skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's more subtle signals too. Luis Leiva is a researcher who has some work on mouse cursor trails as a fingerprinting technique, and ways to counteract it: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348739714_My_Mouse_...
I'm curious if you could get the same effects by changing your diet, and what that diet is. I suspect this is at the bottom of all gut microbiome "problems", and furthermore that any fecal transplant will only have temporary effects if one continues to have a bad diet.
Tell me more about the screen.

One of the things I've disliked about teslas is the massive touch screen in the middle, and I'm disappointed to see that this has it too, but in most other ways I find this pretty interesting.
Same reaction.

That’s a hell lot of time honestly, I don’t what the world will look like in 15 years.

That said 1PTB is really massive amount of data
We used to have Disqus on our site and I can attest to it being a resource hog. We switched to Commento last year, which doesn't have as many features, but it shaved seconds off our page load time.

My only complaint with Commento was that automated moderating / spam filtering worked better in Disqus than Commento.
I love that the resistance to updates and the desire for stability has lead to lwn running a news item titled `Two new "experimental" stable kernels`. What irony.

https://lwn.net/Articles/845207/
Then release the drones and target the user.
Seed-sized chameleon found in Madagascar may be tiniest reptile
Most of the popular subs are run by a small group of people who use mod power to sell native advertising and reputation manipulation (suppressing anti-advertiser commentary, promoting pro-advertisiter sentiment).
Does "crypto" refer to the branch of mathematics or to the scam?

It has substantial theoretical implications in cryptography, but any practical applications are decades off.

Cryptocurrency couldn't get any more broken, so it has no implications for that.
Show HN: A Jekyll boilerplate for self-publishing books
Dumb question: how do you decide which SPACs to buy if it's before the LOI and you can't figure out what company they will be hyping?
Effective strategy. It seems your edge comes from 1. learning about SPACs early and 2. identifying which ones will be successful. How do you get #1?
I think you would only transplant healthy biomes, which have plenty of immune system action involved so that there are plenty of beneficial bacteria, and little or no say e coli.

It might actually be the transplanting of immune cells that helps strengthen the recipients' immune action
The discussion around firefox being inferior to chrome I think is totally irrelevant and missleading.

Yes, chrome has supperior functionality, if you don't care about privacy and freedom then there is no discussion to be had here. If you do care, please don't throw arguments like your fans going loud and your ram filling up. Instead, support open source projects financialy or put volunteer some of your time to help fix these problems.

I am not saying that privacy and freedom should be hard, but as of right now, they are. You either accept it, suck the downsides and help to fix any issues, or you give up and surrender the fate of the field to a single company, Google.

We are all free to do what we think best for ourselves. But please, no fooling ourselves. No excuses.
Detect compliance and security violations across Infrastructure as Code
Thanks for the clarification. Not to throw shade on the original CubeWorld developers - the work they did and the level of polish they were able to achieve was quite incredible for such a small team.
This is really good feedback.

1. We are going to remove Mobx. It will also reduce the learning curve for our customers. This change won't affect our API and will be fully backward compatible. We are considering Valtio as an alternative [0].
2. As much as we can help it, we are not going to embed iframes. We'd love to deliver a native, and lean experience.
3. We already provide a network layer library [1] and want to offer more headless components. Can you give us some feedback on what you'd like to see? We are very inspired by Downshift's approach [2].

[0] https://github.com/pmndrs/valtio
[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/@magicbell/core
[2] https://github.com/downshift-js/downshift
> I'm curious what part of the last mile is negative
> with traditional labs?

Well for one, why do I even have to go a mile? I've spent
some time on the bench. All of this stuff will eventually be
done at home (won't even need to mail in things!).

Last February when I got COVID I couldn't get a test because
"I hadn't been to China". But they tested me for perhaps
everything else (even though I had been exposed to COVID
folks, and had the symptomns). Not surprisingly everything
was negative (except for typical metabolic changes you see
in fighting viruses). The best part was 6 months later I got
a bill in the mail for I kid you not, ~$1,800, for these lab
tests! Insurer says "if it was March then those tests would
have been covered, but because it was February we didn't
have those policieis in place yet". Still fighting that one,
lol.

But recent events aside, let's just take a typical lab
results report. Where's the "go to definitions" on these
things? Where is the ability to drill in and see where my
measurements fit in regard to my close 8 billion relatives?

This industry is still in the stone age.

> The physician and healthcare team will by definition
> always be closer to the customer.

And the wearables will by definition always be closer to the
customer.

I am not going to tell my daughter that being a physician is
a viable future career like it is today (engineer or nurse
would be 2 good options though).

> perhaps younger generations will not care about this aspect of privacy.

