skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5G is about faster connectivity not cheaper. Wireless mobile broadband requires massive capital outlays, so it is unlikely that prices will be coming down anytime soon. The carrier's only concern is ROI. Contrary to what their marketing spiels may claim.

LoRaWAN technology, if meshed, can cover a wide area, but it is relatively slow. There has been some chatter about carriers including that standard with their existing towers for IoT applications. Even if that comes about it will probably be years away and be priced to be profitable not cheap.
This is a great episode.

My favorite quote of hers was (paraphrasing): "I just wanted someone to talk to."
> Your email is nowhere to be found, so it's impossible to email you about typos or bugs. Typos in this case.

You're right, I don't post my email address on my blog, and yet it's widely available and discoverable (which leads to spam, so...). That said, you can find me on Twitter and LinkedIn, and send me a private message there.

Public comments on HN also work. :-)

Back to your original point:

> Anyways search for:

> Thus, it is imperative to avoid giving these containers running old software no access to the network

> and remove the "no" I suppose? I might be wrong. Only one 'no' there, so it should be gone, afaik.

You're absolutely right; that's a double negative—that "no" should either be dropped or replaced with "any". I'll fix that in a bit.

Thanks again for your careful reading and letting me know!
From Wikipedia, these markets use the “clock” variant, with the first bidder winning:

“Most commonly, it means an auction in which the auctioneer begins with a high asking price in the case of selling, and lowers it until some participant accepts the price, or it reaches a predetermined reserve price. This has also been called a clock auction or open-outcry descending-price auction. This type of auction shows the advantage of speed since a sale never requires more than one bid. It is strategically similar to a first-price sealed-bid auction.”

IPOs are more like the sealed-bid variant.
> I’m tempted to agree with OP that it seems like it’s more of a bad flu for younger people.

The point of the article we are discussing here is that with COVID-19 this is not a binary live/die situation. You can live but still have serious lasting lung damage, possibly lasting neurological problems as well. I'm not aware of the flu having similar effects after recovery.
it may not be necessary, but I think getting a cs degree from a regional tech school is still the easiest path for a recent highschool grad to get a good software dev job.
B2 costs more than that, unless you never download anything. (Not taking into account exploits like utilizing Bandwidth Alliance and Cloudfare free tier to get free egress.)
I wonder how math would have turned out if the National Socialists didn't use the swastika, but the plus sign. Why is everyone so apprehensive of a mere symbol? I similarly don't understand why there are words in the English language most people are afraid to say. It's just a word. You only give these things power by treating them like they have any power.
Yeah, Norway's Article 100 isn't anywhere near as powerful as the First Amendment. So many broad and vague exceptions are carved out, and as you pointed out it's granting the people of Norway a right instead of enshrining an inherent right.
Some countries in martial law some shut down a massive portion of their economy. The controversial approach is relying on individual citizen responsibility. Fascinating times
Are you taking context into consideration? For example, Donald Trump's tweets will be much higher than an ordinary person's.
My money is within a month Sweden going into full lockdown, and regretting their decision.

If it weren't for the states closing down here, Australia's death toll could have been much worse given the Federal wanted to keep everything open.
in your opinion, is archive.org permanent?
and less ethical than Google or Facebook?
reference: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/09/deadly-olive-t...
Also a remote worker for 7-8 years, I would agree with these suggestions if you are able. I would add:

a) If you can and your company is willing, request a monitor. If your laptop allows for more than 1 monitor, ask for more than 1. Also I prefer to use a mouse and external keyboard, so why not request that as well. Your home is now your office so in an ideal world, your company should treat it as such and supply you with what you need.

b) Treat working from home as if you are at work. If you are new to this, then dress like you are going to work or something similar that gets you into the work mindset. Also make sure spouses, children, roommates, etc. understand you are work and not available.
Portable Ultrasound Proves a Potent Weapon in the Fight Against Covid-19
When a future article is written about the dangers of being contrarian to get attention, that same picture of Anders Tegnell will be just below the headline. His parents should have spent more time with him.
Isn't this whole process of debate and individual responsibility basically irrevocably tainted in the age of mass misinformation? I don't know where we get if we walk down this train of thought, probably nowhere good, but when a not inconsiderable portion of the population has been directly targeted to cause them to believe the whole thing is just Bill Gates fault, who magically caused the Coronavirus and is holding back a cure, does debate have value?

This might be a good time when a representative democracy, composed of people who are willing to listen to experts and make the hard, unpopular, decisions, would be the best choice.
> The only "security" this improves, is of devices where the manufacturer has decided to lock you out!

