skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have been hearing of this in the type 1 diabetes community for some time and it sounds very promising.

As the article explains, the main risk of insulin use is hypoglycemia, which is essentially the result of an insulin overdose. When you dose insulin, you have to carefully match it to the carbohydrates you subsequently consume and the glucose your liver secretes. Too little insulin and you will have high blood glucose, too much and you will suffer low glucose. Highs are uncomfortable and risky long term, but lows are very uncomfortable and immediately dangerous.

For insulin to stop working once your glucose got to 75-80 would be perfect. If the insulin also stayed there and activated as soon as your glucose went up, that might be even better than having a fully functional pancreas.
Or, like in the case of Ethereum’s DAO hack, they can hyper-narrowly renege on “code is law” for this one case, where the logic error affects politically connected leaders, which is soooo much better than the corrupt legal system it’s replacing.
We're using Deno for some small projects at Hack Club. We open source everything. Code for them should be somewhere in https://github.com/hackclub/hackclub.

In particular, we've been using it to replace some bash and Ruby scripts we had.
Aha, again, the monicker that all crypto is a gradually growing bug bounty remains true.
They wanted to keep feeding stdin that’s why. Their 2+2 is just a placeholder for something bigger, which could even be several lines of input that they wanted to prepend, followed by manual input.

In other words they are talking about initiating a REPL session with some initial input followed by manual input.
> Fragmentation of a platform is bad, and Linux Desktop is so fragmented

This is the point I'm making though. There is fragmentation on the desktop (even if we just stick to window managers, display managers, desktop environments). But there's fragmentation EVERYWHERE. I can choose from thousands of distros, in numerous package formats, with different opinions on that collection of software and its default configuration.

Linux Desktop is fragmented but no worse, IMHO, than elsewhere. I'm not saying it's a good thing, but some people do like the choice otherwise those other choices wouldn't exist.

Android is also a prime example of the same thing.
I work(ed) for a mRNA therapeutics company and bought stock in Moderna in Nov 2020. Sold not too shortly after for what I thought was a sweet 150% gain.

If I had just held I would be up over 500% right now, kicking myself.
Just institute universal paternity testing and that can never happen.

BTW the technology exists (and have been sold for nearly 20 years) to determine paternity, sex and genetic diseases in an infant 2-6 weeks after CONCEPTION from the mother's blood.
This concept is explored in the second sequel to "2001: A Space Odyssey", "2061", albeit without approaching relativistic speeds.

Clarke explores the idea that in a future where fusion reactors can be built, a spacecraft can have a fusion-powered motor for which the fuel is simply water. In the book, a spacecraft travels from Earth (or maybe Mars, it's been a while since I read it) to Jupiter, and does it the "brute force" way by simply pointing at Jupiter and thrusting at 1G until they are half way there, and then turning around and slowing down at 1G until they arrive.

This has the bonus side effect of allowing the spacecraft to have normal gravity inside it.
Hopping on Firefox 91
Apparently a lot of the CSAM on Tumblr were Snapchat selfies.
Sadly remembers me a lot of python 2 to 3 transition. Some companies never upgraded, and never will (left one because of this, among other things). Some others facing such a big and difficult change took it s step forward and moved to slowly transition to other languages. Hope this isn't as bad, but looks too similar to me.
How much does it cost to make all these 20 micron strips of lithium? Is the resulting anode fragile?
Right, I think there would only be once chance to do it as I also think states would raise their voter registration residency requirements.

So it would require a SuperPAC to get people to move from Democratic areas to the select Republican and swing counties at once, or heavily helped by existing and pandemic net migration.
I'm not interested in returning to the office to work in the noisy open floor plan. If they gave me an office I'd consider it but I doubt they would ever do that.
Is it hard to ignore?
Hidden surveillance cameras inside hotel rooms are exceedingly rare. There have been a few isolated incidents where perverted creepy employees installed hidden cameras in rooms but it's not legal or tolerated in the legitimate hotel industry.

There are certainly cameras in hotel public areas where no one has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Intuition is nice, but it can send you in the wrong path.

A typical case is what to do when it's cold. Most people prefer to close all the windows and turn on the heating to prevent getting cold and catching the flu or a common cold. (That is a very confusing name.) But we know they are caused by virus, so it's better to keep the windows as open as possible and use warm cloth. (Unless there is a blizzard outside.)
Github Copilot++.

Looks pretty amazing.

More details: https://openai.com/blog/openai-codex/
I highly recommend Regolith Linux (which can also just be installed as a package on Ubuntu).

