skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m kind of surprised that the people who make those pods at offices haven’t gotten into this.

Heat inactivation is shown to be effective at getting rid of sars-cov-2. Those little pod things could have a cleaning cycle where they heat up to 65C (~150F) for 15-30 minutes.

Add a UV-C light during the cleanse cycle, and you’ve probably got most things. If I were a wework, I would be building these as a place for people to work out of home.

The other thing you can do is put fans that suck air upwards, and then eject it outside, and replace the air inside with (clean) outside air.

You could build larger units for places like restaurants, where they can fit 4-6 people.

Part of me finds the idea of a “private dining pod” kind of nice — but real estate prices have never made it reasonable for restaurants to do.
Big-O
CIA software allegedly influenced election results
From my first few minutes of thinking about the problem (essentially scrolled right to the problem statement):

- Something about it reminded me of Project Euler. Shortly afterwards read the surrounding text confirming that.

- The problem should be pretty easy to solve if we could assume that each digit is unique (i.e. appears only once in the pass phrase). Clearly the challenge here comes largely from digits being possibly present multiple times. A greedy algorithm could start with this assumption and then, upon encountering a contradiction, duplicate a digit. To decide whether such an algorithm is optimal you'd want to try and construct an example where it produces a suboptimal result. Might lead to a few iterations of refining and seeing whether you can keep it greedy.

- Could this problem be NP-hard? Could you encode NP problems in the ambiguities of "are these two identical digits also the same ones in the passcode"? At this point some meta-solving comes in: Project Euler problems allow brute-forcing in principle, but usually it won't get you far without at the very least a clever reduction. 50 login attempts might be on the order of 10-20 digits in the passphrase (if you assume digit positions being chosen at random, you could actually get a decent estimate), which is not amenable to pure brute force.

- Is it possible that there is no unique solution? It seems very likely to me, and I should probably try to construct an example. (I won't, because I'm trying to only scope out my own solution process).

- I tried to frame the problem as a partial ordering, but the difficulty is (again) in the label ambiguities. Could we give a different label to every single given digit and then try to merge them? Can this be done greedily? What to do with ambiguities? The above considerations return, from a different angle.

- The unknown length makes the number of unknowns, well, unknown. But you could postulate a length, giving you a fixed number of unknowns that need to be assigned.

- It's impossible to observe my own problem solving process without impacting it. And writing it down tends to affect it very strongly (mentally drilling down into individual facets instead of staying at "surveying level").
Here is a more balant racism experience I had. On a date night, we sat next to another couple. The guy was really not happy, he started talking just loud enough for us to hear that Trump will round up all Muslims and immigrants and ship them out. Then he started singing that his cousin is Navy Seal and he likes to kill Iraqis, Afghanis, and all the dities. His date kept telling him to shut up. He asked waitress to change tables, I think.

We tried our best to ignore and have a good evening. This is the only incident in last 4 years but never experienced anything like this before especially in upscale restaurants.
Because the market of users has macOS (and Windows, where the workaround isn't as "obtuse" as nothing is locking you out of doing it, but is still ridiculous: I think he injects code into iTunes), and apps that don't have users are kind of pointless (if not high quality ;P)? You don't get to choose the platform used by your users, and the people choosing that platform are often doing it for reasons that aren't even necessarily in their own best interests (as they aren't fully informed of the consequences).
I give it a week before Apple bully the developer into takedown.
A question for the ages. A guess would be they really really really love the hardware, as it's the only thing that rationalizes how many of these groups are doing amazing things for free under Apple's severe watch.
What was that little storm a few months back where they turned on code signature checking on shell scripts? One could just imagine the final step is you have to have a developer license to run your own code.
> We live in a dangerous world.

No, West Europe used to be really safe. Then it changed because of unrestricted immigration policies. East Europe countries are still pretty safe with no terrorism.
It’ll probably require 2-3 semesters in stats to really understand - most intro courses barely cover the basic and don’t even reach power. You really have to apply regression to many real datasets to truly understand the concepts.
I'm going to try my best to explain these in an intuitive way. Statistics has lots of terms with names that are arbitrary and confusing.

To set the context, we are trying to use data to help us test a hypothesis. An example might be: "if we give this pill to a person, they will be cured of their disease". Statisticians test this by setting up two groups: Group A gets nothing (or a placebo), Group B gets the pill.

In statistics, you assume the "Null Hypothesis", in other words, that there is no difference between the two groups. You use hypothesis testing to help you "reject" the null hypothesis, to say that the groups are actually different. If the groups are different, that means the pill cures the disease. So we take a bunch of data about the two groups, run some math on that data, and use the result of that math to help us decide if we can reject the null hypothesis.

