skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On an evolutionary timescale, we've pretty much always been hunter gatherers... Sitting around being lazy with our friends, picking stuff up off the ground and eating it, occasionally running some animal in to the ground...

The activities that people tend to procrastinate didn't exist until very recently...
If the public app and API works as-designed, then there is simply no information made available to be uploaded that could be personally identifying. So what the server is doing, in a way, doesn't matter.

edit: The risk would be breaking into the backend and spamming exposure notifications. In that case, just take down the server and restore from backup.
You're thinking microcontrollers with flash. This is not one of those.

Modern high performance CPUs/SoCs do not contain flash, ever (the processes are incompatible). When we talk about SoC fuses, we mean real fuses (or antifuses), not the Flash "fuses" of some microcontrollers (which can be erased with UV light).

Actual technologies vary. It could be fuses (metal, polysilicon, or other) or antifuses (e.g. gate oxide breakdown, "blown" means it conducts), but they're all irreversible.
> If Nintendo can maintain a proper "hack free" device more third parties will be willing to release their games on the Switch

I don't think it's quite as cut-and-dry as this.

- The draw of a "hack free" platform varies by genre. For competitive multiplayer games, it's a big draw. For single-player and creative games, you might find a larger market in less restrictive, more moddable, platforms (eg, if you were making a Minecraft clone, would you target Switch or PC?).

- If the platform is popular enough, the level of lockdown may not affect the calculus that much.

- And, of course, it depends on how successful these measures are at preventing hacks. There's a big difference in draw between 50%, 90%, and 100% hack prevention, because of how the knowledge of cheaters affects player perception. Eg, in a competitive game, knowing cheats exist can taint the experience of being outplayed, as you wonder whether your opponent was cheating.

Overall, I'm not saying that GP's viewpoint is an invalid one, just that the tradeoffs are a little more nuanced than "more lockdown more games".
> Since then I've been exposed to additional perspectives on plagiarism. It is an extremely deep and nuanced topic.

There are deep and nuanced ways in which people tell themselves and others how ethical they think they are taking credit for other people's work.

It's not really something that is up for discussion whether it's bad. The rules are pretty clear, and for serious higher education the punishments are extremely harsh. And deservedly so.

What does it even matter what it says on your diploma if you cheated your way to getting it?

These people might pat themselves on the chest for being oh so clever in subverting the system or whatever, but what does it really mean? That you're good at cheating, unwilling to do the work, and gladly take credit for other people's work. In other words, being a useless turd.

You could have been studying astronomy, physics, math ... but instead all that you really proved is that you're good at cheating.
TweetNaCl.js is great. I'd go with that if you really need something smaller than libsodium.

Presumably it shares the downsides of TweetNaCl ("doesn't wipe internal buffers [...] [and] has two harmless instances of undefined behaviour"[1]; among, I expect, other shortcuts that may make it less optimal/safe than NaCl), and the fact that it's pure JS adds additional side channel attack surface, but those may be acceptable risks depending on your threat model. They're certainly the least of your concerns if you're just using it in a web page like 0bin.net.

1: https://monocypher.org/why
This is the terminology they introduced, very fast crispr on demand (vfCRISPR). not meant as a "competitive advantage" but as a description of its properties

(hence the title shouldn't have been edited)
Health benefits of electric cars: 'large improvement in air quality'
uBlock Origin doesn't do much worse than DDG Privacy Essentials. A few percent perhaps? I'd say on par with it…
They would most certainly break basic law, but they could, yes. I don't trust my government because of numerous attempts to do so, honestly.

I think the restrictions we see on mobile devices will at some point be the death of reasonable software for mobile. Yes, yes, I can run my own binaries if I jump over X hurdles but I have given up on mobile development years ago. It was zero fun in my opinion.
Which holds true until they abandon the platform. Then the homebrew community would take over, if they had access.
We could argue about this, or we could agree to disagree and just acknowledge that the US' domestic and international spying programmes are some of the most far-reaching and intrusive in history.
> Instead, they are usually focused on making sure the team is building what their boss thinks should be built.

This rings so true. I vowed to never again work with companies with non technical leadership for this reason. My career so far has mostly been building features nobody wanted for people who are trying to impress management and/or VCs.

> The less technical the dev manager is, the more likely they are to be ignorant of technical debt, that is until customer escalations become politically untenable. This life cycle is why the engineering VP job has about a one year lifespan at many companies who run Idea Silos.

I've never heard of this concept of idea silos before. It makes so much sense. At my last company it was even worse. I had 4 managers over 2 years, yet the more senior management gave the VP of engineering free reign to make whatever changes he wanted (yes, they were all men), so the system was a cobbled-together mess of half baked features as a result of each manager coming in trying to make sweeping changes to show off their "scrum" skills.

