skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lumini T portable USB spectrometer
The keyword is malicious, which does not lend nicely to be deconstructed by reductionism.

If the intent of the push was to damage downstream users of the software then it is malicious towards them.
Pick a site and use their list.

I.e. IMDb, trakt.tv, rotten tomatoes etc.
They also sent a cease and desist to one of the folks making fun of them on twitter - for making fun of them, on twitter. [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/molly0xfff/status/1479974074986209286?s=...
It is a good thing, that slowly other editors gain support for org files. I've seen them at least highlighted in VS code recently, when someone else shared their screen, even if that is but a tiny fraction of what support for org files can mean.
I see no reason they couldn’t change the content rather than just delete it. In fact the article shows an example of exactly that in practice.

Sure you can back up an image, but the backup is worth the same as a copy of the NFT: zip. You now own a pointer on the blockchain to nothing and a jpeg on your disk. I’ve got a lot of that going on already with zero expenditure.
He added keyboard support but seemed to have broke functionality, even after cache clearing.
>>how do you get that? How do you pay for it? Taxes.

There are any number of Public Finance theories that do not require individuals to pay taxes, when talking about taxes most infer income based taxation, there are many ways to fund a limited "night watchmen" state that do not involve income based taxation, and some that do not even involve taxation at all.

>>But that's not all, what about all the public infrastructure like roads, without which you cannot have a functioning society?

ahh the who will build the roads meme... I can assure you a functioning society with roads is possible with out the government funding said roads. Infact based on the condition of most roads I would much rather someone else take that over. Roads are often given the LEAST resources by government because it is the lever government always pull to justify more taxes, thus they will NEVER actual fully maintain the roads because then they would lose their on going coercion to extract every growing amounts of money from the public.

I would encourage you to really look at where the money in your local government goes, see what percent is taken up by road maintenance. I think the results of your inquiry would be illuminating

>who decides on what is more important, the police or the fire department?

I would prefer those services be billed monthly via user fees just like my water, sewer, trash, and even storm drainage is by the local government.

>>If they are good enough to be members of the society

I never said they should not have the right to vote in local elections, you made that assumption based on me challenging your position on using taxation as rational for who has or does not have the right to vote.
I guess it prevents them from participating in the replies to your tweets, so it prevents your access to the parent’s audience. A tweet is kind of like a stage, you might have a million followers, everyone who replies is also seen by your audience. Blocking is like preventing people from getting up on your stage.
Non-free drivers don't get added to the kernel just for fun. They're there because hardware won't work right without them. So if you have such hardware, then running an entirely free distribution will make your system objectively worse, and if you don't, then the non-free drivers weren't getting loaded anyway, so running an entirely free distribution has no effect whatsoever.
New EU Nuclear Plants Need $568B Investment, Breton Says
Interesting. Has anyone used this for coding?
Jumping through a bastion host.
Or just straight-up stolen art. For every one artist selling NFTs of their own art, there are easily five NFTs sold by fraudsters misrepresenting themselves to have to right to do so.
Dogs like to drink from toilet bowls. I've owned lots of dogs and it has never been an issue aside from one dog as a kid and we just accepted it
I was referring to human memory as well.
From the point of view of GH the license is irrelevant, what they see is that a project they host is in practice being use to distribute malware.
I wrote Accelerando from 1998-2004. That's a third of a lifetime ago. It's normal to slow down as you grow older!
The UK Gov site has an RSS feed for every other countries travel requirements. Its insane how open/easy it is to subscribe to a ordered relevant collection of information.

I'd argue that accessible sites are realising its benefits.
The person you're replying to has multiple sources to defend their comment. It's not a big secret that antidepressants are overprescribed and extremely easy to obtain. Sure, they have their uses and may be life saving to some, but their use should also be questioned from time to time.
I don’t know. Personally, I don’t think that anyone should be referred to as a “random nobody”, whether they be Twitter users or not.
Both your examples mention single digits hours, ie very small amount of money.

The problems tend to happen if there's larger amounts of money involved. So it's important as a contractor not to enable a situation where they owe you a lot of money, especially if you have no leverage.
That may be true for personal use, but not necessarily true for business related use. That's because the former case is limited to users who want to use the product precisely because of its features. In the latter case, users are required to use the product as part of their job. Given that, the ideal case would be to not introduce features that lead to a negative user experience.
Thanks!

To OC: Skimming the paper, I think a lot of the “witnessing” is in the form of numerical data.
Isn’t that kind of nonsensical reasoning? The viruses evolved how they evolved. I don’t see how the decade they emerged in makes a difference?
It didn’t cause a pandemic because of the properties of the virus. Not because of the “decade”
> Moreover, the serious cryptographers working on anything related to blockchains have more or less stopped talking about the permissionless setting (where Bitcoin, Ethereum, and basically all of the popular blockchains in use are) because security is too hard to define in a meaningful way.

