skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the thing with replacement products, if it's good enough for existing addicts to switch to, it's good enough for kids to get addicted to, in and of itself.

OTOH, nicotine doesn't seem to be all that harmful once it's divorced from tobacco, and it does appear to have some benefits.
> I’m pretty sure what you are quoting is something else entirely, not a DMCA Takedown Notice.

I'm 100% sure that you are guessing, and that the post you replied to is directly quoting the takedown notice.

See: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/05/2020-05-0...
The main issue is that not everyone has the same setup and quality of the talks vary a lot stream quality-wise.

Although the quality for this remote conference seems to be better than average.
I'm not arguing the reason for the regulations. I'm pointing out that the regulations greatly slow down and increase the cost of medical innovations.
Do you find companies with public facing employees that give talks at meetups and conferences easier to trust?

In other words, you trust Facebook, Google, NSA, and Congress more than Apple?

Seems like an odd standard.
The onus is on those making the claim to provide the evidence. A claim without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

There is no evidence. Dig into anything that is claimed as evidence and it's clearly invalid, at best. As a statement of the overwhelimingly obvious: the field of Psychology has issues. It knows this. You've heard of the "replication crisis." There are those trying to right it and treat it like it is actually science and rip out all the pseudo-bs that psych is redolent with. Good luck to them. Maybe they'll even remove the utterly discredited stanford prison experiment from every single first year psych textbook? Or keep it as yet another example of collective delusion in the discpline caused by faked research? Yet another one. But in every textbook. Credibility?

"On the whole, scholars with any expertise in the area of intelligence and intelligence testing (defined very broadly) share a common view of the most important components of intelligence, and are convinced that it can be measured with some degree of accuracy." - Anyone who disagrees and asks for the evidence is defined as lacking expertise. It's frigging comical. But it does screw up lives and justify racism so, there's that. Get told you're stupid as a child, there's a good chance that's self-fulfilling.

There is ovewhelming evidence that vaccines work. Seen a polio case, well, ever? There is none that IQ is a useful scientific metric. See Egas Moniz's Nobel prize for how psychology can move as a discipline on mass without evidence. Or maybe butchering brains and getting nobel prizes for it isn't clear enough evidence that you can't take anything in psychology "on trust" anymore than you can physics.

IQ is a disgrace. It is already and will continue to be increasingly sighted as how bad the discpiline of psychology has been for the past 100 years. May they own their shame and do better. Your IQ score being higher than mine means absolutely nothing. My IQ score being higher than yours means nothing. Absolutely nothing. Zero. But yeah, you can convince people it's has meaning and use it mess up lives - even if you don't intend to do that. Like the altruistic motives behind lobotomy and the success they had with the Nobel committee.
Tom Cruise teaming with Elon Musk, NASA to shoot action movie in space
What version of istio? mTLS was a big pain point at my place until 1.14 which now has has "auto mtls": https://archive.istio.io/v1.4/docs/tasks/security/authentica...

It really depends on your security posture. We wanted traffic between services within the service mesh to be encrypted too.
https://youtu.be/R5K5ZBDPB3g

That’s rush hour. Let’s not kid ourselves.
There are numbers coming in from NY and CA that are very interesting but not dispositive.

We don't know what the rate of false positives is, we don't know if the tests were sufficiently representative, we don't know what degree of immunity is actually conferred.

An intelligent critique of the CA analysis

https://medium.com/@balajis/peer-review-of-covid-19-antibody...

At least the new york research didn't rely on a facebook ad which offered free covid testing but it was conducted by surveying people shopping in big box stores. It would be unsurprising if idiots out shopping had a higher prevalence than the general population.

Covid deniers have latched firmly onto the "aspirational" idea that many many more people have had it thus it really and truly isn't any more deadly than the flu even though the CA numbers are so badly analyzed that the submitter probably ought to be fired and the New York numbers only show that the infection fatality rate may be as low as 1/2 of 1% instead of just shy of 1% as previously theorized.

Covid deniers usually move right from fudging the denominator in the deaths/cases calculation to proving that we should just all go back to work with an optional stop about it being a democratic plot to destroy our economy to make everyone dependent on the gubmint.

I recognize that this isn't your shtick but its pretty common among your slightly more educated ignoramus recently.
Or maybe it's the regulations. See "Regulation of Pharmaceutical Innovation" by Sam Peltzman.
I would buy your first and last paragraph, but I'd quibble with your second.

> And like regular technologies, social technologies are often simple in theory but deceptively difficult to implement well.

I think this is where having the two categories separate is useful. There's a lot behind Hayak's quote "the curious task of economics is to demonstrate to man how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." It is true that many more people live under democracy, and that's a great thing. But I think we've also seen over the past 30 years experiments in instituting democracy where they had not previously been that have not been as successful. We've also seen the trappings of democracy usurped by those looking to add legitimacy to their autocratic regime.

