skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are also distributing physicals masks? It's not even a filtering type mask is it? How odd.

Is the blurring some type of encryption that the user can unblurr or is this a one way road? I am just thinking off some odd circumstance where say they realize they had a picture of a vandal somewhere. But I guess you can then be forced to unblurr everything by law enforcement which might be undesirable in some cases.

Slight off topic from the article, I was reading about the sting ray discussion here on HN yesterday. Signal supports some sort of mesh network communication right? Is that a work around for sting rays? Thanks.
From my university network in Germany, I seem to get a direct London → Perth link and a total latency of 278ms. I couldn't find any information about a direct fiber between London and Australia, though there is one from London to Singapore, and AARNet seems to have presence in Singapore. My guess would be that there is some switching below the IP layer going on in Singapore as described by dicknuckle in a sibling comment.

9 cr-fra2-be11.x-win.dfn.de (188.1.144.222) 15.360 ms 15.385 ms dfn.mx1.fra.de.geant.net (62.40.124.217) 15.021 ms
10 ae7.mx1.ams.nl.geant.net (62.40.98.186) 21.806 ms dfn.mx1.fra.de.geant.net (62.40.124.217) 15.244 ms ae7.mx1.ams.nl.geant.net (62.40.98.186) 21.707 ms
11 ae9.mx1.lon.uk.geant.net (62.40.98.129) 29.059 ms ae7.mx1.ams.nl.geant.net (62.40.98.186) 21.805 ms ae9.mx1.lon.uk.geant.net (62.40.98.129) 28.933 ms
12 138.44.226.6 (138.44.226.6) 196.613 ms ae9.mx1.lon.uk.geant.net (62.40.98.129) 29.074 ms 29.156 ms
13 138.44.226.6 (138.44.226.6) 196.807 ms et-7-3-0.pe1.wmlb.vic.aarnet.net.au (113.197.15.28) 277.463 ms 138.44.226.6 (138.44.226.6) 196.778 ms
14 138.44.64.73 (138.44.64.73) 277.544 ms et-7-3-0.pe1.wmlb.vic.aarnet.net.au (113.197.15.28) 277.629 ms *
I of course don't call him that to his face, although I do tell him frequently that unless he changes his ways he'll be living under a bridge in a few years (proverbial, obviously), and getting out of the hole is much harder than never going into it in the first place. At times it even seems that he understands, but the moment I look away, he fires up the browser and fires up YouTube. Congratulations YouTube, I guess? Excellent "engagement", give that researcher a bonus! I'm sick and tired of this already, so I think I'll just let him attend the school of hard knocks instead.

It's sad though. In a way, being sheltered from adversity has severely undermined his future potential. For what it's worth my father made me do things, and always reminded me that unless I get proper education I'll be shoveling shit on a farm for the rest of my life. I grew up in rural Russia, so this was the default state, which several of my high school friends entered, permanently.

I, on the other hand, gave my kid everything and sheltered him from everything, and undermined his future by doing so.
Context, i.e. sample link about reversing blur (not just swirl): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4679801
Yes. I wish we would frame these conversations about value more in terms of time. It's even starker when you address it directly:

>When someone drives past me in a car that I know costs the equivalent of 30 years of my life...

Even as a comfortably paid software developer, someone with a billion dollars owns the equivalent of ten thousand years of my life.
>I have 2 ethernet circuits from the UK to Washington DC, to me it looks like two layer 2 1500MTU circuit. Only by talking to the provier can I work out which circuits it actually travels on trans atlanticly. It's supposed to be separate, but latency changed by 2ms a few days ago. Asked them about it, and there was a failure in their network, they rerouted in a few hundered milliseconds (which isn't good as now both diverse circuits run via the same equipment, thus any issues like another 100ms outage will cause an impact)

Buying two mpls circuits (assuming they are that) from the same provider is a single point of faliure, your only real redundancy is your handover at each site, if they are separate.

