skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think they're convincing us but the employees. We think of security theater as theater because we're sitting in the audience.

But you need the actors on board too. The name list, which naturally gives lots of false positives because it's just a list of names, gives agents something to do. It fills their day and makes them feel the persistent threat.

Instead of "nothing happened last month, hmm, or the month before that" they actually get a calendar full of things. It's a really terrible setup if you have the same name as a terrorist, but without it they literally are just Thousands Standing Around.
> In my opinion, there is an alternate hypothesis.

It could also have been his kids. Maybe they feel neglected. Is there any evidence of this? The similarity of this attack to the one on Skripal a couple years ago objectively points to the Russian government being involved as the most likely possibility. Naturally most of the information around this is and will remain out of the public eye, but claiming that the "It's Russia" and "It's the US" hypotheses are anywhere close to being equally likely is, at best, naive.
Alexei Navalny poisoned with novichok, says German government
Oh I see- thank you very much!
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From the article you linked:

"Novichok has, however, been known to most western secret services since the 1990s,[16] and in 2016 Iranian chemists synthesised five Novichok agents for analysis and produced detailed mass spectral data which was added to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Central Analytical Database.[17][18] Previously, there had been no detailed descriptions of their spectral properties in open scientific literature.[17][19] A small amount of agent A-230 was also claimed to have been synthesised in the Czech Republic in 2017 for the purpose of obtaining analytical data to help defend against these novel toxic compounds."

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> You'd also have to ignore the additional evidence

Ok, but if you say "only Russia have them" you're saying something that is not true. They have been synthesized outside of Russia, so it's perfectly possible that others (militaries, secret services) have them. Amounts can also have been exported from Russia in the 50 years since they've been developed.

As for the additional evidence: again, damning. However, if someone (a state actor) wanted to damage Russia, it could also have managed to attract two Russian agents in the area to frame Russia. It's a conspiracy theory of course. But we're talking about conspiracies. The bottom line is that if we conclude it was Russia then we need to ask why it would a) put the most obvious signature on the deed; b) use the most brutal and dangerous method available, one that would immediately make a vast number of very rich and powerful countries into enemies. Maybe just to sow division over the implausibility of it? I don't know.
Right. But you still can't compare US price without subsidies to French price with subsidies. They are still a significant minority, about 30-40% of what Tuition brings in.

Besides, public funding given a year ago still factors into costs today.
Interestingly MtXinu was a collective, everyone earned the same and decisions were made collectively (decisions required N-1 votes if I remember correctly)
It's true, and it starts off with the very worst one. I almost closed the tab like 30 seconds into the video.
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You're conflating two distinct claims:

* "Everyone who uses this term is arguing in bad faith"

* "Many people who use this term are using it in bad faith"

My claim was the former. No doubt many people use it in a precise sense, take care to define it well, and don't move semantic goalposts. But many do, and this is (in my opinion) a big reason why the debate around the term is so low-quality.

> Really, this makes me question whether you are being honest with yourself about your own understanding of systemic racism, and the body of work upon which we draw when discussing the topic.

How can I be "dishonest with myself about my understanding of 'systemic racism'" when I don't know what the claimant means by 'systemic racism'? What about asking someone to define their terms connotes disearnesty?
PhD in what? I could have a PhD in English and be part of an engineering team after attending a bootcamp but that wouldn't necessarily make me qualified to build stuff...
Ask HN: Is a website creator with no design required a good idea?
I've built an instant website creator, that gives you a live website with an SSL in less than a minute. You can change the style, theme and colour, but that's about it.

Is there a need for this amongst super busy people who are short on money?

https://donedave.com
Since it's three.js you can plug in as many rasterizers, as you have eyes for XR, which makes it distinct from a proper 2D implementation, which would have to fake the arcs:
https://observablehq.com/@armollica/globe-with-lofted-arcs

The philosophical question here: is a stereopair of 2 near-orthographic (near side general Projections still a projection, or is it only a globe, if it's tactile?

In general I would prefer the CanvasRenderingContext2D way to handle this simple display use case, since it looks cleaner and more predictable across devices on screen and doesn't keep your gpu busy when not animating anything.
The ruling government has destroyed the Indian economy with its arbitrary decisions. And sometimes the get the judiciary to chip in as well.

The first real disaster to the Indian economy was the billions in retroactive taxes that were applied to telecoms. And then the attempt made by the government to break through the corporate firewalls and extract that money from foreign parents. That hit FDI immediately.

That was followed by demonetization, extremely poor rollout of GST, a terribly executed lockdown and subsequent reopening, and now the arbitrary control over Chinese companies when China is probably the largest private investor in India right now. All these things are hurting India with little benefit to show for, other than jingoistic support for the ruling party.

