skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So it is voluntary. People just dont like the consequences of their actions.

Voluntary is doing something by your own free will, which to me doesn't mean "there are legal consequences / you will be banned from your current way of living if you don't do it".

For instance, if you had to register as an organ donor otherwise you could never eat at a restaurant at any time in your life, I doubt we would call that registration 'completely voluntary'.

But I think this just comes down to a definition of what you count as voluntary, and if something can be truly voluntary if people are actually doing it because of coercion. It depends where you stop, if we fine people if they don't take a vaccine does that still count as voluntary, just because there are consequences to their actions? What if we put people in jail? Where is the line between something being voluntary and being coerced?

> These are required when visiting certain countries where you are expected to be vaccinated against certain diseases. Also for citizenship in most places (TB vaccine + scan of lungs, all other expected vaccines...)

To clarify I'm talking about domestic 'vaccine passports'. The word in the UK at least is used to describe the introduction of proving your identification and vaccination status every time you go into a restaurant or bar within the country etc as they have introduced in France, which also keeps a log of everywhere every citizen has visited.

If any country wants to block anyone from entering their country without a particular vaccination then that's fine and their decision.
Existing civil rights laws are the ones that will force integration. I think you’re conflating a conservative newscycle view of what happens in some universities with the supporting legality. That article doesn’t address safe spaces, it touches on a notion of privileging speech of a victim class at the expense of a different class and says thats rooted in the civil rights act. It says everything you want to be afraid of but I think its operating in a very distorted realm and should also hire its own lawyers and see what view federal court actually hold.
Yggdrasil – end-to-end encrypted IPv6 network
Could have been dropped in a bad way. This is the reason why Lithium Ion cells go bad, external damage. There are numerous examples of people falling with their e-bikes, not even visible damage on the outside of the bike or the pack other than maybe a scratched up handlebar and then 12 hours later the whole thing suddenly goes up in flames.

Here is one example caught on video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbWmCiMJdT8
Has anyone tried this tool to write product requirements?
The Story Behind Kanye West’s Stem Player
Funny to see how many people are against what you're doing, not realising that there must be plenty of people in their companies that do the same. Not everyone has to be a top performer, the point of a job is getting paid one way or another. We are all company slaves, your only point to work is getting paid, and if you can get that without working then good for you. There is no point giving your life to something you don't care about, keep doing what you doing and enjoy.
Even with that being true, usually a GOOD non-fiction book will have more depth and value than browsing the internet.

And you can skip parts while reading a book.
Dark matter and dark energy are models, "made up" to try and model reality's differences from general relativity. General relativity was "made up" when the Newtonian model was found to differ from reality. The Newtonian model was "made up" to explain the Copernican model, which was "made up" when the Ptolemaic model was found to differ from reality.

All models are wrong. Some models are useful. Everyone knows that the models aren't perfectly accurate; that's what models do: model. We literally say "this model is wrong" all the time.
"hundreds of thousands of messages per day"

This is not much load at all, an iPhone running RabbitMQ could process many millions of messages per day. Even 1M messages per day is only 11 messages per second average. i.e. not taxing at all.
> That's an overstatement.

Sometimes I wear my headphones in bed (not this brand/model, but another wireless over-the-ear sort.) I'm reconsidering that now...
Yes, the original argument was that boundaries can't be enforced. Arguably, it is easier to enforce boundaries between microservices.
I recently read https://www.propublica.org/article/muscular-dystrophy-patien... because a random comment mentioned it in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29468831
With Mozilla's SOPS, one can simply swap out GPG or age for AWS KMS or Vault as its encryption backend as one matures. SOPS is more or less ideal but doesn't have the ecosystem built around it pass does (Password Store for Android just one example of easily using your pass secrets everywhere).

So, yes, it is possible and we don't need yet another encryption backend that already does what the existing backend does just because it's "lighter/sexier".

What we should be doing with GPG is building abstractions (Keybase) and contributing to modernization efforts like Sequoia. Age is disruptive without showing its value to that disruption.
You seem to be assuming that a base on Mars or the Moon would have to be a closed system but that is not true.

There are plenty of useful materials on a planetary surface, for example water. There are also many ways to take advantage of a CO2 atmosphere or oxygen from lunar rocks.

Even space stations don't need to be fully closed, for example the ISS is constantly being resupplied.
Thanks for the reply.
Yeah, I think it is the same thing.
To spell out good reasons for doing this:

If you're already using Postgres, you can avoid increasing operational complexity by introducing another database. Less operational complexity means better availability.

