skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No one has studied masks on this specific strain?

You're misrepresenting the entire problem.

The main unknown is not that protective equipment helps protect. That's a absurd strawman.

The main unknown is the impact on the likelihood that someone not educated or trained or experienced in facing biological hazards would contract a virus when knowingly exposing themselves to the virus while wearing said protective equipment to the best of their personal abilities, discipline, and knowledge.

That's the main unknown.

Meanwhile, do keep in mind that the effectiveness of condoms to stop unwanted pregnancies, which are pretty much widespread and even covered by classes included as part of mandatory public education, has been as low as 79% if poorly used.

https://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/birth-control-condom...
> because their business is information itself

No they haven’t, not in that way.
A Note to Facebook Employees by Mark Zuckerberg
https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2019-January/138...

Apparently they rejected it after maintainer didn't reply to their mail and invitation.
"Russia and China will be able to continue to threaten us"

Really? Russia and China threaten you? How?
how is this a problem? SEPA has already solved this issue?
The issue is indeed the same with all social platforms but also media and broadcast. The singular question is this: What entity can really artfully determine who ought to speak to the masses in the interest of society? Is there someone with superiority of wisdom that can determine who should speak to many, and if so, is the answer the same ones that hold that power today. In the not-so-long ago it was the priest who spoke to the many and the king with the divine wisdom. Today we know better and thus we have given that power to... the ones we elect? No. It is the one whose platform has the highest stickyness.

Mass amplification via a platform's algorithm is not a big step above the old ways, and the platform owner does not seem to have much better divine wisdom than past kings.
When I read this I ran to get my camera and my computer!

First downer: My X-T20 is not supported :(

Second downer: Windows only?

So sad right now :(
>the top message on the Buffalo's police union webpage read: "These guys did nothing but do what they were ordered to do. This is disgusting !!!”

The "just following orders" defense isn't one that's held up well historically. The crux of the argument is whether he was pushed or tripped, not whether or not they were following orders. Check the video below and formulate your own opinion:

CW: violence, gore

https://youtu.be/QFeewU0HhNE?t=20

Also take note of his ears after he falls
I know it's cherrypicking but:

>The DOD needs to look at a startup/agile mentality

Please god NO! That's a really a bad idea not just for the DOD but for most government services. 90+% of startups fail. This is fine because most startups are not very essential. Government is often inefficient, but it rarely outright fails. Can you imagine how a government run as a startup would be? Garbage collection went bankrupt the other day, won't be another five months until another one is spun up. Oh yeah we haven't implemented the fire department yet, your house might be on fire now but we have it on the roadmap for Q4 2021 so please hold on until then. Oh your wife is in the hospital? We were running an A/B test on that so she's in the part without blood transfusions. Hope everything goes well! When you are taking a VC bet on to get a startup off the ground, many things are acceptable that are not really feasible if people depend on your continued existence for at least the coming decades.

Don't be overly impressed by the Russians and/or Chinese either btw. They suffer from the exact same problems, but "the grass is greener on the other side" is true in defence matters as much as in the rest of life.
Just in case you don't get it:

The moment the information is unencrypted and made available via a userinterface, you've lost all control.

You don't control the iOS rendering loop. You don't control the Android rendering system. (You might think you do though as much of Android is open source).

You don't control the OS core libraries, you don't control the microcode of the CPU.
You don't control the blitting to a screen device or the recording of photons on a camera.
And I'm not even talking about external manipulation to exfiltrate data.

You might control the content of the IP packages sent. You don't control any other IP packages sent.
Meanwhile Reuters finds 3,810 U.S. areas with lead poisoning double Flint’s https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lead-map-idUSKBN1DE1H...

Also ran: Chrome-6 https://www.ewg.org/release/ewg-brockovich-carcinogen-found-...

