skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if he did he would still be criticized and be accused of "faking" the risk (e.g. he was sprayed with saline not COVID or whatever) by a not so small and very vocal group of people. And even if he did actually mist himself with COVID he'd also likely be criticized by the research and science community and potentially forced out of his position for taking that risk as the CEO of a publicly traded company.

IMO -- his best bet was to not take it immediately, wait until front line health care workers have received their vaccine (e.g. in the U.S) and take his when consumers have access to it based on his age/risk profile. This way he can point to it and say, I didn't use my seat as CEO to take away from those who needed it most, but I got in line as soon as people my age/condition were allowed. Historically this will look good on paper, and the criticism of him wouldn't last longer than a couple of news cycles.
Could you explain what you mean by hindrance? As a developer documentation site, I'm having a hard time thinking of a use case that markdown doesn't support.
Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
I binged both over 2 months on an ad free CBS subscription. I enjoyed both but thought they each could have been better.

Discovery was different enough that I understood why people said it wasn’t Star Trek. However, the show was better than people gave it credit.

Anyway, neither is must see. If you want that, watch the Expanse.
One of the most common cases of targeting ads is remarketing: someone comes to your site, they start the process of buying a tablesaw but then leave for whatever reason. You pay to show ads of the saw so they can come back and finish their purchase if they want to.

Traditionally, this has been implemented with third party cookies. The retailer drops a cookie on the users browser, and then buys ads to be shown to anyone matching that cookie. I don't know if I would call this data mining, but it is certainly not private.

It is possible to build a system that supports remarketing in a private way, however, with new browser APIs: https://github.com/WICG/turtledove

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)
This is just not true. The massive demand is artificially produced because of the logic of our economy. People don't need a whole new wardrobe and new smartphone each year but there are few long-lasting options on the market. People shouldn't have to own two cars per household so everyone can get to school and work on time but cities are designed to encourage the sale of cars. This is the underlying problem. We could make the world a lot less wasteful and easily support all the human life in a sustainable way. It just requires a drastic political and cultural shift. But we are told that humans in their nature are going to be this way -- even though there is plenty of evidence to the contrary -- so that you never demand that things change. So please stop reinforcing this idea.
Oracle has been a good steward of MySQL. I thought it was over when they acquired Sun, but the performance and features have really improved since then.
Growing the .NET Ecosystem
It’s not what you’d traditionally call a homomorphic crypto system, but it’s more than just anonymization or privacy preservation. You might call it a ‘homomorphic’ data projection, e.g. matrix multiplication, but I don’t know the details. Technically, I’m not sure it fits the definition of a cryptographic system, because encrypted data is defined as indistinguishable from noise, but obviously the data scientists must find information within it. (There may be something going on that I can’t imagine at the moment.)
headlines: "CEO of Pfizer refuses to discuss if he's taking the vaccine!11 (he totally already got it ahead of everyone else, cheating elites)" and "CEO of Pfizer refuses to discuss if he's taking the vaccine!11 (he obviously doesn't trust it)"
Yeah. Depending upon what you like, you can probably find just about your ideal weather somewhere in CA. The central valley is very hot. SF itself basically never gets hot but you have to sometimes deal with cold fog even in the middle of the summer. You have some of the hottest, driest weather on earth around Death Valley. You have snow in the mountains. Etc.

What you don't really have in general is seasons (except in the mountains). But otherwise, for whatever California's other faults, it's hard to complain too much about the weather if you can choose where you live.
Amazon, TikTok, Facebook, Others Ordered to Explain What They Do with User Data
Things have changed really dramatically in in the last 13 years or so. When iPhone first launched, developers could (and did) just grab the UDID of the device and use that.

Apple has been restricting things almost from day one, and creating the IDFA in the first place was part of that, but this seems like the biggest step forward by far.
Solarflare: A credential-dumping tool for SolarWinds Orion
Ok, you go first.
A tech company, leaving the Bay Area? Don’t make me laugh!

Tesla’s leaving? Good riddance to Musk.

