skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nation state attacks are certain because of the massive payoff if they are successful. Were you asleep when the Snowdon NSA leaks happened? [1]

If you can change the ID you can cycle through a list of valid IDs. You can even use it for bit rate comms, ~16 bits an hour or something, which is enough to signal events like "number of iDevices in vicinity", or, if other hardware is used, step count/hour, which works even in GPS denied environments.

The beacon location reported by Find My is generated by the reporting phones' GPS/cellular/wifi location system.

Regular GPS trackers have no means to exfil their data. They don't work in GPS denied environments (poor inside buildings, underground, anywhere a $20 jammer is enabled). OCGs routinely use low power GPS jammers now. Using GPS or 3G requires much more energy, and 3G is easily detected by motivated groups.

So while it might not be great for stalking your partner/ex, it is very tempting for professionals.

[1] https://nsa.gov1.info/dni/nsa-ant-catalog/
(Google Play) Water Sort Bottle: Free Color Sort Puzzle Game
Tap to Sort water best brain Puzzle games with lots of hours.
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2020/06/17/gpu-ac...
Many people who don't sleep enough at night do spend the same time laying down as one with a full night sleep. Many people would spend like 5 hours sleeping and another 2 hours laying down resting.
Notion's page load and navigation times just got faster
The tradeoff is very simple: spend $100 on electricity, or spend $100 manufacturing storage chips? Chia miners can't just decide not to spend the $100 buying more storage, because if they don't, someone else will, pushing up the storage requirement, and reducing their income.
> Once trees have grown tall enough, they tend to slow down, so you'd expect them to not grab as much carbon anymore.

I don't think that's accurate (or at least not very precise). Studies have shown that when evaluating the metric of annual addition of tree mass per acre in the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest, old-growth forests add as much or more when compared to "young" forests.

I don't have any specific sources, but if you want to know more the research by Robert Van Pelt should be a good starting point.
You realize that the stimulus check comes with a cost right? You almost sound like government can just give arbitrary money to citizens but isn't willing to do so.
But they published papers about their misconduct... I don't know how they haven't been sanctioned already.

Replication is really a different problem. It's possible for you to do nothing wrong, run hundreds of trials, get a great result and publish it. But it was due to noise/error/unknown factors, and can't be replicated. The crisis is also that replication receives no academic recognition.

When people fabricate results they know it's an offence, the problem with these guys is they don't even acknowledge/understand the ethical rule they are breaking.
> It took the community to tell Twitter the obvious:

This made me laugh, because it's basically the Twitter Story.

In fairness, with such an enormous community and such a tiny (exposed) application surface, this is probably a natural law -- akin to the creative games kids will invent with rocks and sticks. :)
I thought that it would be obvious that I was referring to a community discussion with or without Google's participation. It should also be obvious that "we would never do that" does not satisfy as a reasonable conclusion to said proposed discussion.

It's rather irritating that a more generous interpretation of my comment was not considered here. Perhaps assume that my comment is not some attack on you or defense of corporate languages but rather an intellectual pursuit of a more nuanced scenario than just "good/bad" judgements?
Indeed, how convenient. If it truly did fall off the truck right while he is on a walk then there is the possibility that is a rubber duckie attack. This is basically the equivalent of leaving a USB flash drive lying around. I hope the author took the necessary precautions when reverse engineering the device. Companies like cellebrite have deep connections to certain three letter communities that staging this sort of attacks trivial.
"I was recently out for a walk when I saw a small package fall off a truck ahead of me."... I I laughed :)))
"fell off the back of a truck" is an idiom [1]. It's not meant literally.

[1] https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/fell-off-the-back-of-a-t...
I haven't started to use _hyperscript yet but htmx (by same author) has been a real pleasure to use with Django. SPA like behavior with 1/10th effort.
Pfizer Identifies Fake Covid-19 Shots Abroad as Criminals Exploit Vaccine Demand
J One-Liners
this isn't exactly the right place to ask but i'm betting people interested in graphics pipeline latency will visit this comment section:

how do people that absolutely need the lowest latency numbers make do with GPUs? i'm not in graphics but i'm in ML and lately i've been working on research to squeeze as much juice out GPUs as possible. my last project involved optimizing a pipeline that basically consisted of just a stack of filters and some min/max finding. the fastest i could get it to go after throwing everything i could at it and i only got it down to ~20ms. that's ~50Hz. admittedly it was a tall stack but still i don't understand how game devs (for example) get complex pipelines to finish within the 60Hz/16ms given you don't never have access to bare metal GPU.
People wouldn't think the world is so much more dangerous than 50 years ago if we didn't use the SWAT so often. And if people didn't think the world is more dangerous, then those in power wouldn't be able to get away with nearly as much money.
Russia to pull out of International Space Station in 2025
Which kind of sucks for everyone else at UMN, including people who are submitting actual security fixes...
The economy wouldn't crater if these massive institutions failed? I find that hard to believe.
Those authors would still need to come to an agreement about how to split up the earnings, right?

