skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"One day before a top Florida Department of Health data manager lost her role maintaining the state’s COVID-19 data, she objected to the removal of records showing people had symptoms or positive tests before the cases were announced, according to internal emails obtained by the Tampa Bay Times." [1]

This does not support the whistleblower narrative, this seems like a front end/front line communications person disagreeing with a decision that is legitimately made by her seniors.

It's hard to tell exactly, but it seems reasonable to me that the board might not want to include such information, as it may be spotty, not consistently collected or reported, and frankly it may have no value to the public good.

The Canadian government, the Ontario/Quebec government, the CBC - nowhere do I see that level of reporting and nobody here is complaining about censorship and whistleblowing.

I think HN has jumped the gun her to assume the validity of this ostensible whistle-blowing action, and I suggest there's some nuance here and no obvious signs of malicious practice.

"As a word of caution, I would not expect the new team to continue the same level of accessibility and transparency that I made central to the process during the first two months. After all, my commitment to both is largely (arguably entirely) the reason I am no longer managing it,” [2] - this is kind of an arrogant assumption. What she should have done instead was made specific reference to the information, why it is important, highlighted the problems in the process and how we can be assured that it's addressed.

And there's this from the same article: “exhibited a repeated course of insubordination during her time with the Department, including her unilateral decisions to modify the Department’s COVID-19 dashboard without input or approval from the epidemiological team or her supervisors.” So it would seem the state is claiming there's some unprofessional behaviour her on her part, and the point about not consulting with the epidemiological team is particularly difficult.

[1] https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/05/19/florida-heal...

[2] https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/05/19/florida-heal...
So? "you are a fucking man" isn't some dispassionate analysis of how to develop a rule system that works for both trans and cis athletes. Just because the context isn't inherently transphobic doesn't mean that he gets a free pass.
I used to think that, then I realized I have also thrown change on the ground rather than carry it. If the article sucks that just hurts my chances of purchasing again from that author or publication.
But under testing has had the opposite effect of what you seem to be applying; it doesn't make the disease perceived as less dangerous, it makes the disease look much more severe by undercounting the mild cases.
I don't think I've seen a single discussion on HN where everyone had the same opinion. There will always be people who disagree or reject claims. That is what makes me still visit HN, since there isn't much discussion if you don't have more than one side represented.
Borders are timeless, they've been around before the internet and to be around forever. Literally a line in the whitespace that allows your eye balls to know that hey! that's block A and that's block B and there is a fricking line in the middle!
> because reviews with live code are always better than code-only reviews.

Always? I don't know.

The author is responsible for testing and deploying the PR, not the reviewer. Also, in devops a lot of changes affect production, so cannot be fully tested until deployment.

It sounds useful for seeing UI changes, but the closer you get to the backend, the less visibility there is.

Or in companies with "political issues" like multiple groups with boundaries between development, test, and operations.

Maybe the PullReview people can add some use cases?
that page is PR lingo telling exactly the same thing i said..

the first line even say: in doubt use gitlab ee

the point here is that core has two distinct meaning in the op question in gitlab pr..

Gitlab ee is their core product, core here meaning their main product..

the fact that the core of that product, here meaning the base the product is built upon, was released as open source does not make the whole product open source..

So, gitlab core\main product is not open source.. But the core\base of that product is..
SK Bioscience: Gates Foundation Funds 4.4 Bln Won for Vaccine R&D
Really? How do I learn more about this?
Layered shadow builder (without blur filter)
https://brumm.af/shadows
Ukraine catches hacker who tried to sell 773M stolen email addresses
There are fungibility surprises in the west, also.

In the UK, one sometimes runs across banknotes issued by banks in Scotland, which generally circulate like those issued by the Bank of England, but have some technical differences.

Many years ago, I had a cab driver in London who very adamantly refused to take a Scottish pound note by way of fare payment, and as I later learned, was well within his rights to do so.

It's sort of the inverse of the situation described in the article -- Scottish and Bank of England notes are technically not fungible, but are mostly treated as if they are, with a few exceptions, whereas the article describes notes that technically are fungible, but are treated as if they are not.
They probably deal in stolen goods somewhat frequently, but even if you could trust whether the sale was legal Hobby Lobby needed to ensure the import was legal.
The documentary No End in Sight talks a lot about the looting of national museums. It was tragic and entirely preventable, but the US did not commit enough troops and did not have a plan for reconstruction or securing anything other than oil fields.
What original formulations of freedom of speech do you refer to?

edit: also, not sure if you lived through the 90s. But none of the examples you gave were off-limits for TV or radio.
> We haven't figured out macros yet.

the racket lang team has investigated this heavily.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABWLveMNdzg

https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/popl16-f.pdf

https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/scope-sets/

> Haskell, an implementation of typed category theory

http://math.andrej.com/2016/08/06/hask-is-not-a-category/
I think the US site doesn't, but the Canadian one does. If you follow the link below, you'll see there's a Best Buy Only toggle. That being said, it's nice that the let you quickly hide third party items.

https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/brand/Samsung
That's called an 'epi curve' and it's a very common thing, but the data usually lags somewhat.