Statistics is a bunch of tradeoffs between certainty, making the wrong call, and data volume. The terms you have mentioned are either "knobs" (tradeoffs) we can make or measures that helps us understand our results.

Here's what those terms mean:

Type 1 Error: also known as "False Positive". You thought the pill cured the disease, but it does not.

Type 2 Error: also known as "False Negative". You thought the pill did nothing, but it actually works.

Power: the chance to avoid Type 2 error (false negative). The higher your power value, the lower chance you incorrectly assume your pill is ineffective.

N: The number of "observations", in our case, the number of patients in the trial for our pill.

The others are a little trickier to explain.

Alpha: Statisticians use a "confidence interval" as a way to communicate how uncertain they are about a particular result. In our trial we might say "patients were 15% less likely to have the disease after taking the pill, give or take 2%". We don't think the decrease is exactly 15% (what we observed) but is instead somewhere in that neighborhood. Alpha is a measure of the chance the real effect is OUTSIDE of your confidence interval. So in this case, the chance the effect is < 13% or > 17%.

Cohen's D: In our trial, we might measure "the number of times the patient coughed in a day" in addition to "do they have the disease anymore yes/no". In order to compare our two groups, we make look at the average number of coughs per day in group A vs group B. This is called measuring the "difference in means". Cohen's D is a formula to measure the difference in means that also encodes your uncertainty in the result.
It's been around since September 2019.
Read the room.

If you are not able, I will read it for you: suggesting that Alex Trebek may have been an absolute phony to a group of people mourning his death is gross and rude. Apology would be appropriate.

Additionally, your suggestion (while technically plausible) contradicts everything known about the man - including multiple firsthand testimonials on this thread.
Or you could buy a modern model M from the people who still make them - Unicomp - for ~$100

https://www.pckeyboard.com/

They're awesome.
Breeders bring out the best in new apples
Plenty of us do use it on our own machines and in production, and it doesn't seem like a never-ending packaging war.

Most software actually doesn't assume the FHS. (Autoconf, Meson, and CMake all don't, for example.)
Regardless of misgivings about American farm practices, it is undeniably cool that ammonia-saturated water can have its ammonia fixed so very quickly by bacteria that have not in thousands of generations encountered saturated ammonia solution.

Use of ammonia fixed by local wind power should be less objectionable than numerous other common farm "inputs". In particular, injecting nitrogen deep under the surface should result in much less nitrate-saturated runoff to streams and thus, ultimately, algae blooms offshore, than we get with spraying.

That said, the tragic loss of buckwheat from world diets is a direct consequence if it not yielding more in response to fertilizers. That is tragic because it has better protein than any other grain. A buckwheat that produces more when fertilized would be a great gift to the world.
You and others fail to understand that if a scam can be run it will be run.

Apple is trading on its reputation. "It's only OK to show non-genuine once". Scammers love this. They install the bogus battery, click through the warning, then when they show you you are screwed.

Why can't apple disable features, like battery life indication, for batteries they haven't profiled for the service? This is what makes users trust apple, if your phone says battery life is 80%, you can be pretty sure it is 80%.
I’ve done that for several years and given up. No matter how much I honed my server config, ensured my domain had DKIM, DMARC, SPF, DNSSEC, a proper TLS certificate for both the IMAP and SMTP servers and reverse PTR records that matched, I always had deliverability issues to clients using Outlook.com/Hotmail. Sometimes Gmail as well. All config checkers gave me full marks when I sent emails, I wasn’t in a single block list, I ALWAYS had issues. I’ve given up and am paying for ProtonMail on a custom domain now, it’s not worth the headache, honestly.
Here's a view of it on Google Maps before it was moved: https://goo.gl/maps/uCV3K5kU14y99hCYA
Free Stock Quote API
So satisfying to look at...
I don't find myself patching stuff all the time, and would hate to go back to half-assed leaky-abstraction kludges like Ansible.

But I do agree we need to deal with the language-based packaging situation much better. It's a long-standing project of mine to fix that.
That's a really good video, although it seems to focus on the health benefits of direct ion exposure. I like how he methodically breaks down the claims and the purported science behind them. I would like to know more about the claimed Covid-related ion effects.
It dings/tarnishes your credit. Enjoy the phone but lenders will think twice with such a 'minimal' purchase wasn't paid for.
Fair 'nuff. I'm surprised. I was not aware of the product before this posting.
I'm sorry to tell you, but Hackernews IS social media.
> a Mac without macOS is just an overpriced PC, and Netflix without its excellent browsing and playback software is just cloud storage media stocked with MP4 files

Netflix is a production studio and on-demand broadcaster - more like HBO (though internet only) or Hulu or Apple TV+. For my use case, their browsing software is poor - I would prefer a simple and complete catalog interface rather than endlessly cycling through the same few dozen bad "recommendations."

