skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can’t help but feel the coronavirus lockdowns are a good trial run for a low carbon world: limited travel, local food and entertainment, less consumption of non-essentials.
Physical security of their premises is their problem.

I refuse to trust someone who is using such a flimsy excuse for defaulting to slurping up images of my property.

Here’s a thought: enable it to push the data to a different backup source?

But no no no let’s give in to your pipe dream.

No thanks tech industry.
> Instead of dictating an arbitrary and likely unrealistic featureset via government force,

Strawman.

> we can all vote with our wallets and not buy phones that aren't repairable.

"Voting with one's wallet" just doesn't work.

> Clearly, the demand for repairable phones is not sufficiently high to sway people from buying ones that are not repairable,

Yes, that's the problem.

> and, more importantly, it may not be possible to make a phone meaningfully repairable with how small delicate technology in phones is nowadays.

Then the technology has to get bigger again. It's called a trade-off.

> Not to mention, how do we determine what level of repairability is sufficient, and by what metric? What parts should be interchangeable? Battery and camera? Should we merely make the phone's case easy to open?

It's almost as if making decisions involved making decisions. What's your point?

> Why is any one or a combination of these things something that consumers are entitled to and need to have protected by law?

That's in the article. Besides, "because they (resp. their elected representatives) want" is a perfectly valid and sufficient reason.
I'm a huge fan. His books aren't just swashbuckling, there's a ton of great stuff about the history of science in there, some fun international politics, and surprisingly deep character development. Yes, there are some goofy plot devices here and there, but well worth a read overall. The audiobooks narrated by Patrick Tull are fantastic.
This disease didn't exist 4 months ago and you're calling it a scandal that they can't process billions of tests in that short time frame? It's also not enough to be tested just once as there have been many false negatives. Scaling that up is an immense challenge. It was also exacerbated by the fact that China wouldn't allow our researchers into the country to study the disease. Meanwhile they've already reached stage 1 clinical trials for a vaccine in just 2 months. Fastest turnaround time ever for any clinical trial of a vaccine, ever.
I seem to recall that there was a patent claim in SCO v IBM, but it got knocked out very early. The suit was actually about copyrights and contracts.
I surmise that "TFA" means "The Fine Article" referring to the source article
>Is this because they are generally not as airtight in design as iphones are?

>Is it because iPhones are more likely to be up-to-date in terms of patches and security updates, and hence android is easier to crack?

I don't want to make premature judgements without factual supporting evidence, but my personal anecdotal evidence suggests that these two guesses might be the correct ones. Me and some of my friends got S8+ a few years ago, back when it was Samsung's flagship smartphone. Among other things, we were all appalled by the update cadence. We were getting security updates, not even talking about major OS updates, about 3-6 months after Pixel phones were getting theirs. I cannot even imagine the horror show that non-flagship Android device owners have to go through in terms of updates.
My first thought was how long till it’s discontinued?
Foam ≠ good soap. Almost all commercial soaps are decent soaps (for the purpose of killing organisms/viruses) that vary only in how nice they treat your hands, and how they smell. Consumer soaps add foaming agents specifically so people think "they're working" - the foam does nothing. Bar soap is still soap, and works' fine - it's just less convenient to use.

Go find an industrial or laboratory soap - that stuff is pure SDS/SLS, flows like olive oil, will remove the top few layers of your skin, and doesn't foam at all.
The way you're thinking about solving the problem is by applying the same local office solution in a different context of a virtual remote environment, which seems like the logical way to go but is not very useful in practice.

With 15 years of career in web development, I've never really seen or thought about using a whiteboard in a meeting. I don't know if it would help but I've managed to get by this far without it.
I agree that messaging would be better.

I guess I'm primarily concerned that our government has arrived at a place where it's systemically unable to adequately form consensus and take action quickly.
Stop the strawmanning please.
Right, but this is because institutions like Google use their power to weaken patent rights.
Is that available in models other than a hearse?
Yes, that's why I said one of the better, not the best. There's a handful that are clearly better: NYC, DC, Boston, Philly, Chicago come to mind.
This is an interesting scenario worth thinking through.

If Bitcoin is forced to go split-brain temporarily, the network could coordinate to rejoin after the fact. Or, it could stay split in two.

Regardless, infighting over which network was “the real Bitcoin” would ensue. See Bitcoin Cash and friends.
Is it just me or do those wings look comically undersized given how small the engine is?

