skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The method in which he is handling it is wrong, I think.

I get twitter, youtube, facebook, et. al. have their own rules and enforce them. The sites couldn't exist without the protections of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Their rules arguably work for something like porn (which never seems to make it past youtube filters) and threats of violence. What makes less sense to me is the arbitrary method in which opinions based posts are handled.

It becomes clearer when you see the newly (last 2 years) rules enforced when you realize it is advertising driving it all. If something rises to the level of impacting advertising, action is taken.

They are censoring not to make political points; they cannot do that for threat of losing 320 protection. They do it to protect revenue, which as public companies they have to do.
The difference to climate change is that the earth never experienced such a rapid change in climate short of cataclysmic events in the time periods we can indirectly observe, whereas the earth's magnetic field changing happened quite often and quite suddenly even before humans came around.
The question isn't whether fraud is possible with mail-in ballots; it's about whether mail-in ballots materially change the likelihood of fraud, or ease of committing fraud successfully, relative to in-person voting.

You accused me in your first reponse to me on this subthread of having a mind impossible to change. What I'm looking for is correlation; that would make me reconsider my position. While correlation is not causation, a causal explanation ("mail-in ballots make it easier to commit undetected fraud") without a correlation it predicts is highly suspect. Find correlation between the states that have had mail-in voting for longer periods of time, and for more people, and identified instances of voter fraud. Confirm there are more instances in those states than in states that have more curtailed access to mail-in voting. Tricky to get the numbers right (probably have to do a state-by-state search of laws to find when they enacted no-excuse absentee voting), but here's the list of states that allow it (https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/vopp-t...) and here's a collection of voter fraud incidents identified (https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud-print/search?name=&state...).

I haven't spread-sheeted this, but at a first glance I'm not seeing a correlation between no-excuse-needed mail-in and fraud. Alaska allows no-excuse-needed and has 0 instances recorded. Texas does not allow it and has ~25 recorded.

The President's administration itself commissioned a study on voter fraud and did not find widespread fraud activity (https://apnews.com/f5f6a73b2af546ee97816bb35e82c18d/Report:-...).

To pop this entire discussion up a meta-level to the original topic: clearly this is, at least, a controversial issue. I think given the combination of the controversy, the President's one-sided take on it, and the authority from which he speaks granted him by his office, Twitter was at least justified in fact-checking him. This is a controversial topic, and he speaks as though it is not from a position of authority encouraging people to believe him without questioning the details. I appreciate you question, even if your conclusions disagree from mine; in contrast, the way Trump uses his Twitter feed to push one side of a topic juries are still out on is irresponsible as a President, and while Twitter taking "the medium is the message" somewhat literally in fact-checking him makes me slightly uncomfortable in terms of what larger rules they might employ, I'm glad somebody from an equivalent position of authority to his voice on their service is doing so.

... and we should probably all find the response of the most powerful civil servant in the United States being to threaten to close that institution in response, unconscionable.
> you still have to figure out how to get a Python installed on the final machine, that's the price to pay to be an interpreted language

Also for Java. The installs usually include their own favorite version of Java alongside the actual application.
I wish some of this ( or All of it ) are implemented inside browser and no longer need any Javascript to function.

Web App still has its place. But 90% of the web are Web Pages or Interactive Web Page, not Apps. While Every time I point this out there will be someone stating Gmail as an example of Web Apps, but we will soon have Hey.com to prove it doesn't need to be that way.

However browser vendors and standards body ( Which really is just browser vendors ) has far too much interest in making the Web or Web Browser as another OS / Platform. Rather than optimising for the 90% of our current use case.
So? The fact that the majority of the userbase is alt-right doesn't make the platform itself conservative.

If tor is known for it's pedophile userbase, does it make the platform itself pedophile?
Um, no? At what point are the citizens of a country responsible for changing it for the better? The citizens of Hong Kong need to stay and fight for the rights they desire, not run away to another country.
Refusing to install StopCovid app equals to accepting further deaths
IANAL, but my understanding is that this would make it so that social media sites are more liable when they remove posts, so they need to be more careful in what they remove? Certain things should still be fine to remove (content that is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable), but they'll have to tread more carefully then before or risk being classified as a publisher and risk being sued?
Do you store the generated static pages on S3 or host the web server with Jekyll server?
Hey guys, I run an ROI driven performance marketing agency and have developed the Facebook targeting course based on the case studies & experience with our brands. It's a niche & detailed webinar wherein I take you from audience insights to funnel creation. I'll be online to answer any question related to the course or performance marketing in general.
How the super rich conquered London
> The only solution we've found so far are centralized organizations which can run sophisticated machine learning and hire thousands of moderators.

