skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangential, but something I think about every time breaches or password managers come up is this: what if every time I log into a service, i do it through password reset? that way I never have to even store the passwords, and it changes with the frequency of use. The more I use a given service, the less likely I am to be impacted by a password dataset being released. Basically the magic link that Slack uses, but with a few extra steps.

What would be some security pros and cons of this approach? And ultimately, [how] can e-mail be removed as the single point of failure?
Blame this on FOSTA and SESTA

https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/4/13/17172762/fosta-sesta-b...

It's too much legal risk to start a new social site without VC backing. It's too high of a legal risk even if you are well funded, and it's not a major source of revenue. It needs too much policing now.
The OSMF is currently working on updated Attribution Guidelines, which should go some way to address some of this, and will probably adopt something within the next month or two.

So the situation is currently fluid.
70% of the code codebases in commercial software is open source
Ask HN: Association Health Plans for self employed programmers
I'm having a tough time getting an employer plan being self-employed in South Florida. Are there any trade groups/associations that would make this possible for a self employed programmer?
I look forward to seeing your past or future statements regarding the same issue but for women, e.g. Women's Day, Mother's Day, Equal Pay Day, and myriad others.

Informed people with critical thinking skills generally don't care that men fare so much worse in health outcomes, education outcomes, criminal justice outcomes, or even genetic disorders.. because most issues in that list are the result of free choices made by individuals.

Unfortunately, we don't live in a society filled with either informed or critical thinkers. We live in a society ruled by the mob, a mob that will mobilize and torch institutions that yield a result deemed to be inequitable (as long as it's not against whiteness or maleness)--nevermind how it came to be. It's all too common to hear otherwise smart people talk stupidly about issues like employment earnings or congressional representation when broken down via a single variable: sex.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
The memory on m1 is nothing special. It's not part of the m1 die. M1 still have traditional memory controllers. It's just they built the logic die and the memory die in a single package for lower memory power. Increase package size is simple or if you really need big memory, do the traditional memory connection on a pcb.

As for gaming, I don't it's a hardware issue. It's software support. Microsoft now also owns a lot of gaming studio for xbox exclusivesz those will never come to the Mac. Also big gaming companies are now working with likes of microsoft, amazon, Google on cloud gaming. That seems like the way forward for making AAA games run everywhere. I doubt these companies will spin up another team to support these games on the Mac platform. It sucks that m1 is actually really good gaming processor.
Postdoc survey reveals disenchantment with working life
I think you can additionally use it with React Native. I saw a cross-platform android/ios GitHub client using it.¹

[1] https://twitter.com/GitShark/status/1273043228355252224
I previously suggested something a little bit along these lines. But what I thought would be better would be a distributed database and a browser extension that would measure load times (or maybe page size) and stability and automatically update it.
I'm probably not a good example.

But in your question, what does "fully commit" mean?

Maybe something like, "I will spend all my time on this until it is done."

Maybe something like, "I will keep playing and see where it goes."

The first is short term.

The other long term.

Physically, we can go all in on something for the short term.

The smaller, probably the better.

What I repeatedly go all in on physically is what I have gone all in on in the second sense.

But what I don't repeatedly go all in on is not abandoned.

Just in the fridge.

Maybe molding in the fridge.

Then it's thrown out.

How something keeps in my fridge is a good test.

Will fermentation make it better or worse?

Again, I'm probably not a good example.
Google used to have a "Discussions" search option that you could select, which would return results from forums that they indexed.
BuzzFeed Acquires HuffPost, Expanding Its Slate of World-Class Media Brands
That's delightful. The ecology of science education misconceptions is a wild and wonderful thing. My best laugh of yesterday was this page[1] from the Stanford Solar Center, saying "It is a common misconception that the Sun is yellow, or orange or even red."... now look the page header, and at the rest of the site. Gee, I wonder where students, including astronomy graduate students, might come by such misconceptions??? :) Literal lol. And yet, that's still doing better than many a colorful NASA and solar observatory outreach site, that don't even manage that sentence.

I wonder, if a simple CSS radial gradient was available, to easily create a realistic image of the Sun, might people (someone; anyone) use that instead of the usual yellow circles and assorted misleading colorfulness? Something like [2], but for its suboptimal choice of white point (so whiter in the center), and maybe the rim edge isn't quite right. Perhaps homeschoolers might pick it up if it was posted... somewhere?

[1] http://solar-center.stanford.edu/SID/activities/SunDetermine... [2] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/16622/need-help-si...
Nah, the data were there in January. We know because Taiwan CDC made the right call. In some things in life, correcting yourself isn't enough. You just have to be right the first time.

A quarter million Americans died for this mistake.
"After all, it's their platform and they're not running a charity - people often forget that it's not their birth right to use a company's product or a service without paying for it one way or another."

