skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may be fallacious, but I am automatically dismissive when a drug from one area of medicine is recruited as a treatment for a completely disjoint disorder. I need a somewhat plausible sounding mechanism of action, even if it's hypothetical. Because it fits a pattern I've observed where a drug is discovered, and it's on the cover of every magazine as a panacea[0], and then it doesn't pan out and it fades back into the small niche where it actually works.

So I dismissed HCQ and Ivermectin out of hand.

[0]: Interferon was on the cover of TIME in ~1980 as a cancer cure.

(EDIT: but I'm not an MD, just a crazy person who likes reading pubmed, so my views are pure superstition)
Every time I have tried to "cash out" there has been a significant restriction on the amount of the transaction, or the exchange rate has not been favorable. Isn't quantity a problem, given that many crypto cyber-crimes involve a lot of money?
It might be better to wait
about thirty percent of home purchases in the greater Bay Area were cash or equivalent in 2018, iir
It isn't startling people trust they can opt out of iCloud photos.
Only photos that get sent to icloud are "scanned"
Sweden surveys every single citizen, every single year, and asks them (amongst other things) whether or not they have been a victim of a sex crime.

They also have a very broad definition of what "rape" is, compared to other Western countries.

Calling them the "Rape Capitol" because they have the most progressive rape detection and classification system on Earth is stupid - that's why Snopes and other fact checkers debunk it as false.
Who gets to decide who's a "true Buddhist" and who's not, and what relevance does that have to Christian meditation?
I don't disagree that it's good to use awareness intelligently, but you don't even need meditation for that, according to Hindu thought much of that can be achieved through other yogas, namely karma yoga. Meditation is much more than learning to use your awareness intelligently. There are many types of meditation, too.
So basically, Kant called it
> Fascists deny alternative ideas by any means necessary including [technicalities] even if the spirit of the idea is correct.

> It’s what fascists do.

Nick, you’d be wise to listen to your own advice.

It is a fact that masks reduce the spread of disease.

They are not a silver bullet, but a tool for mitigation. The idea is to layer multiple risk-mitigating techniques.

Masks on their own are not enough, but masks plus distancing plus hand washing plus travel restrictions plus vaccines plus whatever else is somewhat effective combines to be something much more effective.

In one comment, you say to “stop spreading misinformation” and in another you say “numerous studies show that masks don’t prevent covid” and follow up with the comments about fascists.

You’re literally doing what you say fascists do.
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"Feature phone" is the term for cell phones that have limited additional functionality, but aren't as sophisticated or complex as a smartphone. So yeah, it's basically referring to flip phones, Blackberries, etc
Huh, look at that. I was somewhat right

https://mobile.twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/142632472646...

(Presuming it's actually followed through with)
I have studied much of it and enjoy Joseph Campbell quite a bit, this discussion was focused on abrahamic religions though.

I find it interesting from a study of human behavior but overall all religions seem to lack rigor, they leave me unsatisfied due to their lack of even internal consistency, unlike mathematics and science.

Questions of determinism or free will are at the root of the mechanics of the universe and how a god might construct it or not. If you believe some god to have created all things then how can there be free will, that would denote something from the outside, some source of entropy not under the control of the creator. If it is under control of the creator the it is not true entropy and everything is determined ultimately by the creator.
Does anyone know how fast one would fall in from a 100km initial distance?

This answer: https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/332510/236187 seems to suggest that it takes mere milliseconds once one is within three times the Schwarzschild radius of the black hole. And that dozens of radii outward, one already moves at a significant fraction of the speed of light.
> If they want to have their way with your data, they could have been doing it for decades

Yep. They just altered that deal. (Darth Vader quote deleted)
Anecdotal, but my building management said they won’t be installing these lockers at any of their new properties due to them being targeted by thieves. They’re apparently fairly easy to pry open for a sufficiently motivated person.
I figured we were talking about mugging. I've never heard of an amazon locker being cut into. I think they're placed in conspicuous locations for a reason.
That's basically edlin
Googler opinions are my own. I know nothing about the space.

At least skimming the termux issue here is that it was done for SELinux policy changes in trying to improve security of application running on Android. Is that correct? Then the app store is trying to enforce this newer policy via forced API upgrades.

As you said, you can at least still side load if you would like?
>> Sometimes they change, sometimes the inertia keeps them in the same state. But it rarely, if ever, does this kind of change have the intended effect.

The Monkey's Paw, I take it.
Not parent, but considering the USA covered up and denied the virus spread for several months, the argument could be that China/CCP doing the same doesn’t indicate the virus was engineered by China.

