skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2. Was true information mixed with false--a classic misinformation technique.

This point only applies to the the extent that the true material isn't the activities of concern.

The existence and content of the email from "v.pozharskyi.ukraine@gmail.com" to "hbiden@rosemontseneca.com" was itself directly thing people were raising a concern about, and it's something which you can check for yourself and is essentially indisputable.

> 1. Was the laptop/information stolen, and then "laundered" through the repair shop.

This seems totally irrelevant. A few months back propublic published a series of articles which exposed that they received the complete tax documentation including audits and supporting documentation for a significant fraction of the Americans (potentially all Americans, they don't specify but the description of their validation of the info doesn't make sense unless it was a very large percentage). The data was unambiguously stolen, and the distribution of tax records is a felony. No social media site censored these articles because they don't censor journalists who publish articles based on illegally obtained information. ... yet they claimed to be required to do so by their policy in the case of the Hunter Biden data.

Twitter even added a separate reporting category for "hacked material" -- yet when nutball rightwing heavy sites or org get hacked and people are posting private PII from the hacks on twitter (e.g. recent EPIK hack or GAB hack) twitter takes no action in response to these reports, even for tweets whos content directly contains doxing information that would be generally prohibited under twitter's rules, even absent the hacking.

Moreover, hunter could easily have made a public statement that the laptop had been stolen but did not do so. Even if the information being lawfully obtained was a consideration, it's kind of absurd to act as though it was unlawfully obtained absent a claim of that by the victim.
Java the language has improved a lot IME. If you're talking about some specific library, then I don't know.
My music collection is a giant pile of files (~19k tracks, according to iTunes) that I have been curating for a similar length of time, but I let iTunes do all the grind of organizing them on disc for me. My purchasing and listening is pretty much entirely on an album basis.

iTunes uploads it to Apple's cloud, since I'm paying for iTunes Match; my iPhone and iPads pull it down. It is very easy to search for a single album on the iOS players; they also make it very easy to find your most recent acquisitions, with an automatically-populated "Recently Added" playlist.

~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music looks almost exactly like the directory structure you're probably meticulously maintaining by hand (lots of Artist Name/Album Name/01 Track Name.m4a), but adding new stuff to it is a simple matter of dropping a directory full of properly-tagged files onto iTunes. Then I delete the original files after iTunes has copied it into its directory.

It breaks down if 90% of your collection is a bunch of badly-tagged files you downloaded off of KazAa, but if your collection is a mix of stuff you ripped from CDs back in the nineties and made sure were tagged properly, and stuff you've bought that the musician/store tagged properly, it works pretty much seamlessly. Except for this one weird glitch where sometimes iTunes on my Mac decides that I have both the copy of a track I bought off of the Apple store, and one in the cloud, and thus plays every song off an album twice. I've kinda quit buying stuff from Apple because of this; I'll go to Bandcamp first.

What is the attraction of meticulously maintaining a directory structure that a computer can very, very easily maintain based on the metadata stored in the files? Why are you so married to explicitly browsing a duplicate of this filesystem on other player devices?
It's quintessential security theater.
As someone living in Auckland, that's amazing news! I've been waiting for this moment for years. I can't wait to be able to deploy applications which respond with sub 30ms latency, using all the nice AWS services. Soon, a lot of New Zealanders will be able to experience much fasters apps and websites which could've been only built on bespoke VPS/dedicated server providers like SiteHost NZ/etc before.
You seem unaware of the many and myriad reasons organ transplants are performed. Like you get that by the time doctors are considering it, it's because the alternative is they think you're either (1) going to die soon when it becomes necessary or (2) is necessary right now.

Did you know there are people who survive COVID and wind up in kidney failure from the stress on their body? What's your answer to them? Oh right: hope you can get a kidney and then enjoy life on immunosuppressant drugs.

