skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

I meticulously tracked every calorie I ate for several months. Now I know how much of different types of food is how many calories, how many calories I eat per day, and most importantly what my different hunger levels mean in terms of the number of calories ingested. Combined with my weight tracking, which tells me my set weight / weight variance over a day or several days / food intake to gain or lose a certain amount of weight, I can easily control portions to hit my weight goals without thinking about it.

I would imagine more health data would allow me to optimize in this fashion as well. If I can correlate health markers to my lifestyle often and directly, I can make better and more informed choices. Advocating against easy access to health data because some people can misuse it is the same kind of nanny state thinking that says encryption shouldn't be available to the masses because criminal enterprises can use it to hide their activities.
So still get a second opinion just as you would have anyway.

It’s still getting caught
> LinkedIn asked you to enter your GMail password in a form on their website.

That is entirely different than what was claimed. The claim was platforms were running "credential stuffing" attacks against their own users by attempting logins to other platforms by guessing that they use the same email address and password for both.
leetcode(eat/drink/sleep) and system design, ML Infra
Considering the amount of discrimination, harassment, and hostility these people endure every single day, I would be surprised if they remained perfectly sane.
Something like

||*.logrocket.network^
||*.logrocket.io^
||*.lr-ingest.io^
||*.logicanalytics.io^

in uBlock/ABP filtering rules would be a good start. Not sure what logicanalytics is exactly, but it's used on logrocket's main page.
Using NoScript like the other commenter said is safer though (this won't catch on-premises deployments of logrocket and it will stop blocking it when they change the domain).
Raj Reddy Bets on Babel Fish, Gordon Bell Says No Way
Yeah, I didn't quite understand why it should make us worry. We do have a lot more tools at our disposal than people had 20,000 years ago - vaccines, antivirals (in a few years), knowing to social distance, etc.
Is this Mozilla Test Pilot with data sharing with outside researchers?
OpenJdk Is GPLv2 with class path exception. I don't know how that is batshit insane.
There's a good chapter on this in SQL Antipatterns, it covers four or five different approaches in depth.

I always just use a parent_id and recursive cte - it's plenty fast even without materialised views.

https://pragprog.com/titles/bksqla/sql-antipatterns/
The person mentioned in the article bought the meters off eBay and is reversing the firmware off those. Perhaps they’re identical to what’s on his house but it’s implied he’s ‘phreaking’ over his city’s power grid and that’s not the case at all. There’s nothing illegal here. Remember when we understood and applauded this behavior?
> Ruby's also a bad comparison because not many folks are running ruby on windows.

Especially around the 1.9 transition; Ruby was barely usable beyond the level of toy code on windows. The Ruby on Windows story is actually a lot better now.
Scientists Just Discovered Something Horrifying About Artificial Sweeteners
I think F-MAGA or MAGA-F (replacing Netflix with Microsoft) would be pretty appropriate. They have, after all, done much to enable the person associated with that other acronym.
> universities and companies with a single shared IP address

I think that's exactly what they want with that feature if it indeed exists.
Oh, yeah I see what you're saying. They didn't "guess" your GMail password as far as I know (although I wouldn't put it past them, especially back then).

Giving them your password so they can login on your behalf is just as egregious, IMO. Then again, Plaid did the same thing with your bank account and created a multi-billion dollar business out of it.
Google's regex repo opens with statements about Black Lives Matter
Who should then defer to county/parish, who then defer to city, who then defer to neighborhood
Wow, that was way worse than I feared. Had to shut it off after 20 minutes. I'm diametrically opposed to their worldview.
I understand there are a lot of roles needed for non-trivial organizations to function, but Mozilla has over 1000 employees and, in my opinion, does not deliver a corresponding level of value. I would actually donate if I could be sure my money is going to Firefox. I do not care about any of their other initiatives.
That's some Douglas Adams[1] grade work, there. Bravo.

1: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Bureaucracy_1987
I generally agree with you (minus the rage) and agree re: being vaccinated at this point means it's pretty much over for individuals and their associates who are also vaccinated.

The only quibble I take is that, while it's likely you (and by proxy, the experts you cite) are correct that we won't go back to square one, it is still a (low) possibility. Probably low enough that it isn't worth concerning yourself with, except to be aware that the possibility is there. And probably slightly higher than the normal chance of a random breakout until we get closer to vaccinated herd immunity worldwide. But I'm not suggesting it should necessarily change any significant behavior of those vaccinated, just something to pay a bit more attention to than normal and be ready to take action if needed (i.e. don't throw away all the masks just yet).

