skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, I'm the founder on SN. Thanks for the mention! You generated some extra traffic today.

There actually isn't a cost to using Lightning Login (lnurl-auth). It operates without really touching the Lightning Network, i.e. a channel. It just uses your Lightning wallet's key pair to authenticate you.

More on login: through the QR code (or lnurl string), I effectively send your wallet a randomly generated string, a challenge, it signs it using a deterministically derived key pair using my domain and your wallet key pair, then hits an endpoint on my server with the signature which authenticates you.
> We know SARS-CoV-2 is abundant in humans, and we know it's related to viruses with abundant animal reservoirs, but do we know that SARS-CoV-2 has abundant animal reservoirs? I wasn't aware that it did, and I wouldn't expect it to have.

Yes, it has abundant animal reservoirs. The fact you're not aware of this suggests that you are lacking some essential background info, which would explain why you are so myopically characterizing my attitude as "defeatist" rather than "obviously true".

Here's just one study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8002747/

> There is intriguing evidence that farmed mink infections (acquired from humans) have led to infection of other farm workers in turn, with a recent outbreak of a mink variant in humans in Denmark

Now on to the "defeatist" point:

> They said it was completely infeasible to eradicate smallpox, but we did – because the people actually eradicating smallpox knew how to do it.

Smallpox had no known animal or reservoirs. Compared to the SARS-2 vaccines, smallpox vaccines at the time of eradication were far more effective.

Again, you clearly lack the most rudimentary understanding of this topic. I'm not saying that as an attack but rather as a statement of fact. I would suggest starting with the Wikipedia page on the topic:

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

> The targeting of infectious diseases for eradication is based on narrow criteria, as both biological and technical features determine whether a pathogenic organism is (at least potentially) eradicable. The targeted pathogen must not have a significant non-human (or non-human-dependent) reservoir (or, in the case of animal diseases, the infection reservoir must be an easily identifiable species, as in the case of rinderpest). This requires sufficient understanding of the life cycle and transmission of the pathogen. An efficient and practical intervention (such as a vaccine or antibiotic) must be available to interrupt transmission.

Reading even just the intro paragraphs of that article should make it abundantly clear why SARS-2 cannot and will not be eradicated.

Oh, and BTW, even if we did eradicate it, which we can't, it would still exist in the bioweapon labs of every major country in the world. All it would take is one bad actor intentionally releasing it, or alternatively an accidental lab leak (which has happened with SARS-1, and SARS-2 is even easier to leak). Again, you simply haven't thought this through.
You can prove to either CT or NY that it's not your primary residence for tax purposes, but even if you can't, you may still be better off paying double taxes to avoid a 15 - 20% pay cut.
According to prevailing wisdom, civil disobedience means you're a X-ist, denier gun nut who has fallen for disinformation. No room for questioning the official narrative, lives are at stake.
If you are using a VPN how do they know you aren't on vacation in Australia and are trying to watch shows that Netflix doesn't have the rights to in Australia.

I understand that this is about your location while streaming not while signing the contract.
In such a setup where the second factor is a TOTP I would count on the attacker being successful at phishing that too.
Hopefully they pull the fat acceptance videos too.

I believe your post is an isolated demand for rigor: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/beware-isolated-demand...
It’s not a flying car. It’s a hexacopter. Absolutely nothing like a car.
Netflix is large enough and pays well enough that it frequently poaches developers from the others on the list. And they poach from it back.

Depending on what you're discussing when you're listing those companies, it may make sense to include them.
Got 1Password 6 full license for OSX and loved it. Of course I bought also the Android app. Then switched to an iPhone and bought the app again, peanuts. Then I had to start using again PCs and bough the windows full license for 1P 7.

I still use 1P 6 on macOS even though the missing support for Safari sucks (that actually made me switch to Firefox!)

My point is, there is literally zero added value with the subscription, it’s like buying cars with loans, in fact by buying full licenses I saved money.

I hope that 1P 6 and 7 will last me as long as possible, I don’t see any alternative at the moment. IMHO all other options are less secure and/or less convenient.
> He's arguing they just don't work and nobody should bother with them at all.

Are the virus particles significantly smaller than the holes in a cloth mask — nevermind the gaps typically present around the wearer’s face — or not? If they’re smaller, how effective can the masks possibly be?
Interesting. I knew Barcelona and Madrid but I was surprised to see Malaga and Valencia. What start ups based in those two? Both of those seem like really nice areas to be based out of.
>Who said anything about being totally silenced?

