skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't wait for gradual improvements in deep learning allow video calls to extrapolate my presence for longer and longer time segments, until my connection can drop out for minutes and WebRTC will make it convincingly seem like I'm still participating in the meeting, making reasonable suggestions for possible code architectures and screen sharing hallucinated PowerPoint presentations.

More seriously I worry about cases where it hallucinates the wrong part of a word and changes the meaning of what I was trying to say. Although we kind of already live in this world with phone autocorrect and it's mostly fine. I'm weird though and disable autocorrect on my phone so that when I make a typo it's obviously a typo instead of just saying a plausible but wrong thing.
I see this approach as a part of a larger community/family site. In this day of lockdown (covid-19) and the need of many to connect with others,
I picture a multi-layered presentation that allows a "family" (which could be members by choice not necessarily by blood). This might be measured by a Dunbar group size of 2 to 15. At this level there could be the communications of a more personal nature (lots of caveats here and extreme privacy would be essential.
Another layer of community with the Dunbar relationship number between 5 and 150, where intimacy, privacy, and self restraint would require the communications and passage of information at a more restricted level.
I guess the final level could be labeled the FaceBook level where you choose how to share your privacy data with the wide world.
I don't know, right now, how to create what I'm trying to describe, but because the electronic world that can alternately be described as much too intimate and also open to bullying and to extreme personal and anonymous attacks there is some lack of boundaries being set that members can depend on.
At the different layers different security techniques would be called on, such as:
1. Proof that the sender is properly identified,
And/or
2. Proof that the receiver or receiver group is properly identified,
3. Proof that the message was received identically to what was sent,
Even
4. Restraints that allow for anonymous messages clearly marked as such.
Of course these are all achievable with cryptography. An interesting application of some of these needs shows up in app Keybase.
The article, 'Let’s gather around the “digital hearth”' adds another layer to this scenario that I see as a possibly web-driven application. Many Web apps take on a part of this but none allows for a more complete family, community, wide world structure.
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Is Facebook Down? (Picture Related Services)
It seems Facebook Apps, Whataspp, Instagram, Facebook, Currently having issues to download or upload pictures in the threads. Status page shows nothing. Any insider information?
Why are books fine? Publishers don't print to order. The publisher has already printed thousands before you'd even heard of the book. The only marginal cost here is delivery, and that delivery person is already likely to be going down your street with a van full of goods whether you order or not. The marginal cost is just them adding the extra stop and unload for you, which is probably pennies. Or if you go to a bookstore that already had it on the shelf, it's practically zero marginal cost.

Everything is an exercise in amortization. You seem happy to amortize the obvious parts (printing, binding, stocking, delivering), but not the behind the behind the scenes parts (writing, editing, marketing). That's a crappy distinction.
Python has argparse in the standard library which does everything you may need and more. You can even make Git-like interfaces with it.

For most CLI tools you do not even need third-party packages in Python to begin with. You cannot beat that. And if you do, you don't need virtualenvs, because your system package manager can do the job just fine for most cases, or you can use pip or you can locally deploy.

Python has no ownership issues to think about. You cannot beat that either.

Type inference is nowhere close to dynamic typing.

Then there are other things like no compile-edit cycle in Python. No binary distribution. No shenanigans like issues with missing libraries and dynamic linking.

So you may disagree, but your points are not valid. The actual advantage for going for a compiled low-level language is performance, so unless you need that, there is no point on using Rust or any other compiled language for the majority of the boilerplate code for small scripts and CLI tools.
It was AT&T that failed to acquire T-Mobile, and paid the penalty fee which saved T-Mobile.
> Use Ed25519 keys. They are now supported pretty much everywhere

I discovered this week that AWS doesn't support Ed25519 keys for EC2 and IAM users.

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=250753
Google Pay, Youtube and Duo are very very popular in India. Try thinking global and not so US focussed for everything
This was on topic because the GP was talking about the fall of Venezuela. I expanded on WHY Venezuela fell, because it is tragic.

I had a lot of genuinely new things to say that I'm sure some people didn't know.

It's impossible to keep politics out of the news... I see political debates here all the time.

I didn't pull this out of my ass to bait people, I genuinely wanted everyone to know why Venezuela is in the situation it's in.

If I would have commented in the root thread I could see your point, but I was replying to the GP's topic.

I'm actually glad I did because some people thought Sweden and Norway are socialist countries...
I agree with your points
I hope you do write it up!

