skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Science does not talk about right or wrong. It talks about things that are falsifiable.

If there is an idea that so far has not been falsified, it becomes the established scientific fact.

However, someone else may come up with a better idea. Do we prevent them from talking about it or collaborating with people? It may take some time and lots of communication and collaboration to get to the bottom of it. Years or even decades. Do we ban them from youtube in the interrim?

Youtube can do what they please, but what they are doing is against liberty, against science, and it is un-american.
Read the rest of the paper, that was study 1a. They ran multiple sets of experiments with much larger sets, cross-correlated their result sets, ran a solid confirmatory factor analysis, ran sub-assessments (like attachment style) to make sure they weren't rediscovering an already known factor, and reran the same inventory assessments with each group. I mean it is only one paper, but for a Social Psychology paper the math and methods are pretty solid. Given the institutions involved in the paper, I would expect this paper to at least pass the smell test for its own field (even if the results are garbage). I'm normally quite bearish on Social Psych as well, btw.
>Now imagine 10 years time of increased global warming.

Wow, 0.1 degrees more, that will really tip the scales
I hugely prefer w3m's whitespace between paragraphs. Lynx's formatting might be better-suited to 80x24 terminals, but at larger sizes, w3m (or the links/elinks browsers) are much easier reading.

Lynx's keybindings never make sense to me.
I think the implication is, if it's available to you, the at-risk people have already had a chance to get it. At least that's what I've heard from the rollout strategy.
Install System 7.5 on there and let us know what happens to boot time, though.
If your immune system failed to get trained by the virus, wouldn't that apply to the vaccine also?
The vaccine should be given to BIPOC people first as pointed out by VOX [1] because they have a higher mortality rate from the disease. Once POC in at risk segments have received their dose then we can give it to others. Its interesting to consider the inequality outcome here, ie if we dont give it to POC first, and they cant return to the office when others can, then they will end up losing to office politics.

[1] https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/10/2/21493933/covid-...
Apple specifically designed their platform for censorship. That's why so many people hate it.
I already have that option in the post job page :)
Poll: Did you know that HN supported Polls?
It would be interesting to know how many people knew about HN's support for polls.
I will take it after a year or two. The US did a great job at politicizing the virus such that I don't really trust that pharma companies actually did their due diligence with regard to testing and safety measures. I accept that doctors and scientists will take it under the guise of them "knowing it's safe", and I accept that lots of people will say "If they're doing it, you should too", but I think this strategy just generally ignores common sense. Doctors use and prescribe drugs all the time with unintended adverse side effects, the difference here is that those side effects are known and well studied. A vaccine that showed up to save the world (and also start a culture war in some countries)? I do not accept that the powers at be have verified this drug's safety.

I think that this vaccine is a choice, and once it's readily available it is still a choice. If you choose not to get it, you are accepting the possibility that you might get COVID and die. Once the vaccine becomes available to my age group and health demographic, the people that actually need it will have been given the option to make their choice as well.
American fields are larger, so American farmers can take advantage of larger plows for better efficiency; however, larger plows require more power from the tractor.
Democracy will eventually die.

“In sum, the majority of Americans are generally unable to understand or value democratic culture, institutions, practices or citizenship in the manner required”.

“To the degree to which they are required to do so, they will interpret what is demanded of them in distorting and inadequate ways. As a result they will interact and communicate in ways that undermine the functioning of democratic institutions and the meaning of democratic practices and values.”

https://escholarship.org/content/qt8806z01m/qt8806z01m_noSpl...
There are like 5 vaccines

Doesn't that concern ironically mean we should take the Russian one?

Bill Gates would only pollute the Moderna one, if those theories factored in geopolitics at all.
Often (maybe always?) employees pay income tax in the state where their company's headquarters is, or the local office in which they work.
Unhappy your work hasn't been cited?
Thanks for the feedback, if anything else comes to mind, throw it at me :)
said the Apple fan boy who created the account 20 days ago to argue violently and offensively :)

> This all started with an insanely stupid comment that Apple only matters in the US,

It's true

Apple is losing market share everywhere on mobile market and it's not gaining in computing devices

You might be surprised how much irrelevant the US bubble is outside of the US

> LOL, I deleted it because I realized there were newer numbers (humorously BETTER

That you decided to not post?

Like the numbers about Italy that prove you wrong? :)

You're a genius of strategy sir.

> The Italy thing is uproarious, and betrays that you're a clown.

Well... Being Italian I am probably more a mafiosi-spaghetti-pizza-mandolino-mammamia-mario

> Apple is shipping more units to Italy than ever

Shipping maybe, selling definitely not.

