skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Remember the vehement Russia, Russia, Russia! Russia was controlling all media. Russia was doing all kinds of disinformation, attacks, etc., etc.

Yes, and it was proven.

> Just imagine the 24x7 reporting we'd have gotten if Jared or whoever else in the Trump admin had lost a laptop will all kinds of incriminating emails and images...

There was basically a scandal that would have had any previous president impeached on a weekly basis. There wasn't time to spend 24/7 on Jared. Off the top of my head there was the whole lying about rent controlled apartments which affected actual people who could literally least afford it. That got about 4 seconds of coverage.

https://apnews.com/article/north-america-donald-trump-ap-top...
It’s centralized in that the developers are now bankers; we have to trust and empower them with a Byzantine abstraction to do daily routine?

We’ve already seen how that worked with bankers. Nope.

I’m really looking forward to the day computer science folks finally accept if it involves human participation it will come along with human bias.

Biology has not gone anywhere, folks. We cannot decouple ourselves from this existence and be information; yet? Maybe. For sure not now.

And networks like Ethereum are not going to enable that.

It may be a nice and clean abstract in their head, but everyone has that privilege. Bringing people aboard Ethereum is putting a new cognitive burden on people. But the goal is to not do that?

Environment issues aside, blockchain is like nuclear powered rocket car hype and not anywhere near as cool.

I’ll stick to a Wireguard tunnel between people I trust literally before running this stuff for a bunch of randos profiting big off my effort.
Not being able to directly print an integer without calling a function to convert it to a string is awkward. The article presents this bit of code:

with ada.Text_IO;
use Ada.Text_IO;

procedure Main is
myNumber: Integer;
begin
myNumber := 123;
Put_Line ( Integer'Image (myNumber) );
end Main;
I'm definitely biased by living in the southern hemisphere for almost half a decade. The places I've lived are visibly healthier than the US. People have less chronic health problems, take fewer sick days, etc.
I'll point you to this comment as a start: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28840842
Important to note that offline mode (for QLD at least), was only introduced a few weeks ago, and only after a major service outage. QLD went almost the entire pandemic without something I would have thought was a critical feature (I am sure that I am not the only person walking around with a smartphone without a mobile data plan).
AI lab DeepMind becomes profitable and bolsters relationship with Google
This feels like a huge boon for the PineNote team, given that their launch is just around the corner.
"Acting like a startup" means being hyper focused on a single use case with capital efficiency in mind. Proving, or disproving, the value of that use case. Then, based on information gathered in that process, repeat the cycle. It's about being efficient in the conversion of capital to value, not about how many people you put on the project.
This is great. Amazing the progression in the first 10 years.

I would love to read 1999's version (and 2009 & 2019).
Commits aren't patches. They contain the whole tree. Retroactively changing a commit can't possibly introduce conflicts with other commits on top of it, the worst it can do is introduce big funny-looking diffs.
ESO images some of the biggest asteroids in our Solar System
I think you discount the idea of "evil experts" too quickly. The day Joe Biden took over the presidency, CNN stopped listing death counts for COVID. The deaths increased in 2021 precipitously, had it been Trump you know they would have probably used bigger fonts, colors etc to drive the narrative.

There are evil people and some of them are in control of various parts of the narrative and they use that control for their own ends.
Apparently swans (and similar) birds have long necks to provide a constant amount of re-breathed air (eg a built-in inefficiency threshold).

Because their lungs are tied to their flight muscles, they would overbreath at cruising speed. So the long necks provide just the right amount of re-breathed CO2 to offset this.

(I hope I have this correct)
> Covid sucks. Yes, it almost certainly leaked out of a lab in China.

> Yes it was gain of function research. Yes this is the worst industrial disaster in the history of the planet.

There are plenty of factual, logical arguments for and against a lab leak and there is a decent chance we will never know. Suggesting the matter is decided is a lie in its own right.

> We aren't sure if the masks are actually effective but we think it's worth it to try them.

Sure looks like they’re effective in a massive study: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02457-y
You can't really get rid of connectivity check, because it is a part of public API. Applications use it to check whether a network has internet access. Android itself uses it to detect captive portals and prompt user to authenticate when network requires authentication/payment via a web page.
> But neither of those things are network effect

> "Network effect" refers specifically to "the phenomenon by which the value or utility a user derives from a good or service depends on the number of users of compatible products."

Sorry, I skipped a couple of logical steps.

Gmail/Google accounts are a namespace where the identifiers are persistent long-term, thus the ordinary network effect that email has is undiminished, unlike previous email providers where you had to change the account every so often largely to cope with spam. [0][1]

Also, Gmail participates in the associated network effect of every Google service that has one, and there are quite a few, though Google has a bad habit of killing them off.

