skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a fan. The book is great. You should all read it. I appreciate medical professionals running checklists when loved ones and I step foot in hospitals, and all other attention to quality assurance in medicine.

That said, the surgical safety checklist is sort of the ultimate "evidence-based medicine" slight-of-hand scam - if implementing a checklist program does not reduce surgical complications that would be prevented by following the checklist perfectly every time, then they just weren't doing it right!
DHS workers indicted for trying to silence China critics in the US
Excellent point. Here's an important PSA: https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/
Everyone else ;)
I'd love to see range data on the USA Cars tab
How insect 'civilisations' recast our place in the Universe
I've been doing this for so long that I've gained years of experience in React, Angular, and Vue. You said simple front-end development and there's nothing easier than Vue, hands down. The syntax is so easy and segregated perfectly; no JSX wild-west ugliness or fucking with a minefield of observable and subscriber pipe functions. It's easy to get started, encourages clean code, and very readable. It boggles my mind how there's so few VueJS jobs available despite the advantage. I think part of it is just developer laziness in picking up yet another library, which I totally understand. Unfortunately I'm stuck in React and Angular land 90% of the time and hate it.
Love the color scheme in the banner at the top! Great update!
7 years old, citing an even older study, but this bears repeating, as this is not a new phenomenon, only more visible now (and therefore, I would argue, much less insidious):

The authors also submitted different test studies to different peer-review boards. The methodology was identical, and the variable was that the purported findings either went for, or against, the liberal worldview (for example, one found evidence of discrimination against minority groups, and another found evidence of "reverse discrimination" against straight white males). Despite equal methodological strengths, the studies that went against the liberal worldview were criticized and rejected, and those that went with it were not.

https://theweek.com/articles/441474/how-academias-liberal-bi...
The gist of this article basically is:

"Activist-minded employees were unable to stop a show from being aired on the platform of their employer and now they cry murder."

Meh. The cancel culture cannot last and this was becoming increasingly obvious lately -- partly due to companies waking up to the obvious fact that a loud minority doesn't represent any majority out there, and partly because some start to understand that being loud and obnoxious about your beliefs only makes the common folk hate you.

There's time and place for activism and its advocates have long ago crossed many acceptable boundaries. Trying to invent a sensational story out of executives saying (once) "sorry but this time we disagree" is only making the activists look bad -- especially if we try and not forget the fact that they are employees and the employers are the power wielders.

If I were them, I'd take my 80-90% success ratio and be happy with it and not cry that it's not 100%.

And finally, the cancel culture is just censorship with a colorful paint job. Whatever happened to USA's love for free speech?
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I'm happy other people are doing this. I gradually started doing this a couple years ago when there was one specific feature of Lotus Manuscript I couldn't find in google docs. In addition to using local apps, I'm also using more apps in the terminal. I've even come to terms with Lynx.
> Also typical of elite U.S. universities, UCLA is awash in Jew-hatred thinly disguised as anti-Zionism. [...] More recently, the Asian-American Studies Department posted to its website a statement accusing Israel of settler colonialism, racial apartheid, and so on.

> I find myself thinking a lot lately about the deficit of imagination among people who consider themselves savvy and sophisticated.

Indeed.
Be sure to continue watch also the rest of the video, amazing spot on prediction for amongst other things working from home.

Sort of wish I could work from home distraction free with a typewriter on my kitchen table though, instead having to be constantly be distracted by slack, zoom, email etc.

'79 seems like a much simpler time.
You're right, it sounds like it should be easy to avoid these cartoonishly bad outcomes, but unfortunately reality doesn't always meet our expectations.

"Why Germany is digging up its nuclear waste"

"But the waste had to be stored somewhere, so the voices that warned against selecting Asse II were ignored."

"The office concluded that the risk of groundwater contamination was too big, and the only truly safe option was to retrieve all the waste from the mine and store it elsewhere."

https://euobserver.com/eu-political/132085

(Thank you for offering a fact-based criticism, though, rather than just angrily downvoting.)
For those who are anti abortion, this isn’t a case of speeding in another state but rather going to another state to commit murder of an innocent. Considering the stakes they will do everything in their power to hinder people from attaining legal abortions.
That's exactly how it feels for me to look at the magazine rack in a drugstore, except that little to none of it is interesting.
You don't actually need to run a server for bookmark management (his example).
Oh, you don't need to use python if you don't want to. Brain.js happily runs in a broswer.
The complaint is that many people don't trust Facebook (or Meta or whatever they change their name to tomorrow) and don't want a _Facebook_ account. The title implies that their needs will be met: that they will be able to buy Oculus hardware without having to interact with Facebook's data-gathering. But that's a lie: they are just rebranding the name of the login system, not actually changing anything.