This is untrue, I see far more work on the permissionless setting (including formalizing definitions) than on the permissioned setting on ePrint. This includes respected cryptographers Like Elaine Shi, Rafael Pass, Silvio Micali, Andrew Miller, Aggelos Kiayas, and more.

> Meanwhile, academic and (non-blockchain) industry researchers have been pushing the state of the art in every subfield within cryptography, ZKPs included. Big companies have been deploying MPC as a means of addressing privacy concerns and regulation, and the cryptographers working on that (full disclosure: I am one of them) have been pretty active in publishing their work

While cryptography is certainly a much bigger than zkps, it is also absolutely true that, for the metric of “deployable protocols”, the pace of zkp innovation has far outstripped the pace of MPC innovation over the past few years. I say this as a cryptographer with a bunch of non-zkSNARK papers; my general-purpose zkSNARK work has been deployed, adopted, and obsoleted in the span of ~2yrs, all while my MPC work in the same span hasn’t inched towards deployment (despite being sufficiently practical for deployment), and follow up work has provided only marginal improvements.

> Beyond the ZCash and a few other groups with serious cryptographers the blockchain space is a desert in terms of interesting cryptography.

That’s incorrect. Beyond ZKPs, there’s been blockchain-inspired-and-funded work on Verifiable Delay Functions, threshold signatures, signature aggregation, anonymous gossip networks, fuzzy variants of PIR, functional commitment schemes, set accumulators, coding theory, and more.
You Can't Sit on the Sidelines and Become a Philosopher (2014)
Nice interactives. The framing seems flawed since all preference is referred to as a "bias".

> Small individual bias can lead to large collective bias.

There are many reasons people might want to live near some other people who are similar to themselves. Some are purely practical, like language and food. It is not clear how much of the total preference is rooted in these sorts of practical realities as opposed to "bias" that would not exist in an ideal world. Referring to all preferences as biases strikes me as sloppy.
That's amazing. I was wondering how they did that. Every new thing I learn about this machine blows me away.
Additionally they offload tons of stuff to native code out of process.
It’s designed to see things very very far away, which are all severely redshifted. It’s mostly an infrared camera. In the human visual range of light frequencies, is camera sensors only go up to orange.

So no, it can’t detect a blue whale… ;-)
> In the case of quitting your job, I'm not sure it applies since what you really want to do is to leave. If you have a good relationship with your team and company, by all means be generous with your time. Otherwise, I don't think you'll get much value out of being overly considerate of your old company.

The # of times I've encountered people from my past is staggering.

No reason to needlessly anger people, especially if leaving a good impression just takes a wee bit more effort.
why this edition specifically?
wishes aren’t magic. There's a difference, morally, between doing someone harm and a desire for someone to be harmed.
Serotonin is only a small part of what it does. It can impact everything from NMDA to opioid receptors.

It’s not interchangeable with SSRIs, obviously.
I assure you, the man we've hand-picked (and paid) is wholly impartial. Obviously his employment will end rather shortly if he keeps finding against us, but that doesn't mean he's biased. No sir, his incentives are perfectly aligned for finding the truth
So wrong. “If” sars1/2 had gone pandemic. The reason they didn’t is because they don’t make you infectious in an asymptomatic way like cov19. It wasn’t an “if.” They never will. And also, covid 19 is not 1 to 4 percent lethal. It’s more like 0.02 percent lethal. A Stanford professor said so.

But he could have said we were lucky to not have gotten hit by a different virus that kills 80% and travels asymptomatically. The real nightmare virus. It’s totally possible.
The Code Book by him is also very good. I guarantee it’ll have you implementing your own classical ciphers :)
One which can be obtained the good way, or the bad way, yes. EVs will reduce pressure to allow damaging pipelines and shale oil.
That's the one. The Cormac Herley / Microsoft article inspired lots of threads,

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=why%20nigerian%20scammers&type...
Wow, sorry. Bupropion is an SNRI, not SSRI. SSRIs are 'dangerous' IMHO, except for the special cases mention here (suicide ideation, extreme non-functioning).

I would have hoped clinicians would start at the lowest possible dose, and titrate up. I've certainly heard of the "you need about xx mg, use this dose" first doses, tho.

To me, this is Yet Another reason one should never receive medical advice alone, especially when thinking is impaired. That trusted friend / partner needs to ask the hard questions of the prescribing clinician; but rules make any 3rd party except spouse difficult for adults.
22 guesses. Seems like the trick is to select letters in their worst positions first so that it later puts them in more favorable positions (e.g. don’t guess Q in the first spot if you can put it anywhere else first.
Diabetes and obesity are not "almost non-existant" in China.

