skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The right wing billionaire media blitz really took off with Rupert Murdoch and Fox News. That's the engine that has been driving a lot of it, and it is obviously transnational and doesn't know any boundaries (Murdoch is Australian). And it got started in the 90s before most people had discovered the Internet and before social media existed. The shift to neoliberalism also started with Blair and Clinton, but affected most of Europe and the Americas through all of the neoliberal institutions, including the EU, the G7/G8/G20, the WTO, agreements like NAFTA, etc. Social media didn't change the trajectory of any of that, it only accelerated it.
After reading the comments, I have come to the conclusion that either HN commenters are bad readers, or the author is a bad writer. Perhaps we can also fault the Atlantic headline writer (though I should point out that the <title> tag is different from the headline in the article itself, and using that instead of the <title> tag for the HN post might have reduced confusion).

It seems something like 1/3 of the comments are coming up with reasons why "it's not about the dirty dish" when the author repeatedly makes this same point in the sub-headline and throughout the article. In at least one point where a comment reply violated HN guidelines by stating that the commenter clearly hadn't read the article, the original commenter stated that they had, so it seems unlikely to me that it's just people commenting on the headline itself.

Given that the author blames his divorce on poor communication, perhaps this shouldn't surprise me?
Anybody knows what Discord behaviour is with respect to muting?
>What by destorying monastaries, killing people. Please. Tibet is not better off under China.

Imagine how your response would look like when applied to American South - that the Civil War was a terrible idea, because it destroyed a couple of churches and killed people, and the South isn't any better now without slavery. But given that you're repeating a trivially disproved lie (https://www.statista.com/statistics/1094118/china-per-capita...), I don't see the point in discussing this anymore.

>Taiwan is not part of China

Ah, I see you also know Taiwan better than its citizens.

FWIW, I don't hate America - despite its dysfunctional democracy and other drawbacks. What I hate is waging wars to distract its citizens from their own problems. And I'm kind of hoping USA can be the good guys this time, against Russia.

Btw, it's interesting that to you, simply not hating China implies hating USA. I guess that's yet another example of indoctrination.
I've never had your particular issue, but my favorite has got to be that it somehow "loses" the mic between conferences, although the sound server shows it as still recording...

I can understand not detecting something, or badly, but if it works now, and then on the next conference it figures "nah, there's no mic", I just can't understand what it does.
It's not really fair to compare this, which takes heat at 2000°C, to a steam turbine that takes heat at say 550°C.

A turbine system would have much better efficiency than 40% if its heat was available at that temperature. For example a closed Brayton cycle gas turbine + steam turbine system. Certainly complex and expensive, but could get much better than 40% efficiency.
AND was totally fine with large-scale, systematic, oppression and torture (so long as he profits from it).

That's kind of the key ingredient needed to be someone that HELPS KIM JUNG UN.
women are strong enough to fend for themselves, everyone knows marriage was just a crutch to keep them complacent
Log-spherical Mapping in SDF Raymarching (2019)
Element/Matrix also support e2ee.

Jitsi has supposed e2ee videoconferencing (on Chrome - they used some chrome-specific API for processing) for (I believe) at least a year or two.
Zoom also has a similar popup. It's quite useful, too.

> “It turns out, in the vast majority of cases, when you mute yourself, these apps do not give up access to the microphone,” says Fawaz. “And that’s a problem. When you’re muted, people don’t expect these apps to collect data.”

I wouldn't assume that's nefarious
> They have both taken LSD, Psilocybin and ketamine as part of their work so they would be able to introduce it to patients properly.

While I think there might be potential for psychedelics in therapy, let's be honest here. That would be like a Wall Street guy saying he snorted 3 lines of cocaine to better advise his clients on investments
The most accurate term would probably be "tertiary structure". Although AlphaTertiaryStructure is a mouthful. They could have named it AlphaTS.
But.. this isn’t true on two counts: Cartels smuggle huge amounts of money all the time, and the bitcoin hack involving a YC founder ended with the coins recovered. They were unable to tumble the coins without losing them.
The comparison is striking.

Kennedy ordered a naval "quarantine" to prevent missiles from reaching Cuba. By using the term "quarantine" rather than "blockade" (an act of war by legal definition), the United States was able to avoid the implications of a state of war.

After several days of tense negotiations, an agreement was reached between Kennedy and Khrushchev. Publicly, the Soviets would dismantle their offensive weapons in Cuba in exchange for a US public declaration and agreement to not invade Cuba again.

When it came to Russia and Ukraine, the US refused ultimatums to stay out of Ukraine, and Russia did invade Ukraine a second time.
I'm on the same boat. Currently best choice seems to be youtrack, which has reasonable licensing model for self hosted option.
That's not the case with North Korea. Most people don't have access to computers, let alone the internet, so they can't use crypto for their personal finances.
How in the world do you see this victimless? North Korea has been violating human rights in it's own borders and South Korea. It has nukes pointed at Seoul holding it and US troops hostage.

