skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People convinced that all art is created by careful choice-making at every possible juncture

Where are these magical strawpeople? :D
This happened to my wife a few years ago, except it took them weeks to finally find the car, not just a brief hold on the phone.
"There's no inherent reason to prefer more "natural" solutions to medical issues."

There's certainly no money for pharmaceuticals!
The newest and weirdest twist in this story, is that some of the government officials involved (which had no open investigations against them) are now "bringing their phones to NSO" to check if they indeed had Pegasus installed on their phones[1]

Now, that would mean NSO has no logs on the phone numbers used to install Pegasus. I don't see how they would allow that

If that were true, any country (Saudi Arabia, UAE, for example) Who got a green light from the Israeli weapons export to purchase Pegasus, can now spy on the Israeli government, army, everyone at NSO, the Mossad, and 8200. And the Israeli's would never know? No way

NSO is playing dumb by saying "we can't know if you were hacked without your physical phone in our hands"

[1] https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/bjkftweyq (requires Google Translate)
That would be this one: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3928830...

It's the latest in a series of articles by Tomer Ganon.

(previously posted as: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30241488)
I briefly skimmed the paper; it looks like they're using pwm but not at its full potential. I would use it also as a synchronization mean, that is, the attacker points the led/laser and receiver to the target led, the attacker sends a signal like say a 10% modulated pwm, save for a 50% wide start bit which marks the start of the word being transmitted, then the bits are modulated like 10% for 1 and 20% for 0, or the other way around. Basically, the attacker talks 20% of each cycle, and listens the remaining 80%.
The target led can be then read to detect those signals and sync itself to the signal received so that when replying it just modulates the led during the remaining time of each duty cycle. The attacker just by maintaining the link will receive both the echo of its transmission and the target's reply.
That's just an idea, however, I'm not implying I could be able to implement it effectively:).
Debkafile is an interesting site to read. During (before and after) the second Iraq war there was a lot of rumor and speculation that was way outside mainstream speculation. Several ended up being wrong.
Hey Rostislav,

Author of https://fluentcards.com and https://germanreader.com here. I really like some of the ideas you implemented in the app.

Your landing page and the new features vlog are amazing! You’re clearly very dedicated to the project and it has a cute personal touch. Also kudos for open-sourcing it!

Looking forward to trying out your app more deeply. Cheers!
> As a Swiss I am appalled by this stance of showing force by the US instead of de-escalation the situation.

The deployment of small numbers of troops (the total deployed by the US to Eastern Europe as a response to the crisis is less than 1/30 the Russian deployment on the borders of Ukraine) is not a show of force (it is a show of commitment that the US cannot avoid being engaged should Russia invade beyond Ukraine into NATO countries in the region, but nothing more; it's a tripwire force.)

> I see zero de-escalation from the US

You aren't looking very hard.

> The US press seems "Geil für Krieg" (horny for war),

I have no idea what you are basing this on, that's certainly not the US press I see in America.

> The only ones trying to prevent this war with at least some diplomacy is Germany and France.

Germany has been giving more direct aid to Ukraine than the US, the idea that they are de-escalating while the US defensive deployment to NATO allies outside of Ukraine is escalation is...tortured, at best.

> What the US is doing is the same as before the Iraq war

No, it's not. No one in the US has called for offensive war (as was done on Iraq) or even defensive war in case of Russian action against Ukraine.

The US has even openly stated that it will not even use it's military to evacuate US citizens in the event of an invasion by Russia, because to do so would be “world war”. It has threatened no action against Russia for merely continuing it's aggressive posture and it's current invasion and occupation of Ukraine, and only economic sanctions on the event of a total invasion of the rest of Ukraine.

It has put forward no UN resolution, nor has it hinted that if the Security Council (where it called a discussion meeting but did not attempt to push any concrete action) failed to move to a resolution due to veto it would activate Uniting for Peace to try bypass the UNSC and bring resolution through the UNGA.

The US is pursuing a policy of diplomacy with military forces only deployed in a manner to deter aggression beyond Ukraine, with no attempt to deploy capacity that would do anything to alter outcomes in Ukraine, much less take aggressive action against Russia. It couldn't be more different than Iraq in 2003.
1. They don't expire - there is not any evidence of detrimental deterioration
2. No - it's a different type of stem cell. The stem cells from cord blood are much more stable. Others have a risk of being carcinogenic even! ie embryonic stem cells
Interestingly, I think I am as close to an example of your last point as you are going to get. I was a Physics major, and nearly all of my classes were focused only on the strongly theoretical part of physics. When I then joined a research team in experimental cosmology, I did lament that I never got any real instruction on research methodology, relevant statistics, etc.

