yields 'Cos[a+b]'. Is the underscore after the x what indicates that "x_" can take any value? And Mathematica then strips the undescore and replaces 'x' with that value? Why not just use x_ on both sides? And earlier the author was using '_x' instead of 'x_'. It seems rather mysterious to me.
Im surprised you are not yet down-voted into oblivion.
There's a cost-benefit analysis to be made here, and with 240,000 deaths in the US over the course of about eight months, there's pretty widespread agreement among experts where the rational answer lies.

Do I think the vaccine is risky? Sure. Do I think it has anywhere close to the risk level of COVID-19 with an unvaccinated population? No.

Maybe other countries can rationally hold off on it, but the US cannot. We've messed up our response so awfully that the risk of mass-vaccination is almost negligible compared to what we're experiencing without.
Does the fact that the RIAA is packed with stodgy, old corporate lawyers who most likely lack even superficial understanding of the term "version control" lack appropriate explanatory power?
I was thinking more along the line of the people who actually deliver the pizza. It's an honest job, unlike being an RIAA lawyer or ad tech programmer. But next to either of those, even delivery app developers are saints.
If you don't mind sharing, what did you use to disable telemetry?
if there is no residue then classifying it as "drug paraphernalia" would be in bad faith
& if the stone tablets it was written on aren't dated? Now we have a comparison with NULL problem in our query.
You're citing WIKIPEDIA articles? I didn't expect that from HN. I am sorry but they're not a credible sources either.

The current crisis ongoing between Nepal and India is the starting point of all this. If you follow the timeline, it was after the Nepal suddenly woke up after 30 years and started laying claims on territory which was agreed to be part of India. The current sitting govt. is highly biased for the communist, to the extent that somehow the Chinese Envoy has 'special' meetings with PM and internal handling. It's a known fact. There is strategic shift since the new PM who is has communist leaning was sworn in, since day one. Whilst, India shared Open border with Nepal during all this time, Nepal was like a brother, we had everything to share with them.

It is due due to foreign interference from Chinese side these chain of events started taking place. In Past Indian Govt. was very hesitant about border clashes but now it seems like they have had enough of the bullying.

Are you really denying the expansionism by China? If you only care about hyperlink to so called 'International Credible News Sources they're not free from Foreign interference either.

There are issues in past even with Sri-Lanka, The Chinese side has occupied an entire port by debt trap policy. The Thread posed by Chinese Expansionism is real.

> but instead there are disputes between Nepal and India.

There are 2 disputes of minor region. There is no Denial of change in behavior from nepal's side, how come after decades Free trade, Open Borders, where Nepal citizen could literally get their bags and visit any city in India, decide to show their back? that too all of sudden? never in history there was a crisis like this.

Look at the larger picture, China has highest number of territorial disputes , South China Sea, Indian Border Dispute, I wonder how world has forgotten Take over of Tibet. Even Taiwan, Mongolia, Australia, Japan, They internally suppressing millions of Uighurs Muslims voices, and not to forget Hong Kong. They're debt trapping poor nations - in the name of investment they bring everything from China sounds fair enough until even the laborers are from China, its a fishy business, to an extent where they had dock yards and port in their name... It doesn't take a genius to figure out where the way leads, China's been bully for more than a decade now.
Yeah, that's always my take on wearing masks: it's a decision of risk management. The potential downside of not wearing a mask is just too much larger than that of wearing one, especially when we still have much to know about the virus.
Yes, I also think they should have waited indefinitely. I don't trust Google to care about backwards compatibility and keep on supporting Webp v1 forever, I would expect them to drop it before even dropping jpeg or png. Especially in this case, where it mostly serves Google and other big web corporations, and not regular users.

Mozilla always had the stance that they wouldn't just add support for technology that might be just a passer-by technology. I think that was the right choice and I think it is a shame they added support for webp recently.

I can even imagine this to be market practice, where they add new stuff, where Apple and Mozilla and newcomers have to chase Google's fad of the day, while Google has enormous resources for Chrome. You can call me paranoid, I probably am :)

Anyway, if Google Chrome ditches Webp v1 in the next 10 years, I will not be that guy to say "Told you so!", but I will think it for sure.
Agreed, changing up my habits to wearing a mask in public was definitely a much bigger hardship compared to the lucky few that met their maker.
Admittedly, I'm not familiar with Parler.

