skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can do this without this library. On iOS you could install an app like Charles Proxy, and install their cert to intercept traffic. Or you could proxy all traffic through your computer. Most apps does use certificate pinning today, but many still don't. I recently used this technique to reverse engineer a video streaming app
Meditation isn't a "trance state". There are recurring refutations of this throughout Buddhist literature over the millenia. The answer to a conditioned existence is not more conditioning. Yes, states of refined pleasure can be used as springboards for insight, so-called "jhanas" but they are by no means the dominant method of practice. Seeing through conditioned reality doesn't require any trance or altered state at all, just a lot of practice and time and patience.

Qigong is its own thing and should be addressed as its own thing. It's an energy-based practice with various claims to longevity and health through proscribed movements.
Dragon Tiger
Most people are more likely to end up in prison in the USA than they are in China
I think that there is a bigger gap that many think between what the community sees as realistic and what is read into that by investors and other technologists. I think that many people believe that a current 50-60qubit device "runs" in the way that a valve based computer did in the 1950s - for hours before a bug got into a valve (for example), and I also don't think that people appreciate that it takes 36 hrs to turn them on and calibrate them. I believe that most technologists think that getting to 20m noisy qubits is the challenge - but the reality is that there are a plethora of challenges that must be overcome to actually move an 20m noisy qubit device to a usable 20m noisy qubit device.
that wasn't the logic -- parent never mentioned what they felt relief from.

for all we know it helped their rheumatoid arthritis.
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Dev looking for marketing co-founder in edTech.

Devs don't teach programming in schools, because of small salary and loads of stress. Students don't seek programming, because it seems hard and boring.

Tinkr is bringing programming to schools. We offer any school teacher (physics for example) an opportunity to teach programming in their school. Training, materials, live coding environment, lessons and a professional coder helping in the background - everything a teacher needs to teach the class.

Tinkr also makes coding awesome by letting students write real-world webapps like websites, chat and multiplayer games that they can share to friends (they actually work, with database and everything).

I'm based in Estonia, looking for people that want to scale to the world, primarily missing a marketing person, but also designers, sales and wouldn't say no to dev help either.

First full-length course has been done and paid for. Students were thrilled.

Contact me hncof@krister.ee.
Hope it doesn't evolve into

AI bot trolls programmers with how much time they're looking on HN
Here is a link to the original announcement by mozilla, which is a better source (https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozilla-investigation...) (@dang should this be updated?)

Some insights from the report:

* The study uses donated data from mozilla's browser plugin [1]. This means it almost surely has self-selection bias and does not offer representative usage data. But that's a fair tradeoff to get realistic measurements of recommendations.

* The focus is on harmful content, so we don't know how much this is out of the entire exposure people get. (But there are a couple of representative studies out there).

* Out of all reported videos, 12% were considered actually harmful. That's not a terrible rate in my opinion.

* 70% of harmful videos came from recommendations - that's why the authors demand changes to the YT recommender system.

* Data quality: Reports came from ~37k users of the browser extension, but only ~1600 submitted a report. Total N of reports is ~3300, so pretty low. The actual analysis was performed on a sample of ~1100 out of these (why?). Harmfulness was analyzed by student assistants which is ok.

* Non-english languages seem to have higher prevalence of harmful videos (which is to be expected given the attention and resources spent).

[1] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/regrets-reporter...
The best way to align supply with demand would be to eliminate the government intervention. It's government subsidies dished out in defiance of actual market demand that allows so people students to study underwater basket weaving simply because they find it interesting. If students had to rely on (normal) bank loans or corporate sponsorship that problem would dry up really fast.
There are many, many cases in which home-school can lead to a better education quality than a public school.

It's not the same to have the parents purposefully owning and caring and dedicating to the education of the children and on the other side, an unexpected circumstance that causes your children to suddenly stay at home and try to follow an education program in which no one is prepared for such scenario.

Homeschool as a way of life is not comparable to what happened during/because of the pandemic.

"Not allowing homeschooling" in an absolute way is completely tyrannical.
But not because some government official suddenly decided they should.

In the USA, the rules are known well in advance. There might be questionable rules, but POTUS cannot decree a rule into existence and put a bag over your head an hour later.
Prison rape jokes. Haha. Very funny.
It's like fantasy football, but for securities trading.
Xi has been in power for under a decade, and there likely are many competing power struggles that take place under him.
As you wish, I am no longer going to debate the pedantic meaning of pure microkernel ideology.

I rather be happy for the improvements in the long term roadmap and overall outcome for the eco-system.
I have nothing to say. Other than that I find it really pleasant to have the opportunity for some civil discourse with some civil people.

