skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those that missed it: When CentOS8 was released in September 2019 it had an end-of-life on May 31st 2029. So maintenance/security updates until that date, and regular updates until May 1st 2024.

Then in December 2020, RedHat announced the end-of-life was moved back to December 2021.

Yes: changing the support lifetime of the operating system from 10 years to 1 year.
Not building garbage software in the first place is an option
>My understanding is that you cannot renounce citizenship on US soil.

I know nothing about this except 5 minutes of googling, but seems like USCIS does process renunciations on US soil:

>Further attempts by prisoners to renounce under 1481(a)(6) continued to be stymied by a United States Citizenship and Immigration Services policy that applicants had to attend an in-person interview and demonstrate that they could leave the U.S. immediately upon approval of renunciation. [0]

Reading between the lines though, the process seems far harder than doing it aboard because you must demonstrate "intent to relinquish U.S. citizenship", meaning cutting off all US ties and establishing foreign ties, and that's hard to demonstrate when you're physically inside the US.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relinquishment_of_United_State...
WeWork is co-working spaces, they embrace hybrid WFH.

But regardless, he’s not against “public blockchains”, he’s against cryptocurrencies. They’re not the same thing, as a crypto enthusiast would agree.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_economic_zone
I have found AA and the community as a whole welcoming. I’ve spent the last 18 years of my life try to “control” my drinking. Not drinking on work nights, staying sober for months at a time but I always found myself down that slippery slope. The pandemic and work from home made it 1000% times worse. I didn’t have to shower or commute. I’d roll out of bed login, do standup and start drinking. It never affected my work. I’ve always gotten rave reviews. AA has changed my life in regards to family, physical well being and work. YMMV but if you’re interested the AA site has pdf versions and audio versions of the big book. The big book was an interesting read for sure.
> I'm using branle (https://branle.fiatjaf.com/) as my client and you can follow me with my pubkey: 22e804d26ed16b68db5259e78449e96dab5d464c8f470bda3eb1a70467f2c793.

It isn't too hard to improve upon the status quo in various ways when you just drop a key usability requirement (in this case, the need for human-memorable 'handles').

It is worth reading 'Why Johnny Can't Encrypt' (1999) [0], 'Why Johnny Still Can't Encrypt' (2011) [1], and 'Why Johnny Still, Still Can't Encrypt' (2015) [2].

[0] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/sec99/full_papers/whitt...

[1] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.22...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.08555
I'm not sure if Google will start flagging the IP addresses of the users because of each request having a different agent. That would render normal Translate unworkable for them too!
Things I wish I knew before learning programming
This completely glosses over the fact that this only works for things on-chain. So you own an NFT, what does that actually mean? Does it mean you verifiably own the thing the NFT points to? No. It simply means you verifiably own the pointer. The link between the pointer and the off-chain thing is still completely vulnerable and unverifiable.

I think the real world equivalent is having a signed legal contract, but no courts or police. Feel free to buy and sell the contract, as I'm sure that has value as art in and of itself (which is how I see NFTs). But if you wish to lay claim to the items under contract, glhf.
What about scarce asset portability?

I am so tired of hearing these sour-grape protestations that crypto does not solve real problems that real people have.

Inb4: "How is crypto scarce when you can just make another one?" i.e. "I don't understand the relationship between hashpower and security."
Not sure what you're saying here, the ebay sale would create a public price record. How would this lead to a tax break?
> Why allow file names? OS should provide a UUID for all files. No names, nothing. We can just write which file is what to another file, noting its UUIDs to sticky notes.

But... isn't that what filesystems, in effect, already do? Files have IDs, which are mapped to names in a separate record. Having it in one common shared place for the whole filesystem, and a common OS API that provides access to it for all mounted filesystems, just makes things like useful, user-friendly shells (graphical and text), and common controls possible without everything user-facing needed separate UI constructed from scratch for each apps files.
>> Web3 is 'the future' if you're invested in crypto.

