skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First: Apologies for bringing up politics on Hacker News. I know we work hard to keep the site non-political.

The reason why I submitted this site was because a rather awful Medium article made it to the front page: "I Lived Through a Stupid Coup. America Is Having One Now." The tone and content of the article was so awful that it's now flagged. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25171844)

Please, if you're worried that someone is trying to run a coup in the US, visit https://choosedemocracy.us/. The information there is credible and well-researched.

Hopefully we can continue to keep Hacker News free of politics from now on.
We could put the tax on each tire. $1 per tire for a Miata, $100 per tire for an 18-wheeler. Just look at the tire load rating.

Also, tax based on tire speed rating, to capture the 0.5 m v^2 energy.
I actually think it is a good feedback loop, but it needs to be staffed well and costs need to be well understood before a startup just takes on global 24/7 product and hoping the devs sort it out.

I did 24/7 support solo and with just 1-2 other devs for years on global system and never again will I do DevOps in such a small team with on call 24/7 requirements. The cost of maintaining features and systems varies so that having great enterprise support can be a non issue or a constant headache that you have little to no control over (Eg a system that takes a dependency on external data you can’t control).

On top of pushing features out constantly, maintaining quality and automating everything you can, a startup can easily fall into building systems their staff have trouble maintaining without impacting output significantly as well as impacting mental health of their devs. I think the problem is that it is hard to see these costs up front as you can build systems these days on cloud providers where most of the time things will come back on their own without intervention, but obviously depends what impact being offline for 5 mins vs 3 hours has on the business.
I remember a comment on HN that said the authors city analyzed license plate reader data to find out who was driving on the cities roads. 80% of the drivers were from out of town. The annoying thing about that, unlike highways much of the funding for residential and commercial roads is paid for by local taxes.

When I think about transportation I think about a paper I read about development of rail. The US and UK's experience is you run into market failure with private rail. The broad based benefits and network effects are diffuse, too many people and businesses benefit indirectly. Which means you can't charge high enough fares to pay for a optimal system.
I work for a global 500 company, specialized in producing large technical equipment for aerospace. Our core activity is engineering and industrial production. For the area it's not a shitty company, the conditions are good and they have no trouble attracting employees.

In the engineering department those who don't do 3d CAD get a single 20" screen, and a laptop with 8Gb RAM. Those who use CAD get a single 24" screen and bigger laptop with a 3d card. Everyone gets the $5 keyboard and mouse that comes with the corporate HP laptops. Basically all offices (except for managers) are the noisy open-office type.

I've been to quite a few suppliers, all industrial/engineering companies of different sizes, and it's a pretty standard setup. It's not some shitty companies, it's just that all companies (at least not specialized in software) just take the basic material that they rent from their corporate suppliers. You can't show a positive ROI/business case for buying a $50 Logitech mouse to 50k office employees, so they all get the free included HP mouse. Same for the rest.

I'm not even getting into the locked-down version of Windows that everyone gets to use. Even launching portable executables is technically against the rules, not that it stops anyone. Until a few years ago most websites were blocked, so it's getting better at least.

In general I think it's pretty ok, it's not really a big issue. That's how the industry is. But very few companies give a very good environment and good computer devices to their knowledge workers. You just need to adapt. Bringing your own devices help. You can choose not to, many do, and accept to spend 8 hours/day using what they give you.
So that's referring to the fact that because you have objective proof of who you voted for, maybe somebody could coerce (i.e. use violence) you to show them that proof. That's a tradeoff.

I think the current election, or even just how screwed up elections are in other countries, show that it's probably an order of magnitude more important to have faith the process is objectively right, than to worry about the coercion scenario, which seems pretty contrived to me.
> We have to wait till December for the Electoral College to make a decision.

Can you point to any time since the adoption of the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 that the GSA has waited until Electoral College vote to begin the transition process as required by law, or, in the alternative, provide any legal argument as to why you believe that every Presidential Transition since then has been conducted illegally?

> Plenty of people denies the last president-elect after that election too.

Yes, sure, but not the people legally mandated to facilitate the transition, in order to protect continuity and effectiveness of government operations and national security.
Here is my idea for a non-broken/secure domain registrar using public-key crypto.

a) When you register the domain, you provide a public key.

b) The registrar will only ever redirect the domain if they receive a message signed with the corresponding private key.

There is a holding period if you stop paying for the domain, before it is released to the public again. You pay for the holding period in advance, when you do the initial registration.

This can be built today with existing technology.

Can someone please make this? Any feedback? Does this exist already?
Does Handshake have a token? Not all blockchains or other decentralized tech circle back to currency.
Handshake raised $10mm which was donated (all $10mm) to non-profit organizations and open source projects, including GNOME [1], Debian [2], KDE [3], among others.