> Marxist-Leninism is clearly a horrendously destructive social technology.

I agree fully, but it still seems to be sticking around, and I hear similar rhetoric without people understanding the lessons behind why it was such a failure ("We're not Leninist, we just want to remove the profit motive, limit what people earn to what we think should be enough, and have the central government plan around all the hard problems in society...").

I'm skeptical we can plan for these things the same we do things in engineering, but that doesn't mean when we try to predict the future we shouldn't look at their importance.
Onboarding users more easily was the idea. I think having icons with tooltips that include shortcuts is of similar importance and something like a “First steps“ Project where it just tells you about navigation and the spacebar menu.

I myself would probably not assume that because there is no explicit button it cannot be done ( I'd rather try the usual thing like spacebar drag, middle mousebutton, etc).

However I understand that this might depend on your background and your willingness to learn the damn thing, which is why lowering the entry bar is worth it imo.
Paper Suggesting Human Cov OC43 Was the 1890 'Russian Flu' Pandemic
Having Google/Apple develop a tracking technology is the same as the US government having it. If you don't believe, read again what Snowden revealed several years ago.
I just got an urge to resurrect Frank Herbert to see what he has to say about all this. Wonder who is our dear Leto the God Emperor, the benevolent monster who is dragging an un-surprisingly quiet and docile humanity to its designated future. One hears the monster has 7 heads.

I'm not sure about the hand me down binary model conclusion. We're in agreement regarding the inevitability of this turn of events, but then again it was apparently clear as day thousands of years ago to "self isolating" monks.

But the clarity of the choice is stark, and like a blast of cold air invigorates one's morals and character.

Good luck!
My smart TV remains disconnected from any network. But I use an Android TV box, so I may only be substituting one company's surveillance for another's.

Android TV is a massive improvement upon any Smart TV's UX though, so I'm winning on that count.
Phaser/Angular/Electron Template
Easily create game UIs with HTML and CSS, organize Phaser canvases into responsive and flexible Angular components. Do this all in a stripped down basic Chromium-based browser to give the feel of a standalone executable.
VCs Could Try to Rip-Off Founders During This Crisis
From what I heard it works fine on Android, but on iOS it works ok... as long as you have the app running in the foreground, and your phone unlocked, while out and about.

The only way to fix that would be to use this new API on iOS.
I heard a crazy theory from some foreign tourists visiting Vegas many years ago.

The story I heard is that Vegas hotels/casinos mix in small amount of certain gas/chemical in the circulating air that makes people not want to sleep, which makes people gamble more and spend more money.

Some crazy theories people have...

So I can see (as a non-expert) that the well ventilated casinos is the reason for low infection rate in Vegas.

NYC on the other hand has had the extremely highly infection rate because EVERYONE has to take subway and pretty sure there's not much air circulation in the subway cars...

Either way, I think not spending too much time indoors is the key to avoid covid-19. Unfortunately most all indoor space has recirculated, air-conditioned, stale air.

Edit:
I personally think businesses that can leave windows open for fresh air will have lower chance of spreading Covid-19 than ones with barely functioning AC system with little air circulation.
I've always wondered about that extortion/bribery dealy. I mean, how does it work exactly? Is it an embarassment thing? Asking for a friend.
"Use it as it suits you on your own responsibility."
DMCA abuse.
You might want to take another look at the usernames involved.

I'm not claiming that "an ablate spheroid" was correct usage. I'm pointing out that the response, "to 'ablate' is to erode", is a non sequitur. It is relevant neither to its parent comment nor to the comment in which it appears.
People also get multiple passports for things such as traveling to countries where having a visa from one in your passport would preclude you from entering the other. Military service or diplomatic service often means you get a "black" diplomatic passport, which would have the same chip in it as any other e-passport. You can be sending one passport in to receive a visa (Russia, for instance, can take over a month), but you still need to travel so you're issued a secondary temporary passport. I'm sure there's dozens of other exceptions on why assuming every user has only one passport doesn't work out. (This is aside from the fact North Korea or China can just issue 10,000's of fake passports to hack this anyways)
The flu doesn't generally involve rolling the dice so quickly that morgues run out of space.
I'd love for someone to chime in with specific details. I looked quickly at the French and US sites to compare. France does offer AppleCare+ for 299,00 € on a random MacBook I chose.

The US page is pretty clear that it extends a 1-year hardware warranty to 3-years and extends 90 days of technical support. In recent years they seem to focus more on accidental damage (with an additional per-incident fee).

The French website is more hand-wavy around improved hardware warranty. It also mentions the tech support, but the value seems to be the accidental damage.

