skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless they've done some independent investigation, that's just federal government speak.

The feds have been at pains to present COVIDSafe as having stringent privacy safeguards, but they have such an appalling record that few will believe them without trustworthy independent scrutiny. I can't see how that can be possible until (at a bare minimum) the app's source code is released.

I really hope they do, and that they make any necessary improvements subsequently recommended. Contact tracing is a fantastic potential use of mobile technology. It would be a pity for it to be undermined by the usual impulse towards contemptuous patrician secrecy.
I don't know about the US, but there's a major push to move to electronic payments around the EU. Bank accounts are free, terminals are dirt cheap, even the poorest get contactless cards.

Not to mention that cash+coin machines that can also give change have been around and reliable for a while now. But having autonomous cash-filled robots around is just inviting trouble.
> but with no matching source packages that I could find.

This is also something that bothers me. Even Gentoo (!) gives up on building some applications and just redistributes upstream binaries (eg. Cassandra or Kafka), because it's too hard to actually build them.

I mentioned this on the #nixos IRC channel, and they seem open to having a configuration variable to disable packages not built from source (like they currently do for non-free licenses [1]), there is just no one currently working on it.

[1] https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-allow-unfree

> but really haven't considered to how to deal with the "disapearing sources" problem, including vanishing git repositories

Guix does [2], and Nix is working on it in a similar way.

[2] https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/connecting-reproducible-deplo...
> Except they can't leave any record of its source, in any documented form. This includes server logs, data transfers, emails about data, meeting minutes about data.

They can certainly take the risk. If crimes only happened when there was a 0% change of getting caught there would be no crime.
I am talking about the general metro area, not just the city centre.

In a lot of cases (at least here) the shops were there first, and the thoroughfare grew in use next to them. This road cuts directly throuhh the middle of the entire city.

Specifically a stream that had decent walkable paths alongside was put underground and a big thoroughfare put on top of it. I'm part of an initiative to reopen the stream and put the traffic in a tunnel underneath, in order to create a park/urban space for people, rather than cars.

I want the entire city to be pedestrian first, bicycles second and cars dead last.
Yes agreed. I tried using Twitter to promote my work but I found Twitter to be even more toxic than Facebook in general and have since quit.

I'd argue that Reddit also does the same thing. On Reddit, you can always find a community that agrees with your radical thinking. Reddit also has a problem with groupthink where the upvoting system heavily rewards popular opinion, even if it's false.

In this day and age, I find that not participating in social networks makes me a happier and less radical person. If I do partake in them, I limit myself to generally harmless hobby and work-related communities.
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Luckily we have Trump in power, and not Hillary... I think that he will do whatever is needed.
I use it daily. I'm open to any ideas/improvements people want to make, but it's <air-quote> done </air-quote> in my eyes.
Wow in the several times I've watched the Shining from different sources, I've never seen a version with spooky skeletons. Here is the deleted scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usgsJ-hy0h0 I think I have to agree that this wasn't one of Kubrick's best moments.
It does allow comparing trends though. Yes, the actual numbers are not reliable, but whether numbers in a country are growing exponentially, growing linearly or stabilizing is comparable.

You can also make some indications if a country is doing unusually well or bad: If the ratio of cases/population or deaths/population were significantly different from most other countries, this would warrant a closer look.
I think it's only marginally useful though; for example you can't rationally make personal or policy decisions using this because the distortion Inthe data that the gp flagged is so large, and also we are so early in this event. In 18 months we will see!
By 2011 the Linux desktop was already the butt of jokes. That dream died about 5 years earlier, when Ubuntu spread like wildfire in the geek community and then... failed to make any serious inroad anywhere else.
Sometimes I worry if Karma exists (or may one day be implemented by the AI that grows out of internet surveillance) and I will be forced to pay back everything I have pirated, that it would take me many lifetimes to do so.
In my opinion, GPL is just another flavor of proprietary software and they should stop calling it free software or even opensource. Something like "Copyleft shared source" would make more sense to what it really is.

https://medium.com/@henvic/opensource-and-go-what-license-f6...
What real time tracking metadata? In the contact tracing system there's no real time tracking at all.

