skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does every minor thing that any government funded organisation or employee wants to do need to be approved three-fold by layers and layers of bureaucracy?

You're exaggerating, but yes. Everything which is done through force, including anything funded with taxes or granted special legal status or protection from competition, requires careful oversight to ensure that it isn't using more force than necessary to accomplish the approved goals. Even the seemingly minor things. That's the price for getting your organization funded through the government. Don't like it? Do your work in the private sector where you can manage your budget as you please, since it's your own money.

> ...should I require approval in three-fold by congress before I publish a paper, open-source any code or do any research at all, because a private entity might want to monetise something similar to that research...?

Are these things part of what you're being paid to do as part of your research?

I couldn't care less about how it impacts others' profitability. If you're doing it at your own expense, not taking advantage of special privilege based on your position (such as free access to the data when everyone else must pay), and there is no conflict of interest, then there is no issue. However, if you were taking advantage of government funding or status to carry out tasks that weren't directly related to what you were being paid to do—like developing and maintaining an app backed by data not freely available to the public—then that would be a problem.

And really, does this need to be carried out by the government directly? If the DWD were an ordinary private organization, either for-profit or non-profit, contracted by the government for a set fee through a fair bidding process to provide certain data to the public then the DWD would be free to set their own agenda and develop and maintain this app at their own expense so long as that use of the data was consistent with their contract. The government gets what they paid for, the organization gets to do things their way, competition is fair, and (almost) everyone's happy.
I think this author is the only person alive who fears some Silverlight revival.
Isn’t that “solved” by the friend going to the administration and discussing the issue with a human to have the situation properly handled ?

I feel it’s like blaming your roomba for running over your graduation certificate when it could have recognized it and paid due respect. Automated systems are a thing now, and the mail was explicitely signed as coming from automation, with a neutral and polite enough language. We should accept it as it is IMHO.
They were trying to cover up attempts at acquiring legitimate artifacts? Seems like OP is right; they are trying to acquire legitimate materials and that it is most likely they got duped.
The basics are the same. If it spreads (R0 > 1) and the number of sick people in the hospitals grow beyond some limit you will have a lot of problems. No fancy high-tech thing is going to help if it isn't a rapidly deployable cure.

Plus, on top of all that tech the good old politics seems the same. Many countries botched testing, too little too late. So great we had its RNA code online in a matter of days, and even had success stories here and there if some dickheads can't mange the coordinated response.
There already are/have been contagions that are as or more transmissible (in terms of R0) with much higher fatality rates, like SARS, MERS, polio and smallpox. But its difficult for a disease to get widespread or sustain itself when its both highly transmissible and deadly, because it often is instantly noticeable when individuals are sick, when outbreaks occur, and so its easier to contain and it burns itself out quickly.
China’s Internet Users Foil Censors to Keep a Wuhan Doctor’s Interview Online
The relative humidity in NYC does not vary much from 60-65%. Absolute humidity is measured as grams water per cubic meter and is virtually never reported because what is relevant to human comfort is evaporation.

Indoor humidity in the winter is generally low because increasing the temperature without adding moisture is lowers relative humidy.

https://weather-and-climate.com/average-monthly-Humidity-per...
Out of curiosity what was the intention behind creating this list?
personally my work uses nearly no bandwidth. a little Stackoverflow here and there. probably peaks with video calls.

Certainly doesnt use even close to 4k streaming netflix.
Out of curiosity what was the intention of creating this list?
Ask HN: What would you like society to learn from Covid-19?
This pandemia is not the first in the history but for the first time we know that much about what caused it and how we can try to prevent spreading it. What would you like society to learn from COVID-19?

Like this may be the best moment to change food habits, eat more vegetables because they are healthier and after cooking they can last very long so in case of insufficient supplies you can survive.
Or don't eat bats. They are probably not tasty and unhealthy as hell.
"Shitty rules that don't serve people need to be broken."

Surely that's true, but nobody can agree on which exact rules need to be broken. :)

So you'll forgive me when I call the police because you're building favelas in your back yard and have 20 micro-rentals.
I would say that the API and functionalities provided the Erlang compiler and other syntax tools is quite extensive, compared to other languages. There are a few quirks (some of them addressed in the latest versions of OTP), but generally speaking these libraries are reasonably simple to work with. Erlang LS does most of the work by using standard OTP libraries. The project maintains a fork of the preprocessor dodger provided by OTP (https://github.com/erlang-ls/erlang_ls/blob/master/src/els_d...).
How does it compare to Jdb?
Is any business offering the same type of product a copycat?
Sure, this discussion is full of options, but none are really perfect, so there are plenty of opportunities for bikeshedding!
Bigger union == bigger bargaining power

Other countries have much less liquid labour markets, or have bargaining powers of unions backed by governments, so they don't have to grow so much to make a difference.
Didn't a third party make the discovery? Doesn't sound very accurate that way.

