skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I share your concern. In this era of cronyism and regulatory capture, the stated intentions of legislative efforts rarely seem to survive through the law-making process, no matter how laudable their origins. They get weakened, undermined, loop-holed or otherwise subverted. Even the recent "Right to Repair" efforts appear to specifically exclude things like mobile devices, PCs and consoles.

Seeing so many bills launched which appear to be so positive yet end up being either irrelevant or perversely damaging, has left me deeply skeptical anytime I hear another legislator announce some bill. The more I agree with the intent, the more I now just fear disappointment. The system is corrupt. Both major parties play these games and there is no longer a party I can rely on to be consistently better. Even when one party appears less bad, it's usually just that they promise things I find more agreeable, yet don't actually deliver when in power.
The context of the thread is that somehow there is something romantically magical about mushrooms especially for humans. Me (and bunch of other people in the thread) throwing bunch of other compounds at it is to disprove that there is anything necessarily magical or secretly meaningful about them. It is mostly incidental or phenomena not specific to humans, therefore there is not much mysteriousness about it.
Ofcourse I dont want innocent peole jailed with fabricated evidence.

I have seen 20 years of senseless maoist killings to not blindly trust anyone who calls themselves 'activists'.

I have seen enough fake activists who are nothing but political hitmans for hire.
Incorrect. The French didn't get involved until after Washington had scored a couple of (lucky) victories. Guess they didn't want to back a loser.
So when I try the registry key workaround, it doesn't work, because my registry doesn't have a Printers section. Which is logical, because the last time I owned a printer was long before I bought this machine. Does that mean I don't have to worry, or that I'm wide open to attack? All the discussion so far seems silent on what happens if you don't have a printer. (This seems common to a lot of discussion about 'security vulnerability in Foo' - are you exposed if you don't have and have never used Foo? It doesn't say.)
Yeah because such a company would make less profit because people wouldn’t have to replace their products as often. But having a private industry body ensures that company that does opt to make their product repairable get duly accredited. Then if you want to buy this more expensive device then you have the choice. If not enough people are willing to pay the premium then maybe this solution isn’t as urgent as we think and isn’t work the regulatory overhead and increased product cost
> The "white Europeans" belonged back home in France.

Just like the black haitians belonged back home in West Africa?

If you're going to deport people based on race at least be consistent.
Is that on well water or city water? In the country in the U.S. every body has individual wells, which comes with a lot of iron and calcium.
Generally very different standards are applied when speaking about actions during a war against belligerents and those actions taken after a war against a subjugated people.
The second sentence is incorrect, according to the American founding myth. It was a fight between the revolutionaries and the British, with assistance of the French. It turns out, when it comes to the founding of countries, the parties you give agency to matters a lot
America Needs to Break Up Its Biggest States
could be a false flag operation
I calculated last year that for my family of 5, our health insurance premiums (when you include the portion my employer pays) equaled almost to the dollar the amount we spent on every other thing last year.

Granted we are pretty frugal, but health insurance is insane.
"Non-existent" encompasses both "killed" and "left the country as refugees".
Even if the majority was initially on board, one could argue that communism inevitably leads to authoritarianism and is necessary for its continuation.

I strongly doubt that a communist system would be ok with everyone not being onboard. It is highly likely that any disagreeing individuals would be classified as bourgeoisie or enemy of the revolution.
Mexico might qualify, in that the de jure government comes nowhere near having 100% de facto control of its territory, and doesn't appear to be on a path to reaching such a point, either.
> The disconnect isn't that we require people to have state of the art impenetrable locks, we are requiring them merely
to lock the door when they are out.

This is missing the point. My doors are locked and (as far as I can tell) the locks have not been defeated.

My problem is with the constant attempts to defeat the locks on my door and with people like you telling me things like > "you're going to get a whole lot less sympathy if it turns out you left the front door open with a sign that said, "I'm not home right now."" when what I'm complaining about is that robbers are banging on my locked door while I am behind it watching them on the security camera.
(2018)

As others will point out alot has progressed and changed since then, this isn't news.

Lots of previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17894764
Stop using or supporting these people in every way you can, and help others that are less technically inclined do the same.
The point may be that, by default, Reddit's website is now incredibly heavy for something that was once a lean and nimble site when it comes to media.
Did it actually break risk based authentication though? Sure, legitimate users will be using Apple's Relay, but what's stopping attackers from using it? If the users of the service are choosing to be indistinguishable from attackers, then that's on them.

