skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might have something to do with national bias.

In Germany, where BioNTech is based, news articles (or rather: German-language articles) either mention BioNTech exclusively or cite them as the primary player in the BioNTech / Pfizer partnership.
That isn't what the comment you are replying to said. It said that before you claim that thing X and thing Y are related, take a look at this page that goes through the claims and debunks them.

If the answers on that page are mistaken and it is relevant to a topic on HN then it seems logical (to me) that you could discuss it here (but unfounded political allegations should be off-topic in most HN chats in my opinion).
Twitter succeeded because (and I'm not au fait with the details of how exactly) they managed to onboard a lot of high profile users from a variety of different walks of life. Everybody else came to hear what they had to say. This must have been a huge amount of work, and not something that's talked about much and I can only presume you'd have to do something similar to mount any kind of credible opposition. That's a lot of work for people who's prime motivation is chasing dopamine hits.

EDIT can't reply to below cause I've used up all my commenting credits for now: My word selection (au fait) relates probably to cultural context. This is a phrase that people around me use frequently. Sorry not trying to be obscurantist or anything. I just have a life outside the Internet where people talk in non-Internet ways.
It’s not like they use it to build a profile of you, as goddamn chrome does.

Eh? Says who? Them?

So many times, companies have lied, cheated, made excuses. So many times "we don't", then they do.

So. Many. Times.

So I should just trust Mozilla, because... well, why?

And this doesn't even take into account new corporate owners, leveraging existing data in a new way.
Or rogue elements in corps, employees stealing data for profit, or even data leakage due to misconfigured servers.

These thongs have all happened.

Corps have left dumps of entire client databases, credit cards, id, on open portals!

Over and over, again and again, we have been shown, never ever trust anyone with your data. Ever.
That is the most stupid comparison I have seen lately in HN. A kid "with a grudge and a stick" could likely never "flip you off your expensive shinny horse" because, well, sticks cannot do that. The AK kid can kill you because, I don't know if you are aware of this, AKs can shoot things from distance.

Also, AKs kill you when a shot hits your head/torso. A stick won't kill you on-hit. Being a knight also meant having proper armor and training.

Of course a kid could kill a knight, say, in their sleep, but in that case being a knight would be irrelevant, and the most appropriate description would be: a kid killed a sleeping person.
You need a disciplined pike wall that is so cohesive that it does not break! You dont get magical superpowers by just picking up a pike (like you wont become a good programmer by acquiring Borland Turbo C++). You need to train with your comrades.
More like refusing to vote if it can't be done anonymously. That said, I have telemetry turned on in my personal browser because I trust Mozilla not to abuse my data.

At work I handle more sensitive data and there it's turned off (the basic stuff, without diving into about:config to make it completely silent).

On the other extreme, I also use Firefox during security assessments. My browser making noise on a network where I'm not supposed to be detected is not something I can have happen. Removing all URLs and disabling all telemetry settings in about:config used to be enough, but recently they added a new system and that URL doesn't seem to be in about:config, I guess it's hard-coded. With covid-19 our on-site assessments are on hold anyway, but sooner or later I'll need to disable that either in Firefox itself or in the proxy configuration (on localhost, which logs any requests I make).
only related by "git" but while I believe i'm fairly proficient in git I'm not sure how to go about explaining to an inexperienced person how to fix a merge conflict.

It feels like not a simple thing to explain.

As an example someone sent me a PR with 15 commits. github claims only 1 file has changed and it's a new file so no conflicts (which AFAIK is correct) but git complains that somewhere around commit 4 there's a conflict.

The person sending the PR is not git comfortable, otherwise they wouldn't have this PR with 14 old unrelated commits showing up.

I have no idea what state they are currently in as well. meaning, I know the state of the PR but I don't know the state of their local machine.

I can clone their branch and make the merge myself but their next PR will just be the same branch they continue to work on.

Explaining to them how to fix what they have and how to proceed going forward seems like it requires a very large reply. Several pages. (here's how to fix this PR, this how to fix the state of your main/master branch, here's how to make different branches, here's how to update after each PR, here's what to do if the conflicts are real, here's what to do if you haven't made any more changes to your main branch., here's what to do if you have already made changes to your main branch.

I have no suggestions for solutions except to try to point them to other articles/pages/tutorials on the web
Does it matter?
Things need to have names, and when I need the `cwd` of the process (shell) I type `pwd`

The way I remember this:
cwd -> curent working dir,
pwd -> print working dir
4Chan provides a timeseries data analysis of Biden fraud using NYT data
This is the first post:
https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/288812951/vfg-voter-fraud-general-91-lazy-nonbakers-edition#p288820184

But this is a great analysis of what it means:
https://fakeotube.com/video/1533/understanding-covid19-election-fraud
Indeed, this is visible at personal and corporate level. I've seen companies balk at a Total Commander license which is negligible.

