skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If they do, the concerns in this article do not apply.

Most users are not your typical HN reader. Whatever is the default, or easy choice is the one that they are going to go for. Regulations were needed to forbid dark patterns with fishy defaults and pre-added items in the shopping car. People which profession is not related to computers may not have the time to spend analyzing and having a deep understanding of complex ethical computer problems.

> If you don't trust Google or Apple to do what they say they do then you need to stop using their OS and hardware.

I though that this argument was discarded long time ago. If I do not want to use Google nor Apple what are the alternatives? (I really mean it, it is not a cheap shot to your next argument, that is not a bad one) My bank has apps for iOS and Android, like my travel agency and even government. When so much depends on two providers choice is not really there.

That two points does not add much to your argument, as they are not good arguments in this or any situation. Leave them out next time and I think that your argument will gain more strength.

I agree that a constructive criticism is important, thou.
I am a Czech kid who got psychological consulting at school because I had no friends; and that was 15 years ago in a backwards city, it's a norm today.

AFAIK it's also very common in (western, on top of the formerly communist eastern part) Germany, Austria and Netherlands in addition to the countries I said before.

I wouldn't call it fixing though, they're treating it as a symptom, and there are no molds, just the understanding that socialization is extremely important for child's development, which is also why we have mandatory (publicly funded) kindergarten for at least one year before school begins, and most kids are going from 3 years old for 3 or 4 years - we even have people that determine whether the child is socially ready to move to school and if not, the kid stays a year more in kindergarten (again, my personal experience, and at least half the kids I know had it the same).

Note the German etymology of the word kindergarten; it's been studied and practicioned for a long time here.
Where is the need for more planning coming from? The amount of planning in my day did not changed at all.

But as I am working from home, I am getting more sleep too. I am too waking up without alarm. I dont travel to/from work anymore and therefore it is enough to wake up a bit later. I am also more ok going to sleep sooner, because there is more time for own activities not then it used to be.
i found it quite funny. And I don't really find calling a well know eugenics advocate racist to be even remotely provoking. Maybe out of style compared to the rest of the text, but apart from that I didn't find it conspicuous in the least.
Your last sentence seems to contradict itself?
> Pretty much as far from "kill your darlings" as one can get, tbh.

Forking your own thinking process to have a secondary personality execute in parallel sounds as close to "killing your darlings" as possible, given that personality would presumably have their own favorite expressions and tropes.
Cloudflare goes retro with COBOL delivery service
And as an Amazon/Inditex/Walmart engineer?
If you read the paper it turns out there is no actual evidence for the Air Conditioning route other than "the airflow direction"

As a matter of fact "air conditioning" is not even involved, the same airflow could be just as well caused by a fan or the waiters moving about carrying the air around them.

It is ridiculously sloppy.
You should focus on clearing your debts
I disagree that he's asking people to take a big gamble. While it seems unrealistic to me, Dr. Burry made a point of tying his recommendation to widespread, rapid testing and contact tracing. If these things were in place, I do think letting people that aren't in the most vulnerable population groups out and about might be reasonable.

"A more nuanced approach would be for at risk groups — the obese, old and already-sick — to shelter in place, to execute widespread mandatory testing, and to ID and track as necessary while allowing society to function. Again, Trump should get the massive contract manufacturers like Flextronics to make testing machines."

That said, we are still having problems getting the tests out and people are still complaining that it will take days to get results back. I personally know a pharmacist with an at-risk child who can't get a test as of last week. So this seems like wishful thinking to me.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/next-covi...
Workforce is like energy, difficult to store.

Boomers did build a lot because they needed a way to store this workforce, and building is the way. Capital was short and workforce abundant.

Now it's changing, we have lots of goods and savings to invest, but nobody to take them and actually DO something. Now is time to make sure that people that can create something actually do it. Interest rates are super low, and the economies are flooded with money.

What's the problem here. ZOMBIES!
ZOMBIE companies that just drag resources and never die. If you don't let them fall and you never restructure the system gets sick. And that's what happens now, saving everyone ass is not clever, but printed money is going to those holes.
I realize governments, Apple, google already have access to my personal information and location. But I get the sense the public gets uncomfortable whenever we feel Governments are openly using our personal data on a large scale. Uncomfortable is the key for me.

What scares me specifically about person proximity tracking is that in the current covid world it seems realistic that some governments will force people to enable it with seeming support from the public. Therefor eroding that uncomfortableness.
Quiz: Which Legendary F1 Driver Are You?
Funny enough, adding such role/institution adds complexity in itself
I agree, this is not a very good use case for blockchain. For example, you can use a bank statement or utility bills to 'prove' your home address - It's not as solid a blockchain proof, but the courts will accept it... The fact that courts of law don't depend on blockchain-quality proofs means that blockchain does not actually solve any new problems in that area. It can add a bit of extra convenience in certain cases but the value is unclear.
Then perhaps let's rethink economics into something more sustainable and not plagued by booms and busts and rent-seekers.

