skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a side note, but: I tried to install newpipe (by first installing F Droid), and Google prevented my pixel 3 from doing so because I am a user of Advanced Protection Program.

The OS has application permissions for apps: why is a feature designed to protect my account (and only my account) preventing me from independently installing free and open source software?
> Nobody is communicating anything valuable over Twitter. This is such a ridiculous point that people bring up all the time. Scandalous relationships? Most of that will be on true messenger applications. Business deals? Business email. Many more mainstream prominent people don't even run their own account.

GP was talking about the 2016 election, where Julian Assange and Roger Stone literally communicated strategies, for how to coordinate if the FBI came down on Assange for the leaks, via Twitter DMs. Many things going on with no Signal, PGP, etc.

https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-reveals-roger-stone-was-...
I commented about the coming cancellation of Steven Pinker 6 days ago, as it has been developing for a little bit on social media and follows several other campaigns to censor and oppress other professors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23788095.

The charge of “scientific racism” leveled against Pinker is simply rhetorical warfare, waged using an emotionally charged term like “racism”. The pursuit of objective, quantitative, rational, scientific analysis is now under attack using this label. It is the mob burying their head in the sand, unwilling to yield when reality disagrees with their ideological stance. It is anti-science. But these days, even being objective and scientific is seen as offensive to the progressive mentality. And I mean this literally, as seen in the recent Smithsonian chart that they took down (https://www.newsweek.com/smithsonian-race-guidelines-rationa...).

Cancel culture isn’t a recent trend - there are entire websites dedicated to cancel culture on college campuses, such as https://www.thecollegefix.com/. Free thought, free inquiry, and open debate are under attack from those that want only their worldview to prevail. It is a direct threat to a free society and much has been written about it recently from Quillette (https://quillette.com/2020/07/01/on-steve-hsu-and-the-campai...) and Harper’s (https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/) and others.

I’m not sure how to fight back except to create direct consequences for those pursuing cancellation. Perhaps we need to shame and demand the firing of everyone who signs such letters, demanding censorship and cancellation of others.
Along this line, every Google Compute Engine VM instance comes with 2 “implied” rules: allow all egress and deny all ingress.
After spending years learning on the job, I started reading the documentation books cover to cover, and I have never looked back. Colleagues are often amazed at my "deep knowledge" of the technologies I use, however I mostly know what is written in the manual. It baffles me that people can't be bothered to read the documentation and at the same time complain that "X is too hard! Let's use Y instead!"
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> While it looks immoral if you don't understand the mechanics, people are simply responding to incentives around bankruptcy laws.

Still looks immoral.
And how is life without an iPhone treating you?
Assault? Robbery? He'd disguise himself to commit basically any criminal act agains Fahim, not just murder.

Even weapons being brought could have been intended for threatening future violence.

It's incredibly hard to prove, beyond reasonable doubt, what someone's mindset is at any given time.
There are virus labs all over the place so this could be a birthday paradox. There's one here in rural Montana (the data we quote often about sars-cov-2 survival times on surfaces was generated there).
>Why do you think that never took off?

Maybe takes a lot of time and no expensive contracts and kickbacks ;)
I don't mean this in any kind of condescending way, but I honestly think you might be in a bubble. If I was only looking at my immediate friend group, I would think the same way, as none of them use Twitter DMs at all. However, I recently met up with some old acquaintances from high school, and they use Twitter DMs and Instagram DMs as one of their main methods of communication.

There's a reason "slide into the DMs" is a saying: https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/slide-into-the-dms/
He's verified though, and they claim the only exfil'd accounts weren't.
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yes, excluding subsidies. Excluding storage - not yet, or at least, not everywhere. But the cost of storage is falling rapidly, too.
There you go again weak fag.
That's an interesting argument. I guess one critical piece of data would be - is the probability of Covid-19 originating from wet markets the same across all of China?

If every wet market had the same probability, then yeah, it's odd that the alleged wet market is one of thousands, but just happened to be next to the bio lab in Wuhan.

But if the probability was unevenly distributed and such a virus originating was highly likely in only a few dozen wet markets, Wuhan included, then the probability of it being a coincidence is much higher.
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> there’s no reason a VPN login is any more inherently secure than the login to whatever admin panel they’re using

VPN credentials can also be tied to a device certificate, which can be securely stored in the machine’s TPM.

This prevents VPN login from anything except a company issued machine. You don’t get this with normal password auth.
- First, most executives have little impact on success of a firm in the best of times

- Working for a business in financial distress basically sucks.
Texas https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/14/texas-hospitals-coro...

Arizona https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-health/20...

Florida https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/10/florida-coro...

Georgia https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
> Readers: What do you think? Could Trump and the Republicans take most of the wind out of the Democrats’ sails with one big health care hand-out?

