skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few things:
-this looks like more marketing than substance, to me. prosecutors send out shitloads of these subpoenas all the time (see eg here https://transparency.fb.com/data/government-data-requests/) and I strongly suspect this was just a junior (or old) person who doesn't know what Signal is and sent a routine subpoena. They require next to no approvals. In other words, this isn't a coordinated attempt by DOJ to get Signal to start publishing records.

-Ultimately this issue isn't that big of a deal to law enforcement. In 99% of cases they can just get the defendant's cell phone and look at his unencrypted messages in the Signal and Whatsapp applications directly.

-I think in theory if a lot of platforms start doing end to end encryption globally, then things could get a little more interesting. But as far as I know for a lot of tech stacks (like ones more complex than simple messaging) that's difficult to do.
>Given their investment and research, I wonder if they should open it all up

Did you bother to watch the Keynote? That's what they said they are doing.
Yes it is and it's perfectly fine for house plants. TDS (total dissolved solids) is usually below 30 PPM, at least for me. But, there are parts of the Bay Area with less pure water.
Perhaps some sort of MetaChain…of MetaBlocks…is needed?
Unique Aussie box-wing eVTOL promises radical efficiency and range
Probably because of Facebook turning themselves into a Roblox, validating them.
Somewhere in your state may be a university that can give advice on what works well locally. e.g.

https://www.turffiles.ncsu.edu/
My mother has a a51. And apart from the OS, I cannot see any reason this phone is not the perfect form factor.
Foreign speaker here. Thanks, fixed.
With everyone plugging into the Meta hub, of course.
Mobilecoin results in precisely this if someone looks into a transaction.

What are you arguing for? Visible transaction histories that can be used to jail you?
From our local articles, it's two guys that got very lucky. No mention of china.
Who is behind the web browsers that most people use. Companies whose businesses rely on subjugating user privacy have few if any incentives to make these types of changes. These complex browsers do not exist for their users, they exists for the advertising company or other company that collects user data.
From what I can google it looks like they ban the sale of leaded avgas at those airports. If you run out of gas at one of those airports I imagine you're purchasing it elsewhere and one way or another arranging for it to be delivered to you at the airport at your expense + hassle.
How do you explain this quote then, surely the war would cause a decrease no? Odd usage spiked decades _after_ they banned it

>Use of crystal meth in the United States exploded in the early 1990s. Between 1994 and 2004, methamphetamine use rose from just under two percent of the U.S. adult population to approximately five percent.
This is interesting, maybe cutting all your ad spending is one of those things you can't really test? Because the consequences if you get it wrong are potentially devastating.
To be fair, I would rather have me at 40 instead of 20 raising my own kids, instead of relying on my parents.
I live in a tall (>30 floors) residential building in Texas, and all of our windows open. I wouldn’t want to use one as an exit in a fire, though. Even going down the stairs during an alarm took ~10 minutes.
> Nobody talks of how foam mattresses change the dynamics of sex.

https://www.sleeplikethedead.com/mattress-sex.html
> That only makes sense if the shield-building adversary is some sort of psychopath who wants to see you dead.

Or if they may become a psychopath who wants to see you dead - in the name of self-defense, of course. Or if they think that you are a psychopath who wants to see them dead. Or if they think you may become a psychopath who wants to see them dead.

It's difficult to assure your counterparty that you will never behave in a psychotic manner in the future - or to assure yourself that they will not.

If you're not planning on starting a nuclear war, and you assume that your adversary isn't going to, either, why do you need a missile shield, anyways? MAD is a necessary and sufficient deterrent. If you're building a shield, you are very conspicuously betting that at least one of these two assumptions is no longer true...
Oh I didn't know there was such a disparity. Is there a water quality map somewhere?
Mostly unrelated to SSRIs, there was an email leak that was much more recent where he also says his anti-reactionary FAQ was made with ulterior motives to promote the "human bio-diversity" head measuring stuff from neoractionism and just attack the feudalism parts or something along those lines:

https://twitter.com/ArsonAtDennys/status/1362153191102677001
This is a poor reason in 2021 - app stores exist. Software developers have an obligation, as professionals, to present the costs of web apps vs binaries when developing new projects, the browser is not an operating system and has real limitations - as this project demonstrates.
Which is precisely why during the
Cold War there was a treaty limiting anti-missile defence (ABM Treaty). Who wants to guess which side withdrew from it in 2002 under a war criminal leader?
I've been responsible for large 7 figure budgets in Australia.

And I have anecdotal data that showed that we reduced spend, and business kept on keeping on!

Some key points though:

* It can be hard to understand the reason for your growth
Unless it's an explosively popular new product line!

* Sometimes you grow the business because you are riding on the back of a popularity wave, external incentives, or you are have organic viral growth power!

A tourism destination that is suddenly cool, government incentives to renovate your home, or you are Tesla!