>even though there is no evidence for these allegations of systemic anti-conservative bias.

All there is evidence of is them removing misinformation. Like banning the NYPost after they fabricated a ridiculous story how Hunter Biden flew across the country to give his laptop to a computer repair guy who 'found' all this data. As MSNBC says, NYPost is a conspiracy theory peddling tabloid.

Though I do agree Twitter hasn't done enough to remove the hate and misinformation.

Sure, Twitter did ban lots of people who were defending that racist maga hat kid. The Native American man he was taunting explained what happened very well. His explanation that the boys surrounded him and threatened him is so typical of MAGA people. I also agree that anyone who threatened to kill the maga hit kid shouldn't be punished.

Banning the people who called Jussie Smollet a hoax, after he was attacked by Trump voters. That was justice.

I also agree with all the transphobes who have been banned. They should never be allowed to use the wrong pronoun, or use a deadname, or for that matter just say things like women have 2 X chromesomes. All these abusive people have no place on Twitter.
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Long term lung damage is indicated at least among those who have had severe symptoms and suffering. I never said anything about the efficacy or the safety of the vaccines in my comment. I personally think that these preliminary results from these trials are also not completely reliable. While we should all be thankful for the results, the current announcements aren’t the end of the story. Even when they get to further trials, we wouldn’t have had enough time and enough broad range tests to conclusively state certain things (and the unfortunate fact is that we don’t have the luxury of time).

If you look at what the experts say, you’d find them being cautious with their words when commenting on vaccines, efficacy, etc. It’s in people’s best interests to follow precautions like wearing masks, washing hands with soap and maintaining some distance from other people, regardless of what news comes on the vaccine front.
Suppose you try it out, find you don't like it, and decide to return it within a week, after which you want to buy another one. How often does that happen? 5%? That might still make you significantly more likely to buy the next vacuum than a random member of the population.

Of course, if you bought a vacuum and returned one, that would be the ultimate targeting point. I don't know if "they just returned a vacuum cleaner" is a datum provided to advertisers.

It also might be that people usually don't return it until they've chosen one that they think would be better (possibly ordering the new one, even waiting until they receive it and trying it out before starting the return process).
If you want to put your everyday Amazon spend to good use, don't spend on Amazon.
You don't need to use a "bullshit" "VPN service" for that.
Ask HN: How do you communicate product updates?
Apart from email, what methods do you use to communicate updates and new features to your users?
Yeah - more or less - but a pyramid scheme thrives on recruitment of new members. In case of MLM it's more of a bonus.
GNOME 3 was a mistake, Unity was even more of a mistake.
Genuinely asking - is the timing coincidental or is the decision to release these results after the election politically motivated for either Moderna or Pfizer? COVID has of course hurt Trump’s candidacy and one could see how good news prior to voting would help his chances. There’s a saying that goes “everything in an election year is about the election”. Thoughts?
Because long-term effects require a long term to show up, and the vaccine was created using a very well-understood technique for which that type of data is available.
It looks like Atlassian does take POs though. Is there something about the way they (or other SaaS) companies take POs?

How do I submit a Purchase Order (PO number) to Atlassian?
(https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/purchase-licensing#order...)

To get started, complete our secure online Quote & Order Form. On the final confirmation page, check the PO number box to add your PO number. The PO number will appear on your quote or invoice (valid for 30-days). If you already have a quote or invoice, you can update the quote or invoice through my.atlassian.com via the Orders tab.

Atlassian is happy to reference a PO number on a quote or invoice for your internal tracking and record keeping. However, we do not accept purchase orders as a form of payment nor the terms and conditions commonly associated with purchase orders. We provide fully functional trial licenses for you to use while payment is being arranged. We are able to keep our prices low by offering standard product agreements to all our customers and do not offer commercial credit.
Open question to HackerNews: are there big tech firms that give lobbying money to free software lobbyists?

Feel free to highlight them here.

