skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point you realize that value is fundamentally a human creation, dependent on the belief and action of other humans, and there's nothing crypto or burning a power station's worth of electricity can do to change that.

The only thing prohibiting arbitrary forks is the risk of loss of trust in the leadership. And there's no guarantee of their long-term trustworthiness; what does succession planning look like among the dev team? What will you do when they retire?
So many people on HN complaining about privacy, but then come to the comments section to defend an extension that literally collects and sells everything you do. Seems a tad ironic.
The public/private divide is a well-known conundrum. And the analogy I gave is a practical example of that, one that has actually faced several nations. I note you've offered no basis for it being 'dishonest', either, which is unfair. Be careful before making statements like that.

The point is, you look at the substance of what is being done or controlled, not the status of the actor as a private or public entity. That is what the analogy is used to explain.

The substance of what is being done, here, is regulation of communication between individuals over a communication platform. Downplaying it as 'not hosting public content' is inaccurate or at least of no moment. What's public content mean anyway?

If a significant amount of private communication goes through privately owned channels, it is reasonable that the private companies operating those channels respect democratic norms. It's unreasonable to dismiss any criticism as 'they are a private company', as that's beside the point.
- Does the study exclude the possibility of other factors causing the increase in cases in 2020? For example, potential reduction in exercise and exposure to sunlight?

- How valid is the assumption "assuming a 10-year latency period between alcohol consumption and cancer diagnosis"?

- Why would not one attempt to find correlation between yearly reported cases (or PAF if applicable) and yearly alcohol consumption instead? As it stands, some points in the discussion read like assertions. One example is this:

> Our estimated global PAF was lower than the previous global estimates of 5·5% of cancer cases in 2012, 4·8% of cancer deaths in 2016, and 4·9% of cancer deaths in 2019. This difference could be due to genuine decreases in consumption of alcohol in several world regions, such as in southern Europe and central and eastern Europe, as Shield and colleagues reported a 5·5% decrease in the global alcohol-attributable age-standardised rate of death from cancer between 2000 and 2016.

And this:

> On the other end of the spectrum, alcohol consumption in central and eastern Europe has historically outranked that of other world regions, but has decreased in recent years, whereas increases in alcohol consumption, linked with countries' economic development, are projected in Asian countries such as China and India.

The statements above seem to be at odds with each other according to the number of alcohol-attributed cases from each country in the appendix.[2]

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2...

[2] https://www.thelancet.com/cms/10.1016/S1470-2045(21)00279-5/...

Edit: formatting, removed part of a sentence for a better tone.
Edit 2: removed irrelevant part in the second quote.
From the article:

> What's the connection?

> There are a few biological pathways that lead from alcohol consumption to a cancer diagnosis, according to the study. Ethanol, the form of alcohol present in beer, wine and liquor, breaks down to form a known carcinogen called acetaldehyde, which damages DNA and interferes with cells' ability to repair the damage.

> Alcohol can also increase levels of hormones, including estrogen. Hormones signal cells to grow and divide. With more cell division, there are more opportunities for cancer to develop. Alcohol also reduces the body's ability to absorb certain cancer-protective nutrients, including vitamins A, C, D, E and folate.

> What's more, the combination of drinking and smoking might indirectly increase the risk of cancer, with alcohol acting as a kind of solvent for the carcinogenic chemicals in tobacco.
People with Laron syndrome don't seem to get cancer.
It should have been called Augmented Intelligence from the start. The goal is to augment human cognition. Give us better tools. AGI is the stuff of scifi and futurists.
Whenever I think of Full Throttle, I think of movies.

Full Throttle was amazing. It was from an era of gaming where “cinematic” was a design goal. Games aspired to be movie-like because movies were the gold standard of entertainment. We even got Mark Hamill playing Ripburger in Full Throttle. At the same time, game studios were self-consciously minnows in comparison to the glitz and money and celebrity of Hollywood, and the target market skewed heavily adolescent, which often gave an excuse to strike a comedic tone in an otherwise-serious plot.

