skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No - just nudge them towards better practices and answer questions they may have.

It isn't worth the drama frankly and they are grown adults.

>Which subjects spurred the most discussions and how did you solve it?

We had one distant family member go off the deep end with 5G vax/google/phone is listening to me. That triggered a family wide discussion on this. Tried injecting some facts, but its quite hard explaining concepts like fingerprinting and data brokers. Its such a nebulous concept and if you're not careful you just end up affirming the paranoia unintentionally. "oh so you're saying they do track me and read my mails?" Yes, but also noooo
Amazing displays of the New York Times A-B testing its copaganda headlines in this thread here:

https://twitter.com/nyt_diff/status/1513873661547143176

That account is dedicated to documenting changes to NYT headlines in real-time.
If the bid is rejected the price of the shares would probably go below his initial purchase price in the shares...so he'd likely lose money.
I'm all for that idea if only for noise abatement on lazy Saturday mornings.
Family 1Password for me + spouse, separate 1Password account for my elderly parent–in–law. I maintain paper copies of all keys.

I back up (export) 1Password vaults quarterly to an offline backup I maintain.

I maintain two small (1Tb) SSDs with digital copies/scans of all important documents, offline. Try to sync monthly. Store inside faraday bags inside fireproof (in theory) safes.

We both lie excessively when creating profiles for online accounts. Unless absolutely necessary we use a PO Box for addresses. We've both been online 30+ years and the amount of old, forgotten accounts that resurface in breaches and scams is disappointing, and yet not surprising. Our late dog continues to receive a lot of "growth hacking" spam from services that started after she died.

Everything important has multiple 2FA options enabled, avoiding SMS as much as possible.

All of our financial accounts use email addresses off an obscure domain name I manage, not our personal email addresses (which themselves are G Suite/WorkPlace/WorkSpace/Whatever accounts).

I review all financial accounts monthly to look for odd charges. The last serious fraud we experienced started as small (<$10) charges over several weeks, I guess testing the credit card information they'd gotten.

I just assume we'll get hacked at some point, instead of trying to make that impossible, I try to ensure that we have backups of everything (and a paper trail as necessary to prove who we are, though I'm not convinced the various automata at FAANG gang companies will believe any of that).
Didn't that uncover illegal activity by the US Government?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/03/edward-snowd...
It’s so strange. At first it was intriguing since I had never heard of it before, but now given how often it’s brought up, I suspect some sort of forced Streisand effect deal is at play from all the people who don’t like Elon or are using it as a speculative argument of how he’s ackshually not technically free speech because clearly he spent billions just to take that account down.
Thank you for choosing the AGPLv3!
https://drinkarizona.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/150000325...
Caveat: this here website has about as much chance as giving you good advice as a post on a motorcycle or knitting forum. Maybe even less likely as people here are likely to share your pathologies. If you want above-average advice, you should be talking to qualified therapists.

I do note some interesting things about how you present your problem. You devoted an entire paragraph to your success and comfort. And in passing you mention that for a long time you've been rather morbid about your personal prospects past middle age. For someone who wants to talk about their depression, you'd think the emphasis there should be reversed.

I'm not saying you're bragging, I just think this indicates some potentially distorted thinking. Which is a huge opportunity for getting you out of this mess.

Some questions you might want to raise with a therapist: why did you think you'd be dead past 40 and why did you embrace that idea? Why do you present "the Wife" as the only opposition to that? You use a trope almost like your wife disapproves of you indulging in a vice, like trips to Vegas, but we're talking about the literal end of your existence.

I guarantee you'll discover interesting things, especially if your therapist uses processes like CBT and ACT, which are all about debugging your thoughts and assumptions. Also, some advice: lots of people call themnselves therapists or counselors, but I've found that those with advanced degrees are much better than not.
It's interesting, because the common wisdom that I've encountered is that neural networks are better when you can feed them large amounts of data. But some of the use cases here (e.g. approximating the solution to a set of partial differential equations) are so far outside the kind of work I do that I have a hard time conceptualizing them or how they work.
yes, this is number one on my list, because health is permanent

fixing health is significantly harder than not

setup an emergency fund, just in case

take care of teeth, avoid sugar

don’t start with alcohol, nicotine or other drugs
What about this issue is particularly complex? Other than nuclear weapons? Russia has spent the last 20 years acting with total impunity, relying on a western reluctance to intervene. Russia is a world power if they are allowed to throw their weight around without consequence. The only reason not directly aid Ukraine in securing their borders is the threat of nuclear war. China is not going to got war with Russia against the US because of military intervention inside Ukraine's borders. That is an insane claim.
You might want to get the popcorn ready for when this gets distilled down to “the Saudi’s own Twitter”.
>it's publicly available information

Irrelevant distinction. Most doxxing is just collecting publicly accessible information. Stalking and intimidation is still stalking and intimidation whether you use public information or not.
But if you do, know the thresholds. Hard liquor is what really messes people up. Don't drink alone. Don't hang out with people who insist you drink. Never drink because of feelings.
That's where you get into a muddy mess of where to draw the line between "imperialism," and something else. There are different takes on what constitutes imperialism, and whether one State trying to push back on what it perceives as creeping imperialism is legitimate.

