skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can help track down distant family members who have committed crimes? Sounds like a plus.

It's no longer so easy when the definition of "crime" gets expanded. Let's take this scenario:

- you're a first generation Chinese immigrant in the US

- a nephew of yours is in China and critical of the CCP

- you decide to have your genome scanned into 23andme or whatever to determine if you are at risk of genetic illness

- your nephew sprays an anti-CCP tag on a wall somewhere

- the Chinese police gathers DNA evidence from a laxly discarded spray can, but doesn't have fingerprints so they can't immediately link the can to your nephew

- the Chinese government, either via a legal subpoena or via espionage, gets its hands on your genetic profile from the genetic analytics company

- the Chinese government finds your data, now knows that the sprayer must be related to you in some way, and forces everyone of your family to subject to a DNA test

Sounds dystopic? Yes. But this is exactly where we will be headed. Police here in Germany already do DNA tests on petty vandalism [1].

[1] https://www.fuldaerzeitung.de/fulda/fulda-bahnhof-neuhof-dna...
The mother will already be connected to the child. The father is what would be needing tracking down.

I mean, wasn't that completely obvious?
Why should the word "checkout" imply anything particular? (Except leaving and paying for your hotel room?)
I can't comment about other capitals but there are entire neighborhoods in Bucharest where police just doesn't go in. Same in Brasov - and these are just my two Romanian examples. I know it's common to blame the immigration for the issues, but let's not forget part of Western immigration also comes from the Eastern Europe.
Navigating Legal Waters: AI in Mental Wellness
Hey Hacker News community,

I'm venturing into the world of AI-driven mental wellness chats for Molly․com and could use some legal brains! Here's where I'm scratching my head:

- How does HIPAA impact AI chat services, especially when we're not providing medical advice but mental wellness support?
- Any insights on data privacy laws that I should be particularly mindful of in this context?
- Are there specific legal pitfalls or precedents in the realm of AI and mental health that you think every developer should know?
- If you've navigated these waters, what were some unexpected legal challenges you faced?

Your experiences, insights, or even pointers to resources would be massively helpful!

Thanks a ton in advance!
Four-day work week: historic agreement between Lamborghini and unions
I'm trying serotonin right now because of https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2023/october...

:shrug: if it's working. It makes my stomach upset so at least _something_ is happening.
Ah, I didn't realise (and perhaps you didn't either?) but you linked to the Canadian store, where it is CAD $172.
> So .. easily confused with Swedes then?

Maybe not Swedes (who weren't exactly typical Romans) but with someone from Iberia, Italy, Sicily or Greece? Sure.

Northern Africa wasn't exactly an ethnically homogenous region either. Phoenicians were establishing colonies there for hundreds of years, there was significant contact with the Greeks and other areas in the Mediterranean (including extensive slave trade). By the time the Romans had conquered Britain many Italians had also settled there (and their descendants were likely significantly overrepresented in the legions recruited there, you had to be a citizen to join after all).

> did they travel afar from their own land

I'm not sure we have any evidence of that? But sure it's not impossible that a statistically insignificant number of people from there might have somehow ended up in Roman Britain (and considering how lucrative the Indian Ocean trade what incentives would they have had to travel to other side of the world?)

> the Abyssinians, did they not once have "all the gold"?

Maybe? Not sure how is that related?

> there were certainly rich, powerful, and very dark traders from abroad along with no shortage of Mediterrian complexions.

How is that certain? I agree about the Mediterranean, Northern Europe and the parts of the Middle East who were in close contact with the Romans with numbers of people from those areas exponentially decreasing with distance. Merchants/people from anywhere else? Extremely unlikely to end up in a distant backwater like Britain (unlike in Rome itself for instance).
If you have two choices for spend/untap, I think it would be fairly trivial to create Turing complete logic that also presents discretion and requires involvement from the player. However, it sounds like such an arrangement can still considered a draw in “competitive play”. There are many formats to Magic, though. If any other Turing machine had an outside observer ready to pull the plug after an arbitrary amount of time, does it make it less of a Turing machine?
It's precious that you imagine not getting your DNA sequenced will provide any sort of shield against dystopian governments.

This sort of thing looks more like a psychological crutch than an actual effective action.
This said, being desperately poor killed us much faster.
> My polish mother called them "pirojki", which is the french term.

Well, French terms "pirojki" and "bistro" were transplanted words from Russian when they occupied Paris around 1814 or 1815 after the Napoleonic wars.
Starlink performs amazingly well in its use-case.
Looks nice but how well can it endure daily exposure to sunlight?
<puts on tinfoil hat>

Does anyone think privacy of any real sort is maintainable going forward? Machine learning algorithms are learning to identify people just by their walk -- no face recognition required. Algorithms are moving toward being able to decipher text just by the audio of the keyboard being typed on.