The accidental damage math in the US is a tough one for me. $300 for AppleCare+ and $50 per incident goes a long way towards paying outright for a repair or buying a new laptop. The hardware warranties seem to be significantly better in Europe and historically the biggest value-add in the US. AppleCare+ just seems a lot less useful in Europe.
Can you share more info about your work now?
No.

There is documented cases where people in the middle ages would deliberately take small doses of poison to develop inmunity to poison itself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis

If people could deliberately infect yourself with a weak version of Covid19 , they would. Problem is strains are still somewhat poorly understood so its hard to understand who carries a tough strain vs weak one.
Thanks for the insight.

Why wouldn't they just auto-alert anyone who came in adequate proximity to get tested though? Surely there is some benefit to letting people know they need to be extra careful now and get tested ASAP.

All the manual human work can continue as normal.
Since you have the complete set of blacklist entries each time distribute it, you could compute a perfect hash (zero collisions, no buckets needed) each time you updated the list.
Sounds like the tried and true way. I'm always interested in learning about computing history and the people that set up the groundwork. The more I read, the more I find that tech doesn't learn much from its past and we're just stuck with many inferior iterations of the same things.

I found a copy of, Notes On Structured Programming, by Dijkstra. I'm going to start giving it a read tomorrow (it's a whopping 88pg essay).

It seems that Dijkstra did a lot of paper design work because he was programming for hardware that didn't exist in a programmable form yet.
If you want to restore trust then stop fighting with users and give them control over their devices.

iOS is full of dark patterns and a few absolutely awful restrictions that are very anti user. It shouldn’t be surprising that the users don’t trust Apple.

(Hopefully this doesn’t come across as disrespectful, I think the work you guys have done on contact tracing is awesome.)
This is a mostly false statement. There have been a few court rulings which have found people/corporations violated the DMCA by knowingly linking to infringing content. http://www.webtvwire.com/linking-to-infringing-content-is-pr...
I think tons of people fall into this trap in and outside tech, but just luckily never need to face the fact that they have no friends 10 years into their career.
Maybe a modern exception, split of the former https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia which don't do so bad.

Also, at least recently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay
>By the year 2020, for example, you will need to know how to talk to your house. Today your home contains dozens of appliances, each working independently.
>The lights will flicker on, the air conditioner will have kicked in, the refrigerator will clamor to enumerate all the meals you can assemble with the groceries cached inside.

It's amusing that this is sort of true, however every voice assistant I've ever used kinda suck. The most they really can do is tell the weather and set reminders. Add in the fact that a smart fridge might not use the same AI platform as a smart speaker and that dream is shattered.
On the one hand you say it won't spread in airplanes but will spread on a train, literally contradicting the sense between those two sentences.
It sounded like a moral argument to me, but I'll take your word for it that you're making a factual claim about the law. What law exactly says that they "they bore some responsibility" for other people's copyright violation?

As an example, the federal murder-for-hire law is what specifically establishes legal culpability for your not-quite-analogous example: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1958
The general populace generally doesn’t pay any attention to any statements from any employees of any company. Those in the tech industry generally don’t pay any attention to statements from any employees of any company outside the tech industry. Being aware of statements from employees does not appear to be a factor in terms of trust in a company.
Being prepared for the consequences is just good advice for anything you do in life. But it's not an intrinsic part of civil disobedience, nor is being punished for said disobedience.
Have you seen what the street above that station (note the station name) looks like during non-rush-hour situations? It's still that crowded.

(I'll also point out that you picked literally the busiest station on the entire system to use as an example.)
Some small-ish items:

-- Virtualization of rr's required PMU features on Azure and GCP

-- Virtualization of Intel's CPUID faulting on AWS and other cloud providers (Linux KVM has it, but it's not enabled in AWS)

-- Fix the reliability bug(s) in the retired-conditional-branches counter on AMD Ryzen so rr works there

-- Implement CPUID faulting in AMD Ryzen

-- Reliable instructions-retired counter on AMD/Intel (for more reliable/simpler operation)

-- Trap on LL/SC failures on ARM (AArch64 I guess) and other archs (so we can port rr there), with Linux kernel APIs to expose that to userspace

-- Similar traps for Intel HTM (XBEGIN/XEND) (less important now that's mostly been disabled for security reasons)

Bigger items:

-- Invest in kernel-integrated record-and-replay for Linux and other OSes

-- Implement QuickRec or some other hardware support for multicore record-replay on at least some CPU SKUs

(If anyone thinks they can help with any of that, talk to me!)

> what do you think is keeping the overhead so high in the average case described in the post (50%)?

I assume you've read https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.05937 ? For many workloads the major unavoidable cost is context switching. With rr's approach every regular tracee context switch (intra or inter process) turns into at least 2 inter-process context switches (tracee to rr, rr to tracee). This is bad for thread ping/pong-like behaviour. For many other workloads the cost is simply the loss of parallelism as we force everything onto a single core. For other workloads there is a high cost due to system calls that require context switches to rr because we don't currently accelerate them with "syscall buffering". The last one can be mostly engineered around, the former two are inherent to rr's approach.

