skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
South Korea is also contemplating murder charges against a church. They also did massive contact tracing when they were still under 100 cases. South Korea took this massively seriously.

As did Taiwan after Wuhan. Taiwan also rationed emergency supplies. Here's what Taiwan did:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/taiwan-covid-19-lessons-1.5...

See any of those dividers in the US? Yeah, no, you can't even get people to put masks on.

Japan seems to be cooking the books because of the Olympics even though that's simply not going to happen.

Sweden is about to pass the US in cases and deaths per capita and is right about the same economics as the other European countries (which are all benefiting from their social safety net). Not sure that's counts as better than the rest of the EU--we'll see if it continues.

Your economic claims are dubious.

The primary difference is how fast a country reacted, not how hard. The problem is that if a country didn't react fast enough, it is then required that you react harder and longer.
I think if he loses, what you say could definitely happen. What worries me though is that he won't need to. His base is excited right now. They'll always be his base. But a lot of people who would vote against him just aren't going to go out and vote, though.
Senator Byrd was a KKK grand wizard and lifelong Democrat.

LBJ said terrible things about blacks.

No, it's not simple to reassign blame. There's enough to go around.
That's great, but those metrics aren't available to us so speculating on that has little value.
> In the physical world, however

With regards to security analysis the only difference between the physical world and digital word is proximity (hops) between agents, or evidence, in a conversation and convenience of access. Software developers tend to think purely in terms of controls and exploits, which is a tiny subset of security. Even conversations in the physical world can be encrypted, for example if two people are speaking Pashto I would have no idea what is said. If it isn’t recorded for later translation it’s encrypted forever.

Those few distinctions are important from a legal perspective where agents of digital concerns are more likely operating across political boundaries at any given moment.

> There's not too much the owner can do to stop it.

They can make available fail safes to store the evidence in a physical safe with tamper proof mechanics. Breaking such a safe would destroy the contained contents in the process much like attempting to break an iPhone with supposedly perfect encryption.

Since you are talking about surveillance another common misconception I have noticed many software developers make is equating the terms: security, privacy, anonymity which are all distinct. Privacy and anonymity are both aspects of confidentiality but privacy is concerned with hiding the contents of a message where anonymity is concerned with hiding the agents of the message. Those two do not overlap. Confidentiality is one of three aspects of security, though from a legal perspective privacy is available in many contexts without application of security controls.
May I recommend https://jitsi.org/ for meetings of 5 or fewer people. Easy to deploy on any cloud provider.
Well, user testing exists for this reasons
> The idea is that the Squeak image is a "binary blob", so doesn't count as a source package.

I get why they did this (arbitrary, simple to evaluate), but at no semantic level does this make any sense.
View the source in `ed`, apparently, is the requirement, as the full semantic specification is clearly accessible and modifiable.
If only they could be librebooted. AMD release your source code! And make more $! 0_0
It is always a good idea to set concrete targets whatever you do. If you have those targets (KPIs if you wish), you will know when to quit.

Your goal can be 10 or 100 paying customers by the end of the year, it doesn't really matter, you just have to make conscious decisions whether you are okay with those numbers.
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Help me out here: link me to an actual Chinese state sponsored cyber attack. There are a few that might of possibly could have been something or maybe not according to someone. I don't doubt china are capable, but they don't seem to be doing it.

And that's exactly the same as the US. Plus the US are actively spying including using their power to support US companies and undermine democracies.

I wanna be clear here, neither "side" is to be trusted or safe or fine. But China is no more of a threat to third party nations' network security that the US as far as I can tell.

And I am normally the one being Hawkish on China.
Maybe the difference is that you keep control with events, i.e. you can filter, retarget, cancel or otherwise reason in general about the way they propagate?

I'm no expert, but the essence of the "reactive functional programming" programming paradigm is that you have composable high level abstractions about the streams of events (e.g. marble diagrams).[1]

[1] https://blog.danlew.net/2017/07/27/an-introduction-to-functi...
Something tells me he wouldn't be having such a dilemma when he needs to spend $1000 or more in two years for a new flagship cell phone.
Nevermind how much less a new camera costs and how much longer it will be useful for.
There are plenty of other reasons not to do business with China. Spying is just the tip of the iceberg.
Exactly.

A more specific objection is that the ‘pigeonhole principle‘ applies.

