skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paid services that require billing in unreliable networks. If IOTA had a high quality implementation, it would be really useful I think. (Obviously it suffers severe problems, both on the spec and implementation side since years; and they are slow to fix them) On the other hand, I think "standard blockchain" isn't enough. I'm no expert but mainstream blockchain solutions have some not so nice properties: processing power/energy waste, vulnerability to 50% attacks, slow processing.

That said, cryptographically signed GDPR conforming Event sourcing might be a good idea. I wonder if that would still count as blockchain though.
> And better not tell the author of this article but this data has been made available to authorities for decades.

Sometimes people can surprise us; the author is least somewhat familiar with GSM networks, and perhaps you'd both enjoy a learning experience if you're able to share any additional information you have with them.
The author isn't even saying there's no viable alternative. They're just leaving it open. That is particularly troublesome since in this case, unlike your hypothetical, there is obvious value in having faster and more accurate contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This allows to track who was in contact with who. That is something new.
My examples are deliberate simplifications e.g. ends of the spectrum, not intended to imply that all people with those personality traits would be in those situations.

Almost anyone else would currently better off in a bigger home with more outdoor space regardless of personality, family, etc. The same is not true outside of "wartime".
Sorry but again, dismissing something based on barely over a decade of data is incredibly shortsighted. The economic success of a technology isn’t a recipe that merely requires capital and intelligent people. That isn’t how history works.
It is particularly ghoulish to accept the death of millions of people, simply because it would be better for the market.

Really, this financial crisis was brewing and on its way, coronavirus or not, because we didn't take the lessons of the 2008 crash to heart. This pandemic was simply the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back, but it is very tempting for economists and politicians to place the blame squarely on this scapegoat, so they can continue the cycle of booms and busts, which benefits only those with enough capital to weather the risks and buy in at the bottom of the curve.

If we want to break this destructive cycle, we need to rethink our approach to economics and society: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674980822
I just ran across a COM interface in the MOST unexpected of places:

Apple's CoreMediaIO CFPlugIn video capture device plugin interface!

https://github.com/phracker/MacOSX-SDKs/blob/master/MacOSX10...

/*
File: CMIOHardwarePlugIn.h

Contains: API for the CFPlugIn that implements an CMIO driver for the DAL from user space

Copyright: © 2004-2010 by Apple Inc., all rights reserved.
*/

[...]

/*!
@method QueryInterface
@abstract The IUnknown method for finding an interface on a CFPlugIn type.
@param self
The CFPlugIn type to query.
@param uuid
The UUID of the interface to find.
@param interface
The returned interface or NULL if none was found.
@result An error code indicating success of failure.
*/
HRESULT
(STDMETHODCALLTYPE *QueryInterface)( void* self,
REFIID uuid,
LPVOID* interface);

BUSTED!

https://github.com/lvsti/CoreMediaIO-DAL-Example/blob/0392cb...
How to Exit Lockdown in India
Divide the country into blocks of 100,000 people. If it is metropolitan area, make it 1,000,000 people.

Identify the blocks that have a strong medical facility within them. Call these Class 1 zones.

From those that do not contain, identify those that have a medical facility within 5 km. Call these Class 2 zones. Similarly identify class 3, 4 and 5 zones, who have a facility within 10, 15 and 20 km.

Identify all class 1 zones. Select those zones that are 50 kms apart. Read this carefully. Select class 1 zones that are atleast 50 kms apart.

This is a graph theory problem. It is called Nearest Neighbor Search.

Lift the lockdown in all these. But do not allow interzone movement. That means, you have several thousand communities of 100,000 people freely doing their business but not crossing their borders.

If they detect anyone falling sick, the medical facility should be able to handle. The current rate of hospitalization is about 5 per 100,000. Even if it jumps 10x the facility in that zone will handle it.

Let 2 weeks pass.

Now open up remaining class 1 zones which are 40 kms apart. Wait two weeks. Then 30 kms apart. So on and on..

