skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see that there’s a plausible connection, but the phrase “predator drone“ is a bit of a loaded phrase. While Minneapolis is embroiled in riots, I think this article may be Stokes paranoia a little bit.
The 0.5-1% fatality rate would be a LOT higher if all those people did fall sick at the same time.

Hospital systems would collapse because of the number of sick people. Doctors and nurses would be missing because they would almost all likely fall sick.

And people who would not die of COVID would die of other stuff because healthcare systems would have collapsed.

This is what happened in Italy. This is what was happening in NYC for a few days at its worst. This is what is about to happen in Brazil and possibly in India.
So I have a question about this. Does free speech apply to platforms like Facebook and Twitter? I would have thought that a website owner has a choice about the content of their website, even if that content is user generated. Surely they could remove any tweet they wanted and not be sued?
> They were fired and will face the justice system

If I shot someone on video[0], I would be charged with a crime, likely homicide, that day and in jail until a bail hearing. At which point I might have the option to leave jail until my trial.

In this case the officer was arrested 3 days later (about an hour ago at time of writing), and only due to pressure from both citizens and politicians. Without that, it may have taken longer to charge him, or he may not have been charged at all, just like the other multiple times this officer killed someone.

That's a double standard. The police should serve the people, not be above them or immune to oversight.

[0]: A white person, if I shot a black person, the DA's office might try to cover it up and I'd only get arrested a month later after protests: https://www.nytimes.com/article/ahmaud-arbery-shooting-georg...
Price gouging is used in multiple contexts at once to conflate multiple separate issues.

This article is just about a private company with its own internal company policies sanctioning sellers on their platform for higher than average prices, and sellers circumventing that. So not really about any legal restrictions, this is an issue with Amazon and not any discussion about the state curbing temporarily market signals, which I think your comment would be more about.
Maybe all these websites are simply taking the EU Parliament's site as an example on how you should do it? They made the regulation, surely you should follow their example.
South Africa has a COVID-19 testing backlog of nearly 100k
Institutions that earn money without creating enough real productivity attract parasites.
A podcast version of today's newsletter. https://anchor.fm/talking-money-stuff
Great post! This perfectly complements my reply and expands on how to get your “widget” out there.

Wish you could save posts on HN because this is a gem!
There's the xenophobia we all know and love. Right in time to steer the conversation from looking inwards.
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8492

.. leads to https://bugs.python.org/issue39503
which is no-big-deal

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-9793

.. is cloaked.. but personally I am sceptical of "giant ball of fixes" with "urgent/required priority" that actually "do other things the vendor wants besides the advertised fix" and "aggrandizes obscure vulnerabilities as a security treadmill"
Conservative is not the same as alt-right. Most conservatives wouldn't go anywhere near Gab.
Weirdly written article, readS like an SCP.
Nature doesn't care about how something looks politically. Those decisions were bad and aren't vindicated because nothing went wrong (there are other cases where things went very very wrong, as another commenter mentions with DDT). In a nonlinear world you can never know whether you were right or just lucky.
The lockdown isn't intended to protect the people staying inside, although that certainly helps; it's designed to protect everyone who they'd otherwise be infecting unknowingly.
Spadoc IV: Rapid Prototyping: An Approach to HCI Design (1984)
Honoring Florian, a free library of Kraftwerk-inspired sounds
You may want to choose another example. US drug law is a case-study in how law divorced from consideration of ramifications to existing businesses and societal norms is a disastrous way to craft law.

https://www.aclu.org/other/american-drug-laws-new-jim-crow
Seems interesting - I've wanted to set up my own ELK stack before, but it just didn't seem worth the effort, so I ended up trying to go through the pricing pages of multiple cloud logging providers to figure out which would be the cheapest. It was confusing, and just took up so much time, so I hope this is way better.
Yeah, I re-read the whole thing again, and I see the mistake I made. I took a wrong turn when op went into base 37 numbers, which made me consider every bit carry not just the carry on word boundary.
FYI: Student debt is not discharged by bankruptcy in the United States.
IIRC Weren’t they genetically modified mosquitoes to stop their spread? I guess I’m curious at what point would the Chi turn and we would gain control over the mosquito population?
I don't know too much about dask, how would you build a node in a Dask DAG to execute a java app and analyse its results (i.e. say database entries) to evalutate the success of that step?
They do not need to sell metadata. They can sell services. Neither Google nor Facebook need to sell data. They sell services.

Those companies are not obligated to disclose what metadata they might have. Neither is NextDNS.

If the Privacy Policy stated that NextDNS will not create, collect or acquire metadata about its users, then we would have less reason to be concerned.

However the NextDNS Privacy Policy is all of nine sentences. It is not very restrictive.
It gets even better: consent needs to be possible to be taken away as easy as its granted. Where are all the banners that nag me to take away ma consent?
This is the worst one I've ever seen:

https://twitter.com/zachalberico/status/1247951473876422656?...

