skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They will grep for and comment out the code that goes like “maliciouslyUploadSecretInfo.*()“

Sorry, but that was a ridiculous question.
>..popular karaoke app TikTok..

Never heard it that way.
Can you elaborate?

The two major extensions of our electorate were (former) slaves and then women. Do you believe that these groups are more easily manipulated?

Or are you talking about some other group that I forgot about?
Maybe the university which gave them the master's degree was the one committing robbery here.
I come from a logical background and I wonder if statistics should take priority over nitty gritty science.

Yes we understand pandemic physics, but we should be looking to prioritize a strong majority policy rather than the few.

I don't think Fauci uses statistics in his reasoning.
Really I think it is a matter of the self-help genre essentially being vapid bullshit platitudes anyway I didn't even bother responding as it clearly wasn't my genre and nobody would appreciate the response. Human society is full of stacks based upon vapid bullshit. So GPT3 performed perfectly successfully in that matter and we should /really/ pay attention not to GPT3 as a threat (that would be shooting the messenger) but to our own bullshit susceptibility.
Not on space, but still mission critical,

"Aegis Battleship Weapons System"

http://www.artist-embedded.org/docs/Events/2011/JTRES/Slides...

"French radar system for ballistic missile tracking and measurement"

https://www.militaryaerospace.com/defense-executive/article/...

"NASA Ground Control Station for Multiple UAVs Flight Simulation"

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Ground-Control-Station...
Also see this letter by Dr. Gerry Schwalfenberg. It's just an anecdote but his claim of success in treating influenza patients with a "vitamin D hammer" is interesting and should prompt additional research.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4463890/
Do you remember where you read it? It's a nice and funny formulation but a quick attempt at googling didn't bring this up for me.
Surveillance video processing and intelligence services are probably by far the largest use cases for video background removal and similar techniques. Far smaller in terms of number of customers, but far far larger in terms of revenue specifically for this capability.

Millions of people paying peanuts (attributable to this feature) is way less than a few hundred or thousand research / defense labs, contractors, etc., paying tens of thousands up to even millions on licensed software for this type of thing.
It is not part of the core UX.

TikTok or Doubin, just swipe up/down would be enough for 90% of your input
An interesting question is whether they got .24% more chatters or not. Would leaving the chat bubble and having the link lead to .75% of visitors chatting?

They had good reasons for getting rid of it (the “designing around it” issue is a real “tail wags dog” problem), so I’m not suggesting they made any sort of mistake! Just curious if one vs the other appeals to different kinds of ppl in a meaningful way.
> when you have to do something you don’t have yet any clue about

This is an experience issue, not a type-system issue. Rapid refactoring is also possible during initial passes while design is settled.
Honest question, what's wrong with Safari, that you can not trust it?
Deleting redirect cookies is a wonderful step forward in improving privacy.

I'm now concerned that companies would attempt to circumvent this by profiling users via fingerprinting through canvas, screen resolution, user agent and other means.

I wonder how such profiling can be minimized / eliminated ?
Yes. You're completely right - I'm unsure how I missed that wholly-obvious interpretation.
Revolution on trial: looking back at New Haven's Black Panthers at 50
I'm a scientist and my problems are a lot more like the first panel than the second.
In this case I believe it’s up to the blog author. Orta is a Mac user (was involved in a package manager, Homebrew? I forgot). The VSCode goes as far as detecting the OS you’re on and shows the most relevent screenshot, so you get Windows on Windows, Mac on Mac and iPhone, etc. But yeah, even just the fact they don’t force all of their websites use Windows screenshots is saying a lot by itself.
Develop Shamatha, which is a calm abiding mind, meditative equipoise, single pointed concentration.

Then engage in analytical meditation, typically known as Vipassanā in the Buddhist tradition, but essentially it involves analytically decomposing whatever you're meditating on.

I realized that before I ever dove into Tibetan philosophy that I was developing these two as I designed and constructed software (as I'm sure a lot of us do).
The counter-counter-argument is that if you don't decouple the "doing of the scientific research" from "influencing human choices", you might compromise the endeavor of scientific research altogether.

The same institutions don't need to do both, and that they are separate is usually because "is" questions and "ought" questions are answered via different mechanisms.
The technological breakthrough may be possible.

As other people mentioned here, it looks like the problem now is that the experience of building nuclear reactors was lost, so we are in a Catch-22 situation right now: if you want to build experience you need to just build reactors, but they are not economically viable without experienced builders.

The problem is that all current reactors are of the 1 GW size. For the last few decades the world has been building about 1 or 2 per year outside of China.