After all, there is no indication the virus was engineered by the US government, yet the danger was repeatedly lied about by the highest levels of government in January and February 2020, e.g. “when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away” (Feb 10), “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero” (Feb 26) ”It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear” (Feb 27), etc.

It’s claimed the local CCP apparatus lying and covering up the virus in December 2019 was for similar political reasons - there was an important event coming up in the city and they didn’t want it to be canceled.
One thing I really like about Australia is the Local Post Office vs GPO system. Being able to walk 15min max and get your packages that weren’t able to be delivered to your door is very convenient.

From what I understand the LPOs are kind of a franchise that people own which extends the reach of the postal system.

The USPS on the other hand is hamstrung half a million ways _and_ are expected to deliver packages to the middle of nowhere.

Something similar to LPOs and Amazon cubbies would be an amazing improvement on things.

Also we need to keep private interests out of parks, there are so few of them as it is already.
This is such amazing stuff!
i used this recently as an opportunity to focus on one point: five degrees celsius was the difference between us and the ice age. it’s easy to get lost in debates and forget you can’t change minds easily, especially not in the moment. but easy to understand facts are sticky. a person can shut out everything i say but maybe if they realize the difference of temperatures we are racing towards in the next 50-100 years are the same order as between us and the ice age, maybe it will wear them down over time. i hope.
Know what it is (sometimes text parses with extra spaces causing pauses). Will fix soon.
"regrets" :eye-roll: bunch of lying thieves sitting on $200billions of cold hard cash.

Manufactured obsolescence, walled gardens in the name of "user security", on and on.

No, no. You are not holding the phone right. It's not me, it's you. Apple is the epitome of gaslighting.
Aircrafts are notoriously fickle. For a helicopter, I heard 4 hours maintenance / 1 hour of flight. There is about zero chance the Taliban have the personnel and parts to actually do something with them other than photo ops.
Sure, but only because it highlights how little support society gives to the homeless.
It is essentially true that a cryptographic hash can never collide. But what Apple claims to be using is a perceptual hash. Perceptual hashes can not just be scaled wider trivially, to reduce probability of collision, like cryptographic hashes can.
You probably had us until you jumped all the way to corrupt and bribes.
Facebook I completely approve of. You are trafficking data at that point if you are posting it. I just recall the days of Usenet and Napster when I would just download at random and sometimes the evil would mislabel things to cause trauma. I do not download things at random any more but when I was that age it would have been far more appropriate to notify my parents then it would be to notify the government.

In any case it is likely the government would try to negotiate a plea to get you into some predator database to help fill the law enforcement coffers even if they have no lawful case to take it to court once they have your name in their hands.
How are you still not getting it? The code to ‘report’ something is barely more than a one liner http request. It could be added at any time.

On the other hand, making the CSAM code scan your text documents would be pointlessly difficult given that the other mechanisms exist.
Is it? People who are poor still sometimes need to buy things, and not having a permanent mailing address would generally make it difficult to buy things that aren't locally available.

I do think that having the Amazon logo displayed prominently on big metal boxes in a city park is dystopian. Doubly so when the big metal boxes are blocking the sidewalk.
> HN doesn’t have an immune system against straight up misinformation.

It certainly doesn't! Misinformation and disinformation are terms du jour, but as far as I can tell they are indistinguishable from old-fashioned people-being-wrong-on-the-internet. If you expect an internet forum to be immune from that...well, that's too much to expect. As far as I can tell (and moderating HN for years has really hammered this home), nearly everyone is wrong about nearly everything.

Not only that, but no one (or perhaps we can say for decorum's sake, nearly no one) really cares about the truth. We care about what we like and we want it to win against what we dislike; all the rest is rationalization. Moderating HN has really hammered that one into me as well. Such is human nature, and trying to moderate against it would be futile, not to mention a fast track to burnout. I've tried, and have the scars.

And at the same time I completely sympathize with the frustration of watching discourse on a major topic being dominated by shallow, indignant repetition that isn't engaging with the specifics of a situation.

From a moderation point of view, when a tsunami of a story washes over HN for a week or more, there's not that much we can do about it. We can prevent it from completely dominating the site; we can ask a few people not to break the site guidelines when we see that happening; that's about it. Pretending we can do much more than that would be like Canute commanding the waves.

(Btw, maybe I'm mistaking you for someone else but I have the feeling that your comments have gone, over the years, from frequently breaking the site guidelines to doing a pretty good job of respecting them. If that's true, that's amazing and I appreciate it a ton.)

