skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it implausible to think that continued transmission and mutation at this rate will cause a catastrophic worsening of the pandemic to an extent several orders of magnitude above what it is now? Vaccination is effective in the current state of the pandemic, but what's to prevent the built-up immune response of humankind being wiped out if the virus adapts enough?
I accidentally discovered a good diagnostic test for swollen batteries:

(1) Remove phone from case and place on a very flat, smooth, hard, clean surface. (Granite countertop, glass coffee table, etc.)

(2) Give the corner of the phone a sideways flick with your finger.

(3) Does the phone spin around and around and around like a top? If so, it may have a swollen battery.

This probably doesn't work for every model of phone, but on mine, I noticed the phone's newfound ability to spin much earlier than I could easily see visually that the back of the phone was bowed.
And then engaged in another one immediattely after.
Someone please correct me if I am wrong (always, but am extra asking for it), is that the main 3b1b/manim is really just for Grant and folks in making his videos, and while he did open source it, he isn't interested in running a big OSS project.

To me this really shows the power of OSS, and that one can "take ownership" of their destiny through forking and that it doesn't need to be adversarial.

In many ways, ideas are much more powerful than code. That code itself can be a thought terminating thing, by making ideas reified, it also instantly constructs an Overton Window or maybe a Chesteron's Fence, or maybe a Winchester House. A Knot's Berry Farm of technical debt built on soggy metaphors.
Totally agree. I found the total lack of equations, data, and experiments in the paper this thread is about extremely telling in this regard as well. Lots of vague assertions, zero rigor. I think all the points being made in this paper evaporate rather quickly when subjected to any sort of serious formalism.
Netflix Ex-Employees Used Encrypted Messaging Apps to Evade Detection
I love this - I have my internet, mobile, Amazon prime, Netflix. etc. setup via CC and this really helps. Saves a lot of time.

I see that HN readership do not like this but I think this is common for young adults. The point is that after some point in their life one will get more organized and more disciplined (like one will not be signing up for random services using company email address - yea I did that as young adult. Terrible idea.).

Also as one gets older one will learn that just canceling the credit card or disputing charges might get bills reported to collection.
Even minor changes to inflation can deflate asset bubbles without blood in the streets. 2% inflation might make your existing how less valuable for a few years but it’s also rapidly making your mortgage payments more affordable. The real issue is this sets up golden handcuffs where buying an equally valuable house elsewhere would be a huge financial hit for much longer.
> Go look at current and historical prices of homes (as well as appreciation rate velocity) in Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, Tampa, Orlando, Miami, and major North Carolina metros.. Rents are no better

The rental market in these cities is in an unprecedented state, with hundreds of applicants for each of the precious few listings.

People with money in the bank are finding nowhere to live.
https://github.com/robertmuth/Cwerg is similar in nature
it supports arm64 and arm32 and can directly generate elf executables.
The first link is NSFW as a headsup
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What do you do when you lose your private key?

Who issues the private key? "get" implies it comes from somewhere, i.e. a CA system.

If the government is the CA system, and your private key is your identity, how do you establish your identity in the event that you lost your key?

The nice thing about SSNs being immutable is that none of these are concerns. (It's also the bad thing about SSNs being immutable.)
It changed my life. I went from debt to significant savings/investments in under 5 years when I did it. Think of whatever your rent/mortgage is per month. Think of getting that sort of raise. How would it change your life? Money/debt became a tool instead of a burden for me personally.
> Why don't we just eliminate the market in housing … we have more houses than people/

Sure tavaresh, I'd like a mine to be pied á terre in the Hamptons. You know, since there's no shortage.

Please try debug your suggestions first.
Why do you hope people don’t use houses as an investment?

It’s one of the few investments where:

* you can get a huge loan with a tiny interest rate

* you can actually enjoy the investment by living in it

* everyone around you is doing everything they can to keep house prices up and therefore keep your investment growing

I mean seriously, the only other option is dumping all your money in a stock market that you can’t touch and have no control over.
If you’re working a tech job, you almost certainly have the bucks to get the extra device. Personally, I think it’s a bit scummy that a business would ask employees to do work on a device they didn’t pay for, but that’s a digression.

The long and short of it, I think, is that you should keep things separate because a job is not forever so you should remain prepared to leave, and to keep them from snooping in your personal business. Yeah yeah that probably won’t happen, but if you keep em separate you know it won’t.

MDM and similar also give them the ability to wipe the device at any time, for reasons that could have absolutely nothing to with you. You know, as a precaution, of course.

