skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> covid (turned out to be aerosol transmission)

Do you have a source that ever 98% of scientist/doctors believed that, the WHO did but that is not 0.01% of doctors/scientists
Taking oneself too seriously? Or a pair of authors building on top of a rich history of economic and social theory to make sense of an immense technology tree that affects millions?

It is all in how you look at it.

Criticizing is easy; we all do it sometimes.

I do it too -- I'll take a negative interpretation and make uncharitable assumptions. Then it snowballs and out pops a not very nice thought which might end up as a HN comment.

It seems that something grabbed you about the content. Perhaps if you look again and investigate the lens of the author you will find more to appreciate in it?

I wonder if you would be willing to examine your claim that "it is all obvious to those who do it". Is it really? All parts of how things fit together are obvious? Am I misunderstanding you?
This is what the ukrainian embassy in slovakia claimed. I guess official ukrainian sources have been incredibly unreliable but I haven't seen any fact check on their claims

>Czech law enforcement warns that public approval of Russia's invasion of Ukraine could be classified as a "crime of denial, questioning, approval and justification of GENOCIDE."
There are already the first two cases of detainees incriminated in this paragraph of the Criminal Code.

https://twitter.com/UKRinCZE/status/1497829641171525634
I might love my Honda Fit, but no one else did (apparently) as it’s been discontinued.
Good point. The fact there is no inductive bias inherent to transformers makes it difficult to train a decent model on small datasets from scratch. However, there are recent research directions that try to address this problem [1].

Also baking in some sort of domain specific inductive bias into model architecture itself can address this problem as well [2].

[1]: Escaping the Big Data Paradigm with
Compact Transformers: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05704

[2]: CvT: Introducing Convolutions to Vision Transformers: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15808
I am not an economist, but here is my theory on the whole thing (would love to hear if there is a flaw with this reasoning!):

The fundamental problem is that a wealth of a society is determined by its productive capacity. A society with more homes, more cars, more phones, more food, more clothes, more university classrooms, more hospitals and doctors, more medicine, (you get the picture)... more good and services is wealthier.

A society with more dollars but without the corresponding increase in all of those things is no wealthier.

You can magic up trillions of dollars and hand them out to each and every individual currently alive in the US or for that matter the planet. Give each person a billion dollars. You still would not suddenly end poverty, or hard ship or hunger or anything else.. that money is still used to buy the goods and services which are being produced at the same rate as before.

When we distributed trillions of dollars over the last couple of years while simultaneously having lockdowns for covid, we not only added money to a system without adding corresponding productive capacity. We did the opposite.. we reduced the number of homes being built and maintained, we reduced the number of clothes being manufactured, we reduced the amount of education we provided, we reduced the amount of health care provided, we reduced the number of vacations and restaurant meals that were provided, we reduced the number of cars being made (you get the picture)... we created a backlog of unmet demand.

The prices would likely have gone up even without the money printing due to this backlog of unmet demand, the additional money in the system just made the price rises bigger.
Yeah there's still a lot happening. On the other hand, the modern smartphone is really only a bit over 10 years old in terms of mainstream impact and there probably hasn't been anything else in the tech space that's so directly had a major impact on consumers since. (Probably the Web before that and the PC before that--to a lesser degree.)
You cannot entirely ignore diet and still lose weight, even with hours of exercise. Two American donuts are 700kCal.
The California DOT says they are synonymous[1]:

>High-Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes, also known as carpool or diamond lanes

[1] - https://dot.ca.gov/programs/traffic-operations/hov#:~:text=W....
upvoted you because you agreed with me
Not sure what motivation you're asking about. If you mean motivation for posting links to past discussions—it's my job to help HN be as interesting as possible (see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), and readers seem to find those links interesting.
I'm not sure about the 101 project in SF but we have exactly this in southern california and believe it or not it's been great. They integrated the HOV lanes into a Bus Rapid Transit system and use demand pricing to ensure that the lanes almost always stay moving.

