skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a rabbithole, and you might not be personally satisfied with the standard of evidence. Regardless, every other VPN has some evidence of partnering with some combination of state actors, data brokers, ad networks, or unexplained unnecessary compromising requirements etc. Mullvad has no such substantiated allegations against it.

There are many VPN services that begin by reselling white-label VPN solutions, such as provided by NordVPN,[1] because it's cheaper and easier than building your own globally distributed high-capacity, low-latency network. Many suspect Proton VPN did so[2].

[1]https://nordvpn.com/white-label/ (old link, can't find an archived version of the page)
[2]https://archive.is/iZ2l2
Portable Django
3.5 hours is still pretty good. Every Dell I've ever had for work is 1.5 hours tops.
Yet we're all still here. Incredible we haven't exploded yet.
Doesn't have to be a large company, just a dysfunctional company. We have this and we're like 25 people.
Software gets slower faster than computers get faster.
I'm with you.

There's also "mask mandates don't work" vs "masks don't work". They're probably not equivalent statements.

There's plenty of reasons why mandates might not work, including half the population actively undermining them.

Masks clearly work for surgeons, and hospitals have had "droplet precautions" for years that include masking.
Ask HN: SMS alternatives for Android now that Signal is ending support?
My phone reminds me on a near-constant basis that my messaging app of choice, Signal, will soon no longer support sending/receiving SMS [1].

I now need to find a new app on Android for sending text messages; are there any good options? Or should I just bite the bullet and buy into the Google ecosystem more with their messaging app?

[1] https://www.signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/
If I didn't have lifetime Windscribe I would use Mullvad for sure.
Protection from seedy Linux ISO honeypots.
Yes, affordable housing today often luxury housing from the past. That works well enough for areas dealing with slow growth. In Dallas, for example, the apartment I rented in 1996 was top of the line, and is now mid-range.

When a government interrupts that process for years on end by disallowing any new construction, you end up with a backlog, and can't afford to wait the decades it would take for affordable housing to be available.

In the future, given sane zoning, the process will work. For now, though, there's a dire need to fill in the gap with affordable housing today.
BTC is fiat right?
How about creating an OS from scratch without bias from existing designs?
As someone who has suffered from various addictions over the years, from stimulants to alcohol, this rings so true. My life after quitting them was pretty rough for a while, and it took a long time to find my way. But I knew that pattern wasn't healthy, and things needed to change. Now, a few years out, things have stabilized and its a whole new world, and it looks entirely different than the one I was previously living in. It is possible to push through this, but the expectations had to change first.
The costs of suburbs aren’t astronomical in the Bay Area. There is a reason Strong Towns and the like always talk about suburbs in Missouri. The suburbs that are unaffordable are the $150K home owned by the household making $40k/year. You can’t charge that person the $8k in property tax you need to upkeep a suburb. Charging $8k on a $2 million home in the Bay Area is a lot more doable. It’s a 0.4% property tax rate which should be achievable. The only barrier to Bay Area suburbs paying for things is California’s neo-feudal property tax laws.
Same kind of issue. Signed up for PayPal, instantly banned before I could even do anything. Email support just said there is no recourse and no explanation why. Ended up ringing the support phone number and they managed to unban the account.
It doesn't take 30 years for new housing to have an impact. New homes immediately affect the price+availability of existing homes, because when someone moves into a shiny new home they free up the place where they were living before.
> making the most money are charismatic and risk-takers

SBF was worth $100 billion for a while there - guess that makes him the sexiest most charismatic risk-taker out there.
Same thing happened to me with Activision.

Found out one day my account was randomly banned from playing Warzone 2.0 with absolutely no way to get it unbanned.
It depends.

If you are targeted by any 3 letter agency this will not help/save you.

If you're worried about your shady ISP and/or other entities mining the heck out of your traffic and/or selling this data it helps.
Stick to a schedule, go to bed on time, reduce salt intake and eat right, hit the gym.

Worked wonders for me, I also follow rules like “if it takes less than 2 minutes do it now” and I make checklists in the morning

I haven’t needed medication for years now, am super productive, and feel 10,000% better
From the article:

> Its (Los Altos) zoning prohibits multifamily housing, whether apartments, townhomes or condos, along with commercial stores and shops in the entirety of its city limits.

