skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, there is no credible way that a single actor could carry out a large scale attack that way. But there are credible ways that individuals can vote illegally extremely easily, and would never get detected.

Secondly, we have no reliable data on how often it occurs, precisely because it's more or less undetectable. There are documented cases of it, that have been caught by luck. And people have tried to do surveys that are probably worthless and unreliable.

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/29/us/18-are-arrested-in-199...

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/voter-fraud-real-rare/s...

Indeed, the incidence is low. But it is importantly not zero, and the numbers we know are only the ones who got caught.

Most democracies require ID to vote. It's an anomaly that we do not. There is no good reason not to require it.
I know, I'm not saying that these are hereditary mutations. I'm saying that genes in all of us are involved in refractive development, and thus have to be inherited if mutations exist. I'm saying that our environment of myopic environments is feedback that forces our eyes to develop to support better focus at those distances.
Testflight builds expire after 90 days, appstore apps live forever.
> the transmission rate dropped again, to the point where any single case led to less than one more. Once that happens, an epidemic dies.

Unless, you know, it's as contagious as corona. Then it only takes one person to infect an office or grocery store or hospital (as happened with SARS-1 in S. Korea.)

I wish people would start using facts, instead of hope.
> Carmakers can't stop their cars from being used to run people down

The technology definitely exists to limit this, and many car companies already offer such safety features.
Gates Foundation will commit 'total attention' to coronavirus pandemic
Twitter Thinks My Gender Is [EICAR String] (Or “Server-Side Checks Matter”)
I'm having trouble understanding what the article's title actually means right now. Can HN parse this down for me, please:

> Can the teardrops that fall after reading bad science writing generate renewable electricity? Yes, they can.
I can think of a few things that I bought specifically because I saw them in an ad, and they solved a problem I had. The 12-port usb charging hub that I'm using right now is one. Did I 'know' they existed? I mean, I wasn't surprised, but I'd not used or seen one in the wild, and then it popped up in an Amazon recommendation.

Going a few years back, those lithium-ion-based car jump-starters were a genuine surprise for me. I'd only had experience with the much larger, bulkier lead-acid ones. An ad showed me an impossibly tiny & light combo jumpstarter and powerpack, and now there's one in my glovebox. It's been used, too, and I'm glad I had it.
For starters, have you participated in a ctf before?
It's difficult to pull off in a coordinated way. But coordination attacks are not the only thing that matters.

It shouldn't be possible for a liberal kid's conservative parents who know he doesn't vote to vote for him. But it's trivially possible, right now. There is literally nothing stopping anyone from doing that.
You’re a bit out of date here.

AMD has largely taken the performance crown thanks to their Zen CPU platform and move to using TSMC for their process as Intel has lagged behind, with major problems deriving from their inability to get 10nm working.

If it helps to give you some perspective on how such a drastic change could occur, Intel’s 10nm process was originally meant to be ready for release in 2014!, and yet they still haven’t managed to scale out production after six years of debugging and failure.

It’s a combination of AMD simultaneously doing extremely well and Intel severely stagnating that has allowed this to happen.
> Come to terms with the fact that nobody reads your blog and that's okay. Not everyone is entitled to readers or has opinions worth reading about.

This. More people should probably blog to their perfect audience either that audience exists or not.

I used to write about stuff that I spent more than a couple of hours to and that couldn't be found on the internet. Back in the days at least that meant I'd get search engine traffic from other developers searching for solutions to that problem.

It didn't earn me any money but it was still very useful for me to learn from.

Edit: add "should probably"
If the source code is ALREADY released, what is the harm in immediately releasing the fork? Immediate public release of forks IS common practice.
I suppose the implication was that you read the docs as you build something — the proverbial learn on a "need-to-nerd-basis"

I'm the same, I can read 1,000 technical pages no problem and make you a great talk, but I'll remember nothing past a month (or 12...) if I don't actually use it.
"Know" in which way, what kind of interaction? What about magnetic field due to poles rotation?
Death notice for Michael David Crawford:

