skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Again, that whole point of end-to-end encryption that allows it to eliminate the need to trust the vendor only works if the vendor isn't the one supplying said end-to-end encryption.

That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Vendor supplies the E2EE, users and experts review it, and then if it changes, review changes. Third parties can trivially make edits to their forks and that's the easiest backdoor possible. How can you not see that.

>Please don't make arguments that "Signal does this or that you can trust them", you do not eliminate the need to trust them this way at all.

I already explained there are technical measures in place that allow you to verify the build you're using yourself. You're clearly not a subject matter expert here so I suggest you move on.

> If you do have to trust them not to spy on you, it's not a proper "end-to-end" encryption, simple as that

You're arguing from the wrong premise. You don't have to trust them.

>it's effectively the same thing as a regular TLS encryption to the servers, where you have to trust them not to spy on you on the servers.

if Signal was doing an active MITM attack against their own encryption, that would be eavesdropping which is a felony in the US.

>And in either case that trust will be eventually violated, because there is no incentive not to, but plenty of pressure and incentives to violate it.

And somehow random repository maintainers are immune to pressure and incentives. I get it, you're trolling.

>I don't know what's so confusing about it.

If you really stretch those brain cells of yours you might understand it one day.

>You like Signal and trust them, that's fine, but I don't trust them or anything coming from the US, I really would like to eliminate such trust.

Again, you don't have to trust Signal.

>Claiming that I don't have to trust them is unproductive and a lie.

So you ignore the concept of reproducible builds and just establish an opinion with average-joe level reasoning.

I won't waste my time further.
Maybe flame wars. It would be nice if people believed in abstract principles that strongly, or rather, almost that strongly would be perfect. Empirically wars are fought over which groups get to control resources.
We built a garden shed for my wife many years back. It started as a wood shed kit from Home Depot, then we re-designed some of the walls to put in some windows and French doors. We put a skylight in the roof, insulated it all, and put up chipboard for walls after I wired it for electricity. Some cupboards/counters from the local building recycling store, and the result is a nice space.

It was fairly straightforward, a lot of fun, and extremely useful.
This is a case where we can disambiguate the title by appending the subtitle which interprets the metaphor.
> This means that by taking this loan and spending it on a payroll for next 2.5 months, the owner of the business in a month number 3 is in a worse position than the owner of the business would have been today if the owner were to simply lay off everyone.

How is that true? The loan is forgiven if it is used to pay employees. Yes there are other costs, but assuming a business doesn't want to just close up shop entirely, keeping their employees would be preferable to losing all employees and their entire business.
Truly, this is a stance we have to have for everything.

If we want criminal justice reform, too, for example, we have to agree that some criminals will come out of prison after their shorter sentences and they will get into positions and jobs where they will cause harm.

Any lightening of sentences will come with bad people getting through and hurting others. But, this is an acceptable price to pay to allow the other felons redemption in this world.
> There's usually just one good library to solve a problem and it solves it in a particular way.

Isn't this the author's core contention? He really needed an i18n library but wasn't allowed(?) to implement it himself and the Elm team wasn't inclined to provide one.
It never really made sense to me why after this pandemic, people think it's better to move supply chains out of china.

Having supply chains scattered around different smaller nations would introduce MORE risk not LESS.

Instead of waiting 2 months for production in china to ramp up, now I gotta wait for production in X different countries to ramp up. Rach country with different ability to deal with a pandemic.

I can understand maybe every country should have some manufacturing capacity for the essentials, but on average I don't see how it's more efficient.
> I don’t know that anyone expected (nearly) every state to impose a stay-at-home order.

IHME model did. And it still overestimated (and continues to overestimate) by a lot. What it predicted initially isn't even observed in countries where there's no lockdown at all.
That is true - the hatred of Oracle runs deep. But when it comes to competitive tactics, they have more in common than the Red Hat marketing brochure would have you believe.
Vapor 4.0.0 has been released (Web Framwork written in Swift)
Numerous credible reports from business owners, and numerous denials from Yelp. I don't really know who to believe.
BTW Steak tartare is a dish of raw meat: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_tartare

There's also sushi and sashimi.
We've all gotten used to the idea that Electric and Magnetic fields are real but then we learn about the Aharonov-Bohm effect and suddenly, maybe it's the electric potential and magnetic vector potential are what is 'real'. But then, there's all the issue with gauges.

