skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I really doubt that you actually have too much experience, and I'm 100% sure you have less experience than some actual MAPS psychs that administer this and do tell their patients that supplements are as effective as placebo

I’m sorry to say that you’ve ignored the evidence I’ve already put forward and your “biases” are that I’m wrong and you’re right based on your feelings. Give me a source where MAPS scientists are saying supplements are as effective as placebo - you’ve just invented that.

I will give you one point - I believe that in a controlled environment that after effects of pure MDMA will not be as burdensome as someone dancing for 12 hours straight, and in fact are less about the MDMA itself and more about the other actions. I’ll still posit that neurotoxicity is a potential thing and therefore supplementation is advisable based on the studies I linked above.

Given however that are continuously stuck on the idea that I’m talking about “depression” and still use that word - I don’t even think you’re reading what I’m saying. Frankly, buzz off.
Decentralised databanks aren't risk free when it comes to security and privacy
In B&H, one court already dismissed a corona curfew fine. Just like in the US, government officials imposed knee-jerk restrictions that get thrown out in courts. Wherever you are, challenge a corona fine in a court and you're likely to win.
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RHEL is used for its stability. I also would like to see more updates. I think it would be better to introduce a RHEL Stream in addition to “basic” RHEL instead of killing CentOS.
Quick, build a competitor
Sweden showed much more excess deaths than neighbourig countries. Sweden is also implementing stricter measures, having basically admitted that their light handed approach didn't work too well.

And looking at these graphs (https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid) gives you a pretty clear picture. You see clear mortality spikes and, in the case of the US, an overall above average mortality rate. Just why anybody is trying to ignore that is just beyond me by now. And again, all this with measures in place.
I did say. The problem is you phrased your question in such a way that implies the only acceptable answer would be in a stupidly restricted set of answers (“which specific court?”). Very tricky! Good rhetoric. Except it’s self-defeating and hinders you from understanding viewpoints that aren’t yours. You might be too smart for your own good.
I think the most interesting point was about how it is status driven. If you label someone as unemployed then they start to suffer. If you tell them they are retired then it's a whole different picture.

That hasn't come about by accident, we demonise unemployment which is in complete contrast to the way we talk about retirement.
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I agree with your points. Another defense of RH (from an unusual angle):

Just for inversing, $7 trades are not a big deal, as others said (if it looks they are, stop trading as much). Also, free or super cheap trades encourage people to participate in zero-sum risky trading schemes (HFT, complex options, etc.) where they are at a big disadvantage against pros.

That said, I still see RH as a very useful thing. Many (most?) people starting to invest will try many stupid things and complex strategies and will lose a lot of money. Sometimes more than once before they learn not to do some things. Sim accounts seldom work for this -- the lessons require losing real money.

It is a lot better to lose $1k that you can ill afford to lose early in life than lose $100k that you can ill afford to lose later. My 2c.
Today, you don't have to set up servers all the time either. But you can and that is a huge advantage.

You don't need to hire a special person to constantly optimize your database server and indexes. You don't need sharding, except in the most exotic use cases. You don't need to manage table ranges. You no longer need to manually set up and manage an HA cluster.

> Some machines had uptimes in decades.

What machine had uptime in decades (i.e. >= 20 years) in 1990? Did you have access to such a machine?
How many people can you reach with WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Messenger? How many people can you reach with SMS? Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2365
To be fair, much of the gap with accents, is to do with exposure, in reality the majority of your media consumption in English is American English not West Midlands English.

Unfortunately the majority of native English speakers (not just from the UK) fail to realise that there is an 'international' business English which has significant differences from how they would speak 'back home'.

From the faux pas I've seen in international teams, my shortlist for the English native speakers:

1. Try to speak slowly and with diction

2. Avoid idiomatic expressions

3. Avoid phrasal verbs

4. Avoid Sarcasm (!)

Do that and 90% of miscommunication in an international setting is gone.
> The wavelength of the light cannot be measured directly, only inferred by the intensity of the pixels with the different color filters.

Well, depending how you think "directly" but you can get pretty far with spectrometer, i.e. device that splits light and measures the intensity spatially to collect a spectrum. It's not impossible thought to build camera based on that principle, just need to sample the light in an array to make pixels
You could argue that flatpaks and snaps exists because Debian (and Ubuntu) aren't rolling releases, but desktop users want continuously updated software.
On the contrary, companies should be trained not to use dark patterns to trick people and not to abuse cookies by tying together tracking and spying with visiting a web site.
Do you have an example of a place that has both a reasonably free trade in water and where poor people can't afford water to drink?

