skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of. The real problem is that E2E means losing all server-side videoconferencing features - very few people actually want E2E.

It's not an add-on feature. The ramifications are a completely different way of shuttling the data between endpoints.
> * Boundary is free and open source. Similar to when we built Vault, we feel like the solution-space for identity-based security is too commercialized. We want to provide access to this type of security to a broader set of people because we feel it's the right way to think about access control. Note: of course as as a company we plan on commercializing Boundary at some point, but we'll do this similarly to Vault, the major featureset of Boundary will remain free and open source forever.

I hate this corporate speak. You're breaking into the space by giving away (basic, as you will commercialize any advanced) features under the guise of open source altruism. The products HashiCorp sells are open core, and you should be more honest about it (GitLab is!). I wish you operated more like other, real, open source companies that use subscriptions or managed service offerings and don't lock features behind various obscure pricing tiers. This is Shareware 2.0.

The difference between what HashiCorp does and what a real open source company like Rancher does is stark: HashiCorp has products, Rancher builds communities. Contributors to HashiCorps stuff have to play in a very specific sandbox, lest they implement lucrative features. Contributors to Rancher help the community at large and have full visibility into the codebase, empowering them to fix or add functionality without restrictions.
> This is a vaccine for a virus that's never been successfully vaccinated against.

For lack of economic need. Most coronaviruses only cause mild symptoms, so there's not been a need for one. SARS vaccine efforts died early because the disease itself died out and there was no impetus to continue searching. MERS is similar in that, even though it hasn't gone away, it burns itself out so quickly that the need for a vaccine is relatively small, and therefore research efforts have been limited.

> Drug development is hard. Most candidates never make it to market.

For vaccines, something like 80+% that make it past Phase 2 end up making it past Phase 3. Its unlikely for most vaccines that make it that far to fail. We already have half a dozen candidates around the world at that point, with more on the way. If anything, its highly unlikely we won't find some kind of vaccine. If not one that grants sterilizing immunity, one that provides enough protection that it makes the disease far less deadly, like the flu vaccine.
One reason not to do that is to hide your methods. The usual tactic to show good anti-terrorist results is to inject provocateurs into fringe groups and paint them as thwarted terrorists. I hope that US is not going that route.
Stock ownership is already sufficiently concentrated among the ultra-wealthy that diversification --- a highly-effective risk-management strategy --- likely has limited further effect. "84 percent of all stocks owned by Americans belong to the wealthiest 10 percent of households" (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/business/economy/stocks-e...), and the top 1% of households represent 50% of household stock ownership (by Goldman Sachs, see https://financialpost.com/investing/how-americas-1-came-to-d...).

Though I'm somewhat familiar with arguments concerningcorporate ownership and proxy votes, see e.g., https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/07/16/conflicted-mutual...

At the same time, some of the most effective shareholder activism has come precisely from pooled investors, notably CalPERS and TIAA-CREF. See e.g., https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=890321

There are numerous other issues in corporate governance, ranging from the disastrous policy of "shareholder value" to vampirous corpprate raiders, to concentration and cross interests among boards of directors, to cross-ownership cartels as with South Korea's chaebol and Japan's keiretsu.

A small part of the problem, possibly, but not the principle cause.
that argument assumes that those other things have high value for the cost and that they couldn’t have been gained in any less privacy-invading way. those are high hurdles requiring only light proof to easily cast doubt on any invasive counterterrorism program.
I have noticed a couple things in the psy-ops campaigns.

1) Appearing centrist and balanced while espousing a racist ideology without the vitriol. Same outcomes, nicer, easier to swallow and repeat phrasing.

2) Folks that have "seen the light", woman and poc partaking in above. It is like the United Colors of Benetton crossed with the KKK. Heinelin produces a Prger U cross with Magic Schoolbus and Kurzgesagt while throwing in some David Duke.

These actions are both meant to confuse, empower and normalize fringe ideologies, providing fake groundswell of support for what should be distasteful thoughts.
A wild false dichotomy has appeared !

If only there were other companies with competing products which would assuage one’s concerns regarding privacy and/or anonymity and guard against Luddite lifestyles.

“Must sell well...hill to die on” feel a bit extreme, particularly given everything that has transpired in 2020.
And you are just acting as a gatekeeper. This app is accessible for anyone who is not able/willing to install something locally like a kid using a computer at school. This is what sandboxing gives you. Blender and Maya are useful for experts. Not all tools have to target experts.
What an amazing article! Thank you for sharing.
So then just release episodes less frequently, like Moffat’s Sherlock, without sacrificing on production quality. Yeah the cast gets older but if the fans really wanted, they would click the button to recruit friends to pay recurring fees to it.

