skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Covid showed something quite interesting to me: You are better of in dooms day scenarios if you can sit it out a little bit.

Yeah this is actually really interesting because in a non-pandemic world taking the more conservative (lowercase c) approach to safety is less useful, but in our current world with a lot of genuine uncertainty and numerous catastrophes it actually nets better.

> I personally absolutly don't mind sitting around for a year to wait this out. I only have one live and i don't want to have covid right now nor any long term issues from it.

Yes, Please continue to have discipline and hold out against peer pressure to lower your guard. As someone who got covid, early 20s, exercise daily, low-processed food diet, no history of health issues, I got a mild case of Covid and the post-covid stage for me is much worse than the actual illness period and this phenomenon is very underrated in people’s discourse about risk assessment. Most people on this forum feel great arguing the pandemic on paper but have no lived experience of what this does to your body. 70, 80 days out where you feel super fucked up, new symptoms arise, random shit like pressure in your heart and chest, body aches day after day, extreme sensitivity to the cold.[0]

Imagine if covid were named HIV instead and people said, “look! After 10 months all these young people haven’t died. It must not be a big deal. Probably the flu”. Which is to say we still don’t know much about the virus. Most people in this forum are used to a world where every major disease of humanity has been studied for 20+ years,[1] so it’s sort of a confusion they have that they think the science is figured out. If you aren’t a biologist or studied biology heavily, science all seems like magic to you so it must be hard to tell the difference between something that is understood and not understood yet

[0] PS and still recovering

[1] source: my ass
That fundamental misunderstanding is not a misunderstanding. You can look at individual passwords and estimate their "entropy", such as zxcvbn does, and in fact you need to. Because the distribution that matters is not the one you used to pick the password, but the one that the attacker uses.

You could pick from the universe of arbitrary UTF-8 strings of up to 1000 characters (huge entropy), and pull "password" - but that would be a bad password, despite the distribution.

Or you could pick randomly from {"password", "09854yngbmoujcr08twnvgje8w6g7bkv,cmxm5^&*9NMF"}, and pick the latter, and it would be a reasonable password, despite carrying only 1 bit of information in the given distribution.

> Research should go to making more memorable generated passwords, looking for the best tradeoff between that and entropy.

Agreed on that.
I don't know unfortunately, but please let me know if you find one.
Dude, you're gaslighting by using the national results as evidence instead of the individual states, which is what this has always been about since my original comment. Nearly every consequential state fell at, or beyond, the tail end of 538's confidence interval (BTW, who uses 80%? and not 90-95%?), on the same side. A bit closer to the mean in AZ and GA but same side, over-estimating Biden's margin of victory. Deny it all you want, gaslight, cover your eyes, whatever -- but clear, convincing, overwhelming evidence of a systematic flaw or bias in the underlying polls is right there in front of you.

Many political handicappers had predicted that the Democrats would pick up three to 15 seats, growing their 232-to-197 majority

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-races/2020/11/...

Entering Election Day, forecasters projected Democrats would gain House seats and challenge for the Senate majority.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/05/2020-election-results-democr...

Most nonpartisan handicappers had long since predicted that Democrats were very likely to win the majority on November 3. "Democrats remain the clear favorites to take back the Senate with just days to go until Election Day," wrote the Cook Political Report's Senate editor Jessica Taylor on October 29.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/04/politics/2020-election-senate...
Should work with all Unicode that the font your browser uses has glyphs for. You see UTF-8 decoded and rendered, I don't think Arc does anything special with it. When you look at the page source you can see that the “↔” isn't given as an escape sequence or an HTML entity.
You are the paying customer, contrary to Google experience you can just call support and regain access. You can even contact domain registry directly and transfer your domain to other hosting if your current one will suddenly go out of business or whatever.

There is no way to be locked out of your own domain after forgetting your password.

That's like basic stuff people! Buy your own domains already.
Like the current "massive voter fraud" conspiracy we're currently wasting time on
> Are you sure?

Are you disagreeing with the CDC's numbers? I gave sources for a reason.

It's obvious why COVID-19 would have killed more people this year than a typical flu season: more people can get infected, because it's a novel disease which we have no prior immunity for. Additionally, infections are likely to be more serious, as immunity isn't a binary. Meanwhile the various viruses and virus strains that we call "the flu" has been around our whole lives.

But the fact is, if you do get infected with the flu, and you're young (particularly children), you're roughly as likely to die as if you get infected by COVID-19.

> I personally absolutly don't mind sitting around for a year to wait this out. I only have one live and i don't want to have covid right now nor any long term issues from it.

You are welcome to make that decision for yourself. But remember, others' will have different priorities. My job is mostly unaffected, so far. Other people I know have lost their businesses and careers. I personally know some people involved in food aid in poorer countries: people are literally starving to death due to lockdown.

