skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When comparing responses of each nation we really out to give consideration to the population of each as well as the land area.

When one nation has less population that a large city in another there really is no good comparison.
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Hi everyone,

App at - https://github.com/anmolsahoo25/covid19-dtrack-app

Just trying to do my bit to help during the COVID-19 pandemic. I have created an open-source app that uses Bluetooth to store data locally and verifies against a central database updated by a central authority. Currently it runs on Android. I am interested in exploring some encrypted geohashing techniques to also use location data in a privacy-preserving way (probably a research challenge, will start small!).

It's a very basic app right now and it is similar to the apps out there by a lot of other entities. I do not claim any novelty, but more importantly I took this opportunity to teach myself some Flutter and at the same time contribute in some way.

Would love to know people's thoughts!
But we don't know if covid19 was the main cause of death
Are you arguing grammar? Or is it about how those deaths are counted? I heard that some countries will not put COVID-19 as the cause of death if the patient had some other serious condition, like coronary disease, for example. If Italy is doing the opposite that would explain why there are so many COVID-19 deaths on record there.
This article doesn't mention the USA at all. Actually read the article. It is explaining how things happened, rather than just accusations.
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Author of the second to last compiler -- although simple in scope, it was one of the more exciting pieces of our undergrad coursework projects to work through (translating a language into another language).

Implementing lexical analysis and parsing manually as opposed to using lex/yacc felt much more valuable to understanding the module, which was very useful for the exam. Definitely recommend the challenge!
The real number (including "from") is most definitely a lot larger than that.
Has anyone implemented MANRS? Did you use a particular tutorial or documentation that you can recommend to learn more about it?
We know Italy counts "everyone". There was even a study done on comorbidities.
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You need lots of coverage for these things to work, plus you need reliable reports of all infections. Governments have access to both these datasets through mobile carriers and it s gdpr-compliant, so they can start tracing spread today
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No, this is the "with" number. The "from" number is unknown and is impossible to be larger.
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If I understood it correctly it tells the browser iranok to run scripts from all these origins. No idea why there are so many malware associated domains here. Maybe zoom’s ceo could enlighten us. Probably because of the virus and unexpected growth I’m sure.
This doesn't mean ADL will actually see a wide release.

I am still dead convinced we will never see a wide release of a 10nm desktop chip. It will be delayed then cancelled in favor of 7nm.

Server wise, same, limited releases, more smoke and mirrors etc etc

Intel will limp along with 14nm until 7nm. 10nm is utter broken and they can't fix it.
Immediate reaction: I'm sorry they settled on blue-tooth induced proximity. It seems likely to be a poor approximation of "epidemiologically relevant proximity". I would like to see research supporting the efficacy of this approach. I suspect they would conclude they need a geolocation-based approach. This will make privacy even more difficult.
I think you mean: In institutions where health care workers work, which is much more than hospitals. Many of them work in practices or in various kinds of nursing homes. The masks you may see often in an ICU aren't ones you'll see often in a nursing home or a physiotherapist practice.
I don't think its about the grammar. It is about how the cause of death is recorded. From what I understand if someone died having been tested positive for the virus in Italy the death is attributed to the virus regardless of any other ailments the deceased might have had. I don't this necessarily applies to other countries.
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Sure you could have COVID-19 and then get hit by a car, but in almost all cases pneumonia from COVID-19 is the acute cause of death even if they have some other chronic health problems.
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Unless I missed it, this is not open source right ?

Claiming to respect privacy without being open source is useless.

Google, Facebook, etc. also "claim" to respect you, they are also "compliant with European norms"
I have been farming for 8 years and asking for Meaningful Ag automation for 5. Applied twice to YC.

Simply put there is no $$ to replace manual labour. All Agtech is a sham. They are pimps for data collected from farms and fields that get fed to Wall Street and input and pesticide and tractor companies that use it to sell more stuff to farmers.

It doesn’t save farmers money. It doesn’t bring them meaningful Agtech or being Agbots and Farmbot to replace farm labour. The only agtech worth investing is Agtech that harvests data. That’s why probably all the Agtech and Agbot startups have investments from Ag input companies. It’s a dirty little secret that anyone can find out with a little bit of digging around...

Agtech has betrayed Ag.
It's interesting how even the delay adjusted z-score in countries doesn't work very well. Compare the graph of Netherlands to the graph that RIVM presented to the government yesterday (page 6):

https://www.tweedekamer.nl/downloads/document?id=fb38642a-88...
Yes. Now what are you going to do about it?

