skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet monocultures of plants are still able to deplete soil. With the sharp reduction coming in fossil fuels (which help make fertilizer), we may be seeing the end of crops that can only grow on life support in the next few decades.
Carrots were naturally white. They were bred to be orange for reasons you can Google.
Mullvad VPN popup shop in London
"But it's temporary"

"just trust us"
> some poor bastard gets an unbroken clump of carfentanil in his hotshot and dies. The simple solution is

Every problem has simple and easy to understand incorrect solution. I don't understand why society has to carry a burden of preventing an individual from harming oneself.
I've reread the article + paper with your discussion in mind, and I agree with you. It seems misleading, and I failed to understand the study from the headline / abstract.

Its not a "bad" study per se, but its definitely entering clickbait. I'm still happy they conducted the study and presented their research.
> RSA, being American company, cannot refuse NSA’s backdoors.

The key is selling to American government, and any entity related to it. But no, they can't mandate RSA build anything. Of course, if they refuse, they'll find another company which would, pay them lots of money, and then issue a certification requirement that only this particular backdoor algorithm is "approved" and then wait for RSA to go out of business.
If I tell someone a glass is full of water when it's actually strychnine, that's murder. If I convince a doctor a medicine isn't dangerous when it is, that's murder. The punishment for half a million murders should not be a line item in a checkbook. My vote's for scaphism.
You missed something important: demand is not elastic like that ( to some extent people will switch from beans to meat, but eventually you have enough to eat and won't buy more at any price). Thus as farming gets more productive someplace needs to stop growing food. We can allow a bit to go to waste, but eventually someone is going to realize that the price they can get for their crop isn't worth the cost for putting it in the ground and stop farming. Not sell out to a different farmer because no other farmer will invest in that land.

The above happens all the time. It doesn't happen on the most productive land, it happens on the marginal land.
No, why
Seems like compression is not such a bad deterrent for adversarial deepfakes.
Reduce but not by much. One could buy KN95 masks at comparable costs and wear them longer and be safer. Not sure why people would get a surgical mask. Governments must subsidize quality masks!
Mercedes Level 3 Autonomous Drive Pilot Hands-On
If you've been anywhere near California recently you will have seen we are facing a rapidly building tsunamai of street addiction and deaths. there would be even more dead were it not for endless od revivals with narcan buddys.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/05/15/last-year...
Another interesting article (interview) on this topic: https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/mushroom-expe...
Londoner here, true for big shops and supermarkets, off-licenses and corner shops will be equipped with a baseball bat behind the counter. Watched them dragging low-life thiefs to the back stores to be dealt with.
I tried ordering 99 glasses of beer because why not, the waiter took a while and finally arrived holding 792 beers.
It's worth noting that the chemical companies have long histories of inventing a new kind of poison and then covering up what it does to humans so that it takes decades to figure it out. Such was the case with DDT.

https://groovyhistory.com/silent-spring-rachel-carson-ddt
> IMO, Apple will likely end up scanning all content you choose to put on their servers.

Even if that was a goal (and I would argue they have a hard stance against it), this system as built is not usable for that.

While they can scan locally, every step of recording, thresholds, and subsequent automated/manual auditing is built to require content to be uploaded to iCloud Photos.
The bbc article claims in the UK (and “many countries in Europe”) start with the thumb, but the Inglorious Basterds scene seems to contradict that.

The business insider article also claims people start counting with their thumb in Portugal but I start with the index finger and while I’m not sure everyone else does it, I think using the 3 middle fingers to represent the number 3 (like the British spy) is far more common than using the thumb.
IBM Common User Access – A Consistent and Usable Human-Computer Interface (1998) [pdf]
The Windows Shell works the way it does because it worked that way before. If I wrote an extension for explorer 15 years ago and it used a bug or even an undocumented api it probably still works. That’s the good thing. The other side of the coin is that things can never fundamentally be fixed. It appears that explorer must block the UI thread while waiting for a network share operation (for example) due to some fundamental eternal compatibility promise.
> By the way, before anyone runs off and yells "Switch to Safari" or something like that, keep in mind that Safari is actually in a worse state and doesn't have detailed cookie and site information at all.

It does, but it's split between two places. You can see a list of all sites that have stored data in Preferences > Privacy > Manage Website Data... (no option to view here, just delete).

You can also navigate to the site in the browser and then view the detailed data:

- Check "Show Develop menu in menu bar" in Preferences > Advanced

- Develop > Show Web Inspector

- Navigate to the Storage tab

On the left you'll see options for Cookies, Local Storage & Session Storage.
I've been happy with my Synology DS218+ as well. I use it to host some Docker containers for home automation and some other things, both with and without Docker compose (need to use the CLI to get compose working).

