skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Broad national-level statements like "election supervisors are an elected position" are almost always wrong for huge swaths of the country

While positions like a "County Supervisor of Elections" or a state supervisor might vary across the country. Some are directly elected, others are appointed but affirmed (as judges are in some jurisdictions) and others might be strictly appointed, the process is still political because redistricting is political. There's still a heavy political factor in US elections that doesn't seem to be the case anywhere else (that I've lived anyway).
As long as the API is well defined, and the /e/ account can be easily replaced by a 3rd party, it’s probably the only way to a successful replacement.

It’s also ok to not define the API immediately, but to wait a few years to understand what the API should actually look like and then publicly define it for v2.0 once you have enough feedback about what you did wrong.
Why wouldn't a Monad trait work?

You mean you couldn't express it in Rust, even with HKTs? Or you mean that it wouldn't be useful?
The volume ratio between the 2170 cell and the new 4680 cell is about 5.48

So the new cell is about five and a half times bigger.
> Name one prominent California politician who does not come from either the San Francisco Bay Area or Los Angeles.

Would you accept Austria?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger
I am happy to announce blindsend: an open-source project we started in order to make end-to-end file exchange easy.

https://github.com/blindnet-io/blindsend

We made it for people to whom clients send sensitive data (doctors, layers, financial advisors) who can use it to send a one-time upload link to their clients, and have blidnsend take care of making the transfer end-to-end encrypted. We hope it will be useful to many who have to deal with GDPR compliance.

You can also call blindsend server from any application/software that you have if you wish to enable your users to exchange files without your system/app having any access to the content, and we are also developing blindsend Java library. As such, we hope blinsend will make implementing end-to-end encrypted file exchange easier, and we are excited to make it open source so that everyone could benefit from it.

I would love to hear your feedback, and if you use blindsend please let me know if I can be of any assistance.

Cheers
https://archive.is/ClKWd
There is definitely some functionality that works when offline. Phones are the primary key for Model 3 and that works fine when unlocking the car in subterranean garages that have no reception.
"how little risk it poses to people our age."

You know the age of everybody on HN? And that also ignores the risk of long covid, and the risk of serious harm.

And even for young people, the risk is nothing to sneeze at (pardon the pun). See e.g. Penn State's Athletics department numbers of a 15% infection rate on their football team: https://www.centredaily.com/sports/college/penn-state-univer...

Worse, many of those infected in that particular group have rather alarming levels of myocarditis. Their age didn't spare them.

That doesn't mean we should be all "we're doomed", but glibly dismissing the risk isn't helpful either.

And while you personally might be at a lesser risk, everybody you interact with now inherits your risk. (Pre- and asymptomatic spread is a thing, isolation is not a panacea). So at the very least, include your contacts in your risk calculation. You want to see your parents and not risk killing them? Your bar of risk you can take is lower.

You spend your time exclusively with the same 5 people, in a lower age bracket, and none of them venture outside that bubble? Sure, your risk is much lower. But few of us are in a non-family bubble of 5 people who don't see anybody else.
There is a related conversation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24565831
Hmmm...

Arm Cortex M7 is completely different from Arm Cortex A53. The A53 I see as a proper Intel Atom competitor, the Cortex M7 is something I'd expect to be found (typically) in a very-low end setting, like the controller for a mouse or keyboard.

Atom clearly shrinks down to Arm Cortex-A53 levels, but to pretend that Arm Cortex-A53 and M7 are similar is to be disingenuous.

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EDIT: Case in point, here's the first Cortex-M7 on Digikey that I found: https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/stmicroelectronics...

There's a HUGE difference between Arm-M (like the M7 in the Intel chip) and ARM-A cores (like the A76 or A53 in your phone).
Why can't the app just talk directly to the car?

Oh yeah, because we broke the Internet with NAT.
Wikiwand: Wikipedia Modernized
Okay, that you could use ultrasound spectroscopy to work on this problem was not something I've read before. So very cool that.

But what is more interesting to me is the last bit where they posit that they now know so much about the physics of Sr2UO4 that they may be able work backwards into a more general understanding of super-conductivity, that I find really intriguing.

Like many people I bought a sample of YBCO and floated magnets over it when cooled with LN2. And I kept hoping we'd get a reasonable theory that would let us engineer a material that was superconductive at a temperature we could chill without LN2. But years later, here we are.

So I'm really hoping this moves us closer to a more complete understanding of the atomic structures that enable superconductivity and how to build them.
Please don't take HN threads into political flamewar. It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please don't even joke about that.
Like GDPR you'll still have privacy on an individual level unless law enforcement decides that you shouldn't have. It's perfectly parallel.
That has nothing to do with NAT.
Should you donate to the Wikimedia Foundation? (2015)
For mirrorless cameras you are correct. As long as the plane of the sensor is perpendicular, there is some slop. If the sensor gets too far away though you might loose infinity focus.

