skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trump + Dems has disadvantaged US.

Covid being accidentally leaked from Wuhan lab (by honest mistake) is a totally viable theory.

Since Trump said it first, Dems immediately deemed it as a racist theory, so there was not much attention for this theory because people were scared of being labeled a racist.

This happened with every policy that disadvantaged China. Trump would be labeled racist for coming up with such policy.

Not sure who to blame to be honest.

At least Biden can do this without being called racist, so we can have a more balanced policy to counter China influence with a discussion that doesn't involve being called racist.
Appliance energy rules are incredibly dumb. We yield marginal downward demand curve for electricity, in exchange for shit appliances that have a 4-5 year expected life.

I’ve probably bought more appliances in 15 years of home ownership than my parents did in 50.
Depends on your military, I guess. I know in the U.K. 9 months isn’t an unusual deployment for a submariner, and a few months underwater isn’t unusual either.

Isolation is pretty much their number one challenge. Machines are easier to keep running than minds.
Lol. Fixed. Thank!
> The opioid epidemic was largely caused by the idea of them being non addictive being heavy pushed by the pharmaceuticals industry

That's not true. The new idea was that a manageable addiction was preferred to chronic pain. The theory was that addiction to opioids could be managed. That turned out to be not the case. People started selling pills and buying street heroin and it spiraled out of control.
Why can't hackers just brute-force word combinations? If there are 170k English words, and 95 possible password characters, then it seems to me that 170,000^3 ~= 95^8 so a 3-word English phrase would only be about as safe as an 8-character random string.
I think our healthcare system (in the US) is very poor at helping people figure something out. If you know and it's clear the system is great at fixing it. I had all kinds of knee pain and saw every ortho I could. Knees were fine. It wasn't until I visited an osteopath in France (by coincidence) that he was able to diagnose it just by feel - it was my hip. After having it replaced I was good as new. I have friends having similar chronic pain problems and they have been to medical centers all over, had tons of tests and yet there is no real diagnosis. Each doctor looks at it from their own point of view - nope, no cancer - nope, no MS, etc.
Loyola University students win battle over Covid-19 vaccine
That funding must flow through the massively corrupt Afghan bureaucracy before soldiers or police ever see it. Much of it gets skimmed, wasted, and embezzled. Many nice houses in the D.C. area have been built with that money, not including the palatial mansions and homes of American defense contractors.

>The Afghani soldiers and police are in it for a paycheck

I think you meant, "Afghan soldiers and police." Afghani is (fittingly) the Afghan unit of currency.

>...while the Taliban are fighting for an ideological cause they perceive to be just.

It's not a matter of how many Afghans perceive a certain cause to be just. It's a matter of how many are willing to suffer and die for their cause to come out on top. Even if only a minority support the Taliban, as recent polling shows to be the case, they can impose their will on the majority if they're more willing to suffer and kill. Of course, suffering is easier to endure when you're getting paid.
"Ha ha you're probably right."
This video talks about why stretching the hamstrings doesn't help and instead covers exercises to strengthen the weakness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdaRZ3dmbyo
I love the simple times when a "coin" was simply a stamp on a piece of precious metal certifying its weight.
I know, but he's still there to mark peoples's receipts.
Also that since the system is opaque by design it’d be really hard to tell if details changes. Technically I understand why that’s the case but it makes the question of trust really hard.
> Google’s reported willingness to put up with Suleyman's behavior stands in stark contrast to its swift termination of Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, former co-leads of its AI ethics team who produced research that challenged the company’s direction on large language models.

Suleyman is a sociopath who makes Google money - that's why he was promoted and rewarded for his sociopathy.
Yeah - a dedicated desk is usually >$400/m.

After taxes, this is >10% of income for >70% of the population.

If Americans in cities didn't already spend >60% of their after tax income on rent - I could see this being more popular.

There's just not enough people that make enough money and don't work at a good company that already has nice offices for this to make sense.

I agree, in theory, WeWork is a lot better to work at than most people's apartments. I'm not convinced enough people have enough money.
One of the major concerns that I've seen arising around here is the question "what's stopping Apple from doing this even without iCloud?". Once you open Pandora's Box, there is not going back.
I am surprised people here seem mostly interested in discussing drugs when the object of this article is the materialization of the wet dreams of all the ML fanboys out there. Reasoning over medical information that actually works! Isn't that remarkable?! Of course, it's symbolic and not statistical 'AI' so it doesn't tickle the deep learning hipsters announcing AGI as just around the corner.
They did. But only on copper facilities.

In the United States, they are called unbundled network elements or UNEs[1][2].

The ISP (either directly or through a nationwide aggregator[3] such as Covad, NorthPoint, or Rhythms) would purchase a UNE from the phone company, aggregate the data portion into a DSLAM[4], which would pass layer 2 back to the ISP’s network interconnect (to be bridged through the ISP’s router).