It offers a nicely setup i3 tiling WM, without having to do any configuration, and things like external displays, bluetooth and so on working out of the box, since it relies on various pieces of GNOME to do that.
> Would be good to have a reliable setup to do this from iPhone and Android devices.

I'm curious what you mean by this "reliable setup" part. Can you elaborate?
All of those countries set how much they'll pay for insulin. They have price controls. The USA does the opposite; requires governmental medical insurance providers NOT to bargain with pharma companies and instead explicitly requires them to pay whatever price the pharma company sets.

Low prices could come from either a) a robust, competitive market in producing and selling insulin or b) governmental price controls. The USA explicitly chooses not to have either. Other countries typically choose b) backed up by a threat of a) (if you're a pain in the ass over our negotiated price controls, we'll go source a large supply of insulin from somewhere else).
Hmm, this (or a previous) fire is already visible in the Google Maps satellite view.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sulaibiya,+Kuwait/@29.2573...

However, the tire pile arrangements look different than in the photo in the article...
LMDB is an embedded database engine, the same as Berkeley DB, gdbm, ndbm, etc. (except gdbm/ndbm/etc don't support multithreading, ACID transactions, various other stuff that are essential to DB operation). You use them to build other data management systems. Thus, there was a Berkeley DB backend for MySQL, just as there was a Berkeley DB backend for OpenLDAP. As storage engines go though, LMDB outclasses all the others for compactness, robustness, and efficiency.

The eternal debate over app-level caching is always based on the myth that the DB application knows better about the data access patterns than the underlying kernel ever can. This may be true for some data structures, but is irrelevant in the modern computing landscape. The fact is that applications today are running on multi-tenant VMs/containers/etc and only the hypervisor and kernels have a comprehensive view of the resource demands of the entire system. Back in the days when Oracle servers ran on dedicated hardware, it was practical for the DBMS to take all decision making away from the OS, but that is not how computing is done today.

Today your apps are sharing resources with countless other unknown apps, and any cache/memory optimizations your app may attempt are futile and instantly nullified by the actions of other unrelated apps in other unrelated VMs/containers.

Also, as I mentioned above, the data structures make a difference. LMDB relies solely on OS page caches because only the underlying virtual memory manager really knows what's going on in the system, and also, B+trees are inherently the most cache friendly. Your app-level data access patterns just aren't going to outperform them. The tree structure inherently optimizes for LRU cache mgmt; the tree root is always hit on every access, so it is always most-often-and-recently-used. As accesses navigate down the tree to the leaf nodes, each node is successively less frequently used. The net result is that the root and interior branches naturally stay hot in a cache, and the leaf nodes naturally age out fastest, resulting in optimal cache hit rates for any access pattern.

In a modern multi-tenant environment there is no scenario where an app has enough knowledge to make optimal resource mgmt decisions and outsmart the underlying OS.
Thinking about suffering in a comparative / absolute sense is often pointless and doesn't do anything to alleviate the suffering. Asking someone "Do you know how privileged you are" reeks of condescension and lacks empathy.

What you're doing is not helpful. I'd be surprised if you were actually trying to make the OP feel better.
>Extracurricular activities are a way for US students to stand out in terms of college admissions.

You are of course correct, but I think the parent comment is implying that this is a rather unfortunate situation. I agree with him to a large extent.

My experience with the French system has left me with the sense that American schooling has to some extent cheated me out of an education. On the other hand, I look at my wife (and other "prépa" students as well) and conclude that they suffer from a certain lack of imagination and intrinsic motivation, both of which have personally benefitted me greatly, and which I attribute to something in American culture.

As my wife puts it (I'm paraphrasing, obviously): "We were never asked what we enjoyed doing; if you were a good student, you were put on the good-student-track, which was a math/science-heavy curriculum. To this day, I don't really know what I want to do; I just know what I can do, and I feel an obligation to excel at it." She's an absolute brute at math, but she doesn't like it, and I think she would have been much happier studying something like literature.

So my feeling on the matter the French educational system is one of ambivalence, overall. Nevertheless, I am convinced the US has strayed much too far in the other direction.
I more or less had understood that what was meant by "zero was invented" is zero as used in a positional number system. In other words, the digit zero, not the quantity zero.
It's ridiculous to suggest that this was somehow all nefariously intended by Google et al. How do you then explain that's what Firefox has done all the way up until now?

No -- it's just how cookies were meant to work from the start, the most obvious implementation before the privacy/security/tracking implications got worked out, which has taken many years.

And Google's working to make similar improvements to Chrome:

https://blog.chromium.org/2020/01/building-more-private-web-...

