skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it isn't.

The entire point of the "my grandfather's axe" or "my grandmother's broom" story -- of which Theseus' ship is the original -- is that there's nothing of the original left, but replacement was gradual so there's a feeling of continuity.

Whereas this is the original laptop with some upgrades. Same chassis, same motherboard, same screen, same (IMHO, bad) keyboard, but more RAM, more & faster disks, and a new CPU.

This is not Theseus' ship, where nothing was left.

The point of this story is that an end-user with normal tools can, at home, repair and upgrade a decade-old Thinkpad, but you can't do that with the new ones.

The subtext is that in fact CPU performance isn't increasing much any more, and hasn't in a decade and a half. GPU performance is a bit but most of us don't need it, same as most of us don't need lots of CPU cores in a laptop. SSD performance is improving, somewhat, yes. Size, a lot.

New laptops aren't that much faster than old laptops. Unless you're very demanding, old ones are good enough.

So laptop makers, who need people to keep buying new laptops or they'll go out of business, are making laptops that you can't fix or upgrade any more.
> Anyway the problem of Signal is that you have to use your phone number and a phone number is a much stronger link to you than an ip for example.

Signal requires access to a valid phone number during registration, not "your phone number." It can even be a virtual/landline/temporary phone number without any SIM cards or cell phones involved. How is this a "much stronger link to you than an ip"?

And how about looking at more than just an isolated property of a competitor?

> As the ex boss of NSA said "We Kill People Based on Metadata".

XMPP servers are a gold mine when it comes to metadata.
There will be a future reckoning with the paranoid pandemic policies, unfortunately [1] this will mostly likely ignore those who put them in place. I happen to live in Sweden where we've been mostly spared in this regard but even the relatively mild measures have left there mark on my children, mostly my oldest (now 17) daughter. She was forced online for a few months which markedly lowered her results. It ended with me more or less home-schooling her (something which is forbidden in Sweden) to get her back on track - not to mention to get her out of bed in the morning.

[1] unfortunately because this means there is no disincentive against future regulatory misbehaviour
Fructose in fruit, as are other sugars , are still terrible for you even if you eat fiber. Fruit is not benign in large quantities. It's only saving grace is that fruit generally has far lower sugar and higher useful neutrients than confections
Blood sugar is blood sugar. You can do a lot worse than fruit, but that doesn’t make it harmless.
I'd be curious if this is a correlation is not causation issue. Are those who vaccinated more typically those who also followed lockdown and social distancing laws/recommendations, while those who remain unvaccinated were more likely to continue their normal lives through all of this? In other words, could it be that staying in your room and only leaving for necessities meant you weren't exposed to day-to-day illnesses and as a result might now be worse off than someone who was?
> every possible side effect beforehand

I'd wager we don't on 95% of the vax's out there now that "everyone" considers safe. The human physiology just isn't something well suited for "every possible".
I've been mostly keto for roughly the last nine years. It has been pretty much the best decision I ever made for my health.

The hardest part about it continues to be the fact that it's largely misrepresented in the mainstream as a fad diet. And unfortunately when you go to research keto on the Internet, there is a staggering amount of bullshit to wade though. I feel like neither is a coincidence but I'll just leave it at that rather than get too political.
You should watch it closely anytime, it is very likely to be plotting something even if you can't tell it's laughing manically...
I've done keto a couple of times, with massive weight loss each time. The last time was 30kg in 6 months.

The first time, I tried close to 0g carb as a goal. The second time, I was a bit more relaxed about it, had some yogurt (still very slow carbs, but some), peanuts (again, low but still some), olives, more veg than before. I was still comfortably under 50g-100g per day though, and lost more.

But in each case, I never really had "keto flu" which everybody seems to complain about. I did get strongish hints from my body that I needed some carbs, which is normal at first as your body is used to having a ready supply of carbs, but this phase only lasts about a week. Rather than going cold turkey, I'd just have a SMALL amount of carbs, e.g. half a small chocolate bar, or whatever. Enough for my body to get the immediate "give me carbs now" that it neeeded, but not enough that I got a big insulin spike and disrupted the transition into keto.

