skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly doubt that AtlasObscura article, it sounds like a classical urban myth. In East Asia there are tens if not hundreds of millions of people who've eaten nothing but white rice as the staple in their diet their whole life, and it's not caused any issues as far as I'm aware. Of course if you eat just rice and nothing else, that might be unhealthy. But that's not an issue with white rice.
Could you divulge what you use the images for?

Or, anyone who buys satellite images?

I know about real estate, navigation, and I've heard that some business use them to forecast retail sales.

I curious about other uses.
Apple sent my data to the FBI
says boss of controversial research paper trove Sci-Hub
Google analytics provides large amounts of useful information to Google to help them sell ads.

The information available to the sites is not as easy to interpret.
They only make my yawns longer ;)
We changed the title from "Brood X cicadas, which come out ever 17 years, come out in the Eastern U.S.", in keeping with the site guidelines.

If you want to share why you posted an article, that's great! But it's best to do so via a comment in the thread. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Washintonians and the government of the state of Washington consider counties east of king county "Eastern Washington"

https://wsdot.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2017/07/24/Env-Wet-...

Just did a quick back of the envelope tabulation and I get about 2 million for Biden vs 1.1 million for Trump in western WA which means that Biden got about 65% of the vote in western WA which is a larger percentage than Biden got in CA as a whole.
Always good to be cautious when there is that much energy just "sitting there."

It is a clever hack to add a layer of electrolyte that inhibits dendrite growth. Interesting question how thin they can make that layer before it no longer stops dendrites.

For those wondering, a "dendrite" is solid metal (in this case lithium) that precipitates out of the electrolyte during discharge, favoring the path of current through the electrolyte. If the dendrite reaches the cathode it creates a short circuit inside the battery. This problem can result in fires and other issues. When the battery is charged, the electrolyte chemically reabsorbs the metal and "eats" away the dendrite. Leaving behind a "hole" where it had been in the electrolyte. Since the whole doesn't conduct current, it reduces the current delivery capacity of the battery. The electrolyte they have chosen in the paper can actually "fill in" the holes to some degree (they call it "self healing") which minimizes battery "memory" about previous cycles and extends the number of times you can recharge a battery.

What that means is that in the lab there are many different ways to do this, this is yet another. So far, none of them have reached the point where you could manufacture batteries that were cost competitive with the current designs.

My prediction has been that flow batteries (batteries that can replace their electrolyte with "charged" electrolyte for "instant" recharging without needing high currents at the charger, are more likely to become practical before all metal Lithium or Lithium-Silicon batteries become practical, but it is super awesome that so many smart people are trying to solve this problem.
It took me the first 2-3 "questions" to figure out what was going on but super cool after that I especially liked how the differences were so subtle you had to really pay attention to the minute differences.
That's interesting - the one in Antarctica, for example, really tickles the fantasy, doesn't it.
From Its Myriad Tips
They don’t really make sense as evidence, anymore than the policeman’s torch or magnifying glass is evidence of anything. The dog is there just to give a hint where to start looking for the drugs.

If the Americans manage to clear up this category error, they won’t want to use these defective dogs any more than they’d want to use a dim torch or a cracked magnifying glass.
If you want people to take seriesly the idea of COVID-19 coming from a lab then be scientific about it and offer up some ways to make it falsifiable. Otherwise it's simply not scientific, and almost everyone here pushing that theory is ignoring the evidence against it or modifying the conspiracy to fit the facts that contradict it. It's not constructive right now.

The hypothesis that COVID-19 came from an animal, namely a bat, in Wuhan China is independently suggested by multiple areas of science (genetics and epidemiology). It's also in line with similar outbreaks that happened in the past. The science of this is about as "unsettled" as the the theory of evolution vs creationism.
Any sources?
Circumventing the obfuscation is a crime.
Cracking the Code of Letterlocking
(shaking my head and laughing at myself)

I edited the post, as I meant promoting the artist by posting photos or why you love the music, and not posting the music itself.
> I'll be middle-aged. Most of my life will have run its course.

What are you defining as middle age? If you were in college 17 years ago, aren't you basically middle age now, or at least pretty close? I certainly hope your life hasn't already run its course :).
Also, Dr. Shi was trained by Ralph S. Baric of the University of North Carolina in building “chimera” viruses — taking, for example, the spike protein from a new virus and splicing it to the backbone of a known one like SARS. He invented “no-see-um” techniques that left no trace of the splice.

From

https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learned-to-stop...
I imagine the stats come out better when using something like an iPad for notes which replaces other electronics you would have bought.
Eh, I'm in my 30s and have made peace with th fact that I will die one day, and probably sooner than I hope.