It's basically impossible to know if you've done the right thing.
I was a big fan of a lot of complex "realistic" simulations at one point... in theory. In reality--yes, there was the hours of boredom followed a minute of terror problem but there was also the problem that you're not going to hop into a reasonable facsimile of the cockpit of an F-16 or the command center of a WWII sub and control it without spending a lot more time training than all but the most very very serious simulation gamers are going to put in.
> Latest estimates are 0.5-1 percent fatality rate

I read just a couple of days ago that the IFR (infection fatality rate) is only ~0.25%-0.3%? Still ~four times higher than that of the flu, but not ten times greater.
A business model that fails because you explicitly make them illegal isn't exactly a failed business model. The lawmakers made them fail and they either knew it was going to happen or were incompetent.
I wonder how much information can be provided, much of the "giving your data" is really about the side effects and possible consequences....

But you can only tell people so much. Just saying "hey you're giving google your location" (just a generic example here) ... honestly if that's all I know ... so what?

But really the larger issues are other implications.

That's a hard thing to explain.
You don't have to. When they can't find you, assuming they miss your content, they'll use this miracle tool called a "search engine" to find you.
No, I'm simply using the noun phrase the way normal people use it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory

and check out the citations.
Arizona sues Google for allegedly violating Android users' location privacy
If you've got persistent malware on the machine (-> keylogger), 2FA with a hardware key will barely help. The malware can just notice your "sudo" call, pass through your password + 2FA token to its own "sudo" invocation, and make your "sudo" invocation say "invalid password" -- which you'll likely interpret as a typo.

Not that getting root is too interesting for malware running on your personal machines that runs all the interesting code as uid1000. https://xkcd.com/1200/
The problem with price gouging is that it opens doors to people hoarding supplies and reselling them at higher cost. Sitting in an armchair reselling things at a higher price is an inefficient allocation of resources during a pandemic, prevents people in need from being able to access those resources, and is an all-around waste of someone's two hands reselling things when they could be using those hands to directly do social good instead.

It doesn't help the world at all if only rich people are able to afford certain things like disinfectant and PPE; the virus is far more effectively controlled if everyone, no matter their socioeconomic class, has access to these things.
Liberals have a stranglehold in Tech. This will probably never change, its not the result of a conspiracy its simply an emerging phenomenon that arises from the over representation of traits like openness and curiosity in left leaning people. However, this is not fair nor good for the nation and it floors me that this is not obvious to any fair minded person. There are other sectors of society that have symmetrical proportions of conservatives. Farming, for example. Should farmers choose to feed only conservatives? Of course not. This isn't about left and right, its about a modicum of empathy, of fairness to all, including people who think differently.
> I still don't understand why price gouging is not accepted.

It's generally, libertarian/ancap circles aside, viewed as immoral to exploit the essential needs of people; also it incentivizes hoarding which puts the availability of critical goods even more at risk. We have seen this in action with loo rolls, hand sanitizer and non-perishable food in the recent crisis, and with people actually getting punished for it: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-pu...
Even weirder, sometimes those brand names/logos are _shared between companies_ - for example, Ryobi is made by various different entities who all partially own it and agree on packaging/branding.
The mosquitoes provide any benefit? Reading this article is scary, I figured Science would just go for Total eradication.
Where was this movement when Justine Damond was shot in the gut by a black cop in Minneapolis? I don't recall any protests, let alone riots or burning down the city.

And if your expression of pain includes looting booze from a liquor store or a TV from Target, what exactly are you trying to say? By the way, those bystanders and local businesses owners are people of color too.
What is "advantage" in this case? Nations with reliable treatments and vaccines might use those to improve their citizens' health? Sure that's not something we'd do in USA but it doesn't seem like a bad idea...
Most of my Euro friends didn't think this. There's a huge difference in approach to regulation between the EU and the US.

I would guess that this article is written from a US viewpoint - the "isn't it strange how everyone is approaching enforcement of this differently?" attitude isn't even remotely strange to a European.

As lots of people pointed out at the time, GDPR in Europe isn't that groundbreaking - almost all EU countries had/have data privacy laws that approach the GDPR (not least because the GDPR itself is a continuation of EU regulation in this area). It came as a shock to US companies because of the sudden "well, none of you paid any attention when we didn't give this regulation teeth, so here's the fangs" enforcement change.

And yeah, I'd love to take part in retrospective reviews of old news to work out who was right :)
> Somewhere a counter was just incremented. It's going to be amusing if Twitter management simply lets the automated system do its thing. At some point, after warnings, the standard 48-hour suspension will trigger. Twitter management can simply simply say "it is our policy not to comment on enforcement actions".