All the server gets is a set of random numbers from a user, after that user tests positive. And while it might be difficult to keep the server from knowing which user tested positive, it's not even necessary to store that.
I don't know how you can isolate the effect of the smoking ban from the other factors that have affected the rate of pubgoing.
Yup, serious work to put the numbers on a solid footing required in the next months and years
This app has been released by the government.
Will Australians be able to build from source, install and connect to the central server (if any)? Or at least build and verify that what comes from the stores is what they built? If not, having the source code doesn't really matter much.
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These "problems of philosophical nature that only free software geeks care about" however, tend to quickly have very practical consequences, that many people care about, though.
Only that many do not realize, that their problems would not have happened, if they had used free software. Most people are not even aware what free software means or that it exists.

So I would not mix the two issues of a problem being a real problem and people's lack of knowledge about the software licensing world or software in general. Just because people don't know what the actual root cause is, it does not mean, that the problem does not exist, or that the people will not care about consequences, that will affect them.

I will also say,that without idealism of many great people creating free software and little pockets of free society, we would not be, where we are today. A very general statement, I know, but I have no doubt in my mind, that the idea of making knowledge freely available and making sure it stays that way does help advance society in many areas.
Good to know, I'll give it another look.
If you want to use Bluetooth on Android, you must ask for this permission. Bluetooth can be used to get high quality locations, also indoor.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/blue...
I don’t know if it’s true or not, but in the app it states it needs location access for Bluetooth.
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I am leading this effort. Happy to answer questions.
Vue.JS/ Ruby/ D3 is what Wappalyzer picks up for this.

D3 is very powerful, but there's a lot to learn too!
PM said it would be stored by Amazon in Australia.
Sure, that would make an inspiring Hollywood movie.

But in real world terms, it just sounds like a large number of Uber drivers.
Heads up though, I will probably be deprecating the "recipes" format for 1.0, opting to use a pure Dockerfile approach.

See my recipes repo for an example.
So, in response to epidemic cities are limiting the only transportation mode that is safe during the epidemic - yes, that makes perfect sense :)
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but these promises were quickly revoked

Were they? Where did you see that?

The Health Dept's response to the Privacy Impact Assessment's recommendation for release of the app's source code says as follows:

Agreed. The PIA and source code will be released subject to consultation with the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre

(https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/covidsafe-a...)

Now that 'consultation' might be a delaying tactic, but it's just as likely to be that the Dept. of Health has no idea of the implications of such release. It certainly doesn't suggest the revocation you claim.
Personally I use BitWarden, though recently I've been looking into other options:
https://masterpassword.app/
The concerns are still very much valid no matter region or GovCloud. What protects Australian citizens from powers granted to the US intelligence machine via the Patriot Act?
On iOS it does not request location services.

In fact it doesn’t even appear on the list of apps when you go to Privacy -> Location services.

So appears to be an Android thing.
> By not doing so they are by definition non-compliant.

Pedantry. If you agree a separate licence and are no longer bound by the terms of the GPL, you cannot be in breach of the GPL. That's the point.

> they could have GPLed the entire app; no reason not to have.

They haven't released the source.
For this specific case, it would be a grave mistake to license under anything, which does not contain a copyleft to make sure they release the source code as well and grant the 4 freedoms.
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Do you have a source for the source code not being released for “national security”?
If you don't want it approximate, but exact, this is still a tricky non-trivial ambiguous problem. And this problem often comes up in text normalization for NLP task (e.g. speech recognition, or text-to-speech).

For Python, for English, there is the inflect library: https://pypi.org/project/inflect/
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I think he means any of the companies, not all at once. And I'll note again that stock picking is not what their fund does anyway.
> but also always horribly written by students/teachers, and made it even more incomprehensible.

Honest question: why does the horribly written matter at all? For all intents and purposes the symbol could be a smiley face or a little drawing of a tree. Indeed, in a freshman course you sometimes have at least one worksheet using trees,cars,stars, apples to make this point. As long as the smiley on page 1 and the smiley on page 3 look the same you are fine.

Same for mu, nu, kappa, rho. They could just be written as C1,C2,C3,C4, but it makes it much easier to read when you use the Greek letters, because you can be reasonably certain that for example rho has something to do with a density (while C4 tells you nothing).
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As terms-of-art in the software world, 'Free software' and 'Open Source software' have clear accepted definitions. There's nothing wrong with being an advocate for 'copycenter' licences, but please don't muddy the waters.
In some measure they have _less_ excess deaths than an average of the last years (after subtracting the counted Covid-19 cases), which would be an indication that they are over-counting.
Who is it that really bears the blame for these unsubstantiated bleach drinking incidents? Trump, who did not say anything like "drink bleach", or the media who openly lie and run headlines like "Trump tells everyone to drink bleach!"? Or even non-media hucksters trying to get publicity by tweeting things like "I can’t believe I have to say this, but please don’t drink bleach"?
Kuro5hin[1] was great. The blog “A coder in courier land” [2] led me to become a bike messenger for a few years during the housing market crisis (or be laid off).

