skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm extremely confused by this.

Unless you are naive enough to assume that ProtonMail is incapable of logging IP addresses (in which case they'd be incapable of serving HTTP requests...see the problem?) then they can log. And they most certainly aren't going to declare independence from Switzerland and refuse to turn on IP logging when required to by law.

Whereas with E2E-E, they actually are incapable of turning over readable emails.
Lately, I've been immensely enjoying buying up last-gen's overpriced gimmicky hardware for dirt cheap. I'm typing this from a top-of-the-line late-model 12" MacBook (the one with only a single USB-C port) that I got for $430, probably a fourth of what it cost when new. If anything it's even better to use now than when it was new, since the USB-C and wireless ecosystems have both matured so much since it was released. It makes for a perfect second laptop, just like all the review outlets said it would've been if it weren't for the price. And like the article says, the process of finding it on eBay and waiting for it to arrive was just as satisfying as if I'd bought it new.

I also got an LG G8X and its folding screen attachment for less than $200. I can't wait for the Galaxy Fold 2 to be less than $500, that's probably what I'll go for next.
But all else isn’t equal – denser places have less land per house.

With a property tax, the total tax bill increases when you build upward and make the apartment block. If you take a lot with a single home on it, and then stack 9 identical homes on top, the resulting property might be worth 9x as much. That’d mean the renters of that bottom home still have to pay 90% of their old property tax.

With LVT, the tax bill is based on whether you could build up productively, whether or not you actually choose to do so. So if you stack 10 family homes on top of one another, the renters of those homes would pay 1/10th the land tax.

This shifts the relative tax burden toward lots which are less dense than their surroundings. Encouraging infill and discouraging sprawl. If it pushes some to build their single family home in the exurbs so that an apartment block can be built in the suburbs, that’s a net win.
Unfortunately my track record of "That Device I Longed For" has a habit of not matching what other people wanted, so what I longed for wasn't made in enough quantity and went straight from "expensive" to "rare"

...or "only collectors/completionists want that" when I want the damn thing to actually /use/ it.
> I'm sure that Bezos or Musk are also acutely aware of their capital

I'm not. I suspect they're paying a lot more attention to who they have working for them, their regulatory situation, particular projects....

Put it this way: when Rockefeller decided to build a new factory, his first question would've been "where's the capital coming from". When Bezos or Musk decide to build a new factory, what do you think is the first question they ask?

> There have been many projects that showed that giving poor people money with no strings attached has higher success rates than anything else. Also your advice of getting loans or credit cards is quite unrealistic and shows you the cost of being poor. The loans that a poor person will get are essentially so expensive that the only thing they do is making them poorer.

I wasn't giving advice. But I think your studies are taking a naïve approach - that kind of program inherently selects for the kind of person who gets access to that kind of program, which is immensely class-loaded.
My wife can only sleep during regular night hours with Melatonin. It improved her quality of life so much. We even blind tested her three times with identical pills at night and the nights with placebo melatonin had no sleep each time.
Scale is often a problem. Not just in the usual planetary/interplanetary/interstellar distance sense. But in civilizations.

The "spaceport in the middle of a desert with a lot of ship traffic" is something of a cliche. Why are they there? What are they hauling? Why is there no groundside freight operation and ground transportation? This also comes in the "space station in the middle of nowhere" form.

There's also organizational scale. Problems which would be dealt with at some low level make it up to Emperor level when they involve the protagonist. This applies to both businesses and governments.

This is tied to the "chosen one" mindset. Star Wars was way too influential in this area. Disney/Pixar is way too into that. You don't see "worked their way up through the ranks" much.
I've been wondering about lighting brightness for a while now. Lighting still leaves rooms kind of dark - not even as bright as they look like with daylight, let alone the sun shining through the window. In nature the sun wouldn't be shining through a window either - it would be all around you. Should we perhaps get brighter lighting overall? Would that help with sleep issues? Eyesight?
> But the far right and far left media ecosystems are "fundamentally different," Edelson said, with 40% of the media sources cited on the far right actively spreading false information. In other corners of the media ecosystem and other partisan groups, this number doesn't go above 10%.

This is simply a lie. The whole BLM / antifa / defund police / acab movement is based on misinformation. If you count those in, there is no way it is below 10%.
What election losers tell us about Indian democracy
YouTube: From Concept to Hypergrowth – Jawed Karim (2006)
In my experience, online classes were across the board _significantly_ worse than in person classes. Yes, you do have to haul your ass into class every day, but in person interaction is so much more natural than interaction over zoom.

It’s natural to talk and collaborate with people around you in a physical classroom, but it feels so incredibly forced to interact with people in prescribed breakout rooms.

