skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am the ghost of 2020 AMA
I come to you as a wise woman bearing gifts.

As with all women, you must use wit and vulnerability to unlock my treasure chest. In it lies the future of yourself, your children, and the rest of mankind.

As I recently wrote on the cover of Time, this is it. You have one last chance.

To kick things off I riddle you this:

You are all sons and daughters of a heavenly spirit. My heavenly spirit.

- Not the one that protects clergy members that molest my innocent children.

- Nor the one that promises heavenly virgins to misogynistic suicide bombers.

- And no, not the one that has oppressed minorities, thwarted science, and led to the extinction of beautiful, diverse cultures under the umbrella of holy wars, crusades, and missionary work.

Some call me Jain. Yet there are others who call me... Tim?

What is it that you would like to ask me?

Given how this year has gone (and judging by the quality of our elected officials) I imagine you have many questions. Please keep them short. I have other universes to attend to also...

EDIT

Your time is ticking. Let's stick to science and questions like:

- How do perpetual energy machines relate to quantum mechanics?

- Is it possible to build stable, zero waste nuclear reactors?

- Will we ever crack quantum encryption?

- Is particle-duality really a mystery?

- Was Einstein right? Or Bohr?

- What is holding back quantum computing?
I think that “feels natural” is not the right adjective to describe that it breaks your habits.

With Apple keyboards the Cmd key is easy to access, I only had that problem using Windows keyboards. The Win key is not used much so some manufacturers make it smaller.

I use Macs since 2007 and it “feels natural” to me, but this is because I’m used to Apple keyboards. For me the Ctrl key feels far away, and hitting Cmd plus key comes as the first reflex.
Mozilla/Firefox uses HIBP. (1) so does gopass. So you're saying that because some browsers use their vendors database, it suddenly becomes obsolete?

> Many of the security outfits and large tech vendors are doing it already.

Certainly, not doing so would be negligent. But that, too, doesn't make HIBP obsolete - there's value in having such a database that's openly queryable via an API and under independent and trusted stewardship.

HIBP also offers features that go beyond what a browser/password manager can do: It offers monitoring for entire domains that you manage. I have all our domains that we're using for email registered at HIBP.

(1) https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/06/25/testing-f...
You can't learn perfect pitch as an adult, lookup the Rick Beato video on this.
The benefit is that it’s basically a command line for any app.
Or for something that is gendered.
The section Direct evidence of reactivity to HCoV epitopes homologous to SARS-CoV-2 epitopes [1]:

> we designed a peptide pool encompassing peptides homologous to CD4-R30 epitopes, derived from HCoV-229E, HCoV-NL63, HCoV-OC43, HCoV-HKU1 and several other HCoVs (see Methods), for a total of 129 HCoV homologs (HCoV-R129; table S2). Similarly, we synthesized a pool that encompassed peptides homologous to the SARS-CoV-2 CD4-S31 epitope pool, consisting of potential epitopes derived from other HCoVs, for a total of 124 HCoV homologs (HCoV-S124; table S3).

The "speculation" disclaimer, IMHO, is based on the assumption that the designed peptide pools invoke responses similar to their viral homologs. I have no issue with the "direct evidence" heading as this research makes an important step in demonstrating cross-reactivity.

Teasing out the degree of protection this cross-reactivity provides in real-world populations is a much harder problem.

[1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/04/scie...
Isn't it the standard Python library for PostgreSQL? A co-worker just installed it for some work having nothing to do with Django.
Yeah make the data available so that we can have AWS Elastic Pwned, and HIBP to be eclipsed by it
> That doesn't change the fact that during the critical period people are muuuuch better at acquiring language than after.

I don't know about direct comparison of abilities of an adult and a child. The trouble is: child does nothing but learning, not just language, but he/she has a lot of daily practice. At the same time adult learning a language could spend a few hours per week learning, forgetting about the language at all other times. This difference itself might explain differences in outcome, there is no need to invent one more reason like "critical period" for the explanation.

To learn language child needs ~3 years. Give me 3 years of learning language for 5 hours per day, I'll learn it no worse than a child or even better.
FWIW, more bit encodings allow you to quickly "resynchronize" a stream if you are dropped in the middle... UTF-8 is actually a hybrid and uses both strategies.
Those are innovative fields. The US has a clear lead in aerospace and is among the leaders in materials. We've lost our lead in chips not to China but to Taiwan, a comparatively more liberal Asian country. The gap is not huge (yet) so it's possible that the US will regain its fab lead... if we want it. I think it's more likely in the short term that the US will make deals to get TSMC to build high-end fabs here for strategic reasons.

