skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fixes in the UK now are typically 2, 3, 5 or 10 years, certainly not life of mortgage. Idea is that prices increase and you repay the mortgage and you remortgage onto a better rate (so start with 90% 5 year fix, after 5 years you've paid down to 85% of the original value, but value has increased so you now remortgage onto 75% LTV which is a lower rate than you would have on 90% LTV as it's less risky.

Mortgage rates in the UK are far lower than 3.25% though -- 80% LTV on a 10 year fix with nationwide is 2.8%, 2 year fix is 1.54%.

Drop that to 60% LTV and 2 year is 1%, 5 year 1.1% and 10 year 2%.

It all falls down if rates were to shoot up, or house prices were to shoot down. The UK government traditionally protects house prices like the US government protects the S&P though. A house price crash is bad for polling.
I think that's a good and fair point. Reagan famously didn't even mention AIDS publicly until 1985, 4 years after it was discovered. Urban gay ghettos in NY and SF were basically experiencing a plague with young, otherwise healthy men dropping like flies, and the world at large either (a) didn't care, or (b) was glad that AIDS was "killing all the right people".
> I think focusing on removing pipeline effect and negative discrimination is more important than focusing on having a 50:50 ratio at the end

Yes it sounds like we're in agreement. We both think the ratio in tech "should" be closer to 50:50 than it is, in the sense that we think that biological differences are not sufficiently pronounced to explain the currently observed skew, and we should get rid of the bad pipeline effects and negative discrimination.

> it's just that we're biologically different, and men show up at the extremes (prisons and the top).

I haven't said I agreed with this. I said men show up in prison for biological reasons, but I haven't said men show up at the top of technical subjects for biological reasons. Is your claim that men also show up more at the bottom of technical subjects for the same reasons? (and is that empirically true?)
I can understand C's reluctance to add features and complexity, anything that would make it not C. But the memory safety issue is such an enormous problem, and the fix is so simple, and the fix has been proven in 20 years of constant use in D, that I just can't see not incorporating it.
I think you’ve got slightly the wrong end of the stick. No-one thinks that rollerblading went out of style because people were afraid of gay people. So the OP’s inaccurate (or at best overly narrow) assumption regarding what ‘homophobia’ means is leading them to misunderstand the claim about what happened. These days the term ‘homophobia’ is very rarely used to refer to a literal phobia of gay people.

(The OP said ‘fear of homosexuals’, not ‘fear of being perceived as homosexual’.)
Obviously. It all started as a way to drop bombs on London, and we are only now reaching a time where the majority of rocket models are not derivatives of ICBMs.

Spaceflight is a story of a military technology finding civilian use. That has a very different ring to it than civilian technology being used as a weapon, even if the effect is similar.
I'm skeptical of those conspiracy theories. Merck is the biggest of pharma and they still manufacture ivermectin. Apparently they're still making some profit on it.

https://www.merck.com/research-and-products/products-list/
the amount of people I've met that say "they can't do numbers", and are proud of it always surprises me

(and this includes people like lawyers)

then if you ask them if they would be proud to be illiterate the answer is always a forceful no

why the difference?
If you're a criminal and use email, especially email paid for in your name, you're an idiot. Switzerland has been tightening its laws just like every other country, all of them are fascist.
They do seem to be a far left group using the "climate" umbrella. This squatting 'action' has nothing to do with the environment, it's class struggle.

Unfortunately this sort of extremist group is harmful to people and organisations genuinely trying to do something for the environment.
hasn't P4 been kind of dead in the water for the last couple of years.
Do you know the control group details and when they will be complete?

I'm talking about things like "New study for Covid vaccine use on pregnant women shows to be safe and beneficial"...then the study includes ~20 women (read that yesterday, front page of google
news)
be multi-master and horizontally scalable out of the box.
You can't be compelled to incriminate yourself, but your server provider can very much be compelled to give access to the server. And once the server is physically compromised the battle is lost, anyway, but in that case probably with a larger papertrail leading to you.

One expensive but possible option would be to build a server yourself with sufficient traps to shut off when it's tapered with. Then set it up with full disk encryption and put it in a shared rack.
You're not wrong, but you're talking about something different from what I'm responding to. I fully support term length reductions, as the current copyright system is poorly bargained for.

What I'm responding to is the idea of using NDAs as a copyright substitute, which would enable all sorts of new rent-seeking behavior that copyright currently prohibits.
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How am I supposed to respond to this kind of weird snarky comment? Like the prior commenter, I think you've been bitten by brain worms here.
Hard to tell: were movies right or were they used as manuals? Either way it will not end well for us…
Shit is looking up in backwards south-east Europe, too. Perhaps not all that much and all that fast, but still, the direction and speed seems better than the poorer bits of the US. So how much worse off than Mississippi is Albania really today?
Yes, I genuinely do enjoy the work and I derive happiness in my field, in fact I want to do more not less to drive the field forward.

