skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once had (and was happy with) a blog at blogs.mit.edu. Then MIT shut that whole server down, and all of the blogs there were destroyed.

I later started a free blog at Posterous. Posterous was bought by Twitter. The content was moved (free of charge) to Posthaven, while the original Posterous site was taken down.

Posthaven appears to have good intentions of being reasonably priced and available indefinitely, but even so, after having already lost some blogs to the whims of organizations outside my control, I think having my own domain name and my own hosting is worthwhile.
I think Musk deserves credit for recognizing that the USA is so car-centric that any effort to get people to use trains and busses would be met with enormous resistance, whereas popularizing electric variants of the most dominant form of transport can actually be impactful.
+1 for beautifully summing up in seven words the key takeaway of the vast majority of public discourse.
They don't cite power output, but cite current output: 17 mA / cm² under full sun, pretty impressive if you ask me.

The key promise of this approach is "more efficient that silicon can even theoretically be". Overcoming the Shockley limit is the key finding.
With regards to #2 there is a global conflict of interest. For example, someone in Texas might be pro gun, and therefore release STL files for a firearm under a FOSS license. Whereas in my country, the possession of a firearm is heavily restricted to people with a proper license (which I am a proponent of, but my bias is my cultural background growing up in said country). Likewise, I might be pro cryptocurrency for a country like Venezuela, while the government/establishment of Venezuela might feel otherwise.

One nice thing with regards to #2 is that targeted surveillance can still exist even with cryptocurrency, E2EE, etc. If someone who works in an average 9to5 job suddenly owns a Porsche, that could be suspicious to warrant an investigation. Just because the data isn't available via OSINT or via coercion of platform/data owner, doesn't mean it cannot be obtained. It just costs more resources, and that's a tricky sunk cost for e.g. law enforcement. That's why they don't like either; it increases their workload which costs society money. Its not they cannot work around it; they can. Just not via previously (ab)used mass surveillance tactics. Like I said, I believe that's a nice thing, but it has cons (such as indeed the increased cost/workload).

Now, I believe we need to discuss all these pros and cons with an open mind, but unfortunately there are too many personal interests involved which skew a proper discussion. For example, cryptocurrency adapts have an interest in their asset remaining relevant.
Ah, good to know.

Yes, easier might be not right here, but it sounded like overall they are less complex.
Those laws do not exist (yet?). You can’t justify this as a compliance measure for legislation that does not exist.
You might like Philip Tetlock's "Expert Political Judgement: How Good is it? How can we know?". He quantitatively studied political predictions for I think it was 20 years and how different cognitive styles affect effectiveness. Specifically he used the analogy of "foxes vs hedgehogs" from Isiah Berlin's famous essay as different cognitive styles and compared predictions over along period.

https://www.amazon.com/Expert-Political-Judgment-Good-Know/d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox
This mandates miners (and developers, and others who are not custodians) reporting data on others that they do not and cannot have.
> I still fail to see why people are so vehemently opposed to masks. Yes, they are annoying but is it really that big of a deal?

Because they want to prove that America is weak, because it cannot deal with any serious problem that requires a small personal sacrifice.

Alternatively, they want to prove America is weak, because they want to prove that a bunch of partisan shit-stirrers can turn any issue into a culture-war debacle and that the marketplace of ideas doesn't work.
That has to do with IMEI, and with most baseband software, the IMEI can be whatever you want.
Individuals always have the freedom of choice. Authoritarian governments only work when people choose to tolerate them. If the Chinese people lose faith in their government, we'll see how effectively it can manage a crisis...

In the US, many people don't have faith in strong centralized authorities. Becoming more authoritarian will only make that worse, not better. It is not a problem of political systems, it is a deeper cultural phenomenon.
WHO disagrees
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/25/delta-who-urges-fully-vaccin...
I enjoyed that, thanks for sharing
Massive population reduction (I don't think any serious person is suggesting elimination) would be the single most effective advancement we can make in reducing our environmental problems. It's definitely a tough sell for politicians, and environmentalists seem dismissive of it -- which makes me doubtful of their policy prescriptions. If population reduction isn't on the table of things to achieve, then the other arguments are lost on me. Nothing is sustainable when scaled up to an ever increasing population size.
The carbon tariff should depend on the emission of the exporting nation, so yes
It's the "Eternal September" or "September that Never Ended" for the internet in general. With mass use came mass marketing and a switch from authentic information dissemination Internet to pure and absolute profiteering of everything you see on the internet.

Do a random search in Google (DDG, or Bing) of ANY term at all, and you will see that the full first page links to pages that wrote whatever content for a profit (either by selling ads, or by a paywall, etc).

Long lost are sites like Xoom, Geocities or similar where people wrote about their knowledge just for the sake of it. Long gone are the "web rings" that took you into cliques of people wanting to share knowledge of some specific subject.

