skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an interesting opsec problem. Here is the solution that requires writing more software:

1. Find some friends or people you trust to not sell you out to the police. Ideally, these people should be in another country.

2. Place a server box on their property. This box will be a replica of your every-day home-server and devices.

3. However, in order to stop law enforcement from technically [1] finding this replica-box, you will need to use Tor. This ensures your home-server does not store the ip address or the physical location of the replica-box.

4. If your home-server is taken by law enforcement, you can buy another home-server and use memorized details (or call your friends on a burner phone) to restore a backup from the remote device [2].

[1] Please note that law enforcement can legally compel you with threats of jail time to reveal where these replica boxes are.

[2] Since you will probably be under surveillance, it's unlikely law enforcement will allow you to freely communicate on the internet with new devices and servers.
Suspension of Sci-Hub's twitter account is a shame. This is not new development however, the Twitter account has been suspended since early January 2021 [0,1].

[0]: http://web.archive.org/web/20210109003829/https://twitter.co...

[1]: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/twitter-shuts-down-a...
Probably a karma bot
> it's just ugly and hard to read.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. But, like I mentioned in another comment here, it seems odd to me to criticise on the merit of choice of language on a programmers forum.
Same story as with fractal compression algorithms. Patents shouldn't last that long.
There is only one thing that distinguishes the difference between government and all other social entities:

A monopoly on the use of force.
I find such "pragmatic" viewpoints on climate action quite amusing as in defining what is or isn't feasible, they take social and political aspects as hard constraints but nature forces as negotiable.
Linehan did not get banned for just generally opposing trans rights but for repeated harassment targeted at individuals (specifically instances of accusing trans people of grooming kids)
> Can you please propose a "randomized, longitudinal, controlled trials" one might conduct to figure that out?

This is not a herculean problem. It's essentially the definition of any halfway decent medical study:

* pick a set of measurable endpoints from the pantheon of "long covid" symptoms that are likely to be real. Objectively measurable endpoints should be mixed in with subjective ones (e.g. "fatigue", "loss of smell", "reduced lung capacity", "heart inflammation").

* pre-register these endpoints, so that you can't go back on a fishing expedition later, when your first choices don't pan out.

* pick a set of participants at random (balancing for demographics of interest: age, co-morbidities, weight, gender, etc.)

* measure those endpoints at the start of the study so that you have a pre-trial baseline.

* follow those people over time for the endpoints of interest.

* some percentage will get infected with SARS-CoV2. verify this via testing.

* at the end of the study, compare the group that caught SARS-CoV2 with the ones who did not along the endpoints of interest. compare both groups with their own pre-trial baselines.

This is not the ONLY way of doing such a study, but it would be vastly better than any data currently reported. The biggest challenge is that it has to be done before the pandemic passes, and the number of cases drops too low to get a significant result in a reasonable period of time. The window on this is rapidly closing.

> As a footnote, a year isn't a long time in the world of research. That's sometimes quite literally how long it takes from when you apply for a grant to when funding lands in your account. And you're asking about a phenomenon which often occurs months later.

There have been multiple RCTs conducted during the pandemic, despite the bureaucratic inertia of the academy, and "long covid" is one of the biggest remaining controversies. There's no universe in which you couldn't get funding and approval for such a study in short order.
There is indeed no ambiguity with Korea, but there is a worrying spectrum of hostility - from Russia to china to iran. I detest all of those regimes, but we absolutely must be careful about using a vague characterization as a pretense for the our regime to take arbitrary and unjust actions against us citizens that are have family or are doing legitimate businesses there.
I prefered Thai sticks. I should ask at the mary jane store if I could order some.
Actually now that I look into it again, it looks like since the middle of March of this year it's even possible to invite others without sharing your phonebook.

https://www.blogher.com/social-media/clubhouse-invite-withou...

https://www.gizchina.com/2021/03/16/clubhouse-new-update-use...
The problem for me with dbus is perceived complexity, and lack of community expectations.

Dbus tends to be treated as something developers might use, while AREXX was something regular users used, and expected applications to support.

The technical capability is there, but something is lacking. And that is the case for a lot of things I miss from the Amiga - it's technically easy to replicate datatypes for example.
Oh my bad I didn’t read the full article. Of course, insertion of a gene to do demethylation would be genetic modification.
Greg Egan's novel Permutation City is an excellent read for those who wish to read scifi based on this very premise.
Is writing verilog/vhdl programming?
Right; direct to the point!

I never understood people's fascination for Scott Meyers books (and i own a lot of C++ books). I felt that it sort of clued you in to the microdetails/dark corners but failed to teach actual big picture programming using those same features.
There was no reason solar cell makers couldn't license the patent from the owner.
This is great: I'm learning so much reading this.

