skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A modern example is public health.

I think this is an excellent example of what I meant about "how direct the harm is" mattering.

Imagine, if you will, a continuum ranging from absolutely direct harm to absolutely indirect harm.

On the absolute left, imagine person A stabbing person B. That's about as direct as you can get, right? And I also think there's not a ton of people who would disagree that stabbing someone should be banned (let's ignore self defense arguments).

On the absolute right, imagine person A moves a chair. Someone trips over this chair. That person ends up in a foul mood and cuts someone off in traffic. This causes a traffic jam. In this traffic jam, a refrigerated truck breaks down and a bunch of food is ruined. More food is ordered, which takes up space in a shipping container that would have gone to medicine, had the food not been ordered. Person B dies because of a lack of medicine that would have been there had person A not moved the chair.

This was about as indirect of series of events as I could come up with, but I think you get my point here. There's a direct causal chain between person A's actions and person B's death in both scenarios, but I can't imagine very many people really condemning person A in the second one. In fact I think someone trying to ban moving chairs because of this incident would be soundly ridiculed.

So where does going outside without a mask during a pandemic sit on this continuum? Well, going outside without a mask, if you have a high viral load, and someone comes close to you, there's definitely a chance they could die. That's definitely not nearly as direct of harm as stabbing someone. It's also clearly not nearly as indirect as that tortured example I came up with in the second one.

Personal opinion? It's definitely farther to the left than the right. Say, somewhere between 1/2 and 3/4 of the way to the left. Maybe somewhere around 2/3 of the way there.

Someone's opinion on something such as a mask mandate, is going to depend on if they view that as direct enough harm for the government to have a legitimate interest in regulating.
I don't use it a great deal, but if you try it you can see why you'd use it over the OS screenshot. The easy answer is you can take a screenshot of a while page, or more than the portion that's showing.
Epic games appeals court ruling in battle with Apple
End to end encryption. The server doesn't get to see the data, so there is no chance to analyze/filter it on the way. All the parsing and sandboxing has to happen on user devices... and there's always one more bug left to exploit there, especially in a legacy codebase like iMessage.

This is one of the unfortunate downsides of E2EE: there is no way to do server side security on message contents, so you rely entirely on endpoint security. For a non-E2EE service it would be trivial to scan for, collect, and more easily block exploitation attempts.
The OPM breach was attributed to China. My personal data was also disclosed in the breach and I’ve since traveled to China multiple times.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Manageme...
The site is by the Boston Globe group and the author is Gary Taubes. I wouldn’t call it blog spam.

It got to the front page quickly because it’s a well written article with a thought provoking premise. It feels like a good fit for HN.
With the amount of people who don't care about the difference between 10ns and 10ms calling themselves developers, I'm sure even Clippy would be the perfect IDE for some of them, so that's not saying much. Apart from the lack of nesting, Discord and other instant messengers are way worse at creating a searchable archive, the best option AFAIK is to export the chat with third-party tools that break the TOS.. an option so bad, it's not even an option.
Does uBlock Origin turn that on by default? That's the only way I could imagine such stats being wrong by a wide margin.
i got a few of the pegasus texts from the sketchy gmail addresses, one was from way before the public even knew about it

i'm a scrub at a random software company, i'm not a criminal by any means, maybe a bit paranoid (barely any online presence)

anyone have a similar experience? or any advice or explanation as to why i'm so interesting?
Yes. This is intentional and required to make it possible to opt-in to revealing transaction information. This is useful and enables compliance with current regulations.

Of course you can delete that key if you want, and perhaps run multiple wallets with which you can transact with yourself
I don't use it too often, but it can be really helpful for getting a perfect crop of a specific element. With firefox's screenshot tool you can select the visible window, page or a specific element which has advantages over my os's tool. If I want a clean crop of an element with the os tool, I either have to open my rough shot in an image editor to get the crop right, or be very precise with my selection rectangle. I'll often use the os screenshot if I'm just sending a quick image to friends, but if I want it to look nice the browser tool is easier and faster
> So... how would you get anything into the system that way that you couldn't get in via an actually recorded floppy?

One thing I can think of is people have done tricks with programmable storage like changing file contents after the first read (to bypass scanning). The link I posted above lists that as "7) RIT attack via USB mass storage - attack described in a research paper. It relies on changing the content of files while the USB mass storage device is connected to a victim's computer."

> it's not like usb or firewire where you have inappropriate levels of access to the system bus...