But you know, go tell those dialysis patients on the waiting list that actually they're not that important.
Facebook Ordered to Release Records on Closed Myanmar Accounts
If the engines run long enough for the lander to start going up again, it could be more than 2.5 seconds until it impacts the ground.
I think you misread the study. It’s claiming the opposite:

> In a meta-analysis of 18 observational studies including our new cohort study, higher levels of 15:0 and 17:0 were associated with lower CVD risk.
Forest has to be cut down (e.g. in Brazil) to create pasture land for cows to graze. More forest has to then be cut down to grow crops that serve to feed those cows.
During their lifetime cows will emit massive amount of GHG in the form of methane.
Beef has roughly 3% efficiency [1] (amount of energy consumed by the cow vs what is transferred to you when you eat it), the worst of any type of food, by far.

For every kg of beef produce, about 60kg of CO2 equivalent is released. This is compared to 3kg of CO2 eq. per kg of tofu for example [2].

> Meat is renewable

If by renewable you mean that it's a regenerating resource, sure. But how does that change anything with regard to GHG emission? Renewable process can pollute more than some non-renewable processes. Those are completly different issues.

> but why tax the grass?

The grass isn't taxed. With a carbon tax, you could buy grass and you would only pay an extra fee for the shipping that emitted CO2. But if you buy beef you have to pay for all the emissions of GHG that were necessary to get you that piece of beef.

[1]: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/1...
[2]: https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/what-is-the-climate-impa...
Again, if you judge a wine, spirits and probably a dish you aren't looking for what you like, but for more objective criteria. Those criteria aren't measured with technology, but the tongue, nose and experience of the taster.

I never said it is totally objective (it can't be, because it involves humans), but it is way less subjective than one might think.

Those criteria are e.g. complexity, typicity, balance, off-flavors etc and are widely understood. In every wine tasting I participated we had a tasting sheet where we scored a numerical value. There was never a discussion if we "agree on what balance means".

In the last tasting (some time ago) we examined a type of wine a co-taster didn't liked at all, but still scored pretty high. Because personal preference != quality of the product.

The real problem is that quality doesn't directly translate to enjoyment. I guess most people look for enjoyable wines, not "good" ones. But enjoyment is personal, I don't know which wines you enjoy. But if you ask me blind, I can recommend you some which are at least worth trying. We can fight on quality, but not on enjoyment.

And for me, this is the value I get out of professional recommendations: Which things are worth trying, in wine, food or music.

Foot note: If you don't trust me (why should you), go and ask a Master of Wine how they judge wine. I'm not a MW, but had the honor and luck to work with some really knowledgable people.
How about ROT180, that turns each character upside down, and back to the original orientation when applied twice?
The term you are looking for is IFR
> A report about Facebook from The New York Times on Tuesday cited a leaked internal company announcement that said, "OUR ONE REQUEST: PLEASE DON'T LEAK."

Ladies and gentlemen, you can't make this stuff up.
Spend some serious time to become an expert is a niche high-demand technical skill... produce really high quality content about it (might take time) and watch companies seek after you for consulting / advisory gigs. Charge insane amount for your time.
Yes, you should learn Swift. The naming of things in Apple's APIs still comes through strong in Swift (due to named parameters), so it feels at home to programmers who were familiar with ObjC.

Swift protects you from many crashes/bugs with its null safety and more strict compiler. In ObjC many clear coding mistakes are only marked with warnings, which is not helpful.

Apple has clearly moved to Swift for all future development of new libraries, etc. So it would be foolish to stay in the past.
> Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to displace traditional meat

Where does the (current) incendiary HN title come from?

It's clearly a bullshit statement.

Where as, yes the industry has successfully gotten a lot of suckers in, as you can see in all the comments on all HN articles with every supposed launch.

Similarly the comments are now superficially the same, agreeing with the fake title.

The article seems to be shooting down the idea in 2030 lab meat will be the same prince as animal meat. Which would be true.

