skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People do think it over. They do consider all points. And just because they come to a different conclusion than you doesn't make their conclusion invalid.

...

> You simply put too much weight on the perceived danger of this almost-at-this-point-not-a-pandemic-anymore. We simply don't agree on how dangerous it is.

Something to reflect on here is that (a) the person you're replying to didn't accuse anyone of not taking others into account and (b) you invalidate their conclusions in the same way you believe they invalidated yours.

In my area, there were two points where ICUs got dangerously full. At the start, and then shortly after initial restrictions had been loosened. Fortunately, the spikes in case counts had been seen before, and restrictions were ramped up in response both times, and the hospitalization numbers flattened and then dropped. It certainly looks like a case of those restrictions being massively helpful, which you're discounting out of hand.
wow 60 at 146 is awful. This company must be almost entirely owned by VC at this point.
Congrats on launching!

If I understand correctly, you're having me integrate a library on my backend that manages session cookies.

You've implemented refresh tokens and that seems to be one of your major selling points, but I'm confused what benefit that provides?

I thought the use case for refresh tokens in OAuth was that the user can revoke access from the OAuth provider side. But since the user can't go to SuperTokens and revoke their session, isn't the refresh token functionality superfluous?
I assure you it hasn't improved.
I was going to get one of these but the lack of USB-C charging turned me off from it. It’s 2020.
The "growth" in tech has been entirely driven by monetary policy.

Entirely? Google revenue in 2014 ($66B) to 2019 ($161B) is 143% growth over 5 years.

No doubt monetary policy has an effect, but tech companies have grown substantially over that time as well.
There are many flows that don't work. You can only have a single person working at the file at a time. You need a mutex (which email is in this case). However imagine that you send back a file, then realize that you missed something. You can add more changes and send it again, but if the other party has started working already now they have no reasonable way to merge in the new changes.

Also is there anything that actually guarantees that the tracked changes were the only changes made? I haven't seen this but it seems like a serious flaw in the process.

Also what if you get an intern to do some of the work, then you want to review the changes between version:$lastyousaw and version:$current. IIUC the mail with tracked changes only allows you to view one "patch" at a time.
> Why do people always assume that if someone is anti-mask or anti-lockdown that they didn't think about others before they made their decision? That they are selfish and dumb?

At least for me, the kind of people I know directly (in meatspace) with this attitude are the kind of people who decided the middle of the pandemic is the best time to make social visits to the elderly (for little other reason than being bored with the lockdown). And I know these people don't secretly want to murder their elders. After seeing plenty of that first and second-hand, it's kind of hard to not suspect motivated reasoning when someone goes out and says "sure I've considered the risks, there's no harm in 50-ish me dropping by my 80 years old mother on my way back from the private health clinic I work in" (real example I know, and that same clinic is staffed with people who consider the pandemic overblown and do the absolute minimum to protect themselves and their patients from it).

> PS: If you want to talk direct social risk and safety then it's time to ban alcohol for the greater safety of society.

It's been tried and decided against, but in this comparison, it's worth noting that harms caused by alcohol don't grow exponentially.
What if someone made a deepfake of you for a scat fetish site?
Something that I think would go a LONG way toward encouraging a new breed to get into amateur radio is not just saying "You can do digital -- oh and here's a $25 Chinese handheld FM radio" but a $50 (or less) TNC that connects your UV-5R (or equivalent) radio to your computer or smartphone so the cost of going from zero to slinging packets on AX.25 is under $100 (not counting the cost of your computer or phone, of course).

Does anything like that exist?
> it's clear that they aren't actually making rational decisions as much as rationalizing their decisions

Because one does not reach the same conclusion as you does not make their conclusion automatically irrational.

A very large part of the online community is irrational indeed. Irrational about the true danger of the virus.

I am not scared of the virus. I am scared of how scared people are of it.

All children who died of Covid-19 were already seriously ill https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/all-children-who-died-of-...

In Ireland: Median age of death is 84. 94% with underlying condition(s) https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronav...

54% of San Francisco storefronts have closed https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Half-of-all-San-Fran...

The lockdowns and doom seem 1000x more irrational to me.
>I'm not deeply versed in Gab's history...

Maybe that's a sign you should pause. Sometimes it is okay to admit you don't know about a subject. It is okay to sit and listen instead of voicing an opinion.
The most important thing for a map at the local level is that it be conformal - that is, shape-preserving.

If the angle between two roads is 38 degrees, the angle should be 38 degrees on your map. Mercator is conformal.

Area distortions aren't a big deal, because on a local level, they only have the effect of scaling the map by an overall factor. You have to zoom in more to see features of a given size at the equator than at high latitudes, but that's not such a big problem.

