skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

Unfortunately it’s not being reported on mainstream sources yet, but the wife of a researcher was an even earlier patient and she died, clearly from covid. According to information I’ve seen, she was perhaps patient 4-6.

Extensive paper on FCS will be published soon.

https://imgur.com/a/bBAuXv6

> Sørensen said the amino acids all have a positive charge, which cause the virus to tightly cling to the negatively charged parts of human cells like a magnet, and so become more infectious.

> But because, like magnets, the positively charged amino acids repel each other, it is rare to find even three in a row in naturally occurring organisms, while four in a row is 'extremely unlikely,' the scientist said.

> 'The laws of physics mean that you cannot have four positively charged amino acids in a row. The only way you can get this is if you artificially manufacture it,' Dalgleish told DailyMail.com.

> Their new paper says these features of SARS-Cov-2 are 'unique fingerprints' which are 'indicative of purposive manipulation', and that 'the likelihood of it being the result of natural processes is very small.'

'A natural virus pandemic would be expected to mutate gradually and become more infectious but less pathogenic which is what many expected with the COVID-19 pandemic but which does not appear to have happened,' the scientists wrote.
This is not exactly accurate. But it’s easier to get to the full story if people accept the lab leak of an unmodified virus as a possibility. However, the “assertions” are misleading and have been debunked. The virus does appear to be chimeric. There is a missing link in both hypotheses, but the lab leak hypotheses offers a few possible explanations. The zoonotic hypothesis still doesn’t have an explanation for that part.
I'm sure that if TikTok reimbursed a creator for content that was disparaging/illegal, the chain of suit would involve both the creator and TikTok. Barring complex indemnification agreements in whatever contracts were signed. S230 doesn't magically make companies "immune from everything" like a lot of people seem to think. It just correctly clarifies that person A posting on site B generated the content, and is who you should sue first if it's disparaging.

That's "how it works" with the laws in place today, there doesn't seem to be a deficiency.

This is likely a reason why YT and others demonetize controversial videos - for their own preservation, they don't want to fund the creation of content that might lure a suit.

I don't think anything's broken here. Definitely nothing that would be fixed by this Florida bill.
It just seems magic because of time maybe. Which would imply the “answer” to the “hard” non-question of consciousness probably lies in time series data. The idea gravity is tied to consciousness through time and space may be related through the assertion space is a dimension similar to a search index using an array of timestamps.

Being hungry is just my stomach being empty, over time. A feeling emerges, which is then synthesized into a perception. Similar to how the world model emerges inside us from sound and imagery, imagery and sound bites which are themselves built from sensors and post processing, which aren’t necessarily made aware to the user in and of themselves (the image from the left half of the right eye only, for example).

Imagine an apple, if you can. Where does the image of the apple come from? Can you, like many, see the apple for what it is (an iconic image) projected into your perception? If you want some esoteric text on this, read up on Theosophy. They present the idea the image comes from a “mind body”, made from alternate types of matter. This is relevant when looking at older schools of philosophical thought, which used to encompass the sciences.

In Tibetan Buddhism this internal model or map of the world is presented no different than someone having a full immersion PTSD episode...a “broken” model run “on the side”, in mind, which appears to be “real”, occluding the “reality” model most of us agree is “here”.

> For me I say God, y'all can see me now
'Cos you don't see with your eyes
You perceive with your mind
That's the end of it
So I'mma stick around with
Russ and be a mentor -The Gorillaz
A counterpoint to that is that in American thought, freedom of speech includes the right to not be compelled to speak. An individual or a private company generally can’t be forced to promulgate opinions they don’t wish to, thanks to the protections of the First Amendment.
You shouldn't lump search ads in with display ads -- search ads are relevant to the search terms, and are much more valuable than display ads. Search ads get a much smaller lift from personalization.
That is explicitly stated in the opening paragraph.
As a fan of ProtonMail, will just add a few points:

Every popular online service today is being continuously attacked. Bad actors get a lot of economic value from credential stuffing, account takeovers, and fake registrations, especially on email services.

This is why CAPTCHAs exist. They are one of the better tools in the defender's arsenal to increase the cost of attacks.

Building and maintaining a good CAPTCHA service is both hard and requires a high level of continuous development, since every day people are waking up and trying to figure out how to break it.

This means almost every company that tried building their own in the past has switched to either hCaptcha or Google, since it is not practical for even large companies to maintain their own solution these days.

Why was ProtonMail originally using Google? Probably because for many years it was the only plausible option until hCaptcha came around, and they needed to protect their users.

