skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you haven't even hit bottom yet. Reality is much, much worse. There are notable exceptions, but the overwhelming odds are that every single relationship in your life-- your wife, family, friends, etc-- are just as dishonest and transactional. Think about it. If you really screw up badly, your wife will leave you, your friends won't return your calls and will refer to you only in hushed tones clucking about "what a shame it is". Their support of you isn't some inherent validation of You as a being, it's in support of you as you exist in society and in the larger world.

We have spent years, even decades, cultivating and grooming our own prisons. In the end, everything we cherish and value will be destroyed. It is 100% certain and there is no way around it. It's such a bleak thing to consider, yet at the same time it is an absolute truth.

After wrestling with these facts for years, I have come to understand the Zen koan about cherishing every moment drinking tea from a glass because to the master, the glass is already broken. Control of the larger world and the people within it are an illusion. In many respects, you are already dead and forgotten. The only thing you can do is admire the stunning beauty and sheer improbability of it all, and to be as kind as possible to those who deserve it, and to many who do not deserve it.
I don't understand what Bevin means by this. Is he being sarcastic?
The question I am not seeing addressed in the many, many comments below is: why is there such a large pool of people willing to believe, and act on, ideas like "5G causes COVID-19 symptoms", "vaccines are harmful", anything by Alex Jones, etc?

It is because people are afraid, and because there is a breakdown of trust in Authorities and Experts to tell the truth and keep people safe. Governments and intelligence agencies lied about Iraq and beyond. Large corporations were the only ones saved in 2008. There is a reproducibility crisis in science, which it pays lip service, and lip service only, to solving. Newspapers have become partisan, ad-driven shills. Corporations buy politicians, and together they invent truths as needed to further the bottom line.

This is the context in which people are increasingly skeptical of Authorities. "5G causes coronavirus", I think, like flat-earth belief, is less an actual belief a person could actually have, than an almost symbolic statement of distrust in Experts. The specific belief is completely unfounded, but the feeling behind it is not.

In this context, I fail to see how corporate censorship could possibly be the answer. At the very best, it is a band-aid. The necessary solution is for our institutions to regain their credibility. The first in many steps will be for them to show some humility and acknowledge that they have failed us badly. Until that credibility is re-established, they need to use a softer touch, rather than doubling down on the obviously false idea that their words are the Infallible Truth.
The ABC News article was deemed "not correct":

"As a matter of practice the National Center for Medical Intelligence does not comment publicly on specific intelligence matters. However, in the interest of transparency during this current public health crisis, we can confirm that media reporting about the existence/release of a National Center for Medical Intelligence Coronavirus-related product/assessment in November of 2019 is not correct. No such NCMI product exists," Colonel Dr. R. Shane Day, director of the National Center for Medical Intelligence, said.

Quoted here a few paragraphs down:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/politics/intel-agencies-covid...
> No one wants ISP (or in fact anyone) deciding what sites they can visit or not.

A lot of people do want that because they view prohibiting it as a government take over of the internet. I personally think that is absurd, but it's a very popular opinion.
Already a solved problem - https://www.ringcentral.com/fax/features/how-it-works.html
> Is it really that bad?

It's not that it's bad, but Oracle/MSSQL have had the benefit of decades of corporate muscle, researchers, and Fortune 500 clients to help pave the way.
> Stop spreading FUD. Governments have had access to your location and associates for decades via the mobile phone network.

In that case the governments do not need this silly contact tracing app. They can just use the data they already have.
Not true. The iOS location history is encrypted and stored in your iCloud account with a key that never leaves your device. So it's quite different from Google's Location History: Apple stores it, but they cannot read it.

And if you disable iCloud, the data remains exclusively on your device.
With the sheer amount of scam, privacy invading apps that are preying on people’s fear, can you blame them?
This kind-of explains how I felt when I was working in software. After we launched a successful product, I lost all motivation to continue open source for some time and eventually I lost my interest in the tech we were working with as well. Still to this day, my commits went down from >1k/yr to less than 10.

What helped me was changing to a different industry. I went into electric vehicles and now I write drive by wire firmware. It was really interesting to find that certain industries NEED help from those that know how to write and scale software, because they are traditionally led my the dinosauric.
>>> They scrapped that plan after they updated the model to account for ventilator shortages.

Then the use of ventilators was shown to be ineffective, so they can re update the models and bring back the original plan.

(See recent articles. In summary none of the patients who are put on ventilators survive.)
The thing about Pai is that he is really good at the politics part of his job. I was listening to a podcast where he was interviewed, and at the end I was almost convinced he actually cares about the American public and what's best for them.
I am kind of shocked and glad to see someone has already built this -- for the last few years I have been thinking on and off about an electronic ID based crypto currency UBI.

