skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAIK peer-to-peer is about preventing censorship, but the author seems to assume it is about preventing surveillance. So a large part of the criticism is missing the point.

Still, it is a problem that these systems are not preventing both and it is also a problem if users expect the latter but only get the former. Protocols need to be specific about their threat model.
About 350,000 deer are culled in the UK each year, the population is actively managed in many places of the country for various reasons [1]. Because of this, venison is not uncommon in our supermarkets. Should we just destroy the corpses instead?

[1] https://www.bds.org.uk/index.php/advice-education/why-manage...
People running space exploration are not interested in making life better for other humans. They just want to develop technology without any strings attached. This is excellent for companies that will later get technology transfers, i.e., free tech researched with public money. In the end it is an excuse to enrich the 1% even more, a free lunch for the rich.
To be fair, I don’t think he posted them to HN.
> The reactor must be able to generate an uninterrupted electricity output of at least 10 kilowatts. The average U.S. residential home, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, uses about 11,000 kilowatt-hours per year.

Would be more helpful to express that as 11000/365/24 = 1.256 kilowatt, so you understand that the reactor could only power 8 U.S. homes.

Btw, what are non-residential homes?
Hackernews is not a personal blog where you could acceptably express your own personal political opinions
The other issue I'm seeing with thermometers is that they are saying "FDA Certified." The FDA doesn't certify anything. They provide Pre-Market Approval in a letter.

A lot of these thermometers also aren't approved. They haven't done a 510k submittal to market these products in the US. Please check that any thermometer you buy on Amazon has a 510k approval letter logged by the FDA, or it may not provide accurate temperature information.
I get that but I think by saying "Github" instead of "git" one is emphasizing the social and collaborative aspects of Github over plain git. My 2 cents anyway.
This makes a great appearance in one of the short stories in the movie the Ballad of Buster Scruggs. A brilliant Coen brothers movie on Netflix.
Ask HN: Best way to filter out Medium from Google search
I find the low quality articles on Medium, quite often behind a paywall, are making the finding decent content in already struggling Google search results even harder. What's the most convenient way to filter out these results, other than using -site*.com every time?
When Integer Overflows attack: How an Integer Overflow can can lead to RCE
That's all postprocessed from the raw data. And the raw data is in the .fit file.
>For most people it is.

I would think at this point most developers should know that there are services like GitLab and BitBucket, and thus even if they are not totally aware of how Git works as a protocol they should be aware that Git is not directly tied to GitHub.
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...though in my experience ironically referencing the subjects of common flame wars, with the intention of collectively rolling our eyes at how silly flame wars are, usually results in flame wars. Maybe not here though.

Emacs users, I love you.
I tried reading the patents, and one is expired due to non-payment and the other expires (or rather: anticipated expiration) next year. How does the system work? Can Rogaway just revive that patent (which is the one valid longer)?
Because idealogical battles are very rarely what a reasonable person would describe as a discussion. They're often just two sides shouting over each other.
The louder you have to shout it, the less interesting it is, and the less interesting people find it, the louder you have to shout it.
This doesn't make much sense, they're probably just trying to respond to recent progress in Chinese missions to Mars, e.g.:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-07/24/c_139238091.htm
Nit: Hanlon's razor?
It is regretably the case that holders of strong ideologies or political beliefs frequently are dismissive - "incurious" - of facts and arguments that challenge their beliefs, and often use many of the other abjured rhetorical devices in this list to champion their point of view.
One of the things I loved when working at a large corp with military contracts. Anything fishy from any PC and the PC was gone. No notice to the employee, no waiting, no nothing. It was removed from the network, wiped, and reimaged as quickly as possible.
That would make it even more wrong, since it seems from the JEPs that, at least for the time being, they're only using GitHub as hosting service. No wikis, PRs, issues and so on.
How about RawTherapee? How does it stack against darktable and LR?
I just wish things would be enforced more strictly. If you look at the comments being punished, a lot of clearly political statements get ignored while others don't - even if they just correct wrong statements. It's the tiring and commonplace way of "ban everything, enforce selectively". Same with r/cpp r/programming unfortunately.
I was on pre term labour watch last year and spent 12 weeks on bed rest in hospital. While the drs never knew the reason for why I was at risk (body showed early labour signs) I felt it was likely stress related. Spending 3 months in bed with all my meals provided and my basic needs met enabled me to relax and get to term. Old school treatment but it proved to work. I'd say stress correlates directly to pre term births.
Pijul is an interesting young alternative: https://pijul.org/
Have you tried adding