While investors for sure talk and promote their bags, I do think this statement of yours is overly cynical and ignores the fact that professional educated investors also invested in the first place because they truly believe it is the future.

A16Z and USV, for example, could certainly be wrong about web3. But they are both some of the best early stage investors of all time, and have consistently had a thesis about the future, bet on it in face of ridicule, and been proven right in the end.

I frankly think both A16Z and USV genuinely believe in the future of this technology, and betting billions on it reflects that, and is not some cynical pump n dump scheme.

And given their history of being correct versus the average HN commentator, my money is on them being right.
Yeah no problems.

So I mean this story itself is a good starting point. Kurtz prior to this was famously caught was caught stealing tax payers funds to bribe multiple groups including journalists, along with others. That is on top of his other best known trait I guess as one of those race baiting shitheads who is intentionally trying to win support by blaming immigrants for all of societies problems and working with other fascist / fascist adjacent groups. [1]

Just a few months ago a biography about Thiel came out that goes into a lot of detail about why specifically he is so concerning. There’s a good interview with the author here which outlines some of those concerns. [2]

Then there is the Cambridge Analytica stuff, the Trump stuff, the Facebook stuff, basically everything Palantir has done etc.

Edit: Sorry I’m doing all this on a phone and trying to put all of this together in a coherent package is a lot of work when I’m not even sure if you have any genuine interest in the question or not. I figure assuming it was a genuine question it’s probably going to be a lot quicker and easier to just check out some things yourself rather than me trying to digest it all for you but I didn’t want to just do the typical “Google it” response either.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/fc574b47-195...

[2] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/magaz...
Sybil attack as a service: SaaS 3.0
Purposeful disassociation! In concentration practice / meditation you develop a skill of observing sensations, thoughts, and feelings, observing them and then reorienting your focus elsewhere.

As part of this practice you can get really good about stepping outside of negative feelings. Observing them as a third party and developing the ability to acknowledge them without engagement, and the ability to refocus on something else is very freeing. Eventually you have a reflexive reaction to distractions and negative thoughts that allows them to be but to slide off you and refocus.
This is an art piece, not so much a chart. It's hard to compare regions (the text data helps).
What do you mean?

If the ISO SQL is not implemented by any SQL DB, and you denounce PostgreSQL/etc version of SQL - what is left over?
Make a programming language. No, two ! One that will sugar-coat C, one that should ideally be the cleanest, efficientest scripting marvel on earth.
Having unified my work and homelab environments on RHEL/CentOS for north of ten years, I took the opportunity to try out some new options.

We've begun the process of switching out from CentOS to Amazon Linux at work, and the jump actually hasn't been difficult - the tooling is largely the same, boot times are vastly improved (I don't really know what Amazon does under the hood to their Linux distro, but it does show), and with minor changes to some Ansible bootstrap code, we're up and running. Besides, most everything is containers nowadays.

My homelab has come full circle - it started out on Debian back in the 2000s (it was the only distro left with a floppy installer, and I had a few Pentium-class laptops). These days it's a shelf full of single-board computers, and I've found the support for Debian types like Raspbian/Armbian to be _much_ improved over CentOS, whose ARM32 special interest group was but a handful of people volunteering their spare time.

What have others been migrating to?
My favorite "internal slogan" of 3M is (or was): Make it by the mile, sell it by the inch.
E.g. my device (Fiio BTR5) tells me on its builtin display. Also for LDAC there's separate toggle in UI. Also Developer Tools stuff
that is different. when you use the web everything these days is via HTTPS, which encrypts the content so tmobile can't see what's going on.

TMobile is censoring SMS texts, which is not encrypted.
I'd stay away from a corporation attempting to mess with my brain. Especially Elon Musk's corporation. The guy shows tyrant tendencies, made people pay monthly for unfinished software in upfront-paid "self driving" cars, exploits and endangers his employees for profit and is a COVID-downplaying dick using his influencing potential to endanger even more people.

