skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Alice limiting what she reports is a function of her phone software; this is trivially doable by just not broadcasting beacons, or after-the-fact by not reporting your beacons (or reporting false beacons) for certain times.

2. The number of minutes is a threshold decided by epidemiologists, programmed into people's phone, as a public-policy heuristic. It doesn't need to be perfect, just to catch a lot of the actual contacts in its filter while avoiding too many false positives - even quarantining 50 or 60% of contacts can reduce spread by a lot!

3. You could be compelled to release data, but all you would get is a list of beacons; you'd then have to also subpoena/steal everyone else's records of whose beacons they saw (this data stays on local devices!) and correlate encounters with actual locations. This is HARD - like, nation-state actor hard. Like, nation-state intelligence agency hard, probably beyond the reach of your average criminal-justice apparatus.

4. DP3T already has open-source implementations (e.g. https://github.com/DP-3T/dp3t-app-android).

5. If your threat model is "my phone/OS manufacturer will publish code that doesn't follow the protocol", then you're screwed anyway. (And in fact, Apple and Google aren't following this protocol, they're coming out with their own joint system that they claim is DP3T-inspired.)
I did something similar with Chaos[0], though it was less a game, and more of a social experiment. The basic idea is that the code lived somewhere on a remote machine as a bot that interacted with Github. The purpose of the bot was to automatically make decisions about pull-requests to its own code base, and then re-deploy itself. It was like a living organism in a way.

It initially started off as a democracy, requiring some % of "thumbs up" emojis on a PR before merging, but a few times it took a left turn when a "malicious" user was able to merge in code that gave them extra rights. And occasionally, the server would crash from a bad merge and I'd have to go fix it manually.

0. https://github.com/Chaosthebot/Chaos
Comes out to 14 hours at $60/hour per page. Does it take about 2 days to produce a page of balls-on-dead-accurate guidance for one of the most complex flying machines on earth? I can believe that.
> which seems counter to the general tenets of Stoicism.

Not at all. It is neither against nor required by Stoicism.

Stoicism is broadly compatible with theism, and Neo-Stoicism was a movement specifically about finding common ground between Christianity with Classical Stoicism, rooted in the fact that both developed around the same time and that Seneca's brother had a meaningful interaction with Paul the Apostle described in the Book of Acts.

The Stoics mention Zeus. In The Enchiridion [1], Epictetus says Zeus has fixed his destiny. In this sense Zeus is much like Fate, and the Stoics generally acknowledged fate. There is no implication that what happens to us is "good". Stoicism is about accepting whatever happens and not worrying about it.

[1] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45109/45109-h/45109-h.htm
>“Lead a virtuous life,” for one. But why?

Back then - 300 BCE - I could imagine that not leading a virtuous life had much higher costs than they do today, where modern cities and technology afford a measure of anonymity, for better or worse.

Still, studies of happiness and well-being seem to show that acts of kindness and generosity lead to higher self-reported happiness. So, there's one answer to "why?".
- If a new voicemail comes in, see if it's an existing customer and send them an email we'll be in touch if we do
- Create new ZenDesk users for any Shopify customer
- Send emails when positive product reviews come in asking if they would mind sending a Facebook review
- If a negative product review comes in, ask what we can do to make things better
- New order comes in: Will create draft emails to all necessary vendors I need to contact, pre-filled with shipping details.
- New order comes in: Separate order cost by vendor, grab taxes, grab shipping, grab discounts, put it all in an airtable database and create invoicing and purchase order records to attach it to.
- Slack notifications
- Pull PDFs from Google drive, parse with DocParser, upload into Xero accounting.

I'm sure there's way more I can do as well. I have to find the balance between automating and just telling an employee to do it But automation leads to less mistakes
I definitely should have clarified my statement further as I agree with yours and you seem to disagree with mine. Let's go with yours.

"... programming for the sake of programming is a fast way to get bored or to burn out."

That's exactly right.
That's essentially the same kind of explanation as 'god did it'.
They also seem to be more depressed. I wonder if there is a relation towards the continued march on restricting behavior and mental health?
Yes. It's interesting how powerful and clarifying this model of its-all-just-atoms-bumping-into-atoms is. It's interesting how many people take science courses, but don't really get this.

In the context of Covid19, I see so many people wearing PPE, but failing to act as though they understand that the actual goal is to prevent this tiny virion dust from entering your orifices. Like wearing gloves and a mask, but then picking up unclean item in store then using now unclean gloves to adjust mask and make it unclean.

People seem to think of things as having essences or talismanic effects. Like gloves give you +2 against covid and a mask gives you +5 when it's really all about preventing those virus things from bumping into your cell things.
Not telling them not to enjoy HN. It's just weird and sad to be on an intentionally nerdy site and then insult its users by implying that nerdiness is something to avoid or feel shame about.
Seattle public schools closed before the whole state, which is what you would expect.

