skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, they always had a Windows-only UI project going until they abandon it and start a new one. Having a cross-platform UI project going until they abandon it and start a new one is something new under Satya.
Based on the content your earlier comment, it's abundantly clear that you're lying.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28475407.
Are people using the downvote button incorrectly here?
I think a more appropriate comparison for VSCode would be Nova, which is angling for roughly the same IDE-capable editor space. And uses some of the same technologies (LSP, TextMate themes) I’m not at my desk so I can’t compare at the moment, but I remember Nova feeling vastly more responsive and quite a bit faster from launch to usable.

And VSCode performance (especially launch) degrades significantly once you have several workspaces open at once. I’ve learned to dread upgrade launches because the release notes tab amplifies that degraded performance even more (which is baffling because that’s just one more web thing in the same web context right?!).

Don’t get me wrong, I love VSCode, and it’s worlds better than most other Electron apps I have to use. I even went back to it from Nova because it better supports my workflow. But it is definitely slower than it could be if it were native.
That's more accurate :)
> If you're actually an employee of Google or Apple, they don't have anything like market power in that labor market, because it's the same skillset to go and work for Facebook or Microsoft or Netflix or a million other places including a large number of smaller companies and startups.

I don't know that I'd be so sure about that: https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-google-offer-415-million-to-...

I agree that the market is larger, but that doesn't keep some of the big players from banding together against employee interests.
>Many people who didn't vote for Clinton or Biden are effectively in career hiding.

Are they? Where? In the American South, where I live, Republicans, Conservatives and Trumpists are still loud and proud, and gainfully employed.
But the COVID vaccine does provide a society-wide public health benefit. Our best available data indicates that it reduces the risk of transmission, even for Delta [1].

1. https://www.acsh.org/news/2021/09/07/covid-19-vaccines-preve...
Are you guys irreplaceable?
> Whereas, using FractalCrypt you can safely give away the keys to unclassified volumes, and there is no way to prove that there are actually more volumes than you have disclosed.

So the problem is that you're going to use what exactly to decrypt it to prove plausible deniability? FractalCrypt? And then what do the adversaries do once they google FractalCrypt and see the phrase above?

Once your adversaries know you're using FractalCrypt, you've negated any plausible deniability.
While not sponsored exactly, the UK has made some targeted changes to visa policies that make it easier for people in Honk Kong to relocate to the UK.
Care to back up a wild claim like that with some citations?
Why must I be vaccinated if the vaccine doesn't prevent spread? Preventing spread to other people is the only plausible reason to force everyone to take it. I am comfortable catching the disease and even comfortable dying from it (the numbers are vastly on my side). I do far riskier things on a regular basis (extreme sports) and I do not understand the infantilization of society. Join the feedlot if you want but I will not, I have been doing just fine as my own master, I need not the yoke of protection, certainly not from the feds.
So 2 people out of billions? And can you prove your claim for both?

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28475407.
Reducing is not the same as stopping, which is the definition of sterilizing vaccines, which is the common layman perception of "vaccine", including your original example of school-mandated vaccines.

Fortunately, the CDC's Sept. 2021 updated definition makes it clear that non-sterilizing Covid vaccines should not be conflated with the transmission-stopping track record of sterilizing vaccines (e.g. MMR) mandated for school & travel.
I'm curious how we'll clear the hurdle of instrumenting the economy enough to meaningfully measure inflation. This seems to be the big hold up with proponents of MMT, nobody wants to guess anymore.
I'd guess that the article was written after the talk was prepared but before it was delivered, and then it was updated after the talk was delivered.
I refuse to comply with this over reach and I’m fully vaccinated
> This is, after all, the premise of Modern Monetary Theory: that unlike households, currency issuers like the US federal government aren't under the same balanced budget constraints as households. Currency issuers can create money by spending it into being.

It's central to MMT, but it's really just a factual observation, and the theory about it is orthodox Keynesian economics.

