skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another huge aspect, and this is why EV certificates are not only a good thing, but should be forced on PKI, not deprecated out: It adds burden and expense to acting fraudulently which makes it more prohibitive to do at scale. If there's one thing to me that discredits security expertise, it's the suggestion that things like EV certs and other forms of KYC are wholly ineffective because it's technically possible to trick them.

In turn, it makes efforts to police fraud more effective, because the cost each time a fraudulent actor's credentials are burned higher.
> This is where the complexity comes from.

It's definitely a major source of complexity. But also there's nothing stopping you from adding in unnecessary complexity on top of that. Part of the trick is to know which is which.
How it is being used in industrial products: https://youtu.be/aW2LvQUcwqc
It was WAY easier to hide from everyone 30 years ago. I had friends who would outrun the police in their cars. A large percentage of young folks had fake ids. When the drinking age was 18 (or lower), kids had to just be cool to get into bars. The penalties for bars and kids were diminished and the police were not as efficient. Kids brought knives to school, and some brought guns to school. Heck, kids learned how to shoot in school. (I'm not talking about inner city scenarios, I took riflery in school). girls and boys got together. Pregnancy was the visible symptom. Kids were horrible to each other. Fights were common. Bullying even more common. It generally went unchecked.

The stuff I didn't realize until decades later -- there was lots of dark stuff, but one surprising thing in front of my eyes every day was one teacher had been habitually drunk in class and I never knew.
No, but we can spend 3-4 times more/accept 3-4 times the inconvenience/etc. responding to the flu is worth to us.
How do you know which methods will turn out like New York and which will turn out like Washington?
Every time I sign up for a service using our company card, with our company address and company email I feel like I'm pretty open about who the buyer is.

Wouldn't a some kind of certified bank card be an even better proof of corporate identity than a copy of someones ID?

IDs needs to be verified against articles of incorporation. For larger companies it will definitely be a hassle to get the CFO to submit their proof of identity for a purchase that is normally delegated way down in the organisation.
You're a great writer, thanks for the account!
Here's the question that inevitably pops up from this: what do you do if nothing interests you in this way?

There are interesting things, sure, but those are usually fleeting. You'll be interested in something for a month or two and then lose interest in it. You can't earn a living on that. What do you do then?
Sweden has a pop of about 10 mil, Switzerland has a pop of about 8.5 mil. Sweden is projected to have about 10,000 deaths, Switzerland under 2,000; accounting for their population differences, Sweden could have avoided 8,000 deaths if they had locked down. 8000! source is IHME, https://covid19.healthdata.org/sweden, https://covid19.healthdata.org/switzerland. This also applies to the nordic countries like Denmark, Finland, Norway as compared to Sweden too.

Sweden did start much more slowly that switzerland but they clearly are vastly underperforming in saving their citizens.
Show HN: I made a shareable timer as beginner, waiting for your feedbacks
Got sick of configuring node apps and JavaScript libraries so wrote a tool
They ask for a laundry list of features for all manner of custom scenarios (including those which have never happened or cannot happen).

They want it quickly so there is no time to plan.

They want it cheaply so there are no resources to test.

They want it according to the drawing they prepared which you then later need to find places to stuff any extra features they ask for later.

They quickly get tired of answering clarifying questions about it and ask developers to "just figure it out." They also don't really care about reliability, or at least that doesn't come up much in discussions.

They insist up and down that their use case is unique and that the way they do things cannot be modified.

They have immensely complex business rules they never wrote down and can't agree on the details of as when the process was done by humans, the answer was up to the human.

So they may not ask for complexity, but that is the end outcome of everything they do ask for.
> Unfalsifiable claims like this one tend to have a bit of baggage like eternal punishment.

Here's something that is falsifiable and true: the teen suicide rates in the oppressive and orthodox 1950s were much lower than they are in the "liberated" times today. I cannot and will not claim that this can be reduced to belief in a higher power (I would tend to be skeptical of such a just-so argument that fits my worldview without additional data). And in fact, my main point in the GP was not that people should believe in a higher power (though I do think that), but that I hope the younger generation can learn to reject these destructive status games that undeniably cause immense suffering and deprive children of their childhoods.

Furthermore, our culture today routinely indulges in unfalsifiable claims that carry heaps of baggage. What is worse: eternal punishment that you are quite certain is not real, or the very real temporal punishment that can and has ruined lives in response to even inadvertent stumbling through cultural minefields?

> IMO [baggage like eternal punishment is] one thing plaguing plenty of teens in rural parts of the US. They need fewer overseeing eyes, not more.

