skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it specifically does not.

You cannot use this system to determine if two people have been in contact. It doesn’t have the capability.

All you can tell is if one person who explicitly participates in the system has had contact with one or more of any of the other people who explicitly participate in the system who indicates they are infected, but not which people.
There are likely over 1 million people infected with COVID-19 in the US right now. I doubt any contact tracing is going to be useful at this point, and isolation has slowed the spread but it’s reduced it enough that contact tracing is likely viable.
Texas hasn't even broken 200k tests, but Germany can do that in a week. Texas has bad data.
That comment was tilting me so much but then i read this. Thanks for not making me lose karma.

People are so fucking oblivious. Let's not even talk about how they teach you this stuff in primary scool.
> You can’t build a traffic tunnel on the hope that people use it.

What you are describing is a level of planning and in this case I seriously doubt this project was planned.

The only reason I brought up this one particular example is I still remember it very clearly.

I'd walk home from work and I was constantly amazed as to how bad the traffic would flowed. Every street was full of cars and on many occasions I'd notice I was actually walking faster than the cars on the street (i.e. I'd see the same car at multiple intersections as I along the street).

But on the day the tunnel opening all that changed and the traffic turn from walking pace to gridlock.

The road closure had created a situation where now no cars where moving.

Prior to the tunnel, the driving public had faced 40+ minute traffic delays trying to get out of the city but after the opening that delay jumped to 1.5 hours.

So obviously, who ever signed off on those road changes was never acting on the best interest of the driving public.

If they had been working on some sort of plan on improving the traffic flows they failed miserably.
Yes, but "not going back to the way things were before" is not the same as "remaining exactly as they are now". There are plenty of shades in between.

You can want to go back to visiting museums and galleries and pubs, playing team sports etc. Without wanting to go back to working the same hours as everyone else, shopping in crowded shops and struggling to get a coveted weekend appointment at the dentist or hairdresser or whatever.
Robert Reich explains how oligarchs are “cashing in” on the pandemic
This makes it easier and more socially ingrained.

Privacy isn’t on/off.

Just because it was possible indirectly before, it doesn’t mean direct tracing should be waved-through.
Do you really need a mobile phone? I spend enough time with the Internet in the home office. When I go out, I go to a mountain, forest or similar natural scene. A phone + Internet is just bringing what I seek to escape from with me.

Just ditch the phone. Problem solved. Simple solutions are usually the best.
Ex-googler, I felt on the majority of issues, both as an entity but also as a collection of people, the intent was to do good.

I was much warier of trusting Google with my data pre-Google to post-Google.
It's constantly drilled into you the sacred nature of user data, and the technical protections seemed sound.

The elements I was most uncomfortable with were the profit-shifting/tax optimization, i.e. the Double-Irish Dutch Sandwich.
I feel for the people at Tor who were let go. My company was in the same position and I was unfortunately on the list of people who had their position terminated. While I am upset that I am now unemployed I also can understand how a company can be put in a difficult position during this time. I will survive, and I hope they do too.
Apple's CoreFoundation has used COM since 1.3... and CFPlugIns[0] are the ones that implement them.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co...
I don't use an alarm clock either, and initially indeed had the problem of irregular schedule. Then I discovered one thing : it's not about when you wake up, it's about when you go to sleep.

If I force myself to go to sleep at midnight, I'm up at eight, no matter what (well, except in sleep disrupting circumstances, like drinking alcohol, no matter how few - I don't do that in the middle of the week anymore).

I think the need for alarm clock is actually a symptom that we live in a culture of sleep deprivation.
> Imagine a castle; does it stand on it's own in a plain field? Unlikely. It has walls

Well, sure; if it didn't have walls, it wouldn't be a castle.
We've solved efficient partial file updates in Peergos, which is built on ipfs. Happy to talk you through our data structures if you're interested. The key ones are cryptree and Merkle-champs.
>You need to opt-in to start this this, not just take an OS update.

>You also need to install an app and opt-in to allow it to use the data.

In some countries (i.e. Australia) there was indications from the government the app could be mandatory. Subsequently walked back, but definitely a testing of the water...
How Coronavirus Is Going to Affect the World
The main use case for blockchain is as a financial instrument to represent shares in a community's economy. A community economy is like a national economy except that the value of its currency does not rely on the coercive legal powers of a government. Aside from that, it functions exactly like any normal economy; if participants in this economy (token holders) export more services than they import, then their cryptocurrency's total value (market cap) will go up relative to other national currencies.

I think cryptocurrency is the best use case for blockchain technology. It is a very narrow use case but an extremely important one. It gives a group of people access to powerful financial tools that are otherwise completely out of reach for regular people.

The idea that communities can have their own micro-economies is going to be radical and completely change how we do business.