* If we hadn't of cut spending, would we have grown more?
FOMO is strong in advertising!
Could you have accelerated capture of market share during overall market growth?

* Budgets are power in corporations! The bigger your budget, the more power you have! There are not many marketing managers that will want to admit to needing less budget!

The more budget you have, the more important you are!
The search for people who never get Covid
So posts the user on a social media site using their smart device or computer, which required incredible amounts fossil fuels to produce, manufacture, and distribute, while using electricity which globally is also predominantly generated via fossil fuels.
Also, Carmack's notes: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ruv739914jzquue/connect2021.txt?dl...
Thank god for organizations like IA and EFF. We are so lucky. Consider donating!
> Overall, I think PWA Builder is off to a good start, but they need a lot more work to be viable.

I disagree. Apple needs to improve their support for PWAs, so that PWABuilder becomes obsolete.
Did you finish reading it?
>The Rev. Herbert Daughtry, a longtime pastor in New York, once was addicted to heroin and served time. He's convinced that black leaders who embraced the drug war did serious harm to the community, but says a lot of African-Americans were desperate for ways to make their neighborhoods safe again. "If you're the victim, then you don't want to hear anything about treatment, just, 'Get this guy off the street.' "

Makes sense to me
My guess would be that the downvotes are coming from libertarians who don't like government intervention.
MS has been slowly prepping Windows on ARM to be viable as "Enterprise" device and for that it needs owner-controlled Platform Keys (to comply with their own requirements for enterprise offerings)
Fortunately my babies have survived much better than my houseplants. My wife and I managed to kill a succulent arrangement by underwatering it.
In the case of monthly bills and related things, you authorize them once. Don't know what that looks like at the backend and what controls there are but utility companies and the like can absolutely debit money on an ongoing basis.
I would recommend watching the docudrama 'Too Big to Fail'
New MacBook Pros have slower WiFi capabilities than Intel models
Yes, cool, didn’t know. Reminds me of how some plants move water from deep in the soil up the roots at night — to hydrate the soil around the dry roots near ground level for when the day comes
The Hesston Steam Museum has a Shay Geared Locomotive, and I've always looked at those bevel gears out in the open, and wondered what OSHA would say about it, but compared to logging, it's probably the least of the worries.
Latin's a dead language; we can't submit pull-requests.

We sort of can: https://latin.stackexchange.com/questions/57/what-is-the-pro...
Can I connect to Duckdb with a sql ide? E.g. dbeaver?
How does the statement "the vast majority of people who own ipads are fine with needing to log into their device" convince those who do not, and are not?
When privacy is outlawed only outlaws will have privacy.
It is astoundingly difficult to get collapsing gel sheets, and I imagine that it has something to do with Purple existing.

I looked into buying just the sheets or a topper after returning the one I trialed. I really enjoyed the feel of it, but not to the tune of $2000(!) for a twin(!!!).
Ripple: The World’s Most Advanced High-Yield Thermonuclear Weapon Design
Based on his prior views on sterilization it just taints the whole subject too much even if he agrees with a mainstream consensus or something. I just will exclude his analysis, especially since he has an additional history of admiting like pervasive ulterior motives in tons of his content (like the "anti" neoreactionary FAQ https://twitter.com/ArsonAtDennys/status/1362153191102677001)
In the clinical trial underlying the decision there were ZERO severe covid cases or deaths in vaccinated or unvaccinated 5-11 kids. There were a grand total of 19 covid cases altogether out of 1,450 treatment and 736 control groups, over 6 months.

What exactly is the claimed health benefit?!

"The evaluable efficacy population included 1,450 participants randomized to BNT162b2 and 736 participants randomized to placebo."

"All cases of COVID-19 occurred in children without prior history of infection. None of these cases met the criteria for severe infection. Most of the cases occurred in July-August 2021. Comorbidities at baseline (including obesity) were present in total of 20.1% of cases"

https://www.fda.gov/media/153447/download
I had no idea leaded fuel was still used anywhere
> I don’t know that if we weren’t investing so much in this, that would happen or that it would happen as quickly, or that it would happen in the same way

This, at least, I can completely agree with. I’m happy that someone is expending so much effort to make what I want a reality. It’s just a bit unfortunate that it is Facebook.
Are you thinking that, there isn't a reason for people to do this unless it is for illegal purposes? I can think of plenty of good use cases like buying something from ebay from some skecthy seller ...lol
Migrate away from commercial database products to commercial cloud products. Why give away your money when you can give away your data too?
Should authorize and mandate it for dead people too.
The second link addresses what should be done instead. It's not entirely satisfying as there isn't yet consensus for a replacement, if such a thing is even possible.
Omitted "An Investigation Into..." because of length limits (OP title is 10 chars over).

