skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is indeed Cloudflare, very strange.

> curl -k https://addons.thunderbird.net/cdn-cgi/trace
I'd be very careful with that. If you suggest something to a customer that causes them to loose money you can be sued and potentially held liable. Becoming an RIA would likely force your product to become hyper conservative in it's approach which perhaps is good if you're billing yourself as a bank account alternative, but also perhaps not your intention.
Shiller PER is at 38.5 [1], signaling overheating. Is it now a wise moment to do an all-in of your savings in an S&P index replica? It is dubious to me. I buy bogleheading in general, but some market timing thinking seems unavoidable to make the choice, specially if one is not young and comes from a zero investment prior.

[1] https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe
> mainly China, India and Russia.

nope, not Russia

Russia is one of the few countries building nuclear.

"A share of nuclear power plants (branches of Rosenergoatom Concern, part of ROSATOM’s Electric Power Division) in the energy mix of Russia was 20.28% in 2020. In 2019, this indicator was 19.04%."

"CO2 emissions decreased by -2.13% over the previous year (2015), representing a decrease by -36,108,200 tons over 2015, when CO2 emissions were 1,698,007,500 tons.
CO2 emissions per capita in the Russian Federation are equivalent to 11.44 tons per person (based on a population of 145,275,383 in 2016), a decrease by -0.27% over the figure of 11.71 CO2 tons per person registered in 2015; this represents a change of -2.3% in CO2 emissions per capita."
If muzzle energy was used in the definition of a firearm, then high-powered air rifles would get reclassified as firearms.
> saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”

Replace “nothing to say” with “nothing offensive to say” and you actually would have a lot of people agreeing with you.
>> The motivating concern was that service providers who do already scan for this kind of abuse material (everywhere in the world) were at risk of having to disable such scanning entirely for EU citizens due to privacy laws.

I'm curious if this was a situation where they might have decided that scanning was more important given the implications of processing CSAM? It seems like this is a way for authorities to influence any data processor.

The Apple news last week seemed to come out of the blue and it felt a bit like a trade-off to get out from under the authorities to some degree. This is just conjecture though.
What is an SPV? And who uses them?
Submitting to what I see as overreaching propaganda when my own county has reached herd immunity is stupid plain and simple. Whoever thought of the idea to "blame the unvaccinated" as a strategy lost my cooperation because the stats say our rural community already succeeded.

Why isn't the guidance a bit more tailored?

"If your community is below herd immunity ur gonna have bad time mmmkkk, especially if you have comorbidities"

Instead in popular media it seems to be edging towards:

"Vaccinate the babies in the womb!!! Its the only way to be sure!!!"

Now the above is absurd today but 2 years ago if someone told you where we'd be today would you have believed them?

Vaccinating every man woman child was not the original bargain. A renewed discussion is needed with a clean slate. I don't think we even have an agreed set of goals anymore nor common modelling which explains the choices.
Every year you will receive the necessary paperwork from us to file your taxes. While there will be many trades, you can usually combine them into just one line on your tax return that sums them all up.

That's correct, because your money is invested, this is not FDIC insured.
The only winner? Senate
The only winner? Senate.
Protonmail uses PGP and not "home-brewn encryption" and encryption is on by default between Protonmail users.
I think we're still talking past each other.

My thesis is that the reason there are not sufficent oil alternatives, is that the people who benefit from oil being burned for fuel have made sure that is the case.

The quick and simple way to a) make use of all existing alternatives where feasible and desireable and b) ensure a market exists for people to develop new alternatives is to introduce a carbon tax that accounts for the externalities.

That has been a hard task (though we've made some limited headway) and it was not technical challenges that held us back but political.

Your argument is the equivalent of a King saying, "Well, that sounds great in theory but democracy is too technically difficult", "No it's not" "Well if it's so easy why hasn't it already happened yet" "Because you murdered anyone who suggested it" "Oh yes, so I did".
Congrats on the launch! Few questions:

1. Do you think there's an opportunity for you to obtain 3rd-party insurance on deposits, as a sort of middle ground between uninsured deposits and FDIC?