https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=19/03/26/0356205

Although it's not a good idea to overload electrical circuits, he said he had serious mental issues.
In theory, isn’t that what digital marketing is supposed to promise? It seems as though the marketing bandwidth is optimized for economies of scale purchasing in both analog and digital domains.
This guy has an impressive track record. Read what he has to say.
The complex exponential term in the equation of the electron is called Zitterbewegung, and it may be interpreted as a spinning of the electron at speed of light in the complex space.
It's absolutely depressing knowing that this all stems from a complete utter lack of leadership at the federal level. That states are having to implement their own policies and plans of attack for this virus is a total travesty. Massachusetts is undoubtedly leading the way here. But this is a global pandemic, that can only begin to be approached at the national level. With our society's level of interconnectedness, state level interventions are completely meaningless.
2M chickens to be killed in US processing plants due to lack of employees
Does Better App Design Means More Conversions?
Thanks for sharing. I totally feel you. I spent long time doing research and not super happy about what I found. I would say prisma/hasura is pretty good at this point, however, as a "minimalist", I just feel it is better to have some light weight "helpers" that does most the jobs and give you full control of everything, no extra process, no new things to learn, no blackbox, etc.
I'd argue that "Team Leader" means "boss," though.
Pragmatic article.

"This is a disease that will be circling the globe for a long time. The virus could very well become seasonal, like the flu—and, like the flu, it might mutate regularly, making it a moving target for vaccine researchers. Without a durable system in place, we may find ourselves trapped in a cycle of lockdown and stimulus, waiting and hoping, with no end in sight."
Thanks for sharing - great info. I still think that the potential energy (no pun intended) is huge, so if the engineering challenges are solved, it may not compete with solar, but should be competitive with wind.
The winners are certainly a potential threat to national (global?) security. What's the price of a celebrity status like that?
It's important to distinguish between the different hackathons.

There's corporate, VC, meetup, etc.

I would read the fine print very carefully before signing on for a corporate or VC-sponsored hackathon.
I believe what they're saying, but in some way it feels unbelievable. The vast sizes and distances involved are frightening.
Unless the lenses have bits that 'overhang' it would seem possible to simply CNC mill the whole thing?

A lens needs accuracy to ~the wavelength, so 400nm. That seems doable with not so specialist CNC tech.
It is not the same thing in practice. It doesn't allow as natural paragraph formatting or sentence flow since the break-up interval for the text is dictated.

It makes it harder for people to reply to the chain (do you reply to the first or last?). The same problem exists for retweets; if someone retweets a tweet partway through the thread, it doesn't behave as neatly as you describe iirc.

Also, there's just a difference for the author. Writing a paragraph of text like this comment, where I get to go back through it and edit it as I go, add and remove paragraphs... It results in me creating a more carefully edited and thoughtful piece of writing.
With the tweet threads, someone either has to write the tweets one at a time (and can't edit previous ones) with twitter dictating the breaks, or they have to do paragraph-oriented editing locally, and then figure out how to break it up correctly for tweets (which is non-trivial actually! URLs take up a difficult-to-predict-naively number of characters, so it's not naively 140 chars if you have urls, etc).

Basically, twitter's model facilitates a different sort of writing and reading than a single long post does, even if they are just both a bunch of letters.
No, light pollution puts paid to that. The sight of M31 in truly dark skies - with naked eyes - is truly awe-inspiring.
>Roofs already collect a large surface area and funnel into a single point via roof guttering - so tapping the flow from the gutter run off would enable a viable volume of water turn a motor in the drain pipe as it descended and generate power.

the purpose of a gutter is to direct the water to areas where it can seep into the ground without damaging the house (while carrying away leaves and other things that would rot and damage the roof), at least where I live, a motor in the drain pipe would slow down the gutters in its function, which you don't want to slow down in some of the rain you get in Denmark, and finally would leave it open to more easily blocking the drain. Of course one could put a guard up on the gutter to keep large things from coming down but as I understand it gutter guards aren't really a good idea https://www.cleanproguttercleaning.com/are-gutter-guards-wor... (from a company trying to sell gutter cleaning services so maybe should be taken with grain of salt but the arguments sound pretty reasonable) and at any rate I believe would still have to let things through that would be problematic for the motor to have through.

So essentially having a motor in the gutter for generating energy would mean the gutter could no longer be able to perform its function as a gutter and a new way to handle that would need to be devised.
Hetzner Is Down Globally
Two conditions are necessary for a bicycle to remain upright (at least with most riders.)

One is gyroscopic forces. Ever picked up a spinning hard drive? Notice that it feels strangely hard to turn in some directions? Same idea.

The other is the feedback loop consisting of the bicycle and its rider.

If the bike is stationary, it's hard to keep it upright because you have no assistance from gyroscopic forces. At low speeds, you have some assistance but not enough. At higher speeds, the bike wants to maintain its current orientation, and it's easy to feed in the slight corrective forces needed to keep it that way. Hop off the bike and it will keep going until something causes it to veer off course.

