skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with a federal corruption investigation is that the people in charge of the investigation need to not see themselves as being on the same "team" as those doing the suppression.
It's not entirely clear from the article but my guess would be that you should really update the repository + base dependencies in the base image, not the "application" image or whatever you wanna call it. But not the end of the world if you're not reusing that base image. Feels weird that an article on "Security Best Practices" would advise _against_ latest versions of your software, especially using apt as an example which is usually used in stable distributions (major version upgrades happens seldom) like Ubuntu/Debian.

But yeah, that last part doesn't make any sense. If you're not running `apt-get upgrade`, it doesn't make sense to run `apt-get update` as nothing is using the newly fetched data anyways...
I stumbled across your project recently while helping a friend with scraping project. I think the pricing is reasonable but I found that the non-commercial limitations of the free plan make it difficult for smaller developers to try it out in their projects. Just my 2c.
Injury rates per DC: https://www.revealnews.org/article/amazon-injury-rates/
Facebook is easily the worst company in big tech, with zero regard whatsoever for privacy or consumers. I can no longer support Oculus since it requires FB authentication.

I recommend creating a separate account if you have no other options.
Pinning the version tag for base images in Dockerfile is a good idea beyond the scope of security. It helps with onboarding as well. I've been in situations where depending on the `:latest` tag of a base image caused different versions of that image to be used on different machines, resulting in developers having weird issues that no one else was having ("I thought Docker was supposed to solve this!"). Now, I only use non-specific tags like `:latest` or `:12-alpine` before I distribute the Docker image, by either collaborating with others or pushing it to Docker Hub. It just gives me peace of mind to know that others are building on the exact same stack as I was building on.
> It's unlikely that any other company will outcompete Google on search.

Why?

I understand Google has a big database, but note that we're talking products, not just technologies. A "good enough" product in one dimension can still disrupt existing products if it's better in other dimensions.
Do you know of any remote-first tech company that pays Bay Area salaries regardless of location?

I haven’t heard of one, and I would think this would be a huge selling point so anyone doing it would want to advertise it to engineers.

On the other hand there are plenty of companies transparent about their policy to match pay to cost of living, for instance gitlab publishes their conversion percentages for different cities. Many places in the US they pay ~60% of Bay Area.
Preferential voting means you list the candidates in your order of preference. It means you can put your first choice for a small party and if they get eliminated by having the least votes your second choice becomes your vote and so on.
Belkin MagSafe charger floats the iPhone 12
We shouldn't be charitable to racism, sexism, delusional religious beliefs, or fascism; they are too harmful to the world. In this case, you're asking me to be charitable to a sexist article whose author does not justify their credentials beyond being a professor of philosophy; perhaps they are only accidentally sexist here?

Seriously, do some close-reading. The very first sentence:

> It’s uncontroversial among biologists that many species have two, distinct biological sexes.

Note the word "many" here; not all species, but just some. In other words, many species do not have two distinct biological sexes. They then continue:

> It does so despite the fact that there are no more than two biological sexes in any species you’re likely to have heard of.

Ah, so while many species do not have two sexes, we're not likely to have heard of them. Okay, that's a fair cultural idea, I suppose... And then, suddenly, a one-two punch:

> Not all species have biological sexes, and biology seeks to explain why some do and others don’t.

Wait, okay, so some species have more than two sexes, and some don't have sex at all? This is a confusion tactic, because the very next sentence is:

> The fact that no species has evolved more than two biological sexes is also a puzzle.

We've done it. We went all the way from some species, to no species that we've heard of, to no species at all having more than two sexes. This is a famous rhetorical technique known as Iago's whispers [0]. By carefully restating the original thesis over and over, but gently changing it each time, the meaning of the entire article is shifted.

Now with this discrediting in hand, the author can continue safely down their binary-gender-theory path, writing slapstick like:

> Now imagine if there was a whole species like this, where three different kinds of gametes combined to make a new individual – a sperm, an egg and a third, mitochondrial gamete. This species would have three biological sexes. Something like this has actually been observed in slime moulds, an amoeba that can, but need not, get its mitochondria from a third ‘parent’.

You see, the idea of more than two sexes is now imaginary, relegated to thought experiments. And we see species that are like having more than two sexes, as a simile. But the author's carefully removed the actual physical reality from consideration.