But what is more interesting is in 2030 if the writing is on the wall about lab grown meat, which it should be, it will crash ever animal farm in the country. If by 2040 beef is cheaper, who in 2030 who will buy a cattle farm?
I did not know Page was in New Zealand. The article suggests Page is not a resident not a resident.

> Immigration NZ said Page is a New Zealand resident.

> It said Page does not have permanent residence and his visa will allow him to travel in and out of New Zealand only for a defined period of time.
I suspect a lot of foods that used to be healthy are now unhealthy because they're factory farmed, or have had a lot of nutrition bred out of them due to breeding for looks or high sugar instead.

Even vegetables are bad for you if bred to be high in sugar.
Even Apple's gimped browser APIs allowed you to do this long before Safari was updated to include it. Did you simply not care until Apple included it by default?
Well no, if the baseband firmware sends that then only the cell operator would see them, there's no user-controlled software or hardware between the chip and the mobile operator (like the router in the wifi scenario) unless you run your own 4G cell and record packets there. Just as for your laptop, if your ethernet firmware would be malicious in this way then it would apply only to the ethernet adapter and not any other network adapters like wifi.
I really think covid has broken hacker news. Maybe it’s instructive. It’s the most interesting tech story of the decade. I want to know everything about how the virus works, how we can fight back, what new ideas are out there, etc. for a community that loves articles that require thinking, it should be great.

Instead, covid threads are awful. Comments which are pure drivel and talking points are the norm. Politics has infested and rotted our brains.

So with ivermectin, it’s as I was with HCQ or Vitamin D: I’m open minded and intrigued. I want to read the studies, especially the theoretical ones. Let me watch things develop and let medicine take it to patients if the science gets there. But you can’t do that when every other comment is weaponized to the point where people are scarred to read articles because they might contradict their dogma.
I have worked with 10x developers. And I have worked with -1x developers (stopping them from working made everybody else productive). Without the 10x developers things wouldn’t get done. Your demo/prototype wouldn’t be ready in time to secure the contract. Your production problems wouldn’t be solved fast. I suspect that certain (average) developers are jealous of the attention 10x developers (rightly) get. That’s understandable. But pretending that 10x developers doesn’t exist is silly. It’s like pretending that world class musicians/engineers/artists/… doesn’t exist.
That's a negotiation you were disadvantaged in: not something you can literally be sued for in court, and possibly even face criminal charges for.
I assumed that was a normal chat queue and switched to an email ticket. XD
Up to 16-foot waves forecast near Chicago
You don't know anything, dimwit.
You seem unaware of the many and myriad reasons organ transplants are performed.

I'm not. I'm just skeptical that putting more time, energy and money into headline grabbing "heroics" actually makes people healthier and I am very concerned that it only turns people like me into guinea pigs for people who want some limelight more than they want (people like) me to experience some kind of reasonable quality of life.
> Cows are actually a way to convert otherwise worthless land into food. And the grass they're eating is not going to typically store carbon otherwise.

I think this is provably false. As mentioned above, a lot of land used for cattle used to be forest; the global beef market is one of the main drivers for deforestation in the Brazilian rainforest.

There are second order effects, too. Cattle that's factory farmed in the developed world is raised on corn, wheat, soy, and other calorie dense foods. Those crops are grown with a large quantity of fertilizer, and for every calorie of corn, wheat, etc. grown, about one calorie of petroleum is used.

I don't think there's any doubt that beef, in particular, is only economical because of the negative externalities involved. Accounting for those externalities would probably go a long way toward making lab grown meat (more) competitive.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/02/revealed...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_feeding#Corn-fed
Just because Instagram overcomes a language’s perf limitations doesn’t mean it’s easy to do so.
If you make sure no one can write to postgres except the app server, the difference is only efficiency.
It would have been even easier to plug an aux cable into an old phone and use that

Not as interesting though. Not as fun
This is a whole series of articles, and he does address type overloading in one of them, which is maybe what you're looking for.

https://belkadan.com/blog/2021/08/Swift-Regret-Type-based-Ov...
As if the Google AI is smart enough to understand context anyway. If you are going to use google services, set a calendar reminder to download the takeout dump very frequently. It's pretty easy to do and saves you in these cases.
Give it 5 years. They'll be saying the opposite. And in 10 they'll be back to what they're saying today.
People with migraines get less REM sleep, study finds
NFTs with "social club" perks and fun stuff? Not for me but sounds like a fun way to waste time.