It put life in perspective and eventually made me a better developer (after returning) by virtue of realizing the more work you put in, the more reward you receive.

I wish I could thank that guy for writing.

1 -https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuro5hin

2 -https://web.archive.org/web/20150417064721/http://www.kuro5h...
Yep, governments mistaking a solvency crisis for a liquidity crisis is going to kill lots of businesses that otherwise could’ve survived.
I believe CDs and DVDs used organic compounds for their data layer, which begins physically rotting and destroying the data later

Later disks like M-disc type DVDs and Blu-ray don't use living components and don't really age
we had to setup a simple linux for the purpose of diplsaying some stats on the attached screen. choices were: debian and nixos. debian would take approx half day to setup (given other project tasks). nix os was chosen and it took 2 weeks and now it is rather hard for non-nix user to fix anything.
If you just want to add doctor to your email, then you would need a diploma mill or 'fake' university.

To get a legit PhD or DSc, you would need to become an expert in the field - spending time doing research, projects, a thesis, and possibly teaching. Due to this, the easiest subject to select would be one you are already know alot about, hopefully via an undergraduate or graduate degree. This helps with the entrance qualifications too.

Also, just because it is easiest does not mean it's best. The subject should be something you are passionate about. You should also look at your return on investment for the degree. If you aren't going to benefit from it and you just want to add doctor to your title, you might as well use a diploma mill or 'fake' university.

I looked into doing a PhD for computer/information/data science. The best option I found was a DSc from Dakota State University. It was relatively cheap, online, accredited, and related to my job. I decided not to do it because I felt the investment in time and money would not be worth it. It would be a minimal raise at my current job. If I switched companies, then I would need experience to go with the degree as it seems that companies value that more.

Like most things, what you get out of a degree is based on what you put into it. If you want a legit doctorate, it should not be easy.
Can you share the list of hardware you choose to build your tower?
There's also Emmet Re:view, an open source Chrome extension (apparently not actively developed though, and I've never used it): https://github.com/emmetio/re-view
I pay for the premium version and there are still some ads.
It depends on the direction of growth.

Antibiotics by itself improves the quality of life a great deal and does not take much resources to produce.

If a country moves toward an innovation-driven economy, its growth can be less constrained by physical resources.
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"Cities are making less room for cars"

Is this really corona related? I'm hearing this for many years now.
Slashdot did not sensure like YC these days. Sad YC. You just follow YouTube and Google agenda. Nothing new.
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Well, they also flip-flopped between the wearing of masks in public communications, just to keep supplies available to medical staff...
> If you care about global poverty, disease, famine etc. then you care about growth.

I care about diseases being allowed to spread more than they should in the name of growth. This pandemic happened precisely because of greed and the “growth” fetish.

Poverty is skyrocketing now precisely because we didn't bother to stop to set up safeguards in our neverending lust for growth.

I care about our privacy being forcibly penetrated to sell data on our every eye saccade in the name of growth.

I care about every physical and virtual space being bombarded with advertisements during every waking moment in the name of growth.

I care about having every single aspect of human existence from water to companionship, being monetized and curated in the name of growth.

I care about IP franchises being milked to death and their corpses defiled and then their graves exhumed in the name of growth.

I care about the vast biomes being burned down and entire species going extinct in the name of growth.

I care about ethics and morals getting thrown under a steamroller in the name of growth.
Does anyone have a list of free programming books?
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As the commenter who suggested keeping it in a utilities file, I'd say that the trade-off is heavily weighted to not importing it as a package.

When you cribbed the code you should have completely understood what exactly the package was doing, and why, and known what issues it would have had. Since it's a one-liner, it is transparent. Since it is without dependencies, it is unlikely to fail on old code. So it's unlikely to have existing issues and unlikely to develop new issues.

Of course, if you end up using new features of the language in your code, it may fail on that, but the risk old stuff failing should have already been factored in when you decided to upgrade. In fact, the one-liner solves this better since you decide the pace of adaptation of your one-liner to the new features, not the package maintainer.
I thought it was between 0.5% to 1.0%, at least according to the NYC study: https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1253436656742305793
I don’t have data of course, but the way most people take photos, it really doesn’t seem like they know or care how to utilize those functions. The zoom is nice, but is it $500 nice?

