skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I’m super contused at this post. This was just a tongue-in-cheek way of talking about emulators and ROMs (most people aren’t ripping their own carts, they’re downloading them from somewhere and probably never bought the original game)

I’m not making a value judgement, and like I’ve played a lot of stuff on emulators
Nah, you have to take it literally. You score 6 if you can - while awake - conjure clear, colorful images in your head on demand, that you can manipulate. Based on my reading on the topic and talking with my wife, it's very close to arbitrary rendering in your field of vision.

With my score of 2, I also "encode differently". I can sort-of work with imaginary visual data in my head, but it feels like - excuse the bad analogy - like looking into a debugger hooked up to a program that tries to render something. I am aware of an imaginary object, I can manipulate it symbolically. I can stack transformations in my head, like "it's rotated horizontally", "and also on the other axis", and "it's red", but most of my manipulations happen at this symbolic layer. The rendering pipeline goes nowhere; if I focus, I can sometimes force an unclear image to appear briefly.
Coronavirus vs. Malware: Frightening Similarities and How to Stay Safe
Apparently it is, given how fast free (gratis) alternatives always get posted regardless of how interesting it might be.
> Should your personal cost of living be factored into your wage for the same work?

Yes, YOU should factor your cost of living into your desired wage.
How do you handle unsubscribing?
> But there really is need for another browser engine. If alone to prove that writing a new one from scratch is possible in 2020.

We have been developing one here [1]. It's a long way to go, but hey, it's open source!

And we had found it working fine on a RaPi 2 couple of years back.

[1] https://gngr.info
Prefrontal cortex and ventral striatum and risk-based decision making (2012) [pdf]
That was... wild. You definitely seem to want to come to the opposite conclusion of what the report is suggesting and I don’t think I’ll change your mind here.

I stick by my original interpretation of the report in line with your highlighted points, which is also in line with how the Samaritans (!!!) interpreted the report.
In the UK, I would guess (IANAL) that it would come under "unauthorised modification of computer material" in The Misuse of Computers Act. Essentially, you're allowed to use websites under their terms of use/fair use etc, but if you're being malicious, that's not cool.
This could be a little more intelligent.

E.g. a coffeeshop has a constant stream of accounts on its IP that appear only once or twice. So it might be considered "a public place". So no association is done over accounts arriving from that IP. Your home, OTOH, might have only two accounts on its IP for years, so the association here is stronger.

A cookie shared between two accounts is even a stronger indication, as a person used the same browser to log in with both.

The system might not be created "to prioritize Maps suggestions" only and has multiple benefits in other places. Most obvious of these is to prevent people banned from the service to come back with a different account.

(I don't work at G and never did, but worked at another place where we linked accounts.)
Sad news - only because the people there will move out of their lazaretto onto other sites.
You should never use same profile for your VPN. You can create seperate profiles to use one for direct access and one only for your VPN connection. I would even recommend using different browser profiles for specific tasks. Like "shopping" for example.

Create Firefox Profile:
firefox -ProfileManager

Use Firefox Profile:
firefox --no-remote -private -P profile-name

Create & Use Chrome Profile:
chromium --incognito --user-data-dir=location/profile-name

On top of seperate browser profiles (at least in your VPN profiles), you need to do browser hardening and use something like uBlock/uMatrix to block everything by default. [1] I do not recommend using regular Google Chrome for VPN at all. Use something like Ungoogled-Chrome. [2] or similar security browser instead.

Also it is highly recommented if you use Linux/Unix OS, to properly firewall your VPN connection. So for example if your VPN connection suddenly stops working, it will not leak out any data. There is many tutorials on how to do this. I'm sure it is possible to do something similar on Windows too.

[1] firefox hardening; https://chrisx.xyz/blog/yet-another-firefox-hardening-guide/

[2] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

[3] chrome hardening; https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
Lets say the effect is 1 additional violent crime per 1000 gamers per year.

With 2.4 billion gamers we should have seen increase by 2.4 million violent crimes per year in last few decades.

It's very unlikely that data hides such an increase, especially given the fact that in different countries game adoption and crime follows slightly different curves so it should be possible to separate changes caused by other factors.

If there's any link it must be negligible for the data to fit.
The usual suspects: Some white person from California who wasn’t even alive when the war happened
It's possible that Xbox serves as a loss-leader for introducing/keeping people in the brand.

For kids who may only have chromebooks at school, and macs at home, an Xbox may be the first time they make a Microsoft account. That account then goes on to accumulate digital assets and stays with them until much later when they're ready to make bigger financial commitments.