Another way of looking at it is reducing it to absurdity: if it worked, you could repeatedly apply such a compression scheme until you are left with just a single bit representing the original data.
It's not even new, "the children" have been routinely trotted out since the 90s
Not being E2EE, it doesn't matter what Zoom logs or does or doesn't know, packet captures can definitely record this information. This is basically extortion from Zoom, pay us or information will be in the clear that you probably don't want to be.
Yeah. I remember being so angry about the over-reach of executive power by Bush 2, and hoping that Obama would fix some of it (him being a constitutional lawyer and what not). He didn't, Trump replaced him and here we are.

Even if by some miracle Biden gets elected in November, he probably won't change it either. Sad.
Firstly, congratulations on getting people to pay you money for your product. That is usually much more difficult than many realize.

Without more information on the business (MRR, vertical, customers, etc.) it is difficult to provide better feedback, but now that you know more about the customers, do you have a plan to grow faster or at least a path of sustainability?

One year in most cases is not enough time to know whether to give up.
Skype absolutely wrecks my MacBook, not sure if the experience is similar on other laptops but I can't even open a PDF while on a Skype call. It would be impossible for me to give a presentation over Skype with my current setup. The software on its own seems reasonably user friendly but if the resource usage is a common issue I don't see Skype being a viable alternative right now.
also financial security.

like if I ever got laid off, my world would begin to fall apart. I have savings but the couple of times I've had to live of savings has convinced me that savings are just not viable.
I have a T420 as my non-work laptop. It's running Mint and has been no trouble whatsoever, including close-the-lid sleep and graphics.
This is great advise, and depending on your organization and stack, best when coupled with Vault.

Vault stores all secrets needed by running services (ACL tokens, access keys, credentials for databases, PKI for certificates, what have you).

For the rest (Vault unseal keys/cert keys/operator token, other operator secrets), secure those with the GPG keys mentioned above and store them in some way that suits you (GNU Pass/git-secret/there are several alternatives).

Where you draw the line between what's stored in Vault and not will depend on your org and its needs.
Wouldn't a tracing app make more sense than having a rigorous border tests? It takes one miss-tested infected person to start a second wave in the country. So I would assume that the investment to make sure businesses provide the QR pays off testing everyone and risking another lockdown. I'm also not sure countries have the resources to enforce huge amounts of tests at the border.
One point often overlook with phone cameras is that although they can take great pictures, the image quality degrades over time as the glass is rubbed/scratched etc.

When I first got my Huawei P20 Pro, I was seriously impressed with just how sharp and crisp the images it took were. A year later that "wow" sharpness factor just wasn't there anymore. Looking at the glass covering the lenses you could clearly see scuffing and small scratches, the result of a years worth of normal usages.

For daytime snaps it wasn't that big a deal, but for indoor snaps every light source looked like t had the starburst effect.

It's a minor issue, but definitely worth noting. It's also the reason why I still take a "real" camera with me on holidays or to events.
some great points in there. we need more ppl thinking constructively like this.
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If I call a pizza place and get put on hold for more than 30 seconds, I'll call another pizza place. That doesn't happen with online ordering.

I also don't have to worry about my order getting entered right.
It's more than an absurdity, you have to do that to protect yourself from embarrassing mistakes. It prevents you from accidentally deleting or modifying the system in a difficult-to-restore way. If that happens, any security issue that existed becomes purely abstract and academic.
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I don't think the map portion of that screenshot is monetized.
Does it need to be acknowledged? I consider it to be a priori knowledge.

The distinction is between targeted and untargeted surveillance.

Digital communication is so easy to monitor, particularly by a state-level actor, that if it's unencrypted, it's pretty much all being hoovered up by someone by definition.

That's not the case for physical security, even if everyone leaves their doors unlocked, their windows open, and their notes on the kitchen table; everyone is not automatically a suspect, so most people aren't being put under the microscope.

The government likely has the ability to know, instantly, within milliseconds, everything I've ever done on the Internet that's unencrypted.

By contrast, they will likely never see the contents of the love note on my kitchen table. Well, if that pinhole camera isn't there, anyway. ;)

All of the approaches applicable to physical communications apply to digital communications too.

It's just that the _additional_ level, which in the physical world would be equivalent to knowing the contents of all of the conversations/interactions that people are having in person, is something that people wish to fight against and prevent from becoming normalised.
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Was looking into cfn nested stacks too, here is something to pay attention to. With nested stacks u can't see changes and the outcome of operation to child stacks from the root one. creating change sets for children is also required if u want to verify all nested stacks which is annoying
There already is "greater regulation"..

