skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'phone' actually is commonly used in technical circles to refer to voice radio communications, in contrast to other modes of radio communication.

Example:

http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Regulatory/Band%20Chart/Band%...
<face palm> How could I have missed that! :-)
Sure, just legally privilege the PII data and its derivatives so that using it for any other purpose than pandemic control sends the CEO of the responsible company to prison.

If they aren't willing to include an explicit legal protection for the data, it's bullshit.
Stating I'm wrong doesn't prove your point, just like sharing only one attribute doesn't make a thing something else.

Being a socialist country involves much more than the "production or distribution of goods and services".

You're overplaying even that because it's only one industry (healthcare).

Both Sweden and Norway are rated highly on the economic freedom index https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking.
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I think you are perhaps conflating the public health definition of surveillance with what HN usually thinks of as "surveillance." (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_health_surveillance)

In the US, if you get certain reportable illnesses (COVID-19, E.coli infection, meningitis, etc), it's reported to the county/state health department, and via various channels, ends up anonymized with the CDC. Likewise, there are syndromic and lab-based public health surveillance networks that will monitor flu-like symptoms (ILINet) and will sequence samples (PulseNet) to help track cases in the US. Moreover, there's even more public health surveillance when it comes to drug safety -- if you tell your physician that you got any of a number of side effects from a drug you're taking, that is reportable to the FDA (FAERS). What Gottlieb et al are asking for is merely extending the best practices we have from flu, foodborne, and other diseases to COVID-19, in a way that has proven extremely effective, and also preserving privacy and liberty.

I think many of us here are rightfully concerned about an increasing surveillance state, but the term "surveillance" here is an unfortunate term collision, and we should resist the knee-jerk reaction in this case.
This picture in particular looks like it's from some kind of "man in the high castle" ARG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute#/media/File:Bel...
If you buy plants from a nursery they will be covered in pests usually, especially later in the season. It's best to grow as much as you can from seed.
From the obesity rates in the links I gave in my comment. Your list is probably more appropriate, though.
There are a lot of things that turned out to be more compelling than WebTV but predicting WebTV doesn't make the author 'prescient' about them either. The claim was about the prescience not the compellingness.
Why on earth was this downvoted? This crazy avoidance of masks in so many western countries is disastrous. We've killed thousands of people, and for the life of me I can not figure out why. Just cutting up old shirts and tying them to our faces would prevent thousands of deaths, why are we still being told "don't wear masks"?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/03/28/masks-all-...
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How would being in an office change that? The time zone differences are a real factor in any global company, regardless of whether you are sitting in an office or in your home.
Permanently disabled on my phone.
The GPL requires that derivatives (A) credit you, and (B) release their source under the same license.

IANAL but this is not nitpicky legal details; it's the entire point of a copyleft license.
>Choosing whether to quarantine people is a judgement call,

This judgment call changed. If bureaucratic ineptitude was to blame, those people ignored proper procedure, making them insubordinate, and risked lives. And if they found the issue confusing enough to take eighteen days to issue the quarantine notice, they should understand why this employee might think they are being targeted for their labor practices.
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that's nonsense. It's like saying the monopoly of the FBI in enforcing federal law is a public safety issue.
Depending on where you live, that's not accurate. T-Mobile is perfectly adequate (and sometimes even better) compared to AT&T and Verizon, except in more rural and isolated places.
The issue is you want cert based auth that is easily revoked. So you set up very short lived certs Yubikrys and the like is then only used for exceptional cases .
This is going to be bad for all the norcal areas - where frontier is literally their only option.
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RHEL6 EOL is either in November 2020 or, if you purchase extended support, June 2024. https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata
Not entirely money, because they drop the small-government act for victimless moral issues too. Seemingly unaware that eventually it backfires.
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I must say, I had a rather mixed experience with OBS. I've used it before to do some streaming too, but it definitely has some issues with instability.

The example (anecdote, if you will) I remember right now: There is apparently a way to mess up your settings, so that OBS crashes. No error or anything in the UI visible. But then your config is messed up, so when you restart it, it immediately crashes again. You cannot fix it, unless you delete the settings files or reinstall the application.