I think it’s the moments of comedy that hold Full Throttle back from getting a mainstream Hollywood adaption. Writing comedy is really, really hard, and jokes that came across as clever in the game, such as the repeated parodies of Hollywood cliches, risk translating into mere cliches on the big screen. What would Full Throttle be without the jokes? A Mad Max ripoff? And what if the jokes fall flat? Wild Hogs?

Hollywood in general struggles with comedy. You can’t write it on demand. But I’m not saying it’s impossible. The right writer could do it, and with the right script I’d even let Dwayne Johnson be Ben.

Whenever I think of Full Throttle, I think of two things: movies, and comedy.
Call me cynical, but a documentary needs publicity to be successful. It seems to me this ethical dilemma gives just about the right amount of outrage for people to pay attention without it overly hurting the film maker's reputation.

Perhaps we'll see a mea culpa later on, where he will say he misjudged the amount of outrage, which is not a real apology, so lots of commenters will jump on that thereby providing even more publicity.
Why are you acting like it stops here?
Alexander Lukashenko received 80% of votes and anybody who claims otherwise should have their Gmail account, YouTube videos, Play Store apps, etc. permanently and irreversibly revoked.
Splashy software deals are the new industrial normal
I've been debugging software my entire adult life. I guess I'm an outlier in not trusting the self-driving software. I couldn't relax and let it drive without paying close attention.
"Misinformation" is just another word for "falsehood" or "untruth."

Those of you claiming that "democracy" depends on authorities preventing the spread of misinformation are ipso facto saying that democracy requires the government, or megacorporate cartels with a monopoly on public speech most likely acting as proxies for the government (as Psaki made clear is happening), to define what counts as "truth" (a Ministry Of Truth if you will) and to stamp out what they've defined as "false."

It's insane, and it's amazing to me how many of you have your heads so far up your assessment with partisanship that you can't see that the recent media hysteria over "misinformation" is a blatant example of the contrived "emergencies" that all totalitarian regimes in history have used to seize control over free societies.
I wonder if Apple would have pulled the app if it were from a nonprofit organization that doesn’t track everything the user does on those websites.
This isn't about "code quality metrics". This is about reporting stuff like "you have unused class", or "here variable can be null but you are dereferencing it", actual problems in your code
For posterity, readers should note this comment was the OP, initially. Not the support.google.com link. 980+ comments later, HN changed the thread and buried semitones' comment down here. semitones' point was a reasonable and important one: maybe people should think twice about hosting files and other data with a company like Google.
Mobile app automation testing tools to achieve better quality, sooner
I can drive for hours with the Volvo lane keeping on. It’s not that I’m not paying attention; but not doing the little micro adjustments to speed and lane keeping actually leaves me much more refreshed at the end of the drive.
I’ve come to the conclusion that there is probably no universally compelling answer to that. I think you either hold individual liberty sacred as a sort of deontological pillar, or you try to get clever about minmaxing this nebulous “society” thing I’m always hearing about, moving toward a shared utopia one “we should ban…” proposal at a time.
Sounds pretty successful for something you worked on for just a month and only exposed to the world for a few days. Most projects never see these numbers because they never see the day of light.

You seem to have high expectations for this project, expecting it to take people by storm from the start. Why? It can take YEARS for code to gain popularity, and even then your niche might be so small that the success feels minor.

We all want our code to make a big splash on GitHub, but the truth is that most open code is worked on by a single dev for years without much fanfare.
I've seen that too, but a dark pattern here is pretending this is the whole truth and then hide a few hundred under a less visible "legitimate interest" tab.

Personally I use the Lockdown app which seems to block a lot, but suggestions about better alternatives are welcome.
Been watching progress of the Blade for the last few weeks and am very excited for it to hit Kickstarter soon. My only wish would be for it to include IPMI like functions, or at least remote PSU capabilities (although I guess if you’re doing PoE you have remote PSU).