It lead me to read the source of the Python "types" standard library module, which really does just create a bunch of different Python objects and then use type() to extract their types: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v3.9.6/Lib/types.py

Some examples from that file:

async def _ag():
yield
_ag = _ag()
AsyncGeneratorType = type(_ag)

class _C:
def _m(self): pass
MethodType = type(_C()._m)

BuiltinFunctionType = type(len)
BuiltinMethodType = type([].append) # Same as BuiltinFunctionType
Yeah... I don't remember any kind of low-latency high-res VR video-passthrough from 2011 (or anything even close to that year)... not to mention anything at a consumer price point.

I suppose FB now falls under the usual umbrella of Apple criticism: they implemented something well, for which the possibility has been known in the industry for some time, and so we gotta slag on them for not inventing it?

I continue to have strong reservations about an ad company (especially that has such a dodgy history with user privacy) running this platform, but the technical achievements from FBRL are quite (pun intended) real.
If they asked for money, I'd stop using them.
Congress is positioned between "we actually need some functional space industry whose total expenditure cannot rise to high heavens" and "it would be so nice if some government-funded jobs were created in my constituency, so let us make the supply chains as complicated as possible".

I am still positively surprised that they opened up some of the processes to competition.
It's not about having an open mind. I teach children to code, and you'll notice that there are ZERO early coding learning platforms that take a Lisp/Clojure approach. Do you think that is a coincidence or because it's an ugly language that people can't easily read at an early age?
I think pragmatism wins. It seems very likely to me that a safer alternative which has similar characteristics to Linux attracts most of the users and contributors and thus renders Linux irrelevant. Once upon a time it seemed like there was no practical way that could be done, but today not so much.

This is in some sense a co-operative, but it's first and foremost technical. A co-operative farm feels a duty to consider Jim's irrational dislike of corn when deciding what the farm should grow. On the one hand, this land is very suitable for corn, there is a need for it, and they have all the equipment, on the other hand, Jim hates corn. But the technical focus means that although Jim's dislike of corn is respected in the LKML, it doesn't override the technical decision that clearly we should grow corn.

Among non-experts you can end up with lengthy arguments about how "good" C programmers don't make the mistakes Rust defends against. Those arguments won't last five minutes on the LKML because everybody there considers themselves a "good C programmer" and has made those mistakes.

One big technical obstacle to Rust was allocation. In C all your allocation is explicit, so that's kernel policy. A line of code that seems to simply assign a to b, for example, must not in fact secretly allocate resources. The ordinary day-to-day Rust you write does have some implicit allocation, but the Rust-for-Linux people landed changes so that you can have core and much of alloc in Linux but lose features that have implicit allocation.

Unless there's a hitherto unforeseen technical blocker, Rust in Linux seems inevitable at this point. They have a list of unstable features they're requiring -- expect over the next months either things get crossed off (having meanwhile become stable) or removed from Rust-for-Linux in favour of an alternative. Unlike Firefox I'm guessing Linus has no appetite for living on the bleeding edge, so I think once Rust-for-Linux is just stable Rust, it'll make its way towards the Linus tree.
Realistically, what stage of testing/maturity starship need to pass so that SLS is officially cancelled?
Not everything in life is nor should be about financial gain.
Not relevant to the original topic, but yeah. I'm still an individual, private user of dyn, and when oracle bought them, what they charge me jumped significantly. Moving to another provider is just low enough on my priority list that it has happened yet, but I'm not happy about it.
The UDS API has a particular property that allows the receiver to know the PID of the caller. The SPIFFE/SPIRE project uses this to perform introspection of a process and distribute certificates based on the results of that inspection. It is a really great tool to use in systems engineering.
> This emergent quantum phenomena view implies there are a set of basic models transmitted or generated at conception.

Why do you say that?

The brain and it’s cells certainly have a lot of structure that’s baked in from inherited genetic and epigenetic information. I don’t see what that has to do with whether conciseness is dependent on quantum effects.
From the intro: "2018 is an exciting time to be a programmer, with so many good “full service” programming languages to choose from: C, C++ 2017, Go, Python, Rust and who knows Swift too.". What does the author means by "full service" here?
Show HN: Ever wanted Sheldon Cooper to teach you a lesson on quantum mechanics?
True but coastal fishing is all but gone. Now they are competing with Russia, China and Japan on international waters.
Lending a prototype to your biggest investor is not the same as selling a car to a consumer.
In my experience, typically a codebase that has grown organically in a different direction than the original design, and where the cost of refactoring is not deemed worth it.
> It's almost like there's variability in the readings. If only someone would invent a subspeciality of mathematics about how to interpret noisy data and attempt to draw conclusions about the results.