And I can't picture how you're ever going to land this thing with basically no travel in the landing gear and the wings inches from the surface. I'd like to see a 1:3 model land a few dozen times before any human gets into one.
It will be really interesting to see how much of an affect on Global Warming this Pandemic has had.

I'm hoping if we can learn any lessons from this, it is better pandemic planning and larger companies finally seeing the benefit of remote work.
Py3 was too big of a change. It took until about 3.3 to get some ability to really write cross-compatible code.

And some people were just okay with the unclear semantics of py2 with regards to bytes-unicode.
Primer is a movie that while it has a time machine it really explores the personal and social implications and complications of time travel.

Using time travel as a plot device versus using time travel to explore part of our humanity is a mark of great science fiction.
/s

Atlantic presents Inter Continental Ballistic Car (ICBC).

Travel from NYC to London in a less than 20mins strapped on top of rockets that were designed to carry Nukes. What can go wrong?

(sorry couldn't help)
Do not allow PII! Be very careful about what you gather as publicly sourced data.

Think about what can happen if false data is entered. Consider both malicious and ignorant cases.
I think it only works relatively close to the machine right?

I don’t want it to follow me into the bank. I only want to register my fingers when I’m a few inches away.
If you think that you probably shouldn't deal with a lot of statutes. For what it's worth, despite your contentions, I don't at all believe it is confusing. But I'm a litigator and I went to law school.
Only way to deal with this problem is to reduce world GDP by 90%.
Won't happen.
Prepare for the worst.
You can't just conjure the necessary tests up from nothing. Japan has also had problems with testing. No one is trying to "deny testing". It is a work in progress and is indeed ramping up.
The pandemic will briefly stop the growth of carbon emissions, just like the global financial crisis did.
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I would say that broadly speaking, media is better than the institutional outlets for providing information.

You have to sift through the garbage, but the content exits. to use the topics I listed above as an examples, I can find more details on local closures and outbreaks in the local news the local department of public health. Similarly, I have found coverage and links to medical journal publications embedded in articles. Lastly, the institutions are avoiding disclosure of next steps or plans like the plague ( no pun intended). Either they have no plan for the days to come, or they are intentionally withholding information. On the other hand, there are a number of media outlets, mostly non-traditional, that are providing projections based on other counties.
I’m not 100% sure but they should be able to sue you for sales gained at USA.

Unfortunately entire system is built around protecting monopolies / giant corporations.
Thanks, just wanted to nudge you to make the example as complete as possible.
Sure would like to know what the real price is of being able to borrow "for free" $750 billion. Actually, my kids and grandkids want to know.
I don't know much about the South but I agree.

Respect and honesty are slow to earn and easy to lose. Nice is something you can turn on and off with no cost.

Some of the most honest, wonderful, and smartest people I've met have sharp edges. Especially on first impression.
Even if that's true about some modern philosophy, the old stuff is still worth studying!
I was going to mention the ridiculous situation with ghost flights, but it seems authorities are temporarily suspending this rule:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90476154/airlines-will-stop-coro...
As I've said dozens of times now - "is current patent law actually fit for the stated purpose?" is an entirely valid, YET DISTINCT, question.
I think that's the point. They want you to buy theirs.
>In both cases, the death and symptoms will look identical the difference being in the underlying virus causing the issues.

As stated before that is absolutely false which is why those cases were caught. Will data be imperfect, yes, but that doesn't mean we should start throwing around Chinese propaganda.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/conspiracy...
it means your ATM card will still work. You may not be able to profit from it unless you consider being able to feed yourself profiting.
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As much as I dream of someday being able to just buy a flying machine and go away flying it's unlikely to ever happen, not in the way these companies are envisioning it. I have this crazy vision about flying machines: Free direction takeoff. Not just horizontal takeoff; Warp drive propulsion: If lots of flying machines just fly in the same space-time plane it would become a mess, fast. Until science discover some way to warp the space/time around the machine it won't work; I'm talking hundreds of years till we get there; Guess my imagination is pretty fertile;
Right, but given that AirBnB listed illegal hotels and fought local governments in taking them down, it is fair to say they do not have regard for the law. Further, it is clear that a significant portion of their business relied upon such listings.
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I think you're pretty much the kind of person I mentioned in my initial post to this article. To quote myself, again:

> I simply fail to understand how, despite the rising mountain of evidence, some people still are able to deny the reality of the climate crisis we're facing.

> Even if you have ideological or economical reasons for wanting to believe the climate crisis to be a hoax - at one point or another the drive for self-preservation simply has to kick in, doesn't it?

