skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Immunity is substantially more complicated than it's usually summarized as in the popular press - it's not binary and can't be fully measured through the amount of antibodies in blood samples. As far as I know, health authorities are still comfortable working under the assumption that substantial immune protection will persist for a year or two.
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I thought DuckDuckGo was the working antidote to Google. It's hard to imagine what they can provide that will justify $10 a month.
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Nor are they even remotely aware of they are using(& consenting to) Goog api's & analytics baked into their .gov sites.
I'm looking to replace our current Boost.Serialization code with something else. I have the following requirements:

- serialisation cannot be intrusive (i.e. I don't want a class definition to be generated from a schema file)

- zero copy

- some sort of versioning so any accidental message version mismatch between sender and receiver doesn't cause a crash / undefined behviour.

- many language support

Protobufs are intrusive, so that rules them out.
JSON is just too verbose and slow.
MessagePack looked like the most promising path to pursue at the moment. Flatbuffers look quite similar.
Well, once it had been LiveScript…
The main problem is that is much easier to publish a continuation of a previous work than a paper in a brand new area.

It´t is easier to understand in a lab. If you were using a microscope to look cell and the new area needs a Geiger counter, you need to buy one.

In theoretical research it's more difficult to explain, but in many cases you need to know how to use the public software and also have a lot of custom software. So to start a new research line, you need to learn or rewrite them.

And there are also some knowledge about which areas are interesting, and which journals are friendly.

So the Department of Generalist perhaps will get more wide and interesting results, but in the final statistics they will have only a half (or less) of published articles. And if you don't win a Nobel prize, when the University needs fundraising people only car about silly metrics like total publication ammount.

> Weighted by quality of course.

That's the hard part.
MIT: A normal class will be 12 hours/week nominally. The average self-reported time is usually a little under this, in the 9-12 hour range. Most students are not taking databases or networking classes (not counting 6.033 which is a dud). Compilers, distributed systems, OSs are fairly popular classes but I'd hesitate to say most CS students take them. There are over 100 EECS classes offered each semester so there's a lot of variety in what people take outside of the requirements.
Why couldn't you slingshot around the sun and planets a few times to pick up speed before leaving the solar system? In the way the slingshot racer reached super high speed on his run to the gate in The Expanse?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGmTZeiCmJY
Many privacy regulations Only benefit the big five tech companies (Linkedin charges $10 for one inmail). Any new regulation should exclusively address the big players first before pushing more regulation to startups and small biz. They are already struggling. If you dont do that we all endup with 4/5 companies. I would say oligopolies are bigger problem than privacy currently. We need more diversity in tech systems. YoY the diversity is going down if you take the important IT systems people use into account.
What tools do consultancy teams work with and operate?
I hear a lot about large consultancies like PwC, McKinsey, Bain etc working on a range of different projects which usually involves mergers, acquisitions and building out new products for clients.

However, I find it hard to imagine what these teams work with on a day to day basis or even what their teams look like. Is it the standard Office Suite and then whatever system the client uses (Salesforce etc)? I can't imagine it being very agile/collaborative.
Only providing averages is crazy given the huge variance of the underlying factors.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
I'm with Virgin Media (and have been for 20 years) because they offer the best speeds in most parts of the country.

AA or Zen simply can't compete when they are offering FTTC or ADSL.

I don't care at all about customer service. If you're contacting your ISP enough to care about the customer service, they must be doing something wrong.

Virgin Media currently offers speeds of up to 500mbps across their entire network. That will be 600mbps at the start of next month, and it's 1000mbps in some places (such as Reading).
I've been interested in buying an ID card printer for the same purpose--it would be interesting to just record arbitrary information (again, like 2FA codes) onto blank ID cards. But even the used ones are expensive (and don't have Linux support).
That’s not quite what the Anthropic Principle states. For instance, we can conclude from the fact that we exist that the universe is a place where life can exist, and that it is more likely we live in a universe where life arises frequently. However, the fact that we haven’t observed any aliens decreases the probability that life arises frequently.
> Trying to push a certain set of values like this

"This science disagrees with my political beliefs so it must be wrong." -you

> there's certainly no objective measure of the value of preserving the environment vs people's quality of life.

If we fail to preserve the environment, there will be no quality of life, there will be no life.

We are literally talking about a universal mass extinction as we simply outconsume the planet's ability to support us.

> they just end up distrusting all science.

No, YOU distrust all science and you project this on others.

I mean, you don't question your airplanes, cars, or internet, do you? You only question the parts of science that disagree with your personal political beliefs.

The consequences of a population overshoot http://www.approachingthelimits.com/CC_Overshoot.html are unbelievably terrible. The consequences of uncontrolled climate change are also unbelievably terrible.

These negatives are so bad that a rational, prudent person would expend almost anything to prevent them.

