skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m not sure I could come up with a definition of the word “dangerous” which I could defend which wouldn’t label almost everything else I do in a day as dangerous as well. The risk as demonstrated so far and the unknown risks which can be imagined at this point are still very small for any population. One could hunt for an equivalent activity and try to defend whether or not you would call that dangerous.

Any medical intervention brings with it some potential downsides.

That is why we have Informed Consent [1] in the West.

However, normally informed consent works like this:

You meet with the doctor, you get the pros and cons of the treatment, and then, you make an informed decision knowing both the good and bad about whether or not you want it.

With Covid, that has been thrown out the window, as medical ethics has been thrown out the window with the bathwater. Our media has turned into total cheerleaders, and, in some cases, professional liars.

Our government seems to have rushed, and politically influenced the approvals.

There is a large amount of risk with these vaccines for some specific contra-indications that are not being mentioned widely, such as vaccine allergies, clotting disorders, auto-immune disorders, just to name a few. This is not including the known clotting problems w. JnJ/AZN, and the general heart issues with young PTs. Many workplaces are not accepting of these valid medical reasons as a cause for exemption, which then leads to severe side effects. Even worse, this can lead to pressure to get a 2nd shot, even after horrible side effects from the first.

Our vaccine variety could easily have included many more types in order to reduce the potential for side effects, and to avoid mandates by giving choices e.g. attenuated vaccines

[1] https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/informed-con...
https://archive.is/UqI8O
Don't care about full web compatibility or speed but keep your privacy under control

Dillo, NetSurf.

They are fine if you mostly use sites like HN and other mostly-static content, maybe with some forms interaction. Those are HTML4-ish "document web" browsers. There's also all the text-based ones that those who want to send an even stronger message about how much they hate the "modern web" can use.
Facebook Bans Developer of Unfollow Everything Tool
It is illegal under the DMCA to circumvent an effective copy protection measure, or to traffic in devices intended primarily for such circumvention. The law sets a very, very low bar for what counts as "effective". Basically, if you get around any obstacle to unauthorized copying or use, or show others how to get around it, you have committed a felony. Everyone who has repeated the device key here has committed a felony.
Sorry, Bitcoin will never be PoS. PoS doesn’t offer anything near the same security model, censorship resistance or decentralization. It is not a viable alternative for Bitcoin.
This is an interviewer fishing for trivia knowledge.

There are better ways to gauge knowledge competence, but this is an easy way, so people do it.
The goal in Western capitalism is to create wealth for stakeholders. Those stakeholders can then get involved in politically impactful projects as wealthy individuals if they have a conscience. As competitive, innovative companies they will bring wealth and better lives to their communities long term.

There are many good reasons for this system.

Wanting companies to play politics means they will be choosing sides of a political establishment or party, and it is divisive to our society. You should not want to divide our society even if you think you're obviously right and they're obviously wrong. America does this more than any other nation, arguably because their media constantly does it. Shoving politics at others is still fundamentally divisive.
Just make everybody happy by using MARKETING.BREAKING.FEATURE.BUGFIX versioning, and then personally ignore the leading number (since it is actually meaningless). Or just have a separate marketing version. I'm not even (just) joking. Notice that this is not unlike Windows (Windows 7 through 8.1 were NT 6.1 - 6.3, then 10 went crazy even on internal versioning) or Solaris (which made it from version 2 to 11 on internal version 5.x).
A VAT isn’t a sales tax though. I think you can subtract the cost of goods since they were already taxed? Compared with income tax, there are fewer expenses you can subtract from revenue, but there still are some.

But since prices will adjust, the question is really one of tax incidence. Who gets to raise prices to cover their taxes? And that’s complicated.
Guess this is Android only for now. No desktop. No iOS.
Typically these are done because the author was caught scraping data from users of their extension, or this was a significant risk that they would be able to. Then the developer goes to news to create outrage to get their extension re-approved.

Basically to prevent Cambridge Analytica from happening again.
When I thought Firefox couldn't go any lower, Mozilla manages to surprise me. Impressive.
There is an additional $100 fee specific to EVs in California and an increasing annual tax.

https://electrek.co/2020/07/10/california-starts-charging-ev...
Depends on the environment that you're in. In an enclosed space: yeah. In open air, unlikely, because the density difference means it rises (and disperses) quickly.
From the link in sibling thread:

His tax avoidance is even more striking if you examine 2006 to 2018, a period for which ProPublica has complete data. Bezos’ wealth increased by $127 billion, according to Forbes, but he reported a total of $6.5 billion in income. The $1.4 billion he paid in personal federal taxes is a massive number — yet it amounts to a 1.1% true tax rate on the rise in his fortune.

