skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m glad to see Schneier come out with an opinion against these apps. Up until now, it’s seemed like the privacy community has been almost excited about the idea of these tracking apps. Maybe because it’s a cool academic problem? I don’t know.

Take this DP-3T project for example. It’s really interesting tech, and a great group of people behind it. But the government doesn’t care for this nuance of what is privacy preserving tech and what is not. For now, maybe at the beginning, privacy will be emphasized. But the important part is conditioning citizens to be okay with the underlying idea of technology assisted self-surveillance, and compliance with notifications on their phone telling them to stay inside.

Schneier raises the point of false positives, which is important with regards to this idea of conditioning. What do you do when you get a notification that someone “nearby” tested positive? Do you take time off work and isolate yourself in your house for two weeks, just because some beacon passed within two meters of you within the past two weeks? Even if you have no symptoms at all? Just because you got a notification on your phone? This just seems unrealistic to me.

My other worry is the classic “slippery slope.” Maybe people are okay with these apps in their current form, if they’re privacy-preserving. (Personally, I doubt anyone outside tech can recognize the difference anyway, but let’s assume the wider populace takes its lead from us). Isn’t there a risk that eventually people will forget about the underlying details and privacy will be deemphasized?

“You were okay with TrackingApp 1.0, why wouldn’t you be okay with TrackingApp 2.0?”

If we give an inch now, will the government take a mile later? Who’s to say the emphasis on privacy will remain in place? Heck, it’s not even clear whether it will be in place from the beginning. The NHS is already saying they don’t want to use it, choosing instead to build their own centralized solution.

Again — it’s extremely concerning to me to see the general vibe of excitement coming out of the tech community around these apps. I’m really disappointed and would expect to see more skepticism. So, kudos to Schneier for going against the grain here.
I've previously been involved in maintaining a fork of teleport.
Take a look at one of the core source files: https://github.com/gravitational/teleport/blob/master/lib/au... (try grepping for 'not implemented')
Those look sweet, thanks!
How many of those people are really “unemployed” though? (Not a rhetorical question.) Lots of people are furloughed so they can collect unemployment, and both they and their employers expect them to return to work when the shelter orders are lifted.
Sure, but would that eliminate UB? C++ is all unsafe, and still full of UB gotchas.
I'd just like to comment as someone who's done sysadmin work - the nightmare security scenario for us definitely includes employees bringing their own unsecured hardware to the office and connecting it to the corporate network.

So many security issues with that - that it was never a reasonable request on your part.

Moreover, having also helped with support and procurement. BY FAR, the most efficient thing to do is get the exact same laptop model for everyone. Otherwise, the IT support team is constantly fighting with driver and support issues on different brands, models, bloatware-in-drivers - a new battle for each configuration.

One-size-fits-all laptops for the company makes 100% sense for a company.
the (in)famous Imperial model is not much different in nature. It's an agent-based and capable of making nice pictures like this.

https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/

However i have not been able to find a case where their model could reproduce the epidemiology of a previous epidemic like influenza.
Great question!

Size limits are pretty small, a little over 1mb per basket.

As for data retention, the account has a TTL of 5 days, baskets 3. Any activity on the account/bucket will result in the TTL's being refreshed.
I've wanted this product in the past and found the economics to be similarly challenging. [1] Some podcasts already put out professionally created transcriptions which is great, but I'd need to compile them in one place to figure out who said that one direct quote I remember.

Having people transcribe 5 minutes of audio/month in lieu of a subscription cost equal to 3 minutes of professional transcription was one model I had in mind.

I'm also hoping this works out well.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15826604
Comparing Covid-19 Deaths to Flu Deaths Is Like Comparing Apples to Oranges
As I mentioned in another comment, singular “they” is now standards compliant.

‘The singular “they” is a generic third-person singular pronoun in English. Use of the singular “they” is endorsed as part of APA Style because it is inclusive of all people and helps writers avoid making assumptions about gender. Although usage of the singular “they” was once discouraged in academic writing, many advocacy groups and publishers have accepted and endorsed it, including Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary.

‘Singular “they” is covered in Section 4.18 of the APA Publication Manual, Seventh Edition’

https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/grammar/si....
This is the best economic answer to the question of why dollar doesn't had inflation like other currencies that increase supply. much better than the "the rich will only inflate art prices" that is currently on top of this one.

