skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The reason we are talking past each other is that you’re describing a neat hypothetical model that fits your belief of what is worth discussing. Whereas I’m describing a nexus of actual threats, carried out by actual attackers, in the context of an overall strategy. You’re welcome to ignore the full context of those threats, but that will result in your model being worthless.

We haven't been talking at all. I'm not the grandparent commenter. But more to the point, let's apply your security model to software. How would you feel about it if you reported a 0day to Microsoft, and they said "Listen, there's no evidence of this being exploited in the wild, we're not going to patch it".

> All these threats are being carried out right now against the US election system, in a coordinated fashion, by the same nexus of attackers. They are interlocking attacks supporting the same goal: minority rule and a transition to an authoritarian regime. This threat is as serious as it gets.

> Of course there is one exception in the list: voter ID fraud, in person or by mail, is not a threat. No serious election security expert worries about it. That would be like worrying about a Martian invasion in the middle of WW2: there are more pressing and realistic concerns to worry about... There is no serious coordinated effort to commit such fraud, and as far as I know, there never has been.

You are setting up a straw man argument, and knocking it down. Good for you. Integrity is about more than just protection from coordinated assault. It is also about ensuring the system functions as it is intended to.

No, you probably cannot, as an individual actor, systematically throw an election via voter impersonation. But that doesn't mean that the practice cannot alter outcomes. And it certainly doesn't mean that we should accept a low grade, persistent level of fraud that is trivially preventable.

One person cheating on the SAT isn't going to bring down our entire education system. But you have to show ID for that, because it matters. I'd say our elections matter quite a bit more than the SAT does.
You should definitely try other terminals.
Vim also has modes.

But I guess you've never heard of Larry Tesler or Jeff Raskin, either.
Would be interested in any US citizen to join our team.

We have the skills, but we are all either Canadian or British, sadly. Email me at contact@exodusorbitals.com

P.S. Any cybersecurity experience is an asset, but not a requirement.
It sounds like a good plan, but I can't see it working here. USA in general has strong individualism, I guess it's called. Basically the idea of look out for yourself, and screw everyone else. It's why you still can't buy paper products, why we don't have universal healthcare, why we have so many homeless, etc. Heck, I remember when cases first started in KY, at least two people defied orders to quarantine even after testing positive, to the point they sent police to keep them indoors. There's no way enough people will self quarantine to make this plan effective. Now, if you can somehow force quarantine people, we'd have a fighting chance, but that makes a lot of people uneasy, perhaps rightly.
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Couldn't you just make the drainpipe longer to ensure the water is carried far enough from the house?
I'm going to go ahead and pull the "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" card on this one.
Another one-line NPM package breaks the JavaScript ecosystem
There should be devices to help make artificial occultation of bright stars... maybe even glasses? Maybe could it be done with a LCD panel with really tiny pixels?
Sum types like Option/Maybe (or C's NULL) don't do the same thing as SQL's NULL, though. By all means, if you don't need NULLs, then don't use them — `NOT NULL` should probably have been the default in table statements — but they serve a purpose.
Time to start an en-gb wikipedia!

(or is it en-uk? Hmmm)
Yet another stupid "new normal" article about how irresponsible freedom is.
Doesn’t meet their own privacy impact assessment.

Source code not released.

Source code can be changed at anytime with no notice or need to re-consent data usage.

Protections not legislated.

Using centralised instead of decentralised and anonymised architecture.

Data on the central server has no purging policy. Only local data deleted after 21 days.

De encryption keys stored on the same server as the DB.

Unlike free adware crap games, governments have the power to legislate and enforce laws. Google Facebook amazon whomever other crap freeware games you refer to don’t.

Normalises government mass surveillance and tracking

Can be viewed in line with metadata retention, encryption laws and now this as a path toward digital dictatorship.

Raiding journalists to get the names of government whistleblowers.
Bad Japanese neighborhood means its a cheap place meant for families but unfortunately became a black hole for old people to die in obscurity
Vim has a very short learning curve, because the only command you need to learn is ":q!".
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just to add in -

you're not slow, you're probably average. When you start working, all the things you can learn in a weekend quickly evaporate within 1-2 years of your working career. The only things left to learn are those that take 3 months or more.

These things take the right mindset to learn - continuing to think about them, tackle them, ignoring failure and coming back to it over and over because that's the nature of 3 month learning projects.

You may think you're stupid but you're probably average for a programmer. I do agree with the rest of the thread, you're lacking the spark - the thing that other people have that allows them to persist despite the challenge to figure it out.

