skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are you promoting things

...on a platform (it was a tweet), ironically. I tore my jekyll-based site down earlier this year because I have a bad habit of redesigning it every other Tuesday.

it’s a strange compulsion, but your site and a few others I found on indieweb.xyz have been some good motivation to work towards some degree of content permanence that I own and control (plus a general frustration and growing loss of patience with the platform)
Doesn't surprise me in the slightest, given that two days ago someone in Michigan attempted to use my wife's info + email to get unemployment benefits. We live in Seattle, never lived in Michigan.

Managed to file a fraud claim in this case, but only because they happened to use her email address for some reason.
http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/
https://kornel.ski/lossygif

you can also just compress user uploaded gifs serverside. but the top commenter is right, gifs are great because of they're functionality and simplicity.

the better thing would be for the w3c and browsers vendors can get their act together (spoiler: they won't) and do things like make gif20, finish svg2, implement svgfonts, implement complete css3 specs, if you want to preserve functionality and usabilty of graphic assets on the web while reducing their bandwidth.
Best practices to use AWS access key and secret in your development environment
Think of a side project you would enjoy that includes a handful of these technologies and start building it. You will hit snags as you go that require deep-diving into rabbit holes, and this is where the learning happens.
As you and others point out well, nobody can know it all. My own solution to this is to (try to) spend some regular time learning, maybe keep a prioritized lists of possible future topics, and just try to prioritize tasks for the rest of the time in ways that will hopefully involve technologies with less churn to them.

But long-term, I have ideas for a generalized system of maturity models and known best practices, where a community can make interlinked lists of things to learn, that tracks prerequisites, and the best order to learn them in, with suggestions on what comes ~"next" at any given time, toward a specific learning goal. So, someone doesn't ever feel a need to stay up with everything, because knowledge is growing so fast anyway, just what comes "next" at any given time. With anki-like features built in. Something like wikipedia plus low-level computability of all the info stored. I haven't been getting as much done lately on it, (though I use it daily as a personal organizer), but I hope to in the future sometime. More on it at http://onemodel.org .
Covid19 vs. Next President
What are the Covid-driven scenarios with impact on the next presidential election?
What's wrong with criticism of minorities?
Okay, turn the hypothetical around. Let’s say you (generic “you”) had an insurance policy that covered you for loss caused by insect and vermin infestations, and the insurance company refused to pay after a spider infestation. Would you stoically accept the insurance company’s position? Maybe you would wouldn’t even file a claim in the first place, to demonstrate a commitment to scientifically precise language in insurance policies.

Perhaps. I suspect many of us would reasonably argue, in such a situation, that the category of loss described in the policy is obvious to a reasonable observer, and if, say, an ant infestation is valid grounds for a claim, a spider infestation should be too.

I’m no great fan of the insurance industry, but putting that aside for a moment, it does seem that in terms of the contract language, a sensible conclusion was reached here.
Why would throwing innocent bodies at a problem solve it?

You solve systemic problems with systemic solutions.

Do you know what comes after a 'democracy' aka 'freedom' run amock? A violent dictator.

Your efforts should be put towards determining which violent dictator gets into power, not wishful thinking that you can fix corruption and incompetence without killing people and ruining lives.

Remember how Trump said he'd 'drain the swamp'? He's a worthless coward and a hack who got elected pretending to be a dictator. USA was ready for a dictator, they voted for one and instead got a reality tv host. Do you see where things are headed? You can play a part in choosing a violent dictator, or in trying to sustain living in a cellpool (Hillary, Biden, etc). Even hillbillies are ready for a dictator without knowing it, as it always happens, so you're in a bit of trouble.

That's how the real world works, sorry.

