skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, life as we know it relies on carbon (energy storage), oxygen (energy activation) and liquid water (oxygen and chemical transfer).

Setting aside the quandary of sufficient mass to support life evolution and development from 0 => faster-than-light (or some other interstellar) travel, there's the problem of liquid water. The lower the pressure it is under, the more quickly it will evaporate or even boil. Not only that, but dissolved gasses within the water will also boil out.

So, we're left with either imagining some means of having a large quantity and volume of mass configured in a way that maintains pressure without gravity, OR identifying an alternative set of chemicals for the properties that carbon, oxygen and water currently fulfill.

Water is especially useful due to being a dipole, and there are several other known compounds that are as well, but they are significantly more complex. I'm definitely not super informed in this area, but my understanding is there really aren't other options that are readily found in nature in regular quantities.
You hear that they do, or that they could?
It's also a bit hard to gauge and appreciate how much of an improvement the feat in TFA is, without previous numbers to compare to (preferably in the form of a timeline).
"Some users were tricked into setting a malicious camera app as the default and then using it to capture things that should have remained private"

A Google search for "malicious camera apps" leads to this from January https://cybernews.com/security/popular-camera-apps-steal-dat...

Copy-paste of its summary of the top 30 "beauty camera" apps:

> More than half (16) of these apps are based in Hong Kong or China

> One app doesn’t ask for permission to use your camera, but turns the camera on anyways – without any permission

> Three seemingly separate developers seem to be run by the same group, and may be connected to apps previously found to contain a widely-dispersed Trojan

> The top-ranked app developer Meitu, with more than 300 million installs, had apps identified as malware, violating Google’s ad policies, or secretly collecting data

> One app developer was found to install malware through its software

> One app was accused of sending users pornographic content, redirecting them to phishing sites, or collecting their pictures

> These apps are requesting up to 7 dangerous permissions, 5 on average, most of which are unnecessary for the app to function

> Unnecessary permissions include recording audio, using GPS, and seeing users’ phone statuses

> While only a few permissions are required for the app function, one app includes a whopping 40 total permissions
This isn't correct. Europe has lower test positivity rates than the US. We'd need to conduct 3-5x more tests to have the same number of tests per positive case as Europe.
The ECommerce Surge
It is, but it does not excuse it. Latin characters in it do not have such problems.
> now

January 2023
If the area is so high secure that this is a real threat then you should be using nfc tokens and a fingerprint/code scanner. The chance that someone will steal your token and clone your fingerprint before you notice and deactivate the token is nonexistant. And if all that is still not enough security then you need to combine that with a security guard at the door.

Key and lock security is for low security situations where it just has to be more secure than the window.
> there is no inherent right to be very high net worth

But there is an inherent right to the ownership of property (enshrined in the US Constitution).

A Federal wealth tax is currently unconstitutional for the same reason that you don’t have Federal property taxes: the Constitution explicitly prohibits the Federal government from levying direct taxes except for income (via the 16th Amendment). Wealth is not income.
> If you went back a few decades and suggested people would be strapping supercomputers on their wrists

Smart watches are pretty powerful these days, but you'd have to go pretty far back to find a supercomputer with comparable performance
SLAs are bullshit.

Refunds are fine for retail customers, and most SLAs I’ve ever had the need to discuss seem to be based on that model.

If I buy a computer from you for $1000 and it breaks, I’m out $1000, I want my money back. Vendor might be fine with that. If I buy a commercial oven from you for $40,000 and it breaks I’m out the price of the oven, plus half of my sales for a week while it gets repaired, wages for people who are now half useless to my business, and loss of trust and/or customers for my company since I had none of my signature baked goods for the entire week.

I don’t want SLAs, I want a warranty. Insurance.
Doesn't seem like much of a 'friend' if the conversation made its way to the internet
I think they would have a similar issue. Since the compression of the gas itself is the potential energy, rather chemical bonds (e.g. fossil fuels), the pressures would need to be extremely high. This means any compromise of the pipeline would be catastrophic. That said, natural gas already causes home and pipeline explosions, so I'd be interested in an engineering study.
I'm not trying to fit any peg into any hole. Filecoin is the one that advertises the network is for private data. It's hard to quantify the risk from future theoretical attacks and anyone that is storing private data on Filecoin (or IPFS) needs to weigh their own risk tolerance.

Other networks have implemented mechanisms for the network nodes to delete files as detailed elsewhere in this thread and I think it is entirely reasonable to say there is more that could be done at the network level to help mitigate exposure. Dealing in absolutes is a dangerous proposition.
It's literally impossible, in case you haven't tried recently.