AFAIK the project expenditure is covered by people who want to get there faster. In this case the city/Metro gets to deploy more public transit without having to pay for it, and without having to charge riders more money. There are plans for expansion of the system as it's been very popular.
I heartily agree modern cars look horrible. My daily driver looks horrible and it is by many considered to be "great design" (an Alfa Giulietta QV).

However, I grew up with SAABs. I hated the things. :-)

When I was a kid it was the only thing that made me car-sick, and when I started driving I couldn't stand the horrible front end feel. It felt like driving an old man's boxer shorts.

I love old cars though. Especially old Alfa Romeos. I currently have a homologation special from 1987 (The 75 Evo) and I've owned several 75s and a GTV from 1982. Yeah, old Alfas aren't reliable. And stuff just stops working for no good reason. In fact the dash of my Evo has a reset button. It is worn. Every time I brake hard the warning lights go into 1970s disco mode. You know what? I don't mind. Because it smells like a car, sounds like it means business, looks like a car, handles like a car, and it doesn't have opinions on how it is supposed to be driven. (Well, the Evo tries to kill you with its crazy 80s turbo boost, explosive horsepower delivery and no toys to rein it in, but hey, it makes you feel alive!)
Try enabling Simple List Extensions[1] on your RSS feed and see if that deletes the old items. Basically this tells the feed reader that your feed isn't a typical "stream of posts", it's a finite list. So it should be treated differently.

Newsgator used to handle that by deleting any posts not in your feed at every retrieval. So maybe Feedly would too.

If you think that guessing at the internal implementation of Feedly's code based on what a company that's been dead for years used to do sounds like a long shot, then bravo. But hey, it's worth a try, right?

It's been a minute, but I think the gist of it is adding

xmlns:cf="https://www.microsoft.com/schemas/rss/core/2005"

to your <rss> root element, and

<cf:treatAs>list</cf:treatAs>

under the <channel>. But see the link for examples. Good luck!
[1] - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/d...
This code throws a missing attribute error on Python 3.7? 'code' object has no attribute 'replace'. Is it for 2.7?
Would be nice if instead of just stealing information hackers could modify the filter list and redirect people away from propaganda.

What would it take to take over the TV broadcasting system?
Been a LONG time happy user of Pinboard.

I was looking to make automated backups of my bookmarks (not the archive) and I realized that the below (with your own values for the cookies) is a quick and easy way to pull down a json of all of your entries:

curl --cookie "s_fid=; auth=; secauth=; login=alexpotato" https://pinboard.in/export/format:json/ -o pinboard.$(date -I).json
> I'm not saying that there are no exploitable or otherwise dangerous bugs. Of course there are, but the behaviour usually comes from obvious logic bugs

Difficult-to-detect undefined behaviour is a significant problem with C and C++, otherwise it wouldn't be a major cause of serious security vulnerabilities in well-resourced, high-profile, security-sensitive C/C++ codebases.

There may also be many instances of easily-detected undefined behaviour that exist only because of sloppy software development. There may also be many instances of undefined behaviour that are relatively benign.

> and the consequences are pretty much as expected - e.g. memory gets corrupted as a consequence of an out-of-bounds write, and then almost anything could happen.

I don't think I'm seeing your point. We agree that undefined behaviour can have serious consequences.

> while this is "undefined behaviour", it is not what people mean when they complain about UB

I don't follow. Undefined behaviour is an unambiguous term of art in C and C++ programming. There are plenty of common misconceptions about UB, sure enough, but the term itself is precise.
At that point you need multiple sensors and stereo depth(Which is usually still learning, but it seems to be pretty good these days).

If a person can see it clearly with headlights, LIDAR and radar should be able to, with good enough tech.

