skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This does not seem be a problem in the UK, searches topics that might be prone to this all seem to give the correct .gov.uk site as the first result with no ads that could be described as misleading. I wonder if the UK government, advertising standards agencies and trading standards authorities have put more pressure on google? Or perhaps the legal landscape here makes it untenable to operate such a scam business.
There was a great scifi series by David Brin, were in One book a illegal settlement dumped all their garbage near a oceanic fault zone because these would swallow the evidence "quickly".
Top Security Flaws Russian Spy Hackers Are Exploiting in the Wild
I would prefer to wear a mask at the grocery store, but not at work when physically on-site. I'm low risk, and don't really have any desire to go out and get vaccinated mostly because I'm lazy, don't like needles, antisocial, and generally anxious in public.

I don't really ever go out willingly, so I didn't really have an incentive to get vaccinated. Now I can get vaccinated and not wear a mask at work when it's 100+F in a few months.

Now that it's socially acceptable to wear a mask when in businesses and isn't a fashion trend, I will continue to do it since it should impede facial recognition. Except if it's a bit hot, I now can choose not to :)

I think this will be a great incentive to drive vaccination rates.
Not if it’s in an elliptical orbit with a low enough apogee.
Even worse if you're trying to sync a file that might be actively changed while syncing - syncthing will reread the entire file as soon as only a few kilobytes are changed. On a file >10GiB this quickly leads to a death spiral of IO and CPU starvation.
I love Zulip.

I've been self-hosting since the 3.1 or 3.2 release for a group of friends and the threading model works great, especially when you log in after a break (whether that's 8 hours to go to sleep or 2 weeks after a vacation).

When I was looking at setting up a chat server for me and my non-technical/mixed group of friends (so they couldn't use IRC and set up bouncers), I considered matrix, zulip, rocketchat, IRC, mattermost, and slack.

When I had issues (I use the docker install), the team was very responsive on their zulip server (chat.zulip.org).

For those of you already using Zulip, I prefer this dark theme over the standard (bright) blue one: https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/11845#issuecomment-544...

Thank you Tim and the Zulip team for the great software.
The CDC/surgeon general recommended not wearing masks at the beginning of the pandemic, while Silicon Valley was way ahead of the curve (meanwhile hit pieces were posted by journalists with an axe to grind saying they we’re overreacting).

So yes it has lost its credibility.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27140431
http://archive.is/igggq
Give it a couple years? They have been at this longer than SpaceX has been and are about 10 years behind them.
I was going to respond to another responder that it feels like reaching up to adjust the shower head when you’re facing away, but that’s not entirely right. It’s more like... this is going to sound weird, but like it’s rotated in a higher dimension. It’s made me curious about 4D VR simulators. I had this feeling that perhaps they’d make a sort of sense to me, but the ones I’ve seen so far don’t, and I don’t know if it’s because I’m wrong, or they are.

That “feel” extends to fitting things together. I had a boss who would ask to fit something else into a UI, and every time I told him it won’t fit, he didn’t believe me. So then we had to waste a man-week to show him he was wrong, and then he would forget that I told him that already and we’d do it again in a few weeks.

Man I was so glad when he laid me off. Best severance I ever got.
SpaceX reveals orbital Starship flight plan from Texas and returning near Hawaii
Sure. I'd guess it still adds enough friction to help result in a better distribution of goods in the end. The time, effort, and (legal) risk you are willing to take to acquire something should correlate decently with how much you really need those goods.
This reminds me of a confusion I have with theoretical physics and mathematically describing a universe without time. I don’t understand how you could use mathematics - numbers and operations on numbers - to specify a timeless universe, given that mathematics has time as a precondition (how can you perform an operation like 1+1 without time?).
My friend who works in cyber security share this framework to deal with ransomware with me: https://securityandtechnology.org/ransomwaretaskforce/report...