If you don't want to send them a government issued photo ID, you can make a new account that lasts 10 minutes and then is locked on you and holds any accounts linked to it hostage as you can't sign in.
VTK is a great visualization tool that might suit your needs.
A lot of system-related questions were answered at HotChips last year: https://www.hotchips.org/hc31/HC31_1.13_Cerebras.SeanLie.v02...

And SC19: https://secureservercdn.net/198.12.145.239/a7b.fcb.myftpuplo...
Also, lock picking often damages the lock and is a lot slower than people are giving credit here. This gets you in and out in short order
Thanks for the links!

So everything is custom-developed, including wire bonding, packaging, connectors, heat spreaders, an impressive achievement. Unfortunately it's only a three-page overview, I'd love to read more on technical details.
Even the blog article at the bottom made the more insightful point that just a picture of a key is enough to make a duplicate. It seems a much easier thing to do considering you just need a microcamera pointing sideways at the lock entry.
...it gets worse: it was born to manage a medical imaging project[0][1] that was already using a proper, regular embedded scripting language. Then they decided “we need a build system - let’s not use the battle-hardened proven language we’re already using in this very project we’re working on”.

I always feel a pang of guilt complaining about cmake, because people made it, certainly with good intentions, and it is an engineering feat... but to my mind passing over Tcl for what was created was a huge mistake. I tried to love CMake for years; turns out I’m happier writing a plain-Jane Makefile.

[0] https://vtk.org/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTK
Thats actually a super interesting question and something that should not be impossible to work out. The touchscreen is connected to the mobo with a 4 pin connector. I don't see an IC on it so I assume it must be analogue signals coming out. I might see if I can work out the way to read data off it and see if there is an observable difference for multitouch
And the more it looks less niave / akward as it does something else.
You do not need a key, dammit. You could analyse the sounds the pins make, when scraped with a pick. Longer pins resonate with lower frequency.
> Using some combination of behaviour analysis, flagging new and/or cookie-less browsers, and (I suspect) human review FB have gone to great lengths to try and assure their customers that all humans have one and only one account under their true legal name and biographical details.

They're not very good at that. A pretty big chunk of people I have as friends have fake names, some of them even after me reporting their names for being fake.
What is SFH?
The wealth tax as proposed should be concerning to everyone in CA whether they pay the tax or not.

It will be the state's 4th largest revenue stream but will be paid for by only 40,000~ people. It will definitely be volatile due to people leaving (see the governor of NY making personal appeals to wealthy NYers not to leave). The volatility will make hurt programs funded by the revenues.

CA's budget already goes thru painful boom / bust cycles because it relies so heavily on market gains - see all the painful cuts during the financial crisis. This adds to that instability.

If you want more revenue streams try making it so that they're sustainable and not subject to the whims of the ultra riches home address or how well the stock market does this year.
there has been news as recently as yesterday in Indian media that they found couple of people who had earlier recovered from Covid around 2 months ago, got reinfected. infact as per one news report one of them even died the second time around. so probably it is too early and we don't have enough data to predict anything accurately.
Exactly. The government has spend ~$3 trillion on virus relief. Most of that ends up in the hands of wealthy people and thus the pumped stock market and pumped real estate.
(and the rich get richer of course)
Thorium 'the green nuke' powered plants produce 1/1000 as much waste as uranium powered ones. They're also virtually impossible to melt down though to be fair they're more expensive to build.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power

We already had thorium plants run by the TVA as late as the early seventies. Research would be needed to modernize those designs, money our government has refused to spend.

China, India and other countries have thorium research projects. The Netherlands just brought the first thorium powered plant online since the fifties.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/254692-new-molten-salt-t...
Weirdly there is a fresh homebrew scene for the dsi which lets you install custom firmware and run games off the built in sd card slot.
“I lost your reservations” is so much less serious than “I lost the pictures of grandma’s birthday”
Well, go further east than Grand Junction, but not east of the divide. Granby, maybe. Or just east of the divide - Leadville, say.

I'm not sure that there's much of a tech scene in any of those places, though. Grand Junction may not have much, but everywhere else between there and Denver probably has nothing.
This seems related to the copyfarleft concept proposed by Dmytri Kleiner [1] and his Peer Production License as a first-draft implementation of the concept. That's spawned a few license variants and been debated a bit [2]. Would be interesting to know whether the authors of this license are aware of those licenses and debate, and how they see their goals as relating.

[1] http://telekommunisten.net/the-telekommunist-manifesto/

[2] E.g., https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/copyfarleft-crit..., https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2468731,
In which case you need to check out the lockpickinglawyer. Sure, not everyone has that level of skill but it is conceivable to self learn and be competent to a point where lock picking is practical.
It’s been used to prevent denial of service, such as in the Catalina succession vote.
This sounds suspiciously like some concepts involved in the three body problem.

I'd love to read it.
100% agree with everything you wrote.