Can Republicans turn around and manage to do this handout before the elections? That would be pretty fast for them, given their recent record.

> (of course, all of the money for this would just come from taxpayers themselves, but somehow Americans never seem to consider that they will ultimately have to work for whatever the government “gives’ them)

No, not all the money. Ever heard about economy of scale? If you and I and everybody else are building a nuclear umbrella against ICBMs, we'll likely to spend a lot more than if we group resources together. That grouping of resources is called "government".

> Bonus pictures of the house that Medicaid and Medicare built, in Nome, Alaska, from September 2019. This single building is likely worth more than all of the rest of the houses and commercial real estate in the city.

Surely it would be better to build in downtown San Francisco :) easily remaining "not the most expensive building", while spending likely much more?
They exact same disparity exists elsewhere in the world but the politicization is largely an American phenomena, so it's not the disparity by itself to blame.
I thought the high end financial jobs wanted physicists and mathematicians, not business or tech people.
Digital Ocean uses flaire?
What would X ~ p(y) mean?
There's the Interim OS project [1] (already discussed in another comment here) as a bare-metal Lisp and it might be interesting to port Movitz [2], a bare-metal Lisp project for x86 that seems to be abandoned for quite some time now.

There also seems to be a bare metal Forth implementation, pijFORTHos [3], but I haven't played around with that one so far.

[1] http://interim-os.com/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movitz
[3] https://github.com/organix/pijFORTHos
The difference is that in fascist politics, the justifications are lies.

The US didn't invade Iraq to "liberate its people", and federal thugs aren't abducting people from the streets to "protect federal property".

Those are lies and transparent pretexts.

In non-fascist politics, the justifications aren't dishonest pretexts. For example, when non-fascist Roosevelt established Social Security, the stated reason was to safeguard "against the hazards and vicissitudes of life".

That was not a lie or a pretext. It was true, and that's the difference.
this sounds like zettelkasten method.
>>> I wouldn't be surprised if Fadi to was invited to the White House as a special adviser on the internet, or something like that.

Yep, such behaviour is pretty much a qualification for joining the U.S. government.

"Fadi, you've been doing outstanding work! This is the sort of skills we need on the team. Would you like to run the Department of Defence?"
Has this paper either been peer-reviewed or submitted for peer-review as a preprint?

I have a PhD in chemistry and I certainly don’t feel like I’m qualified to judge the quality of the work or the track record of the authors, scientifically.

I think this paper’s deserves a thorough airing and evaluation, but I don’t think Hacker news is a forum well equipped to produce a high signal to noise evaluation on such a highly charged claim, to say the least.
There is a long thread here now that addresses all your questions, rebuttals, and subsequent rebuttals.

But fundamentally, you need to realize that if something is happening in a statistically significant way (like it is here with dozens of companies doing the same thing at the same time), there is likely an explanation in structural incentives.
GPU hardware is varied and changes frequently. Many API features are partially or entirely implemented in software (drivers or API runtime) complicating things. Console, mobile and desktop parts are different in terms of functionality. OpenGL is probably the closest to runs on everything. BGFX, sokol, WebGPU and other abstraction layers might be good fits as well. I think options are pretty good if you just want rasterized triangles, vertex and fragment shaders (and maybe compute). As you start to need better performance or other parts of the pipeline options are less clear cut.
Google has made it a requirement to use hardware keys internally since early 2017 and has noted there have been zero successful phishing attempts since. Twitter would have done the same if they had competent security staff.
What is bad about it for people? Do we not live in diverse climates already?
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I'd imagine that fee would be literal money, as this nullifies concerns about people creating fake accounts to get more Karma, and means people are fully incentivised to place votes carefully. It does introduce a "pay to influence" aspect that I don't love, but one would hope that at sufficient scale the Efficient Market Hypothesis would kick in, and trying to pay to influence would just result in you burning your money.

> Has anyone tried a logarithmic or similar scale for voting?

Hmmm good question. I don't think this would make a huge difference, as visibility is generally a function of a post's current rank rather than its actual score, so any monotonic transform isn't going to have a large effect.
It' the uncanny valley of NLP. I hope researchers pay more attention to how these answers are being generated. I would prefer interpretable AI over intelligible but random AI.
Yea which are $3 / hour. Or, you could, shameless plug, use Lambda's GPU cloud which has V100s for $1.5 / hour!