On the upside - this shit democracy can probably sustain corruption and incompetence almost indefinitely, because most people are fine living in a cesspool. If anyone tries to drain the cesspool, you can assassinate them in broad daylight and create a tourist attraction around a fictional shooter afterwards. Oh, and throw innocent bodies at problems like you suggest. Send kids to die in worthless wars, send kids to waste their life doing finance, send the brightest kids into companies doing 1984 surveillance and serving double-think, etc, etc, etc.

For most people, power only coming with responsibility is an abstraction they can't comprehend - they buy lottery tickets, worship worthless, rich (powerful in their tiny little brains) hacks like actors, the Kardashians, rappers talking about 'bitches' and being criminals etc precisely because their world only includes one half of a proper-functioning society - power. That selfish me-me-me, more for me half :) Responsibility is something they do their best to avoid - they dream of escaping it altogether.
The paper I cited above is a specific example of a team constructing a virus from a RNA sequence that they bought commercially, and then using it to infect human cells in vitro. The virus they constructed is a coronavirus very similar to sars-cov-2. Note that the spike sequence was provided by the Wuhan lab, and it's the spike sequence that makes sars-cov-2 so infectious.

The paper has been cited 121 times. You will find more examples there:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797993/citedby...
This isn't the case in NY from my understanding as I've seen psychiatrists send ADHD prescriptions digitally to both physical pharmacies and delivery pharmacies (Capsule). So it might be a restriction imposed by your state.
Because it's only half the story; states rights people are against national IDs because it's over-reach, and path to citizenship people are against national IDs because of ICE.
> improve efficiency, yields, profits

But those are already maximized to hell and back, to the detriment of the other crucial factors (e.g. Monarch Butterflies going extinct.)
It’s been an age but when I was doing connector work Eurex was so great. Everything about it technically was high quality.
The TI/99 TTS was the bomb! :)
> and we have multiple examples of cities or areas that decided to open up too early getting slammed by a second wave of infections (See: Hokkaido, Texas)

Where are you seeing that Texas is getting "slammed by a second wave"? I'm looking at Worldometers, and their daily new cases looks relatively flat. Apparently there was a big jump yesterday, but the state is claiming that correlates with a much higher rate of testing. (This is part of why we should look at the 7 day average, not just the day by day numbers.)

If their rate does happen to be increasing, what makes that a second wave, vs them just not hitting the peak of their first wave yet?
Upgrade this from a linear system solve to a (perhaps Mixed Integer) Linear Program solution and then we're talking!
The C.R. Boxer Affaire: Heroes, Traitors, and the Manchester Guardian (2001)
I always rep Wikipedia's "random page" function [1]. Random page is especially useful if you are cooped up at home and can't access normal sources of randomness like close conversation with other people, the rustle of leaves in trees, sunlight filtering through passing clouds, etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Yea, you’re the one with head in sand then.
If your execs earn a billion dollars a year collectively, and you have 200000 employees, you can distribute 2500 dollars to them all and the execs would still earn more than the low wage workers. So if simple arithmetic is your thing, there you go.

Amazon has around 570000 employees, and 22 executives. One of those executives actually earns a lot more than 1 billion dollars. Nevertheless, with just 2 billion dollars you can give a decent pay raise to every single one of those employees. Some don't need it as much as others, but whatever.
OnlyFans is a temporary fad that will quickly go away as more people start doing it. It used to be that in the early days of YouTube you could make insane levels of money just by playing games. The same applies to Twitch and the live-streaming services, or even drop-shipping Chinese goods with social media advertising. All the success you see on these platforms is because the creators are exploiting a temporary gap in the market - more demand than supply - but little actual skill is involved and the market will re-adjust as more people start doing it (because very little skill is involved so pretty much anyone can do it).
If you paired it with "everyone gets an ID, no fee, no patchwork" I think you would find that goes away.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23200553
It's not just the ID having a cost, like someone else mentioned, it's things that, without context, sound innocuous yet have a disparate impact on certain communities.