After all, I’m simply saying make a Netflix but where the amount of minutes you watch to the end determines how much you want to allocate from your payment that show. You have a chance to fix up the allocations before the end of the month, when they are committed.

The decision is taken out of the producers’ hands and instead of cancellation past some political threshold, results in slower episode velocity.
hey, Chris here (one of the makers of HackerStash) - it's really hard to get this right for sure and we're thinking a lot about balancing the incentives! We removed a lot of the weekly challenges during beta testing that we felt weren't conducive to symbiotic participation...it's a work in progress though.

In terms of benefits our end, all money from subscriptions goes straight into the prize pool and back out to the communities favourite projects each week. The main reward at the moment is the times when we genuinely see people helping one another. In the future if it can generate income for us that would be cool but we don't really know how that would even be possible - for now so the community comes first :)

Loved your breakdown of gamification motives, it's a really helpful perspective, thanks. If you have ideas for how something like HackerStash could offer the benefits of gamification without risking incentives that eventual lean in favour of the company itself that would be awesome!
And telling people to move is a better counter today than it would have been in the 1700s due to ease of movement and communication.
:) Turns out consumers have lots of diverse preferences.

I, for one, think shows are actually far too reluctant to remove main characters.
> Inter-season gaps are bad enough in broadcast, but with season-bingeing they extend to >11 months and that's just not very attractive.

It's also a completely different time frame for the binged show. A weekly released 10 episode season that would have occupied your mental space for around two and half months before returning nine and half months later might now be something you engaged with for just two days before not thinking about it for a year.

There's a reason so many streaming shows need to have season recaps, because in the year or two it takes for the next season you've completely lost all the story beats. As you mentioned, I find myself wanting to rewatch the previous season(s) before a new one kicks off, but that becomes really onerous with 10+ hours per season.
As you say, it's a big question. But one way to start is by integrating this _within your VPN_ such that network access + credentials alone are not enough. With Boundary you could do this by setting up firewalls on the end hosts to only allow ingress from Boundary worker nodes.

Eventually you can migrate towards Boundary nodes (or similar technologies) being the public ingress instead of a VPN endpoint.

(Edit: clarified that I meant firewalls on the end hosts, not on the VPN or elsewhere in the network.)
I'd rather see approval voting than ranked choice. The outcomes are roughly the same, but the system is easier and less disputable. Which is very much a feature in the US; remember hanging chads in the 2000 race? If they can dispute that, then they can certainly dispute any unclear ranking marks.

And also because ranked choice usually comes along with instant-runoff here in the US, which is possibly the only system with worse outcomes than first-past-the-post.

http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/

Note that the two weird graphs are always plurality, aka first past the post, and Hare, aka instant runoff. Also note that there's no obvious difference in any of the graphs
between approval and Condorcet, even though Condorcet is ranked.
Season 5 was already becoming somewhat shaky on The Wire though (at least in my opinion, the serial killer plot was a bit too much). Still one of my favorite shows of all time.
I was aware of this, I had meant going forward.
s/hears/years/
It’s not really possible for Facebook to take itself out of the equation—Facebook sets up its algorithms to encourage the spread of engaging content. So if a story spreads on Facebook, it’s because they designed their algorithms to make engaging content spread. But if Facebook goes and adds a special-case on top, “don’t spread this particular story,” then they’re obviously interfering at that point. So they sort of inherently have to take a position one way or the other. The only other option is to do something like always make the algorithms focus on engagement without any special-casing, possibly with a general rule to limit how fast any new story spreads, but presumably they have reasons for not wanting to do that.
But that can be done by pouring resources into the vulnerable. We already have Covid marshals - wouldn't it be great if they could go door-to-door for everyone who needs it, daily? We have the resources to do this.
I feel trust is becoming "trust". I do not simply trust media I see, based upon evidence: "alternative facts", fake news, deep fake, bots.

I think technologists could help restore trust with blockchain signing of all content, so one could mathematically prove trustworthiness of facts, and then base one's opinions off facts.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90549441/how-to-prevent-deepfake...

> Blockchain timestamps already exist, but they need to be integrated on a deep level with all media creation devices to be effective in this scenario. Here’s how an ideal history stamp solution might work. ....
Possibly, although the content of the spam is fairly up to date: COVID nonsense and iPhone offers. That being said, now I look at the groups in more detail, it does seem like there's a concentration of messages in March and April on both these topics, and not a whole lot since.

