skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only have a really distant perspective on that but even if there were backdoors in particular Huawei devices, what - the recent PR campaign aside - would that really tell us? We read about critical vulnerabilities and backdoors from Cisco and the likes on here almost every week or at least month without consequence. *

Not that I find the Chinese government trustworthy but from a non-US perspective it just looks like two governments throwing mud with a certain disconnect from any technical veracity.

* Maybe they get laughed at for the incompetence or negligence regarding that particular issue but that doesn't seem to affect their bottom line or the striving consultancy ecosystem surrounding those products.
My guess would be: Desktop, Laptop, Phone.
Had no idea that dead weasels were used as fashion items.

That is a very interesting website, some freaky stuff on there.
Considering your apparent lack of social awareness...
I surely will, thanks again!
I'm not the one arguing with a statement in that post.
Hi Stas,

In case you didn't see it (I know I wouldn't notice because its not a reply), I "replied" in my original comment because HN wouldn't let me reply at the time.

TLDR: I'm happy to (and would like to) use a desktop app like Klokki to track time, but I'm unwilling to have the financial aspect (invoicing/billing and payment records) in something that I don't control fully.
And yet I'm still too stupid to understand the macro system. Oh well.

I also didn't know there was a Chez version. Racket already has a native AOT compiler, right? What would the advantage be to run on Chez, faster or smaller compiled code?
> Allow a level playing field,

Say by allowing a clearly incompetent and deranged lunatic the same airtime as his opponent? Or by giving a racist grifter airtime on a flagship political program?

> and the violent stupid losers will lose.

Alas, Trump won. Farage won. Bolsonaro won. Duterte won. The violent stupid losers keep winning despite their views getting wide public airings.
They did though. They completely rewrote this organism's genome. That's a major technical achievement!

Imagine you're writing a text editor and you get it working well enough to replace spaces with tabs throughout its own source code. Sure, you're not changing the semantic meaning of the code --- but still you're demonstrating that your tool actually works and that it's capable of controlled global edits that don't completely wreck what you're trying to modify. That'd be a pretty major milestone in your text editor project.

This global DNA search-and-replace is the same kind of milestone.
did you open any of the links? I disliked the table of contents, but when I opened one of the pages it was much nicer
Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows
I won’t get into the completely different discussion about mental health. You don’t state where your quote comes from, but it would be interesting to know if they say anything about what exactly living in a city makes people more depressed.

But your point about move about less: people living in cities actually move more. You’re much likely to walk or bicycle to shops or work when the distance is one and a half mile than when it’s ten.
That’s still not a good reason to give your bank credentials and allow them to be stored in plain text. At that point if it’s your only option you just don’t do it.
What exactly is unpleasant in Germany? If you have a guy suddenly behind you then most likely you didn't check properly in the mirror, and estimated speed of approaching car wrongly. You could also perform overtaking manoeuvre more dynamically, just increase the speed when overtaking and reduce after.

Last few months I drive to work on the Germany motorway, and what I can see so far is terrifying. Not fast drivers are the problem but the poor and ashole drivers:
- Poor drivers: Me 140/160 km/h, other 120 km/h, and suddenly he/she is changing the lane (to overtake another car ofc), no blinker (you honk at them and they show you the middle finger), nothing! Or switching the lane when when there is not enough space. Jeeez, no! Because you annoyed to drive 117 km/h behind the truck, don't put others in danger. Not everybody in Germany drives 170 km/h or more. So there will be place for you as well, just wait some seconds. Or predict, you see the slow truck in advance, change lane a bit earlier, or show blinker earlier (I always slow down I you give me enough time). Ah, and damn left lane lovers. You overtake them from the right (although you shouldn't) and then they realise "oh shit, I should be in the right one".
- Ashole drivers: Driving bumper to bumper even with high speeds, or swaying left to right just to how "hey, I'm behind you" and make a pressure on you.

To summarise, after driving in Germany for 8 years, I love it. I like the discipline although on the motorways is getting worse imho. I'm assuming because of immigration from other countries which don't have good driving habits.

For me unpleasant was driving on motorways in San Francisco area (madness, and not just because of number of lanes), but I was there only for a few days, so maybe my impression is wrong.
> The standard should be that a an unimpaired pilot properly trained in flying the aircraft will normally (practically) be in no danger of a "sure crash".

Exactly. And under that assumptions 737 MAX with no MCAS was never certified. Boeing didn't even want to admit that MCAS even exists to avoid even showing the flight characteristic of the plane "without MCAS." It's on Boeing to prove "737 MAX without MCAS" is safe, and up to now they did all they could to avoid that, and I expect they'll do more of that unless there is a pressure outside of both Boeing and FAA.
Has it been debunked? As far as my reading has shown me in the past and now, it seems to be fairly accurate, with some criticisms levelled at its conclusion that veganism is the right solution.

https://www.quora.com/How-accurate-is-the-movie-Cowspiracy/a...
The 'curse' of genius is more the fact that society is designed to function for average people. The average person goes to school, gets training in something, works their job at an average pace, etc...