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I'm embarrassed that I feel so compelled to post this--on a Friday night at that--I apologize.
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This is the immunology equivalent of "jet fuel can't melt steel beams". It's embarrassing to see it here, especially in a community with pretensions of bringing "disruption" to biotech. It would take a long time to catalog all the nonsense here but I'll just say that short subsequence (6aa) BLAST is meaningless and this subsequent claim is just word salad: "Such high human similarity also implies a high risk for the development of severe adverse events/toxicity and even Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE)"

(there's no relationship between the capacity for ADE and self-similarity of amino acid content)
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An illusion that only works for half the audience is not very reliable. I see opportunity to [by email] assign reading materials to them and possibly offer to tutor them weekly. When you own the problem it is yours to solve.
As a large, strong man understand that the strength can be the easy part. The grace and restraint to open the bag of chips without them flying all over the bathroom is the hard part.
It works for 20.04 LTS and we've updated the website to reflect this, thanks for bringing it to my attention!
I'm already using Lithium, also FOSS and from F-Droid...

Anyone know how this one compares?
Too lazy to provide a link (sorry) but KrebsOnSecurity had some screenshots of a forum user offering up access to internal tooling. The access may have been deliberately sold, not necessarily coerced.
The game revs ruined it for everyone else ;)

The revisionist history: AAA game developers are used to console APIs. Which do exactly what you tell them to at the hardware, no sugar coating or drivers in the way. Having shipped a few games, drivers are indeed a terrible curse. One vendor's D3D11 drivers are pretty notorious for being incredibly invasive to your game in the goal of speed, making it difficult to ship content that was consistent across devices. Another vendor, sick of having to turn their driver into a rocket engine, found common ground with some game developers, and made a prototype, Mantle, which showed real-world performance gains on game content. But it was pretty specific to how their hardware and GPUs worked. But given that Xbox wanted performance, Microsoft was I intrigued and worked closely with that vendor to design the next-generation Direct3D API.

Meanwhile, the vendor with the super fancy drivers had a pretty major chokehold on OpenGL, which is just an absolute terrible mess of a bad API. It's an API that is so backwards and difficult that nobody likes it from the driver or the application perspective, but given that this vendor had the best drivers for it, they didn't want to lose it. But Mantle vendor wanted to shake things up and submitted Mantle to Khronos, the organization that standardizes OpenGL, to form the basis for the "gl-next" initiative. Mobile GPU vendors get invo.ved and turn the design into a mess. The original engineers who designed Mantle left their parent company over design disagreements to go join Apple, who also had a vested interest in getting rid of OpenGL but had little desire to use gl-next. This is Metal.

Ultimately, D3D12 is Microsoft's turf. Nobody likes Vulkan but it's there on Android and Stadia and Linux and is pretty mediocre there. And Metal is pretty well-rounded but is the domain of Apple.

3D rendering has always been a mess, but now it's even worse because tiles exist, data bandwidth is crazy expensive, and game revs need more fidelity and FPS than ever before. Synchronizing between coprocessors is now the job of the application.
I understand what you are saying, but the thing is they compromised accounts of multiple employees (according to them), so I still think it's important.
Great stuff guys.

I’ve had a look at some of the research papers but didn’t find any detail on these questions:

- Aside from direct physiological response to the hypnosis, is there also evidence of efficacy due through changes in behavior? I.e., greater adherence to diets or other lifestyle changes? I note that some of negative comments in this thread focuses on efficacy relative to diets like low FODMAP, but I can imagine these approaches could be complementary rather that dichotomous.

- Is much known about why it works on a psychophysiological level? I.e., a reduction in cortisol changes the way the digestive system functions, or a change in one’s beliefs about their place in the world leads to a change in the way certain food ingredients are rejected vs accepted by the body?
The answer to that problem was already solved then: plant a billion trees or something to that degree and there will be no excess carbon.

>As one example, enough CO2 will noticeably harm your intellect, and there is enough unburned carbon in the world to make us all dull-minded.

Has IQ been going down due to that? Is that theoretical? Seems like improper breathing is a larger issue, and people in cities with worst local air have higher IQs than those in rural areas. Seems at best a non factor.
Structural incentives can be immoral. Remember subprime MBSes?
I wouldn't say it serves the interest of Google, because then you couldn't get to all the websites linked from Google Search.
This reminds me of the problem of the many (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/problem-of-many/), which I have a feeling won't have a satisfying solution within my lifetime. I think these issues may have practical good-enough solutions, but may never be "solved" since it's so open-ended and fundamentally vague/ambiguous.
Not in the current version, here the drivers are implemented in C/C++ in the circle bare-metal library [1].

In general, I think Smalltalk is not that well suited as a systems programming language since garbage collection might mess with your timing and you would also need to find a way to handle asynchronous events (such as interrupts).

Nevertheless, Smalltalk has been used for low-level control of robots, e.g. in NXTalk [2] for the Mindstorms NXT ARM7 platform. However, the VM also relied on C code (the LegOS project) for driver code.