One specific use case which I've identified is the ability to use a cryptocurrency to represent shares in a business. It offers small businesses powerful financial tools which are not available to normal businesses of that size. For example, you can use business profits to do token buybacks (which are like share buyback which corporations use); with decentralized exchanges, it's even possible to do buybacks without relying on any intermediaries (e.g. no accountants or brokers). Token buybacks are a simpler alternative to distributing dividends to shareholders. Token buybacks (and subsequent burning of bought tokens) allow a company to pay shareholders through capital appreciation by diluting the cryptocurrency's total supply; this gives small businesses access to the same financial tools which big corporations use to reduce their shareholders' tax liability among other things (capital gains are typically taxed much lower than income and only paid when they are realized; I.e. when tokens are sold). Also, having a tradable cryptocurrency gives a business exposure to influential outsiders (e.g. journalists, wealthy investors, politicians) who have an incentive to participate in the underlying small business and then use their influence to help grow that business and its cryptocurrency. 'Airdrops' can also be carried out in highly targeted ways to create a favorable economic and political environment for the business.

With cryptocurrency it's also possible to pay contributors (employees) using the token instead of fiat. It also helps make sure that contributors' incentives are aligned with all other stakeholders. I'm currently part of a business which works like this. We have 7 contributors and everyone has only been paid using crypto for the past few months. We have a buyback-and-burn deflationary mechanism in place so everyone knows that each token is (on average) guaranteed to always go up in value. You can also pay for marketing and other services using the token - I was quite surprised by how many people were willing accept our cryptocurrency in exchange for services; it feels like the majority of people.
The best way is to use Visual Basic 6 and add a reference to the DLL or EXE. Turn on hidden items in the Object Browser and play around!
If the entire world would just agree that EVERYONE must stay home for two weeks at the same time, the whole thing would effectively be over and done with.

In fact, I've been saying this for over a decade now... We should have a global holiday every ten years doing exactly this, as it would seriously decimate all contagious disease populations.
No, it would mean that spies don't do assassinations.

The primary job of a spy is to gather classified information, ideally without anyone noticing. Dead bodies tend to be noticed.
I find these articles incredibly frustrating. If you go in with such a bias against the core concept then you run at risk of throwing out common sense in the process.

The article can basically be summarized in two points: slippery slope and distrusting the platform holder. The former is best countered by looking over what the platform holders do, the latter has little to do with contact tracing. Apple already broadcasts proximity IDs for "find my". They were in fact heralded for their privacy first approach of that protocol until a few months ago.

If you distrust your platform holder — which is fine — then be aware of what they are doing everywhere. This contact tracing protocol is by far the least worrisome thing these platforms do. In fact it largely just undoes a recent security improvement: MAC address rotation on Bluetooth.

I have a bit problem with blog posts like this: they get circulated widely because they propagate the idea of the big platform holders building a surveillance system. It particularly problematic because it also plays into the hands of PEPP-PT and other efforts which actually do want to build a centralized contact tracing system and they need the platform holders to give more control over the bluetooth stack for that goal.

Right now if apple and google were to go ahead with this implementation it would make it significantly harder to build a surveillance system than if certain other efforts would get their way.
That's helpful. Basically zero-config central logging of exceptions/stderr/whatever?
> We can't trust Apple/Google to manage the anonymous data behind Contract Tracing but we can for our photos, phone calls, messages, web history, app data and GPS locations.

Just because our rights are already eroded doesn't mean we should give up the fight and disable our freedom.

Nobody said we should trust Google/Apple with any of that. This tracking of our anonymous data should only be allowed to be unencrypted by warrant. All data produced by the device stored on the cloud should be encrypted, unaccessable to Google and Apple.

Instead of blindly trusting corporations, we could implement regulations, allowing oversight and preventing unreasonable searches.

In any case, I use an Android phone and Google can't access my photos, calls, messages, web history, app data, or GPS locations. I've chosen a radio firmware which completely disables the GPS.

Looks like it's about time to get rid of Google completely from my Google phone.
As far as I understand it, fatality rate is only low as this as long as the health care system isn't overwhelmed, so that people in serious conditions can be treated (and the number of serious cases is a lot higher than 0.5%). As soon as hospitals are at their capacity, a lot more people will die which otherwise had survived (and this will also affect people which are in critical conditions for entirely different reasons).
Yeah, I agree. We'd be open to re-branding the site at some point which wouldn't be too hard. We'll keep open eyes and ears for a potentially improved name!

