skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such a system could (and perhaps should) be generalized to all boolean expressions involving personal details of users.

A website should be able to specify a list of access conditions, such as (is not from Iran, Syria, North Korea or Cuba) and ((comes from the US and is over 21) or (does not come from the US and is over 18)). Instead of requiring the user to give them enough personal data to verify those assertions, it could just ask their certificate authority and receive a true/false answer, without receiving a reason why this answer is true or false.

Such a system could also provide seamless CAPTCHAs and abuse prevention mechanisms. Let's say every website would receive a random (but cryptographically signed) string on each visit. The CA would log what user received what string. As long as the user behaved properly, they wouldn't be identifiable to the website owner. However, a court could force the CA to hand over the information of an abusive user for whom a certain string was generated. Website owners could also ask the CA to never let a user with a given string onto their website again, still without knowing a single thing about that user.
Critics largely lavish praise on Dune remake
Northern Ireland has had a free voter ID card for years. I can't recall hearing complaints about disenfranchisement.

http://www.eoni.org.uk/Electoral-Identity-Card/Electoral-Ide...
Degrowth is bad

Overgrowth is bad

We need a sense of inner balance
XV – zero-config test runner for Node.js with ESM support
Nearly every long term shareholder understands that, in order to create shareholder value, the company needs to prioritize delighting customers over and over again first and foremost.
Australian researchers get grant to develop fuels for generating fusion energy
Have you never done anything for anyone without being paid for it?

I believe the fundamental model of having money and passing it around, and thereby acknowledging that we do things for each other is absolutely fantastic. But the secondary effects absolutely swamp the primary purpose by now.

I can do things for other people, but I can also run ad campaigns, or engineer the culture in such a way that they will desire what I can produce. Desires are not a preexisting thing that a disinterested economic system is more and more efficiently satisfying. The desires are shaped by the wider social system of which the economic system and its intrinsic logic is a core part.
The extinct tech you forgot existed
I thought it was well-accepted that current flows and their resultant magnetic fields were the dominant forces in the Earth's core. Modeling a chaotic dynamo is difficult, but people are working on it.

The more I think about it, the more annoyed I am with this article.

https://youtu.be/rAYW9n8i-C4
Why are these octopuses hurling shells at each other?
That is a minor issue. Most public healthcare systems are not british-style NHS, and healthcare providers (doctors, hospitals) are independent of healthcare payers (public health insurance orgs) and are often private.

The main advantage of public heathcare is that being single-payer it can use its monopolistic buyer power to push prices down. It leads to lower overall costs, but also to underinvestments and lower wages in healthcare.
Thanks for all the context!
One and not the others?

My uMatrix default is all cookies blocked; third-party media, scripts, XHR, frames, other blocked. Of course I often then have to allow some third-party script, and I can do so in one click without also allowing XHR or frames to/from that domain.

uBO doesn't allow that (in the toolbar UI, 'advanced'/'more' mode), because it's missing the columns from the 'matrix', so you either allow/block a domain wholesale.
The food that could last 2,000 years
Everytime I see the news about our countries slowly moving in that direction, usually helped by the new wonders of technology now used to circumvent the protections europe put in place after world war 2, I'm reminded of this quote for the v for vendetta movie

> How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

> I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to [the politicians asking for more power]. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.

The situation is always more complex, but still, had "child abuse" to that list and it fits almost too perfectly.

At the end of the day, we demand solutions, and when the leadership says "for that I need more power" we're all too eager to give it to them. Because we don't really care, we're complacent, we just don't want to be interrupted in our relatively pleasant little lives so we agree to give them whatever they say they need to stop it. Of course, it doesn't actually stop the bad things from happening, but little by little it erodes our control and freedom, and we are not getting them back.
I remember this, when it was first published.

Good article. One thing about fakes, is that they don't need to be super-high-quality, in many cases. They just need to be enough to reinforce a narrative to a receptive audience.

An example is that Kerry/Fonda fake. Just looking at it as a thumbnail on my phone, it was easy to see that it was a composite. Also, I have seen both photos, in their original contexts. They are actually fairly well-known images, in their own rights.

That didn't stop a whole lot of folks from thinking it was real. They were already primed.

The comment below, about using an AI "iterative tuner" is probably spot-on. It's only a matter of time, before fake photos, videos, and audio, are par for the course.
Atlassian products are vast, integrated, and support all the crazy draconian processes that every insane project manager wants to implement.

