skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Uploading diagnosis keys to health authorities backends of each realm you‘ve visited is unfortunately not a trivial requirement. To prevent fraud and pranksters health authorities would need define a trusted set of apps, which requires a complicated process or architecture. But a trusted set of apps in itself won’t prevent fraud. The critical transaction is the push of keys after a positive diagnosis which needs to be secured extra and the trust propagated to other health authorities. Our approach reduces the complexity by focusing on the securing the push by the proposed signed one time token.

The proposed solution tries to be compatible with the Contact tracing API. In terms of GDPR the sensitive data set could be the diagnosis keys and to some extend the geohashes. However both data sets are aggregated and anonymized so that a contact service backend provider can‘t match it with a specific user. Hence we don‘t see significant limitations for the proposed solution by GDPR in the EU.

The proposed solutions assumes that there won’t global standardized apps. Even the EU struggles to standardize it’s efforts and a frictioned set of tracking apps might be reality. We think that this will limit the effectiveness of tracking as soon as travel restrictions are reduced and shall be addressed in an early stage of development.

We use the SDL capabilities of graphQL to define the required mutations, queries and types as technical but platform agnostic documentation of the proposed interfaces.
Someone said "7/8 figures seems a bit much no?".

$10M is 8 figures.

I agree it's high :) $1M might be enough.
Since he's building a cabin, it feels like a link to Dick Proenneke is obligatory:

https://youtu.be/wTT9IIVxonc
Aren’t you just created obfuscation layers and calling them security?

The whole point of the system is that you are individually and exotically identifiable. Please don’t try and hide that with layers of hand waving, it’s Apple, Google, NSA, etc that I don’t want to supply info to, not necessarily concerned about Target or Bestbuy.
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> It would be very interesting to see the old systems rewritten in a modern language, with modern engineering practices, but keeping the old UI and UX (which often is incredibly ergonomic) - so as to limit scope and not mess it all up by trying to introduce mouse navigation and windowing mess.

I was the tech lead on one of these projects. Personally I was sad and frustrated we had to keep the old UX/UI. I would have much rather have made something more ergonomic for our users. Alas retraining would have been too expensive to do that even though it would have been probably more intuitive.

I do agree with you that there is some benefit to being able to do everything on a keyboard without having to deal with the baggage of what we consider modern.
Remember that Google Trends just measures search traffic. Also, handy tip, select "Programming Language" instead of "Term", the graph changes slightly with that: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=5&date=all&geo=...

Another tip, by default Google Trends just show data from the US, which is not very interesting, select Wordwide to get a better picture: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=5&date=all&q=%2...

Competitors are hard to say as there would different categories. Some workplaces would only choose a JVM language, then Scala's competitors are Java itself, Clojure and alike.

Go and Rust have mainly been described as "system" languages but they take vastly different approaches from each other.

If you be a bit more specific on what you're compared them on, it'll be easier to know if they are competitors or not.
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I have 5 tabs open. It usually bounces between 5-50 as I try to close tabs I'm not using.

I feel like browsers should have a refresh button. I have Firefox set to clear history and tabs on closing since that is what I usually prefer. However, once in a while I'll have 20 tabs open, but Firefox has been running for days and I feel like it's eating up more memory than it needs and getting sluggish. It would be nice to click a button where it simply closes and reopens Firefox with all of the tabs present again.
The idea for this product came last night from Guillermo Rauch tweeting that he wished there was a service to search your personal Twitter history (tweets, likes, retweets, filters, etc) using an Algolia-type search UI (super fast search as you type). A whole bunch of people echoed that they'd pay for this type of product.

So I decided to build it overnight and open source it.

The majority of the functionality is handled by Algolia and Saasify which is the only reason this was possible to build so quickly.

Would love to hear people's thoughts - thanks!
But they advertise Art Mode as "you can add your own pictures" :/
MOVPE is more of a self-assembly process than 3D printing, and it has been around for decades.

BTW It is worth noting from your link that the silicon is being grown on a GaAs substrate, so to be useful they would have to figure out how to grow the silicon wire on a silicon substrate. (GaAs already has many options for optical devices.)
> Many service providers will require you to read it before they’ll work with you.

I didn't know Stephen Wolfram wrote sewing books.
Not sure how you can operate a 'strip' club on a platform where nudity is banned.
I don't know about Debian but Arch Linux has huge package groups and metapackages.

https://www.archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/kde-applications/

https://www.archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/pro-audio/

The Arch Wiki recommends the use of these huge packages. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't scale to a thousand packages or more.
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This and your few previous posts have been a frantically whirled-up word salad of technical stuff including lots about zinc and nitrous oxide. And NOD, ACE2, FAD, BH4, ADAM17...

