skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an outsider, that American obsession with prescripted medication seems maddening. Many of these conditions are caused by underlying societal factors and are nowhere near as widespread outside the US. The American solution is to throw more pills at the problem, or ostracise the patients not willing to take that route. Even children are offered an ever larger number of pills, and are constantly challenged about their self-identification.
Libraries and bookstores curate all the time. Controversial books are not sold or removed.
> That is enough to ensure that open source code is provided to the world for free.

Not necessarily, the people you distribute the source/binaries to are under no obligation to give them to anyone else.
Ushering in a New Era for Open-Source Silicon Development
I've been hearing about this for years.

I've come to the reality that the future is using science instead of Physicians and buying medicine from other countries who don't have cartels in control of the medical industry.
At that point, you can probably just pay by credit card: If your aim is to frustrate invasive ad trackers and profilers on the web (and you assume that Mullvad isn't outright colluding with these), that should be good enough to break any links.

On the other hand, if you don't trust Mullvad's assertion that they delete the link between accounts and credit card payment records after 40 days [1], what makes you think you can trust them to not keep a record of individual scratch cards sold on Amazon, which Amazon can then correlate to an order ID and by extension account and shipping address?

At a higher level, if somebody can convince Mullvad to collude in that manner, they can likely also just ask them to outright hand over your traffic flows and connection data.
You aren't going to like this, but it turns out the US doesn't reliably enforce anything in its constitution, and even contradicts it on a constant basis. Effectively, the US is governed by an aggregate of very wealthy corporations who get what they want by bartering with politicians.
There will always be an aspect of our culture ai cannot take away, that we are human. The invention of the radio spelled doom for the local musician but here we are a century later with live music still happening. The fact that musicians and record companies are such big business to me has done more damage to music than ai ever will
Kim says North Korea's first spy satellite is ready for launch
Is Asahi at a state where you can ditch MacOS for this?
You'd think that all the recent technological advancements (compression, cheaper hosting etc) would make a difference here.

To me it seems like it's not necessarily budgeting issue but natural greed kicking in. I'm sure imgur people are not tightening their belts over this.
What legal process? The officers were pursuing some kind of case and got a warrant for a possible lead, the lead turned out to be cold, the officers moved on to other evidence. What's so complicated about that?
> The shift in our industrial systems to climate resilience is a huge opportunity. It creates efficiencies and shifts our focus away from dead-end consumption.

Counterpoint: efficiency and resiliency are usually tradeoffs. A perfectly efficient food supply system has no wastage, but also no buffers or contingency or reserves. By all means, end the most egregious food waste scenarios (buffet restaurants spring to mind), but given how critical food is to human survival, let’s not optimize ourselves into a corner.
I believe in the medical potential of compounds like MDMA and I don’t think the science is especially flawed. What I’m questioning is the motivation of some lobbying organizations’ members.
Yeah, relatively easy. You had to get an iso7816 smart card reader / writer and interface it to a pc. Then use a hex editor to find and flip the necessary bit. Pop the access card back into your sat tv receiver and now the system thinks you’re an echostar satellite engineer with everything on so you can test. This has been dead for a long time, I’m thinking around 20 years ago now, but it was pretty cool to read about and watch from the sidelines back in its heyday when there was an arms race between the sat tv services and folks doing things like this.
Can bet 99.99% that Mullvad throws the envelope in the trash and just forgets about it.

So, yes, there is a theory that someone may go in the trash in Sweden, finds the envelope, the stamp (and it has to be a british one), investigate who bought the stamp, get the assistance of the shopkeeper in UK (without raising suspicions), successfully reviews tons of security cameras footage to find who bought, etc.

And still don't know which activity to link it to.

A perfect waste of public resources if the NSA really does that, when all they needed to do is to purchase a VPN provider or fund Tor and claim to be no-logs VPN ;)
As often as you feel like.
> Because the whole point of the article is that there was no data to be compromised.

AND they were able to convince the police and prosecutor of that!
Not just trolls, there is a giant incentive for marketers (or even just TikTok-ers) looking to make something visible.

Tons of accounts reposting content from ~2 months ago to create a long, legitimate-looking post history and high karma score. They then use those accounts to complain about Product X or love Product Y -- and they don't look like a shillbot. Ditto for political actors, propagandists, et al.
Might I suggest for the future: https://vpn.sovereign.engineering

You can pay a Bitcoin lightning invoice on this site and get a redeemable Mullvad voucher instantly. Extremely convenient. Since you've only done 1 BTC transaction, I assume it was a large one for lots of time. However, when your time runs out, this option is great. It's an extra layer of privacy and you don't have to wait for the transaction to settle on chain.
cough cough ... do things that don't scale....this industry is a joke.
Federal Reserve: Moving Out of a Flood Zone? That May Be Risky
Crypto AG wasn't a fake crypto company; it was a real crypto company selling a product with a CIA/BND backdoor.