I'm sure you have no problem understanding Italian

Il mercato smartphone 2020 parte in Italia con un primo trimestre “drogato” dalla pandemia di coronavirus. Momento in cui Apple perde ben il 70% nello stesso periodo del 2019, lasciando alle tre posizione del podio gli Android, Samsung, Huawei e Xiaomi. May 11, 2020

> Apple still completely dominates the wealthy and upper middle class in virtually every nation

Not in Italy

Maybe in the US

> But, as with the Ferrari nonsense, way to completely miss the point.

Only for those who do not understand.

You must be tired.

Slow down and go to sleep.
"So much faith"? People are just following the science. Are you really arguing that because one bad situation has occurred involving pharmaceutical companies, we should assume every new drug or treatment is bogus or based on evil motives?
> The average American earns $900 per week and is probably not dropping that kind of money on a hotel.

The average American making $900 per week doesn't normally go places that charge $50 a night for parking. Apparently parking at the Omaha Hilton is $15 per night.

If I'm price-conscious, all else being equal, I'd still prefer a Super 8 to an Airbnb because it might not be nice, but it won't be bad, and the variance between room and service quality across all their properties is pretty small, so I won't be surprised by anything. That, and if you're price-conscious, a bad Airbnb experience is expensive to fix; you just finished traveling, you want your room now, 3 hours and 4 phone calls later. Don't book an Airbnb unless you have a backup hotel to go to.
Ask HN: How to protect an abused spouse from a software engineer?
Hi HN,

Long time member here posting with a throwaway for obvious reasons.

A family friend has recently come under attack from their spouse. Daily, brutal beatings in front of small children that make your blood turn cold.

The victim has been going the legal route for months now and has the police actively engaged. But, as we both know, the police are there after the fact and aren't able to really do much until something terrible happens again.

The abuser is a highly skilled software engineer with a decade+ of white/grey hat experience. This person is now using their professional skills to stalk their spouse.

We purchased the victim a new phone under my name with no connection to the old account. We're setting up a new Google account now (Android phone) that's not connected to the old account. Will be changing the email associated to all social/messaging accounts and set up app-based MFA going forward on everything. Password manager with randomly generated passwords for all accounts.

Thinking of setting up this new android device with MDM under a new GSuite account. Hoping this will give an added layer of protection over phishing attacks the abuser may send.

I'll be doing some education with the victim on phishing attacks, etc. to make sure they don't click on any random links.

I'm wondering if you all have any additional advice? Have you ever helped someone in a similar situation? Basically looking to crank up this non-technical person's op-sec to exceed what someone who knows "everything" can reasonably crack.

Thank you!
The people I just yell and cuss out. The family part is harder. I know they love me, but they have no clue what is going on when it comes to simply walking. They can be supportive, but if I tell them I can’t do something like take the trash out it can turn into an argument. At that point I’m usually accused of using my disability as an excuse. That really sucks. Sometimes I just do what is being asked even though it is at my detriment.
right, in principle there is nothing wrong (imo, at least) with a private company deciding what can/cannot be said on its online properties. we might, as individuals, pressure a company to change it's moderation policy, but we should not seek to outlaw moderation.

of course, this doesn't work so well in practice when all the viable platforms are controlled by a few huge companies that are more or less ideologically aligned. in my view, this is more of an antitrust issue than a freedom of speech issue. moderation on social media would be a non-issue if there were a reasonable range of platforms to choose from. hateful and/or misleading content would also be far less impactful if uploading a single video to the youtube didn't have the potential of reaching an enormous audience.
You just took what you originally said, and said it again. Did you expect a different result?

If the worse-case engineering disaster happened in either case, millions would have died. If you want to dig into this point, great, happy to. If you want to repeat your original point ad-infinitum, pass.
Asheville would be my guess in that space. Huge beer and art scene. Still a blue dot in a very red state.
As someone who is happy when he interviews a candidate who at least knows you don't start parsing with `string.split()` I gotta say, your bar is extremely high. Surely MSFT can afford some internal training?
>Nobody pays more for something just because they have more savings. They pay more because they might be getting outbid by someone.

No, they pay more because they can afford it. When a bidding war starts between a Californian and a Texan for the same house, the Texan loses every time because they can't bid as high as the Californian.

It isn't just housing, either. When a new grocery store opens up in one of these neighborhoods, do you think they just sell their goods as cheap as they always have? Of course not. They want to make a profit, so they up their prices because they know the Californians are more than willing to pay for it. The Texan who now struggles to make ends meet because food is more expensive? They get pushed out.

> You can say "Americans are exporting higher cost of living" by purchasing avocados from Mexico, or factory capacity in China, etc. and depriving the locals who can't afford to pay the same.

Yes, that is exactly what is happening. Have you ever been to any of these countries where Americans-with-money swoop in and starting buying up goods or property? They hate it, just as much as Texans hate the Californians who are moving in.
Surfing and invention sound like makings of a good life.