The solution is small nuclear reactors. For very large machines there is a dis-economy of scales. It was more expensive to build a Saturn V rocket than to build 20 rockets that are 20 times smaller each. In fact it was 3 times more expensive (about $180MM/ launch for Saturn V vs $3MM for Titan II)

Similarly, it's quite likely that it will be much cheaper to build 20 reactors of 50 MW each than it is to build a 1 GW reactor. And this is exactly what small nuclear reactors hope to achieve. For example NuScale estimates it will cost them $3 BN to build a 600 MW power plant [1] using small modular reactors.

[1] https://www.nuscalepower.com/benefits/cost-competitive
Making a Real Invisibility Shield?
My wife was given these, during the early part of her pregnancy. I too, was surprised that they came via prescription.

The dosage did work out to be 50x what was in the standard products though.
Not sure why this is on the front page when essentially the same thing was posted yesterday?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24050691
There is no evidence that a brief daily exposure to UV rays is actually harmful in terms of all-cause mortality.
I can provide my anecdote. I live near Portland, OR and been taking 5000IU of Vitamin D for years. It doesn't do anything to help with seasonal sadness. Neither do those "sun lamps". The only thing I've found helpful (although short-lived) for that is literally leaving the state for a week to somewhere warmer; like Hawaii or San Diego. The sadness comes back shortly after returning though, and sometimes even worse than before. It seems to me that treating seasonal depression is more complicated than simply taking medication or sitting in front of a lamp.
Please, if you plan on voting Biden, please stop taking any and all Vitamin D.

The rest of you, pay attention to the science here.
Show HN: Books Paul Graham recommended on Twitter
Introducing Open Service Mesh
GPT-3 on the Future of Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency
Time for Thinking [pdf]
Isn't the small video in the corner a feature actually implemented in Firefox itself (picture-in-picture) and nothing to do with the web page? If so then that seems doubly bad!
If there was downtime during the move and the client was there and declaring that they would not pay, you just walk away. You'd be surprised at how fast they can cut a check in that situation.
It's a slow blow
Mods have deleted this question with no reasoning- Why is the "science" solution to lockdown? This is a prioritization of a minority population at the expense of an overwhelming majority.

Logic would say to prioritize (pick your numbers, I don't care) the 99.5% over the 0.5%.

My hypothesis is that since it's a healthcare issue, the leaders are less math/statistics inclined and more focused on biology.
> Are there actual pederasts and human traffickers? Yes. Do you imagine they are the individuals the Q enthusiasts accuse?

Who do they accuse whom you think has a really solid excuse? Some demonstration of a false or plausibly-false accusation would be nice.
I'm running 12.1-RELEASE-p5 [quarterly], so that's interesting. We should be overlapping somewhat.

I inclined to believe that it's just my luck. You need somebody to find edge-case bugs? I'm your stooge.
I find this annoying and noticed this change a year or so ago. Google used to just give you the (as far as I could tell) unadulterated link. In fact, at the time I wondered how/if Google were actually able to track how many people clicked the top link in the results, because it seemed to be the real URL and stayed real even when clicked. I figured they either had so much faith in PageRank that they didn't need to monitor clicks, or they were hiding their tracking in a less obvious way.

Anyway, does anyone know a way in Firefox to stop sites from changing a URL's target when it gets clicked? This seems like it should be an about:config option.
Responsive Voice-Controlled News App with Alan AI, React, Material-UI
Cool work! Thanks for the article. It’s writeups like this that made me want to “upgrade” from emulating RISC-V in software to designing a core (I’ll try VHDL though).
here's a parragraph in which I replaced "brain" with "scientist" and mouth with "experimental data"

> The point of this is to form a hypothesis. If the scientist and the experimental data say the same thing, then the scientist will think it has a hypothesis that is correct. But if the experimental data and the scientist say different things, then the scientist will think it has a hypothesis that is wrong. The scientist will think the experimental data is right, and it will change its hypothesis.
Vine had over 200 million active users and Twitter didn't see any potential?! TikTok has over 800 monthly active users in 3 years. I don't know what Twitter was thinking but Vine had a lot of potential. TikTok wouldn't be so big if Vine was kept alive and managed well.
My education, as such, was pretty hit or miss. I got a BSc in the hard sciences, but had enough electives open due to other circumstances that I went a little wild, did more comp sci and math than were strictly required, tried some science classes unrelated to my degree for giggles.

I was part of that big "brain drain" where someone says, "Hey, you are good with computers, right?" and off I went. I had figured out that the sciences would be long and without a lot of payoff, so I did not look back too hard.

