skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
using that definition aren't there a lot of conspiracy theories that are true?

cigarettes were said not to be dangerous for years after the corporations knew.

global warming for years wasn't real.

the opioid epidemic

The idea that a large corporation could influence government agencies, politicians and news outlets doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility.

That they would withhold information that's harmful to their bottom-line and their customers has happened a lot in the past as well.

does that make every CS true of course not. Just not sure how to tell which ones are which when you know most forms of authority have been compromised in the past.
I don't want to apologize for those statements -- its clear that they were wrong. However, I do think that originally they were genuinely a result of a mental breakdown.

As for the "Q is legit" statement, he quit Minecraft before Q was a twinkle in 4chan's eye. I don't follow Notch and haven't for years. I'm not surprised a lonely tech enthusiast was ensnared by the Q cult, though.
Pony? I was hoping for at least a unicorn.
The point is to capture all those effects together. People who died in car crashes after 9/11 grounded all the planes have in some sense died from the terrorist attack, even though nothing at the scene suggests it.

Same with covid, if someone dies from undiagnosed cancer due to lockdowns, they have been affected by covid in one way or another. That's what the "with or from" comment is about, we get past it by looking at the total effect.
Root comment literally ended with

> If you want to isolate a program, you need to do it on the OS level.

Commenter further suggested bubblewrap and firecracker elsewhere in the thread.

“Just allow everything” is a straw man you pulled out of nowhere.
It also seems that Linux hardware support gets worse over time. I upgraded an old laptop to a newer distro, and the CPU fan was constantly blowing, cpu scaling stopped working, video became buggier, Bluetooth would randomly stop working with A2DP, hibernation stopped working. It took nearly a year for me to figure out each of the issues, because this is Linux; we don't "help users" or "test hardware", that would make us soft and weak!
There is no income limit on Medicare payroll taxes, just social security.
In the context of PHP, the package source is put under vendor/ and in my IDE is automatically indexed. It's very easy to view the source code.

You can even experiment with the packages directly, by editing the files in vendor/.
Because illusory protection is worse than no protection. if it doesn't actually provide any protection against malicious code in practice then the only thing it can give you is a false sense of security.
When it comes to healthcare in the US, a lot of people who can afford it don't care about people who can't afford it. Hence the common belief by the middle class that the US has the best healthcare in the world. (That's before you add in a large dose of American exceptionalism.)
I started this a couple years ago to help me keep versions of binary database files I'm working on. It's based around the chunker library from the Restic backup software and more-or-less patterned after the existing binary VCS Boar, written in Python.
Two Chinese Startups Tried to Catch Up to Makers of Advanced Chips Failed
"As soon as we learn how to cultivate some good quality meat in-vitro, we will stop killing animals and start to pretend to be different from the barbaric previous generations."

In the very long term maybe. But even if cheap, good quality artifixial meat becomes avaiable by tomorrow - killing animals for meat simply out of tradition - will go on a long time.
Archetyp is a pretty new darknet market that seems solid and ships stuff from and to various places around the world.

You can find much better guides for this but these are the steps:

1. Download TOR Browser

2. Google the address to Archetyp, the url only works in TOR

3. Enter the site and create an account

4. Buy bitcoin or even better monero on for example localbitcoins

5. Transfer the coins to you electrum wallet

6. Transfer the coins from your electrum to the market place

7. Find the stuff you want to buy (best sourced from your country) and buy it to an address you choose.

edit: it struck me that this might not be allowed here, if so I apologise.
The problem is a lot of 3rd party software requires a 'mainstream' distro, especially commercial software.

Regardless, my point isn't that it's not possible to solve it, which it potentially is with enough work, but the out of the box experience of the most popular Linux distros is very poor for software management for desktop/fast moving software.

This really hasn't improved much in the 20+ years I've used Linux.
Grim for whom?
The easiest way to tell the difference between a real and fake is by the white "recycle" sticker

https://preview.redd.it/83f0fqegasa11.jpg?width=1263&format=...

fake batteries have a poorly printed, "fat" looking battery on the recycle sticker and the real ones have a slender properly printed one. For context in the image the bottom one is fake.
>How come for you the starting point is that animals do not have feelings and emotions like us, and that we have to have evidence for it?

That's not exactly what he's saying. He's saying that the overall qualia of an animal is not that of a human. In other words, despite (arguably) having certain experiences that are similar (or even identical) to humans, the totality is different in an important way.

More concretely, the argument is as follows: just because a dog feels guilt doesn't mean (a) it's felt in an equivalent way to humans, nor (b) that the overall experience of a dog is equivalent to that of a human.
Hmm, you're right; I was thinking of the SSPL not AGPL when I wrote that comment. Thanks for the correction.
You are editorializing with your copypasta. The author is saying that the NFT does none of that.

