skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There already is massive fraud. It is just committed by huge corporations that use their size and money to shield themselves from accountability. Which is the better scenario? The current one where companies, that are already proven to have negligently allowed someone’s data to be leaked, drag out and exhaust legitimate claimants against them, allowing them to profit off their negligent activities and leave countless regular people as victims with little to no compensation. Or one where legitimate claimants are able to quickly get compensation, but also claimants that were victims of a company’s negligence, but their identity theft did not come directly from that negligence.

The “fraud” you imagine would require both that a company is negligent with someone’s data, exposing them to the risk of identity theft, and that the same person is the victim of identity theft in a totally unrelated way or unrelated reason. That isn’t guilty until proven innocent, because it is proven that the company was negligent and did allow data to be leaked. If it makes you feel better, we could just fine them $10,000 for each person’s data that was leaked right off the bat, and then hold that for all future claims where those people end up having their identity stolen.
I believe you when I read this, but my primary takeaway is that given these constraints, you should not try to build a homemade helicopter
> Likely anti-biotic free

I wonder how they solved that problem, because traditionally lab grown meat has had to be full of antibiotics, since there is no immune system.
Remove the tracking ball from their computer mouse... Oh wait, I'm the wrong century
Twitter's new design to get fix after headache complaints
Uber helped when I was too sick to work a 9-5. Family would have been homeless without.
Not saying they are good or moral. But I am grateful.
"This article makes me think of the woodworker's dilemma."

I'll definitely say that this applies in the car hobby.

It's a helluva lot more fun to arrange a garage than to pull out a transmission.

In terms of software, and this is perhaps just my age (and industry) showing, but it would be interesting to set up a shop that used only simple/traditional make files, gdb/gcc, simple text editors, extremely simple source control, waterfall design.

It wouldn't work at Google but you sure can get wrapped up in building the garage at smaller companies.
It's also possible for a broken clock to be right twice a day.
This line of thinking is flawed because it assumes a smooth surface over the safety space, where if you make incremental improvements you will head towards some maxima of safety. e.g. : the wing fell off; investigate; find that you can't use brittle aluminum; tell aircraft manf. to use a more ductile alloy. Self driving technology isn't like that -- you can't just file a bug "don't mistake a human for a plastic bag", fix that bug and move on to the next one. No number of incremental fixes will make self driving that works as any reasonable human would expect it to work.
That impressive claim narrows to approximately the noise floor if you compare to comparable drivers in comparable cars.
Resource usage: https://agronomics.im/benefits-of-clean-meat/
It works by inactivating spf terms that cause errors then serving out a cleaned up and compressed policy for you on the fly.
One of the most highly regulated industries has regular meltdowns, and your solution to the issue is more regulation?

Have you considered the possibility that the regulation is what causes the issues?

The 2008 recession wasn't caused by lack of regulation, on the contrary it was caused by regulation that forced banks to give out loans that they otherwise wouldn't...
How can a startup operating what is essentially a marketplace (Uber doesn't directly employ the driveres nor owns their cars) get a 20% cut on every transaction and still lose money?
Exactly. A while back I started getting all (well, most) of my meat from a local farm. This farm does the whole happy animals raised right thing.

Flavor-wise, there are 2 things that keep me coming back for more. 1) The chicken doesn't just have flavor, it tastes good. 2) The fat in the pork is freaking delicious.
TikTok is the new Facebook – and it is shaping the future of tech in its image
But he achieved many things. That's just one particularly ambitious goal.
This makes me feel rickrolled. I clicked and only see a Mac version download link. The title should mention the platform if it's single-platform.

In fact I even have a Mac but it's High Sierra and I'm not updating to Big Sur with all the questionable changes just to try a new browser.
>Let the human do all the driving and have the robot jump in whenever the human makes a mistake.

I really don't think that would give many data points, because all of the instances would be when a human fell asleep or wasn't paying attention.
I think it's telling that not even vegans want it.

