skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some interesting thoughts:

> First, it isn’t anonymous ...

I believe this is a miss understanding. We loose anonymity once someone is diagnosed, there is no way around that. But we should not skip on anonymity for everyone else. Else this whole project is doomed by the onset as we are simply building a massive 1984 style infrastructure.

> Second, contact tracers have access to all sorts of other data such as public transport ticketing and credit-card records ...

Which is debatable, but not a major problem as long as this is a largely manual ad-hoc process regulated by law and so expensive to execute that we only do it during emergency situations. It's totally different once we start building systems and processes around this to make it cheap and it ends as the new normal.

> Third, you can’t wait for diagnoses. ...

Surely a problem we need to improve upon. Likely a major logistics problem? Maybe something we should ask the military to take a look, after all logistics is something they might have an idea how to do right.

> Fourth, the public health authorities need geographical data for purposes other than contact tracing ...

Why would this need to be part of contract tracing? Currently this is done based on confirmed cases. Surely they are largely localized, especially since the stay-home orders.

> Fifth, although the cryptographers – and now Google and Apple – are discussing more anonymous variants of the Singapore app, that’s not the problem. ...

I agree, trolling, denial of service and school kids are going to be a problem. Could likely be solved by adding a formal gate for infected. Signing the test result with a public-private key scheme should do the trick to prevent any non-legitimate results being used to trigger events.

> Sixth, there’s the human aspect.

Interestingly I would have said this is the technology aspect. How many contacts will we miss because bluetooth low energy is not up to the job?

> Seventh, on the systems front, decentralised systems are all very nice in theory but are a complete pain in practice as they’re too hard to update. ... Relying on cryptography tends to make things even more complex, fragile and hard to change.

Seems solvable, considering we are talking about mobile apps, mostly always online, managed through central app stores and servers? Sounds doable.

> But the real killer is likely to be the interaction between privacy and economics. If the app’s voluntary, nobody has an incentive to use it, except tinkerers and people who religiously comply with whatever the government asks.

Tend to agree, although we have seen quite some adherence to sensible rules the last couple of weeks. Maybe we will be surprised by our fellow humans, maybe not.
If you don't understand what the speaker is trying to say, then there's no need for you waste our time with a comment letting us all know that.
> Investing, swing trading

But who "generates" those assets you are investing in or trading? Will the action of investing or trading generate them? The cycle must start somewhere.

> Software particularly. A couple thousand hours of sweat, toil and despair and you might just create a perpetual cashflow generating machine.

Perpetual may be a strong word no? Your software will need attention, improvement, etc., its value will drop in time, someone will launch a slightly better version of your software in an attempt to capture your success, or even launch a company where people rent their money to produce something you simply can't compete with.

What about the rest of the things the world needs and are beyond the possibilities of an individual but not beyond those of large groups renting their time? Imagine a highway, or a spaceship.
People trading 'things' like favours is pretty natural in that it happens easily. And it's not like the waters of the world are pure and safe to drink by default. There's plenty of parasites and diseases out there. How many hunter-gatherers do you think didn't have worms?
> there appears to be a positive correlation between robust markets and clean drinking water for everyone

Given the context of this article, it's then worth asking: were the "markets" of the Magdalenian also "robust"?
The protagonist's take on UBI is an interesting read in the context of under-evidenced speculation:

https://guzey.com/economics/against-universal-basic-income/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18156955

Been working fine for me since October 2018 for dual boot gaming & firmware updates. It will update to the latest version of LTSC when you start up.

Works with the latest hardware too, I am using it with a 5700xt (released last July, purchased in December) and a Ryzen 7 (also released last year). Only thing missing is the new Microsoft Store, if you search for it there's a repo on github which will let you install it.

For all the Windows 10 ISOs you need to use Rufus instead of normal dd/cat the ISO to a USB stick (doesn't work with dd/cat). Rufus works in a VirtualBox VM with USB passthrough. During the setup, select that you don't have a license key and then activate it later as mentioned in that post.
Probably about 3 years
I’m pretty sure if you’ve read the book he says that you’re better off to “plan” for 8 hours sleep, even though you might not need it? The author clearly takes this into account.

He doesn’t say If you wake up early stay in bed, actually the advice given was once you’re up, get up, don’t snooze.
It can drive one at 10MHz. I haven't seen any parallel attempts. I assume it's slower.
Did China control Coronavirus to this extent while the whole world is on fire?
I don't think it's necessarily about the amount you charge but that for charging it you need access to a bank account / credit card or other banking infrastructure. That's not the case for everyone taking part in the internet.
I’m looking for your substantive comment on the article but I haven’t found it yet.

Pot, kettle, etc.

And I realize the irony in the fact that my pointing this out to you is the main subject of my not-substantive comment.

