skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see what you're saying but HN is not a community of epidemiologists so I'd also say the headline is misleading and hence, inappropriate.
This isn't a limit of our ability to procure hardware, but instead a limit of one of our 7-year-old monolithic applications. We're working on increasing its stability at high player counts, but it's a totally separate issue from server provisioning and cloud vs bare metal.
Clever experimental set-up (tl;dr they detect whether novel content first sent between non-China accounts increases the probability of it being censored in realtime when being sent to China accounts -- and it does -- implying a censor (or perhaps a non-realtime automated system) looked at it).

I'm wondering though if this is intentional or just "incompetence/laziness". WeChat itself seems self-interested in not bothering with content transmitted outside China, but perhaps it is just such a small amount of their user-base, that they never bothered setting up a "firewall".
Restrictions did not take effect until Feb 2.
Of course it's a universal right. I don't think there's an idealogical gap between us on that front.

The other side of the "or" is a particularly egregious example of the excluded middle (separate from the missing middle housing shortage). The idealogical gap, if anything, seems to stem from willingness to believe that supply and demand affect housing affordability. I believe they do. The "regulations making housing artificially scarce" are exactly those inhibiting supply.

To that point and your question---of course landlords will always raise rent to the extent that the law allows it and the market will bear it.
There are degrees of security between "I personally built it from source using a compiler I personally built from source" and "Xi Jinping is CC'ed a plaintext copy of every message". The allegation here is that WeChat is basically the latter. No one makes any remotely similar claim about iMessage or WhatsApp.
"The city of the future" has been a passion of mine for several years now. I even co-founded a company driven by the desire to create one eventually (the company then moved to a cool product to digitize titles, US only for now; and secured seed funding long after I left).

I always had a problem with this initiative by Google, and others in general. These things don't scale.

You want to build the city of the future? It should be 10x more affordable, 10x less polluting, and be built 10x faster than traditional cities. It should find inspiration from Jane Jacobs, Christopher Alexander, Leon Krier, etc.

Sometimes I still dream about doing something about it. This blog post somehow summarizes where this desire comes from: "unf*ck" [0]. It's such a massive problem though. I keep thinking that I don't have the chops to be able to do anything about it.

[0]: https://medium.com/the-naked-founder/unfuck-710afbaa4092
The question was: do we have any reason to believe it is more secure than weChat? I say yes.
On Tresorit side, I've been with them for many years (when they were just starting out they were decently generous on free allowances and gatherfathered across).

Client is so-so (more stable than KBFS to be honest) but the service is very costly and I would rather a BYOB (bring your own backend) approach using some other product...
I'll find out myself. Just got handed a codebase that is a mix of Python/Gunicorn/node when this sprint started off. I've seen the word gunicorn in the repo... but still don't know what it does yet. First time for this old back end Java/C++/XQuery programmer, so how hard can it be?

(On the plus side, seems my Jetbrain kit includes PyCharm, so I've even got an IDE!)
From TFA:

> I wouldn't recommend using Airtable to store fast-moving data but as a means of storing strings, images, positions of views, and general data that won't get updated very often, Airtable could be a potential option for you.
Yeah I don't disagree, definitely the answer is yes - I was just adding some extra detail.
This is really cool. I've used google sheets as a backend/UI for a client project once. Worked really well. People know how to use it and it scales for "most" use cases.
That is only factually incorrect if you look at the 1% in terms of households and in terms of income. In reality, a multi-millionaire might not qualify as the top 1% in household income due to their reliance on capital growth instead of straight income. One might see a million dollar increase in net worth, while paying no taxes on it, and then using that million dollar as collateral to help finance more and more growth. The only tax you might end up paying might be capital gains tax of 20%, or even 15%, eventually, while if it was household income you would pay 45% in taxes. The shift of income from dividends to capital gains for the wealthiest is not reflected in your statistics, and so I don't think they can be used to answer my earlier comment.

The data in your source indeed does not seem to consider capital gains tax, as they seem to reflect the top tax bracket on average for different states and locales, whereas if capital gains were considered in relation to the state in which they are realized, it would certainly be much lower.
Speak for yourself, I used vim for a decade and have since switched full-time to spacemacs in mixed mode! :)
The leader also claimed it'd go down to 0, go away like a miracle, etc. The travel shutdown from China wad probably a random act of racism and not a coherently planned action. Let's not forget the shutdown of the pandemic team in 2018.
This was a good article. For my money, one of the best conceptual introductions to virtual memory was an article by Jeff Berryman, over 40 years ago. It's been reprinted many times, including at https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Paging_Game.
Well put! But it depends on how you approach the issue.