I've also had corporate procurement waste my time on a project for a potential $200 sale which never materialized.
I'm sure some clever executive figured out they'd increase revenue enough before they were hit by a regulator or lawsuit to more than cover the subsequent apologies and announcement of their new firmware that loves free markets and customers SO MUCH that it accepts other cartridges again (but HP can't guarantee quality! So sad!).

I generally print things on the order of single digit pages per year, but some people do things like print PDFs to read them or still live in fax land, etc. E-ink is making some inroads, but a fair portion of the population does like text on something physical and highlightable and pen-markable.
> There’s a great book called “the shortest history of Germany” that covers it nicely. It’s fascinating.

Do you happen to have an easy link to it? Sounds really interesting.

> The book also goes into details on how the border of the Roman world still today predicts the richest regions of Germany

Just a couple of hours ago I was looking for a .kml or .geojson file of the Roman "limes", I was trying to prove its relationship to some toponymy-data from the Carpathians. It's crazy how influential the Romans were.
I'm not angry at all! It is exciting that people are interested in this work.

Any project moves one step at a time, even though the length of time steps might step down over time.
Ok, but the fact that kosher rights were “first to the party” does not inform us about whether they are the optimum solution; at most, to the fact that their position, given that we have globally approached it over the years, might be partially good.

And, as you touch upon, religious rites do not (solely) search for the solution that is most humane for the animal; they also take into consideration the religious value of the experience for third parties. But that means that, all else being equal, secular slaughtering processes, as they do not seek ritual values, should be more free to converge to the most humane solution.
Is this about the audio streams? I imagine that if at any time there are a million video streams happening, and zoom wanted to sneak into 1% of them, it would pretty much need 10000 vCPUs of compute to do that? The current tech scales affordably because only the encoded packets get transmitted between callers (via "selective forwarding units") without needing server-side re-encoding?

edit: That was for video streams. For audio streams, certainly the cpus cost is lower - about 10%.
Indeed. US seems to be the primary distributor of what we can call "universal culture" - i.e. the things that culturally outcompete other things. It's not even that the US has the best cultural ideas - but being the strongest and relatively free market economy for most of the 20th century let the US import ideas from all around the world, distill them through market competition, and re-export globally as "American".
Slight criticism of people you know too :)

I think it is great and I hope they get acknowledged for their work. Or anyone that tries to find solution to the current sorry state.
BionTech needs to hire a top tier marketing and PR team immediately, they are failing bad at early media mentions, press releases and coverage. Unfortunately it's probably not within their DNA and they may not realize what is happening around them.

This is a monster, monster opportunity and just 'existing' won't leverage it to the extent they can - it will help them fund, hire more, expand more, do more of what they are doing.
We tend to remember the exceptions out of the countless military engagements that went as planned.
>> it's unclear what the non-mounted training was for this sort of thing for most times/places.

That would be the Melee [1]:

"Tournaments often contained a mêlée consisting of knights fighting one another on foot or mounted, either divided into two sides or fighting as a free-for-all. "

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournament_(medieval)#Melee
But they may run modified software e.g. with added backdoors and you wouldn't know as you cannot check what is actually running on servers.
The PC, with the successor of the 8085 inside running the successor of CP/M (in the form of PC-DOS) was a me-too of the S-100 CP/M desktop computer, not the Apple II.
A VP at HP once told me they make 3/4 of their profits from selling inks (I am sure he exaggerated but still).

You can buy original laserjet cartridges for $150 or third party cartridges for $40-60 (or $25 if you are happy with noname Chinese cartridges). So there is big money involved.
He probably is.
Another tip: Twitter instantly flags your tweet for mentioning any of the words 'hammer', 'vote' and 'you' in the same sentence.

Sounds like someone needs to recalibrate their so called 'misinformation' detection systems. For the ministry of truth, they want you to believe 'their' facts. Not 'the' facts.
Crossbows would totally work, but the problem is getting your hands on enough of them. No single person could realistically make a crossbow. You needed materials from several guilds. In practice, peasants would have to capture an armory already stuffed with crossbows.

The Hussite War Wagons had great success against knights, but it was in the era of early firearms.

Hussite Wagon Forts - A Challenge To Heavy Cavalry In The Late Middle Ages | Late Medieval Warfare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGUEqszHRwI
Steve Blank on the Chip Wars of the 21st Century
Unleash – The open-source feature toggle service
Yes, but the servers only transfer encrypted payloads for which the servers do not have the decryption keys, and you can verify that just by looking at the clients (which are open source in this scenario). That is the entire point of end-to-end encryption.
Most of printer drivers are BS. I also bought a printer after lockdown, and had to spent hours to do research on the printer model that's interested me: Mac & linux compatible. The result is Brother is the most reliable and less BS than the rest printers. In the end, I bought a wireless Brother printer, and you can throw whatever cartridge in to it.
Ominous that the social networks are splitting along these lines
Lentil – Lenses for pathtracers
THIS THIS THIS. End users (generally) do not care about security they just need it to work.