You can throw a ton of math at it, as in the paper mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but at the end of the day, gyroscopic forces and negative feedback are all that's necessary. The Schwab paper appears to show that the gyroscopic forces aren't necessary, but no bicycle in the real world is ever going to work that way except in rare corner cases, e.g., if you're one of those riders who can stay upright at a standstill.
I really wish mobile camera reviews would have lens teardowns and commentary on the design tradeoffs made...

More people need to know about the engineering that went into them.
It seems that the entire Hetzner service just went offline. (They host servers.)

Not only is their website not loading, but all VMs appear to be completely down. This has knocked https://gwern.net offline, in addition to https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/ and my own servers.

Hopefully it's temporary.

EDIT: Whew, back up. Thankfully a temporary outage.

(Hetzner has otherwise been phenomenal until now -- unbeatable server prices with infinite bandwidth. Happy to tolerate a small hiccup once in awhile. It was just worrisome that everybody's VMs stopped responding + the hetzner website itself went down.)
> It's absolutely depressing knowing that this all stems from a complete utter lack of leadership at the federal level.

I only wish that was the half of it.

Covid-19 appears to be a bioweapon engineered in the Wuhan Corona lab, and sponsored by the US govt.

https://medium.com/@yurideigin/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-throu...
The section on images is great. Should there be a picture of a big spider on the arachnophobia page? Which anus is most representative of humanity? The (ro)bot wars section may be of particular interest to HN
> But I'm all for micro based generation, like a wall of small wind turbines instead of one large one and more aesthetic and palatable to add to existing buildings and area's.

The problem with these is terrible efficiency as you scale down, due to fluid dynamics and the added redundancy from having multiple small units rather than one large one. This is why generators are huge.
An average family in Tokyo does not live in a detached house so the whole argument is false. About 27% of the units are detached houses and the ratio is decreasing a bit.

Plus Tokyo is almost 100km wide. That's a huge area and of course there are places where housing is dirt cheap because people are fleeing away.
Institutionalized Engineer's syndrome, to be fair however doctors have their own version of the syndrome so it's fair.

on edit: evidently I really like to be fair.
It is ?
Too bad that (at least on Android an app that needs to use Bluetooth also needs GPS permission. So there's still will be a concern about privacy. I don't understand why these two permissions needs to be together.
A project in TypeScript is not much different from one in JavaScript structure wise. The biggest difference might be the explicit work on types and modeling your problem to make good use of composite types. In the source code you'll have some type definitions where implementation and usage sit close to each other (to enforce a local implementation), and others where a type is more like a serializable DTO (data transfer object) between different domains and seen more global throughout your application. You'll get a feeling when mapped types should alter a type or when a local type definition might be better (TS is structurally typed for a reason).

Domain modeling can feel close to "type driven modeling" here. A good book in that regard is "Domain Modeling Made Functional"[0]. I see types and a functional paradigm closely related, but keep in mind that this is just one approach in your toolbox... there might be the case where a GoF OOP pattern works good as well[1]. I think it's also important not to try to trick the TS compiler into something, but rather to work with it. Keep in mind that the TS dev team is giving you a lot of freedom by not striving for a provable correct type system[2].

To really take advantage of TypeScript I think it's good to know where a type system is coming from, what it is that it's trying to solve and how it is doing that. I think it's helpful to have a look into other languages with a "strong" type system (Haskell[3], OCaml, rust) and see how they are doing it. Then you may get to see how Haskells phantom types will conflict with TypeScripts type inference, and OCamls type inference seems to work in fascinating ways compared to TypeScript. After working through the advanced types[4] in TypeScript it's good to understand what a "good abstraction" in case of a type system is and what isn't... this is when you discover the similarities to other languages through the common language of abstract mathematics (and abstract data types). In every program you'll encounter effects and monads are quite helpful to work with them, this is were a sound type system can really shine.

I feel with every JS/TS project you will build a lot of the projects toolchain yourself and you kind of need to discover what fits best. It's good to be able to catch possible bugs early with the TS compiler, quicktype[5] can help you in building some typed contracts to other projects.

A separation into packages with lerna[6] should encourage a good separation into packages and is seen in a lot of open source projects. Speaking of, reading into good open source packages will be a mandatory way to go in order to learn more.

[0] https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/books/
[1] http://loredanacirstea.github.io/es6-design-patterns/
[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Desi...
[3] http://learnyouahaskell.com/ (a bit dated though)
[4] https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/advanced-types....
[5] https://quicktype.io/
[6] https://lerna.js.org/
There is geo track command in blink. It will also keep connections.
My Hetzner Cloud vServer in Falkenstein is up and still serving web sites.
oh, yeah I get what you mean, I was thrown by the framing of metrics.