If having a conscience means prioritizing security above all else, then Keybase is doomed.

But security isn’t the only thing that matters. Zoom seems to have focused on making a very user friendly product. Keybase focused on making security more user friendly. In many ways, the user focus of both apps is their Prime selling point.

Perhaps they weren’t buying a conscience, they were fixing a blind spot.
> Facebook spies on the content that all users send each other, including Chinese (and Canadians and Europeans and Indiana and Australians and Russians...)

Sure, the article discusses other sketchy stuff that wechat is doing, but FB and Twitter and Reddit et. al. are all doing similar stuff too.
Have you seen those photos of crowded subway platforms in the early morning? Almost all minorities on their way to gig worker jobs in the city - delivery people, etc. These are the essential workers that are still delivering food and groceries to the rest of NYC that is sheltering in place.

It doesn't surprise me that the rate of infection by those staying home, that are in poor neighborhoods and minorities, is high. How many of those households have an essential worker in their family? How many of them might be living in large multi-generational families where one or more are instacart shoppers, Uber/Lyft drivers, etc?

We need more data before we can really determine if this is surprising or not.

I'll tell you what I thought immediately after seeing those photos:
- First reaction: OMG, those people are not social distancing and are putting everyone at risk.
- Second reaction: If those essential workers can't deliver food to all the people trapped in their apartments, society would collapse very quickly.
>When you just slap things together and see if they work - are you really engineering?

Why not? That's basically what testing is. Which was one of the attributes you attributed to "Engineer" >formal testing

>I think we often cross "research and development" with "engineering"

My general take:

Scientists primarily focus on learning and proving new knowledge & ideas. (i.e. they research)

Engineers focus in using proven knowledge and applying it to design and create things or solve problems. When things are not perfectly certain, they can prototype and do tests similar to how scientists do experiments (e.g. aerodynamics in wind tunnels). (i.e. development)
The best analogy I've found is that "elimination" is like retirement. It is a stage rather than a point in time.
Which is why they push you towards not using the website, and also explain how they (through some steps) put their application version's hashes into the bitcoin blockchain.

And the client is open source, which iirc includes being built by distribution's maintainers/build servers instead of Keybase.io.
It's a bit off topic, but the challenge there is similar to a reply I wrote elsewhere in this thread about clock speeds. Minecraft is almost entirely single threaded, which means that you could get a $400 Google cloud instance and still only be able to hold those three players. To scale past that you're going to need higher clock speed processors. Take a look at OVH's "GAME" series offering or any dedicated host with E3's or i7s.
Last I checked I'm paying an absurd markup, much larger than $15/month, on my internet access.

There is only minimal competition as it seems to be nearly impossible for other companies to lay fiber or cable, DSL is too slow, cellular coverage is spotty, and satellite suffers from excessive latency.

The problem doesn't seem to be lack of money paid by internet users, but where it goes.
You are not just saying yes to 21.58, you are saying yes to the satisfaction of helping a friend and the reward of receiving their appreciation in the form of their chosen gift back to you: pizza and beer, plus the time shared enjoying that pizza and beer together.
Sure, the same way that Saskatchewan had to respect patent law in 1947 when it enacted its own single payer system — its population was 1/20th the population of all of Canada at the time.
I tried looking up Dark Crystal, but the link doesn't work and neither does search results. Do you have any more into?
tribute radio show :)

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-do-you-breakfast-show/episode...
Name one, just one country comparable to the US in population and the mobility of their population that did well. Once the virus got in, and remained undetected for a few weeks, it's too late to trace it like they did in South Korea (a tiny country with a very homogeneous population).

It's easy to judge it in hindsight, but think of it from US or most EU countries' governments perspective. You got barely any infections locally. The number of infections in China at the end of January was under 10K (a country with the population of over a billion). China just started their quarantine a week ago (23rd of Jan). Is it reasonable to quarantine the whole country at this point? I don't think so. Italy waited for a whole month to start theirs.

What is a reasonable set of actions in this scenario, in your opinion?
Or Elisp in script tags in html. Can already browse pure html in eww.
Ironically, if you make the window smaller, the images get bigger.
I network on LinkedIn, it's also used in sales a lot
whatsapp backups on google are not encrypted. anyone wanting to read the messages just has to ask google.
It might well be, but we can't be sure, because just like you said that info is not available in an easily comparable form.

It's gonna be interesting to see the growth of new airlines now that COVID is a thing.

