skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All those are man made problem and have solution. Our system is not designed to be paused, but can be changed to do so. To pause the spread of a virus is much harder.
It’s not new. Like sibling comment says, this is how new Find My features work.

Also, the Apple implementation requires user to manually approve access to user private tokens each and every time for apps trying to access them.
In the section "get pay to test", you can read users are being paid 10$ for each answer of an average of 20 min
Do you think they might have an interest in spreading them, besides user engagement?
Also, I'm not implying anything, but what makes you think they are not trying to fight this spread?
Ask HN: What things are you doing to adapt during this trying times?
From my side I stopped smoking and drinking, I’m doing more exercises, also, I’m trying, for the first time in my life to save some money and try not to live paycheck by paycheck, my goal is to save enough money to live for 2 years without working (keeping in consideration that I’m single)

I’m trying more than ever to be in contact with family and friends and offer as much support and help as possible. You don’t know how the simple act to offer help or be there to listen can help now.

And I’m writing my first book :)

HN, who are you going to be after all of this is over?
what is the biggest same-sex dating website in the world. Github -_-!
Googler. Yes, I think the backlash is all deserved. I’ve been here for many years, since back when any criticism was still very niche, and at the beginning it was different. Obviously morally superior to working at a bank, and more meaningful than working on Snapchat for Sourdough Starters or similar dumb startups. Now it’s no better than the banks, and they’re even chasing military contracts. And the work is largely pointless tedium.

I’ve thought of leaving for years. Problem is: I have a wife who doesn’t work, two kids, piles of debt, and live in the most expensive city in the country. We can’t just leave, our whole life is here. And moving to a bank now to make more money (if I even would, the tenure and promotions do pile up) means working harder and more hours. That comes out of spending time with my young kids.

I spent a couple of years having a tough time with this. It genuinely caused a long-term, slow burn existential crisis that only recently started to settle into a stable state. All of life is moral compromise, I think. It sucks and I’m sorry, but it would be too hard to stop and I’m just sort of accepting that now.
Odd to consider an institution incapable of being beneficial or harmful to society - my best working definition of evil not steeped in religion.
Sure, first immigrant communities are always different. Depending on their context of emigration (from where, how did they emigrate) and also the surrounding society. It can be a part of their cultural identity to do as one thinks a Turk would do. Nevertheless that is exactly a part where I would think that a simplification to compare with a global rational cultural dimension is impossible. Marriage is in Turkey much more important, but most Turks would not counter you with Islam, but with a rational discourse, e.g. a woman can get pregnant, she has to secure her hypothetical children. If she gets pregnant, the family would look like they couldn't take care, and so on. It is another story if this is really something that the family should decide. On the other hand if you would visit Turkey, which is heavily urbanized, and especially Istanbul, which is like 20% of Turkey, you would see that a lot of things are not allowed, but done. Because, well, it is not that much not allowed. I would not take those numbers for granted, but it is a funny indicator in the Durex report, where Turkey has a mean number of sexual partners of 5.3 and France just 3.8 [1]. I would also be very careful when to blame Islamists. Turkey is not a religious country. There are a lot of countries who want to construct here a clash of cultures. And apostasy is not something that gets you killed.

[1] http://www.durexnetwork.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/The%20Fa...
One aspect few people are discussing is that companies who see that remote work is feasible may broaden their hiring pool to a larger geographic area so that local people will be competing with those for whom a lower wage is acceptable.

I am curious to see what affect this might have on urban centers.
I agree directionally, but the numbers matter as well. Depending on what study we look at, the survival rate of covid19 patients that require a ventilator is anywhere between 0% and 50%. For the sake of argument let’s assume the other patients can be treated in field hospitals that scale reasonably well, it means running out of ventilators would “only” double the mortality rate. But double a rate that is <0.5% may still be <0.5%.
> as well as talk about tracking and contact tracing.

Uh, they published a full white paper on this outlining their views: https://www.aclu.org/report/aclu-white-paper-principles-tech...
>> they used one extra bit per pixel that could be used to stretch a given pixel by 1/2 a pixel resolution, effectively giving 512x240

While reading about the reverse engineering by emulator authors. There was an extra bit in the frame buffer that no one seemed to find the use for. That should be reasonably easy to verify from schematics given a heads up.

That may also explain why some of the YouTube videos look so bad around the edges compared to the real thing. They are probably recorded from MAME and dont account for that bit if that's really what it does.

It also seems like that could only effect the right edges of polygons.

There are 2 frame buffers and I believe one is used for scan out and the other is only written to, then they swap roles. So no z-buffer and no reading back pixels.
Sorry to burst your bubble but governments have had access to this data for decades via their data siphoning agreements with telcos.