[1] https://github.com/organix/pijFORTHos
[2] https://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/projects/nxtalk/in...
Similarly, I cannot log into my YouTube account on some devices. I can log in to my Google account, but it doesn't have the same subscriptions, likes, watch history, etc. On other devices, if I log in with my Google account it logs into my YouYube account, which has what I need. The two accounts must have been synced at some point, but I can't always access the original YT account, which sucks.
I've been using Webtorrent Desktop for quite a while now, and really enjoy using it generally, but there are some glaring issues around random freezes on fast connections, plenty of open issues on it with other users reporting the same experience: https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop/issues?q=is...

I've personally been working around this using a custom fork that messes around with the simultaneous connections settings of the webtorrent library, and it seems to help a bit, but I still get freezing from time to time when I download a large number of torrents simultaneously.

I wonder if an alternative Webtorrent implementation (not Webtorrent Desktop) in Rust on top of WASM might make those kinds of issues easier to avoid with its safeguards around concurrency and just generally making more efficient use of resources.

(Slightly edited repost from an earlier thread about Webtorrent, feels a lot more relevant on this one)
It's not just weak, it's incoherent and seemingly written by someone who misunderstood some wikipedia articles on virology.

There's a difference between someone trying to seriously assess the possibility of lab origins for SARS-CoV-2 and whatever GPT-3 generated nonsense this post is.
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So that makes, what, 2 of you? For widely used libraries and programs "no one" should be approximated to "less than 0.01% of users".
These are namespaces with their own browsers, not browsers with their own namespaces
What's the difference between a VPC and iptables? I agree that you shouldn't expose insecure services. But why do I need to introduce an entire private address space and cloud-managed SDN services to achieve that goal? If it weren't industry status quo, I'd almost call you a shill for the union of ops teams working to secure jobs for years to come. Almost.. (;
Web Components are opinionated. You can't have an API that's not opinionated.

And the opinion has shifted from "this is the future" to "Web Component specs is aimed primarily at library authors, we don't expect people to author them by hand"
We delegate to developer to make modification on the infrastructure even they don't have the access right to the servers. The change can also be reviewed by all the parties.
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Money isn't everything, especially when you already have lots of it. People are willing to go to great lengths when they feel they're being marginalized.

On January 7, 2016, Levandowski emailed Larry Page with a plea: “Chauffeur is broken,” he wrote, according to a document revealed during the civil suit. “We’re losing our tech advantage fast.” He offered to start a separate self-driving effort within Google but was shot down. A few weeks later, after allegedly downloading those 14,000 files, he resigned. “I want to be in the driver seat, not the passenger seat, and right now [it] feels like I’m in the trunk,” he told Page.

https://www.wired.com/story/anthony-levandowski-put-himself-...
Find better executives :)
> Even if you change it on your personal device, they'll force DNS on you.

How does that work?
I do take the worst possible view of the CCP government as informed by Amnesty International [0]. IMO they are right above Pol Pot's Camboida/the CCCP/Nazi Germany.

Looking at the situation the CCP government could benefit from a virus like COVID, I mean how else are you going to take out a US carrier crew this quickly... This has already happened to a french carrier crew where almost 1/2 tested positive for COVID[1].

The one thing that I do not understand though, is what the geopolitical purpose of the virus assuming even if it is in regard to the CCP government's goals though. If they [CCP government] wanted to take Taiwan this is not the right strategy, as the island has not had much problems with COVID. So either it is not a plot by the CCP gov to advance their goals or we are looking at a possible escaped virus out of a Chinese lab.

Assuming that these scenarios are even possible the damage would be in the trillions and we would also have to assume the CCP gov has assassinated anyone with the knowledge of this and destroyed the evidence, so it will be very difficult to find out. Irregardless the rest of the world has started to invest much more in India which is good since we should not have all our overseas manufacturing supply chain eggs in one basket.

[0] https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/asia-and-the-pacific/ch...

[1] https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2020/04/20/french-c...
Yes. Not my first language!
It isn't about just fertility, it can have other uses, and its also possible to make it more fertile (although it is a poor choice as farmland). Las Vegas for example is very inhospitable, as was the ancient Persepolis.
There is no indication that the accounts whose data was accessed were the accounts which tweeted the crypto scam.

Therefore, I'm not sure that's a straightforward explanation.
It's overly verbose and error prone. Try adding an observable attribute. Then add another one. Then do something simple like change the name of the first one.

And that's just two attributes.
IANAL so I don't quite understand why would be a state law (Oregon in this case) applicable to federal agents executing the federal law. Seeing that internet is full of pictures of federal agents with "police" insignia (usually together with the agency name, but not always) it appears that the federal law allows this type of identification and, because of the Supremacy Clause, the state law has no effect. Am I missing something here?
Is the only usage of land for crop growth?