India is yet another example of “<Country> First” parties coming in and taking actions which undermine the absolute fundamentals of what the country is and damaging it and its citizens in so many ways.

Make life terrible for your citizens and blame China while looting your citizens left right and center is apparently a winning strategy in multiple countries.
I think you are missing the bigger point of civil asset forfeiture.
1) there does not have to be criminal action involved
2) this isn't about seizing the property of one person's possession from a criminal that has possession of them, but your assets can be seized and kept by the dept taking them, if you can not prove that those assets weren't intended for criminal purposes.
3) There is a massive conflict of interest that exist when a police department keep assets they take from people who haven't been convicted of a crime.
But where do the invertibrates get THEIR food from? Feed corn is super cheap per calorie (people sometimes burn feedcorn in stoves for heat), so it’s probably what you’d feed the invertebrates.

Edit: Yup, insect farms typically use grains as the feed. Grains which you could eat directly (after baking or cooking, of course) which would be more calorically efficient. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/americas-...
TSA has been around for nearly 20 years. It's not about a face mask.

It's about how if you wanted to bypass the excruciatingly slow and invasive TSA checkpoints, you need https://www.tsa.gov/precheck or https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-... which involve extremely thorough background checks. You sacrifice personal privacy in exchange for saving time.

TSA has been a global people-tracking effort from the beginning through security theater. This is simply the latest addition to their repertoire.
The retraction is linked on the right sidebar under Related Articles: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2021225?query=rec...
How a Plan to Save the Power System Disappeared
Forget about AMD chips for a moment. They're x86 and Intel can play that game for years to come.

With a lineup of chips aimed at fanless ultraportables, pay attention to their performance compared to the upcoming Apple Silicon chips, or more importantly, the Qualcomm chips that Microsoft and Samsung are putting in their fanless ultraportables. Intel needs to head off the rise of Windows on ARM.
Wouldn't newer ones be more power-efficient as compared to the older one? I remember reading a post on HN which stated the OP buying older, high spec hardware for cheaper than latest one and almost all comments pointed to power-efficient thing
The State of Infrastructure Security Amidst This Pandemic
I just bought a few Annke 4k cameras, which afaict are rebranded Hikvision, and set up a Blue Iris box.

The cameras are on an isolated VLAN with no access out. Last I checked, they weren't trying to phone home.

The cameras are cheap, durable, and have excellent day and night vision.
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I caught my wife of 17 years with another woman 20 years younger than her. We have 8 kids together. She said she loves her and can't stop thinking of her. I'm giving her space but I don't think we are going to make it and it just kills me.
Not really, if the user wants they can post their location, credit card number, etc online. They stand between themselves and their own exploitation. Removing apis doesn't change that.
> These projects never take off because hardware designers are inherently conservative and they won't let go of their horrible language (Verilog or SystemVeriog) no matter what.

This is categorically not true. There have been repeated projects to re-invent hardware description languages. They don't fail because hardware engineers are conservative, they fail because they don't produce good enough results.

Intel has a team of hundreds of engineers working on HLS, Xilinx probably has almost as many, there are lots of smaller companies working on their own things like Maxeler. They haven't take off because it's an unsolved problem to automate some of the things you do in Verilog efficiently.

Take this language for example - it cannot express any control flow. It's feed forward only. Which essentially means, it is impossible to express most of the difficult parts of the problems people solve in hardware. I hate Verilog, I would love a better solution, but this language is like designing a software programming language that has no concept of run-time conditionals.
"This episode represents a pattern in the letters, wherein it is white students who are “woker” than their Black classmates, neatly demonstrating the degree to which this new religion is more about virtue signaling than social justice."

MLK has much to teach us still when he urges us to match our means and our ends. What is the end we hope for? Unity? Neighborliness? Equal dignity? Equal dignity and respect should be permeating through this cultural moment if those are elements of the end vision.

These anecdotes are powerful and tell of real trends. This is very troubling.
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I agree with the author. I still think he makes some invalid points.

1. "Although Non-Production, these are sensitive in of themselves, as they have implementation details for our services, and as mentioned, certain things could be used outside of Capital One."

Implementation details of your services shouldn't be a part of your security. Otherwise, you are relying on security by obscurity. I agree that you shouldn't necessarily share them publicly (if just for the sake of preventing people from relying on them as a public API), but declaring them as a security breach is far fetched (I'm assuming they are not actually relevant to your security).

2. Many of the points that the author attributes to 3rd party services actually also apply to local tools, if they are downloaded by something like npm.

