skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Orphaned citizens in space? Might sound crazy, but the fall of the Soviet Union did result in exactly this scenario for an astronaut that had to go through a harrowing survival situation for a very long time until things were resolved down on Earth.

In the grand scheme of things a handful of murderers going free or a ship of people stranded in space isn't the end of the world, and for almost everybody else they would be nothing more than a curiosity. These are hypotheticals that are easy to personify and therefore may seem to require urgent attention, but that's mostly illusory. (As evidenced by the fact that even when we use supposedly "real life" stories, we leave out many of the most important details; details that almost always admit of other possible endings easily reached.) The "plight" of the Mir cosmonaut paled in comparison to the plight of people down below, and in any event it's difficult to imagine a treaty having accounted for this kind of event--dissolution of a state. It may have been just as likely that a treaty would have bound the hands of signatories; signatories who might otherwise have permitted him to land--lawfully, unlawfully, or otherwise--when he truly neared the end of his rope.

At their best treaties improve the consistency and application of normative international law, and on occasion accelerate their maturation. But at their worst treaties become dumping grounds for wants rather than needs, ideals rather than practicalities; and thus are likely to injure consistency and fair application of the law in the long-term. And unlike domestic statutory laws, treaties can be very difficult to change. From a real politick perspective states are free to ignore them, but in doing so they injure the effectiveness of other treaties and the rule of law generally. (See how pharmaceutical companies have effectively locked the United States into a strong patent regime based on a complex system of multilateral and bilateral treaties.)

My only point is that these matters are not as urgent as often described and rarely without alternative remedies. Legal systems aren't usually so brittle and technical that they fall apart in the face of such seemingly novel events. And in any event, in the realm of international law and international relations avoiding the possibility of technical gaps a priori is not and should not be a high priority, and can have significant unintended consequences which are far more difficult to rectify than most other areas of the law. Letting experience and exigency be our guide might seem lazy, but it also helps keep the system accountable and grounded when there are very few mechanisms for achieving that.
If a player leaves your game, lichess gives like a 20 second timer and then lets you claim victory. I believe there are also "offer draw" options, but I'm not sure.
The problem with “do both”: if you give your control group PrEP, then you won’t be able to get data to support the vaccine’s efficacy. A trial requires enough infections in the control group to show the vaccine is better.
Even better, what about "Nissan?" https://nissan.com/
The good ol’ days, when you had to keep something sending a steady packets across the ssh session to keep the connection from dropping.
They said they were. They also said they were peaceful and democratic. Read "The Manifesto in Practice" section of your link before you take what the manifesto said at face value.
I am strongly determined to believe that justice systems around the world are either of the two:

1. Incompetent

2. Corrupt

I do not wish to accuse of either yet in this case, but this seems grossly unfair to what people like Aaron Swartz had to go through in comparison. I guess deep pockets if involved somehow have their cases either dragged on, turned away, justice never served at all. Consistently.
> because reality has a liberal bias.

I think I've read this multiple times in this submission, and I think you're the one saying it over and over again. Do you not realize you're quoting Stephen Colbert from a news satire show?

Have you just been regurgitating this for years and no one had the decency to point it out to you?
Sure, for put options it ranges between 0 and -1 for the same reasons, and the same argument holds for why gamma can't be constant.
Answering your questions about WhatsApp’s Privacy Policy
That's only a problem for the studies. I'm talking about after the studies. I can see a lot of at-risk people saying "Yeah, I'll do both."

I was joking to my doctor that when I get access to the COVID vaccines, I plan on Moderna in one arm and Pfizer in the other.
I find it very hard in the current situation to view "mainstream D's and R's" as part of any cohesive entity.
The memes have foretold the coming of rustOs.
The sticker price is very high but nobody pays it. It’s free even if you are uninsured, and if you are insured Gilead will reimburse you for any copay.

I think the production cost is not that much, so the high price is just a means of extracting profit from the insurance programs.
What did they facilitate that was fine for years until today?
Vendor specific sales incentives and brick and mortar retailers charging vendors to be more visible than competitors are sales of active and passive advertising respectively.

Retailers have income streams beyond what shoppers provide directly. They sell access to your attention like Google and Facebook.
Fair observation! Thanks for the question.

> If you don’t have any empathy, does that mean you are angry?

I'm not sure how to answer that, except to acknowledge that it isn't directly the case. It's certainly possible to have zero empathy and be perfectly free of anger. In fact, a sustained state of bliss might necessarily involve an absence of empathy...

Perhaps what I was trying to say would be better said by substituting "antidote" for "opposite".
Here are two articles about this:

https://fee.org/articles/facebook-suspends-ron-paul-followin...

https://reason.com/2021/01/11/ron-paul-says-hes-been-locked-...
I think it's more likely the NSA would do it, it's more up their street.
MikroTik is great, but hard to configure compared to UniFi AND capsman NEVER worked reliably for me.
Maybe read District of Columbia v. Heller.

(2) Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues. The Court's opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms. Miller's holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those "in common use at the time" finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons.

Even 42 U.S. Code § 5207 allows for temporary surrender and references "otherwise authorized to carry firearms under Federal, State, or local law" which implies authorization isn't guaranteed.
I use simple bash scripts that tail the logs and insert them into an SQLite database that I query through Metabase. It's been working great for my projects and no issues with scale or downtime. There's a writeup on my blog if you want :)
They didn't say it's done more efficiently, they said it helped their DB scale.

(It's probably cheaper/easier to scale their application servers as well.)
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Just because an article includes some provocation does make it ok* to swallow the bait and then bring it in here and start a flamewar with it. There's a much better option: don't take the bait in the first place.

* edit: I meant does not make it ok, of course - that was a typo.
We can also have dogs "put to sleep" but not people. You can also keep a dog on a leash. If a dog dies, there's no need for a coroner's report. It's not _that_ odd that human and dog medicine are held to different levels of testing and safety.
You're never going to undo terrorizing congressmen and killing a federal agent.

This isn't getting walked back.
>requires a posting at external websites to get started.

My understanding is that it is the same as seed servers
> > I'm blocked for unknown amount of time because I was downvoted

> Is that really a thing on HN? Seems pretty unfair to block someone because of an unpopular view, isn't flagging used for that when a comment breaches the guidelines?

Hamster news is not a safe space for wrongthink.
NPR is government funded, and was established by Congress.
To be fair, betting isn't about being right every time either. To really make bank on a site like DraftKings you need to be good at the meta strategy, not just good at predicting sports outcomes.

Obviously it's not a good idea to require a bet to make a public statement, but I also wouldn't mind seeing scientists be held more accountable for important decisions. How often are study sections evaluated after the fact, for example?
Getting appliances repaired is harder than it once was. Disposability culture drove many repair shops out of business. Many repair shops I and my family used to are now gone or dying. The guy who used to do sewing machine repairs for my mother is gone. The cobbler that used to repair my boots is gone. Furthermore, appliances that used to come with repair manuals no longer do, and finding the manual online is often a real chore. Fewer people will repair things on their own when manufacturers make it difficult to find even basic documentation.
The lawsuit also argues that Google’s deals to pre-install a YouTube app on mobile devices running Google’s Android operating system have unfairly deprived Rumble of viewers.

That sounds a lot like the US vs Microsoft (2001) antitrust case, where MSFT were sued for preinstalling IE on Windows without giving users other options, that Microsoft eventually lost. No doubt there's a lot more to it but Google bundling Google apps on Android does seem like pretty dodgy ground given the history of companies bundling their own software with OSes.
Is that kind of hardware going to be available in 50 years?
I think I am probably not far off feeling the same way, so I am curious what your view is to make that the case?
Agree. If you cared or fought for net neutrality at all then you cannot support this mentality. It’s a terrible precedence to set. Especially when it’s applied in a targeted way where one group is allowed to do the thing the other is not (e.g actual dictators allowed on Twitter and Trump not, left wing allowed to support violent riots etc.)
If you add a very faint guideline in the middle (vertical/horizontal) maybe dashed then it might be easier to purposefully make use of the mirroring. Just a thought.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1rkux1gl903wwoo/Screen%20Shot%2020...
Indeed, the Bloomberg article they link to shows a photo of antenna towers in Aurora, Illinois near the Chicago Mercantile Exchange datacenter

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-17/companies...
The sites would presumably do it via their normal admin interfaces.

The Ugandan government would find it a lot easier to censor a website based in their country than one based abroard.
Podcast on Venture Research with Donald Braben
Some more detail in this article from July, they’re using mRNA to make the body produce virus like particles

https://www.aidsmap.com/news/jul-2020/novel-vaccine-induces-...
Great article. The court case it mentions, Brandenberg v. Ohio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio), is why the common claim that you can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater is wrong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...).

The core of the article is this: "the status quo simply isn’t sustainable—because Silicon Valley’s communications oligopoly, being increasingly staffed by young, highly progressive knowledge workers, is no longer even pretending to be ideologically neutral when it comes to content moderation." I don't know how the rest of the world, by which I mean any location that is not Silicon Valley, can entrust the management of their digital town square and the ability to exercise free speech over to a small set of companies in one location with relatively extreme political views. They're effectively giving up their self determination (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination) by allowing social media operators that audience and power.

I also found the article's concluding notes to be realistic, particularly in admitting that it is currently unclear what the exact shape of regulation would look like for social media oligopolists. But it is clear that something must be done, and soon.
Bullshit. I dont for a minute believe this prosperity gospel from the financial sector. here are a few sobering facts not mentioned in the article:

>...what happens to that money once there’s widespread vaccination and the vacations, weddings, and mall trips that have been delayed are suddenly unshackled.

It goes to paying down rent thats been placed on credit cards and payment plans. the article doesnt mention the fact that in most major cities in America, Americans arent being evicted. Once things go back to normal, the landlord gets their cut, and the average american household goes back to being...average. Banks have also allowed customers to stretch their credit until the pandemic ends, in some cases belaying interest by months. These pipers will be paid first, not to mention the student loan collection thaw.

Its also worth noting that tens of thousands of pubs, clubs, bars and restaurants effectively no longer exist. They have been entirely foreclosed due to rampant mismanagement of government lending programs and the mass exodus of service workers from major cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York.

>Student debt is still rising, though at the slowest rate in over a decade.

Zoomers saw what happened to Millennials during the 2008 collapse. Even if they can afford college, few are excited to repeat the prospects of their predecessors given eerily similar "once in a lifetime" financial events.

>Rising home prices have priced young buyers out because they require a growing and often insurmountable downpayment.

The articles bold prediction of a roaring twenties full of homeless zoomers and opulent boomers is...frankly disgusting. Its the same garbage we've endured for the past ten years after the collapse of 08, so the author just flogs the sex appeal of untenably large mortgages which (surprise) landed us in the 2008 housing collapse.
There are a number of weird diseases that some suspect are side effects of flu infections. It may be that we have to prove a causal link to one or more of those before an elaborate flu vaccine is seen as worth the trouble.
I blame r/wallstreetbets and Robinhood.

They've figured out a way to get people who shouldn't be trading options to gamble online.
??

This is a crazy way to look at it.

If R0 is 2.5, then you need to vaccinate (1 - 1/2.5) / .95 of the population = 63% to reach herd immunity. For a 60% effective vaccine, you get (1 - 1/2.5) / .6 = 100% of the population.

Yes, the slope is slightly different but the rolloff is exceptionally gentle. There is a huge difference in practicality between even an 85% and 95% effective vaccine (70% of the population vs. 63% of the population).

Not to mention that none of what we've measured is differences in transmissibility; it's quite possible that a 70% effective-against-symptomatic-illness vaccine only mitigates transmission rates by 35%, and thus can't reach herd immunity at any level of vaccination.
Reddit used web.py written by Arron Swartz as framework ever before.
There’s a (non-mRNA afaik) universal flu vaccine by the NIH in phase 1 since April 2019: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-begins-fir...
Are you thinking of HP’s Dynamo?
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/sp00/cse231/dynamopldi.pdf
Facebook bans Law Enforcement Today from posting
We've banned this account for trolling, or whatever it is that you've been doing with your recent flamey comments. This site is not for that.

I'm disappointed, because you posted good comments before that.
Ok a better representation would be I ask a clerk for a Coke but I get handed a Pepsi and I have to say, no, I asked for a Coke, not a Pepsi. But depending on how much Pepsi paid them I may get the Pepsi handed to me several times till I get the Coke (sometimes some trademarked brands are way down -maybe below the fold.)
If you are willing to move to Ubiquiti hardware (recommended, security breach from today notwithstanding) there's a relatively straightforward bypass method where the authentication packets are forwarded from the ONT to the AT&T box but it's otherwise out of the loop, and you have fully native routing with the Ubiquiti USG (a really nice router and ecosystem).

Instructions: https://medium.com/@mrtcve/at-t-gigabit-fiber-modem-bypass-u...
Github project that makes it possible: https://github.com/jaysoffian/eap_proxy

It's definitely not plug and play but I've been using this setup for a year and a half and I get my full 1gb bandwidth throughout my network with lots of hosts.
There was also Kovri (a fork of i2pd made by the Monero project) that sadly appears to be dead now.[1] It could have greatly increased the number of nodes on I2P.

[1]: https://gitlab.com/kovri-project/kovri
I stand corrected, with respect to Germany! Thanks!
These things always sound cool.
> Then just add a time sensitive seed to it? I don't think it is equivalent to leaking plaintext. It can't be used to guess passwords on other websites.

You're reinventing password hashing and salting. Further, there's no guarantee that the has cannot be used to guess passwords on other sites. For what benefit, exactly? Your hash is now the password, and basically as dangerous as it was in a more conventional arrangement.

Pass-the-hash is a real kind of vulnerability that has been used to exploit real systems. We might be better off sticking with design approaches that don't have this problem instead of trying to fix out way out of the problem.

> If your SSL layer is compromised, you can't trust the client-side encryption. The attacker can send arbitrary javascript.

Are you sure this is what it's guarding against? A sophisticated application architecture might involve a load balancer decrypting and doing the initial routing, several sets of data handoffs, and then the application that needs it handling the password. Any one of them could mishandle or leak the password, but only the one at the end actually needs it in the clear.
The irony that the conservative movement wants less regulation and government yet cries foul when the vendors they use aren't regulated
The law is made for the rest of us. It doesn't apply to these folks. Not when your daddy knows Kissinger and other big shots.
So this is just an aside in the article but they mentioned a new development in Uganda, that gave me pause.

Two days ago "Ugandan government blocks Google Play Store, Apple App Store, and YouTube (techjaja.com)" [0] Now "Facebook has shut a slew of accounts belonging to Ugandan government officials"[1]

Retaliation?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25704433

[1] https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20210111-facebook-shuts-d...
The two key defendants are facing up to 20 years in prison, they haven't gotten away with things. If the case has dragged on it's because, as this article shows, Theranos may have engaged in additional criminal activity destroying evidence. I also wouldn't call the justice system incompetent in this matter just because the computer forensic team could not crack the encryption used.
You pick a high risk group that either doesn’t have access to prep
8 years ago: HN front page 100% Aaron Swartz stories
Bernie is a keeper.
900,000 members is not nothing. But... Clearly not going to the other side of the story from Facebook or from their Twitter.
Thanks. Annoying that clickbait titles are allowed here.
"For my friends everything, for my enemies the law"
Can we quantify how much advantage we get as retail investors? And how does it compare to the billions spent on dedicated networking, radio gimmickry, and specialized hardware and software magic, plus the opportunity cost of pulling all that talent and capacity from other industries?

If every trade settled at, say, the rolling average price of the last 60 seconds-- or 60 minutes-- it would dramatically quiet the "noise" in the market. There would still be enough demand from conventional investors, and the averaging policy could actually stabilize the riskiest scenarios (i. e. a temporary loss of market makers causing orders to settle at comically out-of-bound prices)
Which is better for writing OS C,C++ or Rust?
The burden of proof is on you to prove that a "mind" that is meaningfully different from a very powerful computer exists in the first place in order for anyone to entertain the idea of whether not a computer can approximate it.

At first blush the mind is just an emergent property of the powerful biological computer in your skull. If you think its animated by a spiritual component its on you to provide that that even exists.
It seems self-evident there is an excess of capital seeking yield at the moment. Productivity is way up but wages haven't kept pace.

That's the whole problem: if everything is just labor arbitrage and owners take all the surplus we wind up in a world with excess capital (which encourages malinvestment) and consumers without money to spend. Business don't hire or expand as a result of tax cuts. They hire when the marginal return is positive - aka when you have more customers with money to spend so hiring another employee leads to more sales or more profit. A billionaire isn't going to buy more widgets if they pay $200m less in taxes this year. They don't need the capital to expand or hire either - money is extremely cheap right now. That $200m will be invested in capital markets already awash with cheap money.

I wonder if paradoxically we'd all be better off if wages were higher (and offshoring / labor arbitrage were mitigated). Labor would certainly have more dollars to spend across the board. That would give businesses more dollars to spend in turn.
The Nazis were a political party. Fascism is an socio-economic system. Not the same thing here.

That's the whole point.

If the USA is capitalist but loves bailing out banks doesn't mean bail outs are a attribute of capitalism.
twitter did this, IIRC they needed to turn it off as it was flagging almost all republicans
This is a really great breakdown of what’s going on in device. I really appreciate the case removal to look at the inside of the chips, as well as the general explanation of the circuits involved.
This is bad. They'll have us on vaccines every other month.
Nobody wants this, least of all I. There's a very easy way to not get HIV.

Regular vaccines are bad, mRNA are built to cull the herd. Who will you blame when you get problems 10 years down the road? You can't sue anyone, either.
Front-End Performance Checklist 2021
a common joke in December was that the proposed $600 check was just enough to buy a gun, but not enough to pay rent.

now look where we are.

meanwhile, some individual members of the wealthiest class have seen their fortune grow an order of magnitude over the last year. you can't convince me that any particular ceo or investor has done much work every month since the beginning of the pandemic as they did in their entire previous life. you have to understand we've simply allocated them that money.

at some point, everyone will realize we need to realign our economic priorities. i only wonder who is going to actually do that work, who will be dragged along, and who will be left behind.