This problem needs to be solved in collective level.
Key Points

Elon Musk’s SpaceX revealed its plan for an orbital flight test of its next-generation Starship rocket, which would launch from Texas and then splashdown off the coast of Hawaii.

Starship prototypes stand at about 160 feet tall, or around the size of a 16-story building, and are built of stainless steel.

The Starship program continues to move at a rapid pace, with the company coming off last week’s successful landing and recovery of Starship SN15.
We've integrated Notion API into Bardeen. Here is a page demonstrating triggers and some example workflows:

https://www.bardeen.ai/notion-beta
One of my older relatives searched google for the name of his bank, clicked the first link which was an ad for a phishing site, and 5 minutes later he was on the phone with some indian guy who was using remote desktop to install packages through some janky DOS interface. It was probably cleanable, but I just wound up formatting his hard drive and reinstalling with some really cranked-up adblockers. It was an hours-long hassle, and thank god he managed to change his banking passwords and put a fraud notice on his credit card, because he had handed all that info over.

I couldn't help thinking that that Ad was a lot like a locksmith accepting a few bucks to let some burglar into my house no questions asked, and then explaining to the cops that he's just as much a victim as I am.
Reconstruction of ancient microbial genomes from the human gut
The company’s FCC filings say it will launch a Starship rocket atop a Super Heavy booster from SpaceX’s development facility in Boca Chica, Texas. Then the booster will separate, to partially return “and land in the Gulf of Mexico approximately 20 miles from the shore,” the filings say.

“The Orbital Starship will continue on flying between the Florida Straits. It will achieve orbit until performing a powered, targeted landing approximately 100km (~62 miles) off the northwest coast of Kauai in a soft ocean landing,” SpaceX wrote in the filing.
https://fcc.report/ELS/Space-Exploration-Technologies-Corp-S...
One thing you can’t ever change about Mars is its gravity though. All of our biological construction over billions of years was in 1g. Maybe we could thrive from birth, for 100 years or so, in one third G, but I’m skeptical. Even more so on an asteroid. Even on Earth, reduced muscle mass is associated with poorer health outcomes. To maintain that in reduced gravity would mean a lot of hours per day in resistance exercise.
You can guess at what the motivations are for the CDC when they put out a statement.

They generally match what Id expect them to be saying, so it seems trustworthy enough, but it is confirmation bias. When they'll say something I don't expect, I think bit more about it and try to figure out why there's a mismatch.

The FBI and NSA and the like don't speak publically, and when they do, they're trying to cover up wrongdoings
Lately I’ve been wondering if a niche search engine popular with hackers and not the general public could run circles around Google search results just because scammers and content farms wouldn’t be incentivized to game it like they are Google.

It frustrates me a lot. I don’t even know how to find useful information online anymore for everyday things like “how hot is too hot outside for a cat?” I invariably land on a garbage page with paragraph after paragraph of unintelligible keyword fluff. I keep thinking that one of the paragraphs will have a the content I’m looking for, but more and more I get to the end and realized I just scanned a whole page of referral links and content that was clearly farmed out to be written by someone who either doesn’t know English or GPT2 or something.
Firefox somewhat famously doesn't use the same Chromium engine.
The “X” may be unplugged but your day-labor contract industrial cleanup techs are hired through an Uber-for-Cleaners Hygiene-as-a-service Heroku app that’s had every backup silently deleted for a month and has just been replaced with a funny cat photo by someone claiming their name is spelled with a zero in it.

You can’t hire cleaners. Site cleanup is suspended. Your insurance is invalid if workers are onsite while hazmats are left uncleaned. You shut down on the day you were about to ship a full warehouse of product. Manufacturing grinds to a halt because the outbound warehouse is full. You have to cease goods incoming because they were misusing the day-labor app for handling delivery grunt work.

Ph0bos Security Services also hacked your email so now everyone has to use personal phones and WhatsApp but upper management won’t share their numbers with anyone except the foreman so he is now the bottleneck for everyone who needs approval to make out of budget purchases to handle the capacity overload that’s happening everywhere except for hazmat cleaning.

