skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another privacy preserving email option

Wouldn’t this utterly undermine the privacy features in Hide My Email?

Example: If my e-mail addresses are me@mailboxman.com and ghj5628@mailboxman.com then combining my MX records with the domain name yields my identity (or at least a very close contact) across all of the proxy e-mails I use for privacy.

It’s essentially offering an easy way to unmask email.
A discussion of that would have to also include a discussion of why Lithuanian has also not changed much since the vocabulary is filled with Samskruta cognates that Lithuanian does NOT share with Slavic languages like Russian or Polish, some examples from Wikipedia:

- S: sunus, L: sunus (son)

- S: avis, L: avis (sheep)

- S: padas, L: padas (foot)

- S: viras, L: vyras (man, also compare Latin vir [pronounced weer])

- S: dhumas, L: dumas (smoke)

- S: antaras, L: antras (other, second)

- S: vṛkas, L: vilkas (wolf)

- S: yuñje, L: jungiu (I join)

- S: jántis, L: gentys (tribes, also compare Latin gentes [a/the people])

- S: dantas, L: dantis (also compare Latin dentes)

- S: naktis, L: naktis (also compare Latin noctes)
No, it doesn't. End of discussion.
> I would also say, one would expect "alien" technology to progress over time.

No it's not. An alien civilization that can travel across galaxies to send probes to observe humanity is already hugely more advanced than ours. Modern civilization is only a couple thousand years old depending on your definition. A random alien civilization that is more advanced than us is likely to be thousands of years more advanced. Are they really going to develop new tech that beats our advancements that they didn't already have, over the course of 50 years, that they didn't capture in the 3,000 year headstart? Sounds doubtful.
Of similar note, NativLang on Youtube has a fascinating series of narrated videos on how we know what various ancient languages sound like [1] (you'll have to forgive the cheesy graphics). I particularly liked the one on ancient Egyptian[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc4s09N3L2h3d_c5Z5d0J...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-K5OjAkiEA&list=PLc4s09N3L2...
What does fan noise have to do with lung growth? What “toxins” are you predicting would accumulate? This comment seems insightful on the surface, but does not make much sense in the context of the experiment. I would say they used a valid control here. There are plenty of better reasons to be cautious on their conclusions.

Personally, upon skimming the paper, I found it curious that male mice never saw significant effects in these experiments whereas females were weakly significant for only a few of these. Sometimes opposite trends were observed between males and females. That could be due to the difference in sample size (30 female vs 23 male). It also might only be affecting female mice, which would be unexpected (for me). But the differences and effects are not strong, and I am not at all convinced.

I also don’t like that they separated males and females here because I would not expect there to be differences in lung development between the sexes (do we have different lungs? I am not a physiologist so I definitely could be wrong on this) and I try and avoid designs that require two-way ANOVA.

Anyway, no need to bash the cage design, which is misleading I think, when the data themselves are as weak as they are.
> I don’t really consider it “stealing” that they downloaded something you specifically provided as a download.

AFICS, The issue is not that they downloaded it, but that they are hosting it.
You're completely ignoring the main point if OP, which is that it is NOT up. The presented data is an outlier and likely not statistically significant.
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A Peregrine falcon in a 200 MPH dive assuming ~0.05 second reflexes is completely unable to do anything to correct their flight path within the next ~15 feet.

Throwing accurately might seem complex, but chimps have been recorded throwing rocks at targets and once the basics are down being slightly better at throwing probably doesn’t add much difficulty.
Fine, let’s evolve our transportation units. We just need to rethink the problem as a whole.

I don’t want to go into conspiracy theory territory, but it does seem as if there are powerful entities that are invested in maintaining the status quo or perhaps it’s just incompetence.
Everyone can keep saying this, but if the "autocoup" is so plainly obvious then why hasn't a single person been charged with a relevant crime?
That would imply doctors couldn't set a broken bone in the Revolutionary War? The Civil War? Of course they could! They could even do amputations.
> So why not explicitly ask them to? "So now we have our estimate, what would cause us to miss it?"

I didn't used to take this seriously. Then one project I was on was delayed by several weeks when members of the team got jury duty, got injured, and had other medical emergencies in a rather short period.

We still got it done, but I got a lesson that month in planning.
You're combining too much into "trust". I'm not worried that the military is being corrupt when it hides this kind of information. And I'm allowed to want less of some parts of government and more of others, and to think that some parts are effective with money while other parts aren't.
Almost every person involved in Free Software knew that the movement was about building a community and a software ecosystem since day 1.

It's absurd to expect the word "community" to appear in the text of the GPL: it's a legal document, non a manifesto.
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So when there's an outage you can buy whatever you want? Or how do they verify that you have money?
Yea you're 100% right.

