skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are no controls because there is no possibility of controls, as a matter of mathematics.

This is kind of true because, for example, the one-time pad is information-theoretically secure, and anyone could choose to use a one-time pad with anyone else given prior arrangements. Or anyone could choose to use RSA for confidentiality with anyone else given a mutual desire to communicate confidentially and an authentic but not confidential channel.

However, there's nothing mathematically stopping a government from punishing people who are observed to follow a protocol to create a confidential channel. Although Eben Moglen has argued that the right to speak PGP is the right to speak Navajo, a government could conceivably choose to punish people for speaking a foreign language.

One might wish (I would certainly wish) that people would be extremely upset by this, but I guess it wouldn't contravene mathematics.

In fact, there are some historic cases where populations were subject to official military censorship in wartime, which included overt government review of some of their communications, and possibly a prohibition on the use of "codes", and sometimes restrictions on the use of foreign languages. One might again wish that this would be both much less acceptable and much less feasible now than in the past, but it's not completely impossible.
The haunted house one faked me out. I thought I was looking at https://davematthewsband.com/music/remember-two-things-reiss...
We brought home a very anxious few month old rescue puppy and she wouldn't do anything but hide in her crate and she would shake whenever anybody came near her. After a couple of months of not really improving, the vet put her on Prozac and it worked amazingly. After a week or so she was making massive strides. About six months later, we weened her off the Prozac and she was comfortable enough with us that she didn't seem to need it any longer. She's now six, and still an anxious dog overall, but she loves us, is always happy to see us, and lives a pretty good life. Would she have come around even without the Prozac? Maybe, but I'm happy it seemed to have reduced her terror while she came to trust us.
Out of curiosity, what do you think are the permanent side effects for humans.

I have been taking them for decades but stopped recently since my life hasn’t really improved after all those decades.
A graphic novel version of 'Watership Down' aims to temper darkness with hope
I'm the owner of a 7 year old anxious dog since she was a puppy. We got her in San Francisco while living in apartments. We then moved to a rural home in Oregon and then to a house in LA. Her anxiety manifested differently in each area, which has led me to believe she may not be "anxious" so much as a dog reacting to her environment. I'd say where we are now is her least anxious state, and she gets more mental stimulation here than anywhere we've been. This is a pretty suburban area, so she gets to sit in our front window to watch people and animals walking by all the time. Sometimes she barks at them, but she seems happy and energetic when she does it (a behaviorist would call it barrier frustration, though).

I don't know what the lesson is, exactly. Every dog is different. If I get another dog, though, I will make sure they have an environment with constant opportunities for mental stimulation even if we aren't home, which will probably means an accessible window with a good view.
Congratulations, you’ve discovered a very very old thought experiment & demonstrated that proponents of qualia are no further on than they were decades ago in providing anything even approaching proof of their conjecture.

The “substantial revisions” after 17 years to that paper are—rather weak—responses to objections raised in the 90s and should have been in their 2002 paper. Worse, they’re responses that have their own major objections by 2002 anyhow.

Not sure what your aim was but I guess thank you for underscoring my point rather perfectly?
Then people should participate in democracies rather than tyrannies, I think. You can't willingly participate in a community where the mods unilaterally decide the rules and then complain that you didn't have a say in them.
For those who want to know how to build a CPU on a breadboard, I recommend the book “But How Do It Know?” and the Scott CPU architecture.
Y'all remember the Google Field Trip app from Niantic labs? You could set it up to pop up and read out local facts when you arrived at a new place.
You know you're in trouble when people start talking about forward secrecy being problematic. What you're saying about the "email-like use case" for cryptography is that it's unserious protection, because a lack of forward secrecy practically guarantees full decryption of the entire history of messages, for any ordinary participant in the system.
CBD gummies work fine for dog anxiety. I also have friends that swear by low dose ∆9 gummies turning their "hospice" dogs into puppies again, at least giving them some quality of life in the last days/weeks/months.
Larger sticks (or more sticks) of RAM are generally slower than smaller sticks. It might not be possible to duplicate same speed ram and capacity on the Intel board. I would hope they duplicated the test with the same speed of RAM before matching capacity. The results are so one sided, I doubt either capacity or speed matters.
Anyone who can't explain what they do in a single sentence.
In the first season I thought "Oh, this company is supposed to be Compaq?" but then realized Compaq was one of many companies that all got the exact same idea at the exact same time. After that realization I saw the characters and their projects as tragic also-rans with a series of near-successes.
Testosterone parties: the latest Silicon Valley fad
I just can't take you seriously when you say things that are gross oversimplifications at best or outright falsehoods at worst—for instance that selling gas isn't "a viable business" (and hasn't been since peak gas station!), or that the only practical difficulty standing in the way of a full nationwide rollout of charging services to provide for EV drivers' needs at scale is as simple as "running a cable from a building to parking lot". It reads like you're trying to convince somebody these things are true by rhetorical sleight-of-hand rather than well-founded argument, and it's not going to work on me.