HP and Oracle are leaving? Good riddance to zombie tech companies! <- You are here

Uber is leaving? Well they’re slave drivers anyway, good riddance.

...
I would be skeptical about this, the EU is great at speaking loudly with a tiny stick
This is an odd essay, ignoring a couple of huge elephants in the pub room where the Inklings hung out.

Tolkien and Lewis were both deeply conservative (not Conservative), and represented a last, textual, gasp of the pre-Raphaëlite movement (for which they had both been born just a little too late).

And though they were friends, collaborators, and, as friends can be, competitors, there was one huge gulf between them: christianity. Tolkien loved and was a scholar of the pre-christian Sagas, which he felt were a deeply influential part of the English cultural underpinning. Middle Earth was a complex experiment in creating the Ursprung of that culture, but perhaps also a more English one.

While Lewis, upon seeing the success of The Hobbit, wanted to emphasize christianity as the core of the English culture. His novels, despite their settings (swords, no machinery, etc) and his conservatism, were very much 20th century in structure, sparseness, and the speed with which the plots developed: more Dorothy Parker than Thomas Mallory. But they were also unabashedly christian; deliberately not using christian vocabulary in an attempt to cast it as a universal truth.* In a way they were opposites.

* he was so convinced of the universalism of christianity that he simply presumed his readers would get it. Though I have spoken English all my life I had had no exposure at all to christianity when I read “The Lion, The Witch..” and so the whole scene where Aslan is killed, the stone table breaks and then aslan maybe returns just seemed strange and incomprehensible to me. I thought some pages must have been lost in a misprint of the book!
Safety concerns over planes returning to service
Intel Xe Max Needs Two Linux Kernels for Now
Yes. That's exactly why nuclear energy doesn't work as something done by private industry, and must instead be done by the public sector.
Does anyone uses KDE on their day-to-day machine?

Which distro?

I haven't used KDE since either openSUSE or Mandrake very long time ago.
Agreed. Malicious/unethical lawyers who maintain scrupulous finances are a disease with no known cure.
A Law-Breaking Hack
Private Planning Boards in Peergos
"OK, bear with me here. So, a US company can create a huge market for itself in the EU, but a EU company can't?"

US companies can create massive businesses within the US. They are backed by massive VCs, national press.

Once you're 'big in the US' you can knock out many other countries like dominos - except for those that are protected, or too big, or both.

EU nations are mostly separate. The Swedish market is basically too small to be relevant for most things, to have a credible business model you have to raise money on the basis of 'EU wide' and that's a hard thing to do.

French media doesn't care one bit about Swedish startups, just the opposite, they probably prefer their own.

Ebay and Amazon bought up all their smaller competition in Europe, that same pattern is repeated.

So it's an existential problem.
Great stories. I feel like everyone in Queens/BK/LI/Jersey knows someone, somewhere, with vague mafia affiliations
I had read that whole apple was locking down external ad networks and trackers, but tracking thru the Apple ads program would be still allowed.
Parable of the Fox and the Grapes.
And they will probably have to stop doing so very soon.
Assuming you can afford introducing the Python dependency.

Also pipe/subprocess heavy scripts often become sad complex monstrosities in non-shell languages.
Are you sure that's the direction causality runs?
I disagree a bit. Because some autist can code and remember special case algorithms, doesn't mean they can have a conversation with people, convince them of ideas, or participate in the world. In this example, one can say "thank you" to computer science because those individuals only fit into a few buckets they can perform well.

I believe we all have 100 points we divvy up into a few buckets (eg: logic, emotional, social, spiritual, etc). Some people might look down at people perceived as "less smart" - yet they might have huge skills in intuition, feeling, social constructs.
IIRC there are a few unofficial Signal CLI clients.
The thing is that they're not actually unaccountable. You vote for them.
Looks like a great talk. I'm looking forward to watching the whole thing later.

