skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Materialism is a self-defeating worldview because its implications are that you cannot trust it.

The whole purpose of a worldview is to be able to trust it as one trust one's own eyes - because a good mental model of reality affects how one acts and moves around the world.

If the worldview implies a contradiction it is not a worthwhile worldview to hold, because you know it to be logically false like any other set of statements that lead to a contradiction.
This isn't just the limit for css/js... It's the limit for user data too. Ie. if you share some videos with a PWA app, then all the videos have to fit inside 50MB unless you want to fetch them from a server each time you play them.

Or consider a PWA music player - 50MB of music is all you can play offline.

Or a photo editor - 50MB is the limit for all your saved files unless you want to save them to a cloud server.
> Do you know that major tech companies saw a near 100% reduction of successful phishing attacks after adding yubikeys?

The actual question is: "Did they see an INCREASE in other types of attacks after using yubikeys?"

To presume that these actors who were willing to go to some illegal lengths to get this information in the first place just "gave up" because "yubikeys exist" is a dangerous way to process these facts.
>> We use the same material to wrap and bake food and drink unhealthy drinks as we do to build airplanes

> It's not the same material. There are thousands of types of very different plastics.

Aluminum.
I didn't specify a country where people should stop having babies. As far as I'm concerned, every one baby Americans have is more ecologically harmful than 5 babies in Africa.

It's not othering the problem. I think that the people who are already here are already doing enough damage, and that it's enormously selfish and pathologically narcissistic to want to add more humans to the world just to pass along your DNA. Of all the things you listed, I will never consume more than one human's worth of those resources. Whereas for every child you have, you are placing a claim on exponentially increasing resources in perpetuity.
> The FDA could work with sponsors to come up with a range of risk profiles and expand access.

They indeed do this and have various avenues for treatments to be approved on expedited timelines.
If I’m terminal and my doctor and I want to try the treatment, who are the feds to tell me no?

Screw ‘em
I dont agree with you that it's the user's fault. The issue isn't understanding of remember this device feature. The issue is it's a fundamentally broken design. One, because users have multiple devices and second, the feature is crippled when employing privacy preserving behavior.

I should be able to authenticate by proving access to a device such as a yubikey, as an example. Now, the site can properly remember the user. This missing feature is the fault of crummy UX, not the user.
Extreme Heat Pushes US Airlines to Shed Fuel, Limit Passengers
And you know … working out, lifting weights, walking for a while.
Floppies were your directories, in a very tangible sense. Filesystem directories only became a relevant feature when hard drive support was added in MS-DOS 2.0.
Password replacements are like septic systems, everyone needs one and nobody wants to do the work.
How horrible and frustrating. There is a fast-track approval procedure described here, I wonder why it doesn't apply to these treatments?

https://www.fda.gov/patients/fast-track-breakthrough-therapy...

There is some important context for the following comment:

“If anything goes wrong,” he argued, “think how bad it will look that we approved the drug so quickly.”

In the 1980s, when the comment was made, there were still people at the FDA who remembered the Thalidomide disaster, which would have been a lot worse had the FDA approved the drug. In the U.S. several thousand women took thalidomide during the clinical trials, and some doctors took it, too:

In one case, a doctor had been using thalidomide himself and prescribing it to his wife. In addition to the wife’s loss of vision, the doctor mentioned peripheral neuritis, nerve pain that is a side effect of thalidomide.

The other report is even more alarming — a nurse had given birth to a baby without arms or legs and, as a registered nurse, “she may have had access to the item.” (1)

Other countries including Canada, Taiwan, Japan, and West Germany did approve the drug or allowed it to be sold.

On December 2 1961, the drug was taken of the German and British markets, after several doctors brought up concerns as it appeared more and more plausible that thalidomide, when taken by pregnant women, was responsible for severe birth defects. Thought the Government of Canada was informed of these suspicions about the possible teratogenic effects of thalidomide, we had to wait until March 2 1962 for the Canadian authorities to react and, in their turn, withdraw thalidomide from the market. As unbelievable as it can appear, thalidomide was legally available in Canada for three full months after being withdrawn from its origin country. (2)

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/health/thalidomide-fda-do...

2. https://thalidomide.ca/en/the-canadian-tragedy/
It seems that if the Canadian and European regulatory bodies are incompetent or too quick to approve meds, it would show up in some statistics, right? Maybe their life expectancies would be lower or they would have higher rates of certain kinds of deaths. Yet if anything, it’s the US that lags in those areas.