That is what was great about zoom. The security becomes important after it works.
If I understand good, the idea is to expand Excel-like Speradsheets to be an IDE/Platform on with build functional programming software.
I think this could be useful for quick prototyping/testing and really small application but for anything a little more complex the Spreadsheet IDE/Platform would be a limiting obstacle, not an helper comparing to learn a text file based coding language. In the past IBM tried to expand Excel formalizing functions with Lotus Improv with no market success (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Improv). A Lotus Improv clone is still used today with success but in a very small niche market (financial sector, see https://quantrix.com/)
Just as an FYI, you need a certain amount of "karma" before you see the downvote button.
Obvious and dead horse beaten issue. I’m working on solving this and will report here when I’ve got a prototype.

Surprising insights arise from pondering the philosophy of show and tell-specifically how listening is involved in order to “earn” your turn to speak.
You need to remember that the horses were warhorses, and were taught to "fight" as well - they would bite, rear up and hit with their hooves etc.

So they would be vulnerable, but the horse itself has a vote.
Lentil is an advanced camera toolkit for the Arnold renderer. It is a set of shaders that extends creative control and physical correctness, while significantly reducing the time (~30x) needed to render bokeh through bidirectional sampling of camera rays.
I wouldn't worry. It's basically like a gigantic "always sunny in philadelphia" in there. People regular twitter could do without. I'm sure it would be funny to watch though.
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"Big sticks" don't help against irrational actors. Mutually Assured Destruction assures that there will be no direct conflict between superpowers, but if individuals become radicalized, they become willing to act irrationally(from a game theory definition of "rational").

This is the real reason we started a war against terror. Terrorism and asymmetric warfare are about the only external thing capable of actually bringing our country down.
> I don't print anything anymore.

I wish =/ Most of the documents I have to print are documents to be printed, signed, and scanned again (or sent by mail - not email).

Some (including my employer) still don't accept anything else than signature on real paper somehow.. Luckily I have a "re-purpose device" at home (a young child with a huge appetite for drawings), but I'd still like to avoid this waste.
Thanks for the info, very cool!
HP laserjets have pretty good Linux support, it's usually plugnplay on Ubuntu.
Back in the days before the internet became a distribution platform, there actually used to be software distributors that acted like this, they would publish in hobbyist magazines as well as send out their own catalogs. Some were better than others and would get the small shops they represented to collaborate to make complementary products work better together. In those days you could be a one person shop and just write the software. I don't know how one would recreate that model in todays realities.
> au fait

As someone very curious about language usage, why wouldn’t you just write the word “familiar” there.

I’m genuine curious as to your motivations. Is it brevity? Am I missing additional context this provides?
What feature would you want us to add?

- Stream support?

- Native SDKs?

- Third party integrations (jira, datadog, etc)?

- Segmented rollout?

- Business metrics / kpi tracking?

- Automatic code cleanup?
They have given the option to disable the algorithmic timeline. This has been a game changer for me. I can use twitter without fear of being exposed to unction.
What other popular group video meeting tools are e2e? I know of none.

I remember reading a while back that Zoom claimed a few times they were e2e-encrypted, but what they meant was transport encryption.
I started writing this comment:

A variable holding this most often is called fwd, though (current working directory)

Then I did some thinking and research and there is the PWD environment variables. Might be interesting if that predates the pwd command or not.
In case anyone doesn't realize, the author of this erronously assumed that all mail-in ballots are mixed in the mail and processed.

Instead (in most states), they are actually sent to the district counting centers and counted with other votes from that district.

That's why you see higher Democratic votes from ones from later countered ones: they are counted along with the larger districts, which are in cities, and have more Democratic voters.

Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25031344

TL;DR: good analysis, one critical assumption incorrect, no fraud.
What does “silenced” mean to you?
I think that all these platforms: Parler, Gab, etc, will end up with one of two fates.

They'll either fail to make it big and remain a niche thing for those trolls who enjoy the edginess, like 4chan and its newer alternatives, or...

They'll grow big and end up having to deal with "trust and safety" issues when the majority of users on the mainstream end of the spectrum demand protection from those users who would otherwise be on 4chan/etc. This is pretty much what Twitter and Facebook are going through now, but shifted more towards the right, in the case of Parler/Gab.

