skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Banks have vaults and offer storage services for important documents, including encryption keys. Retrieval difficulties etc can be dealt with by having multiple copies stored in different places.

Paper money is no different from keys. If you burn either of them, they're gone for good, but that doesn't stop them from being useful if you use reasonable precautions.
Why smartphones could be well be ‘digital truth serums’
This post piqued my interest so I went and read the two rulings you mentioned, Blaisdell and Kansas Power & Light. These are my (a layman) musings about them in case anyone else is interested:

The Court in Blaisdell basically recognized that passing any law can potentially interfere with a contract and refused to let the state's emergency authority be trumped by the contracts clause. In that case, the law in question extended the time a person has to "redeem" their mortgage but also required the person to pay rent to the bank in the interim, which seemed important as they cited other similar laws that were ruled "repugnant to the constitution" which lacked a similar provision. They also highlight the difference between modifying a contract and modifying your remedies, which applies now to California (and other states) because we've suspended processing of evictions. CA didn't modify anyone's rental agreement to extend the eviction process, they just refuse to give landlords a remedy.

Kansas Power & Light was a lot more straight-forward but it basically brushed away the Contracts Clause forevermore. That case was about a natural gas contract that had been governed by Federal regulation but then the fed said "we don't want to deal with this any more, let the states regulate the price of gas" and the court ruled that Kansas hadn't interfered with the contract because the contract assumed regulation and it didn't matter much who was doing that regulation. I actually thought the court's reasoning here was pretty weak, but I support the outcome. They basically read the Contracts Clause out of the Constitution unless the state itself is party to the contract or has passed something openly nefarious, which should have been done via an amendment to the Constitution, but I have some extreme views around that.

After reading these two cases and considering whether a state government could pause mortgages/rent for a month in light of the contracts clause, I think that mattkrause's opinion is correct, that they could get away with it as long as the banks are made whole in some way.
You might enjoy the Software Disenchantment post we discussed 4 months ago, which was about the state of the software industry (rather than about personal burnout).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21929709
My Android device allows for completely disabling location access (regardless of whether the app requires it) or for allowing access while the app is in use, as you mentioned. I'm never sure if these features are OEM additions or features in standard/AOSP Android versions, so I guess if you're using an Android device YMMV.
FYI there's some good advice on the gist, too.
I think Space X money comes in large part from NASA, so I don't see how they could do it without them.

Hence Starlink.
Is there a way to learn kubernetes in a short time, or in a way that you can primarily use a GUI to interact with it?
Also why are there are so many distributions of it?
This isn't true. Your electronics might be fried by a flare if they were in space, but the geomagnetic field changes due to a flare will not induce currents in any conductor shorter than several tens of kilometers. I think you are thinking of nuclear EMPs which could affect electronics?
You seem eager to tell people how to think and to judge the properness of others' outlooks on life. Your concern is noted, have a great day.
NN has gained favor in the recent years. And since Pai is so anti-NN should a blue wave take over in a November I could see things moving back farther in the direction of sanity — towards true NN. But I’m not sure; j just have hope.
> Getting buy in, satisfying stakeholders, making sure the safe happy protocol is followed - it's so you don't end up in a situation where a junior engineer is tasked with fixing production

Its also so you can get the thing you really want by sacrificing the thing you don't care about. You get to maintain longer term relationships which lowers people's defensiveness and allows you to move more liquid through the pipes because there aren't people limiting your flow out of defensiveness or because they don't believe in what you're doing.
there seems to be a solution: https://github.com/kboghdady/youTube_ads_4_pi-hole
Ask HN: How to Study Mathematics?
For context, I am a university student just finished my first year, studying mathematics and a mostly unrelated humanities subject. That said, general advice in the topic is probably welcome for other readers. I was drawn to mathematics from a young age; however, in recent years my attention has been taken by my other subject. That said, I don't regret taking the course at all and I enjoy it, although some topics I prefer to others.

My institution gives a very significant incentive to those who excel academically in their early years. I would beat myself up if I did not use the unique opportunity of vast free time this summer to advantage myself in this regard.

My question is essentially for those who have experience studying the subject at university level, or self-studying to an approximately equivalent degree, with emphasis on the pure and problem-solving end over the applied. What strategies, resources, and tips would you advise for learners?

Also, I understand that this type of question is asked fairly regularly. Due to the nature of this forum, much has been said about approaching applications of mathematics for those in other disciplines or for the purpose of self-study. But I think that most would agree that from the outset, pure mathematics and abstract problem skills appear arcane from university-level on.
That was Verizon suing the FCC because the FCC put NN in place. The FCC lost. Wheeler was not their friend.
Download an APK if you want. Google doesn't have a complete monopoly on Android app marketplaces.
some blacklists i found:

- https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/update-the-best-blocking-lis...

