skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Americans Skip Millions of Loan Payments as Coronavirus Takes Economic Toll
Why can't the ISPs run DoH too?

I agree that due to social issues the problems are fairly real (ISPs ain't gonna do shit). But on a purely technical level DoH should be fine.
> The UK "hack" for the bluetooth was quite clever from what I saw - in essence they implemented the "background discovery of an iPhone" feature.

It wasn't that clever, it didn't work: https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-iOS-BETA/issues/2
> But you haven't said anything to convince me against the idea that all three have moral relevancy in various ways.

Because I think only one has moral relevancy, not all three. I've been saying it's a mistake to conflate the others with the one specific to moral responsibility.

> The only thing needed [in hard determinism] is causality in order to find the ideal "organization" of the world to optimize for whatever factors are settled on by other parts of the argument.

The "ideal organization" necessarily designate faulty parts which don't conform to the ideal, and so the parts that require rehabilitation. That's blame however you want to spin it.

> To Bambrough's child surgery example, I think that only shows that that moral fact is true only subjectively to humans - it's not an "objective" moral truth. It is derived from the traits of a human, and the example generally works because it takes a clear cut case we can all agree on.

I think you're missing the forest for the trees by mistaking an existential claim for a universal claim. Suppose we swap out the human child with an alien that doesn't feel pain as we do, but has an adverse reaction to some other stimulus. The same argument applies by parity of reasoning. You're focused on the specifics of the human case, but the moral fact in that case is just an instance of a more general principle from which this fact derives.

It's like I'm pointing out 1+2=3, that's a fact, an instance of the general rule of addition. You then agree that 1+2=3, but gotcha, 1+3!=3, therefore 1+2=3 is not a general fact applicable to all numbers. No argument there, but it was never suggested as such.

> I suspect definition will be the issue here again - are "moral facts" derived from the combination of human traits and our perspective considered objective or subjective?

"Objective" means "mind independent", which is to say, that any form of intelligence will reach the same conclusions given the same understanding.

Any intelligence will reach the same conclusion that a human child undergoing a painful surgery ought to be given anesthetic, all else being equal, assuming they fully understand the meaning of every word in that sentence.
This is publicly available, report of the nuclear incident in Georgia done by IAEA:

https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1660web-81...

Basically, 3 lumberjacks went into the woods, found a strange metallic thing that was warm to the touch, slept next to it. The report has incredibly graphic images of how their skin looked due to radiation exposure, don't scroll down to that section if you cannot look at gore. But essentially - the issue wasn't the initial damage, the issue was that the affected areas just wouldn't heal no matter how many skin transplants were done, literally rotting away while alive.
The price is probably double.
When I had more keys on my keyring I used something like this https://www.amazon.com/Lucky-Line-Keychain-Nickel-Plated-707... (not this particular one, which is just the top result that looked similar). It worked pretty well for a single key, but if you want to use more than one it adds a lot of extra bulk so your keychain gets even bigger.

I also tried something like this https://www.amazon.com/Spider-Accessory-Split-Rings-Pack/dp/.... It worked pretty well for a few weeks, but then the central piece loosened up and the keys started falling off in my pocket; not recommended unless you can find one that's really sturdy.
I mostly agree, except that I think for the foreseeable future it is still essential to have an individually-held, government-backed currency so transactions can't be blocked by any third party (including the government itself) arbitrarily and without notice. However, I think the principle goes beyond just money issues.

All of the examples mentioned by BiteCode_dev have at least three things in common.

1. The company in question is in a dominant position as a provider of some product or service.

2. That product or service is important or essential to a lot of people.

3. The company is not significantly regulated by law.

Many of them could be dealt with by regulating all financial services and communications services companies. I think there is a lot of merit in offering a "common carrier" principle in these sectors, where a business provides a service but does so strictly neutrally, with neither any control over how people then use it nor any responsibility for those people's actions.

I also think there is a lot of merit in saying that if a business wants to take a more active role than that, it must also accept a corresponding increase in liability. In particular, it should then be subject to not only legal actions by individuals but also regulatory actions by an independent, government-backed agency with sufficiently strong statutory powers that a business can get stomped if it persistently and knowingly abuses people.

The other thing that IMHO we need but don't currently have in many cases is sufficiently strong consumer protections (and this should extend to small businesses dealing with much larger businesses, or any other situation where one side is effectively in full control of the terms of any deal). The danger is having dominant businesses, whether monopolies or otherwise, providing important or essential services but then having powers to damage others, whether wilfully or simply through negligence, because of the control they retain over those products or services. Under the umbrella of what is important or essential, I do include things like operating systems for PCs and phones, or hosting email, or providing almost any kind of large-scale digital marketplace facility; these are technologies that have become essential to living a "normal life" and participating actively in society. It's not just about the ability to conduct financial transactions or communicate, vital as those also are.
Intel Achieves First Silicon Power on for Next-Gen Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs
They do, and there were good people working on this.

