skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who might be skeptical when they see AEI, don't be. The article is not a partisan think-piece. It's clear, straightforward, and based on science and reason. Highly recommended. I've been sharing it with people in my city who are concerned about "what happens next?"

https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/national-corona...
Japan PM, Abe plans to send cloth masks to every household in Japan
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Because it is. The tidbits all these articles conveniently leaves out about these successful responses from (more) democratic countries is that they are closer to Chinese techno-authoritarianism than not: Korea (health officials cross reference credit card bill, location data), Taiwan (tracking bracelet), Singapore (bluetooth app), Hong Kong (out-of-home quarantine). China is basically all of the above piped straight into police big data on top of various human and environmental layers. That's what is required because enforcing compliance doesn't scale with labour and quarantine dodgers are a statistical inevitability. Many of these countries started off with human monitoring. One of the key findings in Wuhan where there is magnitude more spread than these countries is that you have to isolate positive cases from whoever they cohabitate with (family, roommates etc). It requires forced out-of-home quarantine or infected persons WILL infect everyone they live with. These are known lessons that western MSM have deliberately overlooked until it becomes too costly to ignore because it involves interrogation of whether it's politically or culturally possible.

E: It's starting to feel like this entire process may reveal itself to be liberal democracies equivalent of "Why Arabs Lose Wars", too many contemporary cultural and political factors that makes effective quarantine impossible.
I'd be surprised if linear growth models can magically support exponential growth usage without a lot of suffering.
I'm happy about how web platform has progressed so far. You will be surprised how powerful it has became: https://whatwebcando.today/
Perhaps they're referring to pornography, and more extreme pornography on the peripheries that can be pretty easy to find even with a Google image search. I don't have citations at hand right now, but pornography has been shown to have particularly worrying effects on children. It's very reasonable to not want your children to be exposed to porn, just as it is to not want them drinking alcohol.
To the contrary, proper cold outreach can result in qualified opportunities for 2-10% of prospects contacted.
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Technologies: Go, Typescript, Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless, Cassandra, Postgres, Elasticsearch.

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>Does any change count as "evolution" or is someone quantifying which ones actually improve fitness?

I think it's helpful to get distance from the idea of "fitness" in discussion with laypeople, as it is often loaded with presumptions. Evolution selects for what it selects for. It's true that surviving to maturity and producing offspring is vital for evolution (for the forms of life that work this way), but that's far from the whole story and our intuition about 'fitness' is often wrong.
That is essentially not a stay-at-home order.
The word "surveillance" in healthcare is a little different than in regular politics - it basically means gathering information from the field. See [1].

However, we're going to be seeing a lot of discussion about infectious disease surveillance and the more nefarious types. As Maciej Cegłowski has pointed out, we are already doing the nefarious kind on a massive scale in order to target ads more effectively.

I do believe there's a middle ground, that this stuff can be done in a way that preserves human rights. But it will require attention and holding those who have the power to abuse the system accountable.

[1]: https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/surveillance-in...
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Woah, I was gonna ask if anyone knew when Display Capture was gonna be possible on macOS Catalina again, but when I opened OBS now, I see that it's actually possible in version 24.0.6 that I am running. Guess I must've overlooked it until now the last few times I looked for it, lol.

Anyway. Does anyone have any recommendations for settings to use in order to avoid lots of frame dropping and OBS making other applications sluggish when I try to stream to Twitch? I'm using a MacBook Air Retina 2018 model with an external monitor connected to it.
The major religions didn't survive thousands of years by being inflexible in the face of reality. What you'll see over and over in a long-term successful religion is basically "Well, obviously The Crazy Stuff We Believe is true, but we do need to be pragmatic and not necessarily act as though it's true". The type of preacher who stands by their belief that God will protect them from being shot in the head gets to find out the hard way that bullets don't give a shit what you believe and so their sect won't survive to dominate.

That's how you get the situation where the Pope, who is the head of a Christian sect (Roman Catholics) who very specifically believe that you need priests as intermediaries to God, tells his fellow believers no, don't meet in a church with a priest where you will get yourselves infected and die, stay home - instead pray directly to God, he's everywhere, so that will work even though our religion says otherwise.

But the US in particular is home to a lot of hucksters for whom religion is a way to separate the gullible from their wealth. For them the fact that a bunch of those worshippers may die, rather than being destitute, isn't a deal breaker - but going without tax-free "donations" for a few months isn't what they want, so you can be sure they'll want people to keep showing up and giving every penny they can.
> How many jobs can be done at home?