As an added benefit, we can make human civilization less harmful to the environment, by reducing our massive overconsumption and focus on sustainability.
When I started dabbling in electronics recently, I ran into switch bouncing apparently as I used a push button to generate the "clock" input of a CD4017 decade counter and it showed rather erratic output behavior.

Adding a capacitor fixed it. Which reminds me that I should really invest in an oscilloscope to validate my (not so) educated guesses.

Great resource to read up on this topic, thanks.
Ask any engineer.

In software, to invent and make something work, you spend maybe 10% of the time actually inventing/creating things, and for the remaining 90% of the time, you try to "instantiate" your creation, which involves lots of drudgework, code bureaucracy (and sometimes real bureaucracy), dealing with irrelevant crap (e.g. tooling issues) and debugging.
Subject to the caveats that (1) we can't necessarily identify something as "writing" or "not writing"; and (2) it's hard to establish accurate dates for things that happened 5-6000 years ago, they're roughly contemporaneous.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22888170
I switched from Google (YouTube) to Facebook in 2019 after 2.5 years at Google.

When I joined Google I was very influenced by the 'Google is the good guy PR'. I never liked the Ads business model, but there a few Google products I really liked (Inbox, Maps and YT notably).

It's hard to pinpoint the wake up call, but I'd say it was project Maven (aka let's make an AI to help US drones kill more people), and all the lying and mislabeling there was around it (our AI don't kill people, etc…).

Wrt Cambridge Analytica, you have to go back to the mind state of 2016. At the time FB was mostly attacked because it was a walled garden hoarding all the precious data. So FB allowed users to share data with external apps. Then one apps managae to get data about 100k Americans and their friends and use it for helping Trump. And then 'data portability' was evil.
Have the Internet Archive archive a document and it’s hash. Courts have accepted Internet Archive snapshots as evidence.

More costly services would be something like DocuSign.
There was something I read--probably via HN--some years ago that suggested that the PPK wasn't that satisfactory an arm.
If this person has been at google for years it’s almost certainly a massive mortgage, which isn’t really debt in the traditional sense
> On January 23, 2020, family A traveled from Wuhan and arrived in Guangzhou. On January 24, the index case-patient (patient A1) ate lunch with 3 other family members (A2–A4) at restaurant X. Two other families, B and C, sat at neighboring tables at the same restaurant.

Three families, not one.
Pretty sure FB wont even hire you unless you are a fanboy to begin with so it's a weak barometer.
Title is misleading. This is an article in a journal published by the CDC, not a statement by the CDC.

The evidence that the air conditioning was responsible is circumstantial at best, and I'm somewhat skeptical. If the index patient had been located at Table C then I would find the claim more credible, but they're claiming the air conditioner both pushed aerosolized droplets away and pulled them toward it. According to the figure the other air conditioner circulates air over a large diffuse area covering 9-10 tables, but the air conditioner in question magically only covers 3 tables and E and F get no air circulation or something. It seems like the air circulation pattern is drawn to fit the hypothesis rather than based on any principled analysis.

They entirely ignore other possibilities like "someone from Table C walked past Table B on their way to the bathroom/stairs/whatever, and the index patient at Table B coughed around that time."
I'm guessing that using the DD event stream rather than purchasing logging support could be a cost saving, although not sure how DD would feel about that.
I’ve used OneSignal and their generous free tier in the past with great success. It has nifty features like using an external user ID (your backend can just say: send a message to @user123). I had to switch to Firebase Cloud Messaging for compatibility reasons but I still highly recommend OneSignal.
I would add people may be underestimating the costs of isolation. Going to work isn't only costing you commute, but also offers possibility to meet other people, grow your network, build friendships, get support, etc.

Since this started relatively recently, we are living off already established network. But what is not visible is the network we are not creating, new people we are not meeting, our kids who are getting more impaired socially, and so on.
I thought it was you when seeing the Bromite posts (but apparently no).

There is some confusion about the notion of up-to-date, from a Kiwi perspective, we do not see the most recent version of Chromium as improvements.

We created Kiwi (with other users) because we disagreed with Chromium on functionalities like Duet, or APIs changes like with Manifest V2 and adblockers.

This is the reason to completely fork Chromium (or why Samsung diverged from Chromium 77 in 2019)

By definition will always diverge from Chromium v81+.

It's a choice.

About security fixes, yes, between end of 2019 and today, new problems emerged in Chromium (not specific to Kiwi though), and there is some work to backport.
Should it have been done earlier ? Certainly.

About the last point, Kiwi makes money if you use Microsoft Bing or Yahoo, that's life, and that's how I pay for the build servers, some contributors, advertising Kiwi, logo designer, sometimes the programmers, etc.

