skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some choices, but many of them require astronomical trade-offs in quality of life. For example, I do like the anonymity of cash, but using it for all of my bills, rent, online goods (not everything can be found in the city I'm in), and being paid exclusively in it from work is certainly not very easy (it is worse than this too - it is literally more expensive and we are seeing attempted reporting requirements for all cash transactions $600+, in addition to the ones we already have for $10k+). Even if I spent several hours a day going through tedious routines in attempt to preserve my own privacy to the utmost extent, I would still find I'm not only at a massive disadvantage in life (especially socially), but also that there's still countless sources of data on me that I simply cannot avoid (Sure you can avoid Facebook. But will everyone around you and that knows you avoid it? If not, you will still be tracked!).

To be clear, I don't advocate for a perspective of complete helplessness, there are a lot of things I do to reduce surveillance and tracking of myself. But I cannot have privacy be the sole criterion for living my life, because it would, simply put, result in a terrible life.
> uneducated public doesn't understand they need real anonymous systems

I really don't like this wording. How are you so sure that they NEED real anonymous systems? I understand the value of privacy, but I don't think I get to dictate what other people NEED.
New type of dark energy could solve Universe expansion mystery
I've bought roughly 6 electronics things from amazon over the past 10 years (really, mostly 5 years ago) and had problems with 3 of those things.

2 were not the right product (in the right packaging), 1 was obviously opened but not marked as opened when I bought it. I've never received something as obviously wrong as "a rock instead of a camera".

My experiences may have been exceptional but they are my own. Now I just buy from Best Buy instead.
This makes sense. I think developing product for people will require interacting with them a lot, and it's less friction to do it with people you have an affinity with. Now, whether it will be a viable business requires that these people be able to afford your product and rely on it for their business somehow.

The above is full of assumptions (B2B, revenue from the sale/subscription as opposed to ads or something, viable from the get go without venture funding, etc). Not sure if my assumptions are correct.
Like any other thing, it depends on why someone wears it. A trans man wearing a traditional man's cut to celebrate getting top surgery at pride is probably not what you had in mind though.
Paypal cracked it years ago, so it shouldn't be too difficult for a company like Amazon.
The figures I can google quickly for Sweden are about 14,700 deaths out of 10,500,000 population. The corresponding survival rate is 99.86%. Do you have a source for the 99.995% figure?
Nah... surely there's no way that software could mess up... people have all kinds of strange ideas, like traffic cameras looking for people using phones, and tag a guy scratching his head.... this surely is impossible to happen in real life with modern software.
Scam tech illiterate people into an expensive subscription. Kind of the same as all those "free" to play games.
Zimbabwe would be proud
> At this point, I'd rather see a Basic Income that goes to all low income Americans. They could use the money for anything.

If you apply this logic to other government subsidized programs, where we remove the subsidies and give people some cash, you'll quickly run into problems.

Look at how much money it costs to simply buy health coverage on the individual market for a family with one kid with no subsidies. It's $16k - $24k in yearly premiums, with $6k - $12k yearly deductibles, and $17k+ yearly out of pocket maximums. Almost all of the proposed UBI amounts would go towards just the premiums alone, without even getting into deductibles, out of pocket maximums, copays or out of network care.

The situation many families would face would be a choice between being able to see a doctor, receiving adequate and safe childcare, paying rent, etc.
I disagree; although I have no reason to assume that this was intentional, I can certainly imagine that looking back at what happened, many military planners would consider the current cost of Covid-19 to China as completely reasonable if it meaningfully changes e.g. ww3. Taking their stats at face value, <5000 deaths in China is something appropriate for a small conflict, and the economic cost from a country-leader perspective is effectively zero if your competitors bear the same cost or even a benefit if your competitors fare worse, which arguably happened.

It would take some years until we properly see all the consequences, but I wouldn't be surprised if afterwards historians would note Covid-19 as a factor that benefited China in their long term competition w. "the west", not as a cost.

Like, 5k deaths is something that I wouldn't approve of for almost any reason, but looking back at documented 20th century history, planners (both in China and elsewhere) were clearly willing to pay such and even much higher costs for reasons of global politics/power play, so the mere existence of such a cost by itself certainly does not mean that it's implausible that someone would intentionally order a thing like that.
They had an allergic reaction to a vaccine and declined to get a single one for their second dose. They’re not unable to get vaccinated, they don’t want to.
And over the history of humans, they contribute in very different ways. It's a contemporary fantasy to claim they don't and to think this is progressive.
Pretty much every BSL4 facility in the US is within easy commuting distance from a major city. The CDC being a great example.

