skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit disappointing that your title suggests it's recent news when no work has been done on that repo apart from Readme updates since April. A couple of open-source ventilators have been tested on human patients in France (where this project originates from), all during the same very short period, but none were approved by the health authorities.

I would have appreciated at the very least a description of the project and how it's different from other open-source ventilator projects that can be found on GitHub. Maybe that's included in the link you shared in the comments, but reddit's not pinterest, personally posts that are basically a baitclick title and a link to "more on this on my website" annoy me because I feel they don't enable discussion, they are empty self-promotion.

For those who would like to know more on the rush to develop open-source ventilators due to the current pandemic, this research paper could be a good starting point: https://f1000research.com/articles/9-218
I'm afraid I don't have anything more recent because I've stopped doing a serious watch after May. I have no doubt some of the projects are still moving forward but they have been far less mediatised recently.
would loooooove this for my personal audio and video stash, that will never see the light of day in someone else's servers.
The million-dollar question that it's all about is if the locals choose to be ignorant assholes or if they don't know better because of circumstances - multigenerational bad education and ready availability of Foxnews. You'd actually say that anyone who could moved away long ago, and it's only the dregs of society that are still there.
The idea was that the three week pieces add up to the whole of the larger task. (Yeah, I know - only if you didn't miss anything. Take the time to think it through well enough that you don't do that. And what if you have things you don't know? Then you have to do a research project to find them out before you can give valid estimates.)
Discord uses React Native, and I wouldn't be surprised if Slack does as well.
I don't know if the discovery and use of the Roaring Forties predates or postdates Australian settlement, but in the Age of Sail, you need to sail south of Cape of Good Hope, which puts you in a strong westward wind belt known as the Roaring Forties, which will spit you out on the southern coast of Australia, with the southeast being the easiest to reach (because it's the most southern one). So in terms of sailing time, it's easier to get to southern than northern Australia.
"Isolating the US economically from the entire Asia-Pacific region."

Is this true?

The US has a free trade agreement with Korea, recently signed a very limited free trade agreement with Japan with the expectation that it will be expanded. Also Vietnam has risen three spots to #8 on the list of trading partners with the US.
Absolutely true. Really. Just don't have 4 kids :)
I know that every release of Mac OS X/OS X/macOS has had issues, but the last decade or so seems to be a huge downturn on the Mac hardware and the Mac OS by Apple. The Mac OS has truly become like Windows of the past, where upgrading to a new version is recommended only after SP1 (or even SP2).

There are comments elsewhere that are just victim blaming and victim shaming the people who upgraded on seeing the prompt that comes up. Apple will, in its usual style, never admit to the issue nor offer free repair to the affected (bricking the HDMI chip seems to be the cause, as per some threads on Apple’s discussion forums). Apple has once again dropped the ball, and neither Tim Cook nor Craig Federighi seem eager on solving these problems, and during the current COVID-19 period, this is just unforgivable.

For once, I’d like to see some senior executive in Apple publicly state “We’re sorry we messed up, we will make it right” and then do the right thing. That couldn’t even happen in a dream I suppose.
Agreed!

Equating SpaceX to LM, Raytheon, Boeing just shows how much the parent doesn't understand that SpaceX is disrupting the industry. And it is definitely due to Musk whether you like him or not.
What is the Chinese model/"cheating"?
I had to buy Pro for Docker usage. $200
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412020971500
Mostly peaceful
The best anti-SLAPP law in the country, no state ban on municipal broadband, no blue laws, allows people who get a JD by remote learning to take the bar exam.
I find it unfortunate, but I recognize that as a newly minted culture exporting nation South Korea at large is in favor of stronger copyright enforcement, and that my personal opinion that copyright is currently too strong and detrimental to culture holds little sway.
I’m confused, wasn’t your original claim that it was implicitly talking about states calling the election, not news networks?

And from there, it’s pretty clear that indecision around the election (and specifically mail-in voting) has indeed caused issues, so if anything the last two weeks affirm the SCOTUS majority opinion.
Cuba is, compared to hellholes in the Caribbean line Haiti, actually not so bad.
Chaos leads to distracted government, which we've had 4 years of. Now we'll have at least 2 years of divided government. Government occupied elsewhere is always good for Koch's business. Chaos will do.
Found the A"I" lol

I believe it's supposed to be "No one is willing to, lol". In this case "lol" is describing what the writer is feeling about this statement, not what the objects of his writing are doing.

The confusion is due to the missing ",". However, it can be surmised that the omission was for brevity or by accident, and not intentionally to convey a meaning which would otherwise be inconsistent with the preceding sentences.
Show HN: Workday Countdown for Q4 2020
Here's a list of some of what we're doing. We haven't been very diligent about keeping track of it all, so listing it here is kind of an exercise for me to start working on that.