> An EV is a bigger breakthrough than a smartphone (which is primarily a content/addiction delivery mechanism).

These are consumer products! The average consumer's eyes are going to glaze over if you try to give them this spiel; they'll probably pull out their iPhone and start scrolling.

EV ownership saves a lot of people money and time, which I assume is the primary reason their market share is growing so rapidly right now—those people see the value proposition. Schemes like distributed grid energy storage via EV battery have the potential to save consumers even more money, but those schemes will have to be implemented on the garden path of EV ownership to actually move the consumer demand needle.
70% (approx) of dog behavior problems are solvable via sufficient exercise. In the dog's opinion, not yours. Get a chuckit and a kong soft frisbee and run the shit out of your dog.

Think very hard before you get eg a cattledog, border collie, jack russel, or even a corgi, etc.
No. None of what you're writing is accurate. No processor made in the last decade will ever idle at the base clock. Any modern processor idles far, far lower than that, approximately 1Ghz, maybe even lower. Idling at multiple gigahertz would be a huge waste of energy. The minimum clock speed is not correlated to the "base clock" at all.

It takes tens of milliseconds to reach the boost clock: https://stackoverflow.com/a/64254459

The base clock is entirely irrelevant to everything you are talking about. Please reference my earlier comment for the meaning of "base clock": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37980293
Oh there's a Netflix version coming out too? Splendid.
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DKIM is an anti-spam tool, not an end-to-end encryption tool (obviously, it's not end-to-end at all, and if you're relying on it, you might as well forget about message encryption, because you've simply decided to trust your server).
I don't know what 'dog-whistle insults' even means in this case; but ignoring that, I thought the show sucked, too.

In my case I think it's an aversion to specialized marketing. I hated Silicon Valley, too; I think it's a lack of distance from the topic which makes me overthink the thing rather than just having fun with the story.

But with HACF I didn't just dislike the topic, I thought the acting was corny and stiff and I thought that the characters were unmotivated throughout the thing, with motivation being replaced with pseudo-historical anecdote. I thought the actors were poorly cast, and I feel like they did a bad job 'convincing' me of anything.

"Of course they're doing the thing, that's who Z is!" isn't compelling enough for me to enjoy it and suspend my real personality from interjecting criticism during the watch.

But who cares what I think : i've been out of lock-step with the crowd for a few years w.r.t. media consumption. Amazon/Netflix/Disney/whoever, AMC in this case shouldn't be considering what I think when toting their bags of money to the bank.
Why is this getting downvoted?! This is absolutely detrimental to any future history!
Have you experimented with this?
Ydkts: Fixing TypeScript's type-safety with Nominal types
> limiting yourself to neurological phenomena

I’m fine with including other phenomena. As I said in my original comment though: those phenomena need to be demonstrated to exist, first.

Until then it’s absolutely unscientific, and medically unsound, to assume they exist & then hope that they magically work. Because that is not science: that’s quackery.
I do think the mission of buying a house in an arbitrary place is kind of a misguided gen-x goal unless you have a legitimate space constraint like kids, already have a car as key component of your life, or have no established community. My point was that it's not worth relentlessly pursuing home ownership in some place just because it seems like inherently sensible goal. To acquire a house I'd need an improbable set of other variables to align, or relentlessly pursue it at all costs, and it's just so expensive for such a marginal and specious gain, that I don't think I'll concern myself with not having, whereas a few years ago it was merely a choice to keep renting and the delta between the two ongoing expenses wasn't like 3x.
"Such language policing is double-plus-ungood."

And yet such behavior happens right here on this very site. Why do you tolerate it?
This was brought back to working order with the help of Randy, Chip, Mist64, StuBlad, McMartin, and some other folks who hacked away until it was brought back to working order. The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (themade.org) undertook this work as the first ever institutional preservation of an MMO, and everything was accomplished for $0. The MADE is about to collaborate again with Randy and Chip on preserving Electric Communities, EC Habitat, and the Palace. The Museum has acquired legal waivers to begin this preservation project, and will undertake a hack-day on site January 13, 2024. Join us and help bring back history!
Ah a very libertarian take, I don't think we should have rules, of course until you're personally affected and then you'll demand them.
Ask HN: Is there an HN equivalent for communicating with CIA technologists/mgrs?
Sexual dysfunction, for one.

Additional potential long-term side effects include, but are not limited to, weight gain, feeling emotionally numb, and increased suicide risk.

Furthermore, there's the SSRI discontinuation syndrome.
Some percentage would panic and floor it, spinning the tires and removing a lot of flesh
We’re not ignoring them. We’re patiently waiting for them to be proven to exist & have a demonstrable mechanism of action.

