skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Murderer at the Door hypothetical is commonly mentioned in response to Kant, but I don't think this serves as reason to reject the overall thesis. Kant also said that there is no right for someone to obtain information from another against their will. You don't need to tell someone who comes to your house looking for someone they plan to harm that they are there. You simply tell them they have no right to know who is in your house, and that they should bugger off! In the context of the current discussion, the government doesn't have the moral duty to reply to requests for classified information, they simply say they cannot provide classified information. If the public are unsatisfied with that answer, they need to vote them out.

Now I understand that, stretched to extremes, Kant's theory gets rather tricky to defend, such as a hypothetical situation of a Nazi coming to your house to ask if you are harbouring Jews he plans to kill. But Kant and others since have argued ways to deal with such situations too, though I must admit I haven't studied their arguments in detail and wouldn't do them justice to try to paraphrase. But I don't think we're really dealing with such a high stakes situation in the context of this discussion, so I think "lower order" arguments in favour of Kant (like mine) suffice. This is something I expect you'll disagree with given your response.

Coming back to the original context of governments lying to people to get them to have vaccines: I think it's possible to do huge damage to public trust in government and science if lies are told for the (always subjective) "greater good", even if the immediate outcome is positive. Governments should understand Kant.

P.S. thanks for your level headed response, it's refreshing and rare to see in threads that discuss COVID.

P.P.S. sometimes it needs to be said explicitly: I am open to changing my views on this if I hear a convincing argument.
Sure, but having lived in Houston for several years, I would take Montreal winters over Houston suburbia and humid heat any day.
>1. Downvotes shouldn't matter to you.

They typically don't. However, the notion that it could be due to a disingenuous concerted effort makes me feel rather indignant. Downvotes equate to reduced visibility on HN, it's tantamount to a soft silencing. Nobody likes to be unduly silenced.

It's not just me, virtually any comments that criticize a certain regime tend to rapidly sink to the bottom of the thread, and I strongly suspect banality ain't the reason.

>2. I doubt downvotes matter to the 50 cent parties and disinformation trolls of the world, either, if only because a downvote provides so little payoff.

Due to the way HN works, the reduced visibility results in ability to steer the conversation in different directions by expressing preference for friendly or unrelated comments, while inducing volatility in the thread such that it ends up flagged or moved off the main page.

Moreover there's the notion of kinetics. If you take a valid but otherwise true comment and downvote it right after it hits, people are going to pay it less attention. Comments more friendly to whatever objective can then become established as the thread makes its way on to and off of the main page.

In other words, it's pretty low effort and high payoff. The cost is essentially a few dozen accounts above 500 karma, and the reward is you censor or otherwise derail content critical of you on HN. That isn't hard for a government operation.

You could of course still be right. Could be a combination of false equivalency with the U.S. and people thinking stuff like this is conspiracy shit, not knowing any better. All we can do is speculate.
>blaming "personal responsibility" and leaving it-at-that is a position taken out of either ignorance of how society and complex-systems operate, or out of callous disregard and suggests you lack empathy.

It is indeed lack of empathy. 2 years ago I didn't even HAVE $450. Let alone $450 to spend on any gaming whatsoever, regardless of ethical pricing. These are premium entertainment, not some base good nor even a (IMO unethical) attempt to promise riches like a lottery/high APR credit card/high interest loan/gambling. There is no premise that you'll be making your money back unless you're trying to flip a free mobile game account (which is against pretty much every services' TOS, if you want to get legal about it).

So again, best of luck improving themselves. Addiction is rough and it's not easy at all getting out of it. But people spend hundreds recklessly on so many items, legal and not. Or on items that are long term detrimental to our health (e.g. fast food, cigarettes, alcohol).