So not "insane" at all. To the contrary, it was entirely reasonable at the beginning, and now we see browsers reasonably addressing the problems that have arisen.
How politicians will abuse this:

-upload hash of meme you find offensive that the political opposition is using to subvert your authority

-receive addresses of ‘offenders’
No, I'm CTO at a small NGO in Bogotá that models the effects of government policy. Which I got because a friend started the NGO. So I guess I'm not evidence that such opportunities are rife.

But they do seem to be. Native English speakers are quite valuable in their own right here. And there's a strong big-fish-small-pond effect if you're an expert in something. Research tends to be written in English, as does documentation.
em and rem are relative to properties on other nodes in the document's CSS hierarchy; they're not relative to some screen-size specific metric.

I've not studied the topic in any depth, but I believe that an adaptive ruleset would just use CSS media queries (use this font size when viewport width is more than something). That is what Bootstrap does. Or, use viewport-relative units like vw, vh, vmin, vmax, but I doubt that would work well.
So the reasoning is there's a Google corporate stooge sending secret emails to Mozilla, telling them "if you ever make a bookmark system better than ours, we'll pull all our Google funding"?

I'm going to stick with Hanlon's razor and assume making a better bookmark system is non-trivial.
This one is actually hilarious because of the messages onchain. People, including the hacker, are adding plain text to their transactions' metadata field to communicate.

But also, insurance products exist, they pay out pretty reliably. Are there any DeFi insurance products that would be able to cover $600M yet?

edit: some people seem to misunderstand, DeFi insurance products exist, the policies are not too expensive and they pay out reliably and quickly. The math is easy because of the transparency of "semi-untraceable internet money" and the Defi sector being much larger than any of the hacks. There are a lot of competitors in the insurance space. It is easy to make and rely on a claim because the damage is easily seen and verified for the policy holder. There are several sectors in the Defi space, such as AMMs, oracles, lenders, and some of those sectors are driving sentiment and attention more than others. Insurance is one of those sectors. My question was whether any of the insurance systems would be able to cover $600M, right now, it wasn't to entertain out of touch people's pre-existing skepticism.
Yeah, exactly this. If you think of it like waving a garden hose back and forth it's very clear why this is flawed logic. Also because of quantization the further away you put the target surface, to try to raise the "speed" of the not actually existing point, the more discontinuous it becomes.
Article seems to resolutely believe that the entities 600MM+ years ago could not understand numbers and thus counting emerged recently many times over in parallel across a variety of species [1], but provides nothing to back up this claim ([2] is not supported beyond “an expert said).

This is an odd claim —- based on the neural network experiment (which showed that gradient descent applied to object detection problems naturally results in the development of “counting” signals), it seems much more likely that for as long as beings have been interacting with their surroundings they’ve been able to count, and any modern slight differences in counting infrastructure are simply a divergence of the original counting machinery rather than the same thing being invented over and over by evolution in many different ways, but only recently (for some reason..?)

> The fact that those three species are from diverse taxonomic groups — primates, insects and birds — suggests that certain numerical abilities have evolved over and over again throughout the animal kingdom.

> Their last common ancestor “was [barely] able to perceive anything,” Avarguès-Weber said, much less count.
The reason is that Android part of Firefox got a complete rewrite when they switched to the new engine. They switched from a deeply integrated system over to a more separated frontend for GeckoView, a generic Webview component based on Gecko. This change implied a lot of changes, particularly to the UI and framework surrounding the existing addon code.

Secretly, a lot of addons will run just fine. You can install them in the Firefox nightly through the "secret settings" (tapping the Firefox logo in the about screen seven times) by creating an addon collection and stuffing the right ID in your browser.

I can say the new engine is notably faster and the UI is easier to use for basic tasks, but all of the features that made me switch to Firefox on Android in the first place have been removed. Slightly nonstandard features ("being able to use your own CA" or even "being able to ignore TLS warnings") took years to implement, and logging into a website with a client certificate is still not possible.

They even took about:config from us in the stable builds, because they consider their users babies that will change random settings and break something. Firefox has dropped all support for power users and has focused on becoming Chrome 2.0, a goal which I don't think they'll ever be able to accomplish. If you don't follow the standard workflow of the 80% who forget to disable Mozilla's stalking, you're no longer important.

I'm still on Firefox but every day I'm nudged closer to just switching to Bromite instead. The lack of proper addon support was understandable at first, but by now I hoped to have some decent addon support back already. I guess the team working on it must've gotten culled so Mozilla's CEO could afford their pay raise.
The world kept turning all these years before people got unreasonably paranoid about cookies and ad networks. I think it's all pointless theater. I wish Mozilla would focus more on browser customizability and other extension powers like we used to have with XUL and bringing the mobile browser up to speed instead. I couldn't care less about a Facebook tracking cookie.
It can be both true that you're earning many times more than an average worker, and still severely underpaid compared to the value you've created for your employer.