I would say if I could take what you said and what I said, it's most likely to me to be some kind of operation by the U.S. military to some end. Possibilities include (but not limited to) self-testing, maybe a bluff, maybe a psy-op, or maybe an advanced capability demo.
I’ve struggled with Out of Life support from almost every database vendor. They create something that is very hard to change, upgrade or rip out, and then require you to upgrade it every few years. Lots of hidden costs for the buyer. They’re generally in a better negotiating position than understaffed IT departments.
We have honest-to-god oil derricks right in the middle of residential neighborhoods in Los Angeles. They even pump oil directly from a school campus in Beverly Hills.

But fourplexes? Not a chance.
>Looks interesting - but as usual it's though to compete with Photoshop.

I mean, it's becoming easier and easier to compete with expensive software-as-a-service that doesn't even have a basic vectorscope included, so I also have to drop more money into 3rd party plugins just to be able to work with non-caveman tools. (not saying Sagelight has one, just disappointed with Photoshop lagging behind the other software for photo editing in many respects)
What does Google do instead for SSO and machine administration?
> But it could backfire, if you can't pay for a lawyer I suppose.

How? If anything, the biggest complaint about the DMCA is that it has no penalties even against people acting in obviously unreasonable ways.

> I suspect DMCA is for big companies with a legal department only.

No? Looks like you just send a certified letter to the address listed at https://www.redventures.com/legal/cmg-terms-of-use.html under "Legal Complaints" and you're done.

(IANAL, of course, but nothing here seems special)
Not sure why this was downvoted: it's an entirely correct [0] and a very relevant take on the OP study. If you're drawing inferences on future human health impacts from the OP, you should be drawing similar inferences about indoor air pollution, today.

[0] e.g. https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/chemical/carbondioxide.htm
The reason they are talking about 4-plexes is that's the reality of redeveloping a single family residence one at a time. If you could do it city block by city block there would be huge savings, and WAY more developer interest. The problem is it's too hard and expensive to assemble that much land to make such projects actually happen. No one wants to move, no one wants change.

The headlines will read "Poor Betty was forced from her home by the evil mayor and money grubbing developer".

They set the table when they built it, and to undo all of that is going to be crazy expensive and difficult.

Some people dream of a car free utopia. Some people like their SFR. Those things may not be compatible.

Things like the Miami tower collapse will make things worse. A lot of people don't want their life dictated by their neighbors. HOAs are well known to be horrendous. And the Miami disaster just goes to show that not only can your HOA affect your sanity, but also your life safety.
I don’t even know which denominations our cash uses now. For example is there a 100 bill or was it replaced with the 200?

But as we see here it doesn’t matter whether I use cash since stores close when the systems go offline anyway. I doubt they’d even set up a cash fallback if this continues for months.
This is bonkers. Pie making has never been so popular, judging by instagram bakers.
You're misunderstanding parent's post. Parent is neither trusting nor mistrusting the Chinese administration. They are simply explaining (and quoting) the article.
Financial sanctions?
> psychological safety is often used as an excuse

citation needed
In theory, you could implement commit groups already in one of two ways: objects in a special ref that are just lists of commit hashes (tree-style) or a branch where every commit has, in addition to the last HEAD of the branch, all the other commits in the group as parents.
Self hosting a Matrix server on a Raspberry Pi 4
All agriculture happens in places with water. That's sort of a necessary prerequisite. In Mexico we're really talking about Oaxaca and especially the highlands in early agriculture. In New Guinea, the whole island is a swampy tropical rainforest. Neither of these are compatible with the hydraulic hypothesis though.
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> Under the hood, all the commit really says is:

> Merge: 8 6

> So it tells you that these two parents have been merged together, but it doesn’t tell you which one used to be main. You might guess 8, because it’s the leftmost one, but you don’t know for sure.

Why don't I know for sure it's gotta be the one on the left?
> Apple’s privacy practices might be admirable

This is an understatement. The company continues to set the bar for security and data privacy across the entire stack.

RE staying within recent OS and devices for a happy path, I’m already fully on board with this. I update iPhone every year and my oldest machine is a 2018 MBA.

I think Apple does a better job supporting older equipment than other companies, and deprecates mostly to make valuable pushes forward.
Are you saying Samskruta is not an Indic language?
The furin cleavage sites have now been pretty decisively debunked.

They're found not only in many other coronaviruses, but they've independently evolved over 6 times that we know about, and they've now been found in SARS-CoV-2 related sarbecoviruses in bats.

