skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your argument boils down to, "If one country has access, then every country should have access."

I don't agree with that.

It's clear the US has backdoors. That doesn't mean it's wise to invite China to add backdoors as well.
GitHub Actions Remains an Insecure and Incomplete CI
The parent meant Firefox preview, the new version of Firefox on android, which only supports ublock origin as of now. Firefox preview will become the main Firefox browser on android as of now.
Union Organizing Decisions in a Deteriorating Environment (2014)
Whether they can or can’t is besides the question.

They’re not in the standard.

And Apple have thereby again damaged an open standard’s wider-scale adoption.
How would a dev vm prevent this? Vms can still call out to the internet.
ICU death rate heavily depends on whether the hospitals are overflown or not. The Italia or Spain ICU is not giving the same care now as it used to.

The trajectory of cases and deaths in Sweden does not seem special to me, generally they seem to follow similar curve as other countries so far.
> "The big concern is where we have an overlap of people and cats with native species that are small and vulnerable," Kays said.

Kind of the key question here. Does your local jurisdiction have native species that live in towns and cities that are vulnerable? Some places are different than others. In some places the typical small city bird may even be an introduced species.

In New Zealand for example yes absolutely. Other places maybe not so much...

It is absolutely wild to me how laissez faire Kiwis are about the right to have their cats roam while at the same time being so militant against other mammals (including dogs!).
Of course. They are definitely tagged below each Instagram posts, and I also asked them in person when I made those videos.
What if it was a software bug/virus? Cyber vs. Covid-19: A thought experiment
Right because the judicial branch is free of corruption and doesn’t just rubber stamp warrants.
Net result: further erosion of trust in public institutions in the eyes of the young.
People are getting creative with their face masks
Why the Bitcoin halving should be a non-event
Not for much longer. Future versions of Firefox Mobile (i.e. what is Firefox Preview now) will, as far as I know, at best have support for the Mozilla "Recommended" extensions, which is only a small fraction (e.g. no Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey).
Cron on app engine is free, assuming your script is light enough. You may need a paid account if you have to connect externally, but you can set $0 as total budget.
I will add extra credits on the page as well.
Oh, I thought it's some alpha version of the one I am using. My bad
It's gonna be replaced during this year with a complete rewrite.

Extension support is coming, but at the moment only uBlock Origin is available.
I mean, they kind of do. That's what carbon composite is, in a way: thin strands of carbon held together in a mass of resin (glue).
Also List of computer history videos, documentaries and related folklore (2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22841022

https://github.com/watson/awesome-computer-history
"This section does not cite any sources"
Of course animals like cats will kill more in a given area if they don't stray out. I also don't see very much of a problem with that, given that most densely populated neighbourhoods have a want for large amounts of rodents and birds.
Philip B. Crosby and Joseph M. Duran
They announced the lockdown before it was put into effect, leading to a bomb burst of potential carriers escaping in the next 24H. Even after that, international commercial flights were allowed to depart.
IPv6 Pocket Guide [pdf]
Der Spiegel: Are we witnessing the implosion of a superpower?
What It Costs to Own or Charter a Private Jet
The lockdowns are a necessary step to smarter tactics working.

My point is that if we move forward as if letting lots of people get infected is a 'smarter tactic', it's going to be worse in all ways. More death, more economic damage.
Recipe scraping is kind of a pet peeve of mine. People figured out how to do that early on and the result was recipe aggregation sites where you get three hundred variations of yellow cake (for example) with only slight unquantifiable variations - maybe someone was adjusting for altitude or humidity or scarcity or missing spoons or metric/imperial but all that got lost along the way. I think we could use less aggregation and more understanding of the underlying chemistry.
From episode 594 of This Week in Virology[1]:

Rich Condit: This raises the issue, again, just briefly, that I was going to comment on earlier. It came up two letters ago, the phrase "correlates of protection", which is a really slippery concept, because it's really easy to make the assumption that "oh, you make antibodies and that's it". No. Or, "you make antibodies to this particular protein, that's all you got to do." No. Immunity that confers protection can be much more complicated than that.

Alan Dove: Everybody with HIV produces antibodies against HIV and they're great antibodies against the virus, and guess what: you still have HIV. So the antibodies in that case are not a correlate of protection. They're just something your body has done. On the other hand, if you're producing great antibodies against measles virus, you're probably protected. That's a very good correlate of protection.

Condit: So figuring out what actually protects you with any particular pathogen is a critical issue and not straightforward.

Brianne Barker: There have been a few times where we've mentioned "neutralizing antibodies" today. Neutralizing is one of the things antibodies can do. That means they can block viruses from getting in to cells or interacting with cells. And so sometimes the correlate is you have to make neutralizing antibodies, not just any old antibodies.

