skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an incredibly weak argument, as most of the opposition to nuclear power even before widespread renewable deployment was political, not economic. Maybe the economics have changed with renewables, but that needs to be proved rather than can be inferred by the lack of US reactors being built.

Take Germany’s recent denuclearization, the efforts are completely political, there was no mention of balance sheet optimizations or concerns. China, India, Russia, among others are all building reactors - either we must agree they are fiscally irrational, or realize that there is an economic case to be made for nuclear power.
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People die from other causes so we shouldn’t worry about ransomware? That doesn’t make any sense, and it’s an issue specifically relevant to HN because the a large amount of the demo is software engineers.

Finally, what indication whatsoever did you find that there was deliberate blame-shifting? I don’t even understand where a cynical conclusion like that comes from.

That might be one of the wildest and most tone-deaf comments I’ve ever read on HN.
I don't think that's really true. I have open source projects that nobody else actually uses, but I still get messages from people reading and looking at the code. There's often only one person maintaining open source software, but I'd bet there's a lot of eyes on a lot of projects.
I do not mind "spreading their message" though. People can do whatever they want with it. :) It is all voluntary.

> In your case it seems to have backfired

Well, regardless of my stance on it, it backfired only because I do not like getting these things mixed up, is all. Politics is way too pervasive.
You pick up the phone and call someone. You don't pick up the phone and have the phone company present you a list of people you might be interested in calling, ranked by how much they bid to be on that list.
> St. Petersburg in revolt gave us Vladimir Nabokov, Isaiah Berlin and Ayn Rand. The first was a novelist, the second a philosopher. The third was neither but thought she was both. Many other people have thought so too. In 1998 readers responding to a Modern Library poll identified Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead as the two greatest novels of the twentieth century—surpassing Ulysses, To the Lighthouse and Invisible Man. In 1991 a survey by the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club found that with the exception of the Bible, no book has influenced more American readers than Atlas Shrugged.

– Corey Robin in "The Reactionary Mind"
By the same unmanned logic- then NASA & ESA may lay claim to much of our local universe, including our Sun. Pay up, usage tax. "NASA's Parker Solar Probe has completed three of 24 planned passes through never-before-explored parts of the Sun's atmosphere, the corona."
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I don’t think you have to shut down Facebook. Just shut down targeted advertising, algorithmic filtering of content, and a lot of their surveillance practices (e.g. shadow profiles).
> Taking a stance to not control what communication is allowed is a very political stance. It just so happens that, I believe in those cases, it's also a legally mandated stance; but, if it weren't a legally mandated stance, it would absolutely be a political stance, whatever they ended up saying.

Not really, no. That is not usually what people mean, when they say "take a political stance".

We can extend this to other examples. Do you think that a grocery store should ban people from their stores, if the individual is wearing a pro Trump, or pro Biden Tshirt?

I think it would be pretty silly to condemn a grocery store, for refusing to ban people from their stores, if they were wearing a "Vote for Biden/Trump" shirt.

Most people would find it absolutely and completely ridiculous to ban people from stores for doing that.
I like Hooks a lot but I’m not sure how it’d apply in the Rust UI sense (maybe well, maybe not). It is nice to not be forced into building classes and to also ensure that specific state changes will force partial re-renders.

I’m talking more about https://relay.dev/docs/en/fragment-container. Creating opaque types that can be fetched from a data source and passed off to a child component is more what I am thinking of.

I mention it because I recall working on a Qt product where you have to parse data from a source, then you bring it throughout your program and try to keep it in the right form for every UI component that uses it.

It was easy for the project but we had no composability of components.

With fragments, you don’t really care and duplication of data between fragments on the same source of data generally just works. That way you can pass the fragments to each component as required.

The idea behind that being that, you can have “efficient” and opaque data structure received from a data source which can be blindly passed to a component to consume.

I say data source but in this instance I mean GraphQL... so maybe it doesn’t apply to a generic UI library.
Maybe I'm missing it but I wish there was an ESP8266 board with a proper JTAG connector.

I have hacked something on a protoboard for nodemcus before, but it ended up being pretty messy.
> No, I'm asking how a new open protocol can be built on top of email in a way that maintains strong backwards compatibility while offering strong security guarantees, like end-to-end encryption. I don't think it's possible.

You can't have strong security guarantees with backwards compatability, because backwards compatability requires plain text sending.