Who do you work for? :-)
Right, I wasn't saying he did. I was trying to say that, without a theoretical framework to hang that kind of energy generation on, there was no capacity to understand what was going on. E=MC^2 is precisely that kind of theoretical framework. Pretty amazing, to me. Being able to say "It's this far away, this hot, and this large, but why?"
Lessons from the Pandemic
How organizations responded to the Corona Virus pandemic, provides a useful framework for digital transformation initiatives.

The Pandemic has created entirely new paradoxes for organizations in the middle of digital transformation projects. For example, some companies had to move from Customer Service agents based in call centers to home-based workers trying help with mission critical problems. Digital transformation must be chartered with solving these types of problems. Solving them needs to be based on solid data and AI-driven insights. The better the data and analytics, the more powerful the customer results.

Gartner predicts that by 2025, customer service organizations that embed AI in their customer engagement center platforms will increase operational efficiencies by 25%, revolutionizing customer care in the process. Customer service is often where digital transformation strategies fail due to a lack of real-time contextual data and insight. Companies like Amazon have taken the lead in this area using machine learning to allocate human agents. Innovative tools like chatbots, NLP and many other technology solutions are improving processes, data collection and the eventual customer experience.

Similarly, in the world of sales, we have seen a plethora of solution that have been ...... read the full article on this link :

https://www.traqiq.com/blog/lessons-from-the-pandemic/
I think there's a tendency, when confronted with a person who is upset about having made their work their identity, to swing to the other extreme and advocate complete separation and dispassion.

Like everything else, we need to find balance. I like my job and think that in general I do good work. But I am not my work and my work is not me. It's a part of me, to be sure, and I feel connected to it, but work is a relatively small part of my identity.
When a company moves its HQ from its former home to Washington, you know it's become a regulatory / lobbying firm and not a technology or product-focused company.
We are culturally obsessed with "Luke, trust your feelings." There is something extremely wrong and dangerous with Star Wars and that idea to put away reason and just trust our feelings. Joseph Campbell what did you do?
Submitting a DMCA takedown notice without claiming copyright is an abuse of the good will of the recipient (Github) and an abuse of the DMCA takedown system. Even if it is not perjury, it should be condemned and rampant abuse should expose parties like MPA to litigation.
I stumbled across Jeff's post about giving away his books in March. The books looked particularly useful. I felt I would get value from them so I opted to pay. It's great to see others did also!

What also influenced my decision was that another of Jeff's projects had been quite helpful to me (DrupalVM).
That doesn’t sound like an undergrad online course. Universities could make courses with all of those features but IME and looking at what my friends have seen in theirs they don’t. I’m not sure if it’s an institutional requirement or if it’s because they know they can get away without it and don’t bother.
They have a good faith reason for the counter notice, DMCA notices don't cover contributory copyright infringement. The MPAA committed perjury by submitting this notice.

The MPAA still might still sue them though, DMCA notices don't cover it but copyright law does.

IANAL, this is not legal advice, blah blah blah,
> The world is not better by any measure

Strictly speaking, that's not true. The world is now aware of how painfully unprepared we are for cataclysmic events, like pandemics.

The world now also knows how dangerous China is due to the dangers of offshore supply chains, the disinformation they spread which endangered lives, and the dangerously strong influence they have over the WHO.

These are all good things and we're better off knowing them.
I would recommend looking and producing Art. Software-perls or paintings, poems whatever you like and admire. The more artist you are the more you suffer from applied art, it is not your fault :-)
Glitch – Art and Code from the Game
Good lesson abut host country related risk involved in using Github, in addition to the trade sanctions related ones.
They're still using a whitelist of locations where the radar input is ignored. Not exactly confidence inspiring.
> To "ablate" is to erode.

I mean, it's a ablate sphereoid too, thanks to rainfall, but that's clearly not what they meant.
Interesting that it appears by looking at the visuals, a great deal more of land mass will become more suitable over the next 50 years, mostly in Canada and Russia. Investment opportunity?
What is BCQ?
On mobile I couldn't get whole lines to wrap at my screen edge, couldn't figure out a way to view the raw txt instead of that weird web page. Opened termux, installed w3m, opened the url there, and then was able to view whole lines without repeatedly scrolling left and right. Maybe this will help someone else as well.
We don't know if people that are contract covid obtain ANY immunity much less long lasting immunity. We rejected that strategy because even if it actually worked it would have cost 2 million lives in the US. After we burned 2 million corpses we might be dealing with a different strain that the rest of us aren't immune to and find ourselves back at square one.

Contemplating hugging strangers in hopes of spreading covid is contemplating negligent homicide.