[0] The idea being that you're trying to reduce the email network's utility for spammers to reach you more than you're reducing it for yourself to be reached by non-spammers, which is like chemo killing the cancer faster than it kills you.

[1] Spam per-se wasn't the only reason, of course. In the Before Times I had to change my address due to a few older relatives repeatedly setting in motion endless Reply-All storms / email chain letters, and of course I also changed ISPs occasionally.
I sure hope you are right. The previous quote only mentions the "damage this will have on their community" so the focus seemed to be on the community's need here
What are they trying to get away with here? Is there a benefit to the dotnet foundation and corresponding cost to maintainers for an org being moved to the enterprise account?

I agree that it shouldn’t have been done in secret, but beyond that I don’t see any bad intentions here.
You want to be where the police aren't. A bank near me gets robbed a few times a year because the neighborhood is safe and isolated enough that the city mostly avoids stationing officers nearby.
I disagree. Framing it as anything other than the driver causing the crash makes it too easy for people to blame everything but themselves. Drivers need to understand the dangers of the road and drive in ways that make sense given all the conditions.
> Actually there was plenty of data saying that masks don't work for the public.

... (a year of arguing and studies ensues while a pandemic of a new and not-well-understood virus spreads out of control) ...

> The new data was that ... even modest mask technology is a good source transmission interrupter, and that the contagion window is well in advance of active symptoms.

A wasted year and all that rigamarole just to figure out what Asian societies have known for decades, and common sense untainted by politics should easily conclude. Masks are a cheap and easy way of reducing airborne transmission.

The US and other Western countries that botched this really need to learn a few things:

- how to learn from other societies that have more recent experience with certain things like airbone pandemics than we do.

- how to do better cost-risk-benefit analysis. Masks are an extremely cheap, easy and minimally invasive means of mitigating potentially serious and vastly more costly systemic bio-risks.

This NIH attitude, and notion that we have to spend a year doing studies to figure out what a little back-of-the-napkin risk analysis shows and other societies already know from first-hand experience, is absurd.
Eating real food is better than supplements. That can help a ton.
I shared it elsewhere. Yes - https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...

There is also this here in the US, acknowledging "Kentucky’s local health departments, disease investigators, and regional epidemiologists; Kentucky Department for Public Health immunization and data team members; Suzanne Beavers, CDC" - https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm
It's a bad analogy. The current situation is akin to requiring that the _rider_ is a licensed driver or car will drive into a tree somehow.
What I am describing is realistic. No independent will ever win. If that's a fake or flawed democracy so be it - I can't help that, it's out of my control. What is in my control is whether I get to pick the lesser of the two evils. The cheek that's slightly bigger, juicier.
Berkeley is almost a village with a uniform liberal population, many young affluent students.

San Francisco is a large city, and at scale is where these policies break down. You can't walk through downtown SF, their system has failed. It's indisputable IMO.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165445
There are already 4 other endemic coronaviruses. We seldom treat them with anything stronger than chicken soup and Tylenol. Most of us get infected when we're young and the resulting immunity protects us as we age.
NYC is similar https://nypost.com/2021/10/02/nyc-man-leads-record-shatterin...

> Rodriguez is finally in jail, but he rode the city’s revolving door of justice to allegedly rip off Walgreens 37 times this year. He was particularly partial to the drug store at 91-08 Roosevelt Ave. in Jackson Heights, which he hit 23 times, police said.
Interestingly, that subreddit has convinced some people to get vaccinated. Otherwise it's basically https://old.reddit.com/r/leopardsatemyface (covid edition) with a lot of venting frustration at folks who willfully spread the virus and the misinformation that keeps it spreading.
Bingo. I knew his statement was bull** when he said it was strictly regulated.

This is America, there is no strict regulation anymore unless someone rich is being affected by it. Otherwise it's all rubberstamps, revolving door appointments, or outright bribery.
Gluten free is not snake oil.... if you have a Immune Celiac disease.

Melatonin helps with sleep disorders... for people with sleep disorders. There is a synthetic analog called Ramelteon.

Intermitent fasting has curious effects on insulin resistance, but not clinically relevant.

Probiotics reduce incidence and severity of traveler's diarrhea... for travelers. It has been comercially available for a while.

Like Ivermectin, which is not snake oil, but is also being sold for the same purposes as snake oil.
Speaking of which, I think if you want to be smart, don't do brain games. Do what the smartest people do: play an instrument and read challenging books.