I think if the experts of evaluating these policies are saying that putting them in place without delay saved lives, it's probably unwise for all us armchair epidemiologists to sit around coming up with other things we think might explain it.
> The numbers you've seen are probably deaths of infected people not the entire population.

No, I just slightly misread OP’s confusingly worded stat. Base deaths in NYC is around 6k/month. Covid-19 deaths alone have been way above that number. Numbers are obviously not in for the month of April yet, but it’s looking more like it’ll be closer to 30k deaths in NYC per CDC[0]. So that’s 24k more deaths per month, aka 5x (where my several orders of magnitude came from). If you use the scale OP used, that’s about .3% of NYC population in excess deaths, so one order of magnitude higher.

[0] it’s at 26k right now with a bit under a week left - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
I wonder how the decline of teen smoking follows the rise of other forms of stimulants, like caffeine, or other forms of nicotine consumption.
Yes to getting rid of thermal noise. No ish? to single proteins flying around the cell that fast. The cytosol is incredibly jam-packed and things are getting hung up on other things so we'd expect the mean free path to actually be quite small for the larger biomolecules.
This describes my experience with Hugo. I ran into not only an implicit zero step, but many other intermediate steps that were not explicit in the documentation. My decision for Hugo was influenced by the clear "getting started" type of instructions on their website. I got a bit frustrated in the end, so rolled back to WordPress.
Fast-Growing Vape Juice Niche Marketplace; the “Amazon of Vape Juice”
We have similar tastes. Check out Noah Caldwell-Gervais, long videos but extremely worthwhile.
>IE: you need 7 years of experience for a company at the same level where they only need 1 year of IOS/Android experience.

Job requirements for iOS & Android might say one thing, but you'll still be competing with people who have way more experience than that, unless the company behind the listing refuses to budge on compensation and is up-front about it.

One thing that iOS really has going for it is that (IMO) it suffers from ageism far less than other SWE verticals do. I'm having trouble with putting the reasons for why I think this is the case into succinct words, but I would say that the primary reason is that iOS knowledge & experience gained while working is, in most cases, additive. The only exceptions are when things are deprecated, but from what I've seen, this usually just involves API signature changes. The core framework has stayed the same, and SwiftUI is going to be the first significant change. You're also forced to constantly learn new things every year, because you're forced to update, and forced to accommodate new screen dimensions with designs.

The downside of this is that it can be extremely difficult to break in as a beginner without doing an internship at a company that can afford interns. You are competing with people who have anywhere from 3-12 years of experience. Or you're competing with people who did the aforementioned internships and did not receive an offer.
At the time I went to the school, there was a national ranking that used a variety of factors, including number of IB/AB courses per student, (P)SAT/ACT scores, and GPA.

I absolutely don't think the ranking was meaningful, but it at least says something about how many of my classmates had affluent parents who put a lot of pressure on them to succeed.
It could be obfuscation and/or developing a compiler to add "extra features". For security reasons.
I tried once or twice after that, both times it turned immediately into flashbacks and led to horrid experiences so I called it quits for good.

I had done it probably ~20-25 times by that point, along with a bunch of other stuff.

LSD
Mushrooms
2C-B
2C-C
2C-I
DMT
4-AcO-DMT
5-MeO-DMT
5-MeO-MiPT
DOM

There might be some others I've forgotten, it's been a long time.

> Again let's just stick with acid instead of all psychedelics.

What you won't find in academia or textbooks is that, at a high enough dose, all psychedelics feel the same. You reach a point where it's indistinguishable and the unique properties vanish. It's hard to describe if you don't have experience with a bunch of them, but there's this "peak psychedelic state" where they all sort of converge, which is what I only assume is the result of your serotonin receptors getting completely bombed/saturated.

Personally, I was much more of a fan of phenethylamine psychedelics (particularly the 2C series), they're more clear-headed and "light"/enjoyable. The time dilation from psychedelics makes the 12-16 hours from LSD feel like days, and by the end of it, generally the last 4-6 hours you just want to be finished with it already.

It's really difficult to make a blanket-statement like "can be used responsibly" about psychedelics, because it's a dice roll. No matter how cautious you are, there's always the possible that this time, things go sideways. Though most people (when I was in that scene as a teen) couldn't really empathize after my bad trip because they'd never had one, so it's a rare occurrence. Maybe I was psychologically predisposed, who knows.

But I do think that people stand to gain a lot from having a psychedelic experience in their life, and from having an experience taking MDMA and talking with someone they love.
The cost of the information not being accessible when it is most urgently needed could easily be billions of dollars or many human lives.
Which is not very realistic as a possibility given the number of people that fall into the at risk groups. It sounds simple in theory but seems very unlikely to be something workable in practice.
is that really valid here? i-sh is on testflight, the intersection of cant figure out testflight and can use a terminal must be pretty low.
Man, you and the other what-are-fields post just started me thinking about whether diffusion and fields are just things bumping into things. I know that at the QFT level things like the classical E-field can be expressed as interchange of mediator particles. But then QFT says it's all fields. Hmm...
I think that should be reversed: they "sowed" the Assistance and Access Bill, and then "reap" (harvest, get) the scepticism?