You can't easily dump Jira if you are using Jira, confluence, bitbucket, and whatever their CI/CD product is called (bamboo?)
The web is pretty broken anyway - so this could be a driving force for an alternative web? I thinking something like IPFS:

https://ipfs.io/

Or broadcatching:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcatching

These are of course for generally downloading content, rather than interactive content.
I hope this does well, but I feel like societal acceptance of refugees and a will to integrate them into wherever it is they are seeking refuge, is a far more important problem to solve than yurts.

Funnelling refugees into makeshift camps has been a horrific failure (see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calais_Jungle) enabling this at scale is to me basically building district 9.
Simple: when you hit the sign-in wall and reopen the link in an incognito window, you count as a second unique visitor! GROWTH HACKING FTW
Your latter point is good. That kind of consolidation of purpose is really handy, indeed I think it's the future of resource management. We can work out how to efficiently use these things.

Former point? No. Do you have any idea how much energy it takes to smelt aluminum, or form a CPU-ready silicon wafer? Wood for torches grows out of the ground. You don't seem to have any idea of supply chain infrastructure, and it matters. There's a fairly close mapping between the amount of infrastructure involved, and the cost of the thing (Veblen goods aside). You can buy a flammable stick fairly cheaply, but buying a smartphone really does not wind up being the cost of the raw materials or even close… and this is because you're not looking at the infrastructure costs of producing the final result.

Sorry, you're way off base. Smart technological stuff is really cool in its own right, but it's mind-bogglingly wasteful by 'degrowth' standards.
I used to use awesome like the OP. I used bspwm for a while and am now using i3 as the daily driver. Here are a few of the issues that arise when using a tiling window manager:

1. Per display xrandr settings, or xsettings

2. Statusbar losing tray icons when switching screens or reloading. Tray icons having the wrong size or not showing up at all. Part of the reason is that all tray icons used to be Xembed based. Then came appindicators with KDE having KStatusNotifierItems which may just be a Freedesktop StatusNotifierItem implementation. Polybar too frequently had this issue[0]. The only third party statusbar that properly implements this with using sni-proxy is a haskell based one which's name I forgot which is hard to use on Archlinux if you use the dynamically linked haskell packages.

My compromise right now is to use lxqt with i3, which seems to be a somewhat lightweight wrapper around xsettingsd and a lightweight session implementation.

I really prefer Awesome's tiling mechanism over i3, but i3's multiscreen just works. No weird window disappearing bugs etc.

A lot of these issues seem to have been fixed inside of Gnome directly or inside of KDE, but for some annoying reason every DE seems to have to solve these issues from scratch, which is just a standard Linux issue. I've been using linux as a DE for multiple decades now, so you'd think these issues would be fixed at a more fundamental level at some point, but no ...

[0] https://github.com/polybar/polybar/issues/2010
You think nobody can tap phone records, when you called someone outside India?

Oppressive government?
Means bread, isn't it?
After Covid-19: Former Google Director Foresees Super-Unicorn Startups
IRS Poses as Bitcoin Trader ‘Mr Coins’ in $180k Sting
I think someone is deluded but it's probably not the straw men you're chasing after.
Of which, the Street of Crocodiles and the Epic of Gilgamesh haunt me to this day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNOfsJz4TjA

And, they were of course inspired by Svankmajer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-gGpWpra-g
The listed studies in that paper are all in vitro besides one study in mice where there was no significant improvement and one in pigs that did appear to show an effect on porcine circovirus 2. I'm not saying it isn't worth trying, but there are an incredible amount of treatments that will kill viral cells in a petri dish and a very small portion of those retain their efficacy once you move to animal models.

Ivermectin is kind of a hopeful one, since it is cheap and pretty harmless to humans. However, it's incredibly important as an agricultural med and it would be a shame if the supply chain was interrupted for a treatment that turned out to have no real effect.
> Seeing other humans the same way I feel when I look at a pig or a wolf. A large, possibly dangerous animal, with no real intelligence behind its eyes, only cunning.

I'd say people are pretty much talking animals. Not to discount language and what it entails, of course. If I had thoughts like you describe, I think I'd be more worried about the belief that I should consider animals (and only animals!) as something that's always dangerous and cunning. In my experience animals, especially mammals, have very similar emotional systems to mine, and that makes it pretty easy to have an empathetic relationship. A relationship with a pet won't be super intellectual, but who wants that anyway?
I went and checked the proposed legislation and this is also included in the UK scheme; free electoral ID. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-02/0138... (page 63)
Probably something to do with nuclear policy, public perception is a big blocker to replacing fossil fuels with nuclear as a cleaner baseline.

