skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 4th amendment violation because DNA is scary to the lay person it seems.

There's probably a curve where it gets scary again as you know more about it.

DNA isn't just identification. It is a lot more than just a unique identifier, it is a whole history and a lot of future probabilities.

My list of SNPs is a lot less "if you have nothing to hide" about it.

Imagine a government which looks at SCN1/SCN2 before issuing a drivers license.
How do you text a username?
More broadly, this perspective applies to most (all?) "news" media sources today. Actually fringe outlets are on average much worse, passing through the land of ideology toward pure virtue-signalling.

The goal of reading news today isn't necessarily to get facts: those are accessible through implicit analysis and triangulation of the many perspectives offered for public consideration, and unfortunately that takes a lot of time and energy to the point where it needs to be one of your daily routines to get "caught up". The goal of simply reading news more generally is to understand the ideologies driving decisions in the halls of power (legislators, ministerial positions, and "deep state" a la The Blob).

Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent was treated as an instruction manual by those whom it did not already describe at publication time, and the entire public discourse has seemed to be infected by such a strain of bad-faith ideology propagation as opposed to good-faith dialectics. It is a prisoner's dilemma after all -- if you make a good-faith argument, your opponent will capitalize on it in a bad-faith manner to dominate the narrative.

The most significant positive change to my media literacy was in paying attention to which authors represent which viewpoints, and which platforms publish which authors for which reasons.
Doesn't the Steam Linux Runtime have a problem in the other direction though? Games are using libraries which are so old that they have bugs which are long since fixed or don't work properly in modern contexts. Apparently a lot of issues with Steam + Wayland comes from the ancient libraries in the Steam Linux Runtime from what I have been able to find out from googling issues I've experienced under Wayland.
This is why I stopped commenting here. HN commenters have schizophrenia it seems like.
Yes, this would definitely work, so long as the two cameras have sufficient overlap. If you were to use OpenCV's stitching code, then you could run the first few phases of that on your initial photo pair, which determine the camera angles, and then save those angles.

Then, for every video frame, you could skip the photo angle computation, and just run the imagine stitching logic. The stitching_detail code is very readable, and quite easy to hack for experimentation.
I never had any spam come to my =@domain email address, despite being scrapeable on the web. ;)
> These screenings are mandatory in the US. (Parents don’t have to provide consent, although they may opt out on religious grounds.)
I'd still say Go doesn't have a "package manager". The dependencies are fetched, cached & built as you need it, but there's nothing comparable to "npm i"/"npm uninstall", dpkg/rpm/apk/etc, as such. If you want, you can just import example.com/foo/bar in your source, and the rest is just reproducability (version & hash) and caches.
In my experience the W1-equipped headphones all work flawlessly, pairing is instant. The only thing that is still annoying is the difficulty of managing multiple devices & headphones, when the built-in 'right thing to do' (like connecting to the last used device) can conflict with your real intent.
I don't want information density, I want a reliable and secure communication device. Sometimes less is more.
Then use urbit. It already exists.
MMA fights
It claims itself as an "embedded" processor, so it likely just wasn't meant to run PC OSes. According to Wikipedia at least, Intel did not even expect the 286 to be used for PCs, but for things such as PBXs. And ARM Cortex M still doesn't have an MMU either, for some applications you can just do without. Especially because both the 286 and this 376 beast did have segmentation, which could subsume some of the need for an MMU (separated address spaces, if you don't need paging and are content with e.g. buddy allocation for dividing available memory among tasks).
I was just waiting for a comment like this as I anticipate getting the 10G at some point.

From what I've been able to tell, at 10G speeds, you pretty much have to build your own. Currently, I'm planning to get a SFFPC, stick a quad port 10G card in it, maybe run ESXi, router OS TBD: VyOS, DANOS, OpenWRT?
Tell me why everyone spells HIPAA wrong. (It's the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
I love Keybase, but I would never recommend it today.

Zoom acqui-hired the team in 2020: https://blog.zoom.us/zoom-acquires-keybase-and-announces-goa...
Do you believe that the views you perceive as ignorant and contradictory, are objectively ignorant and contradictory? Could there be any bias in your perception?
It's the other way around, Samsung rolls out custom UI which changes and bypasses animations.
single might be fine,family with kids could be quite different
To be honest, I am not sure HIPAA exists anymore in any way but name these days. In the advent of apps, that information flows way too freely. Case in point, Alex Jones' lawyer was able to obtain medical history of the defendants.