We're working hard to keep from using judgmental/subjective words like good/bad, like/dislike, etc. We're also starting to incorporate Nonviolent Communication patterns and concepts. We use they/them pronouns instead of gendering them. If they want to do something, we strive to help them do it as long as they wont be maimed or killed. We ask them for consent before changing their diaper, touching them, picking them up, taking things from them, and performing medical/dental procedures on them. We've named them Uni Verse All. They wear whatever clothes they choose, no matter what gender they may seem created for. I'm genderfluid and do the same. I also shower once every 1-2 weeks, stopped using shampoo about a year ago and am about to stop using soap on my body, too. We aren't teaching them about property currently and may not ever, choosing to instead describe things as "living with" someone. I'm developing a spirituality with a component I call "radical ignorance," which is essentially a sort of Zen "beginner's mind." It recognizes that ignorance isn't an excuse, but a spiritual reason for doing things, which runs counter to the US's legal reasoning of "ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking the law." My partner and I are intentionally staying out of the workforce, instead choosing to serve people in our community alongside Uni, which allows both of us to be available so they can have their choice between us. Anytime one of us is choosing to not let them do something without there being a safety issue, the other ideally defaults to helping Uni do what they want. When they get hurt, we bring their attention to the pain and teach them to mindfully experience it while breathing through it.

As for the drawbacks, we're currently designing a community anti-adultist homeschool model that focuses on collaboratively learning our needs over what schools typically teach and allowing the students (of age 0-200+) to choose the contexts for learning. So they'll probably have an interesting intergenerational peer group to blow past the world with.
"…and within RCEP trade balancing out."

This remains the biggest question, and imo would require china to invest a lot more uncollateralized in SEA than they do already (most doable), or import a lot more from SEA (I do not see this happening).
I'm honestly surprised more places are don't try this - $10k for the potential tax revenue seems well worth it to me.
This is such a circle jerk. Of course everyone's going to be shooting down everyone who likes Windows on this thread.
Allopurinol works for most people (but sadly not everyone), my gout kept me in bed for a month of agony, but once I was able to start allopurinol my uric acid levels have dropped and been managed for over a decade without issue, or gross dietary changes.
The claim there is no distortion all depends on one’s perspective. Top, bottom and, obviously, size have been chosen.
Lighthead Software (Caffeine for Mac) is no longer in business
Actually, what you wrote was "..activist groups will quite often ignore viable solutions. This is usually because they wish to keep on being activists and keep on continuing the fight."

You surmise in the text that the rejection of nuclear is just out of hand because solving the problem would end the fight. This is what you stated.

Nuclear may be a viable solution to the energy problem. Whether it is a viable solution to the humans altering the planet irrevocably so they can't inhabit it safely anymore problem is open to a bit more conjecture.

There is plenty of energy readily available on the planet without the necessity of continuing to burn off a billion years of carbon capture or splitting atoms, imho.
The mom-test is a good one, I'll have to think more about it. The truth is the advantages and disadvantages of various authentication systems are subtle, and hard for a lot of technical people to understand, much less care about.

Apple is a commercial corporation, and one of the biggest (by market cap) companies in the world. That gives me confidence that they'll be around for a long time, have sufficient resources to invest in security and reliability, and they have a well-established reputation for a focus on security. They do other things I don't like[1], but I think this is one area where they're setting really good precedent.

In addition, it's going to be difficult getting any sites (outside of maybe the crypto/grey-market) to adopt an auth system that doesn't let them contact their users. This is also I think a big failing of IndieAuth.

[1]:https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/
The current generation of satellites don’t have laser interlink connections.

That means the connection needs to go directly from the ground, up to a sat, then immediately back to the SpaceX ground station. That means for a while you’ll need to be within a certain range of a ground station, so international waters won’t work for a while.

The marine “anywhere on earth application” won’t be really applicable until they get the next generation of satellites with laser interlinks launched.
... toward lowering his grandchildren's income taxes via deductions.
I've been of the opinion that hosting sites should be agnostic of the posted content. The moment you try to fact-check one person, you open a very large can of worms and become responsible for fact-checking everyone. Information is cheap and people post correct and incorrect facts all the time. Censorship does not scale.

The world is a dangerous place and it's more scalable to teach future generations that they'll run into good and bad information and that they should make decisions for themselves. Trying to censor all of the "bad" stuff is a huge can of worms and is not something huge platforms should even try to be doing. Let the mirror be black, and teach people how to scrub the dirt off.

When in doubt, err on the side of higher user agency.
The Twitter comments are brutal.
Australia, Japan, and SK are sovereign nations.
In this case rather than particular friends consider the general regulatory environment businesses operate in, with rules unenforced except for those that have attracted negative attention.
I've been running KDE Neon on a NUC for several years now, and has been quite happy with that as a secondary PC.

