skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we can compare the leaks of Ed Snowden with the Pentagon Papers leaks of Mike Gravel.

Post 9/11 (And even before) the US government began a widespread campaign against US citizens themselves under the guise of the "War on terror". People became so brainwashed that what we were doing was unequivocally "right" and what the other guys were doing was wrong. And it's continued to the point where the general public now thinks that we're the good guy's no matter what, without questioning authority. At the time the Pentagon Papers were leaked, it was the first time in a long time (In my opinion) that the general populous woke up and saw that we were doing some pretty horrendous things. The 3 letter agencies took this to heart, and learned from it. People haven't been taught to think critically in a long time, and that's on purpose.
As with all drugs, efficacy is only one part of the equation.

What's the potential side effects, both short term and long term, of this treatment?

For this treatment, it may be negligible, but without saying so we are only hearing one side of the story.
Mars gives you ~1/3g, which might be enough for humans but we don't know. A spin station can give you up to 1g if it's big enough. The difference between air pressure on Mars and hard vacuum is not that large. The radiation point is valid but we don't really know the real world long-term biological effects and limits and it's something we need to learn before we try any of this. All forms of radiation aren't created equal.

The easy availability of raw materials right on the surface is probably the biggest thing a planetary body has going for it over living in space, but if you can launch stuff from the Moon with a rail gun then shipping water, CO2, etc. up from there isn't going to be that hard.

As for A City on Mars I'm generally not a fan of popular science "it'll never work" books.

https://dsimanek.vialattea.net/neverwrk.htm

They're always popular because negativity sells and is an easy way to sound smart. Being negative and wrong tends to be forgotten, see Paul Ehrlich for one well known example. Being positive or optimistic and wrong is something you'll never live down. Humans have a powerful pervasive negativity bias.
I'd rather set it to running speed. Occasionally you would run through an airport but you probably can't do that comfortably all the way from one terminal to another one. Riding a personal portable electronic vehicle would just let you do the same all the way without to much sweating.
It won’t use the newest framework of the month JS library in a few months, but that’s okay. Validating an idea quickly without much fuss by having a boiler plate done for you is key. Just move sooner rather than later to something you understand once you get to a stable point.
> It functions by binding to the hydrophobic pocket formed by two neighboring protein subunits in the capsid shell

That's entirely cool to me, it operates by exploiting an "incidental construction feature" of the capsid and not targeting any specific feature in and of itself?
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A significant portion of the cost is the drug trials. Excedrin Extra Strength and Excedrin Migraine have identical formulations, but IIRC Bayer spent $300m on FDA approval for migraine treatment, which is why the migraine variant continues to be more expensive.

Your analogy would only be relevant if the US government paid $300M for the FDA approval and Bayer got to pocket 100% of the markup.
> Registry data is immutable, meaning once published, a package cannot change. We do this for reasons of security and stability of the users who depend on those packages. So if you've ever published a package called "bob" at version 1.1.0, no other package can ever be published with that name at that version. This is true even if that package is unpublished.

This statement makes assertions and sets expectations for both publishers and users. It would be senseless if npmjs would start arbitrarily "taking down" packages on their own discretion simply because they include a tea.yaml file (as proposed in the comment I replied to).
I’ve had less and less incentive to upgrade every year for over a decade.

I wonder when I’ll reach a tipping point.
Oddly enough, UTM VMs also bypass Little Snitch, making me wonder if you could always just bypass LS by running a VM in your evil app.
> They can because they (Apple) run in kernel space and Little Snitch no longer does/can. So LS, god love it, only works because Apple lets it.

I already addressed this later in my comment: "And even when macOS bypassed Little Snitch one time a few years ago, that was detected by developers. The whole world is watching Apple closely, so the company can't simply get away with whatever they want undetected."

> If Apple wanted to they could push updates to your OS without LS knowing about it.

They could release an update that allows later updates to bypass Little Snitch, but they can't magically make that ability retroactive and get it on a Mac that doesn't currently have that update installed.
This reminds me of a famous quote coined by the famous comic book artiste Alan Moore which is, "quis custodiet quie custodiet" which is Spanish for "Who Watches the Watchmen" (refers to his famous graphic novel and cinema film as well)

Also I believe it was Abbie Hoffman (famous 1960s peace activist) who famously is quoted as saying, "let he who fights dragons be careful not to become a dragon himself, and if he shall stare into the abyss, so too may he become an abyss" - so that basically means if you fight criminals all day even with the best of intentions, the wear & tear of it over time might eventually turn you into a criminal too
IANAL, but on a cursory read, this seems like a minefiled for use in a commercial settings: the definition of "Competing Use" in the license (https://github.com/getsentry/fsl.software/blob/main/FSL-1.1-...) can be read very broadly.
I wonder when organisations will learn to lead and manage effectively instead of micromanaging time via screen captures.
I do shooting competitions from time to time, and I agree that Olympic target shooting has too much strange equipment. Most great shooters don't even bother with it because it's so boring and equipment-specific. Instead they do stuff like USPSA, IPSC, and IDPA. All of those competitions depend more on movement and speed, not slow fire accuracy and special equipment. (Though USPSA does tend to have ridiculous looking guns in its unlimited division.)