Unless you're OK with limited guarantees like the UI will tell you when the mail could be sent in plain text. Or if the UI tells you the message will be end to end encrypted, it won't fallback to plain text, etc.
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That is an amazing list. Favorited.
subscribed - Same issue here.
Unless they are associated with the Hoover Institute in some manner, no humanities faculty at Stanford is raking in big bucks. They all live in the dumpy professor-ville offered by the university because salaries cannot pay for palo alto homes.
Did all 70 test positive?
This marks the first repost I've ever seen on HN, having been using it for nearly seven years. Not bad going!
I’m obviously biased since I work there, but I had the exact same concerns before starting two years ago. In reality things are much more different that what HN makes it sound like. There’s all sorts of people, and not everyone agree, and much like the current climate in the US people are getting more and more polarized. I think it’s pretty awesome that everyone in the company is free to express themselves and debate and openly challenge management during Q&As and other events, but I also recognize that at some point the debates can turn toxic and I can see why we would want to avoid that. Once you realize how things work from the inside, you realize that the majority of people do want to make the world a better place, and that it’s easy to pick on things that didn’t work quite well and forget all of the positive sides that social networks have brought to the world. You can tell me that I’m drinking the kool aid but IMO internally things are really not at all like HN likes to portray it everyday.
Reform and revolution are a false dichotomy. Social movements and popular unrest effect the electoral process significantly.
This is why ICANN is a joke.

They proclaim themselves sui generis authority in charge of domain names, domain registries and domain name regsitrars on the internet (there is not and never was any legal basis for such "authority"), they turn domain names into a "business", they make up arbitrary rules that line their own pockets (initial gTLD application will cost $185,000), they allow registrars to do things like front-running, etc., etc.

Why things do not change: When a user gets screwed by front-running, the user calls for a boycott of GoDaddy instead of questioning the entire ICANN-administered system itself. The protection of ICANN's racket relies on security through obscurity.

Front-running is a very old practice amongst ICANN-approved domain name registrars.
I looked at the Jupiter and Saturn with a modest 14 inch telescope last week https://www.darkskyproject.co.nz/tours/crater-experience/
The two planets themselves, and the four large moons of Jupiter and of course the rings of Saturn were all very visible, and this kind of old school technology has been available for hundreds of years.

But basically I agree, Hubble and robot planetary exploration are awesome.
Early on (nearly 20 years ago) it was possible to register a yyy.name by itself. For example, I own the domain for my last name.
My high school friends and I settled for using Gain and Pidgin to enable the "secure" icon. :)
Do what you know is right. What you can live with and be proud of.

It sounds like, from reading your comment a couple times, you know what is right but are tempted to ignore that and take the cash.
He's casting doubt that the problems can be solved through voting alone.
Nobody is arguing we burn more coal. Many of us want to see and end to both coal and nukes.
That is terrible.

I did get a very similar situation,

I searched one domain, and about a month later, when I searched again, it is registered.

I did not check how long the domain age was, but I felt so disappointed that time.
Take that up with OP, who merged these two concepts.
This is incredible!! The flu kills hundreds of thousands every year. To have the potential to get rid of it like we have many other diseases would be amazing.
>You can't have strong security guarantees with backwards compatability, because backwards compatability requires plain text sending.

That's right.

>Unless you're OK with limited guarantees like the UI will tell you when the mail could be sent in plain text. Or if the UI tells you the message will be end to end encrypted, it won't fallback to plain text, etc.

This would require changing all the clients.
Its not a replacement . Its a successor
I did transfer my names from GD to NC last month :) :) :)
> You mean you want the courts to moderate your social platform?

In situations regarding literal terrorist propaganda, and active calls for violence (Which were the examples given), which are already illegal?

Yes. The courts are the proper place for determining how literal terrorism/imminent threats of violence should be handled.

I don't think this is controversial, to say that people who make imminent calls to violence, as has been already defined as being illegal by the court system, should be handled by the law.

Most everything else should be not blocked by the platform, though.
It's a lot like, "If you're not with me, then you're my enemy."
And has not been a major component of British food since the neolithic.

Edit: I guess that's what the whole argument upthread is about - apparently researchers said that paleolithic british settlers were dark skinned, and became light skinned with the switch to agriculture. Which is very plausible.
I've had only Logitech keyboards and mice on my main desktops for over 2 decades, on Windows, with SetPoint installed, and never once have I ever seen an ad pop up from their software.
I’d say more within the last 3. Definitely in the last 2. It’s much worse for me, just repeats the same channels and categories.
I don't think the question is really about how the internal politics of Facebook work. The question is whether you should devote years of your limited working time and your talent to make the world a worse place to live in (which I think FB almost certainly does).
Classic Apple
I nominate parent: "honeycombing".
Last time I checked, Walmart doesn’t sell conspiracy theories, stoke political violence, or demonstrably false, targeted advertising. You can muddy things with as many analogies as you like, but it’s quite obvious that Facebook’s engineering staff is closer to my example than yours.
Check my edit! I was talking about my actual takehome salary (post-tax, not counting RSUs). Total gross comp is just north of $300k, which is pretty much in line with levels.fyi's average for that position (a little below - which tracks. I've only been promoted into that position just under a year ago, so I'm probably under-average across the whole population, despite being in the Bay Area so I'd hope to accelerate past that average soon).
Any sufficiently large company will be involved with politics. That's the nature of being a multi-billion dollar company.
I understand that PGP doesn't have to be used with email. That is why I haven't commented on PGP, I'm saying that I think encrypted email is a bad idea, regardless of whether you use PGP or something else. We're posting in a thread about Thunderbird, an e-mail client :)

