skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this is 100% correct that Surveillance-resistant systems or other technical means are not he answer to authoritarianism, this statement has at least two problems.

1. A technical solution may not in itself be the way to counter authoritarianism, but may assist in either resisting it or prevent it from gaining enough power. Since democracy is a state of permanent fight against the iron law of oligarchy (which ultimately leads to authoritarianism), any thing that reduces the power of the govt to a certain extent is good. In other words, we don't want the govt to be 100% efficient in whatever it does. Arguably modern tech in current state gives the govt near 100% efficiency in surveillance, so this has to be countered with any means, most of which are of course political and legislative, but surveillance-resistant technology can also play its part.

2. Authoritarianism is not the only threat. It's entirely possible to have a democracy in place and yet have a miserable existence under it. For example, if every perfectly democratic law we have now is enforced with 100% efficiency it will feel very close to a dystopia. Technology can help alleviate this to a certain extent.
Yes (actually, it would only have to be a soft fork), but that would require serious coordination. Ethereum has done it before, so it's not literally impossible, but it would require the whole of the Ethereum network to do it, not just the ENS people.

If it did happen, it would raise serious questions about the nature of the decentralization of Ethereum, and how suitable it is as a deterministic platform to build stuff on. Then again, it already happened and nobody seemed to really care.

If Ethereum is willing to fork over X, what's to say they're not willing to fork over Y? And the answer to this question is probably to do with "the big guys with the money at the top like X, but not Y". So much for decentralization.
Reviewer didn't say which ones he has nor which phone.

My view of "AirPods" has changed over the years - had them since the OG launch with my iPhone7. A lot of the gripes make sense with the older models. Then I upgraded my iPhone to latest, and got the AirPods3.

With the v3 I finally feel it's a great product. I turn off the "automatic connection" BT settings for all but one device (iPhone) and it works as I expect. The spatial audio is great.

I tried a non-Apple AirPods equivalent for a while (cheap now, $30) and really missed the "find my" feature, plus the sizing was off.

My favorite new feature is the Find My where you can play MarcoPolo with your missing AirPod. THAT was much better than with my OG pods. Of course, the "your AirPods have been left behind" is often spurious so that needs improvement but better a false negative than a missed positive.
Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists (1993)
I guess for me “bodily autonomy” is not some bright line. We mandate other vaccines for school. We have loads of regulations around what goes in our food and water and air. Why is this suddenly different?

I think I’m as guilty as anyone at binarizing the issue though. You’re right that I have a low risk of death. We don’t have enough data around long-COVID to really talk about other risks. I’m not talking out of fear. I’m talking out of frustration that I’ve made lifestyle changes to help others who clearly don’t feel the need to reciprocate.
The remaining % are likely "no answer".
It’s CBS News!

A premier authoritative journalistic reporting outfit that never includes a citation (much less an URL link).
> A virus isn't a lifestyle disease.

No it but it seems to kill those that have 'm LS diseases underlying.

> We spend a lot of time and money avoiding lifestyle diseases.

I never saw lockdowns on McD and Dunkin'Dos :)

And I'm no in favor of spending to stop diseases. I feel better about heavy taxes on unhealthy stuff, and tax breaks for healthy stuff. (While the other way around happens all over the glove with life stock and feed subsidies).
Coming from the UK and Italy - 3 hours is nothing. If you're about to die they'll send you to emergency, otherwise you'll have to wait hours.
If you're unhappy, pay for a private insurance and get decent service.

Actually I had to go to the hospital (not covid) and it was almost deserted with reception coming to check the desk they were supposed to be attending half an hour after we were supposed to be there.
People generally went less to the hospital because of the pandemic (which causes other problems).
Done with Covid?

Are you aware that vaccines are failing spectacularly with regards to Omicron infection?