We're working with them now to switch over to the enterprise version of hCaptcha, which:

1) includes privacy-preserving features that let them decide exactly what user data hCaptcha sees and when, and
2) guarantees what happens to any data received via a data processing agreement, and
3) isn't run by an ad network.

hCaptcha doesn't care who you are and ensures all data is ephemeral, since unlike Google we're not trying to sell ads targeting you.

(disclosure: work there)
No property at all?
Wouldn't 2D printers then also be a subset of autonomous technology and robotics?
True, but that belief has never been extended to the idea that newspapers are required to carry op-eds or letters to the editor chosen via coin-flip instead of the editor, or that private stores with message tack-boards are obligated to host flyers for the local Klan because they host flyers for the local yoga instructors.

The back-stop to private institutions putting their thumb on the scales of open public discourse is, traditionally, the public... the public that ceases to read the papers that are too biased, or boycotts the coffee shop because it has a political agenda out of alignment with the agenda of most of the local community.
“Of course not. There is only room for one Dennis Rodman on this team. In fact, you really can only have a very few Dennis Rodmans in society as a whole; otherwise, we would degenerate into anarchy.”

-Phil Jackson

https://a16z.com/2011/01/04/when-smart-people-are-bad-employ...
I’m not convinced the wearable market has been cracked at all.

I feel when it finally is we’ll roll our eyes at the current day smartphone concept.
heres an experiment for you, setup a honeypot router that is open to the web, keep in mind that it is possible for threat actor to reconfigure the router, among other nastiness, but what you want to see is the activity log, so you can see what or who is going for your honey pot and hammering on a locked door to nowhere.

this will give a partial threat profile but will also show you just how sketchy the net is outside of a secure space.
What about the case of someone signing up for thousands of accounts?
Agreed! Proton could do better, but conflating their privacy approach (or, say, Apple's or Mozilla's) with Google's is exactly what Google would want you to do. "See - everyone harvests your data, at least we tend to keep it in house".

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
My problem with these "part 1 making a game" tutorials is that they usually never make it past part 3... This article only covers 1BPP byte graphics, and assumes that all 65(c)02 machines use them which is absolutely not the case. Graphics for 8-bit machines are usually handled by a separate processor with its own format(s) anyway: VIC for C64, ANTIC for Atari 8-bit, PPU for the NES, etc.

You could check out the Nerdy Nights tutorial for NES development which is fully fleshed out and has a tried and true record of getting people started:
https://nerdy-nights.nes.science/

Apologies to the author if this seems harsh and disheartening, but, i've seen too many tutorials both never finish and give out incorrect information.
This looks great. I can’t wait to try it.
Leveraging Blockchain Technology for Veeam S3 Object Storage Repositories
There is quite a lot of regional variation in the States. I imagine Germans would prefer New Yorkers to West Coast Americans.

Multiple times, while on a train coming into the city from Portland, OR's airport, I've observed Portlanders strike up a grinning, friendly conversation with a New Yorker, noting their accent and inquiring as to what brings them to Portland -- and invariably the New Yorker has a pained look on their face like "why the fuck are you talking to me?"
Show HN: The Music of the McKenzie River, Data Sonification to Music
Endangered Iberian lynx population jumps 10-fold
The hard part of consciousness is drawing the line left by the dissolution of Cartesian dualism. Some matter is not conscious, other matter is. How finely can we draw the boundaries between the two? Dualism drew a metaphysical line between matter and spirit but we have to draw a manifold around and through a physical brain to locate conscious experience.
I understand most of what you are saying, and it isn’t pleasant in many cases but I think the situation is improving.

Yes, all that happens, and most project computing (Office of Science) is usually pushed to NERSC, but it really depends on many factors. NERSC has a lot of users (much more than 8), probably the most out of the DOE complex, since it’s a user facility. Big projects (>$500M) don’t often have this problem and most of them will push for clusters they own at their home lab. Small projects are most likely to have trouble either in procuring resources or effectively using super computing resources.

A dirty secret is many users just use MPI for a job queue/coordination so their jobs “scale” when large reservations are required, but IB is not really exercised in those situations. When you realize that, it’s easy to realize most workflows scale (as long as disk is considered), but very annoying from a development perspective.

