skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you consider NordVPN?
I like the fact that I get to login from anywhere in the world.

My default choice is Sweden since they have the most lax copyright laws in the world, so subpoenaing any Swedish server gonna be tough.

They also offered me unavoidable discount.
You may as well celebrate TiVos running Linux. If the device is locked down, it's hardly a victory that it's running obstensibly free software.
Agreed. To be honest the minute Fianna Fail came into government things slipped a bit and it feels like the pressure from business was allowed overwhelm the health advice. It was plainly obvious what was going to happen when they opened up. The annoying thing was that the last year was wasted by not increasing emergency capacity in ICU and getting the correct processes in place to create a fast roll-out of vaccination. Right now they are two weeks in a one one week delayed and only doing 40k a week at max.

I think also we allowed ourself to be "ah sure we can't do that here" compared to New Zealand. The short term economic aspect of things blinded us. If you were coming to the country as the case in the NZ, you should be in mandatory hotel quarantine which all the strict rules in place as needed. With the exception of essential services like hauliers. Every one says in Ireland things can't be done, they can be and people will die because we weren't brave enough to make tougher calls. We would be in much better shape if we had of. Don't get me started on the mess up North throughout the whole thing.

Ultimately though this is about people taking individual responsibility. It's frustrating everyone blaming the government, I have many friends in frontline services and the irresponsibility of some over christmas was crazy. People's friends and family are suffering for it now.
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Until we have more precise IFR numbers, my simplistic "model" is just to divide the current death count by 0.005, which suggests around 78 million have had an infectious exposure in the US so far. The CDC number doesn't feel surprising.

Unfortunately a large number of those infections (far more than recorded cases) happened last spring, so millions of people could be losing their immunity if they've managed to avoid substantial re-exposures since then.
Megabricks: A free web based Lego CAD
Yes, great book. The story is completely fascinating and in addition great detail into the culture and process of whaling is given.
> More people have been killed and linked to #killallmen

Do you have a citation for that? Be interesting to see how many it actually is.
> This is one of the most egregious abuses of privacy imagineable.

For people who haven't used these kinds of apps, Flo includes day-by-day tracking of:

- sex and sex drive
- didn't have sex
- protected sex
- unprotected sex
- high sex drive
- masturbation
- mood:
- calm
- happy
- [...]
- sad
- depressed
- obsessive thoughts
- apathetic
- very self-critical
- symptoms (cramps, tender breasts, acne, many more)
- vaginal discharge (none, spotting, sticky, eggwhite, etc, "unusual")
- other (travel, stress, disease/injury, alcohol)

There's a ridiculous amount of potential here for just purely creepy oversharing of information that a woman might presume is safe to enter into an app.

There's also a lot of things here that are maybe legally dangerous to be disclosing outside of a doctor-patient context (the last several "mood" items).

This is abhorrent.
And I assumed it would be about the coronavirus, because the neurons that knew about the virus surge on the island answered first. And the framing of the event on "2 months" made me think of current events rather than distant past ones.

Context is the hard problem in NLP, I guess.
If you trust the source code of the software you're running, you can at least get a sense of what data they're getting in the first place. You know, at least, that they're not getting the content of your communications if you verify safety numbers. You can also prove that they're not getting the contents of the gifs you're grabbing for your conversation, because the client makes a secure connection to the gif service using Signal's servers as a proxy.

As far as promising not to store your metadata, or promising not to deliberately give the gif service information about your account because they hate you, or promising not to store your contacts when you search for other friends with Signal, then yeah you have to just take their word for it. Though, they may over time look for ways to put some of those guarantees on the client side as well with some clever engineering, so you could prove it.
As a freelance concept artist and illustrator I pull regular all nighters but when I’m into the zone drawing worlds and characters from pure imagination, I lose track of time and space. After some time of not sleeping it feels like my head is floating mid air, I don’t know which day of the week it is and the last time I looked out the window the sun was going up, now it’s early morning again. It doesn’t interfere with my life because art completes and lifts me into a higher state of consciousness. It’s rare and remarkable
This slightly more legible one [1] elsewhere in the thread has some redacted parts that this one doesn't.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25766074

Where'd the objects go or what happened to them? Why'd the F-4 drop the chase and why didn't they try to scramble more jets?
I joined a company (my first full-time salaried job) a few days before their IPO. I got stock options (like, 500. I was 18. heh.) but they were awarded/priced/etc post-IPO and were never actually in the money after vesting, as I recall. So I remember some of the IPO excitement but I'm not sure it really qualifies as "going through an IPO" for the purposes of the "full thrill ride package".