And that said, I really appreciate you including sources and I'm sorry I don't have any handy to back up my statement, but it does come from reading and listening to experts. That said, it's my recollection and summary of that so I'd encourage anyone to take it with that grain of salt.
The problem I have with matrix is more that it’s a real pain to write your own client that supports E2EE and such
I've seen news articles about "internet trolls" who followed a neighbor around and sat outside of her window but also looked at her Facebook page. The term has already lost its meaning.
Go 1.17 will release with a lot of known bugs. Continuing to ship it a year later with known bugs is not different.

But more deeply, LTS ships buggy versions of the software. That's the point - only the truly dangerous bugs (e.g. compilation-triggered RCE or something) get fixed, everything else stays compatible even if it's otherwise undesirable or suboptimal. Code depends on those bugs.
This is kind of loaded. I do think Telegram does an excellent job at ephemerality from a practical standpoint. Without being able to audit their server though, we have no clue if 'disappeared' chats and messages are actually scrubbed from their server.

I was once banned from the service for playing around with very old clients and had a back and forth with them over email for a week or so (it was re-enabled and they apologized for the inconvenience). They are prickly and refuse to give any details over how data is managed.
Do enough of them, and even basic blood tests cause harm. Infections happen. Rupturing veins happens.

If your tests are for conditions that are rare enough, and where early detection does little enough to improve outcomes, even a tiny risk like that becomes a problem.
How is telegram funded? App is near perfection so I wonder how this can be an ad free app.
I don’t think so; the article correctly starts with the collapse but doesn’t jump to a single-issue conclusion, then cites notable other examples including the Kansas Osaka airport and San Francisco
>Because it destories the root structure built up in the ground over the years. Those roots then break down quickly, and in turn the whole microbe profile is different. Sometimes tilling is still the best thing to do, but it isn't a good thing and should be avoided.

Does this still apply when talking about farming? I just started growing food this year, but once I've harvested the first crop and am planting the second crop of the season, the roots in the ground are surely going to break down quickly in any case, because I've harvested all of their tops, no?

>even if you do the tilling by hand with a shovel you are still emitting more CO2 than if you just sat in your easy-chair

I'm sorry, what? By that logic I should also never exercise.
You Now Have a Shorter Attention Span Than a Goldfish [2015]
Warsaw in Poland is built on sand. Everything moves, buildings subside, but don’t collapse out of nowhere.

Seems like building on unstable land is a bit of a solved problem.

Of course very sorry for all the victims and their families, no matter what the root cause.
John McAfee’s wife claimed US wanted him to ‘die in prison’ days before suicide
What if the people acting out are actually the healthy ones?
Rrweb: Open-Source Web Session Replay Library
Why is learning Kubernetes so hard?
It's not hypothetical, I've seen the odd comment like that on various forums and github, etc. You can say you aren't going to support an obscure setup without judging people for having it.
Yeah, and it's a straightforward standardized way to solve this.

But I still think it's useful to know the flattening idea. I've seen it show up other places like map reduce. It's a useful general idea imo.
Trolls create anger and conflict and conflict drives engagement. But that is as nothing compared to the engagement you get from public spectacles of righteous indignation. Social media breeds a special sort narcissistic positive feedback loop and it turns out a very small amount of validation is all that is required to set people off.

But trolls usually know they're trolls. On the other hand take for example Twitter user Oli London [1]. I can no longer tell parody from sincere in this "influencers" persona, but wow, does it drive engagement. Is this guy ok? There are thousands of accounts cheering him/them and many others on.

[1] https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV
> HN commenters post views from every side of these questions, and as long as they do so thoughtfully and substantively, we don't moderate them.

It's the absence of action that is the issue. There is all kinds of left wing (I'm from the US for reference) dreck on here that receives no push back nor moderation. It's very common to see very low value statements on HN that disparage Republicans. People on here have said all kinds of nasty things about Republicans and conservatives. I rarely see any push back from you against these. It's pretty common to see people assume that Republicans don't care about people and state so, like it is an obvious truth without any supporting argument. How is that thoughtful or substantive?

I think your personal biases are blinding you to just how low value much of the accepted discussion here at HN is, when it is left-leaning
John McAfee hideout traced to Spanish ‘ghost hotel’ with a Bitcoin farm
XMPP is a very, very strange protocol. well its not strange, its just the logical representation of what happens when you use XML for everything. It gets hilarious when start sending JSON over it.

However, I would still take it over matrix for any kind of chat protocol if I was going to start a commercial service.

My impression of matrix is that its was a slack/IRC clone with the protocol tied partially to the webgui. I understand that lots of work has happened to try and change that.

