skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm intrigued by how they (almost?) classified digital wallets as haram due to the cash back benefits which can act as a form of interest payment between businesses.

Do normal credit cards there not have cash back benefits? Do credit cards exist or because naturally they would charge you interest, do they not exist? It's interesting how there's a whole different ecosystem of apps in the part of the world that most of the world lives in.

Digital wallets must not be something akin to the Discover or Charles Schwab app on your phone, I recall hearing about them because there was an MLM ponzi scheme in Vietnam recognized last month where users would receive 80% cashback on paying bills and you'd receive more depending on how many friends you onboarded (with the app having a $100 minimum deposit to open an account). I don't know how that doesn't instantly seem too good to be true, then again I guess MoviePass seemed too good to be true.
> They (CIA, NSA, US deep state in general) are in the business of lying. The WMDs that Saddam had?

Yeah, I remember that: even with the bold and explicit lies put forward by the White House and political leadership at DoD, particularly, and some other agencies, the actual releases from the intelligence agencies were quite guarded and reserved.

The intelligence community is in the business of lying to it's targets, sure, but also of protecting it's credibility to decision makers, both within the executive branch and outside of it, including even the American public. The political leadership, OTOH, is often more shortsighted.
How does the relay server work? As in, does the developer maintain and fund it out of pocket? That seems to me to be quite costly.
I do not know how to research this, but what is the status on EU? How EU does this? I know that in Sweden it is only one email and you can get any public document. Even the emails of publicly funded positions.
China is not banning foreign companies from operating in China, in fact for many it's their second or third biggest market.
>> The CIA cannot lie to US legislators without committing a federal crime. They can choose not to disclose information to the public and “neither confirm nor deny” but they can’t knowingly tell a lie.

> They can and they have. Let's not pretend we live in fantasy land.

He didn't say they're incapable of lying to Congress, just that it's illegal for them to lie Congress. By the GP's statement, if they lied then they also broke the law.
The spike protein downregulates ACE2[1], which may make an otherwise benign respiratory infection severe[2].

1. SARS1 spike protein itself, without any virus, causes ACE2 downregulation which leads to severe lung damage: https://twitter.com/__philipn__/status/1237588716236898304

2. When mice are engineered to be deficient in ACE2, the otherwise non-severe RSV causes severe disease: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4728398/

(This may be why COVID is bad. Check out my twitter above for a lot on this)
This is a very weak argument for renewables. You have to make the case that nuclear is fundamentally not able to work in a similar way. The very article we're commenting on is demonstrating the more 'distributed' nature a new generation of nuclear power plants can offer.

Your other argument about cheap labor is completely ignoring principle 3. above. Saying cheap labor for an industry is _inherently_ good is basically saying we should go back to the dark ages. This is probably the only principle both capitalists and socialists agree on (at least our 21st century brand of socialists that hope for a UBI utopia)!

Anti-nuclear has almost taken on a religious fervor that I don't understand. Safety is a property of an implementation, not a fundamental law of nature. Please! We're arguing for the same ultimate goal!
Tangentially, I wonder what's happening with Lockwise. [1] It also seems to be languishing without significant improvements. I was expecting it to be a competitor, at least on mobile, to the likes of Bitwarden, 1Password, and other solutions.

[1]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/lockwise/
> That's the primary source, whether or not you like the interviewer, company he works for, what his ulterior motives are, etc.

Weird how I didn't mention any of these in my comment. The problem is that the interview is not designed to elicit credible testimony. It's designed to put on a show. Thus, I discount it heavily.
People keep saying I live "in a bubble" yet I find myself having debates and arguments with people at all levels of my social circle that span vastly different ideas. The only time I encounter homogeneous ideology is when I'm in a conversation with an old friend from south Carolina or texas that identifies as conservative. It seems that people that used to have a cornucopia of various ideas have kinda melded into a singular ideology.

15 years ago I might have agreed with you... Not so much anymore.
> And we build on hw which is formally verified.

Ehm, what?
Whenever I have more than 10 open tabs, I close all of them. Searching a URL from a fresh browser is faster than browsing through tabs, especially with the history in the URL bar.
I see people post about ads and I always wonder why it isn't common to consider ad blockers as the first line of defense against malware? Unlike antivirus they also actually make your system faster, since you don't have to use bandwidth & cpu downloading & running ads.

You could selectively disable blocking of ads from networks you trust, or on sites you trust, if you want to see ads/support sites that don't have other monetization.
One thing I always fail to grasp is -- if Russia successfully carried out influence campaign to get Trump elected how does it exactly paint Obama and Biden in good light ?
> And bystanders are getting hurt.