'Date of reporting of case' and 'date of onset of symptoms' are two different things, both useful.

The epi curve has the problem that it always looks like cases are declining because the most recent few days are 'not filled in yet' by cases that have been reported.

I don't think it's anti-scientific to report either way, so long as the dats is well represented.
Looks like everyone's forgotten the Tibetans.
They are waiting for Libra.
Thanks for this. Wanted to put in a pitch for Dima Kogan's more-secure way of doing ssh-agent forwarding: https://github.com/StanfordSNR/guardian-agent

It works with SSH and Mosh. The basic idea is that before agreeing to a request, the principal or their agent should know (a) what machine is asking, (b) what remote machine they want to connect to, and (c) what command line they want to run on the principal's behalf. And the principal's authorization should then be limited to that context.

The ssh-agent protocol doesn't give the agent any of that information; it's really just intended for local SSH-like processes to ask "please sign this blob so I can connect somewhere" without them having to see the plaintext private key. Forwarding that to untrusted remote machines isn't ideal.

It turns out an agent can get access to this information and limit the scope of authorization in a mostly[1] backwards-compatible way, which is how guardian-agent works, but imo it would be preferable if a future version of the SSH protocol were designed more expressly for secure agent forwarding.

[1] For (c), the remote server has to be OpenSSH because guardian-agent relies on a nonstandard extension.
Maybe I'm missing some detail, but the blur filter seems pointless. Both box-shadow and blur() are approximations of gaussian blurs.

If you apply two gaussian blurs, you're multiplying two gaussian functions in the frequency domain. The product of two gaussian functions is another gaussian function, so the same effect can be accomplished more efficiently with a single gaussian blur. You just need to tweak the shadow opacity and blur radius.
There used to be a go link for it (same as the machine name), but knowing Google, it might be stale. There's a good chance you can find more on the internal folklore site. If that one is still around, too.
My mom has a bunch of stuffed bird that have "accurate" sounds when you squeeze them. She has a Cardinal, which was apparently loud enough when played through a screen window to aggitate a real male cardinal which showed up looking for a rival based on the sound.

https://shop.wildrepublic.com/collections/audubon-birds/prod...
Accept a fake $100, bad day. Accept a fake $500, bad week.
I'm really interested in knowing Biden's position on China. So far I haven't seen much, but could have also missed it.
Well, one of these artifacts looks to have been in that region of the world for over 5000 years. That's a pretty good track record.

I'm sure the citizens of Philly wouldn't be susceptible to any arguments that Baghdad would be a better place to store the Liberty Bell.
TigerDirect has a terrible interface for trying to find the product you want. For instance, if you are looking for a laptop you can filter by price and by brand--that's it.

MicroCenter has sophisticated filtering ala Newegg, but in laptops for example, there is exactly 1 model that sports any AMD processor at all.

After more than 20 years of ecommerce growth, it is discouraging how bad things are.
I have a Spotify subscription but I still won't listen to podcasts on Spotify. If Spotify hosted the audio and offered an RSS feed this wouldn't be as bad.
> There are many use cases for it

would you mind expanding on this?

it's been on my backburner to learn prolog, but i have gotten a sense that it could be useful as a side-tool during development.
No, it is not a lie. I'm happy to answer questions openly but please give me a chance before calling me a liar.

Arity (an Allstate subsidiary) provides us tech that powers our crash detection service (think Onstar for your phone - we dispatched 10k ambulances last year) and other driving features. Arity also scores our drivers, like a credit score for your driving. But, this is extremely different than selling your data.

Arity does not know who these people are - they get a set of limited information which is not tied to an indvidual. They then take that information and match it with insurance offers based on a number of factors, but who that person is, or there forward looking behavior is never connected back. They don't have the legal right (or even the reasonable technical ability based on the data we give them) and the offers are not tied to an individual.

The insurance offers are similar to what Credit Karma does with your credit score. You go to Credit Karma, you give them your social and some seriously sensitive info, and then they match you with offers. They are NOT selling your info to credit card companies in the same way we are not selling your info to insurance companies. There is very little difference.

To the technical piece, I guess they could theoretically reverse engineer people from our data, but that is like say anyone who uses say Amplitude or some metrics provider could be selling your data to insurance companies. All of us developers use a number of 3rd party services that we are trusting to be shepherds of private information. In this case one of our third party providers is an insurer. So you could argue they have more incentive to breach to contract, but they would really get no benefit from that because a) we would sue the to oblivion and b) do you really think they could get insurance commissioners to allow them to price on stolen data?