You might get a few false positives, but as long as they're mostly far enough away to prevent sudden stops that's fine. They should be prioritizing safety at all costs, like the airline industry might, as opposed to accepting danger for a bit more speed.
When they have a GraphQL API with introspection enabled, it feels like discovering a pot of gold.

This happens more often than you would expect, even without any auth sometimes. At that point you're basically developing with the same DX as internal developers.

My theory is people just turn off the GraphiQL endpoint on their GraphQL server and think they have hidden the schema, not realizing any external tool can do the introspection. Either that or it's developers slipping a little something under the radar for other developers (same thing with source maps).

Another tip: If the service in question has a mobile app, sniffing the traffic on that with a MITM proxy can yield more interesting results than a web app.
Or really, any stimulants.
I don’t think it’s a steady growth rate.
That's like saying "I thought I'd be done with my errand in 30 minutes" when you get a parking ticket for staying 35 minutes. It doesn't matter the excuse, you are getting the ticket and maybe you'll be more careful about it in the future.
(I lead privacy products at CF and co-authored the linked post)

This—improving trust in the system and making it provable—is something we're looking to do. Having the publisher sign the hashes and publish the public key is one approach we've discussed. You'd be able to validate this out-of-band. Most users, however, likely won't go to this extent - a lot of the motivation behind this work was around automating the stuff that folks just don't do (like comparing hashes).

Longer term we'd like to get more of these capabilities into the browser itself - comparing the hash in a separate context, validating signatures, etc - so that this is scalable.

Ultimately these systems are also still built on trust: at some level there are humans in the loop, an assumption that the user's machine itself isn't compromised, and/or that the code itself is actually "correct" (for some definition of correct).
> 4. Sites not putting entire article in, only summary.

I prefer the summary and a link.
Can confirm from experience. It took me years to shake that off and become known as a developer who could database. Its a function of whatever the team lacks. Once upon a time, DBA was a thing - I did manage to stay out of that deep pigeonhole luckily.
This might be more primitive than what you're looking for: When I'm explaining something in a video or a presentation, I'll sometimes use Google Slides to put together a diagram, then duplicate the frames to make adjustments to each. Then I cycle through each quickly to give a very basic sense of animation.

Recently, I had a presentation with a diagram showing several components. One slide would have an arrow pointing from Component A to Component B. The next slide had an arrow pointing in the opposite direction. I just pressed back and forward quickly while I was explaining that these two components talk to each other. It got the message across well enough.

On the other hand, if you are explaining known concepts, there might be footage out there already for you to appropriate into your own work
Hello and congratulations on launching!

1) It sounds like the scaffold+medium+environment is meant to replace a vascular network. Have you considered growing a vascular system in/around the muscle tissue (if that's possible)?

2) Assuming you get to bulk samples, are there any plans to "exercise" the muscle tissue (e.g. with electric stimulation) to reach a desired tenderness/texture?

3) Where are you based?
Coming from MSSQL I was equally surprised that you cant query across databases in postgres even if they are on the the same server. Yeah there is the Foreign Data Wrapper thing but the DBA was very reluctant to enable it or whatever.
Python-MIP is a great library that provides an interface to many different algorithms like this. It's practical for using in scientific programming where appropriate, and if you read through the docs you can find the names of specific algorithms that it uses with pointers to where to learn more.

https://docs.python-mip.com/en/latest/intro.html
Same here. I used f.lux for a while, but the screen always got too dark/too reddish (on all but the lowest settings), straining my eyes and hurting my concentration.

In my experience it‘s sufficient to adjust the display brightness to roughly match the ambient lighting; no need for blue-light filtering.
Not an expert by any means - but if you can buy a loan with pre-inflation interest rates, then you’ll benefit from the inflation eating up some of the debt. This makes it a good time to borrow iff

1. There is something meaningful/profitable that you can do with the borrowed money

2. Your credibility allows you to buy a loan at cheap prices

3. Your inflation predictions are accurate

4. Your loan’s terms keep the interest rate fixed at a rate less than the inflation you expect

As for myself, I don’t think I can put extra capital to profitable use right now, so I’m not going to be borrowing any money.
Exactly. There is a difference between not allowed to merge and not physically able to merge.

