skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other commenter mentioned it, but I'll reinforce it: This is completely unrelated to Socialism. If anything, whatever "Socialism" exists in China is one of the few things to applaud to them. Similarly to "Socialism" practiced in Norway, Finland, Sweden and even Germany to a certain degree.

What you are thinking of is either "Communism" or, in the case of what is being discussed here more like Authoritarism and Oligarchy. Both of those two are definitely present in China, and more and more present in Western countries who push methods of mass survelliance of the population to further advance their goals.
The feelings are valid - all feelings are valid.

The reactions to those feelings ARE harmful to children, disabled people, and (yes) the unvaccinated. Even if you don't care about the last group, the first two groups don't deserve to get long COVID, or die, because you had a hard feel about having to wear something over your mouth.
The process of going from rocks to manufactured goods is fascinating, and probably part of the interest in Minecraft.

Obligatory link to a video showing the home refinement of iron metal from minerals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBBt7IhHOFQ
> feels like a feature to existing trading/investing apps

I had the same thought at first. But at the end of the day the competitive edge a company like Financial Choice has might simply come down to marketing and UI/UX.

Wealthfront, Betterment, Robinhood, etc are very narrowly targeted at investors (e.g. if I send a link to Wealthfront to my cousin who wants to earn a return on a $5000 checking account she set up for her young child, or even her own checking account, she's very unlikely to convert)
The thing is that cryptocurrency is really a niche application of cryptography, where cryptography is very broadly used. So it's a little like if people started using "petroleum" to mean petroleum jelly. Sure, nobody is aware of cryptography's effect on their life. But it is a key ingredient in everything including cryptocurrency.
Where I live mask compliance is high.

Even if it's a country were rules and laws are rarely followed.

Saying this in a place were buses don't stop at bus stops, while they consistently stop in front "no bus stop" signs.
> Back in the day, I remember how Tipper Gore was all about warning us of the dangers of explicit lyrics and videos and she wasn't a conservative

Al Gore was long known as a conservative Democrat, and his taking up his wife's singular political issue was in line with that; in fact the WSJ complained about his supposed reinvention as a liberal in 2000 during the campaign. (Weirdly, complaining that he had done so in aligning with Clinton, who also was, even as President, a conservative Democrat; this was a partisan campaign hitpiece more than anything, Gore’s actual reinvention as anything but a conservative Democrat didn't really happen until after he was out of electoral politics, when he became a single-issue campaigner on climate change.)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB966909158678552096
Density + safety/ease

Nuclear is more dense, but much more difficult. But generally yes, the density of hydrocarbons for their application is unbeatable and will continue to be until we find something else.
Cryptocurrency is extremely resilient to government action. Regardless of what happens with this legislation, I can virtually guarantee you that crypto will still exist in a decade. Obviously the market agrees, as the major coins and tokens have reached 3 month highs while this legislation was unfolding.

The reason I oppose hamfisted laws in crypto is the same reason I oppose the War on Drugs. Is the government even remotely competent to eliminate illicit drugs or even reduce the supply of illicit drugs? Not even close. But is the government capable of finding a few poor bastards and ruin their lives to make publicity stunts? Absolutely.

Just like with drug laws, the primary victims are going to be the disadvantaged and disconnected. Just like with drugs, the elites will be able to insulate themselves from the rules. Two out of three of our past presidents suffered no consequences from their admitted illicit drug use, while millions of poor minorities were locked up.

I’m a professional crypto dev, and I’m not sweating this at all. Our venture funded startup can easily afford high powered lawyers to make sure we’re compliant. Now what about the 17 year old hacker who quickly uploads a smart contract that he thinks does something cool, and all of a sudden is looking at two decades in federal prison because Elizabeth Warren wants to nail a sacrificial “shadowy super coder” to the wall.
It never was
Can comment on the kids public versus private. My kids joined with other families to hire a tutor because the zoom classes for school were awful. Twenty kids, I’ve seen Thursday Thursday zoom meetings with 80 people be more productive. From what I understand the private schools had much smaller zoom calls, five kids what a number I heard a lot.

The older I get the more I believe in Cliff Stoll’s vision of education - one without technology. Zoom is convenient but it sucks the life out of learning.
True, I was thinking about the problem from a web only perspective, since WebRTC tries to do a direct connection between peers and only uses a third party server when one or both connections are behind a NAT.
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"why can't we vaccinated let them reap the consequences"

Because they won't reap it alone, everyone else will.

COVID is not 'bad' because of the case fatality rate - it's dangerous, but if just a few people had it, it wouldn't be huge cause for alarm.

What makes COVID evil is it's virality.

The contagion means a lot of people get it, a lot of people suffer, and systematically it causes all sorts of lingering problems.

