skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right. I just read the bill. I believe 230 needs to be amended and that the damage it provides is real. But, the EARN IT act does not fix that. I do think it's important for people to understand why 230 is bad. But again, this act does not remove the designation as an "interactive computer service." It just provides exemptions for CSAM. I added an edit up top.

When I read in the article:

> the EARN IT Act would, if passed, pare back online service providers’ broad immunity under a federal law called Section 230, exposing them to civil lawsuits and state-level criminal charges for the child sexual abuse material (CSAM) posted by their users.

I assumed it was reclassifying social media companies, which would have broad implications, under the stated purpose of CSAM. I wanted to provide background on why 230 should be changed, not on the content of EARN IT. But I agree it conflates two separate things.

Here is the bill for anyone else that wants to read it.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6544...
List of Brands and Products Confirmed to Be Made in the USA, Canada or Europe
isn’t it possible that your experience with omicron was only similar to the shot reaction because you had some immunity?
those can be excluded easily
My dad grew up in Boston in the 50s. The word for auto tuners and hotrodders back then was "hacker". Jay Leno and Tom and Ray Magliozzi are probably the most famous hackers from that time. Maybe there was a general sense of "hacking" in the dialect that predated the hotrodding scene, but if not it seems like a fairly natural extension of the idea.
It’s not a cost is it’s an agency issue. The device should work for the buyer not the seller.
It's been a weird year, or couple of years.. and somehow it's been drawing us (our little family) back to nature and the things we're really passionate about.

For us that's currently getting a fixer-upper house that's a lot more remote than we're currently living. Not sure what it will be for yourself, but I'm sure there's something you'd rather be learning, even if it's as simple as making your own furniture. Lot more pleasure to be had from furniture than there is from code though. :)

And 60-70h/week sounds like a lot. Spending some of that time doing something mindless like walking/painting/cooking. Move the active thinking to the subconscious mind in those moments. It might actually help you see things in a different light.

Take a look at simonsarris instagram, I believe he also has a blog post about building their house. That's the sort of stuff I'm talking about I guess.

> I don't know what is fun to me anymore. I have no hobbies

Maybe you practiced a sport long ago, try giving that a go again? Or browse a couple hours on YouTube to see what kind of things peak your interest. The algorithm (will waste some time but it) should get better over time at throwing things you didn't even consider your way.
weird, I use it a lot and it always seems super snappy for me
I believe, in every system, that includes humans, the ability to pause is key.

If you can't stop whatever is fueling negative habits / emotions, even if it looks noble or whatever (learning, art, sport, perf, love) .. it's probably not good.
Not really. I mean logically would you also play Russian roulette repeatedly with no payout just because you haven't died yet?
This is kind of an example of why relying on personal experience and anecdotes is so bad. OP took intelligent countermeasures to avoid a negative outcome which was unfortunately ineffectual due to mischance.

Despite the theory making no sense OP assigned the consequences of covid to the vaccination he received not due to a sound theory but due to proximity in time and will now make measurably worse choices for decades for lack of communicating with a medical professional.

We rarely know what we don't know.
> No, the numbers do matter, your modification doesn't.

No they don't and yes it does.

The solution to your new contrived-numbers problem is the same as the GP's to the cleaned-up numberless one: Fix the actual problem in stead of focusing on meaningless made-up numbers.
If something happens with your iCloud and you get really locked out, is there good support to get you back in?

With Gmail, there is basically no human support these days.

I just had a buddy come to me after someone tried to brute force his sbcglobal email and locked him out; AT&T have told him it might take someone up to 2 months to get to his support request.

+1 for Fastmail. I've used them for almost 20 years and their support has been great.
> build a decent car with no computer in it and no data connection

No idea where you are but the problem is, connected features are slowly dictated by law - vide SOS call and self driving/lane assist/AEB are also required in all new cars. The fight isn’t with vehicle manufacturers, the fight is with legislators.
Will Trump’s mishandling of records leave a hole in history? (2021)
Design temp for the MIRI detectors is 6.7K. The front end electronics produce some heat, and are in a metal box sealed against light leaks, so they'll need some active cooling.

