skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The re:Invent serverless virtual hackathon begins NOW
Install NetGuard and see by yourself, it's terrifying. For eg the stock camera of my essential phone is sending data to Facebook without my consent
Your method of modifying human height is naive because it assumes that your genetic modification technique to increase height would need to modify or even know about height alleles. edit: We last talked October 2015, hi.
Airbnb poaches another Amazon exec to be its CFO
Why your F# evangelism isn't working (2015)
This may help? https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/1155
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You have to live to reproductive age for your genes to carry on. So a genetic difference that improves outcome for adults, but harms children won't be carried on as often (per other comments, this one may improve memory--in mice--but has negative effects related to resisting common diseases like the flu). On the other hand, genes related to cancer perpetuate because their impact often is felt after primary reproductive age (at least historical reproductive age, since we've started having children later in life over the last century).

Additionally, nothing has to be selected (evolutionarily speaking). It's a stochastic process. We could be one base-pair swap away from perpetual youth, and never see it because it just doesn't happen (or when it did happen they died from other circumstances before reproducing sufficiently to spread the genes wide enough to be useful).
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There is discretion in the application of almost all laws. The law is not computer code, it must be interpreted and applied.
Is there any point? It seems like you're convinced enough that nothing can ever change your mind. So I'm fine with just disagreeing and leaving it at that.
That's not how the law operates in basically any jurisdiction. If we allow discretion in punishment for things like murder, why not this? If you think discretion should be removed from all law then that could be a sensible argument, but it's a tough one to make and the GDPR is probably not the place to start with it.
Neatly ignoring the whole point of my posts, let me repeat -

"All of which is orthogonal to the point at hand - whether such things should enable such oversight. Stallman clearly feels they should."

And to repeat from my first post - "the sorts of privacy guarantee that are provided by things like monero are not what he wants."

Whether you feel he is right or wrong in that, Monero does not fit his requirements.
'[RFC2818] defines how HTTPS verifies the DoH server's identity.' that RFC is TLS over HTTP

How do you resolve the IP address of your DoH server? Is the answer to just use an IP address? In that case does it have a certificate for the IP addresses instead of for a FQDN?
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No Physics system?
How will we know if it "worked" ?
Thank you. I'm excited about the Android version too as a creator.
Arguments that are presented without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

It's not a slippery slope.
kiwi.com allows searching for time of stay, e. g. between 2-10 days, but not providing any exact dates.
Getform 2.0 – Easy form endpoints for web forms (40% discount for Cyber Monday)
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Topping my list: “Robot Builder’s Bonanza” 5th ed. by Gordon McComb and McGraw Hill, out worldwide in mid Dec https://www.amazon.com/Robot-Builders-Bonanza-Gordon-McComb/...
Would US government shutdown the internet? [pdf]
Whereas I agree with the sentiment, I find that nearly all subscription TV (Sky, etc) has 15 minutes of adverts an hour. These include the premium channels, such as Sky films and Sports. I don't see why anyone would pay £60 a month for these channels to play 8 hours of adverts each a day, and then complain about the TV licence cost of £150 a year.
Interesting home page https://thebeez.home.xs4all.nl/
Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup
I had no idea Stardew had been ported to Linux officially. Maybe it’s relatively trivial to do the porting as a framework feature, but still unexpected given Stardew being developed by one (initially) relatively inexperienced developer.
The whole training film on mechanical computers, for navy mechanics I believe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4

It illustrates the problems and solutions near perfectly, and I've watched it way too many times.
False in one thing, false in all things.

See I can do it too.
Progress spacecraft launch timelapse seen from space
Why not just compile "primitive" functions call to respective assembly code? (+ => "add")
Only 47% of federal revenue is from income taxes though. 34% is from regressive payroll taxes.

Taxes need to be way higher. Federal revenues this year barely cover mandatory spending.
as we march through 1C on our way to 4C or worse the central american and middle eastern refugee crises we have today will compound and grow. these fake lines on map abstractions will not hold, the only question is what the toll to humanity will be till we accept that.
Wasn't the US. It was the mexican officials
Bueno para que sepan oyo, ustedes, oyó, wilkaldoo es el mejor de todo el mundo POR SIEMPRE OYÓ SHUGALBERT
Personally I don't think it's the work/life balance that is different from 60 and 70 years ago the reason of loneliness.

I think it's the combination of the world getting smaller, via technology, and the rise of individualism the increased standard of living gives us.

From one hand, the too small world frightens us, it makes us want to shell ourselves from the big nasty world.

On the other hand, we think we are special and the others around us not worthy of us.