As mentioned above we are extremely transparent about all this. It is explained at sign up. We push the information to our users. We give them a privacy center which goes through all of this in non-legalese. User can opt out of anything they want and we don't degrade the service intentionally (e.g. if you opt out of the connection to Arity we literally can't power the features). We even let free users opt out of the targeted promotions.

Some people may still not like this but we do not do corporate speak and we do not try to hide anything.
Biden has a position? Shit I’m still waiting to confirm he has a pulse.
I believe that’s the case for modern JS polyfills (if you use a bundler)
Behind who?

Go look at the largest companies by market cap or look at the fact that MS apps are the most installed apps on iOS and Android.

Ballmer did amazing for MS and left a great company for Nadella.
Yeah because reasonable people draw the line at women getting beaten up.
As one of the first Amazon customers I strongly disagree
I'm glad that for the twitter statement. The website is still misleading, though; I hope that will be corrected soon. I wish you the best!
Armslist.com

Didn't even know it existed a month ago. It's a fascinating window into a very popular hobby.
Yes, there are certain portions of data we sell, but not the type that would/could be used for insurance. There are a ton of legal/contractual restrictions based on each partner as well. See my other comments that go into more detail and the level of transparency and control we provide.
This was a very interesting post and I liked a lot of it so I won't talk about that part. You mention
"This subject pains me the most, especially when I hear civilians talking about service people in a negative light when they see violence in particular". At least in the US, it is taboo in most circles to criticize soldiers. All the people I have met who have served in the military, including my brother in law, are extremely kind, selfless people. But there are also soldiers who commit war crimes. We need to be more open talking about the military and the use of violence, not less.
That's not the point. They are trying to not IBM themselves.

They and the clones won the war with IBM in the 80s and 90s because IBM was worried about things that didn't matter: they wasted time with things like an operating system CP/X86 that ran DOS and 3270 emulators to their mainframes on top of a GUI system called mermaid (3270 PC) while Microsoft was writing Windows 3. Oh yeah did I mention some configurations cost $20,000 each? some configurations cost $20,000 each.

Because IBM wanted to secure its AS/400 minicomputers, mainframe, and microcomputer line and make them interoperable, as if a PC user sitting in their den would be connecting with $500,000 or so of other IBM machines, everyone else ran circles around IBM. They kept up the "whole kitchen sink" system way way past its due date.

This also happened to DEC, which responded way too late in the game to be relevant, SUN, SGI, and Wang. And it may eventually take down Oracle.

So they're intentionally taking an uncommitted, decoupled approach. I'm paying Microsoft as a result. I pay GitHub and Azure bills every month and run exclusively Linux.

They can't sway around as a monopoly like they could in 2000, once Ballmer left things changed rapidly. It's not going back. They have effectively zero cloud software (database/operating system etc), effectively zero mobile presence, and most people don't really like Windows.

In a tightly coupled stack you're only as strong as your weakest link, and MS has a bunch. Their biggest risk now is to HP or GM themselves; basically gobble up a bunch of things, blend it into indifferentiable blandness and collapse while waving a giant sceptre labelled "greatest company of 30 years ago" (HP bought DEC, Cray, Tandem, Apollo, Convex, 3Com, Phoenix, Palm and SGI and did effectively nothing with them beyond slapping an HP logo on their final pre acquisition product line and then just rode it out without any followup. HP knowing only how to fumble the ball every time for 20 years is why big business switched to Linux. HP took all the alternatives behind the barn one by one, cut them a fat check and then shot them. Simply crazy)

So yeah, it's a different game now.
Climbing Out of Satan's Valley
Absolutely. I both think the "fake news" meme is toxic and yet, at the same time, know that EVERY news article for which I've had personal knowledge of the events that actually took place... the article got it substantially wrong, sometimes inventing whole facts out of thin air.
The admin password can be set with an environment variable. That just leaves the org and plugins.
I just picture a cardinal banging on your moms window saying "hey, I heard you're talking shit"and pacing

nice work.
All these points are correct.

But, to be fair, the state of the art in biology is still full of Magic and other nonreproducible effects.

Computery people get annoyed if a compilation takes 10 minutes and fails with a cryptic error message. Compare this to an experiment where (for example) you spend a full day harvesting fetal rat hippocampus cells, cultivate them for weeks, and then finally run your experiment which "fails". Did you fail the rat prep? It worked for the wizard postdoc but she has been dissecting tiny little hippocampi for years -- maybe the cells aren't what you think they are. Or maybe, due to some unknown factor (temperature? feeding schedule? co2? mycoplasma? ...), the cells are "unhappy" for... some reason . Etc. More of the same, another month, another year, another replication which may or may not be sufficient to quit the experiment altogether. The systems are not understood well enough to debug; the systems which are easily debuggable are not relevant to the real world. But, it is not difficult to do at home what one does in an academic lab. (corporate labs have a bit more money which shortens the iteration loop a bit but doesn't make it less cryptic)

Anecdotally, I got a life science PhD and went into a softwarey career because the iteration loop of biology just plain sucks. When I was in grad school, I had free reign to do absolutely whatever with no oversight (if the bills looked normal) -- and did, for a while. All those cool ideas I had, I am content to let other people have and realize them. I am content to read their papers and to hire them.
If there were fewer things, I probably would have had a better chance of having heard of msix.
> It really doesn't matter how much you earn. Real wealth is in not spending it.

