skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which isn't necessarily relying on fate as much as rerouting the decision function through an external api to figure out what your internal choice state was in the first place
Even 'enemies' have quid pro quos - in order to exert your extra-territorial control you must turn a blind eye to others doing it some times.

IF you are going to blow up your ability to control practically every human being on the planets ability to have and use money within a golbal finacial system, it had better be worth it. I suspect this guy aint worth the trouble.
You can still track without javascript. One way is using invisible img tags. It can be less effective though.
The big banks make up the majority of trading activity, so I imagine that would indeed be the case.

* "big banks" I'm assuming is a blanket term covering institutional investors along w/ family wealth offices and pension funds.
Ask HN: What's the best Linux distro for fullstack development?
I've been learning React with TypeScript on my Windows 10 desktop but I have some new needs: 1) To become more familiar with Linux and 2) My desktop doesn't meet the Windows 11 requirements.

So my choice was to either try out WSL2 or get into Linux. I don't play video games (which is why people usually stay on Windows) and I don't use any commercial software that requires Windows (I'm not doing web design and the little I do I work with Figma or something similar).

I used to work in IT and yes I know I should've gotten into Linux earlier but my job involved Windows workstations and Windows servers. With that said, I don't mind if I have to read documentation to get things working because that's what developers do anyways.
I have global entry & precheck (ironically, global entry is often slower than just using their app when you arrive). It's nice, for sure, but it's not pre-9/11 security. It's close, I guess, for just the traveller. But I miss the days when family could come to the gate. Maybe airports are too busy for that anyway, now, but I can dream.
Except it’s partially-owned by China and there is a possibility that they’re deliberately trying to pull money out of the US economy
We should have some kind of dashboard tracking how many people die from terrorism, car crashes, heart disease, COVID, etc., and how much time and money we spend trying to prevent these deaths. We are just so terrible at evaluating risk, for some reason it is OK to waste everyone's time with over the top security to stop a tiny portion of terrorism deaths, while still being OK with high speed limits that kill thousands of people per year. Not that I'm advocating for lower speed limits, just that there is a contradiction here.

I bet that if instead of having people go through security at sporting events, you had them all do 20 push ups, you'd save more people from dying of heart disease than would die of terrorism.
There is a startup Workaround Online (https://wao.ai/) that provides refugees with freelance work. Not sure if they are still around.
The the statistic that was bandied about at the time was 5hrs of TV a day on average, across all Americans. I don’t have a number for kids but of course they had more free time than working adults.

That seems to fit with this recent data [1], which shows the average as still high but lower in the younger demographic. It has the 65+ group as 7+ hrs/day on average, which seems mildly horrifying considering half of people are likely above that. But perhaps not surprising - especially with the obesity rates being what they are, many people may not be very mobile at that age.

[1] https://www.statista.com/chart/15224/daily-tv-consumption-by...
> Right, and we will eventually choose to forgo toilets and defecate in the streets again, because "never say never".

It's happened in the past; why would you rule it out in the future?
I wish there was a credible, volunteer run indoor/outdoor pollution map.

With cheap probes and peer-review software (properly packaged in Linux distributions).
Sure, and your odds of injury from a car crash are lowest if you avoid getting in an accident, but if you're driving in a demolition derby you're certainly better off if you're wearing a seat belt and a helmet..
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>Vaccines are not perfect. They are not guaranteed 100% safe. But they're the best thing we've got for dealing with epidemics.

Curious if you would consider Pfizer's pill intervention for prophylaxis if it becomes available?
Modular laptops are neat, but trying to fit a NUC into a laptop feels a lot less reasonable than the approach taken by the frame.work laptop.
No, locking down for an indoor virus is stupid.

Vitamin D and open air works, not lock downs.
No, this doesn't actually make the definitive difference you think it does. Many earlier pandemics had no problem spreading throughout the almost entire world in relatively short order.
The lockdowns didn't work because people pushed back against them causing the measures to be half-assed as a way to appease those people.

This happens all the time in politics and it's infuriating.

You can't judge the effectiveness of a plan if the plan is modified as a shitty compromise or just plain ignored. But people do judge them, which makes those compromises an effective form of sabotage.
You could store stuff in URL shorteners, but I imagine that's against their terms. Also: how does this break Imgur's terms? If 'an image is just an image' I imagine it's okay to host websites in an Imgur abstraction layer, but I feel Imgur wouldn't be too happy about that. Obviously you wouldn't use this thing for anything super important
It was only this year that I actually got excited about Ethereum specifically because of what "web3" enables.

Yes it's a dumb name, and this article certainly doesn't cover all of the issues, shit just look at the confirmation page for metamask, it literally just asks you if you want to spend X to submit a byte array. No link to the contract, the method you are calling, any avaliable adudits etc.

