skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that Ziobro was already doing this (illegally wiretapping opposition) together with Kamiński and Kaczyński when they were in power in 00s. They lost power, almost got to jail but avoided it thanks to political calculation of the next party (that used them as "look at least we aren't like them" threat), then they got elected again anyway in 2015.

They have majority support right now because of social spending and their supporters don't care about rule of law, corruption, any of that. There were already dozens of similar-scale scandals since 2015. Nobody cares. It's frustrating, really.
> The World Health Organization's director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said many vaccinated people were wrongly thinking the jab meant they no longer needed to take any other precautions ... Data suggests that before the arrival of the Delta variant, vaccines reduced transmission by about 60%. With Delta, that has dropped to about 40%

> Of 845,000 sequences uploaded to the GISAID global science initiative with specimens collected in the last 60 days, 99.8 percent were Delta, according to the WHO's weekly epidemiological report. Maria Van Kerkhove, the UN health agency's technical lead on COVID, said the Delta variant itself was evolving

I was hoping for references to articles which better define those percentages, this is instead more of a reporting article about the WHO warning the public that vaccinated are not immunized* and do not cease to be vectors for transmission, hence the vaccinated should still take proportionate, appropriate precautions.

(*Though I read yesterday on El Pais that some actually immunizing vaccines should be on the way: https://elpais.com/ciencia/las-cientificas-responden/2021-11... . The article presented the information dashboard from the WHO about the different - over 300, a part of which non spike based (so quite different from the current ones) - vaccines against sars-cov-2 in development: https://www.who.int/es/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronaviru...)
Hey,

So I’m the co-founder of Chirr App, a tool that helps people compose and schedule Twitter threads.

Previously, I worked as a consultant. My focus was on helping SaaS companies improve their user retention metrics.

At some point, I began using Chirr App to write Twitter threads. I don’t remember how I found it but I loved it. I reached out to the founder, Sasha, and shared my appreciation.

We stayed in touch.

I had thoughts and feedback on the product. He was receptive to my suggestions. Together we ended up setting up a pipeline for doing customer interviews, something he wasn't too comfortable with. We also got some AB testing infrastructure set up so that we could run basic server side experiments, which was all new to the project. I wasn't throwing out quick tips or anything, we got into it.

I treated this work as a side project/case study. I had a full time job so I wasn't pouring loads of time into it or anything. This was all stuff I knew how to do anyway, so I was just sharing how to do it and helping get it set up.

I think it helps that I genuinely enjoy this kind of work. I wasn't expecting anything out of the interaction, nor was I looking for a co-founder or project. All I asked for is that he recommend me if other startups or founders wanted help with this stuff. Other than that, I was a paid user and it was a genuinely enjoyable relationship.

About a year later he asked if I’d like to join the project as a co-founder.

I enjoy consulting, it pays well, but I was beginning to want a project of my own to sink my teeth into. Working on other people products for months, pouring yourself into the work, helping them grow, and then suddenly leaving started to become emotionally traumatic in some small way.

Sasha is an open-source developer for whom I have the utmost respect. We’d casually worked together for a year, and I thoroughly enjoyed working with him. Joining Chirr App was a no-brainer.

We now work on Chirr App full-time. We’re a tiny bootstrapped team of 3 and we’re working hard to build a tool that helps people get the most out of Twitter.

I don't have a recipe for you or anything. It wasn't something either of us planned. Having casually worked together for a year was a huge factor in my decision. I've been in several partnerships before, some of them ended well, others were a shit show.

Both of us genuinely wanted to work on the project, which was cool. If you want to try and reverse engineer this, make sure you find a product you love. I also think that having skills that are useful to the project/partnership and then being able to actually demonstrate them were both key factors that de-risked the decision for both us.

Happy to answer more question if it helps.
That debt pays for very important tax cuts for the rich.
I was struggling to see how you could apply a test for "idempotence" or "stability" to diff3. Turns out in the paper they redefined what diff3 does in order to test it.
That is a fair caveat, though I'd argue that it is clearly a test case for broader expansion in an instance where the condition is unlikely to produce a backlash, attached as it is to stimulus money.

c.f. speed of yuan CBDC rollout; https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2021/11/08/central...

c.f. central banks salivating at the prospect of having extra levers to pull: https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2021/02/16/...

> An impediment to negative interest rates at the moment is that savers can switch to cash, which has a de facto interest rate of zero. In a cashless world central banks could in theory programme digital currency to have negative rates.

> Once ascendant, govcoins could become panopticons for the state to control citizens: think of instant e-fines for bad behaviour.
People have been trying this for over 20 years, the first one I knew about was a Dutch company piping (IIRC) MIDI across the globe with a Shoutcast-style client app. "DragonNet" or something.
(FWIW that's not at all true where I live: bikes here are practical transport first, recreation is the exception rather than the rule).

