skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But at that point, society would basically be full-on Cyberpunk. Screw suicide, form a gang of runners and start planning heists on manufacturing facilities and factories, lay traps for driverless truck shipments or hijack them electronically, etc. Hide in the margins, among the slums and tenements to which overpopulation and consolidation have relegated vast swarms of people. Heck, I've already gotten transdermal implants set and removed by people who maybe weren't, you know, licensed practitioners.

The moral rule of law is already out the window, and financial laws had already may as well not exist. The only practical compulsion that law has left is that many people can still have an acceptable life while complying with it. Enriching yourself by skimming the margins of those with enough capital to print money wouldn't exactly be immoral.

Automation of force, or something along those lines, would pretty much cinch it. I think plenty of people would decide it's time to have a chat with a local lathe/mill owner, stick a flamethrower on their quadcopter, and loot the few places where opulence still existed. Get away with a couple decent jobs, and you could pretend you were in that upper echelon of 'people with lots of money' all along.

Right now, if you're good at a trade like construction, welding, medicine, engineering, etc, you can probably find stable employment options and at least afford to exist. But when those people of practical means start to get systemically marginalized, I'll bet we'll see a huge resurgence of people trying modern versions of The Italian Job.
>I will bet that pH therapy won't be very effective, but it might lead to some other discovery.

just a note on what therapeutic impact pH therapy have in other situation - mice study on pH therapy (baking soda added to drinking water) for cancer shows at least 2 things - neutralizing tumor pH improves response to other therapies and when alone the pH therapy reduces and slows down metastases formation (at the level of chemotherapy drugs - check out the 2 times difference in survival at the end of 4 month experiment https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2834485/figure/... ).
Sure enough and they took it a bit farther with corporate surnames. Nice.
Any chance you have a source for that?

I'm legitimately curious, since I've never heard anything like that.
It's frankly appalling how people appear to be more concerned about who would take care of refugees more than the 10s of millions of human lives which would be ended in the event of war with DPRK.
China wants us a lot more than that puppet. China has uses for that puppet which why it exists, but if that puppet starts attacking the US it is safe to assume China will lead the war against them.
Me too. It's easy to say "it doesn't have the numbers" but without sharing those actual numbers and showing what portion they account for in the total it always leaves me wondering if it's truly as low as implied.

That said, it seems perfectly reasonable to me that interest in Solaris releases is rather low and that maintaining support for it is probably costing them more than the returns.
early death

So... what exactly does that mean? Before 50? Under 65? Any age lower than normal? Anything earlier than expected? Especially if injured or ill, for any reason? Otherwise healthy?

...risk

...heart attack

I don't know what these vague qualitative assessments indicate. Link between "risk" of heart attack and "low-fat" diet?
Latency to consensus and anonymity are common characteristics of most decentralized systems, but they don't have to be. Actually those are problems already for most if not all decentralized systems, and have many viable paths for solutions worked out (just not very popular yet).
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This article is a perfect fit for reading HN at lunch time.
Wasn't open source coined as a way to remove ideals from the discussion? This is why (as annoying as it gets sometimes) it's important to make the distinction between open source and free software. Free software has ideals.
But what can you do as an individual? I think that's what we're all struggling with.
Am I missing something or is there not a single link to the study in this article? Didn't see it anywhere on mobile.

After the title there isn't really any info about dietary fats but instead will read about how basically all this study may have found is that those doing "low fat diets" might end up eating really crappy carbs. I can't find the link to the study though so maybe they found something else..

I don't think people eating crappy carbs and drinking soda could really be considered "dieters" they seem more like "unhealthy eaters who happen to be eating low fat".

From the article:
"Those doing so tended to eat far too much stodgy food like bread, pasta and rice, the experts said, while missing out on vital nutrients.

Participants eating the highest levels of carbohydrates – particularly refined sugars found in fizzy drinks and processed meals – faced a 28 per cent higher risk of early death."

Also their suggestion goes on to say a good balance is 35% of calories from fat which I would say is still fairly 'low-fat' of a diet IMO but I guess that's pretty subjective and I'm not a dietician.
It reminds me of those stories from the 90s bubble, when companies would just add ".com" to their name to inflate their value.

Are Russians really curious enough about blockchains for this to be effective, or did Burger King's marketing team just decide a $10,000 bitcoin proof-of-concept is more effective than spending an equal amount on traditional advertising?
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While I'm no legal expert, I believe the crux of the issue is in this case the dealership had already signed over the title, meaning the had no legal right over the car. Bad on them for demanding a $200 fee to remove it which wasn't clear upfront (though the dealership never responded to the reporters so all we have is the one sided story)

That being said, I think you're referencing the more common cases where these devices are used to disable vehicles on lease to customers. In that case the lease holder is not the owner, so yeah tampering with someone else's car is probably not legal. atleast on the surface that seems reasonable, I wouldn't want someone messing with my vehicle.

