skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but if you do audit the client software, you can verify:

* Your e2e encryption key never gets sent to the server.

* Data is actually strongly encrypted using that key before leaving the client.

Then isn't that sufficient to prove that the server can't do anything nefarious, even if it wanted to?
not to mention the Spanish Flu hit children just as hard as the old.
I have been using popOS and have no problems really.
The docking/connecting to Monitors/webcams have been really smooth.

I am not a power user of other peripherals though.
Resorting to insults when you dont have arguments is kind of weak technique.

The problem with underperforming agriculture and lack of nutrition was persistent in that system. You seem to assume that peasants under serfdom had easy low work access to food and everything. That is not the case. The land does not produce food for whole year without you working it a lot.

Peasants in serfdom had hard time to produce enough food for themselves.

Peasant did not tended to few million dollars worth of land. Lords were not giving land to peasants. Rather, peasants were sold along with land and belonged to the land. That is massive difference - serfdom was one step above slavery.
The majority of WHO controversies are made up, the WHO are not a political entity so they do not want to comment at all on political issues; and whatever you want to say about Taiwan it is a very heated political situation.

That's also the evidence of "alignment with china": because we in the west see a failure to recognise taiwan as siding with china. Which is odd because the USA doesn't officially recognise Taiwan itself. In fact the WHO did almost exactly what a US diplomat would have done- albeit a bit delayed.

Corruption not withstanding (yeah, it's unfortunate but that thing is going to happen, what matters is the response not that it happened) it's better to have a bipartisan global concerted effort to manage these things than the centralised health organisation of a single country. Even though that country is the homestead of the service in question.
Glad someone did a rebuttal of that article. I came across it a few days ago and was shocked to discover it was by the guy behind ipfire, which I had previously heard good things about.
It's probably something more like the wheat and barley was waste and they peed in the same area they dumped their waste.

One family noticed their barley was sprouting, while another's didn't. Shortly after, the family with the sprouts had a baby. It could have taken generations for this to be actually used as a pregnancy test.
.1% is flu IFR but if I remember right the number doesn't include true asymptomatics which are estimated at up to 75% (which could bring it down to 0.025%). I'm not sure on this, that was on a CDC page I saw.
Yes, but I absolutely do not need the 3D capabilities of that card. I just want a cool laptop with a large screen for remote work and a 4k or 5k monitor at home.
> If you don’t have a ticking clock, you can even play a ticking soundtrack on your phone – just keep the screen facing down.

Or you can just buy a metronome, or get a free metronome for your phone. Set it to 60 or 120 BPM. I use a metronome and a footswitch. The hard part is remembering to count from zero, instead of one.

I love working in the darkroom, but I’ve sworn off 35mm and haven’t touched it in years.

There is an immense body of knowledge associated with darkroom work. If you are interested, it’s not too hard to find people who will share all their techniques. Everything from tips on how to most quickly find the correct exposure and contrast, to chemical techniques for preserving prints in an archival way.

Film gets a bad rap for being slow and
as others have said, the area under the curve remains the same. The idea with Sweden is, after one year, the deaths will be about the same as everywhere else.
The main reason Millennials love crypto is as a speculative investment that might get them early retirement.

What about all of the non Millennials that still make up the majority of the workforce and populace? Are we both being ageists?
Amazon used to protect books for shipment, sealing them in plastic with a piece of carboard so the book couldn’t move. Now they just shove it in an envelope. Almost all books are delivered with at least minor damage. You’re better off buying a used book.
Also people reported sharing the Santa Clara link with others who might want the test (due to having had symptoms). In principle you could have the same problem with this survey: call your buddy and say “come on down to Costco—they’re doing free antibody tests”.

The obvious fix is to not tell people the results of their own tests. Not sure of the ethics/consequences of that approach.
> Why should I use Amazon if I can go to Alibaba or Aliexpress

Because you want it tomorrow and not in 3 months (if ever)? And want to be able to return it?

I'm all for hating things that are popular, but I don't think anyone suggesting AliExpress as a replacement for Amazon has seriously used it.

AliExpress is for things like a replacement cable you don't need soon but you'll need sometime in the next few years, so you can save a few bucks. Anything else I'd use Amazon.

Buying from manufacturers' websites rarely seems worth it to me either. There's always an issue. I've been trying to talk to the manufacturer of my high-end ski goggles to get them replaced. They leisurely take a month to reply to my ticket. Some manufacturers don't even bother.

Amazon has issues, but let's not forget how good we have it. The alternatives aren't exactly slaying it either.