With any of the practical shooting competitions, a skilled shooter can be competitive with an unmodified handgun. Also, the skills required have a lot of overlap with real world defensive handgun use. Oh, and it's way more fun.
> Boeing has a decision to make: keep investing in Starliner, or cut the program now

They can't cut the program. They are contracted to NASA. If they try to bail out, they'll be breaching a major federal government contract, which could have serious negative consequences for their ability to win future federal contracts – not just NASA, but more importantly the Pentagon too.

If Boeing really wants out, the only plausible way is they convince NASA management to cancel the contract. That way Boeing can officially claim that they performed adequately, and the cancellation was due to NASA's own decision, not their own failures.
Unless I read it wrong - it seems that the change is that instead of a person waving you into the store when you show the card, they'll require scanning the card. Not sure how that will stop anyone from sharing their card with a non-member. I don't think I've ever had store employee take a close look at my card when entering a Costco to confirm that I'm the member. So not sure how this will discourage 'sharing' the membership card. Unless they plan on using facial recognition. Which is also doubtful, since membership Id photos are taken using a cheap webcam at the customer service counter.
Possibly. I don’t know if it’s always the folks who don’t write software, but any open source repo of a decent size will attract some people who will act entitled and demand you do things at their direction.
I use Linux at home and Macs at work. I get what you mean about current MacOS - I don't like it the way I used to with older versions, and find Gnome good enough. But I was one of those rare wierdos that really liked the later Unity versions once it stabilised.
PA DSS/PCI DSS standards say you aren’t supposed to test with real cards. It’s a certification criteria. I had to make my own

PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard)
Requirement 6.4.3 of the PCI DSS states:

"Production data (live PANs) are not used for testing or development."
This requirement is aimed at ensuring that real cardholder data (Primary Account Numbers or PANs) is not used in non-production environments, such as testing or development environments, to minimize the risk of exposure and unauthorized access.

PA DSS (Payment Application Data Security Standard)
Requirement 6.3.4 of the PA DSS states:

"Production data (real PANs, track data, or other real cardholder data) is not used for testing or development."
Both heat and high state of charge wear the battery faster, but the combination of both is far more destructive than either alone. Keeping the battery at 40% charge will greatly increase its lifespan.

A typical Li-ion cell stored at 60C and 40% charge for one year will still have 75% of its capacity, while storage at 60C and 100% charge will have it down to 60% capacity in three months.

https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-...
In today's world, you wouldn't want an increasing population unless you're very short-sighted. You might, however, want an artificial boost to the birthrate just to maintain a constant population. Growing populations are good for the economy, but bad for the environment. Shrinking populations are really bad for the economy. But a stable population might be a good compromise that economies and social systems can adapt to.

However, looking into the much farther future, where we've perfected offworld habitats such as O'Neal cylinders that can hold millions of people, we would need to expand as a species, not shrink to the size of a small city, which is the natural result if birthrates stay as they are now.

Of course, it might not come to this at all: perhaps we'll perfect anti-aging technologies (so greatly reducing the death rate), and technology to allow people to have kids at almost any age instead of needing to do it before they're 40.
Regarding OCSP, off-topic for Apple: Firefox enables OCSP by default. This means that for every TLS connection an OCSP plaintext HTTP request will be made to the certificate authority that signed the certificate of the website the browser is connecting to. This means that the certificate authority receives very well timestamped information about the exact domains you are visiting if you are using Firefox and don't disable OCSP and the website you're connecting to does not use OCSP stapling (most don't). Note that disabling OCSP will make Firefox unable to get certificate revocation information (maybe it still uses system's revocation store, I'm not sure about that, but it certainly does not use more privacy preserving CRLs).
>I'm guessing this is also why their posture is always with the gun extended as far away as possible, the closer the gun is to your face, the blurrier either the gun or the target gets.

That certainly may be part of it, but the primary reason is simpler. Consider a straight line between your eyes and the target, going through the pistol sights. The closer the sights are to your eyes, the bigger the possible "error".

Getting the iron sights further away from you is like turning down your mouse sensitivity, if you want to think of it that way.
Were those experiments in the training set?

If so, how close was the examination vs the record the model was trained on.

