skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You just ignored my whole point that HIV doesn't secretly kill people in Western countries.

HIV is positively correlated with overall morbidity: straight men who are in risk categories for HIV (in the US) are also in risk categories for overdose, violent death, and exposure (homelessness). We don't test people who die from these things for HIV, and we don't have a unified federal (or even state) tracking system for correlating those deaths with HIV diagnoses.

Even if these cases were a minority, you're still misunderstanding the basic statistical shape here: fewer than 35,000 people receive positive HIV diagnoses each year, and diagnoses frequently don't happen (especially in non-gay/MSM population) for years after initial exposure. In other words: our sampling for the straight population trails our sampling for the gay/MSM population by at least a decade. This is especially important to factor when you consider that PrEP only really became universally available in the last decade, and that the last decade has also seen an unprecedented rise in IV drug use.
> producing 69 different projects and directing 10 of them

a producer is basically the money man - they procure funds, and organize the pay and contracts etc. They are in no real way, responsible for the artistic direction nor the script etc. They might have some influence on the hiring of the actors.

Putting a famous director in as a producer is merely a marketing tactic - people who would casually like such a director would assume the movie is going to be directed by them and thus might watch it.
Well Challenger was in 1986 and that's 17 years prior. I don't think I can recall the training materials from 5 years ago, but after 17 years things would definitely get fuzzy, especially during that kind of event.
This has not been my experience, but I'm not a hardware engineer, and haven't tried any of the things you were frustrated with, so we could both be right. I use a linux laptop at home and a linux desktop in the office.

For almost 2 years of mostly remote working during the pandemic, beyondcorp has caused me trouble maybe 4 times, and 2 of those times were when my office re-opened and I had to revive my security keys that hadn't been used in over a year.

There is a VPN, but I've never had to use it. They kept my corp desktop running in the office which I could use as a jump host when I needed it. Tunneling X11 over SSH worked well, and the browser-based remote desktop worked ~ok.
I don't understand why you would use .85% if 1.7% is the correct (but possibly underestimate) number. Additionally, gay/bi is included in the same bracket so the real number would probably be 1-.932=0.068 instead of 0.0085

.932/.068= 13.7

Even though this is still pretty higher, it's probably much more realistic
There's a way to work around this using Android firefox (or a fork) with Android pdf.js extension. Mozilla is making this hard by not blessing this extension even though it uses one of their own developed pieces of software.

For some reason Android app devs think it's perfectly normal to not be able to open pdf's in a browser tab.
That small corner has an outsized influence on software worldwide. Most high-impact developers and companies are there.
then you would really enjoy "the expanse" - esp. the latter seasons.
The title is only "absurdly wrong" if you confuse P(hiv+|gay) with P(gay|hiv+). Because the statistic highlighted in the title is accurately reflected in the article: P(straight|hiv+) > P(gay|hiv+). If the title said "heterosexual men are more likely to have HIV than gay men" then your outrage would be justified.
What's the process for legitimate code updates and the like on that kind of system? Do you take the disk out and write directly to it?
The idea of postmarketOS is so awesome. But then I check the compatibility grid again and see that the only devices that have camera support are the PinePhones. I'm surprised that isn't more of a priority. Without a working camera, it really feels like it isn't a mobile device.
Yandex images preserves filters, and lets you specify dimensions.
I'd really only opt for Flatpaks if it was more stable than system packages. As we've seen with Planner, that's not necessarily the case...
Yep, cannabis seems like the solution for a lot of random things (various confounding diseases, including depression, etc) until you look at the possible long-term effects. Those are usually conveniently ignored. I get it though. The guy hyping and selling you cannabis is not going to be dealing with your long-term effects in 20 years.
Basically I got a comment that she already knew where we went on our walk because she checked the dogs location.
That just increases the incidence relative to straight men.
Yes I think that's the story that parent poster was referring to.
That's a good question, now isn't it?

In reality, what we can expose, is that during the early boot process, our systems reach out to another system that register's its interest, and as a user (from another trusted device, phone, laptop, etc.) you can visit the web service and click a button.

How and where keys are stored is a great big "?" that's up to the implementer to solve..
I am not sure I understand the change. The yellow bar will now be light red? Is that the change?
The fact that you really have to hunt for these deaths, and that even seemingly-rigorous medical studies on the question can only dig up a total of three cases, combined with the fact that hundreds of millions of people (at least) use cannabis very regularly, really tells you all you need to know.

