skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Not so much. That sounds like like The Power of Positive Thinking-style BS (crypto is full of it). Usually when "they" fight "you," they win, but losers are usually forgotten and an accurate statement wouldn't make a very good motivational slogan.
It is far easier for a bad actor to compromise or start a commercial VPN provider than it is to do the same for an ISP.

If you want online anonymity, use Tor. And torrent with a seedbox.
Other countries have no problem prosecuting lawmakers for insider trading.
Such a cromulent suggestion and bigly of you.
I agree with the comment from justapassenger. The title has been altered from the headline into inflammatory clickbait.
I recently worked for a telecom and they had an unspoken policy of cycling out techs and engineers with regularity. I cannot count the horror stories where a handful of semirandom firings caused a system that hundreds of people relied on to meet productivity quotas stopped functioning within weeks due to the semirandom person being fired being the person that ran the system.

They spent millions of dollars a year constantly rolling out replacements for these systems that were always without fail worse than the ones we had because the vendors they threw this money at weren't building specific use applications for a single business function and it seemed like every new app had a wiki function, a chat function, and a smartphone app when all we needed was a way to look up a coworker's permissions or update a ticket.

Tribal knowledge cannot be evenly distributed in a business system because not everyone in the business system needs to know it. The mail person does not need to know the CEO's advertising strategy. But in an ideal meritocratic system the CEO would know the mail person's contributions to the system and wouldn't replace them with (for instance, a series of air tubes) if that mail person was considered to bring warmth and happiness to the people they interacted with, providing value far in excess of their letter-distribution capacity.
I agree with your characterisation of the evidence, except I think "Points to" is not synonymous with "smoking gun" so I don't think the criticism of the title is valid. In terms of how important this evidence is, it isn't just "a novel aspect of a viral genome", it is the aspect of the genome which is hardest to square with a natural origin. And it is an aspect that scientists involved in this research explicitly proposed inserting into coronaviruses. From the article:

"Let’s look at the big picture: A novel SARS coronavirus emerges in Wuhan with a novel cleavage site in it. We now have evidence that, in early 2018, they had pitched inserting novel cleavage sites into novel SARS-related viruses in their lab,” said Chan. “This definitely tips the scales for me. And I think it should do that for many other scientists too.”

Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University who has espoused the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 may have originated in a lab, agreed. “The relevance of this is that SARS Cov-2, the pandemic virus, is the only virus in its entire genus of SARS-related coronaviruses that contains a fully functional cleavage site at the S1, S2 junction,” said Ebright, referring to the place where two subunits of the spike protein meet. “And here is a proposal from the beginning of 2018, proposing explicitly to engineer that sequence at that position in chimeric lab-generated coronaviruses."

And then what's more, they sat on the fact that they had requested funding for this research for the last 18 months, when the world has been desperately trying to find any relevant information on the virus' origins. The fact that they did not put this forward themselves in in and of itself suspect.
Most clothe seats are synthetic fiber based on oil and nat gas. Like 99.99% of car interiors are synthetic. Because they are cheaper and more fire resistant.

So if you worry about plastic pollution in the oceans et al. you should not want this either.

https://www.ecosourcellc.net/2019/08/08/microfiber-pollution...

https://ecophiles.com/2017/01/31/plasticfiberpollution/

https://www.patagonia.com/stories/an-update-on-microfiber-po...

https://www.oceancleanwash.org/the-issue/
SOAP was the successor to CORBA really, and then everyone decided it was too complicated and heavy weight. ;-)
I have no idea and wasn't even aware of its existence. I have no affiliation with either dVPN Alliance, Mysterium or Sentinel but I have used both of the latter two as well as Privatix. Mysterium is my go to choice but there's an issue with split tunneling which prevents me from using it right now.
I have not seen a 250 nits OLED screen. are they used in phones/laptops?
I agree, but it seems just as shallow to condense systemd to "it's much better now, but I don't forgive easily."
They then have to liquidate the coins to pay for the electricity. This extracts real dollar liquidity from the system and the sell pressure pushes down prices.
Can’t you take photos in RAW though, on iPhones at least? My assumption is that would produce a file w/o the AI processing applied that you could then process yourself, but I don’t know for sure if that’s the case.
That article is indeed a counter quote but provides a really bad counter argument. Most people won’t leave their preferred camera at home because they are testing gear or have their only camera clogged with color film.
I like how in the media publications for carbon capturing they always forget to mention that these things need a ton of energy to run.
This grant proposal, in particular, however, was to do work in North Carolina.
"But in practice: how would we even write a law that hampers this behavior from Congressmen? Who will keep track of which stocks Congressmen are trading, and which committees they are a part of?"

That's pretty easy, actually.

