skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do they think anyone on Earth outside of China finds this plausible or is it purely for domestic consumption?

FWIW, I made an effort to get outside my bubble recently and talked to a right-leaning acquaintance, who as it turns out happened to be somewhat conspiracy-minded (which from what I gather isn't uncommon these days).

They were into this theory. So the answer to (the first part of your question) is, surprisingly, yes. This conspiracy theory apparently has some traction in (at least some subset) of the US, although probably not the subset that visits HN regularly.

For an explanation of why he believes this, he pointed me to a series of articles by a guy named Ron Unz. I won't link to his site here since it is a far-right site that contains a variety of objectionable (anti-Semitic etc) content, although at a glance mainly from other authors.

Skimming it, it was actually more highbrow than I was expecting, drawing on books on US bioweapons programs during the Korean War (real programs, at least according to Wikipedia), and how, at the time, such secret programs weren't reported by the media and how easily the public dismissed their existence as simply foreign propaganda.

Which is a fair enough point, I guess. I'm not saying I buy it (I'm doubtful I even have the motivation to go through a book-length series on the topic and do enough fact checking to measure how credible it is). But adding this historical context, it made people paranoid enough to consider such things seem a little less totally crazy than my initial impression of the matter before talking to them.
There's a really cool movie called Aniara that explores this a bit. It's pretty dark, though.
Function >= Form, at equality life is good.
Good, credit card fees are the biggest scam in digital finance. By now there should be a digital cash equivalence. Yes there's fraud to worry about, but other countries (Japan) have mostly solved that by limiting how much cash can be on a digital card (one example being the suica card, which can be filled at any train station for free, but can only hold $250).

And there could always be a card that does 2fa for every transaction in exchange for lower fees, that would have to lower the chance of fraud to near 0.
I think you're being optimistic. I think the crusaders will succeed in tearing down the institutions that protect liberal democracy just in time for right-wing authoritarians to swoop in, take over and institute a totalitarian theocracy.
Yet Shkreli is still in prison. Probably just failed to pay off the right people. In contrast, Epstein who quite literally trafficked children to the elites was on "work release" during his first stint in jail, and if the powers that be had their way he'd never see the inside of the jail cell at all. He also did not kill himself during his second stint in jail.
> but you could still get a box fan and a couple furnace filters.

That wasn't my experience. The day the smoke moved in, I ran to the home store to grab a couple extra furnace filters, and there was a steady stream of people grabbing them, and heading to the box fan section. The secret seems to be out.
> that is merely a set of flags and directions in the programming not anything inherent to the system.

Parental controls can also be setup to track kids real time position, such tracking is invasive but that’s what the people buying the phones want. It’s a much larger stretch to say Apple is going to suddenly enable that and track every user in real time for example even though they 100% could.

Anyway, it’s all just code, every device with over the air updates has the exact capacity you fear. As it stands no it doesn’t do what you’re worried about. It could after someone builds as system to do more than just detect porn, but that was true of the original iPhone.

So, I get the concern but if that’s what you’re worried about you should be equally concerned for every other device that can be updated without your consent.
Fossil Fuels Are Dead
Not ARM.
governments should be strictly prohibited from requiring privacy-invasive (tracking, deanonymizing) technology for any service, let alone emergency services. a gov website requiring google fonts, apis, captcha and tracking is not in accordance with the basic civil right of being free of government surveillance (via said 3rd-parties).
What's the point of taking measures that humans can't understand? How can they be evaluated for correctness?
McFunley had a whole piece on this called "Choose Boring Technology"...

https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
If you install the Libby webapp (Edge or Chrome), it works just like a normal program, including showing up in the list of installed programs (start menu). No offline support, although there's no reason Libby couldn't add it using a service worker.
You’re reading too much into the comment imo - my read is that they’re simply responding to the title: “can it find a place for women?” “Yes, women are awesome in tech”