That said, it may be time to actually demand some basic protections in that sphere.
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Research is the big/obvious one.
The issue here is that we have the evaluate the impact of boiling that ocean. Is it a robust, punt of an appropriate learning? Should we reach out and leverage that decision to ensure we're giving 110% before we sent it over the wall? Best practice, the bleeding edge of best practice, is to empower employees. There are far too many moving parts to avoid the low-hanging fruit. One of our core competencies is leveraging out of pocket individuals to avoid jumping the shark, because as we all know, when it's time to make hay, make hay. Just some blue sky thinking from our last thought shower is to drill down into our core values before sending the key takeaways over to our tiger team. That way, the S.W.A.T. team can make sure we're not moving the goalposts. What we really need is the bandwidth to gain traction on this aha moment ensuring this becomes a game changer, not just short term. We need to bring to the table any mission critical silver bullets, while keeping our stakeholders in the loop. In the end, we should consider trimming the fat, hard stop.

I hate business lingo, and it's everywhere. Constant.
> Say for example you have leukemia later in life. A researcher wants to study what it is about your leukemia that makes it different from the rest of your blood.

That could still be done if the data/samples were anonymized and the ID were only given to the patient. For general research, anonymized would also work perfectly fine.
Apple is allegedly threatening to fire an employee over a viral TikTok video
I’ve been trying this out as an alternative to python-for-android, for an Android app which can’t quite escape its Python dependency. I really like its scope, compared to P4A: it plugs in to the build system we already have, and it’s just there to execute some Python. And the development workflow is great if you’re willing to put up with Android Studio.
Go modules are defined in terms of Zip files. Multiple version control systems work today. But don't let facts stop you hatin'.
>Concerns about Diablo Canyon were revived in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, a reactor that was vulnerable due to its location on the coast.

That's hardly a valid concern. "The elevation of the Fukushima site is approximately 20 feet [6m] above sea level, while Diablo Canyon sits on a bluff 85 feet [26m] above sea level." [Wikipedia]

Furthermore, people seem to ignore one of the very favorable attributes of Diablo Canyon - it was designed to be paired with a large pumped storage facility, so that power generated overnight is available for peak use during the day.

"The Helms Pumped Storage project was designed to be used with the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, also owned by PG&E, in the 1970s, when Diablo Canyon was being designed and permitted. It is connected to that power plant by a dedicated high-tension power line." [Wikipedia]
Hey! I was a bit frustrated by not finding a place where I could practice touch typing using my own code snippets, so I built CodeTyper. Any feedback is appreciated.
It’s not my personal style, but there’s plenty of high functioning teams in different domains headed by leaders who communicate like Torvalds. From Amy Klonuchar throwing binders (https://www.businessinsider.com/amy-klobuchar-throwing-binde...) to tons of high level folks in banking, law firms, etc.

Put differently, you can construct a high functioning team composed of certain personalities who can dish out and take this sort of communication style without burning out on it.
Oh, I’ve never realized replies could be made to come from the right email. I manually add addresses as-needed (once a month or so).

I think there’s an unofficial Terraform provider but I haven’t looked recently.
Android 13 Is Out, and Is Heading to Pixel Phones
Android 13 is out. The brand new version of Google's operating system had not been expected to launch until September but has now been published to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and Google has confirmed that it is being pushed out to Pixel devices immediately.
On an iPhone, what does 'sharing your contact list' imply ?

Does the app get just name and phone numbers or all the meta data like address and personal notes that I put into my contacts ? I haven't been able to figure this out - does anyone know what Apple's policy is on this ?
> don’t store any messages on their side

Google Play services are still required for the official builds because of the (unverifiable to be really) encrypted backups.

> everything is client-side

Signal's FOSS fork developers would disagree. They got outright legal problems after they wanted to implement an open source alternative. Most APIs in regards to contact management are server-side. There's Molly as a younger fork but I'm waiting for Signal to write them also a cease and desist letter.

Honestly this is why I think that Signal should be treated the same like WhatsApp. Supposedly end to end encrypted, but only until you suddenly have the FBI with printed out chats in front of your door.

As long as Signal uses proprietary services and contains proprietary blobs in their (default aka Play store-provided) app we have to treat it as an unsecure messaging system.

Especially given the RCEs that it had in the past, where it was as simple as injecting an HTML with a script tag to install malware on your system.
But the market is for paper gold, so the price is for paper gold.

Realistically, if you want some actual gold a lot of that price is going to be about delivery, storage, verification, etc, etc. The paper gold probably helps divert people who just want to bet on the price of gold away from the people who actually gold to do work (though inevitably the two groups will affect the price the other pays).
Ethanol subsidies.

https://www.masterresource.org/political-capitalism/adm-etha...

> Thanks to federal protection of the domestic sugar industry, ethanol subsidies, subsidized grain exports, and various other programs, ADM has cost the American economy billions of dollars since 1980 and has indirectly cost Americans tens of billions of dollars in higher prices and higher taxes over that same period.

