skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you be an expert in all things that affect your life? Have you studied nutrition, medicine, law, finance, construction and soil stability, to the extent where you can distinguish a phony research paper?

All of us rely on others in society to do their part and to get it mostly right. So if you are going to declare research invalid purely based on your judgement, you better have a bullerproof argument.

As an exaggerated example, I know a bloke who is "thinking for himself" and has concluded that a medicine is dangerous because it contains clorine, and clorine is toxic. So he has a set of facts, and they are correct, but the conclusion is wrong because he does not understand the basics of chemistry, and that once that clorine atom is part of a larger molecule, it has completely different properties.

If you study "facts" without understanding the field these mistakes are easy to make, all the more so if you approach from the high horse of a 'i am clever and have a brilliant degree"
The header is pointless anyway for the actual purpose of disabling FLoC as Chrome/Google will simply start ignoring it when enough websites add it.
Corkami's posters are quite nice

example: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/corkami/pics/master/binary...
they are almost 70. I think the Blue Zones[1] make a pretty strong case for groups of people living with similarly healthy lifestyles all living longer than the average and with better quality of life. I just think it's pretty reasonable to conclude that there will be a difference between the bodies of people who take care of themselves over their lifetime vs. those who don't.

We have people living longer and longer (I think the last person was 122?!) and it doesn't really make sense that you reach an age like 80 and everybody, no matter their choices, all end up similarly unhealthy and in pain with reduced mobility.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone
Right. It's a property of winner-take-all pursuits where the maximum scale is at the unit of the individual and the product can be replicated for low marginal cost. It's especially magnified when it's a common passion pursuit since that increases the supply of people doing it. It's a recipe for an extremely large long-tail.
The issue is that it's better for society that a thousand guilty people go unpunished than that a single innocent one is.

"The end justifies the means" is how atrocities are justified.
The original idea of a grand jury was to prevent the state (really, the king) from maliciously defaming citizens/subjects, especially ones living far away from the power centers. The system has evolved into one where grand juries will "indict a ham sandwich," as the saying goes. I don't mind the idea of a meaningful check on prosecutors, given that in Common Law they have near total discretion, but the current system ain't it.
I think Nassim Taleb does a good job talking about this in his books. In essence, more and more of things that exist in the world follow a power series distribution where as this wasn’t the case in the past. We today live in the world of “Extremistan” where it’s winner take most.

In fact I think he uses book sales as an example of this today.
> So what happened, we don't trust our institutions, schools, government, anymore and all of a sudden we believe every dumb thing we see on Facebook?

Yes.
You can build the core code, reproducibly.

As I understand it if you take this code, and the binary blobs of the code that does stuff like video calls, you can verify that's what is inside your Play Store APK.

Now, if you're a tinfoil hat wearer obviously you can consider that maybe the video call code secretly reads your messages and sends them to the FBI, or indeed that the Android OS just ignores this APK and when you install it you get something else entirely anyway.

But it sure looks like the source code is in fact for the app you get.
I think the Elder Scrolls may actually have more complicated religion than the Bible. Just try and interpret this one:

https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/CHIM

People make it sound like Bethesda games are so buggy they have more bugs than game. Maybe this is because they spend all their time writing lore instead of reading QA reports.
CSK vs. SRH today. Who's gonna win?
Many hobbiest collectors (in my travels, which is of course my experiences) use 100% acetone soak on metals. A brand known as Renaissance Wax is a popular microcrystalline coating used to inhibit reactions (ive been told its popular with knifemakers as well). Ketchup is a great copper/bronze/brass cleaner while we're here, not so hot on nickel, sort of ok on silver. Titanium and zirconium just don't care how you clean them, aluminum is ketchup friendly.
So, am I right, that 'non-technical author' part means, she doesn't sell AI?
> Chances are your quality of life will only get worse etc.

The quality of your end of life gets (on average) much worse if you smoke.