But the pumps were airgapped so at least they didn’t get hacked.
WeWork's CEO – people who are comfortable working at home are the least engaged
Physics – So, You Think You Discovered a New State of Matter?
This looks like market manipulation.
Browsers should by default <body onload="disableJS()">
It's the difference between the domain of reasoning and complexity of reasoning.
Could you elaborate on this a bit? I don't have familiarity with that class of problems, so I'm having trouble understanding the obstacles.

My naive instinct is that you would detect and store points of contact between the sensor surface and the object while also positionally tracking the sensor in 3D space relative to an origin. You would certainly need a lot of precision in movement tracking to minimize error. Maybe that's where it gets tricky?

Also worth noting that the problem feels somewhat moot since there are easier solutions (e.g. lidar).
> I don’t even know how to find useful information online anymore for everyday things like “how hot is too hot outside for a cat?”

Maybe this wasn't a real example, but searching exactly this (quotes not included) returned the answer in a knowledge box at the top of the page and the first several organic results had the answer very clearly in the text.
OpenRailwayMap[0] is useful to see where High-Speed Rail has been built - choose Max speeds map style.
It uses data from OpenStreetMap[1] - free (as in freedom) map edited by community in a Wikipedia fashion.

[0] https://www.openrailwaymap.org/
[1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/
> they aren't necessary, they're only effective at preventing the spread of COVID if the wearer has a medical degree, don't wear masks on planes, etc

Everyone seems to also forget that a lot of this took place when they wrongly thought surface transmission was the main vector. The bigger problem was the delay in recognizing aerosol transmission, Chinese scientists cottoned on to this very early but the CDC and WHO dragged their feet.

We also saw everything play out and get politicized in real time in a way that's never happened before. There are lags between data and science, further lags between science and science communication and then even more from science communication to government policy. On one end of this lag you've got scientist warning of aerosol transmission, on the other side you've got Fauci still operating under the surface transmission advice leading to some very mixed messaging. Reducing this lag will be important in future.
Best Mouse for Developer / Gaming / Coding
Probably not as lucrative as targeting Americans. I’ve noticed a nice side affect of living in Taiwan to be that there is generally less trash to sift through when looking for this kind of stuff. Spammers just don’t target us as much.
Ask HN: Share some beautifully designed dev blogs
Something doesn't add up on the Elon Musk 'Tesla and Bitcoin' story
No-no, Bitcoin is not a scam! I promise! It's the currency of the future!
iPad Repair: These Are the Most Common Problems
Linode are really good people. Super helpful, knowledgable support.
Public health recommendations for the individual are quite different to secret surveillance programs.

We'd be in a very different conversation if the CDC was telling everyone "we need you to take this pill. No we're not telling you what's in it, or why you should take it and no one else in the world will be reviewing it."
Safari only though
Yeah, I use 1blocker too, it's fairly good but annoying they only give you monthly rule updates (unless a major site breaks) unless you pay a subscription. Even when I bought the 'Pro' version, and then they changed to a subscription model...

Still, it works pretty well. But how I wish it was possible to have uBlock Origin running in mobile Safari (and desktop Safari for that matter)...
> I think you're reading a critique of Prometheus that isn't really present in what we're writing.

I'm observing that you've used pull-based, horizontally-scaled tools to build a push-based, vertically-scaled telemetry infrastructure. It can be made to work, sure, but the solution is an impedance mismatch to the problem.
Yeah, this is fucked up. How can people not care about this stuff?

It's not like this is a fringe subject, we have mainstream media exposing people to these ideas. There are so many movies and series where global surveillance is part of the plot. Every 21st century police procedural episode begins with the authorities briefing themselves on the situation and they always have access to ridiculous amounts of information. I can't possibly be the only one who gets uncomfortable watching these scenes.
You don't have to go back far at all to find corporations doing evil either, and yet America forgets how bad they are on a daily basis.
I know this gets repeated a lot, but that doesn't make it more true. Show me the quote where he said "we lied about masks", and "we changed our message about masks" doesn't count.