In short, given a gestalt of ALL public data and sufficiently advanced algorithms is there really a way for people to maintain what we today consider reasonable privacy without extraordinary measures, unfailingly applied?

To be clear, I'm not value-judging the situation, just expressing what I think the ongoing trend is.
Well, it's also about power. But at the end of the day big companies refuse collective agreements because they want the options to make conditions worse than the proposed minimum, and frequently they also have many actual employees working at below the proposed minimum already.

This is the situation at Tesla Sweden, which pays wages below the market average and tries to cover the gap with stock options which Tesla is free to rescind at any time. There is also a points-system that in practice requires unpaid overtime in order to get a raise.
Human societies have elaborate processes to solve this issue: inheritance laws. In case no heirs can be located anymore (body can't be identified, records are missing, the line has died out, etc.) the state is the heir by default and makes the rules.
Logging out is a better starting place.

1. it's not permanent

2. it (hopefully?) sends a message to the dick-tater
> The place is unrecognizable to us Californians since the late 90s

That frightens me, because the last time I was in San Francisco was in the late 90s for an event at the Moscone Center. It was so shockingly bad then that I've avoided going back. The poverty, filth and drugs were a nightmare. I got followed down the street by a very angry man yelling at me, seemingly for the crime of smiling and nodding at him as I walked past. If those were the good old days, it must be bad.
I indeed read the paper. No snark needed.

I disagree with your interpretation of the stable plural patchwork that you’ve represented here as supporting your claim. However, the nuance in difference of our opinion isn’t that important in the grand scheme.

For your last two paragraphs, I think you are actually describing social sorting - which the paper asserts as the underlining mechanism for which polarization happens online. The filter bubble is colloquially known as not seeing differing opinions online, yet as the paper states is untrue. Online we counter more diverse opinions. That’s what I wanted to point out.

Best of luck to you.
A body functions correctly only when electrolytes (potassium, sodium, etc.) are in their normal ranges. Any overflow or underflow out of the corresponding range causes a derangement of biological processes (= bad consequences).
Well I'm glad they did the wrong thing then
Tesla has refused to even negotiate agreement for six years, that's not the union being uncooperative.
This is only an issue if you have more than 1 language. Almost every language or framework has a good solution for configuration these days.
Many of the policies you mentioned sound great in a world of spherical cows but break down in the real world.

For example you say a basic policy is a tax on guns instead of a ban. First of all I dispute that is even orthodox economics. Second there is some strong evidence that gun bans reduce violence.

Free migration is another one. It is an insanely complicated issue in the real world. No country has 100% free migration or they wouldn’t be a country. There are all kinds of very complex rules and effects of these rules. And it is not clear that “free migration” is “good”. (I am sure the native americans probably didn’t like the free migration)
Only in USA. hhaahah
Whether humans wanted them or not, that’s another story.

I don't think it's another story, I think it's the whole story.
> As opposed to the non-downvotes and non-flagged comments parroting NATO propaganda with no sources whatsoever?

As if that makes your comment any more true. These comments are based on facts. Just because they support NATO doesn't mean that they are false. Your comment, unlike imaginary 'NATO propaganda', is completely divorced from reality and full of lies.

> Americans’ obsession with Russia is quite the thing.

Why did you assume that I'm American? I'm Ukrainian and know the history of my country better that some pro-russian stranger on the internet. And the 'obsession' is completely justified when russia keeps commiting war crimes, destroying cities and massacring civillians.

> There are other countries out there where disagree with you without being pro-Russian.

Disagreeing with US' actions is one thing, supporting russia is another.
Your comment is clearly the latter.
That would be massively influenced by culture. An atheist materialist from the West is going to have a totally different view to someone from a culture where burial has all sorts of codified behaviours and beliefs associated with it.
Even with the best cloud native apps that can really be easily moved from one node to another, it is not easy to do cluster upgrades.

Upgrading one control plane node after another can still break your cluster when you have your control plane nodes running incompatible versions.

If you get a big worker node failover during the control plane upgrade, which of the control plane nodes should provision the new worker nodes, which versions of containers should kubelet pull, etc?

The upgrade process for a running multi-node solution is an extremely difficult technical challenge, and it has to be designed very carefully to actually have a good chance of working. Breaking changes are almost impossible to introduce if the goal is to upgrade gracefully - you probably need a special compatible version to run while the upgrade is still in progress, that is neither the old version nor the targeted new version, but can handle both. You need to make sure all APIs are versioned in a way where it's easy to distinguish a request coming from an old client (so you can serve the old format) or a new one etc.