A related HN thread is the Alex Wellerstein one from a few hours ago, which briefly mentioned RIPPLE/Ripple:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29037556 ("The untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb")
Interesting! If you don't mind me asking, what is your thought process for investing in foreign companies (assuming you don't live in Africa)? Besides the S&P 500, I have always felt a little uncomfortable investing in any company that's not within a 60 (-ish) minute drive. I feel too divorced from reality and the physical process of buying and selling goods when they're far away.
The EU of course, there are international agreements, frameworks and even extraditions for such scenarios.If the US can extradite Ukrainians for hosting a torrent tracker, surely the US would extradite people refusing to follow EU law and violate user privacy and consent (joking of course, that would never happen).
Indeed, as closest coalition is most likely to result in closest policies desired.

It leads to abominations of platform planks, but in our race to the bottom as least you get close to what you think you want.
I went and checked out mattresses at our local "Mattress Firm" chain of stores. They mostly had traditional mattresses like the "Simmons Beautyrest Achiever Firm" that I was replacing. I bought it in 2001 (please don't judge me) with a bonus check and felt pretty cool spending over a thousand dollars on a mattress after years of $50 futons.

I ended up taking a chance and went with an online purchase Leesa Hybrid [1] mattress that combines foam and pocket springs. I am mainly a side sleeper and the mattress feels really, really good. In fact, I think I might take a nap right now!

[1] https://www.leesa.com/products/leesa-hybrid-mattress
>He lies to governments, he lies to users, he lies to advertisers, he lies to tech journalists

There's essentially no such thing as a CEO that is truthful, but serious question - what are you referring to specifically here, do you have any proof of these claims?

Lying to governments (Congress at least) is, typically, a criminal offense. Lying to users and advertisers would result in loss of revenue. Lying to journalists will get you exposed by said journalists upon discovery of the lies.
Yea. I was responding to the suggestions that below the screen might be an acceptable alternative.

The XPS camera is still bad but the angle is fixed at least.
Interestingly, my dogs social distance when one of them gets sprayed by a skunk.
It seems theoretically possible for signal to not know the original sender nor the final recipient e.g. if they use their central servers as a tor middleman (I forget the real node type name)
> the soil should be aligned to where you're growing.

What does it mean to align soil?
How might spherical harmonics be relevant for quantum computing? I’m on the hunt for visualizations. (Not to be confused with the Bloch Sphere!)
I interviewed with their ops team there and turned it down. Just had a bad smell. I think they hire 'SRE' that can write good leet code. The problem with those folks for ops is that they over engineer complex solutions, and then completely forget the simple but very important stuff. I wish them luck in getting it back together.
The problem is that there's no unleaded fuel that works as full replacement for the low-lead AVGAS, to the point that there are airports where using MOGAS could be considered deliberately inviting disaster. As far as I know, unleaded avgas is quite hot topic in aviation fuel research, but when optimizing for "planes not falling from the air" speed of change can be sometimes slow.

Personally, I can't wait for when we get unleaded replacements for all leaded fuels and can just ban leaded.
While the methods described don't seem realistic for the average residential lawn (e.g. My own), this was still entertaining. Thanks for for sharing
> The demo should show the same fingerprint

I get a different fingerprint every time on refresh.

Brave Version 1.31.87 Chromium: 95.0.4638.54 (Official Build) (64-bit) with uBlock Origin.
That's a salient point.

At the same time, the engineering and domain knowledge expertise required to pull this off is undeniably impressive.

This takes the ORM "compatibility promise" into new territory, maybe even a new stratosphere. Imagine if someone (or company) starts a comparable open-source translation extension layer targeting Postgres as the backend. That would be interesting!

Maybe start with the easier case of SQLite->Pg.
https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/default.htm
I don't see anything that's slower.
You weren't kidding, the Chinese literally built casinos in Sihanoukville. Imagine Vegas on a small village. Oh wait, that's exactly what happened in Las Vegas (a city found by a railroad) in 1931 when Nevada legalized gambling and the Hoover dam was under construction next door. And then again in 1951 when the US government started literally detonating nukes so close you could watch the mushroom cloud!
The entire justice system is a "think of the children" argument. I do not in fact find "high user accountability" "refreshing" any more than I would find the necessity of defending myself if robbery were legalized "refreshing".

Yet again: I would like to see a defense of cryptocurrency that doesn't require me as a precondition to subscribe to the policy positions of the Mises Institute.
How often should houseplants be fertilized? Is miracle grow box accurate or do they tell you to use more than you need to get you to use more?
Is an interesting topic and seems to have an interesting history, is there any good books on the topic? Something less academic and dry than I’d expect a floating point book to be but more all encompassing and accessible?
Unfortunately the pandemic is a social/collective problem and given the systematic disinvestment in quality public education, your personal ability to filter disinformation is nowhere near universally applicable.
Another problem is, IIRC, that many replacements for leaded fuels have evaporation & performance issues at lower pressures that don't matter in a car but can be critical in airplane (it's even worse with ethanol additives, IIRC).
> Most other differences seem to be too weakly correlated with genes we've identified to result in such a stark change to society.