It should not be possible to ever reach a situation, where you can make an application crash, by only accessing the settings it provides. It should warn about invalid settings or disable settings, which cannot be used, because of settings or reset the settings to something valid or ... But in OBS it's possible to basically mess up the whole application using its own settings UI.
Thanks. Interesting, I had no idea this was so much of a thing already.
It doesn't work.

I live in a high rise. Every time I am in my garage, find my iPhone thinks I am in the building next door. If I am in my kids bedroom, it thinks I am across the street.

What if the person above me is in their kitchen at the same time I am in my kitchen?
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It's medical equipment + all sorts of special deals with hospitals/ doctors= almost impossible.
I completely overlooked today's date (doh!)
Could this be what MS has in mind for the Xbox Series X?
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22739839
OP has done so further upthread. (Apologies for lack of link, I'm on an app that makes this difficult)
Presumably that makes it much more efficient and cost effective.
What percentage of the population is it worth losing in order to preserve privacy and resist surveillance? 0.1%? 1%? I'd probably pick a much higher number than you would. Does that make me a bad person?
Don't you worry now, Easy D and the Corporate Raiders are getting around that pesky regulatory body to bring you the finest suggestions directly from the their Facebook focus groups and Offal Office Microphone!
They've been doing this in both Israel and Norway for weeks. Norwegian police will actually pull over busses and physically separate passengers if they're not observing adequate social distancing.
Wireless phones transmit speech.

These only transmitted CW which was used to send Morse code.
contrary to what thatcher says, there is such a thing as a society. if you catch the disease, you risk not only your death or permanent disability, but also that of your family and neighbors, and in case of asymptomatic transmission, you have no idea you are a risk.

roads are a bad analogy because you don't spread crashes if you crash yourself or get crashed into. car crashes do not follow an exponential curve and aren't contagious. you always know you've been in a crash (except if you die). somebody's always at fault if there's a crash. pretty much none of these are true in case of a plague. we close roads and quarantine people because diseases are contagious and kill people or leave them disabled more or less randomly.
If there aren't checks and balances, then what do you expect?
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Congratulations on your coronavirus open-source app getting distributed and presumably used! I know it sucks that they didn't credit you or honor the GPL by sharing their modified source, and folks downloading it from a not-exactly-trustworthy government isn't my first choice, but I sincerely offer you my congratulations nonetheless.
No worries, I do take this 100% seriously. I cut down my contacts to minimum, not visiting any places were people get together (groceries bought online etc), basics like washing hands etc. Unfortunately it's hard to get a mask yet, so I've to resort to scarf when coming into contact with people. And most people seem to take it seriously too.

So far we had few nasty spreads in hospitals (mostly doctors coming from skiing trips) and parties. But all cases so far seem to be +/- contained. Fingers crossed we don't get a superspreader sometime soon. Emigrants' comeback routes are virtually closed. Pretty much only traffic from outside is truckers. Easter weekend and the week after it will be make-it-or-break-it. I could see life slowly opening up if masks are widely available by that time.

Stay safe. It's not end of the world. Stay calm, wear mask, wash hands and we'll be fine.
I agree. Early on we had clients who said "we have a list of 1,000 prospects we want to reach out to. How quickly can that be done?" My answer was usually "about a month, maybe longer." We like to research the prospect and their company, find a reason the offering might actually be useful, craft a message connecting those dots, then send an email or two and add in some phone calls.

We lost business that way, "Just send the template I give you..." THat's not a business I'm going to be in.

But I continue to disagree with the notion that cold outreach is SPAM, I'm amused that someone would tell me to do something else with my life, and I'm surprised that so many people are close-minded to how powerful and effective email-first cold outreach can be. We help businesses grow. We help our clients deliver value and service to other people, which in turn helps those other people's businesses grow. I'm sorry if any message I ever write ends up in your inbox and you think it's SPAM. But I assure you that a lot of thought was put into why you were contacted and the words chosen to try to get your attention.
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Tl;dr petite bourgeois

If you think this is detracting from conversation, try reading a book.
Sweden at one point, had marginal income tax rate EXCEEDING 100% for some people.

Look it up. It is very hard to believe, but true. That exceeds communism.

