skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak to Denver, but reposting from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25000078 - no, Chicago voters did not do this:

Hi, Chicago voter here. The question wasn't about public utility, it was "Should the City of Chicago act to ensure that all the City's community areas have access to broadband Internet?" which can imply a number of contradictory policies, from Chicago setting up municipal broadband to Chicago giving tax incentives to the existing national broadband providers.

Illinois limits ballots to three referendum questions, and questions chosen by higher-up political entities have precedence over smaller, more local ones. The three questions on the ballot for Chicago are chosen by the Cook County Board of Commissioners. (For these purposes, Cook County is equivalent to the city of Chicago plus a couple neighboring suburbs.)

Background established and into personal opinion: The question is in fact deliberately vague. The Board's goal is not to ask three divisive questions getting at the heart of urgent political matters. It is to fill the ballot with three questions to preclude local, less connected authorities from putting inconvenient, compelling questions on the ballot. Here's a 2018 court case reaffirming that (Calumet City is in Cook County): https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/opini...

These questions are deliberately worthless and it's a waste of time to analyze them for policy guidance.

If you're curious, the other two questions this cycle were: * In creating its City-wide plan for continued growth and sustainability, should the City of Chicago place equal focus on the goals of resiliency, equity, and diversity? * Should the State of Illinois restrict the sale or possession of firearms that have been defined as assault weapons or of magazines that can hold more than a certain number of rounds of ammunition?
Not OP, but today I'm telling them to re-consider the need for a tech product in general.
Because your country hates White people.
You know work isn't compulsory, right? Take up a hobby or volunteer or travel if you don't need to work.
https://youtu.be/6c1BThu95d8
I guess a far as weight maybe it is cheaper than a plane, but it's got so many engines ... not sure how much cheaper that is.
How's the internet service in Chicago these days? Is it AT&T? If not, who's running the show?
This is good.

Vital infrastructure should be handled by government, and internet is obviously vital at this point. Municipalities build out the last mile, state governments connect municipalities, the federal government connects states (as with our highway system).

Now if we could only do the same for high-speed rail!
> he has been strongly encouraging his supporters to vote in person

He also attempted to sabotage the USPS, and cast doubts on mail-in ballots as a whole, with the obvious intent of suppressing opposition voters, and/or having reason to question the election after the fact.

The only party with anything to gain from suppressing voters are the Republicans. Look at the map of states that didn't ratify the 24th amendment. They've repeatedly made false claims of voter fraud, and engaged in voter intimidation and voter suppression.

And just this election, the Republicans put up fraudulent, illegal mail-in ballot drop boxes.
Then delete this post. The linked article is about Pfizer trolling the whole country.
Effective Shell – Just what *is* a shell? A TTY? A Terminal?
Operator Lookup – Search JavaScript Operators
Looks like a good article to follow. Anyone has recommendations on a small form factor board to get for this project? It appears that the ASRock Mini ITX board in the article is no longer available?
Or Primodos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primodos). Or Sodium Valproate (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39657139). These cases really undermine my confidence in the system.
I’m not saying anything with certainty. However, a lot of work has been expended in trying to contain this cluster and currently this is how it looks with the data we currently have.
Then what is the better solution? Saying it's wrong without giving alternatives isn't a very useful comment imho.

edit: And the solution needs to apply to the US, with all it's brokenness, not some other country with different social structures.
My impression is the NHS had sole custody of their patient's data.

I know nothing about UK's system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Connecting_for_Health

From this article, looks like CFH project brought in consultants around the same time (mid-2000s) CSC sold us (a tiny startup team) to MedPlus (owned by Quest Diagnostics).