I think that the best way of teaching electromagnetism might still be in the future.
Do you really care how many died or do you only want to have a villain to hate? Or just your insecurity is stirred?
I attempted to call them today. All of their offices were closed due to COVID-19. I was unable to leave a message.
So maybe cov2 is on level with the flu after all.
Are you one of those who thought Sokal made good points in his submitted paper.
WSU scientists enlist citizens in hunt for Asian giant hornet
I think that, for many applications that need to deal with a large heap written in a GC'd language, sooner or later people realize the GC just isn't a good fit and reinvent manual memory management. This is the same regardless of whether you choose Haskell or Java or Go. Even in Java world you can find plenty of evidence that people find GC + large heap unsatisfactory and resort to alternatives like memory-mapped files or JNI or just moving the data out of the process. Same thing with Go. I wouldn't call it masochism.
RedwoodJS recently fixed an issue with their JAMStack framework failing on current Firefox - maybe check out their github issues.
What made the 6 Portuguese countries in Africa a colonial target for Portugal?
Maybe I can help you with that ... the mnemonic I developed is:

Type I error, with probability often denoted by α (alpha) which is the first (I) letter of the alpha bet. AL-PH-A stands for al ALlegedly PHalse Alarm. Or just fALse-Positive-HA!

(yes, it's stupid, and weird, but has been helping me remember it for nearly three decades now).
Operation Behemoth
I use my owl.
Ooops. That sounds like it's going to hurt. If not, it sends the message "Hey, say you're HIPAA compliant, but it doesn't matter if you're not (wink wink)"

I develop electronics and firmware for medical devices, I have (almost) nothing to do with regulations compliance (except to the extent that I'm working on something where there is an intersection, like storage of patient data). But anyway, not a day goes by that I don't hear someone ask, "Is that HIPAA compliant?"

So yeah. Companies that have used Zoom based on that claim are probably going to extract some blood out of Zoom.
It's likely an opportunistic effort to spread chaos. Parties like Russia and China find propaganda value in pointing to disorder in the West, justifying their authoritarian or totalitarian rule.

Russia at least has form in trying to pour fuel on existing controversies or divisions in Western societies.
As someone who’s been watching Elm since 0.18 and writing Elm since 0.19, I’ve heard similar stories to this in the past.

Elm is a great language for building frontend apps, I feel far more confident and enjoy writing code in Elm than I ever did in JavaScript / TypeScript. It also feels like Elm is becoming a little more stable and hopefully the big breaking changes of the past aren’t going to be as severe moving forward.

I do wish Evan and the core team were a touch more vocal and transparent about future plans and responsive to bugs / issues. There’s a balance to strike here and it doesn’t feel like we’ve hit the sweet spot yet.

I’ll still keep on writing Elm, as it still brings me happiness. I just hope issues like this don’t have an overwhelming impact of the growth of the community.
It looks like it will work with overhead write-on plastic sheets as well as the photocopy clear sheets? They come in different thicknesses. Some are crystal clear - pick those preferentially, but a slight lack of clarity will not interfere with their protective nature..
Printer and office supply places should have delivery - if no stores are open
My theory for Fed fiscal stimulus: In 2008, the Fed started buying things that weren't treasuries (e.g. Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS)), and bulking its balance sheet up from ~800 Billion to ~4 Trillion. Some portion of that ~3 Trillion went to buying securities for which there was no other market at the going price. The difference between the market price (what a non-Fed buyer would pay) and what the Fed paid was stimulus to the firms selling the securities. They could turn around and spend that difference in to the economy.
Yeah I know what you mean. I'm mechanical engineering (Controls) and the vast majority of them still use MATLAB, but they are slowly moving towards more open computing languages. I can only consider this a great thing! :)

The issue I see is with the undergraduate curriculum in many Universities. This is where I see the legacy use of MATLAB is really hurting the future generation of students. Many still don't know proper programming fundamentals because MATLAB really isn't set up to be a good starting point for programming in general. To me, MATLAB is a great tool IF you know how to program already.
> I think its better to just admit that freedoms / tech will always be misused by criminal actors, and that's just a price we agree to pay for privacy, security, and liberty.

Yes! Also, one sure way to know that we have "privacy, security, and liberty" is that criminals are abusing them. And, as an added benefit, efforts to identify and apprehend criminals help identify weaknesses and OPSEC failures.
You may like the old Serenity prayer, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer and with music by Sinead O'Connor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LoZqvMryMs
They made you click.
I don't know why this is getting downvoted. 4chan isn't what it once was, but given that what it once was was the most powerful organic meme amplification engine on the Internet, anyone developing a strategy like the one the article postulates would be missing an incredibly obvious trick not to include it, whether it's all it once was or not.
Yes, for many use cases you can use other extensions to achieve what you want, but what advantage you have for not using PostGIS?
I'm interested in Thai's response to this question too, as I would be in any comment anyone managed to solicit from him about this topic, but an easy point to make here is that Bernstein was himself involved in RFC 8032, at least as a reviewer and contributor to the process, as you can quickly learn by reading the CFRG mailing list.
Thanks for the update. Might be an interesting differentiating factor - always wondered why galleries like White Cube to auction sites like Christie’s lacked that granularity.
For sure we're undercounting. I had it and I'm not part of any official count because there's no way to get tested. My cohabiting girlfriend almost certainly had it, but she was entirely asymptomatic. Once you factor in all the asymptomatic people, in addition to all the symptomatic people who didn't end up hospitalized and thus likely couldn't get tested, the multiplier on the confirmed cases could easily be significantly more than 10X.

