skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your argument can be applied to absolutely every investigative technique. Neighbours were interviewed, a suspect was identified, and then something went wrong for unrelated reasons. Clearly the problem is the very idea of interviewing neighbours, so we must eradicate the technique for privacy reasons, because Blackstone ratio and justice for all. The argument that this case is about police geocasting holds about as much water.
Presumably age as a factor is used because it's easy to measure, but it would be nice to know the effect of comorbidity. For example, comparing otherwise healthy 60 year olds to otherwise healthy 30 year olds.
I am shocked by the shock. Israel depends on the Iron Dome, and doesn't trust our cybersecurity for shit. I wouldn't release life-or-death code to the US Gov't either, funding be damned.
More often it is because the person belongs to a community that is excluded from traditional carriers.
Is there a copy on a site that doesn't have a cookie wall?
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That works out to 2000 micromorts, which compares to the accumulated baseline risk over 3 months of living: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
uMatrix is a bit more harder to use than uBlock Origin.

Basically, when a website loads, it can access resources from various sources. For example, if you access www.example.com, it may also load Analytics from google.com, it may use sharing icon and javascript from twitter and Facebook, it may load some video file from Akamai content delivery network etc. etc.

With uMatrix you can control what resources load from where.

In the default mode, uMatrix will load the resources only from the domain you are accessing, i.e. if you are accessing example.com, it will allow images, javascript, videos etc. to only load from example.com and block from all other sites. This can break some websites - for example, youtube.com which loads videos and javascript from other servers in different domain. In such cases uMatrix allows you to allow resources from the other domains / servers to load and save this settings (or you can just switch off uMatrix temporarily for that site).

Since many resources aren't loaded by default (and a lot of websites include such crap resources from other sites like Google, Facebook etc), it saves bandwidth and the web page often loads faster. But it comes with added complexity when a website breaks.
For Canada, specifically Bell, they both an eye ball network and a transit provider. Bell has no incentive to peer at local IXs and "give away" part of their service (the eyes, as that is the lucrative part) when they can sell on the fact they are a large national network AND you can get access to their end customers as well.

Edit: clarification on the part that is more valuable.
Why would you care about something that only affects a handful of generations? Progress in the middle ages ground to a halt for multiple centuries but once we revisited ancient knowledge during the renaissance we started progressing at full speed again. The impact of climate change is not limited to a few generations. You can't just reverse it by reading a book and teaching everyone about how people solved problems 1000 years ago. Our modern world is barely 200 years old. It can be reinvented in no time but only if there is nothing standing in our way.
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> Cooling is innately less efficient

Cooling is more efficient for two reasons: Cooling is done with a heat pump, which typically has 300% to 500% energy efficiency, whereas gas heating has only 100% efficiency. And, in cooling situations, the temperature difference (indoors vs outdoors) is typically smaller than in heating situations.
Green threads are much cheaper to switch than pthreads, yes. In real applications the difference is far smaller than it was 20 years ago when C10k was challenging. In 2020 you can just open 10k threads and forget about it.

With 100k threads and 100k Goroutines, each doing nothing but waiting on a mutex: pthreads in C takes ~20 microseconds per thread and in Go it’s about ~5 microseconds using Goroutines.

This difference disappears really easily. Parse some JSON and it’ll be gone.

Entering kernel code is the expensive part of context switching so syscalls are very nearly as expensive. Reading from a socket still needs a syscall, even with green threads or asynchronous IO.

The more different bits of IO you do, like in a real web app, the less advantage their is to green threads. This is one reason Rust dropped their M:N threading implementation.
It's nice that PDF security is getting a bit more attention, but there are a number of things that this approach will trash, for instance, I don't have high hopes for the accessibility of the resulting PDF. (edit: and needless to say, any software in your pipeline which does full interpretation of an untrusted file will itself become the target for attacks, so this is only a useful tool if it is run in an extremely restricted environment)

I for one have been looking a lot into PDF/A for security. PDF/A is really meant for archival, but as a side effect has disallowed an awful lot of weird PDF features which are a security nightmare and pdf readers tend to implement badly/buggily. PDF/A-1 for example, the strictest level, disallows JPEG2000, TIFF, JavaScript, PostScript, embedded files... (PDF/A-3, FWIW is essentially useless from this angle, because they decided to allow arbitrary embedded files, so a valid PDF/A-3 could have pretty much anything in it).

There now exists a good PDF/A validator (https://verapdf.org/) which can be used to ensure PDFs conform to the standard, but of course, won't fix them if they're not.