> At least 43 percent of ADM’s annual profits are from products heavily subsidized or protected by the American government. Moreover, every $1 of profits earned by ADM’s corn sweetener operation costs consumers $10, and every $1 of profits earned by its ethanol operation costs taxpayers $30….
Well, that's not how its really used per say. They aren't looking for behavioral features, they are looking for pattern matches not unlike a fingerprint. The advantage of this versus a fingerprint is the heritability aspect. You share half your DNA with either parent and you can proportionally estimate degree of shared dna for relatives in a geneology. That means they don't have to make sure the killer is in the finger print database, a distant relative and some math can in practice expand your database.
I agree that Signal does have several questionable design decisions, but that's not one of them. You can get a sim, register with it, and take it back out. There, no location. Or even better, you can simply get a voip number.

Bottom-line, despite Signal's issues it is still the #1 IM app that I recommend to "normal people" seeking to have private conversations. No, it's not perfect, yes, it's a massive improvement over facebook/instagram/whatsapp/telegram/etc.
Lots of other devices are also set to receive the update, although you'll have to wait a little longer before you see it on those. Samsung's One UI 5, which is based on Android 13, is currently in beta testing and is expected to be released in October.
Given people have been mining and coveting gold for thousands of years that is an incredibly small amount given the scale of the earth and other mineral deposits. Looking at gold's well known cousin - Silver which from the beginning of time has seen 1.5 Million tons mined, interestingly enough 90% of that amount has been thrown away - https://www.jmbullion.com/investing-guide/james/silver-suppl...
I took a genomics class. Guest presenter was someone who did genetic forensics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Bieber#National_and_...

Family Search first used in California in 2010. The "Grim Sleeper" serial murderer. They first tried in 2008 but no match. Trying again 2010 yeilded a result.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim_Sleeper#Arrest_and_furthe...

"Police had found no exact match between DNA found at the crime scenes and any of the profiles in California's DNA profile database, so they searched the database for stored profiles that demonstrated sufficient similarity to allow police to infer a familial relationship. They found similar DNA belonging to Franklin's son, Christopher, who had been convicted of a felony weapons charge in 2008. Christopher was too young to have committed the murders, but the familial DNA match led investigators to look at his father, Lonnie, as the likely perpetrator."

its a little fraught, because some states take DNA from those who have committed crimes..
I feel compelled to note that I was cribbing my observation from a similar one made by Guy Steele, who ran into similar trouble finding a non-trivial example to justify the necessity of tail calls in an object oriented language [1]:

> (someone's criticism): The objection to TCO that you're trying to answer is that it's rarely helpful in the real world. So you have to find real-world examples to refute that. An impractically-slow set isn't a real-world example.

> (GLS response): I wish I could fit a real-world example onto a blog page. The best I can do is to exhibit a "toy" example that illustrates the basic idea.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110716163344/http://projectfor...
HIPAA not HIPPA.

Since search warrants were issued, rather than healthcare data volunteered by healthcare providers, HIPAA doesn't apply at all.

> Covered entities may disclose protected health information to law enforcement officials for law enforcement purposes as required by law (including court orders, court-ordered warrants, subpoenas) and administrative requests; or to identify or locate a suspect, a fugitive, a material witness, or a missing person.
Loops email company releases cereal as swag
I don't see why this is incorrect. It seems ever since DALL-E, Midjourney, caught on, it seems like we've got more and more people trying to 'filter out' incorrect uses of their software under the assumption people cannot be trusted to just use it for whatever they want.

And it depresses me, because well... imagine if other pieces of tech were treated this way. If the internet or crypto or computers or whatever were heavily limited/restricted so the 'wrong people' couldn't use them for bad things. We'd consider it ridiculous, yet it's somehow accepted for these image generation systems.
But are they gold coins? We can see Scrooge diving into and swimming through it. Either they are light and have low plasticity, or Scrooge is denser than any known element, and stronger than any known living creature.
There are two issues here. First, you constantly leave DNA everywhere. You are literally shedding it, even when you are not committing a crime. It is _guaranteed_ that DNA of innocent people ends up at crime scenes. While it is certainly useful at _confirming_ a suspect, it is way less powerful when trying to _find_ a suspect.

Second, DNA matching is a matter of chance. While comparing a sample to a single potential match is extremely reliable, comparing a sample to a population is not. You're basically running into a birthday paradox here: given a large enough dataset, false matches are guaranteed to happen.

If you use biometrics databases like this, you basically end up reverting the burden of proof: your DNA was at the crime scene, can you explain how it got there if you are indeed innocent?
After eleven-year wait, Atlassian customers promised custom domains in 2023
Of course there will be misses or extreme predictions. However, the fact remains that climate and environmental scientists, among several others, have been warning about these things for going on a century now.