Pessimistically it seems that something like up to 10% of the city's population got it by the time that almost everything shut down, and now that almost everything is shut down, the spread has been vastly, vastly curtailed, as we see from new hospital admissions figures (which don't suffer from the same kinds of underreporting bias).
> The terrorists and pedophiles that are the most dangerous are using far more sophisticated means of communication

The "most dangerous" part is doing a lot of work there. Just like I think law enforcement needs to admit what they can and cannot do (e.g. they cannot protect a golden key), I think we need to admit some things too. A lot of dangerous criminals are stupid. Maybe not the most dangerous ones, sure. But if law enforcement has a tactic that lets them catch, say, the stupidest 30% of terrorists, that's an extremely valuable tactic that probably saves a lot of lives in practice. It would be wrong to claim that society loses nothing by engineering away that tactic.

I think this sort of thing leads to a lot of frustration on both sides. As a programmer, I find it very frustrating that law enforcement and the media consistently get some of the most basic details wrong about how communication and encryption work, and about the negative side effects of the new laws they're proposing. But I assume that law enforcement folks also feel frustrated about how people like me have no idea how they actually get their jobs done day-to-day, or the negative side effects of the technologies we're building.
Russia has a long history of spreading fake health news in the West. The Soviets spread fake stories about the origin of the AIDS epidemic during the cold war.
Coordinated Misinformation Campaign: Reddit Edition
They are being amplified by adversaries of a state where the rumors are targeted to divide and weaken that state. You actually have examples where people were indicted https://intelligence.house.gov/social-media-content/
>Perhaps quarantine brain is boiling over into my comment style.

Quite honestly this comment sounds like you're entering a schizophrenic episode. I don't mean to be disrespectful and I am not a psychologist, but there's a characteristic tone and I recognize it. Quarantine is hard for brains. If you're in quarantine and you sense that your brain isn't working quite right, give your loved ones a call. Actually, do that anyway.
Also, you will know that if in future your use case extends, you wont have to rewrite things.
Most of us here wouldn't want to use an Atom processor from 2013 for our "full power desktops"...

More seriously though, there are lots of tasks that can go on a home router that take it past a simple firewall. IPS/IDS systems, Advanced QoS, OpenVPN -- all these things can require fairly significant hardware resources to run anywhere close to the 100-1000Mbps speeds on internet connections that are reasonably widespread and affordable in many countries now.
Not sure how important this is, often not needed if there are tracks etc. It would help, but wouldn't a better sense of smell help more?
Ask HN: Why hasn't a vertical rhythm CSS reset caught on?
I submitted a link a couple of days ago of a CSS reset that positions your plain HTML elements onto a vertical grid (https://jhildenbiddle.github.io/vertical-rhythm-reset/), to create a vertical rhythm. Here's a link about how vertical rhythm works in general (https://zellwk.com/blog/why-vertical-rhythms/). (I'm not affiliated with either of these links in any way, I just like the concept.)

Implementing vertical rhythm with a CSS reset seems to me like an obviously correct thing to do. To give your raw textual HTML building block of paragraphs, headers, and lists a consistent spacing strategy. But the concept hasn't caught on, why not?

Vertical rhythm appeared on my radar around the same time as the general concept of graphic design grids (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_%28graphic_design%29) which have entirely taken over the in digital-product design. Why aren't vertical grids based on the line height more popular? Or are they popular and just not implemented with a CSS reset?
New fossil from Brazil hints at the origins of tanystropheid reptiles
I guess not to be confused with Apple's Clips app which is for making short selfie videos. https://www.apple.com/clips/
Challenge of revisting these questions is there can't be someone getting involved who's bet all their chips on the answer beforehand
There are two angles of potential for who benefits.

1) Misdirection. Someone trying to muddy the waters of blame related to SARS-CoV-2. In that case, almost anything other than the truth will be useful. Chaos of information is ideal if that's your goal. Try to shatter the consensus. Unleash, entice, the people prone to extremes on conspiracy theories, let them do the work of spraying non-sense everywhere. Moderately effective and at very little cost, all they require is a gentle nudge at a time like this.

2) Degrade competitors when it comes to their deployment of technology (5G in this case). A small erosion is a large potential benefit over time. Once you have an advantage, keep pressing it forward.
Controversial opinion: We should stop teaching any ML methods other than NN
Because the government is injecting lots of money.
I don't see anything about making a fork in the linked GitHub issue.

(The word "fork" appears once elsewhere, in an unrelated context in a different comment.)

