skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We aren’t finding new antibiotics anymore because there are only so many human-safe systemic vulnerabilities to take apart/stop bacteria metabolism biochemically without moving into the genetic arena for further variation. What we are really exhausting are the biochemical differences between our cells and the bacteria cells by wiping out things that make the bacteria unique. This is really bad because it drives additional compatability with the human body while eliminating ways for our immune system to tell them apart as well. We have been driving the evolution of bacteria toward this since we discovered penicillin. What we need is to introduce new genes blocks into wild bacteria that make them susceptible to artificial compounds we create while also conferring a survival and even reproduction advantage to them over bacteria that lack the implanted gene blocks. This would balance out the evolutionary force of the artificial compound vulnerability. I’m fully expecting the Jurassic Park chaos mettling with nature speech but we have precious few options when completely resistant strains of new lethal bacteria inevitably emerge.
You are incredibly naive. Have you seen a family member fall to addiction? Have you seen what it does to those around them who love them? We aren't just floating brain vessels in space; we live in a complex society of interdependencies and close biological bonds. Your choices nearly always affect others, especially with something like addiction.
> sale of a person's body

Arguably, working in a factory is equally a transaction where the company borrows your body for a fixed rate. So I’m not convinced that that holds.

Nor do I agree that it’s bad for marriage or long term relationships necessarily, can you elaborate?
They sorta did that by counting GSuite as "Cloud", but I don't think it's reported quite the same as O365 == Azure.
I've had 3 and I consider my life really boring, from a risk perspective.

I wonder if you know these people's lives as well as you think you do.
Not who you're responding to, but

> It's a bad career choice, it's not safe almost by definition, it involves the sale of a person's body which is dehumanizing

Any form of manual labor is selling your body, all work done out of necessity is dehumanizing to a degree, lots of work is not safe and pay usually reflects that.

> and it's bad for marriage and for people being in long-term relationships.

The average rate of divorce is 50% in the US. 50% of all marriages. And you have to imagine that most of those divorced get remarried, so most people have been divorced! I don't see how legalizing an existing behavior that is widely engaged in would change it much either way. Try to imagine a scenario in which a couple stays married 30 years, but wouldn't have if it weren't illegal for one partner to pay for sex, does that sound like a likely scenario to you? One might argue that people would be less likely to marry out of desperation, or that equalizing sexual options across the board increases people's likelihood to treat their partners well. If anything you'd get a smaller number of marriages that more often last, and that's speculation, but it is the most reasonable speculation.

> The questions are whether you think it's appropriate for the law to have an opinion about these things, whether you think the current law is effective, and whether you think the current law infringes on people's liberty too much.

Yes, I believe this was the question you were responding to.

> I don't think it's obvious that we can afford to stop enforcing laws that are essentially about guiding people to avoid bad choices

Really? I think it is fairly obvious. The job of the law and the role of deterrent is to protect people from others, not to protect people from themselves. This is a pretty foundational point when talking about liberty and tyranny. It's why seat belts were not required in New Hampshire (the "live free or die" state) up until very recently. It is why we lobby to legalize everything that is illegal that we want legalized, that an individual has the right to do things that are potentially bad for themselves, that their own judgment is the one they best defer to.

Maybe masturbation and anal sex should be illegal as well? What do you think?
It's a shame the original spike article by the author was titled "Smoke fags, save lives"
Show HN: Diffie-Hellman exchange for the layman
It seems to me that decoding FLoC IDs will be a big business, given their value. So people will do their best to reverse the system and keep an up-to-date table for at least some of the more valuable/interesting cohort IDs, if not all of them. In the worst case you can do this just by paying volunteers with known interests and recording their FLoC IDs. Presumably that will be done enough that at least some of the data is available for sale.

My further understanding is that FLoC IDs will be available to any website. So even if you’re too small to run a global tracking network, you can grab the FLoC ID from any visitor and, assuming that decoding services exist, turn that into useful data instantly.
I Nearly Died and My First Thought Was About Pokémon
Interesting. Looks a long ways away (I'm in the Seattle/Pacific Northwest neck of the woods.) I wonder if the universities around here have any ideas though.
>It's a bad career choice, it's not safe almost by definition, it involves the sale of a person's body which is dehumanizing

This describes a ton of jobs. Especially minimum wage jobs. Hot dog suit sign spinner would meet this definition.
Looking forward to checking this out. I've been playing around with some physics based ideas in Godot but had issues with collisions. Hoping that the collision fixes mentioned in the changelog applies to what I'm doing.

