skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just want to dip a spoon in at every step and sample it.

About two years ago I bought just about every butter at the local grocery and started sampling them. (COVID hobby i guess) and it completely changed my relationship with butter. I found a few that were clear favorites...to the point where one of them I can slice off a thin pat and just eat it neat.

Butter in the abstract is loved, but somehow it has been relegated to commodity status (at least around here). It's fun digging into it and realizing there's a whole landscape out there.
but would you have hit your head if you weren't wearing a helmet? maybe you would have been more cautious! maybe people are slightly more careless/risk taking when they take certain safety measures?
Thanks for your input!

I'm wondering what kind of communication generally happens over your Discord group. Is it mostly updates from your side or does the community also contribute to these discussions?
Yeah, that’s mostly what I was going for
Yeah, I do think they had a bit of a faux pas with this showcase by not showing like-for-like differences. The first email didn't have multi-line subjects or anything like that, so it's hard to compare the two and see why the update might actually be better.
New process allows 3-D printing of microscale metallic parts
> But duration is very difficult to reduce, because of the way the learning process of the immune system works. There's a bunch of sequential processes that occur sequentially.

I'm genuinely very curious for more detail about this. Can you describe what some of the processes are (or better, where I can go to learn about it)?
So this thing. By watching the text a person generates. Could derive that person's central opinions. Their "belief system". Explicitly uttered or otherwise.

A kind of philosophical mind-reading.

Maybe a lie-detector too
There are random bits of correlation everywhere and investigating whether there's an underlying causative reason is laborious. It's no surprise then that not every one gets looked at, and people pick what is most likely to yield an interesting result.

In this case IMO it'd be quite surprising if smoking actually impeded any virus. I don't think it's a conspiracy that this isn't getting attention.

Other commenters have listed some possible confounding variables here, but the first one that popped into my mind is that people who know they have a higher risk from past smoking are more likely to be cautious and not get exposed. This is true for one of my relatives with COPD who was very careful to not get it before vaccines were available.
First place I heard that question was on a Jasper Carrott concert from the late 70s. :)
“It seems fairly obvious that Russia had little to gain from blowing up its own gas pipelines to Europe, ”

This isn’t a great argument because they have little to gain from the war at all (outside of a few of the elites). Ergo, from a distance it appears Russia is irrational unless you consider that Putin et al. only care about surviving and being extremely wealthy.

In the latter case, there is therefore a possibility that Putin would want to destroy Nord Stream to prevent possible opponents from having an out to help Europe were they to get support to overthrow Putin internally.
Oh the memories! I've spent countless hours on MacOS 8 and then 9 IIRC, running QuarkXPress to do professional desktop publishing. Mostly on a beige Powermac G3 tower. I still have that computer somewhere in a garage, don't know if it still boots and still has my software of yore installed.

Our physical tools of the trade were Iomega Zip drives and Iomega Zip disks (100 MB then 250 MB IIRC), Apple II Extended keyboard (the M3501, with ALPS switches: incredible keyboards for the time), HP LaserJet printers (600 and then 1200 dpi) and Sony Trinitron CRTs.
Cheap solution: lots of warmed to ~40C 0.05% Chlorhexidine. Idk, but I bet it's cheaper than that Debrox thing, and almost nil chance of infection.
mailbird or emclient
Huh? A name is something which is on a federal ID, obviously it is not in and of itself a federal ID.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) issues IDs at the federal level, which are applied for using state or county issued birth certificates (as well as other ways). They sometimes make clerical errors. Those errors can propagate into other federal identity databases, such as the taxpayer record system operated by the Internal Revenue Service or the passport database operated by the Department of State.

The linkages between these systems are fragile or nonexistent, and if you are not careful about manually propagating changes between them you can end up in an inconsistent state which requires court action to rectify.

Passports are often used in lieu of social security cards because people are (correctly!) leery about using their SSN directly. I know people who have no intention of traveling internationally who have gotten passports because it’s extremely convenient to have a federally issued photo id.
It sounds like you're talking to an overconfident Julliard student on day 1 before they realize everyone there is just as good or better.
A version of ChatGPT with internet access that can crawl the web and link things is fundamentally different to the version that exists today.
because we hate helmets, not because we did research

Actually, we did. From [0] (the link to the study itself is on that page too):

> A recent Dutch study (2021) concludes that many people expect to make fewer bike rides when mandatory helmet laws are introduced. These findings suggest that such a law would have a negative effect both on bike usage and on public health in general.

In addition to the standard arguments already posted here about safety in numbers, efficacy of a helmet, and infrastructure design, they also mention a few practical problems with helmets:

- What to do with the helmet when you're not wearing it? A good helmet is too big to just store in a coat pocket or a handbag.

