skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're going to get banned from the AppStore then. The end result will be Signal being forced underground with far fewer users. There's nothing Signal can do, really.

Add: and Signal's centralized server IPs banned. Signal is really weak here; shouldn't have been centralized to begin with.
Did anyone have success with PABA?

From Wikipedia:

> Despite the lack of any recognized syndromes of PABA deficiency in humans, except for those who lack the colonic bacteria that generate PABA, many claims of benefit are made by commercial suppliers of PABA as a nutritional supplement. The benefit is claimed for (...) and premature grey hair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-Aminobenzoic_acid
The Hills Are Alive with the Flows of Physics
> Is it still a thing for Mongo?

No. Hasn't been for years.

> I guess that’s what you get when the “conversion funnel” guys take over “engineering”

That's also what you get when you post rubbish without even bothering to check.
Anecdotally, everyone I know is moving to the PNW from California. Never met a single person moving to Miami.
> said an official, requesting anonymity.

How ironic
I do not think it would make a difference. Replace plastic recycling with the harms of carbon emissions, surely that has been known by sufficiently many people. When push comes to shove, sacrifices on a collective basis are hard to make. Especially when you can point to others that are not making them.
Muscle mass does just disappear in the exact same way as it does when someone stops steroids. It’s not instantaneous which is why places require 12-24 months of constant hormones.

Also you picked the one single example where trans women have been sorta kinda banned with basically no concrete justification, caused the world to roast them publicly, and then clubs largely ignored them and came up with their own rules — like France and the US changed the requirements to time on HRT and T levels like every other sport and the UK did a height and weight limit which, while odd, is actually a lower bar than time on HRT.

Outright bans on trans women will basically never be necessary when HRT is so effective. If by some chance there is a sport where it’s not enough you can start imposing greater restrictions like requiring trans women reach a certain (low) weight to shed any pre-transition muscle.
Although this is changing as of Android 12.

But you better believe that change is significantly because of fear of antitrust regulation than Google doing the right thing.
When a Good Scientist Is the Wrong Source
LOL!

A cynical and snarky observation but one that inadvertently furthers my point.

What happens to the corporation if a leader dies in a SUV wreck on safari or gets arrested for statutory rape?

In most corporations, this flawed individual would be immediately replaced with minimal operational impact. Succession is a pre-planned aspect of the organizational structure.

Now, what happens to an Open Source project if this individual is the "benevolent dictator"? It is not a question of "if" but rather "when" this person's participation will end.
> when the UK introduced a tax break on the first £X of employee salaries, giant corporations like G4S shifted their employees to work for 48,000 new "small businesses", each with a handful of employees, to claim the tax break 48,000 times.

Can you point me to something that talks about this? I tried a quick Google search but wasn't able to find relevant results.

I was having a a discussion with a friend who was advocating for more small business tax breaks a couple weeks ago. My counterargument was that almost all Amazon delivery drivers are technically employees of small businesses, but I'd love to have this as a more concrete example of a large corporation abusing small business benefits.
Ah, okay, got it!
I don't know if I'd characterize this as a systemic lack of opportunity because it's a problem that would have been addressed by a simple college counselor. These days the internet would clue you in. (I'm sure someone doesn't have access even to that, and that should be fixed, but that doesn't seem sufficient to end all disparity.)
US ranks last among 46 countries in trust in media
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27616978
The Future of Games Is an Instant Flash to the Past
Andreessen Horowitz starts a $2.2B crypto fund for ‘all weather’ markets
> national politics simply don't have that much effect on your day-to-day.

No, they do, but in most cases the effects emerge in the long run. Most laws take several months or years to go into effect, and then more time for patterns to emerge, and even more time for them being actually measured.

Take taxes. In the UK, the budget is approved in Spring (let's say 2020). Any change in income tax or corporation tax will go into force a year later, so April 2021. Individuals must file their returns the following January 2022, with nominal penalties for delaying an extra month. Statistical aggregation then takes place, which can take several more months. So basically, you won't know the immediate effect of a tax policy until almost 3 years later - and that's just for short-term effects! Actual long-term patterns might not be visible before 5 or 10 years have passed. In the meantime, we'll already be debating further changes, while we've not even fully absorbed the previous ones.

And taxes are as straightforward a field as you can have! Legislation on things like building standards typically carries some slack to give people time to adapt, and measuring effects of changes can be very hard even over a decade.
You can buy bottled coyote urine. Pretty sure that would work.
I assume they are saying that because you wouldn't want something where someone could do a MITM and insert arbitrary bash commands through $() or other similar things
A device can be compromised while the encrypted user data volume is still locked.
> looks at biological sex as superfluous and arbitrary,

> biological women would be referred to as "menstruators"

> transphobic phrases such as "breastfeeding" would be prohibited.

