skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Ha! though 'Farenheit 451' would have made for an even more perfectly ironic incident, had Amazon erased it instead (that book was the first thing I thought of when I heard that Amazon was making a reader called Kindle.)
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I would argue that if they don't trust aspirin, they should buy a kit that lets them make aspirin (or salicin, rather) at home from willow bark. Still safer than consuming arbitrary unknown amounts of salicin, together with whatever else is in the bark besides salicin.

Let me put it this way: the big-pharma drug manufacturing (and more generally, medical-equipment manufacturing) pipeline is set up such that the only thing about a drug that should be able to kill someone, is if the drug's active ingredient itself has a bad interaction with their body.

Something like medical marijuana, meanwhile, can kill you by heavy-metal soil toxicity; by pesticides; by coincidental allergens in non-active-ingredient plant matter; etc.

None of these things will be checked for when you get a dose of medical marijuana.

An analogy: would you trust IV saline solution that's just salt that someone poured into "carefully collected rainwater" and then put into a bag? Even for an immunocompromised patient (i.e. exactly the kind who consumes medical marijuana for e.g. supportive cancer treatment)?

No; you'd distill the water, wash and recrystallize the salt, and basically do everything else you can to ensure that "salt and water" is all that's in the "bag of salt and water" you're putting into the patient's bloodstream. Because that's how you ensure that some random variable doesn't creep in and mysteriously make them sick in a way that's impossible to diagnose.
Wow. I guess that's why China has a Strategic Pork Reserve[1].
I thought the Pork Reserve was funny the first time i heard about it, but it's not so much now.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/id/100795405
Might as well share mine: one day the magic smoke[0] left a lot of components on my PC, including the HD with no backups. I saw the board was replacable, so that's what I did: bought an identical disk on eBay, some torx screwdrivers, transplated the good board to the dead disk, and it worked perfectly fine.

[0] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/magic-smoke.html
I'm extremely unconvinced that would be the best use of my time. I would rather become as adept as possible with the tools I have in today's world.
This is a risk that all “non-authoritarian” regimes face when renting RATs: if the same RAT is being rented to “authoritarian” regimes, there’s a lot more motivation by everyone to close the vuln.

“Not your 0day.... so not your 0day”.
To be fair, since there is no remote attestation possible for the Signal servers, and you realistically can't run one yourself, you only have their word that they don't store any of that information.

This is similar guarantees that a lot of other chat and VPN companies offer. Personally I would consider any information given out to a company non-secret, especially to those operating outside my jurisdiction.
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A nice conclusion for the year of the pig :/
Has anybody ever given any even halfway compelling evidence of pipelining breaking websites?

Google didn't, Mozilla didn't.

I believe there was one small banking site using a ten year old IIS that didn't load - but maybe pipelining was the least of the problems there. Another that sent the wrong images to mobile Safari, or mobile Safari displayed them wrong, but was fixed.

Pipelining may not have been the technically best solution, but it certainly would have taken the impetus away from SPDY. If Mozilla had shown the courage to default to pipelining maybe the industry as a whole could have had some input on HTTP/2 instead of just rubber-stamping SPDY.
Phone too deep in your pocket means destruction of your computer? No, thanks.
I'd recommend looking at "the quadrivium" by little wooden books. It is one of the most beautiful books ever made.

Since Pythagoras never wrote and was an empiricist, Pythagoreanism needs continual interpretation. But the core ideas, of Oneness, of "all is number" and that of fundamental harmonies in the Cosmos and psyche/soul — those are are perennial ideas of great value.
Hi, I appreciate the response. I agree with you that I know very little about University of Houston or its Center for Diversity and Inclusion. FWIW, it is one of the top results when I google for "diversity exercise", but make of that what you will.

My larger point is not that the exercise is great and should continue to be used. My larger point is that the exercise is something that a reasonable and well-intentioned person could have chosen, in a sincere effort to promote diversity and inclusion. This seems to be a point worth making, given the parent comment of "can’t even wrap my mind around why someone thought this would be a good idea".

When I first read the linked article, I had a similar shocked reaction. Knowing the origin of the exercise, and its purposes, is very valuable context that the original article should ideally acknowledge.
How long do you take to respond to applications? I applied in response to last month's 'Who's Hiring' and haven't heard back since. Should I assume it's a no-go?
Did you the read the whole answer? He used triangulation from non moving receivers.
Interesting to see how it handled the legs. Looks like it had problems with the fact insects have 3 pairs of symmetrical legs.
I think out propensity to anthropomorphise companies is pathological.

Most of the time it's a bunch of people following instructions/policy, like gears in a combine harvester. If you are in the way, you get run over.
Are we talking IRL interactions with EVE here, because the game certainly isn't.
It's okay to burn bridges that lead to nowhere. Be reasonable if it helps your cause or improves the odds of arriving at your desired outcome; if not (and you have the leverage), be unreasonable. Winning > being polite.
Finder is bad, no argument, but modern macOS (vs OS X) has way more to be ashamed of.