Merging not being allowed is still dangerous because people don't always follow the rules. It might even be more dangerous than lanes that always allow merging because then at least drivers in the faster lane can prepare themselves to expect merging.

A separated lane makes it impossible (or at the very least potentially damaging to the vehicle) to merge.

Here is an example of what I think is the ideal HOV setup[1]. There are two lanes so a single slow driver can be overtaken and there are physical dividers that prevent unexpected merging. You can also see the toll signs mentioned in the article that display the passenger number set on the transponders as discussed in the article.

[1] - https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9392023,-118.2796649,3a,75y,...
Brilliantly stated. This is literally their one job.
Yet another person acting like "calories-in calories-out" is the only variable in dieting. Good grief. There's a lot of psychology to it. I've lost a bunch of weight just eating 2 meals a day and make that "the law". I don't really count calories. I eat a small plate of food that is "whole" food and not crap. probably 600-800 calories most meals. Occassionally on the weekend I'll relent on a saturday to go out with friends to dinner or movie or something. Most people are getting their extra calories by snacking and eating huge meals when they really don't need to. That's no secret to anyone. There are techniques like IF that work for some people. There also seems to be some side effects as well of less inflammation and food cravings, at least there were for me.
I always wanted a Saab-Aru - best of all worlds! 9-2X
They used to break down and they could and were repaired. Nowadays if something breaks it goes in the garbage can. I had an extension cable which died staying in the basement for a year. When i opened it to check the reason i was shocked. It looked like a spider net made of dust but this was metal.
raised floors in general are a nightmare for grounding/bonding/differences in potential between racks, the steel floor structure, the building, and electrical conduits.

there's a reason why almost nobody builds them new from a clean-sheet-of-paper design anymore for serious datacenter applications or ISP/telecom purposes, which are racks/cabinet on concrete slab and everything overhead now.

it's much easier to ground/bond everything together using some very fat copper cables run along ladder rack overhead, and bond all the racks to that.
I don't drink alcoholic drinks but I really adored the ritual of mixing. Lately I've been finding that making vinegar shrubs is a lot of fun. I recommend it if you haven't tried it. Basically the same benefits, but a little bit of the mixing fun too.
https://wiki.dji-rev.com/howto/start
It sure seems like that "war on fakes" site is full on non-debunkings of things.

This article for example is just re-printing Russian government talking points:

https://waronfakes.com/civil/fake-russian-soldiers-wont-let-...

Which is fine, the authors can believe the Russian government if you want, but declaring the statements of the other side "fake" on only that basis isn't very credible.
Correct. I would be doing some form of weight training or resistance type training as well to make sure my muscles don't evaporate. I'd also eat a high protein meal for my one meal to make sure my body had enough protein to repair/keep muscle on.

I think for most people who are looking for weight loss - this is not as much of a concern and going to the gym would likely be an extra hurdle for them that would make it too hard. So, 1 meal a day is relatively straight forward.
Me too.

On Sunday I happened to park right behind exactly the car I would try to find and buy used if my occasional-use Volvo XC70 had to be replaced: a red VW Golf Alltrack wagon with tan leather and the big sunroof and 6-speed manual. (2020 was the last model year.)

I fantasized a bit about whether I could buy one and keep it long enough for my 9yo to learn to drive stick, but of course that would be a determinedly quirky and antiquarian skill to learn by then, like writing with a quill pen or using a coal furnace. (https://www.npr.org/2019/03/03/699325560/for-the-few-who-hea...) Also the used prices have gone up since I last checked a year ago!