You wouldn't get sex advice from a nun, so why eat laboratory meat from a vegan?
Yeah I do that. I used Pelican and it works well.
To the people saying $15 is too much: SigmaOS is almost certainly targeting companies, not individual users.

If this makes employees save 30 minutes per month, it's worth it for the company.

Speaking of browser-related productivity, I recently learned about this very useful Chrome shortcut that allows you to search among your open tabs:
ctrl-shift-A (windows), command-shift-A (macOS)
No. It’s a term of art, and no court will interpret it the way you suggest.
as a watcher of a few usenet flame wars in the 90's, I can attest that nerds can be emotional.
What's the Difference Between Characterization Tests and Approval Tests?
IIRC, historically, the tribal settlements in the country never had a ton of interaction with each other due to the terrain. I think it's a great example of modern borders not making much sense given the interactions of the population.
I have Dyslexia, which in me mostly surfaces as confusion of the various theirs, and a writing speed which would result in me never completing any class work. I dealt with that by learning to type, after which all my work was done on organiser type devices, first an Amstrad NC100, and then later on a Psion Series 5mx.

The Psion was such a lovely device, it would fit in a large pocket, but had a proper keyboard that you could comfortably type at a decent speed on. It was also my introduction to programming, and so probably indirectly responsible for me coming out of school with reasonable grades (having been able to actually finish work), and a career I'm still in twenty years later.
You are right. Only mobile services support IPv6, not their broadband.
It's ancient history but Compaq only reverse-engineered the IBM PC BIOS for their own use.

Some other clone companies directly copied the IBM BIOS and got sued, so it was Phoenix that provided the first 3rd party PC-compatible provably clean-room BIOS implementation.
Good points!

We're working on extensions and Adblock right now, so should be out soon!

For CMD-W, we're trying to change how you think about pages to something you "mark as done" as opposed to just "close", and changing the shortcut helps make that change for users.

Try it out and let me know if you think it's necessary to support CMD-W :)
In late September and early October of 2001 when plans were being drawn up it was.
One thing that stood out to me is the summary of the gain of function research conducted at WIV. For example p.41 quotes a PhD study, which describes that they had developed all the necessary techniques to modify corona virus samples to be infectious to humans by modifying their spike proteins, without leaving any evidence of genetic manipulation:

> We established a reverse genetics system for coronaviruses, and based on the genomic backbone of WIV1, we established a scheme to replace the S gene without traces, constructed infectious BAC clones of 12 S-gene chimeric recombinant viruses, and successfully rescued. Four of these recombinant viral strains (including Rs4231, Rs4874, Rs7327, and SHC014) were tested for ACE2 utilization by these strains in humans, civets, and bats.

The report concludes:

> As such, it is clear that Shi and others at the WIV not only possessed the capability to genetically modify coronaviruses “without traces,” but were actively doing so in the years leading up to the current pandemic.
A choice they are allowed to make N years from now, when their current Broadcom terms expire, otherwise they forfeit their preferred pricing.
Yeah, me and a friend of mine got one from a shop, I think they were like €15 or €25,- at the time - pretty steep for pocket money, but not impossible. I mean we didn't actually use it much and since it only had a two line LCD screen, entering e.g. school schedules and contact information into it was a bit painful, but it was a neat gadget to have.

I have it in the drawer near my PC at the moment, I think I put in a battery the other day, still works.

Later on I bought a secondhand Palm V from the internet, I think it was €25,- that thing was pretty cool and more of the 'smartphone' functionality than the organizer; you could install apps on it and the like, so Sudoku was a favorite.
Eloquently put.

I think the woodworkers dilemma is a thing from the dev perspective. But, that still doesn't deal with the software users' side. Why does a modern company need more people in accounting, HR, even management? Shouldn't the ability to email everyone, digitized forms and such make fewer people necessary to do the same job?

