skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If GitHub really was "standing up for developers", why couldn't Microsoft's own army of lawyers figure this out?

I think the 'What we're changing' section is the real interesting part of this post regarding this. I read this section as a half-apology for not doing enough to stand up for developers in this case (allowing the repository to be taken down to begin with), and a promise to do more in the future to prevent this kind of thing from happening again. We'll have to wait and see if their future actions match this promise.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=widevine
Living near oil drilling is deadly. Why don't lawmakers care?
I recently saw a TikTok from a (I believe) non technical Mac user describing how to use the Doctor/Eliza bot to save on therapy. I was pretty impressed!
There's truth to this, but I don't think it's the whole picture. It's certainly possible to be concerned about the state of civilization without "doomscrolling" or checking covid death numbers each morning. These behaviors are consequences of the media landscape more than of the disease itself.
It definitely could be the case that my last point and GP's last point overlap to some extent. I read it (with the sentence before it) more as a claim that certain characteristics aren't factors when it comes to "greatness".
I don't think the future of remote work is an engineering org of 1000 people living in 1000 locations and working from home over Zoom. I think it's the organization working as 20 engineering teams of 50 people each, and where the 20 leaders meet a few times a year in a single location or perhaps a few locations around the world.

I also don't think that people who have lived for 10 years in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York metro area are well equipped to live in a random American small town where the town is nearly monoracial and the local fine dining is an Olive Garden.

Both of these are recipes for strong economic growth (and of course, the attendant gentrification) in small cities in America and around the world.
It's like watching a victim of a scam artist complain to the police, get brushed off and then deciding "fuck it I guess I'll become a scam artist too then".

It's hypocritical and wrong but pretty understandable at the same time.

This is a systemic issue.
No.

You might, might be able to interpret my comment as saying that for the very unique set of circumstances that involve sex work, masks aren't important. But that still wouldn't be a charitable interpretation. Please follow the hn guidelines.

Masks and social distancing are always important, and always reduce the likelihood of spread. There are situations when those aren't possible. For example my dentist can't exactly maintain 6 feet of distance from me at all times. But can I wear a mask while in the office.

For that reason we should maintain social distancing and mask precautions where possible, to keep the chance of spread low. While most transmission is via super spreader individuals, you can't know if the one person you give covid-19 will end up a spreader.
If crackers could justify the resources, they would already now be doing more cracking. It's not like they can just scale their operations ten times all else staying equal. The proposed change in key rotation and publication makes fresh mails only more valuable relative to old messages, not more valuable in general.

If we're looking at cracking-activities from an economic point of view, publishing DKIM keys makes the cracking harder:

1. More accounts need to be cracked fast

2. Timestamped signatures must be published in a timely way

3. Results must be stored until they become useful

These things not only increase cracking expenses, they also increase the threat of detection.
How to Tackle Ill-Defined Technical Backlog Items
American driving is nothing compared to Italian driving. It’s a complete mess. The very first time I went to Italy, my cab driver got into an accident before we ever even left the airport. He was trying to do a crazy maneuver to avoid a fee and rear-ended another cab driver who was doing the same thing, but who apparently wasn’t doing it fast enough. They got out of their cars, yelled at each other for 15 seconds, then continued on their way.

It was downhill from there.
People who are protected from blackmail by email repudiation are by definition people who have incriminating emails. Maybe everyone had skeletons in their closet, but if you have email proof of skeletons I'm starting to wonder if you're such a good person.

Also there's an argument that "good people" can be blackmailed for INVENTED misconduct, but wouldn't such fake emails be more convincing without the ability to verify their origins? Making real emails and fake emails more similar protects people who have their incriminating emails leaked, but it also harms the defence of people who have fake emails targeting them "leaked".

There's a high bar for obfuscating truth and I don't believe this argument meets it.
With respect, and this is coming from just another measly user so take it with a grain of salt and feel free to disagree: I think your comment would be a lot more effective (and just as meaningful) without such an inflammatory tone in the first sentence. I think there are times and places to be more forceful, but an initial reply to a question presumed to be in good faith probably isn't one of them.
Hi Dave, I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'll send an email now.
The previous comment never indicated it was. Facebook sucks.
We have the development kit for the Apple Silicon Mac and we can't install the release of Big Sur (11.0.1). Gives

> An error occurred preparing the update.

> Failed to personalize the software update. Please try again.

Very frustrating.
Or oil in Kuwait or WMDs in Iraq, or ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.

This comment runs too close to slippery slope. Involvement does not equal war. Besides, If you survey the country about the US role in the world I’m sure many people would say they would like the US to be world leader. I personally disagree but not everyone does.
I have a rather large project that is in a stage where asking "where do we host it?" is appropriate.