Kubernetes has done some work on this, but it still often requires manual work. And many common plugins have just not put in this work and will break if you try to upgrade a live cluster.
Metaprogramming, null safety, syntax familiarity (with Ruby), algebraic types - there are quite a lot of advantages/differences, no?
Doesn't hurt to get both, I guess. The "block" seems effective
The difference between accessibility and affordability is large.
While I was at CERN in 2003 - 2004, that was exactly what some people where doing on their Windows computers.

The alternative being OS X, or maybe Solaris, if one was in a building that still had a couple of pizza boxes that weren't yet on the throw away pile.
All android devices that i had (which is just two) pulled that on me. Maybe its rare but its noteworthy that it happened twice.

Turns out its not only me https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-stop-installing-apps-...
Annas's Archive also has a very comprehensive metadata search engine for books,

The person who manages to create full-text search for the books in the shadow libraries will have created the most important tool of the decade. If there is any effort being made in this direction, please let me know.
how cheap is "cheap"? I've never heard anyone say that about brooklyn.
Apple Podcasts Names Wiser Than Me the 2023 Show of the Year
This is the book that was next to Bill Gates during his television interviews a few years back when we considered him a health professional.
And it isn't like the users are going to stop using Windows anyway. Some of them will whine and make empty threats about switching their OS "if they keep it up" but nobody actually believes them because they've been keeping it up for almost 10 years now.
Easy fix, have the perpetrator pay for the investigation.
It doesn't really matter in practice, because the discipline around contract law is (typically) based on reasonableness of terms - I can't sign TOS that say I'm a slave, nor will TOS apply if such a clause is introduced at a later stage.

Regardless of whether terms are changed for administrative or product reasons, what matters is the reasonableness of terms imposed on the other party.
What did legal do?
I’m sorry, I don’t understand what e2le has typed here.
Perfect is the enemy of good, however.
> Regular living/working places are produced as cheaply as possible to meet the requirements. Both then and now.

Yeah, a trip to an open-air museum (we call such a place a "skansen" in Poland) will show you that for most of history, people lived in places that even homeless of today would scoff at. Right angles are a luxury.
Not at all, it was more related to well known Swift folks at Google.
“… the only technology we should be using to create web UI is JavaScript.”

Well, the Rage team certainly is opinionated!
amazing, thanks! this has been discussed extensively on HN, too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35355703
> The most naive implementation would replay the entire previous match every time a new action happens. A better implementation realizes that you don't need to - because once you have one repeat, everything after should be a repeat as well, so you really can just keep running and merely check for repeats at strategic points (such as between turns or on any human input). Store the serialized state at those points in some appropriate Set implementation to make checking easy and fast. Increase the spacing between those checkpoints, deleting old ones, if space becomes an issue - though if you get to this point, the game has run for so long that the humans playing it probably need medical attention.

Any test of this type only works if there is a repeat, which you can only know about if you have a finite machine, and even with finite steps it takes 2^n steps[0] to be sure you've hit an infinite loop. Even in a computer, even with a fairly small deck to build the state, you'll time out on things like the stars going out before you can rule out any loop.

And there isn't necessarily any repeat at all in the unbounded case. The state is recorded by 18 types of card, where "moving" left or right along the tape modifies the number of hitpoints on each card. At that point, I think you can still kinda decide if it halts or is infinite with the Busy Beaver number, except only "kinda" because now you run into the problem that the Busy Beaver number itself isn't generally computable because of the halting problem.

Also the lower bound S-number for a mere 2-state 6-symbol machine, let alone the 2-state 18-symbol one in the paper, is already 10⇈10⇈(10^(10^115)), which is so much larger than the Poincaré recurrence time of the universe (even when measured in Planck times) as to make those periods themselves to be infinitesimal rounding errors.

> All of this is possible because of the human element: Human just aren't physically capable of producing enough input to make a computer sweat about recording it.

In practice, it's the opposite problem: for both humans and computers, even if you already know what it's going to compute and it's only doing something simple, it takes ages to get through enough states to say either way. It's a very slow Turing machine.

[0] well actually[1] it's something more like min(2^n, BB(2, 18)), but BB numbers grow so much faster that in practice they only matter for infinite tapes

[1] I've probably got this wrong, like getting the m and n switched around because the terminology doesn't seem to be entirely consistent, hence me starting that footnote with the traditional catchphrase for someone about to say something stupid :P
There are a number of gut microbiome testing companies sponsoring studies on this and university labs who have found some promising candidate probiotics being clinically trialed to restore gut microbiome. We may be able to fix ours.
In my defense, I said I occasionally regret the choice. But in rebuttal, I certainly do not have your confidence that returning Cow<str> is the right choice. Basically, when it comes down to it, I'm not 100% convinced that it pulls its weight. But like I said in the issue, it's decently motivated.