Slapping a filter on someone else's art and posting it online to cash in? Gross, facepalm.
"Lab-grown" is such a vague term. There's no indication that today's tech is the best that could exist.

The purpose of lab-grown meat is to remove unnecessary parts of the animal from meat production. While many animal parts could be substituted, right now lab-grown meats have the opposite problem, that too many not-animal parts have been introduced.

What if "good" parts of the animal come back? Could disembodied guts and livers turn non-sterile grass into sterile, nutritious plasma? Could muscles grow in slabs and have slices removed regularly, protected by a working immune system?

Lab-grown meat is at the same stage as the early ornithopters.
These days, my dwarf fortress entertainment comes from the great Kruggsmash on YouTube! He makes very nice artwork to go along with all of the happenings of the play throughs. His presentation is great.
Clif High has an interesting take on it:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/Epewu9DzS7uF/
According to this paper 70-80% of Brazil's deforestation begins as pasture creation:

http://www7.nau.edu/mpcer/direnet/publications/publications_...
sorry, I'm just not getting it. After typing:
export DISTRO="bullseye"
I do the sudo curl....waydroing.gpg
and it gives me the permission denied thing.
I also tried with "focal" and yielded the same result.

Maybe I'll leave the project for now until I get a better grasp of the terminal.
tl;dr: The findings from our study using fatty acid biomarkers suggest that higher intake of dairy fat were associated with lower CVD risk in diverse populations including Sweden (a country with high dairy intake), though more trials are needed to understand if and how dairy foods protect cardiovascular health.
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讨论下奔驰和宝马，BBA里面不喜欢奥迪，奔驰和宝马哪个牌子好，加速性强，主要就是上下班走高速，大家给些有意义的建议吧
Which games? I don't mean like Fruit Ninja or Candy Crush, but the games that people actively bot or abuse will have a ton of ridiculous bullshit (checking anti-root, safetynet, borderline malware or malware-esque SDKs that exfiltrate huge amounts of data)
If you rent a flat without a contract, absolutely. Which is why I specifically said:

> f you are storing your data with a third party, and you do not have an iron legal contract with this third party, then that third party can and will do whatever it wants with your data
I bought a cheap Kindle with no backlight to read more at outdoors. It's great with direct sunlight but really bad at indoors, specially when reading at bed as the screen is under a shadow in all the positions I find comfortable to read. Ended putting it aside and returning to the smartphone even thought the screen is smaller I find it easier to read everywhere and to store in the pocket. It's bad under sunlight but doable.
It was coming at us from the direction of the sun at 85,748 km/h. Didn’t even see it until it had passed us. About 3x the size of the one that hit Russia, so probably would have been a pretty big whack.
No one should obligate you to eat none. That's your choice to eat none, and good for you!

For the rest of us who chose to eat meat, my statement applies.
> they get their device list keys from the server

Which means the server can just substitute keys in.
People at FDA are working real hard for their post-FDA do-nothing six figure paychecks and board seats. It's great to see, however, that not everyone is just cynically milking the system like that.
I imagine Microsoft announcing a data centre here played a significant role - AWS wouldn't want to be the cloud service with _less_ regions than Microsoft.