For DSLRs the distance through the backmirror to the AF sensor must be exactly identical to the distance of the image sensor, because the AF sensor focuses on the wrong distance otherwise. DSLRs generally have an adjustment for this (often per-lens-ID). (Worth pointing out that DSLRs are calibrated at the factory. I suspect they go for a flange distance that is slightly under the spec, because this direction is easy to remove by calibration. Note how the distributions in the article match up rather well with this expectation).

These issues are one of the main reasons why lenses don't have hard infinity stops any more. The other is that it's expensive to do, and the third is that it is less necessary with autofocus.

If the optical axis is not normal to the sensor(s) however you have all sorts of problems focusing across the frame.
Why do we have so many people leaving the state and the biggest amount of homeless per capita? I am not saying our government is the worst, but it definitely doesn’t seem to be meeting its own goals.
It's collapsable, implying you don't have to collapse it if you don't want.

The eye strain thing was referring to the maximum line width feature. Studies have shown that longer-width lines are harder to read than shorter-width lines.

But sure, you could just imagine that they're doing these changes because they need to justify their jobs.
AFAIK, more or less the same as with phones or paper mail: No third party is allowed to listen in, except police and other duly authorized parties, after they have a warrant.

The difference is listening to a phone is easy for the police, while breaking encryption is impossible.

I'd assume the result is intended to be identical to phone safety: abuse will be technically possible but legally criminalized and in practice rare.

Now how this works out in the face of the international internet is a whole other can of worms, of course.
Yeah, my go-to solution is just to replace the word with something else... usually something correct, but strange. Exactly like your dog-pet example. I am also drinking large amounts of coffee daily - maybe that's what's kept it at bay all along ;)
In this case, no feature is being removed--just hidden in a collapsible sidebar, but I agree with your overall point.
I think that it is pretty much the kind of wishful thinking they have. But then steganography.
In this cat-and-mouse game, you do end up banning math [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_number
I just re-read Dune, and wouldn't say that is entirely accurate. There are multiple times that Mauddib sees terrible things in the future - jihads, death, loss. There is a terribly dark foreboding sense from these visions, but I get the sense that the terribleness is from Paul's actions/status as well as that of their enemy.
>You don’t need to invade the US just to stop extraditions.

That's absolutely true. However the post that I responded to said nothing about extraditions.

Rather, it said:
>No government which supports this behavior, should be allowed to sit another democratic session.

Unless I'm having serious reading comprehension problems (which I suppose is possible), OP is suggesting the dissolution of the US Government. I merely asked how they thought that should be accomplished, then wished them luck.
Imagine creating a document format so broken you need to build an artificial intelligence product to display it on smaller screens.
It's not too expensive for a group of hobbyists!
Not sure the EFF is particularly active in the EU? I'd have suggested the Open Rights Group, except being UK based it's now harder for them to lobby the EU. Maybe La Quadrature du Net: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/
One mechanism that really got me ... maybe not "horrified" but uh, anxious as hell, was the Dark Souls games.

The "you better survive until you find your corpse or you lose everything" mechanism worked really well when I was new at the games.

Also in the "not horrified but anxious as hell" gameplay was the original Bioshock and seeing the Big Daddy character... still remember hearing him before he came around the corner... so cool. :-)
Those both work against symptoms caused by an enormous range of pathologies though.

Compare that to a specific drug targeting a small percentage of the causative agents of the common cold, for which the duration is short enough that by the time you'd get a reliable test back, you'd have gotten over your cold anyway.

There's just not much of a practical use for such a drug.
Who logs in to Wikipedia? I asked search engine about a term, it brings up a link to Wikipedia, I visit page, read content, then leave. I never even knew you could have an account, and assumed only people wanting to editors would even need an account.
It is though. Add HTTPSEverywhere to the toolbar using customize, and you will get the option to enable "Encrypt All Sites Eligible". Working as of Tor Browser 10.0 (ESR 78.3)

Version: 2020.8.13
Rulesets version for EFF (Full): 2020.9.14
Rulesets version for SecureDropTorOnion: 2020.7.30
> If you were to find a close enough genetic match to a strain known to be in a lab, that would indeed constitute strong evidence.

In two possible directions. You'd still need additional evidence demonstrating it was lab --> nature, not nature --> lab.

> Now the "debunked article" cites 89% similarity to a published strain, but that's hardly a smoking gun.

Right, and virologists say citing 89% similarity is bogus, as that's actually substantial difference in genomes. It's evidence in the opposite direction asserted by the paper.
Would enough users pay for an open source privacy browser? (I donate a little each month -- are there enough others?)

How many employees would it really take just to evolve Firefox and MDN?

