skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People don't like to risk their lives for people who won't help themselves.

That's an entirely reasonable position that I can understand - my advice to those people would be to avoid careers in which they are required to risk their lives for people who won't help themselves.

There's a good reason I'm not a police officer, doctor, fireman, etc. The risk/reward payoff in those careers is far, far too low.
If they didn't fail open, every time a CA's website went down every single website that used their certificates would go offline as well.

You can imagine the DDOS-ransomers licking their lips at this possibility.

No, "fail open" has always been the only possible way to implement this. Which is why it's a broken idea from the start.
My preferred policy would be to have central banks adjust rates to maintain inflation at 2% average, and more gradually have governments adjust UBI to maintain a central bank interest rate average at 5%.

(You can certainly have the input to one feedback loop be the output of another).

Then structural deflationary forces would manifest as UBI increases instead of interest rate decreases.

I think the positive real interest rates would ensure the UBI isn't all captured by rent increases, although it's hard to be certain unless it's tested.
Austria and Germany started the first and the second world war. Austria has a bad record of implementing and respecting laws about its minorities to this day.
> And the list of who voted is in the public record

This is news to me, and I'm having a hard time searching for information about it. Can you link me to where this record is?

> so if A didn't vote, and finds that there was a vote in A's name in the last election - or if someone contacts A to double-checks if A actually did vote - then that will stand out too.

Has there ever been an election at any level that you didn't vote in despite being eligible to? Did you check this public record to make sure nobody voted as you? Has anyone ever contacted you to ask if you actually voted in an election that you did vote in? These things are all possible, sure, but they're rare enough in practice that there's plenty of gaps for fraud to slip through.
I'd say 40k EUR isn't high for someone living in Milano (Italy's main tech hub), for example, it's decent, but not high. The cost of housing is what gets you.
Lots and lots of walking - not only good for your health, but, the meditative cadence of the action gives the mind time & space to re-calibrate and solve problems - for example, perhaps you are studying something you shouldn't be, or are not deeply passionate about, yet you continue to do so out of inertia - walking will help you figure that out. Good luck, bon vent, fair winds.
That might work for you, but ALPN needs to exist because there's more to the Internet than just HTTP, and TLS can be used for those non-HTTP protocols. Some of those protocols are more fundamental than HTTP, and making them depend on HTTP would create a circular dependency.

HN is choking again, so I must reply with edits *sigh*

@tialaramex, you're confusing policies of one CA (LE) with the ALPN protocol. Lets Encrypt isn't the only CA out there. Even so, you can do TLS-ALPN on any port. You can do TLS-ALPN on port 443 without using the HTTP protocol in any way. To ALPN, 443 is just an arbitrary number, like the IP address of Lets Encrypt's server.

> If you actually want certificate issuance unrelated to web servers you should either hook up a web server

Good heavens, no.
You could buy Fairphone. What I do for now is to buy used phones with broken screen and replace it myself. I did it with Pixel 1 and now with Pixel 4a. It helps to keep costs down and I feel better about myself. Other than that I would go with Fairphone for their software support.
>>Capitalism here is what you are doing once the accumulation of further capital becomes the principal objective of you activities.

That is not the definition when used in the context of cross-economic-system analysis.

Individual objectives, values and motivations are completely orthogonal to whether capitalism is in place.

Eliminating capitalism doesn't mean changing people's objectives and values. It means depriving them of the right to keep what they produce and acquire in trade, and do with what they wish.

And no, profiting has no relevance to exploitation. That is just Marxist pseudoscience to pathologize success.

>>If you really care about freedom why are you happy with a system that means all but the very rich must spend the majority of their lives in toil?

