skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The major flaw in your argument is focusing on an official quarantine order. In practice it seems many of the places you mention have an informal quarantine in place. In Florida Miami-Dade county did have a lockdown though the broader state didn’t. It’s also the densest, so most at risk. Nursing homes also took steps way beyond the government order and well before the order. There’s also tons of evidence that people did not adopt initially and are not returning to normal behavior. For example even in Sweden restaurant attendance was down massively even in the absence of an official ban.

You may be right that a more localized or targeted response has almost the same effect as a full lockdown. (Though things are still decidedly not great in Sweden concerning the death rate). But people are taking massive measures even in non-locked down areas, it’s improper to compare that to the status quo ante.
It's not black and white. Framing them as "anti-Trump" makes it seem like they are extremist against Trump. If anything they are "anti-Trump" because 1) Trump is anti-them and 2) they report on his plain daylight criminality.
> Participating in politics can mean joining a party yourself, joining a city council. Running for a local office. Participating in a local activist campaign, and so on.

By my estimate, those would also have an infinitesimal chance of significantly changing the world, compared to just staying home and pushing my kid on a swing.

If that makes me an "idiot", so be it.

(And if it makes you feel any better, that should make it easier for you to push politics in your direction.)
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you are not wrong. this Monday to Friday 9-5 work hours is created by man. our ancestors either go hunt or gather. do they have this sense of artificial work days/hours? do they have weekend?
It's an iPhone 8. Safari with content blockers.
I see your point; FWIW when I posted this there were three other comments saying "femtobarn" or "inverse femtobarn" with no further explanation.
Okay, so besides all the "told you so", "Google is evil" and "I hate AMP":

Has anybody actually seen the behavior described in this tweet by some anonymous guy? Because I can't confirm it so far.
People's feelings of sameness everyday and of time dragging goes beyond the 9-5 schedule. I'm at home all day every day. After hours time doesn't matter because I have limited options for what to do and who to do it with. Same with the weekend. I am home doing the same things I did at home last weekend and the one before and the one before.
You've absolutely always been able to interop with asm as well as access and set arbitrary pointers with Pascal.

I'm not sure where you got this idea that Pascal is memory safe.
Yeah. But like every drug in the world has contraindications. By this standard all drugs are dangerous and should be banned from trials.
Millennials approaching family life differently than previous generations
Heh, in Canada we had “Victoria Day” last week where we light a bunch of fireworks.

This year there were calls to Toronto Police that night several times an hour with “sounds of gunshots”.

And more on future nights as people lit off the rest of their fireworks.
Brexit: Is the UK headed for a no deal?
Aspirin can be deadly if used to treat patients with an hemorrhage. Likewise, treating patients that are infected by a virus is not like preventing malaria in heathy people might to be exposed to a deadly virus like malaria, especially when most deaths are from older people which might be more sensitive to side effects.
I think you misunderstood my intention. I don't go into the hiring process explicitly thinking about the ideal hire from an age/sex/race point of view. I look for a series of soft skills, because I personally believe it's easier to teach technical skills, than it is to teach a person new ways of thinking... or give them experience to avoid common pitfalls. My point though is that the set of attributes I care most about, are biased. If I looked for "new fad technology" experience first, I might find a few old guys, but i'll probably end up with a larger pool of young guys excited to try new things... which I DO want on the team too, but I don't want a whole team of them.
Fastmail, protonmail, migadu to name a few. Personally I use migadu because the pricing is perfect for my needs but I've used ProtonMail a bit and been pretty happy with it as well.
> This is so damn frustrating.

Agreed. And then there's that extremely childish "Windows 95 blue screen" icon representing SMB shares... Really professional.
To deploy it, wouldn't it need to be tested just like a vaccine? Or is it suggested to just deploy virolation without testing?
Yep full he's full Tankie - more interested in turning Labour into a niche party and dreaming of a revolution.