I'm not going to rattle off some list grievances, but sometimes I really am floored by how much of my mac workflow is simply working around macOS because some xyz is either a pain in the youknowwhat to correct or is just plain broken without recourse.
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Silkworms Spun the Germ Theory of Disease
I'm interested to read more about these programs. I confess that superficially they seem ridiculous to me. Is there a link that you are aware of to the research underlying these activities?
Sounds like the court and agency messed up by not including Facebook in the original court order. I don't blame Facebook here.
ZeroMQ is not a message queue, it's a networking library.
Not 100% of the chip is enabled, they disable defective parts and don't advertise a model that has 100% parts enabled, so they don't need magical zero defect wafers.

Images of the whole computer were published, you can see the massive cooling system: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/worlds-largest-chip-gets-a...
Would you mind explaining how tariffs interact with futures prices? Naively I would think that tariff relief -> more and cheaper imports -> lower price. What am I missing?
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The core ideas of Pythagoreanism are:

1. Oneness
2. "all is number"
3. There are fundamental harmonies in the cosmos and the soul
4. Integration of the rational and the spiritual

It's philosophy as a scientific religious pursuit. I don't think that comes up much in philosophy 101
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I'm not familiar with the company running this trial, but I can basically guarantee you they have found a way to patent this. Their intention is to come to market in 5 to 10 years, and there's no way they're bearing the expense of phase 3 trials just to become a generic manufacturer. Psilocybin isn't hard enough to manufacture (as opposed to say, propofol) to provide any sort of moat. They'll probably try to patent either an extended-release form or a particular administration device (e.g., inhaler).

E.g., the company that did the major trials for ketamine actually studied the s-enantiomer of ketamine using a nasal spray, which is quite distinct from the years of data we've accumulated on racemic ketamine with prolonged IV infusion. But this let them get a patentable version of ketamine on the market.
Nothing is permanent. No company will stay the same 22 years later. I wouldn't be surprised if there are people working at Google who were born after Google was founded. At some point, the feisty startup that wants to change the world will become the status quo. It's delusional to think otherwise.
Try the hckrnews client which is kinda of better for ranking
Disney themselves according to shareholder reports also believe that Trademark law is in a strong enough position today that they aren't officially concerned about further copyright extensions when they can use the power of Trademark lawsuits to protect their IP. The copyright term is just one moat in their strategy, and they may indeed feel (as they've told shareholders) like they've made that copyright moat big enough they can focus on the next moat.
So I saw this post earlier to day and tried it on a dataset we have (fixed boundaries w/ some properties that change 4x/hr). We use the value of the properties for styling of the vector tiles. Currently the tiles are re-rendered every 4hrs (even though the data is updated every 15 min) using tippiecanoe, served by tileserver-gl and cached in cloudfront. So I wanted a way to get new data to users faster. But as you have noted this dynamic process crunchy posted IS SLOW, it takes about 3 minutes to paint the world on my brand new macbook pro (about 3 seconds w/ pre-rendered). Given the country boundaries do not change very often is there a way to change just the properties that actually needed updated in the already rendered vector tiles? Our pipeline takes about 45 min to run completely to regenerate the new tiles with updated properties. Or is there a better way to present this data? We started out w/ GeoJSON directly from the DB but the size of the files were huge, the vector tiles are 30% the size of GeoJSON. We were in the MTS private beta but they didn't have the 'update' process worked out yet so it was a full refresh each time.
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An effective generic strategy to locating missing objects is the Bayesian search theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_search_theory

It's been used to find several lost ships, planes, and things of that nature. Of course, a casual application of this approach essentially boils down to "look first in the places you think it's most likely to be."
The press release noted no negative effects. The poster they presented to the neuropsychopharm folk the other night noted a few hundred, but none life-threatening.

Poster: https://compasspathways.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/poste...
"Technology companies such as Facebook and Apple Inc. over recent years have strengthened the security of their systems to the point where even the tech companies themselves can't provide law-enforcement agencies with messages created on their own systems."

Riiight, that's certainly what they'd like the world to believe!

When the software can be modified OTA without the user's knowledge, even if you did have e2e encryption without any sidechannels or backdoors at the client software today, you might not when you wake up tomorrow.
using commas as your thousands delimiter as well as your field delimiter makes this really hard to read

Oslo: population 690k (metro 1.6m) / density 3938 / deaths 1

Nashville: pop 692k (1.9m) / density 1374 / deaths 82

Portland: pop 653k (2.4m) / density 4911 / deaths 34

Milwaukee: pop 592k (1.5m) / density 6155 / deaths 68
> It does mean that it's harder for them to casually snoop on everyone for no good reason.