* it's not clear whether the code you are running is identical to the open source version of the code that you think you are running

* you have to trust a third party you have no relationship with
Using radioactive poisoning or obscure chemical compound from the cold war is a public statement.

It's a way for Putin to publicly murder someone without having to say he did it.

The whole point is that this is hard to replicate.
The market for mobile devices far exceeds desktop computers

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272595/global-shipments-...
> if he is really rigging elections, would he really go for such unrealistic numbers

He would if he wanted his quiet dissidents to feel isolated and his loud ones to be that much easier to find.

It's not that much different than other leaders declaring there are no gay people in their country.
And the new question is "Can it run Flight Sim 2020?"
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It's an important distinction.

> one of his henchmen

There are various clans of power in Russia, and not all of them are loyal, or report, to Putin.

Navalny had a lot of enemies.

> complacent

It's likely. The alternative could lead to some serious instability. For example, evidence suggests Kadyrov took out Nemtsov, but holding Kadyrov accountable could lead to chaos in Chechnya. Is it worth it? This is realpolitik.
That singled out one concept might not be chinese only that's true. But Zhuangzi and his particular self contained abstraction of '无为' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei is quite characteristic and focuses much on integration (so it shouldn't be taken out and interpreted alone). Maybe there are similar philosophical works but I doubt it would be identical.
Wikipedia can be wrong, but you can't just discredit anything on there. If you think it is wrong, find evidence to support your claim.
I didn't really make any wild assumptions. Your explanation on the other hand is basically "it's Russia, because I don't like Russia" (without really acknowledging that there is no single "Russia" that kills ex-spies and invades Danish waters: there are multiple different people and agencies, with different intentions and modes of operation) which is exactly what would anybody trying to set up "Russia" (or anybody) would want. So, I don't think "Occam's razor" applies to either yours or my reasoning, it rather seems to me that people who are exceedingly eager to take at face value stories like that exhibit what is called "magical thinking".

P.S. I want to clarify, that I don't really blame CIA, it was just a way of simplifying the essence of what I'm trying to convey. I don't try to make any theories of what's happening, I'm acknowledging that I have no clue, because what I'm seeing is 2 political sides pointing at each other, shouting and swinging arms. All that I'm saying is that accepting "the simplest explanation because of Occam'z razon" here is stupid, because (unlike when setting up a physics experiment) the simplest explanation here is just words and pointing sides, the same as the more complex explanation, and I can think of dozens of "possible explanations" that all will be lies. So I don't pretend to know who poisoned Navalny (or even if he was poisoned, for that matter), but it would be baffling to me if it indeed was done under direct or indirect Putin's orders. So, I was only telling the GP that he is not alone in thinking this seems very suspicious. Indeed it does.
> sci-fi spin

So basically you watched Minority Report and thought it was a great idea? I think you missed the point.

> Think mafia. Sure the thug did illegal crap and you know it, but he isn’t worth arresting

If there is evidence somebody might blow up or hijack a plane and they must therefore be kept off that plane, then that person should be arrested. Do you think forbidding them from boarding the plane but letting them walk free without being arrested won't tip off the rest of their organization? Give me a break.
Ah, the greatest Russian patriots always prefer living in North America or the EU, starting from the relatives of the ruling elite.
> And we are back to step 1 of people not wanting middlemen taking cuts.

Working on it: https://hub20.io/architecture/#a-balanced-approach
Does this support nicotine as a therapeutic for covid?

It supposedly acts on the RAS and down regulates ace2
I'll tell you how they are cooked:

1. The legacy of 8 decades under a government practicing public polling under a gunpoint.

2. Only the most well fed, and carefree Potemkin villages can be surveyed.

3. The lack of any other genuine option other than saying "I back a complete joke "alternative" candidates," which are set up by the regime itself to play Pope Gapon

4. Plainly faked polls
The fact that the dead space air doesn't meet OSHA standards for ambient air is a red herring. When you breathe out, you're filling up the mask with your exhaled breath. When you breathe in, you'll breathe in most all of the dead space air, and then fresh, filtered air. They measured tidal volumes of about 900ml, and the average N95 mask dead space is 125ml. Therefore, about 15% of the inhaled air will be air that was previously exhaled.

What they found was that the dead space CO2 was about 3000ppm. Suppose they're indoors and CO2 is 700ppm. The mask increases CO2 to 1045, which is still well within an acceptable range.
If public schools inflate the marks of the students, why the private students wouldn’t then go to public schools to get better marks?
Keep in mind this happens most other places in the world too. The police force is generally a corrupt force. It's just not as obvious and not spoken about as much.

Also keep in mind police force generally targets minorities more. So if your country doesn't have an obvious minority population that has systemically been kept behind, you're not going to see as much police corruption. But it's there.

