skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my main problem with PouchDB and by extension CouchDB was that it seemed hard to add validation in the backend (including authentication/authorization). I remember having to build some kind of proxy that hooks into the CouchDB protocol to deny certain requests. I am pretty sure that's solved by now (or I was just asking the wrong questions back then).
It's a terrible heuristic, but it's one that is used for a LOT of funding decisions.
"You want money? Show me how many papers in Nature you have."
The whole point of a vaccine passport is to expose information about your vaccination status to third parties.

I don't see this as any different than carrying around any other ID in my wallet. My driver's license also has my name and date of birth (plus information about my eyesight and home address).

The nice thing about the vaccination passport is that it is like a card in your wallet. There's no centralized server that's being queried. It's offline and distributed.
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You don't really need a huge team to make a child blind or deaf. Just a pointy stick.
Yes? Hit me for that, but I'd say most religions are a troll farm in some way or another, so no surpise there...
Sorry, but what is the answer? I still don't get it.
It's important to remember that this is on the way to being an MVP. It's not a finished, polished product. This is HN. Don't we like people hacking on startups any more?

I think it looks like a really positive first step. Yeah, the resolution is too low but that's solvable with a better headset. It's a bit laggy, but that's probably due to recording video of VR being hard. The windows are weird sizes, but that might be user choice. Heck, I personally don't want to code things floating in space, but that's just a matter of choosing a different background. All those problems are solvable.

There are loads more problems that are also likely solvable too. And maybe some that aren't. We don't know yet. I'm glad someone is working on the problem to find out. That's far better than not having, maybe, one day in the distant future, a VR option to use for work.
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> Wireguard provides none of that.

What she said. I’d go with Strongswan. Or openbsd iked
How is what China does to the Dalai Lama any worse than what the US does to Julian Assange? Isn't it equally naive to assume that an even more powerful USA wouldn't continue to summarily execute people abroad as much as it already does?
I see, I wasn't thinking about kernels much smaller than the image itself. So, if you don't use blocked FFT, it only makes sense to use FFT convolution when your kernel size is > log n?
From the point of view of the GPS satellites, LEO and the Earth's surface are almost the same thing. The GPS constellation is a lot further away.
Quick googling shows that there might be positive aspects to holding your breath, but I imagine one would have to do a deep dive (no pun intended) into the subject matter before reaching a conclusion.
It also discusses the pros of SSH, of which there are several.

But this is all from the perspective of a user choosing one over the other and doesn't discuss why a service would encourage one over the other. What I'm expecting is "HTTPS is faster / easier to load-balance / etc.", but I really don't know.
You’re even understating the impact of the quiet zone: at version 1, the QR code itself is only 52% of the code + quiet zone area (21**2 modules out of 29**2). Almost twice as bad! :)

That said, in practice, a quiet zone of one module or even only partial quiet zones (around the position patterns) seems to work: https://qrworld.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/the-quiet-zone/
> The antivax/antimask/etc. movements as social media manipulation in preparation for a bioweapon

Not what I was saying, so apologies if that's how it reads. I'm saying very passive "bioweapons" could be used to cause stress, increase societal friction, disrupt normality, etc over extended periods of time... effectively destabilizing societies from within, causing governments to take their eyes off the ball, letting down their guard, etc...

What's interesting is that the government (forget which department and paper) did have a plan. They had accounted for this scenario. But I guess there's a chasm between having a plan and being able to put it into practice.

What is "epi"?
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My mom was called stupid her entire first school years until somebody thought to test her eyes.
Looking forward to that Mad Max sequel.
Though it's not only about number crunching. I tried to implement a streaming protocol for certain ip cameras: You may already see the effects of GIL + the general slowness when reading many small packets from a network socket in one thread and parse/process the packets in another. While Python is my favorite tool for many years and I was seemingly aware of it's downsides, I really didn't expect how bad it performed in this case.
Do you, per chance, "fucking love science"?
A world without an academic publishing industry is not a world without academics who group together and agree to coordinate peer review of new research. The difference between that world and this world is basically you get PDFs that have the default LaTeX template instead of the default Elsevir template. But you still downloaded it from the website of a group who coordinates peer reviews.