A few more consumer perspectives:

Google still does not own the videos. It is still not their content. They will not pay contributors for content.

As someone who has been using the web since 1993 I can assure anyone reading that there would still be widepspread video sharing on the internet even if no company such as YouTube existed that tried to monetise the phenomenon. Consumers pay dearly for internet connectivity and bandwidth, many of them enjoy playing around with the internet for fun and they will use the network for all manner of data sharing, including video, even in the absence of advertisers and their service partners (who are usurping a significant portion of that user-financed bandwidth).

Google may not be running a tax-exempt charity for the benefit of consumers, however they are running a corporate welfare program for over 75,000 people. (Nevermind the amount the corporation pays in tax.) This will change if and when profits start to drop.

With respect to this announcement, it appears Google won't share the proceeds from ad sales unless the YouTube contributor's video meets a certain threshhold of traffic, enough to be in the so-called "Partner Program". Many video contributors will receive nothing despite their viewers having to suffer though pre-roll and other ads interrupting their "user experience". In a way this reminds me of domain name registrars that place ads at domain names that customers fail to renew.

I absolutely agree with this comment though. Changes such as this are evolutionary pressure that may lead us to a better internet, one that is less commercially driven by advertising under the fiction of "free". No matter how large these websites, excuse me, "platforms", have become I still believe the web and the internet are meant to be non-commercial and user-driven. As the network has grown, most users are not corporations.

Add more straw. Break the camel's back. What comes in the aftermath will surely be better.
AFAIK, humans are still part of the animal kingdom, just one with an overdeveloped sense of the self and self-importance.
Does anyone else crave a HN style website for other things? I want text only links, text only discussion, solid algorithms, applied to Healthcare News, Woodworking, Music, really all of my interests. I use HN a lot because it's a very clean and efficient experience. Another one is text NPR, I just love the fast load speeds and the lack of distracting photos, ads, vids, etc.

Reddit used to be much closer to my ideal, but it's got a ton of issues and the ownership has made it much, much less enjoyable for me.
Very hard to estimate false negative rate for a group given that the false negative rate itself is fluctuates considerably based on when you get the test. False negatives are very high the day before symptoms and go down dramatically at the third day after symptoms (which is the best day to get tested).
The significance of the Curry-Howard isomorphism
We really have to fix the incentives for media companies. Engagement-based revenue models, aka Clickbait, are killing people at this point. This is why people don’t wear masks and believe in ridiculous conspiracy theories—of course, not BuzzFeed or HuffPo directly on those particular issues, but this engagement model for “news” completely undermines trust in news on all sides of the political spectrum. Anything you happen to loosely believe, you can find some clickbait article which plays to all of your confirmation biases. Share it on social media to your like-minded friends, have a few of them disagree with you and cite other clickbait “articles” supporting their disagreement, and you end up with the majority of America having no idea what’s real anymore.
Hashicorp is great but should really start adding some real-world-sysadmin language to their websites.

Every piece of tech is generally worth the time investment, but you have to trust them and start learning the tool before you can realise what it actually does.

Consul is one such case...

Consul is much more than DNS of course, but at the core it's DNS.

Unless you describe it as fancy DNS with extra features, it's description page doesn't make much sense.
I've seen that with Delphi. The unique factor was that the examples were not a basic call of the function but an actual real world practical sample that usually solved the problem one was looking for.
Maybe ads at some point.
The scale of how much money the USA spends pointlessly on weapons is almost as mind boggling to comprehend as the size of the galaxy. It's depressing to imagine what we could do otherwise if all this money wasn't wasted, or if it was simply returned to taxpayers.
Sure, but the performance of your car degrades as the tires bald, does it not? Fuel economy changes, cornering, maximum acceleration off the line.
In the same way UI/UX can be used to get novice/ non-technical users into something it can also be used to filter them out.
It is also silly to believe the issue is simply unwillingness of the government to pay people to stay home

Do you honestly believe that everyone can just stay home until we have wide scale vaccine? Who will make the vaccine, who will keep the water flowing, the power, the food, everything else we need for daily life

Lockdown has never, and will never be a reasonable strategy for a pandemic, this one or future ones
Just remember that if your machine needs to swap because of low RAM you are now writing to your SSD.

The permanently soldered in SSD that has a finite amount of writes.

Saving $200 on RAM up front could get wiped out if you kill your SSD prematurely with constant, heavy swapping.

Here I see the fast SSD speed as a negative - making it painless to do something inherently dangerous towards the lifespan of your SSD.
I'm pretty happy with my bloated mess. Glad youtube and Spotify aren't limited to 1meg

Glad Google Maps lets me view the world in 3D and with street views and make custom maps, and read reviews with photos, etc. Don't care that it takes more than 1meg.

