skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't insane, it's a leftover from when you didn't have to assume that most sites you use are actively hostile to you.

If it didn't come with all the tracking and privacy implications, being able to see your friends' comments on a site first, use social widgets etc. is a feature.

This will also break some sites, some of which will never get fixed, so this is a hard change to make (but necessary at this point).
Lengthy HN discussion on this yesterday.
> If it's indeed correct

Just admit you are wrong and leave it at that without continuing to try to put a false light on this.
The only reason Michael Saylor is telling people to mortgage their house and sell their stonks to buy BTC is because he and a bunch of other whales are gunning to make BTC the world reserve currency. You see this mentality everywhere and it is the only way these coins are going to go to the moon. Not to mention a lot of these people are libertarians who see this as their way to “fix” the problems of central banks.

Certainly our politics leads to the socialization of corporate risk, but crypto is subject to the same politics only with a much smaller pool of voters. Spending on any community at this global scale will be looked at as pork and the needs of disenfranchised will calcify further. Again, it’s code and it’s not immutable. The mechanisms of distributing crypto clients will betray the interests of the common citizen. There is no leverage for commoners, only special interests.

Inflation could be used to redistribute wealth for greater equity and the worlds wealthiest see this threat which I think is the only reason crypto has their attention.
How is that question relevant?
> "The hope a lot of people had/have for crypto is that it replaces people, instititions and rules with explicit code"

My experience in crypto over the past two years has been exactly the opposite. The main issues facing the space today all have to do with governance: how do you get holders of gov tokens to vote rather than hold? how do you involve them in the evolution of your protocol?
There are entire protocols being designed to allow "vote selling" to incentivize delegation for small owners.

Code is a tool to make sure laws are enforced. But the rules are increasingly being made and amended at the social/political layer.

It may not be democratic. it may not be fair. it may not be efficient. but it's a damn interesting experiment to watch evolve.
> If you don't mind me asking, how do you handle 2FA and companies that require a phone number(eg. my bank)?

I'm note vertis, but I wont give out my cell phone number, so: Companies that require 2FA via phone just don't get my business and about all banks in germany offer chipTAN. The chipTAN devices are all made by shady companies and are less than open but I still trust them more than any smartphone or the mobile network.
Early crypto adopters are freedom minded people.
I have no problem with a new economic system where the wealthiest are the most freedom-oriented.

If crypto ever replaces the current monetary system, late adopters will have to fight for crumbles.

And that's OK; you support deception & violence, so you stay poor.
That's cosmic justice.
That sounds mostly like deduplication which is often used in marketing contexts. There are indeed some good solutions out there, but from our experience they have difficulties handling huge amounts of data (>1 billion data sets) and they are often batch based, so your data is always outdated, whereas we constantly add new data in near real-time.
>The lack of first class support for delegated staking poses a problem IMHO as it requires handing control of your coins over to a third party considering this is the only option for people without 32ETH(102k USD) that they can tie up.

You should take a look at RocketPool. It is a project that will introduce decentralized staking pools allowing people with >0.01 ETH to trustlessly stake (except for smart contract risk, of course).
Well, it is probably first an attempt to put pressure on those who don't want to get vaccinated, and second an attempt to save money. I am fine with that. People will not be "forced" to get vaccinated, as was promised. But in practice they will be, which I think is a good thing. Obviously I am pro vaccination and fully vaccinated by now.
> In a recent discussion, some of my heroes expressed the opinion that they don't need fancy functional-programming concepts and features to write good code. I'm sure that they don't.

It's OK to disagree with Bob Martin - many do. The days of TDD silver bullet training gold rush are over.
The system does not need to be secured in a way that burns the energy of Argentina.

There are networks running right now that use the energy of a windmill to provide secure transactions, and more of them, processed in under a second, with no fee at all.

That's not vaporware; that's current reality. All Bitcoin miners are doing is perpetuating a system that has been very groundbreaking but is now obsolete in every way.
> I don’t believe proof of steak is the correct solution

Please don't, it's bad enough for GPUs don't take my dinner too.
>“[These laws] represent, in my view, significant expansions of the existing powers of law enforcement agencies away from a traditional focus on investigation and the collection of admissible evidence of specific offenses to disruption, to attack, to take-over, to take-down,” Dr Mann said.

Yikes.

This is like government being infested by cancel culture (attack w/ no evidence needed, pile on & take down).

What phenomenon is driving this?

e.g political opportunism under the pretense of covid / protection?
I think you forgot to mention something very fundamental:

You cannot transfer physical commodities through digital means. Stocks and money can be transferred digitally. When you want to sell your commodity you do not send it to a central depot that stores all corn. You tell people that they can buy your corn and you deliver it when the commodity future reaches its expiry date. Thus, there is no commodity trade without futures. That excuse doesn't apply to financial assets.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28131737
hello and welcome!