> It records a crytocurrency transaction and appends arbitrary data to the transaction. That's it.

> None of those functions are inherent to the NFT. They all rely on external infrastructure, which exists independent of the NFT. If you're wondering what role the NFT does play, then, the answer is nothing-- it parted a fool from his Monopoly money. That's it.
Twenty years ? Chicken feed.
Skip the conversation over phone/skype, and it will work even better. Worked fine for me for 20 years (since 1998), until Covid, when Zoom become the new norm.
There are still outbreaks that receive reporting, e.g. [1]. It's just not as big part of Western news feeds, (a) because there's so much going on and (b) because the limited data makes it hard to fit into reader-relevant coverage.

As far as the number itself goes: this article [2] is pretty polemic, but it does a good job of putting the number in the context of comparables from other countries. One thing discussed is that almost every country is underreporting COVID deaths due to systematic pressures, so journalists are in a bind about how to report.

While China is an extreme example, any site that wants to show you a table of data across time and regions would require infinite footnotes to describe ways the data might be right or wrong. Worldometer has a page that describes its methods [3], which basically says their policy is to aggregated data from official sources. I think that's reasonable, although I think they could use a bigger "this may be garbage in garbage out" banner so folks don't interpret carelessly.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/world/asia/china-xian-loc...
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgecalhoun/2022/01/05/beijin...
[3] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/about/
It's worth noting that Fedora/RHEL's postinstall is generally less intrusive than Debain's, though.

For instance it doesn't just automatically create databases or starts/enables services.
Here we go again. NFTs is a technology that goes hand in hand with a social contract to abide by the ledger. People disregard that social contract as if it wasn't here, but it IS there. Just like patents are written to some database but are enforced by a social contract, NFTs are written to some database but are enforced by a social contract.
Nothing could be further than the truth. Capability-secure Java code just looks like Java with no surprises. The only difference is that ambient authority has been removed, which means that no code can just call new File("some_file.txt") and amplify a string that conveys no permissions into a file object conveying loads of permissions, you have to be explicitly given a Directory object that already conveys permission to a specific directory, and on which you call directory.createFile("some_file.txt")

Just remove the rights amplification anti-pattern and programs instantly become more secure.
In the early days of crypto, this is what kept me away: the clear use case for illegal purposes (Silk Road anyone?). What I didn't realize was the big early driver was to transfer wealth out of China. China has strict capital controls and China's wealthy don't want their entire wealth to be at the behest of the CCP. There are limited reasons you can move money out of China. Bitcoin mining was a way around this.

That's technically illegal too but not in the same category as, say, ransomware, drugs, etc.

Anyway, I don't think the illegal use cases really matter. After all, cash can be used this way too. Sure cash can't be used for certain things crypto can be but crypto isn't fundamentally immoral any more than money is.
Yes, and Saddam Hussein was reelected 11 million to zero.
Seems you could provide some sort of evidence it of how it is fake.
2pi multiplied by how much you want to raise the string, I believe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_girdling_Earth
Bitcoins always had its flaw from the start but I wonder if this is just the concerted effort to shift people over to Central Bank Digital Currency having used the existing crypto tokens as a Proof in Concept whilst raising awareness of a new type of mon(k)ey token.

China already have their own Digital Currency (DC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_renminbi

and on the 18th the UK unveils this, which people can watch online for free.
https://www.rusi.org/events/open-to-all/central-bank-digital...

One thing I noted with the Chinese DC, is that the DC can starting expiring in order to stimulate spending in the wider economy, much like the ECB's negative interest rates. Reports suggest the big global corps like Siemens and Phillips are paying to store money in EU banks instead of investing it, but this could also be the mopping up of quantitative easing money being End-of-Lifed.

Nothing is ever transparent in global finance and politics.
Flawed, hasty generalization arguments.

Email has a large degree of centralization with gmail/outlook etc but it is still meaningfully decentralized because it is very hard to get the vast majority of email servers to ban an address. Bitcoin is similar, its advertised decentralization is not a scam
if you want to use non-homekit devices with homekit you kind of have to.
From now on the Collective can license it to commercial organizations that don't want to touch AGPL stuff, and pay you a cut!

A "collective" is really just a benevolent dictator with multiple personality disorder.

They start out as reasonable and efficient entities in theory. Expecting they will remain such once they have control is a flawed assumption that ignores human nature.

But kudos for addressing this at the end of the article.
And what will be at the IPFS URI? A copy of keyboardcat.gif?

At some junction in this chain (as far as I know as an NFT skeptic, to put it mildly), you (want to) pay for ownership of something non-fungible, be it meatspace or digital. So sure, that thing at the IPFS URI might never change, but I can still copy it, or it might not have originated there, or it's some representation of a real world item, where the representation of course can be reproduced.

