skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not misleading in that many services do keep records by default. If people don't understand what default means, they should grow their understanding, not be outraged that their uninformed opinion was wrong.
Except you are still dancing around the topic here. The OP being responded to here, which is clearly widely available if you pay any attention to the news, is that the mainstream, FDA, CDC and pharma companies are seeking to extremely downplay, or outright declare ivermectin to be out of line, without doing any research, AND ignoring already existing clinical studies that show it to be efficacious.

Thats the conversation, not splitting hairs on what is or is not adequate. FDA won't even seem to bother EVALUATING if it IS in fact adequate. Instead these players are acting like it does not exist, or is deadly, when it has a 30+ year history of clearly not being so.

Edit: Hence my point about the billions of dollars in loss.

Were the FDA to declare ivermectin efficacious and adequate then the EUA's would likely have to be rescinded. If not, then people would still have an alternative treatment to the vaccines, and thus pharma would lose billions to alternative treatment anyway.

Option:
Take 30+ year medicine with proven track record
or
take experimental vaccines that have not completed FDA approval or clinical trials, no cross sectional longitudinal studies of effects?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/360bbb-3
It doesn't seem so surprising to me that there doesn't exist a compelling theory for something without a good definition: what is "consciousness"?
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Technically correct but misleading.

They tout that off-by-default statement on their homepage, underneath the header of "Anonymous Email," with the closing sentence of "Your privacy comes first."

So why even market that? It provides no meaningful security.
This reminds me of https://www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/

They have some cool exhibits(i.e. https://www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/Ho.htm). Not sure what the physical museum is like(near San Diego), but the online museum has some cool exhibits, even though the site-design looks quite retro.
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Disclaimer: Paying Protonmail customer

Their homepage says "By default, we do not keep any IP logs"

In 2021, any soft language like this should be a red flag for anyone who is against surveillance. Maybe in 2018 it was good enough. But in 2021 it's not. Come on, Protonmail, you're supposed to be leading the way -- don't make me figure it out myself.

Replace immediately with "By default we don't log IP, but may be required to by local law enforcement. We recommend everyone connect through Protonmail through Tor. This month, 60% of our users connected through Tor".
The main difference, of course, being that your best friend is someone you could actually make having to face the legal consequences (and/or punch in the face).

These oversized American corporations are practically untouchable to the majority of people. They'll pay their laughable fines, pinky promises to better self-regulate for real this time, and move on. Leaving you in the dirt.
You could say that it's the little things that help to really tie the film together (even though they don't really have a significant impact on the main plot). In most cases they aid in defining the characters.

Jesus being a pederast doesn't have much of an effect on the storyline, but it provides context into the background of the character, so he's not just merely a competing bowler.

Another example of an even more seemingly irrelevant detail is when Jackie Treehorn starts sketching something on a pad upon receiving a phone call. When it's revealed to the audience what it is, not only is it surprisingly funny, but it hints at who Jackie Treehorn is. Maybe he's in his line of business because it means more to him than just a lucrative enterprise.

These kinds of "irrelevant details" are fairly common in films by the Coen brothers. When I think of their film Raising Arizona, I'm pleasantly reminded of how it's revealed that the evil nemesis just happens to have that same tattoo as HI.
I know what you're saying, but part of the reason we're in this mess is that too many people care more about their portfolio than the planet.
https://archive.ph/V036q
So I can spend an extra 2h at the airport? No thanks. The best of both worlds is obviously high speed rail.
see: jfk quote about going to the moon.

also, because art.
That's.. a good point. Reminds me of the moonlanding counterfactual: if the USA did not land on the moon, don't you think the Soviet's would've said something about it? Or was the cold-war fabricated as well.
Occupied Germany is worse[1]

Germany will handle your data as fast as you can order an hans schnitzel.

[1] - https://militarybases.com/overseas/germany/
> Linux owners, were crying when trivial initd and trivial shell scripts, which are easy to read and understand in about an hour or two, were replaced by Systemd

Nah, most Linux owners didn't care and the fact that the most distribution voted with their feet to switch should say enough. Also, full init script were not trivial.
I mean they are misleading in so far you want them to...

I'm a privacy activist and certainly think that a company should be able to not keep logs. If the law in the country they are in (or area, see for example the data retention directive in the EU) we should of course (and I am) work to change those laws.

It should come as no surprise to anyone who is privacy minded and actively seek out privacy focused services that are located within the EU or Switzerland that your IP (or other information) can be requested with a warrant and that a company is required to hand that over.
"This trick can of course be very helpful not only to attackers but to other entities as well (such as big companies who want to alter their code when it is being investigated by researchers for example)."

Two people are having a conversation.