The argument a lot of people are making, not just Russia or Russians, is that overextension of NATO influence was a major cause for the conflict. This might be something like if the Soviet Union had refused to deescalate military support to Cuba during the missile crisis and the US went ahead with military action there.

That's not to say that I personally would agree with US intervention in Cuba, or Russia in Ukraine, just trying to understand the logic that's being played by here.
Eh... I know someone that hates opiates including heroin, they just made them feel sick and want to sleep it off. Some people though do one hit and that is forever after their jam.

I know some people that don't like cocaine, it makes them feel jittery and uncomfortable at best. Some people take a hit of coke and it takes over their whole night and that's all they want to do for the rest of the night. I was never impressed.

Nictoine, arguably one of the most addictive substances ever, has always been one of my least favorite substances (to the point of being substantially less preferable than abstaining) despite constant exposure to it in my 20's from my friends. I never liked the feelings I got from it. Too much makes me sick and even a little gives me a headache.

I think that individual variation in brain chemistry and receptor density / locations, etc matters a LOT in that category. The trouble is... you just don't know what your chemistry is and what your brain is gonna like.
I have a million nodes, which I'm confident I can prune to less than 100k now that I know I'll have to. Each with 100 edges that I can probably filter down to 10-20. That should get me down to <3GB, which might be more in reach?
So, it was a highly overpriced hype brand back then?
your take on harm harms me, change or be guilty of harming others...(j/k)

your take is essentially an endless take of "why shouldn't we include offending as harm" and the answer is because its not harm. Or we can just proclaim other people's opinions I don't like as harm and stand in a circular firing squad, which is what society seems to be doing now.
Flu causes loss of smell too though. Crazy right? By the past 2 years you would think Covid was the only virus ever to cause loss of smell.
When I was ten years old (late 90s) I was able to publish a site using a WYSIWYG host of the time (Homestead).

It was crappy, of course, but it was something. And it was easy.
> The same thread was posted four days ago by the same user and did not get traction

I got an email from Dang asking me to repost it into the second-chance pool.

Also, I don't use a VPN.
> I feel like I've hit my zenith already and it's just a slow decline from here on out.

Is "zenith" defined in terms of what other people what? Then you've been a slave your whole life. What do you want to do?
> I think most Young Americans don't have the luxury of wondering about power competition

Precisely the opposite. Americans have the luxury of not worrying about great power competition. Eastern Europeans, for example, do not have this luxury. You think that great power competition does not affect you, but you are very wrong about that. You just think so because you are a citizen of the most powerful great power.
Fair point, perhaps this would be a more reliable source but the information is the same:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script
Beyond her own professional search, I'd suggest you making more time to be with the kids and handle household crap that she might be dealing with. Take things off her plate so she can recover from her previous situation and reflect and act on her future path. In my experience, this will be hard for you because you'll necessarily do less at work and have less time to improve yourself professionally and personally outside of work, but the payoff in stress reduction for your wife should be worth it in short- and medium-terms until she gets re-settled.

Background: Software engineer for over 15 years; twin 3 year-olds at home; wife is a teacher.
> They are probably going to desperately try to find a white knight, and fail because Twitter lost the mass market years ago and at this point is a platform for rich people to post incredibly vapid, narcissistic takes about politics and society that say nothing.

Ironically, this suggests that people like Elon Musk are exactly the problem with Twitter.
First, the fact that deaths from a drug overdose and natural causes are included in the casualty list is in and of itself ridiculous. Should the casualty list for WW2 include everyone who died of natural causes from 1939 to 1945?

Second, the one death from gunshot is of an unarmed rioter, shot by the Capitol Police. I have no problem whatsoever with the death; if the Capitol Police had actually used their weapons and training immediately, as opposed to letting rioters run rampant inside the Capitol, a tremendous amount of trouble would have been avoided. But the death is not of a lawmaker or someone else otherwise uninvolved.