I'll agree that leasing agreements are often predatory and there is confusion over who's vehicle it is, but if you want ownership you really need to have purchased the title.
Simple laziness theory dictates that one should open a window and use a mirror on a telescoping pole (aka "inspection mirror") to better see around the snowdrift, and make liberal use of your vehicle's horn as you make your somewhat-less-than-blind turn.

If you really want to cooperate, buy two, and sell one to your neighbor at cost.

I really hate, hate, hate shoveling snow.
Hi! We don't have formally announced plans to scale - though if you send me a message at becca@scripted.org I can chat with you more. I'm fairly well connected with other orgs nationally that I might be able to recommend to you, depending where you're located!

Some of the companies our volunteers work for have paid volunteering time included as part of employee benefits - however that amount of time is usually 1 day / month, which is less than the amount of time we ask people to volunteer (2x a week, for 1.5 hours each session). Most commonly, our volunteers employ some flex time and make up the hours they spend with us by either coming in to work earlier, or staying late. It does require manager / company support to get approval to do so, however!
Will you pay for the cost of designing a new architecture that contains such a switch when ME is responsible for many parts of the lifecycle?
I also ran FreeBSD for ZFS for a while. I ended switching and using ZFS on Linux and haven't had any issues, aside from a pool migration bug which the maintainers fixed very quickly: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs
Sigh... this article presents a false dichotomy: you either eat a high fat diet, or you mostly eat refined carbs.

Based on dozens of nutritionists I've talked to, focusing on macronutrients as the primary metric is not great. Personally, I look at these things before macros: is it plant-based, is it whole (not refined/processed).
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What happens when security vulnerabilities are patched in a supported version of MongoDB? Will Solaris users simply never get those patches? The blog doesn't say that I could see.
Just to be precise: Google and Facebook did not shut down their xmpp servers, they just disabled the ability to connect to them via xmpp clients, to make sure everyone uses their web clients, so they don't loose any data they could've collected otherwise...

The original Google Talk ifnrastructure is still up and running and clients can connect to it using a protocol derived from XMPP (basically a subset XMPP converted to protobuf) and use it to message devices (Android uses it push messaging, but technically you can also send messages directly between devices). It's not directly used for text messaging though.
It's a shame its product sucks so bad. I see compliments here, but every test I've done comes up terribly short. Perhaps the bar is set rather low because people are comparing it to Microsoft Word's built-in tools, which are so incompetent they're easy to improve upon. And I say this a linguist and lexicographer who has written three language-related books. Many copyeditors I know, too, find themselves having to clean up Grammarly's work when an author uses it on an MS to decrease the amount of work/money needed for a copyeditor.
While i sympathize, with a high risk of default you need to charge very high interest rates and markups. You cannot get around the economics with a Care Bear stare.
Huh? RFC 2822 describes in detail what a valid email address looks like. (There might be newer ones superseding it; that's the one that was current back when I looked into this topic.)

In practice, a lot of theoretically valid email addresses are rejected by implementations, e.g. my favorite:

"@"@example.com

What's true, of course, is that you should never rely on an email address being syntactically correct. You should only use it after having done a validation process that involves sending mail to that address.
There is nothing wrong with butter and cheese, unless you happen to be fat and are trying to eat fewer calories. The main thing to avoid in burgers are the buns.
Don't know why people think fat is bad in the first place. But then again I have been keto for ~2 years. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
1 - Which OEMs will be pushing consumers to buy, according to you.

2 - Right, this is something Treble will attempt to solve.

3 - Which is why Google is making it as easy as possible for them to do so, right down to actually pushing out the updates for them.
There's a difference between dietary and saturated fat.
I mean both Phi, and Itanics. Just look for them in places trading second hand server equipment
They use clojure as well (instead?).

https://tech.grammarly.com/blog/building-etl-pipelines-with-...

https://www.grammarly.com/jobs/engineering/software-engineer...
Good article. Definitely helped fill me in on this stuff, although I still have too many questions about how the underlying physics work to feel like I understand it.

This article contains the sentence, "A good predictor for whether you even slightly understood that last sentence is whether or not your mind just got blown hard." It blew my mind, but mostly because I'm just amazed that there are people who are capable of engineering this kind of chaos into something useful. Not sure if that's what he meant.

I would really like to get a handle on all this, but I'm thinking now that I would have to retire to do so.
Refreshingly honest.
> ... most of the recent innovations in Solaris's core technologies (DTrace, ZFS, Zones, etc) have all happened in illumos.

