skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can think of two reasons for political stickers and posters, neither of which is among the ones listed in the article linked here.

1. Putting them up cements the loyalty of the person putting them up. You're less likely to consider switching away from the Purple Party to the Orange Party when you've already spent a lot of time and effort putting up Purple posters and when you've publicly declared your affiliation by plastering your property with Purple stickers.

2. Having a lot of them up demonstrates that your party has enough support to be worth bothering with. Few people like the idea of voting for a likely loser, especially in places where elections are first-past-the-post. So having lots of Purple partisans put up Purple posters lets everyone see that Purple are in with a chance and therefore not feel as if a vote for the Purple candidate would be thrown away.

#1 is a reason why parties should produce these things, though not a reason why individuals should put them up. #2 seems to me a more plausible reason for putting them up than the ones in the article.

If my theory about #2 is right, we might expect to see more political posters in places whose electoral systems make votes for minority parties less valuable. I don't know whether that's actually so.

[For the avoidance of doubt, "Purple" and "Orange" here are arbitrary labels and aren't intended to suggest any actual parties or movements that might use those colours.]
Mobile descriptions don't work. Why not just put the description as subtext below each badge?
Which makes me think of this USSR joke : https://bestjokehub.com/joke-115890/

The 80s, an American and a Russian are arguing about which country has more freedom.

The American says, “I can walk right up to the White House and shout 'Down with Reagan!' and nothing bad will happen to me.” The Russian replies, “Guess what? I can walk in front of Kremlin and shout 'Down with Reagan!' and nothing will happen to me either.”
"I think you should not define yourself through a group."

Humans have a lot of partial sub-identities. Few of us are so one-dimensional that they would define themselves through membership in a group. Wearing your national symbols from time to time does not mean that you are a mindless cog in a nationalist machine.

This seems to me a particularly German problem/fear; educated Germans seem to be extra anxious not to be perceived as nationalistic under any circumstances.

The same sentiment exists among intellectuals in other countries, too , but is nowhere near as strong. For example, Poles, Danes or Swiss seem to enjoy their national identity quite a bit more.

Of course, I know the general history that resulted in this situation, but I must ask myself if the pendulum of opinions hasn't swung too far to the other side in Germany.
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And it still involves some significant trade-offs in terms of functionality: Potentially worse (spam) filtering and no full-text search unless you keep a full local copy of your mails around (which is rather unreasonable on a phone and impossible with webmail).

And those trade-offs are more or less fundamental if you want to access your mail from multiple devices, but at the same time don't want to trust your server to handle decrypted mails.
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Your argument comes down to "we limit your rights in other ways, so limiting your rights in this way should be accepted".

That's not a very convincing argument - it could be applied to anything. "We force you to show ID to fly on a plane, so being forced to show ID to access the internet should be accepted".
yeah well the secret is lot of experience and older project i can fallback to.

Anyway i am working with scala, postgres, ZIO, scala.js,
laminar, tailwind.

I do think scala is part of "my secret" a really great language.
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From what i saw/experienced deliverability is usually only an issue when spamming people against their will. Sure, Microsoft/Google will block you at first but after a few weeks/months of going through administrative hoops you'll be allowlisted and your mails will deliver just fine.

Sounds like paying an office worker a few weeks to keep in touch with Microsoft/Google support plus hardware + employing sysadmins would be considerably cheaper than 200m/year.

That is, of course, unless you're spamming your users with undesired messages.
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Is there any actual limit in AI-generated Art though?

I'm no expert, but I couldn't tell this generated art from an actual artist (e.g.) "experimenting with abstract representations of movie themes". Could an expert tell them apart? Are there any obvious "tells" for AI-generated art, and can that be overcome with better training?

I feel like we're watching the equivalent of the first computer chess games, with people saying "computers will never beat a grand master because they don't understand the strategic complexity".

