skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is that whether a VPN is reputable is hard to gauge and not fixed in time.

Take IVPN from example: from what I gather they are among the most reputable. They haven't fucked up yet (a-la Nord VPN), they support and fund anti-censorship activities etc. But all of this is based on a perception, that can be doctored if you're determined enough. And usually in the discussions about VPNs the level of paranoia is pretty high to be trusting others.

Furthermore, the real issue is that VPNs are not that widespread among the "general public" so compromising a VPN (or running a fake one) seems like a good target for those who want to get at the (current) typical users of VPN.
Actually there is one old distributed ledger I was told about when discussing what is money or a blockchain: the stone currency historically used on the Yap islands.

It started out by using some large distinctive stones and adding markings to them. Additional markings and additional stones could be added. A key property was that all the information was public and known to the islanders, so if someone were to fake a marking or forge a stone it would immediately be invalidated. The oral recounting of the stones was a literal gossip protocol.

As the story goes, a stone was lost to sea during a storm. Nothing changed as everyone remembered it and either already agreed what was on it, or came to consensus. The physical presence/existence of the stone wasn't needed at all.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones
It sounds like economists are much more realistic about the feasibility of bug-free immutable software.
That is a cool site. I made something similar at https://glitchstar.com/

I think it is cool what humans make into art.
Clearly there are a lot of doctors that have good experiences with ivermectin. On an FDA approved dosage, it is one of the safest drugs available. Yet there seems to be a crusade against it. It is beyond me why such cheap and safe drug that has helped many, especially in the early stages of a covid19 infection, is being so strongly censored. In the Netherlands, we advise those coming down with covid19 to wait until things get so bad one needs to go to the hospital. Why not try ivermectin at this stage.
You're comparing it to the USA, which has by far the highest rate of incarceration in the world. 5 times more than the average country.
Will be interesting to see how many (and which) corporations move headquarters to get around this.
Czechia allows teenagers with moped driving license to drive 50ccm mopeds or small 2-seat cars limited to 45 km/h (similar to Smart but even smaller), with no big problems. Age is not an issue, the missing training/license is.
No, it acknowledges that common practice varies such that there is no canonical ordering, and tries to get at an ordering that, when applied, minimizes difference with common practice.
Yeah, but that "single width character" is often still in the middle of two widths worth of space. In most environments that should still often be enough of a clue.
I’d say I make $$ from it, maybe not $$$$ :-)
Sherlocking is all too real though
One of mine does, but it only handles MPEG-2 video and AC3 audio...kinda useless when your videos are all H.264 with a variety of audio codecs.

Maybe newer TVs (this one's 10 years old) have support for more codecs, but I'm not inclined to replace it when it otherwise continues to work well. I'll just drive it with a Raspberry Pi running Kodi and call it good.
This is good.

Would be good to have an indication as to what the figure mean - even is higher better than lower. Or are they rankings themselves, etc. Also maybe ability to sort by column?
Blocked Spam will be a big thing!
Ask HN: What software do you use for charts?
I have a web app (Django) that I need to produce various reports from. What tools do you use? D3.js seems like a bit of overkill.
The first entry about adding tcsh is more or less the basis of one of the questions I use in technical interviews for our Linux team. It's less about specifics on tcsh and more just about explaining the hierarchy of linux/unix and why we have the bin/sbin directories under / and /usr; the more the candidate can explain (or even hypothesize), the more comfortable my team feels with their general curiosity/understanding of Linux/Unix.

It's a niche situation sure, but being able to understand the system and tooling you're working with to a degree to understand what options you really have shows a great deal of discipline and curiosity, for me at least. Again, it's less about "can you figure out what to do in this specific situation" and more "can you just explain what you look at every single day in plain and simple terms? Did you ever think about it?"

It's been a surprisingly revealing question for nascent Linux admins on how they react to questioning the things they look at every single day, and how ready they are to __really__ dig into the kernel internals.
> If cookies are being handled out there better be a cookie coming your way too. If you keep this mentality going into adulthood you are most likely a psychopath.

Citation needed.
NYC seems to be going in the opposite direction: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/30/nyregion/supervised-injec...

Citizens of NYC are complaining:

> “Not only can I buy my drugs here but I can safely shoot them up in a comfortable atmosphere where people are watching over me?” Ms. Asberry-Chresfield said. “And then they go outside and they wreak havoc in the neighborhood. We can’t live like this.”
I’ve wondered if Universal Basic Income could be designed to eliminate illegal immigration.

First, we eliminate minimum wage.

Second, we provide a weekly UBI check based upon hours worked for that week. The hourly UBI payment would be roughly equal to the current minimum wage. Only US citizens would be eligible for UBI.