I don't think they should all be left to the governemt to decide. Because historically that hasn't stopped the actual addicts (given that I know/knew several friends on already illegal drugs). At some point you need intervention of self and close loved ones. Making all mobile game MTX illegal won't solve these people's problems
No, it's not a secret. I put a recording of the explanation (in my native language) on YouTube and got 1 like and no comments. I just don't want to collect more downvotes here. It just an idea, not even hypothesis.
Why does this website look like a Y2K?
Compiler Explorer now supports multiple file compilation and linking
Toshiba spun off their flash storage as Kioxia. WD and Kioxia are considering a merger.
Ultra is a web framework that leans hard into the browser's native features
And there was a dispute a few years ago with one of the companies that cleans the waste water that flows back into the river. They stopped operations and the pollution wiped out the fish all over again.
Why does reddit have that responsibility?
Just to be clear: is it a bad thing that you can write a Mac app and distribute it without getting Apple's permission?
The water in the Charles feels slimey. Like it has a thin microcoat of grossness on top.
Seems to be this guy's shtick: https://jaredabrock.medium.com/

Is there anything beyond the 'app' experience that makes Airbnb fundamentally different than VRBO, which was more or less in the same industry since the 90's?

All I know is that I can't stand hotels and resorts, and would really miss it if something like Airbnb wasn't available when travelling.
Let's say that an American municipality instituted a rule that people who profess Muslim beliefs are to be excluded from gathering in public establishments. No one would be physically forced to abandon their faith, and they would have the completely free choice to remain Islamic and accept the consequences.

Would you not perceive any coercion here?
Thank you. I found some vaguely similar papers.
Don't take this the wrong way: Being indexed by Google does not add anything for me personally, as I am not using Google. If there is a forum, which can only currently be indexed by Google, then I might even see that as harmful to the web in general, as it adds incentive to users to use Google, instead of other search engines.

I have experienced it multiple times, that stuff is only in some discourse forum and I see a blank white page. Basically a JS-wall. Not sure, if the people, who hosted it did something weird to cause that issue, but that is the impression I have of discourse forums. Rarely I allow its scripts to run and make the effort to view some content in any such forum. Usually I just close the tab.

Edit: Now I know why I might have had that experience: I also block loads of third party CDNs. Perhaps they were trying to load scripts and resources from there and that's why nothing was shown.

Edit2: But you are also correct: The Nim one does not show anything without JS.
> is american.

on paper.

where is loyalties actually lie is another story.
Seriously, get lost...

You've been on HN for 10 months... I've been here 15 YEARS... I KNOW How this forum works... dang can damn me if he so chooses..
Corona Beer: hold my ...um... beer.
That's why Robinhood is free no? Can't you choose a broker that doesn't sell your data?
> The fact that they are more than capable of innovation and shrewd business is the entire reason that casually stealing whatever they want on top of things is problematic.

Hardly casual. The theft is thoughtful, deliberate, careful, and strategic.
> Let me spell it out: Chinese companies are extensions of the state.

Where this comes to a head, and where western capitalistic governments seem ill equipped to handle it sufficiently, is in how China itself can and does act like one giant super conglomerate company and uses that to bully smaller companies because they are bigger than anything around. Western governments are loathe to intervene in business dealing when they don't have to, because their systems are based on a fairly hands off approach with the free market. The one place they sometimes do step in is when there's a monopoly or some other anti-competitive practice. The problem here is that the anti-competitive practice is being enabled by a foreign state that's working under the illusion of separate corporate entities.

What's a country like the US or UK to do? Tell it's local companies that want to and are totally willing to shift IP to China to access the market "No, sorry, you aren't allowed to, even though you own that information and it's not a state secret"? That may be what's needed, but it's a large difference in thought in how they've treated their markets to this point.
It’s a failure of the American people, not those who wanted empire in the Middle East and stoked it.

