skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Payment doesn't balance out, but when you are buying something, you are ordering its continued production and sale

Here's a counter-example - the last legal sale of a product about to be banned.

In July 1989, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued the Asbestos Ban and Phase-Out Rule (overturned in 1991 by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans).

The rule banned the manufacture, import, and processing of asbestos product in three stages. The stage one ban included asbestos/cement flat sheet, like asbestos shingles, starting on August 27, 1990.

However, sales of existing stock were allowed to continue until August 25, 1992. (See https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/nps57f.pdf for full details.)

People bought existing stock because, for example, replacing a few broken shingles is a lot cheaper than replacing all of the siding.

Yet clearly the purchase was not an order for continued production.

And the last legal sale (assuming the ban had stayed in place) would not have been an order for continued sales.

Since that last payment isn't ordering the continued production and sale of asbestos shingles, according to the Toothpaste Argument, what is it doing?

There are other banned products, like the prohibition of "Methylene Chloride in Paint and Coating Removal for Consumer Use" https://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-t... where the ban went into effect after November 22, 2019.

Someone was the last consumer to buy paint with methylene chloride.
This is not an industry for the emotionally sensitive, sanctimonious, or petulant.
I also do that and even take it a step further for my silly hobby sites. I only accept HTTP/2.0 which blocks 99% of the bots and most search engines. Bing is the only search engine that appears to support H2 in their crawler bots.
Unfortunately even tea is too caffeine intense for me so I've been sticking to decaffeinated coffee. A factoid, the color of a tea does not relate to its caffeine content.
That's basically what DNS RBLs are.
$80,000 is hardly the measure of a true professional these days surely?
Obesity implies high BMI, but not vice versa.

Fat is not the only way to be heavy, body builders have very high BMI value yet have very different risk profiles.
There is a rare, rare, rare chance you can some weird diseases that mess up insulin sensitivity, so you can be skinny and have issues. Those are rare and not solved by diet and exercise.

Otherwise if your insulin is high, you need to diet and exercise. Measuring blood insulin is a lab procedure - you go to a collection lab, you get jabbed, they mail it for testing.

Measuring BMI requires stepping on a scale and knowing how tall you are.
This is like saying "Cool. Let me pay $10,000 for a Ferrari. I already have a tricycle."
Java was the language of choice when I was at university. The way they described it to us, was that everything about it was designed with teamwork (and large teams) in mind. I don't know how well it really did that even by the standards of the era of its introduction, but it has the air of plausibility.

Certainly, I expect anyone who is used to that style to prefer to encounter and work with Java written in that style over Java written in the style of C.

> And yet Perl became popular.

As I recall, the joke being that it was a "write only" language.
Pop Culture Detective did a video on the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3-hOigoxHs
Yes, you’re on HN. You’re going to be seeing mostly positive things said about him from this user base.

As for elaboration - I can only implore you to go look at the history of his actions.
Yeah, it smells of highly reactionary and ripe with erroneous assumptions combined with the arrogance that they are the first to think of the risks and no one could’ve possibly done the analysis even if their jobs depended on a success.
The statistical measure I was talking about does some more complex calculation and takes into account the different iteration of the rocket as well.

In low sample size cases such measures are a better predictor of the future.

Insurance rates also reflect this same reality, as SpaceX has industry leading safety rating.

If I can find this document again I will send it, but somehow I can't find the damn thing.
I understand that they've been using data collected by satellites since 1979, but they didn't even come up with the model until 99, and released the paper on it in 2003, so the model was used retrospectively on data previously collected, not specifically collected for that project.

You can see that in your own link.
No modern sitcom filmed in front of a live studio audience uses canned laughter. They may sweeten laughter with overdubs, but they're not throwing away the real thing for the fake stuff.