The White House believes you should be banned from all social media not just one if you spread misinformation. Maybe that is not totally silenced, but it is getting close to it.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/202...
Software as a Service includes software with coding in it such as databases. But more importantly, some SaaS products require a lot of customisation and to achive a certain level of customisation you need to code. Think wordpress themes or Salesforce scripting.

NoCode promises a highly customised product that does things that traditionally needed code - like talking to APIs - but without any coding.

Often this means that in reality, you code visually or through a very complex series of dialogues and property lists that are akin to coding. This may however be more accessible or have a lower learning curve - even for an experienced programmer.
We debated the precise meaning of Event Sourcing when I was writing my Temporal.io explainer (https://www.swyx.io/why-temporal/)

Basically the source of the debate - to do "proper" event sourcing, do you need to rerun the computations each time you roll back/forward, or is it enough to simply restore state?
You're doing the right thing saving aggressively, but if some idiots would reject you because, say, you're 54 years old (the age at which Beethoven finished his 9th) - then I'm sure there would be less idiotic people you could work with.
This bill isn't about MacOS so much as it is iOS/Android, and moreover their owners.
Lol, you know why governments loveeeee bureaucracy? Cause people like you looooooove to point out "oh thats not how you're supposed to complain about the budget."

I don't get to pick and choose where my taxes go, so for all intents and purposes, all of the government is fair to criticize.

> "I feel like someone missed highschool civics class... "

A high school civics class is not, and should not be necessary to criticize the government. Stop gatekeeping how criticism has to work.
I've heavily worked out for 2 hours and worked in the office for 8 hours with a cloth mask without wetness issues. My experience may not be the same for others, but 15 minutes is an exaggeration. As early as April 2020 there was research indicating 2 layer cloth masks were at least 70% as effective as surgical masks, and the ones I have seal much better! Not to mention most people are wearing poorly fitted accordion style masks, not wearing N95 masks.
It takes all of 2-3 workouts to get used to a mask. It is not a major inconvenience. It is minor.
I want none of this.

I want an app that lets me play whatever I want.

I have the money to pay for this but right now this app is called bittorrent.

Here's a simple challenge: find a legal online streaming service, any service which shows Mists Of Avalon from 2001. (Yes, yes, I know, I can find the Russian site which streams it for free, I strongly suspect it's pirating it.)
Blatant attempts to frame one of the heroes of our times are just that, attempts. As if intelligent people would suddenly favor emotions over rational thought, because some troll with an agenda voices his irrational contempt.
What are you investing in then?
I'm with you on this one. During the end of the 90s there was a similar phenomenon for the exact same reasons, which was Java desktop apps, with their write once run anywhere motto. With the added insult that they had this awful non-standard UI most of the time. They eventually died down except for the corporate app world and things like JetBrains IDEs.

But now with Electron, which I don't like for the same reasons, as a friend once told me, allowed me to have some of my favorite apps running in Windows, Linux and Mac almost flawlessly with a good interface that finally the promise of Java was fully realized.

So while I would like people to follow more the Sublime Text approach, there is value in these Javascript based apps that lower the barrier of entry, provide widespread availability and are definitely easier to debug. Also sometimes I don't get to decide, since my org for instance makes it extremely convenient to stick with JetBrains stuff.

But hey, I'm the type of person that considered a Gentoo machine running Fluxbox far more useful than the very polished MacOS.
>"When somebody starts bringing up Bill Clinton and Yugoslavia in 2021, you know who you're talking to. Everyone else has forgotten it."

Especially the victims and relatives

>"There's a lot to gain from implanting a few untrue memes that dismiss Russian, Chinese, Saudi or whoever else's actions"

"whoever else" - quite a modesty you have here.
I argued nothing black and white at all. I said that these things are tradeoffs. In this case - it is something along the lines of a freedom <--> safety tradeoff. And why aren't people allowed to draw their own lines on that spectrum. I was just stating that I draw my line in a different place than some.
And I think this supplanted the earlier "four horsemen" terminology.

Originally: Intel, Cisco, Microsoft, Dell

Then (in 2007): Apple, Research in Motion (Blackberry), Google, Amazon
The tech companies may be trying to "control the problem" so that the government doesn't decide to legislate. Unfortunately for the tech companies, they're doing it so badly, so randomly, that they're probably making legislation more likely.
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Ignorance apparently is wearing a seatbelt because of your own personal decisions and risk analysis instead of some nitwit with a badge and a gun threatening to take what you've rightfully earned.
How can you prove the mitigations worked? The only controls out there (Sweden, some US states, etc.) aren’t very robust (nor in favor of mitigation efforts).
> you should really be using (K)N95's

Better masks are obviously better.