For example - as long as it lingers, pretty much all of Healthcare System is seriously hampered and compromised.

Every person who gets sick or who undergoes some kind of serious thing (i.e. surgery after accident) is going to be 'much more vulnerable to COVID' etc..

COVID is not an individual problem, it's a systematic problem.

That clashes with notions of choice, freedom, and individuality etc. - which makes it a particularly pernicious issue from a Public Safety perspective.

Edit: It's usually evident to me why my comments are downvoted, I should say in this case, especially without any reasonable retort ... I'm at a loss, but I'll triple down on my comment: until smart people get it in their heads that the issue is systematic and mostly not individual - then we're not going to be make progress. It's not a question of 'I Am Vaccinated' - it's a question of getting to 'Effective Herd Immunity' and suppressing the net virality / R0 of the virus. It's an issue that exposes the material fact that we live in communities whether we like it or not, and that this may challenge some of our assumptions about 'liberty' - then take it as an opportunity for a little bit of personal development, but in the meantime, reality is not waiting up, so we have to get with the program together, or face the consequences, together.
The finding in Sega v. Accolade would seem to exclude this Oracle 'hack', too, as being fair use: https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/summaries/segaenters-acco...
Governments can control it. In the end of the day, sure they can't control that gold, but moving gold itself is a problem. You can't go to a dealership to buy something with your gold suitcase. In order to do anything useful with that stored wealth you need to convert it to cash and that's where they get you. That's how they control it.
This is the only answer.

Every single American adult has had the opportunity to get the vaccine. Any who don't have made a personal decision and there should be no reason to continue mandated masks or lockdowns for any group (vaccinated or unvaccinated).

Children are not contracting the virus in meaningful numbers, and in even fewer numbers are having serious side effects.

The biggest pushers of mask mandates for the vaccinated are other vaccinated individuals. No unvaccinated individual I have encountered has pushed for everyone else to mask up at their behest.
Because COVID has many severe effects other than death?

For example long term respiratory system damage. People with long COVID have had diabetes diagnoses at a high rate. This hasn’t had the side effects of a typical respiratory virus.
I'm not opposed to cooperating with more masking out of hand, but I do wonder how effective it is, and what the evidence looks like. I know the support initially for just using any mask at all was predicated on the idea of spread primarily happening via droplets. I believe we now know that the virus is shed and spread by much smaller particles, and I doubt cloth masks or poorly fitted medical masks help much with that. I have a giant box of KN95s that I used in some settings, and I often feel air moving in and out around the sides, and they fit pretty well. I don't want to go through the whole exercise if it isn't actually doing anything useful.

[edit] I'm not sure what people are opposed to here. I am as I said happy to comply with public health measures that work and are supported by evidence.
What can go wrong will go wrong.
Well maybe hospitals should start charging more for specifically covid admissions. Nothing like an economic/financial incentive to get vaccinated.

On top of that though, this doesn't seem like a long term concern. Eventually enough people will have natural immunity or vaccinated immunity that it's not really possible to overwhelm hospitals like it was when the virus was totally novel.
Tracking Coronavirus Vaccinations Around the World
Both sides are lying about the intentions.
Here we are, trying to improve solar cells to avoid global warming, and dissidents like you want to add a sun to the solar system.
> The entire point of cryptocurrency is precisely to enable bank-like services without bank-like obligations, to enable individuals to be their own bank and manage their own money if they want to.

From what I understand of the actual cryptocurrency markets, very few people are actually interested in being their own bank. A lot of the cryptocurrency industry seems to be structured around providing bank-like services to cryptocurrency users.
Did the pole vault record get broken in this Olympics?
You are also masking to protect children and people who have immune conditions that make vaccination less effective/prevent them from receiving vaccinations. That's millions of people who are unvaccinated through reasons outside of personal choice.
What is the risk of serious illness (and/or death) from delta covid after double vaccination? Too soon to tell?
Every country in the developed world plus the former Warsaw pact members have negative natural population growth. They're being propped up by immigrants, that's why they're populations are growing. For example France has about 67 million people but the number of natives is estimated to be around 50 million. Which would be about their population in 1971, 50 years ago. Similar story with the UK, Switzerland, the US, etc. In Japan it's just visible because they have negligible immigration plus even lower birth rates.
> There seems to be a naive belief that it can never happen here, just because it never has.

I’m sorry, but is the argument here that cryptocurrencies will somehow be instrumental in preventing the rise of fascism? Because that’s what the quote is from, although the chief motivator in the novel is independent journalism, not internet funny money.
> So why can't we vaccinated let them reap the consequences of their irresponsible actions?

