skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is misguided. As you note, the system is anonymous and can't have any registration or authentication. Moreover, an Apple or Google specific API for validation would prevent interoperability of other (future) implementations including any free and open source (ie actually verifiable) ones.

Therefore, all authentication must be done on the receiving end by deciding which data sources to trust. This should be fairly straightforward because when a healthcare provider performs testing they are in a position to collect any keys from you at the same time. They are then the ones trusted to accurately report keys, which should be fine since we already trust them both to accurately report test results and to safeguard patient privacy.

Importantly, such a decentralized design allows for cooperative framework implementations, competing app implementations, and multiple data sources. Google or Apple could run a data server, your local government could run a data server, etc. Even more interestingly, such a framework could be repurposed for other less critical uses later as a form of privacy-preserving mutually opt-in contact discovery. Non-essential use of the framework might even ensure that people keep it running all the time, so that the data is ready and waiting the next time a novel pathogen appears.
Nice setup! Quick question: would you recommend getting a Core i9 10940x today or waiting for a 10900K?
Guitarix is really, really impressive and I'm eternally grateful, but it is raw. It takes a lot of work to get it to sound the way you want and is inconsistent from sim to sim. However, by having control over the hardware and the sessions (i.e. presets, basically) and totally bypassing the Guitarix GUI, I was able to make it work for this project.

BTW, I'm not using any of guitarix's cab sims. Instead I purchased a commercial license to professionally-shot proprietary cab simulation IRs which make all the difference in terms of tone quality. That metal portion of the demo is all about the cab sims.
Tariffs and such have been used to even the playing field though. When scalability and network effects are strong how would a company in Australia compete with the existing players who can structure themselves to pay extremely little tax.

If US tech companies want to generate profit from EU and other OECD countries why shouldn't they be taxed in the countries they generate that money from?
Interestingly, this perspective (which I also subscribe to, broadly speaking) resolves one of the core paradoxes with utilitarian philosophies - if you believe the moral value of existing has any positive value with respect to not existing, then you would have a moral obligation to have as many children as possible. This is resolved if you believe that existence is at least capable of having less "moral value" than non-existence for some life experiences.
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what project would that be?
Looks like there's no way for me to contact the author without signing up to some service I don't have, so a few comments here.

line 74: file = str(file)

That looks wrong. If file is a byte string then the result will be 'b"original"'.

The code should probably use os.fspath() on Python 3, which will convert path-like object to string or byte string path name.

line 75: outs = ('%s.tmp.%d' % (file, i) for i in itertools.count())

A simple replacement with os.fspath() isn't enough, since line 75 also converts a potential byte-string into a b""-quoted (unicode) string.

I suggest using tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() instead.
But what is Null and Undefined?
> So it is true, it's just not complete?

Yes, it is a thing that happens. But the original commenter described it as the only thing that happens, which is not true.

> What if the best way to do this is to remove the capitalist incentives that motivate local communities to operate this way?

I think that would be great. But how do you enact that? Do you eliminate property rights? What do you replace them with? If you want my view, the correct policy is a land value tax (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax).

A policy more likely to be implemented is to move zoning laws up the governmental stack to the state level, so that they're not so easily locally influenced.
This is the biggest takeaway from this whole HN post/thread. And it works the same on Firefox! Thanks so much!
There are several Windows features that rely on HyperV under the hood. Home supports them. It does not give the user the ability to run their own virtual machines though.
Diminishing returns. The same argument against making the minimum wage $100/hr. At some point the graph crosses.
That's a trope of headlines which has been around for decades. Are we perhaps running into a cross-cultural issue here?

The younger someone doing something noteworthy is, the more the press (at least in North America) will headline their age.

Here's Orson Welles at age 10: https://twitter.com/JFrankensteiner/status/11919269504508805...
Property developers would be building apartments in Atherton if they were allowed to. It is regulation that prevents it. It is local property owners electing city council members that creates the regulation.
On these chips the encryption and integrity checking feature is one and the same you can't turn on one without the other.

Whether or not you use the same key over every device in a product line or a per device key is up to the oem. So you can still verify firmware in the former instance.

Replacing the FPGA chip is a lot harder than re-flashing an eeprom and they would also have to put a lot of effort in to replicating your firmware just to insert their change.
it's even worse than not testing enough in care homes: "Its advice to the care workers and nurses looking after older people such as Bondesson’s 69-year-old mother is that they should not wear protective masks or use other protective equipment unless they are dealing with a resident in the home they have reason to suspect is infected."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/19/anger-in-swede...
The responses in the US, UK and Sweden (and probably others) are downright criminal and should put politicians in jail.
I was able to get 48000/256/3 working.
The eventual arrival of a vaccine may allow the states who are flattening the curve to have lower total amount of casualties.
If he's off by 1.5x (IHME model predicts 60k fatalities attributed to COVID-19), surely that's miles better than the what - 50x predicted at the start (I recall seeing 2mil fatalities passed around by Imperial for the US)? 40k deaths is a little less than a week of natural deaths in the US, for scale.
>They'd just pay their x% tax and suck it up and consider it cost of doing business.