This was one of the things that made the early days of DSL feel so much more competitive from an end user perspective.

However, utilities were granted an exemption[5] as part of the National Broadband Plan from needing to unbundle on greenfield deployments (e.g. fiber to the home) to allow for “return on investment” and/or faster deployments.

This exemption fueled a somewhat perverse incentive of removing copper facilities during or immediately after a fiber installation[6].

Going further, lobbyists have long argued on behalf of their utilities that unbundling wasn't necessary because an end user has access to multiple "competitive" options[7], e.g. someone fed up with their local wireline phone monopoly can switch to cellular; or someone fed up with their local cable TV monopoly can switch to satellite.

This was codified as a final ruling[8] in February of this year. This puts the nail in the coffin for UNEs, or at least their viability for providing high speed broadband.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbundled_network_element

2: https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/7521154234.pdf

3: https://www.channelfutures.com/telephony-uc-collaboration/bu...

4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_subscriber_line_access...

5: https://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/fiber.htm

6: https://seclists.org/nanog/2012/Mar/759

7: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-367363A1.pdf

8: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/08/2020-25...
But it got me to open the package! And then free advertising when I wore the mask (which I never did).

Clearly a company with more money to burn than they know what to do with.

Like when Boston Market expanded everywhere - including neighborhoods in SF that had zero other chain restaurants/fast food places. The hubris.
NES games were still pretty simple, so I can see how simple tools were more or less adequate.

I'm far more impressed that complex SNES games were also developed purely in assembly, like A Link to the Past (1991) or Super Metroid (1994). This is an era where PC game developers would mostly be using C.
I disagree. LineageOS has a legitimate use case, being able to easily tinker with the device. It's certainly not as private or secure, and that doesn't make it a bad option depending on someone's use for it.
i like your spin on it to height. albiet pain likely has a multidimensional graph to cluster onto, height having one dimension makes the whole idea of clustering it silly :)
I don't think it's realistic to expect a structure imposed by law to withstand the abuse of people who make, interpret, and enforce those laws, unless a superior force (the entire people) is opposed to it.
When will start seeing laws making it illegal to disable the scanning for hashes?
The point of FI is to eliminate an entire class of concerns.

Family member gets disabled? You get disabled? Spouse wants to change cities? You get burned out? You find an exciting (but less paying) opportunity? You can pursue these without asking permission.

You don't need to stop working, of course, but you could. Being in a position where you can't sucks.
man it must have been such a weird era where the screen was part of the "system architecture"

today everything seems so decoupled
> Do we actually want emotionally neutral articles?

If they purport to be objective journalism (and not all articles need be that) then yes, definitely.

Seems that Axios plays a little loose with these guidelines outside of politics (their main wheelhouse). I think it's probably a mistake, to the extent that they are interested in keeping their reputation for good journalism.
But, that is formidable: using three dictionary words, you have something that is as secure as 8 characters, those being chosen from the full set of 95 non-blank ASCII glyphs!

It's likely way easier to memorize, not to mention type.

Though, by the same lexical token, it's worth acknowledging that words from a 170,000 dictionary will include some difficult ones that are not in the user's vocabulary.

Say we use a 30,000 dictionary of common words, and make the password four words. You know, like correct-horse-battery-staple. Wow, I remembered that.
Got any evidence that nobody wants to build the same style of big reactors we currently have in our fleet? Because more than half of the people that I talk to that support nuclear want exactly that. There are two reasons that I hear in support of this: 1) we did it before, so people think it's a good idea still, and 2) that's the only type of reactor that we have designed and could start deploying today. It's the type of reactor that Rosatom will build, it's the type of reactor that China is building.

Other reactor types are far far far out on the design schedule, and more speculative in terms of technological success than any of the many new types of battery chemistries that have been announced this year.
>The headlines never tell the full story.

The below links encapsulate some parts of why Apple cannot be continually trusted with customer data, or viewed as a paragon for privacy/security. There have been numerous examples, past and present e.g. The Fappening, T2 Chip flaws, atrocious leaks of customer data, Pegasus etc.

Some people with technical prowess, although not deluded, buy these devices with limited desire to constantly tweak or circumvent security features, especially when these devices claim to have them baked in and promise not to intrude.

>So much for this site having a higher level of discourse and it’s efforts to dissuade repetitive and knee jerk commentary though.

I am invested in this ecosystem, so the topic has a certain resonance. I resent your implication that my response to the original author was knee-jerk commentary. Furthermore, I responded to their nonchalance with a view to furnish a counterpoint.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICloud_leaks_of_celebrity_phot...