Incidentally, that company was also taken private during the dot-com crash, and I did make money from that, because the ESPP I was buying for <$1 got converted to cash at something like 3.5x the valuation. It wasn't much, but, again, I was young, so it seemed like a lot.
On an M1 macbook signal desktop video calls were pretty decent.

The limit is a single variable on their back end server, maybe poke them to up it to 10?
How many $100M+ startups are overdue to be founded?
He survived but was still beging treated when the report was published (11 January 2020):

Initial exam was remarkable for O2 saturation on room air of 92%, heart rate of 100, and blood pressure of 75/47. He was noted to be ill-appearing with dry mucous membranes, mild cyanosis of the lips and nail beds, and jaundiced skin. His abdomen was diffusely tender to palpation without rebound or guarding. He was grossly confused and unable to meaningfully participate in an interview.

Laboratory studies revealed thrombocytopenia, hyponatremia, hyperkalemia, hypochloremia, hypocalcemia, acute renal insufficiency, and acute liver injury. Cardiac workup revealed elevated cardiac enzymes and his electrocardiogram was remarkable for sinus tachycardia and early repolarization. Mr. X was then transferred to the ICU for evidence of multi-organ failure and he was started on intravenous fluids, multiple vasopressors, broad spectrum antibiotics, and anti-fungal medications. His hospital course was further complicated by septic shock and acute respiratory failure requiring intubation on hospital day two and disseminated intravascular coagulation requiring plasmapheresis. Cultures confirmed bacteremia (ultimately cultured as Brevibacillus) and fungemia (ultimately cultured as Psilocybe cubensis – i.e. the species of mushroom he had injected was now growing in his blood). He was treated for a total of 22 days in the hospital with eight of them in the ICU. At the time of writing, he is currently still being treated with a long-term regimen of daptomycin, meropenem, and voriconazole.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266729602...
That’s one point in favor of PIA.

I chose NordVPN coz we can access from any server in the world and they have offered me good discount
Using f2fs and setting up the SW on my SBCs to not write data needlessly to SD card all the time (some programs are really bad at this), and having a very high quality power supply and cabling was enough to make my boards work for years on a single SD card. Some are at 4 years currently and still work fine. I'm using Sandisk only, since a few years ago, because it's the only manufacturer that allows me to verify online whether the card I bought is genuine and provides A1 rated cards at the same time. Experience with about 20 boards.
Tesla’s main self-driving rival isn’t Google–it’s Intel’s Mobileye
EU investors are way too conservative.
> Covid test just satisfies your curiosity, because you're going to be isolating anyway

This might be your personal bubble speaking. I have two non-tech friends (EMT and a labourer) who contracted Covid and both of their workplaces required a positive Covid test if they wanted to take two weeks off for quarantine.
Careful what you wish for. The US has no guaranteed paternity/maternity leave, and the majority of workplaces have less than a month of vacation time. Then there is the healthcare system.
I'm sure you've encountered the type of talking point, especially in political discourse, where the rebuttal is commonly available and you can more or less guess what the rebuttal to the rebuttal is, and what comes after that, until it's reduced to the same points you've seen before. Every time diversity issues in Silicon Valley come up on HN, there are at least several of those in the thread. Those discussions are almost always polarizing, even for bystanders.

If the goal is to be helpful and to convince bystanders, then I think it's much more productive to find and engage with the comments where people are asking thoughtful questions, engaging healthily, or giving an overview of the common points made on the topic. Or just upvote those for visibility instead.
Somehow I'm reminded of this classic 1841 quote by the Scottish writer, Charles Mackay, which sounds as fresh as ever:

"In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first [...]

"Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper [...] Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."

— from his book, titled: 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds'
We've been using Hydra as part of our single-sign-on stack for almost 3 years now. It's something that most application developers have no idea exists. I'd say it's been very successful.

We didn't use the other Ory offerings, instead opting to create our own user management and permissions suite. We already had LDAP as a competing source of truth, so this colored the picture. In 2021, I'd probably advocate for buying all-in to Ory tools.

If you're a shop that employs capable engineers, Ory is a strong recommendation. If you want something with a wide product surface area, you might want to look elsewhere.

To make a doubtlessly crude analogy, Hydra is kind of like the Kubernetes to the other options' OpenShift.
Most Europeans plan to curb flying, eat less meat for climate, EU poll says
> Area 51 was a radar testing site due to the unique properties of the salt on the ground. And they just tested a "silver shiny UFO" which was the prototype for the SR-71. And yes, this was exactly the same date when people first called radio stations and the police for UFO sightings.

Assuming Area 51 was just that, you can't disregard the whole UFO phenomenon (which has been taken place all over the globe for decades) as "the observers didn't know they were looking at an Skunk Works aircraft". That implies you haven't even seen the tip of the iceberg.

