skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In contrast, with WeWork, SoftBank was pretty clearly looking to unload radioactive garbage on the public.

So the answer is: it depends.

Ye olde pump n dump
I'm talking about the regulation that prevents stuff from being built. obviously all the normal laws like no murder would still be in place.
Sweden Says Controversial Covid-19 Strategy Is Proving Effective
The open source community serves as an ad hoc application of the apprenticeship / guild concept. I have some friends who don't have college degrees but have been hired due to their demonstrable and attested technical skill in serious FOSS projects
(React) how to build zero-boilerplate relational state fast and easy
I feel you. I think the media (especially US media) has latched onto the doomsday side of this pandemic, and it's easy to sell panic porn. Please ignore the trolls.

As a Berliner, I've had the chance to see the German response from the frontlines. I've never seen such socially responsible citizens. Every once in a while my friends and family from US/UK/Asia etc call and ask me what's the secret of Germany's success. The response from German govt. was perfect in such situation, you can't help others without securing your position.
Considering the human grotesqueries on display in early Renaissance paintings, I’d be wary about fruit being rendered accurately.
> What about international flights? Are airports in SK still closed? I'm pretty sure they will have to limit traffic into and out of the country despite easing social distancing.

Airports in South Korea has never been closed - South Korea has never banned anyone coming & going outside. A quarantine of two weeks became mandatory since April 1th, but South Korea has never closed Airports or has done a lockdown.

> Otherwise, won't there be a new wave of infections when they let 'outsiders' back in from places where the virus is still running rampant?

Definitely that's a concern, 5 out of 8 new cases yesterday were people that were infected from foreign countries. However since South Korea has never closed it's airports, people generally think it's controllable(like it always was).
If you are trying to force your children to grow up to be coders, that would be extreme. But the parents and educators I know consider it more of a new facet to basic literacy. You know how to read. You know how to write. You know basic computational concepts.
There are two routes I’d recommend:

1) Many of the reliable community sites post buying guides; without wading into which I find reliable just search for “hackintosh buyers guide 2020”, “hackintosh compatibility list”, etc.

2) My now-preferred route is following developers on Github who post their hardware and EFI folder. It’ll be obvious which repos are from engineers who depend on it for their day-to-day based on stars/forks.

My current laptop I found out about from a blog (#1) then stumbled into a flawless and well-maintained repo (#2) — best of both worlds!
Feel like taking off the tail-end of the post's name hurts it a lot. Because I came here ready to argue that while copying isn't theft, it definitely hurts the bottom line of indie musicians, writers, moviemakers, etc. But, in the case presented in the article, I 100% agree with the author. Claiming covers, interpretation videos, etc as "copyright infringement" is, to put it mildly, a stretch.

I like the sentiment that censorship robs people, it's nicely spun and true, by and large. But that mostly applies to the kind of 'censorship' described in the post which, if I'm being honest, I'm not even sure I'd call censorship. Feels a bit of a reach, semantically speaking.
My anecdote: if I were to go from Java to Go I would have been I impressed with its ease of concurrency, but going from Java to Scala to Go, I was unimpressed. I already had simplicity of concurrency with Scala without feeling primitive like I did with Go.
But having an s-shaped curve is not the same thing as being a sigmoid function, in the same way that having a bell-shaped density is not the same thing as having a gaussian distribution. There a tons of processes out there that can approximate well with either of those two, while being extremely different in extrapolation.

One thing that can immediately disprove mathematical sigmoid modeling: curve symmetry. If the early adoption exponential growth is not exactly the same shape as the late adoption slowdown, then you don't have a sigmoid function.

And that's the problem: if you're using a single function to model the result of two (or more) separate processes with distinct mechanics and parameters, you're going to have the same exact pitfalls as you would trying to model a bimodal process with a single probability distribution. Namely that they might fit well with interpolative methods, but completely fail with extrapolative methods (like forecasting!).
> it just means it's not a good article.

Not necessarily. They included in the article that we could use decentralized contact tracing instead; and, an article arguing against a feature doesn't need an alternative.

If a refrigerator were being released with a microwave, do I really need to provide alternatives to where I could put the microwave instead?

Among other arguments, it argues that contact tracing is a source of mass surveillance. That alone, for the appropriate crowd, is enough reason to not use it. There doesn't need to be an alternative because the alternative is _not having it_.

Just because a bunch of developers ended up wasting their resources on a feature that is a net loss for society doesn't mean that the feature needs to be released.
this sounds like it’s more directed at governments. To build whole institutions at the scale he’s referring to requires trillions.