The one thing that burned me recently is DSM version 7 removed support for any USB device that's not a mass storage device. This effectively kills a lot of what I love about the Synology. Next time I'll probably roll my own.
if the latter is true, then wouldn't that be an indicator that masks do not, in fact, work as well as thought?
Size of N isn't the issue, controlling for confounding variables is.
Wow, this is unhinged.
I don't know, but it's likely that a knee-jerk reaction against any and all intervention-- which is seemingly where things are in much of the US-- is not an intelligent or informed strategy.

Many societal problems are improved by 'taking our freedoms.' We enforce speed limits because fatalities are much more likely at speeds above 65 MPH, and many people speed or drive recklessly when they are running late.

I hope we can trend towards finding some 'happy medium' between burdensome interventions with limited impact and just letting covid 'rip' through vulnerable populations.
> In some ways I think this is the time to take it more seriously than ever before

No. Get vaccinated and move on.
I’ve been using Redmine for nearly a decade. Download the bitnami VM with it preinstalled and away I go. I use it for all my time tracking to generate invoices, and project estimates. Then when working on the project I can put time against an existing estimates task or if I missed something in the estimate or something was added I’ll create a new task for the extra.

Works great and I love that the UI hasn’t been redesigned and just works.
I agree. The government shouldn't be subsidizing student loans for any major.
I'd distinguish between REPL driven and Image driven, the latter a subset of the former. I cherish the REPL, but Image based programming reminds me to much of bad old days in FORTH. That might be the approach to get a working solution by a single excellent programmer for problems of modest difficulty the soonest when no one cares how one got there and how to replicate that success and whether one can learn from missteps along the way, but for all else the file based approach with version control is IMHO the safer bet. There one still can use the REPL to experiment with ideas and test small steps.
One thing that I think is missing here is to have high quality error messages, both in terms of machine and human readability. As systems grow larger, it becomes more and more infeasible to triage issues correctly without machine readability. Human readability of errors is critical for pretty much any system at any scale.
Diamond has a very high compressive strength, but if you drop one it will shatter, it is brittle. Since this new material has similar hardness & strength, I would assume it is similarly brittle.
Closed, won't fix
I am guilty of having taught that to a five year old during a hiking trip. He is now an engineer.
Filfre has, as always, great story about it: https://www.filfre.net/2012/05/the-ibm-pc-part-2/ https://www.filfre.net/2012/05/the-ibm-pc-part-3/

>Paul Allen negotiated an agreement with SCP owner Rod Brock in January, implying that Microsoft had a whole stable of customers eager to run 86-DOS. The deal would essentially allow Microsoft to act as middleman — or, if you like, retailer — in these transactions. For each customer to whom they sold a license for 86-DOS, they would pay SCP $10,000, or $15,000 if the license also included the source code. [...] One clause buried in the contract might have raised a red flag: “Nothing in this licensing agreement shall require Microsoft to identify its customer to Seattle Computer Products.” Brock later said, “That seemed strange to us, but we agreed to go along.” In reality, of course, Microsoft had no stable of eager licensees. They had just one, the biggest fish of all: IBM. Microsoft sold just one license under the agreement, acquiring IBM’s operating system for them complete with source for just $25,000.
Maintaining the recommended level of physical activity cuts COVID-19 death risk by 4× compared to being sedentary.

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/07/21/bjsports-2021-...

And before anyone claims that it's just a correlation, please read the whole paper. The authors did a good job of establishing causality.
Some bad actors are stupid and lazy.

The fact that people can still get away with crimes given a protection scheme is not, in itself, reason to skip the scheme. The relevant question is: will it catch some people?
Tradition ("if it ain't broke...") as well as general resistance to things that may well be fads (eg github) are hallmarks of people who have been doing serous systems engineering for multiple decades.

There are also real costs to switching tools, borne a little bit by everyone in the project. What they have is obviously working okay for them at the moment.
Does anyone else wonder if HN is being subjected to an anti-vax disinformation campaign?
it doesn’t even have to be a conspiracy. maybe our leaders are just really dumb and making dumb decisions, is that really so implausible?

many of them are also older and in higher risk groups, could that factor into their decisions?
Less Doesn't Have to Be More. It Can Just Be Less
Thanks, that's really helpful! I have relatively mild specs in mind---was thinking of probably having 2 x 1 TB RAID 1 or something.

