skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've very conveniently picked a time frame where gold was at a century-long low, to a century-long high. One could easily pick an opposite period, such as 1980-2000, where values dropped precipitously.
They could be gutting all the current employees to make room for new people hired at lower pay.
put every last penny into bitcoin, and I'm not kidding
Thank you Billy, we are very excited to be making progress with Speedscale. I miss seeing you and the rest of the crew from the ATL Web Performance meetup.
Sorry I saw an interview where Fauci said that they knew earlier that masks would help but advised not to use them because hospitals needed the PPE. I can't find the interview, I did a search to find articles on it though.

https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-mask-advice-was-becaus...

He may not have known that regular cloth coverings would help but by discouraging the use of any masks he undercut his argument later.

Maybe - He was saying, they knew 95 masks would help but didn't know other masks would. Either way, it feels very dishonest.
I think our disagreement is over blue pigment vs blue appearance. Lots of things in nature use structural coloration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_coloration

Microstructure interference can create blue, but perhaps not the flower pigments themselves
> Where is nuance?

The problem with language is we have to make certain assumptions. It is easy to read your comment in that way. Just as it could be easy to read

> cuspy 15 minutes ago | parent | on: Science and Scientific Expertise Are More Importan...

I'm not proposing anything like that. I said that I'm glad others are becoming more skeptical of the message of relying on trust without oversight. The fact that you read my comment as advocating a total disregard for training and expertise is exactly why we are in this mess. Where is nuance?

No, I look at the current situation and conclude that our institutions are failing us. Notice that I didn't say I'd prefer to be ruled over by elite families rather than a consistent, transparent and democratic government that is accountable for its mistakes. I want government that has a generational stake in the outcome of its policies.

> All I can say in response to you is that without charitable reading of one another's thoughts, we are never going to get anywhere. It will be endless, pointless dispute. Just because something "sounds like" something else in some superficial way, doesn't mean it is.

As promoting anti-vaxers. The reason is because these conspiracy groups mimic the same language (i.e. the anti-authority rhetoric). With so much dog whistling happening it is difficult to correctly interpret. Btw, I don't think that's what you're intending to imply and I didn't take it that way, but it is important to understand how it could be taken that way.

As a scientist, I care about many of the concerns that you are bringing up, but also be mindful that it is difficult to understand because these preconceived notions. It isn't so much that there is a uncharitable reading, but that it is hard to determine what you are meaning. There's "what you mean," "what you say," and "what is heard" and these can all the different things. This is specifically a problem because the division in our culture currently.
How do you figure the '50s? Times we've been more united than we are right now seem more the exception than the norm, to me, since the founding of the country. Hell we haven't even had an elected member of the Federal government kill or attempt to kill someone over a political dispute in a while.
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It's possible that half the articles in today's New York Times are already being written by GPT-3. 600 words that rattle on and add no information beyond what is stated in the article's title.
> GPT-3 can't do any of that. It can pick up clues from the text to produce incredibly realistic sentences that are related to the broad topics of some text, but it's all smoke and mirrors in the end - there is no model of the world getting expressed in communication, it is just mindless aping of similar speech.

You know this inevitably tempts the cynical question of how different what you describe is from (to put it optimistically) clickbait generators and (to put it still more cynically) much of the content generated today ….
Some people are currently playing it on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/5D%20Chess%20With%20Mul...
Without concrete examples, I'm going to continue to disagree.
Yeah I thought it was a rhetorically framed as GPT-3 but really written by a human writing in character as an offended strong AI calling humanity on their bullshit and tautologies. They emphaisze successes but failures dominate and the only consistency is chauvanism in only defining in likeness to success instead of anything relevant like being correct. The simplicity and weakness of the failures listing gave more of a "the AI is outright trolling humans by using patronizingly sophmoric examples" akin to a peeved climatologist starting off with the basics of the water cycle when explaining how global warming can lead to both more flooding and droughts.
It isn’t established that mandatory face masks is a worthwhile policy decision. I refer to the Swedish health authority for analysis of the current findings.

Ah downvoted without rebuttal, how cowardly.
While I agree with your point, there were also anti-maskers during the Spanish Flu, so these anti maskers aren't entirely the fault of the deception.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Mask_League_of_San_Franci...
just out of curiousity, but how does the algorithm roughly works.
does every pixel/particle position gets calculated? or is it optimized by smart grouping? is the GPU used for paralell computing? very interesting stuff to heavily optimize I guess.
It's exactly this sort of thing. I'm not even going to call it libreoffice's fault; it's possible microsoft is the one doing weird, janky stuff. But neither co-workers nor clients care; they only get pissed that every time I edit something the formatting breaks.
Water Ecosystem Simulator
> improving the collective opportunity to live life without suffering

You cannot eliminate suffering.