> Markets absolutely work at dissuading growing almonds in the desert. Until there's too much wealth disparity, and Peter is willing to pay more than Paul has in total for desert-grown almonds. Either Paul steals the water or he dies, and thieves aren't popular.

Eh, unlikely. Peter will just get his almonds from the cheapest supplier, who is unlikely to be growing in a desert.

There's nothing special about water in the scenario you are describing. Plenty of other commodities are traded on markets, and more developed markets have meant better and more secure supply for everyone, especially poor people.

> Of course there's another form of currency - votes. I can't really say they're universally distributed, because FPTP screws up the purchasing power of a vote. But I'd give good odds on a very strong correlation between a functioning democracy and cheap water.

Only some countries use FPTP. In any case, there's a strong correlation between any attributes generally seen as desirable. Figuring out causation is harder.

Btw, you know what poor people lack even more than money: influence and connections. I wouldn't look to politics to improving their lot.
I guess the same could be said for HTML+Javascript
Just like computer programs are not perfect the first time it's released, printed text is not either. Most people have good intensions, but we are stupid.
>> very few people are able to produce

Why should we faithfully assume that people will produce that material if given the chance? There are plenty of "common misconceptions" in existance. (but i note that i think your argument here is the most convincing of the replies).

Also, will they do it in a timely manner?

>> I'd like the opportunity to make that decision myself

Is it possible you're not equipped to make that decision for yourself? In the way that a 12 year old child is not best placed to decide about drinking a bottle of vodka. Or in the way that if a doctor shared every detail about your ailment - you might still seek their guidance to help decide an appropriate treatment.
Not saying this fits your problem but JRuby is great, you can just package it with your application and never have to worry about version problems of Ruby anymore. (You do have to have Java, but that's very easy.)
If any browser vendor just pushed a trivial standard like

X-Consent: no-cookies

X-Consent: cookies-ok

Sites would have gobbled that header up overnight, and the other browsers would have received substantial pressure to follow.

But it's a missed beat by now, nobody is paying to have hundreds of thousands of web sites updated for such a thing even if it did exist.

Sucks none of the major browser vendors are based in Europe or this might have happened. Meanwhile, I'm no lawyer, it's not clear whether the header would pass the legal test, but I'm sure a sufficiently motivated party might have a good shot at arguing that it did
I did set DNT but I'm still getting tracked.

I do not want to disable all cookies, I'm perfectly happy to use credential cookies or a shopping cart, I do not want to disable everything indiscriminately.

Also I shouldn't have to out out.
yeah, there are 80M people like you and just 74M like me, congratulations.

Both groups are influenced by media and social circles but the first group tends to trust others opinions more, methinks.

The fact mainstream media was pretty much unified in anti-Trump stance strengthen that theory.

If every day for 4 years you hear just how bad is the orange man (from someone you trust) it would definitely shape a certain reality in ones mind.
10 years ago, it was nearly impossible to browse the web with Flash disabled. Which means that most people had it installed, and thus a vulnerability in Flash would mean all users were exploitable. Browser vulnerabilities only mean the users of that browser are exploitable, which limits its scope somewhat. Of course, the Chrome monoculture that has established itself doesn't help here :).
No common sense and reason are the arbiter of truth we should accept. I'm not convinced that corporations are people my friend.
I'm making fun of you because it's not very realistic to disable it, especially due to network effects.

All the popular sites, including many intranet sites in every company I've worked for, use Javascript. I mean, you can disable it/enable it selectively, maybe I should try it with some Firefox extension. But I expect 95% of the web to break if I disable it.

So it's kind of a revolutionary attitude, which works out if you have nothing to lose, I guess. Or if you're trying to prove a point, but along the way you're probably hurting yourself, too.
DNT was made for this. In-browser, voluntary. How well did it work?
Part 2: https://blog.tomilkieway.com/72k-2/
It is my understanding that the M1 chip has unified CPU/GPU memory which means that Metal as the underlying framework might be clever enough to not copy the data at all.
Not sure it applies to his use-case though.
This makes me wonder. The ability to explore the origins of COVID can easily outlast its impact. If someone finds evidence of a bioterror attack then his bet might turn out to be true well after 2020 but since there was no date given for this special case one would assume that it should be widely known by the end of 2020.
Sad look for tech industry: 15 years later, there is no comprehensive alternative, web tech is slow and annoying, and videoconferencing in the browser is basically a space heater. Flash did all of these and more
Do you have any actual evidence for this? BioNTech has about 1k employees strong and got about 375 million Euros. Even if everyone would exclusively work on the vaccine for the whole time, which obviously didn't happen, that amounts to over 700k€ per seat for half a year. In an industry that isn't exactly capital intensive, i.e. the biggest part of expenses will be salaries.
In Europe, Whatsapp is ubiquitous. FB Messenger and iMessage are pretty rare here.