In fact in NY the nursing homes themselves pleaded with the governor to not force the return of these COVID positive individuals back to the nursing homes. The governor of NY actually scrubbed his order from the state website sending these infected patients from hospitals back to nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

You can use whatever asinine ideas You like to protect your stance on big government. Not enough government wasn't the problem here, the government was essentially sending smallpox blankets into these at risk communities. If those people voted blue or were one of the protected classes, the access media would be all over this.
It's got everything to do with your business and product.

I had a business once that was not fast moving and I thought "probably because I'm not much of a salesperson". Then later I started another business and the work started flowing in hard and fast. I was the same person but it was a different business. That was a huge lesson for me - when you're selling the right thing, clients come running to you "take my money!".

If you've built something people want then the difference will be amazing - the work and customers will fly in on their own because they'll hear about it and want it.

Other less compelling businesses will be a grind forever.

From what you describe, there's no reason to think your product will suddenly take off. Sounds like it will be a long slow grind.
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I really question whether these apps will be effective. The limitation section https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-documentation/blob/ma... of their architecture document shows that people in close proximity for a few minutes may not even get picked up.

Anyone who has dealt with trying to work out distance from Bluetooth signal strength will know that it is virtually impossible once you factor in, the orientation of two devices (signal polarization), their locations (in a pocket, bag, case...) and the local environment (reflections and attenuation from walls, floors ceilings, furniture).

Additionally, without knowing exactly how transmission is occurring the risk score calculation https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-documentation/blob/ma... may be wildly inaccurate too resulting in the wrong people being notified.

And even assuming perfect ability to deduce the risk of infection of two people using the app, will that help in the bigger context. If the people most at risk don't install this app and the least at risk do then you may be drawing resources away from the people that most need help.
My vacation strategy is the iPhone for the day and a camera with a 50mm prime that I take out at night for low light portraits ;)
I believe the answer is yes. I recall something a few years ago where they modified a dish antenna to create a form of spiral signal. Multiple variations could be used at the same base frequency.
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I have an older X1 yoga. I haven't tried to make the fingerprint sensor work, but the rest works quite well. Especially after I updated the firmware with fwupd.

It's not my first Thinkpad running Linux, and the prior two ran quite well.
Thank you for your comment.

This is an SGI UV300 system similar to this one:
https://www.hpcwire.com/2016/05/11/tgac-installs-largest-sgi...

I believe databases like postgres etc. would probably run on this system. I did not choose that route because I wanted to see how far I can go with Awk.
Does it really matter?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19449824
Awesome. Thanks for the info! I'm really surprised by this. I didn't know you could do anything useful with C64's BASIC. I know I didn't. I waited till I had GW-BASIC on a PC XT to really learn how to program.

If Pirates! was mostly high level BASIC, I wish the source code was available somewhere to read. Kind of like Broderbund, which released the assembly language code for some of its old games...
Feels like they are blaming Google (Chrome) for Google (search) tracking users altogether? Maybe we need to start legally enforcing "Do not track" browser state?
Are you using the touchpad, wifi, fingerprint scanner, bluetooth, graphics in your cupboard?
For electronic reading, it's no contest for sans-serif for me. Really the only time I find serif easier is with low font size (like equivalent to 8px on my monitor) physical books. And it can only help so much, some newspapers here go lower, and while not unreadable, I wouldn't describe their text as clear.
Yes, but note that the P1 workstations are pretty much the same as the X1 Extreme series (but with Nvidia's Quadro "workstation" GPUs rather than Nvidia's "customer" GPUs.)
> restaurant food is 7 to 20x more expensive than home cooked

I suspect Efficiency is Everything is measuring a very different thing. They seem to focus on calories per dollar, which is not how restaurants or home cooks typically think.

The rule of thumb used in the restaurant industry is 30/30/30/10. 30% for food, labour, rent, and 10% margin. Anecdotally, for dinner I spend about £3 a meal to cook at home, and could probably buy that meal out for £8-12.

As Efficiency is Everything says, you can live on $1.50 a day, but it requires using only a very limited subset of ingredients and allows little room for preference. For some people this makes no difference, for most it's a huge handicap, which is why it's limited to the min-maxing fringes.
They encrypt "end point to end point" now. It's just that they have easy access to the keys. I was suggesting that what is being proposed for the paying customers might not have any real value over what they are doing now.
You're right... it's impossible.