That does not mean I don’t sometimes feel the guilt of not being apart of something that drives humanity forward, though, even if all I could contribute was working the website that raises awareness instead! I just know what I’m capable of, but the reality vs the ideal is the philosophical struggle here for me.

I instead try to make conscious investments to try and move things forward and make personal choices consciously to issues like this as best as I reasonably can.

I still feel guilty sometimes I’m not working on something like raising the perception of the safety of nuclear energy ya know
I wonder what would be required to escalate this to executing in the Devtools thread?
I don't think those groups smoke less than the majority population. Perhaps more.
Protonmail should be pushing more of this messaging in their branding. "Don't trust us further than you can throw us. We're doing our best, and here's what we recommend, use Tor, etc."
AI to Improve Brain Stimulation Devices
If you don’t collect data, you can’t give it even if you wanted?
The case for devoting resources towards developing an efficient cure is becoming clear.
The same goes for a VMX, which arguable is even harder to virtualize (and it is not on par with a real MX series router yet). Mainly because emulating some trio chipset features is at the moment very hard/impossible to do with great performance. (especially the dense queing part)
As a user, I'd take that to mean that they wouldn't keep any IP logs unless I turned logging on. I wouldn't expect that they would enable logging on their own.

Interestingly, ProtonMail's privacy policy lists a number of cases in which they may log your IP address permanently (including if you breach their Terms and Conditions). But a request from law enforcement is not one them.
>all of which apparently lose all statistically-significant support for ivermectin once the fraudulent Egyptian study is removed from the data set

That's not my understanding from reading here: https://ivmmeta.com/

Looks at the graphs there, and then check out a few of the studies with low p-values.
Even if Ivermectin were established as adequate in its conjectured/hyped/potential COVID-related role, it and vaccines would not be alternatives, since they don't substitute for each other.

Some of the monoclonal antibody treatments under EUA would be closer to being at risk.
Spiegel im Spiegel – composition by Arvo Pärt
okay.

so today we are redefining what "not logging data" means. it changes meaning when used in the same sentence as the expression "by default". so by default, not logging data is not really not logging data.

we've redefined quite a few things in the past few months. will be interesting to see where we go from here.
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Question: is it possible they do not log any of the data but were required to capture it on the next login? All the talk here implicitly assumes ProtonMail provided historical information.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28427259
>The midway point in the sea level tool you linked is actually 1.41m by 2100.

No. Not sure where 1.41m is coming from. Take a closer look at the linked NASA site. You will need to click on the link labled "View global projection" (sorry, there isn't a direct link). You will see a graph labeled "Projected Sea-Level Rise Under Different SSP Scenarios". The midpoint highest rise of all seven of the scenarios for 2100 is just .88 meters and that's for the most pessimistic SSP5-8.5 Low Confidence scenario. The more likely scenarios are about 1-2 feet.

Your great-grandkids will be fine.
I’m aware that this is a very silly sounding question, but I’m very confused about what’s going on here.

If the subject of this investigation had been using ProtonVPN to connect to ProtonMail, would this have (in a marginal way) protected their anonymity? If ProtonMail can be compelled to begin logging, surely the same must be said of ProtonVPN right?

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.”

In practice, I’ve never been to Switzerland. I don’t know any person that has had any legal issues there, let alone someone that’s litigated a digital privacy case there. I do not speak German or French, and don’t know where to start when it comes to looking up specific cases or court proceedings, so I’d be extremely slow on the uptake of the actual ins and outs of how the Swiss privacy model works from a practical standpoint.

The “based in Switzerland” thing strikes me as a bit of a black box bit of marketing speak. How much time, energy and money did ProtonMail expend fighting this surreptitious logging mandate? Does “Swiss privacy” actualy mean anything if ProtonMail is happy to hand over your IP address when spooked?
> ...the need some people seem to have to reach for an extra-physical domain for the mind to exist in.

It's because subjective experience (SE) cannot even be defined in physical terms. Or any terms, really.
Instead of any definition of SE, all that's on offer are ostensions that will direct a reader's attention to his own SE if he's having it. Such as:

Descartes: SE is what you're absolutely certain must exist, even if everything else is an illusion.

Nagel: SE is "what it's like to be _____".

Nagel again (same paper, but not quoted enough):
It [SE] is not captured by any of the familiar, recently devised reductive analyses of the mental, for all of them are logically compatible with its absence. [italics mine]
https://nitter.eu/OnEstLaTech/status/1434575322465382404

Translation: "The company @ProtonMail delivered IPs of climate activists to the police, after which the activists were arrested and searched. ProtonMail claims on its website, however, that it does not store the IP addresses of its users."