I wouldn't trust CSC any further than I could kick them across a football field. I assume all the big consultants are the same.
Yeah I guess really I mean something that doesn't have the ability to check email, bleep at you for an incoming text and all that other crap. I personally get screen fatigue so I use paper. But to me the important part is that it's "just a book", not a book that will try to make you change what you're doing every 10 minutes!
> This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed
Launching Day UIBlend: Instant Mockup Maker
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/uiblend

Super-easy way to create mockups, faster.
OK, no problem. Now try to imagine how other people look to me with their weird valuation of things without value :)
Whom can I pay for to install something like Termux on my iPad? Apple not only forbids third-parties from offering such a service via the App Store, they also do their best to prevent this by any other path. That they are not 100% successful (jailbreaks) doesn't mean the situation is anyhow comparable to cars, where there is a wide ecosystem of 3rd party support for customization.
Built-in library of scenes
Easily find the best mockup filtering by device type, orientation, and background. Put your screenshot in the perfect scene.

Instant previews
Finding the right mockup takes time. Not with UIBlend. Just drop your design and get an instant preview on all the scenes.

Screenshot options
Adjust the positioning (vertical/horizontal) or the resize method to your needs.
I think this comment is perfectly valid POV that should be compatible with polite discourse; unfortunately despite recent developments we still live in a highly polarized society where merely tipping one's toe into an argument seized by one of the two sides taints the whole message. (context: instant downvote of parent post; Sorry for this meta-rant, I have some karma to pay for it)
This is simply false.

Newcomers enter the phone market all the time.

What we don’t have is an adequately developed alternative OS that can appeal to regular users yet.

Microsoft failed because they have their own legacy to protect.

Google is compromised by their need to maintain their position in search.

There are plenty of Linux phone projects.

The only reason none of these are a good replacement yet is a lack of time and investment.

iOS didn’t just appear out of thin air - it took more than a decade to develop.

It’s easier than ever now to develop an alternative.

People who are focussing on forcing Apple to install alternative stores are by definition not interested in an alternative platform.

If they were, they would be investing in building one.

They just want access to Apple’s customer base.

That’s all there is to this.
DuckyPad: Open-source mechanical macropad with duckyScript input automation
This is nice. Is there a shortcut for showing _all_ the record types so I don't have to type out NS, AA, MX etc.?
Ken mentioned the Pascaline in the history section of carry circuits. I found this video to be quite a good explanation of the Pascaline and it's carry mechanism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h71HAJWnVU
When I went to Italy on vacation, all of the produce had massive quantities of the same two fruits, prominently displayed. (Was June, I think it was apricots and cherries.) And that is what most customers were buying.

So we bought those, too, and they were delicious.

Then tried buying some things that were out of season, and they were terrible.

Which is just to say, some cultures are still super in tune with the seasonality of foods.
This is pretty much the plot of Artemis by Andy Weir. Second best hard sci-fi novel in my opinion. The best being The Martian by Andy Weir. Arthur C. Clarke takes the next few spots.
This Bacterium Survived on the Outside of the Space Station for a Full Year
"I'm sorry, you're running low on red pixels. Please purchase a HP authorized RGB Pixel Refill to continue playing."
Sounds properly kafkaesque. Being stuck in bureaucracy is my 2nd biggest realistic fear. (after dying while riding my bike in the US)

It appears as though getting the congressperson involved might've helped. It is nice to see that people can actually get in touch with their congressperson here in the US. A sign that democracy does somewhat work as intended.

Anecdotally, since Trump took office, the processing times for visa/EAD went up by 50%-ish in my peer group. Visa rejections for H1B also went up hugely among those who appear super qualified. 2 Friends' H1b was rejected for Data Science roles at a FANG despite having a CS/Comp Math major from Stanford and another having studied Information systems at another top 10 US-CS school.
Bose Pinpoint: AI Noise Filter for Desktop
I wrote a post about it above. I live in the bluest of blue states, which in the other comments here, in that narrative, you expect cooperation and all this stuff. A false media narrative, if I do say so, but that's not the point - the point is no one trusts the folks behind the technology, nor do we trust random phone numbers.