Take a personality test, like MBTI, and use it to figure out your preferences. Introverted Feelers are usually smart enough (NFs) to do programming but hate it, it could describe yourself.
It is unconscionable that our state governments are intentionally creating a famine.
Thank you. I was trying to stress that I believed it was likely that the average HN user could 1) work from home and 2) more easily self isolate than the average person (considering that we're more likely to be "computer people").

I'll admit though, I didn't consider the chances of a chainsaw accident while sick. But you probably shouldn't be using a chainsaw if you're sick.
My servers were down, however now back up, also there site is now loading ok for me.
But faster driving and more compatible with roads
Reading it, I was like "nah, the reasons for my unhappiness were completely different" but then came this:

> Most of us are already living the dream, having a wonderful partner, a dream job, a good car though we take things for granted other than delighting in them

I mean, yeah, this is psychological technique only for people who have it all.
The issue is that because of some "bad" users you restrict all users. What I do when I designed a prompt dialog that gates a dangerous operation is make the user type something, yopu could have the user type a different thing so you can confirm he actually reads the prompt text so there are technical solutions, IMO the justification that Apple is taking your freedom to protect a subgroup of users is not the reality, the reality is that restrictions make Apple more money, if lifting the restrictions would make them more money you will see a lot of praise on how smart tech is behind Apple's dialog prompts that allow you to lift restrictions.
Well, you'd only see the first line or two. They'd be tap/click to expand.
Americans eat 24M chickens per day. So 2M killed is only a fraction of the number eaten in a single day.

However it's still deplorable that we can't find a way to not waste this amount of food.
If you don't trust the app to not localize/track you, you also don't want to give it BT permissions. BT on its own is enough to localize/track you pretty well in cities, which was one of the reasons people didn't like the idea of a centralized database of BT contacts ...
Some discussions have nuance that cannot be expressed in 280 characters.

Yes, when expressing a simple idea or an idea you understand very well, you should be able to do so concisely.

However, when providing information to someone else about a complicated subject, or trying to provide reasoning for something, it's very easy to need more words.

There's a reason that encyclopedia entries are usually much longer than 280 characters even though they're expressing a single point that supposedly the author knew very well.

When answering a question that requires referencing multiple other pieces of information and where the answers aren't certain, you even more easily overflow 280 characters. For example, saying "I started with a ballpark estimate from these facts (fact, fact fact), and extrapolating with this assumption, you get to this. However, if you extrapolate in this way, you get a slightly different answer" etc etc, expressing that uncertainty, the assumptions, and alternatives are all _very_ verbose.
Ah, didn't see it from that angle. Of course then there should be exceptions for people who can't afford dedicated offices.
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How dare people have freedom and the ability to make their own decisions! We must force everybody to follow the all-wise authority of the left wing death cult
Probably because bluetooth alone could give away your location with beacons.
It’s en-GB; Northern Ireland gets no say in language specification. (en-UK would be the hypothetical Ukrainian variant of English.)
• Magnetism. There are plenty of videos out there calling it the result of a relativistic charge imbalance. But I've never been able to use this point-of-view to practical use cases like understanding how permanent magnets work or how increasing the number of windings in inductors boosts the magnetic field strength. There were more situations I tried to put this POV into use but I can't remember them off the top of my head.

• Qualia. What is this subjective experience that I know as consciousness? I've gone through Wiki, SEP and a fair number of books on philosophy and a few on neuroscience but I still don't understand what it is that I experience as the color "red" when in reality it's just a bunch of electric fields (photons). Why can't I get the same experience — i.e., color — when I look at UV or IR photons? These too are the very same electric fields as the red, blue, green I see all the time.

• Photographic composition. I'm a designer. I know them. I use them. But only empirically. I just do not understand them at a neuroscientific level. Why does rule-of-thirds feel pleasing? Is the golden ration bullshit? My gut says yes but I'm unable to come up with a watertight rebuttal. Why do anamorphic ultra-widescreen shoots feel so dramatic/cinematic? Yet to see an online exposition on the fundamental reasons underlying the experience. Any questions to artists are deflected with the standard "It's art, not science" reply.

• Wave-Particle duality. "It's a probability wave that determines when a particle will pop into existence out of nothingness." okay, where exactly does this particle come from? If enough energy accumulates in a region of empty space, a particle pops into existence? What is this "energy"? What is it made of? What even is an electron, really? I've followed quite a few rabbit holes and come out none the wiser for it.

• Convolution. It's disappointing how little I understand it given how wide its applications are. Convolution of two gaussians is a gaussian? Convolution in time domain is multiplication in frequency domain and vice-versa? How do these come out of the definition which is "convolution is sliding a flipped kernel over a signal"?
> If you write code for long enough, you will come across code that would want you to become the proverbial psychopath and shoot the original author.