The headline does not imply anyone being defrauded by the Museum to me.
I get that the evil body essentially gets prefixed to the legitimate request, making the server generate the redirect, but this redirect is returned to the victim. The victim then makes a request to the malicious server, and this request should not contain cookies because the origin is different. How do the cookies get to the attacker?
It's not "bad faith" to believe that you meant exactly what you said, especially when you emphasize it as you did.
https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus...

OR

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

The latter is currently more up to date. The play by play of BNO is nice
33 years of frustration here.
Open Source Macbook Pro System Monitor in Your Touch Bar
But ~why~ does it appeal to people? That's the far more interesting question. You don't have to think that hard about Daniel Tiger or an hour of shifting colors and train noises, either. It's not a neutral unit of content, its themes mean something, they appeal for a reason.
I am curious how they passed so many experts. Surely the scrolls themselves were carbon dated - does that mean the forgers got actually period correct parchment and ink?
You are assuming the ISP will act in a near altruistic mode, allocate all of the available capacity in a sort of 'fair' manner. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, history has shown this not to be the case.

In some countries ISP's have moved from data caps to 'unlimited' offers over a decade ago. 'Unlimited' always comes with an asterix, where you will find the 'good house-father' clause, meaning that they can decide to throttle your connection based on some vaguely or unspecified condition completely under their discretion.

In practice network usage is unsurprisingly following a Pareto distribution. Every ISP wants to get the top 10% of bandwidth users off their network and dump them onto their competitors. So they use the 'good house-father' clause to try to do just that.

At least with data caps you had a clear and verifiable criterium. The 'unlimited' plans just give the ISP carte-blanche in actively selecting and culling their users.
Saudi Arabia floods Europe with $25 oil
Thanks, that let me find the pricing. It looks like it's $0.48/hr for a two-person meeting, or $30/hr for a 50-person meeting: https://www.twilio.com/video/pricing

The bottom mentions that peer-to-peer room pricing is even lower, $0.18/hr for a two-person meeting, but I'm not sure when that's used.
> Why not join together and bargain as a team?

"Bargain as a team" is called "collective bargaining" is called a "union". Just avoid the indirection and call the thing by its name.
I have Comcast and use my own modem and router. The requirement for the modem was simply one which supports at least DOCIS 3.0.
Your link to the previous discussion was valuable, but I originally misunderstood the meaning. I've been reading HN long enough that I should know better.

However, for newbies (or the scatterbrained), perhaps you could prefix the link with something like: "For context, see discussion of earlier, related post: https://..."
Another example is Konrad Kajau, of Hitler’s Diaries fame. I may be mangling the quote but I recall is as being something like “Fake? Real? There are efficient documents and inefficient document.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Kujau

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries
Are you're saying its the slack's frontend server that is processing the 301, and not the user's web browser? And that slack's front-end server is configured as such that when it gets a 301 it just resends the entire request (including all headers) to the redirect destination?

Edit: this seems likely to not be what he was saying and also not the case.
> Nobody is trying to hunt down people with an unpopular, sincere opinion.

It was a different time. One could posit crazy ideas, play Devil's Advocate for all sorts of horrible positions, and even be an outright asshole, with little consequence other than maybe being dropped into a lot of kill files.

Compare that to what happened to Tim Hunt or RMS more recently. Hard to see how we might get back to the older ways. Maybe people will start opening up illicit "speakeasys" where people can, well, speak easily, without fear of life-altering consequences.
Wikipedia has an entry for it:

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

If this were a one-off thing, this might indeed be a non-story. But it fits a pattern of them putting collecting over scholarship. It casts doubt on their entire catalog, and makes it look as if they fund conferences as a fig leaf to grant them unearned scholarly authority. It may not mean anything to techies at Hacker News, but within the circles of archeology and biblical study, it's a warning that people should reconsider their relationship to the museum.
I think the thing I'm least sure of in this post is the difference between a functional spec and a technical spec and when and why you'd want one vs the other.

(And whether the whole concept of generalizing those to a whole continuum is useful. I like it conceptually/intellectually but don't know how actually useful it is.)
.NET has a very good inter-op story for win32. If you started with MFC, WPF, or another framework and then needed to add win32 flourishes you can do so quite easily.