I was >< this close to choosing Gitlab over Github due to this - I stopped all efforts to make the decision until I saw how this plays out.

Happy to push to Github now.

It's a data point of one, but there you go..
We drove up the Oregon coast and my GF used Yelp to find good places for us to stop and eat. I was frankly astonished as, like you, I've found Yelp pretty useless at best.
The can matters to. A can of Tomatoes is different from a can of Spaghetti-Os. A can of beans is different from a can of bean soup.
It supports a lot of video sources [1], not just Youtube.

[1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/tree/3f1748b9445e9d93...
See response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25114692
Blackmail existed long before DKIM was a thing.

Being able to say "no I didn't say that" is far more powerful than the reverse because the reverse has existed for thousands of years.

But being able to definitively prove that you did not say something is brand new and very powerful.
Was this something Ballmer is known for doing? Was he practicing to be a NCAA basketball coach?
Are you suggesting that lockdowns are doubling the number of animal deaths?
> This sig / cipher being public means it is not a copyright protection mechanism.

I can see this as ending up with Youtube being forced to require sign-ins. Massive expense for Google. Then Youtube-dl adds one parameter for the password, and we're back to square one.
They started this whole thing saying we need to lock down to save the hospitals.
Not ex but, well, of course you can. You can be curious and learn without committing to it. You can also explore alternative philosophies, like nihilism.

One thing that I find really fulfilling to my existential needs is learning about the universe. In the past few years I learned about relativity, quantum mechanics, astrophysics and it was all without having to do complicated math or read books: I did it while watching youtube. I highly recommend it. There are a ton of really good channels, but my favorite by far is PBS Space Time. Also Startalk. And sometimes Kurzgesagt presents some nice views on exsitential topics, like nihilism.
DecaKeyer: Hand-held Chorded Keyboard with 10 Micro-switches
Wait I don’t get the hate over this. This isn’t Grubhub pretending to be the restaurant or anything. This is Grubhub doing the equivalent of Google Search’s link tracking but for phone numbers so that they can attribute the sale to Yelp.

Is it weird that Yelp has made referral codes for phone calls?
I second this request, I'd be very interested in any articles that talk about PostgreSQL integration with Kafka. Last I heard on this topic was debezium [1] but I quite liked the simplicity of Bottled Water [2].

[1] https://debezium.io/documentation/reference/connectors/postg...
[2] https://github.com/confluentinc/bottledwater-pg
Is there still bad blood between Iceland and the UK from the Cod Wars?
"No significant safety concerns have been reported, but nothing, including paracetamol, is 100% safe."

Is it just me, or is this language very irresponsible? They are just talking about having small side effects, like headache and fatigue - just like the flu vaccine has. Likening this to "safety" seems incredibly dangerous to me, as it will give people already predisposed to dislike vaccines more ammunition to speak out against them and refuse them.
Please read the whole article before jumping into a conclusion about the author, Matthew Green. He sighted two examples where incorrect crypto science affected both a Democrat and a Republican. He is not trying to protect any particular side. He is simply articulating a method by which the key can be invalidated after its intended life time. If you have a technical argument, please explain that.
hi tim. absolutely, we exect ppl to test. public benchmarks coming in December. We'll probably just pick the open messaging benchmark that has been going around pulsar+kafka communities so folks can have a frame of reference.

Though what is to me more interesting, is what happens when you inject failures while the benchmarks are running.
Nah, why would Google do that? Oh wait... that’s exactly what they’re doing with HTTP/2 Push.
Pre coronavirus, my plan was to migrate inland. I'm glad I didn't follow thru. The places I was considering are now the worst hotspots.

Ugh.
As far as I know, that's impossible. The particular DRM applied to those test videos is ONLY available to large partners like Vevo.

Which is why they were in the test suite.
There's actually a couple dozen studies on Vitamin D's effects on Covid-19: https://c19vitamind.com/

Some are retrospectives some are randomized clinical trials.

Vitamin D has a major effect on the immune system that is well documented.

OP is right. Even if supplementation reduced the death rate by only 25%, the cost-benefit analysis says that it would absolutely have made sense for countries to issue free Vitamin D and promote its use.
I think there's an angle to the plausible deniability that many people are missing.

Email servers get hacked all the time, right? A disgusting amount. Its almost like security is really difficult; in fact, its difficult to secure both the emails and the DKIM private keys. They're usually on the same server, after all.

If a DKIM private key gets hacked, and the world relies on DKIM to provide non-repudiation in the verification of email leaks, then a hacker who obtains someone's DKIM private key could forge an email to contain any content they want, sign it with that private key, then leak that. The world says "its DKIM validated, Trump really did kill a litter of puppies twelve years ago", Trump tries to say "no, my email server was hacked, i never did that but they got my DKIM key" and who the hell would believe him? The headlines have already been written, and the argument against it is some crazy technical terminology a hundredth a percent of the population actually understands?

