skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>can have data housed in each country where they see fit

Hadn't thought of this until you mentioned it, but having it only work within a country could significantly hinder the ability to trace imported cases (ie, cases from travelers).

If the data is housed in country-of-citizenship, then travelers would not notify people they contact while abroad.

If the data is housed in country-of-current-location, then people who test positive while abroad might not notify people in their home country whom they contacted before leaving. There might also be failures cases when they return home, but those could probably be solved with careful implementation.

Regardless, this seems like a case where a single international, globally-accessible registry is useful. And therefore privacy becomes a very important concern.
"My mother went in for a fusion on her spine and came out with MRSA and died from it."

This tragic and inexcusable outcome is doubly so because even a "successful" implantation of a spinal fusion has, essentially, zero chance of improving pain or mobility outcomes[1] and patients would be much better off pursuing a moderate, graduated course of walking-as-physical-therapy.

I'm sorry that your mother died.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_fusion#Effectiveness
Cool. What is it built with?
>Anna Karenina’s suicide scene
spoilers on side note, isn't Tolstoy famous for being a Schopenhaeur influenced writers why did he had 13 children? He is a great writer nontheless
You only click Accept once and you never see that popup again on that website. Do you also dislike that all emails have now one paragraph on how to unsubscribe and should be a small link hidden somewhere in the footer?
HEY[0] is commercial and quite promising; admittedly with its release postponed due to COVID filing it under present-continuous “is competing” is somewhat of a leap of faith on my part.

[0] https://hey.com/problems-with-email/
That's the hope. I've made sure that the metadata/licensing on each photo is as complete as possible for similar reasons.
Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Cross Asset Model
I agree that there's a large partisan and ideological gap between the young and old, but people have been predicting the "aging in" of a new, more progressive electorate for about as long as I can remember. It never seems to actually happen.

eg: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/2020-republicans-doo...
I know it's mostly unheard of in America, but some people have a thing called "savings." Others are even further ahead and have "investments."
Makes me want to set up a twitter bot that tweets things that are purposely against Disney's bullshit TOS and tags it with #MayThe4th.
MAJORNONO.
Not sure how complex modern IoT devices, but I tried to get started hacking around in larger platforms, and it seemed impossible to get into. I wouldn't be shocked if these companies make it damn near impossible to hack around in these devices (for a hobbyist at least). Especially given how worried people get regarding IoT and security.
What you need to know about OAuth 2.1
Navy releases three videos that showcase “unidentified” objects
> Open-source sucks at UX. I think because there's no community behind open-source UX like there is in the inner workings of systems, where people just want to get shit done.. You have to pay UX developers and designers to do their job, because it's generally not a job you'd do for free or in order to accomplish "something".

Closed source also sucks big at UX (see Office 365 for details). But M$ offers "integration" a thing which OSS cannot offer. Also , having enough lobby (corruption) or market share , the UX does not matter.
Fantastic answer. I don't know what I expected, but I find ~10 amino acid residues a second to be somewhat low.
[citation needed]

I can only count a handful of sites that break with conventional blockers (uMatrix might be a different story) and those sites I can just avoid doing business with (only one I can remember recently is Patreon where the Facebook/Google ad scripts cause the entire page to be unusable).
If you play Russian roulette and survive, was the decision to play Russian roulette a good one?

If you make a bad decision but it works out OK, then it's still a bad decision.

If you make a good decision and it doesn't work out, you still made a good decision.

Sweden made the wrong decision, it doesn't matter that they didn't actually become the next Italy or Spain, it was wrong to risk becoming so.
Hey, I have experience with Blue cross and Sunlife and they were both fine. If you need any more details (or contact info for an agent to set everything up for you and pick you the best and most cost effective plan) I can refer you to one. Good luck on starting on your own BTW, hope it works out;)
“Optimizing” blue noise dithering – backpropagation through Fourier and sorting
Hey, minecraft was done in java. It can't be that bad.
It lets them introduce the story, get their facts up front, and set the tone. A full-page PR ad is kinda old-school, but very Big Ag PR. It's not about a stunt or pressure because they already have the kind of influence you make a play like that for.

People have a frightful loyalty to the first version of a story they hear. They know that and they're buying it. It's actually a fairly responsible move because the media could go anywhere with the first take on a story like this.
Yes it does. Thanks for asking, I hadn't tested this out. The key is the `--color-only` argument, which guarantees that, other than ANSI color escape sequences, the original output from git is unchanged:

[interactive]
diffFilter = delta --color-only
>Tyson Foods is also paying approximately $60 million in "thank you" bonuses to 116,000 frontline workers and Tyson truckers

That's around $500 per person. Is this monthly or yearly? If it's yearly it's a negligible amount of money.
For it not to be held up, someone has to take Disney to court and win. Good luck with that. It's the whole single-digit millionaires don't have effective access to legal system, turned up to 11. I can only see a double-digit billionaire having the resources to fight this to the end.
That's not science.
Are there similar terms of use for any written communication that includes the names Disney or Mickey Mouse?
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 (Quick Summary from Stanford)
If I understand it correctly, the oil traded in those futures was already on it's way to Cushing, Oklahoma when the price became negative.