Once they've done that, services like Draft2Digital _right now_ will put their ebooks out into stores all over the world and split up the royalties for them.
Not a lawyer but I think this would be constitutional in the same way that international sanctions are constitutional. The regulation of interstate and foreign commerce is an enumerated power given to congress and usually interpreted pretty broadly.
Bitcoin will happen. This injection of money can be seen as a cashout of the current system, selling as much USD as the market can take while it is still possible.
In the old days phone numbers were not used for authentication.
My definition of a bubble is not just prices going up. It's not even people investing based solely on prices going up, rather than on the merits of the investment. To me, it's only a bubble when people are investing solely because the price is going up, using borrowed money.

And that's why bubbles are dangerous. When they pop, they don't just destroy the investors. They can destroy the lenders, which can damage the overall economy.
Great, the hard disk shortage a few years back was not enough, the current gpu one is not even done, and now we will not be able to buy ssd/hd anymore thanks to proof of space

How is it possible to frame those systems as green?

It's power that goes away to computation

It's hard disks that nobody uses and that sit there, eating power

All those things have not only the energy cost, but also the environmental, production costs associated, and the damage done to countless companies that can't get the hardware anymore
Transmission, infectivity, & neutralization of a spike L452R SARS-CoV-2 variant
I didn’t check them all, but there is at least one Republican on there (Dianes, Montana)
Wouldn't you just do an export ban on that "product"? I'm not a lawyer, but as I understand it there is no constitutional limitation. A relatively recent example[0], although maybe congress/POTUS require extenuating circumstances to get around the constitution?

[0] https://www.fema.gov/fact-sheet/allocation-rule-personal-pro...
I don't think it is fair to expect the general public to read a Smart contract to understand its guarantees any more than it is for them to read the current legal royalty papers.

In both cases, you end up trusting a third-party (lawyer, website, software) for its interpretation. And even then the final interpretation is upto a different third party (The blockchain VM or the courts).
CGPGrey has a great video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ROpIKZe-c
What's your experience of pensions? Should someone have a pension in 2021?
Right now you're almost certainly not the first offer, and even if you are, they'll have 5+ more by the end of the day. This means that your letter could theoretically be the deciding factor in which offer they pick, which does have the potential to run against fair housing laws.
Ansiwave, combination of ANSI art and MIDI music (video)
Anyone want to start a city with me? Find some overlooked land near decent water and with good fiber and explicitly build out with unregulated zoning and minimal city planning. City only owns utilities and emergency services. Municipal fiber. A remote work hub.

I have no idea how but willing to figure it out as we go. The idea has been crossing my mind more and more frequently of late.
Outside of administrators, drafts may also be accessible if your boss was given access to relevant search terms as part of Google Vault, G Suite's e-discovery functionality. Or if an OAuth service account was created and given domain-wide IMAP delegation, and the data pulled from it is made available to others. All this is extremely powerful and by design.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/2462365?hl=en

https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/xoauth2-protocol#do...
> suppression isn't always wrong.

when is it correct? Who makes that judgement?
To be fair, the history of capitalist owners of Monopoly have had reason to "dull" the original design. The Landlord's Game included two rule sets and encouraged players to play both then compare/contrast. The second Georgist rule set hasn't been included in the official rulebook in decades, but was a key part of the original design. (It's intentionally dull to play the other rules, but it was the stark contrast that was a key part of its attempt to be a teaching tool.)

There's also been another force "dulling" Monopoly's game design over time: most people don't learn Monopoly from the rules, they learn Monopoly from playing with others. There are a lot of viral (mimetic) multi-generation "house rules" that people learn from their families/peers/educators. There's also a couple of key clear rules that remain in the rulebook that people don't follow for a number of reasons, including essentially culturally "we forgot them".

(There's some interesting meta-commentary on Capitalism and its attempts at "fairness" band aids in the house rule dialects that have accumulated over time. There's some interesting meta-commentary on Capitalism regulations, banking, and/or dumb luck in the rules that have been "forgotten".)

