skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is that lukewarm? Sounds like first class support if they have a dedicated onion address and not just let you connect to the regular clearnet. Or is that address only in that old blog post and not mentioned in places you'd usually look? It's a bit unclear to me.
> I don't think poor people are poor because they don't know how to pay their bills on time, invest in index funds, or that having a maxed out 35% credit card will make your debt outgrow a 8% savings fund.

I know people that don't know:

* How to recover their bank accounts (they told me it's impossible, so I recovered it for them)

* What an index fund is. Even when I do tell them, it seems to be a bunch of hocus pocus to them.

* Ok, I don't know people with credit card trouble. Dutch people tend to not have credit cards.

There are enough people that don't know a single thing about finance. Most of these people are 60+ and middle class. At least, that's what I have seen in my world of anecdata.
I don't think that ProtonMail complying with the law here is in any way the problem. They simply have to.

However, in this case just as in a few other ones before this one, it has become pretty clear to me that ProtonMail's marketing is deceptive at best an in a few cases some of their claims just blatantly not true.

What surprised me most is that when I pointed this out in the past, I was immediately attacked by what appeared to be like Apple-style fanboys, whole would not stand by anyone criticizing ProtonMail.

To this day I'm not so sure if that was just the genuinely zealous behavior of a few deranged individuals, or if it might have been a concerted commercial effort at damage control.

Either way, to me ProtonMail certainly is not what it claims to be (if not explicitly than at least implied). To me it's just another commercial entity trying to make a profit by tapping a relative niche market while convincing gullible people they are something they actually are not, in any way that will make them a bigger profit. Nothing really shocking about that, and mostly just standard behavior for any other modern commercial entity operating within a capitalistic economy.
Shhh, the entire country runs on similar myths, most prominently banking. But then, all that the common man is capable of understanding is myths, sooo ...
1.41m by 2100 is the projection for “Grand Isle”, the closest location in the model to New Orleans. Sea level and sea level rise is not uniform worldwide, so local predictions are very important. This is also true for temperature and other climate change impacts, and is one of the biggest improvements in the latest IPCC report.

It looks like all model scenarios agree fairly well out to 2100 both in the global projections and in projections for Grand Isle. Thus, I’d wager good money that New Orleans will see 1-2m sea level rise by 2100 regardless of any climate mitigations we perform.
doesn't the amount of available IPv6 mean you can get a new one every time?
This is correct.

This also applies to ISP's and wiretaps. They need to provide NAT mappings when doing a wiretap if i remember correctly.
Interesting. So you followed the advice of deploying to greater than two regions and your DB didn't survive when you lost a region or you only deployed to two and got bit by the anti-pattern?
> File.open(path).orReturnErr()

Method syntax is reserved for functions. There are no method syntax macros. Since a return in a function terminates execution of this function, and not its caller, your example would not work.
People on HN tend to be way less price sensitive than average. People living paycheck-to-paycheck would totally walk an extra 0.5 mile to save $2 per meal.
I'm afraid the Consumer Product Safety Commission is a serious wet blanket on the market potential of generally-relativistic desk ornaments.
In the foreword to newer editions of Neuromancer, Gibson explains what he imagined:

"I’d actually composed that first image with the black-and-white video-static of my childhood in mind, sodium-silvery and almost painful..."

So, not green.
A corporation is a power centralization, and government authority can lean on power centralization.

In general, regardless of what their TOS say, never believe that a corporation can't be compelled by the law to do anything they could physically do. CEOs can be jailed; when's the last time we heard of one actually going to jail over user privacy?
Pretty much any advice that has the word “just” in it was given by people who doesn’t understand the situation. This applies to the situation here. And it also applies to work where you maybe have been working on figuring out a problem for weeks and somebody looks for five minutes and asks “why don’t you just do X?”
Free internet, he can post what he wants.
As far as i understand from the article, this is roughly what happened.
Protonmail got a warrant, and thus enabled logging for the user (as is required by law).
Are there a lot of anecdotal stories of "I raised prices and I had to close shop because of drop in demand" ? All I see are people just shutting down and giving up.
How do you know it isn't still happening?
People hear about this and ask "You gave away 7% of your company for that?" No, you give away 7% of your company to join a network of people showing you what it really looks like to do that.

I thought you gave away 7% of your company for the big pile of VC money that YC hooks you up with, so you have a few years of runway to find an intersection between "an idea you had" and "an idea people are willing to collectively spend a lot of money on".
Seconded, from an American. It reads like a weird quasi-Maoist confession. In what way does this do any good toward advancing any kind of noble cause? It's humiliating.
>More on that, I think this insistence on “financial literacy” is a very dirty play by today’s middle class [...] so that it won’t accept responsibility for the condition of the poor classes [...]

