skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK "hack" for the bluetooth was quite clever from what I saw - in essence they implemented the "background discovery of an iPhone" feature.

One concern I do have with this approach is that the decentralised system inherently can only model the "risk-to" an individual from an epidemiological perspective. It can't model the "risk-from" side of things. To avoid Sybil type attacks, you need to use centrally issued (and thus verifiable) test results to notify others.

Unless tests are administered very promptly, with results immediately available, it seems difficult to make this work in the decentralised approach - with a mean and median "time to symptoms" of around 5.1 days [1], and someone at their most infectious for the 1 to 2 days prior to experiencing symptoms, it seems decentralised apps will struggle.

If A is infected on day 0, then on day 3 they may infect B and C. On day 5, A experiences symptoms, goes online, and requests a test, saying they have symptoms. They realistically would get a test the following day. and the result the day after that. That would be day 7, and at that point, B and C might be notified by the app. The issue is that B and C are now on day 4 of their own infections, the second day of their most infectious period, walking around unaware. They find out the day before they would themselves (on average) experience symptoms.

Clearly the virus is not as deterministic in behaviour as in this simple model, but the above seems to suggest to me that to get any real value out of this (i.e. preventing the next generation of infection), you need to either be able to respond to symptoms reports, or significantly expedite the testing process. In the above situation, a same-day test-and-result would enable B and C to be notified on day 2 or early on day 3 of their own infection, potentially having some real impact. But to achieve this, the latency of testing would need to drop hugely.

[1] https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/03/09/coronavirus-incubation-period...
Why are commercial audiobooks automatically higher quality while LibreVox is "a dump" of audiobooks? For what's worth I listened to about half a dozen audiobooks off LibreVox and the quality has ranged from good to superb.
Agree that I've never had DPI scaling issues with macOS. But Windows? All the damn time! They still haven't got that figured out.
Well, when we discuss arson in the abstract, that will be a relevant thing to bring up, but we're not talking about how arson is generally considered, we're talking about how this arson should be considered. This arson was the burning of two police cars which didn't spread and clearly wasn't intended to.

Compare to when arsonists burned down 61 West Philadelphia homes, killing 5 children. That's a threat to public safety, but the arsonists were never charged, because the arsonists were police. That's a threat to public safety.

Compare to systemic racism, repeated kidnapping and harassment, and over and over again, cops straight-up murdering black people. That's a threat to public safety.

Let's be clear here, you aren't concerned about justice or removing threats to public safety if your biggest concern here is the torching of two unoccupied police cars.
The full quote continues:
"...from organisations with acronyms saying they know what is best, and getting it consistently wrong."
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I think he's talking about his own bubble. I see people in the UK using cash all the time.

Granted, I haven't been there in six months because of the virus, but I watch current British television every couple of days, and I still see people using cash.
Oh, no argument from me. I said I knew plenty of people I admire, and who are way better than me profesionally speaking, who can code with 1366x768 displays and dismiss the urgency of getting a better screen. In this sense I meant that it's not time to upgrade your monitor: it's simply not that urgent to own the highest DPI screen you can buy.

Me? I can certainly code with a poor quality 1366x768 display (doing it right now with this Dell Inspiron!) but I hate it. I'm not a 4K snob, but I do like better screens!
Yup, this kind of stuff is very much based on preference. I think some people have tighter comfort deadbands and others are tolerant of anything. These can be the same person, on different days / differing amounts of sleep / different tasks / different lunches / different music.

i.e. I have a three monitor setup, two 1080 screens and a central 1440p screen. Mechanical cherry blue keyboard and a nice gaming mouse. Big desk. One of those anti-RSI boob mousemats. Nice headphones. Beefy computer. Ergonomic office chair. Everything at the right height. Quiet room. Next to an open window, but which is in shade.

Some days I will happily chug away writing reams of code.

Other days I will get nothing done and every minor annoyance will bring me out of focus; background sounds, glitches in my desktop environment, almost inconceivable hitches in computer performance, my chair feels wrong, the contrast of all text is too high, it's too dark in here, it's too bright, this is all bullshit, I'm so done with computers...

And on other days I'll get even more done, hunched like a Goblin in my living room armchair with my legs tucked beneath me, working through to the early morning, on my tiny 13 inch dell laptop, vaguely aware that I have searing pain* through one wrist, having not eaten for 12 hours, but completely and utterly content and in flow writing code or a paper.

Humans are crazy fickle.

There's no Platonic Ideals when it comes to Crushing It(tm) as a software developer.

I think learning the art of mindfulness and meditation does more to help you focus than expensive equipment fads and micro-optimizing your environment.