The reality is that the knowledge about Covid changed significantly in march/April last year. In particular the understanding about unsymptomatic spread lead to a significant change of thinking. That makes sense, if the virus only spreads from sick people, the advice for everyone to wear a mask is not good health policy especially if there is a shortage. You want to prioritise people who get in contact with sick people and prevent sick people to go out. However, if unsymptomatic people spread the virus, you want everyone to wear masks, because you can't prevent spreaders to go out. But the masks are different, you want cloth masks more than n95, because it is about protecting others.

The below article is one which elaborates on the whole discussion

https://eu.statesman.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/29/did-...
> don’t we always have a ledger of the coin ids?

Monero hides the sender, receiver and the transaction amount from the public.

While it's not a perfect system (ring signatures being the main weakness), it's extremely difficult to trace and you can for instance sell them on Kraken directly for cash.
According to Wolfram Alpha, cashew nuts have over twice the calories of beef. [1][2]

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=calories+in+1+pound+of...

[2] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=calories+in+1+pound+of...
Kim Stanley Robinson is insufferable. He has so many deep misunderstanding about politics, economics, and even things like climate science and limits to growth that are his core schtick. And the flaws are so embedded into the central plots of his books that it is really hard to suspend disbelief and ignore.

I originally encountered the Mars Trilogy as a teen and it is fair to say that it changed my life. I feel in love with the romantic portrayal of Mars colonization, and eventually ended up working at NASA. Recently I decided to go back and re-read the trilogy and found myself unwilling to finish even the first book. I just couldn't stand it. So you're not alone.

You might like Icehenge though. It works more as a stand-alone novel (or 3 novellas, really) set in the same universe, but with a focused plot and the politics mostly relegated to the background. It's a very under-rated book, being overshadowed by the more well-known RGB Mars trilogy that followed.
Previous discussion of:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27137784
There are loads more supported via knitr. Scroll to the top of that linked page in this thread for the list.
Don't let your dreams remain dreams. You can make your own for pennies. You just need heat, water, glycerin, and some kind of structure to keep all those things in the right place.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/interior-projects/how-...
The temporary halt seems necessary -- the usual treatment had bad effects, and the proper treatment needed to be disseminated to doctors and nurses.
I don't think anyone is saying that without SpaceX science and people wouldn't exist.

But, SpaceX and Tesla for sure accelerated the EVs market and reusable rockets. I don't think anyone could've created this level of buzz around their companies. Main thing being that most of the general public now knows about Tesla and SpaceX and the awareness around EVs and reusable rockets. Now, I'm not saying Musk is some godsend or something, but he definitely played big role in creating this buzz around space travel and EVs.

> their success only makes it harder for other rocket companies to stand out and succeed.

Of course it does. That's one of the main points of one's success and it is true for every single field in existence. By that logic, no one should succeed because that would make it difficult for others?
I strongly disagree with that one.
Can I ask why? That feels like an enormously bigger lift for not much more gain over "the virus exists but vaccines relegate it to the level of a mere cold amongst vaccinated people," for instance.
> Second and most important: currencies are not supposed to be held. Currencies are supposed to facilitate trading, investment and consequently economic activity.

I feel like that's a bit contradictory. Holding currency is a significant part of facilitating real economic activity. People putting money into an emergency fund to be ready when for expected repairs, or saving for a major purchase, are most certainly facilitating trading and consumption, on a longer time scale.

It almost makes sense in a back-of-an-envelope economic model: if you had infinite free credit, then "save up and buy in 3 months" is functionally equivalent to "buy now and pay it off in 3 months".
How high prices work is:

1. only those who really need it buy it

2. others are encouraged to increase supply

For example, before anti-gouging laws, when a hurricane interrupted the gas supply, people from a state over would immediately fill jerry cans with gas and drive into the disaster zone, selling gas out of the back of their pickups.