Jumping forward to the TLA+ section, I very much like the point about how TLA+ enabled precise communication between teams. Writing about distributed algorithms is really hard to do well, and the precision of TLA+ makes it much easier to communicate points in a clear way. This is true of math in general, of course, but my experience has been that many folks are more willing to work through TLA+ code than work through written formal math (and, once you learn it, it's much more approachable in this domain).

We've been using TLA+ at Amazon for a long time (https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/4/184701-how-amazon-web-...), and of course it was developed at Microsoft. Despite that, it's still quite a small community, so I'm always excited when it comes up.
What you fail to take into account is following through on your logical conclusions.

Women who choose to wear hijabs aren't without consequences even in western societies because they have social reprocusions levied against them if the don't wear hijabs. It isn't like they are truly free to make that decision.
You switched a critical aspect on your analogy, replacing a push-mechanism (ads) with a poll-mechanism (strip club).

People voluntarily enjoy sex, but forced orgasms during rape are deeply traumatic.

The aspect of the example you switched is key to why advertising is problematic — and your referenced argument doesn’t apply here, due to that difference in consent.
I’d imagine the worst block of NYC during trash day in peak summer heat.. but much worse :-)
I noticed python is somehow sucked as an accidental dependency of unrelated packages. How do I find the culprit?
Show HN: mnm, an open source project to replace email and SMTP
The mnm project is building a legitimate* replacement for email: a client, a server, and a simple protocol between them.

https://mnmnotmail.org

The project is seeking contributors and patrons. It has been in progress since 2017, wholly self-funded. This is the first announcement to a wide audience.

[*] Legitimate, meaning decentralized, store-and-forward, open protocol, open source.
This is a really fun read - I like the core insight of graphing the log statement timings to see what's going on.
I think this is exactly how Hasura works.
Raft does not guarantee liveness in the face of network faults
Sorry I'm not following. There was no arrest.
For cooking, parabolic mirrors might work quite well. A bit bulky and dependent on weather, but very powerful, low maintenance and cheap. You could still use the efficient wood stove in the rainy season.As long as you don't burn it faster than it regrows wood is a fantastic CO2-neutral fuel that they already have access to.
I was wondering about that... Does it also take into account a small business phone book (which might be stored with personal contacts on a smartphone - oops!).
More whimsically, what if my store has a parrot that remembers customer names?
Stop creating alternative accounts. It's against the rules, and there's a very good reason you're being downvoted.

Your opinions certainly are frivolous and ridiculous, and you know very well that you're lying through your teeth, not arguing in good faith, being incredibly intellectually dishonest, with absolutely no facts or proof on your side, making a complete fool of yourself, beclowning the entire Republican party and your pathetic state of Texas, carrying the polluted water and licking the COVID-19 infected boots of an idiotic Anti-American despot, but not fooling anyone else but yourself.

There's nothing genuine about you. Trump lost in a landslide by his own definition, and you're a sore loser for lying on his behalf and spreading his bullshit.
Yeah it's so odd to me that Signal has such top tier engineers and they can't manage to get a presentable desktop app. It looks and feels like a boilerplate Electron chat app with no styling and subpar performance (oh but they have stickers :eyeroll:).
This is why I'm afraid for Texas. I'd hate to see it ruined.
WHOIS privacy has existed for a long time, your argument is moot.
Or the suspected health detriments from sitting for long periods of time?
I studied "strategic communication" in college (a mix of PR, advertising, marketing, whatever) and I distinctly remember a mentor saying, "When you're selling a drill, you're not selling a drill. You're selling the hole."

The point is, people don't buy things for their own sake. They buy them for what they think the thing can do for them. Any car will get you to point B, but some people will go for a cheap, utilitarian car because they want to save money (or maybe the utilitarian aesthetic is their thing), while others will go for the flashy car for that feeling of sex appeal (even if women don't suddenly fall all over a new car owner, the feeling of confidence is a social benefit to the buyer, even if that's not worth the asking price).

