skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has been some years since I read about the original document leak, but as I recall, she shared documents from her workplace that either had printer steganography ID codes embedded into them (images in a raster scan of a paper document), or some form of digital stego IDs in electronic documents.

Basically not very different from how major motion picture studios embed some sort of unique ID code into the compressed video files given out pre-release, to reviewers (and workprints sent to 3rd party CGI studios) so that they can track down a leak.

None of which Winner was aware of the existence at the time. Some of those codes made it through to the reporting, and were published to the Internet, making it fairly easy for federal law enforcement to track her down.

I have also not seen any information saying that the journalists who received the documents, definitively were, or were not aware of the presence of the ID numbers stegoed into the documents.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/06/the-m...

https://blog.erratasec.com/2017/06/how-intercept-outed-reali...

On a more meta level, it's a hard problem to solve with handling and publishing leaked documents, because on one side you have the vast resources of the NSA and the US intelligence community coming up with new steganographic and other methods to embed tracking ID numbers into documents. The full size, scale, budget and weight of various federal agencies' "counterintelligence" efforts.

And on the other side you have investigative journalists who do not have PhD level degrees in math/cryptography, and do not have the technical resources to definitely search through a huge pile of documents and say with 100% confidence that any possible tracking IDs have been stripped out.

I don't think I could reasonably expect a person from a journalism/liberal arts degree educational and work experience background to identify steganography.
Last year, I deployed a system consisting of 4 Elixir applications, and recently added a new one built with LiveView, which took 2 days to write (1 of which was more of a learning day). I also built some helper services that are used in other projects. Phoenix nicely fits the microservice as well as the full-stack use-case.

LiveView is a bit of a game-breaker for me. Most of my job is writing CRUD apps and you just can't beat LiveView on that turf. Unless you have some super complex interactivity in your app or are a unicorn planning to scale to infinity, I don't see a reason to use another stack. If the web weren't so terrible and just plain old, we could have even better solutions, but this is the best for now.
Stress is also linked to reduced testosterone.

Sexual behaviors can radically change testosterone as well.
Huge demand is maybe an overstatement. A quick google search shows me that Parler had ~4 million active users a couple weeks ago. Twitter has >300 million. That’s about 1-2%. I don’t think that qualifies as huge.
Most of last year I worked on https://www.listenaddict.com/ which is a site in where you subscribe to a person instead of a podcast and get notified whenever they have a new talk on any podcast (and in the future, YouTube and other sources).

I'm still tweaking the algorithms on that for autodetecting names and making sure the podcast sources I have are mostly interview-based.

I've recently started working on https://www.useproducer.com/ (no site up yet), which will be a project management / analytics tool for YouTube and Podcasts.
Conversely, renewed competition may also be a good sign that there's a market for such products. You do need a place to differentiate, fortunately the surface area of the problem is fairly broad.

As an example, look at low-code for inspiration to determine what features people need which aren't being filled by existing solutions. Hopefully that reduces the need to compete via feature checklist.
Left wing rant aside, California, which is not exactly known for it’s right wing leanings has done absolutely horrible with Covid. Not only has it failed to contain the virus it’s almost last in rolling out the vaccine (well behind those racist Red states you call out like TX).
Duplicate. Already 289 comments on this story here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25761469
I have zero T after being chemically castrated, feel no sadness at all. I would say life is better after no longer having an urge to chase a hole all the time.
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I'm working on an app that turns brokerage accounts into a fully customizable robo-advisor. Create a target portfolio made up of stocks/ETFs, and our app will keep everything balanced and fully invested.

We're starting with this simple use case of keeping a balanced portfolio, but really we see brokerage accounts as a financial operating system that's lacking good software.

We're already on TD Ameritrade and Interactive Brokers, check it out!

https://passiv.com/
Lastfm for podcasts sounds like a great idea!
Just to make sure we're clear on the numbers, Parler had ~2 million accounts last I checked. Facebook being 1e6 times bigger, as you claim, would be quite the feat.