* Before anyone mentions, yeah I'm aware RSI is Not Good. I've got a bunch of various remedies for it. Ironically I've found that bouldering helps with this it the most. Just not able to do that during lockdown :(
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Thanks! Is there any relationship? Some of the graphical examples [1] in your first link look like they could have a relationship to lattices of the second link.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_(order)#Examples
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Piwik PRO is also worth checking out. Our functionality matches GA. Our analytics is more focused on user privacy and is inline with privacy laws like GDPR, CCPA or industry regulations like HIPAA or EBA guidelines.

Check out a comprehensive comparison of GA, GA360 & Piwik PRO at: https://piwik.pro/blog/piwik-pro-vs-google-analytics-compreh...
Alembic works with SQLAlchemy to do some limited diffing between the live schema and what's in the code. In general I prefer to build the migrations by hand based on the code diffs.
I dislike anti-aliasing, and far prefer a pixel font (or whatever the correct term is) like Terminus:

https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/
You can't see the difference between a christian individual and a church?
Walter Lewin's electromagnetism course from MIT [0]. These lectures completely transformed my understanding of physics. He mixes practical demonstration with a rigorous mathematical underpinning in a way that doesn't over simplify things.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyQSN7X0ro2314mKyUiOILa...
I had an electronics learning lab from radio shack and loved the hands on aspects.
https://www.amazon.com/RadioShack-28-280-Electronics-Learnin...

You can still find them on ebay, or similar kits if you look around.
Yup, not happy with Denver leadership and how they have and are still managing this. Voting against every single one of them
It isn't a "UI" decision, that's an accurate reflection of the value of the account at that point in time. How would you reflect a future date's strike price without knowing what that could be? You cannot.

The problem isn't the "UI" the problem is that people are options trading who have no business doing so. It is actually incredibly complicated, and some gambits people are making even more so.

I've read up on options, but I don't do so because I know enough to know I'd need to full time study it for up to a year and then dry-trade to test my assumptions.
Nobody reads privacy policies, senator wants lawmakers to stop pretending we do
according to linus tech tips the answer to that is surprising...

on the other hand i just updated Windows 10 to v2004 and my microsft xbox controllers no longer work in Windows and they f'd up my resolution/scaling so i think i'm gonna go download Pop
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You want your thing to be above criticism, who is silencing dissent here?
I've been working on the game for years and used to have a pretty big community that I only communicated with through the in-game chat. Then life got in the way and the server was down for two years which meant I lost most players (I don't require an email address so no idea who they are). I really wish I had set up the Discord much earlier so I could at least have kept a communication channel for the early adopters.

All in all the Discord server has been a major turning point in community building so I recommend setting it up and promoting it as soon as possible. I've even added a quest for new players to join the Discord server that gives some in-game rewards.
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MVP or Beta?
Actually I meant sharing this link to the comparison table:
https://piwik.pro/piwik-pro-vs-google-analytics-vs-ga360/
Good. The NHS has a terrible history of software development.
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I wouldn't be so sure that it's an inevitability that things would be caught.

The "underhanded C contest" [1] is a good example of this and something I like to point people to. From their about page:

>The Underhanded C Contest is an annual contest to write innocent-looking C code implementing malicious behavior. In this contest you must write C code that is as readable, clear, innocent and straightforward as possible, and yet it must fail to perform at its apparent function. To be more specific, it should perform some specific underhanded task that will not be detected by examining the source code.

If you go look around the hall of fame on that site, or just take a look at the contest winners, it's absolutely insane how subtle some of those exploits are. And shockingly (to me anyway) many of the exploits don't require C or use some quirk of C, they would work in many different languages, the first contest winner is a perfect example of that [2].

I can honestly say that for some of them, even if you told me there was an exploit in the code, I wouldn't be able to find them on my own.

And the scariest part is that almost all of the submissions to that contest have plausible deniability. They look like innocent bugs, typos, or small logic mistakes. Some even layer multiple small subtle changes which each on their own are completely fine but when all run together reveal big exploits.

[1] http://underhanded-c.org/

[2] http://underhanded-c.org/_page_id_14.html
Yes, this. It's a business app for a scanner. It's the only app running on a device with an 8 core processor and 4 gigs of RAM.

It starts up in a couple seconds, all interactions feel instant, it syncs smoothly. Photos are quick to take, scans of barcodes happen right away. The UI re-renders whenever things change either on the server or the client app.

There is nothing about the UX that feels non-native whatsoever.
A few times a year I attend events where wearing a suit is expected. I quite like wearing suits occasionally because I feel good wearing them. Once I intentionally underdressed quite severely for the event. I can say that I don't think I would have felt more uncomfortable if I had been naked. It was quite a memorable experience.

