skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting point. Burners lived in the ad man world of fifth avenue conducting experiment (consumer study) one after another designed to leverage the launch of a society changing product advertising campaign.

Point being nobody even comes close to having such a massive impact on society through advertising as Bernays and by extension the fifth avenue agencys he worked with (olgolvy).

Touches of freedom Women’s cigarettes at Macy’s day parade

Fluoride in water dental association

Bacon/ steak and eggs - hearty breakfast - heart association

Ivory soap

Etc...
I've had problems with pretty much every in-ear bud I've had up until I bought the AirPod Pro's. Not had a single time when I've felt they have even started to come loose.

I wear them with the stalks pointing forward at around 45 degrees.
I guess there are two sides, it took just ten nutjobs to get the forever wars going. On the other hand they didn't need more sophisticated weapons than knives.

Though I don't know why a nutjob couldn't do just as bad with something heavier.
The "oppressive restrictions" was actually regarding drugs, not guns.
Sure. DPA was not invoked only few days ago. Companies were not already threatened openly ( and not so openly ) to obey or else. Companies are effectively expected to volunteer their services or risk consequences from government( and potential bad PR ).
Theoretically you could replace the crew/restock in midair
Ok that’s very powerful. But yes, after 2016 I assume such places are a plaque themselves.
Which is a design flaw of redux. Proper systems allow you to access the current state value at all times, without having to worry about batching.
Basically there is funding for early research, and for drugs that are really close to release, but the years in between (the drudgery) aren't very interesting to investors so capital is hard to come by to keep projects alive.

An acquaintance is $600m into a new type of Malaria testing and his funding is slowing, but is frustrated because he feels he is closer then ever. Frankly im amazed he got this far, thats a lot of burn.

Basically funding for drug research is all screwy!
The book Propaganda is good, but you can feel the naive vision of capitalism, corporation and power in general. The author seems to genuinely believe the invisible hand will balance things out, that people won't abuse their power and that ethics were a stronger motivator than money in the system.
This is great! Slowing the spread of the virus shouldn't have to mean sacrificing our privacy. And if it becomes widespread enough, we may be able to go in public a bit more, knowing that we'll be alerted if we've come in contact with a sick person.
There is nothing wrong with being skeptical, I just think your objections are out of place. If you are really concerned then it's probably best not to use Android or iOS at all, who knows what data might be shared with the government without your knowing? This spec (or any app built on top of this spec) doesn't really change anything about that.

Edit: I wasn't downvoting you, and the link was the source for the summary for the privacy considerations. The details are in the actual spec.
Why did GE Moore disappear from history?
At that point though, you should be asking if we shouldn't ban private ownership of airliners. After all, they do demonstrably more damage...
Amusingly the current bottleneck is actually reading from the webcam with the suboptimal ~default capture config. Without doing anything else that's ≤ 10fps. Low hanging fruit still :-)
>You're arguing trivialities

Wait, what? I'm precisely on topic. The topic of this particular comments chain being throttling of iPhones without notifying the user [0]. It's also the topic of a several hundred million dollar class action suit to which Apple settled[1], after admitting it was a failure to not properly inform consumers[2].

You keep trying to derail it from the topic. No-one is arguing whether the throttling is a valid technological solution to a problem beyond Apple's control. It's a great solution, and it works well to this day — What's being debated is wether or not it was ethical to hide the throttling.

And no, throttling of computer devices based on battery capacity certainly was not, in any way, something to be expected. No manufacturer had ever done it before in a portable computing device (laptop, PDA, smartphone). At least to my knowledge.

Sure, it makes sense now that we understand it. But to somehow imply that it should have been anticipated or just blindly accepted is being grossly dishonest.

I've used Apple computers exclusively since 2005 and phones since around 2009. I'm a very satisfied customer. But I'm not so fanatical that I can't look at them objectively. I certainly couldn't imagine defending something that courts around the world, the vast majority of their customers, the technical press, and Apple themselves have admitted was wrong. I just can't understand the logic.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22769621
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/2/21161271/apple-settlement-...
[2] https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/28/16827248/apple-iphone-ba...
while The Troubles didn't induce the UK to give any concessions it wasn't already willing to give beforehand.