Hospitalizations are another story, but this notion of the vaccines ending Covid is just not holding up with new variants.
I think Chattanooga, TN has 10g but not sure how expensive it is or how to get it. Chatt itself is pretty cheap in comparison to something like Nashville or bigger cities.
Fair point. But if we're talking about a protocol not meant for the mainstream, is it really an attack vector to worry about?
The Omicron variant has so far shown itself to be milder and overall less dangerous to the vaccinated and unvaccinated. So far it appears to leave patients with good immunity after recovery.

This trend is playing out in the US and western Europe. Ireland has dropped its restrictions .. Denmark also just announced dropping restrictions.

The board member is correct here, despite anyones personal thoughts on covid vaccinations, vaccine requirements etc.. at least for now this latest variant seems to be forcing a change in narrative.
Yeah, I have two pairs of SE215s for convenience. But, replacement OEM cables cost 20-30$, and maybe it's the geometry of my ears, but I've had to replace 3-4 cables by now, since the cables, OEM or not, kept failing at the same section, at that metal wire you bend over your ear.
Ugh, I'm so sorry you had to go through that. For other folks reading this: yes, three hours doesn't sound like that long a wait. But I'm willing to be those felt like the three longest, most stressful hours of your life when your mind is racing with possibilities and fears about the future of your wife and/or baby.
Tripled sounds like a lot, so I trawled through some old pictures of the BK menu. I think the NJ price from 2011 is probably the closest to Seattle (price varies by location), so the whopper meal price is ~1.66x. Inflation is ~1.27x

Inflation: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL

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Seattle (2022) Burger: $6.59; meal S: $9.79; M: $10.78; L: $11.28; https://www.bk.com/menu/picker-picker_5520

Utah (2018) Burger: $4.29; meal S: $6.19; M: $6.78; L: $7.18; https://www.slcmenu.com/2018/03/26/burger-king-menu-prices-i...

California (2018) Burger: $5.??; meal S: $7.??; https://foursquare.com/v/burger-king/4c48d1376594be9ae8533e2...

Seattle (2017) Burger: $5.29; meal S: $7.29; M: ???; L: $7.98; https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/burger-king-seattle-7?select...

Maryland (2017) Burger: $4.??; meal S: $6.??; M: ???; L: $7.???; https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g41094-d...

Chicago (2012) Burger: ???; meal S: $5.??; M: ???; L: $6.??; https://foursquare.com/v/burger-king/4acfd01af964a52034d620e...

NYC (2012) Burger: $4.??; meal S: $6.??; M: ????; L: $7.??; https://foursquare.com/v/burger-king/4d4df8edea2760fc7833642...

Newark NJ (2011) Burger: ???; meal S: $5.89; M: $6.39; L: $6.79; https://foursquare.com/v/burger-king/4b86b7a8f964a5205d9831e...

Georgia (2010) Burger: ???; meal S: $4.49; M: $4.89; L: $5.29; http://milledgevillegeorgia.blogspot.com/2010/05/burger-king...

Virginia (2009) Burger: ???; meal S: $4.49; M: $4.89; L: $5.29; https://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanrules/3430593700
Interesting. I don't use Android anymore but I have like four old phones lying around that I could easily use to play with. I wonder if this has better battery life than the GPD Win, and it would be a free experiment for me.
What does this site do? The homepage tells me nothing
It’s not just the AirPods, the experience is as crappy on the AirPods Pro and Max.
> And yet we don't go around forcibly shutting down gay bathhouses, bars, and Grindr and implementing condom and prep mandates, even though they would be effective at reducing its spread. And for good reason: it'd be a massive (and homophobic) violation of civil liberties

Actually, following some FUD by a now famous doctor, this had a lot of political and popular support back then: https://www.congress.gov/98/crecb/1983/07/14/GPO-CRECB-1983-...

Check page 28, July 14 1983.
I've had to replace...a lot of wired earbuds. I have an entire shelf full of dead wired earbuds, from all sorts of manufacturers (Apple, RIM, cheapo $5 earbuds, Sony, Shure, ...), which almost uniformly failed in the same weird way: the right earbud becomes intermittently staticky after a few months. I checked with multiple devices (phones, computers), so it's probably not the socket, but more likely something to do with the way I tug on the cord when I run or walk?