Infinite.

That's because the set of possible vocations is only bounded by human imagination. This results in an uncountable set, which would resolve to a value that approaches infinity.

A more insightful question is, "How many of the jobs that people hold today can be done at home?" 34% seems like a reasonable metric.
What do your friends do with it? It’s very high on my priority list for new languages to learn, and finding a job with it someday would be very interesting.
And they were right. Since magazines are just the TVs of the 1940-1970s, they effectively changed our lives by offering us glimpses of the Kardashians, Trump, Miley Cyrus, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Carl Sagan, FoxNews/MSNBC, SlapChop, etc. Media has always said it'd be a force for good (and I'm sure it intended to do so)...
OP here. Totally agree passing arbitrary styles down in props is not a great solution and makes to incredibly hard to reason about components. We defined explicitly using typescript the styles which can be set from the parent which makes it much easier to reason about and we can even use the "find all references" feature of VSCode to identify usages.
https://archive.is/iMVKi
Bellamy Salute
Detroiters Denied Coronavirus Testing Because They Can't Get Prescriptions
There is political intervention, but even that works in context of the market and so can only go so far.
It's an odd tradeoff for me. My phone can make phone calls and that's all. I rarely take it out when I leave the house. When I need to I may turn it off and check it just occasionally, but that's really rare, it normally lives at home. I choose that exactly for privacy reasons. You can tell I'm pretty hot on that kind of thing!

For this epidemic situation privacy just might have to take 2nd place for the protection of other people. If I became an unknowing carrier then such an app, though repugnant to me, might save other lives. It might be morally right to have a phone just for that. I think it probably is right, though it makes my skin crawl. I don't think the UK government would be stupid enough to try to force people to keep it, but then again...
Some places still have RHEL6, unfortunately, which predates that.
I have interacted with the guy that started OBS a few times because he's a member of a community I am in. He's an extremely intelligent person and definitely deserves some positive attention. If you use OBS and find value in it you should definitely consider donating, I know it goes a long way.
It looks like a general purpose 2D CAD though. I don't see anything specific to trains. Looks Interesting nonetheless.
Hello James (At least I guess your name is...)

Just letting you know that I am interested in applying. I will send an Email with more details.

My Email: chris.sannar.dev@gmail.com
That is true but I'd rather have the strategy in my toolbox and the choice to deploy it when needed rather than the language implementor making that decision for me.

That's a fundamental difference between Common Lisp and other more popular languages. CL tries to give you all the tools and trusts you to use them responsibly. Other, more opinionated languages, limit the problem solving approaches they offer in the interest of (popularity|performance|implementation simplicity|personal philosophy).

The CL philosophy makes a lot of sense if you examine its background and the culture that birthed it: a language designed to solve hard problems that did not have well-defined solutions.
How is ssh certificates the next level up? Feels like the added complexity of using this is might be worthwhile for larger orgs but maybe not smaller shops
I think it's awesome to see the Screenhero folks back in the game, but when I tried Screen.so out, it still suffered from two of my biggest complaints:

1. Unnecessary UI elements floating over the screen. Screen opts to have a floating box with buttons and stuff that you can drag around, but it's always floating over your screen. You can minimize it, but then you lose functionality. Tuple, on the other hand, hides their functionality in the system tray menu, and in the application's title bar. With Tuple, you can go into full screen mode and Tuple is completely invisible and the experience is seamless.

2. Screen.so places an annoying green border around the screen when recording/sharing (they did this with Slack, too, and I hated it). The green border often obscures application scroll bars and other window elements, and is completely unnecessary.
Wasn't the telephone switchboard invented a little after the telephone itself? Not to mention, dialing came even later, right?
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Once you've heard the warble of SSTV, it is quite simple to recognize - I hear it all the time around 3850 and 7175kHz or so; this is in IARU R1. Other regions may have other activity centres.
It's a very time-consuming task to point-by-point respond to every claim made by a person who dishes out near-limitless wild, extremely shocking accusations which are only ever taken seriously in essentially "underground" places, like this ghost of a comment sub-thread. There are often a gish gallop of dozens or more. It's the same process, be it a Holocaust denier, flat Earther, Sandy Hook false flag believer, 9/11 inside job accuser, or Comet Ping Pong child rape accuser. And yes, I do think it's fair and accurate to lump all of these together in terms of the faulty reasoning used to come to their conclusions and, and many of the biases and worldviews involved.

