skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find it hard to believe that a significant number of people will have enough viral RNA in their nose to put hundreds of copies onto a swab unless it's their own body that's producing those copies.

This has been confirmed in studies. Researchers have taken samples that are PCR positive at various cycle counts, and tried to culture viruses from them. Here's one:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7427302/

"RT-PCR cycle threshold (Ct) values correlate strongly with cultivable virus. Probability of culturing virus declines to 8% in samples with Ct > 35 and to 6% 10 days after onset; it is similar in asymptomatic and symptomatic persons."

(Note: this is not the only one of these papers that has been published. This is just the first one I found with a quick search.)
This is being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27985395
Just stating what the arguement will/has been. It was a simpliar aguement to what what was recently stated in auto right to repair https://youtu.be/EozPi1qmH44?t=60 - not terrorists but still pretty dam high on the fear factor.

I fully agree that its just a single supplychain hack away from remote bricking not just John Deere but also pretty much anything connected.

I'm just trying to make the point that the other side are not against using scare tactics already, do we really want to push them to even greater scare tactics?

EDIT: Remember, its not the geeks you have to win over, its the general public and / or lawmakers (who stereotypically have not always what I would call "geeks") that have to be won over.

Thankfully in that Massachusetts case the bill allowing mechanics to access the data passed, I personally don't think an escalation of the tactics from our side would end well for us.
I am incredibly interested to see what happens with desk job workers vs. workers who need to work on-site (service sector comes to mind) as the wfh trend continues.
This is one of the nice things about shortcuts. I created a shortcut that will turn off wifi and Bluetooth. You can then add an icon to your home screen to run the shortcut and boom. Both are actually turned off…not just disabled for 24 hours. I also have a shortcut to turn them back on when I need them.
I'm sure it depends on the size and efficiency of the municipality...but the ones around Portland are about as incompetent as they come.

Don't forget that many are subsidized...so yes what they are paying monthly may seem to be cheaper there is probably tax money being funneled to that municipality for offering broadband as well.

https://ocio.iowa.gov/broadband-grants

Lots of money being thrown at the startup costs...

Honestly they might be better off using that money to buy everyone StarLink dishes...the speeds are going to be better than what a lot of them are getting.
I find it amusing but people will go downvote unrelated stuff once you offend them. I can tell because I’ll get a flood of downvotes across unrelated comments when I make a controversial post.

Of course that’s all fine. I have no right to participate in this community and the community has a right to behave how it does.

Or perhaps I’m just miscalibrated and I’m saying totally douchey things here (only provided for example reasons):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27952366
I lived in a neighborhood (Vancouver) where bears were regular back yard visitors. Cougars were around but rarely seen. Many California suburbs seem to get alone with local predator populations. I think the key is not to fence things off in a manner than gives them no easy escape route when confronted.
Yeah since moving to Germany in 2016 I've been getting IPv4 & IPv6 addresses (on 1&1 / Versatel). Was very surprised when first noticing it!
You are right. In their mind author does think of themselves as renaissance man while preferring one set of cliches to another.

I guess for some it is simply hard to grasp that one can have good understanding of software development without cramming endless design patterns and methodology acronyms.
Living in Canada, I have Fiber optic now, but I definitely pay for it. We have total telecom monopolistic practices that send prices upwards over time. It's in the news all the time, Canadians pay more than most countries in the world for internet services as well as wireless data.
I can easily see that after 2 years there is nobody left who remembers what APIs are in the code.
This is a good point. Perhaps they're a utility and/or common-carrier only in certain contexts? The article points out "Public utility comes from a contractual relationship between the government and that entity that is supposed to be the public utility". Other's have pointed out that when government employees use Google search, there's no contract in place. The latter may be true, but I'd argue that there is a contract in place when schools are paying for the Google Apps service and Chromebook hardware.

If you have to use the Google products in a school, and the school has a contract with Google, that seems like a utility and/or common carrier. The analogy that I use with my friends is "You have Verizon for your mobile phone, yeah? I have ATT. We can call/text each other, right? Of course - that's how phones work. What would you think if you could ONLY call Verizon customers, and if you wanted to call/text me, you had to get an ATT phone? And what about all those land lines, customer service lines, etc... how annoying would it be if everyone had to have the same phone company, and the companies kept coming and going in and out of vogue? All the older people user Company X, Millennials are all on Y, and the kids are all about Z...."

Most people think that's an awful, terrible world to imagine. That said, it reminds me a little of Neil Stephenson's "Snow Crash" ~ one review says "Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous.... you'll recognize it immediately"
$2099 plus licence fees for each client? Good luck with that. I'm assuming the client licence fee is the Single licence at $699 but it's not specified.
Scaling Zoba to more cities using Airflow
Not if you turn the computer off right after deleting the files.
The Marko Tags API Preview
This happens a lot in the Midwest also. Deer are really dangerous because they walk across roads in the night and they freeze up when they see a bright light.
That looks like a brand new project, the feasibility study is from Sept 2020, so I don't know if it's quite time to gauge competency of anything?
Rust can now be used to code for a graphing calculator
> If a domains reputation is at risk, you can bet domain holders will be extremely careful not to allow outgoing spam.

