skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paywalled but I think I get the gist. The main problem with cases of (I'm presuming) civil forfeiture is that the assest is what's being accused of involvement in crime, not the person. As assets have no rights the police can essentially do as they please with it.
Not at all. The safer assumption is that HN readers here in this discussion today have never heard of him or MR. I've never heard of him, and I think I keep up pretty well in tech.
Funny how GP parroted the words of LeCunn, word by word.

This is a big issue in Science, actually. One guy speaks and thousands follow. We are still in the dark ages.
What do you think the purpose of 23andMe was? To collect data on everybody. That combined with the constant covid testing, is allowing them collect a massive amount of data.

I've read they already have (relatively crude) bio-weapons that can target specific genomic sequences. The data they are now getting will allow them to improve upon it dramatically.
And a lawyer to handle their estate planning
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Deno and CFW both try to be close to web standards.
Covid is a virus, the effects of which are not comparable to a vaccine. There's a lot of past evidence (as mentioned in the article) for < 2 month indications of long-term side effects based on historical vaccine development. We aren't seeing any of those indicators for the covid vaccines.

Moreover, we already have clinical evidence that covid causes long-term side effects in up to a third of people infected. There is no such evidence for any covid vaccine.
Author enjoys adopting the 4chan aesthetic. Hard to say if he's just reactionary and likes appealing to that lot, or he's just a nazi as well.

But these proclivities have been well featured across his site and channel for a long time.
Good tip, but these days I'm so long removed from daily terminal incantations that I mostly take a "kitchen sink and just make it work" approach.
I read recently this might be linked to people who were exposed to the 1889 flu pandemic.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-did-1918-flu-kill...
Yep. Another crazy example: in Germany you often need a registered address to open a bank account, which is often a requirement for renting an apartment in the first place. The government had to intervene and make a law in the end, although most banks still drag their feet.
Somewhat surprised at how far you can get down the sign-up flow using the (internet-facing, publicly accessible) staging URLs that the report mentions - i.e. https://www-dev.allizom.org/en-US/products/vpn/ and https://accounts.stage.mozaws.net/settings
This makes no sense. Onion services don't hide the source, they hide the destination -- a destination that, in this threat model, you run. If the client connecting wants to hide their source, they can use Tor, a VPN, an existing botnet, etc.; whether you're running SSH over an onion service or with vanilla exposed IPs/DNS is immaterial.
I only brought it up because the author mentions the humanities as being critically important to Cowen's analysis method. Yet I think his approach is fundamentally still economic in nature, likely because of Cowen's economist background.

Tyler calls his study of the humanities “cracking cultural codes,” and he highlights this as the most “importantly novel” activity he practices.
> But how about curved space? Suppose I have two vectorsin curved space-they look like two droopy arrows.

No, they don't. In math, curved spaces are modeled through so-called manifolds which locally look like ℝ^n. In particular, at any point p of the manifold there's a tangent space, i.e. a linear space (higher-dimensional plane) tangent to the manifold at p. Vectors at p are just vectors in that linear space. So they are "straight" not "droopy".

On the tangent space of each point p you can now define an inner product g(p). The resulting family of inner products g is called a (Riemannian) metric on the manifold[0] and describes how lengths (of vectors) and angles (between vectors) can be measured at each point.

> Currently, we define the curvature of space with gravity or the deflection of light past massive objects. Is there a way to measure the curvature of space locally?

Yes, there is. In fact, the curvature[1] of a (Riemannian) manifold is a purely local quantity – it's basically the second derivative of the metric g, so it describes how the notion of length changes (more precisely: how the change in length changes) as you go from a point p to neighboring points.

There are other ways to express what curvature is, e.g. by locally parallelly transporting[2] a vector along a closed curve (and making that curve smaller and smaller) which basically measures how the notion of straight lines changes locally. (Though, since a line being "straight" means "locally length minimizing" this brings us back to the notion of length and, thus, the metric.)

Alternatively, if the manifold has dimension 2, there's a particularly simple way of looking at and interpreting curvature, see [3].