I consider Elon Musk too unstable and unethical sociopath to trust that Neuralink would be used to better mankind, not just Elon Musk. The dude wants power.
I've had a few blog posts in the works for a little while (as someone else already found!), but they've been on the backburner for a bit as my "main side project" (heh) has switched to my YouTube channel instead.
All of the above. I have a custom animation system written in Ruby that talks to some visualization software I wrote using C and OpenGL. The synthesizer is also in Ruby, and the core audio code for that is on GitHub. I use Inkscape for overlay graphics, and reboot into Windows for VEGAS for editing and compositing.
I don’t think I follow the point you’re trying make. Are you trying to say Rust compile times are a problem for you on your 13 year old laptop in the context of writing GUI code on battery? If so I think that’s such a specific scenario that it’s hard to draw any generally applicable conclusions.
I bought a $25 USB webcam and I constantly get comments for how nice my video and audio is. I just got the first one that is supported in linux.

It has rudimentary autofocus and a microphone that handily beats everything that is built in to my other devices.

$25, decent lighting and sitting in a room with lots of fabric in it was all it took to be a video conference king.
Trauma gets locked into the body too, not just the brain.

EMDR therapy helps process trauma for some.
Drug companies also kick back to patients. My wife started $65k per year infusions and the drug company paid our entire deductible for us after the first treatment.
I think management and I agree that taking on some amount of technical debt in exchange for velocity and progress is okay.

I think we disagree on how much.
Ask HN: Would you pay for a service that actively protects privacy?
Trying to get a sense of the perceived market outside my circle whether this is something worth putting in the hours necessary to reach an MVP.

I'm envisioning a suite of services including burner & legal options, for example

Throwaway & forwarded email addresses
Masked phone numbers

Automated Opt-outs requests
Delete my information requests

And for checking companies compliance, creating a graph of the information that can be used to find pathways of where consumer information is being shared / sold.

Price would likely be enough to cover some of the incidentals above in the 2-5$ USD range.
You are correct, I had a brain fart.
According to the article I linked in a Gallup poll earlier in 2021, 81% of women support abortion (36% under all conditions, 45% under some) and 79% of men support abortion (29% under all conditions, 50% under some). 52% of women consider themselves pro-life and 5% are unsure. 45% of men consider themselves pro-life and 5% are unsure.

You linked to an article from 2014 about surveys from 2011.
I’m with you on the directory tree, but like the idea of files having both names and unique, autogenerated IDs.

Edit: optionally having IDs.
*nix got lucky by always treating filenames mostly as bag of bytes (except for / and NUL), which delegated encoding to applications and typical passthrough from argv to fopen worked fine. Arguably WinNT way is more ambitious and reliable, but I think ignoring UTF8 existence until 2019 was huge mistake.
Beyond -msimd128: Vector Addition in WebAssembly @ 154GB/s
People forget:

* Vaccines don't prevent the spread of the virus

* We don't know anything about the long term effects of the vaccine

* Covid could mutate into a super mild virus. In line with the science, and the current mutation trajectory
Newsfeed for Crypto/DeFi Scams
> This is more of a step-by-step deep-dive into the ways to profile, diagnose and work through the timing and performance problems.

I'd argue that when it comes to doing work, I only want to deep-dive into my code. Not third party libraries that "vow" to have been tested + performant, let alone the language/build tools themselves.
The expanded version of the image does provide some comparison context.
Thompson is a small-town Missourian elected prosecutor, facing pressure from fellow conservatives to "hold the fake news accountable" as stated in the latest attack ad against the reporter from a conservative PAC [1]. At best it's a coin toss imo.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IBPeRa7U8E
I’m sure the governor would rather see this all the way to the end, lose and then cry foul than just admit he is wrong too. He probably already knows he is wrong but no politician would ever admit it. Politicians will dig in their heals until they’ve dug their own grave than admit fallibility. They are incapable of it.
Unless relays come together and agree to block someone or something. As long as there are enough relays this is improbable
Censorship is not that big of a problem in this age. That exact info will be available on someone’s server God knows where. Hell, moderation is very fundamental so any project not thinking about that is prone to fail due to low-quality/illegal content, driving away intelligent users.

