skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's 2021, some 40 years since the eradication of smallpox and nearing the eradication of measles, the latter absurdly contagious on a level much higher than COVID ever was.

But what's that? "anshorei" on HN wants us to stop vaccines, cause clearly that will just cause a super mutation to evolve?

If you believe that, you might just jump off a bridge right now. Because if it's not a COVID mutation, it will just be another virus evolving. They evolve every day! Evolutions big random number generator never stops! Theres a cell multiplying in your body right now, chances are it might just turn into cancer! Is that a risk you are willing to take?
A Synology NAS with RAID1 and a few terabytes is $400 to $500 including taxes. Seems pretty cheap for not having to back it up regularly. Although, the second location risk would remain.
Livestock overgrazing is one of the leading causes of desertification. Can you explain how removing them and simultaneously making the food chain more efficient could worsen the situation?

I'm aware that you linked the Allan Savory TED talk, but that's been heavily controversial and many of the studies on it find limited effects beyond any other reasonable strategy.
By around 6 orders of magnitute :-)
Agreed. Intent is important.

Unfortunately, google clearly has stated they think terroristic acts are happening. Once you indicate that you believe a counterparty is engaging in terrorist acts, you mustn't support them. Quite a few people have gone for prison for a very long time because a fed or informant who had zero interest in actually carrying out a terrorist act, made someone believe they were. And all the prosecutor needs to show is that Google _thought_ they were aiding someone making terroristic acts, and the prison sentences could be lengthy.

Remember the legal system doesn't have much room for nuance when it comes to criminal conspiracy. Even if somebody else gives you all the tools to do something horrible and eggs you on to do it, you are responsible if you make any act whatsoever towards what you believe will have that end, even if the person egging you on is actually a fed who knows all along the act isn't meant to ever happen and in fact you were only presented with the idea that an act could happen on false pretense so you could be tricked into going to jail.

And this brings me back to my original thought, which is that google is pretty dumb for even putting themselves in the position where they have a very dumb system for deciding if they're dealing with terrorist material. Because it opens them up to huge liability that they wouldn't have had if they simply allow their users to exist in privacy.
Neural Marching Cubes
> This title seems a bit over-broad.

The HN title is correct, but it is not the articles title which is better.

You are misreading the article.

Read the white paper to understand it.

It's quite serious. Worse, to fix it the browsers will have to take a hit.

Security researchers owe no one anything, but it would have been cheaper to allow the Chinese/Russians to find this in the future and steal a stack of stuff than fix it now.
Awesome, very excited and will be following the project. Let me know when you have a donate button - or if you need testbeds.
Hi dang.

I have nothing against Chinese people.

On the other hand what I described is day to day reality doing business in China and is easily backed by facts.

You may not like, you may not be aware of it, it but it is truth.

See accounts of other HN users in this thread.

"I lived in China for a year and vouch for this type of behaviour. It’s just considered normal in China. "
Hasn’t this been tried and proven to be a bad idea?
No, someone a lot more powerful did:

"Member of the German parliament, Manuel Höferlin, who serves as the chairman of the Digital Agenda committee in Germany, has penned a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, pleading Apple to abandon its plan to scan iPhone users' photo libraries"

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/18/german-politician-lette...

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/17/germany-writes-to...

Along with

"Apple photo-scanning plan faces global backlash from 90 rights groups"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/apple-photo-scan...

And 487 other articles, reports, fusses that went against Apple's plans.
Train it on enron documents
>Is it the like/upvote mechanism? Hacker News would constitute harmful social media in that case. But what might be lost is a powerful lever for democratic input in terms of content curation and moderation.

I don't think it's the upvote/downvote system itself, but the fact that you can see your own "score" that changes behaviour.

It has definitely made me more likely to comment, even when I don't have much to add, and I've noticed my comments getting more and more inflammatory/polarising over the past few months as I start to optimise for engagement.

Before I turned on noprocrast, I'd often sit there "babysitting" my comments; checking on them every 10 minutes to see how people have reacted to it.

I'd be interested to see if @dang has found similar negative effects associated with giving precise counts and scores.
There's no way we can't genetically engineer a solution to this problem. Maybe not today, but certainly in the near future. I'm surprised he seems so pessimistic.
> the hardware is just too unrepairable and disposable

Pretty sure it was before the millennium when computers became cheap while the value of repair skills increased, it was no longer cost effective then to have the old malfunctioning computer of any make repaired. I expect you mean that you want to repair it yourself, but if you are skilled enough to do that, your time is valuable, so it hasn't been worth your time for at least two decades to spend even 10 hours a year repairing a machine more than about 3 years old. And AppleCare is worth the cost of extended warranty, so you don't have to repair it.