Do you have any background in this, or any understanding of it?
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According to Wikipedia 1978 is correct.

There were also two sequels, Connections2 and Connections3, made in 1994 and 1997 respectively.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)
I feel like Bazel and Cmake have solved this sufficiently well. I regularly compile larger projects from scratch and usually the process is to call vcvars (I'm on Windows) and then Bazel and then an hour later I have a folder full of cached lib and dll files so that linking my actual executable only takes a second.

I would be so incredibly grateful to have something comparable in JavaScript that quickly checks static typing for my entire project. But the closest I have found is Rust/Elm, so not using JavaScript anymore.
Depends who Scala was a competitor to.

If you viewed Scala as a competitor to Java, then Go is a competitor to Scala and not Rust; because Go is a competitor to Java in my opinion.
I like it! Took some inspiration by Indiehackers ( eg. layout whise) i suppose?
Looking at the commit log, Scala Native looks pretty dead https://github.com/scala-native/scala-native/commits/master
> I'm hoping usage will drop to zero

>impractical target

It seems like you might not be empathizing with how governments or bad actors or opportunistic companies think.
Their effect is minuscule, but measurable: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11234
Can you honestly say that Americans don't know where to apply their skepticism? Anti-vaxxers are roaming Facebook right now saying "see what we told you about not trusting your government?" and honestly they'd be right about our inability to trust the head of state.
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What games are fun to play with a team in the virtual office?

Please share your favorites and the Agile Thoughts podcast will produce an episode about the topic.
https://agilenoir.biz/en/agilethoughts/
Interesting, I didn’t know Heroku used that stuff. It could be from Elixir/ Phoenix websites right?
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They should clarify in the title that they are about the WSL filesystems and not the filesystems you use on your daily Linux distribution like ext4 for instance.
There was a Connections 2 series in 1994 which is the one I remember watching and loving as a teenager: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0370117/
Saying C stops optimizations is a preposterous claim in the modern era, credentials of someone quoted from decades ago have nothing to do with that.

It's hilarious that you would try to make that claim and then expect someone to buy into it.

Write whatever you want on your resume, it doesn't change reality.
I mean, anti-vaxxers are a fantastic example of misplaced skepticism; they can’t even trust subject matter experts, let alone the government.
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Where was this study published?
"WHO and CDC advise everyone to start humming all day long." I like it.
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Not necessarily due to muscle memory and easy of access upon keyboard or mostly soft keyboard layout for punctuation access. But mostly muscle memory. Heck could even view having to add the extra layer of shortening a two words into one is a process born out to save ink in a time when ink and print space was more costly and perhaps a form of lazyness that is more accepted than just having the full words.

Like most things, perspective plays a part in how you view such things and we are all aware that such oversights can trigger people as much as those triggered responses being triggers for others. Which is odd as the meaning of words is how to communicate and in the instance of shorting words, nothing is lost in translation.

But then standards in words and layout, styles, when it comes to standards are more complex than any coding standards and we all know how legacy code works out when it comes to standards. Another way to view that is, imagine if COBOL had as many verbs as we do English words - yeah scary what legacy code would look like then and sorry if that becomes the source of any nightmares in old COBOL programmers with that analogy.
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I was interested in Scala and used various tools/hacks to build Android apps with it. Very neat language but the pain for building on Android was too much for me - I stopped using Scala around 2016/2017 as Kotlin became viable (and is now extremely well supported) on Android.
> Mainframes were rented back in the day, you paid by resources consumed

To expand on that, IBM used to rent mainframes based on a 40-hour week. The computer had a usage meter (like a car odometer) that would keep track of how much time the computer was running. If the meter ran over, you would be billed for the excess charge.

The computer actually had two usage meters, with a key to select between them. When an IBM service engineer maintained the system, they used their key to switch from the customer meter to the maintenance meter. Thus, customers weren't charged for the computer time during maintenance.

One interesting thing I noticed about the IBM 1401 is that it's built from small circuit boards (SMS cards) that are easily pulled out of the backplane for replacement. Except the cards driving the usage meter. Those cards are riveted into place so they can't be removed. Apparently some customers discovered that they could save money by pulling out the right cards and disabling the meter.
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I guess in the authors mind, dead here means it's stable, solves its problems well and doesn't try to attract developers with shiny new features but instead focuses on enhancing the core experience which gets better.

As a Clojure/Script developer, I could understand that Clojure looks dead from the outside if you're a JS developer, you're used to new language features being shoehorned into the language every year.