Thank you for that.
Are you under the impression that a substances effects are somehow mediated by their legality?
It’s the opposite. The spores survive digestion and grow in the feces.
This culture is heavily promoted by management consultancies, who seem to think nothing of sending a 24 year old "consultant" into large corporations to tell them how to run their business.
This is a creative approach, and on some level I like it. However, it does seem to be kicking the can down the road. If a website is storing significant details in my browser I'd still want to know why, necessitating.... some sort of... banner? I'm only half-joking.

What's to stop airgap.js leaking my data, either deliberately or accidentally? How do I disable it before it starts collecting?

It would be nice to see this post describe whether and how they audited what information is collected and why. The slippery-slope towards ever-more pervasive and clever means of collecting ever-more detailed data about users is truly Orwellian. In fact, it's worse, since Orwell thought it would only be governments doing it when in fact it's apparently everyone. It's no longer normal to defend why so much data should be collected; instead it's so normalised that it's not questioned at all, as here.

We really do need to hold up more examples of organisations who successfully achieve their aims without resorting to surveillance capitalism.
I agree it sucks, but so does Netflix, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Its almost like social media is just a marketing tool and your promotions aren't even recommendations at all, but paid placements.
And so do we, when we participate in voting - we legitimise the theater.

But don't worry - we are at the end of the democratic time. We are moving/have moved into technocracy communitarianism, where all the meaningful decisions are taken by NGOs at the supra-national level. This is why we have electric car charging points, 7-8 storey building blocks with a shop downstairs, narrower roads (the future is car-less), tiny homes, being pushed off the land, etc.

Mark Carney etc will be help lead the charge away from capitalism.

"In his book Value(s): Building a Better World for All, Mark Carney, former governor both of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, claims that western society is morally rotten, and that it has been corrupted by capitalism, which has brought about a “climate emergency” that threatens life on earth. This, he claims, requires rigid controls on personal freedom, industry and corporate funding."

If you're confused how the governor of 2 national banks is now rallying against capitalism, don't worry - go back to sleep.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/peter-foster-mark-carney-ma...
I literally never get such content and I use YouTube constantly. I'm not sure how much I'd blame youtube for showing similar content to whatever people are already watching.
That would be relevant if WalMart sold only Tide from P&G. I guess they sell more of their own brands, produced by whomever, according to their terms. Similar to what COSTCO has as 'Kirkland', and ALDI/Trader Joe's as theirs, and so on.
Wouldn’t they just end up selling the stock to pay the loans, and pay taxes then? It seems more reasonable that they’re betting on the stock values increasing more than the loan interest rate
Sayid does look really powerful. However, I declared Emacs bankruptcy years ago, and switched to Cursive. If I ever have the courage to switch back, I'll give Sayid a go :P
Is this also possible with music? Got any links on details about that setup?
Samurai sudoku https://samurai-sudoku.com

9x9 hard sudoku puzzles https://extremesudoku.info/hard
Debugging in PicoLisp
https://envs.net/~mpech/tut.html#dbg
The SQL injection theory has certainly been mentioned. But not with any evidence I would trust.
> value of fusion research or asteroid mining is potentially very high, there is a large probability of failure

it's not that the probability of failure is high - more that the value creation is not capture-able by private interests.

Fusion research, or anything that is fundamental research leading to new tech, will unlikely to bring private wealth to those who fund it. Applied research, on the other hand, would. So you do see well paid researchers in fields, such as pharmaceuticals.

Wall-street investment bankers get paid a lot because all of the value that is created there get captured - very little of it flows out into society.
> No one is taking your voice print

SIM cards are used for transmitting voice in an insecure fashion, so you can't be sure. Some voice codecs are even designed to do something very similiar to fingerprinting voices.

> No one is taking your [...] biometric details

They were already taken when you had¹ to get the ID in the first place.

¹ The federal republic directly adopted laws from nazi germany requiring ID for every citizen. This law was initially introduced to acquire data about jews and people fit for military service.

> to match everything you ever say or do against you just to activate a sim card

This was never about surveillance by private entities! Federal agencys can match everything you say based on the fact that the SIM card in your portable bug is linked directly to you.

> but at least no one will accuse you of being an enemy of the state if you do this like trying to avoid tagging in China.

You can be certain that you end up in a database if you use a foreign SIM card from a non-KYC-country for a long period of time in a residential area. Your only defence is your network provider not cooperating unless forced by law.

Germany is being turned into a surveillance state bit by bit and I am fed up by people trying to defend it!
And he created his account for this ! What a life ...
Cohort based targetting such as FLoC, PARAKEET and ATT will further embed the power of Big Tech. But I'm sure the HN community realizes this.

The question is: in the face of GAFAM moats and large lobbying efforts, how else might these coalitions and smaller/emerging companies get regulators' attention?