I'd rather cut this problem off at the head than sit around and establish legal defense funds if possible. I'm glad GitHub and Microsoft could help contribute to this victory though.
1) You're talking about risk of death, right? Have you met one of the many people with "long haul" symptoms? I really don't want that! 2) You did not include the risk of sickening friends, family, and those around you.
Sure, people can make up explanations for consciousness all day, but saying it is 'emergent' is not a meaningful materialistic description. If you tell me the Linux source code 'emerges' that gives me no understanding of how it works or how to write the thing myself. It is no different an explanation than to say 'god did it'. Materialism is the promise that we can break a thing down into components that when reassembled give us the same thing back. 'Emergence' is completely antithetical to this idea.

As of right now, there are zero materialistic accounts for consciousnes, and no reason to think one is forthcoming. The only people holding out are those who presume materialism a priori, which is just circular.
There is no modern computer for which this is true.

It is an ideological denial of computer science.

Nobody decides for themselves what code runs on their computer beyond the tiny fraction for which they understand the source code.

They only decide where the code comes from, and to what extent they trust the origin.
Using GH issues as DB :P I wonder how long before GitHub will notice and shut it down for abuse.
Countries that actually are serious close bars not schools. Life is basically normal in Wuhan and New Zealand. Meanwhile Christmas is cancelled this year because Western governments didn't do exactly what China did.
Are you getting swamped with applications? I applied, thinking my background was a great fit, but never heard anything back.
You're right, though I think the unappreciated difficulty will be getting people to take it. I think it might be one of those things where people say they're willing to take it because they don't want to say otherwise, but may not actually go and get it. If the risks are primarily in the old and at-risk and the young and healthy are the ones who are supposed to be vaccinated, those incentives just don't align.
Yeah, I think grandparent and parent are spot on.

Look at the current wave of government collapses and civil wars that are exacerbated by the current crisis (ethiopia, peru, bolivia, argentina, zambia, etc.). It will be way worse.

Then think about places that are relatively safe, ie Europe, and relatively easy to migrate from the ME and Africa to. That's 500+M people trying to make their way over. That spells serious unrest in Europe too. And that's not even talking about Vietnam's sand mining catastrophe.
Proposition 16: California's rejection is a win for America
Thank you! Maybe I'll do a Show HN soon.
The President was quite with in his legal emergency powers rights to issue a national mask required mandate. He was also allowed to order production of test and require mass testing. This could have all been done legally.
I don't think they were that prescient. They probably just followed what should be standard common sense by now: Never, ever, install a new OS on a machine that you can't afford to lose that very same day. Always wait for reports from early adopters or victims of bushy-tailed curiosity.
That's my guess as well. A PR firm was hired and they came up with this idea. It's pretty much an ad for the police and lamborghini. The question is who paid for it.

It's like the jump from the space a few years ago sponsored by redbull. Or the bazillion "dog reacts to returning soldier" videos you see all over social media.
As WhatsApp Pay enters India, local fintech companies aren’t happy
Plenty of it? I regularly download the metadata and subtitles of entire channels or playlists so that I can search for specific words or phrases in thousands of hours of video. I know of no other way to accomplish this.
I love this. Thanks
Any reason on the name? Chota is a despective way to say "Penis" in South America.
"The question is, is there a path to independence?” Stoppelman said. “Distribution is always the centerpiece. If you create a great product or service, how do you get it in the hands of the people? The problem with Big Tech is they control the distribution channels. Distribution is the key. If [company x] is the starting place for all of the people...to the extent they get in front of consumers and block them from finding the best information, it's really problematic, and that can stifle innovation.”

- Yelp's founder on why Google is a problem.
> But on average, acidic views tend to go with lower incomes at a population level. (I make no assertion on which way causation flows. And within a city, the relationship breaks down.)

This is classism and itself is abhorrent. As someone who lives in NYC, living in NYC and discussing abhorrent views in red states as correlated to income sounds utterly ridiculous on its face when we have our own corrupt NYPD (Stop and frisk, the kettling and brutality on peaceful protestors), ineffective mayor, and increased gentrification leading to homelessness.