It should be straight up impossible.
I was freakin' blown away the first time my friggin' operating system tried to warn me not to use Firefox and use Microsoft Edge instead, and I can't believe that it wasn't a much bigger deal in the press than it was.
Cerebras is a reaction to the recent Deep Learning trend. Larger networks, supposedly better performance. As someone doing distributed training regularly, I've seen some super inefficient models that take 3x more resources (time / compute / bandwidth) for a 2% bump. I think we'll see a big wave in NN optimization in the near future.
Because it is detrimental to free speech. For example, if you in your spare time wants to get elected to a public office, you need to reveal your employment status. E.g "John Doe, systems engineer at Blah Company, vote for me as your Sanitation Commissioner." Maybe you're speaking at a rally or even a tech event: Our next speaker is John Doe, systems engineer at Blah Company, he will talk about ..."

These activities have nothing to do with work, so Amazon has no moral right to try to control them.

Do you think it is good that Amazon employees are afraid of speaking to the press?
Ask HN: Experimented with Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation (TDCS)?
I've read up on it a bit and am considering getting a device, but would like to hear from this thoughtful community before I commit
While the treaty made a lot of sense 30 years ago, it makes no sense today in light of Russia's violations of the treaty and the rise of China and other powers.

https://www.fairobserver.com/more/international_security/us-...
Why do you think you're better than most other investors at making those investment choices?

Not OP, but the simple answer is: “because my returns over the years prove that I can.” I’ve heard this question enough times over the years that I usually just ignore such silly questions and go back to buying deep-in-the-money AAPL calls. Conversely, if it makes one feel better, continue to tell yourself individuals can’t beat the market (which is mostly true).
Are there any agencies that are in good standing? The ones that I'm aware of (FBI, CIA) have a history of abusing their power.
Not that you're looking for anecdotes but I've noticed a broader spectrum of effect when THC is in the mix.

For point 2, I couldn't agree more. I think it's just an industry maturity thing. My wife is using it for appetite/anti-emetic effects and trying to 'dose' with dry herb or pen vaporizing is a joke, and most of the oils/edibles are administered in a way that has pretty gnarly taste/aftertaste that has been counter-productive for her. (I've started making my own tablets but it still feels like a crap shoot)
You're correct, I appreciate you noting that.
There are so many assumptions baked into a bayesian search inside your own home that it's unlikely to help though. Plus it relies on at least one hypothesis containing the correct search space (i.e the object lies within the search space).
Someone had to stop the cottage industry of spamming Google around 2011. Sites like Mahalo were ruining search for everyone. Black hat SEO is pure rent seeking that leaves everybody worse off. Matt Cutts did the right thing.
Was I the only one to notice the scrolling phallus doing things on the the status line for "waiting for Telsa to join our AP" on the article's attached video?
> only when you consistently appear to be providing value in excess of your compensation.

The word 'appear' should be bolded. I'll point out another thing which is the amount of effort needed to manage you is even more important than that.
That's just rude.
Fango is “mud” in Spanish. I guess that’s the same reason behind the BRIC acronym. Easy to remember and thus viral.
That is actually a scam (or can be), where they would play the hang-up sound, play the sound when you dialed the keys and then have a second person continue the call. It worked because land-lines didn't end the call until both parties hanged-up. That means when you picked up the phone again, you were still connected to them.

Don't know if that scam still works, or not, and the same flow is probably used by legitimate senders.
How the Digg team was acquihired
The difference is that Signal's competitors are designed in such a way that they have to keep this information, and Signal has delayed key features, like user profiles, until they've managed to create designs that don't have these restrictions.

So the logic you're using here is essentially: "since we have to take Signal's word for some part of this, we might as well use services that promise the exact opposite". I don't find that argument persuasive, but you do you.
Alloy and Spin are used in modeling/verification. You can use these to verify properties of your system (like your IPC protocol, or a million other ideas). Aside: on HN, this guy [2] often shares his expertise on formal methods. Let's hope he chimes in w/his thoughts here ;)

Zave (the author) studies Alloy and Spin by trying to model a service/protocol called "Chord" [1]. Her findings are summarized in "Table 2. Summary of comparative advantages on the Chord case study.":

> Promela + C / Spin: not necessary to know a sufficiently strong global invariant, supports progress assertions

> Alloy / Alloy Analyzer: half the startup time, safety assertions are declarative rather than procedural, can be used for a convincing proof of correctness

[1] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/chord:sigcomm01/chord_sigc...

[2] https://www.hillelwayne.com/about/
I made http://www.hnreplies.com/ which will email you when someone replies to one of your comments. It won't help with following specific threads of others' comments however.
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Personally I didn't notice any difference before or after or during going through a bottle of it.
> proprietary software to be unethical

My sense is only a very small percentage (way less than 1%) of software developers think that proprietary software by definition is unethical. Am I wrong to think this?