I'm sure China will manage to copy a Boeing 737 pretty soon, which is 1960s technology. Meanwhile we are doing:

https://boomsupersonic.com

https://www.spacex.com

... and who-knows-what at places like Area 51. :)

Last I checked China's most advanced fabs were doing 28nm, but that was in 2019. By now they've probably started to get EUV working as they feverishly race to copy TSMC. I would not be surprised if Chinese fabs are literal exact copies of prior generation TSMC and Intel fabs, since it takes time to steal inside information.
Spy from another planet with no opposable thumbs detected.
CCP basically equals China and for most intents and purposes, Chinese people. Limiting their influence is just a way of saying to limit the rise and influence of China and the companies/people there, because there's no way for any Chinese person or company that has vested interests in the market there to escape the accusations and comply with any demands from the West except to completely cease operation of business there. Any person from China, or company from China, can simply be canceled by saying "they are a subject of the communist party."
So you have TrackMania, trackpad, race track blocked?
A simpler and cheaper brain-stimulating intervention to improve language learning has been known in the literature since 1972. No fancy electronics necessary.

“The results of this study are interpreted as confirming the hypothesis that the ingestion of small amounts of alcohol, under certain circumstances, does lead to increased ability to authentically pronounce a second language.”[1]

Note that the improvement only happens after consuming exactly 1.5oz of cognac. Anything more than that and performance drops precipitously.

[1]https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/3404...
How come? Clearly the app is used by the youth. Having gullible youth using the app of a country that's knows for its in-app propaganda is very clearly a national security risk.
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So you don't have any data to make those claims as if they were facts. Thank you.
China is a modern day Nazi Germany.
My country shares a border with China and we have negligible media imports from China.

I can only think of Vietnam where a Chinese TV series got quite popular.
Well, it kind of did. The EU's highest court, the European Court of Justice just passed its final ruling last month stating that the "Safe Harbor" agreements called Privacy Shield etc. that US companies use to be able to operate in the EU in compliance with EU privacy laws are inadequate given the widespread mass surveillance used by the US. [0]
That's not banning but it requires US companies to actually invest and change their modes of operation if they want to continue to operate in the EU without being fined.

[0]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/eu-court-again-rules-n...
Thinking about it, you're probably right. One thing you're missing for your comment is different field name lengths, which is important because you seem to care about alignment of field values:

field1: 1
this_is_a_longer_field: 2

Playing with rustfmt online [1], I found that by default it doesn't do that:

field1: 1
this_is_a_longer_field: 2

As a sibling comment says, you must have an option turned on an option for this, and your complaint is that this option isn't working for these nested structs. I guess that's the risk of not using the formatter in its default configuration. But I agree it probably is a bug.

(You've presumably also got an option turned on for tabs. I honestly think that is quite a niche preference nowadays - cue flame war - so I can see that there would be bugs in that option too. But although you bring up tabs in your comment here and in your blog post, I don't see that it's related to the bug you're talking about. Once the formatter has (incorrectly, you argue) decided to format those lines as "one more level of indentation than the line before", it chooses the correct combination of tabs and spaces to do that.)

[1] https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
Not sure why people downvote the above. Do they dispute the truth of the parent's statement? Google and Facebook were in fact active in China, until the 2009 Urumqi terrorist attacks happened. The Chinese government then asked for Facebook to release personal details of suspects. Facebook refused. They only got banned after that.

The Chinese government installed new monitoring and censorship laws. Google didn't want to comply, so they got out.

In both cases, those companies either voluntary got out, or got kicked, based on clear conditions. You can of course discuss whether those laws and conditions are ethical, but that is besides the point. In case of the current US bans, there are no conditions. Chinese companies get kicked and there is nothing they can comply to.

Furthermore,the US govt is actively "encouraging" other countries to ban Chinese companies too. Recently they said Brazil would face "consequences" if they do not. Did China ever tell other countries to ban Facebook?

And the US govt said that if Tiktok sells, they must pay a chunk of money to the govt, which is... Unusual. China didn't do anything like this.
Because it's meant for human consumption.
Day and month is usually relevant, while year is less so, so let's put it last.
Cultural capital feels like a classic lagging indicator. You pave the roads in your feudal states first then the culture spreads in.
This sounds like something I'd find very useful, do you mind sharing a link on how to set this up or where I can find more information on this? Thanks!
> But no sane person could call the Japanese people racist.

Is this a joke? Japan has well-known issues with race relations and its historical and current treatment of its minority indigenous populations.
I'm glad to hear you've recovered most of the money. Yes, I also think you would've been treated and hospitalised anyway. I don't think (but I may be wrong) that hospitals in Spain have a "foreigner's deparment". That may go against some EU laws.
I'm surprised they didn't mention the elephant in the room: the borrow checking, boxes, and other ways that the code forces you to do the work of making sure your code is bug free before it will compile.
I think there's something to be learned from that difference though, which is what drove me to ask about it. It's easy to assume that zero of it was in good faith and discredit everyone that echoes that sentiment as a deliberate manipulator. I just have a hard time accepting that. I do believe there is a lot of deliberate manipulation, but there are also a lot of folks that are frustrated and disappointed based on their own lived experience and I can see how the memo could be read entirely differently.

