skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The specification (at least v1.1) contains nothing about uploading keys. The API appears to provide only the minimum required for protocol implementation.

The ENSelfExposureInfoRequest class can be used by an app to obtain diagnosis keys for the previous 14 days. What an app does with those keys is up to whoever implements it.

https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/cu...
I'll answer 2. You are correct that clocks just to either side of the throat will stay synchronized. But it's important to remember that time dilation isn't some kind of absolute effect. The easiest way to talk about it is in terms of clocks following paths.

Imagine you have two spaceships in London. At the fire of a starting gun, they both take off, and fly around, each one taking a different path. Each ship has a clock that records the time elapsed since it took off. Eventually, they both return to the same landing pad in New York, landing at the same time. Thanks to time dilation, the readings on the clocks of the two ships might be different, even though they started and landed at the same places and times. Imagine we start both ships from a space station in deep space. One ship doesn't leave the station at all, it just stays in its docking bay, with its clock ticking along. The other flies down to the surface of Earth, sits there for a few years, and then flies back up to the space station. Thanks to the gravitational field of Earth, the ship that stayed home has more time elapsed on its clock than the ship that went to Earth.

Now suppose that each ship is carrying one end of a wormhole. The clocks on either end of the wormhole must stay synchronized. Someone sitting in the middle of the wormhole would be able to see the inside of one ship by looking to their left, and the inside of other ship by looking to their right. The clocks start out synchronized. As you point out, no matter how the ships move about, this does not change as the ships fly around. Anyone standing in the middle of the wormhole always sees that the clocks on the wall of each ship are in sync.

So: Entering the wormhole from ship A when ship A's clock reads X means you exit at ship B, at the time when ship B's clock reads X. And vice-versa for going from B to A. Now thanks to time dilation, ship B might arrive back at the station when its clock reads X, while ship A, which stayed behind, has a clock reading of (X + 20 minutes). If you are the station master, you can go into each ship to look at the clocks, and you will find that ship A's clock is always 20 minutes ahead of ship B's. But suppose that instead of walking between the ships through the station, you use the handy wormhole that connects them directly.

Suppose you enter ship B when its clock reads Y, and walk through the wormhole. You exit at ship A when its clock also reads Y. Then you step out of ship A, and walk through the station to ship B. It's clock reads (Y - 20 minutes), since according to people on the station, ship A's clock is still 20 minutes ahead of ship B's. When you originally entered ship B, its clock read Y. It now reads (Y - 20 minutes). Time travel. By retracing your path in the opposite direction, you can also travel 20 minutes into the future.
> Once you become a naturalized Swiss citizen in Zurich, you’re free to move to Zug, or Jura, or wherever else you please.

That's what I wasn't sure about. Thanks!
Why is MoCA still so rare and expensive? Is there a technical reason or is it just some combination of business reasons?

It seems like it's been the obvious choice for no-new-wires home networking for years but you basically can't find it at retail and have to look for it even online.
I think I understand where you are getting at. You seem to be saying no matter how much "evidence" you seem to be getting towards something, it never proves it, no matter what the claim is. You could have a million data points of "evidence", it never truly prove something. And this also applies to a disproof claim, no matter how much data point against something, it doesn't prove you've truly disproven. Except that this line of reasoning is false.
Statements of the type "For all..." only needs a single counterexample to be disproved. And those "For all..." type of statements, are usually the type you find in sciences like physics or chemistry etc.. Those are often called "laws".
Well, one issue, is that this article (and many like it) only address controversy, and not whether a given controversy is warranted by evidence. I think it's important in discussing intellectual diversity to emphasize that going against established thought requires compelling evidence, usually rightfully so.

It also doesn't help that their only example of intellectual diversity is itself flawed, and not convincing, even to the authors.
Thank you so much! They are staying safe but I heard the government is only paying the police there right now, everyone else is on their own right now
Focusing on begging bezos to bless his workers with a livable wage seems like the wrong angle. It should be illegal for such a business to operate this way to begin with.
By that reasoning you could use said puppets to press play on bootleg Disney movies shown to theater audiences and claim that was fun, right?
No law for house arrest. The "consent of the governed" comment was about state emergency powers.

