skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I genuinely don't understand why this is.

There's a protocol running on almost every smartphone in the world right now, locally recording the necessary anonymized proximity data with BTLE[0]. All states need to to is produce an authoritative way to declare you have COVID, and release an app that provides notifications if a new case is broadcast that matches your history.

The fact that this protocol allows reporting your recent data even if you've installed nothing before realizing you have COVID is critical for success. The fact that the data doesn't include GPS or any long-time persistent key is critical for privacy (and, thus, adoption).

The upside is potentially significantly lowering the reproduction rate of COVID while businesses reopen. The downside is... what exactly? Why has almost every state (not to mention the federal government) not committed to implementing these apps?

[0] https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/cu...
You're looking for the word "sexism".

Discrimination comes both as "negative" and "positive" (both of which are usually in fact negative). E.g. people saying people of a certain ethnic background are better at math - on the surface a "positive" thing to say, but in fact fostering certain stereotypes and stereotyping people usually hurt a lot of people.
That's not how Rust works.
I feel like this is better done in the head. It is at least a good measure for where your mental math skills are

To calc roughly, divide current value by what you put in
The manufacturer claims 60-75%, with a lifespan of 30-40 years https://highviewpower.com/technology/
I thought from the if/else chain in the mainloop that it appears to lack a switch() statement too, but the GAWK documentation indicates that it does have one.
Big Sur and the Temptation of the App Store
A good virus does not kill its host. It is becoming less of a death threat.
Above the Law: The Data Are in on Police, Killing, and Race
Well there are plenty of other cases where we are completely comfortable calling them distinct species, even though we know they can interbreed. The term "species" is certainly fuzzier than we were taught in school in the 70's, but it's not as if biologists have stopped using the concept.
> Facebook this week told the Australian regulator that removing Australian news content from its site would not materially affect its revenues, adding that it sent more than two billion clicks to Australian publishers in the first five months of 2020 worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

How do they get that? Is it based on what Facebook would charge an advertiser for a click? I don’t know anything about it, but 2 billion clicks being worth hundreds of millions of dollars doesn’t pass the smell test for me.
I really would love to know more about them, what if they were smarter than we are, in all or some of the ways we recognise, and were they simply overwhelmed by us swarming like locusts from the south?
>That said, the criminal complaint against Litzenburg reads like a vindication of all of the ugly criticisms that mass tort defendants throw at plaintiffs’ lawyers. Tort reformers could not have made up a story that casts plaintiffs’ lawyers in a more damning light than the government’s allegations against Litzenburg.

Tort reform is important. That being said, there needs to be a way to punish companies when they do bad stuff. Unfortunately, class action lawsuits are often viewed by the corporations as a cost of doing business, and most of the money goes to the trial lawyers, and the consumers end up getting a $5 voucher or even less.

I propose an alternative to class action law suits. Singapore style caning of the the C-Suite and board of directors for corporate malfeasance. I think consumers who have been scammed would feel more that justice was done than if they got say 1 month's free credit monitoring. In addition, it would align incentives for the management if their ass was literally on the line. It would also be cheap to administer and would not contribute to our prison population.
Honestly, as someone who hangs around “criminals”... as long as you actually pay your drug dealer nothing that will ever be reported as a crime is going to happen. Most crime that would be perpetrated against a stranger is property crime, and poor individuals by and large aren’t the target of it. If you’re a shopkeeper, sure.

On the other hand, I’ve seen more than enough people being arrested for nonsense, having done nothing but tick an officer off in some apparently random way - and these people will always be released immediately before the police would have to explain to a judge why they had arrested this person. Being detained is plenty scary enough, and could cost you your job.
Half the country has one of those "complicating conditions" - obesity, hypertension, diabetes...
Uh, I regret to inform you that I found the name from the autocomplete and then hit tab. It was not on the tip of my tongue and you can easily reproduce the experiment if you don't believe me.
I think it's purely a media thing. When the public health folks I know have been modeling, they've been modeling with a primary eye toward number of ICU beds needed and number of ventilators needed. For instance if you look at https://mn.gov/covid19/data/modeling/index.jsp which has a pretty decent model (on Github at https://github.com/MN-COVID19-Model) you can see all their pdf slides predict peak infection, number of ICUs/vents needed, and then mortality. But that's not what gets headlines, as you observe.