The sort who sell papers calling on the UK to help Assad crush the counter revolutionary's under the tracks of tanks.
Hunter-gatherers spend less time working per Calorie of food than agriculturists.
The Apple Toilet SE is a better product.
Yes. VAT applies to all sales, it's not an import tax.
There's a lot of low grade and awesome ideas in scratch. https://newgrounds.com/ is still alive and kicking. The community seems to still be out there.
I think that it can be better with Human curation. Although all recommendations methods can us less tolerant to different views.

Filter bubble is the term for when algorithms select the content you watch instead of you.

Filter bubble
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble
They got rid of the rating system because amy Schumer's special tanked
I can rewrite your post:

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This article does a good job of explaining the issue https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/social-medi...

Here's also some history on the law https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230/legislative-history

This is not a conservative-only point of view: Joe Biden is actually for this idea as well (middle of article when he starts talking about the Facebook hearings and CDA 230):
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/17/opinion/joe-b...

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You are allowed to be informative without being obnoxious. I was not aware of this issue and the article on theamericanconservative have an interesting point of view. The tone you used however will make most people here ignore or dismiss you. Yes, there is an anti-conservative bias on HN, but most people will still read an argument even on breibart if it is good.

I understand the concern of the article but imho cancelling 230 might cripple them, and the propostion of state regulation will make them lost their power overseas. Will it allow other, european, asian or SA platforms to emerge? If the answer is yes it might have interesting side effects.
Might be nice for Emacs / orgmode users?
How does a client-side cert help with authenticating the server? Why wouldn’t a phishing site also ask for the client-side cert if the real site does?
A: no one should believe any statement from any politician ever

B: don't demand that politicians meet standards

Your argument (not mine): A -> B

Then you argue that B is dysfunctional so A leads to dysfunction.

Can you not imagine some C such as

C: demand that politicians live up to some standard

Wherein A->C makes everything better?

The fact that you concocted B to discredit A is a logical fallacy called "strawman".

Either you already understood this, but hoped for an audience that did not, or you didn't even realize what you had done. I point it out here for your possible benefit and for the possible benefit of anyone else who doesn't understand this flawed reasoning. I apologize to everyone who recognized it immediately and has then suffered through this response.
Yes, I still have the box and original media (though it ain't pretty looking)
The simple calculator also didn't calculate all the cost (didn't try the new one) maybe by "simple" they meant incomplete?
Incredibly beautiful!
The reason a vaccine is months or years away is only because we are testing whether it is safe enough to give to billions of people.
The reason we do that is because a virus can cause disease both directly but also in unexpected ways (e.g. by immune over-reaction to some of the viral RNA in some individuals).
Variolation as a public policy would have to go through the same safety testing for the same reasons (as it is a form of vaccination with un-weakened virus).
You would also still have to produce doses of the variolate, both in terms of replicating the virus and bottling it.

There is no real time advantage to variolation. Anybody making the case for variolation without validation would be better off making the case for vaccination with one or several of the 30 vaccine candidates under study for SARS-Cov-2 right now (a case could be made... allow volunteers to be given the candidate vaccine of their choice in larger numbers than normal clinical trials, scaling up as the risk profile of each candidate vaccine is known).
This is not the only sabotaged study being done on HCQ.

As I pointed out on Twitter over a month ago, the bill gates foundation was doing a study on HCQ for preventing covid19.

The "inert" placebo they decided to use in the control group? VITAMIN C.

That's right, one of the most potent and documented immune boosters is now being assumed to be "inert".

https://depts.washington.edu/covid19pep/about/
Remdesivir doesn't have the sudden cardiac death side effect, though, does it?

HCQ's issue may be a bad combination of "has to be taken early" and "has significant side effects".
I freely admit the pebbles were an attempt at deadpan humour that would pass the great HN downvote filter - a most arduous challenge.
The graph view seems cool but I don't feel it is much useful in the long term.