-github

to your search queries?
It’s the Lord’s Prayer
Terraforming on Mars would take millennia, and over that long amount of time, settlement would presumably continue and the amount of colonists would grow. Thus, eventually flaws in the terraforming effort would eventually impact on local people.
iPhone keyboard makes it very easy too — just press and hold the appropriate vowel
Listen to the TWiV episode. The idea behind the cheap test is that it picks up COVID at maybe a billion times greater viral load than an RT-PCR test would.

If a billion sounds like a lot, it’s not. The virus goes from undetectable to rampant within hours. The cheap test will miss out the very early stage of infection. But we are talking hours.

Such a cheap test could allow kids to go to school or adults to go to work. It would be revolutionary.
any books for the training? thanks
FYI, Datalevin has faster queries than Datascript, for Datalevin has given up "database as a value" doctrine that both Datomic and Datascript share, so Datalevin can cache aggressively to achieve better performance.
If you are a general officer of a company and discussion of a political subject is necessary for the sake only of business continuity then it becomes necessary to discuss politics at work. That is an extremely narrow edge case.

Otherwise if you are perplexed at what construes a political discussion you are most likely looking for any excuse to knowingly engage in politics. This sort of deliberate dishonesty is one reason I refuse to move to the Bay Area where such behavior is commonly accepted.
Should, but sadly not all of them do.
But did they? Were their machines updated? Did they have some "corporate AV" solution that was useless?

> Why are executable attachments not blocked?

Because there are dozens of weird Windows extension types that execute automatically on Windows, though yeah the attachment should have been blocked and a customer service machine should have a whitelist of programs that need to run (or only run signed ones)
May I know specifically about which topics you are asking about?
This is awesome!! I would like this to be my portal to the web. My current portal to the web is my browser, but it doesn’t allow me to create notes/cards/recalls on youtube videos I watch or on articles I read.

I think it would be good if the main content appears on the center (I see pdfs showing on the right side of the screen).
I just got downvoted for saying something similar :) That isn't the problem. The reason i shared these opinions here on HN, is due to the faith in the HN community that they would be willing to have a civil discourse even if its opposed to their worldview. That is something i least expect from the HN community. :)

I would be happy if those who downvoted without reading the entire argument, would also contribute their views on why this argument is wrong :)
In your opinion, is a solid understanding of DCF/NPV/IRR/cost of capital somewhat on the more-critical knowledge side for management/executives or somewhat more on the side of less-critical knowledge?
Risk Factors for Delayed Return to Usual Health Among Outpatients with Covid-19
This insanity is apparently intentional, but can be fixed for the lock screen at least: Win+R->gpedit.msc->"Computer Configuration"->"Administrative Templates"->"Control Panel"->"Personalization"->"Do not display the lock screen"->Enabled

This poorly named option doesn't disable locking the screen, it just fixes it to not eat your first few keystrokes when you start typing your password.
Maybe the universities could start offering to give rich people's kids automatic 4.0s, too, if they donate twice as much. Sure it undermines the system and acts as an insidious poison into the idea of meritocracy, but think of how many scholarships it could pay for!
I use both vi and emacs. I find vi quicker under my fingers, but more complex things are easier for me in emacs: compare-windows, keyboard macros, the shell in a window (especially since it became smart about passwords a decade or more ago). There may be vim equivalents I don't know of.