Far from an "ICO scheme," the project further allocated the majority of the coins to developers and existing domain holders.

Unlike most decentralized projects you may be thinking of, Handshake is a real project and people are buying domains [4]. Compare the activity on chain with _____, and Handshake speaks for itself.

[1] https://www.gnome.org/news/2018/08/gnome-foundation-receives...

[2] https://dot.kde.org/2020/01/21/kde-receives-generous-donatio...

[3] https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20190329

[4] https://dns.live/
E2E is not a silver bullet. It doesn't solve the problem of ensuring only the people who are eligible to vote only vote once and people who are eligible to vote are not excluded.

It also possible for an E2E system to have design flaws. For example Scytl created an E2E system for the Swiss that had a cryptographic flaw that would allow a mix operator to modify votes in an election undetected.
Seriously, I'm seeing all sorts of debunked claims being thrown around other discussions on HN... how on earth is this still flagged?
Yes, it has first class support for 3rd party auth using signed JWTs. I use it with Auth0 to provide social logins.

[1]: http://postgrest.org/en/v7.0.0/auth.html#client-auth

[2]: http://postgrest.org/en/v7.0.0/ecosystem.html
There are no actual points of contention, just lies.

All of the claims about election fraud (including 100% of the affidavits submitted by Trump's campaign) were either invalidated by the courts or withdrawn by the affiants after they refused to testify to those statements under oath, meaning that lying (aka perjury) would result in criminal sanction.

On the other hand, the election workers, both Democrats and Republicans alike, were willing to testify under oath about the process by which ballots were brought in and counted. And there were confirmed and testified-to chains of custody for all ballots between all of the ballot collection sites (aka the polls) and the ballot counting centers. And in a number of the states at issue, the ballot counting process itself was video recorded and even live-streamed.
I'm not entirely convinced convinced it will make for a larger nor a more empathetic community.

I think these kinds of changes only makes it harder to enter the community, by adding more landmines to discourse and saying that there is a right and wrong way to talk regardless of intent and context that you need to know regardless of if you come from a background where these words are as heavily loaded as other places.

It also creates a community which seemingly supports and defends personal attacks against people whenever the mob finds something new to hate on. For example in the case of Rubocop, when all of the sudden cop was a loaded word. The developer seemingly got harassed when he didn't want to change the name.

I think we are losing more than we are gaining by going through with this. Not because of master or main but because we are seemingly not assuming best intentions when communicating anymore.
By open computing I meant platforms that are user controllable and support general purpouse computing (insead of walled gardens).

Android has been steering away from that position even though Google does still choose to publish AOSP as code drops. Being based on Linux has definitely helped to keep open a while longer. It feels likely that Fuchsia would in the best case have a similar role as Darwin.
Yeah it was. They never fully committed the marketing resources and strategy to win in the mobile market. The iPhone simply destroyed them, then android handsets.

Microsoft’s balance sheet made little mention of windows phone or anything mobile/Zune/handheld. It was all enterprise sales, windows licensing, Xbox and entertainment division, services and M&A.

Contrast that with the commitment Apple made to the iPhone.
Threat Modeling Manifesto
Handshake needs a token to create scarcity. Otherwise, what would stop one from registering all the domains in the world. You can read more details about this in "# Decentralized Certificate Authorities and the Blockchain" [1].

[1] https://handshake.org/files/handshake.txt
Why I wouldn't recommend using Bitcoin as a lifetime investment
A 4 door luxury sedan would be a better comparison. For example, an Audi A4 has a 3700 lbs curb weight.

Also, since road damage scales at something like axle weight ^ 4th, balance issues could completely override the 300 lbs difference in mass.

For example, if the Tesla 3 can have 2 axles each with 2036 lbs/axle (because there is no ICE weighing down the front), it could theoretically be less damaging to roads than an ICE that has one heavy axle and one light axle.

22036^4 = (x 3700)^4 + ((1-x) * 3700)^4. Solving for x = 63%, so if more than 63% of an Audi A4s weight is on the front axle, it will be approximately worse than a balanced Tesla 3 for road wear and tear.
What business does FTC has with internet advertising?
Warp Drive News. Seriously
Large scale use of absentee ballots or mail in ballots also allows coercion of voters. Most of the E2E systems are designed so it's not possible for a voter to prove to a third party who they voted for.
Rebecca West: opinionated, impertinent, impossible (2000)
Just going off the trick above would t it just be:
23 x 10 - 23 = 230 - 23 = 207...

I guess I’m confused what point you’re making?
We've banned this account for posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait, and for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our requests to stop.

It's a pity, because you've occasionally posted good comments as well. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll use the site as intended in the future.