The last 2 decades have seen a fall in large scale infrastructure projects as the will to “kick the can down the road” has only increased. This makes the environment for longer term building of things like nuclear plants, much less appealing.

The lack of will to do things on a medium term timeline is going to reduce how long our long term timeline will be.
Dismaying to see lazy stereotypes about contemporary Amazonian shamanism regurgitated -- without evidence -- in the article. "Slightly less violent" than the Aztec empire?

I couldn't find out whether the author has actually spent time with tribal people in the Amazon, but it's hard to credit.
What a silly idea that taking a substance that makes new connections in your brain would pigeonhole you political beliefs to being liberal. If anything it has lead me to believe that most people label themselves with political ideology because it is very hard to think for themselves. Many people need a political ideology as a crutch to see the word through and to feel a sense of tribalism within a community.
In the context of the UK, I've never heard a good argument against Voter ID.
You didn't answer the question. Fine for what? Are you suggesting broken AI models should incur criminal charges? What exactly are they being fined for?
The "pointing finger" symbol is quite old. I'll bet that it would be easy to find its use, well before this.

Although its use, in this ad, is pretty much exactly how we use emojis, these days.
BookStack
ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after order by Swiss authorities
China is already doing that and it's partially implemented that way.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/china-online-gaming...

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/china-tencent-facial-re...
Thanks for suggesting BookStack [1]. I did initially create the project as a free open-source alternative to confluence as I didn't want financial approval being a limiter to documentation collaboration.

One of the main things to consider with BookStack is the semi-fixed Shelf > Book > Chapter > Page structure (Where pages have content, chapters & shelves are optional, and Books can be within multiple shelves). For some this structure is limiting, For others it helps drive organization.

[1]: https://www.bookstackapp.com/
I had no idea either so I asked, apparently it's about 0.85 Mach:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=speed+of+sound+at+100+...
> bugs can only be solved by completely resetting your user.

What does "resetting your user" mean?
the first impulse would be to replace the "crooks" with "untouchables". but we know this does not work. if the system is poorly designed it will eventually engulf and corrupt or mislead anybody, no matter their moral fabric

the fallback, then, is to "change the system" (eg constitutional law changes, new checks and balances etc) so that people do the "right thing" by default

sounds great (even if a tall order). except this won't work either. there is no real "system" to change. you can write perfect laws and people will simply agree to ignore or subvert them if they are not internalized. we are after all just a collection of homo sapiens with our transient and volatile mental states

if I had a magic wand with a single spell I'd change the teachers. and hope that the generation they educate grows and takes control fast enough...
It could hover near the rover and take nice photos. But I'm sure NASA doesn't want to take a collision risk like that.
Sound like a scheme the German government would be happy to invest into.
This reminds me of the epic trailer for the (apparently mediocre) game Warpath, which should totally have been a movie:

https://youtu.be/eqeSGjCKV68
I came to filing window managers through musca[1] and then goomwwm[2] (Get Out Of My Way Window Manager) and then switched to i3 (and more recently, away) because both Musca and goomwwm haven’t been updated in years.

I still miss Musca and goomwwm. They didn’t require any visualisation of the hierarchy, things were just layer out next to each other without a hierarchy and just worked. It was very intuitive. Goomwwm went a step further: it’s not technically a tiling window manager at all, but rather a floating window manager (so you can have your windows overlap if you want) that happens to be usable as if it were tiling and that’s keyboard centric (but you can use mouse too if you wish). That really was the sweet spot for me and I often find annoying behaviour in i3/sway that goomwwm didn’t have (typically around movement and resizing).

I sometimes dream of updating the goomwwm codebase but I neither have the time nor the interest in learning winDow manager programming.

[1] https://github.com/enticeing/musca (original source and all documentation seems to be gone)

[2] https://github.com/seanpringle/goomwwm
I'm curious if you could elaborate.
I wish I knew the answer as well. I believe many managers trained in the art of building software without knowing how to build software are too married to doing processes in a very specific way that's very tightly coupled to Jira, and feel safe and at home with the added complexity it provides, so they vouch for it. But that's just a theory from personal experience.
“The peasants are getting uppity. Take away their anonymity and pornography.”
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I know they are a scam when it comes to their claims of extended battery life. However, the product itself appears to be legit in terms of being a boost converter if that's actually what you need (in most cases you don't, but I guess running certain devices that need exactly 1.5V and can't take the lower ~1.2V from rechargeable cells would make this a legitimate use-case for it).
Try Stravinsky, IMO he was the best at it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPExIXkBOus&t=0s&ab_channel=...
This should go a step further and require ID.