But, given that whatapp can handle a ~10m connections on one server in 2014, I suspect that it can't be a difficult protocol to scale, compared to something that runs over websockets
Not just short-sighted, these sort of things is why I don't try anything that involves a subscription. That is also why I make them pay the Apple Tax and subscibe through Apple instead.
I wish I had something like this for my iPhone that would automatically soft delete duplicate photos, picking out the sharpest one. Maybe an app exists already but I haven’t looked super deep for it.
Narcissists consider both positive and negative interactions to be positive, and narcissism has been on the rise for years owed primarily to social media.
Yes. But this is 2021. I could release a study “water is wet” and some idiots would still not believe it due to their mistrust of anyone less dumb than themselves.
I have a personal punishment policy for any obvious violation of UX/UI - they will permanently and irrevokably lose me as a customer. Even if they fix it, I won't budge. Leadership needs to use their own products and if they allow this to go to production, I wonder what they're doing behind the scenes. Small battles that I pick, but by god it is so satisfying.
This is my world.

And in Minneapolis just this week I had to wait on the phone 45 minutes to file a police report I've heard nothing back from after being attacked in a road rage incident. The person I did finally reach was definitely a decent human, but not trained to receive the kind of report I was giving and thought she shouldn't be taking it at all. (besides a sense of insecurity, lots of tiny glass pricks, a brief blood pressure spike, and a broken window I am well enough)

I have doubts that the state is doing enough to protect me or to address crimes that have happened, not because of some panicked sense of irrational fear, but because I had to spend an hour with shards of glass in my pants on hold on Wednesday along with the delightful experience of vacuuming glass out of my hair at a car wash. The last time I had the displeasure of talking with the city attorney, they declined to do anything about death threats I had received from a known source.

I'm thinking of buying a gun.
Population density, commercial air travel.

Social distancing is something that people even now are loathe to engage in, fortunately more and more people 'get it' but there are still plenty that do not. Arguably that's Darwin at work, but still.
I wonder how the "break-up bill" would be applied in practice for specific companies.

Does that mean that e.g. Apple Music would now have to become a separate entity?
I ended up getting through by selecting them all.
This thread was about the CPU requirements, the TPM requirements are orthogonal.
Unless you have no options (but you should check them thoroughly first), burnout is a road paved with self denial and failure to assess one own life priorities.
Nah, must have stolen it from the US.
This is a very poor comparison - just off the cuff, most of the big negatives listed for Matrix are plainly untrue. The most irritating probably being it saying that Matrix is not an open extensible protocol, where it very much is. The core protocol undergoes evolution through an open, standardized process that anyone can participate in, shepherded by a separate foundation. The protocol itself, based around JSON, allows clients to define new event types (for instance, the Telegram bridge uses a special event type for when someone on Telegram replies to a message with an image) without the server having to understand them.

Also, why is its encryption yellow? It's a solid design that's undergone paid independent review, based upon Signal's e2ee.

There's more, but I since editing isn't open to the public I don't suppose its worth expending more effort to fix and argue with.
I mean, the enabling principle behind scalping is that demand is more than supply but supply does not increase to match. More people want the tickets than there are tickets, scalping means it's based on cost instead of who you know or how much time you're willing to spend or how lucky you get.

This doesn't just solve scalping, this fixes the lack of supply of tickets which allows scalping to exist

edit: I'm not sure I completely stand by this. There are various good reasons to sell tickets for cheaper than the maximum price you could and still sell out. Still, it's a harder problem to solve than it looks
No, because then "be flat" part would be lost.
It also requires you to actually think about these problems. As you said, it’s not necessarily hard to do, but if you’re a small startup all these best practices are usually shortcut to get product market fit. If you’re a health care startup, it really slows you down (but for good reason). It also creates criminal/financial reinforcement behind it, something not even Equifax has to be accountable to (which is insane).
Are you comparing that against the MILLIONS who get a correct diagnosis? I expect that the quality-adjusted life year total over all tested is higher with the test than without. Wouldn't that be worth it?

I think this leans more towards the "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" and less towards "tyranny of the majority".
To be fair, Whatsapp's architecture is very well done. There are some slides on how they achieved very low latency and extremely high throughput with some cool BEAM optimizations
>“non-malignant conditions at enrolment” (it would be nice to know more what that means)

My guess is they're referring to the neoplasm behavior codes defined by the WHO in the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (see article's references for info). Which means "malignant" is a neoplasm which has begun spreading beyond the tissue it appeared in. Non-malignant neoplasms are either benign (not likely to ever spread), borderline (could go either way), or in situ (still in the original tissue, but it will spread).

North American cancer registries typically don't even bother collecting records of benign or borderline tumors. The only exceptions are brain tumors, which can be deadly without metastasizing. Registries also don't collect cervical cancer in situ records because there are so many and a lot of physicians never bothered reporting them. And finally, oncologists and epidemiologists classify urinary bladder cancer in situ as malignant because it's really hard for physicians to differentiate. Better safe than sorry, in case.
OK, so what's sufficient evidence?

You're "dubious that they have that evidence". What evidence is required, in your opinion, then?

