skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i like your writing. but IMO inflation is related to "Regarding energy" section as well.

Constant inflation will require the entire economy to always be active or they will slowly fall behind.

you acknowledge that "you basically worked a month for free" due to you savings being devalued.

If a dollar represents energy or labor, then every dollar really represents the current value of labor and a discounted, amortized accumulation of labor into the future. It's almost like inflation and the time-value of money are baked into every dollar, conceptually.
Inflation forces everyone to work. Working for the sake of working isn't energy efficient either. It's probably why crypto exists at all, because people need to always be hustling to stay ahead.

...Not that you need crypto to remove inflation.
That's extremely vague and untenable.

Besides, the lockdowns were completely unwarranted. Sure, at the beginning, no one seemed to know how dangerous this thing is, but we have learned quite a bit about it since and it does not merit the sweeping lockdowns in place. Locking down and protecting the vulnerable like those with comorbidities, absolutely, but not everyone. It is not that dangerous of a virus!

Sadly, this has proven to be a successful experiment in how media-driven FUD, sloppy reporting, and blatant misinformation can make people behave irrationally. We know the tallies are bogus because of the bad monetary incentives and methods used to determine whether someone's death counts as a COVID death, we know that something like a half a percent of the population is really affected, we know that the side effects of the lockdown are very concerning (rising suicide, undiagnosed cancers and other illnesses because people fear medical facilities). This is all pure political opportunism at this point.

You want to help the poor? Get rid of the lockdown. The longer you wait, the harder it is going to be to admit that there's nothing to fear (frankly, that ship has kind of sailed; people will ask "well, if it isn't that dangerous, why have we been under lockdown?"). You need a believable exit. (Enter the vaccine.)
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Probably the hair transplants.
Humans will kill anything, often for stupid reasons. Really parasitic behaviour tbh.
The more specific the summary, the more likely it is to be incorrect in some strict sense. Then if all of it becomes law, the courts have to interpret which part is right.
Hopefully this makes it to a discovery phase where google is forced to reveal the baked in censorship params.
> On top of that, doctors here have created a craze for remdesivir, resulting in a blackmarket for it.

So this was shared by someone who claims to be an ICU doctor in Delhi - the prescriptions are not being written because they are medically necessary.

My family member with the lowest SpO2 is in the DRDO hospital is on Ivermectin + prednisone & a Dexa IV (& not remdesivir).

The rumour is that some doctor had his arm broken by a family member for not prescribing the remdesivir after the patient died.

So the doctors are writing prescriptions and asking the patients to source them, even if the hospital dispensary has the drug in storage, to avoid getting beaten up by the patients family.

This has created a complete black market for the drug, which vastly outstrips the demand and hopefully the doctors are probably just chucking whatever shady vial the family brings over instead of putting in a sick person.
Yep, I programmed in HyperCard/HyperTalk a long time ago and when i was thinking about how I needed a language with native event handling I remembered HyperTalk. :)
Less than 6% of the stimulus funds went to pay people, most of the money went into tax savings for banks and big companies (that clearly hadn't stopped eating avocado toast and starbucks coffee and hadn't salted away money for emergencies /s)

We could have done a blanket shutdown for 1 month, paid everybody to stay home and it would have cost multiple order magnitudes less than the current nightmare approach, that not only still impacted the economy, also caused 100's of thousands of dead people. This was a preventable catastrophe, caused because corporations are better represented and more important to our politicians than actual citizens. Thanks Citizen's United for legalizing blatant corruptions /s
One correction, plants, including trees, don't get their nitrogen from the air, but from the soil.
When the players are respectful that's when you know it's a combat sport.
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This is definitionally untrue. Forests have a maximum biomass carrying capacity, and they rarely reach that capacity, instead losing carbon to stochastic events like fire. Old growth forests "store" a lot of carbon, but their capacity to sequester is finite.

https://www.fs.fed.us/psw/topics/fire_science/ecosystems/car...
Hi, your comment about face masks decreasing blood oxygen levels is patently false: https://factcheckni.org/articles/can-face-masks-cause-harmfu....

I would advise you against spreading misinformation, thank you.
The future for which left environmentalism is unprepared
"Progressives struggle with a disturbing truth: the climate crisis is going to get much worse no matter what, and eco-nationalists are poised to exploit this fact."
I think this may be unintended. It is very hard to formulate a message that essentially says both "we recognize your time is valuable" and "we know we waste your time, but we decided it's not very important" at the same time, without it sounding sarcastic on some level. Inherent contradiction of the message would get through, regardless of the wording chosen.
You'd claim that the tooling used and thus the evidence is unreliable. Not because of yourself or anybody targeting yourself, but due to other actors attacking Cellebrite and leaving you as collateral damage. You'd base this on testimony from other (court-authorized) experts, perhaps even the CEO of a major privacy app. Would be an interesting trial to follow in the US, not sure I'd want to be the defendant though.
They are named in the comment above. Aditya Pakki's personal website is the first result upon Googling that name.