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it's super easy, and if you transfer your domain like Cloudflare you probably end up saving a few bucks too
I did not expect to endorse this but it looks good. It's realistic, practical and accurate. Thanks for submitting!
Plus the constant, never-ending nagging!
These toys models are all well and good, but until they have a real theory of the Disc that includes detailed modeling of the gold-dense counter weight, elephants, and turtle then I just can't take this work seriously [0]

[0] RIP Terry Pratchett... I can't see anything like this without thinking of him, and missing his regular biting criticism yet still somehow optimistic novels.
I guess the only other compelling thing is that UEFI works the same across multiple CPU architectures like x86, POWER and ARM64
Interesting, so how does that fit into the model definition/admin? How to do migrations for example? Have to do it all in sql, I’m guessing. May not be a win in the long run.
Wilmington Insurrection of 1898
I know the directors of a game dev studio who unequivocally admit going remote has increased communication across teams and their studio productivity went up. Keep in mind game devs need close collaboration, yet it's working. There are techniques that have come up to make remote-work work well.

So the directors are looking to maximize work flexibility, by experimenting with just going to the office once or twice a week or something after the vaccine.

Like my dentist told me a few days ago, universal 9-5PM at an office is long gone (and this is a dentist saying that!)
What registrar would you recommend instead?
The parent got flagged because it alleged falsities about the vote in the 2020 election. And the quote you're referring to was about Georgia's old voting system. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/in-georgia-primary-electio...

The new system replaces the purely electronic older system with a hybrid: tablets that physically mark a printed ballot (similar to California's new system).

From the linked article:

"The state spent more than $100 million to supply every county with so-called ImageCast machines made by a Canadian company, Dominion Voting Systems. They are ballot marking devices, meaning voters make selections on a touch screen, and ballots are printed with choices embedded in a Q.R. code and listed in plain English.

The paper ballot is then scanned and counted."

Voter's selections are literally printed in English text on the ballot, so they can be independently verified in the event of an audit.
Shipping is important but current trucks aren’t the only way to transport goods. Taxing vehicles based on their road wear would incentivize the industry to move to smaller trucks that don’t cause as much damage to roads.
Things I wish I’d known as a junior developer
I'm pretty intrigued by the cryptocurrency-based DNS alternatives that get kicked around in discussions like this. But if you need a way to mitigate this threat for your business today, I'd recommend Cloudflare's Enterprise Registrar.

It was designed specifically to prevent these kinds of attacks. You can design your own security procedure. "For instance, if a Custom Domain Protection client wants us to not change their DNS records unless 6 different individuals call us, in order, from a set of predefined phone numbers, each reading multiple unique pass codes, and telling us their favorite ice cream flavor, on a Tuesday that is also a full moon, we will enforce that. Literally."

As far as I can tell, they've never been pwned.
Can it be used by someone who is not familiar with pip installation process ? I think that area can help
In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection is the governmental watchdog for consumer abuse from advertising and marketing (among many other concerns).
> Suppose I am driving from New York to Alaska; I fill up my car with gas then drive into Ontario. I have now paid New York a gas tax but I'm driving on Ontario roads; Ontario gets paid nothing for this wear and tear.. until I run out of gas inside Ontario. Then Ontario gets their cut. This continues all the way until I reach Alaska.

It works roughly like this for trucks through the “International Fuel Tax Agreement”. Like the “World Series”, its international because it applies to Canada and US:

https://www.google.com/search?q=international+fuel+tax+agree...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fuel_Tax_Agree...
I did not say the DDR was anti-fascist or something. But there was a concerted effort by the Soviets to purge all forms of Nazism actively - which effectively failed, as per the evidence you provide yourself. A large part of the population resented the Soviet rule and effectively turned to Fascism as a reprieve (something I thought was implied so I skipped mentioning it explicitly). The Soviets went, but Fascism was there to stay.
Sounds like a bribe.
namecheap has actually been a really good registrar, contrary to what the name suggests.
"It's frankly quite embarassing that the holder of that office, an office used to be held by people you'd expect to show leadership and some sort of level-headedness, is basically getting a pass that he behaves like a clown, a very entitled kindergartner, and... what else can I compare him to?"

As compared to pretty much every Democrat in every office for the past 4 years calling Trump supporters Nazis and saying and tweeting things just as bad if not worse? Why are you giving them a pass?

"Biden's lead in each of the states being challenged are around a few thousand, and fraud that large is very hard to hide. So far Team Total Landscaping has failed 30+ legal challenges because they could only bring trivial bullshit before the judges, and the judges have mostly thrown their cases out."

This may be true, but it needs to be sorted out. They are most likely buying time while they put together the much bigger case that ties everything together.

