skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most jurisdictions in the US are one-party-consent. I think the tech crowd tends to have a skewed perception of recording consent rules because California happens to be one of the relatively few two-party-consent states, but it's the exception rather than the rule.
Law or not, it seems completely absurd that I should be able to go through any database I have a license to view and just scrape all the content, especially if my purpose is to release their content to vitally damage their business.

At the same time, I don’t see why we should consider it a crime if I ssh into an insecure server and steal a persons credit card information, but if someone at the bank has an old password and go into the same server to get the same information then suddenly it’s ok? I mean the crime in a breaking and entering isn’t that you manage to break the lock, it’s the entering that’s the problem.
Or it’s an error that will be resolved, which would be a different end result.
In this specific study

> The diet chosen here exemplifies the Western UPD with unbalanced levels of micro- and macronutrients

Generally speaking, "unprocessed" foods are raw whole foods. "Processing" means cooking, cutting, adding stuff, etc. (of course none of this is bad in any way). "Highly processed" and "ultra processed" mean there's high calorie density without protein, fiber, micro-nutrients, etc. AKA it's very easy to overeat and throw your nutrient balance off. Of course products like Soylent are technically highly "processed" but that's rarely what these articles mean.
Unless you think the US is going to go to war with its allies, its military power has little importance in this context. The US is a large, wealthy market for imports and a supplier of many products and services that it exports. It's a huge financial centre. Despite the unfortunate state of its government and public services by the standards of a modern democracy, it's still broadly aligned with other modern democratic nations in terms of values and culture, which means it's still a much safer partner to trade and cooperate with than you'd find in some other large parts of the world.

This makes playing nice with the US a diplomatically and economically sensible policy, up to a point. I suspect the US will find it encounters that point increasingly often, partly because the rest of the world is also changing and partly because Trump did so much damage to international relations and the US may never fully recover. The ongoing negotiations about global corporate taxation are a good if rather dull example.
> someone born into an impoverished area should have the opportunities to succeed, and (ideally) taxation can at least ensure they have the infrastructure around them to do so.

Taxation can do this, but that does not mean it's the only way to do it.

As I see it, we as citizens of a free society who want to give equal opportunity as much as humanly possible, have two choices for how to do that:

(1) Coordinate it with a government;

(2) Coordinate it with private entities.

Unfortunately, neither of these choices works very well.

The problem with #1 is that it never stops with just enabling equal opportunity. Yes, the government builds roads and other infrastructure. But the same power we give it to do those good things, it also uses to do lots of things that are at best wasteful and at worst actively harmful. There's no way to have a government that only does good things with our tax money.

The problem with #2 is that it's like herding cats. Most people want infrastructure in the abstract, or want it if it already exists, but don't want to actually do the work required to create it, even to the extent of participating in community discussions about it. They just want it to happen somehow.

However, the failure modes of these two choices are also very different:

With #1, the failure mode is for government to keep expanding and expanding, taking more and more power, and putting more and more restrictions on people's freedoms. The end state of that is tyranny for everyone.

With #2, the failure mode is less equality of opportunity, or at least more difficulty in pursuing opportunities for people born into less fortunate circumstances. But there are many ways to compensate for this. Even if the fraction of more fortunate people who will do actual work to help less fortunate people is small, technology can give them leverage. As long as people have freedom, they will use it.

Libertarians do not advocate #2 over #1 because they think it works great. They advocate it because it is less bad in terms of failure modes than #1.
Not necessarily. These could very well be a fleet of self-replicating “unmanned” drones that were sent on a mission to explore the galaxy millions of years ago. Heck, our own civilization likely isn’t all that far off (relatively speaking) from being able to do the same thing
Why did they apologize? I have to say, this smells political - if Excel and Sheets are just two pieces of software, then there's no reason to apologize for liking one more than the other. For somebody at the partner level to apologize and ask for a change in a users' workflow - seems like catering to people who have a political issue with Microsoft, rather than judging on technical merits.
I was a bit shocked by this sentence

> On the media 'not taking it seriously' - because there was no evidence whatsoever outside of conjecture and it was being pushed heavily by misinfo merchants.

As far as I can tell, it makes two logical errors, 1) that absence of evidence is reason to not take an idea seriously, in a space of known unknowns, & 2) that a possibility can be discredited because dishonest people are pushing it.

On the former point: "evidence = likely" does not necessarily imply "no evidence = unlikely" as you seem to believe (if by evidence you mean like courtroom evidence; we use probabilistic reasoning in the absence of such "evidence" for any one explanation.) we have gathered 0 evidence for many (probably most) true things.

Finally, there's a lack of understanding of how power works in the US. If you could get censored for saying something that the US government knew for months, then yes, you were being silenced, the absence of literal NKVD notwithstanding.
The only data that can't be leaked is the data people don't have. When the OPM could be hacked, everything can be hacked.