I can't believe he only got 5 years in jail for this. It should've been life imprisonment for aiding and abetting terrorist organizations like North Korea.

Can you say the same for someone caught laundering money for Hamas or ISIS? That it's a victimless crime?
You sound like someone who's never lived outside a western first world country.

Like those folk who pushed crypto as the saviour of the average Venezuelan. I mean, your next door neighbour doesn't understand bitcoin, how is someone in the third world who has never used a computer supposed to figure this shit out, and why should anyone trust crypto at all when most of it is scams?
What you say is true, but are broken people who are barely able to take care of themselves (and who may be acting out in all sorts of destructive ways) supposed to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and make a positive change in the world (one which often requires a lot of resources, bravery, and long-term commitment)?

Many of our leaders themselves are traumatized and dysfunctional in many ways, and do themselves deserve treatment.. treatment that may open their eyes to how dysfunctional they and the system they're part of has been.

There's a good argument to be made that the in order to heal the world one should heal oneself first. It's like putting on an oxygen mask in a depressurized airplane before putting one on someone else. If you are incapacitated you will be unable to help.

It's healthy, resilient people who will be best suited to both recognizing the problem and helping to fix it in the long-run.

That said, it doesn't have to be one or the other. Those of us who are awake enough already can spread the word about what's wrong with the world, and those of us in good enough shape and with enough motivation to contribute should try to make things right (an important part of which, in my view, is to end the War on Drugs and give affordable access to psychedelic therapy to those who need it).
As sibling comment says, he's higher than Duda + Radjabov in live ratings now.

It's just not obvious to me that any of your statements about the other players being so much stronger than Hikaru are true. It's really hard to objectively estimate his classical playing strength because he just didn't play for two years and the rating has been volatile since he started playing again, but (for example) he played 4 classical games with Levon Aronian between the two legs with a +1 -1 =2 score, and +2 -0 =0 in rapid tiebreaks. Aronian is a roughly 2780 player, world #5, likely to be the strongest player who missed candidates. Hikaru also scored 50% in classical Grand Prix matches with Wesley So and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, two other strong top-10 players.
"It is clear that inflation is bad for the citizenry."

No. It is clear that both hyper-inflation and deflation are bad for the citizenry. However, modest inflation is generally a net positive.

"yet [inflation] has been done throughout the ages by every dying civilization." Do you have any real data for this? Sounds like bullshit to me.

Also, it seems preferable that government be in control of the currency rather than random speculators. Controlling the currency can be a useful tool if used responsibly. If you have bad government, then bitcoin isn't going to save you.
On Being Offended
Cuba was far from an innocent victim but a very active opponent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_Cuba#Post-...
This was a lot of fun, thank you!

I especially appreciate the "Stay" button.

Really clean implementation -- nicely done!
Use a microphone with an hardware switch. Problem solved.
> The shift to neoliberalism also started with Blair and Clinton

No, the left-most party in systems that were right – center or right – center-left getting fully on-board with neoliberalism happened with Blair and Clinton, but neoliberalism dominated the same states from at least Thatcher and Reagan, respectively.
What about overclocking ? does it cause bit flip ? especially low grad DDR4 pushed to its limit…
No, I think this is a misconception. Sanctions can work without government controlled money. Prosecuting terrorism or organized crime can be done without government controlled money. Catching tax evaders can be done without government controlled money. Everything can work without government controlled money, it just requires more on the ground police work. All of these things were done without government controlled money not very long ago.

Similar to how the job of police would be a lot easier if every citizen was required to carry a surveillance microphone, their job is easier if all transactions are can be censored and surveilled. But it is not necessary.

For example, sanctions: Find people who are trading with a sanctioned regime by looking at if they are importing goods from there. Very easy. If they are paying for labor (remote IT work or something), you can also catch that. Informants, etc.
No enzymes are not intrinsically disordered at their active sites. They are highly ordered. Most enzymes don't undergo large changes- they accept a molecule, do their business, and release it. You're thinking of other proteins like motor proteins which under go large, controlled conformational changes.

The active site is structured to stabilize the transition state of the affected molecule and move it from one state to the next in the chemical reaction. That requires very specific shapes and correlated changes. But of course, this being biology, you can remove all 3 active site residues in a serine protease catalytic triad, and still see proteolysis because the protein, when it binds the substrate, forces the subtrate into its transition pathway.

People have been working on these things for quite some time- I saw talks about time-resolved crystallography of active sites, and while they say "significant structure changes", they really only mean localized breathing-like motions, not massive rotations of entire domains.
> NASA planetary mineralogist Roy Christoffersen used these six aluminum cylinders to test the lunar dust under an electron microscope to verify it was collected during the Apollo 11 mission.

