skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the fraud can never be proven, but there's no doubt for me that it happened.
Maybe the Benford anomaly is the confirmation of something strange that can be observed in these images: https://twitter.com/daphnechen_/status/1324014079061745674

For four years, despite all the lies, the attacks on Trump's dignity, the massive and ferocious media brain wash, Trump got eight millions more votes.
Trump got between 15 to 30 thousand people at each rally during the campaign, Biden could not even join 30.
Let's see if the people seeking truth can prove what really happened.
When I was growing up my Grandpa spent a good deal of time in the hills of WV and KY searching for Wild Ginseng. He used it to making healing tonics for people. I'd really like to record some of the vast herbal knowledge he's gained over the years.
What's the contention like do you actually get 1Gb sustained or is that just the syc speed.

BTW my BB plus phone is $30 a month in the UK VDSL via local loop unbundling.
Yep, maybe they had some data about protection level rising since first shot, fewer people getting sick already etc.
It's hard to understand from just the Figure 4 how much of that increase is booster shot and how much is just level rising with time, too bad they didn't investigate this. Having top level protection vaccine with 2 shots is of course great and may be what you would be aiming for in "normal" times, but when it's race against the time trading several efficiency percents for quicker population coverage may be worth it.
Yep, J&J one is the only candidate requiring one shot. Hopefully it will show some good results soon as well.
What is "perfect"? What do you think about Steve Wozniak? Is he "imperfect" because he is silly?

> Twitter unfortunately makes it simple for people to output their unfiltered thought.

That's one of the best things about the platform.
Totally, I think you’re right, a lot of companies are open to paying for it if it’s saving money and providing value. I mean, all companies already do have a software expenditure budget for commercial software.

But I guess it is not simple to just put OSS projects in the same budget bucket as proprietary software. Companies have a special aversion to unexpected expenses. I’ve done business with companies that would rather pay a known monthly fee for all their licenses than only pay for the licenses that get used every month, simply because they can’t account for what it will cost in advance. Practically speaking, always paying bounties for changes would turn OSS into pure commercial software from the buyer’s point of view.

There are a ton of OSS projects that are supported by the author’s day job at a for-profit company. I guess I’m not convinced that if software is offered for free in the first place that it always makes sense to expect money to be offered without asking for it. If an OSS project needs funding, maybe it’s best to just offer it commercially in the first place?

I just don’t necessarily agree with the hyperbole that unpaid labor is “wrong”, because that undermines the initial OSS transaction. The software was offered for free-as-in-beer in the first place, and that is unpaid labor. It’s perfectly fine to request pay for changes, so isn’t that better and more straightfoward than not asking for money but complaining when none comes?
Do you use Linux to create applications that restrict user freedoms? If yes, then you are not better than any of them.
The media doesn’t do this is the U.K. or Australia. We have much stronger libel laws.

Nobody has been “disappeared” by the police, either.
Europe enforces IM-Services to store encryption master key for government access
Europe enforces Instant messaging services like WhatsApp, Signal an so on to store encryption master key of end to end encrypted messages for government authoritie access. This could be the beginning of a new crypto war starting in 2020.
"Throwing every legal challenge at the wall to see what sticks" isn't exactly 4D chess. He's batting a little over 50% right now on even having cases heard, much less victories; a little under half of what's been filed, the courts have either already found against his campaign or summarily dismissed for being too half-baked to waste court time on.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/04/supreme-court-trump...
lol ... It takes a developer to understand the validations of other developers ...
Let's be clear, this is the difference between your test user being called Tom Smith with email tom@smith.com and Joseph Baker with email jbaker@bigcorp.com versus being called Foo Bar and Foo Bar2 with emails foo@example.com and foo2@example.com
A typical PKD book experience!
Canada and EU don't seem to mind having tiny militaries and relying on the US protecting them. Small states can just be their own countries that pay some small % of GDP for USA to protect them with military.
His tweets show a trend of narcissistic behavior, the pedophile incident is merely the most egregious.

EDIT: Thanks, @brianlweiner

EDIT2: For the downvoters, whom I can only assume don't agree that he shows narcissistic asshole behavior:

Yeah, I lift a little … pic.twitter.com/UAJdv8qSw1

We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.