Ok, well, maybe you should rotate DKIM keys. Not necessarily make the private portion public, but at least rotate them and totally destroy the old private keys. But, again, if an email server is misconfigured enough to leak data, then its likely the admin is incompetent enough to also not be rotating keys. Moreover, unauthorized access to a server could happen over a period of years, during which hackers collect the rotated DKIM private keys while letting the admins think they're being deleted correctly.

The problem here isn't really DKIM; its the public's perception of what it was designed for. Technologists invented something, journalists discovered it, read a wikipedia article, and thought "woah we could use X for Y". So, I think it makes sense that we need a big name like Google to come out and say "Stop, this is not what this was designed for, it has major limitations in being used for that, and we're talking about real-world consequences like ruining potentially innocent peoples' lives."
Because they have a license.
That's definitely a great lesson from poker which translates to real life.

Winning or losing in the short term is insignificant when compared to consistently making the best decisions possible with the information you have.

If those decisions have a positive expected value, you will end up a winner in the long term despite any short term variance.
Nvidia DGX Station A100
Isn't the Widevine password essentially public as it is distributed to the client where it was extracted? Or was the Widevine key somehow stolen from Google's private repository?
Given the projected temperature increase the wet bulb temperature will make vast areas around the equator deadly for humans. Millions will be affected in our lifetime or will be confined to spaces isolating from the harsh conditions.

Although the temp increase might happen during the colder times of the day so the wet bulb might never reach the deadly quantities.
A local pizza chain has one telephone number which they advertise as a catchy jingle. Even after 15+ years of never eating there, it's one of maybe four phone numbers that I can recite from memory.
In a similar instance where one country (the United States) realized that distributing a specific medicine widely to all citizens would vastly improve public health, they discovered that — just as with anti-vaxxers/maskers — people will attribute medical issues that are outside of their control and have no known cause to something that is in their control, whether or not it's related.

"In the past five years, 74 cities have voted to remove fluoride from their drinking water, despite thousands of studies showing it prevents cavities." (2018)

So if the United States government attempted to distribute vitamin D to all people, a vocal minority of those people would respond "over my dead body" and immediately begin a nationwide campaign to prevent that distribution, including requesting emergency court orders to stop it. The US governments aren't typically what I would call "strong of will", and often fold on proven public health steps (such as masks) without trying to put up a fight.

Perhaps it's different in other countries?
The challenges were announced in 2007 from what I can find.

Here are some links about them:

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/the-toughest-mat...

http://www.math.utk.edu/~vasili/refs/darpa07.MathChallenges....

The first link talks about results for some of the challenges.
I just find it quite ironic that their site is running WordPress, a "free and open-source content management system".
I think a lot of criticism is quite fair. I'm actually very keen to learn much more about the covid cases around you.

What symptoms did they display? What was the timeline of their symptoms, or how did their illness develop/proceed? How soon after initial infection, did person-to-person infection begin? When were the infections/illnesses occurring (Feb/Mar/Apr? Or more recently?) What are the symptoms that stood out to you/them the most? What made them think that it was covid vs another upper respiratory disease? Did they get tested, what tests were used, and how accurate were those tests? What were the treatments, and treatment modalities that were recommended to them by public health officials or private physicians? Do they have post-illness physical records you're willing to share?

I, too, (and I'm sure we all do) have quite a bit of other anecdata I could share - in my workplace, a number of people and their families have been infected. There's a wide variance of experiences - from very mild, to multiple deaths. I chose not to include that information because I couldn't verify their disease progression, or symptom development, or treatment regime. I can provide that actual in-depth information on my experience, based on counsel from my physician and medical health professionals.

Ultimately, the most important questions: how do you create policy for a population, when their experiences are so different? Is this really the best we and our governments can do?
Literally anywhere else. Whatever product you want type it in to google. Click a link that is not Amazon.

edit.... don't use google. Use duck duck go. :-)
Bulletproof is difficult to achieve thanks to hardware failures. Additionally there is a wide range of older hardware out there that may not have been engineered with the necessary support (eg enough space to hold two copies of the firmware).

But putting all that aside: the new sealed system partition is a step in that direction (ROSP was partially about getting clean separation between the system and user files to make snapshot-based updates possible). With snapshots if the update fails you still have the previous snapshot to fall back on - hopefully that will make these kinds of failures less likely in the future.
Building a url-shortener with Lambda – JUST Lambda
Nope. I don't know you, so why would I?
I'd say facilities for text editing (buffers, kill rings, etc.) are built in, but nearly everything else -- the different modes for programming languages, games, mail, web, and IRC clients, etc, are all in Emacs Lisp.
I Lost 200K $ and Learned to Create MVP in a Week
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Obama says social media companies making editorial choices, algorithms or not
There is Open Source voting software and it is in use in about a dozen states. I'm not sure to what extent - couple counties or statewide. It involves paper, voting machines and most importantly audit software.

https://voting.works and code here: https://github.com/votingworks

The general population outside of Hacker News wouldn't understand the concept of Open Source software.