> breastfeeding itself is under attack in some TRA circles

If you say there's a group of people out there who think this way I can't technically prove to you that group doesn't exist, but I have never personally met a trans person who would agree with those statements. At most, I have seen "menstruators" used as a shorthand for "women who menstruate" specifically in conversations about menstruation, which does not seem to me to be a particularly problematic use of the word.

I'll take you at your word that these people exist and are bothering you, and for whatever it's worth you have my permission/support if you ignore them. But I don't think it's accurate or fair to extrapolate from those people to make statements about what trans activists and trans people themselves believe overall. I am not trying to say that the experiences of cisgender woman are superfluous, and including trans women in feminine spaces or being conscientious of their experiences is not an attempt to erase anyone, it's an attempt to be inclusive.

I'm reminded of Hark, A Vagrant's Straw Feminists comic[0]. There's a pretty big difference between what the majority of trans community members are saying -- "Not all women breastfeed" (which is trivially true, even among cisgender groups of women) -- and "Breastfeeding is transphobic", which is nonsensical. While I totally understand why someone might look at straw trans-rights arguments and worry that this means trans people are "erasing" them, it is still important to understand that trans people by and large are not saying those things, it is a mischaracterization of the overall group.

If you let radicals define how you approach every social movements and how you characterize the people involved in that movement, then there are very few social movements that you won't begin to see as problematic, feminism included.

[0]: http://www.harkavagrant.com/?id=341
I just implemented decompression in my HTTP client this week

I could not test that part because both server I tried send raw deflate, without zlib container
He literally compared the UK to a fascist state, and you're attacking me for calling him out on it?
No spiders were involved.
Absolutely agree with you as well. I do think it’s “dangerous” - or perhaps it’s better to just call it a “tradeoff” - because you give people greater power over the design of the site. But obviously a tradeoff we’re all willing to make.
For this attack to work, wouldn't one of the tables need to contain PII of some sort? If A,B,C,D,E are all de-identified, the aggregate is still de-identified? But, if E is SSN (or some other PII data), then the entire set can be re-identified?
Since a lot of people know English as a second language, I can assure you that it isn't just Americans that distrust the US media.
Not yet! I'll probably post it here on hn as a "Show: " when I do.
There is exactly one "vegan" spider species[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagheera_kiplingi
As a slav, I must respectfully disagree! The best hangover cure is żurek (Polish sour soup with white sausage, eggs and potatoes).

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%C5%BCurek&iax=images&ia=images
He said "we gained more fascism", he didn't compare the UK to anything, and Godwin's law is specifically about mentioning Nazis, so I'm chastising you for being offtopic.
It's not even like direct contact with cats is the main vector of infection -

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1118145/

"Overall, eating raw or undercooked beef, lamb, or other meats; contact with soil; and travel outside the country were major sources of infection."

"direct contact with cats is irrelevant with respect to T gondii transmission"

It seems what's more important is keeping cats away from livestock.
Yes, foxes eat cats also
Yes, the article itself is nice but the title isn't. "Why it took us thousands of years to see the colour violet".

What do you make of plums in still life paintings? I don't know if it fills the criteria for violet. https://vsemart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Peaches-and-p...
The key thing here to recognize is that this unlimited free speech on platforms ended the day Trump was elected. It's presented as about hate speech or preventing misinformation but it's really about class and culture. The top 20% or so of the population, those that are employed by and control all the American mega corporations comprise the professional managerial class. There is nothing they despise more than the cultural values of the Walmart-shopping working class. When those people elected that insane clown as president is the day the professional managerial class decided they need to play a more active role in projecting their moral and cultural values onto everyone else.

Incidents like the one in the article are collateral damage to this policy.
Ask HN: If I have a budget of maybe ~$1000, what would be the best body scanner I can get? Happy with either DIY or for-purchase.

Keen to try some ML projects with a body-sized scanner.
SMAC = Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, for those who don't know. I played a lot of Alpha Centauri way back in the day but didn't recognize the acronym.
Petty theft patterns in states that have passed ballot measures or counties that have taken executive actions reducing the penalties on petty theft to the point where the ROI is positive even if you get regularly caught should not be taken as indicative of the entire country.

I live in a city that most of HN would turn up their nose at. It's nothing like what people from the west coast describe as the status quo there. And it's not some city in a red state that spends big bucks on law and order either.
Conceptually, taxing it is very easy. Increasing taxes on fossil fuels will flow down to all fossil fuel derivatives, including plastic. Politically impossible, though.
Yeah, last time I tested I had it. Don't know if its still there. No ill effects at all.
Maybe it's your definition of 'extremely safe' areas?

