skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't "deflect", the topic was Chinese surveillance and censorship.

PS I'm not American or in America.
Carrots are an indigestible fibre so they carry the coconut oil into your small and large intestine. Usually the coconut oil would be absorbed rapidly. The coconut oil then kills the bad bacteria lining your gut. The carrots on their own also absorb some of this bacteria and are excreted. You can do the same thing with bamboo shoots if you don't like carrots.
When you drink, even in moderation, your mental clarity probably isn't at peak level again for at least two night's rest.

That's my experience anyway. People who think they're back in tip-top shape after a night out tend to be the ones who drink so often they live in a fog and can no longer distinguish between that and clear mindedness anymore. I think that's true for a surprisingly large amount of people.
dang, this article is written by an SEO guy, and submitted twice over the past 20 hours, just by adding a hashbang. The history of the domain on HN shows this pattern a lot. Maybe you could look into it, but I guess this low quality hit piece is just another SEO fad and should be banned from HN.
There is new data from the Juno Mission, that Jupiter has a diluted core.

"...heavy elements (elements other than hydrogen and helium) are distributed within a region extending to nearly half of Jupiter’s radius."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1470-2
The word racist has lost all meaning? Could you provide evidence of that? I anecdotally still see the word used often enough and correctly. No doubt it is sometimes overused, but considering there are a lot of racists in the USA and that racism is a currently an important social issue the USA is widely discussing on a very regular basis, one would expect to see the word used a lot and for people to be actively trying to work out what is and what is not racism.
This is the shortsightedness of chasing short term profits for the investors rather than a more sustainable approach of not handing over the reins to a less than trustworthy partner.

I'm genuinely curious for how many companies did this short term bump in profits outweigh the long term loss by irretrievably handing over technology, business strategies, etc.

Edit for the comment below.

> legally obliged to maximise shareholder value

Fiduciary duties are not so explicitly described. A CEO must use care and be diligent when making decisions on behalf of the company and shareholders. Make choices in good faith with true belief that each choice is made with the best interests of the corporation in mind.

Hence the best interests of the corporation must be weighed between short term and long term. A CEO could argue either way that they took the decision in good faith. This is where my curiosity came from, how many of these decisions turned out to be financially successful in hindsight?
The nice thing about the newer semantic web standards is that they're a lot more detailed than the "description" and "keywords" standards of old. It's more obvious if a website is providing misleading information for self-serving purposes.
Do you have showdead set to "on" in your profile?
Creepy = doing anything differently than me
When I was in undergrad I was helping out a PhD student in computer science, working on how to parse English. One of his test cases was, "I saw the man on the hill with a telescope." for which there is of course no one possible meaning.

I was told years later the company he worked for at the time (this was the mid 1980's) was the CIA (and to my memory, he only ever told me "his company" and never named it while we were working together). I don't know if or how any of my "help" made it into the US gov't, but I think about it sometimes.
Ask HN: How do you prove a particle causes a health symptom?
How can one definitively prove that the presence of a certain particle in the body is also the cause of a certain symptom? How do we know if it’s correlation or true causation?
Picking a nit: “Lattes are bad for you” come now. No food is inherently “bad”. In moderation or in a balanced diet you can regularly eat some amount of “bad” food and remain perfectly healthy. I do agree they aren’t a health food but I dislike “good” and “bad”. I think healthier and unhealthier is a much better axis for food, and making choices around food.
External connection != external control.

Although with home security services, it's one of the areas where I think external control is advantageous because the best cameras don't help you when the thieves take the device that keeps the recordings with them.
The agreement needs to be reciprocal. China should have to jump through the same hoops if it wants to do business in the US, UK, Australia, etc

And not just for doing business either, things like home ownership too. If I cannot buy a house in China (not that I'd want to pay for a Chinese house that'll last 5 years max) because I'm not Chinese then they should not be allowed buy in my country either. Vancouver, Toronto, Sydney... all have property markets destroyed by Chinese funny money.

It has to stop, but it won't due to greed. Trump is right about China

(I'm not American, don't live or work in America, and have never, or could ever, vote in an American election. Take your faux outrage elsewhere)
Sounds like a similar feature (“Sound Recognition”) that is coming in iOS 14. https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-14-preview/features/

It’s not clear from the article but I assume the Google implementation was pushed out to users and turned on by default (likely without a notification that the device would now start doing this).
Since the iOS feature is listed under “Accessibility” I would assume that it’s opt-in.
The Fed didn't pump that money into stocks, it pumped it into the hands of the citizens, many of whom decided those stocks were the safest place for it.