Aside from me wanting to be able to verify the integrity of the boot chain and running OS (on platforms like servers, notebooks, etc) this has little to do with manufacturers locking you out. Secure boot is already in all machines and if the manufacturer wants they can already lock you out. They don't a bunch of code in the Linux kernel for that.
The final Python 2 release
Total Legal Victory in Missouri for Genealogy and Open Records
I remember, when I was a kid, that I had a toy piano where the notes C, D, E, etc. were labeled 1, 2, 3, etc.

Later, I tried to get a computer to play a simple melody and assumed that 1=A, 2=B, etc. The result sounded wrong, and eventually by trial and error I figured out that if I put C# in place of C, then everything sounded good.

I asked my father why, and he gave me a version of "you'll understand when you're older". My father was a wonderful man, but this is still one of my sadder memories from childhood.
Facebook AI, AWS partner to release new PyTorch libraries
> The healthcare budget is a rather small part of the total government budget, a small increase is probably to small to register on the radar.

According to the commonwealth fund[1], Germany spends over 10% of its GDP on providing health insurance. This insurance is funded by a tax on income.

If GDP contracts, and there are less income earners, this can become a very large part of the budget which would require cutting other programs. Obviously healthcare would be a priority. But in a country where people rely heavily on their government, cutting out social programs will really hurt.

> Tax income is already way below spending. Countries are going deeper and deeper in debt every year.

This is what I am concerned about. Governments fund their debt by selling bonds. In the USA, roughly 70% of the federal debt is in the form of bonds held by the public. If people stop buying bonds (because their returns are awful right now, or because people have much less income to be investing), then the governments of the world cannot continue to operate the way they have been.

[1] https://international.commonwealthfund.org/countries/germany...
Some of us replaced our GDI.EXE, GDI32.DLL, SHELL.DLL, etc and installed TweakUI.exe to get those Windows 98 features a year or so earlier....

Then again, I was a Memphis beta tester (legitimately, not the "I found these rars on a warez site" variety of "beta tester") So I "enjoyed" some of those features pretty early on.
constraints breed creativity!
Yes. I own a current generation roomba and they pick up immense amount of dust from my house every 2 days. It works.
The balance, nuance, respect for law-- this is absent from the public discussion in the U.S.
The trouble is if we ease off too early (which I think the US is likely to do) then then next wave will be worse and sooner than it needed to be. Then the people who are currently arguing for an end to lockdown won't have a leg to stand on.

Personally I'd much rather a slightly longer lockdown now than a long painful cycle of repeated lockdowns.
I haven’t tried the highest end models but my mid tier roomba certainly doesn’t. That’s the biggest issue with it, you need to be a very tidy person already for it to work for you. Leave a purse or backpack on the floor in the corner? Shoes by the door? Much less some toys. The roomba is gonna get stuck on a strap or shoelace or something. You can block off dedicated areas with their virtual walls, but need to make sure you never leave anything on the ground outside of those areas.

There’s also a bug where any high contrast rug, like any light rug with a stripe or pattern, confuses the stair sensors so roomba thinks it’s “stuck on a cliff”. There’s no way to turn this off even if you promise the roomba that you live in a one-story apartment. So on days that I want to run the roomba, not only do I need to tidy up first but need to fold up the rug and make sure it’s off the floor.

Maybe in my household we’re just messier than average, but the roomba is certainly not a set it and forget it kind of device. I also have a cordless vacuum and I’ve gone back to just manually vacuuming once a week, the roomba might still save a bit of time over all but the mental overhead of babysitting it is ultimately not really worth it for me.
One thing I've noticed that in the medium term of a software service (2-5 years) is that your software should have the ability to do double-writes to and flip reads between two different datastores.

That will afford migration with as close to transparent migration with as reduced a downtime or no downtime.
Yes, we take expected count of a particular user/source node into consideration.
Microsoft is the only company that could have done it. They are the only entity that has teeth through (as you mentioned above) advertising dollars, logo certification programs, etc. Only they had the infrastructure to get the ball rolling. The biggest kicker, the one thing only, and I really mean only Microsoft could do, was provide the infrastructure for revocation. Without their ability to strong-arm (for good or bad), the industry just would have never agreed.

When all it takes is a rogue USB drive and a power cycle to own a machine, it presents serious problems in high security environments.
Ex-Stanford President, Donald Kennedy dies of Covid-19
Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar
Maybe you could allow creators to make their decks purchasable? Maybe take a cut from that purchase
You seriously want him to bring up specific difficulties like missing rent payments? Why would you want him to rub salt into the wound like that?
USSR needed X engineers per year. The universities had to set their entry requirements high/low enough to only allow X*1.0X to enroll.
Once enrolled, they were ambitious enough to only allow the best to survive. They watched their bell curves and adjusted accordingly. I'm almost sure the Ministry of Higher Education would publish the guidelines on how to achieve that.
There is an old army rumour that South African infantry men were fed copper sulphate ("blouvitrioel" in Afrikaans) to decrease their libido, but it's not true: https://samilhistory.com/2017/10/17/blue-stone-debunked/
Don't get me wrong. I highly appreciate the article and am glad for it. The fact is I'm from Czech Republic and I was pretty sceptical Antonín Dvořák is actually known somewhere else in the world. It was a pleasant surprise as Novosvětská (From the New World) is a real masterpiece.
What subjects are you after?

