skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't agree with my source's conclusions but I do agree with their description: "Each participating node on the XRP ledger network has to trust a number of validators on the network for the Consensus mechanism to work [...], hence each node has a Unique Node List (UNL). All nodes are free to select validators they trust, but while the Consensus mechanism requires a certain overlap of nodes to ensure consensus amongst participants, Ripple issues a recommended UNL" -- that while not required for them to follow, in practice they all do anyways because in lieu of that who on earth would they trust?
Unlike the conclusion my source drew, to me, this says:

1. A centralized entity issues a trust list. This is not decentralized, and it's not permissionless.

2. You must trust the entity, and their trust list. This is not trustless.

Once you throw out decentralized, permissionless and trustless, you're left with an RDS instance with extra steps.

I'll dig in more and see if I can refute my own conclusion.
Firms in competitive markets don't fight, fighting would be if one firm's products somehow un-manufactured another firm's products. So, the defense industry, and nothing else. They hurt each other's bottom lines, but help society as a whole by collaborating to produce more of whatever it is they're selling.
Have you looked into volunteering for NHS?

https://www.england.nhs.uk/participation/get-involved/volunt...

Also, I’m sure there are lots of clinical trials for vaccines. That could be another option for you.

What sounds appealing?

You could get a list of essential jobs and see what you’re qualified for. As a random example, I think bin men are staying home because they’re afraid of getting sick and infecting their families? Looks like there are openings: https://www.google.com/search?q=uk+bin+worker+jobs
Sigh, though I think this article is correct, this is one of those fantasies that assumes the reason we don't have mail-in-ballots is because our legislators have never realized that making voting easier and more accessible and simply needs a little informational push, preferably with graphs. Of course mail-in raises participation in a country without election-day holidays. It's blindingly obvious.

The reason we don't have mail-in is because both parties wish to depress turnout. US elections are nearly unique in the democratic world for how bad they are, while at the same time, the power of the US state both domestically and abroad is nearly unmatched. They aren't going to let the little people fuck with the great game, so they just give us a pretend democracy and manipulate voter access and eligibility in such a way that reliable tribunes of American business get in there and people, particularly people of color, are deprived of the war-economy destabilizing right to vote.
Strong UV will damage plastics in the interior. Instead, the airlines have started using an electrostatic sprayer to decontaminate planes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1gdRYpI1LU
MonoSAT: An SMT solver for monotonic theories over Booleans and bitvectors
Great anecdote, thanks for sharing that. The more I hear these stories, the more I'm convinced that copyright law does not protect content producers at all. It protects the interests of very, very big distributors (record labels, movie producers) while in some cases making it more difficult for indie producers to distribute (licensing, derivative works, distribution, it's all a nightmare).
Blame browsers as soon as 3 users wanted to use facebook youtube on your 1200 box each user will probably have a worse experience than 3 users running 400 boxes plus hardware failure would reduce capacity to 0% instead of 1 box failing at a time.
Show HN: Auto-generate ASP.NET Core servers stub for REST APIs
We've added ASP.NET Core 3.1 & 3.0 support to OpenAPI Generator (https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator). To generate the ASP.NET Core server stub given an OpenAPI/Swagger specification file, please follow 3 simple steps below:

1. Download the Java JAR (https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/openapitools/openapi-generator-cli/4.3.1-SNAPSHOT/openapi-generator-cli-4.3.1-20200505.035216-173.jar)

2. Rename the JAR as "openapi-generator-cli.jar"

3. Run the following command to generate a ASP.NET Core server stub for the Petstore API (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/master/modules/openapi-generator/src/test/resources/3_0/petstore.yaml):

Mac/Linux:

- java -jar openapi-generator-cli.jar generate -g aspnetcore -i https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/master/modules/openapi-generator/src/test/resources/3_0/petstore.yaml -o /var/tmp/aspnetcore31/ --additional-properties aspnetCoreVersion=3.1

Windows:

- java -jar openapi-generator-cli.jar generate -g aspnetcore -i https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/master/modules/openapi-generator/src/test/resources/3_0/petstore.yaml -o C:\tmp\aspnetcore31 --additional-properties aspnetCoreVersion=3.1

Thanks Paul Hatcher (https://github.com/phatcher) for contributing the enhancement (https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/pull/6025).

If you've any feedback or question, please let us know via https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/issues/new.
The simplest way to accomplish your goals would be through unions integrating and syndicating ultimately culminating into a general strike and overthrowing existing power structures.

