skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Orwellian oppression is very visible

Yes.

> people work to fix it and eventually do.

No?

My understanding of Orwellian oppression is exactly that even though people are very aware that it exists, only a small minority of people care enough (or are personally harmed enough) to want to take actions change it.

Just look at modern day China. All but the most naive are aware of things like censorship and surveillance. Most have first-hand interactions with both. People joke about it all the time (being "invited for tea" or such and such news was "harmonized" a.k.a. censored). Some of the language has evolved to be almost not that different from what was envisioned in Newspeak.

And yet, the average person does not feel violated enough to actually do something about anything. It's much easier to just go with the flow and not do what the state doesn't like.
IME, scaffolding/config is overkill only if it complicates the developer experience. I stayed away from Angular, React, Vue, etc. because there were too many ways to scaffold and you had to essentially learn how to configure them.

Now I've settled on Svelte as it's layout and build/compile step is simple and I've never had to touch the config file
Attention to Covid-19 news increased slightly amid omicron surge
Did once--very good deal.
It is pretty obviously so, and it's also not controversial really.

e.g. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/covid-omicron-var...

>Do the unvaccinated populations fuel the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants?

> The consensus among the scientific community is yes, they likely do. Unvaccinated people have less protection from the SARS-CoV-2 virus and thus would allow more of the virus to multiply within them.

> The higher rate of virus multiplication in the unvaccinated is likely to result in more possible mutations of the virus, resulting in the emergence of a larger number of variants in unvaccinated than vaccinated people.

I think at this point there is not much more to say here, at least from my end. Have a great day.
This makes me want to set up a tailoring business on the side of the road and call it "Highway Robery"
I did manage to find sports masks I wear when I got the gym that do make it much easier to breath, although they fog up my glasses still so I take those off when I'm there.
Nice overview, but the precursor from Project Builder is missing.

https://paulhammant.com/2013/03/28/interface-builders-altern...
I think this whole situation came about because the original user base of anti work wasn’t about workers rights or work reform. But it was quite literally against working at all. So you have all these regular people joining last year who have very different ideas than the mods who founded it.

It’s like the split between “defund the police” vs “reform the police”. People will tell you it was never about totally removing the police entirely but there are certainly people who believe the statements to their most literal meanings.
Idiocracy is already here, just not evenly distributed.
I am in agreement there.
And how many of them were able to dust up a person who could explain to them not only how algebra works, but why one should study it? At the age where they can actually do it and not get bored?

Math education comes up here regularly, and we have lots of smart math people here, but the story is often that some commentator was simply never shown anything interesting in their whole schooling. I'd never have given it much thought were it not for one particular math teacher who put a lot of effort into me and a few other interested kids. I still keep in touch with him.
Funny - I was thinking the same this morning. But more along the lines of "I hope his spirit is watching this"
Knuth?
“Self perpetuating emergent behavior” is the best summary I’ve ever heard of this phenomenon
> The thing I don't get about the non-religious arguments is that we already have a national ID, it's just a patchwork system of unreliable, not-particularly-secure forms of identification

Yes, and this unreliable patchwork is already being heavily abused by surveillance companies (eg Equifax, Google, LexisNexis, Facebook, Retail Equation, etc) involuntarily storing our personal information - creating permanent records on us that we can only guess the contents and scope of, sorting us into prescriptive classes so that we can be better managed, and completely unaccountable to even their most egregious victims.

Social security numbers were promised to only be used for purposes of administering social security, and yet now they're required by many businesses for keying into that surveillance matrix. The main thing holding back more businesses from asking for identifiers is that people are hesitant to give them out.

Before there is any talk of strengthening identification, we need a US GDPR codifying a basic right to privacy. Until I'm able to fully control the surveillance industry's dossiers on me (inspection, selective deletion, prohibit future collection), I'll oppose anything that would further empower them.
Any kind of tunnel or VPN would also mess with the minimum travel time. This seems like a good way to cause more problems for regular people just trying to log in from slightly unusual network configurations than for any hypothetical man-in-the-middle.
I was born and raised in the UK and I still can't explain to people how it works. Are England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland separate countries? Is the UK a country? It's countries all the way down.
The History of Unicor
Smoking, at least where I live is heavily taxed and regulated. You can't smoke in any building open to the public or place of employment, you can't smoke within 25ft of any entrance to any of those buildings either. Cigarettes are taxed to hell and back as well.

I guess we could do that to the people unwilling to get vaxxinated. Tax them for their status and bar them from any building open to the public or place of employment.
Yeah, right.
The economy will be crumbling, hardly anyone will have enough money to put food on the table but somehow they will manage to buy useless stuff on Amazon.
Please, stop spreading bullshit, I know that you don’t believe it but you are actively harming people with your disinformation.
I mean none of it is good, but at the end of the day there’s no alternative when trust in government has totally broken down.
This prompts an interesting question! Even though I'm a crypto fan I have a hard time thinking that this will cause some giant rift in tech. But it seems like it may already have!

