skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Moon might be solid rock but that doesn't make it a good heat sink. If solid rock was a good heat sink you could just build data centers inside mountains on Earth orders of magnitude cheaper. Rock might eventually dissipate heat but it's not conductive enough to carry it away from heat generating elements to keep them from melting down.

Renewables on Earth include solar, wind, hydro, tidal, and geothermal. Even if your data center was 100% solar you only need enough storage to cover night usage and maybe a few days of total cloud cover. A grid tie is also trivial. A data center on the Moon requires two weeks of power storage and has no grid tie option.

Again, this is all ignoring the literally astronomical cost of getting mass to the Moon.

If you want expensive but non-polluting data centers you'd get more bang for your buck building them on or under the ocean with renewable power attached. A barge or submerged platform with ocean water for cooling anchored off-shore would provide orders of magnitude better latency and be orders of magnitude cheaper.
hsts lists ship with browsers. otherwise it'd be useless for the reason you described
Could this be due to an increase in testing or better testing strategy rather than an increase in cases? Daily COVID cases have been rising significantly over the last couple months in California, while deaths have been flat or slightly declining. Deaths are probably a more accurate indicator than positive tests, so it seems like positive test results do not match the actual case count very well.
DNS getting less distributed is a problem, as public DNS services generally do not hold a cache for long. They also give up if it's unlucky and tries a DNS server that is down!

So my case for top level (TLD) GeoIP: I have many DNS servers for my web-address/domains: Three in EU and two in US. The problem is that when the TLD servers sends the list of DNS servers it's randomized. Instead I want it to return the list in GEO order (and also network health order), so that the recursive resolver ask the best/closest DNS server. So in worst case scenario for a recursive resolver in EU tries a DNS server in USA, and it happens to be down, and then gives up.
The best case scenario is that it tries the closest server in EU.

Trying to solve my problem I've tried the top 10 DNS providers (ranked by uptime and query speed), which uses anycast. Only two could be used as secondary/slaves, and both of them took over two days to propagate an update (they did not use TTL).
The reason why I need fast updates is because of Letsencrypt which requires DNS challenges for wild-star domain SSL/TSL.

About anycast use, the root server's have been using anycast for a while now. Some TLD's use anycast I think (haven't actually checked). For web-hotels, and ISP's most do not use Anycast. ISP however have the DNS server's very close to the end users and they are good at caching. Which is the second reason why I'm against DNS centralization. Querying from example 8.8.8.8 is often 10x slower then using ISP DNS (assuming the ISP have the query cached).

Anycast, although proven to work nice for the root servers, which makes it harder to DDOS-attack, doesn't actually work that great. I argue they could just list the servers in GEO order instead of configuring BGP routes.
When I evaluated the "top 10" Anycast DNS providers, sometimes my amateur setup got lucky (eg test server from US got the US IP first and vice versa) and thus beat the Anycast network in query performance/latency.
in addition it is also not clear if the vaccine will have a lower incidence of side effects than the virus itself

kids and young adults have less than 1/100,000 chance of dying of COVID. The vaccine needs to be better than that. There is an ethical issue at hand of vaccinating people that are not at risk to save those that are at risk.

For reference after administering 3.1 billion vaccines the US paid damages in about 3,000 cases thus across all vaccines the rate of serious side effects is about 1 in a hundred thousand (considering about 10 vaccines per individual).
> it's a regularly advocated for position at all levels.

The position that we shouldn't internalise negative externalities? Who is openly advocating for this?
They basically sold recovery keys.

As far as Windows, 95% of the people I know pirated Windows. The only people that buy windows are enterprises.
Only the US and Brazil, and some of the small Gulf states, seem totally unable to get their coronavirus epidemics under control.[1] Remember when Italy had a huge problem? That's over. China? Over.