After about a week or so, the body doesn't really need carbs any more at all, although every now and then I'd set a sudden craving for something sweet. I found it worked best just to give in and have a small amount rather than going fully cold turkey on carbs. Probably it wasn't even carbs my body needed, but rather something else that my body associated with carby foods. For instance, I had to consciously increase my salt intake when eating primarily just meat, as I realised I wasn't getting enough, but it's so ubiquitous in processed carby foods that you don't realise how important it is.
Well - I’m not sure I have doubts but I remain open to the possibility. As a doctor and public health advocate I think the vaccines are miracles and have saved already millions of lives. Our society is already fundamentally changed by the damage wrought by the virus. There are over 140,000 ORPHANS that have been created by COVID in the last 2 years in the US alone [0].

The vaccine is safe and effective, if unfortunately not sterilizingly effective. We could not have sat on our hands for 2 years waiting to see what happened to the 40,000 people in the initial trials.

If there is another chapter to the vaccine story it will come out, because ‘the science’ is not controlled by commercial interests and profit margins, ‘the science’ is something done by thousands of doctors and researchers scattered all over the planet, with access to huge troves of data that are not necessarily all entertained with corporate interests like in the US, and these people care about 2 things : the truth, and the people they care for every day.

I don’t want to get into a grinding debate about the commercial interests behind the vaccines - I am ready to accept that they quite often work in ways that would fail the smell test. But that is not science, science is the process of developing a better resolution of the truth and whilst it may be subverted by corporations it can not be stopped

0- https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/p1007-covid-19-orpha...
> We really have dropped the ball and turned valid concerns by parents into a political finger pointing shit storm.

Who's "we?" Politicians?
SUV is being driven remotely from this gaming-style rig
This black and white "Wear your mask or your grandparents will die." viewpoint is not helpful.

One can discuss (dis)advantages of certain approaches without entirely discounting them.
Don’t forget the placebo effect works both ways. All the antivax people that got the vaccine even though they may not have wanted to, are going attribute everything weird that then happens to the vaccine.

This is all going to take years to sort out and figure out what’s real and what’s not. And we’ll never know 100%. The bigger issue is whether we’ll be able to trust our present or future leaders to let science do its job.
I won't go into the PC/MacBook debate but there is a thing about having less, but expensive and durable products, than tons of shit that keeps breaking down and being replaced.
Students here eat too, the different is they eat what they, or their parents want them to. And when they want to. Most schools also sell food. Nobody has to be hungry.

The difference is there is no super cheap daily meal all students have to choose from. And also kids and public schools can get healthy food if their parents want to/ can afford it.
Entitles them to what, exactly? If I publish a package that people use and decide to remove it, either by deleting the repository, the package from registries, or simply publishing dead code, are you saying it's a license violation? How does that make any sense?
we use
https://easydmarc.com/pricing
and fit in the free tier. I've found that not that many MTAs actually report to the DMARC URLs when they decide to discard the email so it's not as useful as it could be.
Very cool, will reach out! Any idea how much these cost?
It is indeed created by an overweight, self-proclaimed "fat activist".
From the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (via the Spectator):

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/masks-in-schools-how-con...

"The Evidence Summary from the Department for Education (DfE) accepts the harm inflicted by face masks in class. It cites research showing that:

‘80 per cent of pupils reported that wearing a face covering made it difficult to communicate, and more than half (55 per cent) felt wearing one made learning more difficult’

‘Face coverings may have physical side effects and impair face identification, verbal and non-verbal communication between teacher and learner.’

‘Almost all secondary leaders and teachers (94 per cent) thought that wearing face coverings has made communication between teachers and students more difficult, with 59 per cent saying it has made it a lot more difficult.’"