I get your larger point, but the actual numbers you picked to illustrate it are just completely divorced from reality.
Mortgage software company Blend doubles valuation to $3.3B on $300M fund round
https://urlrec.com/

Export web animations as mp4 videos.

Did you build an awesome Codepen and you want to share it on social media as video. Just send me the URL I'll send you back the video (well the API will).
I'm building a DTC ecommerce directory and discovery platform: https://www.shiny.sale/

It's sort of a "stumbleupon for ecommerce" and curated brand/product index. It started because I grew increasingly frustrated with Amazon last year, which culminated in my account getting compromised and closed. I had been keeping a spreadsheet of DTC brands I liked so I turned it into this.
This doesn't load without disabling ublock by the way, it's blocking Sentry by default.
https://github.com/matiasvc/Toucan
A Computer Vision and Robotics visualization library.

It is way to hard and complex to do 2D and 3D visualization in C++. Toucan is my attempt to solve that. It can be called from anywhere with minimal code and gives you interactive 2D and 3D visualization.
After all the buzz about "UnClack" (the type-to-mute thing for mac) people were asking for a Windows version. So I made one.

https://github.com/andersforsgren/knatter
Why not ? If Parler/Gab can be de-platformed and sued for supporting violent insurrection, so should facebook/twitter for advertising violent insurrection.
Can pigeons asexually reproduce?

Joking, but only kind of. I guess the fear is inter-species breeding?
This is an interesting point. I've taken to cooking beans from dry in a pressure cooker and usually in a "meal" that gets cooked with it at the same time. So I can't discard the water. The toxins in uncooked beans are real, but does the heat of cooking destroy them? It looks like the answer is yes [1], which says that "No significant lectin changes were observed after soaking the beans" but that the lectin levels are undetectable in cooked beans. (I.e. cooking, not soaking is the important part.) That does leave your question in somewhat of a limbo: maybe the water hasn't absorbed any of the lectin and so is safe?

Interestingly, [1] says:

> It appears that cooking beans to the point where they might be considered edible is more than sufficient to destroy virtually all of the hemagglutinating activity of lectins.

But then the authors seem somewhat puzzled as to why anyone is reported symptoms of lectin poisoning - who's eating beans that are inedible in texture and hardness? They hypothesize raw food junkie's in salads.

EDIT: I'm more skeptical now that any conclusions can be drawn from this paper. They mention leaching as an important factor at one point, so maybe heat just makes leaching happen at an appreciable rate. And your uncooked water might still have lectin at levels they couldn't observe (since we're looking at it indirectly by only measuring the bean's content) and still be toxic. You only need 5 raw kidney beans to have symptoms.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2621....
This will only create a black market of booze. Brewing, and distilling alcohol, is a fairly easy endeavour. Policies like you've suggested, are why illicit moonshine and poitin exist.
https://github.com/TimothyStiles/poly a modern synthetic biology library written in Go. Aiming at building some awesome stuff (codon optimization, synthesis optimization, RBS calculator, etc) that should really help in forward engineering life.

sporenetlabs.com Building a method to do massive amounts of affordable DNA distribution. I'm still working on the backend for that one.
The same algorithm that would ban anti-vaxers today would also have banned Ignaz Semmelweis two centuries ago.

(On a more sensitive topic, the same algorithm that would ban "covid is just a flu" today would have also banned "face masks protect against covid" a year ago.)

It's not the opinions of anti-vaxers that are valuable, but potential other opinions which may look similar to the censor.
> The scariest part is that many people are skipping straight to TRT instead of trying to identify underlying causes of low testosterone. For most people, simple lifestyle and diet changes can make a dramatic difference.

Yep. This was an admission I had to make to myself: it's a bit ridiculous to gripe about low T while 50lbs overweight, working a sedentary desk job, and subsisting mostly on beer and snacks. There's a strong argument to be made that my T wouldn't be so low if I had my shit together.
Yet another glib, a STL for C, which is header-only, complete, tiny and sucks much less.

https://github.com/rurban/ctl
Try glsl, like on shadertoy.com, for a high fun-factor intro to GPU programming.

