skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The democratic issue with Facebook and other SoMes remains as long as there isn’t a record of what people see on their walls.

I’m Danish and our laws regarding advertising may seem a little totalitarian to Americans, but here you have to be rather public about your advertising and who it targets. You obviously can’t tell who exactly sees a poster on a public wall, but you can get a general picture of how advertising is utilised.

The one place you can’t though is on SoMe because there is no record of your personal wall. Facebook at least makes overall spending public now, unlike LinkedIn and others, but no one can tell how the advertising that the money buys is targeted.

This is an issue because hearing something enough times changes your perspective on reality. But more than that, we have to take the SoMes word for it when they say they aren’t targeting children with tobacco, sugar or toy commercials, which is illegal here.

So it’s interesting that Facebook does these things to tools that might track what they won’t willingly provide.
Whichever other countries have the infrastructure to support the required hardware. That's going to keep dwindling if this goes through and other countries follow suit.
They're much more transparent than any of the other car companies. There's also reasonable safety controls that I can understand. They don't apply torque or braking to a level such that I wouldn't be able to intervene. Essentially they can't run you off the road if you're paying attention. I have no clue what the other lane-assist guys do. They're a nameless faceless corporation. No identity, github, forum for issues, contact, nothing but marketing material.

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/commaai-flying-cars-and-...
https://nirvanahq.com/
This one was a US company. Since I knew everyone involved, I’m fairly certain we weren’t a front for the Yakuza. It was fun though, had lots of freedom and could do anything I thought necessary.
I wonder if there will be "reality" tv shows about data hoarders one day. Probably have to wait for data to be easily visualized with VR or AR.

In fact, I really love the idea that I could have to walk to a particular room in order to view a particular set of old photos. Wearing some AR glasses, of course. And that I could grant view access to visitors. Would suck if the photos accidentally glitched through the floor and I had to dig down through a foot of concrete to get them back though.
"It's one of those films that the entire time you watch it, you just think "How could they make this? Why would they make this? Was the world ever really so different that this seemed OK?"

If you enjoy this sort of thing, I highly recommend Alejandro Jodorowky's The Holy Mountain[1], which is both much weirder and far more profound than The 5,000 Fingers.

If you find yourself liking The Holy Mountain I'd recommend Jodorowsky's other masterpieces: El Topo and Santa Sangre.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmR0vi0ifzE
Sure, but I don't blame the Court at times for going "sure, we could reject this, and cause a couple decades worth of clear, widespread harm, which might generate enough political will to push one through" and noping out.
Hasn't been used much. I was kind-of hoping the truly insane surprise "holiday" "Juneteenth" would get a quick 27th amendment challenge to delay it (as an effective pay raise) to the next hopefully less flamboyantly ridiculous Congress. Of courses it wouldn't matter, as it was nearly unanimous.

A tiny, tiny shade of sanity would be nice once in a while, is all.
So are you vaccinated? I feel like this is the entry question to this argument. And if not, why not?
Contrasting "old" predictions with reality is always a learning experience.

This ranking was made a year before an actual pandemic and they had more misses than hits, and understanding why may help with other predictions about the future. At least the ones involving human actions.
Do note that this is pre-print so not peer reviewed. Take it with a pinch of salt until it gets peer reviewed
Can you provide the model of the GPS hardware? I work in the same industry and have set up multiple NTP / PTP timer servers that have never failed to account for leap seconds. It's almost always the downstream software that crashes. See the 2012 leap second insertion as an example.
The languages you've listed generally work as advertised and while you might dislike some of the design decisions or tradeoffs inherent in those decisions, ultimately, they do what they claim to.

The same cannot be said of V.
America's Pandemic Pessimism Returns
From the (linked) sqlite docs:

"In SQLite, the datatype of a value is associated with the value itself, not with its container."

And on the topic of specifically inserting "a" into an INTEGER column:

"If the TEXT value is not a well-formed integer or real literal, then the value is stored as TEXT"
> the Cambridge Analytica scandal quite literally resulted from an academic sharing data they promised they wouldn't

> the first bulk of the argument is dedicated to they reviewed their own code and it totally checked out

Rather, it's that Mozilla reviewed the code for the Firefox extension that was being hosted on addons.mozilla.org and found that it wasn't collecting any personal data other than what ads are being shown.
They do also have the highest consumer reports rating of all the autopilot-esque systems.
The Constitution of the United States

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcri...
Good lord, yes. I just helped a relative of with poor credit find a place to live and it was only the luck of finding an understanding small time landlord that he isn’t homeless right now. I fear this is only going to get much worse in the future. Lots of places we applied to already automatically rejected him due to his credit score even though I offered to co-sign. Once the whole industry starts using these mechanisms to choose tenants, people with bad credit are screwed.
> …it also makes me feel weird that the first bulk of the argument is dedicated to they reviewed their own code and it totally checked out.

