skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is absolutely false that Trudeau could have deescalated by talking to the convoy leaders. This is demonstrably false, as the mayor of Ottawa set up a meeting with them to negotiate some terms where the convoy would be restricted to a specific area in Ottawa. A meeting with the mayor, exactly what the convoyers want right? Then at the last minute they backed out. This whole "meet with us" is a move to be recognized and the moment Trudeau met with them, they would ratchet up their demands to a higher level. These people are foaming at the mouth with hate for trudeau, they have "F*CK TRUDEAU" as their slogan and painted on their trucks, they don't want to meet with him.
Around here the only people who wear the mask are the obvious crazies and the ones being forced by the boss. And that second class doffs the rag every chance they get.

But I live in the sticks. Social pressure is much lower here compared to the city.

In the city. Yeah. The city is rough. All those people crammed together. It changes reality.
not really, doing startup now actually but yes I worked in big companies in the past.

the point is to find those gems and reward them and keep them, they deserve it and they're the true core of the company as well.
>In place of all you can stash, each institution in the scheme was getting a total pool of 100TB to give to student and teacher alike.

Lol... so a university with 30k students can allot each student approx 3GB of storage. The commercialization of higher education like this is a problem that should not exist.
> Not sure how the protocols themselves help,

Web VR is being routinely used to add fingerprinting and tracking. Direct access to USB devices adds so many vectors for abuse I can't even imagine how it will end up being mis-used.
You are mad at your employer for taking common-sense health measures to ensure that unvaccinated people like your coworker don’t spread the disease to other colleagues?
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The protests have been going on longer than that. The judicial injunctions have been violated for more than a week, however, and the protesters continue to violate them and the police continue not enforcing them. That is the reason we have escalated to the next step (for which Trudeau will pay at least some political price for).

Why bring up Tiananmen Square when this is Canada? We have plenty of comparable protests.
I’ve had reasonable success with ditaa. If you use it in orgmode, then editing the source dumps you into artist-mode, emacs can display the image result, and you don’t need to rely on a special export process as you generate an image to be used like any other
> How do you feel about paying for healthcare of people who are not vaccinated and need care to treat COVID?

I'm not anti-vaxxer nor oppose vax mandates; but your question misses the point. I am happy to pay for healthcare of people who are not vaccinated the same way I'm happy to pay for healthcare of smokers with lung cancer. I would still do my best to educate them, though. Negligence or ignorance of others should not affect our social duties.
I don't understand what this argument means. Aren't all rules enforced by whatever incentive or deterrent attached to the rule? Is "No parking from 9pm to 6am" enforced at the barrel of a gun?
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Thanks for your answer! I really want to get at the root principles here, so let's veer even further from reality and say that the virus is lethal only to people with, say, type-AB blood, or blue eyes, or whatever. But other people are asymptomatic carriers.

Is it justifiable to impose a vaccine mandate, if brown-eyed or type-A/B/O people are not bothering to get vaccinated because they feel safe themselves?

(I'm really more interested in the philosophy and ethics than the facts of the actual situation. I agree that on the factual level in 2022, there's plenty of room to argue about the usefulness or counterproductivity of these mandates. I want to know if vaccine manades are ever justified).
Because of my experience with Kitty I agree this is a little bit of a pain point which could use some TLC by all parties involved. However, kitty seems to occupy a unique position on this and although it has intriguing ideas does not seem to have many tools needing the same accommodations. Iterm and wezterm both just use xterm-256color perhaps because there’s no better options. I just tested the setEnv ssh_config option others mentioned and that seems a good workaround. It is a bit confusing to have to set that but doing so avoids overriding the kitty.conf setting which is very strongly discouraged. It would be ideal to only set that when using kitty to make an ssh connection but since all my other tools use it anyway it isn’t a major issue.

I think my biggest pain points with SSH are more related to sessions and tools. I can easily navigate to servers but it’s a bit of a pain when I have to use certain users to log in and then others to operate on data on those servers. VSCode has good ssh support if you are able to log in as the same user as the user that has edit permissions on the files you need to modify. Wezterm ssh and iTerm tmux integration have also given me trouble when I want to open a new pane after I’ve run su or sudo. I end up having to use workarounds like changing permissions while I edit and changing back or simply avoiding the feature altogether because I’m already on the server and didn’t remember to connect with the right command or didn’t start tmux before I started work.
Don't be so pedantic, people ARE literally dying because assholes keep spreading misinforamtion and the virus around.
This concept exists also with CPUs and even cars. A slower more power efficient CPU might be worse off because it simply takes longer to do tasks. The per unit of time cost is lower but the total energy cost for a task is higher
That's intriguing.