You can atomically modify jobs and the rest of your database. For example, you can atomically create a row and create a job to do processing on it.
you make it sound like it's a named condition, which one is it?
IMHO that is the most significant part of this. Any question about the intent is clearly tipped toward legal trouble by that.
We just released Log4j 2.17.0 which addresses this issue: https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/download.html
The optics of the site currently being down does not instill much confidence in wanting to use this in production.
> "fact-checking" has been completely subverted to serve the preferred narrative and suppress any heretical thought

I don't think this is correct. In my experience, most online "fact checkers" seem to get it right the great majority of the time.

Can you point to some examples you are thinking of?
> Isn’t this a bit much? This seems very baited and/or flame-war inducing.

And yet I think it’s pretty obvious journalism is not about truth anymore. Gawker might be dead, but the Gawker style of “journalism” is well alive.

You don’t even need to dig that deep to see something is rotten, the two biggest news channels in the US spend the day saying the opposite of one another.
Interesting counter balance. I still think what makes books perceived as more valuable is based on a actual facts that comes out of this medium: barrier of entry.

It takes serious dedication to author a book. Writing over 100 pages on any subject takes dedication, ability to organise thoughts, multiple reviews and editing passes.
Most other media don't require this level of dedication and abilities to formulate valuable thoughts. Twitter is on the other extreme of the spectrum. Just a short phrase and tap "publish". Can do this on the toilet seat.
Even making a video now takes far less effort than writing a book given the productivity tools made available to anyone who has a mid range smartphone.

Edit: it doesn't imply all books are valuable, actually most aren't. But the barrier of entry leads to less noise than found on most other media.
We are having an impostor syndrome as humanity, which is a good thing.

There was an obvious security hole sitting for years in the most common library in the most common programming language, and no one noticed... We fly to space and begin to do some mega projects, yet some of the most intelligent people in the world are facepalming themselves on a daily basis... We are not smart enough yet.
I've not looked into how the US cable market is doing, but here in Denmark it feels like we're very close to cable/bundling snapping. The cable companies are forced to raise prices each year, mostly because of sports and people are cancelling in droves. In 2015 93% of Danes had cable, in 2019 less than 80% had cable and during 2020 - 2022 the largest provider lost at least 250.000 subscribers, pushing them well below 1 million subscribers. Many others have downgrade their subscription to the bundles that doesn't include sports channels.

At some point the remaining subscribers can't pay the cost of the ridiculous fees charged for the major sporting events. When that happens the fees must come down, or the sporting companies must find a different solution.

Honestly a great solution for the major sports, like football in Europe, would be to great something like what the MLB did in the US. I know a lot of football fans who'd love to get a subscription for all the Champions League games. Just a fixed price and then watch any game you like. Why pay for Formula 1, hockey or even the Bundesliga, if you only care about the Danish Superliga and Champions League.
yep, the happiness project: https://gretchenrubin.com/books/the-happiness-project/about-...

Hear me out :)

It teaches you to do a lot of little things that over time make a huge impact on your well being and the people around you. I loved this book and found a huge impact on my life year after year as little habits it teaches started to add up.

In the workforce it also helped me. I am already very empathetic, but it helped me do a lot of little things for my team and the people I manage to make their lives better.

Great book.
you honestly think they are this alert and actually work? Honestly most of them just watch tv all day long and sit out their shift. I've seen people's bicycles get stolen right in front of the security guy. Most security guys are useless and don't do anything all day.
2.20 would stand for 2^20 vulnerabilities.

I decided to just ditch it and write from scratch something api-compatible, but extremely cut-down on "features".

Maybe someone would release something along this line. I can't.
Hey Matt, I'm making my way through understanding this space and am struggling with the morality of it all, so I have a question for you: would you say that the trustless peer-to-peer world is a better future than today?

I'm asking given the realities of decentralized networks: it's currently slower, more expensive and harder to do transactions using peer to peer systems (and it's a bit tough to imagine it'll ever be as fast/simple/reliable as a centralized one because of the requirement to have consensus of nodes). And also given the realities of ETH contracts: they are agreements written in code (certainly mostly by people who don't have any background or formal education in writing laws or agreements, in comparison with lawyers)
Good job! I really don't envy you right now, being in the center of attention like you are now. Take care!
As i said the battery has a lot of space, is glued, and sealed shut within a “box”, you should be able to throw them out of the window with no problem at all, I’ve dropped mine a lot and they are already 5/6 yo
Hypochondriasis is classified as a mental disorder in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Calling someone a hypochondriac is an insult if you're doing it based on thin speculation, because it's just a more specific way of saying that someone is "mentally ill".
My project [1] still running on Perl, and it is 23 years old and still works and millions of people use it... Back then we wrote custom template system from scratch, and we never upgraded to anything.