102% income tax rate, people...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomperipossa_in_Monismania
May I submit signaling simulators?

There are a number of options out there... SimSig (https://www.simsig.co.uk/) covers modern, fully electronic systems, and Blockpost (https://blockpostsoftware.co.uk/) covers old-school mechanical lever-frame and bell operations.
You got space limitations because you moved to a smaller flat. Office furniture is never a problem. You can make a table from IKEA (4 legs and the tabletop) can cost as low as £50 and if you pick them special legs you can make it a standing desk with the same cost. The only thing you can't cut corners on is the chair, a bad chair will ruin your health.
So in my younger days I was a full blooded libertarian especially economically, I was 100% against all government regulation. "You don't want lead in your meat, well then you do your research and stop buying meat with lead in it", I took positions that were pretty extreme by most standards, and I would stay I am probably still a little more out there than most people when it comes to opposing government regulation.

My reason for this was rooted in a deep and abiding belief in the supreme importance of individual liberty, "the government should only stop me from doing something that directly hurts somebody otherwise all government power leads to tyranny in one form or another at the end of the day" was the train of my thoughts at the time. I extended this to the economy because I viewed the government regulating business as a violation of my right to conduct my business however I want, "I own the business, I own the assets, it is my money that has been used to build up this business and some useless paper pushing bureaucrat can go shove it all for telling me how to run my business, its my property to use how I want." and I still hold to that to a large extent.

However recently I have been reflecting on the situation of powerful corporations recently, especially monopolies (which are more often aided and abated by government involvement than kept in check) and I think that I have discovered a fallacy in my thinking. I agree to live in a society and enjoy the benefits of a society in exchange for choosing to surrender my ability to exercise all possible freedoms I have. Implicit in this agreement however is that if I choose to violate the principles of this agreement by harming someone else for example, I will then be held accountable for that action and whatever comes from it.

With corporations that is not the case, when a corporation violates someone's enjoyment of life, liberty, or property there is no real accountability on anyone. There is no one to actually take the fall, they may be fined, but there is no one that is directly accountable, not the CEO, no the Board, the closest thing to an accountable group is the shareholders, which really just means random people's 401ks held under the trust of one of the three big money managers.

Ultimately it all comes back to the idea that a corporation has personhood, should a corporation be given personhood, and as extension the same liberties as a person if they do not also share the same accountability. We could say if a corporation breaks the rules that results in someones death then we "kill" the corporation by forcing it into bankruptcy, but that ends up punishing hundreds of innocent people that had nothing to do with the fact that Bill the VP of Product line X, who bribed regulators to sign off on shampoo that causes cancer.

I would welcome some pushback or opinions though on that train of thought, it just seems to me as long as no one faces significant personal risk, there should be no one allowed to exercise the same rights as an individual.
That man is a genius: let's do wide scale testing & contact tracing!

Exactly what everyone has been saying for a while now.
How is this 'months'.

Concealed extent : there is a diffuse line between hiding extent and not testing enough. The latter is happening for sure in a lot of western countries, including my own.
I've had good luck in the past using From<T> and TryFrom<T> to go from State<A> -> State<B>. It's similar to what you propose insofar as there are only some transitions defined, just relying on the built-in traits instead of using your own. Since State::from(prev) is so much more ergonomic than the other ways you could manually construct an illegal transition, it's not much of a problem to prevent that in practice. But I would never use this approach without being able to generate code with macros, otherwise it'd be a pain.

you mention "never have to match against an enum" - I think that's the biggest thing I learned from my experiences, is that generics or traits + associated types are much nicer to use than enums for the same purposes. With an enum, you have to match to pull any data out. It becomes annoying quickly.
The prescient bit to me was "the web could displace windows if it becomes full featured and there's a compelling alternative form factor to the PC."

Tons of people predicted webTv-like systems, but predicting MS losing power was much less common.
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I didn't think yesterday's Vim cube could be topped, yet here we are.
If this app is providing value to the Saudi people it would be unethical to take it down. We’re talking about lives vs an authors pride.
It's not nonsense. A couple years back, the FDA had a press release where they admitted they killed 1 million people.