But also ignores the military power. Which plays a huge part on why the dollar is always so strong, regardless of how much is printed.

When Saddam decided to sell oil in euro, or Venezuela decided to accept gold, the US was ready to bring democracy and peace.

On a free market you can't shut down a bakery if they decide to buy flour from your competitor.
You mean algebraic effects? Can you link to more about how the specifically enable better memory management? I always though that would require linear types (at least Rust-like memory management - I see how effects would enable memory-pool / stack-like memory management).
When all you have is a hammer...

The Fed has a twin mandate (price stability, maximum employment) and two tools to satisfy it with: rate adjustments and liquidity injection (QE). That's just about it. They aren't allowed or configured to do much of anything else.

If those two tools stop working or produce distorted results, they can't switch tools. They have to keep banging the hammer or choose to do nothing.

What we are seeing here is a failure of Congress and the Presidency, not the Fed. The Fed is doing the only thing it can possibly do in this situation. It has no more tools.
Hey HN! I'm Gareth. I've been writing technical tutorials for years and next month I am going to start focusing on it full time.

My hope is that I can solve the "readers don't want to pay for content any more but content is expensive to produce" problem by getting companies to pay for it instead. Unbiased technical articles are hugely valuable to companies who are looking to attract technical people to their product.

I have already taken on one client using this model and I am working with two others in slightly different ways but which still tie into this.

I'd love any feedback on the concept. The website is deliberately super minimalist, and it will never evolve to look like a "standard"[0][1] startup website

I also have ambitious goals for the company structure as I take on more writers. All Ritza employees will be treated as permanent "full time" employees, but will only be expected to work ca. 20h/week. More details coming soon.

[0] https://www.dagusa.com/
[1] http://www.novolume.co.uk/blog/all-websites-look-the-same/
Not sure how that's different at all. Hiring out === freedom of the individual. Not going to support any rule to keep University employees from going to work wherever they please.

Its the idea that the University would 'own' part of a commercial enterprise that's chilling. Means even more commercialization of Universities than at present.
absolutely this, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism
The most successful companies I've worked for have been unapologetic in their extreme marketing campaigns.
Covid 19 will eventually (a year or 2) go through the whole population and kill a lot of people, especially pensioners. Then it will be a background level killer like flu and cars. This is bad for many humans and people who love them but it's not bad for the economy.
I prefer this as well.

Rather not go down the road of having examples for every major platform.
It's not hard to filter ash and sulfur out of a coal-fired power plant's exhaust. In fact, it's normal for their brother "waste incinerator power plant", at least here in Germany.
>ARM is making its stuff free

As I've read they only provide free access to some of it's cores but you will still be required to pay the licensing fees if you use them.

It's like being able to read the source code for free but pay if you use the software. Pretty much what Unreal does with it's game engine. You can read the code for free, toy with it how much you like, build anything you want but at the moment you gain money from it, they want their share, too.
Uh, if 7.5% of people have jobs, there will have been riots and civil disturbances for months, food shortages, utility failures, limited medical care, and so on as the employment rate plummets.

It’s not possible to have 7.5% employment without total chaos, might as well be 0% in your (impossible) example.
Non paywalled access:

https://outline.com/CnEsTN
> I'm not sure if 1080p counts as hidpi

Pretty sure it doesn't :) That '1200p' screen I have certainly isn't in need of scaling for usability, but I have scaled it to match the size of screen elements on my 4k screen next to it.

I've been going back and forth between MacOs and linux a lot lately, been using my Mac as my work laptop for the last couple of years, now that I'm working remotely 100% I figured I'd switch over to linux. Honestly not having much issue with it, bar the odd "Teams has decided it can't use your headset microphone, for reasons" error.

Never even heard of Dia, let alone had call to use it. Just installed it and yes, for unknown reasons it doesn't seem to scale does it? Which is odd given it's presumably a gtk3 app and others do scale just fine. Looks like GIMP is another one that's not onboard yet.

