skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> I see one prediction from an actual modern climate scientist.

That's a nice "No True Scotsman" right there. Unless, of course, you can give me a non-arbitrary reason why Dr. David Barber of the University of Manitoba speaking in 2008 is a "pre-modern" climate scientist, whereas Dr. James Hansen of NASA writing in 2009 is a "modern" climate scientist.
but mainstream sources outside Fox News absolutely downplayed the seriousness of the virus and helped push the "it's not a big deal" perception that we are all now rowing against.

Yet many, including right here on HN, were claiming exactly the opposite: That they were fear mongering, inciting panic, etc. It can't be both.

Here's the NYT from February 2nd - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/02/health/coronavirus-pandem...

Feb 9th - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/09/world/asia/china-coronavi...

Zero "downplaying". I recall being quite concerned, seeing the argument that is was overblown and just a flu, etc, and discounting that as nonsense.

Can you find an article on the NYTimes, MSNBC or something that compares it to the flu or the like? Absolutely. Those mediums have varied voices with different perspectives, quite unlike Fox where the entire organization is given marching orders and a narrative they must push. The overall perspective among the non-Fox mainstream media was very concerned.

When the sea level rises and floods lower Manhattan, I'm sure there'll be people saying "Why didn't the media warn us? They downplayed the risk!"
I can agree that yet more coding as a hobby is the dullest thing imaginable, when it's your job. Honestly between reading/research, gaming, music and exercise/outings my leisure time fills up quickly enough. That being said I had long clung to the idea of having something to show, a creative effort. I've tried writing and that's been sputtering.
>If anyone knows how to get an shortcode enable number (not a short code number but rather a number that can recieve SMS from shortcodes) on Twilio or similar platform

you can use jmp.chat, which is a SMS to XMPP service.
This seems like it might be a situation where the connotations do not translate very well rather than a question of direct meaning.
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Google is a publicly traded multinational advertising company. I do not and never will trust them to do the right thing with my data. That ship sailed years ago.

If we have to trust private data mining companies in a pandemic it shows just how absolutely stupid all of this is.
These are great, good job. Not sure about the templates though, I got a kick reading these and agreed/disagreed some were useful ways of saying no in different contexts.
I had the same experience. I was truly hooked with 4sq app, documenting all the places i've been, getting mayors, badges, etc. After they made that side app, everything was ok, it made me quit using 4sq right away.
Thank you, I am trying my best :)
How can an arbitrary number be used to abuse your service? At least for SMS "2FA" you only need to be able to send a message to an number associated with an existing account.

As long as you aren't using SMS as your rate limiting step to aquire an account then then it doesn't matter if someone has 1 phone number or 1000 numbers. In the case that SMS verification is the rate limiting step, why not switch to an open captcha or similir system?
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xor reg, reg is the best because it's such an ancient idiom that processors recognize it as a zeroing idiom, enabling some processor-level optimizations.
They don't need gps location shared to know where you are. They can get this data via sniffing wifi and bluetooth devices in the area (including other phones) and knowing where those devices are.
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I think the ultimate problem here is that the average person has no hardened mechanism for authentication. Using the infrastructure we have today, a combination of passwords and OTPs is better than other consumer-accessible alternatives.

Ultimately we need some mechanism for trusting and administering identity that is low friction and which can be used by 99.9% of users. The government offering a `login with apple id` like service would make sense. Then they could qualify various security chips, like the T2 or a YubiKey for use with the service. As an added benefit, we could stop using stupid things like SSNs, tax ids, and drivers license id numbers to prove identity.

Eventually we could do interesting things like abstracting mailing addresses. Instead of mailing a package to my street address, send it instead to "me", and then I can authorize USPS, UPS, FedEx, or whoever requests it to look up my real address when they are sorting and delivering mail. When I move, I just update the _one_ database with my new address and I am done.

There are some obvious concerns with the government acting as a clearing house for identity. Perhaps the better option would be for private companies to be able to implement some sort of standard API, and limit the government's involvement to auditing these services.
It's probably best to assume that Google is reading your corporate email, analyzing it automatically, and using that information for something that benefits Google.

Is it insider trading if Google uses that to decide in what stocks to park their excess cash?
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The problem is that we are slowly losing our specialization. China is learning how to manufacture better than us. Then they learn how to assemble better than us, they copy + improve.