I doubt HN has the volume of readership/temperament to lead to substantial hate mail (unlike, say, Twitter).
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OK? If somebody else does something ethically dubious, does that make all ethically dubious behaviours acceptable somehow? How does a totally separate instance of ethical misconduct impact this situation?
This is something I have personally looked at as an owner of a UFED touch device (1st gen). By default your software runs in a non-priviledged account but who's to say one of files isn't just straight up being read by FFMPEG and adding or removing evidence from the final report.

The official Cellebrite policy has always been "don't worry, if you get stuck, we can send you an expert to testify to the reliability of the scientific evidence due to previous cases" but what happens when the pyramid of previous cases fall apart? Do you suddenly own a paperweight?

I've also published papers (with NIST's help) on using consumer grade hardware for forensics and why testing your tools across a wide variety of scenarios is critical.
Because the middle man does stuff for you like emergent OS patching, secure log handling, request routing, TLS termination and cert distribution, zonal redundancy and failover, access control, etc.
With all the recent BLM protests going on, I wouldn't be surprised if it was acquired by an activist, even an activist who works in the police force!
They're alluding to the fact that they can randomly pop Cellebrite installations by planting anti-Cellebrite malware on their users phones.
Any introduction to chaos theory should change your mind, but it convinces you that your actions have consequences at the cost of never being sure what they are.
Democracy is the system of elected representatives. You can elect a government that is completely opposed to welfare programs.

India has some of the hardest working people in the world, and it's a shame the way many have been treated by government programs. Government handouts have created a culture in which many of the poor are at the mercy of corrupt bureaucrats just to get by.

"What's that you say? Your rice allotment was 100 grams less than you're entitled to? Fuck you. Store is closed today. Hey everyone, thank smartass over here, nobody gets rice today."

This is government welfare here in India.
Very cool! What are some of the useful applications you thought for this concept?
Are you sure? I watched the conference and this uses the RDP framework behind the scenes, integrating with Wayland. Why would it consume much more than running natively?
And add in having easily-viewed diffs over the course of the bill’s evolution, so we can see who’s making which changes.

We already have that, except a) it's not as easily to read as it might be and b) without significant study, it's often not obvious what the import of a change is.

I think we need to be thinking about a long term goal fo dispensing with representatives as they currently exist and moving toward a wiki-ocracy, where anyone can write or edit parts of the legal code but there are procedures for conflict resolution, as well as constraints of various kinds.
NY had 24% fewer cases per capita. How is that "far worse"?
No it's not technically correct, it's just correct. If you ideologically insist on pinning the blame for these deaths on the protesters, then you'll find any logical contortion possible to keep at it, but you'd be simply wrong. Your argument that these deaths wouldn't have occurred if they hadn't shown up is also ridiculous as hell. For one ting because four of the deaths weren't even the result of the protests at at all, and for the last death, You could use the same shitty reasoning for any protest or act of resistance in which people die: "If random people of color just didn't piss off the police, they wouldn't have to get shot by them all the time." Sounds nice and reasonable used in that context too?
It's not exactly wsl is it? Linux considers free memory useless and uses it as cache.

https://www.linuxatemyram.com/

Weird that i didn't knew this. Couple of years ago i wasted some time to get more "free" memory on my server. Lol
> Wickard v. Filburn pretty much ended limitations in regards to interstate commerce.

It did not, illustrated by among others, US v. Lopez.

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1994/93-1260
Not sure about your definition of "short term" here. Where does the carbon in coal come from? The last time I read it's from the plants.
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paying with bitcoin for an esim , isn't bitcoin digital gold have the narrative changed ?
Why would we be concerned specifically about the government "buying" this information? I don't know or care how much money has exchanged hands through the NSA/AT&T/Room 641A surveillance -- if AT&T did that all for free, it wouldn't be any better.
This might sound like a dark humor but yesterday the issue of Oxygen shortage came up in Supreme Court of India. (For the uninitiated Indian Supreme Court acts a bit like village elder where they can give any random order to government for any reason even if there is no actual lawsuits under consideration.)

Supreme court asked Government what their plan to increase Oxygen supply is and if they are planning to import it. The government's response is that they have floated a "tender" and have received 3-4 quotes. (Note that, many hospitals in India right now have < 24 hours of Oxygen supply).