Not only do you die 5 minutes earlier, but you also spend more additional time with disease impacting your quality of life, such as COPD.
Last time I tried matrix, and mind you that was over 3 years ago. Was with riot.im and trying to use the e2e encryption. The major surprise was not being able to suddenly decrypt older chat messages when OpenBSD changed the User-Agent string for Chromium which as I understand was used to establish the device identity. This is not something non-technical people can or want to diagnose.
A Billionaire’s New Plan to Turn His White Collar Workers into Algorithms
Yes, but that's with a MS-specific extension to Git, which I don't remember if they ever upstreamed - one that allows partial clone and partial chekcout if I remeber correctly.
That also causes curl to change the underlying request to a HEAD request. Though according to the spec they should return the same headers, it’s not uncommon for sites to fail to do so (some web frameworks leave this responsibility to the user) or to cache these responses differently.

Personally I reflexively use the verbose version they used for these kind of investigations of server behavior after being bit a few times.
"Now, however, cops’ first move is typically to find some sort of incriminating evidence on a suspect’s cell phone, he said, regardless of what kind of case it is."
R. Austin Freeman claimed to be the inventor of the "inverted detective story" where all the clues are available to the reader. He started in 1909 with "The Red Thumb Mark" which incidentally damages Francis Galton's assertion that fingerprint evidence required no corroboration. Find these on the Australian Gutenberg site.
I think this is a bit handwavy. There is a lot of evidence to show that air quality has an impact on health. How much might be harder to quantify, but I don't think it's unreasonable to think we might be underestimating its impact.
It’s not really an analysis it’s the front page to buy a €4000 technical report on it.
> According to this logic, anyone who works in the subway should be dying, what, 10 years earlier?

Just two more nuances:

1) The article is measuring loss in "DALYs" = disability-adjusted life years. 10 DALYs lost may not mean dying 10 years earlier, but could also mean suffering from Alzheimer's for 16 years (Alzheimer's has a weight of 0.66 [1]), or any combination thereof (e.g. 10 years of Alzheimer's + dying 3.3 years earlier).

2) The cited number is for the "worst offender" on the NYC metro. The pollution levels on the London underground are less than a 10th of that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability-adjusted_life_year
> AND the content creator as well.

Ahh mostly not.

Most youtubers I watch gave up on youtube ads long ago. They make money with parteon, merchandize and in video sponsors.

The ones who still get some kind of relevant revenue from Youtube constantly bitch about demonetization, takedowns and some big entities calming their content.

Your own creators are your own worst critics.
Using Slice(), Substring(), and Substr() in JavaScript (2011)
Source? This page says otherwise: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/master/repr...
Pretty good, but that Velvia imitation looks a stop dark.
I literally just have some planting trays with a half-inch of gravel that I pour water into every couple of days.

Works wonders, is cheap, and easy to clean. Evaporation happens for free if you let it.
So, i used to be very knowledgeable in climate drift causes and consequences, until i stopped paying attention since what i do doesn't really matter in the end.

Short story: barring sea rise that will do moderate damages at worst, and until we reach wetbulb temperature in SEA and india, climate drift will only have small, enhancing impact on already-existing disasters. It just makes disaster worst.
Bitcoin... where adoption by pariah states (this article) and criminals (elsewhere) is presented as good news
Linux Is Turning 30 Years Old and Printk Is Still Being Refined
If I could install an app on my phone that would destroy the machine being used for Cellebrite, I would do that in a second.
Assuming some kind of long tail, then this just means they're giving slightly more risky authors a chance just in case any becomes the next JK or whatever. Is this a bad thing?