Whether Macs running Windows or Linux are nothing more than overpriced PCs is an argument that tends to be resolved in the opposite direction depending on whom you talk to; historically many Mac (and iPhone) models have compared favorably to some competitors (notably high-end competitors) in terms of design and functionality and poorly to other competitors (notably vs. some enthusiast/gaming PCs and lower-end competitors) in terms of purchase price.

The author is correct though that the software often adds a lot of value to the hardware - part of that is due to Apple's vertical integration, design sensibility, and ecosystem. Apple's support infrastructure also helps.
Too expensive. Somali pirates were stopped by a private military company on their ground, not waters. Navy of several countries just couldn't keep with pirates.
Athens invented their democracy ~2600 years ago. Themistocles is a good example of a person that shows the breadth of politics at the time and how remarkably similar they are to today. Even in the 6th century BC people were political, from a slave to an archon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themistocles
Kundalini and the Breathless State – Spirituality – YogaForums
Women like rich men more than poor men.
What of what I said makes you think I look down on wheel or that its viewers weren't smart? I just said it wasn't for me and that they were a different demographic. I also added I wasn't any good at it and complimented its hosts. At least I started off with the conceit that I had no evidence. Seems like you're also making assumptions. Someone once told me me it is just stupid shuts out huge opportunities in business, friendship, love, and personal growth.
Very clever.

Don't expect it to last. Apple has "control issues," and I can't see them letting this fly too long.
It can cost over $10M and 22 years to create a new Apple variety.'
With respect, it might have been just an hour for you.

For me, it was hours and hours and hours and days and days wasted with jq, before I found gron.

Not looking back.
Toyota has some PHEV models but they stopped selling some models like RAV4 EV (in Japan) due to battery shortage. BEV uses dozens of times battery than PHEV. So currently for Toyota, selling some amount of PHEV/HEV is practical than selling a little EV on limited battery supply situation.

Next problem: Why Toyota won't build Li-On terafactory? Possibly they bet solid state battery.
Donate all your money to modification to follow.
They're a little cheap and light feeling compared to the oldest ones but they get the point across with their satisfying key feel.
I've used ansible for years to configure my local workstation and hundreds of linux servers both on prem and in AWS and have never needed a Hashicorp product.
Cool. I would think this would only be effectively anonymous for people who are sending huge amounts of emails a day. Otherwise, it's probably simple to identify who is giving what feedback based on timing. Maybe you have a way of presenting feedback in staggered buckets, so timing becomes less of an issue?
If the government can break encryption, so can hackers. If hackers can break your encryption, and my records are being held in it, then your competition will eat your lunch as I move my records to their services.

Either my data is safe from rogue agents and rogue governments or it is not. If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will use it.

The EU can make as many logical conclusions it wants to, but reality will come back and bite their law enforcement offices that their criminals won't stop using unbreakable encryption.

The difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than it is in theory.
I have one of these. It's incredibly solid, and the typing action is light and snappy, just like the originals.
Where are you remapping the keys reliably on an ipad? (app/settings)
Terrorists and other criminals already have more than enough tools in their possession to exchange data absolutely without fear of their messages being compromised.
There is no second wave of deaths or hospitalizations in Sweden.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Sweden
> Unfortunately I jumped ship too quickly

Made that mistake once... I learned that no job is perfect, and if you have a good thing going, stick with it.

Now, hindsight is always 20-20. If I had that experience, I'd probably ask my boss about it, in private, if possible. (Good leadership should always be able to handle challenging questions from subordinates.) (But, there are times where leadership should be challenged publicly.)

Perhaps the statement needed some context? I've had to make statements like, "no, I will not do you work for you," and, "now I've never done this before, and hopefully don't need to do it again, but I'm pulling rank here."

So I would have tried to get context from you boss... And maybe realize that good people make mistakes too.

Edit: The point to leave is when there is a pattern of bad behavior.
This was amazingly helpful. Thank you!
no matter how many times your try to make this a truth, it wont happen. It was funny, not genius.
For sure that might be the case, but it does not make it a bad product.
Are you sure you dried it properly? I cleaned a mouse and keyboard in the dishwasher without problems [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=keyboard+dishwa...
Kite: Passenger drone designed to connect SF Bay Area cities
Is it safer than 2015?
not really free.
China has good reason to endorse Biden; should we assume that Biden has colluded with China in efforts to “hack” our election (whatever tf that means)?
The general-purpose computer you’re referring to requires an administrator that makes security decisions and provides safer environments for users who don’t have the expertise to do the administration part, or don’t want to spend time on it.