There are tons of examples of the FDA failing to approve things, resulting in Americans dying unnecessarily. A more recent example was Omegaven, an IV nutritional fluid.[1] The FDA took 14 years to approve it, resulting in hundreds of infant deaths. Before its approval, only a few infants at Boston Children’s Hospital managed to get it. The staff there had to get FDA approval to import the fluid from Europe for every infant they wanted to treat, resulting in a lag time of several days. Even though it was clear that Omegaven was much more effective than previous IV nutrition, the FDA’s bureaucratic hurdles prevented it from being adopted sooner.

1. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/adumbrations-of-aducan...
I don't have an issue with people taking magic beans to heal themselves; it's the sellers who knowingly (whole other kettle of fish there) sell snake-oil that are the immoral ones.
> Don’t code late at night

Big disagree fore. For me, code comes much easier in the deep of the night. I can just write, and it's fine, where-as during the day I get distracted by side quests & perfectionism.

I think regularly of PKD writing I think in VALIS trilogy about the heat of the palm tree garden (of Eden), waves of heat making us languid. And then the night, the absence of god's light, humans unwatched, free, unburdened. The contrast has resonated with me for so long, the relief from pressures of the day, unburdened freedom. I feel it, I feel freer, as I code deeper into the night.
I have not searched for a single app outside of Apple Arcade in many years.
Big change for some CLEAR users: TSA will soon require you to show ID
Are you implying software isn’t valuable? Because that’s just a non starter — it obviously is.
Yes this is more the tinkerer vs inventor approach, but sometimes tinkering is way more pragmatic in understanding a space.
I don’t know what happened, but a couple weeks ago, I was sitting on the couch when I suddenly had a sharp pain shoot through the right side of my body. It subsided after a few seconds, but for a week I had a persistent pain in my side, around my right rib cage and behind the shoulder blade.

At first I thought it was something really bad, like an organ issue. It hurt just to lay down in bed at night.
Only thing that seemed to give any relief were really tense stretches. It ended up going away after that week, and at this point I assume I must have just pulled some muscle in a bad way, but I certainly didn’t think I was old enough to have back issues like that.
Privacy on the Web
I don’t understand your overall point here as this is pretty much how the current system works.

> It is possible to take those probabilities and to talk about the expected number needed to treat (NNT) for a medication, the expected side effect profile, how many people might live and how many might die.

NNT > NNH = efficacy. To calculate these the trials need to be done, which is not the case for experimental therapies as they have undetermined benefits and harms (hence why they’re in trial).

The choice here is between conventional options that have known benefits/harms, however crappy they may be, with something that has unknown values.
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Is better than catching anchovies for the same purpose

> nothing will be done until there are 10 penguins left in the wild and maybe 20 whales left.

oh, the melodrama...

Not, nobody is doing anything about saving the whales since the 70's, and catching krill "does not benefit at all" the squid-eating whale species
I would pay a lot of money for this book.
I try to incorporate deadlifts into my workouts twice a week to prevent this.

Lower back pain is scary. During covid, when the gyms were closed, I couldn’t do deadlifts and felt the back pain coming. Thankfully everything opened up.
It costs the company in support costs to deal with lockouts, and the newbie does want their cake and to eat it to, thus the entire push to passkeys.
You are enabling quack doctors
I hope more and more medicine/science moves outside the reach of FDA. If someone is willing to pay for a treatment (or recreational product), and is reasonably informed/competent to decide the risks, and it's not a risk to anyone else, go for it. If someone tries to prevent consensual commerce (possibly while wearing a silly uniform or carrying a printed ID badge from a state), violate the law if on balance it's worth it to do so, and if it were literally my life at risk, I'd use whatever force required to accomplish the transaction. Hopefully treatment would be on the table before I lost the ability to run a carbine properly if needed.

Medical tourism is an excellent opportunity for "network state" and state alternatives. I already get virtually all elective medical care outside the US for commercial and service quality reasons, despite having US insurance.
It has to be behavioral, not IP based for the most part because of the ways these networks operate—primarily on personal computers/routers on US-based residential connections.

I deal with these constantly for our clients. It’s amazing how smart they function to get around limits (thousands of IPs and valid recent user agents) but how they miss easy things like using the same cookie to submit 1000s of different entries with obvious purchased lists of names/emails, many of whom are deceased.
I don’t know why, but this was heart breaking to read. I don’t think it was meant to be.
https://archive.ph/CmI3k
This is like if I said "stop buying Bitcoin" and you were like "why not just set all your money on fire?"
Wishing is one thing. Hope is the better thing. There is something beyond death. I don't know how anyone can think otherwise. Who else has the words of life?
Read the rest of his blog; it’s wonderful and I’m devastated that someone I followed for years is going to vanish.

Thank you for giving us all some of your time on this earth.
I think the narrator isn't a CSB employee, and is just hired for these videos.