And then after that the companies will get involved in politics in those places so that it never happens again. This in turn increases the chance of regulatory capture and corruption.

Also, don't forget that increasing the cost of doing business will discourage others from trying. Oh, and there's also the US government too. They might just end up siding with Google and Facebook.
I think reducing inequality is a terrible goal because it commits you to positions like de Blasio's. But his actions are entirely consistent with his stated values. Gifted & talented programs push people into the right tail of the distribution, which increases its variance, which is exactly what "rising inequality" is.
This article might have been more informative if it had placed these ideas in context - the rise Marxism and Communism, which tie the state's mandate to preserving the interests of labour rather than those of capital, provoking in the west the rise of social democracy, which proposes that a balance can be achieved between workers and capital while still preserving capitalism.
Cool to see Dr. Julia Schaletzky and her research work listed, she also did a pretty informative podcast on the development of a vaccine a few weeks ago https://omny.fm/shows/curiosity-daily/covid-19-coronavirus-v...
LEDBAT-style congestion control is not proper for "foreground" Web traffic and it will result in lower performance than TCP-based HTTP. Fixing bufferbloat is an ongoing project and it isn't fair to blame QUIC for being no worse than TCP.
> Maybe in a perfect world with equally distributed wealth it might be the case. But normally all cities have well connected wealthier groups inside.

So, you are positing that the wealthy elite of Munich have come together and agreed not to build high density housing so that they can all make more money, even though if any one of them defects and builds an apartment building they personally would make more money than everyone else?
> ~50% wont even show any symptoms

It is closer to 20% A lot of articles stating more are mis-interpreting those numbers from prospective studies. It is possible that the authors of such studies would downplay false positives as well.
eventually consistent database Is an oxymoron
I am Hindu and in Hinduism the perspective is that all beings choose to be born into this world. I just thought I'd offer a common (in terms of Earth population and number of Hindus) counter perspective
> What specifically makes the president unpresidential as opposed to other presidents?

I'd start with these:

* The scale of his well-documented aversion to the truth (18,000 lies + misleading statements, and counting)

* How he never rises above a situation and takes the high road

* The demonization of opponents, and the inability to engage meaningfully with opposition

* Removal of any oversight (even Nixon allowed oversight)

There are lots more.
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Armored vehicles. Yup, totally unbiased study. Try it with birds or something.
What boggles my mind is that this particular stone tool, it's so attached to our genus that you could argue that it's a central part of our heritage. For almost two million years this particular tool was made, in similar ways. In some ways it defines us as a species.

And yet we lost the knowledge only 10-20,000 years ago. I find that kind of sad. I wouldn't mind learning how to make one.
+1 isn't Harvard more about the name and the people you associate with than the education itself?
It sounds threatening and I hope you don't work for them but anyway, Google and Facebook are already pushing hard into politics.
I personally, would've overridden the equal function of record (or made an equality helper function).

so the code would become

if(!record.isBuiltIn() || !user.canChange(record) || !record.equals(oldRecord)){
// can't save / or no need too
}

and if no one can change a builtin, then a user certainly can't change it.

so it becomes:

if( !user.canChange(record || !record.equals(oldRecord))){
// can't save / or no need too
}
Most reasonable UBI proposals draw the funding primarily from a VAT and a reduction of benefits that it replaces (like food stamps and welfare).

The beauty of a VAT is that while normally regressive, by redistributing the funds as a UBI, you essentially make it a tax on only upper-middle-class/rich people.

For example if the VAT is 10% and you give people $1,000 a month, they would have to spend over $10,000 a month on VAT taxed items (ie. not rent and probably not a lot of food) before they were paying more than they were getting back.

Generally people who can afford to spend $10,000 a month on non rent items are usually making over $180,000 a year.
It's stagnation all the way down. Not only porn, video games, and TV, but cannabis and opiates have taken the 21st century by storm. Before that, the most popular drug was cocaine (and amphetamines). It's symbolic how as Americans lost that rip-roaring innovation culture, they retreated to their couches and numbed themselves with literal opium.
I'm not sure anyone is really a covid-19 expert, but at least Dr. Dre and Dr. Oz are actual physicians.
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Sorry if it was short on software details.