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-t2-chip-unfixable-flaw-jai...

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/apple-pays-...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jul/21/why-apple...
For the comparaison between C, Zig and Rust syntax, I'm honestly not that sure. People love to complain about Rust's syntax for reasons I don't really understand. Sure the turbofish is a bit weird the first time, but other than that I don't find it especially difficult. On the other hand, I still have a hard time understanding Zig code. Probably because I never really played with it, but it's just like Rust, you need to familiarize yourself a bit. Maybe people that did only C are able to get up to speed with Zig more quickly than Rust? But that seems a bit superficial, if these people are already spending most of their time with only one language, if they learn a second to spend that much time with a few hours to get up to speed with the syntax is nothing.
Haskell:
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(%) = Data.Fixed.mod'

expr :: Double = 8.036090802426098e12

expr :: Rational = 630330872315297185317 % 78437500

fromRational (expr :: Rational) :: Double = 8.0360908024261e12
>we need to quit exaggerating their positive effects and downplaying their negatives.

Who is 'we'? Sure, the media exaggerates the benefits of psychedelics. You can also find plenty of stories exaggerating the benefits of electric cars, veganism, meditation, antioxidants, or martial arts, among other things.

The media loves a narrative with a miracle -- how is that the "surprising part"?

>the early days of opioids

The early days of opioids were in the nineteenth century. I certainly don't recall being bombarded with stories about them. The post-mortem of the opioid painkiller crisis (the "codones") focused on deceitful marketing from pharmaceutical companies aimed at physicians, not pop-psych puff pieces for a lay audience. There is no shortage of exaggeration in the cornucopia of cannabis clickbait, but the situation is not comparable.

Inaccuracy in pop-sci is lamentable, but not historic, and usually the only thing that comes of it are bins of discarded magazines.
Require special permissions for operations that affect more than N files. Would that be a possible solution? Attacks could still do some damage by targeting critical files, but then those files could also require special permissions for modification. This is in essence what root privileges were for, but they have turned out to be too global and too easy to compromise. So add explicit access control requirements that require external input (a cryptographic hash on a USB drive) for each individual critical file, tied to a TPM. TPM's are not unhackable but certainly raise the bar of difficulty. Having to go to one person in the company to get them to make changes to a critical file would be a pain, and raise costs a little, but the extra effort seems worth the protection, especially for critical infrastructure. Operating systems would need a little re-architecting to add more levels of access control but that seems straightforward. Just get rid of this old idea (which probably comes from our monkey ancestry) that there must be one privilege that rules them all, and make all privileges distributed and individual with authority distributed among many people, perhaps even require several people to sign off on certain types of changes. I'm sure computer science research has looked into fine grain permissions and levels of access, is there some as yet unsolved problem here? Making company wide changes to all computers would become more difficult and take longer, but would also require better planning and more scrutiny, which could be a good thing. Systems that are remote and have limited physical access would require a different solution. No one has ever hacked a space probe have they? Maybe we can learn something from NASA. I see almost no one proposing serious solutions to ransomware except "backups and kill cryptocurrencies". Surely we are smarter than that?
Got any evidence of this claim? As counter evidence, I would point to any of the reactor builds in the US or Europe (including UK) this century.
Why is every 3rd sentence or so out of Elon some cliché phrase? "design is the easy part" etc.

It's extremely distracting as if he is dodging actually getting into details. Almost like he doesn't know what he is talking about.
I had lots of trouble with minikube. Often times it failed to create a cluster with low level networking issues related to hyper-v. It was really flaky. I could delete and create a cluster and it felt like half the time it worked, half the time it failed. I was using the Docker back-end too.

For k3s, it mainly comes down to wanting to use k8s not k3s. I'd like my local cluster to be as close as possible to what's running in a real managed k8s cluster on a major cloud provider. This might come off as naive but I want to use k8s in dev / local testing because I'm using k8s in production.

I also found kind's documentation much better than k3s for wanting to accomplish the task of setting up a cluster and using an ingress. It also had easy to find and follow docs for WSL 2 to configure extra port mappings in the cluster config so I could access external services (managed with an nginx ingress) over a defined port. Basically the dev experience has been flawless.
> Point is, we gained ice at a lower-than-average rate during “gains season” and now we’re losing ice at a greater-than-average rate during “melt season”.

The article does not claim any of this.
>Every time I was told I was not being constructive and offering a solution and every time I had to explain that I was.

That's when I would have said. 'I'll be back in ten minutes with the solution.' Then returned with the smashed cameras in my hand and said. 'Problem solved.'
It seems the preferred method would be to verify via official state/national health records, I wonder why this isn’t the preferred approach?
Yikes. That’s very lousy behaviour of them.