I'm sure most authors would rather their work was published, even if it only sold a few thousand.
Interesting - I thought all companies had to file electronically with tagged accounts - ie you need some level of an accountant.
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Thanks for your positive response! I found the pull quotes odd but not enough to detract from the quality of the article - which is phenomenal.
The article reads like those that real estate agents push - how there is such acute housing scarcity in a given market, with advice to home buyers to be prepared to act fast with aggressive offers & inflated prices to secure their home purchase.

i.e. it serves to stoke demand and set a higher water mark on pricing. When the tight spot eases up you don’t hear about prices relaxing, terms easing up, etc.
Haven't tried it myself and don't know anything about the details, but the sosumi snap package looks like it's a VM that could do the job? https://snapcraft.io/sosumi
Edit: Added the link
Aren't the IDE and build system files IN the repo? Normally if I clone a repo from scratch, all I have to do to build is `cd new-location/ && make`, and similarly to import in the IDE (though of course that will take some extra time, because I'll be forced to do a clean build, probably also re-downloading all dependencies).
This is my exact situation, I was banned from adsence over 10 years ago when I was a teenager. I still to this day do not know what caused the ban. I'm now running a successfull business and have had to shape our whole monetization strategy around avoiding google.
More here: https://github.com/corkami/pics/blob/master/binary/README.md
This is a bit confusing. That post seems to suggest that (1) adding the header is not necessary to prevent one's site from "leveraging" floc, ie, identifying users, unless one already runs ads, and hence (2) that the header isn't necessary in most cases.

But it also says:

What adding this header does is exclude your website from being used when calcualting a user’s cohort. A cohort is an identifier shared with a few thousand other users, calculated locally from browsing history; sites that send this header will be excluded from this calculation. The EFF estimates that a cohort ID can add up to 8 bits of of entropy to a user’s fingerprint.

Being excluded from cohort calculation has a chance to place a user in a different cohort, altering a user’s fingerprint. This new fingerprint may or may not have more entropy than the one derived without being excluded.

But is individual fingerprinting really the concern? What if I don't want google clustering people who visit my page with people who visit similar pages? In they case, the header still helps protect their privacy, right? By making Google's website visit interest based clustering less substantively accurate? Or am I misunderstanding how floc works?
That question, and it's answer, have no bearing on the post it is replying to.
That's some crappy RO water. My home system takes 45 ppm water and reduces it to <2 ppm (~500 kΩ). For all intents and purposes, it's not conductive on its own.

Distilled water is made by steam condensation, and nearly ultra-pure but still contains dissolved gases.

DI water should be made from some distilled water to be the highest possible purity, but it's usually made from RO or simply filtered tap water.

There are some things DI can do that steam distillation can't, and vice-versa. The two processes are entirely different and NOT interchangeable.
> Just add your personal account as a collaborator to those services for convenience.

Congratulations, you've linked the accounts so Google can can them all together.
github.com is itself a social network and a tracker. They should know a lot more about the status and activities of the software projects hosted there and the users than the users themselves do. Enabling third parties to track users across their site would be the equivalent of opening the lid of this treasure chest.
From a definitional point of view yes. Using an attribute to place someone in a class and then making decisions on a class basis without actual evidence they possess the other attributes of the class is discriminatory behavior.
This is the peak intersection of "thoughtcrime prevention" and "corporate self harm for the sake of wokeness". It paints a grim picture of our future with castrated, sterilized and limited AIs that rat us out if we even want to talk about something that goes against what those in power deem acceptable. All of that for the sake of "protecting minors" -which minors, the virtual ones dreamt up by GPT3? Ridiculous.
But we should all expect reality not to do so :)

Maybe the Pharo Guys will have a lucky encounter with a risc-v dude and they'll make the hardware+live software a new thing in 2025
I meant pageviews, not bandwidth consumed. Streaming websites are always going to dominate the latter.

This 100-10k-millions split statistic was pulled from a talk by Ilya Grigorik, who had worked on Web Performance at Google. I'm guessing they based it on data from Chrome.
Is noting that women have two times less upper body strength misogynistic because it implies less competency in hand-to-hand combat or heavy manual labor?

I'm assuming women are more compassionate and less aggressive, which makes women less competent in competitive settings where self-advocacy is important, and more competent in scenarios requiring cooperation and caretaking, like child-rearing.