In any case, curvature being used to model gravity is entirely separate from that idea.

[0]: Provided this inner product "varies smoothly" as you move from p to a neighboring point q.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_curvature_tensor

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_transport

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_curvature
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Here are the data points:

- giving Hitler authority caused WWII and Holocaust, killing millions of innocent people (bad)

- giving Patton authority could have ended WWII early, saving millions of innocent people (good, hypothetically)

The first data point alone only proves that giving authority is SOMETIMES bad, which no one would argue with.

If the second data point is a true statement, then it clearly counters the assertion that giving authority is ALWAYS bad

Maybe granting authority is never worth the risk, but I think it required a more nuanced analysis than just bringing up Hitler.
Hi thanks for the reply and the perspective.

>I have people around me who are not so young or not so healthy; while I might live, I do not want to transmit a a virus that could be potentially lethal to them.

This is also the reason I did sign up for vaccination,(traveling with work and all) but it also put a dent in the reasoning that the people I'll meet will highly likely be vaccinated due to their age.

>I also don't think it is worth putting stock into fear of the unknown with this vaccine

You have a valid point and I do trust the scientist to do their work well(although after entering research this year my trust for science have been slightly jaded), but trusting the vaccine means I have to trust not just the scientists but all entities involved along the line (mass production, distribution, quality control, government logistics, safe storage and transportation).

With the entire vaccine thing being so highly politicized and tribalized, having the (healthy) level of scepticism and trying to express it to inform myself through dialogue have been very hard, so I appreciate your comment a lot. I'll ponder a bit where my doubts are valid/not valid and what action is reasonable based on that
Re being ill after being vaxxed - the vaccine doesn't stop you getting it, it reduces the risk of you dying from it. Likely, if they were really badly ill when vaxxed then they would have needed medical help, could have died.
now that I have the snark out of me - having a mobile app just be a web view that serves up a nextjs site or some such - which can then be used to power your website too ... is definitely a good idea now for many apps ...
> Contrast this with something like a private key, which never leaves your possession and is never shared directly, just used for signing. Unfortunately most non-technical people have no concept of such a thing, apart from...stamps and seals? The chip on a credit card might count, but it doesn't seem like people care about losing possession of that too much either.

So, consider how Apple is about to handle state IDs and driver's licenses with iOS 15. It's what you describe, mostly. Not a private key, but identity built on crypto, with a UX that doesn't suck. We're getting there.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/27/ios-15-apple-implementing-sec...
I was reading just yesterday that people with Sjogren's, an autoimmune condition, were more likely to end up in hospital with Covid. I'm sure there's lots of potential confounding factors that mean I shouldn't jump to conclusions, but as someone with Sjogren's it still worries me.
>I think people can more efficiently allocate their money than a central government planning group can

Let's look at it this way: Government just provides the essentials (what essentials consist of is to debate but still can be setup by an expert committee) and people can get whatever they want once they get a job (and thus reducing the aid they need).
Alternatively: give the poor coupons instead of cash so that their landlord can't just take it from them.
To be fair, you have to consider a placebo effect for those same people.
Now we just need a four letter initialism in order to describe this mechanism. Maybe JUDL? (JSON-based User-Interface Description Language), or if we were to switch the representation to something more SGML-like, maybe UIML (pronounced wee-mull)
Just wait for full vaccine passport rollout and use that... All the same problems and effects as with mandatory IDs (plus more), but people usually worrying about that don't care. A perfect tool for a policy change.
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First line of the paper:

> Direct control of the pupillary musculature is deemed impossible (Loewenfeld, 1993).

Also, from the abstract, they tested to rule out "increases in arousal by increased mental effort". This is a different phenomenon than what you are discussing.
"California Community Colleges officials declined to say whether any financial aid was disbursed to fake students"

In my state a reply like this will generate a sunshine request faster than you can bat an eye.
If you could take a Bayesian perspective toward the super-resolution problem, things will make sense: given a low-res image, it corresponds to a distribution of corresponding high-res images. Which one is more likely? It depends on the prior and the likelihood. The right figure is a possible outcome, however, if we have strong prior toward the possibility of well-known people, we would be biased toward those people. It's not wrong, it is just not comprehensive.
Modern electric motors and generators are pretty efficient. Just a lot heavier.
It's not quite as lax for families with kids under 12, but broadly speaking, I agree with you.