Cannabis use simply is not fatal, or even highly dangerous, under all normal conditions. Sure, yes, you can find a few 1 in 10,000,000 or 1 in 100,000,000 exceptions. You can probably find some of those for chocolate ice cream, too.
The Computer Simulation That Almost Started World War III
I am going to leave this here for you to be, on your own schedule, gravely embarrassed at having written it.
> it's either the greatest thing in the universe that cures all ailments or it's the devil's grass. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle

Correct. And of those two extremes, it's probably closer to the negative side than to the greatest thing ever. Unfortunately, the greatest thing ever has not been found yet.
2049 beats the original in cinematography imho - much better atmosphere and backdrops, despite the story being "simpler" (which, i actually prefer tbh). The original was a b-grade movie that was well made even with limited resources. 2049 is a Hollywood level high production value movie that can be enjoyed on the surface level, as well as have some intellectual meat in it.
The goal is to never drop down to SQL. If there's something you can express in SQL but can't express in EdgeQL, it's a bug.

We're working on proper query profiling now, but in the meantime the "slow query" problem you see with ORMs happens quite rarely with EdgeQL. For starters a lot of ORM performance issues are causes by the fact that they secretly do a bunch of roundtrips under the hood. EdgeQL queries compile to a single SQL query always. Also, since we target Postgres exclusively, we can produce queries that take full advantage of its (rather preposterous) power and performance. We extensively test the performance of things like extremely deep/wide fetching, lots of nested & complex filter expressions, computed properties, subqueries, polymorphics, etc. Obviously nothing is 100% but we're pretty confident in saying that EdgeQL performance is good.
I am not a theoretical physicist. I have only done first semester college physics and I have read hacker news comments (and physics related articles) for years.

However, I can assure you that if it was a simple as using the proper Maxwellian quaternions instead of the dumbed down Lorentz vectors to get a unified theory, this would have been done a long time ago.

The comment you ask about seems to make no sense whatsoever. That is why you are having trouble parsing the comment and figuring out what its significance is.
Hey, I thought your article was nice. First it had an easy intro to word embeddings and cosine similarity. And second, you followed the investigation and even came up with the idea "against connecting distance and diversity", so it didn't seem you had the conclusion before you started the work.

If someone complains about not mentioning variance - it's still implicitly visible by the cloud of dots representing each year around the regression line.
Children of such people have been dealt an awful hand.
I’m not familiar with this for the iPod, but the Magic Lantern team has dumped firmware from Canon cameras by using an LED as a bit-banged serial interface.

But I don’t know how much of a realistic threat it poses, because in order to control GPIO LEDs the computer already needs to be pwned. Magic Lantern dumped firmware via LED because there wasn’t a known serial link or display driver or anything like that to make it easier.

But it’s a camera, and it’s not designed to be airtight air-gapped. Running arbitrary code is certainly discouraged, but to my knowledge Canon has never fought against consensual hacking of their cameras. (I say “consensual,” because there have been, say, Wi-Fi exploits found and patched, but that’s probably not the way a camera owner would try to get in.)

Anyway, this boils down to the definition of an air gap, because any input/output device is bridging it. A printer was mentioned, of course printing sensitive information is a bridge across the gap. And if the machine has GPIO LEDs then that’s a bridge, too. But what about a hidden camera pointing at the monitor? Frankly the monitor itself is a serious exfiltration risk across the air gap, no?

So as always in security, at some point we have to say “good enough,” and consider it as safe as can be.
But it's a universal rule. No one knows everything. Everyone has to live with not knowing things. Admitting `I don't know` is the ultimate virtue.
It's the US and not the UK, but here's the breakdown for 2019[1].

TL;DR:

* 66% of recorded infections are in the gay/MSM population;

* 23% of recorded infections are in the straight population

The site doesn't provide the actual statistic for gay women/WSW, but those two numbers imply that it's around 11% (+/- 2% for the transgender population, which is also not clearly factored out.)

[1]: https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/stat...
Much of that baseline test actually comes from Nabokov's "Pale Fire" - which is also the book Joi picks up when she says "do you want to read to me".
I can't tell if this should have a /s on it but terraform does have this feature (local-exec, remote-exec) and you don't need Terraform Enterprise, the free one does just fine.
Looks interesting. It’s like Git, ZFS, and MySQL all in one?
Same with me: the Orpheum on State St. in Madison, WI. Great memories...
You've basically turned an entire sub-thread on a Show HN into a low-quality distraction based on your un-provable (to you) accusation, and subsequent doubling down...all of which, as multiple people have tried to remind you, is breaking the rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=Ple....

Also, you can't cite the rules as some fake justification for your flouting the rules. Abusing the rules to pretend that, because the thing you, without proof, accuse someone of is disallowed, it somehow makes it OK for you to break the rules to post these disallowed accusations...is wrong. You're undermining the very thing you're merely pretending to support here. Which makes it seem like you never cared much for the rules in the first place, but only for some weird personal vendetta or whatever against this post. Whatever your reason, none of this is OK, on HN. Or anywhere really.

Please stop.
> I don't understand why you would use .85% if 1.7% is the correct (but possibly underestimate) number.