Skimming this paper https://www.stsci.edu/files/live/sites/www/files/home/jwst/d... it looks like they expect 10.46mW optical module heat, and they've given themselves 36mW of headroom "for conductive and radiative loads." (Heat conducted from the structure, and radiant heat from the the comparatively warm primary mirror?)
Finally, "You wouldn't download a car" becomes reality.
>Sucks to be gas-fueled SUV owner. Or are you saying that’s some inherent requirement of human life?

Posting on HN from a computer isn't a "requirement of human life" either. Why are you wasting electricity (presumably from a carbon emitting source) to post on HN?

>Are you seeing ghosts? Who made a statement like that?

You, a few comments ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30212814

"No, I want government to reduce profits of those who benefit off destroying the environment and use that money to subsidize environmentally friendly produce for consumers who wouldn’t be able to afford it."

A carbon tax wouldn't come out of the profits of companies. It'll get passed on entirely to consumers.
I agree. With the current state of Django admin, it is better not to build complex stuff on top of it. A few tweaks and customization here and there are fine, but anything more will likely break on Django and/or third-party package updates.

I'd like to see Django gradually redesigning parts of the Admin to allow for more modular extensibility in future versions.
Astonishment? Anger? Weird. They’re just signaling to me that they don’t want me to write software for their platform. And I can’t recommend the App Store to clients because all of their billed hours might be effectively nullified if Apple says, “Nah, I don’t like that.”

That’s fine. I’ll take my ball and play somewhere else.
> What isn't occurring, is a good-faith discussion on solving the issues faced by law enforcement and the IC related to the growing entropy of E2EE wielded at scale by folks, a large subset of whom are engaging in criminal behavior.

How about a good faith discussion of the fact that crime rates are at historic lows, or the fact that many crimes (burglary, car theft) are never investigated, or the fact that surveillance is never going to solve, let alone prevent the real issues that people care about, like domestic violence, gun violence, or the epidemic of prescription pain killer addiction.

Focus on crime prevention, not more law enforcement empire building.
This is a common problem with statistics. Ask someone to answer "if Saturday has 25% of rain and Sunday another 25% what is the probability of rain during the weekend?" The intuitive, but wrong, answer is to add probabilities capping them at 100%. So, this mental model seems quite natural for humans.
I can tell you why the disparity: many Czechs who are still alive were born and raised under communism and carry all the generational trauma caused by growing up under poverty and dictatorships. As a country it wasn't really 'developed' until quite recently. And, well, old people are the most likely to die, for obvious reasons. Funny enough, Czech life expectancy at 60 is exactly 3 years less than Canada's. Meanwhile there's no way to truly measure the life expectancy of someone born today.

But if you go check metrics like doctors per capita, beds per capita, how many clinics there are, insurance coverage, etc..., it's shocking. Twice as many doctors per capita as Canada, for example.

Edit - for example, under 5 year old mortality rate for Czech Republic is 3.2 per 1000 while for Canada it's 4.9...
> forget about electric

> easily maintained

electric should be easier to maintain
Very impressive dodge of the question.

Let’s say a sit in did need support. Do you think that’s a valid use of GoFundMe?
The open internet is dead. Spammers, fraudsters, and abusers have killed it.

I don't accept that. Nothing about defending against those threats requires the kind of guilt-by-association spam blocking we have been discussing.

There will always be bad people in the world but that doesn't mean we allow some random big business to tell us where we may go, what we may do or who we may talk to because it is in that business's interests and (coincidentally or otherwise) it might make us safer.
> Obviously, we are well past the naive idea of "just making everything FOSS and all will be perfect,"

Yup, obviously, since the no-settings dictatorship mindset has crept into FOSS too.
> The fact HVM can apply a function 2^N times in N steps is still mind-blowing to me. I think solutions to important problems might come from exploiting this fact.

