skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's not forget that Jack's beard looks straight out of Lord of the Rings.
The level of information we are talking about is not comparable.

First of all, tax information in the United States was in fact abused by Richard Nixon, so it's not just a hypothetical possibility. It's a thing that already happened and requires safeguarding to prevent recurring. If there were a way of collecting taxes without the possibility of abuse, we would use it, but there's not, so we do what we can to balance things. FWIW, I think actually a lot of government records should be stored on paper and not in computers because hackers can steal 300m records overnight, but even very enterprising thieves can only steal one or two truckloads of physical records per hour.

Second of all, this information is just on another level. My tax information is basically not interesting to anyone except that it has my SSN on it, and SSNs are only interesting because the US has bad laws around "identity theft" and we don't properly punish corporations for giving out loans based on nothing but an unverified SSN. Could someone embarrass me by releasing my tax info? I guess if they really dug into my charitable deductions and found an embarrassing cause (a la Brendan Eich?) or that I was giving too little? For me, an average American, there is little or no reason to fear having my taxes used against me.

Email is just not like that. There are certainly emails I have send and received which I hope no one else will see. It's just not comparable at all. It's the difference between having $100 in your wallet (might be stolen but probably not) and $6m in your wallet (will absolutely be stolen if people know about it).

Should the government be able to investigate me? Of course! But investigations have happened for centuries before emails existed. Investigation does not require pre-surveillance of emails or covert surveillance. The simplest thing the government can do is arrest me on suspicion of X charges and then go through all my computers. That is 100% the government should be able to do! If they catch me destroying evidence, I should be charged with destruction of evidence. But that is different from empowering the government to secretly look at email. The part where the government collects my email should be public action that I am well aware, not a secret action done passively by breaking encryption.
Coronavirus emerged in Italy earlier than thought, study shows
First confirmed case in Wuhan was on November 17th, and there were cases in Italy two months earlier? Any good explanations for this?
From TFA:

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Is desktop still relevant?

I believe it is!

I watched an interview recently, between an Android developer and an iOS developer. One was asking:

“Does someone still writes desktop apps?”

To which the other answered:

“I have no idea… Maybe?”

Both of them were recording it on a desktop, in a desktop application, while having a call over another desktop application. Multiple other desktop apps were probably used for post-production. None of those were written by magic elves or left to us by a mighty ancient civilization. The desktop might be less trendy, but only because it’s harder to sell useless crap here.

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"react type stuff" and iOS/Android do not cover this, but you probably knew that.
You know what's really interesting? I think this is a left/right brain dichotomy here. I learned git on my first software dev job and learned it _deeply_ by executing on the command line. This infused a deep, practical understanding of how the distributed system worked.

Also—I'm a language guy. Picking up languages, reading in other languages, just "clicks" for me. But math? Pffft. Forget it. I barely scraped myself out of college with my CS degree intact.

I learned Russian and Spanish just for fun!

My theory is that git is learned like a language and retained like a language. Tools like "GitKraken" are just "Duolingo" for your brain. They don't replace immersion learning when the stakes are high. (Not claiming this is the "best" way to learn, but boy is it effective)

Anyway.. I've never really struggled with git, nor with it's advanced notations. But algorithms? Hard, math-related thinking? That's an every day struggle. Perhaps the author's opinion is geared from the perspective of more functionally-paradigmed thinking?
Autostash
Someone on that thread was saying that the M1 may be using on-chip DRAM as L2/L3 cache. Not sure how true that is.
First of all, they ARE getting traction. Many Youtubers and Twitch streamers started to use them in stream / video titles. I haven't seen corner barackets at all ten years ago, and these days I see them in use at least once a week.

Some programming languages also start adopting them, too. Raku is the one I know (it allows French and German quotes, too). Maybe Julia, too? I think some language communities tend to be more open to widespread Unicode usage in source code than others.
"The set of broken expanded to include the build."
Perhaps what's needed is an ISO committee to standardise git, or even version control semantics in general, similar to C, and in particular SQL. Once everybody agrees on how it should look, the community can swallow the pain of migration safe in the knowledge that new possibilities are unlocked.

Based on how SQL and C/C++ faired in these kinds of processes we could have a standard abstraction layer in perhaps 10-15 years ...
Really?

https://www.mibluesperspectives.com/2020/10/30/teen-diagnose...

These types of interactions happen all the time. A simple youtube search will get you tons of patient accounts.