Squaring off over unfalsifiable claims about intent and impact isn't going to get us anywhere, in the Damore case it's literally 'he said/she said'. We need to navigate it piece by piece and try to apply a balance of reason and empathy to try to get to a place of understanding.
I believe Airplay has special OS integration - a third party app wouldn't have access to the screen buffer with zero-copy.. A third party app would at a minimum have to copy the data to system memory and back to the GPU, using a lot of CPU time for that alone, before any encoding.
What is crappy part of LinkedIn for you?
Do you think its a good place to express your skills and find a job?
A Swedish study has found that for X people with confirmed infection that have antibodies, another same amount have t-cells and no antibodies.
This sounds like gatekeeping to me. Web development is a huge and rapidly expanding industry. You don't need (in fact, cannot) be an expert in all areas.

I've been a web developer for quite a few years now. Mostly front end but I do use Django as well.

I also do know some SQL so I guess I pass your arbitrary test. However, I can count the number of times I've used SQL in the last five years on one hand, and in each case it was something simple like create a role/database, and I had to Google the commands anyway due to a lack of practice.
Often a boot cycle gives the rootkit a chance to hook boot code to bootstrap into hypervisor.
I give it 24 hours after release before someone rewrites it in Rust.

48 hours before its on HN.
Hardware based confidential computing is one thing. What we are kind of missing is encryption on the database layer where indexes are computed in a way where you can have fine grained control over who accesses which row. I am imagining a certificate chain based database index where you can't select data that your certificates (roles) don't allow and that is done quickly on the database layer so not even the admin can gain access.
With advances in AI and digital image analysis, I'd guess that long term these photos could provide lots of information too. Especially if google attempted to extract information from aggregated media of all users.

Very offtopic, there's a sci-fi novella, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Leopard_Plague , where one of the plot elements is a search for information through old photos and movies.
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Yeah that makes total sense (focusing on strategic tech).

Also hadn't thought about plugging in graphile, I guess that makes sense.

I also saw in the repo you don't have TS in mind for now (It could be great later down with a big codebase)

I'm small contributor to an accounts javascript package (AccountsJS), it can be used with different dattabases (Mongo, TypeORM, Redis, etc), and transports (Rest, GraphQL)

In case you might wanna consider it in the future!
Ask people around you about their problems, and try to think of what you could build to solve these?
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If people had the same opinion when it came to web browsers we'd be in a pretty sorry state.
MonitorControl achieves the same thing but using the existing keyboard keys: https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl (recent discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23785291)
The solution to a hostile OS is to use a different OS (and Linux has WINE), not break your app.
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We don’t know which viruses can also enhance the virus severity.
More... But that's because I drive at unusual hours, not when the squashed bugs are spread out over peak traffic (which has definitely increased, esp. trucks).
So what are we China now? Also I'm not sure it's quite true those companies were banned. Google voluntarily pulled out of the Chinese market, and re-entered.
Thanks for your great thoughts. I agree and this is what we are trying to do. We collect a lot of great testimonials/reviews and have an exit poll to try to understand why ppl leave.
Our main objective is ofc treatment success, something we can track well.

But in these times when many VCs are looking for SaaS models this issue is a bit tricky.
It's shocking to me how far ahead MacOS is in terms of keyboard shortcuts compared to all other operating systems. There absolutely has been some people there who deeply care and think long and hard about how experts use their systems even if the actual main company doesn't care so much about that segment anymore.

Everything just makes sense logically and mnemonically like using shift to invert actions like cmd+z and cmd+shift+z rather than having ctrl+z and ctrl+y for undo/redo.

Then add to this the ability to rebind any shortcuts in any app at an OS level. It's a little frustrating because I'm trying to move my computing away from Apple because I'm no longer convinced they care about Macs in the long term but just really wish either Microsoft would have the guts to throw a lot of their legacy out and fix all this stuff or that there were some way to actually achieve this level of coherence across the whole system on Linux.
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Am I though? It was her husband that bombed Serbia (as far as I know trump did not start any full scale war unlike the previous 3 presidents - see libya, iraq, afghanistan, yugoslavia, etc), her husband that did the whole encryption export bullshit (and she was in the gov in both cases), she herself supported the TPP. Maybe with her there would be slightly less concentration camps at the border with mexico and net neutrality would remain a thing but I can't really think of many more things that she would do better.

Regardless, it is not whether about "the last 4 years would have been the same or worse under Clinton" but rather whether "the last 4 years would have been significantly better with clinton". If I was given the option between horse poop and elephant poop I would choose neither.