Also, the enjoyment was not supposed to be from reading the book, it was from passing the exam.
Can you point me to a page where I can buy that data?
"Closing borders, in my opinion, is ridiculous, because COVID-19 is in every European country now" has to be up there

Closing borders seems like a perfectly reasonable step for a great many countries.

Particularly those that are vastly more connected via land-based mass transit (often directly into cities that have higher populations than the entire country of Sweden)
> Isn't this whole process of debate and individual responsibility basically irrevocably tainted in the age of mass misinformation?

maybe so, but if you assume this to be true, it's guaranteed.
"Surely more like that this describes a 6yo kid being excited about something their parent is excited about and a product of implicit empathy, than any significant insight?"

Also possible is that what the kid actually understands and what the parent thinks they are understanding are two different things. The kid is quite likely still wrong in some critical way.

But that is where we all start with new things. I've got two boys in 3rd & 5th grade right now and I'm actively fighting with both of them the idea that "learning" is a matter of being told the correct answer and then they forever after know the correct answer in its every nuance. (Not just since the lockdown. It's been a theme for the past six months with me.)

The older one has just started learning Spanish with school... well... nominally with the school, that's actually going very badly, but I started him on Duolingo in the meantime... and that's been a very good doorway into the idea that you can't just be exposed to a single isolated fact once and then have it just magically be internalized, you need to be re-exposed to it over and over, use it, practice it, and discover how your initial impressions were wrong over time.
Some southern states are about to try the same strategy so we'll see how it works out.
The thing about viruses, especially Corona viruses is that they mutate. The chance of mutation grows with infection rates.

So letting the virus run its course is not as simple as people would like to believe. If we do let the virus infect 60 to 70% of the population, we vastly increase the risk of a much worse pandemic.

Personally I think that the people who want to re-open the most are rich people who realize that they stand to lose a lot of money both by not getting the income from an active economy and secondly by higher taxes and asset nationalization from governments who are going to have to support lost income and social services.

My final thought is that many people now perceive the virus as mainly targeting elderly, poor, frail, drug addicted and ethnic communities; which sadly many people consider to be acceptable losses.
> I’m sorry, but the facts are that india has (had) a remarkable telecom sector at inception.

Maybe yes. But my previous point stands. What good is the sector when millions of Indians can't afford it? (from the perspective of data rates). Also the incumbents had all the time in the world to normalize data rates. But instead they chose to cartelize the industry and kept their profits up.
I'm guessing Nodd has a lot of bookkeepers!
> Each individual letter of my name is also not identifiable, the letters of the alphabet are not PII, but when stored in in the same database row, the separate letters do form PII no matter that you stored them separately or even hashed or encrypted them.

This is a correct statement, but it's implied suggestion that Stripe is doing this is incorrect. There are lots of ways around this: no storing specific keys and hashing input would be my initial impressions.

My guess is Stripe is more concerned about the action patterns than the specific keys that a being pressed.

> Mouse movements may not be PII if you don't link it to a session ID, but then it would be useless in fraud detection because you don't know whose transaction you should be blocking or allowing since it's no longer traceable to a person.

This is an opinion and not a fact.

I don't need to know the identity of the guy wearing a balaclava and carrying a pillow case to know if that guy is in a bank and reaching into his jacket pocket, there's a high likelihood he's robbing the place.

When he shows up at the next place to rob, I don't have to have any PII on him to identify him as a robber. Might not be the same robber at both banks, but they both exhibit similar patterns. If they both limp or talk with a slur, I can reasonably connect the two without knowing the underlying identity.
I have a few; assuming this question has been made in good faith.

> I think it has been overstated how unique the approach is. As in many other countries, we aim to flatten the curve, slowing down the spread as much as possible — otherwise the health-care system and society are at risk of collapse.

It is not overstated how unique the approach is, primarily because it is totally and completely unique and quite wildly so compared to not only Swedens nordic neighbours but the entire world.

> there is not much legal possibility to close down cities in Sweden using the present laws.

this is an argument for creation of those kinds of laws, that's the job of parliament and generally has happened in most other countries in Europe.

> Around 15 people from the agency meet every morning and update decisions and recommendations according to the data collection and analysis. We talk to regional authorities twice per week.

Twice per week is nothing, given that the virus has a 4-7day lag in even presenting symptoms and the exponential rate of growth, the lack of testing (it is advised _not_ to seek testing) it's not even possible to have real numbers.