Are you referring to Mozilla reviewing the Ad Observer code? If I’m not mistaken that was built by the university researchers, not Mozilla. Also, the code is open source. As Mozilla says, if you’re uncomfortable taking their word for it, they link directly to the open source Ad Observer code so people can see exactly what it is and is not doing.

I think it’s understandable that you might be uneasy, but we can all see exactly what it’s collecting.
Toronto Nightlife History: Music Genres
I think the question is, can you ever get to the point where storing a lithium-ion battery that large and energy dense is 100% safe? We are clearly going to see a switchover to EVs. If that's the case, building codes may need to adapt.

We have tons of fire and building codes, and they are updated all the time. Why would accounting for EVs be any different than other advances that required updating of codes?
Researchfin AI engine is going to change the world for everyday joe and that’s why I voted for them. They are going to crush it.
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

- John Steinbeck
Particle seems to offer more options and products other than just cellular. But if just looking at the cellular options, my understanding is that both offer an inexpensive, one time fee dev board/module solution for IoT with data.
> I also don't oppose regulations to prevent them from skimping on certain safety features.

> I would expect any remotely competent deployment of delivery drones would be much safer than the delivery automobiles they replace, simply due to the baseline accident rate of automobiles.

Why would you expect that a brand-new, mostly-unregulated technology would be safer than one that is over a century old with a lot of safety regulation in place? Even over the last several decades, safety regulation has reduced the per-mile as well as overall death rate of motor vehicles. [1] Regulation takes time and is often reactionary to large-scale problems.

How do you expect to define a "remotely competent deployment of delivery drones" given the general lack of experience in doing so?

Given the employee churn described in the article, do you think there is a culture of safety in this organization so deep that finding a fundamental+fatal flaw would be grounds for ceasing all drone-deliveries until the flaw is provably fixed?

From the article: “There was a lot of decision making made in the moment without long term thought to it. It was almost slinging shit at the wall and hoping stuff would stick.”

How can you justify better safety from something developed with constant engineering churn, short-term thinking and unreasonable time goals?

[1] https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/yearl...
Damned if they sell ads, like sponsored sites in new tabs, and damned if they don't, instead relying largely on selling defaults.

While I wish donations could sustain a competitive browser, I'll settle for a reasonably independent one. Even if the lion's share of financing is from Google throwing them some bones in exchange for the top search provider slot.

Other browsers have yielded much larger parts of their stacks to Google.
I agree.

Round up everyone who has AIDS.
shes a sociopath as far as the details have been explained.
Oh, zow! I read "Dealers of Lightning" years ago and completely forgot that Pixar was even mentioned. I'm going to have to dig that out.
NSA Urges Government Workers to Avoid Public Wi-Fi
I pre-ordered the 3 but cancelled it three years later when it was finally purchasable (Australia) as my situation changed massively. Went from zero children to two - already bought a new car to fit child seats.
Aren't smaller chunks of debris the ones posing the greatest problems? Like something the size of a rock you can hold in your hand, or even a few cm across? Because my understanding was we can at least avoid large objects for now, but smaller ones are hard to detect in the first place. Do you have any ideas or how to deal with those?
Airyx’s developer may want to say hello to the developers of Hello, who are doing something very complementary to this with UX—and are quite far along already. https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/
No of course not. However, changing a definition away from what billions of people believe doesn't seem productive. If you want to talk about attention, cool, but call it attention. Most religious people don't consider the soul to be a synonym for attention.

It's similar to how some people want to redefine god as the universe. Ok, then just call it the universe, doing otherwise drags all kinds of assumptions and presuppositions that muddy the waters.
The history of the US has been a history of power centralization for good reason, unfortunately. The experiment of decentralized state level authority has been found wanting to the tune of a civil war and a Great depression, both of which were addressed by centralizing federal power.
Anyone looking into providing the coronavac vaccine to the US?

It appears to have the same effectiveness in terms of hospitalization benefits, and appears to be a traditional vaccine.
If you're extremely desperate, you can start adding conditional jitter (somewhere within 5ms - 200 ms) to your load balancer/reverse proxy, such as your NGINX/Envoy/Apache box, which sits in front of your API. You can make the jitter conditional on count of concurrent requests or on latency spikes. It's an extreme last resort, and may require a bit of custom work via custom module or extension, but it is possible.

In general, try to avoid not having any control over the client and if you must lack control over the client (such as if you're a pure SaaS company selling a public API), you can apply jitter based on API key in addition to other metrics I mentioned above.

As better engineers than I used to say at a previous engagemen: "if it's not in the SLA, it's an opportunity for optimization"
I've wondered if there is any relation.

context: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ginapace/2019/11/29/diageo-laun...
Probably a throwaway
>The immune response from the vaccine works like any other type of vaccine immune response.