Biggest problem I see is that we consistently elect people into political positions who are biased toward maintaining the status quo. The word “radical” is a dirty word to voters. We don’t like change. Until we change that mindset we won’t ever have people in government who could even begin to think about what building the future looks like.
I’m confused/concerned by this as the US authorities are emphasizing that this is a respiratory virus and no need to be concerned about food transmission, etc
Like I said, I dissemble, and I think do it well - what I presented here was what goes on inside my head - not how I interact in my daily life. If you met me in person, you’d find an affable guy who people generally want to know and spend time with - but the problem is that I don’t generally want to spend time with them. My relative isolation is my choice, as I find a lot of sociality extremely mundane. I can only have the same “profound” conversations so many times.

I find being stoned out of my gourd is a good way to slow myself down enough that I don’t find myself bored and frustrated. Typical, I know.

I do have a circle, but they really are scattered to the winds - and I think that works, as they’re similar in their lack of desire to spend too much time with people. I’m happily married to a woman who I think might actually be smarter than me, although her education was poor - but she doesn’t put me on a pedestal, and has no bones with telling me I’m wrong. It’s incredibly refreshing. I feed her knowledge, she feeds me ideas, and together we achieve things.

You say it’s a pleasure when someone makes an inductive leap, but I find that it usually pisses people off - instead, I leave one ear listening for anything unexpected in what they’re saying, let them say their piece while I delve through the topic with the rest of my attention, and then respond - although I do catch myself far too often finishing people’s thoughts, still - speech is just so slow.

As to the “soft” side of things - I was the CTO and sales lead at my business until I ran out of novel problems to solve, and left, as we’d built a self-sustaining machine - sold tens of millions of pounds of our software over the years, and it was my shoulder clients would want to cry on, as part of my curse is understanding people far too damn well - hence my analogy to lightbulbs, insulting as it may be - the psychology of others is generally predictable, en masse or singularly. I also write fiction, which to my shock and surprise got published late last year. Like most of my output, I saw it as no damn good - but apparently people like it enough to pay money for it. Bizarre.

Anyway - I appreciate the input!
Now we have this to add to the pile (though I can't find an actual preprint): http://archive.is/UDrho
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing#Virus_testing...

Shows the following stats:

Country--------Date-----Tests-------Positive----%-------Tests/mil ppl----Positive/mil ppl
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
United States--18 Apr---3,700,388---720,747-----19.5----11,273-----------2,196
Russia---------19 Apr---1,949,813---42,853------2.2-----13,287-----------292
Germany--------15 Apr---1,728,357---132,766-----7.7-----20,786-----------1,597
Italy----------19 Apr---1,356,541---178,972-----13.2----22,474-----------2,965
Spain----------13 Apr---930,230-----169,496-----18.2----19,905-----------3,627
Wouldn't working on FOSS projects be closer to an internship rather than apprenticeship? Are they really being mentored and taught while working on the FOSS projects?
It would be interesting to investigate WP pages that are "ideologically locked" for whatever reason. Maybe even come up with a metric, etc.

Some of this would be rank politics, of course, and some PR edits. But others might be rather surprising. As I recall, for several years, the main C++ page forbade any substantial criticism of the language.
One dead giveaway of people getting their friends and colleagues to manipulate the way they are perceived on social media... is when your comment is quickly downvoted... before any casual user would have had time to absorb it.
Wait, so I can use Signal to communicate with WhatsApp users through WhatsApp?
As a millennial college graduate, my number one piece of advice to college bound high schoolers is do the first two years at community college. The debt is not worth the experience. Most people spend the first two years figuring stuff out, community college is a great place to do that. I didn't even know this was an option until after college and I feel failed by my high school college advisors. Unless you are very confident in what you want to do and get into a very good college you don't think you can get into again, get a full ride, or have ridiculously rich parents, go to community college.
Edit: perhaps full ride is too strict a requirement. If you can save money by going to community college, taking into account lost scholarships, you should go to community college.
The notion of copyright is going to get very strained when we develop brain implants that let us share memories.
I think in principle hindering spread is much EASIER in the US than in South Korea.

The US has a huge advantage in its low population density and spread out population. That slows down the spread of disease. Not to mention the advantage of a car centric society. In the US you can travel from A to B without exposing yourself to other people. Americans also mostly live in separate houses further reducing the risk of the spread of disease.

All through human history population density has been a major contributor to pandemics. One can see e.g. how New York is much harder hit than LA. LA is low density housing and almost no public transport.

Europe and Asia in contrast is almost all more like New York. IMHO that makes the success in South Korea more impressive not LESS.

We see the same in Europe. The densely populated countries tend to be harder hit. E.g. Denmark has enacted equally strict measures as Norway sooner yet has twice the number of deaths. Norway has an advantage in being more like the US, having a relatively spread out population.