The amount that people toil has decreased largely as a result of the ruleset I mentioned, that is associated with capitalism.
Depends. Given the number of devices in circulation someone will figure out how to make money if we remove the obstacles for doing so.
So, you do scrum?
I think the ACM should support young and female researchers by making all their papers open access, publicly endorsing Sci-hub, and committing to send Sci-hub some money every month. That would have a much bigger impact than scholarships and workshops.
What you see on social networks is a reflection of who you choose to follow and engage with. I use social networks to engage with people who actually make those decisions and they do not encourage any of that.
Well you don't have to really heat it, it's just room temperature. The kind of density you are talking about is only reached well below 100K.

So here is my take on your estimate:

First of all, I was thinking more about an RV-sized gondola. So something like this [0].

The axles are rated for 30000 lbs together, so let's say 15000 kg fully loaded. This includes ridiculous stuff like marble countertops, so there is likely a lot of headroom for trimming weight.

Taking that into account, and the room temperature helium density, we get 15000 m^3 of volume.

Then I would argue that taking a sphere is really not the right approach, because it has poor drag coefficient and also having this elongated shape is what gives you control authority (try steering a circular boat with a rudder, any rudder you apply will just make you spin). The argument about crosswinds also does not really apply because you would always point the nose at the apparent wind, not dead at the direction you want to go. Same as a boat in current or an aeroplane. The exception are gusts of course, and I do see those could pose a problem.

So let's take an ellipsoid with a 1:2 aspect ratio. you need semi major axes of a=b=12m and c=24m to get ~15000m^3 volume. So this thing will definitely not fit in your garage, but it will fit into a pretty standard barn that any rural construction crew builds routinely.

The frontal area is then pi*(12m)^2 = 452 m^2. The drag coefficient for such an ellispoid is somewhere around 0.1 from what I can tell. Can get even lower for a proper airfoil shape but let's go with 0.1 to account for stuff like the gondola etc.

For 20m/s, (way faster than any water-based yacht can travel) gives a force of

1.225 kg/m3 * 0.1 * (20m/s)^2 * 452 m^2 = 22 kN

and a corresponding power needed of

sqrt((22kN)^3 / (1.225 kg*m^-3* 10 * pi * 1m^2)) = 0.5 MW = 700hp

That seems like a very realistic power requirement for such a vehicle, the RV I liked to earlier has 600hp. Might have to be a bit more because the prop area is perhaps a bit much here, but that scales linearly so I don't think thats a huge problem.

Of course if you want to maintain TAS much above 20m/s things escalate quickly. For 40m/s:

1.225 kg/m3 * 0.1 * (40m/s)^2 * 452 m^2 = 88 kN

sqrt((88kN)^3 / (1.225 kg*m^-3* 10 * pi * 1m^2)) = 4.2 MW = 5200 hp

which does indeed seem excessive. But I think for such a craft 20m/s would actually be acceptable. Can't fly it in a storm and can't compete for speed, but both those things are true for leisure sailing yachts.

[0] https://www.entegracoach.com/motorhomes/cornerstone/
For me this is usually caused by a major failure. The lethargy is what happens when one part of me knows something is very wrong, but the other part of me wants to continue going on like before anyways.

What I do is find something I actually want to do and do that instead. You don't have to forget about the earlier goal; it becomes a puzzle that you need more clues for by doing different stuff for a while.

In short, follow your heart and it'll all work out in time.
Think about yourself. While crude, I think Maslov’s pyramid has some truth to it. Have you sufficiently addressed the concerns in the layers below cognitive? I firmly believe that physical and mental health are more important than career/financial aspirations. It’s a difficult balance which we all have trouble navigating. Small steps towards the right balance will stack up over time.
It's definitely useful. Most of my other aggregate information sources have serious overlap with each other or are hyper-specific, HN is a definite outlier that surfaces a broad range of interesting material I wouldn't come across otherwise.

As for whether this is positive... If I'm being objective, I can't say that having even more well-curated content available is a positive influence. But my difficulties in curbing a tendency to binge on reading material aren't the site's fault.