PDF/A has an interesting implementation detail however - compliant PDF readers are supposed to automatically "turn off" non-PDF/A features when they encounter a PDF which declares itself as a particular PDF/A variant (even if it then goes on to attempt to use non-compliant features), which would hopefully prevent dangerous sections from being decoded and avoid exploitation). Another interesting feature of PDF is its appendable nature, which might raise the possibility of being able to "declare" an arbitrary PDF as PDF/A by simply appending an extra section to it, hopefully rendering it less harmful (though possibly at the expense of it appearing to have missing content when rendered).
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Do you have any resources on how to secure Mifare Classic against cloning? I thought it's inherently insecure.
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Local storage has been supported by mobile Safari since day one for offline usage.

How much more privacy did they get by an app that gets information from the internet than a website?
As with a lot of AWS, it's easy if you know you need to do it, but there are a lot of gotchas which can be very expensive if hit (and there's no way to limit expenditure).
This is an interesting take on things. Are you saying that you can't heal/grow/improve by means of talking to someone who hasn't had the same (negative?) experiences as you? Or are you suggesting the lack of intimacy is the detrimental factor?

I'm not an expert on intimacy by any means, but I think there's a difference between "feeling understood" and "being understood", and the former strikes me as being the more important of the two.
I still wouldn't want to get infected.
> I've seen some stupid shit. Like security architects requiring employees to always but always be tunneled in with a VPN, without considering what the egress cost is of an employee surfing YouTube through the VPN.

Actually the cost of this is pretty small. I tend to spend a big part of my day tunneling through a VPN hosted on GCP and almost always have a mix of some sort playing in the background on youtube i.e. fairly high use. Total cost is ~£5/month. It's not free, but I suspect most companies have bigger fish to fry.
Even just basic text rendering in emacs is slow!

Three examples:

I use the windowed Mac version most of the time, and touchpad scrolling is so slow that it's basically not a reasonable way to get around a file. Compare to Sublime, where it's silky smooth, and you can get an almost physical feeling of where things are, which makes zipping around using scrolling very effective.

I run my shell inside emacs (which is super nice -- how do people survive not having easy immediate access to command output)? But if a command is going to generate a lot of output (e.g., if I have the misfortune to be running mvn), I'll need to either drop back to terminal or redirect the output to a file, or be content with my command slowing down 100x to wait for emacs to render the output.

Try opening a file that happens to contain a very long line (this happens sometimes w/ generated code, or json data, or ...). Emacs will basically freeze, due to some N^2 in line length algorithm somewhere.

It's no easy task, but I do think it's possible to make something w/ the near-infinite, excellent flexibility of emacs, while also hitting a much higher speed and quality bar.
It depends on the granularity of logging. What can local debugging tell you that copious logging at the “debug” level can’t?
Who is blaming anyone? Link above is just observation. Senior pilots don't have less of a moral right to enrichment than e.g. airline stock investors. If anything the hope would be that the senior pilots might share more equitably with the junior pilots...
Why don't you negotiate those extra days? If the offer is good enough you may even agree to take extra days off as unpaid leave.
Finder is not really lying to you. It's just showing the truth from a standard viewpoint. The OS, however, creates another view from the application perspective - one which now imposes additional access rules.
So... premeditated murder?
He Sold for $230M the Business He Started as a Teenager
Running the compressor in an air conditioner takes a whole lot more electricity than running a blower fan to move air across some gas heat.

If you wanted to break the whole thing down into physics, I'm not sure exactly how it would go, but at least in terms of market prices I can assure you it is much cheaper to heat a home with gas from 40 degrees F to 70 than to cool one with A/C down to 70 from 100.
That's okay! Accept that many projects started will not go until completion.

But many times, you will learn something on the way that you can recycle in a future project.

PS: if you don't tell anyone about your "failed" projects, this strategy will make you look like a genius.
> most companies in Europe also provide private health insurance,

Really? What countries do? I haven't come across that in western Europe so far.
I had this problem but then realized that’s the way to get nothing done. Makes much more sense to commit to ideas for a specified period of time before moving onto the next thing.

Some things will stick and some won’t. But I suggest testing each project you’re excited about for at least a month with a daily habit before moving onto another one.
Suicide...thanks for the daily push to do it. Not today.
Yup. The Linux scheduler wakes threads based on IO events. You don’t end up just cycling through 100k threads all waking and sleeping again.
Wow Computer – A Computer Designed for Senior Citizens
The author is quoting someone else: “Because every minute spent doing something other than what you love most today is a minute you’re more likely to regret when you’re 80.”

Depending on how literally one takes that, you’re going to be one sorry motherfucker when you’re old. I like taking a shit, but I don’t love it. But I gotta do it, my Yelp review on “taking a shit” notwithstanding.