[1] - http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-594/ from about 1 hour and 7 minutes in
Anyone seen people wearing plague doctor masks?

http://www.ministryofmasks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/pe...
> Now I'm thinking that the situation in the US is even worse than that; not only are corporations trying to discredit the government, but the government is working hard to discredit itself as well.

Of course it is.

Powerful and motivated interests have long been working to overturn basically every social program and every protection for labor, discrimination, environment, voting, etc. The goal is to "starve the beast," privatize everything to work toward a government that only runs the military and police, and to make sure it stays that way once it gets there.

Insidiously, they can win support by pushing the government to be more wasteful, more corrupt, less effective, more intrusive, more bumbling, and more frustrating to work with. The moment of victory is when they convince you that government fundamentally is a bad idea that cannot work well, all those taxes you are paying are just going to be squandered, and we'd be better off getting rid of the whole thing.

They have been at work for decades through groups like the Heritage Foundation, CATO institute, etc., to push this into the mainstream. They reached new heights of legitimacy with FOX news & co., and have made great progress with the Trump presidency so far.
Running Anbox on Raspberri Pi
Because corporations don’t have the power to take away my property or liberty.
That was my explanation for awhile, but at some point the logic of the security arguments started to seem patently flawed. Also, judges seem to be ok with all sorts of judgments against domestic (state and federal) entities. It's almost as if when national security is mentioned, everything is thrown out the window. It's like a magic codeword or something and I don't understand the legal basis for it.

You make a good point re: investigatory capacity, but it seems even that is fuzzy and could maybe be handled through other means (aggregating time periods or using some kind of required delay).
Not even the best PR company in the world could spin a donation to the TOR project as helping fight Covid-19.
With all due respect, anyone talking about frequent travel at business-class costs is rich.
Academics steal data from air-gapped systems using PC fan vibrations
I don't think with functional loss, but severance of nerves there happens very very rarely. A few years ago a friend of mine had some jaw nerve/muscles severed, but regained full functionality.
One of my favourite (electronic music) producers mentioned recently that he has been developing tinnitus.

Normally this would affect his ability to hear certain frequencies, but he’s so accustomed to working with raw waveforms, he’s not too concerned. He knows exactly what the sound he wants should look like.
Free alternative i have been using for some years now: https://dbeaver.io/

The community edition is updated more often than i would like and sometimes features break but bugs get fixed quickly and they add usefull stuff all the time.

Dont know what i would do if i was stuck with pgAdmin...
Robocallers killed it more than anything. I and most people I know just don't even look at the phone when it "rings", then respond to voicemails with text messages.
Just a note on the "3% prevalence of antibodies": we need to consider the false positive rate and selection bias for general population antibody tests as well. A biologist I follow was skeptical about a study showing that 1.5% of Santa Clara had antibodies for SARS-CoV-2. I don't know anything about the study in the Netherlands, but the 20x or 100x undercount ratio is going to be very sensitive to the antibody test specificity.

https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1251344851984986118

https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1251346572656304128

> In the supplement they say 2 out of 371 + 35 known negative samples tested positive. This means that the 95% confidence interval for the false positive rate is [0.06%, 1.77%]. In their samples from Santa Clara County they had 50 / 3,349 = 1.5% test positive.
Sure. In Java a class named :

ArraysOfConcreteParameterizedTypesAreDisallowed

The body of this class is a proof of this fact.
Been using the open source dbeaver for a while now. On the whole very impressed with it, so worth a look as a free alternative.
Legally there are tax credits in the mix here, I purposefully stay the hell away from that side of things for reasons like this.

1. To management, I would say almost certainly. The first question that is asked these days when new work comes in is not "how do we make this awesome" it's "how much of this can be outsourced".

2. I'm not sure our clients would care to be honest. They probably are happy the project is just being managed and completed on time - who cares who actually does the work :(
What's unintuitive is that it doesn't follow other conventions that could reasonably be applied.
Show HN: A List of direct links to instantly Update your passwords on WebService
>> In less overwhelming times, the medical best practice is once someone is in hospital, prescribe the statistically best treatment even if it costs 100 times as much in resources and manpower.

And the way this "statistically best treatment" is calculated doesn't take into account complications from the treatment! Examples: complications from financial stress to cover the costs of the treatment, side-effects of the therapy unrelated to the original condition, infections with drug-resistant strains of hospital bacteria.
Check out On The Metal podcast for great interviews around computing history since the 70s
No corporation has the force of law to make me smoke. The government however does have the ability to invade my privacy and take away my liberty via the “War on Drugs”.
I’m honestly not being intentionally pedantic. To say someone helped with X is different from saying someone is responsible for X. The latter implies full responsibility, the former only partial responsibility.