Cheers!
Yeah I'm glad they did that. The score hidden thing is interesting, I see some people do that at will, I'm a person affected by down votes haha like "oh no someone disagreed with me" anyway... pretty cool.
The military always says they would have won if they had more. I dont think that is the case at all in Afghanistan or Iraq, in Iraq we essentially invented an enemy and lost to them.
I've switched from Ubuntu to Mint a few years back at home, at work I have to use Ubuntu. Functionally, the two are identical for my use case.
I love Mint, it just works and there are no surprises as far as I can tell.
I like the idea of taking notes and then making your decision based on the notes. That's how the Google interviewing process worked, and I think it emphasizes the things that matter and lets you filter through the things that don't. People have a laundry list of things to do in an interview to hack the system: what you wear, what kinds of follow-up questions you ask, etc. None of those things ever make it into the notes. Only your thought process as it applies to software engineering ends up in there.

To some extent, this really mirrors how we buy consumer products. We read a bunch of experiences and data collected by other people, then make a decision based only on those written notes. Meanwhile, enterprise products are sold by who buys you the best golf outing or who sends you the nicest holiday present. If you remove that source of bias, only the facts stand out. Could be a good technique to apply more widely. Do you want the product that has the best experience from other users, or do you want the one that buys you stuff every few months? As the purchasing manager, of course you want the kickbacks. But the company itself probably wants the one with the best user experience. Something to think about.
If you ever want to switch, the image is `selenium/standalone-chrome`.
Afaik, upstream packages aren't changed by Arch maintainers. It's the whole point of using Arch. And if you're using AUR, you'd better be checking the PKGBUILD (because no, it isn't verified by anybody). At the very least, you need to be checking where the package is being downloaded from.
The legal system relies on police for testimonies, carrying out warrants for evidence, among other things. Because of this the legal system protects them unless the public is outrage.

Right now, police are legally allowed to bully the communities they serve. Not all police do, but the problem is normal citizens have no recourse to hold them accountable when they do. The system in place is evil for allowing such behavior to go unpunished and needs to be changed.
In an actual, real war with Russia or China both sides would suffer at least 100 million casualties in the first day from nuclear warfare.

Since that’s unthinkable, a real war is not something worth planning for.

So how about finding a way to win the sort of proxy wars the USA has sucked at since Vietnam (and is currently headed towards for no reason in Iran)?
It's interesting how many distros built on top of Ubuntu are explicitly dropping snaps or throwing their support behind flatpaks:

- Linux Mint

- ElementaryOS

- Pop!_OS

Take a hint, Canonical. You guys made some great strides towards being less silo'd by dropping Unity and Mir in favor of vanilla GNOME + Wayland, but you're still all-in on snaps for some reason. Are the handful of proprietary software companies that want an easier installer for Linux really worth it?
Why does it matter that it's a snap? Does the program work?
That ain’t a good thing, it just means this kind of hellscape is inevitable.
Oh wow I'd hate to see you how reacted to the chapter "Jeff" in that case. Was an amazing horror experience on par with P.T.
Author should study some of the people who already “questioned the narrative.” Ivan Ilich, John Holt, John Taylor Gatto come to mind.
No, this means that your entire military industrial complex is geared towards offensive wars on the other side of the globe.
Russia has no such goals.
> and if

Do you mean the obvious `sudo snap set system refresh.hold="$(date --date=+100years +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%:z)"`? (no error)

edit: Ah, that silently stops working after 60 days, nvm.
I agree that installation requires more learning than other distros, but once you get past that I don't understand the problem. I think Arch "just works", too, and I don't see how Manjaro could be better in that regard considering it is closely related to Arch. BTW, you do know you don't ever need to reinstall Arch (on a single machine)?

EDIT:

> I'm tired of all the tinkering. I'm tired of the additional cognitive load of all the things I have to make sure is configured right. I already waste hours of my day just getting tooling to work for whatever god awful language I have to work with that day. I just want things to work. Manjaro just works.