I see the biggest challenges to the succes of such a project in:

- hardware difficulties: many android phones do not support the extended APDU commands necessary to use the digital signing application of the chip on the passport. If UBIC is not immediately usable on almost every phone, it may not find wide adoption. And an UBI like this only gains value through adoption.

- government restriction of passport use: afaik, the German ID card can only be used to digitally sign data from sanctioned sources, i. e. your service that uses the ID card to sign data must first authorize itself to the ID card using a valid certificate issued by a government certificate authority.

- government sabotage: while flooding the system with fake passport certificates might mean bad PR, the government ultimately controls all the trust anchors and will do this if UBIC gets dangerous. It's good to have different UBICs per country, this way the power of a single government is limited.

- privacy: since reliable passport revocation is not available, proof of passport is not enough to prevent multiple passport use. I think, aside from schemes where people meet in person and check each other's passports, only a non-anonymous proof of identity system will work.
It all seemed so innocent and helpful a decade ago...

Free GPS and navigation services have a price. I doubt many people are going back to Garmin anytime soon. Just the way it is now.
Would you share yours? I'd really like to hear from an older person. I'd imagine you know 10x of what I do now. It would be incredibly helpful if you could share some of what you've experienced and learned.
If I'm reading the Wikipedia page correctly [0], APM's latest season finished in 2018, although it did publish updates in early 2019. IIRC to be eligible for this year's Pulitzer (specifically the one in audio reporting, which didn't exist in 2019), the season would have had to been published in 2019.

That said, This American Life did win a Pulitzer in 2011, but it had ProPublica as a publishing partner, and I believe it was the first time a journalism Pulitzer went to a project that did not publish in print [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Dark_(podcast)#Season_2...

[1] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/about/announcements/pulitze...
I was in Vegas end of January(actually heard about Kobe's helicopter crash there). I remember it was a blip on the radar at the time, but people were still thinking that it was localized to China. While they do keep casinos pretty clean, there is still just a lot of hand to machine contact and not to mention higher than average smoking(raising your dirty hand to your mouth). It is a pretty phenomenally low number. I wonder, though if its low because of the transient nature of people in Vegas. They could have gone to vegas and gotten sick long after returning home.
There sort of is - the clock battery in the NES cartridge. They tend to run down slightly slower without usage. Rough estimates suggest 50 years if untouched, but I've seen a handful of well-loved cartridges expire since '95.
Thanks for making this and thanks for making time to take care of yourself! Cultivating your creative energies is an achievement in itself.
Maybe in terms of average density but that's not what matters. In Vegas, the vast majority of people are packed near the strip and density there is much higher than the average for the metro area.
100M dollar unicorn!
In the old days, people went to church, played sports or bought a new pair of $300 sneakers to find fulfillment. Maybe bootcamps need a liberal arts or sports track.

How long will this hangover from change-the-world-itis last?
In the lesser sceme?
There are many evils past whatever is rank 1 evil, and they are not invalidated nor disappear because of rank 1.
Rose/ICKE III: 1M People Fighting for Freedom – London Real
You don't need to have a political opinion in either direction to see which FCC chairs help telecoms and which help the American people.

All you have to do is look at the telecom response to policy. Most have been in favor of Pai's policies, and were against Wheeler's policies.

Clearly one of them is working harder for the telecoms than the other.
They mentioned a few weeks back that the end goal would be if you had the app it could act as a virtual health passport and you’d be allowed to go out shopping, go to work and the pub, etc. And without it? Stay at home. So yeah, technically voluntary, but, y‘know...
Thanks, I will check out your input on table inheritance and update it.
I think, putting acceptable conduct above barely legal conduct for corporations is how they get away with pretty much everything.

A bunch of people on internet being mad at them has in my opinion not proven very effective at changing their behavior and making the people in charge accountable for their acts.
I think you have it the wrong way around. Geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) are more prevalent in high-voltage wires because they have low DC resistance. The longer a line, the larger the induced voltage. High-voltage lines can extend up to 1,000s of km, as they are most efficient. Then its basically V=IR. So low-resistance wires and long distances = larger GICs.

The danger is not from the cables burning out (extreme GIC events can lead to a couple of hundred Amps, which shouldn't be a problem for the cables), but the addition of the DC current in an operational transformer will push it into core saturation leading to nasty effects. Twisted/untwisted cables don't come into it.

Source: postdoc who models Carrington-scale events, and did my PhD on GICs in a regional power network.
Boca Chica in south tr as is a private launch site for Starship.