There's no specific argument to litigate until a specific business opens and gets into a legal dispute with a specific state.
I don't know if we're there yet, because the government won't say!
I do that, too, but only as a last resort. Usually idealo or Google is sufficient to track a shop down.
Former actual scientist here.

This! This, exactly! This, a million times over!

If I could teach people one scientific concept to help us get through this, it wouldn't be immunology or epidemiology. It would be an understanding of uncertainty, where it comes from, what it means, and how to handle it.
Ask HN: Avenues to study (or work on) societal effects of tech?
TL;DR: Working as a SWE at a big tech company; I like the money but hate my job. What can I do (whether industry or grad school) that will let me more deeply learn about societal effects (attention span reduction, radicalization of discourse, ubiquity of advertising) of lots of 21st century tech? (and potentially contribute something positive, e.g. humanetech.com)

Much longer version:

I'm a mid-20s SWE, currently working at Big Tech Company (since graduating college). The work is okay, and the compis great, but I've been feeling burnt out. Forcing myself to be productive working on something I feel no investment in -- regardless of money -- is wearing away at me. I'd really like to leave my job (pending covid uncertainty) but without a strong idea of what I’d like to do, this is daunting. That brings me to my question:

I've been developing a strong interest in broad societal effects of tech and the internet (hard to represent in a single phrase). I'm fascinated by topics like:

- Long-term shift toward bite-sized content, causing reduced/compromised attention spans, and what consequences could be
- Evolution of discourse online (e.g. radicalization, echo chambers), and how we might develop a better model of “healthy” discourse, and how to evaluate that
- How ubiquitous advertising has become - and more fully understanding the tradeoffs of the targeted advertising model from both a moral and economic standpoint

Are there serious avenues I could take to dig into these? (Reputable master’s / PhD programs, or companies doing meaningful work) I’ve devoured a lot of books around the topic but they feel limited to a realm of surface level, pop-sciencey analysis, and I’m curious if there are ways to more deeply study this, or contribute in some way.

This is potentially a very broad question - but I know HN has a high degree of interest in a lot of these topics, so I was hoping to better understand what avenues there are.
As I think of it, credit (what got destroyed) and currency (what was used to create the credit) are interchangeable - $10 of credit buys as many seedlings as $10 of currency, hence we think of them as one 'thing' - I might call 'money' the category including both, though I'm no expert in economics either and these might be nothing like the official jargon. But what does seem reliable is that destroying $4 of credit has the same effect on the price of apples as would destroying $4 of currency, though the latter is a more rare event.
Summerwinds got closed and has to do home delivery only per the site.

After an outcry Yamagami's re-opened for customers with limited hours (rate limiting, etc) this past weekend. Not sure if Summerwinds is going to get the same reprieve.

