skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
California is cursed with octogenarian, worthless representatives.

Pelosi (80) never held a job in her life - she was an intern for a politician who died, and just clung on for the rest of her life.

Feinstein (87) isn't any better, with her entire career in politics and civic boards.

We really, really need term limits to avoid the re-emergence of royalty in the US. Any resident can see that Pelosi and Newsom have acted exactly like royalty during the corona lockdown. "Lockdowns for you, salons and parties for me."

While they've been in power, infrastructure has declined to the point of ruin (the proposed water projects have stalled for decades, which is a big deal in the dry west), and all we got in return is far-left politics. In the last 10 years, 4,500 tax bills have been introduced to re-distribute wealth in the state.

As a result, businesses are leaving the state pell-mell. You can't afford socialism/marxism without other people's money, and businesses know the target is on their back.

Advice for New York: Vote AOC out of office as fast as you can, or you will be subject to another 50 years of failed socialist leadership, just like California has endured.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein

Some background on one Calif. water project that hasn't started:

https://www.courthousenews.com/newsom-scraps-californias-17-...
> Better would just be have "14.01 Timesheets", and each timesheet gets the year and week prepended to it.

This is what I do. Isn’t the site clear?

I (still, 5 years later) have `14.01 Timesheets`, and within there I have `yymm` folders which contain each entry.

14.02 is still free. So yep, a ‘wasted’ category there ... but I have a hundred to play with, and really rarely use more than about 30 in a complete system.
Mine are:

inoremap jk <esc>
nnoremap <space> :
Feels like one of those new industry starting up presuming that carbon will have a dramatic effect on the market and policy.
What about us who don't eat junk food in the first place? Ever thought of that possibility?
I believe the solution is education. It's ridiculous that people are allowed to drive cars before being able to use the road. Airline pilots learn by building up hours in a small aircraft during the day. Then they learn at night. Then they move to larger aircraft.

It should be mandatory to learn to use the road on bicycle before even applying for a car licence. The biggest problem I see is that people simply don't know what it's like to use the road outside of a car. Neither on foot nor on a bike. Dashboard perspective is a real thing. It makes you see other people as obstacles rather than people who are just trying to go to work or return to their family, like you.

Requiring bicycle training would dramatically increase the number of cyclists on the road, essentially taking it back from the tyranny of motorcars. It would also ensure that those who do decide to learn to drive have the experience necessary to be a good road user. Additionally, if they do end up causing an accident the licence can be revoked and they can get back on the bike.
Arrests as Indian workers ransack iPhone plant over wages
Is zig as production ready as Rust?
Looks pretty neat.

I only wish it were USB-C. If the battery really lasts years, I won't have any micro-USB laying around when I next need to charge it.

I only had two of those cables left, and had to throw one out this week since it stopped working.
Russian hackers hit US government using widespread supply chain attack
Depends if you want to find anything. :-B
>Generally speaking inflation can be managed and avoided by asset holders and business owners. They can adjust their rents and prices to match the inflation in a way that wage earners and renters cannot.

If there is consumer inflation you can't manage inflation in a way that doesn't productively employ workers. If there is asset inflation you can have an unproductive business and still grow without doing anything of value. The latter is what many people object to. The former would benefit workers far more than it would benefit the rich. If your wages increase by 10% but Bill Gates' net worth merely catches up with inflation who gives a damn? If you can somehow double the income of the poorest members of society then you effectively cut the relative wealth of Bill Gates' in half. He has more to lose from expensive workers that demand reasonable salaries than he can gain from catching up with consumer inflation.

>Generally speaking it is deflation that hurts asset holders and business owners. We have made desperate attempts since the financial crisis to stave off deflation and even then we're barely treading water. Financial assets and real property (and also silly things like paintings) have benefited but look at the price of oil ... look at the price of other basic commodities and services like shipping.

That would be true if there was no central bank intervention. But the central bank is intervening in a way that gives the rich what they want without giving anything to the poor. Deflation on the asset side basically doesn't exist.
>That is bad. But how much bad is it?

Let's wait for medical science, which changes its opinion every decade or so for much more well known and basic stuff (e.g. about fat, sugar, etc), to tell us...
Food sovereignty is a thing - an open air farm in Africa has geopolitical and weather risks. Not to mention the shipping carbon footprint and freshness issues.
They could have gone with Althea design and have both freeloader and sustainability problem solved. Instead they did this...
I use HP (because i want RPN), and i use this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ab.x48

This one is better for newer models:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.emulator.f...

Yes,i know it's an emulator, but for the same price as a calculator, i get an emulated calculator + a bunch of other stuff, including wolfram alpha, huge database of knowledge online (wikipedia) + of course a phone.

...and on the other hand, i have this always in my pocket.
Right. The unconstrained mostly refers to the visits / members / staff accounts, which is what most providers place massive limitations on.