'Genius' goes one of two ways. Either they have a good support system around them (usually meaning money) and advance, then later have chance for entrepreneurship and a career they can advance at their own pace (meaning quicker than average). Or they are stuck in a system designed for average people and they get bored then act out, become depressed, etc...

I can relate somewhat. I could speak very young. Could read at 2. Could speak, read and write two languages and use computers (we're talking old IBM PCs pre-Windows, when hardly any normal people used computers) at 4. Was always in advanced classes through school. Built (somewhat crude) robots and did computer programming in elementary school.

Of course, none of this provided me with particularly great social skills, so eventually I gave up on intellectual pursuits and plied myself with drugs and alcohol. In adulthood wound up working several careers, playing poker professionally and travelling for awhile, did some day-trading, did a bunch of university, but I mostly enjoy eating, drinking, travelling, and hanging out with my girlfriend.

Anyhow, the gist of it is that being on an 'advanced' path in my youth wasn't particularly great. Not sure if I'm was 'cursed' genius or a somewhat intelligent person with a mental disorder (ADHD, bipolar?). Building a business now so wouldn't say I'm unsuccessful, but certainly not what I imagined when I was younger. Then again, I'm also far happier today.
Eh. Actually End-to-end encryption is the best thing we have when it comes to secure communication. This is yet another sensationalist article from Bloomberg with a very misleading headline.

What they mean to say is that E2E is not enough - a secure implementation and other measures are important. Including securing the device in a manner so that no malware can get on it to compromise privacy. This is nothing new. It's a given and it's always been true.
There are no current legal restrictions as I understand, it is the decision of my provider to continue restricting this access. The restrictions are not unilateral, the largest ISP has released the restrictions.

I will be changing providers as soon as my contract allows.
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E. Coli is super robust even in adverse conditions, and a lot of the coding regions are essentially to support those adverse conditions.

Lab conditions are super friendly to E. coli - they're plated on agar that is tailored to them, kept at a temperature that is tailored to them, and the plates are sterilized so that they have no competitors.

So even if the initial cells were super unhealthy, as long as it wasn't directly fatal the bacteria would grow, and bacteria evolves quickly - fast enough that I'd be interested in seeing how much change was accumulated after 24 hours.

That said, they edits were deliberately just replacing like with like, so it would be expected that they survive.

Interesting follow on research: If you repeatedly ensured that they dropped the alternate serine codings, could you convince it to treat the alternate codings as being something other than serine: the careful engineering would have removed the selective pressure on those codings being serine.
I just recently bought a Lenovo for someone close to me. Would you mind elaborating on why you say this about them, and if you really think they can be made somewhat privacy-safe for general use?
Make internet more expensive therefore limiting its impact among the stupidest members of society - the working class.
The way it was done historically? Pay for one or two publications which instead of arriving at your doorstep every morning will be delivered to your phone every morning. The people who couldn't or wouldn't pay for good journalism would not receive any - at that point you'd be deriving your information from discourse with other people.
> Most of those are the most free

Where the police come to your house about Tweets already

This isn't about anything but authoritarianism dressed as "safety".

First they came for the child pornography
Then they came for the terrorists
Then they came for the hateful
Which was essentially the point of the gp comment .... Israel gets special treatment in the US ... even when a spinoff from their secret service is caught hacking people's phones worldwide
> Given how important tertiary DNA and RNA structure is, I think it's remarkable that they're alive at all.

It'd be interesting to add these things to the famous E. coli long-term evolution experiment [1] and see how many of the removed codons reappear due to beneficial spontaneous mutations that revert Dr. Chin's changes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_ex...
Yes, knowing your IQ score and saying it outloud is badthink.
gVisor is easy to run in on your local dev laptop Docker too. It's a nice alternative to running Docker in a VM, if you prefer a security boundary between random Docker containers you get off Docker Hub and your host machine.

After you built or downloaded the gVisor single binary to /usr/local/bin/ or wherever, just put a snippet provided in the gVisor README in the Docker settings file ("runtime": {...}), and bob's your uncle.
HN has an appalling reputation outside of HN. People refer to it as "the evil orange website".

EDIT: It's "angry orange website", not "evil orange website". Not so bad after all.
> obviously there is no expectation that each minute is recorded

Bingo! In practice, employees will just fill in whatever values are convenient. Nothing's going to change for an employee who was pressured (explicitly or implicitly) to work unpaid overtime – now they'll be pressured (explicitly or implicitly) to not track the time they're working after hours. It's just more bureaucracy for everyone, including for honest, fair employers.