Like, I've read about in some southern states, where the state will, as a cost-cutting measure, close DMV branches (i.e. the places where you'd go to get an ID for voting) but close mostly branches in majority-black communities. So, while the nearby white community still has their 5 DMV offices, the majority-black community now has 1. The result? Much longer lines, less availability of services.

Thing is, this kind of impact is hard to draw connections to, but it's a pattern you see played out again and again: 1) Require certain IDs to vote, 2) Make it harder for certain communities to get those IDs, 3) Make it cost something for those poorer communities to get IDs, 4) Now you've got an effective kind of voter suppression without there being one single act that does it.

Like that guy said, "you can't say n-word, n-word, n-word anymore," so you drape it in a series of actions that, taken individually, seem benign or can be easily argued for.

Here's the solution you won't see implemented: if you want to require an ID to vote, make it free and make it something you can obtain at anywhere, i.e. post offices, grocery stores, convenience stores, without requiring hard-to-obtain documents like birth certificates.
Probably the least interesting, esoteric, and useless topic but it's a rabbit hole none the less: the taxonomy of ancestors of modern-day elephants such as the Deinotherium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinotherium). A lot of them look wild and they're interesting to read up on.
Hah, I remember having no clue what was going on the first time I read that, but it clicked just now. The fizzbuzz problem as described in that paragraph could almost be interpreted as 3 equations. The math was for something along the lines of this problem:

x = fizz / 3
x = buzz / 5
x = (fizz * buzz) / 15

In this system of 3 equations, what is "x"?

Not sure what's going on with the 1-100 though.
Is there an analogous epithet use to describe the Taiwanese? If so does YouTube also delete that when entered?
The interaction was probably real, since there is a date and location, but the dialog (and certainly the narration) seems to be taking some artistic liberties perhaps? This is also what Louisa did in her book on the history of quantum mechanics; real interactions with imagined dialogs. My apologies if I gave the wrong impression.
+1 for that first video
California also has a large proportion of East Asians, where mask-wearing is common, especially when you might have a cold, so that you don't spread it to the next person. Epidemiology is culture-bound. By now everyone knows that the incubation period for coronaplague is long and that pre-symptomatic people are a significant source of spread. It's not a long leap for an East Asian person to think that they might carry the disease without knowing and want to minimize spreading it.
The fear for many likely doesn't even come from the book of Revelation but rather from a popular Christian series of novels based on one person's interpretation of Revelation. I'd bet most people afraid of the mark of the beast haven't even read Revelation.
certainly, why bother? :-)

In the same vein there was a joke that goes something like this:

A professor is giving a lecture and he says:

-"In 4 billion years Andromeda will collide with our galaxy".

Somebody in the audience stand up and says:

-"Excuse me! did you say 4 billion or 4 million?"

-"Four billion"

-"Dude... you worried me there for a moment.."
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... within the USA
How might we get better at imagining new worlds?
EDIT: Updated to include updates from the WA governor as pointed out. Remove details for clarity.

In Washington State, Phase 2 of opening up the economy initially was requiring restaurants to track all guests dining in. This has been changed to be optional. You should see some of the people in my Seattle neighborhood being extremely concerned.

Meanwhile other countries have required restaurants to track all guests from the moment they imposed social distancing many weeks ago.

I don't understand the concern. Perhaps someone can explain this to me.
Free, loss leader, or honeypot.

Most places use content to get you to look at ads, but some places write content as a sort of ad itself - we said something thoughtful to build brand recognition, consumer confidence.
How can you possibly know that a national ID wouldn't be free? Social Security numbers are.
The recourse as I understand it is to try and call the agency to speak to a person. Of course the call systems are overloaded so that's easier said than done.

edit: This is the general approach by US agencies, the IRS website barfed on my info and I had to call a local office to get a person to help me (the nation wide number was 100% automated and likewise barfed on my info).
It's probably fair to say this software isn't the most user friends as a result of its continuous change. In chrome and firefox Control-Enter runs the web app version I find here: https://hundredrabbits.github.io/Ronin/
You could output speech on the TRS-80 (which didn't even have any analog outputs) by pulse-width modulating 0/1 bits on the cassette port -- in conjunction with the inherent RC circuit provided by the output circuitry and speaker, you could get barely understandable speech.
> we have multiple examples of cities or areas that decided to open up too early getting slammed by a second wave of infections (See: Hokkaido, Texas).