[1] https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=chn&are...
On the "precision of reporting" scale, one should also note that the 1915 was recorded in Fahrenheit (100F) in Alaska, and the 2020 record was recorded in Celsius (38C) in Siberia and then converted to Fahrenheit, adding the record-making decimal (100.4F).

Oh, and then rounded up to 101F apparently just for the headline.

Honestly, who rounds 100.4 to 101?
> Why would Person 1 just go about their daily life after being notified of an exposure?

Imagine if you were a supermarket cashier, and as your job put you in contact with a lot of people you'd received notifications before. You work behind a plastic screen, so you've learned to take the alerts with a grain of salt.

Now imagine if you take two weeks off work to self-isolate it'll be unpaid, and you've got bills to pay and a family to look after.

Now imagine you have no symptoms whatsoever, you feel 100% fine, and also you know when you met Person 4 they had no symptoms.
Pitch Inflation – The War of Music
I think it's way more responsive, which is good.

Hoowever, the increased use of horizontal space makes it harder to read (imagine HN without the blank sides) and I believe the information density has been lost a notch way too much.

All in all I think I prefer the previous design because to me information readability comes first.

It actually becomes pretty decent if you zoom out to 80% in Firefox although the text becomes a tad too small. I believe making an extension to increase information density shouldn't be too hard.
Whether surname means first name or last name.

Whether it’s `Console.log` or `console.log`.

Whether `mov r1, r2` overwrites r1 or r2.
Speaking solely for myself, I do not intend to go with this experiment after using Macs for 16 years and change. I have found that with a few rough edges, Windows 10 and WSL fulfills my dev needs, and except for the Apple apps Logic and Final Cut Pro, virtually all my software is cross platform. Besides, I can use Ableton and Adobe Premiere which I also already "own."
>What does https have to do with getting exploited?

It significantly helps to prevent MITM [1] (Man-in-the-middle) attacks. (without scary certificate warnings anyways)

>If the web server is compromised, then it’ll inject the malicious JavaScript code into the HTML, and transmit that to you. SSL is irrelevant in this regards.

The web server isn't compromised in this case, presumably the network is compromised.

>Unless when not using SSL, then the HTML is getting intercepted in flight, and a malicious JavaScript code is injected into the HTML.

Yes.

>Is that more of what we are now seeing these days? The routers are compromised, and the HTML is getting compromised too.

"Stingray" devices [2] spoof mobile towers so cellphones are tricked into believing they're connecting to "Just another cell phone tower" and at that point traffic can be captured/modified.

>Granted, I’m fully in support of SSL. Nobody should be seeing what you are browsing.

It's more than people just knowing what you're browsing (or issues such as leaking passwords/private info), it's that if someone can MITM you, they can also transparently modify unencrypted data (including adding exploits).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker
They didn't have to rewrite everything in Rust thereby harming performance to a large degree.
How does this compare to inlets.dev?
>Analyses of their genomes showed that they contributed genetically to present-day people outside sub-Saharan Africa

This is wrong. Recent analyses (https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30059-3) have shown Neanderthals have also contributed to Sub-Saharan DNA. Maybe the authors weren't aware of the latest findings at the time of writing and no one ever thought of correcting that part.
But it's not. Windows is not an open operating system, many of the issues simply cannot be fixed and the only solution is to basically reinstall Windows. The error codes are often opaque and there is a ton of the time no documentation as to what's happening behind the scenes. Whereas on Linux I've never ran across an issue whose official solution was a reinstall.
Most Bay Area counties still aren’t reporting recoveries distorting the Active Case number, unless you believe 0 people who have had COVID-19 in San Francisco have recovered since the SFDPH started tracking cases.