Have to add on that this is definitely not correct. Yes you must not simply inflate your spending to match your 100% of income if the latter increases, but while there's a limit to how much you can decrease outlays, income increase has no exact limit. Bob makes $60k, never buys coffee, brings lunch from home every day, stays focused on his personal finances, saves $5k/yr on lunch & coffee expenditures. Alice makes $60k, buys a $5 latte every single day, spends $12-15 per workday on lunch, focuses on job skills & networking, and negotiates a $10k raise upon switching jobs. Who comes out on top in this situation?

My point is not that budgeting or frugality isn't useful, but that focusing on changing outlays and considering income fixed or even irrelevant, as you suggest, is not a useful or accurate way to look at things.
Why California Is in Trouble
Actually I have, and and covid changes the calculus for couch sharing to high personal risk. It made sense before but the additional risk skews the equation
See comment below for more details, but we have driving services powered by Allstate (Arity a subsidiary to be specific). This is not a buyer/seller relationship and they are heavily restricted with what they can do. There is no risk of (or ability for) them to use this to change your rates or link this to your current insurance policy.
Hello, and thanks for your comment!

There are indeed a few other solutions to this problem. But we haven’t found any with all of the following characteristics:

a) doesn’t require access to your private code

b) works for any type of app

c) doesn’t require buying into kubernetes if you don’t want to

d) cheap to run

A little digression here but the main trigger for creating this was seeing a post [1] on the Basecamp blog about their implementation of preview envs for their upcoming service: It seemed so convoluted and expensive that surely there was a way to do it with less moving parts (I totally understand that Basecamp may require a complex setup like that, but I’m pretty sure it should remain an outlier).

Your comment about Netlify forgetting to remove the deployment link from the GitHub UI once it’s merged is also true, and from my testing Heroku also forgets to remove it. The GitHub deployment API documentation really needs some love, but still surprising since the removal is supported.

Regarding domain name provisioning, you can see a few examples in the demos linked from the features page. Currently the pattern is IP-gh-REPO_ID-[pr|branch]-[PR_NUMBER|BRANCH_NAME].my.pullpreview.com. Something I forgot to mention on the features page is that custom domain names are also supported. Custom patterns could also be supported without any issue.

[1] https://m.signalvnoise.com/seamless-branch-deploys-with-kube...
It's always nice to find out there's someone else on this team:

> I don't program after work or on the weekend, really. I do write blog posts and draw a lot of comics. But I don't program.
Sorry, that's not a great analogy.

Are you saying that Alex Jones's views are just ahead of their time and the culture is not ready for it?

I understand that there is one perspective on free speech that says any restriction means that in the future people will abuse it to suppress ANY ideas they disagree with, and I find that this is only true with a very specific type of religious, authoritarian, American, republican voice.

The entire western world bans holocaust denial, and it hasn't led to a chilling effect on other expressions.

Truth is truth. No matter how much some people try to redefine it to be meaningless today, there are still some essential facts. Humanity did go to the moon. The earth is not flat.
"? I find her statement pretty obvious and candid"

It's neither obvious nor candid if it is in fact misrepresentative.

To me it looks terrible. She was fired for doing something wrong and she's claiming that 'only she has the ability to do it well, the newcomers cannot' which is definitely problematic.

Given the details of what she was asked to do and did not do so ... I don't see the state acting in any way towards 'censoring' information, just a disagreement as to what and how information should be presented.

Trump is claiming that Flynn was 'unmasked' and that this was some kind of crime, when in fact Obama letting Trump know that Flynn is under investigation was exactly what we want him to do.

The state seems reasoned in their justification, I don't see how someone would be 'whisteblowing' here.

FYI the state also made the claim that this issue was persistent, it wasn't just this one thing, and that she made changes to the site without consulting with her team, or the epidemiologists supporting the initiative, which is not good.

It's hard to make a full conclusion but I don't think it looks very good for a whistleblowing case.
The video introduction I watched said that it was built on top of the SharePoint lists feature.
> A controversial idea being floated in Washington would allocate as much as $25 billion to companies that make essential goods to move production home, ensuring that even products far down the supply chain were sourced domestically, according to two administration officials.

The U.S. goods trade deficit with China was $419.2 billion in 2018. $25 billion is nothing.