The main reservation I had for going DIY is that there's a lot of initial building involved (getting hardware that works well together etc.) whereas Synology et al. is more like 'plug and play.' However, I revised that opinion whilst reading that thread, primarily because I learned about NUCs and other such alternatives. I know myself very well, though, and I know that if there's a fully-fledged OS, I am bound to change stuff, try out new things, etc., when in reality all I should be doing is making backups :D
Compliance.
> But I've considered finding a local (illicit) drug dealer for getting proper pain pills and paying the appropriate markup

If you're really considering that for the love of god test everything you get.
https://dancesafe.org/product/fentanyl-test-strips-single-st...
IT very much is. Just be careful, it is also full of harmful bacteria that you shouldn't eat. It is very useful fertilizer but needs to be properly cared for or you could poison whole cities.
Who is "they" and "these people"?

This is a preposterously cartoonish way to characterize what is in fact a very complicated world full of billions of people all acting with very individual motivations, all trying to sort things out in what is actually a pretty frustrating situation.

I can assure you, there is no "they". And, no I'm not "obeying" -- I've almost never done that in my life -- I'm behaving rationally in the self-interest of myself and my loved ones and the society I live in.
As far as schools are concerned, Delta is a completely different virus. Outbreaks appear to be much more common in the US this fall with Delta, compared to this spring before Delta became the dominant strain. It's difficult to make long term comparisons and draw definitive conclusions when the mutations are great between semesters.
Same for Chrome so not sure what this article is about.
The completely different experiences people have make me wonder what’s going on and what broken to cause it.

I have no great skill set and mess around with machines at weekends. I got Ubuntu desktop running on the metal and in a VM on both Proxmox and ESXi with everything passed through and working nicely and did so without any particular issues (bar thunderbolt, but that turned out to be hardware and a new machine was shipped to me and it now works).

This was on a Nuc, but the different experiences point to something being very wrong.
Hey OP, can you share the non-paywalled version?
People in physical or psychological pain deserve access to effective treatments. Outside of overdose, which is very rare if used as perscribed opioids are benign to the body compared to nicotine or alcohol. Where the problem comes from is they work so good people want more and they develop addiction and society restricts access due to moral stigma. Pharamceutical opioids perscribed by a doctor or methadone or buprenorphine maintenance is far better than using street drugs and yet access is difficult to get unless you already are into using street drugs. I find it curious how the same NPR set that hates pharmaceutical opioids supports abortion, euthansia and physical sex changing. Seems really inconsistent. During the heyday of open access to opioids in 19th century overdose was rare. Thomas de Quincy, who wrote "Confessions of an Opium Eater" functioned for I think about 20 years on the drug. Then he quit voluntarily. It is prohibition and restriction of access that is the problem. That said some habitual opioid users may be lazy and self centered. Not unlike some marijuana users or alcoholics or people in general.
Mexico confronts complex position on immigration
No, the study is about a ~11% decrease of infections after a ~30% increase of mask use after an awareness campaign.

> masks for outdoor exercise

I really hope that is for the jogging in the market area of Delhi (I hope this was at least in urban areas).
You wouldn't know which packet reached its TTL just by flurry of ICMP packets received? i.e. what is the actual order of the path(s)
What was the mistake for this example though that they would admit to? Iterating aggressive UX changes in a beta?
I think a program synthesis neural network trained on common imperative languages like C will "unlearn" once trained on derivatives of Forth language or say, Lisp
There was a guy years ago taking spent coffee grinds from local coffee shops and doing essentially this, but growing blue oysters instead. I can’t seem to find it now, but the idea of using such readily available waste was interesting to me and I’ve wanted to try it since.

As I recall the coffee didn’t support as many flushes as wood chips or grain, but given that it was essentially free it seemed like it was still a good option.

At any rate, this was great - mushrooms always get the gears turning. Some day I’d love to get something like this going. My family eats so many mushrooms.
GitHub sure is focused on getting people to edit projects from the web, but they continue to let the actual code review part languish. It’s barely usable for any kind of serious review, and it barely even loads for large PRs.
Yea I have had heard disdain from born in France speakers who immigrated to Canada, about Quebecois or Canadian french.

Alot is literal translation of English to French, not using a specific french term or word for an item.

Example I always hear of: sour cream is translated to Crème Sure in Canada french.

Where while not always identical in product, proper France French term is Crème fraîche
And at 9%, some of that is likely seeing trusted public figures essentially saying "it's not safe out there" by talking about masks, and people restricting their actions accordingly. It's really hard to actually test this.
You can add U.S. states banning "Critical Race Theory" to that list.
Quoting the manual section number is common practice in the OpenBSD project and community. It is used quite heavily in the documentation and on the mailing lists.
Why Safari? The only sane choice is Firefox.
This study didn't perform seroprevalence sampling.
social distancing, handwashing, increased ventilation, wfh, contact tracing app, venue contact tracing, vaccines, rapid testing, temperature checking

No idea if they're all ~10% effective, nor if you can just add percentages up like that... but it's not hard to list measures we can take, both individually and as a society.
"Slightly", I'm not so sure about that :-D