I don't own security nuts, or special locks for my bike, or have ever had my home/car broken into despite not even knowing where my house key is at this point and never locking my car.

I don't understand the comparison to the other countries, either. Are you saying they don't have petty crime?
Does this mean that people with an anxiety disorder (more stress) are more likely to have grey hair?
Bitmain Suspends Sales of ASICs
It's well known that the Indian government is no friend of an uncensored Internet. Look at the great many well documented instances of them messing around with it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India
Not at all - we’re just a team of two though and have had to cut corners to get to this point.
Yeah that's all fine and dandy, but the docker default is to bind to 0.0.0.0, so it really should be taken into account. I honestly would have to go and look up the flags needed to change the bind address, but I know the port ones (as I'm sure do many people who copy/paste docker lines from random repos), so it's still insecure for a common configuration/setup.

I've never quite understood the opposition to just shipping mongodb with authentication on by default. What sort of use-case does it solve by not requiring it, and is it worth all the bad publicity every time this crops up in a new exploit report?
It was half to make Trump look like a racist / idiot, half to protect China from sanctions.

I guess it was a risky move, hoping that evidence wouldn't popup (or come out late enough to make sanctions worth (b|tr)illions improbable).

Yet, the most significative thing about this story is that a move was made.

Probably the biggest case of foreign propaganda we've seen until now.
months? Hours.
To reduce the stress a bit and make you smile, here's a P. G. Wodehouse quote:

"There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine."
This is actually an amazing idea. I wonder if this would help with creating/authenticating real online identities from bots? It obviously can be spoofed but definitely a useful tool in the toolkit.
Half of UK university students think degree is poor value for money
> Also, soon it will be under the ocean.

I wish that's a joke lmao
"Drone" also encompasses autonomous craft. So I really don't see the distinction here.

Even if you think it was aliens remotely piloting the craft, it's still a drone.
I haven't used Facebook in 10 years but my friends have shown me it. What's there to distribute? The chat functionality? The main feed is just a heavily curated stream of garbage that's vaguely influenced by your friend's list. It looks like there's nothing there other than this bizarre social pathology that's been continuously optimized and iterated to be as addictive as possible.

For chat you have XMPP, for feeds you have RSS and webpub (mastodon.) There's ical for sharing events of course.
I'm sure the Minecraft licensing deal that already exists with Lego forbids that for some extended period of time.
supposedly, if you've had high fever, you can also see it as a streak from your finger and toenails (the part that was growing then).
No, but all the code for the book is on GitHub: https://github.com/Alex3917/django_for_startups
Seriously feel this.
Ada (https://learn.adacore.com/courses/Ada_For_The_CPP_Java_Devel...) and Python (https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/controlflow.html) both have very clean and easy-to-read syntax.
You kind of answered it yourself.

For one thing he is wanted in Belize for questioning on suspicion of murder of his neighbor, Gregory Faull. Then arrested in Spain over U.S. tax evasion charges.

Should I go on?
I always appreciated the Hemingway quote:

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
They ran DOS and most had monochrome monitors.

The Archimedes was way sexier: it booted straight into a GUI and also had BASIC in ROM.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC300808/

(disclaimer: I don't want to go back into the office)
I'm of the view that most of the DB-to-API tools are about empowering front-end developers to build full-stack applications. If you're already perfectly happy writing full-stack code, you're much less likely to be the target audience of such products. By essentially exposing your ORM over the wire, all you're doing is punting the responsibility of making sense of that data into the client. Increasingly i've been finding that the shape of persisted data isn't the best shape for _understanding_ that data, so I nearly always want some business logic layer that acts as a translator between the database and API domains.

Most of my work over the last few years (especially with using Relay + GraphQL) has been about pushing business logic back out of the client and into the server where it belongs for most apps (this isn't a universal rule). Client code can still do lightweight transformation of data, but i'm a huge proponent of keeping client codebases as lean as possible.
Ignore, ignore, ignore the trolls. You had a license from the original photographer, so you have no legal reason to respond. If they file a lawsuit that has a court date, retain a lawyer, and prepare a counter suit. All you have to do is show that email in court and it’s done. You can’t retroactively change someone’s license. That original license is still valid for your usage.
too late - the knives are out. app store monopolies will be broken up.
Nah. Half of all drugs sold on Hudra are mephedrone and alpha-pvp; even weed doesn't compare.
I think this article is pretty bad IMHO.

Are there actually people who know what they should be doing yet do other things anyway? Seems like the article is addressing a situation that doesn't exist in anyone to begin with.