It is certainly true that survival rates have improved as treatments have changed based on experience. I think folks know better how to manage things at home, to some extent. Earlier testing also allows earlier intervention, which allows treatment that may avoid ventilator usage. Vent usage corresponds with pretty poor outcomes, although that too is improving.
It's actually not. People in general like "good stories" and will read and share them more. Adding "credibility" will drive the perception as a "good" story and therefore to some degree clicks as well.
Maybe "prodding" was a poor choice of words. What I meant was leaving comments that point out ways a question can be improved or providing background information, not downvotes or VTC. I also try hard to keep the commentary from being harsh, but I'll admit to being human in that respect from time to time.
I had to google as to how someone could be both asexual and polyamorous and turns out you can. til.

https://poly.land/2019/01/31/there-are-asexual-polyamorous-p...
Not to mention if DNS isn't encrypted and you control the network you can just redirect requests wherever you want.
> And as the saying goes, it takes 10x more time to refute bullshit than to produce it.

Have you actually read anything from SSC?

His posts obviously had a lot of effort put into them. Reading them is much easier.

My recommendation: If you want to know how Scott Alexander thinks, read what Scott Alexander wrote, not what people on twitter wrote about him. Especially if they didn't read the piece either. Although I guess you'd have to use internet archive now.

Personally, I'm voting Green this fall and I love his writing.
Have an upvote - its on the house.
What would the second copy be?
> anonymity to anonymous sources.

That is a trade. The journalist is trading anonymity for information as if they don't they will not get information.
> Rosetta 2 is probably built on LLVM. Why wouldn't it be?

LLVM is kind of slow; JavaScriptCore abandoned it years ago for their FTL backend.

> The unique pattern of machine-code that must occur in any implementation of JIT, is a jump to a memory address that was computed entirely at runtime, i.e. with a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use-define_chain for that address value that leads back to a call to mmap(2) or malloc(2).

void *region = mmap(0x100000000, 0x1000, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_FIXED, 0, 0);
memcpy(region, code, 0x1000);
mprotect(0x100000000, 0x1000, PROT_READ | PROT_EXEC);
reinterpret_cast<(void (*)())>(region)();
NZ has made a similar mistake to Oregon as described above. We shut down early and hard, practically wiping the disease out with less than 1200 total infections, and totally burning through all the good will required to tolerate a second shut down. Now that we have re-opened, we are seeing new cases appear as Kiwis who were trapped overseas return home, and foreigners visit for "essential" business.

It is only a matter of time before we see community spread a second time, and as in Oregon nothing has materially changed since November. We still have no vaccine or immunity, and we can reasonably expect to see a second outbreak before either appears. The only difference is that Kiwis are unwilling to tolerate a second shut down, and Kiwi businesses don't have the funds to weather another financial hit. Neither does the NZ government, realistically.

Locking down the country was an understandable response, but it does not appear to have achieved anything valuable unless a vaccine becomes available before the next outbreak.
> Could it be the people getting the virus now are less likely to end up in the hospital so that number won't keep going up to the point of causing trouble?

It could. Or it could be simply getting out of control (though specifically California is in much less trouble than Texas, Florida or especially Arizona at the moment). The point is that (1) it's fundamentally impossible to tell the difference until the bodies are counted and (2) the boundary between "well under capacity, we're fine" and "well over capacity, tens of thousands needlessly dead" represents just a week or two of growth.

We don't have time to wait and see, we need an answer now. And we can't get it until the demographics is done postmortem. So what is supposed to happen is that we all behave conservatively until the outbreak shrinks to the point where it can be contained via contact tracing.

And... that almost worked. It worked in Asia and Europe, It almost worked here, at least in the hardest hit areas with the early outbreaks. But... it didn't take. Half the population decided they didn't need to bother with this stuff (largely because of reasoning like yours) and walked back into enclosed indoor spaces.

And now we're right back where we were in March. Effectively no progress. While the rest of the industrialized world is finishing this off and coming back to life, we're having to talk about new lockdowns. It's so deeply frustrating.
It requires coordinated societal action, which is definitely the same as the death of Freedom and Liberty and thus is to be avoided.
Internet and service are already garbage here compared to nearly every where else in the world. I've got two choices for home internet where I live and 'two' choices of phone company, both owned by the same parent company. I pay twice as much for half as much data as most other places in the world. My carrier subjects me to random throttling i've still to figure out entirely what's affected and when after years, Canada's internet policies have favoured big business for as long as they've existed with the consumers being constantly screwed over.

To be honest, this has been going on longer than there's been internet with phone and cable providers. This is just another push in the favour of big businesses who can afford to pay over others who can't, while the government takes its, generous, cut.
No. That is not what I'm saying. I wouldn't be saying, over and over again, that this identity was effectively already public if all I had was "if you know his real name you can confirm the link". I'm saying that the Googling required to uncover his name is trivial armed only with the name "Scott Alexander". Please acknowledge that, thank you.
In a sense I agree with your point as I read it. I think that pursuing the cultural ethic/narrative you may meet bits and pieces of the truth. But you only meet the truth itself if you pursue it, and it is not always easy to tell the truth apart from what you wish to be the truth.
That was an insightful link. But is it really the gig economy ? This seems more like the crowdfunding model, which is more applicable to arts and crafts. I remember first reading about radiohead or someone else using pre-order sales to get money and then release the album.

