skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The USA is notorious - especially in recent decades - for discouraging parties other than the two large corporate-influenced ones (the Republican and Democratic parties): You have barriers to listing on the ballot; the state financing primaries of the two large parties; limited public funding, vs. lax regulation and effectively little limitation on commercial/corporate funding, for election campaigns; strong affiliation of the main media outlets with one or the other large parties; and not last and certainly not least: Many elections in the US are "first-past-the-post", with no proportional representation, which also tends to favor the largest parties.

For this reason, the strategy of pirate parties in other world states - gaining a few parliamentary seats on a limited-focus platform (or centrism/third-way'ism + "pirate" principles) - is essentially invalid in the US.

It is my opinion that this is "copycat politics"; and while I certainly support legalized file sharing, better privacy rights, limitation of intellectual property etc. - I believe this initiative would be better served either by forming a "third party coalition" with other movements/parties (e.g. Greens, Libertarians, People's Party if they actually start running people), or, and it pains me to say this, form caucuses within the one or both of the large parties. And I say this with the utmost respect for your efforts.

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PS - "No safe harbor for the enemies of liberty" <- bad choice of slogan, it reminds people of how the US drone-bombs people to death all over the world.
And of the CCP ever finds out, he will end up in jail. And if they can link your wallet to you, you will not be able to travel to China anymore.
> Using bitcoin I can send money to someone in Chi no a who's social rating was degraded by the CCP and who is forbidden from using banks

How will they convert it into something they can use to pay rent and buy groceries?

> Crime will exist forever and criminals will find ways to finance themselves anyway, so the use of cryptocurrencies for their operations is not really a factor.

Does this make it easier for the wealthy to evade taxes? I find just signing transactions using something like gpg a much easier to reason about.

My biggest concern about cryptocurrency is fees. There is no reason why fees should be based on payload as far as I understand. Whether I’m sending one satoshi (or any other unit of money) or a trillion, the cost should be the same and ideally as close to zero as possible if not zero. This was the original reason I was drawn to bitcoin but it was obvious it would never be the case.
You're probably right. I really wrote a too general remark, but actually meant specific things about my situation. I added a part now taking this general statement back.
Until 1998, my middle class American family didn’t have internet. I was a rather tech-curious kid, but until we actually had a second phone line run to our house and a new Gateway computer and a modem, there was this huge barrier to what I could learn about on our airgapped Windows 3.1 machine. My Dad was able to navigate the command line because he’d needed to on our previous DOS computer, so I feel like he could’ve handled email if we’d had a connection back then. I’d argue that infrastructure was a pretty big barrier to email catching on, not just the UI.
Who appoints the notaries?
When i bought my house last year, first thing i did is upgrade to 400A electric and removed all gas. Welcome to 2022
Yep, gotta agree. I picked up and moved 500 miles because of money. Sure, ATX is a tech hub and all that jazz. I moved from a place where top-end after 10 years was $80k-100k/yr, and there were few jobs to pick from. I moved and got 2.5x's my old salary.

Now I'm looking at starting my own thing and moving back. Why? Because money. (real estate) Yes, family would be close again. But when comparable homes are $600k vs. $275k...c'mon, I'm ready for these tech hubs to not be as necessary.
That sucks. Compare that to squares who didn't get bullied, straight B student, listened to parents advice and guidance, didn't abuse substances, got a degree, did 9-5 and got a house from it. No trauma needed.
What about websites that can be sent via email? Nested tables, inlined styles, code could be copied to HTML email and the single page website would display in an email client. Animations with marquee.
Starlink’s AUP lists quite a few types of behaviour that will mean you get cut off:

https://www.starlink.com/legal/acceptable-use-policy

If you are accused of being cruel and they uphold that complaint then bye bye connection. What if some crazy Twitter mob accuses you of animal cruelty for throwing your cats out in the snow?

The implication is there that they monitor all your traffic to be able to enforce these rules. If one were to encrypt ones traffic to evade SpaceX’s surveillance, is that too a violation of the AUP?
> A better question for the FAQ would be: Are you pro-democracy, or pro-autocracy?

Or technocracy?
OK so a privately owned and controlled blockchain which only allows trusted users to add blocks is still a blockchain?

What would be the advantages of using a private, permissioned blockchain over a MySQL/Oracle/SQL Server database for storing data?

