skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is this argument not equivalent to the much-derided “nothing to hide” or “ban encryption by law” arguments?

The way to have transparency into politician’s communications is to require them by law to be made public, and to use law enforcement to make sure that this actually happens. It seems that relying on information going over email (as opposed to eg signal), and getting hacked (perhaps you want it all hacked, perhaps you are more happy while it is the side you don’t like getting hacked, either way I think one must acknowledge that by focusing on what is hacked, one is granting those hackers great control of the narrative) is not really very useful.
[1] Purely merit-based admissions
[2] Very selective, with a total enrollment under 3000
[3] They focus much more on the hard sciences. They are primarily a technical institution.
Sigh. True. Outrage, virality-clickbait tabloid copy rather than journalism. Money, money, money over professional integrity.
But it is 28 watts to the M1's 10 watts
If we’re comparing low-end apples to apples, the bottom-end Intel MacBook Pro (MacBookPro16,3) has an i5 part (Coffee Lake 8257U)[1] and would be a better comparison.

I don’t think I’ve seen any indication from Apple the current M1 13” is all we’re going to see in this form factor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro
As pharmaceutical execs sell shares worth millions, questions arise
Those all sound like interesting challenges rather than problems.

If the new species is capable of communication with us, then it doesn't really matter if they think like humans or not. In fact, they are much more interesting and valuable to us if they don't. Differences in values, territory, what they need to be happy, all of that can be worked out through negotiation and communication - or not, and we can just give them space and avoid our own interference as much as possible, while providing the resources they need.

I think it's important to emphasize that you're right - bringing a new species into the world as it currently stands with massive inequality and many human problems left completely unsolved isn't a good idea. Doing so after a post scarcity society has formed and there are enough resources to go around (not all that far off...) - much more reasonable. Expecting a new species to just magically integrate with society and "get jobs" is a little silly here. I think we need to differentiate the moral problem of eventually increasing another species' intelligence capabilities in the future under our best efforts at responsible conditions - vs doing so right now in this shitstorm.
i know that a lot of it is standard, but woowee, like 74 pages of risk factors.
Yeah I never really have to reinstall for it's own sake anymore anywhere.
For some more context, I've seen many threads on Reddit that typify an adversarial system. The posters would brag about cheating, and would justify it by saying the course material was bullshit and the professors were unreasonable and the degree was just gatekeeping. They'd describe the arms race between students figuring out new ways to cheat and the effort expended by the professors to thwart cheating.

At Caltech, it was effortless to cheat and professors made no attempt to thwart it. (That said, if two exam papers came back with the same mistakes, the students would still have some 'splainin' to do.)

The students all knew each other (being a small university) and the A students were often asked to help out the struggling students (I got a lot of help this way), and so it was pretty obvious to spot an A student who didn't actually master the material. You knew they earned it.
The concept of defunding the police is not an attempt to eliminating the police force.

It is just a name that tries to capture the fact many US police forces look more like an army than a typical police force found in other parts of the world.

That is what needs to change.
That's part of prompt toolkit, a python library for building cli applications. Its creator actually reimplemented a number of applications in python with similar additions. Check out pyvim, pymux, ptpython, pypager and ptterm.
I read it mostly comes down to testing. Moderna is just further ahead and the pfizer vaccine may also survive higher temps.
After reading the article I don't feel particularly inclined to take Grubhub at their word.
> Assuming you're referring only to the §1201 'anticircumvention' portion of the claim (the main focus of the GitHub post), whether this portion is _also_ subject to §512 rules is a little more ambiguous. §1201 defines a trafficking violation separate from copyright infringement itself, but some court rulings have established a requirement that §1201 violations establish a 'nexus' to copyright infringement in order to be valid. If this is true, the §512 safe harbor protections could indirectly cover §1201 claims as well.

I don't think that even if the first is true, the second is true: even the courts that hold the "nexus" position don't, AFAIK, hold that Sec. 1201 liability requires that the trafficker be already liable for contributory infringement, only that there be a connection of the trafficked circumvention measure to infringement.

OTOH, if its not covered by the safe harbor provision, that doesn't mean notice of the violation is irrelevant; knowledge is explicitly relevant to one route to liability under Sec. 1201, and arguably necessary for any of the others; notice potentially take the host from being an exploited bystander to a liable trafficker, provided that they do not take action to end the trafficking on their platform.
While those are certainly negatives. I could see AirBnB turning into a double-edged sword for communities. Yes, AirBnB would bring in some nuisances but it would also bring in tourists - who spend money in your community. Areas that ban AirBnB would suffer the loss of tax revenue and have to figure out how to deal with that.