Believe me, I’d be the first to suggest they be considered if we had that. We don’t. It would be great if we did.

Until then it’s not medicine, it’s shamanism.
You sure about that? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Recruit_(1917)
Dogs are even more poorly equipped for the sudden shift in living conditions over the last century than we are. Dogs are meant to be a little bit wild, roam around and enjoy being a dog every so often. Not being able to ever do that is taxing.

Yes, dogs require training, but it doesn't fix the root issue, which is not living up to their intended purpose. To serve, protect, and piss on everything another dog has pissed on.
> The whole concept of drugging your dog just seems, frankly, abusive to me.

Perhaps inadvertently in many cases, but it’s incontrovertible to me.

Dogs are sentient creatures and plying any animal with drugs to get a desired result, especially if it’s completely under your control, denies them the moral and ethical alternatives they likely need to live functional and healthy lives.

I’m not criticizing dog owners who do this, though; I think the vast majority of them are in over their heads, made a huge mistake, and likely don’t have the resources to do better. It’s awful for everyone involved. I wish more people understood that dogs are complex creatures with diverse wants and needs, requiring a lot of thought and care on a frequent and ongoing basis.
I have to wonder if I am just having a disability exploited. I think I really have trouble avoiding these ragebate stories. It's just too tempting to get in, get a rage fix and move on.
>People need to do far more research when adopting or buying dogs.

It would help a lot it society didn't encourage people to adopt dogs, and normalize dog ownership. It's really something that only rich people should do, so they can show off their disposable income (e.g., 3k for a house/pet sitter to go on vacation, hiring a dog walker, etc.). Regular people have no business owning an animal that requires this much care and attention, when they're already busy with their work, social lives, their own kids, etc.
NSA Key in Windows 99.9% of Windows code is C or C++
you aren’t very bright, are you?
About 18 months ago I recall hearing Ruffle had virtually no AS3 support, and that was a show stopper for me. I wasn't expecting them to get much done on this front for years. So in that time I simply installed the last version of Flash without the time bomb. Thankfully I am wrong :)
Tell HN: Photopea refuses to create or open files if you have an ad blocker
It works with an ad blocker just a few hours before, so I assume it would be a recent update.

https://i.imgur.com/NAxZQKf.png
If you assume powerful quantum computers then Bitcoin is dead, that is a straightforward result.

The digital signatures that prevent others from spending your bitcoins are based on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). The security of elliptic curve cryptography is based on the hardness of the discrete logarithm problem (DLP). A sufficiently powerful quantum computer can use a variant of Shor’s algorithm to solve the DLP in runtime polynomial in the key size (my research indicates O(n^3) in key size more or less), giving you the private key behind a bitcoin wallet in a very tractable amount of time.

Though everything else they are saying about backdoors or design issues are wild speculation, a powerful quantum computer absolutely would allow you to spend anybody’s, including Satoshi Nakamoto’s, bitcoins.
Bring Back the iDog, You Cowards
Interesting. When did you first sign up? When you first signed up, was it YouTube Red or something else? Did it remove YouTube ads?
Surgery is not a walk in the park, and it will take months to recover.

However, the body has an almost magical way of fighting back and finding a new equilibrium if you give it a chance to do so.
Your stubborance or pedantry is not my concern. You have nothing to grant me. I require no grant of you. You offer me nothing, for you display nothing I lack. You already provide me with what I crave: my own self amusement; so thank you.

You can read the paper and understand the principles it is based on, which is rooted on balancing computational asymmetry amongst other concerns across a network of computers. On the most simple level, if you are aware of hashcash and sybil resistance you should be able to figure it out.

If you're still confused: then answer yourself the question why does the bitcoin algorithm adjust to computational power?
There are constant updates; its author (Kazuho Oku) is working for Fastly.

H2O is absolutely battle proof -- its h2 and h3 implementation perform amazingly well.
>I wish more people understood that dogs are complex creatures with diverse wants and needs, requiring a lot thought and care on a frequent and ongoing basis.

I wish society in general actually taught people this before they got the idea of adopting a dog. Instead, society and the media pushes the idea on people and make it look like it's easy and fun.
Totally agree.

I walk my Golden Retriever an hour a day. I also put her into doggy day care for a day or two every week so she can have the enjoyment of non stop chaos for 8 hours. She comes almost everywhere with us.

I'm never worried leaving her on my leather couch unattended for a day. She knows she'll get a walk or run.

But you're totally right about picking the right breed. I see people picking collies and heeler breeds and I just feel sad for the dog because they arn't going to get the levels of work they really need from a household family.
Ahh right, Los Angeles. I remember now.

Should have called the series “half way up”
Not that I disagree with what you're saying. But pets don't really get to decide for themselves with really anything owners give them.

We all have stories of having to give our dogs some form of medication that they don't want to eat and having to sneak it into their own food.