So the Citizen App has contact tracing. But you have to check into the app, and furthermore, do you trust some private company with the information? About you? Your location and all this ? And contact tracing via government calling you - do you trust random numbers calling you and asking you questions? No one knows when Silicon Valley (in the case of the app) wants to steal some more of your private data, and no one knows when some phisher is phishing as opposed to some volunteer calling you up for contact tracing.

There's a breakdown of trust.

Oh, and saying, 'maybe this administration' is further evidence of that. I live in a blue state, and your perceptions are, I believe, wrong, about the magic around that or the cooperation of the citizenry.
Growing up in the early 00s, software used APIs without fear of rules being imposed after the fact, and without needing to become arbitrarily successful in an authoritarian regime the OS & hardware manufacturers deemed a key market.
How to Write Faster 3x times voice typing hack
~2 years ago. Navigation of rental cars worked best with phone numbers. Some cab drivers also preferred phone numbers. Most likely some service to lookup phone-number->GPS became popular - I haven't seen this outside Japan so far.
In the UK, and England specifically, another factor is ideology - vast amounts of money have been spent on outsourcing contact tracing even though the statistics suggest the result performance isn't very good. Meanwhile, local government run contact tracing has been really effective but seems to be starved of resources because they are public sector and therefore, apparently, must be bad at what they do.
> I switched approach and instead applied for a tourist visa. I paid 160 USD, filled in a ridiculous amount of information about me and my past travels over the last 15 years and I visited the US embassy for an in-person interview and fingerprinting.

Imagine repeat this process every year... as an international student.
If anything, I'd expect this to be bearish, because it might cause the Fed to stop printing money.
Would you be so kind as to point to some examples? Presumably this will be visible in a Github issue or something like that, since we're talking about OSS and presumably open issue trackers.

FWIW I just went back and did some searching over the faker.js issues and I didn't see any requests that seemed obviously corporate. (I picked faker.js because that article seems to be the most recent inspiration for this discussion on this site.) Most of the non-feature request issues were malformed or from people who obviously don't know what they are doing, but the rest were bugs that could hit big corporate users or hobbyists alike. I didn't see any request that looked like it came from someone working at a FAANG, although I guess it might be hard to tell. The overall number of feature requests filed during the repo's history was only 15.
ClickEarners Review – My Honest Opinion
I know many HN commenters have a strong anti-public-service bent, but consider this angle: if the government is providing your Internet service, then your service is protected by the constitution. The bar for restricting what you can access, and for what reasons your service can be cancelled, becomes much higher when it's governed by the constitution instead of the whims of a private media company with a massive conflict of interest.
Can, sure, at least once you have enough volume of content; but will you use it? Almost no one actually does for personal blogs and the likes.
This just shows not everyone is perfect, and never will be. Twitter unfortunately makes it simple for people to output their unfiltered thought. I feel like we'd find something uncouth about anyone if we knew all of their unfiltered thoughts.
How often have you implemented a trivial feature and, after adding tests, debugging, doing code review, etc, you find it’s taken a nontrivial amount of time. And it’ll likely take maintenance too as you learn what you need (easier when you’ve seen it done already).

Most of these trivial things probably take nontrivial time, and if you add all of them together for all the trivial projects you use, it’s probably saved a really serious chunk of time.

The ocean is made of “trivial” drops of water, yada yada.
I hate jumping into these threads because I don’t want to feel like I’m defending Apple’s draconian policies, but it’s incredible how many people on here feel that they should be able to rules-lawyer their way out of them. “Oh, but this app is STREAMED, it’s totally different! You let people STREAM music, don’t you??”
Anyone arguing how 'this is not the way to do it', 'lol open source Dev what did he expect' or explains how they have been using his software 'but it's not that important' are the Republicans of the development community. Fucking shameful to see people talk like this about folks who do good, open and free work to make things better. Go and look yourself in the mirror and repeate those words. One day your corporate owners might so the same to you.
I'm not a lawyer. But I think this is pretty much what happened when Peter Thiel funded lawsuits against Gawker until one of them bankrupted them.