However, I won’t resort to accusing you of being simple minded, as I wouldn’t call someone who couldn’t make it though an article like this simple minded either.

The concepts and history presented are not terribly complicated, but the organization, length, and unnecessarily complex vocabulary make the article a difficult read.
S. Korea, as I understand it, also assigned a trained case worker to every single case or suspected COVID case. This enabled the contact tracing to be quite successful, and something I believe we’ll need to emulate in the US to prevent the next outbreak in the fall.
> like Google Reader but not owned by Google

Since Reader was shut down, we've gotten a lot of really good options for RSS.

Feedly, Inoreader, TinyTinyRSS, Newsblur, The Old Reader, Feedbin, FeedHQ…
Ask HN: Hardware Programming for Children?
What hardware programming devices exist that are aimed at children? I'm more interested in devices aimed at children under 10 years old.

I am aware of:

BBC Micro:Bit https://microbit.org/

Crumble https://redfernelectronics.co.uk/crumble/

Codebug http://www.codebug.org.uk/

The BBC Micro:bit uses python or MS MakeCode (which is a bit like Scratch). The Crumble uses its own software, which is a bit like Scratch or Blockly. The Codebug uses Blockly.

It's possible to use Blockly with NodeMCU boards (I think, I haven't tried this yet).

This feels like quite a short list. What boards am I missing?
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>However, I don't think people use flow charts on the job anymore

Only for our service desk. Much easier to read than walls of text.
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> This article is spot on. Verifying hardware is a much more complex task than designing it.

Are we sure about that? They start out talking about how hard it is to write correct state machines in Verilog, and they follow that with a lot of skepticism about RISC-V processor designs. But most RISC-V designs use Chisel, not Verilog. Chisel is much higher level than Verilog and using it should also make it quite a bit easier to prevent many design-level errors.
Why don’t these things just generate svg and serve that embedded in the html?
RSS is luckily not dead yet
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I'm sorry, I saw a strong analogy between bootstrapping your world using the scenario in the article and the installation of Arch Linux.

If you read this page:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide

you might get an idea of what is involved.
Millions doesn't seem like an exaggeration:

1. The US, despite currently suffering the most, will probably not end up being the country with the most casualties. Once covid-19 takes hold in more densely populated poorer countries, there will be immense suffering.

2. 1918 flu cost up to 100 million lives, 1957 flu about a million lives, and 1968 flu about a million lives.

3. Total deaths worldwide is already >100k, and the known cases are still less than 0.03% of the population.

Would I give up my privacy to save a few thousand lives? Yes, but the scenario is incorrect. There isn't really a privacy sacrifice involved. I'm trying to think of the worst-case scenario in terms of privacy, but there just isn't one. Someone finds out that a device with ID 00:11:22:33:FF:EE spent 15 minutes with a device with ID 01:31:24:53:EF:AE. It's not worth so many people losing their lives for.
Did you interview the author? I'd like to read that.
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It's so easy to look words up in a dictionary these days, but for some reason the tech community likes to take a perverse pride in reading at an 8th grade level. "How dare you use a word that happens not to be in my limited vocabulary?"
60k if everyone stays in lockdown for the rest of time/until vaccine developed and mass vaccination achieved

source: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/04/09...
>https://sunlightfoundation.com/web-integrity-project/

Looks like they need more help:
https://sunlightfoundation.com/2020/01/02/farewell-and-thank...
Right, that's my point.

Author of the blogpost writes: "Browsers with native support" and "it should work without special extensions" while we both know that's not true. So it's misleading.
The author of article also has a plethora of books... the cover art of which are phenomenal.

https://aerbook.com/store/mwl/
> People trading 'things' like favours is pretty natural in that it happens easily

The author seems less concerned with what "happens easily" than with what is taken as a kind of natural law. The dominant ideology of the present (for which he is presenting an intellectual history) supposes that market forces are this natural law. It is this supposition that cannot stand up to long term history. We are better off reading anthropology and sociology when trying to understand the origins of money and exchange than we are economists, who simply invent facile notions of their origins seemingly out of thin air
It does indeed, and seems to work fine. The problem is not that it's impossible, the problem is that the author is misleading people. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22848023
To me, “proof-of-work” is toxic to the environment and is just an abstraction of “sender pays” — it also doesn’t address the carelessness of people sharing mailing addresses, which is at the root of the problem.
Wait a minute, aren't all private businesses owned or controlled by the CCP?
Its a wonderful idea, but I fear there are too many blocks in place at the moment to achieve this, technical literacy being the main one. The reason that people go to GMail, Outlook.com (formerly Hotmail) and other services is For the convenience - mainly the simplicity. It’s easy. Running a mail server is hard (tm), well in relative terms. There is a lot that needs fixing, especially on the ISP front. Until we can all agree to use IPv6, or another solution that isn’t constrained in the same manner as IPv4, it’s a non starter. I hate to be one of those that doesn’t proffer an alternative solution...
How is then of the possible recent and ongoing attempts to reform the capitalist system like the gig economy, use of automation to make manual labour obsolete, rise of a democratized social media, disruptive innovation etc seem to have more stronger opposition from the left rather than the right, esp in the USA.

