skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just taken a brief look at that link. It's no wonder Wikileaks doesn't endear itself to many.

That said, I suppose in reality it's just a more in-your-face presentation of what's already in many organic chemistry textbook in any number of libraries.

Frankly, I reckon there's little that can be done to stop the illicit manufacture of these drugs for the logical reason that they're such simple molecules. Many are just minor variations on the basic d-enantiomer (dexamphetamine) which essentially is only a benzene ring with a single branch containing a CH3 methyl and a NH2 amine group. So it stands to reason that there are many comparatively simple ways to synthesize them and that more are likely to be found. Moreover, the more precursors there are, the harder it becomes to ban them all, as eventually we'll hit the point where certain precursors are too ubiquitous and or important to ban.

It seems to me that if we're to take harm minimization seriously then we need to take a more sophisticated approach. For staters, we need much more efficient public health measures to detect and separate out genuine self-medicatiors from the partygoers who take illicit drugs.

As we know, these sympathomimetic amines have been prescribed by the medical profession for decades for certain depressive illnesses, ADHD, etc., but because of their their potential for abuse - not to mention certain moralistic attitudes among many politicians - these drugs have a horrible stigma attached to them and that has stopped many undiagnosed people from being prescribed them legally. The consequence is that many of them self-medicate with illegal drugs and the outcomes are often dire.

I think that taking a serious approach to medicalizing the problem would help very significantly. This would also include distinguishing the amines from the opiates. Whilst the medical profession understands fundamental difference between these two classes of drugs, public policy often doesn't and the drug problem ends up as an amorphous mess that becomes even harder to sort out than it otherwise would have been.

Therefore, there needs to be a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding amongst the general community to the effect that someone who turns to illicit amines is likely doing so for fundamentally different reasons to another who has turned to opiates. A more sophisticated approach to the drug problem would lead to better outcomes for not only those addicted to drugs but also for society in general.
I fondly remember Joe Armstrong, who was a good friend.

However, not having a mathematical foundation has been a

severe limitation for Erlang.

The Erlang community is trying to dig its way out with

modifications and extensions. Still have a long way to go.

Of course, no Actors framework is perfect.

Many important implementations have been done Erlang.

Also, significant Erlang projects are ongoing to good effect.
This isn't the first time Morris Chang said this, even when he was still the CEO of TSMC.

> I was under the impression the idea is to supplement the current supply chain, not replace it completely.

To over simplify the problem and answer. There are lots of synergy having production all in the same place. From cost benefits, human resources, operation, and capacity planning. Breaking down these benefits will mean cost increase regardless the Fab is in US or not. You also need to factor in other things like testing and packaging. The whole supply chain, not just the foundry.

Some of them aren't even solvable with Tax Breaks. I still think TSMC should stick to Taiwan and not build Fabs in US.

But then this is currently done because of politics and National security. I would not be surprised if Apple Fab with Intel some time in 2025 - 2030. Just like how Apple helped TSMC, they will also fund Intel's Custom Foundry to a new level.
Good now reduce the budget of the DEA by 30k * 1000 percent

It would be a start
I wasn't updated on the terminology change, apparently. How unfair to "boomers" to be lumped in with the most coddled and swaddled and useless children to ever inherit the earth.
Coursera has a free course on gamification - the materials are easy to review.

IMO gamification is

1. Overused and

2. Relies on rewards to incentivize behavior.

Using rewards kills/diminishes intrinsic motivation - see Alfie Kohn’s book Punished by Rewards.

Giving a gold star for good behavior will piss off the child who acts good but is not noticed and doesn’t get the star and make them act good only when the teacher is watching.

Leaderboards pit users against each other and give a momentary ego boost.

Measuring behavior to build trust and allow more responsibility is another matter - discourse does that successfully.
> No, this would be an Oculus-specific account.

This is not stated anywhere. I don't see why Facebook couldn't create a Meta SSO that you can use for Facebook and/or Oculus and call it "job done". For them it's a win/win. Most people would choose to "migrate" their Facebook login to Meta. Those annoyed by this could just create a Meta account. Notably there's no mention of whether you'll need to use your real name for logging into Oculus as you do with Facebook. My bet is: probably.
He only ditched the money initially. He had more than 20 robberies and the article makes it sound like he was keeping the money from the middle onwards.
"Fair" is so subjective as to be meaningless. What is the property worth to you?
What exactly does "native" mean on BSD here? In my experience, that usually just means something that is written in C, uses BSD make, uses the BSD license, and follows some patterns used in the BSD libc. Which seems to apply to very little popular desktop software including Firefox and all other web browsers.