And Jeff, thanks for your videos, they are always a highlight of my day whenever a new one comes out. Happy to be a patron!
People with disabilities like epilepsy, which affects 2% of the worlds population.

If you have uncontrolled seizures, then you cannot drive a car, ever.

Uber, Lyft, and Self driving would be a huge boon to these people, enabling them to live independently and still commute.
> Wait for a smoking gun event like a car driving itself into a gathering of schoolchildren to get things started.

The actual gun industry has somehow managed to avoid being sunk by this problem by keeping the blame on humans despite a school shooting every few months in the US.

Cars will be explicitly advertised that you can turn the automation on, go to sleep, and arrive at the destination, but if the automation hits anything the sleeping human will remain liable. The misleading advert will not.
OR NFT ?
There's loads of them.[1] Seems like you want the ones with "graphical configuration". Openbox, Fluxbox and others allow everything to done using the mouse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_window_manager...
> Now, it's a personal decision how much risk is acceptable to you, but don't lie to yourself how "one glass a day is not going to make a difference"

If one glass a day only slightly increases your risk (Say a few % points), then it will effectively make no difference.
We need to talk about Wombats
nice. so you get to use a pi 4 8gb which costs £81.90 on amazon uk and they charge you 125 for a year of storage, power, bandwidth, device. nice
According to every tired hacker news thread: Bitcoin is not money or currency, it’s a Ponzi scheme
Or delay line storage, it would store 7.6 TB.
Good For Matrix, Jet Li isnt much for acting. Keanu really did a good job, i cant imagine it any other way.
South African media and public consciousness has not grown to accommodate the "deepfake" idea yet. It's no surprise Google searches for deepfake come up empty.

I've consumed lots of random media from many WhatsApp and Telegram groups. I've lost track of lots of it in the stream of information. That stuff doesn't get indexed on Google. The media narrative is tightly controlled, ministers claimed things were under control on TV whilst us on the ground knew this was false. Zello has also been extremely useful for community security. But trust has been an issue because of the open nature of these platforms.

I've been trying for this whole week to come up with tech solutions to this, but there are also social issues technology alone cannot overcome. Eg: Community members organised in adhoc security patrol groups engaged in friendly fire because they did not know they were friendlies. A telegram bot to query registration plates makes sense...but that leads us back to apartheidesque access control (no!) and the issue of trusting the entity that controls the db.

This is the best reference I could find of it in 'mainstream' (News24) media: https://youtu.be/Jq14RiZyJRA?t=3767

ps: n8n is a great tool!
It depends on hardware so much... I usually try to stick with Dell laptops because they often work more than others to test and improve the hardware support, but some laptops in the past worked out of the box just fine, for some laptops I filled 5 different kernel bugs and only 6 months later most were fixed. Thus it's kind of random.
We should have a new standard “90’s internet gold standard” where only small rotating gifs are allowed.
I prefer by far taking handwritten notes, because of how easily I can add structure, arrows, and diagrams when I need. My problem with pen and paper is managing older/long running notes, as it's difficult to keep the organised. I recently got a boox note air and for now I find it great - I can have everything in just one device, organised in folders and subfolders, and I can much more easily reorganise things with copy and paste.

My only doubt for now is if it will pass the test of time.
> Even moderate drinking, two or fewer drinks a day, accounted for an estimated 14%, or 103,000 cases, of alcohol-related cancers, according to the study.

This is not a helpful statistic because it doesn't say what percent of people are in this category. I skimmed the actual paper [1] and it appears that there is no designation below "moderate drinking" so this literally captures everyone who drinks 2 drinks or less per day.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2...
see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27864055
In return for the 100+ million dollars he got out of it?

Li's role would only have been in the sequels anyway, not the one good movie...