It has a wow factor in the initial use but it is just a mingled web of links. It is like creating a graph of the www but I don't see how that could be useful.
As a Brit, I am jealous that I'll not be able to work with NASA or SpaceX. This is a really exciting time, best of luck to the team.
From a comment tweet: "Silicon Valley believes in the technocracy non-democratic state capitalism practiced in China. They believe they should rule over America just like the ccp rules over China"

While Silicon Valley's end goals are different than the CCP's it does seem that they share an appreciation for ends justifying manipulative and un-democratic means.
Oooh, I have been wanting to suggest that.
Thanks Erica!
Just wanted to say thanks for maintaining your block lists! I use a few with NextDNS. I try to be privacy conscious but I don’t really have the technical background to know the best way to make that happen so I very much appreciate that you share your work and make it easy for those of us who aren’t experts. I’ve never been quite sure that I’ve configured things right but your NOT BLOCKING image doesn’t show up for me so that’s quite a relief!
You can typecast integer to pointers in Pascal. It's not memory safe.
> which includes extremely high costs

Yes that's a Tesla exclusive...

I took my Leaf in for a recall repair and they quoted about $800 to replace all fluids and filters. They wanted $120 to swap out the $9 cabin filter from under the dash that took me all of 20 minutes to do. They encouraged me to spend another $600 to replace a door handle because of an engineering defect that was purely cosmetic and easily fixed with a dab of hot glue.
Because the alternative is Android, which is very difficult to de-Google. Even if you do de-Google you need to open yourself up to a swath of security concerns. Why would I trust some internet account that is giving me a binary that compromises my phone for me? Should I trust that it will only do what they say it will do because they are a good person? Would they have nothing to gain for having complete control of my device?

So, if the choice of secure phone is between stock Android and stock iPhone, then I think iPhone is the lesser of two privacy evils.
Autoscale and serverless: new offers to fit any workload
It never factors in to the conversation. No one brings up a species wide imperatives so its not countered with a question of priority.
Because it's a highly effective and widespread malaria (and RA/lupus) treatment?
The ideas in the book were good, but I found the characters and the style of writing to be _awful_. It was _tiring_ to read. I think atombender explains it better. The whole style of the book was different (and in a bad way for me).

The way people/groups of people/organisations/societies acted was also not realistic. They all had the same way of reacting.

Still worth a read if you can stomach the writing.
You gotta stick with it, the whole first half of the first book is slow exposition and it’s much more gratifying if you can get past it.
Yes, I had a "Happy Chip" modded Atari 810. The damn thing could copy almost anything you throw at it. In the early 80's as a teen,I used to copy protected original disks and modify the code to bypass the copy protection routines. Had a massive collection of Atari 8-bit games. And yes, I'm ashamed of my past thug life.
Oh wow, thanks. I didn’t know the history of it!
Tesla cares at least somewhat about what happens out of warranty because producing junk that costs an arm and a leg to keep running beyond the warranty is not how you build the kind of reputation that lets you move downmarket which has been Tesla's stated goal since the beginning.
n=2 anecdata: no problems updating two MacBook Pros from 2017 and 2018, which were also already on Catalina.
> But linking new binaries with old binaries, and at the same time being concerned with performance?

I know of at least one case where a developer linked an ancient Fortran object with a fresh C++ object file in order to fuzz test both against each other.

The C++ code had to not only match the specification, it had to be bug for bug compatible at the same time, even down to the possible bugs in the 1990s Fortran compiler used to build the machine code. Or, if a bug was fixed it had to be fully documented as to the behavior change.

I don't think the Fortran code used MMX but it could have in theory.

So pretty rare, but can obviously happen.
Well in the case of mastodon, I found an instance with an owner whose judgement I trust.

I think the main problem with twitter is scale:
Because the network allows you to reach the whole world it also is a big target for disinformation networks and the sheer volume of posts makes it uneconomical to moderate.