I've written many pages disputing a large number Pizzagate claims, including the ones you've brought up, on other websites in the past. It's extremely exhausting, and even more exhausting because it's so futile. No "knower of knowledge they don't want you to know" ever thinks or accepts they might actually be wrong about any of their extraordinary claims.

If someone could compensate me for my time, I'd definitely be willing to spend many days disputing every single criminal plot you wish to present. I think it's very likely there are at least a dozen. Again, if you believe in one of them, you likely believe in many others - that's confirmation bias. No, I shouldn't have said "guaranteed to believe", but I think it's highly probable.
Actually I never been employed by any of them, I referred to switching because as a lifelong Google user I was now switching to MS for online services. I will clarify that in the post!
I see!

Good to know.
With the 14 day incubation period there is no way to know if they are locked down needleessly or not.
The surveillance state has been here for a very long time.

They're just making it legitimate.
If you have the contact info of said previous coworker, I would encourage you to contact them and tell them about this software. Small things like that can mean the world to people sometimes :)
Agreed. I've been following Scott Gottlieb for a while, he's one of the favorite experts on my Twitter list[1] (carefully curated to avoid political bias). We should be evaluating these kinds of proposals on the basis of competence, and they deliver.

There seems to be a convergence of expert opinion around these kinds of proposals, see [2] for a quick survey. ("These two roadmaps are the same as all the others. Variations on a theme.")

[1]: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1239639611694911489

[2]: https://twitter.com/j_g_allen/status/1244371548410175501
More than that, I's say it's a pretty big stretch to say that a government giving something away is in any way 'commercial use'.
I'm genuinely curious, which individuals has this article convinced of financial advice? Why did this particular crisis, as opposed to any other, change your mind?
Filtering internet access for someone does not imply they are property; no legal system in the world (that I know of) recognizes or treats children as property. The idea that children should be permitted to do whatever they want so long as they can pay for it seems very backwards. We all know children aren't property, but we also know that parents have a responsibility to raise their children such that they are protected from things they may not understand yet.

To be honest, I was surprised to see you making comments like this, after seeing your programming skill, pretty reasonable takes about software, and discussions on Fedi.
How Covid-19 kills – explained by a surgeon [video]
Of course, it's the "conservative" think tank AEI behind this, wherein we discover that as always, the only thing they want to conserve is the current system, which is heading dangerously toward something perhaps best described as totalitarian liberalism.

As if they'll give up having details about every single person's location and who they're interacting with once this crisis is over.

As if this will make a serious difference in the curve sufficient to be worth losing all privacy over.
What Is Wtp2020?
A smarter plan is to do what has worked in Czech Republic, and just have everyone start wearing masks.

Masks are even privacy enhancing!

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/should-all-americans-be-we...
Not really - I should have bean clearer - by input i mean keyboard input and its manipulation.

You can pipe stuff to other executable all you want under Wayland, you might just not easily (eq. user granting permission using the correct protocol) inject keyboard events from on application to another (sey malware masking as a game injecting code in the form of keyboard events into a running terminal emulator or ssh client).
The keyboard hides your action buttons during signup. I'm running an iPhone X on 13.3.1.
I believe that it ought to be.

I mean, a computer is a computer, and unauthorized access is unauthorized access. No matter who's involved.
Xorg has definitely become easier to configure. Back in the old days, you had to write the XF86Config file, either manually or automatically during installation, or else it wouldn’t do anything. These days, Xorg auto-detects everything and you only need an xorg.conf if you’re doing something weird.
So AEI's solution is mass surveillance of citizens, their movements, and who they came into contact with? And they directly call for that to be a national database:

> The AEI authors also call for a national surveillance system to tie local systems together and enable contact tracing throughout the country

This is like the 9/11 and the Patriot Act all over again. Why is it that so called conservative organizations who proclaim to love "small government" always push the most privacy invading and draconian solutions? I'd call it turn-key authoritarian but I'm pretty sure the key will start out in the "on" position.

Keep in mind this is NOT a solution to keep people safe, this is a solution to allow US businesses to re-open sooner. It actually makes people less safe, and seeks to compensate by robbing people of privacy all so that business can resume.
No need to be rude.

You could do the math...

Over the next 4 months, if you get laid off and you were making less than $60k, you're almost guaranteed to not be negatively financially impacted. Over a longer horizon, who knows what else congress might pass. Maybe in 5 months you'll be screwed. Maybe not. Who knows?

