skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's make three things very clear:

- Lying to jump the queue, ahead of people who need it more is trashy, selfish, should be not just discouraged but heavily reprimanded.

- A lot of the vaccine distribution is awful and disorganized. This often leads to vaccines being thrown away.

- SHOTS IN ARMS. A vaccine in someone is better than a vaccine thrown away, even if it's not optimally distributed.

"Just showing up" is a thing here in Belgium as well, and I expect many countries. Here in Brussels for example for a while the major vaccination center had time and stock for 1000 shots a day, and so would plan for 1000 shots distributed per day and invite … 1000 people for that day, not one more. Over snail mail or SMS depending on where you lived. And 75% were going unused, and they were wondering why.

So yeah, we can spend time talking about how they should know better, overbook, etc but in the mean time vaccines were being thrown away and the distribution was slowing down. So people just showing up speeds that up, and is a net gain.

And yet, people complain and are outraged, claim the people showing up are skipping the queue, and I frankly wish they'd shut the fuck up about it.

If indeed Paul was denouncing someone who was bragging about jumping the queue or encouraging people to do so by revealing how they're Hacking Society™, that's just absolute trash and it's completely disgusting.

If he's complaining about an instance of someone saying "There's unused vaccines in centers, show up at the end of the day and you can get one", then have at it.

I'm not in YC / the forum in question, I've no idea, can't form an opinion. But yeah, needinfo.
Stablecoins are an unfortunate side-effect of limited banking for the crypto industry. For the longest time, even legitimate exchanges had issues getting deposits/withdrawals working properly with normal banking system.

Most traders I know use tether to move funds between exchanges for arbitrages and/or wait out a correction. Some are also using it to generate yield, but other than that, nobody is holding onto it for the very long term.

And Tether is not the only game in town, USDC (which is by well known/regulated entities here in US) has been getting a lot of traction, it now has about 1/3rd of Tether's market cap.
I don't think most people do. Well, there is the usual NIMBYism, but the energy industry has figured out how to rally the public, even if it is for something disastrous like fracking.

I think the *idea* that most decision-makers and advocates are against nuclear because of those two reasons (waste & explosion), is holding us back from having a constructive conversation.

Just my 2 cents, I haven't done any academic work on this.
> Wyoming is already the biggest net energy supplier in the country [1] so it has the required grid access,

This is a misunderstanding of what the EIA is saying. The "net energy export" of Wyoming is coal in gondola cars carried by diesel trains, not electricity.

Wyoming does not have significant grid connectivity other than what you'd expect for a very sparsely populated Western state.
I recall reading a story where Kildall stated something like, "Ask Bill Gates why '$' is the terminator in the print string call. I know why -- does he?"

In some ways that is the moral equivalent -- the function was copied without fully understanding the why of the function.
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
I thought Digital Negative.
Well, an American company not doing censorship for inside China will not stay inside China very long.

I personally dislike this a lot, as well, but I can't blame a company for not taking a fall on what is arguably a political decision.
On a similar note: This does not give me confidence in startups and "accelerators". Some (many?) startups will do questionable things for growth. They will upvote one another. They will give fake five-star reviews for one another. And they will call it growth hacking. I remember Reddit's "fake user" growth hacking.

The depressing thing is: Founders who want to play by ethical rules, will ask. "May be I too should engage in this behaviour, just to level the playing field".
For most things regular any kind of MFA is good enough. Even just a password can be acceptable if it's not too important.

For stuff that ends up in international newspapers you definitely want more than that though.
> Gross definitely, but net (after taxes, healthcare, housing and other fixed costs)... not so sure.

Actually, EU individual tax rates are on average similar to those of US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates

And yes, we also pay for healthcare one way or another.
Title is not substantiate by any content.
They're building a demonstration plant that won't even be coming online for another 7 years. Surely there a simpler ways to shake down local governments.

This post stinks of some weird prejudice against Warren Buffet. Any businessperson that sells goods and services to state and local governments would expect to make a profit in doing so. Do you have a specific complaint about Buffett's business practices?
I don't think that analogy applies. Both parties in this story did things in a 'work' context.

If I go on a work forum and describe my bad behaviour, behaviour that is harmful to others, and advocate for others to do it, I'm going to get in trouble, and possibly fired.

If I publicly discuss private work information, I'll definitely get fired.

If I mention the bad behaviour of someone at work publicly, without naming names, I might get a talking to, but probably won't be fired.