My daily use at the moment is IntelliJ, MS Teams, Skype, Firefox and Steam. I guess gedit, meld and a few other utilities. They all seem to be fine. Perhaps my relatively constrained set of requirements is why I'm happy with it.
I endorse your effort! The trick in any new enterprise, is figuring out who has the money, and getting them to pay. Going to the company (with far deeper pockets than any individual reader) is a fair notion.
Nearly half of global workforce at risk of losing livelihoods
I'd guess on medical, yeah. And the older I get, life insurance is more expensive, but my 20 year term couldn't have been worth that much to a company...? I pay let's say $700/year for 20 years for a $1m policy. It seemed reasonable at the time - we didn't have close to $1m, and for the $14k over 20 years, it seemed like a reasonable move. The $14k/invested over those 20 years, in 'big winners', might get them to $1m, but likely not. A 7% return would get them to ~ $50k in value, assuming they had it all up front, which they don't. But I guess the chances of me dying in those 20 years was statistically low enough that they made that bet.
If a software doesn't use standard features tondo standard stuff, and in the end forces users to go through wild goose chases, then obviously there is a problem with the software.
I was seriously disappointed when I read the article.
Another take: all these things (shutdowns, contact tracing, social distancing) are measures to give people a sense of security, and make them feel as if the PIC are doing something useful.

At the end of the day, the virus will do what the virus does, with or without apps. Until there's herd immunity or a vaccine, this will remain a politically charged issue and there will be constant jockeying for political clout (and I'm using the term 'political' in a sense that includes private entities trying to win favours in the eyes of the public).

I agree with Bruce, the contact tracing apps are goofy and I don't see how they will make the virus stop spreading without other changes such as widely available cheap home test kits.
jpeg compression works better on photos, gif compression works better for horizontal lines of repeating color

One of the easiest things to compress is repetition. After that local effects are going to be easiest

Remote effects -- i.e. assignment, is going to be np complete -- i.e. if the best compression for x depends on everything else, then zip is going to have to look at everything else for every single bit it compresses!!

So I don't know the details of zip's compression, but I'm sure it doesn't compress side-effects well
Also, there is one specific thing that I absolutely require, which is an option that puts large screenshots/video of the product (software) in action at the very top. I didn't see anything like that so it's a non-starter for me.
.org has been the defacto home of non profits on the internet for decades. PIR being awarded the contract was in no small way because of their non profit nature. Pretending otherwise is being intentionally misleading.

.ORG has been more expensive than .COM lately because of price increases and the fact ICANN uncapped them was a major concern. Which is what sparked this whole saga, and opportunity for an uncapped monopoly which would disproportionately affect non profit users of the internet.

The non profit aspect plays a major role in this.
How I'm Making Coworker Appreciation a Regular Practice
Well, I would say - having grown up in the early days of the internet - that before the 'monopoly model' of internet companies, consumers simply didn't tolerate gatekeeping by private companies. It used to be easier to find the dissenting voices online than it is today, and keeping out minority opinions was seen as delivering an inferior product.

Essentially, big tech had been in a Moloch trap to the benefit of consumers, and now they've managed to co-ordinate their way out of it.
Database Basics: Indexes
Of course I meant a 2013 rMBP, I'm not a time traveller :)
I'm still impressed that it can do its scaling stuff on a 4K screen, using onboard intel iris graphics. It's been a great investment that little machine.
Yeah, I'm out-of-date because I'm older than that 'decision'. Which is why its jarring, and will remain so despite appeal to authority.
lmao I was just about to say something similar. This dude was blinded by rage to the point where he just didn't....check the settings?

Kudos to him for owning the mistake and keeping the post up. I'd do a shame delete immediately.
They do indeed upstream patches. Here's an example: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/10/8/851
I really think the equivalent of paper journals is the way to go.

As well as some way to report to grocery stores etc you've visited after testing positive.

Heck an answering machine at the grocery store that reports known cases, which everyone calls each Sunday would be enough.
Microsoft Build 2020 registration is open, free, live and virtual
I use MetalLB to allocate RFC1918 IPs out of a dedicated pool to LoadBalancer services. MetalLB then publishes these to my router over BGP because, you know, why not?

I then have external-dns running (https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns) which manages the relevant A/CNAME records on Google DNS (other DNS providers are supported) so that I can resolve "myservice.mydomain.com" to the service's IP address.

I wrote a bit about the BGP bit last year: https://www.growse.com/2019/04/13/at-home-with-kubernetes-me...

Admittedly, I have no desire to expose any of these service to the internet, but if I did I could use an IPv6 address on the service instead, or add a static NAT rule to the router to forward traffic to the service IPv4 address. Auto provisioning of NAT rules feels icky, so I'd probably go down the ipv6 route if I wanted to do this.
I think all it is the market is pricing in a relatively fast recovery, and looking 12 months ahead of today's crisis. Whether that's correct or not, time will tell. Also, I think recovery will be highly sector and company dependent.
8 MILLION tonns of plastic waste EVERY YEAR are dropped in the OCEAN!

man this is scary
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Cool idea for an add-on!