Basically they’re just supporting women in tech
I seem to remember gearslutz coming up in searches all the time. Can’t say I’ve ever seen the new name come up. Maybe it’s just me for some reason, or maybe they basically killed their SEO.
It's quite easy to clobber the speaker
I use this when I want to teach someone Git: https://gist.github.com/nicowilliams/a6e5c9131767364ce2f4b39...
By the time you have a T Cell response the mRNA and the antigens would be long gone.
Curious if chromeOS does anything special here to mitigate usb attacks.
> When the majority of financial instrument controls are designed to limit the financial activity of the layman, who does it benefit? Just yesterday I was fighting with my bank about how much I could spend on a single purchase. It was a startlingly low number. The amount I can actually withdraw from an ATM at any point in time is lower.

I have no experience like this, other than a bank contacting me if I am trying to use a card outside of my usual locations or outside of my usual amounts and I did not already alert them. Which sounds like a pretty reasonable anti fraud measure, and it only takes a couple minutes to solve.

And you can alert them prior to traveling or spending large amounts, and even do it online, so you are not inconvenienced at the time of purchase.

I also think it is easier than ever for the layman to buy whatever they want than ever. Everything is electronic and mostly instant. People can gamble on options sitting on their couch watching a game. You can buy equities for free. You can buy and sell in foreign currencies and Bitcoin with the clicks of a few buttons. All seems far more accessible than when I was a kid.
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Ariane 5 bug was formally verified.
Perfect CSS Spacing
If you're seeking perfect spacing, look no farther. Here is a very simple strategy that has worked since the beginning.

* Add margins to the top and left.

* Add padding to the parent container's right and bottom.

You'll have perfect spacing every single time.
What service are they using that gives 10 yrs of connectivity for a flat price?
My first step in doing such a meta-study would be to throw away any paper with <1000 (or choose your threashold) training sets. If the n value is insufficient to train the number of parameters on the model, the paper isn't good.

When I was CTO of DocHuddle (ML + Radiology), we reviewed every paper and preprint we could find and a huge number appeared to be overfit on tiny datasets.

Any meta-study which doesnt throw away obviously poor attempts will find bad-skewed meta-findings.
He wrote a full-featured Emacs for the Apple II back in the day... Gonna have to look that up. Wouldn't have thought that was even possible.
Surely you can use less powerful fans?
Glad to hear that, and I hope that perspective becomes more prevalent!
Agree, not intentionally misleading though. Just a lack of a better word I guess. Original title was "Building a serverless emailing service".

About testing: It's not that different from any other runtime. I admit, I put a lot of code into the same file in the examples as it was easier displaying the code that way. I tend to keep the handler of the lambda very lightweight and then test the functions that the handler calls. That way it's just unit testing and mocking away dependencies. The functions are pretty small so naive dependency injection works fine.
AWS docs covers testing of Lambdas a bit here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/serverless-ar...
> I'm biased, but the spec is supposed to be very accessible to people without a cryptography background. There's a section on who the intended audience is and what assumptions are made about their background. I'd really recommend it.

Certainly! As you can probably tell from my comment I'm not expert and I found it easy to follow.

I just wanted to post a summary for anyone who is interested but doesn't find time to go into details. I know that I myself often read this site on phone and I appreciate similar comments giving a tl;dr on more complex stories.

> There are no "variants" of the entropy source. There is one entropy source interface definition which is designed to scale across the many RISC-V implementation profiles. It's very different to x86/RDRAND which lots of people are used to.

Maybe I phrased it poorly but section "4.2. Entropy Source Requirements" states: "An implementation of the entropy source should meet at least one of the following requirements sets in order to be considered a secure and safe design". It then gives three options, one of which ("4.2.3 Virtual Sources: Security Requirement") states "A virtual source is not a physical entropy source" and "A virtual source traps access to the seed CSR, emulates it, or otherwise implements it without direct access to a physical entropy source.".