That’s more than enough of a difference for this to matter. Especially if X is COVID-19. Traster is clearly strawmanning the tweets.
I am pretty proud of this piece that I wrote on my employers blog. It started out as training material to help newbies understand why email is so broken. It took tons of research, and goes way back to pre-ARPANET days. It's a high level, for sure, but goes deeper than most high level writings do:

https://www.a2hosting.com/blog/how-email-became-an-important...
That's why I'm perplexed. It comes across as trying to make something more dramatic than it already is. (And, I mean, hospitals being full of patients with a novel disease is already sufficiently dramatic.)
This is only one half of the story. Given the increased network bandwidth, decoding speed matters. And here, JPEG is much faster. Also note that the JPEG decompression algorithms are highly optimized and coded in assembly language, and there are maybe even hardware decoders.

On android:

WebP 66% less file size than JPG, 267% more time to decode.

WebP 38% less file size than JPG, 258% more time to decode.

WebP 89% less file size than JPG, 319% more time to decode.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37812950/jpg-vs-webp-per...
"Calling in the wrong order" is not an actual concern when writing React code. What you actually need to do is make sure that they aren't called conditionally. (For example, if your function checks some condition and then returns null, that must happen after any hooks are called.)

This would be annoying if you had to do it yourself, but that's what linters are for. Ends up not being a big issue in practice.
Ownership Inheritance for Docker Generated Files
I've been using TablePlus for a long time now as well. I don't have any affiliation but started with their mac app. It was easily the best DB GUI out there. I like that you can use the same GUI for PostgreSQL, MYSQL, Redis, MongoDB, and SQLite (there are even more than this, but these are the ones I use).

It is awesome to have one very powerful and well-maintained program for all my database needs. I can get proficient at one tool and use it for everything. In addition, I can pay 1 licensing fee and get access to a powerful tool for working with all of these databases, instead of needing a separate tool for each one (which was the case in the past).

The pricing model is EXTREMELY FAIR in my opinion. First of all, it is free to use in its entirety forever, with only a small handful of limitations. New devs will easily be satisfied with the free version. You can upgrade to support them and to remove the few limitations in the free version for just $60. This is well worth any developer's time as it accounts for only an hour or two of their wages most likely. I also like that it is a perpetual license, so you don't need to "subscribe" if you don't want to. You do need to renew if you want newer versions, as the $60 license only covers 1 year of updates. But i think that this is a great balance between being fair (it is perpetual at the version + 12mos that you bought it at), while also incentivizing and allowing to support further development. Finally offering a generous free version supports newbies and the dev community.

Lastly I need to point out an often-overlooked reason to consider TablePlus. They offer tools on every platform (Mac, Windows, Linux). And MOST IMPORTANTLY, this isn't an electron application. Each version is maintained by a seperate team (from my understanding) within their business and it is built on the native language and frameworks for that platform.

About 1.5-2 years ago I started a discussion on their forum about bringing a version to Linux (at the time it was only Windows and Mac). The forum post quickly started gaining momentum from other Linux users who discussed how there is quite literally NO good DB GUI on Linux (other than the CLI). Let alone something as easy to use and powerful as TablePlus. The team eventually committed to a Linux version, and after a year of development updates I was invited to the beta and had been using it ever since.

This team really is great and I highly recommend trying their tool for free and upgrading to the paid version if you find it useful, which I think any developer will.
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Will the "trusted" webcam manufacturers then attempt to detect any screen curvature?
I think you are mixing up concerns. Webpack + babel does make debugging harder in general. Because you are looking at the output of a compiler.

But what does that have to do with generators? Do you have a specific concern about how Babel "compiles" generator functions using switch? Again, I tend not to look at compiled code, but I think the babel output for a generator function is easy to read.
Drive-In Movie Theaters Thrive During Covid19
They released a few more
There was a post here a while ago, where someone made money from creating preview videos for podcasts, which contained a FFT like visualisation.
So to be clear, the existing Firefox on Android which has broad extension support is going to be replaced with a version with less extension support? Why? One of the biggest value adds of Firefox on Android is broad extension support.
I also bought it for I think $5 maybe a year or two ago. I've also purchased a license for Xming (while strictly not necessary, at the time I had some version specific issues), and X410 is a very nice set-and-forget application. I would not say it's worth $50, but I have definitely gotten my $5-10 out of it.
NYC is absolutely not representative of the rest of the country. In fact, they appear to be the hardest hit locale in the world in no small part due to their poor and delayed response.

I agree, reopening NYC would be a mistake, but large portions of the US (especially rural areas) remain largely unaffected by this.

The average age of death in my state (MN) is 88 with preexisting conditions. Our death rate is 0.0019% (!) with a flattened curve for some time now. Most of the US is not NYC.
TablePlus is awesome! I got it through Setapp and it completely any need I had for SequelPro which I feel got shittier in the last couple of years (no new features and it feels super laggy nowadays).
1. By unbiased, do you mean opinionated? The MLOps industry is still in the very early stages and there’s no single standard. Every dev and company has come up with an implementation but there are so many tiny little use cases that sometimes forces new implementations to spring up. The closest standard you get is a Docker/Kubernetes flavour.

