skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the idea that consciousness is an emergent property of matter and energy is appealing

Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain

> In this physics thought experiment, a Boltzmann brain is a fully formed brain, complete with memories of a full human life in our universe, that arises due to extremely rare random fluctuations out of a state of thermodynamic equilibrium. Theoretically over a period of time on the order of hundreds of billions of years, by sheer chance atoms in a void could spontaneously come together in such a way as to assemble a functioning human brain. Like any brain in such circumstances, it would almost immediately stop functioning and begin to deteriorate.
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Yes, even a two month shutdown will bankrupt many people in the developing countries, where many have moved to cities to make a living.
I had the same experience with OF2, but honestly think it wasn't entirely their fault as ios 7 sort of pulled the rug out from under the world.

that said, even with stupid round checkboxes of2 runs my life, which would be much more chaotic without it.
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National Coronavirus Response a Road Map to Reopening [pdf]
As the founder of the company you serieus anger from YOUR employees?

Huh?
I think you're going to have to market this through other channels, pushing the message out to people who would want to use and distribute it, instead of assuming that many people will think that there's a category of mobile software called "dead man's switch" and go searching for it. It's not obvious how "dead man's switch" had any connection with domestic abuse. It sounds more like a really ineffective health app.
This is very helpful. Thank you for sharing.

If you wouldn't mind: how do you go about creating a simulation around the empirical data? This seems to be very core to how Dark Sky is able to provide such accurate realtime data for geographies in between weather stations.
Not only will the shutdown only delay deaths, the shutdown itself will cause deaths. With 3 million people ALREADY losing their jobs after less than a few weeks of shutdowns, we could see 10 to 20 million losing their jobs if this lasts several more months. Suicides alone from the shutdown would exceed the loss expected from the virus. Then as into that the number of people kicked of healthcare from losing their jobs or that just don't have enough money to afford that expensive health treatment. Now beyond jobs effect look at what will happen to the crime rate and murder rate when poverty strikes, and as others have said if you no longer afford car or home insurance, now people on the brink lose more than everything from fires or accidents. Im not about to calculate the exact number of ancillary deaths from a shutdown, and maybe it is very difficult to quantify which is why no one is doing it but as the president said the cure can't be worse than the disease.
I hope you like the name of this challenge. :)

In all seriousness, I want to do my little part to help people feel better in the difficult times right now. That'll help me feel better too.
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Agreed. Another example: I have a dental abscess I can't get treated because all dentists have shut down at least into May. In my case it can probably wait, but some people's dental issues will lead to acute complications here and now, and also bad dental health can lead to heart problems in the long term, thus again worrying in terms of cardiovascular disease.
Ask HN: What Happened to Dply.co?
This was a service that let you run a temporary dockerized web app for 2 hours. Any alternatives?

HN post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13030603
CIRA doing the same thing:

https://www.cira.ca/earlyaccess
There is an even cooler pull request that adds zero-copy screen capture. https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/1758

I think this is a better way to go to get the same performance and low latency gaming capture as on Windows with gaming GPUs.

The guy who made that PR frequently streams coding sessions on Youtube. I think he made it because he wanted a better way to stream some cool live opengl coding sessions. And even though that code isn't production ready, he has used it for some time now and it seems to work great.

If there is some company that slightly cares about Linux desktop and gaming on Linux, I would suggest helping with that pull request and getting it merged. (Anyone from Steam, AMD or Nvidia here?)
It doesn't take 30 years to write
a diagramming app. It's basically done. They should really slash the prices and profit from the margin. Well, they should have before the web destroyed the low end market.
This seems like a security bug, but not exactly a high risk one considering it requires you to actually have possession of the computer.

Presumably if you have possession of the computer and are able to exploit this bug, you could do any number of other things anyway...

