skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook is a machine that breeds extremists.

Facebook is, more accurately, a machine designed to maximise the amount of time you spend on Facebook. It just so happens that the maxima for that is to provoke arguments. That is why the only safe exposure is zero. You can’t beat a machine that is using every single interaction with you against you. Even people who imagine they’re battling disinformation are in reality, just being held in place to be exposed to more ads.
They are on Firefox at least, I assume Chrome too, there's a Vue devtools extension for example that adds a tab alongside inspect, console, debugger, et al. to give you a sort of Vue-aware 'inspect'.
Joe Biden is selling. He absolutely is using any idiotic fake outrage as a way to get publicity for himself. What is he horrified by? Nothing, obviously. He is irresponsibly creating the problem he is pretending he is outraged about.
It should be fairly simple to look up people describing themselves as developers in the census data I think?
having deterministic/reproducible/reverting/history/etc with Ubuntu

Looking at the recipes this seems to be non-deterministic/reproducible. E.g.

add-apt-repository -y ppa:longsleep/golang-backports && apt-get update

From: https://github.com/pauldotknopf/darch-recipes/blob/502fb3d66...

There is no guarantee that you will get exactly the same Go version when rebuilding an image. And all the scripts seem like that: ad-hoc wget and apt command, where package versions, how they are built, etc. can change between runs.

This is only a very weak notion of reproducibility: if the scripts run, you will get an image with the same packages. Nix/Guix guarantee that you get exactly the same versions, built in exactly the same way, from your own package down to transitive dependencies such as glibc or zlib.

(I am not criticizing the project, it may be great, but it is just not reproducible/deterministic.)
Even if trump didn’t say to drink bleach, his statements in context showed such a complete ignorance of many basic facts that even the average 8th grader would know. It’s impossible to defend what he said so people attack the media response to it instead.
The order specifically singles out Amazon categories for products. I am not a software engineer, but something along the line of:

> if item.category is not in authorized_categories then do not sell

Does not seem too hard to do.
As a paid up labour member this makes me sad and angry. Who are these people misusing the money I gave to them? I want to see them publicly outed.
So, this treatment doesn't look so good for patients with severe cases, but says nothing about non-severe cases.

> The preliminary findings of this study suggest that the higher CQ dosage should not be recommended for critically ill patients with COVID-19 because of its potential safety hazards, especially when taken concurrently with azithromycin and oseltamivir. These findings cannot be extrapolated to patients with nonsevere COVID-19.

From Dr Raoult's study, we see almost the same claim, except that there are good observed results for non-severe cases:

> The HCQ-AZ combination, when started immediately after diagnosis, is a safe and efficient treatment for COVID-19, with a mortality rate of 0.5%,in elderlypatients. It avoidsworsening and clearsvirus persistence and contagiosity in most cases

https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/wp-content/uploads/20...

So, this appears to verify a claim in Dr Raoult's study.
Love the reference to Kerbal space program as orbital mechanics software :)
> Which means quite a lot of menial work to redo the article each time you apply, get refused, and want to send to another journal.

What kind of menial work do you mean? Isn't that just a matter of changing the class of your document? Why would you need to change the text of the article itself?
In Amsterdam, before the corona crisis, the metros went every six minutes. If one gets delayed or you miss one, you just grab the next. Waiting 5 minutes can be awfully long if you're used to grabbing it though, and if it makes you miss your connection that sucks (train mostly, other metro is no problem). Also, parking in Amsterdam (center) is very expensive, AFAIK something like 7 EUR an hour last time I checked. I got family living there; you don't want to go to a birthday and spend 20 EUR on parking. Public transport is cheaper then. Do remember that removing cars still means trams, and pedestrians and cyclists need to be aware of these!
Exactly the same way as the middle layers. A motor rotates each outer layers.
On the other hand, the complicated thing to understand is that the cube has 6 outer layers (left, right, front, back, top, bottom). But in this kinematics, only 3 outer layers move (left, front, top) and the 3 others remain fixed during the resolution, hence the fact that we see the fixed corner common to all these 3 fixed layers. If the algorithm calculates that we must move a fixed layer, the 3 others will move in the other direction. That's why, although it's a 4x4x4 cube, there are 3 motors per dimension, so 9 motors in total.
Only partially, it seems:

"Redox is a general purpose operating system written in pure Rust. Our aim is to provide a fully functioning Unix-like microkernel, that is both secure and free.