The results would be full employment of US citizens, and a horrible financial hurdle for any non-citizen to command the required wage to survive without the UBI. Those who couldn’t make the sufficient unsubsidized wage would be economically motivated to leave the US.
Tomorrow, we decide to re-instate the death penalty for people who commit murder.

Our very well trained seers (who are always right) tell us that this will reduce murder by 90%.. but 1/20 people we execute will be innocent of the crime.

Do we take the bargain?
If there are so many lidars near each other the chance of lasers causing constructive interference increases causing irreversible eye damage.
Really interesting write up. I hate that this website hides my scroll bar, though. And overlaying the ordering right on top of the image of the credits as you scroll is irritating. If you want to compare the ordering and the credits themselves, you have to scroll up and down repeatedly. There is plenty of room to put the ordering next to the credits, no "fancy" styling required.
The test contains antibodies for the virus, so if they react in any way (assuming you weren't tampering with it[1]) then you have the virus. Those tests are considered unreliable, because the false negative is high (i.e. not enough of the virus to register).

I don't know enough about pregnancy test, but I assume the hormone is always present, it's just certain level of it signals pregnancy.

[1] there were videos where people where testing juices and soft drinks and that was messing up the test.
Developing B&W 35mm negatives is pretty straightforward and doesn't require much room or gear. It's also the uninteresting part of the process. (Aside from playing with chemistry.)

I had the rest of the equipment for printing from high school days but, after having good darkrooms in college/graduate school, I set things up in a half bath in my apartment and it was all more trouble than it was worth. By the time I got a house, there still wasn't a good place to setup a darkroom and digital was on the cusp of coming in.
One of those extensions is the one that implements C# debugging, so for C# debugging, VSCodium is a fancy editor, not an IDE.
UX is generally OK but you unfortunately are dealing with a corner case.

So you’re experiencing scenarios which have not been taken in consideration.
I had no idea this was the reason! It always annoyed me when they didn't match.
I agree, this is a major issue. The inability to stick with things is shaping my entire life and career.

Having a personal mission statement sounds interesting, and I'm glad to see it's been working out for you.

> It hurts like * to give up on things I would like to do, but I can't do them all.

Exactly. It's a sort of FOMO, there's definitely an element of that too.
What? Different blankets simply produce different results. Load blanket with mostly U238, irradiate it with fast neutron flux for a bit, and finally radio-chemically process the result to extract useful fission elements for new fuel rods to be used in thermal-neutron reactors. Load blanket with waste (stuff which you got after removing Uranium and Plutonium from spent fuel rods) and keep under fast neutron flux for some time and in addition to a bit of energy you will get radioactive, but relatively short-lived waste since almost all actinides will be destroyed.
I can’t speak to consortium work such that you mention (V2V comms), but Google and Tesla could, today, use their existing traffic data feeds and mapping tools to both allow first responders to create events and for the vehicles to interpret and action that data.

This is also vastly cheaper than LiDAR on every vehicle in the short term.
Same. Seeing text without them bothers me unreasonably. I know some writing guides advise not using them, but I reject that reality and substitute my own.
"You shouldn't have privacy because it undermines the concept of a shared society, and also future historians might find your life interesting."

Thanks.
Chart.js works very well with Django. Very easy to pick up as well.
I mean, Japan’s had a solid history of electronics manufacturing in spite its seismic activity. Doesn’t it seem a bit contrary to suggest the country wouldn’t be a good bet?
I'd do-release-upgraded many 1404 machines after it went EOL

I don't know about Windows, nor care about it, I don't use it. I may have many OSes that I do use, but I only have one on my desktop with a monitor plugged in, and it's been the broadly the same for 21 years (debian, then ubuntu)

Yes the buttons on the monitors are rubbish, they're also what there is. My TV which has my monitoring screen and music on is controlled from a remote control, one button to mute, one to turn it off completely. If I didn't have the remote though, the button would be awful (it's on the back, and again is a multi stage menu system to turn off)
What I'm getting with Web3 is essentially FileCoin or Sia is like an API layer where Companies (DApps?) can build on top of.

It looks like this may be an existential threat to the current Tech Giants since their data is centralized whereas these new DApps are not.

Looks like they use FileCoin and Storj
This is likely just me, but I find sentences where the independent clause is bookended by an introductory and dependent clause to be inelegant. I never write them.
It's a good talk. The only quibble I have with it is the older I get, the less patience I have with this:

> Never mistake conformism or obedience with virtue

I would tweak it to say "Don't rely on conformism if you will gain more with autonomy." But that's the kicker; most users won't. Microsoft and Apple are trillion-dollar companies not because they've tricked people into using their ecosystems, but because those ecosystems solve most people's problems most of the time without a lot of thought.