I agree. Or at least, I hope younger generations continue
Obama's work and fix the laws so that your health
information cannot be used against you. What a sad and
stupid state of affairs that is. We need to fix that.
Commento.io is a very simple alternative that costs $10/month. We use that on downforeveryoneorjustme.com.
Do you have any tips on good screeners or places to find these SPACs? I've never invested in them yet and don't know too much about them. Are they traded just like regular stocks?
Intrepid Navigators: Migration’s demands on birds
A long time ago DeviantArt had a similar problem. If I remember correctly it allowed you to sort people by distance to you, or something like that. The feature was exploited in much the same way and they had to remove it.
Your marketing is terrible. On your home page have a GIF of a support agent typing a few characters and invoking every single smart feature you support.
You should definitely be open about it. Lots of girls in school have no exposure and think a field is hard to get into because they don’t know anyone there.

People forget how “far away” something looks to people not in the know.
This is one reason why using Rust crates in cargo's current form irritates me, if I wanted that kind of experience I would be using Gentoo as daily driver.

All the other languages I use support binary libraries on their package managers.
> If the debate over “Is this a Mustang?” came down to speed, this might be too fast to call a Mustang. Maybe the Ford GT is a better comparison?

> But to get that fast, you are downshifting, red-lining, and hitting gears jerky and hard in most fast gas-powered cars. It feels and sounds like you are doing real damage to the struggling engine that was not designed to do this often.

As a car enthusiast (and multi-Mustang owner) I feel like this statement really hurts the credibility of the review. The current Mustang GT is brutally fast for a street car and certainly does NOT feel like the engine is struggling or is going to explode at 7600 RPMs. In fact, it feels buttery smooth at all RPMs. With the Performance Package, you can drive these on a racetrack in the desert and you'll run out of gas before the engine breaks a sweat. It's a car designed to handle the idiots who buy them (too bad the idiots who buy them can't handle the car).

That being said, most of the enthusiast reviews of the Mach E have been positive. The major complaints seem to be around the height of the driving position, and the relatively underwhelming handling (0.86g on the skidpad vs 0.95g for the Model 3 Performance, or the 1.0+g of the performance package ICE Mustangs).

This is on my radar due to curiosity, but I think I'll probably end up with a Model 3 Performance due wanting something with handling chops.
Is oppression additive/cumulative/composable/transitive?

When someone has the power to do "fix" things but chooses not to, then that someone is partially responsible. Can A or G (or together) fix this?
yesterday just bought another 100M.
Is not an exchange, because don't sell just buy more a more. Exchange wallets are easy to detect looking to the massive amount of transactions.
> Hacker news is one of the places where I often value the comments more than the linked articles themselves. But wow. This thread is full of pseudo-science type reasoning.

It's been this way for years. HN is really quite good when it comes to things in their wheelhouse (software, tech companies), but hilariously bad about diet and related issues, I suspect because it's a sore spot for many and they are in denial.
Sure, but there is a reason why everyone uses tokens to fix csrf and not referrer.
Julia in many ways was designed as the next Python. Their user base is growing steadily, and they may displace Python in many applications a decade from now.
Future is not for us to see and when it comes to predicting future of nations and societies we are especially pretty bad. Having said that sustainability is a first world problem. There is no point sustaining anything if 80% of your population is malnourished, availability of food per capita and clothes per capita is less than what is needed for sustenance of life where thousands of children die of polio and thousands more disabled.

I would rather live in an unsustainable India of 2020 than in sustainable India of 1985.

Debt is not really much of a problem for India as debt of gdp ratio is pretty low. Debt is not a problem in terms of sustainability either, when the proverbial shit hits the fan the country might go into massive recession but even in the worst of worst cases and even with terrible politicians at help recessions don't last very long. But the gain upto that point are all real. (India has over 50M more young and healthy people purely because the country has eliminated Polio and dozen other diseases that were common 40 years ago).

Rising population and rapid urbanization would require India to manage its forests, water and other resources better and India is not equipped to do so because of government control of key industries and bad policies. But we can hope things will change for better as a more competent government is at helm.
The saga reminds me of Korean cryptocurrency craze of 2017[1], when the government decided to crack down on the exchanges and people were decrying that they were being robbed of their only viable way to middle-class life.

Well, the following price dip proved the government's point. If the government had looked the other way, there could have been millions who would've watched their life savings evaporate. (Also, if you really wanted, there was nothing seriously stopping you from pouring your money to BTC or ETH or whatever. The government's action mostly worked on those angry horde who couldn't tell Satoshi from Nvidia.)

There's a lot of inequality. That doesn't mean the government should encourage (or even tolerate) get-rich-quick schemes that prey upon desperate, financially illiterate people. Because when a few of them become millionaires and one third of them just lost their next month's rent, you made inequality worse, not better.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16121434
Leave out the word religious. Lack of religious freedom usually comes along with a lot of other rights being trampled on.