These reports not only often come from highly trained fighter pilots and engineers, but it also leaves imaging (radar, infrared, etc.) records that show that these things, whatever they are, can move too fast (and too slow) to be any USA/China/Russia/Israel super secret aircraft.
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Apple car. OMG. This will be epic. I will roll in my Classic Jag, listen to loud cassette tapes, smoke a cigar and watch the new reality show "Apple Car - 1001 ways to get politically correct turn" :)
Fun aside I learned about recently: we don't actually know if the speed of light is the same in all directions. So it could be 5+1=6 seconds or some other split.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light
Actually the new strain is already responsible for 45% of infections in Ireland (as per yesterday's NPHET briefing) while it was 10% at the beginning of the year IIRC

So yeah it's not the whole story, but it is an important part of it.
> What about time off? Pension? Parental leave? Medical costs?

For top engineers, that's not really a concern in America.
Workaholism and programming are two symptoms much more widespread among men than women. It is not necessarily gender, but it is heavily correlated with it. As said, the experiment I’ve described could “test” whether it is gendered or not.

For example, it could be Asperger. I haven’t been personally diagnosed, though. But even Asperger is more often diagnosed in boys than girls.

Other example, it could be behavior. Most beaten kids are boys. Either it is because of gender bias in the parent, either in it because of different behavior in the child; If we assume the former, it means parents are more violent towards the boy, if we assume the latter, it means the boys’ attitude provokes the parent more. Either way, the real world is less comfortable for those, in average.

There could be many profiles, only one of them “retires” in a virtual world, and some girls do fit the same profile. However, there is still a correlation.

As for “why did I assume it was because of my gender”, it is because of “Boys have 13% fewer neurons” is oriented towards gender, not profile, like many other events in life.
The author’s argument for why it’s implausible that a lot of people don’t get tested is literally “c’mon, man.” That not satisfying to me.

I was sick for a few days over the summer. Was it a mild case of Covid? I don’t know, or care. Why should I get tested when that information will change literally nothing about my life?
Me too. I had images of famine and millions of Americans fleeing the country to find a better life overseas.
Martin, RemNote co-founder here. We're officially launching today!

As a student and researcher, I had become increasingly aware of how little I remembered after reading an article or completing a course. I was also frustrated with how hard it was to keep my thoughts, research, and projects organized. I needed a tool to streamline my thinking, connect ideas, and optimize my learning for the long term.

RemNote is that tool - an all-in-one workspace to take notes, organize thoughts, learn anything, and grow knowledge.

- Students & learners use RemNote as a long-term learning platform, mastering content through note-taking, integrated spaced-repetition flashcards, PDF annotation, and knowledge-graphing.

- Creators & writers use RemNote as an idea-generation platform, sparking ideas by leveraging references, [[backlinks]], portals, aliases, and graph views.

- Thinkers and organizers use RemNote as a second-brain, staying organized with fast search, templates, to-dos, tags, and other simple-but-powerful organizational features.

I personally find that RemNote works especially well for computer-science concepts; I can carefully piece-apart every component of the system I'm learning and then internalize it with spaced repetition.

You can use it completely offline with our desktop app, or use the synced version across web/mobile/desktop. We're still rapidly building, and I'd love to hear your thoughts!
No. You should not use a password manager for a hardware security device. The point of those (among other things) is to protect you from your computer being compromised. It defeats the point if you stuff the password into your computer. Security is about the weakest link.

Password managers are good advice for 99% of use cases. Protecting an asset worth hundreds of millions is a bit of a special case and you shouldn't follow the same advice as if you were trying to protect your hacker news login credentials.
AFAIK it is not and IIRC the author even mentioned it somewhere afterwards, possibly in the next book.
Why not simply come to SV?
Only if you were measuring a system with access to the key material and doing something with the plaintext, in which case this would be a side-channel attack (and an already-studied one). The whole point of encryption is that the data output is indistinguishable from noise without knowing the key.
How close are we to the temperature tipping point of the terrestrial biosphere?
Signals – iMessage stickers with the flags of the International Code of Signals
One solution is to use a standard subset of sql so you can use sqlite in unit tests and mysql/postgres in prod. Many languages also have in-memory SQL implementations that are also a more convenient substitute for sqlite.