In practice however, the national guard will start shooting beforethen (see: Haymarket square massacre, Battle of Blair Mountain), so you better stock up on weapons just in case.
Because someone, somewhere, sometime years/decades ago, auto-deployed buggy/incomplete code to production, and it destroyed something important, and the 'solution' they came up with was "all deployments must be conducted manually by team lead^W^Wan approved engineer^W^W^Wsome random shmuck".
Totally doable, I work for a large (public) corporation in the bay area. I dropped out of school about 10 years ago. Take contract gigs, hustle and grind. It sounds like you just need to prove yourself.
In Cambodia, I got what I assume must have been a less serious case, because I didn't have any vomiting or diarrhea, only the worst headache I've ever had in my life. Luckily the lack of air conditioning wasn't a big problem, because it was close to the coldest part of the year.

It permanently reset my pain scale. When I later had a pulmonary embolism and appendicitis, the doctors were confused that I said my pain was only 7 on a scale of 1 to 10.

The drug I took for it (mefloquine) didn't give me any unusual dreams, but it permanently altered something in my brain.

I don't agree that DDT is necessary to eradicate malaria. See for example that malaria has been eradicated in Thailand (except for border areas), but not (yet) in Cambodia, Laos, or Myanmar, despite having the same climate. A combination of regular pesticides and flood control are sufficient - if the government is competent and dedicated. It's a political problem, not a technical problem.
I watched a few of the videos, booked marked some more. Well done.

What are people’s thoughts on remote conferences moving forward?
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Supreme Court broadcasts oral arguments live for the first time
This is why you should simply strike. 10% of the US population striking would exert immense power and make the ruling class crumble.
The law agrees with me in former case, and disagrees with me in the latter. In the case of PopcornTime, this is an abuse of the DMCA, plain and square.

> The law agrees with me in former case, and disagrees with me in the latter.

and less about this:

> I'm also pointing out that in clear-cut cases of the DMCA, I think the law is wrong, and I side with the defendant, in spite of the law. The law is not the arbiter of my personal code of ethics.

I suspect we have similar opinions of the DMCA, but would very much prefer if we didn't conflate "I dislike the DMCA" with "I think this is an abuse of the DMCA (specifically: regardless of my opinion on the DMCA, I think this is an overreach)". It's like if we were discussing whether a person sentenced to death is guilty or not, and you came in and said, "I can't possibly see why we could side against the victim, I don't like them, the death penalty is stupid". All of which might even be an opinion shared by the people discussing it, but not only are you off topic but you're doing your argument a disservice as you're tying it to something that's not what you are arguing.

(I'm being a stickler on this, because like I said, I likely agree with your viewpoint and would very much rather you not allow people to come up with lazy responses to you.)
+1 for sysctl namespaces, but I think it would be a bigger problem to solve than all other namespaces combined.
It's a failure of imagination to view this as a trade of time for money and little else in truth the people at the company are investors even more than the vulture capitalists because they are investing their energy and presence and a high opportunity cost to boot

The biggest problem with all of the attitudes is they're off the mark and people are going through the same motions expecting different outcomes it's the worst form of repeating yourself

The best advice anyone can give a wannabe intellectual capitalist is : learn to dress

BRING ON THE DOWNVOTES YOU TURKEYS
I disagree pretty strongly with your analysis. I have experience winging it without tests and CI systems. Of course it's not impossible or all bad, I still did it at the time because it was fun and I didn't know better.

Then I started working at a big company with a good engineering culture, I learned about writing tests and related tools, and had a much better experience. Now working without these things feels like driving without a seat belt, or maybe using a grinder without safety glasses (car accidents are too rare to be similar to bugs being introduced...).

I still have fun writing personal projects. It's just better with tests and CI. It sounds like you are pointing at issues with management styles that just happen to exist at the same time as useful tools like this, but I think they are almost if not completely orthogonal.
Principles of the self-organizing systems (1962) [pdf]
I meant that there was a group of people the size of the population of brazil that were expected to be hungry, but are not. That should be celebrated. Its easy to lose the sheer size of the difference between 800 million and 1 billion, but in reality thats a huge difference.
222nm (far uvc) is effective, studied, and has zero health hazards

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5552051/
A Piece of Mars That Fell in Antarctica Contains Ingredient for Life
Using the same argument you could forbid internet or computers (or even both) because they facilitate copyright abuse.
I have had good luck simply blocking any outbound port 53 traffic that doesn't come from pihole.

Although with DoH these days, I'm not confident my firewall rule is still doing a good job :(
You and Steven Pinker should team up and start collecting checks from billionaires, if he isn't already doing so.
Sometimes. Not as often as they should, but they will at least reject keyword-based delisting requests for obviously innocent web properties like Wikipedia or IMDB (typically because they have an page about the movie that some overzealous "copyright defense" outfit is trying to protect).
Most security-conscious users do not assume this. Newer iOS versions ask for credentials (and all recent smartphones that I've used ask for credential-less permission) before transferring data over USB.
Watching videos with Javascript turned off, there are no ads.