Though, it would be helpful if I could set the front page to only show 10 or 15 items instead of 30.
Wow, that completely discredits Scientific American... I'm pretty politically aligned with the nurse who wrote that oped but that doesn't change the fact that this oped is a complete hackjob, attacking great scientists with baseless accusation, wilfully misunderstanding the work of Wilson (and Mendel, Darwin, etc...) and completely misunderstanding statistics.

The point of science is the search of truth, it's impossible to get closer to the truth of the world if the only answers the researcher accepts are those that matches their political views.
Or modern warehouse...

Random example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssZ_8cqfBlE
Don’t they practically already have KaiOS? Seems like investing in that would be the right path for an Indian mobile OS
Wealth is a relative term. It's pretty unlikely for an expat to be living in the third world, on third world wages with third world opportunities...
It does, otherwise they're called immigrants.
Not every journal has the same selective standards
Nowadays they call it an au-pair and often the pay is 0.
Good to have content shared about non-founding operators: the oil that makes startup machines run.
I don't see why bitcoin nodes would be immune to DMCA takedown notices or other legal remedies. Sure it'd be a pain and (so far) not usually worth the hassle, but it'll have to come up eventually right?

What's that? It's impossible to take down a block without messing up the entire blockchain? Well maybe Mr. Bitcoin should have thought of that when making the data so disturbingly entangled!
Code written by people who don't know operator precedence and so put brackets around absolutely everything is significantly harder to read IME. I've seen students end up with "))))))" at the end of a line. Brackets are better as a signal that something unusual's happening.
I don't see how this is on-topic for HN. There is no aspect that inspires curiosity.

I avoid Twitter exactly so that I don't have to accidentally come across the cesspool of Andreessen, VC Twitter, and crypto Twitter. There is no reason to pollute HN with it.
Experts Are Ringing Alarms About Elon Musk’s Brain Implants
Kings have people trying to murder them, they also have to murder others. They do not have peace. Power doesn't attract me, neither does rape. I'm sorry you're so broken.
Others have made good suggestions about taking care of basic health, like sleep, nutrition, sunlight, hobbies and social life.

All of that was necessary, but not sufficient, for me to recover from a similar deflated and unmotivated state during my post doc. My work put a big intellectual strain on me but at the same time, got me addicted to being challenged.

Initially I tried hobbies that were pleasant and not very demanding (such as movies, going to events, light socializing). Somehow that left me even more frustrated. Turns out I needed something sufficiently challenging and stimulating that would switch my brain fully to something else. What worked for me was martial arts (substitute any physical activity with infinite skill ceiling and complex coordination, like dance or learning an instrument) and reading deep books completely unrelated to my expertise.

As my "day job" was quite techy, I took to reading stuff like history and humanities. In case you'd like some random suggestions I particularly remember being satisfied by Albion's Seed [1] and Metahistory [2]. I also did my best to understand some of the best recent work on narrative theory and critical feminist media theory in my native Finnish. [3] For a humanist, maybe learn verilog or complex systems theory [4]?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion%27s_Seed
2: https://archive.org/details/metahistoryhisto00whit
3: https://www.adlibris.com/fi/kirja/muusikon-kumousliikkeet-97...
4: https://complexsystemstheory.net/santa-fe-institute/
Another point is who pays. If the paper is submitted by a huge Consortium that received more than 2 millions for a given research, all the interests are aligned to pay 10K in publishing fees: Nature is very interested in publishing a less-than-perfect work if they pay 10K. The Consortium is very interested in publishing in Nature and Open Access to give the work a maybe undeserved push. And the money comes from other pockets.
Onboard vehicle tech becoming a safety issue, advocates say
Be aware that deleting metadata is never enough: There are too many ways to hide some fingerprints on the PDF document.
I find the value I gain from HN is that it provides me a slight edge to the stock market. I am an early riser and find that by visiting HN before the markets open offers me an opportunity to be aware of new information before it hits the street. This could be a hammer sees nails everywhere situation but more likely breaking news articles with high HN engagement are a good indicator of a news story's potential effect on the market.
Reviewers are selected not picked out of a hat....

