skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI - Background on the guy being quoted

"Gregory Travis, a veteran software engineer and experienced, instrument-rated pilot who has flown aircraft simulators as large as the Boeing 757"

I know a few veteran software engineers that are instrument-rated and frankly I'm not sure I would listen to any of them over the FAA or aeronautical engineers. Probably good for some perspective, but not exactly a great source for determining if an airplane is "aerodynamically flawed by design".
For years after AF447 I was nervous flying airbus. In reality, it's extremely unlikely that you'll die flying.

(I'd be nervous flying a Max too, but it's not rational.)
They spy on network traffic outside the US, too.
Does Valve have a vested interest in helping gaming on Linux? What do they get out of it?

Or are they a generous corporate machine doing it out the goodness of their heart?
Thank you - this seems a very reasonable scale. I think I might have never felt more than a six.
Hi there! I'm in the video meeting space, and always looking to find that blend between usable and secure.

I'm curious - is there a video service out there you would recommend if you're conscious about security? Your third paragraph makes me think your opinion will be that no large company can be trusted, because they become a target for nation-state regulatory bodies.
> Vegans try --when possible-- not to cause pain on others, or reduce it as much as possible.

It is worth making clear, however, that not all vegans share these ethical concerns. Other vegans may have adopted the diet for health reasons (China Study or similar) and do not believe that livestock raising and slaughter is unethical.
Injection of long-acting drug prevents HIV in women
Just look at AMD vs Intel right now for the leading CPUs. AMD pulled ahead of Intel by a margin of 20% IPC. Intel has been having trouble keeping up in their latest process for failure rates etc.
where they went to school

I know for a while the rumors were basically that if you hadn't gone to a place like Stanford, you weren't getting a job, at least at Google (Maybe Facebook too?)

Is this still the case? (Was it ever the case, or were things a more flexible?)
Two major problems with the Epson EcoTank printer:

1) The Epson EcoTank has a fixed printhead system where if the printhead gets damaged or clogged, then replacing it can become expensive. Over time or if you do not print continuously, the printhead can become damaged and/or clogged. HP/Canon keeps the printhead on the cartridge itself so the printheads are replaced continuously.

2) There is an infamous problem "Epson Ink pad is at the end of its service life error". The Ink pad absorbs excess ink during printing and needs to be replaced after a while. Unfortunately to reset the error you need to send it back to Epson for servicing (even if you replace the inkpad itself). Epson claims that this error is also tied to the service lifetime of other parts in the system and they would need to be replaced as well (AKA: planned obsolescence).

The cost of shipping + servicing + parts replacement is more than just replacing the printer all together.

Even though the EcoTank fixes the ink refill issue it forces you to buy a whole new printer after a certain amount of use.
Unless, of course, it was fixed and scrutinised by organisations which still have the same systemic flaws as the first time around.

Until the sociotechnical systems that do the work change, they will keep overlooking problems and making similar mistakes, from a high-level perspective.
I worked at a phone company that was collapsing in market share and one of the things that always stuck out to me was: complex signing process + documentation.

It seems that as you get larger in the phone space, these things are neglected until you lose market share and then they become a priority.
I think it always makes sense to consider everything, even if you're not gonna weigh your considerations equally because you might discover something that renders the offer unacceptable to you. If you're really just after high payouts and nothing else, was going into IT even the best choice to begin with?
Years ago my ex and I went to PR on vacation. Spent most of our time on Vieques, fantastic trip, but when we were still on the big island I dragged us all the way out to Arecibo. My wife was confused, there's nothing out there except some sort of observatory? It turned out to be our favorite part of the trip, they gave a good mini tour but seeing the thing in person was absolutely awe-inspiring.
indeed, yes.
> [...] haven't built yourself, [...]

Reproducible builds remove this requirement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducible_builds
Yes, from the paper "A first-digit anomaly in the 2009 Iranian presidential election" (https://arxiv.org/pdf/0906.2789.pdf):

"The total numbers of votes per voting area
in the MOI’s data vary from about 10^4 to 10^6, i.e. by two orders of magnitude
(powers of 10). This suggests that Benford’s Law may
be applicable"

The issue, as I understand it, is that the US districts that the "law" is being applied to are too small, uniform, and uniformly sized, and therefore the "law" doesn't apply.

Additionally, many of the graphs being shared have obvious biases (change of scale between one candidate and the other) which suggests bad faith of those making the graphs (see the skeptics.stackexchange link a sibling shared).

> Why are you so against discussing it?

I'm not especially against discussing it. I am against presenting it as a fait accompli that the election was rigged, when thirty seconds of Googling and critical thought show it to be a red herring.
I thought about this exact problem a month ago when I got paranoid (I'm on Windows) , and my solution involved setting up a separate cheap Linux node in my home and attaching my backup drive to it.