The article addresses that: ebikes don't have much advantage over a regular bike for recreation, they're popular because of their practicality advantages.
Most jobs like you described are super low paid. The more agency you're supposed to use in your job to take decisions, generally the higher paid you'll be. It's like you want everyone to be a drone or else they're being exploited.
My laffer curve tells me tax the land and nothing else.
Yes, I know, also power, just not a usable amount. Ethernet over HDMI is rarely implemented and caps out at 100Mbps. Even if you have it, that still leaves you with a power cable and big ugly box to put somewhere.
Thanks, TIL. Always thought the new thing about UASP was direct SCSI support, but it actually seems like the main problem with BOT was it being fully synchronous, so only one request in flight at any given time.
That's not an insult.
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If money is tight, interest rates rise. There is always a cost that will persuade someone to risk their money.

These are not minor flaws. We are creating money from nothing which means pereptual inflation which means your savings are no longer safe. It's much more sound to just borrow money, which makes you dependent on the mercy of state regulations.
I find the user experience amazing, it's really efficient to go through an Aldi. Check out is fast, shopping is fast due to standardized layout, not so many similar choices to overwhelm you so you don't have to decide which cherry tomato to buy etc.

Also I'm not sure where you get the unnecessary waste from packaging. They just put everything on the shopping floor as it's shipped to them. That's not extra packaging. Other stores just hide this from you.

On the half plastic half paper bags I agree, but that's the same in the other big chains in Germany, so it's at least not more wasteful than the others.

Also I've been to America, the other stores really had a lot of extra plastic packaging. Like unpeeled fruit. That's horrific.
Good riddance. During the covid lockdown last year, CAIT and friends petitioned the government hard to prevent home delivery of “non-essential goods” because they didn’t want Amazon taking business while stores couldn’t open to customers. Indian population suffered even harder because government was trying so hard to appease mom and pop stores. Like people couldn’t even get laptops for working remotely because of that nonsense.

Ambani’s other projects like Jio have been a huge service to India too by providing affordable data to many and bringing the country online.
True but it's also simpler and if you are building something to replace your car (replacing your bike is not interesting since you should use that instead) those are not disadvantages, see: http://elhjul.se
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You may want to check out our open source project: Proxmox Backup Server, it supports 3-2-1 relatively integrated by:

- integrated tape backup (LTO-4 or newer), this allows to fulfill the two different medium rule and may also help on the offsite one (e.g., but a tape in a safe at CEO's home once a week or so)

- efficiently mirroring of backup data to remote PBS (offsite copy)

- client-side encryption, because well, backups are good but maybe not so if they're leaked

- file-level and block level backup - disclaimer the former currently only for Linux clients and the latter can handle anything but also runs on Linux (VMs are used)

The introduction/main feature section of the docs contain more info, if you're interested:
https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/introduction.html

If you have your non-Linux workload contained in VMs and maybe even already use Proxmox VE for that it's really covering safe and painless self-hosted backup needs.
Source: the great experiment that we all did. People who wore masks over the past couple of years were generally more cautious if anything, not less.
Your objection is taking my comment in the least-intelligent light. There's no reason for this service to be P2P; MITMing the connection with a selective forwarding unit would work fine and is the natural conclusion one should reach when analyzing this problem. Cloudflare-in-the-middle would work perfectly.

Like any modern video game, or half of the decent video chat options in the world.
Thankfully Google make collapsible plugs[1] which make taking my charger on holiday nice and painless. Shame more companies don't so something similar if the product is portable.

1: https://store.google.com/gb/product/usb_c_30w_charger
But as we can see the money are flexible in only one direction. You can print more money when times go bad but will you burn it when times are good?

This is like saying we dodged withdrawals by taking more of the drug.
This data is interpreted wrongly. You need to separate mortality rate by age groups, need to check when cases were recorded, etc. pp.

These graphs are more or less useless to draw conclusions from.
> I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.

I have been solidly in the "work is virtuous" camp for a long time, and still am, but I've recently been challenged on this. When I'm not working on something I get antsy, and stressed. Having a goal gives me purpose; working hard gives me value. If my value isn't from hard work, where do I get it from?

I have always considered "hard-working" an undoubtedly good thing, like "being kind" or "not stabbing random people." But when pushed on this, I can't quite justify it the same way as other virtues. Is it good for society? Is there something inherently moral about hard work? Is it something that I value, but is unreasonable to expect from others?

I don't really have answers on this. I consider hard work a virtue, but I'm not sure precisely why. I'm sure there's all sort of cultural/familial/etc. reasons, but that's what makes me me. Is it a bad thing to believe? Not sure yet. No. Yes. Sometimes.
Originally houses were only wired for light and people would plug their appliances into the light socket.
Guy: electric bikes take up a lot less space than a car!
Guy buys 50 electric bikes.
Lest anyone think that such issues only happen to free providers, check out Sectigo's status page:

https://sectigo.status.io/pages/history/5938a0dbef3e6af26b00...