BSD users seem to be fine with running ports though, which include Firefox, D-Bus and Wayland.
Having dual charging methods is pretty great if you’ve got a Thunderbolt/USB-C hub/monitor that is capable of USB-PD. It means you can leave your brick and MagSafe cable in your bag and let your hub/monitor charge while you’re at your desk.
That is super super interesting, thank you!
No. Even if there was something, Xorg is open source and can be made to work with anything, it isn't like code is set in stone.
If your facebook account gets banned for some reason, you would lose your entire paid game library and would not be able to use the hardware you spent your cash on.
“ China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, generates one thousand gigawatts of coal power domestically, accounting for over half of the globe's total and more than four times that of the second- and third-largest users (India)”

Sounds like a big problem
They should have had 2 USB-A sockets. Or at the very least 1.

Many new external devices people use with MBPs still tend to come with USB-A. E.g. quality keyboards and mice. And then there's all of those very random and sometimes very useful devices from the past ~20 years that we all have around.
They're not the majority. But I do wonder, are they even the plurality if you normalize to electoral college votes? I suspect yes, but possibly not.
How does security work with this? It looks like the actors can talk to each other over the network, but I don't see any means of authentication.
It still sucks, but there is no obligation for your real name and it shouldn’t be that hard find an anonymous payment method.
A Case Study in Monetizing Pirated Content: MangaOwl and Chessmoba.us
Yeah, I got taken in by the 1000 vs 500 nits thing. I was expecting this display to be brighter (which would be great for use in bright environments), but, no, it's the same as my old mb pro. Way faster tho!
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Compared to USB-C, Magsafe is safer against tripping, easier to plug in, charges faster, and their customers explicitly asked for it. If you want to use USB-C instead though, you can... knock yourself out.
China's per capita emissions are lower than the developed world [1], and most of India lives in absolute poverty.

Are you advocating for each country receiving the exact same emissions cap, disregarding population? Or do you think its fair for billions of people to remain in absolute poverty, while a few hundred million in the developed world pollute four times more than their fair share?

[1] Not to mention that much of the developed world's pollution is outsourced to China. Where do you think all the consumer goods you use are made?
Read it again. I'm saying your concern of supply chain attacks on secure-boot and TPM are like worrying about the ash on your shirt while your house burns down. It's far easier to pwn a system with pre-boot injections on a system without signatures than one with them. Don't like where the signatures come from? Fine. That doesn't make the system have some mysterious backdoor or do whatever sensational magic someone told you it does.
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. It's a tedious internet genre that degrades the forum and in the end just burns it to a crisp. We're trying to stave that off here, if possible (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...).

I'm sure you can make your substantive points thoughtfully—can you please do that instead of name-calling and fulminating?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I just had to ask you about this not that many posts ago. If you wouldn't mind reviewing the site guidelines and taking the intended spirit of this site more to heart, we'd appreciate it. You're welcome here, and we don't need you to change your views, but we do need you to stick to the rules.
> No windows? Sunlight alarms exist. They're great. Modern AC is also great.

From an economic standpoint, why spend money on an inferior substitute when you can get the real thing for free?!
We’re talking about the impact on Apple here and the large majority of their income will come from developers that are in the 30% tier.

Whether it’s another App Store or a link either way will affect Apple’s take through the App Store.
Yep so basically "it seems credible he did it" but it also "seems credible US agents fabricated it". So which do you think it is more likely?
Build Qualia Infrastructure
Mark wants to make it clear this is his universe. He read Ready Player One and decided playing a virtual god would be fun.
There is no "us" when we have this level of income inequality and workers are treated like dirt. You have to be a fool now to think your company actually cares about you.
It's a bit more complicated than that, at least if I'm understanding the write-up correctly. The underlying trick is that they reduced the amount of yUSDVault shares by redeeming most of them, then doubled the value of each by gifting more of the underlying yUSD to the contract. This in itself didn't conjure anything from nothing - each yUSDVault share was genuinely worth double the yUSD as before. The trouble is that due to some fundamental design flaws in C.R.E.A.M., this meant that a much larger Cream USD holding in one account and an offsetting debt in a second were now instantly worth double what they were before. The debt was then worth more than the collateral and could just be walked away from, whilst the other account had a profit which could be liquidated to wipe out C.R.E.A.M's reserves. Actually exploiting this in practice seems to have involved a whole bunch of additional fiddly details and transactions.
I can recommend the typewise keyboard. The keys are hexagonal and you use gestures to delete, restore and uppercase letters. Therefore you have bigger keys for the same amount of screen space. It's not QWERTY, but the keys are in the region of their QWERTY location (i.e. not something totally different like dvorak). I needed some time to get used to it, but I really like it and don't want to go back.

Edit: rephrasing for clairity
Direct link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_eXSzyZudM
Besides obvious gripes like price these seems pretty perfect in the Verge's eyes, speed, battery life, good screen and keyboard.One interesting sore spot is gaming.