That abstract makes perfect sense in a very specific context, which is: it's using the language and tools established by prior fields of study as lenses through which the medium of video games can be analyzed. It's not written with the expectation that a reader understands the piece in isolation (or even that the reader understand the piece by reading it linearly), but is intended to be in dialog with other existing pieces of academic writing. That the opening seems to obtusely reference liminality without defining it seems like shoddy writing, but keep reading and liminality is defined ... four paragraphs later, for some reason. In a sense, you're supposed to just read it expecting to be confused and then bounce around. It's not literature. An analog in computing might be reading man pages or RFC's or whitepapers: stylistically obtuse at first, but each format starts to make sense once you've read a handful of them and have learned the language patterns and the most widely cited cross-references. Also a lot of it is just self-aggrandizing bullshit. (I enjoy this piece btw, and had not read it before.)

That's kinda why I like stuff like the Atlantic pieces; those pieces are written to stand up independently, and don't need the support of many prior writings to make sense.

In my last comment I was going to say something about foundational academic texts, namely Huizinga's "Homo Ludens", which the piece you just cited mentions almost right out the gate:

> There is a long history of association between war and play, as mapped out initially by Johan Huizinga, who argued that both share an essential identity in their earliest history: “Play is battle and battle is play” (89).

Homo Ludens is, to me, more accessible than a lot of other games writing because it's foundational, so it doesn't require a lot of prior knowledge to comprehend. The thing that's weird about games writing is that the prior knowledge cited by a lot of games writing is ... not about games; it's often writing from anthropology, or sociology, or critical film theory, etc.

My all-time favorite publication for intelligent games writing for a general audience was Kill Screen, but that project collapsed and is no longer in print. They have ebooks on Amazon still. I think my favorite single piece from them was an interview in issue 5 with Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the designer of Rez and The Tetris Effect: https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Screen-5-Sound-Issue-ebook/dp/B0...

that interview used to be available online as a pdf, but I can't find it any more.

he talks about celebrities as symbols and the evolution of celebrity as a concept and how it intersects with games. For me that was an incredibly mind-blowing piece. Nothing has ever come close to the quality of that publication. It struck the perfect level of sophistication and accessibility that has been completely unmatched since.
> How much of your time has been spent on what brand of salt is in your pantry right now? What informs your type of shampoo in your bathroom?

I pick these up from store aisles more or less at random.

> How much weight would you say your friends or colleagues experience with a car brand has influenced the decision you made to purchase one auto manufacturer's model over another?

None, I don't own a car, but I can see the point you're trying to make with that one.

> Advertising works and if it didn't it wouldn't exist.

There is a possibility that it actually doesn't and is a case of the emperor with no clothes, an unnecessary industry perpetuated by those in the industry.
Living in Switzerland and having friends in the surrounding countries, it has been kind of amazing to see how well the comparatively soft touch of the Swiss government has worked. We can still go out, hang out in groups <5 etc., but people are simply being reasonable.

I keep waiting for the uptick in cases since they announced their plan for reopening though. I'm unconvinced we'll be through it so smoothly.
A text is written on a scientific topic and it is so poorly written that when people read it, they cry. Can we harvest the kinetic energy in those falling teardrops and turn it into electricity? Yes.

(But it is not very much energy.)
And I am willing to bet that picture was taken somewhere like Shinagawa or Meguro, maybe Setagaya. Where houses like that start at a price rather double of what's stated in the article, potentially triple.
It's easy to fix the app so that it does not need the phone number and to have the app notify the user of the need to get a test instead of having a contact tracer having to double handle the information and ring the user. I believe the fact the app is doing this more about its heritage than any design here, however as an "Australian innovation" we could fix this and avoid the prospect of vulnerable people being rung up by people pretending to be contact tracers, which will happen, and will not be good when it does. Interestingly if the phone number is not stored, the need to store any potentially personal information will probably disappear as well.

There's no need to see the source code to recognise this is a problem. Could we at least lobby them to fix this? It would make life easier for the contract tracers and it would mean that people could rely on the app's secure channel, so if a scammer does call them they could confidently tell them where to get off.
They look stuff up all the time. Most physicians try to stay on top of developments in their field by reading scientific journals. Most also have access to subscription services which will provide background and lay out current best practice guidelines / treatment recommendations for almost every disease. Another poster mentioned uptodate which is one of the most popular examples. It's not uncommon for a physician to reference this with the patient still in the room.