[1] https://fotki.com
This recalls a particularly beautiful paper from this year: "Relative to other species, humans have an exceptional ability to cooperate—we are willing to incur personal costs to benefit others, including strangers, and people who we will never meet again [1,2,3,4,5,6,7] (see Glossary). These abilities are thought to arise from complex systems of shared moral intuitions about what is “right” or “good” that are culturally transmitted across space and time [8, 9]."

From a paper on the human prefrontal cortex in Nature Neuropsychoparmacology: The prefrontal cortex and (uniquely) human cooperation: a comparative perspective, Zoh, Chang, & Crockett; August 19, 2021 – https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-021-01092-5

It's a technical review paper on the brain structure from which the ability to cooperate arrives. I'm unable to judge its soundness and validity but it's an unusually beautiful paper; The abstract itself is beautiful enough that I'll add it here:

Abstract: Humans have an exceptional ability to cooperate relative to many other species. We review the neural mechanisms supporting human cooperation, focusing on the prefrontal cortex. One key feature of human social life is the prevalence of cooperative norms that guide social behavior and prescribe punishment for noncompliance. Taking a comparative approach, we consider shared and unique aspects of cooperative behaviors in humans relative to nonhuman primates, as well as divergences in brain structure that might support uniquely human aspects of cooperation. We highlight a medial prefrontal network common to nonhuman primates and humans supporting a foundational process in cooperative decision-making: valuing outcomes for oneself and others. This medial prefrontal network interacts with lateral prefrontal areas that are thought to represent cooperative norms and modulate value representations to guide behavior appropriate to the local social context. Finally, we propose that more recently evolved anterior regions of prefrontal cortex play a role in arbitrating between cooperative norms across social contexts, and suggest how future research might fruitfully examine the neural basis of norm arbitration.
I as a coder love zulip[1]. I don't really understand why non-coders have problems, but obviously they have them.
I fear when they get a "professional" UI designer things might not improve from my perspective, very much the opposite.

[1] With one exception. The search is too fuzzy. We have 3 years of technical disscussions in zulip. Finding code snippets you exist is often impossible. A real grep interface would be great. Optional of course for thos who know regexps. Yeah, I can harvest my own copy of the chat history using the REST API and grep there. My code to do so has fallen into disuse...
> Perl is kind of designed to make awk and sed semi-obsolete.

I routinely use awk and sed today, and avoid Perl like the plague. My experience says that something went very wrong in trying to achieve that initial design goal.
Low doses in homeopathy are indicated by a p nummer, like p13, meaning 10 times diluted, 13 times. Which brings it into individual molecules per tube territory.
> Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year period, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical error in the U.S. Their figure, published May 3 in The BMJ, surpasses the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) third leading cause of death — respiratory disease, which kills close to 150,000 people per year.

> The Johns Hopkins team says the CDC’s way of collecting national health statistics fails to classify medical errors separately on the death certificate. The researchers are advocating for updated criteria for classifying deaths on death certificates.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_su...

I don't know if this is credible or not, but it's coming from the John Hopkins School of Medicine which I think is broadly credible.
Getting past the absolute useless Facebook Concierge Support is impossible. And they cannot help with anything that's not a copy-paste from the faq. It's infuriating. A client's domain had gotten a restriction so they could not run ads with a link to their site (which they had been doing for years), but on inspection from the FB team, and the escalated team, it wasn't restricted at all, but nothing they could do/wanted to fix.

All these automated systems coupled with a total unwillingness to help, it just sucks. Google is even worse, as you often can't even send a mail somewhere.
> It implies the existence of a multiverse system

entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

Thou shalt not multiply entities beyond necessity.
Also obligatory https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-phrase-no-evidence...
I notice the same thing happens with me for upvotes. For me, it seems that this occurs if I have had the HN page open for a while, thereby it’s maybe a session timeout issue I suppose.

I have reached out to hn@ycombinator.com (mods), however, they’ve been mostly unresponsive.
Sounds like a good place for a class action! Those legal fees ought to come out of Princeton.
A striking passage from the paper: "Relative to other species, humans have an exceptional ability to cooperate—we are willing to incur personal costs to benefit others, including strangers, and people who we will never meet again [1,2,3,4,5,6,7] (see Glossary). These abilities are thought to arise from complex systems of shared moral intuitions about what is “right” or “good” that are culturally transmitted across space and time [8, 9]."