Thanks for the warning.
Mobility is very much related to notions of freedom and quality of life. I can see the argument for doing away with unnecessary in-person work and commutes, as an optimization. But we live to experience life, not to only participate in a fixed set of local activities approved by the state. Motor vehicles are a big part of many people’s lives for enabling leisure activities, without which life is very limited. Committed urbanists, like those who are content with NYC as their entire world, may have trouble seeing this. But I feel a majority of people want and need mobility beyond what walking, biking, and fixed transit routes can offer.
Mac: A Just-So Story (Lisp)
Ask HN: How can I programmatically manage my streaming subscriptions?
I've tried researching this everywhere but haven't had much luck. I want to be able to subscribe to streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, atc.) via API and unscribe as well. Is this possible? Is it possible to do this indirectly via Apple AppStore subscription management? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Help them stay where they are, absolutely. Never met a Christian conservative who was pro- expanding refugee immigration despite working for an evangelical church myself. Even destitute Christian migrants at the southern border are told to go back home. They much prefer to go to Africa to proselytize there, in my experience.
Yes, there is a right button in the Apple world. Yes, the very earliest version didn’t have the concept of multiple mouse buttons but a couple of decades ago, they did implement it.

The Apple mouse lets you click on the left or right side of the mouse. There just are not discrete buttons.

Third party mice have multiple buttons just like Windows.

You can always hold the Option key and click on something to trigger the right-click action.
If the price go up everything will be extracted. I would prefer the price go down because of competition of renewable energies with low prices. If price stay low gas and oil will not be extracted at all and will not been burn.
I believe you have cause and effect backwards.

You move along supply and demand curves to come to the price. Prices move according to demand and supply curves, not the opposite.

For example, if fossil fuels became 10x cheaper, that will flow into all economic activity that uses fossil fuel to be cheaper, which is basically everything. Which then means people will consume more of everything, because that is what people like to do.

The supply side of fossil fuels is definitely not fixed. It is true that sufficiently low fossil fuel prices will cause some producers to not make a profit, who will then stop extracting fossil fuel. But due to the nature of fossil fuels being able to facilitate in almost all aspects of life and being a very fungible source of energy, eventually the steadily increasing demand will cause prices to eventually increase (unless sufficient alternative sources of energy are available at sufficiently cheap prices and convenience).

The world has 8B people, with more than half who can easily consume far more fossil fuel as they gain more wealth and catch up to developed nations. Making fossil fuels cheaper just means more poorer people will gain the ability to buy bigger cars, air condition their homes, start flying to places, etc.

Just look at fossil fuel consumption worldwide:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-fossil-fuel-consum...

It has been 13 years since fossil fuel prices dramatically decreased, and consumption has continued to rise.

https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-cha...
Ah yes, 5G. The bag of promises telco execs have dangled in front of large customers for nearly a decade that will deliver on all their needs.

If they could just figure out how to deliver on it ;-)
Ok. This combination is also used in windturbine blades of some manufacturers, it may have substantial impact if it is something structural involving the base material, less so if it is just a rare combination of process/chemicals.
this is entirely a matter of policy and not "illegal"

source: used computers trade in California
The people chanting "trust the science" were never making a scientific argument, it's an appeal to authority, usually whatever authorities they consider to be scientific authorities. Same with the refrain about "follow what the science says" as a political and moral argument. The science doesn't say anything about policy or morality. It gives us models which predict certain consequences for certain scenarios should we act a certain way.

For example, we might have models on expected suicide rates, economic losses and deaths from COVID-19 if we just ignored the virus vs. a total lockdown approach. But it doesn't tell us whether a suicide of a young person is preferable to an elderly person dying. And if so, what the preference for the ratio should be. It's very hard to quantify intangibles like "quality of life" or "societal openness" or "loss of hope", even if you look at metrics like various outcomes.

Ultimately, science doesn't tell us much if anything about what would actually be preferable morally or politically. If and when we come up with an exact science for that, do let me know though; it'll save a lot of headaches.
To elaborate, carbon-fiber reinforced carbon, the expensive ceramic used for very heat-resistant lightweight structural members (like the leading edges of the space shuttle, and some jigs for use in metallurgy furnaces, where it's lack of deformation and low heat capacity is beneficial) can handle something around 20% of it's ultimate tensile strength for millions of full load cycles.

This is, going by fatigue-limited-strength to weight ratio, far better than steel or aluminium. The difference is mostly that it's a brittle ceramic and retains most of it's strength at temperatures where steel can be poured.
Most people’s passwords are 10-ish character not-totally-random strings, so that would actually be an improvement. Now bump it to four words like the xkcd comic actually says and you’ve got a stew goin’.
>Don't know how to message users on hackernews, so posting as a reply here

I love this. JWZ eat your heart out!