skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We had to bootstrap from nothing originally too.

I doubt that the original Unix was written without an editor, using only cat. Of course some earlier interactive system at one point did have to come up without an interactive editor... but still I'd think it's much more likely that the editor was written off-line and fed into the system on punched cards or tape rather than cat'ed from the terminal.

The original post only mentions the network and implicitly the keyboard as possible inputs, but of course the challenge would be much easier if you allowed a DVD, CD, or even floppy drive with drivers (which are part of the kernel). I think pretty much any historical bootstrapping of an interactive OS is much closer to this setting.
I went to an Apple store to try just this and came away unimpressed. Apart from the much better integration of gestures with the OS, I didn't feel anything special about the touchpad or its acceleration curve. In fact the touchpad was quite annoying to use because there was a kind of block on movement after a click that was far to long, making it difficult to click multiple different things quickly in a row. Overall I preferred my own laptop using libinput at the time :)
Governments don't need it. The model suggested links nearby bluetooth mac addresses which get linked to the phones IMEI, and governments already have multitudes of legal ways to link names to IMEIs.
Didn't work with brave on Linux:

This site can’t be reached
almonit.eth’s server IP address could not be found.

Try:
Checking the connection
Checking the proxy, firewall, and DNS configuration
ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED

Firefox with MetaMask works.
It appears you created this account just to make this massively derailing comment.

Regardless of what you think about HN comments, this is antisocial behavior, and can't possibly raise the quality of discussion.
Surely this technology has many useful applications beyond just the pandemic. It could be used to trace the networks of terrorists, the associates and contacts of criminals, child pornographers, anti-government insurgents, political opponents, environmental protesters...

Once governments have these tools, they will want to keep them around.
People can't literally exit their houses right now. Much more basic freedoms are taken. If you think ditching that later will be hard, ditching it now when it's desperately needed is impossible.
??? I don't think anybody who catches the coronavirus wants to be anonymous. There is no social stigma.

The problem is exactly the reverse: infected people would gladly tell everybody exposed, but they can't reach them since the virus spreads so easily and the exposed could be delivery drivers, people in the grocery store, etc
Was Leisure Suit Larry an Accomplice in Early Banking Cyberattacks?
Moxie Marlinspike has an interesting analysis on this:
https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1248707315626201088
I was fortunate enough to attend a maths talk by John Horton Conway about 8 years ago towards the start of my PhD. I was working on things related to the algebraic closure of \F_2, and Conway had a neat observation that all ordinals smaller that \omega^\omega^\omega formed a field that was isomorphic to the closure. So it felt timely.

But what I took from the talk is how casually he'd make references to deep personal life experiences throughout his mathematics. He referenced his divorces, suicide attempts, et cetera. All very casually, like it was no big deal. I was an angsty teenager and continued to be angsty in my early 20s. It helped me realize my issues were no big deal.

RIP John Conway.
So you are telling me, you know the answer to my own question better then its author :)

I'm curious why do you think magnets repel? What terms would you use to describe it? How these terms are defined? What terms in turn are used in these definitions? How these terms are defined in turn? etc.
Conway and Gordon : Knots and Links in Spatial Graphs
Tbh, diversity only seems to be a thing in America (and slowly creeping into the UK). I think it's partly more pronounced there because your race is significantly correlated to your income levels, which determine your ability to go to college. Meanwhile, most of Europe is homogenous largely, and thus insusceptible to any effects from diversity issues. Even in the UK, the most diverse European country, except for some Windrush immigrants, most immigrant groups such as the South Asians have largely been able to transcend the income divide between white and non-white.
>Source code for the RaSCSI server software (which runs on the Raspberry Pi) and X68000-specific components for file system and tap device relays are available http://www.geocities.jp/kugimoto0715/rascsi/index.html

geocities, oh Japan :) this link is dead :(
This has been mentioned quite a few times but Apple's software quality seriously has taken a turn for the worse in the last few years.
I've usually updated my macs to the latest OS's within a couple of weeks of release, but Catalina is the first time where I still have yet to update.
Stories of bugs such as this as well as mail messages getting blanked out and unrecoverable makes me actually scared to upgrade.
Ben Eater is the Bob Ross of electronics!
I was not giving advice. You are taking it as advice. That is stupid. Talking is by no means useless, what an odd thing to say!
When did I throw around racial discrimination? Again, if the GP wants to update with more accurate racial distribution numbers for their area, this conversation can move forward. Until then, my interpretation is the most likely. It is just as likely that GP's institution is in an area that has more whites than the national average than it is that there are fewer. Therefore my analysis is the correct one until we get an update.