Anyway, after burning through a lot of wired headphones, I've had the current AirPods Pro for over a year with no trouble, and the sound quality is the same to me (plus, noise cancellation is useful).
For me the killer feature of Zim is the native integration with Git. It's super easy to write and commit, write some more, commit again. You don't even have to leave the editor interface.

I've coupled this with git pre-commit and post-commit hooks which basically ensure that the changes are always pushed to GitHub.

I've found a similar application for Android called GitJournal. Unfortunately it doesn't do the wiki syntax which Zim recognizes. Only markdown and plain text. So I have a separate repo for my mobile notes. They're usually much shorter anyway, the type of notes you'd put on a sticky.

Hopefully one of these tools will learn the format of the other in the future. That would allow us to use both of them on the same repo.
>ENS is not decentralized in the sense that there is binding, non-human, trustless enforcement of what you may consider to be desiderata, such as:

> not seizing people’s names

This is false. Before control over the ENS protocol was handed over to the DAO, they made it impossible for the controller of the protocol to revoke any ".eth" name.
Ah, rice. The quintessential Asian grain, now consumed by billions around the world. When I was a child, my mixed-race family used to eat rice every day! Even today, the subtle aroma of rice wafting up from the kitchen brings a sense of nostalgia. It's a sure sign that dinner is approaching, my favorite meal of the day...

[5 pages later]

1. Put rice and water in rice cooker

2. Press "start"
I think that's ultimately what everyone wants. However, I think we need more research because once you throw away the keys they're gone forever. This is something that needs time to get right.
Making the Pimoroni Keybow Dynamically remap keys
I guess there isn't such a thing as Moore's Law for Quantum Computing
LOL. That’s pretty funny, actually. Is it a scam when toys say batteries not included in small print too? IDK, maybe it’s my outlook on making sure I’m getting what I’m buying (or what I’m not getting as the case may be)! I don’t see anything shady here, but I couldn’t access the article earlier. I’ll try again here in a bit!
The argument for Google not being an advertising monopoly can't be "Just don't look at ads." That's like saying hypothetical oil company has no monopoly because people can just walk.

There is a hypothetical world where the advertising market is not so ruined that it's apparently a good option to completely avoid it. Maybe if there was better competition, people would not want to avoid ads.
Of course, you can encode all of maths with it, but only in certain specific ways and not others.

For example, it seems like Idris doesn't really support subtyping unless I've missed something obvious (you can use typeclasses, but that doesn't allow you to use heterogeneous collections or anything). I believe it's also a requirement that all functions used in type signatures are total.
> > - Are the unvaccinated actually the majority of the covid related cases (as far as I'm aware, yes).

> They needn't be a majority. The mandate acts to reduce strain on the hospital, so ask whether it achieves that (I think the answer is yes)

Majority is very important here. If vaccinated and non-vaccinated people were hospitalized at equal rate (or even at a rate where more vaccinated were hospitalized) a vaccine mandate isn't exactly going to do anything.

But I now realize that I gave "vaccine works" as a prerequisite, so this bullet point is redundant.

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> > - Are unvaccinated hospitalizations significantly worse compared to other personal decisions (diet, exercise, risky hobbies).

> It is harder to fix these than getting a jab.

Likely, but hard to say definitively without data, and I know I don't have such data on hand. I talk about it a bit more in another reply better, but many things are even easier than getting 3 jabs. They only require inaction.

My ultimate question on this point is, why do we accept certain lifestyle injuries but not this? Ease of avoidance is a good reason, but I would like to see it compared to other lifestyle injuries.

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> > - Finally, what actions, if any, should be taken to correct the hospital load? (nothing, vaccine mandates, accelerated hospital expansion, turning people away, etc)

> An alternative would be to charge unvaccinated people a premium on hospital costs, as I'm sure health insurance providers would be keen to do.

I'm not against such an idea at all if it would solve the problem. The high-level issue is that the unvaccinated are costing the system more money / capacity than the vaccinated, so they should pay for it.