> Life will go on in other parts of the universe, and all life, no matter where they locate themselves, will have some kind of existential threat.

There's no guarantee or evidence that there is sentient life in the universe
I'm not 100% agreeing with the OP, but I am horrified by the massive number of scientists, medical leaders, and medical professionals who:

1. Downplayed the role of masks as a public measure to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 early on (often out of a duplicitous desire to preserve PPE for the medical community, without considering that homemade cotton masks would not reduce PPE supply for medical workers)

2. Didn't advocate for the use of masks, beginning with cotton masks (this is actually a different point than #1. Spreading confusion and not providing clarity are two different bad things.)

3. Downplayed COVID in general, and publicly wondered whether a ton more people had immunity than we thought. That was with specious evidence and, damningly, it increased confusion and probably reduced compliance with mitigation measures.
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Show HN: VisualSitemap Editing
I had a similar idea, but from the frontend. I think it would solve a few edge cases where frontend logic is needed to complete full state-based interactions. But I think there's now some solutions out there for this. Good to see some traction here though, since automated testing and regression testing is still a very difficult and manual thing to set up and keep updated. Lots of opportunity to make it less painful.
Hello! I am the lead developer of the Luau type checker.

I actually hadn't heard of Teal! I don't think it existed when we started.

Judging from the Teal documentation, I'd venture that it looks pretty similar to Luau in everyday use.

If I were to guess, I'd venture that the biggest differences are probably the kind of type inference we do (Luau's inference engine draws inspiration in equal parts from OCaml and TypeScript), a bunch of Roblox-specific features, and that our inference engine is all C++ for performance.
It absolutely is an attack. SIM swap is a targeted attack. In a targeted attack scenario, phishing (for id and password) will succeed with high enough probability. Also, the account recovery path often requires only the phone number, effectively making the recovery phone number as the single factor.
Recipes are sets of rules needed to make a website work. If there is a recipe available for a page you are visiting you will be able to click on the puzzle icon in uMatrix and enable it.
Regarding the satellite image, a few questions :

1) Can nation-states spy like this on every location on the planet?

2) Can you view the live feed of any location and follow vehicles(for example)?

3) Is there anything a country can do to prevent other's from spying on your country from satellites?
they're promoting their own products when they have over 80% of search eyeballs
One of several factors.

Watching video, the possibility that Beirut's grain silo absorbed or reflected much of the blast also occurs. The vapour cloud showed a gap immediately above the structure in initial moments.
Perhaps it's been that long after all, or, perhaps Firefox only started changing the target URL in the status box at the bottom left of the screen to the injected one in the past year or so?
Reverse engineering protocols has morphed from a hobby to a full time job. I've spent a lot of time going through logs, looking at data and knowing that I am not looking at the TCP level request and response. So we are trying to solve that problem. :)

Please send a note to hello@speedscale.com so we can get the details of your environment and determine if it is a fit for our alpha.
I know it's highly open to interpretation, but when I make a remark like "please stop being an asshole in HN comments", I specifically phrase it that way to be a comment about behavior, not person. The choice of the word 'asshole' is not accidental, either—it's a degree more intense than 'jerk', and I use it when the comment and/or the prior history of the account seem to warrant a more intense signal. Sort of like a yellow card vs. a red card:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

I hear you that it wasn't helpful in this case and appreciate the even-keeled reaction!
CA Labor Commission Suing Uber/Lyft for Wage Theft
Class-Action Lawsuit Claims TikTok Steals Kids' Data and Sends It to China
North Carolina in general is spectrum opposite from Silicon Valley save a few islands of prosperity such as the so called triangle of which Raleigh, where red hat was based, is a corner.
Show HN: Browser Heartrate Monitor
I agree about the carnage part, but it happens regardless of the type of companies involved. There's a push to not have duplicate functions, products, etc. And people making decisions without having all the information.
Yeah, first thing I do when I install Firefox is disable telemetry and install uBlock.
It's a combination of deep learning and traditional computer vision algorithms. We do a lot of basic research, evaluate many different approaches, train them in dozens of variants and ultimately combine what performs best, then try to make it as easy to use as possible
I knew the first part, but I had totally underestimated the importance of a lower bound on the probability, independent of the length of the input.
I agree with statement though not because of the arguments.

Dual-boot is scary — it can ruin the only computer user has — but live USB is super simple. Shared folders? Put shared data on FAT USB. Start with browser, that's 99% usage. Windows-only software? There would never be 100% parity. Same story opposite way - a lot of programming languages do not work that well on Windows.

Windows is easier because it is familiar, it has a lot of quirks

* why do I need disks? I'd better put everything in personal folder

* right click on desktop to setup display?

* "my computer" on the desktop of my computer?