2. How/why did you choose to partner with Fidelity?

3. Have you launched on any other financially-focused websites? If so, how was your product received by those crowds?

4. Out of curiosity, what tech are y'all building with?

Best of luck!
I'd go for money. What I've discovered during my career is that passion and work do not mix very well. You might like programming, but as your career advances you'll be doing less and less of it. At senior level, tech roles become semi-tech.
How am I supposed to keep the party that I did not vote for (25% did) accountable? Nobody is gonna disrupt the government because of "such small issues".
Cryptocurrency Tax Evasion and National Security Threats
I know little about SSL certificates. Could someone tell me why they should expire regularly? Is it for precaution? Is it just because "good practices". What's the difference (from a security point of view) between a certificate that expires in 3 months and one that expires in 3 years?
> More IQ seems to often result in a superior capacity to rationalize delusional thinking.

Oh, yes. You can tie yourself up in knots. You can blind yourself to the truth. This is why virtue goes hand in hand with wisdom. Without virtue, you're a fool. Or, if you prefer, stupid. No respect can be extended to foolishness. There is no tragic greatness to be found here, only pathetic degeneracy.

As someone once said, in order to believe the 100 stupidest ideas ever conceived by the human mind, all you need is a PhD.
At least there will be fewer people in Japan suffering from the climate changes over the next century.
Edit: This information is apparently outdated, see discussion below.

> # Why should I trust you with my secrets?

> All secrets are encrypted end-to-end, which means the plaintext values never leave your device. We do not log, track, share, or store the encryption key that protects your secret. You can check the client code to learn more about how we create the encryption key as well as what data is being sent to our servers.

Those are all good, but ultimately don't really answer the question when the decryption key is part of the URL. If you wanted to avoid the necessity to trust secure.sniptt.com the decryption key should at least have been placed inside the fragment. Then you could at least verify if it's being sent to the server or not. As it is it's definitely sent to the server, you'll just have to trust them that they wont use it for anything nefarious
Depends how open you mean. For a lot of hobbyists and integrators, this works:

https://github.com/hologram-io/nova-hardware

And run this on a Pi:

https://github.com/hologram-io/hologram-python

If you need something one layer deeper on the module or chipset level, there’s not really a lot out there.
There are loads of PCB manufacturers in the west.

They just steer clear of the hobbyist part of the market which JLCPCB targets, because they can't make money making five boards for $2.
The manual's definitely a perennial favourite around here.
I'm hoping they'll find pineapple there:
https://eyesofrome.com/blog/eyes-on-storytelling/mystery-in-...
Blaming China and India is the typical Republican talking point about climate change.

There is a reason Noam Chomsky has called the Republican party the most dangerous organization in the world because of how they promote Western inaction on climate change.
Not OP, but the absence of AML/KYC appears to be (very explicitly) one of their points against cryptocurrencies.
Analogies between IT and physical world are often less than helpful but before digital photos most people would be developing photos in specialized studios. If these studios noticed what they thought was CSAM they would report it to police. One could of course develop photos themselves (like one can selfhost everything today), but as soon as other parties get involved they can (and should) report problematic material to police.
I never understood why people were so upset at Mozilla's CEO earning a couple million per year in salary. Seems like a rather reasonable rate for running a medium size company that doesn't give out stock options/RCUs
There is a massive difference between spending my money taking my kids to the local open farm with shows, animals to pet etc or if I spend the same money hosting a party with lots of junk decorations that gets thrown away afterwards.

Same with spending my money creating a house that is well insulated and built to last vs skipping on quality and adding lots of high maintenance luxuries.

