skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Privacy is a 1 dimensional spectrum which runs from living in isolation on one end to living under thought police on the other end.

You cannot move towards the end of privacy without losing control over your thoughts.

In the world you're describing, everything everyone says will be recorded. Neural networking will be used to process tone and read body language to determine your thoughts before you even consciously recognize them. As a child you will be trained to recognize and halt bad thinking subconsciously.

Consider the episode of The Office where Jim is offered the position of branch manager, and he turns it down because he thinks everything's working fine without a branch manager so why have one?

Never pass up the chance to take an active role in sustaining a good thing. If you feel the balance of privacy is good today, take an active role to ensure it slips no further, or else someone with more ambition than you will gladly push that point along the line a little further.
> Most of your statement is incorrect and lacks insight and facts.

You expertly avoid all arguments except that Solana uses proof of stake. Who cares. Prox's point still stands: folks will continue to use blockchain-powered "pseudo-currencies" for illegal drugs, murder-for-hire, money laundering, ransomware, and speculation. No one's buying groceries with BTC.
Yeah, that's a decent point. To answer your question, it's as if it's the string "*secure string*" for the purposes of other string methods.

I think this is a good point, and perhaps worth considering, but in most of my thought exercises, it's worth it, owing to the fact that when I use SecureString in other languages, I find myself having to decrypt the string more often than I would like. I guess one could argue that this is a deficiency of the libraries and such that are used, rather than a deficiency of the fact that SecureString doesn't extend String. I'm having trouble recalling a specific example right now, but I know I've run into it before, because that's what prompted me to implement this many years ago.
you caused quite a stir and made a lot of people upset, was it worth then?
but... we want your stuff too

so why can't we have it?
If RDS or other “hard to replicate very quickly during disaster” infra is being run I personally would still have cross A-Z replication at minimum, to reduce network costs I would configure the “other zone” as a backup replica only and not for performance clustering.

With automation we can spin up full new compute stacks, including load balancers and DNS in about 5-10 minutes per “unique” environment configuration.

While it guarantees we could never have a no downtime failover, we’re okay with it and have more than halved our network costs (which admittedly were about number 8 on our AWS bill by cost).
Here's my confusion - why do they think there's a conspiracy against them because Ivermectin is off patent when COVID is on the verge of being beat in the west because of widespread vaccination?
Being able to do 50,000 tx per second with fees at fractions of a penny is what differentiates this from Ethereum. This makes things such as truly real time, decentralized exchanges feasible.
Better phrasing now a days is the elimination of middle man industries in favor of public infrastructure projects.

As ultimately what these companies represent is toll road to the content others create.

As what these companies do is common sense. My own father created what became the modern search paradigm and was subsequently kicked off the project that later became yahoo.

So from my perspective what these companies do is not innovative.
The problem with this comment is that it ignores advances in crypto meant to address the primary downsides.

I’m 100% in agreement that some aspects of some crypto currencies are extremely problematic and should/must be stopped.

But generalizing all crypto the way this comment does is not helpful or constructive. Recognize the nuance, and be specific about the issues.
You don't need to have a full monopoly to be considered a monopoly under the law in the United States. You can be considered a legal monopoly if you have significant market power and can charge overly high prices for things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
> select individual investors like Boys Noize

If this isn't a sign of a bubble I don't know what is.
You are just a step away from defending that votes from people that own land should count more than votes from all the rest. There are lots of reasons for that too: they are more invested in the territory, they pay more taxes on that land, they produce the food that the rest need to eat...

But around a hundred years ago, most democracies decided that every person should have a vote, and that all votes should count the same. Including men who don't own land, women, people of color, poor people, uneducated people and young people.

And I think that, although it might seem worrisome that so many idiots vote against my personal preferences, it's better that way. Because the alternative of having an elite that consider themselves better than the rest always ends in justifying killing all who don't agree or who don't offer enough value.
That’s not really the spirit of open source. Sharing, not charity.

This is about taking something that already existed and repurposing it for a commercial venture.
Latest Speech-to-Text accuracy benchmark: Amazon, Google, MS, IBM, Voicegain
Besides the man page, the places to look are "spindump -stdout" and "log stream".
Rest in peace Terry.
I'm an atheist (post-mormon) but I do consider it "spiritual" but I hate religion, so I don't group it in there, but I've been having some sort of "awakening" ... I'm not fully atheist though I guess, I could sign on to us all being one consciousness re-living until we experience them all, or just multiple consciousnesses that somehow floated through space and got attached to this earth...