The wealth inequality in the world is just staggering. You may be well off to the point money is not an problem for you, and still be piss-poor compared to your company's CEO and shareholders.
Right - and I guess the way you got an exception made was by making a fuss… which means it’s just as personality driven as before and isn’t really the open system it thinks it is.
This got me thinking about the recent school policies for equity. Schools reduce difficulty of courses, lower standards for graduation, and cancel gift programs, all in the name of equity. I think in the long term such policy changes will hurt disadvantaged families. Family with means will simply send their kids to good tutoring schools, and the education gap among different groups of people will enlarge. It is the kids in the middle, the future backbone of our society, who will suffer most because they need strong guidance and skillful push to truly learn, yet they won't get such education because of the watered-down standards.
> See: https://theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2021/02/11/response-to-fla...

Everything in that reference basically says "yep the criticism is valid" and in a few cases the author expands on that with "but it's ok because..." and then lists various reasons why it's fine that it's still a problem but that's it's being worked on. They also had to correct a good chunk of just outright incorrect information they were supplying mid-post about system updates.

One item was addressed, which was that flatpak now notifies the user that sandbox escapes are possible based on the app's configuration.

As a response to the criticisms, it's not a great one.

Consider also, there are better ways that some of these issues could have been tackled. Why not have flatpak prompt for permissions as they're used, e.g.: "This app wants to open your home directory" rather than at install-time. That would make it abundantly clearer to the end users this is aimed at.
> about 75,000 sqft eyeballing it on Google Earth, apparently only a bit smaller than the average Walmart

The average Walmart is twice that size at ~180,000sqft.
> At the moment Apple's scanning policy is about the same as it was before. They claim they're only scanning photos if iCloud photos are enabled. The change they're advertising is doing the actual scanning process locally.

Major difference is, that they have no access for other images anymore as they used to have. They leave device as encrypted. Images used to be plaintext in the eyes of Apple.

> The problem is two fold. The first is Apple went from scanning only explicitly uploaded content to local content. Since they've decided to intrude on local content once "for the children" it's not out of the realm of possibility (if not likely) they will make further intrusions in the future for prima facie noble reasons. Are third party apps going to be restricted on saving data unless they allow access to Apple's CSAM scanner? Will it start scanning texts or e-mails tomorrow letting and rando flood a person's phone with CSAM and get them arrested? Adding a local scanning system like this is a slippery slope.

Emails have been scanned for long time in the cloud already. The rest is only speculation and against what they have told. It might be hard to trust, but in closed systems it is all we have. We should be worried when they actually say or start doing that.

> There's plenty of places where homosexuality is punishable by death and even mildly anti-government content will land you in jail.

It is fair to not trust third parties (NCMEC/ICMEC), but Apple is responsible for making the algorithm and testing that. Misuse must be part of their tests at this level. iCloud photos used to be plaintext so this hasn't changed from that perspective. If there is evidence that they are scanning other images outside of iCloud as well, then we should get the pitchforks and torches.

> We don't even have a way of knowing if some image we have tripped a false positive and have to trust Apple's unknown "threshold" isn't 1. So not only does the public, the subject of these new intrusions, have no way of auditing the database but they have no way of auditing the code or process.

This isn't true, since all math of their system is public and available on here: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Apple_PSI_System_Secu...
But code is as closed as always been. You have same level of trust for iMessage E2EE or even the screen lock of your phone.

Due to the way how system is expected to behave (it only looks existing matches from the provided data, with certain modifications), it is certainly possible that 1/1 trillion false positives is reachable, because they can validate it during development. They are not developing some AI to match totally new wild images. There is human validation, so nothing is automatically triggering police.
> In countries where the social safety net fully pays for such health issues (this includes Germany), the cost of cancer patients is itself a tremendous strain on the system.

This is a great point, and there are also knock-on effects to consider. Say, the parent, child or sibling that removes themselves from the workforce to give daily care and ferry a patient to and from treatments.
Part of schooling is learning and showing you can follow a specific set of instructions. As long as one was taught how to do long multiplication, I do not see the purpose of taking into account what every kids' parents taught them if the purpose of the exercise is to learn a certain method and then show that you learned that certain method by doing it.
Have any crypto hackers even been found, let alone punished by the law?
If I'm sitting on a 800K+ property that is essentially equivalent to a 350K property somewhere that ALSO has a Chipotle and less traffic, why not move?

Of course the problem becomes within a few years: I'm sitting on a 550K property and the traffic sucks (again). I'll move somewhere and start a Chipotle. Cycle continues.