I'm very impressed with the quality of Godot and its continuous improvements.
Grammar-Nerd Heaven
Probabilities matter. Cost-benefit matters. You can't just dismiss it with "well, some people don't commit crimes, therefore it's immoral to restrict freedoms." It's a gradient, and the people on the whole reserve the right to determine where the hard line is. This is one of the beautiful things about the fact the US has many states--each state gets to decide where they draw that hard line. If you don't like it you can find another state that draws the line elsewhere.
So the state is obligated to prosecute all crimes with extenuating circumstances all the way through trial in your dystopia? No thanks.
I was wondering that, too. Also wondering how prevalent air conditioning is in rural areas.
I’ll never use Google Cloud as long as I’m using Gmail. I don’t want either one to trigger shutting down the other for “suspicious activity.”
> Congress has been using their power of the purse to forbid using Federal dollars to prosecute those in states where pot is legal every year since 2014.

No, they prohibit prosecuting use consistent with state medical use laws; in both 2019 and 2020 the House voted to extend that to state-legal use generally, but the Senate didn’t go along. (The House, but not the Senate, also passed a decriminalization bill in 2020.)
Well, the University got pissed off.

https://twitter.com/UMNComputerSci/status/138494868382169497...
The last startup I was at repeatedly ended up with $25k AWS bills due to runaway elastic search clusters or dynamodb. The only reason we resolved them was due to us having hired our former AWS account rep.

I got my fair share of those from customers while at GCP, but I agree that in the past several years GCP has gotten much better at billing infra given all the problems we heard of...
Why should we imagine this world? We have no reason to believe it can exist. People are basically chimps, but just past a tipping point or two that enable civilization.

We'd also have to agree on what "behave morally" means, and this is impossible even at the most basic level.
> Why would you want to stop violent oppression of prostitutes by police and criminals, and then replace it immediately with economic oppression?

Because right now prostitution is _BOTH_ oppression by police and criminals _AND_ economic oppression (if we're considering low wages economic oppression).
For vaping, those with nic salts are way more concentrated (used in Juul)
If XPath's are the sticking point here, just use a data attribute, e.g., data-test, on elements you want to target in e2e tests. Requires coordination between your engineering and testing orgs, but it's possible.
Seriously.... I am undecided one way or another on reverting everything, but I am happy that someone is looking closely at this.

One thing I hope they have considered is a possible intent to get a particular important patch from umn.edu reverted to reintroduce a kernel bug. Discrediting all commits from the organization could inadvertently lead to the reintroduction of legacy exploits.
> What this article forgets to mention is that Ms Haddaway wore a wire and got Jonathan Smith on tape that he committed the murder in order to get $60000 [1]. Here's part of the dialog for reader's convenience:

Of course, the state reviewed that evidence, and along side it evidence of a confession by a different individual, along with palm prints tying that person to the crime scene, which is included in the same document.
So it is really about signaling your affiliation at this point. At least you admit it. I wore a mask since last summer but the idea that I still need to wear it for no medical purpose, when over half of eligible Americans have received at least one shot and that number is rising every day, is just pure performative politics.

And the cost isn’t zero. It prevents others from seeing my face which is a critical component of social interaction. This was an acceptable cost last fall when cases were surging and we had no cure, but now it’s just ridiculous. I’ll get downvoted I’m sure, but if the mask mandates continue past May it’ll be a very strong sign that they were never primarily about following the science.
> It's a bad career choice

Is that because other people look down on it? That's not what I would call intrinsically bad.

I've heard of people paying their way through college via prostitution, who say that it's much better than e.g. working as a waitress. Also, I'm sure it teaches social skills and bargaining.

> it's not safe

Many jobs aren't safe, such as coal mining. Usually the pay is at a premium to compensate.

> it involves the sale of a person's body which is dehumanizing

That is subjective. Want me to go look for prostitutes who have said in an interview or public blog that they find it empowering?

> it's bad for marriage and for people being in long-term relationships

In what way? If a man cheats on his wife by going to see a prostitute, that's obviously a problem for the marriage, though one could argue that the man being willing to do that in the first place was the problem. (If the only reason a husband doesn't cheat on his wife is because there isn't an available prostitute nearby, that marriage is obviously at the breaking point already.)

I would argue, furthermore, that there are probably a lot of men who get into relationships just to have sex, while the women are usually looking for more than that, which probably leads some of those men to misrepresent their intentions; and that if these men had a relatively cheap and safe alternative for getting sex, this might make the relationship market a lot more honest and healthy.
Embrace, extend, extinguish for the new millennium!

Love many of the things MS is doing... but it's hard not to see echo's of the past and wonder if its history repeating.
K8s tends to work well as a basis for abstracting away the specific cloud provider to an extent.
I thought the new title better but I did not want to change the original (because I had already shared the link with friends), so I just changed when submitting. Should've gone with the original...
There's a whole cottage industry of companies selling US citizen data around credit, location, etc. (safegraph, ...), including say military personnel, government officials, political activists, bankers, and other high-trust individuals. Government people fight hard to allow corporate money laundering and stock market nonsense to stay hidden, but it's a free-for-all for citizen data.