We have modest compatibility with POSIX, allowing Redox to run many programs without porting."

From https://doc.redox-os.org/book/ch01-02-what-is-redox.html
This is one of the most compelling arguments for universal basic income in my opinion. Give everyone the same amount of money-and I mean everyone from Bezos and Trump, to the burger flippers and the homeless-and scrap all this expensive and time consuming crap where the government insists on citizens navigating a Byzantine maze of red tape to prove how worthless they are before they get the money.
> Bankruptcies aren't that bad - usually companies are not dissolved, but go through restructuring and gain a new management team (which one, knowing there is no bailout in the future, will plan better for emergencies like this one).

That is what i was thinking lately too. We have bankruptcy procedures for a reason, big companies wont disappear they will be restructured and continue to exist and shareholders can decided with their pockets if they want to refinance a certain business. Going back to its intended way that "shareholder value" is a two way street. It cant always be sunny.

Changing the incentive structure would benefit us all.

And probably the best thing to get everything back on track is pumping money through the population and not single big entities.
Right, sorry, forgot to mention macOS even though I’m using Nix there myself for our commercial project’s dependencies
I never got fully through it, but Amelia Wattenberger's book [0] on it is very good! There's a fairly soft ramp up in complexity, and the later chapters are complex enough that even the previews make you excited to reach and implement them.

If you just want to dip your toes in though, the official website's linked gallery [1] is a pretty cool resource. No set up or data loading required!

[0] https://www.newline.co/fullstack-d3
[1] https://observablehq.com/@d3/gallery
GPT-2 for text is impressive because it does a surprisingly good job with larger scale patterns. If you give it a play it generates things with actor marks, it's sentences are a reasonable length etc. I had been hoping this would be similar to learning the structure of tunes, but it seems that requires something we haven't figured out yet.

I do disagree, though, that phrase repetition is as simple as you say. A good 16-count phrase has patterns within it, and a good AABB tune has relationships between the A and B parts.
Nix is very cool, and I encourage anyone to at least install nix on their machine and try it out. I started using it on my Mac, mostly to set up a Haskell environment, which at the time meant quicker builds than using other tools, due to the binary cache.

I now use it for python, scala, emacs and basically wherever else I can get away with not using Homebrew. I share the config [1] between my work and personal machine. This works really well: it's just a git pull, and a `nix-env -iA nixpkgs.devEnv` and my environment is updated (and I can easily roll back to the previous state if something goes wrong). It does take a lot of up-front investment, learning a new language and paradigm, but once things are working they tend to stay working.

[1]: https://github.com/mjhoy/dotfiles/blob/master/nix/nixpkgs/co...
> I wrote a configuration.ni x file describing my ideal Linux install once and I've been using it largely unchanged for years.

I use custom install and configuration scripts for various Linux distros and Windows installs, this is not a feature unique to NixOS, just a different implementation. I use a shell script for Linux and a PowerShell script for Windows.
Wow. SO if the bank fee was a constant for instance, the banks might have pushed to process many tiny, simple applications. Thus benefitting more small-business owners. Wow. Such a good example of the law of unintended consequences.
Well, conifers, obviously ;)
> If the actual infection rate is 20% then that represents a 10 fold overestimation of morbidity and mortality.