The difference between academic publishing and news publishing is that academic funding is separate from academic publishing funding. This means it is quite natural that you should have a website hosing content without ads or personal data sinks, so that the reputable publishers are more attractive than the non-reputable ones. (Funding or promotions are often given to people who have respected publications, but it's a separate process involving peer judgement. Impact is measured not by views, but by references - useless pseudoscientific research that would do well in the advertising market is kept separate.)

Moreover, the audience is completely different. Because they're not selling ad space, it doesn't matter if they get ten readers or ten thousand. Ordinary scientific literature is difficult to read for someone who hasn't been doing it since they were 18. News media is completely different: they are fundamentally funded by advertising (both in the preonline days and now), which means they need to maximise their audience.

In any case, we have the same problem now - so the same risk exist. Right now, it's much cheaper to produce fake scientific research, and if there's any appetite for it, it's now, when there's paywalls and unreasonable fees. If you could make a profit from distributing fake research, you should be doing it right now (and arguing for strong protection of IP), instead of waiting for the day when real research is less hamstrung than fake research in terms of distribution.
In UK ownership can be derived though Companies House fillings. I have seen tools that do this and provide some sort of network map so you can drill into directors and see their connections to other companies.
Thanks for explaining this to me. I really appreciate it!

Where I'm coming from is getting dumped out of a room that switched to spaces, and the room's server's admin telling me they got an error message that my homeserver does not support that room version, and my homeserver's admin saying they're on afatk the latest stable release of synapse, and then checking the spec and finding no mention of that room version at all. This is an absolutely trash user experience and certainly colored my response. As it is, I can't speak in said room and the room admin doesn't know how to fix that and neither do I.

The problematic room's server's admin must have been misinformed in this case, that's where I have the info about v9 being the default.
Scrum doesn't have a status update meeting.
I'm sure if you applied blockchain and crypto enough times, this could be solved in some byzantine and massively inefficient way.
And that's the rub, isn't it? Once a player like Nature or Elsevier can entrench itself in the process by which the other institutions function (Like being gatekeepers on the government's merit metrics for funding), they can route around the fact that nearly every working academic doesn't actually want to support their business model by effective fiat

Personally, I think it's always a mistake to build a business into government policy. It uses the government to protect the business from the free market, and the business to protect the government from public influence or public transparency
The original report doesn’t actually mention misinformation campaigns as the linked article claims. The motivation seems to be exclusively monetary (ads, links, selling pages etc.).

Nation states hostile to the U.S. might hypothetically have been involved, but I’ve seen no such conclusions made in the report.
My vision for much of my first 30 years straddled the line where I could get a driver's license that said I didn't need glasses¹ although I started wearing glasses in kindergarten. I was pretty inconsistent about glasses wearing for a lot of that time, but now, my vision has deteriorated to the point where I need glasses for both near and far correction—I've had progressive lenses for almost a decade now.

1. More precisely, I didn't need glasses in California. In Illinois, I did—I got my first CA driver's license in 1990, replacing an IL driver's license. Then I moved back to IL in 1997, then back to CA in 2004, and back to IL in 2011². All my IL licenses required me to drive with glasses.

2. If the pattern held, I'd have moved back to Los Angeles in 2018, but it appears I'm in Chicago until I retire.
>Leaving a person's abilities up to chance is arbitrary and doesn't solve anything

It solves the problem of fairly allocating traits which are important to have in a society, but for some reason are not preferred. Humans cannot be trusted with complete genetic control. An extreme example would be China's combination of highly sexist society and one-child policy leading to everyone wanting boys and not girls, leading to a demographic catastrophe. Imagine how much worse it would have been if parents could freely and reliably choose the sex of their offspring, instead of having to sneakily murder their infant daughters.
Hmm...I tend to agree...but why?

I would assume his output wasn't 0, so the economics are hard to justify. A typical engineer earns many times their salary in revenue for the company. So, maybe this guys was low performing, but maybe that works out to a wash in terms of revenue per employee.

Or maybe, Amazon says "actually, losing $500K to retain good people isn't that bad every so often" -- how many employees can realistically be in the situation? 100 a year? That's what, $50mm...nothing to Amazon in the big picture.

Obviously there comes a time when you need to fire people, and we don't have the full picture. But it's also not like this money really matters to Amazon that much either.
> everyone is doing microservices and serveless, it is really not an issue

If a serverless function needs 1 second of the actual CPU work (i.e. real computation, not CRUD or feeding the GPU), wouldn't it be nice to cut user-visible latency to 250-300 milliseconds?