And yes, I'm very bitter about this. Bureaucratic, ivory-tower decisions like this one are partly responsible for phenomenons like Brexit and the German AfD party, which in turn pose a danger to the prosperity and peace we enjoy in Europe.
I didn't know about Ledger [1], which this is said to be based on. It seems like a proper UNIX tool like Remind [2] but for finance. I would really like to use these types of applications all the time, but either usability suffers a lot or useful principles get lost when trying to integrate them with smartphones and tablets.

[1]: https://www.ledger-cli.org/

[2]: https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/man/remind.1
I know this is kind of a tired comment but I wonder where desktop GUI toolkits went wrong to end up where "cross platform" has come to be a synonym for electron.

I know if I was building a desktop program I would pick electron but what can real desktop toolkits change to fix this problem?
turns out strawberry shortcake dairy free frozen dessert is pretty solid.

Depends on the temp I guess....
A human zygote is a person, and so is everything that follows. From the moment of fertilization, there is a single developmental progression of a single organism. There isn't any other meaningful scientific or logical distinction that can be made. Before fertilization, you have the gametes from two separate organisms. Afterwards, there is a new, unique organism (a human being) who has a separate identify.

And yes, that means I think common in-vitro fertilization practices (including making multiple zygotes and throwing some out) are morally wrong and equivalent to abortion.

If anyone disagrees, I contend it's because of the moral implications, not any lack of soundness in the scientific or logical arguments.
No, someone hasn’t cracked the code of the mysterious Voynich manuscript
One thing that helps is the lightbulb moment: The most interesting thing you can know is other people. Not as objects, curiosities, but real, truly unfathomable beings. You'll never truly understand what's in someone else's head, but you can still spend your life striving to get to know them better, and to perhaps know them well enough to try and make their lives better.

There is the age-old cliche of intelligent people finding 'normal people' dull. That idea starts to fade when you really, truly embed yourself in another person's life, or they manage to embed themselves in yours before you realize that's what's happening.

Regardless, it's not all hopeless. It's a harder path, for sure, but it can be traveled.
The day would shift half an hour in the next 600 years. That’s half as much as it shifts twice a year for DST, except it would happen gradually over a period of time roughly equal to the time between the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire and today.
Yeah, I can see that being an issue, at least until a decent proportion of humanity lives off-world. I can't see people living in the asteroid belts adding arbitrary leap-seconds.

Of course, once you start dealing with astronomical distances and speeds, the whole concept of a single universal measure of time kind of goes out the window anyway so it's probably going to get worse, not better. :P

(FWIW my definition of 'best' here is something along the lines of 'simple, no special rules or tinkering, gets translated to a human-readable local time on demand'. Which is pretty much how Unix epoch works, come to think of it.)
The problem and the solution look obvious: there are many news sources, everybody wants to get paid, people don’t want to pay for all of them, yet still not content from getting the news from a single source.

We have solved this problem for music and movies already, Spotify and Netflix are Silicon Valley poster children. Now we just need to build a news / text media aggregator along the same lines.
> A zibellino, flea-fur or fur tippet is a women's fashion accessory popular in the later 15th and 16th centuries. A zibellino, from the Italian word for "sable", is the pelt of a sable or marten worn draped at the neck or hanging at the waist, or carried in the hand. The plural is zibellini. Some zibellini were fitted with faces and paws of goldsmith's work with jeweled eyes and pearl earrings, while unadorned furs were also fashionable.

TIL today's fashion really is no dumber than it was 5 centuries ago.
what I found interesting was how quickly Hn jumped to action (contacting investors, pension funds) relating to NGO on a completely unsubstantiated report. "May have been" was the quote from that article. I can't recall the last time I've ever seen upvoted Hn comments outraged enough to contact investors let alone from an unconfirmed report.
In 5000 years the majority of humanity, assuming we haven’t gone extinct, will live in space and the astronomy will be moot anyway.
Right, but my point is that the person he sent it in reply to didn’t miss the point in the same way.
This is something I couldn't put into words but that was part of my thinking process. I personally would feel really bad if I knowingly hid this crucial bit of information during the process and then made it my requirement.

Maybe in some other work culture you have to be sneaky if you want a part-time job. Here in Finland I'd expect at least one third of IT companies to happily allow 80% time if you just bring it up.
> How many people have more than 3 devices to sync between anyways?

Work machine, home laptop, home desktop, phone.

Oops. One will have to go.
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This is why I use smalltime when storing time values.

https://github.com/kstenerud/smalltime
In fact, this means that writing concurrent code is easier as you don’t have to worry about synchronizing access to shared state. It also means scaling applications is straightforward, since you are forced to design for horizontal scalability from the get go (similar to deploying node.js). Ive always found it strange that Go has both channels and locks as synchronization primitives.
> Some people think that a day is one revolution of Earth's axis, and not exactly 86400 seconds

One day is more than one revolution of the planet. The sidereal day is exactly one rotation of the planet, but that's about four minutes shorter than a civil day.