The title (currently "A Facebook account is no longer required to use Meta VR devices (oculus.com)" which is not the title of the article) is specifically written to get the attention of that Facebook-distrusting group and in that way is explicitly and I believe intentionally misleading.
China uses search engines to spread propaganda
It sounds like the problem is with its dependency with headless-gl, but still you have a point
“Horrified” “monstrous” “inhumane”

The language the left uses to describe anything they disagree with is shrill and argumentative. Very tired of it.

Also crime prediction software isn’t making any alarm bells go off for me, especially if it is effective at reducing the murders and gun violence that happens all the time in my city.
He really does like to violate all the norms.
The claim is that if you opt out, it's disabled, yes. However, I object, fundamentally, to the entire concept of using my device to check my content for your legal requirements.

If I store content on your server, yes, absolutely, you can use your resources to check the stuff I've stored for what you define as badness.

But Apple's system is using my device to scan for their definition of badness. If they'd then said, "And this allows us to do iCloud E2EE," well, OK, this is a discussion to have. Except they didn't and haven't. It is, as designed, "I use my device to scan stuff for you, and then you can still scan it."

And as a direct result, the EU is now pushing for "badness scanning" in all sorts of E2EE channels, to include searching for "grooming" in text chats. "But Apple said they could do it! Why can't you do the same thing?" is a valid argument from a politician's point of view.

KaiOS doesn't have anything in the way of photo uploading in the first place.
> constantly pumping out papers that conclude nuclear energy has highest costs, highest danger, will leave unsolvable toxic waste problems, renewable energy is extremely cheap, building enough storage is no problem etc.

Isn't your choice of telling them false based purely on political agenda? Same happens on other side of the camp, both believe their science is actual science.
Block third party cookies and youre good, no? Havent seen personalized ads in years and the only sites not working are the ones Im not using anyways.
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31918433
Right, I'm saying that it's not about human readability, it's about parser (and I suppose grep) readability. So the goal is to make the parse easier with as little effort on the part of the programmer as possible.

The whole word function would take up an unnecessarily large part of a line for that purpose.
I get what you are saying but I see this as pretty dystopian. It's easy to measure the harms that happen, but what about the other side of the coin? What about the friends you never met because you couldn't speak to other people? What about the legal sexual encounters? Maybe even love?

Especially during covid lockdowns when people were meeting much less in person than normal, social connection through games was important.
They rely on the (so far correct) assumption that a lock-out from the EU isn't politically intended. Cf Safe Harbour, Privacy Shield, which were both intended to prevent exactly that but failed to do so. (IMHO because the US and EU legislation on privacy are so fundamentally opposed that truly reconciling them will be impossible)

Edit: in the meantime the occasional slap on the wrist by regulators is just the cost of doing business in the EU
Jesus...

Actually now I can imagine the VR version of Twitch. A bit creepier I think.
Also, making a big stink "giving up tenure" after decades of teaching there to become a professor emeritus who's receiving a full pension and launching your IDW blog seems like a good hustle.
Equivocating alt-right like Breitbart with Jacobin is a stretch. Can you link to a specific situation at Jacobin’s that you find to be too extreme to be not quality journalism and that should not allow it on HN?

The west takes from all sorts of people all the time. In and outside their borders. The world continues without the killing of people [by class].
Do you think it’s a risk that more authoritarian and belligerent states develop them first?

War has been a constant force in human history up to and including the present day. I would greatly prefer that if such weapons exist that my society has access to them if others are sure to follow.

For that reason I think it’s ethical to work on weapons technology. You could be a principled pacifist, but I think that’s self defeating. Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons, that did not bring them peace. Arguably if they had nukes, they would not be at war.
I did explore quite a bit of my home city just by wandering to map stuff in OpenStreetMap.
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That's true, it's interesting that they keep that requirement. To be precise, this only applies to non-us residents/citizens.

I haven't seen renewed analysis about vaccine efficacy at limiting spread and mutations, it's almost impossible to find unbiased non-politically charged information around it.

The US gov website seem to mention it's due to CDC advice to contain spread and mutations, but my initial assumption was that it could be because they want to avoid having to provide medical care to severely ill people.
At 12 or 13, I was being dropped off at the basement apartment of some creepy old dude who ran an Atari BBS and held open houses for the most engaged members.