I'm not sure why you went straight for the "people are doing it because they're bad people" explanation. Why can't it be something less sinister, like creating anti-poverty programs that make the recipients self-sufficient, rather than subsidizing them for the rest of their lives?
In this day and age, this makes UBC look like a backward institution, and isn’t up to speed on mainstream technology.
Yes, just use our own forked version.
> that the idea EU immigration was driving down wages was a cynical lie

It was a lie, EU citizens in the UK earn significantly more than the locals. If I wanted to be a member of the underclass, say a cleaner, I’d be in Germany, where I wouldn't have to pay 6K£ for pregnancy and 12K£pa to send a child to a half-decent primary school.
Yeah, that seems more a mechanism to prevent forensics analysis of a hard disk to retrieve transient logs that might've been briefly written to disk (?). I hope it isn't being as a means to prevent the means to log for future connections, for the reasons you state.
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I'm old enough that I can remember having to wait 45 minutes for a compile to finish and not be able to do anything else with the computer. The worst cases of this were the slow processes which required occasional manual intervention. Or, the situation where if there was an error during compilation, only the first error was reliably meaningful and everything after that might or might not be an accurate reflection of the state of the source code.

It's worth noting that there's a sort of uncanny valley in the amount of time something takes: when it's short, it's not too big a deal to wait for it. When it's fairly long (and predictably so), it's easy enough to context switch (I used to read a lot waiting for compiles to finish). It's the stuff in the 5–10 minute range that kills you.

What depresses me, is that while I can now do something else in a different window while a process runs, the issues with errors and requiring interaction still persist.
It's maybe not the best metaphor, and I don't want to imply that life is a video game of sorts either. What I'm trying to get at, is in the world of Pokemon, creatures follow certain rules, which in that context are truly real. We know Pikachu evolves into Raichu. But we also know that it's all fiction and none of it is real. Now Pokemon was created by a team of people, but imaging it was made just by a single guy. He/She locked himself into a room for a few years and worked on it. Created all the Pokemons, all the environments, everything inside that world. Now this guy's/girl's mind basically IS the Pokemon universe. Pikachu, and all the other Pokemon are small tiny separated parts of his mind.

Similarly for us humans, each of us is tiny tiny infinite small part of the whole thing, and the "whole thing" is what creates the universe. In that sense it's not really real, but for us, from our perspective as individuals, it is real. Or as real as it's going to get, for now. We know our world behaves in predictable ways, we can analyze, measure, know of the laws of physics, and we'd be foolish not to abide by its rules. Like they say that train coming down the tracks is very real and you wouldn't want to step in front of it.

But at the same time you'd be foolish to fixate completely onto material world. I believe there are some things science will never be able to answer, consciousness is one of them. I mean it's something you have to decide for yourself, think about it, whatever it is you want to believe in. No one give you the ultimate truth here. The thing is though, all things considered, consciousness not arising from our physical reality, is the approach to take if you want to learn more about this stuff.
If you go to https://ivmmeta.com/ I suggest to ignore all the non RCT studies because they are usually very bad.

There are only 31 RTC studies. Most of them are very small and not even statically significant. It is a known problem that studies that show no effect or a bad effect are never published due to report and publication bias. So it's better to ignore the not statically significant studies.

So there are only 6 of the 31 RTC studies that are statically significant. If Ivermectin has no effect, we expect to see like 1.5 studies that are "statistically significant" due to a flukes. We don't know how many other studies have been tried but never published, so let's be very conservative and assume that if Ivermectin has no effect, we would get 2 studies that are "statistically significant" due to a flukes.

There are 6. I read a few of them and have very strange things. Not smoking guns, but big red flags.

So ... can you choose your favorite 3 statistically significant? I'll dismiss 2 as flukes and hopefully I can explain why the other study has a very big red flag and is not reliable.
Paying customer

I do not trust protonmail with my privacy. I only use them to sign up for various services, trying to escape the data mining google does.

Not sure I want to support a company that is dishonest however. I'm reaching the bye-bye point myself slowly but surely.
Of course, and it was a great read in the end. I just said I would have liked it more with a bit less American twitter rhetoric
Is there an iOS equivalent? 1Blocker and Lockdown seem close but not as good.
>Anything that's actually used has certain commitments it made earlier in its lifecycle from which it now can't deviate

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your comment, but MySQL has definitely deprecated and removed features over the years. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-nutshell.html
I see responses like this all the time and to me they are so bizarre.

It seems to imply that the only valid way to accrue knowledge is by going to the high priests at the university systems and performing the sacred study rituals because self obviously this is the one true way of producing knowledge.

Should i put my hand into an open flame? I dont know,tough to say without performing a meta study of existing flame temperature studies to confirm what the best journals think. otherwise theres just no way to know so I'll just have to test it out.