The COVID-19 infection fatality rate by age is approximately the same as overall mortality by age. It shouldn't surprise people that many people would decide that they're willing to take that risk, especially when we have examples like Sweden, New York City, large parts of India, etc. to show that even uncontrolled spread is not an existential threat to society, and herd immunity kicks in and things go back to normal. (antibody testing has found about 20-30% of Stockholm, 30-50% of NYC, etc. has been infected, most without realizing it)

> Covid showed something quite interesting to me: You are better of in dooms day scenarios if you can sit it out a little bit.

You are lucky to be in a position where you can do that. A significant chunk of society can not. And the fact is, very few places in the world have been able to control COVID-19 without indefinite lockdown. It's just too contagious in most societies.
what home appliance has a 30 week delay?
Sure, but just listing those headlines without any details is quite reductive.

That USPS employee had a full bag of over 800 pieces of mail, 3 of which were ballots [1]

I haven’t been able to find a specific story about ballots in the trash after Election Day. I did find a story from NJ [2] and one from KY [2] about USPS dumping mail in the trash, and some of that mail was empty ballots being sent out to voters. Do you have the specific story you are talking about?

The PA employee wasn’t asked to backdate ballots, he was asked to collect ballots arriving after Nov 3 in a separate bin, and he feared that his bosses would backdate them [4]. This was also in a town of 5000 people. Here is what he said:

“On Wednesday the fourth, we checked in at the time clock,” the anonymous postal worker told Project Veritas chief James O’Keefe. “The postmaster then told us that if we were to find any ballots on our routes that day, we were to collect them, keep them separate in a hod, which is what we call our plastic bins, bring them back, and then we would put them in another hod and then they would send them to be counted.”

“The postmaster (James Malia) and the supervisor (William Wood) did not say that we’re going to, we’re going to backdate them,” the whistleblower clarifies, but “I was firmly of the belief that they were going to be backdated. We’re always hit with the Hatch Act. You know, you can’t talk about politics, you can’t influence people. On one occasion, the postmaster James Malia had gone, had attacked a carrier who had expressed support for Trump.”

...says he overheard Malia chide Wood for having “postmarked one of the ballots for the fourth, instead of the third, because they were supposed to put them for third”.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-mailman-allege...

[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/10/07/usps...

[3] https://www.wlky.com/article/us-postal-worker-fired-after-mo...

[4] https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/another-whistleblower-alle...
plus MS Paint 3D which my kids love. Does anyone got it successfuly running in Wine?
Agree, that this sounds pretty consumer-unfriendly on the surface. But I think the law is fascinating, because of how effective it (might) be in limiting monopolies. Applying the same law to online advertisement or search engine market share would probably be a benefit for the consumers.
I am very curious on what someone voted for Trump.

And what I ask here, is that I expect someone here to be straight forward and eg. Just mention when they just want lower taxes, for example.

( I'm not an American, just curious about other perspectives, since the groups I'm in are more liberal based, from a US perspective)
This is not my realm and I am grateful for experts who can advise us well. But I have a nagging yet sincere quibble that isn't easily dismissed: Where are all the failure stories? Does "under attack" mean "successfully defeated"?

I find it singulary unsatisfying to hear in response, "Well, you know, the ones who got owned are too ashamed / too afraid of liability to come forward... [etc]"
Search was crap?! It's one of the main reasons I stick to mutt - being able to rapidly search through all my emails using several criteria is great. I find gmail and outlook terrible in comparison. I also have not-much configured, but I find I don't need it too often (just when searching the body text).
What does your email strategy look like? This stuff rarely happens to innocent senders.
Good thing these foreign apps don’t have access to funds. They still have access to the transaction data, right? So they can build financial profiles on their users, as well as communications profiles (even if only metadata is available) since they dominate that market at well. Seems like a gold mine for intelligence operations. Are there laws mandating that the data has to stay on Indian servers and be insulated from the outside? Or maybe government/public sector employees can’t use these foreign services (seems unlikely)?
> and the general right to exist for minorities was on the table.

No, it wasn’t, obviously. What a disgusting thing to say.
Physicists look to new telescope to understand neutron stars and matter
This exactly. If there's one thing all my physics and math teachers burned into my head, it's that a number without an error is meaningless.

Florida for examples may be off by 8 points, but 538 gave Trump a 1/3 chance of winning, so it was well within the error. What people don't realize is that the error on polls are pretty damn big, and elections in modern times have been extremely close. Like most of the swing states come down to under 100k votes / 1%. It's insane how close these rates are, and no polls will ever have any chance at predicting things like that.
If Apple or Dell sold 36V 10A power bricks, then maybe.