Edit: I could keep adding new paragraphs to this post for almost forever, but here's another factor that moderating HN has hammered into me. It's possible for people to be wrong on both the facts and the arguments and yet for there to be some deeper justice or truth in what they're saying. Oftentimes, conflicts play out like this: someone responds by correcting facts or pointing out flaws in arguments, but they only succeed in provoking an intensified fury and end up drawing it to themselves. That's because they're answering on the level of facts-and-arguments as a way of dismissing, rather than acknowledging, that deeper level of truth or justice that people have strong feelings about. Mostly all this does is increase the amplitude of the conflict. This is very much a co-creation between the conflicting parties—i.e. between the ones who are right (or feel they are) and the other ones who are right (or feel they are). This is the real answer to complaints about groupthink, in my opinion.
This study is

(A) not published
(B) not peer reviewed
(C) not science (see a and b)
(D) not actually studying the treatment protocols recommended by the flccc

This is not so much a study as it is tracking the outcomes of someone taking their pets' heartworm medicine without any advice from their doctor. It's farcical.
Full title: "Color Universal Design (CUD)[0] - How to make figures and presentations that are friendly to Colorblind people"

Link to PDF: https://jfly.uni-koeln.de/html/manuals/pdf/color_blind.pdf

Color Universal Design Organization (CUDO) resources (palettes, guidebooks).[1,2,3]

[0] https://www2.cudo.jp/wp/?page_id=1936

[1] https://jfly.uni-koeln.de/colorset/

[2] https://github.com/atsuyaw/CUDcolorset

[3] http://www2.cudo.jp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cud_guideb...*
> I personally would not make that tradeoff, as I do not want to host a website that distributes CSAM.

When you say that it means people who would do want to host a website that distributes CSAM.

The reality is people are ok with unknowingly being one of many many places that all types of "horrible things" can be hosted because when we look back at history "horrible things" has a very flexible meaning.

We can all agree CSAM is horrible, but what you're failing to understand is that nothing prevents politically unfavored statements from being "horrible things".

And this is a one-way ticket here, once Apple rolls this out there's no longer a way to confirm they're not signaling to authorities over other types of content.

This is especially problematic in countries where Apple has already been known to cooperate with oppressive regimes...

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Like I said, even painting allowing matches and allowing forest fires as a "trade-off" is disingenuous.

There are a lot of things that allow more CSAM, again like any form of E2EE messaging.

In the end your argument boils down to "it reduces CSAM", but that logic is just making a paperclip machine. Cameras are used for CSAM, so less cameras is less CSAM. Photos might be physically distributed so now lets have printers scan for specific hashes too. Encryption prevents ISPs from detecting CSAM, let's block https...

By itself it's just not a useful argument.
Interferon is still used as a cancer therapy today. [0] Quite a number of drugs are highly effective in different fields of study.

[0] https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancer-in-gene...
I used Woebot for a while and was engaging, sometimes useful CBT. Wondering if you heard of it? If yes would be good to know how does your chatbot compare. I finished all content on Woebot and wouldn't mind going through more CBT with Iona Mind.
Did you verify all the binaries that you run are from compiled source code that you audited? Your BIOS?
What about your CPU and GPU firmware?

There is always a chain of trust that you end up depending on. OSS is not a panacea here.
I understand all of that, but an investment company owning a property does not mean that individual homeowners can't own them. There's a leap in logic here where its assumed any company owning residential real estate = everyone is forever a rentier. That's a separate claim worth backing with some evidence (e.g. investment companies buying properties -> increased home prices across geographies -> no one can afford a home), which I haven't seen and the article doesn't provide
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28173134 is #1 on the front page right now.

Matthew Green and Alex Stamos both wrote things about this that were on HN's front page for a long time. I'm pretty sure there have been other technical threads as well.
The size of N doesn't really matter. I'm sure Apple ships large PRs in every release, as any software company does.
Congratulations on the launch! I haven’t checked out the app yet but CBT is something close to my heart. I started doing traditional talk therapy as a teenager and it never seemed to help anything. As an adult, after years of wild ups and downs, I finally wound up working with someone who specialized in CBT. She and the experience changed everything for me. I see A handful of comments here talking about how CBT doesn’t work for everyone; however, for others, it might be the only thing that DOES work.

These days, I don’t see a therapist anymore in part because finding someone who does CBT in my area and accepting my insurance has proven impossible but I do work through a CBT workbook on occasion. It helps me manage get the ship sailing back on course when a storm messes up navigation for too long. This could just as easily be done in an app and I’d certainly reach for your product or one like it before seeing another “tell me about your problems while I sit silently and nod at you” therapist.
If you trust that you can opt out of iCloud Photos to avoid server-side scanning, trusting that this on-device scanning only happens as part of the iCloud Photos upload process (with the only way it submits the reports being as metadata attached to the photo-upload, as far as I can tell) seems equivalent.