I’m not at risk [of contracting Covid-19], neither are my kids

Everybody dies

Tesla stock price is too high imo

Pronouns suck

If I am a narcissist (which might be true), at least I am a useful one

Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.
He didn't get rejected for a visa. He got rejected for an ESTA. Travel on visa waiver is explicitly allowed for business meetings, as long as you're not travelling for "productive work" (meetings where you receive instructions are fine).
Cheaper because it’s something that’s done on a daily basis in the mobile industry. Not technically difficult but Apple’s entire stack aside from laptop/desktop is ARM. That means everything from drivers to silicon integration is “done” for ARM. You’ve still maybe got system integration differences you need to spend engineering cycles on since it’s a different form factor but everywhere else you’re sharing costs.
What exactly are they doing when they put your application in "administrative processing" for years with no explanation or time estimate? What could possibly take years to process on a standard visa application? Does anyone know?
Has anyone who's been violating the constitution with regards to NSA, DEA, FBI metadata collection and hacking been punished? Have the programs been stopped - how can we know/verify?

Has James Clapper been punished for lying under oath to congress? Is he paraded around as an example of what happens when those in senior leadership have violated the rights of millions or is still acceptable to interview on TV or have politicians reference?
this is the code of conduct used on Marak's Faker js repo recently discussed here
The code in the article hero seems like an interesting approach to client side validation.
I am not - I am a US citizen. Fortunately, all the countries I have ever attempted to travel to have been extremely accommodating about providing a visa, or (in many cases) not even requiring one. I hope that generous attitude continues.
100% Agreed! I wonder if anyone has actually made the .tex compile. Last time I tried, I tried to get rid of/define empty versions of missing macros, images, etc. but it was a bit beyond my texing ability.

I've always wanted to be able to "annotate" a textbook I was reading ::in-place::, and write my own "local" version of the text.
No need as I don't disagree.
That's not how tough the world is, it's how tough people choose to make it.
This was a pet hypothesis of mine early on. Combining this with long term living on the air of a region, I felt it could explain why the elderly in the area hit could have been particularly susceptible.

That said, I had no clue how to research this. And, as always, I am not pushing for any behavior on this. In particular, in not even clear what this would change.
> Apparently people have been caught submitting dozens of ballots in the names of people they didn't have any right to.

You'd think there'd be evidence for that somewhere, but you're just parroting die-hard Trump supporter talking points now off Twitter with no evidence. It's very clear you are not talking about any of this with good faith.
Do you think we live in a world where every voter completely endorses every opinion and inclination of the candidate for whom they cast their vote?

Certainly there is a contingent of his voting base that represents what you describe, but to ascribe those characteristics doesn't hold, not least of which because voters had two choices, not many.

Direct your ire at Trump all you want since by definition he holds all the views you describe, but leave the stereotyping somewhere else.
Upvoted for the mention of Cultural Amnesia.

Jonathan Franzen brought out The Kraus Project in 2013; I haven't read any of it, unless an excerpt from the introduction in a book review.
That's a great read. I don't understand the prime number part though:

> 3599 = (3600 – 1) = (602 – 12) = (60 – 1) (60 + 1) = 59 times 61. Not a prime number.

Where does the (602 - 12) come from? Can someone explain that to me?

Also, use a leading space to keep things out of your bash history.
Apple is slowly disappearing from my family's hardware portfolio, and recent software changes are accelerating it. Back in 2005 or so I converted my entire CD collection to digital, and managed it happily using Itunes. Somehow in the transition from itunes to Apple Music, Apple refused to recognize any of the tracks I created from my own, legally purchased media.

My wife currently has no way to listen to any of the music we legally own, using her iphone. So guess whose next phone is going to be Android, with an SD card containing 1TB of music we own? The other advantages of iphone are not important to me, and the apps she uses are available on the playstore. For bonus points I can buy her a pretty decent Android phone for a few hundred bucks, instead of a new device costing well over a thousand.

I understand Apple wants to push everyone to monthly paid services. As a customer, I DO NOT want yet another $10/month expenses - I've got a lot of those already. I just want to listen to music I already own.
They cannot drop you as a customer for what you 'say' digitally (or IRL.) You cannot be 'cancelled.'

Not sure if that has happened previously on the individual level, vs the organizational/corporate level though.

Technically, though, if they offer commercial service, the organizational/business orgs taking it up would be protected completely in any of their speech (other than things like child porn.)
I feel like I'm talking to royalty right now so let me express my gratitude and appreciation for everything you've done before I, respectfully, disagree with a major point of yours.

>I am not sure if I've ever heard an "end user" ask to be prevented from doing something they actually wanted to do

...until what they wanted to do exposed them to malware or an app that they didn't know how to use or put them in a situation where their phone was randomly restarting the springboard over and over.

Of course no one would ever ask to be prevented from doing what they want to do but most people using these devices don't know exactly what "what they want to do" entails and the consequences of that. It's the same thing as Internet Explorer and all those toolbars that it's now known for in meme history. Of course people would want a toolbar that lets them automatically search for coupons or whatever it is they want to be notified of. Do they know that the same toolbar is also injecting ads or collecting data and keystrokes? Probably not.