It's quite a different thing to try and retrofit a traditional win32 message pump application with one of these frameworks. Especially if it's in an entirely different language and runtime. Had Office been born in the early 2000s its quite likely they would have tried to use .NET and had the same issues as Longhorn. I think Microsoft did have broad ambitions for the framework, but reality was the tech couldn't handle large scale software at that time and Longhorn failed as a result.

I think your right it is a little unfortunate win32 is needed if you want to make a million LOC desktop application. I don't think there really was anything better for native code up until recently with modern C++. The ugliness of COM and MFC are really due to limitations of C and C++ at the time. Now I don't think there is enough demand to really justify something radical.

.NET Always did reasonably well for web backends, and I think they have the right strategy to keep pushing there.
But they hired the 3rd party so they get the credit.
Same here in Algiers, Algeria. Mobile is prepaid. You buy 60GB for 10€. It expires after a month. The bandwidth sucks, though. Sometimes you have 20Mbps, sometimes it's faster to take a plane and get your data in a hard drive, which is something I have considered when I had to download a dataset of 60GB and it was taking forever. The data holder was in France. We didn't have ADSL in the office yet.
Just to be clear, it wasn't in any releases. It was added in response to this article.
Turns out "disaster socialism" is a real concept:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/disaster-socialism...
Shadow-arborist: a midpoint between React and Svelt?
As workers tend to have one goal, to have less of their labor time expropriated, there really isn't a reason to have more than one global union. Walmart has over half a trillion in revenue and over two million workers, and it makes sense a union containing those workers be of that size.

Also, if carpenters work for UPS, should they be in the carpenters union or the Teamsters? Large industrial unions do away with such jurisdictional problems.
Dang that is quite a list. Thanks for sharing. Makes me think twice about my current solutions.
Indeed this seems to be more about making a statement, and I'm all about that!
Creating a Retail Demo for Apple
If you're referring to relics in the Catholic sense of the remains or possessions of canonized saints being "fake" then there's probably an element of truth to many (most? not sure...) in that they likely were at a time fabricated. However, this core belief in them being real and the history surrounding them still makes them historically significant so it's hard to understand what value there is in claiming them as fake in this context. Is the Shroud of Turin the real shroud used to wrap Jesus at his burial? Pretty much certainly not. That said, it is still clearly historically significant.

Now, if more broadly you are referring to relics in the generic sense of objects of historical importance surviving from times long ago, then it seems obvious that most Christian relics are NOT fakes. Christianity has a long, deep history that has influenced the creation of massive amounts of art, literature, architecture, pottery, etc.
Good to know. Is there some resource you use to track this kind of stuff?
Have you considered using `phtreads`? It's part of the POSIX standard, and it's less cumbersome to use.
KDE Plasma Mobile update week 11 of 2020
> A myth Americans believe is that you only need to form unions when there is an existing problem.

I don't think this is true. Rather, they don't buy the myth that unions have no downsides. Therefore you choose not to willingly accept such downsides until necessary. Arguably medical coverage is always necessary and is a poor comparison.
> "Depending on what you read, there were eight, twelve, fourteen, or even 18 different holy foreskins in various European towns during the Middle Ages."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Prepuce#Traffic_in_relics

Funny anecdote. Middle age conmen.
Oh, now I get it. Thanks for the clarification.
How would you know if it was?
The Linux terminal is getting a major overhaul and new features in Chrome OS 82
No, I would not feel differently about it. The same dynamic would apply.

People on HN seem generally to believe that for any malicious activity you could do with a bug, there's a bidding group of willing buyers somewhere on some darknet site. That's not the case. Random bugs like this may get passed around, but the bugs that command a price all fit a couple specific molds: they're things you can drop into someone's existing operational process.

A Firefox drive-by RCE has some value: many organizations are set up to actively exploit Firefox browsers. So does an iOS jailbreak: lots of people stockpile iOS jailbreaks, for malware implants and for other purposes.

An important common thread among the bugs with liquid markets is that they have a meaningful half-life: once they're burned, it still takes time to eradicate the vulnerable installations. Serverside bugs are fixed worldwide instantaneously. You can see this dynamic in how grey-market payments are tranched.
I presumed wrong, sorry, it seems I was guessing or rather projecting.

I think I see. You come from a different place than me, surely. Our initial make-up I mean, whether innate or acquired.

The thing is, I speak of a "struggle" to really put down the "get-X-quick" approach versus actual compounded effort (tiny bits but long term).

People want to eat some psychedelic or read magical incantations and get-woke-quick but the reality of becoming a well-rounded individual is closer to cooking a nice meal every day (you just need to find and learn recipes that work for you, I guess that's what you found eventually? This emotional clarity, alignement, simplicity even? That's super-zen, you should know!)