There really needs to be an open data for business otherwise GDPR is pointless. Code is somehow not where the money is.

What is peculiar about software is maintenance cost which puts it somewhere between crowdfunding and subscriptions.

The gig economy makes sense if the person doing the gig is able to set the price otherwise it's not really fair.
The point is, if one of his patients casually googles him, they find stuff about his job and not his blog. That you can find his blog is neither here nor there (and the first ten comments to that effect probably covered it).
> “We tried analyzing, how come sales cannot go up quickly? One reason, I hate to say, is the quality of it, how durable it is,” Cai says. “I talk to customers riding [an old] unit. It doesn’t look good because it’s been on the road 12 years. It has 100,000 miles on it. But the machine itself runs very well. And so when you try to sell new units [to those customers] . . . unfortunately, it does hurt us.” Over the past three years, sales were flat on Segway PTs, dropping from 5% of Segway/Ninebot’s revenue to a mere 1.5%, Cai says.

Wow, I resent this so much. Does no one aspire to build reliable products anymore?

It feels like modern capitalism revolves around turning every customer into a recurring stream of income. Selling something once to a lot of people doesn’t allow for infinite growth.
The Swedish model was exacerbated for the same reason the NYC was. You can’t put old people with the disease in lock down with other old people. You’ll quickly kill them.
"The death of the private citizen who publishes publicly with their own personal information attached".

First name + middle name + occupation + city isn't "private".
Can you change it back? The justice.gov link is much newer and contains significant new information. For example, the Reuters article emphasizes that the defendant was not yet guilty and a second person hadn’t yet been charged. However, the justice.gov link says both are now defendants, and both pleaded guilty.

Edit: This is already causing confusion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23622823 Flagging for your attention.
As an old VR developer, this is great news. I agree with you all - remove 3DoF, it’s “diluting” the experience, and not in a good way. In the apps themselves, too many design sacrifices have to be made to account for this narrow use case.
The price point was great - but for overall flexibility standalone devices are the future.
Such a thing does exist: http://jawk.sourceforge.net/

...and that naturally leads to pondering whether an implementation of AWK that runs on the JVM can then run an implementation of the JVM that runs on AWK, and vice-versa...
When they say that there is no racial bias, do they mean that one race is no more likely to be tagged criminal than another? Or that the likelihood matches empirical likelihoods?

The fact that that question would come to any reader's mind is probably why (if baylearn is correct) the article has been withdrawn from publication.
Sure, but when you add those animations to your setup, do you perceive it as being slower?
This demo is showing raw database performance. None of the results are cached or pre-calculated.
I can’t see this standing up in court. Is there any case law saying that threats of legal action can be construed as extortion? There are thousands of legal demand letters that go out everyday.
Two weeks or so ahead of the "mainstream" (whatever that is) in realizing it will likely be a huge deal for the world. That said, there were plenty of other larger outlets (like Vox) that were also ahead of the curve in the same sense.
I will say though, buying the controllers or motors straight from China is cheaper by a factor of 50-80%, and allows you to get more headroom. Though I wouldn't trust Chinese batteries, and shipping can be slow.
No, having an arbitrarily complex dictionary or compressor is not counted as cheating. The model is basically that you are allowed to grab as many harddrives as you want before going out into the wilderness. From then on all your news arrive over a low-bandwidth carrier pigeon, and you have to decompress the transmissions with what you remembered to bring.
It’s Chrome, the app, that’s reading the clipboard, not the website.
Cheap, disposable plastic contributed a lot to globalization. It is easier to preserve food in plastic wrap. In addition, it is much lighter and/or cheaper than metal and thus easier to transport long distances. Global trade was probably the biggest driver for the improvement of the quality of life in the places mentioned.
I don't think it's worth "migrating away" but the new design does feel even flatter to me and the removal of row lines is a step back in readability. I feel like my screen needs further calibrating...
Imagine waking up one day and suddenly your apartment is completely different than when you went to sleep. You stumble around, bewildered. You go into the bathroom... and it's the kitchen. You go back and turn left around a corner... and it's not the living room, it's the garage. The entryway to the living room was through the kitchen.

According to the new designers of the apartment you rent, this configuration is much more efficient. Meanwhile, for the next two weeks, every time you want to take a pee, you end up wandering into the wrong rooms looking for a toilet.

