skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its more nuanced than you put it with physical keys.

Consider for a moment the baklava [1]. A baklava increases anonymity of an attacker (ie. burglar in our discussion), but also increases suspiciousness of victims and 3rd parties (ie. innocent bystanders, witnesses).

Physical burglary has many of these nuances, trade-offs.

A key on a front door is meant to keep an attacker out for as long as they get caught and/or identified, or become afraid they get caught and/or identified. It isn't meant to stop an attacker to enter a house. If an attacker wants to enter your house, they can just break in via a window. Various techniques exist for that, some are noisy, others are more sophisticated and aren't noisy.

Someone who's trying to enter via a window by night though is suspicious which means the attacker might be noticed and get caught. Most normal house keys [at least here in NL] are very cheap and have a lot of vulnerabilities, they have weak entropy (e.g. 6 entries with 6 options each), or are vulnerable via lock bumping (takes max 10 sec to enter and doesn't look very suspicious).

With electronic devices, its more binary, but it depends a lot on whom you're defending against. Petty criminals, technical criminals, or state actors.

> This is in contrast to passwords and pincodes, which can be stolen by eyeballs, cameras, audio recording devices, etc.

Yes, passwords can be stolen by eyeballs and cameras and Van Eck phreaking (TEMPEST). However if combined with TOTP it becomes something you have and something you know. Facial recognition is just a form of something you have, and the key cannot be changed.

They key can be put off, but that is not more secure than having TOTP on your watch (with yes/no button) and being able to disable the authentication method on your phone by pressing the power button 5 times.

Liveness is just obscurity. Its gonna be insecure at some point, and you'll be begging Apple for a newer, more secure solution at that point. Pray they still support your advice by then.

[1] Yes, thank you, balaclava (bivakmuts in my primary language). I have difficulty pronouncing and remembering the word. I'll keep it as-is for readability of the discussion, and for admitting my mistake.
Yea, the driver situation around the binary protocol isn't ideal :(. A bunch of the newer drivers have it, but a lot of the old stuff doesn't. Especially things like transferring some columns in binary, others not, isn't supported enough - even though it's pretty crucial.
I know right? There is a video on veritasium on how absurd this is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iphcyNWFD10
> Paste: Cmd + Alt + V

Huh. I know I googled this before and I just remember people saying that `cut` was jut not part of the mac philosophy. Thanks.
I'm going to get all spacey here, but if it crashes and creates nothing, is that nothing itself art?

Or is the coder and the computer working together in the plan to create auto-generated art, actually the work of art.

I think with art it's very abstract, with code it's a little fuzzy too. The creation of the AI is what's novel to me, that's the smart thing.

It's like creating a process of producing the end result which is the code,text etc. The output is the output of the AI. The person who owns the process most likely owns the output.

Right no the process and code to the AI is yours. If you decide to license someone else to use the process and build on it. Then I guess they own the output, but that's something that would be negotiated.

I really don't know, I'm just thinking out loud.

We may need a lawyer, a philosopher and an ethicist to thrash this out to get a real answer.
Given how badly they fk'd up Haiti I'm not so sure I'd help them...
Great to see this continuing to make headlines. Given that food science seems like a relatively small field, and Dr. Wansink one of its few giants, it seemed like this was going to be a niche scandal that died down over time from apathy, despite the massive pattern of glaring errors, which are apparent even without access to the original data. I wonder how noticeable this scandal would still be had it not involved government funding.

One of the more amazing things about it was how it started with Dr. Wansink writing a personal blog post [1] that was meant to advise and inspire struggling students on how to get their PhDs. His message was basically "never say no" to doing extra work, and he described a student who worked hard to produce 5 peer-reviewed papers using the data from a previous "self-funded, failed" study. Wansink would still be venerated today if he hadn't decided to blog that day.