Some interesting insights there, I think.
Waves rippling under continents could explain mysterious plateaus
I think you can order small quantities off Amazon if you are OK with relatively expensive delivery.
I worked at another company that did that. Sometimes it was as casual as moving a conversation into a legal advice slack channel.
SF tried to build a $1.7M toilet.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/san-francisco-publ...
Sounds familiar to a book I was forced to read twenty years ago, "The Millionaire Next Door":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millionaire_Next_Door

A "tightwad" here would be called a "Prodigious Accumulator of Wealth" in the book, a fancy name for a person who continually spends much less than their income.

Most of the rich didn't get there by spending money.
At least at our Costco store, there was no person at the entrance. I could and did just walk in and look around the store before I decided to get a membership. Honestly if I had wanted to swipe something and stick it in my pocket I might have gotten away with it. But now it's a scanner. So certainly an improvement to security in that respect.
Used to have rubber flooring. Didn’t break any for like 9 years. Moved to ceramic tile. Broke 3-4 glasses and plates a year.
> and people drinks cow piss to cure COVID

This is a false stereotype that has no place in HN. Yes, there are people who do that, but I bet a similar number of people per capita do that in Bangladesh too, we're not that different. It's like saying how can America be so developed if people still believe the earth is flat.
I don’t really get how change is a crackdown either. They check at the entrance and the register already.
Have you considered replacing/creating/updating RFCs/BCPs relevant to your field?
They had these out at the local Costco last night. Just a card scanner. Honestly, it wasn't that different from the "wave your card at the person in the front" system they had before -- it didn't slow things down much.
Looks like this is the Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lasso-coupon-...
What do we owe future generations? (2022)
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

~ Satires (Satire VI, lines 347–348), 1st–2nd century Roman poet Juvenal.

If you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you

~ Friedrich Nietzsche.
No one is suggesting it should be billed at only the cost of manufacturing. Recouping expenses incurred during R&D are perfectly reasonable.

If you poked at the data a bit, you might find it interesting to learn that drug companies spend more money on advertising than R&D
I'm surprised that more comments aren't mentioning this. I've recently moved from a stack managed by AWS CDK to one managed by Pulumi on GCP and the difference is stark. The building blocks that AWS provides allow spinning up complex services with relatively minimal configuration. The pulumi code required to create a simple GCP cloud run service with IAP behind a load balancer is literally hundreds of lines.

Plus GCPs documentation is far far worse than AWS's.
Why Rocket Fuel Has Been Contaminating Our Food and Water for Years
For me, google cloud is the worst because their documentation is terrible. And i think their docs are bad because their permission system is bad.

For example, some services require more permissions than documented in the docs; those permissions are documented in some random document you have to find.

The service account thing is a prime example. WTF is it and if I already have the oauth scope granted why do I need it? Answer: because you do.

Trying to get least perm in GcP is an exercise in futolity. Once it works don't fuck with it.

In AWS the structure of permissions is generally super simple; services, actions, permissions. In AWS the magic is knowing which API calls fall under which permission. And generally the graph for your configuration is similar (and templatable).

I avoid Google Cloud at all costs because I need at least a week to get something to work with their perms. Oh, did I mention their docs suck?
made that mistake once and never again, not fun when it's pitch black out, you're waiting for a bus, and there are drug addicts crawling around doing weird shit
I feel like the issue here is not necessarily that the surveillance happened, but it has the appearance of impropriety. I think a possible solution is to have a national law enforcement agency that can step in when local agencies run into issues that involve investigating their own.

The number of protests involved here that turned violent is rather large. It would be silly to insist that local police not monitor public channels where protestors are organizing. We don't even get from this report if this was necessarily more work compared to a counterfactual where sit-ins or violent protests were against local schools or other government agencies.

I get where people are skeptical, but that's why an outside agency could potentially be useful in doing the same exact work (if not more) while making it more clear there is no impropriety.

>On March 6, 2023, it was reported that 23 people who had thrown large rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks at police, as well having set buildings and equipment on fire, had been charged with domestic terrorism. Only two of them were from Atlanta. One was from France, and one was from Canada.

>On January 18, 2023, Georgia State Troopers and other agencies launched another raid. During the raid a trooper was shot in the leg, and a protester, Manuel Terán, known also as "Tortuguita", was shot and killed by police.[24] Police stated that Terán fired on them without warning.[25] Multiple groups, including other protestors, two independent journalists who had previously interviewed Terán, and Terán's family, have questioned whether Terán fired first, pointing to the lack of body camera footage of the shooting and calling for an independent investigation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Cop_City
I don't see much in common between the development of string theory and the development of beta-amyloid theory besides the fact that both are theories and both are currently seen as lacking experimental support.