However, as much as I like it, I've not even tried to run it on my primary desktop due to the lack of a viable RDP alternative.

The irony here is that with Microsoft implementing RDP support in WSL2, the thing that might finally remove the key obstacle might render the entire point moot.
Totally unreadable on mobile.
Here in New Zealand homes are not required to be insured, but all home insurance plans are required to pass on a levy to the government, which will cover the first $150,000 worth of earthquake damage. Insurers are only liable for an amount more than that, which the average home is unlikely to exceed given our building standards.

If your home is not insured (with a private insurer) the government says they will not help you financially after an earthquake.

California could do the same, but I suspect there would be protests from people living in low fire zones, while here in NZ pretty much everywhere is at risk of earthquakes.
Japan, South Korea, Australia and NZ are also part of this pact.
$10K is a lot more money in Tulsa than the Bay Area, so the sponsors probably think it's more motivating than it really is.
What do you think of spam filters? Do you think Facebook would be a useful product if predatory posts or rampant advertising were allowed?

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-is-bob What do you think of this? Would you still use hacker news if such posts littered the site?

> Information is cheap and people post correct and incorrect facts all the time. Censorship does not scale.

Censorship on platforms will never be perfect but there's a great deal of space between perfect censorship and a ridiculous free for all. You need moderation/filtering to make the modern web work.
How to Protect Yourself from Others’ Negative Energy
The link to [1] is an interesting take that questions the future of Asia as bipolar (China vs US)

[1] https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/09/09/asia-s-future-beyon...
> > Isn't that what all the republicans are saying now that their presidential candidate has lost?

> FYI, the Koch network did not actively support Trump in either 2016 or 2020. So calling Trump as “their presidential candidate” could be misleading.

Sure, they didn't support Trump directly. But they really only supported GOP candidates, and whether those candidates in turn supported Trump doesn't seem to have ever been a factor. They certainly never explicitly supported any opposition to Trump, not even conservative opposition such as the Lincoln Project.
Use two globes?
Has it been demonized the by conservatives?

This is from the 2015 session where TPP fast track was debated.

The average Republican member received $19,673.28 from corporate TPP supporters.

The average Democrat received $9,689.23 from those same donors.

Source:
https://thenewamerican.com/corporations-bribe-senators-to-vo...
Certainly some people care a lot about factory farming. Even so, the key difference here is that brain function and intelligence are tied so tightly to the idea of human exceptionalism; that it is OK to enslave a horse but not a human, because humans have more capacity for autonomy, suffering, and so forth.

How precisely to draw the line is very much a matter of disagreement.
Apple Responds to macOS Privacy Concerns, Explains Why Apps Were Slow to Launch
This is no longer the case.
> What motivated Australia, Japan, and SK to sign on to this

Money apparently. China will lift its tariff against 90% of imports from Japan, increasing from 8% currently. Also Japan and Korea would have similar tariff treatment between each other. South Korea and China already had their own FTA, so it won't matter that much, but has no negative impact either.
Sounds like they got kicked off for piss-poor methodology, not ideology.
I send these offers to a friend as a joke. The only one I was serious about was Helsinki.
Thanks!! i have tried chasing that lead.. (found only childrens songs on youtube so I thought it might be based on a childrens song.. your posts above those were awesome but guess not the same style haha)

Also there was a deckhand on that ship called Henrik Wallgren[0], guess it could be the same person wonder how likely you think that is..

[0] https://youtu.be/VHeAlOcHeSI
If it has no actual effect, that’s actually scarier for US partisans than if it was genuinely an economic boon.

The simple reason being that it indicates that all these countries, including US allies, are willing to put their names on an agreement with China which will only serve to anger the US even if there is no material benefit in doing so.

That’s either a huge FU to the US, or more likely, them believing, unlike in 2016 after the TPP, that it’s more important to keep China happy because the US will have relatively less influence in the region.

Either way, it indicates that the leadership of the countries who signed up for this believe that the relative strength of the US vs China in the region has reduced.
My wife and a I have Austin on the list of places to exit to after the kids finish high school in 2022. 6th street is amazing if you like live music (which we do). Santa Fe, NM is also on the list. The fact that I live in what is the worlds 5th larger economy with a power grid that looks like a 3rd world nation is a huge part of the reason to leave. $2m home where I need to spend another $100k to sort for the fact that PG&E mismanaged everything for the last 20 years, yet I have a $400 a month power bill... all LED lights, all low power everything..