The server is locally SSHable, but only authenticates via password that I have to type in during each backup. Key authentication is disabled. I use borg backup so I don't even have to give shell access to this particular account (there are hardened borg configs available online).

If you're more paranoid about security, you can enable 2FA over SSH, or make sure the backup server itself creates a periodic offline backup of the backup repository, without the SSH account having permissions to that of course.

Honestly though as long as you're not doing something stupid like mounting NFS to your vulnerable device to make backups, you should be mostly fine.
Russia is a federation of republics. There are plenty of different nations there.
Ensure to check your firefox browser has access to camera settings. I have just checked myself on firefox android and it worked fine. Here is a screenshot - https://i.imgur.com/EmEvJmG.jpg
Yellow is also printed underneath black to make the black blacker
The reality is that many startup employees may have stacked Stanford STEM degrees yadda yadda yadda, but they can’t do basic math, don’t have a good intuitive grasp of probability, have outlandish expectations, and/or don’t ask clarifying questions about the cap table.

One of my startups sold for about $25-40MM depending on whether you count pre- or post-earnout. The typical engineer got maybe a quarter of a percent of options on common stock. You’d think that would net out to $62.5K but we had a messy cap table. Various investments’ preferred status ate deeply into what remained for common stockholders.

Even if there were no cap table issues, the engineers wouldn’t have been happy, because they hung their hopes and dreams on a multi-hundred-million dollar exit. We experienced 90%+ engineer turnover over the next six months. (We got by just fine.)

Rule of thumb: do not join a startup for the money.
In my experience, Google Meet is the one where no-one has problems. Zoom and Teams are the least reliable of the bunch.
> the money to pay developers to bulldoze the combinatoric jungle that is compatibility

For hardware support, the biggest thing is stable kernel ABI for drivers.

> the combinatoric jungle that is compatibility

Windows doesn't have combinatoric jungle. With their amount of supported hardware, combinatoric jungle would be prohibitively expensive even for Microsoft.

Instead, Windows has well-specified ABIs the drivers must conform to. And a set of development tools to verify that's the case, both static like code analysis, and runtime like driver verifier.
It seems very strange to me that their investors went "you know what.. its only money.. we'll take a loss so you can retire." Was there some caveat that prevented them from taking their share?

A VC leaving money on the table out of the goodness of their hearts just seems inexplicable.

If it don't make dollars it don't make sense.
> Also, finding errors has already overturned numerous representative races. This is a factual thing. It’s not Donald Trump throwing a fit.

Source?
I just want to chime in and say you probably don't want to do this. Steam on linux can technically work with NTFS drives, but I've only had success running games that are linux-native. With anything that uses wine behind the scenes there are problems relating to file permissions.

I gave up and just created an ext4 partition and things got a lot more stable.
>Anxiety, depression and insomnia

I have all 3 of these + mental and physical exhaustion from barely leaving my flat for almost a year and now about to spend a the rest of a month not speaking in person to another human other than checkout staff. Haven't had COVID yet as far as I know.
Develop, or more like always had it AMD it just now surfaces due to the mental stress put on you by having covid (which isn't caused by covid but by how media reports about it, isolation and about how other people treat you?)

> The study also found that people with a pre-existing mental illness were 65% more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 than those without.

This sounds very misleading. I.e. it sounds like your are more likely to get covid-19 if you have a mental illness but that's not what it actually implies. More precise without additional information like the total percent of people tested which have mental illnesses, the consideration when it counts as a mental illness and how they don't someone had one and most importantly if they consider pre-test or pre-pandemy this can't be interpreted reasonable. Other missing parts include e.g. how likely someone with mental illness is to test themself compared to one which isn't.
> Android would not allow for developing in Xcode and Swift

https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/xcode_plugin.html
https://developer.android.com/studio/build/building-cmdline
https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/Android.md https://blog.readdle.com/why-we-use-swift-for-android-db449f...

As you can see, it's a thing; hope this helps!

> It's well known that the Play Store environment is pretty much horrific for the indie developer trying to make a buck.

Yeah, Google Pay taking 30% per transaction isn't very helpful and some people choose to distribute their app outside of the Google Play Store to get around that on Android.
I've trying trial version and doesn't works for me.
Cisco Webex is used in my workplace. We forbid anyone from installing Zoom over security concerns
The Reuter's article can be junk even if the study it's about is perfectly fine. And given the state of science journalism, it probably is.
And basically every printer natively supports PostScript and PCL which are "almost generic" but can come with a ppd file that has your printers specific options and error codes.