Person #1: How do I know the difference between an "attacker" and "other entities". Could a "big company" be an attacker.

Person #2: An attacker is trying to do something bad and does not want you to see what its doing. A big company is doing something good and does not you to see what its doing.

Person #1: Wait, how do I know if what its doing is bad or good if I am prevented from knowing what its doing.
That your emails are supposedly stored encrypted, that if other services support it end-to-end email encryption supposedly can be enabled easily, and that supposedly you cannot be served targeted ads because they cannot read the contents of your email (not that they have ads anyway).

Of course Protonmail is accessible via Tor. Not that you should need to do that to remain private.
They blocked an open relay he was running which was being used for spamming and viruses. It's not censorship.
Well going by Hurricane Ida, New Jersey will have to relocate themselves before New Orleans, but not before they build a seawall under the Verrazzano bridge. To describe the destruction of a city as "inevitable" is just admitting you don't want to spend the billions of dollars necessary to protect it.
The site sounds interesting, but signing up just to evaluate the results of my first query is a no-go for me.
30 sq km isn't even a lot less than the land you'd need for a simple terrestrial PV station of the same capacity. NREL said in 2012 that the total space needed for PV is 8 acres per MW, so 2000 MW would occupy 65 sq km.
I think everyone has gotten used to this particular lie, because it's so widespread and all the "privacy" email providers say things like this.

Except maybe Lavabit, that guy apparently shut everything down to avoid doing something along these lines. So maybe he wasn't actually lying.
Thanks, I had "Basic" on and turned it completely off. This should be Disabled by default. I created a new account to see what the default is (it's Basic): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28428092
What's being discussed is MVCC, or multiversion concurrency control

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiversion_concurrency_contr...
no, the end result is not the same either way.

I'm not taking sides on privacy or the threat of govt (or other sourced) tyranny, I'm just explaining the logic to answer your question:

Let's say you engaged in a long history of using protonmail innocently, then one day you decided to start commiting crimes for the first time and attract police interest. You would know that your historical logs were not kept, and it was only after you started attracting police attention that you would be at risk of incriminating yourself through proton mail. Maybe, on the run from the law, it would be safe for you to hide at your old friends house because there was no log to link you to him.

Yes, it is also the case that you may not have realized that ordinary behavior had been criminalized by an evil govt all along blah blah blah... I'm just pointing out that there is a difference where you saw none.
The GP mentioned CockroachDB though. There’s a lot of implicit functionality behind that name. Even just behind mentioning Postgres.

The distributed part of modern sql is fairly recent.
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They claim this is not possible under Swiss law, fwiw. We’ve recently seen that it is possible under German law, with a competitor (Tutanota) building a server-side backdoor for one user.
Stop trying to defend indefensible behavior by getting hung up on semantics.

I, for one, will not renew my ProtonMail account if that's their status quo.
And yet the comment here about the most effective way to combat this is flagged and dead. HN's crowd seems to be largely fine with all of this.
Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera (2016)
Lol I just did this. Now way faster and can handle arbitrary amounts of data (there is some flickering on scroll for large data sets I'm trying to sort out).
They called it gay because thet didn't like it, not vice versa.

Roller blades are cringy and awkward by nature, because they are stuck on your feet and you can't get off them as needed, unlike a skateboard or bike, and they awkward to balance on when you aren't zooming, unlike rollerskates.
Our non-breed (as in pre-breeds like a dingo) dog is like you get the stick.
I too am a native-born American speaker of English. But I must admit that the knowledge I have of the perfect tense comes from studying biblical Greek. In the case of Koine Greek (and ancient Greek generally I would think) the perfect does include the idea of a past action that still applies to the present. For example, "I have been forgiven" means that I am still forgiven.
We need large scale coherent perfect absorbers [0] before we can do long distance power beaming. Other than that with a solar pumped laser (spread out over many m^2 on the ground to reduce the death-ray-ness) you could get decent efficiency.

[0] basically a backwards laser. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_perfect_absorber
Ivermectin is proven to work, but it's out of patent. That means pharmaceutical companies can't profit from it. Hence the Ivermectin FUD campaign.

Big Pharma will do everything in their power, including manipulate the media, to buy time while they develop new oral Covid drugs with a slightly tweaked chemical composition (just enough for them to legally profit off it). Knowing they have a certain % of the population that will blindly follow and argue for them helps.
What's gross to me is compilers often know a function has been passed a pointer to fixed sized object. And have hacky ways to determine that at run time. Not to mention all these compilers do know what a phat pointer is.

Says to me the problem is the people on the standards committee.
Also a ProtonMail user. While I would prefer that ProtonMail never captures or divulged my ip and or logged my access I pay because I was a long time gmail user and am trying to ween myself off of alphabet in general. I don’t want my mail skimmed for ads or worse.
> My Body, My Choice.