Low prices seem to be a given, but customers are expecting service that accommodates their new fears related to air flight.
Twitter ran on Rails until 10 million users.
We bounced around through a few different hosts in the first two or three years of our operation, but for the past four years we've been consistently with SingleHop, now an INAP company. They've been great through the entire time that we've worked with them and have saved our asses on more than one occasion, especially back before mitigation tech like CloudFlare Spectrum was available.
It seems like one of the primary differences between countries that have effectively stopped Covid-19 like South Korea and Taiwan, and the US is how people are quarantined.

In the countries that were effective at stopping the spread, they quarantined sick people outside of their house. Since transmission is so effective its almost a guarantee that the rest of your household will catch it if you stay home, either by touching a shared doorknob, then touching their face, or by droplets landing on surfaces, or any number of other mechanisms.

We should seriously consider paying for hotel rooms for people that test positive. The total cost would likely be far lower than letting them infect the rest of their family.
1. No
2. Secure? No. More secure? Yes.
That'd put you in ... black diamond, I suppose?
In 2018 domestic tourism was $23B, international $17B (excluding airfares). So we were already more than half domestic. Since international travel is severely restricted now, expect domestic tourism to increase. Australia was more than half of our inbound international tourism, and there's a good chance we'll be able to resume that. So the tourism industry will suffer but it need not collapse.
>>> "no empirical reason to believe it is the case."

It takes chutzpah to assert a negative. But I appreciate that you honestly don't believe it. Perhaps this will cause you to update your priors?

[0]: https://research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1325...
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so "committing to and supporting that decision" isn't buy-in? Come on. That's spending your capital as an employee on the decision, buying into it and working on it. You're not harboring resentments
Chinese is not a race, you bloody [cut]. Why would he shut down one country and not all of asia if it's an act of racism?

You really need to stop pushing delusional fake news.

I'm not a fan of Trump, but the amount of lies about him is ridiculous.
Thanks for the unexplained downvote. Reminds me, we could chain people to rails too! That way we can prevent them from going where they have no business. People like me, or like you! It will revolutionize training schedules. You will be on time for work every day.
Studies have shown that user interface latency was at its all time best in the mid-80’s, assuming the user was using a dumb terminal that talked to a mainframe.

Modern software sucks.
How about "Mark Zuckerberg is CC'ed a plaintext copy of every message"
I would add that the populace could've screwed up our approach.

This is only working (it's absolutely not a done deal) because both the government and people of New Zealand are handling it well.
You know that not everyone here is an idiot and can understand what Trump said right. Don't interpret Trump's words for us.
The number of times I've turned to my wife and said "Let us go then, you and I..." when it's time to leave the house...
What does that mean?

In vi if I press "i" I can't use the arrow keys to navigate the text as normal. In emacs I can. I'd say using the arrow keys for navigation in text fields is a very widely accepted functionality. So isn't it vi breaking the expected behavior here?
WhatsApp backups created by the built-in backup option of the messaging client on Android are not encrypted when they are transferred to Google Drive.
Australia, China, and quite a few other countries will probably be in the "eliminated" group.
There's a whitepaper on iMessage's security as it was at a single point in time. It may be possible to verify this on a recent build with enough effort, but the average user will never be able to make that validation. So we can't be completely secure there.

More secure than WeChat? ABSA-FREAKING-LUTELY. And do I trust Apple to remain secure? Yes.

I'm mostly putting this here because I've heard people talking about security guarantees without considering tweaks in the supply chain or binary deliveries. Even Signal could get breached with enough effort from Google to push new bits and bypass certificate validation. (Though practically that is not going to happen.)
“I was afraid that it was going to infect my family no matter what I did. We’re past that,” Cuomo said at a press conference on April 13. “If you isolate, if you take the precautions, your family won’t get infected."

Yet also:

"Most new Covid-19 hospitalizations in New York state are from people who were staying home and not venturing much outside, a “shocking” finding, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday."

Seem contradictory, no?
That was not the only thing he shut down. The pandemic task force in 2018 for that matter.
New Zealand has vast natural resources and a very small population. They will be fine without tourism. Of course it will have an impact... you'll see more people on old Androids than iPhone 11 but they will be fine.
One of the better ones I had was a take-home problem where the hiring manager actually scheduled a meeting with me to go over my solution in detail. It allowed me to cover things I thought I did well as well as explain where I would have improved things given more time. I didn't get the job but it was a far better experience than just submitting code and being rejected with no explanation as was the case with every other company.
Oh, also:

> There is plenty of work done in non-perturbative QFT, in which renormalization doesn't even arise at all.