10 fold over what? A problem since the beginning is that many people are confusing CFR and IFR. Worse is when people compare the IFR of COVID-19 to the CFR of the flu. Regardless, the IFR for COVID-19 has been thought to be .5-1% since the beginning. If we assume the NY antibody study is mostly correct (even with the sampling errors), I believe it puts the IFR in the .5-1% range [1]. If that IFR holds it still means 1.6-3.3M deaths in the US assuming the healthcare does not get overwhelmed.

[1]

deaths/(cases x 10 fold) x 100 == IFR

21908/(288313 x 10) x 100 == ~.75%

Data pulled from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ on 4/26/2020 @ 8am EST.
Why would an implementation need to test for it?

ISTM that a framework may need to test for promiseness if it calls promises and functions differently, but it can and should be done as a utility in the framework, not as a separate package.
Seems to have some issues in Firefox for me. Anyone else?
Australian Government's coronavirus tracing app released
You can use NixOS on the desktop -- it has a lot of benefit (including atomic upgrades/rollbacks). But it only really works well if you manage everything through Nix. Other mechanisms such as the ones that you mention tend to break very often.

I just gave up using Flatpaks with NixOS and install GNOME extensions through Nix.
That works great until the note that \times returns for cross product, curl, and cartesian product.

(And in both cross product and curl, if you substitute a \cdot, then that's an entirely different operation!)
I see https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/50660/when-shoul... suggesting this, but I don't believe any fonts implement this.
The simplest solve to FB manipulation in general is just to ban the targeting of political advertising. You can still advertise, but everyone sees the same message. No more deception. Facebook even makes MORE money because the more targeted a campaign is the cheaper it is. Everyone wins, except political campaign managers.
Great Advice Mike!

Need more leaders in the industry, like yourself, in the media fighting the bad press and lies around this.
Eh, trust is earned (in both directions of course). I’ve been badly burned by devs and managers alike over the course of my career.
I would love to trust them more, but the Australian government does not have a good track record with regards to privacy. Two such recent examples:

- Australian's browser history is being provided to law enforcement even though that practice was excluded from the original intent and law [0]

- Australia passed laws in 2018 which enable law enforcement to compel tech companies into inserting backdoors into their software [1]

0: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/07/web-browsing-h...

1: https://www.wired.com/story/australia-encryption-law-global-...
This is a benefit, but other distributions are catching up. For example, Fedora Silverblue has an immutable root filesystem and provides atomic upgrades/rollbacks through OSTree. Ubuntu 20.04 supports making ZFS snapshots as an APT pre-installation hook and thus also support rollbacks.
It's definitely more feasible in much of Europe than in most of the US. You're still somewhat constrained to where there's decent rail or bus service--or where you can go with friends/partner; you're probably not going to travel around the Scottish highlands without a car.

But, if you live and work in a relatively major city and are fine with mostly traveling to and from where there's good public transit you can make it work.

It's much harder in the US if only because, outside of New York City, there's sort of an expectation you have a car and things tend to be organized with that expectation in mind. People can and do get help from friends with cars but this becomes harder as you get further out of school.
Yeah. I think a lot of people are ignoring that the output target, MIDI, is pretty limited. A skilled producer could pretty easily take these exact notes and make a track that sounds great. Sound design makes a huge difference.
liero source code was released. Maybe MoleZ used it?
He should have said nothing at all, but left it to his department heads to deliver the message. Oh! He's gagged his department heads, or fired them. Well.

It all lands on his head. What else does being the President mean? He's screwed up the message royally, because he's an ordinary dufus who likes to hear himself talk, operating way out of his depth. That's an honest appraisal, given the avalanche of examples.
Doesn't matter to me personally, but I think some people feel more comfortable with the data being held in Australia. I only mention it because the news story that parent saw did not mention it.