COVID has shown us that this adage is patently false.
(I'm interpreting your comment as "portfolio of planets")

But the corporations would want to spread to all of them. Just like big cities all over the globe look the same, you can buy the same stuff. Trade is good, and I love corporations (never understood why anyone on the left would be against the concept - it's ideally suited to create a "container" for cooperating individuals), but even on our own main planet we can see that we have strong forces of equalization and winner takes all.

You would have to somewhat isolate the places if you want diversity. Same thing that helps with biological diversity. Otherwise it will all just be near-copies of sameness.

In that sense, it would just be like distributed storage of the same content. It helps when one place gets wiped out by accident, but it does not provide true robustness against the "unknown unknowns" (to quote Rumsfeld) that the universe occasionally throws at us.
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Hi! Uhh.. I guess I hear the maj7 quality and the notes at the same time.

Yeah, I'm sure people without pp can recognize chord qualities just as well. Hmm although if it's an extremely weird chord/collection of notes, I doubt they'd know what it is. The area I imagine[0] they'd have huge problems is in improvising free music, where often there's not familiar chords, and no predetermined harmonies. Playing in a group doing that, people are playing notes around you, and without perfect pitch, I don't think you'd have very precise an idea of whether what you are about to play will fit that or not. It seems they have to play a couple of notes first to 'test the waters'..

[0] They don't seem to. But it's gotta be like flying blind. Or at least, driving in a very very heavy rain!
did you read the study?
They explicitly say :"We cannot conclude in this study that Ivermectin has a place in prophylaxis, but this warrants investigation."

This does not seem to match the HackerNews title very well ;)
I played with ircii scripting, one time I made a bot (probably copied some script from somewhere) that would op folks with a hardcoded irc usermask list.

I then ran one with just a mode that would op anybody upon joining and then when I'd run into folks who were all into bots, I was like "yeah I have one you can borrow for your channel," and then they'd invite it and op the thing, and then it would start opping everybody who joined and the prior owner of the channel would get all ornery about it.

lol irc was like the crackhouse of the internet to me.
we’re probably about a thousand years out from having anything close to earth, we’re squandering a ridiculously good thing here and more planets isn’t the solution
I'm not surprised Walgreens is at the top by wastage.

They have some of the most horrible bureaucracy when it came to vaccine administration. Appointment times meant nothing and it took close to 10min/patient to progress in the line.

For my 2nd dose, their system broke down entirely and rather than inform everyone in the line, they decided to run around like chickens with their heads cut off and then take a lunch break, keeping everyone wondering what's going on.
Brief history of inline freestyle rollerblading in Ukraine. It had declined as well, but head a peak much later than US.

2003-2008 -- this was rise period of skating. Primarily in Kyiv, but also Luhansk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Odessa

2006 -- Sebastian Lafarge creates SEBA brand and Seba FR1 boot. For some reason it becomes #1 choice for "pro" skaters in Ukraine. Maybe because it is well suited for freestyle lifestyle? Anyway, more and more white-black boots had appeared.

I think French and Russian existing roller cultures greatly influenced the whole Ukrainian movement.

2008-2013 -- "boom" of inline skating in Ukraine. During this time originated several different skater subgroups:

* yamakasi -- as a tribute to movie "Yamakasi", where tracers gather together to watch sunrise from high point. Skaters chatted which hill of Kyiv they plan to watch sunrise, skated whole night, gathered in one place and watched the event. Those meetings were sometimes up to 100 people.

* Wizards (catchskating) -- basically "freeze tag" on inline skates. It turned out to be a good team sport, and more accessible than inline hockey. Common teams were 2 catchers VS 5 runners and 3 VS 7. There were compettions, Luhansk and Donetsk teams were best there. I think this game originated from Russia

* Season opening -- yearly spring event when weather becomes warm enough for skating, and people from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia gather together in Kyiv for grand mob skating. I think record goes to 1000 skaters of all ages.

* Night riders -- freeskating empty streets at night was common and even had weekly schedules. Bikers sometimes participated too

* Downhill -- Kyiv has many hills, so people quickly learn the fun of downhill. We had teams, night downhill trainings, maps of good and bad DH, and so on.

