skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US already has all the infrastructure for "total tyranny". If private consumer information databases already know everyone in america and their spending habits, then the Feds have that and then some.

It is what makes presidential elections scarier each year: all it takes is one president with a false flag attack (or maybe not even that). Bush had the opportunity, but not really the means or the motive. Obama had the means, but not really the opportunity or the motive. Trump had the motive and means, but not the opportunity.

In a more ideal world, the "social karma" would be a good thing: crypto and such tracking could enable actually effective environmental regulation and rewards. It could enable penalizing previous revenues/profits/gains for economic activity that turned out to be deleterious.

For example, I would very much like to be able to reduce the value of all profits from oil by 90% historically, if I had such powers as god-emperor treehugger.

Crypto could provide such powers. Of course they won't be used properly, and tyranny. But it is theoretically possible.
>The assholes in the Truck Tantrum are — by and large — WASPy conspiracy believers. They are the exact _opposite_ of minority, and exactly why they need to be laughed out of town.

Okay bigot.
I still don't get it. The criteria for hiring for every US company should be your individual subjective perspective on what is triggering?

The world doesn't have an obligation not to "trigger" you.
You will be surprised that there is a difference even when you aren't cold as such. You're sitting a comfortable room, wearing a T shirt. You feel perfectly fine, but your forearms disagree and you don't even know it.

Wearing some long-sleeved thing will make a difference, but that could make you hot; sports sleeves are a way of adding a layer just to your arms without making you hotter anywhere else.
> a serious national physical fitness campaign

ParticipACTION!

Unfortunately, although it gets high marks for awareness, trust, and organizational capacity, it doesn’t seem to have been very effective: Canadian kids are at the bottom of the rankings for fitness and activities.
Ask HN: Feeling Depressed and Choked. How to handle it?
Hi all

Sorry for the sad post at this time of the day. I am a new father who has been getting very busy with family/work time lately and depression seems to have gotten the better of me.

For some background, I have always had the entrepreneurial spirit in me and I knew that path was something I loved the most ever since I was a little kid. When I was in college I had a couple of websites I owned that paid well, and that sort of reinforced my sentiment towards building my own business. Now fast forward to this day, where I am 33 years old and have welcomed a baby 3 months ago into this world.

I can clearly see that I enjoy spending time with the little guy but again I feel I am choked because of lack of availability of time to do anything else. I work on a regular Software Engineering job at a big company and I can tell you that I don't enjoy it a single bit. I have had a few side-projects recently and they haven't really grown that much. I have a ton of other ideas written down that I want to execute, however I don't have any more savings than a mere $500k and am not in a financially self-sustaining position now that I have more liabilities than ever. I think I lost the energy to hustle between a dayjob and a side-project as well; I am only able to walk down one of these two paths at a given time. I can imagine these things get really easier if I were single, which at times makes me have second thoughts about the way I've setup my life (getting married + having kids etc.)

I am exhausted with the thought of not being able to pursue a career path that I really love, and it feels like it may only get more difficult say, 10 years later where I might have a lot of money saved.

Honestly I don't know what to do anymore; I wake up smiling at the little guy for the first few minutes and later in the day, the career side of the life kicks in as well. It almost makes me want to end my life. I wanted to see if anyone of you guys have been in similar situations and if I can get some insight into how to deal with the new phase of my life I am crawling through everyday.

Thanks a lot!
I hereby request that you submit your brain for... public availability.
Idk how you can derive that as the optimal state of capitalism

The optimal state of capitalism is where resources are being allocated so perfectly, any changes would be a net negative to society
> Gotcha. Well, could there not be benefit you're missing out on, of getting a better understanding of someone to see how they hold themselves while speaking on different topics?

Of course, but there's nearly 8 billion people in the world, so you have to make choices.
Let's make an analogy. I suspect there are some teachers who may teach evolution as "just a theory" and add creationism to what they teach. I don't mind if children learn about creationism, but during their required hours at state sponsored schools, I don't want the time to be wasted teaching creationism. So I would like to restrict creationism from the curriculum.

Or how about this analogy, Zambia is a real county with real history. However, I care about what American kids learn. While they can spend a week learning about Zambia (and Tajikistan, Gabon, Kiribati, and all 200 world countries [taking 4 years]), I would prefer that they spend that time doing something else more important just as US history. So I would like to restrict the amount of world history from the curriculum.
When I was single: work from home.

Now that I'm not: work from office.
These are not “journalists”

They’re about as close to journalists as COD players are Navy SEALs
The narrative on HN seems to be about how this is not good/useful for digital currency users in the US.