Seriously though, for such a deal if one gets a percentage as royalties perpetually too, then it may be a good arrangement. I think Li's objections could have al been addressed as terms in the deal. Apparently what Li is saying is the terms offered were one-sided and he didn't like them.
That absolutely does not mean it's a healthy thing to do.
We aren’t talking about something as basic as truth and untruth.

This is Integer and float vs malformed code.

Misinformation is code. It’s designed to specifically take advantage of gaps in our society and spread in such a way that makes it harder to challenge it.
Why is it any worse on your phone? You can run uBlock Origin on Firefox on Android (one of the biggest reasons I don't understand why anyone would want to use Chrome).
Youre absolutely right and the Ministry of Truth reference couldn’t be more chilling
United Arab Emirates (UAE) Lets Talented Coders Apply for 100k Golden Visas
Jet Li wasn't in the running for the role of Neo.
"We have a major incident with connectivity to the building, login to the knowledge server and see what the runbook says...oh!"

For mission critical stuff, print out your Incident Management processes and have a physical 'Master Runbook' in a prominent place in your department/cubicle/office.

Also, printed procedures with numbered steps and checkboxes allows for a visual record of progress, plus there's room for notes when things deviate from the expected.

Each annotated runbook then becomes a reference for the Incident/Problem management/RCA write-up - unless, of course, you fancy following the runbook on one screen (if you can), while also updating the service management ticket on another (if you can) and getting out comms to senior stakeholders (if you can) and dealing with the sudden influx of tickets, phone calls and emails (if all the systems are still accessible).

Plus, if you are called into a meeting, or have to go check something, you can take the paperwork with you.
Finally those scenes in movies where they look at the blurry security camera footage and say "stop right there, enlarge that part" can have justification.
How would have been any different than any other movie he's been in? Are they not digitally recorded indefinitely as well?
$549/mo lease on a Tesla model 3 + $199/mo for FSD could surely buy a lot of Uber/Lyft rides -- with the added benefit that you could drive drunk and don't need a parking space.
The moat is they have super smart folks who keep iterating on the right problems.

Cloudflare is too busy trying to build a unified stack for boiling the entire ocean.
You can write markdown in Google Alerts. This is what we do.
Sometimes I wonder if Google is in the business of giving out all these free services because of the awesome political power it gives them.
The Iroquois confederation, known to its members as the Haudenosaunee.
Funny if they're on the US govt's side.

Didn't Google refuse to work with US gov, but had no problem helping Chinese colleges and institutions which are directly controlled by or tied heavily to the CCP?
> She's not his widow, she's his estranged ex-wife.

That's incorrect. They were still married when he died and most of Bourdain's estate was left to their daughter with Ottavia overseeing it. "The family," in this case, is Ottavia and Ariadne Bourdain.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/07/06/anthon...
In the words of Norm McDonald: What a genius, he’ll be sorely missed
It is frustrating that they lump in any amount of alcohol up to 2 drinks per day as moderate which honestly isn't all that moderate. Still another way to read that is that while alcohol represents a real risk to community health resources you can mitigate 86% of the risk by limiting yourself to ONLY 68 gallons (257 liters) of beer this year.

I would not be terribly surprised if most of the issues with moderate drinkers concerned users were on the heavy side of "moderate"
Who would ever oppose scientific socialism? It is scientific. Thus, rejection of science is unscientific and should be prohibited.

I call my organization the good people group. Who would oppose the good people group except the bad people group?
I mean, if you don’t trust institutions why trust democracy ?
It’s also important to understand that the only reason anyone is talking about misinformation right now is because the entire world watched in horror at the events of January 6th, a direct attempt to “seize control over free societies”. (Admittedly a poor attempt at it though) which was sparked by wild accusations, unsubstantiated assertions, and a mountain of failed litigation by “the previous guy”.