Even just keeping the money and investing it you can do something right just by vetting and prioritizing funds with a proven good profile.
Well, you could always click the ambiguous three dots with a 5 pixel click target and chose "Not Interested". Super convenient to do for the hundred videos on the front page (of which you have already watched >50% within the last month).
Postgres query execution: simple query – prepared statement
I believe porn involving 16 year olds is still legal in the Netherlands. Which doesn't mean it is being commercially produced anymore, for obvious reasons. Maybe a Dutch reader can provide more insight into this.
> Depressingly, I'm sure most people won't care. But hey, I can hope.

I'm afraid you're right. Nobody cares about their photos being searched for whatever by shady organisations and corrupt agencys.

- Facebook: 2.8 billion active monthly users

- Google Mail: 1.8 million users

- iCloud: >850 million users

- Google Drive: about a billion users

- Dropbox: >600 million user.
I believe I remember that free birth control is not as effective as one would like because it's often women who don't want to have so many children, but men who decide whether or not to use birth control. Empowering women helps with that problem.
We have search relevancy tests baked into the automated test suite that runs on every commit. We keep adding to it as we get feedback about edge cases and new cases.

We don’t have comparative relevancy benchmarks. But we fo have performance benchmarks here: https://typesense.org/docs/overview/benchmarks.html
WSLGit, forwards all Git requests on Windows to Git in Linux
The article has absolutely nothing to do with clean coal.
Show HN: Prettier Outputs for cloc
A python wrapper around cloc to get prettier outputs. Please comment and contribute !
> My sense is Apple is trying to keep CASM off their servers

It could (maybe) also be a prelude to enabling E2E encryption for everything in iCloud.
I don't know which planet you're from, but on planet Earth, all Western governments are currently in the middle of aggressively coercing their citizens into getting vaccinated.
"So if they want to kill all the Jews, what's the problem? It's their country and they can do whatever they want with it."

Creating laws based on popularity makes populism rule. Hence why democracy usually has an explicit legislative branch abstracting over individual sentiments. That helps prevent policy from being devised through an overly greedy algorithm.

That is not to say it prevents all these problems. But it evidently helps.
> I don't see how this bill threatens any human's existence.

It doesn't.

> How does being required to track data about taxation challenge the existence of the builders you mention?

Suppose US law says that it is illegal to "mine" a block of bitcoin unless you keep records of the true name, address, and social security number of every person whose transaction occurs within that block and provide that information to US banking regulators on demand.

Since the information available to miners does not include true name, address, and social security number, the only way to comply with such a requirement would be to not mine blocks for bitcoin.

(There's another option -- go ahead and violate this law. If the US government doesn't have a beef with you then they'll just choose not to prosecute you. If they DO have a beef with you then you can try arguing in court that the law is unconstitutional. This will take years and extremely large legal fees and it might or might not be successful.)

I don't have a problem with requiring Coinbase or Biance to maintain records of information available to them. I DO have some concerns with mandating that no transactions may be done anonymously except those done in cash -- although I understand that some may disagree on this. But I strongly oppose imposing impossible-to-meet requirements on those who write code for cryptocurrencies, perform "mining" of cryptocurrencies, or who hold and/or spend cryptocurrencies themselves.
Not my project, but thought HN might like this. I run WSL and sometimes have pre-commit hooks that want to run Linux commands. A project like this should solve that issue for me.
> You don't get to complain when you decide not to participate in the democratic process.

You can complain either way. Not participating means you are not participating, and is a kind of a vote too. If <50% people vote, then the vote is arguably illegitimate.
But Windows Defender doesn't report you to law enforcement when it believes it found a virus.
Ask HN: Palo Alto Things to Do?
Hey all. Moving to Palo Alto from the UK - literally on the plane now. What are some good tech events to attend? Co-working spaces to meet others? Things I should do ASAP? :)
It's difficult to give you proper advice cause it's not clear what your coding skills are (learning is much longer commitment than doing a MSc, and being average at it sucks...).