EDIT: it seems like GP teaches in Virginia, a state that is 94.2% white (alone). Assuming that is in fact that correct state, you are right that I spoke too quickly. The non-white population at this school should presumably be 5.8% if the makeup of the local area is important, as you claim.
So if I’m understanding this correctly you have a relativistic understanding of information in which the zero state is observer dependent? Just for my understanding, consider for example the spin of an electron. It can be in one of two states, up or down. In which scenario am I unclear about the absolute information content of knowing the spin state?
Manufacturers Refuse to Allow Hospitals to Fix Ventilators
Java forces OO design on you. Everything is an object and you can't have free functions.
How to Seek Resilience During a Global Pandemic
Unfortunately in my country - Croatia - the social stigma exists. While we have a very good situation (total of 1500 cases on population of 4M, with 20 deaths), and we are geographicaly very close to Italy, there were multiple reports of patients’ families being harassed.
> Or be ready to ditch your smartphone and get yourself a dumbphone.

Isn't this the standard prescription for the extreme privacy conscious individuals anyways? For the rest of us, we can always turn off bluetooth. Maybe this will bring back headphone jacks or replace the standards all together. In the mean time, some of us want security over privacy. Many of us never valued the latter much in the first place.
Is true art novel or timeless? [video]
Terrorists won't voluntarily publish their keys.

That's an important difference. If you want to argue against Covid contact tracking, at least do it reasonably.
This is the thing, so many people tell it's fine to run a server at home even if violated ISPs TOS. But it's not fine, if I'm away from home and need to access it, the worst that could happen is my ISP cutting that connection to my own machine. Even if things are great now, there's Wireguard, even baked in on linux with 5.6 kernel. There's just to many artificial boundaries that selfhosting at home can't catch on.

Last time I checked, I might violate the terms of my ISP, but that's by very strict definition. Remote access and "server hosting" could be one and the same depending on how you look at it.
> However any decentralised scheme can be turned into a centralised scheme by forcing the phone to report to the authorities that it was at some point in time close to the phone of an infected person.

If the system was different, it would be bad?

This is a slippery-slope argument that I do not find compelling. The amount of surveillance that this is supposedly guarding against--govt tracking of an individual's location--is already possible with no changes to any system.

It is no more slippery a slope for raw unscrambled BTLE identifiers to be reported to a centralized system. I don't think that the encrypted system makes it any easier in the least.

These devices that we carry everywhere are huge privacy concerns, but I don't think this author is even warning about the right things. Does the author even know the amount of location tracking going on in stores, currently? The amount of data that is sold back and forth with no user knowledge or understanding?

The concerns raised here ignore the much worse reality that already exists!!
> in order to recognize information, you should at least compare it to the outputs of a source of entropy.

Again, this is correct for classical information theory which requires some frame of reference for "likelihood". But AIT claims a "global frame" over the minimal representation in all universal machines, the particular choice of machine being at worst constant overhead.

You can argue, I think somewhat plausibly, that this frame is still an (inter)subjective frame rather than an objective, absolute one. But if we assume C-T (and we virtually always do), that argument is pretty weak - any other definable frame becomes formally "worse" in that it becomes "merely" a specific case of the universal one.
Interest in these topics is peaking
Here are some non-obvious trends that are rising right now:

1) Loungewear
Because of COVID-19, people are self-isolating at home and they are looking forward to donning their finest loungewear for another Netflix binge-watch session on the sofa. Loungewear had an increment of over 90% in search interest in the last days and it's steadily growing.

2) Prepping
Prepping often refers to the act of preparing yourself for life during and after an apocalyptic event. It has always been part of the survival niche, but now it's getting more and more attention even from non-believers because of the coronavirus emergency.

3) Composting ️
People are all about composting now. Why?
More and more cities are shutting down drop-off services because of the urgent steps required to bend the curve on coronavirus transmissions, like social distancing.

With more people at home, there's also a growing interest in gardening, which is obviously related to composting.

4) Barbell weight set ️
With more and more people at home, gym equipment is getting a ton of interest. Barbell weight set registered a +22% increment this month!
Also look keywords like weight plates, resistance bands, dumbells, home gym, no equipment workout, tonal, p90x, peloton. Aside from this, solitary fitness activities are also trending upward. For example, look at "hiking".

5) Calming care
In the pet category, I would get in the game of selling everything anxiety related. For example, the demand for "dog calming care" has been growing steadily over the last 5 years. It could be related to separation anxiety, but also from fireworks anxiety.

You heard about these trends here first! =)

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That's where the subversive element comes into play. Exactly what the web needs.
One of the things I've learned over the past ten years is that those "tech extremists" were way more right than I had ever expected.

In this particular case, I'm leaning towards "this is worth it if the alternative is economic oblivion for billions of people" - but this guy's about page is enlightening: he's not some random commentator, this is very much his field.
Those averages are across the country. The distribution will be hugely different depending on whether you are in Iowa or Florida.