2. Handcoding to begin with is fine but as you start to scale the number of production models and actually productionalize the model at scale, it’s unfeasible and leads to plenty of maintenance issues. There are a few model infrastructure tools that help with this but again, many are homegrown because the market is still new. Algorithmia, Seldon are pretty good starts.

3. Rarely use serving options provided as the challenge is integrating it with the rest of engineering. Service monitoring gets handled by different teams.

4. Depends on the industry and usecase. Again integrating and maintenance comes into play. Go/Cortex might make sense but a lot of companies leverage Spark so Scala/Java could be the choice for production models.

5. We’re working on creating this recipe for enterprises. I believe Seldon (open source) might contain this capability. The challenge as you pointed out is ensuring things don’t break!
I am much less worried about corporations corrupting government than the “moral majority.” Corporations have never lobbied to pass laws against interracial marriage - which was illegal in some states until the 60s. Nor did they try to make it felony for adults of the same sex to be in relationships. There were laws against “sodomy” in some states until the 80a.
Except it's applied to literally every part of the Asian pandemic response from masks to contact tracing. Asian countries have been saying for months that there's not some magical technological solution to contact tracing, the tech helps maybe 10%. The rest of it is just plain on the ground shoe leather pounding, public communication and talking to people.

Watch as Western countries start discovering as they roll out their automated contact tracing apps how little the tech plays a role in an effective contact tracing system.
+1 for DBeaver. It doesn’t have a pretty UI like TablePlus but it’s FOSS, cross platform and has all of the same features (maybe more).
Or maybe I just haven't seen that particular sketch (I am younger than you, but I'm also not American).

Since you chose not to explain your reference, for bystanders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bputeFGXEjA
It also doesn't help that different countries count differently.
Hospital capacity is one motivation for flattening the curve. The other is to move infections later in time, when there will be more effective treatments and therefore lower rates of fatality and permanent disability.
I think it’s really important to understand task queues and workers but my experience working with these particular tools isn’t exactly fun. I inherited a system built on celery, rabbitmq and nameko I’d be interested to hear how people setup their systems to debug and test new tasks. I’m currently using manually added psb.set_trace to telnet in to a debugging session, but I’d prefer to use an IDE so I can modify code while debugging. Anyone have any tips? One thing I would caution against is putting the business logic in the task logic. This is obviously up to whoever set up the tasks but it seems like most of the tutorials don’t mention how painful this can make testing especially once you start making chains, chords and sub tasks.
Valley of Genius is a fun way to become acquainted with some of the Valley's history (for those who haven't read it, it's an oral history comprised of interview snippets from a bunch of key pioneers and people who were at the right place at the right time).
On their Github page they say

> This code is up-to-date and is matching the build on the Play Store.

which seems to be in conflict with your statement.
We've Built Cities We Can't Afford
Right, it's not like their cost of production is proportional to the number of computers the software is used in. It's like trying to buy a vacuum cleaner and being charged per room you plan to use it in.
No mention on what's picked also. That's a shame.

99% certain it's Fira Code, Ubuntu Mono, IBM Plex and Hasklig.
I didn't know that story about the DEC salesman. That was neat, thank you!
I checked that and also Experian. No inquiry.
This makes me soooo happy. Now if I can just find a GNOME 1.0 total conversion. For whatever reason I always liked my 48px tall Panel and the hodgepodge of icon styles. I've managed to get XFCE's panel sort of looking like GNOME 1 but it doesn't quite behave the same.
F-Droid has the same potential tampering issue: apps there are signed by the F-Droid key, not the developer’s key.

An F-Droid compromise could backdoor every app.
Thompson Sampling for A/B tests (2018)
If you regard the United States as a bunch of interest groups sitting on piles of raw, human and human-processed resources...
Rust Bindings for Apache Spark
Are the disk vendors publishing performance metrics that are being violated by the use of SMR technology? Or is this just one of those cases of performance generally not being as good as it used to be, and customers becoming reliant on past behavior despite the lack of an explicit performance promise from the vendors?
Also lower than the UK, Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, i.e. a lot of their neighbors.
Timeline of computers and the Internet

Very high level, but it spans 100 BC to 2018 CE, and it covers highlights from the Antikythera mechanism to the Mother of All Demos to Hypercard to the GDPR.

https://www.geek.no/noroff/timeline/
The thick leather strap of the Paukbrille ("duelling glasses") protects much of the nervus facialis. When the cheeks get severed, however, some people complain from weird effects for a while (e.g. skins starts sweating when chewing). This always seemed to go away at some point though.