skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What evidence do you have that this is what happened? I do think that conservatives in California are definitely behind this push, but so what. Are they not allowed because they are conservative and maybe some powerful people are also pushing it?

I know it's hard to see, but Newsom is a terrible governor who doesn't know what he's doing and has done a lot of things that appear to be based on who donates to him. He labeled hollywood as essential while keeping many small businesses locked down without providing any kind of reasons. It's true that they did have stringent rules for the productions, but it's not clear that some kind of rule for other businesses could have been created that allowed something like indoor dining to stay open, or even outdoor dining. He seems to have been bending over backward for the teacher's unions, and keeping schools closed until the recall effort got more and more real. The people this hurts are lower income students, and the other issue is that millions of school age children stopped going. Want to guess who this affected the most, yep, the lower class, who are more likely to be minorities. There are schools in many states that have been open for months, so if that is a terrible problem we should have the data, and he could use that as a reason to keep the schools closed. But the rules in California don't appear to be based on science, they seem to be how the people at the top feel that day.

In addition, he locked down the state and then went to dinner with people indoors. He lied about it at first until the photos showed up. He was caught multiple times in gathering against his current lock down orders, a typical do as I say not as I do politician.

I mean, maybe he's just a typical corrupt politician and that's life, but California is a super majority democrat state, so you don't generally get the best politician, you get who the democrat party decides is the best. I think this leads to corrupt politicians who don't care about the people, they care about the biggest donor, more so than in places where the parties are more balanced. The recall is representative of people finally having enough. Maybe it's being pushed by some major conservative media outlets, but you would be surprised how much of it is actually grass roots. Most likely the recall will fail because on the other side, the major media outlets are definitely very friendly to Newsom and the democrats. I mean look at the ratings for cable news outlets. While Fox News generally gets the best of all the outlets, if you add up the totals of all the other outlets, they easily dwarf Fox. And those other outlets are not in any way shape or form conservative or controlled by Murdoch.
Congrats on your daughter, she's beautiful and I hope with the pace of medicine she can always stay ahead of the curve.

There were many jarring moments in that blog but the number in the last one is probably the most shocking. I deeply hope you find a resolution to that. Vampiric is absolutely the word.
But you will notice that my hypothetical stipulated a new energy source becoming available (or cheaper).

The difference between bitcoin and aluminum is that bitcoin values the energy not qua energy, but purely for its wasted cost, so if energy becomes cheaper overall (or hash computation becomes more efficient), you have to use more of it to create the same value for bitcoin, if it becomes more expensive, you can create the same value using less energy.

That's why I find it silly to say that bitcoin stores "energy". It stores sunk cost.
I think the pattern that has recently been abandoned is trial by jury instead of rule by emotional, angry, partially-informed mob. If you see people in your sphere of influence jumping into a 15-minutes-of-hate session, call them to the mat.
I've benefited tremendously from open source software and have used an open source library in virtually every project I've done. Totally grateful to the community for enabling me to build faster.

However, I've always been curious - what motivates people to continue to maintain open source software?

Why put up with rude people and improve a package for them, for free? Is the issue because monetizing it is too difficult? Or is there some other reward for doing this that I'm not seeing?
You don't think "female founders" are approximately at the top of the pyramid of, "women who are building professional careers"?

My point was if there are many women who are benefitting from men being more thoughtful and careful, then it could be worth it to pay the cost of some women not benefitting, especially if they're approximately at the top already.

I don't think demanding a change be strictly positive for everyone is a fair evaluation of the change.
Having personally been in three different private sector unions, I would say that this is true. I am extremely critical of them, would not join one again and would change careers if my field significantly unionized. I've posted at length about this before.

In the private sector, collective bargaining leads to worse outcomes both for employees and for consumers.

Public sector unions (see federal employment) are an entirely different animal and generally have been very effective.
I would like to read and scribble on work documents (personal data, confidential documentation and so on) and regardless whether the device could be stolen or data unencrypted landed on rM servers, if there was a leak no insurer would help with that in terms of recovering losses. It is just not possible to use for business as potential for the damage huge.
Now I am not sure why would I take any chances even with personal notes, not to mention loading any personal documents on it and who knows who looks at it when they land on the cloud unencrypted. It takes only one disgruntled employee.
I have a 65” 4K OLED. I would not want to use it in this situation with the risk of burn-in from static content. Moreover, any LED consumes way more energy to keep the display always on, and in my mind that quality is a requirement for something like this. (Yes I know the Samsung Frame exists but I don’t think you can customize your content in Art Mode like this)
You also have to realize that a lot of these people are making deliveries in suburban residential neighborhoods where the number of public restrooms rounds off to zero, and you can't just go inside somebody's house.

