skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he's wrong. The server never receives the key. The bridge passes along the encrypted stream and encryption/decryption only happens client side.

In the demos, you can see that the parameter is a # parameter and not a query parameter.
This kind of announcements have been way too many. At this point no matter how amazing battery someone has managed to build in a lab, I don't care unless it's manufacturable in large quantities. There are plenty of amazing batteries that lack that quality.

That said, it would be really cool if the claims are true. I so want this to be true. Just not holding my breath.
RTFA

> And calls to the hotline went up 62% in 1 month.
I’m sorry. AOL?
That was a good interview, and obviously he's very experienced, but I'm still concerned with a lot of things he said.

First of all, he claimed that the death rate was going to turn out to be 0.1%; but he didn't even give a hand-wavy answer for why he thinks that. Now obviously, he's a professional who's been studying epidemiology for decades, so his "gut feel" is actually worth something; but I'd feel a lot better about that if he at least gave some other evidence that corresponds to that.

Later in the show, when the interviewer asks him how many deaths he thinks the UK might have in total, he says "12,000"; and the interviewer says, "We've already had 13,000". I mean... dude, your model is obviously off by at least a factor of 2 or 3; what if it's a factor of 10?

He claimed that Korea was backtracking because they couldn't contain it; but looking at the numbers just today, they're still above 10,000, which is what they've been at for weeks now. (I think he may have gotten Korea confused with Japan, who do seem to be having hundreds of new cases on a regular basis.)

But, I mean -- he does have a point: suppose you get to the place where Korea and Taiwan are. Are you really going to keep the country hermetically sealed for the next 18 months while we wait for a vaccine? Are you really going to keep people under lockdown that long?

If you don't have a coherent plan to prevent sickness, but only to delay it, then this "controlled burn" approach -- where you try to let your country become infected as fast as your health capacity will safely allow -- is going to lead to exactly the same number of deaths in the end, but will reduce the economic and societal impact greatly.
You can get around that with contentEditable, but that creates an even bigger mess.
Big tech Covid-19 surveillance, censorship threaten privacy, free speech
It would be nice to be able to demo the app without signing up for an account.
OHME charging cables and wallboxes do this as well
So he fired them, and now wants them to come back in exchange for a pay cut and potential death.

In addition, cooks legally can't be paid tips, so he's ripping off his servers (and I'm guessing cooks as well).
I think you’re being uncharitable by saying anyone who prefers older music only likes music for the “nice sounds”. It may also be I have more interest in music history than most.

But even if I want to watch a tv show or read a book, I similarly want it to be something that is more important than just “well it came out yesterday so must be relevant”. If something can still be relevant a decade after it came out, that’s when you know it’s really good.

And for the record I love music. I’m a multi-instrumentalist, I’ve played professionally in weddings, bars, played buckets in a street performing band, and continue to study music, actively taking classical piano lessons, composing songs. I play every day.
If the data is encrypted well, it should be indistinguishable from random noise.

You can't compress random noise.

Ergo, you can't compress encrypted data. It's a nice idea though.
They are absolutely building a headset.

They acquired Akonia Holographics in 2018 who specialise in holographics for an AR headset. And they already have many patents:

https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2019/11/apple-w...
is there a list of recommended writings i can study on morals?
For reference, they are claiming a specific energy of ~2000 Wh/kg, whereas current Li-ion batteries are in the 200 Wh/kg range. At least according to Wikipedia, so far the highest demonstrated Li-S battery specific energy is 500 Wh/kg.

They are also claiming a cost of $63/kWh vs $156/kWh for Li-ion today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium%E2%80%93sulfur_battery
Sure, but its the same processor as in all current iPhones. I guess "most expensive iPhone faster than most expensive Android phone" isn't quite as click-grabbing. Apple's SoCs have been faster than Qualcomm's for a number of years, so this is hardly news worthy either.
My wife currently has an android phone with those two.

