skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always heard the search terms as "Google dorks", but never heard it called "dorking".. Seems Google articles on the subject prove me wrong.
The test is a measure of impact. They intentionally lied about the impact of their cars.
The GOP doesn't want more people voting; they hang onto power mainly through gerrymandering and various voter suppression measures.
From the article:

“It appears that they are primarily after cryptocurrency related websites — namely multiple bitcoin mixer services. They replaced bitcoin addresses in HTTP traffic to redirect transactions to their wallets instead of the user provided bitcoin address. Bitcoin address rewriting attacks are not new, but the scale of their operations is. It is not possible to determine if they engage in other types of attacks.“
You can try for a student visa for Japanese language school for two years. If you're willing to pay for a plane ticket to a nearby Asian country, you could probably renew it in perpetuity every three months. There are also other visas like entertainment or modelling that you could try to obtain for three months. You can even teach English part time and try to get a visa that way.

As you make friends and build up a network you're certain to find a way to make it work.

In practice, visas are easier for people from Western developed countries. The only major risk of overstaying a visa is getting a random stop from police and at worst you just get deported. It's really not as restrictive as it seems. I've met plenty of people who visited Japan on a whim and ended up staying for years.
There are 48 regular polyhedra
Show HN: Commit News – Stop Consuming News Like a Bag of Chips
I responded in more depth to a sibling[0]. SSNs are not valid for use in uniquely identifying individuals. If you try to use an SSN as a primary key for U.S. individuals you are in for a world of pain.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24104158
This is why I hate merge commits. I mean, I have no idea of what constitutes this Morton's work and if he could've done better, but I think messages like that are still a problem, they provide zero value and mess up the log. And this is actually only a little worse than what I usually see in merge commits, especially when they are done with some semi-automated tool like GitLab. People rarely do merge by rebase, all useful things that could've been said are usually in the commits themselves (and there are some guidelines about them), so merge commit messages are rarely empty and even more rarely are they useful, because author has no idea what to say. This is just trash.

And even though it never ocured to me to check, yeah, I'd actually expect a higher quality standards of Linux kernel.
Comparative Efficacy of Facemasks for filtering expelled droplets during speech
Mine isn't a love story, but a treasure hunt: https://i.imgur.com/OH1Fotf.png

Stop reading here if you want to try your hand at it yourself!

...spoiler follows...

Several years back I met someone at a conference who made an impression. She had good technical chops and a refreshing sense of humility. We spoke on many topics, including trepidation over a big life decision she faced. Out of encouragement, and perhaps an eye to eventual recruitment, I spent that evening creating this little challenge for her.

It started with a QR code linking to a snippet of source that draws an old IBM punch card onto the screen. To decode it, she had to learn a bit about 70's technology and the IBM 80 column format.

A couple days later, I got back a short program of her own that correctly decoded the characters and ended with the comment:

// TODO: discover all of your secrets

which I expect reflected a cheerful indignance she felt upon discovering her efforts so far only revealed a bock of ciphertext.

Her code had clarity and elegance, and included ASCII art of a punch card which I first thought was documentation but actually served as a sort of Rosetta stone constant used to derive character mappings.

Watermarks on the punch card hinted toward the encryption algorithm used in the Enigma machine, and by the end of the day she'd cracked the code. It decrypted to a short but heartfelt message of inspiration. She loved the puzzle and I had a blast creating it.

And before you ask... yes, she was cute, but I was already spoken for (and IIRC I think so was she).

Thanks for asking such a poignant question, it's great reading all the other beautiful stories your submission has evoked.
But that is not always effective:

“They (selectively) remove HTTP-to-HTTPS redirects to gain full access to plain unencrypted HTTP traffic without causing TLS certificate warnings. It is hard to detect for Tor Browser users that do not specifically look for the “https://xn--ivg in the URL bar. This is a well known attack called “ssl stripping” that exploits the fact that user rarely type in the full domain starting with “https://xn--ivg. There are established countermeasures, namely HSTS Preloading and HTTPS Everywhere, but in practice many website operators do not implement them and leave their users vulnerable to this kind of attack.”
“but they're so unwilling to actually effect positive change in the world by using their position as a unified region”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_of_Hazardous_Subst... (Both examples of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect)

Thing is: if the long term necessity for increased production of N95 masks were a no-brainer, companies would commit to building facilities. If governments subsidized producers, and it turns out we end up with more masks then we need, people would accuse them of wasting taxpayer money. Making that call is hard, as companies are ramping up production and articles such as the one being discussed could mean much fewer masks are needed.