Heh, weird to see the name of an old coworker in this context.
If I read this right:

- lots of arguments about things you considered small

- issues focused on “disrespect”, which is a perception thing that she had 100% control over

- needed to resolve issues immediately

- “resolution”, if it happened, took up to six hours with no option to end on your side

It sounds like she has some major issues that probably warrant professional help.

To be fair, you may have issues as well (e.g., things that are “minor” to you may be a big deal to most people).

If you want to resolve this internally, I recommend going to a relationship counselor/psychologist alone and just doing a reality check. Make sure you present her side to the counselor as reasonably as possible.

You will probably find a few things you could do better, but you will probably also find that you were being controlled by someone with major issues.

Fwiw, I think ending this relationship was a good idea.
I suppose I was thinking the original comment referred to the concept of metaverse, not FB's product. Then my question was: do companies have to colonize something that doesn't have scarcity and fake it so that they can profit?
>routing literally every payment you make through a surveillance apparatus

This is pretty much exactly what BTC is too and in some senses is way worse, people only need to find a way to associate wallet addresses with identity and all your financials are open to them.

There are of course options that truly do solve the censorship issue, like Monero.
> Teams works fine for me on Edge.

"If you don't want to install our app, you can just install our browser."
How could I possibly answer their question better than the experts who wrote the paper?
I'm the opposite of the OP, I really hate to not resolve problems straight away. My partner is the opposite she needs to avoid the immediate conflict. I think there is a balance to be had, the issue with just walking away from the discussion is that it feels to the partner like they are being stonewalled. The other thing I noticed is that I needed to get over the attitude that I pay for things so I can have higher expectations.

We went to couples therapy and the communication strategies we learned really and while we still have arguments they tend to be much more productive, but it requires work.
I did some reflection. I agree it's not a great article but I read it and did a self assessment. I don't ever want my marriage to end and people sharing their failures gives me another thing to consider, in hopes that I can avoid a similar outcome.
It seems Canada matches the 'good banking system' and 'stable currency' attributes, yet didn't the truckers get robbed by the government?

When a government is able to engage in financial retribution against its critics, its own citizenry, Bitcoin might be necessary.
The fragment "albeit with better conditions" is doing a lot of work here.
I was effectively in isolation for months due to some health issues (pre covid). I knew I was depressed as well and decided to take some LSD. I've taken it a few times before, never had a bad time. This time, I had. I repeated this a few times with the same results, its gonna be some time before I try it again.

Nobody should just expect psychodelics "cure depression". Its possible they can deepen it in some conditions and we do not really understand it (I hope we will thanks to studies like these). They can help, but the lesson I got from this is they cannot replace support from fellow humans.

Best advice I can give is try to only do this with some good company, outside on a sunny day, and it is highly likely it will be an overwhelmingly positive experience.
No, but you could realistically make a small Stirling engine that would act as a heatsink for your processor while generating electricity.

Would be noisy as hell, but quite a cool project haha
It is, just most people don’t care. And you can’t buy a little shutter for your laptop mic like you can for the camera.
I'm not at all familiar but a tweet linked from the OP and written by the author plugs https://linear.app/
you do get what you paid for
That would be a good theory if we didn't see a global rise of massive corporations. If we for a moment cynically argue this as a question purely of lobbying spend: Once your corporation makes profits measured in billions, it is relatively easy to have a large lobbying spend across many different governments.

One answer here is a huge number of small governments. At the level of one for each largeish city, to make lobbying spend prohibitively high. That sort-of works, in that it creates incredible amounts of friction. It, however, also hobbles trade and innovation to an incredible degree.

I don't see that as a good answer. Neither, I think, is one humongous centralized government - while it has the resources to outspend corporations, it concentrates inordinate power in a small number of hands. And if you're willing to assume that corporations will use money to solve problems (because that's kind of their whole point), there's a very small step from there to just buying a sufficient set of politicians.

You need regulations somewhat unified to enable commerce at anywhere close to the level the world currently experiences. You need a decentralized system to deal with power concentration. This is an inherent tension that I can't see how to resolve in the face of corporations that are essentially the peers of nation states.
Different Types of Business Models (2013)
> What if, those citizens could simply memorize or encode a 12-24 word phrase that could preserve their net worth against all forms of tyranny?

... What if, they then LOST ALL OF IT in an instant because of a scam, a random crypto-market fluctuation or because it just becomes worthless because they have no way to ever translate it into something of value, let alone actually spend the "currency".
> I can detect a cyclic reference before I even finish writing the code, what's the point of letting the compiler figure it out?