The whole idea of treating this as a scientific approach requires the collection of data which is not being done.

I live in Sweden and what I'm witnessing is:

1) Offices have closed down, working from home is prevelant

2) Restaurants are definitely not closed, many are busting at the seams. Parks are full, social distancing measures are taken only by the few.. I wear a mask when walking around and I get scoffed at.

3) People 'trust the government' and see that there's no restrictions so they don't put any restrictions on themselves. outwardly they think they've done enough.

4) Gyms are open, my PT had COVID-19 symptoms and continued to go to the gym, she was not tested because seeking testing is discouraged.

A lot of the predictive modelling is based on models made in january and assumes "influenza-grade" immunity (as in you have essentially life-time antibodies to the current strain) but there is no scientific study to defend that assertion for SARS-CoV-2. In fact new studies seem to indicate that antibodies drop off significantly within months.
It will be an interesting experiment to observe, from a distance.
and, somehow, the economic and social system in France is much better than the one in Romania

my take is that the western-style school focuses on getting students life skills, while the eastern-Europe one focuses on cramming knowledge in the brain
A friend of mine (in a small german city, not Berlin) keeps a bunch of bikes in a shared basement. I don't know the common situation in Berlin, but he could certainly charge there.
I think there should be a music service that works exactly like Spotify / Apple Music / Google Music but with these differences:

1. No free tier

2. Your views determine which artists get your money.

AFAIK all of the above mentioned services pool views and give your money to the artists with the most overall views. If I listen exclusively to Scatman John's Scatman's World then I would have expected his estate to get all my money minus maybe 5% admin fees.
Ok, well he has himself to blame if it's a mess.

I am Python / Django Relational mainly (a bit of everything but I like old school well understood stuff). If by chance its built on that then get in touch.

I would love to be given the chance to refactor stuff properly. Most manager talk about it but rarely that it actually gets done.
I had that experience at a charity stargazing night here in Houston not long ago. It's really something!
Fun fact: Alex Krizhevsky's cuda-convnet was also an early adopter of CHWN tensor layout. Basically, having the batch size N as the major dimension limits you to running batch sizes that are multiples of the warp size (typically 32), but then you also have an easier time of implementing fast kernels for all your neural and tensor ops, including tensor convolutions, without getting nearly as stuck in the weeds of microarchitectural optimizations.
That the child was able to access insights into something new is dimmed in no way by your causal understanding of implicit empathy. This is partly a failure of the writer to convey with precision, what the kid went through in that exact moment. That the kid was genuinely receptive towards the subject because his dad is into it has little bearing on the micro-epiphany he must have gone through. If only we could all retain that sense of wonder with age.
What was your physical condition? I find that I work with good enthusiasm on things I want to work on.
It is a fact that this is "heavily disputed" in the same way that there is a "controversy" about evolution vs. divine creation of life forms. That is, yes, you might have a crazy aunt or grandpa who "disputes" the scientific facts. But that is not an interesting observation, nor is it something that has a "threshold [...] for changing that idea".

Personally, I downvoted the original post because it was so badly written that it's not clear what interesting point, if any, the parent was trying to make.
Translate C++ to JavaScript with regex (making online Arduino lessons)
Looks interesting, I'll try it later. Do you have any future plans besides Amazon integrations? Maybe something like linking to credit cards or similar?
> It's not true that one needs to pay for a reasonable computer-science education.

Where on earth do you think I said that?

> The problem is that Lambda are vampires.

You're just resorting to abuse now.
IIRC there's basically one payment processor, whose name I can't recall, that ~100% of NSFW sites use. And their fees are very high, given the risk of processing those payments.
I find all the attempts at "curtailing down the powers of root" to be the modern equivalent of https://xkcd.com/1200/ .

At least with the "user vs admin" distinction, I could argue that it is useful becase my backups could be stored into a separate account with restricted access, so ransomware running in at the "user level" account, would not be able to touch them.

While if my "admin" account gets compromised then all bets are off as the backups could be wiped out (even if they are offline, they could be wiped out the next time I connect the storage device).

However I find a much harder time finding user justification for having a separate "root" vs "manufacturer root", unless you happen to be a manufacturer with questionable motives.
If root is compromised, the attack surface becomes absolutely huge, and it doesn't seem to be very useful as a user the fact that I can rely that at least the kernel and bootloader will not be compromised if everything else is dubious.

Sure, now I can trust that the builtin "restore to factory" functionality on the device works (and even that may not be true). But unless I use it frequently (and who does?), the malware with root access would still be able to destroy all of my files anyway, compromise my backups, etc.
Your second line is the answer to the first.

Look at who works on the Linux kernel, and their affiliation, and you will see why things are the way they are.