Of course the benefit of what you did, even if I wouldn't have done it, is that you're _not_ using a different system in dev vs prod.
the report is from over 40 years ago and all the involved are iranian personnel, not american ~ i wouldn't expect any of them to come forward if they are still alive...

there is no natural phenomenon that fits the description. one passage says that the UFO landed and illuminated land around it in a 2-3km radius. there was a radar return, multiple aircraft involved etc.

im not saying its 100% aliens, but im pretty sure its also not swamp gas / weather balloon.
There's a finite population on the earth, clearly it has to end at some point for that particular strain, but again, it can evolve and the new strain could then grow exponentially again. It's likely already happened.
I'm the maintainer of ActivityWatch, and comments like this make me very happy!
I don't understand the point about pricing. I find it cheap for something that works perfectly, across any device/OS and never fails, never breaks, and is extremely fast (insanely fast).

The only way one would prefer something half-baked just because it's "free" is if they don't really care about robustness and dependability.

That said, maybe the current Covid crisis is hurting them more than others. I used to travel a lot and leave machines in different places instead of carrying a laptop everywhere. Now that I don't travel, "magic sync" is much less useful.
The State of Online Harassment
The other day, I accidentally robbed a bank...
> Most of the reports of "UFOs" and their characteristics in flight come from untrained, and unreliable sources.

Agreed. But when you filter all those, you are left with a huge pile of true UFO reports, that come from trained personnel, radar operator, astronomers, etc. Look at the conclusions of Blue Book.
It's really not, its almost completely eyewitness based and regardless of their "expertise," eyewitnesses are almost completely worthless and certainly do not qualify as "compelling evidence" in the arena of Science.
A backlog in testing? If you are gonna take more than like two days to process a test, why are you even testing?
We've got certificate authorities to centralize trust for server public keys. And those require trusting organizations that lots of people don't want to trust. We don't have an equivalent system for individuals. There is no trivial push-button key verification process for peer-to-peer communications. Key signing parties suck and never worked. Key validation for things like Signal is nicely automated if you are physically near the other person. But beyond that it is tricky.

It is hard enough to get my parents to use a secure messenger. If I told them they needed to do a key verification process for every person they ever communicate with... they'd just go back to facebook messenger or sms.

I think it is completely reasonable for somebody to say "I don't care enough to worry about validating public keys" while also educating people like journalists about how to do that correctly.
I think they are useful to let people know how their comments are being received. If you just have popular/unpopular then you don't know if it was just one person or multiple that disliked or liked your comment.

Getting downvoted or flagged on a comment isn't fun but it is important in understanding the community and how to interact with it. Ultimately every person needs to manage how they use HN so that it is a resource useful to them rather than a distraction.
How much different DigitalOcean CPU models affect WordPress performance
See my post about their expenses [1].

If they don't grow the investors are not going to be happy about the high engineering expenses.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25766475
But it probably took 80x less time to develop said software.
Are you aware of the controversies around NordVPN?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NordVPN#Security_issues_and_co...
CEO departures almost always cause a drop in the share price, usually not because the CEO is considered great but investors perceive it to signal private information about the state of the company
This. The HN crowd vastly overestimates how unknown these can be on an actual person. Even when they knew about the explosions in the (London) Docklands and in Manchester, they would only knew it to be terrorist attacks, not specifically the provisional Irish Republican Army (unrelated to the Irish Army).

Edit: definitely not the Australian city of Docklands (and not any city named Manchester ouside England!)
This. I find keycloak to heavy. Though I have yet to find something as good that does LDAP, Kerberos and x509 all together.

I had a hacky simplesamlphp instance that work well but no OAUTH :/
There are cases where restrictions have an additive rather than multiplicative effect on the reproduction number, but after better modeling they often end up as ultimately multiplicative.

For example, let's say you observe "closing schools" to bring Rt from 3 to 2.7, "closing offices" to bring Rt from 3 to 2.3, and "closing both" to bring RT from 3 to 2.

What's really happening is not that the two restrictions have a -0.7 and -0.3 effect. Instead, the two apply to almost disjunct subsets of people. Therefore it is more accurate to say that the "closing both" restriction is a *0.66 reduction of the reproduction number, while "closing schools" and "closing offices" only apply that 0.66 factor to a subset of the population. What is really additive is the amount of people affected by the restriction.
I want the company I treat as my primary file storage solution to be fully committed to that feature as their primary selling point. The last thing I want is Google deciding I don't get to save my files there anymore.
FWIW the idea of a Consumer's Union already exists (at least in name): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Reports
What I don't get is people are trusting unverifiable builds of Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, etc as "secure" on each of their E2EE implementations when that part of the binaries we install on our phones isn't even verifiable by code and compilable by ourselves.

But what I do like about Telegram is their good user experience and Bot API developer experience. It's soooooooooo fucking good I'm telling you. It just works, be it on web, mobile, and desktop.

At this point who the fuck knows if Durov can be trusted (hell we all wish, right, no harm in that). But regardless of that, at the end of the day I'd be willing to admit he's a fucking genius when it comes to Telegram's UX and DX.