I was also speaking of another bigger and clearly 'darker' thing (as in "opaque", non-conscious, that can't be seen but rather felt). I hate the term but you'll read "quantum change" in the mainstream, the idea of a "core" or "essential" change of personality / behavior (same thing here). It happens to some "survivors" notably (of any kind, it's what the person experienced that matters). There's a before and an after — the meaning of life, what bothers you (or not), what (now) inspires you, etc. It's all so much clearer on the other side of pain.

This surely isn't zen and roses, although for me it took going down that dark path and back to really smell the roses (for what they are, and not what I wanted them to be). The terseness of comments and my will to pack too much probably blurred the line between these two experiences — daily routines versus one-off life-changing internal event and its aftermath.
White House live link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feycmqjsLNw
My concern as a libertarian is that unionizing tech will lead to calcification, decline of agility and innovation, and diversity of business structure. There's no question that the U.S. has been more innovative in tech than other countries over the past few decades. That's thanks to an entrepreneurial culture that encourages risk taking. Unions attempt to limit risk to employees. In doing so, they limit the agility of organizations. That is a significant trade-off worth pondering and debating.
I'm familiar with the scandal. I'm just saying that it points more toward the museum having been actually duped. They are clearly interested in getting genuine artifacts given the lengths they are willing to go to obscure shady provenance.
Here in the US, my Comcast internet connection comes with a 1TB (up and down combined, i think) per month cap. If you go over they give you a warning the first few times, then charge some outrageous amount per gigabyte that you go over. If you ask them how much for an uncapped connection, they will lie to you and claim that option does not exist. Only after blowing the cap a few times will they admit that they will remove the cap for an _additional_ $50/mo.

This is the only ISP that services my house in a residential area of Seattle.
Considering how many times Yahoo!'s mail has been hacked[0], I doubt anyone still on it cares about security.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_data_breaches
For $5 you get the knowledge that the other users have also paid $5. I imagine that cuts out a whole lot of troll accounts and people waving their dicks around.

Unlike Chat Roulette, there's a financial consequence for getting banned and you would need to pay for a new account.
Honest Approach to Effective Remote Teams
National Guard activated to combat coronavirus spread in six states
Home work should be banned IMO!
The article states:

> In a report spanning more than 200 pages, a team of researchers led by art fraud investigator Colette Loll found that while the pieces are probably made of ancient leather, they were inked in modern times and modified to resemble real Dead Sea Scrolls.
Superheroes are fascist in nature: the idea of "punching your way to justice" with all rules set aside is fundamental to the concept.
Can't you correct for the abberation in software?
Apollo 13 – Apollo in Real Time
I've been using it for several months now and at first I found it cumbersome but now its quite nice. Working on a very large OSS project, I end up with quite a few notifications. I need to be able to work through them and decide if I want to act now, later, some day, or never. The new system works perfectly for that. The article's complaints seem to be mainly about the UI/UX of the project, which IMO is not nearly as important as the Concepts (in the Jacksonian sense [1]) it empowers. UI/UXs are relatively easy and can incrementally improve over time. Concepts are difficult and heavy.

Do I have complaints regarding the UI/UX? Of course. But it's beta software, it would be insane for me not to.

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/software-abstractions
But the opposite extreme is what gets you a bunch of unmaintainable tech debt.

As someone with a decent variety of experience, I value the concepts I know far far more than the individual languages and frameworks.
That’s why you have wildcat and general strikes. Courts rubber stamp union busting? Good luck getting your trash picked up or your grocery store stocked. Europeans figured this out a long time ago.
A lot of UK broadband is advertised as "unlimited" but subject to a fair usage policy. I guess they must use a similar system to the one you described. It's pretty decent, and I'm never really thinking about my usage, which is what I like (I don't want to feel like I'm going to run out of bandwidth).

Interestingly, my ISP gave me a breakdown of my data usage, and I was under a meager 30gb/mo ever since my contact started. That surprised me as I watch a fair bit of YouTube etc, however, I guess it just doesn't add up to all that much.
I believe the commentator that you're replying to was referring to the fact that they just brought in a union with 700,000 other employees[0]. That significantly alters their team.

[0] Communications Workers of America (CWA) is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States, representing about 700,000 members in both the private and public sectors (also in Canada and Puerto Rico).
They are calmly announcing that their plan is to let tens of millions of people, if not hundreds of millions across Europe and beyond, be infected with a disease that has a 2% fatality rate.

This is madness plain and simple.