skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. But I don't see any obvious reason why it should be so large that, even doing it every day, that adds up to notable risk.

That depends very heavily on the numbers, and I've never heard any public health professional even suggest that the risk rises to the level of "you need a good reason to justify doing it at all". Whenever I hear of a downside to having blood drawn, it's always in the context of "oh you might get results with false positives" or unnecessary physical cost. Never "zomg you could get infected if you keep it up". If anything, I've heard that it's healthy to have blood drawn regularly.

Heck, even the (healthline) link you gave -- which specifically exists to enumerate downsides, says nothing about infection, just very acute stuff and the physical costs I mentioned above.

Everything has risk; that doesn't mean everything has risk that is significant; that question depends crucially on the numbers involved, and all heuristics show this isn't a significant one. (Seems roughly on the level of "staying safe by taking 4 rather than 20 flights a year.")

In any case, it still seems irrelevant to the use-case in question, with regards to "evil Peter Thiel is compromising the blood supply".

- Thiel finds and screens a healthy person who likely wasn't already donating blood.

- Thiel pays out the nose for proper extraction protocols.

- Thiel's candidate's blood doesn't enter the blood supply.

How does that translate into someone not getting a blood transfusion because of lacking supplies? How does that translate into more infections?
That actually sounds fantastic. Cleanliness, equality, shameless nudity, and a little compassion. What great qualities to instill into people.
There was a made for TV movie about this in the late 80’s...it was one of the things that first got me interested in aviation. Wish I could find the name of that movie - any help?
A data science consultancy I used to work at did box office predictions for a major movie studio, and the fanciest techniques you could dream up gave only a slight lift over the https://www.hsx.com/ prediction market, which provided the overwhelming majority of the model's predictive power.
100% agree. People dont always make the right decisions, you may be dealing with a fish out of water in a job they chose, but dont belong in. People make mistakes. We all do, thats how we learn. Excellent comment.
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You almost couldn't have picked two worse examples. Italy, for most of its history was divided into regions or even into smaller city states depending on the era. Even during the Roman hedgemony the peninusala did not act as a single political entity. There was significant disagreement about who outside of Roman was "Roman". This came to a head when Rome fought a war against it's neighboring cities and villages over the issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_War_(91%E2%80%9388_BC)

It wasn't until the early 1800s that a group of nationalists and aristocrats started a nationalist movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy#Italian_unification

Greek nationalism developed around the same time. Before that, the territory that is modern Greece passed in large pieces between different empires and the Catholic church. Previous to that the Polis or city state was the highest political authority and the unit of place identity. There was some flirtation with larger alliances like those that fought the Peloponnesian War but they were loose and did not last after outside conquest.
Business. Sustainability. Development.

I think... "S", could be for Services.
Unfortunately, the majority of parties in Denmark have a real hard-on for this copyright directive. Either from a belief that it will protect the artists, or from a "law and order" perspective that this will finally stick it those eeeeeevil pirates by giving even more power to the rights holders, in an attempt to completely abolish fair use doctrines.

The ramifications if this directive passes are absolutely disastrous, potentially putting a gigantic legalistic roadblock in the way of any free sharing of information online. I've tried writing my representatives to explain just how extreme the consequences will be, but they just refuse to listen, and insist on sticking to the party line, most of the replies I got were just canned responses. Or I guess they prefer listening to the lobbyists instead of their constituents.

As someone who became a huge music fan through file sharing with my friends and later through the internet via FTPs, IRC channels and DCC, Napster, Kazaa, torrents and shady Russian forums, I think this unprecedented tightening of the net will be a real detriment to culture and art.
Can I see lbry://@SomebodyUnpopular without talking to the centralized search? If so that's very good as that person couldn't be deplatformed.

Anyway, great job offering working and usable software. Way better than 99.999% of blockchain projects which offer nothing but empty promises.
I reached for "what about phones" because these devices seem very similar except they have a better speaker and fewer sensors. The Google one even runs Android IIRC. If I say "OK Google, who does Hunter Pence play for?" and my Google Home answers the query rather than my phone, what's the difference?

Frankly, they seem like less of a privacy concern to me than a smartphone because they don't also track my movements.

> I would love to hear your argument for why corporate or government abuse of data from always-online, always-listening devices like Alexa and Google Home is not a real concern.

It is a concern, just not a big one. I use an Android phone (and an iPad) so I figure that horse have left the barn. I'm willing to accept some risk if there are benefits. For example, I risk my life every time I drive my car. If I'm willing to take on that very real risk, why would a hypothetical about an internet connected device doing much less harm scare me?