I definitely understand that, but I feel that if I went to Manjaro or Debian or whatever the added complexity would make debugging much more annoying.
>adding 3-second delay to every opened app

But that's exactly like the Apple ecosystem![0]

[0] https://sigpipe.macromates.com/2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-d...
Except Crystal has real pointers and can be used in kernel-space.
Housing in DC's Tysons Corner is ahead of goals
Yeah, even that is not true.
Do you know what Apple does with text you enter into a text field? Or the letters you type on a virtual keyboard?
It's closed source and even if it were open source, you have no way of checking if the binary has been produced by that source code.

You don't control anything.
Early markets were fueled by capital, not competition. Capital needs to be reigned in with these monopolies or we’ll just sprout more. Let’s not pretend like competitive markets are possible with the kind of capital needed to compete.
Manjaro is simply fantastic. I switched when upgrading Ubuntu failed again. Hardware detection is great, defaults are sane, and pacman is a great package manager. The AUR is also amazing.
This seems to pick an arbitrary expansion of what “end to end” means, where “end” is “the OS layer on the source/destination computers”.

What if the monitor is backdoored and sends copies of the display buffer to The Secret World Government? What if the keyboard has a hardware keylogger? What if we’re all living in an elaborate computer simulation of a global pandemic?

As an alternate comparison: it’s still end-to-end encrypted communication if I take the securely received message, print out a copy, and tape it to a bulletin board at the town square.

The “end-to-end” refers to the transmission path. It’s a defense against MITM, and can be accomplished by plenty of systems that aren’t Linux.
That's what DARPA is supposed to be for.
Ah, apologies :(
The Chromium situation has been explained already in 2019,
https://snapcraft.io/blog/chromium-in-ubuntu-deb-to-snap-tra...

There is no deb package in Ubuntu, so the system is setup to transparently install the snap package.
Aha! That makes sense. Thanks
But when one group of people say "Facebook should be the arbiter" and the other group says "Facebook should not be the arbiter" then both things cannot happen.
Can you provide a citation for the 10x number? A quick search shows more like 0.4x, which is quite different.
I agree, I don't control any of that.

But E2E is a technical property of a system. It's not a social property regarding who controls what.
Lessons Learned from Two Years of Kubernetes
You forgot that somebody can snoop on the unencrypted image on your screen.
Would the government even have standing to file a DMCA takedown for anything? Anything the government creates is in the public domain meaning there’s no copyright to infringe.
With windows update the trick since MS enforced a similar update policy is to change the user the Windows Update service runs under to an account that doest have the required permissions.

Not sure if that would work with Ubuntu though ;)
In the context of this conversation, that's a distinction without a difference.
Even earlier than that. In the 1980's Brother had a sewing machine with a floppy disk drive.

The sewing machine drive turns out to be compatible with the old TRS-80 Model 100 laptop, so retro computer collectors fall over themselves to get one.
No - nearly all life on earth would end within hours. Europe, Asia, etc won't just sit around. Think more like 5 billion dead in a few hours...

Any real war involving the US vs Russia or China draws in all allies, goes nuclear, and results in the complete annihilation of civilization. Anywhere untouched by direct bombing will be dealing with a radiation cloud which will slowly kill them on top of a global ice-age

Fun reading about that prospect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel)
I got a CPAP for obstructive sleep apnea and it resulted in absolutely zero benefits after several months. It did cost quite a bit and take time to clean, though. I'm very skeptical about the positive effects of CPAP for all but the most severely affected individuals.
Does Mint allow to safely roll-back package manager operations (i.e. without ever failing)?

If not, what other distro allows this (other than Nix)?

This is the main feature I'm looking for.
> The DOD needs to look at a startup/agile mentality

If all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

It should be obvious by now that EaaSu (Everything as a Start-up) is a deeply flawed idea.
More like lean toward a future where Bing (giving MSFT a monopoly on search, OS, Office Suites, browsers and whatnot), or worse, giving Chinese companies the lead in the rest of the world, and maybe even the US (if the US doesn't regulate them out). I don't see how a lot of Google products survive without the ad revenue.

