skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US, Everyone knows doctor reports and electronic medical records and all are broken. This isn't a tech problem or a novel idea. Hospital administration and healthcare IT is one of the most fundamentally broken amd inefficiencies industries you can imagine. Regulatory capture, bureaucracy, inertia, established players like Epic with products that might not even be compatible between two installations of the same product. And thousands of startups with great new ideas that will definitely reduce doctors workload by making everything easier. No standardization. Updating prescriptions via a software service - wow. You'd have to get the doctors paid for that (it took a pandemic to make payers willing to consider it), make then allowed to do that in the first place (ask telemedicine how easy that is), protect from liability, be HIPAA compliant, integrate it with the rest of their systems... If you managed to fix all that and create fundamental, systemic change from the government to the hospital desk so your product could gain traction as a startup with a cool new doctor reporting tool, well, you'd go down in history as one of the greatest startups and most effective management teams in the history of capitalism.
USB-C would take off like wildfire if there actually existed any proper USB-C hubs - not what's currently called a "USB-C hub" which is more like a breakout box which at best replicates the single USB-C port it takes up and adds a bunch of legacy ports; I'm talking about a proper hub that plugs into a single port and turns it into multiple ports, like those dirt cheap old USB-A hubs. You literally cannot move to an all-USB-C existence because with rare exceptions 1 port = 1 device.
Banjo had a contract to collect coronavirus data from Intermountain Healthcare
> Source code is public and has been shared/audited on twitter etc but no formal audits that I’ve seen yet.

I don't believe that's true. There is certainly decompiled code floating around, but release of the code has been delayed whilst the Signals Directorate investigate the app. [0]

Worth noting that decompiling the app to see if it actually does what it says it does is a crime under the legislation backing it.

> Agreed. The PIA and source code will be released subject to consultation with the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre.

[0] https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2020...
No! Well other than not having your whole shell environment in your dotfiles. It just wouldn’t have occurred to me.
What if the sample is contaminated?
It is here in HN that I first heard Pablo Neruda's "No culpes a nadie". Even though a fan of Neruda I somehow had missed this. Perhaps this speaks to you something too:

## Don't Blame Anyone

Never complain about anyone, nor anything,
because basically you have done
what you wanted in your life.

Accept the difficulty of improving yourself
and the courage to start changing yourself.
The triumph of the true man emerges from
the ashes of his mistake.

Never complain about your loneliness or your
luck, face it with courage and accept it.
In one way or another it is the outcome of
your acts and the thought that you always
have to win.

Don't be embittered by your own failure or
blame it on another, accept yourself now or
you'll keep making excuses for yourself like a child.
Remember that any time is
a good time to begin and that nobody
is so horrible that they should give up.

Don't forget that the cause of your present
is your past, as well as the cause of your
future will be your present.

Learn from the bold, the strong,
those who don't accept situations, who
will live in spite of everything. Think less in
your problems and more in your work and
your problems, without eliminating them, will die.

Learn how to grow from the pain and to be
greater than the greatest of those
obstacles. Look at yourself in the mirror
and you will be free and strong and you will stop
being a puppet of circumstances because you
yourself are your own destiny.

Arise and look at the sun in the mornings
and breathe the light of the dawn.
You are part of the force of your life;
now wake up, fight, get going, be decisive
and you will triumph in life. Never think about
luck because luck is
the pretext of losers.
It’s never too late to fix.
The security behind the NHS contact tracing app
pfsense can do this pretty easily, i wouldn't call it out of the box though. the adblocking can be done via pfblocker-ng, and it has an openvpn client of course.
In addition to what other people have said, you'll have a nightmare of a time if the power goes out and your router re-assigns new LAN IPs (nightmare if you're not in the same household as the non-technical user). Try to setup a Pi-Hole with a static IP if you can.

[Edit] Grammar.
Aren’t they also the agency giving the green light to massive violations of consumer privacy by allowing ISPs to data warehouse and monetize browsing histories? And they have the nerve to claim that they want to keep IP addresses private in just this one case where it benefits themselves.
cheers, gotta try it too
A sad update about SideQuest – We cannot remain open source
I feel that Americans tend to use the term "friend" a lot more casually than, say, the Japanese. In Japan, your boss is never your friend. Neither is your teachers, colleagues, parents or siblings. A "friend" in Japan is somewhat closer to a soulmate, and not surprisingly we don't have many (for some people, not at all).
Even nails can self-organize with a little help : https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/fc7mmh/ho...
I didn't see any pricing anywhere. Anyone knows how much do they charge?
It's hard to do just the fun stuff because that's not what makes good software. It's the unit tests and pull reviews and such that make the software reliable and covering all the niggling edge cases. And that ultimately is what makes a piece of software good.
As soon as the data is collected it is going to be used. That is where the privacy invasion is. If a massive data set on citizens leaks and becomes available online, people will still consider it an invasion of privacy, even if it was never "used" prior.
The value of the pack-in cooler is sub-$20, it's quite noisy and not particularly good at cooling. Something like a Hyper T4 or Deepcool Gammax 400 is in the ballpark, something like the Hyper 212 Evo is cooler and quieter, so that sets very low bounds on the value of that pack-in.