HN rules forbid me from accusing folks of not having read the original article.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iago
2 km to the nearest pooling booth from every house hold? That doesn't seem to make sense.
You're right, but this argument isn't too far from the "roleplaying" criticism that OP brought up. It can be seen as a more or less charitable manifestation of the same idea, namely that by pretending to be X we start becoming X. On one end this is roleplaying on larping, on the other end this is the Stanford Prison Experiment.
Only on the actual election day.
What a coincidence that the party most often claiming that government is incompetent is also the one doing the most to make voting difficult. Removing mailboxes, closing DMVs, fighting against early and absentee voting...
I bought a Go years ago and recently I got a screen locking the entire device until I logged into Oculus. I selected the option to not connect my Facebook account, but continue to use my Oculus account. There was a sunset date on this option.

I've never bought anything from the Oculus store. I honestly only use VR for Skybox and movies I download to a file server.

Are there any alternative OSes for the GO? Honestly I'd rather just get off the stock OS if I just had a way to play my movies.
I get the impression that this is an opportunity to paint a political story that makes your side look better (other side is suppressing the vote, therefore my candidate lost!), or perhaps in this specific case, to poke fun at America as it is a favorite international past time.

The data I see shows another possibility: voter turn out has increased by a large amount and the government is struggling to meet the demand. Over 20 years, the number of voters in a presidential election has increased by more than 30 million. That's more than the entire population of the state of New York.
What political statement are they making aside from saying 'I would like to vote'?

Even the densest election board recognizes this year is not based on historical trends and that early voting (which has been touted on national news) is one way to solve the issue.
I can imagine if you're a routing app (e.g. providing transit directions) you might want to re-route users to an alternative station if the lift is broken/a station doesn't have a lift.
Not standalone. Last I recall, they _do_ have one, but it's much more expensive than Quest, and didn't have very good reviews.
I read "Teenage Booty Hunters", given the recent controversy about "cuties" it didn't seem so unlikely...
Is Krita good for vector art? I often use InkScape to touch up or modify icons, but have found InkScape's UI to sometimes completely bug out. (besides looking generally bad).

Is Krita an alternative to InkScape?
What if we could fix both kinds of death?
A lot of people outside the USA don’t realize we don’t have an election. We have 51 parallel elections, each with their own rules.

For example, you’ll never see long lines like that in California or Oregon.

For some reason people are super allergic to having federal standards on how federal elections should be run.

Sure, run your state however you want. But it’s messed up that I, a Californian, have no say in how elections are run in Florida, even though it has a big effect on me, and vice versa.
> the Republican party setup unofficial drop boxes that aren't legal.

How is this not a felony? AFAIK it is a felony to set up a fake mailbox to steal peoples' mail.
The prober is begging that the proposition (question) be granted for free, without a valid proof.
> Of course if everybody tries to show up on the first day, you're going to have long lines.

What you seem to take as obvious does not seem obvious at all to me.

Why should there be long lines? It doesn't make any sense at all for a system that typically does voting all at once on one day.
The Republican Party of California set up ballot boxes in locations frequented by Republican voters so that they can harvest Republican-favorable ballots and... throw them away?

I get that putting up ballot boxes that pose as "Official" should/may be illegal, but the ballots that go into those boxes are going to get delivered and counted.
Wait, did I miss election day or something?
HN always has these "hot takes" discounting any societal failings, probably because the average user expects their worthless "Facebook for dogs" idea to turn them into a billionaire and want to keep low taxes
The reason for this, as the article aptly points out, is because of the historic technique of the American conservative party (today the American Republican Party or GOP) to restrict the ability of traditionally liberal voters (today the American Democratic party) to vote. Given that the working class, naturalized immigrants, and people of color traditionally vote liberal, the best way to secure a win is simply make it as hard as possible for them to vote. So they've opposed legislation guaranteeing a day off to vote [1], making it fairly impossible for people living paycheck to paycheck. They've opposed legislation to make it easier to vote by mail in ballot [2] which would make it easier for working class people to vote. They've purged voting rolls so that people with less understanding of the registration process find themselves unable to vote on election day [3], and of course the incessant cries that somehow voter fraud is a big enough issue that it's worth disenfranchising thousands with strict voter ID laws. In my home state of texas we had once instance voter fraud in the last 4 years, and it was a woman on parole being lied to by her parole officer about her right to vote.

Typical bad faith conservative arguments include that mail in voting leads to voter fraud (it doesn't), voting holidays are a power grab by democrats (Mitch mcconnell's verbatim words), and that millions of Mexicans citizens / non americans are voting in american elections (also no). In texas the republicam governor said vague things about covid and then banned counties from having more than one ballot drop off location. For reference, my county (harris) has one of the largest cities in america (houston) in it, a population of 30 million people, and can take up to an hour and a half to drive from an edge to the center.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/us/politics/election-day-...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/30/trump-vot...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/31/voter-purges...
> The US governing system is designed in such a way as to move at a glacial pace but also to not make mistakes or over correct. The polling systems may seem broken now but will inevitably get corrected over time.