Why as an external user would I trust a centralized blockchain more than I would trust a centralized database? They are both private owned and controlled by a company.
I like how the author recognizes the significance of Unions to fomenting the Communist Revolution:

https://github.com/jokteur/python_communism/blob/main/src/co...
The information bandwidth on block based cryptocurrencies is far too low to support these deeper levels of complexity, and I doubt will ever get much better. Blockchains, despite being a distributed phenomenon, still centralize the flow of information into one stream, the chain. Ethereum, by my estimation, operates at around 7 kB/s, and Bitcoin at 2kB/s. These are clearly glacial speeds - think of how limited an internet connection at those speeds is. How will more informationally needy systems be constructed on top of so paltry a base? The problem is a blockchain's protocol must somehow coordinate the distributed actions of its participants, which are generally spread out across the world. By centralizing information in the chain, they are exhibiting the same intractable slowdown that we would see trying to emulate a brain on a CPU.
Ok thank you! Much appreciated. Interesting topic.
“ The entire blockchain is about 22kb”
We'll stop those cyberattacks as long as you let us have Ukraine. Deal?
It’s on their homepage (helium.com) with the following text:

‘’’
Powered by the Helium Blockchain, The People’s Network represents a paradigm shift for decentralized wireless infrastructure.
‘’’

They use the blockchain in combination with a proof of coverage algorithm to reward hotspots. https://docs.helium.com/blockchain/proof-of-coverage/
Deep Night, Dark Night
Thanks for the kind offer! I got it sorted out yesterday but it's really nice to give a hand to a stranger.
> Maybe you could refer to some history more specifically? Are you saying networking technology was developed in advance of a concept of what it's useful for?

I'm saying that networking technologies original intended use (resilient nuclear launch capability) is a tiny irrelevant fraction of what it is used for today.

I'd argue that most transformative technologies are in fact not relegated to their original intended use. Following cool/interesting/powerful technologies to see where they lead, rather than knowing the destination in advance, is how we have gotten almost everything that we have.
She's been at both ends of the achievement spectrum eh? Preternatural ability just out of toddlerhood, and still doing it well into ripe old age. Her love of playing is special because playing the piano never went away from her. It's been there all her life, it's always there for her and she will never have to grieve its loss.
What makes a problem worth solving exactly?

How many SaaS businesses do we need? How many todo apps do we need? How many game engines do we need?
The article builds it up like we're going to hear E = mc2 but it's just the facile observation that the transport layer has some state.

Static sites are very difficult to knock over, there's no pile of PHP or Java or whatever and no database to sneak SQL into and no serverside tools to maintain. Their "source" lives on and is backed up from the developer infrastructure, and is merely deployed out to the server; if it blew up you could deploy it somewhere else in seconds and point the DNS at that instead. That is the major reason people use them.
That's not an inherent quality of electric stoves, just crappy ones.

I use a 50s-era GM Frigidaire electric stove+oven and it doesn't modulate current to control temperature. It's quite a gas-like pleasure to cook with, prior to this I'd only ever experienced electrics like you're describing and they're awful.
I love RSS and MQTT for this as a "good enough" method. There's a few QL choices for CRUD operations too. We're getting there, albeit slowly..
When I unit test, there is normally not much going on in the “unit” besides its use of dependencies, so the tests are largely circular (asserting things about mock expectations).

I still have to write them, because Thou Shalt Have Unit Tests. I can’t consolidate the overly-trivial units, because that would not be Architecture Best Practices, and might even be Spaghetti Code.
Wise (Germany->Poland) is the one who took me 4 days (Friday->Tuesday)...

I have no idea how you did an instant transfer from Sweden to Poland.
> called the police on their neighbor for hiding a Jew in their basement also were as convinced as all these people who defend vaccine mandates.

While I would like to stay away from that comparison, there are structural similarities that cannot be denied:

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/impfausweise-r...

> Zeugen war laut Polizei aufgefallen, dass vor der Arztpraxis immer wieder Autos mit Kennzeichen aus dem gesamten süddeutschen Raum geparkt haben sollen.

> Die Polizei klingelte in den frühen Morgenstunden: Die Beamten durchsuchten in Bayern, Baden-Württemberg, Hessen und Nordrhein-Westfalen Wohnungen von mehr als 100 Menschen, die sich falsche Impfbescheinigungen besorgt haben sollen. Die Ermittler stellten bei der Aktion unter anderem Impfausweise und Smartphones sicher.

> Zudem wurde bei den Verdächtigen Blut entnommen, wie ein Sprecher der Polizei erklärte. Über einen Antikörper-Test will man nachweisen, dass sie nicht geimpft sind.

Rough summary in English: Bavarian police caught a doctor who handed out fake vaccine certs. The neighbours called the police, because they noticed unusual license plates on parking cars. The police raided 100 patients' homes and took blood samples from them.
Here is a satiliete view.

https://twitter.com/US_Stormwatch/status/1482229220415721475...
You should read the book Tombstone by Yang Jisheng.
I'm sure I've seen a video of that. I assume it's an older prototype. As I remember, you got any 10 minutes of light from lifting a really quite heavy weight, which looked kind it would quickly get annoying.

