skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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N95 masks very likely do provide a lot of protection from airborne virus droplets and aerosols, but they are still unavailable in most parts of the world including the US. I was able to find some Korean KF94 masks though. There is no evidence for one way protection btw. It may be true but right now it is entirely speculative.
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As a US citizen, I would absolutely like domestic social media companies to be held similarly accountable.
What are you talking about? Get setters used to be 10 lines long like:

int id;
public int Id
{
get {
return id;
}
set(val) {
id = val;
}
}

They're now one liners, and obviously necessary

public int Id { get; set; }

I don't keep up with Java any more, but C# has super short shortcuts for assignment like:

public int Id { get; set; } => generateId();

If you, or your company, are misusing a completely optional documentation feature, which you definitely should not be using to annote obvious stuff like IDs, that's your problem, not OOPs.

Switching to a functional language won't save your monitor, you'll still be forced to write bad code if doing stupid things like that are in your style guide.
What would you do with compost if you didn't have an outdoor space or back yard?

I used to use mine in the garden, but these days I've a municipal waste service come and take my compostables away. Kind of felt at first like I was giving away my sweet valuable compost for free, but then I found out they give out free mulch in return so was happy enough with that, as was my wife :-)
> Not the only one in the New Testament

What are some others?
This is a physics problem (well constrained) versus biology and even worse consciousness where we are pretty much at ground zero. His claims/promises about what will be possible are absurd eg being able to store and replay memories. Snake oil territory. A marketing event for his messianic persona so fanboys buy more Tesla stock.
> The reason the distinction is important is that Sun released that code under the CDDL. If Oracle wanted to somehow claim it couldn't be used, it would require a massive lawsuit that would basically be against the concept of free software.

I don't understand why that would be necessary. CDDL (and equivalent) licenses don't transfer ownership of IP (intellectual property) to the public domain, they only outline usage and distribution of the code and compiled artefacts. When Oracle bought Sun, they acquired Sun's IP (amongst other things) -- hence why they could go after Google with regards to their Java IP despite Java being a Sun Microsystems creation. ZFS isn't any different, it might have been distributed under a CDDL license but since Oracle now own the copyright for ZFS code they can legally re-license that code base under another license if they wished. So Sun doesn't factor into the equation any more since what was Sun's is now owned by Oracle.

It's worth noting that you do occasionally see open source projects change their software license years after their initial release. So this isn't an untested theory.
> so long the companies' own countries is also on the US side as well

The US side of what? What does it mean to be on the US side?
It's about both, really. Data is darn near useless by itself. But from data you can easily infer things like age, gender, political affiliation, income and education level and so on, which can then be _easily_ used to swing an election.
And cars.
A huge amount of smart people in the U.S. seem to completely forget this when it comes to China.
Everyone's so effectively brainwashed to think that China = bad that you can't even start any type of complex conversation about such a multifaceted topic.
If you believe this then you have grounds to sue the US administration.

Good luck trying that in China.
> "US political systems was purposefully engineered for a deadlock"
I am coming to believe that what we are seeing is a kind of "race" to see which aspiring superpowers will eventually control (or own) the main companies that are intentionally the most successful in invading the privacy of citizens.

People can only inhabit a finite number of social media networks, and there can eventually only be a fairly small number of big players in a position to produce massively detailed rich profiles on individuals and therefore hold most influence on them (consumer behaviour & voting behaviour)

Imagine that the USA clamps down heavily on facebook, and in 4 years some rival company from Russia or China ended up achieving the largest market share / richest per-person psych profiles. That represents a security threat even greater than the (nearly catastrophic) threat that Facebook represents today. Who wins and who loses in this race is going to make a massive difference in what the planet looks like 20, 10, even 5 years from now.
Like the Coldcard wallet where you can choose to only transfer the transaction via an air gap on a MicroSD.
While anecdotal, their domain knowledge and comment history on the topic/project generally validates their input.

But more importantly, in my experience their HN handle matches their GitHub or Twitter profile that's found in the project, and it's easy to interact with them and explore more of their work (I've never seen a non-matching username or throwaway account claiming authorship before).
So the HOTP/TOTP rely on the same secret being stored "plaintext" by both the server and the client? I am guessing this is not as concerning at all, as storing a password plaintext on the server, since this mechanism is used _on top of_ a password...
> Even in email, spam is still not really solved. I still get both false positives and false negatives.

See my comment about Secure Scuttlebutt below. Email is a little different, in that complete strangers (and apps) should be able to reach you. However, that's not the case with FaceBook, Slack, Instagram etc. If you sync exclusively with people you know (or your organization) and their connections, spam won't exist by design.