These are not military, but it doesn't matter.
Emotionally difficult*

The comment is calling republicans special snowflakes who can't change their minds without being coddled to do so, so they can keep an air of superiority over the liberal degenerates
If I recall correctly 3D Pipes shipped with NT 3.51 as IIRC 3.5 only shipped with software OpenGL with no support for hardware acceleration.

I remember running it on a DEC Alpha box with an AccelGraphics AG500 and being awed by it.
> We see evidence time and time again - from slavery to the internment of Japanese Americans - that the majority can and will vote against the interests of a minority.

Internment of Japanese Americans came from an presidential executive order not a vote of the majority ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9066)
Understanding how Git internals can actually be useful as more than just to build intuition or as an academic exercise!

For example, where I work (https://graphite.dev) we use some of these plumbing commands to extend git to store additional information about pull requests. My teammate did a writeup of this here: https://dev.to/foster/how-to-use-native-git-as-a-key-value-s...
> I'm curious of OP had any moral qualms about deceiving people, and I ask this with complete sincerity and with no desire to downplay the (technical) impressiveness of the project.

Hey! OP here. Great question.

So I think one piece of context that's missing from all of this is that our service 1) helps people and 2) can never cost them net-negative.

Our service is a property tax protest firm, where we represent homeowners in an effort to reduce their home's "appraised value," and thereby lower their taxes.

If we succeed, we take a percentage of the realized savings to the homeowner, and leave them with the lion's share. If we fail, they don't pay us anything. There are lots of firms that charge flat fees regardless of success. Those are the bads guys in our eyes.

I look at the handwriting as way to optimize open rates, just like writing a good subject line. I know that emails that say "Hey Aaron!" weren't written one-by-one by a well-meaning intern. Likewise I assume _anything_ I get in the mail is junk. We just want people to look at ours and think "oh wow they put some effort into this piece of junk mail." (We don't think we're junk mail, obviously.)

Anyone that uses our service will either make money, or they'll be left in the same spot they were before.

So I feel pretty great about that!

> I'll say that if the machine described could be miniaturized sufficiently

It started out mini! You can find it here: https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/846
Both you and parent’s comments are correct.

1) child care (schools and crap). Especially schools.

2) unemployment insurance

3) move out from expensive cities (where restaurants are)

4) immigrantions is stopped / shifted

5) people found different jobs

6) people living more frugal

7) people starting their own business

8) retiring

I personally saw each of the above. One’s political affiliation will ranks them differently…
Netflix did not have to pay Comcast either. One of their ISPs Level 3 already had peering arrangements with Comcast to deliver the content. Instead of paying their own ISP, Netflix wanted to get free bandwidth from Comcast. There's a difference.
I think a lot of people are now classifying NIMBY people as conservative, after all, they are advocating for the status quo and increase value of their personal property.
Are you sure you don't have Meet and Chat turned off within Gmail? If I go to Setting -> Chat and Meet within Gmail, I can have chats within Gmail. Meet still does send an invite/give me a link to copy, but I can paste into the chat and away we go in a new tab. (Former Googler)
If all citizens were locked away in a padded cell, the government would prevent all homicide, overdoses, rape, etc. Just because something prevents a suicide doesn't make it a good thing. I know you're saying the same thing, I'm just putting it more starkly.

There are other ways of preventing suicide, homicide, overdoses, rape, etc, which don't violate privacy, security, etc.
Everything I had read says that the reason it was taken down was because of what users did on the platform. They did not want those users accessing the site, and so they went after the platform.

We could all be cheering for the fact that the powerful went after those users, and then be angry when they go after users we want to protect, but I don't. I rather want to promote users ability to choose themselves if they want a filter that removes Parler members from their own devices.

On HN there is a setting which allow users to see dead comments. Its a user setting. There could be any number of dead comments and yet users can see them if they choose to do so. Such a simple choice makes a rather large difference in the power relation between HN moderators and HN user. Without it this whole discussion could not even exist as the parent comment is dead.
What's wrong with asking questions about the competence (and honesty) of experts and "the media"?
Childcare costs have gone up also. As have most other cost of living metrics. That's what inflation is.

Full time child care in Brooklyn, NY was $2000/mo for 1 child when I inquired earlier this year.
No, the issues NTSB was looking into stem from Tesla's terrible stationary object detection. 10+ people using autopilot as directed have plowed into the back of stopped emergency services vehicles.
I tried hosting my blog on IPFS recently, ended up paying ~80 euros for my crypto illiteracy, still no decentralized blog. Yet censorship-resistance is something I want to have around my online home. So Freenet looks interesting. Could a Freenet-hosted page be accessible from a simple Web browser running on a machine with merely an Internet connection? If not, implementing such a thing sounds like a thing.
They would get done - at a higher price. The more aid you give to the lowest end workers, the more you need to pay them to do that work at all.
How can kids consent anyway?
> That said it's also true that Germany is, in practice, a freer country than the USA
[citation needed]

Freer by what standard?