People still play chess, despite the fact that their phone can beat them every time. Maybe it doesn't matter that a computer is a better artist, either.
Oh, for sure. And I'd definitely take the opportunity to look around for something else if there's nothing more concrete on the table (and perhaps even if there is). I mean he now knows their real opinion of his value either way.
Thanks. Will see how feasible a demo is. The app's website shows a few screenshots: https://listmonk.app
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A service for the transfer of digital assets to heirs appears in Russia
Russian developers are creating a “time capsule” service using blockchain technology. It will allow digital data and assets - from social network passwords to bitcoin wallet keys - to be stored securely and passed on to heirs years later. The service was presented at the workshop "Archipelago 2121" in Veliky Novgorod.
The project is being developed by a team from MEPhI, MGIMO and Lomonosov Moscow State University. There are more and more digital assets - cryptocurrencies, social media pages and messenger channels. So the question arises: how can digital information be preserved and passed on to heirs, for example, after 50 years?
A “time capsule” website is now being set up (a mobile app will also appear in the future), where users will be able to store data in encrypted form with the condition that it will be transferred to specific individuals after a certain period of time (not only after death, the minimum period is 6 months). It is not necessarily passwords from e-wallets and social networks, a “time capsule” can contain photos, texts, video messages to grandchildren or great-grandchildren, or coordinates of the location of valuables that you want to give as a gift.
By creating a "time capsule", the user can send a link to it to the recipient, but the "capsule" will only open on a specified date. In order to retrieve information from it, the recipient will need to create a personal account on the service website. If one wants to give a gift in advance to a grandchild not yet born, the link can be sent to a son or daughter, but handing over the capsule as intended will depend on the level of decency of the family members.
The main objective is to ensure security and avoid data leaks. Encryption technology, artificial intelligence, and blockchain, which is now used mainly to sell digital assets, will be used, and we want to involve it in preserving them.
Data in encrypted form is planned to be stored on the Cloud and duplicated on DropBox and other sites, which, according to the developers, will have a chance of "surviving" for more than 50 years. The developers intend to raise 2 to 3 million roubles to create the project. In the first stage, a business website will appear, with no encryption, to run ads and identify potential audiences.
The sending of the first two digital capsules is expected to be free of charge for users. The developers expect to launch monetisation through the future popularity of the service, as well as additional services: for example, assistance in drawing up a will, insurance, etc. According to the developers of the time capsule, it will appeal to people who are willing to look into the future rather than the past and understand that one day they will be gone, so additional services won't scare them off.
The project plans to launch another service - sending gifts within a certain period of time. For example, it will be possible to order delivery of flowers on a monthly or annual basis for five years. The service staff will buy and deliver the flowers to the recipient.
> An 18 year old male who will eventually get covid if not vaccinated

At risk of repeating myself, this thread is about people who have already had COVID. Getting vaccinated isn't going to radically change the odds of what happens in the future.

And thanks to mutations, it is quite likely that if they get the vaccine they're going to catch COVID eventually anyway.
If what you said is true, honestly this is beyond imagination. Can't imagine what's gonna happen if they had a data leak..
Well, now I learned that there is apparently a way to change the header color and I have enough karma to do so. And I got a Gordan Ramsey badge for swearing ;)
Some of the past discussions:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8771925 (2014, 135 comments)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994267 (2016, 52 comments)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15354613 (2017, 60 comments)
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This is very true - I remember a colleague getting slapped down by the FDA when he said his company's FDA-approved drug was "safe". "There is no 'safe' drug", he was told, "only acceptable risk-benefit tradeoffs".

In addition, what is acceptable on a national level (e.g. 50 deaths from vaccination side effects) may not be acceptable on a individual basis (e.g. you die from a vaccine side effect).

Just like people dismiss the risk of Covid until it kills a family member, the flip side is people dismiss the risk of vaccination until it kills a family member.
>Hearing music to me just is hearing the pitches of all the notes; hearing a chord is hearing all the notes in it. I can see the notes being played on a keyboard in my mind's eye, at the same time I hear them.