And also in the article:

"The DfE study of 123 schools says that in schools with masks, Covid absences fell to 3 per cent, from 5.3 per cent — a 2.3 per cent drop. In schools that did not have masks — 1,192 of them — there was a 1.7 per cent drop: a small difference of 0.6 percentage points.

As the DfE accepts, the 123-school analysis is 'non-peer reviewed' and 'shows a non-statistical and unknown clinical significant reduction in infection in a short follow-up period'. So the results are within the margin of error, in a study that has not been properly assessed in the standard academic way."
XMR is fungible, and bitcoin laid the foundation for that. IMO Bitcoin is just the entry point, like the ENIAC.
The more we rely on an instrument of protection, the more we need it. I went barefoot through a particularly thorny patch of land the other day. I expected hurt but because of that I was more ginger and careful and intuitive where to step as I walked, I didn't stop, I kept moving & trusted my instincts to avoid pain, it worked.
You mean the smart contract would sign the response? Signatures by Infura or the node client would not tell you anything, you're already trusting them by using them.

Much of the infrastructure seems quite immature, with lots of hard problems to solve on the core blockchain first (but this is being addressed) [0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/ryk3it/my_first_i...
I mean, I have to be concentrating quite hard to feel the emotion you're referring to. The default way I experience hunger is just a generalised increasing misery and inability to think. If I'm lucky enough to get a specific cue, it's an intense desire to not be eating (which is an odd one given that of course I'm already not eating at the time).

Not everyone has the same experiences as you do.
> lockdown induced suicides

There were less suicides during lockdowns then outside of them.
executive function disorders are complex, give us a break!
First, there's no evidence humans were designed.

Second, humans have clearly evolved to be omnivorous. What do omnivores generally do in favorable environments? Hint, "hunt after days of starvation" is a obligate carnivore pattern -- and not one that all obligate carnivores share.
Here in London, UK it's mostly pronounced Ah-zuuure. With the 'zuure' part being almost twice as long as how americans say it.

I think I've ipa'd this right: http://ipa-reader.xyz/?text=%2F%C3%A6%CA%92%C9%9C%C9%9Cr%2F

(It sounds correct anyway)
I got in a loop.

I volunteer on 7cups and recommend everyone who can spare the time to do the same. It’s basically chatting with strangers in distress, although the system keeps reminding you to focus on “active listening”.
> we will surely see it in the data

Thats only assuming you have proper data collection and reporting in place. The current systems to do so are laughable.
I know people who died from medical neglect in fear of systemic overload. Got sent out of the not-at-capacity ER early without concern for what the patient was feeling because of the fear of needing a bed. Died at her home. Triage is a lost concept.

Edit: their death was not COVID related, nor did they have COVID
Can you elaborate on the MIT usage?

How can you ensure (say, legally) that people using the system for fun can use the MIT version, while people charging for the product must use the commercial one? I mean, the MIT license explicitly allows for people to take your code and use it for whatever purpose. Including repackaging it and charging money for it, without even needing to release the source code of any changes or the resulting work.
Was about to say this. The "explained" episode on the next pandemic from vox was downright conspiracy inducing given that it was released on Netflix like, what, 2 months before covid 19 hit?

Bill gates in the interviews talking about disease X still haunts me. As does the faux optimism espoused in that vox explained episode.

My point is that if bill gates predicts it, it was predicted.
You know, I read it as completely different: a lot of people who feel like shit will put off making meals. This can lead the person to feeling worse. The app is talking about self care, and a lot of depressed people can be helped by being reminded to eat.

And then, I’m on a whole food plant based diet. I eat lentil curry and brown rice, salads, nuts, and two liters of veggie and fruit smoothie a day. I have maybe a tiny amount of sweets in the evening. And I eat a little bit constantly throughout the day.