No amount of whitewashing or misdirection of what happened that day or the factors that lead up to it will change that certain “free speech” said by the right mouth, believed by an angry undereducated group can lead to actual loss of our free society. Just look at the insane amount of legislation being passed in certain red states, all based and cheered on by the exact same lie..

We can all argue the merits of google, but that’s just a method to control the conversation by those who seek our society for there own dystopian Handmaids Tale version, and deflection from what put us in this sitaution. A lie, perpetrated by the president, enabled by his supporters, and a Ministry of Truth style belief in what that government said, that’s leading to voter disenfranchisement and loss of faith in the very foundation of democracy. Period.

As for the medical information that I disagree with. If people want to believe in lies, I have enough “don’t tread on me” to let them. Personally that’s very much a game of “play stupid games win stupid prices”. None of my business have at it
The Norse also had many democratic customs.
While a randomized controlled trial is the golden standard when it comes to science, ones about cancer can be prohibitively expensive due to the durations involved.

Who will accept a researcher-imposed dietary restriction for years? Who will follow it without requiring supervision?

These cohort studies are the next best thing. The correlation is with alcohol consumption 10 years earlier, and they looked at the changes in countries' alcohol consumption.
Not going to work. This was settled back in 2013.

See "Application of FinCEN's Regulations to Persons Administering, Exchanging, or Using Virtual Currencies"[1]

A user who obtains convertible virtual currency and uses it to purchase real or virtual goods or services is not an MSB under FinCEN's regulations. Such activity, in and of itself, does not fit within the definition of "money transmission services" and therefore is not subject to FinCEN's registration, reporting, and recordkeeping regulations for MSBs.

So, if you are selling things for Bitcoin, that doesn't make you a money transmitter.

An administrator or exchanger that (1) accepts and transmits a convertible virtual currency or (2) buys or sells convertible virtual currency for any reason is a money transmitter under FinCEN's regulations, unless a limitation to or exemption from the definition applies to the person.

The definition of a money transmitter does not differentiate between real currencies and convertible virtual currencies. Accepting and transmitting anything of value that substitutes for currency makes a person a money transmitter under the regulations implementing the BSA.

But if you swap Bitcoin for USD as a business, in either direction, you're a money transmitter.

Separate from this, there's a threshold of US$1000/day, below which you don't have to register as a money transmitter.

[1] https://www.fincen.gov/resources/statutes-regulations/guidan...
> You could argue that the makers of go-karts are being priced out of the market: after all, the free market should make people put a price on their own safety.

> But the issue is often that people don’t really have a good grasp of what it truly means and you can’t put a monetary number on things like that.

Furthermore, here in Europe everyone pays for health care for everyone to some degree so allowing people to do outrageously stupid stuff ends up increasing the tax for everyone.
Most of the driving I do is in traffic to drop kids at school and pick them up. If I could do anything other than monitor the distance to the car in front of me and resent people cutting the line, it would remove a great deal of stress from my life.
I truly hate driving and find it a colossal waste of time. I always found that since I can drive. I work in the car like I do at home. So yeah self driving cars would be most excellent. Until that time, I make sure I always have someone who finds it pleasurable like yourself. Although day dreaming or meditation would give me some pause; seems both would take away some emergency responses because loss of focus? I rather have someone who actually likes the driving itself and luckily I have a few friends like that.
There’s some cool ideas in here, but you can also just use a git repo that everyone has cloned.
I think they are talking about digitally recording as in motion capture. That probably doesn't happen for a lot of movies he's in.
The general public will lose access to cheap general purpose computers, to the extent that they even exist now. Maybe because it poses a threat but probably most because the general public doesn’t care about general purpose computing. There will be no outcry when it becomes inaccessible to them.

The government can never effectively ban general purpose computing in an authoritative way because it’s just too easy to build a computer. You can build a computer using a bunch of fpgas connected together. If they ban fpgas, hackers will start using 80s-style 8 bit micros.

That is all to say, the people who care about general purpose computing will never lose it and the people who don’t care won’t even notice.