I am one such person, though in a different country, who has felt these stocks are the safest place for a good chunk of my portfolio.

What alternatives are there? There's no argument for taxing the heck out of people who lead incredibly successful (and safe, for investors) companies, just because they have managed to make that situation so.
I've unplugged mine too but saying it's spying is mincing words a bit.

I highly doubt they care what individuals say in their home but probably care a lot more about what your demographic talks about, watches on TV, listens to on the radio and any other data they can glean from sound.

Think about it, distinct actions make certain sounds, (i.e. from washing dishes to sleeping)

They probably have a lot more of a complete picture of your home than you realise.
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I’m pretty sure developers of OS kernels are aware of these shenanigans.

Here’s the implementation of queues in Linux: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/4334f30ebf395b204c6cb... I never worked on that kernel, but on the first sight it looks like they’re using a combination of locks and lock-free stuff there.
That's the point I was trying to make. You can't really 'catch' someone using the same logic to write similar code.

If I change companies, I am going to write code in the same way and test it in the same way.

It'll be very difficult for my original company to 'sue' me if I were to code for the other company unless I do something like this guy did.
Interesting! I have always seen timing attacks cited as originating in Kocher (1994), but I suppose this is some bias towards the current Unix / PC / crypto world away from mainframe development. The 1991 paper is quite clear, though the 1977 paper it cites just kind of punts on the issue (end of section 3.6):

> Hence, it will not be possible to transmit information over a covert communication channel at a high enough bandwidth to make such attempts worthwhile.

Skimming the citations though, I'm not 100% sure it's the same thing as Kocher (1994) which has a more direct line to Meltdown/Spectre. The idea that intervals of high-precision clocks could carry information is the same, but especially the KVM/370 paper seems concerned with it being used for unmonitored communication between two malicious actors, or as a tool to learn something generally about what other users of the system are doing, not exfiltration of the the stored data itself across a security boundary with an oblivious user. The 1991 paper seems to sit somewhere in the middle.
Give avocado oil a shot. Great smoke point, no real flavor. I am allergic to avacado somehow and the oil doesn’t bother me.
ML/NN methods and knowledge only become more effective and powerful if accurate input data is available. You can not just "extract" information, but try to perform complex queries, inference etc. over structured data.
this may right up your ally! https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/gemini-pda

As far as I can tell, it can dualboot linux and android (or even sailfish OS!)
Saturated fat doesn't increase all cause mortality and yes if you are lactose intolerant it's bad for you, maybe even carcinogenic.

Also this article is an advertisement for a book "The cheese trap" another pop science, pop nutrition sensation I'm sure. Nutrition was better before everyone and their dog was trying to sell a book, diet plan or health product.
C.I.A. Lacing (2014)
In the 90s, many roundabouts were removed especially in the northeast. I don’t think this is true. In New Jersey alone I can remember seven or more very large roundabouts that were removed.
Yes, your link appears stable. I thought I'd linked to it when I posted, but I messed up, I guess. My bad.
Aren't CEO's kind of legally obliged to maximise shareholder value, so they have to do the deal with the devil?
"And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by from this day until the ending of the world but we in it shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, For he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother, Be he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition, and gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves acursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whilst any speaks, that fought with us upon St. Crispin's day!"

Possibly Branagh's finest work delivering Sheakspeare's most rousing words.
I installed Debian Jessie on my 320CDT just a week or two ago. That's the last version of Debian that supports the Pentium MMX CPU. The battery doesn't hold a charge anymore and the screen is pretty dim.

The 320CDT came with Windows 95 but I got a $200 or so Toshiba store credit in a class action settlement because of a floppy drive problem with the 320CDT that I never actually experienced. I used that to buy Windows 2000 which ran reasonably well on the 96MB of RAM I have in the 320CDT.