Product Owners: please don't treat your users like an afterthought, or refuse to help them adapt to the changes you didn't even ask them to accept. It's careless, and makes users immediately dislike your product.
Isn’t this the issue with any large battery? Water in large volumes can cause a lot of damage too. I suspect it’s hard to find a large battery that isn’t scary when mishandled.
I remember the prediction the future cities would be designed around the Segway and how we all laughed at this at the time, but now when considering cities where we'd consider moving to, favorable e-scooter laws and infrastructure are near the top of our list.
It got malicious at the point where Scott ALexander pointed out the issues to the reporter and the reporter still refused to protect his identity.
There maybe some merit to the claim that China is under reporting, but I haven’t seen any claim that they are under reporting by that much.

Deaths on this scale is hard to hide, even in a state controlled environment. Large cities outside of Wuhan have no seen this. I have colleagues and friends in the big cities and I haven’t heard of anyone catching let alone dying of covid.
It seems this attack exploited the browser on the device via non-HTTPS sites. So the elaborate networking scheme really wouldn't do much. They just had to inject their browser exploits on every non-HTTPS site the user visited. Just because the PinePhone runs non-Android/iOS doesn't mean there aren't 0-days for the browser it runs.
Judging by this horrible Bitdefender Endpoint Security that IT has foisted upon me: device management and anti-malware stuff.
In the US, you're already a sole proprietorship without any registration. Of course, if you're actually doing business, you probably want the protections of an LLC, which requires registration and fees. But you can accept uncompensated gifts as an individual, and you can accept business income as a sole proprietor, all without registering for anything in particular. You are, as always, required to file accurate taxes, including estimated withholding.
>Decades ago moving around for a job was normal

People don't move for jobs any more? When did this happen, to what extent, and what's the source of the information?
Autonomous docking with the ISS Simulator in 100 LOC
1. https://iss-sim.spacex.com/ and press Begin

2. Paste https://gist.github.com/ivarvong/57e2810ae6b9ca4cae477ff561d4ee08 into the console and run
Then why not expose that to ARM applications running on it?
Restoring Satoru Iwata's VIC-20 Easter Egg
Can I ask why did you people bring those design changes - this one and the last instalment as well? Was there some real need, some market research behind it, or just an itch to do something? To be honest both these iterations feel like trying to fix something that's not even broken.
Fair enough. I actually was a kid in 1998. I believe I started “programming” HTML in 1997 or so (copying view source and uploading to my internet host). There were some cool things like Hot Wired and Suck.com (and the bus on the MSN splash page!), but it was just a vastly smaller space than now. Even Geocities doesn’t really make your cutoff, so it’s hard to compare.
I can see that. I've purchased several laptop batteries that likely used old cells pulled from another laptop or whatever. At the same time, I don't mind that the runtime is a 1/2 to 3/4 of a new battery when the price is 1/5 of a new battery.
> We locked down Oregon over what was happening in NYC. That is akin to Northern Ireland locking down because of Moscow. That isn't an exaggeration. If anything, it is an understatement.

Yep, this right here is the problem. Unfortunately, social media and the 24/7 news cycle (that magnified 100x by social media) has meant that people react strongly to events that have no effect on them, and then go and do things which have no effect on the underlying cause, just because they saw people doing is thousands of miles away.

This is what happened with the COVID lock downs. People panicked when they saw NYC, but there was no reason for most place to lock down (when they did). Far better to wait for a more effective time. But no, you had people slamming governors for doing nothing in states that had very few cases.

This extends to a ton of other causes and problems. See the BLM movement. You have people protesting in countries that have nothing to do with George Floyd and a very different police force, risking their lives and others by spreading covid, because they saw people on the news in another country protesting. Utterly absurd.
I didn’t mean to imply such an agenda exists in America. Sovereign democracy in Russia is one example of what such a secret (or even explicitly public) agenda would look like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_democracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladislav_Surkov

https://www.economist.com/europe/2013/05/11/an-ideologues-ex...
The joyplots naming has been phrased out due to the horrible meaning of the phrase “joy division”
Do you have a source for the statement about “the North has remained the industrial powerhouse?”

A brief, unscientific look at data from https://www.nam.org/state-manufacturing-data/ suggests that northern manufacturing output has been increasing nowhere near as fast as the south, but I’d love to see better data suggesting otherwise
> It was also a time before ... mass consumer internet

I remember reading about its launch on mass consumer internet. (Why do I feel like people place the date for the start of mass consumer internet too late?) Here is a contemporaneous article from Time Magazine's website, which is a pretty mainstream, mass consumer publication: http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,186660,...
As for this, I have, and I certainly would not buy for the first two-three (if not more) hardware revisions after such a major architecture change until I could evaluate how that hardware has been working out for the early adopter guinea pigs. I'd also need to see where everything stood concerning software, especially the educational software that has been getting written almost entirely for x86 systems or specifically targeting Chromebooks for the last 5+ years. Even then I am not sure the Technology Director is going to be anything but skeptical about running everything in VMs or Docker containers. Chromebooks are cheap, reasonably functional, easy to replace, and already run all district educational software.