But for someone inside the Clojure ecosystem who used to be a JS developer, it's a breath of fresh air when I can take a 4 year old library and include it, everything works and no bugs are to be found. If there is a bug, I can patch it from the outside, if I really have to.

Clojure in general lends itself very well to be extended from the outside (like what clojure.spec is currently doing [and many others]) so the core language doesn't really have to change anymore, we're just building libraries on top of the language which extends the language.
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What frequencies does NASA use to communicate with spacecraft?
> Thinking about it more, I'm pretty sure the bigger difference is the direction of the wood fibers relative to the chain.

You might have it there. Chainsaws are crosscutting saws by design, right? A mill is using the same chain as a rip saw. The shavings he gets by using the tip look like chisel work which is what you want in a rip saw. More material removed with fewer fibers cut.

I guess there are ripping chains. Would be interesting to see him set one saw up for the rip cut and compare the two side by side.
As a wizened old programmer AND a person who has once sewn his own dress shirt, I'm not sure what to think of this. I recall that easing while attaching the sleeve seemed unavoidable.

That said I am glad this made it briefly to the front page of HN where I could see it. Thanks for posting! This is interesting.
Go is a competitor to Java 1.0, it still needs to grow a bit more if it wants to compete with Java 14 and its 25 years of tooling and libraries.

If Go 2.0 ever happens, it will be a competitor to Java 5.
Thanks, I haven't seen that. HN simply moves too fast these days.
My thoughts exactly. The article has that presumptive “I have the capital T truth and don’t we all agree this is the truth?” feel to it, like it would be deeply immoral to think otherwise.
> you can't buy pandemic insurance generally

Wimbledon has been buying pandemic insurance for 24 years. $2 million per year. They're going to be paid by their insurer about $141 million.[1] There is a whole industry of re-insurance that exists to insure high-consequence, low-probability events, such as natural disasters, war, and pandemic.

SXSW didn't buy pandemic insurance. Why on earth should they be made whole for their bad decisions?

The airlines made bad decisions that put their stockholder's equity at risk. There is no reason that now, having received $50 billion or so in profit from buybacks we should give them another $50 billion, while leaving their employees penniless.

Moral hazard is exactly the right term. It describes a perverse incentive to cause someone else to incur expense for your benefit without any benefit to them in return.

Improperly planning for pandemic, when everyone, and I do mean everyone who does risk analysis believed that one was inevitable, particularly after SARS, MERS, and Ebola, is BAD PLANNING that equity holders should bear the responsibility for. They took the risk, reaped some profits, now it's time to take the losses.

Anything else is simply socialism for the rich, and something worse than laissez-faire capitalism for everyone else.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/tennis/2020/04/09/wimb...
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Well, I'm also super into code golf, so I think the best I'm going to be able to do is respect your point of view. Happiness might be too far.
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A) Still requires a blind trust. One can inside trade index funds if you know about news that’ll shake the entire market.

B) If you look at the salary of public officials inflation adjusted, the president would be making a few mil a year if they still made Washington’s salary. We’ve let public salaries atrophy badly.
In the about page you mentioned having to submit brag sheets in the Navy. Can this app automatically generate them and maybe other standard formats of lists of accomplishments? Automating and removing the stress from paperwork can be valuable.
Yes. In the experiments in our lab, we are sensitive, through gravity-gradients, to the annual variation of the water table in the hill adjoining the instrumentation.

Viewed another way, the hill beside our lab deflects the direction of "down" by about 50 nanoradians for every meter you move vertically in the lab. (If you kept the hill, and got rid of the earth, a satellite would orbit the hill.)

The really crazy thing about the experiments described in the article is that they depend on the difference in potential, which is much harder to estimate. As these clock-based experiments reach still-higher sensitivities, we're going to see improved and interesting tests of gravity emerge alongside the increasingly-difficult problems of time-transfer at these levels of precision.
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How to write a silly post about JavaScript dependencies:

- Don't mention other languages, lest you reveal that most of them have similar dependency bloat problems.

- Talk about devDependencies and dependencies without considering how they might be entirely different, say… one kind gets bundled, the other doesn't.

- Always use npm, so you can highlight duplicates. Don't use yarn.

- Adopt a narrow definition of 'dependency hell' so you can focus on the thing that JavaScript does imperfectly (minimizing number of dependencies) and avoid talking about the things that it does well (handling conflicting deps, solving diamond deps, resolving dependency chains)

- Don't worry about explaining how any of the issues you're discussing have real-world implications. Have companies been failing because they run out of disk space because of node_modules?