Peace. :-)
When I was a teen working on my car, I had very little money. I always had to make do with whatever could be scrounged for a tool. It's amazing what you can do with a screwdriver :-/

As an adult working on my car, I get the right tools, and that sure makes for both a much easier time and getting professional results.

If you're into electronics, spending $$$ on a quality soldering iron is night and day in terms of time and money saved on the project. I discovered this because that was my side job in college, assembling circuit boards, and they gave me a pro soldering iron and what an amazing difference that was.

If your business is your video blog, getting a professional quality mike and camera is a good investment.
Makes sense to me, and should be done in the US as well. Providing a tax exemption is in a way the opposite of a separation of church and state. The state is giving them special treatment.
I use uBlacklist Firefox addon to block results from Google. It adds a block link to every result. If an annoying website is in the list, block out and you'll never see it in the results again. Bye bye pinterest, slant, stackshare, ebay. With Pinterest and eBay you need to edit the block and add every country TLD or they'll creep in via .co.uk, .ie, .fr etc.

TBH Medium isn't nearly as bad as those I've just mentioned.
Exactly right. Find something someone will pay for, and build that. Then find another customer,and so on.

My business started by building custom apps for people. But we transitioned from making products for them to making products for _us_. (mostly cause we ran out of custom clients). Once we had lots of customers we transitioned to a licensing model (simply because sales alone was no longer enough to fund everyone). That's been fortunate as Sales in April were zero.

But it all starts with 1. Then 3.then 10.and so on. (if you have <5 customers, you don't have a business, you have a job)
Yes, if the risk of transmitting pandemic causing viruses to humans is as high as for bats.
Yep, I tried Github as part of the query. Anyways, even without 'GitHub' almost all front page results are from there and that's one of the point I'm trying to make.
> I'm certainly nowhere near being capable of implementing my own C++ compiler from scratch.

It's not that bad. A couple months and you're good to go.
Apple Just Made the Definitive Ad About Working from Home, and It’s Hilarious
It may not even be indifference just plain ole laziness or being cautionary.
>This is an unvarnished hit piece on a scientist after months of hindsight.

Well, the scientist also, against his better sense and past achievements, gave bad advice, despite months of available hindsight at the time he gave it with the situation in China, Italy, and Spain -- which he cherry-picked or ignored to match his premises...
As much as I hate that the web, like many memory unsafe languages, permits dangling pointers, I feel like it would be a huge phishing/open redirect/some other web security buzzwords if this happens. Plus, can you even CNAME a specific URL (as opposed to redirecting it)?
Ask HN: Why do I see LSD related news often in HN?
Yes, it's obvious that a religion gets special treatment over say a club and it is unneeded.
This is extremely useful
https://www.causal.app/blog/whats-a-financial-statement
>who in his judgment, advocates an informed decision

It's not up to an "expert's judgement" to say that they advocate an informed decision.

It's up to their experctly use of methodology and experctly analysing and taking account of available information -- which he kind of didn't do.

Being an expert doesn't make your decisions informed. Being an expert makes you know the processes for making and evaluating informed decisions. But then you also need to follow that process.
There are enough people generally out of work to hire all the contact tracers we could ever need.
Show HN: Simple Bash Prompt – a fast, pretty, extendable and pure bash prompt
Yeah, that one surprised me too.
Churches get a bad rap these days, for many reasons. I want to take a minute to defend them. Right away, I want to say that I am not defending religion-driven bigotry, nor megachurches, nor abuse.

I don't know about Canada, but in the U.S. churches are still where communities meet, where people connect with the spiritual world, and also the ones doing most of the "heavy lifting" on any kind of charity activity.

They are also generally nice and reasonably centrist-progressive, meaning treating everyone respectfully, nor expecting you to sit through a sermon like the old days. (I heard of one place where this may have been the case, but never saw it myself.)