I've practiced that a few more times until I stopped feeling uncomfortable just because I took it as a personal flaw that clothing could make me feel either bad or good. Anyway for sure I've missed something I just can't seem to figure out what exactly.
> but is your (more general) argument that CA was bad, or that precise, hidden information targeting based on a persons characteristics cannot be used in nefarious ways?

The only argument I made was that the impact of CA was overblown for political reasons. I don't have a well-formed opinion on targetted political messaging, except maybe that it is a reality and we should just get used to it - perhaps having some regulations may make sense (the way lobbyists are regulated) so that the entire industry doesn't go underground.

>Because if you aren't arguing the latter, I don't think its worth calling OP out on CA specifically.

OP was making a political point - that CA was uniquely bad or an example of the problems of the industry because they were tied to Trump's joke of a campaign. If you actually read what they did, they were clearly clowns and shysters - as in, they siphoned consulting money from the campaign by promising the moon, and couldn't actually deliver. Ironically, their promises were taken at face value after Trump's election.
To the last point: It is, I'm sorry, I should pick my words more carefully.
Some of us have only one ISP to pick from. I look forward to seeing what Starlink can offer, just so I know who to call if my ISP decides they don't like me. Nothing would kill my data freedom like a lack of pipeline.
Government. In my opinion they're so obsessed with showing how we don't need the EU we decide to go 180 with any decisions made in Europe.

Personally, most of my friends and I decided to quarantine a few weeks before the government decided to ask people to do so.

I disagree about the contract tracing app though, I'm glad for any reason that it's delayed.
The copyright claim at the very end of the credits (about 28:38) says 1980.
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The original Bourne shell trapped SEGV (which it called MEMF) as part of its memory management strategy - https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd...
This is just yet another case of the UK government insisting they know best, continuing down a stupid path despite watching everyone else successfully walking the opposite direction. From locking down late, to stopping contact tracing early, to not mass-testing, to releasing infected people into care homes. Just pure arrogance / incompetence.

(I'm British in case you wondered... sigh...)
Just because you can sideload doesn’t mean apps can just be unconfined; if you sideload an Android app for example, it’s still restricted by the OS sandbox and still has to prompt you for access to contacts, location, etc.

And as an aside: you can sideload apps on Android. Have you seen any banks try to convince users to sideload their app? I sure haven’t.
Tcl has had sandboxed interpreters with resource limits for a long time [1]. You can even remove built-in commands (for/while etc) if you want to. You can limit the language to a purely declarative subset and selectively expose commands and resources as you wish.

[1]: https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/interp.htm#M46
Typing speed is not the bottleneck when writing software. The bottleneck is my brain.

I see typing like the ability to do mental arithmetic: being able to do it well isn't the thing that's directly valuable, but it removes distraction from the activity that is valuable, and that ends up making it valuable as well.

Another way to look at it: the faster you think, the faster you need to type in order for it not to become the bottleneck (during the times where you're actually implementing an algorithm as opposed to designing it). Of course, that's not just a function of raw typing skill, but also of the tools you use and the verbosity of your programming language. (An amusing corollary of this is that for society at large, it's useful to have great hackers who are bad typists: they will be tempted to develop better tools from which the good typists can also benefit!)

I've never known a great developer who did hunt-and-peck typing though. I do know great developers who have their own typing system. They simply never bothered to learn the "proper" way to do ten finger typing, and that's fine (unless those typing systems are worse for RSI, which was the case for me personally).
Hyperphysics presents a organized tree-like view of concepts, terminology and examples. It's easy to click around and start building up a mental model of how things relate: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html
Are you talking about physical screen size, DPI or what? I've no idea what display a MacBook Air 11" has.

Did your eye doctor tell you your myopia developed because of staring at your laptop's screen? (Mine developed when I was a teenager and hadn't yet spent a lifetime of staring at CRT monitors, and my eye doctor told me it was likely unrelated to computer screens. But maybe medicine has changed its opinion, this was decades ago).
In some states, not accepting cash at a public retail establishment is illegal. It's seen as a method of discrimination. The advent of Amazon stores has started a small wave of legislation in this direction.
It's not that hard of a market but it is a market with a higher risk tolerance than the average investor should tolerate. Most people that trade in the market know you are negative till the other trade settles. You are right it is not a UI issue, the UI reflected the current state of his trades.
I think the context is critical. As unsolicited commentary, the whole "I'm writing to say I don't particularly care for your book, and I think that's because you think in this way and I think in this way" tone looks presumpious, rude (especially with some snarky lines about Catholicism being 'starkly opposed to reality') and frankly full of self importance (why would Joyce even care to read a stranger's inconclusive assessment of assumed differences in how they think). As a continuation of discussions about values and motivations they might have had and solicited feedback on a book he didn't particularly enjoy it makes a lot more sense.
Sure, but there's no reasonable UI, just meant to be configured by a company's IT grunts poking json config files or wielding regedit on windows.
> If you want to compare it to anything, it's runc, but that's not a good headline :)