The kind of person that slings emacs around for fun probably won't flourish lashed to Apple's mast. But most people care more about the destination than the journey for their computing, and for them, I'd recommend one of the two big OS vendors over trying to self-maintain a GNU/Linux desktop ecosystem 99 out of 100 times. What the author calls "fake comforts" they just call "comforts."
Bob Iger says Apple and Disney would have merged if Steve Jobs was alive
Highly recommend Daniel Siegel: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/191925.Daniel_J_Siegel
Really Like Sublime Text for cross platform work (especially when I need to edit code under windows).
Yet, really love Nova https://nova.app/ for mac, super polished.

Though for day to day, i switched to nvim and neovide (rust frontend).
Given that, I guess I spent too much money on text editors ...
No, it's not. Privacy laws are harmonized in the EU.
Internet Movie Firearms Database
another "hack"...
The Flash IDE still exists, it's called Adobe Animate now.
Offtopic: I'm genuinely surprised to see "samizdat"[0] as a part of media name from a country way outside ex-Soviet block.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat
Yes, plus the Covid vaccine doesn’t seem to give much immunity against infection and spreading, so the whole game is off.
I’d love to use this template but absolutely cannot stand tailwindcss.
This is a little extreme. When was the last time you had to take a month off for a flu shot? Adults do this all the time when traveling overseas.
It may be inconvenient to take a half day off to go to the clinic, but what you are saying is extreme.

Not to mention, people take time off for augmentations and plastic surgery all the time.
Comprehensive Tutorial for Contributing Code to Apache Superset
I fully agree (as someone who buys other small Mac apps as well).

It’s a small product with a small price and you’d be supporting indie development.

In a world where most paid software revenue is being made by big corporations, it makes even more sense to support indies.
If we’re looking at ethics, what’s the morality of Microsoft not paying market rate for exploits.
> either drugs have to be fully legalized (even hard one) and sold at groceries or fully and effectively banned like in Singapore. Anything in the middle creates more misery.

You make a good point here. Additionally, drug abuse is a symptom of psychological and social distress.

Regardless of your views on drugs, any effective ban effectively hides the symptom.

But the underlying problem is still to be addressed.
He said "annoyed" not "afraid".
I think you're being pedantic about inane details.

The CEO participates in marketing, on Twitter, on Facebook. Tesla markets on their website, and through their employees and service centers. There are clearly a ton of Tesla influencers who are also being paid to shill the car and their features online (much like any other car company, social media shilling strategies are very effective). There are many, many web-based marketing strategies Tesla has, from referral links, to search-engine-optimization, to blogging, to Youtube videos, etc. etc.

That Tesla doesn't participate in the traditional TV-ad marketing is a bit of a non-sequitur. They clearly have a huge online presence and leverage that to influence their buyers. If you've ever done SEO before, you'd clearly see how Tesla (and Elon Musk) optimize for SEO.

Yeah, Musk says that they don't do marketing. But since when was Musk a trustworthy source of information? Think for a bit.
If a B cell becomes senescent it isn't going to be contributing contributing to your immune response in any event. In general a senescent cell represents a cell that failed at apoptosis when it was supposed to kill itself, going in and having the immune system finish the job won't hurt anything. That is, assuming that the vaccine works in humans and doesn't have unwanted side effects, which is very much a possibility at this stage.
I have no skin in this game but I am really impressed by how safe and overall pleasant Singapore is.

If the strict laws are the reason, let it be.
> The point was that nothing today compares with how nice the development tools and experience were for it.

You'll be happy to learn that Adobe Animate is the Flash Professional (née Macromedia Flash, née FutureSplash Animator) development tool/experience: https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html
That sounds about right. Depends what speed you shoot the Tri-X though. At 400 the grain typically isn't bad. But get up to 1600 which is about the practical max and the grain is getting obvious at 8x10.
I still have hopes. I don't think meaningful (decades-long) life extension will become reality before my time comes due, but maybe suspended animation can. We discussed isochoric freezing (for food preservation purposes) recently on HN. The concept can be used for tissue preservation as well [1], and at some point maybe for whole body preservation. One can dream ...

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-021-02650-9
Have you looked at Clojure?

Definitely fun.
Downvotes with no refutation. Stay classy, Reddit.
Well, that's the point, 1) you need 100% collateral, 2) the collateral needs to be in the form of digital tokens and 3) it needs to be kept in custody by a third party (the "smart contract"). Yes, you can still do useful things despite these limitations, but at the same time be aware that 99% of the borrowing/lending activity that goes on in the real world is not possible with this technology.
There are a lot of problems with medical testing, and much of it stems from simple ethics. It would be more effective to test on humans directly and who knows what amazing treatments we might find that don't work in rats. And yet.. that's hopelessly unethical.