Speaking for myself, 'underappreciated' is the right word to describe his achievements. Quoting the article,

"Metcalfe and his colleagues at Xerox PARC adopted and tweaked the ALOHAnet technology in creating Ethernet"
"...determining what distinguishes the side project from competing or similar apps..."

I think this is a simple point, but an important one. For the Hacker News App example, I really need to try and show why someone would download 'Hacky' as opposed to all of the other Hacker News reader apps of there. Ultimately, that's what captures users, especially when the apps are similar.
100%, zero hesitation.
Can it record?
I wonder if the distribution will reach permanent residents as well at the same time as citizens.
And many of those taxes are based on things like now many distinct offices you have for employees. This is one of the reasons we saw the death of private offices and a shift to the whole open workspace bullshit. Because you’d get taxed per office, whether it was being used 5 days a week or not.
There's this thing called "Christmas" that happens once a year; you may have heard of it. ;)

Check their calendar in 2019. It was clear from 12/16 through 12/31.
the most annoying thing to me about airbnb is that for some reason there is no way to search by bed size. last time I used airbnb I had to resort to using a scraper library to search keywords relating to king beds. I felt like a hacker but it was still far from easy or clean
Every social network is "a way to deliver content"
Before electric motors, factories used to have a single giant coal engine that used pulleys and crankshafts to distribute that power all across the factory. When electric motors became available, they replaced that single giant coal engine with a single giant electric motor.

They got their lunch eaten by people who built new factories with electric motors at every station, distributing the power using wire.

These tractors are autonomous, you can have multiple tractors per operator. 5 50hp tractors are probably cheaper and more capable and easier to run by a single operator than a single 250hp diesel monster.
Having Covid already is probably a fine excuse to not get the vaccine. We'll know soon enough how much immunity it gives you, but it seems to give plenty for now.

But unless it wasn't clear: I'm pissed at the massive amount of people saying they won't take the vaccine because of conspiracy theories. Not even the HN can escape them, apparently. I literally just saw and commented on someone spouting one in this thread just 20 minutes into the thread. And I got downvoted for calling them out, even when they agreed and took it down.

And then thinking that this vaccine which has been properly trialed and not rushed is going to somehow be worse than, for example, 1 in 1000 people in the UK already dead. Seriously?

So yeah, I'm going to shame people.
When people tell me that Apple is the most secure computer company, I imagine they believe everything they are told by advertisements.
Disney: Sports Betting Is the Future of ESPN+
People can work as much as they want. They just don't get paid after $20mil.

I'm not worried about making money being zero sum. I'm worried about uber rich people doing uncalled for things with too much money. No one should have that kind of power.
You’re putting words in my mouth again. I didn’t say those were the only two options. I asked what your silver-bullet alternative to mTLS is that has no issues of its own. The position seems to be that mTLS has problems, so don’t use it. But everything has problems.

Re: revocation... the point is that you can revoke attacker access without revoking a certificate.

Or, if you want, you can revoke certificates. I’m not totally opposed to that. CRL is finicky, but architecturally it works well with short-lived certs and it’s not very different than secret rotation. If you can push new secrets, you can push a CRL. In fact, if you can push new secrets, you can also push new roots.

There are many people who use mTLS. Along with consistent service logging, it’s one of the main reasons people use service meshes. It’s also very common in IoT.
Just moved from Boulder because it had priced out the people that brought it's whimsy.
Please don't set up strawmen just to knock them down. It's too easy to cast everyone who has some rational scepticism as nutjob's, but that just alienates those who could otherwise be persuaded by civil discourse.
Now that the vaccine is rolling out, all I hear is that only select groups are getting it now, and that the majority of people must wait. By the time most people even get the option to take it, thousands of others will have tried it. There is no rush.
The executive summary of the FDA report[1] on the vaccine lists observed side effects in the clinical trial population as well as their incidence rates. Briefly, it is comparable to a normal flu shot.

Derek Lowe, who's worked as a chemist doing drug discovery for 30 years (for whatever that experience is worth to you), wrote an article[2] talking about that report and gives his take on the question of safety.

He's also written an article[3] about how it's likely people will wrongly attribute things that would have happened anyway to having taken the vaccine.

For a techie analogy: Have you ever been roped into doing some computer support for a friend or family member? Fixing a printer, installing a driver, cleaning malware, etc.? Have you ever experienced someone you helped coming back to you the next week blaming you for some new issue that's cropped up because "It must have been you when you worked on it last week!", even though it's because they went to some scummy website or similar? The vaccine rollout is going to be that scenario times a billion.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download
[2] https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/12/09/th...
[3] https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/12/04/ge...
IMHO, we all want to live in the "ever after". I think that's why many successful startups (or startup-like companies) get sold by their founders to mega-corps.