My next laptop was a Satellite Pro 6100 which was a truly awful piece of hardware... got sent in for repairs multiple times and never worked right.
With something so artificial as this lock down I'm sure it will. We basically removed millions of jobs from the economy on purpose.
500k incorrect absentee ballot applications sent, including dead people
Researchers overturned US Iran sanctions on a virtual summer school
Timesharing was dominant from the 70s up to the start of the PC era, and never really went away on the server side. Performance gains vs. tool cost have been sublinear for decades now; servers used to do only a little less with a lot less.
I don't know anyone who believes that Siri is as good as Alexa. I spent four months self-isolating in an apartment with the small hockey puck Alexa devices in random corners and returned to my big open plan apartment with two paired HomePods on the kitchen counter.

The frequency with which Siri shits its pants (can't help, asks me to excuse it being slow as it tries to set a timer, mishears me, etc.) is honestly remarkable.

(Not to mention the fact that my phone continues to alert me to text messages read on my Mac or iPad whole minutes ago.)

Apple is still working to overcome deep problems in both its cloud infrastructure and AI/ML. If they cannot be honest about this, they should not be dishonestly trying to present a picture of all being well.
Bought my iPhone in HK as well, double physical SIM slot is a must have!

Most other devices I bought elsewhere, except for those I was dead sure I’m going to keep. As far as I can tell HK is the only place in the world where Apple retail has a no returns policy.
These findings of Google spyware is getting pretty boring. I feel sorry for whoever is Google's Chief Privacy Officer to defend all these privacy violations in their own products. They must be facing daily privacy investigations at this point.

Another day another Google listening device article. Get ready to comment on the next one.
I didn't say "superior," and I don't mean it. I also don't mean that the US should copy China, only that it is.. kinda.

I do, however, think the view that "open societies have systematically outperformed authoritarian ones over the past century" is potentially naive, dangerous even. Did the 18th and 19th century "prove" that expansionist imperialism is superior to nationalism, democratic liberalism, etc?

We have a tendency to narrate history with cause-effect dynamics that compliment our ideals. If you believe in open society (I do), you tend to make this an anchor in your historical worldview.

In any case... the west, especially the US, is what "outperformed." If Roosevelt had been Russian & Lenin American, I don't think the 20th century would have played out the same but backwards. There are too many factors at play. History is not determined by ideological positions.

Post WWII, western european states certainly did outperform warsaw pact states. I think that's the strongest evidence of "superiority," but again there are many factors. Not least among them, Western germany traded within a much wealthier trade block. A similar dynamic affected China in the 80s. They suddenly had access to wealthy western markets. This creates wealth regardless of governing economic systems.

In my view, the political imperative is backwards. Open society must succeed for open society ideals to prevail. This as opposed to "success is important, therefore open societies ideas must be adopted." There is no ideological position that guarantees success. That is itself a communist perspective... messianic rationalism.

I don't believe history to be deterministic. Open societies are valuable for their own sake. How they perform is, IMO, attributable to "execution" above all else.
I think it’s sort of even between undergrad experiments and problems in degree of contrivance.
There’s so many things I find disturbing that whether my is Google speaker is listening to me doesn’t even crack the Top 10.

What’s the negative outcome? I don’t believe this is the start of an inevitable slippery slope decline into a Big Brother surveillance state.

Yeah maybe they’ll get more data and target ads better, but that’s a good thing. I want to know about products that might interest me and then buy them!
Those weapons grade language models take hundreds of gigabytes of storage. But yeah, after downsizing to a few dozen MB they should still be better than what's there currently.
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Have any references on this story?
If you’re going to use that standard against nuclear submarines and deep-sea oil drilling, it is unreasonable to also say we can make those things from Venusian air. Yes, in a lab, sure — that’s proof of concept, far less than a camping trip, and roughly the same level as extraction of oxygen from rocks.
Important RFCs: Official Internet Protocols
Just say you snorted some lines and don’t want to mix the drugs.
I'd recommend some more research into the how cows in dairy farms are treated. Your description is rather more idyllic than the reality, I think. For one, most male calves are not needed on a dairy farm, so they are either slaughtered for veal, raised as beef cattle, or euthanized at birth [1]. Whether this matter to you depends on where you stand on vegetarianism of course, and anyway the issues with the wellfare of meat herds is not what I wanted to discuss.

The dairy cows are also not quite so happy, I think. Mastitis is a potentially fatal disease of the udder, usually caused by bacteria entering the teat; many of the practices on a dairy farm make this far more likely, and while of course the farmers are doing all they can to stop it, it is still one of the biggest issues in the industry, and it seems that some level of mastitis is expected in all dairy herds [2]. It is perhaps a side note to the animal wellfare aspect, but the use of antibiotics is a big part of the mitigations, and seems to be administered as a matter of course; this is an issue because it promotes antibiotic resistance in bacteria, which has implications for humans too.