If theoretically many anti-crypto people do turn out to be the dying tribe, what does that mean? What does that future world look like? What does the living tribe end up looking like?
> Honest question: What would lead you to this conclusion?

A person's incentive to pay attention to something is proportional to their ability to do something about it. If you have an organization meant to represent hundreds of millions of people, each individual has effectively ~zero control over it, and so pays little attention.

Meanwhile, the larger the organization it is, the more resources it can extract from its base, the larger it can become. With size comes complexity. Complexity means there are more things for people to pay attention to.

In combination the little attention people pay is spread thin over a large number of things. This makes corruption unlikely to be noticed and punished, which attracts corrupt people.

> Moreover, you seem to have made the assumption that factoring corruption out of government at a structural level is impossible. If that's the case, I think you're being unimaginative.

Which existing large government is free of corruption?

Note that states with lower corruption scores like Denmark and Singapore are less than 5% of the size of the United States and have less corruption, not none.
You're really still staying away from your friends, even at someone's house? I guess I get it with Omicron, just surprising at this point.
How Does an individual choice to get vaccinated or not impact others?

Vaccines do not stop transmission of Covid nor do they stop you from getting Covid.

They merely decrease your chances of getting severe Covid or dying from Covid.

Thus the decision to vax or not is clearly a personal choice.
Because society isn't a free resource, it requires time and effort (i.e. work) to create and maintain, and that work can either be distributed across its members, or it can be done entirely by some and others simply mooch off of their work. If you feel like work is disproportionately done by some and not others, or that some work creates no value, that's a valid argument and worth exploring. But the idea that people should just be free to consume societal benefits without contributing to those benefits is obviously flawed. It assumes you should be free to personally consume, but others will be required to work to provide you with the goods and services you are consuming, meaning the ability to opt out of work isn't available to all. At that point it becomes clear that people with this particular anti-work view don't actually have issues with the current capitalist system in which some coerce others to labor and exploit the benefits, they simply have an issue that they aren't in the position to do the exploiting.

Perhaps that kind of utopia becomes more feasible when we become a society in which everything is completely automated, but we aren't anywhere close to that, so in the meantime, everybody should be expected to contribute.
Recaptcha v3 doesn’t prompt if it thinks you’re a real user.
I love that OpenAI is adopting the prompt as a way to "program" GPT-3. It's one of the most intuitive approaches to setting up a model and I love it when non-developers can go in and pleasantly surprise themselves by "training" a model.

InstructGPT is really exciting from this perspective.
My large city in Texas is now down to 35 ICU beds across the entire city. That's how.

A friend's father-in-law had to drive 4hrs away to find a hospital with capacity for his cardiac surgery. That's how.
I'm using the term correctly and whether the numbers combine to indicate technical statistical difference won't impact that small difference, it would just reduce the error bars. Taking new york high end vaccine effectiveness 23.5x and worst case natural immunity 12.6x you reduce your hazard ratio by factor of 2. That is absolute worst case for natural immunity and best case for vaccine. It will be a lot closer to 1 perhaps 1.2x. Now compare that to you worst case baseline reduction of 12.6x already and how much more do you have to gain? Are you for all practical purposes protected enough?
Can you pay for everyday items or rent in USD?
Yep

I'd feel 100% differently about this stuff if the NSA or some other cybersecurity gov arm making these rules used their massive cybersecurity budgets to provide free MFA, TLS, encrypted DNS, etc., whether US gov hosted or via non-profit (?) partners like LetsEncrypt.

OSS & free software otherwise has a huge vendor tax to actually get used. As is, this feels like economic insecurity & anti-competition via continued centralization to a small number of megavendors. Rules like this should come with money, and not to primes & incumbents, but utility providers.

Sure, our team is internally investing in building out a lot of this stuff, but we have security devs & experience, while the long tail of software folks use doesn't. The gov sets aside so much $$$$ for the perpetual cyber war going on, but not for simple universal basics here :(
nice graphs for eurozone countries https://www.euro-area-statistics.org/inflation-rates?cr=eur&...
This is quite nice. This is feedback from just using this briefly, but it might be helpful to intercept the tab key and insert spaces when editing, particularly since there's a syntax highlighting section. Maybe also have the preview with iframe option enabled by default as well just to show the fully rendered page.

That aside, I really like how simple and straightforward this is. All of the functionality is clearly labeled and up front. The help documentation is also succinct and immediately useful.
Intel. AT&T is immoral.
> It's not at all, what it was originally designed for is irrelevant, the question is what it's being used for.

