skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always happy to see snowden mentioned, and how his leaks seemingly will never go away. One of my fears was that he would be forgotten in 1-2 years.
By “everywhere” I meant “all over the world.” This was a worldwide pandemic.
Nope, tested it last winter. Somehow, there was no way to watch in better than SD on Linux, even with the WideVine plugin in Firefox. It's okay, there are... other options. Very budget-friendly, too.
Researchers have already accounted for every point this writer brings up in this article. Yet for some reason this writer has chosen to ignore that. There is nothing more aggravating than accounting for some variable in your research only to have people bring up issues that you have already accounted for as if you did not.
or perhaps a realtime operating system named KaiROS?
I agree, I find the orange tint just more comfy to look at at night, when I'm already in artificial light that has a lot warmer colour balance. In daylight the blue tint doesn't stand out, at night with warm white bulbs it really does look jarring.

I don't really care whether it's harmful or not, after all the amount of time I spend at the computer is harmful too.
California mandates gender-neutral toy aisles for large retailers
I might be mistaken, but I thought Stylo (the CSS part of Servo) was shipped as part of Firefox in 2017.
I kind of thought web3 was supposed to be made of apps that worked without ever taking my personal data off my disk. I'm really bummed that it's somehow instead about cryptocurrencies.
I stopped using Waterfox back in like 2010-2012(not sure the exact year) and switched to Cyberfox. Then to Chrome, back to Firefox.

I don't see any point in using Waterfox in 2021.
Without any citations and the vague language, I don't know how we're supposed to take this seriously.
GitLab is fine and well-integrated, but it can be heavy and slow. There are alternatives. Sourcehut, Gitea, Codeberg (runs Gitea), GNU Savannah, or just plain cgit. It isn't a binary choice.

I think GitHub might actually be best suited for personal projects. Projects aimed at others is now making contributors accept GitHub's proprietary ToS, vendor lock-in, and whatever experimental ways they plan to scan and profit from your code by offering it for "free".
Understanding something is not the same as being able to recreate it from scratch.

I can follow a math example’s solution, but that doesn’t necessarily mean I could solve it alone.
And how is the central bank involved in this?
While some of these observations are literally true to the first approximation, I'll just respond by pointing out that we wouldn't be talking about this were it not for the unthinkable suffering that really did take place (and arguably continues in some ways).

There are definitely some interesting sociological questions about how the power is manifesting, but I emphatically disagree with the proposition that the overreaction of "cancel culture" does not have as its root cause the systematic, historical oppression of minorities. To just make the (perhaps correct) observation that a significant fraction of the loudest voices are not suffering is to ignore how we got here.
the strange anti-vax angle of the article aside that others have pointed to, having spent my time almost equally between western Europe and East-Asia (mostly for family related reasons) I just can't wrap my head around how people think the poor suffer from an excess of 'bio-authoritarianism'.

The poor don't care about authoritarianism. They care about having jobs, people coming into their stores, and their children going to daycare.

The poor suffer when the state does not function and does not do its job. Countries like China, both Taiwan and the mainland, Singapore, Vietnam even New Zealand and a few others avoided much harm to the poor by means of crushing the disease. They avoided both economic and disease burden by taking strong measures that anyone in Western Europe would have flinched about. (and then I had to live through anyway during three different lockdowns in Europe after live in China returned to normal in summer 2020.)

Vaccine passports suck but not because they're too authoritarian but because they're not authoritarian enough. They're half measures done by governments that were too indecisive to go all the way, at the expense of the most vulnerable in society.

Reading an anti-vax article afraid of authoritarianism after a crisis caused by weak and dysfunctional governance is like some sort of comedy. As if someone wrote an article in 2010 arguing the financial crisis harmed the poor because we regulated the financial sector too heavily or something
"Rent computational resource" could work with a verification of resource(s) step at the end of a set duration (block) and all of the computations performed using fully homomorphic encryption. If after the beginning of a block a random start time up to some max (~10 min) was selected for which the proving nodes would perform an operation to verify the resources were available and calculate the block hash instead of continuously burning, then at that starting time and for a set proving duration the verification algo would run and at the end the block would be distributed. Given the FHE was either running a paying program utilizing rented resources or the verification algo continuously, then it should not be possible to tell when the verification algo starts and stops. The non-FHE "gas" alternative that incentivizes performing program results to include in the hash has to have enough of an expected value that it would be prioritized over using the time to further calculate a minimal hash and the associated expected value for finding it without those gas incentivized transactions. The question is the FHE option more efficient than gas?
The key takeaway is not that they jailed him now. They should've and probably could have jailed him long ago.