Also AirBnB just gets blamed for the rental shortage in many communities. The truth is poor zoning results in a shortage of rental units. Many areas with rental unit shortage have that shortage because zoning does not allow for high-density construction. The easiest solution to any shortage is to simply increase supply.
Wow, really good handling on your part here. Always nice to see how people are able to discuss these things in a productive manner. Thanks for homebrew, made the switch from linux possible for me :) great work.
It's not so much that - I guess what I'm trying to get at is a couple of things:

-whether applying some combination vaccines to a population will reduce the R value more than just one

-whether applying some combination vaccines to a population will provide more resistance to virus mutation

I guess it depends on whether they target different portions of the spike protein, the same portion, or the whole thing - if you're going after a small portion you essentially get to wildcard the rest of the protein, if you're doing the whole thing it's very specific and simple mutations will defeat it
understood and I understand. Documentary was edited beautifully and well done. It delivered the emotions it was edited for perfectly is all I'm saying. Hats off to the director.

However, having said that and we all know AI will have bugs and will very well take paths we couldn't have imagined. It isn't so comforting to think companies like Palantir making wrong profiles of you and autonomous driving running over people will all be possible. But may be we can delete racism, discrimination, prejudice? yeah.. probably not until humans are left out of the algo and let it self code itself up.

I'm just saying, the future will be interesting when emotions are put aside and people, places and things profiled in a manner totally unconventional today.

It's rather ironic that almost all of man's greatest discoveries were made accidently like vulcanization of rubber or post-it or even antibiotics.

Wondering what kind of future humanity will have where everything is done deliberately and unconditionally. No emotions, accidents or serenity at play.

Coincidently, my greatest finds in life were almost all accidently including the love of my life and my fav food. I would have never met her nor find my fav food if it wasn't for certain unforeseen accidents.

PS> It isn't possible like chess to precalculate Go strategies. The documentary proved that and the game itself dictates that.
"Let local residents handle it" is also how we have legal marijuana and gay marriage.
It still has unparalleled small size. The a7C is a nice alternative but it's not 42 megapixels. And there are not many compact 35mm lenses with good image quality, and the compact ones tend to be f/2.8 rather than f/2.
I’m lactose intolerant and have no issue with cheese and gelato in Italy. Most Italian cheeses have little to no lactose. Not sure what the case is with gelato but it doesn’t seem to have an effect on me (this is anecdotal). Also pizza in Italy does not have as much cheese as in other parts of the world.
Pacaso started its second home ownership revolution
Welcome to the long slow Japanization of the world economy. Most "growth" is hardly-sustainable cannibalization delaying the inevitable.
I've been saying this for a while now and I think encryption is the solution to the problem.

Instead of having an "Off" button, make the button begin ciphering the data with an officers private key. If the courts discover that there is something of interest in the duration of time that the camera is encrypting, they can compel the officer to turn over her encryption key or face a contempt charge.

This would allow either side (prosecution or defendant) to bring an argument forward and to have a judge decide if there's enough merit to warrant a decryption of the recording.
Yes, on average. But the cops more at-risk of gross misbehavior, if correctly identified by the insurance companies (big if), would still be priced out of the market.
> This makes me feel somewhat better, honestly. The fact that packet-level firewalls work is reassuring.

Yeah, actually it makes me feel like the complaints I was reading previously were inaccurate or at least overstated. If I understand the facts right, macOS has both a traditional firewall (like Linux does) and also a system-wide content blocking API (which Linux does not). If you make changes to the firewall, anything you block will be blocked, including requests from trusted Apple applications. Certain system applications bypass the content blocking API.

Honestly this seems entirely reasonable, in fact. They seem like two different tools for two different purposes. And given that most other operating systems don't have built in content-blocking APIs at all, as far as I know, I think the framing of Apple's decision as some kind of power grab is deeply misleading.

Let me know if I'm misunderstanding the substance of the Mullvad post.
Bizarrely enough I found a tweet by a rabid right winger and covid denier that linked this BMJ article as proof that covid was a left wing plandemic conspiracy.....

The twit obviously didn't read more than the headline.

Probably hadn't read more than the headline of anything actually.
Your point is fine, but your rhetoric is WSB tier.

Come back when you’ve got your tendies.
Agreed, that was just with regards to the comment about the sponsor in the video.
Yeah, this was weird when I read the aritcle. I thought Mudge was substantially more famous from L0pht (and their senate visit) than from cDc.
I think the point is that computers are conquering less and less obviously computation problems. At some point we ask ourselves, just what is human intelligence? And perhaps there is not much difference between computers and humans after all...
> ‘A God’ is certainly fiction.

Maybe. I struggle with this myself, after having been somewhat convinced by the Simulationist arguments, specifically, those around quantized reality.

