skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ionizers work through two mechanisms:
1. Charged particles stick together, forming larger clumps that eventually drop out of the air.
2. Charged particles can build up on the surface of airborne pathogens, sometimes directly disrupting membranes or lipid layers, and if there is enough of a buildup they can induce an electric current through the organism that can kill / inactivate it.
One study on bipolar ionization showed antiviral efficiencies were 64.3, 89.1, and 97.4% with exposure times of 15, 30, and 45 min, respectively (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7094352/).

The advantage to ion generation based air purification systems is that they are able to actively operate in occupied spaces, not relying on air to get pumped out of a return duct and through a filter or UV system.

It's not possible for them to achieve an instantaneous elimination of airborne pathogens, but any significant percentage reduction can help to lower the total viral load that people in the room are being exposed to.

That being said, it's unlikely that what he's wearing around his neck will generate a sufficient quantity of ions to make much of a difference. It wouldn't be enough to fill the room, and the amount of time any such ions would have to act on a particle that comes close to him really isn't enough to have a large impact.
My neighbors used to do that, prompting me to make this comic: https://www.tinymixtapes.com/tmt-comics/buttloads-apps
> The US has not implemented a social credit system to turn its own population into a secret police.

The US does seem to have a large misunderstanding of what the social credit system is, and the ways it differs, and does not differ from the regular credit system.
I still have the one I bought in 1982 or so somewhere in the basement.
Reading this again, I think your definition of “end user” is what’s actually judgmental here. You seem to think “end user” means people who don’t have the ability to figure out their technology and make it work for them, and need someone else to do it for them. You don’t have any room for a person who’s well versed in technology and willingly accepts certain product limitations and acknowledges how those limitations provide other benefits. Okay, if that’s your definition, I can’t be an end user, even though I consciously choose the Apple ecosystem so I can spend some of my time using technology being off the wheel and trust that the wheel has been taken over by a company whose judgement I trust.
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If Google decides to do that, then you might have an argument.

Google has a great incentive not to do it, which is that if they do it there would be a real argument for software distribution. to be regulated by the government.

But until they do, there isn’t.
> Apple could even make you use XCode to unlock the ability. But locking it entirely is obnoxious.

Wow. That is actually a really elegant solution to that problem. Well done.

The only way I would change it would be to walk it a little away from Xcode, and have it be through an official tool for Mac/Linux/Windows, and possibly open source it so it could be ported to BSD/whatever else by the community.

That has it's own issues though, and I don't know that it would actually be better, it's just where I would draw the line.
Interesting, was that a fork (or out-of-tree port)? From this interview with maddog, I had the impression that Alpha was the first non-x86 port:

https://youtu.be/EZMA3Ge144U?t=1610 (background)
https://youtu.be/EZMA3Ge144U?t=1871 (start of the specific anecdote)
If people want Apple to treat them like children, why should we stop them? I'm not being sarcastic — there may be good reasons we don't want Apple to coddle the public, but I have yet to see them.
encryption for the government

no encryption for the people

sounds like the perfect democratic recipe
I don't have an Oculus but have heard good things about it for VR. But I can't get one because my Facebook account was similarly shut down without explanation last year. Despite its age (15 years) I barely used it, let alone for anything "controversial", but did regularly log into it. I repeatedly tried to verify my identity by submitting an image of my driver's license, without any response.

I don't want to create a fake new Facebook account. I want my own back.
So really it wouldn’t be encryption so much as right to have secrets. Because whether I use EDCA or a really strongly in crackable safe, my right to privacy should be a thing?

It sounds like somewhat of a stronger version than the US’s fifth amendment which says that you have a right to privacy unless it has to do with the crime currently being investigated. And come to think of it, encryption is unconstitutional as in because the government can subpoena or obtain a warrant to your information it may not be able to enforce it because of the encryption. So either the government has no right to subpoena or encryption is illegal.
Its the actual act of moderating that would be hard
Even better thing... rsync, for backup.
Unfortunately no references or details are provided for the implementations that I can see.
That’s irrelevant - the point is that RonanTheGrey can actually do whatever they want with the phone they own.

They have the legal right.
How there are any fish reserves left at all is beyond belief. The fact that the Earth hasn't imploded yet is weird.
If you're looking for a domain I recommend https://domainr.com for search (they get affiliate revenue but I don't) and https://namecheap.com for registration. Namecheap has done a great job of defending privacy and offering a solid product. Also no affiliation, but the CEO did respond to me on twitter!
> Maybe these things were easier than how I was doing it in REST?