I'm learning piano and it's a never ending brain game. You sit there for an hour trying to coax new neurons in various areas to grow.
It's literally a building, nothing justifies that cost... where are the death ray lasers? Where is the re-atomizer? Makes no sense, the figure must be wrong
In a few years we will be hearing about all the food deserts in San Francisco and how they stem from racism and white supremacy...
I am sorry to say, but you’re mistaken. That might have been the case before the Delta variant but not anymore. Natural immunity is definitely better against the Delta variant.

https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...
Except one can't reasonably opt in to "natural immunity".

Pretty major distinction.

It is absurd to suggest that someone deliberately getting covid is a safer way to get immunity.
I think move in this case means the decision, not the literal migration of accounts. Or it means both. At the start it says "This change was a mistake", which makes me think that it could also be interchangeable with decision. Here I think it would fit best under "A change in strategy". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/move#Noun

I think decision is a better word for this, but it mostly gets the point across.
> a keyboard isn't something you should install without some careful consideration because they can be used as keyloggers

To be frank, Android should not allow input methods access to internet/filesystem in the first place. But that would have hindered Google's own keylogger, so...
No, you can't prove a negative. People can fake vaccine status from other locations. You can't fake a PCR test result in a public DB.
San Francisco never defunded the police. (IIRC, voters passed a measure eliminating a mininum funding mandate, but the actual budget has increased.)

The SFPD may choose not to enforce laws, but I don't think anyone outside of SFPD directed that, it's just organized nonfeasance as leadership political protest.
Don't believe me!! I have a solid grasp on why waste-heat-to-power doesn't work (despite free "fuel") and why geothermal doesn't work (despite free fuel). I pray that there is something different about fusion that means it will work... and make no claim to know that it won't. I don't know anything about fusion plants or their economics.
Maybe not explicitly but the system did that for you implicitly. That’s an entire tangent of pain.

My app, when possible, talks directly to the printer via USB at a low level, which means all page-size/speed/darkness/DPI/features of the printer can be controlled outside of what the operating system driver exposes. Each of your label designs can have their own print settings without having to tinker inside printing menus.

Lastly, the app’s saved design files can be opened on both Mac and windows without worrying that the printing experience will be different.
I think it is pretty easy to deny. The CDC breaks out obesity by demographics[1]. White adults have an obesity rate of ~29%. This is the same as other predominantly white/Anglo countries like Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom[2].

Maybe 29% is staggeringly unhealthy, but it isn't American culture to be that overweight. Being overweight is fairly widespread and not unique to America.

Probably it has more to do with lifestyle changes (e.g. cars and working at computers) and diet changes (rise of processed and fast food). These things have disparate impact on racial groups, e.g. hispanics and blacks are considerably more overweight than whites. America having more hispanics and blacks than places like the UK, the US seems like it is more obese.

1 - https://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/NHIS/SHS/2015...

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_r...
Not divine. Not relevant.
> SHA-1 will still work fine for the purpose of git.

So why are so many corporations, individuals, and orgs working hard to protect against it?

Hint: because it's not actually fine.
I have a child attending private school and vaccinations are required by the state. (CA) So that’s at least one exception to that.
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Some things are just in plain sight. All you need to do is make a trip down to San Francisco downtown and the rest of the areas in SF. I don’t need to look at any data, for that matter but looking at it only reaffirms the observation.

I think the biggest mistake policy makers make in improving a worsening situation is to double down on their policy stances instead of stepping back and observing the consequences impartially and accepting failure of their actions. Only then one can expect to improve, otherwise any set of successive choices you make, will suffocate you in a local optima.

That said, I think SF gets disproportional attention from the media while the rest of the west coast is eroding: LA, Seattle and Portland [1]. I think this is a west-coast problem of illberalism.

[1] The Urban Land Institute, a think-tank, runs annual surveys ranking the desirability of cities to property developers. In 2017 Portland ranked third. Now it has dropped to 66th out of 80: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/06/12/portland-...
This part about a massive number of possible collisions for a given plaintext in a cryptographic hash, but just spread over such a large field and incrememting with the input size so that it is just unlikely you will find another one is the counterintuitive part. I haven't implemented a secure hashing algorithm from scratch, so this aspect would have come out in the exercise.

Even working with security and crypto, the presumption of a cryptographic hash from a standard algorithm is that it is universally unique for the data it hashes - barring someone finding collisions, and then it gets deprecated. Most people deal with them at a higher level of abstraction.

Hash collisions have been used in a few high profile attacks in the last decade, most notably when some SSL certificates were still using MD5, and the most recent smart contract issue where the contract was only validating the last 4 bytes of a cryptographic hash and someone produced a key that exploited that with a collision. Unfortunately the people who don't make those mistakes are both very rare, and often dynamic to work with.

The idea that there are many, many potential collisions for a given input to a cryptographic hash doesn't come up much unless someone manages to find single a collision in one. I'd even posit nobody outside academic cryptography circles is including sha256 collisions in their threat scenarios right now.