[1] http://archive.is/cPxmm
It's the same frequency that we hear when we turn the LIGO gravitational wave into a sound wave (frequency wouldn't change with distance, right?), so presumably maybe it would sound just like that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyDcTbR-kEA

If you turn it up real loud and press your hand against your speaker maybe it would be some idea of what it would feel like.
A better answer is hiding in your posts. It's that: We believe that humans, even criminals, have dignity and should be treated decently despite their wrongdoings. The argument, then, is that we could extend that "deserving of decent treatment" to animals.

It doesn't need a billionaire to make this happen (which is why you're confusing me), it just needs culture to change.
Build tools can always be replaced. Look at autotools, cmake, scons, etc.
Apple wants this to work in total darkness. So color wouldn’t work. Do we know if they’re projecting IR light (besides the dot pattern) that they could use to look for blood vessels?
I find it so interesting that many people are concerned about AI "waking up" and taking over, which I don't believe can ever happen, but are blissfully unworried about this much more serious and immediate danger: that we ourselves will choose to put machines in control of things they cannot possibly understand. It is the kind of thinking reflected here -- remarkably romantic and naïve for a self-styled "skeptic" -- that exposes us to this danger.

"It might not be such a bad thing if we went extinct" and ceded the world to our machines? For all his classy, educated-sounding British accent, this man is a nutcase.
> Yes it's hard to say someone is sane, and also rare.

> No. It's literally the exact same evaluation. The reason it feels easier is because the stakes seem lower. Lock someone in prison or hospital? Big deal? When releasing, it's a risk assessment too. But the evaluation is exactly the same.

You said I was wrong, and then wrote text that supported my comment.

It doesn't matter if the evaluation is the same. The state of sanity differs from the state of insanity, yet not showing insanity is different from showing sanity. There are true-positives, true-negatives, false-positives, and false-negatives.
> Finally, this photo of Brian Wansink does not favor the hypothesis "rigorous scientist" over scam artist:

Ironically, as you attempt to takedown a biased scientist, your own biases are showing.
Yes, it makes it easier to find solutions to possible problems you might have. We can call it Googlability maybe?!
We talk about this in the episode! :)
I think it's due to relative power of the consumers. In most medical and dental situations the consumer does not have a lot of power compared to the providers. A government-lead system can drive down to the cost of providing, eliminating the profit consideration.

In New Zealand dental work is almost entirely private, there's no government backup for most people (there's an exception for basic work for those on low income).

On the other hand dental insurance is almost unheard of so clinics can't ask for too much. Last time I had a checkup, 2 xrays and a clean and polish it came to NZ$160 and that wasn't at a cheap practice. Also removal of two upper wisdom teeth was NZ$2500 including sedation.

It's been noted above that NZ doesn't require malpractice insurance due to the presence of ACC so this probably has a material impact on the prices.
In some cases, however, ignorance on the part of the engineers (especially those with any say in the architecture of the application) of the users' needs can seriously damage the user experience for the life of the design.

I face numerous examples in the sports-ticketing world all the time. For example, if you are going to a football game, what is the most important consideration to a fan? I say the most common priorities are:

1) nearness to midfield ("What yardline are my seats nearest?")

2) sun exposure ("Will I be baking in the sun all day? Do I need sunscreen? Will I be looking into the sun when trying to watch play on the field for a portion of the game?")

3) home vs. visitor side

4) elevation ("Am I low enough to see the players? Am I high enough to not be obscured by bench and media personnel?")

If you're designing the site/app and you've never been to a (an American) football game, you won't know these criteria are important.
As I mentioned above (in another subthread), thanks for the link!
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Expand that to social science in general and you've got a deal
Keep in mind that the log n factor of a B+tree is generally very low; B+tree branching factors are typically in the 100s. Also, the first few levels are generally kept in cache, so you'll only have to hit disk for inner nodes past 100 million entries or so.