On the other hand, I'm amazed that 5% of the population voted for the People's Party of Canada -- a party which had no hope of winning. This absolutely split the vote on the right enough to make the CPC lose seats.
Ding ding ding.

Funny how blocking the arteries of power projection by authority always seems to garner a quick response innit?
I said there was "no greater vote". I don't see how your comment relates to that.

Do you think this protest is a more valid representation of Canadian democratic opinion than a federal election?
https://passport.mattereum.com/mtrm.tvg.handaxe.ach.berg.220... that's an example of the verification mechanism.

Here's a more complex one:
https://passport.mattereum.com/ntfa.20210319.100.alpha.001.1...

Six separate legal contracts drawn on four different providers validating different parts of the data. The warranties are legal contracts, enforceable all over the world under the New York Convention.

It's pretty tight.
Because at this point it's not a particularly effective solution & is just political theater. It's also not just needing a vaccine you also need a non expired government-ID and a smart-phone to partake in society. And in 20 years these things will still be around, just like TSA and the Patriot act.
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The majority of Apps on my phone have zero reason to communicate to the outside world. A calculator, standalone game, etc should function without network access and if it doesn’t then delete the app and get something useful when the network is down.

Honestly, if I can’t block network access I don’t see the value in downloading a AirBnB app or just about any other app companies want me to install.
Two wrongs don’t make a right. I’m not in favor of the Quebec language laws or more recent laws regarding religious symbols. However, I’m not sure how whataboutism helps.
I wonder if the fear is that you might end up having less than ethical (rogue?) employees that might think they're helping the company by using some form of workaround to track users. I'm not sure if that's overly paranoid or just the right amount of paranoia, but I can imagine the fear.
I have some meaningful relationships that are. So, now you do!
Now find a way to make sure it's actually used for its charter, and you'll be celebrated for centuries.
"CSS is hard" :)

https://i.ibb.co/R6zXkvW/IMG-20220215-032411.jpg
Honestly, if they had moved in _purely_ on foot, we would not have gotten to this point. We've had anti-vaccine/anti-mask/anti-mandate protests weekly in most major Canadian cities and they've been untouched, no matter how annoying or inconvenient the population finds them.

The blockades of the border and overwhelming presence of truck/train horns at all hours of the day were the tipping point.
The necessity for a lot of these restrictions were because of waste and underfunding of the healthcare system for decades. The significance of these protests will now change the calculus for future budgets and what sort of restrictions the public will accept in the future.
That sounds about like my experience too, only s/physics/geology/ :)
The purpose of the implementation of the language may be readability, but surely the purpose of the existence of the language is to be rendered not to perpetuate its own existence...

> Markdown’s syntax is intended for one purpose: to be used as a format for writing for the web. [1]

[1] https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html
It will be much worse.
Sorry -- I'm just a casual commenter, not a bibliography, but here are some others to get you started:

- https://lmgtfy.app/?q=mozilla+blog+social+justice&iie=1

- https://blog.mozilla.org/en/?s=social+justice

- https://blog.mozilla.org/en/?s=gender

- https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/first-steps-toward-lasti...

- https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozilla-racia...

- https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/the-removal-of-the-dissenter...

- https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mapeo-helps-marginali...

- https://www.theverge.com/2015/8/24/9202067/mozilla-ceo-chris...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28018772
how to not use them is editor dependent.

but you absolutely don't have to use them.

regular fonts are basically "use this image for 'a', this image for 'e'" etc. ligatures are extra data that says "if you find an 'a' next to an 'e', use this other image in place of the 'a' and 'e' images". but the non-ligature versions of characters are still in the font for use when there is no ligature sequence (just put a space in the middle of any ligature in your editor and you'll still see the independent characters rendered in the font).
do I have some sort of condition? not one point in there made sense to me. "which is easier to look at?" they're both the same, to me. one is pointier, the other rounder, but that doesn't make one easier to interpret than another.

UX people are mostly high on fresh MacBook packing material fumes I think.
Yep, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Fortress_of_Almeida
Yes, I wish he had gone through with his promise (he still has time), but till that happens that's how the democracy has chosen to function.
It's such a sinking feeling getting a paragraph in and realizing I've been duped by a bot. The worst is when I look up something, like whether I can feed my dog <X>, and I find a fairly long article about it. And as I read I notice that it's pretty light on specific information besides "always check with a vet!," and I click on the author and all of their other articles are top ten lists of crypto and erection pills, and I realize I've been had by a bot (or, worse and sadder, someone who day-in-day-out pumps out zero-information content).
My key point is not all requests for change should result in any change. Some do, but not most, and definitely not all. Protests draw attention to some issue, and a protest is essentially a show of hands, demonstrating how many people care about the issue. It may reveal that there are very many supporters and the public wants something that the government does not provide - but that's not always the case, and certainly does not seem to be the case here, as the majority of Canadian voters seem to oppose their requirements. It does not necessarily raise support to that issue, it's perfectly reasonable for the public to decide that nope, they still oppose what the protesters request, perhaps even more than before as they're annoyed by the protests.