Paul's modeling of the wealth tax is incredibly naive and simplistic... to the point of either being extraordinarily dumb or intentional misleading. Given how intelligent Paul Graham is, I'm gonna say the later.

I don't even gross 200k USD per year and I could afford a 1-2% wealth tax, no sweat.. wouldn't even miss it. In fact my savings would continue to grow almost unabated.

The wealthy want us to believe that their money is the true wealth of America... that the {insert country} would fall apart if the wealthy left. In reality, our wealth is in our natural resources (food, energy generation, fresh water) and industrious, hardworking people of this country.

I say this clearly... Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates (etc.) are not responsible for wealth creation in this country. There have been 10's of thousands of people who brought the technology of those respective companies to fruition, and an entire society that made it possible. The idea of the "self made millionaire/billionaire" is ridiculous in its essence.

That we DO NOT have a wealth tax, and high taxes on earning above a wealth threshold, is ridiculous and (dare I say) unethical/immoral. We need to entirely re-frame the argument surrounding taxes on corporations, wealth and sky-high incomes.

... my 0.02.
You also can't compete on speed anymore. Both Sony and Microsoft are buying the best parts available from AMD for the price so the only way to win this battle is to buy more expensive parts or to design your own that beat what AMD can make.
There's no mention of any enforcement against Facebook on that website, except for one by the German DPC of EUR 51,000 for failing to notify them about their DPO.
"If a key is inserted at a nonconstant speed, the analysis can be ruined, but the software can compensate for small speed variations."

(That and noise.) Can we say academic project?
RAM and SSD prices will soon plummet due to oversupply and weak demand
Zig also debuted their foundation a few weeks ago; https://ziglang.org/zsf/
> Now that I'm in my 40s, I don't care as much about recording information I encounter (other than for work). If it's worth knowing, I can look it up again. If not, ignorance is bliss.

I tend to keep a notes file precisely because it's such a pain to look up some things. If I want to know the exact set of qemu options that I want, for instance, I would have to piece things together from the man page, and/or try things from a half-dozen different blogs, most of which will be incompatible with each other or the version of qemu I'm using (in fairness, qemu networking options have changed a lot over time as they improve things; this might be an extreme example). Or, I could open my notes file, type /qemu<cr>, and grab one of a handful of commands that I already have composed and be done.
Explaining Pinduoduo – China's internet company you have never heard of [pdf]
Sometimes the name can be really hard to find because it's just so common in other places. You can get around that the way Google did with go. They called it golang. So any search has to search golang not go.

It's really hard to find, how to write a loop in go. But how to write a loop in golang is easier. Maybe you can be modulo learning or something. But make sure you have a catch phrase people use to discuss your app that makes it easier to find in Google. Exposure and time might fix that but you want the way people think of your tool to be the way they search it.

I'm no expert on this stuff, this advice might suck, that's my I am not a lawyer disclaimer. Good luck!!!
Just to set some context - this is being driven by Quansight which is led by Travis Oliphant, who united Numeric and Numarray to create NumPy many years ago which lead to the entire python data science ecosystem as we know it. Yes it's ambitious, and they may not succeed, but it's not their first barbecue. Unifying communities and APIs is something they're good at.
There was an article about “five 8’s” during the Trough of Disillusionment for the original hype cycle.
Why even scrape with a pick, at that point, just bang the lock and get the impulse response.
I heard a LOT of number two. People I spoke to in more rural areas seemed to downplay the risk a lot. Most people seemed to acknowledge the reality of the virus but leaned heavily on talking points that downplayed either the morbidity of the disease or their risk of contracting it.

Of course, if you live in rural areas there is some reality to the notion that your chance of contracting it is less, but if you’re talking to a complete stranger from the city (me) it dismantles that idea pretty quickly.
You may want to read Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. That's basically the plot.
I Won’t Work at an Enterprise-Focused Company
Seeing as this article is from 2019, would people still recommend airflow to ETL data from APIs to DataWarehouse/DataLakes or is there something better in the market?
single family home.
That guy picks locks faster than I can find the correct key on a ring.
If microsoft was doing their job they wouldn't ignore a mysterious blob of binary stuck to their MSI. That is HORRIBLE, even the most 101 student of security would realize that, if you've ever even done a CRC on a file you would realize why that is HORRIBLE. I'm with the others in thinking that they deliberately ignored this for some reason, possibly 3 letter agency access.
Yes, it's mostly based on that. Primary difference is that this model adds an inference model (VAE style), which allows you to a) sample style vectors from a latent distribution b) do so more efficiently than the priming mechanism described in that paper.
I Googled around, and I cannot find any significant fines Facebook has faced for violating GDPR. The enforcement tracker you yourself linked (https://www.enforcementtracker.com/) only has one irrelevant entry for Facebook, and this feed (http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/GDPR-2020-Where-C...) which was last updated just this August says litigation is pending.