Would you believe there’s literally an entire field of study about this called “Public Health”? You can do a Masters in it and everything
Stupid meme responses like this are counter-productive. Imagine if for a period of time everyone wore masks when necessary and when the time finally came, vaccinated if they are able to. We wouldn't be having this discussion.

But I'm glad the unprecedented nature of this event has given you the opportunity to regurgitate low level quips.
each company doesn't get it's own quota. There is one quota, and companies bid to buy parts of it; higher demand, higher prices.
> no realistic scenario in which western countries can prevent CO2 from getting to dangerous levels

In that case, Western nations should pay developing nations to make them more developed and reduce emissions.
I don't for a moment trust Microsoft not to serve its own interest in its recommendations. Maybe its lowest price but only from a pool of approved vendors? Oh you have a lower price? But we don't know who you are, not safe to recommend you. etc etc.
As far as I can tell from an American perspective, the US has always done what was cheapest and fastest, and we still do. I sure wouldn’t expect China to do anything different.
Given that catapults and muzzle loading cannon[0] are generally held to be exempt from DD status, I would estimate that a EM cannon of whichever variation don't count as destructive devices.

0: https://www.atf.gov/firearms/qa/are-muzzleloading-cannons-co...
No it's fine. It's just the cryptocurrency/smart contract industry.

Crypto will be just fine.
China both leads the world in solar panel manufacture, and in new coal plants.

That's a choice. No one is forcing their hand here. If it were the 90s I would have to agree with you, but, it isn't.
Hey I like this idea, I think the tax management is a nice value add too.

I don’t know why nay-sayers are freaking out about this aside from calling it a checking account. Most HSAs (like Health Equity which I use) have a threshold cash balance (say $500), and then allow you to invest the rest, even in equities. No one seems to yell at them for being irresponsible because a medical emergency may coincide with a market downturn.

Maybe this is inappropriate for a Launch HN, but do you see a path to profitability for this that isn’t based on selling advertising / marketing data? Is there sufficient income or a sufficiently large addressable market here to make this work on just cash management / tax planning?
DeepMind's Perceiver IO: A General Architecture for Various Inputs and Outputs
Maybe because they know it is unpopular and they can't buy off senators who will only vote for it because it contains unrelated provisions they want?
I think you're talking about a few different concerns and not all should be ignored. Resume driven development is something that should be avoided, but there are good reasons to update your tech stack even if the old one is working fine. To your point, I've been to tech workshops for new tech where everyone was laughing about their current jobs' quagmire from previous new tech. All I could think about is not wanting to use either in production for what they were doing. However, I was also at a job pulling teeth trying to convert from SVN to git. A lot of people argued changing was fashionable, but branching and merging were frustrating (therefore not heavily used), tools we wanted to integrate with less often supported SVN, and a lot of the automated processes in place would have been much more lightweight after transitioning.

While I don't think appealing to new hires should drive your tech stack, telling them we still used SVN was something you kind of said under your breath with a bit of shame. As for "nobody wanted to work on someone else's codebase" is true, but I think needs some give and take. If you're making someone responsible for something you need to give them some latitude for running it their own way. I'm going to grumble less about dealing with my own mistakes over someone else's, but rewriting everything every time someone quits isn't an option either.
Because whenever there is bad news for cryptocurrency Tether prints a billion dollars worth of coins out of thin air to artificially inflate the price of BTC
Guess my next one will be nokia then. Been rocking xiaomi a1 with the android one for who knows how long now.
> the risks associated to the vaccine are completely fictive.

Risk of GB syndrome, clots, bad immune reaction in heart and brain, death from vaccine are not fictitious. They did happen and are still happening. I can choose to nullify this risk for me.

> To me, that's medecine fiction. None of that is real. I don't know of any other vaccine for which that happened.

Mutating viruses isn't fiction. Selection pressure is real, search for antibiotic resistance. Also see example of bad vaccine results:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken-vaccine-m...

> but not for the virus whose infection can be prevented by the vaccine.

You can't prevent infections with current vaccines. Neither we need such a miracle. We can decrease infections to such a level that COVID becomes a mere low-incidence sickness like flu. In many countries in Europe this is already the case but of course this may change in autumn/winter.

We can decrease infections with other measures as well, with similar efficacy as current vaccines and none of their risk.

> However, you cannot have a symmetric worry for the virus because it is natural and nobody is responsible for it. Who are you going to sue for its long-term side effects? Thus, independently of the facts on the ground, if you think like that, you can only be more worried about the vaccine than the virus, and that's a bias.

We do not know whether this virus is purely natural. There are indications it may have been intentionally enhanced in bio-labs and then escaped from there.

However yes, I cannot have a symmetric worry, because risks and available information are very different for the COVID and for the vaccine. I do not worry about getting COVID much. I worry much more about vaccines and the socio-political impact of forced vaccination.
>They'd also be used on GrapheneOS, and anywhere else basically.