Zoom might have issues but if I were to list them, this wouldn't be high on / make the list. Obviously they should fix it, but of all the things, not sure this one is front page worthy.
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Ask HN: How to deal with non-paying customers?
they used our resources, signed our ToS, but they don't pay

i send them invoices, letters, terminate their accounts
but they end up never paying anything

should i just block all the customers and require them to enter a credit card before they can continue to use the services?

i'm curious to hear your opinions
Wayland won't be a thing until they agree on the common API for the real time capturing of the screen. I've read some Wayland developers said screen capturing is not a priority and I can't understand it. The screen capturing demand is higher than ever now we have ubiquitous live streaming sites everywhere and people earn the money from it. Besides, the easiest way to explain how to use GNU/Linux desktop for the complete beginners is by the videos.
On SDRs that transmit, I'd like to see the how much harmonic suppression there is. For example, if you transmit at 144 MHz, what's going on at 432 MHz?

If they use switching mixers I would expect a lot of power in the harmonics. If they use analog multipliers, less. There has been work to make the front end mixer more multiplier-like using "harmonic rejection mixers". Apple bought one such company, I forgot which. The advantage is that you can reduce the analog filtering needed.

I think it should be the same for receivers: I assume they pick up a lot of noise from the harmonics.
If you stretch the definition of UX and ignore the clear lesson in this story, sure.
Right, I figured capturing is the big ticket item, and that most people wouldn't care what OBS itself runs on. Is there a reason to care about it running on XWayland other than being able to say you don't need X at all anymore? Would you expect to see major improvements for apps that are already doing all their heavy lifting in GLX on X11?
If you hover over links on the post, you would notice that the author recently changed jobs, from Google to Microsoft. It seems reasonable for a Microsoft employee to use Bing as primary search ;)

Anyhow, I'm disappointed that Bing also has the practice of styling ads the same was search results, as Google has normalized.
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I like the fact that they make and sell things. They don't insinuate themselves into your life and force everything into the cloud and their website.
It's still a root privilege escalation.
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Not if you disable JS.
IIRC, for fields >5T the movement of your blood is enough to induce currents you can detect as a weird tingling in your tongue.

Probably still safe, but it’s not as clear as I had previously assumed.
I'm the person who gets these sorts of emails at my company, and just a few words in one of his emails really caught my attention!

"Would love to work on this mission with you and the team" .. yeah, yeah, generic blah, everyone says that.

"and I won't take it for granted." Ok, wow, I rarely have people make promises like that. It sounds genuine and even if it's not, it's a point I can pull someone up on later on if they're screwing around.

Sending off some generic corporate speech will rarely work with me, but if someone acts a little more personably and shows they have some sort of emotional skin in the game, I'm all ears.
>Regardless, I am still opposed to this service, and opposed to all forms of internet censorship

I'm genuinely confused as to where your complaint is coming from. Isn't this Cloudflare DNS server "opt in" for families? Why would voluntary filters be censorship? Censorship is more "top down" (e.g. government) that you can't opt out of.

Likewise, I just "opted into" into NextDNS a few days ago to block ads so I didn't have to set up a Raspberry Pi-hole. Is NextDNS "censoring" ads? Well yes, because that's what I want.
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Thank you, jtcond13!
But that's the thing. Any single actor can only provide sub-optimal results, but competition and regulation create a competitive game which provides society with optimal results.

Google isn't wrong – it's actually doing its part really well. It's either competition or regulation that need tweaking. Probably both.

In other words

> an economic system that by it's very nature can only provide sub-optimal results is broken.

The economic system can provide optimal results. Individual actors can but don't need to in order for the prior statement to be true.
If you had any cisco hardware in your network stack that is likely the reason.

Our company's captive portal still takes you to 1.1.1.1
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Even in ideal conditions we don't have much impact on the lethality of the virus. If we are in a scenario where everyone gets infected lots of people are going to die. Medical care can change that by some percent but not enough to change it from "lots of people" dying. For example, something like 2/3s of patients that go on ventilators will die. Of the 1/3 that do survive a significant chunk, if not the majority, will have significant complications. They will live for another few months to a year with a poor quality of life before dying.