It reminds me of a scene from House MD;
>People should not be testing drugs because they are desperate. But, people won't test drugs unless they are desperate. We need drugs to save children and puppies ergo we need desperate people ergo welfare kills sick children.

Maybe in the future AI will solve this problem, if we can learn to accurately model the human body. But given it's insane complexity that's certainly going to be a big challenge
Banner Microsoft Edge shows if searching for Chrome: no need for a new browser
At first glance, the "hack" looked to be a pretty basic phishing setup, but it seems like some kind of Discord functionality may have been compromised? That would be a pretty big deal.
History?

Given N "advances" that you hear touted based on mouse trials, how many turn into real human therapies? (Curing aging in mice isn't really the advance we're looking for.) How many turn into real human therapies that live up to the breathless announcements that were made based on the mouse trials? I don't have hard evidence, but my gut estimate is 10-20% actually deliver.

So, yes, while waiting for the science, there is some empirical grounds to have a default stance of doubt (or, if you prefer, skepticism).
Guess it's a lot easier to go with "I started programming since 12"...
Thanks, I understand your arguments and have held them for ~15 years, I have changed my mind: I don't believe "any investigation is one day inevitably going to be a malicious actor", that could happen with any kind of evidence anyway, encrypted evidence is no exception, I also don't believe about retroactive laws like that, and I do want something to be done about the thriving criminality, because I don't want protection from what could happen if reality became scifi, I want protection from the threats we are actually facing in the present reality. That said, your comment reflects an above standard kindness which I deeply appreciate.
The entire playlist of Russ doing AoC this year has been great. Using a combination of ivy, perl, awk, sam, and acme. Normally I focus on writing small scripts or programs to complete each day but using a REPL or similar interactive environment to reach the answer is a neat solution I had not thought of.
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> According to the Singapore Prison Service, those convicted of drug offences made up around 67% of Singapore’s prison population in 2020. When compared to other contexts, this is a disproportionately high figure.

Maybe to some other contexts, but when compared to other contexts, it’s not high at all. Singapore has rather average total incarceration rate, globally. This is already a good look for them: most of the crime in developed world is committed in cities, especially large ones, and as practically entire population of Singapore lives in a huge city, one would expect its criminality to be significantly higher than global average. For comparison, if you subtracted crime committed in its large cities, United States would be extraordinary safe place, with very low resulting incarceration.

Now, if drug offenders make up two thirds of its already low (when controlled for urbanization) prison population, it means that its population of non-drug offenders is extraordinarily low. This means, for example, that its entire non-drug population is (per capita) half as big as those of New York City jails, which only contain those in pretrial detainment, and serving short sentences under a year (and not even all of them at that), and do not detain those NYC criminals serving longer sentences — and NYC in recent years has been known as rather safe big city, with low crime by US standard.

So, Singapore is a place with extraordinarily low crime, and extraordinarily low incarceration of non-drug offenders, and low incarceration overall (when controlling for urbanization). And that means that Singapore drug policy doesn’t work. Okay, I guess.
I can do quite a bit beyond hello world, speak German and have right of residency.
What are the salaries for such programmers?
Do get in touch if it's really that simple, I am ready to roll.
The job requirements on the job pages are all a bit ridiculous with the requirements, am genuinely curious, if you reply with an email I can contact you I would love to have a chat. Danke vorab.
It's insanely laborious to pull in information from datasets on systems, quickly transform them to approximate the answer to a question you're trying to answer, and have a discussion around it. Some examples:

- Have restaurants in my local town started to close earlier because of worker shortages, COVID, and the chaos of the last 2 years?
- Which nearby public parks are both free, open right now, and not too busy? And also will it rain soon?

The state of the art for this is probably CSV's & Excel / spreadsheet, with lots of limitations. Most datasets are hidden behind obscure API's, available only to programmers.

And then let's say you want to have this type of computational conversation while sitting around the dinner table? Forget about it
If their argument was about the insanity of no-one doing model checking, I'd be on board. But that's not their argument.
I wonder if the low level production assistants tasked with putting together the credit lists cost enough to justify the work going into this.
'death' answering the question you mean; if not the one you asked.
Reinventing The Week: a new calendar system for the new year
What if weeks didn’t have seven days? What if we redesign the calendar and get our short-term cycles to be in sync with the month?

…If we completely drop the concept of weeks and replace them with something more aligned with the rest of the calendar system, we can make our routines much more intuitive, predictable, and rhythmic.
I think it's clear we're talking about effective, secure encryption, and that means E2E. Faulty implementations are technically an exception, but I don't think you can argue with that in good faith.