skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is both right and wrong.

The COVID contact tracing framework from Apple and Google is just a framework for using background features of the phone. There’s currently a fight with some governments (UK and France) over whether this will be mandatory or not. The UK NHS have figured out a way to run low energy Bluetooth background activity without this framework and are going their own way. This might actually mark a turning point in relationships with these tech companies: if Apple/Google insist on enforcing government activities through their framework, those governments probably will stop being so hands off with regulations of the various App Stores and phones. We will see.

Stepping back, this is not about mandating apps against user demand, it’s just that the open web has not kept up with user demand for a richer experience both client-side (beyond HTML) and server-side (beyond HTTP and closed data).

Really, it’s a longer conversation, but I’d say that the technological and economic failure of the Semantic Web is largely why there is widespread server-side centralization (ala Facebook or Twitter), and the failure of the HTML standards (and innovation!) process has led to the explosion of JavaScript use as a market blowoff valve, with native apps being the culmination of this market demand for richer experiences.

The open web is still at the core of all of this: the URL, MIME, HTTP, etc. are the glue that holds this haphazard global networked device world together. The open web is not dead. It is stagnant. It’s ASCII, or SCSI, or PCI, or any number of boring decades old layers buried in our systems.

It’s a matter for someone to decide to find ways to invert the economic incentives towards centralization back into the decentralization we were seeing back in the mid-oughts with RSS, Atom, etc. We hit a technological wall (the semantic web) and didn’t have the investment to climb it. We got a new type of computer (the smartphone) and couldn't get past HTML’s history of being a PC-focused UX. So we all jumped onto the easier answers: Facebook and native mobile apps.

That doesn’t mean it’s the end of history. Some entrepreneur has to figure out the business and technical models to get decentralization, open data, and rich hypermedia back as a priority.
Most of us are Vitamin D deficient. We do not spend enough time in direct sunlight for an hour with all our limbs exposed.

I've been taking 5000 IU for last 10 years to maintain ~55 ng/mL after finding out I was dangerously low at 12 ng/mL. And I used to live in Australia, the land of constant sunshine.

I avoid listening to the FDA recommended dose which has historically been increasing every few years. Just get your blood work done and supplement to maintain around ~ 55 ng/mL. That's better than listening to generic advice.

Btw. This pissed me off when BlueShield few years ago stopped covering Vitamin D blood tests because of this nonsense:

Most People Don't Need Vitamin D Testing
https://www.bcbs.com/news/press-releases/most-people-dont-ne...

"The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently found the current medical evidence insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening for vitamin D deficiency in asymptomatic adults."

"The American Society of Clinical Pathology contributed the following recommendation to Choosing Wisely®, “Many people have low levels of vitamin D, but few have seriously low levels. Most of us don’t need a vitamin D test. We just need to make simple changes so we get enough vitamin D.”"
This is why Google is forcing everyone to go through SAF, even though it is available since Android Android 4.4.

After the outcry to remove direct file access on Android 10, they decided to give one more version for devs to adapt to it, but it is coming on Android 11 no matter what.

And the old style access on Android 11 are just wrappers on top of SAF, which makes it even slower than using SAF directly.

On Windows, while UWP sandbox on its own might not have won lots of friends, with MSIX sandbox model for UWP/Win32 and the upcoming picosandboxes in Windows 10X also for UWP/Win32, these direct file APIs might eventually be a thing of the past, even if it still takes a couple of years to get there.

Ah and Linux applications on ChromeOS only sees what the hypervisor/gVisor allow them to see.
the masks do protect the healthcare workers

Because properly equipped healthcare workers are also wearing eye protection. SARS-CoV-2 will quite happily enter at the eyes; in fact, eyes are a bigger attack surface than nostrils.

With respect to protection from SARS coronaviruses, wearing just a mask and no eye protection is like a hockey goalie wearing a helmet but no mask.
Owing to the way IQ is defined, nobody has an IQ over 200.

IQ doesn’t measure absolute intelligence, but rather assumes it is a normal curve and maps that to human friendly numbers: mean 100, standard deviation 15 or 16 depending who you ask.

The same thing has the curious side effect that if the number of people in comas at any given time is greater than 1, then coma patients must have an IQ > 0.
Sure. But does / did Photoshop have its own custom file picker? Some apps or multi-platform frameworks (like QT) have rolled their own in the past.
The question is: can you think of any that involved debt nominated in the country's own currency?

All examples I've ever read or heard of involved foreign currency debt, or to be more precise, debt in a currency that the country in question didn't control (e.g. developing countries with USD-denominated debt, Euro-zone countries, historical cases with debt denominated in gold, etc.).