Also it's unclear what "semi-tech" means here, and why it couldn't include coding? If they give you an important role, you can just ask that they set up a dev env on your machine and code when you want to code... If you're worried that you're going to screw the product, code on internal tools to help you do your non-tech job. It's fun too...

Like jstx said, equity is not money, so you shouldn't sweat much about not taking the offer, but my experience is that it's cool to have a foot on the business side of things, cause when you're 100% coding, you may be sidelined by strategic choices in which you won't have anything to say...

In any case, learning to code by doing it is likely better than getting a MSc. You can always go back to uni later. My view is that an MSc will teach you a lot more if you already know how to code decently well.
yup, my thoughts exactly. otherwise a 1000x increase in 30%-ish efficient pv silicon-based solar cells would be far above unity
He's built and sold millions of cars. That's pollution.
I upvoted you, but do keep in mind that there is a lot of loneliness and some of those animals probably save us from lots of healthcare expenses. Not everything can be brought down to simple economics.

That said I have said no to dogs myself - mostly because of cost and the constant need to be looled after - and the animal we do have is a rodent that we got second hand, meaning that food cost is leftover carrot shavings etc + a bit of hay
I let a NeXT cube through my hands too, and regret it as well. In high school I guess I was the teacher's pet in my electronics class, and we regularly got old computers and parts as donations. I helped the teacher get a classroom's worth of PCs up and running as a network so he let me have the oddball donated NeXT cube that was just gathering dust. Then in college I traded it to another geek for an Xbox and a bunch of games. Seemed like an even enough trade at the time although now I wouldn't mind having that lovely magnesium cube around.
Nirvana / perfect solution fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy
> I think framing this is a checking account is what people are having trouble with. It really seems like an investment account with easy liquidity. If you add a section that is kept in cash, then it's checking + investment with automatic rebalancing.

This is absolutely the case. This isn't a checking account. This is liquidity management for those who are comfortably operating aggressively with their personal finances. With that said, definitely going to give it a spin side by side with my Fidelity Cash Management account.
Nirvana Fallacy
>the next Bezos/Musk via climate change technology

We have the technology and expertise now, we just choose not to use it.
I don't really follow any cryptocurrency news but wasn't one of the main appeals early on that it would be independent from any governments? Specifically that it could be a currency not subject to the oversight and sanctions of the US treasury? I guess "cryptocurrency" is different from "cryptocurrency industry", but it still seems like the ecosystem as a whole should be more resilient to actions from the US government. Otherwise what's the point?
It's something to ponder. For myself, the ultimate absurdity, is the small fact that people have to lie,beg, bribe and steal to get honest work. At this point, I dont think that we as a society have any right to complain about criminality. Currently it's the second largest employer behind the government in many developing nations. It boggles the mind how a state can twiddle thumbs and strut around Davos to proudly tell fellow statesmen that 50% of your countries youth, people in the prime years of their working lives, have absolutely fuck all to do. Woe. Oh woe.
That doesn’t make the ”CO2 outsourcing” claim untrue. For the 1990-2008 period, the paper[1] cited as the source for the graph in question notes:

> Collectively, the net CO2 emission reduction of ∼2% (0.3 Gt CO2) in Annex B countries from 1990 to 2008 is much smaller than the additional net emission transfer of 1.2 Gt CO2 from non-Annex B to Annex B countries (equivalent to subtracting the net emission transfers in 2008 from 1990 in Fig. 2).

The situation may have improved since then[2], but already in 2008, China’s consumption share of its own emissions was 80%. This figure in itself neither proves or disproves whether developed nations have outsourced their emissions.

1: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/108/21/8903.full.pdf

2: Our World in Data cites ”Global Carbon Budget” for newer figures, but it’s raw data, and I’m currently not able to process it myself.
It’s an attack vector because, either directly or indirectly, people will get access to the hash function. Therefore, they will have a testbed to launch attacks against the hash. Once they learn an attack, they will hash your harmless pictures into being classified as CP by applying a potentially perceptually invisible modification to your images. Imagine every image on reddit’s frontpage being classified as CP. The distribution of natural images is irrelevant as long as people can modify images arbitrarily.