I used to work at a telco and we absolutely knew your location based off base station triangulation. And we knew who you called and messaged and who was nearby to you.
We have Maven builds that complete in a few mins via Jenkins but I have been exploring if it can be done even faster. The builds are written using the Jenkins declarative pipeline with parallelization etc but feels like it is just not fast enough (the slowness is probably because of the whole lot of intermediate IO/back-and-forth between Jenkins master and slaves). Wish there was a build setup that was faster while being as feature rich as Jenkins while supporting Maven builds.
I wonder if this time could be a gift to help you see things from their point of view. I suspect they are NOT dreaming of the moment they can ship you off to work again.
> A well designed decentralized system will maintain its integrity indefinitely.

That’s a giant leap of faith.

If the system is maintainable it is also corruptible.
The way to solve this problem is by (largely) adopting the premise of the Coase Theorem, but we've created an environment where that's impossible. So now a community of a few thousand can hold millions of people and hundreds of billions of wealth hostage.
Which mainly stems from the main stream media itself who are competing for attention and ad revenue against Google or Facebook.

Now one could argue that yes, Google and Facebook did profit financially from "fake news" during the last election because they make money from "attention", and did nothing to stop websites relaying misinformation because they were displaying Google ads or misinformation relayed on Facebook pages. Was there a "conflict of interest"? Always.
He might refer to "right minded people" with the "right" ideology, whatever that might mean. For the "greater good", of course.
I don't think it's crazy to balance the economy with lives lost. Much like how we accept that some people will die in traffic accidents if the speed limit is a certain number.

However it seemed last month that the correct thing to do was to close down. At least so that hospitals were not overwhelmed, causing extra deaths beyond the "natural" amount for this disease and others that people use hospitals to treat. In other words, a non-linear effect on death rates caused by the sudden spike.

Now we're between a rock and a hard place, because while taking a week or two off would be tough but OK for most businesses, taking 4 weeks or 8 weeks off is not simply 4x or 8x as bad. Thus, another, competing, non-linear effect.

We also have the problem that the pandemic is not synchronized, so any area that does manage to keep it down is going to have to keep the border closed towards people from places where it's still going on.

The only solution that seems like a good compromise is to have lots of testing so that people who know they are infected, even ones who don't feel ill, can be quarantined. Also of course generally keep old people away from too much contact with everyone else. But somehow even months after the virus was discovered, the number of people tested anywhere is not really high. I would have thought we'd ramp up production of test kits massively so that everyone who's been near someone positive is tested, plus everyone else is randomly tested.
I bet Lee Falk would agree :)
It is not COVID tracking specific, is it? So no change here either, I guess. And it seems you can turn it off as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22856030 , first comment.
Reminds me of this:
"Of the 186 Facebook employees polled, only 21 percent said they would entrust their data to the social media giant."

(https://decrypt.co/12708/most-facebook-employees-dont-trust-...)
Agree money fill flow/jobs will come back.

But I am not sure about your other point. People who put in 80 hours and burn out, can be replaced as there is an endless supply of labor in some parts of the world. At an individual level you compete against that pool. Not just one person. And many in that pool have been told for long, consumerism is the reward.

A lot of populists elected world over have promised their bases (who already feel they are owed) certain things. So they will push to get back to "normal". And given the mistrust and polarization that exists, its going to be a hard sell for big change.

Hopefully someone will show up who can do the selling, as I more or less agree with you things need to change. But I feel it will take multiple generations.
Retired physician here, age 71. I consider everyone a carrier and proceed accordingly. I will continue to do so indefinitely, regardless of changes in governmental directives.
Then maybe they don't have proper dependencies set. Inclusing too many things, too many acessible stuff, globals, no libraries?
I'd disagree on that. Humans are made of cells and yet we are ready to talk about humans not just cells. It's a higher level of abstraction with its own decisions. Same way, companies are made of humans yet they have power structures that make them behave in unique ways. They make decisions based on processes that maybe no human would approve. Sure, there is often a catalyst leader but the organization can move on without it.
I agree.

> timestamping services are trivially cheap already

what does it cost, where can I do it right now?
Thank you; fair advice reasonably stated.

My primary concern is related to maintaining pleasant social interaction and a reasonable balance of power on a time horizon of five years and beyond.

To me it's hard to imagine that a continuous digital record of human interactions that is subject to a proprietary protocol and implementation would be the safest situation to end up in.
The hack only works when using the exact firmware it was made for (obviously, but still unfortunately).

I have an Airsense 10 Autoset for Her (different simpler menus) and was not successful making the extra menus appear.
> Ultimately this is the most important problem of our time, and not only did he not take it seriously, he trivialized it and then got the wrong answer without bothering to understand what he was dismissing.