Whether these differences are inherent to female biology, or a result of deeply ingrained structures of human culture that mold girls in their upbringing is orthogonal to my premise. But as it happens, there is overwhelming/definitive evidence that much of these differences are biological in origin, and noting that is not misogynistic.

We do not make the world better by deceiving ourselves about it. An accurate model of the world is needed before any positive changes for it can be formulated. A positive but inaccurate vision of the world does not result in actions that improve the world.
Ask HN: Why do you use Dark Mode on your computer?
I don't understand the hype around dark mode and would like to understand if i'm missing something.
Why is it so trendy right now? If it's actually so useful, why does it appear only now?

After reading some scientific stuff, I kind of understood that to not damage your eyes, the best is to keep the same brightness level when your sight switches from a context to another.

Which means that during the day, light mode is supposed to be healthier for your eyes, because you're switching between your monitor and somewhere else in the room.

And this means that on your computer, you should avoid switching from a dark window to a light window, or vice versa. But while it's easy to have 100% of your content in light theme (well.. 99% due to Spotify), the opposite seems more complicated. So, choosing to use dark mode as possible will force a switch dark <-> light from times to times.

Besides, light mode is much more readable in the sun light, when you need the maximum amount of brightness.

The only reason I can find to use dark mode is to use less energy, especially with OLED screens (for longer battery life or ecological reasons).
High Tech Genesis Inc. Is Hiring a Switching and Routing Software Developer
Bluetooth contact tracing had absolutely no chance of ever working.

15% of adults don’t own a smartphone.

47% of children don’t own a smartphone.

Of the 85% of adults who own a smartphone, 20% don’t carry it with them.

At absolute best 50-60% of Americans would be walking around with a contact tracing app. And that is if it was forcibly installed, and forcibly enabled.

The tracing is pointless even before we get into the technical flaws.

When you’re indoors, 6 feet is irrelevant. The air is circulating.

Bluetooth signals penetrate walls and glass.

The end of all this is a system that absolutely no one would trust on the positive or negative. Seriously think about whether you would consider an “all green” to unequivocally mean you were safe. Or that a “red alert” was actually cause for concern.

This has absolutely no chance at working. And despite what you’re saying about privacy, it is the mere existence of a tool like this that is alarming. It’s baked into the operating system, with no visibility into how it might be used in the future.
Jim Keller was in part hired to work on K12 which was an ARM cpu which they were working on at the same time as Zen.
Ransomware on an evidence computer could be hilarious... Even more so if it doesn't lock immediately but first waits to connect to a network and spread. Also because you don't want to be standing there when it happens (would get you arrested for a new crime on the spot).

You will need a very good lawyer to explain that you didn't hack them but they fucked up by trying to steal your data and "by accident" ran into a special file you had.

Then make sure you cannot legally be compelled to give them the decryption key. But I guess you should aways be able to "forget" the key, can't be forced to remember something.
Chip Manufacturing – How are Microchips made?
So you'd prefer I pay a subscription fee, so you can stop paying when the product goes bad?
And even if you do sell, they're taxed as capital gains instead of income.
As opposed to those old [a-z][0-9] CPUs that Intel puts out ;)
Never caught on? The vast majority of the news link I encounter are for the AMP version.
But I’m not doubting chemistry or physics. I’m doubting sociology (not a science), and even more I’m doubting math/stats (the basis of experimental science).
Does AI enhance images better than human photo editors?
Will this be a development repo or will remain only as historical record?

Also what was the initial version control system used?
Estimate repair-cost of a vehicle in seconds
So the money raised by the sale of magazines now goes to research and exploration again?
It costs around $10k.
> credit checks are often part of the approval process for ... applying for a job

Surely that can't be legal?
Oh wow! Awesome work!
I have just switched to Brave (this browser blocks FLoC across all the web). I regret no trying this browser earlier. Also this IPFS stuff seems very interesting (kind of Bittorrent for the web).
Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring Ex-Founders, SREs, Postgres and Full-Stack Engineers
> For example, there are around 40k eight letter words, way more than 256. The entropy is so low because we keep using the same words, but we don't have to.