Your point about using Apple exclusively is a good one. If I were more worried about it I would do the same.
Youtube basically lost the monetization battle when it legitimized the view that advertisers should have any sort of say in what content gets shown next to their ads. 10-15 years ago, that concept didn't exist in the online advertising space, publishers were first class citizens, and advertisers didn't get any say in anything and would get banned more often than publishers for not meeting advertiser standards (which I don't even think are a thing anymore). Now it's completely switched. Catering to advertisers is rapidly killing youtube, and a large portion of the web as a viable platform for free expression.

You are right, but by criticizing said platform, you are giving advertisers more leverage and basically helping to even further whitewash an already heavily censored internet.

It's not just children. Look at the comments on any video and you'll see all kinds of abusive/sexual-harrassment comments. It has always been like this, and it will always be like this unless you want an algorithm to detect the "offensiveness" of your comments, which will result in certain topics being completely banned unintentionally (think China's handling of the term"tiananmen square massacre" if you want a working example of this). And the worst part is, it's essentially advertisers that get to decide what content is OK for you to view. I'd rather take the lack of censorship any day and pay a subscription, thank you.
At some point you're going to enter the master password to unlock the next password, at which point it will be stolen, giving up every password.
> useless idiot boomers

In addition to what I just asked you (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19210265), please don't post slurs like this to HN.
Seems like the best way to tell is to not actually look at the face so much as the details around it. There are often obvious glitches in the background.
Thanks to AI can't we also do the opposite?

E.g. detect conspiracy theory speech and automatically provide relevant links/warnings to relevant curated sources?
That's a pretty good option.

But I imagine there are a lot of people who don't (or prefer not to) use Apple products or services.

I could see there being a decent opening for something with the general usability of *tube, but with greater configurable control, and private by default. As well as there being a free option they can run themselves if they're somewhat technical.
How much does this apply to secret managers like [Hashicorp Vault](https://vaultproject.io)? I get it it's more than "just" a password manager.
Actually, the Actor Model generalizes Concurrent ML because message and types are Actors.

For example, if anAccount:Account then the following

anAccount.deposit[$5]

is defined as follows:

Account.send[anAccount. deposit[$5]
I wrote a thing about the economics of programming languages a while back:

https://www.welton.it/articles/programming_language_economic...

And it absolutely does make sense to view them as products in order to understand their uptake, or why they don't become popular.
Quite, as a UK citizen I struggle to see anything in common with 52% of my fellow citizens
What I don’t see this paper focus on is security offered by the OS. Historically and commonly, for “normal people” apps, we’ve only been able to rely on one kind of compartmentalisation: memory is not readable between apps. However, any file the user has access to is fair game for any app. This is a Bad Time for any password manager, or really any app (think e.g. about your email cache in a thunderbird profile, or Firefox session tokens which can be siphoned , etc).

For ages, on Unix this could be solved with users and daemonisation. Later came SELinux which is criminally underused.

In the popular OS market, for a while there was flocker, on OSX. It used event hooks in the kernel to allow fine grained control over filesystem access, locking certain dirs down to certain apps. The app was bought by some enterprise offering (f-secure) and taken offline. The creator (Jonathan Zdziarski) was then hired by Apple. Recently, similar features have been rolled out by Apple natively for OSX. Try reading your iMail or calendar cache using the terminal: you’ll get an iOS-like pop up window asking you if this app has permission to your mail, or contacts. This is a step in the right direction.

All that’s left is for Apple to allow the user (or app developers) to specify such locks ourselves. This was already possible with flocker, but unfortunately that’s nowhere to be found, anymore. Perhaps it’s possible for apps delivered through the App Store? This would solve the problem that a password manager offers any process access to your full (encrypted) password DB, which is a pretty serious problem (makes the master password too valuable!).

Given the direction things are moving in, and the hire of Jonathan, I’m very hopeful this will eventually arrive. It would be a tremendous win for security on OSX. This everything-goes mentality of FS access has been a pet peeve of mine for over a decade. :) and, tbh, I think it’s a much more relevant attack vector than some process “reading memory”.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/06/f-secure-buys-little-flock...
Ah yes, apologies if I overstated. I should perhaps have said "some people in many parts of Italy still resent...". I'm often told by friends from the south about how the north treated the south during and after unification, and from what I understand there is still a lingering resentment there. I think the point still stands that Italy is not example of a "naturally arisen" national identity anyway.