The asymmetry of how cities/neighborhoods interact with each other is what creates the need for interventions like this. Some cities are more than happy to open up commercial and office spaces without allowing additional housing, eating up all the tax revenue, all the while pushing the burden of housing and other infrastructure on others. Meanwhile cities like Los Altos make any commercial development not possible in their neighborhood but will have its residents happily go to other neighborhoods to fulfill their need of a $7 artisanal coffee. Cities like Oakland will try to push high density housing in areas that don’t really add any value, simply because these are rich neighborhoods and you get election votes for doing it, meanwhile, plenty of medium/low income neighborhoods would benefit more from new high density housing with commercial space and the infrastructure upgrades that come from it. There’s all kinds of selfish interests and there needs to be a check on them.
In case it saves others some clicks…

“Apache Royale is the evolution of Apache Flex, summarizing all lessons learned during the last 15 years in Application framework development for the web and mobile devices. The resulting technology brings lots of improvements and is designed to be a solution that will remain for many years to come supporting the changes in standards and global fashions by separating the tools and languages you use to develop from the final output you get.” https://royale.apache.org/faq/

In turn, Apache Flex was originally Adobe Flex, initially released in 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Flex
I agree with you entirely.

Ideally their client would allow for you to accept or even better pre-load a cert they allow.

But some OS's can be finicky about trusting certs that arent loaded into some central trust store that in principle allows you some ability to ensure everything trust IS trustworthy, but also de-facto means a cert trust can be abused.

However thats as true for the google certs, or the Gov certs that are already pre-loaded and updated with OS updates etc as it would be for that service. And rarely are people actually looking at trust chains for the sites/services they use.

That said, i would trust google or even the NSA/gov over some rando vpn provider, if for no other reason than its on literally every install and there are millions of preying eyes watching.
I don't understand how like maybe a solo curious developer could ever get into this stuff. Having to pay even a small fee to like run your program, do anything at all, is an utter nightmare to me. Maybe I'm not smart enough and need to rely too much on lots of troubleshooting, recompiling, etc, when I make stuff...

I learned programming and love it to this day because it was something I could explore and learn for no money at all, only my shitty chromebook I figured out how to get linux on, and a lot of patience.

Even if everything else they say is true about it, it seems to be built around the assumption of having not-insignificant capital. It's a very strange "revolution" to me in this sense, much like the "OpenAI token fees are now our overlord" revolution that people are hyped about as well.
What's absurd is any tax scheme that takes a larger share of labor income than it does of passive income. People who live off the labor of others should pay tax at a higher rate than people who actually perform the labor.
the only thing worth using at ebay are the tiny classified ads
If they don't want the higher tax bill, keep housing prices down by allowing homes to be built. I really couldn't care less about the person who pushes up prices by blocking development having a higher tax bill.
When I view it in Firefox v78.15.0esr it is flashing annoyingly.
It's not a waste in all ways.

A car gets you where you want at the time you want. Whereas a train gets you close to where you want to go at some time.

So better depends on what's more important to you. If you take a look at ecology, sure, trains are far better than a 1 person in a car. If you look at flexibility, cars are far more better.
Seeing as that's the same reason that people call mammary extract "milk", yes. Words are what people call things, neither more nor less.
Depends on the severity, but with my moderate ADHD I've found success by learning and embracing the ways my own energy changes over time and under different circumstances, to make better use of it. It's sort of like adapting to abundant but sporadic renewable energy, vs the steady gas energy everyone else has

Examples that I've found work for me:

- Instead of trying to force myself to do something I'm simply not motivated about, looking for an intersection between the things that currently sound interesting and the things that would be productive. Making the most of the energy I have, when I have it

- Even if I'm jumping around - sometimes I get tiny bursts of energy for several different things in rapid succession - over time I may end up making progress on all of them. Instead of trying to pin myself to focus on just one, embracing the interlacing lets me take advantage of as much energy as possible

- My energy is highly momentum- and dopamine-based; if I'm struggling to be motivated about one thing, sometimes I can "prime the pump" by doing something small/easy first, and then I'll have more energy to carry over into the bigger thing

- Learning ways to sort of re-frame a task, or "tempt" myself into becoming interested in it (pressure doesn't work, but there are other ways)

Everybody's different though. Best of luck
and Denmark
Amphetamine-based drugs are Scheduled substances in the US and other countries, so they keep a tight grip on supply. I've been able to get as much as a 90 day supply at once however, that was handy.
Yes, that would have been the classy move.
Something like this would grow a good portion of needed vegetables with a little training and minimal work.

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1398989330/
No, fiat currencies are backed by states and central banks. BTC has some of the qualities of fiat currency—no commodity backing, etc—but it's not usually classified as one.
i'm not asking how to do a for loop lol the queries are more complex, I was just providing an example for this thread since many of you are struggling to understand why chatgpt is useful.

you seem to have an emotional reaction against chatgpt, or are just really dense. that's okay for you. but I hope your team knows that you're limiting their career growth by having you as a manager.
I can't find any statistics about farmers selling their properties. I see an article about 25 farmers volunteering to be bought out and move on in one province, dated 2022-12-22. An article from 2022-11-10 lists a total of 31 farms nation wide. In practice, very little has happened after the last few years.