It's the Chicago School types that have to constantly come up with magical tripwires that deficits supposedly cause.
>there has been no form of slavery in the Western world anywhere near as brutal as American slavery

Absolutist statements like this rarely seem to hold true.[0]
American slavery is European slavery as well. Europeans (both countries and individuals) benefited extremely handsomely from enslaving people in Africa and bringing them to their colonies in America. And even after they had finally outlawed slavery for themselves just a few scant decades before the US did, they kept buying that affordable slave-produced cotton and sugar and coffee and etc. from the Americas.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_medieval_Europe
> But there is considerable extralegal hate speech regulation. Your face will be plastered all over social media and you will get "cancelled" and lose your career

That's a pretty convoluted way to say "people in the US don't tolerate assholes".
>Intentionally confusing the market for phones with App stores is an example of a problem that 20th century antitrust never had to deal with.

I'd say that the issues with app stores are a pretty direct parallel to Company Towns[0], whose issues have been known and addressed for more than a century.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
Hi, Thanks for the feedback and the tip.
Yes, I am familiar with mighty. I think it will be huge. I'll check Unreal engine and maybe other game engines, but we focus on Android because it sucks.
1) The other 'missing giant' is credit. Credit is a couple of orders bigger than currency in circulation and it's really what makes the world go around. We probably should start talking about credit when we talk about currency.

2) " especially as the world's governments find it increasingly difficult to avoid deficit spending" - this has always been the case.

a) Raise taxes, b) Raise debt c) Print money.

Option 'c' is generally not on the table.

And so 'Governments' are 'constrained' by the realities of economics, which is kind of what we want them to be constrained by.

It's worth noting the pretty scary nature of MMT proposals, which 'from a different perspective' amount to 'very loose monetary policy bordering on printing money to pay for stuff' and irrespective of the underlying theoretical ideals of MMT, the practical reality is that the money printing press is the 'Absolute Power' that can hardly not corrupt anyone with the power to use it, even under the cover of some intellectually grounded idea.

All government fights are, at the end of the day, really about money, the rest is mostly a distraction. It's a giant war over budgets and spending, it always is.

To give one party the magical power to do as they please without severe constraints is scary. It's even scary what we have today with the Fed (I think QE and artificially low rates to bail out home owners is really bad). I have much less faith in politicians.

I believe for MMT to work, it has to have a framework around it even more rigid than the rules we apply to Central Banks because if there's a gap that can be exploited, it will be.
CentOS clone Rocky Linux gets technical support
“Whenever a bank buys something from a non-bank, new money is created.”

Definitely the latter.

Edit: Or maybe an insider’s fever dream: the writer/speaker/singer has an MBA, worked in banks and is currently writing "The Absolute Essentials of Banking". (!)
It's open source, so you can check the code.

Funny thing, there are lots of contributors to matrix stack (protocol, sever, etc) and only some part of them are New Vector employees, because it's open source. Again, you can check that yourself in matrix repos
Much the opposite. Yours is the belief which every war has been fought over: the belief that you know what's good and bad, or right and wrong.

I am in no way saying we shouldn't pursue it, or do our best. But simply admitting that we could be wrong is the first step to catching our own mistakes.

Being aware of our own ignorance is important. Extremely so. And failing to see it is a far greater source of peril than "depart[ing] into theoretical/philosophical mode"
You can do this, but the car owner likely won't accept your paper as having monetary value.
>The second they ban it all the creators that can afford to will jump ship.

Jump to where though? No other video platform is even close to the number of visitors.