Based on this, the only solution is to make sure nobody has any information that may possible be leaked and, at the time or later, be connected to me.

In addition to that nobody targets ads with value, because valuable products are super rare and don't need advertising because those show up in magazines, on blogs etc created by people interested in the field, because sharing those products give value to their readers.

I tested it recently on youtube, both by my locked in account (15? year old google account with a ton of info) and in a firefox container. The first ad was for some casual mobile game/scam and the second was for something I can't remember anymore. I also don't remember the first ad I got on the account that wasn't logged in, but the second one was for a website that sold used iPhones, something that I am very much interested in.

So, despite knowing a ton of me, Google couldn't show me a related ad that was better than the ad it showed when it had no data.

For a very long time the ads in gmail were all about getting loans no matter how poor my credit was, when my issue was that I need a good place to invest my money, not take on expensive loans.

Currently they were trying to sell me extra chargers for electric cars, of which I don't own any.

Facebook showed me a generic ad for cancer awareness aimed at somebody 15 years older than me (they know my real date of birth).

Previous to that they showed me a ton of ads for extra comfy travel trousers.

Twitter got the closest by showing me ads for places to buy crypto (yes I am interested in that space, no I won't by stuff from ads that scream scam to me).

I don't know what will replace ads, and it is possible that ads might bring some value in specific cases but in general they are a waste of money. I suspect Google etc knows this, but can't say it for obvious reasons.

Brand awareness ads might make sense, but it doesn't really make sense to target those much.
"geplumst" is the funny part here, it's very colloquial, kinda silly-sounding, playful – similar to "plumped". Just makes the whole sentence more delightful.
Sending money over the internet.

If you don't understand why that's an critical utility for billions of people on this planet, then you're not worth arguing with.
Please keep nationalistic attacks off this forum. You have no idea the sort of pressure that users with minority perspectives because of their national/ethnic backgrounds are under on this majority-Western forum. People have literally been hounded off this site after getting attacked for this. Is that the kind of community you, or any of us, want to be part of? Of course it is not. Therefore, don't include swipes like that in your comments here, and remember that other users are just as human as you are, even if they have different backgrounds than you do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
The camera is taken right up to the bore. You’re right, it wouldn’t be 3T, but it’s getting close and it’s way inside the 5g line.

The iPhones I have seen go in have not had a lot of pull and can be held, even close to the bore (less than 1m).

The service instructions require photographs of various component - I watched a cold head get photographed recently.

I’ve also seen an engineer take a laptop pretty close. It turned off but didn’t suffer any lasting ill effects as far as we could tell.

All this fits in the category of ‘don’t do this’, but with care it is done by the engineering staff.
The Weather Visualization
To be clear, I don't think these are alien, BUT...

You might not be able to "prove a negative" in the purely scientific sense, but you can rule out most options to effectively "prove a negative".

If, for example, Russia came out and took credit for these things, and showed working prototypes of these crafts, would that "prove" (in the truest, mathematical sense of the word) that they aren't aliens? No, I suppose Russia could have intercepted alien technology and pass it off as their own, but for any kind of practical purpose that would "prove" they aren't aliens to most rational people, and thus "prove" a negative.
Pfizer vaccine produces low level of antibodies against Delta variant
In the long run? Maybe destroying the petro dollar. One can dream.
Upleveling Flyte’s Data Lineage Using Dolt
Some resources are more scarce than others. If you have effectively infinite matter and energy, the scarce resources shift to things like conscious attention, low-entropy regions, and time-co-locality. Almost none of which are attained by invading and destroying another civilization. On the contrary, doing so actually would arguably evaporate resources you care about.
That is my question, into the legitimacy of the whole enterprise. It would make sense for links to be visible to certain entities after a period of time for posterity. WaybackMachine is obviously legitimate, but I don't really know too much about archive. Although many (for example) Popular-Mechanics articles are archived on archive.is/Wayback, often they are only the blurred versions.
This looks great, are there any similar tutorials written for languages other than Haskell?
Ordinary people use shipping and the internet every day. They do not use bitcoin.

This article points out that, the last time a similar wave of crime occurred, the way it was defeated was by targeting the banks where the money changes hands.

It is because cryptocurrencies do not currently function as usable currencies that the same trick could work again. If governments pass regulations making it illegal for financial institutions to process cryptocurrency transactions, companies/hackers will have no way to convert real money to and from bitcoin ransoms. Companies can't simply gather up bitcoin paid to them by their customers, because almost nobody uses bitcoin as an actual currency. The ransomers won't be able to spend their bitcoin on groceries and vodka because almost nobody uses bitcoin as an actual currency. Both parties need financial institutions to make the transaction work.