Personally, I quit being so spoiled that every moment must be filled with things I “love” and have a “passion” for. Oh, I pursue those things. But I’ve also learned to love the mundane. There’s more to washing dishes than you think.

But enough shit talking the post, the take away stands: if you’re not being paid, select your activities carefully. I would add that one select from those one is willing to commit to, if only for a little bit. Keeps you from being flakey: “do not love, next!”
Nassim Taleb suggests Musk doesn’t understand risk in complex systems
100-year-old metal hook could determine whether PG&E guilty of criminal conduct
Coronavirus may have caused meningitis in a man in Japan
This is an interesting philosophical argument, but it doesn't actually stack up to the facts. While it may feel righteous to regulate them more, it is all but guaranteed to have next to no effect on gun violence.

The AR-15 undoubtedly has a military background, although it isn't the exact same weapon as the M16. Does this mean firearms with a less militaristic style, like the Ruger Mini-14[0], should be allowed?

This weapon wasn't banned during the assault weapons ban, for example. Yet from a purely mechanical point of view, bullets come out of the operational end when you pull the trigger. It is no less unpleasant to get shot by a sport or hunting rifle, even if the designer did not intend for it to ever be used against humans.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruger_Mini-14
How we sort of automate updating system packages across our Ubuntu machines
https://archive.is/F8LPT
Strategies work only to the extent of their execution
Yep, and the really interesting thing is when you combine libertarian principles with this insight. If large corporations (and large concentrations of individual wealth) are as undesirable as large governments, then the economic model starts to look very different!
And what do the South and DC have in common, that the North and Hawaii do not?
why? that's a drug that has been used, and honestly if my parents are 20 days in trouble breathing and ER is full I can't see why not. Other choice is to let them die
Looks elegant, good job!
OS/2 1.3 on a “Large” Disk
The CFR rate for the disease rather than infectius agent is not really useful for anything besides inciting panic. Consider the case where a virus only shows symptoms in 0.1% of case, but is 100% fatal when it does. You could report this as NEW EPIDEMIC 100% FATAL, WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE!!! but that hardly gives a realistic picture.
> Does the distinction actually matter though?

I think so, yeah. Or at least, the idea that the rendering engine is all that matters for a browser is not something I’d just accept without explanation.
I have a feeling (no evidence) that YouTube's systems are smart enough to figure out when a given video clip is a static background for the entire clip, or when playback is in a background tab, and drastically cut down on the amount of video data sent. After all, YouTube has high enough egress costs of its own, and anything to optimize down the egress would, in aggregate, save YouTube a bundle of money.
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They clearly aren’t saying FB login is bad (or they’d just disallow it). They are saying “we want in on the game and we can force it on you.”

I happen to have an app out there which we maintain security updates but aren’t adding new features. It was built with a FB login option. So now we either never update or have to implement features we don’t care about.
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> Please, for the sanity of the rest of us, stop using C build systems. They are just unbelievably terrible

That's not an argument. You do not even try to explain why it is terrible.

C build systems are terrible because they handle 30 years of legacy, 10 different compilers and 100 of platforms that all have their specific non-sense to handle at different compilation stages.

You can also add on that the non-standard build system specific way to handle things like debug/release builds or dynamic/static linking because every system created its own for fun... ( --release/CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release/make release/-Q release=1/etc/etc, .lib files/so/a/dylib/rpath/dt_runpath, lto/not-lto, -Wl,-Bdynamic/-BStatic, etc, etc, etc )

And you get the mess you are in.

The real question on that is: Will Rust be any better in 20 years ?

My hope is that the community will be smart enough to not fragment. But history told us that every OSS project big enough fragment soon or later.
> With renewables, carrying the energy is the biggest problem we have.

Storing energy is the biggest problem we have. (Hydrogen can help with that.)
> they haven't transitioned from SVN to git solely because of the logistical challenge of migrating 30 years of commits

The decision of migrating the repository or missing the commits is a false dichotomy. One can deal with two repositories without much of a problem, it's only a little slow down at the rare event you have to look at it.

Anyway, that applies only if you do have a reason to migrate.
Is there any indication that the health care system will fail in any European country excluding Italy?
My problem is that I get excited about my current job (at a very large company). I'd love to do my current job, but my way. Open source part of the work, run Linux on my development machine, focus more on the tech, less on the market analyses (we did them but management is not buying in, while I am a firm believer myself). I love to build my own front end, with modern technologies. Too bad the company does not appreciate side projects that potentially compete with them. I understand it of course, I have 0 risk and get to do what I like and they pay me quite well. Sadly I can't afford risk right now. I'd love to start working 80% and spend 10-20% doing it fully my way, and alone, at least at the start.
Workbox is about service workers. So for very simple stuff like caching assets, it is quite helpful, but I was referring to the more transactional actions like multiple clients writing to the same backend, requiring to resolve conflicts.