Obstructing the truth by misinformation, spamming, etc is the actual problem. It is a much more effective way to target uncomfortable infos. During one of the Russian elections, voter fraud was caught on camera and was uploaded to Twitter, with #villageName. It quickly caught on and censoring was impossible at that point - so Russian bots instead started spamming #villageName posts with no sane content so anyone clicking on the hashtag to learn what happened was left wondering.
How could I miss that? Added Twitch to the list. Thanks!
> drop \ for /

API calls accept / as path separator (and interpret it correctly). Shell is a different beast though.
> so I have to create a file, store it somewhere, assign execute privileges and link my alias to it

Or put it in a function in the same file your alias is in.
Toool Loses $20k to Fraud
you are making a presumption there in terms of the engineering. I think the Model 3 (And Model S) where the first two major production cars from a new vendor - who didn't necessarily have the institutional knowledge. That said, I have had a Honda Odyssey, that has had four major return to shop events in it's lifespan. I had two Honda that had to have their airbags replaced. A VW that had a alternator reknowned for running backwards and destroying itself. A Honda recall that involved a kids seat suddenly becoming unlatched and possibly catapulting a child during a car crash.

It's hard to cover ever contingency.
This article does a decent job at casting the decentralized database argument as disruptive innovation without resorting to hype. But I wonder about the other fundamental drawbacks of blockchain for developing new applications:

- Immutability: building any software requires iteration, and therefore mutability. How do you build a startup if you can't ALTER TABLE on your database (or it requires a new database)?

- Irreversibility: if there are any bugs, or mistakes in the code, you can't fix it later (and in fact, someone may be able to steal a lot of your tokens)

- Dependency on real-world data sources: even if smart contracts are ironclad, they can dependent on potentially erroneous or manipulable data sources

- Off-chain centralization: many of these blockchain apps such as the play-to-earn games have a lot of centralized control that is not on the blockchain and under the discretion of the developer. Probably because of the reasons above

At a meta level, the hardest problems are people problems and not solvable by technology. Trying to solve people problems with ironclad code seems like a fool's errand. If there was a killer app that wasn't handicapped by the issues above, that would make me a believer.
This is based on VAERS and also v-safe data, and the CDC has done some review. They don’t seem to be trying to estimate rates from this data, which is one of the more common errors made when looking at VAERS data

Also, it’s a bit more than 4k reported adverse, and only 100 serious ones, for a population of 8.9 million. That’s not a large number of reports; the number of serious adverse events is less than the number of children that died of Covid in the US since the start of the pandemic.

Finally, I don’t think there’s any a priori reason to think the long term effects of this vaccine will be any different than for previous vaccines.
That's true, but you can disconnect those requirements on the server side.

E.g. a "name/profile to key/value" service would be useful for more than this.

If people want mastodon style handles, for example, it's easy enough to create a mapping that can leverage DNS for example to let you query for a matching pubkey in a cacheable and easily scalable way and without the need for that to be built into the messaging protocol.
The preceding sentence said "tech people have a superiority complex about their intelligence and inferiority complex about their social intelligence (neither of which is true from what I have observed)", so I took "Tech people are normal people" to mean "Tech people have average intelligence and social intelligence"; which I consider extremely unlikely, and therefore proposed some operationalizations of it that could be checked empirically.
You would need libraries. E.g. the C runtime and system import libraries (msvcrt.lib, vcruntime.lib, kernel32.lib, etc).
Your comment makes me believe it is accurate to call it a fiat system. I didn't quite catch which bucket you were claiming NFTs/Crypto fall into?