The government is sending everyone making less than $60k a one-time $1200 transfer (federally tax free), plus $600 (federally tax free) per week. This is a total of $11,600 (if you're laid off). Adjusted for taxes on an annual basis, that's over $50k.

Then you add in state unemployment. Even somewhere like Florida that has one of the lowest maximum unemployment payouts in the country ($275/week), will almost certainly push you over $60k on an annualized basis.

California, Texas, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Ohio (representing about 40% of the country) all pay roughly a max of $460/week.

Generally, if you make $50k, most states will pay you out close to $460. Some like Florida will pay much less. Some like Massachusetts will pay much more.

Over the 4 month period, this would push your income up to $11,600 (federally tax free) + $8000 (taxed). On an annualized, tax-adjusted basis, the average person making $40k who is laid off would now be making close to $80k.

That's better than 78% of Americans.

Additionally, you could read the bill. The bill sates you can file for unemployment if you quit your job because you are impacted by Coronavirus -- which includes 1) if you get the virus, 2) if you take care of someone that has the virus, or 3) if you believe working puts you in danger of contracting the virus.

Source: https://www.cnet.com/how-to/coronavirus-unemployment-payment...

Additionally, do you have a source that most nurses go into the job to help people and not make money? Anecdata is not data, but I'm good friends with several nurses, and every single one of them doesn't like the job, but thinks it's a good option because the pay is good. Maybe you have the opposite experience. A study would be nice, but I'm not able to find one.

I don't know any nurse aids.
I try to love OBS but even the simplest thing (sharing a portion of your screen) requires tons of fiddling to get it work (you need to get the right area with sliders instead of just drawing it on the screen).

I guess it’s once again the same old story. In theory, it is a wonderful piece of open source software, but because of the lack of competent designers in the OSS-scene, the UX is awful for casual and first-time users. For pro-users, however, it is perfect.
If I told you I had an outreach strategy with a perfect record that could be made available to you, is that something you might be interested in?
My understanding of what you just said - status and contacts are stored locally, and the user will manually mark themselves as "infected" after a test. Presumably the receiver of that notification will have a local status saying "get tested".

But when you mark yourself to infected, how does that resolve to notifications for all your contacts? At some point that must hit the cloud and fan out to everyone, meaning the contact list is shared at that point, and with a large enough network becomes identifiable info. Esp if you combine that with skimming contacts.

Is the GDPR compliance and on the wire encryption what keeps it private?
Hostnames and DNS are not equivalent. Those are not nitpicks.

People use alternative name systems. They can be used with existing protocols and URIs. It's explicitly supported - neither local hosts file nor avahi are DNS. Problem is you need names to use, and you can't really pick non-conflicting ones, if any new gTLDs may be issued by ICANN.

There are alternative name systems, mostly using unique alternative TLDs and AFAIK none of them are registered or reserved at ICANN. I presume ICANN doesn't support it, or they want payments as in gTLDs. Payments for protection against future conflicts, not for a service as they do not resolve in DNS.

The article may not be clear, but AFAICT *.crypto are in fact resolving domains (among doing other things). When I install support for crypto names on my system, am I supposed to use something like:

ping crypto:<domain>
ping --crypto <domain>

How would an alternate URI scheme help?

I agree appropriating .crypto in particular may be a bit presumptuous. At the same time, one might expect .crypto to be administered by crypto, in whatever chaotic way people side with, along with the ensuing brokenness.
I see many people comparing automotive electronics to avionics, but there’s a big difference, in flight you can take your eyes off the “road” and in some situations even fly with 0 visibility, whereas in a car your next obstacle is only milliseconds away from you.
April Fool!!!!
That sounds like a great setup. I use OBS for recording and PulseEffects for some features like a noise gate. However, the latter doesn’t work well for me.

Do you have some docs you could share on the setup you describe above, please?

In any case, thanks for sharing your setup so far!
> Article contains plenty of disinfo itself : 'China tried to hide the outbreak for months' ( not true ).

https://nypost.com/2020/02/29/china-officials-knew-of-corona... (NY Post: China officials knew of coronavirus in December, ordered cover-up, report says)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/china-con... (Bloomberg: China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence Says)
AFAIK graphical application disttribution/sandboxing systems such as Flatpak pretty much require this to be avaialable if they ever want to provide reasonably secure sandboxing & might be already making use of this on Wayland systems.
Not the worst idea(and i mean this in the context of the current situation) and been done in other countries but i have a feeling someone's going to abuse this in the end for other "needs" as it always happens.