I agree with you about the other issues, but they are separate to this imo. The determination that was released under the biosecurity act yesterday made it pretty clear what the data can legally be used for.
Hey Mike,

Great work. But why do they need to store user data in the server anyway? Couldn’t that all be stored on the persons phone and then when someone tests positive, only send that person’s data to everyone’s phone and do the contact matching locally?
Privacy Policy for COVIDSafe App
This is more a stand on principles against governments rather than if the app is actually malicious in nature. People are rightly making a stand that a project of this nature should require at the bare minimum for source code to release concurrently with protection laws. Blame successive governments if individuals aren't overly welcoming to putting their blind faith in promises of a government that has let them down in the past.
Just to fill in the gaps. Countries in the Russian sphere of influence actually refused the Marshall plan because it would make the commies look bad. And they didn't have nearly as good recovery as Western Europe. So it probably had some effect.
Mother Selling Social Distancing Face Masks Raises Money for Non-Profit
The Iranian hacker presented Corona's (Covid) theory of the cyber virus
More typically, broken drm on digital editions, but yes. It's pervasive and typically doesn't require scanning.
In politics, money can buy you love. On Capitol Hill, all you need is 51 + 218 friends, right?

Edit: Things have changed since the days when a journalist said that Standard Oil had done everything to the Pennsylvania legislature but refine it. However, one cannot run a campaign of any size without money, and those with investments in oil are willing to spend, not only on campaign advertising but in setting the terms of the debate (climate change, for example). Less cynically, if one is in an oil-producing or oil-refining state, there are a lot of jobs to consider.
Doodle on your face with AR directly from the web browser
We could make the same dumb jokes about:

Popular restaurants, clubs, sporting events, concerts, movie theaters, stores on Black Friday, etc etc etc.

(Personally, I’ve been on 5 different cruises and they’ve each been among the best vacations of my life. But lol lots of people so they must be just like prisons amirite?)
Strawman. Weigh it against suspension of economic institutions, new rules to mitigate the damage, and new institutions that operate on more rational basis.
Aus gov has a terrible track record with information systems. Data leaks & breaches, flaky IT services, mass robo-debt claims of which 600,000 needed to be re-evaluated.

Not to mention rushing through privacy destroying laws citing "Islamist terrorism, paedophile networks and organised crime". If you are who I think you are you're probably more knowledgable of the particular 2018 law than me.

And now they're "rushing out" an app that is intended to track everyone in the country's precise location and who they interact with? I'll wait for the source thank you.

The gov only has themselves to blame for this reputation.

Apple and Google are releasing official APIs for this, we're doing amazingly well in Australia, can it not wait a week?

> Remind them how little time they think before they download dozens of free, adware crap games that are likely far worse for their data & privacy than this ever would be!

Isn't it an interesting point that these people would rather trust foreign companies they've never heard of with their location, rather than their own gov?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/29/austr...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-09/abs-website-inaccessi...

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/22/pay-t...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181208/14440541184/austr...
> Maybe almost 100 million watched Game of Thrones illegally

I think you hit the nail on the head. I live in a country where you can't, to my knowledge, get HBO legally at all, and yet a huge number of people kept up with it, to the point of having a weekly watching party when the series was live. It only takes one tech-savvy person and a USB stick.
Great to see so many of the old gang here!
Ask HN: Reliable Alarm App for iOS
I slept through 2 alarms today. Turns out the native iOS clock app is stupid and just doesn’t ring after 15 minutes. Can anyone suggest a more persistent, reliable alarm that will keep ringing?
I'm a bit confused by the "open source but not free" statement in the readme. How common is it to refer to software with public source code as "open source"? I always thought the "open source" label applied only to those licenses officially certified as open source.
> who did not say anything like "drink bleach"

"We're preparing to launch a submarine offensive".

"We need to do more to address homelessness".

"I'm having a team investigate infrastructure spending bills".

Those sorts of quotes are not anything like "drink bleach".

Within the span of a few seconds, Trump strings together "disinfectant" and "injection" and "sounds interesting". We've already seen someone drink chloroquine phosphate, after days of Trump mentioning hydroxychloroquine multiple times, with lines like "If it were me, in fact, I might do it anyway. I may take it" and "what have you got to lose?"