Just save yourself the headache.
Let me offer a defense of the meme, because I think you've got the causality backwards. I think that because I'm of an age where, had I gone straight to university after high school, I'd have graduated straight into the teeth of the 2008 recession. So I know how my cohort thinks about plight of the middle class. And almost everyone my age or younger, given a chance to think about it, agrees that the middle class cannot be saved. It's considered a lost cause, and among those who do believe it can be saved, their arguments amount to a blinking confusion and insistence that it must.

Given that people like me have only ever participated in the economy during a time when the middle class was shrinking, what are we to do? Most of us agree, if our future is a world of a few 'haves' and many 'have nots', priority one is to become a 'have'. Even from the most moral stance imaginable, a 'have not' has no ability to help others. Hence, too many of us try to get into the elite. To aim for the middle class is to aim for grinding poverty, and why would anyone?
Self-driving cars are nearly there, except for all the hard stuff
None of this has to do with the prohibited status. Of course there are technical workarounds, but this isn't a technical problem, it's a policy one.
http://pricedingold.com/us-home-prices/

Interesting. Clearly an uptrend.
This is why things like 2-year vocational schools are so great! They tend to focus on competency-based outcomes, where "tests" usually involve demonstrating a skill in a simulated environment. Though I will definitely admit that this is not the best option for all areas of knowledge.
You can sort of transfer it via trading. There is a black market that exists, but it is FULL of scammers.
> For the second time, out of the tens of millions of videos on the platform critics found illegal content numbering in the dozens.

Can you say that was all of it? Frankly, I don't see how anyone can have any confidence that PornHub's previous moderation practices were effective. Some of the stuff they have to remove is too hard to detect without context which is not present in the content itself. Also, those practices put the onus on the wrong party (e.g. forcing someone who had illegal or otherwise improper videos of themselves uploaded to find them and play whack-a-mole as they got reuploaded).

> The filter was sufficient to make illegal content something that the overwhelming majority of people - almost everyone - will never see when using their platform.

And now they have an even more effective filter.

And you're twisting the goalposts: "the overwhelming majority of people" aren't going to seek out illegal content, so talking about what the "majority sees" is actually ignoring the problem.
Lightning can kill without obvious marks, and it can kill several people at once. Not uncommon on a mountain. Poisoning or dehydration would not have happened to a group all at once.
You're right, I've read numerous articles and editorials in the NYTimes about this issue.
I actually viewed this annoyance as a feature. Wait for the Dunning email and either log in to update or do nothing.
FCC to investigate T-Mobile data breach
Preach brother.

Its the psychological value, not some optimisation on a spreadsheet.
Months ago I've purchased a Nokia 8110 4G which does exactly what I need: calls, receiving confirmation text codes from the bank or other services, occasional photos on the fly (quality is not on par with most smartphones, but acceptable for some uses), and 4G hot spot for the laptop. Never been happier. I don't use it for texting though; coming from a qwerty blackberry-like one, going back to the numerical keypad for texts would be a nightmare.
I paid it new €50 delivered locally, but noticed the price skyrocketed recently and some sellers ask over €400, which is absolutely insane. The price inflation might be related to chips shortage, therefore waiting a bit might be worth.

There is also community dedicated to replacing the factory OS (KaiOS, a fork of Firefox OS) with a more free one.

https://gerda.tech/

https://sites.google.com/view/bananahackers/home
This is why I trust precisely zero media.
An 11 year old is having trouble earning a living as an independent game developer?
Recommendation from me as well. Have been using this script for multiple years now without a single issue. The minimal code is awesome for avoiding unnecessary external dependencies and complexity.

Be sure to use the latest version from https://github.com/diafygi/acme-tiny though :-)
Thanks for the feedback. One of our biggest challenges is in overcoming the gimmicks timeshares use to hook customers. My parents have had a few different timeshares, some of which were great, others complete scams. They've been incredibly successful in building huge businesses with these tactics. It really comes down to what you are purchasing, when you can use the property, and how you resell.

With timeshares you are purchasing a block of time in a condo/resort with dozens or potentially hundreds of people. With Ancana, you are purchasing a share of an actual home with a small group of people. You own a piece of the home you are staying in, not a deed to a piece of a resort. Co-ownership is a concept that has been around for a while (a couple people in the comments have shared their experiences), but this has typically been limited to friends/family. We aim to make this accessible to everyone.

With timeshares you get access to the property for fixed weeks. With Ancana you have ongoing access to the home. you can plan a vacation 8 months from now, or a last minute getaway this weekend. Timeshares do not offer this flexibility.