You are assuming because the mechanism is the same that the effects will be as well - it's like saying "we have this black box service we sort of have an idea of what it does and if we send it X/Y/Z we know what happens, it should work the same with W too - I've been in that scenario often enough to know that's an assumption that I'd rather see the data for.

I already saw that people in my peer group reported short term side effects like headache after getting vaccination, have taken days off from work, family members complained about dizziness the day after.

It's relatively easy to do these studies along with long COVID studies, should be insignificant even compares to money that will be spent on vaccination campaigns - so why skip out on valuable data.
You can use a CHECK constraint with typeof() to enforce static typing. If your SQL DDL is being generated somehow (as opposed to manually written), you could even autogenerate the CHECK constraints.

I wonder why they don't have static typing as an option built-in. It could auto-generate the CHECK constraints necessary if some table-level option is set.
It's worth noting that the original plan was for even less Federal power, and that one fell apart almost immediately.

Power has been moving in a central direction ever since.
You misunderstand the problem.

We’re not talking about the total vaccination rate; it is a matter of how diffuse or concentrated it had to be for a particular locale to minimize variant training. Obviously it brings up questions of fairness thus was avoided by politicians.

> Vaccination is going as fast as possible, and policy was implemented to minimize all mixing of people, not just Vax/unvax.

It was a lofty aspiration but wasn’t/hasn’t been good enough. We could have had different levels of strictness from the beginning when lifting lockdowns, instead of going a full open and betting on a no variant scenario, instead of now with too late of an attempt, which will anger people and won’t be likely to work well.
All Facebook ads have a button that let's you see what advertising targeting the advertiser used to show you that ad.
Disagree. I take the view that you should only insure against risks that would be significant hardships if they occurred. (Maybe a secondary exception if insurance buys you significant peace of mind.)

At this point, I don’t carry collision insurance on our cars (I have liability, of course, but not insurance to pay if we wreck and fault is ours or undetermined.) Why not? Because buying a replacement car wouldn’t be a significant hardship that would be alleviated by the insurance coverage. (Our cars are 2005 and 2015.)
Ask HN: Privacy focused security cameras/doorbell for home
I'm interested in adding a camera door bell and a few additional exterior cameras to my home. I'd like to be able to check them from my phone and record to the cloud. I don't want to run a server myself.

I don't like Amazon's offerings due to privacy concerns and sharing with LEO without warrants. I worry that Google's is similar.

Anyone have any suggestions?
Got it, thank you!
It's more like: why can't I send an agent to get what I need from the warehouse instead of going myself?

I should be able to create my own user agent for a website if I want. I should be able to replace their web application and non-free javascript with my own software.
This is incredibly wrong.

Evolution is incremental. To become vaccine evading, the virus has to have a host it can replicate it, and a host that is a resistant target.

In fact it needs a big pool of them, since once infected develop immunity they no longer produce trial mutations.

So you need a pool of the unvaccinated, coming into frequently, regular contact with the vaccinated in order for any specific vaccine escape to evolve.

This is because, any incremental improvement needs to become a population dominant strain within the unvaccinated population: that you survived in a vaccinated person for a little bit is irrelevant if at the end of the day every virus with that trait dies without spreading.

Even if you successfully do spread from a vaccinated host, you need to either land in another vaccinated host (who then spreads you around: so isolation measures are effective), and while you're doing this you need to develop a better escape system: not guaranteed, because if overall viral loading or time to immunity is shorter, that's less time to generate variants.

But...a good way to optimize this, is to just spread to a pool of unvaccinated people. With luck you retain the vaccine-escape mutations, become dominant within the unvaccinated pool, and then get lots of opportunities to try and infect vaccinated people and get a little further.

This, incidentally, why viral evolution tends to consist of "the virus jumped between species several times" - because crossing a species barrier requires ongoing persistent contact between a host you can replicate it, and one you're trying to cross over into.
> everyone rushing onto twitter to give their opinion about every single happening

Replace Twitter with Hacker News and we have this entire thread. Your original comment on the article is equivalent to:

> Blurting our thoughts out into the ether,

It's a lone comment until someone sees it and decides to engage with it.
I absolutely love hearing songs I like remade in the Mario Paint composer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eFXPibI6-4
Regarding your edit: that's a fair point, I didn't include the headings and the preceding paragraph. I've added them now.

Just FYI, the paragraph before the table says that the table contains all the ways they may use your data.

The headers are "Purpose", "Type of data", and "Lawful basis"
I'm comparing against three different generations (and brands).

A very early powerline adapter that was I think 100Mbit, back in around 2004-2006 I think - it basically didn't work at all, and I got rid of it.