- What to do if you lose your helmet or it gets stolen? How will you make it home then?

[0] https://www.fietsersbond.nl/de-fiets/accessoires/fietshelmen...
Thunderbirds was pretty influential in Japan (and with popularity lasting long enough to be issued on LaserDisc, then again on DVD and again on BluRay). You can see a lot of Gerry Anderson in 70s and 80s Japanese fictional mechanical design.
Obesity rate is completely uncorelated to poverty, in the US we're talking 40%+, 70%+ overweight

It's not cheaper to eat junk food, it's just more convenient, I never spent so little on food than when I switched to vegetarian/bio, and I've never been so healthy in general. I very often make soup/stew that last 2-3 days for me and my gf for less than 15$
Sure.

Hosting your own is a twenty minute setup, more or less, and $5/mo on Hetzner. Uptime, in my experience, is 5 nines.

With SaaS, I am losing the main reason that I am using Bitwarden - that I don't want the X agency to force Bitwarden to give them my passwords.

And I know that if said agency (it varies by country and target) could definitely hack the VPS if I was important enough, that is not part of my threat profile. Self hosted is far less likely to get auto vacuumed than SaaS data.
It’s something that I and almost every immigrant I know struggles with. I moved to the US when I was a small child but even I’ve got tons of memories of what tomatoes and blueberries are supposed to taste like. Every household in my extended family grows a lot of their own food and I’m in the process of building out a green house around my existing hydroponics setup to extend the growing season to all year. For next year we’re debating buying a whole cow from a local rancher to split amongst the family so we can have some semblance of control over how the meat is grown.

I feel especially bad for those who immigrate from tropical countries like Costa Rica. The quality and variety of fruit there is completely insane compared to the bland trash we have in the US.
I played it in the late 90s years after its release, was really good game. Maybe I'll fire up dosbox and have a look at it again. Would be interested to hear the soundtrack after all those years.
does this guy not have a lawyer?
Interesting!

In my case the error is actually shown. E.g. DNS error when on crappy wifi or even without network.

But then when i connect to a better network, it doesn't get sent.
Functionally, a social security number is closer to an alternate name than an ID. It doesn't contain evidence that can feasibly be used to prove that the person showing it to you is who they claim to be, the way the picture/physical descriptors on a photo ID card do. And it's not even an unpredictable name, so you can't even treat it the way you would a long unpredictable token in a security context.
i recently discovered demons tilt and enjoy it a lot: https://store.steampowered.com/app/422510/Demons_Tilt/
I'm sure I'm just misunderstanding, but I don't follow the explanation. What do UVA and UVB have to do with this, and why does that lead to weird results?
Almost the same as me...

I explained to my wife where the SSDs with backups are kept.

I regularly remind her that "the red plastic wallet" contains a printout of our financials. With a death certificate, she can chase up with the bank.
I get 'Firefox needs to restart' all the time on MacOS.
Many people have been confused about why he's talking so much publicly, which is clearly self-destructive if he plans to mount a legal defense.

One logical explanation is that this is a prelude to him committing suicide. His public interviews and statements may be his way of leaving behind some sort of explanation and justification.
Before 9/11 you hijacked a plane, flew to Cuba, got some money, and all was well.

Before 9/11 you were a passenger/crewmember on a plane, you flew to Cuba, then got released, and all was well.

9/11 changed that. No longer were passengers and crew safe as long as they complied, no longer were planes allowed to fly around and even be refuelled safe in the knowledge that all it would take is some money to free them.

As such over the course of two hours the calculus changed. Hijacking the first 3 planes worked because nobody expected it. The fourth plane was also hijacked, but the goal (crashing into whatever building) wasn't met because the passengers and crew found out the rules had changed.

If you hvae 5 people willing to kill themselves for your cause, there are better ways to make a political statement now than the risk of hijacking a plane - not because of any potential air marshall, but because of the guarantee of the passengers.
I am probably older than you. You literally asked to be discouraged from pursuing this will-o'-th'-lisp. I offered an alternative where you stand to learn something wholly new. I know it is wholly new to you from falsehoods you repeat.

Again: if you imagine types are only or even mainly for correctness, you have much to learn. You can start anytime you like. It will stretch your brain in new ways that are of no relevance to medical software.
And why shouldn't I be allowed to risk my life the way I see fit? Who am I endangering by cycling without a helmet?
I had played with it for 2 days before I gave up. I don't remember what specifically wasn't working properly but it didn't. Even if I had gotten it to work, syncing between a Windows PC and Android device should not require that level of effort.
I wonder how much longer the excess in CA will be there. As we are moving more and more towards solar we need more storage to handle shadow and the loads at night.
>>They opine that if cops were trained like they were

>There is evidence that police with military backgrounds are more likely to be involved in shootings.