Selling your timeshare is typically a nightmare. There are entire industries built around helping people get out of their timeshare contracts. Resorts have a vested interest in keeping you hooked, because the more buyers they get the more money they make. With Ancana, you are free to sell your share whenever and however you'd like. Since there are a limited number of co-owners, Ancana has no vested interest in making it hard to sell. We'll assist in helping you find a buyer if you'd like.

We appreciate your feedback as a timeshare owner. It really is helpful for us to understand these different perspectives and to try and differentiate ourselves more from a standard timeshare
How to use Auth0 with Node.js and express
Where an hour from Tahoe? I lived in Gardnerville for a chunk of my childhood
I was just about to make the exact same point. Housing is warfare. You'll find few friends. Be extremely careful with advice.
I think him being a father gives him special insight into that issue. Most fathers are keenly aware when their children are being taken advantage of.

Most parents on this HN thread seem to agree.
i was wondering this the other day.

the next big mutations may not be more infectious because they can survive outside the body longer, but because they get around existing immunity or theres a longer asympomatic-but-still-transmissible phase. theres a lot of different paths this could take to mass infection.
> For those of you old enough to remember landlines, it reminds me of those [...] When we all switched to cell service audio quality took a huge hit

As a blind person with a lot of friends in different corners of the world, audio quality is very important to me. Surprisingly enough, I've seen side projects that took a weekend to develop that had much better quality than what mainstream services offer. Part of it is probably because of bandwidth costs, but I guess effects (like cancelling echos from participants who use speakers instead of headphones, or reducing noise from crappy mics) also play a role.

Facetime's quality is good, but nowhere near what your devices are actually capable of. The only mainstream solution that is actually good is Zoom, when you enable original sound, stereo audio, high fidelity mode and disable a few annoying filters. To do this, the app needs much more fine-grained control of your microphone than you can get from a web browser, so the native client is essential.

Discord with Nitro is pretty decent too, but really niche, obscure, non-mainstream solutions work best. TeamTalk[1] is one great example.

[1] https://bearware.dk/?page_id=327
Core CPI understates localized inflation in certain assets. Real estate happens to be highly inelastic, illiquid, and has a limited supply due to NIMBYism. The federal government has also handed people tens of thousands of dollars in printed money through stimulus checks and extended unemployment benefits. That lets people stay where they live now instead of moving to a place they can afford, which takes supply off the market and brings up prices. Whether you think this is good is a political opinion, but you can't deny that there is an impact on prices.

I bet if you adjust by the price of SPY as inflation instead of CPI you'd get a different story.
Is YouTube getting free labor when I upload a video?

I feel like the exchange there is not about labor...
SARS-CoV-2 has four antigens. The existing vaccines stimulate the production of antibodies against only one of them, the spike protein.

The existing vaccines are proving ineffective against Delta because it has mutated significantly enough that its spike protein does not cause a neutralizing immune response. They may even be causing ADE, as evidenced by the most recent data comparing Israel and Palestine.
Sorry, GET requests aren’t idempotent. At the minimum they create log entries. So you can DDoS servers by filling their logs with “idempotent” GETs.

UX is important, and I think saying “suck it users, I’m going to use GET the way I think is write” is not a positive way of thinking about it.

I think the problem is just the mechanics of POST not being allowed in an email, so if there’s a way to POST from just clicking on a link I think we should use it. But there’s not, so having a GET that triggers something is the least bad thing. I like it better than javascript and forms in email. And better than autosubmitting, hidden forms on load.
they don't. I think you are just misunderstanding the comment. The poster was saying people might assume its related to battery level since it is correlated to time of day, which does have an effect on prices.

He was making a comment about wrongly thinking causation from the situation
> The solution is to either encrypt or evict the secret memory on hibernation, and then decrypt it or have the app derive the secrets again when the user enters their password

A third option: do neither, and just accept that hibernation temporarily drops the security guarantees that the feature usually offers.
Decentralized storage taps into latent/underutilized capacity from datacenters and individuals across the world. For example, if you have 10TBs of free capacity that wouldn't otherwise be used, and running a node is pure margin. Most private datacenters are at about 40% capacity.

Another example –> the total cost for me is more than 10x cheaper than AWS - its 7$ for TB/Bandwidth vs $90 on AWS. I can also get 1.8gbps - in my region, which is even faster than AWS, and it doesn't rely on ACL databases (it uses client-side hmacs for file authorization). So, for my use case (static content storage and low-volume CDN usage) decentralized cloud wins. (it's 10x cheaper, faster, and more secure for my needs).
> But to withdraw it, they need to have raked in roughly $1,000 worth of Robux

You can thank modern accrual accounting for this.