And, whoa, I'll check out that book!
The former is very valuable so long as:

- The handoff of control to a person is well-defined and not too sudden

- You accept that autonomous driving is essentially a convenience and safety feature with a competent driver behind the wheels at all times. No using an autonomous car to drop little Jimmy off at soccer practice. (And no summoning a shared robo-taxi service.)
Just as a counterpoint many happy Googlers will not come here and post "We like it ". Sorry your work sucks. You can transfer to more interesting teams.
Exactly what it says: Disabling Bluetooth does not disable Bluetooth (Low Energy). Same for G, same for A. And I hate it.
I've heard that their executives/PMs are top notch, so 5-10k month net might be on the high side, but not outrageous IMO (assuming the Estonian job market is a bit more expensive than Latvian, which I'm familiar with).
This is simplistic. The problem is not money per se, the problem is the hoarding of it. Would you hoard oranges? No, because they would go bad. What happens when you hoard toilet paper for example? Other people can’t have it. What happens when you hoard money? Other people can’t buy oranges, apples, etc. they have a lower quality of life. The problem is then that the current systems puts very little control on this hoarding and 99% of humanity is worse off.
I'm far from the "hipster" view on this. There are plenty of situations where making money isn't evil. But if it's always the #1 driver, it eventually collides with something "evil". I'm saying there isn't anything inherent about a company that heads that off.

So it's more interesting to contemplate what does head that off. Laws, incentives, competition, unions, etc.
Come on, everyone knows only MongoDB is web scale!
Everybody has biases. Murray wears his on his sleeve.

More interesting: do you have concrete and verifiable information that his reporting of the Philip Cross Affair, that Murray' conjectures about its background, are wrong? Can you put forward an alternative explanation?
Making OPL3 music for a DOS game
We enabled Geo on the staging environment for GitLab.com
Monte Carlo simulations can have a significant speed dependency on the PRNG used.

That said, I'm not up to date on the speed of CSPRNGs so maybe they're already there.
Most Facebook employees wouldn’t trust it with their financial data (2019)
I work in ads at Google, and I don't consider the company evil. It does an enormous number of things which range from very positive to very negative, but on balance I think the company is and has been positive.

I think some of the backlash is justified and pushes the company to do better, but there's also some amount of what feels like backlash for backlash's sake where it just gets everyone here paying less attention to what critics think.

(speaking only for myself)
Not surprising as many air conditioning units don't filter the air at the level required to remove viral agents.

Also been reports about them and virus's in the past.

But more recently https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/06/air-conditioning...

But like many things, even common sense needs the data to back it up so people take note.

Coz we have had experts in the field of air-con say they don't, and also experts say they do:

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/coronavirus-tu...
> Chess is one of the few fields where dominance can easily stretch into several decades

Easily? No. The only player to have the top rating longer than 10 years is kasparov.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FIDE_chess_world_numbe...

> if you're a young prodigy you may breach into top level in your teenage years and last well until your 50s or 60s. Of course you won't be #1 this whole time (check out Lasker's longevity though) but you will always remain a top contender.

No. There is nobody 50 or older in the fide ranking ( top 100 ).

https://ratings.fide.com/

Chess is a mentally and physically draining sport. Top players tend to drop off considerably in their late 30s and 40s as younger talent takes over.
> But it’s a jaw dropping number.

I mean yes, of course it is. But does it do anything to stare and point at it with your jaw dropped? What does the alternate timeline look like where the government had no need to distribute significant amounts of money to employees and businesses?
I’ve had eight managers and six teams in three PAs. Not that frequent changes either. I assure you this is not an uncommon opinion.
By in large Google tries to go good. No company is perfect.
Recent article I read from someone who works on Android: https://jakewharton.com/removing-google-as-a-single-point-of...
Only 1/3 of people with COVID who require ventilation survive, so lack of ventilators will raise mortality, but only by 50%.
Economic depressions kill people.
This is a straw man. The core of the argument isn't about money being evil but rather that in large enough quantities it overrides ethics, especially if it's combined with lack of responsibility.
>You can definitely live with a voice-only phone

This is likely to be untrue in the immediate future. This is probably already true in places like China, where mobile payments are the norm.

As a personal example, and I know this does not yet apply to the US, but where I live it is impossible (or so inconvenient that it might as well be not possible) to do some banking operations without an Android or iOS device, as even accessing my bank's website requires me to have the app installed for token generation. I'm sure if I shopped around I could still find a smaller bank without such a requirement or live with the limitations, maybe finagle a way to use an emulator or something equally inconvenient, but I'm quite certain that this will not last and a smartphone will become essential. A lot of other things are also quite inconvenient without a smartphone around here.