As a core Solaris dev at Oracle, I can tell you that's not true. I just can't prove it to you. :-(
They were also very aggressive with their youtube ads this year. For an extended amount of time this year every second ad I saw on YouTube was them (I live in Sweden).
Just because people have accepted something doesn't mean they deem it "acceptable".

When your choices are "use a service and be monitored" or "don't use the service", it can be quite limiting if you really need that service to, say, do your job and feed your family. Yes I know there are alternative services, but often they either 1) don't work well enough to really be a viable alternative and/or 2) don't provide any more confidence that they are not monitoring you also.

Of course all of this is made worse by the fact that the monitoring is mostly happening in the background, so it isn't "in your face" all of the time. I think most people who are aware of it have chosen to just ignore it as best they can, because there doesn't appear to be any practical way of avoiding it.
fwiw: https://www.xperthealth.org.uk/Home/News/ArtMID/454/ArticleI...

The usual pattern of research is for randomised controlled trials (RCTs) to be performed to confirm or deny trends identified in observational studies. In the case of SFAs however, there have already been a number of RCTs performed; and even a number of systematic reviews and meta-analyses pooling their outcomes (e.g. 6-11). This raises the immediate question, why are observational studies still being produced on the subject? It is notable that the evidence from these RCT’s and meta-analyses does not support the conclusions of the Harvard Group’s observational data. For example, a recent Cochrane review (the gold-standard of evidence) found that there was no statistical difference in all-cause or cardiovascular disease mortality in participants with higher SFA intake (12).
People want to carry around little location aware Internet connected computers studded with sensors and that run third party apps, and there is just no hope of securing these systems against all possible vectors for unauthorized snooping. There is no technical solution. Ultimately I think this can only be fixed with legislation.

If there is money to be made in invading peoples' privacy, it is going to happen unless there are regulations in place that make it costly by imposing fines.

Here's a simple starter idea: extend HIPAA type protection to the most sensitive forms of PII like location information, photos not explicitly shared, microphone data, and health sensor data. Sale or other release of this information without explicit per-sale or per-release user consent is illegal. Leaks or intentional distribution results in fines that start at $10,000 per incident.

Gather your users' locations and sell them? That'll be $10k per user per 24 hour period in which any location data points were leaked.

Microphone and camera data should be subject to further protections. It should be illegal to store such data for longer than what would be needed for legitimate algorithmic uses or to use such data for other than its explicitly intended purpose unless the user explicitly shares it. So something like Siri could leverage cloud compute to parse your verbal commands but it better throw that data away afterwords... leaks would be $10,000 per user per audio recording.

The only exemptions should be for things like IP addresses since this would require fundamental re-engineering of the entire Internet. These do reveal some location data but it's nowhere near as accurate (and hence intrusive) as device location data. There also are techno hacks like VPNs that can be used to obscure such data if a user wishes to do so.

Edit: as far as government snooping goes that also must be fixed at the legislative level. There are legitimate reasons for governments to conduct surveillance but these must be subject to strict regulation and oversight. It's the only way. Government agencies like NSA, CIA, and FBI (and their equivalents in other places) are well funded and very good and there is no hope of preventing them of leveraging the Internet for surveillance unless the legislative branch explicitly regulates their actions.

TL;DR: the only solution here is the rule of law. Techno-fixes won't work and are a cop-out to avoid confronting the dysfunction of our political system.
Well it definitely put the nail in the coffin of social media (except HN) for me. I was already creeped out after the Snowden revelations but hearing Schneier in person was like a smack to the face.

I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google in most cases, and I avoid Facebook (and particularly Messenger) unless absolutely necessary, and I have become much more conscious of my online activity.
Hm, I was half-expecting to see "by starting from 2500 users and managing 10% monthly growth" :)

But:

> By the time Grammarly transitioned to freemium, it was already profitable with millions of users—and could fund a freemium plan to drive even more new user acquisition.
And yet UK police don't tend to shoot people with knives.
Carbs get a bad rap these days, but provided most of your carbohydrates are complex, you really shouldn't be concerned. The trouble is with the lack of satiety response for foods high in simple sugars without mitigating factors (fruit juices, table sucrose, table syrups, and to a lesser extent honey). In addition, people differ genetically and this can affect optimal intake. For instance, I do well on a diet with lots of starchy carbohydrates, so my diet is based primarily on bread, steamed grain (rice, wheat, quinoa) and green vegetables (bok choy, spinach, broccoli), but I try to limit simple sugars.

There are fads of forsaking entire categories of macronutrient because this is the simplest thing to explain after counting calories.
$30/month is a lot, I agree with you there, but there is also the quarterly billing for $20/month, and the annual one for $12/month. I highly suspect that the monthly billing price is a decoy price to make the $20/month look cheaper.