1. Android -> Difficult to compete against a well financed Chinese competitor here for whatever new subpart of Google takes over android.

2. Chrome -> Again, either MSFT or a chinese fork.

3. Gmail -> Outlook, or maybe some chinese/russian mail service

4. Google Cloud -> This might be gone fully. I don't see them having any advantages if they can't piggyback on the world class google Infra.

Even if the US regulates out Huwaei and Alibaba, almost all of Asia and Africa will surely be dominated by big Chinese tech, rather than small US tech if the US big tech get broken up. Not to mention they might dominate Europe too.
Do you have any source for "Most VCs dreadfully under-perform the market".
Cool article!!
Americans are drinking bleach and dunking food in it to prevent Covid-19
My main problem with Arch is that there's rarely a point where I feel like I've finished installing. There's always something missing or something not configured right. Shit, dialog still isn't a default package in 2020, which you need to use wifi-menu during the install process. So if you happen to forget to install that (and it isn't mentioned anywhere in the documentation), you're going to have to reboot into the live media, chroot into your install, install dialog, then reboot again.

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/any/netctl/

Why in the fuck is dialog an optional dependency?

Which sort of ties into my next problem which is that Arch simply isn't opinionated enough. Which is fine for people who want that kind of experience, but if you used Ubuntu before and you want a similar "install and go" experience, Arch really isn't the right answer. It is if your goal is to tinker with Arch, but that isn't what everybody wants.
CPAP resulted in zero benefit to me, you are lucky.
> When people say the things that you say, what they really mean is "I believe in free speech, except for those opinions that I don't believe are right."

No they don't, since you misunderstood what I was saying.

> Restricting free speech until it's vetted is literally counter to what free speech actually is. Free speech is allowing everyone to speak, even if it makes you nauseous.

Again, I'm not advocating restricting anyone's speech, but rather emphasizing the value of a system with people who make editorial judgements. Amazon, like any publisher, should have the uncontroversial right to refuse to publish or sell any book it pleases for any reason it finds compelling. If its size makes people queasy about that, then it should be broken up to the point where that's not an issue.

> But please don't try to gaslight people into thinking that "peer-reviewed free speech" is anything except censorship.

So you're saying it's censorship that scientific journals refuse to publish the papers crackpots send them?

It's worth remembering that the ultimate goal of free speech is for the truth to prevail, not to nauseate everyone by forcing them to sort through and disseminate mountains of garbage.
Seems like the loss of balance and fall was out of their control, and it's almost like raising your hands toward their weapons was a bad idea. Given the nature of the injury, it was the right thing to wait for a medical professional to attend to the man rather than providing aid.

I don't get the outrage over this incident, personally. Reporting has been getting extremely sensational and I think cops should just do themselves a favor and stop turning up to work for 2 weeks to let the narrative reverse itself.
Can dor is a stark contrast to skills it takes to be successful in the field of espionage and deception.

A person who is truly honest and open will fail to be a spy as he will reveal the true nature of his intentions way too easily. To succeed against foreign opposition you must be deceptive. To be deceptive means you cannot have candor. If the CIA requires candor as a fundamental quality of any associate then that means they require associates to have qualities that set them up for total failure.

Instead the unstated but obvious conclusion that can support two seemingly contrasting requirements to be a successful agent is this:

What the CIA truly values are people who are good at deceiving the organization itself into thinking they are honest and have candor.