Neither is setup for online orders though. Summerwinds has a limited set of things online so you have to call. From what I've heard its very hard to get through on the phone because they're overwhelmed. I wish I could just e-mail a list and wait a week; but they're not doing that either.
yes, FB is poor man's internet.
The Iliad is an example of a classic with a bunch of meaningless suffering. But, the story is much deeper than 'bad stuff happens, the end' or 'bad stuff happens, that's just life'. I can write that kind of story all day, and I appeared deep to myself as a kid because I could 'see through' the meaning. At the end of the day, that sort of story is just boring. A real artist is the one who does get to some kind of coherent meaning to the whole thing. E.g. Iliad is a commentary on the Hellenist virtue ethic, and questioning why an ideally virtuous man like Hector is pulverized by a rage controlled tyrant like Achilles, without merely amounting to the juvenile 'virtue is meaningless' that passes as intellectualism these days. The same question is asked in the Psalms by the writer wondering at the fact that so many good people are oppressed and the wicked flourish. The Iliad began a conversation that echoes deep throughout history even to our present day. 'Bad stuff happens' just doesn't have that kind of staying power. People intuitively know there is more to our reality than that. That's why we are so bothered by sociopaths running our companies and governments. If 'bad stuff happens' is all there is to the story, then we would not be bothered.
That's insane. If they're hesitant to open up now, they will never feel comfortable opening up.
Turing Test: Can Machines Think? – Discussion of the 1950 Paper by Alan Turing
This is what everyone at Starbucks is taught.
1 opens the existence of 2 as possible
AI Masters Tetris
Which is why it makes no sense to continue the lockdown.
Yeah I’ve done a couple of play throughs. It’s very good overall, just a bit slow on the turns on big maps.
Six Bay Area counties intend to extend the shelter-in-place order through May 31
Conversely a lot of corporate iOS apps enable remote work, so...
The iPad is great in its own right (what "functional setbacks"?), and if it's also possible to get a laptop-like experience from it, it's even better.
I've also spent millions of dollars on ads. My experience is that targeting, specifically highly targeted audiences and lookalikes are far more important than creatives.
It’s not that competitors aren’t good. At end of the day, Amazon is pretty darn good.

I think we’ve started to acclimate to how good it is that we forget the old world.
SPDK has had its share of detractors here on news.yc [0], especially with io_uring around the block [1]. It'd be interesting to see the improvements to these io-centric applications once they move to io_uring [2], which, in a way, like RocksDB, is sponsored by Facebook [3].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10511960

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22266503

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19843464

[3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/24/252
Looks like a plataue to me

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-deaths-per-mi...

These both use the same data, but the rolling average shows the trend.
This is evil. Now I do not need to find the laptop! Thanks for sharing. Now can we get Master Of Orion?
Piraté Un Instagram
Messenger Comes to the Big Screen: New Desktop App for Group Video Calls/Chats
I recently found out of a site (https://syessa.com) selling household items (hand soap, detergent, dish liquid, etc.) at equal to or cheaper prices than Amazon. Better to support small businesses! I ordered from them last thursday and received my order today.
Perhaps I have missed the point, then. I see the same magnitude of departure of Razor from pure C#, QML from pure Qt C++, and JSX from pure DOM JS. All of the above move the developer from procedural native code, to declarative markup.

If the assertion is just that `var div = document.createElement('div')` is quite similar to `var div = React.createElement('div');` then of course I agree. In this sense, JSX+React is to DOM what XAML+WinForms is to win32. I had assumed we were discussing conceptual leap between native and framework-based UI implementations.

From a UI standpoint, it would be virtually just as hard for a JSX dev to implement a React app with purely `React.createElement()` as it would be to just write a native DOM application.
So why did Georgia feel the need to anoint this one the official annotated code?

There is obviously a market for annotations, what stopped LexisNexis from just doing the annotations on it's own initiative and selling the result itself?

What doomed their copyright is that they took state money to do it. Is it just corruption and they figured they can charge both sides?
Academics Should Not Be Activists (2018)
“Around 800 children will die of malaria today. A small group of super rich people could stop it for a sum of money so small that they would likely never even notice its absence. But they choose not to.”

Brutal.

The theoretical appeal of capitalism is that it allocates resources efficiently, is it not? Can someone explain to me how letting all these children die of malaria is efficient, given the cost/benefit of eliminating it? Is our economic system really allocating those resources in the best way?

Edit: come on guys if you’re going to downvote me then try to think of a reason I’m wrong..
Thanks. I found that explanation a long time ago in some remote corner of the internet... some Japanese website about Transformers and Decipticons as I recall.

Ages ago -- when the Internet was young -- I tried to put the explanation in the Foucaults article on Wikipedia... it lasted about 30 minutes before getting deleted and replaced with the usual trig stuff.
Its a dog on a 4 Core i7 with a really big map. I cannot imagine what it is like on the iPad, but I am going to buy it and find out.
I believe Jason Snell is a happy iMac Pro user.
I'll have to check it out. I've always liked the unsanitized endings. The wolf fell upon Red and ate her -- the end. The wolf fell down the chimney and into the stew, and the smartest pig ate him... probably along with a few pieces of his brothers.