For context, Sectigo also provides freebies for cPanel customers.
Laws dictate to those who are willing to obey them. Guess why nobody is trying to move into north korea.
You know what is impressive? Getting the CSS of any non-trivial app right. /s

More on a serious note, for the cost of one of these aircrafts, you can get more than 1/10th of their weight in gold. Either gold or the aircrafts are way too expensive, I think it is the latter. I wonder, what the Chengdu J-20 costs...
Signal won't support M1 Macs anytime soon
> and you can switch transparently

> ZeroSSL.com

I kinda wish people would stop recommending them. This might have changed, but last time I tried ZeroSSL (~a year ago) it was not RFC 8555 compliant (specifically section 7.3.1), and you were basically supposed to use their own proprietary API to deal with the issue. So you can't always switch transparently.

If you need an alternative use Buypass. Also free, and they're actually RFC 8555 compliant.
Shouldn’t have to do this at all, obviously, but at least if it’s android then you’re just a few commands away from removing most anything.

Used it to rid my Sony of all the annoyances and the continual “enable samba?” Prompts that kept coming up despite always choosing “disable” explicitly.

Google for “adb remove ads <model/brand>” or similar. 20 minutes helped my wife not be annoyed at popovers on the TV, and saved me countless time looking for the OEM remote. :D
There was an MIT Phd student thesis I read 20 years ago that electric bikes (escooters) are the future transport for Taiwan.

Roll the clock ahead and ebikes (at least here in Paris) are taking over. Dedicated lanes, government subsidies, government lending system plus private systems (2 or 3) have pushed it into main stream.
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They advertise this on the website:

> 80% Less than Amazon S3

Why would I use a service that is 80% less reliable than Amazon S3? And if they mean something other than reliability - such as uptime, price, or transfer speed - then they should state it clearly.
I'd say if we could pick a clean slate design for everyone then I'd go with the Swiss[1] one. Maybe also run it at 400V since modern cables should be able to handle that.

[1] https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/Swiss1.html
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Until recently, renter rights in big Chinese cities have been miserable. Even though this had been artificial, it provided enough incentive / premium to tip the scales towards buying, even at unrealistic leverage.
> Since its initial release, Go has used a stack-based calling convention based on the Plan 9 ABI, in which arguments and result values are passed via memory on the stack. This has significant simplicity benefits: the rules of the calling convention are simple and build on existing struct layout rules; all platforms can use essentially the same conventions, leading to shared, portable compiler and runtime code; and call frames have an obvious first-class representation, which simplifies the implementation of the go and defer statements and reflection calls. Furthermore, the current Go ABI has no callee-save registers, meaning that no register contents live across a function call (any live state in a function must be flushed to the stack before a call). This simplifies stack tracing for garbage collection and stack growth and stack unwinding during panic recovery.

https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/changes/78/24817...
>In 1945, there were literally a total of a few hundred phone lines fully crossing the United States.

Seems amazing now, but it was only 30 years before in 1915 when Graham Bell in NYC talked to Watson in San Francisco. That was thanks to the wire finally existing and tube amplification finally showing up. (So hard to find good, close-up details on that 30 years.) 1945 when Arthur C. Clarke proposed a 3-satellite system. 1963 when Relay 1 and geosynchronous Syncom 2 showed up.

'Microwave towers' ... for those who haven't seen them, this article goes into what's left of them - with pix. [https://99percentinvisible.org/article/vintage-skynet-atts-a...]
They aren't free plugins. I think it's fair to say they are overrated if people are suggesting they are the "de facto" reverb makers. It would be more reasonable to say that they are one of the top reverb designers. There are a lot of really high quality verbs out there in many different styles.
That's a little different. While Jamulus tries it's best to do realtime audio, ninjam works deferred.
Players agrees on a bpm and a number of bars, the software will record each bar and send to other that will cache them and then play them on the next loop.. so every player will hear others one phrase late.
(sorry for non precise terminology...)
Any more info on this like a brand name?
Here in Zürich, and I think many parts of Europe, the rule is simple: to be regulated like normal bikes the motor can't push you past 25km/h.

With this limit I have not personally had any issues with E-Bikes/scooters being a hazard.

On the other side of the coin, 25km/h is a bit slower than I ride my pushbike, but plenty fast enough to make E-Bikes/scooters an attractive solution.

I'm pretty happy with this balance - my only gripe with the shared scooters is people park them inconsiderately.
They do believe in global heating. They just don't care. They reckon they, their kids, and their friends will be fine anyway. Who care what happens to billions dirty, poor foreigners?