Maybe he understood it far better than you or that internet creator Al Gore and his buddy Leonardo DiCaprio?

> It's amazing how strong politics is in our brains; it can override all sorts of rationality.

Indeed. The way one group clings to a political agenda with religious zeal and demands no one question it is quite astonishing.

> I think we will think of Dyson in similar ways in the future, but I'm not sure if the concepts that Dyson invented will be as long lasting as Fisher's.

This is why so many people despise the global warming zealots. The absolute pettiness.

A better analogy would be the global warming "pro-science" zealots today with the eugenics "pro-science" zealots 100 years ago. 100 years ago, you'd be raising the alarm of how "inferior" races were a threat to humanity and demand eugenics/genocide/etc - all supported by "science" of course. The world didn't end like the zealots of 100 years ago predicted. And in 100 years, people are going to laugh at people like you like we laugh at eugenicists/nazis/etc today. And 100 years from now, people would still know Dyson.

When "science" and politics get mixed, it isn't a good thing. Especially when it involves mindless zealotry.
Sounds like it's using Deezer's Spleeter library.

https://github.com/deezer/spleeter
Singapore had a model coronavirus response, then cases spiked. What happened?
Using the word “evil” to describe these companies when today there are people literally dying from COVID19 because of the policies of their employers & governments seems like a lack of perspective to me.

The framing of your question has no good answer like the classic “are you still beating your wife?” where either a yes or no is still a bad look.
They are actually FIRING many more. See https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Reviews/Babylon-Health-Reviews-E...
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https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

Still less than 20% of the market. And I feel like the main reason they're even usable as a desktop OS is because 99% of most people's computer activity takes place in a web browser and not because OSX has a particularly special native app collection. Hell it seems like the only time I fire up my mac is because I need to build an iDevice app and nearly every "native" mac app I run is really Electron based.
Aren't companies "moral entities" by definition?
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Surprised no one has mentioned Dreams (PS4). It seems to be easier to create because it's not based around editing polygons (tedious) but rather both shape addition and subtraction (CSG) and it's fast (unlike most CSG)

A sample of things created in Dreams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOJOQt6x6dc
I used to work at a Perl shop. The language makes it so easy to use regexes that you risk abusing them, but nevertheless that exposure has helped me become quite proficient with regexes. I use Perl one liners whenever I need to deal with text data on the command line, so that keeps me exposed to regexes.
We are already under mass surveillance.

The movements of your mobile phone (and everything you look at on it and what you type and who you communicate with and what you say and literally everything else you can think of) is available at the touch of a button to the government.

It amazes me that people know this, but simultaneously don't know it?!

The horse has bolted. It is gone. This urge to close doors to empty stables is really baffling to me. Really confusing. Why are people like this?
And learning to live together in a different way. One of my kids is learning to play around me, with very little interruption, is learning the concept silence during phone calls. She choses low energy activities now and it's great. Sometimes she wants to talk, or a hug, or to see what I'm doing, and it's OK, she's curious. Sometimes I'm not available and she drifts away, with no hurt feelings. And she also understands far better 'I' m trying to concentrate' now.

I surprise myself taking breaks to drink tea and play with her (puzzles, reading, having her read, do some short yoga, sometimes even dancing with her a bit).

It has brought my kids and I far far closer.
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I think GP asked more about ascending chronological order (i.e. "oldest first"). Of course, that's only conjecture, based on what I thought when reading the question.

OTOH, your info about "best" vs. "everything" is of interest, too.
(Worth saying before I give my perspective that I agree with all the comments suggesting that YMMV and that, for a lot of people, COVID has been anywhere between a serious inconvenience/frustration and a complete disaster. Everything below is a very personal view with incredibly limited general applicability.)

It's interesting, because the way I feel about working from home has completely changed, and I suspect will continue to change as this pandemic progresses.

Previously I'd work from home for a day or two tops, and didn't really enjoy it. Didn't like the lack of company, especially not as I live alone, and found myself becoming easily distracted if I tried to work from home for longer periods.

I've now been working from home continuously since 16th March. Whilst loneliness and difficulty of focus were problems to begin with they've substantially passed, and I'm finding my ability to focus has improved.

I've come to appreciate the quiet and (ironically given what I said a couple of paragraphs back) lack of distraction. I can get up and move, or do something mindless if I need some time to get away from my screen and think without running into anyone. I can also make a cup of coffee without it turning into a 10-minute project where I have to queue/make smalltalk/empty and refill the coffee machine, and whatever else can distract and delay.