I enjoy coding in Python and JavaScript more than I enjoy coding in C++ or CUDA, if I'm looking only at the language itself, but I have to admit that it's also very fun to make something run 100 or 1000 times faster than it did before. That kind of fun helps me overlook language differences.

To me the quote sounds pretty funny, because a cloud of 500 CPUs running Swift, right now, is way more expensive and way less efficient than a single GPU. The current generation of GPU have over 10k single-thread cores...
Because it could potentially lay waste to large portions of the ecosystem before that system again reaches equilibrium.
How do I create alignment maps to show cascading goals across people
how do I create alignment maps to show cascading goals across people.
Thank you for the notes about stock availability and the impacts of that! I hadn't thought about how the volume of available shared affects the price. Though it feels like market makers would feel this the most? I guess I'm not sure how much of a stocks' price is driven by limited availability.

>Bezos couldn’t liquify his position in just a day or two even with a good explanation

That absolutely makes sense. I wasn't imagining a quick liquidation necessaraly - selling $30bn worth of stock over 5 or 10 years would be plenty of fuel in the fire of charitable giving.

For reference, MacKenzie Scott just gave away $4bn over one year that, I think, came from Amazon stock and it doesn't seem to have hurt the price?
When I was in grad school in 1999 studying AI the general consensus was that neural networks didn't work very well, and that you were better off with the more mathematically grounded methods like support vector machines. TD-Gammon was just about the only success story for neural networks, there hadn't been much else since 1992.
Wordpress is huge precisely because it was open. Elastic is already quite large and would keep growing massively if they stay non-restrictive. Now that they've switched licenses, this may have a significant enough effect over the long-term that they're leaving a lot of "opportunity pie" on the table.
> And I do enjoy a flip. I don't make them simply because I don't want to deal with leftover egg yolks

Flips are explicitly whole egg cocktails. If you're not using the yolk, you're not making a flip.

If you try to use aquafaba to replace the egg in a flip recipe, you'll end up with a different drink because you won't have the flavour of the yolk.
From your link:
> It's unclear whether the laptop's contents are relevant to the ongoing federal probe and whether investigators can even use them, given potential chain of custody requirements for evidence.

It really doesn't pass the smell test that it was actually Hunter's laptop. Unless he's majorly stupid (I suppose that's a possibility...), why would he just choose a random computer repair store and leave his laptop(s) there. According to snopes.com, the owner didn't even see Hunter drop off the laptop: https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/10/15/hunter-biden-laptop-g...

If I were Hunter Biden, I would certainly have connections who I can call and ask about fixing a laptop which has secret information, and I would check that they're not a Trump supporter first. OTOH, if it really was Hunter Biden and he wasn't an idiot, then him giving the laptop to some stranger would mean he was sure there were no secrets on that laptop. (Then again, people don't understand tech and he might've thought deleting a file removes all traces of it).

But Twitter and Facebook censoring the story isn't that neutral either, it's obvious who they wanted to win the election.
It sounds like the only reason the emaciated pigeon was identified was because it was tagged. It's likely that many more pigeons are regularly crossing the Pacific Ocean without being identified, then mingling with local species with biosecurity implications.
I am probably in the minority here on HN and I'd like you to pay attention to this part from TFA:

"But the team found it was also much easier for people with more money to take extra safety measures."

I am vulnerable due to pre-existing conditions. Currently my partner works retail-it is open and the workers are not considered essential/front line and will be in the last group to get vaccinated-because we need money of course. We live in a studio together, I'm afraid one or both of us may not make it through this pandemic. Every day we do everything we can, but all it can take is one slip. I am only one of many who share a similar story in the US and I believe it needs way more attention.
Discovery of Inscriptions on the Amazon depicts giant Ice Age creatures
You need something with a sim so they can call or SMS you.
How do you organise a test? Do you have to go see your doc just to ask and then go back again for the test?
I wonder if they're conflating import and immigration.