Tape isn’t worthless because you have to have a disaster plan or long term data preservation plan and it’s usually just a part of that, but some labs/projects have historically pushed as part of the integral data management plan for active/warm data and that is indeed worthless.
Seen this pattern in tracking consent popups - active state is red, making you think it’s disabled.
For people looking for more, this sub-reddit(1) is just filled with such bad/evil UI components, though most of them are more bad than evil.

https://www.reddit.com/r/badUIbattles/
The End of the Olduse.net Exhibit
You can use an Android phone without Google services. You don't even need root or a custom ROM for that — there's a "disable" button on the app details page of every Google app, including GSF. You can complete the initial setup fully offline, too. In case you do need Google services, but want to have a say about which and how, there's MicroG, an open-source implementation of some of the most used ones like GCM (push messaging).

You can't use an iPhone without Apple services, period. An Apple ID is a hard requirement to activate an iOS device, it literally won't let you past that screen without one. Even after you're done with that, you can only install apps from the app store, subject to that unfair, opaque approval process.
Have you heard the EV noise though? In France there are a lot of Renault Zoe around, and the noise is much softer, narrower band (which might help not mask vocal frequency band) than a gas engine. To be honest, I’m grateful, otherwise I’d cross in front of one as a pedestrian or cyclist. I’d even like to see the front of city buses with some noise since, with the engine in the back, you just hear them whoosh past when they barely miss you.
> I ended up studying English Romantic poetry with the late Jonathan Wordsworth, who was a great-great-great nephew of the famous poet William Wordsworth.

Sounds like they were Worth their Words.
Free speech is not the first amendment, the first amendment is not free speech.

>it’s a commonly held belief in America that everyone’s speech is free and should be free

Seems more like the commonly held belief in America is that MY speech is free but your speech maybe shouldn't be. The school children might have a differing opinion on the teacher's "right to free speech" after the teacher calls them "stupid cunts".

Turns out that even the "free speech" platforms are not so free: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200627/23551144803/as-pr...

And of course, the head of the Republican party is also against free speech when they don't like the speech: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-24/column-trum...
The old company motto was a very effective canary.
The article is a small portion of the original.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_small_decisions

10.1111/j.1467-6435.1966.tb02491.x

http://libgen.rs/scimag/?q=10.1111%2Fj.1467-6435.1966.tb0249...
Yes, several, they mostly all work in security and actually read the Platform Security Guide and made a decision the inconveniences were outweighed by the strengths of not storing that key.

Remember also that subpoenas rarely permit “fishing expeditions”, so if they want your iMessages, can convince the judiciary you have potentially committed a crime, your key not being stored and the E2EE nature doesn’t always mean a judge is going to let LE go after Bob, Joe, Bill and everyone you have messaged with and demand Apple hand over all their iMessages (if they have backups enabled).
There are actually two reviews, the first by Vonnegut and the second (entitled "The Biggest, Fattest Sacred Cows") by Nicholls. The delineation is clearer in this thumbnail image: https://s1.nyt.com/timesmachine/pages/1/1990/12/09/526690_36... .
If you believe unthinkingly following American regulatory authorities is a good thing, I have a few hundred 737 Max planes to sell you.
Your comment is presumably being flagged for an unpopular take, but I think it's meaningful to have a conversation (I can't say my earlier quip provides anything of value).

The first thing I did was google what's been chewed on in popular discourse: "publisher vs platform law." To my surprise, my understanding of the law was wrong. This wonderful article from the EFF cleared up why such a distinction is incorrect [1].

My takeaway from the article is that the current laws with respect to liability are preferred to the alternative, which would incentivize companies to not moderate whatsoever out of a fear of liability due to "taking a stance." This lack of curation not only hurts the ability of companies to cater to consumers' sense of community, but also allows for hecklers' vetoes. Indeed, if a user spuriously threatens legal action over content by another user, why incur editorial liability by investigating, as opposed to indiscriminately removing the content?

[1] - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/publisher-or-platform-...
Or forward porting your old software for which you've somehow lost the source. Or helping reverse some abandoned commercial code to write a compatible replacement. Or help verifying you're getting from the compiler what you expected from your source. Probably half a dozen other things neither of us have thought up.

This is the sort of software smart people can use for fresh and novel things the designer never even intended.
Your edit is close to what it means in German. I would expand with strange and absurd and kind of intangible yet clearly present. Well... it is difficult with words. Different meanings for different readers.
The addition of UWB to phones was another prime example of this. It makes airdrop moderately easier now, big deal, but locating objects accurately in space with high resolution is a huge problem for AR, and with airtags Apple will have way more experience with this technology in real world situations than anyone.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the complaint against Twitter and Facebook. The problem that the People have is with the removal of non-illegal content by the publisher on this new type of platform, and that's why states like Florida are passing new legislation to regulate them.

They own the new public square, and Section 230 is insufficient to stop Twitter and Facebook from systematically denying their political enemies a platform.