Something something... I can buy an afterlife, just don't buy there's a God, at least not one like any worshiped on earth, they all resemble kings too closely, and are too narcissistic. Enki might be the only exception, he was a scientist - stood up for man, gave us knowledge, but basically is as most scientists humble and could give a rats ass about being worshipped, considers us just the discovery channel. Keyword: Aloof.

Of course, that's just a myth. Still, my favorite mythological character. Anyhow, tangent aside my point - is no God, no need to worship. however if we're all each other, and we are the universe, or part of it and it's all different layers of conscious "agents" as Donald Hoffman calls it, then I think maybe a religion based on that could at least encourage fairness. One tenet : All are one, treat all as you would yourself regardless of race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, etc.

Honestly, I see that as the penultimate human utopian ideal, but I think as long as we give elitism roots, we'll never get there, there's no room for elitism in a world where all are equal.
Ivermectin is an old drug, so cannot be patented, which means that Merck has no way to prevent competitors from selling the drug, so no way to keep prices high.
The newsletter/sample page has a broken link:
"I hope you find the following stories interesting. If you don’t, you can [unsubscribe]({{ unsubscribe_url }}) and I won’t pollute your inbox again."

Is supposed to be substituted when it is send as an email?
Medicine isn't an exact science. In the real world physicians conduct n=1 experiments on their patients all the time. They try a treatment and if the patient doesn't respond then they try something else. Decisions are often based on clinical experience and intuition rather than defined protocols.
I know MS Paint is seen as a joke but what is the Linux program with equivalent functionality that actually works? Recently I wanted to copy image from Firefox and paste it into a program to crop and add some text. Ubuntu did not have a program installed that would let me do that. I tried few different programs available in the repository and none of them worked well enough to perform this task. Even GIMP was not usable because the icons and text would not scale up enough to be visible by human eye on 4k 15" laptop screen. In the end I had to reboot into Windows and use MS Paint which had this done in a flash. So, what is the Linux Paint that actually works like MS Paint?
The reason I point out the problem of objective reality is your comment of "is this almost certainly an objectively and comprehensively true statement? I suspect not". Perhaps I misunderstood what you were saying. In fact I don't think I understood the point you were trying to make at all. Not being snarky, I'm just now confused.
Replace ‘blockchain-powered “pseudo-currencies”’ with “cash”, and the same is true. Better outlaw cash.

This thread is not about BTC…
From the article :-)

"...Ok, so you can cheat. However if you think about it, you are just cheating yourself..."
how did you get the #Deltamc in the link?
Not surprised Mark Andreesen and Ben Horowitz are at the center of it. They were on Clubhouse shilling NFTs all pandemic.
KDE has solved the problem for me by providing 2-D workspace as a core feature, and not relegating it to the slums of "you want it, write your own d*mn extension".

GNOME has chosen not to do this. And so, GNOME is not for me, because I consider a 2-D workspace a "must have" feature. And so I will choose KDE over GNOME, because as a user (and I'm not interested in becoming a Desktop developer, sorry; I'm also not a web browser developer, or word processor or spreadshet developer, either. We can't be developers for everything), KDE meets my needs as a user. GNOME does not.

My main complaint with GNOME is that their answer for "you don't support feature X" is not, "yeah, sorry, we have an opinioned design, and go f*ck off", but rather, "Stop complaining, we have an extension for that". And so they don't understand that unstable extensions is not an answer to a user complaint that a feature doesn't exist. If they don't want to support a feature, that's fine. But don't try to use the lame excuse, "there's an extension for that", since they don't want to admit that they are asking users to rely on something that will randomly break.

If someone wants to use ZFS, I'll tell them that this is not supported by Linux. If you really want ZFS, use Illumos or FreeBSD. If you use Linux with ZFS, and it breaks, that's not my problem, and I'll be first to disclaim that Linux support ZFS. Because it really doesn't. There may be 3rd party developers who are trying to make that work, but I would never recommend to a user that they use Linux/ZFS, since if they need newer hardware support which is in a kernel not supported by Linux/ZFS, or their distribution has updated their default kernel to a version that doesn't support Linux/ZFS, they shouldn't come complaining to the Linux kernel community. Unfortunately GNOME is trying to have things both ways.
Spoken like someone talking about immigration who knows only what they've seen on Fox News.

You're so unbelievably short sighted about a tech innovation. There's more to crypto than bitcoin & greed is an unsolvable issue in humanity, not a crypto bug,
Having followed this all a little too much (with a big bowl of popcorn), I must say: I don't think the people leaving are doing so because of who is in charge (modulo random channel seizures). They're leaving because because they don't want to worry about who is in charge.
"If it's a crank conspiracy theory it should be easy to disprove."

I might have agreed with that a few years ago, but crank conspiracy theories have gotten mainstream traction like I have never seen previously.