You're better of buying an optical link, then you are also not sharing bandwidth with anyone else. The cost isn't that different in my experience, but might be for an trans-Atlantic circuit. IPSEC over normal internet connections with multiple isp's is a better choice.
This one... and I used it to migrate 20 years of email from a G Suite account to Gmail account.

https://medium.com/@buro9/one-account-all-of-google-4d292906...
You could build a playground internet with some VPN-connected boxes which talk BGP and route 10.0.0.0/8 between them.
It's a lot of work, but a friend of mine started such a thing and I have learned _so much_ about networking on layers 2 and up from that.

Start by installing a BGP deamon on two boxes that share a network and see what you can do :)
When my dad read this, he bought a pitchfork and mounted it on the front of the house.
Even Rust implemented async/await. It's one of the few nice ways to write asynchronous code.

People who think that it's "manual" only haven't yet discovered the trade-offs of what they think is their preferred solution. There is no free lunch here.

It's like sniping at people who chose different prongs of the CAP theorem while thinking you're somehow in a superior position.
> and good luck proving that in court

Far less than 10% of cases will ever go to trial, so odds are this will settle far before ever going to a jury and having to prove anything.

Otherwise I don’t think it is a very difficult case to win, as the other commenter mentioned it’s a civil case so the burden isn’t “beyond a reasonable doubt” rather “more likely than not.”

During discovery they would be able to swab and test Amazon for any traces of corona (which I’m sure they would find) and at which point amazon has a lot of exposure and potential liability, which may even include a temporary shutdown to clean all traces of the virus...amazon would never risk that or information getting out regarding their warehouse (thus goods they deliver) are spreading the virus.
Ah, right. That makes a lot of sense. Similarly to what I mentioned in the parent comment, CodeStories as a “platform” isn’t ready for market yet. It’s feature complete enough that I or one of my teammates can easily use it to teach a class. But the instructor side of things needs another layer of polish before an MVP would be ready to sell to teachers.

To be clear, all of our external communication for the past couple months (outside of this conversation, which is primarily about the platform) has been about InPyBio, the Python course.

Even though the separation between the platform (CodeStories) and the platform’s first course (InPyBio) is clear to me, there could obviously be clearer communication about this distinction on the site.
Wire should also be e2ee, but not sure if you can self-host the server (they seem to have started opens-sourcing it years ago, but not sure if that is ready).
I think people are missing a few big points.

1) It's extremely difficult being a cop

2) It's extremely terrifying being a cop

3) It's extremely unpopular being a cop

It boggles me every time I hear people say cops need "stricter requirements" and "less pay" but never hear anyone volunteering to join the force and make real change. Look around, how many white knights want to be a cop?

The videos from Thursday/Friday night Minneapolis shape my framework for these riots, not the supposed abuse to protesters and reporters. IMO, given the circumstances, the cops overall have been very civil while taking an onslaught of verbal and even physical abuse. And don't get me wrong, I'm not ignoring police abuse and brutality.

https://youtu.be/cHcELsLF7cg
I'd take that "little success" any day.

From another comment below:

Sweden vs Czech Republic (both 10M):

New cases (7 day average): https://i.imgur.com/fciq4Ra.png

Total deaths: https://i.imgur.com/do9Zbvn.png
One of the few things our government (UK) has got right with housing is to ensure nearly every development includes social housing.
Fair enough. So what if I gave you the same car and he doubled his wealth.

Now inequality has increased much more significantly. And you can't tell.

You haven't found a measure of inequality, you have identified that you can't afford an expensive car. Insofar as they are problems, the solutions to inequality and material lack are different from each other.

EDIT And furthermore, if inequality is the major problem, you're arguing you'd rather be in Scenario Now (no car) rather than Scenario Hypothetical (very expensive car). I don't like telling people their opinion, but I'd be shocked if inequality is going to be a factor in your decision making with that one.
A little more advanced is CPPurses with a widget framework for creating TUIs,:

https://github.com/a-n-t-h-o-n-y/CPPurses
A great example of why major companies should not regulate people's lives is WeChat in China. Some ethnic minorities are banned from using it, which is almost the same as not having a credit card in the US. You can kind of get around without it, but not really.