But if you as a reader have any passing interest I'd really encourage you to check out what's happening in the space, the thing that got me excited was the permissionlessness and composability.

Going to uniswap, locking up some funds in an AMM and then depositing that elsewhere to liquidity farm shows off the composability, then the fact that you can see it all tracked on a dashboard like zapper.fi or debank.com really drives the point home.

Word of warning, Ethereum it's self is now so clogged up with NFTs and people constantly arbitraging or performing liqudiations that it's far too expensive to play around with. There is plenty of cheaper EVM based chains though, like Fantom or Polygon
Yes, this is precisely what I mean: people are leaving the major denominations because they feel the churches have become too mundane, and choose to affiliate with more radical fundamentalist groups.

The narrative is often that the natural events of recent years and of course COVID are God’s punishment for maintaining support for the mainstream churches after their leaders voiced their acceptance of various oppressed groups of people.
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it's not minimizing risks. I work in computer security you don't have to fear a three letter agency. I am about a certain of that as I am you don't have to fear the vaccine. could there be a three letter agency after you absolutely could you experience negative effects from the vaccine absolutely, with the information I do have I can assert easily they're about as likely (many restrictions apply).

It's not reasonable for my mom to know about or be able to understand the risks of ransomware. Citing VARES without about at years worth of biomedical knowledge is, would be up there with her saying, but ransomware has hidden from this antivirus software before. While technically true, it's not a reason to not use antivirus, or to not trust that antivirus. Anyone who does security research would say the same thing... just like anyone who immunology research is saying about all the Cov19 vaccines.
Fantastic news for developing nations and remote places in developed countries. Are there any existing efficacy studies yet? Didn't see any statistics in the article.
The US could default on its debt by October
I'd like to know their stance on the J&J vaccine since it's not mRNA
Maybe thats why POWER chips have so many SMT threads per core
There absolutely are red-team exercises against airport security. Sometimes the TSA has fared very poorly[0]. In the face of decreased air travel during this pandemic their "catch rate" has gotten better[1].

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigation-breaches-...

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/01/26/960872502/2020-firearm-catch-...
Even more than that, your OS should not be showing you ads at all, let alone downloading them. The problem here isn't that the facility went wrong, it's that the facility exists.
Not necessarily, only when memory safety, file size, complexity, and marginal performance over other options aren’t relevant, or are incidental to the main value proposition.

For this particular project, it might not be necessary, but for others it’s useful to know.
They also pulled the question, which made assumptions that have turned out to be wrong:

"It seems that some within feminist movements are becoming sympathetic to these far-right campaigns. This year’s furore around Wi Spa in Los Angeles saw an online outrage by transphobes followed by bloody protests organised by the Proud Boys. Can we expect this alliance to continue?"

This question assumes the issue at Wi Spa was caused by transphobia. It turns out that the flasher at Wi Spa was a sex offender of long standing. When the Guardian covered the issue originally they were entirely wrong. They wrote about it as if the original issue was that the women who complained were motivated by transphobia.

It is interesting that Judith Butler has not complained about being censored. Maybe she would want to revise her answer since the facts it relied on are incorrect.
I'm currently building an adapter to mate furnace filters to quiet, high static pressure fans. This should keep the same volume of filtration as a box fan, but lower the noise significantly. I'll probably be ordering a batch of 5-10, if interested, email me (link in profile). Or comment, as long as you have an email in your profile, I suppose.
Most of the time (100% for me so far) you just have to have pre-check for whomever is buying the tickets. As long as they're all on the same reservation ID, the pre-check will get applied to the entire group. That's how I got my first taste of pre-check, when my sister-in-law bought tickets for our entire family. I ended up buying it for myself, and now my wife & kids get the stamp as well when we're traveling together.
Stop speaking for other people.
Well, maybe in the past.
They speak for themselves. I hear it every day. You can almost see the cognitive dissonance turning gears in their brain when you ask them how they know the vaccines they got we a kid are safe in comparison to COVID. They don't actually believe or know about vaccines. In 20 years it will be the same thing with COVID as it was with influenza and any other vaccine.
serverless == ephemeral, on demand servers
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I think the worry about these vaccine phone apps that track and trace is related.
> We know that a PRNG with N bits of state must necessarily repeat after 2^N invocations, but it requires further proof that a given PRNG will not repeat at smaller intervals.

Yes, that's somewhat important for "smaller" 64-bit or 128-bit states.

But at 512-bit states, the "average loop" is 2^256 (birthday paradox), so no one really cares at that point. We can see that Mersenne Twister is overprovisioned: 19937 bits of state and all 2^19937 visited in some order.

But in practice, 64-bits worth of cycles (18-quintrillion) is sufficient for single-threaded simulations, and 128-bits is sufficient for multithreaded simulations.

> In light of the above, is it possible to prove this (through some property of AES)?

