skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually agree almost entirely with this, and I further appreciate your positive glass-half-full take on the debate and the motivations behind it, that it’s political. Generally speaking I’m also not a fan of the government censoring political views. (I’m not sure that happened here. The article is making accusations of coordinated government censorship, but admitted the accusation lacks evidence. It’s possible many people independently decided against hosting the GBD because of it’s political bias.)

There are a couple of reasons I think this particular political view does cross the threshold and amount to mild disinformation, which are that the stakes are far higher than most political debates. This isn’t a tax or budget discussion, it’s an ongoing pandemic with an outcome of millions of premature deaths so far. The GBD did speculate on both the unknown future harm of lockdowns and the safety of herd immunity. It also attacks and contradicts the conclusions of many many fellow scientists and epidemiologists based on speculation and not established facts.

Part of the issue for me is that free market policies tend to externalize damage caused by deregulation, here for example by comparing human death today to unknown amount of human suffering, and (as in this case) they make a sort of unfounded social Darwinism argument that presumes pure economic policy can and should be applied to everything non-monetary. This has been especially true for the last century when it comes to the environment; we’re just starting to pay the real costs and asses the real damage from 100+ years of failure to take enough action and properly regulate pollution, a time during which it was argued constantly that the free market would minimize the total harm.

I don’t know how history will look upon the lockdowns in 10 or 100 years, and I feel like lockdowns suck just as much as everyone else does. But people dying sucks hard, we’re all fighting fiercely over what is the lesser of two bad outcomes. Without evidence to back it up though, it’s hard to say yes we should let more people die because we think in the long term it might be less “total harm” if we do.
Very Clever. From a compliance perspective - How much back-end infrastructure is required to bootstrap the sync process for the devices? Can this be deployed on customer / private hardware?
Did he mean with rubber gloves and insulated mat, or without?
"As soon as NATO gets involved"? It's not NATO who invaded Ukraine, it's Russia. You're blaming the victim - or perhaps the party that decided to help the victim.

And perhaps this is the root of the misunderstanding. You're assuming that Russia somehow "has the right" to invade. That's what many Americans believe about their country, but there's a crucial difference: US is a world power, Russia isn't. Thus it's not possible to "punish" US, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't try with other countries. Especially given that now we know what happens if we fail to do that - it was the western leniency towards Russian invasion on Crimea in 2014 that provoked Putin to do it again.
Wouldn't there also be no evidence if it wasn't true?
> Science is about asking questions, testing hypotheses and independent research corroboration. There have to be checks and balances.

The problem was a lot of these people that came on TV/radio weren't actually doing anything but being the same thing as Tucker Carlson in just "asking questions" in a provocative way but not actually testing hypotheses or doing research.

If you watched something like the UCSF Grand Rounds of Covid you would have seen all the research/questions/hypotheses presented and discussed regularly. They are all on youtube.

There will be no "chilling effect" in the scientific community for a long time because the actual practicing scientists/doctors acted as they should have and did the things you claimed to not have been done.
Extreme purifying selection against point mutations in the human genome
Far from me to want to put Microsoft on a pedestal, but it always felt like neither liked playing fair. WP eventually got a third party Youtube app that kinda stuck for a while, but it was paid (and actually decent) and AFAIK it never got any attention from Google, which to me always felt more like Google was trying to be an ass and protecting their revenue... but mostly their Android revenue.

I was around when Project Astoria almost saw the light of day and I assume Google came back to shoot it down in a similar way (which would be really nice karma given MS patent story)
I used to work in a place that assembled machines based on old designs that rarely got reviewed, since if it ain't broke don't fix it.

When working on one particular unit, I found that they would order a bunch of plastic panels, cut to size, and some with precut holes. And others with secondary drawings, instructing us how to drill out a bunch of holes ourselves. Sometimes not even all the holes, just a few, in addition to the precut.

When I asked why we didn't just ask the supplier to cut out ALL the holes, I basically got a shrug.

So I merged the secondary drawings and sent them to the supplier, and the assembly team never wasted time on that nonsense again.
Your response lacks any merrit. The photographer framed the picture, chose the focus, etc. Artistic inputs, not simply 'give me a street scene'. More apt, a photographer can't claim as art a picture he googled with 'give me a street scene'. He was not an artistic creator in that case. Read Title 17 instead of pulling made up arguments out.
I don't love opening a new account to get some incremental returns on a relatively modest allowed investment. But, while I don't go to a lot of trouble to optimize everything, for me this crfossed the line into "why not" (but then, I didn't have to jump through any hoops.)
It's hard to find value in something that you immediately uninstall.
drb is awesome. I've had the good fortune to be able to use it once. The simplicity of it compared to anything else is amazing.
Lab leak is HUGE for corporate interests. It's China. If China has culpability in using dangerous things and let this loose then China is going to be blamed, in large part, by a large number of people around the world. Since China is basically the lynch pin of all commerce in the world [1], there are massive interests to make sure it's "from china" but not maliciously or because of some future war they are planning. If it truly was from a market or just a bat in a cave - no one is really going to blame China beyond just minor shaming on them having wet markets.