According to National Health Commission report, more than 50% of adults are classified as overweight, and 16.4% are obese. [1]

Prevalence of diabetes is also over 10 %. [2]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55428530

[2] https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m997#:~:text=The%20preva....
My understanding of “foreign sourced” is that it usually applies to things like pensions, dividends, rental income. If you’re working, the source of the income is where you do the work - not saying you can’t fly under the radar and not pay tax, and each country has its own specific nuances and laws so Panama may allow it, but if you’re living and working remotely in a territorial tax country then that’s “locally sourced income” unless you can find laws or rulings to the contrary.

“The general rule for sourcing wages and personal services income is controlled by *where the service is performed*. The residence of the recipient of the service, the place of contracting, and the time and place of payment are irrelevant.” - https://www.irs.gov/pub/int_practice_units/ftc_c_10_02_05.pd... (my emphasis)
Disambiguating the ‘Observable Universe’
“Your honor, I claim that the real culprit here is the laws of physics and the initial conditions of the universe at the Big Bang.”
This thing is riddled with typos.
In general, warranties only relate to accidental problems and have nothing to do with intentional sabotage.
I block a lot of popular accounts I've never interacted with just because I get tired of seeing them retweeted into my timeline. A lot of political rage accounts, for example.

I block them then even if people I follow retweet I never see them.

For me, it makes twitter infinitely more pleasant.
Surprised they didn't just mint an NFT out of the song to prove ownership (or something).
Fuchsia for the time being is the Nest OS, if it ever gets used somewhere else remains to be seen, given Google's attention span.
I spot-checked your first citation and it doesn’t support your claims in the slightest. It literally says that patients who continued taking their medication had lower relapse rates than those who stopped:

> > Compared with patients whose antidepressants were discontinued, those with continued treatment showed much lower relapse rates (1.85 vs. 6.24%/month), longer time to 50% relapse (48.0 vs. 14.2 months), and lower 12-month relapse risk (19.5 vs. 44.8%) (all p < 0.001).

It literally says that antidepressants work.

> The common belief that these drugs are effective treatments (esp. in the US)…

They diverge from placebo and are effective treatments. It’s not a US thing at all. I don’t know why you think it’s limited to the United States, but then again the rest of your post is full of misinformation.

Please stop parroting this anti-psychiatry nonsense and trying to use studies that say the opposite of the misinformation you’re trying to spread.
It's much stronger effect is as an NMDA antagonist, similar to Ketamine. This blocks one of the primary excitatory neurotransmitters in the brain. That would be a better candidate for a depressant effect than its minor SRI property
Worst of CES Awards: The least private/secure/repairable and least sustainable
But the "Use SSH or TLS" interpretation seems to make as much sense as saying "use a square or a yellow" regarding shapes. SSH is not (easily, anyway) a substitute for TLS where TLS is applicable.
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."

(RIP Douglas Adams)
One additional feature I was looking at for a personal implementation was picking the target word- how is it being chosen from the remaining letters after the player's first guess? Are you using a word that purposely uses fewer common letters from the set of remaining words?
> nobody in the 20th century imagined that within just two decades we'd be able to sequence the genome of a new pathogen within days, much less hours, or design a new vaccine within two weeks and have it in human clinical trials a month later
The bills proposed by legislators are published in open data (thanks to years of advocacy by myself and others, but that's another story). If you want to read it and know who proposed it, this information has been readily available on the Internet since 1995. If you want to do some data mining, the data has been readily available to download in XML for about 5-10 years from Congress itself and for the decade before that from govtrack.us. If you're not doing the data mining already, that is about you and not about the availability of the data.
I think that largely makes sense, but also think the _biggest_ jump in cat food quality isn't so much the jump to freshness but the jump away from dry. Cats who eat primarily dry food are at risk of chronic dehydration. They simply do not end up drinking enough water to compensate for the low moisture content in their food[0]. Water fountains help entice some cats to drink more, but in the end it's usually not enough to compensate.

For my cats, I usually opt for variety. I try to pick high protein wet food of different types, including nutritionally balanced raw, within their individual requirements and tastes. At the same time, I follow my vet's advice and always have urinary wet food handy. Usually they get one pouch of urinary food that helps prevent and dissolve a certain type of bladder crystal in addition to normal wet food each day.

[0] https://www.waltham.com/news-events/nutrition/cats-can-benef...
It would be a fun irony if web3 does succeed in pushing society beyond the centralization of web2, but only because it pushes people to use the federated systems we already have to overcome censorship when making fun of web3 stuff.
That is actually kind of scary.

How many cycles does the airframe have to go through in order for this to become a problem? I tend to think that if the FAA gave a shit about general aviation maybe we wouldn't be flying planes from the 1960s
Research papers are supposed to be read in the following order:

1. Abstract
2. Introduction
3. Conclusions

Skipping to the end sounds counter-intuitive, but it will prevent you from getting lost in the nitty-gritty details of the paper. It makes rarely sense to read a paper front-to-back in one session. You have to pace yourself. Also, if you don't know the domain that well, you will get lost in trying to understand the "basics" and will have difficulties in making use of the paper's contents.

