skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. A note taking app should be high performance and low friction for entering notes, this is one of the key uses of this type of app. If you are walking down a hallway with a coworker and they mention something you'd like to take a note for, the app you use should be fast enough that you can quickly jot that down. If you feel the need to hold the data in your mind or write it on paper because your app is too hard to use, then it's not fast enough.

However, entering notes should also include enough markup to allow quick recall of data at a later date and hopefully allow some intelligence in grouping and analyzing the data (much like your request for digest summaries).

If you haven't already, please send me an e-mail so I can send you the info for the alpha, it's a good balance of what you mentioned!
Even if it's virtual, the wifi will still not be safe...
There is a huge leap in regulations and public acceptance needed. Either way it doesn’t affect Uber because the tech will be easily licensable.
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This (partial mail-in voting) also has been available in many European countries, but you had to qualify e.g. with a physical disability. I think when there is fewer of such votes, it can be easier to ensure that they are legitimate and pay attention to the procedures. You know to expect only a few of them, for example.

I've also heard about postal voting in Britain producing many problems when there were wider experiments with it[1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/apr/05/politics.localgov...
Because I can't imagine getting through roughly 30 million (adults over 18) ballots in anything resembling a timely manner if we're looking at matching signatures.

What more, we're then going to mail, call, visit people who's signatures didn't look like a match? How many of those people will respond?
Ride hailing wasn’t losing money.
I've been playing around with orca for a few months: its really exciting and fun to use.

Here are some videos of patches I think are cool:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH5GaVU0ed8&t=72s

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ig84_4RF5E&t=50s

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzUQlmQvtjI

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_flqHdfFitw
I believe this is the author's GitHub: https://github.com/neverhood311 (I followed a YouTube link from the paper, and the YouTube profile pic matches this one's.)
> ethical problems with GitLab

Ooh? What did I miss?
> Who didn't forge their parent's signature in grade school once in a while?

True. But a malicious actor would need to forge hundreds or thousands of signatures convincingly. And firstly get their hands on the signature database.
Read the first four words.
I'm a recent Fedora->Ubuntu convert. I recently found a multi monitor hack for the Gnome dock that has had a hugely positive impact on my productivity. It allows you to localize an app to it's respective dock / monitor with this one weird trick: https://github.com/ericbets/essential
> some slightly strange rules you had to agree to in order to stay there (e.g. no sex)

That's not uncommon for a spiritual retreat type of place.
I think they meant $50 million in profit.
Where did I say 35,000 people dead was insignificant? The statement you quote literally does not say that. Again, I am claiming that even if you can justify .01% of the population dying in car accidents on the basis of "economic activity," then the same argument does not work for 150-450x as many deaths. You are putting words in my mouth when you say I claimed 35,000 deaths was acceptable.

Again, I note that although you say there are LOADS of frameworks that could justify this, you have not yet even articulated one. Why is that?
Except we don't know that and nobody is tracking it very well. It's an enormously risky approach.

I think it will work out 'ok' for Sweden only because COVID isn't that-that bad, but if death rates were a little higher and R0 a bit higher it could have been a disaster.

Specifically: " They do not need to be coerced into a lockdown because they can be trusted to act properly." This to me is ridiculous - it's not 'trust' that matters, but policy: if restaurants are open and many people go there ... well, that's hugely different from 'restaurants closed'. Same thing for almost everything else. How can you 'trust' people to do the right thing whey nobody knows what the right thing is? Even certain behaviors like hand-washing and masks need to be propagandized and 'nudged' in order for people to take them seriously.

It may very well be that 'soft shut-down' in the long run is the right balance ... but I'd be wary to claim a big win on this if it was mostly a guess.

Taiwan and Korea are clearly the winners, in the West I suggest it's Germany.
Can someone explain to me like I'm 5yo why a virus is not considered alive?

Because the scientific community carefully picked certain completely-arbitrary attributes with the intent of drawing a bright line of division between viruses and cell-based organisms. This doesn't make the slightest bit of sense to Mother Nature, of course, but it makes sense to the scientists.

A much better definition of "Alive" would simply be, "Subject to the rules of evolution by natural selection." Viruses certainly quality under that rubric.
Stuff like that tends to get out. For example: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/30/746800630/north-carolina-gop-...
> it's possible to both think that websites and web applications are worthy uses of the web, but also that many web applications would have been best engineered using 'classical' techniques from early websites.