> Engineers are problem solvers, and if the primary problem becomes delivering Something™ that will pass QA by the Date™, they will, with enough pressure, solve that exact problem.

Ahhh I can't even handle how accurate this is. You should have seen the spreadsheets and meetings we had about sizing and building roadmaps. The entire engineering department's job became keeping managers at bay by producing roadmap items on schedule. There were meetings upon meetings about "metrics", which were just numbers we made up but put into a fancy spreadsheet, because doing calculations on made up numbers makes them appear more legitimate than raw made up numbers.

The majority of the effort of our department was wasted on features nobody wanted. They sounded impressive and apparently were cool enough to keep investors satisfied. This company also went to great lengths to re-brand itself as an "AI" company, whatever that means, even though none of the people in charge had the slightest idea what AI was really capable of or how it would benefit the business.

The worst part is that it took so long for me to realize I was wasting my time. After the third major feature I delivered to be used by absolutely nobody I realized we were out of sync with reality. I thought I had made this great discovery and was almost excited to bring it up because I thought it would be a great opportunity to change to do better by our customers. Instead I was met with a response that essentially amounted to "shut up, know your place, and give me code", which is when I realized I was really just a cog in this machine designed to get engineering VPs bullet points for their CVs, and left.
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Hi guys,

This is a side project I made for fun. It's basically "Tinder for music".
It works by selecting a playlist to establish a baseline for the type of music you're interested in. As you swipe, it shows you more music based on what you've liked so far.

It uses the Spotify API under the hood for track recommendations.

Let me know what you think!
I'm a hopeless optimist and romantic when it comes to software, and I really would have liked to see the covid app being done in some way that built confidence and inspired hope and optimism. My vision was that it could have been more like open source Eurovision where developers that participate had the chance to introduce themselves to the public, and some of the development and design could have been screen cast to us unfortunate souls trapped in our homes for months for some entertainment value and inspiration for budding developers. But eh, instead we get something good, something bad, but much of the same old same old, and in the end, I'm staying as far as I can from these apps as a result. Sad, there was a chance to do something amazing.
I installed 2 of the ones using the Exposure Notification API, just to check what happens in this circumstance (the german app is implemented differently, though) and Android allows access to it to only one app at a time. You can choose/enable/disable manually which app you want to grant access to the api.
For me, being bored is painful. As in an almost physical sensation of pain.

It’s strong enough that I’d prefer most levels of pain to being bored.

Adderal took that pain away. (I am diagnosed ADHD)

I no longer “avoid” stuff that I used to in the past.
Even when I’m off adderal. Focus is not as good, but I don’t have that fear of pain anymore.

I use audiobooks when I have housework to do. An interesting story makes a big difference
Firefox for Android is (at least for my usage) pretty much desktop Firefox with a touch-friendly UI.

Firefox for iOS is not really Firefox.
Robots armed with UV light fight grape mildew – Cornell Chronicle
This isn't strictly related but in the section on tensile structures the author mentioned the Goodyear Inflatoplane[1], which is one of the craziest things I'd never heard of.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodyear_Inflatoplane
> Just containerize and emulate it.

Not trivial. You can put every assembly instruction inside its own container, yet still cause a huge security fail.
I know the struggle all too well, but once you’re (very slowly) able to form healthier habits, things do get easier, I promise!
He's asking your dad not to finish any work? This is really hard to apply to development or, say, mowing the lawn.
Is it still satire when probably closely mirrors many actual discussions taking place right now?
Kinda sad when pc culture becomes a parody of itself instead of striving to be inclusive to everyone like its original purpose.
The math works out because a fund is investing in multiple companies.
It's hard to take a lesson from this without hearing why you think that happened. Do you think the product got so big because the team applied AI usefully and your initial evaluation was wrong? Or do you think they gained customers because there is not much competition in that niche and customers were drawn to the sales team's claims of AI despite the AI not being very good?
More modern chips contain fuses than not these days. It's e.g. how you turn off broken silicon or swap in redundant bits, when devices are tested.
Gene Kim on Developer Productivity, the “Five Ideals”, and Platforms
Time boxing is the best treatment I've found. A project may feel overwelming, but usually I can bring myself to bite off one tomato (25 minutes) of it. I can generally make a noticeable amount of progress in that time, and more importantly, clarify the next actions whose ambiguities have been leading me to procrastinate.

In one such session I actually completed a project I had put off for years
> Ever wonder how land animals like humans evolved to become smarter than their aquatic ancestors?

I'm pretty sure dolphins are smarter than cows.

> And, no, dolphins and whales do not fall into the category of less intelligent sea creatures. Both are land mammals that recently (evolutionarily speaking) returned to water.

Dolphins are not sea creatures now? Uh, okay.