If you have any sources for this fine, please post them.
Political ads are playing in the background on the YouTube home page
This seems like a major bug or hack. I'm not sure where to post about it.
Daily Stoic
probably single family home
Happiness isn’t the cornerstone of customer success. A customer can feel unhappy with a product due to many factors but can still use the product to meet and achieve goals. Thus becoming successful. Unhappiness does not necessarily effect churn rates. A customer can be unhappy with their usage but still see value in the product and not churn.

Usage is a hard metric to measure because it can be very subjective. Some users subscribe to a product for a once a year event while others can be hyper users with thousands of sessions. Both can feel the same level of success. The cornerstone of Customer Success is the manager, they are there to help the product meet the goals of the subscriber. The true metric should be: did the manager assess the customers needs, and meet their objectives while achieving a short time to value? That would be a better metric...though hard to measure.
Explain NYC.
Counting Instead of Tracking
Tell me, OP, what did you learn, if anything, from this whole ordeal?
Define “blows over”. If covid appeared, today, with its current death rate (about 3x of the flu), there’s no way we would be taken the extraordinary measures that are being taken: shutting down schools, businesses, churches, and in general grossly violating constitutional rights with questionable efficacy.

I see people saying “let’s wait for a vaccine” but what if a vaccine doesn’t appear for years?

How many deaths of despair are worth it?

How many domestic violence cases counterbalance one 70-year-old person dying (the average age of a covid death)?

How many people going bankrupt is worth saving the life of a single person? What if I told you that going bankrupt is associated with increased likelihood of death?

And so on... single-variate analysis of such a complex issue is doomed to fail, but that’s basically all I see.
The birds react to the dark by gorging themselves on grain, usually millet seed, until they double their bulk. Reputedly,[weasel words] Roman Emperors stabbed out ortolans’ eyes in order to make the birds think it was night, making them eat even more. The birds are then thrown into a container of Armagnac, which both drowns and marinates the birds.[13][14]

The bird is roasted for eight minutes and then plucked. The consumer then places the bird feet first into their mouth while holding onto the bird's head. The ortolan is then eaten whole, with or without the head, and the consumer spits out the larger bones.

this is awful!

read parent again she is right.
Instead of feeling like Gollum you could feel like "The Rock" (Dwayne Johnson).
I knew a guy who used a different color scheme for terminal sessions connected to production servers, so he didn’t do something in the wrong window.

A guy. One. How many people have I met with shell access to production servers?
Pandoc as a Site Generator
can't tell if you indeed don't know about taboos about birth names or you are being ironic... It's hard to detect irony online
Why even bother with quantum DRM? A sufficiently advanced organization of matter is indistinguishable from noise if you lack the capability to decode it. See an encrypted file or a butterfly chrysalis: it all looks like noise to us, but something emerges with the right key.

What if there was no hierarchy in this proposed civilization? Or what if they developed the means to encode civilization-wide access rights to every object they handled by saying “the nth crystalline molecule from the top (read right-to-left) has your signature flaw embedded in it?”

We have no way of detecting that with our current tech level, and even if we could trivially detect the crystalline flaws it doesn’t mean we’d see or comprehend the scheme they employed. Working with a tech model that we understand (well, some of us, not including me), if you handed a hard drive to a Roman emperor and told them what it held, they wouldn’t be able to do anything with it or even examine it non-destructively even if they put the whole of the empire to the task.

Ain’t trying to say that it existed. I do like the remark in one of the Culture series that says technology is more like a rock face than a line: different sequences of discoveries lie along the path that a particular civilization travels. There’s lots of room for surprise, whether discussing ancient, contemporary, or future civilizations.
Fuck these people. And fuck the colleges that force their students to use them.

relevant portions:

In an ongoing effort to better understand our users and our App, we might analyze the Information in aggregate, anonymous form in order to operate, maintain, manage, and improve the App, and for benchmarking purposes. This aggregate information does not identify any individual personally. We may share this aggregate data with our affiliates, agents, business partners, and third parties. We may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our products and Services to current and prospective business partners and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.

• We may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples may include Inspectlet for providing Secondary Device activity detection and recording, and other third parties to provide marketing assistance, billing and payment processing, and customer service. These other companies will have access to the Information only as necessary to perform their functions and to the extent permitted by law.

• In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, sale of assets, dissolution, or similar event, the Information may be part of the transferred assets.
This is in my backyard (ish)! Strange given that I started https://collective.energy to create more dialogue around innovative climate solutions but never even saw the old salt mine as an opportunity
You phrased it alright
>if you want to use public resources, you have to be part of society,

It’s funny how quickly HN becomes full-fascist as soon as the lightest of real adversity actually arrives.