If you're hearing a Cmaj7 chord, do you hear the "maj7" quality of it, or do you just "know" it's a maj7 from its notes? What I mean is, people without perfect pitch recognizes chords from how the chord sounds, as a unit (as a general rule). This needs some training of course, but those jazz musicians you mention are of course able to instantly identify chords, all those "jazzy" ones as well.. so what I'm asking is if you do the latter as well (imagine if you lost your PP tomorrow - what would change in that respect?)
He just means that raising interest rates will lead to less debt growth and therefore decrease inflation which then lowers the natural interest rates downwards where it will then get stuck at 0% because negative interest rates can't be implemented on cash.

According to the Friedman Rule 0% interest is an ideal interest rate assuming no inflation or deflation. However, what ideal really means in practice and whether we can actually have no inflation is still unknown.
I see a lot of presumptions that Covid will "become like a common cold,"

Could do, yeah. I'm no evolutionary biologist, but I guess that for this to happen, it needs to mutate in various directions, and the strains to feel selection pressure to become non-lethal to humans. Which I guess means that a lot of people need to die of more lethal strains faster than they spread it, and that way the surviving strains will become the dominant strains while the people-killing strains wipe themselves out by killing their hosts quickly.

This does not feel like a great solution; using human deaths as a way to select for the less lethal variants. Feels like that involves a lot of humans dying, which people have a strong bias against.
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>The bulk of the tree is covered by the permissive MIT licence reproduced below.
Individual components might have their own NOTICE and LICENCE files
Very neat app! One other bug report: I have a "programmer" badge for mentioning a programming language in my about page, but such isn't the case. Not sure which part of my bio it might be mistaking for a language?

edit: found it, it's reacting to the fact that my keybase ID happened to have a "VB" in the middle. You might want to change some of those language checks from |vb| to |\bvb\b| or the like.
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Cool. This will be fun for all the kids on HN.
This sounds like an apologist's video, these guys said the same thing during the butterfly keyboard saga and the people who suffered were the real owners and not these trolls. I don't understand why people discount other people's experiences just because they like a particular brand.
Yup UG in analytical Phil, more than 10 years ago. Definitely worth doing.

I think you can’t study Phil and not be significantly changed if you understand what you’re studying.

You study things like the Munchhausen trilemma, Bertrand’s watch, Grue, Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, para-logics, Kantian epistemology, Quine and so on. I literally can’t think how you can understand these things and end up not a different person.
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> I just learnt from your comment about the helm and umbrel. The second is only a cryptocurrency wallet according to their homepage.

getumbrel, pretty much a source-available (not quite FOSS) two-developer effort, is going after the same market as thehelm and used "self-hosting" bitcoin (lightening) wallets as a wedge, because there is indeed an overlap between adopters of decentralized-tech such as cryptocurrency/defi and users who prefer self-hosting. See getumbrel's v04 release blog post: https://archive.is/xZEec

> All in all, without knowing/judging the people involved, it looks like a typical PR stunt from a money-hungry corporation who would not contribute to a broader selfhosting ecosystem.

Fair. Not sure if thehelm is a PR stunt, but the founders have successfully exited from at least one venture in the past (I believe, Rapid7).

> In my very personal opinion, i'd strongly recommend to take a look at established, community-run solutions in this field

Thanks for pointing me to FOSS alternatives. I responded to OP's What is their business model? How do they afford to host all this without selling data or charging money? by pointing out that there indeed are for-profit efforts in this space up and running, even if nascent.
> intentionally broken versus broken

Ftfy.

It's definitely a fair or rather relevant distinction for the investigation, but for the end user, it's pretty much the same, especially if you're limited to using only that one specific machine.
> An attacker would merely have to brute force the tip of their attacker repository, a matter which you can do within the hour

So you think, that you can do so in a hour? How much are you willing to bet on that?

For bonus points try to "brute force a tip" for repository, containing actual contents (as opposite to randomly named binary files with gibberish).
> Any necessities not being met in the US today is due to neglegent parenting, not lack of resources.

The data doesn't lie: there is still childhood hunger and homelessness in the US.