We can already see hints of this in the fact that their terms of service prohibit inciting terrorism or acts of violence – issues that 4chan/etc deal with by allowing it, reducing their reach, and Twitter (attempt) to deal with by banning it, increasing their reach as they provide a "safe space".

Parler has the same issues as Twitter, it's just shifted to the right of the political spectrum. They can either deal with those issues and move closer to Twitter, or not and be irrelevant in the long term.
> it doesnt matter what you know, it matters whom you know.

while technically the literal reading of your sentence is not incorrect, the phrase above is referring to nepotism which is not the issue OP has.
I have saved a post about this from 4chan, they passed it around on some pro-gun rights forums. Will paraphrase it and spare you the expletives.

"You cannot control an entire country and its people with tanks, jets, battleships and drone or any of these things you believe trump's citizen ownership of firearms.

A fighter jet, tank, drone, battleship or whatever cannot stand on street corners. And enforce "no assembly" edicts. A fighter jet cannot kick down your door at 3am and search your house for contraband.

None of these things can maintain the needed police state to completely subjugate and enslave the people of a nation. Those weapons are for decimating, flattening and glassing large areas and many people at once and fighting other state militaries. The government does not want to kill all of its people and blow up its own infrastructure. These are the very things they need to be tyrants in the first place. If they decided to turn everything outside of Washington DC into glowing green glass they would be the absolute rulers of a big, worthless, radioactive pile of [excrement].

Police are needed to maintain a police state, boots on the ground. And no matter how many police you have on the ground they will always be vastly outnumbered by civilians which is why is a police state it is vital that your police have automatic weapons while civilians are unarmed.

BUT when every random pedestrian could have a Glock in their waistband and every random homeowner an AR-15 all of that goes out of the window because now the police are outnumbered and face the reality of bullets coming back at them.

If you want living examples of this look at every insurgency that the US military has tried to destroy. They're all still kicking with nothing but AK-47s, pick-up trucks and improvised explosives because these big weapons you talk about are useless for dealing with them. ".
I mean, I agree with you, and I guess the "surely Apple is not blatantly lying about being unable to read the content of your communication" argument has eroded a bit after Zoom's behaviour. But the penalties (both in terms of reputation and in terms of monetary fines) for this kind of misbehaviour are already large, and are likely to increase over time, and it seems an unnecessarily extreme risk for these companies to take.

But yes, impossible-to-verify claims are not worth very much at all.
Collabora guys are working on just that, FYI.
When will this innovation reach continents other than the Americas?
I often wonder what a 65832 (or 65864) would look like. For instance, I'd add instructions treating all registers as floating point (fp32 and fp64). And have full 32/64 bits data buses.
If you have tooling to support it, rebase-and-ff-merge is perhaps an even better workflow. In this model every commit on the main branch has a first parent that's the previous merge, and a second parent that's a linear set of the commits that were landed together, with the parent of the first commit being the previous state of master. This has the following advantages:

* It's clear which states master has actually been in, without having to resort to squashing each merge into a single commit. This means that you know which commits actually passed CI and are therefore good rebase targets. People often claim that when merging multiple commits each commit should individually pass CI, but that's almost impossible to achieve in practice.

* Development can split single features into multiple commits for easier review and understanding later. This can be particuarly important if the changes depend on each other, but different people need to review different parts of the overall change. That's another thing that most tooling is really bad at.

* The history is basically linear. The merge commits are all empty, and there is one linear history for all the states of master (the first parent of each merge commit) and one linear history for all the individual commits (the second parent of each merge commit and only parent of each non-merge commit).

Of course this approach isn't well supported by mainstream tooling (e.g. GitHub) and probably requires a custom bot to do all the rebase-and-merge operations. It is pretty well supported by git itself, however.
It reminds me of how reddit went through a period of turmoil with claims of censorship and mods acting too aggressively and all the freedom of speech zealots decided to jump ship over to voat.co. I like to check in from time to time to see how that site is doing, and well...it's not pretty.

I know parler is pulling in some pretty big names to give it some legitimacy, but it's probably going to succumb to the same problem where only the most aggressive and angry users survive, while the more moderate users gravitate back to places like facebook and twitter
Can you be more specific about which cloud environments do work with rr? In your blog post you said it works on Amazon EC2 instances above a certain size. Which instance types are known to work?
How Does Pwd Operate?
US will just be a seideshow, do you think India, Japan and (at least) South Korea will allow China to dominate the area without a war? US will arm everyone there, especially India and have China try to do something. China has no real friends over there https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/territo...
The last part is what I was referring to by "modern derivatives". OpenGL is widely regarded to have a poor API. If you want a higher level API, wouldn't you want a new modern layer with a nicer API instead? How long will technologies like OpenGL last just because people have already learnt them? Surely eventually we will switch over to better alternatives?