I suspect bass communication platforms might be needed, but not launch sites.
I don't know what happened to you to make you so cynical, and I honestly pity you for it, but I think this is the exact opposite of what someone in the OP's position needs to hear. It's well and good that you've found a zen way of looking at things despite how bleak you seem to find the whole world, but not everyone can manage such a radical mindset shift and don't need to have their faith in humanity eagerly torched.
They will put a tiny screen there to display ads for top selling apps.
Australian intelligence knocks back US government's Wuhan lab virus claim
Do they really have a lot of events with many international visitors? I had the impression that it was mostly Americans that went to Las Vegas.
If you work for a modern software company (not a service company that sells software), and you honestly suggest Visual Source Safe, you'll get fired. There's just no reasonably intelligent reason to suggest it.

You practically have to assault someone in the break room to get fired from a government job.
In one of my past employers, we used “ZZ” for the “gibberish” environment, which was auto generated from English EN to include all sorts of accents and symbols, as well as padding to the max width specified on every label and field.
That iCloud key only prevents man in the middle attacks. You can still use the key to decrypt the data at rest in the cloud servers, and Apple stores both.

And if you're in China, Apple stores both on Chinese government owned servers: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/02/5-things-you-...
> It makes no sense how a global city like Vegas who had multiple large scale events during the January/February even into early March time frame, and tons of visitors especially for the Chinese new year...215 reported deaths so far. That number although sad is still remarkably low.

Perhaps a lot of those visitors left the area before symptoms developed.
While I dabbled with python and Delphi for a bit,my first real development was on Salesforce platform with their proprietary language called Apex. The first thing every developer learns on thos platform is that your code has to have at least 75% test coverage before it can be pushed to production.Testing was inevitable and ultimately part of anything I had to write. With time,I started reading more and more about development, tried different languages and etc.It was really fascinating to read how a lot of people hate testing or teams skip them if the deadlines need to be met. What testing taught me is that if the test is hard to write,it means that the code is crap.Every time I wrote some quick hack,it used to take me 10 times longer to write unit test.
If you had said Android I would've suggested NewPipe: https://newpipe.schabi.org/
>Don't underestimate the absolutely jaw-dropping incompetence from even senior "tech" folks employed by governments.

When I was in training with the RCAF, I was in lecture where the Information Systems Security Officer (i.e. the senior most infosec person at this base of 6-8000 people) told us about a time where "two guys were emailing back and forth and just picked up a virus".

I made the mistake of pointing out that that's not really how computers work, i.e. an email can't just pick up a virus in transit like a dog picks up a tick.

I learned two lessons that day:

1. Militaries don't like it when people stand out

2. Governments are fundamentally incompetent
Here's a lengthier but fascinating description and personal history of someone who caught malaria and treated it with quinine derivatives (and then caught it again...):

"Of Quinine And Chloroquine" by
Willis Eschenbach /
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/04/11/of-quinine-and-chloro...
I'm kind of there, too, though I was never as successful are you (I infer).

As far as sleeping well at night, unless you were a sadistic bastard to your employees, I think all else is (or should be) easily forgiven.

If you behaved monstrously to anyone (and I've been on the receiving end of a couple of those deals), you might apologize. Don't expect that it will be received well, but that's really all you can do.

Beyond that, I think you've mostly just discovered the nature of our reality. The Buddhists call it suffering, or just the inherent broken-ness or insufficiency of the world. Ecclesiastes knew it as well, along with many Western philosophers who followed.

What's to be done? Not much. Try to enjoy your life, which is almost over anyway. Try to have good time with your wife and whatever friends or people may be around. Eat, drink, and be merry, as you can. Godspeed.
You are right, but they will be outpaced by more productive languages.
I was shocked at the beginning of the lockdown in Silicon Valley how many colleagues immediately went to a dark place because they had virtually no support structure, social interaction, or even sense of identity outside of their in-person workplace associations. Granted, a lot of in-person socialization out of the office is also off-the-table, but that's not the problem I heard from people.

It's not healthy to live your entire life so embedded within a corporation.
"We have established the person over there has been exposed to Bad Ideas on May 22 2020. Let us find all those people that were exposed to him. We trigger the exposure event via ExposureNotification.framework"
A wild UI was observed https://github.com/shynome/caddy2-ui ! So it can probably be a community effort
Profile of a killer: the complex biology powering the coronavirus pandemic
SpaceX did 13 launches in 2019: 4 for NASA, 6 for commercial operators, 2 for SpaceX, and 1 for the Air Force. NASA launches are higher paying though. NASA has also provided cash in the form of the commercial crew/commercial cargo development programs. The new Artemis program (and the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program) are similar.

SpaceX had been developing Starship entirely with internal funds. It likely would have continued, perhaps at a slower pace or with different outcomes than NASA wants.
I support the meals in the office as a real meaningful perk. It's usually not a taxable perk, and Covid has shown me that with snacks (crisps, chocate,soft drinks, a cookid with a coffee), breakfast top ups (I bring oats to work and use fruit from the office), office coffee (im going through a bag a week rather than a bag a month right now), my food spend has at least doubled.