Food Not Bombs might have a weekly freegan cookout, but most of the e.g. feeding people, distributing donated clothes, counseling without having to do paperwork first, food banks, and so on, are done by churches, or church-like organizations, or by people who met at church. There are some exceptions, like in Western Mass and a few places in the Catskills.

Source: Traveled around the U.S. with no base income. I don't go out of my way to take advantage of these things, but I'll go if a friend is going.
Right :) But all resources are finite regardless of how far we travel. Civilizations may collapse before we accomplish everything we set out to do on other planets. There are two aspects to be taken care of, one is the exploration of space and the other is maintaining the fragile environment (socio-political-economic) here on earth.

Also, if countries co-operate on space exploration it would be better, than making it a race to be first etc. Which will only lead to worse outcomes between nations if history is any indicator. :)
Good reminder. Especially in US presidential election season, but else-while too: there are few places where ideological opponents can come together for a rational discussion. HN comes closer to such a place than any other I know. Ironic that is has been flagged.
An alternative to the Dropbox SDK for applications. Yes I can use NextCloud, and sync files with WebDAV... but now I’m forced to use WebDAV and must be careful of all of its foibles. Where as if I want to use Dropbox. I add the sdk, hook it up, user grants permissions, and boom, files get synced into an application specific sub folder like magic.
I have worked in non finance areas of large corporations and can highly recommend this https://www.causal.app/blog/whats-a-financial-statement
> specifically, it had no "process management"; no concept of "processes" at all, in fact.

I don't know if that statement is quite true. In MS-DOS, each PSP segment is arguably a process. Processes can spawn sub-processes, albeit the parent process is mostly suspended while the child process runs. (Not entirely suspended, because a child process can call back to a parent process – most commonly by invoking software interrupts for which the parent process has installed handlers.) While only one process can be executing in the foreground at a time, multiple processes can coexist in memory. TSRs rely on this ability to have multiple processes in memory at once.

By contrast, some other operating systems, for example CP/M-80 1.x and 2.x, only supported loading one program into memory at a time, and had no support for spawning subprocesses. (Later versions of CP/M did develop some support for spawning subprocesses, although arguably it was less polished and cohesive than that provided by MS-DOS.)

Microsoft BASICs for DOS (BASICA, GW-BASIC, QBASIC, etc) provide a SHELL statement which runs a subprocess and then continues executing the BASIC program when it has finished. Microsoft BASIC for CP/M (MBASIC) has no SHELL statement, because the earlier versions of CP/M it was developed for lacked that facility.

You can actually implement the equivalent of "ps" for MS-DOS by walking the MCB chain and checking which MCBs look like valid PSPs. (One can look for signs that an MCB contains a valid PSP – for example, that it starts with the bytes 0xCD 0x20.)
What's bizarre to me is that they are tax free for worship (in my mind fair enough). But get taxed for hosting community services, e.g., foodbank. Definitely think usage in charitable functions warrants tax exemption as much as service
Except this isn't a zero-sum game.
Hospitals are now at the point of being overwhelmed in several hotspots, particularly in Texas. You're just flat at wrong on every aspect of your comment.
None of those are cycling computers. They are applications that can, in some situations, replace cycling computers.

Hardware cycling computers, like the Garmin 830 or Wahoo Elemnt Roam, are physical hardware designed for the use case of being strapped to handlebars and being used in a wide range of environments. The battery life and performance is tuned towards always on GPS and Bluetooth for connecting to sensors. They utilize a wider range of GNSS constellations. They have physical buttons as touchscreens don't work well when wet. The screens are designed to be visible in sunlight.