I think you’ve read way in to that question in the wrong way.
> My biggest gripe with freelancing is the conflict of interest between you and your client. On one hand, they want you to work on their project, while on the other, they want to save as much money as possible.

But this is not limited to freelancing - it exists in normal work contracts, too.
A better link with more information:
https://www.thecentersquare.com/indiana/indiana-life-insuran...

There isn’t much detail on the cause of those increased deaths. Worth noting from both articles is that insurance companies don’t pay out for suicide deaths, and there is mention of hospitals filled with other ailments instead of just COVID. So what’s left is the assumption that people of working age are dying from other causes that increase insurance payouts for the working age bracket. Could be worse health, more sedentary lifestyle, increased rate of cancers, heart disease, trauma caused by activities done to reduce boredom, car accidents, alcohol and drug abuse etc. If you have data sources on recent % of causes of death, that may shed more light on the underlying problem than speculation.
Having just woken up feeling like shit, I think the first question should be whether or not you just woke up and if the answer is "yes" it should prompt you for water instead of food. Most people are dehydrated after sleeping through the night and don't realize it.
I’m bipolar and fasting is a mania trigger. Even just skipping lunch because I’m late for work. (In the bad old days I used to work in a noisy open office and lunchtime was the best time to work.)

Edit: not everyone experiencing their first manic breakdown notice it; pdocs tell me people usually go to them after the crash. I encourage everyone experiencing unusual feelings or omnipotence and euphoria (or, on the contrary, a restless kind of angry anxiety) that can’t be explained by drugs to take the Young Mania Ratings Scale, there are several copies online.
But I already have a phone number. My friends already know my phone number. If I instead got a "nickname" it would be tialaramex of course, which is even more identifying than my phone number. If I chose a deliberate random pseudonymous "nickname" to avoid "metadata" - then nobody can contact me, what use is that?

The NSA may "kill people based on metadata" but XMPP produces far more metadata for such decisions than Signal.

XMPP encourages people to build clique servers, which fail a key security requirement "Don't Stand Out". The six other users of "Bob's 100% Preparedness Militia and True Patriots Server" may be quite sure Bob is trustworthy and won't rat on them, and maybe one of them only uses it to post funny GIFs of cats, but the loose metadata association between this group and a plot to kidnap a State Senator means all seven of them are targets anyway.

But if you try not to stand out by using a popular server, that server's operators have far more insight into you than Signal's server operators do. Remember, when my friend Steve sent me a Signal message last week, Signal does not know who sent that. I know, because I decrypted the message, but Signal does not. That's a bunch of heavy cryptographic lifting, but from their point of view it was worth it to improve privacy.
N26 got it wrong on global expansion and crypto, co-founder admits
The market still seems to be in price discovery for crypto. Also, I wouldn't use crypto as an investment for some of the same reasons I wouldn't use dollars.
An addendum to this is don't eat carbs. Go Keto. I'm practicing intermittent fasting and low-carb dirty keto and it still produces amazing benefits. I sleep better, I'm not bloated anymore and my energy doesn't crash a few hours after eating. Get a breathalyzer to measure acetone to learn your specific metabolism (this helps decide if a meal you habitually eat triggers an insulin response).

I think in the fullness of time we will see literature about how misreading data from a study on diet lead to the worst public policy decision on nutrition in history.
Paracetamol is pretty much useless for inflammation. It's pretty facile to dismiss osteoarthritis when you're young but if your work with your hands (like a software developer does) it's a serious blockage to productivity.
It seems we have forgotten that ultimately, "basic survival needs" for humans (and especially vulnerable humans) includes social contact. You can't call infrequent visits from a staff member while covered from head to toe in various inffectual PPE, "social contact".
Companies also want maintained software libraries where critical vulnerabilities and bugs will be addressed. Code goes stale.

Active maintenance has a price. And micropayments mean the price can be spread over thousands of companies.

But I'm biased because I'm working on a solution along those lines!
Just realized this has also been submitted using a different URL: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2022/01/2022-01-0...
> We’ve tortured and hindered the youth of this country to protect folks age 60+.