Yeah. AES is a block cipher that maps 128 bit blocks into "encrypted" 128-bit blocks. The reverse-AES (I'll call it unAES in this post) provides us the 1-to-1 unmapping as well.

Meaning unAES(AES(0, key), key) == 0. unAES(AES(1, key), key) == 1. unAES(AES(2, key), key) == 2. (Etc. etc. for all possible 2^128 blocks)

By the pidgeon-hole principle, we have 2^128 blocks associated with AES-encrypted blocks (named AES(0, key), AES(1, key)... AES(2^128-1, key)), and 2^128 blocks associated with our plaintexts (0, 1, 2, 3... 2^128-1). The only way all 2^128 map to each other is through a 1-to-1 bijection.

Or in another way: AES(X, key) == AES(Y, key) if-and-only-if X == Y. This is because deAES(AES(X, key), key) == deAES(AES(Y, key), key) if-and-only if X == Y.

Done. We know the AES-crypto method therefore only "loops" after 2^128, exploring the entire state-space. 2^128 possible inputs, 2^128 possible outputs, pigeonhole principle. QED, done.
they appear to be bragging about 12GiB/s of aes-256-gcm per crypto accelerator. This is equivalent performance to about 2.6 cores of epyc milan, but let's be generous and say 3 cores. At retail, 3 cores of epyc milan costs $240-$360. How much does one of those crypto accelerators cost?
Real things? Please point to the real things.

Case numbers! Case numbers! Hospital rates are NEARLY at capacity!!!!

Yeah that has been said over and over. Things are fine.

Go outside of the city, noone respects this stuff and hasn't the whole time, noone is dying more than usual.

Worry about cars and obesity if you want to make a difference.
So this is a rehash of the Intel Compute Card: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-compute-card-bad-ide...

The problem here is the Compute Card was killed before one could meaningfully upgrade the internals of hardware using it. What commitment is there Intel won't do the same for the NUC Compute Element?

Putting the NUC brand on it doesn't change that you need a commitment to the form factor for people to buy into it.
No it isn't. Someone who succumbs to lung cancer after smoking 1000 cigarettes a day for 20 years is still a victim of lung cancer. The definition of victim says nothing about causation.
No I don't sorry. Other than to root and then uninstall the related code. I haven't personally done it though, just read some posts on mobileread.com about it.
I think that kind of thing could get knocked down in price a bit with scale and inclusion in a sensor suite.
Put all the distros you're considering on to note cards and shuffle them. What ever is on top is the best one.
> No laws were broken, else they'd be in jail.

Generous to assume that all that break laws go to jail.
From the GCP project:

> The identification of events and the times at which they occur are specified case by case, as are the statistical recipes. The approach explicitly preserves some latitude of choice, as is appropriate for an experiment exploring new territory. Accepting loose criteria for event identification allows exploration of a variety of categories, while the specification of a rigorous, simple hypothesis test for each event in the formal series assures valid statistics.

I’ve never seen someone so blatantly spell out that they are cherry picking, but also then argue that the cherry picking is good science ;) this is the sort of thing that gives real scientists a bad name.
> Is Windows 10 really that good?

Compared to Windows 8, yes. Compared to most anything else, no.
When the air is good outside, I typically run our whole-house fan pulling in outside air while I'm baking or making dinner - didn't consciously decide on it, but it just seemed to feel better to do those together.

Now I really need to investigate more details - like does induction cooking (vs. gas) improve the quality? What about the type of food (ie, cooking vegetarian vs. grilling sausages)?
I don't think there is a database of allergic reactions people have had. They just happen and people move on. If the question is narrow enough, e.g., "Has there ever been anaphylaxis in response to a dog named Woofers jumping on a 12-year-old girl in New York's Central Park?" the answer will be "No."

However, there have been plenty of instances of severe asthmatic reactions to dogs in situations in all relevant respects similar to drug/bomb-sniffing animals. And I've seen plenty of allergic reactions to service animals.

People react to different amounts of allergens. For some, it requires direct contact. For others, it's enough to be in vaguely the same room.

Service animals are tougher, since both sides have a disability and medical need. Police dogs should be easier, if not for police generally being power-hungry thugs.
Case counts are meaningless because most infections were never tested. The CDC estimates that 120M Americans have been infected as of July 2021.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
Very strange. One person down-voted it. Who could have done that?
See also this: https://github.com/Hypfer/esp8266-vindriktning-particle-sens...
sure, but nobody is going around calling them anti-vaxxers, right?
Yeah, you're right, I guess I should've been more clear, using user inputs naively as an RNG is a bad idea, using it as a source of entropy can be useful. I would never entirely rely on it though, noise is a must, all it can really do is speed up true random number generation, and then only if the implementation is right, combining the sources of entropy naively can lead to reduction in security also, to me the risk of that added complexity is not worth the speed up in anything critical, I'd rather not use user inputs at all.
It would probably cost less to just administer a proven safe and effective vaccine anyway than it would to test that person even once.