Given a choice between peeing in a bottle or driving 30 minutes round trip to the nearest public restroom, I'm not about to condemn anyone who picks the first one purely out of convenience.
Reminds me of a fruit I know as Chico Zapote: Inedible when unripe (feels like green bananas and not sweet), then edible for a day, then too sugary for its enjoyment a day later. When ripe/rotten is good in small quantities, but it feels so much like eating sugar that I can’t handle more than half of it.
The End of New York (March 27, 2020)
Jeff Bezos apparently has never heard of the Streisand Effect, or he's so rich he just doesn't care about what public perception is...

Seriously, you don't pick a social media fight with Bernie Sanders or Warren they both have very strong social media teams, esp. when you're fighting against unionization....
Ah, guess who makes the rules about how close you may be to an active volcano? It's usually the corresponding observatory, and they are valid for the public, not for the scientists.

And then, safe just means nobody gets hurt. The volcano will eat some instrumentation anyway at some point, probably. They often do. Plus, the sulfuric acid plume emissions will damage your gear if you get caught in it.
A lot of Americans of any gender would be put off by a lot of very routine and candid professional communications that happen in Germany. I find American English in general to be tending toward the near universal avoidance of direct speech and statements, independent of speaker/listener identity.

Importantly the speaker and listener are not consciously aware of this happening. The net result is that you can say literal/plain thing A and the listener can hear literal/plain thing B.

Speaking to Americans requires a significantly accurate modeling of the listener's mind and expectations to be able to be clearly understood, much much moreso than any other language I have studied or even heard of.

Basically, it is very easy to be totally misunderstood when using plain, literal speech (such as is common in Germany or in Slavic countries).

I've written about it: https://sneak.berlin/20191201/american-communication/
I wonder who writes the tweets and how much review there is. I would be freaked out if I was responsible for insulting a senator on behalf of a trillion dollar company.
I sad that I cannot respond. It's too dangerous. Good luck.
Interesting that you can implement a TRNG in FPGA synthesized logic. It seems to be sampling the output of the inverter chain not necessarily the jitter? I guess the two are related.
That maybe it's better not to pour salt on the wound by talking about sexism? Are you as engaged in the other top 30 stories on HN today or somehow this one is the one you needed to chime in on the most?
I strongly agree that there’s a language dimension to this. We don’t have good enough language for lots of passion-invoking social debates. Sexism and racism come top of mind.

For example, an enormous amount of misunderstanding, bad communication and fraught decision making has resulted from the social activist redefinition of “racism” that has gained prominence in the last decade or so. And there are still so many people talking past each other completely obliviously. A richer taxonomy of terms and ideas could help everyone reach understanding.

It seems like the same dynamic as you’re describing in these dialogues on sexism.
I consistently still use my PowerMac G5, Quad-Core, 16GB RAM with 2 SSD’s for audio production as even next to my 2018 15” MacBook Pro it seems...snappier?

It certainly cold boots faster (almost instantly as soon as there is display output), and 10.5 feels as rock solid as ever.

I could even deal with that computer offline, and sometimes do as it doesn’t have a wifi (never bothered), which alleviates security concerns; too. (As does the PPC platform itself, somewhat.)

I’m not sure when the bloat became so severe that it started impeding performance in a serious way, but it seems to be late 90’s to early 00’s to me, with it peaking like hell in the early-to-mid 00’s - everyone remember all those Internet Explorer ‘Toolbar’ malware addons? XD

I’d go to my friend’s computer and they’d have like so many of them it covered a significant portion of the screen but it never seemed to occur to them to disable them, even if they knew how.
> * State can be used for CSRF protection but I've also seen it used to convey, well, state that needs to be carried over. That's legitimate, but make sure you append a random value as suggested.

Now that we are supposed to just use PKCE, we can stop using state for a nonce and CSRF protection and just use it for state.

> * "However, by stealing an OAuth code or token, the attacker can gain access to the user's account in their own browser." is a good reminder that you should keep your token lifetimes short. We recommend minutes; use a refresh token to renew the token.

Stealing codes does not work because PKCE, you need to steal at least the entire request and response, will be blocked if PKCE is using a cryptographic transform.

Protections from stealing tokens are confidential clients (requires a remote machine compromise) or proof of possession like MTLS or DPOP (requires private key exfiltration).

Generally the most paranoid access token lifetime recommended is ~10 minutes. There are token revocation methods that let you go longer, but revocation is an active process while token refreshes can just fail because of some change of application state.
If you feel like you're not being treated with dignity and respect, then quit the job.
I don't know the solution to this problem, but I do think that turning it into a Morton's fork ("men are sexist regardless of whether they speak or not") is not it.