What you gotta do is to model online communities similar to the physical world. In meat space, you choose the people who you are accessible to. That'll work here as well.

> I see your point here, but would also counter with: degraded security because we need N databases to patch every issue after the issue is public, rather than 1 database (potentially) before the issue is public.

WASM-based db engine could be a good option, if the app is browser based. We could treat it as part of the app, and the standard security considerations apply.
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Do you have a citation for that? Is there any actual evidence to support that idea?
Also , which has been done for decades.
Hmm, what does it mean to keep a social media giant hostage right up to the elections?
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> Of course I never go there by car

Do you carry your groceries, or have like a cart? I always end up with several trips to my car worth of groceries to last a week.
All Chinese companies are subsidiaries of Chinese communists party. There is no single exception. TikTok and Huawei have been exploiting all of its information and power to influence in the favor of China Communist Party and it's against not just us, but all the free states and people in proper nations.
I don't enjoy being the one to say this but censored is the wrong word. Censoring is something governments do. We can't keep using the wrong words and expect communication and discourse to improve. Words matter.
Indeed. He also launches supposedly self-driving passenger cars into concrete barriers.

It’s the latter that’s causing some concern I’d think.
That’s the idea. The states are supposed to be doing the majority of the legislation.
With GPL there is a legal tool to force contribution, though.

No, for practical purposes, there is not. You can only enforce delivery of the source when a product based on GPL software gets delivered. But of course companies, which create software, know about this. Any usage of GPL software for delivered products only happens after the decision to publish the created software has been made. In doubt, companies tend to not use GPL software as part of deliveries.
Really invasive ads is the main one I'd say. Imagine scammy supplement ads appearing on your phone whenever your hearth beat got a bit unusual.

Heck, maybe messing with the rate for a short while is harmless but scary, and a good time to show ads for some pills...
>No it's not. China has banned most Western apps in the interests of national security.

Chinese law doesn't carry a legal precedence in the US court system. My concerns regarding free speech and the precedence for banning end-to-end encrypted apps remain in tact. Additionally, China bans end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, which bolsters my concerns regarding precedence.

>And that article you listed on analysing TikTok is hilariously incompetent. Didn't think to investigate multiplexing data With the video stream ?

Even if I concede that no one has proven the apps safety, it seems to me that the burden of proof should be on the administration to demonstrate that the app behaves in uniquely dangerous ways, not on security researchers to prove that it doesn't.
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Ah yes, I noticed that recently. To add insult to injury mine are poorly translated in French.
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I think the 1024 (2^10) count is more important. We're not really looking for a community-wide preference -- instead, we're essentially looking to identify the size of the biggest possible Smith set [0], as defined for Condorcet methods.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_set

(This is nominally different from the general "smallest dominating set" problem, in that we have the preference ordering constraints.)

I'd expect the solution to somehow turn the selection process into a binary search so that each element in L is chosen such that (at least) half of the remaining people must satisfy some criterion. But, I haven't thought through exactly how that'd work.
For the question of the symmetry, only the difference to the noon point is relevant.
[citation needed].

SQL by default operates on multisets instead of sets; iIt has no syntax for a set (aka table) literal, SELECT 1, "a" FROM DUAL UNION SELECT 2, "b" UNION ... doesn't count; sub-queries (using another SELECT in a FROM clause) are a pretty recent addition; and the list goes on. It's not based on a set theory, or on the first-order logic, or the relational model, not really. If it were, it would be be Prolog.
Ransom.
As @donaltroddyn points out, I'm the founder of BetaList. With regards to Product Hunt, I think my account is flagged such that anything I submit automatically hits the front page.

So yeah, those are definitely two unfair advantages that are hard to replicate.

I guess the underlying two lessons are:

1) build and own your own acquisition channels if you can (I initially built BetaList to promote my other startup at the time), and

2) leverage whatever advantages you have. For me that happens to be the fact that I can quite easily get some initial traffic, but if you're a great writer you could use that. If you have a great personality you could invite yourself to podcasts, if you have a certain technical skill perhaps you build what nobody else can.

FWIW, I don't think it's worth paying people to write a press release. If you're an indie maker it's much more compelling for a journalist to hear from the founder directly. Just make sure you have a story worth sharing with their audience. (in a way your "pitch" is just as much a product as your product itself. But in case of the pitch you're trying to convince a journalist you have an interesting story to tell their audience wants to hear).
China bans plenty of US apps and services. Facebook, for instance. They are exactly comparable.
While I completely understand your thinking, it makes me sad — web tech stack is the worst solution for UI apps one can imagine, and yet we have no choice but use it to reach more users and decrease distribution of our apps.