If our universe is a simulation, that implies the existence of a simulator. Certainly not a bearded guy in the heavens, but a simulator nonetheless.
Super awesome read, a great book about computability is "the annotated turing".
Australian coffee culture is genuinely amongst the best in the world. Traveling elsewhere is always involves the bittersweet sacrifice of good quality coffee for several weeks, with the rare exceptions that punctuate that time savoured very much indeed. I'm sure I'm biased, but there's a hell of a lot of good supporting anecdata backing it up.
> Airbnb's main offering is its software and its ability to create a market between consumers and producers through that application.

Is Expedia a tech company?
> I remember thinking “Oh, finally!” I figured the executives would be relieved this information was in-house, delighted that their own people were on it, maybe even mad at me for charging an exorbitant markup on local knowledge. Then I saw the look on their faces as they considered the programmer’s offer. The look wasn’t delight, or even relief, but contempt. The situation suddenly came clear: I was getting paid to save management from the distasteful act of listening to their own employees.

I wonder if some parallels to this story (listening, without contempt) exist within the sphere of political polarization.
No one is auto-disappearing messages. You are just not understanding.

Evidence that used to exist no longer exists as hard evidence. It isn't "hidden"... everything is still there. With secure DKIM justice can be served. With public after the fact DKIM, a shady lawyer claims the message could have been forged. Would-be hard evidence no longer exists as it can be painted as possibly forged.

Destroy: transitive verb: to put out of existence.

Are you just not learning what words mean?
> all mathematics greater than or equal to number theory is uncomputable

That's not what Godel's Incompleteness Theorem says though. Nor would I agree that "mathematicians compute /all sorts/ of uncomputable systems, with no apparent restriction."

It is hard to describe the behavior of real-world mathematicians since that is the realm of psychology rather than logic or mathematics, but if we stick to the realm of idealized proofs, it's clear that we are only ever computing over computable descriptions of uncomputable systems (which is totally fine and something we do all the time!).

For example, the first-order theory of the real numbers (real closed fields) is a classic example of a complete and decidable theory. Every first-order statement in that theory can be proved or disproved in an automated fashion.

Yet how can this situation persist for the real numbers, entities which we clearly know are non-computable? Well the theory of real closed fields is capable of only describing a subset of the properties of the real numbers. It is worth emphasizing that this is a subset! Those properties in the theory of real closed fields apply perfectly fine to the real numbers. They just don't capture all its properties.

So what about the other properties of the real numbers that, for example, make up the field of analysis? Well we can prove those in a larger theory, e.g. ZFC. And again the proofs in ZFC are computable objects, although ZFC itself is no longer decidable. So again the description of the real numbers is a computable thing, even if now we don't know how to computably enumerate all of its consequences (but again we know how to enumerate subsets of them!).

Now does ZFC completely describe the reals? This depends on whether you're a mathematical Platonist or not. Do you believe in the notion of the one, true set of real numbers that exist on a Platonic plane independently of our axioms about them? That is there are no "independent" theorems, only theorems for which we haven't found the best way of grasping their Platonic truth? Then no ZFC does not completely describe the reals either as a result of Godel's incompleteness theorem.

Alternatively do you believe that the real numbers are an artificial mathematical construction which can have different properties depending on which axioms you are willing to admit? Then there will be properties of the real numbers which are independent of ZFC as a result of Godel's incompleteness theorems.
Strike price in 2011 post series B and after splits is $0.30. At the time I think the nominal price was like $2-4 a share, I'd have to go back and look.

Re: 2009. I recall an early employee saying YC told them not to hire anybody, but they hired him anyways off of his very creative outreach. But let me tell you they all earned every penny of it. It's hard to remember how crazy of an idea Airbnb was ~10 years ago.
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I think you need to wait a little longer to make these comparison. Given the demographics of Covid victims, it may only have accelerated deaths by a few months.

But to me it's not even the relevant comparison. Being partisan of Sweden's approach doesn't mean believing Covid doesn't exist. Even a bad flu season will have an impact on year-end mortality stats. The question is rather how much worse did Sweden do vs countries that enforced severe restriction of civil liberties. And not only Sweden didn't do particularly bad, but it's done better than many major European countries like France, Italy, Spain or the UK.
I have always found term rewriting a fascinating idea as a programing paradigm and the Wolfram language seems very cool. It is a shame that it is a proprietary language.

An even more insane language based on term rewriting is the Egison programming language [1]. Egison even supports pattern matching on infinite data structures, it is pretty cool.

[1]: https://www.egison.org/
TikTok is a social media app that focuses on 'creating' interesting content 'in the moment'.