If Mcdonalds invents a new sandwich maker that requires half as many cooks per burger...
Show HN: Grader-Base – cross-platform app skeleton kit and API docs
You'll probably get too few monthly subscriptions to make it sustainable..

Suggestion -> Make the basics free, add the collaboration features as an addon.
>The peak was, I think, when I accessed Excel over Citrix while sitting in the airport waiting for a flight.

I never had a N900, but I have a similar memory of fixing a work problem while traveling in the late 90's. I used a terminal on a Palm Pilot over a dial-up modem, typing into a shell using the "graffiti" handwriting. It was...painful and triumphant all at once :)
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In the 1st quarter, we registered one accident for every 4.19 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged. For those driving without Autopilot but with our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 2.05 million miles driven. For those driving without Autopilot and without our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 978 thousand miles driven. By comparison, NHTSA’s most recent data shows that in the United States there is an automobile crash every 484,000 miles.

I think the comparison should be Tesla with/without AI, not Tesla/not-Tesla; so roughly either x2 or x4 depending on what the other active safety features do.

It’s not nothing, but it’s much less than the current sales pitch — and the current sales pitch is itself the problem here, for many legislators.
The way to fix this is to return the country to city states. No central ruler.
But it appears that Apple already stole your thunder on consumer privacy, and that they will be Very Hard to catch up to; private relay is basically TOR lite for grandma, private email is email aliases that ordinary users can use, etc.

Plus no discussion on ad blocking extensions or password management?

If this is a browser that is launching on Apple’s ecosystem while charging $$, then you have to swing harder than just vaguely insinuating that other companies are sellouts on privacy.

And is there any plan to open source so that communities can actually vet anything?
I've been known to to welcome newcomers with the gift of The Most Interesting Reading on Earth(TM, read: industry specs).

People think it's a joke til they get tired of me asking them if they read it 6 months down the line. All the programming knowledge in the world means squat if you don't understand what you're supposed to be doing with it.
They grow in a sterile environment
> Perhaps its just a case of removing subsidies on real meat

Or simply deciding as a society that the horrific torture the modern meat industry engages in is unconscionable. As with cars, once you remove the "necessity"[1] of a consumer choice, the argument for subsidizing it or compromising other values to expand availability disappears. People who prefer real meat over hypothetically indistinguishable lab-grown meat can pay full-price for the environmental and ethical costs; this seems like it'll be more than enough to shift the market.

[1] This is taking for granted the position that abstaining from meat is unviable. I don't see this view changing much.
> * Let the human do all the driving and have the robot jump in whenever the human makes a mistake.*

Because when the human disagrees with the machine, the machine is usually the one making a mistake. It might prevent accidents, but it would also cause them, and you lose predictability in the process (you have to model the human and the machine).
Tesla's vehicles are almost 10X safer than the average vehicle. Whether their autopilot system is contributing positively or negatively to that safety record is unclear.

The real test of this would be: of all Tesla vehicles, are the ones with autopilot enabled statistically safer or less safe than the ones without autopilot enabled?
...according to Tesla, based on the data nobody else can see?
By not charging the users full price until they've driven all other players out of business through undercutting.
At least that one has a PMOS wiki page: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/F(x)tec_Pro1_(fxtec-pro1)
Guess I didnt have 'its not a crime if it wasnt ordered by he commander in chief' on your list of potential excuses.

lol at 'war crimes are inevitable'
Wow, I'm amazed they still try that nonsense. I guess there are still plenty of suckers out there buying cars.

Just in case anybody is wondering how "easy" a new car purchase can be...
I sold my previous car to Carvana a few months prior (didn't need a car last winter due to COVID). So, that wasn't in play.

I tested a few cars at various local dealers (cross-shopped Tacomas, Rangers, Ridgeline, and a few similarly priced SUVs). All were easy enough to deal with - told them up front I wasn't buying that day and just wanted to test drive. Only one asked me to wait for the manager to chat - annoying, but whatever.