However, the absurd/imaginary/hypotehtical/counterfactual I was raising is that a future quantum computer can produce all outputs of that length in a reasonable amount of time. The question was more about what was sufficient to reconstruct the data, and it was funny to know something was specifically wrong but not know why.

However, I appreciate the time taken to illustrate it.
Problem is that when I'm driving I'm not paying attention to businesses around me. I've gotten a direction once like take left at Starbucks, how far is the starbucks away, is it the next left or the one after that? Now I need to glance for a Starbucks while I'm driving?
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I imagine a lot of that depends on where in the US you go. I live in an area that is statistically similar to Europe. If your idea of the US is south and east, it will be considerably different.
If trillions weren't being spent on useless military purposes, you would have a point. Also, a good amount of money in the economy is wasted on stuff like new iPhones every year, bigger cars, plastic crap, Bitcoin GPUs, huge data centers for better ads, etc.

There's plenty of room for a reduction in consumption with minimal impact on lifestyle in the developed world.
> Not even the US can get their pandemic under control.

That's because the vaccines don't effectively stop the spread of SARS2. This is one of the great lies still being shoveled on the public - despite the facts that prove otherwise.

See: Britain has a lot more cases per capita than the US, despite their high vaccination rates and more aggressive lock-down & restrictive measures taken.

Or see: the New England states with high vaccination rates and a recent record surge in cases.

Or see: Israel's recent epic case surge despite their very high vaccination rate.

The vaccines dramatically reduce mortality and that's the primary reason most people should get the jab. There's zero evidence so far that we can actually stop SARS2 via vaccine. It doesn't make sense to be forced to live in bomb shelters forever as eg Australia is doing, that's idiotic and tyrannical. What matters isn't the case counts, it's the number of deaths that matter and Britain's high vaccination rate is doing its job there for example.
>There's inbuilt owner capability

should have been "no inbuilt owner capability". Noticed this too late to edit
> Berkeley is almost a village

120k isn't a village, and if it was...

> San Francisco is a large city

800k definitely wouldn't be a large city.
36x 0.5 cents is 18 dollars. So they started spending on security and it made them unprofitable perhaps. Retail runs on razor thin margins, so there may be some substance to this 36x number.
This is actually a very nice idea. How did you implement the TCP protocol? Is protobuf used by other tools, too - or is this a custom approach?

Any chance this will work together with the gnuradio stack (e.g. gnuradio on local machine, the sdr-modem on remote machine)?

I think this has huge potential when putting the remote-scanning feature in focus. Pentesters would love to have sth like that.
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Being the first recorded person to die from a falling meteor is one of my biggest fears.
Unfortunately, the end of alzheimer is death :/
SF went from $668 million in 19/20 to $661 million in 20/21 for the SFPD, mainly due to police not being required as much at SFO.

If the police can't stop crime and enforce the laws of 47 square miles and 874,961 residents for the princely sum of $755 per person/year or $14 million per square mile/year what exactly are people paying for? Like if I told you that you pay $62/mo for a police subscription and this was the service you were going to get for it, would you still subscribe to it? Probably not.

It's a protection racket. Lower the police budget even in a non-meaningful way just a little and they hold the city to ransom. Just scrap it and start again from scratch, perhaps trying Peelian principles instead of relying on the corrupted outgrowth of slave hunter patrols.
Wait, build system dependent on Jinja, the templating engine and not Ninja?
What assurance do we have that they won't do it again when it suits them?

That "credibility" metric is meaningless when the core devs can rug-pull at any time. "Jude-, go run Ethereum Classic if you're that bent out of shape about it" isn't a compelling argument either, because if the vast majority of the Ethereum economy goes along with the core devs' whims, then there's no point of having a blockchain at all. Might as well just replace Ethereum with a replicated PostgreSQL database, and give only the core devs permission to change the schema and UPDATE rows. If we're trusting core devs to not rug-pull in the future, after they have done so in the past, then there's really no need for the current low-trust environment -- after all, the things that make it low-trust also make it slow and expensive.
I think of myself as someone who "follows the science" and the fact you present is what keeps me skeptical of expert advice. Another example was when the question of which vaccine to get was being asked. Any doctor who knew they were being interviewed, said to get the first one that's available to you. I can see this making sense from a population standpoint, but if I'm personally not trying to get COVID, then of course I'm willing to wait some amount of time to get Moderna/Pfizer rather than J&J. It's just like being told "don't panic", and I honestly don't know if there's any resolution that doesn't involve light deception.
What exactly is the reason for the COVID-19 passes?
> China has 49 nuclear reactors in operation

> Nuclear provides only 2% of China’s electrical power now

So only ~2500 more reactors to go? That sounds like a century of work.