The thing about open arms is not about forking (or if it is, it's not obvious to me), and reads to me more like "assuming you are not making your own fork, can you please stop pressuring upstream to accomodate designs which are explicitly against our clearly communicated design goals".

The quote is:

> @spookylukey It's one thing to build tooling around an implementation flaw without knowing the history, but that's all pretty well communicated at this point.

> If you understand the design goals, but don't agree with them, why not channel that in a positive way - e.g. by building something that fits your vision instead of directly working against Elm's design goals?

> As someone who has spent a lot of time collaborating with many others to help Elm achieve its stated design goals, intentionally working against those goals feels to me like an attack on our efforts. We have been really clear about our design goals in this area, and you shouldn't expect a project that works against those goals to be greeted with open arms—especially not from those of us who have been working hard for years to achieve those goals.
This is a ought/are problem. You're saying what rideshare drivers ought to be doing, and then in that most optimistic case doing your calculations based on that, but you instead need to taking a descriptivist look at the situation and doing the analysis on what people are actually doing, not what you think they should be doing. And, yes, lots of rideshare drivers are buying/leasing new vehicles to use for the platform, and they are suffering a lot from depreciation on it.
Covid-19 Human Challenge Trial
Not that I've seen.
I worked in the art world for years. First as a studio assistant, then as an art prep for large galleries, then eventually I ran my own art fabrication business with a few employees.

A good gallery--emphasis on good--does a lot more then simply sell art to the highest bidder. They strategically place artists into 'important' collections, work with museum curators to bring the artists into a more critical narrative, get the artist into group shows and fairs internationally to contextualize the artist in a current scene or trend, collude with art critiques and magazines, and generally help to promote the artist's career over the long term.

All of this sounds somewhat silly outside the art world, but you have to remember that this is a very particular industry based around historicizing high-brow cultural production. When a good collector buys a painting, they are doing more then just buying a physical object they like. They are throwing their own clout behind the artist and saying "I think what this person is doing is important and I stand behind it."

All of this is done with the intention of increasing the profile of the artist which benefits--each in their own way--gallery, the artist, and the collector over the long term.

As far as the sales split between gallery and artist, standard split is roughly 50% with some variance around material expenses and whatnot.

Note, everything I am saying is the sort of ideal story and there are a lot of bad actors in the business. In reality I find the art world rather gross and the premises it is built upon to be deeply flawed.
> Perhaps it could be this: if my value comes from running some crazy interesting high-level Math-derived ML model on data, and I’m highly paid, then the opportunity cost of becoming good at C++ is higher than if I can do the same thing in a few lines of python and just throw some more compute at the problem, since that’s a fixed cost.

Add some hyphens and commas and shed a bit of cruft, and it's fine IMO. (I hope you don't mind my speculative editing.)
US shouldn’t bail out hedge funds, billionaires during coronavirus pandemic
I don't have all the context you have in your app, but you are saying that during a GC the O(n) action of looking at each live Entry and finding it has a pointer into the compact region is too slow? I find that incredible.
What I find interesting about this one is that RT.com has run a few stories about how it is a baseless conspiracy theory that scientific studies have failed to find any support for.

What's interesting about this is that RT.com in 2018 and 2019 was a big source behind the "5G will give you cancer" disinformation. Links to several of those stories, and to their current stories disputing the virus claims, in this earlier comment [1].

Why would Russia flip from trying to get people in the US afraid of 5G to trying to calm 5G fears? I have no idea.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22785716
It sounds like you accept the bill's authors' claim that EARN-IT is about protecting children.

I'd be very interested in hearing from child abuse investigators how the controls in the bill line up with how tech is used in abusing children. My expectation is that there is very little alignment, because "for the children" is most often the rallying cry of politicians who want something that is not in the best interests of the people they are supposed to represent.
It baffles me. China has zero issue eliminating the slightest threat to the party. From book sellers in Hong Kong to religious minorities to the great firewall, no job too big, no threat too small.

But apparently eliminating wet markets was unpopular and thats a no no. It worked when they did it after SARS. It saved a shit tonne of lives, it brought them one step closer to being a first world nation. But now its impossible and undemocratic?

I don't know why they won't do this. But it's "won't", not "can't". And to me, that's unacceptable.
We may have built it for you...if you go to our /learn page check out how we built the documentation sections. all the source is md in github. here is an example: https://www.ockam.io/learn/proposals/0003-key-agreement-xx/

note the 'edit on github' link on the right to get to the source.
I had the same idea: roam with anki.

My own journal data app (old and broke) had a reread feature that was instrumental in reactivating my learning and progress.

Looking forward to trying this on desktop!
That is how E2E works. But that means the software you’re using must be able to communicate with your client, unless you want to copy-paste every message into a decrypted. That’s a pain for normal communication.

Therefore, we have programs like Signal that do that for us.
Why do we get links from hacker news to paywalls?
Oh, right....