Source: British person living in Northern Italy with many friends from the South.
I run ads and have for the last year or two systematically removed any placements involving youtube channels related to children - anything with toys, games, kids, etc. I have done this because after demonetizing a number of videos Google has apparently decided that children's content was ideal for advertisers; it was safe.

This was wrong, but clearly nobody in their ads department actually used the targeting systems.

There is no way for L'oreal to remove their ads from channels with disturbing comments automatically. They would have to individually find and exclude these placements and build their lists like I have, and I believe they probably have underpaid and either overworked or incompetent people running their targeting so that's unlikely to happen.

To be honest I believe ads should not be shown on children's youtube channels at all. Further, rather than reporting a video, I'd like channel creators to be able to report comments and get people banned from commenting on the site as a whole.
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The UK was the only one vetoing a real EU military

So with them gone, expect it

Just going to have to accept that Germany is better at this game
You're probably nuts.

Anyway, I'm using the basic HTML Gmail as default too.
This isn't their first rodeo. In 2008 Google launched Knol, which was a fairly major initiative to provide a service like Wikipedia, but without Wikipedia's problems around unattributed content. The idea was that authors would post with their professional affiliation, and get compensated with ad revenue. They hoped to attract actual medical professionals, as medicine was one of the areas where you want to be able to rely on the information.

It failed miserably. The incentives were favorable to spammers but not to actual professionals. No real expert would invest their time into the platform, putting their reputation on the line, for a few paltry ad dollars. But there were some people who mastered cranking out low quality content.

I'm not making any claims about the new effort, just pointing out that identifying a problem and putting resources behind a solution is often not enough.
You were not intended to like it.

The idea that we need more data is lazy, shortsighted, and used as a primary argument to justify doing nothing.

The neighbor's house is on fire, Sparks are falling on your roof because of a breeze and you are holding of fighting the fire because the wind might change and we might be able to do nothing except high five each other about how smart we were.

In life, you never know enough to make the perfect decision. You have act on the existing data, not wait until the choice you should have made becomes clear.
Why the hell would you pee in the pool? I never did it, and really think those who do are disgusting and should not be allowed to use public pools.
What apps do you consider useful and safe on that store?
> Thomas just wanted to use a different clause of the 14th amendment to achieve the same outcome.

Do you read anything into this? Is there a reason a justice would prefer to highlight the excessive fines provision over the due process protections?
> I would get upset when people could not follow a logical line of thought.

I think that's one of the biggest things I struggle with and have tried to get in front of for myself.

I know picking one sentence out takes it out of context. But this is the thing I find myself working on the most to not seem like a jerk. Most of the time, if I take the time to try to understand people, then I can teach them. I've been learning this with my wife, when I got way way deep down into something and she has an opinion on it but hasn't researched it like I have, I try to throw information at her until she "sees" what I see. We actually fought about this earlier this week. I was doing what you're talking about right now.

When I catch myself doing this, I have to scale back. Not everyone will get what you are saying at the same level. Find people who do and talk to them, about the details and figure out a way to abstract your ideas for people based on figuring out what they know and how to best simplify the concepts for what they already know. It doesn't work for me all the time, sometimes I still seem like a jerk. But I struggle with this too, although I assume you are probably quite a bit more intelligent than I am.

I also use self deprecation strategically to give people I'm talking to an insight into my faults. Sometimes it helps me build kinship. Always something I believe about myself, but in a way that helps me show I'm not perfect.

>I probably won’t stick my neck out like that again.
When I find myself in this situation (which I do from time to time) I find something else worth sticking my neck out for.

>I make mistakes too and I’m trying to learn from all this.
That's what makes you an awesome human.

Good luck.
And this is a dead giveaway you're not a parent, or have never dealt with swim diapers :)

Swim diapers are designed to simply make sure the poop and the kid are in the same general area and that it's easy to remove them from the water as a self contained unit. It will still absolutely contaminate the water in some way, there's no escaping it.
What's the difference between a Google Home and a Pixel phone sitting side-by-side on the table, which one is the bigger threat to my privacy? What about when I leave the home and take my GPS-capable phone and leave the Google Home on that table? Which is a bigger threat now?
> I pretty much assume that unless I make eye contact with a driver and get some kind of acknowledgement

1000 times this. IMHO this, and the closely related sizing up each other's expected path, is what is sorely missing in a lot of the US. One of the few times I was able to walk at a car (such that I would pass behind it) in a west coast parking lot and not have the driver stop in my way and wave me on like they did me a favor, it had a Red Sox sticker on the back.