I’m a European living in Europe, but if I could move to the United States, I’d do it overnight.
Yes, for the government to respond to wage inflation by allowing inflation in the general market basket of goods would be an error imo.
It looks like the context is missing. So the author assumes the audience is familiar with past knowledge about their OS (I clicked through to the main webpage)

Still not sure what it means either
> Game of Thrones* has shown hollywood that there is an appetite for epic storytelling, and that people are willing to sit through 7 season of shows to be entertained by an engaging story.

I really want to believe this, but I’m afraid Hollywood understood GoT’s success as “people want to see dragons”. Even early TV reviews were focusing on the dragons part, and recommending other shows that had dragons (or Middle Ages fights).

A lot of Hollywood and TV reviewers apparently failed to appreciate that people may just have really like the epic story of a world, rather than a typical story of a couple of main characters. This is also apparent from the evolution the show went through, diverging into a more mainstream story focusing on main characters rather than the story/world itself.
RetroArch 1.9.10 released We are finally on Steam
I think it's
- corporate ADHD. Managers whose project succeed are rewarded away, and the project flounders, until another bright young thing starts again... from scratch because ego

- Google is all about algorithms not users, and messaging is mostly about listening to users and iterating. Google has thrown away... 5 installed bases of users ?

- OEM politics: Google must constantly negotiate what is theirs and what is the OEMs'. OEMs want as much as they can, and that means messaging. It took iMessage becoming such a forte on Apple's side for OEMs to back off on Messaging and allow a single Android platform.

- ditto carriers.

- Apple is a spoilsport. Whatever Google do, on iOS it'll never be default, nor even as integrated as, iMessage. Knowing you won't really have access to the juiciest 50% of the US market is a bummer, even if you still can reach 80% globally.

Who cares anyway ? Android allows one to use whichever app as default, just pick one. I actually removed Messages because it's idiotic and won't display a full text in the Notification, hence cuts off credit card confirmation codes, hence prevents me from buying anything from my phone. Idiots.
> A house is leaking from the roof.

Should one prefer the case where an adult cannot order a steak, because a baby can't chew it? Like, there is a grammar for acceptable identifiers, and it is a little broader than most. To me it seems like a good thing that unicode/multibyte identifiers are allowed, and that not more than the necessary portion of the top keyboard row symbols is reserved.
I don’t see the reasoning for the main premise:

> it should become apparent that we need to change our form of government to become more democratic.

From that we get a 10 item wishlist - heavily biased by current events
I see a lot of people here comparing Freenet with I2P and I know that these are historically tied together but I would say that it would make a lot more sense to compare Freenet with IPFS, as both are content network, while I2P is more like Tor than Freenet, an overlay transport network.

I don't know how Freenet works well so I'm not sure how it differs from IPFS, I would really like to see some kind of comparison table on how they do things.
I understand all that. My point is that "debate" is about persuading people to hold your point of view, while this is a question of fact. You can't change a fact no matter how persuasive you are, because facts aren't subject to debate.

Now, in this case, the fact is hidden from us. SARS-CoV-2 had a natural origin or it didn't, but we don't have enough evidence to decide that question either way. In the absence of evidence, people are using prejudice to decide what is true, and trying to persuade others to adopt their prejudices. That is utter folly.

What we should do is give up on trying to establish the facts unless and until new evidence emerges. Instead, let's admit that lab leaks are possible, and regardless of whether it happened in this case, it should cause us to reexamine our assessment of the risks inherent to this type of virology. We have a demonstration of how bad we are at containing epidemics, and how damaging even a relatively benign virus is. We don't know what a more deadly virus would do, but we can safely assume it would be very bad.

Ok, I grant that I was a little harsh on the authors of this paper; they're really only saying that the lab leak is plausible, and we should examine it seriously. Fine. But I still think it's a red herring. Even if we could find patient zero and nail down the animal that infected him to conclusively prove a natural origin, we should still revisit our thinking on whether and how to conduct research with viruses. That we're a long way from that sort of conclusion makes it all the more important.
> We also have a Matrix room

Thank you!
I can't tell about the US, but paying money to sleep in spare bedrooms was a thing in Europe well before Airbnb.
Reads like something that could have been generated by GPT-3.
Get a lawyer and sue.
> the only people whose point of view I care about are those who had been poor and found ways out of it. Those are the people who "figured it out" and I want people to know what they know.