We really need a credible YT alternative :(
Title could have been "Shipping Clubhouse on Android in 10 Weeks 6 months late"
Isn’t the varicella zoster vaccine, which many schools have required for decades, also non-sterilizing?
Sadly, there won't be nearly enough who feel as you do. But I wholeheartedly applaud your statement!
That doesn't always work, especially when all the workers available for those positions are members of a union. And closing a warehouse is a drastic measure that will undoubtedly cause harm to the company's finances. That's not a decision they'd make lightly. Striking actually can work, and I find it strange that you seem to believe that unions aren't effective. Despite their problems, unions tend to work ok in the US, and even better in other places where they have healthier attitudes toward employment.
I also believe there are some zealous patriots who joined the military, inspired by dreams of killing our enemies, only to be relegated to posting memes on The Army’s Instagram and TikTok pages to recruit other kids.
Dropping salt on a melting ice sheet does not sound like a great plan.

We'd really need to invest in really detailed computer models to make sure we're not overlooking something and shooting ourselves in the foot, IMO.
> I don't think a bank without deposits would get very far issuing loans.

Really? That's what banks do now.
Most of the Patriot act was to expire after 4 years. It was renewed by Congress multiple times. Parts of it were renewed in separate bills after it eventually expired.

For the COVID ETS from this June, OSHA has been coordinating with the CDC monthly to determine if it is still necessary. See https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus/ets#:~:text=to%20assess%20t...

Although, just like Afghanistan, there's no clear end to COVID afaik ... although I disagree with the implication that there's some great benefit the government / other interests are getting out of this ETS, of the same scale that the military-industrial complex/the executive branch got out of the PATRIOT act/Afghanistan.
This is true but misleading because it represents a narrow aspect of what is going on. The Fed owns a small share of public debt. Social Securities, other Funds, and foreign actors own the bulk of it.

There's some very worthy reality in what you're speaking of, but it needs to be contextualized.
Yes: https://blog.csongor.co.uk/time-travel-in-haskell-for-dummie...
absolutely. I was hired this year to learn how the hell all the complicated stuff the 55- and 65-year-old programmers do every day works, and I've only learned a fraction of it so far.
Define what you mean by left.
Reducing is still a society-wide public health benefit.
They used glass beads to buy slaves from Africa? Interesting... although I don't know why feel the need to bring this up.

Anyway, most bitcoins in existence today were produced on a laptop so I don't know about hard to produce.
> This is great for teachers but terrible for students and parents and taxpayers.

Given how poorly public K-12 teachers are paid in the US, I don't think this is an accurate statement.
The classification of finite simple groups [1] is apparently ~11-12 books long (when it's finished). Yes, several books for a single theorem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_finite_simpl...
That is really odd https://pdf.abbyy.com/finereader-online-end-of-life/

What may drive this decisions?
I think it’s fine if you refuse to be vaccinated as long as you agree to not use hospital resources if you do contract the virus.
Isn't "altering state in a running application" precisely how modern live reloading works?
Is this actually anything new? The document outlines a grant for research on bat corona viruses — which is exactly why people pointed to the lab leak theory since day one. This document does not outline gain-of-function research, except to say that is prohibited. Aside from the dollar amount this looks like exactly what we knew in January of 2020. And provides no evidence of a leak just that the lab was researching bat corona viruses — it’s raison detre.
Or perhaps it's just that you got older and is not in tune with the hip 20's people anymore :)

Sorry for the silly joke, I'll get off your lawn.
This reminds me of something that came up a while ago here, Lou Holtz's three questions asked of a leader: Can I trust you? Are you committed? Do you care about me?
Its interesting watching frogs boil...they actually think this is going to stop with "2 shots and maybe a booster....".

This will continue forever.
Ask HN: Does TransUnion really store passwords in plain text?
As I was attempting to log in to my TransUnion account today, I went to fill in my creds using my password manager. I received an interesting error message that stated passwords had to be between 8 and 15 characters. That caused me to raise my eyebrows since, as one might expect, my password-manager-generated password is longer than that and it has worked perfectly fine in the past.

On a hunch, I deleted the excess characters from my password. Lo and behold: I got right in. Unless I'm missing something, the only way they could have truncated it thusly would be if they're storing it in plain text, right? Or, as my coworker just hypothesized, perhaps they were accepting longer passwords but only hashing up to 15 characters? Either way, seems fishy. Is anyone able to repro?