Edit: looks like I was wrong. I'm in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands and our neighbouring countries, Whatsapp is ubiquitous, so I presumed the rest of Europe was the same. I guess this proves that assumption is the mother of all failures.
I'd happily use a platform that allowed for an option for limiting billing on a daily/monthly/another metric.
It was my first thought at well. The real question being "does this impede vaccination efforts?"
> As a counter example, many places in Asia have gone more pro-market in the last decades and have benefitted enormously from it.

I don't think this is necessarily a counter example. Certainly some individuals in these countries are much better off than they were before. The economies of these countries may be doing better, but this growth has increasingly come at the expense of a vast number of individuals lower down the pole. The youth of China moved to the city from farming towns and villages, and now work to enrich the CEOs and executives of Foxconn. Children in Bangladesh and India are spending twelve hours a day making shoes for Nike. The well off in these countries are much more well-off than they were before, but the poor are potentially in a worse/more inescapable position than they started.

> Singapore is perhaps the closest to a free market place on earth, and is also one of the richest and safest.

Singapore is a heavily authoritarian country in which the state directly controls large sectors of the market[1] and daily life.

Some quotes from the source that illustrate the extent to which the Singaporean government is directly involved in shaping and controlling the country's markets:

> State monopolies provide all utilities, telephone and postal services, port and airport services, industrial estates, and radio and television. Government ministries provide a large part of medical and health services, all sanitation services, and all education for the population from primary to tertiary level. The state Housing and Development Board houses nearly three-quarters of the population in public housing estates.

In the non-social sector they own and operate:
> Singapore Airlines, ...A state trading company, a state shipping company, two state join-venture shipyards, ...The Development Bank of Singapore

The government also owns "about 75% of all land in the country".

The rest of the paper goes into detail explaining how the government routinely intervenes with subsidies and tax policy in order to force the market into whatever shape it deems fit. So I think the fact that people view Singapore at anything close to a free market is more a testament to just how effective the propaganda that has been pushing free market economic thought has been.

[1] https://sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2644389?seq=...
How does trading water futures cause "water can't get to people"?
I agree with you on your first point, but in a previous comment you openly associated with the people [burning stuff down].

> No one bears you any ill-will, unless you're a public servant who has murdered someone with impunity recently.

The situation is a lot more nuanced than this and I'm sure you know it. Yes the police is over militarised, yes there's a huge problem with urban killings, but you also don't get to solve those problems with violence.

Consider the black business owners who suffered greatly from the BLM riots.
You can ask for a good faith billing adjustment. GCE or AWS is well aware that things happen, and collecting something is better than collecting nothing.
That is in the rgb color model. In physical world, there are (almost) infinitely many different spectra that could be perceived as same "orange". It is honestly pretty amazing how well human color vision works despite that
> I mean, none of them should leak.

That's not easy to say. "Leaking" can be as simple as a researcher catching COVID outside the lab and then spreading it to a coworker who then spreads it outside the lab.
> there is no real need for the post; the "More" link is quite discoverable.

No its not atleast for me. I just miss it and looks like lot of others miss it as well.
To put it into perspective: You give me $72K and I'll set you up a 1PB replicated storage infra with a total of 100+ available CPU cores and half a TB RAM.

I saw people burning through cash in the cloud, which makes you wonder weather money is any concern at all.
Given the article say 5% have had it what can we infer about total deaths in the do nothing/herd immunity strategy?
This red "major outage" status has been reported on their dashboard since at least Dec 2, when an (unrelated to messenger) api bug was introduced that I've been waiting on a fix for.

It has been surprisingly slow to get a fix or an update.
Slav surnames are gendered. * ski is male, * ska is female, * sko is neutral. Using gender neutral in this case is as insulting as calling him a dog.

Other cases where using gender neutral pronouns insults everyone speaking the language is using Latinx for Latino. If you want to butcher every other languages genders like they are in English, use Latin instead - the gender neutral form of Latino in English since only the middle ages.

Hope this helps.
Which is an abuse of the intent of the patent system.

The deal with patents was transparency in return for a short-term monopoly.

If we get one and not the other, it's a bum deal.
There is only a very small group of people with the skills, resources and motivations to do something like this and I am positive none of them happen to be random freelancing criminals.
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Yep, just the apparent juxtaposition make me feel exactly like I was watching one of my KSP simulations ;-). Must be a fun place to work.
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You joke but there's a historical precedent - the story of Lunik[1], soviet spacecraft that was intercepted, examined, dismantled (!) and then put back together and moved forward, by CIA operatives.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
In Poland it's Polish, not Russian ;)
"""
When a user visited the page google.fr, an information banner displayed at the bottom of the page, with the following note “Privacy reminder from Google”, in front of which were two buttons: “Remind me later” and “Access now”.