Then surely you should be able to demonstrate your point with some analogy other than "a smuggling tunnel."

> These are all utterly aside the point.

No, they are the point. This thread was about victim blaming. And you brought up asylum seekers, broadening the discussion to include whether legality should apply at all, or whether we should consider ethical use of a tool regardless of legality. I'm not bringing anything new up in this discussion, I'm only replying directly to points made.

> Infrastructure that makes breaking the law easy is worse than one that does not.

Even if that infrastructure primarily serves (or was created to serve, you choose) the purpose of smuggling, for example, asylum seekers?

Your entire point in this comment seems to be "everything you bring up is irrelevant" which begs the question, why are we even having this discussion at all?
This project spun out of my startup https://dashborg.net and I'm hoping to create a hosted SaaS service out of it with security/authentication and maybe some other premium features. I don't have that service yet, and I didn't want to get "cloud-poached" before I even had a chance to launch. That being said, I get the concerns. I'll likely re-license the core as vanilla MIT in the future.
Spoken exactly like someone who has never had the pleasure of experiencing the vicious and debilitating feedback loop of a panic attack. Of course everyone gets nervous when put on the spot; panic disorders go well beyond that, to the point where you might believe your death is imminent during something like a routine interview, and your fight or flight response kicks in. Rather than concentrating on the problem at hand, your mind is focused solely on survival.
Paging Epic Rap Battles of History.
There are at least a couple of rotary wing UAVs like the K-Max and Fire Scout that are just retrofitted conventional airframes. So in a way it's almost like the technology skipped manned flight and was put directly into unmanned aircraft first. Perhaps we'll see some of it trickle back down as it becomes a more proven technology.

Personally I think the form that "jet packs" will eventually take is just an electric multicopter that you strap into somehow.
We could also avert childhood hunger, but humans are notoriously bad at fixing hard problems.
By no means did I mean to imply that Argentina is credit worthy. Only that inflation is tied in with other financial problems, including the inability to access international credit.
To use premium settings without paying.

It appears less like malicious DDoS and more like pragmatic theft.
It doesn't seem all that bad for the Alphas and Betas
I think what most people are saying is that if you're not working to feed yourself, then someone else is. And further, it's not fair to ask society to pick up the slack for people who could contribute, but choose not to.

In other words: by saying you shouldn't starve for refusing to work, aren't you also saying that someone else should grow your food for you for free?
Wouldn't work for VPN and authorized delegation. Very bad idea.
Them russian librarians have well furnished shelves.
There’s a simple solution, but good luck getting everyone on board with it: stop treating the willingly unvaxxed in hospitals. Only vaxxed patients and medically-ineligible unvaxxed patients get treatment. If you can’t do this minuscule thing to help society then society can’t be turned on its head to help you.
Fox News set the situation up to begin with. They likely investigated the person before requesting them as they asked for this mod specifically. They could have seen the top mod is an autistic, trans, reddit moderator who fits the boomer caricature of entitled lazy millennial.

Then it’s no shocker when the interview is completely socially inept because that’s what they set up from the start.

The Fox News guy is even mocking the moderator but the mod isn’t socially aware enough to see it.
There's a reason why it's called the Death Zone (26k feet). And people that go up there acclimate for days or weeks, often with oxygen tanks anyways. And this plane story is likely going from sea level instantly to 40K.
> That includes things like clothing, but it also includes more staggering ideas like hand-spinning all the fabric for sails for ships, which is a seriously nontrivial amount of time!

The problem is that there is push and pull.

The Cotton Gin is quite famous about this. Anyone could have invented the cotton gin--and lots probably did. The problem is that nobody needed an order of magnitude more cotton--until they did. And once they did need more cotton--hey, presto--the cotton gin becomes widespread.
"Let's check research studies"

Okay, we found three studies.

- study A says that masks work, BUT xx

- study B says that masks work, BUT yy

- study C says that masks work, BUT zz

"The CDC also points to several other studies, BUT BUT BUT BUT". Therefore the obvious conclusion is that masks don't work.
I don't think cjbgkagh was responding to your comment at all. He just couldn't put it right underneath the parent because that comment is dead.
Maybe the terms are just confusing to me. In the Philippines, there are no plans. You buy a SIM and it's ready to go. You can get Free Facebook immediately. There is no Free "plan." If you don't buy load, then you aren't going to get "charged" for using free Facebook because you don't have load. And you're right, you get free Facebook for as long as you need to use it.

Source: I live in the country and use free Facebook all the time because I'm always forgetful and run out of load. The main reason for using Facebook is to keep in touch with people while I'm on the run. The service is still very popular in the Philippines.