It's surprisingly how little actual fundamental, theoretical Physics you need to know to do Physics! I'm not saying it's not important, the point of being a Physics major is not only to train you to be a researcher, but for the sake of the knowledge itself.

It's very similar to CS in that regard; almost none of formal CS is useful when doing software engineering, and when it is useful, the skills are in knowing to recognize a problem and how to research it, just like Physics!
I dislike many aspects of google, but project zero is not one of them and has greatly improve the overall security of the industry.

Also their blogs describing how security exploits work are always super interesting
> that the laws simply aren't followed once you reach a certain level of power.

That works until you're caught, and then you have to be powerful enough to get out of it, or have someone involved powerful enough to protect you from the consequences. When 'everyone' is in on it, who is going to get you in trouble? Maybe the next guy, maybe you have time to bury all the evidence before then. Obviously a risk people were willing to take to achieve their political goals.
>the US are depicted as the 'good guys' for moving troops abroad and next to Russia and for threatening a pipeline between Russia and Germany.

NATO is a big alliance.

Poland is in NATO.

The U.S. is the strongest military power by a large margin.

Russia is amassing troops next to a country they've already invaded (see Crimea).

I don't see the dissonance here.
I'm glad!
The two alternatives that you are presenting (flavour-of-the -week JavaScript versus multiple semesters of Big O notation) are just the two extremes of a wide spectrum.

What you call “shallow”, others might see as “practical”.

It’s possible that this person has chosen study path that isn’t the right one for them. That’s a tricky spot to be in especially in these times. I suggest a little more empathy, and a little less venting.
And yet, due to Hacker News title rules, that would have led to a very different submission that would have in some sense lost the point of the article that was linked (which wasn't merely blogspam but was extracting a narrative).
>that diet and exercise adjustment will fix hypertension in most (not all!) cases.

Not really although it can certainly help. There is evidence that there is a profound change (infection of some sort) in the Kidney and at some point that causes a run away inflammatory response that leads to Hypertension, it is an autoimmune condition that is extremely difficult to manage or get rid of. They believe it may be responsible for a great deal of Essential hypertension in adults today.
Website to visualize the open data for my local airport: https://stlairportdata.com/
Likewise, except I've never witnessed blatant racism in either "manual labor -land" or professional-land.

The claims do bring back memories of being a middle schooler in the bay area, though. Kids can be quite unenlightened, predictably so if they aren't taught better. Parental and close familial norms also seem to play a significant role in shaping you children's attitudes.

Additionally, confederate flag tattoos flashed by colleagues at work? Really?

Inappropriate. This isn't the yard at San Quentin Federal Prison pressing and assembling y'alls' Teslas; this is claimed to be at the dear NUMI plant in Fremont, right alongside a very diverse and distinctive community. There's just no place for these things in real-life business.

What is the goal with the outrageous claims? Why would management tolerate any significant amount of episodes before clamping down. It doesn't make sense..

What does Tesla have to gain by tolerating any amount of the claws behavior?
I don't see where you used map? You made a recursive function? the argument was clearly stated - person says all most programmers need is map and reduce on arrays. I agree that by recursing you also have found another way not to use break but you have evidently had to NOT use map and reduce to do it?

on edit: also how will that recursion perform on the large array we've supposed as being used if it turns out that we don't get our interesting items in early parts of array?
“The subset of plausible IPCC scenarios does not represent all possible trajectories of future emissions and warming. Collectively, they project continued mitigation progress and suggest the world is presently on a lower emissions trajectory than is often assumed. However, these scenarios also indicate that the world is still off track from limiting 21st-century warming to 1.5 ◦C or below 2 ◦C.”

So even this selective subset scenario figures we’ll see more than 3.6°F increase in global temperatures… a low-end estimate which is disastrously high. Worse, they suspect we’ll see as much as 5.4°F increase. Wonderful.

Well, at least this right-leaning libertarian magazine is essentially admitting that we’re well fucked if we don’t pull out all the stops.
Completely agree. The fact that certain "natural" supplements mimic the pharmacodynamics of existing drugs is nothing new. Certain teas are diuretic but nobody is gonna prescribe tea instead of thiazides.
42 was chosen for a reason, because it appeared random. It wasn't that Adams didn't care; something was being conveyed.
It's not marketed as "reliable" moreso "accessible." haha although I would say that we are reliable as well. If anything ever happens, we have a legal obligation to shift CRM. It's as if a storage unit were to shut down and had other people's items in it. We have a legal responsibility to make sure that it's managed safely and accordingly
Were they?