It's insane to me that it's legal, and my current guess is it'll take ~20 years for the current 60+ year olds in power who don't know how to use computers to age out.
That’s annoying- many chat programs just leak the cache or chat server as they pull the websnippet there.
Highway 1 is reopening. Not everyone in Big Sur is happy about it
Thank you for clarifying. I agree that the researchers' initial response was comically out-of-touch, and can now see the perspective where your snark satirises their statements (deservedly so).

I apologize for my aggressive tone, perhaps I should take my own advice and be more inquisitive at first when replying to someone. :) I think the best version of my previous reply would have been something like: "It seems like you think it's unreasonable to investigate before casting judgement." which still expresses my (confused) perspective fairly well but leaves you with a more comfortable space to clarify.
Google.com.ar DNS record was just sniped
Udemy has a few good tutorials, but on Youtube check out Tutemic's code architecture course[0], HeartBeast[1], GDQuest[2], GameFromScratch's Godot tutorial series[3] and CodeWithTom[4].

And of course on the blue website /r/godot and /r/madewithgodot

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRHN_WEulLc

[1]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrHQNOyU1q6BFEfkNq2CYMA

[2]https://www.youtube.com/c/Gdquest/videos

[3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDEcP8Mc-7s&list=PLS9MbmO_ss...

[4]https://www.youtube.com/c/CodewithTom/videos
What's valuable is fixing security issues. So if you "hack" some system and then provide either patches or useful guidance on how to eliminate a vulnerability that is helpful. By contrast, if a security issue is already known/is being addressed, exploiting that vulnerability just causes problems and wastes people's time.
I mean, how can we know that any evidence isn’t manufactured?

Besides, the article definitely presents its side of the story, but the fact it left out a huge detail that the person admitted to committing the crime calls into question the article itself. What other things did it conveniently leave out?
Translation: a whole bunch of people below us in the foodchain are about to get their asses kicked.

I am very curious to hear who approved wasting the time of Linux kernel developers, many of whom are volunteers, with this excuse for academic research.
> It's pretty clear that prostitution is bad.

I'm sorry, it's not at all clear that is true.

> it's not safe almost by definition

If it's illegal, sure. It absolutely could be done safely.

> it involves the sale of a person's body which is dehumanizing

This describes all wage labor.

> it's bad for marriage

One, not sure that's true. Two, who cares? Let the folks who want to get married get married, but those who don't, do their own thing.
>Replace "women" with "men" in your post, and it's still just as true.

No, you're either attempting a low-effort troll or you have a profound misunderstanding of history. Men have almost always been classified with elite status compared to women in most societies. The entirety of Western civilization is founded under religions that teach a Male God created Man (male, not collective humanity) in His image and that women were created to serve men and obey them, and that the weakness of women is the source of all of the world's evils, and the cultures and legal systems which emerged have often reflected and enforced that patriarchal bias.

For most of history, women were basically the property of their fathers, then traded for dowry to become the property of their husbands. They couldn't own property, they couldn't vote, they could be stoned to death for disobeying their husbands.
Perhaps ICE should focus their resources on these criminals instead of attempting to deport every person who ever crossed the border. Has she ever considered that this change might even be within their own power?
Its customers' data is flowing through equipment that it owns.

At a more smaller scale, I think I certainly should have the right to monitor and alter the traffic flowing through my home network too.
Why is all this needed? I admit I didn't in depth read the article yet but something seems out of whack if we can have the Linux compositor use the native graphics hardware but then have to copy over the resulting framebuffer through some sort of Rube goldberg machine fake network RDP setup.

I suppose this was just the easiest plug&play way to get interactivity working?
Well, it got the heads of the CS department to finally notice. The preprint of the "hypocrite commit" paper was sent out late last year, and while there was contrversy about that back then, with Prof. Lu admitting that he didn't think it was Human Studies Research (HSR) and so he didn't bother to get IRB approval, the CS department heads didn't do squat. And the UMN IRB said, "Okey-dokey!" after being asked to do post hoc review (which as others have said, a post hoc review should have raised red flags with the IRB right there). It's the lack of institutional response and lack of any kind of instiutional controls which is the most concerning.