Proton makes open-source alternatives to big tech spyware and provides the service with a freemium model. Not sure what the comparison you're trying to make here is; they're both headquartered in Switzerland?
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
I am 100% good with NASA pursuing "wouldn't it be cool if" and leaving sober ROI-gated developments to private industry.
It's fake libertarianism.

So imagine this happening to these commenters. Somebody publishes that you're a pedo. Out of the blue. The relationship with your sons break down, nobody wants anything to do with you in community or business and everything you worked for falls apart. For no reason.

Would said commenter now truly say: ah well, go Google! This trillion dollar company should absolute be able to spread this, versus the 5 seconds it takes to take it down.

I don't think so.
Police doesn't (can't) make these kinds of decisions, they communicated with the prosecutor and the prosecutor withdrew his warrant. Which actually does seem very out of the ordinary to me. Might've been the warrant was acquired on autopilot with no one actually checking the targeted entity (e.g. crime committed, IP traced, get warrant for IP "end-user", police show up, "oh we've gotten a warrant for an ISP oops").
I can't fathom how inheritance could be the issue. Virtual inheritance maybe?
Actually why not? Would it put unreasonable burden on them to not distribute libel?

I might let newstands to slide it as reviewing each newspaper every day might be too high ask. But they certainly already curate the books they sell or lend. So why not expect them to also be aware of contents.
I appreciate your thoughtful comment.

Most entrepreneurs believe that visibility over how your visitors are using your website is “strictly necessary” for running a functional/secure/performant website and surviving as a business, but GDPR disagrees. Hence, cookie banners everywhere.

Not deemed “strictly necessary” > “Statistics cookies — Also known as “performance cookies,” these cookies collect information about how you use a website, like which pages you visited and which links you clicked on. None of this information can be used to identify you. It is all aggregated and, therefore, anonymized. Their sole purpose is to improve website functions.”
You didn't use it in a medicinal context though. You used it recreationally and thought about a problem then arrived at a solution. There's only x ways you could have fit the TVs in, and I'm sure most people could have figured it out without taking anything, it's hardly a difficult task.
Ask HN: How do you navigate continuous learning?
Morning HN.

I've struggled charting my path towards new skills. I have two problems; one of which is specific and the other more general.

With so many new tools, approaches, niches... how do you decide which is worth learning? The greatest constraint with continuous learning--is time. I worry about wasting mine on tech that lacks stamina. What's your selection process?

I also believe tech needs to reexamine its base despite most participants looking continuously forward. To this end, I'm reinventing my web stack to better understand the aggregate system through its indvidual systems. How might you prioritize effort on a project of that scale without first knowing where efficiency gains can be found?

Basically, it's a problem of unknown unknowns. How do you chart your path forward in an unfamiliar setting?
Even the Rust trademark policy as it exists now is significantly more restrictive than the Python trademark policy.
I suspect you could train a model to just shut up and follow instructions. I.e. instead of "Do X -> Sure! As a large language model, I'd love to help you with X!", just "Do X -> X".

This would avoid giving the model a dull default voice. But it wouldn't be sufficiently hedged and "safe".
Im not saying new stuff can’t happen, it’s just that the new stuff has been built on the shoulders of giants and to then take sole ownership and right to that new stuff just because you have the resources to defend your claim is tyrannical.
> Even if it's fruitless in the end, we're still gonna shame the use of the word "piracy" on sight.

Who's this "we"?

> It's quite simply offensive to compare the copying of bits to high seas piracy which includes murder and rape.

You are talking that way, way too seriously and interpreting it in weird way in order to take maximum offense.

And my point is it isn't a comparison: "pirate" has an established meaning that is literally just your "file sharing enthusiasts." Also, actual high-seas piracy has diminished to the point where "pirates" is mainly understood as file-sharing pirates or as goofy cartoon characters (e.g. "talk like a pirate day" and "Pirates of the Caribbean"). You have do to a lot of deliberate work to strain to take offense at the association.

> Of course the copyright monopolists had to spin up such propaganda: copyright infringement just has no weight to it.

It should be noted your alternative "file sharing enthusiasts" is at least as propagandistic, just from the opposite party.

Not that I think copyright piracy is that big if a deal, it's just that computer geeks' overwrought stridency on the issue is obnoxious and obscures more than it informs.
Is it still farmers? seems like more and more farmland is being bought up by corporations that manage many farms, at least in NZ.
To watch movies that are not licensed in your country, on legals platforms.
Would you like to explain why they are "about to be totally dead"?
Besides video games of course, it looks like the only field where people still get creative with their interfaces is in music production software.
You can get them for 300-500k in dollars on indiamart.

