skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, agree - the original article displays such a bad understanding of security that customers should avoid taking any operational advice, security-related or not, from the person who wrote it.

The author of the original article seems to be making the following assumptions:

- "Secure" is only about what protocols you support, and not about the quality of implementation, whether the protocols are implemented accurately, etc. In the author's world, Heartbleed (which was introduced as part of DTLS, part of Cisco's VPN implementation) doesn't exist, the Pulse Secure vulnerability that left Travelex completely non-operational doesn't exist, etc.

- That said, "3DES with MD5" is a good cryptographic protocol to use, and you should avoid fancier things like "AES-256 with SHA1."

- You should only consider using black boxes from companies like Cisco and Juniper (authors of Pulse Secure). If it's not compatible with those appliances, it's not worth using.

- You can't ever upgrade software in a reliable fashion. Everyone is running old, unpatched versions of software, and it's better for that unpatched software with all the well-known zero-days to connect to your corporate network than to be blocked from connecting.

- You should directly connect your internal network to "third parties that you do not control," and you should let those third parties dictate your software choices instead of vice versa.

In this world, you have nothing other than constant disasters. I guess it's good for job security, especially for someone whose job is professional support for IPsec.

It's a shame it needed debunking, but I'm glad someone did.
> Can't upload photos from desktop

Yes, you can. Open dev tools, set it to mobile, and set it to android. A "+" button will pop up and work fine.
So, seems that the scammers knew about the fraudulent ones, but apparently not the regular ones. So:
1 - do fraudulent transactions
2 - call card holder and say that those charges might be fraudulent.
3 - because you know the fraudulent charges, card holder believes you are from the bank
4 - profit
Well, sure, but the “Spanish” flu (only called that because Spain is the first country severely hit that didn't lie and cover it up because of WWI) was accelerated by both the physical conditions created by WWI and the fact that covering it up to avoid revealing weakness to wartime opponents hampered response in many early-hit countries and obstructed information flow.

It's also nowhere near the HIV/AIDS global epidemic in likely total impact, but it's a lot more acute in it's impact than HIV/AIDS.
An anti nuisance call policy that has served me well and I try to get my folks to adopt is that if there is the merest hint of a delay between my hello and the caller's response, I put the phone down immediately.

I don't think I've ever had an identifiable repeat call, from which I conclude it's both effective and has a low false positive rate.
Sure: everyone I know almost exclusively uses Amazon (20-40 age bracket) aside from the grocery store, so Amazon clearly can't be as bad as HN's Chicken Littles suggest.

If only my friends read HN to know how useless Amazon was!
Mass image scraping after login is a legal distinction in terms of violating the ToS. Also, Instagram wants to make it harder for scrapers, who rely on cheap to maintain pipelines because the overall goal is to monetize massive amounts of photos, not a few thousand. (IE makes it harder for them to scrape to get teh volume necessary to make it a viable scraping endeavor)
It's nice to have more effort put into making sure the DE and default apps work well together. Sure it's possible to start with the normal or minimal Ubuntu install and put something together yourself, but little incompatible things can easily cause "death by a thousand cuts" and make someone decide that e.g. KDE just doesn't work well with Ubuntu. Default configuration counts for a lot.
I really don't think there are sheeps around who actually believe that. Everybody knows this is just marketing speak in a way, marketing people are expected to speak.

Or maybe, there are people who would believe it, but they have an account already. And most simple do not care. They read, they have to create an account to get the content, so they do create an account.
If only LXQt had built-in (not a 3-rd party dock) support for modern Win7/Unity-style taskbar that lets you pin taskbar buttons and use the same to launch and to switch I would certainly give it a try.
I wonder if the jacuzzi people love or hate this.
Training and Implementing Bert on iOS with Swift,and Hugging Face’s Transformers
Yes, you're right. I thought I had seen this in dependencies, but I must have been compiling something directly.
0.2% of people in NYC has died from Covid-19, so this is exactly what we would expect.
> writable storage buffers and and textures in all shader stages

Beware the behaviour of writes will not be consistent between vendors or shader stages, and may be surprising.
> Data is actually strongly encrypted using that key before leaving the client.

Except "strongly encrypted message" you should send some extra info for server. And I'm not sure how those two types of info separated in Proton's communication protocol, so binary diff between those "parts" could be a key to select decrypt method.
It's evidence that the WHO is a political organization, and some of its recommendations, such as being against international travel bans, may be influenced by politics over public health.
Yes, the tests are different.

The tests that look for the virus are probably more accurate than the antibody tests, at least right now.
Is a Computer Science Degree Worth It?
Most "crimes" of this sort would be stopped by simply locking the drawer. Nobody believes that a simple desk lock would keep out a determined attacker.
If the average voter prioritises roads/schools/caring for the disabled above high speed rail; and the federal government contributes a smaller portion towards that, the state has to spend more on it, leaving less money for high speed rail.
You absolutely need to get infected people without symptoms out of infecting people! They don't "get sick", so testing is the only way.