China could destroy Apple in a heartbeat by ordering FoxConn to charge a much higher premium for Apple phones than their own local brand.
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it's for code, not block quotes of english. wrapping is off by design.
Isn’t that called “cronyism” (or “old boys club”) rather than “conspiracy”?
Its easy to focus on foxnews and pull all sorts of terrible content like that, but a more serious task is to look at a lot of the statements and confidence from the medical and scientific community early on - things around wearing masks in public and its inability to prevent spread, or UV light from the Sun and its ability to kill the virus (a popular statement projected by several doctors within the media), and several others.

There has been confidence all around from seemingly credible sources - acting on too early and thin data about what measures were effective or non-effective, many of which have been reversed in the last couple of weeks. A lot of this can be attributed to all sorts of news organizations (across the spectrum) and their push to get both positive and negative coverage out as fast as possible at the right time.
I've always read "a surge" as synonymous with "an increase", which could be expected or unexpected depending on the context.
We're currently updating the mobile & Desktop apps to be able to use self-hosted Jitsi properly - sadly it hasn't landed yet :(
Lower access to health care. Higher prevalence of underlying conditions, particularly ones correlated with Covid-19 mortality like type-2 diabetes. potentially lower ability to social distance (more reliance on public transport, only middle class people can buy two weeks worth of food at a time, etc.)

Would be interesting as well to see if there were large gatherings that accelerated transmission.
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It could also be because the code is terse. In that case it makes sense to explain what's going on.
Thanks for the suggestions, I'm planning on Mexico City and some other small towns like you mentioned. Will definitely add to the list!
> but mainstream sources outside Fox News absolutely downplayed the seriousness of the virus

That's true, I guess, if you consider OANN to have reached the status of “mainstream” with the boost they've gotten with their attachment to the current US administration.

But, otherwise, show me some specific examples.
I've used FourSquare/Swarm a lot but I have also developed apps using their API. I've been watching their documentation stagnate and I was worried that the API might get shut down entirely due to 4sq shutting down. Glad to see they are still alive. Hopefully this gives them incentive to improve their docs, and support.
Stross's blog posts on the series are fascinating reads. The short badly paraphrased tale is that Stross wanted to diversify his publishers but was contractually obligated to give sci-fi books to his first publisher, so he pitched a "fantasy" book. Stross being Stross though, he can't actually write a fantasy novel so it was stealth sci-fi, because of course it was.

He wrote the first book in the 1000+ page "door stop" form common to a lot of "high fantasy" mega-authors like Stephen King, Neal Stephenson, GRRM, Robert Jordan, et al, because Stross wrongly assumed that was the intended form factor of a fantasy novel (because it wasn't his native genre and when you do look at bookshelves they are rather dominated by the mega-books), and the publisher did exactly what JRR Tolkien's publisher did for Lord of the Rings and said it was way too long for a first book in a new series, as that would be expensive if it didn't sell well, and chopped it (somewhat roughly) into three books. (So the combination of the first three books was actually recombination into something more resembling their original manuscript form.)
Guys, you freaking rock. Thank you for your informative and insightful responses. This is precisely why I referred to you guys before even receiving any responses as "intelligent".
Australia has some incredible shrubs and trees that are wonderful additions to a xeriscape. I've got a yard with mostly native southwest US plants & cacti but I sprinkled in a couple exotics from down under.
This might happen, but it would seem to disprove the idea that 'The admin is on the "end" portion of the E2E encryption', not support it.
I have zero issue with focus or any aforementioned issues (save occasional insomnia) but still identify with OP.
Download a symptom tracker or patient care app and record food, sleep and supplements etc for a week. Have it auto correlate what it could be or use the logs to determine what it could be yourself. For me it was sleep, not exercising and Distressed mood that caused me to have such days.

Try One of these apps(all have free basic functionality afaik) symply, careclinic, or foody if you suspect it’s food related gl.
Was just on the frontpage before it got flagged away, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22795358

Had the URL

https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2020/04/06/spain-to...

This one has

https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2020/04/06/spain-to...

Maybe HN needs a better duplicate checker?
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One of my friends tried Catan Universe yesterday and says he prefers Tabletop Simulator. He also said that Catan Universe limits the number of players in the game; we had 5 players over the weekend and may have another friend join soon.
Yes that's a real risk. The current consensus forecast is for a slightly above average hurricane season. In a few months we may have thousands of people evacuated into shelters.
For everyone who does this: I always wonder about using the same mydomain.com for many services.