Generating domains is fairly cheap though.

lsjfdlakj.com

There, I just generated a new one with a clean reputation. Just spend US$ 10 to register it and off we go.
Adelaide is an interesting case study. There is a river and nature reserve that stretches from the hills to the coast that cuts right through the city. They do incur on the edges of it in a few locations but for the most part it's got native vegetation for the full length of it. It's one of the many nature corridors there, and the network of nature corridors continues to expand throughout suburbia. They also have a ring of parklands around the CBD all of which have native vegetation in at least some areas if not quite the whole area.

They're not unique in having a river cutting through the city, but they were lucky to have the foresight of a city planner who felt there was some value in keeping the native vegetation all the way back at the city's inception.

There is beautiful and diverse birdlife throughout the city and that's in no small part due to the amount of native vegetation kept around throughout the city and suburbia. From the surrounding hills, the suburbs just look like a regular forest with some buildings poking out here and there, it's incredibly green. There is about as much parklands as there is real estate in the CBD itself.

https://d31atr86jnqrq2.cloudfront.net/images/aerial-city-ade...
It depends on the game you are trying to work on.
If the game has protections, then it does not make sense to make that your first game to analyze.
You haven’t actually said what you were mistaken about.
given abuse coming from a given IPv6 address: which subnet do I need to block to stop the user behind that address

(for fraud detection it switches from block to identify)

for IPv4 this is generally the /32 (the single IPv4 address)

for IPv6 it's probably a /64, but may be a /56 or even a /48, and on some crappy providers even a /128

if the subnet is smaller than you think it is you risk banning an entire ISP (or country), whereas if if it's too large the abuse continues

it's quite a complicated problem as by design you can have subletting (subnetting!) within a block, e.g. a VPS provider gets a /48 from its ISP, and then they sublets out /64s to their customers (while not necessarily giving them all their own RIPE/ARIN records)
I down-voted your comment because of your superiority complex, the terms like communism are too generic and the reality is that most communist countries were "kicked" in the balls by the capitalist.

I seen a comment by a "intelligent dude" like you, in his intelligence he compared North and South Korea, ignored that sanctions for the North and the tons of money US dropped on south and he got the conclusion he wanted.

The truth is that there is not enough good data, I would like to see some examples of countries that were not under sanctions or under a cold war or had some insane dictator leading them.
Oh there are good engineers, certainly. But the field as a whole clearly is immature since it causes more deaths than software engineers do.
Is it dumb? Only if you believe self-preservation is more important than everything else at all costs.

He chose to remain faithful to speaking truth (or what he believed to be true and asking questions to humbly discover it) rather than acquiesce to a bunch of manipulative tyrants. Such actions not only commit you to stand by the truth in thought, word, and deed, but they inspire others to do the same and thus disperse the evil of the world. It was a blow to the systemic lies of myth and sophistry employed by the powerful of the world.

Socrates did not choose death. He chose truth while accepting that he would be killed by those in power. Big difference, except for a utilitarian.

Now whether he should have chosen exile, I don't know. In some sense, what he chose is heroic and more inspiring than skipping town. Christian martyrdom is like this. A Christian remains steadfast in the truth even to the point of death. This is a faithfulness to Truth that cannot be destroyed by evil men who would use fear to part us from the truth and toss us back into the darkness and slavery of lies. In remaining faithful to the truth, the martyr truly lives and is truly happy no matter what pain comes his way, whereas some men spend decades rotting in the misery of lies. The martyr loves the truth to the point of the extinction of self. He also dies in anticipation of the Beatific Vision. This is the greatest fulfillment of a rational being wherein the doors of the soul are flung open to the infinite fullness of truth. In the vanity of the City of Man, on the other hand, men love themselves to the point of the extinction of truth and thus live in death and misery.

The truth will set you free and so in a sense Socrates died as free of a man as you might have reasonably expected a pagan to be in his position.
Techdirt is a tech news site with articles that are longer than soundbites. They cover a range of tech topics with a focus less on Company X just released this great product Y.