Cryptocurrencies need to achieve real-world, everyday, legal usefulness fast or they're going to be strangled in their cradle by this. If the cost is massive amounts of energy use and billions of dollars of criminal damage annually, the benefit has to be more than providing a shell-game for finance gamblers and purely hypothetical future benefits.
I don't doubt posts are flagged by users as opposed to moderation.

But at the same time, it also seems like flagging can be too easily abused, and can lead to accusations of censorship and distrust. (Though I've certainly seen it work well in cases, especially for false/defamatory articles.)

But it really does seem like we're at the point where longstanding users need to also be able to vouch for flagged stories, or something like that. And even if that doesn't automatically restore the story, it could at least show a label like "pending moderator decision" or something.

At a time where trust in the media and authority is low... a little bit of greater transparency might go a long way. :)
Saying "We can't really stop the Data Economy" is like saying that humanity can't do anything about climate change because we can't afford to upset the petrochemical industry.

We can have a discussion about the costs and benefits of the Data Economy but to simply state that it's impossible to do anything about it is reductive to the point of absurdity and, frankly, only serves the interests of those who want to continue profiting without bearing any of the societal costs.
What a great example of how language can be used to obscure reality. This rat has no concept of the harm that may come to them when performing this job that has been forced upon them.

Now one might say: "This rat enjoys this work!". One cannot make that claim without:
1. The rat having informed consent about what this work entails (not possible, given a rat's limited ability to understand what land mines are)
2. In good faith, the rat having been given many alternatives as to what it wishes to do, without coercion

At its core, I see this as necessary work, whether it is automated by machines or performed by humans or non-human animals.

But let's at least be clear what's happening here and not sugar coat it: this is forced/coerced labor, there's nothing heroic about it given that the rat has no idea what might happen to them, and it's not a 'retirement' (this rat didn't wake up and say, I'm going to retire today!), it's that the rat's handlers have decided to no longer force/coerce this animal to work.
The spike protein is the biggest difference between RaTG13 and SARS-CoV-2. To produce SARS-CoV-2 from it that would imply that WIV had unpublished sequences from the Pangolin-CoV spike protein that they used to combine with an RaTG13 backbone. You then do not get SARS-CoV-2 out of passing that through mice, you get a mouse virus. You'd need to pass it serially through something with a human-like ACE2 like minks. Then you need to do that enough to accumulate a thousand mutations which takes decades in nature and would take millions of animals.

That likely did happen, but Charles Darwin was the geneticist that executed the gain of function experiment via serial passage through that many animals.

> Have you read the fine article? It cites more than a few papers.

Yes, i read it. The ability to construct bibliographic references is also a fairly widely-held and unimpressive skill.
Good quote.

But if you believe it is reasonable or desirable to engineer social changes to increase the birth rate to be able to create and support economic growth, I think your priorities ordering is not right
As the first link details, the "official WHO report" is marred by some pretty serious undeclared conflicts of interest.
I wouldn't even go that far. We have to remember where this information is coming from. This is the U.S. Military. We don't have "pilot confirmation", we have files, transcripts, and audio that are allegedly pilot confirmation.

Given the amount of evidence released so far, which seems more likely?

- Alien civilization

- Some other form of hyper-advanced technology

- The U.S. Military and/or various U.S. intelligence agencies are perpetrating a hoax in order to further some kind of strategic goal

I know which one I'm picking, barring much more widely acknowledged and damning evidence.
This.

Oftentimes people are mad at the media too quickly dismissing the possibility last year rather than actively suggesting it was a lab leak.
No, we'd only mark a story a [dupe] if it got significant attention in a different thread. I haven't heard back yet, but the most likely explanation is that a moderator (correctly) thought that one Tank Man story on the HN front page was enough.

Edit: oh - I think that one was actually marked a [dupe] by software. I'd need to double check this, but if so, it's because it interpreted the link to the other thread as a signal of dupiness.

Edit 2: yes, that's what happened. When a submission is heavily flagged and there is a single comment pointing to a different HN thread, the software interprets that as a strong signal of dupiness and puts dupe on the submission. It actually works super well most of the time. In this case it backfired because the comment was arguing the opposite.
Windows 10 here.
If you think that allowing an adversary to get away with a lie if it avoids a war is unacceptable because you are angry and want revenge, let me gently suggest to you that you are not the adult in the room in this situation.

A planet covered with rival armies all bickering with each other and a city full of gangs all running around shooting at each other are no different. Or the hatfields and McCoys engaging in tit for tat shootings. We really do as a species act like stupid children. If it was a lab leak, nobody ought to be doing these insanely stupid experiments in the first place. Including us. That’s the takeaway lesson. Not “I’m angry and I can’t control my feelings! Let’s have a war!”
> Both decay through alpha-particle emission

That decay also emits a gamma ray as a byproduct.