Instead of playing semantics by saying that "it is technically sexism" (and I'm not saying I agree with whether it actually is or not), we could choose to at least stop phrasing the situation like that.
It's also what someone innocent would say
What’s a real human?
I don't read wikipedia if the page is locked, because locked pages are a clear indicator of editorialization from wikipedia. It's basically their icon for wikipedia's opinion section.
What's the alternative? Having people independently decide what humane/ethical/moral means?
None that actually work though, is the problem.
sooo cool.....
In case anyone's wondering, the display costs over $2500.
How Motherboards Work – Turbo Nerd Edition [video]
Depends on whom you mean with "you".

US money supply has not grown at anywhere near 10x recently: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MZM

Tether supply has grown roughly 10x since January 2020, though, but that's on a blockchain, so surely everything is on the up and up: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
It might ...

But one has to admit it is a very weird shape (or, maybe not: somebody with maritime chops here can perhaps speak to that. It would be interesting to know if the shape is anywhere like an "approach pattern" of some sort ...)
There isn’t reason to assume the increased perceived risk is do to a pre-judgement of increased bad behavior of the “opposing” party. It could be just calculating a different risk based off your own increased vulnerability to any bad behavior.
It could be interesting though, if one added a few smaller instruments. CO2 and SO2 sensors, temperature, humidity and more.. do it frequently enough, calibrate well throughout, keep good records and the scientific community would definitely be interested in the data. (If they can be convinced you did a good job with the trustworthiness.)
Only for $2.5k, though.
What developers want most is a way to market their work, see app stores. Developers are willing to pay up to 30% of their revenue.
"But does your social circle not include other female friends that you could discuss the optics of this situation with?"

Respectfully, this shouldn't be on the person from whom advice is being sought, but on the asker.

"Or better yet, be honest with the female friend that you wanted to advice, pointing out what she had done before and expressing your apprehension in providing critical feedback?"

If someone asked me this, I'd probably think they used hashtags like #redpill or were into bashing Ellen Pao or something. It comes across as, "you can't say anything these days without being offensive, men in tech are soooo mistreated."
Everything that was considered a conspiracy theory early in 2020 is now coming to reality. See: vaccine ID passports
War is hell, indeed.
Paywall bypassed → https://archive.is/nn4E4
Maybe I'm getting it wrong, but it sounds like this doesn't happen on the plant if you just let it be, whereas ripening does? (we just pick stuff unripe to gain transportation time)
> SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 make really poor bioweapons

Often heard this, including from experts in bioscience (I am not one, you sound more like it).

So early on I did a search on Google Scholar for things like: SARS bioweapon to see what I could come up with. Turns out there is a lot of biosecurity and biowarfare literature from before the outbreak, which have entire chapters for SARS coronavirus as a weapon.

I really think if you tried to give some reasons for coronavirus being a poor bioweapon, it would expose either an inflated sense of expertise, or those reasons are precisely the reason coronaviruses are seen as attractive (and relatively cheaply available) bioweapon.

In a: don't do what I say, do what I do-manner: US military is warned not to use DNA tests from companies that offer cheap tests due to Chinese government funding. It may leave them open to "identification" and "attack". How poor would a gene-targeted coronavirus actually be?

The rest of your posts seems to gather support for other hypothesis, not as much attacking the lab leak theory as highly unlikely.
> lacks experience in X and Y which are key in product space Z.

Obviously you didn't post the feedback, but I wonder how this was phrased. If the feedback was "improve X and Y", I think I sympathize with the panelist. The feedback was solicited! If it was framed as "unlikely to succeed because inexperienced in X and Y" then I think that crossed a line from critical feedback to a somewhat demeaning comment, even if it was right.

Regardless of how it actually played out, there's a good lesson here that you should be mindful of how your communication is understood. It's not enough to be right, it's important to speak in a way that makes sure what you're conveying is delivered in a useful way.
I can read and that case was well-covered. You're cherry-picking though and neglected to cite all of the contrary instances before it.

It was long held that corporations held some of the protections of the Constitution. Which ones was not so clearly defined. First amendment protection is now so defined, but that does not make it brand new legal doctrine. It's based on long standing legal precedent. It is a clarification of law.

You're making Valentine v. Chrestensen's decision much more broad than it actually is. Specifically, SCOTUS "ruled that commercial speech in public thoroughfares is not constitutionally protected" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_v._Chrestensen). Commercial speech has a very specific definition in law. It's about advertising.

The decisions later about Hobby Lobby have very little to do with Valentine v Chrestensen nor Virginia State Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, because Hobby Lobby's case was not about commercial speech.