Another nice feature of Mercator is that it's cylindrical, so when you zoom out, the map fits on a rectangular screen.
Mercator preserves compass angles. So a road that goes northwest/southeast will always run at a 45 degree angle to horizontal. This preserves the appearance of city grids, and means that if the intersection is as a particular angle, it will look like it on the map.

Otherwise, you will end up with 90-degree intersections that look squished, which is unhelpful.
I think it stands for "North Charleston" in this context.
Sure! Briefly, we use JWT access tokens which are used for session verification. JWTs can be verified using just a secret key which can be stored in memory. Hence, no network calls = < 1MS latency.

However, there are issues with using just a JWT, like inability to revoke them or bottlenecking all user security on one secret key. To solve those and other issues, we use rotating refresh tokens. More about this here: https://supertokens.io/blog/are-you-using-jwts-for-user-sess...
Why isn't that believable?
Yup, a startup I invested in here in the UK at seed round just did the Delaware flip for their A.
"Quantitative easing".

One way to juice the economy is just print more money and give it to everyone. Everyone's richer, yay! Except you haven't increased production or necessarily consumption, so prices will just equalize to the new money supply and you get consumer price inflation.

For QE, we got smarter, and just gave all of the money to the bankers, because that's what all the economic experts who work at banks said to do. So all of the inflation happened in assets held by banks and rich people instead -- tradeable securities and real estate in coastal areas.
"Boeing has identified two distinct manufacturing issues in the join of certain 787 aft body fuselage sections, which, in combination, result in a condition that does not meet our design standards," said the company's statement. It said it is conducting a thorough review into the root cause of the problem.

Wow. And that's the PR-approved press release. More details will probably appear in Aviation Week.

Is this a problem with joining carbon fiber?
This assumes you even need to go that far to successfully mislead people. The most authoritative sources of information in the world right now today are the written and spoken word. I mean people wouldn't just lie right?

For the world you're describing to make sense people would actually have to demand video evidence to believe something.
Evidence suggests that the fairness doctrine worked really well until we ended it. Until it’s elimination mass media news in the US was pretty middle of the road.
Intel's “cripple AMD” function (2019)
I would think in that setup you'd have to have it such that you subscribing for another person would not guarantee that another person would subscribe for you. In other words, some people subscribing for others would not receive a subscription themselves, and some people _not_ subscribing for others would still receive a subscription paid for by some other user(s). Basically, you'd pay for a subscription and the benefits would go to some random user that is not you.
Amazon Halo will charge a subscription fee to monitor the tone of your voice
If he doesn't, then I'm disgusted.

The fact that cloud providers are built on repackaging open source solutions and that the authors have no equity is one of my biggest disappointments in the modern tech world.

My feelings are made worse by the fact that we seem to be building more walled gardens, forgetting the original intent and ethos of the web.

It's wealth for the few on the backs of free labor provided by our best luminaries.

And then they don't give us the keys. We have to pay rent.

Ugh, I hate it so much.

We need stronger copyleft. And we need to stop contributing our time and resources to open source that isn't equitable to the authors.
The memory renaming cache is almost surely just the register file.
And by the way it's worded, I assume 146 is post-money.
"Pour water into your wine to create more wine" sort of scenario. Why nobody is talking about the USD being diluted and the inflation effects are embodied in virtual equity valuations?
IME a good manager is an umbrella against the shit raining down from higher. I suppose they're not good so... yep. They folded.
I'm on my 3rd X1 (4th if you count my work laptop), and I would be completely happy, except that it's USB-C ports are somehow broken. Both machines have flakey connections to both USB-C docks I've tried, sometimes dropping keystrokes or network packets. It's obnoxious to use, and there's no clear way to debug or diagnose the issue, and sadly I think my next purchase cannot be a Lenovo.
Now, if only grounded cable outside UK plugs was available more than speaking magical white crows...
An airplane is different than a helicopter. Doesn't mean we can't learn things by observing the other.
> App notarization that was promised to just be used for security now being used for iOS related business punishments, bleeding into the desktop.

Source?
> When Zoom goes down...business meetings, conferences, and webinars grind to a halt.

I mean that's a bit of stretch. I work for a company that uses primarily Cisco Jabber (absolutely god awful, atrocious piece of software), but we also interact with folks using Microsoft Teams, Webex, Slack, Skype, join.me, etc. There are no shortage of video conferencing platforms.
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Your ascii art is much better than mine and I'm not going to attempt it, but I agree with everything that you've said except for

> I argue that we lack both mental and technological tools to cope with this.