Yes, I mention the high variance. And indeed there are standard ways to interpret the effect size magnitude, given noisy data. The authors chose not to report Cohen's d. They do provide an r value (.16), which we can use to compute the the coefficient of determination. Since you are an advocate for reliance on traditional statistical interpretations, you should appreciate the meaning of r^2=.025

Furthermore the authors report a P=.01. They bootstrap this P, presumably because alpha significance level after multiple comparison adjustment renders cutoff well below .01. They also claim no a priori hypothesis wrt. gray matter increase or decrease. A 2-tailed alpha is typically shifted from p<.05 to p<.01 which their measured P value does not surpass. Nevertheless they claim statistical significance. Finally, after normalization, there is roughly an equal chance any given person will have more or less gray matter after getting covid - this doesn't require one to glean the importance of each ounce of gray matter to understand the effect size is small. I contend there is good reason this study has not yet passed peer review, if it ever will.
Sure. Not a source but still interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovD0aLdRUs0 (Why Can't we Remake the Rocketdyne F1 Engine?)

TLDR: everything was handcrafted, notes were not made or lost, people have retired or passed away and today's engineers don't know the tricks that the original engineers used. Effectively, existing blueprints are not enough to rebuild the engine.
I teach children to code, and you'll notice that there are ZERO early coding learning platforms that take a Lisp/Clojure approach. Do you think that is a coincidence or because it's an ugly language that people can't easily read at an early age?
Lived in Philadelphia from college years in the mid 2000s up until about 2019.

It is a great city that is extremely walkable, has passable public transit, a tech giant (Comcast) and lots of hospitals and universities boosting the local economy. It saw a rebirth beginning with revamping its Center City district and Broad Street in the late 90s/early 00’s that has radiated outward to other areas.

The problem with Philadelphia is that it is a city that is unable to take the next step to maintain its pace of improvement. The mayor and city council are unwilling to perform city-wide street cleaning out of fear of blowback from South Philly lifers who would then have to move their 6 cars once every two weeks. They currently cannot even collect residential trash on time on a weekly basis due to an overworked and understaffed sanitation department. Their transit is underfunded, partially due to them being a blue city in a state where most of the legislature is from rural red counties that would rather build barely used highways than extending their subway or commuter rail. And last but certainly not least, the opioid crisis makes the area around Kensington and Allegheny look like something from a third world country. The city seems to have no solution other than evicting the addicts from their current encampment every year or so, which just results in them setting up shop a few blocks over.
We went down to one income for a period of time when we had two kids pre-school-age. Even with the lower income being substantial [white collar professional], the effect after taxes (this income would be taxed entirely at our highest marginal rate, of course) would be "working for no net cash every month, missing the kids' youngest years, having dramatically reduced household flexibility, and the only benefits being gap-less employment and retirement account contributions".

That seemed like a terrible trade, so we opted out. Opting out was by far the best decision for our family. I might have to work one extra year to fill in the gap of the “missed” retirement contributions. Or maybe I won’t, if we scale back our retirement lifestyle aspirations or are willing to take slightly more risk/leave less inheritance, any of which are still better for the kids.
That is interesting, but just thinking, there are things that humans can do "out of the box" so to speak like face recognition and language acquisition and more.
> The simple fact is we need to build enough dense housing to "devalue" the existing events in terms of their rent revenue, and the private sector will be loath to do that.

Why this reminds me of treating workers as caged hen? Dense in the sense of building complexes of decent size family homes? That I could support, but building blocks of shoebox flats, should really be eliminated.

The supply of residential housing should be at a level, where buying or renting from a private sector could be considered an option, not a necessity. Local governments should be allowed to rent houses from private investors, but pricing should be strictly regulated, so that residential property is not viewed as an investment, but rather as a way of getting maintenance money for idle properties.

Residential property investment should be treated as carts and horses of economy and become the past.
Indeed. If you told my hippie parents in the 1970s that it would take this long for weed to be decriminalized they would have promptly woven a macramé noose and hung themselves behind the outhouse at the commune.
> The only thing worth selling in storefronts is services.

The downside of Amazon is lack of selection for quality. I prefer to go to brick-and-mortar stores if I need a minimum acceptable quality of e.g. bedclothes. On Amazon you get 1000s of low quality products from China and no real help discerning better choices (reviews are fake, price is no indicator, specs/info by the seller is not reliable).
Their platform their rules. Scihub can create their own twitter.

Edit /s for those missing the point
My cheat code for research publications is to go to a University library on weekends, one of the universities that will actually let you in if you're not a student or staff, and download all the publications I want or need onto a USB stick.

But none of the stuff should be behind paywalls in the first place if it was funded by the government of any nation. Good luck fixing that.
Because the internet is not trying to be an agent in this world, it is a simple tool.

There is nothing magical about this: consciousness is obviously a complex computational process that has evolved over millions or billions of years. It is a good solution to the problem of navigating the world as a living thing.