That seems to be the main way this is spreading.
As a european I immedietly suspected this before clicking the link. Was not disappointed.

This is very funny.
I dont know how LXDE was, but I've been running "new" Lubutbu with LXQt for a bit now and I find the various components that make up the desktop a bit odd.

I accidentally deleted my desktop background once while I don't remember exactly which component failed, I remember my desktop wouldnt properly start. I think it was something about pcmanfm-qt (which would no longer start) being so coupled the desktop environment.
It still measures effective ROI - and traditionally growth in GDP is accompanied by growing needs. It is true that it is fuzzy - different needs scale differently as well. A 10x GDP rise would almost certainly cause an explosion in demand for other services as well with or without the influx caused by the growtg.
Interesting thought experiment: if NY daily deaths over the next two weeks average 400, that's 5,600 upcoming deaths from people presumably infected now. If about one-third of deaths are not accounted for (5,121 unidentified as a portion of identified+unidentified), then we'd have about 8,400 new deaths projected over two weeks including the likely unidentified deaths.

As a percentage of those who were infected as of this study, that's a 1.3% infection fatality rate.

Obviously some conjecture and estimates there, but it seems to be on the high range of early estimates (though much lower than the 3%+ rates derived from CFR with undercounted denominator).
Sudden widespread Google Maps Android API crashes have begun
The Facebook ad essentially said "get tested for COVID-19 here", so very plausibly infected people could be more likely to respond.
Obviously if you are fundamentally against the concept of advertising then no version of AdWords will make you happy but.... isn't this change a good thing? Not perfect, but definitely good.
Note that deaths lag positive cases by some time (2 weeks maybe?).
21% sounds much closer (eg. months) to herd immunity than previous estimates (eg. up to a decade).
Maybe monoprice is an option for some items:
https://www.monoprice.com
> But if you search for "USB charger", you need to prepare yourself for pages upon pages of identical-looking chargers from "Amoner", "RAVpower"

RAVpower is actually a pretty good maker, with some pretty unique offerings (RP-PB19 is a USB UPS which takes in USB!). They even have an informative blog staffed with support personnel who reply to comments.
I got the ASUS 1215B netbook with Ubuntu and got my share of issues with wlan and GPU support.
Stating the survival rate really hides how there is around an order of magnitude difference in the death rate.

And that ignoring that while immunity towards various types of influenza is widespread, there is no previous immunity against COVID-19 apart from a handful of people that had SARS or MERS before.
Terraform now has these identifiers:

https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-aw...

Thanks to PatMyron at AWS, who apparently added this information to Terraform after seeing my mention above :-)
Free, zero-commitment solutions to support you during lockdown
While this is anecdotal, it indicates that people with no symptoms can have lung damage (pneumonia), but not necessarily long-term damage:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testi...
TensorFlow or PyTorch?
I disagree. It's simply too early to make that determination.

The Spanish Flu had a estimated infection fatality ratio of >2.5% (https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/1/05-0979_article). As another commenter pointed out, the COVID-19 IFR is 0.9% in NYC. The difference between 2.5% and 0.9% is only 2.8x. However the IFR is not only underestimated due to the lag between case detection and death, but it's also probably a lot worse in many other parts of the world (third world countries, etc). So it's possible the difference is only 2-fold, which would make both pandemics relatively comparable.
You are not missing much.
Real Madrid star Gareth Bale pledges £1m to hospitals to fight coronavirus
My policy is before any time sensitive decision is to determine if it is manufactured time sensitivity, that is the company created the time sensitivity. I refuse to act on things that are only time sensitive because someone else decided it should be. Those are traps.
I have a friend at Amazon and they say absenteeism among employees is through the roof. They can neither hire nor keep the employees they do have.
This is one of those completely false things that people only believe is true by repetition. Go back and actually read the full set of WHO statements in mid-January. They have a bunch of statements saying there probably is person-to-person transmission, and a bunch saying that specific studies haven’t yet found hard evidence for person-to-person transmission (because at that point most of the cases they’d managed to find were tied to the market). The WHO never, ever said that it can’t be transmitted, and they absolutely never said that people should do nothing about COVID-19. They were urging nations to act for months before they actually did.
You're right that they are different, but maybe not as different as you think they are.

> If amazon copied all your proprietary data, you would almost certainly never notice, no criminal law would apply, and you'd have a hell of a time proving it in a civil suit.

If Amazon were doing this and profiting from it, that would essentially be a criminal conspiracy that reaches to the leadership of the company. Is it possible? Sure. Is it likely? I tend to think conspiracy theories are rarely true. Would it be caught? I believe it would likely be caught.