What would be a good word to convey that there are no artificial constraints, and that the only (soft) limit is the bandwidth you actually use?

I'm not even planning on enforcing the bandwidth, I think it'll even out over everybody for the most part, unless someone is being abusive.
Or the 16.6666667% policy
The land originally belonged to Germany, who made a vow to never expand their borders beyond a certain eastern point after reunification. So only Russia really had a claim to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Final_Settlement...
NoiseTorch: Real-time noise suppression on Linux written in Go – v0.9 released
K: A rewrite-based executable semantic framework for programming languages
The first mover advantage is real, but I can’t quite understand why it is thought to be a check-mate.

Ford had an oh-my-God enormous first mover advantage with the production line. Japanese car companies started literally from nowhere, in an economy shattered by war. VW was literally kickstarted quite late into the game.

I don’t think it is right to assume that, even if Tesla makes the first affordable, good range electric cars, then the rest of the market can just fold. Especially since electric cars are simpler than ICEs so surely it’s easier to catch up.
You had to work lots of overtime to deliver impossible promises already made to sell the thing?
PayPal's confusing UI could be a threat to its users
Far less water, and for places that don't have that much good farmland it's a game changer.
Work disputing the claims about scale-free networks has been out for many years.[1,2,3,4,5]

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15427951.2005.10...

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16706727/

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16163729/

[4] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11599128_5

[5] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20023717/
> 3) THE BIGGEST: The 20/20/20 rule. Every 20 minutes, look at an object 20 feet (6m) for 20 seconds.

What is this suggestion based on?
This is unbelievably overpriced.

For $25/m you can get a VPS from Hetzner that has 8vCPU, 16GB mem, 240GB disk, and 20TB traffic.

For $3/m on Heztner you can get a VPS with 20GB disk and 20TB traffic, which is still a 4x multiple for storage and 100x multiple for traffic.
It is absolutely a corporation's job to decide where it will spend its money.

Cook didn't stop someone else making a show about Gawker, he stopped the company he runs from doing so. Huge difference.
> Might need to set keywordprg=:help.

echo 'set keywordprg=:help' >> ~/.vimrc

:)
Recently, for an academic project, I were given a one static one-function very long class that implemented an algorithm (was obviously programmed as a cpp algorithm). The algorithm consisted of steps (gather data, transform data, print data, etc) so as a 'what if' I refactored it by moving each step into a class (so the main function was now one line for each step). Also, what originally was multiple if/else to different outcomes (print to file vs print to console) was now one abstract class with one sub class each. The algorithm code was practically the same, the difference was where it were located. Instead of needing to scroll a lot, you now needed to switch between files.

Was it worth it? Probably yes, not for the final code but for the experience of 'this is an exaggeration that you should not repeat' (although the resulting class diagram was a work of art).

As usual, extreme abstracting is bad, but extreme lack of abstracting is too. You should find a common term that make the current work simple enough, but that also allows for future changes to be simple to implement.

If you are making a list-like class because you need to keep a collection of strings which you are only comparing, don't use strings. Use <T> even if you only use it with strings, the extra cost while creating the class is almost nothing, but the cost of a future refactorization will surely be greater.

"Try not to open doors you don't need, but keep them accessible in case you need them later"
That sounds like a possibility. On reflection the accent in TTSS - with no trace of his original accent - is the oddity. But then I guess he was a spy so would be good at that sort of thing!
Often, people who "aren't authorized" are used to plant an idea in the press, without the agency in question having to make an official statement. Whether that information is reliable depends on whether you trust the agenda of whoever decided to leak the information.

The Washington Post's record on verifying the claims of the US national security apparatus is poor. The newspaper uncritically reported false claims by the Bush administration about Iraqi WMD. Many people people at the time found those claims extremely dubious, but critical voices were belittled or shut out of most mainstream reporting. More recently, the Washington Post has been all-in on Russia paranoia. That doesn't mean that everything they publish about Russian hackers is wrong, but it very well may be misinformation leaked by US intelligence officials, or something insignificant blown out of proportion and presented without any context. In December 2016, for example, the Washington Post reported that the Russians had hacked a Vermont utility. That story turned out to be complete nonsense, but the Washington Post never fully retracted it. If you look at the story today, you'll still get the impression that the Russians attempted to hack the utility, even though that aspect of the story completely fell apart. The Washington Post on Russia is a bit like Bloomberg on Chinese hackers (e.g., Supermicro).
From your sentence it's clear you don't understand how tether works and you think BTC price and tether issuance should be relative to each other.
Premium refers to the price.
Blood sweat and tears? I tried really really hard to get them as small as possible while still being original-sharp.