Moreover, the distribution is not equal across ages. And since only young people go to universities, this has a huge effect.
>p2p

> alibaba group

choose one
In that case, the number of cases might be much higher, as people try to hide their sickness in order to protect themselves or their relatives.
Having memory management based on deployment platform I think is one of the most insane things Delphi's vendor had committed. Luckily they're backtracking on that. Anyways the decisions like that combined with maturing open source alternative Lazarus/FreePascal had led me to use Delphi only for maintenance. All new GUI projects are going to Lazarus/FreePascal combo.
How would this yield better privacy than searching directly from Google?
I'm confused, why are you going on about Hawaii?

From looking at the GP's account info, they seem to teach at a school in Virginia, which is 94.2% white.
No, not a ponzi scheme. Inflows aren't funding outflows under an illusion of value creation.
These sound like things that used to be regular part of install/setup on BSD and Linux. It's so much nicer now not having to setup the network, GUI or disks. Nevermind the week of downloading all the floppy images.
Extra ones:

6) Online will: Keywords like "how to make a will online" are getting demand, as online will in general. With COVID-19, people are eager to put their things in order, just in case.

7) iRacing Setups: People are at home, and they want to play.

8) CVC Words: Schools are closed, kids are at home. That means that parents are probably home-schooling them now. Interest in everything related to home-schooling is getting traction.

9) Dalgona Coffee: Dalgona coffee is the trend in coffee right now. I don't personally know what the hype is about, but it's a whipped drink made with coffee, sugar and chilled milk.

10) Canned wine: Ok, last one - this one is in the food & nutrition space: canned wine. Being an Italian, I'd never sell such a thing, but hey, demand has been growing a lot.

Hope these are interesting!
Again, we have more of them at https://treendly.com
Makes me sad for the fall and discarding of meritocracy in favour of filling enrolment and diversity quotas
Let’s hope handshake.org will solve this problem. The difficult part to overcome is adoption.
My guess: It is politically wanted to have graduates that will take any job because they are deep into debt with no chance of getting rid of it through bankruptcy. This pressure keeps wages down and "motivation" up.
Only those that never lived under communism would believe those numbers. Same as the information on the coronavirus from China.

https://www.econlib.org/about-that-cuban-life-expectancy/
https://hackaday.io/project/20774-netpi-ide
exactly this project, but for IDE. Requires fpga interface board to emulate ATA interface.
Thanks for the feedback.
I calculated the price based on how much people upload on youtube on average, I've seen most type of "vlogs" are about 10 min, and the average upload is once per week, so that's 40 minutes per month.

I agree about the price, by my calculations the biggest cost will be bandwidth, my rationale was that charging by bandwidth is less "user friendly" than charging by time. And I've seen other major podcast hosters charging by time also, like Buzzsprout. Hope that makes sense.
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>The decentralized web is everyone hosting their own webserver from home. It's easy, everyone has a fast enough connection,

I don't think it's that "easy" regardless of whether you're talking about cable-modem/router port-forwarding, or new IPv6 addresses, or even turnkey web host appliances.

In any case, I'll copy&paste one of my previous comments on NAT or ease-of-use not being the real barrier people think it is:

>Even if this thread's article's vision of IPv6 improving direct connectivity were to happen, I still claim the overwhelming majority of programmers would continue to choose something like Github rather than host their repositories on personal home servers. Personally, I wouldn't want my repo to be traced back to my home's ip address. I don't want China DDOS'ing my home ISP connection if they don't like my iPhone app that monitors Hong Kong. If I was a female, I wouldn't want my home git repo to give away my ip address and invite digital stalkers. I'd use Github just for the ability to shield my home's IPv6 address for privacy and safety.

>If the programmers -- which we can think of as technical thought leaders -- aren't leading by example (with git) for decentralization, why would we realistically expect other mainstream consumers to adopt decentralized setups? Yes, there will always be decentralized communities but it will always remain niche.
Show HN: Smell-Based Evolution Simulator
How many deaths is worth the increased privacy?
Well if my browser, music player and chat app weren't taking literal gigabytes of ram each it might be enough ...

Our computers are millions of times more powerful than back in the days but somehow my 2018 macbook pro crawls to a halt if slack displays more than 2 gifs at the same time.

Anyway, I think we're artificially creating needs that aren't needs in the first place. "b-bu-but how am I supposed to telework from the subway if I don't have my 5g =(", "I can't even stream youtube 8k videos from the bus =("
Too bad records won't have named arguments, this would really have helped for large records. Kotlin is once again ahead both in time as in design.
> Whenever one or more badges for other app platforms appear in the layout, use the preferred black badge. Place the App Store badge first in the lineup of badges.
The better analogue would be a paid admission into a high-society "priest" social class.