* File > Exit?

Most of the Windows users would not switch to Linux even if it was as polished as Mac. We know because they don't switch to Mac.
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Yes. localhost is considered a Secure Context via https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-secure-contexts/#potentially... - This is intentional to testing APIs which require a Secure Context easier to use during development. E.g., ServiceWorkers.
Oh wow, the dual meaning of Ireland/Eire for .ie is actually a really interesting take that I hadn't considered before.

Thanks for the suggestion as well - it's a good one. I'll send them a message shortly.

In the meantime, I actually reached out directly to ISO yesterday re: this and actually received the following reply last night:

"Dear kaishiro,

By way of reply, I'm bringing your query to the attention of the Secretariat for the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency, which perhaps may have some historical information to offer on the subject.

Best regards"
Thanks, but I'm looking for something that doesn't require scrolling - where I can see all my open tabs at the same time, no scrolling, clicks, or other interaction required. I toggle between tabs a LOT, and having to scroll or otherwise navigate to find the right tab is a hard no for me.
You tryin' to say open source? Just say that. You created the digression.

You: Oh you got a pet! Is it a dog or an apple?

Him: Apples aren't really house pets.

You: Oh brother, are you going to pretend nobody knows the difference between dogs & cats?
You don't need to call an ambulance when you break your leg, but your browser has at least five high vulnerabilities (and one critical vulnerability).
Protip #2, for what cant be traced using conventional methods, they will use fingerprinting and those add-ons take care about most common methods of fingerprinting - canvas, webgl, fonts and audio:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/canvas-finger...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webgl-fingerp...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/font-fingerpr...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/audioctx-fing...

I would really love to have more addins like this, doing one thing and doing it good. They will kill fingerprinting and as a proof, I was downvoted the next moment i posted the links in another post but I want you to know there is a way out.
No, not true. Surveillance cameras mounted on police cars, helicopters, etc. Even in stationary cameras, scene understanding is a hard problem. Suppose someone wheels a dolly of boxes into a warehouse and leaves them. Are they now part of the background? Are they suspicious boxes? The coarse level state transition of objects in the scene is really hard to solve even with heavy ML.
I feel the same, but also hate how bad sites with ads are.

There must be a better way!
So long as the UI surrounding the SMS 2FA setup process makes it clear that strong passwords are as important as ever, I think it's still easily a net positive for the vast majority of people. Of course, the better solution is Google's default two-step verification flow, which involves sending a push notification to your phone and tapping Yes in Gmail. That's both easier and more secure, since SMS is taken out of the process.

Think about it this way: for an attacker trying to compromise more than one account, SMS-based 2FA makes it significantly more expensive to perform the attack. It certainly isn't much help as the victim of a targeted attack, but it makes account takeovers much more difficult in 99% of cases.
It looks amazing, and I really want to play it, but however I count I only end up with 4 dimensions. A chess board is 2D, time back-and-forth is 3D, and going up/down across universes is 4D. What's the 5th? Are they counting real-life-time as the 5th? In which case normal chess is 3D, which seems like an abuse of terms.
I highly doubt that.

Ever since I had my first encounters with AI, somewhere in the early 90s, one thing has remained rather constant: the extraordinary successes of AI originate mostly from when it is used for tasks we humans perform naturally poorly at, and when confined to a narrow applications.

Most of the often touted amazing general purpose AI is largely just a lot of smoke and mirrors. The main reason for that is another thing that also hardly changed since the early 90s: a lot of profit is made from convincing (/fooling) investors into believing that AI is far more powerful/useful than it actually is.
Virginia launches first US app using Apple-Google Covid-19 contact tracing
I don't think that the editing experience is the biggest selling point in VIM (although it can be very good). I think it's the ease of creating and integrating custom tools for the specific problem that you are dealing with, sometimes even for one shot demands. It's orders of magnitude easier than creating a plug-in for a mainstream IDE.
Not sure why Microsoft shies away from offering compilation to MSIL. Maybe they don't want C# competition, but having TypeScript not require Node.js/Deno would actually be a good thing. Away from the transpilation part, it is shaping to be a great programming language!
What are the ill effects of elevated blood-calcium levels? Is there a way to avoid the bad effects of high dose Vitamin D supplements? Thanks!
Do you still have to navigate? Like, click or scroll or whatever, to get between tabs? I'm looking for a UI that shows me all my tabs, all at once, no clicks/scrolling/navigation required.
> old-boy marketing-driven process-heavy big company

You mean Red Hat?
AC makes a lot of money on overprices US Canada flights, so the virus resurgence in the US really hurts.
There were no satellites involved, and yes it was purely analogue. They did build most of the equipment themselves, the hardware to connect the computers to the video equipment.