I just picked up the new iphone se for her and explained twice “there is no headphone jack”.

She replied: “Cool, so I can keep my headphones plugged in to the laptop and use the other headphones for the phone. In worse case, I have bt headphones”.

With the SD card... I mean, it seems not possible to configure any app to store data on it. She has signal, whatsapp, broswer, spotify and a few photos and the phone is constantly complaining that it is low on storage.

Androind is working well for my mother though. She is 70+. She doesn’t use any apps, simple text messages, phone calls and that’s it. She just has to buy a new battery like every 6 months...
Or the Onewheel. I use my Onewheel to get around in LA for short trips.
Ah yeah, the ingame market. A whole different story.

But if it is centralized, you should not be able to tamper with it, much, even if you have your own local version running?
Without meaning it as a personal attack, do you have any reason to think that 6 years of trying to detect meanness has made you any more accurate at it than you were before, or than anyone else is?

When you say "trained to pattern match it", is there any feedback to change your models? As moderator-by-fiat it's your decision what comments are mean, which is potentially a self reinforcing loop.
Let's take a more recent disease as an example to investigate whether people are likely to make behavior changes due to the possibility of contracting an illness since those diseases you mention have had a vaccine for about 80 years and people do generally get their vaccinations.

The AIDS epidemic peaked in 1995 in the USA at 40k deaths per year. People absolutely made permanent changes to their sex practices as a result of the disease such as safe sex, regular STD testing, and taking preventive medications (PREP). Because of transmission characteristics, the disease spread fastest among gay men and the epidemic created huge cultural changes in gay America. Until PREP was available, the idea of having unsafe sex was extremely looked down upon and seen as an unnecessary risk, even though many men find condoms less pleasurable.

So I'd say that's pretty direct evidence that people are willing to curtail or modify their recreation when it becomes risky.
Money laundering is still pretty easy to do. If you go through the proper channels and know the reporting laws, it's easy to avoid altogether. Although time consuming and you deal with swaths of physical cash, it's not impractical. You could honestly pay high school students like $20 to convert $1000 cash to a money order or something addressed to your company. They "pay" the company for it's "services" and you wash it through loans and other stuff.

Now the trick is to manage it in a way that a prosecutor couldn't convince a jury of structuring. Have an accountant fabricate records and mix it with legitimate purchases and expenses. It's essentially a front...but what corporation isnt one?
The iPhone XR models should have been the new SE and the iPhone 8 body should have gone. Apple is a joke when it comes to these things.
DUIs are super serious, I would consider that a major lapse in judgement. US culture is fucked
This is such nonsense.
It's the 21st century and you never heard about utilitarism and game theory?
Yes I think the idea here is that the distances over seas to reach islands took many many years until Polynesians delevoped the necessary skills and tech were able to navigate them and settle the lands. I don’t think any archeological evdince have been found otherwise.
Very likely more a point about freedom. Apple does not allow Firefox to use it's own engine under iOS
Naively no, but I wonder if there is some variant of homomorphic encryption that does this? I would be surprised though if this was efficiently possible.
> Imagine how many social problems would disappear if people had more integrity and stronger morals. Literally every aspect of life would improve.

Reminds me of playing https://ncase.me/trust/
Reverse engineer everything that is worth reverse engineering! :)
Niantic Pokeman Go is one of the few hits so far in AR.
You can look at austria to see that that doesn't happen.

An MRI cost me about 0€.

A 4000€ test which tests for nearly any rheutmatic diseases markers and the visit to the hospital for that test cost me 0€, both things got done within two weeks.

Even if you are poor and want to go to a private doctor it will cost you not nearly as much as in the usa. For me it was about 100€, for one visit and that was on the higher end.

Socialized healthcare is always cheaper.
Probably has something to do with the domain being similar. That is what is says here too: https://metamask.github.io/eth-phishing-detect/

"This domain was blocked for its similarity to metamask.io, a historical phishing target."

