skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But then where does it end?

Why should Word be allowed to bundle a spell-checker? Why shouldn't you have to buy that separately?

And why should the spell-checker be allowed to bundle a dictionary? Shouldn't that have to come from a separate company?

Should Photoshop be allowed to bundle a set of default filters, when there are companies that produce third-party filters? Should macOS be allowed to bundle ZIP compression, when there are companies that sell standalone compression software?

You're right we don't have Lotus 123. But we have Google Sheets, and we have Tableau, and we have Jupyter notebooks.

Literally every product is bundle of things that were combined into it, until you get either to raw physical materials or perhaps single functions in code.

I don't know how you're going to come up with a standard that allows Macs to include a menu option to compress a folder, but doesn't allow a bundle of Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
The other half of it, for the early days at least, is the fear of lining up with hundreds of people who are more likely to be high risk people. Putting yourself in higher risk.

My pharmacy does COVID testing but only if you show no symptoms. The gov health networks tell symptomatic people to be tested in hospital set up centers. But high risk people are still high risk people, whether they are showing symptoms or not.
Devastating news. My thoughts and prayers go out to Austin.
I'll probably start to use a mask every flu season.
BLM has a purpose, and was despite of covid. Trump rallies are entirely pointless, and everyone there makes a statement of not wearing masks.
I really miss EV: Nova. It's probably one of the games I've re-played the most. I even kept playing it for the longest time with the expired trial where the ultra-modded, overpowered Starbridge follows you around to kill you for not paying for the full version.

Not easy to install anymore with the license server down and all, and I've tried playing the games that try to be clones but they've never really hit the same way.
That's an interesting take. There are a lot of negative affects caused by covid too. Disposable masks, boxes for shipping, social distancing means you need to build more so people are spaced out, public transit is inefficient since everyone is, etc.
What about ANC?
Ignore the rest of the company’s shares and just look at the ones sold in the IPO. AirBnB could have gotten twice as much money for them, so of course they left money on the table.
Sort of a biased audience to begin with though, no?
> You can tell someone who is not trained in science when they claim you should 'trust science' or 'just believe in science'.

The layperson should trust science. Because the alternative is some QAnon cult bullshit. Don't confuse the scientific process with concrete scientific results.

No one is out there refuting Newton or Einstein. Nuclear bombs still work as good as they did in the 1940s. Every time you use your smartphone you're "trusting" that the capacitive screen still works. It's rather silly to not trust science when the products of science are all around us. Whether it's GPS or the airbags in your car.

The problem is with bullshitters and those (such as the media) that use early scientific papers as final scientific truth. With Gell-Mann amnesia effect, the bullshitters have the upper hand. Twitter is particularly bad about this, where people with high follower count toss out "hot takes" all day in hopes of something sticking. You might follow, say, a Paul Graham type of person that knows their VC stuff. But in between their VC messages they start talking about gravitational wells or something entirely unrelated to their core competence. Twitter is an endlessly flowing vortex of this type of bullshit. It's sort of a trust arbitrage marketplace, where influencers in one market try to gain entry into other markets by relying on their expert status in one field.

As for the media, they have deadlines and revenue targets to meet. They want fresh new stories, and Einstein isn't saying much these days. So they'll reach into the scientific paper wastebasket and pull out some trash and present it as some recent scientific discovery.

> But ignorant people think because an 'expert' says something is true it has to be true.

The crux of this problem is that many years ago we decided that experts shouldn't exist. America, at the very least, has a particularly strong anti-intellectual sentiment running throughout its history. So we decided to do away with experts. Just look at Dr. Drew or Dr. Oz. or Dr. Phil. These are people playing the role of expert but are just the same bullshitters that are on Twitter. With the internet, everyone can be an expert.
Wait a minute. You're not being coherent. I'm the one saying mTLS is blast-radius containment. What that means is: it's not your primary security control. It's certainly not your primary authentication modality. It's a thing that constrains the impact of another security flaw.

You can't "lock someone out of your network". That's handwaving. If you can do that reliably, you don't need any other security controls. Just lock all the bad people out!

The problem with mTLS in configurations where you rely on it for authentication is, if an attacker manages to obtain a client certificate key, it no longer matters if you nuke the machine from orbit, because they have the keypair! The keypair still works! They can use that keypair from any other place on the network they have access to (if there's no such place, you just defined away the need for mTLS).

Which is why you need active revocation if you're going to rely on mTLS: when you lose confidence in your sole custody of a client keypair, you need to actively revoke that keypair, immediately. You can't just wait 7 hours for the step-ca default key lifetime to expire!