Google tries to force users to turn on JavaScript by needlessly making the YouTube website "require" JS to be turned on to play videos.

However it is easy to play the videos without using JavaScript using just basic HTML.

Example

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23076239
I believe last time the attachments were screenshots of the application showing the available content, so I'm sure it's similar this time as well.
Sometimes. Good 'ol BCQ works just fine as well when done succinctly.
The move of applications such as Firefox to start using DNS-over-https to hardcoded DNS servers will render such user-modified DNS services useless.

Firefox can have this feature disabled, but more malicious applications will simply not give you the choice.
All it's doing is POSTing the contents of /private/var/mobile/Library/SMS/sms.db to a server. You can't get an app into the app store that haz the required permissions to access that file.

Solution: Dont install apps outside the app store.
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This is also incorrect.

Also he believes that British Royal Family are shape shifting reptiles; he might not have the best judgement on what is backed by evidence.
Hmmm, no I've never heard of this although I've used a similar offline doc reader called Zeal.

I just checked it out and it looks cool but I don't think it's for me. I use a Firefox extension called Saka Key that allows me to fully navigate web pages and tabbing with the keyboard but it doesn't work so well when a web page wants to be an app instead of a page. The site forces focus in a text search box and pressing escape doesn't leave the text box, it just replaces displaying the welcome message. It's a usability issue for me :(
I agree and I wish there was a better solution. In the US you're paying sales tax with new cars as well as used so at least it's apples-to-apples in this conversation. And with cars it can vary sometimes where you purchase or where you live depending on your jurisdiction. I do think with a car thats something you need to shop around for.

I wish the US could suck it up and have correct price labelling. I don't care if they relabel products and it varies location to location or if the price is the same nationally and varying amounts get skimmed out (like credit card fees).
> There is no scenario in which I am legally at fault if you commit a crime with tools you got from me.

If I serve you alcohol and then you drive drunk...

"The majority of states consider bars and restaurants to be liable for injuries or fatalities caused by an intoxicated individual who's over-imbibed in their establishment." [1]

[1] https://www.enjuris.com/car-accident/dram-shop-law.html
I know how old the technology is. You completely missed my point. They were NOT in coomon use even in the 1970s, even if am article on the internet claims it. I was there. Were you?
What is apparent is that nobody is stockpiling anything, and our supply chain doesn't have warehousing buffers like it used to 30 years ago.

So if nobody has anything stocked, then the toilet paper panic effect grips literally every key supply, and dangerous panic ensues.

So I'll be stocking up gradually once things return to relative normalcy, and a plan to get out of dodge.
If "we can afford it" then please explain why 90% of the manufactured goods purchased in USA are made in China; is it because competition and lower wages in China? We can afford to pay more the USA workers to produce it locally, but we don't. Why?

I don't care about how rich is Bezos, it is not my problem (or, more exactly, not a problem for me), but the blanket statements like "everyone deserves X" and "we can afford Y" are a problem: we don't simply deserve and we cannot afford most things.
For every vehicle on a ship or stuck in port there are at least a dozen sitting on a dealer's lot.
Finally, free ticket changes & cancellations (read: usable travel insurance) to support the common good!

Us consumers should have demanded this a long time ago!
Having been both a conference speaker and attendee at times most of the value in conferences is the networking opportunities... which are close to non-existent with remote conferences. I think they're pretty pointless otherwise.
Price Gouging Could Fix Our Face Mask Shortage
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It may not be a big number, but we honestly never thought we’d get this far. Excited to keep growing!
And that's when they're being "nice."

Otherwise they would send armed men to steal your stuff.
Furthermore it seems as if mutations to the spike gene unique to hCov-2019 somehow is involved in suppression of immune systems’ ability to properly regulate its inflammation response; specifically, it seems to mess with the correct functioning of “M2” macrophages that act in a wound-healing mode to regulate the activity of proinflammatory “M1” macrophages. This leads to a runaway inflammation response.

The antibodies described here need to be tested en vivo (monkeys perhaps) to make sure they don’t actually lead to worse pathology (which for hCov-2019 seems to be immune mediated rather than directly caused by virus)

See my Twitter feed for references, I’ve been tweeting an immuno lit review (@100ideas).
In Wuhan, 11% of traced contacts came back to transport. One thing that might help would be to open the windows in the subway cars.
That's the trick. There are new stock grants every year, so you continually stand to lose a substantial sum by leaving. Hence the name: long term incentives.
A short history of machine tools: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262180138/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

This book really makes you appreciate all of the "things" we have today and how much goes into making everything. It is also humbling to me to know that every tool we have no matter how accurate was made with tools that were less accurate. Remember we started from literally rocks.