State should just take control and setup CA wide power company who is managed to provide power to everyone all the time and focused on moving all line underground to prevent the fires.. but Newsom is more focused on seeing if he can power the state on the amount of human excrement now found on the streets of SF due to the housing issue for the homeless. We have such a rich state, but the common worker is just screwed by the house laws that keep us from building affordable housing. We that are the lucky valley elite drink our $5 coffees and fail to realize that the person serving us drives 3 hours a day to get to work because they cannot afford to live anywhere near by. I count myself very lucky for the success I have had but I sickened by the cost.
The principle here is good (check if the developer’s certificate is revoked) but the implementation is completely batshit. Why not cache the result and send a push notification through the centralized channels if there is a Sev1 revocation incident?
Very cool, but flooding the browser history can be avoided - I don’t imagine deep-linking would be very common.
Haven't watched the full video yet but the saying that one shouldn't build what everyone else is building doesn't seem like good advise.

Yahoo was hugely popular when Google launched. Orkut and MySpace were very popular when Facebook launched. There were many popular messaging services when Whatsapp launched.

In fact I think just digging out something from the Google graveyard would be a good idea. 4-5 million users might be a pittance for Google but most of us would be more than happy to have even half of that customer base.
> Except an unactivated Windows, once past its trial window, will shut down after an hour of use, without warning.

Only LTSC Evaluation version gonna do that.
I ran a business in California - there sales tax is incredibly more difficult to manage than the VAT (GST) here in New Zealand. Imagine having to charge someone a different sales tax rate depending on which county they live in .....
What If “Did Not Vote” Was a Candidate in 2020 US Presidential Election?
Indeed, the doesn’t carry a higher fatality rate part is factually incorrect. It's sad to see people spreading this kind of thing because it causes problems for their ideology.

COVID-19 has a fatality rate between 1 and 10%[1]. The variation is mostly due to testing - the places with the higher rate are under testing.

The flu has a death rate around 0.1% in the US - although that overestimate it because most people who get the flu are never tested and don't report it[2].

The flu is also much less contagious than COVID-19. Influenza has a R0 of between 0.9 and 2.8 (for the 1928 Pandemic stream). COVID-19 is between 3 and 6[3].

[1] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

[2] https://www.livescience.com/new-coronavirus-compare-with-flu...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number
Spring DI implies automatic DI containers, right? So how would that work with an abstract function type (as opposed to a specific class that gets instantiated)?
QAnon, is it really you?

Do you have the assigned catch phrases in text-expander? I mean how many times can someone realistically type out "Hillary's emails" and "Deep State" in a day before developing carpal tunnel.
They always have studies saying the deal will increase GDP by an enormous amount. How can you argue with such a prediction?

Years later, you can analyse the data.

The costs of Australia’s “free trade” agreement with America

https://insidestory.org.au/the-costs-of-australias-free-trad...

> Enough time has now passed and there is enough data to update the Productivity Commission’s model to estimate the effect of AUSFTA on trade. What this shows is that the agreement was responsible for reducing – or diverting – $53.1 billion of trade with the rest of the world by 2012. Imports to Australia and the United States from the rest of the world fell by $37.5 billion and exports to the rest of the world from the two countries fell by $15.6 billion over eight years to 2012.
It's worth noting that these days you can move Windows installs across hardware/VMs and fix issues from a live image.

I'm a longtime Linux user and every time I have to do this on Windows I find the documentation poor, but it is possible to do things like load kernel modules (drivers), partition a drive, format a new NTFS filesystem, copy all the files over preserving special filesystem features, reinstall the bootloader, add required additional drivers, ensure the drive assignments are correct, etc. all from a command line prompt which you can pull up from the Windows 10 installer image. The process ends up being very similar to doing the same thing on Linux at a high level, just with different tools.

What Windows needs in this regard is something like the Arch Linux wiki.

Just in case it's useful to someone, here are some pointers:

To add critical (e.g. storage) drivers to a mounted Windows install (or image file within installers): dism

To modprobe a driver within the live environment: drvload

To rsync files over to a new filesystem preserving (almost?) all critical metadata: robocopy (use the latest Windows 10, older versions had trouble with stuff like directory junctions and symlinks; read the manual carefully to figure out what options to use)

To fix drive assignments (i.e. fstab): you actually just pull up regedit and edit the registry directly; you copy the (binary) drive ID info from the live instance, mount the registry hive of the target, and paste it there (this isn't really morally different from running blkid and then editing fstab by hand to paste a UUID). Search terms: MountedDevices and DosDevices.

Fix the bootloader: bootrec is the top level "fix stuff automatically" tool, kind of like grub-install and grub-mkconfig. However, you may have to delete your BCD (grub.conf) first so bootrec can make it fresh, as it often won't fix existing bootloader entries with a problem. bcdboot and bcdedit are the lower level tools.
Had a quick look at your comment history on this topic, at this point if you are still in denial about the basic nature of COVID-19 and how wrong you have been then I guess I have a pretty good idea how worried to be about accusations of being disingenuous!