The detrimental effects of a technocratic-oriented society have been predicted since Lewis Mumford to the publishing of Limits of Growth and onward. The effects are social, economic, and environmental, and the general gist of the predictions has come true. Actions have consequences and we're at the point where we can't engineer our way out of our problems.
Not sure what the GP was on, "exemplarily" is a word but not often used, at least in speech (vs say "in an exemplary manner". Though in this case that doesn't work, perhaps "clear and exemplary" though it doesn't quite mean the same thing). "Dailily" is definitely not ("daily" is both an adjective and adverbial form).
I don't want to. Why is the assumption that starting a business is the default option and if you aren't doing it you're being held back?
Things change as time goes by. People move, territories get occupied, families change religion, people adopt other religions, countries expand and shrink. Ottomans occupied Bosnia for 300 years and now there is a muslim majority. My family used to be Orthodox and now my side is Catholic. Christianism didn't exist 3000 years ago. Are you saying these regions (Croatia/Serbia/BiH) are actually some paganic/slavic/pre-slavic whatever this is? None of the "big religions" existed 10 000 years ago yet humans existed for 200 000 years or whatever. What were they 100 000 years ago? Isn't this argument a bit meaningless?
Wade gave a memorable talk during our YC batch. When asked how he ran Zapier remotely, which was unusual at the time, he said something along the lines of "When I want to talk with the team, I open Slack. When I want to file a support ticket, I open Zendesk."

Ironically, we were the last in-person batch that was cut short by COVID, so his comments turned out to be quite helpful.
Agreed. 1.0x animation speed feels like molasses. 0.5x animation speed feels like it ought to be the default.
> Apple is allegedly threatening to fire an employee who posted a TikTok video with basic iPhone security tips. The employee, Paris Campbell, says she was told that she breached company policy by identifying herself as an Apple employee and posting about Apple-related topics.

The tiktok video in question:
https://www.tiktok.com/@stopitparis/video/712957297327037162...
As they said, this is when you transfer out of GoDaddy...
I really, really miss such a feature with glibc. There are so many times when I just want to copy a simple binary from one system to another and it won't work simply because of symbol versioning and because the target has a slightly older glibc. Just using Ubuntu LTS on a server and the interim releases on a development machine is a huge PITA.
TIL. I enabled master password on my work browser before I finished reading the article.

Seems obvious now
Not a myth. 20 years on, still receiving spam to an email address I used to order a male enhancement product.
I don't get why they need to store it to screen it.
Many hospitals have enough radioactive isotopes to create some really nasty dirty bombs - yet you never see the same level of discussion around physical security for them; perhaps because most people don't realize just how frequently radioactive isotopes are used for things other than nuclear power?
The constant demonization of nuclear power has lead to this pathological loathing that is really shooting us all in the foot.
It's an hour and twenty minute walk from Slab City to the nearest civilized area (Niland), which is stretching "civilized" a little. You'll need a car to get to a hospital, clinic, or real supermarket, not just some water, and a hat.
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It is very common for embedded systems processors not to have an MMU. If it ran any OS at all it would likely have been some kind of RTOS.
where does Telegram fit in your opinion?

genuine question from someone oblivious to messaging advances in the last decade.
Supabase CLI v1 and Admin API Beta
The problem with ethanol in power equipment is that it tends to dissolve rubber seals/tubes. For some reason small engine manufacturers were extremely slow to switch to ethanol safe rubber and as a result one of the most common failure modes is for the carburetor jets to clog up with nasty semi-dissolved rubber. It's also just the case that people keep their old 80s and 90s lawn mowers running because they only put a couple dozen hours of runtime on the things each year so they don't tend to die except when the ethanol wrecks the fuel system.
To this date I'm perplexed by how hard it is to send anything from one device to another in close proximity.

I remember being surprised when the first BT capable (Motorola?) phone I had couldn't send photos to a laptop, maybe twenty years ago. iPhones never got that ability over bluetooth. Airdrop is still hit and miss.

Bump.me was the closest thing to perfection, unfortunately Facebook acquired and immediately threw it in the dumpster.
The health data is not being used for criminology purposes. Only the pattern of the DNA so yes its like using the pattern of your fingerprint or even your iris or other sources of unique biologically identifiable material you have on your person.
Isn't Keybase semi-abandoned? There hasn't been a blog post since 2020 when they were acquired by Zoom.
I second recommending Briar as a messenger. Codebase is well maintained. Specifications and documents are audited, as well as the official clients.
Another rule: You don't have to hear a weird idea as a fact, you can hear it on the basis of someone else's experience.
Is there a genetic component to being a skilled and/or safe driver?

Society as a whole would probably be a lot better off if we stopped pretending driving around 4,000-lb hunks of metal at 80mph/130kph was some sort of inalienable right and actually showed some discretion in who was allowed to do it and who wasn't. But it's not realistic, especially if you live outside of a city.
How would you rephrase my comment above?

("This is exemplarily clear communication from a government agency.")