Did Trump specifically say the words "Drink any form of chloroquine on your own?" No. In the midst of a global health pandemic, he keeps throwing a bunch of words together which don't make much sense, and can easily influence people to make bad decisions. His influence in this matter has already been demonstrated.

A danger of multiple people saying "don't do it" is... a certain portion of people will read that as a sign that "they" don't want you to get healthy, and that Trump is "on to something", and they may do this sort of thing anyway.
Thromboembolic Complications in Covid-19
You got the solution? No? Then we just gonna head off into the weeds, like we have for 100 years? Yeah that'd suit many folks just fine. The folks on top, who see any attempt at fairness as 'oppression'.
He may not be a tankie, but all his best friends are, such as Milne, etc. If you note my grammatical construction I did not call him a tankie.

Regarding the Weimar Republic, I don’t know the history So your analogy is wasted on me, but to suggest the Tories are proto-Nazis seems absurd to me.
https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/bl...

https://devfreebooks.github.io/
Using Science to Decide What Article to Write Next
They didn't say it was for national security ("or some other such rubbish" was the point I was making -- that it was a bullshit reason, not that it was a direct quote). The Health Minister claimed that having the source code public would make it easier to hack[1]. But it's just as ridiculous of a statement.

[1]: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/health-minister-now-unsure-if...
>his statements in context showed such a complete ignorance of many basic facts that even the average 8th grader would know

How does that make the media lying ok? The president being a dumbass does not excuse the media lying, especially not with such dangerous lies.
Some trends are clearly visible nonetheless, like when numbers are going down (unless someone started to deliberately exclude the symptomatic from testing. And observed "high water marks" serve as a lower bound for worst case outcomes, this is where county level data would be far more interesting than country level data (it's no coincidence that tiny states like San Marino, Andorra or the Vatican dwarf all other normalized country level stats).
Last time I looked this book was not available as a pirate version anywhere. Has that changed? Pozner and Dodd Cross-Examination Science and Techniques.

Here's a review: https://barristerblogger.com/2019/05/16/pozner-dodd-cross-ex...
Apple: Priorities in a Time of Plenty (2016)
Honestly, I’m not as concerned with Reddit. It allows a greater degree of self-selection, it has community moderation, and bots are easier to spot.
What do you do when there's conflicts?
Cycling skyrocketed after social distancing started. People realized cycling is not that bad if you don't have to be afraid to be hit by a car. Currently, there is less car on the roads because people working from home.
What a beautiful and tiny mechanism, but why did you patented it?
Link to demo: https://paruby.github.io/snake-face/
Two Dutch Mink Farms Infected with Coronavirus
If everything else remains unchanged. Which it isn't. Changes are happening every day.

And nobody plans to stay in this mode forever. Medicine is making tremendous progress at an astonishing rate. They just need time.

Stay patient.
No, I don't have a blog. There aren't many things I'd like to write about, and pretty much all of the things I would like to write about have been written about more eloquently by others. There's a lot of subpar and garbage information in this world, especially on the internet, and I'd rather not contribute to the pile if I can help it.
Agreed. Most important thing is to flatten the bankruptcy curve.
i guess i was being a bit pedantic... as you say, if you look at Clojure's whole programming environment (tooling, stdlib) and not just the language itself, putting it like GP did makes sense.
Hey Mike,

I've attended a few cyber security conferences and spoken to a number of active people in those communities and it amazes me how backwards the Australian government is regarding cyber security.

There seems to be less incentive for them to invest, both financially and in developing governance, than say industry. If a Google, Telstra, NAB had a severe breach, customers would be up in arms, fines would be handed out, financially there would be a big impact. Government just issues an apology and false promises to improve processes and accountability. Then a month later you see more reports in the news about more data safety breaches and unauthorised access from obscure government bodies like the RSPCA.

Uploading the code is one way to show some transparency, but trusting them to make good on their promise of appropriate handling of data and retention is questionable.