What makes it stand out more is that a bunch of the newsgroups I've subscribed to are very inactive, it turns out. I just yanked in anything related to retro computing and gaming and am slowing pruning the list back to include only active groups.

The more active groups have spam but they also have self-promotional material that might or might not classify as spam, and I'm seeing a few mass crossposts as well.

Overall it's not as bad as I remember it being the last time I looked at getting back into usenet, which was probably 8 or 10 years ago. I think I perhaps gained a slightly skewed impression as the first few groups I went through were all pretty spammy.
It looks like you still have to manage users on the hosts for PAM, including SSH keys (or use Vault I suppose). It's too bad that this can't perform all of that functionality--setup a server, install a boundary client, and manage all of the PAM things through Boundary.
I meant had you checked the scammers’ deposit address for deposits.
True! There are alternatives that are net-absorptive, too.

But until we can set a market price for CO2 emissions, current emitters will continue to treat it as a zero-cost externality.
> woocommerce is viewed as next step from Shopify

Is it? I honestly thought it was they other way around.

> Medium/Substack is basically graveyard at this point

This is definitely not true. Just look at how many Medium articles are shared to HN daily:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
> There is no formal definition but we for some reason love to hear it.

This seems like half of Apple's marketing. They like making up new terms for features. Often these are to try to differentiate where there isn't already an existing term but often they seem like attempts to create an artificial differentiation.

- Ceramic Shield
- Super Retina Display
- XDR dynamic range
> Do not upgrade your system packages

Ah, the joys of working somewhere that isn't required to document, answer for, and ultimately remediate every CVE that is present in any package installed on any of your containers within your production application. Sadly, compliance and regulatory oversight don't leave this option open to everyone.
Facebook might be sensing that their market is dwindling as other vendors catch up. They might be trying to extract value why they have the lead.

I honestly have no idea though. I don't get why they're in this space as it doesn't appear from the outside that they're trying very hard.
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The bulk modulus of superhard phase nanotubes is 462 to 546 GPa, even higher than that of diamond.

Engineering a wire under pressure whose whole length is compressed by a structure made out of carbon nanotubes is clearly difficult, but seems theoretically possible. It is very likely beyond our current engineering capabilities. But in principle it is a technology that we could try to develop.

For example at low temperature you assemble a wire that has a high thermal coefficient of expansion down the center of the wire. Then the superconductor around that in a ring. Then a carbon nanotube sheathe around that which traps things. Then when it warms up the core squeezes the superconductor against the sheathe and you get the pressure.
"Mandatory voting" is perhaps a misnomer because what it really means is "mandatory attendance". There's nothing stopping you from going to the polling place and putting thee piece of paper with no votes into the ballot box. In Australia some people deliberately place such "spoiled ballots" or only vote on the stuff they care about. It's completely fine.

What you can get fined for in Australia is not getting your name crossed off when attend a polling place, not for failing to supply a complete and valid ballot.

In Australia you can also vote "above the line" or "below the line". Voting "above the line" means you just select a party (and this includes minor parties) and use that party's preferences (which must be filed in advanced).

Voting "below the line" had become sort of involved because there was ultimately dozens of Senate candidates and you once had to number them all. They reformed this so you only have to put in as many preferences as you like (so only numbering 1 to 6 out of 40).

Another detail: in Australia you have two ballots. One for the House of Representatives and the other for the Senate. You can vote above/below the line separately on each.
That boat has sailed. Twenty years ago, we might have called it "predatory"
and anti-competitive. These days, it's just nature of the beast.

In a very real sense, Ballmer was right -- Linux and
OSS were cancerous in their viral ability to demonetize the software market,
but of course "cancer" is the wrong word given OSS's benevolence.

There's no question Sublime would have made more money without VSCode
being developed as a marketing tool to funnel mindshare to MS's ecosystem (as
"free" IE did for Windows). Same is true with all forms of easily replicable digitized
product, namely music and movies. Bands don't make the kind of money off
record sales like they used to.
> It absolutely is easy compared to staying and fighting for a better future.

What is this fetish we have with fighting. How are people that don’t migrate fighting?

I don’t think you managed to explain how the people that leave are to blame for the problems
May not be a game-changer, but you ought to update. There is an RCE vuln via BlueZ which I think was under embargo until 5.9 came out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPYrLRausSw
https://lwn.net/Articles/834297/
Three shifts means that a given worker works for 8 hours. It says nothing about how many days a week they work, or total hours worked in a week.