Many on the left seem to deeply in favour of preserving the status quo, and seems to not have the means or methods or vision of changing the very broken systems into something better.
60k deaths in the US on a population of 330M, guess how much that would mean for the world? 7700M/330M * 60K = 1.4M.

OP is absolutely right.

Countries with lower standard of healthcare than the US will have a higher death rate.
I worry big companies like the failure of free email. They want you to stick in their giant corporate silo. Gmail to Gmail works. WhatsApp works. The death of the smaller participant by sheer impracticality suits them. Isp's are giving up on even providing SMTP servers. I'm beginning to think I will have to stop using my private domain name and just use a Gmail address. Then they will have won, locked me in and probably start charging me...
I never had my credit card info stolen, so I guess I can use one without any password by your logic.
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I have done LEMP Speedruns in the past.

Start with an Debian USB stick and finish when you see the output of phpinfo() in a browser
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We'll see about (1) but (2) is unfortunately a structural problem that goes far beyond just Apple.

Developers are forced to operate in a "market" dominated by a few oligopolists that are obsessed with control, both on their own behalf and on the behalf of governments.
Previous discussion from 2015-11-15: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10561064
I actually hadn't planned on releasing the extension for Safari but I'll definitely look into it. If Safari supports the Browser Extension API it should be trivial to port.
Every time I scroll down on this page in iOS Safari it just automatically refreshes bringing me back to the top. If I recall correctly this was blogged about on Mozilla’s blog already.
I feel so conflicted after reading that article. On one end, it does a good job explaining a neat trick some smart people have used. On the other hand, it abuses it as "a proof" for some trivial and only vaguely related advice.
BlueDot doesn't use social media which is where there might be gains.

Here seems a good timeline of what happened, which Bluedot didn't win -

To me the important thing was social media discussing a media release and a central authority finding this was where it was at, no AI, just emergent intelligence from social media.

https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/02/21/ai-sent-first-coron...
Interesting. Is there an IMAP attribute similar to Gmail's X-GM-LABELS?
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Ah you are right! I've not read books about it, but I've seen movies. It's pretty much the same plot.
> First time I’ve read that providing clean water on demand to everyone at a sufficient pressure is “minimal effort”.

Let's look at it from this perspective: what percentage of your country's workforce is actively involved in providing clean water?

If it were such a huge effort to provide for relatively basic human needs, then I'd imagine we'd have more people working on that and less people working on advertising, entertainment, rent-seeking, making & marketing disposable novelty products, etc.
Yet another way of measuring (also without providing any type of source, searching "JVM Language Report" brings up a dozen of different results, whereas the first one lists Clojure as being 3% and Scala as 2.36%, can you just link the source instead of asking people to do your sourcing for you?) that is also not perfect.

In the end, we will never know the "real" numbers, and developers like me who use Clojure and find themselves most productive in it, could not care less either.
Chisel is not a magic bullet and does not make you suddenly write bug-free hardware. Its the same logic applied when people compare coding in x vs Haskell. The latter does not suddenly grant you superpowers to write bug-free software.

>Chisel is much higher level than Verilog

have to disagree here. the level of abstraction is exactly the same in chisel as in verilog, its still RTL level. High-level abstraction in hardware is a long-chased holy grail that is revived in the industry every now-and-then and then immdediately dismissed and forgotten, when faced with real-world industry challenges.
/dev/tcp is ugly hack in bash, not something provided by kernel. nc is arguably the more canonical way of doing networking in shell.
Well then it's good that this system doesn't tell you who tested positive.
Not when you want speed and precision. the area of touchpad is far greater and it shows when you want to draw something, or move cursor between edges of the screen. that's the same as playing first person shooter on console controller vs the mouse.
The term Neoliberalism attributed to post 1980 political figures is appropriate in that they tout themselves as classical liberal(hayek,mises,etc.) ideals proponents, but in reality they do not apply or conform to classical liberal ideals. The author does not understand that classical liberal interpretations of economics is an explanation of markets underlying principles. Reading mises, hayek, etc. Is akin to reading the code rather than using the software. The religious references in classical liberal writing is a reflection of how awesome it is to understand how something so seemingly complex works under quite simple principles.