I would be interested in seeing some sort of parody video made about commercial/industrial deep friers. e.g. '2018 Destin Florida McDonald's Fryer Ice Immersion Incident' Could even hire the same animation company.
I think they're talking about social interactions leading to exchange of personal information, and so a private person is still known by the ripples they leave in their social circles.

For instance if grandma wishes me happy birthday, and she gets hacked, now they know my birthday. Grandma also probably gave away my mother's maiden name as well.
Where is 'here'? I know several people 'here' that admirably use iMessage exclusively over the equally less private WhatsApp.
Someone else mentioned civitai.com, I gave it a look and was surprised at the diversity of models, most of which are derived from stable diffusion tho.
Does Plane offer an alternative for JQL (Jira Query Language)? That's what I appreciate most about Jira
Distributions are sampled from distributions -- it is this problem which makes global scepticism an even minimally interesting problem.

When faced with "global, recursive" epistemic problems one arrives at an extremely power-law asymmetric distribution where the "bayesian value" of almost all evidence is near zero.

We live our entire lives in this "nero zero" range, and i'd suppose, this makes a "pure bayesian" solution to the problem of knowledge deficient. Since we succeed in knowing, so we succeed in making hyperfine determinations.

This sort of "hyperfine epistemology" works globally to allow us to "know at all", but as you're sensing here -- it's pretty much useless for any local problem.

Perhaps this is just the single up-side of the bayesian approach to the drake eqn: it shows how impossible it is to state such an eqn, let alone evaluate it. We cannot, a priori, make such hyperfine determiniations on such circumstantial matters.
To be clear, Net Zero requires massive direct-air carbon removal, i.e. the only way to achieve it 'net zero' is the permanent removal of billions and billions tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere and storing it somewhere.

36-37 Billion tonnes of CO2/yr, ..
Hey I grow foxglove in my garden. Lovely.

Here's another one : CASTOR OIL PLANT. Pretty common. Has these beans.

Take some of the beans. Soak em in water for a couple days and you have a fabulous poison : ricin.

Excruciating tummy ache and bloody diarrhea. Then you die.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricinus
This is exactly the kind of insight I was looking for (considering the limitation that as non-insiders, all we can do is speculate).

Thank you!
I like that DuckDuckGo uses Bing as a source and DDG acts as a proxy to Bing. Bing is a huge personal-data grab by Microsoft and all their recent AI is just cruft I will never use, personally.
Yeah I don't know what it would be called but it was a nice trick for the type of cracking like was being described by harvesting names out of public chats. People normally used short password lists with variations of a lot of common things when they were trying running a list of thousands of names to crack. No clue exactly how much it improved hit rates or speed but I remember being it helpful for sure
A lot of similar things come into play if you ask questions like "Could the Romans have invented $X?"

Some cultural factors like slavery meant they were less interested in e.g. labor-saving inventions. And there probably were health and life sciences concepts you could introduce--but might have limited ability to prove. But, for the most part, there are technology trees that you can't really shortcut and, even with the right high-level knowledge, it's hard to accelerate things too mych.
I understood your question to mean “why can’t he have access to clinical trials?”

A person has to qualify for the clinical trial by meeting a set of specific set criteria to ensure the results are interpreted with the least amount of error.
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Midi-editor / remote-controller based on CTRLR for the analog 28 band equalizer
I think you've nailed the point that they missed. You do not always get to do what you already love, especially when you have responsibilities, family etc. What you can do though is what you suggest, learn to love what you do. Which usually starts with being competent at it.
A simple way to stem most snake oil is to put all payments for snake oil treatments into escrow till the treatment is approved.

Then the snake oil manufacturer can peddle their unapproved treatment to as many people as they like, but they are losing money on every dose unless the treatment turns out to be safe and effective.

Obviously you need a big team of scientists on the approval panel to make sure no snake oil salesmen are faking trial data to get their payday, but that seems solvable.
Probably has to do with Phycological distance? The climate crisis might seem distant and disconnected from our daily lives for many individuals. People often find it difficult to associate their immediate actions with the global implications of climate change, leading to a lack of personal connection to the issue.
And as you point out, the problem with biometrics is that once they're stolen or copied, there's no changing them. Particularly your DNA.
It doesn't represent human experience, it represents the average submission to deviantart
> and allows any app no matter what it really does

Many malicious apps get through, and legitimate and benevolent apps get refused. App stores are the ultimate Kafkaesque gatekeepers.
It interprets telling the vehicle to crash into a barrier rather than hit pedestrians as not placing as much value on protecting passengers. But really, this is just a recognition that the passengers are far more protected in a crash than the pedestrian are when getting hit by the car. Instead of a barrier, it should be a large cliff or something.
How will this approach work with larger teams?
I don't normally get migraines but I'd like to second that. When I do get a debilitating migraine it is always originating from my trap.
Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replacing laid off workers with AI
Do this fan knew that tomatoes have yet nicotine included without any special treatment?
Maybe part of the reason that the Canadian and UK drug regulators are competent, is because we haven't created a sufficiently large system of incentives to undermine them. Maybe if approving a drug in Canada got you access to the entire world, we would have a very different scenario.