I’d look into who sets the rules on your content blocker. I can’t think of any reason why Techdirt might be blocked beyond the common tracking that we are discussing here and which they are trying to get rid of.
excellent! I've been looking for a thorough examination of this for awhile. I'm glad it specifically showed moricons.dll, which I remember finding as far back as Windows 98 when looking for icons
That’s fair but I think the difference is arbitrary. They exist because people are in pain or suffering so their market is people who are suffering. Again I do not think it’s a bad thing that people capitalize on their suffering as long as they are providing a (mutually) beneficial service.
Here's another comment with some excellent demonstration video:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27984716
> Above stuff is from my experience at Google

Google needs microservices, their codebase is many thousands times too big to deploy as a single unit. They also have the money to focus on reliability over velocity. The startup with 2 developers doesn't need microservices, and the things you are talking about aren't things that a startup should think about before they have any users. Yet they still often goes with microservices because that is what the big boys do. It is those cases we talk about here.
That is complicated. I see why they are struggling to get donations. UI/UX matters.
They give you a /64 though, you can delegate anything in the subnet that way.
Your main competition is going to be Laravel. And they're a hell of a lot cheaper, better supported, bigger community ...

What's the strategy here?
I mean theres a difference between being politically active (which we all should be), and being the head of the republican party in chicago
Im a bit in two minds about this one.

Our governement has an attitude to say 'everything is fine' when things are clearly not. As a consequence, no one trusts them on anything. There is a clear cost in not being completely truthfull.

But as a governemental officer, you know people are going to quote you out of context. You know people are enemies just because of your job, and they are going to make the worst possible version of what you say, and they are then going to pile lies upon it until your policy sounds like a comic book end of world plan. Politics is opera, and the loudest voice wins.

Any communication has to be shaped for the specific receiver, and the receiver in this case is nasty. Science gives us reasonable guesses but no absolute clarity, and the vox populi demands a clear course from a clear leader.

If you're pretty sure a white lie or oversimplification will save lives, what is ethically the least worst choice? You'll quickly end up with 50 shades of gray.
It's because the physical bar is small and crowded because it serves all the people in the room, not just the people sitting at the bar. At table service, the server can circulate across tables checking on people for orders.
"As well as people" being in the headline certainly implies that the article's author would answer yes to the former.
EVs are dumber than liquid or gaseous fuels outside of niche uses. We had EVs 120 years ago too. The fundamental problem has not changed. Batteries and motors are less efficient at converting chemical energy into motion than heat engines, especially when energy density per weight and space are considered.
I don't see the point in saying emotions are automatically good, but also inappropriate. This just seems like a segregation of two concepts that don't need separating.

E.g. saying "I think people of type X are bad so I feel hatred towards them" is a good emotion but misplaced, vs is a bad emotion? I don't see the useful distinction.
Anyone who loves this kind of stuff should check out The Orbital Index, a curated weekly newsletter of all things space:
https://orbitalindex.com

Run by two friends of mine who are avid HNers.
In my ideal world I would be able to choose to _only_ view upvotes and downvotes from a subset of users I trust and ignore everything else (trust subset ranked filtering).

I was working on a system at least slightly like that at one time. In fact, I guess I still am in the sense that I haven't officially abandoned the project. I just haven't had much time to work on it lately. The idea was, users vote (up and down) on content but each individual could set "attenuator" or "amplifier" values on other users, to personalize how that other user's vote contributed to their view of the overall score.

It's never been deployed at scale (to the best of my knowledge), so I have no idea how well it would actually work in practice. I still hope to find time to get the thing into a state one day where I can deploy it and see how people would react.

The idea of whitelisting users to even count their contribution at all had not occurred to me, but I might take a look at incorporating a mechanism like that as well, since you brought it up.
Exactly. The article reads like expressing displeasure is hampered. But if negative comments have increased, then that is a good thing, because at least the commenters have had to come out of the woodwork to express themselves.

And then we can talk, if they actually have a point. Or we can upvote your point.

Downvotes are anonymous slaps on the wrist with no recourse. They're insulting, offensive, and then further used for censorship (especially here). People who don't know what they're talking about, can't articulate themselves, or are just taking sides all get to punish what they don't like without being caught. They get to be taken seriously. By robots.

The author of the article is a prolific writer. If anyone knows the importance of writing, even long-form writing, it would be him, and it's exactly what he used to make his point about downvotes. He could not have done it with a downvote, or even a tweet.

Nuance is invaluable and context is king. Language gives us all of it. Twitter makes us stupid. Votes make us children.

When expression is limited, the dumber - and more violent - we become.
There are good amount of rails starter templates that going around that price with similar set of features. I think there is demand for it. (not affiliated with it in any way)
Can you share how to reach this understanding? How would you learn it if not from a set of patterns and guidelines?

It’s like saying „write good software” without any advice how to do it.
Capital Hill, Seattle?
There's really interesting research on integrating native ecology into the human environment. Douglas Tallamy's recent book on native-plant ecosystems [1] stands out.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NMH5GH5
Kuebform – Provision Cloud Resources in Kubernetes Native Way
I don't think the choice is even 'Mock Georgian' vs Brutalist.