I’m pretty sure HN, the site were literally posting on, does not have either of these, or at least not at that scale and yet it’s miles better than anything on fb or twitter so I’m not sure I buy this argument.
> The government should treat them like public uni

You want the government funding Twitter's operations?

Incidentally, you can definitely get banned from public university campuses for misbehaving.
I wish there were more terminals available. Unfortunately some of the more exciting models like the 3279 (a cool wedge shaped color model) and 3290 (large orange plasma screen) seem to be practically unavailable.

Also lots of the earlier terminals got separated from their keyboards :(
>If you used to be on SSRIs and they worked, then LSD doesn't sound like a good match.

Well honestly I had thought that LSD could be great for anxiety and depression under the right set and setting. Since I was very sure I could have a great setting (which I could) I thought that my chances of a bad trip were very minimal. Unfortunately I think I just didn't pay enough attention to the "set" part
Pilot Security Partners with Vector35 for Vulnerability Discovery Tooling
That’s not really what “banality of evil” means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem
What courts? What does “public forum” mean legally? I don’t think what you are saying has actually happened and would appreciate a link but I think there is none.

So again, in what way is Twitter even slightly possibly like a utility?
Sounds like a case of survivorship bias at work here. How many revolutions led to failed societies that aren’t around any more?
What's the story if my zipapp depends on tensorflow and/or cuda?

I don't know exactly how it goes but I'm pretty sure it's a horror story.
thanks for the indieweb link, that's useful :)
> Or you use requirements files, and don't get deterministic results.

What about pip freeze?
I think this needs some important context, because otherwise it may be read as "Linux is so insecure compared to the other OSes".

From the screenshot it seems all of the bugs were found with KASAN and most of them were overread bugs. Likely for the other OSes they were only looking for crashes and probably often missed these classes of bugs that KASAN can uncover.

This essentially means they found more bugs in Linux because Linux has better tools to uncover subtle memory safety bugs.
The ones that have the resources to run away already gave no problem doh g that, and many of them have already. The ones that can’t are mostly the ones that are protesting right now. They don’t really have a choice.
I have never understood the need in the Computer field or other fields for that matter to make unnecessary and incorrect analogies to physics. It is silly and I have to look past this as many things have worth where the author does this as some sort of way to make what they did seem more impressive rather than just advance something on its own merits.
I’m not sure if this is in Jest, but the federal government has a lot of coercive power with most Nations, so this wouldn’t really help.
Exactly why I started relicensing all of my projects under MPL-2.0. The decision followed an attempt by a webpack team member to wholesale copy a project of mine into the project without attribution or licensing (which is a separate issue). Decided then and there that I needed something more restrictive that still allowed for collaboration.
Putting in a user hostile feature in a security update, leading to people to not update, doesn't sound too smart to me.
>>The first is spam and abuse. The problem with a purely "open web" is that there's no solution to those, because of bad actors. The only solution we've found so far are centralized organizations which can run sophisticated machine learning and hire thousands of moderators.

This is completely false on 2 fronts. The idea that these major services have solved spam and abuse is simply provably wrong.

Further there are a number of ways stop spam and abuse on decentralized systems, in some ways these are better than on the centralized platforms.

>The second is aggregation and discoverability. What good is it to publish if nobody finds you? Matching what people want to read, with the content they'll like, is a really hard problem which, again, open standards basically do nothing for.

Here is a valid point, but there are some cool tech coming out that solves this, things like Lbry for example

>And then of course the third is monetization. There's a lot of amazing content on, e.g. YouTube, that wouldn't have been created if it weren't for monetization, because it takes content creators time that they'd otherwise have to spend at a job.

This is amusing, given the massive levels of demonetization on YouTube i think you are overstating the value of YT ad revenue in the modern area. Most YouTubers today seem to make the bulk of their money from outside sources like Sponsored Videos', Merch Sales, Direct Donations, etc.
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What great pandemic literature tells us is coming next (35 minute read)
When I switched to DDG, I was happier with it than with Google. To me, DDG feels like Google felt ten years ago, before it was infested with "AI." Today, Google search results look more like the invasive shopping mall ads in Minority Report, tailored to what it thinks I'll click on, rather than relevant results based on my query. I only rarely (~once a month) have to use Google search to find something that DDG just cannot, and usually this is some highly technical topic. (I did it yesterday because I couldn't find information about a strange, fatal regex error in Firefox - seriously, one regex that Firefox can't understand prevents script execution, even when wrapped in exception handlers.)