Salary of medical assistent around 3 dollars per hour.

A few k per month would definitely make the purchase worthwhile.
Thanks for saying this. I suspect I've long dealt with ADHD or some similar neurodivergence as well which, more prominently in my 20's caused me to bounce between so many things that I started to feel overwhelmed with excitement, but ultimately frustrated that I couldn't invest fully into something without eventually feeling bored, almost too early.

Today (34 as well!) I've managed to narrow this down with trying numerous video games and exploring political topics that interest me, and occasionally a few side dev projects.

Finding routines I enjoy has created stability overall.
> IFLScience

"Religion for people who are atheist's"
I'm in the middle of my application for a visa/permit to immigrate there with my wife. Reading the article and the conversation here makes me stress now :(
>The inadequate vote to shackle the capable, dooming them to toil to provide everyone with "the good".

My mans wants to pack up and move to Rapture[0]

0: https://youtu.be/J47ENHSomc8
I would argue that the Space Shuttle was mostly wasteful because it really wasn't that reusable. You had to fully refurbish the SRBs, you lose the tank, The Shuttles required a ton of refurbishment themselves, all for a rather small amount of mass to orbit.
What's wrong with 1Password?
very dramatic.
The article indicates that the law was only concerned with removal of links in Canada anyway, so if total removal is impossible as you say, it can still be firewalled at the border. China has no problem removing undesirable content from outside of their jurisdiction. What's Canada's problem?
I think in the past, internet signals were much weaker so EVERYONE HAD TO YELL to get their message through. Either that or 1-bits were in short supply.
That's a specious argument, because the choice could be between logging your traffic and being forced to shutdown under some kind of Swedish NSL, or forced to keep operating and logging even if they want to shut down. Not saying this is what happened, just that your reasoning doesn't really hold. Hell it's entirely possible Mullvad is a honeypot operated by some foreign intelligence service.
Analyze and compare the output of MySQL dumps
Corporations are still stealing open source code, nothing has changed there. Hopefully the Conservancy vs Vizio lawsuit will make it easier to sue companies for source code. That aims to make it possible for end users to sue, rather than copyright holders being the ones to sue.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
Modding social media to win the attention war
My views have changed about this a lot over the years. I've gone from feeling that medication is largely unnecessary and that there are alternative routes to feeling that carefully directed medications can and often should be used along with alternative therapies, when applicable.

Just throwing medication at a problem and calling it a day will never be useful, but seeing a lot of people find success with a mix of medications (amphetamines, ketamine, mushrooms, etc.) with therapy has been kind of eye opening.

A lot of this stems from blanket stigmatization of some drugs versus others.

Fixing society is a much larger (and ultimately fluid, unsolvable) problem so I feel like whatever people can do to find contentment should be on the table.
Arh, ICANN and VeriSign. Both have deliberately stalled on .Web
This is a very nice proof! Probably the best proof here, since it's easy to follow and does not require differentiation.
I’m thinking of the opposite of a DNT header. Websites would be very happy to respect it because it’s like auto-accepting a cookie banner. You would need to manage your own cookies.
It's fun checking in on the Amiga discussion forums now and again and seeing people still posting hand-optimised versions of standard AmigaOS libraries with additional clock cycles shaved off...
This.

As people collect more and more personal data about themselves, which they do unconsciously already, the only thing that's missing is an offline system (software) on the local computer/device that enables processing and making sense of all this data, ideally _without_ companies also obtaining the data.

Such software appears to be possible in the near future with all these neural network, NLP, image processing, .. systems.

I think developers of open-source apps ought to agree on some standard data format so that data from different apps/sources can easily be aggregated without additional processing.

The problem is: commercial apps/platforms don't have any incentive to enable private personal data collection and companies will always have a head start over the individual in different ways: amount of data, processing power, brain power, ..

And people don't appear to realize that companies are constantly optimising against the individual and therefor the individual needs better tools to gain a better position.
Also, this is mentioned with the book: The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk
OpenAI Dive: async Rust API client for interacting with OpenAI
That's not how defamation works. You're saying that if the statement is out there, surely people will do a deep investigation into the correctness of it?

They won't.
Briefly, non-US jurisdictions are not US jurisdictions and have different standards and procedures.
Bullshido blitzkrieg
That's the point of the comparison. What would Buckingham Palace be like if it could be exploited for tourism and preservation.
You're along the right lines, but it's gnarlier than that. National politicians are more like WWE wrestlers or reality show contestants. They have some freedom of action, but not much, and they must stay within the lines of the script. Tellingly, none of them actually legislate anymore, with the exception of the occasional bit of grandstanding that isn't intended to ever get past being a bill. All the bills that do become laws are written by private lawyers working for known or unknown principals, who then hand them off to lobbyists, who then arrange for a politician to sign off on it.