A rubber stamping scheme removes redundancy from the system. Approving drugs faster sounds like a great idea, but there was a reason someone put up that fence you want to tear down, and your arguments haven't addressed it. Furthermore, the fence doesn't need razing to accomplish your goal - I don't see why advocating for the FDA to approve drugs faster should be synonymous with turning them into a rubber stamp.

No one (or at least not me) is contesting the assertion that approving drugs faster may save lives. But I don't want pharmaceutical companies to be able to undermine a single regulatory body and then be able to distribute their drugs everywhere.
This is irrelevant to your point, just change the numbers used as example, but we do not know whether pi+e is irrational! (Even though nobody believes it to be rational)
Yes that would be the case
TLDR version of what the article concludes: No, not really.
Are you sure?
Why would a build machine need access to GMail?

>The report says Google's new pilot program "will disable Internet access on the select desktops, with the exception of internal web-based tools and Google-owned websites like Google Drive and Gmail.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/to-defeat-hackers-go...
I'm hoping that a potential transition from monitors to AR glasses will substantially alleviate some of these issues.
So you're just blaming a Complex and ingrained societal concept without offering a better model(s)? It's fun to do it with small tech projects but world commerce probably needs a bit more thought considered before attacking it.
Show HN: News Radar, an experiment on generating news with AI
Hey folks! This is a project that I've been working in my free time for the past few months.

It's a news aggregator that uses AI to select relevant articles and summarize them.

The default sources are frameworks and libraries' updates, popular HN topics, and languages' subreddits threads that make past a certain threshold.

You can run a local instance (needs an OpenAI key) and customize it with your own sources, and adjust the prompt as well.

The resulting website can be browsed at https://dev-radar.com/

My next experiment will be with local news.

I'm building some feeds with public information from my town (the town's hall official news, the legislators weekly meeting notes, weather reports, waze, etc), and based on that make it generate news items. The thing about it is that its sources will be (nearly) primary - it will not copy content from other journalists (apart from the official town hall news, which I will need to tell the AI that will be biased towards the current administration). When analyzing the local records, it might be able to catch shady stuff that regular journalists would not notice. Imagine feeding some purchase records from the town and asking the AI some questions like "is something illegal going on here?" or "are any of these items overpriced?".
For google analytics and the like there are a lot of alternatives to be fair, I've started using Simple Analytics on all my sites.
> In all three instances, the result was that the treatments were snake oil and people died that might have lived otherwise.

It seems like you're claiming that people who were given medical treatment after media attention weren't down to their last option(s)?

If they were down to their last options, then they made their choice and it didn't work out.
"Groups... are being actively worked on."

Where? By who? For what platform? Show me?
There should be a universal law in human rights stating anyone can take anything into their own bodies and governments can never, ever prevent them.

Governments/regulators deciding what you can put into your body is beyond ridiculous: applies to all substances and drugs.

Inform about the potential risks and effects: sure.

Prevent: never.
> However in Rust, panics cannot be recovered from, there is no way to incept a panic in the current thread.

You definitely can: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/panic/fn.catch_unwind.html
Agreed. It's an excellent book. But perhaps a little long if you are purely interested in computer history and want an introduction in a shorter volume. I recommend these two:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idea_Factory
https://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer...
Supplements are regulated as food products as long as the manufacturer doesn't claim they treat or cure anything. The FDA allows them for the same reason they allow fudge brownies or Spam to be sold.
Soft Synths of the Commodore Amiga
Ideally, they want the plant running as much as possible. I think that's what motivated them to delay mitigations.
You can pick any one but you’ll find they are all very similar. One may have an edge on certain services but they all have them (or will for new capabilities).

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/aws-pro...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/gcp-pro...
Is the life path of a developer (particularly one interested in working for one of the large, monopolist tech firms) really so different? Isn't "staff" engineer a common goal? As I say, my experience has been that hard skills matter quite little beyond a certain point and political/soft skills take over, and it's as true of private industry as anywhere else.
Yep, is called grafting.

It does not survive unless both plants are closely related
Maybe not 'weird' but certainly short domains have better SEO because they're typically harder to register, and thus are probably a heuristic in some search engine's algorithm and are treated differently (i.e upranked instead of downranked).