And we didn't take any action until another series of suspicious patches started getting sent for review from a graduate student from the same group. At which point, we have a unrepentant professor who has gotten rewarded by a paper at IEEE S&P, and being invited to serve on the PC of the IEEE S&P next year, and an apparently apathetic, toothless IRB at UMN. I can see people criticizing us if we hadn't taken action.
Rather better than that, can the government be sued for damages for wrongful imprisonment?
Gotta love a typical hackernews comment begging for links instead of just searching for it yourself. On the contrary I don't think your comment is useful either.
Property taxes basically don’t exceed 3% of home value. So, unless they’ve been behind for 30+ years... they’re going to come out ahead.
Meanderland
I'm shocked that any cloud provider lets you use prepaid cards... all of the major providers have problems with crypto mining and abuse, so it's crazy that AWS would allow prepaid cards that might be laundered, etc.

And IMO, if you're a real customer, all the providers are fairly forgiving, provided you can get in touch with a real human who works there.
Apple's AirTag relies on a feature no competitor can match: 1B iPhones
Many years ago I spent a few years working at Comcast

One of the more bizarre things I learned is they were somehow one of the most reasonable players as far as "digital content" went

If you purchased (not rented) a movie through your cable box, but then left Comcast as a customer. You would be sent your entire library of purchases on either DVD or Blu Ray (for SD and HD respectively) at no charge
> That can very well be socialism for a subgroup of your existing population.

This is like calling ancient Sparta - where the Spartans lived in an egalitarian structure while simultaneously oppressing their Helot slaves - socialism.

Or for a more a recent example, apartheid South Africa, where whites received a great deal of support via government policy that practically ensured their prosperity. That wasn't socialism, either.

Socialism is not about centralized state control. It's about whether the state plays a strong role in ensuring a standard of living for all it's citizens. In successful examples (like Social Security and Medicare in the US) it has accomplished this while the majority of the economy is not under state control.
Just want to comment that an article about sex posted on a site like hacker news where the majority of people have never had sex or don't have sex is probably going to get a bunch of dumb comments that have no frame to reality.
> it's not safe almost by definition, it involves the sale of a person's body which is dehumanizing

The same could be said about any physical labor job. Arguably, the main reason safety is so difficult to enforce is that it is a black market practice with zero regulation.

> it's bad for marriage and for people being in long-term relationships.

Millions of people live their entire lives without marriage or even long term exclusive monogamous relationships. Most people who do sex work don't plan to do it for decades. There is no need to demand that people live their lives in a way condusive to marriage.
Awesome design! Definitely excited to see a thumb cluster redesign.

Any thoughts about the middle columns, having them face inwards (downwards)? The pointer fingers seem to be the only fingers that have some unnatural movement as part of the base layout.
I’ve definitely had this happen. Their server simply went unavailable when it was time to stop the parking session, and charged max possible time.

On the other hand, I’ve gotten free parking multiple times because their UI is terrible, and I didn’t successfully start the parking session. No tickets yet. I’d definitely contest if I got one though.
They don’t. That’s the problem. All you read about is the propaganda. My friend genuinely cares about making sure that there is justice but the media paints her like she’s some immigrant-hating Trump MAGA warrior. She has worked under Obama and Trump, and her job hasn’t changed.
oh cool, this was one of the last points of data I had that hadn't been leaked by some company yet... the only thing left might be my blood type

using the internet is exasperating sometimes
Was there any damages awarded? Surely the state is liable for a large sum as damages in this case?
That was worth it just for the link to the brilliant Steve Yegge.
The video made my inner child feel truly vindicated with my choice of username.
Trafficking anything bulky into Australia is harder because it doesn't have land borders, so it's not necessarily a good case study.
If bald eagles were capable of willfully selling their own feathers you'd have a point and your analogy would be apt.

The biggest hazards to a prostitute is legal repercussion and the secondary effects of that, like having no legal recourse after being abused. That's not "incidentally capturing some distinguishable conduct", the vast majority of dangers associated with this industry are artificially created by unjust laws directly driven by social taboo of a few.
It takes longer to climb a hill if you start by digging a hole.
I recently discovered that you can do

cat file | clip.exe

which as expected will copy to your clipboard
Are you pulling my leg?

The number of people a government imprisons, de-homes, kills or otherwise causes trouble for is orders of magnitude higher than any corporation. Said government is working on blanket principles and regularly makes mistakes.

Them knowing where I am is orders of magnitude more concerning than some dude trying to hawk me stuff based on my location. Last century, if someone was killed by human intervention it was probably at the behest of a government. It'll be same again this century. It will be the same again pretty much every century.

I'd rather nobody was tracking where I am, but it is going to be a government that actually abuses the information. How a body can look at the US government go Bush-Obama-Trump-Biden and think "yeah, I'd trust these people to keep tabs on where I am" is beyond me.
Endless? It ended a long time ago. RISC won.

There hasn't been any new CISC architecture worth mentioning in decades.
The Incredible Rise of North Korea’s Hacking Army