The hashing isn’t really so relevant apart from pigeonhole arguments. It’s a machine learning problem of classification between CP and not, and hashing is an implementation detail. The way I would attack this reading a few papers would be to approximate any non-differentiable parts of the hashing with a smooth proxy function, then use an off-the-shelf gradient-based attack such as Fast Sign Gradient Method. The hashing guarantees that even at hashing distance 0, you have a huge amount of collisions, so that is blind spot 1. Blind spot 2 is the CNN is not-robust to mild-perturbations, so you can “squeeze” inputs together in hash space by modifying them. You can likely attack both simultaneously by doing the attack I said above.
I really would like a simple explanation of how that is possible. AIUI, when speed is stable, the wheels turning provide power to the propeller. But if the propeller pushes the car, which in turn makes the wheels turn faster making the car faster than the wind itself, what makes it different from perpetual motion machines?

I would love a diagram showing how the power flows in this system.
I'm sympathetic to the questions being asked, but I think the author is too quick to assume the worst here.

The key assumption is shown in the diagram that "shows a hypothetical pneumonia detection model that, during optimization, has learned to recognize racial identity." -- the author asserts that this is obviously incorrect and dangerous.

Look at the HPF 50 results, and the fact that the location being imaged is nearly irrelevant -- it's clear that image shape features are irrelevant to the results. It seems like the signal itself is picking up (is modified by) racial indicators. If that's true, it only makes sense that being good at detecting pneumonia is going to require correcting for that signal. That makes (this use of) AI anti-racist in a very important way.

This is nonetheless a fascinating result!
I had a problem once when I was testing setting up a central VPN for all my devices to go through, but I forgot to exclude the work laptop. So I got a call by security that they got an alert of somebody trying to connect using my credentials on an overseas location.

I explained the guy on the other line the reason why that happened and he told me not to worry about it, but warned me that they were going to monitor my traffic by protocol for a few hours, so I should avoid looking at porn in the meantime. I replied that I wouldn't look at porn on the work laptop, and he told me that the warning was also routine and that I wouldn't believe what people watch during working hours.
Polaroids have been around for quite some time and don't require a photo studio.
We currently don't try to avoid wash sales, so they can happen indeed. That's not the end of the world though (wash sales are completely legal), it just means you can't do as much tax loss harvesting as you might like.

Long term, you could imagine that our automation could buy and sell securities that are slightly different, so that you would get the full tax loss harvesting benefits.
Hi, I am one of the core members at Sniptt - we recently made the decryption key part of the fragment precisely for the above reason. I believe the GIF in the README is outdated :) - the newer versions of the CLI ought to place the decryption key in the fragment, but please let me know if that's not the case! Thanks.
The entire point of cryptocurrency is precisely to enable bank-like services without bank-like obligations, to enable individuals to be their own bank and manage their own money if they want to.

You're right that it's unsurprising that the US Senate does not care about this problem. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that the cryptocurrency world does not care about the US Senate. This will just end up being another "I promise I'm not a US person" checkbox when you sign up for cryptocurrency services.
The nasty thing about global warming is that it's weakening the jet stream. This causes places to one year have crazy amounts of years and the next drought. The rainy years, things grow like crazy! Lots of growth. On drought all that new growth dries up and is tinder for forest fires.

We need more trees for sure, but at the same time would would need to put huge efforts in forest fire prevention otherwise poof, all that hard work trees do sequestering CO2 literally goes up in smoke.
Are you equating "bottom line" with revenue? Is that why you feel this is a contradiction? Bottom line also has a more general definition of "the company's end goal". If the bugs don't impact Spotify's goals, then they are not motivated to fix them.