Source (in French): https://secoursrouge.org/france-suisse-securite-it-protonmai...

Translation (via Google Translate):

The year 2020 and 2021 was marked by the establishment and repression of a series of occupations in the district of Place Sainte Marthe, in Paris, in order to fight against its gentrification. Some 20 people were arrested, three searches were carried out and several people were sentenced to suspended prison sentences or to fines of several thousand euros (more info here and here). In addition, seven people are on trial in early 2022 for “theft and degradation in assembly and home invasion” following the occupation of a with a file of more than 1000 pages. During the investigation, the police focused on the collective “Youth For Climate”. In particular, they were able to use photos published on Instagram, even if they were blurred because of the clothes.

The police also noticed that the collective communicated via a protonmail email address. They therefore sent a requisition (via EUROPOL) to the Swiss company managing the messaging system in order to find out the identity of the creator of the address. Protonmail responded to this request by providing the IP address and the fingerprint of the browser used by the collective. It is therefore imperative to go through the tor network (or at least a VPN) when using a Protonmail mailbox (or another secure mailbox) if you want to guarantee sufficient security.
Were _you_ mislead by this? Did you really expect a Switzerland-based company not to comply with law of the land?

There is a difference between "available to police, not retroactively, and only with a valid warrant" and "available to any government agency constantly and in bulk, as well as to data-collecting commercial entities, Russian and Chinese hackers, and their dogs".
Don't you agree?
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If you spent the time and effort to hunt down the problem for them, the least they could do is look into it. repos that don't care enough are a waste of time.
You could do antipodal HVDC for ~50% loss with the stuff currently on the market (3.5% loss per 1000km).

I do like one of the other suggestions to use this for Mars solar — Mars has a much bigger problem with dust blocking sunlight than Earth does — but I don’t see it being more than experimental here, at least not without a unified world government to remove political risks and a whole bunch of other tech that might make it redundant anyway.
Trust the doctors! Unless a doctor disagrees with me, then forget that doctor and trust me instead.
Thank god their servers aren't on a network where they could simply send the log entries to a different server.

That's a cute idea, but it won't get them out of complying with a warrant.
The last point very much not so - having my email provided as a free product by the world's largest ad company isn't a relationship I want to pursue.
I very much enjoyed determining functional busy beaver numbers [1].

Maybe somewhere in between the enjoyment from the computable numbers of Go and chess. There is no estimation involved there. Although there are lower bounds.

The other difference being that it's a much more esoteric subject (on account of the prevalence of the Turing Machine based definition) with a much more limited audience.

[1] https://oeis.org/A333479
nobody's THAT desperate haha jk
For scientists, path to Covid-19 endgame remains uncertain
...but we know it's possible under Swiss law, from this case, for them to be compelled to start logging specific account accesses, that they by default were not previously.

How is that any different from them being compelled to disable or weaken clientside encryption?

In both cases they're being compelled to make changes to their service.

The camel's nose is clearly already under the tent. Everybody needs to start diffing javascript served by them.
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I’m not saying I’m going to crack some crazy software problem like general AI or something, but theoretically I’d love to be working on something that pushes renewable energy forward.

In what capacity I don’t know. I’m pretty convinced we are overlooking geothermal energy in the USA at least. I often wonder if we could both relieve potentially dangerous pressure bellowing Yellowstone while simultaneously harnessing its geothermal energy for example

But alas, I think the reality is I lack the expertise to even talk about this with any authority
In the US companies can make canary statement... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
> which may lead to higher quality products.

Or a lower quality products, because what you'd do if I slack off, fire me? No problem, I'll live off UBI for a while, then go to somebody who didn't fire me yet, there are a lot of places around.

> may attracts better talent

A lot of minimum-wage positions won't benefit from better talent - once minimal level of competency is reached, it's enough. Surely, a waiter could be a rockstar, probably - but most people, and most businesses, expect just not forgetting the orders, not dropping the food on the floor and not cursing out the customers, once it's there, there's not much monetary upside for the business from the better talent (of course, there are tips but that's different story).

> given that they become a significant expense.

Payrolls are already a very significant expense, especially in restaurant, etc. business. I don't think making them more expensive would change much.
I agree. That's why words like "supernatural" or "extra-physical" are misleading, as those are just semantic labels relative to the nature of our current understanding.

However that definition is tautological and is distinct from the idea that consciousness arises from neurons firing, which is what most physicalists are taking as the cause of consciousness.
As Texas oppose abortion, does the state provide financial backing to single mothers and poor families? (free schooling, healthcare, dentist etc)
well posteo didn't. they tried to fight it as long as possible.
I'm obviously not in the US, but this is a patently absurd perspective as it would then dictate that I am lowering pay to a lineworker by no longer being a customer. Where is the actual business's culpability in that twisted transaction?