- https://github.com/chadmayfield/my-pihole-blocklists
Of course there is more than just the unemployment rate the effects wages but Fast food will always be the lowest paid job in the economy and the idea that work is entitled to a high wage simply because it exists is not something I can get behind

Fast food requires almost no skills, and most likely as wages increase it will simply be automated out of existence completely, given that literally almost any human that is breathing can fill the job there is not going to be much that will push those wages up.

These jobs are not intended to be long term employment where a person would support a family on, hell they are not even jobs that should be filled by people supporting themselves, they are tailored to people for their first jobs normally while they are a dependent of another person
But if your org is using $oldtech and some new person comes in recommending $newtech, you'll be in great company if you argue that $newtech sucks and you wish you could just keep using $oldtech.

Organizational inertia is definitely a thing, and technology trends do not move as quickly in all sectors.
Liberal democracy is not "just" a technology, and creating a mixed member proportional elected parliament isn't a guaranteed magic solution to political or social problems.

Politics is hard. Really, really hard. Much harder than technology. Because politics is part social psychology and part evolutionary psychology. And while we understand enough about both to have some idea how to manipulate them, we don't understand them well enough to manipulate them - and ourselves, and each other - wisely.
could be the right fit: https://github.com/kboghdady/youTube_ads_4_pi-hole
Same, I also went to Vegas in late December and caught something; it was absolutely the worst flu I had ever experienced.
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> Palantir is involved

Holy shit, and I didn't think that this whole contact tracing bullshit could look even worse.
No worries on the edit. Meant that more to explain if I seemed to ignore party of your post.

I think you could have gotten pretty good volunteer isolation. As simple as getting grocery stores to deliver to elderly. As expensive as renting the Ritz for a month. Still expensive, but cheap compared to what we have landed in.
They are building a whitelist. They even made the criteria public. You have to be a government or health entity to publish a Covid related app.
I have four arguments as to why google are behaving this way with regards to this data. I’ve no idea which, if any, they operate by:

1. It’s actually crap and they don’t want their advertisers to know that their ads are sold based on crap quality data/don’t want the backlash of doing a poor job helping

2. Most people at google care a lot about privacy (either in the secret kept between you and google sense or the more common sense definition people seem to use on hn) and they don’t really think about this data as something the firm has/should release

3. They are afraid that if governments realised they had this data then google would be regulated or every minor security agency/random government department would be demanding access to it by law.

4. They strongly feel that surveillance by (well intentioned?) private companies is ok but by governments it os not.
> it is hard to decipher if it is even worth arguing at all

Then why? I mean, I put it in parentheses for a reason man.

I mean, you seem to be saying that I can't tell the difference between automobiles and, what? horses?

Surely if the difference is that great it should be easy to come up with lots of solid points to "change my mind"? Since you're taking the trouble to comment anyway?

In your sib comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071602 you seem to be making some solid points, but from my POV it still sounds like "learn the thing" where "the thing" does what I can already do without it, or it enables me to do stuff that I'm not actually interested in doing.

Bottom line: if you want to argue please do it with facts and not dismissive condescension. (I've got plenty of that already without your help, thanks.)
The location permission is required to scan for bluetooth devices because it can be used to work out location.
The HSJ have a story, they agree with you.

https://www.hsj.co.uk/technology-and-innovation/exclusive-wo...

If this was written by NSHX I would install it, but given the dodgy provenance and lack of open source there's no way I'm going to install it.
Obviously the potential for abuse is high; if you don’t trust the author of the app then I certainly wouldn’t use it.

Passports contain personal information, a color photo of the holder, and optionally can contain a copy of your signature or fingerprints.

Note that some information can be behind an additional level of access control called EAC-TA (Extended access control - terminal authentication). For example the fingerprints in Dutch passports are protected like this. Accessing them requires a certificate which is so closely guarded that hardly anyone has access to it.
Remap caps-lock to escape and you're good to go! Or remap capslock to control and use Ctrl-[. Or use karabiner and remap capslock to control-when-held and escape-when-pressed-quickly.
Perish the thought!
So it's all about the bass...
You're an artist trying to find artistic and personal fulfillment in somebody else's art factory. That will never work.

You can try to make a living making your own art, and hustle and struggle the way artists do. Or you can work in a monotonous factory churning out someone else's art. The latter is easier, but it requires putting up with more bullshit. The former is harder, but you feel good about it. That's life.
There's a subculture that's reinvented the merits of software engineering to being as ornate and ceremonious as possible.