Honestly, I don't think anything I said in this post is true.
Check out testing:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sed -i 's/buster/testing/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt dist-upgrade

Getting security updates from unstable (not required):

1. Pin unstable lower than testing.

2. Configure apt/debsecan as outlined here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725934
snapd is a service, therefore it requires an init system.
You spoke with your neighbor about this for a half hour and it sounds to me like he was unable to convince you that this was true. It seems like somehow you're immune to the spread of this information. Perhaps it's just the rubes that need to be protected from the bad information? Maybe there's some kind of gullibility test we could administer and if you fail you have to get your information filtered but if you pass you can read anything you want.
> Africa will surely be dominated by big Chinese tech

What are we waiting on?
My understanding is that you want to distribute via your own store you need to develop your own distro, reverse engineer their backend, develop your own backend. Develop your own forked client that actually searches in more than one store and then you can distribute to only those people running at minimum your forked client.

Basically if you have multiple millions of dollars you would be able to distribute your software to probably nobody.

Compare this to making a repo for any platform that allows multiple repos where this is fantastically trivial.
The officer should be arrested. If a normal citizen was caught on video doing the same thing they would be in jail that night.

It is sickening police can get away with whatever they want.

I think it is time to bring in the coast guard!
NVidia's CUDA only supports Fedora, OpenSUSE, RHEL, CentOS, SLES and Ubuntu, see [1].

So I suppose that rules out Debian (?)

[1] https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads?target_os=Linux&...
> isn't QEMU notoriously slow

No! Major cloud providers use it to provide VMs with basically zero overhead.
Or even better, avoid proxy wars. Seems most of them are basically big powers trampling on smaller nations and destroying them.
Its usually the older and cheaper calculators that have a jack.

They're not a 'headphone' jack but a charger for rechargeable batteries or a battery-replacement source of electricity. Most of the time they are the narrower 2.5mm rather than a 3.5mm socket. I suppose that way back then, the headphone-style sockets were cheaper and more readily available than the pin-and-sleeve charging sockets we use today.

I remember having a simple four-function battery calculator back in the early 1970s that cost $40 then (probably about $350 equivalent today) which had one of those 2.5mm sockets as a 6volt electricity source.

This was before LED and liquid-crystal displays were cheaply available. So they used a gas-discharge display which was both expensive and power-hungry. A set of batteries would only last about six hours.
http://www.vintagecalculators.com/assets/images/VFD_3.jpg
I really wonder about Europe. It makes no sense for them to get involved in either war. The same applies for India, the Middle east and Africa and South America. How many bombs could two countries throw at easy other before the results were civilisation ending for everyone else? God it’s depressing to think about with the current bunch of “leaders”...

Edit,

Looks like the USA and Russia hold 90% of all the warheads. So a US China war would be a much smaller event. Still pretty devastating to the planet though. 15 to 30 degree temperature drops and a 10 year period to return to normal climate. Plus fallout and famine and EM pulses.
No. That's not what I’m saying at all.
You can also use Canon or Sony's camera software and window capture it in OBS.
> That's literally how every company ever in any industry since the dawn of commerce has operated.

Not even close to true, you're describing how "financial capitalism" works which is relatively modern (in the US, it begin in the early 1900s after the creation of the Federal Reserve). Until you financialize an economy, businesses can't use that kind of strategy to compete. Once you do, only those with access to finance can win.

Read up on industrial capitalism which relies on the quality of products and services—not access to finance, aka money printing—to compete in the marketplace. That's how the US was built originally, and what most Americans mean when they say they support "capitalism."
> BTW, you do know you don't ever need to reinstall Arch (on a single machine)?

People say this, but I've found plenty of reason to reinstall Arch (none of it necessarily having to do with Arch, and more trying different distros out of curiosity and Arch remaining my main distro). I always have these discussions with Arch veterans who seem so incredulous about my frustrations with Arch. And I sort of chalk it down to the fact that I ended up installing Arch anew more often than once a year and the last time you or some other vet installed Arch was years ago. I think there's a fundamental disconnect between Arch vets and beginners (or even intermediates), which is clearly shown by the scrapping of the excellent beginner's guide.
this is over a year old and has been posted here a few times.

is there something new about this story we missed?
It could also be the reverse - chronic inflammation makes you uncomfortable and therefore unable to sleep well.