> ... we pay 10000 in case of a mistake ...

Now please apply the same standard to software.

> reasonable effort

for many hours/days/weeks. Otherwise known as "work". Why is it absurd to pay for work?
Fairly accurate comparison to cocaine
Totally change your work environment. Go to a desk in a public library, find a co-working space like Berlin's Betahaus, or just update your surroundings at home.

It might be just enough to knock it out of you.
Can this be used to decrypt files without exposing the private key?
>>>At first, I was confused reading your assertions of what poor people of the US can do, things that obviously demand money - cash or credit - that a person in poverty don't have.

A homeless, flat-broke prostitute can turn 4 tricks in a day. Let's call them $50 each, for $200 cash-in-hand. Then they can take that $200 to Wal-Mart, buy an Android phone for $50, a SIM card for $50, and one of those loadable debit cards for $50. That leaves them with $50 cash and a $50 debit card balance. They can use their smartphone and debit card to access many of the modern amenities that the parent post mentioned, such as a delivery meal from Uber Eats, or a Greyhound bus ticket, or music on iTunes. The point is, this stuff is within the realm of the possible for the modern poor. It is NOT for a medieval king. Not at all. No matter how large his army, no matter how much gold in his coffers, Richard the Lionheart can't instantly access music from the other side of the planet while traveling across England in a climate-controlled vehicle at twice the speed of a horse.
Just a small clarification, this post is discussing software rot [0] and not data rot [1].
I think that most of us associate bit rot with the loss of data in a storage medium, frequently associated with corruptions in files causing them to not open or appear in a different form. There are file systems like ZFS and Btrfs that can detect and recover bitrot. This is something more obvious in photos where a few bit flips will result in a distorted/discolored/corrupted photo being displayed.

The concept of software rot due to old hardware, dependencies, updates, connectivity, architecture/application changes is something different and has to do with the design of software and (as correctly stated) not with the ageing or fatigue of the software.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_rot
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_degradation
Obvious place is to replace it after the A has returned it. Very cheap, very easy, extremely capable MitM attack.

I see no reason why country with long tradition in subverting democracy around the planet wouldn't engage with this type of activity locally. After all it is clear that they have no respect for democracy elsewhere so why at home where profits are even greater.
Again, the vetting of papers is done by unpaid volunteers.
I've seen an updated definition that kicks in at the time you can take one or more yearly vacations, so basically just doctors, highly paid laywers, highly paid SWEs, and executives.
This is moving the goalposts. You claimed that all certificate revocation methods fail-open, I pointed out that OCSP Must-Staple is a fail-closed revocation method that is implemented in a popular browser.

Regardless, even if "functionally equivalent", there is a practical difference: LE does not allow me to issue a certificate every minute, but does allow the OCSP Must-Staple extension.
They decided who the loan went to, so why is it someone else's responsibility if they got conned?
> If it hurts the bottom line for America it just gets down-played and treated as a nesessary evil.

American companies? Corporate profits and citizens well being are often misaligned.

> How does one prove global warming is based on humans and isnt a natural phenomenon?

The same way you prove that someone died of natural causes or was assassinated. It's not always easy but there are ways from toxicology to study of bodies in decomposition.

> I'm actually surprised _anyone_ is fighting big oil.

Big tech is the rising sun. Car makers are losing power by the day, and the same goes to big oil. They are still extremely powerful, but investment money is moving slowly to other places. So, fights that seemed impossible will become more common with time.
MSN

Hmmm, I got the full text of the article, immediately readable with links(1), no problem using netcat or, e.g., curl.

NB. Unless required, I never send a user-agent header. Here, as is the case with 99% of the sites I visit, it was not required.

To watch the video, I used ffmpeg to save to an MP4 file:

curl -A "" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/they-had-covid-19-once-then-they-got-it-again/ar-AAT65AV?ocid=uxbndlbing \
|ffmpeg -i $(sed -n '/type=application\/x-mpegURL/{s/.*https/https/;s/\".*//p;}') -codec copy -v -8 1.mp4

However when I checked archive.org I noticed their archived page was different. It appeared to require Javascript.