This was a strategy used by certain hospitals to increase public awareness.
There is no "mass-delusion" on the far left. We are literally at a point where the current daily cases mean that a month from now we will be having around 3-4k deaths per day based on how many people are already infected NOW. That's a 9/11 terrorist attack per day in deaths. Anyone who doesn't acknowledge that is delusional.
>Similarly, not everyone likes having to use what is traditionally called a GUI

Thats why, not everyone prefer CLI, if you are the one who learn better with GUI then resisting GUI's is not a good idea
I'm at the point where I need a new Macbook Pro and I can't help thinking I want the last generation of the x86_64 architecture, not the first generation of something new. Those have never paid off for me.

At work, Intel would clearly be better. We do a growing amount of Docker work destined for Intel machines. But at home it's fuzzier, since I've been playing with k3s on a cluster of Pi clones. It's going to come down to games, I think. Although I haven't had much time for them lately.
Sounds like Betamax vs. VHS!
The Metaverse: What it is, where to find it, who will build it, and Fortnite
That doesn't say too much. There is a single thread performance ceiling that all CPUs based on current lithography technology available just bump against and can't overcome. The Ryzen probably marks that ceiling for now, and the M1 comes impressively close against it, especially considering its wattage.

But you cannot extrapolate these numbers (to multi-core performance or to more cores or to a possible M2 with a larger TDP envelope), nor can you even directly compare them. The Ryzen 9 5950x makes an entirely different trade-off with regard to number of cores per CPU, supported memory, etc., which allows for more cores, more memory, more everything...and that comes at a cost in terms of die space as well as power consumption. If AMD had designed this CPU to be much more constrained in those dimensions and thus much more similar to what the M1 offers, they would surely have been able to considerably drive down power consumption - in fact, their smaller units 4800U and 4900HS which were also benchmarked and which offer really good multithreading performance for their power envelope, even better than the M1, clearly demonstrate this fact.

What I read out of these benchmark numbers is: the ISA does matter far less than most people seem to assume. ARM is no magic sauce in terms of performance at all - instead, it's "magic legal sauce", because it allows anyone (here: Apple; over there: Amazon) to construct their own high-end CPUs with industry-leading performance, which the x86 instruction set cannot do due to its licensing constraints.

Both ISAs, x86_64 and ARM, apparently allow well-funded companies with the necessary top talent to build CPUs that max out whatever performance you can get out of the currently available lithography processes and out of the current state of the art in CPU design.
> Linux is allowing Rust for device drivers and kernel modules.

Oh, did this happen? I remember some discussion some months ago, has it actually been merged?
It's interesting to watch the evolution of written language in action. I expect in 20 years we will routinely see emojis in written English novels and news articles. In 50 years we'll see them in textbooks and scientific journal articles.
Yeah this is the shit I am worried about. Your fate is basically in the hands of moderators, and the mood they happen to be in when reviewing your content...
Go for it. Meanwhile those of who like having clients will avoid directly blaming them.
Congratulations on being a step-parent for 10+ years!

Unfortunately, much of society fails to recognize that we need

compatible partners who love each other and will raise others'

kids. It is a shame because it is truly important.
Interferometry at optical wavelength is very hard. Doing it remotely is currently impossible.
Read up on the Hunter Biden emails. After a DKIM signature was verified, the perception of a large number of people (including right here on HN) went from "this cache of email is probably total fiction" to "they likely do have access to at least some of his emails".
For the simplest of communications, like an IM or short email, maybe using checklist rules does impart more good than bad.

But I think in larger writing pieces, including those technical in nature, these rules produce low quality writing. In my experience it produces extremely curt, choppy writing with overall bad flow. It almost feels like a bulleted list converted to a paragraph, with a sprinklings of "and"s, "so"s and "because"s. And while "flow" sounds like a wishy-washy concept, I think it is effectual and worthy of first level consideration. It shapes how well your ideas synthesize together, and ultimately how well you communicate your thoughts, ideas, and feelings.
That's a lot of points for an article that didn't say much. also, I question the author's experience of 10 years if he considered those hard questions to answer.

But point well taken, we want an easier and more usable tool.
I definitely think the learning curve for beginners needs
to be shaved off somehow.
Bookmarks you mean. Yes, in nnn you can jump to the bookmark from anywhere and then press `Alt-O` (my preferred key) to start the search.

But you know what, let me share a smarter workflow:

find . -iname "*.mp3" -print0 | nnn -p -

Now you list all yours mp3 files in nnn, examine/play them and finally get to cherry-pick some and print them to stdout when you quit nnn.

BTW, you can also run the find within nnn and list in nnn.
Because the struggle is real.
I experienced the same. I wound up changing my whole life because of it. Wound up quitting a career, getting involved in IT, going back to college, getting straight As when I had always flunked out before, found myself in an honor society, got recommended for tree internships within the past couple of months. Literally changed my life. Makes me think I should have had a kid sooner.
You must not remember Twitter revolutions [0]. When journalists were attributing a wave of protests ranging from Iran to Egypt to Syria (which were later come to be named Arab Spring) to the effect of social media, especially Twitter. Social media giants were hailed as saviours of humanity through spreading democracy. Social media executives were ecstatic: they were changing the world for the better and making a lot of money in the process. I don't know if they took credit for it explicitly, but at least they never objected to the articles praising them for being humanity's saviours.