https://www.thewrap.com/silicon-valley-billionaire-peter-thi...
Ns lookups do not work or kind of look strange?

dig github.com ns

; <<>> DiG 9.16.8 <<>> github.com ns
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 8592
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 8, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;github.com. IN NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
github.com. 46 IN NS dns1.p08.nsone.net.
github.com. 46 IN NS dns2.p08.nsone.net.
github.com. 46 IN NS dns3.p08.nsone.net.
github.com. 46 IN NS dns4.p08.nsone.net.
github.com. 46 IN NS ns-1283.awsdns-32.org.
github.com. 46 IN NS ns-1707.awsdns-21.co.uk.
github.com. 46 IN NS ns-421.awsdns-52.com.
github.com. 46 IN NS ns-520.awsdns-01.net.

dog github.com ns

Status: NXDomain
A github.com. 31s 140.82.121.3
SOA 23h58m44s A "a.root-servers.net." "nstld.verisign-grs.com." 2020110900 30m00s 15m00s 7d0h00m00s 1d0h00m00s
As a scientist, it causes me immense pain to see these types of points trotted out as having any sort of relevance to stopping the spread of Covid19.

Literally nothing you said here has any relevance to effective policy for stopping Covid19. Nothing. Somehow, in our modern society, you have been able to consume a very large diet of information, and have been misinformed about its basic suitability as information.

There's only one way to stop this thing: by paying attention to evidence and our best understanding, and to put aside our silly political games that have not bearing on reality. Or worse, political games that think they are the reality.

I hope that as part of the healing process, science starts having a seat at the table in these discussions.
This has a lot of similarities to the infamous ULS database published by the FCC, though this actually looks a little bit easier to work with. The ULS database doesn't even follow a CSV-like format, because despite all of its variations, one of the two newline forms are ultimately what separates records, and with the ULS, you can't make that assumption (unescaped newline characters are valid values). Nothing less than a customized parser will suffice.
I think he never said a single intelligent thing on Twitter. It's 50% memes and 50% bullshit/lies. Prove me wrong.
It depends on where you live. In my condo, I pay $20 a month for gigabit fiber.
A survey into static analyzers configurations: Clippy for Rust, part 1
Well, I think I have it installed (via brew), and the .dylib exists, it's just that doesn't have the spcific mangled symbol Rust is looking for inside the library. Feels like a version mismatch or something.

Edit: The nix tip worked; thanks!

I've been meaning to try out nix for a while anyway, so this was a nice nudge. :-)
A telecommunications monopoly is a strange thing.

There are 725,000 people in Denver. If we naively assume that one sixth of them pay for an internet subscription at $100/mo each, that's $145,000,000 annually that the people could use to fund their own ISP.

The people are held captive by a combination of forces that appear to have nothing to do with economics. If they could all communicate together they could easily fund their own alternative. Appallingly, the place that they are being held captive is a communications network!!
So sick of paywalled articles making it to the front page :( Not all of us can afford subscriptions to every news site.
Ion generators are known health hazards. If you create enough ions to purify the air, the ions themselves create unsafe amounts of ozone: https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/what-are-ionizers...

Unconfined UV-C generators are skin cancer machines, and also damage paint, etc.

I hope use of the UV-C thing is rapidly banned (if it hasn’t been already...)

Per the EPA link, the ion generator is already illegal unless they’ve turned it down so far that it doesn’t work.
While I think the sentiment is nice here, I don't think anyone would ever accept the liability of that kind of service. How long do you save people's data after their "free iCloud" is over and their device has been returned?