Anecdotally, for the past few years, gaming has been the only reason for me keep a Windows device around at all.
Do you consider that a negative?
It'd be fine back when Jenner created the first vaccine over 185 years ago. There were no ethics boards back then. A lot of people died from snake oil treatments too.
Or “just require at-risk groups to isolate so the rest of us can get back to our lives.” Sometimes the callousness and selfishness is truly heartbreaking.
Shootings have gone down significantly in almost every country in the world.
> Parents with children have to take on additional care duties, and without a stay-at-home parent this is difficult.

Its almost like there is a pandemic and childcare is unavailable...
Do they? I thought people just got windows with their PC and didn’t buy it. Lots of people use office at work, but I don’t know anyone that bought it personally. Google docs works fine for 99.9% of what people need office software for.
So, they intentionally decided not to do longitudinal studies before releasing the drug. You can dress it up, but it's still skipping them.
Yep, and the numbers are just as shitty.
It's obvious that our methods of testing a vaccine have not caught up with our ability to produce a vaccine. But it does not seem clear or even plausible that we're ready to jump straight to full computer simulation. Our ability to predict protein folding via computer is pretty spotty, simulating the entire human immune system seems beyond our reach.

It also does not really seem to be supported by the evidence that things will never get back to normal if we don't do something radically different. We have a vaccine, there is no indication that we can't just distribute it and put this pandemic to bed.
That's because "character flaws" on a personal level are often required to achieve exceptional results.

Not sufficient. But often required.

If Jobs were a quiet, contemplative, respectful person who was careful to keep track of where he heard what idea and assign credit where credit was due - it's unlikely we'd have Apple. That's just a different personality type.
Not everyone has that same feeling about food. And It's not something everyone's addicted to. I've mostly stopped consuming "regular food" in favor of Huel. Funnily enough it has made me appreciate the few meals i eat way more, since the rest of the meals are literally the same Huel Vanilla flavor.

Exercise makes you feel better long-term, even light exercise such as walking helps, where I would argue the negative reinforcement is low. People are just too busy "being controlled" by corporations feeding them the next dopamine kick. NFLX and FB mostly is my understanding.

I understand that It's easy to become obese in 2020 where you barely have to get out of the couch to get food, but i find it arcane how people can let it get so out of hand. It's happening slowly but steadily in Sweden too, my understanding is that bad food is cheaper in the US than here though, which makes us cook more overall.

Dieting doesn't necessarily have to mean saying no to tasty food, just eat a bit less of the bad stuff.

When i was a little kid my mother would give me 100$ a year if I didn't eat candy (what a deal!?). So i withheld completely (except on my Birthday and xmas) for ~5 years. Since then I don't have the craving for any candy or sweets. Takeaway being it is probably important how you're brought up. I find it exhausting to get my 2.2kcal that I'm supposed to consume daily.
Computer simulation of biological systems has been something that has been in use for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_biology

https://a16z.com/2020/06/14/folding-at-home-supercomputer-pr...

https://www.hpcwire.com/2020/06/09/supercomputer-research-re...

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/ibm-anz/supercomputing-a-covid-19-...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/us/fastest-supercomputer-coro...

A simple search will yield months of reading. Just go to an HPC conference like SCinet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCinet) and you will see besides energy, nukes and AI biological research is a key use of the computing power.
Winners get forgiven for a lot if stuff.
Have you seen the movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”? What you are describing is a big plot point in the movie.
What are the potential risks of social media?
A growing body of research suggests many potential "dark sides" to be aware of.
How have you reached your audience (outside of posting on HN/Product Hunt). Do you actively promote or pay for advertisement? This thing is awesome, kudos for launching!
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I clicked for the "crypto" but found out that the author means "cryptocoins", not "cryptography". :\
I did not intend to comment on the nature of the work, only on the idea that refusing some form of work resulted in some form of punishment specific to the refusal. The punishment is the base state (and US prison systems are definitely punishment-oreinted, not reform-oriented). It's just not good accounting to call "going back to your cell" a punishment for not agreeing to do a particular job.m
That ship sailed months ago, when pfizer ran a clinical trial with 43,538 participants who were willing to go first if it meant helping find a vaccine.
But since you are trusting Visa and it is trusting Cloudflare in this arrangement (and it's not very different from if you used a bulk hosted site and technically the bulk host could be eavesdropping) actually only one of those 4 options makes a practical difference.

The case where the backend is plaintext HTTP is different because a third party between Cloudflare and Visa could eavesdrop that silently (split fibre can make this utterly seamless for normal network technology) with no permission from either of them.