There's certainly a slippery-slope argument, where some future update might change that scanning behavior. But the system-as-currently-presented seems similarly trustable.
Some pointers here: https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xaq8g/meditating-can-lead-y...
>What’s preventing homeowners from buying and selling to each other directly? Why do we need real estate agents?

Because a slight miscalculation in value, lack of market insights or poor salesmanship can lead to tens of thousands of dollars left on the table by the seller.
Lichess using Stockfish

https://lichess.org/blog/X9uXyxUAANCqN1OF/stockfish-12-on-li...
I have no doubt the features work exactly the way Apple said they do. Seriously.

I very much doubt that they will refuse to scan for whatever China asks. I very much doubt they'll risk the PRC shutting down Foxconn factories.

I very much doubt Apple will ultimately be able to resist scanning for whatever the US Government asks in a national security letter attached to a gag order. They will take them to a secret court session which we'll never hear about, the court will rule in the government's favor, and Apple will be forced to comply and not allowed to tell anybody.

This happened to Cloudflare and they were gagged while fighting it for 4 years. They didn't win in court, but the government eventually dropped the case as it was no longer needed. And this started under Obama, not Trump.

Now, will Apple bother to fight this out in court? I think they probably will. But we won't know about that until they either definitively win or the government gives up. If the government wins, on the other hand, we'll NEVER hear about it.
Why was the Taliban able to destroy libraries and century old Buddha statues and still get the respect of the locals?
You edited your response because I specifically used the word "content" because that's what you used...
Which law specifically says that user data has to be scanned, breaking encryption if necessary? Everything I've seen says that they have to report what they find, but are under no obligation to actively look for it.
This feels like the corporate PR version of “I’m sorry we got caught”
Think the article is right in its diagnosis of mindfulness. Jack Dorsey going on a meditation retreat so he can go back and be even more productive at building the things that send everyone to meditation retreats has always been kind of funny to me.

The trend to turn spiritual practices into some sort of self-help healthcare to me is honestly just abysmal. In many ways it is worse than just not doing them at all.

C.S. Lewis once said that one can believe that Jesus is the son of god or a charlatan, but nothing in between. If you reject spirituality at least you acknowledge to take it seriously on its own terms, if you commit to it that's fine as well, but when you profane religious practices by turning them into some kind of corporate new-age productivity exercise in my mind it's about the worst of all worlds.
I really want one of these that can follow RSS/Atom feeds.
Cash as opposed to mortgage not actual dollar bills right
You should watch General Magic https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6849786/
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> But "the only way to prevent bad changes to this system down the road is for this first version of the system to never exist" is a very poor argument, given that the only "system" that needs to exist is the ability to push software updates, and that system existed long ago.

Apple relied on that argument 5 years ago successfully.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–Apple_encryption_dispute
> 1. Vaccines would be available by the election (they were off by two days, likely because of optics of releasing a vaccine right before)

Fact check - the first COVID vaccine given in the US outside of a clinical trial was December 14, over a month after the election, not two days.

> If you recall, after trump's state of the union, in which he mentioned covid, Nancy Pelosi went into the streets of china town and insisted people ignore his fear mongering.

Are you aware that residents of Chinatowns are US citizens/residents, and not “travel”? I’d suggest you search news sources again and review Trump’s comments - he never warned Americans in the state of the union to stay away from downtown areas. He didn’t call for Americans to stay home and avoid coronavirus until March 2020. In February 2020 Trump’s message was that US residents had nothing to fear from the coronavirus, and that Democrats were trying to panic people - Pelosi et al were actually backing the administration line when they went to downtown areas and said people should continue their normal lives. Here’s one reminder article for you to review https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/485245-trump-hits-demo... ‘Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney earlier Friday claimed the press was seeking to use the virus to harm Trump, while Donald Trump Jr. claimed on Fox News that Democrats are hoping coronavirus "kills millions of people" so it ends the president's "streak of winning."’ This was 4 days after Pelosi visited Chinatown in SF.
> The current administration has approved more than 2,000 new fracking permits.

Most fears about fracking are either myths or overblown.

Fracking has allowed the extraction of more natural gas; and natural has is the main reason that the US was able to reduce its emissions the past decade because it has a higher Joules/CO2 ratio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTA-M12vrT4

> I'm so glad the US has rejoined the Paris Agreement.

Any climate accords not involving the major C02 producers, especially China and India who produces more C02 than all of the rest of the developed world combined, will only outsource the problem to those countries with very poor to non-existent environmental regulations while we sabotage our economies my making them noncompetitive in the mean time.
Don’t forget politics.
Chinafy the population.
You know why it’s pulled so much? CI pulling it for integration testing. It’s not the smart phone camera of object storage, it’s the photo of a model family you get when you buy a picture frame