Congresscritters are Federal employees. They already fill out lots of forms for salary and healthcare and expense reimbursement... so you add:

1. a Form 3 equivalent to register all the interests that they hold on day one, with a list of brokerages that they have accounts at. An accurate form would be a requirement to collect any salary or reimbursement.

2. an authorization sending copies of all trades to an forensic accounting office, perhaps under the auspices of the IRS. Again, don't fill this out means not collecting your salary.

3. a warning that all trades while you are a Congresscritter must be made with a 10b5-1 plan or be pre-emptively considered insider trading

There we go. While we're at it, extend this to all the positions appointed by the executive branch and confirmed by the Senate.
Easily. Speaking for Croatia's situation but I'm sure it is similar to Serbia.

Say you have general elections. You have some regional politicians you can vote for etc, and maybe some of those people get into parliament. Some get in government, some don't. But once they get in parliament, they are responsible to their own party. Not you and me, just themselves. So they can do absolutely whatever they want, with no responsibility. You have absolutely no chance nor mechanism to recall or replace those politicians. Only their party can do it. So you've guessed it, we have "democracy" every 4 years. And each day between those elections we have oligarchy.

Back to our politicians. If they are in government, even better, they will introduce laws that will pretty much always pass (as the government has a majority, simple or 3/4 doesn't usually matter), nobody scrutinizes those laws and they will introduce stuff in them authoritarians have wet dreams about. Note here, I didn't say that the laws are written by complete morons, they are not. They are written specifically to introduce corruption, legalize what was criminal act before, or establish monopolies on trading goods or similar.

Eg. We have an army of inspectors. And a lot of stuff is left to "inspector's discretion". Or we have a lot of prohibitive clauses like: "you cannot build a house in an area less than 30m from the shore line. But you can do whatever you like if you get a special permit from the ministry (and that means the Minister himself). So yeah, you have mansions with private beaches all over. It just boils down to who you know and how much you can pay. If you're playing by the rules you're completely hosed and you're a fool, and I mean that. Too bad it took me 25 years to realize that.

So also you wonder why citizens don't do something to fight that? There are multiple reasons.

First, the government is the biggest employer by far. I don't know the fresh statistic but we have nr of government workers which is at least 4x larger than Germany's. And we have 4 million people. So there is a good chance that I'm working for the government or someone close to me is working (or even both). Say something bad, and you'll get fired, good luck getting another job.

Second, courts and judiciary branch is also corrupted and completely not responsible to citizens (at all!) so they do whatever they want or pass judgement whatever they want (especially in the case of high profile politicians). So no politician ever gets prison time. Ok, one got prison time out of hundreds of cases.

Third, people are not that hungry yet. There were some protests, but frankly, people here don't know how to protest. Even if people protest it is usually looked down upon them or they protest only for their benefit (say medical workers), not for a general problem.

Fourth, police is corrupted. They have no problem beating down insignificant people, and completely ignore ruling class.

All in all, it is a ugly spiral of bad things and I'm afraid it won't be solved until some war. War resets some laws, deals new cards, removes some bad guys as well (usually paid many times over by everyone else)...
Those are coins from 2010, not 2009 when Satoshi started mining and they're not from the same addresses.
I'm less interested in this as a climate change remedy (it's not) and more interested in this for its terraforming potential.

What are the benefits and risks from just bleeding spare methane into the atmosphere after any refueling reservoirs are topped off? I'd think it'd be useful in raising temperatures on the planet, though that's only one terraforming component.

(I'm very dangerously not an expert on this)
Same experience, I'm sure you can design a large e2e test which isn't slow and flaky but for that you need some very very strict set of rules & care. I've personally never experienced one like this though.
That's exactly what I said would happen. Big companies can do their own "Nelson" research and know how to tune their ads. As a result, they are willing to increase their bids over the less informed small businesses who now have to resort to a spray and pray approach.

People never stopped to consider that FB would be fine with the changes and was genuine in their pleas for small businesses.
Do you remember when everyone claimed Hunter Biden’s laptop with compromising information was Russian disinformation and now the WaPo relented and says that yeah, it’s legit?

Where is the pushback against those lies and collusion between the media and a candidate. It’s okay if 10 or 30% just ignore something because it’s not their bag, but 90% of the media refusing to cover it and denying it and all the fact checkers in cahoots?

I think that’s a big deal.
> if we consume the fuel byproduct, presumably we just end up with co2 in the atmosphere?

The process would still be great news if true, as it could be a carbon-neutral source of hydrocarbon fuel for applications that are hard to electrify, like aviation.
Real estate is a productive asset, because you need somewhere to live. If folks were holding the real estate, empty, simply to resell I would agree - but I wouldn’t advocate real estate as the future backing of money either way.
I wish they addressed the fact that methane that they will be producing is said to be an even more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Are there any worries about the leakage for example?
Same... I'm only using Workers for a very specific use case but otherwise I just prefer developing for any other serverless platform.