I do think we have the tools to solve these issues. I do not think the mental tools are in the hands of the average person (likely not even in most of your above average people because the barrier to entry is exceedingly high and trying to model any problem like this is mentally exhausting and it thus never becomes second nature). Many of the subjects broached here aren't brought up until graduate studies in STEM fields, and even then not always. An O(aleph_n) problem is intractable but clearly O(10) isn't. We should be arguing about what order approximation is "good enough" but ignoring all the problems that arises is missing a lot of fundamental problem solving. Good for a first go, but you don't stop there. I think this comes down to people not understanding the iterative process. 0) Create an idea. 1) Check for validity. 2) Attack and tear it down. 3) If something remains, rebuild and goto 2 else goto 0. I find people stop at 1 on their own ideas but jump to 2 (and don't allow for 3) for others ideas.

> Why aren't feedback loops taught in school?

I think 3 other things should be discussed as well. Dynamic problems (people often reduce things to static and try to turn positive sum games into zero sum. We could say the TeMPOraL component), probabilistic problems, and most importantly: an optimal solution does not equate to everyone being happy (or really anyone). Or to quote Picard:

> It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.

The last part I think is extremely important but hard to teach.

(I should also mention that I do enjoy most of the comments you provide to HN)
Attempting to obfuscate the origins and destinations of funds involved in criminal conspiracies by using cryptocurrencies is quite a terrible life choice.

Running a literal laundromat for purposes of laundering money is still a far more viable criminal enterprise than anything involving technology.
... In all fairness, I use a trackball, where I can scroll in any axis. Zooming, of course, can be done with a keyboard. I'm not even sure what 3D touch is.
> It's been tried and decided against, but in this comparison, it's worth noting that harms caused by alcohol don't grow exponentially.

Yeah, we also have tried it with other drugs, we've been spending several decades ramping up regulations on automobiles to try to make them safer, and we have an emerging national debate about prescription painkillers as well.
The "growth" in tech has been entirely driven by monetary policy.

Also a few billion people stuck at home much more than usual this year.
I find the headline a bit misleading bc even European tech companies like Spotify are listed on the US exchanges.
> Stripe insisted it wasn't _their_ moralizing, but rather Wells Fargo (paragons of fucking virtue as they are),

very few people or orgs have principles. What they say are principles turn out to be just a blob of preferences that change with the direction of the wind.

And quite frankly, Stripe is big enough these days to push back hard against Wells Fargo, if they really wanted to. Wells Fargo definitely does not want to lose the Stripe account. As most things in life there is shared responsibility there.
anti-scraping, l7 ddos/bot/spider prevention, "anti fraud", fingerprinting devices on login, port scanning devices on login, this is pretty common in application and enterprise
"Everything about UNIX sounds silly. We're talking about an OS with commands like chown, awk, and grep here and where 'zombie children floating in the pipe' is a legitimate description of an error state."

— Bruce Bethke — Headcrash
Agreed on the Wayland point. Wayland isn't particularly usable yet, but we can keep hoping that it gets better. For now, there are some GNOME extensions or applications like fusuma.
How does Google know this unless they have some access to the databases of each of those sites/instances? Why would google have that kind of access?
Yes, this is why Facebook is making a public issue of this case, and not the other cases where they also keep some of the money. Unclear is how Apple would be able to tell the difference between the ones where Facebook keeps zero and the others.
You'd need to repeal the First Admendment to do that.
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[For those that are uncomfortable allowing JS code to run from unknown websites and are thus presented with a 'This page requires JavaScript to run' blank page message].

[Edit to explain - That is from https://www.chainalysis.com/ NOT the submitter's link]
Hi there, author of UL and Awesomium here.

We didn't abandon anything, we announced to the community that we were stopping development of Awesomium (our previous Chromium fork), are going to build something new (which turned out to be UL, I wrote the rationale elsewhere in this thread), and continued to support our paid customers for years after (all licenses came with a 1 year annual support contract with option to renew, we would be in contract violation if we didn't).

We did stop maintaining the free online support community which I think is where this sentiment came form. Users were upset that there were no new versions of Awesomium and there was a 4 year gap before the first alpha of Ultralight was released which left a number of users rightfully annoyed.

I personally couldn't promise that were _would_ be a successor project since Ultralight was so experimental (the GPU renderer alone took about 4 years to get working on all platforms). That lack of communication and subsequent gap in updates is what led users to believe the project was abandonware (luckily, I'm here to say it isn't and we're still alive!).

FWIW, Ultralight was actually built in tandem using internal feedback from our existing customers. Many of our current users are ex-Awesomium users.
Nahhhh its just an app nothing to worry about /s

Blows my mind how quickly people accepted the product into their organizations. Zoom Phone... no thank you.
The problem is not the lack of exciting tech companies, but the ability - and interest - to retain them in Europe.

Money is cheap in the US, and most of EU countries are quite pleasant to live without obscene amounts of money in the bank (basically thanks to public services), so any good offer it's quite convincing.