That said, my suspicion is that they have good track records of working with open web stacks, and were somewhat less familiar with the realities of working with closed app platforms that relate to hardware integration, and that's where they came unstuck.
Instead of an open door policy it's a closed but unlocked door policy.
You should check out the forest preserves. The Chicago suburbs really got it right there.
Intel 10nm Sapphire Rapids Xeon Scalable Family to Go Against AMD's 4th Gen EPYC
2k (2560 x 1440) seems to be ideal for 27 in. monitors. Does anyone really find 2k insufficient on a 27 in.? And I find 1080p fine on a 24 in. monitor.
Event-driven state management in React using Storeon
What Is a Subrogation Letter and How Insurance Companies Should Deliver It
Nobody seems to have mentioned a book that appeared here 19 days ago.

[Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son (1922)]((https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23358380)). It explains electricity without any technical jargon. Pretty nice first read. His atomic model is outdated, but that doesn't seem to interfere with anything. After reading the first initial letters, you might have a greater motivation to dive into more complicated texts.
I can't read his comment as anything but him agreeing with parent, i.e. labeling the parent's quoted text as ROT.

I think we're so used to point->counter->point->counter nested trees that we pattern match disagreement even when it's not there.
If you use Lua only for your configuration data, patching the Lua interpreter to limit the CPU time is rather easy: Increment a counter within your lua_State struct here: https://github.com/lua/lua/blob/c33b1728aeb7dfeec4013562660e..., then abort once you reach a limit.
There's an English translation available btw!
I briefly tried Matomo, but didn't want the Javascript component and really just wanted log analysis. It's okay at log analysis, but it doesn't really shine unless you do javascript live tracking.

So I disabled it and went back to awstats. I've been using awstats for over a decade, and for my personal site and projects, it pretty much gives me the majority of the data I really care about.

I might look at shipping more complex nginx json logs to logstash/elastic search, but then I'd need to visualize them in Kibana and that just seems like a lot of heavy weight containers to run for stats I don't really need.
> And I configured it on my websites with cookies turned off [2] and with IP anonymization [3].

Do you have a way to filter out your own visits in this case? On small pages I find that my own clicks and events during testing contaminates the statistics.
I would add also the whole Feynman's Vol I

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_toc.html

I believe one can't appreciate the whole subject enough without knowing that the electromagnetic forces are how the atoms "work", also producing "chemistry" and everything we see.

To paraphrase Feynman, the electromagnetic forces also keep you from falling down through the floor.

For the start:

"If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms—little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied."
Something being more mysterious doesn't make it more interesting.

What's my private key? It's a mystery, but not a very interesting one.

Why does the universe exist? It's mysterious, maybe the most mysterious thing of all, and 8lit's interesting, but I'd say it's not the most interesting question of them all.
Sure capacitors are like springs, but I'd say inductors are more like flywheels.
Show HN: Mailbrew Mobile (Sneak Peek)
Mapping the Oldest Existing Companies in Every Country
This is cool - I just set up Github Actions for some Rubygems that we maintain for work, it's been a breath of fresh air!

Can't wait to dig more into it tbh, just looking at this list there are so many more powerful things other than checkout/releasing code.
Drishti Raises $25M in Series B Funding to Enhance Its Computer Vision Solution
The US government is under specified in many ways and where things are legally gray people often depend on traditions and norms to provide moral and institutional efficacy.
Off-topic but I was (pleasantly) surprised to see an old-school web page, with its minimal formatting and instant load. Very refreshing!
That doc doesn’t use a CA at all.

Step 1 has you import an existing RSA private key or generate one on the device.

In step 2, you self-sign the certificate. As noted in the doc, “The only use for the x509 certificate is to satisfy the PIV/PKCS #11 lib”. You can skip this, per the note in step 1, if your key is already signed.

In future steps, when you’re SSHing with the pkcs11 library, it’s using the public/private components of that RSA key. The certificate (any certificate) has to exist because PKCS11 needs that to cleanly view the public key, but the actual cert metadata, including issuer, is fully unused. Importing a cert signed by a CA has no impact on the result.

On the OpenSSH side, their “CA” support does not create signed leaf x509 certificates. You trust a cert public key, and it signs an OpenSSH-specific representation of user/host public key. OpenSSH then has a special public key type for authenticating using that signed key. As such, PIV/PKCS11 keys, as far as I’m aware, cannot be used as part of OpenSSH’s “CA” support.
Pride is the first thing that comes to mind, it would also explain why they drive on the opposite side of the road, have a separate faucet for hot water, and so on and so forth.