Not sure how this is incompatible with any of the stuff you mentioned. Someone can work 4x a week on the 6pm to 2am shift and still have all the things you mentioned.
If curious see also

how they hurt in 2012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4926615

and 2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2279260

Smaller threads:

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7311078

2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2283113
IMO Tiktok is a random example. They're not a moonshot tech company, and they were just serving a pent-up demand that came from the death of Vine under Twitter.
He would probably form a completely different opinion, the world is nothing like what could be anticipated 30 years go.

The first languages and their compilers were strongly driven by hardware constraints, a kilobyte of memory costing an arm and a leg.

Imagine storing function names in memory to compile the program, it doesn't fit in 1 kB. Imagine storing the whole source code in memory for processing, it doesn't work when there is less than a 1 MB of memory available.

It's ridiculous today but it's real reasons why things were made global back then or why C/pascal split the code between a header and a source file.
I personally mind the fact that every time I get a new laptop I have to set up the OS all over again and install all the applications I need.

Instead of just buying the same model and swapping in the drive.
Or, quite possibly, they have no other choice. Some devs have the freedom to walk away from a job that they find morally detestable. But many can't refuse or leave because they're under contract and can't afford the break-contract fee, or they're visa holders whose visa is tied to their employment, or they have a family to take care of and can't afford the time spent job searching. It's unfortunately not hard these days for any sufficiently funded business to find developers for morally questionable or outright unethical business models
@OmarShehata - do you use the Twitter API to get this data? Is it a simple process to get access?
They don't intercede for some authority, though. Bodhisattvas are more like the folks that hold the door open for people and don't leave until everyone else has.
It depends on more factors than the critical temperature. Keeping the magnets cool is not so difficult, liquid nitrogen is fairly cheap. You want materials that can sustain large magnetic fields before losing superconductivity.
That's different. Shift work - also around the clock - is allowed, as long as the individual worker's rest times are respected. The point being that there are three shifts of each 8 hours, not one worker works 24 hours.
Yes, I haven't seen a single person saying that voting in the US is perfect or that no voter suppression takes place.

What I am saying (and others are as well) is that the BBC article seems to be mischaracterising/misunderstanding what is happening with respect to the very long lines for in-person early voting in this specific case.
I went to a school where football was an extremely big deal and we actually had a school sanctioned spirit squad that would do this before big games. five to ten highschool juniors/seniors would barge into classes yelling, shaking desks, high-fiving people, etc. the teachers hated it, but the administration thought it was good for school spirit. tbh I kinda enjoyed the chaos, but looking back I don't understand how someone in their right mind could allow that.
So in Germany, the ratio is 845 voters per place. this seems to be quite high compared to North America.

For comparison, here are the numbers in Canada for 2019 [0]:

Registered electors: 27,300,000

Polling places: 20,000

Thus, the ratio is 1365 ppl per polling place.

This is only 60% of the ratio in Germany. I am from Canada and I don't think we have any problems with voer supression.

[0] https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=med&dir=bkg&do...
I think what should be celebrated here is that all it took was a click of a link and a wait time of under 1 second to begin using this application.
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I'm curious about your threat model, only because this doesn't concern me much. Why does this not satisfy yours, I'm afraid I'm a missing something.
Yep, that issue is a battle I've lost in the court of public opinion here, so mea culpa. Thanks- I'll see about improving it.

Though, in my defense this little clone is already very unlike like minesweeper in so many ways, starting with the geometry - less sides to touch a mine (6 instead of 8). Trade-off is that the number you see is more certain about its neighbors, so the quirk of the first strike grew on me.
There is a reason they engaged fact checking companies to do what they do when it comes to some stories on the site. If you are surprised that they are actually using them I have no idea what to say.
At 34, you would be almost the youngest guy on my team. SV might trend young, but that is not universally true. If you enjoy coding and want to make a move in that direction, don't let your age stop you.
Personally, I want to have a text backup of all my playlists.

If my Spotify disappeared into the aether tomorrow, it would be a lot of pain. Not completely awful -- I follow a lot of my favorite bands on Youtube, and I buy physical releases occasionally too, but my connection to every artist that I can't name off the top of my head will have been lost.

I've been a spotify customer for years and I plan to continue that, but I also am not planning on letting my playlists go silently into the night.
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'Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time'

Quanta Magazine ought to know better than to lead a story with a misleading headline like that. Moreover, they've even made it worse by 'exaggerating' the temperature by quoting it in degrees Fahrenheit in stead of Celsius (using Fahrenheit is a no-no in science).

That superconductivity was achieved at room temperature but at that huge pressure is hardly worth reporting as it's of no practical value whatsoever thus only interest to fundamental research.