Workers are great once they are deployed, but the DX is abismal...
The government has full access to this data, though. Whether or not a private agency with a profit motive, or a public health agency with a public health motive collects it first is irrelevant.
They don't "make everyone's chip's"... that would be Taiwan.

Regarding what should be done: stop giving money to China for GoF research would be a great start...
That's _possible_ but fundamentally I'm looking at this from the perspective of requiring new work to be done by expensive people (infosec, dev, ops are all in-demand skills) — maybe some of that comes from changing team priorities, in which case the cost is less feature work, but in most cases I'd expect that to be hiring. There aren't many breaches which have direct costs greater than that because companies have been able to avoid penalties or compensation in most cases. If the cost of a breach was greater than, say, a year of free credit monitoring that calculation could change dramatically.

Ransomware has already changed this somewhat: now the cost is halting operations for a potentially lengthy period of time, and that has spurred a lot more awareness that the current model is insufficient but not from what I've seen significant efforts to change it.
The article claims they are already converting CO2 to fuel on the ISS. This process has been TESTED but we aren't using it right now.

Article claims:

> Known as the “Sabatier reaction” from the late French chemist Paul Sabatier, it’s a process the International Space Station uses to scrub the carbon dioxide from air the astronauts breathe and generate rocket fuel to keep the station in high orbit.

Reality:

We just shipped a new CO2 scrubber a few months ago

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2021/mar...

For LONG space missions or colonies

https://www.eni.com/en-IT/scientific-research/space-free-co2...

The ISS is constantly falling back to earth. It maintains its orbit with thrusters on the Zvezda module or a visiting spacecraft boosts it higher
You talk exactly like an MLM salesperson.

Do you have a seminar I can register for?

...

But seriously, people will speculate on things and bubbles will happen in all assets, some are more resilient than others.

While the future is never easy to know, your predictions can be dismissed out of hand because we definitely have some 'hard parameters' we have to deal with.

BTC is definitely an outlet for illegal activity and tax evasion, and to the extent that it becomes material in that way, it will just be banned. And when it's banned in China, EU, USA, UK, Aussie, Canada, Japan, Korea etc. - well it probably won't be of much use to anyone.

No regime will allow their tax base to be challenged in that way. And neither will the population, so the banning will be a popular measure.

So by nature if it's own design, it can only be an annoying parlour game.
Yeah, prisons generally have armed guards.
3rd-grade photoshop and weapons-grade marketing
They missed the boat if that was the plan.
> In the ninth book of the Republic, Socrates [...]

Note that this is “Socrates, the mouthpiece character created by Plato".

> Contrary to the article, there is no doubt: Socrates would have no use for social media.

Well, that may be the case for Plato, its less the case for Socrates, unless you mean the one Plato created and not the real one. The relationship between the two itself has much doubt.
In the field of legal representation oftentimes the best defense lawyers that specialize in defending against federal probes and investigations have years of prosecutorial experience leading those government teams.

That idea of insider knowledge turned to the client's benefit might be utilized here - but yes it is a bit less comforting in contexts where the legal duty to client does not apply.
unfortunately, the code is simply ugly to read
Release Highlights for scikit-learn 1.0
While this is true, I'm sure there are a lot of costs that eat that up pretty quickly. For example, you have to essentially have two places of residence, one in your constituency and one in DC. There are costs for family, travel, and other expenses that are personal and can't (or shouldn't) be charge through the government. I don't fully understand what they can and can't charge, but that gets chewed up pretty quickly if you break it down.
One source? There are multiple sources, including eyewitness accounts, reports from Chinese and Uyghur exiles, western experts, and even satellite imagery:

"The findings of this research contradict Chinese officials' claims that all 'trainees' from so-called vocational training [centers] had 'graduated' by late 2019," report author Nathan Ruser wrote. "Instead, available evidence suggests that many extrajudicial detainees in Xinjiang's vast 're-education' network are now being formally charged and locked up in higher security facilities, including newly built or expanded prisons, or sent to walled factory compounds for coerced [labor] assignments."

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/24/916665128/report-satellite-im...
I love these kinds of stories

> CGI 3D Animated Shorts : "LAST DAY OF WAR" - by Dima Fedotov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjJmTeBSEzU
Only works if its done happily and willingly and most of all consistently. Wikis are often passion projects and it is rare for managers to consistently push their utility and it is very difficult for them to get usable metrics from them in my opinion.
Yep, the emphasis is on "may". Of note that Marko is very technical himself.

After almost 10 years in tech marketing, here is what I see, especially on the early side of things:

1. A lot of marketers are afraid of tech (yes, even if they've worked in tech for years). Or, they won't take the time to learn it, even at the most fundamental level. It doesn't help that in their always stressful first months there is zero room for this. Everyone wants results, but how do you actually learn the thing you are marketing = at a more fundamental level than "positioning".