Many tech companies are simply utilities now. They should not be allowed to refuse service in the same way as electric companies are not allowed to refuse you service - except in extreme circumstances.
Giesecke had Tegnell's job (State Epidemiologist) 15 years ago. He claims to have recruited both Tegnell and Tegnell's boss Johan Carlson to folkhälsomyndigheten. (FHM)

He has furthermore been a paid consultant for FHM for many months now. So he is not just anybody.
A commercial delivery drone carrying a six pound package landing on top of a bus between tall buildings is going to make a ridiculous discordant growl. Six of them coming and going within a quarter mile at any given time are going to sound like an auto-tuned pack of hounds from hell.

(This of course is ignoring what happens if something fucks up and suddenly it has 1/8th of a second to decide to fly out of it or brake those giant swinging carbon fiber blades before they encounter human flesh. It's like a trolley problem on a trolley.).

No way. (IMHO of course)

(e.g

Video of a Matrice 600 with a payload of ~8lbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jayVMmvLxOA

Even better, 25 lbs from 60' up lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jULQrdUTngM

)
I love the idea of exposing different algorithms so that upvotes are distributed a little more evenly.
How do you usually get along in a professional setting with Dvorak? I use it too been using it for like 20 years now and it's very smooth but I'd be interested to know your impressions.
> This makes me think that Nietzsche would have despised post-modernism. As if they copied his method but not his intentions.

Maybe yes, because Nietzsche's real interest was in a positive program. On the other hand, I feel like Nietzsche is more unpredictable and delicate than our image of him. He's quicksilver. If he had continued, he would have gone to unexpected places, so we can't really say.

Foucault in his final years was more interested in a positive program as well. There's a great article (discussed on HN in the past) about Foucault taking LSD in Death Valley with some LA friends, and changing his outlook as a result. Unfortunately he didn't live long enough to do more than leave pointers.
Because countries in Asia did manage to arrest the outbreak, so that was the standard from then on once we knew it was possible.
Show HN: New PHP router wich is 3 times faster then Laravel
Imagine a world in which we don't need individual cars, because public transport is sufficient; passengers and cargo are pooled into compartments; compartments pooled and unpooled mid-trip as needed to maximize total efficiency; where traffic runs underground and on a rail where that makes sense; where stations can be very large or very small based on traffic; where the economics of laying out the tunnels is such that it makes sense to build small stations; where car roads are a rarity; where safety is not relient on human judgment, skill or reaction time; where transportation is not dependent on fossil fuels. Aah, those things are pleasant to imagine.
First photo of HS2 tunnel boring machines
if you look at the graph, it all begins after 1971. that was the year the gold standard was finally abandoned for real.

i am not an expert and don't know all the important puzzle pieces, or even understand them. but looking at our financial systems, i think a big part of the reasons for the problems of our current form of capitalism is the unlinking of fiat currency from any form of backing.
It's really the present. This is a capability that exists and what is being trained now.
Sent an email with am image and it hasn't come.through yet.

Very cool idea though
Countries where people don't listen to the experts and think for themselves have done much better:

https://i.imgur.com/do9Zbvn.png
> If you look out the window of your car (or house) and see homeless people (or mobs) - that isn't inequality.

I don't understand your reasoning. If some people are homeless while others have houses, how is that not inequality?