We must admit that there are people in this world who do and say things we do not agree with. However the same system which expands from trampling on religious rights to other rights is no different than a system which tramples on another right and eventually tramples religion.

Corporations have little choice when faced with government intervention and we cannot seriously hold these corporations accountable for bowing down to political pressure elsewhere when we allow our own government a free pass for doing the same or turning a blind eye to it.

To change how businesses operate abroad we must change how our government operates. We should hold both to the same standard but government must lead because it has the courts, the arms, and the laws, to pressure one but the other has little it can do to pressure it
I used Amanda Backup[0] for years on a Unix farm, and that's exactly how it works. Client apps on all of the machines being backed up ran tar and streamed the output to a backup server where it was written to disk. Then the completed files were streamed out to the tape.

[0] http://www.amanda.org
Not sure why you're being downvoted, as you're completely right. Though China's fleet is the 'pacing threat' more so than Russia's.

The single largest US Defense procurement goals is the ability to sink '400 ships in 48hours' as the key performance metric in a Taiwan defense scenario. [1]

The authors are career academics who get press by being 'contrarian'. The argument they make in their paper (that this editorial is based on) is fundamentally a straw man. They compare ballistic missiles trajectories to hypersonic trajectories and conclude 'ballistic is faster', while ignoring they key point that hypersonic weapons are *conventional in US force posture (i.e. non-nuclear) compared to ballistic weapons.

And they ignore that hypersonic trajectories are significantly harder to intercept, b/c of intercept timelines are governed by radar horizon issues and greater design cross range of hypersonic aerobodies.

[1] See "The Kill Chain"
https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Chain-Defending-America-High-Tec...
This is why separation of religion and state is a good idea, but not all state-level entities do this for various reasons.

Anyway ... if

- a home entity is operating in a foreign realm,

- obeys the laws of the foreign realm,

- brings back money to the home realm,

- doesn't try to turn the home realm into the foreign realm.

what is the problem?

Just because a company operates in a foreign realm under their laws doesn't mean it's trying to turn its home realm into the foreign realm.

Now, if the entity is partially owned by the foreign realm ... then we can question motives, of course.
Postures of Transport: Sex, God, and Rocking Chairs
Me? I think they should close any facilities they have in Pakistan, tell Pakistan plainly that they're not going to do that, and keep making the app available. (Of course, I don't own any stock, so it's kind of painless for me to have that opinion.)

The thing is, neither Apple nor Google wants a future where the only apps available are those that lie in the intersection of what is legal in 180 different jurisdictions. (I mean, Myanmar just blocked Facebook. What if they demanded that Google and Apple remove the Facebook app from their stores?) The alternatives are to have a different store for each country (do-able technically, but a lot of work, and I don't like it on freedom grounds), or to just say no to some countries' demands that some apps be removed.

Specifically Apple: You had the "1984" Super Bowl commercial. Are you now going to be on the side of the censors? Or are you still on the side of freedom?
It seems you are implying that this sort of arrangement is fundamentally unhealthy for a market focused on accurate price discovery, and I think that's trivially true.

Some investing incentives are aligned with accurate price discovery, some are not (warren buffet vs a pump and dump).
I wish there was a way to try it without logging in to Google … but unless I’m mistakn that’s a prerequisite for using the extension. I like the idea, I think I’d like even more if it worked in an “offline” mode. I get that I’d probably lose syncing & backing up my preferences, but to me that would be a great way to really test drive.
That’s a good idea, although if you were able to poll often enough and the location was always updated, you might be able to work out the offset by looking at positions when travelling (e.g. if travelling down a desert road). Probably an extreme attack vector thoughZ
The book "Understanding Computation: From Simple Machines to Impossible Programs" by Tom Stuart was/is my Theory Of Computation Nirvana experience.

Its motives is the same as NandToTetris: to make any programming-literate person comfortable with the rough outlines of the theory of computation and its main lore and results. The author uses Ruby as an interactive "Illustration language", a notation to describe concepts that happens to be executable. It's the same way I noticed the authors of "Structure and Ineterpetation of Computer Programs" use scheme or the way Niklaus Wirth sometimes uses Pascal in his educational writings. There is a small tutorial chapter in the beginning that crash-courses you through all what you need to understand in Ruby to read the book.

The structure is a bit different, the book isn't project-based like ECS, and there is no natural hierarchy to the theory of computation (except maybe the famous state_machines ==( push_down_automatons ==( turing_machines, and the book does introduce those topics in the natural order) that would make the book feel more bottom up. There is no exercises or nudges towards exploration and tinkering so you need to come equipped with your own. I stopped trying to digest it in one reading and designated it as one of those books you come back over and over again to fully absorb its nourishment.