What it meant was that future sellers had to pay for buyers to accept those futures. There was enough capacity to take that oil.
Will iOS - iOS Bluetooth communication be ok with those new API? Wasn't a major problem with other frameworks the iOS Bluetooth turning off for battery capacity?
"By creating digital advertising, you agree to pay me, in perpetuity, all profit generated." - Me

There's clearly no legal standing for a 3rd party organization to make blanket agreements for platforms they don't own.
Unfortunately it's not quite as as good as it could be on a 1928x1080 desktop monitor either. I had to zoom to 170% to make it comfortable to read (my eyesight is not great, but not terrible either). And that introduced horizontal scrolling. So I had to drop back down to 150% zoom.
> But frequently those stories are redeemed by a depth which feels archetypal: when Rapunzel’s prince falls from her tower and blinds himself in the rose bushes below, his blindness appears to have a meaning — it’s not just gratuitous bloodshed.

If I doubted my dismissal of this article, I felt vindicated by this line. Is the author really so blind as to believe that popular fairy tale endings are archetypal for any reason beyond the fact that they became popular? They were just as nasty and surprising back then, and it's only repeated listenings and social acceptance that has made them appear to be any more child-appropriate than a screaming, dying tree.

FWIW, I generally believe kids are way more resilient to any of these things than we think they are. Like the poplar tree, in trying to protect them, we lead them to their own downfall.
Jason Scott's podcast _Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It_ is also endlessly interesting, inspirational, entertaining and touching.

Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/jasonscotttalks

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/textfiles/posts
Community manager trying to create buzz imho
The tweet says “by sharing your message with us using #MayThe4th”. I wonder if they expect both the hashtag AND a mention of @disneyplus. Still weird though.
> Getting an early momentum advantage such that you get some good entrenchment before the clones attack, can make all the difference...

But in this case, I think that FastChat (the new app) is the clone and Skype, Zoom, Webex, etc. are the entrenched players in the videoconferencing market. FastChat is essentially a clone of Skype, Zoom, etc. because it does the same thing that they already do - it just has one improvement that may or may not make a significant difference to potential customers. Thus, FastChat would be trying to enter an already crowded market whose players are large, public companies (and whose most profitable customers are large corporations).
Nitpicky clarification: at least for the Apple/Google spec it's advertising something more like "my key for the current 15-minute timespan is 7733". ie, not your identity, just a temporary key.
I don't trust Apple and Google but I trust my government even less. And I also do (cynically) think that Google and Apple already have most of this contact tracing information anyway... I mean I would even trust Facebook more than my govt.
It really isn't though... Leave some nature for everyone else and stay on the trail.
Coronavirus bursts the US college education bubble
> Anyway, even at our small-ish scale, I couldn't imaging running our platform as a single app that were were able to scale up with better hardware.

Lots of 250+ engineer teams out there working on monoliths.
Keeping in touch with friends without social media is hard
> How do people do GPGPU on AMD today? Because I thought AMD has a huge cloud GPU market share for things like ML

ROCm and HIP [^1] or OpenCL.

OpenCL is the hated solution of GPGPU. It is low level, incomplete and definitively not with a mature ecosystem of tools like Cuda. But it is currently the only one existing if you want your program to run on something else than Nvidia GPU ( Meaning AMD, Intel, phone GPUs or FPGA accelerators).

[^1] https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/
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I'm assuming there will be nobody who is rejecting to use it because it respects their privacy too much.
If we're just talking people writing articles for an audience and not a discussion board, I would say a lot of that has moved over to Youtube. Video essays are incredibly popular right now.

On the discussions side of things, there are actually decent independent forums still hanging around. They are usually hobby-oriented or for cars (shoutout to any fitfreaks) but they are pretty good quality.
This might be just me but looking at the screenshots, I clearly prefer the GitHub one as it shows the line numbers of every line in both before and after. Line numbers make jumping between the diff and the editor fast and efficient.
Shifting politics takes time, a glacial pace. Lots of progress so far (LGBTQ+ rights, marijuana legalization state by state, minimum wage increases, restoring voting rights to felons), just have to keep applying pressure. Lots of work left to be done. See you on the campaign trail.
> Three percent chance coronavirus will kill us. One hundred percent chance not having any food will kill us.