That's an important qualitative difference.
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It looks like the core problem here is not that the TextEdit entitlement gives arbitrary code execution, but rather that sandboxing is not transitive. If application X has its actions restricted in some way, it should not be able to bypass that by running application Y, for any Y.
> So why then did you

Who? I am not the author.
People are self isolating without symptoms, but you go for walks?
It happened on a stationary bicycle trainer -> Low load on joints, as most of the weight rests on the saddle and handlebars.
The problem with these threads I find is they end up in anecdotes between cyclists and car drivers. I don't doubt you, I know there are idiots using all modes of transport but from years of cycling in different cities I can counter your points with a lot of my own involving car drivers acting incredibly irresponsibly and dangerously.
I mean this sounds way healthier to me than endless cardio. That is much more taxing for the body. This short sprints could certainly spike metabolism without the running out of limiting factors that happens with endurance exercise. Net effect, your body stays in a physiologically high activity state without producing excess stress hormones. Sign me up
"With thousands of brainless bodies kept alive on life support," It is questionable, if you can do this without a brain.

Have you seen Elysium?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium_(film)
Many people are criticising their backtest but I don't understand why. Their test data is sequential to their training data, considers time, and doesn't overlap. They can't overfit to their test data. In any other area of ML this would be an acceptable scheme, why is this unacceptable here?
Good news for all the school people that has been using it for learning purposes only (eg my students).
That said there are good alternatives already like jitsi or - time limit apart - zoom.
Episode 3: How to Remain Focused on Your Goals – The JonesDozi Show
I'm more worried about repetitive stress injury from being typing and using the mouse.
Regarding the things brewing in Redmond I am looking forward to how Windows 10X will turn out to be.
Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera
Google still asked for a phone number

Asks for, certainly. Requires was the claim.

Google asks me a dozen times a day to enable Location Services. Yeah, right.
Rubiel Ft. Optimus, Yoi Carrera, Jonna Torres, Christian Alicea – Fallamos
Maybe you only notice it when you've thought about it and those links are always there?
Question for those more knowledgeable: From the abstract it doesn't seem like they compared this group with other people in the ICU - could the lack of sun exposure for that population play a role? ICU patients with COVID-19 have likely gone from sheltering in place at home to experiencing symptoms that make them unlikely to venture outside to the hospital where they can't leave, all of which means less exposure to the sun. Is a few weeks of staying indoors enough to cause this?
What you describe and "should I get back to work or view just one more comment thread on HN" is the same mental process.
Make your own cut out models of old computers
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I liked this part criticizing googlebot's poor research skills

> "I could not be satisfied that it was reasonable for Google to rely on Wikipedia as a reputable source, given that its own Guidelines acknowledge the variable quality of Wikipedia pages," Justice Richards wrote.
Don't forget Ecuador which is literally on the equator and experiencing a major outbreak.
The Ramsey number R(m,n) is the minimum size of a fully connected graph with edges colored red or blue such that there is either an m-sized blue clique or an n-sized red clique. R(3,3) is 6, which is stated as every group of 6 having 3 mutual friends or 3 mutual strangers. Ramsey showed that these exist for every m and n, I think.

But they grow very rapidly. Ramsey theory has usually the biggest constants found in mathematical papers.[1] There is a famous quote by Erdos:

"Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue five. We could marshal the world's best minds and fastest computers, and within a year we could probably calculate the value. If the aliens demanded the Ramsey number for red six and blue six, however, we would have no choice but to launch a preemptive attack."

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number
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They probably picked cycling because it's easier to measure and there's less variation. And there's much more literature on it (e.g. Tabata/HIIT protocols). I feel squats properly done would be even better as more muscles are involved. With the added benefit of not needing equipment.
I completely agree with you. The thing is, that many people don't know how to care for their freedom in the Internet and don't know how it is being limited or choose to be blind to it, when being told. With their bad choice, they make it worse or ruin it for others, who do care.
Or move to a country with selenium-rich soil. Iirc Finland started mandating selenium to be added to fertiliser in the 80s and suddenly people started getting better selenium levels.

I talked to a Finnish nutritionist a while ago and she said it was about as much a success for public health as when they started adding iodine to salt. We didn't talk about the situation today, so it might have changed. I just found it interesting.
> So you are telling me, that you write an article with misstakes and think you should be the person making statements because you are able to write an article?

Yes, I am a person that makes and is currently making mistakes.

> And you also think, that politicians are doing an economycal suicide just because they like it?