I mean, for every contentious issue there's going to be a part of the population which does not get their way. The whole point of democracy is that in such situations we discuss the issue, vote on the issue, and then the losers accept the decision and go home without escalating to action. The fact that some people are extremely dissatisfied with some decision does not necessarily imply that the decision should be changed nor does it imply a statecraft failure - how about all the people who supported the decision? Like, if the vote was somehow fake and misrepresents reality, then a protest can show that no, the majority does think differently; but if the protests simply confirm that yes, x% people are opposed, then the protest does not provide any information that deserves attention, the decision was made (and had the right to be made!) already knowing that those people oppose it.

The final escalation point of an ignored protest should be a call for general election if the public believes that circumstances have changed and the current government does not represent the will of the people anymore. However, if elections do not get what the protesters want, they should simply not get what they wanted because "we the people" have spoken that they don't want that. And, crucially, they can continue to peacefully request change and wait for public viewpoints to change, but certainly they have no right to disrupt others unless the demands are met, at some point the society has the right to say "we heard your arguments but made the choice to move on", and require you (with force, if necessary) to stop disrupting normal activities of the society.
Handy hint for arguing on the internet. All your sources, with the possible exception of cp24.com are openly politically biased in the direction of your argument. There's no use using them to persuade anyone. Using sources whose bias is opposite to what they're showing is much more powerful.
probably the people who are interested in keeping us all docile practicing escapism, consumption and hedonism in the first place - meta... perpetrated the "pandemic".
Or they all mingle in the same pools and benefit from the same direction society has taken. The Klaus Schwab "You will own nothing and you will like it" seems eerily similar to what FB is proposing.
>the Canadian situation is comparable only to other Canadian protests

selective parochialism; you would not hesitate to criticize brutal anti-protest measures in say, russia.

>Using the phrase "tyrannical vaccine mandates" is not a great way to ensure a productive discussion, however.

why should I mince words? that is what they are. just because the canadian ruling party has groupthinked themselves otherwise, does not mean it is not tyrannical. I will criticise the regime the same as I criticise other tyrannical despotisms.
> That's unlikely to be true, because there would be way more viable parties

Ranked choice (any form, not just IRV) voting systems without proportional allocation (whether multimember districts with STV, mixed member proportional, or party-list proportional, or something else) do not significantly increase the number of viable parties.
Same here - the rounded flowchart was much harder to read, with the rounded one my eyes got lost where the line split in half.

The square rectangle pairing was also easier than the rounded one to match (there were fewer details to compare).
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They are getting educated. Near constantly. At what point does not getting a vaccine become negligence?
They shouldn't be necessary if enough of the relevant population is vaccinated and given the risk profiles of current variants.

Or if they are necessary, show me the data that supports it.

Reaching for a mandate 'just because', is poor government.
That's like saying civil forfeiture is ok because the police will only ever take things from people involved with actual crimes, and that if you're not doing crime you have nothing to worry about. Do you forget how things are manipulated by people with power?
And gained five seats versus the previous election.
As a Canadian: this response should not be downvoted. It is correct and important. The War Measures Act used during the October Crisis was a different law; the Emergencies Act, which was just invoked, was passed as a response to concerns about civil liberties and abuse of power under the WMA. Temporary laws made under the Emergencies Act are, unlike the WMA, subject to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

More information on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergencies_Act
> I'm pretty sure we did not eradicate smallpox by firing people for not getting the vaccine...

Yes we did:

> In 1901 a deadly smallpox epidemic tore through the Northeast, prompting the Boston and Cambridge boards of health to order the vaccination of all residents. But some refused to get the shot, claiming the vaccine order violated their personal liberties under the Constitution.

> One of those holdouts, a Swedish-born pastor named Henning Jacobson, took his anti-vaccine crusade all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The nation's top justices issued a landmark 1905 ruling that legitimized the authority of states to “reasonably” infringe upon personal freedoms during a public health crisis by issuing a fine to those who refused vaccination.
That would be in violation of the securities laws that blockfi is accused of violating.