Basically getting some echo chamber fatigue where every HNer has to hop on the whiny bandwagon. We can order anything to our doorstep anytime from anywhere and return it. It's not that bad just because you can enumerate some issues and pet peeves.
Aren't most of these numbers toll free?
Sorry about the naive question, but if the memory management overhead is worse in Swift, is the hardware it runs on typically better? I'm assuming some of this because I've noticed Android devices tend to require more CPU/memory compared to iOS devices in the same generation.
> I don't understand the obligation people feel to engage in unsolicited meetings and conversations.

If they get you on the line, you're going to fight against a professional liar on an uphill territory made of cultural norms and basic politeness. Turns out disengaging from a conversation isn't easy. But how do they get you on the line in the first place?

Like anyone, you probably have frequent periods of time when you have a lot of errands in progress. Maybe you've ordered a bunch of things on-line, booked a trip, just sent documents to your accountant, and posted your car for sale. Any of these can face roadblocks that generate a phone call. In such periods of time, you'll be more likely to pick up that unknown number calling in, because maybe it's one of the vendors calling with an issue that can either be resolved in 30 seconds on the phone, or 2 days via e-mail.

For the bad actors (marketers), it's a numbers game. Personally, I also don't take calls from numbers I don't know... except whenever I run any kind of errand remotely, which is when they usually manage to catch me (only for me to wait until they tell me what they want, at which point I hang up).
This is great -- amplifying lies that kill people is ridiculous. And out of crisis, amplifying lies is unethical, period. It's not censorship if you can prove it's bullshit. People have a right to express themselves, but we also have a right to not accept lies as truth.
The Commissioned Corps was created to stop plagues at the US border
I think retail will be more consistent than AWS. IMO the economic impact to AWS is delayed a few months. Businesses are making personnel cuts now and will shore up ops costs by Q4 2020 if not sooner.

From Q1 2021 it'll be hard to sell and onboard new service till the economy recovers.
Leaving a practice means rebuilding a patient census and practice at another location which makes it more difficult for many kinds of doctors to switch jobs. EM, anesthesia, radiology, and others that don't have their own patients do switch jobs more frequently.
> before buying the ridiculously expensive AirPods Pro, re-connecting them (normal AirPods) after a disconnect often required a system reboot (to the point I’ve made the reboot part of my pre-meeting schedule)

Did you try resetting your Bluetooth stack? https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/reset-mac-bluetooth-module/
When I was in school, the student-run ACM chapter covered topics like that. Tool-oriented topics like source control and debuggers were not covered in the regular CS courses because the field changed too quickly, supposedly.
I've been in businesses trying to sell me this view as a developer. I can almost guarantee that the developers are saying, in their head, "this is in no way helpful to our users, but I will comply because my PM told me to."

Distortion-fields aren't so powerful that they cause people with integrity to discount critical thinking. If someone can be sold on this with hand-waving, they probably lacked integrity or critical thinking from the start.
The herd gets substantial benefits long before you get to 70% or whatever rate for full herd immunity.

The spread starts to slow before that point. If you're walking around infected and 20% of the people you come in contact with cannot catch it from you, 20% less people are going to catch it, no matter how much you cough on them.
I think the main mechanism of this is communication directly with developers on forum.snapcraft. In this case Mozilla with Canonical etc...

I didn't go through this process so I don't really know.

I think that is how it has worked so far for all of the 1st party snaps I have seen.
Why lead with "No"? Dude was just trying to say something nice, and you end up agreeing with him anyhow.
I plugged my Dongle and my charger on the right. I also have turbo boost disabled but now I think I Have improved my thermals by ~6-10 degrees C. I did unplug my backup SSD though.
Presumably you could find some evidence. X-ray? Just listening to lungs?
Still holy people today. St. Hildegarde even made the prophecy that people during our time would long for their days based on the visions she had. I have read a good bit of her writings, they're utterly fascinating. St. Thomas Aquinas is my confirmation saint btw.
"How does blocking access help people view things?"

Lieologists have discovered there's a hole in human cognition: If you say "We're doing X because of Y", human brains tend not to check Y very carefully at all.

You can almost say "To help people view photos in Instagram, we're shutting down photo sharing in Instagram." You can't get away with a lie quite that bald. But you only need a few scraggly hair plugs on that lie to get past most people most of the time, as you observe.
Why didn't all of you spread the disease to everyone else in the neighborhood?
Personally I feel weird talking at my phone in a public place, but to each their own
Tell HN: GitHub Organizations not as free as it seems
GitHub informed us of something supposedly new: we could upgrade our pro personal account to a free organization account. Yay! Quoting the github page: "Everything the personal account has"... plus more fine grained permissions control.

Note the upgrade is a one-way process. Thinking it was free so why not upgrade we did.