Ah, but that's not the claim being made. You've quite adroitly shown proof that former soldiers make shooty LEOs. I'm relating that soldiers suggest that if all cops were trained as soldiers were with respect to not firing their weapons until some situational conditions were met, shootings would fall.

I'd imagine that the sort of soldier who comes home and seeks out the experience of being a cop, immersed in "killology" [0] as they are (a philosophy that suggests firing your weapons), would indeed become the sort of cop to wind up being involved in a shooting.

...and I'm aware that "killology"'s founder and chief proselytizer is a former soldier. Note, however, that he does not advise cops that they must be strictly bound by any RoE before being willing to fire their weapons; he advises quite the opposite.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/11/police-trai...
Yes, the cloud is someone else’s computer.

But I’d say it’s unlikely that your local copy and the cloud backup would get destroyed at the same time.

Also, when I said “cloud”, I meant a proper cloud service with an SLA like S3 Glacier, not Google Drive which gets wiped if your Google account is disabled for uploading a YouTube video with background music.
Accountability and control are two sides of the same coin. Crypto gets both or none. Splitting the two after the fact of (chapter 7/11) is rhetorical nonsense. Generally speaking AGs can't keep up with crime. They have to manage where they put their resources. Calling it selective prosecution is also BS
>Have several friends from Russia, and much to the dismay of some of them, Putin's popularity is widespread, the economy, while not stellar, is in good shape, and the general population has rallied around the government as a result of the sanctions.

This is largely the picture they want to see, choosing to ignore the reality. The USSR crash was also a surprise to unreasonable amount of its citizens. What's actually happening under the hood is massive wealth redistribution and a fundamental crash of the political system, and what comes out from the rubble won't be pretty, especially because a lot of passionate people fled the country. Something clicked in the heads of many people, this is not the usual frog boiling, demons are really out this time.

>The situation of ethnic Russians in the Donbas was a legitimate pain point for the Russians

No, it never was. The reason Donbas is somehow special at all is just that the FSB-led coup succeded in 2014 there, unlike similar attempts in Kherson, Odessa, Kharkiv etc which failed. Mariupol (at which the 2014 invasion had been stopped) is also Donbas and had no troubles post 2014 at all. (until 2022...) Had they succeed in other cities, the same point would have been made about those by the propaganda. Nobody cared about "the situation in Donbas" (whatever it is) pre 2014, neither did people really care about Crimea, it's all smoke and mirrors set up by Kremlin.

If something ever was a pain point for ethnic Russians as well as everybody else, it's regimes that were installed in Donetsk/Luhansk. These are man-eating systems. There's no Donbas anymore. Donbas is destroyed. Donetsk, once a thriving city, is largely depopulated at this point. And not due to "Ukraine attacking it for 8 years", mind you.

(context: I'm also Russian who followed all this not from the mainstream media, probably unlike some of your friends)
Yes. That is also a terrible idea. Worse than off-brand uses of other medications, because it is addictive on top of being unproven.
>full screen apps are a Windows thing

And iOS. Funny, that!
Has the West's propaganda gotten so low these days? I mean, come on, The Economist used to have a higher standard, deep investigative articles. This is on par with Russians soldiers have no shoes this winter. I'm more concerned with the EU becoming ungovernable and descending into chaos given the last 3 years. I bet we're more close to the tipping point than Russia is for what is worth.
Where can I find api.py?
They've already got earthquakes and tsunamis, can Manhattan not have the asteroids? (Says the European, dodging all natural disasters)
The US has seen far worse periods of social polarization. And not even that far in the distant past: the red scare(s), the Civil Rights Movement(s) and the anti-war movement during Vietnam were periods of far worse internal strife. And to be frank, even Russia today doesn't have anything near the level of internal dissent the US had during the height of anti-Vietnam protests.
Did you read the rest of my message, or did you see that first line and stop there?

We're in agreement.
4 self-hosted accounts, but I don't like much the ~new UI because it makes switching account more complex.
You might be interested in Linen to make your discord (and slack) searchable outside of the walled garden (can also use to archive too).

https://github.com/linen-dev/linen.dev

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31494908
Possibly a sense of betrayal? There was a time when FF seemed like it had a future of being a large player in the browser market. Hanging in single-digit usage seems like that time has come/gone, yet we continue to see loads of things that are... ancillary to that earlier dream of 'being #1' (or just a larger player).

Some announcements are 'nice', but almost all seem to point to 'too little too late' for the original dream.