Finally, hash indexes always require that the found row be confirmed in the data table, even for simple existence queries, since the keys themselves aren't stored in the hash table. (This is why hash indexes can't be UNIQUE.) B+trees can often answer such queries without the extra lookup (an "index-only scan"). If your B+tree is so large that its inner nodes spill onto disk (necessitating a 2nd disk seek), chances are the equivalent hash index will as well, which, combined with the consult of the data table, kind of negates the benefit.
This really lacks the concise magic of the C obfuscated/underhanded contests, its a lot easier to hide crazy behaviour amongst one of dozens of files and library imports...
Animals aren't totally different than us. We share a lot of similarities biologically, and even in our brain structures. It's safe to assume that herd animals need a decent amount of space to roam around, and that crowding is stressful and possibly causes mental illnesses.

This is even more true of animals like pigs. Imagine dogs living their lives out in kennels. Also consider the change in behavior in zoo animals when their habitats are redesigned to more closely resemble their native habitats.
There are a lot of players in this space.
Okay. I was wondering if you thought the labelling would turn people off. (America has a lot of random fear-of-science. See: anti-GMOs, anti-vaccine, anti-evolution sentiments.) Or maybe that it would be that people wouldn't actually be able to reocognize what cut of meat it was from, and it would be some kind of uncanny valley problem. Or a kind of macho attitude like "if a pig didn't die, it doesn't count as breakfast". (I've seriously heard a guy say that!)

Yeah, if you're only concerned about taste/texture/juiciness, I think that's the easiest concern. lab grown meat is still the same muscle cells. I would bet a lot of money that it's going to taste awesome.
> The FAA has a reputation for making change at a snail’s pace even when problems are clearly identified: The agency, for example, still doesn’t put a photo of the pilot on airman’s licenses 13 years after Congress called for it.

Yeah, well, but you have to carry a valid photo ID with your pilot's license when you fly, so what's the big deal? (somebody with the same name and birth date and size could fly with your license?)
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> Sure, they favor high-quality consumer goods—but they deliberate on what to buy for years, and expect their possessions to last for decades.

This. The US was similar in this aspect until major retail manufacturers started outsourcing everything to China. I remember reading elsewhere on HN a while back, how Sears Washing Machines, Refridgerators and other house hold appliances would last for decades, then, somewhere along the 70s or 80s, they (and several other major home appliance retailers) switched to manufacturing in China on the cheap and did away with repairing stuff. That just forces you to toss your old appliance and buy a new one every 7 to 10 years when they fall apart.
The GP said increased variety, not increased numbers.
Fair enough; that's a weak point and there's so much better evidence. I'll remove it.
I'm curious but not 3 hours and 16 minutes curious.
It did happen in the US. It was in Maine, which is where I retired to. I'd be more specific but Tom deserves his privacy.
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No ethernet, no optical out, no usb, dang this really limits my options from how I am using my gen 1 fire tv. Wifi isn't great inside my gear cabinet so hardwired makes sure I can push 1080p reliably, and the optical out I use for wireless headphones.

It looks like they're now selling an ethernet dongle compatible with the new fire tv box...that has itself become a dongle. I think I may have been dongle Incepted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Gqf7jQvZg
> Black holes produce gravitational waves but not light.

Is this correct? I thought that it would produce a lot of light, but the light is more easily absorbed by interstellar gas and dust, so it's more difficult to see it.

Perhaps not the black holes doesn't emit light directly, but the surrounding gas will be extremely hot.

And when the two event horizons collide, the virtual particles should be very confused and scape in huge numbers, in a process like the Hawking radiation, but much bigger.????? I'm far from being an expert in this, so this is only a conjecture and unsupported handwaving. But I would be very surprised to confirm that the event has no emission of light.
I don't think most people really care about animals suffering, or not. However, most people do care about themselves and their children.

Long to short, factor farming generates a lot of ground level pollution. Furthermore, those animals also generate a lot of greenhouse gases. Frame the problem in terms of human suffering and more people are likely to pay attention.