I live in britian, so its odd and fun to see an american company making a carbon copy of a british 90/00's highstreet.

One thing I would like to point out is that you need better drainage and more trees in your shopping precinct. you have way more sun than us, so a vast expanse of brick will heat up and stay hot. putting in more planters for trees will cool the place down and make everything feel much more cozy/safe.
Not if this becomes the default in browsers with meaningful market share.

Also, blocking people who use privacy settings can be legally iffy. Many sites are already on thin ice, telling people to use their browser settings if they don't want tracking cookies. Forcing tracking like that sounds like a recipe to receive an expensive lesson in GDPR.
If the author is raving about vertebrate eyes, wait until they discover the squid.
So no innovation should ever be made again?
Let me pose a different question.

What value does the following claim bring into the discussion: "The <new thing that you like> is going to be just as bad as <other things>, just give it time"?

It's just needless negativity.

There are so many interesting things about TikTok that one can discuss, and choosing to just be a Debbie Downer about it ("You like it, but it's bad for you!") feel like an extremely boring way to think about anything.
> "To the far right, we have a hypothetical language with such a strong type system that, indeed, if it compiles, it works."

> For good measure, despite my failure to understand the implications of the halting problem, I'm otherwise happy with the article series Types + Properties = Software. You shouldn't consider this particular example a general condemnation of it. It's just an example of a mistake I made. This time, I'm aware of it, but there are bound to be plenty of other examples where I don't even realise it.

I don't see what the mistake is. Halting and Godel's incompleteness theorems only say there exists problems where you don't know if there's a solution or not - that's very different from saying you can't come up with solutions for specific problems.

For example, you can't tell if any arbitrary crazy program halts but most loops people code in practice have trivial proofs of halting because it's usually simple loops from 0 to the fixed length of a collection. If some code is full of loops where you're nervous about them halting a lot, there's probably something very wrong with the design that would get flagged in integration tests and during use too.

It's been demonstrated you can statically prove the correctness of something as complex as an operating system for example (see https://sel4.systems/About/) so the above isn't much of a barrier to proving interesting program properties:

seL4's implementation is formally (mathematically) proven correct (bug-free) against its specification, has been proved to enforce strong security properties, and if configured correctly its operations have proven safe upper bounds on their worst-case execution times
"STIKO" is the acronym of the "Ständige Impfkommission", or "permanent vaccination commission" as the dictionary translates it. They are the office responsible for recommendation of vaccinations in Germany.

A lack of recommendation does not mean that doctors could not vaccinate people anyways. The STIKO has not recommended vaccination of all youths yet (12-17 year old) but only for those at risk for example. Since the vaccines are already approved for that range of age though, some federate states have greenlit doing it in their vaccination centers anyways.
One test costs about as much as one dose of vaccine. So there is a considerably higher cost associated with weekly (or more) testing than with vaccination. Taxpayers (70% of which have now gotten vaccinated) don't have to pay for the luxury of the unvaccinated. Mind you, the government doesn't force you to get tested, btw.. You just can't partake in certain activities if you don't want to spend the money on the tests and don't want to get the vaccine.
Then Viking raiders were "securing England" and getting Danegeld in return for their useful, hard work of _not_ raiding and pillaging.
> Also - in my country recently the peak electricity usage moved from winter to summer because of AC.

Yes, that's the goal. This is good. In countries that have winters, this increase should be offset by much greater drop of energy usage in winter. Couple factors play into this:

- AC (heat pump) used for heating is 2-5x more energy-efficient than anything else people normally use, including in particular burning any source of fuel for heat.

- Insulation works better at reducing heating costs than cooling costs (people and equipment generate heat too, which insulation will try to keep in).

As a result, you should expect peak electricity usage to shift to summer, and total energy usage per capita to drop.
I would (and do) place more trust in a battle-hardened VPN than a router web interface that's designed for local access.

Additionally, Wireguard (to pick a favourite) listens for connections on a specific port, and only opens a tunnel if it's presented with the correct string, otherwise it's completely silent, an attacker wouldn't even know it was there. These routers are presenting a full web server and the web UI to an attacker.
It's striking to me that according to the map in figure 4, the parts of the Indian subcontinent most at risk are in the Indus and Ganges valleys. Areas hundreds of miles further south (including Chennai and Bangalore) are safe!

Why is this? I see that the south is much more mountainous [1], whereas the Indus and Ganges valleys are very flat (hence that term "Indo-Gangetic Plain"). Is it just the combination of being low-altitude, being inland, and having lots of water? Or are there also differences in prevailing wind, or something else?