> Romans only really cared about Italy

Yeah, so they famously instituted for-profit tax collection: "we'll auction off the right to collect what you can!" Are you telling me that the competing individuals who were willing to bid the highest amount for this privilege were less effective at it than the kings who had preceded them?

Historians often talk about Rome's "tenacity" -- the fraction of their male population they were willing to throw into the meat grinder of a failing war machine, the number of people they were willing to nail to trees when they risked their lives to complain about taxes, the lengths they were willing to go to in order to put down a tax rebellion (see: the giant earthen ramp up the walls of Masada) and so on. Rome is often credited with being more tenacious than their adversaries.

It's not impossible that taxes were generally lower, but I tend to suspect there are some serious qualifiers, like "in Italy," or "during peacetime," or "for those who the Romans were trying to make a positive example of."
To spy on prosecution witnesses, rather. So more like the witnesses against you were spied on by the organization you controlled until recently, so the trial has to be called off as hopelessly compromised. If I'm reading correctly.
I had the same exact thought the moment I finished it.

After a week of reflection, I think it was a slight overreaction -- the book is still very very good but i dont think #1 for me.

But something about the way the story took shape and culminated in the final third of the book was so engaging, and so satisfying. I think I stayed up until 4 or 5AM the night I finished the last 200 pages.
I though you'd might have a problem with my comment.

This is however an exceptional situation, a piece of news so shocking and unwelcome that the only way I can properly express the level of frustration with it is through the use of expletives and the uppercase. It is absolutely disheartening to see a long-lived and excellent piece of software being so ruthlessly, cynically and systematically destroyed. It really makes my blood boil.
So if you invent/perfect/practacalize the light-bulb you are rich because of exploitation?
Well there are two very different things suggested in the original post:

1. Supplements/"Natural compounds"

2. Diet/lifestyle changes

We should absolutely not replace pharmaceuticals with supplements/"Natural compounds" without clinical data showing it works.

And for diet/lifestyle changes, that's really hard to implement. People just aren't good at changing their lifestyles. So while overall we should be promoting more healthy lifestyles, it should not replace pharmaceuticals when trying to treat a specific issue.
Who is buying and eating the extra food? Did human stomach volume increase proportional to inflation?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/the-conversation-inflati...

Show me which countries have wage growth for lower socioeconomic demographics currently matching or outpacing CPI? It is not happening.
I am sorry for the snark, but do you always judge the presentation of a course based on ten sample problems listed on its website? Because if you do then you probably would not take any of my courses: the publicly accessible old exams also do not generally explain the course material very well...
Hello!

I have the same problem -- especially if it is a very important email. Here are a couple of things that helped me:

1. The email already exists: often I am worried that someone will say something mean or unkind in an email, which is pretty much never the actual case, but I build it up in my mind. Reminding myself that the email already exists and the words already exists helps me get the courage the look at them.

2. Getting in the habit of just opening all the messages, and reminding yourself that these emails are usually either neutral or positive. Most people don't send nasty emails, because setting a tone in an email is very hard to do. Usually if people have bad things to say, they will say it over zoom, etc.! Also that it doesn't leave a great impression is e-mails are not answered long term!

3. Set a deadline: Not all emails have to be answered right away; for very important emails I give myself a hard deadline of 24 hours. However, as soon as I see a very scary email, I am now really trying to open it immediately; waiting makes the anxiety worse. I tell myself 'you are brave', 'usually emails are good', 'you are a reliable person who always answers emails'and
'don't be a chicken shit' and these phrases help me get the nerve to open the emails. However, if the email is VERY scary I sometimes will wait to my 24 hour deadline. Making it a habit that you are the type of person to open emails really is what fixed me hiding from emails.

4. therapy! got myself a kind therapist

you're definitely not the only one with this problem! good luck!
Wasn't Mongolia in the top 3 no long ago?
The air-gap is specifically to prevent exfiltration of data. The air-gapped systems I have worked on had literally zero checking on software added to the system. But all the USB and media ports had super glue in them. An exploit that can't talk to the outside world is not terribly useful in the general case, although it's become lucrative with the rise of ransomware.
The effects of nutrition on blood pressure are undisputed, see [0] for more in depth information.

Nobody argues against drugs to treat hypertension, but there is little awareness that diet can have a massive effect. Proper diet, of course, should be the preferred path if at all possible.

Sadly, our society has normalized a vicious circle of the very detrimental Western Diet, leading to the need for pharmacological interventions when the cardiovascular feces hits the fan as people get older.

That, to me, is the point of this article.