Same with Buckley v. Valeo, and Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission because they were about political speech.
Yes, I think it's mostly the same with more emphasis in NL on the 'diskettes' but that's about it.
Frankly, I believe that capitalism is the strongest it has ever been, and will continuously grow ever-stronger, with stock market indexes growing ever higher relative to wages, signaling a seemingly unstoppable wealth accumulation towards the capitalist class. Deteriorating labor conditions are not a signal of bourgeois weakness, but a show of strength, and workers need to also gather strength if they are to fight back. You might make the argument that unionization only serves to make labor safe for Capital, and that's true to a large degree, but I see no other solution on the horizon.

By the way, I think you got downvoted because using a Marxist technical term such as "late capitalism" without proper elaboration only serves as flamebait. Those who are not already familiar with the theory have very likely only seen them in the context of Marxists airing their grievances on social media and/or aggressively engaging with Conservatives.
Was going to comment but found myself clamming up and deleting it.
Github and SO are the infinite source of good stuff that we devs need to solve our problems. I could not image my job w/out it. That being said, in so many years using OSS, I have never posted an issue or question. Digging around for a bit always shows the answers for "it doesn't work".

Thanks for the hard work boys and girls! You set an example of how the world should work.

Thanks!

Thanks!

Thanks!
There are way too many strawmen here to rebut, but I'll take on a couple.

> The way this will manifest itself is through a left-wing 20-something low-pay intern who will be tasked to decide whether something is or isn't true.

I mentioned above that I don't know if this ideal can be met, but I still think it is ideal to me. I do believe there are other ways beyond your suggestion (was it as serious one? You couldn't think of any other ways?)

> How about when Democratic politicians and Democratic base claim that Republicans steal elections due to voter suppression, voter id, and gerrymandering - is that grounds for a ban?

Be careful... I never called for banning sides or people, only statements. And yes, saying things that are proven untrue should not be allowed by anyone in government or politics or public positions. (It isn't relevant but I'm not a Democrat, fyi).
Exactly the same for The Netherlands. A diskette/floppy was never a disk. Only hard drives were called disks.
It started with the 24 hour news introduced with cable. In order to fill 24 hours, they started adding more fluff and opinion. Then slowly opinion started getting treated like fact. Even broadcast news favors opinion over fact now[0].

[0] Or seems to at least.
That's actually how its often gotten rid of - https://frtr.gov/matrix2/section4/4-23.html

> temperatures, 870 to 1,200 °C (1,400 to 2,200 °F), are used to volatilize and combust (in the presence of oxygen) halogenated and other refractory organics in hazardous wastes. Often auxiliary fuels are employed to initiate and sustain combustion. The destruction and removal efficiency (DRE) for properly operated incinerators exceeds the 99.99% requirement for hazardous waste and can be operated to meet the 99.9999% requirement for PCBs and dioxins. Off gases and combustion residuals generally require treatment.

And lava is in the range of 700 °C to 1300 °C. So... that could work.

With regular waste incinerators, the issue is the treatment of the gas... which... well... they already have issues with - https://www.usgs.gov/natural-hazards/volcano-hazards/volcani...

That said...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinandrews/2017/09/28/this-is...

> I was recently asked by a fairly small and young human why we don't just throw a lot of our waste into volcanoes – specifically, into the ones that have lava lakes, like Hawaii's Kilauea or the Democratic Republic of Congo's Nyiragongo.

> ...

> It's certainly a question that deserves an answer. Well, sadly, that answer probably isn’t the one you’re hoping for. As I've explained in a previous Forbes piece, lava lakes are complex things. They're extremely hot, and can melt plenty of things, that's for sure. However, they can't melt everything, and humanity has invented plenty of materials that would simply float atop the surface.
That is literally how I have justified every single expenditure on tools for myself and my team for going on twenty years.
You shouldn't be interrupting people unless they go to unreasonable lengths without providing a pause for others to chime in.
I think trust is the issue, a person coming to you for answers is coming from a place of vulnerability.

I've solved this in the past by asking the person if they want a comforting lie or an honest truth. I still provide feedback in both ways but the honest truth path is what is taken by most people who are able to take negative feedback correctly.
That maybe it's better not to pour salt on the wound by talking about sexism? Are you as engaged in the other top 30 stories on HN today or somehow this one is the one you needed to chime in on the most?

That's basically a personal attack.

I tend to get more attention and engagement for certain topics. If I am less engaged on other topics, that's partly because of "audience response," so to speak.

My first comment on HN today is this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26612921

It's about health stuff. It has two upvotes and zero replies.

I also posted this which is my writing on one of my many blogs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26615169

It has zero upvotes and zero comments (and not because my stuff never does well -- sometimes, it does well).

I'm not pouring salt on any wounds to engage here. I go out of my way to not pour salt on wounds.

It's an inherently hard problem to solve. My failure to readily solve it is not because I'm not trying hard enough or something.

You can infer that I am handling it pretty darn well based on my cumulative karma here and the fact that I haven't been banned (at least not yet).