Live audience laughter completely changes the timing for 3-camera sitcoms, because the actors have to wait for it to finish. Setting up audio recording for the audience is trivial.
See also:

- https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/349408/lielow

- https://github.com/Quuxplusone/Lielow. (which includes a chance to play against AI)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YccEDjAe7vE (video by Alek Erickson, presumably the cocreator)
At first I was confused why do we need another language. But then I kept reading. Will I program in Ok? Probably not. But did I enjoy reading the readme? Definitely. It just kept getting better and better.

The idea of logical operators not applying to variables seemed awesome. Though I do hate the lack of ==.
Fail2Ban can do more than SSH. Any log that can be parsed and has a useful remote IP can work.

I have it scanning my Ubiquiti NVR logs, I modified Tomcat to log the remote IP from my reverse proxy. If anyone tries to log into my NVR three times then Fail2Ban adds the IP to a permanent blocklist on my OpnSense firewall and then HAProxy kills the TCP connection. They can't even ping after that.
It really would
My argument is against the statement that the US is “honestly no better”

You’re raising a point about RF broadcast of obscene content. That’s a tiny slice of available media. What China is censoring is being done as completely as they can muster. What the FCC censors is narrowed down to airwave broadcasts.

Surely you can see that there’s a difference here, right?

Tank Man is prohibited completely. Not just over a certain delivery method, during certain times of day.
Ask HN: How to get a phishing website that steals credentials taken down?
Every few weeks I receive one of those scam SMS messages that are along the lines of "You have not paid for shipping for your parcel, please go to scam-domain-123.xyz to pay" which then has a php form to steal unsuspecting people's credit card details.

Sometimes I look for these on popular social media posts as well where people repost SMS scams, and every time I do a WHOIS check, contact the registrar's abuse email, send them the details, and get them taken down so they don't scam more people.

I know the scammers will just register another domain, but it does slow them down and in my mind if I save just one person from getting scammed by doing that, it's worth it. It's like a hobby in my free time.

My success rate has been pretty much 100%, some registrars like Porkbun get the domains delisted within minutes, I am very impressed. Others take their time but it always works in the end.

I have recently ran into one instance where my reports do nothing, the registrar is ignoring it and I'm not sure how I can get it taken down. These domains have been active for more than a month.

WARNING! DANGEROUS SCAM websites ahead, do visit if you don't know what you're doing and DO NOT put any details into the forms!

I have encoded them in base64 just in case:
aHR0cHM6Ly9hcHBsZS13YWxsZXQtaWQ0Ny5jb20v (WARNING SCAM WEBSITE!)

The first website attempts to steal all your payment details, and after entering them (I tried with fake ones obviously), then redirects to the second website attempting to steal your iCloud credentials:
aHR0cHM6Ly9hcHBsZXBheS5hdXRoLWljbG91ZC5jb20v (WARNING SCAM WEBSITE!)

They are both very well made and cloned in the style of official Apple websites.

The registrar seems to be ALIBABA.COM SINGAPORE E-COMMERCE PRIVATE LIMITED.

When I contacted their abuse email, I get an automated message saying my message is ignored because they get a lot of false reports (how convenient!), and redirecting me to another website[0] to report it which requires tons of your personal details, photographic evidence, and all sorts of nonsense. I filled out these forms but they seem to just ignore the report anyway.

For some reason these websites are still not flagged by Chrome's Safe Browsing despite me making reports[1] and the website running for at least a month, having been registered on 2022-08-03. Google are normally pretty good in flagging these kind of websites but in this instance it seems futile.

Any ideas?

[0]
1. https://report.aliyun.com (for users within China)
2. https://intl.aliyun.com/report#abuse (for users outside of China)

[1]
https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/
> it's something that should have been expected by EU legislators

It has been - the regulation explicitly outlaws such malicious pseudo-compliance. The problem is that GDPR enforcement has been severely lacking, so malicious actors are allowed to run free.
make a flowchart of said steps

This is how you end up with software that does the job it needs to do perfectly well when all of the expected inputs and environment are correct, but completely fails if anything unusual happens, because 'it wasn't in the flow chart'.
If I am reading it correctly, if you can maintain good fasting blood sugar - yes. However, that is a big “if”, because those are related.
I enjoyed this article. I echo many responses here and some of what’s in the article to reaffirm their importance in not just being good, but successful.