It doesn't have to work well, or be bug free, or compatible with the previous version, or address any real world need.

No! Instead it has to use fashionable technology and be extremely complicated so other programmers can see how incredibly clever they are!

Almost like they took a random bug from the issue tracker by looking at last nights lotto numbers and then they opened to a random page of Knuth by letting a fan blow on the pages for 5 minutes and said "alright, I'll solve this problem in that way! Surely everyone will acknowledge my genius!"

It may be a slow lumbering buggy pile of brittle barely functional code about to implode, but boy does it look nice!
i like the pi-hole installer a lot, since it's a damn one-liner. i was amazed by its simplicity
See https://twitter.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/12561244277810626... for Australia.
Yes. It's possible (I can't put a number on how likely) that the sample was mishandled and contamination introduced. Depending at what stage this occurred, this could affect all future tests of the sample. Ideally they are able to follow up with serological tests against the specific patient. While a positive carries no information (might have gotten COVID in the intervening time), a negative would point to some sort of sample contamination.

This isn't a knock against their skill or their competence. Sometimes shit just happens. Certainly if this is true, I'd be very interested in how this changes the nature of our models of the virus.
Another "The files were accidentally deleted and the backups were unrecoverable. So sorry."
Yeah. Would be no surprise at all.
Schneier's a security expert, not an epidemiology expert. I don't think I'm going to put much weight in his opinion. The UK's epidemiology and behavioural teams have some confidence that this app will have an effect.

It doesn't need to be perfectly effective to be useful. Even a small reduction in R is very helpful.
I love hacking on code, it's why I got into it. The Official side of it all can be a real bummer. I can always measure my burnout levels of Official work by how much I start hacking at home. I make a fairly distinct separation between work and home, always have. Even though I have worked late and passionately at times. :) I always enjoy the new file, the fresh project smell, the beauty of code.

There's something deeply joyous about the potential of an empty file and where you can take it. If I lost that joy, that would be very grievous.
Talking about it, why "local superstition" is still called "traditional medicine" with a respect that modern medicine, (based in hard tests and long years of research do not always receive), still puzzles me.

A really well written article with many solid bits to think about it, an none of the common BS. Things like, for example.

"earliest time for this [unique] transfer [from secondary host to humans, is calculated] as early October 2019"

"In one experiment Chinese, American and Italian scientists, explored the disease-like potential of a bat coronavirus by recombining its genome with that of a mouse-infecting coronavirus"
I was lucky enough to discuss it with google people.

There has been a huge influx of people trying to upload scammy covid apps. As a result the mere mention of covid is enough to get your app flagged automatically.

I don't currently work on a covid app, but I know somebody who does. Their app was flagged but they were able to resolve it by contacting google.
After all these comments, I am getting just happier that we will migrate. :)
Pardon me for the language I use in this post, but stuff like this annoys me.

This is daft. The lockdown was necessary because the man in charge sat on his hands while his rich friends were profiting from the pandemic and getting richer. Eventually it became too late for measures like what Sweden has done. Even now they still haven't figured out PPE kits and/or testing kits, and when states take matters into own hands, the feds confiscate them in the name of national security. No one knows where are all this confiscated goods are going.

The reason lockdowns aren't working in the US is because daft people believe in dumb ass propaganda machines like Fox News (who don't see themselves as a news organisation), and Alex Jones (who thinks he's the smartest person alive and everyone is conspiring against him to make a quick buck).

Lockdowns are not nice, but if you don't get off your ass and give every person everywhere testing kits for free, lockdown is your only choice.

Don't hate the lockdown, hate your own government for failing to protect your own citizens by putting corporations and profits above people. Hate your government for failing to address the extremists. They're quick to add measures when it comes to foreigners but haven't done anything against the likes of Rush Limbaugh (pardon any misspelling).

Now if you're one of those that values the economy over people's lives, you need to re-evaluateyour life choices. the economy can get rebuilt again, as has happened over and over again. Destroyed lives cannot get rebuild. The dead don't come back. I guarantee you if your friend or family gets the virus and dies (and I sincerely hope that doesn't happen to anyone), you'll be one of the first advocating for something like a lockdown.

The US has become a ridiculous place for the rich, and f* everyone else.
This article gets more into actual analysis of program state and execution: http://matt.might.net/articles/intro-static-analysis/

If you want to go deeper, Principles of Program Analysis is a popular reference: Principles of Program Analysis https://www.amazon.com/dp/3540654100/
Even at that time, psychopaths were still successful enough to pass on the genes for their trait.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy#Environment
That sentence is a shortened version of what we seem to be doing. Which is keep it under control while we race to a vaccine. To kill it.