I agree that one great weakness of Signal is its centralization, and that decentralization is a great strength of email.

For a decentralized encrypted communication channel, Matrix may become a good option now that it is encrypted by default, but I haven't studied carefully the quality of its encryption beyond that yet.

Regardless, I really do think a new protocol is required for secure communications and that email won't cut it. If Signal or Matrix can't do the job for some applications, we'll just have to try again. I cannot recommend email for secure communications, and in any situation where security matters, I have to prioritize people's safety. In terms of security, the best that is available in the realm of encrypted email is not and cannot be good enough.
They were like this long before MSFT came along.
I think you are better off with a more technical sport if you want to make friends. One where a significant part of it involves learning a technique rather than repetition.

For example it could be martial arts, where getting to know your opponent is really important, and it can turn into friendship once the fight is over. Or maybe climbing, where there are many occasions to talk with others, maybe discussing your technique while you are resting between climbs. And of course, team sports.
This is also very similar to the criticism Noam Chomsky have received. He has been very accurate for decades but is still handled as an outcast.

Come to think about of it actually, it's also similar with the criticism of David Graeber's (RIP) book "Debt", which usually focus on "well, he wrote something really wrong paragraph about Apple, so you can't believe anything he writes really"
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Thanks for the feedback. M- is a tiny design system compatible with virtually any web project. This differs from say Bootstrap or Material because those are not based on standards and come with dependencies that create compatibility issues, especially for larger organizations.

and yeah, the visual design is more basic (I'm not a visual designer), but most people will theme it to match their brand's design language anyway. Developer experience, project compatibility, and performance are the main focus. Visual perfection will come
OOP isn’t necessarily slower. One thing you get is lazy evaluation for free. There’s no better performance gain that no computation. It’s also much easier to extend the types than in functional programming (where it is easier to extend the functions). I find OOP is a lot better for programming in the large too, interfaces and other abstractions are really useful as a project grows.
In the table on the page, why does "Foundry sale price per chip" decrease, while "Foundry sale price per wafer" increase?

Does it have something to do with the average chip area being much larger at larger process nodes?
I don't know the details on the engine as we did not build it; it was sourced from Kokums.
And I’ll say that you’re entitled to your opinion. If you do think that, then indeed I would not recommend to join. If you are on the verge, like I was, then my advice is to join because you will be surprised to see that it’s not what you thought it was.
Text-only, non-PDF:

https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/abs/2009.06789

(arxiv.org also blocks any request without a user-agent)
From the abstract:

> Our inferences result in herd immunity thresholds around 10-20%, considerably lower than the minimum coverage needed to interrupt transmission by random vaccination, which for R0 higher than 2.5 is estimated above 60%. We emphasize that the classical formula, 1-(1/R0), remains applicable to describe herd immunity thresholds for random vaccination, but not for immunity induced by infection which is naturally selective.

> These findings have profound consequences for the governance of the current pandemic given that some populations may be close to achieving herd immunity despite being under more or less strict social distancing measures.

There are some comments for an earlier version of the paper, discussing methodology: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160762v...
What about Matrix/Element for heavier communications? It's at least encrypted by default now, although I haven't carefully studied their security otherwise.
If I want to spend an hour researching this issue I'm not going to do so by reading this long diatribe from an admittedly biased conservative point of view.
The phone numbers were an easy way to do identification and create a social graph. They are working on a more privacy focused one, but that is technically much more difficult. I wouldn't call the phone numbers a "courting the mainstream audience." I would stickers, but then that's just a single example that was already mentioned.
Sorry, I don't mean this to be dismissive, but I don't think I can productively engage with the idea that Facebook is more closely analogous to the Nazi Party than to Walmart. I just wouldn't know where to begin.
Recently I was delighted to find that Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5, one of the first websites I remember really immersing myself into, is still online and even updated every now and then! I think the site has been continuously up since 1994, and most of the content is over 20 years old, published when the series was originally run. It’s a real treasure trove for any B5 fan and likely the most comprehensive and well-curated collection of B5 knowledge in the world.