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/jcdtvi/relief_map_...
Doesn't that prove too much? For any coin you can imagine a more deflationary version of that coin. Bitcoin has had plenty of such forks. The argument above would indicate that the most deflationary would win, but it doesn't. So it can't be the whole truth.
And "street" logic that people pick up from life is much lower quality than logic you get from learning math, philosophy etc.

It doesn't mean everyone need math logic to succeed in life, but hi quality logic is critical for CS professions.
The visualization engine is showcqt-js (https://github.com/mfcc64/showcqt-js). It is a javascript port of ffmpeg showcqt (Show Constant Q Transform). Probably, more correct name is Variable Q Transform.
Some politician promised that vaccination will not be mandatory over a year ago (IIRC), and this way they can technically keep their word...
Link to other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28131737
( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28131737 )
kids and people who can’t get the vaccine yet will still qualify for free testing in Germany.

As an adult you currently can get the shot without a waitlist or even an appointment.
The government claims that the vaccination is voluntary. Yeah sure, just like work on Sunday afternoons was voluntary in Animal Farm:

"...and in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half."

https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/literature/children/tex...
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I don't think we disagree.

That's why I wrote had/have. Highly idealistic ideas for crypto have been a huge part of this whole thing. Predictably though, reality is bringing the ideas down to earth... and what you describe is what that means.

"Code is a tool to make sure laws are enforced", is far less idealistic than "code is law." More corruptible. More practicable. These can all be true at one.

I agree that its fascinating.
Since 2015 and the meta data laws it’s no wonder things have continued to get worse.

There was practically no opposition to the meta data laws. No popular resistance. No protests. It’s a non-issue for the public or political class.

The extent to which non-tech people in my social circles care is to switch to signal. Not that they’ve stopped using the other tools.

There seems to be a “what else can we do” attitude.

Unfortunately, there is also no other party to vote for, as both major parties (liberal and labour) hold the same policies on ‘national security’.
Not necessarily in the UI. But, as the default font, it was the one that a lot of apps would er... 'default' to. So, if you were writing a text document in such an app and then went to make some text italic you'd realise it wasn't available so would have to change fronts.... which could then affect the layout, no. of pages required etc.
I've seen this once. But just now I noticed something:

>the fewer "repeat interactions" there are, the more distrust will spread.

Doesn't this explain quite well why big internet communities devolve into a cesspool? I'm not behaving like a jerk (or worse, a moron) if I know people around me will recognise and avoid me, but as the odds of that happening get closer to zero, it becomes more advantageous to fling shit.
But at the moment vaccination prevents most cases of severe illness
Australia basically sold everything to China and gave the Darwin harbor away on a lease. The entire economy relies on selling real estate to rich foreign investors, international students, and mining.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-12/why-did-northern-terr...

Australia thinks it can control China, but without the influx of Chinese money the place is finished IMO.

When I landed at Sydney Airport in 2020, there were ads in Mandarin advertising EU passports for sale.
yes, indeed. I just thought this case is slightly different, they chose to go out and do politics (true, over crypto nonetheless). But I feel that normally, all the proposals are about the protocol itself, changes rates, etc and this case it's about interacting with other humans.
> encouraging vaccinations isn't "propaganda"

Tell that to Jacinda Ardern: https://www.magic.co.nz/home/news/2021/03/peter-williams--ja...
Thanks a lot. Sounds similar to the issues we had in our previous company. We provide some basic ETL functionalities to tackle these. Will be interessting to see where this will eventually end up and how much our solution does there or where it is better to use the probably in those companies existing ETL tools.
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You're right! And that's kinda my point. I can see other dangers of using GPT-3 that stem from assholes like me posting things on the Internet without thinking about literally everything they can be used for.
So if I'm understanding you correctly, "late adopters" including people who don't have money for mining hardware/coins or don't even own a computer, just a phone - deserve to be poor because not buying in to crypto is supporting "deception and violence"? What's the logic here?
There's also "Ra" - https://qntm.org/ra
Yeah this is largely expected as the world shifts to "living with COVID" like we do with the flu.

Singapore (where I live) is shifting from going after 0 cases to measuring vaccination rates as the headline number sometime in Q4.

Sadly, it will take lives those who defy vaccination and those who are innocently cannot take it, but as is, the world will reopen so changing how we measure happens accordingly.
> Opt-out typically means that someone will go ahead with something unless you decline. This is not that

That’s exactly what this is. If you use iCloud Photos your pictures will be scanned unless you explicitly disable iCloud Photos.

How is that not opt-out? You never get asked if you’d like to opt-in to have your images scanned for CSAM.
https://www.unipd.it/en/eminent-alumni
And NOYB has started pushing for more enforcement, so it's likely sites will become more compliant.