But in the other three cases either Visa, or Cloudflare, or both would have to agree to let somebody else snoop, which agreement they could make even if this was on-premises at Visa's own facility. That's not a technical problem, that's Visa betrayed you for whatever reason.

Arguably one of the options that would be "considered insecure by browser standards" is actually safer for Cloudflare sites, because you can't attack it from the Web PKI. Cloudflare Origin CA isolates you from such an attack, bad guys would need to attack Cloudflare to get a valid certificate from them, certificates from another CA would not work if it's locked down to Cloudflare Origin CA.
> I do want to mention that eating an apple is different from drinking juice made from that apple. The fruit itself contains fiber, which will slow the absorption of sugar and will mitigate some effects of it. When you press a fruit into juice you tend to lose the fiber.

Hmm. Potentially an argument for smoothies over juice?
Can somebody explain what that means in normal English?
And you'll have to pay for it yourself since pharma companies are immune from any vaccine related liability.
Nice! It’s like SAP, but for sane people.
So, to restate the problem as you see it: There is currently some overlap between games that include humiliation-encouraging mechanics and games that are popular as e-sports. There should be zero overlap; those games should not be played professionally because playing them professionally indirectly endorses all the features of the game, including those humiliation features? Even when professional leagues ban their use. I can at least understand where you’re coming from, but I still think your generalization of e-sports is as strange as generalizing meat sports.

My first question is, which games, which mechanics, and which e-sports organizations are we talking about here? Because from my perspective, the biggest e-sports in the world are LoL, CS:GO, Dota 2, Starcraft, and maybe WoW. Not one of these has any purpose-built game disrupting humiliation mechanics like the ones we’ve talked about. And as far as I know, the organizations that run the largest tournaments for these games are often, even usually, not the same organizations that run tournaments for other games.

So you have trouble taking all of e-sports seriously because some org runs tournaments for some games that happen to include mechanics that encourage highly unsportsmanlike behavior. Do you have trouble taking all of wrestling seriously because showy costume wrestling exists? Riot games doesn’t get to tell indie Street Fighter tournaments to shut down because they’re making e-sports look bad, nor would that if they could, because people who actually care about e-sports don’t assign Street Fighter’s problems to LoL.

The “gaming and e-sports industry” doesn’t act as a unit any more than all of cable television does.

So, call out your offenders, if you feel they aren’t being called out. But first, ask yourself: did that game developer even intend to make a game whose primary purpose was being a sport? Or are the tournament organizers just trying to make it work as one, despite it having some features that have to be disallowed? And why is that a big deal?
The placebo has to be something that feels like a vaccine, otherwise the double-blind aspect will be broken. But since we know the precise risks associated with meningitis vaccines, we can trivially determine the relative risk of the covid vaccine compared to something else of a known risk level.

Oh, and it's not like the meningitis vaccine will confer any protection from covid.
this is likely good news. When reddit closed down hate subreddits people migrated to other subreddits and researchers studied their behavior. Turned out that individual users reduced their hateful behavior once they entered into more mixed communities.

I don't think there is much evidence for this 'Lich King' thesis that keeps coming up on HN. Destroying these platforms has likely positive effects.

I'm surprised people even find this intuitive. When you want to deprogram extremists in the real world you take them out of their radical communities, you don't put them into a nazi village or send them off to ISIS.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-77617-7seems to have more information. I am still not sure how the electronic amoeba works though.
There are tons of prosecutions of this sort. Consider the recent plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer as just one example among dozens.
I personally used Redash in the past, and found it very easy to create dashboards and even customize our instance. Not sure how it’s evolved though since being bought out by Databricks.
I'm of two minds on this. On the one hand I realize that with Russia still very much a presence on the stage (though vastly diminished from the 80's) there will always be a need for vigilance.

On the other hand: Europe has come a long way through peace, much further than it ever did because of war. To see how much of the American budget goes to weaponry and to see what terrible shape the country overall is in is a good warning that a country that gives high priority to its military will have to take that money from other places. Education, healthcare, infrastructure. All of these will suffer if the military takes too large a part of the budget. And once you have such an MIC you can't just get rid of it, after all, those people employed there would like to continue to be employed. And so the beast starts to feed on itself, and before you know it your countrymen and women are going to be dying in wars of conquest because what's the point of having all those toys if you can never use them?