This may be true as a trend, and insofar as it is, it is lamentable. But it is not nor has it ever been my way. I am here to show love and mercy, to serve and to desire justice; I am not here to pass judgment or hector. And part of that is speaking to what I believe and what I have experienced.
> It's fair to acknowledge the potential risks of contracting COVID-19, and still decide, I'd prefer to work, observing sanitization & social distancing measures, than to have my entire financial life ruined.

In the places I've worked, it would be impossible to observe social distancing. Open office plans mean you're usually within six feet of someone else.
srsly. This is the age of blogs and reddit posts. "Book" is just one possible shape, and certainly not a universal ideal.
THey have a payment method as well which is definitely identity verification. Don't expect this to filter everyone hiding behind fronts and shell orgs, but it's a step towards that.
Modeling daytime changes in high resolution photographs
Jut a Headsup, Chrome blocked the download and a virustotal report look like this: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/2e78fed158e9e6857db7bfc6...

6 engines detected this file

Do what you want with this information, cloud be false positive, cloud be something else idk.
Ask HN: Has anyone been using VR to socialize lately?
I've been really interested in VR as a way to socialize with others. I often play games online with friends with voice chat and it's a good way to stay connected and maintain a social outlet but I wonder if VR would be an even better way to experience this and satisfy my social needs.

From what I can tell Oculus products are the most popular and accessible but I refuse to buy into an ecosystem that is owned by Facebook. Valve index also looks very good but the price is very high. I wonder if the new Playstation will continue to push VR as a feature.

Does anyone use VR for socializing? Playing games together in VR sounds fun but even just chatting with avatars seems like a great way to stay connected.
Does pi-hole work for youtube, hulu, etc.?
Have you enabled some kind of privacy feature? There are some checkboxes in the Google account settings that make ads appreciably dumber.
Those in bad mental health benefit from meditation more than others and poorer people tend to be in worse mental health. So those with a limited budget actually derive more benefit.
Tangent: I appreciate when people put conflict of interest disclosures at the top of their post rather than the end. Thank you.
So we agree that not everyone understood the difference. The commenter who made that observation was right and you were wrong to brush it away. The loss of that distinction was the basis for at least one person in this thread to wrongly assert the WHO was spreading misinformation.

You can't dispute that, so you want to shift to a broader question. I think xster already answered the claims that you are repeating now, and your reply to xster was to expand the conversation even further with even more non-sequiturs and to suggest they were a paid troll.

This is the pattern that keeps repeating itself. Someone confidently declares the WHO is spreading misinformation for reasons that turn out to be inaccurate, but take lots of time to refute. And those efforts to focus on previously made statements are met with meandering replies constantly seeking to 'broaden' the conversation.
My god, it’s full of stars!

Beautiful shots, I particularly like the double-exposure self-portrait at the end, knowing it was made in-camera. I used to do B&W star tracks because getting a mechanical tracker to work accurately was so fiddly before. I like the idea of using pole-finding and star-tracking digital cameras and software, I know satellites and some planes use it, but I didn’t realize it was available off-the-shelf.
Thank you for using a model that respects users' freedom! I happily pay for source-available software, sometimes even when I don't really need it that bad, because I like to support ethical software :-)
Airpods don't really capture other people's voices really well. It's basically inaudible unless you've got it plugged in your ear pointed at your mouth
It sounds like you're looking for growth and significance but need direction. Listen to the Ken Coleman podcast.
Alas, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

50 years after Roe v. Wade, we’re closer than ever to a virtual ban in many states. Not because of protests or media, but smart lawyers designing hurdles legislators can use that pass court muster.

For 50 years, most progressive victories have been won in the courts, and not the legislature. Given the Electoral College and where our courts are, they’re not got going to be there for the progressive side for at least a generation now.

So whatever anyone’s hangup is for voting in November (should we get that opportunity), remember - it’s a choice for what court your kids will live under. Who do you want selecting RBG’s successor?
King County has had ~400 confirmed COVID deaths while NYC has had ~12,000. Number of flights, population, all that stuff doesn't explain a x30 increase in deaths.

If you read the article, they largely discuss NYC's inability to arrive a decision promptly, which allowed things to spread. Also, resistance to the idea of social distancing looks like it made things much worse.

It's like everyone who is commenting here didn't even read the article and is just spouting opinions.
Note that the Finnish military uses the intelligence test (P1 test) mainly to compare the men within the same arrival group. More specifically within the same unit to pick who go to leadership/speciality school etc. (together with the P2 "personality test")

For us it was done the morning after being on a training exercise in the forest whole weekend with most being lucky if they have gotten more then 3h of sleep per night for the last 2 nights. Also a certain portion answer it badly on purpose (don't want to end in leadership/speciality stuff due to longer service time).