Saying 'you need an extremely complex computational system to have consciousness' does not entail that any extremely complex computational system is conscious (incidentally, this is also the mistake that the integrated information people make).
Also importantly, the gases are concentrated at power plants.

Less CO, CO2, nitrogen compounds, and brake dust (possibly containing asbestos!) near residential and commercial areas is a good thing.

I had been holding onto my ICE car because "well maybe it's better to keep a used car" but now I wonder if I should trade to a 2-year-old used PHEV.
If it's so easy, why are none of the early code learning platforms employing Lisp or Clojure? An honest answer is that it's too hard to read for children who are learning. It's not easy, saying it is doesn't make it so. Ask a kid if it's easy.
> That still becomes prohibitive for >10 papers sought. Then you need institutional access, something like Sci-Hub, or a lot of patience.

That's a fraction of the citations on most interesting papers. I'm not a practicing scientist (now or ever) so my access patterns are different but every time I explore a topic in academic journals that process becomes prohibitively expensive almost immediately. Even when I had institutional access it was a pain in the ass - without SciHub every doi is a game of subscription roulette.
> As someone who hasn't used social media in 5+ years, what do these social networks need to do to make you quit using them?

HN is social media (we’re here posting things and socializing, right?), so I’m assuming you’re referring to Twitter and Facebook type sites instead of social media in general.

I admit that I’ve used sci-hub a lot, and I strongly agree that publicly funded research shouldn’t be hidden behind paywalls.

However, ethical debates aside, I also have to admit that sci-hub’s activities are violating copyright law, whether we like it or not. I’m not going to pretend to be surprised when public companies choose to suspend accounts which violate their policies. If anything, it’s helpful to have consistent guidelines for what is and isn’t against their policies. Obviously they can’t have perfect enforcement of every Tweet and every account, but I can’t really blame a company for consistently enforcing policies which are consistent with the law.

As for social media: I’m a light Twitter user, but I don’t go to the site for Twitter itself. I go for the connections I’ve made on the site. Most of the people I know who are boycotting Twitter for whatever reason aren’t people who actually liked using the site in the first place, so their boycott isn’t really much of a statement.

Likewise, I don’t use Twitter or Instagram or HN or any other website as my exclusive source of interaction, so one site’s enforcement of their honestly quite consistent policy isn’t some sort of dire threat to my freedoms. By now, we’re all well aware that no website is perfect and no social media platform can keep everyone happy at scale. If I rage quit every site that did anything anywhere that I didn’t fully like, I wouldn’t have many social platforms left (HN included)

Refusing to use any platform unless they act in perfect lockstep with our own desires is not a realistic expectation at scale.
> we now know rent control isn't bad

Huge ask that we all accept that conclusion from the speech you linked.
Douglas Adams really sums it up:

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
Correction: total accused is 4.4% of clergy. The percentages above are based on this cohort
holy crap, thanks for the memories! I remember bamboozle, and also, I think on Channel 4, the "Tea Time Quiz", where you had to answer a question and be the first to phone in the correct answer, I remember winning on a couple of occasions!
Yeah, I’ve watched a lot of effort going in to avoiding vendor lock-in that seemed like it was basically a waste of everyone’s time.
Of the last 22 years, Democrats have had control of all three branches of California's government for 14 of them, including all of the last 10. Besides those 14 years, no party has ever had unanimous control of California.
It’s not that secret. fossil fuel companies are pushing “blue hydrogen” (ie regular fossil fuel produced hydrogen plus carbon capture) pretty aggressively. Of course, you can just not do the carbon capture step to save cost, and boom, you’re still using fossil fuels with climate impact just as bad as before.

Anyway, green hydrogen is good, and while it won’t ever be as cheap for vehicles as electrification (and the vehicle costs are higher for fuel cell vehicles, too), it is important for industrial uses of hydrogen, like iron ore reduction to metal and ammonia fertilizer.

There was a time in the 2000s when natural gas based hydrogen was about $2.50/kg. I think we can get green hydrogen down to that level at large scale. Biggest question is really the electrolyzer capital cost as renewable electricity is already cheap enough.
> Neither random nor deterministic, but free.

What does that mean, though? It seems to me that a mixture of randomness and determinism covers all logically possible systems. I don't understand what "free" is supposed to represent at all. The Free Will Theorem is about certain events not being a function of the past, but does it exclude randomness? How does it do that?
Some people want social media to be a force for political change and social justice. I think this is a mistake and goes beyond what those platforms are suitable for.

Personally I just want to share my photography with friends. Social media works great for that. I'll probably never quit.
It's irrelevant. For Congress, SLS is primarily a jobs program. They want it to continue as long as they can make up any reason to do that, regardless of the practical use.