It turns out that those third party "consent form in a box" solutions tend to have settings to let the website operators choose how user-hostile the popup is supposed to be. It's a shame the DPAs are all understaffed, incompetent, unwilling, or willfully looking away (e.g. in the case of Ireland) instead of taking expensive enforcement action against companies that violate it.

A few expensive examples and every site would have a top-level, equally visible "reject all" button, and after a while, sites would realize that with 90% of people choosing that, they might as well skip that popup and assume rejection.

Those popups aren't mandatory at all, sites can simply respect your privacy by default.
I explicitly mentioned it's my personal experience. I'm normally very happy with what I do. Not just the enterprise environment I'm in.
Why? The current GitLab link has tons of information and multiple screenshots. The link you're suggesting has one tiny paragraph + one screenshot.
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There are far bigger issues in Australia right now to care about meta data logging. Climate change and now the vaccine delay consume all of the publics attention.

Metadata logging is a theoretical issue while the lack of vaccine supplies is a very real and immediate issue.
you do realize that there had been and are mandatory vaccinations in Germany?
> The STIKO does not currently recommend the vaccine for pregnant or breastfeeding mothers.

They don't expressly reccomend it, true, but that's because of lack of data, not because they have any reason to think it may cause problems. They say only that each person has to balance the risk of possible of unknown side effects of the vaccine against the consequences of a full-blown Covid infection during preganancy.

Pregnant Women can still have the vaccine if they wish. I asked a few doctors about this, and all said they would have no qualms about doing it.
Seems "essence" checks at least B, from the README of what's working:

> USB: XHCI, bulk storage devices, human interface devices.
I wonder how many trolls are out there with the intent of poisoning AI training wells. When will they cause the first car crash by intentionally failing captchas?
Maybe it was relevant 3 years ago but imo at least 4 of his 6 points are not valid anymore
I'm sure that lots of the HN community will have made suggestions – please drop your links here, so we can take a look!
Great Bepi! Other Padua prominents: https://www.unipd.it/en/eminent-alumni
Trimming back of trees too. Theres a cycle way that is an old railway line near me that gets well maintained by the council. They can do this, because they've laid tarmac wide enough to drive a works vehicle down to maintain it.

Maintenance is essential, otherwise you end up with overgrown hedges; fallen trees and uncomfortable riding surface from tree roots.
Better than no planning. I live in a part of Dublin (Ireland) that was rapidly developed back in the 1950s to house families that were being rehomed from condemned tenement buildings in the city. The design came from "garden cities", a design from England in the early 1900s. It wasn't very "organic". Entire housing estates were built. These were modest family homes with gardens, and the estates included ample green spaces. Roads still cope well enough with today's traffic. At several places within 10 minutes walk from my house, there are purpose-built shop-front buildings that housed butchers, grocers, maybe even a pub. This was the high watermark of planned development in Dublin. These houses fetch 450k today, and while building regulations were atrocious back then, I km wouldn't trade my old house for anything that's been built since the 2000s at double the asking price. Sincere those good old days, the government and local councils have basically stopped building entirely and leave it up to private building contractors to hoard land, wait for property prices to hit a profitable price and then apply for permission to build multi-story one-bedroom apartments with minimal parking or greenspace, and no thought given to other amenities whatsoever. Because "We have a housing crisis!!" permission is usually granted.

There is a chasm between the Truman Show and a vertical hellhole. If I had to choose, I'd live in the Truman Show.
Cryptocurrency is so unfair. Who do these people think they are, trying to push upon us a new gold?

If a new value exchange mechanism is to be invented, it really ought to be one that doesn’t slyly concentrate billions of wealth into the hands of a few. There’s plenty ways of doing that already thank you very much.
hope to leave this country for good sooner or later. Lot of complicit people willing to trade-off freedom for false sense of security.
You can set up a VPN and connect directly to their network. You can put one of their computers into the DMZ and expose all its open ports to the internet. You could engage in denial of service by blocking their devices or messing with the WAN configuration. You could set their network to use a malicious DNS server and direct them to hosts that you control.
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At that time the vaccine also prevented transmission, changed circumstances require changed solutions.
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That's personal risk. In Germany every person age 16 or above had the opportunity to get vaccinated.
You forgot why we are doing these tests (and vaccinating people): It's not about you as an individual. The free tests have been invaluable to prevent contagion (by encouraging self isolation) and predict the eventual saturation of the sanitary system.

This also sends the wrong message: That a vaccinated person has a substantial degree of immunity enough and cannot spread the virus, thus being allowed to enter public places without a test. We know this isn't the case.