Correct, but that low entropy is what distinguishes

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

from (sampled from random Wikipedia article titles)

Alabama Christopher List Park Girlfriend Manor crucifera

or

I saw your dad outside of Walmart yesterday.

from (5th word of 2nd section of random Wikipedia articles)

gospel Rich existed school and for Deputy he

> We can also use abbreviations, invent proper nouns,

Sure, make it 1.1 bits per character (the 1 bit is not a precise number anyway). That doesn't change anything about the orders of magnitude involved.

> we don't even have to limit ourselves to English or even a single language.

I tried to look for entropy of Chinese writing, and I've only found an upper bound of 3.8 bits per (UTF8) byte. That makes it still unlikely but at least conceivable that there is an all-8 amulet made of 64 bytes of Chinese text.

> UTF-8 is quite wasteful for that purpose.

Right, but as far as I understand that's the constraint.

> And as a last resort, we could cheat with "password: }8pHgaQ^?7ic'6KIO!uDXQnhL3(6hcfZmRYnGUw1Pz`c?y@D"

Yes, but that's not interesting from either an art nor from a computer science point of view.
I wonder if general artificial intelligence will one day be considered the digital equivalent of the philosopher’s stone. For centuries, alchemists made it their life goal to produce the stone, each attempt resulting in utter failure.
Just quit using Chrome and advocate for others to do the same. It's toxic to the web at this point.
One doesn't need to use those traditions which are counterproductive. Java is flexible enough to allow for different styles regarding this approach. However I do see the point of criticism; it's just not enough, in my opinion, to dismiss the language and infrastructure altogether.
Honestly, I think it's just fashion.

Back in college I used to enjoy coding on a green-screen VT220 (fluorescent green on dark glass) but I don't think I'd go back...
Is there a reason for using ketchup specifically? Or is it just the vinegar ingredient doing the trick?
Lots of interesting details in there, but I imagine a lot of HN users are particularly looking for this tid bit.

> Most remarkable, however, is the IRS's account of tracking down Sterlingov using the very same sort of blockchain analysis that his own service was meant to defeat. The complaint outlines how Sterlingov allegedly paid for the server hosting of Bitcoin Fog at one point in 2011 using the now-defunct digital currency Liberty Reserve. It goes on to show the blockchain evidence that identifies Sterlingov's purchase of that Liberty Reserve currency with bitcoins: He first exchanged euros for the bitcoins on the early cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox, then moved those bitcoins through several subsequent addresses, and finally traded them on another currency exchange for the Liberty Reserve funds he'd use to set up Bitcoin Fog's domain.

> Based on tracing those financial transactions, the IRS says, it then identified Mt. Gox accounts that used Sterlingov's home address and phone number, and even a Google account that included a Russian-language document on its Google Drive offering instructions for how to obscure Bitcoin payments. That document described exactly the steps Sterlingov allegedly took to buy the Liberty Reserve funds he'd used.

Who knows what other parallel constructions efforts or tips offs may have come into play. But data leaks from hacked / defunct exchanges being traced over such a long timeline is surprising.
I just purchased this app after reading this comment and was very disappointed to discover that it is not a native app, but an Electron app.

Furthermore, maybe I am missing something, but where are the color management settings?
Power law distribution of popularity, attention, wealth, and success.

There are many important, insightful, landmark works that languish in obscurity.

How many people read Chalmers Johnson or Bartolomé de las Casas? Heck, how many people even read all six volumes of Edward Gibbon's anymore?

Popularity doesn't really matter unless you're trying to eek out a living with copy. I wouldn't count on becoming rich, or even comfortable, as a writer unless you're a public figure or celebrity already, or know one.
With the amount of distraction this provides, it should really have a NSFW warning :)
Maybe works for one small location, but that doesn't put nearly enough water in the air for common humidifier use cases of a gallon a day or more.
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