I say this as someone who uses chrome/ff/safari daily, and threw a 'Mozilla release party' (with a Mozilla cake!) back when Mozilla hit 1.0, and donated early on to FF/mozilla.

They seemingly squandered years becoming less and less relevant to day to day usage, and it bugs some folks. On top of that, we get treated to press releases and social media tidbits now and then of "we're laying off dozens/hundreds of people, and our CEO makes millions of dollars". Depressing to see what it's become vs what people expected years ago...
Yup, it's not rocket science if you already run your own services. An entire generation of techies seem to be completely scared of running their own machine and think it's some kind of massively difficult task.
It comes down to what the goal is. If it's to learn to draw people, no. If it's to learn composition and this gets you past struggling to draw and onto the actual goal then sure.
The easiest thing to do would probably be to deform the pit so it can't be used in a warhead without re-processing. Then store them in a box using the same policy/procedures as weapon storage. They don't take up a lot of space and it's not like they're being manufactured like crazy.

Wikipedia says they're about 10cm in diameter which sounds about right, i thought they were around the size of a softball.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_(nuclear_weapon)#Pit_shari...
Jot.
Because you now have the existence of this massive flow of information that didn’t exist before. The TSA guard is not taking photos of me every time I fly. I don’t have to worry about what happens with those photos if they don’t exist. But if they do exist, then I am now at risk of all sorts of bad things happening, like the aforementioned calibration of mass surveillance, or some other angle.

If the government says “we’re not using this checkpoint stuff to spy on you or anything nefarious like that, and we’re definitely not putting together a massive database of the IDs and photos of people going through our checkpoints” I have to take them at their word because national security gets broad carve outs from transparency tools like FOIA.

Their word is historically not worth much. Government leaks data all the time. It is actually still not that great at security controls in a practical sense, at least insofar as deterring major breaches of privacy is concerned. That’s why LOVEINT happens. That’s why TSA went and posted a picture of the master key that unlocks all those stupid approved locks on the Internet. That’s why stuff like the OPM breach happen. All of this is stuff that isn’t SUPPOSED to happen, but does, regularly, because in reality government (like everyone else) has little ability to control what will happen to information once it ingests it.

And that’s just the dangerous stuff that happens without any intent on the government’s part. Whether they’re misleading Congress about the scope of warrantless wiretapping, wildly understating the implications of metadata analysis, or sabotaging cryptography by purposefully advancing backdoored algorithms, or just plain wiretapping political activists without cause to wage campaigns of legal harassment, the various agencies of the USG have a time-honored history of outright lies where privacy is concerned. So no, unfortunately, even if there exist “institutional controls” that could solve these issues in theory, we can safely say they definitely have not been implemented.

These issues are extremely relevant to your right to privacy, because rights are a balance of interests. If the government gets this big new way to abuse people, then they need big new protections against that, or they are going to get abused. Our concept of privacy has to be bigger now than it was when automated surveillance wasn’t a thing, because the stakes went up. By a lot.
I use davx5 with my NextCloud setup on the cloud. But that's not what I use (or want to use) for other events, contacts, to-dos, etc.
The Ontario Provincial Police can also seize your car, though I believe it’s temporary.

One of the suburbs of Toronto also has signs up saying that they’ll seize your car if you’re doing something like 50kph over the limit, but I can’t for the life of me remember which.
Stewart Butterfield resigns from Yahoo (2008)
Could they stop disabling the browser when it updates (running against the about:config settings) so that I don't lose work when I have a partially functional browser that won't load new pages which breaks every single page application?
I don't think insurance should apply in criminal behavior.
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Happens on Mac all the time.
FedNow seems to lack some of the juicier potential features of CBDCs, like negative interest rates for individuals in the same way a bank might have on it's account with a central bank.
Ironically, municipal politics probably serves the largest impact and easiest entry point for leveraging political will.

Not everything has to be harangued like many federal-level politics are. You can just go to your city council and demand better. The worst that can happen is they say no - and you can just organize to vote them out with the rest of your community.
Whenever I see a claim on HN i've never seen before and ask for a source, 100% I never hear back from OP.
I mean, China basically said it would go to war to conquer Taiwan. China just fired missiles over Taiwan and into Japanese territory a few months ago. Seems like they're advertising a willingness to attack; why don't you believe them?
I'm a non-smoker but use nicotine daily. My mother (nicotine free) died of COVID, but I have never had it. But we are mere anecdotes, and prove nothing.
I am a Thunderbird user on desktop but I had been using Blue Mail on Android for several years and had been pretty happy with it. I may switch to Thunderbird when they have the sync feature implemented.