Where I live, N95 masks are mandatory in public transport since February, and it's really uncomfortable to be in an non-airconditioned metro car which is full to the brim, with water running down the windows from condensation.
That's totally acceptable with surgical masks, but there's a face melting heat under any N95 mask in this condition :-D

Of course I wear them as mandated, but I really hope we can switch back to the more practical surgical masks soon, with enough vaccinations :-)

(Or that there is an early onset of winter :-D)
It's also possible that a picture of an avocado will get flagged. A nude photo of someone who's shaved themselves is unlikely to look so much like an actual CSAM photo that it'll get flagged. It's certainly possible, but again, so's the avocado.
Yes, it is terrifying that companies behave this way.
You are making a number of pretty common errors: no anti-viral measure is going to be perfect, it is always going to be a layercake and an 11% improvement can make a huge difference because for one it might tip the balance from 1.05 to 0.95 which is the difference between a spreading disease and one that is on the return and because these percentages are multiplicative, not additive, so it would not take '10 measures like that'.
FWIW, while buying them food I’ve met a few homeless people in Seattle.

What I learned from those conversations was that while “enough beds” exist and are provided, not enough of them are in “sober shelters” and it’s apparently very very hard to get into sober shelters.

Right now we talk about it all as “all housing is the same”. We probably need more housing for the homeless that exist for the ones who want/can’t help but to use, the ones who are validated as sober but also the ones who want to be sober but aren’t verified as sober yet. I’m sure all of these exist, but we definitely need to be a better job tracking those buckets differently, allocating resources better, and talking about them as separate things.
I wish more companies would follow the way of open source, self-hosted free version and paid version hosted in the cloud. Win - win.
Farmers are starting to put in Sulfur. It isn't common, and not a lot is needed, but some farmers need to. As acid rain goes goes down more and more will. (I'm always amused to see there is a downside of eliminating acid rain - still worth doing)
> It's your device scanning itself, and you sharing the results of those scans to Apple with iCloud if you decide to use it.

While technically correct, there is much power in the defaults that are set. iCloud photo sharing is on by default and provides some useful features, especially if you have multiple apple devices. Also apple doesn’t provide a good automatic way to do backups outside of iCloud.

And realistically speaking how many “normal” people will even be aware of how to turn this off and be willing to go to the effort? Will they have a choice? Sure, technically. Practically though the majority of people stick to the defaults.
AI computers can’t patent their own inventions – yet – a US judge rules
you didn't grow up in one of the 'fly over' states did you
Biden orders declassification review of documents related to 9/11 attacks
Yeah. The safety and peace of the tenderloin is an attractive alternative.
> vengeance?

'justice', when executed by the state
From the blog it sounds like Chrome's will be in a similar state after the update. Just another thing I'll have to navigate to in a tedious manner.
The rate of recovery after first dose, directly correlated with it was plain and clear. If you take a drug and experience significant effects within hours of taking it, you don't question if you randomly would've felt that way anyways, you know exactly whats causing it. This person was getting nearer and nearer to hospitalization possibly, when someone in that situation has a 180 in condition just hours after a dose of treatment, you don't question "oh maybe the treatment did nothing at all".

I understand of course questioning causation/correlation, except when something is so absolute and its life and death, its criminal and morally devoid to deny access to treatment.

It works. Look deeper into it if you really care, or stop saying anything against it. If you don't know someone with covid who's been treated with it, how can you take your own opinion seriously? You can question about the reality of how effective it is of course, but its wrong to argue against something that is harmless and may be life saving.
Type System Innovation Propagation
It doesn't take 100% control to make a significant impact. Every % you take off of transmission is significant because the relationship between transmission and cases is exponential.
Don't want to get into an argument, but it may be worth some caution to consider it insane to just want to exist in the world as most other animals do. The film Leave No Trace and to some extent Nomadland touch on this concept pretty well.
i don’t think you can conclusively say there wasn’t something fishy about the 2020 election. the 2016 election was considered “stolen” or “hacked” by the losing party that year too
Everyone uses fonts, of course, and they're an important factor in how people perceive a brand. A lot of work goes into the subtleties that people don't necessarily notice but will definitely "feel."

Companies might start out paying these "off the shelf" prices, but everything in life is negotiable and they'll eventually work out a better deal. However, now the company has tied their brand identity to a typeface that is being licensed to them with a variable cost. So eventually, they may commission a custom typeface which could offer the potential of full ownership without perpetual fees.
Incentivising Ethics: Managing incentives to encourage good, deter bad behaviour
Sounds like Chrome is moving more toward being a surveillance tool and ad delivery platform that also browses the web (well, more than it is right now anyway).
Don't these ISOs contain software that isn't GPL? So perhaps the conclusion of this post is misleading, although it makes some interesting observations.