So, it's a dilemma, and not one that is easily resolved. But the fact is that Germany and Europe as a consequence got much further because of peace than it ever did because of war. Let's hope it stays that way, the alternative is not a pretty one.
This is the type of vaccine that can end the pandemic. Cheap to produce, cheap to distribute, old well-understood technology.
Attempted coup appearing to have failed, treason enablers vanish into the woodwork.

Shocking.
It is a platform lock-in. So one must have to do an ROI analysis whether it makes sense to go with such a deeply coupled tooling.
What do you think about Glib?
This is a good, detailed comment. It's so difficult to find good, detailed information, about the mechanics of this new vaccine. Thanks for writing it.
> What liability does it protect me (as a user of Facebook and Twitter) from?

Under (e.g.) defamation law without section 230, actions you take on the platform which affect the distribution of defamatory statements could make you liable for defamation, including when the “interaction” is hosting a space on the platform where it is posted, like a Facebook page or wall, or even the parent post on which it is posted as a comment.
> He did contribute to MS before he became CEO.

I thought we were assessing him as a CEO, not an employee. Sure, he contributed before, and during, being a CEO. And obviously everything is speculation since we can't A/B test hypothetical timelines. But the numerous anecdotes of his "unique" management (if some of the stories are true, which I cannot verify, the guy should get sued for harassment on multiple counts), the fact that he missed obvious opportunities for MS (sure it's easy in hindsight, but even then I remember thinking "what is he doing?"), and the fact that Microsoft's reputation plummeted during his reign (again, subjective, but none of my friends wanted to work there and openly mocked it as an employer and that has completely changed under Nadella) are all strong signs that he wasn't an excellent leader.

But ultimately this is just my opinion, and he's a brilliant (I think he's a horrible CEO, but a very talented mathematician) billionaire. So what do I know?
>> How effective is the Oxford vaccine?

>> There are three figures doing the rounds - 62%, 70% and 90%.
The first analysis of the trial data showed 70% of people were protected from developing Covid-19 and nobody developed severe disease or needed hospital treatment.

>> The figure was just 62% when people were given two full doses of the jab and 90% when they were first given a half dose and then a full one.

>> The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved two full doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

>> However, unpublished data suggests that leaving a longer gap between the first and second doses increases the overall effectiveness of the jab.

This description of the results doesn’t inspire confidence.
Many large corporations including Apple are pouring millions of dollars annually into OpenStreetMaps so they have access to a decent map system.
European Citizen's Initiative for Unconditional Basic Income
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Drones are fucking loud, and the video stream can be detected while transmitted via the air (with an sdr card or something similar). Signals can also be jammed, and combined with gps jamming, the drone will "get lost", and probably land at its current location (and hopefully not just drop out of the sky when the batteries are empty).

And this is not james bond level of knowledge and equipment, but something a better ham radio operator or a better engineering student can do with sme preparation.
They must be heavy, which helps with fluid motion
Unless you're DJI the volume isn't high enough to just look at marginal price.
I'm probably in the minority here because I actually appreciate follow-up emails. Sometimes I get a message and feel lukewarm about it, ignoring it entirely, but by the follow-up have definitely made up my mind. Other times, I intend to get to a message but just fail to because of ADHD or life events and a follow-up is a convenient reminder.

If I dont like the message, the delete button takes a fraction of a second (my mail client [spark] makes it easy to actually just select a ton of emails at once and mass-delete) so it's really not an inconvenience to me at all. If I despise the message, the spam button also exists.

I'm not sure what the big fuss is people make about email all the time, but I'm thinking it might be time to just reassess how you manage your emails rather than blaming the people sending the messages.
Could be, but several months ago it was very easy to find and now it's buried further and further down. Considering everything YouTube and Twitter have been doing over the past few months to control the narrative, it's also equally likely they're intentionally burying it.
Android cryptography leakage results to $$$, BugBounty writeup
For this pandemic, sure. mRNA vaccines seem like a promising way to tackle future viral outbreaks, given how fast they can be produced. The cost should come down over time as patents expire, research costs are recouped, etc. etc.

The biggest advantage that this vaccine seems to bring to the table is logistics. The mRNA vaccines produced so far require extremely cold storage temperatures which makes logistics harder and slows down actual administration as each shot has to be heated up, administered, wait for allergic reactions, and then re-frozen again.
I agree 100% and this is a more serious issue in other countries. I've seen Google Maps lead you down some extremely dangerous areas just to save like 5 minutes.

Yeah, there's a reason roads in that area are so open.
I read it ironically. I mean, if there are months in between, it makes plausible deniality that you forgot you got idea from someone else. Week makes you more of asshole.