It's realtime raspbian. Headless ardour (lua implementation). A mix of guitarix and other amp sims. Proprietary cab sim IRs. Various other effects packages like rkr, ardour-native plugins.

Person speaks to alexa, alexa calls a series of lambdas (basically the not-yet-public API), and sends MQTT messages to the device which is tied to the user's Thingamagig account which is linked to their Alexa account.

https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/tree/rpi-4.19.y-rt

Let me know if you have any other questions.
> it creates a debt to children so massive, that it can't be fully repaid in a lifetime.

This is just an idea you made up.

It has no more grounding in reality than some old rule from the Bible that nobody follows anymore.

Like one of those old rules, it's just an arbitrary assertion.

When we make moral assertions we need to be just as scrupulous as scientists who can only properly assert something when they have evidence. And for the same reasons.

It's a matter of intellectual hygiene.

I understand that many parents love their children immensely. But there is a gap between that, and the moral imperative you are asserting.

You can spend a lifetime helping your children if you love them that much, and that is perfectly rational. But it does not create this universal moral imperative.
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In case you didn't know, it's in used as a technical term in distributed computing circles.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eventual_consistency
Alternatives to strong consistency in databases has been around for quite a while...
What is the use case for this ?
His project[1] was part of program created by IARPA[2] so I wouldn't be that skeptical

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Judgment_Project

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Advanced_Research...
The implication is you (the parent) get to decide whether the child being alive is a good/bad thing (for the child). It is in your (the parent's) hands, so you better do the right thing and make it good for that person (the child).
This is maybe the only sane answer I have ever seen on these kinds of topics. I wish I could have come up with something this succinct.
That would definitely work (and we could also use it in "Cobain emulation mode"!). Thanks for the tip.
p2p DB in JS using CRDT. That sounds a lot like GUN.

How does OrbitDB compare to GUN?
given the list of other exploits these guys have for exfiltrating data from airgapped computers, it seems like if you are going to the trouble of making an airgapped computer, you should put it in its own room with no other computers and that nobody is allowed to bring their phone into.
>He’s pretty much right though. It spreads worse than the flu

Err, it spreads much better, several times more than the flu.

>and Dr. Ioaniddis recently published a serological study showing it seems to have a mortality rate similar to the flu

Dr. Ioaniddis study was cherry-picked and bogus, much like the studies he was famous for criticizing...
> There is zero chance that Google 'pulls out' to avoid a 'ripple effect'

Why are you quoting the words "pulls out" next to an actual quote from my comment? I didn't use it in my comment, and neither did anyone else in the comment thread. Google refusing to play ball here could take any number of forms, from the extreme hardball of simply refusing and tying it up in the courts (and getting fined and perhaps blocked), to just blacklisting links to the companies that the government is extorting them on behalf of. The latter wouldn't even be "hardball"; companies that are explicitly disagreeing with Google's terms for inclusion aren't included in their results, in the same way that robots.txt allows for.

> Google pulling out of any regular nation would be existentially damaging.

There's plenty of precedent for this level of targeted reduction in service as a response to gov't demands. They shut down Google News in Spain, removed French news links under very-similar demands, etc etc. None of this has had the ripple effect you're describing, and is evidence in favor of the fact that Google is concerned about a broader ripple effect: Why else would they give up all the revenue from referral to these sites instead of paying a portion of the revenue in protection money?
> China: 4632 deaths, 77k recovered

There are zero deaths and zero cases in Turkmenistan, must have gotten their treatment protocols tight.
With your setup, is there a convenient way to flip back and forth between which GPU is used by the Linux host vs. which GPU is used by the Win10 guest?

I'd still like to use Windows 10 only for those games that I can't make work on Linux.
He also predicted about 10,000 deaths in total in his mid-March article -- and he even meant that number without any special measures like social distancing and WFH.

At this point he should stop predicting...
It looks like they have an identity provider, so this must support authentication. Link: https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db-identity-provider

What I'd like to know is do they support authorization?
I do not work for them. This is something I noticed over the years: as Google ran into more and more obstacles in the US that are political the more they seem to have started to meddle. Maybe it's because this is easier, but maybe it's to protect themselves.

These companies don't push themselves into politics everywhere (yet), but I'm sure that the more governments squeeze them the more they'll get involved.
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> Asking "what is blockchain good for other than cryptocurrencies" is like asking "what is internet good for other than websites" pre-broadband

You mean, email and group messaging, file transfer, reference lookups, access to remote servers and other things which people were paying for and generating real business value from?