Speaking as a layman, my first guess at a suitable threshold would be: finding a large-enough, different-enough part of a skeleton/whatever that in the past such parts have seldom turned out to be an existing species.
It was created to promulgate extremist Christian-right propaganda - the kind that is "un-heard" in the mainstream media in the UK apparently.

There are a lot of such organizations that don't openly declare their ideological background, and funding sources.
That's just about managing expectations, and it falls on you to be clear in your marketing. If you said "we support all versions of Windows" then you could expect someone to misinterpret that, the same way they would misinterpret "we support all versions of Linux." So really to make it clear, you might consider only saying "we support Ubuntu Focal" or something like that. Most products I see now make it pretty obvious that they only test on some combination of Windows 7/8/10 and above, so just do the same for whatever Linux distribution.
I want to hit that sweet spot where my bad behavior is unconstrained by the rules but everyone else's bad behavior is.
My email is in my profile (i.e. click on my username).
Show HN: Splash – Fractal zooming with a paint brush as video encoding
Splash [0] is novel method to serialize pixels of an image/video.

It combines row/column scanning weights from the fractal zoomer [1] with an adaptive paintbrush for colouring pixels with transparency.
In traditional terms, fast changing areas have a localised high FPS, lesser changing areas have a localised low FPS.
This could, for example, greatly benefit the communication between video card and monitor, relaxing bandwidth limitations.
Splash can also be used as a filter to isolate essence of movement, demonstrated by extreme high PixelsPerFrame ratios with other demos [2].

Splash could effectively turn a 60Hz into a 360Hz responsive monitor by sacrificing a bit of quality.

This is illustrated by the demo below [3], original video is 24fps and slowed down 6x:
top: 4fps full frame with traditional scan-lines, bottom: 1/6 PixelsPerFrame with scan-rows/cols and paint-brush.
Yes... both are using the same number of pixels (uncompressed bandwidth).

[0] https://rockingship.github.io/splash/README.html
[1] https://rockingship.github.io/jsFractalZoom/README.html
[2] https://rockingship.github.io/splash-media
[3] https://rockingship.github.io/splash-media/starships/starships-1212x510-OU-crf18.mp4
I laughed at various points. well done.
I cant stop laughing trying to fill out forms.
How do I get past this?

> Your password is not unsafe
And even then, it really depends on what you're trying to do.

My use case a few years ago was such that _every_ dedicated graph engine I tried would just OOM on the test set of ~10M nodes, which I attributed to insufficient pruning. Postgres was able to handle it, and still worked on the production set of ~1.5B nodes. The SQL took some tuning, and wasn't _pretty_, but it did _work_ where nothing else did...
Genetic engineering is not the only way there could have been a lab leak. Did you read the whole post? It makes a different claim.
Thank you for digging into that! I've been out of touch with Microsoft tech for a while.

I wonder what form a WebView2 would take on macOS and Linux. Some of the commenters on that issue mentioned that they were interested in using it with MAUI/.NET [0] but they could even produce a lower level, C++ component for interop with other environments, which would be pretty interesting.

If I could build small, fast desktop cross platform apps with just .NET though, I'd still be interested.

[0] https://github.com/dotnet/maui
I think if the author of it were here, he'd say that this is a proof-of-concept that he was working on to play around with NativeAOT and Crossgen 2 so that he could see what could be achieved with them.

Sometimes things get posted to HN as if they were "you should use this because it's the future" rather than "this is a cool thing I made to show what could be possible".

In the author's own words:

"I'm Michal, I live in Slovakia, and I work remotely at the .NET Runtime team at Microsoft.

In my spare time I work on C#-related side projects that I find fun but don't particularly overlap with my day job. You might know me from my greatest hits such as "Let's make C# run on Windows 3.11!", "How about a snake game in C# running on DOS?". I also write articles such as the one on how I built a fully self-contained game in C# in 8 kilobytes."
Europe also goes through the pain of developing rules and laws that are incredibly detailed and specific. US just doesn't have that culture. The law will be vague and it'll require at least a few lawsuits before it gets settled as to what they actually mean. This and the general misuse of lawsuits (I mean "Do not iron while wearing the shirt") here is why people are against laws.
Like a modern day Cassandra.
One past thread:

User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344565 - July 2019 (255 comments)
iOS 15 makes your app launch faster
We see the same patterns in multiparty democracy. It could simply be behavior drawn from US influence, but I doubt it. What the article did not mention (but maybe the study did?) is that under brain scanners, few things trigger pleasure as much as imagining justified violence. It is also very addictive in term of neurochemistry.

In multiparty democracies, the one thing that can however temporary reduce the problem is the consequences of minority government. If enough parties refuses to talk to each other, and always vote against the others, you end up with a situation where the majority will votes no to everything. This does not work, so people then start to prioritize cooperation for a while.
Gracias. ¡Buena suerte!