You can play the blame game and say the parents should do a better job of navigating a clunky and hostile bureaucracy, but while we're doing that, children are going without food and shelter. Is that an outcome we're willing to accept so we can point our fingers and say the parents were wrong?
the rest might be, but #1 and #2 aren't minor concerns. If your old PSU doesn't provide enough power you're sol. And if cooling isn't enough cpu will be throttled, making getting a new powerful CPU meaningless.
Not disputing that Created Tech is right, but the origin of the crack in the law firm's picture is precisely in the center, near where the camera is. That suggests to me that the crack came from a manufacturing defect, but to know for sure we'd have to see a bunch more photos of cracks that are influenced from that location.

Frankly, the fact that they're only showing one picture, despite their claims that there's a lot of people having this problem does not inspire a lot of confidence in their case.
This is just an indirect form of the impossible trinity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity

Targeting low inflation is price stability and assuming every single central bank targets the same inflation target then you implicitly target a specific exchange rate (with some fluctuations). If you set the interest rate arbitrarily people flee the currency and break the implicit peg which can manifest itself as inflation.
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I agree. It's not easy for the average user to setup a Matrix server, yet. With Conduit's light footprint soon we may be able to setup a server by simply downloading it from Google Play or the App Store. If the rest of the setup could be done through an easy to understand visual tool (including bridging between different messaging services) I expect Matrix to achieve a lot of traction.

I'm worried though that the technology will be made illegal. The seven -- US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and Japan, for example, said, "We urge industry to address our serious concerns where encryption is applied in a way that wholly precludes any legal access to content .... We challenge the assertion that public safety cannot be protected without compromising privacy or cybersecurity." Bills in the US such as EARN IT (could eliminate P2P E2E messaging. The UK's GCHQ has come up with an idea called 'ghost protocol', which would add the government as a secret eavesdropper into every call. I understand and struggle with the good reasons why governments feel the need to do this. For example, as technology becomes more powerful it's not unrealistic to imagine a scenario that someday all it would take would be one crazy person to release a futuristic bio or nuclear weapon that would kill everyone in the world. I hope Matrix isn't hindered too much by the law. I guess there are backdoors built into the hardware and operating systems Matrix runs on, so the government can listen anyway. With E2E encryption at least Mark Zuckerburg won't be able to, though.
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Despite the name "Cryo Cooler", this particular configuration doesn't use liquid nitrogen or anything of the sort. It's ordinary water-cooling plus a Peltier-effect thermoelectric device.
Wouldn't the most obvious explanation be a description which mentions Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, which doesn't really turn up anywhere in the training data except the original film media?

Star Wars is an interesting example because it appears to include elements lofted directly from the film (bits of stormtroopers body) alongside a princess who definitely isn't Leia. The algorithm might be creating things from scratch at a high level, but the constituent elements are pretty clearly close reproductions of parts of the source material
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Same issue on a MacBook Pro 16" (not M1).

Very small cracks started appearing around the camera and in the next couple of days white bars started appearing over the whole screen until the display completely blacked out.

No AppleCare+ and not covered by warranty as I was considered responsible for the damage: 800 EUR repair with just 3 months warranty for the new display
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Tech is complicated, I don't think Elixir really lowers the bar in terms of understanding stuff like deployment to a basic level, docker, some persistance (I assume redis IS used quite a lot despite what you are suggesting here), reverse proxies like NGINX, CDNS etc etc.
AnyCable is written in Go last I checked btw, what makes you think Elixir has something more performant? Never really bothered with it, it's not like every company I work for needs to push messages to millions of people at once all the time.
I'm just glad HN doesn't (yet?) have strict (puritanical, think of the children/advertisers, etc) language rules. I mean we're all adults here, we can use adult language to each other.

Likewise, I don't get the recent trend of self-censoring words like suicide, police or kill. I think it's mainly a thing on tiktok? But it's leaking out from there as well.
> avoid the feature fragmentation

Unfortunately Matrix and Jabber/XMPP are just as fragmented when it comes to client features. But both ecosystems are climbing the hill, on XMPP side there's now yearly "Compliance Suites" to help in this regard, i don't know the equivalent in the matrix ecosystem.

Disclaimer: i'm part of the joinjabber.org project, and we're very interested in user/operator feedback and how to improve things overall, including interop with other networks
The last line of the article -

>> There is no freedom like living below your means.