When your eminent scientists uniformly warn you that a mass extinction is underway, you should listen.

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I love old SF novels, and every permutation of catastrophe was worked out, except this idea - that the scientists of the world warn that catastrophe is coming and people say, "Fake news!"

Humans are addicts, and the addiction is consumer goods. This addiction will decimate the planet, and you might well live to see it happen.
Thanks. Just arrived and saw that. It’s not that bad though. I’m not using them for GarageBand though. Phew :)
Using LASSO to tame the stock factor zoo
Hey, I used to run this webserver! John Pfaltz is a nice guy, glad to see his work up here.
1. If an insurance company finds out that you’re more predisposed to a disease, they will charge you or your employer a higher rate

2. The Fed gov’t has ~20,000 laws, it has more than it can count, can you tell me that you haven’t broken a single one? Could a creative prosecutor find something you’re guilty of if they had enough information on you?

3. In 2012 (edit: 2010) target sent ads to a teen girl for baby supplies, the father angrily talked to the store manager asking why they were sending baby supply ads to his daughter. When he found out his daughter was pregnant, he apologized to the store manager. Target had a good idea the girl was pregnant because of the items she bought in their store. How would you like it if corporations know details about your family before you do? (Pro tip: they already know things you don’t know)

4. Organizations are not monolithic, they’re full of people who are constantly moving around and organizational priorities change. Any restrictions on use and protections will be ignored eventually and changed in privacy policies, which they have complete discretion to change.

5. The world is filled with clever and unscrupulous people, they will never stop finding ways to use your data in ways we can’t imagine, not all of them will be in your favor.
^ This is how civilization will end.
This was exactly my thinking when I wrote ElemX[1]. It has more a VueJS feel with template bindings, but it is based entirely on WebComponents and there are essentially no "tricks" (although it does use MobX for observables/computeds). It's a super small library but easily extendable with custom bindings.

[1] https://github.com/agquick/elemx.js
In the professional wireless development space, we call those "generic ISM band crap".
But Google Location Services is installed on almost every single Android handset. Do you have any clue what this thing does? It inserts itself as the location service provider for the entire device and it absolutely uploads your "anonymized" location information, along with detailed sensor traces, to Google multiple times per hour.

How can you audit or control this data? You can't. How can you audit that software that processes this data? You can't. It's the worst kind of closed source.

That's just mobile. Google and its ad partners track you everywhere you go on the internet.
A Survey of Cache Simulators
Your understanding is correct. Before these leaks and when DH was widespread you could generate your own dhparams file for DH connections, both for sshd and for TLS connections. It was advised to do so in corners that understood what that meant. It's just that many people didn't bother, so the NSA took advantage.

The parent comment to yours gets a bit excitable about ed25519 being a prime-rejecting miracle cure. Indeed 2^255-19... is prime. Elliptic curve cryptography still relies on large prime order subgroups for its security and that's not going away until and if quantum computers get good enough to break it. The main advantage of ed25519 is that it is fairly hard to implement badly. No k=3 randomness issues as with ECDSA (you can also use deterministic ECDSA to get this property). Constant time curve constructions. Etc etc.

The same team who designed SIMON and SPECK designed SHA2 so, worth thinking about that.

My personal opinion is that there's nothing wrong with SIMON and SPECK. However there's also not a lot wrong with AES and so little reason to downgrade to something else in almost all use cases. The reason Germany and Israel kicked them out of ISO was likely entirely politically motivated. I mean if I were them and I'd maybe been stung by some of the Snowden leaks e.g. using weaker crypto, or had lost trust in the NSA, I'd probably do the same.

The argument for lightweight crypto is not at all clear. I've heard of people implementing AES in less than 1000 gate equivalents, with the target GE in the NIST lightweight competition being 2000. There is somewhat more justification for lightweight hashing because of say the large internal state size of Keccak not being particularly embedded friendly.

But we're talking about super constrained devices here. RFID tags or encrypted flash storage to go with a cortex-m.

It's entirely justified to remove SIMON/SPECK from the Linux kernel. To run vanilla Linux you need an MMU, and the cortex-m series of processors that power most embedded stuff don't have one. Even then, they're actually powerful enough to do full TLS anyway if coded properly (bearssl for example).
> Data privacy at the forefront.

Curiously, how come you see
this as a primary criterion?

Due to the way email works, intermediary nodes will always be able to read your email while in transit. Plus, every email you send has a recipient whose habits are out of your control.

For example, my email addresses have leaked from several doctors offices, and lots of online shops throughout the last years.