YouTube

I use YouTube without any JS.^1 I search from the command line using a tiny shell script. I download from the command line using a tiny shell script. With few exceptions I do not use youtube-dl.^1

1. Only exceptions are videos with a dynamic sig value in their googlevideo.com URL. Most videos I watch have static sig values in their googlevideo.com URL. Alternatively, I can use a "modern browser" to get the googlevideo.com URLs to download these videos, with all the tracking and other non-essential URLs blocked (no ads), instead of youtube-dl.

Twitter

I read Twitter without any JS. It currently works fine for me using links(1). I have a tiny shell script to download an entire feed if I need to find some historical tweet. Twitter does make changes from time to time. Previously I had to use the GraphQL API. Not anymore.

I agree 100% that the web of gratuitous JS sucks, but even with TCP clients and a text-only browser that do not run Javascript, I encounter few problems reading the textual information and/or downloading the binary files (resources) that websites provide.
‘Sitting at your desk with no motivation to do anything’. Let’s frame this from a couple of different angles.

- You have time/opportunity to do whatever you choose to improve your life, and nothing feels worth trying, the time just runs out repeatedly.

- Given a set of unstated constraints on your self-permitted behavior and potential pursuits, when you consider your options, nothing excites you, no pursuit resonates with emotional anticipation.

If that captures it, what’s helped me in my life is to use an analogy of mathematical optimization:

1. the options you permit yourself are too narrow. Try things that other people seem to enjoy that you are unfamiliar with. ie expand your horizon by expanding the boundary of the domain. Give yourself more options.

2. you’re overconfident that different activities will provide negative/neutral benefit, assuming there is something that you’ll enjoy. This is a type of learned helplessness, similar to gradient ascent/descent in a flat zone. One strategy is to take random jumps into the unknown. ie commit more to what you try, try going all in where you’d otherwise be more cautious.

3. If you’re overstimulated on caffeine or red bull, or partially emotionally anaesthetized (through behavior like intellectualization or emotional immaturity) you may be insensitive to what is truly emotionally rewarding. I think this is like a faulty objective function. Try meditation, or removing stimulants, or read about maladaptive emotional coping mechanisms, or try a psychotherapist.
Your examples are not the same, you're presenting cause and treatment. The parent comment discussed one treatment over another: refusing preventive treatment over curative treament.

Problem is that there is not enough capacity for curative treatment only. In this case it would make sense to allocate some hospital capacity for people without vaccination, and more capacity for people that have been vaccinated (maybe in the same ratios as population vaccination).

And also allocate some hospital capacity for people with other diseases so they're not impacted by the fact that some people refuse vaccination.
Another important difference that I can see between clickhouse-obfuscator and datasino is that obfuscator takes a long way to make sure data, although anonimised, remains statistically realistic, whereas datasino is a dumb data filler/fuzzer: the output values will just be random bits. It's OK if you care about the data structure only but not so much when you need more "realistic" data.

Something I'd like to add to datasino is indeed a way to specify constraints on some fields, beside their type, so for instance a column that's supposed to store a time actually look like a time and not a random integer. I just haven't found a nice and simple way to specify those constraints yet.
This is the CEO that issued herself the Free Speech Award her own company sponsored (which got 99% downvoted due to the clear conflict of interest and the irony of the award). She's so far from reality it's likely she actually believes her own clear lies (small creators have been able to hide dislikes for years).
The Great Resignation is coming to decimate the ranks of middle management
My understanding is that given this was the first time this was tried, there was a strong possibility that the patient would not survive. Instead, the manner of their death would inform the doctors for the next person they tried it on.

Given that their chance of survival is so slim, choosing to use a person for whom such small odds give more information to science, rather than do moral good by helping this person survive, seemed a reasonable tradeoff.

Is this too cynical a read on the choice they made?