Greece has the exact same problem (which was made worse by the recent crisis), perhaps in different numbers, since family ties are strong here and people don't usually relocate to find work, but it's still a problem.
FTA:

> U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers stopped the migrants with a volley of canisters emitting large clouds of gas as U.S. and Mexican government helicopters clattered overhead.
Useful!
It's true that every niche and business is different.

Those search phrases I'm referring to, are probably too niche to make advertisement revenue from them. But if you sell a product, it definitely helps to be on top there, especially since people really search for what you have to offer. So in that sense they might not be listed among "popular keywords".

I don't use a backlink checker, and don't really do anything specific for SEO, except for the more general advice. I also don't have a few hundred blog posts, but just a few good ones.

This is just a guess, but google also tracks how long people stay on your page. Since I offer what they are looking for, they might stay longer and google lists me higher. I don't know, maybe I was just lucky. But it shows that it's definitely possible to rank high for your specific niche.

My sincere apologies for my snappy "he knows nothing about.", that was uncalled for. You seem to know what you're talking about, only from a different perspective than me.
You are an expert in your field of medicine. You are much better at making predictions from data in it than lay people and you are vastly better at effecting changes in your domain of expertise than laymen. That’s real expertise, like engineers, meteorologists, astronomers, microeconomists, or engineers have. Then there are people who are experts on talking about something but have no expertise in doing. Art historians are quite close to astronomers here in that they can be very good at out of sample tests and prediction but have limited ability to do things because their field doesn’t call upon them to do more than render accurate judgments. Then there are people who master a body of lore, who are called upon to discuss things. Ethicists are in this group, like priests, pastors or imams.

Ethicists are experts in talking about ethics. They have no special expertise in acting ethically, compared to other philosophers[1].

Ethicists have expertise in what amounts to a body of administrative law, like rabbis, imams or canon lawyers.

And we have strong evidence of actual harm caused by them. If bioethicists can’t get their shit together enough to defend compensated kidney or gamete donation they aren’t even broadly neutral. There are people being paid to argue against saving lives, and against helping to bring into the world new lives that are actively wanted. There are ethicists who argue that poor people can’t really consent because the offer of some good to sufficiently poor person qualifies as duress.

The Nuremberg Code is good. The system of IRBs and bioethicists built up around it is not just bad, it’s genuinely awful.

[1]The moral behavior of ethics professors: Relationships among self-reported behavior, expressed normative attitude, and directly observed behavior
Eric Schwitzgebel & Joshua Rust

https://philpapers.org/rec/SCHTMB-4
Would have been cool to see some $ numbers in savings from the before and after implementation
I remember that 199X trend, where you would re-create an FBI warning: orange tape, gif of a spinning warning light, etc. Expect this to be the same era joke.
I relate to this so much. I work in one of those regulated areas (finance).

Your comment has given me a new perspective on what I consider a developer hostile environment.
HTTP/3 explained – The book
You’r amazing ️
Allowing groups of a certain size of players to drag griefers into prison cells could solve the problem. I agree that that's some kind of violence, but it doesn't necessitate violence in the PvP sense.
clickable:

http://wiki.c2.com/?AttributeBasedArchitecturalStyles
Possibly an effort keep you from scamming people by changing bank contact info?
> In a better compiler, we would not make plus a built-in function. We'd emit code for the assembly instruction ADD. However, making plus a function makes code generation simpler and also allows us to see what function calls look like.

:)
Because a dollar is not always worth a dollar. A bitcoin is always worth a bitcoin.

The dollar doesn't have a "reference rate," as it is subject to arbitrary inflation. The dollar has had several reference rates in the past, based on weight in silver, and later, gold. The purchasing power of a dollar has declined rapidly since these reference rates were abandoned.

A bitcoin has a reference rate which is eventually 1 in 21M. There is an initial inflationary period until it reaches that, but we're already 1 in ~18M, so most of the inflation has already occurred. We will be very close to the 21M in another 13 years, and after that we will only be adding small fractions.

If you had a dollar in 1918, it would be worth only a small fraction of a dollar today. 1/16 or 1/40, depending on what estimations you use.

If past performance is anything to go off, then a dollar in 2118 will be worth 1/16th of a dollar today. If you hold onto 16 dollars today, they will have the purchasing power of 1 dollar in 2118.

On the other hand, if you hold 16 bitcoin today, you have 16 of 18M of the bitcoin supply. In 2118, you will have 16 of the ~21M total supply.

In the same 100 years, bitcoin will inflate by most 16%. The dollar will inflate by 160% in the same period, if the past century is anything to go off (it isn't, this century will be much much worse).

Or put it in to shorter timeframe. If inflation is approximately linear over the 100 years, then every 6 1/4 years, your bitcoin will lose 1% of its purchasing power. In the same timescale, your dollar will lose 10%.