I think Google has hit some sort of inflection point where their further attempts to improve search have made it a less useful experience and are mainly in service of their dual corporate mandate to put al ads in front of all eyeballs and control all access to all information.
Ask HN: Remote transmission of tactile sensations (e-novia). What is your take?
Hi HN,
Italian tv recently submitted a report [0] about a company called e-novia. [1]
Basically the company claims to be able to transmit remotely any tactile data and physically reproduce it on the remote partner's hand. Any tactile sensation, including the temperature (e.g. sensation of cold/warm).
I never heard about anything similar and seems impressive and revolutionary.
I tried to search HN for the company's name or url and it return 0 occurrences.
I am wondering about HN take about that and the tech stack which could be behind that.
Thank you for any feedback.

[0] https://www.iene.mediaset.it/video/robot-tunnel-distanza-futuro-coronavirus_795182.shtml starting at minute 19:29 - sorry that's in italian.
[1] https://e-novia.it.
The app looks promising!

If I understand the license correctly there's no way of trying it out for free in a commercial setting. The only use-case I would have for this is as a work tool, but since the license requires me to pay up front I'm not going to try it. A trial period or similar would be nice.
If you don't need to use multiple version of python like me, then you don't need it. Just use the built-in venv module in python 3 to create and manage virtuanenv. for example, simply run `python -m venv .venv` to create a new virtualenv in your project dir, and vscode will automatically recognize it when you add the project dir into your workspace.

But having c compiler toolchain available is pretty much standard practice when using python (or nodejs, ruby, etc) because you might need to install some library that requires compilation from source (e.g. psycopg2). If you don't want that, you'll stuck with installing those 3rd party libs from your distro's repo, which might be out of date or outright missing (especially for less popular packages).
That sounds like the ultimate salesman wanketeering & I love it.
What does "window transmission" mean ?
A better way to split water molecules to produce hydrogen using sunlight
> Unless judges are also drinking the leave Trumpney alone Kool Aid

I have some bad news about the past three years of judicial appointments...
What is the chance that Amazon cause an issue with your RDS backup, versus a Cloud Employee?

The answer is definitely not clear to me at all

EDIT: no sarcasm, I legitimately don't know which I would choose as a biz owner
Your speech, whatever it is, is protected in public places.
I understand this definition, I explained it above in my comment. The problem is that definition is not useful. It's useful to detect memory leaks this way since it's easier, but that doesn't help us understand all problems our program can have with leaking resources. First and foremost, the problem the original definition points out doesn't exist any more. When a program dies, all the resources it allocated, file descriptors, memory, ports etc will safely be cleaned by the OS. Any modern OS that doesn't do so will consider this a bug. So there is no practical reason to sweat the original problem. It's still useful to sweat it since it's an indication of a problem, which is that your program fails to deallocate resources it allocates. However, this failure is not important just at the moment your program dies. It will remain important the entire lifetime of the program. As I explaind above, if your program runs in a loop, and needs to make O(N) resources runs on this loop and you can use constant memory every time, all you really need is O(1) memory since you can deallocate at the end of each loop. The problem arises when you fail to do and use O(N) resources. This will make your program break on large inputs when it really can work. What's more crucial is:

(1) Analyzing your program's minimum asymptotic resource need

(2) Observing your program's real asymptotic resource need

(3) Optimizing your program in a way (2) is closer to (1)
Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23328760
Show HN what you did :)
That sounds interesting, do you have some discussions to link, I’d like to read them.
> but counterpoint: who prosecutes the offenses?

CDA 230 protects Twitter against lawsuits for content their users post. Without 230, anyone who felt libeled (i.e. Joe Scarborough) could sue Twitter in civil court.
Do you feel similarly about the citizens of North Korea?
I tend to agree with you that pyenv|pipenv|etc shouldn't be used for actual production usage.

This of course leads to other issues to solve, now that your development environment doesn't actually mirror production.
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The average payback on whole home solar is 7.5 years, so 10 isn't too far off normal.

My problem is that semi-permanent installation at this size is of questionable utility; I don't want to have to juggle my electric usage between this and the regular grid in order to maximize my solar, that sounds incredibly inconvenient. Of course there are solutions to this, but they're not renter friendly.
> People with antibodies in their system should be allowed in everywhere without quarantine.

Creates pretty bad incentives if implemented (people will seek out the virus). Also relies on accuracy of individualized antibody tests.
Right, exactly. It's one of my annoyances recently. I've never left blogging, either, and people say that's long dead.
One of the EU projects is trying to improve the transport links (including road network) between EU countries – https://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/infrastructure/ten-t_e...

One would hope that if they are successful in improving those transport links, shipping costs will reduce as a result.
The stable release of Strapi Community Edition
I assume you're from the US?
Lol same here. I was surprised `document.designMode = 'on'` worked!
So do you ssh into your server and pull the repo every time you write a new blog post?
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Maybe. But it seems like the current POTUS is completely uninterested in the job of Governing but takes delight in so called Culture Wars.
His biggest gripe is that the pill has to be taken every day or very frequently. There are loads of circumstances which make that less desireable than taking a pill a few times a year instead. You've latched onto the travel example he gave.
To me CLI feels much more like a verbal dialog with a person, while many GUIs give a feel of poking and pointing. Might be subjective—I also much prefer audio calls over video, for example.
Private key of DigiCert Certificate Transparency log compromised
The government should create a law to treat them as public places because our rights can be infringed. That doesn't mean Twitter should be funded publically.