"Prove" and "disprove" are never fully black and white. It isn't easy to disprove the theory that the Chinese engineered Covid (i.e SARS-CoV-2) and its spike protein RNA so they could insert arbitrary genetic code into non-Chinese people via the inevitable mRNA vaccine they knew would be created (which itself contains genetic code directly copied from the virus itself). Maybe they want to control our minds, or make us susceptible to some future engineered virus that will take out everyone on the planet that was vaccinated.

I can't disprove that. Maybe someone can.... but whoever they are, they will hardly be able to communicate this to average internet users and YouTube consumers being as it is extremely technical.

But I can make a rational, reasonable analysis of this, and conclude it is unlikely enough that getting a vaccine is a good idea.

And by the way, it's not a matter of determining that you are the "smart guy in the room," it's really more a matter of determining what is the general consensus of many smart people in the room. Obviously that is getting harder to do.
Sure, but if you're paying taxes you're defeating the purpose of the post of minimising taxes.
I know plenty of people who recognize they're part of the problem, and they tend to buy rather radically less than the average bear, and to buy things like "repair tools" so they can fix stuff that would otherwise be sent off to the dump. Or, at least, turn it into as many useful things as possible.

I spent a rather long chunk of my life extracting the residual value from otherwise broken or nearly-broken things. I spent most of a decade driving cars that were either literally rescued from the junkyard (to the amusement and entertainment of the junkyard counter folks - I thought they were nuts, they thought I was nuts, it was a good arrangement) or intercepted on the way ("Hey, if you're getting rid of that, give me a call first." "Junkyard offered $125, beat it and it's yours." "I'll be up in half an hour with $150."). The same goes for repairing laptops, or obtaining a variety of broken laptops and building serviceable ones out of it (plus selling anything useful - the value of a broken laptop, parted out, is further from $0 than I was willing to let anyone else know at the time).

It's just that none of this is popular in the tech industry for reasons I don't understand.

I worked at a tech company in the greater Seattle metro region for a while, and I was quite literally the only person in the office who was willing to dive into replacing cell phone batteries, repairing laptops, buying and refurbishing broken phones, etc. I didn't mind it - I made rather good coin doing it - but it was bizarre to me that in an office of several thousand people, I was literally the only person I knew who was willing to take a soldering iron to someone's laptop power jack to repair a failed power connection.
> MS Paint IDE is a program that can read a normal image file saved with MS Paint

I'm curious is it reading the image or using something about the way MS paint stores its data?
The idea that some of "a"is bad means that some of "b" must be good is illogical.
Ok, but this is such a repetitive, generic-indignant response to every similar topic that it is highly predictable, and that makes it off-topic for HN. We only want intellectually curious conversation here, and curiosity and predictability are antithetical. As are curiosity and indignation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I absolutely don't mean to pick on you personally—it's a systemic problem. Also, threads are a co-creation of comments and upvotes, and reflexive upvotes are by far the bigger problem.

If you or anyone wants further explanation about what we are/aren't hoping for in HN threads, the following principles and the associated links should help:

Curiosity withers under repetition: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Generic discussion is not interesting, at least not on internet forums: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

We want reflective rather than reflexive conversation: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Diffs are what make an HN conversation interesting: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Folks will also continue government issued currency for illegal activities too. In fact, if we look at capitalism at large, most currency use is unethical.
My thought too 41k in income would need more than than $1,500,000 asuming your takin a sensible yield.

I get about £4k on the 180k in my ISA her in the UK
I think you’re being a little too literal.

I can’t speak for the author, but when I think of poverty in the US I think of the inability to pay for or access basic needs: housing, food, healthcare, education, free time, etc
This is hilarious, I can't tell if Eric is a crank or he is just straight up trolling you. Admittedly either outcome isn't very favorable to you.
Instagram was a probable competitor for Facebook. Facebook bought it.
Facebook was feeling threatened by the success of WhatsApp on instant messaging? bought.
if it doesn't look to you like a monopoly, or at least something seriously and credibly moving to become a monopoly, by the time they meet your criteria, it would be too late to do anything about it.
Isn't that why we don't have $10,000 notes? Or even $500? To make illegal activity more difficult?
I agree with this comment. The FUD on HN about crypto and fraud is disappointing to say the least. Impossible to have a good technical discussion around cryptocurrencies because of that. I’m going to start flagging these.
Any groups/clubs that engage in slow html?

I like hand written html pages / don't like css.
adapt to it. Don’t enable others to exacerbate it.
> avoid

Because I am typing on a mobile.