If you look at mastodon, the instance I'm on has about 600 monthly active users. That's pretty easy for an admin to handle. If a bunch of users show up orchestrating a disinfo campaign the admin would notice, and if an instance is a source of disinfo it can be blocked.

Instance will stop federating with other instances if they are too much to deal with, so admins are incentivized not to grow beyond what they could moderate, to maintain access to the fediverse.
I wrote a pre-emptive, multi-threaded OS for the AVR atmega 128 back in college as a sensor networking operating system called Mantis OS (mos). For anyone interested in this direction, it also provides a device layer and “drivers” for timers, ADCs, eeprom, serial port, networking, etc. A great group of folks kept improving it for years so there is a lot there to learn from just as a resource too.

https://github.com/rosejn/mantis
I kept seeing comments on HN about how DDG was as good as Google, so i've switched on one of my machines. It isn't.

For stuff that doesn't matter too much, or is an easy search, i use DDG, then fall back to Google if i don't find what i need. For anything serious, i just open up a Google tab :(
There are 30 candidate vaccines (probably a lot more by now). 32 if you include the two that are non-weakened forms of virus that are being proposed for variolation.
Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands more planned
It makes sense to me because HBO doesn't really have the same type of catalog. They also don't have the data. In my experience, people subscribe to HBO because they have the content and people are already aware of their content. It makes curation way easier.
HBO Max is going to exclusively have the entire Friends collection and Ghibli collection. I know and am aware of what HBO has to offer.

On the flip side, Netflix is creating their own content. People have no idea what content is on Netflix. They have to try really hard to push content and generate engagement. I've never heard of Outer Banks, but they keep pushing it to me and so I saw the pilot and now I'm watching the series.
I watch one comedy show and now they keep throwing comedy shows at me so I saw and enjoyed another. Their need to create is different.
By any chance are you running VMware Fusion?
Well I was taught to do it in one motion. One hand closes the lid and the other pushes the flusher. So it is closed by the time things start spraying around.
Estimating the city street lighting in a large municipal dimming experiment
It has never been a respected profession. Homicide has always been an occupational hazard.

GTA3 (1999/2000?) put it into the popular consciousness by allowing players to emulate it, but IME nobody really started getting shamed for joking about it until around 2010 (coincidental to trans issues becoming mainstream?).
I would also move up the second year "intro to AI" course to the first year, with an emphasis on history. You shouldn't be hearing about AI Winter for the first time after already spending a year on the subject.
Thanks for sharing. I'm an AMP hater but I legitimately want to hear the defense of AMP and I'm having a hard time finding it
How to kill a dinosaur in 10 minutes
It would be interesting to re-do this study on Mental Representations of Weekdays: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Time for SmartPipe! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
I’ve always used “days are long, years are short” to talk about raising children. Pulling our two year old out of daycare makes you really reflect on how slowly time moves for them when their only concerns seems to be legos and applesauce. But then you look at the two years they’ve existed and it feels like a blink of an eye.
Agree but the rationale is that you reduce the contamination by testing people early and giving them drugs that reduce the viral charge, hence the contagiousness.
> A license is "GPL-compatible" when code released under its terms can be used in a GPL-licensed project.

Correct.

> using any GPL-code, no matter if linked statically or dynamically, requires the author to release the combined work under GPL.

Yes, the combined work itself ends up being GPL [0]. This is similar to making a fork of some BSD-licensed code and adopting the GPL for the fork. Your code, treated independently of the combination, may still be released under a (more permissive) GPL-compatible licence (like the BSD licence) if you so choose.

Put another way then, if Qt were only made available under the GPL, it would still be fine to release your Qt-powered application code under the BSD licence, but it wouldn't be possible to make a proprietary fork of that BSD-licensed application code, as you wouldn't then be permitted to link against libraries released only under the GPL. (I'm ignoring commercial licensing of Qt, of course.)