Farmers don't want to leave to Germany. That'd solve the Dutch problem quite effectively, but you'll need someone to buy the land, and who would buy a farm ready to house 30.000 chickens if you can't keep get the license because of economic impact?

This is why the government is offering to buy out farmers on the condition they don't use the money to start a farm elsewhere in the country, but very few farmers are budging.

Give it a few years and I expect meat imports in other countries will become more expensive. The problems you're seeing right now are more likely to be the result of greenhouses shutting down because of entirely unrelated reasons.
It's decentralized fiat, so sort of hybrid between fiat and hard.
"Centralized finance is bad, and blockchain solves that. Except blockchain doesn't scale to millions of clients, so we are going to introduce a centralized mechanism that solves that problem, while hiding the fact that we violated our founding principal of decentralization (by overwhelming you with crypto-jargon)."
Business-wise yes this is a great time. It's better to be positioned before the next market upswing than to be chasing it. I work with many companies that are using this time to double down on building things instead of coasting on the bull market high of the last couple years.
this is awesome, my son is using this with a bot in discord to learn python
Amazing to see that every file and directory name is short single word with very few exceptions.
> People don’t suddenly have less self control

How do you know this? As the adage goes: ...good times make weak men...

We've had good times in the late part of the 20th century. We now have weak lazy people in addition to abundance of shit food. We absolutely live in a time of over acceptance. In the old days it would be: "Hey man, you're getting fat. That's not ok". Not it's all about sitting down and listening to excuses with our legs folded.
BTC (one version of "Bitcoin") is a digital ponzi scheme for morons controlled by the for profit companies Blockstream and Bitfinx.

BCH, the original version of Bitcoin is a Peer-to-Peer Digital Cash network, a replacement of government "fiat" currency.
So if they have control over your phone they could do something less effective than install a tracking app? That's not very impressive.
You don’t think right-wing donors take steps to hide their donations?
Look for startup positions. In my experience, while startups are in growth mode they need people who can pitch-in and do whatever is required. Your many skills would suit that kind of environment well. Once in, maybe you could pivot to specializing in managing DevOps where your building & configuring skills could be applied to streamlining the org's development pipeline.
I found very useful this mailserver for docker
https://gioorgi.com/2020/mail-server-on-docker/

Easy to setup and mantain, no issue in the last 2 years (finger crossed)
It'll be interesting to watch this play out. I know ByteDance has been slurping up some Meta talent, and you don't want someone you lay off to build the company that eventually kills you.
It's fiat in a very limited number of countries. It's fungible.
They say it cost 'thousands of dollars', so I infer that the 'millions' must be either raw characters or BPE tokens sent to the API.
I’ve never had a failed return/refund which is the only reason I use eBay over Amazon or Walmart(Shopify). eBay will even refund return shipping from the seller’s account if you use the eBay return shipping label service. I don’t use eBay to sell anymore even though for electronics it used to be a really nice way to get some money back from older purchases.
Wow, that's a lot of cycles! Mine is 11 months old and has 46. I use it mostly plugged in with a second monitor, but I just recently took a trip and never charged it, even though I wrote 2/3 of a new app in Xcode.
isn't the most secure vpn solution is to have 5$ VPS with OpenVPN on it ? (Serious question)
I imagine there are testnets of some kind.
... and intentionally convert psychological manipulation.
Or the sound of an elevator jamming…
Ask HN: Best 3D printer for 2nd grader?
My kids want to play with 3D printing after a school science show. I know nothing about 3D printers and prefer something relatively simple and affordable to operate on. I don’t need anything complicated.

Oh, any recommendations for microscope for 2nd grader as well? Kids are fascinated with micro things.
Support at this level can also include help making something perform well. Or help understanding bugs in your code. That is, it isn't just a "prove we are at fault and we will fix it thing" which plagues a lot of moderate sized projects online.
If you have problems with an employee stating "I work for x" then the only reasonable recourse should be to let them go. How can you police stating a fact to that degree?
Instead of talking about morality I think it’s best talk about incentives and try
to determine what incentives ought to be in place in order to achieve a desired outcome. For whatever reason, it is the case that building high density housing is not allowed in many locations and the accompanying expense of that is unsustainable. I use “expense” to encompass financial, economic, societal, and environmental costs.
I don't understand the point. This is built on Optimism stack, so effectively same as using Optimism. Why not just integrate Coinbase products into Optimism then?
"plans to eventually let go of the rug and not pull it away"*

* Plans subject to change.
> If you had to code it you're at least thinking about edge cases etc.

If you didn't code it you REALLY need to be thinking about edge cases, etc. ChatGPT (or stack overflow for that matter) makes tons of mistakes, at least as much as your average human.