The food isn't amazing but it's usually pretty good, there's little to no clean up (giving me back an hour or so a week of prep and cleaning time), it forces me into a routine of lunch at 12:30, and nobody is forcing me into it so sometimes I bring my own.

> I was like, dude, you live once, get a fuckin life!

Work is a big part of life (in terms of time spent), even if you stick strictly to a 9-5. Its not unreasonable to try and make it comfortable, or possibly even pleasant or enjoyable at times.
For replay-ability.
Each time you need to understand the problem and construct a query instead of remembering that the answer was X (when I prototyped this in some of the cases you needed to pick the right answer from a cell in the table, not submit the whole thing).
The low number of infections in Vegas could be due to the weather. Vegas has a pretty warm and dry climate. It's possible the virus does not transmit as easily in this type of weather. Would be interesting to know to know if anyone is studying the effects, if any, climate has on the transmission of the virus.
> So that part isn't true, as many people have recently discovered. Your salary can be cut, either explicitly or implicitly by inflation.

RSU values will also go down if shares prices go down. In practice they are much more volatile than salary, people's RSUs fall in value by >50% all the time, but it's pretty rare for people to get a >50% cut in salary.
Wheeler might have been a plant from Verizon but he didn’t seem to make his benefactors proud: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2015/02/fcc-chair...
"There's no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism" comes to mind. Even if some folks are in a position to spend all of their money in ways that align with their values (which seems impossible given the extent of global supply chains), it's out of reach for the vast majority until systemic change is realized.
I wouldn't exactly call covering Catherine Pugh's corruption SJW activity. There seems to be a gradient among the Pulitzers running between the more concrete and local categories (investigative, news) and the more philosophical and big-picturey ones (commentary, criticism). The latter are a hopeless left-wing circlejerk (1619 project lol); the former are solid and, from what I'm seeing, generally well-deserved.
Hence op said “4 or 5” depending what you include.
A fully functioning PC port of Super Mario 64 has been released online
I’ve only worked with a handful of LEOs in my time there, but the ones I did work with were genuinely concerned about it.

If you’ve never worked with a government agency before, let me tell you, Hanlon’s Razor is in full effect. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

The higher ups know that free reign for their officers to look up anything is a recipe for legal nightmares. The individual officers are often just too dumb to realize that they shouldn’t search for something, and do so out of curiosity. Having blocks in the way like requiring a case number be entered to run a search, and knowing that that search and results are forever associated to that case, cut down a lot on abuse.

Are all forms of abuse the same, or so easily mitigated? No, but I’d like for some system to audit that and at least try to enforce it.
I am simply referring to Elon Musk's claim. He got experience in both rocketry and automotive manufacturing. If he said it's hard, I believe him.

He could be wrong yes, but I don't know anything about making cars or build rockets.
Notice nothing of my original post mentions politics. My beef is with Pai and his whoring for the telcos.
Awesome but not yet launched.!
They're still not recommending what the original commenter was - a diet based solely of lean venison.

The carnivore diet fits pretty well into the "high fat" category.

I just went and checked, and the following seems to be a fairly consistent outline of the diet

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Red meat (beef, pork, lamb), with an emphasis on fattier cuts of meat to take in enough calories.

Other options include:

Organ meats
Eggs
Lard
Bone marrow
Butter
Salt and pepper

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Basically - A mix of protein and fat with fat constituting much of the calorie intake.

So yes, my comment should really read

>No one would seriously recommend an all LEAN meat diet. It will kill you.

but the poster was doing calorie calculations for pure lean venison. That's insanity.
On my iPhone running iOS 13, I had to go a level deeper to find that: Settings -> Privacy -> Location Services -> System Services -> Significant Locations.

To view Significant Locations, I have to provide my Touch ID again. Also, the fine print says "Significant Locations are end-to-end encrypted and cannot be read by Apple." Text repeated in "Location Services & Privacy"[0].

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207056
I remember being delighted at how 'spacious' walking around Vegas felt the first time I went. Malls were wide and walking through shopping areas never felt cramped like it often does here in Australia. I was really surprised; it didn't feel at all like I was expecting it to.
I just read the 2016 bit about how you published individual chapters to gauge interest; that was pretty cool. Could I ask you a couple of questions about it?

1. How does "purchasing" a few chapters look on the user side? e.g. Do you price every chapter and they only pay for the difference if they want to purchase the full book later? Do updates (which you said they're entitled to?) come out for individual chapters?

2. How do you get the word out initially? (I see you mentioned going to conferences; it'd be nice if you could elaborate or mention if there are other potentially effective approaches.)

Thanks, and congrats on your success so far!
Then Google would be building a whitelist. They aren't doing that, they are using a position of power to isolate the market for themselves. That is a monopoly.