Is keeping meat processing plants closed really going to cause food shortages? Eating rice and beans isn't pleasant, but comparing it to starvation is hyperbolic.
I much preferred the original title of the post -- why change it?
Frankly, if doing that's not the primary point of the ad I don't know what is, since it's going to be the main thing it's sure to accomplish. If they don't want panic buying and shortages they must have had a hell of a good reason to for-sure cause them in service of maybe achieving some other effect.
Simple. The system doesn't track every person you're in contact with.

A simple method is to have phones directly exchange random numbers over bluetooth. If and only if someone tests positive, they publish their phone's recent random number transmissions. All phones download all published random numbers (just random numbers, no personal info) and see whether they've received any of them via bluetooth.

This way the phone knows whether it's been in contact with someone who tested positive, but nobody else knows. Since the user has a strong incentive to get a covid test at that point, that's fine.
Any public tweet is shared.
Hey wai- ah crap
App to help people to visualy understand how machine learning works
Since I discovered oat milk, I rarely buy cream for my coffee. It steams and tastes good enough. This may push people to eat more plant based food. Which is not bad really.
Things I wish there was a vegan alternative for eggs, and cheese, with somewhat reasonable price/ease of use.
Because in all these industries pricing is relatively clear, customers have some level of understanding of the product and they can choose between competitors. In US health care you have zero pricing information, the employer chooses insurance based on their needs, not the patient’s, and people are not in a position to judge the quality of procedures so they do what the doctor tells them. It’s not a functioning market and probably can’t be.
> Slack, by far, is the best collab tool

I don't think any of them can be designated the best collab tool because they all (Skype, Zoom, Teams, Slack) have their strengths and weaknesses. I think Teams handles calls and video conferencing better than Slack, but Slack has a more intuitive and feature-rich experience for text-based communication and water-cooler style casual channels. Teams performs better on my machine. Slack has a much more reliable mobile tier. Zoom (not taking privacy issues into consideration) is unbeatable IMO for video reliability, I've used it for years across two major corporations now and it's yet to fail. I think Microsoft is aiming to make Teams unify the best of all these worlds.
(sorry for the piggyback)

Something I'd like to see is a simple way to define “containers” on my desktop that would allow me to run sandboxed versions of my standard apps in bundles.

The plan would be something like the following.

You have a simple gui that would allow you to create new containers, for which you could define what it has access to (specific folders, internet, sound, etc).
You could then add apps to your container, and they would only be able to play with each other in the container with the restrictions given.
I think that would work with a simple app essentially based on bubblewrap.
For example:

* A "torrents" container, where the only apps would be firefox, deluge and vlc, and access to no folder in my home directory, but the container would have its own home directory.

* An "admin" container, with only firefox and thunderbird and libreoffice, say, and access to my ~/Downloads and ~/Documents folders.

You should be able to run the admin.firefox and torrents.firefox side by side, since they'd have different profiles.
By default, each container would have its own "virtual filesystem" with no accesss to anything outside (modulo what's really needed), and only by toggling "links" would it be able to access your actual fs tree.
The GUI would be easy enough for computer "illiterate" people to work with it.
And the GUI would be smart enough to create desktop files with each new application I add to a container, with customized icons.

I don't expect it would be too complicated (essentially bookkeeping on top of bubblewrap).
If anyone is interested, I'd happily discuss it more!
Should they just call Congress? Perhaps they did and they were ignored. Perhaps this is their way of running to the press.
But once you get competent it's like having super powers
I’m still feeling the pain from that. They built the best (for my use case) RSS reader, then completely shut it down. I wish companies would sometimes consider transitioning projects into the public space for the greater good. Look at what Microsoft has done with VSCode and the community editions.
If you haven't already, may want to checkout M3 if you're thinking of scaling to a cluster and doing zero downtime upgrades. You can scale out horizontally with the Kubernetes operator, it avoids downtime as it replicates data at write time and does quorum based master-less reads.
Not that it's exactly relevant to this article, but on RHEL 8, at least, Docker isn't supported, and instead they use their own container runtime called Podman along with Buildah for building them.

Podman does not run as root, and thus neither do the containers.

I tested it out on my development backup laptop; I usually use Docker-CE on my main MBP. Podman and Buildah were able to deal with all my individual containers, but their replacement for Docker-Compose failed on all my compose environments, and the errors were not helpful. I ended up installing an unsupported version of Docker-CE, and everything worked fine.