Who are those bystanders?
Because it's generally recognized that calling something gay is funny and a way to insult it, at least here in America. Is that not the case in other places? I've heard at least some of it in south and central america, though it tends to be taken more personally there than in
Maybe because he know the source's name rhymed with breath itch.
There are many, many things that are totally legal for private companies to do but the government is implicitly or explicitly prohibited from doing. Freedom of speech (not saying this is an example of that) is probably the prime example.

A company can bar you from saying just about anything. You can be fired for wearing a tie your boss doesn't like (this never happens, but it's legal in 49 states). The government has very narrow parameters in which is can limit speech, or more accurately, punish you for given speech.
Aligning superhuman AI with human behaviour: chess as a model system
That's true, but in this case the sole source would be dead. What would he have to lose?
See my reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24517049
I highly doubt Trump has enough 5D chess experience to make that level of analysis.
Lithium find in Cornwall spurs hopes of regeneration
Bookmarks and top sites are only visible when opening a new tab, not when placing focus in the URL bar. If I want to go to a new site I have to either type the address, or open a new tab leading to a lot of old unused tabs that need to be cleaned up.
> paper launch means no hardware

If it's effectively a paper launch because they aren't available in commercial quantities. Much like Intel's overly binned high end chips.
It's very true that it's not scientific research. (And I actually generally agree with the premise behind "methods shouldn't be publishable -- they're for appendixes, not papers".)

However, there's increasingly a role for folks focused more on the scientific computing and methods side. E.g. "how do we constrain X parameters given Y observations" (yes, I just described inverse theory -- that's deliberate). The science isn't solving the problem, it's figuring out what models to use and what the inverted parameters mean. However, solving the problem correctly requires a lot of rather novel work and is very easy to get wrong.

It's similar to many other research staff positions. It's standard to include the person who operated/designed/etc the instrument you're using as an author on papers. Is it that crazy to include the person who developed the numerical methods and implemented the solution as well? For example, I have quite a few friends that stayed on as staff to run the lab or key pieces of equipment. They have tons of "middle author" publications as a result.

However, numerical methods and computing infrastructure and work is much less frequently recognized. This is a step towards changing that.
This headline really is a way to create a poisonous and intentionally toxic and politicized reaction to Assange. He exposed some of the biggest corruption and evil in our lifetimes, including torture programs.

We must stay TOGETHER in demanding a pardon, rather than indefinite detention meant to keep him quiet. We must not allow this to get dragged into the political culture wars.

Edit: thankfully the headline has been changed.
https://github.com/mozilla-extensions/regrets-reporter
> Yeah, let's believe what the CIA says.

Unironically yes, because the alternative wants Americans dead by putting bounties on American servicemembers' scalps.
Google has indicated site speed (and as a result, page speed) is one of the signals used by its algorithm to rank pages. ... Page speed is also important to user experience.
Eh. Not so sure about that. The Russian government has long had a tendency of doing things in a manner that is officially deniable but where it is made deliberately obvious that they are responsible. See the novichok and polonium poisonings; they _could_ have used far more plausibly deniable agents there if they had wanted to.

Notably, "Guccifer 2.0"'s IP address was part of a block allocated to the GRU headquarters in Moscow. I seriously doubt that was an _accidental_ disclosure; it was an advertisement. It's an implicit threat to others.
So we are not supposed to trust our our national intelligence agencies, or the FBI, or the House, or the Senate after the latter three have published extensive and thorough reports laying out the evidence. Whose word exactly are we supposed to take on this? Donald Trump's? Because he seems to be the only other party in the government on the other side of this issue. Where's his report?
It's a wide ranging and frank talk on the many technical and management challenges that come with creating a cutting-edge product. His bits about latency and compromise should be required reading in all Compsci curriculums.
The 3080 can push 65 fps on average on Assassin's Creed Odyssey at maxed graphics settings in 4K (https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-nvidi...). That's perfectly playable, and Odyssey isn't particularly well optimized (They've got it on full but it has lots of settings that you can turn down but make almost 0 difference to the details your eyes actually notice).
Yes, when they bought it it was already dead, but I was talking about the time they were #1 and just got their new ex-MS CEO with a $20M bonus in case he sold the company. Then he proceeded to dismantle all that worked.
Thank for your very helpful contribution, but you're in the wrong thread. We aren't discussing the Clinton's or any sex trafficking ring, but I'm sure you knew that.
I can't help but shake the feeling these comments have some pro-russian trolls/bots.
How do you do a downgrade attack on, say, an encrypted backup?
This is what blows my mind. For a group of people who supposedly rely on institutional knowledge about topics like science and tech, suddenly on this topic its one guys claim against literally dozens of institutions counter claims.
Existing implementations only detect moods and collect data for analysis, my idea is if you're just going to do open-loop brainwashing, you don't have to know users at all so it could be done without "invading privacy".