For the money one have to pay one would receive a certificate of belonging. Exactly like some priest after passing through some selective religious school.

Arguably, aside from a STEM degree from a few top technical schools, like MIT, CMU, Caltech, and Yale, as an exception, the social value of a degree is exactly like that of being a priest.

Not so smart children of upper middle classes have to go somewhere. Liberal arts "education" is exactly for them.
Are colleges only supposed to attract people from the local area and therefore reflect local demographics? That seems a bit backwards to me.

Regardless, GP seems to teach at a school in Virginia, which is 94.2% white.

That is a good point about how racial demographics can change between age groups though. Do you have more accurate numbers that we can use in this regard?
Hegel – Strict static types with inference for JavaScript
I read the article/press release.

Just so people have the early timeline and other facts so far:

- The first patient that needed hospital care in Wuhan was Dec. 6, indicating infection around Dec. 1. (See timeline link below.) I suspect this started earlier in November, but the majority of Covid-19 cases don't involve the lungs. [0]

- a powerful unknown flu (same symptoms as Covid-19) was circulating in mid-Dec. throughout SE Asia. I was in Shanghai and aware of this around Dec. 15. I still don't know who I would contact if I had that kind of information next time.

(I'm American, so that makes me one of the very first Americans to know about this.)

- Bluedot parsed Chinese newspaper account and communicated around Dec. 30

- China informed WHO around Dec. 31

https://www.who.int/csr/don/05-january-2020-pneumonia-of-unk...

- one Youtube documentary says there's 2 virus labs in Wuhan, with one focusing on bats, FWIW.

- Wuhan International Airport is a 2 hour flight from Shanghai Pudong International Airport. The latter is a major international hub, #8 in the world by passenger volume.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_airports_by_pa...

It looks like BlueDot just scans news reports, so is not a primary source. I read the article/press release and didn't learn anything new aside from the Top Corona Cities paragraph, all linked by airports.

What's interesting is that both BlueDot's Khan and myself followed Toronto SARS-1 in 2002/2003, and that experience motivated each of us to investigate SARS-2 very early. That should be a lesson for policymakers - staff with experienced people who've seen it before.

Regardless of whether this is really AI or not, had it told the right people quicker, that would be valuable since obviously there was a serious communications problem here, and an on-going problem for the Chinese government if the virus labs are involved.

So the AI is not predicting new events, but summarizing and communicating events of interest.

I think it would be worthwhile for somebody else to treat the BlueDot article/press release as raw material for more analysis. I have a feeling there is valuable information in it that needs more massaging, after discarding the PR component.

To some extent, what BlueDot is doing is what:

- people have used Google search or trending for

- US police fusion labs were doing with Twitter and Facebook API access, before those were reported to "have been turned off."

[0] Covid-19 Timeline (Starting Dec. 1, 2019)

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/chinas-devas...
Working with Vivaldi right now.
It's alright. Its nowhere near as fast as OG Opera used to be, though it at least feels faster than most other browsers on the market. Vivaldi also has a tendency to tack on unnecessary things and updates bit by bit, the same problem Opera had.

It feels like this is simply the cycle most new browsers go through now. They start out minimal and fast, then slowly fall for the issue of having to validate time spent developing, so they sell out.

(Or alternatively, we stop putting oversized JS frameworks/libs and ridiculous tracking systems inside our pages)
This reminded me of this excellent article I cought on HN some time ago. https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-computational-foundation-...
Who does 40Gbps per wavelength?

10/25/50/100 are the common rates in real-world Ethernet PHY standards.
Moving away from Gmail isn't that hard. It's on my list forever, but an Subscription to O365 and an IMAP migration is both great because:

A: You're paying Microsoft for a service, and that has many more features than gMail.

B: I believe Microsoft is more transparent than Google.

C: You remove the identity (IAM) part of Google from your Email and separate yourself from Google's Ecosystem.

D: Finally doing an IMAP migration gives you an independent copy of all your email to date. You can also download all your data from Google too, through some obscure settings page.

Having your own domain.
Enable SPF.
Enable DMARC/DKIM if you dare.
Enable hard failure on SPF.

All that you need.

Running your own server is HARD there are projects that make it easier like mailinabox, but it is HARD and annoying work. If you ever want to see how annoying it can be, load up shodan.io and just look up postfix CVE + postfix version numbers.

Granted O365/Exchange is it's own thing and can become a headache, but there is tons of support available and it's meant to be portable and easy to move away from.

gMail is Google. Google is designed to trap you in forever. :(
I'll say that's more incompetence on my part than a "dark pattern".
At this time you can only have 1 channel per account, and I need to check the email is unique before sending the info to Stripe, that's the way I came up to solve that, presenting that form before payment.

My product has not been used yet, just put it live yesterday.
My idea here was just to get general feedback, like yours.