These have good GPUs but poor gaming performance. They perform as good as the best for work related tasks but closer to midrange AMD/Nvidia products.

I wonder if this is a "if they build it they will come" and more games will be optimized for these chips? Obviously Apple also made some design decisions in focusing on "pro" work rather than gaming too.
That sounds like less need for apple brand chargers, which is good for lifetime ownership
Ask HN: Anything to improve DX of K8s kubectl?
I've been wondering if there is a simple fix for k8s unintuitive dx. A couple of things I find more difficult than should be:

- Deploy a pod, some controller doesn't agree. Finding out the controller is a bit more difficult (why aren't the controller logs aggregated and share a common saga id/key). I understand the evented nature of k8s with its controllers, but still it makes it very hard to trace and debug.
- Why is it so hard to see _everything_ that is in a namespace.
- Why isn't the YAML typed and so elaborate. Or why can't we prefer a typed JS json/json5 since the actual objects are JS and adhere to a spec?
- why are there specs in specs in the templates and templates?
- Why is it `kubctl (nothing here) logs` and `kubectl get pods`
- Deleting a pod and patching the finalizers?

I know this complexity is somehow needed but it would be nice if the 80% would be easy and the 20% would be possible. When it works it is fine. But when it doesn't its an absolute pain.

Also 80% of my time goes in the same repetitive tasks. Ideas are welcome!
More education of how the US government works is what's in order here.

People look at everything trump did and think "why can't Biden do the same, but for good?" and the problem is, the government is built to be torn down, not built up.

Biden has no power to take climate action. The EPA doesn't have the ability to just subsidize solar panels or enact taxes on CO2 emissions. They've actually tried to do that for CO2 and that was struck down by the supreme court. [1]

That leaves congressional action to force climate action and, unfortunately we have a 50/50 split in the senate with 2 democrat senators that are weak on climate issues. (50 republican senators that will not support any climate action).

Once you realize this, you understand the solution is voting for democrats to the senate in 2022/2024 so those 2 holdouts don't matter as much. Move the balance of the senate by 2 more democrat senators and you might see some climate action.

Stop being disappointed in biden for not doing what he can't do. Start being mad at the 2 democrat senators and the 50 republican senators who stand in the way.

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_Air_Regulatory_Group_v...
Thanks for that! I've always just mentally bracketed liquamen as fancy garum. Nice to know the actual distinction.
The August attack (1) seems to be a real hack, exploiting bugs in the code.

This current attack sounds more like market manipulation, but all bundled up in a single transaction. I can't find the details, but in the real financial world, there's a reliance on multiple competing arbitrageurs who make it hard to move the market much in big securities. In an automated system, that can all happen instantly.

1. https://halborn.com/explained-the-cream-finance-hack-august-...
That's how lots of science works. Especially science involving the past, or science very far away.

Even if we do create a "cell" (whatever that means), it will only give us a possible explanation of how it happened on Earth. It will shrink the possible probabilities of all other methods, such as Aliens engineering us, but we cannot reduce all probabilities to zero... without a time machine.

Unfortunately we live in a world where even 100% definite in-your-face proof will not convince a frighteningly large %age of humanity.

IMHO claiming everything is "still a guess" shows a lack of understanding of science. I'm not judging, because I can't tell what you do and don't know from just three sentences. But it kinda sounds like it.
I applaud you for trying to provide for your parents. I used to do the same, I even gave my dad a lump sum which allowed him to buy an apartment.

Nowadays, I try to ask if he needs money before sending money.
Gaming on Macs has always been second class.
That could be an interesting talk.

I'll watch it later.
Has angst always been justification for unprofessionalism, or is this new?
>You can use eero secure+, which will intercept dns requests at the gateway to prevent devices and apps from bypassing the set dns servers.

I'm not familiar with eero secure+, but why would I want to pay for something like that, when a single firewall egress[0] rule can block outbound DNS requests that come from sources other than the "set dns servers"?

Note that I'm not trying to denigrate eero secure+, I don't know anything about it except that it's some sort of cloud-based (read: someone else's servers) security application.

I'm merely pointing out that limiting outbound DNS requests to specific hosts is trivial.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egress_filtering
Errors like this will happen. Clearly the bigger story is the need for better mental health services in colleges and beyond. RIP, Mared.
thats essentially why "cryptographic" psuedo random number generators are things, no?
Meta's pulling out for a bit while it finds a bigger strap on.
Rich Salz to OpenSSL: Please change your mind
> Just wanna collect em all.

As another BC owner I approve of that message.