It’s a real PITA to be honest. I’m typing this from bed and can’t remember the exact details but chuck me an email and I’ll have a look over the weekend. (Or just scan the repo if you can be bothered, but I’m happy to try to remember what I did and put it in a mail.)

https://github.com/johnnydecimal/johnnydecimal.com or hello <at> the domain.
What "processed" means ?

It is what it says on the tin. Two examples:

1) The addition of preservatives, additives, emulsifiers and such like (the so-called "E" numbers)

2) Manipulating the product through a highly industrial process in such a way that makes it unrecognisable from its original form, so for example :

- In the meat eating world, reconstituted meat.

- In the fake-meat world. One example is fake chicken, which tends to use pea protein isolate. Pea protein isolate is created using a chemical-based highly-industrial process. Added to which the usual suspects such as MSG are also used in the fake-meat world in order to try to fake the taste.
It feels kind of Hallmark style and hagiographic to me, but it's still interesting and I've only watched three so far. The Indonesian bamboo architecture story is breathtaking.
> A proper infosec analyst looking at this would first wonder why there is HTTP traffic related to .NET assemblies at all (this sounds weird).

This isn't accurate. If you look at the Snort rules used to block it[1], it is masquerading as traffic to .solarwinds.com (ie, the vendor) to URLs looking like: swip/upd/SolarWinds.CortexPlugin.Components.xml

Unless you knew the software isn't supposed to do that, it isn't suspicious at all.

[1] https://github.com/fireeye/sunburst_countermeasures/blob/mai...
Yes, it's called "bias blind spot" :-)

Here's one in the front page, just a few days ago:

Falling Out of Love with Apple, Part 3: Content and Censorship (hardware.substack.com)
321 points by zherbert 7 days ago | flag | hide | 292 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2020-12-07
I'm not sure "decent" fits the current incumbent very well...
AdWords in 2000 was merely keyword-based with no cookie based tracking. I will mention my Wikipedia article here for more detailed history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Effects_of_the_2007-2008...
> 1366x768

Yeah I think my work issued 14" is too. It certainly doesn't help that something like MS Teams wastes so much space even with 'full screen' active, and the same for various ribbon UIs. But I think you're right I should just give up and zoom.
Get up and running with Jupyter Notebooks and Rust
Great to see a new type of recommenders (long overdue).

A related problem is of exploitation vs exploration
(being recommended something one likes vs recommended new but with high uncertainty if it will be enjoyable or not)

some of my work on this related topic of active learning in recommender systems:

presentation: https://www2.slideshare.net/nrubens/active-learning-in-recom...

book chapter: http://machinelearning202.pbworks.com/f/Rubens-Active-Learni...

a more basic primer (aimed at startups)
https://www2.slideshare.net/nrubens/1-of-40-recommender-syst...

am happy to answer any questions
Yes, but this can be used as an argument against supporting bicycles for commuting. E.g., "We will build recreational bike paths in the forest so streets can be kept for cars. We need to keep cars and bikes separate."

So, I personally believe that building brick roads with bike lanes in dense areas is a great solution. With brick, cars naturally slow and people naturally shop more.
Ask HN: Materials to educate myself on the new Covid vaccines
As the new vaccines are about to reach the general population, I would like to start educating myself on them. I'd feel more confident getting the shot after having a better understanding and I could maybe help convince reluctant people too.

I'm looking for materials such as:

- technical blogs about the vaccines mechanism (mRNA but also traditional ones for a refresher), testing procedures, etc.

- accessible research papers, especially regarding the testing methodology and its statistical results

- infographics

Which materials would you recommend to an engineer with basic scientific understanding of biology so he can educate himself further, without starting a PhD to understand the materials?
It's from reuters who a citing a 2019 study by WWF International https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/how-much-plastic-are-yo...

Or was it more of a general questions, why do people believe the media?
> Tesla's prices keep going down, while some of the most competitive electric cars being released besides Teslas (Porsche Taycan for instance) are more than the price point TSLA was at 10 years ago.

The best-selling electric car in many European countries is the Renault Zoe now, and it sells for about half the price of the cheapest Tesla.
Same here. I like the idea of JD very much - and I've been meaning to reorganize my notes by it, but can't ever get started on it - so there's very little of value I can add to conversation beyond an upvote.

On GP's:

> My guess is the cynics are the ones who usually comment while people who are more positive will probably be more likely to just upvote?

It irks me to see this comment pattern regularly being called out as "HN specific", because it isn't. It's universal in on-line discussions - particularly those on platforms with upvote/reaction buttons. There is nothing interesting in "I like it" comments, so you always get disproportionately more of critical comments ("I don't like it because", "I had a problem with it"), tangents, and low-quality humor. HN is perhaps different than most places in its strong dislike of low-effort jokes - which leaves us with just criticism and tangents. My point thus is: it's not HN, it's the Internet. It's not a mutual admiration society like you get when you go out with friends for a beer. I would think people would've gotten used to it in 2020.
It includes managing the software. Administration isn’t free.
I'll admit I had rather specific requirements:

- Mechanical.
- Cherry reds.
- No number // tenkeyless.