The reason is that the planet also moves around the sun, so in order to get the sun to the same position in the sky for noon the planet needs to turn a little bit more than 360 degrees, about 360/365 extra.
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Honest question: which people? HN is too US/California/Bay Area centric for my tastes (most people here are probably from there), it talks a bit too much about money and jobs, but it's still a decent resource.
You're refuting claims I'm not making, while avoiding the question I am asking. As an extremism researcher I'm well aware of such complexities, thanks.
Are there any open-source file syncing apps out there that you can point to your own AWS account? Sure you are still dependent on another service, but S3 costs are negligible compared to Dropbox or others.
I meant to say Cloudflare, sorry. I know what Stormfront is.
> vanilla

I’m always amazed how much it is seen as a given compared how of a PITA it is to grow vanilla, at least relatively to strawberries or bananas for instance.
I wonder if governments could somehow vouch for emails addresses being a little like verified twitter accounts, so that we can have a good whitelist of legit email addresses.

Right now it seems gmail is benefiting from the chaos because they have the training data that allows them to know if a mail is spam. I just wish that the internet could adopt more security standards and processes. You can't trust only google now.
> but the US has a far less adversarial relationship with Israel than with China

Couldn't this be a consequence, rather than the cause, of the willingness to remove or mute anything that can put Israel in a less than positive light?
Media sites behaving foolish and dying faster imo is a net win for the average folk, so all in all this is good news.
I think that's a statement about identifiable early genius but not necessarily mature genius, unknown or otherwise.

Anyone can see the same patterns being applied to different problems in repetition with enough time.

That gets boring to those who find no value in tangential rewards. Escaping that with idealism for understanding solely demands more, and I think that's the biggest identifier for lasting genius versus that which is emphemeral / trendy.

It doesn't imply genius but it is indicative of genius recognized beyond youth. Wisdom, common sense - those are either attributed imprecisely or incorrectly.
Not really. The comment was about HN policy, not US policy.

And yes, Israel is the primary US proxy in the Middle East. And is widely supported in the US. So of course they get lots of slack. There's little doubt that the NSA has some role in this, or is at least OK with it.
18 USC 71 ... is the federal obscenity law, it's been much patched in and around child porn, but the basic law is still there. Of course there's been a lot of Supreme Court rulings in and around it culminating in the Miller test ... Your 'shooting video' is really a snuff film, probably one of the few genuine ones (along with those made by ISIS, and just as bad) and certainly falls under the Miller test
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The pink elephant there is profit. Discussion with strangers is not difficult to solve. Even going back to AOL style topic driven chat rooms, which are just a step above IRC, it all worked just fine. BBS style systems also worked phenomenally well.

But now enter companies wanting to make a buck. And that's where all the stupidity comes into play. Because now you need to people to disproportionately be exposed to e.g. advertisers, and to keep the advertisers around you also probably need to stop people from really speaking their mind about them: 'This movie sucks.' 'Yeah, drink this fizzy corn fructose laden crap and get fat. Woot!' So you end up with shilling, 'moderation', and other mechanisms to try to help ease monetization. This, in turn, rapidly drives division, antagonism, and trolling. And so the corporate site needs to push even harder to maintain their advertising venue. Which results in an ever downward spiral.

And on top of all of this now you don't just need people to chat. You need for them to stay actively 'engaged' with your 'platform.' Those big buck advertisers aren't going to pay you to advertise to your 500 users. So now enter things like voting systems. Opaque manipulation means you can help drive discussion however you want, and you can simultaneously help addict users by giving them that tiny little dopamine bump each time they see 'oh wow, i got more imaginary internet points! herpa derp!' Hey what do you know, these voting systems are somehow driving the creation of increasingly radicalized little echo chambers. Yeah man, but look how engaged they are! It's all quite idiotic, but this derives from the fact that the problem is not enabling chat, the problem is enabling chat while making money off of it.
Luckily you don’t have to do it all at once. You could start by trying out some new recipes, and eating plant based meals more frequently than now, and learning what you like.
The only advantage I see to containers over VM is RAM sharing. Beyond that, hardware VM's are better performing and much more secure.

gVisor is just another flavor of containers that replaces kernel interfaces with a Go shim layer to reduce the attack surface in return for worse performance.

If somebody could hack ram sharing/overcommit into traditional VM's all this container nonsense could be dispensed with. Containers are a virtualization layer just like the old days when we used the JVM to run "safe" applets on client machines. Like the JVM, the attack surface will always be huge and security issues nearly endless.
See http://blog.racket-lang.org/2019/01/racket-on-chez-status.ht... and scroll down to “Performance of Compiled Code.” That was back in January, so things may be even better now.
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