There's one in the Grimm Brothers called "The Knapsack, the Hat, and the Horn" that's an incredibly bleak fable about power and corruption.
First time amphetamines were used was by Nazi troops in WWII. The show I was watching that mentioned it was invented in Germany and used for the push into France by the Nazis also mentioned an interesting side effect of it also reducing empathy.
> While an improvement Typescript is a far cry from the likes of Ada and doesn't really compare.

Given their respective popularities perhaps the point of diminishing returns was crossed somewhere?

> Perhaps the solution is to not use Javascript, since it always forces you into an "ecosystem" of "frameworks" at every turn - and they are not cheap! Just another thing to throw on the stack. mb's be damned.

This is becoming outdated information thanks to the likes of Svelte:

https://svelte.dev/

and Solid:

https://github.com/ryansolid/solid
I doubt very much that you implemented a proper command log with truncation and rollback for leaders and followers, a state machine, leader election with voting, epochs, timeouts with smart backoffs, pipelining, async transport servers and clients with object serialization, quorums, initialization and discovery, persistent state, graceful shutdown, adding and removing members, a proper event queue, snapshots, and proper distributed testing.

You can build a toy implementation in a weekend if you have a cookbook. A production-ready implementation takes a bit more.
Foodora to cease operations in Canada, citing highly saturated market
>> but because it was bad science (and especially bad policy).

is this not exactly what the original article cautions against? if it's bad science (which should be debatable) it's value as policy follows directly and doesn't need to be stated or discussed seperately.
Maybe a specific iPad Pro version that’s not running at sub-native resolution and with lower graphic settings than the Nintendo Switch port. Civ6 on iPad was a very impressive port when released, but it hasn’t improved to take advantage of recent hardware.
Done poorly, it could easily do that.

I was thinking more of offering reasons for downvotes due to the apparent increase in tribalism and what not, although I didn't exactly use the best examples.
For me the borrow checker is what I find interesting about rust.

I wouldn't call it bad pr.
Outcry from taxpayers to city officials or store management? Was that done by calling or emailing?
Are there any studies on the impact and benefits of tea vs coffee?
The speed between the Ethernet over powerline nodes is independent of the Ethernet connection of the devices connected to them.

You can see the link speed between the nodes in the TPlink app.

They also support LAG, I have two of the 3 ports LAGed to a Switch.

From what I can tell the biggest issue with these other than the wiring/noise issues is if people rely on them as a switch.

I used to have 3 devices connected to them (AP, TV and Xbox) switching to LAG and a proper 1gbe TPlink switch that ironically costs more than the homeplug more or less solved my issues but ymmv.

I also think that the UK residential power wiring that uses ring circuits might be better for homeplug usecases than other curicut types.
That just means that US has the most advanced testing regime.
Technically, it depends on what babel plugin and configuration you use (e.g. it compiles to `h(Foo, {bar: "baz"})` for a preact setup and to completely different code w/ a Solid.js setup)
Was it some kind of forbidden question?
I haven't bought from Amazon in about three years. And I'm ordering online quite a lot. Only this month: a bike (boc24.de), bike equipment (nanobike.de), several books (booklooker.de, medimops.de, thalia.de, hugendubel.de), a Whisky (mcgin.de), a pizza stone (otto.de), USB microskope (digitalo.de) ...

No problem or hassle whatsoever. I just find a shop (usually idealo), then I order - done.

It's so simple, there's not much to write about - lest a guide.

> You can often cut out the middleman if you are buying electronics. For computers, phones and TVs, Dell, Apple and Samsung are all offering free delivery on their products

That's why the guide goes beyond its purported goal and tries to avoid other shops as well?