Why should we ignore these 13 years over which Bezos made $127B? Who would benefit from that?
I remember that I loved the Turbo Vision TUI's so much that I dreamed to have a copy of it as a kid. My family wasn't very well off, but I got Borland C++ 2.0 for Christmas. The compiler came with BGI graphics but they were NOT text mode. The library was also awfully slow (drawing a picture by repeatedly calling drawPixel() took minutes)

I don't remember the price of Turbo Vision, but I remember it was obscenely expensive in my third-world eyes. It was sold separately until it was finally bundled with BC++ 3.1 (1992).
Because it's normal in marketing

Doesn't make it right.

Most web servers log your whole IP yet people don't freak out about that

Because people are unaware of that, or its implications.
Yeah, at some point music that you are familiar with becomes background noise. I used to be able to sleep to Loveless by My Bloody Valentine at high volume. I used it to drown out other sounds when I had loud neighbors in an apartment on the bus line. When you listen to something that often, your brain just ignores it.
Have you tried the APL keyboard?
In universities Google and FB are now seen the same way as law firms and hedge funds were seen 20 years ago. A boring place where you go to have an upper middle class career and be conventional. Which means they are ripe for disruption.
Corporations are way more efficient than governments in most areas. We know this since there are simply not a single government in the world that has implemented efficient versions of many of the things that private corporations easily do efficiently. The services government do is pretty much the same everywhere, roads, school, healthcare, police, military etc. But you don't see them run food distribution, grocery stores etc even though food certainly would be important enough for governments to do, its just that governments aren't good at doing it and many of the worst famines humanity has experiences are due to governments trying to control food production and distribution.
Not me, I was sitting 3 rows back from the offending parties, but there was that person who's tweet at PyCon kicked off what became known as "Donglegate". IIRC, everyone involved lost their jobs (the two involved in making the jokes and the one who reported it, she was a developers advocate and "after this incident you can no longer effectively advocate for developers". Again, from memory).
This is from the guidelines:

Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
This post by Ryan Djurovich will be the one I recommend for people who ask me about dealing with their Tech Debt, while aligning it with the business needs and stakeholders. Consider what to measure and make visible, as it would help you deal with anxiety and frustration caused by our natural Recency Bias as humans. Let the data shows if things are better or worse, and use that data to show it over a 6-12 months graph so the last 2-3 weeks won't give you the wrong impression.
> Here's the paradox: radio communications play a much more significant role in our lives today

Disagree. Digital radio yes, but that's "just digitial". Analog radio is a dinosaur.
They wouldn't have to lose money, just avoid taking in additional revenue. An incentive certainly, but far from the worst in the tax code.

Personally, I think the tax rate should be higher than 15% for all corporations so I'm not so worried that a company might miss out on an even better deal of 12.5%, but I see the concern that a small change in revenue might change their tax bill by millions.
Nearly all hydrogen is currently being produced from fossil fuel feedstocks because it's way cheaper (and less energy-intense). It's certainly possible to create hydrogen infrastructure to complement renewable energy sources and electric vehicle infrastructure. But the loudest voices on hydrogen right now are FF interests who see it as a way to keep selling oil.
I've railed against FB and employees in previous threads, but this is already a negative thread. Thank you for engaging openly and honestly. I find your perspective refreshing, and shockingly similar to my own. I'm a self-employed contractor, for reference.
Hydrogen escapes the atmosphere because it is extremely light and the planet's gravity cannot hold on to it.
The difference would be the number of layers of indirection.

FFI implies a binary interface with some compiled shim layer, and RPC uses a network stack.

Ionic vs. Covalent bonding, if you will?
Just the README alone is a great read if you want to know how Haskell's lazy evaluation works in detail on the actual machine.
> Can Hydrogen be used to store energy at the scale of a power grid ? The peak vs minimum variance in renewable sources is still an unsolved problem, and the only good solution (nuclear) has become politically untenable.

To a large part is doesn't even need to. Even just the need for non-fossil chemical feedstock is so high that shaving the peaks of oversized generator fleet is enough to contribute to most of grid balancing. Just for ammonia synthesis at current global consumption levels you'll need hundreds of gigawatts of average power to generate the feedstock hydrogen.
Because billionaires never take the money out. They just take out loans using their assets as collateral. If they need to make payments they just take out more loans.
Many groups are working on magnetic containment of hydrogen. Apparently you can get it really dense…
Your first citation is presumably what the previous comment was making reference to. The described procedure resulted in a "dose" ~100 000x greater than what circulates after vaccination. i.e. dose makes the poison.

In light of that, the following citations don't convey the message you want them to.
The EU treaties that Poland has signed (along with every other member state) assert that EU law has primacy over national law.