You'd think the credit bureaus would have invested in better security / developers after the Equifax breach, but, perhaps not so unsurprisingly, it looks like they still have their heads in the sand.
If you floated on your back and didn't swim at all, how far would that river take you in one day?
It's pretty egregious that there is no mention of accommodation for individuals who have already acquired effective immunity through previous infection. Other countries are well ahead of the U.S in this regard.

These mandates appear to completely neglect entire aspects of scientific consensus.
Well, I wasn't saying we shouldn't do it. I just mean we should be really careful going about it.

We don't exactly have a great history of messing with ecosystems. Like bringing rabbits to Australia :)

It took us decades to acknowledge global warming while the signs were all there and even now some countries and industry groups are still trying to undermine efforts. Can we really be trusted to do something like this and honestly evaluate the effects?
> The patent clause here includes a provision that any patent licenses are revoked if you sue the authors for patent infringement.

I don't understand this part. Why is this useful?
...and what did he do to get banned?

(Hint: it wasn't "having ideas.")
By that argument you can sate your hunger by forcing me to eat a sandwich.
I reluctantly support this. I also think a bunch of companies that have many/most employees who can work from home were hoping that they could get through this without widespread mandates given that the reluctant mostly didn’t have to come into the office or customer sites.
I would accept that trade.

Let's explore this line of reasoning, Mr. Dehumanizer:

What about people who engage in risky sex? Should they be refused treatment?

What about fat people?

What about people who don't exercise?
USA: All government employees will be vaccinated against Covid-19
I suppose this could be some cunning types betting on a pump and dump. That wouldn't be money laundering but just as scummy.

But I'm skeptical there are so many people betting on something so ridiculous with so much money.
I vaccinated within days of becoming eligible and I'm 100% against this mandate. To such an extent that I'll become a single-issue voter over it.
The VC power law: biotech vs. tech
Digital metempsychosis is an interesting religious belief. From an anthropological perspective I find it fascinating how the same old ideas get reimagined as technology changes. Feels like how the Sidhe got replaced by the Greys in the abduction racket, and so on.
Not quite the same thing, but ceramic cooking knives have metal inserts to make sure they show up on airport scanners.
False equivalency. The vaccine costs nothing, has insignificant statistical risk, and people are still refusing it. That bed or ventilator can go to someone responsible. If someone chooses not to be vaccinated, they are choosing to die at home.
Reducing does not have the same scaling effect as stopping, e.g. society must continue to pay an ongoing price for mitigations. Stopping means society can move on after a one-time vaccine cost.

There are intranasal (e.g. inhaler) vaccines under development, which may provide nasal/mucosal antibodies. Until those are available, recovery from natural infection will provide both nasal/mucosal and blood/serum antibodies. This path is available to both the vaccinated and unvaccinated.
It's pretty wild

People look at me like a madman when I try to explain that you can buy good-quality glasses for $7 online + $6 shipping (or ~$40 with all the coatings and fancy upgrades you could ever want)

I just buy a sack of glasses every couple of years and then treat them with absolutely no respect whatsoever. My toddler loves to rip the glasses off my face and chew on them or use them as a club to beat on random objects around the house.. This is not a problem for me. I popped the lenses out of a $7 pair of glasses and strapped them into my VR headset. When I find an old scuffed-up pair of glasses, I just throw them in the trash.

I wonder how many other parts of our society are a blatant scam without me knowing about it.. I know that the way people study English in Japan and Korea is a giant scam where they basically learn nothing, but I could only recognize that thanks to my outside perspective
For a moment: Let's step aside from the glaring immorality of Ray-Ban (aka Luxottica SpA) and Facebook.