Is it just me, or does that look similar to the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) [1] speedup (against the regular Fourier Transform implementation)?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Fourier_transform
It's a nice thing to do on the individual level but I don't think it's right to coerce people into the vaccine on this basis.

An interesting reversal of this:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/chickenpox-vaccin...

"Being exposed to chickenpox as an adult (for example, through contact with infected children) boosts your immunity to shingles."

"If you vaccinate children against chickenpox, you lose this natural boosting, so immunity in adults will drop and more shingles cases will occur."

It's seemingly not the primary justification the vaccine isn't offered, but I wonder if, to cut to the core question, those who are pro/anti vaccinating the low-risk to protect the high-risk feel the same way when it's flipped.
Oh I see :-D thanks for clarifying.
It wasn’t just during a pandemic. It was literally the week after the stay at home lockdown order for WA state expired. It was the start of the various “phases” of restrictions following the hard lockdown order, including in King County where CHAZ took place. And of course the phases got paused because of a sharp increase in cases that June - the primary month in which CHAZ, other riots, and peaceful protests took place (while virtually everything else was shut down).
In my case, it's very much a "gut feeling," but I work on my own stuff.

I like to stay at a 1-digit bug count, with that digit being "0," if at all possible.

I have a development technique that is afforded by the tools I use, and the platform. I call it "Constant Beta." I also do what I call "Evolutionary Design," where I refine the actual project plan and design, as I proceed.

Basically, I keep the app at ship quality, from the very beginning. If I encounter bugs -any bugs- at any time during development, I stop all forward development, until the bug has been fixed.

I test a lot. I tend to use test harnesses, or the integrated app, as opposed to unit tests. Unit tests are applied, once functionality has been established; and only for those parts of the system that makes sense. I like to break projects out, into standalone packages, with discrete lifecycles. I often publish these, as open source.

I like to do full integration testing, as soon as possible. Almost all of my testing is done on the whole system (which might be incomplete, with stubs and mocks).

"Constant Beta" means that I start releasing TestFlight beta to my team, as soon as possible. As an example, I have been working on the project that is my current obsession, since September 5th, of 2020 (first commit). I have been making TestFlight releases, since October 6th, 2020. I've made well over 500 TestFlight releases, in that time. I'll have to count the tags, but it may be over 600, by now.

If you know anything about TestFlight, you know that Apple vets the releases (but not as stringently as for release into the App Store). They won't approve a TestFlight release, unless the app is already quite substantial, and doesn't crash. In fact, in one release, Apple helped me to spot a bug, because they made it crash in a way that had escaped my testing, and rejected the build.

I can scare up a full-fledged, "shippable" app, in a few days. All the time since, has been spent adding functionality to the app, testing, refining, testing, pivoting, testing, refactoring, testing, removing functionality, testing, going back to the drawing board, testing, etc.

All the while, keeping a cadence of multiple releases per day (once the first release has been made of a version, builds are approved almost immediately).

Tends to keep the quality high.
Yes. The state has no right to hang anyone. The state has no right to take a life. When you take away encryption, The Innocent and the Guilty are punished, the innocent disproportionately.

That’s the beautiful thing: we don’t have to care what the government thinks. We are 30y into the encryption wars, and they cannot put the genie back in the bottle. It just is.
I am American and commonly see mm to mean million.
But after I pay off a loan on a traditional car, I own the car outright and can use all its features for the lifetime of the vehicle. I can also sell the car to someone with all its features intact.
> Postmodernism in contrast often would have been interested in breaking down long held assumptions, and an inert opposition to grand narratives

I don't understand why postmodernism is described like this, when the typical presentation of postmodern ideas (even, and perhaps especially, in the primary sources) is literally phrased as a grand narrative, albeit one that points towards a forcefully stated skeptical outlook where even "complex meanings" are ultimately unknowable. Isn't the whole thing a little self-defeating at that point? There are more and less meaningful ways of "tearing down assumptions", and the postmodern approach just tends to come with a lot of theoretical baggage (much of it essentially tacked on from modernism itself) that ultimately weighs it down.