I suppose I got a reputation as someone who gets a far-off look when an interesting problem is described and was asked to apply to my current job because of it, despite it being a different sector and problem set.
It's not particularly hard. Just like with regular rocket upper stages that require multiple burns to complete the mission, you can use small ullage thrusters to settle the propellant and make sure liquid (instead of pressurant gas) is transferred from one tank to another. The physics is exactly the same as making sure the engine receives fuel. Just need the thrusters to be fired longer.

SpaceX has done experiments with how much thrust is necessary for ensuring propellant settling. That's one reason you often see a video feed of inside the upper stage liquid oxygen tank during a Falcon 9 mission. It doesn't take much thrust to ensure propellant settling. Not at all an open question.

This always struck me as one of the least questionable new things in SpaceX's architecture. Much less Kerbal than most Mars architectures which require assembling a massive craft in LEO or whatever.

(One would be remiss to not mention the history of refueling... SpaceX's competitor ULA had been pushing refueling and orbital depots, which it called "distributed launch", since its formation, but has only been able to do small experiments since one of its parent companies, Boeing, sees orbital refueling as a threat to NASA's SLS rocket, which Boeing is the main contractor for. That's a huge reason for a lot of the "skepticism" about orbital refueling you sometimes see in aerospace circles, besides the usual pathologically conservative mindset of many grey beards...)
Fingerprinting is already happening
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If you temporarily set about:config "image.animation_mode" to the value "none", and then restart Firefox, does it stop that video from autoplaying? If so, it's because they're using an animated GIF, which isn't a video.

(You can right-click the value you modified in about:config to Reset it back to the default, so that animated GIFs work again, after you're done testing that.)
> I'm saying this as I'm looking at my 1Password database which also contains all my 2FA keys because, yes, all 2FA apps I tried so far treat these keys as way too valuable and the risk of losing them as I move from device to device is just too high.

When I set up TOTP on a site, I save the QR code as a PNG file (via the Grab application on my Mac) and the text version of the code in a text file. (If the site provided some one-time use recovery codes, those all go in the text file). Those two files go into a directory, that directory gets made into a tarball, which then gets encrypted, then stored in my "recovery" directory which later gets saved in an encrypted backup.

That's all after I scan the QR code into an authenticator app on my phone.

Moving codes to a new device is then just a matter of decrypting and extracting them from my recovery directory and scanning them on the new device.
Most, yes, but then I'm unsure how complex it'd be for a well off and invested actor to play a 'shell game' with a few containers and get one of them filled with nasties into a major metropolis after a circuitous route.

The nitrates in question here apparently ended up in Lebanon after coming from Brazil via Mozambique.
American Hunting Organizations Conduct Information Warfare on Social Media
Can a Loom scheduler kill a virtual thread in an arbitrary execution point (like Erlang process but unlike goroutines)?
I think the findings are good and interesting but I wish we could dodge the politicized angle of this:

"A lockdown would then be just as unnecessary as the justified fear of our elderly fellow citizens and the risk groups, which imposes an abnormal life on all of us."
While I can relate to your complaint that some steps were a bit too simple to include... The point of all those steps was precisely to show that you hadn't memorized the results. At the risk of overly simplifying high school maths (it's hard if it's new) I would say that in high school the math is quite basic. You could pretty much remember the first step, not get most of it in between, and still produce the right answer because you remember the answer format. It's just not feasible to have a individual discussion with every student to see if they really understood the material. Requiring students to include the steps in between is a way to prevent memorization, although maybe not the best way for each student.

It's good that the same thinking served you well later on though!
Canada generally permits advertising that a drug exists to treat a specific condition so long as they don't say which drug it is -- or an ad for a drug, so long as they don't say what condition it treats. Even though both are technically illegal. It's product claim ads (Get Adalimumab today to treat your RA!) that are entirely unwelcome. [1]

[1] https://www.cmaj.ca/content/169/5/425
all the restaurants in LA's koreatown (and little tokyo, incidentally, because many are korean-owned) have those buttons too.