Nowadays the closest you can get to that sort of information is in forums like this or reddit (and this last is questionable). That's why adding "site:reddit.com" when searching for some opinion is becoming more useful compared to pure serach engine results.
> It just turned every outing into a chore

Especially if you have young kids. Airports are an absolute nightmare now with a 2-year-old that doesn't like wearing a mask.
Only 3rd party sellers are allowed in India due anti-competitive/eCommerce regulations, Couple of years ago I left a negative review for an item when the seller/manufacturer who failed to uphold their warranty statement as described in their product listing calling out the false statements in the product listing.

The seller reached out to me on LinkedIn, Out of frustration I blocked the seller on LinkedIn. I still feel bad about the entire scenario, I wonder whether I was too harsh.

Now there are several products on amazon.in where ordering requires you to interact with the seller on WhatsApp, e.g. Name board, You need to message via WhatsApp to the seller with the text. So obviously they pester you to leave a positive review through WhatsApp.

If Amazon cared a bit about Privacy, they would have integrated it part of ordering process in the website itself. Compared to Amazon, even Uber is better at masking customer's phone number from drivers(They route it through their number).
As an American expat, I know what you mean, but the problem is this simply isn’t true. Americans think this way because they have never seen an alternative. What it does mean is that the cost of consumption goes way up, which is exactly what’s needed.
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Please read what I am actually writing. I will try a different format. Perhaps you can respond POINT BY POINT to show that you have read it and have a substantive argument about it, rather than about your personal feelings about what a name du jour should mean:

1. End-to-end encrypted communication opens the barn door, you can conceal any anonymous cryptocurrency transactions in there, as well as darknets, smart contracts for silk road, etc. If you allow one, you allow the other.

2. Conversely, as the EFF often points out, making a backdoor in any crypto means effectively backdooring all of it. According to their stance, you either allow all of it, or nothing. (I happen to disagree with that, but there it is.)

3. There are more countries in the world than "America" (you meant USA, I am sure). Many of those countries take a much more dim view of freedom of expression online, than we do here. We need to design our software for people around the world, not just care about the USA. Many people on HN are not in the USA. Here is just a small list of things that currently go wrong when we don't have "unhosted" communication (https://qbix.com/blog/2019/03/08/how-qbix-platform-can-chang...)

4. Contrary to your statement, the USA's courtrooms would not "laugh" the parallels out of the room. I will post just a small sampling of bills with the same intent in spirit, to restrict end-to-end encryption. I want to be clear that this is only the stuff done in the open, and doesn't include the secret actions by the NSA, or agencies that serve national security letters, etc.

4a. The MPAA and RIAA lobbied Congress to implement "reasonable" reporting measures to ban access to many sites that provide end to end encryption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act

4b. After success in shutting down Craigslist and Backpage sex personals, Congress wanted to go further, and require every site to do this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Enabling_Sex_Traffickers_...

4c. Section 230 protections repeal: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-is-section-230-and-why-do-...

4d. The EARN IT act, just recently: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/01/earn-it-act-how-ba...

4e. LAED act, even more recent: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/06/there%E2%80%99s-no...

4f: Trump's attorney general was vocally against encryption, and lauded the proposed bill banning it: https://apnews.com/article/ny-state-wire-technology-ap-top-n...

https://apnews.com/article/ny-state-wire-technology-ap-top-n...

PLEASE address 1, 2, 3, and 4a - 4f
I will post just a small sampling of bills with the same intent in spirit, to restrict end-to-end encryption. I want to be clear that this is only the stuff done in the open, and doesn't include the secret actions by the NSA, or agencies that serve national security letters, etc.

1. The MPAA and RIAA lobbied Congress to implement "reasonable" reporting measures to ban access to many sites that provide end to end encryption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act

2. After success in shutting down Craigslist and Backpage sex personals, Congress wanted to go further, and require every site to do this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Enabling_Sex_Traffickers_...

3. Section 230 protections repeal: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-is-section-230-and-why-do-...

4. The EARN IT act, just recently: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/01/earn-it-act-how-ba...

5. LAED act, even more recent: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/06/there%E2%80%99s-no...

6: Trump's attorney general was vocally against encryption, and lauded the proposed bill banning it: https://apnews.com/article/ny-state-wire-technology-ap-top-n...

https://apnews.com/article/ny-state-wire-technology-ap-top-n...
Personal anecdote, FWIW:

Since the pandemic, my personal food waste is finally near zero. In a nutshell, switched to mostly bulk foods, pressure cooker, baking.
How does Nokia 215 solve the problem? All messages, including any images, wi now go through the carrier's network (and the recipient's carrier) and be subject to intercept, analysis, and sale by those two entities.