/s
I agree, but would say that in real life most of the people I know who like mechanical keyboards like them for hand strain reasons. They find them more comfortable to work with. While the code written is the same on both, that things like 4k monitors (eye strain) and mechanical keyboards (hand strain) are better for the long term health of the programmer. I've not gotten on the 4K train, but do like having my keyboard for that reason.

Multiple monitors though is purely personal preference I think. While having the documentation on another screen is something I personally find useful, if anything it probably makes me lazier about trying to remember things.
Kong[1] is basically a bunch of Lua scripts on top of OpenResty.

Redis[2] lets you write internal scripts in Lua.

Edit: Forgot Torch[3] which is great for generating nonsense with RNNs.

I think it's definitely getting more of a foothold in the world outside of games.

[1] https://konghq.com
[2] https://redis.io/commands/eval
[3] http://torch.ch
Who cares? Bail them out, like the other banks since 2008, too! Equal rights for all!

PEANUTS!
DC superheroes coming to your headphones as Spotify signs podcast deal
Buck THE SYSTEM Over 4000 money links that pay you on Autopilot
The Missing Guide to Modern Graphics APIs – 1. Intro
How I Accidentally Hijacked Someone's WhatsApp
And yet some restaurants in NYC still tried to go cashless. There are real benefits: faster transactions (no change) so faster queues during lunch rush, no risk of robbery, no need for armored vans to transport cash, employee theft becomes much less of a concern.

I think the benefits are compelling. NYC ruled it was a discriminatory practice though, because not everyone has access to banking/credit.
Mingo – MongoDB Admin intuitive, fast, reliable
The likelihood is that there are less than five stores.

The amount of extra work is trivial.

They would receive substantial extra revenue - stores wouldn't have to race to the bottom with IAP revenue, could do things like upgrade pricing, and the margins would fall to a fraction of what they are today. They could make their user experience better than the current mess of having to go to the web to purchase things and then come back to the app, boosting purchases. App stores would have to compete in providing useful toolsets for developers. Developers could attract new userbases of topics frequently censored by Apple, of which there are many.

Independent developers are being choked by the iOS app store and there would be a financial bonanza for them with more stores.
> Plenty of developers sell through the Epic Store (having development funded by Epic), or GOG, or the Humble store, or on Itch.io, or even via microsoft store.

They do, and that's great, but rarely can they afford to not _also_ sell on Steam. Steam will still take their ~30% cut of the vast majority of revenue, still mostly thanks to its first mover advantage, and there's no self-interest-preserving move the developer has against that.

The only exception are exclusives like Epic's, and exclusives aren't exactly great for consumers either.
Follow-up question: How do I safely experiment and play with my newfound amature electrical knowledge?
> Is 10% less than the 2 worst european countries really worth applauding? Also 10% isn't dramatic in my book. Average US death rate for the last 7 days is still 5 times higher than France for example.

How are you calculating this? Comparing the death rates for these four countries one would need to alter the numbers significantly to get the US at 5x France and the UK/Sweden at >5x France: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-covid-deaths-per-mi...

Note: I hope this chart loads. The page is giving me a JS exception so I could only see the chart on the main page (https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths). If it doesn't load, scroll down the main page to "Total confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people" and edit the chart to add those four curves.
"actually working on it" hurts so much. I have an idea. I think it will be amazing. I love thinking about it and talking to others about it. Yet every night I watch tv, play games, or anything else except working on the idea.

I can't tell if it's a subconscious fear of failure or just general laziness but I can't even write the first line of code and it's been 3 years since I got the idea.
Cynically, if doctors are financially rewarded for performing treatments, doctors may prefer a test with significant false positives over one with minimal false positives. (If your knee jerks and you start saying things like 'doctors never allow financial incentives to change their medical decisions!', let me respond by saying there are many studies that say that they do, and also you can replace 'doctors' with 'health-adjacent corporations' if you like.)
Sleep deprivation hit me hard. My takeaways to solve this serious problem
In "enterprise" software, E2E hasn't meant what it means in modern chat programs. In my world, it just meant encrypted over the wire and at rest, nothing more. We aren't there technologically to have many zero knowledge SaaS products. I don't know they aren't liars, but that difference might be a reason.
I'm working with OP on flatend. I saw your Show HN a couple days ago, it's an extensive suite for code generation indeed. I'm seeing some crossover opportunity here. May I ask if express.js is a compulsory requirment for generating with xgenecloud?
I’m not so sure this is the same thing as when the App Store was first created. What is happening today with the application store is more about making money and less about making a great product.