This is straight up a competitor for the digital yuan (Chinese RMB), and the most valuable use cases from a US federal perspective are international uses (mostly developing countries).

Some ideas:

- The USD is used as a default currency in many places for many transactions, but there is friction in the system, especially for small payments, and especially with hostile regimes.

- The USD as a default currency gives many benefits to the US (e.g., essentially free money).

- China and the US are and will be battling for the market of the default currency of non-domestic microtransactions with digital currency. This is just a part of that battle.

- There may be some benefits (or not) for domestic users of the eUSD, but that is not the main purpose of this currency. If the eUSD doesn’t resonate for you, then consider that you may not be the target market.

- Note that this currency will most likely be presented/marketed in a very different way than I am suggesting above, and this will be more for political reasons than anything else.

Edit1: Note that when taken in this light, certain aspects of the eUSD like non-distributed ledger, centralized control, etc. should make more sense.

Edit2: Here is a link with more info:

https://www.mauldineconomics.com/frontlinethoughts/a-giant-c...
Figure out who your tribe considers "the enemy" and then sneak over to the "enemy's camp" to see what they're talking about. 3 tactics, from trivial to dangerous:

1) Use a private or different browser, VPN, or Tor to exit your personal filter bubble, then search for news or trends and see what the algorithms serve to fresh faces.

2) US-specific example: If you're a Democrat/Republican, read the Fox News/NY Times politics or opinion section. If you know some big names on the "enemy side" go consume some of their content. It'd also be a good idea to read some news stories from outside the US; they don't have much stake in the fight and have some distance, so it's good for perspective.

3) Ask that family member (the one your other family members proudly blocked on Facebook) what their news sources are. Just a word of warning: they may take this as a sign you're "defecting" and talk your ear off, so try to come up with a way to time-limit it, like "it's for a school paper."
>The author makes the bizarre assertion that runaway trim is only caused by short circuits

That's not the only problem with TFA. I worked on the Hercules, not any of the Boeing airliners, but this "30-year pilot" has some pretty fundamental misunderstandings of how MCAS works, what the effects of moving the engines are, and what actually went wrong with the 737 Max. Color me surprised.

Regurgitating the same "MCAS prevents the aircraft from stalling because it's unstable" shlock betrays the author's surface level (at best) understanding of the issue.
Working from home was a lot harder than from office in many ways.

The most obvious part was becoming my own office manager, somewhat stay motivated and focused, adapting the new work rythmes, getting clues about how coworkers are doing etc.

Then scheduling that with family and maintaining the home on the private side.

But it is really worth it. Mental health has improved a lot, even as objectively I’m doing longer days in total. Getting to interact a lot more with my family is a big part of it. It also means better understanding how the day goes for them, instead of the end of the day self-report at the dining table we were used to.

Work quality improved, there’s just way less “doing random stuff to look busy”.

Social life went way down, but the parts that stayed are also way more meaningful.

My hope is we see the light at the end of the “how do you socialize remotely ?” tunnel and find a middle ground between the current situation and the having everyone commute/wander in the city.
How would this stop individuals who can obscure wealth through trusts and other international financial engineering?

It seems like a ploy to go after the little guy while negating to take a look at tax evasion schemes for the individuals who control the biggest chunk of wealth.
> though in your case that might not be practical as this means Files app is essentially no longer a"single file"

First off, its already not a "single file" you need a PHP interpreter.

Secondly, you can cram the JS and CSS into a .phar file, the performance is horrible, but it's probably not noticeable in this scenario.
One question to think about is how much longer you'd need to work in your current role to never have to worry about money again. Say you were to cut your expenses to the bare minimum, invest aggressively, and stick it out there another couple years. Would you have enough to be financially independent (FIRE)? I'm not usually one to advocate sticking it out at a job you don't like, but it seems you have a real chance to never have to worry about money again if you're willing to live a non-lavish lifestyle. Just something to consider.
Just a note before we overly romanticize Koestler, he convinced his wife to die in a suicide pact. He was ill, but his wife was not.

I have trouble with this because I really liked Darkness at Noon, but if I have to wrestle with cognitive dissonance so do y'all.
If China wanted more people around the world to use its currency, freely floating its exchange rate on the market is a must. That the RMB is not freely convertible like the dollar is is a huge hurdle to its international adoption.

American cash usage is already way way down and has been falling for the last 3 decades. That this is often because of expensive banking and credit card interchange networks has to be of some concern to the US government, those fees add up to extra friction in the economy, and a digital currency looks really appealing even for domestic use (see what happened with using WeChat for payments in China).
One consideration that I don’t see covered here much (among the many other considerations often mentioned) when discussing WFH vs. WFO is whether you live with others.