There are significant AWS customers in New Zealand (Xero jumps to mind) that I imagine Microsoft would love to target with that differentiator of a local data centre.
What is the name of the non-reversible encoding scheme that translates "internationalization" to "i18n", "localization" to "l10n", "kubernetes" to "k8s", and other abbreviations like "f2k" "y1u"?
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Everybody has different interests and needs, but personally, I hope they never implement your suggestions for the App Store. I , like I’m sure a vast majority of the Apple user base , just want an App Store, not something filled with social features.
There is no "they" here, it's a meta analysis involving many scientists in different countries.
This is so obviously true that I laugh whenever I read the “10x software developers doesn’t exist” articles. Typically written by average developers with an axe to grind.
IMO there needs to be some kind of minimum allowed customer support when handling user data. If you can't provide real support for free, then remove the free plan. If everyone has to then they are all equal again.

It's just wrong to trick people in to trusting a service with their data and then yanking it with no support contact.
Melbourne to Sydney I'm getting 33ms average.
Your 25ms is awesome, you guys did a much better broadband network than us
The evidence seems to suggest we certainly do need it, just not as much as some people eat.
> Lab-grown meat is at the same stage as the early ornithopters.

Talk about damning with faint praise—-ornithopters never went anywhere. It took a completely different idea to achieve that goal.
Mostly word of mouth and local Facebook groups. I only have 5 production hives, so my volume is low.
The solution is government regulation. It should not be legal for Google to host peoples important data and yank it without any way for the person to get their data back.'

Google should be legally required to either provide a phone number to call, or make the Takeout feature always available regardless of account bans.
Tbh this is less of a red flag than it looks like. An academic researcher doing this type of analysis doesn’t usually have access to commodity pricing data, much less the ability/clout to engage in a serious discussion with suppliers to determine the true bulk price at the scale they’re interested in.
So what else is coming at us from the direction of the sun?
Thanks for the research! None of those ring a bell, but I can’t be certain (and can’t be certain it was directly from here).
"But in general the point is that meat production does not have to be displacing other food production. Cows are actually a way to convert otherwise worthless land into food. And the grass they're eating is not going to typically store carbon otherwise"

Arguably that's a value judgement not everyone shares. For example, if you placed value on the carbon storage capacity and biodiversity contribution of the Forrest then replacing it with cows may not be an increase in efficiency of useful use of the land.

Arguably broad acre farming is currently getting a free ride on a number of external costs, if the math of that were to change meat grown on a small footprint would be much more competitive.
You don’t explain why but, can we all assume it’s cost?
No, its like saying they should not be allowed to serve expired food and let x% of people end up sick. They should either serve safe to eat food or no food at all.
Just not any astronauts who might have had sex.

I’m thinking that’s part of the point of building your own space tourism company. Privacy with a nice view is how you make the first-class accommodations worth more than coach.
Maybe that’s the solution. Is there some level of “living” things that has all the same qualities of a cow, but that we would feel comfortable raising and slaughtering in inhumane conditions? If not, what makes eating cultivated tissue better?
We should just be cutting out the middlemen like Spotify, and buying music directly from musicians. Then, we can just use standards compliant hardware, of our choosing, to play the music in any format we want (many modern musicians release as flac, old school musicians still sell CDs; either play as lossless, or recompress to chosen target).
Due to costs?
Ask HN: Why is Crypto so hard to use?
Can anyone tell me why all these crypto projects have a terrible UX?
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A new iPhone with USB-C would prompt me to buy that model brand new, instead of the 3 year old used models I normally upgrade to. Could be a good sales boost.
You can use everything and just dump your account data frequently with Google Takeout. It's super simple to use and provides the data in a format you can easily upload to alternatives.

Google drive and photos are my primary data copy and the .tgz dumps are my backup.
Redundancy, but I don't know how easy AWS makes it to run say, a container, in two different regions. I think their load balancers can balance between regions but I'm not sure how well other services can do it.
The point about Bandcamp is frankly baffling. I love the website and I’ve spent too much money there on vinyls, but their library is not a replacement for a streaming service. Not even close.

I’ve seen very few releases on Bandcamp that weren’t already present in Apple Music/Spotify/Tidal etc.
Sure. But we’ll need some sort of centralized market or exchange on which to discover these artists and send them funds.

Oh wait….