I think of it like reputation in real life. If you come knocking on my door, and I can see and recognize you, I'll open it. If you cover up my peephole or hide yourself so that I can't recognize you, why would I even let you know I'm home? Even if you tell me who you are, shouldn't I be worried that someone is impersonating you?

At the very least I'd expect users from anonymizing IPs to have to jump through some extra hoops like captcha and 2FA.
In my 13-yr-olds class only 2 people don't have iPhones. Don't under-estimate the social impact of being excluded from that otherwise class-wide group chat.

If you're in the toddler stage you control almost every variable. The game changes once they hit > 8.
I have 1200w of solar panels hooked directly to the lower element of my hot water heater. I sized the element to match the source impedance of the panels in full sun. If you use a MPPT system you could get 50% more power in partial shade but panels were so cheap it was not worth the complexity. The top heating element is still on city power as backup but I rarely use it.

The water will get up to 80c on a sunny day, so it can store enough heat to last a couple days without sun. There is a mixing valve so the water coming out of the tank is mixed with cold to stay below 50C for safety.
An announcement over a megaphone in a language not spoken by the locals seems... like it must be Americans...

Nobody else would be so culturally blind.
Author gets dismissed because the follow on editions are still a detail-packed journey through ancient anthropology that all cleanly lands as “see, debt is slavery and always has been.” I don’t know how someone can take such a un-nuanced view of credit markets seriously.
Did the study take into account the prevalence of each substance? Alcohol would be the most prevalent by a wide margin. If it's normalized for prevalence however, then the results are mighty interesting.
Companies like to pay for bills, and not pay for own responsibility of own staff.
Think of "press release wrongness" with a probability distribution. Some press releases are really good, some are really bad. A sensible prior would be somewhere in the middle. If you start to see a lot of bad press releases, then you can update your posterior towards "I can't trust any of these."
>The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life.

Aside from the suffering of a boring life without suffering, like a pampered baby in a glass bowl...
No one really accepts them as ok except the country that did them.
It's also the case in Canada, here the rights are sold to Bell. It's probably sold to some Mexican telecom too.
Sharing the same island means nothing unless the two places also share an ethnic seed and they don't. Haitians and Dominicans are not one nation split apart. They're two different nations that grew side by side.

The Taíno, the original inhabitants of the island, were wiped out / assimilated by the Europeans who settled the island. Years later the Spanish and criollo settlers relocated to the east of the island leaving the west free for the French to develop.

The French and the Spanish had different cultures and radically different strategies on how to develop their colonies and thus the island ended up with two different cultures and governments and languages and political systems and with people of different (but overlapping) racial composition.

A lot of people wrongly assume that Caribbean is an ethnic group but that couldn't be farther from the truth. I'm a Puerto Rican and I have a lot in common with Dominicans and Cubans because the three territories are former Spanish colonies. But I have little in common with Haitians, Jamaicans or the inhabitants of the smaller islands of the archipelago. To illustrate my point, I have an archipelago 40 miles east of where I live and we have no ferry between the islands and no connection of any sort beyond the fact that we're both US territories. I've been there as a tourist but nothing more.
Wildlife, air quality at risk as Great Salt Lake nears low
My city actually has infinite jobs available paying $0/hour—why didn't they write this story about here?

An "available job" that pays less than the cost of living is nothing.
I 100% disagree, GoF research produces viruses as natural as selective breeding. The conditions that researchers expose various animals and humanized mice to infect each other would never happen in nature. This type of research only produces did not help predict the current pandemic, nor did it help with the fight against it, but it may have caused it!

Virologists competing with each other on who can produce the most infectious virus does not make us safer. Pursing research to prove that small pox can indeed mutate to be infectious via airborne aerosols is reckless, it creates a super charged version of a virus that never evolved naturally despite being a common disease for millennia.
Select frame: a new model for interaction
What allows this tactic to work is the size asymmetry between very large companies and smaller companies. It is much less effective against similarly sized companies. Very large companies have much more buffer (reserves of capital, talent, etc.) to draw from. The very large company can absorb layoffs, cancelations, closures, and mindshare losses longer than a much smaller and very likely leaner company can.

Defining what does and does not constitute predatory behavior is difficult to define clearly and concisely.

One potential mitigation, given the above, would be to routinely break up companies above a certain size. To make it perfectly typical, ordinary, and automatic to do so. To shift the burden of proof from the government needing to establish monopoly status to the giant company needing to demonstrate that the consumer benefits due to economies of scale derived from its size outweigh the negative externalities due to its size and subsequent disproportionate power and influence.