I'm not sure if metamodernism fixes this issue, but your description of it suggests it does not. Philosophical pragmatism ultimately seems to do a better job of shedding the "grand narrative" tendency, and that tradition is largely independent from postmodernism.
Helpful article providing a less dense overview:

https://www.sciencealert.com/hoyle-wickramasinghe-thesis-com...
37% of npr's revenues is direct corporate sponsorship. another 1/3 comes from member sations. of that third, ~20% is direct ad buys and ~40% is individual contributions, except "individuals" really means wealthy (corporately interested) donors[0]. so add it all up, and you're comfortably over 50%, without considering any of the other little influenced bits of revenue you could throw in.

so yes, that's most.

[0]: "As of September 30, 2021, 13 donors comprise approximately 77% of the gross pledges receivable balance.", from page 31 of their FY2020 consolidated financials
It's quite a stretch to call Fox News "balanced" because of Hannity and Colmes, which was a) their only attempt at "balance" and b) a notoriously lopsided show, designed entirely as a platform for Hannity to spar with someone. They've dropped the pretext now - the show is now just called "Hannity".

Fox News has never not been scummy.
We add link to accounts page to manage notifications - but we clearly say that certain notifications can be disable only by deleting the account.

But even that does not help: some people just do not understand how to manage their email: they will consider as “spam” any email they receive and they cannot act on it immediately. Like storage quota reached, cc expired, or similar. There is some strange feeling that if they ignore the email and mark it as spam that the problem will magically disappear.

We have so many cases like that: and they then contact us with questions like “why my service is not working” etc.

I bet Netflix has same issues…
This is a repeat, earlier version here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30217403
Well, it's well-deserved, and, trust me, the backlash is not due to envy as the article suggests!
Another Zoho user. I use them with my own domain and make a heavy use of catch-all addresses + aliases when I need to respond from a specific one. (But I'm also using their docs and invoices services)

I've had two actual delivery issues over the last 5 years, so overall not bad.
I quite like keypirinha https://keypirinha.com
But you'd want to test that the mail campaign manager handles large campaigns efficiently, etc.. I guess there's a suggestion here that two trial options should be available a "trial with CC" where you get access to the whole product and a "trial without CC" where you get access to a simulcrum of the product, like you can use Netflix but it only shows the first 5 minutes of all shows or something.

I'm moving web/email hosting providers at the moment and the range of trials available is interesting. Two examples to highlight the range: Linode offers a $100 USD value to use in a time-limited trial (one month IIRC); OVH wouldn't even give me a trial on request and have a minimum 12 month upfront charge (I can't believe they're serious, every provider has given a free trial in the past even if only for a week or two [which is not long enough for me to get a proper view of someone's service]).
Before the Cambrian period, many life forms had soft bodies. These didn't left many fossil evidence of their existence. So, we don't know for sure if the 'Cambrian explosion' was really an explosion or if it was not much different in terms of diversity than the previous period.
> System.currentTimeMillis() is pretty platform-dependent, so it's a good place to look
Most likely: https://radixtalk.com/u/faraz/summary.
> Also to note: About 50% of the stories you hear are users being morons. My sister lost some files. She deleted them after fat fingering something

Some of these services (e.g. Dropbox) have rollback which would have helped in this situation, and most have a "Rubbish Bin" you can undelete from. I often click on the wrong thing because the web UI is lagging and I delete something by mistake.