Here's a working link:

https://every-layout.dev/
An automated BVM to augment ventilator capacity
Bummer. I liked Legere's style, and T-Mobile works reasonably well. Sprint was a total disaster in my experience.
Dinosaurs are huge terrible lizards, though.
Matt Stoller's analyses are usually a mixed bag for me. I generally agree with him that the US needs a focused Industrial Policy but analyses like this one seem relatively weak.

A few things that I feel should be addressed but weren't:

1) If Newport had this huge deal (40,000 ventilators * $3,000 price = $120M), why would Covidien not continue it? What about this would have been against their interest? It seems like if it's both better AND cheaper, they would dominate the market globally. Unless Newport had a novel invention under patent for a few years, presumably competitors could have also done this. Even if they were concerned with significantly decreased margins at the $3k price tag, why not try an $8k price tag using the same, better machine and still steal the global market? It's hard for me to understand why Newport was this advanced but Covidien just destroyed their product and this isn't even questioned in the article. I don't think these are unreasonable questions.

2) Matt talks about a monopoly on purchasing. There's actually a standard term for this, "monopsony". I would love to see Matt write about how unions end up with monopsony power selling their labor and how bad that is. I don't expect it any time soon. That said, he does make interesting points on how monopsony works against producers. The weird contradiction here, though, is that this drives down producer surplus and profit of the exact same big businesses that Matt is usually upset about having too high of producer surplus/profit. This seems to me a bit to be arguing against his general purpose.

3) "The contracting officers in government should have mandated as a part of the contract that Newport Medical give the government all its research and proprietary information on the product, and put in safeguards to ensure that the product would be delivered." I totally agree with the latter half of this statement, ensuring the delivery of the product is a must. However, the first part that Newport hand over its research and proprietary information on the product seems like a huge governmental overreach. What can justify this? Now, it may be that the government funded this research directly (ie a grant or loan to specifically develop the product). If this were the case, then I understand that. However, it seems, according to the article, that the US government was simply contracting to procure the new ventilators. Demanding a company hand over their entire IP portfolio as a part of purchasing their product at market prices seems ridiculous to me. What's to stop the government from then taking that IP to another producer and getting them to produce it for them. That producer has way better margins what with not having to do anywhere near the same load of R&D. Not, that said, I may be misunderstanding this particular case.

4) Matt repeatedly calls the merger illegal. He does a bit of describing his theories for why it should've been found illegal but until a court or someone with the oversight authority makes this determination, this is opinion.
Early 'car phones' were simply multi-channel 2 way radios with a switchboard at the other end. You'd pick up the receiver, flip to a channel with no voice traffic, announce your personal code (DR83229 for example), and ask the operator to patch you through to a phone number.
I used well past my 2GB of T-mobile unlimited most months and never really noticed a slow down. Of course, my main use is email and reading which is not very bandwidth heavy anyway. I imagine most people are like me.
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Somewhat off-topic, but I've noticed that ssh-keygen is much faster at generating key pairs that GnuPG, due to the latter wanting more "proper" entropy.

Does that mean that GnuPG is overly paranoid? Or ssh-keygen's keys potentially insecure? (I really hope not). There must be some good explanation for this huge speed difference.
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Moscow Sparks Concern with Its Proposed Coronavirus App
Apple opened up its API tracking wasted time?
You can have a group call with up to 12 people now.
https://www.neowin.net/news/google-duo-now-supports-up-to-12...
Hi people. I'm the vice chairman of Libre Space Foundation (https://libre.space) together with the European Space Agency (https://esa.int) we coordinate this report.

Just wanted to make sure that this document is still in review and it's results shouldn't be considered final yet.

Cheerio.
Bankruptcy (Chapter 11, which Frontier is seeking) does not mean ceasing operations. It's only a restructuring of their debts, with an aim to return to profitability.
I am no doctor.

But if I have to choose between speaking out and dying, I would probably speak out.
That's not the nature of the argument. We've strayed from thick clients to thin clients, where the user has no control over hardware or data. This is strictly worse from an ownership and control perspective than the early web.
An Overview of the Science of Covid-19 Based on Scientific Reports
This article can be boiled down to one common sense idea and one less obvious idea:

1. Don't put secret information on a machine where someone you don't trust has root.

2. Don't use agent forwarding unless you know you can trust the machine on the other end.

Since agent forwarding is not enabled by default, both of these seem pretty obvious to me.
We use BlueJeans at work, and for my part time master's program. It doesn't have virtual backgrounds like Zoom, but it is very reliable and easy to use.
We shrunk our DNN 30X to run inside Chrome
Philippinos are some of the best people I’ve met. So happy.