I analyzed the "game theory" of this a bit here: https://www.ryankemper.io/post/2020-04-29-the_case_for_endin...

> Hanlon’s Razor is very relevant here; we think it is not reasonable to assume that they were trying to usher in a techno-totalitarian state. Rather, they were trying to prevent mortality, but their incentive structure is such that it is much worse to have done nothing and later find out that the virus was worse than we thought, than what actually happened, which is to have undertaken actions that were self-destructive and then discovered that the virus was way less deadly than we thought.
US blacklists five Amazon foreign websites
Turing death made him famous, I wouldn't bet on that
I've read it, but (perhaps I'm wrong, I'm a biologist turned to computational biology so not expert on epidemiological models ;) didn't the author (and similar Stats News post) argue that it is too optimistic, IOW the opposite that you were arguing in the post?

I don't mean this is as a criticism, but it struck me as some dissonance as I was reading.

I've also heard that there might be criticism to other models like the Imperial College one, but so far I've never found anything with some substance.
Yup. Not to point towards OP's case specifically, but it's a usual trap a lot of exact science majors (and many PhDs) fall into. I'm not saying it's limited to exact sciences BTW — personality is also a factor.
There's a joke here that we should stop our startup and start a business coaching PhDs navigating the job market. There's money there I tell ya :)
The Matrix! Harvesting humans in silos to extract energy
Historical note: Viaweb was the baby of our host Paul Graham and his cofounders.
Sure, he gets input from all the board members, but he is unconstrained, he controls the majority of voting shares. The headline is not qualified.
Fully automated creation of performance optimized MySQL configuration file
How do you propose that anyone evaluates their algorithm on the future?
Have you watched the 3 interviews? I'm not picking a fight nor judging. Just curious. I called them interviews but really they are like lectures in my opinion. The doctors speak most of the time.

I'm not a doctor but I figure doctors are too busy collecting/digesting data to publish quality papers? Especially when new data is being generated at a fast rate?

There is an issue of many research papers covering Covid-19 not getting enough peer review before being made available to public and covered by news media.

Prof Kim's called this a "Thesis Pandemic", a flood of Covid-19 related research papers being put out by researchers that get covered by new media before they are peer reviewed. And apparently many of the papers are made public by the researchers without enough data to really back up their thesis.

Because the virus is so new, there is really not enough data. And the researchers are doing their best to help with finding treatment, but apparently many of the papers are not peer reviewed enough before being picked out by news media to be covered.

I did google and found a few reading material below but not sure if it's what you are looking for.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/6/20-0251_article
will it be possible to use the « sendfile » system call to do zero copy file transfers on a quick connection?
They were linked to a Wikipedia page.
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the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent

Martingale is a sure-fire way to lose all your money rather quickly.
Absolutely, but this then means if apps want to adopt some sort of sandboxing, they will quite possibly have to adopt or obey some rules. Sometimes app developers will refuse. Being pragmatic, what can be done then?

Observing the system calls apps make can be eye-opening and sometimes very sad.
Burpees are actually super high impact. Done warm, let alone cold, they can cause patellar tendonopathy, back strains and hamstring strains.

This paper says cycling - I’d be inclined to agree. Obviously that’s a barrier to entry, because you’d want an indoor stationary bike. On low resistance settings the risk of injury would be very low coming in cold.
At least Apple doesn’t serve you malware or harvest your personal data for profit.
I was watching this video earlier tonight:

https://youtu.be/Vat-PKdQ13A?t=30

That looked like some really sloppy lab technique, and I hope that's not how it is really done in practice. If real tests are done by hand like this, with distractions, open air, and no mask on the technicians, it's easy to imagine false positives.
> It's not 1950

I was referring to 1517, actually.

> There is no lack of laziness that can scale in-person communication to compete with the internet.

That's the problem. Ideas used to require effort to spread. You'd have to be the President of the United States to get an audience big enough to drink bleach but now you can get kids to eat Tide pods without any effort at all. All ideas are not equal and free has distorted the entirety of human discourse.

> Duty of impartiality

There is no way to be impartial. YouTube censors probably millions of videos every day for outright illegal content, for copyright infringement, for inappropiateness. It's what they have to do to keep the site alive. It may appear to be mostly uncurated but that's not true -- any uncurated site eventually falls apart.

Anyway, most people seem to making the other argument lately -- that sites like Facebook, and Twitter, and YouTube are so big that they have duty to stop the spread of propaganda, fake news, libel, and harmful material. What would you say to that?
Yes it has been known for a while (a while in covid terms) that a larg number has no symptoms.
I've seen a couple friends go through a sort of change, it's kind of when they arrive or something.