I wouldn't be surprised if Twitter has exempted Trump's accounts from all automated moderation. However, I'm half expecting them to ban him about twelve seconds after he leaves office.
China is a leader in nothing but theft and herd mentality
The child worker is a third party that has nothing to do with the customer and the merchant. If the merchant is offering me content for the exchange of information, why should the government able to stop this transaction between parties that mutually agree?

It's already legal to "force" your customers to exchange money for content. If anything, it's even worse because a lot of children end up malnourished because their parents spent to much money on entertainment.
> Oh give it a rest. We saw him kill the man, he can sit a cell and prepare for his trial like any other killer.

He can sit in a cell while being investigated. The fact that it is all on camera just makes it a quick investigation. But everyone gets due process. (also EVERYONE there needs to be investigated, not just the killer)
I'm not an artist but tablet displays feel more natural than plain tablets to me. Consider a "convertible" laptop with a built-in Wacom tablet. For example, I recently got a Lenovo Yoga 12 and found it to be super nice for not very much. I don't really need the tablet, but I tested it with The GIMP and it worked great!
Thanks for hijacking my back button.
I am very much in favour. Well, not all mosquitoes, just those carrying infectious diseases. Ok, maybe not even wiping. We can keep some specimen in labs/zoos, and once the parasites/diseases has been wiped out by killing the hosts, we can release them again.

Humanity wipes out species by the dozens each year for no reason and people shrug, but for some reason many people don't want to target the few subspecies that are actually extremely harmful to humans.
Android Studio has C++ & JNI support which IntelliJ Ultimate doesn't (you have to use Jetbrain's CLion instead for that), which is insanity.

In terms of Android features Android Studio is more than just the android plugins, but if you like the latter then go for it?
A stitch in time: how a quantum physicist invented new code from old tricks
Do people support nudges as a method to change their own behavior?
it's not a single source, but certainly media editorialized that into the collective consciousness as an attention-capturing bonanza, and many politicians leapt onto the same opportunity to promote their power, agendas and careers. same for said "experts": a chance to be in the media, and if they were wrong, oh well, that's science.
You can kind of do this with Fastmail and Aliases, but it's a more manual process.

You can really easily create aliases for specific sites or just a general spam@ alias on your own domain. Then if it gets abused you can mark all mail directed to that alias to bounce.

You could later re-enable it if you wanted to.
I don't know about Gmail, but I once accidentally hit unsubscribe on a Yandex mail account I use solely for getting mails from mailing lists and it unsubscribed me immediately, no questions asked, and without any way to undo. I tried removing the sender from the unsubscribed mailing lists, removing and adding the subscription on the mailing list side half a dozen times, but nothing worked.
Good law doesn't "let companies opt-out;" it is crafted with consideration for what is already happening and the consequences of the law.

it doesn't appear, 2 years in, GDPR passes that test. If the goal was to minimize "privacy violation" by FB and Google, it's failing. FB and Google are stronger than ever, but their competitors are starved out of the market trying to comply with an onerous suite of policies.

It's such a ladder-pulling set of laws it's surprising Google and Facebook didn't craft it.
The Icy Village Where You Must Remove Your Appendix
Ah, it has! That explains my confusion about why Python is even present on iOS.

There's still a good meat of interesting vulnerabilities here, but many of the interesting ones have hidden details for now. I'm looking forward to when the full CVEs come out.
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It's not an exact science, so I'd try to provide an honest self-assessment while ultimately not worrying too much about it. The CV should really be a conversation starter more than anything - you can provide more clarity in the interview.
I've done something like this [0], postfix sends a nice rejection message the next time they try to connect. Ironically I've had people email me that rejecting their spam is filling up their inbox with error messages.

[0]https://blog.tinned-software.net/permanently-reject-a-specif...
>or a bad outcome I ardently want to avoid (letting a spammer know my address is active).

Honest question- why does this really matter? Or at least matter to any degree where you would rather have more junk mail than potentially stop spam/undesired emails.

If a spammer sends out 1000 emails and gets 100 bouncebacks.. then they keep on sending to the other 900. You are one of those 900 and you click unsubscribe.. sure, they can detect that your email is active. But are they really going to stop sending to otherwise? It's not like people are constantly changing email addresses these days.. if I were a spammer and I had a valid list, I would basically assume that's a valid email if I don't get a bounceback.