I don't think String could be a Cow<str>. Remember, Cow<str> is actually a Cow<'a, str>, and if you want to borrow a &str from a Cow, the lifetime of that &str is not 'a, but rather, attached to the Cow itself. (This is necessary because the Cow<str> may contain an owned String.) This in turn would effectively kill string slicing.

In order for something like Cow<str> to be the default, you need more infrastructure. Maybe something like hipstr[1]. It is a nice abstraction, but not one that would be appropriate for std.

[1]: https://docs.rs/hipstr/latest/hipstr/
Often we know about the coverup, but we don't know what was covered up. "Lost" documents are quite common in politics.

And we will never know if it was worth it.
I had the pleasure to deal with both authorities and the business side of securing platforms that handle the container checks & harbour access.

The forces who are, let's call it "not happy" with any form of security (access control, logging, monitoring, malware, RATs etc.) is insane.

At times I felt nearly half of all involved parties were corrupt. Top to bottom. Commercial and governmental.

Sold absolutely zero solutions and decided to never again deal with the whole industry.

Edit: for completeness I should add that many did not want any additional security measures since this might leave the traffickers no other choice but to get more physical.
Revealed: Sellafield nuclear site has leak that could pose risk to public
Same in German with "gib Gas!", although we don't have the lollipop
I liked boston the city whenI was there. It's no New York, but the common and esplanade are beautiful and it's certainly not _dead_.

Seaport is cool, even if it totally blows my mind how much they've built at a level that is clearly going to get crushed by rising sea levels.
The Roman Republic was steadily dying up to Caesar's reign. He really was just the straw that broke the camel's back in terms of its death, which was surely inevitable in the coming decades. However, without Caeser, the conquest of Gual may have been pushed back drastically?
Denmark's largest union joins Sweden in Tesla blockade
An interesting point is that Twitter started in rails and migrated to something (java?) that was faster after they got users. Ideally it would not be necessary to fully replace the application after launch but getting it out the door quickly to start iterating has its upsides.
Or the jurisdiction in which you live in which labs are not permitted to test without a doctor’s order? This is very common.
My guess is that the researchers don't "own" the research they're doing since it was being funded by the university. It's property of the university and if you take it and try to sell it now you're stealing IP.
“don’t touch the unsecured, loaded firearm that is sitting on the counter, that might be stolen, maybe even got a body on it, don’t look too close, or you can be kicked out of the club for not following the rules”

so if this is what the right thing looks like…
Sorry, but a new prompt for GPT-4 is not a paper
Not necessarily. Impressive stone buildings in the Western Balkans were often built by people who were quite poor, except for what livestock they held. It helped that society was clan-based, so resources were pooled, and when these families had to build a house in a region of vendetta and invasion, for protection they chose stone that has held up well over time.

An interesting parallel might be those old Amish houses in the US built well through communal effort, even though the families might have been cash-poor.
What is always missing in these type of discussions, is that these public caching resolvers (like Cloudflare, google, …) are not the "intended" way to query a DNS record.

These resolvers get their DNS records through recursive DNS resolving, which is the "intended" way.
Basically when looking up "news.ycombinator.com" they first look up at the root servers (e.g. m.root-servers.net.), what the name server for "com." is (e.g. a.gtld-servers.net.), then through these name servers they look up what the name server for "ycombinator.com." is (e.g. ns-225.awsdns-28.com) and then they look up the subdomain "news.ycombinator.com." at the nameserver for "ycombinator.com.".

"Intended": it's not "unintended", but it's basically just a shortcut to the way you'd normally look up DNS records.

So the example with, it's the same as removing it from a phone book isn't even correct.
It would be more like, if you have a database that has a faster access to every phone book, and you'd remove the domain only from that faster access database. While you'd still be able to just look at the phone book, while it may not be as fast or as convenient.
You aren’t going to get hired by the Chicago crowd if you start espousing Kensyian ideas let alone Marxist ones. You aren’t getting hired by Exxon if you start talking about the negative externalities of climate change.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar:

> While travelling, he was intercepted and ransomed by pirates in a story that was later much embellished. According to Plutarch and Suetonius, he was freed after paying a ransom of fifty talents and responded by returning with a fleet to capture and execute the pirates. The recorded sum for the ransom is literary embellishment and it is more likely that the pirates were sold into slavery per Velleius Paterculus.
All of Google is a failed experiment. It's only a question of time.
Yes. Remember this fact.

My expertise is education. Everyone has opinions about that field. Many, many, many are just completely ignorant.

It's why I try not to weigh in too heavily on areas that I have no practical experience in.