> Apple Music can't even play FLAC files

That's just that software. VLC runs on Apple Silicon, so you don't need to use Apple Music, but if you did and want to play FLAC files, you'd need to transcode them to ALAC, Apple Lossless (or mp3 or aac for lossy). You could build and script ffmpeg to transcode all your FLAC files to ALAC in one CLI command, because lossless is lossless. I'm kind of curious just how fast Apple Silicon will do that... seconds I bet, because it takes only a couple minutes for my Core2Duo to transcode a full-length album of FLAC to ALAC.
Water isn’t particularly scarce in the US either. Just because a handful of states are managing their resources sub-optimally doesn’t mean the whole country has a shortage.
I culture an raise my own mushrooms. Meat seems much harder.

I would love to have a farm with some animals that I raise for meat. My wife says she "can't get to know my meat". Personally, I'd rather know they lived a good life and take satisfaction in the idea that I managed them correctly, that they served a purpose, and that I'll one day be returned to the earth for those like them to eat (my minerals in the grass, etc). Similar line of thinking with hunting - make a clean kill, maximize their use, and know that they were free and at least had a chance to live free and reproduce.
Not for her, though. There was that pesky fact that blood tests already exist, and people were going to compare her results to theirs. And "ridiculous mind-blowing optimism" led to a lot of people losing their money, people who now appear on the government's witness list for her trial.

And then we have President Clinton announcing that the success of the Human Genome Project was going to lead to countless breakthroughs in medicine. I've taken a bunch of UCSC Extension classes in bio, so I know it's certainly helped. But it wasn't like Moore's Law kicked in all of a sudden.

There's certainly progress, you're right. But doing things on a gigantic scale takes gigantic amounts of time.
I recently watched a documentary that really called to question this common wisdom. https://youtu.be/SdrhpThqlCo For context, I was vegan from 2006-11, and the environmental reasons were my primary motivation. Now it seems obvious that the numbers couldn't have been what I thought. Put into context that "carbon footprint" was a slogan invented by the fossil fuel industry, and its clear who is served by shifting the blame to cows.
I think the point would be "safe but efficacy TBD" and be coupled with extensive monitoring until efficacy is either confirmed or denied. I think this is the general goal of the approval, but our reimbursement system is not set up to handle it because it doesn't take the level of benefit into account. Federal reimbursement is set at what the company wants, even if the product provides better or worse treatment than the alternative.
I think the parent is being more expansive in what they call a "backdoor", and I tend to agree. Does Apple have the ability to remove an app or some bit of content off your phone (ostensibly to remove malware)? I believe they do? That feels like a backdoor to me. And I assume Google (and/or the phone's manufacturer) has the same ability on Android. No idea about Microsoft on Windows.
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>Even if by some insane luck you manage to build something that is very good, the general public still doesn’t want it.

This hits hard
It's irrelevant according to you. That's not an accepted fact.
Show HN: Real-World Cryptography, the book, is done and shipping
hey folks!

My book Real-World Cryptography was just released and is now shipping. I've been working on this thing for the last two years and a half, and the goal was to give a good overview of everything that can be classified as "real-world" about crypto. You'll find all the basics in the first half of the book, and the second half contains chapters on TLS, noise, PAKEs, post-quantum cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs, MPC, cryptocurrencies, FHE, etc.

So it's a good pick if you're learning, but also if you've been in the field for a while and want an intro to some subfield you're interested in. It's not a reference book, and is written in a light style. Also has some art and lots of diagrams.

Anyway, here's the link :) https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-cryptography?a_aid=Realworldcrypto&a_bid=ad500e09
The judge is right for the wrong reason:

https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/32495/is-there-a-t...

The promotion is committed as soon as the new piece touches the promotion square.
Surely nobody on HN trusts Google in this way (or any other for that matter), but the referenced comment is useful for educating our less-aware peers (usually those outside our industry), allowing them to come to more informed conclusions on Google. Forewarned is forearmed.
Do we still need a bastion?
European Commission to force Apple to switch to USB-C by 2024
A lot of people mistake "experience" with "becoming set in your ways as you get older", and you seem like one of them.
The answer is in your question.

It means if you take us apart and put us back together again the ghost will have left. It will be a huge disappointment for cryogenics.

If people want longer lives the body will have to be kept alive in an induced coma state and heart rate slowed. Or use some novel regenerative therapy.

Otherwise that machine (body) is never coming back to life once its ghost has left.

It means an entirely different type of neuroscience that most scientists are uncomfortable with. Having to do with Consciousness
We should but, g00gl e employees are 10% of HN it seems.

No one who works for a powerful entity likes admitting they are more or less powerless to daily statments they see on here.