1. Clear communication

2. Thinking thoroughly about the problem and the solution

3. Easy to maintain code

4. Testing

5. Documentation

6. Research and learning
Ehhh I'm not sure I'd go that far, but the person who has >30 BMI with muscle mass is going to look completely different than the person doing it with body fat.

Sure BMI can be more or less accurate depending on the person, but for those few who have actually rendered it inapplicable to them it's going to be blatantly obvious. No one will confuse them with being obese.
Key takeaway:

"Higher fasting insulin and higher c-reactive protein confound the association between BMI and the risk of all-cause mortality. The increase in mortality that has been attributed to higher BMI is more likely due to hyperinsulinemia and inflammation rather than obesity."
I only have one USB headset and it just works on my laptop and desktop so I suspect it simply attaches to all input devices.

I use the Noise Cancelling source and it works. For a short while on Arch it crashed in use and the extra source vanished and went back to the default devices but an update fixed that within about a week.

I think you should just use the Noise Cancelling source for everything and it will work. Teams has an echo test and you can always call a friend/colleague to test.
Everyone Is an Idiot
We don't have 'the SLS' as a viable rocket. We have a single SLS, when this one launches. SLS will not exist anymore for many years to come, hopefully launching again in 2024 more likely 2025.

So SLS really doesn't exist practically. That is the problem with incredibly low launch rates.

> But it's sitting on the pad today and nothing else is.

Falcon Heavy has been ready to use for 3 years and you could easily design a moon mission around Falcon Heavy. Hell you could even use Atlas or Falcon 9.
None of the tech "developed" for SLS, Orion or Gateway would be useful for anything Mars related. To clarify - significantly useful, or reasonably priced useful. That's a dead end program.

I personally think that it is a must to go to Moon first before any attempts at Mars, and dead end program can be a reasonable price to pay for the necessary iterative research. But SLS specifically is super bad and super expensive at that task. If the Starship program would fail for any reason but NASA would continue, I think after SLS will finally die, another, totally different system would be required to go to Moon again, to finally iterate on it to go to Mars next.

Basically humans are wasting time with SLS, and would need to repeat a lot of efforts again, to continue human space exploration.
The null and error handling could have been unified. No need for null if empty can be represented as empty array
> BMI is a terrible measure of obesity for outliers

That's basically tautological. Outliers are outliers because they don't fit the model.
Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion
I'm not sure I've actually seen this IRL. I've seen cases where new custom software is the wrong approach(Actually, that's most of the time), but usually it's because there's some existing software that can already do whatever it is.

There hasn't been many times when I've seen something that people would normally use software for, and willingly chosen a process that isn't primarily software driven. I think the one of the only times is when dealing with physical tasks in personal life, I'll usually put up reminder signs like "Check lint trap" rather than use to-do list software.

Even then I'll use my Bluetooth printer to make the sign so it looks nice and neat....

The other case is tabletop RPGs, I've yet to see any tech at all that doesn't completely ruin immersion for non-scifi games, phones are very culturally charged objects that can instantly change the mood to "Screen staring club".
The built-in extensions support isn't enough to support uBlock Origin.
Not OP, but a big positive for me is originality. Even if the design isn't optimal or the most appealing, it's really a breath of fresh air looking at a CV like this, where you clearly out your character in it.

It's not some off the self template and it shows.

I like it, it shows that you care.
It doesn't quite default to False, since every object is still equal to itself. The consequence is that people use == for identity equality sometimes - often not fully intentionally, e.g. by using objects as dict keys directly without using id().