But yeah main thing the military is complaining about new recruits is physical fitness being down (a lot) and thus a lot flunking out and maybe again in a couple years (most of these get permanent "not fit for duty during peace time" after a couple rounds with the doctors over a decade or so)

Also the P1 test to some extent tests your test taking skills. Specifically the kind where you know how to quickly scan over the questions and pick the easiest ones and answer them first. It has a time limit and more questions then most in general can answer within of.
Interesting not heard of that before.

There's also - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoresistance along with the hall-effect, which are used for sensing magnetic fields.

This is quite a nice video of someone making a DIY hall effect sensor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1eLp4xfrRo
> Your all-encompassing "simple model" is likely a high-level abstraction that is not implementable.

I find the simple models are usually easier to implement, but are made simple by ignoring details that are actually important.
Please do not take the cow website seriously
That is a very fair length... Capture launch sales from the most eager readers, then expand the reader base.
I agree. Part of their argument is that China cannot beat the US militarily... well it sounds like China's main rival is preparing for war, so China is taking a different route.
We know exactly what the client programs are doing, the bits are right on your device and you can audit them if you want (and it has been done already for WhatsApp by many researchers). Have you audited any of the open source software that you use?
Give trading card platforms a soul
> The main thing I notice among my peers is an obsessive (borderline autistic) focus on "getting in" and having good credentials.

This was college for me. I went to a tech university, not MIT but a good one. It was all about simultaneously impressing your professors and scoring internships with big-name tech companies. And the most driven, type-A of the whole lot? Women (of which there were few) and minorities (of which there were a lot). Don't mess with a Jersey kid from the 'hood when they have their eye on a job at Microsoft or Intel. Their lack of privilege only makes them hungrier.

I got tired of it -- and poor -- and eventually dropped out. Went to state school. There, the professors taught. I seemed to do much better, both academically and spiritually.
Libraries buy the books (and movies, music, etc.).
I graduated from High School in 2008 and in my small area, it was only just becoming possible to take college classes (dual enrollment) with the local community college. The next year, most of the AP and Honors kids were taking several classes to at least knock out all the non-relevant classes you have to take for any degree. This likely saved them time and money in college since if they went into something like physics, they already had credit for psychology, history, English, calculus, chemistry...etc.

Louisiana has this amazing program called TOPS that pays 100% tuition for any in-state college, so most people take advantage of that and go to LA Tech, ULL, or LSU. Because of that, I had no admissions problems because even though those schools have incredibly good engineering programs (stupid hard course load and small classes with a high student to teacher ratio and very good chance of jobs and internships), the barrier to entry is pretty low and you just need a pretty average ACT score. The hardest barrier for most students (like most colleges) is room and board.

Like you mentioned, I think maybe 8% of my class was dating, only 2% probably smoked weed, a lot of people were into sports, music, and academics. However, STEM programs only showed up in my area a few years later (FIRST, Arduino stuff... etc). The schools which already had STEM programs had students which made great grades freshman year as they already had learned basic programming, electric circuits, and other engineering basics without having to learn everything from scratch like the rest of us.

I'm sure it's even more competitive now. Being a teenager in 2020 must be rough. I mean, in some ways it's a lot better (no WW2 or Vietnam clouding over you), but there are also no easy jobs leading to a house and car with 1 income.
USDA let millions of pounds of food rot while food-bank demand soared
It's possible, though I don't know you, that you're too smart to be a programmer.

And maybe "programmer" is the problem. Be a _____ who can also code. Zed Shaw said it best in the final pages of learn python the hard way. Programming as a career is rarely fulfilling to anyone. But being a teacher/doctor/librarian/entrepreneur/warehouse worker/farmer/etc. that can code is a super power.

I'm basically talking to myself with this pep talk so I appreciate you bringing it up but.. let's both go find the thing that we like and apply programming to that thing!
As human beings, time isn't really fungible. I can't wake up at 3am, choose to be productive for 45 minutes, go back to sleep, and then take a 45 minute nap later on in the day. If I stop myself from watching an hour of TV, it doesn't mean that I'll gain an extra hour of productive time tomorrow.
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This is absolute nonsense. Customers ask for complexity, they just ask for it indirectly.

The tax code is a perfect example. Nobody asked for thousands of pages of tax code, but after you add up all the individual rules (each of which someone asked for), you get thousands of pages. The business logic of any long-serving application ends up like that, which is why we can't just replace all those COBOL systems in a long weekend.

The hard part about software in the real world is not making software simple. The hard part is pushing back on the real world to make it simple enough to model in software.
This is actually a really good point for a different reason: if google can add verification that depends on other infrastructure/parties, this will shift the attack vector from just google to other players. So say they require some paperwork or organizational registration, now the badies focus on "how do we generate fake credentials at scale" - which means less work for google.
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> While there was hope that incident could be contained and radiation levels were low no evacuation were needed

Excuse me, hope? Evacuation was not necessary because there was hope that things weren't as bad as they have turned out to be?