It's like how anyone with tech awareness watches the goal posts keep moving.. Yes, I know alternatives and mitigation and ECT.

Power is a fickle mistress.
But are you overlooking different scales?
You mean like on levels.fyi? In my experience (as an employee and an employer), their data seems very well aligned to reality. Its main flaw is that it’s US-heavy.
and here's the first post about the book on HN a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23743218

if you're wondering if the book is a good fit for you, don't hesitate to ask a question!
One attribute that people don't often ascribe is luck. This was a labor of love and luck.

We hear about projects all the time that have been developed for longer (Linux, Star Citizen, Temple OS, et al) and those are the successes and failures that people have actually heard about. Lots of other people fail along the way (or succeed in not achieving much) with decades of development. I think DF's development need not be elevated to a quasi-religious tale because someone got good enough life RNG, anymore than being born with the money to brute force it is laudable.
We are working on growing our testers from just us, to a few capable users out there currently. Hit us up on Telegram or Matrix and I will try to get that group started soon.
Sincere question: Can mirrorless cameras match or do better than the result of the multiple exposure stuff that phones can do? (E.g. Apple’s “Deep Fusion” feature)
> I think you will have a hard time proving beyond speculation that Apple or Microsoft has backdoors to their OS.

This statement is absurd -- they don't need to keep a backdoor around because they control the front door.

You do realize that controlling how/whether/when core system software updates are pushed to a device is equivalent to having a backdoor, don't you?

The operating system on my phone can be 100% backdoor-free today, but if Apple decides that their next update is going to include backdoor, then tomorrow my phone is going to have a backdoor.

Basically all consumer phones (save for a few cobbled together exceptions) implicitly accept arbitrary software updates from their upstream vendor.
If there are two people, and one bitcoin in the world, and one person buys the bitcoin for $1 and sells it to the other person for $2, who has lost money?
"intellectually curious and educated" is a nice way to describe "at the peak of Dunning-Kruger". It's ivermectin now, the same people were writing last year that whoever were suppressing Vitamin D, the obvious COVID prevention protocol. You don't hear much of the latter anymore (it hasn't solved cancer, either).
Keep it patched. Use strong passwords. If not, a botnet will ransom it. Nothing is a substitute for Offline backups.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/synology-warn...
What is the carbon footprint of the extra carriage return character in DOS and Windows text files?
That the reason why the US has stricter rules around controlled substances is because we have a problem due to overprescribing.
I would place more emphasis on the downvote button causing most of the harm. If you post something, and it doesn't get up-voted, that's less of a hit than posting something and having it be actively downvoted. One is a statement that no one found it interesting enough to vote up, the other is a way of saying that kind of content isn't desired here. I'm guessing it's the downvotes that cause people to leave, leaving an echo chamber in their wake.

Upvotes can lead to karma farming, and the need to see that number of likes go up can be a problem I admit. I just think the echo chamber effect is a worse problem. We've all dealt with fragile egos and boisterous idiots before.

I miss the days where you weren't shunned for wrong-think, just argued with constantly if your opinion differed from the norm.
By the same definition, isn't Windows Update a backdoor: it can remotely enable/disable functionality?
How many of these do you expect to manufacture?
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If you're assuming I haven't gone through nicotine withdrawal myself then that's mistaken.
If it wasn't as economical to do it because you couldn't sell the meat produced that way, less of it would be cut down because they couldn't make money that way. In other words, it's their only resource, but it's only valuable to destroy if there is something they can sell, i.e., meat. (Or palm oil)
There's also The Kilobyte's Gambit [1], which is a chess engine written in 1024 bytes of JavaScript.

[1] https://vole.wtf/kilobytes-gambit/
I wouldn't say never but I'd prefer not to.

My compensation information to me is private. I never felt like sharing it either when I was poor or now when I'm better off.

It's like having an open sex life. It's not for me. I don't want to know how often you get laid, nor do I have the need to share my sex life either.

Neither is "wrong" they're just not things I want to share.
Even if the President is interfering with the job of those same public health agencies? That was my entire point and why people were quoting the FDA.
AWS Region Coming to New Zealand
You need a PhD to run it on a Mac.
Candidly, these companies have far, far less power than the government does.

The government has the ability to make literally _every_ company do this to you, simultaneously, and if they use an NSL, to do it secretly.

The reason the government feels less impactful is because Google is much more likely to ban you than the government. Google has essentially no incentive to behave well.
Why would you have a carbon tax on meat? Meat is renewable, all meat you eat comes from grass being grown. Tax the oil used for transportation etc, but why tax the grass?
Until you get ransomed:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/synology-warn...