Years ago there was a NY Times Sunday magazine feature article on factor pig farming. It was enlightening. Unfortunately, I've searched for it and can't seem to find it. If you can find, do read it.

p.s. Growing crops to be fed to farm animals is also very inefficient. More people would have more food if we all ate less animal protein.
Chickens peck at themselves when caged and cows get stuck on fences trying to retrieve their calves when the calves are separated from them. It's not that difficult to see the suffering in factory-farmed animals.
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Wow, thanks for sharing. Agree with your friends, it's pretty good!

Managed to find an episode that Castro and Overcast search never seemed to find. Bookmarked.
I suggest anyone who hasn't already visited add Germany to their future itineraries. Did a 2-week trip there almost exactly a year ago and it was quite eye-opening, everything from being able to bike anywhere in Munich, to seeing how well everything is maintained, to how courteous (and active) the people are, and even visiting a concentration camp to get a sense that even a good people can fall into depravity (which Germans are keenly aware of). (I went to Munich and Berlin and a few other beautiful cities like Heidelberg. All were incredible.) And everyone under the age of about 55 or so speaks fluent English! (but German is kinda fun, if you're inclined to pick up some)

Also, having some Leberkäse on a pretzel roll with a bit of mustard and a German beer while outside watching people pass by on the town square on a sunny 72 degree (sorry, "22 Grad") day, is just about the most satisfying lunch I've ever had in my life.
> why were they capable and trustworthy when locking someone up then?

1) The person would have been locked up whether found sane or insane. The only different was location.

2) You are admitting facts not in evidence, when you assume that the doctors were capable and trustworthy when determining the insanity. There is science and there is Science.
> a rapid response trigger for the detection events, where within minutes they will stop their current operations

Is that a large enough margin? What would be typical delay between noticing gravitational wave event and seeing the related EM waves?
My job is to manage the open source process for Oath (which is essentially Yahoo + AOL). That includes helping ensure we can publish code like this and the hundreds of other projects we publish too. I'm the one who cares about open source licenses, patent clauses, github permissions, etc. Many large tech companies have someone in a comparable role and some of us work together in the todogroup to help manage the way we do opensource. I'm beginning to meet the people in Verizon who do the same. I hope their open source legacy grows too. Heck I celebrate when Google, Amazon, and Comcast publish great code too. It's good for us all. But Vespa is a real treat. It's really really special to Yahoo and we are very hopeful that the Big Data community sees how many things they can do with this, at scale, the way we have.
I'm not sure I'm convinced that's happiness. I jump like that when I need to pee.
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My question I guess is this:

Does unregulated Capitalism have the mechanisms to abolish such things with time? If there remain even 10% of meat eaters who want to pay $1 for a hamburger, who can stop the factory farms??

The only thing I can think of is a billionaire buying all the animals the way slaves were redeemed for money in some countries. After that no competing farms could start because they wouldn't have the animals to start with.
Why black hole merges happen so frequently? We just started registering them and got three events already...

Mass of Universe is estimated to be of 6e51kg.
Mass of Sun is 1e25kg. This event is about 50 Sun masses.
So that one event is about morphing 1e-26 part of Universe.
I suspect that matter collapsing into black holes happens significantly more frequently than that. Do we have enough non-black-hole matter available for our (humanity) life time?

Yet worth to mention that black holes "return" mass by not only Hawking–Zel'dovich radiation but also by such events - this particular merge emitted 3 solar masses as energy.
Pushing the guard turned it into robbery, a felony. The DA was willing to be lenient and give him 30 days with a partially suspended sentence and probation.
Any project made up of hundreds of repos has bad areas which you can cherrypick if you want to bad-mouth, especially whilst still it's very actively in dev. For instance, conversely on iOS we have four different local store API implementations[1] ranging from in-memory, flatfile (via NSKeyedArchiver), CoreData and Realm. The equivalent work just hasn't yet happened on Android; PRs welcome.