The issue is that you're giving Google services privilege and integration not available to other apps.
Do you have a source for your information? Many hospitals are reporting very low ICU numbers, nowhere near capacity.
>> Years ago I acquired and refurbished a NeXT cube....

> A modern computer running the whole thing in emulation is not the same though.

>> Whereas for example an FPGA implementation, that’s in line with my idea of “build your own NeXT”.

But the OP is not that. IIRC, there were two distinct versions of NeXTSTEP: a 68k version for their custom hardware, and a x86 version for PCs. The OP is setting up VM for the latter (which given its age does not seem like a trivial thing, either).

So if you must have an FPGA version, it would be equally equivalent to have one that simulates a mid-90s IBM clone.
Almost every exchange I know of has mandatory KYC/AML now.
I don't understand any of that. Any chance of an acronym dictionary for us laymen?
Perhaps that's why it was broken?

I only see certificate issuances from Let's Encrypt.

https://crt.sh/?q=addons.thunderbird.net
“Glowworm attack” recovers audio from power LEDs
I won't argue with you that democracy sucks.
Is this more than just a domain?
Hello, hackers, geeks, and other diversity of HN readers.

I bought the domain https://planning.wedding and built a platform Wedding Planning Assistant.

Recently I have realized... If you have a great domain, think about how you can play around sub-domain.

People ask questions. How to start planning a wedding?
Turns to: https://how.to.start.planning.wedding

First steps for planning a wedding?
Here is: https://first.steps.for.planning.wedding

And so on...
https://checklist.for.planning.wedding
https://the.ultimate.guide.to.planning.wedding
https://how.to.planning.wedding
https://i.am.planning.wedding

Of course, all these newly-created domains have a zero domain rating. But it can be used as micro landing pages that give specific answers in detail and gain authority. I heard exact match domains have some benefits for SEO.

So, my question will be related to brand building.

What do you think, is it possible to reach the words "Planning Wedding" as a brand itself?
I'm not yada-yada-ing.

We already have huge networks of Nuclear reactors.

France is 85% Nuclear.

The entire Western world could be within a decade.

Do you think we've retrograded and lost our ability to 'do stuff'?

Maybe politically, but not materially.

We know exactly what to do and there are no material barriers to fairly widespread Nuclear Adoption, it just takes a bit of political will.
If you can smack a tax on their imports, why not already do it? This only works if you are a union/trading-block/superpower with the leverage to do so - and as the world gets globally competitive morally punishing taxes will require more and more "fighting the invisible hand" i.e working against the interests of free trade.

To re-iterate the point that probably got my original post downvoted: It helps to have a large military-industrial complex to enforce embargos.
Never going to happen, but yes, I’d love to see the NHS sue the people who didn’t get the vaccine and didn’t have an exemption for costs.
Latency sneaks up on you
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Not everyone can be vaccinated.

Not everyone benefits equally from vaccination. The elderly, sick, or immunocompromised especially.

Not everyone who's unvaccinated is making the decision themselves. Infants, children, the disabled, and elderly may not be competent (or allowed) to make the decision, and if denied vaccination by an antivaxxer, are put at risk without informed consent.

Vaccines aren't an absolute protection. They seem to reduce rates of infection about 8-fold, and hospitalisation and death by about 25-fold. But illness, hospitalisation, long-term health impacts, and death, can still result.

The longer the disease is around and spreading actively, and the more different individuals it spreads amongst, the more it mutates. Delta is already more effective at breaking through vaccinations than the original Covid virus, and the likelihood of more infectious or more severe mutations persists.

Much of the world cannot yet get vaccinated, and is at greater risk of transmission by Covid spreading elsewhere.

Covid patients use resources and staffing of healthcare workers, first responders, and caregivers which are already overtaxed and which will result in undertreatment of other medical conditions.

The most powerful argument though was made to me elsewhere:

But of course these people weren’t fully informed; they were misinformed. They chose to believe people who lie to them. They trust people who betray them and are willing to sacrifice your lives to score some political points. They are the victims of a massive misinformation campaign that didn’t just start with the pandemic, but started way back in the 1980s. All of America is the victim of that, and much of the rest of the world too, but these people in particular. They are the dupes mobilised and sacrificed as part of the murderous political game that the Republicans and conservative media have been playing for decades now.

<https://joindiaspora.com/posts/aa6b8d80d96e0139c1dd002590d8e...>
> Muzzleloading cannons manufactured in or before 1898 (and replicas thereof) that are not capable of firing fixed ammunition are considered antiques and not subject to the provisions of either the Gun Control Act (GCA) or National Firearms Act (NFA).

The answer at your link doesn't seem to apply here.