And I'm seeing lots of printers come with native PDF/DVI support which is nice.
I have showdead on and I don't see any "flagged" links. Are you claiming a link you tried to shared is being silently suppressed beyond HN's normal moderation tools?
You definitely can’t apply Occam’s razor simply because you don’t have access to information.
Anytime the validity of an operation depends upon the state of multiple processes you need to make sure you aren't creating a race condition, and depending upon your solution you might introduce a chance of deadlocks or timeouts.

If it's just 2 processes then it's pretty easy: process 1 asks process 2 to modify itself, then process 1 modifies itself. However, this can lead to deadlocks/timeouts if both P1 and P2 are attempting to perform this operation at the same time.

And once you're into 3 or more processes, message passing as a method of synchronization breaks down.

Ideally you avoid this stuff with your design. But since processes fill so many roles you can't always avoid it.
Planes don't hold territory, but neither do boats. Only boots on the ground hold territory. Planes and ships are mostly equivalent.

Now, while it's very true that the US has many bases in SCS, they are completely untenable without naval power. Indeed, US bases are fundamentally cut off from US productive capabilities. In a serious war, the US won't be able to hold Guam if they cannot maintain naval control - Guam will be targeted by a large barrage of missiles, and will then be interdicted in the way we discussed earlier

Really, only Okinawa is left as a base, and China vs Okinawa is a win for China.

The truth is, the US is fundamentally a naval power. The reason why the US, like Britain before, has so many bases all around the world is because it can maintain naval dominance. Without naval dominance, US ground bases lose significant power - its still possible to supply then via air, but how do you maintain air supremacy after a missile barrage without naval dominance

This is evident from the makeup of the PLAAF and PLARF. If you look at most Chinese platforms, you can notice the emphasis on range. Indeed, the Chinese military trains to disable Guam without any naval usage, and without the use of tankers.

The US, on the flipside, cannot supply Guam sustainably without the use of naval power.

I think that we were living the past 40 years in a kind of military anomaly, where the US basically didn't have to care about overextending its supply lines, and the basis of that is unpredecented total naval domination. Without that, the world completely changes, and the advantage of any given theather being close to your mainland increases significantly.

Now, of course, while I think China would be able to achieve its strategic objectives, the US is going to inflict incredible amounts of damage before that could be possible, which is why, unless somehow the conflict is forced, I don't think they will attempt this until much more than five years.
Taiwan did everything they could to lead chip fab so the US would find them geopolitically valuable. It's not a coincidence this scenario came about.
They don't have almost nothing to do with one another. Modern American liberalism is based pretty heavily on universal suffrage and human rights.

The Rawlsian veil of ignorance[1] that the modern American left is pretty much based on is largely an extension of Locke.

Sure, there are some economic ideas that the early liberals had that most modern liberals (and modern conservatives for that matter) would eschew, but to reduce their thinking to being purely libertarian does a disservice to the modern left, which needs all the historical support it can muster.

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance
Not a radio telescope like this, you want those in the middle of nowhere where there's as little stray radio signals as possible.

The city next to Green Bank telescope, the other major telescope for NANOGrav, has banned[1] cell phones and similar in order for the telescope to not be drowned in noise.

[1]: https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2015/07/us/quiet-town-am...
I know zero about Benford's law, there is at least one argument that the available data is not sufficient or does not lead one to believe voter fraud occurred:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wmebane/inapB.pdf

I will be watching for more information on this subject.

Poll watchers weren't let in to the Michigan facility because Republicans (and Democrats) had already exceeded the maximum number of allowed poll watchers.

Biden didn't receive 138k votes to Trump's zero. That was a typo which was immediately corrected.

Poll workers do transcribe votes from damaged ballots. One poll worker reads votes from the damaged ballots, another fills in the new ballot. Of this team of two, one is a Democrat, one is a Republican. The videos of this process that some people shared crops out poll watchers.

I agree that if poll watchers were not allowed to adequately perform their functions in any state that is not acceptable. It is not evidence of fraud.
You answered your own question in your last statement. People don't care about security. They care about it being easy to use and Zoom works better and for more (non-technical) users than any other tool of its kind.
Zoom, Google,twitter, Facebook what's common? All lies about your privacy and you still keep using these scammy services? Why???
> I don’t know how past instances of fraud are relevant. This election had an immensely high percentage of mail in votes.

And as I mentioned, historical fraud rates for mail-in votes is on the order of 1 in 10s of millions. This includes states that conduct their entire election by mail, e.g., Oregon.

> Also, finding errors has already overturned numerous representative races. This is a factual thing. It’s not Donald Trump throwing a fit.

Which ones? You're saying it so authoritatively, you should be be able to provide a precise, verifiable list to back up your claims.
YouTube Election Loophole Lets Some False Trump-Win Videos Spread
Sorry, I missed a word. I was going to say, the GPL is perhaps less restrictive.
I'm actually gonna upvote this, even though I think your phrasing itself has the very problem you accuse the article of, which is being unnecessarily intense/emotional.