In my circle, they’re taking the pics, and then sharing super compressed versions of it in WhatsApp. No one is spending their time organizing huge photo and video files for posterity.

Maybe I am wrong and people will opt for better camera functions. I certainly like that they’re hitting multiple price points now, so if you want a fancy camera you can get it and if you don’t, you can get SE.
> Can you explain what you mean by "struggle"?

An Arial 'g' and a Times New Roman 'g' are fundamentally different because

1. The stem is on different sides

2. They have a different number of loops

For most letters you can transition between the two fonts by simply adding or removing serifs and and making things either more or less curvy. But for the 'g' you have to change the fundamental shape. As you can see in the screenshot, I've added a 'g' to the example text and expect to see a 'g' which is 93% Arial and 7% Times New Roman - however the 'g' shown is a Times New Roman style 'g' and looks nothing like an Arial 'g' (which has the stem on the right not the left, and one loop instead of two)

> If you click on the page, it brings up what amounts to several character maps

In the character map view, I can see that the Arial 'g' is nothing like a real Arial 'g' - it's a Times New Roman 'g' with fewer serifs.
In Spain we get the worst version of this. Media organizations (the equivalents to MPAA or RIAA) get a percentage of the price of all storage devices (hard drives, flash memory, anything) that are sold, implying that they might be used for piracy. But it's still illegal to pirate! So we're paying for something we MIGHT do, but we still can't do it.
Thinking of being protected by face masks is a lazy mental shortcut for "I will limit the spreading of my microbiome, if all others do the same, infection risk goes down"
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I think you missed my point. If more than half of Oslo was built after 1950 it kinda invalidates that the city was built before cars. Oslo, like most cities, expanded heavily in an era where cars existed. So it has less to do with when cities were built and more to do with what urban planning policies different cities had. Different cities went with different paths despite all of them expanding at the same time.

But the answer your question: Vienna. Vienna has smaller population today than it did in 1910.
If there are people out there who are well invested into Gmail, then here's an alternative (https://klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-how-...) that does not require a separate client application. The initial concept is focused on desktop usage, but with a small modification it can be adapted to mobile-based working as well.
The government actually issues the two numbers [1].

Current (Apr 26) toll is 7,094 if you include suspected deaths, but is 3,596 if you only count positive cases.

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[1] https://covid-19.sciensano.be/sites/default/files/Covid19/De...
Personally I'm staying on X11 + no compositor for this reason.
> A 0.35% mortality rate is still nothing to sniff at, however, as it is three to four times deadlier than the seasonal flu (with a mortality rate of 0.1%)

Which means a response three to four times as strong as the one to the seasonal flu would be appropriate.

> and can be significantly higher for elderly residents and individuals with underlying conditions.

Which doesn't make the pandemia any more dangerous because the risk is correspondingly lower for everyone else. In fact, it's a good thing because we could focus our efforts on protecting those who are in actual danger. We could use our functioning economy so they can avoid unnecessary contacts and to help them cope with the increased isolation, making sure they aren't part of the ~70% that will inevitably be infected.

Could.
If you compute the curvature it starts flat, does a few bump and then flattens again (this curvature is not a very smooth function however). An n-ellipse is not quite the right curve. Apple used a bunch of Bezier curves. I think their design could be made a little more aesthetic if you used some smoothed piecewise bump (like a Gaussian nearly). You can numerically solve for the curve given the curvature and then approximate it.
Not necessarily early, but about 10 years back, there was a site called stereomood that introduced me to a ton new artists and genres.
Much appreciated. Any D3 learning resources you would personally recommend?
Just notation? I don't see that it's a trivial matter, any more than good writing is trivial. I'm reminded of a recent HackerNews thread on Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22812969
lol. What has happened to poor countries in the last 40 years, and why?

Answer: unprecedented levels of poverty dropping. Unprecedented, in all history, improvements in quality of life.

Why ? Because people buy things they make.

it's that simple and it hasn't been "discredited ".

Growth is that continuing.

What has been discredited is that idea that whatever spare crumbs the west has is sufficient to divide up for the poor. Redistribution as a mechanism of substantial long term improvement is a (genocidal) sham. Discredited by the whole 20th century
Last time I visited, only one train trip felt like that, an express out of the city around 9pm.

I expected the train to work to be packed around 8:30am, but instead there was tons of space.

Most of the time the trains in Tokyo aren't super packed (though I'm sure this is accurate for some commuter routes).