These findings were always driven more by politics than science.
Honestly, I think the problem is just that SQL isn't a particularly great language. This is an example of where the syntax and semantics are coupled so tightly that it's just gonna be confusing no matter what you do. My vote would be to not even bother with a "literate" kind of language.
Nobody forces you to. The software is available under the Apache 2.0 license.

https://babelfishpg.org/blog/releases/2021/10/babelfish-laun...
Wow it’s open source too!!
No the solution is functioning government. Government can tomorrow make encryption illegal. Why does everyone think the solution is technical when it's a cultural problem? The government has big guns and will use them to enforce the law.
"Do you have no other way of investigating these criminals?"

"Could you not put an officer out to surveille them?",

Your argument kind of falls on itself there --> We can surveil them in person, but not digitally?

Why?

I think the tech crowd has this wrong.

The issue - as you have indicated - is not 'By What Means To Surveil'.

The issues are: Legitimacy, Proportionality, Oversight.

Messages, tech, sign language, in person, phones or messaging pigeons, the issue remains the same:

Is there a legitimate reason for access?

Is the intervention proportional to the probability of cause, the ostensible crime, the risk to other citizens and the public good?

Is there authoritative Judicial oversight of the surveillance, and, is there sufficient Congressional oversight of the legality of the program?

Those are the questions.

Should police be able to tap Signal (or anything else) for data on anyone they want, for whatever they want, willy nilly without a Warrant or oversight?

Definitely not.

Should Apple be scanning content for crimes?

Probably not, but that's slightly more complicated.

Should the police be able to access the Signal messages of someone they apprehended at a murder scene wherein other suspects fled the scene, and are therefore likely the suspects accomplices?

Likely yes. Or at lest, most people would agree with it both in the pragmatic sense, and also the Constitutional sense.

Should the FBI be able to, with special permission of a Federal Judge, watch all cell tower transactions in 5x5 mile grid grid, while there's a literal manhunt on for literal terrorists during a literal state of emergency?

Probably yes again, it's hard because the proportionality and tactics are rare and unique.

The technology is a secondary issue.
> the fan never turned off

I think you meant never turned on
Seems to be missing quite a bit.

https://www.babelfishpg.org/docs/usage/limitations-of-babelf...
From the descriptions you gave, I did not expect most of those links to end up being "The ACLU harmlessly addresses a trans issue in passing."

I think there's an argument to be made for the ACLU becoming increasingly performative, with catchy Twitter slogans edging out the real work, but this isn't it.
Spherical harmonics are a useful mathematical basis set for eigenfunctions of a Schrodinger equation describing a hydrogen atom like system.

There's nothing particularly special about them, and they fail to be a good basis set for solutions of other types of quantum systems. Conversely, they can be useful for non-quantum systems - any sort of wave equation in a sphere.

It's not an intrinsically quantum mechanical thing.
Actually the word 'attack' comes from the expression that gave rise to the logical fallacy 'attacking a straw man.' [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
True, but there will be very few documents you can read or conversations you can participate in with only a few hundred words in a natural language.

The steep learning curve of most natural languages means it takes months before I can read or say anything nontrivial.
Why are societal defaults problematic? Providing clear guidance for young people is a good thing.
Why should they discount battery weight from the limit given that you do not lose that weight and thus it counts for all the reason weight limits are involved?
Having spent all of 20 minutes inside one of these apartments, they're not at all comparable. It'd be more akin to the popular "urban 1 bedroom" apartments I see in various places (including Seattle, where I am) that feature windowless bedrooms.

This new building is a kafkaesque study in cramming sardines into 5'x5' boxes.
If identity is about appearance, that would seem to admit fashion for consideration.
I am out of the loop on this one. What has the ACLU become today, and why is the EFF growing questionable?
Nuclear power stations usually contain multiple reactorsand afaik there's no limit on how any of them you can have. So a lot less than 5000 locations.

> The focus should be on decommissioning existing reactors so that the harm is limited when society eventually falls apart, to give a chance for future generations.

And replace them with what? Energy instability sure as hell won't help current or future generations.
> I suppose you can get mad at God

Do you think God has sovereign immunity?
Talking with people is kind of most of the job though.
Given that he is donating $200 million towards its construction, presumably he spent a substantial amount of money on getting qualified people to design it. It's not like he's short on money.
I draw the line at Facebook/Meta, a company that is known to maximize user engagement despite knowing the negative consequence it can have.
Presumably the GP meant orbitals.
who you are before you get elected and after are not the same. never forget that.
Sure. Interoperability between Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp.