skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The system then takes that the contact events were 'authentic' and then takes the transmit power and received signal strengths that each proximity event produced (remember, these are broadly representative of physical distance), and runs those through a sophisticated risk model to work out the encounters that are high risk from a virus transmission point of view. "

This is not possible.

Other countries use humans (Contact Tracers) to do this, working with the person infected.

Contact Tracer: On this day looks like blah happened, Infected: Yes I forgot.

Infected: On this day I talked to this person for ages but I don't know them. Contact Tracer: I see, we will contact them.

Fine, fine, move quick and break stuff. Don't think about it.

In Australia-

The App is not anonymous! It reuses the ID, they don't roll. 3rd Parties track away.

iOS does not work at all. You have to have the phone unlocked and on the front. If you want to pretend that works, you'll make a great government consultant like the Australians used.
I don't think thats true though. In 1903, Radioactivity had already been proposed as an explanation for the Sun's heat (2 years prior to Annus Mirabilis). The connection between E=mc^2 and nuclear reactions doesn't become clear until you start losing mass (proton + neutron) in the reactions, which doesn't happen for the reactions involved in the Sun (Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen Cycle). The connection was recognized by Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn when they discovered fission, where a mass loss does occur. However, they didn't publish their discovery until January 1939; and Hans Bethe had already been working on the Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen Cycle, and didn't need fission to account for the Sun's processes (neutron + proton mass is conserved in the relevant reactions). He was just working off of observed empirical data to make his conclusions.
> I'm probably not going to make myself a lot of friends by saying this but I don't really understand the systemd opponents.

I think sections 3.5 and 3.6 (all of them, including subsections outlines current problems pretty clearly. Summarized, systemd is complex to reason about, ambiguous in how it functions, and poorly documented in many cases. All the very similar directives with slight nuances paint a picture of people that didn't really understand the problem space as well as they thought they did (and to be fair, nobody did, and they probably had the best understanding, as woefully inadequate as it was). For a sysadmin, who rarely (but not never!) has to dive into the intricacies of unit files and the myriad directives and their nuanced behavior for creating a server but less rarely is affected by odd behavior introduced by systemd, it's a liability.

What we have now is a chance to learn from those missteps and build something even better. Systemd as a catalyst for rapid chance was wildly successful. As an init system that capitalizes on those changes in a way that users (that is, system/distro packagers) can take advantage of, not so much, since it's so wildly complex. The article posits that BPF will be used to create programs to take over some of these tasks, which may be right. Alternatively, we could start pulling out the components that systemd subsumed, and formalizing them into new standards that others could develop for. Whether that means actually pulling out the component (e.g. logind) to a new repo, or just formalizing API is up for debate.
That article says the exact opposite of what you claim:

> The ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit handed victory to Verizon by rejecting the legal framework of the Federal Communications Commission's attempt to regulate the telecom giant and its peers based on net neutrality rules. Such net neutrality, or open Internet, rules aim to prohibit Internet service providers (ISPs) such as Verizon from offering tiered broadband services that would push content providers—such as Netflix or Amazon—to pay more for faster delivery of their content. The rules also prevent ISPs from blocking lawful Internet applications and services.

Wheeler was suing them to enforce NN standards!

Here's and article[1] 2 years later after he successfully appealed that decision:

> Tom Wheeler defeats the broadband industry: Net neutrality wins in court

> The net neutrality order, passed over a year ago, is FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's signature move during a whirlwind time as head of the commission.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/net-neutrality-a...
The old generation is wage-dependent, as will the next generations be as well.
People are not likely to invest in research and development without a corresponding probability of making money off of it. The regulations make that very difficult.
This. You need to be able to constantly and quickly cull the weakest from your team. After a while you’ll recognize the best ones and run a Tier 1 top-talent team supported by metrics, and the weak will move on. The strong will have room to grow without micromanagement.
The size of the company doesn’t matter. Small companies are not inherently less evil. You can have a company with no VC backing or shareholders and screw over your customers at every turn. The idea that the size of the organization is directly related to whether or not it is worth trusting is ridiculous. Just because I don’t know everyone at a hospital doesn’t mean they aren’t worth trusting.
I am sure most people would agree life > privacy any day.

Edit: But then again, if there was an option to opt out that would be great too. Got to give people options!
I disagree with this but it may just be a style thing. Reading "Hey, how are you?" in the middle of the content put me on guard, I feel like I might be being manipulated somehow.
> Despite what the NCSC has continued to imply, the app will not, as it stands, work all the time on iOS and Android since version 8. The operating systems won't allow the tracing application to broadcast its ID via Bluetooth to surrounding devices when it's running in the background and not in active use.
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Same in CZ, I had the baddest flu in January, I even went to have a covid test now, but I still didn't have it
Is anyone here using Caddy with Dokku? I'd love to replace Nginx with a technology I know.
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For my own part, it was all about finding the right book. I enjoyed my degree in pure maths, and after finishing I really missed studying so I tried out dozens of books. Eventually, I hit upon Calculus by Spivak. This book fundamentally changed me and I solved every problem in it fastidiously - it was just so well made, funny in parts, it had cliffhangers, and the problems were just amazing, linking together over chapters like characters in a novel. For the first time, I was solving problems just for fun and I was improving much faster than I did during my degree. I wrote all my solutions in LaTeX so I had an organised body of work to look back on and watch grow, adding to the satisfaction (I lose paper; pdf is better for me).

So my advice: find a great book, make notes and expand on what the author is saying with diagrams or additional lines of working, focus on solving problems, do it out of love.
> He never enforced a single NN violation.

He certainly did!

> Tom Wheeler defeats the broadband industry: Net neutrality wins in court

> Total victory for FCC as appeals court decision upholds net neutrality order.

I think the top comment on ArsTechnica there is telling:

If you told me 5 years ago that a 20-year lobbyist veteran would be named the head of the FCC and reclassify the wired and wireless internet agencies under Title II, I'd have punched you in the arm and called you a fucking liar.

I have never been more happy to be proven wrong about a book's cover than I have been with Mr. Wheeler.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/net-neutrality-a...
I don't agree with this view. I agree with the original commentor's comment. I do this myself outside of work just to enjoy building something without the responsibility of having to maintain it with 20 other engineers for two more decades.

However, even I can see that a team would get burnt if they built an enterprise software the way I code my personal email client. The problem here is that people forget that building software professionally is an engineering job. Like other forms of engineering, there are processes and good practices to facilitate both functional and non functional aspects of a software and the building process. While the extra burden of version control, testability and extendability takes some of the fun away, I would have reservations working with someone who pushes directly to a release branch, does not write test and hardcode values instead of uaing configuration. It's about balance and realising that job is a job.
> The numbers show that this is <1% fatal and probably <0.1%

In New York City about 0.15% of the entire population of the city have already died from the virus, putting a lower limit on the IFR.

Estimates of the IFR have been consistently between about 0.5% to 1% by most authorities I have confidence in.
> Then I worked for a tech giant, and then for a high-growth unicorn. It shocked me how dilbertesque they both were. Full of politicians, and burnt out engineers in golden handcuffs who can't wait to get out, and meaningless business speak, and checked out employees who pretend they're "excited" about everything all the time.

I left my big city office job to work remotely (after a 2.5 year "sabbatical" traveling the world) precisely because I couldn't stand that sh anymore. Remote work isn't a panacea and does have its cons, but no way in hell I'd trade it back for any office job.

In terms of finding one's "spark", I can relate. I used to be pretty starry-eyed too, majoring in math (because I enjoyed it, not for job opportunities or money), and working on a bunch of different kinds of projects for fun. As I've gotten older and had to succumb to the working world, I've also gotten more and more disillusioned over the years. I've felt my creativity and passion diminish.

I'd say part of it is from getting older, part of it is just a byproduct of our capitalist system that forces everyone to rent themselves out for money to rich people who want to make more money and become cogs in the "dilbertesque" machine exactly as you described. As bad as it is, it wouldn't be half as bad in my opinion if we could at least talk about it honestly, but sadly this can get you fired.

I don't have the solution, but I'd say to start by being less hard on yourself because most of those burnt out engineers are in the same position as you, they just didn't have the conviction or courage to follow through and leave. Accept that one's job is purely impersonal and just for money and co-workers are just business relationships, and don't expect more than that or you'll inevitably bound for disappointment.

Clarify what your goals are. Do you want to make money? Improve society? Work on intellectually challenging problems? Be happy? Those are all very different goals with different solutions.

And thanks for writing this post. The enormous reception is proof that you're not alone here, that a lot more of us feel the same way as you than you think. It's a sad reflection of our system, but short of a revolution all we can do is do the best we can. FIRE (financial independence) is the only true freedom of time.
90 Days with the Pinebook Pro
Who did a great job enforcing net neutrality.
Madagascar to begin Clinical trials for an Artemisia based vaccine for Covid-19
I’ve thought for a while that trademarks should be non-transferrable, and should be voided on change-of-control of a company. Their primary purpose is to let the consumer know the origin of goods, and to allow companies to build a reputation around intangible properties of their products, like longevity, quality, and craftsmanship. Selling a trademark is fundamentally betraying that trust in exchange for a monetary reward, which wouldn’t be acceptable behavior in other settings.
Perhaps an attempt at humour? The article specifically says "spell out your acronyms".
> I can't say it's because I wanted to make the world a better place.

i see you saying this, but i don't think you believe this. the way you ended your essay sounds like you do want to make the world a better place through technology.

i am myself burnt out on technology, and i have come to a realization on something that's been burning a while. the simple fact of the matter is that society cannot be helped with technology. just get over that dream. this is all very clear in today's global health crisis. quite nearly all the problems are emphatically not technological in nature and cannot be solved with more technology.

it sounds like to me that you are actually happy but aren't happy with how or why you're happy. maybe that is something to work on? i'm not that old, but as i have aged, i see now that life is a blip. this drive to make a so-called mark is a fool's errand. just enjoy life locally and quit trying to have a global effect. so be happy that you've found some happiness.

i say "so what?" you can't read science fiction. why is that a mark of demerit? read dramas. read thrillers. read westerns. read comedies. there's a ton of material out there that has nothing to do with science. despite science's progress, it still cannot answer or even come close to exploring areas of life that we experience.

stop caring about products. think about things in emotive terms. if you like programming and creating and mathematics, maybe get into creative coding? use your technical ability to search for new expression. maybe use programming to explore your knot theory excursion. maybe volunteer your time to help people or communities who need technology help (i think one can help society on a very local level with a certain amount of technology).

i don't understand why you want to force a path. if a path is closed, it's closed. it doesn't make sense to be happy on your path with tons of other paths out there but to stand in front of the closed path asking "why?". move on and explore.

in dealing with depression and anxiety, the most powerful thought is to understand that you can't change the world. it makes no sense to try and change it, as you'll bury a deeper hole. all the drugs and therapy are meant to be catalyst to a realization that you can't bend the world as if you're gravity and that you must learn to ride the wave in a healthy way and make small adjustments to go where you want to go.
Just because Thiel has referenced this speaker before doesn’t mean he agrees with everything he says. It’s a bit suspicious Thiel would agree that talk of “promoting“ homosexuality should get someone expelled from society.

Do you have any references showing Thiel believes these words you quoted?
> Humans evolved to be in groups of about 30-100 people who they knew their whole lives and thus making catastrophic deception nearly impossible.

A plausible just-so story, but still only that.
That is utter nonsense, that evidence can't exist with out the time having passed to gather it.
The speed of abrupt change may be lethal to 90%+ of life as we know it unless we slow it down without causing an Ice Age.
I wish I got to know you and your experience a bit better. But perhaps you didn't work on things that were ambitious enough? Some causes where technology need coders like us are so daunting and scary that it can be good for our personal motivation. Yes, I mean for you to seek out some fear and trembling. For me, if the project is too definite, too attainable, it feels like there is little exploration.

It's natural for us to go towards jobs and projects that feel secure. However security can often bring about boredom and bitterness if you let it take over you everyday.

I'd disagree with the statement that those people weren't your friends. Friends come and go (family too!), live and enjoy great people in the moment. There is nothing wrong with enjoying fleeting moments with people. If they become friends for long time; great. If not, it was fun while it lasted. Not everything has to evaluated for long-term ROI.
> Working the land, being close to home, running a family business, belonging to a small town of people you all known, having the social safety net of many people that are close to you and your family, being an independent contributor in the town's economy, etc. etc. This is how things were a few hundred years ago.

I always wonder where and when exactly when people say things like that. Because whatever period I look at, there were wast groups of people who did not lived like this happy ideal.
Interesting, I’m on the same boat. Embedded systems and low-level coding are my beacons of sanity.
any time I've used garmin over the years it had been only slightly better then useless.

there are other options though. ive been using openstreetmap for about 4 years and have only found the need to use Google once in all that time. although with openstreetmap being crowd sources it really depends on how much work has been done in a particular area but in my country its pretty decent
Courseras 'The Science of Well Being' course gets over a million subscribers
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What's more, he did appeal and was massively successful.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/net-neutrality-a...

https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/14/11487124/fcc-net-neutrali...

https://www.wired.com/2016/12/tom-wheeler-resigns-fcc-long-n...

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/14/471286113...
Honestly, if God created the universe 6,000 years ago and made everything seem as if it were older—I mean, that’s just a fundamentally unfalsifiable metaphysical hypothesis. For all we know, God did that last week or maybe 5 seconds ago. There’s nothing stopping that hypothesis from being true, it just makes, by definition, no measurable or practical difference and is hence irrelevant to scientific inquiry.
I think I can break down your post into individual arguments, but just know I don't entirely disagree with your assessment, its just that I think your conclusion is far too pessimistic.