"Serverless" is about processes, while this article is about threads. Different levels.
I saw that, I love their reasoning.
> sharing-economy giants such as Airbnb and Lyft, plus a host of other blitzscaling platforms

TIL: "blitzscaling".
Epidemiology.

Different scientific communities use different scientific methods, and often come to vastly different conclusions as a result. Epi, and related communities, uses frequentist statistical methods. It's an interesting dynamic when two communities have research methods which fundamentally conflict.
Awesome! Would it be ready for the next version?
> and we had sexy time

This sounds like 70s/80s Euro-English a la Borat, but I think you’re American. Well done.
In the spirit of HN's creed to encourage curiosity, I want take this opportunity to make my fellow hackers' lives easier and teach you skills for looking up information. Giving up after a Google search indicates you likely have a deficit.

You can use a dictionary or encyclopedia for word definitions. I like the Oxford for its quality, and Wikipedia for its breadth.

• https://lexico.com/definition/marten

• https://enwp.org/marten

User-friendly browsers like Opera 12 and Firefox have features to turn a form or search result into a reusable template that can be triggered with a shortcut from the address bar. I habitually make use of this for looking up definitions.

If you care to take the acquisition of skills to the 95th percentile and beyond, measured against the general population, then the material at Fravia's Searchlores (deliberately not linked) will do that.
He will be non US, elsewhere in the world gambling is so infested in our sports that football teams in the UK for instance are looking at moving away from gambling sponsorship. Only they can't because the money paid is just so high. There is alot of pushback now from fans due to the growing amount of children that are picking up gambling habits.

https://www.lbbonline.com/news/kids-ask-can-we-have-our-ball...
Need more comments like his on HN.
Ah, yes, it is even worse when you compare areas. I think the quiet zone is a recommendation and not a strict requirement, so being able to reduce or share the quiet zone is not very surprising. I'm more curious that the valid QR code is bounded with finder patterns so the quiet zone doesn't seem necessary (those patterns are optimized for linear scanning by maintaining 1:1:3:1:1 black-white-b-w-b ratios across all axes, so you don't need any additional quiet zone in principle).
From that page: An attacker intercepts this request, and injects this malicious payload into the phone number field:

<script>window.location=’https://10.0.1.137:8000/indexer.html’;var a = ‘’;</script>

Really, what year is this, 2005? How is embedding unquoted user input into a web page still a thing? Most modern frameworks make it really hard to do this even on purpose...
As a counter argument, it's much better for people to believe in Jesus than the Kardashians, and any entity willing to destabilize a society knows it very well.
> In some Countries, newspapers receive public funding yet may not reach thresholds of quality for public use (in many top industrialized countries the press has disappointing international official raking).

I assume "raking" is a typo for "ranking", but I'm still not sure I understand your point.

The only official rankings for newspapers I'm aware of is circulation. Are you saying that a newspaper from say Ireland or Lithuania is of does not reach thresholds of quality for public use because they have a smaller target market than Fox News or Bild? (I doubt that's what you mean, but I can't identify an alternative meaning.)

What actually is a threshold of quality for public use?
Does anyone have links to the Google and Microsoft reviews mentioned in this email?

Browsing the last 6 months of public-new-work archives doesn't seem to yield many other reviews of the DID proposal.
I agree with your diagnosis, however I would not like the government to appoint editors of research journals: that seems rife with opportunities for abuse. Also, article selection is an editorial process, so I'd expect that government-run journals will quickly be targets of free speech lawsuits.

What are the core functions of a journal?

1. facilitate reviews

2. distribute articles selected through #1

It seems to me that #2 is where the potential for restrictive and exploitative business models really shows up. The curation function #1 should be something that can be accomplished at nominal expense. Universities should be able to fund that collaboratively for very low cost, pro-socially without a need to recuperate those costs. Why don't we see that? I suspect that it's the existing journal industry blocking such a development.
It took me a little more than a year to understand I have a problem with my eyesight (difficulty focusing on close by objects and additional distortion on the left eye). And half a year more to formulate what kind of distortion I have. I'm adult and have a baseline to compare to.

Kids might not even understand they have a problem.
> Now, of course scientists could run a reputable journal for free or on donations. However, once you have achieved a reputable status with your journal, it becomes something that can be milked for money. And generally people fail to resist that temptation.