It also seems like someone has already filed an issue on their Github (https://github.com/MetaMask/eth-phishing-detect/issues/3762) a month ago.
Concur. Knowing the literature isn't the same as having done the research, but it is likely to hasten getting through the learning curve.
24-bit floats "FP24" at least have been a thing in some ATI graphics cards (R300 & R420) 15+ years ago. Some DSPs have also used (some still do?) 24-bit word width.

These odd word widths are anything but common, though.
Covid-19 causes sudden strokes in young adults, doctors say
> The trustful society thing is interesting.

Yes, it is, but it doesn't scale. It only works for communities that are small enough that everyone can keep track of the trust relationships and how well everyone is honoring them. The problem we moderns have is that many of us either don't want to live in such a community (even Scott notices this when he says there is something to be said for not having your neighbors judging your lifestyle all the time) or don't have access to one. So we have a different set of priorities, and we therefore have to make different choices and tradeoffs.
> However, the Swedish decision makers seemed completely unaware of asymptomatic carriers, which led to the at risk (largely old people) being heavily exposed anyways due to the asymptomatic younger workers around them infecting them.

Not unaware, but actively denying that asymptomatic carriers exist and trying to discredit reports saying that asymptomatic carriers play a role in the spread of covid-19.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/vetenskap/tegnell-domer-ut-italie...

https://www.svd.se/oklart-om-viruset-smittar-aven-utan-sympt...
Who is using emails nowadays? Chatting via messenger is much more informal. Also most of my communications are via messenger, so it is nice to have one place for all.
What about the example of driving a car with manual transmission? (I admit that's not the most relatable thing everywhere in the world, still). I'd argue most experienced manual drivers are good at it when we talk about normal traffic (where the skill ceiling just isn't very high).

Try and ask a manual driver when/how they shift. Maybe they will give you rough speed numbers, but that's not really how they do it. Despite knowing very well when they have to shift in their own car, they won't be able to articulate/communicate it in a helpful way. It's become muscle memory guided by sound, haptics, speed perception and timings.

Your clutch and transmission will let you know the difference between good and bad very clearly. You practice "good" a lot. You know how to do it. But you can't articulate it.

One could argue that the scenario in question precludes the possibility to "excel". But the striking difference between "new driver learning a manual" and "experienced driver shifting without spending even a sliver of conscious though on it" is a clear separation of "bad" from "good" (not just "mediocre") and should suffice as counterexample to "if you can't articulate it, you're mediocre".
I'm a little tired of "X is a fallacy." Everything is a fallacy, or nearly so. Almost every method by which we naturally and intuitively reason have been shown to be error prone, deeply biased, or at best an approximate heuristic. This is why Wikipedia is able to list a hundred different kinds of fallacies[1] without even beginning to scratch the surface. I'm not a huge fan of teaching rationality by exhaustively listing fallacies because it's endless. But when maintaining a blacklist becomes too onerous, the solution is to switch to a whitelist. This turns out to be much easier, because the constructive list of techniques that work is very short. Of all the ways of reasoning that are intuitive appealing and naturally make sense to us, only two have stood the test of time:

1. Modus Ponens (If A implies B, and also A, then B.)

2. The Hypothetico-deductive model (The guess-and-check scientific method)

And frankly I'm a little suspicious of that second one!

These are better known as "math" and "science," or "deduction" an "induction." And yes, modus ponens is really the only inference rule you need for logic - Hilbert proved that[2].

The other 98% of the algorithms built into our brains are unreliable and cannot be trusted. Consider for example your optical cortex, which is attempts to patch up raw input in a dozen different ways, resulting in dozens of optical illusions, saccadic masking, not being aware of your own blindspot, and so on. We literally can't trust our eyes... or rather, we can't trust the instinctive processing our own brains do on raw visual input. So it is with the other parts of our brain. Or what Kahneman calls "System 1."[3] It's a patchwork of barely functional heuristics.