But yes. Combined with the census, the "robodebt" project, etc, etc, there's not a lot of trust in government-run IT in Australia ...
If covid will mutate like flu, every year, this will be the end of human race in maximum half a century - given if the symptoms/damage to our body stays the same regardless of mutations. My take is that our immune system will actually "mutate" as well so we might be, in couple of centuries, in same position as we are now vs. flu (the mortality rate will be insignificant).
Speed of sound in water is faster.
Porsche 911: Two More Why It Reigns Supreme
Something I don't understand about this approach - if location data is not tracked/included, only contacts, then don't you have to download all the tokens for every person who tests positive in the world? Then even if it is optimized with location data, and I can only download tokens for people in my area, that will be 1000s of people a day multiplied by all of their tokens over whatever period of time.

Either I'm misunderstanding something or it has just been decided that downloading many MBs a day is not a dealbreaker.
If you don't mind me asking (and this is clearly a sensitive topic so feel free not to reply): What do you mean by PTSD and flashbacks? As in, was the trip so bad that remembering it creates anxiety, or are you reliving unrelated traumatic memories that weren't an issue to live with before using the drug?
When I looked up into illegal drugs, I found it very difficult to find reliable data.

On one hand you have anti-drug people, usually backed by the authorities. Listen to them and all drugs will make your body rot, give you hallucinations like datura, and for some reason cause complete addiction after a single dose.

Drug users on the other hand will tell you that it not as bad as alcohol/tobacco/coffee/... that concerns are unfounded, that police is the only risk, etc...

The truth is almost impossible to find. Even peer reviewed research is lacking. I guess there are several reasons for that. Availability of controlled substances. Ethical concerns regarding experimentation. Issues with neutrality.

Now from what I gathered about LSD (and psychedelics in general): these are very random. If you take a reasonable dose, you are most likely going to have a nice, fun trip and nothing more. But it can also fuck you up for years, or maybe bring significant improvement in your life. High doses increase the chance of extreme effects and nasty bad trips, but it shouldn't kill you unless you are dealing with industrial quantities. The substance itself is not addictive, but the social context may be.
The big problem is that there is no way to tell how it will go for you. There are ways to improve your chances, but it will always be random.

As for fake LSD, there are cheap reagent tests for that. They are not 100% reliable but that's better than nothing. You can also send your sample anonymously to a lab that will do a much more accurate GC/MS analysis for you.
Ex Machina is one of my least favorite films of all time. The ending was an incredibly simplistic way to resolve the questions they brought up.
I highly recommend HBO’s new documentary on election security. It’s called ‘Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections’ - really opened my eyes to the low level details of how bad our system is. Scary stuff
US Air Force Space Security Challenge 2020: Hack-a-Sat
That interview is so good! What a dick, but what a teacher!
You may never actually need all 100,000 pages, but you don't know in advance which pages you will need, and you'll definitely need that page when you need it.
Those are good points about local multiplayer co-op

It seems two things are happening and I'm confused:

You download the roms for the local multiplayer but everyone plays them remotely on different clients, and the dolphin software makes it act like its in person local co-op on the same device???

Or is this just a general point of a free time-tested fun game with good graphics that people can play on multiple platforms

or a little bit of column A and column B

with a third column that sometimes your friends come over and play on the same screen
Yeah, that doesn't seem unreasonable at all, especially since producing a page on (made-up example, obviously) maintaining and replacing the starboard arglebargle frammistat is gonna require that the technical writer spend a fair amount of time talking with the engineers who designed the frammistat, as well as the techs who will perform the actual maintenance/replacement work. You've gotta know how to tell when the frammistat can be safely reused and when it has to be replaced, how much torque can be applied to it without messing it up, what lubricants and sealants can and cannot be used, maximum temperature ranges, all kinds of stuff, because if you mess up the docs, the plane falls out of the sky and kills the President of the United States, plus potentially many others on the ground. That would leave a significant resume stain.

Then, of course, the final document needs to be reviewed and signed off on by all those people, likely with multiple revisions.

8.4 hours per page seems like it'd be on the low side, if anything.
What particularly irks you about the gameplay?
I've been toying with the idea of promise free async/await lately. I'm interested in feedback anyone would have.

https://github.com/bessiambre/casync
Cells at work! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cells_at_Work!