"Or, you can do CRL" is literally active revocation. Your project has a prominent call-out about how most people don't need to do this. But that's literally the opposite of the truth. It's true in the WebPKI, but I think you've become confused about the difference between WebPKI server certs and internal client certificates. Telling people they should deploy lots of mTLS but not worry about revocation is malpractice.

What's going to happen to people in practice is that they're going to have to re-key their entire fleet any time there's any question about the integrity of a service. Or, more likely: they won't, because the mTLS deployment mode you're encouraging creates so much goddamn friction to protecting a key that people will roll the dice with the safety of their users rather than confront the fact that the correct engineering solution is an outage-inducing all-hands-on-deck rekeying.

What blows my mind about this is, at 24-hour expiry, in a medium-sized application, you're going to have machines needing to refresh keys practically every hour of the day; your CA will need to be available 24/7. At that point, you've basically reinvented Kerberos. Ops teams fucking hate Kerberos! And for all that effort, you still face fleetwide updates any time something sketchy happens anywhere.

I like mTLS for things like "we set up a Consul cluster; let's make sure just the machines that use Consul can reach it". It works fine for that. I don't think it's a good idea to take it much further.
> Election laws have been ignored - on a large scale.

Do you have any specific examples? I haven't looked at the claims in any great detail.
That's fair. I didn't mean to imply things are exploding, though I guess it sounds like I did.

It just sounds like even doctors expected flu to be almost non-existent, but instead it seems ... oddly normal.
IIRC, it was near silent. That’s what makes the lights coming out of nowhere extra creepy.
Earth mass extinctions of life occur in 27M-year cycles: Study
You're arguing about people leaving Democrat states in a post about people moving to Austin? Do you think Austin is a republican area? Austin is about as blue as it can get.

No one is leaving Democratic states to go to some hell-hole Republican area. They are leaving Democrat cities to live in OTHER Democrat cities, the only difference between cost of living. That's it, simple as that. It has nothing to do with "wokeness" etc. It's basically, Austin cheap, San Fran expensive.
> Everyone woke up in the morning and cooked for each other

I am not passing judgement here. The women woke up in the morning and cooked for everyone else.

> It was so nice to have that much support around all the time.

People have written about this in books that are now almost four decades old. Everywhere women entered the workforce in a highly compensated way, this arrangement came to an end, the number of children went down, etc.

Of course on Hacker News, where maybe 9% or less of the commenters are women, there are people fondly writing about these pastorals where the women do all this crappy work. It's completely bonkers. Or it's the men who come from immigrant backgrounds, looking at photo albums of grandmas and grandpas in school, not admitting how rare it was for the average person, in the 50s, to go to college - that your family isn't average, it was rich in all the ways that mattered, even if in some superficial sense it was a destitute or hardscrabble life.

It's easy to explain the rise in time spent alone among the oldest Americans. You're really observing a trend in reduced dependence.
In thr long term compulsory e-currency will be unmitigated disaster. The Swedes are either naive or they've caught the convenience disease big-time or both.

It's bad enough that authoritarian government has been on the rise everywhere in recent decades without handing this final bit of human autonomy over to government without a fight.

The trouble is that if the Swedes get this change through then it sets a very bad precedent for all the others.
It was the PPro and OOO processors were being developed by lots of companies and teams at that time. Wikipedia indicates it was featured in the PowerPC 601 (93), SPARC64 (95), PPro (95), MIPS R10000 (96), etc.
Hard to see where was the advantage over workstations on that point...
The USA is 161 to 171 years older than India, judging by independence or the current form of government. Going back more, both were part of the same country.

I don't think there is a long-term option to avoid hitting resource limits. If one person doesn't grab the resources, some other person will. Consider the Shakers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers From a peak of over 4000 people, they are down to just 2, but that didn't stop population growth. Other people made up for the loss. An example is the Amish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish

I would certainly like to live among other large families, but I would also prefer to delay hitting resource limits. I guess that means I would encourage others who are very local to me, while dissuading those beyond my neighborhood. In any case, exponential growth of any group on the entire planet will wipe out any savings that other groups might make.
Wow, I assumed there were no longer polls on HN because I haven’t seen one in years
I'd probably take grey text as evidence someone disagrees with me, not that Brave's surreptitious use of affiliate links became off topic in between propogandist replying to me to insist the affiliate data collection wasn't personally identifiable and me responding in turn that it was still a breach of trust they called a 'mistake'. My contributions to this thread thus far appear to have sparked a double digit number of comments continuing the thread about Brave (obviously not all in agreement with me) a larger number of net upvotes and one pointless offtopic digression about my personal life. Which I didn't start.