Then do the same with class 2 zones. Then class 3 zones.

This is like coloring blocks which are initially 50 kms apart, then 40 kms apart and so on.

Any computer science graduate worth his salt can give this schedule. Or better yet. Please contact any professor in IIT (Prof SN Maheswari for eg.)

Eventually the zones will merge. Then you automatically lift the interzone movement.

You can optimise this even more, if you can medically prove, you can increase the zone size to say 1 crore people safely. This is a question of healthcare informatics.

Thank you for your time.
No, I have not. But wouldn't be those code bases which compile very slow because of being written in C++? C++ seems to baloon in building time for large code bases. On the other side, the big Threadripper manages to compile the Linux Kernel in 40s. I don't think those web browsers are that much bigger than Linux than the compile times differ.

Firefox is further slowed down by using more and more Rust based code - Rust is known to compile slowly. However I would say this is a good tradeoff, since Rust brings much more safety to one of the most safety-critical applications on a typical desktop.
Don't be naïve.

1. the telcos have months - if not years - of LAC update data stored for every phone. They know where you sleep, who visits and where you work and shop;

2. they analyse the CDR for every call/SMS send and received (caller and receiving party cells) [look at your spam SMS with a jaundiced eye];

3. they 'ping' thousands of phones* daily to trilaterate the location to metres (and/or A-GPS, TDOA, etc.)

4. they analyse the voice and data handover records.

* The preferred way to do this with a veneer of deniability is for the authorities to add in a few phones into the known associates list of phones to be monitored in an otherwise legitimate drug or terrorist warrant.
They judges will never know (and certainly don't ask).
I would have to assume OP is referencing the plethora of pre-COVID19 pieces relating to the issues of enabling disinformation spread and privacy.
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> Pretty much nobody uses the ARM reference designs except as an early prototyping target.

This isn't true. The majority of ARM based SoCs today use the Cortex or Neoverse reference designs from ARM. Today there are only a few handful of vendors who fully develop their own core, such as Cavium, Apple, and Ampere.
I think he is spot on.

We are drowning in platitudes while people’s lives are being ruined. Entrepreneurs and small business owners are seeing their life’s work stripped from them by a policy choice served by ass covering politicians and a class of media elites ever willing to promote the post-modern illusion that death is subject to our whims and not the other way around.
Is there much difference?
Ask HN: What do you think about Static Site Generators?
I've trying different static site generators these days, from Gatsby to Eleventy. What do you think about these tools and JAM stack?
The author has absolutely no obligation to give an alternative, man. There is also LOSS of value in violations of privacy.

Also: as a mathematician, there is lots of value in a counterexample to part of a proof. Just that, even though the final result is true.
Might also hold for big pharma, if they find a cure/vaccine.
Some will, some won't. The ones that don't will win the 21st century. The ones who embrace draconian measures and disincentivize innovation to protect stale and outdated institutions will lose big time.
It's far from given that a return to pre-outbreak commuting patterns will be the norm.
I am a 9/11 suvival
It is a similar situation to hurricane evacuations. A forced evacuation will save lives, but forced evacuations that turn out to be a false alarm because the storm changed direction causes people to ignore future evacuations leading to more deaths. There is no right answer
??? for as long as I remember, all and everybody was using them exactly for that reason. Slow raising edge can be considered a bounce by some logic, but that is easily fixable by Schmitt triggers
You'll still have to verify an India/UAE mobile number.
Nice analogy.
Seems like politically it's hard to agree on how to compare deaths to other adverse consequences?
I suspect some political leaders are just focusing on deaths as the quanitity that's easiest to measure, whereas others truly believe that deaths due to Covid should have a very high weight compared to everything else?
It's kind of understandable that scientific advisors focus on their respective topic of expertise, maybe the problem is more the aggregation and evaluation of views.
I'm not a great person, I get more satisfaction from feeling like I know more than actually being critical about learning.