Firefox does the same but with Google, Brave with DuckDuckGo, etc.

I see you have StartPage, DuckDuckGo, AdGuard, already in partners, and if they don't pay you, I encourage you to contact them, as they should.

Regarding the policy of Kiwi:

====

We do not collect the websites that you visit. What you do in the browser is your own freedom and responsibility.

We do not collect or sell location data. We do not collect telemetry data. We do not collect history data. We do not track users. We do not integrate third-party analytics SDKs.

We collect and store: how many installs are active, where the person has installed the browser from.

Our business model:

When you enter a search query, the query is sent to the Search Engine that you have selected
(Microsoft Bing or Yahoo by default, Google, DuckDuckGo, or any provider of your choice).

If you choose to use the recommended search engine by Kiwi, Kiwi will process the request and will receive money for every search query it forwards to the partner search engine (example: Microsoft Bing).

====

and you know, with the releasing of Kiwi as a free software (and not just open-source), now there is no limitation.
If you disagree with how the project is managed, then you can absolutely make your own product (or just use another search engine heh), or take the pieces you want (and over time, a better picture over commit history will build), and this is a very good thing.

Also, thanks for the kind words at the end, you really pushed onto open-sourcing Kiwi too. Though sometimes you are a bit extreme for me :)
And me thinking that Clojure had OOP and imperative programming forms as well.
It keeps the clock up-to-date, but I use Konsole's "monitor for activity" feature, which changes the colour of inactive tabs if there is output.

Instead, this seems to work:

TRAPDEBUG() {
case "$WIDGET" in
zle-line-finish)
zle reset-prompt
;;
*)
;;
esac
}

(I don't know if further cases will be required.)

This updates the prompt after "enter" is pressed, but before the command is executed.
They're not saying the virus went through the AC, but that the stream of air leaving the AC likely blew the virus from one downstream table to another.
Wow... Can you elaborate a little?
Making sense of a visible quantum object (2011)
I find it interesting how affordable housing must be very near high economic opportunity.

Seems to me it's a fight for convenience too.

They built Las Vegas in the desert to avoid restrictions, what's preventing this generation to build new cities?

The whole Covid problem will make quests to increase population density more difficult. But perhaps will also spread opportunities around, or move them online, so this zoning struggle will stop being important.
https://altstore.io/

welcome to 2020.
Disarmament doesn’t prevent war. It only prevents winning. “Transparent and neutral international agencies” are a pipe dream.

Furthermore, remember what I actually said. The main reason there won’t be a war with China is because China is too dangerous to attack. When China was less well armed than they are today, they ended up at war much more frequently.

Why does the US “point weapons” at China? Same reason. We don’t want them to attack us or our allies, though our commitment to those allies has turned less credible in recent years. In both cases, the basic principle is the same: si vis pacem, para bellum. That is the only way to preserve peaceful coexistence between states that have fundamental differences and distrust between them. Which, after all, is the same basic reason different countries exist in the first place.
People are notoriously ineffective at predicting their behavior under different conditions. In late December they spend thousands of dollars for gym memberships they abandon by February. They say they'll never smoke or drink again before quitting many times. Psychologists call the effect empathy gaps.

We respond to our environments in the moment, not how we think we will. As we tune our environments to our situation, we create environments we like and get rid of parts we don't.

When lockdowns end, unless we consciously choose to lead ourselves, we'll revert to our old wasteful ways. Companies seeing opportunities to regain market share or fearing losing it will send people flying again. People who have found ways to get closer to loved ones remotely will start flying again, ironically probably not bonding as well by choosing convenience over shared effort and struggle. We'll waste again when marketed convenience.

That is, we'll revert to what marketers promote to us if we don't consciously choose to keep our lives simple and sustainable. That's the value of leadership -- personal and of others. I see virtually no leadership around the environment, which is why I work on it. It takes effort, but I find the rewards more than worth it.
And this happens after trillion-dollar tax cuts to the rich and giant profitable multi-national corporations.
Did you read the abstract? It explains a theory of how the movement of droplets throughout the restaurant is consistent with the airflow from the air conditioner. Nothing to do with filters.
You are right, congrats. Just found the comment by searching the word zombie, is a cool thing to do.
I think its a very big mistake to attempt to quantify quality of life with the numbers below but I could see how someone could try to make the case that Germany is relatively poor vs the USA:

Germans are taxed much higher than people in the US: A tax rate of 42% on income over 57K euros, vs 22% in the US (and the US bracket tops out at 37% for 500K USD). Gross national income is lower, 54K in Germany vs vs 63K for USA (though still quite good). Other sites peg Germany as 82% the purchasing power of the US, though less cost of living. Yet many durable goods are much more expensive in Germany. Cars are ~28% more expensive, gas is more expensive, electronics are more expensive: iPad in the US costs $800 vs $950 in Germany. Utilities are 56% more expensive in Germany, clothing 40% more expensive.