From everything I saw/noticed, it was 100.0% on the up and up, but as a parent of kids that age now, the thought horrifies me.
Huawei asks your support for global surveillance with new AirTag competitor
Then you need to trust your friends, because copy/paste and screenshots exist.
The Pinephone has a LoRa capable add-on case, but the software still is in its infancy: https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-pinephone-pro-pindio-lo...

The Pocket Popcorn Computer might be closer to what you are looking for, if and when it will be ready for purchase.
https://pocket.popcorncomputer.com/
65 billion kWh from Nuclear and 45 billion kWh from solar, actually...

111 billion kWh from wind, 30 billion kWh from bio gas, 18 billion kWh from hydro, 156 billion kWh from coal, 65 billion kWh from gas.

25% of the total was from coal, making coal the single largest but source for energy in Germany.
I've been thinking about this idea recently and finally I've stumbled across a real world implementation!
I believe it also assumes significant input from biomass, which has a very large effect on the amount of land area needed because of the extremely low power/area of biomass.
Theranos former president found guilty on all fraud counts
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The article is about employees pressuring Netflix into taking down content that is deemed offensive. I was speaking about that.
I would expect most people spend most of their time at home and at work, so that doesn't really surprise me.
> Also crime prediction software isn’t making any alarm bells go off for me

Do you see any similarities with redlining? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
I personally think that one reason why Alan lost his interrest in Squeak was partly based on the community that was too conservative and too much Smalltalk-80 oriented - while Smalltalk does not fit into his vision well already since 1976.
For home-lab/internal UIs, you can go a long way with the auto-generated model-admin pages from Django. If you just need CRUD and actions triggered on a list of models, you can typically avoid any UI work and just define a few Admin classes, and if you need to make custom forms it's quite easy using Django's templating machinery to override individual pages.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/contrib/admin/

A similar modular admin system that's more generic is https://www.forestadmin.com/, I think this one has a layout editor too. But that one requires a REST API and so it may require more plumbing, depending on what you've already built. Or it could fit nicely on top of what you already have, if you already have APIs for everything.
Sunny Balwani, Former Theranos COO, Found Guilty of 12 Criminal Charges
Here you go. Click your country's flag to see your results https://www.enforcementtracker.com (if you're European, that is).
Your observations highlight additional oddities about the linked-to essay.

What school has a pro-LGBTQ stance and teaches a unit on identity, including trans-identity which asserts ' if you feel uncomfortable in your body, it means you are transgender', before teaching a sex ed course?

Has your daughter's school taught about trans-identity yet? If yes, how have the conservative parents in your state permitted it?

If not - which I think is the more likely case - where did her multiple trans and gender-fluid friends learn about the concept?

It seems to me those same external, non-school sources could also have informed the 28 students in the linked-to essay, no matter what the school taught.

Which would undermine the theory proposed in the essay.
This looks very cool. I appreciate the emphasis on simplicity and ease of use.
I sometimes think about buying one of those LoRa arduino shields for some experiments. What exactly is proprietary in these?
Rules only apply to little people. Certainly not to the nobility.
I tried and tried to get co-workers to use S/MIME. I was reliably able to get one other person on board, but no one else wanted the go through the hassle (and its not that much hassle!). So the two of us eventually abandoned it.
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Pension funds, insurance companies and SWFs don't reason like individuals, they have to put their money to work and for them the vast majority is govt. bonds anyway, even in the past 10 years.

By the same token they have to decide what to do with the 15-20% which isn't bonds. Just as a matter of portfolio construction you don't want to be in equities, don't want to be in Venture. Only Real Estate and Infrastructure are left
It isn't Netflix to techies, it's Netflix to a vocal minority of employees who feel their values on whats fit to air should trump all others, even public demand. As evidenced by the ton of people who watched Dave Chapelle's special.

The culture of openness was about feedback germane to the engineering process. Example:

"a software engineer, wrote a memo shortly after he started about improvements the engineering organization needed to make in how it tested the Netflix app. The engineer didn’t hold back, openly calling out dysfunction and identifying unnecessary obstacles to the process. “My manager was really happy,” he recalls. “She said, ‘This is the kind of context we are looking for people to bring up.’ ”"

Theres a big difference between engineers being encouraged to point out flaws in the engineering org and those who want to police content. If an engineer is qualified to decide what content airs, then so is everyone else, including every employee at Netflix, or Netflix's user base.
That doesn't make any sense because Russian companies are significant suppliers within the nuclear power production logistics footprint.

edit: eg. https://www.wired.com/story/the-nuclear-reactors-of-the-futu...
Thanks for pointing this out - determining when code snippets are relevant is something we're actively working on.
> The code itself is messy, with large chunks commented out and the app repeatedly logging debug messages to the phone itself.