Not sure how to purge that psychology.
I don't want to start a religious war, but can't we all just agree that eight is the ideal magical number, thanks to its voluptuous roundedness and power-of-two-ness?

Behold eight's symmetrical beauty: 8

Seven is just so odd, gangling, unbalanced, and awkward in comparison, like it's just about to fall over: 7
> "at the expense of any other consideration, like the effect of elective procedures being postponed indefinitely, tens of millions of families in hardship, economic collapse, etc."

Ideology is causing this, specifically the idea that medical services must be profitable, and the idea that if you don't work, you don't get to eat.

That we even accept this premise is utterly absurd.
Each to their own. For me one of the best things about about the lock down is being able to spend more time with my daughter and be more involved with caring for her.
So you would consider that a user has the same responsibility as a FB/Google developer in using these services?
> A well-run, transparent, centralized entity can easily become an opaque and corrupted entity over time.

And the opposite can also happen. Humans are good at quickly adapting to circumstances and fixing "bugs" in organizations through firing/hiring, new organizational structures, or other means. That's what markets do.

A "perfectly designed" decentralized system may be superior, but I don't believe it's possible to perfectly design an incentive structure from the get-go. The world is incredibly complex, and once you have a bug or mistake in your decentralized system, it's doomed because it can be exploited. There are already countless examples of various tokens and blockchains being hacked/exploited. A centralized, human-led organization is less efficient, but more resilient to such things.

This is similar to the AI question. Are you willing to put your full trust into a system with dynamics not fully understood, or do you put your trust into humans running centralized systems? By "not fully understood" I don't mean the algorithms, but the emergent behavior of an incentive structure, which is incredibly complex because it deals with human agents.
I used to work at one of these companies. I didn't consider it evil, but I knew it had to make business decisions that weren't always super ethical. that's life.
Really ? Surreptitiously turn on BT pairing / location on each device. Far easier to surmise this information
Ramp-up time exists as well. Depends on the area, but if you need 6 months to really get a contractor up to speed with what you do, you can't afford to risk changing just for some marginal benefit in speed.
All the "private blockchain" things seem to not have 3. by design? (but their proponents typically are quite bad at providing clear explanations, so I might be misunderstanding what's going on there)
I agree with your general idea, but reality is probably a bit more complex than that.

I consider myself an extroverted person (I love talking with people, to the point I have to restrain myself because I get the feeling they had "too much of me") and live in city centres for the reasons you describe.

Yet, I've been working from home for 13 years, now, and totally love it. I still get the advantages of getting anything deliver to my door (it's way harder further from the city) and to be able to go out do anything should I wish it (which almost never happens).

All in all, I'm glad working from home is seen as a new normal, because it's one less reason for people to call me "weird" and ignore anything I say.

EDIT: oh and also, at almost 40, I still never had a driving license nor a car. I guess this can only happen working from home (no commute) in a city (good public transportation).
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Defence is done in layers. Imagine a castle; does it stand on it's own in a plain field? Unlikely. It has walls, moats, hills, guard towers, bars on windows.

Even if Google or Apple are _capable_ of doing something evil, you can stil prevent them from excersing that power by not setting an example that it's okay to do so.
Purely personal opinion, but to me the now more immediate and pressing issue is how these platforms do very little to combat the spread of clear and obvious dis/mis information for either political or just completely idiotic purposes.
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You can definitely live with a voice-only phone, though the current models are horrible (I miss the real Nokia phones).

If you want to live luxuriously, also put a netbook, X1 Carbon, MacBook Air, whatever, in your backpack, then you have Internet, too.

This is not an excuse for the outrageous tracking plans of Apple and Google, I just hope more people will do this as a reaction to those plans.

EDIT: I may have misunderstood the "no alternative", I assumed it was about the need to own a "smart" phone.
To use as local input/output devices in your home!