And honestly, as someone who has heard a billion Russian jokes about "volunteers" in the USSR, every time you use that word is jarring to me. I'd share the anecdotes with you, but I suspect you already know most of them.
I'm going to buck the trend here and say that if intelligence is approximately normally distributed, there will always be some proportion of the population that doesn't meet the minimum in the necessary dimensions.

The point is not to demoralize someone, but to prevent them from spending a lifetime of angst and anguish in a field that is not totally beyond their grasp but always just far enough above their head to keep them questioning themselves constantly.

OP, it sounds like you've given this a shot and it didn't quite stick. Maybe it's time to try something else. For what it's worth, I felt the same for much of my education, studying physics and passing curved tests but never really feeling like I understood mathematics - and it's a terrible feeling to be somewhere where everyone presumes that anyone is capable of anything while you're here struggling.

I did manage to complete my degree but I ended up specializing in something where I could leverage the mathematical intuition I developed without having to fake my way through actual math, and I'm fairly successful. Perhaps you can do something similar.

The way the entire thread bends over backwards to find something "wrong" with OP, some external, fixable explanation, is counterproductive. These sorts of expectations are good to have but if they are not grounded in the reality of individual ability, they can lead to serious mental health problems.
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The eastern bloc countries never caught up with any of the western countries. Their economies didn't really get into gear until after the collapse of the USSR.

The strong correlation of postwar prosperity is with how much of a free market was embraced.

It's the same with post-war Japan. They embraced the free market after being burned flat in WW2, and rose to world dominance by the 1980's.
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> being young in 2020 in the hyper-competitive culture of major coastal metro areas of the US

I think you'd be surprised how many 8th graders across the country are already stressing about SAT/ACT scores in places like southeast Ohio or Branson, MO.

I just pulled Branson out of a hat and here's their recommendations for ACT/SAT testingv[0]. I've seen a lot of schools across the U.S. This schedule matches up with offical recs, but it's half the story.

Goodhart's Law is in effect here. Those who are ahead will try to cement their leads. So official recs are ACT/SAT round 1 junior year. Those at the head of the pack find ways to test as early as middle school. These students know the game and feel the pressure, even when their families aren't pushing that hard.

This culture is institutionalized in places well beyond the coasts and major metros.

[0] https://www.branson.k12.mo.us/Page/3011
Welcome to adulthood. Work is often unpleasant.

You don't need more school, you need to find a healthier attitude, and maybe coworkers you get along better with.
Two decades ago I was discouraged from even hobby level soccer due to concussion concerns. In retrospect, the lack of exercise should probably have been a bigger health concern...
Agreed. Interest breeds talent and competence. Interest may come from a deeper sense of purpose. The truth will set you free.
I'd like to elaborate on this, and strongly urge OP to see a psychiatrist.

The answer to your dilemma might be a new career. It might be cognitive behavioral therapy. It also might be an SSRI or modafinil.

I have my guesses but they aren't at all interesting, the point is to get in touch with a professional who can help you figure this out.

What you're experiencing isn't normal, or inevitable, and it doesn't mean you're not intelligent. Although hey, you might not be, how would I know? I think that's the least likely explanation out of all of them.
You're being unnecessarily cryptic.
A service you can't use is useless to you. So a service fewer people can use is less useful.

Even if everyone prioritized the service above other things, the things they forego become useless to them – a side effect attributable to charging money.
That is a wonderful post. I would also add these points:

- effective async networking with entire internet

- you'll think deeper about the things you care about learning/studying/achieving

- you can express ideas more reliably

- you can open source your knowledge

https://twitter.com/jborichevskiy/status/1252652698614198272...
> Building simple open software solutions means you should at least: Make a simple conceptual model. This model should cover all aspects, so also the key business aspects.

Well there's the rub right there.

The model can be simple or it can cover all aspects.

It can virtually never do both, because all the aspects the software is needed for is always complex.

In fact, the aspects are so fiendishly complicated that we usually can't even understand them entirely in advance, let alone simplify them.

This is why agile has become so popular: it eschews "cover all aspects", acknowledging the impossibility of this, and aims for complexity to evolve gradually as it is demonstrably needed, rather than up-front.
I've had my best results when I shadow the people doing the work I'm building software to aid and even being trained and go through actually performing said task when possible. It's extremely enlightening to see how things actually happen.
I think I see a lot of people in the potential career changes who have a similar attitude, which unfortunately continues the (probably not untrue) perception of BAs, sales and management who don't know shit. Please don't add to this by saying "I don't like development and don;t think I'm very good at it, so instead I'll become a manager of developers".