I don't think the decentralization is the main problem at the moment. Germany is also decentralized. It is a federal republic like the US. However unlike the US, Germany has a cooperation oriented leadership where the central government listens to the leaders of the states and coordinate with them.

In the US it seems to be all postering and blame game. It is very hard to evaluate the US results without taking into account its current disastrous leadership. The US is lead by a reality star. Germany is led by a former scientific researcher with a PhD in quantum chemistry. Should we be surprised why Germany is having the best results in the West, while the US is rapidly approaching the worst results?

What saves the US is that there are numerous governors who are good leaders and to some degree counterweight the absurdity of the federal government.

But seriously in what country does the President encourage riot in provinces of their own country? Looking from abroad the US is looking increasingly like a Banana republic. I how things work out fine for everybody. But I am worried.
The poster did not claim it was a "cure". The way I read it was that if you're gut biome is dysfunctional because you eat too much, that is a factor in the immune response to SARS-CoV-2. That is actually possible. Resetting your gut biome with a 72 hour fast is known to provide significant health benefits. Clearly the poster is not a medical professional and states that fact. But everything stated is reasonable advice. It's certainly not "quack medicine".
Exactly, him & his firm have been leading the bandwagon on crypto investments, social/mobile, ads, "scooters", and all the other sectors which are all hype & no build.
The video finally pieced together was a treat.
Ironically, if they had more government sponsorship, they may be having fewer financial problems now. Government grant programs have multi-year contracts, and the agencies have yearly budgets. The government money is still flowing. It's the private money, from foundations and individuals, that has suddenly become unavailable due to declines in income and wealth.
Not trying to start a flamewar, but if you werr to ask the other cultures around the world that don't send their elders into the care of strangers...

the decision to stay present in the lives of their parents etc has nothing to do with what they're good at (can be learned), or enjoy.
Behavior like this and the for-credit/not-for-credit distinction (for the same class!) is some rent-seeking, power-imbalance nonsense. I hope we figure out a better way.
The snark is an over-reaction. This is just a collection of thoughts. He has every right in the world to put his thoughts online. It is up to everyone else whether or not to read them.
Was "the democratic machine" casting ballots in the primaries? Were they controlling the minds of the people who did? The "republican machine" tried to stop Trump and failed, because at the end of the day people voted for Trump in the primaries. He was popular in a way that Sanders wasn't.
The best evidence is that there's no need for the average person to be concerned about food transmission. The hospital context is very different; transmission routes that are normally negligible can start to matter when you have 200 people coughing coronavirus into the air.
> A commercial HSM - used by CAs, businesses, banks to hold private keys - contains RF shields, temper-detection switches, sensors for X-ray, light, temperature, battery-backed SRAM for self-destruction, and so on, it's extremely unlikely that anyone has ever succeeded to break into a HSM

A service to lift firmware from Gemalto chips used in SIM, and credit cards costs $25k here at most
I'm looking at college this fall and seriously wondering about this. I'll have to spend a lot of money if I go to an "elite" school, and the point of doing that is to make connections with my peers and with professors. I don't see the point of paying that kind of money for that sort of experience. That aside, not starting college may not be a good idea, either. Does anyone with more experience have advice on this? I do have a job at a cybersecurity firm where I'm a part-time developer, and my boss would probably convert me to full-time. I've also been working on some interesting side projects to learn stuff and could continue self-teaching. Does anyone with more experience have some advice for me?
"UIs today are much more beautiful than in 1995." Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I just looked at some Win95 screen shots, and apart from the large pixels (making the icons back then rather grainy), and the fact that displays were far smaller back then (giving a crammed look), I think I prefer the _look_ (if not the functionality) of Win95. A lot of stuff today looks washed out, as if the ink on the printer was getting low.

And as for valuing the beauty, my computer is for work, it's not an art museum. You're right that if visual effects can be provided without sacrificing performance, they're ok--but, I would add, only if they enhance something else (like usability). Visual effects for the sake of visual effects are like tail fins on cars.
It would give you specific data to use for your initial hypothesis:

"I am sure there are quite a few who know this gnu-tool"

My hypothesis is that you will find that instead of "quite a few who know" (implying a large value and/or majority) that if you start asking you will find that reality is "very few even know" and an even smaller subset of those very few actually utilize.
On the Debate of iOS vs. macOS
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Pffft, okay. "Netflix and chill", and Snapchat/Instagram/TikTok mouth-breathers are the elderly?

Jeopardy/Wheel of Fortune viewers don't have shit on the new gen.
If we forbid all operations, a lot fewer people will die in surgery.
To be clear, whole version upgrades have still always been a crap-shoot for me (with Clover, haven't used OpenCore).