The energy given off by these gamma rays is actually significant at 59.5 keV. For example, let's assume you have $1500 in americium-241 in your mattress. At $1500/gram, that's one gram. With a specific activity of 3.43 Ci/g, that gram has about 3.66×10^15 decays in a 8 hour night. At 59.5 keV per decay the total gamma ray energy is about 35 J, or 500 mSv for a 70kg person. That's equal to 25 full body CT scans, or the yearly occupational dose limit, every night.

Smoke detectors typically contain about a microgram of americium-241, so that translates to a nightly dose of 0.5 μSv, or a yearly dose of 550 μSv. That's about a quarter of the natural background dose. It's also the amount of radiation emitted by the smoke detector, not what you receive. At an average distance of 8 meters, you'll receive just 1/100th of that.
What power do they think he has to restrict anything/
You can't use embedded V8 in a browser.
A slightly-delayed monthly status update (Alpine Security Team)
> Whereas the value provided by cryptocurrencies is not as clear.

The problem is that there's a large group of people who don't rely upon it at all, and there's people on the fringes that where using crypto enables non speculative economic activity where the banking sector has ignored/hands tied for too long; and by design, people in the former group can do increasingly very little against those in the latter.

The people saying "convince me" don't matter to those already using it, whereas in the case of ransom w/ crypto, the opposite is becoming more and more true…

People expecting various conflicting laws/jurisdictions globally to catch up to this at scale are going to have a tough time.

The moral hazards deeply embedded in our centralized nation state based monetary systems (and the assumptions built off of them) are once again having to compete with private money in new forms.
The ability to break the Enigma code might qualify. German scientists, I think, considered it unbreakable.
You can’t be serious… nobody “owes” this “community” anything.

Bro.
This sounds like a fascinating topic.
FWIW, Germany bought 25% of Lufthansa for 9 billion EUR in summer 2020[0] amid the Covid-19 losses, while the market capitalization was less than 4 billion. So they paid more than double the market capitalization to get a quarter of the company.

[0] https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/coronakrise-re...
There is a little bit of an in-between space in lawn blends that are designed to be a bit more friendly to pollinators.

https://www.westcoastseeds.com/products/bee-turf
only a week? with today's covid quarantine?

I would suggest a month in one of the many off the b. track beach town
I feel like a combo of 2 and 4 yet not 3, where I'm pretty sure it's zoonotic but given the CCP being the CCP I wouldn't be shocked if it was spillover.
The problem in the chain is that conservatives don't think he was inciting a riot and/or that it wasn't a riot and/or that it wasn't composed of his supporters, and/or that it was justified to enforce democracy.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-disinformati...

Therefore, Facebook is just exerting their market power to push a partisan narrative.
Man you can just look at the lab research papers. They take sars samples from bats and played with them for 10 years, including some paper where they modify the animal-only virus so that it gets into human cells...

Its not a conspiracy, its just that accident can happen
This is super interesting and something I've been thinking of for some time. As an engineer who can clearly do my job just as well remotely as in person, why should I pay high rent and live in cramped flat when there are rural mansions with acres of land that cost less?

The big difference is community, of course. The city has my friends, living alone away from everyone else would be lonely. But new communities can be built. I've recently started to realise how strange it is that in the West, we don't build new cities or towns any more. What's stopping a small group of engineers (perhaps backed by VCs) from buying a big plot of land a few hours of drive away from London / NYC / SF and building a small village with large houses and a community centre? Water and electricity would be difficult for sure, but I'm sure its not an unsolvable problem.

Of course, new communities like this couldn't just house engineers and other wealthy folks, but you would need health services, plumbers, delivery workers and so on. But I think it's strange that nobody is even thinking of something like this as an option. Festivals like Burning Man and the ubiquity of hiking as a hobby show that there is a need of better connection to nature amongst people who live in big cities.
Doesn't DDG mostly rely on Bing for its results? So a result that's suspiciously missing from Bing would be likely to also be missing from DDG, unless their indexing and crawling is more comprehensive than I thought.
>We want to incentivize people to own homes and buy electric cars and a thousand other things, and we use the tax code to do that.

[If we want] to incentivize...

While it's true that incentivization necessitates tax code complexity, we don't all agree on the necessity of incentivization in the first place.
That would have fuelled calls for China to pay covid sanctions, at a time where countries were adding huge amounts to the debt future people will need to pay.

There was enough money on the table to keep everyone quiet.
Exactly. She does not bow down and obey. She keeps doing her thing, in spite of the obvious consequences.

It's very American! I like that!!

I wish more people in China mainland could learn from such examples