Economies of scale leading to lower consumer prices are a positive good. The negative externalities of huge companies due to their size and outsized power and influence aren't given as much consideration as they are less quantifiable, but they are real and should be taken into account.
Yeah, the "worker" conditions that followed were more like serfdom than chattel slavery. A serf's offspring is still tied to the land like their parents, so the practical difference probably wasn't that great, but it's still an important distinction.
Well, basically the restaurants will close or just start charging like $50 for a burger and fries. People will find a way. Like maybe they just won't have convenience stores, or restaurants, or w/e. That'll lower the quality of life, or people will just say it's not worth it to have those things in the town.

The free market (and voluntary association) is the only solution to this problem. And although I'm a pro-free market guy, I try to view things as what I think might be the best solution. Government intervention here won't work.
Umm, is Uber profitable?

Amazon is (and even in the past, was basically at a rounding error to zero on margin, since they were plowing so much money into R&D), and Tesla has had the past couple quarters be profitable (though amusingly more on bets on Bitcoin than actual car sales), both essentially creating a new market, and while not actually undercutting the competition. But I thought Uber was 'expecting' to be profitable by the end of the year? While basically making it so cab companies have a hard time competing, since they, you know, obey the rules (albeit ones they created to, themselves, maintain a monopoly), and have to turn a profit.
Yeah, do you even get cellular signal in these remote areas? If not it definitely shouldn't be taken into account.
Haiti's historical issues notwithstanding, it is also incredibly dysfunctional politically. The difference in forestry policies alone between Haiti and the Dominican Republic make their land border almost possible to identify from satellite/aerial photos alone:

http://latinamericanscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/H...
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If you can't afford to live where you work, why stay? It can't be the only place with work, right? If the economic situation that bad in the US?
The cost of the “new way to message on instagram” (2020)
> Just upgrade it to be on the safe side

Upgrading a dependency can go anywhere from trivial to absolute nightmare. Usually somewhere in the middle where it takes time and effort to do right. A typical JS app nowadays has hundreds if not thousands of dependencies. I'd love to see a world where "just upgrade" is reasonable advice, but we are not there.
I'm not seeing a problem?
If personal data from EU citizens is routed through the US in the clear or in a decryptable form, that's probably forbidden under the GDPR. There are exceptions, but this doesn't look like one of these.

And while I may not have direct control over where my data is actually routed, but there absolutely are legal restrictions on where companies may route them.
Not too negative, just wanted to make sure he was taken seriously, the amount of research and peer reviewed articles he covers in his videos is quite intensive, he doesn't half ass it at all.
Free market approach breaks down when people don't have a choice (all competition behaves the same) or they're too easily influenced by marketing (they're manipulated into buying products that are less consumer friendly). Regulation done right protects consumers and, equally importantly, fosters competition, which is eassential for a healthy capitalist society.
What you described makes you a solo founder but ...

The main thing I see wrong is that you confuse effort (mostly overhead) and value (what customers pay for), and it's important to make the distinction as a business person.

Your customers care about how you help them, not how long you spent "putting together TOS & privacy policy." The fact you even mentioned that is a giant red flag to anybody who's done any kind of business because it's trivial, irrelevant to customer need and paints you as an academic or checklist-ticker seeking validation.

So good start, but finish building and start selling, then do a Show HN. :)
Honestly, this hit me.

I'm not a react developer, I was experimenting with it for a new project. I finished the tic-tac-toe tutorial, then tried to throw bootstrap on top to build from there. It told me there was 97 vulnerabilities (85 moderate, 12 high)...

I just deleted the directory and went back to vanilla JS. This is a fun side project, I don't need that.

My tweet about it: https://twitter.com/preinheimer/status/1402785757962592256
Poland is near the bottom of all these graphs (meaning cheapest) and that tracks with my anecdotal experience. When I visited Europe a few years ago, I bought a SIM card in Poland and for just a couple Euro I got 4GB of data. At the time that was significantly cheaper than my own mobile plan at home.
Except creating vaccines does not have the risk of producing a novel extremely dangerous virus that could kill millions worldwide
What does any of this have to do with the subject at hand?
I expect more than this kind of ignorance from an HN reader.

The US and Canada are not the same just because they both have functioning economies.