Love Apple's beautiful pages like the Macbook Air page at 14meg
Thanks mate, I'll check this out, I also use IRC so that's always the most fun way to reach out.
Hey, please don't break the site guidelines like this, no matter how wrong another user is or you feel they are. I understand very well how frustrating it can be, but responding this way only wrecks this place even further.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You're right. The drug dealer can only harm his clients. The CDC can (and did) hurt everyone.

And just for everyone who didn't read the link: Fauci absolutely did advise "no universal masking". The position was reversed in early April, by which time the damage was done.
W10Privacy – display Win 10 security settings that can be activated/deactivated
> Seeing the trajectory we're on now, really regretting not doing that.

Props to you for helping maintain social distancing.

I noticed people stopped wearing masks outside and started doing more gatherings around Toronto right about the time cases started going up again. Coincidence? I don't think so...
> the first couple semesters are foundational and if you don't understand something it is like a pyramid

I was taking a math/cs hybrid major in college, and the upper level math courses just felt like they were getting harder and harder in ways that didn't make sense in my previous math experience. Tests more and more were weighted towards verbal proofs, and I hadn't yet developed the vocabulary to deal with the precision necessary to use English to prove something mathematically. It wasn't until after graduation that I learned that there are some sophomore math courses at my university that Math majors usually take that were unofficially known as "intro to proofs". I have no doubt this was missing foundation that made 400 level math courses so painful for me.
From the the reddit link[1]

Sorry, I'm just curious.

It says MySQL 8 and Elasticsearch 7.8. I don't have much experience in elasticsearch, I wanted to know how does elasticsearch makes it faster? Is it like an extension that makes it faster? Or Elasticsearch has its own data store that consumes data from the database and magically makes it faster?

Thanks.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jg4rkv/how_a_s...
The rural-urban divide comes down to the understanding that death is the price for life, which has vanished in the urban millieu, but it's still visceral to those living closer to nature and its ubiquitous birth-life-death cycle. Covid is yet another disease that's going to take away a certain (small!) fraction of the population, for little fault other than being born with the wrong genetic makeup. Given the extreme infectiousness, everybody is going to get it within a span of a few years. Those that will die, will die. Most will survive. Life goes on. Covid is nothing new, 100 years ago, before antibiotics, pneumonia was significantly more deadly, and yet here we are. The answer to death is birth, not cowering in a basement.

The astute reader will retort 'BUT VACCINES'. This deserves a special note. The cold logic of natural selection is that descendants of organisms naturally resistant to disease inherit the Earth. We can supplant disease resistance with artificial means, of which vaccines are amazingly effective. To a point. Beyond which we realize that we've inadvertently cultivated a debilitated fragile population that can only survive through sophisticated technological methods. Any disruption of the technological supply chains then brings swift and large scale catastrophe. Hoping that our Andaman and Amish brothers and sisters will still be around at the time of reckoning.

Let's have a bit more charity. People worry and suffer and grieve like the rest of us. They just don't surrender their lives, as short or long as they will end up being, to fear of a disease that, by now, it's obviously not anywhere near as deadly as the Plague.
Photos show California Gov. Newsom at maskless party
Arecibo has been superseded in terms of raw aperture by FAST, and in terms of angular resolution by the interferometry arrays since 1966 at the latest when the One Mile observatory was doing 23 arcsecond resolution images. I think it's main somewhat unique capability was doing radar measurements of things in our solar system.

My impressions is the neglect comes from having done all the useful things it could do ages ago, and not finding anything new to help with in the areas of science that gets funding.

The state of the art interferometry arrays are ASKAP and MeerKAT currently, in the sense of being the newest and being precusors of the SKA which is the biggest project right now.