However, there is a lack of capacity, not necessarily a lack of funding. If the unvaccinated are charged more, will they actually have a lesser impact on capacity, or will capacity still be reached just with them paying more money? Which then circles back to needing more capacity. Who pays for the extra capacity is almost a separate discussion in itself.
Assuming Moore's law applies for quantum circuits, time limited attacks against ECDSA described in the article might be possible in year 2058 or so.

(it would require 317M qubits at minimum, title has a typo)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirmatrelvir

It was invented for a cat coronavirus in 2018.
Is it possible to scale it by building separate computers and using distributed computing techniques? e.g. would 100 1 qubit computers be equivalent to a single 100 qubit computer?
DevOps, cloud architecture/engineering.

Another option could be teaching IT (private) - organize lectures about your expertise, etc
Logic bugs are the primary category of bugs targeted by heavyweight formal methods.

Most JS features don't even have a formal spec which is part of the problem.
I have used zim for notes for well over 10 years now, maybe 15.

It has made the all the difference in my career.

To any new person I know in my career I try to hammer home take notes, all the time take notes. I always wondered if some day I could write a book just from it
People are lucky these cards are so easy to duplicate. It's the only reason many Americans still have some bodily autonomy in the face of pharma and govts colluding in suspicious ways.
Not really a convincing argument. Had most of those engineers worked on reusable rockets before? It's like saying stripe, netflix, uber, or Facebook did nothing new because their software engineers had written software before. No one is suggesting that the company needs to compromise of novices in the field, only that they are a new aggressive organization that seeks to upset the status qou.
Then the fluorescence will be equally dark.
>Notably, anyone can operate a full node. There is no specialized hardware required.

Great! The 51% cartel summons their crony Beff Jezos who runs a billion minimal & globally-distributed (compromised) BTC full nodes with his enormous compute resources. How does this affect the integrity of the network?

How does my new full node connect to the network? Are there hardcoded relay/coordinator IPs that it tries to connect to? Who controls those?
I’ll take a shot in the arm, but my nose? Eehhhh…
For the record, my original comment before I deleted it was exclusively referring to cases of deliberate violent crimes, with a caveat that it should probably be restricted to just homicide.
If you want to be pedantic, yes, the district court did indeed rule against Microsoft with regards to the tying claim.

However, when most people discuss the result of a lawsuit you can generally infer they are referring to the ultimate decision after all appeals are exhausted (as opposed to any particular intermediate decision which could get reversed and then reversed again).

Since the appeals court overturned that particular claim, one could reasonably argue that the district judge ruled incorrectly, and in the eyes of the legal system Microsoft, did not, actually lose.

(Note that I am speaking here only in regards to the tying claim, as the appeals court did affirm that Microsoft lost on several of the other claims related to Windows licensing for OEMs.)
They're in the process of adding layer 2 support so that you'll be able to register on rollups without having to pay high gas. Should be 1/10th of the cost in gas or less after its implemented.

In the meantime, I've generally spent about $60 or so on gas fees, and since it's $5 a year for the actual registration, I tend to offset the gas by registering for more years. If you spend $100 you get a domain for 8 years. That's as good as cheaper TLDs.
The UK, Denmark and others moving to get rid of ALL restrictions. Meanwhile Canada, Australia and others devolving into police states...

Edit - forgot some other countries. Netherlands, Ireland also ditching restrictions...
If I had ability to gain access to everyone's wallet I'd probably attempt to siphon off a few million dollars a day worth of bitcoin. If people catch on that all is lost after awhile oh well - I've already cashed out significantly.
Isn't it beautiful that something so amazing can run on a standard tower PC in a living room in Sweden?

Holding up against a HN hug of death last month, providing an absolutely refreshing search experience!
The wined and dined people also often really don't want to deal with a website and they want someone to call who can "get things done" if needed.

So for wealthfront and friends, let's say a family member is closing on a property purchase. You said you'd put in $500K. Closing comes and you try to wire the money over. But wait, it doesn't work.