Third, the death from gunshot is also not a police officer. In particular, it is not Officer Sicknick, who was lauded by one and all for weeks as a martyr to the TrumpNaziKKK forces ... only for the autopsy to find that he died of a stroke that had nothing to do with the riot (the autopsy specifically checked for blunt force trauma (i.e., "hit by a fire extinguisher") and exposure to tear gas). And yet the claims made after the riot, of many cops being killed by the rioters, were never widely disavowe and continue to be believed, as can be seen elsewhere in this very discussion.
His point is that it will look like Elon didn't like what he saw and changed his mind, it doesn't matter what he truly saw.
Lots of people find CRTs more pleasing to use than LCDs, because of better contrast ratios and lower latencies. But--fascinating--I've not heard of LCDs making people dizzy, do you have any idea what it is about the LCD that makes you dizzy?
No one is saying they are, only that they'd like the opportunity (read the right) to make up their own mind, and be wrong about things.
So the point is to be technically correct but practically irrelevant?
Nothing morally, but using a VPN, while not perfectly anonymous, correlates strongly with other anonymization measures taken by users. Users signing up with those IPs are more likely to be doing so anonymously.

There's nothing wrong with using it to hide your browsing habits or reduce tracking, but when you're signing up for cloud services, you're presumably already supposed to be providing your identity at that point, so that use case is moot. Someone could be stealing your identity and using it to sign up as well. Imagine the crimes you could be framed for in those situations.

It would be hard to keep the service cheap if there were a greater risk of bad actors using it.
> Negotiation is the way out.

Okay. How do you get the two sides to come to an agreement? Right now, one side wants the other side to not exist [1], the other side appears to be willing to concede status quo ante bellum.

[1] To be more precise, they have given several conflicting answers as to what they actually want. I personally find this answer to be the most likely to be true, especially given that the other side is willing to agree to the demands implied by several of the other answers, and yet this side is unwilling to accept such agreement.
broot can't run commands on, let alone select, multiple files. A real shame.
So the investigation says they made half of the students use Twitter to analyze a novel by posting quotes and their own reflections & commenting on tweets written by their classmates, while the others relied on traditional classroom teaching methods.

The winner is visible from a mile away, but the takeaway for me is that using the wrong tool for the job is stupid, not that Twitter itself makes you dumb.
Ask HN: Has TinyDNS' Site Been Subtly Hacked?
Unsure if I'm just not hip enough to understand some of the references, but around 3/4 down the page there seem to be some pretty interesting suggestions.
He's not a free speech absolutist (he even tried to get a particular account shutdown for tracking his private jet, albiet he was offering them money to stop), he more or less just wants a more transparent form of moderation with only moderation leaning in one direction. That's actually a -good- thing. I've seen accounts banned for mild jokes, while some accounts literally post death threats and skirt by. The Taliban, Russia, etc all have Twitter accounts at the very moment and you think this is some new thing of "state sponsored" whatever. I am pretty sure many people here with comments like this have rarely if ever used Twitter for anything.
Ever run a marathon? I know it sounds daft but I know a bunch of people who don't need to work any more, and they all got into triathlons, Ironmans etc. They're all crazy about it. They usually have 2 per year but there's plenty of small events during the year that fill up the calendar. It's a social circle, a fitness club and a support group. My brother in law has been part of that scene for years, and after my sis died a few years ago, they helped pull him through it, hauling his ass out for runs and cycles. He even gets business through it.
Yes, which is fine. Same is if you snagged a Google Maps API key off of any old site and used it with curl.
> I think for young people it's very difficult to appreciate that we live on the knife's edge of peace.

That doesn't seem like thought that supports the position of the old, as characterized here, who are encouraging the escalation of a war against a nuclear power with a ruined economy.

I blame the generational gap on that particular US generation who has lived through major wars but never had to worry about war on their own territory, who have gone through wars where only an extreme minority have had to participate (and that being privileged enough to be in college or to have an important job was enough to get you out of participation), and who have been hammered by propaganda their entire lives that the final battle would be the commies vs the bootstrappers.

Half of them are praying that this will be the end of the world, like God said it would be.

They supported every war except Vietnam, because Vietnam was the only war they were in danger of participating in. Those wars didn't affect them badly at all, in fact the wars helped the economy because everybody got jobs creating expensive things that would be burned (in the occupied homes of Iraqi families.)

I would call them a reflection of Russian nationalist aggression, but they're really not, because Russians have known suffering from war. Russians have pretty good excuses not to want NATO weapons, missile defense systems, and troops stationed on their border. Americans are afraid of their vital fluids being corrupted by the demonic Russians and their sole goal of creating discord by spreading propaganda that the issues that everybody who isn't an old wealthy retired homeowner is concerned about aren't something that should be completely ignored.