And instead ask: Is there a reason to not immediately "defend yourself" against any person who is looking at you with a pair of these? (Physically or not)
The US republic was basically founded on pamphlets, newspapers, books..then incredibly long debates and respectful discussion.

Look at the structure of the Lincoln–Douglas debates.
One candidate spoke for 60 minutes, followed by a 90-minute response and a final 30-minute rejoinder by the first candidate.

That doesn't work anymore. None of this works. Yes, all opposing voices will be silenced until there is 1 party basically everywhere. That is what people want and so that is what you will get in a democracy. There is no evidence to the contrary.

I am just glad I am old enough to have lived most my life already.
I would like to point out that in order to put the economy into hyperinflation (50% month to month inflation), it would require the Fed to print and parachute somewhere between 50 and 200 trillion dollars in one year.

It's not very likely to happen.
When in history hasn't this been the case?
The world is full of “irreplaceable” people.
Maybe not what you're asking for but here is a perfect example of the misinformation that is spread by the CCP

https://worldaffairs.blog/2019/06/02/tiananmen-square-massac...
Nowhere in the constitution are you protected from consequences when you say something stupid, and right-leaning folks have been saying this particular stupid thing a bit too often. Have the offices of Fox News or Breitbart or the Creation Science Museum been raided by police? No? Then this is not even close to parallel.
...in a state where such mandates are widely ignored?

Without measuring actual average public mask usage, this is meaningless.

"Law doesn't change peoples behavior" is hardly a headline, or a reason for a paper.
yeah, except that I'm seeing similar devices on AliExpress for $10 to $50
Maybe it will catch a new wave with Android release.
This looks really well executed, and a great idea. Well done!

Kind of unrelated, is it possible to use your open source client encryption library to provide encryption at rest (where the server only receives encrypted data and the key is generated and managed on the client)?
> That is not true. The link shows that a volunteer on the free software directory labeled it as nonfree at one point and later it was changed.

Oh, don't dig in details. Article clearly shows the intent to claim matrix as very bad thing, without proof checking. Like "who cares?"

/sarcasm
Thank you for the TLDR, and I'm disappointed that you're being downvoted for a direct quote from the link.

HN may not like the conclusion of the study, and there may even be methodological criticisms or alternate conflicting studies, but - in my view - that isn't a reason for you, personally, to take a karma hit.
It would involve a change to HN.

There's still no mobile friendly stylesheet. I wouldn't hold your breath.
"Avoiding risky sex costs nothing, has insignificant statistical risk, and they are refusing it. That medical treatment could go to someone responsible. Choose not to have safe sex, choose to die at home."
> we could just publicly give Taiwan some nukes

US would never do that, it would violate Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Some non-nuclear NATO countries do host US nuclear weapons, but they are legally and physically under US control. In an actual nuclear war, the US would release these nuclear weapons to their allies – at which point the US would have indeed violated the treaty, but in a nuclear war who cares?

So in principle the US could station US-controlled nuclear weapons in Taiwan, and publicly announce they have done so. But it would be an extremely risky move – basically the Cuban Missile Crisis all over again, but this time with the US playing the role of the Soviet Union.

Given the extreme risk of such a move, I doubt the US is going to make it.
If what the author is stipulating is true, wouldn't banks have just written themselves a check during the 2008/9 crisis and never involved the President or Congress? Basically a bank could avoid all crises by having enough global customers to offset risk they insert into each market. Yet, even global banks suffered during this crisis.
For things defined by exponential growth like viruses, you don't have to stop them 100%.

All you have to do is get the growth factor below 1.0 and the virus will die out as it can't infect enough people to stay alive.
I'd be interested to hear why you think this is newsworthy. It's not like reserve requirements were an effective monetary policy implement for the past several years - banks have been holding hugely in excess of the required reserves for a while now.
> Don't do this. People live in Taiwan. It's not fair to use them as pawns. Keep the status quo rather than provoke war and chaos.

until what point?

inaction is generally one of the biggest causes of death and suffering in historical warfare.