[…]

> For this new analysis of the code, a source provided a copy of the Anom APK as a standalone file which Motherboard then decompiled.

This doesn't add up. The code snippets they show are decompiled obfuscated Java. But compilation->decompilation wouldn't have preserved comments from the original source code.

Sometimes Java decompilers spit out chunks of code they don't understand as commented-out sections for manual analysis. Maybe Motherboard is misinterpreting this output? And, yeah, decompiled Java is gonna be messy, especially if the compiled code was obfuscated, as looks to be the case here.
Homeland security workers indicted in scheme to silence China critics in U.S.
This is one way you can use the rf95modem firmware.
It turns your lora esp32/cortex-m0 board just into a modem that can be accessed via usb/serial or bluetooth low energy (or even WiFi) and can be paired with any device and speaks the same text-based command "language" via all its different configurable interface options.
Nothing app specific is stored on the microcontroller and no extra drivers are needed on the actual applications' device, so it can easily be passed around between different users or attached to IoT sensors to form D2D networks.

But for mass adoption lora has a bit too many limitations such as bandwidth, duty-cycle restrictions and also the energy consumption if you have devices constantly listening and not going into deep sleep.

Nevertheless, there are usecases where it is super helpful to have relatively affordable long range communication devices that you can easily attach to almost any system.
At issue is what we are expected to call most of these things.

Home heating and utility-scale electrical power generation are different in kind, not just scale. They merit different language.
You can do the same thing with Bluetooth LE, which everyone already has.

Low-bandwidth, but doesn't require any "human in the loop" to establish the mesh.
Steve Martin has a banjo song about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htTLWC1unMc
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Nope, same thing. Both sides want to use government to impose rules on other people's bodies and both are afraid the government will have a free lunch on harvesting data and target individuals through them. If you think one is justified and the other is not is the differentiating factor, its your own ideological/religious bias talking.
"The left" is far from the only section of society that criticizes this issue. It's been pretty universally panned by all corners of society - save for those on the far, far right obsessed with an imaginative idea of social purity that can somehow be enforced by a hard line drawn in the sand.
The terminal improvements are worth their weight.

"Recent folders" is going to be very useful. So is command history.

The other thing worth the love is "disable notifications", and the merge conflict tool.
Also, as a more near term issue, say next 1000 years, what happens in case of war? Right now number of nuclear plants are so few that each could be tracked by the world, e.g. Russia getting hold of Chernobyl area was frightening. But if there are 10 times or even 100 times more number of plants in many more countries, some country will use some other's nuclear plant to prove collateral damage, what Iraq did to Kuwait(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwaiti_oil_fires)
July 8 99% of the world’s population in sunlight simultaneously?
It appears you are confusing copyright infringement with theft. At least in the US, these are very different things.
I mean, modems and faxes in effect just whistle into the phone line. At some level of proficiency, you might be able to do that yourself ;)

Afaik phone phreaking used a variety of whistling devices of different complexity: from https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/02/phone-phreaks-the-t...

to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box
I would be very interested if any of the HN readers here are either students at UCLA, or were within the last three or four years, to be able to comment on whether this depiction of the intellectual attitude there is overwrought or not.

For that matter, anyone who's been in a public university in the last three or four years, PERSONALLY (not just telling me what you've read about, I've read those articles as well), either as student or professor, I would be interested.
Running local offline applications made a lot more sense before we had multiple devices (phones, tables) home computer, work computer.

If I want to use a bookmarking tool I want to use the same tool to store entries in during my work day. I'd also want to check something if I'm outside with a friend and want to show them something I bookmarked a week ago.
This is on the assumption I want to host it online. I don't want the task to maintain a web server and pay for its cost. I just want to be able to it use it locally. I want to be able to send it to a family/friend and they can run it themselves.
It’s a norms violation, sure, but norms are norms, not laws, for a reason. If the relationship was consensual this is all just gossip.
Considering the criticism here is that it's racist, isn't it odd that black Americans want increased police presence in their communities when compared to whites?

> The share of Black adults who say police spending in their area should be decreased has fallen 19 percentage points since last year (from 42% to 23%), including a 13-point decline in the share who say funding should be decreased a lot (from 22% to 9%). The share of White and Hispanic adults who say funding for local police should be decreased also declined over this period, but not as much.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/10/26/growing-sha...
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What is a logical merge conflict?
Is the "8 GPU cores" a typo?