I feel the pulley system is a direct response to that. One minute of pulling sounds like a decent amount of work for a light, but having two hours before you have to do it again should sweeten the deal
mhmm, sure.

In Poland they send off around 1.5 million people to Siberia or Kazachstan.
Around 150 000 of them died.

Or you know, better example - Holodomor.
Systematic killing of Ukrainian nation.
The coverage is suspicious in that it doesn't describe what was supposedly missing from the Oklo proposal. @gloriana's brief post suggests that, indeed, the submission was quite flawed. The story reads like wrestling commentary, where people opine about the slurs and challenges the contestants lob at each other, making up baseless rationalizations and pop psychology about them.
Tackling problems you haven't seen before is a skill you need to practice, and probably by far the most important skill students can learn in college. Going the other way, giving them nicely packaged solutions that they then repeat robs them of this valuable practice forever, they can never go back and do those problems with a naive mind again, and there aren't that many good problems that are feasible for people to try to solve on their own like this.

Of course, since you mostly test them how good they are at repeating given solutions you wont see this difference in classes. But this difference is very apparent to how they perform after they graduate, there is a reason many people with stellar grades are horrible in practice and vice versa. If you never practiced working under conditions where you don't know exactly how to solve things then you are basically worthless at solving anything people care about.

Edit: I'd say that it is great to learn your tools that way, you don't need to understand them perfectly. But your core competence is worth investing the effort to practice solving novel problems. A physicist can learn math by just repeating solved examples, but a mathematician probably should practice solving things on his own. And solving things yourself is a lot easier in undergrad than waiting for your PHD studies etc, it is the same kind of practice just way easier since the material is easier.
It's not only the numbers. 1 out of 282 with the one being Moderna is much more significant. The null hypothesis is important. It's not just the odds reporting. Anybody can pass by your door accidentally
Less likely it is someone that threatened you last night. Same odds, different situations.
This is no longer the case since cache partitioning was released: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2020/10/http-cache...

Cache keys are now tuples of (host, resource) so if you download and cache bootstrap.js on example.com, and then go to bootstrapsite.com which hosts the same JS file, you'll have to download it again because the cache keys are different:

example.com -> bootstrap.js -> cached as (example.com, bootstrap.js)
bootstrapsite.com -> bootstrap.js -> cached as (bootstrapsite.com, bootstrap.js)

(example.com, bootstrap.js) ≠ (bootstrapsite.com, bootstrap.js)
Ask HN: How common is a 4-day work week in our industry?
So, for the last 8 or 9 years, I've offered prospective employers a 20% discount on salary if I can work 4 days a week instead of 5. I usually go with start-ups because they're under pressure to hire top-talent but skimp on costs (i.e. they want to offer below-market costs but have trouble justifying why), and they're usually flexible enough to not have a HR policy etched in stone against this kind of flexibility. It also usually takes some sort of warming-up to the idea and a whole pitching and easing process to get it (so I'll work 5 days for the first few months), but it usually works out in the end.

I make everything sound like it's economics while discussing it, but I actually get 1000x more enjoyment out of my work and non-work lives under this time-split. There's some stigma around 'lazy' and 'work ethic' that I usually have to get around, but these are the ideal parameters for me to produce the most sustainably, and keep motivation up sustainably. So I figured this is just my weird quirk... valuing free time over money so much that I do something about it.

Recently, though, I've been interviewing candidates for some open tech positions and found a surprising number of them asking for the same thing in some form or another.

So I'm starting to wonder:

* Are there lots and lots of us that value free time over money, and there's just such a tight cultural stigma (even in our high-earning industry) around discussing it, so no one does?

* Are there lots and lots of us that have already instituted something like this with our employers/clients under some sort of "keep this between us" understanding? One of the larger companies I worked for, I was told to tell everyone that my day off was a day of 'focused work-from-home' out of fear that others might ask for something similar.

I'm just wondering what your experiences are, and if this is a weird niche quirk, or actually a cultural shift :)
> I would not trust a central database for any application, even those where I have to trust the verifiers of the entries to that database.

I don't see how that's reasonable. What am I missing, surely virtually nobody would be willing to spend the massive resources of a blockchain for that kind of risk model.

> E.g. I would prefer stablecoins over credit in a bank.

So aside from coins, what's another concrete example?

> With a decentralized database, immutability and permissionlessness are the default, until the trusted third party actively intervenes to strip you of these privileges.

> With a centralized database, access is by default denied, and requires active intervention from the trusted third party, in the form of a grant of permission, to acquire.