- Take automated security audits extremely seriously. A backtracking bug in the argument parser for the web framework's local CLI tool? Of course it's not exploitable, when… it's a web app, and the CLI tool is something you run locally. But add it to the count as if it is!
I have received it, New York.
"What would a typical day for me in my role look like from a high-level overview?"

Hopefully it's not "well there's morning standup then another 3 meetings and then another meeting and then you have 2 hours in the afternoon to do pair programming in a lively open office environment"
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Plus, members of congress get a pension.
Hello There! I've installed matrix and it's great, but it's there any way to set up jitsi authentication with synapse?

And by that I mean using the same user that we created on synpase (I know jitsi can auth against prosody but that would require us to create 2 users in two places everytime you need a new account).

Also, are there any plans for an admin dashboard or something like it?
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It's the users. And money.

JavaScript is super popular and used by companies so there are lots of people releasing their own open source project in an attempt to hustle into a well-paid job by looking more experienced than they really are.

I'd say it's the same reason why there are so many bad Java and Php tutorials.

C++ for comparison is shielded from this because it's not the kind of programming language that you would learn in a weekend seminar to improve your salary.
WHat may be seen as a mistake, is in many ways akin to local accents and in the UK, we have many local accents that can and do make verbal communication just as much throught with interpretation more than wording. Yet verbal accent and localisms are more accepted than the written forms.

After all - how many of us have the internal verbal processing rule now that hears the word "good" when we hear the word "Bad" based around the age and maturity of the speaker? Many I suspect and that is just one of many you end up having to mentally compile into your rule list, just to communicate with people who are not yourself.

Imagine a coding language that gained new verbs daily, new rules and interpretation rules that change the dynamics of those words - yes languages can be hard to keep abreast with if you try to grasp every nuance as what is correct today, is not tomorrow. Jst try reading Chaucer and then wonder how fast until what is written today is viewed as another language in years ahead, even if the same language as languages evolve and English like many move faster than we imagine. Composing words into sentences that stand the test of time, now that is a skill. However even time can be cruel on the best intentions.
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In my mobile phone I have more than 100 tabs open. I can't really read the amount of tabs because the number had been changed to a :D (after 99 instead of 100 it displays the :D)!

I just keep tabs open as a reminder to read stuff but unfortunately I rarely find the time. I guess I'll need to find a better way to organise my 'to read' list ...
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You can't reason about big balls of mud. (2018)
Looks like etcd has a module that implements the zookeeper API, but the logistics of moving a bunch of services (without an outage) still seems massive to me. Because old servers still want to discover in the old registry, not the new one.

You can’t just bridge two Raft protocols. If the bridge goes down even once, good luck getting consensus again. And based on the benchmarks I can find, it seems the wire protocol is part of the secret sauce for at least etcd.
Given the current news cycle, this headline heavily implies that Zoom's lack of privacy/security was somehow responsible for the activist being caught, but I couldn't find anything about that aspect in the article itself.

The story is significant in its own right, but I'm exhausted by NYTimes' accelerating descent into clickbait.
I've been intending to write something like this for a while. It's perfect!
DP-3T proposes cuckoo filters to improve privacy here. The general sense however is that this is inherent to these systems.
The worry, though, is that the state grows too powerful. A lot of things in our society are built on the foundation of curbing state power (it's actually about curbing absolute power - the state is part of the solution to that). Constitutions serve that function. Every time we let a state erode those kinds of protections we take another step towards the state gaining more control. That usually doesn't end well. Countries that were part of the Soviet Union are still recovering 30 years later.

Speaking of the Soviet Union, you have to remember that it was "law enforcement" that carried out the oppression by the government. Limiting law enforcement seems reasonable to me.
SO is still good, what they mean is that it has peaked or in the process of peaking. Just like previously-cool bars or festivals are still good but just 'not the same' and on the verge of becoming bad. It's a very specific mindset where you must be growing (not just growing, the growth rate must also be growing) and avant-garde all the time, and it's not really surprising to see it on a forum about startups.

I'll also add that although SO was of course invaluable to me as a reader, the few times I've had to actually ask questions because I couldn't find what I needed, other users were stumped as well. Just adding my little anecdote to yours
>> The problem is that the public are fully on the side of the Stassi -- clammouring for police to arrest people in their front gardens, confiscating inappropriate food etc.

>in my locality (South-West UK) your description doesn't appear to fit.

oi mate, you got a loicense for that opinion?
Fascinating and timely. I've always loved the series.
Maybe PBS "The Ring of Truth” - not Feynman though, Philip Morrison.

https://youtu.be/Nk8CQNThbc0