As a brown person, my worst experiences with cops was in UK and Germany. When I tell people this they're quick to dismiss it by "This shit doesn't happen here"
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Check the facts. Trump has actually imposed a TON of additional sanctions on Russia. Just google "trump imposes sanctions on russia". C'mon, you can do better.
Since you must be unaware, here's the definition of Occam's Razor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor

Likewise, here's the definition of fantasy https://www.dictionary.com/browse/fantasy

I'll let you conclude which applies to you.
This was the exact same thought that ocurred to me when I read this headline.
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> I'm saying if police weren't allowed to pull people over

I honestly don't see how installing speeding cameras prevents this. Could you elaborate for me what you mean here?

> And perverse incentive for speeding is only a problem with cameras? Is that also a joke?

No? But speeding cameras can issue a lot more tickets per day without needing to sleep, draw benefits, pension, etc. This particular incentive scales much more quickly for cameras.

> You think police departments don't have even worse incentives to stop people and seize their goods with little recourse? That's in addition to getting to write tickets?

Also no? I don't think I implied that. If anything, speeding cameras can free up officer's time to do worse things, e.g. asset forfeiture as you mentioned.

> And contesting a speeding camera ticket is so much more difficult than issuing it? What does that even mean, is spending a day to multiple days contesting a speeding ticket not harder than it is for an officer to write a ticket?

Time for officer to write a ticket / time for ticket recipient to contest

Vs.

Time for camera to write ticket / time for ticket recipient to contest.

It takes a lot longer for an officer to write a ticket. As a result, the asymmetrical effort of ticketing vs. contesting or otherwise dealing with tickets is significantly worse at scale.
You could say the same about America and Trump. The masses always will consume the propaganda, I don't see how this will ever be eliminated. Rather than sad, it's just part of the system. How can we improve the results? Is there a systems-thinking approach that takes this into account and bends it toward positive ends?
I didn’t say I agree with any of this. I explained what the reasoning might be.

Also I’m pretty sure you can’t arrest people for something you have evidence they might do if they haven’t done it yet.
This feel like multiple logical fallacies. It seems funny to me to claim in advance that people are going to argue with something that was intentionally non-specific, vague, controversial, unproven, and at least partly wrong, and then when someone argues with you, claim you were proven right. It's easy to predict that someone will argue with something misleading or wrong, and that doesn't give your CG argument any credibility.

What CG videos are you considering, what specifically have you looked at? Can you show some good faith examples of the best CG forests ever made, compared to some specific nature videos? Are you talking about attempts to match a nature video, and saying it's not possible regardless of what's in the shot?

Are you looking at the best examples of CG forests lately? There are some CG full frame video examples of forests I don't believe people would reliably identify as CG, if they didn't know before hand and you left out the explosions & spaceships.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOpuDhWzV1I
Seems like the TXT record creator fails to escape `. I can not find anything about money/licensing on there.

I love DNS, and terse text formats, but both are pretty arcane for most people. You might as well have people post compressed base85 encoded messages or something similar. I will use this but will the thai on the corner, probably not.
Right - I understand all that, I just think it's not a good idea. The compiler makers made some things warnings and others errors for a reason, to disregard their input because you have some idea that "warnings are just as bad as errors and should never be permitted in even dev builds of my very highly precious code" is to me a sign of an over-controlling "principle engineer" somewhere behind the scenes that doesn't trust their team, which is not a work environment I'd want to be in. (In the go case, the over-controlling principle engineers creating a work environment I'm not interested in participating in are the language designers themselves!)

I introduce unused variables all the time when I'm debugging/exploring, which always get cleaned up before commit (this is programmatically enforced, which I think is reasonable), to need to go and comment out the declarations for each variable that goes unused if I comment out a section, just because some "principle engineer" somewhere on my team (or the language design team) thinks unused variables are the devil reincarnate and can't be allowed in any build whatsoever is frankly insane. (Don't even get me started on cases where commenting out the declarations changes behavior...)
Which also means that most machines will not see any numbers mentioned here.
I think it's interesting at how many of these are "Ask HN" type posts. It could be that people are often seeking to gather specific crowd-sourced knowledge from experts, what happened to Quora?
Airport security is one of the vestigial organs of the military industrial complex. The purpose of these ID checks and X-rays are to drive funding to the companies that make these machines.

Now that these companies are sucking on the teet of Uncle Sam, there will be incredible amounts of whining at any attempt to remove them.
Getting a job is no evidence of effectiveness of educational ability either.

No one actually learns how to do any job in high school either. It's just a credential representing a general level of intelligence.