(What will finally put the nail in the coffin of the manual is the electric car. And--yeah, I guess I obsess about this--electric wagons from Volvo and Volkswagen will be coming to the US in the next few years, though for various marketing reasons they both shy away from the word "wagon": https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a39263104/new-volvo-evs-wa... and https://www.reddit.com/user/HDiess/comments/soje69/hi_reddit...)
are you really under the impression that vernacular expressions are always perfectly logical and thus showing how an expression would not be logical proves that it was never actually in common use?
Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars. The Nobel Prize went to her supervisor
>This strategy is vulnerable to supply-chain attacks on your information sources

There is no single strategy, there is no silver bullet. I certainly didn't intend to imply that there was. One can only make their best effort. Any strategy is going to have flaws.

>which is a far cry from astroturfing and falsehoods made out of whole cloth that Russian sources typically engage in

American mass media has historically done exactly those things. There never was a time where The News was trustworthy, unbiased, and disinterested in politics. This continues today. You can look around the Internet--at least for now--and find where people have compiled examples of mainstream American news flat-out staging a scene for the TV to give an impression that is not true, such as a long-distance zoomed in shot of a crowd that makes the few dozen protesters seem like they fill a large area.

I wouldn't downplay the editorial decisions that you mention either. That is a hugely powerful lever of control. Yanking RT or whoever from search results is exactly that, only this time it is exercised by corporate tech companies.

Finally, one can always find a reason why this thing is worse than this other thing, and one is therefore justified in doing whatever it is one wanted to do anyway. This line of argumentation rarely impresses me.
Did Linked NFTs
Hi there,

Hope you are all well.

I have a bit of an odd request.

I am looking at getting an NFT smart contract created that has the mint functionality link an NFT to a verifiable credential issued to a decentralized identifier (outside of the smart contract) instead of just an IPFS link. So maybe even in the smart contract it would link to an IPFS JSON file which contains the credential information such as the metadata and image of the NFT as well as the DID it is associated with. But this would be static, which leads me to my next point.

Therefore, there needs to be a new functionality coded that will be executed when a transfer of an NFT occurs, the verifiable credential is revoked and reissued to the new holder.

Is this possible?
> The word "debunk" does not appear on any of the 13 pages of text.

Who said the word appeared in the text? Who said the word has to appear in the text for it to be used in discussions among people?

> I have not added my own views on the subject, but merely highlighted existing words that seem to have been overlooked by some who have only read the news briefs and not the full study itself.

The words were not emphasized in the paper itself. You chose to explicitly point out certain things in order to discredit the comment you were replying to. You know exactly how your comment comes off, and by doing it you, indeed, add your own views to the subject.
I might consider adding whatever the attribute is this week (I know it's changed over the years) to prevent auto-complete. My 1Password extension keeps trying to fill in my address on the guessing field.

EDIT: Editing the page with some of the ways to disable autocomplete [0] don't seem to be working but I'm not sure if that's because 1Password binds at page load and doesn't care what I change using DevTools. In the end this is clearly 1Password's problem [0] but I sympathize with them even as I am negatively affected by it. If they had an attribute (like lastpass) we all know the worst websites/offenders on the planet (banks, intranet sites, most financial institutions, most site asking for routing/account numbers, etc) would abuse the hell out of it. It's bad enough when they try to prevent copy/pasting in. I do think they should at least provide a way to blacklist sites where you don't want to use 1Password.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/51686510/1072106

[1] https://1password.community/discussion/117501/as-a-web-devel...
Congestion pricing is one of those policies that can greatly benefit society, but causes so much anger that it’s very hard to implement.
> "Picking fights to prevent diversity? This really feels like they're trying to intentionally prevent minority and the underrepresented from joining this college."

You are indeed reading it wrong. The author is suggesting picking fights to encourage wokism to display its nature, not preventing diversity.

The author also says "For me, seeing actual injustices against minorities makes me more woke, and seeing woke people be stupid and unnecessarily combative makes me less woke." I think that sums up the attitude of a lot of people and, regrettably, the latter is winning out.