Companies get things done by having meetings, informing their hierarchy, and following executive decisions. In what meeting do you imagine this being discussed? Who floats this idea, and who signs off on it? I just don't see it happening. And if it does, I expect whistleblowers to put a stop to it.
The shutdown addresses more qualitative aspects of the situation. Even if flattening the curve doesn't reduce the area under the curve, it still avoids a potential large numbers of otherwise avoidable deaths because fewer people have it at once, keeping hospitals under capacity, and more people will get it later when we know better how to treat it.

And the earliest predictions have to be the least accurate, because they're based on the least amount of data. But early on is when you need to act.
The study is biased in that it pulled samples from a grocery store based on people opting in. If I walk in to a grocery store and someone offers to give me this test, I am going to say no for 2 reasons:

1) I have not been sick since last fall

2) I don't want to take additional risk getting bloodwork done by someone who is testing people for covid19 antibodies. I want to take a little risk as possible and return home to my family.

So basically this test only possibly grabs people who are willing to risk going to the grocery store rather than having food delivered, and who are willing to take on additional risk of getting tested. It is even less likely that a person not taking risk, who never had any symptoms would get tested than a person who had had symptoms.

The entire premise that this represents the population as a whole is completely flawed.
What is the percentage of people with innate immunity to COVID-19?
Of course you can use better allocators; but it's faster to avoid dynamic allocation (e.g. by pointing to memory mapped from the input file by the OS) altogether. If they allocate memory for each flyspeck of a 200 GB file and also create and change a reference counter for it, nobody should be surprised about the low performance. Have a look what e.g. shared_ptr does behind the scenes.
I don't think the parent was saying that a thick laptop is going to be better - but rather that when you are making a device as thin as possible, and that's the metric you index on, cooling performance WILL suffer.

It's not just that they haven't put enough engineering effort in - they consciously made a design tradeoff.
Do you have a source for the CFR of 0.1 for H1N1? I could only find this[1], which is a much smaller number.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8406723.stm
Personally, I absolutely find non diet coke way worse than diet or zero coke due to its syrupy-ness. So I think many drinks do have very distinct tastes (though many are also similar).
Walmart won't even allow their suppliers to use AWS.
Super cool. I never realized the extent of the feedback loop between SW canon and SW fan culture.
What people? The government (of the people by the people for the people) already receives all of the tax revenue from successful companies. I don’t see a reason to double dip here.
I just wish the wireguard folks did IP6v2 :)

Kidding (kind of)!
>I think it speaks more to the unwillingness of a world health organisation to even discuss politically dangerous topics.

Which is perfectly reasonable if you understand that these questions are looked at through the lens of international diplomacy and these people don't just wing geopolitical questions because every single answer can cause an international shitstorm (not just in regards to China, but every territorial conflict really). This may look awkward to the ordinary viewer but it's not really.

The WHO has a fairly strong interest in staying out of politics and being a health organisation, so whatever diplomatic position they take is mostly just going to be whatever the status quo is. If you think the non-recognition of Taiwan is unethical then you should take that up with your respective government, a guy speaking for the WHO isn't really in any position to make incindiary political commentary.
The linked article is about how they stopped doing that and now require you to log in immediately.
> Can't one just install the desktop environment on Ubuntu? Isn't this stuff modular, take in what you want take out what you don't?

Yes to both. I run Window Maker on Ubuntu to the exclusion of any other desktop environment, and it works. It's in the package repositories, and there's no barrier to making it your GUI.

The big difference is the libraries installed in the initial OS install: Ubuntu has the libraries required to support Gnome, Kubuntu has the libraries to support KDE, and I don't know what libraries Lubuntu has by default. But since we have dependency-tracking package management, if you install Ubuntu and then install a KDE-based application, the packaging system will install all of the libraries required for it to work.
Ha! Nice find!
For medical purposes, you don't even need to test the sick. We don't have treatments available at this time, so the course of treatment doesn't current vary. IE, if you have COVID-like symptoms and are moved to the ICU, the course of treatment is the same with or without a positive test.

I've seen it argued that instead of testing the sick (as we currently do), we should be testing individuals who are "high touch" and likely to infect others (even lacking symptoms). Medical staff, first responders. Pharmacy and grocery employees. Bus drivers. Etc. I don't know enough to argue this is a better approach.
People with antibodies (assuming the test works and is specific enough) may have cleared the infection already and they may enjoy (temporary?) immunity enough for them to resume a part of their activities in a lockdown.

The other goal, as others have said, is to isolate, and contact trace the infected. And I add, early detection might also help with treatment, since the scant evidence so far suggests that pharmacological interventions that target the virus might be more effective early on during the infection.
Mid single digit percentage mortality rates were the numbers for case fatality rate, not infection fatality rates. Infection fatality rates have consistently been around 1%.
> Nothing is ever that urgent

It took me decades to learn this. I mean, to really learn it.