Once again, why not invest your time in doing something more productive than spreading FUD about Matrix?

[1] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-ios-sdk/tree/master/Mat... and https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-ios-sdk/tree/master/Mat...
RSA sells a very nice hardware device that will tokenize credit cards such that it's safe to store the tokenized value _AND_ you can detokenize it in order to charge (or refund) the card.
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Haha that’s fair.

You’re right - it’s tough not to get angry about it given that I can’t individually do much about it.

Laughter is the best medicine (or distraction).
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Thanks! I can't read it in chrome with JS disabled, but I can read the first box if I go into dev tools. Then I can scroll when the mouse is over the text box.
I don't know about other meat lovers, but yours truly can't wait for lab-grown meat to be a thing so he can finally stop killing animals for food.
It's possibly more interesting to think in terms of $\nabla_\mu T^{\mu\nu} = 0$ which is the generalized conservation of stress-energy-momentum, and to think in terms of energy-momentum entering and exiting regions of spacetime. The gravitational radiation carries momentum out of a (comfortably flat-ish at the boundary) region of spacetime tightly enclosing the inspirallers and merger, and delivers momentum elsewhere in the inspiraller's forward light cone.

In an otherwise expanding vacuum solution, the radiated momentum just propagates to future null infinity. Since we have other matter in our universe, the gravitational radiation can donate some of the original momentum to matter outside our chosen region, causing bits of matter along a lightlike path to move a small amount (or if you want to switch to an energy picture, ordinary matter outside our chosen region will become a tiny bit hotter upon feeling the gravitational radiation).

Although the amount of stress-energy-momentum radiated out of our region comprising the inspirallers is enormous (and at peak is so brief that the power is almost unimaginably enormous), the coupling of gravitational radiation to matter is extremely weak, so there will be very little scattering or absorption by matter outside the region. Consequently, most of the momentum crossing to the outside of our Schwarzschild-like boundary around the merger will still go to future null infinity.

It's this weak coupling that leads to your intuition about a human having to be very close to the merger itself in order to feel anything noticeable from the gravitational radiation.

By comparison one would expect balding to happen so that we recover a no-hair state from the merged BH, and there are decent reasons to expect more than gravitational radiation to be shed during balding. Additionally the individual BHs may have a lot of energetic particles entrained around them, and much of that will be moving on geodesics conducive to extremely high energy interactions (think of a pair of BHs whose rotational axes are parallel but with each BH dragging its accretion disc in the opposite CW/CCW direction, and we can add in extreme inverse Compton scattering just prior to contact as the photon rings around each BH interact relativistically with charged particles around the other). And of course this picture is likely to be much more dramatic in the case of an NS-BH merger.

Another way of thinking about this is that the build-up of momentum due to gravitational interactions is typically slow (and steady) but may have no upper limit, and that's the source of danger rather than a quick (and briefly high amplitude) gravitational interaction that doesn't take away more than a few percent of the built-up momentum of the matter at and near the source of the burst of gravitational radiation.

A human being close enough to the merger to feel the effects of gravitational radiation is thus likely to be feeling an awful lot more from excitations in the non-gravitational fields, or alternatively, the nearby human being is at risk of collision with ultrarelativistic (i.e., ultra-high-momentum) matter.
I'm a bit out of the loop on amateur radio these days, but if I remember correctly there was a mass exodus from volunteer radio operators from the American Red Cross to the Salvation Army over the background check issue. Volunteers that were bringing thousands of dollars of their own equipment to help saw it as very unnecessary and insulting. I'm a bit surprised to see they're still requiring the background checks...

edit: I'm also a bit surprised they're requiring a General Class license. That cuts out a huge number of potential volunteers. Are they really using the other frequencies that opens up enough that it's a requirement? Possibly that is a reasonable requirement, but I've helped with disaster recovery simulations, etc. and my Technican Class license was just fine.