Crypto/NFTs have no intrinsic value. They actually have intrinsic liabilities in terms of resource usage to move it around and keep it alive. It only has value because the buyers/sellers/miners claim/believe it does, which is fiat no?
> I'm curious what techniques they will use to differentiate between Telegram and non-Telegram users.

A cease-and-desist letter from Google legal tends to work pretty well as a technique in these cases.
Yes the string split is a very odd. I agree with you there. Very confused that Google can't catch this. It's adding to the same string it should look same in the heap anyway? Simple college plagiarism programs like MOSS will catch this.

For Google Pay, what Google is doing is actually not legal. Government wanted each third party (non bank) app to be restricted to 25%. Google will get in trouble when government actually starts cracking down (and when they get close to the 25% mark). We don't know how government is looking at them, because they're under threshold anyway. The legal way for GPay to handle over 25% of total transactions is to register at least as a Payment Bank.
Not to be rude, but link that backs this claim?
>Telegram is great if you like shiny native features like stickers and having lightweight native clients, but at everything else Telegram is at risk of losing in the long-term.

Whatever ends up winning is going to need:

- Native clients on all major platforms
- Full support for all the fun little extra's like emoji's, reactions, gifs, file transfers etc.
- True multi-device support that doesn't require any sort of forwarding from another device
- Group chats
- Searchable history
- Your full history to automatically load when you log in on a new device (manually transferring isn't going to be an acceptable solution)
- No concept of selecting a server or anything. Users need to be able to just log in with a username/password and carry on.
- E2E encryption that doesn't sacrifice the user experience

Anything missing from this list? Also, does Matrix support all of that? Last time I checked Matrix out it seemed clunky and confusing (especially for non-technical users) and it was missing a ton of the 'basics' that people expect out of a chat app.
Thanks for flagging this. This data to me looks pretty murky in places.

Look at the outcome for young boys. They would expect 67 icu stays for Covid, 57 icu stays due to the vaccine. And there are a lot of assumptions baked in there.

(Numbers for girls are better)

With numbers that tight, why introduce a drug that might for children have non-obvious long term effects?
Retarded? More like mentally handi-capable.
He posted an update. It was a leaf on a tree in front of the woman and it obscured her face.

https://twitter.com/mitchcohen/status/1476951534160257026
I think the bolts listed in the article are less expensive than self-sealing stem bolts.
It's not decentralized yet but only potentially decentralized if a lot of people run relays. Currently there are only about seven relays powering the whole network: https://nostr-registry.netlify.app/

Luckily, relays are very lightweight and easy to run so maybe it will eventually get decentralized.
Why can't we just pass legislation requiring government software to be open source and government databases to be open access? This is already the case in several jurisdictions.

I currently work for a local government, and pretty much everything in our databases (apart from SSNs and certain HIPAA-protected data in the health department's database) can be freely accessed via an FOIA request. Some legislation requiring that these DBs (or a live copy) be directly accessible by the public would be relatively easy and inexpensive to implement.

What advantages would there be by doing this via crypto/blockchain/whatever?
I owned a Honda CR-V. This is very consistent with my experience with them.
This year, my (not so little) brother committed suicide in an alcohol induced stupor. He did it in his living room while his wife and young children were home, sleeping.

Therapy has been a life saver. The only true way to get "over" trauma or hardship is to get through. There is no getting "over" horrible things that happen to you. You just have to keep on moving forward, one foot in front of the other.

In the meantime, as other have said, find a passion or a hobby that you can pour some time into. Personally, I've found exercise, reading, spending time with my children (and his children), and practicing Stoicism to be very beneficial.

We look for clean lines of demarcation between life events a lot of times, but really, we can't extricate the future from the past so easily. All of us are, in some way, impacted by these critical, good or bad events. There is no escaping this impact; No human is immune to them. I've found the words of Marcus Aurelius to be particularly helpful:

"Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not 'This is misfortune,' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'"

Good luck.