I recently started to use Flutter for web projects as well, with a nice bonus of having iOS/Android/desktop native apps automagically. But the proper solution would be to rethink the stack browsers provide for developers.
It's because China regularly does things that Western countries simply don't do.

For example right now we have an Australian citizen who is being held for no reason and with no ability to purse it through the judiciary because there isn't one.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/world/asia/china-australi...

Or you know that small issue of the mass-genocide that is happening in Xinjiang.
Isn’t pine64 a Chinese company? I haven’t seen them do anything pro ccp.
I agree but it's close to looking decent - some basic design changes (especially typography) will go a long way.
We really think differently then :D
I definitely don't think about fractions but adapt the unit to my needs. I use fractions to get to
what i need, but the same way i would add, multiply and substract.

I don't relate at all to the Farenheit scale. You can give whatever number, it just doesn't talk to me at all. The Celsius one does though. This is not a matter of a unit being better than another, but what we're used to.
I don't understand how someone can be on HN for 6 years and not already know this.

Look up Five Eyes.
Yeah, need to make the response faster to so it can snatch stuff out of the air that is thrown at it like a dog.
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I went into more detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24340211
> And in Frostpunk it's kind of forced on you since the tech tree is all authoritarianism.

If you're talking about the Book of Laws, you get different endings depending on what laws you enable like "we didn't cross the line" or "we went too far", or something like that.

I think also that depending on the scenario you can avoid most of the "ugly laws", with the notable exception of child labour, because it gives a boost in manpower at the beginning of the game, and that makes really a difference.

If you prefer, choosing a single ugly law lets me avoid all the others.
On the other hand, SpaceX runs rather professionally. It also has to, of course. My point is, they CAN deliver. Probably with Tesla they're just trying to get by with the least acceptable effort.
I’m very much not an expert. I think the state of the art for measuring brain activity is the functional MRI. fMRIs have limits on their spatial, temporal and ‘activity’ resolution. I think they also measure ‘only’ blood flow and not electrical activity.

My guess is that if Neuralink does nothing more than provide a more sophisticated tool for investigating the brain than the current state of the art then it will have been a success.

A quick google suggests the highest resolution fMRIs currently have about 1 million voxels of spatial resolution at a sample rate of about 1/sec. EEGs can measure electrical activity but only at very low resolution and on the surface.
The USA has enemies, NATO has enemies.

The short list is China, Iran, Russia, N Korea, Venezuela, Cuba. There are others, but these seem to get the most attention.

Remember the Axis of Evil?
They start with animal tests, then impaired people and finally public at large. It's stupid to get implanted with a work-in-progress device yet, except if your life quality requires it.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censor

As a verb, it's used the same as Merriam Webster defines it. There is no need for it to be the government, just someone that is suppressing or deleting things that are objectionable.

Everyone knows what is meant here, so there's no problem with the clarity of communication.
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I too prefer Apple Maps, but just for driving. Google Maps has way better coverage of public transportation in cities.

For instance Apple Maps doesn't have U-Bahn support in Munich, which makes it unusable for most people.
And he does it very behind the first five to fifteen schedules he's promised, which is in line with the examples the article used.
I think the author calling Musk a conman is too strong a reaction to what goes on. I think Musk has a tendency to oversell already great technology with science fiction. Teslas are amazing cars but full self driving has been 6 months away for years now.

Like the author, I would also be upset if I believed Musks promises of a brain-computer interface, only to see them dashed. But Neuralink is already an amazing improvement, and I am still excited to see what will come of it.
Yeah, but like the CCP don't really care about TikTok/ByteDance.

Or at least they didn't, until this happened.

They would care about Tencent or Alibaba, but ByteDance isn't big or important enough for the party to care.
It is only rocket science, which is as we all know very easy /s.
I think OP means:

> is largely unprecedented "in the US".

As others stated, if the US wants to start using China as a country to base its precedents on, that's even more concerning in my view.
Doesn't it depend on a lot of things? For example you can only do head requests to see if a page changed since a given timestamp. If not then there is no need to process it.
In the grand scheme of things, apps as we know them are a product of the 2000s, right? Apps are unprecedented as well by that logic, which makes that seem less significant.

I mean we could also say that we might simply disagree with China politically enough to justify such an action (like the US has done against Cuba, Sudan or Iran).