Also, it seems at least Germany is working on this. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-europe...:

“Germany has said it will foot 30% of the investment bill for companies that manage to get production of the coveted filter fabric started before year-end”
tl;dr by Dr. Farzad Mostashari

https://twitter.com/Farzad_MD/status/1292560856157388800

tl;dr^2

"But the bottom line here is that almost all of these masks cut down droplet spread by 80% or more

That is huge.

Simple version: If we all wore effective masks and wore them well, then the reproductive number could fall from 2.5 to less than 1.0, and outbreak would extinguish"
looking at the markets makes it more apparent that performance madness is largely driven by 2008's quantitative easing having never been put through cessation. It was tried once with disasterous effects, and we entered this recession with the same debt still on the balance sheets. Wolfgang Streeck does a great job of explaining it in his book 'how capitalism will end'

Essentially through regulatory capture, capitalists have commoditized things you shouldnt, like labor and currency. As this progressed through the past decade the markets began to drift further and further from any meaningful ties to labor or consumer confidence and spending. Markets began to perform simply due to the fact that they were a market in most cases, and so we see in 2020 though the US suffers nearly 40% unemployment and a service economy that has a failure rate of nearly 50%, markets that float along with easy access to low interest or negative interest credit as a function of the post 2008 recession are nearly entirely divorced from reality. They no longer serve as a barometer for the overall state of a nation at all.

And now we enter the 2020 tax season next january with a promise that somehow this burden will be deferred yet enforced for the average citizen, which could honestly only be maintained with evermore low or negative interest loans this time issued directly citizens instead of major multinational corporations as part of a personal shift of public service (competent taxation policy in this case) to personal responsibility that began in 1993 with the US exit from the public sphere of education and ambulance services in the form of charter schools and ambulance bills. this was enhanced with the transition from low wages and savings to personal lines of low interest credit that inevitably wracked the market in 2008.
The horrific deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery sparked something. But we're in that familiar national moment after public interest is piqued, and "back to normal" starts tip-toeing over offering a hot cup of amnesia.

We need to rework laws, reset precedent, but I firmly believe we critically need to reimagine our relationship with the news.

So I built an app called Commit News. And it's available on the App Store!!!!

WHAT IT IS.
Commit News is a single-story news aggregator that scrapes 30K+ sources to collect relevant coverage for any unique news article you choose. You open the app to see your story's coverage -- over time and across sources. It's free, and it's helpful, and it's yours.

WHAT IT ISN'T.
There are news apps out there, most predict what you'll like, which is weird because it's the news, not Old Navy. Commit News is not about predicting. Instead, it's personalizing.
-You don't need to set up "channels, boards, books" or "collections."
-You don't have to choose between "politics, lifestyle, local" or "environment."
-And we don't assume what "you might also like…"

WHY NOW?
The idea for Commit News started in my head years ago -- I was tired of being forced to forget news stories that were important to me - I'm a Black/Mexican Woman, child of an immigrant who geeks out on the Environment. The news industry would probably call my entire existence "special interest," needless to say the stories I want to follow fall off the front pages pretty quickly.

A couple of months back, while testing, America's shit hit the fan. We're witnessing so many stories that feel consequential and unresolved, but the news cycle slows for no man...woman, murder, or pandemic. I sped up development, and I decided that it needs to be present more than it needs to be perfect.

I need more ML muscle - there's no doubt. But I'd appreciate your feedback and connection to any Data Scientists who may also want to completely change the news landscape and, in doing so, save society??? You can email - listening at commitnews.com.
Not sure if the U.S. is printing more money, they might simply be incurring more debt.

Regardless, inflation is complicated, even if you wanted to you might not be able to cause it, at least not in a controlled manner.
And he wants to force the states to pay 25%.
Ugrep: Faster Fuzzy Interactive Grep
I highly recommend The Making of the Atomic Bomb. I listened to the audiobook last year. It starts with the scientific advances, beginning in the late 19th century, and continues up through the achievement of a chain reaction and the dropping of the bombs on Japan. The final part of the book, detailing the eyewitness accounts of the bombings, is the most harrowing thing I’ve ever listened to.
I've scraped MLS for personal use to build a very similar tool (draw on a map, highlight new listings, able to hide listings), and had no technical issues at all, just a simple curl call. This was a few years ago, though.
> The real estate market has been red hot after an initial slowdown during quarantine:

The spike here coincides with the riots and "defund the police", not the recession or pandemic/quarantine. It's likely people moving away from the hotspots.
Just the B2B part of SEPA.
Basslink is a fairly run-of-the-mill HVDC interconnector by world standards at 500 MW and 370 km.

