skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I'm not clear to that extent the NSA hacks people phones. I would imagine for most users they would have good access to our GPS data, e.g. via Google Maps?

Edit: I'm assuming that GPS level precision is sufficient to start the dystopia
What are you demoing, and to whom?

( My guess is some kind of spam / astroturfing product. )
Indeed. A black swan is something you never thought could exist before because you've only seen white swans. We've had pandemics in the past, though not as serious as this one. This is not a black swan, and calling it a black swan just undermines what a black swan is.
"Do something about it" like what? The 2nd amendment specifically says the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. If some nutjob wants to hurt people, he can figure out a way to do it with some household chemicals and gasoline. And if we're truly worried about that, shouldn't we be addressing the mental health problems that would cause somebody to drive a tank through a mall? I know it's a cliche, but guns don't kill people... people do.
TOPGUN is pretty much gone now.
Coronavirus has already killed 100k, and we're still in the first quarter.
The . comment leaves a mark: I have nothing to say but I wish to express my sadness at the passing of this person.

“Favoriting” carries implications of joy, treasure, and delight.
You can’t upload who you were close to because you only have a set of pieces of data that can’t be traced back to people without their key. Only if infected, you upload your key to the server which distributes it to the others who can then tell if they’ve been close to you.
These mind maps look like MindNode which I think are the best looking.
I already know I'll never get into a FAANG, so I don't bother looking there. Also, I look at the team photos on startup websites, and if no one looks over 40, I don't bother with that either. Otherwise, it's just down to finding a place that has problems to solve that are hard enough to be interesting.
I could see it.
Show HN: Today my USA Covid 19 death prediction run short of 50 deaths
Agree strongly

I was one of the people that bought a license after Jetbrains made all the improvements to their licensing scheme.
Coronavirus has a great PR team
You're not wrong, but the first part is largely what I'm talking about. When people say something is "light-years beyond the kind of political leadership and public-private coordination we’ve seen thus far", I don't think they're doing a principled analysis of what political leadership or coordination has been able to accomplish in the past.
That's very true. Ghidra is going to get a debugger soon (there was some activity in the issue tracker about this recently), and already has some amount of dynamic analysis support through its emulator feature. But right now, IDA's debugger is pretty much best-in-class.
I imagine that any German, if they desired to commit genocide, could join the Nazis and acquire a weapon. Those who disagreed with the party in power could not.

Citizens being armed would both change the calculus of a genocide, making it harder to execute and possibly preventing it.

If attempted anyway, it would be much messier for the Nazis.
You think that old people have less of a need to socialize and have experiences?
On the one hand, I would like a debug mode that let me run without encryption. On the other hand, I agree that if it's not required then it will end up being skipped out on in a real, production system on the public internet.
Wow, that bug is almost as old as I am! I'm surprised it's still an issue; I wonder if they'd take patches for it.
Some other countries allow private ownership of firearms without a Constitutional amendment, so latter case is theoretically possible with or without the 2A.
Byeeeeeee!
Bad shit happens to a minority of people every day, permanently disrupting their lives and forcing them to abandon long-term plans. The majority remain oblivious and see an enduring status quo.

Suddenly a Black Swan craps on everyone at once, and a great many people are whining 'why is this happening to me' and 'when will someone fix this so I can go back to my routine'.

Guess what? Your routine is probably fucked. Throw it out, get used to the new normal, and accept that no one knows how to fix this (yet?), just like every other time we get hit by a context-changing problem.

Of course some people get too attached to their context, and those who come later and find their remains might label such events as 'out-of-context problems'...
Does this all depend on people's opt-in and self-report? What is the minimum opt-in percentage to keep the system functional?
Letter of recommendation: Terro liquid ant bait (2016)
When we offer the trial option, this is the #1 reason most people are interested in it. They are just as concerned about evaluating us, as we are about evaluating them.
> Our untrained intuitions don't really matter.

On the contrary, we have no choice but to use our intutions, at whatever level of training they are at, all the time. So it matters a lot. If A is easier than B iff we learn to think differently, but learning to think differently is harder than just doing B, then A isn't actually easier than B.
The article claims that the configuration will not change from what the RAAF had been flying, and that the planes have been more or less fitted with the most modern upgrades available.

So, nothing rivaling next generation hardware but also nothing to sneeze at either.
You didn't read the article? They are armed jets.
This link was posted in the thread on Elm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821447

It makes a nice contrast to the way that the core Elm team pushes back on forks and retains control for themselves.
We'd just need something like Ellis Island to quarantine returning travelers who are American citizens, simple as that.