The ones that I've seen don't put out their claimed current, lose regulation badly at high load, and put a lot of hash on the DC rails. Seriously ugly. Opening them up, the circuit design often looks like it comes from the 1980s. Physical design usually doesn't meet standards for HV separation and creepage.

Rather than a linear regulator, lots of filtering (a few 100nF ceramics and a few millifarads of smoothing) would help. And a high-powered TVS or two for when the power brick dies, as it will.
Good posts that I have read

https://neilkakkar.com/things-I-learnt-from-a-senior-dev.htm...

https://medium.com/s/story/what-truly-makes-a-senior-develop...
Sorry you are incorrect, Only in Class A is the whole of the signal contained in the operating area of the transistor, thus only class A amplifiers transfer the whole of the original signal on to each successive stage.

Class B C and D chop more and more out of the crossover point out of the signal as it passes through each stage.
Well, technically they're still on the coastline. Just like docks, marinas, and even cities, they tend to get moved inland along harbors and estuaries where available, for protection from ocean weather and waters. Even San Francisco ('s city center) is on the Bay-facing side of the relevant landmass.
India was launching Privacy Act but the Bill was changed beyond recognition through lobbying by Foreign MegaCorps particularly Facebook, Google and Amazon.
This doesn’t sound very enforceable. Say users flock to WhatsApp. “Sorry, we can’t process your payment because people like you aren’t using competitor services enough. Please try again next month.” ???
If you were married to a same sex spouse, you may feel personally atacked if your opinion that same-sex marriage should be legal is questioned.

I thought the parent comment suggested that the opinions of those who cannot separate out their beliefs from themselves, so when you question their opinions, they feel you are attacking them personally, are less respectable.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. It's plainly there to help WhatsApp Pay gain traction at the expense of Google Pay, PayTM, and PhonePe
I've been playing games such as Spelunky 2, Hades and Divinity: Original Sin 2 on Arch Linux with Steam/Proton, and it works seamlessly without any issues. I have Windows still just in case for some games, but I haven't booted it for ages.
I can't afford a 25k used vehicle. I can afford a 15k used vehicle. lock me up tempstn. I'm clearly a fascist against the community. shame on me for not meeting your budget requirements!
Scanning through the threads here it strikes me that nobody mentions the (IMHO) biggest advantage of GraphQL: subscriptions. Something which cannot be done with REST at all, but hugely improves the user experience by keeping your screen up-to-date at all times.
This also caters to the increasing event-orientedness of programming in general.
Regardless of REST vs GraphQL API design issues this is the main reason I use GraphQL.

(Side note: does anybody know why Apollo recommends using the websocket driver for subscriptions only?)
Have you had covid? Or have you just been on your phone this whole pandemic? You should get out there and help us reach herd immunity! Hurry up[0]

[0] you, the hypocrite who never left your home even before the pandemic
Question is: Are they being included because they are part of that particular Submarine cable infrastructure; or are they independent of it?
If I were made of photons it wouldn't be able to!
Not only that, 538 gave Trump a 1/3 chance of winning Florida, so it's not a surprise at all, and all things considered now that the votes are almost final, 1/10 chance for Trump to win seems reasonable. But as you mention, there's no way to figure out what the true probability was.

The bigger mistake here though is looking at the mean and ignoring the error on those values. 538 is fairly conservative in their calculations and their error bars are pretty big, so almost all of these results are well within their error bars.
What you call extreme left in USA is barely center left in any other country in the west

What is called far right in USA is the same thing we call neo-fascism anywhere else

In US a socialist party is unimaginable, in Germany it is the largest party of the center left, same in Italy, France, Spain, Scandinavia

So probably the bias comes from living in a country that's leaning towards the right in its entirety

@moderators: have I earned the automatic downvote? Whatever I post shows zero points as soon as it is posted.
It's literally the second paragraph:

"Audio-animatronics are Disney's animatronics figures used throughout its theme parks to serve as lifelike characters."
Show HN: Dataset with projects incl. published on Show HN since 2017
My concern is the mass talk of voter fraud shows how distrustful a great deal of Americans are to their own democratic system. I'm ok with placating the fears people have of election fraud and investigating, given the studies done, it's quite certain voter fraud is a prime example of misinformation.

2016-2020 has been a time of seeing just how dangerous misinformation is in the world of mass social media. All it takes is the spreading of false rumors through various means of the internet and social media for people to lose their minds and question their own democracy. I think both social media, advertising agencies, and the modern media is largely responsible for this. Also, us in the tech industry, who have over these last 4 years began to see the truly ugly side of what we're building. In our constant need to hit KPIs, drive up SEO rank, drive virility, we've slowly fed a monster that is now making itself known, and disrupting the very fabric of democracy.
An Interview with Kenan Altun
I mean President Trump literally said disparagingly at a rally "Biden will listen to the scientists" and then Biden put "I approve this message" at the end and turned it into an ad.