The longest undersea interconnector currently under construction is the North Sea Link between the UK and Norway (700 km, 1400 MW): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Link

At 3700 km, Australia-ASEAN would be far beyond the length of anything that has been built or considered to date!
We're simply not in a recession. Recessions are systemic collapses related to bad monetary policy causing a misallocation of resources.
After looking at the article for a while, my take away was material aside, the fit matters a lot. They got a very different results with the same materials with different fits. I know from using one the peaked N95 has an awesome fit. I guessing the swath was pressed hard to the face, so no leaks which would explain it's good performance. The best of the cotton masks was again the peaked.

Fit being important isn't good news. You can get a good idea of the material from the ad, but judging fit is hard without trying it on.

The values on N95 can work both ways - allowing air to more easily pass in the in or out direction. If it's in I guess it's not protecting you so well. If it's out it's not protecting others. Out is what they tested. Most seem to be out, but I have one that's in (maybe a manufacturing fault - who knows). It's nicer to wear for long periods than out. In the context of slowing down covid, I'm guessing in is more effective.
Two things (probably more) contribute to this, I think:

1) Americans have been trained from birth to distrust government in all forms. Centralizing more and more services triggers a visceral fear response. (IMO it's nonsense, for the most part, but it's there nonetheless.)

2) Being "first to market" with new technologies often means you're just stuck with the sub-optimal first version, while other countries can learn from your mistakes when they do their first implementation.

On the flip side, when I'm in Europe, I definitely run into more places that only take cash, which I find annoying to no end. It's rare for places in the US (at least in fairly well-populated areas) to not take credit or at least debit cards.
The way this article frames it, all these fashion companies are going direct-to-consumer (DTC) as their business model salvation, but that is only good for Facebook.

> Here is the problem for DTC companies: Facebook really is better at finding them customers than anyone else. That means that the best return-on-investment for acquiring customers is on Facebook, where DTC companies are competing against all of the other DTC companies and mobile game developers and incumbent CPG companies and everyone else for user attention. That means the real winner is Facebook, while DTC companies are slowly choked by ever-increasing customer acquisition costs. Facebook is the company that makes the space work, and so it is only natural that Facebook is harvesting most of the profitability from the DTC value chain.

https://stratechery.com/2020/brandless-closes-the-dtc-facebo...
Every time something like this happens, Keynes is proven right again.
Not open source, but Tiny Combat aims to reproduce the general 90s flight sim aesthetic: https://why485.itch.io/tiny-combat-arena

It's under a lot of active development, with clips posted to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUvUO3lqf0Y

The author puts quite a bit of free Unity-related code from related experiments on GitHub: https://github.com/brihernandez?tab=repositories
I have worked places that had really good commit messages.
I had an r40 from 2003-2006. Shipped with XP, then I put Linux and later OpenBSD. I had to stop using it when the GPU soldering came loose. (I was able to fix it with a heat gun the first time. For a while. Then I gave up.)
It's not clear to me that evicting tenants who would ordinarily pay is a good strategy for landlords. Besides being a dick move, they don't have a guarantee that anyone will move in
Yeah, Gates-branded information has a good reputation.
Or families are expanding as relatives are moving in?
I've always wondered if a Soviet block made a clone that was better in some way, or if they ever came up with their own CPU architecture.

Didn't IBM have an ALU design that were more harden again calculation errors?
“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”

- Terry Pratchett
A recession is labeled by the NBER and has a modestly strict definition of: A recession is a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, normally visible in production, employment, and other indicators. A recession begins when the economy reaches a peak of economic activity and ends when the economy reaches its trough. Between trough and peak, the economy is in an expansion.

https://www.nber.org/cycles/june2020.html
> no incentive to work on processing faster

Not sure I agree. How about the incentive to prevent customers using competing services like Venmo and others?

Also the incentive to quickly receive funds into bank coffers so the bank can lend it faster.

Presumably, increasing the ACH batch frequency would break something in the system or it would already have been done.
US has means of instant payments, it's just not standard across banks. There's lots of way other countries are far behind as well (like Canada having banks that still charge for every transaction you make).
Yikes, I did not find anything of substance on this ad-riddled page

I've seen significantly better pandemic / economic coverage from Byrne Hobart, Money Stuff, etc
Cancel culture is #2.
Think of all of the things we are not preparing for.

Isn't California due for the big one. Should we be spending now to get everyone out before it hits.
All the people who just got evicted? Probably a good time to invest in Uhaul.

I agree, seems incredibly short sighted. I’m not a landlord so maybe I misunderstand the thinking.

Is it something like tenants who get evicted then have to find even worse landlords to rent from so by evicting people in tough economic times you gain access to tenants at their lowest rate/most desperate? So effectively any tenant you get in bad economic times is someone who is more likely to be stable and reliable after recovery?