Twitter et. al. have been a political force for most of their existence. The only thing that has changed is that while in their early years, their political effects were concentrated in the developing world in faraway lands, in recent years they have started affecting western politics as well. Many people who praised the earlier effects are condemning the latter. But the fundamental forces and processes are the same; it is the target that has changed. And Twitter has known it was political at least since 2009, when revolutions were named after it and multiple countries blocked it from their internet for the fear of the havoc it may cause.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Revolution
You know style and diction? https://www.gnu.org/software/diction/
Yeah, if you fully grasped what he was saying it was actually a funny joke. The person substantiates by revealing the identity, and that's the hipaa violation.
The latter would be better, imo.

Chromium won because it introduced a sane API before Mozilla's Gecko. That's why you see so many Electron apps. Seriously, we don't need to wrap a whole browser. Just the engine and a debugger would've been fine.

The engine could be distributed as a lib and other frameworks could just bind it. Apps could be distributed without an 150MB behemoth just to have a chat client.

Making the engine also mobile compatible would mean Android and iOS could maybe have the same base. I also look forward to what this means for Linux phones. Custom browsers could be written for those that don't have to use WebKit or try to launch Chromium or Firefox on a mobile device.

Not only for mobile devices, but also displaying things in VR can be made significantly easier if you don't have to write all the UI yourself. Give it an opengl rectangular surface (or vulkan?) and you can then use web technologies to make UIs in VR.

All in all, I'm very for an engine. It would definitely allow a competitor with a good name to enter the market. Developer should be able to reach for something else than WebKit because nobody in their right mind is going to reach for Gecko.
Perhaps they actively subvert the ways in which those bombs are otherwise detected or they start offering blind pickup so everyone has plausible deniability. There are many ways in which a bomb delivery service could be more convenient than the post.
It's frustrating that Nest forces you to go through Google servers to adjust a thermostat on your local network.
I'll take a minute here to plug Defold (https://www.defold.com). It's a game engine with a dedicated IDE for building games. The IDE is built mostly with Clojure and JavaFX.

Of course I'm biased, because I helped build the IDE, but I think it looks and feels great. It has a 3d modeling view that does pan, rotate, dolly, all at somewhere between 30 and 60 fps.
In a lot of the same states that can't figure out how a respiratory virus comes in and out of your face, the general population and especially the elected officials and religious leaders are unsure of the circumstances under which a human female becomes pregnant. Not surprisingly, these states are also the national capitals of teenage pregnancy. Basic knowledge of biology would maybe clean these places up a bit.
Look at Australia and New Zealand. Both free and open societies with high per capita GDP. They both have achieved zero community transmission through stringent travel restrictions and a nationwide strategy. It’s disgraceful that we can’t do the same or better in the US.
>It’s such a basic concept that a child would have the solution, and you need to do mental gymnastics to convince yourself otherwise.

Mental gymnastics are precisely what's happening. When confronted with an uncontrollable horror, people generally have one of two possible reactions. The first is to accept it, and do what you can logically to minimize the risk, but to then live in perpetual fear and anxiety. The second is to begin rationalizing the problem itself away, as a defense mechanism to the anxiety and fear, and flocking to others who have made the same choice to mutually affirm each other and make themselves feel better.

I don't really think there's a correlation between general intelligence and which one of those two people gravitate towards. It's an emotional response that has a lot more to do with personality types. You see it in everything, not just with COVID. It's the same divide that exists between religious/non-religious.
Heroes, Communities, and the Politics of Innovation
Shameless plug ア( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ア

The Gboard keyboard on android has a tab for many of these common “emoticon” faces / character sequences. If you open the emoji picker on the keyboard and then tap the far right bottom tab icon “:-)”

They can get very elaborate though, these are just very basic common faces.
Americans refusal to embrace reality has little to do with Russia or any other foreign power. Instead, it’s derived from the long standing and pervasive belief in its exceptionalist, irrational ideology. The same belief system that allows one to compartmentalize the experience of a broken, unequal, and vicious society with an unblinking belief in its greatness will produce this and many other dissonances.
The US government still can get your data from fastmail, since it's an US based company
Tesla bought the german manufacturing automation company Grohmann Engineering in Jan. 2017, so there that also.
At the moment, the tone setting gives you nothing.