In some ways, some of the almost willful cultural ignorance of the message of Monopoly is its own ironic statement on the systemic problems of Capitalism and how much people complicit in that system want to wish things fair or ignore their complicity and try to just cope with the problems and their fallout. I wouldn't necessarily call that "universally misunderstood", that's a pretty deep understanding, even if accidental. It's generally surprisingly easy to have conversations about it and "wake" people to Monopoly's origins and what it says about the game (and why they love/hate it) because even if they never thought "huh there are interesting parallels to real world Capitalism here" they can definitely see the parallels in hindsight if you want to talk about it.
Lots of ways! So this is one of those things that's subtly quite interesting -- Make will both take all variables from the environment, and make them Make variables. So this command:

$ USER=my_name make psql

The above example is the creation of a temporary ENV variable (assuming your shell supports this feature, it's equivalent to doing an export but only for that line), and the USER variable (accessed by using $(USER) or ${USER} in your makefile somewhere) will be automatically populated.

That is distinct from the following:

$ make psql USER=my_name

What you've done there is actually make-specific, you're giving make a Make variable, so Make will know about $(USER)/${USER}, and it will also show up, because Make exposes it's variables to shells (each line is it's own shell) that is run[0]. So this Makefile:

.PHONY: my-tgt

my-tgt:
echo -e "double dollar to print a bash var => $$MYVAR"

Produces the same thing -- $$MYVAR is actually a way to use a shell variable (the $ has to be escaped), but you get the same result putting USER= before and after:

$ MYVAR=from-the-shell make my-tgt
double dollar to print a bash var => [from-the-shell]
$ make my-tgt MYVAR=from-make
double dollar to print a bash var => [from-make]

All that said, if you don't need to ever change the name then just make the target `psql-<username>` or `psql_username`, problem solved! For example, I use kubie on my kubernetes cluster, and I have explicitly named clusters, so when I want to enter a kubie context (just so I can avoid some typing), I run `make <cluster name>-kubie` and I'm off -- I didn't feel the need to do `make kubie CLUSTER=<cluster name>` though I easily could have. Here's what it actually looks like:

mycluster-kubie:
CLUSTER=mycluster $(KUBIE) ctx -f secrets/ansible/the.dns.name.of.my.server/var/lib/k0s/pki/admin.conf

I don't strictly need that CLUSTER=mycluster there, but if the command cared, then it could be easily "hard coded".

> Bash scripts almost could be illegal :- ) I'm thinking about writing scripts in Deno in the future, instead

Bash is super powerful, and some people are good at it, but it just hasn't stuck enough for me to be comfortable. Plus, it still feels like another language to be wrangled while Make's only purpose is to do the things (whatever that thing is) that build your software.

[EDIT] figured I might share some more nice pieces of software that I use and love (also so you don't think I'm just willy nilly checking in secrets to my repository):

- direnv[1] for managing local ENV settings in a given folder (like your project folder)

- git-crypt[2] for simple encryption of secrets in a git repository, with gpg support

- entr[3] it re-runs a given command when files change, really good for reducing feedback loops when working with tooling that doesn't have --watch/fsnotify functionality

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Environme...

[1]: https://direnv.net/docs/hook.html

[2]: https://www.agwa.name/projects/git-crypt/

[3]: https://eradman.com/entrproject/
Due to contracts and the draft, you'll never have that regardless.
And then there are the areas where clubs are allowed to spend with abandon: the front office. Coaching staff, player personnel, analytics, etc.

The "American" system does allow for strong teams, but it tries to make sure that there's more volatility from season to season.
I thought there were ethical standards for research where a good study should not knowingly do harm or at the very least make those involved aware of their participation
Data Comes Before the Science
I think they mention Apple in an attempt to force them to defend their copyright, else they risk losing it.

I assume Apple will choose to file for copyright infringement than risk being accused of collusion and lose the copyright on that iTunes or parts of it.
Yup. Where I live counties aren't terribly significant. :-)
Correct, the study design in the original article cannot answer causal questions (although of course it can generate hypotheses). For example, if an omniscience informed us "actually, people lose sleep in middle age as a consequence of the early stages of dementia", that would make sense as well.

The best causal analysis is interventional, but many times (such as in this case) it would be both extremely challenging and likely hard to do in any ethical fashion (I can't imagine how it could be done, but perhaps someone could).

Short of that, you're left with instrumental variables. Genetics offers a very nice instrumental variable, since the causal arrow largely goes one way if you setup your study design carefully.

That is generally performed as Mendelian randomization, which has several assumptions but, if met, has nice properties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendelian_randomization
Constant stress seems the biggest ager. Intermittent stress (even at high levels), punctuated by periods of relexation, doesn't seem as bad.

See: US presidents before-and-after vs corporate CEOs
> > > They introduce kernel bugs on purpose. Yesterday, I took a look on 4
> > > accepted patches from Aditya and 3 of them added various severity security
> > > "holes".

It looks like actual security vulnerabilities were successfully added to the stable branch based on that comment.
Mainland countries of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand (though that's now changing). Much of Africa, nominally, though I suspect that's seriously underreported. Sevaral of these are densely populated.