You don't really want to be using the sub-$100 tier of motherboards for AMD either. People will talk up how cheap motherboards are but tell people you're going to put a 3900X (only 105W TDP) on a B450 and their eyes will roll at you.
You don't understand why people put up with Apple consumers? Or Apple the company? Or specifically MacBook Pros?
That kind of data, for instance visible access points or cell towers, is not available for apps on iOS.

If you disagree, could you please list ways you think this can be done?
uh they're text.... they don't need to be formatted well to be indexed and searched lol.
That's pretty great. It'd be interesting to run a study with the test in NY and compare it with the 21% positive rate the state found with their test. If we're expecting that high a percentage to be positive, a 1/500 false positive rate should be more than enough to validate that number and get good data in hotspots like NY.
While computing phis for SSA does require dataflow analysis, SSA itself is not tremendously useful. The natural follow up to this would be "so what?" Something like live variable analysis is probably a much better first introduction to dataflow analysis since its application is much more obvious.

SSA is also not even universal among IRs for static analysis at this point. Heap-SSA is growing in popularity for complex dataflow problems involving fields.
> Moving a bit further from the specifics, it's worth noting that this is not a natural state of affairs. Humans evolved to be in groups of about 30-100 people who they knew their whole lives

Yup, there are still some anarcho-primitivists who think technology was a bad deal for us humans overall, and that living in a tribal setting of hunters-gatherers is best. The infamous "unabomber manifesto" was broadly advocating for this worldview, albeit with a very negative, nihilistic twist to it as one might expect. Kinda ironic to point that out when you look at OP's nearly-utopian attitude to tech, of course.
I can tell by your language that you aren't american - so why don't you STFU you fucking fascist.
For those of you who want to dig deep into the truth of solar storm (GMD) vulnerability of the North American electric grid, take a few minutes to read the first part of our comment to FERC during the docket process for NERC standard setting. And then say what you think on the thread.
https://www.resilientsocieties.org/uploads/5/4/0/0/54008795/...
I've been using Pi-Hole for quite a while now too. I also have several in-browser ad blockers. In browser, I'm running Ghostery, uBlock Origin, and Privacy Badger, DuckDuck Go's privacy essentials, and whatever Firefox's does when you turn on all of the privacy respecting stuff. Honestly, I don't really know what does what any more. I recently turned off pi-hole and started to browse the web using Internet Explorer, just to see. Holy Cow... I'd forgotten what the incredible-edible internet was really like.
For my anecdote, I got sick for the first time in years with a cold, right around the new year. This happened after we went out to eat at a restaurant in Portland. Our food was late, and someone came and told us that some kitchen workers had called in sick. We ended up waiting almost 2 hours for our food. After eating, my girlfriend and I felt sick within a day. It was fairly miserable and lasted about 10 days.

Then a month later, after my roommate returned from a trip to Vancouver, BC, we both became ill. This time it lasted about a week.

Next, about a month and a half later I was feeling unwell for weeks with very different symptoms. I went to urgent care. This turned out to be an episode of diabetic ketoacidosis, and I was diagnosed with adult onset type 1 diabetes.
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If you read the background for that law, you'll find that people were in fact being injured by vaccines. And some still are. Just as virtually all medicines injure some people. Because there's great variability in responses.

The law didn't get enacted just to prevent lawsuits, but also to compensate those who were injured.

> The implications in your comment are actively harmful to the public health.

That way lies totalitarianism.

For example, there's considerable pressure in many countries to outlaw secure end-to-end encryption. To protect against terrorists, child abusers, and other criminals.

So how would we feel if support for secure end-to-end encryption were censored in social media?
My most recent solution: At work, I work.

After work ... I bought an iPad and started making little songs using Garageband. I have total creative control, and tinkering away with music is fun for me.

Another generation used to build model railroads in their basements. I don't get it, but they had total creative control.
fuck the liberal google and apple PM's sitting at home, smoking weed thinking this crazy shit up

they should be sued and fired and then thrown in jail!
Top 10 things I don't want my doctor to say. Honorable mentions: "whoa what is that"...
... as were those that think biology predetermines everything
100x "your coworkers are not your friends." Especially if you are the boss. That doesnt preclude you from being friendly. But that doesnt make you friends.
Who are your typical clients/industries? And how long is a typical engagement? And why per hour vs per project pricing?
How to Sell Your TV Writing During Quarantine
This changed in 1.86 and I updated the README as follows:

> random writes or appends to files require rewriting the entire object, optimized with multi-part upload copy

Now changing one bit means re-uploading 5 MB, the minimum S3 part size.
Your disillusion really resonates with my experience, and likely many others. The thing is, if you had succeeded in all you wanted, you would still be asking the same questions by now.