"Experimental. How do you want to sound? This helps us build new suggestions and won't affect your feedback today."
A common pitfall when trying to humanise technical content (particularly error messages) is to add folksy cutesy whimsical flourishes which are cute and funny and whatever to some of your audience, but might be a barrier to others (particular those who do not share your cultural background or have English as a second language).
Funny because I was thinking about something similar to this for almost the whole of last week. I'm convinced men and women are equally capable of parenting but something is different. I still don't know what it is and the article postulates some interesting physiological connections but not quite hitting the right spot.

But I might just be paranoid or an idiot unsure if he will be a good father or not. Men plan, the gods laugh.
> Git is the democracy of programming: it is the worst tool for version control, except all those other tools that have been tried from time to time.

https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2018/git-gud/
Although I am baffled whenever I hear "lifetime" on any service. I do believe it is possible. sdf and other public shells offer email and go strong for years. Just don't offer unlimited bandwidth or memory.
This is the correct view on the matter, in case the grayed out reputation makes you doubt it.
I believe it’s a platitude of “fair centrism”, not for its concrete weight but it’s symbolism in addressing “both sides”. Veracity and sincerity come to question, when I see this.
Sorry rriepe, people didn't get your joke.
That is precisely the problem
Is it just for Rust compiles, or has anyone tested other languages like Java, C/C++, etc? I ask because I don't have access to an M1 MacBook.
> I'm one of those who stopped donating to Mozilla once I realized none of the money donated could ever be used for developing the browser.

I never donated to Mozilla for this precise reason. Now I'm seriously considering it.

Edit: Done
iOS has always used the same kernel as macOS.
My Nest has worked fine for the last 8-9 or so years, I have the original version that came out before Google bought them. It's been solid. That said, I did still keep the old thermostat around in case something happens.
If people start modifying my Ansible scripts without discipline then it's going to be a disaster too.

Code review is the key in both cases.
Sorry, didn't mean to diminish the other team members' contributions. It's just your name stood out to me.
I think both are worse than: "To show passive voice, phrases are marked in green."
I'm looking for an alternative to my Nest Outdoor CamIQ. I want a camera that uses as little internet bandwidth as possible (because of LTE hotspot) but will still alert me when there is motion and will allow me to remotely monitor (using lots of bandwidth). Any recommendations?
I agree with him.

I wear a KN-95 mask everywhere I go. I don’t mind it at all.

I’d really prefer to live somewhere that lets you go to a bar or eat inside a restaurant.

I’d love to go to the barber shop and have my beard shaped up.

Maybe I’ll go to Sioux Falls :)
May I suggest running a small one page web app for this? I tried a bunch of scritps/solutions, but it ended up much easier to mostly build my own thing and some libraries for the tedious stuff.

Hardware was a pi and an inexpensive honeywell that was on a local network and controlled via http.
Can this be self-hosted? What stops me from using these kind of tools is the fact I don't know who can read it and what they could do with it. I may occasionally paste some work in progress documentation that will be public anyway, but anything private I don't think I would ever trust such app unless I am hosting it myself.
While this is great news on one hand, on the other hand, how could Mozilla manage to lose its browser engine project ? If a web browser company can't even keep its browser engine project, what is really Mozilla working on these days ?
Yes, but with a big huge button "NEXT PAGE" or something like that. Look at the number of comments here that didn't even notice there's more content other than the 1st page.
Ask HN: Is there a way to setup anonymous payments?
How do you take payments while protecting yourself personally from exposure to some of the craziness out there?

I'll use a hypothetical:

Let's say you want to sell both "Go Biden!" and "Go Trump!" t-shirts while protecting your identity to a reasonable degree.

What are the options?
Countries with dense populations, nearly universal mask wear, and also only minimally 'locked down' have very low Covid19 rates. Examples include Japan, South Korea and China.

In my mind, the above facts are really all that's necessary: dense population + minimal lock down + universal mask wear == low Covid19 rates.

There are many other good reasons as well.
Some of the deep sea robots used on oil and gas rigs come close IMHO.
I think what api is referring to is there isn't a good reason why you shouldn't be able to use your phone to adjust your thermostat on your local network without leaving the internal network.
I've found that when I've seen people struggle with git they're doing something really weird that they shouldn't have been doing in the first place.

Learn the core commands, keep yourself disciplined, stick to a workflow, and git is fine.
I suspect the 1% are mostly people travelling for business not purely leisure. If you consider the amount of auto emissions say a truck driver in the US emits compared to most of the world where even access to auto mobiles is expensive, I wouldn't be that surprised personally.

That's that's why I included, "(or some equally small fraction of the population)". We should expect a small percentage in any sample like this to be extreme outliers. We call them "power users" in tech, but the same applies to most activities.
The former allows hiding or diverting blame for an action, which is part of why it's so popular with corporations and law enforcement.
You are looking for the benchmarks: https://github.com/jarun/nnn/pull/84