But, conversely, a design that doesn't allow == for everything means that value-equality and reference-equality dicts would have to be different, as well.
It is neither wrong nor is it misinformed.

Do you remember why Thiel invested in Confinity which became PayPal? Because he thought a digital wallet could lead to “the erosion of the nation-state”. If it's not self evident to you why that's a bad thing perhaps read https://eand.co/how-america-collapsed-and-became-a-fourth-wo...

Max Chafkin argues that Thiel “has been responsible for creating the ideology that has come to define Silicon Valley: that technological progress should be pursued relentlessly—with little, if any, regard for potential costs or dangers to society.” continued with “Palantir, his second company, popularized the concept of data mining after 9/11 and paved the way for what critics of the technology call surveillance capitalism”.

And of course there was gawker. No, what gawker did was not right but Thiel's reaction was not right either. That's some straight up vigilante BS.
Milton Friedman, the noted libertarian and rather conservative economist, wrote about this topic in the 1960’s. It actually had a lot of support from the left and the right. Here is a link to what he called “negative income tax” as a solution:

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/negative-incom...
Not on a regular basis, perhaps.

The glitches serve to remind them daily that their government is manipulating them.

The dilemma that China's leaders have is that they need an educated workforce, capable of logical and critical thinking, but they can't stop that workforce thinking critically outside work.
Can you share some examples or use cases of transactions that must be settled with finality?
These steps work well if the project is a lightweight and fastmoving one where leadership really just needs to stay out of the way. However they don't do much good when you actually need buy in and support from higher up.
> Results: Despite heterogeneity across studies, we observed reductions in pooled effects for overall food cravings (-0.246 [-0.490, -0.001]) as well as cravings for sweet (-0.410 [-0.626, -0.194]), high-fat (-0.190 [-0.343, -0.037]), starchy (-0.288 [-0.517, -0.058]) and fast food (-0.340 [-0.633, -0.048]) in the meta-analysis. Baseline body weight, type of intervention, duration, sample size and percentage of female subjects explained the heterogeneity.
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> Conclusions: Calorie restriction is associated with reduced food cravings supporting a de-conditioning model of craving reductions. Our findings should ease the minds of clinicians concerned about increased cravings in patients undergoing calorie restriction interventions.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28557246/
That's what the conclusions appear to be saying:

> Higher fasting insulin and higher c-reactive protein confound the association between BMI and the risk of all-cause mortality. The increase in mortality that has been attributed to higher BMI is more likely due to hyperinsulinemia and inflammation rather than obesity.
Blockbuster was silently editing many of their VHS rentals before DVD took over.

That's not exactly right. Blockbuster simply had a policy not to carry X-rated films that became a no NC-17 rated films when the rating changed.

The video distributor of Bad Lieutenant created an R rated version of the film. The end result is still a wrecked/censored version of the movie, but it wasn't Blockbuster doing the silent editing. It is the choice of the film maker/studio/distributor to get the extra money from Blockbuster.
What's the moral here?

There is also a lot of censoring in the "western" world.

It's also mostly justified by the exact same "reasons" like the ones mentioned in that blog post. Especial the "but the children" "argument" is used the whole time. And if that gets boring than it's "terrorism". Than again "the children".

Also there are a lot of things one can't publicity say for political reasons.

In Germany for example most people know: If you want to watch some more "controversial" movies, or play uncensored games you need to get them on the gray or black market. The German versions are very often heavily censored, or there is just no German version at all because the content is outright verboten.

Also communication online gets censored. It's impossible by now to say some (still) completely "legal" but "not politically correct" things online especially around mainstream media.

The censorship in the EU gets also stronger every year. Now they banned "dangerous" foreign media… Actually without any grounding in established law. But who needs laws? It will take as always many many years until some judge will have the last saying and declare the things the government did as illegal. But than the game will just start again, also as always: Making illegal "laws" takes weeks. Getting rid of them takes decades. Then they change the wording, and you need to sue through all instance form the beginning. Ad nauseam.
> I don’t care how good you are at chopping vegetables, how efficiently you handle the ingredients while cooking or how modern your kitchen appliances are – if the food tastes like crap, I’m not coming back to your restaurant!