We all must live life on life's terms.
they could work fine, but the incentives are never aligned. Therefore, they should never be used to substantiate a search. Need to search a home that already has a warrant? Bring the dog. Need to find a bomb at the high school? Bring the dog. But don't ever allow the dog to be the reason for a search. You just can't trust the human it's connected to.
In case you want to connect to a random ssh server without giving it your public ssh keys.
You’re assuming that talking about the awkward situation will help fix it. If it’s something like code review, it might.

If it’s world politics, it probably won’t. Even if you do actually convince him that his pet solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict is a bad idea, he was never in a position to put his terrible plan into action anyway, so the whole conversation accomplished nothing.
No M1? :)
This is kind of true for any organisation, not just governments. A few years ago I got screwed pretty royally by a rental agency after leaving for essentially no other reason than that they didn't like me objecting to their illegal actions[1], but what do you do? Okay, I can go to the small claims court or something, but it's time-consuming, potentially costly, and most of all: stressful and emotionally draining.

I don't tend to stay angry for very long. Actually, I pretty much never do. But it's hard to describe the amount of anger one can feel when being the victim of such a blatant bad faith injustice. I never thought I was capable of this, but turns out I am. These people tried to charge me for fixing cracks in the walls because the building had subsided. Yes, really. They literally admitted in the email that they knew this was illegal but were going to try it anyway (and there's a lot more bad faith bullshit in similar fashion). Eventually I got the £2,800 charge down to £800-something after filling a dispute. There was still a bunch of outright bullshit in there (about £200 at the most was justified), but is those £600 worth it?

If you can afford it: probably not. Aside from the time you need to spend on it you just get consumed by anger and negativity. It's not healthy for me, so I just moved on and tried to forget about it. I still get angry when thinking about it though; what bunch of morally bankrupt tosspots.

I've seen this with other people as well; years ago one of my coworkers had a similar conflict with his garage. I don't even know if he was right, but he certainly had the same feeling as I had. He did go to court for it (I don't recall the outcome) and he spent months talking about it to anyone who wanted to listen, including customers (many customers). I don't think it was good for him.

Ideally, government should be better than some random company. But in reality, government and companies are both organisations comprised of the same sort of people, and people can be rather ugly and unreasonable.

I do think you can minimize these sort of things by fostering a good organisational culture, which is easier said than done of course. You will always have some problems, but a lot of the truly outrageously bad problems seem to stem from a toxic culture: the culture at my rental agency, or the culture at the police in the US, or stuff like the toxic culture at the Dutch tax service leading to the recent/on-going scandal regarding false allegations of fraud and ignoring of evidence there was actually no fraud.[2]

[1]: They also evicted me over this, turns out that calling your landlord a cunt over entering your house without ringing the doorbell is not a good idea in a country with minimal protections for renters, even though it was quite justified considering it's 100% unacceptable and illegal and I had already told them many times I didn't want it.

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scand...
Ironically Sony and Philips wrote the redbook.
I think the lab origin is almost for sure. WIV released the RaTg13 sequence which is the closest to the covid virus. They had got samples from the patients who was infected by RaTg13 back in 2013. But they have never released the sequence, which could be a direct proof, or at least can bridge some gap.
Whoa that is pretty interesting.
I can’t find the references I got that from (it was decently respected people in the audiophile world talking about their experience with AB tests over a decade or two), but it’s also true in my own experience.

As well, I feel like the same concept is being used when people listen to the same recording of the same track every time they are trying out new headphones or speakers.
U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passes $35 bln water infrastructure bill
Telnet brute-force protection bypass (CVE-2021-27342)
Yes, but there's a reason those are called "public" keys. The reason is that you don't suffer any harm by giving them out.

Except that they may be publicly identified with you. In that case, and only that case, giving them out would involve purporting to be the person who is publicly associated with the keys. (It wouldn't prove it, because, after all, those keys are public; anyone can know and distribute them.)

So this concern appears to be that you want to apply for a job without disclosing your identity. I think that's a strange thing to do.
Budget cuts?

I'm joking, but ... hm
Have you tried getting the Polis open source code running? Last time I tried there was some sort of error resulting in not passing JS files to the browser.
Got it — the difference between Volument’s localStorage and GA’s cookie is the “identifying” aspect of the latter.
a contained area, like ... the cabin of a car?
you would be right, if only the market is normal, or only slightly inflated.

Go to any used goods site, and you would realised $200 for 1060 is actually below the used market price.

Yes it would sell like hot cake
The giant fire would be the much bigger problem if you are still in the car.

(The fire is smallish in a 'amount of material' sense and huge in a 'you don't want to be anything resembling close to it' sense)
The US Navy Filmed Spherical Shaped UFOs
Nice try, chess.com. I'm not going to let you use all those cycles stolen by your site to win chess games :P
That's a great story! It definitely speaks to human beings' knack for finding edge cases.