I agree with your sentiment 100% (and my issues may be addressed in your TED talk which I'm going to watch right now) but there needs to be some way to acknowledge what the consequences of those actions are and, for me, I think a technical barrier or entry is the only realistic way to do that. Anything simpler will be taken advantage of.
That’s horrible. If you produce something for free, and someone uses it to reduce effort and expenses, at least throw some money their way! Doesn’t even have to be much.
It's saying that Tesla is a future more-than-a-car company. Tesla is also a player in the energy sector, which has trillions of dollars of market capitalization.

That may still not justify their high valuation, but a valuation based only on their auto portfolio is going to miss a large amount of what goes into expectations.
For an apartment in NYC??
This is actually how it works. The (small) silver lining is that your friend doesn't have to be anyone particularly important, they just have to be a voter who lives in their district. I've had to go through Constituent Services a few times to get USG paperwork snarls untangled - doesn't matter if they're who I voted for or not.
Assuming the cartridges work, go for it, but you might run into DRM/issues using third-party ink.
He's perfectly capable of that for sure, there's a streak of it in him that comes out from time to time, but I don't think it's his definitive trait and there are other times when it's not obvious at all. On that issue he definitely got it wrong.
True story: while delivering some computers to the Pittsburgh Paint & Glass refinery near Lake Charles, the guard gave me a colored hard hat and a filter. When I asked what it was for he said it was in case of an ammonia leak. He said put the filter in your mouth, use the clip to close your nose and follow anyone wearing a given hardhat color out of the plant

When I asked him some question about this potential disaster, he said "Ah don't worry about it, you'll be blind from the ammonia anyway." Yeesh.
I'm not sure that's the case here. It sounds like their apartment caught fire and now they are homeless. In my opinion, this sounds more like a desperation move than anger; this developer really needs money ASAP in order to keep a roof over their head.
I have Centurylink 1Gbps fiber, and I get 1Gbps up and down sustained. The installer said that my neighborhood had a 10Gbps connection shared between 30 houses.
So would you say Canada (the entire country of which has a smaller population than California) regularly gets steamrolled by other countries, including USA?

And if not, then maybe all the small states need to do is band together into their own country, away from large state bullies
My bad - updated profile, email is my HN username at gmail.
It's amazing how people have consistently acted throughout 2020 as if coronaviruses are entirely new, never seen before and everything known about the immune system or viruses has to be thrown out.

People have been getting infected with coronaviruses of various kinds for millennia. Nobody has ever linked a low severity cold-like infection with long term severe consequences, and given the sort of longitudinal study that would be required to establish such a link, any such claims would need to be treated very carefully.
Ugh Vice... I love that they use the image of people celebrating the presidential election to imply that people are dancing in the streets because of some vague ballot initiative about "ensuring access to broadband internet".
The small city where I live has been looking at community-owned fiber and I have enthusiastically supported it because right now it’s Comcast or nothing for broadband.

But a couple weeks ago, a bunch of Verizon trucks were stringing new cables on the poles in my neighborhood. I asked if they were finally bringing FiOS to my neighborhood. They said no, FiOS is being sunset (!) and this new fiber is for 5G residential, which will replace it. They’ll eventually mount antennas on some of the poles and then provide an in-home 5G hardware appliance, analogous to the cable modem. They said speeds should be about the same as FiOS.

All I want is broadband competition. If I can choose between Verizon and Comcast, that competition should help drive down costs, which is the main reason I want community broadband.
A sizeable portion this site is dedicated to the teachings of Josh Waitzkin, to whom the author (even if we're being very charitable) has clearly outsourced at least some thinking. I really think people would be better off cutting out productivity and startup porn entirely tbh, as much as I enjoy Josh's story.
The Collectivist Nature of Social Media Platforms and Big Tech
It isn't a free for all already and that's not a "real solution" as there's a real need & use for some apps to have access to some/all images. Such as those that do automatic backup & syncing of them.

What's missing is just a user override of "no really screenshot this that wasn't an accident", that's about it.
FYI you probably meant 'egregious'
No significant side effects so far tested. I'm always curious what the long term side effects will be, and we won't know that for years.
Training EfficientNets at Scale: 83% ImageNet Top-1 Accuracy in One Hour
Municipal governments are subject to the same cost-consistency-performance tradeoffs as a private company. In a situation where a private ISP would not have been able to meet its obligations, the cost to force a government ISP to meet them would not obtain a meaningfully better outcome.

Additionally, there is no constitutional right to municipal utility services.
> As recently as 15 years ago, using "they" to refer to a single individual was derided by many as grammatically incorrect.