It’s an animated series that takes place inside the human body. I’ve been meaning to watch it myself. It’s supposed to be pretty accurate.
The longer the country is shut down the more lives we’ll lose to poverty related deaths. Total covid deaths are still below last seasons Flu death total and that’s Counting all the probable covid deaths that are included in this years count. That was with the population operating under pre covid lifestyle. We can get back now and take caution.

Shelter those above 65 and anyone with an underlying condition. (Of course anyone should stay home if they feel the need)

Everyone else back to life with social distancing and preventative measures in place (masks, no concerts etc)

Build immunity and slowly bring the rest of society back.

Sources: Go research. Look at the data we are way over doing it. Anything I post will be taken with a grain of salt anyway.
I read The Model Thinker some time last year. It includes a chapter on the SIR model used in epidemiology. The book states the basic mathematical model for working out how much of the population needs to be immune before 'herd immunity' is achieved is (R0 - 1)/R0.

I have heard R0 estimated around 4. So, technically you would need 3/4 of the population to be immune. The result of this being that R_t drops below 1 thus no longer becomes an epidemic and eventually either disappears or becomes seasonal.
It literally feels as if I'm being transported back to that same night, starting to relive it all over again. It's entirely illogical but if you knew what happened it might make more sense (happy to elaborate here and give a brief description of what happened/why it messed me up so bad, I'm perfectly okay to talk about it now).
The best programmer analogy I can think of is: imagine a system where every instruction always runs concurrently and every output influences everything with varying probabilities.
I agree that the government’s handling of covid-19 has mostly been surprisingly competent in a pleasant way.

It has certainly changed my opinion of them. I used to think that they were out of touch and incompetent, but now I think they can be competent and highly effective when they care, I just don’t think they care about privacy one bit.
Lua is rather tiny. JavaScript and the executor for C/C++ (as the compiler compiles to WASM) are mostly Apple frameworks (JavaScript Core). Now Python and Clang are fairly big, but not usually 650mb big, I’d say 200mb is more likely. Now if TeX was included, totally agree, but as sibling comment indicated, it’s not.
> despite being substantially smaller in population than countries with economies of comparable size

Which countries would that be? There are very few with economies of comparable size. The next above Japan is nearly three times larger (China).

Besides, it's super easy to avoid that GDP / population confusion by looking at GDP per capita.

The US GDP per capita figure ($65,111) for 2019 was 59% higher than Japan ($40,846), which has been tumbling down the per capita rankings for 25 years.

For reference, in 1995 Japan's GDP per capita was $43,440, nearly the highest of any nation. The inflation adjustment on that is $74,600. So not only is Japan missing $34,000 just to break even on inflation, by contracting 6% over that time, they've actually shrank drastically in real terms.

Since 1995 US GDP per capita has increased by about 127% by contrast, exceeding inflation by about $15,000.

The other legitimate comparables: Germany is ~15% higher per capita, Britain and France are nearly the same (only slightly higher than Japan). In 1995 Japan had a GDP per capita 100% higher than Britain, now they're even. Japan ranks #19 on GDP per capita (excluding tiny nations like Luxembourg).

> and also in that their real wage losses 1) pale in comparison to America's, and 2) mean that their real wages are still much higher than most of the world's.

That's not even remotely close to being true. The US has outperformed Japan dramatically on both GDP per capita and incomes. At the end of 2019, real US wages (both median and average) were at new all-time highs, according to the Federal Reserve. The full-time median income in the US hit near $50,000 for 2019, Japan doesn't come close to that.

Japan's peak on real incomes was hit 25 years ago. They've lost about 1/3 of their real personal income since then.

Japan went from having one of the highest income figures, to struggling to remain in the top 20. US wages remain among the highest of any nation (including on disposable incomes), comparable only to countries like Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark and Norway.

Here are the average wages in the OECD. Japan ranks about 10% below the OECD average. The US is dramatically higher, ranking just behind Switzerland.

https://data.oecd.org/earnwage/average-wages.htm

Here is the OECD better life index page on incomes:

http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/income/

Japan ranks in the middle of the pack, the US ranks at the front of the pack.

Here is the Wikipedia page on median incomes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

Japan again ranks well behind the US, and on disposable income ranks dramatically far behind the US.

More:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_w...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...
Try searching anything fitness or nutrition for example .
Did stack overflow even do any sharding?
Large, Troubled Companies Got Bailout Money in Small-Business Loan Program
Why is there no evidence of black matter annihilation in astronomy?
The Apple/Google protocol does randomize:

> The advertiser address type shall be Random Non-resolvable.

> The advertiser address, RollingProximityIdentifier, and Associated Encrypted Metadata shall be changed synchronously so that they cannot be linked.

(page 5, https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/cu...)

I assume you can use your "regular" Bluetooth address for any communication with paired devices (which is then just as trackable as it would be otherwise), while still using this at the same time for the BTLE announcements.

However, I suspect these APIs may not be available to non-OS applications.