The compiler generally has better attention to detail and the ability to deal with larger object graphs than the typical human.
Is there a source on this number?
> Russia did invade Ukraine a second time.

In the real world, Russia never stopped the first invasion, it just consolidated, worked to advance, and then massively escalated.
So I think, with this new legislation, China become real life implementation of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels
> Rancher even stated that they had removed almost 3 billion lines of code.

They claim millions, not billions. See https://www.suse.com/c/rancher_blog/why-k3s-is-the-future-of...
>The Manhattan Project cost, adjusted for inflation, $22B.

China spends 4 times more than that yearly on solar.
This guy literally traveled to a repressive totalitarian regime to perform services for them with the intention of helping them evade sanctions. The fact that crypto was involved is incidental.
> How is this not extremely concerning for anybody who cares about privacy?

Because they're not actually doing that?

These researchers did everything they could think of to come up with the most concerning headline.

I imagine someone, somewhere is going to make a video conferencing app that closes the audio interface every time you press mute. I also expect few people will use that option because it adds additional latency every time you unmute.

I want my mute button to work ASAP and I don't believe Zoom (or anyone else) is interested in whether or not I'm eating while muted.
Be very, very careful about combining MAOI's with psychedelics (or other drugs).

Educate yourself thoroughly on what effect such combinations could have before you even think of doing this.

Combining drugs in general is often a very bad idea, and many overdoses and other adverse reactions have been due to this.
I have found https://github.com/denisidoro/navi very useful for remembering nifty one-liners.

It's like a bookmark manager for commands.

Also good for sharing them with the rest of your team, via a git repo.
Google Meet will pop up a little "you're muted - are you trying to speak" bubble if it hears noise through your mic while you're muted. So obviously it's still accessing the mic. I don't see this as a big deal.
You're right, frequency matters. I also think it matters that he reacted defensively (at least that's how I read the essay), rather that just saying, "Okay, sure" and putting the glass in the dishwasher. It's a token response that doesn't really mean much, but it's a token that shows some consideration.

I think that's why a workaround solution like putting the glass on a counter out-of-sight would also be helpful. It's not that the workaround necessarily improves anything from his wife's perspective (the glass still needs to be cleaned) but it shows some effort.
Due dates are a lazy way to gain commitment
You can find German marks "Korrekturlesen Zeichen". The L-shape is described in DIN 16511, but cannot find the opposite.
You probably don't.
> They don't bring about regime change, They don't impose hardship on the despots, and they don't take away nuclear capability from North Korea.

They haven't yet brought about regime change, They haven't yet imposed hardship on the despots, and they haven't yet taken away nuclear capability from North Korea.

The point is, the world needs regime change, in order to be safer (dictators with Nukes are a very dangerous thing to have on the one and only human populated planet). Without the pressure, change is far less likely.
This is conspiracy theory level stuff, but... I believe it's a dump phase. Later, we'll see a pump phase, where cryptopositive news dominate the pages for a while. It could all be organic in nature, but I wouldn't be too surprised if at least part of it were manufactured.
PSA, because I’m seeing a lot of JIRA in this thread: Since the 2017 rebranding, Jira is no longer officially written in all caps: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Feedback-Forum-articles/A...

(You can argue how successful it was when people are still using the old style in 2022).

It also makes more sense, since Jira is not an acronym, it’s a truncation of Gojira, inspired by Bugzilla/Mozilla.
That makes this prolonged restore process all the more confusing, then.

I (and many others) assumed they had to graft in data from backups since a full restore would clobber newer changes from unaffected customers.

If they're all isolated in their own logical per-tenant DBs, I'm really at a loss for what is making restoration take 3 weeks for 400 tenants.

I understand if you'd rather not venture into it, but care to offer any speculation?
Free software wouldn't even exist as a movement if it weren't for Stallman. Linux and *BSD wouldn't exist. Emacs and gcc wouldn't exist. Stallman is the FSF and they're irrelevant without him.
Whataboutism. Crypto is going on for over 12 years now. You can’t compare dotcom with crypto because 12 years after dotcom FAANG was up and running.
> Five years in prison seems like a disproportionate punishment for an arguably victimless crime

It's not victimless: the United States (government) is the victim, albeit one that's not particularly sympathetic.

Just because the victim is diffuse/a collective doesn't mean the wrongs against it are victimless - this is about as victimless as handing over nuclear secrets to another country (in quality, not severity).
This is a false dichotomy:

> It would be interesting to know why the status quo financial system is held in such a high regard?

Plenty of people see problems with the status quo financial system and also with the crypto ecosystem that purports to replace it.

It’s not that I’m leaping to defend the current system. It’s that you want to replace it with something I think is worse. That’s why I’m resisting the change.
Fixing the entire Super Mario 64 source code [video]