I do come across such code all the time, and most of the time it's my own code.
Stuck Om with Matt Mullenweg
Yeah, a new house like that in an upscale or hip area like Hiroo or Azabu or something with 3 bedrooms will be well above 2million dollars.

On the other hand, rural (so cheap) areas are less packed so sunlight is less of an issue.
Sure, any intro QM text will cover this. Griffiths is the canonical one.
JavaScript is very expressive and powerful language. Maybe hard to learn. The prototypal inheritence and 'this' were confusing to me and took much time to understand those.

Then I learnt that prototypal inheritance is a superset of ''class''ical inheritance [1] as well as this [2]. Hmm.

With Reflect, Proxy etc. you have great metaprogramming capabilities that make this language much powerful.

Still, there are some (many?) edge/corner cases and unfixable bugs (aka features) that the language is stuck with for the sake of backwards compatibility and developers have to learn these. (The most famous of these might be typeof null === "object")

When I look at the amount of features added to the language specification, sometimes it seems like it is going to become another incarnation of the C++ specification.

I still like its expressiveness and power, but if it becomes another C++ in future, I have to look somewhere else. (TypeScript maybe.)

[1]: https://aaditmshah.github.io/why-prototypal-inheritance-matt...
[2]: https://wiki.c2.com/?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent and https://www.crockford.com/javascript/private.html
According to my father, the business world in my country is currently experiencing difficulties finding talent because, in the words of his bosses, "young people today are too soft and quit when things get slightly difficult".

While there are many other factors here that I don't want to get into (such as loyalty being a two-way street and so on), I often wonder whether the idea of "this is not a hobby, it's a job" might have a bit of truth in it. At the end of the day, honest work is better than no work, and we all have to be adults at some point at start pulling our weight.

Would I prefer everyone to have UBI and work only if they want to? Definitely. But not everyone can be passionate about what they do (is anyone really passionate about packing items for Amazon?) and I guess sometimes you draw the short stick.
I find it somewhat comical that the governor of Maryland had his wife pull South Korean connections to buy masks. So terribly ad hoc.
> Masks are for keeping your own particles from spreading far AND for lowering the probability of virions found in the environment from entering your respiratory system.

Both of you may be correct. I think the person you responded to may not have been precise in their framing.

I suspect that you had N95 masks in mind when you wrote masks, which doesn’t negate the point of the person you responded to, if they had surgical masks in mind when they wrote masks. Surgical masks are far more common than N95 masks since they are cheaper and do not provide protection against viral particles for the wearer.
> Once it leaves, it is no longer protected.

Unless there's something I've missed entirely in the regulation, there's nothing that says the data loses its restrictions once it moved. Happy to be corrected and pointed to the specific clause, I just don't see it.

Section 3: "COVID app data is data relating to a person that...has been collected or generated through the operation of an app... and is, or has been, stored on a mobile telecommunications device." The data is defined by its origin, not its current location. The protections apply wherever it currently is.

Section 8: "A person must not decrypt encrypted COVID app data that is stored on a mobile telecommunications device"

Using your scenario, part two would be illegal (s8 especially) and the data request in part 3 should be rejected. The bigger problem is that's what _should_ happen. Whether it's enforced is another story...
SuperTokens for Secure User Sessions
Did you read Nick Lane's "The Vital Question: Why Is Life The Way It Is?" It's all about this and it's great. Also take a look at https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-support-for-a-physics-t...
> This very idea lead to several prominent Stoics to commit suicide, because might as well hasten my eventual ceasing of being?

Reading list above, another aspect is that it has absolutely no answer for when you actually have problems. It starts with assumption that everything is perfect and issues are purely invented out of boredom. That sort of thinking does not help deal with actual stresses nor minimize harm, nothing like that.

Just look at dealing with people part and now imagine dealing with bully, narcisstic or abusive partner. This typical victim response does not make things better, but instead leads to cycle of abuse:

> One of the best way to respond to insult is with humor, especially self-deprecating jokes. Another way is with no response.

Likewise, I went through periods of self-denial of pleasure. I tended to decide that I wont waste time anymore and cut fun things out of my like. Depression and low productivity followed each time. It turns out that humans need some pleasure in their lives.
Why not solve it at government level. My ID already has NFC chip, now it’s just matter of adding software for iOS (and hardware for macbook).

Don’t wanna use ID? No problem - sign additional tokens a bit like ssl certificate chain works.
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Impressive, do you know why they emulate x86 though?
Patchguard: Detection of Hypervisor Based Introspection [P1]
Simulating trillions of moving parts is not the same as explaining or even understanding something.