> sociopath

ok, I mean no harm to humanity, but, um,
This was pretty much guaranteed. There were multiple studies showing that UVC (not Far-UVC) quickly and effectively killed coronavirus. It was basically just crossing the t’s and sorting the i’s to test Far-UVC light that it did the same thing. But based on everything else it was obvious it would.

I’m hopeful we can see a lot of low cost Far-UVC appliances over the next year that safely killed coronavirus in indoor places so that we can start living a normal life before vaccines become widespread.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/31/cia-di...

Not this claim, but a recent example of the CIA lying to Congress with impunity.
Additionally, even if the main user of the device will never pull up a task manager or usage log, that info can be useful for a friend, relative, or hired technician who is trying to help them figure out what's going on with their device.

Instead we have to explain to people that their photos aren't "in" the photos app and their music isn't "in" iTunes. It's the thing you mentioned: file managers will just confuse people so let's not include one. Easier to have them think of files as "living" in the apps we assign to open them.
I see you don't have much experience in development. It probably went more like this:

business: "Opening the camera seems slow", dev: "it takes 200ms for the system to start it", "Can you make it faster?", "Not really, unless we keep the camera on", "Do that!", "Won't it have privacy issues?", "Don't worry about that".

EDIT: And in the end business is correct, because nobody really cares about this. Every happy instagrammer keeps happily instagramming.
If it's a vaccine that does anything other than exactly what it's supposed to is going to erode public trust in any future vaccines that might actually work.
I have the opinion that undeserved initial downvotes usually end up with more upvotes than the post would originally get. If I see a grey comment that I think shouldn't be grey, I'll upvote. But HN isn't fully dynamic, so that upvote won't be visible to people who already have the page open, so they'll see it as grey too and may also be likely to upvote.
public vs private services. ticket 10$.
Ah, Blech - fond memories of the mid-90s when these (completely unrelated) releases landed:

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Blech/release/30565

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Blech-II-Blechsdöttir/master...
>many people are thinking something like "once we get a vaccine it'll be over"

Natural immunity lasts for four months, like common cold. "Vaccine" doesn't make sense.
I gave a cigarette to the kid from CrowdStrike outside an airport on the way to a Con. He worked directly on the breached computers at the DNC.

I would not consider him CIA material, let's say. :)
Nice. I am certainly not up on my JavaScript history. Bluebird was the first I used and it was still gaining popularity at the time.

I do know that promises existed a LONG time ago, I was just referencing languages that still are popular-ish. I thought the Scala implementation was pretty old, but it looks like Java actually has everyone beat.
Wasn't the latency and limitation on throughput of number of transactions per second a flaw in design? I remember it that the whole process must have have been redesinged in order to get to what Banks are capable right now.
There's not a single metric to take but many, first of all.

The initial cost in CO2 is absolutely part of the measurement, but if you want to look at finer metrics then you can look at the ratio of estimated CO2 costs over the life of the source over the energy produced too, which gives you good hints as to what requires a lot of emissions to get a lot of energy (which is really what we're trying to curb in the first place). From that metric for example, photovoltaic energy is orders of magnitude worse than nuclear and wind (wind without storage: a dozen grams per KWh, nuclear: a dozen grams per KWh, photovoltaic: between 100g and 200g of CO2 emission per KWh, and beyond if you were to count the batteries). The ROI on the other hand definitely got much better for photovoltaic over the years, and AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN this is why I have not been saying once in all those messages that renewables should be dropped and all the research on it dumped. We CAN make things better, and we WILL benefit from having such extra sources - especially as we learn to extract more and more energy from the same sources.

I'll refer to my response to your other message for multiple sources of why that is not enough.
What really bothers me is they spent two years investigating it and never once went to Assange and asked him? Why not interview the source? He’s not been hard to find.

It’s like a detective saying “I think he’s guilty, so there’s no need to get a statement.”

The lack of thoroughness here has always bothered me.
I assume the hope was that Assange would simply give the answer that was desired, ie "not Russia", regardless of whether that was true or not.
I think it's quite a stretch to call any of the August or September numbers "almost 100%".
I think you are wrong. Please cite some peer-reviewed sources.
Sedo is not a registrar. Do you mean that you tried to renew the domain via API and it failed, resulting the domain being deleted?
TikTok ban takes effect on September 20th in the US
I would pay $ to get the ublock filter code to remove this.
IIRC it was more because of screen size and finger input. I had a Treo before an Iphone and the stylis made liquid/responsive sites very usable without huge buttons.

Still, both then and now mobile requires reducing options to avoid lots of zooming and panning. And less JS is better.
Yes of course? Because Facebook employees are highly paid, I imagine. The reason why that whistleblower got so much coverage is that usually all it takes to keep some quiet is to pay them off.
Do you mean this agartha, reviews seem to indicate it is a scam? https://www.darknetstats.com/agartha-market/
It has been shown over [1] and over [2] and over [3] again that deplatforming is effective. So yes, they'll still find a way to talk to like-minded people, but you're incorrect if you think there will be nearly as many.