> dealing with road rage as you occupy the full lane

Meh, free soda.
even if the pool contained only urine, I don't think there would be any particular health hazard. Maybe if you drink too much of it, you could get some kind of salt poisoning, but then the same risks would occur when swimming in the sea.
What exactly is the problem though? No children are exploited or abused neither any demand is created for abuse or exploitation of children with any of this, etc. So what then? You don't like what some people might think and do in the privacy of their home? Keep in mind, there is no evidence that they actually think and do anything you don't like, someone just claims they do. There is, however, plenty of evidence of pushing for censorship, policing, control using emotional manipulation. Like every child porn smear campaign ever.
A few years ago I tried to buy a liquid cooled overclocked server for trading. Enabling AVX cost extra due to the concentrated heat output from the MMU and each core's vector unit.

It was along the lines of being able to get a server that was tested stable at 5GHz without AVX vs 4.5 GHz with AVX for the same price.

So at least on Intel, these vector units are apparently limiting clock speeds and yields due to power consumption.
That the company will research my company and decide how much they can get from me, based on how much my company can afford, not how much the product is worth. Like when you go to a car dealer and they ask, How much are you looking to spend?
Yes. A small example from my very small world (railway).

Materials to be used on rolling stock (trains) must comply with Fire/Smoke/Toxicity standards. A few years ago these standards were only at national level, there is a French standard, a German one, etc... It was hell to demonstrate that your German-made widget could be used in a train meant to operate in UK.

In the last few years this has been harmonized in a EU-level standard, which makes much simpler and cheaper for manufacturers to market their products across the Union and for customers to integrate them in their systems.
If it was just people being turned on by videos with benign, nobody would be aware of them even being turned on by anything. It's the creepy comments, and the channels catering to them, and the advertising money, and the fact that people sharing certain pathologies are networking and run their own little asylums, form bubbles in which that is not sick, but normalized. Nothing is fine about this. If someone wants to masturbate to little kids instead of getting therapy, they can draw them. Actually, no, not even that, they still should get therapy. I guess it can't just be "fixed", but it has to be managed, and not "self-medicated" with porn.

There is a reason why this is not socially accepted, as you so mildly put it. And it's not just "weird" or "disturbing" other simplifications we put up like screens to not see what is just too inconvenient and depraved to even see, much less to actually address. There's people who use "think of the children" to control the internet or push whatever, true, but there's actual pedophiles getting bolder and bolder. Reject and resist both.
I assumed you didn't get the push notification since your alarms weren't connected to the network properly.

Do you have a 1st gen? I wonder if they're louder. Mine (2nd gen) test pretty quietly. It's not the full-on alarm shriek. It a a medium-volume beeping and only happens for a couple of seconds.
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Too far away and requires huge thread counts to make up for its overheads. A good vector unit should work well even for very short vectors (e.g., any size of memcpy).
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This was long overdue. I’m all for restitution and such, but doing forfeiture above what the penalty or fine would have been is obviously egregiously problematic.

Glad this overreach was rectified but it took a good while to get corrected.
I'm sure (this is not sarcasm) that the people behind the leak of recordings of confidential doctor-patient phone calls had no malicious intent.

So, I agree no malicious intent is needed to make things turn very bad.
The problem with censorship is that either the truth is obvious, and there is no need for it, or it isn't, so there is no way to decide fairly what to censor.
This Ginsburg situation is sketchy
Nostalgia.
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As a permanent resident who lives in the US, the idea that basic protections of law should only apply to citizens is terrifying. It's not the same outcome at all. Due process is afforded to "persons".
Pedophilia isn't a sexual orientation.

edit, in reply to "on what do you base that notion?"

What makes you question that notion?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia

> Pedophilia (alternatively spelt paedophilia) is a psychiatric disorder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_orientation

ctrl+f "pedo" no hits
ctrl+f "minor" no hits (that are relevant in this context)
ctrl+f "child" same as minor, however this:

> There is no substantive evidence to support the suggestion that early childhood experiences, parenting, sexual abuse, or other adverse life events influence sexual orientation.

We know that sexual abuse as a child is a factor in being pedophile, no? So that also fits.

And not addressed at you, how come just basically "playing dictionary" and stating what should be obvious earns downvotes? What is going on here? This isn't the first time I'm getting a quite pungent vibe around this subject, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19168928

(oh nice, I got throttled so even though I wrote this reply 2 minutes after that question, so instead of replying to it I had to make it this edit instead)
Pete & Pete continues to be one of those weirder shows that definitely messed me up from watching it as a kid. I seem to have some weird suppressed memory of a brain freeze episode as well. Weird stuff.
How disappointing. This leaves individuals forced to prove that a fine was excessive after police have already seized their property.