There are times for disillusion in everyone’s life.

Look at it as an opportunity. A moment in the now - where you are not only open to, but also craving, for a new direction or a different mindset on the direction to move forward.

I strongly believe in correct forward.

That means valuing your previous experiences, valuing feedback from others in the present, and striving for better in the future.

I would say you are two thirds there buddy!
> Daylight is the best disinfectant

Shame about all the deplatforming then
Thanks! It does substantiate the point these are mostly white collar workers complaining about their environment agenda. I saw a single bullet about work conditions, and this was couched in a context about not docking pay if there are big storms that wipe out operations.

Definitely not a corporation mistreating its employees. I don't know why this is portrayed as such. If employees want to force their employer to follow some agenda the employer does not agree with, I don't see a problem with the corporation firing the employees.
They should show up with their individual styles, but you can't variate them. They need to contain a STAT table to work on Windows though.
Roam Research vs. Notion
They are saying that targeting can be not exclusive for example an antibody that targets the spikes might also bind with the receptors they connect too.

Then there is the question of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhanceme...
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Don't Regulate Artificial Intelligence: Starve It
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but how can you know if your principle ("one side has all the power and the other side has none") is relevant without understanding the specifics of the issue at hand?

You seem to be suggesting that the only relevant information is that there is a "big" corporation involved and that the particulars of the situation are irrelevant.

I'm just suggesting that the particulars of the case are important to deciding who is acting in a "morally superior way" (to use the phrasing from the earlier comment.
If you have a decent router, then you can just forcibly redirect any DNS requests from 8.8.8.8 to your PiHole.
Interesting to see your screen issue.

Mine in particular: bright white splotches. There are 12 of them at random locations. I get a new one every couple of months.

If you were to press your fingernail forcefully into the LCD, to purposely damage it, that's what it looks like. But I obviously don't do that... gentle circular patterns with a clean eyeglasses cloth, dampened with water.
I don't mean to rag specifically on Tim here, but most posts like this one probably should not be taken entirely at face value. My guess is that he left Amazon mostly for other more mundane reasons, and he used the well-known issues with how Amazon treat their workers as a means to exit in a blaze of righteous glory.
That's simply not true. After I couldn't find any such requirement in the build instructions for Rust, I was curious and actually setup a VM with 4GB of RAM (3.8GB usable), checked out the current rust source tree and had my machine compile the whole shebang in the background.

And what can I say - after about 3 hours and max memory usage of about 31% (or a little less than 1.8GB) the compile finished without errors.

So could you please point me to the source of your claim?
Did I just uncover some magic loophole that allowed me to achieve this feat while using less than 2GB of RAM? What did I do wrong/right?
I made an account just to say thank you to you - parent, and the original poster, and all the others I had read here. And to share my story.

I had the jobs I loved for a very long time (even being in the same corp; and even if jobs were hard). And then the job I loved rather abruptly ended. And I ended up in a job that isn’t exciting for me. And, there is a fair amount of politics and egos. But it pays well and is super flexible. And it’s not too dreadful - more like “meh, okay”. And worse - the alternatives aren’t more exciting either. So in a way - just a cynical way to look at having a luxury problem at hands, I guess.

So I focus on the things I can enjoy here and now, to stay in the moment, while keeping the eyes open for something that I can believe in. I find myself hard problems that I try to solve - yet do not have the pressure to, have little quick side projects, and do one hour of high intensity training every day. I focus on my family and friends outside of work (in the past years I gained a few) It helps.

But I think the reason of this state, is not just doing too much work - it’s that we need something to believe in, something to allow ourselves relax, and show child-like curiosity and emotions for. It’s having more control, if you wish, in some sense, or illusion thereof.

The modern world is so much make-pretend in an attempt to optimize everything, so judgemental, so result-oriented and transactional, that after a while it’s hard to find something “pure”, worth believing in and following. And especially hard after seeing a few cycles, to get excited about another one, people chasing the next holy grail...

Some people would get into a religion, it would definitely help me more if I could. But I can’t.

I have been also reading.

Of the many books that I have read to try to figure myself out - “the new earth”, “the brain that changes itself” and “thinking in systems” are probably among the ones that I would recommend the most. (Of course, the first one has some kind of association behind it, and the second does promote a brain-training app - science based. But it’s nice to see the reasons clear :-) Only the third one is “pure“ - but once you read it, you realize the entirety of the world is just a giant pile of interconnected systems on many levels, and you are back to square 1... :-)

Sorry for the not very coherent rant.