This sounds very much like the buzzword snake oil I've heard many times before, but I'm willing to be open minded about your non-coin example.
I did find this funny, and then I thought "Would I still find this funny if it was `import capitalism`?
Quitting is just half the story: the truth behind the ‘Great Resignation’
The first thing that needs to be done in this situation is to stop working overtime. By working overtime and completing everything that needs to be done you are sending the message "yes, everything is fine, we got this". If you stop delivering on time, questions will be asked why - and only then things might start changing.
William H. Gates [pdf]
Yes, but is it a problem worth solving beyond what we have today? What’s the last time we saw an database integrity failure at the DMV/… leading to cars being owned by people that shouldn’t?
It should be RootMyLG.TV

I can here for general TV rooting advice hoping I could sort out my rubbish Samsung. Anyone know anything about that?
It's not a bad analogy. Torrents have more cumbersome UX and are less data efficients than direct downloads, yet they are widely used for some types of applications.
You are using a very different meaning of centralisation and decentralisation than blockchain people do.

That's neither here nor there though.

The way you kill Facebook, Google and any Web2 company is to kill their business model. These are all 100% ad-funded businesses. Kill the advertising funded internet and these monopolies categorically die with it.

The only _attempt_ I've ever seen at addressing the issue that all the major websites are ad-funded has been within the blockchain space. Show me any other realistic alternative to ad-funding and I will happily adopt it.
Also the internet of things devices are not running the blockchain but can (energy) efficiently transfer data to the helium network. The hotspots are also quite efficient if you look at the power usage (more similar to a light bulb instead of a proof of work miner)
Ah, building wireguard-go is easy:

$ export GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm GOARM=7
$ make

Copy the binary to the TV over SSH and run it:

# /tmp/wireguard-go wg0
# ip l show dev wg0
8: wg0: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP> mtu 1420 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 500
link/none

Now I just need to cross-compile the wireguard-tools to get the wg command.
are you on twitter?

your blog is highly educational. i'm interested in learning more about EBV and other viruses.

for instance, given that VZV is common but not every infection causes shingles, how does VZV pass koch's postulates to establish causality?

similar question applies to SARS-CoV-2 and CRS.
Wow I'd never have known the line between day and night ever had a name, before you used that word! :)
This is so true, my parents have an induction stove with touch controls. It takes ONE drop of water on the 10x40cm touch control square to make the whole stove top shut down with a beeping alarm sound. If you have buttery fingers it won't recognize any touches (major annoyance when making butter heavy sauces).
On top of that it also relies on long-presses, you have to hold your finger on the "button zones" for 2 seconds, then you can alter the heat, one touch at a time on a 1-10 scale. Takes about 10-20 seconds to adjust the heat.

When I looked for a new stove last year I tried to find one with induction AND knobs. I ended up getting a non-induction stove, with knobs, works well enough although I would swap it for one with induction and knobs any day, haha!
Trotsky getting an Ice pickaxe to the head should be a hint to you that whatever happened with the USSR was not exactly in line with Marxism.
If you genuinely believe that the US has standards comparable to the third world, the you've been consuming propaganda on the Internet, I guess from low-quality communities such as Facebook/Twitter/Reddit etc.

These people aren't "desperate", they are opportunists. The situation is the opposite to what you say: there is low risk of getting caught and high chance of finding something valuable.
Which communism, the one in reality or the one in theory?
> This guy appears to also believe that the omicron variant is not a natural mutation but a lab-made version as well.

Dismissing everything as far I'd problematic. If you can't prove it and several scientists were baffled by the number of changes and we still donate an answer, you can't criticize someone from believing A while you believe B.
I don't think it's a naive example. All these kind of proposed blockchain solutions raise the same questions for me:

Why do you need a decentralized blockchain with tokens to solve that problem? If not for the tokens, what incentive have people to keep running and protect the blockchain against attacks? The oracle problem: how do you prevent someone from pushing false or duplicate data to the blockchain?
In Bergen in Norway we had a big outbreak of Giardia parasite and a lot of people got CFS/ME after that. The Giardia was big because the parasites came into the drinking water from one of the water sources. I myself had this for of this for many years afterwards but one do not notice it since before you get rid of it. I was able to function normally but totally lacked energy, and everything was a chore. It was like the feeling the first time one drinks coffee and experience the way the fog clears up.

Conclusion. The study shows that Giardia duodenalis may induce CFS persisting as long as five years after the infection. Obstructive sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome, depression and anxiety were important differential diagnoses, or possibly comorbidities, to post-infectious fatigue in this study.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3598369/#:~:tex....

Also very impressed with google when searching for: giardia leads to CFS