Not to mention that EU governments don't see tech companies as strategic assets, unlike the US/China.

So I guess it's a mix of culture/policies.
Array.prototype.partition (TC39 Proposal)
Sounds interesting. Is the book good?
Step-by-Step Centralized Authentication for K8s with Keycloak and Ambassador
> Magic-as-technology is a surprisingly under-explored concept

This is a very common way to address magic when tradition sci-fi writers try to incorporate fantasy elements into their novels. It’s used in the Shadowrun universe, and in the novel The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O as two popular examples.
Twilio Forcing 2FA on Users
I just received an email from Twilio. The subject says it all:

> [Action Required] You must enable Two-factor authentication on your Twilio accounts by October 12, 2020

I understand that they want their users to be safe, but how about letting the user decide how much security is needed for the phone numbers that are hosted at their platform? Yes, they may strongly suggest to enable 2FA, but please, let the user decide if such a burden makes sense to them.

To make it clear: I don't want to manage 2FA codes for each and every service I am using.

Am I alone? Do people like being forced to enable 2FA?
I recently watched an excellent speech concerning freedom of speech and freedom of protest by Rowan Atkinson, and feel it's very appropriate to share here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiqDZlAZygU
There are a lot of people whose single recollection of Romeo and Juliet is the garden scene, and who understand that scene to have Juliet aware that Romeo is present in the garden because of "Wherefore art thou Romeo?", due to simple confusion in not knowing that "Wherefore" means "Why?" and that Juliet goes into an extended meditation on why Romeo was born as Romeo, in the rival family, and therefore off-limits to her despite the urges of her heart.

And that sort of thing repeats on a line-by-line basis through most of Shakespeare. I tend to think one gets better at reading it relatively quickly, even as a high school student, but there is a reason why the best way to read it is with one page of the historical text and one with extensive notes.

This skips a long discussion on "Should we teach Shakespeare?", "To what degree should we allocate resources to decoding Shakespeare given competing demands for resources to establish baseline proficiency in modern written English?", and "Is a production of Shakespeare in historically representative English a service to the broader community or is it a service to the class which already knows the story and therefore does not need the actors words, which they mostly will not understand, to impart it?"
I'm glad it worked out for you. I so much wanted to love the 16" MBP but in clamshell mode I can hear the fan at least 80% of the time, and if I do anything at all involving the Xcode simulator the fan kicks up high enough I can't hear myself think. When open the fan's not so bad but it would fry my legs like an egg even through jeans.

I look forward to going back to my old 13" which has an SD slot and MagSafe and all the rest, even though it'll feel crazy slow. The 16" is, for sure, a beast when it comes to performance, but I have found the downsides to be significant.
Becoming Kim Jong Un
> fearmongering

This term (or the similar "scaremongering") gets thrown around an awful lot in discussions about the novel coronavirus and I don't think it's helpful.

For one thing, it's quite insulting to assume someone is deliberately exaggerating something for manipulation purposes. Please assume some good faith.

It's also a problem in that it doesn't advance the discussion in any way, because it can be applied to just about any topic where you don't like the argument.

Discussing dangers of possible long-term health effects of contracting COVID-19? Fearmongering.
Raising concerns about climate change? Fearmongering.
Studies that show a link between alcohol and heart disease? Fearmongering.

It's such a general-purpose accusation that it's meaningless in most contexts.
What a devastatingly concise comment. I keep trying to type out more to agree, but this just nails it.
Driving without a license in Arizona is usually just a $120 fine, but it can be up to $750 and have up to 4 months in jail, so just skipping the driver's license is probably not a good way to protect your information.

For those in other states that sell this information, driving without a license might be more viable.

In my state, Washington, for example driving without a license is a misdemeanor carrying a fine of up to $1000 and up to 90 days in jail, but if you have another form of acceptable ID on you when stopped it is instead just a traffic infraction with just a $250 fine. A passport works as acceptable ID.

Here's a site with the driving without a license laws for all the states [1], although I'm not sure it is accurate. For Arizona it mentions that usual $120 fine, and mentions that things like driving on a suspended license can be a class 1 misdemeanor, but doesn't say anything about class 2 misdemeanors. A couple Arizona traffic law firm sites I found, though, say that simple driving without a license can be a class 2 misdemeanor.

[1] https://www.drivinglaws.org/topics/driving-without-a-license
Do you consider is censorship if a huge Internet/media company removes illegal content like child pornography, explicit calls to "imminent lawless action," phishing/fraud attempts, explicit misinformation (like false claims that an election date has been moved), or content that goes against their own community guidelines (pornography, violence, etc.)? Do you consider those things censorship or opposition to free speech?
Seems we're in violent agreement then. I misunderstood your point to mean an immediate ban on burning any fossil fuel.