Happy to answer later if you are genuinely curious and not just ranting.
No, full stop. The two American parties are not equivalent in their modern forms.

You can use “over the long term” to further any point you like because at one point the Republican Party was the liberal, progressive party before it adopted the original southern strategy.

Studying race and systemic racism in school is absolutely not “as damaging” as dictating the terms of school funding in a way that disadvantages the poor (and subsequently non-white people).

Also your argument is about the two parties being the same over the long term, but then you give a very short term anecdote, and one that isn’t very compelling.

I’m sorry to appear so argumentative but it seems you are falling into the trap of false equivalence on multiple levels.
That's not true.

Here is a 12 min clip with Bret and Pierre Kory about Ivermectin use for Covid / safety record: https://youtu.be/4O7uy4tzI8A
The hard part of git has never been the understanding its graph model.

The hard part HAS ALWAYS BEEN is memorizing all those badly named and counterintuitive commands.
> Cryptocurrencies must be stopped, there is absolutely NO benefit to having them.

I don't think that they're perfect, or that they're good for everything, but your statement is hyperbolic.
Tk is very limited and full of bugs (especially the Cocoa implementation), you can't even compare it to Qt. For a simple app it might be ok, though.
Performance-oriented languages tend to have a strong type system which lets them know well ahead of time what function is being called, so I see no reason why what you describe can't be done there without performance overhead.
I wonder if they negotiated up from some boring number of hundreds of millions of dollars to arrive at pi-hundred-million, or did they negotiate down to it? And was anyone advocating for 420M?
You're always going to pay taxes on 401k, even if you wait. The point is to contribute to it tax free while you're still working and have a high personal income.

You do the Roth ladder when you've going into early retirement - your personal income will be low because you're no longer actively working.

And because taxes are progressive you are minimizing taxes.
The most interesting theory I've found was banning lead in fuel. There's been a nationwide drop in crime rates in the decades since lead additive was banned.

The 90's was when the first generation not exposed to tetraethyl lead reached their teens
All true, of course. I have had great success helping two people who had "bad trips" as a trip sitter. Both people had a troubled adolescence, but are now doing extremely well as adults and are highly successful. Whenever I see them, they always thank me for helping them. The truth of the matter, is that I didn't do anything at all, I just made them feel safe and let them knew that everything was going to be okay.
For the vast majority of people on dense urban areas, it is.
Might be lower when you factor in Pension and ISA - and that's not counting and approved share schemes, VCT EIS and SIS.
It's fine, we reinvent it every day from first principles.
Or maybe your arguments aren't as good as you think...
It's worth pointing out that Alyssa Milano and MC Hammer were early investors in Square haha. But then again, I mean, it's a crypto business now so.
I didn't see anything in your entire comment about how to go about fixing things from here.
It reads the actual image, it could be saved with any program
Is this the same thing as a vaneless ion wind generator?
Regulate ISPs because they have an actual monopoly? Nope, that's socialism

Regulate "Big Tech" because they banned inciting violence on their platforms? Absolutely, that's freedom.
> _Conclusions_ After 2 doses of either vaccine there were only modest differences in vaccine effectiveness with the B.1.617.2 variant. Absolute differences in vaccine effectiveness were more marked with dose 1. This would support maximising vaccine uptake with two doses among vulnerable groups.

I was pretty sick after my second dose, so I’m glad I can still enjoy a bit more peace of mind. I’m hoping I won’t need to re-vaccinate anytime soon, and when I do, hopefully my symptoms will be more mild. Not the end of the world either way.
All: please don't post shallow, reflexive reactions to a story like this, even if you're sure you're right. Such reactions are 100% predictable (e.g. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27497174), and predictability hurts more than rightness helps [0]. Predictable discussions are tedious and invariably lead to worse—for example, tedious discussions turn nasty because that's the only thing the mind has left to amuse itself with [1].

What we want: reflective [2], specific, difference-based [3] responses, coming from slower cognitive processes like absorbing new information and thinking about it. That's what produces a discussion which hasn't been had before, and those are the curious discussions. They may be less exciting in the sensational-indignant way, but that sort of excitement is not the curiosity which HN exists for [4], and we all know it gets boring after a while. Scorched earth is not interesting [5].

p.s. I know nothing and have no opinion about the topic of the story; I just know HN threads and can spot a brewing disaster when I see one. The last 700 (let's say) cryptocurrency-related threads have all been the same flamewar. That's enough of those; we're ready to move to the next exercise now.

Edit: well done everyone! Much better.

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Why, newsletters?

I never sign up of extra emails... But I do occasionally add stuff to my RSS reader..

Which is what I read when HN frontpage has nothing interesting.
Is this the positive alternative to n-gate?