Quite the contrary. The Troubles in Northern Ireland were not a unilateral insurrection, but an emergent response to aggressive incumbent paramilitarism when confronted with demands for greater civil rights for the minority population. Military strategists favored withdrawal of the occupying forces; political hardline thinking won out, but was unable to win a conflict of attrition and eventually settled for power-sharing and de-escalation. At the present Northern Ireland is as likely to see reunification with the rest of the island as continued membership of the UK.
Bluetooth 5.1 devices can do both distance and direction, so if you have a bunch of beacons you can determine your location to sub-meter accuracy.
They also have a "perpetual fallback license," though which the product becomes yours after a year or so; thus, you're incentivized to stay on the subscription, but if you decide to get off the train then your software doesn't evaporate (:eyes: 1Password.com)

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845
Constructive criticism was being given during beta and ignored.
Being able to move fast means trying new things, not having tons of processes, and taking risks. It doesn't seem like an inherent problem if you sign up for stuff you actually don't need so long as you have the money to pay for moving fast. When you're short on money you need to be more cautious and course correct.
That's not the point of programming languages. The point of programming languages is to be more productive, it has nothing to do with natural language. In fact, natural languages are a poor fit for programming languages (see Cobol).
Remmina uses freerdp as its RDP library.
From the title, I thought this was in reference to a car powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, like the kind used in spacecraft and some lighthouses. But the article mentions being powered by uranium pellets, and wikipedia confirms "The car was to use a steam engine powered by uranium fission similar to those found in nuclear submarines"

They actually envisioned having a true reactor under the hood.
It happens at compile time in Julia (required for the multiple dispatch to work), the compile time is just interlocked between runtime steps. Calling something with incorrect arguments will fail even if the function is never called during runtime (unless the compiler figures that out using only compile time information and decides not to compile it).

But I understand your point, it's not really like a static language checking as it can't do without running the program, so it's better than fully interpreted (a unit test would catch errors even in paths it didn't take) but worse than static checking (as it can't compile 100% of the valid program at once).
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Avoid deceptively large pull requests by using Git-lfs to track lockfiles
Agreed. Majority of people have their location history, chats, emails, browsing history, etc. saved on the cloud. This Bluetooth tracker is a complete privacy nothingburger.
From the LA Times article: "At one point the members broke into two groups, each standing around separate pianos to sing.". If you've ever watched a choir practice, this likely meant everyone facing inward toward the piano, and you can't stand too far apart because you need to hear everyone else to harmonize and adjust your volume. Singing loudly is probably only second to sneezing in terms of projecting atomized 'stuff' from the respiratory tract into the air. So there were 30 people standing in a circle spraying droplets directly at each other.

It may very well be that it's very easy to spread this virus, but I don't think this incident is a good indication of that. It seems more an indication of how poorly even well-intentioned people understood the contagiousness and what exactly social distancing meant at the time this happened (1 month ago).
No complaints here, my dad double dipped for years.
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I don't know how effective this was, but Israel did exactly this: https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/18/israel-passes-emergency-la...

US public institutions seem frankly sclerotic. The fact that the government has or has not done something provides almost no signal on whether something is possible or not.
Anne Wojcicki: ‘This is the way the world is going’
I disagree. You base your opinion on nothing more than a couple of icons. Having now read it, I cannot in good faith even call it specs. It is a step above infomercial. Hardly something trustworthy.
> contact tracing only makes sense when groups of strangers come into close proximity. it doesn't need to track every single person you brush past on the street. so for instance, you could just provide "contact tracing" with beacons in stores rather than always-on phone tracing.

The part of this comment that actually addresses contact tracing proposes a method (beacons in stores that would have to rely on fixed identifiers, known geolocation, and central storage) that would not only be worse for privacy than what is proposed here, it is also the likely outcome without employing a technique that at least considers privacy concerns.

The other paragraphs read like a compilation of Facebook-based science, where not simply factually incorrect, all points made are debatable and by no means as clear as you make it out to be.

This is a opt-in API and a technical protocol specification which we can discuss on technical grounds. Nothing proposed and discussed here even affects data leaving the end user device, or your rights for that manner, yet.
I've spent the last 3 weeks with my team building exactly this - contact tracing apps for both android and ios that use bluetooth tech[1]. This will probably require us to redo the app completely to fit into their API plans, but I'm glad they are, in a way, acknowledging our idea.

The troubling thing is, bluetooth-based contact tracing is in no way easy. Different android phones handle background bluetooth scanning / advertising differently and some tend to require additional config changes - such as disabling battery saving features - to even make it work.
And iOS bluetooth advertising in background is just bad. Since u can't add custom UUIDs to the advertisement package, just advertising data is often not enough, so u have to connect too, which creates a range of other problems.
I suspect they will release OS upgrades to solve some of these issues, but not all devices will be fixable (eg, older Android devices). This, combined with the fact that they will start rolling out this feature in May, makes me think it will not help us much for the latest wave of COVID-19 infections. Might come in handy for the next epidemic, though.