Some stats: https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Germany/Un...
Marc has to accept some responsibility for this as the decisions by himself and his industry for 20 years have been part of the problem.

Building more housing in the Bay area is not part of the solution. What is part of the solution is funding business activity elsewhere, where people are not packed in like sardines and breeding viruses.

Note it does show that the VCs are not a master class because they can't win against bay area landlords. If the ground in the Bay area is so uniquely blessed that is a case for sky-high property taxes, right?

I want to see salesforce, Apple's and similar companies ditch the Moscone center and move their conferences to Las Vegas for one thing.
The complaint isn't about the capability for mass surveillance, but the normalization of it, in the public mind.

The capability has existed for a pretty long time, mostly out of the public eye, with occasional bursts of outrage when something caused it to become public, quickly forgotten afterwards.

The capability is there, that genie is out of the bottle and nobody is going to put it back in. This isn't really about the technology, it's about the legal frameworks and social attitudes surrounding this capability that are worth talking about. Putting your hands up in defeat is not useful, and at this point probably neither is trying to prevent the technology from spreading. I am unsure what the solution is but the conversation needs to happen, and in all likelihood the end result of that conversation will be that corporations can't be trusted, just like they couldn't be trusted with food safety, for example, thus the FDA was created. What actions will be taken after that, I cannot predict.
i feel like i'm taking crazy pills whenever i read these "consider the economic casualties".

can you please tell me what the projections re economic casualties (ie people that die from e.g. starvation/privation post covid19) are for literally any other first world nation? my distinct impression is that only in the US are we being forced to choose between people dying from covid or people dying from poverty as a result of covid. shouldn't that tell you something about how we're approaching this problem in and of itself!?!
>Aaron O'Connell is an American experimental quantum physicist. While working under Andrew N. Cleland and John M. Martinis at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he created the world's first quantum machine.[1] In particular, he was able to transfer the quantum state of a superconducting quantum bit, a device used in quantum computation, to the motional state of a macroscopic mechanical resonator.[2][3] His measurements of the quantum machine constitute the first direct observations of quantized behavior in the motion of a visible object[4][5] and led the journal Science to honor his work as the "Breakthrough of the Year" of 2010.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_D._O%27Connell
I use the keyboard layout switcher only with the keyboard which is pretty much instant, so I wonder how was it broken in any of the Ubuntu 19.x releases — that sounds worrying if it carries over to 20.04? (I am on 18.04)

"Any Ubuntu 19.x" because non-LTS Ubuntu releases come out every six months, so there was Ubuntu 19.04 and Ubuntu 19.10, but never an "Ubuntu 19": they are never as polished or as stable as LTS releases, and are only supported for 9 months, forcing you to update regularly.

If you are looking for a more stable experience and you are not chasing the latest features, you would probably be better served with LTS releases which come out every 2 years (they have hardware updates with newer kernels included every once in a while, so you do not have to worry about using them on latest laptops either).

If you want the most stable route, go with LTS point (.1) release. Eg. I only update my servers when 18.04.1 or 20.04.1 is out.
Bitbucket deleting Mercurial repos June 1
Saw Graham Dumpleton's twitter https://twitter.com/GrahamDumpleton/status/1251815399848439810

and I had no idea this was a thing: https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-bitbucket

>After much consideration, we've decided to remove Mercurial support from Bitbucket Cloud and its API. Mercurial features and repositories will be officially removed from Bitbucket and its API on June 1, 2020.

Unlike with code.google.com's shutdown and transition to long term archive, there's no archiving happening on the part of Bitbucket. Once June 1 hits, all repos are gone unless the project maintainers have migrated somewhere else.

Makes me wonder how many Python libs and projects will be affected? Passlib at https://pypi.org/project/passlib/ is one such lib. How many others are there?
Why not use distributed tracing? You get the context of entire request in addition to the exception.
Many many kids spend now 24/7 time in Netflix on mobile. Long term effect might be more kids with glasses. Parents still must work from home now.

I think kids spend few weeks with parents anyway. It’s called summer vacation and schools are closed.
Office buildings I've worked at in the past barely had any filtration. Within a few days, the untouched parts of your desk would have a layer of dust on it. I'm now (well, not now-now since everyone is WFH) in a LEED Gold building and the filtration is much better, and I only have to clean the monitors every 5 or 6 weeks.

As good as it is, it still won't catch virus sized particles - that's a biosafety level 3 or 4 facility (like in Andromeda Strain) and you're not going to find that in an commercial building.
"Solve" is a tall order and I'm not sure it passes that bar, but I've always liked how the Something Awful forums have dealt with trolling and other shitty behaviour: An account costs $10 and bans for trolling are handed out quite aggressively.