The public can be manipulated into absolutely anything. I wouldn’t mind if “Never Forget” were replaced with “let’s keep our heads here”.
Perpetually quarantining certain classes of people is abject tyranny. Worse, the line is muddy: there are false positives (unvaccinated, but with solid post-covid immunity) and false negatives (vaccinated, but with breakthrough infections). Doing a 40 day isolation to see if there is an active outbreak is completely different than isolation in perpetuity: 'you don't have a right to participate in the public'.

I have yet to see medical evidence that vaccinating under 20s, for which the risk of covid-infection complications are vanishingly small, has significant positive effects for them. There are people that have already got covid, and their immunity to covid is much stronger than that of mRNA vaccinated people (see the OP article). These 2 classes of unvaccinated people should not be forced to undertake an unnecessary medical procedure with an unclear long-term risk profile.

Covid is endemic, there is no path to ZeroCovid. Thus population-level arguments are uncompelling: we are all going to be exposed to one or more covid strains during our lifetime. Given how post-infection immunity is strong (see the OP article), the bulk of the argument comes down to how to manage the first exposure.

Riddle me out: There are vaccines, they work really well, I am vaccinated, you probably are vaccinated. Vaccinate your loved ones. We are safe, to the extent of mRNA vaccines are long-term safe. Why do you have to insist that everyone has to take them, to the extent of proposing abject tyranny to accomplish this goal? What are you afraid of?

Not a rhetorical question, I stumbled upon an intriguing piece recently: https://thestoa.substack.com/p/ontological-flooding-towards-...

> The fears that come online for the COVID thesis: I fear dying from the virus and being responsible for the death of others. I also fear being called dumb for not understanding the science and shamed for being called a bad person by failing to act in ways that would protect others.

> The fears that come online for the COVID antithesis: I fear losing freedoms and giving my power away to top-down control structures that can slip into totalitarianism. I also fear being societally segregated and persecuted by those scapegoating me for this mess.

(If it wasn't clear yet, I also worry about a medical covid antithesis: for <20s, getting the mRNA vaccines is unnecessary and potentially long-term worse than doing nothing.)
During the first world war, the UK made a lot of claims about what Germany was doing in Belgium. It turned out that these claims were untrue. The Germans were undoubtedly brutal, but they were also not nearly so monstrous as the allies made them out to be.

This lead to a lot of people treating early reports of the Holocaust with skepticism.

I think the chinese state is also undoubtedly brutal, but nobody claims Australia is committing genocide when they demolish aboriginal holy sites, arrest aboriginal people, or take away their children. A pattern of brutality centered around reproductive rights, the destruction of cultural symbols, and mass incarceration is common to many oppressed minorities around the world.

All this stuff is obviously terrible, and China should be condemned for its reversal of a traditionally great record on minority rights, but turning the Ughyurs into proxies for an essentially cynical US-China rivalry helps noone.

PS: I also imagine those reports are likely all true. Police are typically brutal. Police in authoritarian regimes are worse. That doesn't make it genocide.
This is different, since you are migrating from specific, very large and established systems. Obviously it will be possible to automate it.
Bioinformatics/computational-biology. Lots of smart people with bio and maths skills, but a severe shortage of software engineering skills.
You're saying Taiwan will essentially give up without a fight, which is laughable. If you think the Taiwanese and the Afghans were in similar situations, you clearly have no idea what you are talking about.

If Taiwan were just a land border neighbor to China, you might have a point. But that 100 miles of water is literally the main factor that has kept Taiwan independent since the Chinese civil war. To ignore that is downright idiotic. It is called GEO-politics for a reason. Human history is mostly shaped by geography.
Microbiota from young mice counteracts selective age-associated deficits
Eh, I was going to apologize, but to be honest I enjoyed bickering with you pointlessly. Hope you don't take it too personally :)
It's true; if things were different, things would be different.
National Flood Insurance Program and other subsidies.

Private insurance rates should increase and drive out residents. Business losses should drive out both business and residents.