In ~2017 a new set top box came with a pair, but much smaller and sleeker. They worked out of the box, but did need to be powered off and on every month or two.

These new ones, they plugged right in, they delivered 800-900Mbit through iperf3, and the wifi thing, once configured with the right SSID and Password, worked great, and have been stable for about 6 months now.

This is all in the same house, and no major rewiring or renovations have taken place, and using the same sockets. The new deployment included additional sockets in other rooms since it worked so well.
> What do excess deaths of vaccinated people look like?

VAERS currently reports 11,000 deaths (50% in USA mainland) after Covid vaccines. VAERS only has a subset of data on vaccine adverse events, so the true number when private/HMO databases are included will be some multiple (5x to 100x) of the VAERS total, https://openvaers.com/. A German pathologist has estimated that 30% of post-vaccine deaths were caused by vaccination. We need more autopsies in other countries, along with earlier post-vaccine clinical observation, https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

> pathologists therefore worked with public prosecutors, the police and resident doctors, reports Schirmacher. More than 40 people have already been autopsied who died within two weeks of being vaccinated. Schirmacher estimates that 30 to 40 percent of them died from the vaccination. In his opinion, the frequency of fatal consequences of vaccinations is underestimated

Existing Covid vaccines are non-sterilizing, i.e. they do not prevent infection or transmission. In fact, because a non-sterilizing vaccine suppresses symptoms, an infected vaccinated person doesn't know to isolate (unless they get tested after exposure, as recommended by CDC) and can infect others. A non-vaccinated person would show symptoms and can self-isolate, ending the transmission chain.

Natural immunity is sterilizing, i.e. NYC essential workers who have already recovered from Covid are much better for public health than anyone vaccinated with a non-sterilizing Covid vaccine, https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/558757-the-ill-advise...

> During the pandemic, the professional laptop class protected themselves by working from home while exposing the working class that brought them food and other goods. It is now the height of hypocrisy to recognize immunity from vaccinations but not immunity from those exposed while serving the laptop class.

US Covid deaths peaked in early January, three months before US daily vaccines peaked in mid-April (https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/us-daily-covid-vaccine-do...), and VAERS deaths peaked in March-April, https://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?GRAPH=ON&GRO...
I think “being statistically unlikely of a negative outcome” is the wrong argument though. That argument can be made regarding COVID-19 as well as the vaccines, particularly among the largest age demographic currently expressing vaccine hesitation. They are statistically unlikely to die from Covid too.

The best thing to do at least in the US is for the FDA to fully approve the vaccine, both for adults and for children. I suspect you will always have 10-15% that are vaccine holdouts no matter what, but until there is full FDA approval, you will never ever reach 70-75%.
Yeah a lot of people is shadowing Lean and labeling the success as some sort of marketing success.

I digress from this opinion, mainly because I believe that what truly makes Lean shine is not the language itself but what's around it.

I see Lean as something of a Rust in some aspects. It's a relatively young language, created with a good user experience in mind and a really good environment around it: starting from the VSCode integration, Web support, well written documentation, increasing learning resources and great community. It's just so easy to get started and learn.

At the end there are a lot of other options such as Coq, Isabelle, Agda and others. However, what's around the language is in my opinion more important than specific design decision, and this may be part of the current Lean success.
> please re-read my post as someone who is trying to understand them.

You may have convinced yourself that this is true, but I don’t believe it. Your comment was mostly passive-aggressive rhetorical sniping:

> Okay, so then you die. Nihilism is your choice, so that's cool I guess. But your post is about you, and only you, fullstop. There are other people out there, despite whatever solipsistic beliefs you have.

And the “question” you ask at the end reads like just another attack:

> Why is that acceptable to you?
> capital gains of non primary residence is not tax deductible.

I think you’ve stated this oddly at a minimum. Why would capital gains on anything be deductible anywhere? Did you mean losses? Or that there’s an exemption amount that you miss for non-primary?
Mozilla has been pursuing alternative revenue streams for over a decade. It turns out that monetizing a web browser without selling ads is pretty hard. Their current most promising avenue is Mozilla VPN (a partnership with Mullvad VPN): https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/products/vpn/ .
If you live in an area with harsh winters, your battery will degrade faster than usual. Do you want to a frame which is going to outlast an obsolete vehicle?
This looks super cool. Reminds me of GoboLinux a bit but with BSD and the goal of being an open Mac environment. This has my interest cause I'm looking into trying to do something similar but using Linux instead (mainly because of hardware and graphics support) but without the goal of being Mac compatible.

I downloaded the preview ISO. I looks a lot like another BSD project I know that aimed to be an open BSD based Mac desktop. IDK if they renamed the project or if this is the same project I was thinking of.

Screenshots from the Live CD: https://imgur.com/a/q3hp0np