skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe at one point, but at this point the general audience
> B) Knows enough to do things right

Reality check: https://blog.emsisoft.com/en/34822/the-state-of-ransomware-i...

Note that not all these incidents resulted from drive-by-downloads or elaborate hacks:

> Riviera Beach: In June, Riviera Beach, Florida, was hit with ransomware when a police department employee opened a malicious email attachment.

In 2019, people still click every e-mail attachment unchecked, even though e-mail attachments have been a primary vector for attacks for decades at this point.

Putting faith in the abilities of the average user is the first step towards disaster. The average user is not more aware or capable in 2020 than they were in 1995. People still carelessly put random USB drives into their machines, still open dodgy e-mail attachments and still download and execute installers and other executables from random websites.

Some sobering stats for mobile [1]:

> Less than 20% of mobile malware is delivered via a browser — the remainder of the payloads come through an app. (Source: RSA Current State of Cybercrime)

Last but unfortunately not least, unpatched systems are still presenting a completely avoidable attack vector for malware and ransomware, because users (both private and industrial/institutional) fail to update their systems [2].

So no, the harsh reality is that the average user is neither aware, nor capable of "doing things right".

[1] https://phoenixnap.com/blog/ransomware-statistics-facts

[2] https://www.mcafee.com/enterprise/en-us/assets/reports/rp-qu...
>> Yeah but like, what's it valuable for?

It's a deflationary store of value.

What is Gold valuable for? It's a deflationary store of value (though it does inflate slightly so it's not as good as Bitcoin in that sense).

Deflationary stores of value are valuable.

It's the same reason why a battery is valuable if you have solar panels. It captures excess energy from the system and allows you to store it for later use when you actually need it (like at night when the sun doesn't shine).

When the Fed is printing tons of money, the sun shining... You don't know what to do with all that excess energy. You could buy more electrical appliances to consume that excess electricity (e.g. invest in that hot new startup), but you already have more of them than you know what to do with... You may as well store that excess energy to use later for a rainy day.
California Property Tax Interactive Map
Back in grad school, I had the pleasure of working with some very old FORTRAN. Written conservatively using a few bits of FORTRAN 77, but mainly in a FORTRAN 66 style. The control structures I found in there would make you go crosseyed. At one point, there was a jump that took you from outside a loop to the middle of the body of the loop. Today's no-longer-all-caps Fortran manages to elude EWD's criticism by not being that language any longer. You have to use a lot of obscure compiler flags even to make the old stuff compile.
Thanks, the beginner/intermediate/expert levels are the only ones that give a different difficulty. All the other maps are expert - hardcoded at about the % age of a classic minesweeper mine density. Trade off is you get three lives, though most people (sigh, like me) just reset when they hit their first daisy.

Plan is to rebuild the menu hexagon with these options so you can set it however you like, but this is a side hobby so won't be until next month that I'll get to it. If you spy on what's sent via socket.io, you can override the density parameter in console and request new games ;)

My favorite part of the game doesn't exist anymore, was actually the death screen animations but somewhere between code updates I tabled it and never reinstated it. Random tiles would minimize into the distance and then rotate every few seconds and everything would blur out except the correct numbers, spitting in your face sort of. Was eerie.
I don't know, I use Paddle, not Stripe.
Ultimately partisans of either persuasion portray opposing voters as uninformed. I'd even suggest that a healthy portion of voters on any side have poorly formed reasoning skills.

What is the standard for being an informed voter?

I can easily imagine the backlash if there were a test for competence wherein voters were required to identify fallacious arguments.
I loved the ending of Farscape, even before the mini-series wrap-up.

First, they wrapped up essentially every dangling plot-line. Everyone was safe, everyone was happy.

Then in the last minute of the show, out of no where, an alien no one had ever seen before swoops in and disintegrates the main characters.

"To be continued" flashes on the screen.

The series was canceled before this episode aired/was finished, and that's how they chose to go out. Could have just cut the last 30 seconds off the episode and called it a wrap, but nope.
You have a choice to make: align your work more closely with your own values and mental health needs, or keep playing the corporate game in the same way, both mentally and physically.

The corporation isn't responsible for your mental health, your happiness, your satisfaction, your values. Those are your responsibility.

And: 'escape' is not the approach. There is no place to 'escape' to out there. There are only choices.

I'm telling you this because I've been exactly where you are. And based on my experience, the experience of many friends, and the words of the sages, it all boils down to this: choose, then act on your choices. You have the wheel.
> The history of voter suppression in certain states cannot be ignored.