EDIT: Additional context: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/california/

If a county’s active case number equals Total Cases Minus Deaths, then they’re not reporting recoveries. Los Angeles is the largest county not reporting recoveries. In just the Bay Area, Alameda, Santa Clara, San Francisco, San Mateo are the 4 of the 5 largest counties in the Bay Area by population and are not tracking recoveries. Contra Costa and all the North Bay counties appear to be tracking recoveries.
Why do you care about fake internet points?
It looks like policy makers are sort of starting to work under the assumption that a vaccine is around the corner (the plan AFAIK is if all goes well to start around October in the US). Assuming that's correct, I guess the goal is/should be somewhere between 1 and 2. Keep as few people as possible from getting it for a few more months, while not collapsing society/economy completely.
There’s also the issue of the huge amount of white space within the files table. And the lack of centre alignment of the table.
It feels like change for the sake of change to me. There doesn't appear to be any actual improvement in terms of UI or functionality as far as I can tell.
Same here. My 2012 MBP has been upgraded with more RAM and a SSD and the battery is replaceable (but it's lasted better than my work 2017 model and is healthier!) but the cost of the new devices is so astronomical it'll be the last one I buy. Since I will have to invest in a new ARM device just to develop for their new platform, it's goodbye Mac and back to Linux (already got Windows as a side Dev machine).
> to clarify, the explanation isn't condoning the reporter's behavior. it is simply trying to explain the behavior without assuming malice.

Oh, I understand. And that would be my general default assumption as well. Scott also doesn't assume malice.

It's just that some form of the "malice" interpretation is looking increasingly likely.
Yeah, I agree. It seems to support the idea that you’re not good enough, pretty enough, etc. And then you go to Disneyland pay them to make you feel special after all the issues of self-worth they fueled with their shows.
Created https://cancelnyt.net in case someone not aware of the Paypal trick (or not on HN/this thread) is still trying to figure this out
Depends what you are into but I love Space Pirate Trainer as an "intro" as it really is superbly done and takes advantage of lots of the unique VR capabilities (think, space invaders where you can physically duck or sway out of the way of bullets) - but it is still completely intuitive to someone new.
I'm suggesting that "idiomatic" code in real software can perform so poorly that the real software is unfit for purpose.

Hence "idiomatic" may represent not "real code" but "naive code".
I think it will open a lot of work to many people that are scraping Github :)
Sure. And the King's peace itself was only really the Crown's personal police force until around the late 1600s, but this was not the case in America. Even well into the 1600s your only shot at justice in the majority of cases was revenge.
It looks really good, but also reminds me a lot of IBM's similar new typeface Plex [1, 2] from a year and a half ago.

They have their differences of course, but they're both very modern sans-serifs with a tall x-height and a slight bit of squarishness to their round parts.

Seeing as they're both trying to project the image "we have history and trustworthiness, but we're also modern and hip", it makes sense they'd end up with such similar results. (I'm not saying those descriptions are true, just that they want to project that!)

[1] https://www.ibm.com/plex/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Plex
but that's not an exhaustive list of websites though. any website not in the list is vulnerable to this
I dislike large swathes of the new repository view, and I also especially dislike the circular profile images.

Fortunately it's easy to use a little custom CSS to revert them to square images, at least for now:

https://gist.github.com/jmarshall/a880c93725ee727abb54473582...
Did you check it on mobile or desktop?
I like the mobile version, however I dislike the desktop version with elements scattered all over the screen.
Agreed with you, but I think you don’t push enough on:

> I then have the decision as the speaker whether to ask for questions or just slow down a bit or stop altogether and see if they naturally show their curiosity.

Much like people don’t get 90% of what is said 90% of the time, I find that 90% of the time speakers don’t really want to cause understanding in their audience. They want to show off how smart they are, how cool their solution is - they want validation and recognition, but not to teach.

If your goal is to create understanding in your listeners, then you have to also be listening to their feedback (vocal or not) and aggressively adapting your approach based on the feedback you get, rather than rattling 500 words that sound SO GOOD in your head.