Im not against science or the scientific method. In fact im extremely pro. but it's not the only way to come come valid conclusions about things.

im going to go ahead and suggest that on average learning about finance is going to be helpful for people to manage their finances. call me a crackpot but It's not particularly important for me to verify this belief with a study.

and all of this is before you get into the issues with the non trivial number of junk papers published in social science and psychology journals and the like that at best seem to say that even in cases of more difficult questions where more rigorous methods are valuable, this system of knowledge production fails a non trivial amount of the time.
I think it's unfair. "Modern" is in no way equivalent to what the thread is really asking, which is what could you do if you built a new database today with all of the knowledge but none of the existing commitments of a large mainstream database.
No, there wasn't a supreme court case about this. It's statutory, not constitutional.
If you are referring to Bloomberg's bombshell story about rogue chips installed on motherboards in China during assembly at the factory that then have compromised Apple and Amazon (referenced here: https://www.aei.org/technology-and-innovation/bloombergs-bom...) than the far-fetched element is that it has been three years since the story came out and not a single element of physical evidence have been presented, when one would simply need a microscope to find them in devices. This after multiple major news organizations spent years trying to follow-up on the story and found no evidence whatsoever to back it up.

It was a game of telephone gone horribly wrong, and Bloomberg's reputation is shot since they have refused to retract it.
It’s so reasonable that Apple has already reached that level. My iPad Air 2 from 2014 is on iPadOS 15 right now and it works well.

This will hit android OEMs hard if it is implemented.
I think no manufacturer is except basically Apple, since they’ve been doing updates for 5 or 6(?) years now (I believe the 6S was updated for iOS 14).
> or computations can be done on the backend

what if your backend is nodejs?
decimals for JS are mainly needed on backend
Wouldn't the car disintegrate in the atmosphere?
Client Finda Commercial
Client Finda is a newly launched app with at least 1000 sales on the first day of launch. It is the best AI app that attracted the eyes of business owners( small, medium and large businesses) Freelancers and e-commerce businesses.
The main focus of this app was making things easier for people in the business industry to find clients without any struggle, in a short period of time. Finally, We pride ourselves and claim that we are the best in the year 2021.
Now that’s a project!
Greenbook Data Sets
I agree. We can all be exceptional in our own ways.

Sharks are exceptionally good at maintaining their species (self cloning for large animals is amazing). Dogs (and wolves) have exceptional senses of smell. The hearts of most bird species are exceptionally better than those of mere mammals.

However, when it comes to the characteristics where we think humans are exceptional, I’ll only allow another animal to take the top spot if they start an argument.

To date, no animal has even started the argument… much less won it.
You have to keep in mind that not all people are intelligent enough to be admitted to a top university. It’s not a path anybody can pursue.
I read here ProtonMail were compelled to log the IP by the authorities...
Could they have done anything else? Could any sort of malicious compliance have been an out?
Like: "if we hear there is an investigation on you then we want nothing to do with your shit and we'll delete your account"?

I suppose this would land them in hot water, but there might be something else really clever?
It doesn't take a genius to point out that the emperor has no clothes. Eventually quantum electrodynamics will go the way of geocentrics and the pancake earth. Unfortunately, there will always be charlatans around using sophisticated language to trick the best and brightest into believing absurdity after absurdity. However, quantum computing wins the Darwin award hands down.
Given that 2012-2013 was the year of 4G. I doubt that law would relate much to 3G phones.
The iPhones are currently at 6 years and the iPads at 7 (and counting)
It sounds like you're dealing with poor connectivity at one/both ends, or poor peering along the route.

I suggest you try these, in order, and stop when one of them works for you:

- FaceTime

- Zoom

- Google Duo

- Whereby

- Jitsi

Apple and Zoom are highly incentivized to make their video calling work great, even if it costs them money in global infrastructure. P2P media transfer (like Jitsi does for 1:1 calls) is great when it works, but sucks if the IP routes between the respective ISPs suck.
I know a lot of small business owners who do nothing but whine about this in my hometown. However, I think that their issue really is not offering wages as high as the competition. An old friend of mine is doing pretty well with his recently established restaurant, as he has one of the only dinners at full staff in the area. He is paying about $25 per hour, and it seems to be working quite well, as he not only has a full staff, but people are pretty motivated when paid decently.
> It’s interesting how many “privacy focused” companies tout being based in Switzerland as some big badge of honor, which a layman consumer such as myself is supposed to be really impressed by due to the overall reputation of “Swiss privacy laws.”

I believe it comes about due to the old trope of Swiss banks being the most secure places to hide money, which of course is not true and hasn't been for a long time. Even in that period, I am sure they complied with Interpol/Europol requests to divulge account details of evil masterminds with a beeellion dollars hidden away in a Swiss vault.
for those who are curious,

this seems to be the reply from protonmail on reddit[0]

>Hi everyone, Proton team here. We are also deeply concerned about this case. In the interest of transparency, here's some more context.