That's a good point. The main benefit of dumb media isn't so much that the storage is dumb, but that it connects to a far more restricted and inflexible interface. Though lacking a CPU does provide a smaller benefit (i.e. preventing that "RIT attack").
Except for the de minimus overhead of making-change/breaking-big-bills, physical cash is usually described as 'fungible' in the sense meaningful for economics: each $N is completely equivalent to any other $N – na matter its history or how the tally was subdivided/recombined over time.
"You can't wave a wand and say "I want to charge X"

Of course you can! Whether anyone pays is another matter.

"The target market could be Uber"

1 company is a customer, not a market. You are perverting the term to the point where it looses all meaning. It's like Agile - everything is agile now.

"Maintaining equipment and accounting for depreciation is very important"

So is a regular exercise routine, but neither of them defines a business. Are half the country are 'entrepreneurs' now because they have to drive kids to school? This is absurd!

You don't like my criteria, fine, but the only criteria you put forward aren't even relevant to lawyers, accountant and hundreds of other kinds of Real businesses that do have employees, set the price, run their marketing, etc.
Mostly what I talk about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21653909
Biden supporters are to the left of Stalin - he needed the money to industrialize and build a modern military, which he accomplished just before Germany invaded in WW2, while Biden is exiting a pandemic.

What the $3.5 trillion budget is about is not money, it's about the Marxist policies hidden in its 10,000 pages that nobody has time to read. (Biden's "progressive policies" that Joe Manchin won't go along with.)
"Social Media", I'm guessing.
Every time I use Firefox I find some other stupid issue that just doesn't fly in 2021.

Today it might be a top 50 website that doesn't work properly, yesterday maybe it's excessive cpu usage, day before maybe pinch to zoom doesn't work. Who knows what dumb crap is happening tomorrow.

Life is too short to muck around with half baked software.
In the distant past, I sometimes did certifications to increase my knowledge, but almost never advertised the fact. Generally, what you can demonstrably do is worth more than a certificate.
Firefox 92 discussion from 6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28444315 (122 comments)
woohoo! the olening dragged a little but i held through & had a really fun chapter 1. a neat little experience!! looking forwards to going deeper next time. i love this little quixotic interactive experience. runs great on my oldish phone.
What is the license of the data from the German weather service you are repackaging? Would that conflict with your ToS?
Well that's the problem. We don't live in a free society. And there is virtually nothing we can do to change the laws, as the status quo invariably benefits the people in power.

So I'll tell you what. You can work on fixing those institutions if you want. I'll take the privacy while we wait.
I believe the point is that the answer begs another question of "why".

In their drinking example, alcoholism literally is overdrinking, but we accept that there is an underlying mechanism of physical and psychological dependency that exists outside of "they just consciously choose to drink all of the time and other people don't". At this point we generally recognize it as a disease with more nuance than "overdrinking". We recognize that there is a significant neurological component that is, at the point that they are an alcoholic, not under their total conscious control. Their subsconscious is pushing them to do things that the subconsciouses of people without the disease do not push for.

Similarly, you could ask the question, why do some people eat significantly more than they burn? And it then seems not implausible that the problem could be similar to that of alcoholism, that some neurological system is calling for the body to ingest more food, whereas other people's appetites are fundamentally more accurately calibrated at a subconscious level.

Much more speculative, but this would even seem to make sense from a wider lens. Almost our entire evolutionary lineage existed in a world of food scarcity, not overabundance. The selection pressure necessary to evolve a reliable safeguard against overeating would seem plausibly to not be old enough for that mechanism to have evolved to be as reliable and widespread as the one to prevent us from allowing ourselves to starve to death.

The health problems of the 20th and 21st century are still incredibly new from the perspective of the mechanisms that created our instinctual impulses.
Or you acknowledge that having a prettier and linter set up is a really awesome thing and you just make use of it.

At my place these things aren't there to tell you that you're a bad developer that doesn't care about well formatted and well written code.

They're tools that help you take out the drudgery of some of the formatting and style adherence. I am able to write code 80/20 clean and at the end I just run the prettier and linter to tell me about all the places I might have missed or 'not dealt with for now'. I even use out CI pipeline for this specifically because it runs the verifications faster than my local machine and I usually have other stuff to deal with anyway while I wait for that.
Also then the video still crawls all over the webpage as you scroll.
Expo.dev makes mobile app development pretty easy.
I don't care which core browser tech I use, so I'd take a trustworthy chrome fork that meets my other requirements. Unfortunately, Brave = untrustworthy player: https://brave.com/brave-ads/
The Don Quixote we are delivered is usually two books, and I think the first is far superior to the second. Either way, they are two different kinds of books published years apart that we are given as one.

Much of the genius of Don Quixote is the satirical take on Chivalric Romances that were popular at the time. He uses tropes from those stories, mocks them, and expands the scope of the narrative. Of course, this and the political context aren’t particularly present to the modern reader. Even though the book is pioneering and inventive, so were early computers that filled rooms; yet, outside of their novelty and significance, they would bore anyone with a smartphone.
I think it's mostly that people are continuing to use file format parsers that were written in unsafe languages in 1998.