Once I settled on model/trim, I emailed every dealer within an hour's drive that had one in stock (several didn't - COVID shortages) and asked them to text their best price. First response was within 30 minutes, and a few texts later, I had the price down to my target (which was based on asking around some make/model forums online). The dealer did make me go through the whole extra warranty, tire care, and other add-on bullshit, but it was by phone and basically just me saying "No" a half dozen times. Annoying, but expected.

Anyways, the process is still a bit tedious and requires too much back and forth, but at least it can mostly be done via text or phone. The actual in-person stuff is pretty painless (and would be even easier if I brought my own financing).
A lot of comments about how terrible T-mobile security is. Is there a (US) carrier that has good security? How much worse is it than others?
To tell you the truth, I generally do and haven't used it for ages. Where I drive, the roads have some amount of traffic. I find (traditional) cruise control encourages driving at a constant speed to a degree that I wouldn't as a driver with a foot on the gas. So I don't "hate" regular cruise control but I basically never use it.
Observability in 5 Mins
Ask HN: Criticize my idea for a carbon negative cryptocurrency
Hi HN.

Here is an idea for a cryptocurrency I have been toying with for a few days:
It can use any consensus algorithm that doesn’t require huge amount of energy as the number of user grows (so no Proof of Work).
When a new block is added, part of the coins that get generated are sent to a few fixed wallets.
These wallets would be well known by all the nodes (so nodes can all validate that these are the right addresses) and would belong to a select few non-profit organizations that actively work in environmental restoration/protection (e.g. https://edenprojects.org/ or https://theoceancleanup.com/), carbon capture (e.g. https://climeworks.com/) and other related fields (e.g. https://www.catf.us/), I haven't really thought of which organization to give to, this list is just an example.
Each non-profit would need to publicly declare that they own these wallets to ensure that the coins aren't being taken by a third party.
The list of organizations/wallets could change over time, and would be selected by the community, probably with a formal process where anybody can create a proposal, then people can vote on them.

Here are a few questions that I have:
- Are there any similar project already existing? I'd be happy to contribute to an already established project.
- What are the problems you can foresee with this idea?
- In particular, what are potential security issues here, how can I make sure no attacker can add custom addresses to this list?
- Do you have any improvements to this?
- Any pointer to an appropriate blockchain tech to build this on? I assume it would take far longer to implement it from scratch.
Well, it doesn't help when the CEO of the company publically states that the system is good enough to drive on its own and those safety systems are only there because of regulatory requirements.
Asian Giant Hornet Update from the Washington State Dept. Of Agriculture
Costs a lot to keep the supply of drivers there. Consumers don't want to pay prices high enough to justify the gig model. Overhead is fairly high due to many failed attempts at growth and legal and tech and what not.
Well I did give a NKLA short 17 days ago and well I ended up laughing all the way to the bank. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27996773
I don't think this holds. As the rule goes, there are only three cardinal numbers: zero, one, many. What are the chances you product has only two meaningful personas - "users" and "developers"?

Take that payment system. People who buy things are obviously users, people who write CMS plugins for that system are obviously developers. But what about, say, analysts studying reports from that system? Accountants making sure the money flows where it should? Sysadmins keeping the backend components running? These are all users too.

Where UX makes sense as a broad concept, giving a separate acronym to one small subset of potential users... doesn't make sense.
A subscription model for a browser seems like a very, very niche market to me - but then that's the vim angle.

For me, hard to justify $15 for a relativity feature-lite browser. You would need a stronger value proposition.

I think most of these features can be reproduced for free on any other browser. Split view is neat but I do that already with chrome and spectacle, both free.
I drive a Tesla and don't use the self-steering feature exactly because of this. What I do instead is enable the warnings from the same software like the ones you describe. That is actually a large gain. I'm already paying attention as I'm driving the car at all times and the software helps me catch things I haven't noticed for some reason. Those features seem really well done as the false positives are not too frequent and just a nuisance but the warnings are often valuable.
U.S. opens formal probe into Tesla Autopilot crashes
Seems some people can actually keep secrets.
Hmmmm... That would be a good home!
There's a firewire/IEEE1394 joke in here somewhere.
> how do you convince meat eaters to choose this chicken nugget over the perceived 'healthier' flesh of a dead chicken.