The author conflates modern pseudo classical liberal rhetoric and application with intellectually sincere thought. It is hard to read this article and take him serious. Boiled down, this is just a piece of rhetoric. There is very little intellectual value.
Another example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_Tower or (the Dutch page https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_Tower has better photos, of the second version)
hoi polloi is a redundant phrase that’s intended to hide the simplicity of the idea. It’s simply lazy writing to mask lazy thinking.
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I have built something sort of similar based using purely `auth_request` and nginx. Basically, ach nginx location (ingress rule in kubernetes)s the scopes it cares about, and the request gets sent to a small webapp which checks a JWT for those scopes, logs the user and access, etc...

The scopes look like github scopes, e.g. `read:resource`. So it’s more of a capabilities based system vs an RBAC one, but we have translated roles (via LDAP group membership) to capabilities to simplify things in some cases.
Nah, this article dresses up a fancy view of traditionalism. This clearly has been surpassed in many minds due to its failures to distribute power.

That author is spending a lot of pathos to say little.
If you are concerned about this, the app is the least of your worries because BLE and MAC addresses are already being used to track your movements, for commercial purposes. For example inside stores.

Additionally, many many apps silently gather and sell this data, without your knowledge, and with "consent" being ignored or being relegated to privacy statements that are too vague to understand that they are doing this.

I really hope that if people are concerned at all in any way about the tracking app mentioned here that they also learn that such tracking is being used extensively in industry right now.

I'm surprised how few people on HN seem to know this. If any audience should know and warn our friends and neighbors, it's the audience at HN.
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Does Fastmail use + like gmail?
I suppose TLS might be something of a barrier. Plain old ftp and http sites are disappearing.
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At work this week I replaced jQuery with vanilla JavaScript. I reduced 12000 LOC to 20 LOC but was told to revert that change.
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> S. Korea is the only country that literally "flattened the curve." See unbelievably flat graph @6:50 in link above.

Taiwan has also done so. It has a similar story, burned by SARS, also.

https://www.cdc.gov.tw/En
Charitable donations from wealthy people who, for some reason or another, feel indebted to their alma mater. How successful would these people be without the education they received from their professors?

Educators produce enormous externalities that their students capture and build their lives around. To turn around and say they "live on charity and lecture us on money" is the height of ingratitude.
I applaud the efforts to investigate whether smartphone technology can be a useful aid in the contact tracing process.

Privacy aside, it seems to me that there are two main issues that Bluetooth-beaconing-smartphones will struggle to solve:

1. Determining whether two smartphones "hearing" each other's beacon constitutes contact between the owners of those smartphones. (The blog post we're discussing brings up several examples, and the "orderly supermarket queue" of shoppers patiently waiting outside while observing a 2m distance could generate a massive number of false positives.)

2. Ensuring widespread adoption. If only 1/6th of the population is participating (which are the numbers Singapore is seeing so far) then the chance that an encounter between two people is captured by the app is 1/36th -- far too low to be of much use. There is also an upper limit to adoption because not everyone owns a smartphone or has a device which would be compatible with the contact tracing app.
I'm not sure why you're rushing to defend their comment, given they those chose to insult the author's work with derogatory term "word salad", a psychiatric term used to indicate the jumble of words present in some neurological and mental disorders.

They were basically calling the author a retard, because they couldn't be bothered to take the time to understand the author's piece.
I don't think so. It's chosen because it reflects a particular attitude towards the working classes. (The hoi polloi don't call themselves the hoi polloi.) It's also not in any way an obscure phrase. In the UK at least it's in common usage.
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Yes, speculation is the fertilizer of hypothesis. All anyone has at this point with COVID is speculation.

How can you say vasodialtion is not a vector in COVID19 outcomes? It is vasodialtion that increases capillary permeability leading to fluid in the intercistal space, am I correct? I may be wrong because I am reading that they are showing signs it appears as HAPE initially.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32226695

But these patients, from what I have read, also see a dramatic drop in blood pressure at some point as well.

so the connection with zinc is that they also treat HAPE patients with ACE2

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22441085

ACE2 uses Zinc as a cofactor. So a zinc deficiency could mean less ACE2 and a greater risk of HAPE.

Regarding zinc and heart disease, I am not saying it is THE cause, just a part of the cause. It is demonstrated very well that zinc deficiency is common in people with diabetes and heart disease. The clinical data is there, I just showed you part of it.

Here is a great study, 2017, establishing a clear link beween zinc deficiency and diabetes:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28138861

It still shocks me that in 2020 we still have people that think vitamin cofactors play no role in health and should be ignored.
100% agree. Flowery prose has its place, but an article calling on a return to traditionalism and denouncing the benefits of neoliberalism isn't it. Doubly on-the-nose is that the article would be inaccessible to many due to being steeped in elitism.
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