Supreme court then asked government to force steel and petrolium factories to divert their oxygen to hospitals because steel and petrolium is not important. :)
Doubt you can have battery life and javascript in the same phrase. They'll find a way to nullify any technological advance.
There are lots of stories of the “I can work harder and longer than others because I require very little sleep” types having serious issues later in life. This study would seem to put some hard data behind this logic being a really bad idea for ones long term health and well being. The public discourse now seems to be shifting to one where “successful people prioritize sleep.”
Meta but why has the term "gaslight" become so common on Twitter and HN?
No, it is your job as a researcher to make sure you never even bother to submit to the IRB something that might fail review.

Sometimes you might need to make the committee understand before a full review when you are asking where a line is for some tricky part, but you ask about those parts long before you have enough of the study designed to actually put it before the review.

Ethics are a personal responsibility. You should be personally embarrassed if you ever have something fail review, and probably should have your tenure removed as well since if your ethics are so bad as to put before the board something that fails you will also do something even worse without any review.
Merging them now...
From the letter:

> The IRB of UMN reviewed the study and determined that this is not human research (a formal IRB exempt letter was obtained). Throughout the study, we honestly did not think this is human research, so we did not apply for an IRB approval in the beginning.

So the statement is a bit unclear to me, and I’m hesitant to come to a conclusion because I have not seen what they submitted.

As I read this they are saying:

* we explained the study to irb and asked whether it met their definition of human subjects research - based on our description they said it is not human subjects research

* therefore we did not apply to irb to have the study assessed for the appropriate type of review.

Exempt is a type of irb review, basically it is a low level desk review of a study. It does not mean no one looks at it, it just means the whole irb doesn’t have to discuss it.

I can see both sides of this. Irbs focus on protection of the rights of research participants. The assumption in cognitive models is of direct participants. This study ended up having indirect participants. I would argue that is the researchers job to clarify and ensure was reviewed. However, there is almost certainty this study would have been approved as exempt.

I think the irb likely did the right thing based on the information provided to them. The harm that HN is identifying does not fall within the normal irb definitions of harm anyways...which is direct harm to people. The causal chain HN is spun up about is very real...just not how irb views research typically
Steps of preventing cat theft:

1) keep cat indoors

There is no step 2.
> I have a built-in filter - I call it the "immune system". Fits perfectly, works perfectly.

Ah, yes. Humans, notoriously immune to all diseases due to their perfect immune systems.
Whether Cellebrite is secure or not has really not much impact on Signal. Shore up Cellebrite's security, don't, either way, pretty much same threat to users. But calling them out like this could force them to placate their customers by spending money on software security --- something they apparently haven't been doing --- and inflicting costs on your adversary is good praxis.
This is a very simplistic view of the situation.

ORMs have very basic support of current SQL standards and database specific features.

This means that using an ORM reduces the power of the database choice you made.

Also things like arbitrary SQL support imply you have to manually creat return value typings.

Having to leave the nice ORM wrapper functions for arbitrary SQL means you lose all the ORM niceties like soft deleted or updated_at fields

Overall I see very little use for ORMs.
You explained what this option is, I was asking why.
They hacked McDonald’s ice cream machines–and started a cold war
It was a ban to export mainly to UK which already had plenty of vaccines. And AZ wasn't delivering to EU what was promised.

If you promise to deliver you better do, or don't produce the product in there and ship it elsewhere.
True in basically all relevant cases but they recently found one type of mountain plant that pulls nitrogen from the air, which holds some promise for GM crops.
I grew up with having to do all of that myself. It's really not that hard, a minor part of running a website/service/app. Why would I give up more control? Just a machine (bare metal or virtual) and the domain are enough... Guess I'm old now heh
An old app in Apple's ecosystem isn't the same as an old app in Windows.

You can still run executables compiled under Windows2000 today. Meanwhile, programs as old simply won't work in MacOS (at the time, Apple was shipping OS9).

I have no doubt that a Windows release with legacy components removed can run fast on ARM (it was already demonstrated with Windows 10 mobile).

But that's just the tip of the iceberg: Nobody is shipping a chip comparable to the M1. All the ARM vendors are focused on phone chips, with completely different power optimization goals.
Had him as a TA, can confirm. Rudest and more arrogant TA I've ever worked with. Outright insulted me for asking questions as a transfer who had never used Linux systems before. Him implying he was ignorant and new is laughable when his whole demeanor was that you're an imbecile for not knowing how these things work.
i think it was just a random share by someone.
It's also related to the up votes. A post with a bad comment to up vote ratio usually means that a flame war is going on
Backend software developers and a superiority complex
Agreed: sending an email is certainly manipulating their environment when the action taken (or not taken) as a result has the potential for harm. Imagine an extreme example of an email death-threat: That is an undeniable harm, meaning email has such potential, so the IRB should have conducted a more thorough review.

Besides, all we have to do is look at the outcome: Outrage on the part of the organization targeted, and a ban by that organization that will limit the researcher's institution from conducting certain types of research.