I agree with this.

> There's a strong argument to be made in Facebook's case, since the core value proposition of Facebook hasn't changed much since it's inception, and it began its life as a server-side rendered 'website.'

Yes, but I assume that's from the perspective of the value the site brings to you, not in general and not to everyone. If someone solely gets value from facebook.com as a site to send and receive information to/from friends and the world, then yeah, it hasn't changed much.

Facebook today offers a richer experience and that might be part of its value for other people. On facebook.com you can IM a friend, while watching a video in a PIP window and engaging in a real-time conversation on the the comment thread of an event post. You can then switch back and forth between an online marketplace and a streaming service without losing the state of your chat window. The ability to do these things are part of the value proposition for many users that facebook.com now offers today, and delivering that value can be harder with a solely SSR'd website.

> there would be less incidental complexity overall if what are typically called web applications took a different approach to implementing their features, while still maintaining the same user experience.

If you've figured a way that's better do share! I'm sure there's instances in the wild, but I don't think an experienced engineer would ship their own client-side networking in JavaScript if there was a better way to achieve what they want without shipping any more JS.

> It's hard to look at all of the crap you need to do to get a functioning web app working to not think there must be a better approach.

To be clear, you can get a functional "hello world" web app with a single line a code (specifically, thanks to the fact html is very permissive with improperly formatted documents). Everything afterwards depends on the decisions you make, for the experience you want. Is getting rid of that 200ms flicker between page full page loads worth the 500ms it might take takes to load and initialize your client-side routing library? Is making your site available offline worth the effort of setting up all the extra PWA business? Some will think so, some will not.

In any case, this argument is operating at the wrong level of abstraction, the issue here isn't the distinction between these two things conceptually, but if there would be less incidental complexity overall if what are typically called web applications took a different approach to implementing their features, while still maintaining the same user experience.

It's hard to look at all of the crap you need to do to get a functioning web app working to not think there must be a better approach.
> I’d like to go back and try to understand it again

There's a book called "Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness" by a guy named Satprem, which pretty much gives you the founding story of the place.

Caveat - Satprem was a disciple, so this is not a view from the outside.
Or just make up signatures that have the person's name in them.

I highly, highly doubt and am very skeptical of this supposed signature database and how well it can verify a person's signature. It just sounds like hocus pocus to me.
It sounds like a ‘schema-less’/document database like Mongo might work better for API results, which are often non-relational but sorta-hierarchical instead.

(Shakes fist at the RTM API which would return one and many child tasks in different ways, so it took me an extra half-hour to write the convoluted Jq query.)
I wrote an IRC client with one line in a shell script back in the 90s.
Lots of things going on with Go. Do you people recommend using Go for back-end, despise its controversial design decisions?
do you get the same IP once the lease is up?

I once had an ISP with a 3600 hour lease on a dynamic IP. For small things like game servers or short-term file hosting it may as well have been static, but the bi-annual IP change was usually pretty jarring.
From the preprint:

"Results: The addition of zinc sulfate did not impact the length of hospitalization, duration of ventilation, or ICU duration. In univariate analyses, zinc sulfate increased the frequency of patients being discharged home, and decreased the need for ventilation, admission to the ICU, and mortality or transfer to hospice for patients who were never admitted to the ICU. After adjusting for the time at which zinc sulfate was added to our protocol, an increased frequency of being discharged home (OR 1.53, 95% CI 1.12-2.09) reduction in mortality or transfer to hospice remained significant (OR 0.449, 95% CI 0.271-0.744).

Conclusion: This study provides the first in vivo evidence that zinc sulfate in combination with hydroxychloroquine may play a role in therapeutic management for COVID-19."
Well, California had 8.5 million mail-in ballots in the last national election, 65% of the total. Mail-in voting in California was available to everyone even before this, not just to people meeting special criteria.

This just makes it the default.
Ya, well in SF they've more-or-less made this very thing legal. Read into that what you want.
You fail to understand that we do not have to make it 100% secure for everyone (also it fails for healthcare workers time to time) but it would be enough if we can make R0 to become below 1.