* all kinds of tricksters -- slalom, slides, jumps. This was copied from russian and french FSK tournaments. (at time Kyiv had very few skateparks)

2014+ -- war happened and we lost Russia, Luhansk and Donetsk teams. This probably was the most disrupting event for whole movement. Ban of Vkontakte had cut many contacts and communities.
I don't think most people are arguing about that. Some post that puts forth "it doesn't mean this it means that" can be charitably added to with additional interpretation rather than "wrong. it's THIS". Dead-end true-scotsman argument.
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No. With on-demand logging, they can find the owner of the account (assuming he doesn't take further measures), but you can't retroactively prove someone used that account to do something at a specific time. For example, you could not prove that the individual was logged in at internet cafe xy near the time of the crime. Also, an opsec mishap (such as logging in without protection) will not be fatal unless you're already under surveillance.
TLDR: Austin-based academic doesn't like Texas politics so he compares Texas to the literal Taliban.

In a shocking turn of events, it turns out said academic has never had to interact with the Taliban. (Neither, presumably, have any of the sheltered bitter little people downvoting this post. Unless you've BEEN to Kabul, maybe think twice about spouting off an uninformed opinion here, mmkay?)
"Financial literacy" has been en vogue since the 1980s.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=financial+lite...

Financial solvency for the typical wage-earner has plummeted over the same period, illustrated here by the widening gap between productivity and median wages:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Productivity_and_Rea...

(Household wealth would be a better measure, that data's harder to turn up on a moment's notice. The Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances is probably among the best references, it was last updated in 2019, and is published every three years: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm)

If insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results, then with all respect to Mr. Jenkins and the Financial Times, it seems that what's needed are stronger wage protections and collective bargaining power, a better social safety net, and some goddamned reality-based assessments and human compassion.
Not really. I'm assuming the artificial neural networks in Teslas have some awareness of their surroundings - where the road goes and so on, and that biological neural networks work in a somewhat similar way but are much more complicated.
There are apartments, but construction in the desirable areas is limited.
Apparently you haven't been paying attention. The federal government is sponsoring research. The scientific method is not instantaneous. Have a little patience.

https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initi...
One option not mentioned yet is Posteo. They don't keep your IP and strip it in case your mail client sets it in the headers. They also don't take any personal identification for signup or billing (you can even send them letters with money to pay for a mailbox).
And yet every study backing up the efficacy and safety of the covid vaccine for particular subsets has around 20 total participants, often times with an invalid control group in place....but I'm sure you eat that up and share away
I said the end result is the same. Not that it is the same. In both case they give the IP when the police ask for it
I'm not sure that this exact case is accounted for, but I know that a large part of the industry atm is getting re-focused on accessibility testing.

Government contracts seem to be getting it baked in now as a legal requirement as a few cases are being taken to courts.

My company have a requirement to be level AA compliant and our designers have been taking colour compatability into account.
good find. sedentary is also correlated with high BMI. obesity is dramatically linked to hospitalizattion and the severity of the infection.

not bad for the results https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8117664/bin/gr1...

one correction, the authors incorrectly state that there is no evidence based treatment for the mild SARS. This is incorrect (eg D booster, zinc, c, berberine, bromelasin, ivermectin, hcq+zn, etc etc)
> and now I can't catch my breath for the first 10 minutes.

Happy to hear that I'm not the only one, sorry to hear that I'm not the only one.
Is it really home video if a DIY youtuber spends 10's of thousands of dollars on a setup to have high quality production value?
> Compared to prior systems that achieve strict serializable multi-shard transactions, ACCORD achieves optimal
performance by utilizing real time timestamps and a message reorder buffer. Unlike Tempo, ACCORD does not rely
on additional periodic broadcast mechanisms for timestamp stability, and commutative commands do not interfere.
Importantly, ACCORD addresses the poor fast-path stability of existing systems by introducing a configurable fast-path
electorate. This provides optimal failure tolerance and consistent performance under any number of tolerated failures.

> ACCORD is the first leaderless protocol that is sufficiently stable for practical use in a large scale industrial database system. Finally, to the best of our knowledge, no commercial or open-source database systems offer strict serializable transactions across regions in a single wide area round-trip.
How many of those specific vaccines were leaky or had statistically significant escape metrics?
Sort of yes, sort of no.

If there is at most one space based solar energy system visible from any given point on the ground, you can make strong safety claims based on wavelength and antenna size.

However, if you limit yourself to one in any given sky, you necessarily either (1) put them in high orbit so they do useful things in local night, limiting you to a small total count planet-wide, or (2) put them in a low orbit, which means you can’t use them in local nighttime.

If you want nighttime coverage and enough of these systems to be relevant to global power — and the current nameplate capacity of ground-based PV is just under a terawatt — you have to worry about multiple orbit-to-ground beams being directed at the same spot.

While you could have up to about half a dozen giant ground-station for half a dozen giant beams, that needs ground level transmission over a significant fraction of the surface to be relevant to global energy needs, at which point you might as well make a planetary scale power grid and get your nighttime supplies from a mixture of the rooftops on the other side of the planet and some convenient deserts your energy supplier is renting.