I haven’t seen any evidence showing Texas getting slammed by a second wave. All data sources I have seen, including the linked article, show a stable rate or relatively small uptick.
> After that, we'll gradually enter an equilibrium in which things won't change much (or a period in which history will just repeat with minor variations).

Not necessarily: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
> Micropayments have been tried. They all failed

Would be interesting to read about that — you happen to have any links?

I websearched for "failed micropayments" and found: "One type of micropayment that does work — one you might not even think of as a micropayment — is in-app-purchases (IAP). IAP are a huge source of revenue [...]"

And: "One reason users don’t like micropayments for content [to read] is it requires a decision ... waste the users’ mental effort ... costs so little that its implied worth is almost nothing" (here: https://blog.applovin.com/why-micropayments-fail-and-one-not... )
A reflection of the very old-fashioned world of insurance underwriting and contract wording. Legal world is just as antiquated.
f/2.89 is a very fast scope. The sagitta or "depth of the parabola" of his mirror is almost 1cm.
You grind a mirror by hand by taking two glass discs, and rubbing one against the other with a slurry made of abrasive grit and water between them, with the length and direction of your strokes determining which disc becomes your concave mirror.

You start with large grit and work down to smaller grits as you get closer and closer to the desired final mirror curve. The large grits seem unlikely to become aerosolized during this. The finer grits are pretty small (a few microns) so probably could become suspended in air but because you grind wet, not dry, this probably isn't likely. Just work in a place with good air circulation and it should be OK.

There's also the glass particles that get removed to consider. I'd expect that they just end up in the abrasive slurry.

This all assumes you are hand grinding. If you use some kind of power tool that goes a lot faster than the sedate processes that is hand grinding, all bets are off.

There might be other ways things could get in the air. You can deal with all of that by wearing a respirator like you would for painting or sanding (once they become available again...).
Its important to know that the origin of this stems from the authoritarian actions of many governments during WWII. Especially Germany... Remember, Jews were tattooed with their ID#.
Progress matters, but not as much as one would think. On the grand scheme of things, it's grossly overrated. When a human is brought to this world, everything is new to him or her, whether it's seeing a bird in the sky, meeting people, creating a family, growing crops or reading a story to a child. There is no reason to believe that in a lifetime a person would be able to enjoy all of the ever growing number of things that are available to experience in any meaningful way.
> Also ridiculous but only tangentially related: Psychiatrists (or similar functions) cannot send prescriptions for ADHD drugs (Adderall / Amphetamines etc) to pharmacies (by any method). You need to pick up the physical prescription from the health care provider, then take it to any pharmacy. The pharmacy may not even have the medication, and certainly will need some time to fill it on the spot.

This is not true, at least in California. I take a certain ADHD medicine that’s a Schedule 2 drug. So I’m limited to 30 day prescriptions with no refills (so my doctor sends in 3 at a time), but my doctor can most definitely send them direct to my pharmacy.
You were alive in the 30s? No, I don't think most of HN's audience remembers that time.
It’s staggering to me how much people in the US have an normalized this level of death and injury, driven by a failed state response, when counter examples like South Korea and Taiwan exist.

The U.S. has 86,541 coronavirus deaths. South Korea has 260. Even if we adjust for population, we expect the US to have 1700, were we following South Korea’s example.

