skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I submitted for consideration the notion that governments engage in "conspiracy theories", and covering them up.

I don't think anyone disputes that governments have conspired and kept it secret before. The "teapot" in this case is QAnon or any specific conspiracy theory, not that any government has ever had any conspiracy. Prove or argue for a specific conspiracy and don't hide behind that "people have kept stuff secret before".

> To me, this is kind of the logical equivalent of asking conspiracy theorists where the evidence is that substantiates their characterization of the state of reality.

Isn't that exactly what we should do? If someone (the conspiracy theorists) has a theory they should also put forward evidence for that, right?
Bitcoin Hit Its All-Time High Since 2018, Now It Is $17,000
> "I hate modern communication culture. It's obviously terrible and young people are getting dumber for using it."

— Every human being in recorded history when they hit 35 years old.
Just use the string 'googlebot' in your user agent.

After all, Google uses 'Mozilla' in their Google Bot user agent String for similar reasons - because sites might expect it.
To be fair, at the time ventilators were being rationed.

Of course the need for ventilators was predicted well before the rationing was occuring, so if the administration had acted sooner rationing may have been avoided.

Instead ventilators were no longer and issue by the time they were being produced.
They changed the wording probably because pedantic people like the guy I was arguing with were saying "But ackshually the Electoral College..." It doesn't change the fact that "official sources" come from each state's Department of State.
Show HN: Min – A Smarter Web Browser
The Internal External World
Facebook Censorship in Action
Post this name on facebook and see what happen with your account: Habib Rizieq Shihab

What do you think?
That's what Ansible does, but with a DSL that helps users not shoot themselves in the foot and with scripts that are designed to be idempotent.
In what ways does what OP describes remind you of your project? Just that it was an open source web search?

One difference from what you describe is that the OP is specifically recommending against decentralization/federation, where it seems to have been the core differentiator of your effort. I don't think what OP is describing is quite what you are describing.
You may like 'boardreader.com'.

I find it helps when looking for obscure info on random topics.
China banned dog meat in June this year. It is possible that it was because of COVID concerns.

CDC has information about how to deal with COVID infected dogs and cats:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/...
Hi HN! A few years ago, I launched Min on HN [1], and got lots of useful feedback. Since then, Min has expanded significantly, and gained a ton of new features and design improvements, along with an active community contributing to it. Even as we've added more features, we've kept the core idea the same - a browser with a fast UI that's as simple as possible, and works to prevent you from getting distracted. Finally, Min helps keep your browsing activity private - it blocks tracking scripts automatically, and we don't collect any of your browsing data.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11484770
As others have pointed out, the application of such a tool for the prevention of bad writing will, at best, produce writing that is merely mediocre instead. One but hopes that the common reader of HN aspires to produce writing of a quality beyond the mediocre, unless she is usually assigned with the most trite and dreary of tasks.
Do you think mask mandates are working in the other states due to enforcement? They aren't. People are just wearing them because they accept the seriousness and have a sense of the risk and their responsibility.

Some do it out of shame, others necessity (e.g. shop not letting you in without a mask) but nobody is afraid of being arrested for failing to wear a mask.
Boardgames. Archery. Biking. My cats. Without these I would have killed myself a long time ago.
I'm glad stuff like this does because I often forget about it, or somehow missed it before.

That said I do suspect a lot of the repeats are because there are young people on HN for whom this may be the first time since reaching an age of reason that this has hit the front page.
This is a very cool thing. I am certainly going to buy it.
And in how many of those years did the taxes Apple avoid by being in Ireland exceed the profits generated by this "campus"?
Netflix sends the videos to your computer with a form of DRM and then uses a key from either your browser or hardware to unlock the content. That is nothing like YouTube, which sends both the links and the media to you unencrypted.
Steward-ownership is capitalism 2.0
The general problem with this line of argument is that it's meant to be a critique of a statistical fishing expedition (sharpshooter fallacy). This study is clearly not a fishing expedition because vitamin D has been a topic of interest in coronavirus disease for months now with multiple studies conducted.
I don't think there's a single reason to use a text-based browser in a production environment.
Anecdotes of course, but the last I pulled up my personal Twitter feed 1 in every 5 tweets was Promoted (and 2 of three of those were toxic engagement bait). 2 in every 5 comments were "so-and-so liked this engagement bait" from an algorithm somewhere, leaving just 6 in 15, before I got angry and bailed, "curate-able" tweets from actual people I followed.

Admittedly I switched to Mastodon months back and some weeds are to be expected as I have intentionally avoided Twitter, but it was pretty well curated when I was a heavy Twitter user, and I absolutely can blame Twitter directly for the low value of Promoted content and algorithm generated content I never directly followed and cannot directly curate.
You can still choose to go back to reverse chronological.