The goalpost moving has migrated to arguing that a couple of sequences in the furin sites are now "unusual". Kristian Andersen, whose early 2020 e-mail to Fauci has been passed around as evidence of the lab leak theory has more recently talked to the NYT about this:

> Furin cleavage sites are found all across the coronavirus family, including in the betacoronavirus genus that SARS-CoV-2 belongs to. There has been much speculation that patterns found in the virus’s RNA that are responsible for certain portions of the furin cleavage site represent evidence of engineering. Specifically, people are pointing to two “CGG” sequences that code for the amino acid arginine in the furin cleavage site as strong evidence that the virus was made in the lab. Such statements are factually incorrect.

> While it’s true that CGG is less common than other patterns that code for arginine, the CGG codon is found elsewhere in the SARS-CoV-2 genome and the genetic sequence[s] that include the CGG codon found in SARS-CoV-2 are also found in other coronaviruses. These findings, together with many other technical features of the site, strongly suggest that it evolved naturally and there is very little chance somebody engineered it.

And "surprising genome snippets" don't get you past the fact that the closest known relative to SARS-CoV-2 is still decades of evolution away from being SARS-CoV-2 which is not something that can be engineered in the lab.

See this article for a lot more:

https://newrepublic.com/article/162689/bats-covid-19-lab-lea...
SF was already the car break in capital of the us

SF doesn’t even break the top 10 in per-capita thefts.
It's quite common that the main website includes features and functionality, while the GitHub includes install instructions.

See https://alpinejs.dev/ for more.
So basically, bigger lungs?
And why exactly would you assume 0.05s reflexes? Why don’t you assume, say, 0.01s instead?
Oh it’s 100% a Linux problem. You can’t just be like “well driver support for this hardware is bad” and throw up your hands. It might be spiritually the manufacturer’s fault but the end user will never care.

The fact that there’s no way for non-technical users to figure out if a given hardware configuration will actually work for them makes it a non-starter, especially when the spectrum isn’t “works perfectly” or “fails catastrophically” but the frustrating middle where it kinda works but not always. Suspend might work on Tuesday, multi-monitor will fail with this dongle but not this one. Nvidia Optimus will only work three times ever and you can’t turn off the dedicated GPU to save power or pass it through to a VM because of how it’s wired.

Fedora is my daily driver but I would never suggest that it’s as easy as “oh just install Fedora” when I had to painstakingly research every piece of hardware in my laptop to see what the support was like.
My inner nihilist thinks the more "optimistic" competitors might be making more money.
I doubt they ignore it. People that are obese and fine with it are a minority. That doesn't mean it's easy to stop being obese. Compared to obesity, CO2 doesn't have genetic factors, the science on it is clear, there are easy solutions to monitor it. You could also do something like make people do a test in a CO2-heavy room and in a CO2-light room. On the other hand, you can't show obese people what it's like to not be obese, or non obese people what it's like to be. The two situations are very different.
The actual answer is to tax land at it's current market value instead of based on it's purchase price. Then it wouldn't be so attractive to park all the money in housing.

Jobs aren't a problem. Bay Area housing has been a mess since we'll before the internet and other parts of California, where jobs are nowhere near as good, have the same problem.
In agreement. Average citizen preferences have no bearing[1] on the adoption of legislation.

[1] https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
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That is nonsense
If I recall, the zstd binary has a mode that is basically "adapt the compression ratio so that compression isn't the bottleneck", but I didn't have a chance to try it. Have you used that?
Video shows fire in Gulf of Mexico after gas pipeline rupture
The fans were to circulate air within the chamber (because they worried, I think incorrectly, that the CO2 might sink to the bottom). There was nothing to stop the smell of urine, and other volatiles, such as outgassing from plastics, from accumulating within the chamber.

There's no reason to think the difference in noise was negligible, and noise can have a big effect on things like stress levels, which can have wide-ranging health effects.

Plus, there may well have been other effects of the chamber, such as different light levels, which could also have unknown health effects.

It's absolutely fundamental for an experiment like this to try to match the exposure and control conditions as closely as possible, aside from the one variable you're looking at. They failed to do this, so their results are worthless.
Reducing red tape would help a lot, but Houston has geography on its side. Looking at a map of Beltway 8 superimposed over the SF Bay [1], it is easy to visualize why land is cheap. That's not even the outer loop for Houston.

SF and adjacent cities need to both reduce the approval process and encourage higher density.

1. https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/as-if-you-needed...
That's why the term UAP is so good. Calling the source of the observation a phenomenon rather than an object highlights the fact that there might not be anything present in the air at all. That's really an important point. The very brief recent report said there was ample evidence that the recent observations have been physical phenomena but then failed to show any of that evidence. There was a vague statement about multiple sensors measuring the same phenomenon simultaneously, but it's so flimsy and unsubstantiated that I can only assume it was a lie to keep the project funded. They aimed for the bare minimum and it's not clear that they even hit it.
Why EEG though? Just link it to DNA. Plus added bonus of hardware lock-in for MS to roll out some new biometric hardware, I think SmartPrick would be an apt name for it.
I find the gimbal one to be funny. The effect is in the video name, but there's still debate.
Every time we try, communities such as HN share around ways to disable the security features for their own simple convenience or preference. Thus, a correction:

We have to make GP computer users accept the inconvenience of security, or GP computers will die out.