How is it that people have just swung fully into embracing our having 50 times as many deaths as we could have prevented? How is it that people believe the rush to “reopen,” without implementing measures at the level of countries like South Korea and Taiwan, won’t result in an even worse outcome?
Also includes myriapods (many feet, eg centipedes), and crustaceans (aka sea-bugs).
Well it might not be available as a service but apple might be handling the RSS URLs anyway.
Since when? In Washington state it was still true 2 months ago.
They're not right, but they're not wrong either. The actual problem is that there is no political will to reign in the ongoing abuses of the identity system that we already have. For instance, many businesses demand your driver's license number simply to return a purchase even though you have a receipt. This information is then backhauled to private surveillance companies to sort you into their model of social classes, permanently stored with no accountability or ability to opt out. If a technically-better identification system were implemented, feeding the surveillance industry would become mandatory for even more basic transactions - for example supermarket cards.
Ask HN: How can I make a custom dumb phone?
Hi HN,

I'm looking for any tips or pointers to resources I could use for designing a custom flip/slider cell phone. I want it to be able to make calls, exchange texts, and (maybe) run simple apps that access the internet.

My basic motivation is: I much prefer small phones that have actual buttons over the ubiquitous large rectangles with touch screens of today's world. Unfortunately, phones like that that are available today either are a) too old and use outdated networks, b) new but seem like they have awfulness engineered into the UI as a feature to push people towards smartphones. None of them seem even remotely hackable, because they're all proprietary. The new open phone OSes (like pinephone) are encouraging, but everything still seems to be pretty firmly entrenched in the smartphone paradigm, and don't run on semi-dumb phones.

I've hacked a bit on arduinos and raspberry pis, so I could figure out how to wire up a pi with a 4G modem with a battery and a screen. The problem is: it would be huge and clunky, and I haven't found a 'maker' friendly phone keyboard or slider/flipper mechanism.

So.. my question for you all is:
- how would I begin prototyping the hardware involved?
-- OR --
- how would I go about taking a relatively new flip/slider phone and making it run my own OS instead of whatever proprietary code it came with?
-- OR --
any other suggestions?

Thanks!
All this talk about rss being dead. Almost every major side offers an rss feed somewhere.

I self host an rssreader and use it for new YouTube videos or release on github or hackernews and my favourite blogs.
It looks like a good evolutionary improvement over Node.js. However, I have a concern about its security claims. Perhaps someone on the project can allay these concerns.

My brief skimming of its site indicates that its security model is based around the ability to disable, say, network access for whole Deno programs. However, does it allow starting up with network access, allowing a subset of the program to handle it, and then dropping those rights for the rest of the program, _especially_ subdependencies?

I can't see any mention of a more fine-grained approach: https://deno.land/manual/getting_started/permissions

A modern Node.js web service will have hundreds, if not thousands, of indirect dependencies. Some network access will be required for at least the Express routing, or an equivalent.

For a Deno equivalent, this would amount to enabling network access for all hundreds of those subdependencies, not reproducing the isolation in capability-based security such as WebAssembly nanoprocesses.

Have I missed something here? That doesn't seem like much of an improvement over Node.js except for very small and contained programs. Yes, Deno's dropping of centralised package repositories and package.json might alleviate this problem _somewhat_, but the same fundamental issue seems to remain.
Why 3 Ply Face Masks and Surgical Masks Are Meaningful N95 Mask Alternatives
Predicting Ad Price Growth with Earnings Reports
> I find it ridiculous that you cannot buy pseudoephedrine without the pharmacy checking whether you've purchased any quantity of the OTC medicine in any other state via a inter-agency, multi-state networked solution

Not defending the practice, but the supposed reason for this is because pseudoephedrine can be used in cooking methamphetamine [1], and supposedly the 'cooks' had mules going around buying up stock everywhere to use in their labs.

The 'check' was supposedly to catch the mules buying large quantities across plural pharmacies/states to use in the cook's labs.

Sadly the unintended consequence is every time one has a head cold and buys original formula Sudafed, some government tracking database somewhere knows one bought that product.

[1] https://www.chpa.org/Meth.aspx