My understanding is that he, a convicted pedophile and all around sociopath, seemingly totally bent on pursuing wildly antisocial endeavours, was protected up until now. He strategically contacted the FBI which was able to lean on the Icelandic law enforcement through a diplomatic route to grant him unofficial immunity, as long as he served the purpose of going after Assange.

Now that he admitted his testimony was based on lies, he is no longer useful and Iceland's law enforcement is finally free to do its job. He was jailed now because he betrayed his loyalty of his handlers. I wonder why he decided to break that, it seems like such a complete blunder. Perhaps he realised his testimony wouldn't hold up in court. Really wish the interview mentioned in the article would be translated to English but I can't find it.
Junk article.

This is an article based on Socialist Democracy and/or Marxist ideals. Had to stop reading once I realized that. I can't follow the logic. I don't see data. I don't see ROI, I don't see comparisons with other inputs/outcomes.

Who is this Author? An Economist? A civil engineer? Do they have any insight into economics and engineering involved in Housing?

Or are they just a communism-leaning journalist?

Also, the headline isn't followed up by anything but a description of things that exist. I don't see a proposal. No innovative thought in this article. Just people trying to justify handouts.

"Human rights" are defined and created by humans. They don't really exist where/unless they are not enforced by other humans.

The idea that housing is a human right doesn't make much sense to me. The dependency of Housing is Land. Why not make Land in general a human right?

Or, perhaps ownership titles are supposed to be given to housing?

"The average rent on a one bedroom property amounts to 21 per cent of an average resident’s income. In Paris, the average is 46 per cent of income. In London, it’s 49 per cent. Vienna’s housing subsidy is paid for with a 1 per cent levy on the salaries of every Viennese resident, half of which is deducted from wages, and the other half matched by employer contributions."

Ok, so SOMEONE will pay for it. "Other people" will pay for it. I don't think shoveling responsibilities off on onto other people (tax payers) is much of a solution.

“Our policy is based on the basic statement that housing is a human right,” Puchinger explains. “For 100 years this has been the philosophy of the Viennese Social Democratic Party.”

"This year marks the centenary of so-called “Red Vienna”, when Marxists in the Social Democratic Party initiated a radical reformist programme of municipal socialism – mass housebuilding, public education and healthcare – creating a proto-welfare statelet in the former seat of the collapsed Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Social Democrats have been the dominant party in the city legislature ever since."
Prelinking can change binaries as well. A combination of a Mandatory Access Control system (SELinux, AppArmour) and a Host Based Intrusion Detection system (like AIDE) could respectively help prevent and detect changes to binaries.

I'm not entirely sure if techniques such as ASLR are fool-proof enough to prevent changes to binaries in memory - I haven't studied enough about ASLR yet.
I honestly cannot tell if this is satire or not.
Personal Development Plans for Engineers
Self-Determination Theory to inspire compelling PDPs for Engineers
Some of the marches that I went to... were less than airy, to be honest. Easily comparable to any ballgame I have been to.

So, I have seen a lot of these papers, but too much feels like post hoc justification. I'm game for being cautious, so I'm not really saying to do anything different, but I do want to urge way more caution in messaging than I'm seeing. It is fair and ok to talk of the uncertainty.
It seemed like the nazi reference was appropriate though. In this case, the university system in Germany was ruined by a move away from merit toward an incorrect and abhorrent philosophy.

I think that doesn’t mean that affirmative action = nazism. It means that focusing on things other than merit has negative consequences and should be avoided.

A recent comedy, Death of Stalin, points this out on the micro level when there are no competent doctors to treat Stalin because all doctors who didn’t pledge political fealty were purged.

Having an academic system based on political or philosophical fealty will result in poorer academics.
im a programmer who quit and got a job framing to learn to build my own house. i really enjoy it. bought a farm and now slowly building out. just finished first barn.
Exactly.

Making money on blockchain requires retrofitting the web to use blockchain to do what the web can mostly do already.

In "Blockchains Are a Bad Idea", James Mickens gives several arguments against blockchain-based systems like Bitcoin:

See his presentation here: https://youtu.be/15RTC22Z2xI

1. People have out-of-band trust relationships in real life which reduce the likelihood of malice. Bitcoin-style anonymous identities undermine trust relationships and are not needed for legitimate (not illegal) transactions.

2. Real life legal systems encourage good behaviors. If you have a dispute with someone, you can sue them. Bitcoin and related systems lack these protections.

3. Existing tools such as public-key cryptography and digital signatures can provide most of the functionality that applications need without the problems that blockchain-based systems have.
Here's one more anecdote: I'm using the computer the whole time. I make the screens usually more bluish than redish as I don't like everything in orange tones. I prefer bluish-grays. I'm staring at the screen until late at night, more or less until just before going to sleep.

I've never experienced any bad side effects form that. When I'm tired I can always sleep instantly.