I don't understand how this extreme rhetoric will lead anywhere. It distracts from the actual discussion about how to distribute the burden of the pandemic, and is dishonest in two ways:

a) It makes a whole lot of difference whether you lose one year in education vs. actually dying,

b) It frames the pandemic as a problem of the folks 60+, when instead the collapse of health systems and economies harms all members of society.

It is certainly a possibility that as a society, we have under-estimated the burden on children, and time will tell. However, in every single jurisdiction I know schools were the last public system to be locked down, and the first to re-open.
If anything it's the opposite.
I've been through it. Eventually you simply start seeing it as a game where you either win or lose. In 90% of cases, outcome for the client is inverse.

Let's face it: custom software development is a systematic mistake, it shouldn't exist in the imaginary world where all actors are rational and well-informed. Hiring individual developer is fine, as long as you (customer) are technical and can manage him on "assign task in tracker and check and merge resulting PRs" level. If you are not, you get yourself a technical cofounder who will be willing to do it for stock alone (otherwise he will be that party that scams you, passing whatever minimum money necessary down the value chain). In any other situation, you just get ripped.

Contrary, once you figure the art of sales sufficiently (which will amount to weeding out the qualified clients), you will see that however honest and hardworking you are, your projects result in nothing.
Avoidance is key when barefoot, otherwise a self trance state will bring you across most terrain.
Immigrant lost $53k in crypto hack; faces ruin if BitMart doesn’t pay him back
Unsurprisingly the majority of comments here focus on "how to prevent my free dependencies from breaking" instead of "can we have a systemic way of supporting developers that maintain critical software".
Thanks for this, it's given me food for thought and options to explore.

> Employers offering Healthcare options to employees is more of a failure of the healthcare system in the US than a positive employment perk.

I think this is a failure in many countries including the one I'm in. Employee-sponsored health insurance seems to be the best workaround.

> Your company chooses the Healthcare provider they partner with. You are likely ineligible to be covered by their provider.

Fair, my employer's health care partner probably can't insure people outside the US. There are new health care providers that cater for remote companies and their employees [1] but I don't have a good understanding of how good their offering is.

> Contractors do not get benefits. This has nothing to do with you being international. If you were based in the US, you would not be provided with Healthcare either.

Good point. I'm not sure if my employer is treating me like an international contractor though. I have a boss, don't get overtime, can't work for other clients, signed a non-compete, etc.

The latter part of your response is fair. I think I got the mindset that I'm a de facto employee. I work on a team where everyone else is an employee and I don't seem to be treated differently. Here's where I think I need to explore alternatives and see what my options are.

[1] https://safetywing.com/remote-health
Gonna go with everyone. Every day I see some parent go "my kids have no problem wearing masks".

Thing is I realized recently that as a kid with a bpd mother one reason I grew up as a shy nerdy shut in was because any time I did anything it would cause a giant fight with my mom so I just gave up and stopped trying. Now I realize it fucked me up in multiple ways being like that. I imagine it's much the same with a lot of these kids. They have zero agency to go against it.
> They bailed on their debts using bankruptcy and are still alive… abhorrent all around.

Hertz filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which means they negotiated to restructure their debts and they continued operations. Creditors got to vote on the proposed plan and approved. So yes, they are still alive, as intended by everyone involved.

Are you saying that chapter 11 bankruptcy is immoral and businesses should always file for Chapter 7? What if the affected creditors and employees get a better outcome with a chapter 11?
Agreed. So very much agreed.

I do informal surveys of new laptops -- I wander around computer shops bashing out a sentence or two into Notepad or TextEdit.

They're all awful now. But most people are used to awful and so don't care.

Layouts suck too but that, to me, is secondary to key feel. If the layout is bad, some keystrokes will be bad; but if the key feel is bad, every keystroke will be bad.