i'm of mixed opinion--it's good when you want to be left alone to chat with your tablemates, but when you need lots of service, it can be annoying (and make you a little self-conscious). the nice thing is that you can usually still just flag down one of the usually abundant servers (back before lockdown).
What stops trackers from using local storage on redirects instead?
You are missing the point: there's an entire field of study about the claim and the various ways that it's true. The wikipedia article is about that field of study. Hence, the only way the claim would be false would be if that entire field of study were completely junk (e.g. homeopathy or neurolinguistic programming), which from the wikipedia article, it doesn't look so.
Propaganda has always been a problem, and it's hard to quantify if it's actually worse now or merely different. Even if it's merely different, though, it feels like it's the kind of problem that should be solvable. In so many cases people aren't merely misinformed but actively hostile to science in a way that should bite them in the butt sooner rather than later. Surely, one thinks, that should make it possible to resolve it, at least a little.
Thank you for the list. Can you walk us over how you did this? Maybe a post that goes into how this was done on 20.2k tweets, etc. Does that include replies as well? Does it include screen-shots of a book passage without a title?
It's called vMotion
That's interesting. Do you have pointers to relevant research?
Watching a video of the blast, you can see a very large shock wave in the air. A large amount of energy was dissipated this way which would not happen in a normal earthquake. I am sure the fraction could be estimated. In fact, in a fluids physics course I had the teacher said Russia was able to estimate the power of one of the first US test nuclear explosions by watching its video.
It's very, very much active. It's used heavily at Google in apps, Chrome, YouTube, Waymo, etc., and by companies like Microsoft, GitHub, Netflix, IBM, Adobe, Maersk, SAP, Apple...

One big difference to the projects you listed is that lit-html doesn't require a compiler. It's plain JS, and is fast because it uses template literals and built-in HTML parsing/cloning to associate expressions with DOM.
Google Faces European Inquiry into Fitbit Acquisition
I'm almost done my PhD (defense next week) and I'm starting as a patent examiner later this month. That was the only job I was offered, and I applied overwhelmingly to research positions. There really aren't enough research positions out there. (And before someone asks: I worked in a very practical area of engineering.)

With that being said, increasing total funding can only go so far. A bigger problem to me is that the available funding is not allocated well. When certain professors make $300K+ per year yet can't find money for postdocs and their students make less than $20K per year, CERN asks for billions that could be spent on more important projects, and universities take a huge percentage of grants as overhead (often without clear justification), it seems obvious to me that there are plenty of ways to improve the situation without increasing funding. I could go on. I think the research enterprise is incredibly inefficient, and not by necessity.
That comment was downvoted because it was spinning unfounded and untrue speculation as facts. Here’s one example

> Advertisers that are small to medium size businesses don't get a return from spending their money there, so they have left too.

No, this is not true. Not only has Facebook done well in Q2, performance was unaffected by the boycott of large advertisers because of revenue from small businesses.
If it looks like a bird and fly like a bird, perhaps it's a bird. But perhaps a missile strike, as the leader of the worst biggest power suggested.
In related news, Up is now Down.
SpaceX did at one point describe using RCS to accelerate the paired vessels to facilitate fuel transfer [slide][video].

[slide] https://spaceflight101.com/spx/wp-content/uploads/sites/113/...
[video] https://youtu.be/tdUX3ypDVwI?t=1411
He wouldn’t be the first academic in history to get the facts right and the delivery wrong.
That's where the analog mouse jiggler comes in. Apparently watche faces work quite well for for optical mice.
Haha no. Facebook is where successful instagram features go to die.
> If Microsoft acquires TikTok how would they go about vetting all of the code to remove any malicious components?

Rename it "Skype for Teens". Make no changes to the codebase.
I usually walk out about six months in if not sooner. Maybe it's just because I spent so much time freelancing that I had enough experience to recognize a no-win situation.
The new reddit site on desktop is actually really nice. Once I understood that it is optimized around content consumption I realized how it is an improvement for certain use cases. Previously opening comments opened either a new tab, or navigated away from the current page, which meant when hitting back the user lost their place in the flow of the front page. The new UI fixes that.

Mobile sucks, I use RIF instead, or old.reddit.com if I am roaming internationally and want to read some text only subreddits.

> That's the thing though, with static sites where JQuery is used only on updates to your data, the initial rendering is fast. Browsers are really good at rendering static content, whereas predicting what JS is going to do is really hard..

Depends how static the content is. For a blog post? Sure, the content should be delivered statically and the comments loaded dynamically. Let's ignore how many implementations of that are absolutely horrible (disqus) and presume someone at least tries to do it correctly.

But we're all forgetting how slow server side rendering was. 10 years ago, before SPAs, sites took forever to load not because of slow connections (I had a 20mbps connection back in 1999, by 2010 I was up to maybe 40, not much has changed in the last 10 years) but because server side was slow.

If anything more content (ads, trackers..) is being delivered now in the same amount of time.
If you'd like the Firefox team to investigate that issue further, I imagine they'd certainly welcome a bug filed about it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&c...