We have a young male and we’ve also noticed the difference in behavior compared to their female counterparts, the latter seem to be following more “to the letter” the behavior usually associated with a BC.
Why would any rational actor trust Assange now? He's shown himself to be a grand standing sociopath. It's also been made plain he's had and has an axe to grind against Western governments. He's a fellow traveller with Russian intelligence if not an unwitting asset (to be charitable).

Who would believe anything he has to say? Based on WikiLeaks' history under his direction no one could look at a WikiLeaks story and think they were getting any unvarnished truth. They could be sure they'd get posts disparaging or attacking Western governments...and that's about it.
That "legacy video port" supports cable runs of lengths far greater than USB-C, making it way the hell more useful for lots of use-cases. Plus most of the rest of the computing world still ships HDMI, so "I can't plug in to this" is mostly a Mac problem, and only solved well at places that are Mac-only or Mac-mostly—everywhere else, you better tote your stupid, expensive dongles around with you.

Basically, Apple's been pushing USBC-only for over half a decade now, and you can still plug directly in to 99% of video devices in the wild with HDMI, and only 10% (even that much? Probably more like 1-2%, because so many video displays are TVs) with USB-C, without resorting to an adapter or special cable that (again) users of most other brands don't need. It's not "legacy", it's "not that weird crap that only Mac users need".
I don't trust anyone, especially boot drives that have been exposed to the internet. That's why I would like a system of trust between my hardware components until the OS takes over. Why do you trust your boot drive?
> All of these would get the case thrown out, under normal circumstances, in the UK just as well as in the US.

Depends on how powerful the people were that you pissed off, unfortunately.
Got my 16in M1 Max today. One thing I didn't expect was how good the speakers are. Compared to my mid 2015 MacBookPro these sound amazing.
I have had great experiences over the past two years with the "Chat" box in Zoom (where introverts have the power to asynchronously "talk over" the blowhard extrovert!). And with the "Raise Hand" option in Microsoft Teams (which feels like less of an escalation than literally raising your hand in a physical meeting).

As someone who is accustomed to getting steamrolled in office meetings, the past two years have been life-changing. I actually feel like a member of a team for the first time in my career.
I'm picturing the towel people use to dry there hands suddenly used ALSO to dry butts.
A hack requires three things:

1. Someone locking themselves in a dark (usually smoky) room with someone in a button down shirt (with rolled up sleeves) standing over their shoulder.

2. Green text on a black background

3. The words "I'm in" yelled at some point.

Doesn't sound like any of that happened here.
I just watched his Hammock-driven development talk and it is excellent.
> zuckerberginess

Zuckiness, if you will.
> It's not "incredibly complex".

lol...have you ever given any thought whatsoever to performing a similar exploit? If you have, you wouldn't be brushing this off so nonchalantly
I’m holding out. Even if it means waiting several years before getting into VR or AR.
Third-class, now that Proton isn't supported...
"Citing lack of evidence."

How about the case of Posada Carriles, a terrorist and CIA operative that blew up 73 people on Cubana de Aviación Flight 455, was there also lack of evidence?

Do you believe that USA is fair and impartial when it comes to international affairs? If USA blatantly violates international law it claims to uphold, do we have rule of law?

"your country's judicial system is flawed... This does not mean the country is not governed by law."

Thats exactly what it means, at some point the system is so flawed you are not governed by law.

We could debate how flawed it is, but it seems to be getting worse.

"For the first time, the United States fell out of the top 20 countries for adherence to the rule of law in an index compiled by the World Justice Project."
No, intent is not law. You can’t make a stock trade, lose money, and then sue the counter party because your intent was to make money

Intent is certainly a big part of law.

When examining classic contracts, a judge will try to also deem intent.

Contracts have been thrown out, interpreted by intent of parties.

An example, are the comments in the source code for this smart contract? Did everyone have opportunity to see them?

It could affect a court battle...
> No, this would be an Oculus-specific account.

Hmm, the statements you posted don’t quite say that.

I guess it’s still possible that users could be required to register a “meta” account which is separate to your personal Facebook account, although you can sign into your personal Facebook account with your meta account via single sign on. I think this would technically meet their wording while also not fulfilling the spirit of what everyone wants.

For instance, you can have a Google account that isn’t linked to your personal Gmail account, because not everyone wants their search history linked to their email - just change Google to Meta, Gmail to Facebook and search history to social media.
If it's true that solar is cheaper than coal, how is it possible that countries are reluctant to move away from coal?

Either countries and companies like to burn money. Or the statement that solar is cheaper than coal is deceptive.

Plunging Prices Mean Building New Renewable Energy Is Cheaper Than Running Existing Coal

https://www.forbes.com/sites/energyinnovation/2018/12/03/plu...
So the purpose of this forum is for news and discussion on breaching security systems?