AU has a history of species being imported by humans and then overtaking native species so it's understandable they'd be concerned.

You do make a good point about animals naturally achieving this on their own. Is human vs animal transport an artificial distinction of its own?
An aggregator ala reddit/hackernews/twitter that uses a market mechanism to better incentivise content discovery.

One of the biggest issues with existing aggregators is that:

- how well content performs is dependant on the attention it gets immediately after posting.

- However, readers aren’t incentivised to sift carefully through new content, which is generally of lower quality than "frontpage" content

- This means that how content performs is a lottery. Great content is often missed just by chance

- This in turn means that there’s no platform that encourages unknown authors to create high-effort, thoughtful pieces. Instead it’s far more effective to blogspam.

I'm working on a platform that uses something similar to a prediction/stock market to incentivise people to search for high-quality content. Instead of upvoting, you effectively buy shares in new content, which you can then sell at a later point for a profit if the content proves popular. Equally you can buy "downvote shares", which act like a short and help dampen rampant speculation.

It’s early days still, but I’m hoping this could be a great way to encourage higher quality content creation.

Draft paper here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15Hc6wAXlfl8x5C0w11m7ZOEpbjj...

EDIT:

Since this is a getting a bit of traction, if you're interested in testing it out when I've got a prototype, I've created a mailing list here

https://forms.gle/EEMhkJRSUUAbwDgX6

I think initial community is critical for getting these sorts of things right, so would definitely appreciate having some HN folks to test with.
Interesting, scary. My partner has peanut anaphylaxis, epipen, never once reacted to aquafaba which I used in hummous to loosen the mixture if there is enough lemon-juice sourness and it's too thick. We eat a LOT of chickpea. She's never had anything approaching throat constriction or mouth swelling.

Are you sure there wasn't a contamination issue?
They cost nothing in the same way that exercising and cutting out junk food costs nothing8.

Though I will grant you that wearing a mask does cost less nothing*.
IDE for music composition http://ngrid.io. I’m launching soon.
This is the most disingenuous description of what was happening in Portland. I mean, anyone could follow the video on Twitter posted by Antifa. But you’re telling me it wasn’t a riot?
Maybe? I haven't seen any reactions like that to MacKenzie Scott's contributions.
A minimalist roguelike game (still pretty early).

https://github.com/brazzy/Galgenvogel
Greenwald's work exposing the corruption of Sérgio Moro dwarfs his work exposing the NSA. Essentially, he obtained documents that proved Moro stage managed the prosecution's arguments in the case that banned incumbent President Lula da Silva from seeking reelection. This cleared the field for Bolsenaro, who put Moro in charge of the federal judiciary. Where Greenwald's reporting on NSA changed neither policy or public opinion, his reporting on Moro has transformed the political situation in Brazil and caused Moro to resign.
The answer to this is Lutris - https://lutris.net/

It's a launcher that manages the dependencies needed for each individual application (setting up dedicated wine prefixes, installing any dotnet packages, etc)

Install it, then use the appropriate install script from the website: https://lutris.net/games/diablo-ii/
Maybe it depends on the severity. My peanut allergy is very unpleasant, but not anaphylactic as far as I know; I can deal with it with just Benadryl.
Twitch Girls Are Ruining My Life (Song)
Thanks! There's still a lot of work to do, currently the site is also a bit slow as it's running on a small instance and the whole ingestion process of new podcasts is pretty heavy.
I wonder if a crowdfunding campaign can bring it back to the US?
> Then China cut the price on rare earths and Molycorp went bankrupt. Then China raised the price on rare earths.

Speaking of which, China loves projection.

They recently accused Australia of dumping products such as wine in order to bankrupt the local Chinese vineyards.