1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u000_n3LG9U
> The challenge with these models is that they’ve clearly been trained on (exposed to) copyrighted material, and can also demonstrably reproduce elements of copyrighted works on demand. If they were humans, a court could deem the outputs copyright infringement, perhaps invoking the subconscious copying doctrine (https://www.americanbar.org/groups/intellectual_property_law...).

Every single human has been exposed to copyrighted material, and probably can reproduce fragments of copyrighted material on demand. Nobody ever writes a book or paints a picture without reading a lot of books and looking at a lot of paintings first. For a "subconscious copying" suit to apply, you need to demonstrate "probative similarity" - that is, similarity to copyrighted material that is unlikely to be coincidental.

In other words - it's not clear to me that the situation with AI is any different than with a human, or that it presents new legal challenges. If it looks new, it is new.
Whales were found stranded on a beach in Australia. Only 35 survived
No, I'm Canadian
Quit it with this revisionist history nonsense, your second link contains where Satoshi specifically mentioned that a ZK-based version of bitcoin would be better, he just didn't know how to do it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=770.msg8637#msg8637
I didn't see it mentioned yet:

"The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield.

Don't let the title fool you. Its insights aren't limited to art. And very readable.
I am opposite to a vegan, but I support the idea that there must be some taxes for meet-eaters only. Of course, the system will make it in the worst way using mass surveillance and requiring some non-free software for grocery shops. But you know that global heating is a thing and producing of meat has significant impact on carbonation of Earth.
Auto-discovery does sound appealing. Thank you.
When I see a website that stopped updating in 2020 I kinda get sad.

We lost a lot of people.
Eventually, every company will tend towards services. Monthly income flows are more enticing than one-time ones.
First time seeing this, but reading the docs it looks more like a modern take on Rundeck[0]. A way to give developers one-click access to operational tasks. Rather than a service catalog and developer portal like Backstage.

[0] https://www.rundeck.com/
Why are you picking apart my hypothetical examples ?

Is it your argument there is no reason ever for the government to censor information?
On one hand I don't want to ruin this thread with what is a common topic of disagreement; at the same time your kind offer provides a unique opportunity.

There is a fairly, if not pervasive let's call it vocal technical sentiment that blockchain and related crypto technologies, in some form, are government/oppression-proof; that it provides financial and communication paths and channels that are so firm they withstand attempts by government to shut them down and infiltrate. And that therefore they would "solve a lot of problems" in an oppressive / troubled society.

I come from a country that suffered a civil war, and I've always felt that was naive... Blockchain feels like a complex stack with myriad potential points of failure and accidental reveal for a normal citizen. More to the point, I feel many people are underestimating just how totalitarian and ruthless a government CAN get - a) in locking down through technological means by owning and monitoring infra and coming down immediately to anybody downloading/using/sending software/hardware/protocol/tokens/packets/dns/whatever that is even remotely suspicious, and b) their ability and willingness to apply violence quickly and mercilessly on mere suspicion, happily just as an example and upon a potentially innocent person, and therefore its quick and chilling effect on populace. Or to put it other way - there are places on this Earth where I would not personally dare install some software or send some data, and I'm reasonably technically competent; the risk and impact are just too high.

What's your and your friends' perspective? Are there bullet-proof / safe technological means? What's the risk ratio and success for subverting government whether via blockchain or VPN or Signal etc?

Thx for any thoughts you might contribute :)
Thank you for sharing this. As someone who is working to learn more about bitmaps, id like to ask how you came across this? Is there a specific community or other that you follow? Thanks!
Didn't explain myself well, meant I want to use Javascript only and maybe typescript only for the schemas. I understand that Tigris exposes a HTTP endpoint and is all json but wondered how well the Typescript SDK will play for pure Javascript development.
That's a low-effort, shallow dismissal that doesn't even address anything specific to the article.

If you have specific criticism regarding the methodology of this study - which doesn't, prima facie, appear unsound - please let the rest of us participate.
Nope: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=770.msg8637#msg8637
Well, awk having a csv parser via the user implementing that parser is not quite what I have in mind when I turn to awk for some quick field splitting—and I don't think it's what others in the thread meant either, as evidenced by the linked site.