On the flip side, while I agree with you on the free tier for data size, I feel like that would be unsustainable. It would raise the price of the phones even higher than they already are. It would be nice if the tiers were restructured so that the bottom tier fully covered the storage capacity and I would love something more than 2TB for the max.
Oneapi.jl – Native Julia Support for Intel GPUs
That's awesome. Thanks for the link. I don't anticipate ever needing to do this, but it's weird how your mind sometimes won't let go of an idea.
I don't have enough cycles to think everything myself. Outsourcing some things, in a conscious and well chosen and subject-to-revision manner, seems like a pretty important practice.
90% among serious COVID-19 progression-susceptible population or in general population?
Sounds great.

However.

Us savvy capable earnest architects don't have enough gumption and swarminess to work three years to close the typical sales account.

Our sales and marketing people were basically a different breed. Completely disconnected from reality. Utterly oblivious to their own ignorance. But wow they were able to close deals.

It was both disgusting and fascinating to witness up close.
Is this the role of the UN, EU, etc.? In Brazil's specific case, concerted sanctions were proposed to convince Brazil to behave a certain way [0]. If this doesn't work, maybe the carrot is better than the stick. I know this case is a little unique because the Brazillian government appears to be acting against the will of its people with regards to conserving the rainforest.

0 - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-politics/as-eu-thr...
I live in the US and had some family visit from france a few years ago. They came back from the supermarket absolutely giddy about buying a melon and these huge beautiful strawberries in january.

Then they ate some and were completely let down at how bland they were and I was just like, yeah, you can but that's why I don't.
Reminds me of the scene in the series "Lilyhammer", where

<spoiler>
a similar literal interpretation of the ESTA check list, i.e. a Norwegian police officer answering "Yes" to the question if he has ever been in contact with terrorists/terrorism, eventually causes the protagonists' witness protection bubble to be pierced through a series of unfortunate events.
</spoiler>
Availability of testing in the US is still atrocious relative to what our resources should be able to support. Inconsistent, unavailable, overbooked.
How are web components a "new OS feature" may I ask?
I've actually never read the phrase product-market-founder fit before. I've read product-market fit, or PMF, a million times.
The Art of the Seed Pitch
iPhone might have a higher upfront costs, but the user will most likely save more by buying an iPhone than a similarly or even a bit cheaper high end Android phone, due to the longer lifetime of an iPhone.
It's not about being "COVID shamed" (first time i hear that term), it's more about not getting infected in your high risk destination country. In particular the US have a reputation for having many non mask-wearing citizens. Not sure if that is still accurate, but that's the impression.
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Problem: You want to make money for all the work you do your open-source project. But no one pays for it.

Reason: Developers choose your project, and developers are at the bottom of the food chain. They have no authority to spend money, usually, or they get pushback and delays if they do.

Solution: Band together with the authors of related projects and create a new closed-source product, taking bits of your various codebases. For instance, what if Faker.js and other similar libraries banded together into a corporation, and sold a multi-language mocking/stubbing/faking toolset? It would be easier to go to your boss, show them the product, and convince them to pay for it, since it now encompasses multiple things your dev team needs.
> In Denver, 83.5 percent of the city’s electorate cast ballots in favor of question 2H, which asked if the city should be exempt from a 2005 law, backed by local telecom monopolies, restricting Colorado towns and cities from being able to build their own local broadband alternatives.

> Colorado is one of nearly two-dozen states that have passed laws, usually directly written by regional telecom monopolies, that hamstring or prevent the creation of such networks.

> But in Colorado’s case, the state’s 2005 law included language that allows local towns and cities to opt-out of the restriction if voters agree to do so.

W.r.t. Denver, the headline overstates things a bit, but the contents of the article are accurate.

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/10/08/denver-issue-2h-broadb...
I calculated that so far I saved with my pro-bono work in open source and documentation around 2,085,000 million hours of professional labor.

Now my hourly rate is 100 bucks, so that's about 200M worth of labor that ended up in other peoples pockets.

I could probably retire now. In a just world, we might give people credit for this kind of work or we would organize our commons more sensibly.

But in the world today, value is siphoned up - and the siphon is a very well tuned siphon.