Is that what the 3/5ths compromise was about? Jim Crowe laws? Poll taxes? Poll literacy tests? Purging voter rolls?

The notion that any of these "features" are necessary for good governance is ludicrous.
Shenanigans are not limited to one of the political parties. https://nypost.com/2020/09/27/project-veritas-uncovers-ballo...
This is a fantastic resource for developers looking for work. I run a company that helps people make resumes and even I learned a few things!
imho: always check what is upgrading - before make a decisions ..

the ubuntu:20.10 now want to upgrade the "libssl1.1"!

docker run --rm -it ubuntu:20.10 bash -c "apt update && apt upgrade"
...
The following packages will be upgraded:
debianutils diffutils findutils gcc-10-base
libgcc-s1 libgnutls30 libprocps8 libssl1.1 libstdc++6
libsystemd0 libudev1 procps sed zlib1g

the ubuntu:20.04 is better

docker run --rm -it ubuntu:20.04 bash -c "apt update && apt upgrade"
...
The following packages will be upgraded:
gcc-10-base libgcc-s1 libstdc++6 zlib1g
> What if you're subscribed to alt.binaries? Do you then sync all the binaries when you go online?

Yes. Your news reader (nee aggregator) would use the NNTP protocol to tell the server "please give me a list of articles in groups X, Y, and Z". Your reader would know you read up to article 234 in a group previously, but now there were 266, so there were 32 new ones. You'd tell the reader UI to go into that group, which would cause it to download the new articles (headers) and display them to you. If you saw a particular thread you liked you'd select that and the body of the article(s) would be downloaded.

If you wanted to do offline reading there was a file format call SOUP which would allow you to download it to your local machine (remember, this was often in the age of dial-up). There is no article on SOUP, but a similar idea was QWK for BBSes:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWK_(file_format)

To distribute articles/posts globally an NNTP server would talk to other NNTP servers: technically peer-to-peer was/is possible, but it was often hierarchical. One could also have site/local-only groups and global groups.
Isn't that fine, though? The github.io link gives you a browsable on-line document while the PDF version of UM008011-0816 can be found elsewhere.
To know when the lift-replacement paternoster is "supposed" to arrive at platform 3?
I am personally interested in this domain and would like to share something I have been thinking about:

If a platform could separate my personally identifiable bits from my measurement data stream and if I participate in sending anonymous track of my health -

- at a large scale, there would be enough data to derive patterns and then insights (like you mention)

- I could take the generated insights and apply them as overlay on top of my own personal data again

In theory my personal bits never leave my app. But I contribute to a larger data driven improvement of health.
$149.... nope.. That's just ridiculous.
Too late for that I think, the authoritarians have had a taste and they like it. From the Dutch Prime-minister in a story posted on HN earlier today:

The government also plans to make face masks compulsory in all indoor public spaces, but that still needs to be worked out legally. ‘We want to prevent discussion about the measures,’ Rutte said. ‘We want people to stick to them.’

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/10/the-netherlands-goes-i...

Discussion, conversation, yesterday's thing; shut up and do as you're told.
We use `sops`[1] to do this and it works really well.

There is a Google Cloud KMS keyring (for typical usage) and a GPG key (for emergency/offline usage) set up to handle the encryption/decryption of files that store secrets for each application's deployment. I have some bash scripts that run on CI which are essentially just glorified wrappers to `sops` CLI to generate the appropriate `.env` file for the application, which is put into the container by the `Dockerfile`.

Applications are already configured to read configuration/secrets from a `.env` file (or YAML/JSON, depending on context), so this works pretty easily and avoids depending on secrets being set in the `ENV` at build time.

You can also, of course, pass any decrypted values from `sops` as arguments to your container deployment tool of choice (e.g. `helm deploy foo --set myapp.db.username=${decrypted_value_from_sops}`) and not bundle any secrets at build time at all.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/sops
https://bl.ocks.org/texodus/96a9ed60d0250f7d3187c0fed5f5b78c
Early voting is always hit or miss on the first day. Did a 4 hour stint once myself years ago. Couple of dudes went the next day and got in and out. Voting on the proper day is usually fairly easy enough. Most employers work with you to do so. One time it was a 1 hour wait on election day. Few years later it took less than 20 mins total from parking going in and driving off. All at the same location. Early voting locations have a secondary issue as they usually have an amalgamation of several districts. So the biggest hold up is making sure you have the correct ballot. As depending on where you are at you may have a different ballot per precinct. I may be in district 'xyz' for this congress man but not on the ballot for the mayor of the city because I do not live in a city. That sort of thing.
The GAO has a much better writeup about wait times on election day in 2012.