Agreed but mostly orthogonal. Providing early voting at all is a drastic improvement reducing voter suppression. Since it lasts for multiple days, it allows for many more people to vote on days off work and other commitments, when they may not be able to easily vote on election day. Providing better early voting would of course do an even better job of this.
Get a VoIP number solely for using as a social media platform validator. Never use your actual mobile number
fair point. I think my comment was US centric. There really isn't a cuisine culture in a lot of small usa towns. Probably do to the short lived actual history of the US, and the nearly forced consumption of preservative ridden and processed food following the world wars.
It's browsable, but there is no search and the in-browser search does not work because the pages are only rendered when scrolling. So, like many current web pages, pretty and useless.
For a clear cut example, look at Texas.

“Abbott in July acted to lengthen the early voting period and allow voters to deliver completed absentee ballots in person for longer than the normal period. But after large Democratic counties including Harris and Travis established several sites where voters could deliver their ballots, Abbott ordered Oct. 1 that they would be limited to one… Harris County — home to 2.4 million registered voters and spanning a greater distance than the state of Rhode Island — had designated a dozen before Abbott’s order forced them to close most sites.” [0]

If party A looks at the districts with majority party B voters and targets those areas for polling station closures, that can have a huge effect.

[0] https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/13/texas-election-ballo...
The worst case scenario is the oceans shift to a eutrophic ecosystem https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4802792/
Ohh! Would you be willing to share your files for the hand stands?
The GPL is all about protecting a users freedom to use their software in any way they'd like, and correctly notes that users require access to source code in order to do that. Quoting verbatim from the preamble, "the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users."

It doesn't really discuss other sorts of freedom.

I'd also note that RMS is famed for having (and sharing) many opinions, many of them specifically on the sorts of freedom we're discussing now, yet no such language has ever appeared in the FSF's licenses.
To be fair, the article takes some care to point out that cables are likely impossible
I think you are right for tokamaks, room temp superconductor would change the design somewhat.
Not even that is good enough, a ban on an account should have a VERY high bar, and that bar needs to be highly regulated. Right now it's just games, maybe movies, but it could apply to all kinds of software and apps... and this stuff is important. You can't cut a person off from being able to purchase and use their puchased software. It's too important.
Continuity - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204681

Apple Wireless Direct Link - https://owlink.org/wiki/
That was 25 years ago. The average number of such trucks per year is zero.
I really like the RESTful syntax they've chosen, some proper thought went into this

escalator/4567/emergency-stop

escalator/4567/reverse

escalator/4567/go-fast

lift/335/close-doors

lift/335/lights-off

lift/335/ignore-requests-from-level/2
Unless they have a long beard and are of Middle Eastern or South Asian descent though. /s
Hated that book, after reading a bunch of Stephenson's others. Preordered it even. Highly disappointed.
> inter-bank transfer would take days to go through

In the UK bank transfers are practically instantaneous. It's nuts that the US is so far behind on this.
Show HN: API to Generate Corporate BS [Free, Open Source]
You don't need room temp superconductors to make those magnets. REBCO tape can be cooled by liquid nitrogen. It's what they are using for the various tiny Tocamak projects.
I used to agree with you on this line of thinking, but over the past few years my thinking has been changing quite radically.

What good is protections against tyranny of the majority if it just results in tyranny of the minority? The majority will only play a rigged game for so long - as you are beginning to see with Democrats seriously discussing court packing should they win power.

One party has gotten Presidents in twice over the past 20 years without winning the popular vote. Those two presidents who did not win a majority of support got to pick 4 Supreme Court justices, wildly swinging the ideology of the court in the process towards minority views.

A Wyoming voter has vastly more power then a Californian voter in every federal election. When the Founders set up the Senate, Virginia was something like 15x more populous then the least populist state. California is 66x more populous then Wyoming today.

In my opinion - power has shifted far too much to the minority. On issue after issue you can find things like gun control, climate change, healthcare, minimum wage, paid maternity leave with public support in the 60% plus range, yet nothing happens due to the tyranny of the minority (and a good dose of corruption).

We need massive democratic reforms in this country if we want to be able to solve the problems of the coming century, and yes the minority needs to lose some of its protections. I don't think "but tyranny of the majority" holds up as valid argument against reforms given the context of the last 20+ years.
Not to mention that on my machine, it took about 30 seconds to load and draw anything except empty pages. Just marvellous.
Are You Free or Goal-Oriented?
Again, my concern is that this claim is so underspecified that no data could refute it. No matter which countries achieve better or worse outcomes, you can (and people do) define whatever the countries with better outcomes did to be the necessary precautions.

Maybe a concrete example would help express what I'm getting at here. If Brazil saw a rapid improvement over the next month, would you consider that a refutation of the claim, or would you conclude that they must have started taking the necessary precautions?
Mandatory voting in the US would simply be an excuse to fine or jail the same people that are targeted for voter suppression.