[0] https://nutritionfacts.org/?s=Blood+pressure
I think formal verification makes sense for programs like optimising compilers. You have a reasonable hypothesis to prove: That the optimisations don't change the behaviour of the program in any way, except for speed.
> I could afford it now if I wanted it. But I’m also socially aware enough to see that most people aren’t as privileged as we are.

You and everyone else.

Is that implication not obvious?

You're so locked on to the privilege issue and misreading the word "you" that you're completely ignoring my point, which is that the privilege of paying a big upfront fee will not be necessary.

Just like dozens of other services, you'll be able to sign up for a contract and the equipment fee will become either a small monthly amount or get waived entirely.
Thanks for the feedback. I may make this available publicly, but maybe after adding a web interface to it!
I assume they would be happy if this became a standard that Apple buys into, but the real competition is Google's proposal. And if that doesn't work out, the status quo continuing with tracking via third-party cookies.
I don't know why this has to be framed as an either/or. The US doesn't invest in infrastructure but leads in medical patents, so the low hanging fruit is being ignored. It is cheaper to build ramps than fund good longitudinal scientific research. Also you can have perfect spinal nerves and benefit from accessible infrastructure. Parents with infants in strollers, for example.

Ideally you would build the infrastructure /while/ allowing things like stem cell research but we live in a puritanical theocracy that opposes both for ideological reasons
How is the VPN bad? If I recall, it's just Mullvad with Firefox branding.
Yeah... By chance the YouTube video of this come across my feed last night but hadn't looked at the price yet.

$50 would have been questionable, would have pulled the trigger at $35. Odds are this will end in a pile of other flavor of the week productivity solutions (see bullet journal, panda planner, hipster PDA, moleskines and other notebooks).

That said, I find just switching to a new system keeps me on track for a month or two of productivity boost, then I revert to my old ways.
The "Fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine is not absolute worldwide as it is in the USA. Evidence obtained illegally is not automatically disregarded in Israel, though it still might be.
Well compared to, say, sticky notes (I tried this, yuck) or Google Keep (also tried this), it's a bit more costly, but the subscription is not mandatory so it tampers that edge. But I'm not sure you can fully dismiss the value. Some find the aesthetics of rainbow sticky notes unappealing -- or dislike high tech solutions of web/mobile app for their proximity to other time wasting activities and vices -- there is appeal in a low tech, sleek and visually appealing card system like this. I've done some hobby woodworking, and even ordered cards printed overseas before to resurrect a board game that went extinct, and I think you can even make an argument you can DIY it much cheaper (sans labour of course) but anybody who's done a big enough project can relate that sometimes it's okay to defer that to someone else (who lives in Pennsylvania I assume) if it brings more time and value to you and you value the product -- and especially here where I would argue that value pays dividends in the future in being more productive due to the compounding effects of it all.

But despite this all, I would align myself to your viewpoint just out of principle of having anti-consumerism alignment.

> This is like a caricature of modern day entrepreneurship.

Well, let me refer you to the wild hustle and bustle world of NFTs where you don't even get something physical!
Thank you for your wishes. For future needs I was able to return to private health insurance which suffers from no such problem. However this cannot cover claims arisen prior to policy issue, so the subject matter remains open.

No judge ruling in this court actually has public health insurance.
Dupe from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30292943
Hmm, I would've expected them to double down on differentiation within Julia (via Zygote etc)
We are LESS expensive than current other options - I believe the other options mentioned are price points offered many years ago haha. We are $35/mo for 8 years to cover 20 years of storage. That is our cheapest - check our a price breakdown at anjahealth.com/shop/#pricing

As a brand, it helps because people of color can be most affected by being unable to find a stem cell match. And people of color - on average - have lower income in the US, so having lower prices makes us more accessible.

Personalization happens technically with manual processing. It also happens emotionally because we cater to every single customer to make sure that they feel supported regardless of what their birth plan/unforeseen circumstances are
It's all done in Unreal Engine 4, which is great because you don't need to worry so much about all the cross-platform stuff. The assets are done in Gaea for terrain, Blender for models, Illustrator for icons and Photoshop for some more texture work
Posted first by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30289206. We'll merge the comments thither and re-up that thread instead. Thanks!
Ask HN: Why do I get robocalls from recently-called area codes?
Over the past few weeks, I've started receiving robocalls from area codes that I happen to have just called or received a call from.

At first I thought this was just me noticing a pattern that wasn't really there, but when I looked back at my phone records I could see that I had literally never received a phone call from either of these area codes, and that within a day of talking with someone in that area code I started getting robocalls.

Has anyone else experienced this? How would robocallers get this information — interception, buying it from my cell phone company, or something else?

Even if they're just buying a list of area codes I've talked to, this seems completely inappropriate. And if they're getting the actual numbers, that's even worse.