It high time that we realise that it never was a good faith discussion about facts. It's only about power. The rich people that have a lot invested in fossil fuels risk becoming less rich, and they are using all means necessary to not let that happen, or at least delay it as much as possible
> The analogue in photography is photographs lose color clarity and fade as they age. Why should I care if this is the case in images as display technology evolves when this is already a problem with every physical medium?

Because with digital data we can do better?
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Frequently in New Zealand we hear government and journalists suggesting vaccines affect transmission. In truth, masks affect transmission, jabs affect rates of hospitalisation. We had the impression early on that this would be like the measles vaccine, affecting spread. Not really true. There are other studies in Israel and the US showing no meaningful correlation between spread and vaccination rates.

For me the interesting question is: when vaccinated does exposure to COVID bump up our immunity so that we stay safe from serious illness long term, or will we forever be getting these vaccines (making the drug companies richer and richer)
I checked my Airtel Fibre connection, IPv6 is explicitly disabled by Airtel and there's no option to enable it.
I appreciate the comments pointing out this is an old technique and the criticism towards go looks valid, but to me personally, it is overlooked that this is a very nice article

I (not being aware of this technique), thought it was a very nice article, I learned quite a few things, it was well written.
Just don’t let unsuspecting kids play on it :)
This.

I found that most of the latency in networked audio applications, when jamming within 800 km within domestic internet, mostly comes from (a) a large network buffer (to prevent sound stutter when the network isn’t reliable, e.g. due to wi-fi interference) and (b) extra audio processing on top (echo cancellation, noise suppression), and not the limitation of light speed.
I'd recommend defining box-sizing: border-box for html element and then applying box-sizing: inherit for *, *::before and *::after selectors. This makes it easier to override the box-sizing for 3rd party components that might rely on the default model.
Interesting choice of name given that FairPlay was (is?) Apple's DRM scheme for many years. Ugh, I am feeling old.
Like hacker (for a time?) was used by the media (for a time?) to mean exclusively cyberattacker, instead of someone who were IT enthusiasts who used clever approaches to problems. There was an attempt to use the term “cracker” for those who attacked IT systems to differentiate from “hackers” who merely explored and perhaps enhanced those systems.
Happy Thanksgiving y'all
Just buy Open Source stuff. I recently bought a smart plug from "athom.tech" (on aliexpress) that came with ESPhome. No phoning home. I also had access to the HTTP API in less than 5 minutes.

I could open it and connect more stuff to the GPIO, patch out the annoying LED or do something else with it. Install tasmota instead. It's quite liberating :)
It's a little out of date, South Africa has mandated IEC 60906-1 (SANS 164-2) on all new installations for some time now, replacing the huge old BS 546 (SANS 164-1) socket.

Incidentally, IEC 60906-1 was designed to be a new global plug standard but almost no countries want to go through the trouble of changing their own standards to adopt it. The Brazilian implementation is also not 100% compatible any more.
100× is definitely too optimistic. Even the original studies with alpha variant and shortly after vaccination was less than 95% effective, i.e., only 20 times.

It seems that the current value is closer to 40% reduction in covid transmission: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-11-vaccines-covid-transm...
It strikes me as unlikely that big tech companies could save a large fraction of their engineering salary payments by firing a ton of engineers and replacing them with newly-hired engineers in different countries, and the only reason that they haven’t done this is that they simply have not had this same realization that you have had. It’s possible, of course, but I have a sneaking suspicion there’s more to the story.
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Amazon, large supermarkets and public transport do not spread covid. Only small mum and pop stores. Logic.
> So, even the small brain of a wasp is able to run "computer vision" algorithms and are fast running "machine learning" algorithms.

Now i'm actually curious about its efficiency of the computation. If we could somehow map neurons to transistors (e.g. the logical calculations/algorithms, not the structure and not simulate neurons with transistors), which would be more efficient, the brain or the hardware?
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Fair enough, georgism is one of the more logically sound solutions.
There's idleness as in "doing things that aren't work" and idleness as in "being bored". Both have been broken: the former by our insane work ethic and the latter by our insane addiction to mobile devices.

We're being pressured into this, yes, but it's also up to us to push back. You genuinely can work less. You genuinely can put your phone down. Both can hurt, but both are almost definitely good for you.

A world in which we have time to muse, ponder, wander, think, create, listen... This is the world I want to inhabit, and I push myself everyday to try and do so. It's sometimes unfeasibly hard: phones are addictive and when you work for yourself the money <> time equation is hard to deny. But it's important, to me anyway, to see the sea and the moon and my kids growing up.
I managed to produce landscape - canada fall colors red yellow green and bright blue sunny sky.

No matter what variations I tried the sky was cloudy dark. Trees however were majestic. The UI does suck.
Can we reasonably say any piece of software is extremely secure against state sponsored attacks?
Someone has to work their ass off to create surplus to make billionaires. How many of those we got?