The problem is more like a random compilation of ransom-note pseudo-architecture with decals, whatever is profitable at the moment for a builder and maybe makes nods to 3 different styles at once, doing none of them right or with any actual sense of proportion, and done with cheap materials. Brutalism is less bad (and I hate it), but it is less bad than the blight that is everywhere.

If we don't like centering the style on Georgina, then pick something else, Greek Revival, Federalist, Craftsman, cottage, even actual modern styles... whatever but pick SOMETHING, implement it with good design, proportions, materials, and consistency (both self-consistency with the style, and with a sense to build something consistent with history), it'd be an improvement.

It also seems to me that the lede got buried, which is that there is a lot of opposition to development of new housing, which is not surprising since new development is so consistently ugly and a blight, not an improvement. Do the work to make development good, and we'll see less opposition.
Sort of like a public suffix list, except for IP addresses, which in my eyes makes the idea even worse.

Edit: Seeing your use-case, this should probably be part of the whois records.
Guy is genius. Next Level Artwork
This really seems to be a problem of suburbanization (which also drives of natural predators). If cities had strong urban growth boundaries we could avoid a lot of this sort of human/animal conflict.
I wouldn't - you know - use this, but with zsh…

$ print -l ${(s:, :):-Paris, France, Europe}
Paris
France
Europe

I won't try to answer the "is zsh any better?" question with this response either ;)
In the US, fiber, at least last mile fiber is pretty rare. It is limited to a few small pockets in primarily large urban areas.
zsh has so-called expansion modifiers that do this. For example

string="Paris, France, Europe"
arr=(${(s:, :)string})
for x in $arr; do echo "<$x>"; done

<Paris>
<France>
<Europe>
I think it was 5 or 10 years ago, but there were some websites that did exactly that. I distinctly remember setting up an ipv6 gateway so I could get access to free newsgroups. I think there was other stuff as well, I just don't remember it all.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/k9aqjy/newszilla6xs...
The problem with that is they are getting more and more connected for fleet management and automation, so the arguement would be that things like JDLink are no longer permitted.
There are a few interesting "alternatives" to the standard downvotes we see. For example:

* "Flavored" downvotes that come with a reason attached (e.g., "troll", "incorrect", "unkind", "spam", "disagree"). Seen on e.g., Lobsters.

* Multiple downvotes/upvotes (up to +5 upvotes, up to -3 downvotes). I forget where I saw this, probably Slashdot(?) or some random forum...

I wish more sites would experiment with these ideas. I feel like the first idea, flavored downvotes, would somewhat alleviate the issue you're describing (i.e., a puddle of downvotes that leaves you wondering what was wrong with your comment). Of course brigading wouldn't be solved by that though.
good code isn't basis for anything, but bad code is strong basis for failure.
And they even provide an RSS feed!

https://orbitalindex.com/feed.xml
Pretty sure it's this one: https://www.au.com/mobile/charge/photoframe/photo-u2/ According to the notice on the page, it looks like they're dropping the CDMA service it relies on next year!
Actually, I just thought of something I noticed when Google Cloud Run launched. When I accessed a Google Cloud Run URL from a VM with no public IP (using their private Google access function), the X-Forwarded-For header sent to the container was a private IPv6 address that included the instance's private IPv4 address embedded in it.

So I wonder if the Private Google Access mechanism uses some sort of IPv4 to IPv6 translation in their internal network in order to route the request, and maybe some detail of that implementation makes it difficult to route request from public v6 addresses to Google v6 addresses on GCE.

I just tried this again, and it looks like the X-Forwarded-For header now returns 0.0.0.0 when accessed from a VM without a public IP. Could be a sign that a fix is in the works?
Oh, I thought that it's my fault. There were a couple minutes outage for my app.
Yeah, my bad english. Used word 'thrust' to describe a burn in the opposite direction, totally forgetting that thrust is a reactionary force. :-/
Thought 80% PCB are already made in China, did not realize TW still has 33%, are those factories in mainland China though?
They have a reputation of doing this kind of opaque "verification" asking for ID and nonsense like that. meanwhile there are still a lot of botnets being hosted there: https://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/813/spamhaus-botnet-th... . Even digitalocean is doing better.
And it's delightful. Call it the not-a-framework framework. So little scaffolding. So much freedom to make your own framework components the way you want them.

Lit makes React and Angular look like crufty, outdated tools.
Hetzner is great: professional, high quality, and cheap, cheap, cheap.

Their margins are low, however, so I understand it is possible to get fired as a customer if your support burden is too high and your ROI goes negative, so be on your best behavior to keep access to those prices.
Which content blocker are you using? That url loads just fine for my on iPad and iPhone safari.
And we have no recourse or ability to appeal the decision
Build for problems means everything gets encompassed surely? Good solutions will take into different facets of a problem.