We receive some clues as to who the real shot callers are, because certain agenda items reliably receive bipartisan support. So for example we can conclude that whoever really runs the USA is fully in favor of involvement in the Ukraine war. There's enough publicly available information to build a relatively complete profile of the rulers, but not, so far as I know, enough information to reliably identify any specific persons. Needless to say, efforts to publicly develop and share that profile are rigorously suppressed.
gimp is kind of a mess, something about being started as a university project many many years ago and being only halfheartedly maintained since. nothing wrong with that I love projects like that, but some people take offense. any way....

My understanding is that krita is a better painting tool. if you are drawing it will probably be the better experience. gimp is better at image manipulation(it is in the name) if you a modifying an already existing image it has better tools.

Ether way it is not really the tool but what you do with it. there is this guy who does these amazing cut-away drawings for books, when asked what drawing program he uses the surprising answer was MS Paint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdKkR_lbLN0
Initially software wasn't even copyrightable, so it wasn't even possible to apply a license because there were no laws against taking code like that.
> After demonstrating that this is indeed how our service works and them consulting the prosecutor they left without taking anything

Setting aside impacts on customers, I wonder how common seizures would need to be to support a purely financial case that businesses that are known to not store identifying information are therefore less likely to incur the cost and effort of scrambling to replace seized hardware.
climbing it is hard so there are shortcuts.

mountain remains mountain regardless
A lot of this comes down to the clunkiness in high level programming languages. We will have all sorts of abstractions over enumeration and collections yet for some reason few languages seek to include niceties for state machines in their stdlibs.
I always knew port was left and starboard was right, but I basically used the trick "left is four letters, like port". I like learning etymology, though, because now I don't need some trick, I just understand the reason that the word is used.
mullvad has time and again shown itself to be one of if not the best actors in the entire vpn space, but you still have no real way of knowing if they are being honest.

also their business definitely doesn't depend on being honest or standing for their values. there are plenty of vpn's who run on fake marketing that give the impression that they have certain values and do certain things while actually not doing it and they are way more successful than mullvad.
Who said anything about encryption? The problem at hand is handing over IP addresses of a customer when they themselves are peddling a supposedly privacy-oriented service. The fact remains: it isn't fit-for-purpose, and these are non-solutions to real problems for anyone who isn't just LARPing a threat model.

Replace "French climate activist" with "dissenter in an oppressive regime" and that person would be dead.

Who cares if they later won in court? They still threw someone under the bus. Trusting a third-party business who is subject to the laws of where they operate means this will always be a problem, doesn't matter if they're an email provider or a VPN operator, the solutions aren't fit for purpose.
I am amazed that seemingly-American Redditors (and some other acquaintances I've made in real life) really know their medication brands.

I'm guessing it has a bit to do with pharmaceutical advertising targeted directly at consumers too.
One of the biggest problems is that users often neglect to use bookmarks. Consequently, as soon as they close your web app, it disappears. By using the "Install" feature, a bookmark is kept in a visible location, significantly improving the chances that users will launch your app again.

This is one of the primary reasons why many developers still prefer to publish in App Stores, despite the various obstacles and risks involved.

Mobile Safari also treats websites differently if users add them to their home screen. It doesn't aggressively remove local storage in these cases. However, I am not certain about Chrome's behavior in this regard.
that works only to females, for males the desired substance is 2cb.
2008 aka the Great Recession aka the housing crisis which nuked construction. (In reference to your desire to be an electrician or carpenter). :)
How do I learn problem solving skill in programming?
One of the biggest defects that I've is that I can't solve problems. Make a snake game? I've no idea how to proceed. Build a tic tac toe, I've no idea how to proceed. Build a arkanoid, I've no idea how to proceed. I read about them, I read the code, I still have no idea what is going on. I try to watch tutorial, I've no idea why are they doing it. I try to search stackoverflow, I don't understand why that solution works and how to develop that solution on your own.

Honestly, programming is unlearnable for me. How do I make it learnable?
(Another user) I've been trying to switch from Keeweb, and Vaultwarden is extremely keyboard-unfriendly in comparison. Perhaps the normal user only use it for auto-completing web forms using a browser extension, but I feel it's actively painful to use the web interface.
I don’t think we have any idea how bad it really is. I have anecdotes, but only Pharma companies have real numbers, they’ll never release them.

I was surprised at how many HN users happily talk about which SSRIs they are on.
No one seriously has this in their title.