Instagram is about interesting content but more in a very curated museum sort of way. "Look at me when I am at my best"

Snapchat is about not-necessarily-interesting content that focusses on being in the moment. "Look at me shooting the shit"

TikTok is about showcasing talent in the moment. Even the prettiest instafluencer can't just stand there doing nothing in a TikTok video. The focus is on creativity and doing something creative. "Look at me showing you something entertaining / interesting / educational or all of the above."

Since you pretty much have to catch the attention of the viewer from the very first second (or you will get swiped up), there is none of that "Hey guys how's it going" bullshit that plagues Youtube videos. Extreme content density.
I wish there was an oracle database equivalent. The oracle SQL REPLs are both terrible but the cx_oracle python client library is decent so maybe a pgcli fork would be possible.
Another middle-man company goes IPO, getting more funds to lobby/bribe local politicians to allow smooth operation at local population's quality of life expense. Hope they don't live too long. Covid might've done something good here
I had that exact experience in the famously non-corrupt Netherlands (2017). It’s not a China thing.
Source?

Once your immune system is trained to attack the known pathogen, it should be doing that before the virus is ever able to gain a foothold in your body and spread from you to someone else. People who have been vaccinated will not spread the virus.
I too feel bad for the future but my take is a bit different. AI as we know it is a tool. It does not have a way to think for itself. It can simulate and improve many specialized tasks. So, it does not have a way to scape and take over the world on its own.

My fear is that ALL new tech is eventually turned in to a weapon that we as humans use to dominate other humans. AI is used and will be used as a weapon and that scares me for the future.
average of 17 pedestrians are killed by cars in the US every day (data from 2018). Over 1,000 people per day are dying from covid in the US. So your odds of dying crossing the road on any given day are actually far, far less than your odds of dying from covid...
Thank you. I indeed did not know about it. I do try to read all sides, but this did not come on my radar (Though I did not, before you posted this, google DKIM+Biden, I did read tens of articles about those emails mostly from republican leaning outlets, and it wasn't mentioned in any of those I read).

But it does support my thesis that DKIM or no DKIM is not what gives (or doesn't give) any credence to the authenticity (or lack of it) -- here we have a high profile case, with DKIM validation (which a lot of people on this thread cleim "is considered proof by people who don't understand it") and it seems to make no difference even in the court of public opinion - those who accepted it, accpeted it without DKIM, and those who rejected it as russian disinformation, rejected it even with DKIM.
Covid19: British Army to Begin Testing Children Without Parental Consent
I'm not the person who said outting people as gay was productive. The other person claimed it could be destructive.
Apple. Tesla too, if you're willing to stretch definitions a bit.
Text just forces you into row-major, I don't see how that's getting around the problem.
all things norminal!
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Gotta love the accounting practice of putting coupons/discounts in the Sales and Marketing Expenses. I saw the same thing in Doordash's S-1. I wonder what their true gross margin is.
Can you recommend a good source of information on personal nutrition?

Actually, how much scientific consensus is there on nutrition and health, other than "eat healthy and varied diet"?
Another fun fact is that, the doors were built in cooperation between Elves and the Dwarves. Celebrimbor (also the guy who made all the rings except the one) and Narvi.

The friendship between an Eleven and Dwarven kingdom was kinda rare.

And thus, speak friend and enter
Yeah, they were definitely part of the first wave of bing name internet tech companies. I expect that in 10 years AriBnB will be similarly boring.
RNA is fragile. DNA is pretty stable. Proteins are somewhere in between but can be engineered to be very stable.

Most vaccines are a protein (originally a fragment from the (inactivated) virus, now more often a synthetically manufactured fragment of the virus).

These vaccines (Moderna & Pfizer) are delivered as the RNA that encodes a fragment of the virus (that your own body then uses to produce a fragment of the virus). The delivery mechanism is very different, but the viral fragment that your body sees is the same as it would if the protein was delivered directly, as is traditional.

RNA can't reliably survive on a surface for more than a few minutes (which is somewhat good news since coronovirus itself is an RNA virus), or more than a few days unrefrigerated, and is very sensitive to any contamination by bacteria or other organisms.

Traditional proteins are generally much less fragile both chemically and as food for other organisms. And sometimes a protein (vaccine) can be specifically engineered to be even more stable in room-temperature, dry, or other unforgiving conditions.

And none of this takes into account specific formulations, or other chemicals that are used to aide the delivery process. Much of this has to be measured empirically. It's not clear to me if there is some chemical difference between the Pfizer & Moderna vaccines, or if the different temps are just what they use as their protocol filed with the FDA.

Further, see /u/dnautics below, often RNA therapeutics aren't completely true RNA (they can have chemical features to enhance stability).
Why should there be no credit reporting agencies? Should everyone get the same mediocre credit limits/interest rates/etc instead of responsible borrowers being rewarded?