Also personally I'd just rather people who have no interest in voting not be forced to randomly choose candidates just because they are forced to vote. Along that line, voting in person should universally become optional with mail in/drop off becoming the norm. I'd always had a valid reason for absentee voting when I had residency in my home state and it would take me atleast a day to properly research the down ballot candidates. I now live in a state with judges on the ballot and it took me an entire weekend to actually look through everyone that wasn't in the federal races. Mandatory voting, especially without universal access to absentee voting, would just exacerbate the issue of people just voting based on name or party instead of stance when there are so many people on the ballot.
>IG, YT, and the rest are now purely about marketing strategies.

OBVIOUSLY! Because there are a million others vying for the same eyeballs. The question is, how do you stand out? If you were a YouTuber who wanted to make a living from YouTube content you create, how would you do it?

>Then they need to start monitoring their pilots more effectively, and also spend a little more on up-front development so that the shows that make it out of the slush pile have some prospect of getting to the end of a natural arc.

How do you know they aren't doing that? No matter how good your pre-production process is for finding good shows, ultimately, it's the eyeballs and box-office that decide it. There is no formula to differentiate a hit from a bomb. What complicates things is that season 1 of the show may have been a hit, but subsequent seasons are not. There's no magic here. At some point, you are going to be cutting something to make room for something else.

>NF claims to be data driven

I'm sure it is, but there is no formula that you can use to figure out what is going to be a hit and what will be a bomb and lose you money. If there was, you wouldn't see companies spending hundreds of millions on movies that end up bombing at the box-office.

>The efficient solution is to produce consistently great content.

This is like saying the 'efficient solution' to investing is to invest in companies that give a good return and not invest in companies that lose you money.

Pretty sure everyone wants to produce great content.
I am not. My point is that the reason we are here, that this repression even exists, is due to the media marketplace. Without it, this kind of blatant repression isn’t possible. It is here because of decades of propaganda and distraction by the right that has allowed then to take advantage of I’ll informed people who have become enemies of their neighbors and democracy itself.
I don't think so. That one is just about a senate comittee investigation, which seems pretty easy to confirm. I think it's this one https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden... But to be honest, it's hard to tell which of the dozen articles about "Biden emails" they published in the past week it might be.
Like this: https://github.com/stephomi/sculptgl/commit/ba8cc5e60f793b72...

You don't need a framework for anything. You need to know your problem and have an idea on how to solve it.
I maintain a Yahoo.com email account but I'm not sure why. I have Gmail pick up the mail using POP and that's where at least 90% of the emails in my spam folder come from.

I guess I worry about there being something out there that I used long ago and want to retrieve. And they started recycling email addresses: https://celeretech.com/blog/yahoo-begins-recycling-e-mail-ac... So there was the fear that somebody else would take over your old address.

That was a long time ago (2010) and they reversed direction but there's nothing going on with Yahoo that makes you think they won't do it again.
I'd like to think we could agree that the Senate has become more politicized in the last few decades.

I think where we disagree is what to do about it.

There seems to be this prevailing cultural view that a democratic election is always good and always produces wise and just results. Where as people like me are fearful of what starts as the wise vox populi devolves into a crowd, transforms into an angry mob, and then the fun really begins!

I always like a line that was attributed to George Washington...

"George Washington is said to have told Jefferson that the framers had created the Senate to 'cool' House legislation just as a saucer was used to cool hot tea."

By directly electing Senators, we have reduced that cooling function.
Designated Survior ran on ABC for 2 seasons, Netflix made one more, so really ABC cancelled it and Netflix brought it back. This is similar to what they are doing with Lucifer right now.

Shooter was a USA Network series, not Netflix.
AFAIK, MSX stands for "machines with software exchangeability".
I'm not the best person for this, but here it goes

Quick sketch:

- Learn WebGL (or OpenGL and transition)

- Learn some linear algebra, don't worry, all you need is 4D matrices, so you don't need to know proofs, just how to use it.

- Create a 3D graphics engine like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH6-dLvZEiA (that's mine, I haven't progressed since in this area, so this is the level I'm at, enough to know what fields are needed to learn this but not enough to know all the specific techniques)

- Look up names/techniques people have used to create something specific like OPs post, see [1]

- Learn that stuff as well / related math

- Build it in WebGL

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9CExYF8yrU&ab_channel=V%C3%...
works great on iphone even. i remember when alias waveform maya came out with its sculpting tools 15+ years ago and you needed a $2000 graphics card to use them with reasonable responsiveness.
Deterministic Overconfidence
> NSA surveillance program did not prevent a single terrorist attack

Because terrorist attacks that were prevented didn't happen, there is no way to know. We could only speculate by correlating terrorist attacks and surveillance, but there are so many external variables that it is effectively impossible to prove causation.