They also sometimes randomly revert you to the new one and make you manually switch back again ...
> Things are super complex right now. The truth is somewhere in the middle of all the bullshit we're being fed.

I completely agree. All 'sides' are greatly over-reacting to this and most everything else. Yes, this is a very serious situation, and requires serious and well considered discussions and actions.

A great way to get groups of people who are naturally somewhat suspicious of government mandated activities, like wearing a mask, to never ever consider wearing a mask is to over-act and react irrationally. It's a pretty miserable, self-sustaining cycle.

Having said that:

> You're applying your view of the world to him.

You wrote that in response to my statement:

> > It broke my heart. A smart, good, kind man that I knew had been brain damaged. Like some kind of fucking psychological cancer.

As stated, I was talking about a belief that Covid-19 was a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese government to help Joe Biden get elected.

That's Alex Jones level bullshit.

It doesn't break my heart to see someone I care about having a nuanced, non 'party-line' view of this whole situation. That's healthy.

To believe that people who are actually dying of Covid-19 aren't actually dying of Covid-19 is another matter entirely.

> You're also condemning him in your mind.

Not in the slightest. If you note my other comments, you will see that I'm not condemning anybody. I know that every one of us is subject to and impacted by different kinds of irrational thinking.

Reading your links, I don't agree with all of your conclusions, but that's fine. Like you, I "continually reevaluating the information".
Also, having become a dad, one changes the attitude to the "battle".

Instead of being a brash, brave, showy warrior who just doesnt' care about the danger and only cares about valor, you become a diligent, careful, never-surrendering and deadly efficient warrior, because you care a bit less about valor, but badly need to win. You have some specific lives to protect.
Also note that with DNS01 challenge you can add multiple wildcard domains under one certificate. There is a limit of total domains in a certificate but I still find it interesting and helpful.
That link doesn't render the graph so here's an easy img of it: https://i.imgur.com/sIbVy7p.png

What happened the night of the election definitely seems to suggest emotional betting.

It seemed like everyone was anxious, despite there being plenty of information ahead of time about how to expect ballot swings to occur.

This makes prediction markets seem more like casino "oh no, snake eyes again" gambling than beat-the-house counting-cards type stuff.
But each reference frame is on average used for many generated frames, no? I mean that's kinda the point of them, isn't it?
Does the Remarkable (1 or 2) have any vector based drawing applications?

Asking because I've recently been getting into drawing with Grease Pencil in Blender (on a Wacom tablet).

Grease Pencil is vector based (mostly). Being able to adjust drawn strokes after making them, really helps people (like me) that can't draw perfect curves and straight lines freehand.

Hoping there's something similar available?
> - the step daughter is his own daughter, they aren't two different things

Thank you.
Yea, I understand that which is why I keep pihole.

My argument though is in the context of Firefox, in which case the benefit of the pihole bit is dubious when you can install ublock origins. Pihole doesn't provide much additional benefits that can't be achieved with ublock origin advanced filters.

Granted someone could argue what would be the benefit of using the dnscrypt-proxy at that point. In that context, you benefit from better privacy (DNS requests aggregated) and caching benefits.
This reminds me of a fun Irish news report that's on YouTube, from 1980, shortly after they established the factory, including an interview with Steve Jobs in Ireland:
https://youtu.be/61scMzhVEF8
Ask HN: Cheap hosting for ML API with intermittent usage
Does a VPS/cloud provider exist that charges by the minute or has flexible RAM/CPU needs? Currently, I have a $5/month VM on Linode for my app but now I want to add some ML features; however, running the ML API on the same VM as my app causes oom errors and kills the process.

Of course I could purchase a larger VM at a greater fixed cost per month but since this API will only be called a few hundred times per month there must be an option for per minute or per call pricing while the API mostly sits idly waiting for a request.

I am aware of serverless but the time to load the ML models for each call seems like it would take way too long to get a response, unless I have a misunderstanding about serverless then do please inform me.

And if it matters for any of the answers I'm using FastAPI and Celery for the web side and task queue then I have Yolov3 to detect objects of interest from an image then pass the object image to another model for OCR and make a prediction of the text it finds. I'm new to ML, so I've got a lot to learn and appreciate all the feedback.
I'm not trying to shame you; sorry if it had that effect. I post links like that when I imagine it might be helpful to users who are trying to decide (as users always try to decide) if the moderator is being excessive or not.

Banning political discussions is not possible for a bunch of reasons, but the most important one is that it would be bad for curiosity, which is the thing we try to optimize HN for (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). There are too many intellectually interesting topics with political overlap—and ultimately, some political overlap on virtually every topic.

At the same time, not moderating political discussions is also not an option because that would also be bad for curiosity. So we're in a bit of a tradeoff with constraints on either side and no easy solution. I've written about this a lot in the past: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... If you or anyone reads those explanations and still has a question that I haven't answered yet, I'd like to know what it is.