To my knowledge workbox doesn't help with that.
Did not need to know about that one.
> no escaping a mobile signal

That's a bizarre phrasing. Is it meant to be ironic?

Signal is something you want to have, not escape from.
if any given task is trivial (eg. can be done within minutes manually) author's method is the way I go too.

Instead of downloading node.js application with numerous dependencies, I also prefer implementing it in few lines of code.

Some can claim running a 'proper' application (like nodejs/express with JWT authentication) is better. But if your business not solely depend on your solution, trivial stuff wins on the long run IMHO.

Of course security/access-control is debatable...
> I'm not sure how you get "human life is not valued" from this.

See for example this retired nurse who says that a pandemic would be a useful way to kill off many old people who tend to cause patient-flow ("bed blocking") in the system.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-news-u...
This model is nice in principle, but its results depend crucially on what is ultimately an educated guess of the reporting rate of symptomatic cases.

This parameter can be found experimentally by testing for antibodies against the virus in a random sample of the population. This has not been done so far. As long as that's true, CFR estimates will be quite uncertain.

Also really interesting in this context is how Germany is looking more and more like a huge outlier in terms of fatality. Almost 1000 cases and 0 deaths so far. Sure, that may still change, but the outbreak has been going on for a while there already.
Some folks like to switch off with plausible deniability
Better not use a computer with Thunderbolt, FireWire or pcie ports then. This kind of protection is mostly smoke and mirrors.
> Major framework releases are released every six months...

Two major versions with breaking changes per year? This seems a bit too fast paced for my taste.

But I haven't used the framework and would love the input of someone that had to maintain a Laravel project for more than a year.
IMO magnetic probe requires proximity - prying the package open instead of just measuring current from power supply (battery, USB). Is that equally good?
There's a lot of software you could build to help grassroots mobilization efforts. However, there's not a lot of money in that business.
Like the author I'm also 68 years old I'm a contributor to the open source of TensorFlow and dozens of other code projects that the youngsters today often take for granted

I'm still very active I build cities for a living and I'm about to publish a new paper that bills a form of mathematics that more closely models the structure of our universe

I'm a co-author on a paper recently published on a practical form of quantum communications

In my youth I solved dozens of mathematical problems that others considered unsolvable

The world and the universe is an amazing place and age is really just part of our imagination

I also stay active everyday and contribute to my community

This is a great story and a reminder of how valuable our ancestors are to our everyday lives

Consider for a moment the reverence the typical first Nation communities have for the experience and wisdom of their elders
Dead batteries seem like a plausible excuse.
I had this for a few years. Was awful. Glad it went away.
an ungated version can be found on one of the authors' website: http://www.umitgurun.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/privatep...
I had so much frustration yesterday while renting a movie from Apple TV for my kids. I wanted to view it on my wife's laptop (also a Macbook), apparently she can't download the Apple TV app unless she subscribes. I had the app from when I had the TV trial. Overall such a poor and buggy user experience, not going into details, but I hear these devs are getting 400k/yr for not giving a shit about the overall user experience.
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Every time you see a claim like this, remember the Shannon–Hartley theorem[1].

If you want to get a decent bandwidth in aggregate for your mobile network, you're going to need to consider:

* Maximize transmit Power: which is hard because phones are battery powered, and power is limited by law. Satellites are also battery powered.

* Maximize bandwidth: Also limited by rules and regulations.

* Maximize Directionality: If you have physically large antennas, you can direct your transmit power towards the receiver to make best use of it.

* Minimize Distance: Received signal power goes down the the square of he distance. Double the distance, and you get one quarter of the bandwidth, all other things being the same.

This proposal uses tiny existing antennas in phones, which means it must be making other tradeoffs. My guess is it seriously sacrifices the total throughput.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theore...
Just goes to show the mentality of bean-counters in times of abundance. Their ledger is the world and the world is their ledger, no exceptions.

It's sad that we as organizations and citizens accept and perpetuate this kind of behavior.
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Yes, bit more dangerous than BASE-jumping. No, thanks. When was the last time you did something that had 0.2% chance to kill you?

Also what this number kind of glosses over is how are the survivors doing. Half of those that get ARDS have life-long consequences. There are still 20.000 active cases in China, 1 month after the epidemic peaked there.

EDIT: I took BASE jumping risk from here http://www.wingsuitfly.com/risk/4572000812 not from the wiki reference
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You could make a 3D version of this chart with all the trains in a country, which would be more interesting because it can show crossings (the graph in the article shows crossings but you can't see if there are collisions).