P.S. No mention of octopodes, wonder why.
> This is under the assumption that you see college is a program of self-betterment and not busy work for receiving a degree that says you can have a middle-class job.

That's not really up for discussion though.

The degree itself will become utterly meaningless extremely quickly if we would actually generally accept that kind of reasoning.

The whole reason the degree is worth something is because it's perceived as a token of you having done the work and self-betterment etc.

It's not an empty token that allows you to have a middle class job. In practice it might be, but as soon as you openly accept that is just what it is, and only what it is, then you only get cheaters.
Covid has been curtailed without the need for these apps (in all the places that opened up). Why do people insist on pushing them to people? There is no evidence they work, even when with months of testing. No matter how anonymized you try to make them, the authorities and evil state actors will find ways to abuse the data -- it's like a law of nature now that all data will be abused.

E.g. in case of a bombing or riots, the police can arrest bystanders and use phones to tell who was standing next to whom.

Pushing these for security theater has long term bad consequences. I was hoping people would know that after the 1000th repetition but alas, people are incorrigible

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/coronavirus-contact-t...

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/contact-tracing-app-isle-of-...
Yes, but very satisfying.
If you can see what data is leaving your phone, and you don't trust the author, then I don't see what difference the server side code being OS makes...?

There's not really anything they can do to comprehensively prove what they do with the data after it has been received.

What are your concerns with the data it sends?
> What's the next action I'd need to take to make some progress? Don't break the whole task down. That will be sure to overwhelm you.

Isn't this the idea behind Getting Things Done in a nutshell?
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I've had a very similar experience. I'm surprised at how little so many managers and investors understand AI.

They talk about it like it's some sort of panacea that will make a company automatically grow 10x. Then you ask them what they actually want you to build and... Crickets.
While everyone is looking at the code or press releases, only very few seem to research about how Bluetooth distance measurement works and if it's reliable enough with thousand of different smartphones out there having different chips and antenna characteristics.

The app may be great but the design simply seems not to work as expected.
This is quite big as a result, although it was done against standard of care (so it can mean a lot of things), because it improves survival.

This brings the list of currently effective pharmacological treatments to two:

- remedisivir (reduces hospital stay, might improve survival)

- dexamethasone (improves survival if requiring oxygen)
Three years ago a friend and I were looking at different divisions of time -- in one of our Eastern Philosophy books there was a mention of splitting the day into 60 segments. We were puzzled. If there are 60 snaps in a day, how many minutes are in each snap? The answer is delightfully simple: 24 minutes per snap. (60 minutes an hour with 24 hours or 24 minutes a snap with 60 snaps). We have started using the 24-minute mark as a more flexible form of time measurement and of "see you soon" -- see you in a couple of snaps.
Is this just to shard yourself from perfectionistic impulses? As in you allow yourselves to do a "subpar" job, and in thinking that way, it relieves you from the stress that you need to hit a certain bar?

As I understand it, you approach your work as if it were a prototype to be discarded soon. That actually makes sense if you have a natural tendency to fret about quality.
Because ideally consumers should be allowed to make informed decisions, which is not possible if one party - willingly or not - misrepresents the numbers.

Tesla should be criticized for every number they inflate. Every time they pull some marketing crap, they should be called out on it.

If it's such a benefit as you write, why do they feel the need inflate the numbers?

What happened to honesty among engineers? Understated performance, instead of throwing around huge numbers that are technically possible but are nothing short of misleading for the consumers? I suppose it clearly works for Tesla, but my support goes to the company who claims a conservative number that I'm actually likely to exceed in reality.
I don't want to sound like I'm pontificating or defecating on the corporacy at everyone's favorite hardware company but it strikes me that these sorts of lapses are cultural and stem from this tedious emphasis everyone places on having "relaxed working environments"[0]

Does it surprise you that the product of this culture also has relaxed security characteristics?

[0] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/culture-at-nvidia/
> it's my device that I've paid for so there shouldn't have unnecessary restrictions imposed on it

In the grand scheme of things, this is a very niche opinion.

How specifically would your use of the Switch change if Nintendo didn’t prevent downgrades in this way?
@dang, can we get a title update to include the apostrophe in "Germany's"?

Or just change the title to how it's documented on the site?
"Corona-Warn-App: The official COVID-19 exposure notification app for Germany"
Apple faces two EU probes over apps
> So how why did it suddenly show up?

If Avira has a pay-per-install program, I would say it's pretty likely that you're part of a botnet.
The brain size has metabolic/anatomical costs.