The executive compensation seems really out of line. Could a lower paid staff and executive team do the job? Possibly by relocating the company?
> To me, that's the nail in the coffin: all engineers should think about how things ought to work, even if they cannot immediately fix it.

This has always been a bone of contention between me and my peers or leads: I always intended to drill down to the root of the problem to understand how a system should behave, while most of the time they considered it a waste of time and frustrating. "Patch with a workaround and call it a day" mentality is ubiquitous nowadays, from what I see.
Building a Community Digital Garden
Is this something new ? I've been using it for long time.
Hydrogen is not source of power unless you are doing hydrogen-related research and this gives you power in the organization you work for.

Power is rate of energy transfer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(physics)

You would not typically call something "source of power". Rather, we would typically discuss "source of energy" which is then converted to power by expending it (transferring/converting) at different rates depending on application (think in terms of your power at your academia letting you force undergraduates doing work for you).

As to sources of energy, the only way hydrogen can be used as a source of energy is through fusion which is currently unattainable on commercial scale in 10 years. There are also no sources of hydrogen that can be mined or otherwise exploited on Earth.

There exist, arguably, fossil fuels that are rich in hydrogen. A cell using such a fuel could technically be called hydrogen fuel but in normal use they are typically called cars.
I've been on both sides, each has pros and cons as you know. It depends on what you are trying to avoid on the web side as to whether you'll enjoy systems stuff. I personally find systems dev more enjoyable, more challenging and less repetitive in general. That said, I find there are some really hard and fun problems to solve still on web, just not on the front end for me. It isn't that there aren't interesting things happening on front end, I just don't enjoy it and it feels repetitive to me personally, but back end distributed problems is a blast.

Systems dev is also a pretty broad term as well IMO. And depending on who you talk to there are different definitions, so it would help to define a little more what you are interested in and what you want to try and avoid. Some systems issues are repetitive just like web UI can be, so grass isn't always greener.

As for pay, pay is good either way generally, however, I think it is easier to get to higher pay levels in a web stack with less experience. C/C++ is still growing quite fast with all the IoT as well as renewed focus on performance and modeling. Additionally, Rust is growing and people with Rust knowledge/experience will be in higher and higher demand moving forward. One way to make the transition is to learn Rust well, and start looking for jobs there as the requirements for how much Rust experience you have won't be as difficult to meet as the ones for C/C++ type positions.
This looks really good. I'd love to have had this when I went through the application process.
On a laptop typically I'd only have one window 'open?' maximised at a time. It allows focus. I'm a big fan of Gnome3 for this.

If coding then an additional monitor can help, the additional monitor multi-window to support the main focus.

If writing, then one screen and paper and pencil to sketch thoughts.

If diagramming/flowcharting, switch desk or stand up and use a whiteboard, reduce over multiple pieces of A3, then the finished result should be refined enough to iron edges out to formalise in Dia or Visio. I also prefer pencils over pens, have a box of multiple colour pens, crayons too, bunch of sticky notes not for the screen but supporting paper-based thoughts, masking tape for putting things together. And this is me working by myself.

We all have our use cases and it's rarely one size fits all.

For wikipedia - why not default to whatever's deemed best for most, but have a small toggle button for 'old'.
I'm curious if this was in retaliation for them helping arrest a russian malware hacker.[1]

[1] https://electrek.co/2020/08/27/tesla-fbi-prevent-ransomware-...
> Christ, we need AI and ML to read a static document now

The article doesn't say that. This is like Reader Mode in your browser. It presents the same content in a different way based on an understanding of the document structure. You don't need to use it.
That's not quite how degree-based scales work.

In Kelvin we see it's about 1.5x as hot.

Or if you look at distance from "comfy" (25 C) to "dead" it's about 3x as far as dead from comfy so the conclusion still works .
That has a lot to do with our tech oriented culture and weather. Most top professionals from other states want to move here or to New York. What are the policies from our leaders that have facilitated this growth? That’s like attributing the economy growth in the last 4 years to Trump.
As someone who likes sites like reddit for the content sharing but hates the time sink the comments section becomes I love Pocket for delivering me highish quality articles and news that I don't have to worry about gettin sucked into some flame war over.
Keep at it. There’s plenty of stuff that I learned that never had any practical applications, but the handful of things that did have been very valuable.