What the ruling said is that the NSA surveillance program resulted in only one conviction related to terrorism, and that it could have been made without it. i.e. it didn't help catch any terrorist, which is a different claim. The end result is the same: the NSA surveillance program is illegal and considered ineffective, but unlike the title claim, it is a fact.
Then you say "There are better options than BASIC for teaching new programmers." That's not what was written.

I've read countless anecdotes from perfectly capable programmers who not only learned, but first discovered their interest in the field, via BASIC. No language "mentally mutilates programmers beyond hope of regeneration". And BASIC probably isn't even the worst one for learning purposes.
I too have the Quest 1, absolutely love it, and would have immediately purchased the Quest 2 if FB had not gone back on their explicit promise to never require an FB account.

Someone PLEASE make a privacy-first (i.e. "NORMAL") headset with similar specs to the Quest 2 - you can charge more for all I care.
The intent isn't to make it softer though. "PTSD" is more accurate than "shell shock". In WWI they thought that the accumulated shockwave exposure from constant shelling caused mental issues in soldiers. Today we know that all sorts of stressful situations can cause PTSD; it doesn't require being in the trenches taking howitzer fire day and night.
Ouch, bad luck! Incidentally, that's why the 'instant restart' option got put in. Had my alpha tester growl at me over it.

Thanks, that's already in the works and I'll put in an option for a safe first click. Wrote more about this to another person here, but suffice it to say I'm trying to shift the entire board's biggest randomly generated hole to your first click instead of (re)generating the board with an artificial hole. Because I don't want to tamper with RNG, and I'm a fool. This is the harder overcomplicated way of doing it, so it's taking some time, but it'll be in the next update.
> triggered HN and Apple fans

This is generally not the best way to garner sympathy for your comment.
For journey planners, knowing whether routes are step-free.
The problem is that what you are saying is false, and the links you provide don’t back up your assertion in the slightest.

Perhaps some of these companies ‘joined’ prism willingly, but Google and Apple both deny having done so.

The dates you quote are from slides indicating when prism started to acquire data from these companies. They have nothing to do with membership or joining.

Data was obtained from these companies without their particpation, and they have taken measures to harden their systems since this was made public, for example in Google’s case prism obtained data by intercepting their underground fiber optic cables. Data was previously sent unencrypted between data centers along these, but after the intrusion was discovered, Google moved to encrypting this traffic.

If you can find evidence that either of these companies willingly became members of prism, then please present it.

Otherwise, you are repeating false claims.
Linux has the advantage of many choices so you can use what fits you best.

If your hardware has good Linux drivers and if the software you need has a Linux version then IMO you can find a distribution that will match your needs. Arch could be great for some people but an LTS will be more popular with other people. For example in my case I use Intellij for work and it comes in a tar.gz file format that I can use and I can keep the old version around when updating. The only time I compiled things was when I modified stuff to add my own changes to open source software.

If you are gaming I think you should still use Windows or a console, even some will claim Proton works with most games the experience can be frustrating with many of the games that are claimed to work.
Mentoring is right up there at the top of things we can all do to improve the world for everyone.

Yeah, it does suck. Has for a long run now. You are not wrong.

I was mentored by boomers who passed the power and importance of it on to me. GenX'er here

That may be rare. I don't know.

What I do know is when we all help the new, up and coming people, it pays off nicely.
This is an important point, and there are plenty of recent elections that affirm it.

If the Florida panhandle were part of Alabama, and Michigan's upper peninsula were part of Wisconsin, the result of the 2016 election would have been reversed.

The 2000 election was decided by ~500 voters in Florida.
So true. Generally I prefer a single season. Something with a conclusion and without open ends.
The California GOP is putting up voting boxes under the language of Official, and fashioned as if administered by government.

Nobody should be allowed to pose as government.

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Prior discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24756621

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24777294
I want Snowden to be pardoned. And I think the data collection network was both illegal and morally wrong.

But that doesn't make me believe these kinds of articles. Most of these types of articles for the past numerous years have the same formula. Case X proves it was useful, case X is determined to not be relevant to the data collection methods, typically by someone biased. And it's always a judge out of one of the most liberal places. (and I'm liberal / democrat)

It's weaksauce, and most of the people here are unwilling to see past it because they also agree with my first paragraph. We can have freedom and "live more dangerously". That's pretty much the entire point of how America came to be. We shouldn't spy on all of our people - and yes that comes with consequences. That's not the same as spying on specific people that we know will or may cause harm.