Do you know what year that was? I'm wondering if AI has advanced and patched those weaknesses.
> The idea is to get away from the kanban board look and to help you track your sprint flow.

Can you say why? Kanban is literally the only thing I like about capital-A Agile. I doubt either of will convince the other to change our minds. But in the interest of helping you refine what you’re building and how you communicate it, articulating what you don’t want is valuable too.
Thanks for the update. Will look more tomorrow. Exciting...
There is a 3rd option. I'm going to repost a comment I made a few days ago regarding the labs in Wuhan:

The "Wuhan Institute of Virology" is named in a couple of news articles and scientific publications. However what is rarely discussed is that the Wuhan CDC (武汉市疾病预防控制中心), which also has a virus lab and was also researching coronaviruses is in walking distance from that wet market! I took a screenshot of it, in the top right is the Huanan Seafood Market, in the bottom the CDC, which includes a virus lab: https://i.imgur.com/smODVQe.png

Unfortunately you won't find it on Google Maps but anyone who is able to read Chinese can check this themselves. All the early cases were centered around this area, including the hospital that treated the first cases. It's absurd that this is almost never talked about anywhere. On the CDC website they had an open position looking for a researcher to study, among others, exactly the kind of bat CoV that's been identified as most closely related to SARS-CoV-2. This has since been deleted but it could still be accessed during the early days of the outbreak.
My favourite part of C2 is how you can see all the edit wars littered around the text. Like this one here near the top:

> put N objects in a hash table using sequential integers [1..N] as their keys.
TclLanguage makes you do this. LOL. no it doesn't, you can use lindex, or actually give your keys meaningful names, gasp! What I read about lindex reminded me about Tcl lists. Are they still strings these days, or have they (finally) implemented real arrays (in the 'vector' sense)? Maybe I was thinking of PhpLanguage, which also lacks real arrays, leading to kludges like ksort. I hate PHP. With a passion. -- TheerasakPhotha
Solving the Crypto Energy Challenge
I mean for civilization usage:) I want a QC bike frame (or a starship fuselage)
I don't understand what this is. Is this just some dude's little terminal game?

I ssh'd to the server. I followed some weird little terminal prompts. I cat'd a .md file. I don't really see what's going on here.
I've seen dogs at border control checkpoints alert to vehicles and the police decide not to check the vehicle.

It really does seem that the dog is used as an excuse when the police already wanted to check a vehicle.

It seems the whole thing is a charade.
Yeah I would have thought these engines to be alot smarter then this, especially the “AI” ones
.com has always been valuable. The problem is that it is very very very hard to get a short, relevant .com domain with a reasonable price tag.
Indeed one might, but one should not look first to freaking nukes.
> The central KSK is a reason for normal users to dislike DNSSEC, but it's not why virtually nobody in the industry has deployed it, even though we're rapidly closing in on 3 decades of standardization effort for it.

I'm aware of the complexity DNSSEC adds and your opinions on it ;) it's getting easier to deploy with modern resolvers (also ed25519 is now more widely supported)

I still think it makes sense to cut the middleman (certificate authorities) one day and rely directly on DNS (whether its DNSSEC, DNSCurve, or some other way).

> Handshake is a deeply silly idea; literally, the Internet analog of selling the Brooklyn Bridge.

I think seeing whether a blockchain (specifically made for DNS) is suitable for this problem is more important at this point. At the end of the day, if you don't like name collisions with ICANN, you can add a suffix to the namespace like `.hns` (using some proxy) or just prefer ICANN TLDs in the resolver.
This is a really poorly-written article. The headline mentions a syndrome, then besides a very brief description of a mild case, proceeds to give no description as to the actual symptoms of the syndrome in the first 5 or 6 paragraphs.

It links to an article about Havana Syndrome, which I assume gives more detailed symptoms, but that’s not the point. An article describing a mysterious “syndrome” should have the symptoms front and centre, not hidden at the end of the article or behind a link. It’s very poor journalism in my opinion
For the Göbekli Tepe site mentioned in the article you can use Google maps [0] and drop the little yellow man on some of the dots where pictures were taken. There's some panoramic pictures that show it much better than the article [1]

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/@37.2234784,38.9216386,306m/data...

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@37.2233037,38.9225345,3a,75y,18...
> I can say that I was in Silver Spring, MD for Brood X in the spring of 2004, and for a few days you couldn't take a step without squishing 20 cicadas. Trees looked like you had dropped acid because they were literally covered >50% of their surface area in wiggling cicadas. I started carrying an umbrella because I would be picking them of of myself for a half hour from the mere 20' walk from my car to my front door.