A (old) phone/tablet running Linux connected via USB/ADB/Network can be used as:

* (Additional) Webcam for your computer

* (Additional) microphone/Touch-pad for your computer

* (Additional) (status) screen for your computer/whatever_with_USB

* Security-cam/Digital-picture-frame for your whatever_with_USB

* (Additional) Network-available environmental sensors (light, temp, vibration).

* (Additional) Wifi/xG Network (scanning) device for your PC

If this doesn't make dozens of useful workflows available to you ... then I don't know, what you have been doing with computers before.
Paper Titled “Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List” Published by Journal (2014)
IQ matters in terms of determining the spectrum of offerings that a funding-limited school system (which is all of them, just to different degrees) should provide.

If you measure achievement based on "percent reading at grade level and passing MCAS", then all high-IQ students are, in effect, "left behind". I agree strongly with your 2nd sentence, but disagree strongly with the first and fourth.
Currently yes. In the past, no.

>1997: Microsoft rescues one-time and future nemesis Apple with a $150 million investment that breathes new life into a struggling Silicon Alley icon.
https://www.wired.com/2009/08/dayintech-0806/
Thank you. Are you referring to the "Microsoft Corp. v Commission of the European Communities" case[1]?

(lodged in 2004, resolved in 2007 - and led to the release of a version of Windows without Windows Media Player installed-by-default)

[1] - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:62...
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has used blockchain based solution to curb spam calls and messages. (Slightly old link here: https://www.livemint.com/Industry/RRuPzidooMxh8pspZhTlrI/Tra...)

India has a huge problem with spam calls and messages (not so much in times of Corona, work from home, and lockdown) and how the phone numbers of users are obtained. There are lists of emails and phone numbers that is bought and sold in an informal market too. There is no first hand record of consent about whether or not any registered entity can call or message me. Almost everyone receives messages and calls from unsolicited numbers asking to buy insurance, loan, or a credit card. Its a huge problem so much that an average customer would get 2-3 calls a day. TRAI tried to curb it earlier with a DND mechanism, but that did not work given it is very easy to register a new handle, and no easy way report a caller/message sender.

What they are proposing is to have consent in a blockchain is that there would always be one final state. I dont know much but it means only registered telemarketers would be allowed to call and to only those where consent is explicit and recorded in the blockchain. No mining but seems like an effective solution on paper.

More links: https://m.economictimes.com/industry/telecom/telecom-news/bl...

This is a presentation on the same: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Regional-Presence/AsiaPacific/S... (cant verify the date, apologies)
From pipe dream to prospect: pandemic makes case for a universal basic income
I get your point, but what prevents us from considering "evilness" an emergent property of organizations...?
Governments don't need to negotiate with Apple/Google they just pass a law.

Example being Russia which told phone makers to either pre-install their apps or stop selling their products. Or EU pretty much telling the entire software industry how high to jump with GDPR.
'Bath sponge' breakthrough could boost cleaner cars
Free as in freedom, not free as in beer.

I would argue that the current model is more friendly to attention grabbing content (clickbait, etc) because advertising has the limitation that all views are worth the same value. In a pay-as-you-go Internet, users can whitelist high quality content sources as being okay to charge 10x or 100x what you'd typical accept to view a webpage. This would incentive content creators to build a brand and reputation that makes users comfortable putting them on the 'high quality' list, so that their content can see a massive revenue multiple relative to the number of eyeballs.
The Johns Hopkins University (CSSE dept) data on nations and the individual US state websites (which all have dashboards updated typically daily).

This site: https://covidtracking.com/

is excellent for US state data and is usually updated multiple times per day (they also have a running history per state). I typically combine that with double checking state sites to see if there are any more recent updates available for the date I'm locking in (eg for a post like this).