That might make you think a ventilator surge might save 10-20% of people who otherwise would have died. But that's not true because we can choose who gets the ventilators. The actual difference in death rate will be small because we will stop ventilating the cases that still have a 95%+ chance of dying even with ventilating. Ultimately, the impact of the ventilator surge is going to be a bunch of 80+ year old patients with significant comorbidities getting pointless interventions. It's going to save few lives and will only marginally impact the mortality rate.
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Really missed out on the opportunity to have STIR/SHAT
Long term, sure, but right now there's a limited number of very expensive MRI machines, X-rays are much more ubiquitous. Even if this involved a new machine, I imagine it would be much cheaper than an MRI.
Maybe the conscious experience of emotions is the neural response to the chemicals? In other words, the chemicals are just one way to provide an input to the ball of neurons. If the chemicals aren't there but some other input mechanism is, it could generate an experience of suffering.
glaad.org should be accessible now. Sorry about that. We are working through the first public use of this and appreciate people reporting problems.

dig +short glaad.org @1.1.1.3
23.185.0.1
However, it’s bafflingly weird to include such a thing just to skip a button press or two in the installer.

Not at all. Generally every mouse click required to get an app running will slash your userbase in size by some staggering amount, like 20-50%. I can't quite recall the exact number or where I've seen this, but I've definitely heard this fact from multiple sources, including at Google. Try counting how many clicks are required to get Chrome on your system and you'll be surprised how optimised it is.

Companies measure this, they're very sensitive to it of course. They want as many conversions as possible, but they can see that the more complex the install process gets, the fewer users make it through the other end. It's entirely normal for Zoom to want to simplify as much as possible.
I fail to see how that is relevant, also the back button works for me (Firefox on Windows).
I think you're right about most libertarians. The ones I've known have been vehemently against smoking bans in restaurants, for example, or any action on climate change. That's one reason I've pulled away from the libertarian movement.

However, if we want a society that's not helpless against deadly pandemics, I don't think that means we have to abandon libertarian principles. We just have to apply them in a slightly different way.
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Neuron creation is in the same pathway of the epithelium (skin). Meaning that neurons are more closely related to skin cells than to your liver cells. By bathing the cells in select biochemicals, you can make their daughter cells 'regress' back into earlier forms. Basically, walking the daughter cells back along the development path. These are called stem cells. Your bone marrow is chock full of blood-stem cells that turn into platelets and blood cells and other stuff. Currently, we can walk these cells back a long ways, like from blood cell to blood-stem cell. We're still working on how to go all the way back to cells that can turn into any cell that is chosen (pluripotent stem cells). All this lab is doing is taking skin cells and 'regressing' them back into stem cells that have neurons in their future path. They take biochemicals, apply them to the skin cells, and then apply other biochemicals to these stem cells to make them into neurons. We've been doing this for a few decades now in various species.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurogenesis
Interesting. This looks like an implementation of the abstract computer science notion of continuations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation); neat to see them used this way.
Thanks for the informative answer. What other kinds of scans are there? I know of PET scans, how are those used? Do people combine different kinds of scans into one visualization?
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Looks like a free hosting service isn't sustainable long-term. https://twitter.com/dply_co "Dply disabled account creations due to abuse", "Due to a large influx of fraudulent accounts we were forced to take down the Dply public site for a couple days."
Tell HN: Zoom truncates passwords to 32 chars
I tried to reset my password to a random alphanumeric string, 64 characters in length.

Initially, my password only had lower case letters and numbers. Zoom refused to allow me to use this string because it didn’t have any upper case letters. I figured they were only trying to help so I changed the last alphabet to upper case. Same error. I then thought that maybe they were expecting more than one upper case letter so I changed a few more letters in the second half of my password to upper case. Still the same error.

Annoyed, I changed the first few alphabets to uppercase and this time zoom accepted the new password.

I don’t recall what made me notice this but it turns out that zoom only takes in the first 32 chars of the password which it presumably stores in some hashed form in their backend.

While 32 chars is plenty long for a password, I just wish they’d mentioned this limitation on their website.
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