Personally I prefer using a readymade and tested library in any language that I might touch, so I can just do my own thing on top. Or, in command line, to use an util that employs such a library. Kind of hope that I'm never so constrained that only awk is available and I can't even spin up Lua.
I'm going to post this here for those that couldn't get a seal.

> The Account Authorization (FS Form 5444) submitted is unacceptable as the form was not properly certified. Therefore, we must ask that you submit a new form with your signature properly certified.

> Please note that the form's instructions to the certifying officer state, "Acceptable certifications include the financial institution's official seal or stamp (such as corporate seal, signature guarantee stamp, or medallion stamp)." Notary public stamps are acceptable. Please have the bank place their official seal on the form to certify your signature. If the financial institution does not have an official seal or stamp to use when they certify a signature, they may use the savings bond paid stamp that they normally use when cashing savings bonds for a bond owner. We may accept:

> Signature/Endorsement Guarantee Stamp

> Medallion Stamp

> Official Bank Seal/Stamp

> Corporate Seal

> Consular Seal

> A commissioned or warrant officer of the United States Armed Forces may certify the signature.

> Any stamp or seal must be visible.

> The bank certifying officer should include his/her phone number by the certification.

> If none of the options listed above are available, we may give consideration when a bank officer uses notary certification when it is accompanied by the signature of the employee and the name/address of the bank is provided. The certification must clearly shows the certifying officer is a bank employee.
Seconded. I understand that Timescale extends Postgres, but I'd still like to see performance comparisons relative to other time-series databases such as InfluxDB or even TiDB.

Shameless self-plug: we're also building database technology, but for embedding vectors (https://milvus.io) rather than time-series data - when doing query performance comparisons, we get several orders of magnitude of performance improvement over traditional databases. It's an unfair comparison, so we generally avoid it.
No, the package management differs between distros
You don't really. Stays the same.
I think people probably voted for the right-wing party more because the left-wing party has made Sweden top of Europe for rape, shootings, and a global leader in bombings, and not because they are mad that people called them racist. When it's a regular thing for criminal gangs to target children for "humiliation robberies" where they beat and urinate on the kids to humiliate them, one can understand why the citizenry of the country would have a concern about crime.
batonmarket.com does free business valuations & has estimated valuations (like Zillow for small businesses) posted for a lot of businesses -- think there email is hello@batonmarket.com
What's really hard to judge is differences in technology.

We might look at some bit of carving or architecture and conclude that its purpose was merely religious. But maybe it served a practical purpose that's just really alien to us.

Time is money after all. Even for neanderthals.

Give it a few thousand years. They dig up one of our particle accelerator facilities. Conclude that it was a temple where they worshipped giant circles.
Show HN: I created a privacy-friendly personal finance application for Europe
I am tired of all the applications to manage my expenses and income that are selling my financial data or offering me credit cards or loans. That's why I created this.
> Must be a US Citizen.

That is incorrect. As long as you are a US resident for tax purposes you can purchase them.

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds...

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/intr...
This is better than the status quo of use-after-free being abused for security exploits as part of an exploit chain for sandbox escape.
This news is about Android.
This Is Water by David Foster Wallace.

It's the transcript of a commencement speech he gave. It's really short.

I revisit it because it reminds me that everything is a matter of what you choose to think about. It's about realize that your thoughts are illusions and not becoming a slave to them.

I work for FAANG, so I struggle with reality on a daily basis.
Will Putin resort to nuclear weapons?
As other comments have indicated, the time and effort to actually invest the $10k in ibonds is considerable given the difficulty of using the website. I also want my cash to be accessible within a few days, so I prefer FDIC insured savings accounts. For locking up money for months or a year in an ibond, the annual gain compared to a savings accounts is only a maximum of $700 or so.

The rest I invest in equities, which assuming the US has a functioning society in 5, 10, or 20+ years, will be worth far more.
Why not do things transparently and do weighting by default weight = upvotes - downvote + us cents paid by author, all 3 visible.
This is a bit business-model dependent.

If you don't intend for your product to be free for the rest of its lifetime, don't launch it as free.
How many major protests have happened in Iran over the past ten years? That's actually a serious question. I remember big ones in 2019. Smaller ones since in the time before the current uprising. Some before 2019 as well. There's tremendous anger beneath the surface in Iran and it's not caused by Mossad.

Iran banned abortion in 1979. There's been a baby boom since. The country is lopsided towards young people. People who don't want the repressive government. They want women to live freely. Many of them want the gay people of their country treated equally. It's an insult to them to say this revolt isn't grassroots. There's so much anger from people who just want to live quiet, normal lives in freedom. Without the rule of clerics and morality police.