That might be the case. Those things (such as returning children - and generally crafting a custom endpoint for specific use-case) are indeed very easy in my language/framework of choice (ASP.NET with a little help from LINQ).

I also get automatic generation of client-side data classes and strongly typed functions that encapsulate endpoints on the server using a small code generation framework that literally took 2-3 days to write (it's really not that complex).
The Senate is already like that and has a disproportionate amount of power compared to the House and the President.
The linked data url doesn’t redirect to anything
Yeah, better documentation is sorely needed in Nix, heck, I can't even look up docstrings in the repl (by default, there is nix-doc[0]. I asked around on IRC about a typechecker for Nix, and people refer me to the Dhall[1] and Nickel[2] projects. Looks like some preliminary work on type checking[3] has been done.

[0] https://github.com/lf-/nix-doc

[1] https://dhall-lang.org/

[2] https://github.com/tweag/nickel

[3] https://www.tweag.io/blog/2017-05-23-typing-nix/
The scientists and Hollywood folks are already represented, though - they can vote. The land itself can't. True that today our natural resources aren't our most valuable asset. That makes them easy to ignore and neglect, especially for city dwellers. However, in the event of a major war or natural disaster our natural resources will quickly become very important again, and we'll be glad someone was taking care of them, even if we (and I definitely do) staunchly disagree with their voting preferences.
Kanye might tweets some crazy stuff but his recent crusade against shitty record contracts (tweeting out his entire Warner contract deal for example and calling out real owners to stop robbing kids) and the general nonrecognition of the artists themselves is something I can get behind.

https://www.gq.com.au/entertainment/music/heres-the-rundown-...

I almost went into the music industry before programming which is why this stuff piques my interests and I'm happy I didn't in many ways due the lawyering. There are big problems in the music industry with plenty of analogies to SciHub/Aaron Schwartz and the academic paper world (10x). There needs to be a rethinking of how musicians and promoters get paid and how ownership of what musical artists are creating is controlled.

Not to totally sidetrack the main point of my original comment :p
I know HN much desires to pile on the FB hate, but look. I read this subreddit daily and most people who have posted about a banned account have been able to get Oculus support to reinstate them after a few calls. These posts do not really come up that often for the number of people buying these things. There are other VR headset options if you don't like FB as a company and want a more open platform.
Wouldn't you want the word 'encryption' to be in the description, so there is no evil solicitor trying to argue about what 'secrets' meant. Or 'the right to confidentiality whenever, where-ever, and with whomever the person pleases'
I’m sure the fact they had a heavy amount of influence on how the taxes were spent made a difference.
VSCode always looks and feels like a webapp that runs locally. Because that's exactly what it is. Give me menus, give me toolbars, give me rich visualisation. I don't care about excuses for not being to take advantage of the hardware, or about how fast it is for a webapp. I want a native executable.
The more I think about it, the more I believe Benford's Law can be violated too easily within more urban areas, especially when precinct sizes are artificially limited to a fixed size (500~1000 people) without geographically-induced truncations. As long as voter turnout is consistently above 10-20%, with the 2-party system you're simply not going to get the vote count number to span the several magnitudes needed to induce Benford's Law. (Exception of course for smaller/independent candidates, and perhaps if one of the major candidates really sucked and kept getting 10% of the votes)
> Even if we posit that such a hack was requested

Which we do, and was the whole point

> how does that transmute into a request to "hack the Democrats"?

Hillary Clinton (the person under discussion) was the Democratic candidate for president at the time.
> I’m suggesting that consumers should buy a product that that suits their needs.

It's cute you think this is why people buy things.

Also, you're completely missing the point here. Developers have no choice but to developer for Apple and that means that whatever Apple says, Apple gets. That's called bullying, at the very least, and I'm not alone in asserting that it extends into behavior that should at least be regulated.