I think 1.7% is out of the males, and males are about half the general population.

> Additionally, gay/bi is included in the same bracket so the real number would probably be 1-.932=0.068 instead of 0.0085

I think the 1.7% number also includes bisexual males, but I'm not completely sure. (The title of Figure 1 of the section in the source is "Lesbian, gay or bisexual")

My overall point isn't about the exact numbers though, and I agree that the government survey number is probably an underestimate.
If the snake gets into the passenger compartment and bites someone that's a lawsuit. If they have a reaction to the venom that's a bigger lawsuit. And the company is not going to trust any armchair herpetologist guesses as to what species it is or what it "probably" is. It is also unusual enough of an occurrence that a strict policy of diverting when there's (mf'ing) snakes on the plane won't really impact operations that much.

IOW better safe that sorry.
As another user of this system, SMS-to-email is one of my favourite features. Answering texts from my (Linux) desktop is hardly an iOS exclusive now, ha!
> and the $MJ cannabis ETF is down 70% since its 2019 peak.

What does this mean?
It's likely a vapid comment, if it were true and so simple, why didn't any number of physicists solve GR using quaternions and unify physics?
> The thing was designed and taught by CS faculty, so naturally they taught you the basics of programming using math.

I would have honestly made the same assumption that students interested in programming would have no problem with high school level math. Maybe an intro course aimed toward the business school wouldn’t be as math-heavy?

6.001 was notorious for starting out with examples from calculous and required some proof reading. But it wasn’t aimed at anyone. It’s tougher to enroll in 6.001 than most other intro courses.
Maybe you should just crop the same number of words from the start of each article, and take the same number of articles from each year by random sampling. That would make things easier to compare.
I picked linked lists as a real example of something I've seen people do. It doesn't really make any difference my point.

C is a bad programming language in 2022
Looks like it's trying to use pkg-config to find the necessary flags for the library: https://github.com/sionescu/iolib/blob/master/src/syscalls/f...

The proper solution would be to install it somewhere and configure pkg-config to find it, but you could just try putting the headers in /usr/local/include and see if it finds them.

I think your system package manager has installed your SBCL/asdf in some weird way. It would be best to just uninstall it all and build SBCL from sources yourself (it has asdf bundled with it). The binary releases for FreeBSD on sbcl.org seem to be ancient versions.
It all started when they turned Team Fortress 2 into a free-to-play game (remember all the memes about the "hats"?). The move originated from Yanis Varoufakis who later became Greek minister of finance.

https://archive.fo/IXtkd

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis
I agree. The thing defining modern nation-states is the use of accounting methodology(quantities of ships, bars of iron, population demographics etc.) to define power in terms of assets on hand and gains from trade, which gradually recast military forces into the previously unrecognized role of "defending property" and therefore enforcing rules of trade. Likewise, early-modern chattel slaves were different from Roman-era slaves precisely because of the heavy influence of market coordination forces: they had fewer rights, were freed less frequently, and were conveniently redefined from "human" to "product" through the development of racism. These things made the early-modern version of the institution easier to coordinate and therefore (speculatively - not that I've seen a formal advancement of this theory) more productive. But it would take the Industrial Revolution for labor efficiency to become recognized in earnest.

The pre-modern states, including Rome, had much more haphazard accounts and focused on tributary economics(how to extract more from the population or continue adding to conquests). Defense of property was strictly a thing for nobles or local militia, thus invaders looting cities was a normal occurrence through the medieval period. The Roman state was above the rest in applying a bureaucracy to the task of being the best at managing conquests - and it shows in the quality of Roman engineering, city planning and record keeping. Ghengis Khan achieved a similar, if short-lived, degree of coordination during the conquests, but lacked follow-up institutions that would have turned it into a longer-lived empire like Rome.
On a slight tangent - I am searching for “learn to hack” courses. Specially focused on web apps deployed on cloud services. Courses that I come across are usually focused on certifications.
To add ontop,

It's perfectly capable that you control things like SSH and other services through a Zero-trust system as well.

Personally, there's things like Pomerium.io that can handle HTTP(s) services, as well as TCP services.

Even internally at Google, the machine, and user are used to validate SSH sessions, and the remote system has a unique policy on who's allowed to access it.

Disc: Googler, not on BeyondCorp
God ... Sicario is so good ...
Yes, there doesn't seem to be.
Dumbed-down in this case means that Oliver Heaviside was a genius.
you've just described NFT to a T.

The other aspects of an NFT, such as it being created by a trusted authority (like the original artist) is not encoded on the NFT itself. You have to trust the minter, you have to trust that other people see the minter as original, and you don't truly have a way to verify except via an existing social structure. aka, technology cannot solve this problem.