I've lived in São Paulo, where homeless people can be found on literally every street, while millionaires fly from skyscraper to skyscraper in their private helicopters to avoid the impassable traffic. No-one needs to pore over dry statistics to know that Brazil (to take just one example) has enormous levels of inequality.
Exactly. I'm in EU, can't remember last time I used SMS. iMessage and Telegram, however, daily.
Just `import { foo } from 'https://graphql/'` is enough for that.
“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

― Socrates

One day, fewer people will freely have children and maybe then this multi-thousand year cycle of brilliant parents complaining about their children's inadequacies will cease.
The 1968 pandemic was roughly as bad the 1958 one. What's interesting is that there was either little/no surveillance in the US or there may have been censorship about it until after it was almost over, because it wasn't widely-reported when hospitals were overflowing and turning-away patients. It also caused severe delirium much like SARS2. I would wager there were asymptomatic carriers of it: my mom said she was bed-ridden with it while my grandparents didn't seem to get sick.
The factor is not directly sensor size but rather focal length of the lens. But with smaller sensors comes a smaller field of view on the same focal length, such that you need to reduce focal length to keep it the same. I think for phone cameras the factor is ~10x compared to 35mm sensors.
Why does the leisure class get funding for this nonsense? An y new "invention" either seems to spy on people or annoy the hell out of them.

Drones are a visual nuisance and produce noise. Do you want to disturb bus riders and residential areas.

The Silicon Valley episode where a Stanford lab produced a robotic deer that is completely useless but caused a road accident is reality.

I hope people will react like Erlich Bachman when these drones become a thing.
Given the current discussion on political apathy in the US I think this data fits well into this pattern.

Looking at the voter turnout for United States (2016) of the of voting-age population you have merely 55.70% voting. (For comparison, the scale goes up to 87.21% in Belgium). Only roughly HALF of the population casts their votes in federal elections. Since a lot of the current policing decisions are made on a state or local level where voter turnout is even worse, this is a democracy in crisis.

What could be the drivers for this? I think you get a hint if you look at the other column, where you see the % of voter turnout based on registration. In most countries listed here, these numbers are almost identical because you are registered as a voter by default if you are a citizen. OR, if you are in the US, the % climbs to a whopping 86.80%, illustrating what a negative impact this system has.

Let people vote. Get rid of this ridiculus competition to cut and slice voter districts to party needs (gerry-mandering) and stop suppressing voters by other means if you want a system that actually allows politicians to work for their voters and not for donors / special interest groups that keep you paid.
Cool idea. Maybe Uber et al can also take part in this - rent out roof space on their fleet heading in same direction as the drone...
I suppose you would be in favor of a Minority Report type of world, where our truth machine will tell us verifiably that you will commit crime in the future, thus we should preemptively arrest. Surely it's never wrong!
I was also surprised by the physical masks. It seems they are intended to 'encrypt your face' which gives me the impression it should make you unidentifiable.

When peacefully protesting, I can't imagine why you would need to hide your face.

If not peacefully protesting and/or looting, such a mask has use for criminals, but I can't imagine that's the intention of Signal.

I think in free, democratic countries, you shouldn't be allowed to hide your face, so you can be held accountable for your deeds.

In non-free countries I can imagine you would need to hide your identity, but would Signal be able to distribute them there?

Questions, questions ;)
From one space elevator to the next. Yeah?
https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/17/a-review-of-explaining-p...
Its a very large country. Bad stuff happens every day. For any group of people you can support any narrative by cherry picking the right events. Using that technique, you could "prove" anything you wish about any group and then proceed to demonize that group. This isn't to say we could not do better, we always can, and criminals should go to jail whether they happen to be police or not. But the idea that America is some sort brutal police state where the cops specifically hunt black people for being black I find absurd.
There is no convincing evidence that Sweden’s approach has led to a materially worse outcome, and in fact if you look at the overall health of the country considerable evidence that outcomes will be much better in the long term.

Every country will have to adopt the Swedish approach eventually or find themselves caught in an endless cycle of lockdowns.

It seems to me that the experiment is countries trying to eradicate the virus through lockdown as opposed to just slowing it down, with no evidence that this is working or could ever work.

NoW that the virus is better understood and we know that the people at risk are mostly people at the end of their life the continued tyrannical lock down Of the general population in many countries is a failure of leadership, not a success.