I’m totally making things up at this point. It is truly baffling to me.
It's interesting to hear what Bill's opinion of the web browser business was in 1996.

"That's a good business. It's zero times a number."
Things have improved somewhat since then, with the introduction of Same Day ACH, which provides two additional ACH processing periods each business day.

https://www.nacha.org/rules/same-day-ach-moving-payments-fas...

It's more expensive than regular ACH transactions. The above page seems to indicate the sending bank has to pay the receiving bank 5.2 cents per same day transaction on top of regular ACH fees (that appear to be 0.0185 cents per transaction sent or received for 2020).
Is it just me or does this feel like wishful thinking? I'm on my phone so its hard to dig into sources but the presentation just reeks of misleading by statistics.

I thought the main unemployment number included only people looking for work? If states dropped the LFW requirement from unemployment, that number would drop despite lots of people still on unemployment, no? I assume federal unemployment statistics focuses on other less state dependent metrics.

Similarly the median house price is a farce if, like in the GFC, there's plenty of easy capital available for a land grab at the top. The prices could easily reflect increased competition and asset inflation, not something new about this financial crisis - and it wouldn't really be new, would it?
Infinite rewrite due to a non applicative Y combinator :-)
Computing is getting closer and closer to the edge. One example, as you said, is putting it at the CDN PoPs, but even beyond that you can put your compute into the CSP locations.

E.g. https://aws.amazon.com/wavelength/, but if you’re big enough I’m sure you can make more interesting deals.
55% of Covid-19 patients still have neurological problems 3 months later
If you want to completely eradicate crime one way to do it would be to completely eradicate privacy.

Would you sacrifice your privacy if it could eliminate child pornography? The theory is hard to say no to, but in practice that kind of power has never worked out. If we want to retain privacy we have to accept some amount of crime going unnoticed.
I think students with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases or heart failure should not be in school at all right now with a deadly virus floating around.
since internet is blocked in Belarus, you can monitor the situation through Telegram https://t.me/nexta_live
Partially this is due to self interest - holding the cash longer and getting interest - but most of it is actually due to self protection. Small banks have less cushion to recover from fraud, have less people to process payments quickly, and generally lack technological sophistication. NACHA represents all of the various institutions, from JPM down to the First Bank of Your Hometown, so it has limited flexibility in adopting new things that increase cost/requirements.
Are you suggesting this has actually happened, or are you just saying it's theoretically possible?
In theory I agree, but this isn't an unknown element and therefore I believe most forecasts are either prepared for this to happen or have accounted for it to not happen due to available credit/liquidity.

It just seems to simple to say "when the stimulus is gone, and people can't pay rent, evictions will be huge".
Indeed, having the infra in place is half the battle. Requiring banks provide access to the infra through their customer facing endpoints is just a bit of regulation away at that point.

It'll take a while, but it's nice to know a decent end state is on the roadmap.
I think it's about propaganda and "symbols". Americans view the concept of a national ID as a symbol of federal government oppression.

I completely agree that a national ID would not enable the US government to do anything that it can't already do. But enough people in the US react to this sort of thing emotionally, not logically.

Technically we already do have a national ID: the passport. But relatively few Americans actually hold passports (when compared to, say, Europeans), and the federal and state governments would get a lot of push-back if they required passports for common things like banking. Hell, there are enough un- and under-banked people in the US due to other socioeconomic barriers; adding another would not be great.
The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II: A Collection of Primary Sources
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/index.htm
After the second bomb was dropped, and after the Soviet Union declared war and took Manchuria, defeating what on paper was Japan's strongest remaining army. Two bombs, the Soviet Union in, Manchuria defeated, and there was still an attempted coup to keep Japan from surrendering.
Show HN: Docable – Turn markdown into executable notebook
People definitely attempt to do so, and sometimes do so subconsciously. Some people dress for how they want to be seen or aspire to be, others dress as a reflection of their environment, including those they associate with, and that sometimes reflects the prevailing attitude and beliefs of that group (and sometimes not).

A simple example of this might be a haircut. Whether accurate or not, a mohawk often signals something to other people (and sometimes signals something the person that wears it, like "I may be ties down with more responsibilities, but I won't let that define me").

I like to think most my clothing choices are made because of practical matters such as comfort and fit, but even within my normal range of jeans to shorts and t-shirts to polo shirts (and maybe the less formal button-up shirt), there's definitely things that fit that criteria that don't feel like they fit how I think of myself. And that's as a man, where I think expectations to do with style and clothing are much simpler.
Until it isn’t, and a single accident means a huge chunk of inhabited land is no longer inhabitable.

How big is the Chernobyl or Fukushima exclusion zone? How big is Singapore?

One accident and the country would be essentially gone.