This is how I remember it...
If that was the case why stop now? And why did they let parts unknown film in Palestine in 2013. The episode wasn't very pro Israel either. This a little to conspiracy theory for me.
A $100M Bet on Cross-Country Restaurant Delivery
I absolutely agree with your both posts. I would also claim that the differences between headphones is far, far greater than hi-res audio
vs high bitrate compressed audio, thus it's nearly pointless to even discuss hi-res even for headphone users.
Supreme Court handed a victory to fossil fuel companies in a climate change case
Simple salinity gradient power without membranes
Vehicle batteries are heavily compartmentalized. They use many small cells, much like your laptop battery likely used several smaller cells. Cells in a car battery are not much larger. And there are walls between groups of cells, both for structural and safety reasons. Cells are often even charged individually, with parameters tailored to a specific cell and not its neighboring cells.

Because of this, if a battery is badly deformed, chances are that most cells stay intact, and only relatively few cells expose the electrolyte and the lithium.

Also, I heard most fire departments know better than to put out a car fire with water, even with gasoline cars. Car fire extinguishers normally use powder or pressurized CO₂.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. The parent took a step in that direction, which is bad, but you've responded by escalating noticeably, which is worse. (It's also not in your interests because it discredits the view you're arguing for, in the eyes of neutral readers.)

Please review the site guidelines and stick to the rules. They include:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This may be true in general, but in this case we're trying to figure out if something is man-made or occurred naturally. No one is saying it couldn't have happened naturally, but natural evolution happens differently (and more slowly and messily) than human creation. In prior cases (SARS and MERS), plenty of evidence of natural evolution was found very quickly. Here it has been conspicuously absent. What conclusion would you draw from that?
Oh, so basically that thing that dictates that US can ask any US-based company to disclose any data in its possession, and so to protect EU citizens, EU wants US-based companies to store EU data on EU servers.

If I also remember correctly from reading up on Tutanota, it gets so nuanced, that to the US authorities it is enough that a single US employee of a non-US company has access to such data to summon them to disclose it?

Either way, Facebook is in deep shit.
aren’t we constantly being bombarded by microwaves from our phones, laptops, TVs, etc?

this worries me
Dutch directness. We'll tell you that new suit you just purchased and are extremely excited about makes you look like a clown. We'll tell a higher-up why his new plan is stupid and that we're not very excited to waste our time on it, a complete stranger might walk up to you and tell you out in the open that your fly is down, you zip it up and no one will think anything of it.

It's accepted, it's respected, and it's even expected. Unfortunately, more often than not, it's also not at all appreciated by people from foreign cultures and we have to be really careful with our words.
Thanks. Sibling comment [0] says they are seeing many right now. So maybe tomorrow morning...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27190262
I don't use iOS Keychain because I've been an Android user since Google gave all employees a free HTC G1 for the holidays. I had an original iPhone, but I don't recall that having Keychain.

As for why my wife doesn't use the iOS Keychain, I'm not sure. I try to avoid pressuring her to use one solution or another. If I pressure her to use some solution and there's a bug, then that's on me.
> (It wouldn't prove it, because, after all, those keys are public; anyone can know and distribute them.)

I don't believe this is true, right? You do a private key operation demonstrating you possess the private key associated with the public key.

Or, by contradiction: Since the key is public, any server can put the fingerprint of the key in an authorized_keys file. It can then challenge you to log in in a way that exactly matches what a real server you'd actually want to log into would do, because a real server doesn't have your private key either. If your client could also authenticate to the server in a way that didn't prove anything beyond possession of the public key, then it could do the same to some actual server, i.e., the SSH protocol would have no meaningful authentication at all. Because we know the SSH protocol is not completely and trivially broken, this cannot be true.

(I think you also overestimate the value of technical deniability - certainly outside a court of law, nobody is obligated to think, "Well, it could be a complete coincidence, so I'm going to disregard this piece of information I just learned." And I wouldn't bet on it inside a court of law either.)
Cleared of Murder, Brothers Are Awarded $75M
I wish people would stop posting this useless test.

It compares FLAC with 320 Kbps AAC which no streaming service uses (Apple uses 256 Kbps) and is a very high bit rate.

And its choice of indie tracks isn't suited for demonstrating codec artefacts. At least have classical, EDM etc as well.
Is that setup common?
Am I the only one thinking it's not a bug, it's a feature? Please also blur all the Google Maps satellite images of where I live. Took me ages to get the ones of Google Street View blurred lol. Where do I sign up?
I wonder if this could be extended to provide a live preview of the LaTeX export of an '.ipynb' notebook?

The ease of creating custom nbconvert templates is slowly getting better, and that makes notebooks a pretty interesting platform for technical documents.
Basically it’s good at solving trivial between parties that would probably member have bothered to sue each other. Anything else will probably be more expensive.

This legalese reminds me of UML. The only truly comprehensive way to capture the essence of a program is to write the program.