> The recent acceptance comes down to two factors

Here is a couplet from Shakespeare's "A Comedy of Errors" (1623):

> There's not a man I meet but doth salute me

> As if I were their well-acquainted friend

And the King James Version (1611) of the Bible has this for Deuteronomy 17:5:

> Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.

And these are not fringe publications, but some of the most widely-distributed texts in the English language. That makes singular "they" even older than singular "you"! I find it hard to understand the justification for opposing singular "they" even from a prescriptive perspective.
Not as contradictory as the speaker is making it out to be. The organization can be poorly managed but still price out competition via a state subsidized business model that would be unsustainable for anyone else.
Please make the time! Maybe even do it Radiolab interview style and publish the resulting interview(s) if interested.
I dunno about this specific page, but Wirecutter quality in general has been disappointing for me lately. Might be related to the nytimes acquisition.
The pinephone uses a 5 year old chip. This is because it takes ages for open source heroes to write all the software.
Long term protection will be achieved by a significant % of the population being vaccinated at any given time, yielding herd immunity. Exciting news for the world!
Sony Launches Drone Project
I hope you've already prevented updates from the mothership as carts are not refillable and HP has been locking out third-party carts for a while: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/what-hp-must-do-make-a...
Monday Motivation Quotes
He actually won at trial by claiming it was just a prank.

> Musk testified that Unsworth had proposed a physically impossible act that could not be taken literally. Likewise, he said, the pedo guy phrase couldn’t be taken literally. “Mother-effer doesn’t literally mean incest,” he noted.
AT&T has pretty much abandoned their fiber rollout here. Everybody can get Comcast, some can get other smaller ISPs depending on neighborhood.

Signed- lucky person who pays $57 for symmetric gigabit in west town.
-80C storage is an issue, you are definitely right, but it is a common requirement for many biological samples and protein-based drug therapies. -80C lab freezers are not that expensive and all over the place. I used to work in biotech and, at one company, all of our intermediate drug substance storage was -80C. we had freezers big enough to drive a forklift into; one such a freezer could store millions of doses... and we had several.

There are numerous companies which specialize in -80C transport and shipping. These containers can be used as temporary (3-7 day) storage at destinations where they do not have infrastructure.

So this vaccine can be distributed to regions with the infrastructure to store it and we can preserve vaccines with less stringent requirement for developing countries, etc.
> It's less a war at this point than a grumbling shuffle of ingrained habit and stubborn resistance to change.

That is just silly.

I have VSCode and the JetBrains IDEs on my desktop, but Vim is _everywhere_ I work - even Windows servers if desired. If I'm working on a server, or another workstation, I can use a common editing environment.

There is nothing stubborn about it, consistency is powerful.
Do all or even a meaningful majority of people in Denver have access to Centurylink fiber? Every city I’ve seen it in is usually restricted to small areas or newer developments.
do you not have a 401k or ira or other similar fund?
I think it's reasonable for police & even FBI to investigate after a fire in a home with lots of chemicals, including 40lbs of potassium nitrate, after also finding bomb-making information. However it does seem like they made a rush to judgment in arresting him rather than simply letting the hospital hold him until medically cleared, after which the police could hold him for 48 hours without charging, all while they investigate things more thoroughly like any writing/internet posts etc that could indicate any actual intent to use the stuff, rather than simply a (very dangerous) lack of care in how he conducts his hobbies.
Unfortunately lots of them were lost back in 50s and 60s with advent of seed companies. Also in Europe selling seeds of non approved varietals is not possible. Legislation is changing slowly, but a lot of diversity is lost forever.

What you can see a lot on current market are "heirloom" varietals made by entrepreneurs that take industrial variatel, cross them to create new completely new varietals. But just because something doesn't look like modern tomato it doesn't mean it taste good.

You can still find old varietals in seed banks and around seed savers, but hip breeders are much more noisy in the market. I am not saying those new breeds are worthless, but they are kinda hit and miss and I would not consider them heirloom.
Does anyone have data on how many Moderna vaccines will be produced by the end of the year with Operation Warp Speed?

I've read somewhere that the vaccine uses similar tech to Pfizer, so I'm wondering how many vaccines will actually be available by end of year if both are this effective.
astronomy picture of the day
I pay $50 for 10Mb down 1Mb up. It sucks. They are constantly increasing prices by improving the speed of each plan for free (until they set the prices the next year). This speed increase eliminated some of the lower priced tiers, like 25Mb. The next step up for me is I think 40Mb at $80.

These no competition here since providers are forced to pay a franchise fee to the local government. With lower population towns, it's just uneconomical for a second provider to come in. Seems like the law is anticompetitive.
Same thing traveling to the UK or Australia.

Last time I filled out the UK application, I could not find their definition of "work" or "business",
The tourist visa is good for 10 years IIRC