My interpretation is that there is indeed a single interface (CSR) however the hardware implementation could be both real physical entropy source or a CSPRNG. And presumably the latter is more likely on low-end devices.

Please let me know if I'm getting this wrong.
Oh yes, just that easy! Here, AI, he's some radiologist reads. Learn them, we're going live in Q1 2022.
From some moment, decline in birth rate is accelerated by lack of employment options in light of becoming a self-sustaining mom.

"Traditional" family in Japan does not make these babies happen anyway, so what's there to guard.
To each their own, but I agree, I like having a tidy living space and an ugly box fan contraption isn't too high on my list, just to save a few bucks.

Even then, I just keep a big stack of furnace filters handy and swap them regularly. When we got hit with the wildfire smoke last year I put in a new filter every day. More practical than putting box fans around the house.
Newer Kobo devices support Libby/Overdrive, since Rakuten owns both companies. My Kobo is from 2014, so doesn't have that feature.
Maybe two things to consider in implementing this:

(A) some things cost more than others, based on newness, familiarity, etc.

(B) everyone should agree on A, because teams are only going to integrate novelty based on the individual least comfortable with it.
Try paying cash for something costing more than 10k USD. Things get hairy pretty quickly.

[edit]And if your bank has no issues with that, then I'd love to know what bank it is. Mine was pretty sketchy about moving more than 3k at once per day.[/edit]
When I looked at this a year ago, I ran across this article which I saved: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1507771

> Although published estimates of iatrogenic addiction vary substantially from less than 1% to more than 26% of cases, part of this variability is due to confusion in definition. Rates of carefully diagnosed addiction have averaged less than 8% in published studies, whereas rates of misuse, abuse, and addiction-related aberrant behaviors have ranged from 15 to 26%. A small (estimated at 4%) but growing percentage of persons who are addicted to prescription opioids transition to heroin

In short, people who have no history of addiction (and to a lesser extent comorbid mental illness) are unlikely to become addicted, but of course even a small chance is still worth considering.

The media isn't lying about the individual cases they mention. Yes, there are thousands of people like your friend. But I also think they built a narrative about these drugs being extremely addictive when the truth is much more subtle.
$600, 3 meter range. wtf? How is OMG Cable able to be so much cheaper and get so much more range?
Because people want to blame someone, so why not blame the people that got filthy rich off it. Meanwhile it's the FDA's responsibility to make sure that drugs are safe. The FDA thought oxycontin wouldnt be as addictive as it was, and apparently neither did Purdue. But then when the data rolled in that it was actually highly addictive (A Purdue doctor said alarmed bells should be raised[0] after a study in Canada), the FDA didn't do anything about it. People expect a drug company to say their own drug is too dangerous when the FDA says it is fine? Is that a good system for drug safety in our country?

[0]: https://www.cmaj.ca/content/cmaj/159/2/149.full.pdf
I’m personally happy that the forum I used to frequent is gone. Forums don’t like to remove old posts and it feels like a privacy win to scrub years of old posts. Even when you’re posting with anonymous names, there will come a time when all your anonymous accounts will be unmasked using AI fingerprinting of some sort.
I do think the history of the Black Panthers is one of the more likely veins to yield gold, in my search, and intend to do some reading there. I'm entirely serious that I could turn around on this position completely, if I found compelling evidence.

> (3) Are American gun rights activists deluding themselves, that they'd stand a chance if the police and military decided they were gonna run shit? Or are they merely comfortable in the knowledge that the police and military are politically aligned with them?