But at the heart of it I think you're asking "What is the emotional cost, of all of us on HN reading and worrying about these things? Is the emotional burden worth the marginal information gain of getting scary, unverified news (something that happens all too much: remember fear of terrorism after 9/11)?"

I wrote about this a bit here: https://blog.alexrohde.com/archives/703

Also, if you find these articles a burden, it looks like you could probably do something like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22522076
Can the Bike Boom Keep Going?
It's incredible that you don't question information WHEN IT IS FED TO YOU and DISINFORMATION IS MORE PROFITABLE THAN FACTUAL INFORMATION- this is the current business model. I am by no means discrediting anyone who has suffered, I am simply stating that BY EXPERIENCE of contracting the virus alongside my own family, nobody has developed mental illnesses. I understand that this is an insufficient sample size, I am simply making a statement based on real experience in combating the virus.

I don't question my intelligence and I will not be censored while using a public good.

You may want to question your own intelligence level for taking my comments to the utmost extreme, and making emotionally irrational hatred comments back at me.

Jog on, I hope you don't continue to succumb to the psychological terrorism that is living in your head rent free.
Steam has a vested interested on Linux ever since Microsoft introduced the Microsoft Store.
Assuming you have MFA and don't re-use passwords.

What's more likely:

1. A determined attacker targets you and causes significant uninsured irreparable harm.

2. At some point in your life you end up in hospital and your spouse is caused significant distress as they can't access an account.
First Nations partner with B.C. company in $1B purchase of Clearwater Seafoods
> a prohibition on privacy and security misrepresentations

Why did they have to "agree" to that? Shouldn't that already not be allowed? Also, this sounds a bit like they're allowed to misrepresent other things...
HN ease shadowbann me
In Grist spreadsheets you can store a dictionary in a cell (here's a random example https://support.getgrist.com/examples/2020-08-invoices/#ente...). It is sometimes handy though it gets ugly if overused I'd say. Grist just became open-source btw https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core#grist (disclaimer, I work there)
Emailed you regarding a role! Thanks Tiffany
The English similarly defeated France at the prior Battle of Crécy, as well.

They are not great counterexamples in the "Knight vs Peasant" argument because you're talking about an entire English army led by an English prince. In the slightly larger-scope argument of knights vs footmen in combat, sure, it's a very good example.
With hp instantink you are forced to connect to the internet if you want to receive ink refills
If Twitter is an “authority”, what is the President of the United States?

Twitter has a platform whose design inherently amplifies the voices of high-profile people, and consequently dampens the voices of the non-high-profile. Why be OK with that, and yet somehow not be OK with minor design adjustments that provide a small, partial, counterweight?

You cast this as a “special ability” but isn’t this simply the design of the platform, as decided by the people who control the platform, and whose job it is to decide what the platform is? And how is a platform design dictated by someone else for their own benefit somehow more valid?

Perhaps you don’t know, but as President, Trump is given special privileges on Twitter, and is exempt from virtually all the normal TOS. By basic fairness in free speech principles, you would be arguing that he be held to the same standard as everyone else. That would have had gotten him banned from Twitter a long time ago.

Anyway, just to clear your thinking, think of what a truly fair speech platform would be like. It would, e.g., ensure that any message I or you posted would be just as prominent as one Trump or other high-profile person posted. Of course, such platforms aren’t of interest to high-profile people. They want a platform like Twitter where the rules are tilted in their favor. The only thing being argued about here is how massively in their favor the platform is made. That’s fine, but it doesn’t have anything to do with free speech. You express a desire for a relatively level playing field, but if that’s the case, why even talk about Twitter, which has never been even remotely about that?

> straw-manned

I’m afraid you’re getting lost here. I’m not straw-manning you or anyone. You can have any stance you want. It’s just up to you to express it.
No the OP is about newly diagnosed cases.

This is a major difference!
rsync...is not a backup strategy, being exactly as vulnerable to ransomware are as your local file. Unless you pair it with something else, but then that's not exactly 'rsync for backup'
Can you elaborate how charity is not a moral good?
I didn't think it was a jerk comment at all.

Your point is 100% right though. Early startup employees rarely understand the risk/reward. Surely none of the 10 employees at a 7 year old software company doing 1.6M a year thought they were on a rocketship.
Ask HN: How Does MRNA Work?
I did not study biology in the university. I studied computer engineering.

I just would like a to understand how mRNA works.

Is it like a trojan horse that transports another virus code to reprogram your cells? Is this the correct way to understand it?

If this is correct, what would unit tests and acceptance tests look like for this? Does it leave any technical debt in what it reprograms in your cells?