If you want to feel the truth of evolution in your bones, you really do need to be familiar with biology on both the molecular and cellular level. You can get a feel for it with less, but it won't ever be obvious how and why it works unless you know it at that level. I don't mean to sound exclusionary - it really just does require a ton of background knowledge.
No wonder they asked him to kill himself.
But we aren’t all in it together. It’s the young loosing jobs, facin a lifetime of higher taxes, moving to a world of mass surveillance and digital dictatorships.
You could build this grand gutter power generator and have power that costs 100x more $/kWh than your grid hookup.
You can't, it's a fundamental aspect of quantum mechanics (measuring any entangled system collapses it because you've forced the system into a state by measuring it).

The idea is that you structure the QC system such that the computation is done using entangled states, but when it comes to measuring the qubits (to get the result of the computation) the state is such that you'll get meaningful results. This means the quantum state at the end of the calculation would ideally be along whatever axes you're measuring, so you get the same answer 100% of the time.
At the speed of javascript though, it's pretty mature now. When I tried searching on Amazon I was getting back $30+ dollar ebooks with chapters on how to use Gulp (superseded by webpack or babel)...
I had no idea this is different in BrE and AmE! What are some other such grammatical differences?
Devleoped in my sink using an SP-445 tank. B&W chemistry is pretty straightforward. I do prints (check my site for contact details). There's a couple more examples of 4x5 work on my Instagram (ha!) haven't got much of it up on my site yet.

I'm not the photographer from the article BTW...
Activists detained after sharing censored coronavirus material on GitHub
Mortality/morbidity: acutely ill adults liberal vs. conservative Oxygen Tx(2018)
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The full title of this submission is "Mortality and morbidity in acutely ill adults treated with liberal versus conservative oxygen therapy (IOTA): a systematic review and meta-analysis (2018)". Hopefully my shortening to fit in the box was appropriate.

The conclusion is that excess oxygen worsens patients' outcomes:

> Interpretation

> In acutely ill adults, high-quality evidence shows that liberal oxygen therapy increases mortality without improving other patient-important outcomes. Supplemental oxygen might become unfavourable above an SpO 2 range of 94–96%. These results support the conservative administration of oxygen therapy.

I just read an essay about how a nursing home patient rapidly deteriorated after being sent to the hospital [0]. When I read between the lines, it seems the patient (who previously had a stroke, and was sent from her nursing home for evaluation) rapidly deteriorated due to being over-oxygenated at the hospital. The essayist didn't give the patients' outcome, but I'd wager the patient is now a statistic.

Many other super-virus casualties might've survived if more doctors were familiar with this study, and instead used indicated drugs to help the body use oxygen efficiently.

I read recently that ventilating patients increases the amount of work required to keep them alive by 100x. Two other recent submissions were about how less-aggressive approaches to ventilation have been somewhat more successful [2] [3].

If the doctors combine their newfound reluctance to ventilate with more conservative oxygen strategies [4], maybe the medical professionals will be able to declare a victory against this year's super-virus.

[0] When This War Is Over, Many of Us Will Leave Medicine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22992488

[2] UChicago doctors see ‘remarkable’ success using ventilator alternatives - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22977076

[3] As virus advances, doctors rethink rush to ventilate - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955094

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity#Mechanism

[minor edits & added titles to [2] and [3]]
One computer simulation that should give a general notion:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4disyKG7XtU

Most stars and matter will become part of the fused galaxy, "Milkomeda" is one proposed name. Some will be flung int intergallactic space.

The Sun will have entered its white dwarf phase. Earth will either be a cinder, or have been subsumed by or possibly be nova ejecta of the Sun.
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Just today I saw the news about famine in West Africa. Sigh...
Agree with edit, moved from Azure to Hetzner for VM totally happy with them.
In sync programming if your function does the wrong thing you typically get an error thrown or you get a result which you check for its correctness.

But when you call an async-function that is supposed to do something like say write to a file or database maybe there is an error which makes it never do its job, and never call the callback you gave it. But the rest of your program just hums along happily. There is no error. The error does not "happen" but the error is that "something did NOT happen". And when something does not happen you don't get an error or notification saying that something did not happen.

You run your program but expected results do not show up in database. But you don't know why, because the problem is that some of your async functions did NOT call something they should have called.

It's hard to detect that something does not happen.

Some kind of built-in support for callback-timeouts might alleviate this problem.
I was confused by "select b from nums group by a;" indeed.

I am a little bit surprised by "select array[null] = array[null];" too.

The rest did seem like 'undefined behaviour' (or well-defined behaviour involving NULLs, literal-matching in the query planner [used in matching partial indexes too]...).