Disclosure: we are part of this coalition of 14 businesses offering browsers, search, mail, analytics, and other web services and add our view here as a search engine
https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/07/time-to-ban-surveillance-bas...
I have been meditating for several years. At start I was obsessed with using a tracking app, namely Insight Timer. I looked at statistics for my sessions every day and even sometime bragged about time that I spent on the cushion. Some girls were really impressed ;) Nowadays - I am using a countdown timer on my watch, don't give a fig about statistics and just enjoy my precious time on cushion :)
not for anything specific, but you can get a loan of X amount of money for Y amount of collateral, yes.

You can do this using cryptocurrency that's being loaned out to you under the protocols of a decentralised application. No centralised control, everything is automatic, and there are no central servers - you can do all this just by running code as smart contracts on a blockchain.
Take this somewhere else, please.
The initial announcement from WWDC 2019.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/702/
These would also trade like other crypto - 24/7, 365.
> What do you mean, Nature isn't kind to humans? Because we aren't immortal?

Something like 90% of Earth's surface is outright deadly to humans: about 71% is covered in water, in which humans cannot survive; then there's deserts (both hot and cold) as well as high mountains, which also don't allow for human habitation without technology.

But it's not just geological features. There's also deadly diseases, lots of predators (humans wiped them out completely in most of their habitats), weather and poisonous plants.

The average urban human wouldn't survive long in nature. Heck, there's a good chance they would catch a serious disease just from drinking contaminated water from a pond or a small brook.

> If Nature wasn't kind, how did we make it for those hundreds of thousands of years?

For hundreds of thousands of years there's only been very few of us. In pre-argicultural times, no more than 10M humans lived on the planet [0], probably even almost going extinct in the wake of the Toba supervolcano event 70000 years ago. Indeed several genetic bottleneck events have been identified (ice age, weird cultural shifts [1]) suggesting that the survival of our species wasn't a sure bet throughout history.

[0] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/internat...

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25770088/
Adding to this, the "I want to find a proof for my idea" attitude is very different from "let's see objectively what is going on".
> But I'm interested what kind of unanticipated side effects it might have as far as kids learning to roll-their-own entertainment.

You mean like they've been doing for millennia? Probably no unanticipated side effects.
Annecdotal: music recommandations have regressed for me.
Just because it has access to your whole machine doesn't mean it's going to convert into spyware and start keylogging you. It's open-source, you can audit what it's capable of. It sends very specific telemetry data home, and I think that's what this document covers.

It's an unfortunate catch-22 really. The best way to improve your program's performance is to collect telemetry, but that opens the door to law enforcement asking for the telemetry data, and you also need (IANAL) to provide a scary privacy policy like this.
One of the HN community standards is not to presume malintent.
This sounds like an idea whose time is well overdue.

Looking forward to consuming this
"Health" in the article's headline seems to be narrowly scoped as a synonym for "avoiding premature death". There's no mention of the mental health benefits of being outside.

The article is timely, for me. After spending most of the pandemic getting ever more inactive, on May 31st I decided I had to do something about it and that 10,000 steps a day (not on average, but each and every day) in June was going to happen.

The first few days were a real slog, but from then on I found myself increasing my distance and seeking out newer routes each day – because it was making me happy, regardless of the physical benefits (immediate or future). I could have started running again, to get the steps quicker – but that's the opposite of what I wanted, which was to be outside for longer!
Is there like another section to this writeup? Because the priorities seemed quite strange and incomplete to me.

And were there any "Blue Dots" in the sea of red around where she lives?

I can't figure out what her aim is with this. Is the proposition that she'll have an easier time making friends in a city that's 60% Democrat as opposed to 40%? Same thing with the dry county issue. Is an extra five minutes in the car to the next county over even noticeable?

So many more significant things are ignored. Does she like the weather in these places? Do she or her husband have significant allergies to the sources of pollen native to the properties?
Not necessarily, the power of habit can be very strong.

The users who only watch a couple of things are the ones who are more likely to “get bored”, because in any given month there is a higher chance that there won't be any single thing they'd want to watch. Whereas someone who just does it regularly (say every day after work while eating dinner or w/e) is more likely to keep that habit.
Tramadol is absolute garbage, I feel for you. I was recommended Zofran to help with the nausea and upset by people who went through the same thing but haven't tried it myself.
If you manage to stop, be strong and persevere, it took me months after fully stopping for the pain to go away and to be able to eat normal foods again. My doctor had me do a few purges and I only ate small portions of rice for those months, anything else would make me sick. I was also recommended replacement shakes but haven't tried them.
Best of luck.
John Deere: Autonomous Electric Tractor – Future of Farming
Also, choosing to build a meditation app is only a small part of this post really - making the leap of faith to leave behind (apparent) security is a much bigger part of this in my view. Hats off to you Troy!
prisoners dont deserve punishment?
TikTok Increases Video Length from 60 Seconds to 3 Minutes
Autonomic framework for 5G networks and beyond
We don't have reliable prison and sentencing data for China.
Glad someone else has recognised this! Worst feature of Windows 11 for me, multiple clicks just to access a window is pretty poor in a windowing system. I always disable that awful "feature".
> AI bot trolls programmers with how much time they're looking on HN

That's what noprocrast, maxvisit and minaway are for, isn't it?
My guess/assumption is intersecting beams.