1) First you have to sell investments
2) Trades have to SETTLE (T+2 or more)!
3) Then and only then can you initiate an ACH transfer.
4) It can only go to your own account in some cases (T+1/T+2)
5) Then you have to go to you bank and get a wire out (retail banks often have tight cutoffs or end up delayed if going online while they "approve" this).
6) This all can be stressful on closing day (agents calling, escrow calling, bank calling, your relative calling). Now you are not days but a week late.

vs

Talking with someone. They enable margin account if you don't have one, you wire same day, done or you can give your guys name to everyone to help coordinate if needed if it will be a bit late.
You might be able to take lower paying jobs if they have pensions or overtime.

Police officers make decent money (depending on location) and have great pensions since they're public sector union employees. I know a guy that took all the overtime he could get his last year. He made $160k and was then entitled to $80k pension (half your highest paid year. Downsides are that it's mostly sedentary and carries physical risks.

Teachers make decent money in a handful of states. You can make $90k in as a secondary ed biology teacher. Downsides can be policies you don't agree with (like no grades lower than 50%) and potential physical risks depending on the student body.

Many trades make good money. I have a friend who is a construction manager for a gas utility making $85k. His workers can make that and more with overtime (union gig too). Before that he worked at UPS and it wasn't unheard of for drivers to make $100k.
DevOps doesn't really interest me. It seems to be messier than software development with all of the craziness like K8s and stuff like that nowadays.
Wow, I left Zim for a Markdown based setup because I wanted to have an Android client. Settled on Markor, and I never knew it actually supported the Zim syntax. I'll be converting back asap!
Past related threads:

The internals of PostgreSQL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13488315 - Jan 2017 (53 comments)

The Internals of PostgreSQL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12142364 - July 2016 (1 comment)
> wouldn't gaining access to everyone's wallets render it useless since BTC would no longer have value

It would only be useful for the wallets with known public keys. That's mainly old bitcoins, new ones only have its hash written to the chain.

This would certainly crash the price, but not to zero.

> Also, wouldn't we be able to restore everyone's wallets from the latest snapshot on a new blockchain?

Yes, but what good will it do you if the private key is leaked?
The Quebec government's major concern is protecting their health care system. The Canadian health care system was quite stretched pre-pandemic, and it wouldn't take much to break it.

The goal at this point is less about preventing the spread than it is about increasing the vaccination rate to keep people out of hospitals.
Sounds like you have an operating system problem not a watermark problem.
I agree. This is really the critical point: If you are in a low risk group, but get covid you have no way of knowing whether you will consume hospital resources or not. In that case it's best to get vaccinated if you can to protect others who made need the hospital.
I suggest you familiarize yourself with the latest science/data which show that relative risk of death is higher for vaccinated and unboosted than it is for unvaccinated.

Scotland (14 per 100k vs 10 per 100k): https://publichealthscotland.scot/media/11318/22-01-26-covid...

Britain: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
I still pay most of my bills with checks. I also collect rent and pay rent with checks. Basically my entire financial life except for perhaps eating out and buying useless things online is mediated in cash and checks. This is very normal in my social circle.

Just because you choose to use e-banking doesn't mean that cash and checks are inaccessible, or even particularly inconvenient.
Vscode or even Emacs has Markdown editing and view. Am I missing something in them that are being satisfied by these other editors?
It's my understanding that the Luddite movement was less about personal preferences or adherence to tradition, and more a labor movement that was opposed to losing their livelihoods to early forms of automation.
>Vaccination is harmless

Tell that to the increasing number of footballers facing cardiac arrest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_footballer...
The share prices listed for the radio companies in the article were $0.21(CMLS)and $1.50 (IHRT)respectively. Today CMLS is at 10.74, and IHRT at 19.29, which is a pretty insane jump. On the contrary to dying out, these companies went up in value! If you could have bought a station for $150K 7 years ago, and you owned one today, that seems like it could have been a great investment! (or maybe just buying some of the shares)