EDIT: Maybe she would have defended syria during the Turkish invasion but I seriously doubt it.
I work for a foreign language instruction company. Our entire business is based on being able to teach adults languages. And they aren't easy languages, our largest program is Chinese. We've been at it since the 80s.
Biases in GPT-3 against specific religions/languages?
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> You can put comments in Python files...

only if the comment pertains to a django feature, not to a schema feature that cannot be expressed in django (e.g. a partial index designed for a specific query).

> You can name your migrations with:

In the example there is a foreign key name, not a migration name. It is persisted in the database, it's not ephemeral like a migration name, for which choosing a meaningful name has only a temporary value.

Just two factual corrections; for the rest our experiences diverge, that's fine.
I hope they leave this up after DEFCON. It looks really easy to follow and I would like to get back into hacking on hardware when I got a bit more time.
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I don't think the problem with lifetimes is that they are complex, it's that other languages handle lifetimes for you, but Rust outs to onus on you to manage them. C++ also has complex object lifetimes but if you don't invoke that complexity you don't need to deal with it.
Try Lunar https://lunar.fyi/

Love it!
On the elixir/phoenix choice for WS, I guess that makes sense too, I diped my toes on eelixir a long time ago after starting learning to code with ruby. It was cool, but I found a better home at JS/TS.

You can have WS with graphql-subscriptions and postgresql-subscriptions for example too, all in node/js and frontend with apollo / react or vue or angular what you like
It’s “game changing” to attract clicks.
Meaning the whole "power struggle between branches of government" claim, which I referenced in a deliberately dismissive way because I really don't want to get into it. I'm more interested in trying to figure out how the Fed potentially buying up toxic securities via FOMC, instead of letting them blow up on their own, might affect the outcome this time.
I use an USB light sensor to automatically adjust the display brightness with ddcctl.

http://www.yoctopuce.com/EN/products/usb-environmental-senso...
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I seriously doubt it...

https://unicheck.com/blog/who-invented-copy-and-paste

"The person most widely credited with Copy and Paste, Larry Tesler, did work for Apple starting in 1980. However, he created the command while working for Xerox Palo Alto Research Center at some point between 1973-1976 "

So, the Ctrl + c was BEFORE the Apple way.
2 questions:

A) is Rebol 2 open source? If no, why?

B) What are the big gotchas?
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CNO fusion does happen but at a fraction of the rate of pp fusion at the core temperature of the Sun. CNO fusion is more efficient in the sense that it is much more strongly temperature dependent. For pp fusion, the rate goes with T^4, but for CNO it is T^20.

See eg. https://websites.pmc.ucsc.edu/~glatz/astr_112/lectures/notes... for a more detailed explanation.
I like both, seriously. I have done projects in both. I would say the learning curve is steeper in React so if you have to pick one to get up and running fast maybe Vue is the better choice.

I liked learning Vue, but not so much learning React. But once it clicked with react it became my favorite.
It is curious how something like this gets published with inaccuracies like that Command-L will create an alias in Finder, when it is actually Control-Command-A.
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> Companies are banned in China for not following Chinese laws or directives

One of those laws is China's National Intelligence law which requires all companies to cooperate with and aid national intelligence.
This is exactly why we don't want walled gardens. You can quickly loose your freedoms for the sake of "security".
So what you are saying is that facebook itself acts like a neutral platform without boosting, demoting, or censoring certain political posts, right? If so I do not see what the issue is with that.

> Facebook selectively enforces discipline on these sites because:

Does facebook enforce discipline on sites from the other site that spread misinformation? (e.g. snopes) If not I do not think that it is really selective.

Considering https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24079172 for example it does not seem that they have a right wing bias.
Hasn't China already gone halfway to that by putting up the Great Firewall and strongly funding local "copycats" of many companies that were founded and based in the US?

I'm not suggesting that what the US is planning is good! I think it's not great. But it doesn't seem to be a pre-emptive thing that's being done.
A system that does not respond well to criticism will inevitably fail on its own... in which case they don't need their apps to be banned for that to happen.
You seem like an asshole. I feel sorry for the people who have to deal with you in real life.
In this forum you're going to get very very downvoted with anything that goes against Apple.

Let's see.

Unix - Ctrl + c

Linux - Ctrl + c

Win - Ctrl + c

Mac - Option + c

Clearly the standard and natural way is the Apple way of doing things...
Is there a RISC-V SOC with HDMI?
I've always assumed that WiFi encryption is more about preventing unauthorized access to the network than protecting the data that's being sent.
Note for users with a German keyboard layout: Given that the ? character is only reachable by pressing Shift, the ⇧? combination won’t work for us.

Which is why for German keyboards, Apple made ⇧⌘/ the Search shortcut.

Which also makes no sense. Because surprise, we can’t use / either without pressing Shift at the same time.

Oh, the burden of an ÄÖÜ-bearing language.