> I don't think just giving more people access to internet will be enough to unify fragmented species.

Economic inclusion is the reason I believe it has the greatest potential, primarily on-boarding those that have been excluded from the current economic system. Read this [1] and tell me you don't see the downside to marginalizing such a large segment of the World's population and their Human Capital and how the rest of the World suffers as a result.

Education via MOOCs and other online avenues is what scales the most, thus having Educational resources available to them is critical, and for that you will need, among other things, Global connectivity.

Its sobering to think that because of China's soft-power Imperialism certain parts of Africa have greater access to 4g than they do running water is a reality, but this has to be accepted and it can serve as a foundation to build better standards of living and Education alike.

Simply dumping equipment is not sufficient, nor is a blank check from NGOs I agree; luckily the West has a long History of having people who will put themselves in harm's way (Doctors without borders) to help those less fortunate that can act as leaders to teach them how to replicate these models and build their own infrastructure to suit their environment and address the problems they encounter. Justin Wren's work [2] is an awesome example, albeit perilous in its own way, of what can happen when this pans out.

> Just look at anti-vaxers and 5G conspirationists. They have access to all the information they want.

I agree this an a-symmetric battle, and they seem to be hyper-focused on specious and superfluous positions, based on outright fallacious arguments to justify their positions, but ultimately I'd rather have them able to make that choice than to rob them of their agency if given a choice. 5g conspiracies are insipid, however, I believe anti-vax'ing parents should be liable for any damages or costs associated to exposing their children and anyone else they infect in arbitration that extends to punitive and well as financial damages.

The court system may currently be 'responsible' for that role in Society, but I'm not averse to exploring other ideas that can be mediated.

1: https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/10/28/the-shadow-superpower/

2: https://fightfortheforgotten.org/
But, what if you want to improve? What if you actually want to write better code?
Robust code is something you earn.
Why is Apple building an ad network?
PHP hater sheeps incoming
It was business and politics that ruined technology for you, not technology itself. There's a reason why people warn you against turning your hobby into a career.

On the surface, it seems like a perfect idea to make a living by doing what you love, but it ceases to be fun. You won't be able to do only what you love and what your whims and desires guide you to do, instead you have to do all the things you don't really like, whatever is desired by others willing to pay. Your most marketable skill in tech may be something you don't really enjoy doing.

I was the "computer kid" growing up and in school, so obviously that influenced my choice of education and career. I used to tinker endlessly with new devices, Linux distros (did Linux From Scratch installs, all that), and programming, but I just don't really care to do that anymore. I've hopped off the gadget bandwagon and only ever upgrade when something eventually breaks. It is no longer a fun hobby for me to upgrade my PCs endlessly or to tinker with new features and perusing changelogs to check for them. Tech feels too much like work now.

Instead, I've picked up on some old creative hobbies, like miniature painting and crafts, something analog and tactile. I tinker with paint mixes and techniques, work on my artistic side.

I know 3D printing is becoming very big in that space too, but I am consciously trying to avoid it. It is tempting though, and luckily pretty far removed from where my career has taken me.

Burnout is something that just happens, in your case it was due to business nonsense and politics, which is what usually happens. Do what makes you have, not what used to make you happy.
There's a reason for those institutions, though. Within any social group larger than a primitive tribe, you can't coordinate pro-social behavior or resolve disputes without some formal institutions and structures of sorts. We've got to give the anarcho-primitivists credit where credit is due: at least they understand what it would take to get actual anarchism to work!
Apple doesn't make it easy to be liked overall. For example, trying to get 30% of a company revenue to publish an app on ios store and push the arrogance all the way to ask a company to change its business model is insane. I'm not gonna go all the way to ask to be able to build or test things in containers, but at least do it easily in virtual machines legally without having to buy or rent some apple hardware for no good reason. Why not even being able to build ios apps outside of macos? There's no technical reason not to be able to do so neither.

For me, the discrepancy between apple marketing around the products and how it feels being stuck in the past as soon as having to build and support anything related to apple makes the whole company not likeable and not trustworthy.
I mean the obvious joke here is that it took 7 major versions over dozen of years to show its maturity :)
apple is closed source and extremely secretive so i will keep putting them in the same bucket thanks
Why wouldn't this suggest to you it was spreading from China in December?
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> Clarify what your goals are. Do you want to make money? Improve society? Work on intellectually challenging problems? Be happy?

Thank you, that is excellent advice.
For me it's too late. I used PHP when it wasn't "mature" yet and hated it. There something blocking me now from ever going back to check it, no matter what its new features might be.