Which of these are you going to save money with?

The above is based on the assumption that demand for bitcoin will not increase in relation to demand for the dollar. Given Gresham's Law, this is highly unlikely.
Either you misread that last sentence or I don't understand what you mean.

Capitalism is making sure that good isn't distributed evenly or fairly.
We expect Google to ensure that businesses are who they say they are.
The pictures they took are on the Mexican side of the border 200+ yards away from the border fence. Look at google maps in the area and you'll see how far away from the US border it is.

Enjoy downvoters https://i.imgur.com/T5A2OFm.jpg
The table breaks the mobile responsiveness of the site, on my Android phone
> incredibly bloated

This would actually be preferable to how DNA seems to evolve. In most systems, there's actually quite an acute constraint to genome length due to the Error Threshold; when a genome gets too large, it has too many mutations and therefore the 'fittest' genome, often called the 'master' genome, cannot be sustained in the population. Therefore, there's quite a lot of evolution where the genome becomes essentially minified. Most often, this is done by overlapping genes on the DNA, (mostly by shifting the reading frame by one or two nucleotides for one of the two genes).
Rather "and do the same" than "fall behind".

We are taking the Chinese route for surveillance, data, AI. It's going to be the same for genetics. Maybe even faster because people don't want to be spied on but want to have stronger/resistant/smarter children, especially when they'll see other people getting those advantages.
Hacker infected 2000 users with DarkComet RAT and his computer as a C&C server
I think this is content that does not really fit on HN.

From an european perspective I can understand why you want to lower immigration since all you have to do is look at Germany, Sweden, France etc and anyone can see that it doesn't work well.
Thank you very much. Indonesian and other few languages were initially listed in the app but I decided to remove them to avoid confusing users as I couldn't build all features for them . But I will definitely add more languages as time goes.
Unprivileged OCI image builds on Kubernetes
One issue with cryptocurrencies that pretty much everyone has a vested interest and you can't separate out the bullshit.

And it's not just vested interest though, there's vested delusion. If you read enough comments on /r/bitcoin, for example, you'll find people who seriously think their 0.001 BTC will buy them a Lambo one day. Completely rational people must have trouble resisting the temptation of just quick-plugging their pet cryptocurrency here and there because they own some and they're super enthusiastic.

And, on the other side, there are people who overreact to that, unable to separate the community from the tech when they are just talking about the tech. But I also think a lot of people dump on it because they are bitter that they missed out. I think the latter group explains more than we realize. Read patio11's bitcoin rants on twitter and tell me you don't see a flare of that.

It all creates a scenario where it's hard to really trust what anyone says about anything.
Maybe https://adioso.com is close to what you want. I found it recently but I have not tried it yet
Thanks for the heads up, we'll update the links now.
I'd be very interested in this to pass on to my wife - she's been playing this game for a long time now. My e-mail's in my profile.
FWIW, there are a number of avy forecasting groups in the western US (e.g., utah, colorado, NWAC in Washington state,...), and they may be interested in this, you should reach out to them. Also, IIRC, University of Utah has an avi forecasting program.
I realize that any sort of argument here will be taken as being bitter and/or further "trolling", but I would genuinely love to discuss what part of my post is offensive (besides the obvious strong language, which I agree was inappropriate).

Surgery is a huge deal that can ruin someone's life. Doubly so for elective surgery. Downplaying this aspect is downright harmful. This isn't hate of any sort, this is awareness of reality and concern for people's well being.

It's a strange world when warning someone how much harm surgery can do is considered inflammatory.
In case it's unclear, the "one-off purchase equivalents" to Netflix and Spotify to which the parent refers are iTunes, Amazon, etc.
> Github ... owns the UI that they've built on top of it

That's the problem though. In principal, if they only use pure-git operations in the process, it would be easy to move at any point. But if they leverage the entire Github platform, i.e. PR discussion, issue tracking etc, then important parts of the legal history will be bound to the github platform.

And that's not great. Github is free for public projects for now, but as with any publicly traded tech company, they're able to change the terms of use of their product at any time to suit the needs of the company.

When we're talking about enshrining the laws of society, we're talking about a very long-term proposition. Technology companies pivot and or kill products all the time. What if we decided to record legislative history on Google Flow?
I wouldn't think this as an "either / or" approach: in my experience, a sales pitch and a deck are very rarely the deciding factor in closing a sale, however they can help tremendously.

The key aspect here is that a pitch like the one described is usually made to very senior people in an organization, who have little time and mental bandwidth to endure through a list of facts and figures and shudder product features: getting them invested in the result that would come from adopting the product/service is the ultimate goal, not closing the sale at that stage. You still need to do all of the good (i.e. fact-based) salesman work, but that is done at a different time: either ahead of the executive presentation (in which if you did things right you may have the buyer on your side in making a case for using your product/service), or as a consequence of it.