I've noticed that I feel better about giving feedback to uncompensated developers using "this is great and" instead of "this is great but."

It could make or break someone's day.
Stalking people and trying to incite conflict is against the rules on HN. Freedom of speech allows you to be racist, sexist and start verbal battles in the real world. Not here. You do not have freedom of speech on HN.

You need to back down now because not only are you violating the rules, you are deliberately stalking me to try to start conflict. This is a flagrant violation.

You are not disagreeing with me, you are trying to start a fight. Go away. I am telling you right now, whether you disagree or agree with me or not, I will not have any further conversations with you. It is pointless for you to continue unless your goal is to start shit, In which case you need to stop now because that is a violation.

You want to disagree, than disagree. Your initial comment was not a disagreement, it was an insult based off of another insult you made on another thread. Back the fuck off.

@dang, please moderate. Or please add a feature where you can block certain abusive users from replying.
Dell's developer edition laptops have Ubuntu preinstalled and are well-received:

https://www.dell.com/linux

Lenovo's upcoming ThinkPad laptops include some models with preinstalled Fedora as an option:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22968280
And what if you can easily get tested if you get notified?
From reading the comments I can see it's not exactly obvious what to look for if you're interested to explore beyond what's embedded in the article, so here's a bit of a guide...

- How To Make Quarantine Sauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OEDjDKV038

That's the one that kicked the whole thing off, back in Mid March when panic buying cleared the shelves of frozen & packet food.

The others are:

Quarantine Spirit Risotto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSI4ZHVSatw

- Sin Bin Soup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIwhdOx9BL0

- End of Days Bolognese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw_Ze9zIafM

- The Crowd Goes Mild Curry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uBDNhe6Gkk

- Wham Bam Thank You Lamb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UWVym41dew

And if you're curious about the kinds of videos he was making before this foray into cooking:

- The Overpriced Boat Show Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXO3epj1lY4

- Summernats What I Reckon (at a car festival in which a major component is hotted up old cars doing burnouts):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9EOundEuw8
Part of the issue is that the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports six unemployment numbers, all with different standards for what constitutes 'unemployment.' All of these numbers are useful, but often people throw around different numbers without explaining which unemployment number they're actually talking about, which can result in seeing wildly different numbers.

Source: https://www.bls.gov/lau/stalt.htm
That is wonderful news! I look forward to trying it out
After the peak of unemployment during the great recession, it took three years to get the U3 unemployment rate down from 10% and back below 8%. Three years. 2%.

We're somewhere around 23% right now. Call the peak 28%-30%. Assume a sharper bounce from the peak for various likely reasons. Can you imagine what things are going to look like in three years, if we're still near 14% unemployment? How about six years to get back to the worst of the great recession levels? It's going to take nearly a decade to get back to a normal job market. The market obviously isn't properly pricing based on the economic destruction and the fiscal consequences that will be entailed. The stock market is rolling around on the floor high on the Fed's supply while the house is on fire. How long can that last? I'm going to specifically watch for the inflection point of how fast the economy bounces back (or not), as that'll be an enormous confidence juncture for the market. It's pricing for the sharpest V shaped recovery imaginable, when the real recovery is more likely to look like a jagged, slowish, prodding swoosh; the difference between those two realities and how the present is being priced, is supplied by the Fed.

Can the US Government spend an extra $8 trillion beyond what they already have to pad everything through the next three years? They can, I don't know if they will. I suspect after this very brief period of barely bipartisan voting to support the population and economy, Congress will rip at eachother like we've rarely seen before. The partisan walls will go back up before this year is out. Each stimulus measure will separate the parties a bit more than the last. There will be wild political brawling between those who have survived this mostly intact and don't want to keep spending at the highly elevated rates, and those who want to keep providing full stimulus-level benefits to the very large number of unemployed persons for many years. The cost will be something beyond extreme to handle a situation with unemployment ranging between 10%-30% for a mere three years (how about if we spend six years elevated beyond the great recession peak unemployment rate?). Sympathy will dwindle rapidly in large segments of the population and people will begin to argue primarily from their personal bias and economic condition, seeking to guard their own survival against economic disaster.