You've added another layer of immutability, but I have yet to see where that's relevant to anyone who understands what they would be buying, as there are always more layers.
The Margaritaville stages of debugging:

1. It's nobody's fault
2. It could be my fault
3. It's my own damn fault

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6478121
I once worked as a freelancer for a tiny company that at some point refused to pay me for one day of work. One of their reasons was that my code wasn't up to their standards. I could see in git that the code they complained about was actually written by their lead (and only) developer. They still didn't pay, though.
Is it a reach or am I refusing to do someone else's work for them?
That short list is just social mammals and social birds. But I can't say if this is not selection bias from the researchers.
> Being in charge of and an expert on open source software can be a way get people to buy your labor, but it's much harder than it should be. Instead many companies will demand you work for free, because it's open source!

It's hard to get paid when you decide to give your work away. If only there was some way a person could enter into a contract in order to guarantee payment in exchange for their work. What a radical idea...
Sorry, I can't edit my original post to update but you're right.

A large amount of commercial renderers and commercial rendering software is GPU accelerated which was what I was trying to refer to (and would like to update my comment to but can't).

That said, given the render times for indiovidual frames a laptop is going to end up thermally throttling which will wipe out the single threaded gains, and being limited to very small amounts of ram is likely going to make using a current M1 Mac impossible for anything like OSL.
Feel like there has been increasingly more cuss / inappropriate words showing up on top page of HN. I recommend HN to my kids. Not that they are not exposed to these words online but I would rather not come this from their parent. Not sure how to feel.
The situation is far worse in smaller towns and cities in places like Bihar and UP. I remember hearing stories during the second wave (some of which I was able to confirm) about doctors not telling family members that their loved ones had passed away so as to be able to keep charging the family for continued hospital care. The loss of trust in the medical profession is very real.
They also sell Thinkpad keyboards on new Thinkpads, but they're not impressive.
This is great! It looks like you can even grab WARCs using `wget`: https://golangexample.com/put-a-web-archive-warc-on-an-s3-bu...

I'm curious: what sort of fidelity have you seen in `grab-site`'s rewritten static asset URLs? Having to fix URLs that weren't properly rewritten ended up taking me the most time.
If your job and very possibility freedom depended on a "zero" in a row inside some spreadsheet you'd make goddam sure there's going to be a zero in there
Friend of mine wanted to know what a NFT is and I wrote down a URL and gave it to him on a piece of paper. That's an NFT. You can sell that paper, use it if you want but what ever is at the other end of the URL isn't yours and you can't guarantee it will be there or be consistent between the times you go. But by god you have a piece of paper.
>I'm amazed that these things are kept to quiet until they make a big public splash, absolutely no chat/rumours about this locally despite it being found 11 months ago.

Sadly theft is a big problem everywhere, be it antiquities or fossils. Far less so in countries like Britain because it's wealthy and dense enough that it's not rampant like in some other countries (Mongolia comes to mind for fossils), but I'm certain the researchers would still rather take precautions, if only to keep away reckless tourists.
I don't know which sites you're seeing but the ones I use tend to break that out as “partially vaccinated” or “fully vaccinated” vs “fully vaccinated with booster” — which is good since the evidence has shown that there's a big difference between the waning protection against infection (i.e. neutralizing antibodies) versus protection against severe cases (i.e. T cells) even for partial vaccination.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/health/covid-va...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccina...

https://covidactnow.org/ uses “at least one dose” for the national map but breaks out their state-level displays as “1+” and “fully vaccinated”.
A large subset of the US does have socialized medicine. Medicare (65 million people), Medicaid (75 million people), and the military health system (10 million people).

That’s nearly half the US population.
> If you’re curious, they live in Srirangam, Trichy, TamilNadu

Wonderful place, except for the heat :-). I've visited there (for the temples) on a few occasions.
Short term zero COVID may be achievable. I am not disputing that. However, China must maintain vigilance literally forever. That is why I don't find it a realistic policy.
The site's niche looks like people who could use help making a personal list.
To add to this, I don't really trust the numbers coming out of China. But China takes the zero case policy far more serious, with more extreme lockdowns, and city wide testing. They don't even want to open the border with Hong Kong, out of fear that the virus might come in that way.
You think pushing malware in a fake app update isn't criminal?
> why should I have to deal with ...

Why should anyone else have to deal with people like you?
the omemo support in pidgin is just through a plugin, as with many recent XEPs. i think people tend to forget that pidgin's focus is being a multi-protocol messenger. it ships with XMPP support, but that mostly includes the base.

i wrote that omemo plugin and tbh I am pretty burned out. so many moving parts, it's hell to debug and i'm not even sure where to go next with it. (plus people keep talking badly about pidgin anyway and i am not sure if it's even worth continuing.) i am very thankful for all the contributions so far, especially the help with packaging it. sorry if someone feels let down.

i feel like this is the right moment to ask: if anyone reading has an idea how to improve the state of things, i'd be happy about some suggestions. the project page is https://github.com/gkdr/lurch
People are brainwashed by their prior experience: they have seen so many puzzles with specific assumptions that they assume them to exist here, as well.