The existence and seemingly never-ending expansion of mega-corps is a different story though.
Oracle Moves Headquarters to Texas, Joins Exodus from California
because believe it or not some people live in countries where the government manages to do just that.
How much zinc oxide do the hexachloroethane grenades release? Zinc oxide is extremely toxic and results in symptoms known as "metal fume fever." You only need a tiny amount of exposure - I once got sick from not wearing a respirator when doing a handful of quick spot welds on galvanized metal shelving (thought I could get away with it). All of the criminals involved in this deliberate toxic gassing should be on trial right now.
I don't get why they don't take 10% of the initial supply and auction or sell at a high price. It would increase the perceived value of the vaccine and let market forces evaluate safety.
So what is the reason given for it being unethical? Of course I realize there is a tradeoff involved in delaying the rollout of a vaccine but I don't see how that is related to the way vaccines are made, specifically.
I'll take "nerd", but there's nothing wrong with a group of 50 year old ladies discussing this on Facebook, either.
From the article it seems they were better prepared during the first wave then the second having dismantled the unused excess capacity they put in place.

“ But with temporary field hospitals dismantled over the summer and some other emergency measures no longer in place, the country has less intensive care beds available while there is a resurgence in cases.”
Just wondering, do you think there were serious issues with the vote in 2016?
Ignoring "I'm in a low risk group that won't get it for months", which is true, the vaccine available here has storage requirements meaning it's only given at a number of central locations. Travel + potential for lining up for hours == no for me.

When it's a 10/15 minute job at a local pharmacy like the normal winter flu jab then by all means I'll get it.
Isn't that part of what's critical to have a free market? Sure, there are market inefficiencies when you get to the level that trusts and monopolies exist, don't get me wrong.

Rather than patch the symptoms of the problem, attack the root cause: If companies are acting anticompetitively, stimulate competition in the marketplace. If companies are allowed to make arbitrary decisions (which they should in a free-enough market), seek alternatives, such as government enterprises.

If folks don't like payment processors denying payment or ISPs denying service, seek forming a government enterprise that _can't_ deny service to any citizen.
It means less taxes and less strict labor laws.

Not for people that remain in CA, WFH or not. For those that move to TX, what you said applies.
low pay + no benefits
You do yourself a disservice when you mock people who hold opposite viewpoints.
Well, the problem is that there are all these intertwined concepts so that for the most part we have:¹

* We want individuals to be able to express themselves so long as they are not explicitly deceiving people or hurting them

* We believe groups of individuals should have the freedoms individuals do

* We believe that individuals whose sole purpose is to act to provide a service to individuals expressing shouldn't be liable for the expression under some conditions. e.g. if I let you rent my sound equipment, I shouldn't be liable because you use it to call for violence against some dude and likewise for online platforms provided they take some reasonable measures

* We believe that picking and choosing what people can use your platform to express is expression in itself, but sometimes you are obligated to suppress some expression

So YouTube is one of these platforms. They should be allowed to pick and choose what people can use them to express because that's a freedom one person has, and therefore that they have as a group of people who individually have it. So the defence rests on it being expression.

However, the defence for them not being liable for expression on their platform is that they're "just the platform". By choosing not to enforce on other things and choosing to enforce on these things they're not "just the platform" - the expression they permit is their expression.

It's a bit hazy, but it feels to me like you forfeit some of your "just a platform" defence when you exercise your "it's my right to expression" defence. Morally, of course, not legally. IANAL and this isn't a court so who gives a damn about the law on its own.

¹ If you don't hold these beliefs, then you're not in the audience for the comment. Skip safely.
64% of House of Representatives Republicans seek to overturn election results [pdf]
They will make money on the vaccine too
I invited the CEO to my farm and we had a chat about their plans. I am impressed that they launched exactly what he said that they would...it seems to me that they are the only ones in the Agrobotics market(and I know/have spoken to 15-17 of them worldwide) who can scale because they have a solid plan and can ramp up. And they will be affordable. They have ticked all the boxes that create the (manufacturing) bottlenecks for every other Agbot start up/company out there.
Why Do People Write for Wikipedia? (2005) [pdf]
It has been through human testing for 10 months or something like that? We've also had stay at home and social distancing guidelines for about the same amount of time and I think we've had the opportunity to see what effect that's had.
I think in this case what you're highlighting is number of people vaccinated, so you'd like to see more people vaccinated first, rather than increasing the duration of analysis of the existing people that have been vaccinated.
...so what is it? Linting? Syntax validation? I don't have any specific associations for "error checking" beyond the literal meaning of the words.