But realistically unless they imposed a blanket 2 week quarantine, they would just be letting the asymptomatic carriers through anyway. Nobody was prepared that early to go to such extreme measures.
Can a child have multiple parents?
sct 3500.
IIRC Ghidra is pretty amd64-centric. IDA on the other hand has dozens of less-known CPUs types, you need when dealing with embedded and not so common stuff.
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How? Or is this just some non specific idea about any contact tracing concept?
This doesn't appear to be a way for the government or tech companies to track people. Looking through the API docs I think it's designed just to alert people who may have been exposed.

It lets someone identify as Covid-19 positive and then if people have come into contact with them, you can be alerted. Most of the processing happens on device and it doesn't use location data.

It looks like it would be very hard to abuse by governments or businesses, but I'm not an expert on these kind of things.
Does it really make sense to start over for NAT now that ipv6 is so far along?
It might overwhelm the legal system. Then people will propose flattening the curve on bankrupcies. Maybe it’ll encourage the legal system to go all online. Somehow I doubt the courts will be powered by DocuSign faster than corona kills off the unadapted.

Also, beneficiaries of bankruptcies are the same billionaires and hedge funds being bailed out now. Distressed private equity funds will be salivating over all the fire sales.
Well, margins do not need to exist when reading on a tablet (unless for margin notes but these are usually scant). I have an iPad 2019 which I think is 10’3’’ and honestly, math papers (my area) are pretty much equal to the “real thing”.
It's much worse because it won't have judicial oversight.
Thanks, that is pretty impressive
"The best programmers I know didn't have a degree in CS" has become a pretty tired cliche at this point...
More frequently than every 10 years?
When are we just going to admit that our choices are:

1) indefinite lockdown
2) everyone gets the virus

Between a 0.5% chance of dying, and life imprisonment, I'd take my chances.
What a long winded article on what has been known to scientists for decades as "emergence". Emergent properties are systems level properties that are not obvious/predictable from properties of individual components. Looking and observing one ant is unlikely to tell you that several of these creatures can build an anthill.
I agree with what you're saying, but it's not a misunderstanding - the original article really is saying that the stay at home policies are designed to contain the virus and won't end until a containment plan is in place.
Instacart users enticing shoppers with big tips before dropping them to zero
You do know that there also is a Find My Device service for Android that runs on all Android phones?
Thinking this might be different. I've been curious what the BLE packet structure might look like. Looks like there's 16 bytes of unique id needed for the "Rolling Proximity Identifier" in the spec. Typically iBeacon would have 16 bytes of unchanging UUID, and 4 bytes that can change: https://support.kontakt.io/hc/en-gb/articles/201492492-iBeac....

Could probably flip it to be a 4 byte prefix (to identify this packet for contact tracing), followed by 16 bytes of the Rolling Proximity Identifier, but not sure if the underlying hardware (the BLE chips) can do low-power matching on a pattern like that. Something only Apple and Google could make work, so this is exciting.

(Or, it could be iBeacon to wake, then making a connection to fetch the Rolling Proximity Identifier. Though, in my experience, not requiring a connection will be more reliable in practice, especially for Android.)
It hurts your case if you respond defensively or sarcastically.
Ask HN: Any sites like oursignal.com?
This was a unique and fun presentation of "news" (news mixed with Reddit posts, memes, etc.).

https://web.archive.org/web/20110715022320/http://oursignal....

Wondering if there are any sites around that aggregate similar things in this way
I really doubt that.

Hell, vast numbers of people have been doing it voluntarily already with loyalty cards.
Overcommit is needed when a large process fork-execs a smaller process. If overcommit is disabled then forking a large process will fail even if it would be safe in practice. A proper implementation of spawn() could fix this but that's not the Unix way.
Years of lockdown really would be draconian and I think we could start to compare it to the value of human lives. I think we need much more focus on how and when the isolation ends.
Here's the Fed's term sheet: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/file...
There is always substantial criticism of any minority position in science, it's a subculture full of bullshit politics like any other. Also see my other comment - 15% could just as easily be too low:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22835310
> Is it, in fact, "well within our powers", or do you just believe it is?

Public opposition ended the Vietnam War and the draft. It would be political suicide to reactivate it barring a full-scale world war.
Got a lot more than that this time before being flagged.
I've seen that Stallman does consulting at $250/hr, which is interesting when you consider that I, a no-name from a no-name state school with 8 years' experience, am billed to my company's clients at more than 1/3 the rate of someone who's effectively a celebrity.
HN wouldn't let me nest another response. This is in regards to "Timers aren't necessarily even a requirement"

<<you can busyloop and count iterations of that instead as a “timer”>>

Assuming you're the only job running on the CPU, which is not the case. Threads are not running continuously. But again, if there is a working exploit in the browser then show us. Talk is cheap.
200 products, and none of them are AWS SQS alternatives.
Also, my frame at least has some kind of broken internal Wifi.. so using it as a tv with the internal apps is annoying, I have to almost daily factory reset it to get it to reconnect to our (otherwise fine) WiFi and stream stuff... :/
I got mine in December (I believe this means I had the "bad" firmware), but I still loved them immediately.