How a group reacts to those different things over time defines the norms and culture of the group.
Small-Town Homes, Big-City Prices: Welcome to the Everywhere Boom
Seems like a non-story. Either they have a warrant or they do not. If they have a warrant then a judge signed off on it.
Of course, that is the nature of the concept.
There's also a dichotomy. Companies following rules, doing things the way they always did, inevitably leads to stagnation. You need creative people that break these rules and innovate. Sometimes even burn off parts of a companies portfolio that are still successful, to get to the next thing. Just from my brief study of personality types.
Yes, using Wise you can pay out to people who don't have Wise accounts as well. Codementor implements it. It might be a restricted API, you could reach out to their sales team.
My suggestion is to open your mind to more tech stacks. Senior devs can code in many stacks, switch between them, pick up new ones, etc. I'd be just as hesitant to hire someone who refuses to touch "old" tech as I would an expert in the old tech who doesn't want to take the effort to learn anything new. Tech has variety, and senior folks should be able to handle that.

Still, this is an easy answer for you. You said it yourself - you are not motivated to work there.. So turn it down and keep looking.
>showing all users the same search results for a given search term.

I'm definitely not seeing the same search results from DDG on my PC as on my phone (using different networks). So they do show different results based on something.
What’s so bad about skipping the line?

Priority groups don’t even make sense. It’s some egalitarian crap for the sake of it and more so for buying votes from older ppl.

Then we are left with: it’s simply against the rules. And as if people in SF care about that.

Why r so many people in SF on these moral crusades anyway. Getting high off enforcing rules and looking down on others.

Everyone should be equal…as long as I get my ridiculous salary and elite network. It’s like imposter syndrome for the privileged…so they need to pretend they are for the common man.

Good riddance to such crusaders. PG is a boss.
The time and money spent per resident is ludicrous. But I guess it is a politically much easier way to get housing build, than finding/making space elsewhere in the city for development.
I think that if it's possible then people will do it. There are so many humans and businesses that it's a certainty.
Katia Damer: YC kicked me out as well
Amazing that the Chinese government in power today is the same as the one that deployed the tanks in that photograph to mow down its own citizens. Even more amazing that American celebrities such as LeBron James and John Cena see it fit to parrot that same government's propaganda for the sake of dollars. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd live to see something like it. The word "pathetic" falls utterly short in describing it.
That is probably referring to System Management Mode (privilege level/ring -2) and Intel Management Engine (privilege level/ring -3). Two very terrible things.
“This is how we know we’re a real family here.”
Because organizations are composed of people with questionable morals they'll happily eat the weak by using public admissions of culpability to tank competitors or just randos for the lulz if nothing else.
I started using the new Firefox browser and it's oddly delightful
"I'm looking forward for "old men" to retire."

Well I'm a shade over 50.

I use Arch on my laptop. I love the flexibility of NetworkManager and I use a variety of DNS sources including a local unbound and a /etc/hosts file. I have a wired ethernet profile called RFC1918 with a lot of addresses on it that covers pretty much all router, firewall and switch defaults. It crucially has the check box for "Use only for connections..." in the routes section. That means that the default gateway stays on the wifi and/or VPN. I have several other profiles to deal with various combinations of requirements.

Recently I modelled a data centre on my home network to get a Fortigate cluster up and running as though it was in place. It's WAN was behind a VLAN on my home pfSense, so it had it's "real" external IPs running fine and then I put VMs in at various places to test out routing and policy before deployment.

DNS is simply (lol) a name to address mechanism and there is no need to get too het up about it. I simply make whatever view of the world I need to exist at the time I'm doing a job. I do this for IPv4 and 6.

It can get a bit challenging WFH. I have a site to site IPSEC VPN to the office and also a OpenVPN dial up VPN connection available. Customer sites are generally setup to allow access from certain IPs and I have to make sure I appear to be the right address. Even more fun is had with the quite large collection of sites with a subnet range of 192.168.{0|1}.0/24. Those I generally wholesale NAT and then for the really dumb devices at the other end or those with a broken routing table, NAT outbound on LAN.

"My eyes are bent my back is grey ..."

Bloody kids 8)
Yes, MFA would have helped here, but I think it's besides the point. I've worked on a lot of projects, including one for a major stock exchange, and I've never seen perfect security. It's too slow. Even if you had MFA for the VPN, it doesn't stop local malware from being able to use the foothold to gain access to the network once the MFA is cleared. I'm not saying that MFA is useless, just that these types of things are very hard to get right and we only hear about the times the attackers got through. "Oh they should have done X" where X is any one of an increasingly long list of possible things they should have done ranging from security headers on their website, to MFA, to auditing their third party libraries, to locking down their development machines and networks (during Covid, ha!) it's never ending. The very best at it get by without total calamity, but the long tail of organizations just don't have the right staff, focus, or resources to do it.