It's largely the latter, I think, which brings me to:

Ultimately, I think the fatal flaw in the argument that private gun ownership is necessary to protect democracy, is in the fact that authoritarian turns by democracies tend to be fairly popular, when they happen, and that the pro-authoritarian citizens, whose position is likely, if not the majority, at least quite popular, will have guns, too... plus the police, and the army (if they don't have those, what's the problem? No private arms needed, authoritarian take-over is done before it can start if the police and the military aren't on its side, or at least damn close to being on its side). It's not just a lack of history of private firearms being an important pro-liberty and pro-democracy force in democratic states (so far as I can see! Again, I'd love examples)—it's that I have trouble imagining scenarios in which they likely would be, while remaining within the realm of the plausible.

It's got to be some movement that's unpopular among the military and police, so they don't support it, but popular among enough of the rest of the populace that significant numbers would take up arms, and that almost none of them would be taking up arms in against liberty and democracy, rather than for them... and is that a remotely likely situation? I don't think it is. I think for practically the whole likely problem-space, if you will, private arms are one of 1) superfluous, 2) laughably insufficient, or 3) actively harmful to the very things they're allegedly there to preserve & protect.
The Longer the Race, the Stronger We Get
Libby is great - lots of audiobooks and ebooks from my local library.

The UE may not be as polished as Audible and Kindle, but still good at what is needed to find books, check them out, and consume them.
Europe’s ban on seal products turned frontier communities into pariahs
Sorry for the vague reply, but I'm out with friends right now.

But basically that's fixed because newest kernels (5.13 iirc) allow to work around that without requiring root privileges.

So podman is going to stop requiring that too sooner or later.
How does this compare with pyston which was praised in previous HN discussions?
>Instead, a bundle of new innovations in mass coordination, remote work, and digital currency allow us to sidestep politics and create independent and competitive cities.

I'm what you could call bullish on bitcoin, but I'm not sure how it applies here? It has less friction than dealing with bank transfers between countries, but the article specifically deals with the US, not international housing issues.
The imprecision of this summary title is like a metaphor for the mixed messages and real-world performance of the systems studied.
Future of an Expanding Universe
Or maybe just stop claiming that the technology is already better. In other words, lying.
That jumped out at me, too, but for a different reason. "Vibes"? The CCP's rhetoric has been corrupted by western influence...
OK. For the last time, here's a freakin' screenhot to illustrate the point: https://ibb.co/QYnj40r

What you see there is are the power limits of the CPU (as reported by HWInfo64).

If you set the POWER LIMIT in the UEFI/BIOS, this regulates THE POWER consumption of the chip. NOTHING to do with TDP.

Why is that so hard to grasp for you? You can even measure the power rom the wall to confirm this. I am NOT talking about TDP here!
The unofficial Google Camera port I've been using silently discards photos containing the sun's reflection in water. Rather than assuming Google is intentionally concealing the appearance of a celestial body, I've chalked this up to a bug in post-processing code that only kicks in when a specific image recognition pattern matches. Modern ML-driven camera systems make for some fun "500 mile email" [0] esque failure modes.

[0] https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
Yup, power differential analysis are well-known enough to make their way into Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_analysis#Power_analysis_...
Amusing anecdote involving div soups: Back in 2010 in one of my CS classes, the professor maintained a Google Sites to communicate with her students and upload slides. At the end of the semester, she wrote a list of students who must take the finals to get at least a passing grade.

The thing is, you view it Chrome, the list displays normally, a handful of students. But you view it in Firefox and it's an empty list. On Firefox it would look like

> (MM/DD/YY) Here's the list of students who must take the finals:

>

> (MM/DD/YY) [Next reminder...]

Sucks to be a Firefox user and be on that list.

A few years later, maybe 2015/2016, with a few years in the industry under my belt, I remember this curiosity and rechecked. Firefox is still not showing the list. I open developer tools to inspect and I'm greeted by an eldritch, decadent, and blasphemous nesting of divs. I did not try to understand it but it seems the stylesheet in use indents divs a certain amount and they abused this rule to get the list to the indentation they want. Probably it hit some limit in Firefox.

I've never used Google Sites so I can't guess whose fault is this. But it's unlikely my prof hand-wrote that HTML.