I'm not sure how is that better?

Wouldn't AOSP/Lineage with Signal installed be better?
> I suppose this is different in Southern clans.

This was true in the southern clans as well. The practice of lineage splitting is well documented. As for the concept of gotra incompatibility, its something your astrologer might bring up, and not something well known among the general public.
"a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives."

Basically it is. You don't need representatives to be democratic.
Well, they are instrumental in oppressive governments like Iran and Venezuela. The whole objective behind cryptocurrency is a digital cash. If you are unconcerned about it happening in US, I don't know what basis you have for that, other than it has never has. It could happen here just as easily. And faster than you think. And corrupt governments are not known for being quick to give rights back.
Vancian Magic is one of my least favorite mechanics. It worked in its original setting, and certainly I understand the desire to have a similar mechanic in the game itself, but it is one of those things which just does not hold up under scrutiny. And then the oddball psionics ...

However, do not let these criticisms dissuade you from reading. Vance was a very interesting writer, and the Dying Earth setting was highly influential on D&D (not that it originated with him). He would often develop trickster characters who used vocabulary (often slightly wrongly) to seem more intelligent than they were, so there's a certain density to the writing, but it is more than merely packing in the unlikely Scrabble words, there's a playfulness to it which is entertaining when you find it.
They exclusively follow the edge of the police line and mostly focuses on them throughout. Typically therefore, coverage shows limited numbers of people, and most of any violence that occurs.

But, it's better than nothing, and at least documents who started what. In the case of Berlin recently, it was particularly shocking.
> payment processors are _right now_ acting as extrajudicial legislators. many LEGAL business, like porn and weed, are restricted from operating on major payment networks.

The thing is, at least for weed companies, that they technically are not legal on federal level where banks are regulated. The Obama, Trxmp and Biden admins simply have chosen for now to ignore the issue on executive level since Congress is completely and utterly dysfunctional, which is something the next admin/President can easily turn over and prosecute everyone involved, even for actions years past.

For porn (as well as, where legal, sex work and gambling), the problem is the immense amount of fraud associated with it. Horny people caught by their s/o's or company expense teams stumbling on CC bills or plain old "post nut clarity" has led to many fraudulent "card has been stolen" chargebacks, as did actual fraud by people using stolen CCs to sign up for porn sites and resell these accounts on the Internet, and additionally to that there are lots of legitimate chargebacks (dark patterns in account signup aka pre-checked "recurring" options, low quality content). And add to that the various issues regarding legality of services rendered (which may be different depending on where the seller and/or the buyer are located and where the service takes place).

And if that wasn't enough, the US likes to enforce their laws on companies based in the US also abroad... which means even here in Europe where sex work, porn and (in sometimes utterly incomprehensible ways) gambling are legal in most our states, we still have the problem that the US companies export their morality codes onto us Europeans (see also: facebook's nipplegate).

The result is legitimate businesses and mixed-content businesses (reddit, onlyfans) being struck by obscene merchant fees or being denied service altogether since it's frankly infeasible for non-local services, especially in physical sex work, to be in compliance with the myriad of rules ranging from global international agreements against drug usage and human trafficking over federal and state law to county/town ordinances.

I agree that these businesses deserve access to banking (alone to reduce the incentive to rob them of their physical cash!), but seriously the solution to that is a reform of banking, sex work and gambling legislation - not cryptocoins.
>you're asking young people to give up a lifestyle that their parents considered normal

Which has already happened for every generation for the past few centuries. Peoples lifestyles change all the time. There's no need to ask, it is an inevitable thing that happens, you can't freeze time.
> Apple can already technically do anything they want to compromise the security of your device in the next software update

But they're making it easier for governments to come along and force them to do more. Or even for themselves, but I tend to think they're less of an issue.

I know "it's a slippery slope" gets overused... but if you keep taking baby slips down that slope, it only gets slipperier. You should avoid taking as many of those steps as possible.
Standing up for gay marriage used to be "offensive".
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Right. Certificates are actually one of the easier monitoring problems - you can build an affirmative monitoring setup, you can get them off the shelf, it's very much a solved problem.

Contrast stuff like: Did we pay the utility bills? Oh, you thought Jim did it, Jim thought Sarah did it, Sarah thought you did it, and so they weren't paid, and this morning bright and early an engineer from the utility company disconnected our supply, we are dead in the water. Don't worry, your utility company is probably a local monopoly and so they definitely have excellent customer support /s
The phrase doesn't mean, "I have nothing to hide from anyone at any time for any reason."

It means, "I have nothing to hide from authorities who are looking at my data in an official capacity, so I'm willing to cede my privacy to those particular actors in that specific context."

It might still be a bad argument, but your retort doesn't address it.
Nudity is 18+ in extremist countries like the Emirates or the USA.