Because at least one reason for doing the aliasing is privacy, and by using the same domain for multiple services, even with a different 'name' (before the @ sign), you are offering the companies ability to cross reference to other sites they partner with/have a data leak as to how users are using the app. Worst, if you do use your real name within one of the services, you would potentially be revealing that anyone who uses @mydomain.com is that person, even if you didn't give that other service personal data within their app. Sure a malicious party could expect mydomain.com hosts many users, but you kind of make it obvious it's a catchall by doing things like using randombusinessname@mydomain.com.

Thoughts?

One solution is manually making a new alias @fastmail.com for each service you want to give a unique email.

Edit: spelling
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Oh god, what if Chinese agents see my games? The horror!
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> See, for example, KN95 masks.

IIRC, the issue with KN95 respirators is not the standard itself, but a massive problem with not-up-to-spec counterfeits being offered on the market.
Sounds like GSuite Delegation, which does allow you to perform API calls as any user on the domain.
Wow this is a true OG account. Good shit btw, keep up the good work!
And Duplicati too https://www.duplicati.com
Ah yeah just noticed, thanks! Unfortunately, can’t update link on post
That's a good point. The conversation is about a history of irresponsible public statements, but the evidence for this history is dismissed with:

>actual modern climate scientist

With this rhetorical technique, it could be impossible to provide evidence. Who gets to decide what makes a climate scientist 'modern'? Disregarding alleged 'non-modern' climate scientists is the last thing we should do when discussing prior decades of alarmism.
This is why personal phones are generally not allowed on trading floors.
Wow, self-hosted Lox; that's fantastic! Nicely done.
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You don't necessarily need ADHD for this to be a trait. Source: me. I don't change my mind every 5 minutes, I just lose interest in certain projects.
This is why I am a fan of long function names, like openUpgradeDowngradeSubscriptionDialog(). Even though they add a bit of verbosity to the code, I can immediately tell what they do without having to scroll to the function definition, and there is zero astonishment when they are called from elsewhere. To a lesser extent, same with variable names: speaking for myself (and perhaps only myself), I like long variable names -- as the saying goes, code is read many more times than it is written, so saving a few keystrokes just to shorten a variable name tends to carry a high cost that is paid down the line.
How do you dependency management inside the container?
Oh my god, you really didn’t read my post did you? To repeat myself, the concern is that if they have this software already installed and know how to use it, and in fact have to use it and it is recommended to them, that they will then also use it for private chats with their friends. Thus exposing the private video chats of teenage children on a platform with many known trivial vulnerabilities. How anyone can’t see what a bad idea this is boggles the mind.
In JavaScript, "0 < -1 < 2" evaluates to true.

The coercion rules were a big surprise to me when I first started to work in JS. Sometimes codes were obvious but the underlying interpretation is a surprise call.
What concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? Kayfabe (2011)
I'd tend to agree with you that big orgs make mistakes, and of course they do, they're humans, not divine. Calling everyone else J. Random Asshole and thus inevitably crap is a step too far the other way I feel.
As neighbour says, io_uring is for really high performance (as in high throughput) stuff, so… not I2C !

But you can still want async I/O with an I2C device, of course, as in you don't want to block a thread to wait on a message. And for that I believe you can still use good old select/epoll as usual on your I2C device file, and as a consequence also just use your favourite async I/O framework of the day (libevent, node.js, what have you).
Yep, because more laws solve every problem without unintended side effects!

Or, just hear me out, you could stop using services that don’t meet your high customer support standards?
I'm not an American and far from Trumps target audience but the CNN is bad as Fox. I have them both on TV. It truly is a kettle and pot situation, I believe so many Americans have grown so deeply into either culture that unfortunately you can't comprehend it anymore.
Who cares what journalists say? IPCC and nasa reports are publicly available and use plain language anyone can read.
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I thought the same thing about Home Depot until this hit. I've had the opposite experience with them the last few weeks. Things come quickly, my cart is consistent wherever I am logged in, and I can just add pretty much as much stuff as I want and get it all delivered the next day for $9. I'm loving the express delivery. In general it would always be worth it for me to spend $9 to get stuff delivered from Home Depot. Pre-pandemic it's a solid hour or more in the car to cover the 4.3 miles there and back from my house.