You are likely to end up in a situation where the “listener” is doing most of the talking, and that’s a great sign! But people think of a great teacher/explainer as someone who finds the magic words to make the right connections in their student’s head, but that’s not really how it works.
If that's the case then they might correspond to the Tuatha De Danann of Irish mythology who were supposed to have been the first people to inhabit Ireland (I think the Irish have traditionally believed that these were indeed the mound builders).

What's confusing is that the article also says they probably arrived from Spain and/or France, which is where the Celtic (and hence Indo-European) Gaels are said to have arrived from much later. Perhaps both groups followed the same route to Ireland at different times ?
IANAL, but I have done this a few times. I'm pretty sure you do not need a company to make money as a self-employed person in the USA. Not in terms of federal taxes anyway.

What you might need a company for is to pay sales taxes you charge for physical goods, or get insurance appropriate for your line of work. That's likely to be state-by-state. You just get the convenience of an EIN by registering and some additional legal protections by being a distinct entity (i.e. I could sell the company or assign IP to it or hire employees).

I have certainly gotten contractor income to me personally that I just had to account for. In the USA for small businesses you'd have to send the same documentation, so it doesn't even save paperwork. As a sole proprietorship I get the same tax documents from my clients as I would if I were operating directly under my name.

Edit: Also, if this were true in the USA, it implies that all those Uber drivers each have a sole-proprietorship set up. I'm pretty sure that companies can hire contractors as individuals without them becoming businesses.
I like that GitHub is one of the few websites that kept roughly the same design for years. Design is something that gets familiar, and I believe it helps your brain when it is not changing all the time. I would like to see an explanation from GitHub's side as to why this change was needed.
> That means that when you are running ublock origin your browser is working at 87.85% capacity.

No it's not, at this point your are spreading FUD about uBO.

This is a benchmark specialized for one thing, the creation/deletion of DOM nodes, a completely unrealistic scenario in the real world -- web sites do not repeatedly create nodes just to have them deleted as soon as they are inserted, as fast as possible.

uBO's code which deals with the DOM represents a fraction of what uBO needs to do, and yet you extrapolate the benchmark as if it represents all the work uBO does, leading to your nonsensical conclusion.

Here is how uBO compares to other comparable content blockers with an actual real-world scenario, as per recent debugbear benchmark[1] -- it's the least CPU hungry of the bunch: https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1273263792785326085

Note that the above is a worst-case scenario for content blockers, since this was about loading a page from `example.com`, where nothing is blocked, consequently where a content blocker acts only as an overhead. See reference [1] for a more typical scenario.

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[1] https://www.debugbear.com/blog/2020-chrome-extension-perform...
Twitter flags Trump tweet on protesters for including 'threat of harm'
> Is the Times really more sympathetic to gamers than psychiatrists or bloggers?

It's more sympathetic to women than men. They won't directly tell you: "We protect women but not men", but that's the implicit policy of many institutions, especially mainstream media.
I have mixed feelings about this feature actually. It's super handy and nice when browsing the Web while going through a lot of pages in a short amount of time. When using proper Web apps it's a total pain + sometimes the history API is not supported correctly so you lose the context entirely (which means you have to start from scratch in whatever app you are using).

Gestures in general should be something standard, cross platform / cross browser with a nice API exposed to JavaScript. However, I understand why it's not, they were a mess on Linux until very recently, it's all over the place on Windows, support depends on the hardware, they are not very intuitive, etc.
We locked down _too soon_ in many places. Hear me out.

In my state, Oregon, we locked down when there were only a handful of cases, and not much community spread. Most spread was either in long-term care or familial. But we locked down _hard_ and had pretty good compliance. I am talking, standing in the middle of I-5 at noon compliance. Sure you'd have to keep an eye out for trucks from time to time. But still.

We set up surge capacity. Hospitals in Portland set up triage tents and cleared out other beds for a surge...... that never came. A few weeks in, the tents were taken down, the staff was laid off. We sat in our cocoon waiting for something, not sure what. Eventually the pain of being closed started to tick away, and we started reopening...