I do agree with you and think though the fact that it's targeting a single company is a bit odd (like other commenters above has also said - why TikTok and not just an industry or sector from a country) and raises some concern from me as well.
If I'm not mistaken the base unit for temperature in the SI system is the Kelvin, not Celsius.
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So, if I am reading this correctly, the cops are complaining that citizens are recording them with home cameras and expect to be able to go into a person's home with no accountability.
To me (neuro undergrad, comp sci masters), the demo seemed underwhelming but encouraging. As far as I can tell the tech was not doing anything particularly novel and the 'fitbit in your skull' analogy was personally uninspiring. [edit: the volume of reads /form factor is a step forward]

That said, the demo was mostly for attracting talent - lots of money and a great team will likely get them somewhere. In terms of their long term goals I expect the area that will give them the most trouble is reading/writing interesting stuff on the cortex. Neural coding is really hard and poorly understood.
LMAO none of the BSD's have not been superior to Linux in over 20 years. Linux has been faster, more stable and more secure then any of the *BSD's for over a decade now.
While light pollution is a problem, with lasers and adaptive optics observations can be made. From the article:

"The solution is lasers. Lick’s Shane telescope wields an adaptive optics system, which fires a beam into the atmosphere. “Adaptive optics measures the turbulence hundreds or thousands of times a second, and then changes the shape of a special mirror, called the deformable mirror, to take away the blurring,” says Max.

The Shane telescope also has a larger mirror than Hubble: 3 meters compared to 2.4 meters. So if there happens to be a bright enough star nearby your viewing target, Max says, “you can get the same kind of spatial resolution that Hubble gets, because our telescope is more or less the same size, and we're taking away the blurring of the atmosphere with adaptive optics.”"
Oh, that's cool. So a few days of actual labour, then just a certain amount of mindspace over however many months/years. $10-30k seems a good return on that.
I wasn’t going to get involved in this discussion but now I’m tempted.

Has the US done organ harvesting of political prisoners? We’ve done some incredibly messed up stuff from drugging people (including famous composers) to some really really nasty treatment (The details aren’t something I’d like to repeat) of children captured in other countries as part of war but I don’t think we’ve done that.
Have you been dealing with middlemen?

I've had great experiences so far with food delivery and with grocery curbside pickup. For food delivery, I've either called the restaurant or used the restaurant's website directly to order. This has worked for chain restaurants, but most of my orders have gone to a local establishment which I've just called.

For groceries, I've been buying from a small non-chain establishment: in the morning I send them a Word document with my order on it; they call me to discuss substitutions if necessary and to arrange payment; I pick up my food in the afternoon.

I find it all to be wonderfully pleasant. And my money is going to those who are providing me with food.
Exactly! That's why I've put the sensor on a far-away top side of the lid.
It’s a feature really. It can be frustrating but the idea is that big changes can be made but not on a whim. There generally has to be compromise.

I wouldn’t want to live under a system that can make drastic changes on a whim. The USA is a very multicultural place with many different people with different priorities. We need to find common ground before certain types of things change. This is good even if frustrating at times.
The popular Trezor wallet has a hardware vulnerability, where, if you physically have the hardware it can be exploited. Hardware wallets are a vast improvement but not without issues. Large scale fraud, where the money goes missing is much more common so far.
It may actually be relatively easy compared to what he is trying with Neuralink.
> [you can use] private (nonstandardized) chunks ... so why bother inserting the extra data as pixels?

Because these extra chunk are super-obvious? As soon as someone looks in your file they're going to wonder what you've added these for.

They will likely also not survive re-encoding.

The point of modern stenography is that you can't tell it's there, and it's just a part of the core image data, and that it's completely deniable.

How do you deny your nonstandard chunks?
What’s coming up in sttp client 3?
It’s the same rationale as having Citrix for developers in big banks, so they don’t have anything on their local machine. And this way you don’t have to keep a big machine with a bunch of GPUs around.
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People at the FBI are paid to sit around and write reports on the obvious: cameras on property observe people who encroach upon that property.

Next they will commission a report concluding that door locks hinder no-knock searches.

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7047196-Video-Doorbel...

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7047194-LES-FBI-Techn...
That's awesome. I think I've seen it before and thinking to myself, hey that's Tweet Photo in reverse :)

If I could offer one piece of unsolicited advice, it's to build in that viral loop I did with "via tweet.photo". I think that alone 10x'd the user base and possibly the valuation as well.

P.S. I saw you're in Bali. Which part are you from? I've lived in Canggu/Ubud/Lovina for a while. Hope you and your family are staying safe in these trying times.
Senators used to not be elected by the general voters. Instead they were elected by state legislators.

The 17th amendment changed this.