What physiological costs does a 180 IQ human pay compared to one with IQ 80?
There’s Film School Theory, and Then There’s the Truth
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It's even worse. At least we can compare and contrast mice and humans, but simulating evolution is incredibly arbitrary...
More like, they'd just release a firmware without the remote exploit in the first place. The consoles that got their fuses wiped would be bricked anyways, you wouldn't be able to install the firmware without fuse-checks on it through normal methods (Nintendo, however, could replace them easily).
This is neat. What are some other projects in this space?
I'm sure there is a connection to the Franklin quote, but I surely can't see it.
I don't think it is honestly, even if it is still very one sided. I think this is simple propaganda from western investment firms. People are just buying it like nothing else because they don't understand their ambitions in Japan.
Metal detectors and bag searches are not the norm in American suburbs. Post school shootings, the changes made in my district were that the front door is locked by default and you need to ring the bell and be buzzed in.
US is "the greater society" now??
To come up with a clean-slate estimate would require quite a bit of work. Instead, we can walk backwards from the data we have to price the actual work. Anything below is just an out-of-my-ass guess based on experience on certain projects, experience with security validation, and what information is easily available.

If we start just with development, we see that the the Github organization has 30 members. Unfortunately, the companies had absolutely horrendous source control and open source workflow practices (e.g. the android app's first commit is 35k lines), so we don't have a good history of all contributors, so for good measure let's double that to get an absurdly large team of 60 developers.

Considering the pandemic, let's say they all started working on the project in January. That means that the cost of the software developers themselves is approx 30 manyears, or 3 million EUR.

Translated the limited content and creating the webpages are not very expensive, but let's allocate a whopping ~100k EUR for that.

We need negotiation, design and security validation as well. Let's give that 5 people, 2 months at 4 times the already expensive senior developer salary. Expensive as hell, for no good reason, apart from to cover absurdities. ~200k EUR.

All these numbers are absurdly high (i.e. room for large errors), and we're "only" at 3.3 million EUR in cost. Need to add some profit margin for the company, but with more data (e.g. actual developers it took, how long they worked) the estimate could probably be pushed much lower.
I have an old iPad 2 (downgraded to iOS8[1]), where I run KyBook 2. KyBook works great for annotations, highlights, and lets me easily download content from my OPDS server. Kybook 3 is much more featured, but I can't run it on my iPad.

Ocassionaly, I try the reflow mode on KOReader on my Kindle, but it is a hit and miss. Works good for single column PDFs, but adding figures, equations and any more complexity trips it up.

[1]: https://captnemo.in/blog/2019/08/11/ipad-downgrade-ios-6-8/
> if you're able to understand everything

That's a nonsense argument. Understanding is a continuum. Not using standard words makes things less understandable. If you really think that it doesn't matter as long as people understand you, why bother with spelling and grammar? u cn stll und3rsnd m3 ryte?

> In this case, whitelist = white = allow = positive. Blacklist = black = block = negative.

I'm pretty sure almost no black people care about this. They care about actual racial abuse, like being called nigger or being denied jobs because they are black. They don't care about words that just happen to have "black" in them and more than I care about words that happen to have "white" in them, like whitewash and whitebait.

The reason this annoys people so much is because it is dumb virtue signalling that completely ignores the actual issues. It trivialises them. Everyone can feel happy that we call blackboards chalk boards, but it has exactly zero effect on racism, and anyone calling that out is derided as insensitive.
> Would you also match it with α?

I have no idea. I don't speak Greek, and I am not familiar enough with its alphabet. The question, I suppose, is if there's a reasonable/intuitive enough mapping between the Greek and the Latin alphabet that it would be possible to search for Greek words using a non Greek keyboard. If yes, then I suppose my answer would also be yes - but I'm happy to be corrected by someone who is actually speaks Greek.

My point is that when it comes to things like searching, usefulness trumps purity. I search because I want to find shit. Not because I want to get perfect feedback on linguistic details from my software.
Yeah it's called "The Barstool Experiment". Look it up :-)

The short summary is: Two people sitting in a bar, discussing how there is no objective truth, or that "science or truth exists only at the whims of the social order" and stuff like that, all day long. And then a third person comes along and smashes their brains with a barstool. In some variations, the first two people are a scientist and a priest. But the third person is just some dude with a barstool.
I am happy that you provided the only realistic answer here. Gravity is the negative to light...radiation pressure pushes and gravity pulls. We live in a yin yang universe. Like Alan Watts would say, the universe is in the middle of cosmic dance, and eventually all positives and negatives will neutralize and we will be back where we started. This bides well for cyclic theories of cosmology.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_pressure
Radiation pressure - Wikipedia
I like Grammarly, but the extension is really crappy.
Indeed, the time frames really underscore a lot for me:

“ Maize was domesticated from teosinte, a wild grass growing in the lower reaches of the Balsas River Valley of Central Mexico, around 9,000 years ago. There is evidence maize was first cultivated in the Maya lowlands around 6,500 years ago, at about the same time that it appears along the Pacific coast of Mexico. But there is no evidence that maize was a staple grain at that time.”
try two pages side by side
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