Mind you, the only reason I think so is that their user base exceeds 1 billion users. There's a public interest in things when numbers are that big. If we were talking about some company with only a million users, the case would be much weaker.
Got a link for [1]? I'm looking at https://covid19.who.int/table, and it says there are 49,578,590 cumulative cases worldwide and 1,245,717 deaths. Which gives a case fatality ratio of 2.5%. Of course, to get the true IFR, we'd have to account for unreported cases and the last between infection and death (a really big deal for a rapidly communicable disease with an exponentially growing incidence rate).
Toxic leaders are often supported and defended by other leaders. At some point, pushing out a toxic leader is bad enough for the company image that the company would rather just hide the toxicity with NDAs. Childhood friends should never go into business together. Businesses built on a seed of nepotism are much more likely to fail. Imagine a 100-person company where the two founders are best friends since they were kids. If one of the founders repeatedly engages in inappropriate conduct, the other founder is much more likely to hide it.
You keep hand waving about messes. The current political climate seems to be heading toward more than just a mess.

If there were consensus about some issues not being national issues, your points about currently local issues would be stronger. But the fact is that it's still a minority, if not niche, view that all these issues should stay local indefinitely. I suspect the gridlock is protecting federalism more than principle or even court rulings are.
> Because the user is the product rather than the customer, the user’s needs are not the priority of the business.

That's a reasonable way to look at it but it omits an important detail. User's needs do matter a great deal to these businesses, but only to the extent meeting those needs can increase engagement or use time. It's a case of incentives.
Ha, I never knew. What strange behavior on their part.
The issue is people bought it under the assumption they wouldn't need an account, then they forced an account. It's hard to see it as anything but criminal behavior
Photo’s from inside: https://www.rferl.org/a/photographer-sneaks-inside-the-legen...
Ongoing edit war over the Wikipedia article for Benford's Law
You did not define a conflict or the unintended consequence here
I still have this keyboard along with my first computer, a second-hand IBM PC (5150). The Alt key has some inconsistency registering so I was hoping for some detailed fixing but looks like he just did some deep cleaning and ended up with some bad keys as well.
Thanks for posting.

My takeaway thought: No matter how rich, how successful or how famous - most of us get the most satisfaction from the simple things in life. Never take even those simple things for granted, they will be the memories you may most cherish.
> In practice, interested parties observe the process.

On paper, interested parties are supposed to observe the process. What actually happens in physical reality does not always match the guidelines laid out on paper.

> It's relatively difficult to pull off hoodwink when you've got adversarial observers standing there.

I read assurances about what happens in physical reality on a regular basis. Often, these assurances are not actually correct (in no small part because the person providing the assurances was not actually physically present).

I am not asserting that something improper has occurred here, but when journalists are asserting unequivocally and in unison that nothing improper has happened, because the US election system is non-exploitable (while providing zero evidence of this), after having just finished telling me in unison for the last 4 years that Russia "hacked" the 2016 election, I hope you can pardon me if I'm not too keen on taking evidence-free assurances on pure faith.

There was a lot going on across a huge number of voting stations that evening, the notion that not one single thing went wrong is a bit of an extraordinary claim, especially coming from a group of people who don't exactly have a pristine track record of bias or accuracy.

I doubt we'll ever find the truth, or even exert any significant effort in discovering it - that's just the way it is and I can accept that. But it's frustrating that the public is so accepting of this state of affairs.
Showmanship and lure.

In the same spirit as the titles like “unreasonably effective”, and a few others gems.

It turns me off from the content immediately, but ‘m likely the exception.
Yet when it comes to electing a president some states are more equal than others.
The fact that they reverted the rebar change suggests that or wasn't intentional.
There is competence, and then there is tyranny. Apple was quite high on the competence slider, but the tyranny dial has been slowly ramping up. It’s nice to have security features until it’s not.
There are a few reasons I've heard. The one I hear most frequently is that the electoral college is outdated and should be replaced on that basis alone. The second one is that it is undemocratic and allows disproportionate representation to small state voters. The third one that I believe underlies the two previous is that when the popular vote has been contradicted by the electoral college, it typically has elected someone from the "wrong party" depending on who you ask. Looking at the states in the popular vote compact there is some truth to that.
Thanks do you have any idea how it accomplishes it. I wanted to do something similar for a build process
Benford's law relates to a method for finding manipulation of data, such as election results. More on that here:

https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=46343

See GitHub for sources and charts.

https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords
US President-Elect (Wolfram Alpha)
Ok. I want to run iSh by installing it from the developer's signed build. That's what I want to do. Can I do that?
They bought iPhones.
Fraud obviously happens that doesn't come to light until later: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-philadelphia-judge-ele...
Rapid SaaS Development with Observable, Firebase and Stripe
It doesn't "work". The fact that it made it to the front page of HN bodes badly for this community that has been going down hill for a long time. It just one step above a text based Reddit at this point.
it is a close thing right now, on many fronts.
Since when is violating a ToS fraud? Marketing stunt, maybe.
IntelliJ Idea Community is for Java without Spring support.