Some things are just never going to be completely as they were in February 2020— for example, I think there's far broader cultural awareness of factors like indoor air sharing, aerosols, hand sanitation, personal vaccine records, etc than probably at any other point in history. I expect that the lower-than-usual flu numbers from last winter will persist for some time as people continue to take care about these kind of things.

And no one alive today will need to be reminded to get the malaria shot before going on safari— checking your vaccine status is permanently embedded in the current generation as travel-thing now, just like making sure you have your visa lined up and your insurance in order.
But education is frighteningly expensive. Reducing the cost makes sense, but subsidizing the cost of something overpriced doesn't do anything to incentivize lowering the actual cost of that thing.

Likewise, there are loads of things which help society in general which we still hold individuals accountable for. Law-school and Med-school cost loads, but students take on loans for those; small businesses provide a huge portion of employment, but by-and-large the burden of debt (even small-business-advantaged loans) is taken on by owners and not society-at-large (COVID notwithstanding); having a huge selection of television, music, literature, and other media produced in the US is great for society (and is a huge reason for American soft-power worldwide), but the cost of funding nearly all this work is borne by businesses and not the taxpayer.

This isn't to say that certain things shouldn't be funded by the taxpayer. However, saying "This thing is good for all of society, and therefore should be subsidized by the taxpayer" doesn't really necessarily follow.
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That is a great point, but what about power? What do you recommend there?
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> The book changed my view of the world quite a bit. Especially about wealth, poverty, crime and justice.

How so?
> I'm maybe less bullish on the prospect of coding to a particular CDN's Javascript API (which is not a problem Deno has).

Workers, Sites, Workers KV, and now Durable Objects... it is much more than a JS API. I recently experimented with Durable Objects and they do make developing against a kv-database much simpler, even if it is limited while in beta. Our development is all-in Cloudflare atm, but we also look fondly at fly.io to move other workloads (over from AWS) that Cloudflare won't / can't support.
I really don't see how it is "too wide for good ergonomics" as you imply if a keyboard has a number pad. I think you exaggerate the amount of difference it makes to try to make a point based on your anecdotal experience which was also based on a poor desk design rather than the KB/mouse layout alone.
Can someone explain how this money just disappears? It’s not like financial aid is disbursed via Monero. Wouldn’t these payments go through a bank via either wire transfer or a check? Seems like there should be a lot of potential threads to follow back to the perpetrators.
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Brain time > CPU time
It doesn't make it worse when you just issue IDs, but it would make it worse if you required them before they were virtually universal.

Today the coverage of state IDs is actually very poor. People who hold them believe they are universally held but in truth only 89% of adult Americans possess one. That is not high, it is terrible.
Going to answer point by point:

> That said, we know at least the VMkernel is likely to work on other ARMs, though userspace might not like it if you don't have things like AMX in your CPU, or the SPRR stuff

Open-source XNU doesn't support Apple's CPU extensions, but macOS still runs just fine on it. (but no Rosetta of course)

> by passing through Metal, as I understand it

See ParavirtualizedGraphics.framework, which uses MetalSerializer.framework under the hood.
A Death Blow to Vaccine Passports?
I can’t count the number of times I’ve done something in a “completely useless” personal project which taught me a skill or tool which was useful at work.

Even if you go by the philosophy that something has to be useful to be valuable (not something I personally believe), toy projects have their place. Plus, they’re fun.
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The go team have done amazing work minimising mutation pause times. I'm skeptical I would ever be comfortable using it for code that close to the metal, but if any mark and sweep garbage collected language is going to one day reach a point where that's solely prejudice on my part rather than part prejudice and part technological realism go is probably the most likely candidate.