Total aside, I can't remember for sure if I ever upgraded my High School Hackintosh to Lion. I think what happened is I got it working, but decided I didn't like Lion as much, and restored an image of my SL install.
They way he glossed over money being the problem really shows how much of a position of privilege he is in.

Of course money is the problem.

More specifically, the subset of money that is profits. How can you build if you don’t feel secure in you and your loved one’s futures? Whether that future is just enough to scrape by to making sure your children have a safety net. The majority of people simply do not have the luxury of ignoring money to divert their attention on building. If this current pandemic hasn’t made that abundantly clear, I don’t know what will.

(Yes, I’m aware of the outliers on both ends. I’m choosing to ignore them because to build something meaningful for the future requires the majority. And that is precisely the population that is most concerned about money.)

Regulatory capture? That’s because those in government know how quickly money can be earned and lost. So why not let this happen to secure their own future?

Startups and investors? Everyone is focused on ROI and the short term because that optimized for your wealth. Long term spreads the wealth among employees which ultimately does not help secure your future. If this hurts to hear, it’s because deep down you know it to be true.

It takes a lot of wealth and time for outliers to see that they aren’t building for the future. It’s great if Andreessen sees this issue and is trying to solve for it, but money is not so easily solved for.

> Here’s a modest proposal to my critics. Instead of attacking my ideas of what to build, conceive your own! What do you think we should build?

Sure. I’d love to take the time to flesh out and propose my ideas to you. Then build and iterate on them. But first, give me stable income. Promise to take care of me.

I’ve just been part of a mass layoff for the third time in my life! Every time I’ve built up some sort of financial safety net, it’s been burnt to ashes by a recession. I left teaching and returned to engineering precisely because I realized how impossible it would be to build a financially secure life for my family (parents included).

So that is my challenge to you, Mr. Horowitz and everyone who agrees. What will you do to feed the desire to build?
Absolutely. Even when the first success was largely luck. I know a lot of early Microsoft employees who became successful (read: wealthy) very quickly and many of them harbored a belief that they were capable of success at anything and that their advice was of a superior caliber. This belief has, through the subsequent years, proven to not be all that true.
> Given you develop immunity after (no evidence you don't yet)

Not no evidence [0][1], it's currently my biggest fear about this virus. There's a few possibilities here:

* The tests are picking up dead virus remains

* Their tests were bad and they didn't actually recover

* Their body didn't create enough antibodies and the immunity was weak

* The virus is biphasic - symptoms stop for a while only to return later, and they never actually recovered

My hope is that what we've been seeing turns out to be among the first causes here, but we've been hearing about possible reinfections for months.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-reinfection-...

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
Disagree.

Graduation rates are drastically lower from community colleges.

There is vastly less academic support available.

The people around you will be vastly less ambitious. This will rub off on you.

Yes 4 year university is now overpriced in America. But if you can, go to a 4 year university.

Yes maybe go to an in-state university instead of out of state if that is cheaper, or go where you get the best financial aid.
The Scala 3 migration guide
In this system, the collecting authority doesn’t know who submitted diagnosis keys.

If you assume a malicious app installed on both party’s phones, then you might be able to do it... but then again, if you have that you don’t really need this system to track contacts.

(I think on one side, you’d have to collect the daily keys and associate them when a person’s identity. Then, when you want to check a contact, you would then need to trigger an “infection” because otherwise the keys don’t leave the device. This requires user interaction, BTW, so there would be some kind of special social engineering effort to get someone to report themself as infected or else you the phone needs to be unlocked in the possession of a malicious party — or you have to hope to get “lucky” in that the person actually gets infected within 14 days of the timeframe of interest.

For the other party, you’d have to feed only the specific ids of the known people you want to check against to the matching API — it only tells you if there’s a match, not which match, so unless you’re checking only one, you’d have to use a process of elimination to work it down to a specific person. I wonder if that API might be throttled, though, or otherwise limited to make that less effective.

With the requirement to have malicious, cooperating apps on both sides you don’t need the Apple/Google system and you could get more useful info, like location, and with less user interaction.)
I'm fine with calling the majority of media and politicians from every country trolls.
> Even if Google or Apple are _capable_ of doing something evil

Genuinely, it's not Google nor Apple that I fear doing something evil here.

Google will try to give me more targeted ads, without giving that detailed data to their app developers, but instead just making their demographics tools better.

Apple will do what they think will help the circumstance.

I fear the government doing evil with it, especially under the guise of good.

"Hey, we found this terrorist's phone number, turns out he has an Android device. Give me every person that's been physically near him in the last 24 hours"

"Hey, these 37 people were at a protest, where do they spend their off time?"
As opposed to the strain now with large amounts of cheap storage and bandwidth available? One can already store vast quantities of the world’s data in a few cargo containers with power and connectivity.