Maybe I'm getting a better experience because I'm in Atlanta and there's a bit of a headquarters halo effect.

Their search and general catalog organization isn't great. I just use Google as my entrance to their site and that makes life easier.
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They certainly didn't choose Delaware for tax avoidance. The rate is 8.7%. Let's bow to the high morals of Sergei & Larry.

https://www.delawarebusinessincorporators.com/pages/delaware...
Authentication apps.
Strange, any insight on what the perception is of game programmers in Japan? I feel like a lot of the great Switch games are made by Nintendo, it would seem they'd be dying for good developers to continue developing first party titles.
Supposing for the sake of argument that the Illuminati were real and you were in charge of it. You know a bunch of weirdos on youtube know the truth and are generally regarded as cranks. Would you bother concerning yourself with them, or would you ignore them since they're pathetic and powerless? I'd ignore them.

To be clear, I don't think the Illuminati are real, but I don't think your reasoning is sound either.
Similarly I've managed to stick with lifting, and cooking. The others aforementioned have faltered, but I am finding enjoyment in reading and research, and games. I think when I've reduced the pressure on myself to produce creatively at my leisure, so too has the stress. But I still do want to be creative.
2018:

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>That leaves a two-hour eating window at night, and a short (let's call it thirty minutes) eating window in the morning.

Could this strategy match any kind of naturally-ocurring pre-historic behavior? It would make sense, at least to me, to constrict one's feeding window like that, since eating would take place for as little time as possible and would be limited to two and a half hours with no activity in between. And I'd guess any kind of activity during the day would need no interruption, as well as large energy reserves.
Here are the "journalists" (mostly commentators, actually) in the video Paul Graham links:

Sean Hannity (Fox News)

Rush Limbaugh (independent, right wing)

Pete Hegdeth (Fox News)

Lou Dobbs (Fox Business)

Tomi Lahren (Fox News)

Jeanine Pirro (Fox News)

Dr. Marc Siegel (Fox News)

Geraldo Rivera (Fox News)

Laura Ingraham (Fox News)

Jesse Waters (Fox News)

Matt Schlapp (shown on Fox News)

Dr Drew Pinsky (shown on Fox News)

Ed Henry (Fox News)

Ainsley Earhardt (Fox News)

I think it's misleading to call this "a video of TV journalists and politicians." It's a video of Fox News journalists and Rush Limbaugh and right wing politicians.
> Unfortunately now it's more like picking a sport team

Indeed, what’s being provided is infotainment / soft news. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infotainment
Yeah you're getting dopamine.

Those that are more successful can get past that and make something more profound. There's a lot more than dopamine when you make something you can be truly proud of, that can potentially be a living for you as well.
U2F can't spread fast enough. For about a year or so it's been good enough that almost all U2F keys Just Work on all major browsers / platforms without installation or tweaks. That's huge, and it's actually a relatively recent state of affairs. I believe Firefox defaulted it to enabled ~1 year ago.

The next big hurdles are getting support from e.g. banks, getting keys into peoples' hands, and getting people familiar with them. Those efforts are underway in the corporate world and I am optimistic that they will cross-pollinate well into personal security. HN-ers are well positioned to help with all of these steps.

People already accept that they should lock their front doors and their cars with keys. Most people already lug a keychain around. I don't think it will be steady-state problematic to convince people to secure their bank accounts and email with keys. Example: my parents. I expected it to be difficult to convince them that they should use a U2F key to secure their gmail. It wasn't. Their response was more along the lines "of course we should use keys, why weren't we doing this before?" They don't know anything about crypto, but they get the metaphor, and since it gives them a clear path to action, they are willing to engage with it. The answer to why we weren't doing it before is that the previous implementations were a PITA in a way that U2F isn't (TOTP was slow and fiddly, ISO7816 required non-portable setup), but now that we have U2F, I think people will be more willing than many here expect.

If we can channel the fear of SIM swaps into U2F adoption, I think it actually stands a chance.
I find some of these disingenuous:

> Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make it to [Event] on [date]. But thanks again for sending an invitation my way.

That's not saying "No". That's giving an excuse as to why you can't make it. Better to say "No, I'm not interested" or something along those lines.