In terms of best in class, it varies with the specific frequency and which bit of the sky you want to look at and also with what you consider an observatory: the Event Horizon Telescope that resolved the M87 black hole has the worlds best resolution at their mm wavelengths, but it's really a bunch of existing telescopes collaborating and not a purpose built facility.
Drivers let their focus slip as they get used to partial automation
It is my (probably incorrect) understanding that tensors are the generalized form of scalars, vectors, matrices, etc. A scalar being a 0 dimensional tensor, a vector being a 1 dimensional tensor, a matrix being a 2 dimensional tensor, and so on.
I was once asked to debug an extremely slowly loading page. In the first 5 minutes it was evident that the client was doing things it wasn't supposed to do. It was downloading 300MB worth of resources to show the webpage. Incorrect implementations and inefficient use of libraries is the reason why we're seeing a bloated websites all over the web
WH folks were traveling all over the country for election events.
The China one doesn't have the ability to transmit, only receive.
The author posted a picture: https://forums.puri.sm/t/received-my-librem-5-evergreen/1087...
I guess it depends where each person falls on the “freedom vs safety” spectrum. I’m strongly on the “freedom” side. But I feel it’s a perspective based in some objectivity, as it’s generally a lot easier for one to protect themselves than to free themselves.
Sorry, are you saying we're capable of not having essential services run? Because we're not. There's no choice for society to make when it comes to essential services.
Ask HN: When Will Jack Dorsey Be Indicted for Perjury?
It's not a question of whether or not he perjured or not so kind of curious when this is going to happen?
Was there ever an era of 'update automatically"? I don't remember it, and I'm kinda old.
People who work customer-facing jobs aren’t travelling cross-country, and are probably behind Perspex or wearing masks
Or buy a white case?
Well, that's the crucial moment. Being right after that is like being right about choosing not to detonate your bomb after you've already detonated it. Your being right is no longer useful.
Except that every family that takes notice is potentially a dozen fewer direct infections. Two fewer hospitalisations.

Every little helps when it comes to public health messages.
> Any company that wants to survive long-term doesn't do that. So go work for those instead.

You would be doing valuable service to the community by naming a few names
lol so many records that should have been destroyed and not indexable!

so do I get a court order for each county, the website, the resyndicating source that the website uses or what?

I looked at the reddit page and other people noticed the same thing, the author just said send me the link! Hahaha one by one removal maybe!

Shut it down, enjoy it while it lasts
> Maybe it's just their own connection that sucks?

Your Core Web Vitals report in Search Console is based on Chrome User Experience Report data. Meaning that this is data from your real users, not Google running simulated tests of your pages on their own servers. I.e. when someone loads your page from Chrome, Chrome reports back how long it actually took the page to load for that user (it doesn't happen with all users, they have to meet various opt-in criteria [1]). So, if you see that 50% of pages are served too slowly on computers, it means that 50% of your real users actually experienced slow page loads (as measured by the Web Vitals metrics). Perhaps your static site isn't as efficient as you think, or your server is slow, or the devices/connection of your users is much worse than you assumed. That's the power of this data; it shows you that in the real-world the experience isn't as great as you're assuming and encourages you to investigate further.

(For the record) The landing page of the Core Web Vitals report does indicate where the data is coming from. Next to "Source: Chrome UX report" you see a question mark. If you hover over that question mark then click the "Learn more" link it takes you to this page: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9205520?ref_top...

Disclosure: Googler working on https://web.dev. I'm not on the Web Vitals team but interact with them.

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-user-experien...
Amazon lays off dozens of employees at drone programme
You can do with even less ram...

But you should really throw all the ram you can at zfs.

It'll just make performance better, and you'll hit the disks way less (for read operations).
Of Schools, Altruism, and Lockdowns
Interesting. What’s it like working for an indie studio? What is the pay and work life balance like? Any advice for recognizing good companies?
I agree with your point but don't think it's any less obvious at all. Our country has long treated essential service personnel as fungible.
The surprise me feature has yielded some really good links!

"Doom as a tool for system administration" [1], "What can you do with a slide rule?" [2], and of course some vintage 90s personal pages... some of which have been actively maintained to this day (!) [3]

edit: that last page has some incredibly-detailed information about the various cars he's owned [4]

[1]: https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/

[2]: http://www.math.utah.edu/~pa/sliderules/

[3]: http://www.billswebspace.com/

[4]: http://www.billswebspace.com/124Abarth.html
I suspect this site's page will soon not qualify to be a part of this club :)
Tips to Organise a Great Hackathon Team
Thanks! I don't have any plans personally - I have made it open source so anyone can make their own version, maybe even port it to Firefox (which AFAIK shouldn't be too hard). As per standalone, I feel like it would have to be entirely rewritten, so it would basically mean developing it from zero.
"A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad" - Shiguru Miyamoto
These days im hounded by apple marketing reps begging me to spend money advertising in the app store. So now we pay for access (yearly fee), discovery (apple ads) and if we happen to get anyone to pay (apple tax). Tim Crook!
Nice! I've gotten so jaded with how big and slow most of the modern web is, that randomly stumbling upon a tiny site prompted me to write about the joy of it on my blog (a much less than 1MB site itself): https://m-chrzan.xyz/blog/small-big-sites.html
Nothing eliminates risk. There are only mitigation and constraint measures. In my case, and the case of those close to me, we find these measures adequate.

If you were to spend time with me, you will know my entire protocol, and I will willingly show you my contact/movement history (I record each event on Google Calendar and I use Google Timeline History for maps).

I understand if you have a different protocol.
Yes please, can you post the brand/model of that case?
The isolation room probably has negative air pressure