There were plenty of companies which were generating value significantly prior to broadband becoming universal and that was despite the much higher barriers to entry (computers were far more expensive, phone charges were a major barrier for non-rich people).

The blockchain comparison isn’t valid either because despite a much longer period of time before showing positive results there isn’t much real-world impact: the paper value may look high, almost all of that is within the system — the number of outside businesses which would have problems if it disappeared is close to zero, and a large fraction of the people “using” it are using a middleman service rather than directly participating.
Don't the French and Spanish examples indicate otherwise? Spain's link tax in 2014 led to the shutting-down of Google News Spain, and France's attempt to charge for Google News snippets led to the removal of those snippets for French sites (followed by a dip in traffic for pubs that hurt them far more than it hurt Google). What makes you think that FB/G don't have the power here?
This is good research for low-pressure hydrogen storage, but I think pursuing hydrogen powered cars is folly. It still has to be mined or generated, refined, and transported to filling stations, whereas with electric cars the transport and filling network is already in place. It's still a middleman to lose efficiency that electric cars don't have.
Thanks for your interest and the pointer to Amber. I'll check it out. With JACL I hope to find a good balance of internal vs. external development tools, without necessarily ruling out either by design.
> not just borrowed but entirely given by the EU (=Germany).

You can't have a workable monetary union without a fiscal union. Germany wouldn't have such a big surplus if its exports weren't massively boosted by the southern states depressing the exchange rate of the Euro. Unions require unity, and if Germany feels like its pulling more than its own weight, it can exit. But you see exactly the opposite, Germany (at least nominally) states that its goal is to preserve the union, and this betrays the fact that the union brings massive advantages for the German economy. It is not out of a sense of benevolence and european solidarity, but of pure self-interest.

Well, if Germany and the North want the union to survive, they will have to treat it like a real partnership and respect and recognize the contribution of their other partners.

The current "solution" of bailing out Italy and Spain with even more debt on the condition of further future austerity will only lead to further instability, unemployment, discontent and financial ruin when the debts come due.

It is not a question of "solidarity" with the South. It is a question of whether the North recognizes the contribution of its partners to the union, and whether they can act in mutual self-interest to save it.
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Should Imperial close up shop too?
That's with unprecedented social distancing measures - the 50x prediction was without...

Ioannides in his mid-March article was predicting "10,000" deaths in total in the US, without measures...
I don't think there's an assumption there. The alternative fuel cars that sell well are the long-range ones. Sure, people mostly drive them locally, but it appears to be the case that there's comfort in knowing that they can also go long distance.
I also thought this as well reading the introduction. Canada has less than 1/2 the number of cases and deaths on a per capita basis than the US so they are doing twice as well as the US in handling this.
Since you seem knowledgeable about this -

Can you explain what the difference between 3D graphics generated with Ray Tracing and without? My understanding is that Ray Tracing is essentially the brute force solution to the problem of lighting. We developed "hackier" approximations which run much quicker so our games can run at reasonable framerates.

Is true Ray Tracing really that much better than the approximations we've developed? Is it really worth the significant drop in performance? As an old PC gamer, I've often revered clever optimizations and approximations as not only necessary, but undeniably clever and (in my eyes) cooler.

Today it seems there's a shift in the other direction.

Now that our GPUs can just barely run Ray Tracing in modern games, people are so hyped to use it. For me, it is strange that people would clamor over graphics which are less optimized.

Is the visual benefit that high? Does a game that runs on lots of hardware like Minecraft really need Ray Tracing that requires very specific GPUs?

I guess for me Ray Tracing feels like finding the primes by naively running divisions on every number less than the one you're looking at. It's the easy solution that is terribly slow. Existing lighting engines are (perhaps) like using a sieve?
I feel that when everyone would apply this world view there would be no point in ethics at all and we would live in a more grim world than we already are. I find it very discouraging since this assumes that we have no choice. But we do.

I met a guy studying CS in Cuba (he grew up there) on a Congress and visited him there. The living conditions there are not nice, wealth is something most people there don’t have access to. But this guy was asked by FB/Google to interview for a position and he proudly told me how he declined and wrote them exactly why he morally thought he will never work there. Regardless of the correctness of his view it impressed me that he held principles higher than his potential income. If you just follow financial incentives in your decisions plus a minimal ethical code that will keep you out of prison you are contributing to humanities demise. Long term if too many people just follow their incentives without reflecting on their net contribution to society as a whole this will destroy our society.

Also it’s not like you will be out on the streets if you don’t work for Google/FB. You’ll most likely still be considered rich with whatever you make at other companies in this sector.
A woman who can protect your privacy in a world of hypertracing
knee-jerk?
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