3 shots of Pfizer ~ 60 USD < -- VS -- > 100+ USD ~ Single test to see if someone's infected, surely a test to see if someone is naturally immune at best costs this or more.

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Pfizer seems to cost about 20 USD per dose, so even with the three dose regime (2 initial shots plus a later booster) is expected to cost under 100 USD; most of the other shots cost less.

https://www.biospace.com/article/comparing-covid-19-vaccines...

As there is no currently known technology to reliably test if someone is immune I'll grab data for the next closest similarity: a test to see if someone is presently infected. Nearly all of those tests cost in the range of 100 to 200 USD, with some rare outliers above and beneath.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/from-our-experts/q-and-a-how-muc...

https://www.talktomira.com/post/how-much-does-coronavirus-co...
Open source text books are really a very obvious destination for all this, get 'big text book' out of the way and level the playing field for all.

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/poland-pioneer...

I appologies to those that will invariably be triggered by the soros funded cucked liberal open society foundation, but it was the first link that came up when I was looking for open text books for schools.

I am sure there are a few other initiatives out there as well.
I suppose it's reasonable to not get vaccinated if you're 12, but I think most of the people on this thread are adults.
I am all in for spreading the population sparsely under the sun for a month(I'll take the Greece beaches or the French Riviera). We can make the immunes ones prepare the food and bring the beer.
I would love to see this for Valheim.
For reference, 10 AU is the distance of Saturn's orbit, that's why so dim, it's really not coming near the sun at all.
Anand Gopal’s article in the New Yorker this month shows how the Afghan Army (including the media darling Sami Sadat) was wasting civilians in Helmand using the vaunted Black Hawks we gave them and calling it progress.
My old Awair has a Telaire T6703 CO2 sensor; the newer ones probably have something similar. I also had a standalone sensor at one point, they're a thing too.

And Tindie has a slew of ready-to-order air quality stations too.
Yes, this story is about a mainstream US academic quitting his post, making serious allegations of anti-intellectual behavior against a mainstream US public university.

That appears to be obviously appropriate for HN, and is not about "politics"; it's about institutions of higher education.

Mods, if you are reading: does it not look rather as if a contingent of HN readers are abusing the "flagged" link to flag content that they don't agree with (as opposed to flagging content that violated guidelines)? Presumably this contingent must be substantial if it has resulted in automated insertion of the string "[flagged]" in the title. Is this abuse of flagging a topic that has been addressed / written about?
I was pointing out the absurdity of celebrities and companies amplifying messages that criticize America, a land with an abundance of freedoms and classic liberal values, when they are unwilling to level any critique against China, a country that is very much on the other side of the value spectrum. It shows that China's power to compel foreign speech is much stronger than we think, because even these outspoken people/organizations can be silenced.
I'd say Zig wants is really serious on wanting to be a better C, that is have the same (better?) access to bare-metal, memory and bits but with a better type system and error management and without C's footguns and cruft (build system, memory errors, preprocessor).
I don't know Nim that well but it seems more ambitious and seems to cater to be more "general purpose" if that means anything. For example there's no hidden flow control in Zig.
Interesting; this piece advocates for porting only (or at least initially) the build system of C/C++ projects to use the Zig compiler and the build.zig build system for cross-compiling dependencies. A package manager in the works could be interesting too.

I don't do C/C++ development. How many headaches would using Zigs compiler & build system solve?
It does not measure water vapor, at least not the one I'm using (PMS5003). I always have windows tightly shut because of the extreme pollution outside, so 100% humidity is easy to reach simply by mopping the floors (which stay wet for hours after). It does not change PM measurements one bit. Fry a couple of eggs though, and PM 2.5 quickly goes over 100 µg/m³. Burn a piece of meat just a little bit and see it rise over 300 µg/m³.
You have some natural immunity to viruses before you get them, that's why you can survive viruses. That's little consolation to anyone in the ER, of course.
There is a version from superhouse.tv with the same pms5003 sensor: https://www.superhouse.tv/39-diy-air-quality-sensor-part-2-d...
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All of those useless read books. Thankfully I'm amusical so atleast I haven't wasted my life on that crap...
The context of the 1940s that I see was a Great Depression following the first World War -- was this "personal responsibility" a result of extreme austerity? I think so. But then, for WWII, we saw men conscripted into the polar opposite of "personal responsibility" -- soldiers followed orders; their sole responsibility was up the chain of command. But when they got home, there were high-paying low-skill jobs available, and blue-collar families could afford to have 5 kids, and a house big enough to keep them, on a single worker's income. Today, it's hard to find that kind of income without extensive skill and experience -- especially when we're factoring in housing costs. Folks in the 1940s didn't need to be nearly so "responsible" as they do today, just to make it with a single kid.