> sucked up all of the research and funding

I find this rather hard to believe in the case of string theory. (To be a string theorist, you need funding for a pencil and some paper.)
His partner didn't wear such eye gear either but she is rarely mentioned.
Even the cashier checking is ridiculous. The picture on my card is from over 20 years ago and was printed in low resolution b&w on my current card over 10 years ago. It is a giant smudge that looks like no one.
Just a guess but maybe denying at time of purchase costs them more than it's worth. Lots of go-backs from a cart full of stuff, and some of it is perishable and you don't know how long it's been in the cart, so more shrink. Cheaper just to deny at the entrance.
Could you supporting importing any paper from doi.org links? Like a mobile Zotero.
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Denying at time of purchase would be a significant (depending on frequency of occurrence I guess) additional workload on staff. The guests certainly aren't going to be restocking all the stuff they grabbed.

As for the customer friendliness of the proposed scanner, in my mind it depends on how quick and easy it is. If it's not too much of a slowdown relative to the current "flash my card at the staff person", then I don't think I'd mind it. However, if it starts causing lines to get in, yeah that's going to be a problem.

Additionally, I agree with the other commenter that, just from the details as provided, I don't even see how the proposal will solve the problem. A scanner will check that the card is a valid card, but unless it's paired with some kind of facial recognition, I'm not sure how it will prevent card sharing.
Taking this approach to a certain extreme, there's this video about making a bellhousing adapter to mate a Smart ForTwo EV motor to a vintage Jeep transmission. Raw materials include snowmobile clutch parts, scrap engine parts, and the housing from a dead old Skil saw. After all, once machine tools get involved, everything looks like a billet for something else, and casting is a far more accessible means of metalworking.

Much of the channel is about dragging decrepit artifacts of industry out of scrapyards or the reclaiming jaws of Nature and quite effectively repurposing or reusing the sound bits, which is something I personally find to be creative and satisfying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz3OKeD4_hU
Building my own HPE SAS cable from Amazon because HPE won't sell me one
Google is a privacy antagonist. Apple is privacy focused because it suits their business. Apple has been privacy focused for years and has built several technologies to prove it. It's not hollow marketing to build privacy software.
The interstate highway network is a problem at least two orders of magnitude smaller than what you want.
It doesn't count unless you did it on purpose.
I know -- the only people I know who live in Brisbane (the tiny town ~7 miles to the south of San Francisco) enjoy its insularity
The rescue kit built for Apollo during Skylab, while a precedent, is not a complete one. Apollo was the only vehicle available in that situation, so if the CSM already at Skylab couldn't be used, the rescue CSM had to launch. There are alternatives to (say) squeezing in more than four people into Crew Dragon.
He didn't reach the final in the men's event, so maybe they just had a good day.
There's a pretty good chance you'll experience any given 1:100 year event. You're basically guaranteed to experience quite a lot of 1:100 year events, since there are so many options.
NASA is in on the denial, too. As late as July 28, flight director Ed Van Cise explicitly denied that the Starliner crew was stuck or stranded. <https://x.com/Carbon_Flight/status/1817754775196201035>. Even if one quibbles about whether "stranded" applies in this situation (I believe that it does <https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1ekicol/not_stranded...>), "stuck" definitely does.
Yes, but this ad is just ripe for mockery: https://youtu.be/v5lPph1_h7c?si=ZabgEzmFl84C2AEa
> However, looking into the much farther future, where we've perfected offworld habitats such as O'Neal cylinders that can hold millions of people

Why would we need a hundred billion on Earth?

> we would need to expand as a species,

Why?

> not shrink to the size of a small city, which is the natural result if birthrates stay as they are now.

Why would birthrates stay as they are? Why not a typical population cycle for an constrained with population expanding, peaking, falling somewhat, and then expanding again ?

Saying "we need to" and "would have to" does not in any way address the "why" of the question asked, it's merely restating a belief that "that's the way things should(?) go".
"Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind"

(Should listen to the elders!!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe_of_Levi

Also: Goethe discovered Hawking radiation!

(Faust 1334-1336)
Did you read the article? This requires your computer to already be compromised with malicious software. While not a great vulnerability, if your device is compromised the security of anything on it is now in question.

Also, I think you’re thinking of lastpass that keeps having breaches - this is the first 1Password exploit I remember in recent time, though I could be wrong.
None of those are "widely distributed". They're all things that either MS themselves or MS-oriented shops run internally.

No-one's writing a database server or identity management system or source code repository or business intelligence tool or even something like a linter in cross-platform C#. Unless you're a Windows shop, it's just not a first-class ecosystem.
1) Play with people you know, or

2) Group players by apparent capability and observed behavior, such that cheaters end up only playing with other cheaters.