Do you often wander into the ends of conversations to tell the original participants what the subject matter was supposed to be?
Parent may have been thinking of Taiwan, where seven people have died of covid. That's not a daily or weekly or monthly rate. That's the total for the whole pandemic. In Taiwan they were "on top of" the situation.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/29/asia/taiwan-covid-19-intl-hnk...
> And then there's the issue of property taxes.

That seems like a Texas problem being blamed on Californians.

I'm sure a lot of Texans are very happy that their houses have shot way up in value.
I cannot comment on the sales tax explanation, but the VAT one is completely wrong. Businesses don't pay VAT (unless they are not in the VAT system, e.g. when they are too small or their business is exempt for other reasons), when they charge other businesses VAT they have to pass it to the tax authorities and when they are charged by other businesses, they get it refunded by the tax authorities. The (consumer) customer will pay the VAT surcharge, unless he exports the product to a country with no VAT (or different VAT), in that case he gets a refund and will typically pay the VAT of his country of residence.

Whatever the VAT advantages/differences over sales tax may be, the EU has lost many billions in VAT fraud schemes.
Video.

Forums are one thing.

Hosting huge amounts of videos, adding in all the security to keep DOS from taking out the system is a lot of money.

Oh and since most sites do this all for free, you can’t really change anything either.
It's not a question of whether they are intelligent enough to do so. It is whether or not they can get the information that allows them to do so.

With the vast amount of information on social media, which is where more and more people are getting most of their information nowadays, and the way social media algorithms are designed to maximize engagement, and the way human cognitive biases work, the result is you almost never get a balanced view presenting arguments for all sides even if all sides offering information are acting in good faith.

Then add in all those who are not acting in good faith, who have a much easier time generating vast quantities of low quality information than the people arguing in good faith have for generating high quality information, and it is even worse.

There was a recent article in Scientific American that covered research into this. Here was the HN discussion of it [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25153716
The number of murders 'cleared' divided by the number of murders recorded. What makes a crime cleared or not depends on who is doing to measuring but consider it to relate to whether the government thinks that they have enough evidence to charge someone with the crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearance_rate
People being employed doesn't imply that they aren't working jobs which needn't exist.
> In an earlier era, people's opinions were shaped by a small number of newspapers and newscasts.

Democracy (read: republican self-government) was as untenable then as it is now.

In even earlier eras, and only in some places, people were capable of forming their own opinions, and the franchise was restricted, however imperfectly, to those who were capable of self-rule.
This is misinformation: http://reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-covid-vaccine-causin...

Honestly this whole poll post should be shut down. The amount of misinformation being shared is astounding.
Another 24 months at 3,000 deaths per day, would be approximately two million people or one New Mexico.
In my ~25 years of professional software development, the single biggest factor in productivity for me has been whether I was involved at the start of a project. Knowing the initial design decisions, and being comfortable changing anything, allows me to be orders of magnitude more productive than when I'm diving into existing code designed by someone else.

I saw this perhaps most acutely with a company I sold - for a couple of years I was more productive than on nearly any other large software project I've worked on, because I knew the ins and outs of everything. The developers who bought it and took over are probably better developers than I am, and they are unquestionably excellent coders, yet it took a couple of years for them to get productive at making even medium sized changes. It became incredibly obvious to me how handicapped you are diving into something someone else made, especially if the original designer isn't there anymore.

Meshing really well with managers & PMs is probably the next biggest factor in my own experience, but it doesn't come even close to the gap between being there from day 1 vs coming in much later.

> Productivity tracking tools and incentive programs will never have as great an impact as a positive culture in the workplace.

I'm a fan of choosing to use time management apps and productivity tools to manage my own budgets. But I admit that I hate it when I have to do it for someone else.
> imagine being Slack in a world where Google, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, etc all had different APIs you had to integrate with and their products were already integrated with each other?

That's already the world we're in except for the fact that small competitors can't integrate with them, or reimplement clients even if they want to. Netflix runs fine on every platform of the large players. I can log into everything with Google, Facebook and vice-versa, the very largest companies often already adjust their infrastructure to be mutually compatible to significant degrees.

It's really only third party incumbents who get locked out regularly, if you're already an Apple or Microsoft you can at least partially get your way with the other big sharks. It's the Signals and IRCs and (until recently) Linuxes of this world who have to exist at the margins.

I also think it's important to point out that nobody has to fully reimplement a services API. If you're one guy, and you want to make a sleek, minimialist facebook client, why not? If people prefer full featured Facebook they can go to Facebook, but at least then there is choice. I wasn't saying either that a company can't have huge market share in this system, just that they ought to do it on the merit of their software, facing full competition. Large companies that provide feature-rich experiences will still win customers who desire these features, so I don't see the downside to my proposal.
I've never been to the Bay Area but I can confirm Austin traffic can be a nightmare.
> a lot of farms are away from electricity sources to charge

In the US? Not true. The vast majority of US farms have power for one simple reason, they irrigate. It'd be far too expensive to irrigate using a gas pump.