Except we had a wiki. With a lot of valuable information. Which is now gone:

While its not documented anywhere in the happy sounding announcement, wikis aren't included in the free organization plan. Bye data! Or if you need it, thanks for upgrading your $4 plan into a more expensive one. All the best, Microsoft.
This is probably illegal via antitrust law -- it's inherently anticompetitive -- and just hasn't been tested. Another example of Amazon being an unethical company.
From their pricing page[0] it looks like their highest-priced plan only goes to 20GB. That's an order of magnitude too little for me just for the current size of all my mail.

(And no, I don't want to clean up 20+ years of email. I want to pay someone else to handle archiving and indexing it and not think about it.)

[0] https://protonmail.com/pricing
Some woman peed on wheat/barley while working outside, it sprouted. She noticed and later found out she is pregnant. Theory formed, gossip did rest to let others know too.
Lebanon arrests man for putting Nigerian maid up for sale for $1k
The US political system only works if some critical mass of politicians are operating in good faith.

I skimmed the article and searched for "pork" to no results, so I assume there was no mention of what I'd say is the real problem - I don't think any modern bills come without pork, and that's part of the idiocy keeping our political system from working efficiently. Bills have exploded in size out of purely selfish political gaming wherein sponsors will attach dozens of pet projects as riders and as an added bonus, anyone who votes against the riders can be smeared later as voting against the primary topic of the bill. On top of that, because of this practice our politicians aren't even reading most of what they vote on. It's totally broken but short of a collapse I'm not sure how to convince a few hundred senators/congressmen to stop this idiotic, scummy practice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider_(legislation)
Wouldn't the ability to refuse taking the test introduce bias? i.e. the 10% that do take it still may not be representative of the entire population. Likely better than the grocery store sample, but still not ideal
> yet she's celebrated as the little guy who stuck it to the man.

You're serious? Are you sure she's celebrated as somebody who stopped America from building? Is it really that there are no way more plausible explanations of what happened? Do you think that "the man" can't build in such a way that's detrimental to others - being the man one can afford to ignore them, unless "the little guy" comes up - and, more, that America not building has nothing to do with interests of "the man"? IOW, poor coal company has only public benefits in mind, and can't contribute to progress of society because evil environmentalists prevent it from turning villages of miners into cemeteries of black lungs?

Pardon some exaggerations.
It’s important to know how risky it is to get this thing. That way we can make informed decisions about opening up.
So, force all retail stores to divest their house brands, which they have been selling without complaint as long as I’ve been alive?
San Francisco falls very much into the category of vetocracy though. We have the highest building costs in the world and people freak out when anyone tries to build over three stories. Environmental review and lawsuits can sink any project. In SF a board of supervisors often vetos whatever the mayor proposes and everyone has their own idea about what solutions should be.
Can one buy such an antibody test online?
You just need to translate "help people" to "help Instagram".
The real problem though is that cargo doesn't play nice as part of system where cargo doesn't own everything.

Cargo needs a lot more ways to be interrogated about the artifacts it produces and control over how they are produced.
Of course it's their reason. If there was any of your interest in this they would not waste half a second to tell you this with details.

Nonsense explanation means just that users' interests were not factored in the decision.
What's the fascination with laptops anyway? Are that many people really working from coffee shops? I'm pretty much always coding on the same desk at home and a mid-high end desktop is significantly cheaper than a decent laptop and much more powerful than even the really high end laptops. The ergonomics are also much better, although that can be fixed on laptops with docks and separate monitors etc too.
Can you give an example of this though? Everything I can find shows the US did follow recommendations, just like the rest of the west, and that's precisely why it has been so bad here. The WHO said there was no human to human transmission. The WHO said not to wear masks. The WHO said not to close borders. The WHO said not to "overreact" and shut anything down. I seem to recall people complaining that the US was taking things TOO seriously because they stopped flights from China during the phase where the WHO was still downplaying things.
awesome, thanks for sharing!
In the 15 inch they undervalued the processor and got better thermals. In the 16 Inch they have different fan curves and larger thermal intakes and fans.

I manually disable Intel Turbo boost now though. And for some reason when I start up my laptop it can reach around 90 degrees C if I have a bunch of things open (I guess it turbos when it is restoring previous apps open) but that makes sense though.
Call me crazy but software engineers are over paid. All they do is Google for answers on stack overflow and copy and paste the code. You used to need highly intelligent engineers who could hold all the APIs in their head at a minimum. Now you can just Google for the documentation.
The Spanish flu had a smaller outbreak in the Spring and came back with a vengeance the following Fall, so hold that thought.

https://www.history.com/news/spanish-flu-second-wave-resurge...
The vast majority would behave the same in that position. Are you sure you wouldn't?

We're far too likely to see things as character flaws when looking outward and as circumstance when looking inward.
I'm not so sure about that.

AWS terms do not assign their customers any rights to any physical computer. And the AWS customer agreement gives Amazon the authority to access your data for certain purposes.