Even worse, "South American countries" in general don't have their populace "desperately trying to flee". Some might, many don't. The phrase "South American countries", as if Brazil and Argentina for example were a single entity, is so stupid it boggles the mind.

Here's my suggestion to you: educate yourself, learn about other countries, and stop making blanket, incorrect and offensive statements.
If you don’t see a difference, but millions of others do, it might be worth steel manning the opposite of your conclusions. It’s a useful rhetorical exercise at least.
Yeah the mobile data price in NA is insane.

I will be honest, it usually isn't too bad when I am in my work-home routine due to having Wi-Fi in most of places, but becomes quite obvious (and painful) once I travel.
That's fair enough
Instagram’s Evolution
This is a needed change. I argue to accompany new laws by some sort of "traffic light system" and a commission which adapts the rules permanently. The traffic light should be a requirement like an EC or FCC check but obvious, regulated and prominent placed on product.

e.g.

[ ] maintenance manual

[ ] diagrams

[ ] battery replacement without possible destructive
manipulation (plastic snaps okay, screws okay, glue not)

[ ] replacement parts are available or x years

[ ] requirements for third party replacement parts are documented

[ ] if software provides a computing interface (not mere appliance), it provide a breakable seale, and the software must be user replaceable with user provided code, including open-source software

[ ] if software is actually part of the product, is must be stated how long updates are provided

[ ] some new item here, it will be reevaluated at least one in year per device category

I recommend two exceptions, one special purpose products and another for tiny batches. And it should applied upon broad product categories, from laptops, over smartphones, to cars and household appliances. Every other product should be become more expensive if one or more "traffic lights" are red - customers understand this very well and if a company can earn more money with a "green" product they prefer to do so. Aside from "repair" I could also think about the same for "how are humans treat during production" and "how is the environment treat during production". But that is not strictly part of this topic.

But things will become more expensive?
My current ThinkPad is ten years old. Swapped battery twice, increased RAM from 4 GB to 16 GB, new keyboard some years ago and I removed all dust last year which was quite some work - but there was this helpful maintenance manual. I did cost a lot more money than a cheap laptop, but taking the lifespan into account I think it price/value is good.
If folks are interested in their own custom approximations, I can highly recommend Sollya [1].

Sollya has a great Remez implementation as well as a proven supremum norm (maximum error). I combined it with more traditional “loop over all 32-bit float values to also test my range reduction”, but being able to choose your error and number of coefficients is nice!

[1] https://www.sollya.org/
I think you're making an unfair generalization. As a person who lives in the south (in a strongly blue city), I've never encountered this.
That is absolutely not what any American high schooler is taught.
It's an individual citizen's hedge against a poorly managed government in a country they have little choice but to be in (immigration isn't so easy if you're not born into an already prosperous, stable country to begin with).

My friend from Venezuela certainly would've benefited from owning a currency that wasn't regulated by his government, which made exchanging Bolivars for external currency illegal except for those with government connections.

Are you saying one should only be concerned about the state itself, that citizens ought to go down with the ship and be victims of the government they were born into?

I'm hoping you're simply ignorant of the very real personal problems of people born into corrupt and unfortunate countries have that are mitigated or solved by crypto currencies (even if it doesn't solve the problems of the state) rather than simply uncaring for their plight and unwilling to care about solitons for them that don't involve also fixing the entire corrupt nation they were born into.
> A regex "denial of service" "vulnerability" could be important, if it shows up in code that processes untrusted input from end users.

But in this context what's the end result? Chrome locking up on the end user's (attacker's) machine? Again, an "attacker" doesn't have access to the source code for distribution. By inputting bad regexp data they're only DOSin themselves, no?
It is not as bad as it sounds. There is an appeals process:

https://www.healthcare.gov/appeal-insurance-company-decision...

And in general, anything the insurance company might not want to pay for required a “prior authorization”, which usually happens if the insurance company’s doctors think there is another option for treatment or the proposed option does not have sufficient evidence.

I imagine there is similar processes in taxpayer funded healthcare systems too to properly allocate resources. Although, I am sure there are many cases of problems caused by insurance companies in the US, due to the bureaucracy.
The anti-growth crowd is often those who already own homes, so they're gaining from the cost of housing exploding.
It seems even stranger to me to consider it an active effort.

More likely to me that engineering teams at Apple simply don't give much of a shit about maintaining compatibility with a tool that's not affiliated with them, and will redesign things or make breaking changes as it suits their project goals - and unaffiliated tools like this are simply stuck in a perpetual game of catchup.