You can't get any clearer messaging on anti/pro science.
I find it sad that we need a specific software for ebook hosting. Couldn't we find a solution that doesn't require a special server for hosting each file type? Then front-end plug into that?
They could have been like WeChat, if it was not acquired by Facebook. Facebook avoids apps competing with each other. Not every CEO has guts to create a product that destroys their major profit source like Ma (Ten Cent).
That isn’t what “stand by” meant, and the intent of that statement was obvious. Also, Trump repeatedly condemned the racists at Charlottesville, and not only were they not endorsed, but explicitly disavowed. Repeatedly.
Just like 'experts say' or 'research suggests'.
Read the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee report.

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...
A practical introduction to quantum computing
If firefox dies, there'll be nothing to take its' place. Instead of ie6 we'll have chrome. And it is not feasible for a new fully featured browser to appear because of all the crap in the browser nowadays - development is going to be hell. So... yep, the internet is fucked.
Thanks for that link!

Too bad SML implementations make it such wizardry to create standalone executables...
Mmhmm. Or multiples...
Whether the glass is half full or half empty is not a fact, it's an opinion. The glass being, say, 45.67% from full capacity is a fact. The glass being emptied right now at 55 millilitres per second or being filled at 45 millilitres per second is a fact.

It might be a fact that two people can have greatly different kinds of opinions from the same facts, but they both still deserve to know the facts.

Whether you consider the glass to be half full or half empty is not a fact. It's an opinion.
The primary risk of covid is getting to the point of the exponential curve where hospitals are completely overwhelmed. People with unrelated problems and injuries struggle to get treatment, accident and emergency wards become full past capacity.

That is what the lockdowns are to prevent, and as a European I much prefer taking a month at home to prevent such a catastrophe.
hi, this CSV and JSON dataset includes more than 43,000 projects published on YC HN in Show HN, Reddit and other websites. Dataset covers from May 2017 to November 2020 and was used for AllSideProjects.com (now closed).
Scientists 3D print microscopic Star Trek spaceship that moves on its own
Is the provably crazy side the one you’re on? Because this is provably false.
As the saying goes, a democracy gets the leader it deserves. Dictators sometimes get democratically chosen. The dictator chosen in Germany between WWI and WWII was also a symptom of a problem. You cannot simply deduce everything towards such one person; however you also cannot simply say he is executing the "Will of the People". We're not in direct democracies; we pick our leader for 4 years, and that leader (plus some others) have a lot of power during those. I used to say we rotate dictators we pick every 4 years, but back then I had a rather dystopian world-view.

As for G.W. "you are either for us, or against us" [1] Bush, people forgive and forget quickly. Though I'd argue he was just a vassal for Rummy, Cheney, et al. For an insight into Bush, watch the movie Vice from 2018. It centers around Dick Cheney, how he became Vice President. Bush successfully managed to get the hardcore Christians behind him, which I suppose was a natural path given the Lewinsky-Clinton scandal. Another good documentary of around that time is Adam Curtis' The Power Of Nightmares which you can find freely and legally on Archive.org.

[1] Bifurcation 101, very polarizing statement.
Well, one of the(but definitely not the main) reasons why I replaced my perfectly functional 2016 Mercedes Benz was that my model missed the ability to have Android Auto/CarPlay by literally 2 weeks of production. It was impossible to add later without an extremely expensive head unit replacement.
Right, but the job of 538 is exactly to deal with that, and they do take into account the fact that errors are correlated, so if one poll is off, chances are they all are. That's why their predictions are fairly conservative. They gave Florida a 1/3 chance for Trump and 1/10 for the presidency. Both those numbers make sense.

Now you can argue that there's little utility if the error bars are so big, and you may have a point. The bigger issue here is that modern elections have been extremely close, and unfortunately we cannot get polling accurate enough.
Sounds terrible, but what you're describing seems to still fall in the category of "integrating apps" rather than "no apps".

I think the best real world reference point for "no apps" is the terminal.

Piping commands together is very powerful and intuitive (in this way they behave more like composable objects than applications). It works well, except for being unfriendly and reliant on low level text streams, which are both surmountable problems.
I see there was a misunderstanding. The owner of the payment terminal has to be the trusted root, not the manufacturer.
You don't have to say some community cannot vote, you can suppress their political rights by other subtle actions like closing voting centers in areas they predominantly live, gerrymandering district boundaries such that they are insufficiently represented in state assemblies, etc.
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