If a person only puts a mask on while being inside and otherwise wears it under the chin then well, bud luck, not much change to avoid infection but when infected, this person will spread it less likely to somebody else who is handling the mask properly.
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The analogy is not "false", it's used to show you that we all decide how many lost lives we find to be acceptable for modern society to function.

Your parents have a non-zero statistical probability of dying from a car crash, the same way that they have a non-zero statistical probability of dying from COVID due to "normal activity". The probability of the latter is undeniably higher than that of the former, and you appear to consider the former to be acceptable.

I mean no disrespect to your parents, but you have to accept that for some people, they draw the line differently, and the probability threshold is within their limit.

> You seem to have an inordinate amount of trouble finding a single justification for endangering people at this scale, even though there are apparently LOADS of frameworks that would say it's okay. Why is that?

I'm going to emphasize "At this scale", in your statement, because you're implicitly arguing that THIS scale is unacceptable. I'm simply arguing that, while that may be true for you — and for the record, it's also unacceptable to me — you have to understand that different people have different acceptable thresholds. You think that one loses the moral right to entertain the deaths of innocent people at some arbitrary threshold. But it's arbitrary, and unique to you.
Utopia is not an option, don't fall for the fallacy. Americans believe that freedom is the best option we have.

Vigilante justice is the only possible justice. Again, the universe has it's own "enforcement method". Anyone who claims anything doesn't have "downsides" is selling something.

Whether you agree or not, objectively, the United States is for people who value freedom above everything else. Those too afraid to live freely should live anywhere else.
My app is structured in a way that self-hosting would be easy to add in the future, as well as programmatic access. Large file support will be included after the alpha period, it will be billed by usage tiers in the cloud version but I could envision a self-hosted version that would let you store whatever. I'm also building it in an extensible way with the plan to add hooks to act on note data. Please reach out if you'd like to try the alpha, I'll be launching it in the next week and then proceeding to a beta hopefully in the next month or so.
That's unnervingly accurate.
> I highly, highly doubt and am very skeptical of this supposed signature database

Why? California DMV has your signature on file when you get a driver's license.

> how well it can verify a person's signature.

I think people do that, not software.
It's more a consequence of the bad design and implementation of the DER parser in OpenSSL, which is what most people use.

ASN.1 isn't actually a message format--it's the syntax for feeding to an ASN.1 parser generator, similar to protobufs.[1] There are multiple binary formats (BER, OER, PER, XER), but for X.509-based specs the binary format is DER. OpenSSL doesn't have a parser generator; just generic, low-level routines for slicing DER blobs.

If you used something like asn1c, you can simply feed it the X.509 ASN.1 specification and it generates a C-based parser and composer. Manipulating an X.509 certificate largely just becomes a matter of manipulating strongly typed C data structures.

For a recent Lua project I implemented an X.509 certificate parser using LPeg. Because PEGs are so expressive and I only cared about DER, it was much easier to skip dealing with ASN.1. DER is a TLV encoding, which isn't context free and thus not strictly compatible with PEGs, but LPeg has some extensions--e.g. match-time captures (http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/#matchtime)--which make it possible to create grammars for TLV encodings. Which, incidentally, is one reason not to use length-prefixed encodings: they're not a context-free grammar, which makes it more difficult and sometimes impossible to use a parser generator; length prefixing is a mitigation for a specific class of bugs that are common when open-coding a parser, but parsers for complex formats (i.e. many typed, compound objects with deep nesting) shouldn't be open-coded if you can help it.

[1] Except ASN.1 is better designed--it lacks all the ambiguous cases. See http://lionet.info/asn1c/blog/2010/07/18/thrift-semantics/
The downside to ASN.1 is that, especially at the time OpenSSL was originally written, documentation was expensive, and because the open source ecosystem typically used line-based protocols which can more easily be implemented with open-coded parsers, it's not surprising developers made some poor choices in the first open source X.509 certificate parser; choices which have haunted OpenSSL and open source projects more generally ever since.
Mandatory telemetry until people started dropping subscriptions was the most well-known one in recent memory, but there have been more.

The open core model is also ethically-poor.
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There's a few factors at play here.

1) Hospitals generally get paid (by someone) for treating patients. So they want to run at 100% capacity, even with covid patients.

2) You can't really just "build an ICU." You can stand up a field hospital that's able to provide similar, degraded services. But it's not going to be the same.