With this article, it seems to me that Twitter devs, for all their fancy dev toolchains, could only produce slightly better HTML than my professor. Perhaps the industry in general is really not much better than Google Sites, seeing our reliance on such bloated frameworks. What a sobering thought.

P.S. I did look her up just to check if this bug is still present. Her Google Sites is still up, she still teaches, but she seems to have taken down her earlier course pages.
Maybe this isn't constructive or will get downvoted, but I'd be interested to see the overlap between HN commenters who are very outraged by this/doing lots of emotive moralizing, and also the typical HN libertarian who thinks that hard drugs should be legalized. I mean you have to realize that these positions contradict each other, right? If you think the Sacklers are awful monsters for I guess selling a member of the heroin family, you have to basically be for hard drugs being illegal- aka the continuation of the War On Drugs.

I did a number of hard drugs in my misspent youth, including Oxycontin. It was available and people in my social circle did it, and the Sackler family played zero role in my decision. More broadly I think hard drugs should be decriminalized (I am decades past using them myself). I guess I'm a little unclear as to what exactly the Sacklers did that's so terrible. Seeing as alcohol probably wrecks 10x the social damage that opioids do, are the Coors family monsters? The guy who founded Sam Adams or manufactures Smirnoff? What's the distinction?
> In 1964, a film crew paid someone to skin a seal alive, and the act of cruelty was portrayed as a typical sealing practice in an explosive documentary. A few years after airing, the footage was debunked. But the process of demonising sealers and their cultures was already in full swing
Last time I checked that was experimental, and still not production ready -- has that changed?
I wonder why you're being downvoted....too pro-FOSS or not enough pro-FOSS?
I've never had an issue scanning currency. Some machines won't photocopy it.
Maybe take a look at parinfer
https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/
Kings and queens have been replaced by billionaires and politicians.
This is good advice, except....A lot of recruiters and managers aren't terribly focused on results and the quality of software. They often want to see a resume that looks like a word cloud of tech trends and buzzwords. A lot of developers would be happy to stick to "boring tech that works", but are afraid of being labeled as some dinosaur who's resistant to change and won't learn new things. Until recruiters and hiring managers stop rewarding mindless novelty over things that work, we're all going to be awash in mindless novelty.
IME podman is optimized for use in Redhat based environment. I've had a couple of odd problems when trying to use it on Debian/Ubuntu.

It's not surprising given it's a Redhat project, but it does put me off using it as I'm most comfortable with debian derived environments.
I mainly use BoA, but while I have not had to withdraw or deposit $10k in paper cash in some time, as far as I know, the law requires you to fill out a form.

But I wire much larger amounts of cash all the time online for real estate transactions, and I generally do not even have to talk to someone at the bank. I can do it all online.

Edit: I have not needed to send $3k via Zelle yet, but according to BoA’s website, $3,500 in 24 hour time period should not be a problem:

https://www.bankofamerica.com/online-banking/zelle-transfer-...
Ok, yes. Do we know how the air resistance/air flow varies as a function of surface area? Is it almost linear? I'm wondering how important it is.
Does More Money Make Us More Happy?
Does the link https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/pdfs/mm7027e2-H.pdf on the same page 11 answer your concerns? That paper (from June) explains in some details what the CDC did, and I would assume that the slides are just an update of the numbers on the paper to a later date. At least the author of the slides was an author of the paper, so I would infer that they kept doing whatever they were doing in June.

One thing that the paper is pretty clear about is that in order to proclaim a "case", the CDC reviewed medical records and interviewed the healthcare provider looking for specific criteria. It seems like all criteria include at least one test, e.g. EKG, in addition to symptoms reported by the patient. It's not like they ran a SQL query over a bunch of dudes reporting chest pain---the CDC did their homework. If anything, I have more confidence in the CDC and the vaccines now than I had before reading these documents.
I think getting a second “opinion” is pretty standard for biopsies?