If my dog indicates they doesn't want to eat the flea or worm medication that's fine, but I am going to make sure they get it because I know they're better off with it so they don't itch themselves raw.
Thanks for a detailed response. I'd definitely like some extra income as a grad student, but I cannot earn outside of the university because of my visa restrictions. For all intents and purposes, you may as well consider me living paycheck-to-paycheck. I wish academia paid better.
A search for "roundup drying agent" will produce dozens of sources.

Here's a link to a story about a bill from 2019 that would have banned the practice in the US (it did not pass):

https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/bill-would-ba...

Note that the bill would restore the permissible residue levels to the previous limit, which is 1/300th the current limit. The limit was raised in order to allow the practice in the US.
You need consensus, sure. You don't time estimates from engineering estimates for it, and even if you did, badgering engineers to make their numbers smaller wouldn't make getting consensus any easier.
I have an XPS 13 running the Dell-installed version of Ubuntu. There was jankiness with my Dell docking station (I still had to mess around with DisplayLink drivers by hand) and early screen-sharing problems (which I blame on Wayland, but have been resolved.) Otherwise, it's been pretty rock-solid for me. Camera, network, sound, etc. all work as expected now.

Is it for everyone? No. Even with explicit support by Dell on their hardware, it is not seamless, as my two anecdotes above illustrate. The time you waste on tinkering isn't going to make up for the extra money you pay to Apple or Microsoft.

But I just couldn't take any more telemetry and ads, and I think it is only going to get worse from here on out.
It's also not a full introduction, but for those who want to have a taste of p-adic numbers, see 3b1b's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFDM1ip5HdU which motivates 2-adic numbers. There's also a neat connection between twos complement and 2-adic numbers.
Call it Polybius.
The dudes who respond to requests for estimates with sarcasm and cynicism get fired. I’ve fired them.
This was a lifetime cat owner trying to raise a dog during the pandemic. Perfect storm of bad husbandry for a dog. I’m not surprised this is the outcome.
Flash shouldn't have died.

It was an incredibly accessible authorship tool that produced cross-platform single-file animations that were low-bandwidth and scaled.

We still haven't made up for its loss. Javascript + canvas + web stack is a mess. If the Ruffle runtime could quickly start up, I'd start authoring new Flash.
That's overly conspiratorial.

In normal use, "accident" just means it's unintentional.

People talk about preventing accidents all the time.
I wish some of the long standing PRs Ruffle has would actually get in
Yes - used Phoenix LiveView.
I’ve got to say I completely agree, but this does raise questions about how people end up medicated like this. What do you think about them?
San Francisco could get 90% of homeless off streets but landlords fighting it
I believe the rules are aimed to keep people with clearance from being foolish, risky, or bending the rules, not to prevent dedicated spies. I don't think they're getting patted down.
Clickable links: https://i.imgur.com/NAxZQKf.png
the more I look, the more Ruffle seems to speed along. how did they get so good (and this fast) ?!?
There was evidence of the negative health effects from his own research.
IMHO, increasingly inefficient software notwithstanding, CPU performance has been well beyond acceptable since a long time ago.

Thus, the real question is how buggy these new CPUs will be. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37812556
Are they in industries that are very energy-intensive, or depend heavily on petrochemical feedstock?
Adobe still offers Animate as part of Creative Cloud and you can use that to build AS3 movies. If you want AS2 you have to go back to at least CS6, though CS5.5 is preferred as it has significantly wider FLA support. (Don't ask me why that was removed in CS6.)

If you don't like the idea of paying Adobe money you can use Apache Flex, which is the FOSS version of Adobe's toolchain. That's a command line compiler tool, of course, and it only compiles AS3 files, so you'll still need to author and link graphics separately, and for vector art stuff you'd probably need to find a way to convert SVGs to SWFs, embed them in your main SWF thru some weird class declaration magic in Flex, and deal with the subtle masking problems that would cause.
For years, companies and doctors downplayed the side effects but I'm not sure that's true anymore.

Also, most people who use SSRIs do not experience permanent side effects once they get off them (though some do). The thing about SSRIs is that, at the end of the day, the data is based on whether patients like them and they largely do.

I'm also not sure I buy your argument about dogs. Dogs can't consent to any medical intervention and they certainly can't consent to being neutered and euthanized, both of which are widely practiced. SSRIs seem less egregious than that.
This article also reminds me of "The Sheep Look Up" by John Brunner (1972).

The author is from the UK, but it's mostly set in the US. It contains a brilliant parody of Trader Joes / Whole Foods (from well before they were founded, of course).

Apparently, he wrote a series of dystopias. I've been meaning to read the other ones.
> On the advice of the dog's psychiatrist

This is where I started scratching my metaphorical head. This is what makes me think the reason for high Prozac prescriptions is that there exist such a thing as a "dog's psychiatrist" as a profession.