Re: Spotify vs. Apple Music, do understand that if Apple decided to pull Spotify from the App Store because it’s a direct competitor to Apple Music that would be devastating to Spotify.

There should be laws against anti-competitive behaviors when you run a platform that hosts other people’s businesses. Otherwise that is way too much power for one corporation to wield.
Stay with low power. (Low tension and low intensity.)
Can Anna Wintour survive fashion's reckoning with racism?
That's why I often don't bother with Apple. If it doesn't work on OSX or iOS, too bad. People have to learn that Apple is not good for them or for society and I'm happy to make my products unavailable to Apple users to help them to learn that valuable life lesson.

Just find an alternative business strategy that doesn't rely on Apple. You can't rely on them. They don't give a crap about developers and never have. Why do all developers keep enabling them? Seriously, just sacrifice a small % of your income by ignoring Apple and you will help make the world a better place. Developers have to stand up for themselves.
this release includes:

Expanding Single Page Apps into multiple Browser Windows

Friends link:
https://medium.com/swlh/expanding-single-page-apps-into-mult...
Lloyd's of London to pay for 'shameful' Atlantic slave trade role
Snowplow is also an option. It’s an open-source data collection solution that, unlike GA, gives you full ownership of your event-level data and the freedom to define your own data structures. Not exactly what you’d call ‘lightweight’ but quite a few Snowplow users/customers have come from GA for the level of flexibility and control they can have over their data sets.

(Full disclosure: I work for Snowplow Analytics)

- https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow

- https://snowplowanalytics.com/
I'm the solo dev on an industrial training website. We have a short lesson about the basic electrical units (voltage, current, resistance) that might serve as an approachable introduction or handy reference: https://www.lunchboxsessions.com/materials/basic-electrical-...
> ... since aspirants to public office need acceptance (from at least 50.1 percent of the people) ...

cries in American
Reproducible builds for extensions is a good idea that I hadn't considered before.

Most browser extensions these days are just some JS zipped up with some metadata and maybe a few assets, right?

There might be trouble with minified JS, but I'd assume most optimizers/minifiers are either deterministic or could be configured that way.
I think this looks pretty interesting. "Build multi-agent simulations in minutes". The grand plan here seems to be that customers build lots of little simulations to solve their individual problem domains. And then a big brain could learn to build a world model from those tiny experiences. The potential here is in a "no-code" studio. Purely visual or natural language interface that could be used by children and executives alike ;)

AI scholar Pei Wang actually theorizes this in his definitions of AI and AGI. Real-world, real-time optimizations in uncertain environments built from the bottom up, that eventually coalesce into something greater than the parts

https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/jagi/11/2/article-...
Does anyone know if our data still goes through mainland Chinese servers?
Woah! This is great! Thanks so much.
Macbook Pros use PWM, which is why I had to return the latest 16 inch model. I was really bummed; but I need to protect my eyes. It was causing severe eye strain.
This seems like a legitimate concern. I didn't see any indication that the snowcone presented a code that would be verified through the aws opshub application, or a similar operation. Is this happening behind the scenes, maybe in the manifest file you upload?

If this was swapped in shipping it could potentially just work as expected while exfiltrating data whenever it could connect to the internet, potentially through builtin lte, etc.
Yup. To those who wonder, this is what browsing without js feels like. Short pause then snap, it's there.
> you are probably fine where you are (in INTP land). I'm fine over here (as an INTJ).

Which is still qualitatively a different type of accommodation, as I'm saying we are likely, or possibly both right while also respecting the approach taken. Do you see how this is different from missing the purpose of the approach taken, remarking on how it is not fit for consumption by the common man, and saying, "it's OK, there is room for us both to be wrong here?"

> hypothetical conjecture

Why, because I don't have Wells in the room to ask? Accusing someone of hypothetical conjecture on a reading of a historical document is poor form here, given the context. I was given historical data based on a conjectural map of my writing onto someone else's psychology. I gave a valid reason why such a map leads away from my intended meaning. If you have a specific critique about the other post's contents, please go ahead. Otherwise criticizing my tone, whether to make Wells and I "both wrong" or for some other reason is unfair to the spirit of the discussion.
Sorry, can't share details as I enjoy being employed.
I think the downvotes were not for asking people to look at it, but because the comment can come off as overly dismissive of the severity of the situation.
How? Use batteries only?

Obviously I shouldn't plug my own creations directly into the wall. Is it safe to use a low voltage "power brick"? Will any do, or do I need an especially robust one just in case?
You can build one at home?
Tencent to Build a City