Barring emergencies (like blood squirting out of puncture wound, or part of your house is on fire):

NOTHING is ever urgent.

You set the pace of your life. You speak when you are ready. You act when you are ready. Take as much time as you need to think.
Essentially. No company can hire enough of those right now.
A painted bike path is a placeholder for a more dedicated bike path in the future. An anectodal example: the first time I was in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, there was a four lane road in which two of the lanes had been painted green and blocked off with small planters on every block. I'm back here now in 2020, and the entire road has been converted to a pedestrian-only road for about 8 city blocks. There are retractable barriers at either end allowing for utility vehicles.
"Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China,"

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152?s=20
It's not a political issue, that type of language is not acceptable anywhere in public society; even 30 years ago you couldn't speak like that and expect to retain any position of prominence. Try that here and you'd be banned very quickly. Patreon making the decision to explicitly rebuke that kind of language seems totally within the realm of defensive corporate PR.
i wonder where he shops for clothing
Comparing 5 popular neural net architectures on iOS using PyTorch
I thought Debian also moved to a fixed schedule release policy? Doesn't it make it harder to stick to a "release when ready"?

Personally, I don't think that Ubuntu is less perfect that Debian wrt. upgrade quality, it's just that (it seems to me that) the workforce is not as large, and that they also have other projects on their plate (not to say it should be that way or not, I'm merely trying to state the facts).
Facebook gets rid of 'pseudoscience' ad-targeting category
Exactly my experience. Actually I think it’s less irritating to block access to any image from the very first click/scroll, than to perversely let the user dive into an account and, suddenly, BAM!! acces denied!.. Because that’s really how it looks for someone who don’t have an Instagram account and is just passing by.
This may change soon
Worldwide shipments within 72 hours

Alibaba owns more than 50 % in Cainiao, a logistical company, and the latter organized a Global Smart Logistic Summit today, where it revealed new technologies for smart logistics. The summit was also the location where the group unveiled its plans to expand its global network with another five hubs: Dubai, Hangzhou, Kuala Lumpur, Liege (BELGIUM, note added by me) and Moscow.

https://www.retaildetail.eu/en/news/general/alibaba-opens-be...
To be fair no major health organization has been completely consistent or completely "correct" regarding the pandemic

Exactly, which is why declaring that any one entity is the unquestionable source of truth not only shreds the concept of freedom of expression but may be actively harmful.

The recent change to CDC guidelines for the general public to wear face masks is an example of reaction to new research.

Was it actually in response to new research? (Not a rhetorical question). My impression is that they had to change their policy because their "noble lie" of "masks don't work, also we have to save them for healthcare workers" was increasingly recognized as utter nonsense. Which might not have happened if anyone who advocated masks had been summarily deplatformed.
People who work also shop. People who work in stores also shop in stores. At that time, they could be randomly tested like non-workers.

So workers are not excluded from study.
A brief explanation of the concept of CNN in the field of CV
Never happened
Flattening the curve until there is a vaccine might be the right plan for a influenza pandemic. For COVID-19 we can go further: we can bring down infection rates so much that contact tracing becomes feasible again.
I also prefer the arch world way over ubuntu. More specific, manjaro.

But sadly I also really can not recommend it, to anyone who does not know english, nor the command line (or have someone close, who knows).
I'd think it'd be decided based upon the new cases and hospitalization and death rates, not an estimate of population with exposure.
OTOH, most of Europe is probably ahead of the US. Italy and Germany are certainly doing a lot more tests per capita. So I guess it's not so bad...
> Note the upgrade is a one-way process.

It reminds me migrating own GitHub repo Travis CI from https://travis-ci.org to https://travis-ci.com, which is also one-way process.

Some of my repo older still use travis-ci.org (ORG domain is cool here), but all new GitHub repos could be linked only to travis-ci.com (COM domain little terrible)
Not likely. The only thing that really matters to me is developer ergonomics. I've never seen a project struggle because it couldn't render a table with a 1,000 rows fast enough. I have seen many projects struggle because they hired a bunch of junior engineers who had difficulty writing clean, maintainable JavaScript.

Rust and WASM will definitely take on for doing things like WebGL. I can't imagine Rust becoming the de-facto solution for building UIs.
That's weird. This is the first I'm hearing the "drowned in a bathtub" metaphor. And now here, two separate people are using those exact words to assert it's been the drum-beat of the Republican party for 30 years.
Why do youth the variance in returns had increased? Because of the first point?

I don’t think I buy the first point, though. Intellectual property rights are probably at an all time high. Is the point that many types of innovation are outside of copyright able/patentable innovation, that enforcement is imbalanced, or something else? (What about the prototypical awe of the 800lb established competitor who simply buys the startup?)