Misbehaving != alternative opinion.
It won't be rare in driver code.
What sentence from the NBC or NYT article indicates that mail-in voting is MORE fraudulent than in-person voting? That’s the statement right?

This all hinges on this one thing, anything short of this and Twitter’s statement on Trump’s tweet is correct.
Considering purely on the freedom of expression.

It's Twitter's web server, which is a private property of the for-profit company. They don't have a contract with the Trump that they distribute the expression of Trump without modification. So it's their right to express their idea on their web server.

If the Trump want to distribute a true unmodified expression to the public, he can easily do so by setting up his own web server.
Was it ever mainstream though? I mean I think the closest we've come is podcasts.
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Flag on the play. Moving the goalposts. Five yard penalty. Repeat the first down. But more seriously, let's go allll the way back to your original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23318100

>>in the complete absence of any actual fraud happening

That is an objectively false statement. Will you concede that?

>>>An extremely motivated source like the Heritage Foundation was able to find 1,285 instances over 41 years?
>>>Did you even click through more than one of these?

Did you? California's list doesn't have a single entry pre-2000, and over half of them are post-2010. Texas? Same, nothing pre-2000. New York? One in 1983, one in 1999. Florida? Four entries pre-2000 (and a BUNCH 2002-2010, probably due to fallout of Bush-v-Gore).

So either election fraud enforcement has become significantly more vigilant post-2000, or election fraud incidents have seen an astronomical uptick. Or both. But what we DO know for certain is:

-The incidence rate is non-zero, especially in the past 10 years.
-Some elections have in fact been swayed by fraud.

-We should probably spare at least some modicum of serious thought and allocate some resources to improving the process integrity and security of one of our most sacred civil institutions. We make it rain fiat currency for every other government boondoggle imaginable, why is there so much opposition to THIS?
> If I'm searching for programming stuff or similar, I want it off. If I'm searching for shops that sells bricks for my new wall, I want local results.

In all fairness, how exactly do you expect DDG to know what you want from this, without doing some sketchy privacy invasive scanning of your search? If you really want a company to scan your every search and then tailor the results specifically, then by all means use Google, that's what they're good at!
So then much like the TSA, this is security theater
RFC 8332: Use of RSA Keys with SHA-256 and SHA-512 in the Secure Shell Protocol
Oculus Go Standalone Virtual Reality Headset – #32GB
You have no proof that writing a Linux-like kernel in Rust would result in fewer bugs, or even that it is feasible at all (what with writing even linked lists being difficult).
You lost me at “there’s a lot of object-hating going around.” Conversely there’s a return to being mindful of how we use the computer’s resources. Lately I’ve been reading about Ruby internals, and rather than be impressed I’m terrified by how staples such as classes are implemented.
Moderate does trips aren't for everyone. The HN crew is full of novelty-seeking, curious, open-minded explorers, already drawn to this sort of experience. Your average, vanilla soccer mom who is largely okay with life but struggles with panic attacks because her brain isn't great at damping the amygdala-cortical loop, may not necessarily be ready/interested in a trip through psychedelic space.
Fed authorities seized a 226-ton transformer made by Chinese company
How do you package your entire pyenv as one or more system packages?
Unfortunately PrePaid Credit cards are not widely accepted for many things, For example you can not use a Prepaid Credit Card to fund a PayPal account or a Patreaon Account.

This is largely down to "Know your Customer" laws and the concern they will be used for Money Laundering
Section 1 (emph. added):

> This memo updates RFCs 4252 and 4253 to define new public key algorithms allowing for interoperable use of existing and new RSA keys with SHA-256 and SHA-512.

Then further in Section 3:

> These [new] algorithms are suitable for use both in the SSH transport layer [RFC4253] for server authentication and in the authentication layer [RFC4252] for client authentication.

Specifically:

> Since RSA keys are not dependent on the choice of hash function, the new public key algorithms reuse the "ssh-rsa" public key format as defined in [RFC4253] […]. All aspects of the "ssh-rsa" format are kept, including the encoded string "ssh-rsa". This allows existing RSA keys to be used with the new public key algorithms, without requiring re-encoding or affecting already trusted key fingerprints.

So this change is about the over-the-wire protocol and verifying identities, and not about the on-the-disk format of keys.
Emirates has been using a test that has a 10 minute turnaround to test passengers on some flights...

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...