You really want offline backups. Never recommend “not having to back it up regularly”.
Ah, shoot. It's too late for me to edit my original post but this is what I meant to mention. Bitlocker is Windows' FDE solution
A lot of these things are odd cases that I would never encounter, but I'm surprised that there aren't bigger, more idea stuff in here. For example, not having an expression oriented syntax is really hard for me (I.e. everything returns a value, even if that value is void or whatever).

Swift claims to have a lot of functional features, but it actually misses some of the most basic things.
Your assertion of the financial incentives of on patent vs off patent doesn't make sense for ivermectin.

For one, the company that sells ivermectin in the US (Bayer) does not currently have an alternative covid treatment. They have publicly stayed that they do not believe ivermectin helps against covid. Secondly, an RX of ivermectin (for humans) appears to cost more ($35) than the vaccine ($20). Additionally, the vaccine is already paid for, whether or not people use it, many countries (especially the US) pre-purchased hundreds of millions of vaccine doses.

Given that vaccines are already sold and adding ivermectin is pretty safe and is being added to the cocktail of treatments, already being used, I see no financial incentives for drug companies to discourage it.
As an ex-Orthodox Jew, I do miss the beis medrash atmoshpere.

Also the concept of "high-involvement cooperative overlapping" is something that was recently pointed out to me by my brother, and honestly once it was named, solved a lot of marital issues between my wife and I. I would constantly interrupt her as a way of communicating that I was ardently listening and sympathizing and she'd get offended. On the flip-side, I'd be emoting to her and she would just sit and listen to me without interrupting and I would feel like she wasn't paying attention.

Once we realized this was a real cultural difference, it was something we're able understand about each other.
>Everything in life is a gamble. How you interpret the results is you own undoing.

The biggest problem is this is a gamble with other people's money because medicare and the taxpayers are on the hook for the bill.
The same issues happen with most biotech production. As you try to scale you need different bioreactor geometry bc the amount of heat, co2/o2 distribution, and waste build up in proportion to side wall area of the vessel changes drastically. Also genetic drift increases as you increase the population of microbes, making it difficult to keep your target organisms on the right metabolic path. Amyris biofuel is a good case study for why biotech fails during the scale up..
https://www.fastcompany.com/3000040/rise-and-fall-company-wa...
Trellis Plot
They only gain as much power as you allow them to have. You can still use your own domain. You can still back up to external drives in your house. You can still leave encrypted copies of those drives at a friend's house.
Let's say it was a million individuals you were directly controlling (whereas in reality I doubt you could effect the eating habits of more than 2 or 3, but let's say a million)

At that scale it really doesn't matter at all. It's a percentage of a percentage. The reverse of orders of magnitudes.

I guess when you are running a G20 country let me know and then at that point I would still say you're in for a struggle. I won't hold my breath.

So yeah. Your and my individual actions don't mean the slightest thing for climate change regardless of how you frame it. I'm sorry if that narrative doesn't make you feel good.
It's not a complex system, you share the noise and XOR your plaintext with it before sending.
The unit of software delivery agency is a team not an individual any more. That was in the days of Norton Disk Doctor where a single programmer held the whole problem in their head.

The question that is lost in the noise about 10x is “Does a team with a 10x programmer deliver software better faster cheaper than a team without one. More formally is a team with a power law distribution of talent more productive than a team with a normal distribution of talent.”

That is IMHO the question that really matters in terms of modern software delivery. Any thoughts on this question?
You can store state client-side. Say you have a view to edit users, with a modal dialog. A typical LiveView app will change the URL when you open the modal, so it's like /users?action=edit&user=bob. When a server goes down the client reconnects, and the LV receives the URL params in its handle_param callback, so it can recover the earlier state. Forms recover automatically in a similar way.

With this and a DB to store permanent data, an LV app can be deployed just like any other standard container app without user impact.
The article seems to allude to scaling up using batch reactors, wouldn't moving to a continuous process makes more sense at those huge scales?

I'm thinking of tubes like those microgalgae production plants.
> The demise of Aperture, iPhoto, good keyboards and the introduction of the touch bar were just a few signs that product owners were in charge who rather wanted a raise by trying something "new" instead of technical owners who wanted to help creative people getting work done.

This is exactly how I feel.

Way too much software is being developed in the Resume Driven Development these days.

Touch Bar is a prime example of this. It solves a nonexisting problem in an imperfect way. It's a mere copycat from Optimus Keyboard, except that in Optimus each individual key was still a physical key.

The same goes for the vast majority of the web 2.0 front end frameworks, which reduce user experience, but add to the resume of people who implement all of that nonsense. The new versions of Slashdot and Reddit are prime examples — slower, less usable and accessible, but, hey, all the newest frameworks and buzzwords!