More generally, though, all communication has this sort of color to it. We see anti-privacy legislation being touted as protecting children and fighting crime. Small talk is not really about sports. So I don't think it's realistic to legislate persuasion. I would probably be behind making formal logic a part of public school curriculum, though, so people are better equipped to discern for themselves when persuasion they're exposed to is nonsense (among other benefits).
It's true that Apple outright bans apps that themselves could be vectors for platforms such as Flash back in its day. Today's "browsers" with their ever-increasing scope surely fit that criterion. I'm not defending Apple, but the idea that the web is an "open" platform (when it's overwhelmingly just Chrome) should not be used as an argument here, when Google employs just other anti-competitive tactics.
> Avoid fast food in general

OK, but be aware that that means not just avoiding mega-corporate chain restaurants. It could mean having to give up supporting the local ethnic-food joint run by a humble immigrant family who are just trying to make a decent life and put their children through school, and who may be using quality ingredients in terms of veg, but who are still using palm oil because nowadays everyone is.
I don’t disagree, but no doubt Detroit felt the same way at one time.
> Imagine property tax is 0. Why would anyone ever sell? All the land would effectively be owned by hereditary feudal lords.

You'd sell for the usual reason, i.e. you'd prefer having money rather than that particular piece of land? That money would be then spent on either consumption or an investment with higher yield than land-holding.

In my home country Poland the land tax is negligible and yet the market for land exists, it's not held forever by "feudal lords".
Ask HN: What symbol represents zero in the Roman numerals?
I bought my Sunnyvale CA house in 1991. I pay $6,000 in property tax. The tax goes up 2%/year. I do not pay $3.50 in taxes. You are, quite frankly, a liar.

The median property tax paid by homeowners in NY State -- a state with no "Prop 13" is $5,865 (according to facts I just googled).

What, exactly, am I getting away with? How will increasing property taxes in a state with the highest income and sales tax solve the housing crisis?

They need to build more housing, and more dense housing.

I live in CA about 8 months/year, and spend the Feb-May in Tel Aviv. We're actively looking to move our U.S. home to Nashville, TN.
How would you pay for the services and content you consume?
Would be nice if it was segregated into beginner, intermediate and expert levels
Are we sure that's an actual logo meant to be used for anything besides maybe the repo considering it's a representation of "Yari", which is just a codename?

The previous backend was codenamed "Kuma" and was represented with a bear, but wasn't displayed anywhere on the actual MDN platform.
This is a good overview from last week what they've done so far (where others had to follow) and what they're doing next

https://youtu.be/08IC1AZTxls?t=2941
git has a high barrier of entry. I'm not sure you can get non technical people to use it. Although I agree that once you know git, collaboration is great.
I hope they keep an eye on contribution statistics post this change.

I've said it before, but I think this move was a mistake.
They've thrown away the benefits of a incredible wiki-based platform (where changes were pretty much instantaneous and any of us could easily make a difference to the docs!), the (actually pretty decent) WYSIWYG editor and an overall frictionless editing experience and replaced it with what, some (not even Markdown) document files in a GitHub repository. I honestly believe this will dissuade people from making small, quick fixes and ultimately drive away contributors.

When I last brought this up, I was told that there were a number of contributors put off by the wiki-based nature of the previous iteration and they will now be excited to be able to contribute using Git.

I'd honestly be interested to hear from any of these people. Given you could seamlessly login with your GitHub account, easily author your documentation and one-click preview your changes, what exactly are you gaining from having the editor gone and now requiring a local docs environment to do all of the preview/edit/commit steps manually?
Your story reminds me a lot of the Death Eaters in the Harry Potter stories and of how everybody was afraid to mention Voldermort's name. Quite interesting that a phenomenon from a phantasy book actually happens in real life. But when you really think about it I guess it makes sense; J.K. Rowling was probably inspired from real life events.
>Over the last several decades they have debunked and disproven this several times.

Citations please.
> To put this in context, whenever you connect to a secure website, OCSP is used to make sure the certificate is still valid

This is not how any browser implements it today. Browsers either do not check (Chrome, Safari) or check but fail open (Firefox, Edge). I'm not aware of any browser that fails closed in its default configuration. More: https://www.ssl.com/article/how-do-browsers-handle-revoked-s...