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if a Mossad and/or CIA agent on the ground in Tehran is providing some assistance. That's what they do in times of unrest in an unfriendly country. But "some assistance" is a far cry from fomenting. This is mainly an Iranian effort.
In ~20 years you'll see how silly you are for welcoming totalitarianism. You won't care until it effects you.

And then it will be too late for you to do anything about it.
Tell me you've never been to Haiti without telling me you've never been to Haiti.

Plenty of people travel to dangerous places regularly, and I don't think they're necessarily miserable. Some I've met, like physicians who do charity work overseas, find a lot of personal satisfaction from helping people in places most wouldn't think of going even on a bet.
Tangentially related, but GeForce Now is absolutely incredible. It seems like they’ve finally cracked game streaming. If you have a solid wired connection, it is practically unnoticeable for single player games at this point. They also made the (genius) decision to integrate it with multiple existing stores like Steam and GOG rather than building their own. I don’t know if I’ll ever buy a gaming PC again.
The Fed has stopped reissuing defaulted loans and is removing nearly $100B of liquidity per month. I think more significant than the interest rate is the amount of money being removed from the supply.
The 3.9% you get from a 6M treasury is annualized (so only 1.95% in 6 months), and the 3% for 6 months (from I-bonds) is actually >6% annualized.

So I-bonds will still beat the 6M treasury bond unless the rates on the latter keep going up.
Its pretty great from an emergency fund standpoint, though. $30k/couple/year if you buy the extra $5k/person with tax return. After a few years you've got a nice inflation-protected emergency fund you can draw on reasonably quickly in the case of something like a job loss.
I-bonds are also a great option if your alternative is holding nothing but cash. This isn't really advisable, but I know people that do, largely due to fear of a decline in value. A guaranteed number-go-up product, even if all it does is tread water in real dollars, is a lot better than a product (bank account) that loses real value every year.

For those people, I heartily recommend I-bonds.
For those of you that think you've seen this before, MemSQL was rebranded to SingleStore, and this was the first blog post MemSQL made - skip list indexes were always a fundamental performance innovation of MemSQL. I am not sure if MemSQL/Singlestore is still the only commercially available db using skiplist indexes but I do think it was the first when they debuted in 2014.
Feel free to read up on the last 20 years of US politics. Same shit, different day.
I couldn't disagree more. Without the silk road, bitcoin would have never taken off. monero has seemingly displaced bitcoin here.

The transparency of the ledger is key to the censorship, control, and abuse of the network.

>open source

Are you implying that the cryptonote/zerocoin projects like monero aren't open source?
Reminder that there are also great tools designed to do the opposite.

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google.com becomes https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

shadyurl.com was fun while it lasted. Tagline: Don’t just shorten your Shady URL, make it suspicious and frightening.
Sorry you feel that way. Have you tried out the demo, it showcases how you can use our tech stack to index across the Joe Rogan podcasts.

For us though it was a nice exercise to show we can support audio transcription and large data files.
Leaving the fee uncapped creates an incentive for business to put zero effort into making the reporting process efficient. That way, they can demonstrate that compliance requires 5 skilled hours (for example) and "reasonably" charge $250 per report.

Courts rule on the evidence provided. If a user challenges the fee, the company can easily document where every penny went, and therefore claim it is a reasonable charge. The user's only real recourse would be to prove that company is over-billing, but that would require evidence.

Pegging the cost to a set number of labor hours by law signals to companies that part of the cost of collecting this data is they must develop their internal systems in a way that they can quickly and easily comply with requests.
Seeing more and more submissions recently break this guideline:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Time for guideline change or stricter enforcement?
> So he sued Twitter and won and was then reinstated on the platform.

I'm not sure I'd call an out of court settlement a win but to each their own I guess.

I'm not too sure he really got what he wanted since the 1st amendment argument was thrown out in court.

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For those of you who aren't going to bother to read the court document. His strongest point was a "Breach of Contract" which revolved around Twitter directly telling him he wasn't going to get kicked off for what he was posting and then they kicked him off.
>>>Saying the words "women are more likely than men to do X" leaves the reader unfortunately with the impression "many women do X," whereas that might not be true.

Is there an accepted term for the extra caveat-ing and qualifying that people do with language these days to avoid the non-logical misinterpretations of factual statements by stupid people?
This is what the entire ruling is about. They are not free to do so if they also sell with Google Play Services. It's the root of the entire issue is that the above requirement is in the agreements that Google has with manufacturers. The EU is striking down this type of agreement such that manufacturers will actually have that freedom.