That is why i call NFT a digital certificate of authenticity. It has the exact same problems as the paper version of a certificate (obviously, a digital version has some good utility like ease of trade/uncopiable and verification etc).
The industry standard for manufacturing would be a CMM. Good ones quickly get you micron level resolution. Newer units will laser scan every surface and output a model. Older models physically probe the features. They are mostly used for checking a product vs its CAD design, but they can be used for data acquisition. They pair well with photogrammetry.

https://youtu.be/zCIe2CzQpT8
I recently also learned HPV is the cause of the common skin warts!

FWIW, Italy, not the most sex-liberal country, started recommending the HPV vaccine for both boy and girls at the 12th year of age a few years back.

As per the latest data, 50% of the female 2008 cohort had been vaccinated in 2020, older cohorts sit at 75% (boys at ~40%).

Seems it didn't take much to push the numbers up, other than telling people "don't die of cancer".
The article being discussed relates to the development of the theory of general relativity.

You are thinking of when Einstein developed the theory of special relativity. Special Relativity relates to time dilation where as General Relativity relates to gravity.
I’m shocked that you aren’t willing to put up with the mild inconvenience of an HIV test to make sure that people don’t die of HIV.
The Apple Tax
Not sure why it would be so hard.

All you need is a centralized authentication server (preferably including access logging) and a simple way to use it for all applications (the simplest is to have the app listen on localhost and expose it via nginx configured to use the authentication service).

I guess for real security you also need to forbid logins from non-secure devices, which is trivial if you can trust employees and only hire security-competent engineers, and otherwise needs dedicated devices, secure boot and remote attestation (which is also easy but will take some work to do).
hmmm... Oh By codes are random so they may or may not have >F characters in them.

If I have some time I will make it such that all Oh By codes have at least one >F character in them so they cannot be confused with hex codes ...
Quick, someone make a 1934 version of Wordle!
Bit of a tangent, but I encourage you to at least check your blood-pressure occasionally. Hypertension is called "the silent killer" for a reason.
I search for within 50km of "Zillmere, Qld Australia" and it returns schools in Abu Dhabi. There are at least 3 Universities, and several colleges that could of been returned.

I suspect it may not be ready for the real world..
The wine lake and butter Mountain came in for a lot of flak, some of it relating to US/EU trade wars. The Uruguay round put most of that to bed. the thing with US national cheese is there's two parts to the story:

There's the part about the economics, subsidy to dairy farming, the importance of the rural vote and consequently the political inability to remove the supports.

Then there's the other part. About how most Europeans think this cheese is disgusting solidified axle grease and gives dairy farming a bad name.

I'm in a middle ground on this. I like snacking on junk food, so US national cheese is fine with me, in context. That context is a hoagy or cheese melt on rye, or a sub.

But if you actually like cheese, this stuff is bad juju.

Economics might hate price support but a hollowed out rural sector is hillbilly elegy on steroids. Maybe this is the price which had to be paid. But jeez, you think they could make parmesan or something, not just solid train lube.
Gardasil 9 hits enough of the HPV variants that the rate of cancer-causing HPV infections has fallen by 90% in the US. And that's with the fraction of folks who are anti-vaxxers taken into account. This is one of those diseases where the means to prevent being infected is already in hand.
> "This feels like they’re making this move specifically to distract from the fact that they should have made the tech investment into sandboxing today."

cough

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...

That's been built into Windows 10 Pro since Dec 2018.
I believe it is from this interview, but I don't have time to go through it and find the timestamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0NSi7tiQBE
that an exchange-traded fund that is made up of cannabis-related companies has lost 70 percent of the value that it once had in 2019.

as far as how that can be used as a soothsaying device, i'm not a trader. I presume it's to be considered related to the public's interest and consideration towards the growth of the particular industry.
Having gone offroading near wind turbines, depending on some conditions (I don't know if it's wind, temperature, or what), they really do sound like that, and for quite some distance. The one depicted in that video is WAY too close to any home. The fact it was approved/OK'ed absolutely blows my mind. I should dig up my videos of being up in the mountains near the wind turbines... though it's tough for any video to accurately convey the level of audible disturbance, of course.
The Hashicorp stack already supported this kind of usecase, it's called Sentinel: https://www.hashicorp.com/sentinel

I do agree that it's a pity that Sentinel isn't free.
> This engine first determines the alphabet of the input text and searches for characters which are unique in one or more languages. If exactly one language can be reliably chosen this way, the statistical model is not necessary anymore.

Can this be a problem? If a text in Language_A includes names/words of Language_B, only relying on special characters would wrongly classify the entire text as Language_B.
So the problem with this explanation is the straight infection rate is steady while the gay one is what’s changing recently. There’s no reason to suspect a yet undetected spike in straight infections.
I came across this game in the late 90s and the impression that I got at the time was that I had missed the boat and the game was essentially "solved" and the best programs were already known. Is this not the case?