The quasi-pyramid is impossible if you assume that there are no hidden nodes and edges. That assumption is not an explicit requirement, so you can posit any number of nodes and edges that are hidden from the specific perspective of the drawing -- it could be as crenellated as the interior of an English muffin.
> without having to deal with autistic colleagues and managers

Every client is a manager, but often they don't have those skills (and... they probably shouldn't have to). So, either you need to become a manager, convince them to, or bring someone else on to do it and ... you'll end up with a small team of folks. Bam - you now have to deal with a variety of communication styles.

Try dealing with a client who wants integration with a third party system, then tells you the data is wrong based on data they see in their own internal tool that they won't give you access to ("you might screw it up"). "The customer is always right..." except when they're not.

> they want you to work on their project, while on the other, they want to save as much money as possible.

So... don't charge hourly? Or time-based? Flat rate problem/project estimation is another way to go, but ... I've found many clients don't actually want to think that way, because you end up having to say 'no' to almost any change in the scope of an engagement. And you end up spending almost as much time trying to scope out changes and agree to new terms as you would just working on the problem.
Not everyone. I will grant you that congress holds a low rating for Americans suggesting some level of understanding that they are being taken for a ride, but I genuinely think that if people in general population understood what is going on, there would be a lot more people taking action ( even if it is just taking it to FB and organizing a local page ). Sadly, I agree on the sentiment on 'fact checking'.
> - On the low level more generic tooling I use ALGPL, so a mix of AGLP and LGPL, you can think of it as LGPL but you cannot modify it without sharing the source if you make money off of hosting a service which uses the software (Amazon f.ex. would need to share source if they used it in a paying server product).

Since there is no actual ALGPL (see e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3330792/why-isnt-there-a...), aren't you afraid that this "crayon license" of yours will scare people off?
I've got an X230 still I need to offload. 16GB of ram, IPS panel, 9 cell battery. Would anyone be interested? Not sure if this is against the rules. Located in Texas.
NB: It’s “rite of passage”, not “right of passage”.
Well, if it's not immutable then someone can replace the asset that you "own" just by updating what's served when you try to access that url: https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1448066579611234305

If the asset hosting is both immutable then you're guaranteed to always get the thing that you bought from the url your NFT points too. By being "distributed" I think the idea is the immutability is more guaranteed since no one person will be able to control the database.
You didn't cause the accident. However, you might have been wrong to slow down. I don't know where you live or exactly what the circumstances were, but this is extremely common in the US, where people don't really know how to drive.

It's ok to let someone out if:

* they are waiting at a 1-way stop sign or uncontrolled junction

and

* traffic on the other side has stopped or slowed, so you are going to have to stop or slow down anyway. In that case, it's polite and efficient to let them out.

Otherwise, barring some unusual circumstance, you should proceed. When you have the right of way, and it's safe to go, then go - that's the rule. Forcing everyone else to slow down or stop so that you can let someone out is not courteous or polite. And, as you have seen, there may be people who are not required to stop, and who are not parties to your little arrangement with the other driver. You would fail a driving test (in any country that has a serious driving test) if you make a habit of this.

I want to reiterate that this doesn't make the accident your fault - and it may have been perfectly reasonable for you to slow down; I wasn't there.
Congrats to you and your friends.

Unfortunately that's not the case for hundreds of thousands of your compatriots and millions of your fellow humans.

Conflating fear mongering around vaccines with very few cases of serious side effects (none of which are contagious) with "fear mongering" around the virus itself which has caused literally millions of deaths and untold post-infection issues for millions more is what's really quite incredible.
Why? A non profit has the large advantage of tax deductions.
Guess it depends on where in the world. But for many, $70 per hour wouldn't be that great when all costs are subtracted, down time without billing included etc.
Thank you! I wish I had found this sooner to try it out. Similar question to the other one I asked on this thread: what sort of fidelity have you seen in `archivebox`'s rewritten static asset URLs? Having to fix URLs that weren't properly rewritten ended up taking me the most time.
For an opposite viewpoint:

https://ironcurtain.substack.com/p/the-next-morning

The author moved from Russia to the US years ago because he wasn't welcome in Putin's Russia
So brave! But seriously, how can you post so confidently that funny is somehow objective and that you get it when others don’t? That in itself is a joke, so we’ll-played, I guess?
I would like you to figure out what that would be and post it here.
Weather and Climate Disasters Are Declining Globally
I'm sure you're aware, but in case other aren't, individual Lenovo keycaps can be easily bought online.