Funny enough I don't like bluish light besides on computer screens. All my lights are dimmed, and I prefer them being kind of orange. Actually my eyes hurt when being in places that use bright cold lights.

That makes the contrast (especially at night) between my computer screens and the ambient light quite significant. The screens seem the brightest lights in the room. Even they are also dimmed.

For the matter at hand I think there's one important observation to make: Most screens are just way too bright in default settings!¹ I usually dim screens to at least ~50%; when it's a bright one even down to ~30%. Not only that my eyes start to hurt after a short time looking at a screen in factory settings I get every time even severe headache after some hours looking at such a thing.

Most people I know don't dim screens. They like it as bright a possible as it makes the color experience best (and you don't need to dim the light in the room to be able to see something on the screen–especially during day and when there is sunshine around). The screen manufacturers also picked that up: Every new screen has an even more extreme maximal brightness than the previous models. It seems to be the "loudness war" of screen manufacturers.

A screen with warmer colors is less bright than a screen with cold colors (as the screens usually don't adjust brightness at the same time when fiddling with the colors). The back-light of a screen has a quite extreme cold color so making the screen more warm filters more of the back-light and makes the screen less bright as a result.

So if I would have to guess why some people experience positive effects from "redshift"-tools I would bet the effect is actually only related to screen brightness and has nothing to do with the color as such.

Whoever came up with this "redshift" theory was overthinking things, imho: It's true that the natural light gets more warm in the evening (as it is also in the morning… ;-)). But it gets also darker when night comes! That's actually the significant phenomenon in my opinion.

¹ Just try to look for some time into a 160W light-bulb… Try also a 40W model instead.
i recommend watching his video, a great and humble explanation from a smart person about his fight with addiction https://youtu.be/j3JkNGKZtqM
It is a gamble. The interests can go up and then you could be cooked. And anyway you need to find a way to get ahead of the inflation with this money. Sure it is an opportunity but not without risks.
How about just opening FRED?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGMBASE

If you want more detail you should probably first learn the basics of "money".
> You've completely reversed which party is inserting themselves into the existing conversation though, which gives it an entirely different context.

How so?

> And honestly, there is no perfect band-aid for how to treat views that you find honestly stupid. Sure, some people won't listen if you're out there calling them stupid, but some people won't listen unless you do. People are messsy, complicated, and different.

When you talk down to people, tell them that they are uncivilized, and call them stupid or “deplorable” they’ll sink the entire ship and take themselves down with you just to spite you.

If you want nation healthcare, or any number of other things the exact wrong approach is this approach.

I think most people’s stance on guns or capitalism is downright stupid. You think if I say to someone who wants to ban AR-15s that they’re stupid and uncivilized that they’ll have an epiphany? I doubt it. They’ll double down. If I approach them with an approach to partner and find solutions to problems and understand their point of view, I’m far more likely to gain their support or at least sympathy. People are certainly messy, but I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that when you’re trying to get someone to do something that starting off telling them that they are stupid or uncivilized is a sure fire way to get them to do the opposite.
Boy some days I miss making a webpage with a simple index.html and five pages...
Hello Poe's law [0].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
There's always guix...

Using scheme for everything is great, for showcase and recent developments check this video on guix home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5cdtSfTpE0
Guix (https://guix.gnu.org/) is a similar project, and it has the same issue regarding confusing terminology.

I wonder if adoption of these otherwise awesome projects would improve if they did a better job with communication?
Incidentally, it's also a rather unique and absolutely superb red wine from northern Italy.

https://www.zyme.it/en/prodotti/kairos
Due to my work I travel a lot (and by that I mean that I can be in new city every day). I don't want to give google my phone number or my other email, so my account is not tied to anything, the only factor is the password.

Turns out if you try to log in from new device from new location (I guess your account is tied to IP from which it was created), just password alone isn't enough to log in. And there's no alternative way to prove that account actually belongs to me.

I understand that most services try to provide you with good security, but I hate it when everything is overcomplicated and everyone tells me what to do. No, I don't want to give you my phone number. Yes, I know I won't be able to recover my password, I don't need that. Yes, I actually want my password to be this long. No, I don't want you to block login attempts from new locations. Believe it or not, people do travel and want to log in from more than 1 city. It's none of your business if I want to give my password to my friend and let him login, just stop this please. Let me choose whatever password I want without any backup emails, phone numbers, and let everyone who knows the password log in. Is it too much to ask?

Why is it even allowed to let users create accounts without providing a phone number, but then not letting those same users to log in because their accounts are not tied to any phone number? How does it make any sense?
It's funny that the first part of your comment is in a way proof that the article is correct!