Not to mention it’s been a year and almost no curriculums have actually been adapted to an online format. If we’re going to shove a curriculum based around in person attendance down everyone’s throats, you might as well have the students show up in person.
That would have been easier for me, but would have been less kind to you:

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/give_a_man_a_fish_and_you_f...
>Tell users you are being logged on website.

Frequently not legal

>Put alert warning that account has logging enabled

See above. Gag orders a problem with government in general. They do have a warrant canary page though, as well as a transparency report.

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

>Change the service so collecting logs is not possible

You mean stop serving HTTP and MX requests?

>Stop adding captcha to tor users login because you want to identify users

You mean let bots brute-force my password?
You should get multiple meals from cooking and cleaning for 1.5 hours, either as leftovers or for other people.
I've just had the unpleasant surprise that, even when you do flash your 3 year old flagship phone to get at least some semblance of security updates, Google is now rolling out hardware attestation for SafetyNet, which is likely to be impossible for anything but the stock Android to satisfy, and means, among other things, that contactless payments are suddenly unusable.

So I now, in an attempt to continue using a perfectly functioning device for more than three years, have the rather ridiculous choice between using my phone without security updates, which banks and various apps will consider safe, or using my phone with security updates, which banks and various apps will consider unsafe.

Yet how long will it be until manufacturers simply start disabling devices more than a few years old altogether, or crippling them, in the name of security?
>I think it probably will be endemic but we’re minimum scenario 3

I think the variables are:

1. Vaccine that prevents infection/transmission at a significantly more substantial rate

2. Significant waning of vaccine effectiveness per new variants

3. Unexpected increase (or decrease) in virulence of new strains.

4. Significant improvements in treatment (including medications)

These are, of course, unknowns. But, holding these constant, I believe we can calculate with fair accuracy how bad it will be as a direct function of the percentage of the population that's vaccinated.
Goldman Sachs, 2015.[1] "Graduates studying lower paying majors such as arts, education and psychology face the highest risk of a negative return."

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2015/12/09/news/economy/college-not-wo...
But the capabilities are available cheaper now.

Having said that, I'll keep my vintage 6809 machine with custom polygon rasterizer ASIC and bit-slice mathbox coprocessor. Such an unusual combination of hardware.
Interesting! Where are you getting your information?
I'm kind of glad I didn't splurge on too many guitar effects pedals back in the day. Behringer has cloned much of the BOSS line, now available at a fraction of the cost.

https://www.tonestart.com/ultimate-behringer-guitar-pedal-cl...

(Not to mention things like Axe-Fx, which while not cheap, can clone 100s of amps, cabinets, and pedals.)
I'm not totally sure on this, but if you use their mail bridge, I'm pretty sure the decryption happens on your local PC and the keys never have to leave that.
Use of the service for any “unlawful or prohibited activities” violates the TOS, so if law enforcement has evidence of that (which they may), then PM has a clear right to log IP.
It's definitely an American thing.

The primary cause of hating disco in the 1970s was that it was gays, blacks and latinos who were associated with it. And that and corporatization of music by the very same boomers that's kept disco dead in the US since. And yet the REST of the world kept disco and reincarnated it into several genres of electronica.

So I wouldn't be surprised.
This comment will probably get buried. But I’m a paying ProtonMail customer and I noticed a number of things that seem to indicate the company is doing things to enable user surveillance without it being directly attributed to the company.

1) Malware scanning services. I noticed that links in my email are sent to a third party to be scanned for malicious content. I never signed up for this service.

2) Mobile phone analytics. Using a third party for mobile analytics known to track users.

3) CDN: using a content delivery network in countries that do not have the same privacy requirements as ProtonMail’s corporate domicile.

Privacy is a gimmick for the company at the very least, a front at the worst. I still use them because I trust other companies even less.
So it'd be ambiguous / splitting hairs for something arbitrarily near 90 degrees? And given that planets wobble, seems like that'd let poles flip arbitrarily quickly, which would be weird. Uranus might be too far off for this (~8 degrees is a lot more than Earth's wobble, it might take an impact to shift that far and then I think it's fair to reassess), but heck, it got to this point somehow, it'll happen somewhere else too.

For relatively perpendicular though, yeah - that largely works I think. But then we should expect most to be "sun rises in the east" as, as far as I'm aware, most solar system bodies orbit and rotate in the same direction as their star does.
Materialize excites me, but probably can't be used for the current problems I'm working on, because of the operational overhead we'd be putting on our clients. Streaming SQL queries inside an existing well-understood database would be the killer feature.
"The only way to properly compare things is on an "all else equals basis" and focus on changing the variable you're discussing."