Meat eaters aren't as picky eaters as vegans, putting meat in front of them is all the convincing they need. I eat McNuggets fully knowing they are just ground up baby chicks, beak and all, I don't care I eat animals because they taste good. I would happily eat dog if it tasted like chicken, Ill happily eat meat from a lab I don't care about my food being "organic".
If your income is based on productivity, especially micro optimizations in productivity (decidedly not the case for employees, but perhaps for contractors and freelancers), it might be worth it.
1842 Retreat from Kabul
I'm definitely guilty of that. I should focus on some of the copy-paste-edit work to add support for half a dozen configuration modules, but I'm still mentally in the building scaffolding phase, also because for each module I will need to add some functionality (versioning, revert, import, etc).
Don't be dissuaded. Just take that cautious attitude, and learn everything you can. But don't let it scare you off.
No, it’s not. I guess we’re doomed to see this at-best-misleading-but-really-just-straight-up-lying analysis every time there’s an article about this.

Makes me laugh, especially with the “geeks are immune to marketing” trope that floats around here equally as regularly.
When robots screw up, how can they regain human trust?
They do have an established practice of ignoring war criminals and going after the people who denounce their war crimes. See Assange.
As far as I can tell, this is untrue. Apple has denied using it [0] and the case is better explained by a thief using a false identity alongside bad detective work on the part of police and a contracted security company [1].

[0] https://www.theverge.com/tech/2019/4/23/18512942/apple-lawsu...
[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/05/29/apple-sued-over-f...
For Perl, there is now Future::AsyncAwait.[0] Mojolicius has already adopted it, so things are moving forward at the speed of the magnetic poles shift. :)

[0] https://metacpan.org/pod/Future::AsyncAwait
>Im a vegan but Ive noticed that most other vegans are not really looking forward to lab grown meat.

I would hope that most vegans would be looking forward to a massive reduction in animal cruelty. I despise factory farming, but I thrive best on a high protein diet. The vast majority of vegan protein sources come with too much carb, fat or both. There is simply no vegan alternative that compares with lean meat.
Gonna be pretty difficult to enforce. Many US states don't even enforce a minimum roadworthiness of cars on the roads.
Not exclusively.

When Toyota sponsors a motorsport team, that's not about getting someone to buy tomorrow. Neither are most TV commercials, brochures, etc. Neither is rebranding, etc.
There are Android keyboards that replicate it. I tried a few but for whatever reason they still couldn't replicate the experience. I suspect it's the lack of hard buttons - I could type out an entire message without looking at the screen with a T9 keypad.

I've ended up switching to a swipe keyboard which I find efficient but it in an entirely different way to T9.
How is raw meat processed?
Fair point, can't convince you we're trustworthy just by telling you, but I can still say it anyways :P

We don't use keyloggers. We don't sell your data.

If we did, it would be a breach of our privacy policy and you could sue us, right? (Don't know if I should be suggesting you sue us, but since you won't have a reason to, think we're safe :p)
Thanks for the suggestion. A dozen or so spam emails still get through to my inbox every day. But that’s still better than using something like Gmail and missing real emails because of false positives.
Opinion: LaTeX resumes/CVs don't make any sense.

If, in your job, you were trying to express technical information, you wouldn't use LaTeX. You might use it for a paper or a book where you have a lot of content or multiple issues that you want to look consistent. But a resume is a single, small document with multiple different sections that have different formatting requirements.

In your job, you probably share information in markdown or rst. If you're looking to signal - and let's be honest, with LaTeX you are - why not use those?

Bonus: ATS systems and recruiters won't bork your input.