I've just impoverished one barista at Starbucks because today I went to Cafe Nero instead! And I'm no longer a regular at my local Italian joint, so I've just deprived a few more people of an income.

For some reason you think this is about sticking it to the man but it's not. The staff get a stable, living wage and the business is charging prices much more in line with reality. I'm also no longer personally liable for the income of whoever served me, because the rightful responsibility for that lies on the employer.
Depends on the dog. I was able to do that to my dog a few times when she was young but now days if she doesn't see or hear it she doesn't move.
An asteroid impact is presumably not a man made disaster though, for the foreseeable future at least.
this reads like something out of the Guardian

I grew up in one of the poorest parts of England (poorer than Middlesbrough), attended a comprehensive (non-selective) school, and had no problem getting into a top UK university (post tuition-fees)

as did almost all of my friends, all of whom went to the same crappy school in the same crappy area, and are all now gainfully employed

the UK is not Afghanistan
Surely community patches are such a good return on investment they should be pulling devs off other areas to keep someone on reviewing public prs. I've always been confused by companies that aren't over the moon to spend minimal review time to get the benefit of hours of work by free employees.
Meta: I would suggest a title change on HN.

Current HN title: "UBC Engineering removes online classes, obstacles for international students"

Article title: "UBC Engineering removes all upper-year online classes as obstacles remain for returning international students"

The shortened HN title, upon my first and second readings, implies that UBC removed obstacles for international students. In fact, the opposite is the case, as the article title clarifies.
> It’s common now for people actively seeking any opportunity to be offended on behalf of someone else.

I never understood why people get so angry at other people for showing solidarity, even if they aren't part of the oppressed group.

Why does it make you so mad? Seriously, I don't get it.

Is it because no one stands up for you?

Standing up for a minority group that you are not part of is called being part of a community, it is literally what solidarity is all about. I know that is hard for a lot of people on HN to understand, this place is rife with mythology of bootstraps & rugged individualism.

By your insane logic, the only person who can stand up for someone is that one person. Maybe that is what you want?

I'm just baffled by the anger.
Also mentioned in another submitted tweet:

https://nitter.eu/OnEstLaTech/status/1434575322465382404

Translation: "The company @ProtonMail delivered IPs of climate activists to the police, after which the activists were arrested and searched. ProtonMail claims on its website, however, that it does not store the IP addresses of its users."

Source (in French): https://secoursrouge.org/france-suisse-securite-it-protonmai...

Translation (via Google Translate):

The year 2020 and 2021 was marked by the establishment and repression of a series of occupations in the district of Place Sainte Marthe, in Paris, in order to fight against its gentrification. Some 20 people were arrested, three searches were carried out and several people were sentenced to suspended prison sentences or to fines of several thousand euros (more info here and here). In addition, seven people are on trial in early 2022 for “theft and degradation in assembly and home invasion” following the occupation of a with a file of more than 1000 pages. During the investigation, the police focused on the collective “Youth For Climate”. In particular, they were able to use photos published on Instagram, even if they were blurred because of the clothes.

The police also noticed that the collective communicated via a protonmail email address. They therefore sent a requisition (via EUROPOL) to the Swiss company managing the messaging system in order to find out the identity of the creator of the address. Protonmail responded to this request by providing the IP address and the fingerprint of the browser used by the collective. It is therefore imperative to go through the tor network (or at least a VPN) when using a Protonmail mailbox (or another secure mailbox) if you want to guarantee sufficient security.

(Disclaimer, Protonmail user.)
This is seriously messed up. Purely because their marketing has been very aggressive to promote total and complete anonymity, directly sometimes and mostly indirectly. If it’s true that the French wording makes it seem like they don’t keep logs at all whatsoever, then I believe the person arrested has grounds to sue them, and I would hope they do. But even if not, I consider their marketing is a total and complete dark pattern from now on imo.

Tremendously disappointed.

What’s next? Is ddg selling search data to google?
>>to the literal Taliban

Imprisoning women for religious reasons, + bounty system

"And, let’s be honest, convincing the public means convincing them to adopt a religious as opposed to secular framework for morality. (And not just any religious framework: while Orthodox Jews, for example, while not exactly fans of abortion, are fine with it under many circumstances.) Of the Americans who want abortion to be illegal in all or most cases, 94% are at least “fairly certain” that God exists, and 79% are “absolutely certain”—consistent with my experience of having met highly intelligent and articulate pro-lifers, but never secular ones. Modulo Lizardman’s Constant, virtually all pro-lifers have metaphysical commitments about God and the soul that presumably do some of the heavy lifting for them. If the case for a blanket abortion ban can be made in terms that are compelling to a secular, rationalist, tradeoffs-based morality, no one seems to have done it yet."