However, about 1 month later I noticed that noise cancelling (and passthrough as well, which was even more annoying) wasn't really working on one side. I tried factory-resetting them, tried everything I could think of, and nothing helped. So I scheduled an Apple Store appointment. To Apple's credit, they replaced the one on the side that wasn't working, for free, with very few questions asked.

However, that's when things got weird.

Now the older one wasn't cancelling/passing-through as well as the brand new one. It was doing something, just not as much, which led to a really distracting audible asymmetry. This was confirmed by the fit test not working in just that one ear. Again I tried updating the firmware, factory-resetting, etc.

Eventually I found this thread on MacRumors: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/airpod-pro-ear-tip-fit-...

tl;dr, it seems that some of the meshed gaps/microphones the Airpods Pro use to calibrate their various special audio features get very easily clogged by ear wax, skin oil, etc. And they're extremely sensitive to this, to the point where you have to clean them out very frequently to prevent degradation. I went through and rigorously cleaned them - rubbing alcohol, cotton swaps, etc. - and even then mine still have problems. The only way I can prevent the asymmetry it is to turn off the "active sound" features altogether. But this means that not only don't I get full noise-cancelling, I can't even safely use them just to listen to music in any spaces where I need to be able to hear my surroundings. They are now worse than the regular Airpods that I gave up when I got them.

This is completely unacceptable for a product that costs $250, but at this point I'm exasperated. I'm tired of going to the Apple Store, and it's presumably not even open right now with the virus going. I wish I could just turn them in and get a refund, but I think it's been too long. If I could do that I'd probably even buy a new pair of the regular ones and just go back to those; mine had worked mostly without problems for over a year. At this point I don't know what to do about it all except hope there's a recall-like process like they did with the butterfly keyboards.
This is not correct.

https://www.virology.ws/2017/02/17/viral-rna-is-not-infectio...
" but it mostly doesn't make sense for Russia/China to spend their effort finding out what the US thinks Russia/China is capable of"

What? Quite the opposite, it is totally valuable information, if you know, what your enemy thinks you can do. Because then you can adjust, to surprise him in real combat. Or you find out that they over- or underestimate you in a certain area, which is very valuable tactical information as well. So they surely are a target for foreign intelligence agencies, but I am pretty sure they know that.
> what’s faster than a fast join? No join. With nosql you have more flexibility to store the data organized in the same way it is accessed.

You can definitely do this in PostgreSQL via materialized views. They're directly supported in recent releases, and they don't require you to denormalize the underlying datamodel unlike NoSQL.
Stock market already took its hit. Most real wealth is in private markets: residential real estate, private equity, and bonds. Bonds are being bailed out by the fed. Residential real estate and private equity will take some time to deflate. Then the rent collectors in residential real estate (state property taxes) will take their hit...
That's a temporary entry so, of course, it would be removed eventually.
TFA ignores how much shorter everyone's attention span is in 2020 vs. 1930.
Microsoft should really consider releasing their official implementation as open source and integrating it with Linux desktop in a way that doesn't suck. Vnc sucks pretty bad. NoMachine sucks a bit less, but doesn't seem to be maintained. RDP doesn't suck at all. I've worked with Windows machines halfway across the globe using it, and while the experience wasn't super snappy, it was usable. I also spent thousands of hours working from home using RDP when I was at MS in 00's. With sufficient network bandwidth, in full screen, the experience is indistinguishable from a local desktop.
Thanks! This is the kind of thing I was looking for:

https://github.com/AquaQAnalytics/TorQ/blob/master/code/proc...

I could imagine working on a codebase like that.
Because you're leaving out the third choice: control the rate of infection so that the chance of dying is lowered.
What’s been destroyed is not some amount of $, but of productivity as measured in $.
Yep, krdc needs a lot of love - I just use the freerdp command line program and that works great.
No, it was already terrible before.

But it was labelled as terrible. I was for the secret service.

Now it's going to be culturally accepted, and in the hand regular administrators.

This is on order or magnitude worse, for something that was awful.
Anyhow, in this case it should not count as a SARS-CoV-2 fatality, so this doesn't affect the fatality rate.
After a quit scan of the protocol and API outlined by Apple and Google: it looks privacy & technically sound to me.

I would remove the Android FAILED_REJECTED_OPT_IN status code (https://www.blog.google/documents/55/Android_Contact_Tracing...).

I cannot find it in the Apple API specs, but maybe it's not defined in there yet.
On wednesday I was shown the obduction pictures of a ~30yo regular guy from my city, who had holes in his lung, by a friend who‘s working in ICU.

This friend basically said that if you are young and need to be ventilated you enter ICU with a better lung than older people.