As you can imagine, the many independent Australia wine exporters were rather perplexed by this, because they are not centrally state-controlled. In fact, such price-fixing collusion would be illegal here.

Any time China accuses another country of some sort of misdeed, just assume they're thinking that everyone acts the same way they themselves do.
That's an interesting hypothesis. I do feel that as the amount of content online increases, it becomes harder and harder to feel like any output you have matters. Be it writing a blog or open source software, there's competition everywhere. It's also harder to make it a say, a musician, when you consider the amount of music that everyone can access on Spotify for example. Any amount of creative output that someone can output is somewhat diluted.

I find it much harder to motivate myself to produce anything than I did 10 years ago. I might just be older, but I do think that content dilution has something to do with it as well. How do you free yourself from that?
Let's be clear here: You build something. You release it under a license that says, "do what you want with it, profit with it, I don't care". Then someone comes and builds on top of it, and you call them a thief? For using something you told them they could use without restriction?

Related: I find it really bizarre how many in the tech community seem to outright just not believe in capitalism...
Thanks, I appreciate that!
The Columbine happened in April 1999 and dominated the news cycle for a long time. It likely had a big impact on a generation of American kids. Kids that would otherwise have proceeded straight to a fistfight may have had second thoughts in case the person attacked showed up the next day with a rifle.

As for later years, schools took a zero-tolerance policy, so that would have cut down on it significantly. With social media use increasing towards the end of the 2000s, fights could have been reduced further because people did not want to end up as a punchline (no pun intended) on Worldstar or Vine.
wow that’s so cool! do you have any videos of this in action?
you specify far right, but it is also the left, in my experience. They dont flaunt it because they need to toe the party line. At the same time they are railing at trump for not promoting masks more, they are flying to go skiing.

Mayor adler of austin got extended family together, had a wedding, then took a private jet to cabo where he recorded a video encouraging austinites to stay home.

Most of my friends are liberals and many are eating in restaurants, taking trips, getting together without masks "with a select" group of friends that they are quarantining with etc. They say the right thing, but are doing something different.

Your confirmation bias and the media says it is the right. Here is an example of hollywood stars that got infected.

https://www.vulture.com/article/famous-people-celebrities-wi...

Here is an article about prominent dems not following guidance.
https://www.businessinsider.com/democratic-politicians-who-v...
WHO deplores 95% of Covid-19 vaccine doses limited to 10 countries
I once almost bought a massive Xerox printer from a graphics shop that was decommissioning it. It had a Xerox Star (running some specialized software) for its brains.

In the end, the workstation was so completely fused to the printer I'd end with a car-sized workstation.
Oh, but maybe we don't need either?

It seems that data science is used primarily for advertising. Local internet communities are dead. Message boards are dying. Everything is either a reddit / discord / Steam forums / Boardgamegeek. In 2021, GOG forums pass for a small forum. Only the biggest can float in the ocean of spam.
Australian here. They (NZ) invented it.

We (queenslanders, specifically) invented the Lamington, their claims not withstanding.
'Megascale' structures that humans could one day build
Awesome package! I've been thinking about using datasette for some genomics data for a while. The value prop of "make nice visualization on top of SQLite" was very clear to me. Thanks for making an awesome project
Me and a friend have been working on a game that I describe as "Factorio but for programming". Essentially you're an AI who's mission is to mine every resource from a planet. To keep things efficient you start out small and have limited processing power. You're only able to run an assembly like language that we've developed. As you get more resources you can research new things like functions, variables, type arguments, whatever. We plan for there to be a tech tree so you can choose to build out a language that's not strict similar to JS or you can go the try hard route and build something like Haskell. You build bots that mine, explore, hunt, etc and each bot is a computer running their own script. We plan on there being battles you have to script around and even things like setting up your own network so you can have robots call home when they're out in the field.

I still need to think of a good name for it though.
Yeah, I don't really give a shit about down-votes but it is interesting. I am not making this shit up. And I am not defending the right-wing at all, its all abhorrent behavior.
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