[1] - https://github.com/cryptekio/corridorapp-android
For sake of argument: If U-3 is the one that everyone pays attention to does it really matter that much if the others exist?
When a q like language is implemented for Shakti, I'll definitely switch. I personally find q a lot more comprehensible than k.
It's not like fake it, think of it being more like an actor playing the roll.

It's a skill some people are naturals and some aren't everyone though can get better at it.
Thanks a lot for the answer.
Oh, wow. That does make sense! Funny how the connection becomes clear only in retrospect.
IDA's license was too expensive for someone who wants to tinker, which is probably most people who want to use it. I almost feel bad for hex-rays now though, it's gotta be tough to compete with an excellent, free, state-sponsored tool like Ghidra. I would have gladly paid a reasonably, hobbyist monthly license fee for IDA for what I was doing (video game reversing in my free time). If I were using it professionally I would have paid for a professional license. It doesn't seem like hex-rays trusts anyone though - unsurprising considering their domain.
The article links to [1] and comments on this near the beginning -- as others have mentioned this is not always the case. The Linux client does not offer this functionality, only green screen.

I'm also using this with other apps for fun though (duo, hangouts, etc.)

[1]: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/210707503-Virtual-...
I don't think I've been dismissive of anyone's complaints?
I'm wondering how you'd do laundry.
I was talking about the specific problem that makes you avoid native apps in favor of web apps. Not all native apps are IM programs that ask you to do phone-numbers-based KYC.
"Is that you hiding from the cameras, or are you just wearing an ugly shirt?"
The unfortunate thing is the display is only 4 bit. At 16 bit I could see using it to display b&w prints. The dpi is a little low but is ok for viewing at distances greater than about 6 feet.
”I have a huge problem with requiring mathematical proficiency in programming. It's sets an unreasonable barrier to entry.”

Whether that follows depends on how much and what kind of proficiency we require. We require programmers to be able to read and write, too, but we don’t require them to be excellent orators or literary writers.

I do think requiring some proficiency is OK. Basic arithmetic, for example, definitely is ‘in’. A bit of ability to think logically, too. That doesn’t mean all programmers have to know what a group or a ODE is.
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Power users press Alt-D
I used the more common definition (strong vs weak being orthogonal to static vs dynamic). Both Julia and Python are strong and dynamic (and duck typed).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_and_weak_typing
Is your calculation correct? You only need to download the Diagnosis Keys. How would that be 48MB?
It's really just another way of saying "oligarchy", which is the negative form of "aristocracy."
The trouble with exponential growth is that if you wait to react, for fear of over-reaction, then it's too late.

For a pretty good example of this, look at Spain and the UK.
Do you think that GPS coordinates will be exposable with the API so that there can be public tracing maps online? Obviously a big privacy issue where the actual bluetooth ID and the person's identity have to be fully anonymized but if GPS coordinates of contact points can be exposed publicly, there can be good public tracing maps that can show where contact events are happening and in what numbers so that people can avoid certain areas (and on the other end where other areas are safe where there's no contact). This can publicly also be used to display R0 counts in different zip codes and geographic areas.
The DOE land on which ORNL sits has a massive stand that they used for testing of this idea. They'd suspend a reactor to test shielding effectiveness. You can see it from a few spots on I-40/I-75 and on Highway 95 going by the lab's west entrance.
A VPN? I would not expose any kind of remote desktop protocol to the internet.
Could the Spanish flu strike again? (2018)
Where does this data come?
also https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khakistocracy&red...
A technical outline is here: https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/cu... also linked elsewhere in this thread.
I like the license plate dress featured in the article. A simpler point to bear in mind that even after the immediate pandemic emergency is over many people will need to continue to wear a mask in public. Doing errands/outdoor exercise/volunteer work in public while masked is an enjoyable increase of freedom and privacy.
And to add to this, if it's a technical/experimental thing you're doing, you never know; you might discover/learn something useful.
pardon my ignorance, but is that a good thing or a bad thing? (the first part)
You run a Hadoop/Spark cluster on-prem. It's isolated from the rest of the world. If foreign code is executing there, the game is already up. You turn `mitigations=off`.
Has your school been involved at all in the internship process?
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

H.L. Mencken
Not really, no. Oligarchs and aristocrats are capable of being competent.
The thing is, they won’t work forever or even for very long. Even makeup will eventually be thwarted.
q and k are both part of the kdb+ database software suite. K is the language and q is a DSL wrapper over k with SQL primitives.