Sorry but in France, 30 years ago before american culture started to dictate where money come from, you would see genitals from all genders and ages in movies.

Nobody found it offensive, because we didn't have a catholic puritan morality to impose its sick twisted vision of the human body on us.

Meanwhile we sold car by showing cars, not hot girls. But this apparently is ok because money.

It's also perfectly alright to show kids image of people killing each others in mass. Because this is sane, unlike nipples.

And now this Apple crap.

Edit: ok 50 years ago. I'm getting old it seems.
No sir, not at all. The basement of all individual rights is freedom.
If police can't do their job in a proper way we shouldn't abandone our right to not be monitored in our private life to supplant their ineffectiveness.
> In the past 20 years we have seen significant progress in slowing down, or even reducing for some countries, the emission of CO2. It is not enough, but it's definitely significant. This happened thanks to the many, via awareness campaign and political pressure.

I’m guessing this has nothing to do with awareness campaigns and everything to do with the relative price of coal, natural gas, and renewables. People just did whatever was cheapest, and that meant switching away from coal.
>There's nothing special about having software where anyone can contribute freely, that makes it attractive to customers

Community, support, acquisition, extendability and code quality.

Community/Support -- lots of documentation available for free, generally multiple vendors that offer paid support, free access to updates. Don't have any data but I suspect finding people to support/run it is easier (skills are more marketable and easier to learn on your own)

Acquisition -- eg less of a vetting/auditing process for places where that matters (you can handle vetting the code and supporting company separately)

Extendability -- you can hire developers to add features or integrate without being subject to the owner's timeline e.g. you don't have to plead for features

Code quality -- being open, it's more apparent if the software has a high number of bugs or large amount of technical debt that could lead to instability. Usually the issue trackers for OSS are open to everyone

These apply more to large companies with dedicated teams
" They made a choice, let them deal with the repercussions"

Oi vei.

You will pay the price along with them.

So long as the pandemic persists, any number of our systems are compromised, especially our healthcare system.

You still have a decent chance of getting COVID even with the vaccine, though it'll likely be mild, you can still be hospitalized and face consequences.

The vaccine is not a 'seat belt' i.e. just an individual action resulting in some individual consequence, it affects everyone.
One specific and odd behavior I’ve seen repeatedly: if I search for something to do with “PureScript”, but I have a transposition typo, e.g. “pursecript concatenate strings” Google will often return links to TypeScript.

It seems to be putting more weight on the popularity of the subject matter rather than the actual content of my search query.

I’ve only used PureScript for a couple of years, and I’m curious how earlier iterations of Search would have performed.
It's not the solar system's fault that the inhabitants of one of the bodies in the system are bad stewards.

Also, if you have 30% effeciency from the light of one sun, wouldn't the additional light also improve the solar cell since there is now more light to get 30% out of? I mean, more is always better, right?
To fix #1 on Firefox just set security.OCSP.require = true
I love this approach and think you're totally right:

> Err towards action over picking the perfect project.

Lots of really cool ideas here. Thanks for posting all of them - I really appreciate it :)
> wasn't one of the main appeals early on that it would be independent from any governments?

The government has the guns[1]. And a structured (albeit imperfect) way of having the people's voice be heard. It could never be independent in the way that coiners dream.

To a rounding error nobody wants the government not to be able to control the money.

Child support, theft, jury-awarded penalties, etc… etc…

People actually do want a judicial system. Is that controversial now?

[1] And don't give me 2nd amendment. This is what Biden meant when he said that the USG has nukes. It's not a threat, but a statement of fact that the people cannot outgun the armed forces. The USD is ulmitately backed by the nuclear triad, with many layers before that.
Hah. A cattle prod in place of a bayonet!
If companies don’t like right to repair, how about no rights to fail instead? SLA exists for that reason and when you are working with that goal in mind, you (usually) get better output at higher cost, yes, but surely less than several breakdowns.

So, outside planned maintenance, the 2$ question is why is McDonald accepting this in the first place? Anyone has more knowledge? There are so many McDo POS maybe the number is high but the ratio on par with other similar equipment?
Maybe they should. But I can't help but comment that you're abusing statistics here. Smaller population countries like Canada and Australia pollute more per capita than the US. Also, the carbon tariff should ideally be applied on an activity-specific basis, not at the national level.
Decent article but doesn't mention the NiMH battery and the EV1
I don't remember the details but I recall Philosophize This! having an accessible series on Heidegger (with one episode [1] specifically discussing his views on technology).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_BxMwRywEk
If you fly to go skiing then it's the vacation. Jet fuel isn't clean burning by any means. Car is next.

Depending on how your power is generated, that energy use may be carbon neutral.
Looks like they have corrected it by moving to a letsEncrypt certificate for the main www.thunderbird.net domain.