[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatDoesCompatMean
Does it have any fixes for the notarization delays ?
I know the space shuttle employed multiple redundant computers of differing hardware as failsafes. I can't imagine SpaceX didn't do the same thing.
> I tried to manually connect to `smb://nasbox.local` in Finder and it works with `nasbox.local` appearing in the sidebar.

Right; that part still works, seemingly because probing for SMB shares doesn’t involve passing an SMB URI through whatever layer of the SMB stack can no longer resolve mDNS origins. It’s only connecting to the shares themselves that generates that arcane error message.

> I can also click `nasbox` (without `.local` and this is advertised by the avahi-daemon on the nasbox I believe) and it opens the network shares fine.

Yup; the Apple SMB stack is seemingly happy to resolve a WINS origin. Which means SMB servers will interoperate fine with macOS clients as long as the SMB server doesn’t run AFP (which nobody has a reason to be running these days anyway) and doesn’t offer Time Machine backup (which... is often the whole point of having a NAS.) If your NAS is configured to offer Time Machine backup, the WINS announcement gets subsumed by/attached to the mDNS host metadata record for the NAS (which is required to make Time Machine work), such that trying to connect to the SMB share via the Networks item (or the sidebar) will try to use the "canonical" mDNS origin for the host, rather than the WINS SMB-service origin—even if mDNS pointed at it.

> However, if the Mac goes to sleep for a while and then later wakes up, I can no longer access the shares

A thing about mDNS is that it gets announced on intervals, and clients are expected to cache it; but like regular DNS, the cached record announcements have TTLs, and you’re not allowed to use a record after its TTL runs out... but unlike regular DNS, you can’t just go re-fetch the mDNS record from the source once it expires; you have to wait for it to be re-announced.

This is why every bonjour/avahi/zeroconf tutorial has a line that says “now wait 15 minutes to see if your changes took effect.”

And this also means that these services inevitably do this thing where their URIs won’t resolve for the first few minutes after your computer wakes up from sleep, until they receive a refreshed announcement of the mDNS peer’s A and SRV records.

This has always been an inherent flaw in mDNS, papered over by various pre-resolution or standards-violating caching strategies by things higher-up the stack than the mDNS resolver itself. I’m not surprised that this sort of hacks papering-over is something prone to regressions, in macOS or any OS.

(This is also why Apple gave up on "Back To My Mac." It was dependent on "Wide-Area Bonjour", which was even more fraught and flaky than regular mDNS, with service records frequently disappearing from their domain, leaving you unable to resolve the address of your remote peer, despite it sitting there happily waiting with ports open. It especially didn't play well with laptops sleeping in a Wake-on-LAN state, despite several generations of Power Nap trying to make it work.)
Beyond ISCO: Detecting X-ray emission from plunging regions around black holes
Slightly related, are there any realistic-looking false beards? Asking for a friend.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/the-antiviral-remdes...

participants who entered the trial more than 10 days after the onset of symptoms actually showed a better response to remdesivir than those who started being treated during the first 10 days of being symptomatic.

It's not a huge improvement, but it doesn't seem to be too dependent on starting treatment early.
> Did I care about their gender or even asked about it?

No. They were a boy though. I'll tell you why I'm saying that with confidence: because we know men are most of the Python userbase, and they're more comfortable approaching other Pythonistas for help because they're other men. Argument from statistical probability.

That's specifically the issue Guido is seeking to address, and he's not going to do it successfully by not caring about gender. Not caring about gender tends to get us more of the status quo, not something approaching more inclusiveness.

If the kid was a girl, good for her and I commend her forwardness and bravery. We know most women aren't interested in putting themselves in that position because it's uncomfortable for them (any more than most men are interested in stepping into a knitting circle to learn more from a group of women). And if Python as a community is to grow the pie, that situation needs to change. So that it's not just you who doesn't need to care about the gender of the student; it's the student who doesn't need to care about the gender of the teacher.
GE switches off light bulb business after almost 130 years