But nothing materially _changed_ between then and now. We just stopped community spread of an infection nobody really had. We've had less than 6k infections in Oregon. Now we are opening up and guess what? Cases are increasing! We didn't flatten the curve we crushed the curve. So there was no controlled spread, it was just us all feeling proud of ourselves for three months while the poor suffered.

The sneaky lie was that, in a country as big as the US, a flatten the curve strategy was never going to work at a national level. We need community level response.

We locked down Oregon over what was happening in NYC. That is akin to Northern Ireland locking down because of Moscow. That isn't an exaggeration. If anything, it is an understatement.

All of the European countries that we are saying "why can't we be more like them?" all had orders of magnitude more cases than Oregon. So if Oregon quadruples in cases over the next month we are still better off than a lot of nations.

To flatten the curve, there needs to be a damn curve to flatten. Had we waited until there was known, uncontrolled community spread and _then_ shut down, we would have a lot more political will. Now if it gets to that point after three months of being shut down, I doubt anyone will give a shit what the Governor says. Goodwill has been burned through and then some.
Your “nobody” is not a representative sample: if you run a general-purpose website, Safari will be something like 15-20% of the total traffic which is more than most people are going to write off as insignificant.

On iOS, even if they allow different browser apps they have not apparently relaxed the restriction on the embedded browser engine and that means Firefox or Chrome are different UIs on top of a browser engine which is still Safari.
Ask HN: Should I build a better ATS for small/mid-sized startups?
(...or is it product suicide :)

Nearly everyone hates their applicant tracking system. ATSes have become these clunky, workflow pieces of software, mostly because of what larger companies need (every ATS wants/has moved upmarket). It's quite shocking how little true innovation there has been in how companies hire.

Hiring managers are rarely spending the time doing the work of hiring and have outsourced much of it to the recruiter, including screening/filtering applicants. Only in-house talent folk/recruiters will put up with these systems and that too because they have to. The problems are too many to count - here are two that I find particularly self-defeating: job descriptions that are a copy/paste and how companies review and respond to applicants. A good ATS should help you do this better.

In the process, I believe hiring has become a painful exercise for everyone involved, not in the least the candidate (how often have you not heard back on your application? how often has someone dropped the ball on you?).

Early stage and mid-sized companies often don't need much of the complexity. I believe I have a strong, somewhat opinionated perspective on this and am toying with the idea of starting with building a lightweight solution for small teams.

I'd love to hear your thoughts - especially if you're a hiring manager or in the in-house talent function. What do you suffer from in your current hiring process/ATS? What do you hate (enough to want an alternative)?
> People have spent more than $100M on Quest content and more than 10 titles have generated over $2M in revenue on Quest

That sounds weird: The only numbers they can share with us are that people have spent $100M on game development, but they only point to a total of $20M of revenue. Obviously $20M isn't the entire revenue on the platform... but since they didn't share any other numbers, the default assumption would have to be that they aren't very flattering, either.

"Come develop on our platform! Spend $100M to make $20M in revenue!"
So restrict it even further: extension manifest lists URLs, contents of which shall be made available to the extension, but keep the browser in control of when to fetch, with an enforced minimum cache lifetime.
Indeed, what I meant was basically how much information you could cram into a message in digital medium that is character limited, but not really limited in what characters you can use in it. Like SMS messages or Twitter messages when still limited to 140 characters.
When mainstream and social media turned the public health crisis into a political issue it ruined any chance of ending well. Politics destroys everything it touches in this country.

Or put more simply: We would be a lot better off if everyone would just shut the fuck up for 10 minutes.
I don't see commit messages inside the "Code" menu item anywhere, with or without javascript or reloading. You have to click a commit hash to see its message. I think this is an improvement.
Show HN: Amplified – Changing the patent system for good
A peek into the hardware specs behind this: CPU, memory, storage, network would be nice.