I agree these services right now are all for convenience. There are horror stories from all of them, except for rsync (who are active on here) - I've never heard of any horror stories from their cloud service, but obviously if your payment stops for whatever reason, then all your stuff is gone with any of these.
Many American schools do have metal detectors. The public school in the area where I grew up (known as a "good" school district) not only had metal detectors, but required everyone to use flimsy backpacks made of clear vinyl so staff could always see the contents.
Why can’t we garbage collect while conscious? (Serious question. If you simulated this washing behaviour in a conscious brain, what would go wrong and is that addressable?)
1. Do not store it in the fridge
If anyone needs a link to point politicians to, you can use [1].

Suggestions welcome for improvements.

[1]: https://everyoneneedsencryption.gavinhoward.com/
> In windows I was changing fonts, sizes, window colors, sizes of things like title bars...

And was the reason that you didn't do this on the Mac that nobody would ever want to do that, or that you just couldn't?
Rich sons and daughters are atleast equally born rich.
of course, but he is going to continue to have some immunity for a long time
Show HN: Create-rust-app: now supports poem-web back end
I'm not sure about combinatorial explosion, but Ray Kurzweil was talking about double exponential rate of innovation in the world, which may be similar. As a great example while transistor counts in processors still improve roughly with Moore's law, the cost of training a neural network to an accuracy is dropping faster than Moore's law because of algorithmic improvements.
How Japan saved Tokyo's rail network from collapse (part 1, 1945-1982)
I really like Fastmail's Android app too. It's probably only a wrapper around a browser, but it works so nice.
No. Arson, attacking police and forcefully occupying a public space are all illegal in Seattle too. Pretty sure arson is a felony. Someone was murdered in CHAZ.

Your theory doesn’t check out.
sure that’s what at-risk means, but I’d like to be dealing with a little less risk personally… is not “at risk or not” it’s a vast spectrum
It seems exceedingly likely that this is so and that the small number of hospitalized individuals merely means that the absolute risk is very low either way whereas the risk of the vaccination is lower yet and the optimal strategy to minimize risk to yourself and more importantly to others is to vaccinate.
People just don't know what a noun, verb or possessive adjective are. For some reason school never tries to teach it to you after you're 10 and people go on learning literature without knowing the role of different words.
Cynically I'd say the manufacturers have bought that legislation to create bigger barriers to entry and cement their position. I definitely agree that disruption requires a battle on many fronts to remove incumbents. While not the same, uber, airbnb, and even tesla have managed to change or circumvent laws that protect incumbent interests, so it is possible.
By that logic, oil is also not fungible; or any commodity btw. There are also ways to make BTC untraceable, and I believe simply using Lightning Network is a way to do it. Nothing to see here, folks. Just Hacker News noise.
starlette is amazing. Django just gets in the way.
These are more architecture focused but maybe relevant.

The Phoenix Project. The DevOps Handbook. The Google SRE Book. And “Kill It With Fire.”
If Bin Laden sends $100 USDT to you, your address will be tainted because Osama sent you coin and proof of that will be in Transfer Log of ERC20 token. So if you send any amount of that token anywhere, recipient address will be also tainted, doesn't matter if it was Bieber part or Osama part.
> The part that irked me here was I only got like 1 years use out of the software.

Surely it doesn't actually stop working after a year? ie. You can keep using the version you bought after a new version comes out. I presume it still does what you bought it to do?
It's unclear what you're talking about then; edit and clarify. Even the most generous interpretation sounds like a backdoor.
It's excellent. Sometimes gives a few false positives which I have to move out of the spam folder, but it's right 99.99% of the time.
Weirdly (to me, at least) private school teachers make substantially less than public. The ones I know say it's worth it to be free of the onerous beauracracy that plagues public education.
It does not.

jo -- -b foo=no -s a=12 q=[1,2,3]
{"foo":true,"a":"12","q":[1,2,3]}
Monero is on Kraken US. Coinbase and Gemini, acting as companies choosing to add the coin they're mutually invested in Zcash instead of Monero, is a dumb indicator to use of what's "allowed," especially when there are obvious compliant examples in the US (Kraken, DV Chain, etc).