No, it's not. You're measuring output. We should be focusing on outcomes. The outcome is that it won't make a difference.
>But stories aren't abstractions; they're fundamentally about people, emotions, and reactions

Some stories are. But others, especially SF, are about ideas, not people. There is really no point in setting your story in the future, or in space, or whatever if you are just going to write about people. You can set them in the here and now like most literary fiction does.
Yeah I am flabbergasted a psychiatrist of all people would entertain the idea of a “correct” dose. They should look at their own practice and see the range of lithium, SSRI, antipsychotics, antiepileptics doses their patients are on — and these are for medications with far more studies about dose response than melatonin.

They should also know better that serum levels of a supplement/medication that acts centrally can be misleading.
https://ksqldb.io/ is great for this, assuming you're already using Kafka.
Link to PDF http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/Courtesy-...

(..or pay US$45 to read its 10 pages at the given link.)
Sounds reasonable. It's the same thing as a little bit of snow and not-very-cold weather wrecking havoc on Texas.

Being unprepared causes the most deaths
This looks like the podman client, effectively? Has anyone gotten `podman machine` working on M1?
I first ran into Xiaomi when I used a build of their MIUI rom on my Sony Ericsson X10 back in the day. It was amazingly better than default android (2.3/gingerbread era), so I wanted to keep using it.

Got a new phone at some point and tried it again, and they were on some real shit by then. All the default built-in programs for like, /music playing/ would force you through a Xiaomi Cloud sign up process just to play music /already on your phone/.

Granted, Google is now on the same shit; I found with my latest android they've removed all the basic apps for file browsing, music playing, and the like. Now only "Google Play" versions remain, that of course require a Google account.

I feel like the camera and calculator are the only non-play-required default apps left, but I won't be surprised if I find one day that the camera is somehow integrated into Google Photos, which will of course not open until you sign in.
1. Streaming SQL

Real-time queries should be the default. Some kind of smart query invalidation (similar to incremental view maintenance) as a result of DML statements.

2. Can run in a web browser / mobile phone

Your client-side cache is usually a messy denormalization of your SQL database. For offline/local-first apps you essentially need to run your entire backend API in your browser. So you should be running an SQL database in the browser. For this to be seamless you need your database targetting JS during design stage.

3. Syncing

To support offline/local/mobile use cases, your database needs to be able to sync changes efficiently.

4. Logical-first data schema

You should be able to give your db a logical schema instead of a physical one, and the database can take care of the necessary denormalizations for performance reasons automatically.

5. Lower-level api for query planner

Instead of having SQL as your only interface, there should be a way to interact with the query tree and the query plan directly. People are always creating new query languages hacked over SQL (like Google's Logica).

6. Graph-based queries

Support a query language like Cypher. Provide better solutions for tree-based data structures - the queries get too unwieldy today.
You say buy rooftop solar and batteries like it's an option most people have. Depending on who's numbers you go by most American households would be bankrupted by a multi-thousand dollar emergency, they don't have the disposable income for solar and batteries.

That's without even considering legalities regarding grid connection (some utilities don't allow independent operation of solar panels that are also connected to the grid) and the simple fact that most of the country doesn't get enough sun to completely power a house with AC/furnace/fridge/computers 24/7.

Best bet for independent power generation is a propane generator with a healthy stockpile of filled tanks. (propane because it has indefinite shelf life, as opposed to diesel or gasoline).
Linking to the homebrew installer for this is an...odd... Choice. Never the less, congrats podman devs!
Is it safe to say censorship, deplatforming, shadowbans, unbanking, watchlisting, and unpersoning is pretty much normalized, and now everyone can just say, "it is what it is," and imagine they aren't going to be caught up in the next wave?
Could you briefly elaborate on this? Are you suggesting the right structures within Elixir/Erlang are both concurrent and safe enough to negate the need for these things at some level? (And are you referring to things like OTP, or more general than that?)

EDIT: For context, I'm familiar with the concurrency model and with how fairly bulletproof "processes" are in their context, but had never considered putting these to use in lieu of a Redis cache or certain other datastore use-cases. (My brief foray into Elixir was, however, when looking to improve reliability of a high-volume messaging system and various task queues attached to it, so that use-case I am at least aware of)
North West? Like Portland and Seattle?
Please tell me, do you actually think $3000 per year is financial freedom? That's what this article is about. I'm saying below a certain threshold that is false because one does not have enough to cover basic living expenses to be able to take advantage of that financial literacy.
> anything else would be worse for me personally"

No, that's mostly it. Along with an enjoyment of power and control and the suffering of others for its own sake.

He's built a multi billion dollar palace, he's not going to risk losing power.
unfortunately, climate is a class issue

https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachm...

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-by-income-region#emissions-by...
That's kind of the point of this list, though. So-called "hard" SF tends to only be "realistic" within the narrow confines of the author's specialty (which usually means the physics equations work out). It handwaves or outright ignores other areas, let alone tries to realistically consider them. This is most especially true for the "soft" sciences that the hard SF engineering types so often sneer at.