I'm absolutely baffled by "I treat living in NYC as a way to get away from lower income people and their abhorrent views" when NYC has lower income people that are actively being disenfranchised and the wealthy simply look the other way (which arguably is abhorrent!).
Have you seen the top 100 chessplayer list? Now, 10 years ago?, 50 years ago? Have you see the women top 100 list? The few American women there are Asian-Americans or FSU. Only in Hollywood a cute WASPY girl is the GOAT of chess, and yes I know this is based on a 1980s novel.That does not make it realistic.

It's like making a movie where the best 100m sprinter in the world is a Guatemalan woman. Nice story, 0 credibility.
I don't see non repudation as that bad a thing. Are people any less likely to be blackmailed due to technical deniability of email contents? I feel that for most, that wouldn't matter.
I honestly thought I must have missed something big until I got to your comment... It seemed painfully incongruous in my mind to equate the demonstrably geometric ‘distortion’ artifacts directly resulting from a lower dimensional representation of a sphere ... to the mathematically unrelated notion of orienting the observational frame of reference.
2D maps literally distort and misrepresent the spatial arrangement of our planet’s surface in a metaphysical sense.
Globes do not suffer from this distortion of space in their spherical approximate representation of the planet.
The latter seems to be the the most salient point of the thread given whether you use an actual globe or a virtual one such a Google Earth... both of which are ubiquitously common and available ... it seems practically irrelevant (if nevertheless interesting) to consider the distortion of a 2D map as an actual “problem”. And whether or not one agrees with that, it’s wholly unrelated to whether you choose to hold your 2D map or 3D globe upside and any other orientation relative to your observational frame of reference—the former remains geometrically distorted in an egregious manner and the latter not.
I take GH/Microsoft won't implement any punitive counter-measures for frivolous 1201 claims?

Their new claim processing appears to be fairly resource-heavy. It'd be only fair to recover some of the costs they will end up sinking into it.
That's the fastest way to grow, but to retain that growth it's also worthwhile to have some 'fun' with each new skill shortly after becoming competent at it and periodically (say, monthly at a minimum) thereafter. At least, that's how it is in my experience with shred guitar techniques. The higher level stuff gets rusty faster than the fundamentals
Very cool update at the top of the article

"NEW: As of May 14, 2020, New York City has passed a bill to ban the practice of third parties charging a fee for phone calls that don't end in a sale. You can read about that here."

Glad to see reporting working successfully and highlighting abusive practices which then leads to changes in the law.
No, this post has absolutely nothing to do with Hunter Biden's emails having valid Google DKIM.

Nothing at all.
We don’t know for sure if he had it in the first place
Serious question, I don't have a political agenda by asking this:
How will a virus that hurts <1% of people devastate economies, lockdowns or not?

Economic devastation from lockdowns is clear.
Economic devastation from a virus that primarily hurts the elderly is not clear to me.

Again, I'm not making any points about the value determination of lives saved vs GDP saved, only asking how you quantify the economic impact of a virus.
Our healthcare systems are designed to handle a bad flu season. COVID is different in so far as it's far more deadly, and that it puts a higher burden on the health care systems because the average time spent in an ICU is way longer.
Previously in DMCA 1201 takedowns, Admiral anti-adblocking v. EasyList (2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14990137
Interesting/educational read but I'm still not convinced that this unintended side effect is a bad thing - it seems like a desirable property to have authenticated emails. Matt argues this might lead to regular folks (as opposed to politicians) getting blackmailed, but:

1) it seems unlikely this cryptographic proof is needed (he acknowledges this criticism in the post), and

2) what seems more likely to me is that politicians would intentionally _not_ opt in to any alternate solution and use that deniability for their own advantage. (Also as an alternate he proposes GPG, which I know Matt knows is laughable).
Some clever people working for the RIAA might have suggested to their lawyers that they take down the youtube-dl repository to generate some publicity around the project.

And now they are pretending "What is this youtube-dl thing everybody is talking about recently?"

RIAA, you are heroes. That's very nice to promote underfunded free software projects like this.
Either way, though, they are not hosting it on their website contra the GGGGP (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25112011)