This banner did not provide the user with any information regarding cookies that had however already been placed on his or her computer when arriving on the site. The information was also not provided when he or she clicked on the button “Access now”.
"""

Wow. I though those reminders were about some updated policy, I didn't realise they were supposed to ask for consent.

Could someone try standing with a sign saying "A reminder from me" in the google offices reception for 2 minutes and then walk out with whatever wasn't bolted down to see if they themselves consider that an adequate way to ask for consent?
I think you can argue that that assumption is wrong, and that that is also the biggest problem with democracy and voting. You are asking people to vote on a topic they are often not well informed on, or are unwilling/unable to spend time to educate themselves thoroughly. Also anybody of a certain age is allowed to vote, regardless their level of education, and their ability to make sound decisions.

If you want to drive a car, you have to proof you are able to do so. Why not demand the same if you want to vote?
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In your country/social group. Messanger has a bigger footprint than WhatsApp in some of my social groups in Europe.
Shitcoin casino's are last cycles' news
I get asked about how we were able to build a Bitcoin-only business, and not succumb to the allure of listing multiple coins and becoming just another shitcoin casino.

Here's that story.
What a journey its' been, and I look forward to what lies ahead.

Thankyou to everyone who believed in us.
And thank you to all the naysayers. You strengthened my resolve.

https://svetski.medium.com/amber-bitcoin-only-c32d6344780e
The Kidnapping of the Lunik (1967)
Also in Europe: The exact opposite.
> it uses its access to their sales data to come up with its own competing products

Why do you think physical retailers are not doing the same thing?
I'm not sure; it's listed on the GNU website but https://www.gnu.org/software/gnome/ redirects to gnome.org, and I can't find GNU mentioned on gnome.org at all. GNOME also has its own infrastructure. So yeah, any relationship between GNOME, GTK, and associated projects seems very weak at best, if it still exists at all.
Yes, but we're discussing the grandparent comment which says "nothing should be secret".
> Google let go of our bill as a one time gesture!

We've seen this happen with similar stories on AWS. Neither platform supports prepayment with a hard limit on costs, and this seems unlikely to change.
> we're all using uBlock Origin rather than uBlock

This says it all. Were any users actually harmed? Where's the harm to justify the destruction of blocking abilities? It's ironic to cite uBlock Origin to try to argue that uBlock Origin should not exist, which is the endgame of Manifest v3.

Any software whatsoever can change hands. Salesforce just bought Slack. Is that an argument to hobble or eliminate Slack? No. Oracle acquired Java. Facebook acquired Instagram. The list is endless, and there's nothing special about extensions here that justifies special treatment or punishment.
The inspiration came from previously working for a SaaS development agency and running my own affiliates blogs. Researching a topic and competing content is always a tedious work and mostly repetitive. We have used a few SEO tool but didn't serve our purpose.

So we decided to code a script to automate our content research workflow to save time. Eventually, it has grown into a SaaS solution from an internal tool :)

We are small team working full time with the vision to bring workflow automation in every step of content marketing.

Our roadmap: https://trello.com/b/qNuNEoRR/postpace-product-roadmap
You forget your own cost here.

A full-time system administrator costs more than 72k a year.
cough DNT cough
Ideally they would have picked a term that they could prove to have invented and could have trademarked, then there wouldn't be an issue.
It's pretty much rebranded serfdom.
The good thing is we only have to look at the abject failure of do-not-track to see that this approach categorically doesn’t work.
?l?d mask with I think 9 characters using default Android OS with updates. Both phones I think were minimum Android 5.0+ because that is when they switched to Scrypt to store password/encryption keys.
And that's why you set the 'autoscaling.knative.dev/maxScale' for cloud run https://github.com/futurice/terraform-examples/blob/2ccb2fa3...
Europe is very heterogeneous. I'm sure social network usage is very different in Lithuania, Bulgaria, Spain, Norway or the UK.
Depends on country, many has messenger as the primary app. In Sweden Whatsapp barely even exists.

https://www.messengerpeople.com/global-messenger-usage-stati...
I think we just need to clarify what "deny" means. I meant to deny vital access to water, not unrestricted access to it.
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> Thats not at all correct. In the mid to long term money will move to the person allocating it most efficiently.

Under what model? Having more capital at your disposal enables you to stake more and riskier positions, which allows you to outcompete a smaller, but more efficient rival.