Personally, I've been a premium user for more than a year now, and it has become an invaluable tool for me, especially as a non-native English speaker. $20/month is not too cheap, but I feel like it's worth it for the boost in professionalism that all my writing gets.
This isn't the most reputable source, but there are a lot of good points in here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLtQLDptI1g
I suspect "Bitcoin" here is a synecdoche for "cryptocurrency" in general. (in the manner of intrusion detection software flagging a Monero miner as a "Bitcoin miner".) Plenty you can still mine on a CPU/GPU ... particularly if it's not your electricity.
It looks better than most attempts I've seen, but there is an actual pedantically standards-compliant regex. I think it's somewhere on Stack Overflow, and its character count has five digits.
Good news: blockchain of the future will prevent disabling a car for the debt of a person outside the chain of title.

Bad news: This is the kind of smart contract I see blockchain handling well: locking people out of cars, houses, hotel rooms, over non-payment.

ed: heh. I have touched a sore spot, apparently.
I don't know about the game market in detail, but when I see people indie mobile games 80% of the time they're building for iOS, and saying they'll look at an Android port if the game does well.

Obviously if they built using Unity it should be a simpler port, but clearly not all of them do.
> If it's more profitable to mine $ARBITRARY_ALT_COIN than Bitcoin, then people would mine $ARBITRARY_ALT_COIN until the profitability equalized.

That's a reasonable theory but I don't think it holds.
Given that (1) $ARBITRARY_ALT_COIN aren't typically well-known, (2) setting up mining may require different hardware/software to enable computing this PoW, that pool, etc, (3) coins and pools have interesting reward & difficulty adjustment algorithms, some better designed to deter coin-hopping. On some coarse-enough scale the general claim of equalization is reasonable -- the differences will be minimized over time. But I have seen times when you could make 5-10% more by mining $ARBITRARY_ALT_COIN (and perhaps taking the altcoin to exchange for bitcoin).

> There's no need for that: https://github.com/jwhitehorn/jsMiner

shrug, seems like we're on a tangent. This thread was speculating about whether the claim of an ad-served-miner exists. The fact that a small JS miner exists for one PoW doesn't seem to rule out the original claim, nor does it rule out the possibility that a wasm/asm.js cgminer might exist.
90% of DOE’s political jobs are unfilled
...but won't tell us.

TL;DR, analysis of writings attributed to him/her/them, cross referenced with data from mass surveillance.
I use Kill Sticky for this: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
Sure, but the quote I extracted is from a cryptocurrency authority, not Burger King. I'm confused by the viability of this sort of loyalty program being on the blockchain in general.
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Even if you are fat there’s nothing wrong with butter and cheese. Especially if you are fat, IMO.
I would take the results of this with a grain of salt. Linking saturated fats and coronary heart disease is not as simple as we'd like it to be. The first reference this article lists in particular has many reasons to stay skeptical[1].

[1] http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i5796/rr-4
Do you have any examples of how terrible it can be?
Your body has minimum protein (and types of protein, AKA essential aminos) and fat (and types of fat, essential fatty acids) requirements, or you will die. And that is not a clickbait headline. So hitting those macros are vital even if you are focusing on whole foods
Source for that fact?
In C or C++ you should be able to use the stdlib `fma( )` function and have the compiler lower the call to the instruction, if it isn't completely out to lunch. No intrinsics should be necessary.

Alternatively, set `#pragma STDC FP_CONTRACT ON` and just write `x*y + z`.
This is a good point. And with all the big internet companies doing so much to "help" us by setting up complex AI filters to catch and filter hate speech, what they're effectively doing is shutting the door to competition. They're raising the bar to the point where there will be no new Facebook or Google. New companies won't be able to afford the CPU cycles or manual content reviewers.
No. Blockchain is an answer looking for a problem. We can't shoehorn it in everywhere for the sake of cool.

People need to stop this "blockchain for everything" crap.
Censorship is a valid concern, but I'm not sure what it has to do with on-line privacy.
As a non-Chinese, this seems... problematic to say the least. What if you don't have WeChat, or prefer not to use it? Are there standards-based alternatives offered? Off-line alternatives, maybe?
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Maybe fear isn't the right reaction. We have almost no privacy, and the world isn't ending. Many of us goto work or school, just as before we were so heavily surveiled.

Also, who makes money off us being afraid of not having privacy?
> None of this is illegal (except in this case obviously) but it still feels like something that should be illegal, amazes me we're so poor at going after what's obviously a predatory business practice.

Legality often has nothing to do with it. It's whether or not someone is willing to fight. In the US, it's a cumbersome process to fight something like this, so businesses routinely abuse the system.
I don't think anything in this article is real. It looks like an ad for a product.
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Or, y'know, they could charge money for it and not sell the private stuff because they are making money. Comply with HIPAA etc.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-reg...