Like the GP, I'm not aware of any open hardware cycling computers.
Are there any countries where the religious groups are NOT exempt from taxes? I'd be curious if this has been done and those religious groups still managed to remain "open to public" while surviving on private donations.
Much needed step considering most religions are more business-like than faith-focused.
The point is supposed to be that once you write in a scalar typehint for a parameter, you don't need to do validation for it being the right type within the function: even if it's called from a non-strict context, that just means PHP will cast it before passing it. So you can avoid type checking code in your function but consumers can still use the more traditional and dynamic style of PHP if they want to.

I can't quite think of the type of validation you'd be able to avoid with the sort of "inverted" strictness you're describing.

Certainly I can think of issues people could have if not using strict types (basically, unexpected casts), but not things that you could actually validate from within the function.
How about tax exemptions for clubs too. If it's a group of people pooling money for non commercial activities why should that be taxed?
Is it only going to target Christians

or is it finally going to tax

Judism

ISLAM

and all region based venues
“can I afford this?” a question I get every day. It's a little naive at times. Because the question is really, what happens if you can't? You should be telling me and any approvers why you need it. Budget is a made up number and we move dollars and rebalance constantly. But the business impacts caused by you not being able to "afford" something, is what real good execs know how to handle. The CTO example is, look I know this wasn't in my budget, but I think we've actually been fairly favorable on travel expenses due to the 'rona, I don't think we can make this deadline without an additional Sr Dev. This usually spurs minimum 2 thought processes; 1) what is the real consequence of missing the deadline ($1M in sales? $10K to adjust marketing push? nothing?) and 2) if we hire a head, do we have work to keep them on after the project or do we plan to reduce the head at that point (basically, is this going to cost us money next year and the years after). Assuming the cash allows for it, these 2 questions will usually steer the decision. But, it's something you want to lead with the CEO/CFO as a CTO. Thinking the whole thing out past the immediate need is generally a sign of a good chief. Also, the CEO and CFO appreciate you lifting the minor burden of them having to think through it. You make your business case and they give some consideration, usually ranking it against every other department's requests for heads, and maybe you get what you need. If not, you've at least signaled the project will be delayed and given an option for getting it back on track.
> I have never been formally diagnosed, but I cannot even recognize the faces of my own family members to save my life.

And I thought I had this disease. I think root of my issue most likely is that my brain is assuming that most people I see on the street or during parties I will never see again so it immediately forgets faces and names and only starts remembering when I encounter them few times.

I would imagine the most famous people who were diagnosed with prosopagnosia probably have something closer to what I have than you.
Maybe this:

https://www.economist.com/the-world-if/2019/07/06/what-if-ge...

Don't know how to make the shortened archive.is urls.

"Dr Wagner suggests that the most efficient way to deliver it would be for geoengineering aircraft to be loaded with solid sulphur, which they would burn at altitude in their engines to produce SO2. All this would cost around $3.5bn a year (at today’s prices) to deploy."

Granted, this is about altering global temperature a few degrees, not destroying the world. Also, it would take some time, and they would have to contend with the powers that be. Maybe there's another way though...
Would you say I replaces iPhoto/Photos on Mac?
What he did was that he used weasel phrasing to ease down fears and advocate policy ("if that's the true rate" -- despite he and everybody already knew well that the true rates in Italy, Spain etc at the time were far higher).

There was absolutely no reason (much less a "careful statistician's reason) to write ("A population-wide case fatality rate of 0.05% is lower than seasonal influenza.") except to imply that's a plausible scenario. Especially since he closes with that nugget...

And even ignoring that a "careful statistician" (who knows biology) would also not discard long term health effects and just focus on deaths, as if once you've not died from covid it's all a-ok...
This article was published in 2017. Have there been any more recent developments?
Wrench monkey was an Amazon idea I think
> danger of invasive species

For a good counter to all the "invasive biology" craze see:

https://www.amazon.com/Invasion-Biology-Pseudoscience-David-...

He raises many good points. Much damage to the eocology has been done in removing "invasive" species.

Now, diseses, those can really devestate. I'd love to still have our (US) chestnut forests.