This. Your users/customers don't care about your tech stack, pipeline, deployment model, or test coverage. They want software that works and doesn't get in their way.

Your tech stack, pipeline, deployment model, or test coverage might support producing software that works and helps the user, but it's a means to an end.
I'd be curious for a follow up study to measure if thin people with high fasting blood sugar can be predicted to have the same mortality as fat people. The confirmation of skinnyfat, basically.
There is a bias in that we see such videos, find them shareable, notice their existence but really there's absolutely no reason to use either the Kimmel or PragerU vid as anything other than light entertainment.

That doesn't mean the underlying argument they propose can't be defended, just that the videos have no explanatory power whatsoever.
So, what part of my position do you not understand? I've consistently advocated for them to improve their moderating practices here.

It's other people who insist that is unrealistic to whom I have replied "If they can't handle the task, they do have the option to simply leave this market instead of making excuses about how they have no choice but to go along with (various bad things)."

I'm not impressed with such excuses. A business located outside of a country with serious problems of this sort is not required to operate in that market. If they choose to, they should make an effort to make moderating policies that reasonably account for the fact that people there have issues not commonly seen in someplace like the US.
> in some sense might also possibly be true

The article you cited mentions "evidence". If there was indeed "evidence", we would know it for a fact.

These articles merely try to attract facts-ignoring audience to which they can then spread misinformation that cannot easily be disproved. While these people are busy theorizing about the plausibility of the suggested idea, they are easily manipulated. The reason is that they would only be trusting the misinformation spreaders because only their opinions would be compatible with their understanding of the world.

It is, unfortunately, as simple as that. Create misinformation that cannot possibly be disproved. Spread it out. Watch as people waste years coming with crazy constructions of hypothetical worlds where whatever you claim might potentially be true. Profit off of their stupidity by having huge influence on their opinions. Rinse and repeat.

This is how Putin's propaganda works. And this is also how Trump's lies work.
What fees and what arbitrage opportunities?
Well for starters, you don't limit each family to a single child.
I think they must actually use bottled laughter, bottles of nitrous oxide positioned strategically around their studio audience.
It's the same reason 12 was used as a number base so often, it divides an doubling of frequency (misnamed an octave) evenly into 1,2,3,4,6 and 12 parts (on a logarithmic scale), which then have pleasant overtones.
To nitpick breakfast tea isn't a type of tea. There is English Breakfast Tea which is a specific blend of black tea and spices.
Black tea usually have 50 mg of caffeine per cup, roughly half what coffee has. Oolong, Green, and White tea all have even less. Yerba Mate has more caffeine but that is a different plant than true tea.
Espionage case involves a giant sculpture and fake art patron
2 is such a nifty prime, we multiplied by it twice. It was just too perfect not to.
I haven't read the actual TechInsights report. Did they plainly accuse SMIC for copying or simply stated that some parts of the node are similar?

I see that Tomshardware has added additional commentary to make it seem like TechInsights' report is evidence that SMIC has copied TSMC.

Western media has a way of spinning any advancement China makes as copying the west. Perhaps this is one way for westerners to feel superior and deny that the Chinese are capable of similar feats.
I think wire transfers are generally irreversible.
My theory on why Google does this (and follows the same pattern in so many areas) is that having one person simply use common sense and reasonable judgment would be something of an admission that their software, created by the best and brightest engineers, isn't top notch.
The author surely means taking occasional breaks that involve just tea and doing nothing else. Otherwise how does one earn a living and support their dependents while doing nothing as much as they love it?
That clock one is crazy, to implement it hmm
Well the shows were written before wokeness was invented, so we're gonna need a new theory.
Believe me it wont be this article that will cause a brain drain.