Scientists learn to shut out that 98% and use only the two reliable systems. Mathematicians take it even further and shut out 99%, leaving only modus ponens and methods of deduction.

People hate that this is true. They want to reason intuitively, naturally. They hope they can patch their hopelessly bugged brains into something useful if they can just memorize and avoid a list of pitfalls. I'm telling you there's a better way. Forget about fallacies. Stop looking for shortcuts like "mental models." Construct rigorous arguments inside of formal deductive systems. Use those to build formal mathematical models that describe reality. Test those models ruthlessly against experimental data, even to destruction.

You know this works. It put a man on the moon, for god sake. It predicted what a black hole would look like, then took a picture of it. It's cured so many diseases and so many problems that our main problem is that we don't have enough problems. Yet people still want to look for shortcuts. I can sympathize with that. We're all busy. But the real choice you face is this: be rigorous, or be wrong a lot.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_system

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
Btw, the 1200 bucks they are sending folks once is basically a bit over federal minimum wage for a month of full time work.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52383444

One person couldn’t ask a question, but on the whole it far far better than the normal PMQ mess
Yeah, I literally heard that line in my head immediately after reading the title of this post.

What else are we supposed to think of?
This reminds me of "Cartel Land" movie¹, which depicted similar events (in the same Mexican state of Michoacán, BTW) a few years before, mostly around José Manuel Mireles Valverde².

¹ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4126304/

² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Mireles_Valve...
https://euromomo.eu/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...
Do you need vcenter for that?
Dont worry, Valve's official statement is that everything is fine and this was already leaked and patched in 2017 :)
Who said anything about big government, or increasing its size? Specially it being more virtuous

If anything, I have advocated for a culture where the smartest people want to join the public service and help others instead of becoming a product manager for a button on a corner of a stupid app that doesn’t care at all what anyone of us do there as long as we interact with ads.

If you’re going to try to be a smart ass, I also have some spoilers for you, drop the attack mode and get better at text comprehension.
> Any field of knowledge that has been dissected into a taxonomy must be dead.

As others have said, this is clearly untrue. Consider algorithms, for instance. We have categories like dynamic programming, and genetic algorithms (a subcategory of evolutionary algorithms).

Building taxonomies is the easy part, and occurs long before a field is 'completed'.
>2103.8Wh/kg

~10x Tesla

>Trial production of high-power cells, with an expected energy density in excess of 1,000 Wh/kg, is about to begin

oh, so they dont exist yet, explains it
Is MIPS Dead? Lawsuit, Bankruptcy, Maintainers Leaving and More
Honestly, what do you use the SD card for?

Even with movies for flights, I haven’t filled a phone up in years.
As a side note, Pixel 3a got discounted down to $300 a few months after the release, which I think is a fair price for a phone of its specs and software support period. It was definitely too expensive for me for its asked release price.

I'm generally a fan of Apple hardware, but the 3a was the best phone I've owned in a long time. It doesn't have anti-features like slippery glass back or notch and has a headphone jack. And the best thing about it is the battery life - 3-4 days with 6 hours of total screen time.
Not a programmer, but I wrote my first proper script (lots of if/else) at 37 and the world of automation and scripting/programming opened up to me. I work in mostly a Microsoft land, Office 365 and Azure so I work mostly in PowerShell 5 and 7. My daily driver for work is Pop_OS! 20.04 as PowerShell 7 is decently multiplatform now. Current interests/learning are Python and Nim. I don't think you are ever to old to get started.
> Imagine how many social problems would disappear if people had more integrity and stronger morals. Literally every aspect of life would improve. But instead, we have to bulletproof everything (largely without success) from people who scheme and scam their way through life. We sink enormous costs into this, and it slows the progress and complicates life for everyone else.