As for bias, everyone always feels that the mods are biased against their position when we moderate this way (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). I'd never claim we're unbiased—who could?—but the bar for reaching that conclusion needs to be a little higher. I can show you a long, long list of HN commenters complaining bitterly that HN is biased in favor of your positions (i.e. the politics/ideology you happen to favor). Every passionate user feels that the bias runs against their side.

I'd be cautious about assuming things about the "demographic or people who browse and comment here". We don't have that data—no one does—and HN is basically a gigantic projection screen or Rohrschach diagram out of which people draw their own pre-existing positions. (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) I know this because everyone does this, and the universal property their statements have in common is not their conclusions about HN (those are wildly contradictory) but the fact that they always see HN—both mods and community—as opposed to their own view. (One explanation for this is https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...)
I think it true that modern childrearing might have an affect on activity levels, but small changes in T level produce very outsized effects. If anything literature understates the role that hormones play in human cognition.
edbrowse has minimal js support thru duktape.
The default colors are pure torture and the HSV sliders don't function correctly.
How I built a social network in 4 weeks with GraphQL and serverless
Just check if pmOS has the latest gstreamer, and then you can try running it with some simple playbin pipeline. Playbin should automatically select the HW decoder.

I used kmssink for testing:

gst-play-1.0 --use-playbin3 a.mkv --videosink="queue ! kmssink connector-id=52 palne-id=42 plane-properties=s,zpos=2"

(I had to patch the kernel too, because kmssink has trouble selecting a correct plane/connector. But if you'll not use kmssink, you should be fine.)

If you want to use it from within some compositor, you'll need to select some other video sink. You'll probably have less trouble if you use some wayland compositor that supports HW planes properly.

I don't know many players that use gstreamer (is totem still alive?), so hard to tell what GUI to use.
I've been on the lookout for a great reading/writing/drawing device and ended up going with an iPad. I haven't tried a remarkable, though I do have a kindle as a reference for e-ink displays. As a whole, the iPad is hard to beat:

- Matte screen protector + pencil means reading/writing experience feels just as good as an eink.

- It can comfortably handle large, color PDFs. Other solutions either don't have color, or don't have processors powerful enough to handle rendering large PDFs anyways.

- Both iPad and Remarkable have almost identical pixels per inch - 224 and 226 ppi.

- iPad has polished reader apps. My favorite is Kybook3, which supports auto trimming PDF margins & horizontal scroll locking which makes it super convenient to read PDFs. It can also read epubs and other formats with plenty of knobs to tweak background colors, fonts etc. I don't think the Remarkable is quite there yet.

- Reading, researching frequently means looking something up on the web as you go too. Again difficult to do on a remarkable.

The iPad can potentially be more distracting, but that can be solved by setting it up right IMO. I don't install any TV/Media/News/Games apps on it, turn off notifications for most apps and have a shortcut to limit the colors to black and white.
Betting markets currently give Trump a 10% chance of winning this election. On election night, most betting markets had Trump a severe favorite (75-80% in many places), which in retrospect seems severely mis-calibrated.

This year betting markets were swamped, and continue to be swamped, by money supporting Trump. This year happened to also have a polling error that underestimated Trump's chances. Those two facts aligned together to form a situation where the betting markets seemed to better predict the election results than polls. However, based on one very strange election I wouldn't extrapolate out that betting markets are always better than polls.
That's...not a contradiction?
> You do that by having a list of known good sites to answer specific types of questions, and looking at the sites they link to.

I mean, that's basically the core of original Google pagerank, right? A "good" site linking to another site is what makes that other site some amount of "good" too, links from better sites carry more 'juice'. "good" is of course not just binary, but a quantitative weight.

I don't know to what extent that's still at the core of their relevancy rankings. I don't know how all those annoying spammy recipe blogs or content farms get to the top of the results either. I don't think it's because Google's engineers believe they are "good" results.

Relevancy ranking on web search is clearly a hard problem, mainly because so many authors are trying to game it, it's a feedback loop.

If Google can only do as google does despite pouring a whole lot of money into it, I don't see a reason to bet that better will be what's basically an over-simplified description of how Google started out doing it (and then evolved it because it wasn't good enough).
I've definitely asked mods about whether my post was appropriate.

I've also been scolded for "drop in" posts where I didn't respect the community. It wasn't fun. No fun at all.
> You ever see those folks get fired because of what they said years ago?

Yep, and I'm totally fine with people being accountable for their own words and actions.