The issue ultimately is that people don't know what they should be doing and are stuck in what the article calls exploratory mode. OK, so the author says you have to determine what is and isn't working. That sounds straightforward, but ultimately that's the goal of your entire life.

This is slightly easier in a business context but even then the world is changing rapidly so you have to eventually regress as you re-determine what is and isn't working and ultimately go back to exploring if none of options you initially considered have prospects.

I'd argue the opposite of this article and say: "You are not doing enough. Focus on many things that complement each other."

It's also pretty crazy that in an article about focusing on one thing there's no discussion about managing risks. When you focus so heavily on one thing, turns out it works both ways and if you're no longer to do "that one thing" - you're kinda screwed.
not a student and I think it's poor value
My American eyes were opened to the savory delights I'd been missing once I tried a proper full breakfast. Now whenever I make bacon and eggs, I'll at least throw together a can of beans, a little can of tomato sauce, some Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper.
It would have been slightly harder from a political perspective. But yes, it could have been done.

Ironically, a non-brexited UK government opposing the single-procurement EU program would have probably forced more EU countries to go alone. On practical matters, it's much easier to sabotage anything when you're inside the building, rather than outside.
Maybe he was feeling energized :)
So the excuse is "my company doesn't take infosec seriously". Like every similar issue of "should do but don't" (testing, formal promotion processes, diversity, harassment response), you get to decide to tolerate it or get a job elsewhere. My experience is that the companies that take this stuff seriously also do a better job of converting my skills into cash, and as a result, pay me better.
Using Partial and Pick for Testing in TypeScript
Indian government is just the reflection of the majority in India. They can do these things because they know that the majority don't care about these issues. Take the same bunch of people in the government and put them in Germany and they would be making pro privacy laws left and right all day.
Yea. But why? I mean it seems quite aggressive as well. Bashing SF & praising miami religiously and more like a political campaign than a marketing campaign.
> Brave is attempting to monetize other peoples intellectual property by stripping it of ads.

Brave doesn't make money by blocking third-party ads; that's a privacy and security decision. Brave could default to no-blocking (which would be unwise, given the threat to users), and still have its own ad model of displaying ad notifications.

> …people blocking ads for their own protection…

This is why people install Brave; for the privacy and security benefits. This is the baseline experience in Brave.

> When somebody uses the Brave browser and has opted in to other ads…

Why do you assume people aren't using Brave for their own protection? For many people, including myself, advertising isn't the motivator of installing an ad/content blocker. The primary reason is the security/privacy risk of running a small app (which is what modern third-party digital ads are) on my machine.

So if the problem is security and privacy, and not advertising, it makes sense why somebody would opt to participate in an alternative advertising model which does not have the same security/privacy risks, and even rewards the user (with 70% of the ad revenue) for their attention.

> I'm going to check out these other ads, make some money for myself and for Brave…

And for the publisher, since the default configuration of Brave is to queue up auto-contributions for the verified sites you visit.
Firstly, that's a false dichotomy, secondly, sensorship and moderation are distinct terms; removing pornography is not censorship.

Thirdly, media firms are conducting sensorship under false pretences. So there are at least 3 degrees of separation between "you cant arbitrarily sensor invonvenient speech" and "everything turns into 4chan/b"
Oh yeah totally, I'm in agreement with the rest of your post.

It's just that in my personal experience most people are extremely ignorant of what can be recycled. They don't even read the flyer their local garbage company gives them. The state of the recycling bin in my apartment complex is an absolute disgrace.
All good advice, but Docker is a garbage fire if it's automagically opening up your system to abuse. How about Delete Docker?
The core innovation is financing and operating the game (Friday Night Funkin) outside of the Valve/Apple/Google monopoly of their respective platforms, and thus freeing up the 30%.
>Literally any other site where one can upload videos would be better.

You can make that case, but it's hard to beat youtube. It's not just a matter of the amount of content, but also support on settop boxes/devices, quality of playback,etc.

Having said that, I'm starting to go to the effort of building an offline library. To me, the youtube death of a thousand cuts is happening because of their increasingly heinous ads (like google search) and strengthening copyright enforcement (since their position is now in place).
> As long as they de-identify the records — removing information like patient names, locations, and phone numbers — they can give or sell the data to partners for research.

I don’t feel this is enough to deidentify.

If timestamps or a patient # is associated with records, should be possible to combine with credit card records to discover who someone is.

I wonder if we can request what is shared.
See? It sells itself.

Most people would see it as severely limited because they'd want to add some sort of poison like alcohol or ice cream etc.
> I've often heard that local politics influence your day-to-day life substantially more than national politics. There's a corollary there that national politics simply don't have that much effect on your day-to-day.

Both very substantially influence the day-to-day, but usually on very different time scales.
https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/jhN7nc