I'm not sure I've ever heard of anyone prosecuted under the CFAA for accessing a computer that they physically own and physically control. AWS is a service, not a computer rental.
That was the first thing I said, 2 months ago, and got told I was a selfish asshole and had no clue what I'm talking about. This is going to be a real big history lesson for our grandchildren on how not to handle a situation in one way or another, unless the media rewrites the narrative.

Oh, wait.
I'd never heard of "EURion constellation". The little video on this page has a nice explanation:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/counterfeit-money-eurion-cons...
Cool idea! Really like UML and am sad that it doesn't get used as often as it should.
I think the results are the same, but the causes are different. Republican controlled governments want their programs to fail, for ideological reasons. Meanwhile, Democrat controlled governments bias for the status quo, for fear of stepping on someone's toes. This used to not be a problem due to the healthy push and pull between two similarly popular groups of politicians. But with a heavily partisan system, no group cares what the other says, so there's no pushing/pulling towards action.
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Francis Fukuyama recently wrote an opinion piece where he argues that the dividing characteristic today between successful and broken states is trust in government, not the structure of government.

Singapore is authoritarian-democratic, Switzerland hyper federalist, but both exhibit a political culture that voluntarily provides liberal permissions to the relevant government institutions. In the United States (nationally, and in most states) and many European countries, such a culture has long since eroded from its mid-20th century apex.
> Why not?

Basic thermodynamics?

> If we're talking decades rather than days, a combination of AI and solar power will eventually get us to the point where virtually no human effort is required at all.

I'm not talking about human effort. Price is related to energy input. And there's only so efficient you can get at chopping down that tree.

> And your link is misleading -- just because energy production has accompanied economic growth doesn't mean it always will, or that it does in every sector. It just means it's been the pattern so far, because energy is cheap. As soon as energy becomes more expensive, growth consists in using it even more efficiently and renewably.

It is not misleading, you simply misunderstand the impact. Again, there's only so efficient you can become in any system. And we're already shockingly close to optimum in many of our systems. Getting closer and closer to those optimums is obviously possible, but it's ever-diminishing returns.
I didn't realize this thread was about throwing open the gates. That said, I think there is an argument for more directed isolation measures for at risk groups. Fearing that there may be other unknowns doesn't seem to allow for any progress.
Nuclear's inflexibility is not a barrier to countries like France generating over 70% of its electricity from it. Energy demand fluctuations throughout the day are significant but not huge - usually ~20% different from peak to trough.
I can only chime in with everyone else so far: being able to turn a bathroom into a darkroom is one of the finest privileges there are. Due to living situations I cannot anymore, but I really miss having the opportunity to just take an evening and get a print or two out of it. Watching it develop under the safelight is as close as I've ever gotten to magic.

Edit: by the way, if you have older relatives, make sure to ask around if anyone already has an enlarger. They are big machines that normally just collect dust these days, so most people are happy to give them to you. (I made the mistake of buying one on EBay for non-trivial money, shipping and delivery was a big hassle, and two weeks later three different people had offered me theirs for free.)
Edit: since people are misunderstanding this post, I am 100% pro-ROC and anti-PRC. I wish the ROC could rename itself to something else without triggering a PRC invasion. Check my comment history. I'm 100% pro-ROC and I support the ROC's continued (since 1912) independence as a sovereign entity. 中華民國萬歲

"Taiwan" isn't a country. It's an island controlled by the Republic of China alongside its other holdings. The ROC is a state that has existed since 1912 with continual international diplomatic recognition since then. Other countries switching diplomatic recognition from the ROC to the PRC didn't magically make the ROC vanish.

I really dislike the fact that the media and government in the US refers to the ROC as "Taiwan". It muddies the conversation and I constantly have to explain to people that there are two governments/countries over there, one from 1912 and one from 1949.
0.18% of the entire NYC population is already dead from the coronavirus and by the time this is over the number will probably reach or exceed 0.3%.

If you want the whole country to get herd immunity you will probably see similar mortality rates across the country. 0.3% of the US population is 1 million people. How have the models been proven to be "pessimistic by orders of magnitude?
Correct, every cop I know is loaded due to overtime pay. You'd think it'd make more sense just to hire more cops out the agency, but then that cuts into everyone's earnings which discourages them from acting financially responsible.
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At least now that all PM's non-beta apps are open source, you (or someone) can audit all their client-side apps to ensure that it doesn't matter if the sever is trying to do something nefarious. As long as your encryption key and plaintext mail never leaves the client, and the encryption being used is sound, you should be safe.

Now, if it's run by the CIA/NSA/whatever, and they have found vulnerabilities in state-of-the-art encryption algorithms that we don't know about, you're hosed. But we're still hosed even if they aren't running the mail server (that just makes it easier for them to get hold of the data), so I'm not sure that's a threat model the average person could reasonably protect against anyway.