Nothing.

Because alone you can't.

And the others not only won't help you, but their actions will hinder yours.

Because they don't care.

Are you going to educate them?

Here is a list of all the people that did that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_whistleblowers

Most of them got their life ruined.

Nothing changed.

Because nobody cares.

Educated people have been repeating "don't put things on facebook", "use free software", "gov is spying on you".

The answers have been "I don't have anything to hide" and "you are paranoid".

Because nobody cares.

You can craft the best technological solution to that, if nobody cares about it, nothing will happen.

You can give the best information, if nobody cares, nothing will happen.

You can provide the most secure thing, if the competition gain an advantage from not doing it and you gain nothing, you will lose.

And deep inside you know that because:

1 - you are using a throwaway account

2 - you don't provide any solution to the problem

The situation is exactly the same as with all other topics where we gain a lot of comfort individually to do the wrong thing collectively.

Did we slow down global warming? Didn't we prevent 60% of the insects from disappearing? Did we stop delegating slavery to asian countries? Did we even stop buying from all those companies that enrage us in the news?

Nope.
Why would you assume that? There was a comorbidity study from Italy that did not hint at that at all.
>There is no way to have a world both against the EARN IT act and yet work for FB, Google, etc - they are basically all part of the same spyware industry.

Exactly correct. I said elsewhere in this thread that I gave them (plus ISPs etc) the benefit of the doubt when it came to Snowden and their compliance with government requests because I could understand they were scared by sept 11th, they wanted to be patriotic, maybe they didn't fully understand the risk or the future they were building etc. If they let EARN pass and comply with it, we all need to opt out.

My worry is how to get enough people to do the same. Being in the 1-10% of people not using these services is difficult (I have too many friends stuck using Whatsapp and Facebook messenger), it's uneconomic (who's buying a non-apple, non-android phone?) and it just makes it too easy for government to surveil you as your own special group.
These specific deaths are being labelled as the official cause was Covid19. So I think we can know. There are other deaths that didn't occur in hospitals under professionals so those deaths "may" be Covid19.

This is litterally the evidence we're using the justify the lockdowns. Initially I thought it was some grammatical thing you were getting at e.g. a building is evacuated not a person.
Only the host needs an account though. For hangouts or FaceTime, everyone needs to sign up to Facebook or Google.
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Even if it was only contributing - it should be counted.

I've told this story before - my dad has fought cancer for 8 years before he died, he was in paliatative care and one night his heart just couldn't go any longer and he passed away.

What do you think he has officially died "from"? Any sensible person would list his specific cancer as the cause of death, right? Nope, all the hospital wrote in his report was "died of cardiac arrest". So he exists in a statistical report somewhere as a 50 year old who died of...heart problems. That probably leads to some other people somewhere else going "hmmmmm, we have a weirdly large number of people dying from heart problems lately - better increase the cardiology budget!".

Do you see what I'm going at? Even if someone already had ongoing problems when they got covid19, both should be listed as the cause of death.
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I'm not the person to answer but let me try. Anyone correct me please.

Side channel attacks are AIUI about information leakage. They extract info on the state, not modify state[0]. I don't think privilege escalation is really related because that needs to modify state you should not have access to[1].

Capabilities at the OS and software level are software enforced, which is built on assumptions about the security (correctness guarantees) of the hardware. If the hardware leaks, the software is vulnerable unless/until patched to try to paper over the leaky cracks in the hardware.

Again, AIUI.

[0] Though such extracted data might be a security token that can subsequently be used to actively attack, such as logging in via someone's newly pwned admin password.

[1] I suppose rowhammer is exactly that, though, an attack that intentionally leads to a handy state change for the attacker.
I'll leave some feedback from the customer side...use or ignore as you wish.

I didn't read the announcement because I had a big popup forcing me to sign in. I'm not going to create an account to read a business announcement. It's a bad sign when someone in your business posts on another company's site - kind of like fastmail_support@yahoo.com.

I checked out your website to see if it's something I could potentially use. The modules are Google-heavy but there's nothing for Microsoft. My understanding is that a lot of businesses still use Microsoft.