But the main motivation of the book is strikingly similar to that of ECS: to take a complex and jargon-heavy several-years study topic and distill the most essential lines and edges so that a minimally-educated person motivated enough to understand could mostly understand. Some parts felt rushed and weren't meant to be digested in full details (when he was e.g. discussing a "zoo" of other computational systems that feels superficially different or less powerful than turing machines but are equivalent nonetheless, he was fairly hand-waivy), but the book is so great you will feel guilt dwelling on its shortcomings.
Thank you, I missed their Kickstarter offer (just 20$)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/232193852/font-awesome-...
Would there be a market for a smaller pro-sumer version Tape Drive Backup? May be the size of Mini Disc Or Zip Disc at around 5TB.

What are the current strategy for consumer offline backup. Simply copying to another HDD?
Not anywhere near room temperature, anyways. Plus it's not particularly helpful to store data in a single atom when it takes a much larger device to read the data. NAND flash cells are already about as small as they can be, but now they're being stacked on top of each other for better density. This is a much more promising avenue. Holographic storage also leverages the third dimension for huge increase in density compared to traditional optical drives.
Notwithstanding that slight predispositions for minor conditions could be priced into an underwriting model without all that much pain — I'm not even sure this sort of exclusion you propose has been legal in the past decade or so.
That's it exactly - the hamster wheel of this whole thing. I've made more money than I expected as a programmer and gotten better investing returns too. And yet the prices of homes keeps going up and inflation in other areas is almost certainly going to follow as monetary velocity is increasing.

I've never been a gold bug, but I get pushed a little further in that direction each day.
Then what enforces the rules? Someone has to enforce the rules. What is the purpose of a dog leash ordinance if there is no enforcement mechanism?

Damn right I call the police on quality of life infractions, the difference is I don’t try to settle it amicably first, since that’s a one-way ticket to becoming an infamous viral sensation like “Dog Leash Dan” or “Leashy Larry.”
It's closer to an E-Probe, isn't it?
It could be.

It could also be that they just saw no reason to enrich a set of insiders and saw a SPAC as a way to stick it to the man.

I have zero clue. My DD is basically on this page, and though I've been a customer since the beginning and have referred a bazillion people, a lot of that has just been due to lack of competition and not necessarily because I've been thrilled by 23andMe's stuff.
WSB (read the name) is for gambling, not exploiting or defacing anything, so there's no reason members would condone trashing their home for money.
See also: Robert Heaton's series of project prompts "Programming Projects for Advanced Beginners."

https://robertheaton.com/2018/12/08/programming-projects-for...

The project goals are not as lofty as those proposed by nishanth_v's friend, but Mr. Heaton goes the extra mile to turn each project idea into a step by step mini-curriculum with lots of extension points.

Then, he goes another extra mile by allowing readers to email in their buggy projects, and running a companion series where he teaches people how to debug / fix / improve their code by refactoring reader's attempts at the "...Advanced Beginners" projects.

Recommended.
It is for the US Army. They are the initial customer anyway. Civilians are the best beta testers. The internet was originally created to have a network in place for the military and I see this as the natural evolution beyond hard wired systems or intermittent wireless towers.
Follow up using bitcoin using only the protocol spec and man pages with setting up a multisig wallet on testnet!
I'm from the internet and I might not actually have a science degree, but I do have a Ph.D. in the thousands of beneficial uses of hemp.
Why not? They encode state in a way that is stable over time. Any medium that preserves state over time can and likely does function as memory in some way or another.

At any rate, DNA encodes useful information related to how an organism's ancestors were able to survive their environment. If you prefer not to call it "memory" for semantic reasons, I don't really care too much, although my opinion is that memory is too deep of a concept to be narrowly confined like that. Nevertheless, even if you don't call DNA memory, it doesn't change my point in the comments above, which is that the information encoded in DNA is directly relevant to any survival related memories, and so it would make a lot of sense if such memories were formed in direct, physical reference to that information. Seeing as how it's been shown that protein formation is involved in memory formation and recall, and seeing as RNA is how proteins get their molecular structure, it's not a far reach to see the possibility that RNA is a contextual bridge for memory to be encoded in reference to survival related information provided by DNA.

None of this requires that DNA be writable in the same way that transistor based me let is writeable. DNA is written through a probabilistic, distributed process, but it still encodes information about the molecular tools its carriers successfully managed to survive and reproduce with.
If product usage signals an organization that you're happy with their leadership choices, then doesn't leaving Firefox for Chrome/Chromium signal to Google that you're happy with theirs? Is that really a better message?

I'm not advocating for Firefox here. It's the browser I use, but there are other options out there. Safari is obviously an option for people in the Apple ecosystem and another user suggested Pale Moon. I think there are even justifiable reasons for using Chrome/Chromium. Like I said, I don't want Firefox to become dominant. I want browser diversity.