* Podman https://podman.io/

* Buildah: https://github.com/containers/buildah

* Podman-Compose: https://github.com/containers/podman-compose
Surely, if you’ve been putting up exhaustive evidence many times before, you could take a second to link to one of these studies you mention? Otherwise your comment carries much less weight, and you should expect the sort of response you just got.
Weren't Google and Apple going to release an official app along their API? It may be that if the NHS app gets enough bad press (which apparently it should), people naturally use Google and Apple's implementation. Even people who are happy to go along the NHS will likely also want to have the Apple/Google app running as well, as they don't know from which of the two "networks" the notification will come from.
Why don't you go and work there? We'll give you triple the pay. You reckon everyone is willing to sacrifice health for money? What's the purpose of making money when you can't even spend it or might not even be there to enjoy it?

Crisis has to be met with adjustment. This a pandemic, so don't just expect things to be normal. Things will have to change, whether that is where we source our food, how it is brought to us or even what we eat... something will have to change.
"millions of animals [...] will be depopulated because of the closure of our processing facilities"

I saw that in the article and just shook my head. Those animals die whether the processing plant is opened or closed.
$500 is not a trivial amount of money for millions of Americans.
The official timeframe has been 'May' ever since the original announcement. First version of the API is now reported to be available on April 28th:

https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/23/apple-contact-tracing-april-2...
Sounds like the smart thing to do. panic buying -> supply shortages -> voters supporting legislative action that benefits Tyson (eg. reopenings, limiting liabilities, allowing price hikes).
Can you give 5 features of such IDEs which aren't found in IntelliJ?
At scale, we can't necessarily just substitute things instantly like that. Do you think there's enough calorie-slack built into the rice & beans (& everything else) to supply the drop from animal sources? 'Cause I for one would be very, very surprised.

Not to mention you're also assuming that rice and beans are unaffected... but very little if anything about these plant closures are specifically related to them being animal protein sources. Does no good to shrug and say "people should just be eating vegetarian anyhow" if the vegetarian supply line is also going to collapse.
Yes, the joke is that we are describing a hydroelectric dam.
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Every single industry is currently trying to get the attention of the government, like restaurants, airlines, petroleum, retail, hotels, etc. This ad is trying to drive the public's attention on food security, so the meat industry can get what they want from the government.

As for what they want, I'm guessing reduced inspections (so the inspectors aren't traveling between plants, potentially spreading the virus), some government money, maybe a law to limit liability if workers get sick, priority with testing and PPE, and maybe immigration enforcement relief.
Yes, but they'll die in a particularly wasteful fashion if they can't be processed.
There were no changes in TLS after Bleichenbacher '98; instead, implementations just incorporated increasingly hacky workarounds. The PGP post upthread details the problems with the MDC, and the compounding implementation flaw in GPG that released unauthenticated plaintext to callers.

That MDC-era PGP remains the global standard, and that GPG continues to release unauthenticated plaintext to callers, just calls out further the impossibly compromised position PGP-based cryptosystems are in. You can try to do things like Sequoia that modernize PGP, but nobody in the installed base will be compatible with you, and the most popular and important "driver" of the protocol (again, GPG) is disinterested in mitigating the flaws of legacy PGP.

You can choose not to call GPG the PGP reference implementation, and there's no formal declaration anywhere saying that, but, it obviously is.
Nvidia Acquires Mellanox
So nix has ability to pin to specific version and you can get exact same system.

With an OS there is a problem, because most of the time you don't want to do that, you want to get security patches and erratas. For this purpose channels are used. They promise to not break anything within release channels. This is very similar to how other OSes, you need to trust them to not break thighs. There is also option to subscribe to a rolling release, so similarly to other OSes there are more opportunities for things to break (living on the edge and all), but the stuff below still applies.

On top of that there is also variable in your configuration.nix it is set to the version of NixOS that you first installed. That version is version of the configuration file and supposed to guarantee compatibility. The compatibility they mentions are things like for example default version of PostgreSQL that they use if you choose default one you don't want on system upgrade to automatically force you to upgrade your database. Another obvious change is change of defaults, perhaps they decided that service that was previously enabled by default should be now disabled etc.

You can bump the version in that file, but then you have to go through changelog and adapt your config to these changes.

I am relatively new NixOS user, but just did uphrade from 19.09 to 20.03 and it went smooth as if it was just update within the same release.
I prefer the big ones. They have a lot of money, so they can afford to move slower. Also, there's ton of inefficiences inside which means that they you really can't be expected to perform too well. All this adds up to ending the day much more rested that in a startup.
Is it possible this is just boilerplate legal stuff that was whipped up for a campaign and the social media person just copied and pasted it with a minor tweak so it makes sense for Twitter?

The language reminds me of standard contest language I've read many times before...