I don’t think that’s a viable plan.

I’ve seen countless HN and HN-alike folks talk about how they hold the root ssh keys to their kingdoms on a Mac that they’ve disabled SIP on, simply because it inconvenienced them one time (and not for genuine technological necessity).

If you can think of a way to change our collective minds, you have my support, but I’ve tried everything I know and essentially given up talking about such things on HN anymore. Everyone who understands is already doing the right things; everyone that isn’t talks as loudly as possible about their way of doing it, and swarm to shut down any suggestion that they should burden themselves with security.

Good luck.
It’s already effectively been done away with, and it would be a multi-year societal change to bring it back. I’ve been living in Sweden for four years, and I think that’s about the same number of times I’ve even seen a coin or note.
I’d be happier to stuff e-mail in the bin wholesale. It’s a terrible technology that should have been put to rest years ago - like phone networks. Any system that requires you to grant all permissions to all contacts, irrevocably in perpetuity, is garbage.

Ideally I should be able to generate for you a single GUID when we meet (e.g. by a QR code).

I should be able to grant a privilege to you for calling/texting/mailing me. You can call me with it, you can message me, you can mail me - but you never get any other info through that system (nor do I for you).

If I ever want to be done with you I delete the GUID and the operator removes the link and declares the GUID out of service.

How has Apple and/or Google not already built this?

Should stalking victims really be forced to uproot every part of their digital life to get rid of creeps or spammers? It’s ridiculous in 2021 that this isn’t standard.
> You are primarily trying to refute the the argument by throwing as many derisive marks as possible at it, a joke, whack, naivety etc etc and demanding it not even be considered.

I was specific about what I found to be bad faith: drawing a false equivalency between Jan. 6 - an attack on our system of governance as a whole, supported by politicians - to those other examples. Yes, I used derisive adjectives, because I find the comparison worthy of derision.

> From intention there was plenty in the Chax situation that you really don't want to have your name associated with.

You won't find me defending CHAZ, like you seem to assume I will. Their intentions were far more benign than Jan. 6, but not benign or harmless, nor should many of the individuals involved be considered blameless. But there was certainly less intent to harm in CHAZ, and absolutely less intent to challenge our system of governance.

I used testy words, but they didn't detract from the point I felt it quite clear: minimizing the significance of Jan. 6 through equivocating it with CHAZ or Kavanaugh protests is an argument made in bad faith, naivety, or ignorance.
Do you have a reference for the LMI hardware? That sounds like a good starting point, especially if the software exists already for the LMI hardware.
> [..] more about downtime procedures that don’t have to be perfect [..]

Once, while waiting to check in for a British Airways flight from Manchester (UK), I noticed several large plastic boxes behind the check-in counters labelled "manual check-in".

Presumably someone at BA not only thought about but actually implemented a plan for how to check in passengers when (not if) all the check-in computers go down.
There is a difference between a pet and a beast of burden
That history that looks tangled and awful would look a lot better if the commits were sorted by `--topo-order` instead of `--date-order`. That sort “groups” commits that are in a single line of history.
Housing discrimination persisted well beyond 1917. See, for instance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

It wasn't until the late 60's / early 70's that explicit racial discrimination was finally outlawed, and it's not a coincidence that exclusionary zoning took off immediately thereafter as a prima facie race-neutral way to achieve the same outcome.
Scrubbing CO2 is very easy because it is a pretty reactive chemical -- simply spraying air with a strong alkaline solution works. Separating nitrogen is by comparison very involved (it's a cryogenic distillation of liquefied air), and also there's like three orders of magnitude more of it.

Check the wikipedia article I linked: this is a solved problem in multiple contexts.
According to Wikipedia, BPF stands for [Berkeley Packet Filter][1] and can be used to observe packets sent by a process.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Packet_Filter
"Proposition 47: The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act" https://www.courts.ca.gov/prop47.htm

> First, it reclassified certain theft and drug possession offenses from felonies to misdemeanors. Second, it authorizes defendants currently serving sentences for felony offenses that would have qualified as misdemeanors under the proposition to petition courts for resentencing under the new misdemeanor provisions. Third, it authorizes defendants who have completed their sentences for felony convictions that would have qualified as misdemeanors under the proposition to apply to reclassify those convictions to misdemeanors.

What does any of that have to do with keeping schools or neighborhoods safe? It seems what it does is keep criminals safe. Keyword searching that bill for "school" or "neighborhood" yields 0 results, except the title of the bill.