Without subsidies, I suspect the market would increase the COL such that it would lower the population.
The same thing happened to me except the person who was using my account changed the email and password and Airbnb refused to help. The only “resolution” was for me to change bank cards. For all I know the account in my name is still in use!
It depends on the software. Is it an isolated thing? Then yes, you can continue to use it. But apps that read from APIs or scrape data are one version away from not functioning at all. Hence, regular updates. Hence, subscriptions to justify the ongoing modifications.
AndOTP is really nice. It is the one thing I miss on iOS. On iOS there does not seem to be any totp apps that can just export their db as an encrypted file (or unencrypted if you so choose). So in Apple land I’m stuck with MS Authenticator, coincidentally my only app that needs iCloud (I really want it backed up).
One of the problems is that Chinese Americans may still have family ties in China, and the CCP's United Front [1] or other orgs will use those ties to extort, blackmail, or otherwise pressure them.

It's absolutely imperative that the US Govt, and the govts of all democracies, recognize and combat this, and take active measures to protect their Chinese citizens.

One thing that needs to happen if it's not the case already, is ensuring the 5th Amendment - no self-incrimination - protects any who want to come forward about such pressure. They need to know there's a legal safe-haven for them to cooperate with the government.

Democratic governments should probably also look into providing an expedited immigration path for their Chinese citizens' relatives still in China.

Right-wingers may complain about this, but they have to understand that: 1) historically, subjects/victims of oppressive govts are more likely to be allies of US and other democracies, rather than enemies, and 2) innocent till proven guilty must apply universally.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Front_(China)
> There's no way it's healthy for kids to be exposed to mechanics that amount to unregulated gambling before they've even developed some modicum of self control.

I don't disagree but TCGs are basically unregulated gambling for kids and it has been the case for several decades.
I don't buy this. Lets assume in city X investors start buying houses for Airbnb in a scale that moves the market. Now, you have tons of open Airbnb houses in that area. Also, since investors has to pay more to buy property, they also need to rent it for more. However, with too much competition prices are going to fall, and it would no longer make sense to Airbnb a house. I think in medium term this problem will resolve by itself.

There is another issue in US, not related to the Airbnb, which is zoning law that makes houses artificially low inventory. With or without Airbnb, investors and funds are going to buy those houses becuase long term the price is going up as long as zoning law is in effect.
Inspired by this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28329672

The links to the source code are here http://pfpmd7dd5ijt4add2sfi4djsaij4u3ebvnwvyvuj6aeipe2f5llpt...

(You have to install Tor Browser to open these onion links https://www.torproject.org/download/)
Link to paper: Approximate analog computing with metatronic
circuits

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-021-00683-4.pdf
Seems to work on Safari and Chrome but not Firefox.
China can control its market without serious reprisal because there aren't any serious reprisals available that are palettable.

As an individual country, blocking or tarrifing imports from China isn't very effective because it hurts consumers and industry that rely on importing products and raw materials/commodities/industrial inputs from China more than it hurts China who can often export to other countries instead.

Blocking exports to China is tricky because one the one hand, China doesn't import too many things, but on the other hand, for those things they do import, they're a large portion of the global market, so a country that cuts off those exports will leave their exporters will a large surplus, often of perishable goods, that will be difficult to deal with.

So, trade controls are tricky. Most western countries don't have much in the way of laws that could restrict foreign ownership of land or businesses except in exceptional cases. And military intervention would be wholy inappropriate and probably disasterous. Really just not a lot of options.
All the most popular posts on Facebook are plagiarized
Tl;Dr: never, but causality is hard to establish much of the time, so sometimes we must do without. To be honest, I don't find this very convincing. Most of the insights seem pretty obvious. Like if you're working from the point of correlating totals across differently sized legs of an experiment, you're starting from a really bad place.