> Environmentally friendly cleaning products, pet food and baby gear are available at Ethicalsupermarket.com. Standard delivery in the UK is free on orders over £50, or £3.95 on smaller orders.

Then specific shops and information about shipping?

Whatever - useless text. Just order somewhere else. It's that easy. (at least in Germany) (yes, I hate Amazon - yes, I make a living with AWS)

---

Special love goes to:

- booklooker.de

- medimops.de

- notebookgalerie.de

- thalia.de

- mcgin.de
Do you think it is moral to use that? The creator is trying to make money off the video so they can continue to create. You are essentially stealing from them-taking the content they made without paying for it (watching the ad).

If you don't like "native vlogger-style ads" don't watch those videos.
On my California Kaiser plan, COBRA was about 35% cheaper than the equivalent Covered California offering.
I've got to ask - why were you carrying both?

What does one do, that the other couldn't?

Is it something basic like touch? or something slightly more complex (but evidently do-able) like a detachable keyboard?
At least in CA, if you opt out of COBRA, you can't opt back in later.
>It's a poor suggestion either way.

Why?

Close to 2000 paying customers, and 20 years of history isn't good enough for you?
The SSB issue with json is that it plays with the json after signing it. Just don't do that.
> and have been trying to tease that information out of you

I really didn't get that from your comments. I will try.

1st off I'm no expert in aerospace regulation or anything like it so perfectly happy to be wrong, but my assumption is this: The 737max issue arose because of a combination of two things. 1 the engineering standards at Boeing have been eroded (so they cut corners) and 2) the FAA has been subject to regulatory capture to the degree that they did not catch this (or did not/could not act effectively when they did). If I'm wrong here please advise.

Now I suspect there are a lot of differences in how broadly these things are applied so I will try and draw as close a parallel as I can. Imagine you and I have a med dev company and we are building a new version of a device X, call it X2, and we are using a self-predicated 510(k) to do it. When we file that we still have a full system V&V. We have a hazard analysis that can included everything for X, but must focus on any functional differences between X and X2, We run all our system trace & testing, produce he documentation, and file it with the FDA panel. Now if the panel don't like anything in the V&V (or the rest of the filing) they can ask use to support it better, and that includes the previously covered aspects. If they think the predicate is too much of a stretch they can kick it back. If we can't make them comfortable they can push it to refile with new methods or a to a full PMA (i.e. clinical trials) and force us to go the whole route (along with anyone else doing the same thing, they can't just target our company). We absolutely can propose pretty much anything to address the variations in our machine, but they don't have to accept any of them.

So I can see how we might pressure our engineers to cut corners, and we can see how we might paper it over to file. But I can't see the mechanism where the FDA fails to do it's part (or for that matter, how a clinical trial would have caught everything that might be missed that way).

Make sense?

Again, I'm not saying the FDA couldn't have such a problem, all regulatory bodies can. I just don't see evidence that it does have this problem. And the narrative that the creation of a 510(k) path was due to regulatory capture seems pretty weak, for what it's worth.
Hi, Andrew. :)

Agree, I shouldn't have been loose wrt the distinction between inlining and LTO. I think I also ran that experiment with inlining sized-deletes and came to the same (surprising, to me) conclusion.
Is there an api compatibility for this thing so it can be switched easily out for things like Rocksandra?
I suppose she'd be able to sell "official copies" or something akin to that, but no matter what she's still not capturing as much of the value she created if she cannot assert a copyright. There's also nothing in copyright law precluding her from also getting sponsors. If anything, copyright law makes it clearer where everyone stands and so makes connecting writers and sponsors (or employers through a work-for-hire agreement) much easier.
IMO the iMac Pro exists because they got caught with their pants down on not having a Mac Pro ready to go in time.
I've spend hundreds of cents on ads, so take this with salt, but is it futile to pick "the most important thing".

A bit like is exercise more important, or diet? Well if you are eating only lard and running every day, then diet is important for you, and if you are eating really healthily but sitting in a chair 14 hours a day, then doing more exercise is the impactful thing.