I’m married and have two (teenage) children and have been working from home 100% for (going on) 8 years, and have very little issues with feeling alone.

Obviously if I lived alone, it would be a different story, and I would likely prefer going back to the office.

It seems like we constantly discuss and compare WFH and WFO without really discussing the difference living with others makes, especially if you have older children (where “older” = are mostly self-sufficient, which I consider about 10+, give or take).
But man, I miss people.

For me, working from home gives me more time to spend with family and friends, so that's been the tradeoff and it has mostly worked. I also get more exercise/sunlight. Even if it's just a walk with the dogs during lunch, or mowing the lawn.

Although, it's doubly tough when things aren't good at home. Because during those times, the office provided some solace. But overall it's been positive.

Have you gotten at least some kind of positive tradeoff in terms of more friends+family time, exercise, etc?
This was my opinion back in 2020, moved to another house with other neighbors, now it's the other way around.

Now I almost long to get off work and do some choirs outside instead.
I don’t see a problem with that? Artificially limiting my access to data doesn’t help me better serve people who have concrete limited access to it. It just limits my access to information and my ability to assess what their limits are. I agree that we should also test and experience the things we build the way our users do. But I don’t agree that we should build things by imposing those experiences on ourselves without exception.
Wow, a Substack post that's not some political thing. Awesome!
A FOIA request to the fed about their stimulus spending from 2008-2010 was just released, and in this period the fed spend nearly 30 trillion to bail out banks so there being a separation between it and the banks is questionable

https://youtu.be/zx3NIAWmgXg

They were authorized to print 3 trillion, but actually printed 30 trillion
I live in a small rural village, looking out over a cattle pasture, which itself is against the backdrop of national park - a long mountain range covered in forest.

Now in my ideal world this village would also have lots of amazing companies with cool offices that pay lots of money.

But that's not going to happen. So even though I do miss in-person stuff, I'll take the peace and quiet and not having to commute.
>Now I roll out of bed when my alarm goes off and do daily stand-up on zoom in my home office literally 5 minutes later. My brain is literally still asleep.

You can fix this yourself, incredibly easily. Personally I have never changed my alarm clock based on if I'm WFH.

My wife is happy to pop in her headphones if I ask her to while I'm working.

I keep scheduled breaks. If I decide in the morning that the dirty dishes are bothering me then I might do them on my lunch break or when I "get home". And to be fair, if you heard a loud bang at your office anyone would go check it out immediately, no difference at home.
From my reviews of his finances, nothing like that ever came up.
I’ve read it before, for whatever that’s worth.
That makes some sense to me.
That article references another one (that now 404s but is in web archive). Amazing story that mentions how people hooked up these systems to the normal one.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110717074852/http://www.texash...
whatsapp/signal/telegram REQUIRE a mobile number to get started. this is a no go from the start for many people, including me personally. i don't care if my chats are e2e if the people after me know WHO i am talking to. the identity is the message and it fails in that test.
Second, matrix allows you to set up your own server where YOU allow who comes in, who stays and who talks to other servers, kinda like your own island. none of the others allow that, they are centralized to the core. "signal inc" might not tell the police what you typed but they will tell them when did you log in, how long were you typing and maybe who you were talking to. as i said, that is a big problem because if the police are asking this much about you, they don't care what you said or not.

matrix, well you are the owner of the server if you choose so you get to decide.

signal calls itself "open source" but its not really "free software". the same "open source vs free software" comes up. what i think signal is "source open" and not much. you can't set up your own server, your own client, they are selling centralization as a feature which its not. email has proved otherwise for decades.
matrix is what is email.
Suppose some piece of infrastructure along the way lacks a checksum or ECC, and gets hit by a cosmic ray or a hardware defect. You now have +2^17 USD - txamount more or 2^19 - 2^18 USD + txamount less in said account. Throw FDIC insurance out the window because they're probably a) not going to do it and b) stick you with fees and losses.
The safest instant messenger is no instant messenger. No instant messenger cannot leak your chats, cannot reveal your presence information, cannot install viruses on your phone.

Practicality and function are always a tradeoff for privacy, though.
> then consider that you may not be the target market.