There are other wellfare issues around overwork of cows from producing much larger amounts of milk than they would to feed a calf, whether grains are a healthy food compared to grasses, and even mental health issues such as separating cows from their calves and whether they have enough access to the outdoors.

I've tried to select links that are balanced and non-hyperbolic, but it's tricky to do. Like I said, I recommend more research but try not to be too turned off the hyperbolic articles on both sides. Articles from vegans are often under-researched and manipulative, but if you dig around you'll find that many of the issues they discuss are real. On the other hand, farmers are of course not animal hating devils and so write to defend themselves and their livelihood, but they can often go the other way and underplay the issues that are there.

And finally, animal wellfare is not the only argument for veganism, because livestock has an environmental impact comparable to the transport industry [3].

[1] https://www.dairy.com.au/dairy-matters/you-ask-we-answer/wha...

[2] https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/404/404-233/404-233.html
[3] https://news.trust.org/item/20180918083629-d2wf0
> Where does this end? Industrial farming kills insects. We obviously don't have the same amount of love for insects as we have for cows. But why should cows live and insects die?

Instead of doing nothing because there aren't any perfect solutions, start by aiming to minimise harm when there's realistic options to do so? e.g. avoid cow milk in favour of oat or soy milk.

Dairy cows eat crops from industrial farming as well so if you're concerned about insects dying, less diary will likely help e.g. you could make milk directly from soy beans instead of feeding them to cows.
Thanks! I'll definitely keep an eye out for it.

Now if only they can make a 16oz product for those us of who don't use it enough to consume 32oz in 7-10 days...
Free trade with China has vastly improved Chinese workers living standards. Those rural jobs from the Cultural Revolution were actual poverty, and physically dangerous to boot.
That's the main problem I face with studies with Food/Dieting etc etc.

You can equally claims both sides and reject both studies. Nobody know anything for sure and you can prove equally wrong/right both sides.

Eg: Cow milk is bad while whole generations have drank them.
Nationalism, Identity Politics, and don't forget the paid shills. It's the same problems you see in any large public online forum. I think addressing this issue is actually something for a very interesting discussion.
There is a big difference between smoke alarm detection built into the wake-up-word circuitry, versus every sound sent to Google's servers for analysis. I am not bothered by the former, but would be aghast at the latter. Does anyone know for sure?
No-one has yet, but what's the problem with it?

America stole Britain's intellectual property for a leg up a century or two ago, now a different country is doing it to them.

It's just the normal cycle, and America have long had a lot of artificial legal protections in place to try and stop it and limit the rest of the world's prosperity.

The harsh copyright laws and IP agreements they've bullied the rest of the world into accepting are beginning to fail, and these sort of articles are a direct consequence of that, why wouldn't we discuss it? It's an intellectually interesting effect.

There's also the other question of is it really stealing? America still has the knowledge, after all. Copyright laws were supposed to encourage innovation, but as many here have argued, have gone too far, what's the surprise now a country has enough power to say No to America, they're saying No.
It is some cherry picking of photos. Public space activity did drop alot in Mars due to people not following recommendations (not a typo). There still was normal eg. restaurant activity just with fewer guests.

The main problem was that the authority leaders don't believe in wide testing, PPE for nursing home workers or asymptomatic transmission, I guess.
The use case you're envisioning diverges more from traditional contact sheets more than what's in the article.

Browsing pictures is not the same as having a picture of pictures. I can mark up the picture of pictures. I can print a picture of pictures to get an idea of how each picture will print. Creating a picture of pictures means I am certain of seeing the same thing later as I see now.

To put it another way, back in the film days, someone might say "you can save several minutes by looking at the negatives instead of printing a contact sheet."
I’m not going to continue to engage with a child that has an obvious anger problem. You should be banned from HN for this comment.

If you’re going to rage on the internet you should at least understand the topic. 75 years of medical expenses doesn’t mean 75 years for individual people.
This is sad but true. There are some very interesting channels on youtube made by westerners who live in, or used to, China e.g. Serpentza. Some of them are quite eye-opening, especially more recent ones from when the CCP decided having foreigners in China is a bad thing. The videos from years ago were quite positive, but honest, generally about China. Not any more.