Personally I find it harder to validate the behavior of code I didn't write than code I've gone through the creation process of myself.
Create a launch bar app with Rust and Tauri
> The grandparents point is excellent. I never thought of it that way but it was / is certainly true for me.

Eh, I mean, for a lot of homeowners in the bay area, because they so little amount of housing compared to market price, they usually can (and do for some communities) front large down payements for their kids' houses. That's how you see so many people in their late 20s affording houses you have two have two or three of: two good incomes, frugal mindset, good RSUs / IPOs, or parental help.

Obviously it sucks for people who do not have upper middle class parents, and that's why we need to fix this stupid housing crisis.
It's a coordination mechanism in the prisoners dilemma. Building is defecting, zoning is legislating cooperation.

In this scenario you and folks who want more building are the justice system: you want defection, you want building. You say, "how is it moral for prisoners to constrain each other's actions?" but they voted for it freely because mutual cooperation is better than mutual defection, even if they personally would defect given the choice.
Hah. People are not goldfish. They will remember and will jumo ship given a better opportunity. One does simply not forget the flexibility WFH brings.
That's not the issue though, that's just a simple courtesy, would you be happier if they used their original name, perhaps in unreadable (to me) chinese characters?
Sprawl can be the result of deregulation in a ex-urban, suburban context, but not in an urban context, as the urban areas are already fully built out, so further sprawl in an urban centre is not possible. Deregulation in an urban context enables redevelopment and denser housing.

Additionally more housing options that result from a deregulation in urban spaces is thought to weaken the profit motive for further development in deregulated suburban environments, and thus limit sprawl. Whether this is true I'm less sure, though laying it out as an explanation because it's at least part of the typical environmentalist and urbanist argument for deregulation in urban areas.
Agreed on damages. It's been my limited experience that US lawyers won't even bother with such a case unless they think there is a very good chance of a jury awarding punitive damages. Which, practically speaking, is very rare and only happens in the most egregious of cases. I suppose it matters somewhat what the local jury pool is like, but generally if it isn't something absolutely flagrant and politically charged juries don't award punitive damages in these cases.
I find the verbiage a little confusing. I'm probably best-served, looking at the source.

It seems as if he wanted to be on record as leaning left, but behind the scenes, going right, but I'm not sure that's what happened.

Most big-money folks like to give in both directions; regardless of their personal leanings.
Suggest you submit a complaint to the CFPB - there is a webpage and useful instructions for doing so. Ebay is a regulated financial institution and will have to answer to the CFPB as to how they will be resolving your complaint.

You can also submit a complaint to your state financial regulator - they usually have more teeth than the CFPB but take a little bit more time.
Not true you can have multiple accounts i have multiple storefronts on ebay with totally different accounts linked to different emails but with the same primary address
Is whatsapp meaningfully different than, say, imessage in this context?
I don't speak for all of hacker news, but I don't like current cryptocurrencies because something can't both be a currency and a speculative investment. Currencies need to be stable enough to use for transactions. I get pissed off every time I try to buy something with a cryptocurrency but the price of it has dropped before any exchange allows me to us it to withdraw it into my own wallet.

Also, crypto currencies are not decentralized. The developers can issue however many coins they want, and give themselves as much of that as they want. I believe we will see this with Bitcoin at some point. At least when a democratic government controls a currency, the people have some sort of control in that process (by voting politicians out if they do corrupt things).
I really like the idea to extend life span of incandescent bulbs by lowering voltage: The easiest way is to put them in series. (daisy chain them)
No. I just sent 20 bucks, my code written on a piece of paper, and I had to use 3 of those forever stamps. But technically, you do have to file the customs form.
What can you do in Playstation VR2?
One word: testnet
Wouldn't it make more sense to just configure an AWS SES submission account as outgoing mail server, instead of trying to send it through a mail server like mox, only to have it forwarded again. I think you need to verify addresses with AWS SES anyway if you want to send from them (or perhaps it's only per domain?). Don't know if other mail service providers have a similar requirement.
(replying to self - sorry)

> If there were no Higgs particles anywhere

...which is counterfactual, if you mean "anywhere in spacetime", because there were a lot of Higgs particles, at the very beginning; and those particles exist in spacetime. If there are no Higgs particles in spacetime, that's a different Universe. I guess (/me not a physicist).
> GitHub parses this into that little blurb you see below the repo. This is technically a violation of the rules. Part of your project is technically generated by GitHub.

No, that's Github interpreting markdown for display on Github.com. That's not generating any part of the project that they submitted.
I had a similar experience with DeepL recently. I made a personal account using their free plan to try out their API. My account was banned before even completing the signup flow, and customer support had no details they could provide me.
I wonder how the first camp reconcile their views with the current struggle Italy has with their debt caused by excessive deficit spending in the past.
Unfortunately, 75% of those fans will complain bitterly when they find out it's not just more C&Hs.