This isn't about Section 230. We need new legislation to reign in the unchecked ability of Silicon Valley to curb speech they disagree with.

If they are protected by 230, then you've helped convince me that it's time to remove that protection.

Now I'll be downvoted by you Silicon Valley drones without an ounce of self awareness
Settings -> Filters and Rules -> Spam Protection -> Advanced settings -> Custom

Ikea mass marketing emails are ~5.5 for me, and essentially all of the “false positives” in my spambox. The real spam is all 20+.

It looks like fastmail defaults the threshold to 5. Try increasing it to slightly above the score your legitimate emails get.
For me personally it was not. I've always found things unnecessary complex. Part of my windows configuration was removing all excess and slimming down toolbars etc.

Unfortunately the functionality of recent iterations of macOS and apps is actually pretty bad. Shortcuts missing, bulk operations missing, keyboard navigation missing, proxy icon support missing.

What I think is funny, is to see how other people try to mimic Apple, but they forget that it only works if you really focus on functionality first. You see the with "webdesign" too.. People see pretty sites, and think it's just filling in the blanks.
One approach would be to intercept your own traffic with Fiddler as a proxy for a few hours after installing and look for any nefarious requests. This is a pretty effective way to run a basic security audit.
They are actually protected by the First Amendment.
Florida man is nodding in approval of this idea.
You're not the only one: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/sleeping-on-2000-she...
It won't hold up, and the law's authors undoubtedly know it. It's very obviously unconstitutional for a government to tell a private group what kind of speech they may permit.
U.S. airlines refunded $12.8B to travelers in 2020 – trade group says
I am shocked at your unjustified and rather arrogant gatekeeping here.

Version controlled Jupyter notebooks running in an automated environment (eg Kubernetes), with repeatable test data loading into a processing environment (eg. MinIO or Spark), is quite commonplace. Making it even easier with WASM makes sense.

What about Jupyter impedes good practices? That it empowers ad hoc exploration at all? It is merely an IDE tailored to sharing interactive text and code. To me it is one of the most exciting ecosystems for modern software development (and I’ve been developing software for 30 years).
Alternative title: "Group of scientists assuming that the current model of gravity is correct look at the discrepancies in the observations and calculate a map of where and how much matter would be necessary to fix this difference. Some of them believe this additional mater is real, and some of them doubt, but meanwhile to make the titles shorter they use the catchy name of dark matter."
While arguably unfalsifiable.

To me Joshua Bach’s explanation of consciousness covers all the bases.

It is a logical explanation that explains consciousness without the need for magic. Whether or not it covers what you want from a consciousness explanation I can’t tell.

That it is not more accepted seams strange, but it is fairly new and people in philosophy are famously slow when it comes to change. So I guess it makes sense.
My goodness, the name of the leading character in "Stranger in a Strange Land" is as familiar to millions of literate persons as Oliver Twist or Holden Caulfield.

Not reading the next sentence, I thought it was Jubal Hershaw, the author-avatar character but it was Michael Smith and damned if I could remember that. Vonnegut is simply wrong about that. No one remembers Michael Smith by name.

It wasn't a good book at all. If it were a first book by an unknown author, it would never have been published. It was just Heinlein trying to do what he thought was a book for adults rather than his usual young adult sci-fi. Aside from grok, there's nothing memorable. The sex cult stuff is just weird. Indeed if you use grok in a sentence today it marks you as a boomer or maybe a techie. I rarely see this book mentioned at all and never by the kidz.

Speaking of the kidz, Overly Sarcastic Productions does a good piece on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jAkplrZci0
Don’t expose SSH, OMV, Docker, Portainer etc. Use cloudflare DNS. Enable fail2ban, tunnel everything over VPN.
I happen to have just finished reading “Stranger in a Strange Land” for the first time a few weeks ago. In addition to having a super thought provoking premise, it coined the term “grok” which is so prevalent in tech circles. I never really questioned its origin, and I guess I assumed it was a borrowed word from Yiddish or something.
Pretty sure I bought this report for money about 15 years ago.
PowerPoint’s cognitive vagueness and thinness meet a fundamental need. 95% of these presentations are done by individuals that seriously lack the organizational POWER to deal with issues. So they are often show and tell, directed so as not to offend or usurp the power of the the highest ranking person in the room. Marching orders are rarely given by PP presentations. “The boss would like to see you and…”
Oddly, when loaded Google News this afternoon and clicked on "Local News" it showed me news for New York. I live in SW Missouri. I'm using Firefox with FB Container and Privacy Badger on a Mac mini (Late 2009).