Apologies for not being one such person. But doesn't this assume the libertarian (or conservative) view that financial wellness is a result of individual action?

As the article says at the end:

> Such curricula also tend to reinforce a libertarian view of financial wellness, based on individual rather than collective action — one where poverty and debt are less a societal problem and more a consequence of bad individual financial decisions.

Of course there is an individual component to it. But the most effective way to get people to save for retirement, is to make such savings the default configuration.

There's many subtle ways to configure society such that people make good financial choices.

Educating people to take action, seems a lot harder than just making sure your life has a sane default setup, if you do nothing :)
I am glad it evolved a bit, it used to host a lot of child porn, nazi/fascist material etc And clearly you would be exposed to it through messages or not well annotated index.
If retail paid well, even if it was still a dead end unto itself, would allow people to save money. They would have options. Retail is a dead end job and barely pays above poverty level. They usually don't get any healthcare coverage either. Unless a retail worker is lucky or lives like a monk it's hard to make enough money to ever get ahead. One bad illness or injury can ruin them financially.

Retail could be a starting point for someone. It doesn't have to be a career. But with low wages and no benefits it's usually just enough to keep someone barely living.
Couchsurfing is my go-to case to present in favor of making all in-app purchases via Apple instead of third-party payment processors.

So they had a one-time “verification fee” of around $60-$100 (I think it varied by region or something) and a promise that we would never have to pay anything again.

Some time later they started charging a monthly “COVID fee” or something (not much but also varying by region) but unless you paid that, you were suddenly unable to access anything on your account AT ALL.

I hadn’t used Couchsurfing in a while so when I logged in after that update, it was as if my account had been hijacked and ransomed; people couldn’t even delete their profiles (along with the info visible to the public) until they paid (again.)

You might say that a few bucks isn’t a big deal, but if these fees were paid via Apple’s IAP system, Apple would have given me a refund without question like they do with all other crap services, whereas Couchsurfing has yet to even respond to my requests for a refund.
To be fair, I think a lot of modern internet porn is probably way more depraved than porn that existed pre-internet, and there is a virtually infinite supply of it available for free. One consequence of this is that there are a lot of people, especially young people, who are addicted to porn.

Personally, I think it’s best to avoid porn completely.
Why? Her company committed massive fraud for a device that could have had serious health implications for patients.

I feel bad for founders that end up being massive flops. I don't feel bad for founders that go to extreme lengths to hide the fact that their device doesn't work.
It's not that you have to create the channel from the beginning to be Patreon supported, but that you have to be willing to forego the additional YouTube revenue even if Patreon payment s become enough to support you.
The Dixie Chicks, the PMRC, and a host of other examples show this isn't a new phenomenon.
We were in a gold rush. No point building a boom town to last. With the gold rush coming to an end people want quality again. Actually it makes me wonder if startups will stop being a thing too.
I know. But people who cares about the server code care more about such things. I made a copyleft movie and the PeerTube site I put it on went down forever. YouTube and archive.org remain up
Running NoScript (FF extension) also works as it defaults to no JavaScript until authorised per site.
What's the point of reimporting? Aren't you then no longer separating desired state from actual?
Wages have almost always had overwhelming pressure for stagnation if not downward, and have greatly lagging real movement upward if at all.

During the Nixon Recession it got real weird real fast without there being a pandemic.

Everything else compared to wages had skyrocketed for quite some time, and inflation seemed to be intentionally allowed to run wild as long as possible to lock workers out of productivity gains, before locking in the foundation of a new disparity gap with the Wage & Price Freeze of 1971.

It's a great example of survivorship as those who were able to avoid the financial devastation, often through exploitave models, would end up in the strongest position to build into the 21st century the financial shenanigians we know of so far.

Like now, there was a growing population of low-wage workers who already could barely have any hope of advancement beforehand, knocked a big notch down by the sharp upset, which of course turned out to be permanent.

Everyone else's buying power was greatly diminished too and it was like the whole country was suddenly unexpectedly working for survival rather than prosperity over a very short period of time.

Dramatically fewer people than ever were going to have anything to show for the way they had been working previously. Major regrouping was going to be necessary. Don't let people downplay this deer-in-the-headlights moment for the US middle class. This is what pushed the middle class downward with unsurmountable momentum against the rising unionized workers, for more certain descent together into the lowest-opportunity categories possible.

Well, if nobody was making money any more doing the same thing anyway, less people were going to want to do the same thing after that point.

For me survival instinct was better satisfied doing things that would be worth something someday rather than concentrating on the money which wasn't worth what it was a few years earlier.