I personally found dead people that voted in Multiple states that received a ballot. This was based on SSN, address, name, and birthday. If I could find a dozen of these people without much effort, I can't imagine the amount of dead people that actually cast a ballot. How does this even happen? Isn't anyone the least bit curious??

"See above. Giuliani is apparently charging the campaign $20,000 a day [0] (ok he's since issued a denial[1]) and he's the one whispering to Trump that there was fraud. Well done Rudy you scumbag, you're scamming the scammer. But I doubt you'll ever see the money, but maybe you'll be able to go to some nice dinners and pay with IOUs saying "Yeah the Trump 2020 campaign owes me a million dollars, when they pay me, I'll pay you, we good here?".

For $20,000 a day, I'd go on stage and scream quotes from My Cousin Vinny as well, aren't we all just prostitutes."

Now you lost me. You're high on emotions, low on facts.
Does it? In Europe you would only have something like the Hilux, RAV4 or the Land Cruiser with a diesel engine, and then maybe on a bad day they would average 8L/100km. More like 5-6L/100km in normal use. I imagine if those were fitted with a big petrol engine then those numbers would explode, but then the idea of a big work truck fitted with anything other than a diesel just seems wasteful.
More or less. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
this is super awesome! did you build the raytracing stuff from the ground up?
I like Debian as a community, but I think it would benefit from decentralization to speed up development.

The community is great, but current package management techniques and processes are the equivalent of SVN, with modern approaches like Nix or Guix being the equivalent to Git. In Debian, the whole tree of packages has to be in sync. That works well for Arch, as it is a rolling release, but IMHO that slows down Debian as it doesn't use their manpower efficiently.

Longtime ago, when Nix was not popular, there was a discussion in debian-devel about adopting Nix. It was probably premature. This discussion has resurfaced a number of times. I think currently they would benefit enormously from Nix or rolling out their own tooling that implemented equivalent ideas.

With such a big community and large package set, packages should be able to be decoupled from each other so that they can depend on different library versions and move at their own pace. Also, Nix-like tooling would allow to automate and test most package updates when upstream changes, or find common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) automatically. Currently, there's a lot of manual intervention needed to do this.

This would also be advantageous for end users, as they could mix and match packages from different channels. PPAs are an inferior solution.
Washington governor sets cap on delivery fees for Uber Eats, DoorDash, others
Companies with better established security infrastructure like AWS and Google make for better registrars in my opinion. They're not perfect, for example with Google you might lose your domains due to a youtube infraction. Actually, now that I think about it strike Google from the list, just AWS really.
Trust me, bark back at them in a voice louder than theirs and they will run away. Dogs are pack animals, so I think they fall for whoever is the more dominant one.
> If users are fine with it the impact shouldn’t be horrible.

Exactly. So when Apple gives users choice, and users are fine with it, this won't impact Facebook at all.
I have a dual monitor setup at home--one landscape (iMac) and one portrait. This is basically the same setup I've used for more than a decade. (I tried 3 monitors once and it was too much.) However, if I were starting over without a built-in monitor, I would seriously look at one of the big/wide curved screen monitors. A number of people I know prefer those to dual monitors.

On the flip side, it is nice to have one screen with video conferencing set up to be as near the camera as possible. But I actually tend to do notes and so forth on a laptop while I'm conferencing because my mechanical keyboard on my desktop is very loud.
I was talking about the grand-parent comment's method:

> You can check you’re right if (a) the first digit of the result is 1 less than the number you started with

The first digit of the result is 2 ... And the number that you started with is also 2, which is not 1 less... I guess I am not smarter then a 5th grader
VDJ recombination is an important part of immune repertoire development

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V(D)J_recombination
It isn't exactly straight forward for those without experience. But if you follow the steps closely, for example [0], it takes 15 minutes tops.

[0] https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/domain-transfers...
Ask HN: Managers, how has the transition to remote affected you and your team?
Hi managers and team leaders,

What has been the impact of transitioning to remote on your team, yourself and productivity?

Do you have any tips on how to keep team cohesion and keep morale up? Both team and personal.

I find that my team are just as productive but communication can be hard. The lines between work and home life are blurred. Overtime is more common.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
You keep talking about domain models and views as though domain models aren't written as well as read.
> people not participating in oncall equally

Why would this be? If you're on the rotation, you have the same number of shifts as anyone else. If you can't take your shift you have to swap with someone and take their shift instead.

> getting escalations while you were not officially on call

This usually means that the training of those on the rotation is inadequate.

It's possible for oncalls to be awful, but they don't have to be. The important part is to make those who have the power to change the sources of pain to suffer it.
That's not at all what the parent said gamblor.