Edit: I'm not saying it's right! I don't think it is right, and I've worked with governments to bring in regulations in certain industries, but to characterize this all on one failure kinda misses the point. There is a broader, harder problem that I'm not sure is even solvable.
I'm getting older now and am finding this harder and harder to do as "real-life" things pile up. I was crushing it early in the pandemic, but it's really dried up in the past few months.

The big thing is having a job. Most of my life I've been freelance or happily under-employed, but working a FTJ seems just fundamentally incompatible with creative work for me. After 8 hours of staring at the screen, I just don't have anything left in the tank for side projects, writing, music, all of the creative things that make me feel like I'm using my time on earth wisely.

Would be interested in any advice from anybody who has overcome this.
Location: Portugal
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Bitcoin/cryptocurrency are an amazing technology breakthrough, and they will be the future, companies and govs will not accept anything less than self auditable immutable transactions. Resistance is futile

Regarding ransomeware, there is already criminal/scam wallet addresses tracking, so anyone cashing out from these addresses will eventually have to explain it

If it wasn't for payment it would be to destroy competition or disrupt enemy country infrastructure

Hard cash has also been paying criminals since ever and we still use it. If anything Bitcoin is a step up, due to being more traceable
We can do much better.
"Disable networkmanager, uninstall network manager, delete networkmanager, nuke networkmanager from orbit" was always my 4 step process for making things work right for ages. (and all 4 steps were always somehow necessary, because it would always come back from the dead).
Why would people have issues with you simply posting you...went and got a jab? Is there more to the story? Sorry genuinely curious, not trying to put fuel on the fire
What Rebekah Jones Saw Behind the Scenes at the Florida Department of Health
The government, well in this case multiple levels of state/federal/city/tribal governments all made up their own decisions on what defined one as eligible for the vaccine, and then randomly changed them. The government should not be the arbiter of one’s morality.

It was a mess and IMO difficult to assign anyone in the moral right in the distribution of vaccines.

For example, looking at the vaccine distribution from a utilitarian perspective and not a political-agenda perspective it would have made sense to give the vaccine to healthcare workers first and then grocery workers next, as society in general will collapse if people are not able to get groceries. In a strictly calculative sense society doesn’t care if a few more old people in a nursing home die, but if grocery stores are closed there will be food riots/massive problems in a few days.

But politicians know that old people vote. So we had the age-tiered system.

IMO both if these perspectives were misguided and the optimal way to handle it would have been to had over vaccine logistics to Amazon who could actually make a web app that doesn’t crash to register for vaccines and just go first-come first-served.

Instead we had to try to register via Kroger (I think) who was using a chatbot to register people which was not very effective or high throughput. Costco had spaghetti code and had embedded way too much information in the page source, no idea who designed their signup page either.

This incompetence and unneeded beauracracy by the government literally cost lives.
Lying to skip lines is probably considered "growth hacking"
>If you have permission to be in my house and do something illegal

Sure, but having permission to come in for a certain reason doesn't also grant you permission to come back lather for another reason. To use the analogy, the defendant had permission to enter the "house" for certain purposes. They subsequently entered it for an explicitly unauthorized purpose. That latter entry is trespassing.
I wonder if a useful counter-measure would be slower internet connectivity it such places. It would be very hard to exfiltrate 100GB at 8kbit speeds, while 8kbit is plenty for simple few-byte commands one would need to manage a pipeline.
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George Will on Turning 80
To be 80 years old in this republic is to have lived through almost exactly one-third of its life. And to have seen so many ephemeral excitements come and go that one knows how few events are memorable beyond their day. (Try to remember the things that had you in a lather during, say, the George H.W. Bush administration.) This makes an American 80-year-old’s finishing sprint especially fun, because it can be focused on this fact: To live a long life braided with the life of a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to an imperishable proposition is simply delightful.”
Oh neat, I didn't know about that one! I've never used Vulkan but looking at the API it does indeed cover the most common things. I wish we had more rendering APIs with that kind of support; I'd love to be able to use it.
Oregon...Australia...that says everything...
HN is not a "bastion of free speech", one of its most distinguishing features is the extensive moderation implemented to suppress spam, trolls, and rancor. A platform like reddit or even Twitter is far more welcoming to diverse discussion than HN, but this is an intentional decision by the site operators to maintain a certain threshold of discussion quality.
> Remember, Tether has no upside. There is no reason to ever hold Tether for any length of time.

It looks like USDC, issued by a company co-owned by Coinbase (YC incubated right?) and Circle, is quickly replacing tether. One year ago there were about 1/10th of USDC compared to tether, now it's half.

Apparently USDC are really fully backed by real USD and the smart contract for USDC can block any address containing USDC at any time (which eases some concerns regarding complying with authorities while it probably raises some concerns for others).

I take it for those concerned it wouldn't be unwise to sell your USDTs for USDCs.