So when you leave ICU you have enough lung left to not die. You would have died with an overwhelmed ICU, though, and you‘ll likely need a long time to get back the health you had before. If ever.
Yeah, you passed in float32. The function always promotes to float64 instead. You can argue that NumPy/CuPy should provide a purely float32 option, instead you went something like “look at how my expf beats their exp in benchmarks! What are you talking about ‘not the same function’, I made sure to pass float not double!” (a libc example to illustrate the point). And it’s not clear to me you realized the difference before akssri pointed it out, which renders the benchmarks pretty meaningless.
that isn't a reason to be complacent about furthering governmental/corporate surveillance capabilities.

in fact, it should remind us to take away those prior surveillance capabilities, and demand any contact tracing system to give control to users and be fully off-limits to large power structures (e.g., only shared between users and researchers).

and being hard to do so is no excuse. we have millions of people we can work on the problem if it's so important to warrant such massive effort.
This is very different than what you think when you hear "find my iPhone|Android". Iirc the find my iPhone tech does phone to phone association to identify the location.

See: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluet...
12 deploys in an 8-hour window is only 40 min per deploy. Do they really perform all of those steps in 40 mins, or do they have multiple deployments going at once (pipelining)?
The logogram in OP suppresses Google’s four colors, and so did the one on Google’s blog:

https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/appl...

Also, the Apple logo is first. I wonder how this was decided?
Nine simple steps for better-looking Python code
Walking 6 feet past someone has a low risk of transmitting the virus to them.

Standing 6 feet away from someone for an hour... Is another story.

Also worth noting: My wife has worked with a lot of community choral groups. She is convinced that they took all reasonable precautions, but doubts that their rehearsal space was sufficient to accommodate everyone standing 6 feet apart from eachother for the entire exercise... Or even for any part of it.

I leave it as an exercise to the reader to work out what this means for the typical tech firm's open office layout.
And crucially, the context of the shared space makes a large difference. You simply cannot compare 6ft. outdoors with lots of ventilation vs. indoors and forced air vs. indoors and no ventilation.

The choir practice should not be an example of how easy it is to spread; rather, it should be an example of the unreasonable intuitions people have about 'distance'.

Remaining in close contact, indoors, while singing, for a long period of time is not a good idea. It is quite reasonable to expect that to lead to transmission.

Similarly, two people passing by each other on a sidewalk, with nose breathing and mouths closed, even if it's closer than 6 ft., is a very small risk. Still good to maximize space, but nothing to get worked up about.
The number is off, but it doesn't matter. I think he was being hyperbolical, but we can consider the idea of bailout to people vs bailout to corporations anyway.

Give each family 60k, and you cover them for a year at the same cost of the bailout that actually occurred.

In that scenario....

Groceries get bought. Bills get paid. Essential businesses make money, which means they get compensated for being useful. That's a good thing.

Elderly employees who don't feel comfortable working, can quit their jobs.

We have grown so accustomed to rampant corporate feudalism that it almost feels un-American to question the collapse of companies that are not essential to the health and well-being of our citizens or our government. It feels wrong to allow the financial losses of a billionaire who knowingly bought a risk asset, only because we have been told for years that normal people need billionaires to create our jobs for us.

Let them take it in the face for once. Risks have a downside factor. We shouldn't eliminate that just because rich people want to maintain their riches.
Yep, and also we don't have overloaded hospitals, young people critically ill, mass graves, and unplugged global economy for the flu.

It's hard to argue that this isn't _VASTLY_ worse than the flu in both scope and intensity.
Even if you only find half of all infected, it would already help a lot. The infection rate is cut in half if half the infected are immediately quarantined.
This looks like really nice! Are you using a open sourced mind map rendering library, or did you write your own?

It visually looks really familiar, but looking at package.json there only seems to be d3. I've looked at a bunch of options for rendering mind map, so I'm particular curious.
How exactly do you expect to save yourself in a pandemic? Are you going to put yourself on a ventilator if you get really sick?

The more likely answer is that you would be one of the many people that gets to die alone in your home.
Associated values in enums make sense, if you look at the enum as a class/struct, under the hood.

It's quite powerful, once you get your head around it.

I write about that here: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/swiftwater/enums-wit...

And here: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/swiftwater/writing-a...
> If you listened to every expert, you'd be living in an underground bunker 99.9% of the time.

You are confusing "every crisis" for "obvious crisis". I'm not saying we lose our minds over everything but it was quite clear to even the layman that wanted to do a little digging that this was a big deal and we needed to take it seriously back in February if not earlier.

I agree we shouldn't all lock ourselves in bunkers over fears of being "on the precipice of nuclear winter" but by the same token if the missile has been launched maybe it's a good idea to go to your bunker or at least your basement. China (even with their underreporting) should have been enough, in the face of that Italy should have been a smack in the face. Instead our administration stood outside squinting at the sky and said "well I don't see the missile yet so I'm not going to react".