It doesn't help that marketing leaders are not focused on this, even when their teams tell them loud and clear that they need a better understanding of the product.

2) Technical cofounders expect marketers to learn--I don't know-- by osmosis ?

IMHO, there should be a product/landscape training geared at the marketer for every new marketer joining. In the early stages, that means the technical cofounder spending a lot of time with their marketing cofounder, and the marketing cofounder taking the time to learn and absorb.

3. Technical cofounders put marketing on the back burner. They want results, but are not willing to put in the time. And of course, they have zero time with all other priorities. But this is the #1 priority!! You should forever be a core marketing team member, and the face of your company. Establish that trust and open the door for your marketers to come to you for hands-on help. Write (content is key), speak, check in.

I highly recommend one of my favorite reads about tech marketing:

http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2010/09/startup-marketing-2nd...

"Here are some things I’d suggest you look for in your first marketing hire.

--wants to know how the product works
--is endlessly curious, and isn’t afraid to ask a lot of questions
--never has to be told the same thing twice
--will stay up all night while the engineering team races to ship
--is always thinking about how to simultaneously increase throughput and ROI, while decreasing operating expense (definition of “lean”)
--loves customers obsessively, and doesn’t have a cynical bone in their body
--knows when to be a bulldog
-- is humble – for example, they would clean the bathrooms when they can’t afford a janitor
--understands the tradeoffs of time vs. money, and values both
someone who is a logical decision maker and isn’t afraid to argue for what’s right, or back down if it’s not worth the fight"
It's just marked as unavailable. Apple does that to try keeping people from using XPC on iOS. Use the full code from GitHub, it has a bypass for that Xcode check
The article has been previously submitted with and has languished without interest, I think that the Intercept's headline alone is underplaying it a little and is not suited to this forum. I think if you read the article, the HN headline above is accurate. What specifically do you think is inaccurate? Even in tone?
Smartphones killed the market for low end compact cameras, because the average consumer uses their phone instead of a shitty $200 entry level camera.

The high end stuff is doing well with content creators and professionals. You can see this in the move upmarket of things like Sony A6600 ($1400 APS-C camera) and RX100 series ($1300 compact camera) that are aimed at creators in the attention economy. I think from here on we'll see smartphone needs driving sensor development, but that doesn't mean the camera market is dead.
Excellent resource, especially for numbers.
A ProRAW photo is a DNG file, using the new features added to DNG 1.6. It isn't proprietary.
I disagree, but I admit that I may be biased. I know plenty of folks whose grades were not perfect, but were determined and had a clear idea of what they wanted to study. However there is some degree of bureaucracy involved, so you must be persistent.
Well of course e2e suites are not a panacea. That doesn't support killing them. With regards to flaky or hard to debug tests, those are implementation-specific issues that should not be used dispel the entire concept of e2e testing (and can usually be solved by high code-quality tolerances and tracing respectively).
He'll post the source of both claims when it's time for the Rapture.
Perhaps he meant that it's objective that he disliked it. :)
Well, you'd have to do an off the books / private transaction of BTC-for-CNY, but there's presumably an infinite number of ways for someone to loan / give CNY for (to the government) nothing (and in reality, BTC, etc).

And with the CNY, you can buy real goods. And with those real goods, you can export them. And with those exports, you can sell them for foreign currency.

So as long as they're running an export-oriented economy, it's going to be very hard to fundamentally stamp out crypto as an option. This mostly strikes retail traders / buyers.
"Coercitive" would be something like "you make N license plate a day or don't get food".

"If you accept to do non-mandatory work in exchange of money/reduced sentence" it will be your choice.
I wish this article spent more time on the science.
>They do consider everything that we think they haven't.

This can be said of almost any observation made about a particular field of research. Outsiders aren't familiar enough with the current state of research and they often assume experts haven't considered some rather obvious things.

That's not to say that outsiders shouldn't participate in the discussion, but they should acknowledge that there is a good chance their ideas have already been considered.
I find it astounding you found nothing broken at all completely blocking port 80 when simply setting "always switch" HTTP->HTTPS instead of "when likely supported" has resulted in me noticing daily breakages of misconfigured sites including those linked from HN and that's a step up from simply blocking it.

Outside the browser a quick Wireshark capture show even common apps you'd think are HTTPS only like Steam are using HTTP for functionality such as IPv6 connectivity checks and such.
Hah you brought a grin to my face. I fondly remember the late 90s when I was doing my BSc on computing. I was pretty into cryptography, stenography, data obfuscation and reverse engineering. Back then people doing "crypto" were called nerds by Software Engineers (the nerds of the nerds). Pretty great time.
I did mean parallelism, but I think the point stands. There's very little practical use of async await outside of multithreading.