In this case, Proton received a legally binding order from the Swiss Federal Department of Justice which we are obligated to comply with. Details about how we handle Swiss law enforcement requests can found in our transparency report:

https://protonmail.com/blog/transparency-report/

Transparency with the user community is extremely important to us and we have been publishing a transparency report since 2015.

As detailed in our transparency report, our published threat model, and also our privacy policy, under Swiss law, Proton can be forced to collect info on accounts belonging to users under Swiss criminal investigation. This is obviously not done by default, but only if Proton gets a legal order for a specific account. Under no circumstances however, can our encryption be bypassed.

Our legal team does in fact screen all requests that we receive but in this case, it appears that an act contrary to Swiss law did in fact take place (and this was also the determination of the Federal Department of Justice which does a legal review of each case). This means we did not have grounds to refuse the request. Thus Swiss law gives us no possibility to appeal this particular request.

The prosecution in this case seems quite aggressive. Unfortunately, this is a pattern we have increasingly seen in recent years around the world (for example in France where terror laws are inappropriately used). We will continue to campaign against such laws and abuses.

to me this seems like they did all the could in regards to handling this request.

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/pil6xi/climate_...
Science project reveals high lead levels in U.K. schools’ water
> every TV has banner ad pop-ups from the manufacturer now.

AFAIK, Samsung and cheap Chinese brands (Vizio, TCL, and similar) do this.

Months ago I was between buying a LG or a Sony because they don't have bad reputation around this, and the LG I finally bought haven't any ad. Also, cookies, extra internet stuff, and the Alexa service can be deactivated separately without affecting apps like Netflix
I uploaded my first video in late 2005, it's still up there.

I remember Google video was up around that time, and IIRC, the only true competitor. It should be mentioned that back then, the only ting that mattered to me was whether or not you could upload videos, and the site had a video player.

Pre-2005, I can honestly only remember downloading video files directly off websites, and then play them with some video player. I think I used Opera back then, and I think Opera supported some video players - but it was a real hassle, with the different video formats.

I also remember that before youtube etc., unless you had your own server or paid hosting, we'd use our "free" 5/10/15 MB hosting that came your ISP gave you, or other hosting sites provided (they'd usually have some free tier with a couple of free megs).

What we did, was to sign up for multiple such sites, so that we'd in effect get like 100/200 megs of hosting. Sometimes we'd have to chop up the files into multiple zip files, and distribute them over those websites.

Unfortunately, a lot of these smaller hosting sites disappeared over the years, and a lot of files got lost forever.

But yeah, when youtube etc. hit the scene, it was pretty much an overnight revolution. All the pains of sharing / hosting videos were gone.
So you replacing Starbucks had nothing to do with them automating their cashiers.

Rationally, we should all make coffee at home rather than spend $2-7 per day on coffee.

My point was that Starbucks can help with their labor shortage by eliminating cashiers and just having a kiosk or app.
It means doing things that you can do when you have 0 to a few users but that would not work beyond that. For example, Doordash validated their idea with posters and manually taking orders and delivering them themselves, no app, no drivers.

It is counterintuitive at first but when you think about it actually makes a lot of sense. When you're getting started you should focus on doing things to get started. Worry about scaling when you're scaling.
We do have a contradiction here, if that's what you're saying.

I was not in YT. I was only told their backend was Python by people who were. I can't explain that paper OP saw. Could be it reflected reality and I'm wrong; could be it was only a design.

I do know for a fact that they still had their own experiment infrastructure, which does suggest that the backend was still legacy.
>>They responded, “I can: the fee is $200.”

>your relationship with your community is civic.

That's true, but attaching a dollar value to it makes it transactional, which makes people feel more okay with breaking the law. It's similar to a story I heard on freakonomics: a daycare was tired of parents picking up their kids late, so they instituted a fine (trivial amount like $10) in hopes of disincentivizing parents from doing so. Late pickups actually went up after the fine was instituted.
Federal benefits expired in June. So while state benefits ended, there were still federal benefits available.
Ask HN: How can we prevent flooding in houses using technology?
1/ Waterproof wall or dyke that shields the house.

2/ Waterproof doors and windows.

3/ Vent-like holes in the floor at the entrances that suck water and reroute it out of the house through a pump.

4/ Spray-on substance that can be used to seal doors and windows temporarily.

5/ Structural frame below the house that can lift it.

6/ House is mobile home which can be lifted by a crane.

7/ House is a house boat which can be untethered from the ground so it floats.

Do these sound workable? Any other ideas?
In the case of violence-based examples above, the hypothetical society doesn't address the issue of past harm (decades or centuries of a disadvantaged position in society).
It also doesn't address non-economic forms of harm (like media underrepresentation, leadership underrepresentation, etc.)