And of course the population figures are then used for each location to arrive at the per 100,000 number (the per 100k mortality data isn't provided like this anywhere else that I have found).
Actually the funny thing is I wasn't thinking about COVID-19 at all... (maybe I should get out of my cave sometimes)
> if the US had decent unemployment insurance, like germany, then unemployment would be 10% of what it is now.

I’m not sure I understand how better UI reduces unemployment.

But more importantly unemployment only captures half the problem. Businesses are not designed to go into hibernation. If asked you to hold your breath for two hours, it’s gonna be tough for you to start breathing again when I give the all clear.
This comes to mind:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/7/20903613/apple-hiding-tai...
> you can always disable Bluetooth

"To improve device experience, apps and services can still scan for nearby devices at any time, even when Bluetooth is off."
> To those who might argue that we "don't have time to delay" and need to rush this functionality out, then I would respond that a rushed solution can often be worse than doing nothing -- especially if there is no easy way to roll it back.

That is a reality-independent objection that can apply in any situation and delay anything indefinitely.

Lots of experts say that a robust digital contact-tracing solution (as part of a multipronged contact-tracing effort) could provide big health and economic benefits, the sooner the better. That doesn't mean we should have no discussion and review, but it does mean we should expedite them. We have at least a month before Google and Apple start rolling out their stuff, let's make the most of it.
I think initial concerns were the mortality rate would be much, much higher without the sometimes draconian shelter in place measures. It may be lower now because we are able to devote more intense resources (ventilators) to those who are sick. Burry seems to overlook that without implementing social distancing policies we may have had a huge surge in sick people all at once, which would have left many without access to potentially life saving equipment. Cases where a ventilator or other resources save someone and lower the overall mortality rate would have resulted in more deaths because you’ve simply got far too many sick people.

With that being said, I’m sympathetic toward the concerns about the economic cost, and think that we need to really focus on a reopen plan in May or June. Workers who can WFH should probably continue to do so, but if we’ve been able to flatten the curve it’s probably time to go back outside and see what happens.

I’ll also say with respect to Burry that although he is a trained physician, it doesn’t make him an expert in epidemiology, so, frankly, I don’t really care for his opinion on the subject any more than anyone else who is moderately educated.
"Yelling fire in a crowded theater" is a great example because it comes from a horrible Supreme Court ruling defending the arrest of someone handing out anti-war pamphlets.

I can't think of a better example of something that should be protected speech, or a better example of how "reasonable" limits will get abused.

Fortunately, that ruling has been mostly overturned by now.
> No judgement, just curious.

The issue is what does qualify as "evil"?
I think we are better off focusing on the message versus the messenger. I tend to think that there are good ideas in the post. Given our response to Covid19, the call to build in America is very timely and is not for one person/organization, but for the collective We.
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wow, this is very handy.
Google is far ahead and mature in it's handling of data than FB. FB had many years to copy Google's practices and still let Cambridge Analytica happen. Google is a net positive in this world. Search alone is the starting point of most great things since the 2000s. I'm proud of Google.
I can almost feel the sense of satisfaction. Almost because I've been meaning to create an app that helps with mental mathematics (basic addition/subtraction/multiplication/division for my children) - never got around to learning Android app programming. There are some Android games out there that sort of do this but haven't seen anything that is particularly customization to the needs of a growing child.
in (some) order of importance:

- lots of sun WITHOUT sunscreen (diet and/or astaxanthin prevent sunburn), need cholesterol to biosynthesize vit. d

- reduce glucose spikes / increase insulin sensitivity with low-carb diet

- eliminate nutritional deficiencies: most effective is carnivore-ish diet in my opinion, meat and animal products are the best sources of bioavailable nutrients

- eliminate stressors in food: stimulants, coffee, etc.

- resistance / strength training

- cardiovascular training

- cold exposure (ice baths are awesome, I don't personally have access or a personal setup)
There's no obligation, it just means it's not a good article.
You will also note that Dr Burry doesn't live in Italy or NY and has enough money to escape to NZ in a private jet if he turns out to be wrong.
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