Young people generally see them as insane chickenhawks that are useless domestically and hyperaggressive internationally, and rightfully so.
There is the Alphasmart word processor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart

> AlphaSmart devices have a cult following amongst writers, who use them for distraction-free writing. [2]
I mean the first comment literally said "America is the only country with such views" so yes, that makes them special by definition? Or are you saying that the way America sees free speech is common, which would contradict the earlier claim that it isn't
Bryan Cantrill mentions in this talk that they saw no correctable errors, until they suddenly got uncorrectable errors. Turns out that the firmware was hiding the fact that it had been correcting ECC errors the whole time.
https://youtu.be/vvZA9n3e5pc?t=1193
SaaS is super difficult to maintain long term unless you know exactly what you're doing. And not having a network is definitely not helping. If you feel like you check these boxes go for it, but I'd much rather build a network first.
When is the last time America has seen benefit from going to war? The 50s with a stalemate in Korea?
> There's a framing error in this reasoning. The technology of Web 1.0 did not exist in limited scope because it was only suitable for a small subsection of humanity. It was only being used by a small subsection because that was the developmental stage of the web. One could say (disingenuously) that at the time Web 1.0 was such a successful technology it was being used by 100 percent of web users!

Do you have any proof of those assertions? You're strident in defending your ideology but this claim seems fantastically unsubstantiated. I remember trying to help parents and non technical friends use Web 1.0. they'd get URLs wrong, forget which TLDs a site hung off, clicked on phishing emails, and deal with hundreds of pop-up ads. Web 2.0, as much as this wasn't a buzzword, was a strict increase in usability for every non-technical person I know.
I think in general, western democracies do a lot better on elite freedoms than China, or indeed eastern democracies. When it comes to the actual freedom enjoyed by normal people, it's more patchy. Living in contemporary America, or indeed any fast-paced, high-bill liberal democracy, is essentially a lot of work for most people: usually the vast majority of their waking time is spent at one or more jobs. This usually delivers no real security, they usually have no real control over what they do, to a very fine level (acceptable emotions to display, and so on) during this time.

China is like that too, but the only people that would really experience a night-and-day difference are the elite, who coincidentally write all the academic papers, news articles, etc.
A tweet you can't see still exists. I think it's perfectly reasonable to display accurate counts even if it's based on information you don't have access to.
Life is finite
I've edited the end of the post, thanks for the feedback. You're right that I can kinda mushing things together.
I'm a single guy, with no authority or desire therefore, but I am the most tech oriented person, and one of the most tech focused people in my friend group.

If anyone asks me anything about security I tell them to assume everything everywhere is spying in every way(I don't advise against using any specific devices or services, or avoid them myself, whether they care about Google spying is up to them).

But mainly I just tell everyone that they should be using 2FA. Everyone even remotely tech savvy these days knows that spying us the business model for half the internet, and only a few care enough to do anything about it.

The only in depth discussions I've had(Outside of work of course), have nothing to do with insecure systems and everything to do with public posts.

For everyone who gets their bank details hacked(And probably gets most of it back), there's probably 5 who lost jobs or friends or opportunities, or just embarrassed themselves, because they posted something on a medium that is easy to misinterpret and encourages posting without thinking.

In the last year I know one person who was hacked. They didn't have 2FA on.
The bulk of this post is about your career. You need to find something else to live for. I know, easier said than done…

For me, a loving partner, my kids, my own intellectual development, art, other hobbies, full that gap. Hope you find what makes you content with life.

Also: start exercising!
I think an important part about therapy is the fact that you really do have to be willing to jump around a bit before you find a therapist who you are comfortable with.

All the therapists I've come across have been excellent at what they do. Yet, therapy is a 2 way process, and if anything, demands more of the patient than it does of the therapist. So if things are not working out definitely try someone else.
https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1514612329031233547

> Well this is awkward: TWTR board hired Goldman to "advise" it that the @elonmusk
$54.20 offer is too low. Only problem: Goldman has a SELL rating with a $30 price target. Oops.
Don't you think he would lose a lot of reputation in future deals like this? I wouldn't trust him.
Not only that but general health. Diet. Exercise. Sleep.

But I agree he should get his testosterone checked.
you've been dealt all the good cards (money, wife, house, no kids). you can literally do whatever makes you happy. you wanna go somewhere new? you wanna learn a language? move to another country? learn how to play the guitar? change jobs? change careers? the possibilities are endless. go crazy. think what would you like to try and try it.

it sounds crazy but i get ideas for things i wanna try from TV series (specifically, holiday destinations). i've been watching a lot of Netflix lately lol
An important aspect to understand is that "democratic nations" fighting together for their ideals is fiction created for the purpose of propaganda and of manufacturung consent. Countries fight for their interests, not for ideals.
Alcoholics are not rational actors.
Yeah—to reference a symbol `:foobar` in MRI's C API, you even call `ID2SYM(rb_intern("foobar"))`
This is so true. The problem is that the price people are willing to pay can go to really, REALLY high for some items because there really is no alternative. (Cars, Wood/Housing, Raw materials like steel)
Avalanche Energy – Fusion power you can hold in your hands
It doesn't take a genius to arrive at this strategy. Just tens of billions of dollars.
A new report outlines some of the barriers facing Asian women in tech