You're coming at this based on the idea that everyone is rational and sensible and (re)evaluates their views based on logic. Our brains don't work like that; literally all it takes for someone to warm up to an idea is being repeatedly exposed to it [4], and that's before you even get into things like confirmation bias/pleas to emotion/peer pressure/etc.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/11/study-finds-reddits-contro...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/technology/alex-jones-inf...

[3] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjbp9d/do-social-media-ba...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere-exposure_effect
They went to some amount of effort to hide it.

On a Hikvision one I pulled apart recently it was literally a binary running as root called `backdoorServer`.
Assange also made a big show of trying to claim it was Seth Rich without actually claiming it was Seth Rich. I'm not sure I trust Assange's claims on this one, chief.
Ye that is correct.

So Russia, aswell as any of every other organization, state or individual on the planet, might indirectly have handed the info over.
This is likely a generational/cultural issue. Blech documentation seems comprehensive, and those who prefer reading specifications will have no problem with it.

That said, they also do give fairly comprehensive set of examples: https://www.blech-lang.org/docs/examples/

Looking at a 270+ loc example called 'virtualSafeLock.blc', picking a random initial example. (It's a pain, you have to unzip code archives, but it's there.)
I've been trying to look at the court filings over the lawsuit to extend Census data collection.

I got 3/4 of the way through registering for PACER before I gave up.

Apparently it's 10 cents per page, and if you incur less than $3 of charges in a quarter, you won't be billed.

But you still have to provide your credit card to get access.
I'm not in the wrong thread. Please read all of the words in my comment before replying, as you seem unable to detect its actual subject or context. Thank you.
Sorry to break it to you but the real world isn't this binary.

Also recent reports indicate that their is no evidence to support that story:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/u-s-comma...
> Chinese companies can operate in America as long as they follow American laws, likewise American companies can operate in China as long as they follow Chinese laws.

Are you sure? What law does Youtube and Twitter need to follow to be allowed to operate in China?

> The solution is obviously not to make America less free

I don't view banning TikTok and WeChat as making America less free. We can just make our own. And we're only doing this to China and it's deserved.

> If the American government were concerned about their citizens privacy they would have passed stricter privacy regulations and only then banned companies that didn't comply.

Well, that's the wrong phrasing. If American citizens were concerned they would make their government pass stricter privacy regulations. But I don't believe that this is mutually exclusive to also banning Chinese companies due to other reasons as highlighted above.
> and this young guy gets murdered for no reason and not even robbed?

im sure you're an expert on crime but it is not in fact ridiculous that when a robbery is botched and someone gets shot they won't steal anything because you want to run immediately. you're sheltered.
What are you even on about?

There is no "entity in charge" of the LGBT acronym, no central authority approving, adding or removing letters, or any particular concern over "alienation" from adding or removing letters. It's a cultural idiom, not an ISO standard.

Regarding its "nebulous" nature and "motives," quoting from Wikipedia[0]:

The initialism, as well as some of its common variants, have been adopted
into the mainstream as an umbrella term for use when labeling topics
pertaining to sexuality and gender identity.

The initialism LGBT is intended to emphasize a diversity of sexuality and
gender identity-based cultures.

Note that, while the quote mentions "LGBT" specifically that description also applies to the "common variants" also described, including LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, and others mentioned elsewhere in the article. I only point that out because one of your flagged comments mentions how alienated and confused you are by "the whole gay thing," so I wanted to be as clear as possible.

And if you're instead talking about the registrar, they're not a mysterious entity, and their motives are clearly spelled out on their policy page[1].

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

[1]https://toplevel.design/policy
That's a serious non-denial denial. "Not a state party" covers a multitude of sins, especially when you're talking about a country where, _in practice but not officially_ the state exerts vast control over all manner of enterprises.
There's nothing in the Pentagon Papers to suggest that the CIA lied to the government (or to the American people). The liars were various presidents, their various cabinets filled with brain-trusters, and other politicians who either ignored factual information from the CIA or twisted it to fit their ideas of "containment" and "domino theory" and all that nonsense.

The CIA would be no good to anyone if they were in the business of lying.
> If I loan you $50, and ask for 10% interest, you must pay be $55. That $5 comes from somewhere. ... You can imagine that if we have many many loans overlapping, over long periods, we might begin to have a money deficit.

No. the interest is just a claim on part of real production.
Creditors would buy some products or services from debtors and that is where $5 came from.
Why on earth are people downvoting this? The fact that universal use of even basic cloth masks dramatically reduces the spread of COVID is nothing short of a miracle.
What tangible benefit do you get from booting directly if you're going to have to maintain the GRUB entries anyway? Some ε > 0 improvement in boot time?