If the concern is people being fired over something that's not actually that bad because of malicious actors making a mountain out of a molehill, then there's better ways to address that than making systematic changes to the way we communicate to allow people to suffer no consequences from proliferating hate speech.
I was referring to multiple reviews of new Apple hardware, just to clarify.
So savings are similar to GoodRx, RxSaver, and WellRx?
It's common practice to screenshot controversial tweets because they can be deleted.
Stiffness is a big problem too, it has to perfectly hold it's shape or the image will be distorted.
Different strokes for different folks, but interesting you mention that about wages and benefits. Aren't the most "prestigious" companies the ones that also pay the best? FAANG being the classic example, but other famous and well known companies in the SV tech sector and some niches of finance also tend to pay far better than most companies that aren't well known.

The one example I can think of that might be otherwise is the game industry.

On your second point, other than just feeling great, having worked at "prestigious" companies and/or projects also opens doors to future opportunities. I guess that sort of falls under recognition and appreciation.
> The current number of CAs does not prevent state-level attacks either.

Right, so the question is why we should put a huge amount of effort into implementing and operating a system which doesn't make significant improvements.

> DNSSEC works I don’t really get that point.

It's mostly a layering question: if a new cryptographic algorithm is released or a problem with an old one comes out, browsers can update very quickly. Updating the operating systems and network hardware which implement DNSSEC takes considerably longer. DNSSEC lingered on 90s crypto for ages, key rotations were put off for years, etc. because everyone in this space has to be extremely conservative. That has security implications as well as delaying most attempts to improve performance or usability.

Similarly, browsers can have extensive UI and custom validation logic for HTTPS. A lot of that information isn't present if you use DNSSEC without implementing your own resolver, so you get generic error messages and you don't get control over the policies set by your network administrator. This is especially interesting both as a risk if you don't trust your ISP or for dealing with compromises — if I compromise your DNS server and publish DNSSEC records with a long TTL, your users are at risk until you can get every ISP with a copy to purge the cached records ahead of schedule.

All of those issues can be improved but it's not clear that there's enough benefit to be worthwhile.

> The “root of trust” problem is hard to solve. I kinda hear the DANE guys’ argument, I’d rather trust one authority than a thousand.

This is the best argument for DNSSEC but it's not clear to me how much difference it makes in practice when you're comparing the still nascent DNSSEC adoption to modern TLS + certificate transparency which also catches spoofing and is far more widely implemented.
It sounds like this was a ripe opportunity for extending y the curriculum and perspectives about racism, but it sounds like the what they have settled on is to just ignore it altogether.
Maybe letting health insurance companies know their client(s) aren't brushing their teeth "enough" (by some metric), thereby setting themselves up for increased dental costs?

Probably the same thing for people brushing their teeth too much?
I know these are young comments, but I'm fascinated by the downvote patterns I'm seeing here. I didn't think of anything in your comment as remotely controversial; I thought it was the consensus best-guess of why polls are underperforming, as described by very mainstream sources like the NYT.
Actually, I think it will. The M1 chip takes a lot smaller proportion of power of the laptop to run (compared to say, the LCD, ssd, etc). If the new macbook air idles at 6W and runs chrome at 10W with no fan, people are barely gonna notice. That’s a big difference compared to an intel machine running chrome at 35+ watts.
This is a shoddy analysis.

1. There's a statistical gadget specifically for doing this—a "scoring rule" [1] which is a principled way to compare different probabilistic predictions. A bunch of scatterplots of random quantities against each other are... not that.

By comparing only binary win/loss predictions instead of probabilities, like in the first chart, you throw away almost all information contained in the probabilistic estimates—if Democrats win a state, there's no bonus for predicting (say) 95% Dem instead of 55% dem.

It's plausible that 538 would actually win under a proper scoring rule, because betting markets were underconfident (relative to 538) in deep dem/rep states (predicting e.g. <95% Dem win in VT, vs 538's >99%). [2]

2. The calibration analysis assumes that different state win/loss rates are independent, but that's really untrue: 538's predictions were specifically not independent because they assumed polling errors were correlated between states.

3. Many of the other scatterplots look outlier-driven and don't include r^2 or p-values. With so few datapoints, it's unclear if they are meaningful at all.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoring_rule

[2]: Maybe we should cut prediction markets some slack here because liquidity constraints make them inaccurate for small probabilities. If that's the article's position, though, they should address this instead of just... not using a scoring rule.
SolidPython is the most mature and the one I'm using. There were others I tried before settling on solid, but TBH I forgot their name.

SolidPython has downsides though:

- it is a giant PITA to install: you have to deploy that monstrous wart called "conda" which will gobble up 6G of your drive and fricking patch you .bashrc, all of this just so you can install solid

- it lacks the following feature that native openscad has: "edit model source code with <insert fave editor here> and openscad will recompute the model automatically every time you save.

There's a way to implement that feature with an additional package (solidpython-reloader), but at that point, you've lost 80% of your target audience.