Island territories are clearly easier to control movement to and from, but that is not the ony factor.

And, of course, China. Again, if reports are to be believed.
If that's the case, why would they publish a paper and announce their "research" to the world?
I read that in the 60s to the 80s, a lot of civil unrest was taking place and there were so many “protest” bombings (whatever that means) that it became a almost normal in some cities (according to articles I found). This might have been a precaution against something like that, considering the current political climate in the USA?

https://time.com/4501670/bombings-of-america-burrough/

Edited to add a reference and correct a detail
Your source is lying to you. That's not actually what that study (https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817) says.

> The recommendation to wear surgical masks to supplement other public health measures did not reduce the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate among wearers by more than 50% in a community with modest infection rates, some degree of social distancing, and uncommon general mask use. The data were compatible with lesser degrees of self-protection.

They studied the efficacy of "wear a mask" recommendations. Not mask wearing itself.
I mean, there are specific regulations we can point to that are making houses and housing more expensive, I don't see how "allowing people to build more houses" could destabilizing living?
Many forms of dementia destroy dopaminergic neurons, and this process begins much earlier than symptoms of dementia itself manifest. From what I’ve gathered from reading studies across the years, less dopaminergic capacity seems to be associated with less restful sleep.

The conclusions of this study seem to have it backwards. It’s not lack of sleep that causes dementia, it’s early dementia that causes insomnia.

Edit: it’s also possible that a third factor causes both of these. For example, both people low on dopamine and the sleep-deprived are likely to turn to coffee to keep them functional. If they drink too much coffee, they might accidentally poison themselves into dementia, because some of the Harmala alkaloids in coffee are neurotoxic and like to deposit themselves in brain fatty tissues for a long time.
This is a fairly common fallacy, though I'm not sure if it's formalized enough to have a name.

I have enough time and energy to criticize both mega cargo ships and Bitcoin for their unnecessary pollution.

Also, if we banned Bitcoin tomorrow, the only people who would really notice are those who have bet their shirts on a risky investment. If we banned large cargo ships tomorrow, everyone would feel it as delivery times (and possibly prices) for things increased. Personally, I'd be willing to pay those higher prices in exchange for less pollution.
If only there were some way to punish people who violate government mandated measures. Like, I don't know, maybe we could dress some people up with a uniform and badge, and give them the authority to stop violators and "fine" or "incarcerate" them. Some kind of "justice system" or something. I don't know, this is a new invention I'm coming up with on the fly.

We had this problem in the USA, too. All these "mandates" flying around, and governments congratulating themselves over their stay-at-home "orders", yet very little to nothing in the way of enforcement. We seem to be able to enforce drunk driving and seatbelt laws, but when it comes to masks and preventing gatherings, we're flummoxed! Suddenly, nobody knows how to enforce the rules anymore!
Then you haven't been looking or you aren't in the EU and it therefore doesn't even apply to you...
Honest question about publishing data on the blockchain - let's say some paedo publishes a CP photo on the chain, and even if he gets caught and face the consequences, would LE ban the whole blockchain from the Internet? If enough time passed by, even miners would not be able to fork it or remove it off of the chain.

So at some point having a blockchain ledger on your PC means you have CP on your computer! Would that be basically end of blockchain as we know it?
Thanks for this, it is the first time I’ve shared this here.

This perspective is useful. We have a cat that sometimes does stuff we wish he wouldn’t and now when unexpected stuff happens I’ve come to realize it means something is bothering him, rather than be frustrated by him.

Hopefully that translates.
Huh? But bash is super powerful? I can go from zero to a script that's production ready in like an hour with option support, help text, man pages, shell completion, signal handling that's portable to any system.

I also like Python for this but it's an absolute PITA to distribute scripts that support lots of different versions of python or need any dependencies not in your distro's repos.
another note:

I make the claim that google engaged in a malicious psyop, and its on me to prove it.

yet, only google has the logs to prove/disprove the claim.
Any organization that would deploy software that could kill someone without carefully personally reviewing it for fitness of purpose especially when the candidate software states that it waives all liability and waives any guarantee that it is fit for purpose as stated in sections 11 and 12 of the GPLv2 [1] is criminally irresponsible. Though it is scummy to deliberately introduce defects into a OSS project, any defects that result in a failure to perform are both ethically and legally completely on whoever is using Linux in a capacity that can cost billions of dollars or kill someone.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html
Structured Programming for Busy Beavers
The issue with that specific topic is that the DAO you describe would actually run against the right holders' interests, and therefore, they would have no interest in promoting or using it in the first place.

In that specific situation, it would be against Disney's interests to agree to using it.