To me what's interesting is not the deck itself, but the focus shown by the company on sticking to their marketing points and on enabling their salespeople to do their job more effectively (you have no idea how many times I have had to figure out on my own what to answer to a prospect that was asking "what makes your company/product/service different from any of your competitors?"...).
And I thought for sure it was going to be a glow in the dark baby.
How to find MH370?
You use a name by default, and if you want to bypass resolution with a system DNS, you hardcode it's IP alongside the name. For example, in firefox:

network.trr.bootstrapAddress - (default: none) by setting this field to the IP address of the host name used in "network.trr.uri", you can bypass using the system native resolver for it. This avoids that initial (native) name resolve for the host name mentioned in the network.trr.uri pref.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/06/03/inside-firefoxs-doh-e...
Shareholder Voting: Trends and Statistics on the 2015-2018 Proxy Season
GoGo Grandma: Elder ridesharing
Tech companies blamed for 20 years of falling wages in Silicon Valley
Were they even using phones 111 years ago?
Fiduciary Breaches in Connection with the Sale of a Company
Precisely. I used to work at a “have to wear a tie” place. Guess how often that tie came out of my messenger bag. “Hey, that big client is coming today...”

Looking at old pictures is not a reliable way to suss the day-to-day of “the old days”, any more than looking at your Facebook pictures indicates how much you drink/eat/rock climb.
Do Private Equity Funds Manipulate Reported Returns?
Like software development the best approach is to learn a concept at a time and then put them together into something bigger. Start off just with an Arduino and some basic LEDs and switches - that'll teach you the basics of connecting things together (if you're really at the beginning don't even involve an Arduino, just get do it all on a breadboard). Once you're comfortable with that maybe add some more exotic inputs and outputs, like light sensors and motors. After that maybe replace your Arduino with an ESP32 which will give you wifi and bluetooth to interact with your system.

Once you've spent a while doing that you should be in a good place to start on more complex projects - there are a few robot kits designed to have a Raspberry Pi mounted on them to make them programmable, or maybe look at ESPHomelib[1] to do some home automation.

[1] https://esphomelib.com/
Yes, at the core of the problem is how we measure good science. If you want to try to crack that nut I absolutely salute you. Improvements here could pay massive positive dividends for society as a whole. Meta[1], which was bought by Chan Zuckerberg[2], is sort of trying to do this (in addition to trying to tackle better discovery of the literature) by using an AI model to try to identify important research trends earlier in the process.

[1] https://meta.org/
[2] https://www.chanzuckerberg.com/science
There's adapters for most of these - is that what you meant? Or does it need to be an IoT internet-connected smart adapter?
You can sign and run apps on your own device for free now. You no longer have to pay $99.
Russia launches civil case against Google over non-removal of search results
Easiest way is to do it on the client. The client has the plaintext password anyway.
When it happened it broke websites' functionality (ie, it'd pop up in the Steam store browser and I'd be unable to close the pop-up within and have to start over). I even had it pop up between me and my bank website's non-HTTPS front page.

They may have desired to notify me of things but it's obvious what would happen. Those who implemented this system were not ignorant. They were malicious. Those above them telling them to do so may have been just ignorant or stupid.

These days I tunnel everything through one of my remote VPS.
Nvidia’s Clara health care platform and medical imaging SDKs
Most here are totally for wealth redistribution so long as it suites their needs. They don't understand how subsidies distort the market and lead to consolidation of power by the few, which in turn drives down wages for the many. It seems most would prefer to be wrong than change their perspective and view themselves as a hypocrite.
Why do airlines allow unpaid reservations? That seems ripe for Denial of Service attack on their booking plans.
> In that case does it have a certificate for the IP addresses instead of for a FQDN?

It can be both: If you look at https://1.1.1.1/, the certificate is issued for *.cloudflare-dns.com, but it also contains the alternative names 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1.
There's still no stable support for my thinkpads fingerprint sensor on a current fedora/ubuntu. Last time I checked, neither supported the built-in WWAN modem in my thinkpad, either. And I'm not even using any really exotic hardware and the T460s model isn't exactly brand new either.

Windows support works perfectly well for both pieces of hardware.
1st anthropologist to visit says Sentinelese aren't hostile (interview excerpt)
I assume the price is probably too high, but for $50/month you can essentially get access to a Netflix for articles, called DeepDyve[1]. It's certainly not complete in that they don't have agreements with every publisher on the planet, but there's a lot of content on there.

[1] https://www.deepdyve.com/