J is an entirely different language and I think the doc is actually pretty decent. There are free books and tutorials and books you can buy on Amazon.
Risk Perception and Coronavirus
Article doesn't explain how these are formed.
The book you've linked contains exactly 0 lines of C or C++ code. 100% of the code in the book is Clojure.
It seems like array languages are really picking up steam on HN lately; It's a positive development. Every developer should learn at least one array language. They sound absolutely crazy before you start, but then you start writing some code and you realize there's a lot of wisdom in the coding style. It's not something you can appreciate only from afar, though.
> Discovery and Picard are very much darker than pure Roddenberry, in that they portray The Federation as something far short of a perfectly ethical Utopia.

Every Star Trek series does that. TOS and TNG tend to portray the focal crew as perfectly ethical taken together (though not always individually), but often as being in antagonistic relationship with their superiors in Starfleet and/or the civilian leadership of the Federation for precisely that reason.

It's true that many of those struggles reflect bureaucratic indifference, incompetence, and narrow-mindedness more than active malevolence (excluding when it is due to outside influence/infiltration), but that's pretty much true of Picard (the series) as well.
From the bottom of the page: https://efdsearch.senate.gov/search/home/
Yes, very common, especially if the cause is not directly relevant to the person's life story.

i.e. it might be mentioned for things like a military member dying in combat, or a person who fought a lifelong battle with a disease. But an older person who died of a health issue would not usually be mentioned.
I took "Show HN" off this post because it looks like it's someone else's work. Show HN is for things you yourself have made. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

If that was an error and you did make this, please let me know at hn@ycombinator.com so I can apologize and fix it!
I’m sorry. You should try to talk to someone about that.

My restrictions at this point (Sweden) shows that with luck, perhaps restrictions don’t have to mean house arrest.

Complete lockdowns aren’t sustainable. I think countries will converge on a “new normal” which is far from lockdowns, while not “normal”.
That was a lot of reading in-between the lines!

The company I work has a lot of very eager and smart people who put 40h a week and have families. They are experts in their field of work (Image processing).

I would say I have been climbing the ladder because I have good soft-skills and strong leadership skills. It happened naturally and was not part of an evil plan or something I tried too hard.

I am OK with not being a programming wizard or using all the latest tech in every project. I am very good in getting people to work together productively and having them delivering projects constantly.

I have gone from Senior to Lead in the past two companies I've been at within 6 months and now am now growing a department.
From what I've read I'm pretty sure not everyone who has to maintain a clearance deals with actually sensitive information.
Sextech startups boom in coronavirus pandemic
That's in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidentia.... ;-)

More seriously: Political cronyism, charismatic demagogues, pandering via popular but bad policies, etc.
And you can bounce signals off airplanes too, which I would love to do someday.
Guido van Rossum on reduce:

> So now reduce(). This is actually the one I've always hated most, because, apart from a few examples involving + or *, almost every time I see a reduce() call with a non-trivial function argument, I need to grab pen and paper to diagram what's actually being fed into that function before I understand what the reduce() is supposed to do. So in my mind, the applicability of reduce() is pretty much limited to associative operators, and in all other cases it's better to write out the accumulation loop explicitly.

https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196
I will go even further.

Why not give everyone a UBI and let things shift towards strengthening necessities all the time? People who make less money have a higher Marginal Propensity to Consume necessities. That would correctly distribute what’s needed in society by actual level of need. It would also automatically adjust to shortages etc.

I think as entrepreneurs we can all say that investors put in $$ when they see demand for your products and services, and not because they got a tax break!
write an algorithm for optimal mauradery.
Nope, Poland.

We have some MiG-29s which were essentially gifted by none other than the German Luftwaffe and a few F-16s bought in the mid 00's.

Overall not bad, but this one guy has more than half the number of our aircraft.
The story is that tax payers gave his company money to buy our F18s from us so that he can accumulate a force of enemy aircraft. His company will also train pilots specifically as the enemy would.

And while he will do this at a considerable profit, it will theoretically be better executed per dollar that the military doing it in a separate division. Another post claims he will generate sorties more than twice as efficiently.

So the above is either true or false.

If it is false and the contract costs taxpayers more than the military would then, as you suspect, it is entirely a pork-barrel waste of money. The fact that other nations with highly regraded military don't do this theoretical efficiency boost strongly supports this.

If it is true and the contractor is somehow more efficient, then that is even more worrisome. Scarier still is that it is taken as an inevitable state of affairs and no one seems concerned about it. That US destroyers have a catastrophically bad helm UI supports this, even though that would be conspicuous pork-barrel in it's own right.

Same with the fact the sale was F18s. Either the enemy has them or not. In one case it's pork-barrel, in the other case the US has somehow sold fighters to an enemy.