I'll be there with you, on that day when you realize that this all isn't a hoax, that the climate scientists are not just in for the money and that humanity really is badly fucked. I'll be there with you, in that moment and I'll say to you;

Good that you see it. Now let's get to work and let's try to fix it, for all our children's sake.
> Physical cash is not long for this world.

Maybe, especially in some places, but even if that is the direction of digital financial transformation, the US is decades behind on most levels of that transformation and has cultural issues that that even if it was caught up on other aspects would make retirement of physical currency harder than it might be in other places.
The FDA had a ban on tests outside of the CDC's tiny supply for a long time. That's whats being referred to by "denying testing." Not a political issue so much as a typical bureaucratic slowdown with very real consequences.
This product appears to have a lot of overlap with Cloud Composer (https://cloud.google.com/composer) except with more of an AI focus.

Does that mean Cloud Composer might get depreciated?
Norway (5-ish million) did more than 10000.
I honestly haven't felt like it was much of a problem. IMO, the main thing to understand is that Rust strongly prefers that each instance has one and only one owner at any time, and any references to that object should only exist for a strictly constrained amount of time. This is the preferred style, and doing anything else, including some patterns common in other languages and OOP, will be very painful. Don't be afraid to throw clone() around with reckless abandon any time references get confusing, most things are cheap and fast to clone, and it's generally better to get your program working now and then optimize as needed, rather than try to figure out how to handle a weird case.
Repos aren't exactly bond buybacks, they are more like temporarily loaning cash in return of a treasury bond. It has a neutral effect on the Fed's balance sheet. So overall, the money supply stays the same. It does help keep liquidity available since few banks/Institutional investors keep any significant cash reserve which is usually okay, but can be dangerous if there is a sudden run for cash.

And if anything, the Fed interventionist policies are a good sign. You could argue that it is bad for the Fed to intervene in the economy during bull markets and periods of economic growth, but for situations like these the Fed can be a huge factor in avoiding a collapse of credit and liquidity. If credit stays available there is little reason to believe the economy will be affected by anything more than what the virus directly causes. So structural collapse of the financial system/job market like that of 2008 is unlikely as long as credit is readily available to corporations and banks.
I'm sorry, that's just... completely wrong. Everything you said is wrong.

People in the media and elsewhere have been clamoring for months for details from the CDC about how they'll be rolling out testing, and it never arrived. It still hasn't arrived. We're still in the low dozens of tests per day. You're telling me that it's somehow physically impossible for the CDC to have ramped testing beyond that when other nations are in the thousands or tens of thousands per day?

And as far as China not cooperating: they published the full sequence of this thing back in January. We had the genes for this thing even before we had a name for it, or for the disease. And that's not enough help for the CDC?

Where are you getting this information from? Please tell me it's not partisan media.
I hadn't actually realized Titor was a "real" person, and I'm playing/reading through Steins;Gate Elite now. This was a little surreal to see pop up.
There's this ugly thing called a continuation. You file a patent in the 90s, the patent office says "I don't think so", you modify the patent, the PTO still says no, you modify it again, and so on. If I understand correctly, you can wind up with a patent with a priority date of when you first filed, but an expiration date of 20 years from when it was finally granted. (The "priority date" means that you need prior art from before that date to invalidate the patent.)
hahahahahaha you're going to eat your words when this is all over

Coronavirus might not get it down by 90% but 50% is certainly possible.
The video wouldn't be stored on the camera, but an NVR or something similar. But "locally" could also include a cloud storage solution of the end user's choosing in addition to actually on prem.

If someone manages to steal one of my cameras I'll have some close-up, HD video of them stored on my hard drive.
In the very short term, probably, but things are going to back to normal (or even worse) soon. Major companies have already said that the virus is going to cause them to miss their targets for carbon reduction.

For it to be a valid trial run, emissions have to be reduced while the world is running as normal.
Twitch’s & Netflix’s numbers has to be over the roof with all the people “working” from home and all major events being canceled/postponed.
So the process used in this testing is so common that research labs and any biochemistry lab in any college or high-school can run the test. But they probably shouldn't because they have no practice nor experience providing a diagnosis to a human - much less the strict statistical controls to interpret their results reliably.

A clinical lab that is used to running these kinds of (very common) protocols will see no difference in this protocol from others they commonly run (from a chain of custody, sample integrity, etc. perspective), just with a slight change to their reagents to specifically test for COVID. Their handling should be no different.
It cut China's emissions by 25% and will probably do the same to the rest of the world.

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/coronavirus-china-...
Bitcoin would work similarly, but with far less trust in centralized institutions.