Is email privacy not a lost cause by design?
I suspect that's one of the reasons Valve put a Bluetooth receiver inside the original Vive headset.
That's not what I'm arguing for.
> It'll seem like it takes longer than a second to move, then resumes moving as normal.

shit I knew it was real! adolescent me noticed this and had a hard time to explain or figure out information about it (this was about the excite era)
This approach with destructuring is great but you will need to transpile the code if you're targeting IE11 which is still often the case in enterprise settings unfortunately.
I am an immigrant.

In order for the HB1 program to pass muster, and validate its value for US citizens, people taking advantage of HB1 must put into the US least as much as they are taking out.

I dont see US citizens emmigrating / benefitting from similar benefits at foreign countries, like those given by HB1s within the US. In fact, as far as i know, there are no USA emigres going to india to work, drawing india SS retirement benefits, for example.

In other words, the HB1 program is asymetrical. Americans put in a lot more than they get out of it.

As such, the only logical thing for the HB1 to be discontinued.
Show HN: Tracking CEO compensation, and its correlation with performance
So the bar did the job of ablative armor, per se.

Still not remotely optimal but avoiding damage to the tunnel requiring far more blockage seems like a good tradeoff.
Your confusion seems to lie in the implicit assumption that the "immune" can never get infected. That's not how immunity works, in general. Immunity is a level of protection not an infallible shield.
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Right now there is a lot of active search for life based on the habitable zone theory. I also think that we should open up our ideas. We might find something of intellect and of interest closer than 17000 light years. If nearest carbon based life if so far there is not much to be learned. If we can find even a mildly interesting self supporting system in our own solar system we may not be able to play golf but we might be able to communicate and learn.
I also think we are foolish to not look for intelligence on earth. We killed off the neanderthals. There is more hope of bringing them back and asking for an opinion than finding little green men.
I have a separate Batcave editor which I use in parallel to my coding editor...

Anyway, for the Batcave editor I wish it could detect a need to reorganize a markdown file, based on triggers like "everything added to this text file lately is going under a log heading, instead of into a table of contents and hierarchical organization." Then it would give me some previews of what a reorganization could look like.

There is a periodic need to completely redo the way I think about, research, or catalog things, and this would be a huge help.
I re-uploaded that image to a host that doesn't require JS to view an image, because requiring JS to view an image is peak JS stupidity.

https://i.imgur.com/yvA5Eiz.jpg
Cool! My time using Mongo was pre-3.6 so I didn't know about this.
Find sets of words not necessarily on the same line, replace them.

Usecase. First and Last names should be replaced with another first and last name, singly or doubly.
This is probably related to Facebook Aquila [0] drone project with the ambition to deliver internet to the whole world. MVP successful in 2016 and more developments in 2020.

With Tesla launching Starlink it wouldn't be a surprise with Zuckerberg's competitiveness that he upgrades this specific part in his gameplay.

In the words of Jim Collins to maximize the impact of the limited supply of gunpowder companies should first try to hit the the target with a riffle and with the knowledge of a success, aim the canon and hit the target at first attempt.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Aquila
If we're still factoring in ground based solutions for interstellar communication I think we're assuming the wrong level of technological development. I'd like to see how it works out for a few dozen receivers positioned as far apart as possible in Solar orbit.
I built this dashboard using data from the IEX Cloud API and Python.

I was surprised to find such a small correlation between CEO compensation and stock performance, especially considering that many CEOs' compensation packages are directly tied to stock returns.

It was also interesting to see that Elon Musk received almost 10x more compensation than any other Russell 3000 CEO last year, primarily due to the large performance incentives included in his contract.
I thought I was going crazy when I first noticed the chronostasis effect on my watch (that is where the ticking second hand seems to stick in place when you first glance at it). Years later by chance I came across a paper explaining the mechanism.
Anecdata in return: I've had the exact opposite, macbook air 2013 issue with a borked keyboard, clearly a manufacturing defect and all they could do is sell me a new one, repairing the old one (which should have been free of charge no matter what the warranty situation) would cost more than it was worth.

My solution: (1) screw Apple, not buying their hardware ever again and (2) use a USB keyboard.
Here is a Thread Reader view of this content.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1014267515696922624.html
Note that the owners of the big plantations who served as the Confederacy’s ideologues and political elites were not those "insular Scotch-Irish". On the contrary, they often boasted of their descent from prominent English families and set themselves apart from the poorer whites of less prestigious ethnic origin.