They had finally cleared a heart attack prevention drug for sale in the US that had already been legal and approved and prescribed in the EU for 10 years prior. In the press release, the FDA said that as a result of their benevolent approval, the drug would save 100,000 people a year.
you don't have parents or grandparents? or did you just write them off for a max of $900k loss incurred? maybe less if you count inheritance...
While we absolutely need an antibody test, any such test would currently come up negative for the vast majority of the country.

It would basically be a more expensive way of doing what we're doing now.
The article was published with https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-03-30-dolt-use-cases/ and here is the short HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22751209
> which explicitly allows modification, distribution, commercial use

But does not allow Tivoization, something that the App store does. This is clearly a violation of the license.
Yes, but still not seeing the forest for all the trees.

Yes, a phone has substantial computing power - compared to old technology. But is has nothing in storage or processing power against the data centers of Netflix, Facebook and Google. It's very thin in relative terms.

Indeed, even native apps go to almost comical lengths to not use the CPU on the phone. Granted, they use them but for inconsequential things like eye candy. Voice recognition and "your" social graph etc is on the remote server. It's almost like there is a law that nothing of importance must be computed on the local device.
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Their employees are mostly American, as I originally stated. Their engineers are not.

Huawei USA is almost certainly majority controlled by Huawei China, whereas Zoom's Chinese subsidiary is almost certainly majority controlled by the US parent company. Hence, Huawei is a Chinese company for practical purposes (the people calling the shots will go to jail if they don't do what the CCP wants) and Zoom is an American company (the people calling the shots go to jail if they break American law, and are mostly out of reach of the CCP).
> It's as though, in suddenly shifting from the office to work from home, we didn't so much move the conference room into our kitchens as into the middle of the public square

So it's like the old good internet, where we didnt have to lease our lives from google and apple? i think that's great
> If you're launching a new product, how do you compete with products that have loads of features?

One way to compete with incumbents, in the beginning, is by niching down, and offering things they can't.

Using your tax software example, it'd make sense to start with a single persona first (e.g. Tax Software for US-based freelancers). By building a tool for the specific audience, you can offer an experience a generic tool can't (i.e. a sole proprietor doesn't care much about corporate income taxes, excise taxes, etc.). You will also have less competition if you decide to go down the paid acquisition route.

FWIW, I have noticed that some subset of my customers only use a particular set of features, and don't care much about the rest.

Another advantage of focusing on a niche is that people with similar characteristics tend to congregate in a handful of communities, which makes it relatively easier to reach them. At some point, you can hopefully take advantage of word of mouth, and that is an incredibly powerful way of acquiring new customers.

Also, when you're the person who built the service, you can offer support to customers in a way your established competitors simply can't. Caring about things is a competitive advantage.

Make no mistake about it: it's going to be incredibly hard. However, by going after the existing market, you minimize chances of market mistake, which is costlier than a product mistake (i.e. you increase your odds of survival).

P.S. Having an existing audience makes things easier. People buy from people they know, trust, and like, even if your offering isn't the best out there.
Having worked with CSP this isn't really something that can be fixed. If you disable scripts from all but approved sources your reporting URI will be flooded with reports from browser extensions and malware trying to inject code. The best you can do is silence the reports after they arrive (or in this case just allow them, yuck).
Legislation and regulatory oversight oversight. Everyone answers to someone.
Your pseudo-intellectualism is painfully obvious here. French postmodernism (Foucault, Derrida) is very different from critical theory of the Frankfurt school. It’s a token sign of someone who hasn’t read any of them to lump them together.

The influence of Kantian ethics on Marx and Adorno’s philosophy is very strong. Kant was a genius but in many ways his morality was stuck in the worldview of 18th century bourgeois. These modern authors chose to update his work instead of simply repeating it as dogma. Ironic that you describe Marxism as a religion, then. No, Kant is not the “opposite” of a Frankfurt school philosopher, and you’d be hard pressed to find any reputable scholar who would agree with that. A better “opposite” might be someone more contemporary, like Austrian economists, Karl Popper, or logical positivists.

Also, why not reply to my post directly instead of I subtweeting me? You should probably read more before you accuse others of “philosophical disinfo.”
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