They work insanely hard when given opportunities.

Cruise ships, middle eastern governments, and others have abused them for years.

Wish they hadn’t pushed for independence. As an American state they would have prospered so much more.
There is a thing called "Quantum Bayesianism": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Bayesianism
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The thing about Google is that they're pretty R&D heavy. Making Duo into a killer video app isn't the point, it's to handle all the technical edge cases in a problem space and then apply that to every system at Google.

I use Google Fi for phone calls and it seems like it's fairly lossy, but they can take their improvements, such as this from Duo, and apply it using software to make it less noticeable to me, a user on a completely different product line.
Thoughts on Wordpress Security
"Quantum Bayesianism, or QBism as Fuchs now calls it, solves many of quantum theory’s deepest mysteries. Take, for instance, the infamous “collapse of the wave function,” wherein the quantum system inexplicably transitions from multiple simultaneous states to a single actuality. According to QBism, the wave function’s “collapse” is simply the observer updating his or her beliefs after making a measurement."

https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-bayesianism-explained...
Negotiate to get credit for the work or cash. You would not have been able to register it. They did it with a change.
you found that out. Now you hold them responsible and Negotiate to get credit for the work or cash.
This article will inspire a lot of new types of chrome extensions.
Negotiate to get credit for the work or cash.
> Extend phase

Chrome, AMP, "improved" HTML standards, platformization...
The overall workflow for this app is so intuitive. Really nice work.

This is perfect -- and will also be perfect for cooking large meals.
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Your vitriol towards CSSWG is misplaced. The CSSWG didn't remove the functionality of `display-inside` and `display-outside`, they just made `display` multi-valued so you can write `display: inline grid`.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/display
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/display-ins...
Fallacious. A headache is evidence of a brain tumor, but there's not a 51% chance you have a brain tumor. You've satisfied some necessary conditions for retaliatory action, but haven't converted that into a probability.

You have a reasonable indication, but no preponderance of evidence. You probably have enough for discovery.
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Eh, it is never good for a customer to have less real choices. I honestly don't get why antitrust laws are not enforced these days at all.

For the record, I actually have T-Mobile and it is acceptable. I can't wait for service to get worse as it inevitably does after such mergers.
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If, on another hand, you do want to start spending a lot more time and effort and money trying to actively identify good investments, versus the low cost, low risk, low effort, likely higher reward approach of investing in low cost diversified index funds, one place to learn about value investment is Aswath Damodaran's website & blog: http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/New_Home_Page/home.htm http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/

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Magic: A Key-Based Authentication System for Self-Sovereign Identity
Duo supports group calls on mobile devices and browsers FYI.
I can't wait for how much they charge in the US for it. Hundreds of dollars? Thousands?!
> Prevention of loss/death should not completely eclipse our purpose of being alive.

The economy is not our purpose for being alive!

The "economy" directs our best and brightest to work on adtech and HFT for the benefit of people who are already rich. The economy underpays teachers, nurses, cooks, and other "essential" workers. The economy is the reason we cut taxes and defund the CDC. The economy has people continue to work while they're sick during a global pandemic because otherwise they won't be able to pay their rent.

The economy has figured out how to do some interesting things, which are not for the benefit of most people nor society as a whole. The economy is not our purpose for being alive!
This is not a true statement.

Dinosaurs and lizards diverged at the lepidosaurs. A dinosaur is not a lizard. They share a common ancestor.
There are two kinds of errors an FDA type agency can make:

A: Approve a drug that turns out to be a "cure worse than the disease", and shouldn't have been approved.

B: Not approve a drug that would have cured many sick and/or saved a lot of lives.

You can never fully know beforehand which error a decision will have. So the FDA will always gamble a bit in their decisions.

And here is the gigantic problem:

With a type A error, patients taking the new drug dies, there is an uproar in the media, the agency takes a big beating, and careers are ruined.

With a type B error, a lot of people who could have been saved dies. But that is no change from before, no one notices, and the careers of FDA officials are unharmed.

Given these incentives, it is not surprising that the FDA overwhelmingly errs on the side of type B errors. It's hard to compute, but the number of lost lives from this is probably in the millions since the 60s.
Can we agree that that is severely misguided?
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