That is true across all fields, not just for publishing scientific papers. That's why we need a true cooperative economy, that is an economy of cooperatives which do not compete with one another but promote active cooperation to reduce the overall competition/privatization in society.
One of my acquaintainces at Microsoft worked for years to get this through: https://identity.foundation/sidetree/spec/

DIDs built as a Sidetree on top of Bitcoin. At least they don’t require everything being on-chain, but securing with proof-of-work is unfortunate.
All kinds of possibilities there.

Unicode Character “;” (U+037E) is a beaut.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28621681
It does require special receivers, but AFAIK the only special thing in them is the removed speed/altitude limitation that exists in regular of the shelf receivers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinating_Committee_for_Mul...
Called it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27024026

Feels good to be validated by someone like Tantek.
> You care enough to want the term Spanish Flu removed but you don't care about throwing the word Redskins around? At least keep the logic of your stances straight. Otherwise, people might assume you're just trying to appear progressive for social credit and you don't really care about the empathy you're claiming too.

I'm not "throwing the term Redskins" I'm making a comparison between the way of thinking of American society.

I care for empathy with all humans.

> Empathy is overrated anyway.

Only if you live in and island.

> I kinda don't care how you feel and I'm not going to base my beliefs on whether it upsets someone.

If you speak whatever you want and upsets some people, don't blame "society" or "liberals" if you are snubbed, don't get a better job, etc.
The article states they used a small antenna to detect the satellite signals but how small is small? After all, the SpaceX "Dishy" is fairly large, heavy and power hungry. Would this technique really be possible with an antenna small enough to strap around the neck of an animal? What about something that could fit in my phone?
I remember reading that the Apple 2e was the first device with a switching power supply and the power supply design revolutionized power supply design for years to come. Is that true?
To be fair to 1Pass, accounts also have a unique random account ID that is used in combination with email + password. But it does still kind of make you wonder...
The commercial GPS receiver are just software disabled not to work at certain speed and altitude. There used to be a receiver you can buy that does not have those restriction. You can also build your own GPS receiver and not have the restriction.
"Microservices, son!"
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Not that.

For example you can easily guess everything about ones family members, his work schedule, browsing history, ruffle his personal email/facebook — stuff that often gets mixed with work correspondence, financials, home location, other gadgets, other people in his first circle — people often meet with other servicemen off duty.

A lot in other words.
I love zdns! Super fast and cool options.

0: https://github.com/zmap/zdns
It's typically pretty easy to turn Python+numpy into performant Julia.
> The new ideology would be anti-China, a country Mr Thiel portrays as using artificial intelligence (ai) to centralise control over the economy.

So what? So does he. To anyone who is neither Peter Thiel nor the Chinese state, it doesn't much matter if too much power is concentrated in the hands of the Chinese state or the hands of Peter Thiel. The problem is the same.

> As he once told a friend: “I’d rather be seen as evil than incompetent.”

Not to worry, Mr Thiel, you're at least halfway there.
From the article:

> We (W3C) can no longer take a wait-and-see or neutral position on technologies with egregious energy use. We must instead firmly oppose such proof-of-work technologies including to the best of our ability blocking them from being incorporated or enabled (even optionally) by any specifications we develop. If anything we should pursue the opposite: develop specifications that supersede existing specifications, but with much less power consumption. We believe this is consistent with the TAG Ethical Web Sustainability principle
> Mostly because of an outdated view on justice and crime.

Mostly because certain people profit off it. If you have private prisons and lifetime voting bans for someone locked up for a few months you have mega incentives to get a lot of people behind bars.
I agree, the process of peer review is something that should probably be done by academic institutions with neither corporate nor governmental oversight, and seems like something they're mostly happy to do, as evidenced by so many journals getting the work of expert scholars as peer-reviewers for free. As someone in a different comment thread pointed out, part of the barrier for such a move is that funding decisions build journals in as a gatekeeper, so effectively funding is locked behind publication. It's possible that simply removing the publishers from the equation would create the result everyone but them seems to want "automagically"
The video in the website is really bad quality.
this one is better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWLuwG91HnI
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But computers use a lot more power nowadays. The early home computers were all passively cooled. My Atari ST power supply actually broke down on me so I had to buy a new one from Great Britain. It's a quite small affair with quite minimal venting through the grills at the top of the chassis.
I'm so joining the wait list
That's... insane. So many breaches come from password stuffing attacks from leaked data. It doesn't matter how strong your password is if it's been compromised on another site.