Imagine if someone said "set up a datacenter in a field," and then a customer had a choice to colo their server in a purpose-built DC or your field DC. Which do you think they'd pick?

3) The units that staffed these facilities were heavily augmented by military reserves.

Corpsmen may have non-medical civilian jobs, but what do you think military reserve critical care nurses and doctors do for a living?

If these field hospitals were packed to the brim, all of those people would be locked in place. Possibly while they were needed in their civilian positions, in their home cities (although the military seems to have done a pretty good job about preferentially pulling non-Covid-civilian personnel).

4) Exponential growth with unknown but high R_t. +1 week before we locked down would have looked very different.

... all of that to essentially say that these facilities were designed as surge capacity, in the event they were needed. We intentionally filled up hospitals first.

USD$660M seems like a reasonable price to pay, strictly as insurance, given the very real risk that hospitals would have been overfilled and covid-related mortality would have spiked due to lack of care.
Thanks all for your help. I am avoiding Atlassian, and editing a wiki is well beyond the skillset of most of our company.

Looks like we're going homegrown with a sqlite-backed markdown knowledge base. Hopefully open-sourcing it will prove useful to someone down the line.
This is literally the last thing I expected on the front page!

My family are all based in Pondicherry and have very strong historical links with the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and the Mother. And are also involved in the Auroville administration and management. I've been there a lot, I've stayed there, met many people who live there and work there.

And it's an unusual place. Some of the folks in Pondy call it "Horrorvile" because of the reputation of seediness that some residents are alleged to have (sex abuse of local children, if you want to know). There is also a unusual "un-Indian" feeling about the place because of the nationality of its residents (global).

However, I have met only nice people there, doing wonderful projects (solar bike sheds, environmentally-suitable architecture) and it is well worth a few visits.

On the other hand, there is quite a difference between the mission statement and the practice of its values. Money isn't really supposed to change hands for work and housing. This is bullshit; many people have commercial sidelines and housing does get bought and sold. Rules are there to be bent and of course, they are.

Some of the security staff can be real jobsworths and exceedingly officious, which can irritate people. And it feels a bit lawless in some regards, hovering uneasily between spirituality, cultishness and the Indian democracy.

It's a peculiar place. But you probably got that already.
Well not sure hurting them down is the only other option anyways. Tho 2-3 years sounds way overexaggerating
Yep, can confirm, did this.
Spectrum Business quoted me a price $12/month more for a plan with a static IP vs one without. Absolutely crazy.
Tbh this may sound cultist to others, but it's really not. You'll need to understand the philosophies of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo first for it to make sense. It's sets the example of a Utopian society. One shouldnt simply look at it from that angle and discard it without understanding the history and vision behind it.
The reason why the cost of living is sane in Republican states is because they don't place undue restrictions on housing supply. You might acknowledge that each political party has significant trade-offs with the policies they support, and move to a red state with that in mind.
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It would be counter-productive to draw any conclusions from the current situation without taking in account family situations. I keep seeing studies that highlight "X% would like to go back to the office because they are not as productive WFH" -- followed by comments indicating that those folks should change and adapt.

I have 3 kids at home 24/7 that need regular attention, feeding, homework, etc. My productivity is down -- not because I am WFH, but because my entire family is as well. This is not a regular WFH situation and should not be analyzed as such.
Perfect is enemy of good enough in this case.

I am not claiming that masks are the only solution. Quite to opposite. The solution is a combination of multiple measures.

The most effective has been early social distancing so far.
> I believe states put them into a provisional ballot pile, and voters can go and check if their ballots ended up there

Does this even remotely sound like a good workflow?

How many people even know to do this? This is the first I'm hearing of it - I can't possibly be alone.

Sounds like a way to throw out a ton of ballots.
This is a really cool tool, and seems much more polished than other similar sites I've used in the past. So first, thanks!

Second, though—this seems really expensive to run, based on what you're saying here. How are you monetizing or otherwise funding it?
I lived at Auroville for 3 months for a college study aborad. Wild experience. The Matramandir (the big gold dome) was a very remarkable and weird building. Definitely cult-ish, but also so truly different and innovative.
What's the point ? This effectively makes the whole encryption worthless, might as well serve your site in plain HTTP
You seem to be making an argument for unionization in the tech industry, then.