Yes, because that stuff doesn't even attempt to be compatible with GR. There is no conflict between the probably-incompatible paradigms of GR and non-perturbative QFT because their respective predictions have zero overlap.
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Control and Option/Alternate are different. Most keyboards and most software don't use either set.
I thought Taiwan already did this? Or do you mean if they open borders with NZ, would they still need to quarantine before they can go explore Taiwan?
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Google contacts does a good job synchronizing my contacts across devices and email. I am trying to degoogle myself and looking for stable alternatives
All good questions.
First off, let me start with thanks :-) As an end user I lack an appreciation for what goes into this; but as someone who writes software, I know the amount of effort that goes into kicking out a polished piece for others to gawk at and comment on. So kudos, definitely.

Further, it is definitely worth taking inspiration from Discord. Newbies seem able to pick it up very quickly. Some Discord rooms feel about as alive as happening IRC channels from back in the day, and the interface+culture seems to do a great job of supporting that.

Fairly subtle, but important things like where the names are placed relative to the messages, and the size of the avatar/image, etc keeps the interface from becoming crowded (in comparison with the Riot desktop interface, for example). The Riot iOS interface gets several of these things right, btw :-)

It also seems to be fairly easy to customize “Discord servers“ with different levels of organization — scaling from few users to 1000+ users. Not just the backend, but the interface also scales very well. From a pure usability standpoint (apart from privacy issues, centralized, etc the user experience in Discord is fantastic.
That's the point. He said one of those things on April 13th, the other he said, presumably, yesterday, May 6th.
I was confused. The reply wasn't really responding to the parent comment.
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Calling it an interpretation is nothing short of revisionism. Nobody considers the hidden web server to have been an oversight. It required forethought and effort. It's not as if they didn't know what they were doing.
I communicate regularly with people in mainland China. For me the best policy is just don't say anything that I would be too concerned about being shared. Of course, my behavior is the same for other apps. Beyond government-level type hacking, I feel a little more safe on some of the Chinese apps, as I know they have a stronger hand in their ability to stop hackers and scammers.
This article concerns wechat only. Whatabout FB/Twitter/Reddit is not a concern here.
Well why don't you start by asking him to stop spreading fake news first.
Australia, Taiwan, and South Korea pulled off similar stunts. It's a repeatable success.
That's ridiculous. Get the treatment you need, don't hold out for fictional technologies.

As a neuroscientist, it is hard to overstate just how incredibly far away we are from 'supplying processed audio signal directly to the brain'.

For some perspective, c. elegans has 302 neurons which have been intensely studied for decades, yet we don't have anything approaching a systematic understanding of what they all do and how they interact. The human brain has something like 85 billion.

Not to mention the techno-utopian pretension of thinking that we can somehow do better than the brain - why would you want to bypass your audio processing circuits??

In almost any way we have characterized it, the brain turns out to be nearly optimal. Wiring length, not encoding redundant information (it is not a coincidence that the receptive fields of CNNs strongly resemble that of V1 simple cells - gabor filters are optimal for vision).... I could go on.

I'm so tired of the techno-utopian musk cult - how incredibly boring. I get it, you have a hammer. Good for you. Maybe learn to use another tool though?
Fair enough, good points
Wouldn't using something like tor mitigate the issue of servers seeing IP addresses?
Anecdotally, I like that separation because in absence of it working with any large-ish project (which most real life projects are), it'd get super hard for my brain to pick out tests even if they all had certain prefix/nomenclature.

Caveat: I use IntelliJ and I just jump to tests using CMD+SHIFT+T shortcut so not necessarily a generic example.
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Yeah, the 2015-2018/19 macbook pros have that butterfly keyboard. Fortunately Apple has come to their senses with their newest iteration.
Although it's generally considered bad form to alter headlines in HN, and the Lancet is a medical journal.
I definitely prefer to host my contacts with my email, so they moved to Fastmail when my email did. What email service are you using? Most email services use CardDAV-compatible contact sync of some flavor, nothing Google is doing there is particularly innovative.
went back and looked at it. a webserver written in asm for the lols is okay but my point was that you probably want a proven, battle ready web server (along the lines of nginx or apache) if running something in production. So, 50k rps on a vanilla well used/well maintened server > 50k rps on an experiment (and don't get this wrong, it's pretty impressive for what it is)
Don't think so. Testing on entry doesn't really help because the tourist could be incubating the virus. We have to quarantine and not many tourists want to spend the first two weeks of their holiday locked in a hotel room.

In the medium term the main hope for tourism is a) domestic and b) Australia also achieving elimination and opening our border to them.

There might also be some creative options to explore. E.g. let people pay big $$$ to be whisked away to an isolated luxury lodge (government approved!) for the first two weeks of their holiday.
I'd rather have sxml+elisp than js
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