I don’t know, gunc is a pretty good name.
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Try ElectroBOOM channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/msadaghd
I know how it works. Static was the wrong word, but my current router (Netgear) lets you set a primary DFS channel, and based on my tests, the channel selected does affect performance.

As far as I can tell, there isn’t even a way to perform auto DFS selection on my current router.
Glassomer: Glass shaping at room temperature
The github doesn't really explain what Frida is, so I'm linking to the main project for Frida. [1] This looks like a well developed "tracing" instrumentation project that is cross platform. Applicable for reverse engineers, and debuggers. I could see myself using this for windows apps where I can't install eBPF for instance!

"So what is Frida, exactly?
It’s Greasemonkey for native apps, or, put in more technical terms, it’s a dynamic code instrumentation toolkit. It lets you inject snippets of JavaScript or your own library into native apps on Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, iOS, Android, and QNX. Frida also provides you with some simple tools built on top of the Frida API. These can be used as-is, tweaked to your needs, or serve as examples of how to use the API."

[1]: https://frida.re/
The cabinet was picked entirely for their blind loyalty to brexit, rather than any competance.

They can barely collectively tie their own shoes, yet suddenly they are responsible for managing the biggest peacetime crisis in our history.
I thank you on his behalf. Most of his fan mail was for his reading of The Prisoner of Zenda, so perhaps try that if you haven't already and the genre is to your taste?
Github is great at showing your individual ability, on projects that you're working on yourself and/or ones that you want to showcase.

What happens when you have do code features that you won't want to do? No one puts their dogshit, get-it-done-before-the-weekend code on github.

And it's useless for telling me how well you'll do on a team, how you'll interact with other stakeholders, if you're sketchy and will run off with our IP (or just sell creds on the darknet), and if you'll be able to handle high powered office/project politics and their pressures.
Linkedin may not be a perfect (or even good) signal for that, but it's a start. Long work histories but no contacts on Linkedin? Okay, not a dealbreaker, but may be worthy of an explanation.
https://count.ly also looks pretty neat as a self hosted solution. Anyone experience with that?
"Your last two works have been more amusing and exciting to write than they will ever be to read."

Part of this message would be good for programmers to hear too
I've been using iPhones for 11 years now and I have never used Apple Mail app. Currently I am using Outlook which is very good on iOS.
What's the false positive rate, false negative rate? Does he also correctly predict when there will not be a bubble?
TLDR; they are investment insurance, and they serve a purpose but like every market they attract speculators.
Thanks for all the kind words about https://usefathom.com. We’ve been in business since 2018 and both founders now work full time on it.

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We are used by governments, small businesses, multi billion dollar companies and individuals. Everyone cares about privacy and legal teams love us.

We are fully GDPR compliant and use zero cookies. A lot of people have read our article on cookie-free tracking, but that article is outdated now. We’re also launching a new method over the next few weeks which is game changing, which we’ll blog about.

Our infrastructure is highly available and runs across multiple servers. We don’t run our services from a single VPS, and have availability in multiple availability zones for everything. We pay premiums for our infrastructure because we take our customers data very seriously.

We allow you to set-up a custom domain in less than 2 minutes, comfortably passing ad-blockers. Or if that’s not your cup of tea, you can enable honor-DNT and respect ad-blockers.

We are built to handle billions of pageviews a month, we’ve poured hundreds (thousands?) of hours into refining our aggregation script, and we’re the leading solution on the market.

Don’t forget, we also offer unlimited uptime monitoring as part of your plan, sending alerts by SMS, Telegram, email and Slack.

Finally, we run a popular podcast called Above Board, where we talk about business & privacy.

If you haven’t already checked us out, you should.
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They wanted herd immunity, but they couldn’t do it during flu season, so they went for flattening the curve which they succeeded with. Now flu seasons over they’ve got the capacity to deal with a surge in cases so they’re easing lockdown, they want to create a massive measles party for the summer, so by the time flu season starts again they won’t have to worry too much about another lockdown. Remember the worst case scenario was 500,000 to 1 million deaths. They got away with 40,000