This is a paper on the human prefrontal cortex in Nature Neuropsychoparmacology: The prefrontal cortex and (uniquely) human cooperation: a comparative perspective. Zoh, Chang & Crockett; August 19, 2021 – https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-021-01092-5

It's a technical review paper on the brain structure from which the ability to cooperate arrives. I'm unable to judge its soundness and validity but it's an unusually beautiful paper; The abstract itself is beautiful enough that I'll add it here:

Abstract: Humans have an exceptional ability to cooperate relative to many other species. We review the neural mechanisms supporting human cooperation, focusing on the prefrontal cortex. One key feature of human social life is the prevalence of cooperative norms that guide social behavior and prescribe punishment for noncompliance. Taking a comparative approach, we consider shared and unique aspects of cooperative behaviors in humans relative to nonhuman primates, as well as divergences in brain structure that might support uniquely human aspects of cooperation. We highlight a medial prefrontal network common to nonhuman primates and humans supporting a foundational process in cooperative decision-making: valuing outcomes for oneself and others. This medial prefrontal network interacts with lateral prefrontal areas that are thought to represent cooperative norms and modulate value representations to guide behavior appropriate to the local social context. Finally, we propose that more recently evolved anterior regions of prefrontal cortex play a role in arbitrating between cooperative norms across social contexts, and suggest how future research might fruitfully examine the neural basis of norm arbitration.
One person's freedoms end where another's begin.

You are saying that restricting someone's 'freedoms' make vaccine not voluntary.

Perhaps there is a bit of coercion, that being said, people are free to take it or not. If they do not they can't expect to be allowed to spread the disease and potentially kill other people.

When disease is eradicated they can be free to do whatever they like, until then they should be acting like responsible adults.

Your example of organ donor is unreasonable... a better example would be someone with active TB being allowed to go out and cough everywhere... That is also illegal... regardless if everyone else is vaccinated or not.

> To clarify I'm talking about domestic 'vaccine passports'. The word in the UK at least is used to describe the introduction of proving your identification and vaccination status every time you go into a restaurant or bar within the country etc as they have introduced in France, which also keeps a log of everywhere every citizen has visited.

That's just enforcing the law... Can't have a law that nobody checks.
Price Matters: Dacia Spring Electric Becomes Best-Selling Car in Romania
One of the more encouraging things is that there are going to be developer tools for the device, so we could see it becoming more general purpose.
What Does Commonality Between Aircraft Types Mean?
…like cable TV?
While true (and this thread is getting me quite paranoid about my devices) the danger from asbestos is quiet but here we are talking about fires and explosions. That’s not something you cover up so easily.
Up until last week, I thought you’re not supposed to do this out of performance reasons (string needs to be evaluated even if not logged). That log4j does anything else on this string than writing it to some log destination is the real problem and the cause of all these bugs…
I don't think so, ads fund a ton of great websites.

I am mixed on brokers/tracking. I think the worry is overblown. When I talk to friends in the industry they laugh at how bad it all works. From what I see it is more like pointing a shotgun in a dark room the size of a football stadium. I would rather have more targeted ads personally.
> at a large - but not evil - social media company.

Do such things exist?

If it isn't evil yet, it will become so.
Studies into how Pain and Breathing are connected could lead to safer pain Drugs
There is a reason I can't use my Sony MDR-1000X when I'm charging them. Good point on the charging danger of batteries.
Chemical burns don’t play by the same rules as fire, and water sometimes makes things worse. Lithium is an alkaline metal so, if I had the presence of mind to think about that, I’d wonder whether lithium batteries are one of the “keep away from water” sort of things.
On commercial forks FOSS projects
Show HN: Increase SaaS revenue by recovering expired checkouts
Perl has always been and will always be the greatest language. I still use Perl daily and get things done fast. While you are matching your types in your fancy garbage language (Rust, Haskell, etc), I already did the job, solved 25 other problems, and signed up 10 new customers.
Exactly, let’s not forget that any story that refers to Taiwan being an independent country is marked as “fake news” in some parts of the world which has a chilling effect.

Why do we assume our own governments will also be immune from the same temptations?
Oh yes, I’ve seen several programs that spend ~30% of their CPU cycles formatting strings that are immediately thrown away because the log level is not high enough. Now you can also include vulnerabilities with no extra effort!
Damn, this looks great. I'm very happy with my ErgoDoxes but the domed keys on this would make me seriously consider it if I were buying today. IMO, the split keyboard is super important for not messing up your shoulders with hunched over typing.
Is this mostly just about who’s got a bigger … ?
China tried the US elite college admission approach by alllowing top universities to accept a small number of students before Gaokao as pilots. And corruption ensured. Lots of complaints from the public. It was reverted back to purely based on Gaikao scores. Not ideal but it is the closest to fair admission it can get in China.
In France 11 vaccines are mandatory by law for children, starting soon after birth.

The number of people who have a problem with that is minuscule and infinitely smaller than the number of people who have a problem with Covid vaccines, which are not mandatory. To me this highlights the high degree of irrationality and of misplaced "fight for freedom" we're seeing.