One could describe what Apple sells “system administration as a service” (possibly even “network administration as a service”. They control what software can run on any phone in the iOS ‘network’). I don’t think that’s “wants to control every aspect of your life”. Their privacy stance seems to be at odds with that.
I mostly prefer REST with OpenApi-schemas over GraphQL when building APIs but the one thing I really miss with that approach isn't something related to the technology in itself but rather the Apollo Client tooling around it.

I've yet to find something that handles caching, updating of cached objects in such a easy way for OpenApi, it should be possible considering that a well documented schema contain the necessary information, but I haven't seen it.
> are absolutely fine with things like separating kids from their parents

This is a lie propagated by people that don't understand what happens on the southern border: kids are temporarily separated from the adults smuggling them into the country because we don't know if those adults are their parents.

This is what Trump was referring to with the "coyote" comment during the last presidential debate. The number of people on Twitter thinking he meant the animal was a massive facepalm that just revealed how ignorant they are. "Coyote" in this context means "human trafficker".
> I no longer think that end-to-end encryption is the right solution to human rights problems. If citizens are reduced to sneaking around and denying their activities to survive, their governmental system is way past due for fixing.

I think you and I have fundamentally different, and likely incompatible, views of government. I believe government will always spy on its citizens, on other governments, and on their citizens, to the extent its technologically able. I believe this because this has been the case since governments, monarchies, etc existed. (In the 21st century we can add that "corporate entities" are doing the same level of spying on their members, their competition, and everyone else they can.) I should hope Snowden would have put a fat emphasis on that point. I believe no amount of progress, voting, reform, etc will change that governments do this. Yes those things can, and do, make a difference, but governments will always find a way around or through it, while, for now, governments seem to be able to keep corporate entities in check when they want to.

Pre computers, "technologically able" required lots of footwork. Governments were necessarily limited in their ability to spy on everyone. Today that limit has been removed. This is why I am a firm believer in encryption for everyone, everywhere, always.

I would say not that "citizens are reduced to sneaking around and denying their activities", but that citizens need encryption to check their governments' (and corporate entities') ability to spy on them.

You and I could definitely agree that our "governmental systems are way past due for fixing", but I believe there is no truly fixing them because they are made up of corruptible people. At best, journalism can inform the people of the corruption, and the people can be well-armed to check military might (but good luck nowadays fighting a tank with an AR).
And lawyers?
Ive a Grand Cherokee SRT- I suspect it would likely be a hard problem, and may require a somewhat sizable car audio system (If you were referring to something like a CJ-7 or the like)
I now have an Oculus paperweight
This seems so... American.
Indeed, and there seems to be plenty of competition in those markets for quieter, more reliable vacuums and washers anyway. I'm not seeing how that changes the point though, unless I'm missing something.
interesting implementation, kudos to the developer
Direct quote from Trump:

"Russia, if you are listening I hope you are able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing."

https://youtu.be/-b71f2eYdTc?t=20

From https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-asked-russia-to-...
I absolutely love that people work on this kind of stuff, but it all feels like an incredibly hacky workaround (running a server to reinstall an app every 7 days...) for functionality that should really be present out of the box (install whatever software you please on hardware you paid a ton of money for) :-(

Apple's insistence on refusing users control of their devices is why I switched to Android for my phone years ago (though I will be overjoyed once GNU/Linux on phones reaches enough maturity to replace Android for me as well, though I sadly don't see that happening very soon).

This is truly a shame - I am not part of the extreme FOSS crowd who would only ever be satisfied with a top-to-bottom free device, and in fact I would happily use an iPhone if iOS was even just as "open" as macOS.
Those are unrelated issues which also switch the burden to your cloud storage service provider in this case Google or Apple.

This isn’t part of the threat model we are discussing here.
Copenhagen's Copenhill Energy Plant
I had the same experience - and to make it worse, I was trying to integrate RubyMine into it.

At some point I managed something that could be launched from nix-shell, only to lose it soon after in FS failure.
Most ransomwares don't do C&C. They don't need to, and it's stealthier that way.

Actors that do exfil typically have other malware in their toolkit to do just that.
It's all about the attacker model. "Legitimate"encryption is for protecting all involved parties against 3rd parties. DRM is, in contrast, hostile against the owner of the device. Where is the hypocrisy?