Real world example: I was building an app for myself to scrape some websites and Twitter to aggregate stuff I might be interested in. I had built an MVP that I wanted to get up and running on a web host somewhere so that I could let it run for a bit and then iterate. I was annoyed though, because while I was comfortable setting up servers, I hated all of the repetitive tasks involved in getting everything set up the way it needed to be. I’d tried writing shell scripts, but as anyone who’s tried that can attest, they are fragile and end up being almost as frustrating as doing it by hand. I’d heard about this thing called Chef that people in the Ruby community had great things to say about, so I set out to learn that so I could use it to set up servers for me (and my local Vagrant setup). Long story short-ish: I never did get my app deployed to a server, it’s still sitting on my hard drive almost 10 years later. But my Chef skills turned into a bit of moonlighting to bring in some extra money, and then ultimately let me make a career change and get out of a job that had become toxic. I don’t do Chef any more, but I’m still in a job I enjoy and I make a lot more money than I did.

I’m still going to get back to that app though. One of these days.
This is more like a readability mode than a responsive website.

It's a button you click to automatically make a fixed-layout PDF fluid and easier to read on mobile.

You'd still author the document the same way without considering multiple device sizes. When the PDF needs to be reproduced faithfully (printing) it would still appear as the creator intended.
Yes and syncing to Microsoft’s cloud. I think that this matters the most for people picking this on Linux given how common it has got in the enterprise.
The new Apple Watch says my lungs may be sick. Or perfect. It can’t decide
Javascript has many faults, but go look into the history of how/why it was created and given that context, it's likely many would do far worse than he did.

https://auth0.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-javascript/
Google has done an incredible job of monetizing Chrome, I think it's a mistake to think that Firefox is somehow incapable of this.
From what I could tell it's a NYC and surrounding areas thing. I knew people from Westchester and Long Island that said it, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if people from NJ said it too.
Why can't the app just talk directly to the car? No Internet needed at all[1]. NAT shouldn't even come into it. Local Wi-Fi or Bluetooth should work.

[1] Well, I suppose if you're not near the car, Internet would be needed. Does the car have a publicly reachable IP?
I just tried this with my Tesla. The app cannot connect over the internet to the car, but unlocking and starting the car still works, as does using the app to open the charge port and the front trunk.

The Tesla app uses both internet and bluetooth to connect to the car. I would expect that even with no internet connectivity, bluetooth-related functionality would continue to work, and at least today, that is the case.

EDIT: After seeing dawnerd's comment, I just re-opened the app (didn't kill it, it was in background), and now the entry for my car is gone, which means all the bluetooth functionality I mentioned above no longer works. That's one hell of a bug.
Permissionless Identities
According to this article, nothing will be "delivered" as liquid PDF, because it's a feature of the reader app, not the document.

The point is that there are 30 years worth of existing, static, PDF documents - published as PDF for a potentially valid reason - which are frustrating to read on a mobile device.
from what we measured on a gzip compression plugin, only a few percents of overhead. Because the gzip part is compiled. Only the plugin glue is interpreted.
I mean, `T | Bottom` is the same type as `T`, so what you're saying is vacuously true.
Love Ghibli's art style so much. It's timeless;
Ansible 2.10 has been released
Something I've always been curious about: does the physiological stress or the psychological stress come first? Do you think "I'm stuttering" first, or does that tension you experience precede it?
Not allowing same sex marriage steps on some people's religious concepts. Allowing mixed race couples or heathens to marry steps on some people's religious concepts.
In the UK there is a case[1] (based around cricket, of course) which set the precedent that even if you "come to the nuisance", you can still force people to stop.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_v_Jackson
"Venus, planet of love
Was destroyed by global warming
Did its people want too much too?"
- Mitsky
because "you have to spend money to make money" and building a resource people value for free despite the fact that you loose money, and then charging or asking for money is a proven technique for earning way more than $7 a month. It could be a financial stretch that has them on the edge, in hopes of earning a significant reward later.
Confirmed. Also possible to be embarrassed of your individual component countries like England or Northern Ireland.

For example here's a famous response to the idea of being proud to be Scottish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1tJJO_pVvQ
We don't really put execs from private companies in jail (modulo some securities fraud stuff, on occasion). I don't think this is a good argument about having companies in bed or subsidized at all.

There may be other reasons, not in evidence, but this one doesn't pass the muster.
Hydrogen vehicles will not happen. The hydrogen industry is quite large today. The source of 99% of hydrogen? Fossil fuels.

If your goal is to get off fossil fuels, hydrogen is completely not the way to go.

Moreover, if it's performance that you want. Hydrogen 0-60 will be at best grandma speed.

Oh and let's not forget that it's hydrogen. In my jurisdiction, all pressure vessels for hydrogen must be inspected quarterly. Who wants to take their car in quarterly for inspections?
Good thing Microsoft isn’t voluntarily in the PRISM progra-
I have tried both. Xfce was the worst actually: switching from dual screen with scaling to laptop-screen-only without scaling made the DE so broken I had to reboot.
If the CEO is a majority or major shareholder, they will be on the board, point blank.

If they are not, the roles should be separate.

Their patron should rectify this, but it's possible they don't care.

The 'plan' may be to kill Firefox.