Finally, $60/month might be a hard sell in a cost-cutting environment where companies are laying off workers and doing what they can to survive. I'll note that Zapier has a $20/month price point.
Weird, surprising and unhelpful are value judgements on your part. It could be a security feature to someone else!

The hidden (not deleted) comments are hidden not because they contain criticism, but because of an unnecessarily harsh tone, which is unhelpful to anyone wanting to read up on the discussion at hand, and definitely not helpful for the motivation of anybody currently doing the unthankful work of maintaining pip. They do a very difficult job, where they have to deal with 20+ years of legacy, many different operating systems, many different Python distributions, many different skill levels in their user base, and even having to fight OSS fatigue due to unconstructive criticism. Pip is as good as it is due to their hard work, and we should be thankful to them.
This is "we are sorry for getting caught" changes-nothing nonpology.

The use of "end to end encryption" designation was no confusion, it was deception - it is implausible that this could have been done accidentally or as a result of a misunderstanding without engineers warning managers that this is not how zoom works and being overridden in their objections to communicate it as such.

They also double down on data collection. Disclosure does not establish consent and "we do not sell data" is a red herring because data can still be shared with third parties for business purposes against the interests of the users without being overtly sold (not to mention with governments under various "compelled cooperation" arrangements) and the entire policy can be subject to retroactive change without recourse.

The fact that they were targeting organizations with IT support is irrelevant except maybe to discredit the people within those organizations who greenlighted Zoom.

The saddest part is that it is unlikely any of the competing corporate offers are any better in any of those respect, but then they are not being actively pumped these days.
> But did so much earlier in the curve than Italy.

Things could have been better for Italy if they had imposed a total lockdown a little earlier for the Bergamo industrial region. The fact is that the industrialists in that area were against it and nothing happened, apart from the whole region of Lombardy being put in a looser lockdown a few days after things had started going bad in the Bergamo region. That "helped" the virus spread around Bergamo and in the whole province of Lombardy, so that Bergamo together with neighbouring Brescia were the most heavily hit regions both in number of cases and deaths.

Denmark had it "easier", so to speak, because if you lockdown Copenhagen I guess you've already lockdown-ed half of the country already.

This is an article in Italian [1] about what went wrong in the Bergamo industrial region.

[1] https://www.ilpost.it/2020/04/01/disastro-alzano-lombardo-ne...
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It might also be the case the the Italy (the north in particular) suffered from a larger influx of people with the virus from China or elsewhere to begin with. This means that they're starting with a significant handicap. I think this also adds to the difficulties of direct comparisons between countries.
You are write that the from number is unknown, but it can easily be larger. If a person is not tested and dies and is still not tested, they could have died from the disease without it being recorded. Unless every single death is being tested and every single test is 100% accurate, it is possible to be larger. I don't know whether it's plausible, but it's definitely possible.
Look at those photos. Those citrus trees are canopied trees. You can let an Agbot roam in that orchard. It won’t even pick up signals. There is no systems approach. If you can’t harvest data, no Agbots. I understand the importance of data with tech. But if the end result is data, then it is the product. It doesn’t enable Ag.
We can say that about almost any natural cause of death, but we don't.
>There is no way to have a world both against the EARN IT act and yet work for FB, Google, etc - they are basically all part of the same spyware industry.

Very well put
Headlines about coronavirus case counts are worthless
As the other comment already said you're comparing apples and oranges. If you take some regions of Spain that has around the same population of Denmark for example they're more or less at the same level of Denmark. Most of the contagions in Spain are in Madrid.
You need to sign into to google for hangouts though. You don’t need to sign up to attend a zoom meeting.
Possibly a meta question on instructions: is there such a thing as having 'too many'?

I know transistors are cheap, but at what point is it diminishing returns on new instructions? How many different use cases need to be handled? Certainly there are new situations that need to be handled (e.g., H.264/5/6, AV1 video), but will there ever be a point where we can say "this is enough"?
Is the app open-source?
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We're not talking about secure, we're talking about "not insing unsecured REST APIs on client machines that can't be removed".

Zoom isn't on the secure radar at all. They're fighting to not actively compromise your computers security.
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Some of those articles are just a modern Tantra - no one is seriously trying to refute these models because lots of people have a comfortable, high social status living out of it, just like modern theologians or tibetologists - they know the mantras and it's current interpretations, and the question of "How real it is" is frowned upon.

Generalisations aside (however valid and useful) most of this theoretical physics is nothing but a socially constructed models, agreed upon.