As for the second, Metafilter did, iirc with some success.
Nix is common among consultancies because the more switching between projects you do, the more it pays off. If you like every 6 months (or merely every job change!) fuck with APT, your bashrc, etc. with a little stack overflowing during onboarding, whatever. It's too rare to be worth optimizing; I get it. If you switch projects every 2 weeks, the calculus changes greatly.

I do work at one of them now, but I got into Nix as a student hobbyist, when I was also rotating through homework assignments and personal projects quickly.
Ask HN: How do you save information from YouTube?
Recently, I found a lot of useful channels on YouTube thanks to algorithm recommendations. I wanted to keep looking again to what I learned from the video later, so I wrote down the parts that impressed me and left a brief note. However, this part (especially the when I repeatedly stop/play the video and take notes) was inconvenient, so I wonder how other people are doing.

1. How do you memo/save/note information learned from YouTube?

2. What information do you save?

3. With what device do you watch YouTube? (phone, tablet, PC)
Mersenne prime verification is useful for the science field of mathematics, where the results can be used to (in)validate theories and predictions of (Mersenne) Prime Numbers. Sure, it is a niche with little contact area with the rest of thr world, but so were Elliptic Curves (used in cryptography), Set Theory and Relational Algebra (both heavily used in relational DB technology).
Looks like total dollars (not just physical) to me given that FRED link above (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL)
> created in credit transactions

Yes, this is more true. Though in my mind, when the Fed does it, it kinda feels like it's minting money. But my analogy doesn't hold.

What triggered me is the "big govt just printing money" trope. As though there's printing presses somewhere spewing currency, worth less than the paper it's printed on.

Yet another tedious zombie idea.
I think i will stick to the 9-5 thanks instead of this scam to try and get us to work all hours of the day
No.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02261-8
I doubt it anytime soon. WSL w/ GUI support is still new and just adds an extra later of complexity. Deploying to Windows is already a PITA and open-source projects already targeting Windows would have to change their build processes. Until WSL apps can be seamlessly integrated and managed like a standard Windows app I doubt open-source project are going to switch away from Windows desktop apps.
transgender ideology is absolutely insane. Children having double mastectomies and having their penises turned inside out and made into "vaginas". There is no doubt that this will go down in history as a great evil.
https://twitter.com/arks_remarks/status/1446457357064605711

This question clarifies what exactly is the denominator. It is the population of that age group and is not stratified further by vaccination status. So this will naturally bias as more people get vaccinated within an age group.

This is an incorrect interpretation: "If I am an individual who is not vaccinated I will be less likely to be infected than someone my age who is vaccinated."

This (I think) is a fair interpretation: "If I am an individual who is infectious I am more likely to be vaccinated." While technically correct, how meaningful is it on it's own when we know more people are in the vaccinated group?

To roughly compare outcomes within an age group between vaccinated and unvaccinated people you'd need to additionally account for proportion of vaccinated status at that date. I may followup with those adjustments attempted.

I think its possible that the OP twitter author may be pointing out that there are issues of diminishing returns and questions of whether a mandate should be supported when you are more likely to be exposed to the virus by someone vaccinated vs not. I don't think I can quite tell if this argument stands on its own but I think there are far greater reasons to not support mandates.
> > First it determines all content changes that occurred between the commit that's being built and the commit of the last time there was a refresh (that value is stored in redis and my server exposes an endpoint for my action to retrieve it). If any of the changed files were in the ./content directory, then the action makes an authenticated POST request to another endpoint on my server with all the content files that were changed. Then my server retrieves all the content from the GitHub API, recompiles the MDX pages, and pushes the update to the Redis cache which Fly.io automatically propagates to the other regions.

So it's a makefile with rsync. Gotcha.
That still works! No one is stopping you from opening a text editor and writing an index.html document then drag-and-drop through an FTP client to a production server.

However, good-luck building something as complex as kentcdodds.com using that.
Debtors go to the bank and promise to pay (e.g. through future work). This is a liability for the debtor and asset to the bank. The bank determines the risk of the promise and creates an equivalent amount of credit also known as bank money. By bank money I mean the balance on your account.

That money is a liability for the bank and effectively a claim on your debt. It's like someone threw all the bonds in a blender and created $0.01 mini bonds. It's actually not much different from an investment fund with the huge caveat that the USD is a shared medium and has a mandatory insurance scheme.

In fractional reserve banking banks do not take your deposits and give them to someone else. That should be obvious, because your deposits don't disappear, they are only gone once you spend them. The central bank also gives banks as many reserves as they need so deposits themselves aren't the limiting factor in money creation. It is capital requirements that limit loan creation.

You should think of banking and money as an accounting system where regulations are intended to keep the banks alive, not to limit money creation as a goal in itself. It's the central bank's job to limit money creation and thereby limit inflation.