Today, central banks acts as a final settlement later upon which the rest of the financial system is built (banks, credit, etc). This makes it impossible for the financial system to “shut off”.

In a Bitcoin world, the main ledger would act as a final settlement layer, and local lightning networks act as the layers on top providing payments, loans, and credit. All transactions would be batched and only get settled so often (once an hour, globally, for example).

This gives you similar local-affinity that today’s financial system offers without relying on governments to award permission to engage in commerce.
The US doesn't have billions of people, just checking the ones coming from the countries where it's present would have been enough, other countries managed to do it.
It's an interesting space, it strikes me immediately as the video version of Minut[1] I got one their first-gen units and was pretty disappointed, but the principle has a lot of potential. What I have really wanted to see from any of these IoT devices is a workflow that goes - tell app you are going to teach it to look for something (or listen), stage an occurrence, confirm the device registered, then stage it again, and expect a notification. So for example, "this is what its sounds like when the clothes dryer is done" - dryer plays a little song - app says 'got it' - dryer plays its little song - notification is delivered saying "your dryer says it's done". I don't think that's beyond the capability of the hw and sw, yet I haven't seen a good implementation yet...

1: https://www.minut.com/product/features/
If your main crate is edition 202X, then it could warn if you link it with anything that depends on Error.description. Too drastic (and would be dog slow)? Yes, but it's easily possible.
It makes large difference if you're well paid. You can only buy ~$650 worth of stuff from $1k in paycheck, but you can expense full $1k of stuff in the other scenario. Of course, you could argue that if you're well paid, you can spend additional $500 of your own gross pay to top up that $650 to full $1k, but clearly Shopify doesn't think this way, because if it did, it wouldn't give any extra $1k in the first place, and just tell their employees to get what they need and pay for it themselves.
The reason we went with the cloud is not just to use the data for training data. 1- we wanted to be hardware agnostic so our solution works with any hardware without any dependency on hardware specifications. 2- Doing deep learning on the device would require GPU which would significantly add to the initial cost for consumers. 3- as I mentioned in my response to another comment, regardless of where the inference is done, the recorded clips will have to be stored on the cloud so if a bad actor comes in and take the camera with them, the user can still access the recorded video clips after the fact to know what happened. Even though we do inference in the cloud, we do not store the video clips unless they correspond to an event that the user is interested in--we discard the other clips. So I'm not clear on how doing inference on the device would have any advantage from a privacy stand point.
Can I hook up my existing Wyze cams or install your firmware on them?
> Social programs aren't about helping people

One of the primary arguments against Social Security at the time of its enactment was that it would reduce the labor by allowing more people to safely retire in old age. I think we can safely say that this is, in fact, what actually happened.
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Minimal. At best, we might be pushing the timeline out by a few months.

Remote work isn't even necessarily carbon positive. In hot or cold weather, transit emissions savings may be more than offset by increased HVAC usage at home.

[Though avoiding business flying is probably a clear positive]
Perfection in lumberwork isn't just about yield: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NRmYzLrvfM
The store thing is a sad state of affairs. Basically, as I understand it, the store was not run by Patrick Volkerding but by a third party that agreed to share profits with him from sales of Slackware branded merchandise. Patrick states that after a few years and much review he was basically being ripped off by them and withdrew permission for them to continue.

Although helped by many volunteers Slackware is mostly a one man show and Patrick's income from the project was basically drawing down to zero. It seems to be a long, drawn out affair and I'm trying to come across as neutral here as I'm sure I don't have all the information. But I'll admit some bias as I started my life with Linux using Slackware from a CD that came with a book about Linux, I think in 1994, maybe early 1995. I switched to more mainstream distros at some point based on me using them at various jobs but always liked the idea of Slackware (the most BSD like Linux!).

And I'm posting this from a laptop running -current. Yes, 15 has been a long time coming but Patrick continues to publish updates and the Slackware Security mailing list is alive and active.

I'm off topic here so I'll wind this up with a note that the GCC package for Slackware Current is gcc-9.2.0-i586-4.txz. So I'm sure 9.3 will be coming along soon, though not as quickly as with some other distros.

For those interested in more about the store I found the most relevant information here[1] when I last went looking for a way to contribute money to the project (i.e. to Patrick).

[1]https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/donati...

edit: grammar
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I think there may be a niche market of adventurous people with way too much money. Whether that market is large enough for one manufacturer, let alone zillions (e.g. https://www.beautifullife.info/automotive-design/10-real-fly...) is questionable, though.