Meanwhile, among those Scotch-Irish, quite a lot of them from Appalachia actually went north to fight for the Union. This is because as poor tenant farmers, they often owned no slaves themselves and were not invested in the big plantation economy based on slavery that the Confederacy’s elites sought to protect. This fact sadly gets overlooked today in, say, northern Alabama where many whites are enamored of Confederate symbolism and Lost Cause mythology, but if they actually dabbled in genealogy and looked at where their forefathers were during the Civil War, those forebears may well have been fighting for the Union.
Have you considered the adversary and their tactics?
I am really curious to learn from HN community their thought about the following statement
"“There's been this belief that if you do an MBA or other forms of management training, then that means you're [automatically] a good manager, but all of our evidence shows that that's absolutely not the case,” says Goodall. In healthcare, for instance, “a lot of people think we should let the doctors do the medicine and let the managers run the hospitals, but the research shows that actually that's wrong. You need doctors to lead other doctors, because they understand what they need in terms of being an employee.”
Sounds like what Enterprise Java Beans with persistence layer tried to do.
Walking past all the shiny new electronics to the help desk way at the back is enough of a sales tactic for them. there's a reason all Apple stores have that layout, they don't need to train their techs in sales as well.
Yeah, I see this as pretty similar to the debate over type-safe vs. dynamic languages. It used to be that people argued that dynamic languages were just way easier to use, and type-safe languages were just an optimization. But I think the real issue was that the tooling enabled by type-safe languages didn't exist yet. These days, TypeScript is no faster than JavaScript but is very popular, because of the tooling it enables, like editors with auto-complete and jump-to-definition.

I think protocols still don't have the level of tooling that makes it really obvious why schemas are better.
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The more advanced firmware they sent me allows tuning what broadcast traffic is allowed through. Note that with either firmware, broadcast traffic worked fine, but it would just seem to get confused about where a specific MAC was.
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No, just read the article dude.
I think the emotional pressure to latch onto optimistic / pessimistic news is too hard to make correct, objective conclusions about this virus. If it isn't backed by data, I'm afraid anecdotal evidence is too biased by the human behind them.
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I maintained a commercial Bluetooth stack for several years. My opinion is that the stack is actually not too bad (although Low Energy complicated it). The problem is that it has to be all things to all people.

There's discussions about codecs elsewhere on here - quality, latency etc. There is a lowest common denominator so that everything works for everyone but the information as to whether you're getting something else is hidden, both at purchase time and run time.

Two things that would help:

Manufacturers actually putting supported codecs somewhere in the purchase information. Why does tech specs on my Bose QuietComfort not have that information anywhere? If you Google you can eventually find a support question and answer.

Exposing runtime negotiation results to the user. In Windows when I'm connected to Wifi it shows signal strength and other basic info via the icon in the taskbar. When I'm connected to Bluetooth why is there not a display listing the profiles and codecs in use ("High Quality Audio mode via Aptx Low Latency", "Headset mode" etc.).

We actually need something similar for USB now as it has the same problem as Bluetooth - one transmission medium for a whole lot of different things all of which have to be able to negotiate to a common denominator. It happens a little bit with just the charging component (phone lets you know it's charging slowly if the charger can't negotiate up enough) - why isn't similar information provided somewhere for the rest of the USB features ("Connected to device X, can't enable feature Y as cable doesn't do Z").
It's not that fewer problems happen, it's that different problems happen. The 'classic' problem of government surveillance is that the governments are able (and too often willing) to resort to force.

A distinct problem of surveillance capitalism is that someone in the business of selling surveillance is incentivized to invent new markets to sell their product to and new reasons for their customers to buy. Furthermore, if they're successful, that gives everyone else an incentive to copy them.

Inside a dystopian totalitarian government, a ministry of surveillance might push to increase its own influence, but it would never tolerate competitors.
I agree with you that flat design is bad design, but not that whitespace is bad. Done right it can enhance the understanding of the content and add beauty to a page.
'The Vanishing Half' counts the terrible costs of bigotry and secrecy
Inferno... Preact... the list goes on and on.
Social Audio: Connection over Community
The Ecstasy of Influence: a Plagiarism
Winnipeg grocery store owner says customers have been victims of Bitcoin scams
I wrote an entire book on this topic: Writing for Software Developers [0]

Here is my step-by-step process once you have an idea:

1. Identify your audience and the assumptions you're making about them. Who is reading this tutorial and why?

2. Write an outline that hits the key points to figure out what order to present the information.

3. Build "pylons:" code blocks, images, and other concrete aspects that readers can use in their own work.

4. Connect these pillars with explanation and intuition. Focus on "why," let the code blocks handle "how."

5. Edit by reading the article out loud. Make your language conversational. An approachable article reads like a conversation with a senior co-worker or professor.

[0] https://philipkiely.com/wfsd
It depends on what you call "design". User flow, interactions, states, rectangles and colors or just rectangles and colors. If first, there are a lot of other tools, maybe not so hyped so you don't see them every day. Just to name a few: Axure, Justinmind, iRise, Indigo Design. Recent version of Adobe XD is quite a powerful tool as well. With the rise of rapid application development tools we possibly can add Bubble, Retool, Outsystems and similar tools to this list too.
Will Lego Wall Art Be the Next Big Thing for Lego?
Im disappointed they did't arrive at 42, but 36