Maybe try to get the above in use in your local county or state. Movements start locally, if enough people suggest this people in office will listen.
This is awesome and I wish you the best of luck! Someone needs to take over this business.

I don't live in the heart of a big city. I live about an hour away from SF. Furthermore where I live is not at the heart of the city my address is at, due to unusual city boundaries, so services like grubhub and other delivery services do not work to my address, but if I put in my neighbors address they get a bunch of options I do not that are walking distance to me. My point is, it helps to center restaurants by gps or similar, not to address, not to city. Good luck! :D
Tell HN: Dead and Hidden Posts Should Lock the Thread
I (very, very stupidly) commented in a thread this morning that quickly got deaded and hidden. And yet as a connoisseur of oddball hackernews behaviors, I’ve checked back in to the thread and it looks like despite all of that, there’s a ton of active & ongoing conversation going on in the subthreads of this supposedly dead comment.

It would appear that a dead and hidden post, one flagged by the community as not being up to snuff, can somehow become a honeypot for that very behavior. I’ve been here 7 years and this seems to be an emergent behavior, so I’m just here to tell HN it’s going on, I don’t think it’s good for the community, and maybe there’s something that could stop it.
Moderna's coronavirus vaccine is 94.5% effective, according to company data
Some contributors actually pay to publish.
This part of that support article is pretty damning:

WARNING: Back up your data before you restore the firmware on your Mac. When you restore the firmware on a Mac that contains an Apple T2 Security Chip, you are restoring the firmware on the T2 chip and on any volumes on your internal SSD storage. When this process is complete, any data on any SSD volumes is unrecoverable.

So this means that a firmware issue can lead to total data loss? Of course you should always have a backup, but nevertheless...
Since the Pentax 645 in the 1980’s, medium format zooms have not been uncommon. That’s about when 35mm zooms really took off. The new Fuji G system has zooms and Richo-Pentax has created new zooms in the last decade...and still sells FA models from the late 1990’s.

More studio oriented systems still tend to only offer primes.
I read in the New York Times article that Moderna and Pfizer use different (proprietary) lipid solutions in the vaccines. It's possible that Pfizer is just being overly cautious and they don't need the ultra cold storage, but it's also possible that Moderna has a fundamentally better solution.
The Future of QR Codes
True, but the inherent costs of a medium format sensor (not even taking into account the likely extra costs of a curved sensor) mean that the bare minimum you could sell this fixed-lens camera for would be several thousand dollars. I just don't see a lot of photographers being willing to drop that much money on a camera that they can never expand the capabilities of.
Wonderful. Also note that psql can store settings in `~/.psqlrc`, so you can set settings there that survive sessions. For instance, in that file, you can have:

```

-- Extended display when it makes sense.

\x auto

-- Always time.

\timing

```

I also set `application_name` there. This lets others know I am connected.
Hmm. Right. So the only option on sender side is to not use DKIM at all, or rotate the keys as suggested.
> Non-repudiation over time is a truly powerful property of DKIM'd email for a great many uses outside of blackmail.

Exactly. If one enters into an contract using an e-mail, then DKIM can be used as a proof to the court of law that the contract was accepted by both sides.
lower on their list of revenue-impacting issues

Some companies do what's right. Some only prioritize based on revenue maximization.

Locking out an entire country is clearly wrong. Only prioritizing for revenue maximization is only ambiguously right.

It's not like fixing a bug is going to bankrupt Tinder.
Former piece of Pacific Ocean floor imaged beneath China
Vitamin D can be bought without prescription and there is currently no shortage, so why should a country (government) distribute it? Anyone who wants some can buy some. Handing out free Vitamin D is like handing out free gym passes. It's not bad, but also not really a government's responsibility except for cases when people would benefit a lot but could not afford it at all.
I was suprised today that it supports downloaded videos on reddit too.
I think this is missing the mark. Italian doctors were choosing who would get an ICU bed and who would not. There were more patients needing ICU beds than the beds available. Not giving an ICU bed to someone in need meant basically a death sentence. That is not the normal state of affairs, as far I can understand.
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Yes, I've read it. That's why I came to my conclusion. Btw. nearly all of the facts in the referenced letter were expressed in HN discussions just a few hours after the takedown. From my point of view they were obvious.
Happy news. Well done Github
Please read the whole article. If it only takes a "few hours" to create incriminating "evidence" (read, something that didn't exist) - it must be clearly proclaimed as such to the world.