I do sometimes wonder what a "Manhattan Project" of software security would look like. I do think rewriting all common file parsers in <X> would be a very achievable project with a budget of a few dozen million dollars - nothing compared to the potential savings. The issue is then getting people to actually switch over. I think that a PR push by NIST et.al. could help convince the slowpokes that the "industry standard" has changed and they need to do something to avoid liability.
> you wouldn't tell a person who had a congenital inability to feel pain that they are responsible for injuring themselves, would you?

I know people who absolutely do that. The logic is those people don’t have enough faith or care enough to be healed.

People will go a very long way to blame a person who is suffering because it absolves them of responsibility.
bob sponsors a kids sports team to advertise the local dealership to the parents.

tesla's advertising campaign is unlikely to sponsor a local sports team, because the scale is too small and there's too many local sports teams for a corporate to deal with.

The parents themselves will not see value in doing a local sports team sponsorship - they might donate just to keep it alive, but if that was possible, the sports team would not have needed sponsorship in the first place!

Under no scenario would the parents who saved some money from buying a car would give that savings to the local sports team the same way a sponsor would.
I agree with what you're saying in spirit, I think.

I am trying to make a point that "eat less meat, it's like super easy right?" is not about substituting tofu/beyond/impossible meat for beef. There are cultural traditions that cannot be replaced with tofu or vegetables. As a species we'll need to move on from this, but these sorts of things are deeply ingrained in the identity and traditions of many, many people.

For example, removing the consumption of beef brisket, skirt/flank steak, tongue and tripe from the Mexican/Southern US cultures will likely not happen while my generation, or the one after mine, are alive. It will probably happen when folks naturally adopt a more vegetable based diet and eschew those traditions. If somehow we could engineer beef substitutes for these that maintained the same characteristics of how they are cooked and what they tasted like, that would go a long way in getting us there; but we don't have the technology today.

And I don't mean to be over-dramatic, but if you went into any of the many multigenerational households or ranches here specifically in south Texas and told them they could not raise or eat beef anymore - you would be making an extreme and immediate affront to their way of life that many would fight and die to protect.
Imagine you explained to people in the nineteenth century: the way you do heavier than air flight is to deliver sufficient thrust to overcome gravity and drag. Well, yes, that’s quite true. But how to get that done reliably is the ‘rest of the owl’.

How can people reliably eat a balanced diet despite feeling compelled to smash calories, now that calories are very cheap? The thermodynamic explanation has nothing to say on this.
Are you joking? 29% of Americans identify as Republicans, 44% as "right-leaning." I assume most of them live "openly." Fox News, openly politically right-leaning, remains the most-watched network in the US. Members of my own family and circle of friends lean right, openly and proudly, just like I lean progressive, openly.

https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/politics-policy/us-electio...

Looking at the rest of North America, it looks like lots of Canadians openly act on right-leaning political beliefs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Canadian_federal_election

The other large democracy in North America -- Mexico -- has a large and visible right-leaning constituency.

Maybe in the echo chambers of the Bay Area or New York or LA expressing right-leaning political views gets a dismissive reaction, but that certainly isn't the case across North America.
Always hide your power level.
I'm not willing, no.
I feel like you might have just skimmed the article, as the points you make here were addressed directly, yet you don't take the points made head on.

Quoting: 'Similarly "[Obesity] is an energy imbalance between calories consumed and calories expended" is a fantastic definition of obesity.'

It isn't though: 'Obesity is a complex disease involving an excessive amount of /body fat/.' is how the Mayo cilic puts it.

Not all energy imbalances in either direction result in a loss or gain of /fat/, which is the point the article is trying to make.

I'll quote from the article:
"Although researchers have rarely thought to control for energy intake in their experiments, when they did, testing whether their animals get fatter than lean controls even when eating as little or less food, they almost invariably report that they do. “These mice will make fat out of their food under the most unlikely circumstances, even when /half-starved/ [my italics],” as Jean Mayer wrote about obese mice he studied in the 1950s. This fundamental observation directly challenges the notion that obesity is caused by poorly regulated eating behavior."

Quoting again: "as if that means alcoholism isn't an intake problem"

Explaining why curing alcoholism isn't as simple 'stopping overdrinking' is just as tiresome as explaining why losing weight on a nationwide scale isn't as simple as 'eating less', as the article spills much ink to make clear.
> I don't care which core browser tech I use,

Yeah, i do.

> so I'd take a trustworthy chrome fork that meets my other requirements.

Fair enough.