Personally, I'm not quite positive that I buy that causation is that hard to establish in many cases. Don't give up on that idea. One thing I would say is that if you have a strong prior reason to believe that one thing causes another thing, finding that they are strongly correlated, that can be a useful datum. Mainly the important thing is to understand the limitations of correlation to guide decisionmaking.
There's a little too much amateurish analysis here which doesn't even attempt to distinguish between Early Modern English and 21st century English, but ultimately I think the conclusion is interesting and probably correct, that this helps set the tone of the play.
Thank you for this perspective. Other companies have told us similar things, and we're generally willing to be flexible to help accommodate a security checklist. One easy solution we've talked about with some customers is to ship a docker image which uses their own DB/infra to perform migrations, so that customer data isn't touching our servers.
RFC1347 (TUBA) is architecturally not very different from a Dual Stack IPv6 setup with 6rd and IPv4 (CG)NAT, except that you're stuck with the fragmented IPv4 routing table forever since the extended (CLNP) packets are routed over the original IPv4 network. And of course it's missing various other improvements made in IPv6 such as the higher baseline MTU of 1280 bytes (vs. the IPv4 baseline MTU of 576 bytes minus the CLNP headers), the removal of in-route IP fragmentation, the streamlined IP header, etc. Implementing TUBA would still requirement changes to all existing network applications and many protocols to work with extended addresses, so you might as well just add IPv6 support instead.
Why would it be consultancy? They only need to write e.g. the Wix-extraction code once hopefully, and then just run it for each new client. Seems very scalable.
Okay. Number of babies born out of wedlock was starkly differentiated by race, as were high school and college graduation rates.

Cabrini Green came down in 1995.

600k+ people fled Detroit from 1960 to 2000. Only some of them were welcomed.
If you know there’s a bubble, you want to own it for as long as possible. The problem is, when it pops, it really really pops and you have nobody left to sell to faster than you expect, no matter how fast you expected it to happen.

If they were smart, they were selling on the way up.
Correct. It's not coercion. The fact that it's wrong to discriminate against someone due to their religious faith and to violate peoples' right to free assembly is orthogonal to the question of whether it's coercive or not. In other words, this is a false equivalence.
Reschedule for two months out

Done
> I just opened Google Authenticator on iOS, and it isn’t an option

Why would it be an option in the app? Go to your phone's backup settings and select Google Authenticator. When I had this on, it worked. (It might have since changed.)

Google being Google, there is zero reliable documentation on anything, but here's a community thing from a few years ago [1].

[1] https://support.google.com/mail/forum/AAAAK7un8RUcSLd5H1MpO4...
In a given quarter, 0.5% had spent 450 USD or more (i.e. an average of 150+ per month).

(Note - this is isn't necessarily the same 0.5% each quarter, so it doesn't mean that 0.5% of app store users are spending at least 1800 per year.)
If the user has the memory there should be no hard limit. Oh wait… there’s the pesky issue of memory overcommit…
The Christ with a Thousand Faces
I think this article lays out something I knew through observation, but hadn’t cognitively thought through before.

I’ve definitely seen what he calls “corporate managers” struggle in smaller companies, just as much as I’ve seen what he calls “lean middle managers” fight themselves to death in corporate scenarios.
Cloud / Devops work pays extremely well in the US and not very many people seem to enjoy it.
Same story for watchmaking.
Spike Lee Should Not Have Been Bullied into ‘Correcting’ His HBO 9/11 Doc
Are you sure about that? It's the norm in Europe. E.g. you can't work for UK security services (MI5, MI6) unless one of your parents was also British, you lived in the UK for a while and you might be required to give up dual citizenship.
That's a question for the owner, which is not me.

It was enabled before and he let me keep using it for HN purposes when he had to disable it.
The music is still playing. Can’t risk the opportunity cost of not being in the game of musical chairs while it does.
> But remember Russia has never involved itself where it does not have deep cultural ties

What a convenient way of excluding entirely relevant points of argument. Ukraine suffered the first forced change of national borders in Europe since World War II

Heavy cultural ties does not grant anyone a right to annex the territory of another sovereign nation