If Poland’s government doesn’t like that, it should resign its membership like Britain did.
You can't do that, every object is compressed (and then added to pack files with delta-encoding). Even if you did manually write a non-zlib object, things would break the first time Git tried to access that object (for example to show, compare with working copy, gc, or repack).
We could just restate that as “Schools have always required bullshit to graduate”
In a completely non scientific way, every time I've done some dieting to loose a bit of weight if I had any sort of artificial sweetener it would start craving sweets food.

So I think that this brain reward system still applies to anything that tricks your palate to think something is sweet.
Only black people do drugs? Let me guess, black people will also be disproportionately arrested for crypto crimes?
The dialog is an example of a dark pattern, with three options, one highlighted to encourage a reflex click, one in discouraging grey for customising settings, and sneaked in at top right, a small "Not now" link.

If there's anything navigating "modern software" for a few years has taught me, it's that you should expect to be treated like the product and "herded", so the most encouraging option is usually the worst one for you, and the least encouraging option is usually the best. This anti-conditioning has become so strong for me that I remember recently being confused upon seeing a page with only a huge green Download button, thinking "this can't be the real one, it feels too fake and obvious" when it was actually the real one. I wonder how many others will be gradually conditioned by these dark patterns to do the exact opposite of their original sinister intentions.

But this Firefox one definitely takes the desire to confuse to new heights --- it's probably the first time I've seen "not now" as an opt-out, and I'd more instinctively go for the grey.
Apples to apples comparison is very hard because the plans are all different. But having bought insurance from the state marketplace it two US states, I'd say around $500 USD/month.
Thanks for clarifying this part of the argument, and I agree with you. Maybe a simple notice in General that says “Repaired by a third party technician” would suffice. I definitely agree that their current approach is unnecessary and a step in the wrong direction.

Thanks again.
Much of Firefox's target market uses it because of the "normal in marketing" stuff it prevents
Commits are not refs, only the head of a branch (or tag) is a ref.
Not a rust aficionado: If you’re using error.As, wouldn’t you need essentially the same logic in Rust to match the error type and get access to the right fields?

Seems like the big difference is the compiler knows the variants of the error. The trade off is that Rust modules are tightly coupled by the error type since you have wrap each one into the module’s own error type.
Those are payroll taxes, not income or wealth taxes that would be targeting the rich.
Wow, you are a great writer though. Love your blog!
You can't actually believe that harassing and stressing out one's coworkers over a political agenda has a positive effect, changes minds and improves the world.
the banality of evil on display?
I do not find your house to be persuasive for larger trends, no. I responded to the other bit already.

> Note that I am not making a statement about every house, to rebut your assertion that all renters pay no less than the landlord's taxes + mortgage + insurance it's enough to show some (even one) counter example and not to prove that all or, even, typical renter does not do so.

Don’t be a pedant, we were clearly talking about the typical renter.
Sounds bad what you are going through. Hope it gets better and you get a good diagnosis. I known that if it isn’t easy to diagnose doctors can be useless in general.
My https://frame.work/ laptop arrived today, so I will be doing the final assembly and installing nixos on it.
Like with any substance you need to have compatible materials. Valves suitable for hydrogen do exist and are routinely used. People have been working with hydrogen since before ever. Same with storage vessels.
Getting Rich vs. Staying Rich (2017)
I wish there was DOS EMULATOR type of framework that renders to the web
The latest talk python to me podcast has an episode on Textual and Rich that looks interesting.
https://github.com/willmcgugan/textual
If you use Shelter[0], you can "freeze" the apps in your work profile - this essentially disables them until you either unfreeze them manually or use the unfreeze shortcut for the app.

It isn't as user friendly as it could be through.

0: https://github.com/PeterCxy/Shelter
Highly agree in the means, not the ends. I'm also rabidly anti-FB, to the point it's had a detrimental impact on my social life. It's a cost I knowingly walked into and one I'm happy to bear. Take a look at my public posts: I categoricaly think FB and their employees to be immoral.

Shunning is likewise immoral.
Somehow I managed to miss the obvious warning... thanks !
I did an Atlantic crossing on CMA CGM and it was similar. The officers were almost 100% French and everyone else on board (officers and crew) was Filipino. The longest-serving seaman had been on the ship for 18 months, but typical tours are in 6 month blocks.

The most interesting observation I had was that although there was an "officer's rec room" and a "crew's rec room", it ended up being a "French rec room" and a "Filipino rec room". The long tours don't particularly bother me, I think that's somewhat expected with maritime work.
Twitch Leak Included Emails, Passwords in Clear Text: Researcher
How often have FB unilaterally changed those terms in the interim, after usera are already locked in through network effects and data?
Or humans who use Tor and do not whish to install some kind of browser extension because of Cloudflare.
Tried some of them, threw them away for various reasons and used Argo Workflows instead.