> Unfortunately, Brave = untrustworthy player: https://brave.com/brave-ads/

Yeah, but i can compile that stuff out like i do with the mozilla crap, while still getting some of the core stuff they add like native ipfs support
Using a formal methods tool [0] like Alloy [1] would honestly be ideal.

[0] https://www.hillelwayne.com/tags/formal-methods/

[1] https://www.hillelwayne.com/tags/alloy/
> Just out of curiosity, what are some of Chrome's shady dealings?

A parent company that could and would literally put ads for it on the front page of Google? (i.e. before a sesrch term has been entered)

This is a place where I'm not aware that anyone else has been allowed to put anything, so if this isn't abuse of market power then I don't know what.

Same with other Google web properties that magically work better in Firefox if you change the request headers..!
It's specifically because Russian prosecutors couldn't care less if there are no Russian victims. By doing this they know there is next to zero chance of criminal proceedings.
Not everybody lives in a free country, as a venezuelan I can tell you that tyranny can start with the control of money.
Nothing is a rule here, it's more a reflection on some of the common traits of open source projects. I'm sure we all use open source software where we have zero engagement with its community in any way and we are super appreciative of the tool or library that is provided ( or often with libraries, we don't even know what we have buried in our stacks). You do you. If you have the problem of needing greater engagement for your projects, then look around at other projects and find something you are comfortable with, or invent your own way of engaging.
Vivaldi on desktop. On Android switching between Vivaldi (sadly no support for extensions) and Kiwi Browser (supports extensions).
The add-on massacre on Firefox for Mobile a few months ago pushed me over the edge.
How much will our oceans warm and cause sea levels to rise this century?
Upvoted.

However, my experience in boot camp, though the same in that overweight people were not by the end, was not ideal weight-wise.

I was someone who went in slightly underweight and too lean. I did not gain weight until I got some protein supplements near the end.
GDB 11.1 Released
Yes, I would think this as well. If your company is known for dicking over your dealers, then no one will open up a dealership for you.

Then again, Apple dicks its partners over and hasn't suffered much.
That's not the "battle" for allowing users to tag Public Domain content, and to have moderators confirm that status where it applies in the case of legal disputes, because they never even fought that "battle".
I am having a hard time coming to terms with your thought that there is nothing intrinsically wrong with illegally becoming an underage prostitute.
is this something that the semi-abandoned bus1 & it's ipc kernel module was designed to enable? not sure if it can come close to a hardware instruction but fast secure ipc in the kernel, with i think somehow less boundary crossing, was what this dbus replacement was intended for.

im pretty envious of this new instruction!! ipc is divine. getting programs that can work fast in synchronicity with each other is fantastic.
Too many distractions from Mozilla (Firefox OS, VPN etc and a complete dissonance from the core- browser. It doesn't help when senior management takes fat bonuses and fires away employees during the pandemic.
That doesn't make for pleasant optics and also distanced me away from their product.
It's a lot of words in that essay to essentially say:

"The fundamental error in obesity research is the belief that obesity is a function of eating more calories than you exert. Well, fine - yes, of course weight-gain is a function of eating more calories than you exert, but the real question is *why* do people eat more calories than they exert."

That's literally the entire essay in a nutshell. It's kind of a straw-man though, I think most people get that already so I'm not sure who they thought they were arguing with.
I think that's missing the main point of the series. It's saying that carbs aren't the problem as has been previously claimed.

That said if you look for evidence either way you can find it. https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aj... it's not saying that carbs are the problem but the WRONG carbs are the problem.
Jekyll's commit history suggests the "RIP" title is, shall we say, exaggerated.

https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/commits/master
Whether it's a shitty opinion or not depends on the mob, the hour of the day and the day of the week.

If you're asking what I think of your comment? I have no horse in this race. I don't care.
> What's the big issue with looking to well-tested, scientifically-scrutinized medications as possible treatments for people who already have covid?

Well, one word should sum it up: profit
https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/the-difference-betwee...

They are a "third party service provider"
just go to about:config and set general.useragent.override to anything you want. everything still works fine.

most people just set it to the latest chrome default "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.63 Safari/537.36" to blend in with the crowd. It is meaningless.
As I understand it, the fat mice in the study were fed half the amount of food that other mice were fed and still gained weight. It makes me wonder if a calorie surplus is necessary but not sufficient for weight gain which could also mean that a calorie deficit is not necessary for weight loss.
It is not safe to use Bitcoin and other traceable cryptocurrencies. I for one don't want to be tortured with a drill and there is a long list of such events: https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks

Some people say the same things about encryption, but it is a very accurate parallel that it actually makes society safer, and the technology can't be taken from "criminals" so you just have to deal with its existence.