But let Douglas Engelbart explain it by himself:
"we leased two microwave lines, up from our laboratory at SRI, up in Menlo Park, so it’s roughly 30 miles, and it took two dish antennas on the roof there, four of them on a truck up on SkyLine, and two on the roof of the conference center”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG3PWet8fDk&t=19m50s

Edit: btw, a few seconds later he mentions Bill English: “but anyway it worked, and the main reason it worked is because Bill English is a genius”.
Live Coding a 3D Chat Server in Elixir
Any “gutting” is Jim Whitehurst doing it. Redhat acquired IBM, not the other way around regardless of what wall street thinks. IBM mgrs are not lording over the RH folks. These orgs are not integrated (or hardly integrated) and IBM did their covid layoffs in May.

RH’ers thinking they are immune to the covid reality can blame the blue side all they want but that is not how the company is structured.
Is it possible for non-experts to verify science in most fields? It's possible and important for other experts to verify, but research is very hard to contextualize and verify without being or becoming an expert.
How your pacemaker could become an insider threat to national security
>Phone - always works

"Always" seems excessively generous here. There are many times I've contacted a company and reach a human who says "sorry, I can't help you, but you can file a ticket on the website" let alone the times I've received "sorry, we're experiencing more than normal callers, please try again another time" without even the option to wait on hold.
I recently stopped taking my (self-prescribed) dose of 1,000 IU Vitamin D3. Before this I was on 2,000. I work all day and rarely leave the house, sometimes for a couple of weeks. I thought I was doing the sane thing.

A good number of months in and I start getting all of the symptoms - lethargy, constipation, stomach and intestinal pain, urinating very frequently and feeling like I had a kidney infection.

Bloods came back all normal, including vitamin D and calcium. My symptoms chime so much with Vitaminosis D (Vitamin D toxicity) that I wonder whether the serum levels are accurate indicators of such toxicity. Vitamin D is stored in fat and the calcium gets deposited in muscles - two possible mechanisms for this.

However, I do not know for sure. Either way I have been scared sh!tless of self-prescribing anything else. No matter how mundane it seems.
> I have not used linked list in a while,

I think the point of these questions for entry level devs is that they should be able to figure out how to remove an element from a linked list even if they have never used one. It's pretty trivial if you think about it and have some basic understanding of objects and references.

Also these types of questions are not usually asked for experienced devs.
There's been some really interesting ideas for a new generation of telescopes that Starship's cargo capacity could enable. Telescopes on the far side of the moon are the classic example. They'd be shielded from the sun for 14 days out of 28, permanently shielded from Earth, and still have all the advantages of being in a vacuum. Gravitational-wave telescopes on the geologically-stable lunar surface are another interesting idea.

But I think my favourite idea is infrared scopes in the polar craters, some of the coldest places in the solar system. You don't need a complicated JWST-style extendable sun shield or limited helium supply. You are limited in terms of direction, but that's not a bad tradeoff.
Please forget one moment the definition of intelligence or if IQ is the right measure: how do you imagine a superintelligence in comparison with an intelligent human? I mean it is obvious that superintelligence is not, just, about processing information faster but has some structural changes and the ability to connect dots in different abstraction layers. Just guessing. I imagine that one achievement will be solving math theorems starting with math principles in the way AlphaZero achieves chess or go mastery.
Glasses obviously help and is better than nothing, it is a screen in front of your eyes.
Since you mention images I assume you are referring to remove.bg, not unscreen.

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The problem is that devs stopped doing semantic elements. Its now a div and span fest. The layout however has become more simple due to mobile/smartphones. But the front end complexity has become exponentially more complex. You save one day of work by using a bunch of frameworks, then you have to pay every time a user visits - with less conversions due to a slow site. And then you have to pay every time you make an update - due to the extra complexity. Then you regularly have to pay over and over again to keep the frameworks up to date.
Two things:

1. Blocking redirect tracking is about more than just fingerprinting users. I'm a huge fan of Panopticlick's work here, but it's not a be-all end-all measure of whether a browser is getting more or less private. There are a lot of different, complicated things we're talking about when we bring up browser privacy.

2. Disable Javascript with something like uMatrix by default, and that number will drop dramatically. By default with JS disabled, I think my Firefox leaks about 8 bits of information, which Panopticlick lists as sufficient protection.

Major caveat in that non-JS users are likely disproportionately represented at Panopticlick, and people shouldn't use Panopticlick as more than an indicator of what's possible. In the real world, disabling Javascript will leak more bits since fewer other users will be doing it.

However, it's still likely worth doing if you can tolerate the inconvenience. And of course, the more people that block JS by default, the better protection it provides.
Daylight space debris laser ranging
> 401k, which is a type of pension.

I was going to fight you on that, but you're right. TIL.