Browsers primarily handle revoked certs by pushing certificate revocation lists (CRLs).
Apple revenue for the last year was $275 billion. So you've listed 3.5%, 7%, and probably-rounds-to-0% of their revenue, which doesn't seem like it actually counters the original point.
Domains with WHOIS privacy services holding the domain for them still had email addresses before. Most whois privacy services provided forwarding to the actual owner. This is no longer true. Your counter-argument is moot.
Actually, the biggest issue with Montréal really was the Loi 101, that enforced French in the workplace. Montréal becoming smaller wasn't exactly an unexpected change from that.
There's another approach you can do -- make the analysis portable instead.

Assuming data is in a standard format then you can share your script for people to run themselves. Obviously this is fairly difficult in practice unless you can bundle everything into a client-side script on a website.

For reference Narrator [1] does this -- it puts data into a standard format so that analyses written for one company can be run for another. I'm not suggesting you build your stuff on that platform, but it's an interesting approach that does exist.

[1] https://www.narrator.ai
> with the exception of Hawaii, which actually has perfect weather

Hawaii gets 70 inches of rain per year, and LA gets 15. While there's no denying the natural beauty of Hawaii, saying that it has perfect weather is a matter of personal taste.

> The 50 square miles of SF has perfect weather, if you're not put off by cold and clingy fog.

What does this even mean? SF is 7 miles in diameter, and the various foggy microclimates don't reach far beyond the city's perimeter (and most of the time they don't even reach Potrero Hill). Describing this as a 50 mile perimeter would imply that Palo Alto has a lot of fog, which couldn't be more wrong.

The land between San Diego and SF in the N-S direction and the I5 and the ocean in the E-W direction has what most people would describe as the perfect climate, with just enough variation to suit individual styles. If you prefer a slightly higher temperature you go further south within that area, and otherwise a bit further north. And if you really like the chill air, you step over from San Mateo to Daly City.

We can argue about all sorts of issues that negatively affect California (eg: taxes), but the weather is clearly a huge upside to living there.
Your carrier has that correlation. They route all your packets. It doesn't matter if it is Comcast at home or Verizon/Att on the go. They know where you live and work and track you 24/7. Facebook is simply going to make a deal to have a unique ID added to URL metadata and then tracking is even more trivial. We need legislation to guarantee true net neutrality. Just like the electric company doesn't track/sell what I use my electricity on, the ISP shouldn't
track/sell what I use my data.
KDE Neon (https://neon.kde.org/) is pretty great. It's based off the latest LTS version of Ubuntu, but is less bloated and gets KDE Frameworks updates quicker than Kubuntu.
I used to love Kate, during the time of KDE 3.5. Kate was amazing for simple editing of multiple documents for small projects where a full IDE was overkill.

With KDE 4, Kate became "literally unusable" for me, because it no longer re-uses a word you searched for in other editor tabs.

So you search for "size_t" in one open document and press F3 to go to the next ones. Then you open a different document and press F3, and it doesn't search for "size_t" anymore! In the KDE 3.5 version of Kate, that worked correctly. Also other things made search worse like integrating it in a tiny thing at the bottom rather than a proper dialog.

I discovered and switched to Geany then, which is similar to Kate but better in almost all aspects and more configurable.
No, salary reflects leverage- how hard you are to replace. Not the amount of value you generate. There are lots of ways for a company to figure out ways to make you easier to replace, thereby decreasing your leverage, and the difference between the amount of value you generate, and the amount they have to pay you, is their profit.
Check out Fluffy Chat for a more personal messenger vibe with Matrix https://fluffychat.im/en/

There are other of these style apps too, but fluffy is furthest along I think. https://matrix.org/clients/
Will the app store listing for my Sudoku game warn me (as to its credit my iPhone started doing, before I deleted the app in horror) that it pastes from the clipboard on startup?