In reality ("IRL") everything we do is tied to who we are. Our very faces identify us instantly to everyone we interact with.

There is no privacy of the kind people associate with the internet IRL. It's nothing more than an unhealthy vice that leads to people living unauthentic split lives with multiple incongruent personas. Those who exist solely on the internet and that which lives solely IRL.

By making the internet an extension of reality with the same social dynamics instead of treating it as an alternate reality/fantasy world we'll start to integrate our online behaviour/activities with our offline selves.

The end result being that many of the problems we associate with the internet cease to exist. No more anonymous trolls, less disinformation/fewer manipulative botnets shaping public discourse, less aggressive behaviour in online games...

Above all else: accountability.

It strikes me that the same people who want transparency of organisational behaviour (government, corp) seem to be the same people who themselves want their own behaviour to be kept secret.
Maybe. But I have a hunch that we are severely underestimating huge parts of the workforce.

I mean: ux discussions often feels like they assume users are a separate species somewhere between ordinary humans and chimps when it comes to intelligence.

I have some experience with training users and I have only given up once.
I am surprised neither Ernst Jünger nor traditionalist movement are mentioned.
Incorrect. Orbital mechanics were not a part of the V2 era programs because they were sub-orbital with relatively simple parabolic trajectories. Getting a capsule back from LEO was not something that had been worked out mathematically until later.
Since so many people don't care about the truth, and LARP that they believe fake news and fake images just own the libs, maybe there's some money to be made by selling them fake fake-image-detector software like Hotdog Or Not: one app that always claims a photo is real, and another app that always claims a photo is fake. Or a single app with in-app-purchases that lets them pay to choose whatever they want to believe!

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/26/15876006/hot-dog-app-andr...
I share your experiences with caffeine withdrawal.

I bought a really good Espresso machine. Quite fun, for me. Now I drink a really good cup on a sunday and then go a few days without even.

There is nothing that can touch it. Not the free coffee at work, which I now regard as insidious, or coffee places. They usually ruin the milk, if you hear an unpleasant sound while steaming, they are doing it wrong.

Also works with alcohol and food for me. We have too much of everything, hence why fasting is such a real life cheat code, but nothing of quality.
Originally SW dev, most recently SWQA. I rage quit my last job over a conflict with a dev manager. No one else was interested in me.

Been driving three years and change. I mostly like it. I've never had a meeting, standup or otherwise. I miss my couch, weekends and the money. But it's pretty low stress. No SO, and my son is grown.
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If the ecosystem and climate collapsed, us rich folk could live in air conditioned houses powered by solar or nuclear power, eat food grown in green houses and drink desalinated water.

It would be a truly miserable experience, but it doesn't necessarily mean the end of civilization.

The wars started by those who no longer can afford food might end civilization, but that's not assured either.
As a youth I did quite a bit of LSD and magic mushrooms. I think that in general many college age people dabbling in psychedelics are likely left leaning to begin with. As people get older they tend to be a bit more conservative.

In high doses I experienced a breakdown of self or ego and in this state you do see an interesting connectivity to everything. In some sense you see your brain actively participating to create the “reality” we live in. This experience is frightening in some ways as you can generate people that do not exist and carry on a conversation… you see the power behind the human brain and it’s ability to transform energy vibrations into the world we perceive normally. Breaking down and reconstructing the patterns we use to navigate our environment is truly awe inspiring (and terrifying).

The experiences from my point of view really have nothing to with broad outlines of liberal or conservative viewpoints.
As well as all the other great reasons listed, you might not want users to have a VPN if for instance they are an external user (e.g. if your client's documentation is on your confluence instance and you want to give them access, it might be a giant pain and bad customer experience to force them to sign into your VPN in order to get access to their documentation).
My girlfriend will walk 30 minutes to save 50c on bananas. She is financially well now, but grew up without much, so those habits still stick. I would pay 5 dollars more to not move from my couch and get bananas on my doorstep.

The thing is, a lot more people are like my gf than me (I grew up middle-upper class and am 'financially' well upper class for my country).
Speaking purely about food service roles, as I recall, the minimum wage for tipped food services roles in some places is 2.13 USD per hour, made up to actual minimum wage if tipping doesn't reach that level.

Labour costs are, in many cases, really small; the capital and running costs of automation could well be comparable already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVsy1yrG2e8