Or maybe it is just an energy distance thing. Not sure what happened to this company.

Aerial Burton 3D is the name
"My list" is not algorithmically generated; it's a list of shows you have chosen to add to it. It would be nice if have you the option to remove a show from it when you finished it but very annoying if it did it automatically behind your back. Although clearly the real problem here is that "my list" isn't a clear enough description to show you manually control it (but I don't have a better suggestion).
> What the person above means is different

What person? The first paragraph in ev1’s comment (and the ‘liveness’ reference in the reply) are not about ‘vouching’.
The right solution would be for me to define my consent preferences in my browser and have that transmitted in a HTTP header.

Since obviously the "industry" will ignore that, it should be mandated by law. Everything would suddenly become way simpler: for example, the dark patterns involving hoops we have to jump through to deny consent would suddenly disappear. Policing is easy and could even be automated: if a website shows a "consent form" after a header has been sent, issue a fine.
Physicist Explains Origami in 5 Levels of Difficulty
There has already been a proof-of-concept hack of a vehicle: Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway. [0]

(Incidentally, I applaud the top comment at [0]. Everyone involved in recklessly demonstrating the hack on public roads, should have faced serious consequences. As far as I can tell though, nothing came from the police report.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9921557
FYI: iOS is not deleting private data even if you uninstall the app
So basically, you're rewarding dark patterns. I get where you're coming from, but I'd rather people-in-the-know use CSS rules or other hacks to work around this.

Basically, anything but enabling treacherous design.
I learned the wrong lesson from that story as a child: Even when I was not the perpetrator, I always made sure to look guilty, and was in most cases exonerated. Eventually when I was the perpetrator, nobody would believe it was me, even if I looked guilty!
Did multiple quite few 5 days fast, the max i got to was 10 days.

I experienced none of the effects. People claim to be sharper and more energised during fast, but all I experienced was noticeable sluggishness (no glucose, only fat as energy source) and bit more pissy about small things (though I recognise it and never act on it).

P.S.
Worth mentioning, any water fast above 4 days can be potentially dangerous if you don't take supplements that regulate your bodily functions, like salt, potassium, magnesium etc. I have read accounts of people doing only water fast no supplements for 10-15 days and report serious symptoms of their body shutting down (maily cells dying due to lack of salt).
https://github.com/esphome/esp-web-tools
Good for that person. But I'm not sure if that was "smart" to convince somebody with mental problems to drink mushroom tea at a party ... that's recipe for disaster.
> Maybe the world needs a different way of delivering well-targeted sponsored content, but nobody has invented one so far.

But they did! Many times over!

The current solution isn't the only way to deliver ads to the right audience - it's just the cheapest one. It outcompetes all other approaches. The solution is thus simple: just ban it. Everyone will then go back to whatever is the next cheapest option. Rinse, repeat, until the cheapest option is one that doesn't compromise privacy and isn't destructive to the communications medium.

So what are the different, older ways of delivering well-targeted sponsored content? For starters, opt-in approaches. Mail catalogues, e-mail catalogues, yellow pages, catalog websites, trade shows, etc. - all kinds of services where it's the user who seeks out advertisements. People want to spend money on things, want to find solutions to their problems, want to save money by finding cheaper alternatives. You don't have to shout at them to get them on the market.

> the biggest loser of non-trackable Internet would be small businesses and startups that are trying to find their audiences

I'm somewhat skeptical about this, but even if, I also think that the amount of advertising deployed is keeping the market in an artificially oversaturated state. There's more companies selling commodity products, competing on advertising alone, surviving only because they manage to trick people into buying things. Without so much unsolicited advertising, some of those would have to fold, but I think this would be extremely good for everyone - less spam, less resources wasted on unnecessary production, and less resources wasted on the zero-sum game that is advertising in a highly competitive market segment.
But that just gives you on/off controls and maybe energy consumption, doesn't it? It won't let you play with the fan speed, which is probably something I'd want first and foremost.

I've used some TP-Link's equivalent up until the point when TP-Link decided to effectively brick it for me by disallowing control via local network because "security". I'm very concerned about someone on my WiFi turning on my kettle and boiling me some water. :)