If this human-level harm was the actual outcome means the experiment was a de fact experiment including human subjects.
Alternative title: people without children have less risk of dementia.
The term “addiction” is dangerous in discussions about these topics because it can has such a range of meanings. Sometimes it’s used to mean chemical dependency that you can observe in lab rats and which causes clinical withdrawal symptoms. Some people use it for anything people do to “cope” despite it being bad for them, so you could be addicted to almost anything and it need not have any obvious chemical basis.
Well, of course I don't know about the internals, but having used Django migrations for a decade now (it used to be a standalone solution called "South" back then), I haven't really run into any inaccuracies and can't really imagine how those could happen. As far as I can see, the main difference is that they are storing and intermediate format (that they can map to SQL unambigously) while you immediately generate the SQL.

Django doesn't try (too hard) to validate your model against the actual DB schema. Because why would it? You either ran all the migrations and then it matches or you didn't and then you have to. (Unless you write your own migrations and screw them up. But that's rare and you can catch it with testing.) While your focus then seems to be to check if the schema (whatever is there in the db) matches the model definition. Based on my experience (as a user) this latter is not really something that I need help with.

Data is actually an issue in development and hard resets + (re)seeding is pretty inconvenient compared to what django provides. E.g. in my current project we're using a db snapshot that we've pulled from production about two years ago (after thorough anonymization, of course). We initialize new dev environments and then it gets migrated. It probably takes about half a minute to run as opposed to about 2 seconds of back migrating 2-3 steps.
It's a measure to halt flamewars
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887670.
Eh, I don't agree. The tv / ad might have not been advertising anything real, and even if it were my next point still stands. The tv/billboard was choosen for a reason and it might help set the stage for the tone or theme of the movie.
It also means you pay taxes on wealth that was never created.
I believe that you are morally (if not legally) within your rights to acquire DRM free versions of content that you've lawfully purchased, including by downloading unencumbered copies or removing DRM yourself.
I've always wondered if coffee studies are just something they give bored grad students to do. I've heard about what seems like hundreds of them in my lifetime and they contradict each other in cycles over long stretches of time.
There's an enormous amount of design cost in a phone no matter what. Doing it differently from the start does not substantially increase the cost, and I'm not asking for a retrofit.

It's absolutely bonkers to suggest a 20-30% increase in total cost that would be driven by design costs; that's more than doubling the entire design budget!
Harvard Students Giving Away Free Books
By process of elimination. Some of the places are about a thousand mile apart. There aren't too many causes that could explain a simultaneous spike in cremations at all those places coinciding with the nation wide second wave of COVID-19.
Did you know? There's a collectable market for Trump University items
Let's set aside any and all political nonsense. No really, let's not even go there. Let's try very hard and look at this particular topic on its own and near-future historically, please.

I was thinking of giving these out as gag gifts because of the scandals and enough time has passed to make people not remember it as much. [0] But I wonder if instead, I should keep them if their value will appreciate well.

1. What do you think about this market?

2. What would you do if you bought a set of those DVD's from one of ecomm marketplaces for $30?

0. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump-university-scam/
As a developer with dyslexia I hope this never becomes popular as I would be out of a job.

Kuddos to the author looks cool but personally I wouldn't be able to make a single thing work.
Agreed: I can understand how the IRB overlooked this. The researchers don't get a pass though. And considering the actual harm done, the researchers could not have presented an appropriate explanation to their IRB.
Thanks for reporting, fixed.
Freehold is one thing on a block of flats. The poor people who got conned into buying a house on a freehold basis where the legal protection for rent increases doesn't apply. That is a different matter.
After following nearly 8,000 people for 25 years, the study found a higher dementia risk with a "sleep duration of six hours or less at age 50 and 60" as compared to those who slept seven hours a night.

In addition, persistent short sleep duration between the ages of 50, 60 and 70 was also associated with a "30% increased dementia risk," independent of "sociodemographic, behavioural, cardiometabolic, and mental health factors," including depression, the study said.
Most "1st year of CS" people do not know C or understand how pointers work, let alone an 'opcode'
What Happens When Data Scientists and Designers Work Together
i have heard that the problem with this is that #1 ("relate to the employer's business") can potentially be interpreted to include most / nearly all tech if the employer is a Big Tech Co (due to the enormous scope of technical projects/ventures these companies have).

i am curious what if any precedent exists here.

obligatory IANAL
["It's illegal to possess these stolen documents. It's different for the media. So everything you learn about this you're learning from us."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15ZTiAf8fp8)

-CNN
> Meanwhile Texas, the poster-child for bad behaviour, is headed back to normal.

Fifty THOUSAND people died in Texas. I'm not sure how anyone can hold it up as a *good" comparison.