Airflow mixes orchestration and the actual transformation, and I wasn’t a fan of being ao intimately tied to Python. Argo let’s us run arbitrary containers (a mix of Spark, Rust, etc) and played nicer with the tools we were already using (Kafka, K8s etc), didn’t require us to write Python and cleanly separated orchestration and actual ETL/ELT work. It’s working fantastically for us.
VMware ESXi Servers Encrypted by Lightning-Fast Python Script
Well we exist. That's a charitable phrasing even; government spending brings severely negative value to common people.
That just means you've invented a new fancy way to combat rising oceans!

(No, in reality, we have nowhere near the power to make appreciable amounts of hydrogen escape. Even if you electrolyzed water continuously with 2.5 TW of power, which is roughly global average electricity generation, you'd lose something like 4 cubic kilometers of water per year. The Earth meanwhile has over a billion cubic kilometers of water in its oceans, so you'd need over 250 million years to make them disappear.)
To make gut, you have to clean it and stretch it and dry it first. By then it's about as clean as anything was back then.
I've heard you can get it so dense it starts to produce energy.
Can someone tell me if the person reading the story is an AI? I think it is but can't be sure.
Right-Ctrl C ' if you have a compose key (built in on Linux, WinCompose[1] for Windows, no clue for Mac).

[1] https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose
The Off-Grid Laws of Every State in America
Show HN: Earn IRL rewards as you learn on this personal growth platform
Facebook and Zuckerberg think they can cease and decease - - - and /or turn loose their law dawgs on anybody and everybody they don't agree with . . . the solution ?

Share all these apps with Russian hackers, they can sponsor downloads from their side - - Facebook cannot touch them, Russian courts won't cooperate with any Western lawyers - - and if FB lawyers dare to show up over in Russia it's common knowledge they will likely end up face down in the river floating lifeless.
McKesson is screwed
Wrong.

That money is rendered worthless from an economic perspective. In a healthy economy the profits of corporations are spent on more facilities, more suppliers, more employees, who all in turn spend their profits on the same.

We don't have a healthy economy. We have corporations that lose money every single day of their entire existence, but manage to drive their share prices by tax scams, accounting fraud, government subsidies, and share buybacks financed with debt the would not be available to them but for the existence of the scams, frauds, and government subsidies.

In that sense these corporations do not do anything of value, they are merely ephemeral structures to facilitate tax and investment risk avoidance for a certain class of people, at the expense of a tax base they do not participate in so should logically be shut out of.

When a corporation uses that money to buy back shares the money is effectively destroyed by being circulated among a financial class that has (mostly) bribed their way out of the tax system.

Hence, any money used for share buybacks should logically be treated as net income for the company in question's next filing.
It really is amazing isn’t it?
I do not look forward to either the portmanteaus, nor the dumb news coverage that Poland leaving the EU would create.
Yeah, this is the real problem. It is hard for a law to disentangle whether payments to a foreign company are market rate purchases from an independent supplier (that can't be taxed due to free trade treaties), or transfers of profit to an affiliate shell company
People define mission and public good differently.
if the author gets this polished enough, it could be a _fantastic_ bindings generator!
I think most people would agree that, by virtually all material standards, workers are better treated than they were a century ago. I think most people would also agree (again in material terms) that office workers have fairly easy jobs. But I think that fundamentally misses the point: good (read: easy living) isn't the same as just, and plenty of people have legitimate reasons for wanting their workplaces to be more just.

> Maybe the otherside of the table needs to take that collective action they talk so much about instead of talking.

I don't disagree. But to be clear: collective action, broadly interpreted, is mostly illegal in the United States. You can actually be thrown in jail for it and, unlike the CEOs, you probably don't have the money to tie the courts up. The US's labor movement spent decades fighting for recognition, and it's still paltry compared to the rest of the world (and is steadily being eroded). Most workers, including office workers, have strong social and economic disincentives against anything more than talk (at-will employment, absent social services, &c).
If this is using blockchain to login, then does this mean one will have to pay gas fees for operations with the identities? Is it going to be "pay for each login"? or "pay to enroll to a new website"?

If this not writing to blockchain, then how is this different from WebAuthn? I assume you can use Trezor instead of Yubikey, but is this going to be enough to make this protocol popular?

Or perhaps I am misunderstanding something, and this is just designed for websites with deal with Ethereum and not as a replaced to "Login With Facebook" and so on?
This article essentially could be shortened to a single sentence: the simpler, safer algorithms that SRP was invented as a work around due to patent encumbrance are no longer needed as the patents for SPAKE have expired.