Does someone have something similar for the history of computers?
The history of Young Earth Creationism is fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism#Backgr...

It wasn't really a controversy or dogmatic issue to average Christians until the early 20th century. Trying to argue with a Young Earth Creationist on scientific grounds is super pointless - literally everything can be either dismissed because you weren't present, or reinterpreted to fit the viewpoint. I would know because that used to be me.

It's also highly unlikely that you'll successfully argue with them from a theological/hermeneutical perspective either. If you'll forgive me entering into a major time controversy here: a young earth creationist, and many evangelicals, place the original Biblical text as penned by the human author at a nearly deified level. Unless the text is blatantly poetic, even in translation, or explicitly labelled a parable the text is assumed to be literal.

The human author of scripture is basically assumed to be, more-or-less, possessed by the deity lending only their authorial voice to the literally word-for-word transcript given to them by God. (For support they quote scripture, of course, "All Scripture is God-breathed and useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness" (II Timothy 3:16). Believing that, the stakes become incredibly high for a biblical literalist, many/most of whom are also YEC. If any scripture is found to be "false" by modern standards, it basically invalidates the whole thing.

I say this having believed this version of Biblical inspiration and knowing I'd have been given permission to teach it in church once upon a time.

The tricky bit is that modern standards aren't an appropriate measure to hold an ancient document with different goals, but that's literally a books worth of argument and background to dive into.
The three early, maddening viruses that shook the world–and Microsoft
Drinking and driving gets people killed. Pirating a movie makes a studio executive cry into tissues made out of hundred dollar bills stolen from their artists' pockets. The bartender gets a lawsuit, the pirate goes to jail for 20 years.
I think such a dichotomy is a strange accident that technology companies have been all the more happy to allow to exist. Personally, I think this kind of construction gives them far too much power over their platform.
Respect to tbray.

> May 1st was my last day as a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, after five years and five months of rewarding fun. I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19.

> What with big-tech salaries and share vestings, this will probably cost me over a million (pre-tax) dollars, not to mention the best job I’ve ever had, working with awfully good people. So I’m pretty blue.

> remaining an Amazon VP would have meant, in effect, signing off on actions I despised. So I resigned.

> The victims weren’t abstract entities but real people; here are some of their names: Courtney Bowden, Gerald Bryson, Maren Costa, Emily Cunningham, Bashir Mohammed, and Chris Smalls.

Powerful stuff. He put his money where his mouth is. Very few do that ... and he's extremely empathetic - something ironically Jeff Bezos' mom asked him to be when he was young.

I'm personally conflicted on the efficacy of this move.

Amazon is successful because they allow people to order cheap consumer goods real fast, sometimes same day and have a great return policy to boot.

The typical consumer does not care about "Made in U.S.A" vs "Made in China" vs "Made in Taiwan". They do care whether it's $9 vs $27.

The typical consumer does not care whether the workers were paid fair wages and given enough bathroom breaks so as not to urinate in a bottle to meet strict deadlines. They do care whether it's $9 vs $27.

The typical consumer does not care whether the IP of a company was stolen and cheap copies were made that were defective and buggy compared to the original product. They do care whether it's $9 vs $27.

If the $9 product does not work, they can buy 2 more to even break even or just return it and get something cheap instead.

Thus, Amazon has figured out how to appeal to the typical consumer.

Exploiting workers, suppliers, distributors, the country it's founded in are some of they way they deliver that promise.

Jeff Bezos is not the monster here - he's just responding to market forces.

The market wants him to exploit his workers to hell and they are paying him billions to do it.

The typical consumer is voting for this behavior with their wallets.

Until the fundamental consumer model changes, where the typical consumer takes these externalized costs into account, what effective progress is made?

That's the real question.
The Sun: study shows it’s less active than sibling stars
If there are any systems that I think will change most, that would be online education and online work.

Simultaneously, I think we're realizing the benefits and inadequacies of both, which mean that they'll improve, and become further adopted.
Let me try this a different way.

People say that if you don't like systemd then don't use it -- and that's what the people who don't like systemd want to do. But not all of them want to compile everything from source like Gentoo.

So use Devuan, you say, or some other esoteric distribution with six thousand users instead of a million. Which is presumably what they are doing.

But they still want Debian/Ubuntu to use something other than systemd by default, because you need a lot of people to use something in order to get good bug reports and get people interested in fixing those bugs and making improvements to it. Use in popular distributions is the only way for the alternative to get those things, which makes people who don't want to use systemd unhappy when the most popular distributions do.
Does not look like it to me. Zip download failed, not sure you can git clone from that url.