In general, if I'm frustrated by a situation at work, it's easier to get some mental and emotional distance from it, which is helpful for clarity of thought and better decision-making.

I've managed to set boundaries and regular hours for working that I rarely stray beyond, and I find myself more creative and energetic in the evenings.

Not everything is perfect:

- Lots of video calls and meetings becomes draining, and we've had to learn to change our ways of working somewhat to deal with this.

- Related: I find that preparation for meetings is even more valuable now because it helps to keep them shorter.

- I also prefer to have difficult conversations face to face in a way that video calls don't really substitute for.

- I miss my family and friends, and am missing out on my newborn nephew's first months as he grows and develops. Again, video calls go some way to helping (and I'm certainly grateful to have them - imagine what this would have been like 15 or 20 years ago), but they're obviously not a complete substitute.

- I've got flabby around the middle: did a virtual black tie dinner for a friend's birthday last night and couldn't do up the trousers of my tux properly - thankfully the cummerbund saved the day, and video calls cover a multitude of sins. I'm getting back into an exercise routine but clearly I need to do more.

Still, right now, I don't want to go back to the office, and this is even taking into account that my commute is generally less than 30 minutes each way.

Who knows? In another month I may feel differently. Only time will tell.
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From their "health" argument for buying their product.

"You wouldn't stand in front of a microwave all day. Rest easy known mobile EMF radiation isn't doing the same harm."

Oouf. Not a good look.
Congratulations AWS, now your only competition in the "public cloud arm64" space died. F.

As much as I don't like the Awful Bezos Monopoly and their bandwidth pricing and stuff, the Graviton has been excellent and now the super-fast Graviton2 is coming.
While Scaleway couldn't unbreak something as basic as booting a local EFI file instead of iPXE for months [1] AWS employees have been sending patches to upstream OSes [2] so it's pretty obvious which provider is serious about ARM. Hopefully there will be more than one. HuaweiCloud should put the Kunpeng instances in the international regions. Maybe Microsoft Azure will eventually do it too? (They've been using ARM internally..)

[1] https://community.scaleway.com/t/freebsd-on-arm64/6678/5

[2] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24065
I think backlash is important, it keeps big tech accountable.

That being said, I do think big tech has been scapegoated for years. Everything is blamed on these companies: eroding privacy, Brexit, Trump, fake news, social breakdown -- at some point we as a society need to take responsibility as well because frankly these platforms are a reflection of us as a species.

I understand the skepticism, but after seeing how things work on the inside I trust my employer far more.
I worked for a corp at a similar "golden cage" position, where switching would incur a pay-cut and working harder for longer hours.
Eventually I changed company. I looked at the beurocrats around me and realised I'll end up like them - my tech skills on the decline, learning only how to manipulate and cover my ass.

We grow in the face of adversity and challenge. I think as an ex-Googler you'll have a choice of interesting positions that will benefit your career in the long run.
I guess 01997 is better than 1.99.7.
Companies exist to make money. So "evil" is probably the default when you get down to it. Anything that heads that off is temporary at best. CEOs with strong personalities, specific niches that allow for enough money without "evil" tactics, etc. Basically, the structure isn't geared toward anything better. Eventually things will come down to money vs whatever.
But it hasn't ramped up yet and they loosen the lockdown already by monday. The got R down to .7 at best and that only on average, not in the hotspots.

I bet in 2 weeks (I hope it's not even more delay) they will notice that (partially) opening schools and shops was a mistake and will have to row back. I just hope they will be as lucky as with the initial curve-flattening.

Germany has flattened the curve, but that still means we are roughly on it's summit. This means there are still more infected than ever and every misstep might be costly.
That’s ludicrous. And no one is saying that.

The argument is how much is too much? Is there any limit to what the governors can ask? Cause it feels like they’re governing by diktat, with little transparency or accountability.

People are ok with it, because there is enough trust in our institutions to carry us through public health crisis.

But it will wear thin. Politicians and the chattering classes are far removed from the damage they are doing and far to self congratulatory.
Do people really think the evil sorcerers at the twin towers of google and Apple rub their hands and laugh maniacally at the chance to build the ultimate evil privacy violation tool made only ever more fabulously evil because it is cloaked in goodness and brought as a gift to do good?

These are not the nine rings for mortal kings.

Do these people think that Larry and Sergei call a meeting of their most evil henchmen/project managers and say “gentlemen we have been given an outstanding chance to build something magnificently privacy violating! The coronavirus has driven people into our hands! We have waited so long for the chance to build such a system and because people think it’s for good, we’ll never be suspected! Go my minions, fly and build the dark software that will create us a secret and hidden trove of privacy data the likes of no other! Ha ha ha !”

The privacy nuts really think this way.