This quote from the competition sums it up:

"Again, I will emphasize that Challenge 2 is at its heart provably impossible to beat. No program can compress all files of a given size, and the chances of any program being able to compress 1,000 different files of this length is so vanishingly small that it can safely be ruled out, even if every computer on earth was working on it from now until we are engulfed in flames during Sol’s red giant phase."
“The dirty secret of supernovae is that in the computer models, we can’t ever actually get them to do the final ignition. There always has to be an injected trigger,” says Ashley Pagnotta at College of Charleston in South Carolina.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2226326-black-holes-for...

With regard to the superluminal electrons above atomic number 137, it is apparently only a consequence of using a non-relativistic approximation. That apparently leaves the somewhat related issue of an imaginary ground state energy intact, though at a higher atomic number. Nice find!
I was commenting on "I still do not understand, why you folks with Nvidia hardware expect it to work out of the box in Linux"

It does work out of the box for most people. Of course there are people with problems. But overall you can expect Nvidia to work out of the box.
There are loads of people gaming (Steam) and CUDA programming on Linux boxes. So I don't understand why I should not expect Nvidia to work on Linux. To me it just sounds like a false statement.
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I’m not going to say don’t give up without knowing your business but you’ve got 8 paying customers so there is some validity to your idea. I’m one of the few non-programmers around here so my advice is different than most.

Alternatively to everyone in this thread: find a partner. There are plenty of folks like me who can’t dev but are able to grow businesses, you just have to find the right one that fits the channel your customers hang around in and you enjoy talking with.

One of my partners and I talk all day every day, we met on some random subreddit and three years in he’s one of my closest friends and we have quite successfully generated ARR

The side benefit of this is it allows you to focus on what you’re good at which is building the product.

I don’t have capacity but I could probably connect you with some potential people if you’d like or at least willing to talk through some potential marketing thoughts with you if you’d like to talk. Just let me know how to connect
As I started reading this, I thought, well, he means “high entropy” when he says random, and the scheme will be about finding bits of structure here and there , and he brought up Golomb Coding, and that seems like a reasonable place to start... and then I realized he really did mean random and he really did think the blockchain was the way to go and he really did use a cobbled-together Spark installation rather than learn SIMD/GPU programming... and, yeah, it’s all nonsense, and the proof unsurprisingly does not fit in the margin.
If you can't fix the politics it's _not going to matter_. The politics will just make the technology illegal. That's what's happening in China.

It's a weirdly blinkered concept to say "America's agencies already do illegal things and their politics is broken but what will save us is American corporations deploying technology".

(The "we need universal E2E to protect our freedoms even if there are downsides" is not, in logical form, a million miles different from 'we need guns everywhere to protect us from the government and damn the negative consequences of having guns everywhere', frankly)
At present NZ have very strict border restriction in place so they have already illuminated that border issue.
I have an iPhone 11 Pro and I still use my mirrorless camera all the time. It just takes noticeably better pictures. Using a good lens changes everything.

If you leave that stock zoom lens on... yeah, it’s not great. Now put a light-sensitive prime on it and put it wide-open. Instant great pictures that even a novice will notice “its a nice picture”.

I use a Sony A-6000 with a 30mm F1.8 prime.
It's possible to compress (some) random data, based on just luck. It's not generally possible to compress any random data.

If I generate a thousand random 1024 byte sequences, I'm sure I could pick a few of them that I can compress, so long as I don't have to compress all of them.

It's also possible that the total of my compressed subset and the uncompressed rest, is smaller than the sum of the sequences! This still doesn't mean I could compress any random sequence, just specific ones. Ones that had lower entropy, by pure luck.

To translate to your analogy: I can make a compressor that compresses 2 bits into 1 BUT it works only works for 50% of all two bit sequences...
>It’s really bizarre to me that THIS is the aspect of consumerism that people go after for energy use

It's more common than you think. In fact it's so common that it has it's own Wikipedia page(s):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
I run Arch Linux on mine, with the latest kernel, and custom tools (think fan), and some things disabled (fast boot), and it becomes "usable".

That's ok for any Laptop that isn't advertised as "Ubuntu certified".

But I literally had to uninstall Ubuntu and install Arch to get audio and microphone back to work after the 19.04 update broke it, and some dev mentioning on the bug report that the fix wouldn't land on 20.04 which it didn't.

Imagine Microsoft or Apple telling their users that they have to live without a soundcard for 6 months during COVID-19 because "tough luck". Well that's pretty much how Canonical and Lenovo treat their customers.
How much power is enough for big tech companies?
Read up on what the Quakers did that whole time.
I'm curious, do you translate the multiple dimensions to a fully normalized relational structure, or do you also use complex structures like JSON inside the backend database?