You're assuming you will be given a choice.
U4021QW is the only option that is wide and enough tall (and not too tall). I wish I could get 120Hz version of this.
Keen insight but not sure the factions would be aligned by political party, or if there’d be some other fracture line like corporatist (neo-liberal/neo-conservative) or populist (Bernie/Trump).
Regular social events in-person with colleagues is a must. But all my actual work can continue to be from home.
That would be great too. I haven't gotten around to learning any ML-style languages but it looks very nice. I know MAUI is supposedly in the works for .NET but I'm not sure how it will ultimately turn out compared to Flutter or RN. But if it gets close to its ambitious goals I would definitely give it a try.
So your argument here is that their concentration camps aren't that bad because it's actually only a million people that are in them, instead of two million people?

Yeah China has a record of harvesting organs and running concentration camps for the purposes of ethnic cleansing. People probably aren't going to stop repeating that fact any time soon.
As a single guy, I prefer work from office. I'm sure if I was married with kids, I would prefer just the opposite.
No, editors choose not to have the organization they work for say things, censoring things is stopping other people and organizations from saying things, not stopping the organization you are part of from saying things.

This is just a bit strange on the internet, because so much of what we see is one organization exactly repeating what someone else said on their request, so it's the organization saying it, but it feels like maybe it isn't.
At this point covid is endemic. This means that your probability of catching it is 1. "Mass psychosis" is a good term for continuing to impose restrictions on society which no medical experts think will halt the spread of the virus.
Or where the original constraints made sense at the time but they’ve been forgotten and all we’re left with is the end product.
I was watching a video the other day of a Brit cooking for a quid a day. I was amazed by the price of bread in Tescos. I can't find a loaf near me for less than $3.

I rely mostly on the kindness of strangers to feed me. I eat whatever leftovers I find. I'd love to go to a food bank, but I'm on house arrest which only allows me to go to one specific grocery store and back. I would happily Dumpster dive if I could. There is so much food waste in the world.
Consensus is not necessary to establish identity. Normal cryptographic primitives are sufficient for all identity schemes. Blockchain is just completely unrelated to the "one login all websites" idea.
Yeah I've never done any kind of software engineering work that wasn't highly collaborative.

Maybe really good for maintenance work

Even maintenance work is highly collaborative in my experience. Maybe even moreso than developing new features in some ways. As a maintainer you often need to work to understand the intentions of the people who originally wrote the code.
Its not just the black boxes though. You pick who you follow and hear from as well. Someone who is all in on Bernie probably isn't following many right wing publications and vice-versa. Not many people out there are interested in even being exposed to the other side of things.

When public discourse was a physical event, you were forced to hear both sides as they exist in your neighborhood. Now you can choose to ignore your entire state and, instead, listen to a small cult on the other side of the planet if it so suits you. Take, for instance, those few who have left the west to join ISIS.

It's the picking and choosing that allows people to leave their reality behind, for better or worse.
> How do we build work environments that can accommodate both?

Maybe we don't need to. Maybe different companies can have different cultures. Or, in a compromise with your idea, maybe you split up teams in a company by their preference.
Interesting, how does it fit on your desk?
Are you trying to say the MAX was safe to fly with that EAD in place? If so, why did Boeing go to the trouble of redesigning MCAS?

It looks like you are pushing a certain agenda.

Anyway, just because the pilots "could have" recovered the plane(s) they were flying, does not make the design of MCAS sound. By all accounts the MCAS design was botched (single source of inputs, no sanity check on the inputs, etc.). This does not seem to be a point of controversy. Plus, as others will point out, two hull losses are a grim testament to this.
I have beachfront property in Arizona to sell anyone who actually believes Apple's position on sideloading is about security.
Do you have any links? Last time I touched armageddon it was fairly broken :(
Glare monitors are superior for clarity, but I prefer non-reflectiveness for reading texts since it's enough clear. Watching movie is a bit different story.
Weird part is that IEEE published this. Someone might actually take it seriously...
Part of why working from home was soo effective for me at first is all the good will and camaraderie that I'd built up with my coworkers over many years - and vice versa. I imagine that if I had started a new role during the pandemic it'd have been quite different.

When people ping you on Slack or email and ask you in a really curt/terse way for something it can feel very transactional without the occasional small talk to humanise your coworkers. And I find it really hard to do that sort of small talk remotely/virtually.

So I think personally I need to have a day every week or two when you have a coffee/lunch/beer with people and get a chance to really have the small talk and put a face with the name. I also love huddling around a whiteboard for certain problems. Before Omicron I started going in one day a week and focusing it on the socialising and the meetings where in-person felt useful.

The catch with that is that it means 'work from home' can't be 'work from anywhere' - as everybody needs to be an occasionally commutable distance from the office for it to work. I also realise that it doesn't save the company money on the office if every team comes in the same day - so you might need a roster kind of thing to maximise the space. That sounds solvable to me though - enough so where it is my preference if we can make it work for 2022...