Roblox will be allowed to move money from liability to revenue based on a schedule using some sort of historical trends supporting the method. The higher the threshold, the higher their liability but also the more money that goes back to them long-term.
Awesome guide! If you want to see a very minimal walkthrough of actually implementing this in code, the third post of my "write a SQL database in Go" series does just this [0].

Once you have the index set up and are able to use it the next challenging part is pattern matching (plus algebraic rewrites) to figure out if the index is actually applicable.

For example, in my linked blog post, an index is only used if the WHERE expression has only AND-ed operations and one of those expressions is a filter using <, >, =, <> (and a few other operators) and one of the columns is indexed. This is simpler than what a real database might attempt.

Another interesting part of seeing it in code (and messing with the code) is observing cases like where even though you're using an index it doesn't speed anything up if you filter still matches every item in the index.

Also if you just want to learn more about indexes as a user, I highly recommend the site "Use the index, Luke" that has many useful guides/explanations.

[0] https://notes.eatonphil.com/database-basics-indexes.html

[1] https://use-the-index-luke.com/
Just as a general comment: weight alone is a shit measurement for overall health. You really want to know your body fat percentage, at a minimum.
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Also the Nelly and Eeek variants. They would have called it Erik, but they worked closely with someone named Erik already.
Just off the top of my head there are a few people that come to mind.

“After the 2016 FBI–Apple encryption dispute, Feinstein and Richard Burr sponsored a bill that would be likely to criminalize all forms of strong encryption in electronic communication between citizens”

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein

She was on senate subcommittees that handles all sorts of legality for technology companies.

* Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism
* Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Refugees

* Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law

* Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law (Chair, 117th Congress)

From her gov CV page:
“The Judiciary Committee has one of the broadest jurisdictions in the Senate, ranging from criminal justice and immigration issues to antitrust and intellectual property law.“

Source: https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/thejudicia...
That's the "disparate impact" line of reasoning: if anything results in unequal outcomes, no matter how evenly-handed it was administered, it is racist and must be adjusted until the outcomes are "equitable". It shouldn't be hard (although apparently is for some people) to see what a disaster that line of thinking is.
Please, everybody, speculating about this very, very sad event is not helping anyone. Only the authorities can work out what happened. Let it alone, please.
In Denmark, you are issued a one-time pad. You get a new one with some frequency. If you lose it, you are issued a new one.

In that case, third parties could use a government website to get a row/col and ask you to verify, and the website could say yes/no. Yes, there is a risk of your one-time pad being stolen, but it is no greater than the current risk that any US citizen's tax documents or SS card can be stolen.
"America's nuclear program didn't just threaten the world, but caused actual harm. "

Which is false of course. It was the key ingredient in ending the worst war the world has ever seen, and since then, major wars have gone by the wayside.

Decade by decade in the US-backed world order, there have been fewer and fewer major conflicts.

The world is inherently unstable, it's barely held together by somewhat organized powers of which the US is by far the biggest pillar.

The world as we know it with open seas, open Panama, Suez, Gulf, peace between Egypt, Israel and Saudi, relative freedom of movement and commerce is an artifact of that order of which the US is the biggest pillar.

Without that order (and possibly just without the US alone, as it's hard to know if Europe+Japan+Korea+Aussie etc. could step up in a coordinated way), it would be something completely different, and in almost every scenario, much worse.

The Iranian Regime is a toxic entity that literally their own citizens would overthrow in an instant given an opportunity to do so - we're all waiting for the time when they collapse so everyone, especially Iranians citizens such as the author of this article, can move forward and participate in FOSS without getting caught up in geopolitics.
The most interesting thing in this is the US unconditional support for Saudi Arabia, arguably the largest destabilising force in the Middle East, (one of) the largest supporter of Islamic terrorism in the world (remember where bin Laden came from, who financially supported the Taliban...) and one of the worst dictatorships in the region (and that says a lot), who spies on critics overseas through infiltrating western companies and carries out assassinations of their critics overseas. But the US (and most other western countries) unconditionally support them no matter what they do. The overthrow of the House of Saud would like to be one of the best things that could happen.
Receptor binding affinity can also increase too, or like Alpha did, further suppress interferon production. Lots of ways...
and full of nasty bugs, visit the reddit.com/r/KaiOS/ for more info
I typically use a test visa number to replace/remove my cc and it’s crazy how often this works. Aka no check that it’s a test cards
I don't see how that follows. Surely you could select hyper-parameters that cause a model to perform differently across different races, ethnicities, etc. Like, shouldn't you be able to get a model to perform poorly for minority groups simply by specifying a model size that's too small to learn the full data set, with the knowledge that most training samples won't be describing those groups?
If anything that is the opposite of what is true. At the time IBM invented the term to market the IBM 5150.

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