[1] http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html
A digital device is defined as:

> (k) Digital device. (Previously defined as a computing device). An unintentional radiator (device or system) that generates and uses timing signals or pulses at a rate in excess of 9,000 pulses (cycles) per second and uses digital
techniques; ...

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2009-title47-vol1/pd...

This has Wi-Fi, so it's an intentional radiator, so it's not a digital device. I believe this product would be technically noncompliant if not certified, though lots of stuff like this gets sold and I've never heard of any enforcement action.

Their best counterargument would be that it's a component and not a self-contained product. That seems true for many dev boards but not particularly true for this one. Since the practical risk of interference is extremely low, I'd guess the FCC is happy to leave this grey for now.
> sweets in America are like crack...I don't know what they put in it

They don't put sugar but some sugar-like substance. They can get away by calling it sugar nevertheless. Run this simple test - go to an Indian store & buy Cadbury's Milk Chocolate. This is the Cadbury's not manufactured in America, but imported from India. Now buy the same Cadbury's Milk Chocolate from the Candy aisle in any American supermarket. That's the garbage made right here in USA by Hershey (which owns Cadbury). The taste is different. The calories are different. The effect is different. And this isn't just me - a ton of people know this:

https://www.businessinsider.com/cadbury-chocolate-different-...
> Everyone has to discuss diversity at work because there are laws prohibiting discrimination

Sorry, but this is misleading. Most such companies are actively complying with antidiscrimination laws. These diversity discussions/initiatives at work are almost always unrelated to those laws. It's not a case of "Hey, we suddenly realized we're not complying with laws, so let's launch these initiatives." Most such discussions don't have any content about the law or legal aspects because they are not about laws prohibiting discrimination.
I would say a DSi XL is the best choice for original DS games though, you get a larger screen with the exact same resolution as DS games play in and you get possibly the nicest and most durable of Nintendo's portable designs.
The DSi as of last year is pretty hackable in itself too.

I got one basically as a bonus in an ebay auction a few months back along with a 3DS I was getting for a friend and I've found myself playing original DS games on it more than I ever did on my own New 3DS XL so I was almost certainly picking up on the iffiness of the upscaling to fill the screen.
As other comments mention, most Nintendo hardware is now made in China and I doubt they care, but there is also a factory in Uji staffed by Nintendo employees who definitely care.

I’m not sure what all they do these days, but at least they do a decent amount of serious testing and QA. They might have had a send off when authorizing the final models.
perhaps but I would think the descent before entering the clouds would have plenty to look at..
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I will accuse Zinn of many things but not constructing a narrative from his facts is not one of them :)

I happen to disagree with a lot of his political opinions but I think it's very important that APHUS exists.
Is not about stopping the post of fb anymore but arresting these people. Yes a judge should make that decision.
I'm more impressed that a ticket managed to live on in a tracker for so long without getting lost over the years.
> Zinn's point was that no matter how truthful or factually correct something is, it would still be biased.

Of course, but that shouldn't be an argument to completely dismiss attempts to be less biased.

You achieve lesser bias by constantly doubting and questioning your priors.

You establish authority and trust by actively communicating to your reader or interlocutor legitimate doubts people should have of even the position you're offering. There is no greater smell that you should be concerned about someone's biases than when they present nothing but certainty and when they craft arguments that deliberately elide contradictory or exculpatory evidence.
I agree. IMO, although I know a significant number of people disagree with me here, I think David Graeber's ideas are important enough that people of all ideological stripes ought to pay attention to what he had to say.

Unfortunately, since he's far, far outside the Overton window, to the left, Americans, by and large, have a rather extreme reaction to those ideas. That's bad, because ideas that make us uncomfortable can sometimes be the ones that allow us to make truly revolutionary leaps in our thinking.
Not always -- e.g. wanting to make slavery illegal is an idea that ought to make everyone uncomfortable, but has no legitimate place in today's world. But, definitely sometimes, and I believe Graeber's ideas are the type that could take us forward, rather than backward.
So how would you look to get assurance over third parties without SOC reports?

I am happy to concede that SOC reports are terrible, but at the moment they are one of the few effective ways to get assurance over third parties.
You're hanging an awful lot on one casual use of the word 'the' in the GP (although I agree with your general argument).
Ask HN: How do I find a designer to work with for a portfolio website?
I'm willing to pay, but ideally it would be a portfolio site for both of us. What are resources, websites, personal experience for this?
> Though I will note that the definition of Autism has gotten broader over time...

If dyslexia became broader in the manner Autism has, it would simply be going back to its Greek origin, which is already roughly "bad at reading."