So I just don't get how detecting that someone attempted to unusbscribe is that much of a 'tell'.
Deep learning accurately stains digital biopsy slides
F-19 Stealth Fighter, later F-117 II, was epic. The air defence AI in that game still outshines today's best simulations.
In my professional experience it has been the quiet, aside comments of sincerity that have helped me the most with improving my behavior.
They don't really offer the articles under a payment model that matches my (and apparently many others' reading habits)
The tracking website has some great info, like this RC-26B with electronic surveillance hardware headed for Louisville:

https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfd7f

https://www.flickr.com/photos/eigjb/3460872978

And this is the track of the drone over Minneapolis, which seemed to veer off around the time the story came out:

https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae4bd7
First time hearing about Justine Damond.. But black officer goes to jail and white family gets 20 MILLION dollars... Maybe it's media bias but in a sick way that seems to underline bias in the system.
Gap rushes in more robots to warehouses to solve virus disruption – Reuters
Since good bignum libraries already use tricks like this, and many others besides (like using FFT to handle very large bignum multiplication), it doesn't seem that the hardware needs to change.
The app is built upon Composable Architecture from Point-Free.

The architecture is unidirectional, and all side effects are isolated into separate modules. The reducer is basically a pure function that transforms the state as a state machine.

Interesting bits:

- CoreMotion on iOS is notoriously tricky when you want to get the status of permissions. The status is not updated in runtime and depends on sequence of actions taken by the user. By modeling state as an algebraic data type (ADT) and describing all actions that can happen, we were able to model even the dead state when permissions can never be asked without restarting the app (MotionLive/MotionLive.swift)

- The application's state is modeled using algebraic data types in a way where invalid states are unrepresentable, so the user can't possibly get into them. State machines are hard to decompose and then compose together, but with contramap, it's possible (App/App.swift). So there are many child state machines with ADT state that compose into a big one.

- Views are also modeled as a separate ADT that knows nothing about reducers and often combine work from multiple ones. This way, reducers can focus on the state they care about (that is grouped by transitions), and views can focus on a state that needs to be shown (based on screens), and all of them can't be in an invalid state (ViewBlocker module as a good example).

- Lenses, Prisms, and Affines are used to extract the needed bits of state and then create pipeline transformations of it without recreating the whole state (which can require a lot of boilerplate if done imperatively). A good example is (SignIn/SignIn.swift), which juggles a lot of nested complex states in a small package.

And a lot more, ask away.
States plead for cybersecurity funds as hacking threat surges
The major difference is that the child labor affects someone else negatively, while tracking affects the consumer themselves.
Why was Lombardy hit harder than Italy's other regions?
It's not useless bloat though. It's probably hard to beat in terms of code size, which is often even relevant for performance (due to cache size considerations).

Furthermore, the article is talking about adding many numbers, which is just one of the possible use cases. As far as I can tell, adc is still useful for adding a pair of 128-bit numbers on a 64-bit CPU for example.
Eventually we're going to just have a means of saying: Save this webpage as an app.

I mean, we do already. It's called PWAs, and I have many of my favorite sites saved as an app. But it's featureless and lame.

Point being, Electron is just a stopgap while PWAs are figured out. And with the advent of WASM, we'll be able to run some pretty heavy stuff.

https://wasm.continuation-labs.com/d3demo/

My long term strategy: Learn rust for WASM, keep an eye on PWAs
Microsoft Research's VROOM combines life-sized AR avatars with robots
That's the actual name of the aircraft:

https://www.ga-asi.com/predator-b
Cool story.

Off topic question... Do golden retrievers have a mean side to them? I’ve always liked them and I dont like scary dogs in general
I checked out the DigitalOcean marketplace but it looked like there are only open-source applications there, or it was really confusing how you can publish a premium script there.

That being said, userTrack does provide a cloud-init configuration for one-click install (which works on DigitalOcean for example). So currently, if the VPS provider supports images and cloud-init, you just have to select a LAMP image, paste the userTrack cloud-init and the VPS will spin-up with a functional userTrack dashboard running on it.

I have also considered sharing it as a Docker container, but that makes it slower to install (have to share the full image) and there is again no easy way to share premium Docker images, as you have to host your own Docker repository.
Is it most mosquitoes, or is it primarily aedis aegypti? I could swear I read that particular species was responsible for most mosquito-bourne disease, but I can't seem to find much information for the proportion between it and other species.

If they disproportionally kill even more than other mosquitoes, that also puts things into greater perspective. Perhaps if we could target this particular species, it would save millions of human lives.
How about this? https://twitter.com/kathygriffin/status/1265440342892929025?...
There's a whole subfield of adder design focused on carrying, since it's a big dependency chain even within one register. I believe this is a software version of what some adder circuits already do (although I'll need some reading to check).
Perhaps Trump did not know that :-D (I did not).
For those unaware: https://stackoverflow.com/q/1642028/1350209
More efficient drug development with the help of computer models
so they must police across the board or police none? Well since it's impossible to police everything what should they do?

In my view at the end of the day Twitter can police whoever they want and users can leave if they don't like it.
Quick answer: They sell them at around 10% value on the black market, or use them as bargaining chips if they're arrested for other crimes.

Clickbait titles leading to long fluffy non-answer pieces can do one.