One friend worked on cars for a couple years as a hobby. I saw him a few years later, and he said to me, "I can do anything here."

It was sort of a statement of mastery, of self-confidence and of happiness. He had maintained things, then diagnosed things, then fixed things, then fabricated things.

It's also not bluster or boneheadedness or hold-my-beer.

Like kk says, gracefully.
It is fun to imagine the negative herd immunity threshold implied by the erroneous form of the equation though :P

Say R0 is 2, 1/(1 - R0) means that we already hit herd immunity before SARS-CoV-2 even existed!
> them for intranet purposes is widely regarded as bad practice

We are talking about the Open Web here. I think TOR wouldn't be as popular if we do not allow custom TLDs.

And I politely disagree with ICANN's new gTLDs expansion. domains like blog.google is wrong.
TL;DR:

An hourly ~5min cycling exercise on a stationary bicycle trainer results in a 31% decrease of area under the curve (AUC)* of postprandial triglyceride levels in blood plasma and a 43% increase in whole body fat oxidation.

The cycling exercise consisted of five 4-sec all out sprints followed by 45-sec rests.

The exercise was performed once per hour during 8 hours of sitting and compared to 8 hours of pure sitting.

[*]: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/132777/what-does-a...
Similar to case law in America, the committee might be avoiding potential abuse in future requests that point back to the rules being seemingly modified for one specific symbol.
they weren't given the budget to solve it

When the Obama administration was consuming the GOP-created PPE stockpile in 2009 and not replacing any of it, his party controlled both houses of Congress... including a filibuster-proof majority of 60 in their Senate caucus for much of the 111th Congress. It's disingenuous to blame this on any "tea party" effect.
I was surprised to see this at the top of HN, but at least your response is at the top of the comments.

His points about censorship were as flawed as those about privacy...
The YouTube video he mentioned was blatant misinformation which compared incompatible numbers to create the illusion of a valid point (for example case fatality rate of the flu versus an extrapolated estimation of what the population wide fatality rate would be for COVID-19). It was essentially another "COVID is just another flu" conspiracy theory dressed up with convincing sounding numbers.

And people bought it. I was forwarded that video more than once.

The protests that Facebook banned were found (thanks to the work of both homebound Redditors and various reporters) to have been funded by commercial astroturfing companies and run through gun rights groups. It was an orchestrated misinformation campaign that was putting public health at risk.

Again, people bought it, thousands of them.

I agree with the author that the open internet should be sacred and consolidation by a few large players is bad. I agree that privacy and free speech are important. I dislike government intervention that threatens those principles.

But the examples he picked are, ironically, the perfect counters to his premise: Contact tracing that doesn't actually threaten privacy. Companies shutting down undeniable misinformation in an age of Russian troll farms.

If social media companies aren't proactive about tamping down verifiably false information then at some point governments are going to do it, and they'll make a huge mess of it, as they have with most tech regulation in recent years.

The author seems to be unwittingly arguing for the latter outcome.
>Since Chrome v80 they forced <video> <img> content to switch to HTTPS, if the page itself is served https. Is it really a good idea? So for Intranet URLs with customize TLDs, you have exactly three choices

If the intranet isn't set up to be able to serve over HTTPS, then wouldn't the intranet page be served over HTTP too and not make this an issue? Is it really common to have intranet sites where you have some of the endpoints covered by HTTPS and some not, and further, the HTTPS intranet page embedding content from intranet HTTP sites?
That's not the only possibility. You forgot taxes.

High government spending means high taxes now, or via debt, high taxes in the future.

In general, when the government consumes a lot, the private sector can consume less of the national product.
I do not think the open web is dying. It is still open.

There are, however, large (and popular) systems on the open web which might misuse privacy and instill a form of censorship. This is also part of the open web. What is dangerous is the open web is being dominated by such large system and the mass are accustomed to only using such systems. Such system may also encourage, non-anonymous, or real accounts, where in past, people may have been "accustomed" to anonymity. Not to say one is better than the other, but there may be places and at the moment the pendulum seems to be swung. I do believe there needs to be accountability, for cases like defamation. At same time, being free to be both anonymous or not both have their places.

On Censorship: Of course there is both sides to this. I think here a more appropriate method can be to "indicate", or inform the content may be questionable, for example, with an indicated banner or some other form. Rather than outright censor the content like a modern version of Fahrenheit 451.
The frightening one for me was R0 == 1: Basically, we'd need a positive or negative infinite percentage of people to be infected depending on which direction you approach it from.