Which is fine for fiction stories generally, they're just fiction after all, but hard SF likes to pretend it's somehow purer or more rational than other kinds of stories.
I have a couple of t420s running Arch Linux off of small SSDs. They're really handy to keep in a garage to watch how-to videos, read digital manuals, etc. while working on projects. They're new enough to have hardware video acceleration and cheap enough I don't worry about getting them a little dirty.
Maybe "picking and choosing principles" is not the ideal phrase, rather "picking and choosing targets", because not all actors are equally benevolent, and it can certainly be the case that some violate principles that others don't.

For example, if your principle is "elections should be democratic and free of interference" then it's perfectly consistent to want consequences for governments who interfere with elections, while not seeing any reason to target those who let them proceed freely.
I'm pretty much alone in the world in thinking this, but I consider the rock hammer in Shawshank to be a bad execution of Chekhov's Gun, albeit for reasons unrelated to the core logic of that rule.

Basically, Shawshank clearly establishes itself as having a gritty, realistic tone, where shit happens for reasons that have no cosmic significance or relation to your epic hero arc. Specifically, when that prisoner turns out to be a witness who can clear Andy, and just suddenly gets shot by avaricious guards who don't care about the injustice. (If it hadn't been already, Red's final parole speech cements that tone.)

It's a huge betrayal of that when you turn around and say "oh man, if you just belieeeeeeeve in yourself hard enough you can somehow make a figurine carving tool last 100x longer than is realistically possible and accomplish major excavation work, it's all about your force of will".

(Similar complaint about Interstellar, which commits to hard sci-fi enough to include an expensive, photo-realistic black hole, and doubles back and resolve the plot with "ah man we just have to tap into the mysterious fifth-dimensional power of love!")
Thanks. I thought they must.

https://protonmailrmez3lotccipshtkleegetolb73fuirgj7r4o4vfu7... is the URL that people should be using with Tor if they are concerned with being traced.

Using Tor to access a regular web site, ie: through an exit node, is (nearly) no different than using a proxy. Just assume all exit nodes are "naughty" and do your thing accordingly.
Isn't rooftop solar usually something you can finance, unlike most emergency expenses?
"mental health conditions" is rather broad along with the intersection between insomnia and depression. you probably just suggested that nobody should take melatonin because you had anxiety.
You know what shows great clinical benefits?

Getting vaccinated.
My ISP throttles connections (strangely including Zoom).

My ISP mines my data and sells it to the highest bidder despite costs not coming down.

My ISP determines what I can look at and can't (such as torrent sites).

My ISP is participating in anti-competitive behavior and I need the internet but I don't have a meaningful way to tell them to fuck off.

My VPN doesn't log. My VPN doesn't filter my traffic. My VPN reduces what my ISP can know about me and monetize me. My VPN allows me to access sites appearing in different countries or as a different user which changes what content websites serve to me, including price of products.

VPNs are a soft security practice, but one hell of a way to tell your ISP to fuck off. I think there's this group of people that say "oh, a security feature isn't bullet proof, therefore it is useless." But this is just dumb. All security features are probabilistic in nature and depend not only on how you use them, but your threat model and the will of your adversary. For people, like me, trying to escape dragnet operations VPNs do help. But alone they aren't enough and that's okay.
It looks like the real nice thing here is having a formula for QEMU with the ARM patch applied: https://github.com/simnalamburt/qemu/tree/hvf

With this I believe you could also used [nerd](https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl) instead of podman but I haven't tested it yet.

Edit: It works. Had a bit of trouble since I wanted to uninstall the "real" QEMU first, but `lima` still depended on it, and then installing the patched QEMU needed to update the version of `lima` I had installed, which then tried to reinstall QEMU, which failed because of some symlinks which were now owned by the patched QEMU...
I always wished I had much stronger spatial awareness like that. In my mind I got strong visualizations that last ~2 seconds before they evaporate like a cloud of vapor, and I need to "rebuild" them over and over in a fairly fragmented way of 2 second spurts to try to visualize certain complex things (in code, or otherwise).

This is in the planning phase however. On the other hand, I extensively excel at intuition AS I'm working/experiencing. I will get flashes of insight not from linear thinking, and they guide me along (which often goes against what most people are used to, which is extensive planning). I suppose my way can come off more "off the cuff" but I have built some really complex systems really elegantly, but the entire time never feels like I'm sure of anything until the very last piece goes in and it "all comes together at once."

I sometimes envy people like this guy, or Tesla... with their incredible spatial awareness/visualization, where the entire thing can be planned entirely in the mind without rapidly "dissipating." That would be certainly less stressful than my way.

Quite interesting how minds work
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