I know the US and Europe have a distinct resistance to the smartphone (or even the computer) becoming required to live as anything but a homeless vagrant because their economies and infrastructure developed before smartphones were even an idea, which gives them the luxury to resist these technologies on moral grounds, or even on the grounds of not wanting to learn the new thing. On the other hand, countries whose economies developed in lockstep with cellular technologies and smartphones (China, India, much of Africa, South-East Asia, much of Latin America, etc.) don't have that particular luxury or simply take a much more pragmatic approach to the whole thing. In these places it is already incredibly inconvenient to get by without a smartphone and will likely become impossible in the near future, if it isn't already.

When smartphones and the internet do become essential to life, I can only hope that the laws of the land have managed to catch up by then. I am not particularly optimistic on this aspect, though, and I suspect it will take some kind of major disaster and/or abuse of human rights (or more likely, a series of them) to happen for another "age of enlightenment"-like period to happen, focused on information technology this time.

EDIT: spelling
apt will not automatically remove dependencies either.

I suspect the OP already had ubuntu-desktop package removed for some other reason, and there was no direct dependency on evolution-data-server for gdm: it will only remove dependencies which no other still-installed package depends on. That might still mean a packaging bug (but at least on 18.04, attempting to remove evolution-data-server prompts me how it's going to remove gdm3 too — sure, it's short and easily missed; attempting to remove evolution does not attempt to remove evolution-data-server since a bunch of other stuff depends on it like gnome-calendar too).

In any case, apt will prompt you about all the packages you are about to remove (unless you pass "-y(es)" to it).
I would think the primary job of a spy is to be a manager (a handler) of a bunch of traitors (including unwitting ones) in the enemy country. Any eventual assassinations would be best done through the hands of one of those subordinates.
Maybe in a perfect world with equally distributed wealth it might be the case. But normally all cities have well connected wealthier groups inside.

About Munich’s case: since property tax is calculated based on value of the plot, regulators are not interested in new buildings. They do nothing and collect more and more taxes! What a great situation.
> I take that to mean that we could've taken one at birth and raised it in a modern home and it could've grown up to receive a physics PhD.

You shouldn't take it to mean that -- that is not true of most people in the world today.
There was once a businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small Brazilian village.

As he sat, he saw a Brazilian fisherman rowing a small boat towards the shore having caught quite few big fish.
The businessman was impressed and asked the fisherman, “How long does it take you to catch so many fish?”

The fisherman replied, “Oh, just a short while.”

“Then why don’t you stay longer at sea and catch even more?” The businessman was astonished.

“This is enough to feed my whole family,” the fisherman said.

The businessman then asked, “So, what do you do for the rest of the day?”

The fisherman replied, “Well, I usually wake up early in the morning, go out to sea and catch a few fish, then go back and play with my kids. In the afternoon, I take a nap with my wife, and evening comes, I join my buddies in the village for a drink — we play guitar, sing and dance throughout the night.”

The businessman offered a suggestion to the fisherman.

“I am a PhD in business management. I could help you to become a more successful person. From now on, you should spend more time at sea and try to catch as many fish as possible. When you have saved enough money, you could buy a bigger boat and catch even more fish. Soon you will be able to afford to buy more boats, set up your own company, your own production plant for canned food and distribution network. By then, you will have moved out of this village and to Sao Paulo, where you can set up HQ to manage your other branches.”

The fisherman continues, “And after that?”

The businessman laughs heartily, “After that, you can live like a king in your own house, and when the time is right, you can go public and float your shares in the Stock Exchange, and you will be rich.”

The fisherman asks, “And after that?”

The businessman says, “After that, you can finally retire, you can move to a house by the fishing village, wake up early in the morning, catch a few fish, then return home to play with kids, have a nice afternoon nap with your wife, and when evening comes, you can join your buddies for a drink, play the guitar, sing and dance throughout the night!”

The fisherman was puzzled, “Isn’t that what I am doing now?”
> I've found it's a taboo to discuss anything even slightly personal. People are averse to feeling bad, so criticism needs to be extremely subtle in order to not offend.

The personal association you made between "discussing anything even slightly personal" and "criticism needs to be extremely subtled" makes it sound that your problem isn't language or Orwellian discourse but the way you subconsciously link discussing personal matters with harshly criticising those you speak with for no good reason.

If your personal conversations boil down to appease your own personal need to criticise others then I'm sorry to break it to you but your problem isn't language.
Do Chinese not kiss and hug as a greeting for close family? It seems far more likely that it happened that way than air-borne droplets dispersed via AC.
What if we spent $1 trillion on the science of testing and treatment instead of bailing out more congressional darlings? It's not like we don't have the dough.
Ventilators are also used by people who don't have covid-19, so lack of access to ICU is going to affect more than just covid-19 patients.
(I assume) cmd-E is cmd-shift-e.

As in, the shift key's required.
To be clear, you think that enough people will be paying attention to this study on testing for antibodies that it will hurt the local economy of the place being tested, because the people paying attention don't understand antibodies?