Similar for textbooks. Usually, an effort is made to structure them for learners, but they can't help but end up being reference works that require a study plan to really be of use.

Time is usually too short to try to learn everything. Thus my recommendation is to decide what you really want to focus on, and create a study plan of sorts.
Observable's evaluation model confers a big advantage too - you're free to write the prose and define constants, variables and imports in any order you like. Multiple times have I been able to write some prose that reads well, but forces things to be defined in an order that is not the same as its evaluation order. And if I don't want anyone to see some code, I stuff it at the end of the notebook (often imports).

That aside, I completely agree - Observable has brought back a lot of the joy of programming I had when I first started. Congratulations to Bostock and the team.
“…be able to sequence the genome of a new pathogen within days, much less hours, or design a new vaccine within two weeks and have it in human clinical trials a month later.”

That wasn’t possible in the 90s.
> the benefits isn't in downloading content, but extra features. Stuff like auto-update, cloud saves, friends list, etc.

Features like donloading content is the main benefit. Or, rather, quick and painless access to content.

iTunes/Apple Music and Spotify never had any friends lists etc. And there are no "auto updates" to music. Same goes for Netflix (and other streaming services). And yet they reduced piracy probably a hundredfold.

Same goes for games. There are many features we associate with Steam these days, but many of those features weren't there for years, and still Steam was extremely successful and also significantly reduced piracy.

People don't want to chase content somewhere and then chase cracks/unlocks that may or may not work, that may or may not contain any number of viruses etc.
> The expiration date is only checked at the payment processor, and there it is just a simple check that it is in the future

Wrong, at least for Raiffeisen Bank in Russia. Once I called their support why the payment didn't go through. Their answer: "you made a typo in the expiration date, try again" (and it worked).
I just wanted to comment on how interesting it is to observe differences in upbringing and culture :)

When reading the parent comment, I naturally assumed they were talking about sleeping in class, as that wasy solution to the sleep problem as well. To this day I routinely meet people that seem to file this possibility away in the "impossible" drawer of their minds or assume that "this person doesn't look like trash that sleeps during class" and conclude that there's been a misunderstanding.

Just to be clear, I am not lashing out at you (or anyone), and just wanted to make this comment more vivid to emphasize how expectations and assumptions make it all too easy to misinterpret a statement as a "typo" of a different statement altogether.
Chasing down a session-swapping bug on Vistaserv.net
I bet there are no Russian developers on this project.
No vi vs emacs???
The official response to the age of consent thing was that they didn't know what "age of consent" means: https://twitter.com/cryptoland/status/1480231356848349192

They've also sent a C&D to someone: https://twitter.com/cryptoland/status/1480236809531838464
My cats also drink out of the toilets.
Can you provide any sources for these salaries? Thanks.
"Proof of work gym"
One theme of this post -- and my site in general -- is that blog posts are a poor use case to optimize code for. I'd love for you to `git clone` the repo mentioned here and try reading it with your usual editor and so on. That's the habitat my code is really intended for.
Ford doesn’t want the F-150 Lightning’s launch to be plagued by scalpers
> I agree, except citizenship has significant hurdles to immigrants.

Agreed, this is a significant mitigating factor, which might make the policy make sense in any given situation.
Ah, you’ve invented (and implemented!) a very strange variant indeed. The contestant chooses a door. If they choose right, they win. Otherwise the host effectively flips a coin and, with 50% probability, the game starts over. Otherwise the contestant loses.

I’m not convinced this has anything to do with the host’s _knowledge_ per se.

For example, consider a different version. The contestant chooses a door. The host then peeks behind a door the door contestant didn’t choose (without showing anyone else what’s there) at random. If the prize isn’t there, the host reveals that there is no prize behind the door. Otherwise the host forgets they peeked and repeats the peek-and-choose step until they randomly get an empty door. Once an empty door has been revealed, the contestant may choose to switch. In this version, the host has no secret knowledge, but the 1/3 vs 2/3 probabilities still happen.
One of our customers is using your API to automatically generate news for upcoming/changing/leaving shows. Keep up the good work!
WOLD – The World Loanword Database
I understand that this is not one such case, I was merely pointing out that that's a possibility when it comes to bat rabies cases.
What is the root cause of depression? That's a huge subject, and for some people even with community and a job and hobby they still feel depressed. Sometimes the underlying condition really is a chemical imbalance.

For example, adverse childhood experiences are highly correlated with depression. What's the underlying problem to tackle with a 50 year old adult who is depressed as a result of abuse as a child? Some things just change you and no amount of therapy can undo that