And yes, I have read a few of Bohm's books before forming an opinion.
FreeBSD recently switched PPC32 to Clang and LLD https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/684fed6e06cc3d3cff... :)

As for WinNT and other non-ELF platforms systems, that's retro hobbyist territory, not very likely to end up in upstream LLVM. But you could always convert object files into the right format externally! e.g. for years building TianoCore EDK2 on non-Windows has involved conversions from ELF to PE (now there's also a CLANGPDB setting that produces PEs directly from LLVM)
The problem is the required bandwidth, if you send all streams to all participients. If you do that, you can do end-to-end encryption, but you have to send all streams at the maximum resolution you want to support. If the server handles the mixing, each client only needs to be send one full-resolution stream.
Is there a rationale behind Intel's codename scheme?

With (e.g.) Ubuntu they go through the English alphabet, so you can get some idea of the order things have/will come out, but it seems that Intel is using a random word generator for their X Lake names.
It also sort of says "think of the children" so they can continue their remote education. with zoom. :)
This problem also seems to stem from the fact that Zoom has been used primarily in the corporate settings until now, which kinda validates their claim. Definitely not ideal, but understandable.
I fully agree with everything you have said. I have made a similar comment and it got downvoted to hell. I do not understand HN anymore.
The death tallies publicised for Covid-19 record the number of people who died after testing positive for this coronavirus, without any consideration for how serious their symptoms are or what other health problems contributed to their death. This is different from how basically all other respiratory infections are recorded.
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The death counts being publicised are the number of confirmed cases that died. In other words, if you test positive for coronavirus and then die, that's +1 for the number of Covid-19 deaths in that country. This is not the way deaths related to any other respiratory infection are recorded.
> The clients could negotiate keys to protect the contents of a meeting end-to-end.

Not really because Zoom makes fairly extensive use of the decrypted video streams on their servers, e.g. to detect who is talking, pause video for people with slow connections, etc. You could maybe do it for meetings with a few people in, but good luck doing it for meetings with 100 people.

Hell the cryptography of group end-to-end encryption hasn't really been worked out yet. WhatsApp doesn't do it and that's just for text. I'm pretty sure Signal doesn't either.

There's really nothing bad with not having end-to-end encryption for group video conferencing apps. The shitty thing is that they pretended that they did.
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which exacerbates the problem.

A possible scenario is that users continue to browse the user directory and join meetings with their Zoom account even after leaving a company.
If you're in "epidemiologically relevant proximity" you're almost surely also in bluetooth proximity. Quarantining a few more people than necessary is not a big deal and totally worth the privacy tradeoff imho.
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Zoom also works in the browser (though they really push you to the app).

I tried Hangouts recently and the quality was terrible compared to Zoom. Discord was far better than Zoom though.
> Isn't this where fines balance things out? I mean, it's 2020 ... GDPR isn't a new thing.

Exactly! Thats the point I was trying to make (sorry if that didn't came accross properly). It's not like they are facing completely new challenges. GDPR has been in place for years, yet they are breaking it. Guessing URLs to access "protected" files is also not unheard of.

I understand that it is a massive challenge to scale so fast and its good that they have plans to fix these issues, but these are mistakes that could have been easily avoided in the beginning.
I read the article - is there anything I should be looking at in particular?
Just updated to 10.15.5 Beta (19F53f) and still no issues with dropbear or sshd.
It can be larger or smaller. People who died from the effects of Covid-19 without having been tested would make the "from" number larger. People who died after testing positive, but whose death was primarily caused by a comorbidity would make the "from" number smaller.
Dr Anthony Fauci isn’t head of the CDC, and it’s the White House that has taken control of executive narration, hence why the CDC has so few televised statements these last 2 months.

It’s been a persistent theme that if you looked abroad at media and foreign scientific and government announcements, you’d get a pretty good predictor on what your own government might begin to merely signal as precursor weeks from now.

So people have been trying to form fuzzy pictures based on the disorganized interleaving of ad hoc mayors, governors, business leaders, institutions, all making their little ad hoc decisions.
It does apply to most other countries, as far as I am aware.
Shouldn't permissions ultimately be Turing-complete functions?

E.g. you could do fancy things like grant someone access to a folder, and also to all subdirectories whose name starts with "collaboration_".

And you can build any kind of permission system with it, if you don't like the power or complexity.