https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-14-850
Room-temperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous sulfur hydride [at 155 GPa]
I agree with all your points but do think its important to clarify that The Expanse was originally cancelled by SyFy not Netflix before being picked up by Amazon, Netflix just had streaming rights at the time.
I mean, I don’t really have a narrative here. I just find the comparison to Weimar unconvincing. Modern culture, in its inability to generate new futures (see Baudrillard, Deleuze, etc.) constantly looks backwards. The popular trend now seems to be reframing the 2020s as a 1920s redux, but again, I think this is mostly lazy ignorance.
Preferential Voting is a system by which you can rank your preferences rather than choosing a single candidate. You might range Green party first, Democrat second. There are various methods of tallying the votes, but it usually means that you can support the less popular candidate without giving up your weight in the choice between two frontrunners.
How is this relevant? These long lines and the voter suppression that they cause are both very real. Shining a light on that isn't "sensationalism".
I referenced PRISM in a comment to a recent Apple article on HN a couple of days ago. It triggered HN and Apple fans and the comment ultimately got shadow-banned by moderators.[1]

Anyway, it’s astonishing that so many people willfully continue to use products/services offered by the core companies that are members of PRISM surveillance. Members provide access to ALL user data/information to NSA et al. Here are some technology/telecom company members (and approx. date joined):

* Microsoft (2007)

* Yahoo! (2008)

* Facebook (2009)

* Google (2009) / YouTube (2010)

* Apple (2012)

* Dropbox (tbd)

* Verizon (and probably T-Mobile/Sprint, AT&T, etc.)

These member companies are effectively an extension of three letter agencies (intel) and are above the law.

A dozen+ countries participate in PRISM, too.[2]

Want to Break Out of the PRISM? It’s relatively easy. The nonprofit Prism-Break provides people a path to get started.[3]

Resources/Notes:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24738743

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#C...

[3] https://prism-break.org/en/
I'm very excited about VR. I bought the GearVR, then the first Oculus Rift, and most recently the Quest 1.

Now, instead of buying the Quest 2 (which is unquestionably the best-value headset available today) I'm waiting for a competitor to enter the space.

Imagine if your desktop monitor would only turn on when synced to an active account on a social media platform. If you decide to leave that platform, or if that platform decides you aren't providing enough invasive information about yourself and decides to leave you, you've got an expensive paperweight. No warning or recourse. No thank you.
Long wait times are occurring across the US this year for early voting; I spoke to someone in Texas (a historically Republican stronghold) who told me lines were 2 hours long in his area on the first day of early voting.

US election regulations aren't designed to handle this level of early voting because there has never been this much demand for it. You can debate whether that should change or whether election officials should have been able to forecast this increase in demand (I would say yes to both), but I don't believe this to be as nefarious as you claim.
I don't want to call them out explicitly, but they're one of the largest all remote companies, and this information is ready available on their online (and googleable) remote compensation calculator.
I was so excited for the CV1 after I loved my DK2, but I now own a Vive. The Facebook acquisition was a deal-breaker, for privacy reasons and it bring patently obvious it would eventually result in this type of garbage.
One shouldn't be mislead to thinking these unacceptably long lines are common. From MIT:

> For general elections, the average wait time decreased from 14 to 12 minutes between 2008 and 2012; it dropped again in 2016 to an 8-minute average.

https://medium.com/mit-election-lab/insights-into-voting-wai...
a car that came without a steering wheel so you had to buy one.

When I bought a new Ford pick-up truck in the 90's, it didn't come with a rear bumper. That was an add-on. I presume because different people will want different rear bumpers (regular, towing, something else).

When I lived in the desert, I regularly saw brand pick-up trucks without tailgates, or with various specialty ones, so I assume those are also optional.
MORE FOX NEWS PLEASE
We do hope that real progress will bring in more votes form other users.

It's early days, but we do plan on adding features that allow people to better communicate their progress.
Sega Genesis / Mega Drive was the first console I learned to program for, maybe when I was about 11-12 or so and was getting a start at ASM when I found hex editing too limiting in the ROM hacking scene.

The Genesis/MD uses a Z80 processor as its sound processor alone - so it is amazing to me to consider running everything off that on a Sega Master System!

I'm a little obsessed with Sega Saturn homebrew at the moment, or I'd try some SMS homebrew - but the article was fascinating!
NC? GA? Another state that was (prior to 2013) limited in what it could do by the VRA?
I think that's exactly it. There are smart people everywhere who want to work on interesting ideas. But they will naturally congregate where the opportunity and resources exist and the bureaucracy doesn't.

Fixing Europe isn't about finding smart people to work on things. It's about preventing them from leaving. Ironically Covid might be helping that for a couple years.