> completely ineffective when wet,

As far as I know this is not correct. I remember to have read a study showing quite well that even a wet cloth mask(1) still contains the spread of aerosols surprisingly well. Sure it's far worse then a medical mask of any kinda but still a surprisingly high improvement compared to the no-mask scenario.

> which they get after 15 minutes or so of breathing through them.

In my personal experience this is far from correct, through this depends on the definition of "wet" and the weather.

(1): As long as they are not made of a specific kind of material, which e.g. is often used for bicycle masks and sometimes for scarfs which might from the get to go make thinks worse by splitting the aerosols into smaller lighter ones without stopping them at all.
Fun fact: the EU funded a study which ended up showing piracy has no effect on sales, then tried to bury it.

https://juliareda.eu/2017/09/secret-copyright-infringement-s...

There is a different incentive at play here. Netflix wants to track individuals. I wouldn't be surprised if some other agreement were behind this move, perhaps like other secret agreements:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-cost...
If anything Covid deaths are significantly undercounted. How much is hard to tell but it's probably over a million and was likely 900k during March based on excess death estimates

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...
If that doesn’t show how well they’ve hidden the IP7 self-hosted version behind dark patterns! A loyal user had no idea it existed and stayed on 1P6 because of it.

You have to upgrade from within the IP7 app but only if you downloaded from their site, not appstore.
Well, I think you just invented a fantastic use for Sudoku!
>masks stop the spread of everything

Do masks stop the spread of bullets? If not, you are spreading misinformation and need to be banned.
That's because javascript isn't relevant. The _only_ way the browser can interact with the server is via http requests. That's the level the scraper operates at - imitating the http requests the browser does.

In particular, it doesn't matter why the browser did those http requests. It could be because the user submitted a form, or clicked a link, or javascript did some AJAX request, it's done by a web worker or browser plugin, or god help us calls some function some Active-X component. Provided the scraper emulates http request perfectly, there is no way server can tell if the request came from the component it expects or a scraper.

It is both a benefit and a curse. It's a benefit because all the complexity of javascript libraries, DOM's and what not goes away. For example, back in the day I've scraped the satellite imagery from maps.google.com. Maps is a giant horridly complex javascript application - you really want avoid understanding how it does what it does. The http requests it makes on the other hand are pretty simple.

However Google didn't want you scrapping it, so they included authentication in there. Authentication always boils down to taking some data they sent in a previous request, mangling it with javascript then sending it back as a cookie or hidden field in a form. You have to replicate that mangling perfectly, which involves reading and understand the minimised javascript. That's the curse. Such reverse engineering can take a while, but it's mercifully rare.

The payoff is speed, and reduced fragility. The speed comes arises because most of the crap a browser downloads is only useful to human eyes, and the scraper doesn't have to download it. Fragility is reduced because GUI's, even web GUI's and especially javascript laden SPA's often want mouse clicks and keystrokes in a certain order, and while particular parts of the screen have focus. For some reason web designers love tweaking their UI's which breaks that order. The data they send back with their forms and AJAX requests is far more stable.
Many companies do not add fancy titles

sometimes it's just junior, regular and senior programmer
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> we did that and got the jab ...but you were not appeased

No, not enough of us did that.

For measles and polio we did. No one is asking you to wear a measles mask, and measles is very contagious.
In my case I go for simplenote, but yeah same deal. If somebody creates the same experience in a less resource intensive framework I'm a in.
Smallpox was eradicated with a sterilizing vaccine. We don't have one of those for SARS-CoV-2, and there's no prospect of one any time soon. We also know that other mammals can get infected and pass the virus to humans. The bats or pangolins or whatever originally transmitted the virus to humans are still out there somewhere. It is impossible to vaccinate or cull all those animals. Thus it is impossible to eradicate the virus. We need to be realistic and accept that it's here to stay.
I think you misunderstood what I am saying. I agree with you, but was trying to make a point that some people do in fact want YouTube to be the arbiter of truth. I do not want that.
Definitely. A Yubikey or another TPM-based auth would be a better choice. I just wish they were cheaper and more accessible...
If augmented reality leads to neural implants it can potentially lead to an even worse dystopia if the technology is not open source. Limited access to resources may result in the coercion of workers into accepting patented neural implants in order to participate in an idea-based economy in order to accumulate any personal property necessary for survival.