For somehow I don't believe that Coinbase is pulling a ponzi scheme with USDC.
> 'immediately naming and shaming private conversations to the entire world'

I don't know if it was immediate, but I'm pretty sure there was no naming.
Can’t speak for the other countries, but I’ve met plenty of German picky eaters.
I am also a westerner that spent my childhood in SE Asia. Everyone ate in large, familial gatherings, and what was served was what was served. You could always fall back to plain rice if you genuinely didn't like what was available, but in practice I don't ever remember that happening. Sure, there were things you liked more than others, but sharing food with my friends was fun, and if they liked something, why wouldn't I?

We were also more involved in the production/acquisition of the food of the day- go fetch some eggs from the hens, go ask the folks next door for some lemon grass, that kind of thing. I really do think being a part of the creation of the meal was good for our development. It certainly made me more interested in tasting what the adults did with the ingredients we brought them!
Is storage currently the biggest problem to mass solar adoption in the sunnier parts of the world?

Although cheap solar energy could be channeled to energy dependent industries like aluminum smelters.
True. As long as we agree nuclear is not a Plan A, and it is not a silver bullet. Otherwise, it may cause hesitancy towards other impactful actions.
I read more about the location he got his shot from. He is most likely right that he did nothing wrong. Idk anything about the other person who supposedly bragged about skipping in line, but seeing as 1 of his 2 examples was incorrect, I'm going to assume the 2nd one is untrue too until I see something more than hearsay.
For anyone trying to keep tabs on their dns propagation, check out dug!

https://github.com/unfrl/dug
https://dug.unfrl.com
Closest I can think of is the Chuo Maglev in Japan, approved in 2011 with a completion target of 2045.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%AB%C5%8D_Shinkansen
Fascinating. On what possible grounds can this help an investigation? The collateral damage for this would have to be huge if it became normalised and routine.
That's not what he said...if everyone consent that's called a interview.
The only problem with the three points you list is that the first and third are contradictory. We were literally throwing away vaccines here in the United States if they could not find anyone eligible to vaccinate.
Memes pack more information and context into less content.

We're basically going through a mini printing press style communications revolution right now.

Before (say 1999) you had print which was cheap and audiovisual which was expensive/time consuming. Now thanks to tech audiovisual content is something the masses can use to communicate and it's affecting culture greatly.
Vac: P2P messaging stack for private, secure, censorship resistant communication
> If I may ask, where did you encounter so much heavy moderation?

A couple places. The one that bothered me most was that titles would get changed without asking or notification to the poster. Sometimes they would get changed to something I didn't think made sense, and then I looked like I had done that, since there was no indication that it was changed. I guess I'm still not a huge fan when it happens to me, but I see why it happens.

I also didn't like having my comments detached or cooled. If you reply to a top level comment with a good comment that happens to generate a flame war under you, it will get detached from the top into it's own thread, and that just felt weird because it made it look like I made a non-sequiter top comment and also stifled discussion (which was the goal of course).

Also if you make a comment that gets a ton of votes but is perceived as off-topic, they will put a flag on your comment that makes it fall in the rankings. So based on the points and time it should be up at the top, but instead will be near the bottom, sometimes under the comments with negative scores.

Lastly, I have dead comments turned on, and I would see dead comments that I didn't think deserved to be dead. Eventually I got enough karma that I could vouch, which helped.

Those were my main moderation complaints. I still don't particularly like when it happens to me, but usually when I see it happen to other people I think, "yeah that makes sense".
> Others appear to know next to nothing and appear very interested in sharing their opinions

The modern internet in a nutshell. Of course, this is nothing new. We just now have more powerful tools for doing it.

I wish saying "I don't know" or "I'm not sure but I'd like to learn more about that" was more widely valued.
> 2. I asked them about eligibility and told them I don't clear CA guidelines. They told me it's first come, first served with an ID showing I am 18+.

There are a number of 'special' vaccination sites in the USA which are indeed vaccinating first come, first served people without going through any special qualifications/eligibility check. For instance FEMA was, and still is, running a mass vaccination site in Yakima, WA which was a massive hot spot of infections in WA state.

They quite specifically told the media that they were focused on getting "shots into arms" and not spending a lot of time on each person checking residency documents.

https://www.google.com/search?q=yakima+wa+vaccination+site+f...

Although by the time it opened it was also possible for most people in the Seattle metro area to get a shot without a very long wait, I do know a few people who drove over there and quite clearly showed their drivers license for ID, and got vaccinated without violating any policy or lying about anything whatsoever.
Can you post your original message to the forum here too? That way we can know for sure what was said precisely, otherwise it's just he-said / he-said.
It's also meant to protect Copenhagen against sea surges and rising water levels.
It is, and data diodes are even better.