What bulletproofing? Humanity has operated on an extremely high trust basis since the beginning of civilization - it's the only reason we've been able to grow so fast and reshape the planet. It's why McDonald's employee don't check someone's ID at the pick up window and why social engineering works so well. It's the reason why we even have power grids, indoor plumbing, and modern medicine - all of those systems require extreme levels of trust.

That's not hyperbole: A decent sized power plant joining the grid out of phase can crash the entire system, destroying - aka exploding - other power plants and distribution infrastructure. Our water supply systems and reservoirs are almost completely unprotected and vulnerable to malicious actors. A significant fraction of our health and safety regulations operate on scout's honor and personal liability: the FDA approved the diagnostic tests at the clinical labs I've worked at because they trust some certified lab managers (that we hired) to review our procedures and quality control - for life or death clinical testing - without a regulator ever stepping foot in the lab. Our species has even scraped our noses against nuclear war several times, ending in some low level officer deciding "nah... not today."

As a species we are weak: we can't run fast or climb very well, our stomachs and immune systems aren't worth squat in the wild, and it takes us longer to raise our young than most animals' life expectancies. It is only through intelligence and trust have we been able to overcome those limitations to build the world we have today.

The problem isn't individual morality, it's the systemic incentives built up over millennia of societal debt, tribalism, and a dash of corruption. Trying to moralize at an individual level is a big reason why so many people are anti-religious to begin with.
It would certainly be courteous to inform users that logging for display on a public website is happening. That said, when I'm in an IRC channel I expect everyone is logging actively and I have no control over where those logs will end up. I guess I view it as speaking in public.

It'd be cool if irclogger would skip logging channels with +s/+p. Obviously it's up to the service runner which channels are added to the config, but it would let individual channels decide to opt-out (or even opt-out for a certain amount of time by setting/unsetting it.)
Shareholding is not required to generate wealth, and it does encourage the disconnect between business activity and responsibility for results.

Politicians will generally follow what the money wants. Making those with a financial stake in the companies responsible is what will remove the gap.
It probably has everything to do with fees from credit card processors.

A "card checked & signed" transaction has a lower fraudulence rating so has a lower fee associated.

What's the most surprising is that contactless payment isn't being pushed as a safety priority.
How bout do both?
Yes, I think homomorphic encryption is what I was thinking about, although I didn't know its name until now.
I can't see a situation where a DUI isn't your fault. I guess there's probably edge cases or whatever, but I think the vast majority of the time, it's your fault.

That being said, I don't think I'd hold a DUI against a person, mainly because the system is set up to fuck you. If you decline a breath-a-lyzer, then you suffer nearly the same fate as failing it. At minimum you lose your license, at worst you get arrested and they get a warrant to take a blood sample. It's completely possible to get punished for drunk driving without ever touching the stuff. I've been pulled over at night and experienced an officer absolutely trying to pin me for DUI despite clear evidence to the contrary.

Police love to brag about how expensive DUIs, I've seen lots of anti-drunk driving billboards that reference cost in some way. And knowing police forces in the US, well all know they are pocketing a healthy chunk of change from each DUI.

Now, if you have nine DUIs, that's a different story...
Juicero actually worked. It just didn't work as well as using your bare hands.
No, what we should do is build our systems so that human nature is taken into consideration. There will always be good and bad people.

Medical pricing should be simple, upfront and direct. It should not require lots of clerks and "billing professionals"

It shouldn't required armies of expensive lawyers to settle disputes. Whether the bill was not paid by the customer, or the doctor failed to deliver what the customer paid for.
That tx/rx interface is the real problem. But if you enclose things with the right material, you can turn everything into a large varistor and even MOS-FETs will survive.
About 4 or 5 years ago I did an experiment there. The thing about peer lending is your returns start off high - most people pay the first few months of their loans, but as time wears on the defaults continue to mount. I ended up with negative returns every year after.
On par for this administration. Speaks to an aggressive approach for deploying vaccines but here's significant risk due to causing Antibody Dependent Enhancement disease (ADE) like the Dengue vaccine.