Thank you again, and take care!
Late reply, sorry.

The problem isn't systemd's init. It's probably fine.

The problem is the systemd project is taking over the userspace with mutually cross-linked modules.

Devuan was started by a group of Debian maintainers who disagreed with the direction systemd was taking Debian.
> a good, unbiased press

I'd argue most of what is sold as "the press" is not that. Click-bait, PR mouthpieces, unverified "news", inflammatory news and padding are the majority of what people see.
The antibody recognizes a particular 3D shape on the virus, called an epitope. There is a chance that a similar shape exists in humans, and using this antibody would cause your immune system to attack itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_mimicry
Hi Martin, thanks for sharing your insightful comments and the improvements list. I think if anyone can do that, the impact will be probably nothing less than the impact of introduction of spreadsheet to do PC industry, and arguably it is still the killer computer application to beat until today.

Just sharing about the improvements of array based programming language from the academia inspired by APL. Two of the most promosing approaches are the Single Assignment C (SAC) from Hertfordshire University, UK (proprietary) and Furthark from Copenhagen University, Denmark (open source). SAC try to the introduce better syntax (as in Algol C) for functional programming array based language with concurrent multi-core CPU support. Furthark also try to better the syntax for programming array language for GPU parallelism by being the more intuitive intermediate language.

From non academic, I would say the closest to your improvements list will be the D programming language. Unlike Python and NumPy, where there is a clunky impedance mismatched, using D it is feasible to create a seamless array based integration by virtue of its CTFE and metaprogramming capabilities including native support for object oriented, imperative and functional programming paradigm. For initial work check the Mir GLAS library for the native D implementation where it has managed to outperform the venerable BLAS/LAPACK Fortran based linear algebra library where normally Python or other programming languages depend on [1].

Additionally D also support native nested functions that can be handy for processing nested multi-dimensional arrays.

I have got the feeling that for seamless CPU, GPU, FPGA and TPU programming integration, there will be based on the Static Single Assignment (SSA) form that is currently being proposed independently by MLIR (from LLVM team) and LLHD (from ETH Zurich). If you have noticed that the SAC is also utilizing this compilation technique as well.

[1] http://blog.mir.dlang.io/glas/benchmark/openblas/2016/09/23/...
The repurcussion is.. you know someone near you was in contact with covid (a good thing to know) and it has ads (devs need to eat too)?
The title of this article is incorrect. FTA: “Apple […] and […] Google on Monday said they would ban the use of location tracking in apps that use a new contact tracing system the two are building”.

So, contact tracing apps that don’t use that system, such as the one from the UK (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52441428) still would be allowed to do location tracking.
The Russians soft-landed a robot on the moon before Apollo.

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

NASA also landed Surveyor.
> In summary none of the patients who are put on ventilators survive

Biggest problem: determining if someone dies because or despite of ventilators.
It is clear to me that geomagthrowaway has some real technical expertise on solar storms and GIC.
What I mean is that even if you have an old school POTS landline (if these are still offered) most of your calls are going to be at least partly routed over the internet, just because it is so much cheaper than maintaining the analog infrastructure.
The cul-de-sac killer brutally beat 5 elderly victims to death
Maybe you can’t convince everyone else to behave ethically, but you can hold yourself to that standard. Working on bomb tech is over a line for me personally.
It doesn't. I think they were just confirming this:

> I'm not sure if Google allows using phone notifications first (another 2fa method) and then switching to TOTP...
Why do you think it’s different now? The wealthy have always lived in a few places from where they could dominate the whole country.
> If I'm pushing the ugly complexity outside of K with an FFI, I'll be stuck writing the ugly plumbing (a major part of the job) in some other language.

It’s kind of the opposite - you get an easy to use escape hatch where it makes sense - which enables you to work with large complex legacy systems.

It lets you do the ugly plumbing in K.

Contrast this with Java - back in the early 2000s my company ended up rewriting huge parts of our legacy systems to Java simply because JNI was so bad.
I have a friend in Philly who swears he had it around the holidays in December. Said he had a flu that wiped him out for a few days - said he had never had anything like it. After SARS-CoV-2 blew up and symptoms were being discovered, he swears that it's what he had.
looks like it hit the mainstream media: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/business/amazon-tim-bray-...
A standard data cable for laptops is fine I guess, but I want a distinct power-only cable that isn't complicated enough to enable malware attacks. And battery swaps. And a pony.
Wouldn't that sort of defeat the point here?

Contact tracing apps want to use location data to know when I might have been in contact with someone. If you do something like round the data to a suburban neighborhood or a densely populated city block in Manhattan, you can't effectively contact trace.

Any granularity of data that is useful for contact tracing would seemingly raise the same concerns that are leading to them banning this.
That isn't a whitelist, there is no way on it with a legitimate app when the entry criteria is being a state.