If you want Spring support, or you want to use other JetBrains IDEs for other languages, you have to pay.

Personally, I'm happy to fork my money to them. They make the best IDEs out there.
I purchased an Oculus Quest 2 yesterday actually from Best Buy. As an original Vive owner I'm astounded at how far VR has gotten for the price. Getting past the forced FB integration, the Quest is one of the best VR experiences I've had. The inside out tracking is nothing short of magical and using Virtual Desktop to stream PCVR wirelessly works so much better than I was anticipating.

I'm not a FB hater, and I think the social integrations could actually be very useful in the future - especially in a post covid world.
He notes how the “Chinese don’t sit on benches while eating but squat like Europeans do when they relieve themselves out in the leafy woods. All this occurs quietly and demurely. Even the children are spiritless and look obtuse.” After earlier writing of the “abundance of offspring” and the “fecundity” of the Chinese, he goes on to say: “It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races. For the likes of us the mere thought is unspeakably dreary.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/12/einsteins-trav...
This is not an accurate representation of reality.

Users simply cannot control their devices. No individual can no matter how skilled. Software complexity moved past that point decades ago.

All we can actually do is choose who to trust when we acquire software.

Nobody is forced to choose or trust Apple, but many do.

Since choices exist for people who want to decide for themselves who they trust to provide software, the argument cannot be about that.

The people who argue that Apple should be forced to allow third party stores are only interested in the potential commercial gain they could make if they had access to Apple’s customers.

They just want access to the customers so they can make money out of them.

That is all this argument is about and all it has ever been about.
I knew I’d get something wrong, thanks for the correction.
Here's a good example of how p values are misleading:

Consider a bag containing two coins, one that's fair and one that always shows heads. Pick one coin at random and flip it ten times. Suppose you see ten heads. Would you be comfortable saying that you have the biases coin? Most likely you would. Formally you'd compute the p value (in this case something like 1/1024 or 2/1024 depending on if you do a one sided or two sided test). You'd compare this with some cutoff, perhaps 0.05 and claim that you can reject the null hypothesis.

So far so good.

Now let's perform that experiment again but this time instead of having one fair coin and one biased coin in the bag, suppose we have one biases coin and 10^1000 fair coins. Suppose again that you randomly pick a coin from the bag and flip it ten times. Again you see ten heads. Do you think you have the biases coin? Of course not! What's the chance that you just happened to choose the single biased coin instead of one of the 10^1000 fair coins? Practically zero. In this case it's much more likely that the ten heads were a statistical fluke from a fair coin. However, if you compute the p value you still get 1/1024 (or 2/1024 for a two sided test).

This example should be reasonably convincing that one needs access to a prior in order to correctly interpret p values. One way of looking at it is that you need to set the threshold appropriately based on the plausibility of the alternate hypothesis. Another way to phrase it is that we actually need to compute the posterior Bayesian probability of the null hypothesis being true.

There are tons of other confusing / surprising examples where a naive p-value calculation will be misleading.

I wrote about these things here:
https://mindbowling.wordpress.com/2016/07/19/p-values/
$1.2MM in orders, that’s astonishing. Well done!
WSL1 editing a local file. Start WSL, type 'emacs -nw file'

I have no idea what 'conhost' is so I can't comment.
There's this video where a person replaces parts with genuine apple parts from another iPhone. And guess what? The device cripples itself thinking it's not genuine iPhone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY7DtKMBxBw
Well if you believe Wyoming should just be steamrolled by California's desires 100% of the time, why shouldn't Wyoming secede from the union? In fact, why should any "small states" join the union in the first place if they are just going to be steamrolled by California and New York?
I also destroyed a Model M (SSK) due to water damage and a botched repair.
This one was bolt modded however, which fixes the "plastic rivets literally disintegrating" problem.
Currently using Lexmark Model M that needs the bolt mod treatment. I'm planing on sending it to Clicky Keyboards [0].

[0] https://www.clickykeyboards.com
It its more fair (no two classes like in Germany), and that's why it's well liked, but it's chronically under-funded. For example: https://www.physiciansweekly.com/elective-surgery-ban-for-sm...

Waiting times: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2711192/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-50397856