Anti-gouging laws put a stop to that. Now nobody gets gas until FEMA gets around to it.

I've talked to people who lived through WW2 gas rationing. It was a mess of mis-allocation. People who didn't need their ration turned into criminals selling it on the black market. People who needed it turned into criminals buying it on the black market. It was pure political theater.
1. Any system can be hacked. We don't know enough to judge Colonial's infosec posture.

2. Agree that paying leads to bad outcomes. But I also suspect the feds put some pressure on Colonial. Voters remember gas lines and the pump prices.
Bicycles exist.
But isn't the topic being discussed technology? Being a video creator or painter using Krita is being an artist, not a tech person.

There is no doubt that modern technology has enabled people to realise a lot of things they woul dneve rhave been able to, such as creating a movie using tools available in your pocket.

However, the original post was about learning technology. I.e. understanding computers. The difference between being a mechanic and someone using a car to drive to the grocery store.

The problem is that that the term "digital native" implies that the person understands how computers work. One might argue that the term actually should mean something else, but I argue that would make it an even less useful term. Do we call people who has drivers licenses "motorised vehicle natives"?
Presumably the issue is that you have defined 1+1 as an operation, rather than just an alternative representation (of 2).
Transforming the British Army: Conversation with General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith
I'm using a combo of AdGuard and MalwareBytes on Safari, and Pi-Hole via Wireguard and my browsing experience has been pretty smooth.
"I want to be clear about what the CDC is saying – and what the CDC isn’t saying. The CDC is saying they have concluded that fully vaccinated people are at very low risk for getting COVID-19. Therefore, if you’re fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask."

-President Biden
FWIW The evidence we have (not much I can find) seems to suggest that Native Americans today may not have very different biota. Maybe not surprising since their diets are more Western than not, now.

Biol Lett. 2014 Feb 12;10(2):20131037.
doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.1037. Print 2014 Feb.
Geographical variation of human gut microbial composition
Taichi A Suzuki 1 , Michael Worobey

PMID: 24522631 PMCID: PMC3949373 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.1037

We found a positive correlation between Firmicutes and latitude and a negative correlation between Bacteroidetes and latitude. The overall pattern appears robust to sex, age and bacterial detection methods. Comparisons between African Americans and native Africans and between European Americans and native Europeans suggest no evidence of host genotype explaining the observed patterns.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24522631/

Gut Microbes. 2020;11(2):191-204.
doi: 10.1080/19490976.2019.1634416. Epub 2019 Jul 16.
Gut microbiota composition explains more variance in the host cardiometabolic risk than genetic ancestry
Sandra J Guzmán-Castañeda et al

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31311405/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7053924/
Animoca Brands achieves unicorn status with $88m raise
For us, it was IO actually: doing IO concurrently (Lwt) and letting the one core schedule the IO worked quite well for a long time, but then we started targetting NVMe devices...
Now just the scheduling of the IO would fill up the core without coming even close saturating the device.

We ended up splitting the device and using multiple processes but that was suboptimal.
Amazon's high pay may choke restaurant industry comeback
Ask yourself, why now? I work at a vaccine center and they are all slowing down. For those who aren’t “hesitant” but maybe haven’t received their shot for lack of urgency (convenience issues/complacency), going to a store full of people not wearing their mask may make them feel less secure and will provide urgency to get their shots. Interesting strategy but as the unvaccinated anti-maskers stop wearing their masks in public (no one is going to check their vax card), you are going to see outbreaks and death. Let’s see if it works to get more people vaccinated.
More than a quarter of Australians leaving Delhi have Covid
I'm sure somebody will want to create vaccine coins, where the crypto currency are mined by people getting vaccinated, or walked their 1k steps for the day and what have you