Per this case, the SEC stand is interest bearing crypto -> a security
Indeed, I don’t think such a government would be democratically legitimate either. The point is that we simply can’t rely on the composition of the parliament to determine what most Canadians believe about any particular issue.

The best we can do is look at opinion polls, which suggest that most people want to get rid of most Covid restrictions, but also don’t support the trucker protest.
Montreal did in fact have a mandate for the Smallpox vaccine in the past.
Ask after truckers start burning down neighborhood grocery stores and looting, threatening residents to make proper salute, and tearing drivers out of vehicles to beat them.
Not "mistakenly". Their objective is for you to "engage" with the app and submit to whatever shit they throw at you no questions asked.

By using countermeasures, you're demonstrating that you are more privacy-conscious and/or more tech-savvy than the average. This means you are more likely to be a problem when they try to swindle you in one way or another down the line, whether it's the next dark pattern that they want you to fall for or try to scam you and hope you just accept your fate instead of raising a chargeback, etc.

There's no reason for them to accept even a sliver of risk as long as there's an endless supply of people who don't carry said risk, therefore any indicator that you deviate from the average could lead to a ban, especially if the margins are super-thin or non-existent (when the objective is "engagement" rather than profit).

Now I doubt any of this has been started intentionally - most likely the anti-abuse mechanisms learned over time the correlation between different signals such as usage of a VPN, etc, but because of the above there's also no pressure to "fix" this problem for legitimate users of VPNs.
That sounds like it can be cheaper and faster in terms of actual money in your hands - but that benefit has nothing to do with cryptocurrency itself, any remake of the financial system could have those properties.

The payment provider and the bank are separate. It seems to me that you could substitute the word “bank account” for “wallet” in your second paragraph and it would still be true. Bank accounts have very well proven reliability at this point, plus the fact that currency in a bank account does not fluctuate in value like a stock. So again, it’s hard to see how that virtue is unique to cryptocurrency.
> How do you feel about paying for healthcare of people who are not vaccinated and need care to treat COVID?

Do you really want to go down that path? We provide healthcare to all sorts of people that choose to do things that impact their health (drunk drivers, drug addicts, etc). Hypothetically, what happens if there are long term health effects from the vaccinations? Should the unvaccinated say, "why should we pay for your heart treatments"?
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>* Heinlein, "The Man Who Sold the Moon"? (we kind of have this; but certainly not "Requiem" because no one would actually try to stop today's space entrepreneurs from going up themselves, certainly not their kids)

D. D. Harriman didn't have biological children. His company's board of directors stopped him from traveling to space in "The Man Who Sold the Moon", and by "Requiem" Harriman can't pass the physical test required for spaceflight, even though rockets are everywhere.

I don't think such an outcome is unrealistic at all. If Bezos were still Amazon CEO, and didn't have so much voting power, the Amazon board might very well have decided that he is too important to the company to fly on an experimental rocket.

One I've cited before: Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky depicts a human interstellar civilization thousands of years in the future, in which superluminal travel is impossible (for the humans), so travelers use hibernation to pass the decades while their ships travel between star systems. Merchants often revisit systems after a century or two, so see great changes in each visit.

The merchants repeatedly find that once smart dust (tiny swarms of nanomachines) are developed, governments inevitably use them for ubiquitous surveillance, which inevitably causes societal collapse. <https://blog.regehr.org/archives/255>
And Canadian Reddit is full of people demanding that Justin Trudeau echo his father's words.
Thanks for the recommendation.

I'm looking at Talon at the moment but I'm disappointed that it has no clear way to opt out of user metrics and the first thing it does on launch is download blobs from the internet without explanation. It's not clear if it even can work offline at all. For a program that listens to everything you say that is a bit disconcerting (especially in the context of sensitive work projects). I'd like to just pay for something and never have it connect online, bar manual updates.
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> You manage problems and projects and enable people to do their jobs well.

This is based on the assumption that people want and can do their jobs well, or at all.

Lucky you, if this sounds strange to you.
Are you arguing that socialized medicine can't exist in a free society and treatment should be based on meeting a list of requirements? Are you arguing that the government should only make benefits available if you make the correct fiscal choices? Let's say you are poor and choose to have a child, should the government prevent you from getting benefits for that child because of the choice you made?
Thanks for the answer! I posted a followup question to the sibling but I'm curious about your thoughts there too, ie if hypothetically, say, the virus had selective lethality based on eye colour or blood type, so most people with that trait feel safe without themselves getting a vaccine.

Self selected communities are another good answer although I imagine it's hard to totally bubble communities up along the axis of vaccine-opinionation without any overlap.
In what way are they unviable? Because it's not as easy (which is not actually easy) to discover and make money? That seems a choice one makes.