Of course, the more data we get, the less control we see that it was ever in. Such that right now,I don't think we have a coherent plan.
The government response to the Royal Academy of Engineering report on space weather shows remarkable complacency.

The RAE:

Since the last peak of the solar cycle, the Great Britain transmission system has developed to become more meshed and more heavily loaded. It now has a greater dependence on reactive compensation equipment such as static variable compensators and mechanically switched capacitors for ensuring robust voltage control. Thus there is increased probability of severe geomagnetic storms affecting transmission equipment critical to robust operation of the system. The greatest effects of GICs are normally experienced at the periphery of the transmission systems, as in Figure 9.

The UK government response:
Some UK systems are more resilient and robust to space weather than counterparts
abroad:
 the GB power grid network is highly meshed and has a great deal of built in redundancy. This potentially makes it less susceptible to space weather effects
than power grids in some other countries.
FEC Commissioner is an appointment position. Politics decides who gets to choose who to appoint, and for what reasons.
How could you design a fitness function for news to ensure that it was accurate?

Papers like The Financial Times have an obvious one: people are using these to inform themselves about business and investment. If FT was giving inaccurate data, it would have an obvious cost to the people who read it.

But for papers like the NYT, what is the incentive to accurately report the news? It seems like by inaccurately reporting things, they'll make more money. This is a problem. How would you fix it?
But what do you do if your initial codebase is crap. You literally cannot test until you refactor 50% of it into something semi-sensible.
Edge of Space Video
I feel like a lot of times when people complain about a company politics, it's only because they are on the losing side of the issue. When it works in their favor it's just the company culture.

Mentally, I've started replacing complaints about politics with "nobody is listening to me".
I had just read "Systemd, ten years later: a historical and technical retrospective" so it was on my mind. I know they didn't invent it but I associate that kind of attitude with that project. Shouldn't have mentioned it, really.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23062072

https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2020/05/02/0/
"Blue wave" worked out great in 2018 eh? Impeachment went well, and now our citizens are being taken care of by the government because now Pelosi gets to sit at the lectern and theatrically rip up pieces of paper?
Is anyone successfully using PiHole with non-technical users?

My main concern with putting PiHole on my home network is that for example my mother in law might not understand that she can't get to some web page because it's being ad-blocked, nor would she be able to go to the web admin page and temporarily unblock it.

Even as a technical person sometimes it takes a while to figure out that a page isn't working because of adblock or pi-hole.

How do people deal with this?
That we're in the middle of an exponentially growing creation of new knowledge, and that (echoing Deutsch) all problems are soluble. Now, there are exceptions to this, for example, a sudden existential crisis. But I prefer to be an optimist in those scenarios, given humanity's demonstrated ability to achieve great things. There's a lot of negativity in the press about the global response to COVID-19, but I take a contrarian view and expect historians to look back at the heroic deeds of healthcare workers and researchers to overcome this crisis as unprecedented in scale and speed. It has exposed cracks in our institutions, surely, but I see it has a crystalizing moment to remind us all how much we can achieve.
How did WSJ let this opinion piece through? Garbage in garbage out!

So basically they looked for a correlation without controlling for any external factors? Without controlling for population density or connectivity or anything? Not only that, but they're using reported covid cases as their comparison for when to start the clock? Even though undertesting and different levels of coverage was a known issue, and it's now clear that the disease was circulating for months before many places registered their first cases because they just weren't testing? Basically, they took a noisy measure in a noisy situation, didn't control for any confounding variables, ran a correlation, and found that the result of their regression on a bunch of noisy data was just a bunch of noise. Of course theres no correlation - garbage in garbage out! How did WSJ let this through?
is it support react native?
> You’ve never dealt with a bad log setup. Things I’ve seen:

I'm not sure how this is relevant. I've seen miles of incompetence in my career, that someone can fudge something up royally doesn't change the fundamental purpose of the thing. The point of log files is to store and make retrievable data about server state and actions over time. That someone somewhere can screw that up doesn't change that.

In this particular case, I find it unlikely they rolled some custom bizarro log file format regardless because of the nature of the subject matter: Proxy server log files. It's unlikely they rolled their own proxy server (and they certainly don't imply any particular difficulties like that in court statements) so we're most likely talking about reading standard Apache logs or something similar.
Solving a Recaptcha doesn't require a Google account.
Historically, advertising has always been the main source of income for almost all non-state news organizations, so I don't see any reason to think a non-advertising model would work on the Internet.