The exception MIGHT be dry farms, but those aren't as common as you might think. Further, most farms have shops for repairs which almost always have power for lights (and heat sometimes).

> And what to do if battery runs out on the field?

Simple, grab a gas generator, run to the tractor, and charge it up enough to hobble it to the shop and to a full charge. You might waste an hour running your generator, but that's really not that big of a deal. Many farmers already have those generators (welding is a big reason why).

A particularly ecologically focused farmer might buy some solar panels to do the same thing :).

> how long does it take to recharge? A lot of farmers will not have fast charges on their farm.

Doesn't really matter, it can charge overnight slowly. So long as the farm has access to 240V they likely can get it charge up in the 14 hours of downtime.

At $50k, this is a particularly cheap tractor as well. I'd suspect that farmers would buy 2 and completely sidestep the charging problem if they wanted to run for more than 10 hours.
Sure, the societal reset would start with promises of local manufacturing jobs but pretty soon they’d be getting guillotines imported from Shenzhen.

Ideas of large social changes always sound good in the abstract, but once you propose a real plan the devil is always in the details. In the US, we can’t even agree to let the government forgive student loan debt it already owns — but somehow completely reworking corporate debt and property will work/help/ever possibly happen?
It filtered me out. I spent several years in a non-science field and always had that itch I couldn't quite scratch with my day-to-day work. I left my career earlier this year to pursue a new one in science. Went back to school for the first time in a while, not cramming but actually taking the time to learn. I love it.
If you're in the US, you can look at the federal planning as well as the plans for your state most likely. From what I've seen, they look pretty reasonable.
It still helps the at risk people to take it asap as you won't be a carrier, doesn't it?
Vaccines in general are well tested, yes.

The covid vaccine isn't, along with being basically the first of its kind of vaccine. (mRNA)
So... the existence of God is "established scientific fact"?

Because it hasn't exactly been falsified as far as I know.
Like video content?

I'm a programmer/marketer with a YouTube channel teaching the SEO, copywriting, and marketing techniques I used to earn a cumulative 7 figures with my Rails app (2—sided marketplace for college notes).

https://youtube.com/channel/UC17mJJnvzAa_e9qQqLIfIeQ
Oh yeah, very true indeed! First time I played was at a course at a university. Was amazing energy having ~8-person Bolo matches. Unforgettable experience tbh :)
> Zodiac made a mistake while constructing his complex cipher

Think I made the same mistake in a Cryptography course cipher exchange. Felt bad for my counterpart who was supposed to decrypt it. No one died, though, as far as I know.
> - a lot of farms are away from electricity sources to charge

It's actually quite common for farms to have 3 phase power at the least. Modern farming is heavily industrialized. There's all sorts of dryers or blowers or other processing equipment to be run depending on the crop or livestock. Renewables, either self owned or leased land access are a big growth thing too. This means you can be in the boonies of western Kansas and yet be proximate to truly staggering amounts of intermittent generation.

> and sometimes internet connection is non-existent.

It's not great service, but sat internet is pervasive (and yes before the mob shows up starlink is likely to vastly improve this). The main thing this needs is connectivity between the unit and farmer, which is just local wireless.

> It is risky to leave a 50k machine on its own to do its job.

The price isn't a factor in any way I can think of. Any farm bigger than trivial will have several 100 thousand dollars if not millions worth of machinery parked out in the open, and tractor automation has been a big deal for a while now including examples of self driving for simple tasks.

> And what to do if battery runs out on the field?

Probably use the farm truck to haul the portable generator up to it to charge enough to get er back to the barn. Or call the neighbor and ask for a tow. Traditional tractors get stuck all the time. On the scale of problems farmers solve routinely this is very easy.

I think it's probably easy for the audience here to misunderstand what modern farming is like due to unfamiliarity. Farming is high tech now, and farmers are amazing problem solvers. But even historically that was true. Your idealized turn of the century farmer in the US knew how to operate and fix steam engines, pumps, do basic metalwork among many other things. Modern farmers are often skilled builders and fabricators as well.
If you live in the US or in Europe, I don't think the chance to contract COVID-19 is low enough to get anywhere close to where you could make that kind of argument. We're really good at developing vaccines, and they're a category of drugs that is by far the most sensitive to any kind of side effect. This disease is dangerous enough and also widespread enough that I don't see any plausible argument that would make the vaccine more dangerous than the disease.

And the risk is actually almost entirely age-dependent, the other risk factors weren't that significant in studies.
I don't see how the second one means "NO". IMO it falls under I will wait.