The last item is rather important to me, since it influences my posture a lot and affects ergonomics way more than most people tend to assume.
We need legal controls on web advertising
This isn't a viable business at that price.

Also the domain and contact email domain being completely different is just plain unprofessional looking
Yes I read your blog and it seems like you've written plenty of shell scripts and utils to try and abstract and automate away infrastructure, but it feels a lot like you are trying to re-invent the wheel when all of this and much more is available in major cloud providers as a service.

One item that stands out for me is that your backup is a couple of shell scripts and you mention that you would dump your database to a different RAID array. That means you are now on the hook to procure/rent, manage, update and monitor that RAID array. And you even call out that you don't include offsite backups so you are at risk of total loss because you are using a single physical site for your prod data AND backup data.

You mentioned above that you are "not locking myself in proprietary frameworks" - but in the process you have built custom one off scripted systems that are bespoke. If you leave or your consulting engagement ends it will be very hard for someone to take over and manage and maintain your systems - because your design, configuration and implementation is effectively lock in to YOU as a person and your consulting company.

Personally I would rather trust a cloud provider to offer something like backup as a service where they can handle geographic replication, snapshots, restores for me as a service and deal with all the hardware, disk replacements, hardware monitoring and network fun that comes with it. The human cost of moving to another cloud provider is not that large and I can easily hire a person or consultancy that has knowledge of Cloud Provider A and Cloud Provider B to make that transition because their services and systems are well documented, conform to a contract and there are training and certifications for how they work.

I still hold my opinion that taking advantage of services offered by cloud providers is value add in the context of running a business.

Also I would much rather trust a cloud provider with a big team of security experts to run my infrastructure than a random company renting me some servers. If you are getting them as a service then there is still a shared admin control plane, likely management type networks and infrastructure around it that are managed for you by a third party. Trusting their team, processes and security capabilities is a very high bar to meet.
Be honest?

"$25 a month for managed, Ghost optimised hosting that's perfect for 99.9% of websites*

* Think you're in the .1%? Transfer more than 100gb a month (roughly equivalent to X million visits for the average site) and we'll charge you at cost for the overage. This works out to be around $x per x. You can read more about this [here]..."

Or whatever.
I'm using this one [0] for quite some time. Works like a charm. Ideal for gaming/work stations switching. Quite expensive though.

[0] https://kvm-switch.de/de/AP-552PSK.html
EA is buying Codemasters for $1.2B to take lead in racing game market
> Instead of growing cabbage in prime real estate in Copenhagen, why don't we invest in Africa, give them some huge machines and then buy their produce?

Maybe due to things like increased CO2 contributions, poor quality control, and decreased food security?

Anyway, Taastrup is not prime real estate in Copenhagen. It's one of the poorer Copenhagen suburbs.
I have closely followed the coronavirus sanitary crisis. I would like to share a quote from Didier Raoult that makes you think.

Didier Raoult is a French physician and microbiologist specialising in infectious diseases (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Raoult).

Original excerpt from: https://madeinmarseille.net/82251-mediterranee-du-futur-les-...

"les molécules chimiques sont éternelles. Nous avons un patrimoine de molécules chimiques absolument considérable, dont beaucoup d’entre elles sont d’origine naturelle et ont des actions multiples, qui n’ont pas été évaluées et qui ne pourront pas l’être, car elles ne sont pas rentables et parce que notre système est basé sur un brevet qui s’épuise au bout de 20 ans"

Translation (Google Translate):

"chemical molecules are eternal. We have an absolutely considerable heritage of chemical molecules, many of them of natural origin and have multiple actions, which have not been evaluated and which cannot be evaluated, because they are not profitable and because our system is based on a patent which expires after 20 years"
Sure, you can ask that question about literally anything. In the case of the US stock market though the answer is obviously yes, so what's the point?
You’re paying for it to be maintained. You’re not factoring in people costs.
You would think that any organized gang would make sure to return kidnapped people safely so as to increase the likelyhood of getting the ransom... I wonder if the reason it doesn't happen is because the gangs doing the kidnapping are too fragmented and not centrally controlled?
iPhone Manufacturing company in India ransacked by workers, over $50mn USD lost
Thank you for the luck. We truly have a new model and the landing page is intentionally vague at this point of time. We'll slowly add more concrete content that explains what we are doing differently and why. I hope you will keep a tab. Could I have a look at some of the services you've built and sold?
Are there really no articles, or do HN news crowd simply don't read them? Doesn't fit the "Musk is taking us to Mars" narrative present on this site these past 5 years.

Volkswagen’s ID.3 Leapfrogs Tesla, Renault In October European EV Sales Charts

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltaylor/2020/11/26/volksw...