Accepting such implants might then allow direct surveillance of thoughts so that all novel ideas which thinkers come up with are patented by private investors, implants also open up possibility of direct external suggestion to disable the ability of thinkers to consider whether or not they are free.

The highest value of thinkers is freedom of thought. Since thought arises from material conditions and living in a community allows more time for thought by decreasing the time its members spend on basic survival there is always a social \ political \ economic component which must be considered when building better realities to avoid simply accelerating the essential trajectory of a current reality.
It's clearly cheating. As you point out, the numerous disclaimers and reassurances should be all anyone needs to see to know that they know they're doing wrong. They're seem to think they're merely near to the edge of cheating but actually they're well over the line.

In private matches, with friends, these cheats would be acceptable. But any time unsuspecting players are on the other end, using these should be a bannable offense. A level playing field is the entire point of games like Valorant. Preventing cheating is one of the major promises of Valorant. One should not claim to love games and then work to destroy them.

Riot should absolutely ban players for using these cheats.

YC should seriously consider whether these violate the Founder Ethics rules, because they very plainly seem to. Selling game cheats should be on the list of things YC never funds. Cheats are highly toxic and bad for the world.

> Not using misleading, illegal or dishonest sales tactics.

> Generally behaving in a professional and upstanding way.

https://www.ycombinator.com/ethics/

Lots of startups make mistakes early on. Hopefully this startup will pivot away from selling cheats and into other areas quickly. I wish them sincere good luck with those endeavors.
Are we still supposed to be 'Resisting' or is that over with now?
You can just claim that masks prevent you from incurring other viruses and infections, the contraction of which would put anyone in serious danger of death were they to come into contact with COVID.
How often do you clone a repo?

Our monorepo is multiples of that and the last time I cloned it was 2 years ago. When we first moved to git we simply had a 'clean' clone sitting on a network drive that all users could just copy to their machines to get started.
> Imagine a car wash not allowing me to wash my blue car because someone robbed a bank in one of the same color.

What a bad analogy.
Or the way Trump redacted his recommendation to inject clorox and sunshine?
Do you think that I should be able to compel you, personally, to say something?
> and cloth masks DO work very well to prevent that person from spewing droplets everywhere

But Covid doesn’t spread exclusively through “droplets”, it’s aerosolized. It’s present in an infected person’s breath, which will escape a mask.
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> However, this does make it significantly more difficult for Apple to dictate terms to every random app that your network of friends and colleagues makes you download, and makes it more likely that those apps will be a regression in terms of actual consumer experience.

Well, the corollary to "Mussolini made the trains run on time" is that they weren't on time without him.

Also, like how that's actually a myth, perhaps Apple actually doing a good job running their App store isn't really all it's made up to be either.

Finally, even though the initial view of a lot of people is probably that it's unfair to pull a baby Godwin on this, I think there's a lot of parallels that deserve a deeper look and examination, where we piece together why we're okay with strict authoritarian practices in some cases and not others, and possibly whether there's a link as to whether we accept it in a case where we think it benefits us, without considering how it affects everyone overall and the long reaching effects.
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Sure. As an ophthalmologist certified both by the American Board of Ophthalmologists and the National Board of Ophthalmologists, Rand Paul is both an expert in general medicine as well as ophthalmology. Given that it's fairly safe to assume that he knows more about practicing medicine than either one of us, is better prepared to read and understand medical research better than either of us, but most importantly, that he knows a lot more about medicine than most of the rest of our elected officials. Hence, if he has a disagreement with an overtly politicized CDC, he is uniquely qualified to speak on it as a senator to the American people.
Even Biden admitted the moratorium is unconstitutional. Nobody seems to care.
The problem here is that I geo-shift my exit IP without a VPN on a regular basis, for a variety of reasons none of which have anything to do with copyright and remain within the copyright jurisdiction that netflix wants me to be in.

Nevertheless, exiting my home traffic from the he.net core datacenter (in Fremont, CA, no less) gets the ban.

That is not my screwup. That is their screwup.
Many wood working masks are n95, as you can imagine fine particles from wood working can do serious damage to your lungs. Before covid I was doing some home projects and picked up a package of 20 for < $5 US. As you can guess I wasn't able to buy any in all of 2020, but once supply goes back to normal I fully expect the prices will eventually get back to something like that.
This sounds like it covers gaming consoles as well as they have app stores. Or are they going to claim they have game stores instead of app stores?