EDIT: To clarify, there are no prepaid plans. They call them promos. The terms "plan" and "charges" seem to fit better with a postpaid setup. I believe the reason they would have "promos" is because at one time you could just buy load and it would "just work" without buying any sort of promo. The cost was relatively expensive, and about the same as you would pay for an internet cafe. It was a bit of a pain, because sometimes you would buy load and instantly lose part of that as soon as your phone connected to the internet. You could shut that off though. I don't know if they still have an option for doing that.
I am not aware of "clear-cut" evidence that masking in schools work in fact that's the entire point of the article in question here so if you have some silver bullet that debunks all the authors claims than you should absolutely share it.
Isn't the point way up that nurses are quitting. This creates a burden at the hospital. Why are they quitting? Because they are treated like cattle instead of employed human beings. See the court case on the hospital suing the nurses in an at will employment state for quitting and going to another hospital for higher pay. There are even some who are fired for not getting a vaccine regardless of any special circumstance the individual may have.
it blows my mind every day how they screwed up somewhat very good native mail client. once I've updated to iOS14, daily:

- my mail will disappear. I would open a folder and see emails from 2007 at the top... wait and see he is loading them again and more are popping up.. takes few minutes to catch up with 2021.

- my contacts will not work when I start typing email. literally sometimes the do sometimes they don't

- emails that previously were formatted well, would be crashing with odd CSS issues I never seen before

- I would click email.. start reading, then it would shift to the next email.. on its own!

- I had few emails automatically disappear for good... only to find them in trash folder.

Its a disaster. A classical situation where after a system update I'm banging my head against the wall "why the heck did I do that??"
Your project seems to do more but, for a small framework that only needs a small script to work, petite-vue[0] is an alternative.

[0] https://github.com/vuejs/petite-vue
Expanding hospitals, building new hospitals and training scores of new highly-skilled staff all takes many years. In addition to being extraordinarily expensive.

And then what? The pandemic ends and we have incredibly expensive facilities sitting empty (but still incurring maintenance costs forever) and a surplus of highly-trained staff who cannot find jobs because 98% of the time, we simply don't need any more capacity than we had in 2019.
Same for me, I also appreciated that he responded to the question on his blog of why it is paid - production value / editing / professional equipment etc... it makes sense.
We need to update Robert de Niro's character Harry Tuttle. In Brazil he's a rogue plumber who will sweep in and illegally fix pipes that would take the bureaucratic system months to fix. In the end he's literally consumed by paper(work).

In the modern era there's no visible plumbing to fix. Harry's only way to help the everyperson with their locked account is to tweet at the company's help handle. He's built up quite the celebrity doing just that and companies are forced to act on his demands. In the end, people are impatient, mention him too often, and his phone is DDoSed by a flood of tweets coming his way. He's never seen or heard of again.
That’s absolutely what it is. The original antiwork user base was people who literally do not want to work at all even if it was reformed to be fair.
women in the west are more free, privileged, and protected than any other group of humans ever in history

little boys also ask if girls are better when they get to school. both sexes are curious as they grow up. school is also dominated by female teachers and there are now more girls in school than boys.

the rest of your questions are nonsensical. people are people. norms exist. they might change but there will always be norms, and they will be tied to masculine and feminine expressions too.
Why? We're on a free market. Surely they could simply add a big surcharge. I'd expect their insurance to go way up too.
I think it's just a measuring contest. 99.9999% of people have no use for anything over like 300mbps (multiple 4k streams while gaming). Ok maybe like a photo/vid backup once a year or something would be nice on the 25Gbps.
I dont think the proles were, since they were already in a state where they could not recognize they were under the Party's boot.

"The proles are free"

Newspeak was supposed to stamp out "bad" thoughts from members the party.
Being tolerant is not always a virtue. I visited countries before with very agreeable people living absolute disparity. Had they been less agreeable, they may have overthrow their inept and corrupt governments decades ago. For their own good.
People in Cuba still have to line up for hours to get pitiful food rations from the government stores. Blows my mind that nonsense is still going on, decades after near everywhere else Communism has been abolished.
> Worried about inflation? In Argentina, it’s a way of life.

The article implies the same will come to your own country soon, so do not be surprised, learn from Argentina.

The consent for coming inflation is being built.

Looking at the global fiscal recklessness, there is a clear lack of intent to pay back the amassed debt.

Now nobody is impressed by a trillion anymore.

Eventually (soon) a quadrillion will be a commonly used word. 100 trillion is just a 0.1 quadrillion; Japan's debt has already reached 1.2 quadrillion JPY.

So inflation or country bankruptcy is the only way out.
The moving vehicle presents the mortal threat to the pedestrian not the other way around. Therefore it is more ethical to require the threatening agent to take more precautions or suffer more harm.
There's a video of his childhood submissions (~10yo) and it didn't feel he was an alien. Now maybe his real strength showed up later in life.