The large number of hysterical articles condemning the Swedish approach reflects the fact that people don’t want to admit that they made a mistake and want to desperately justify doing something really stupid.
> Nowadays I just use rsync on Maildirs because I don't have any IMAP mail on servers where I don't have shell access, so I'm a bit out of date what the modern state of these tools is. Interesting to hear of another option I'd not come across back then

If you use rsync through ssh, I would say that's a very good option, if anything because on your server, you only need ssh to be exposed to the internet rather than ssh + an imap server. Given how servers are constantly attacked, this is way safer.
Other than Signal, I also recommend Threema. It doesn't rely on mobile numbers, possible to configure to run on your private server, etc. It's just not free (as in beer). Also, it's from Switzerland, a country respects your privacy more than the USA[0].

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/gukg5z/threema_win...
Checkout libtickit http://www.leonerd.org.uk/code/libtickit/
> putting food on the table or providing for a family, to be their life's calling

Sure it's not anyone's "life's calling". What it is is a _baseline requirement_ without fulfilling which you can't really pursue higher calling of any kind in a meaningful way.
The Ministry of Truth is never wrong!
Wait, now I'm confused. I thought it was Abraham Lincoln that said this, not Socrates.
from an AMZN early investor. the company that pays the lowest wages and creates the greatest wage disparities ever seen.

great example of why the pitchforks are overdue. Even the rich who can see the writing on the wall are too greedy to do anything other than virtue signaling.
What do you mean by "saving the planet"? Do you mean keeping the population numbers and saving the western way of life at the same time? What would make significant progress towards that goal?
Or, Imagine where we toll everyone daily who get's on a highway in a car, and instead provide sheltered lanes for bicycles. And those bikes are simple sturdy steel bikes with wire cage panniers and can hold a ton. And in this utopian world a lot of health related issues are reduced because of the incidental exercise that people get on commuting around.
Is the world facing a hysteretic shock?
Even in an all Apple ecosystem my family is using Zoom because we can't add multiple Facetime people to a call for some reason and there is no messaging explaining why.

Probably one of us running an old OS or something (All devices are recent) but whatever why should I waste my time debugging that with my elderly parents when Zoom just works.
What kind of blur is used? Blurs are annoyingly bad at obscuring things like faces. They may be good at making faces unrecognisable to people, but they’re not nearly as good at making faces unrecognisable to machines.
Recurrent neural nets is the general term for nets with memory as you describe. Indeed LSTMs, a type of recurrent net, used to be state of the art on language tasks until the GPT transformer models. I'm sure somebody somewhere is working to make a transformer with recurrency. The neural turing machine mentioned in another comment is such an example but it seems to have been abandoned.

The main problem with recurrent models is its hard to train them with backprop. For example the GPT-3 can handle sequences up to ~2000 tokens? I'm not sure what the largest sequence LSTMs could be trained on but it was probably less.
In this case it's literally the name of the party (Liberals and Labor are the two major parties). You're correct on the economic and social axes, but that's become less distinct over the last decade.
The AMRAAM requires a fairly powerful transmitter -- usually a radar -- to send it those datalink updates.
Its neighbours have managed death rates of nearly one TENTH of Sweden. The difference in timing of the outbreaks was one or two weeks. That certainly should not account for a factor of ten difference.

And yes, some number of deaths is inevitable. That does not mean that every life saved isn't still a life saved. There is not a set quota of deaths that will inevitably happen, and you can choose to have them happen sooner rather than later. Any extra deaths will mostly be on top of the number of unpreventable deaths.
The same way no face to face interaction can replace the ability to write messages to people on the other side of the planet. Inability of substitution does not make something superior or inferior.
So my positive take is that this is the best (or worst depending on your perspective) I've seen for sure.

The negative take is that this still looks really fake to me. His eyes are dead, his head whips around weirdly, his neck undulates and flickers, his face doesn't appear attached to his head, etc. Also, due to how Obama looks he may be easier than other people (ie no hair).

Also, this isn't exactly what OP was talking about, though it's similar. They were talking about replacing faces, whereas this is (I presume) actually 100% Obama video from his various speeches reconstituted. So tbc my reaction was to the various videos I've seen of _that_, none of which have been remotely convincing.