skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few weeks ago, I remember Cuomo patting himself and New Yorkers on the back for continuing to see a decline in cases. It's a lot easier to do that when 20% of NYC residents have antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, and that was in May. I'm sure this limited spread during protests somewhat in NYC.

That said, social distancing during protests, being outdoors, how many people had active infections (this varies wildly across the US), mask use, actions (positive and negative) by the police, and living situations of the protesters (alone in an apartment or four roommates) all have an effect.
Android? The me-too copy of iOS that appeared a year later and took like 4-5 years to reach any parity? lol
There are, at least here in Portland, Or (US). FreeGeek is a recycler and resells used equipment, usually with Ubuntu. They have made their store more like the Apple store over the years and reduced the number of random parts they sell (although they still have quite a few things). For Linux, any computer made in the past seven years or so that is well supported works great for a lot of people. They have a tech support window that will spend hours with people having trouble and classes in a different part of the building. The hardware itself is fairly expensive considering its age but for anyone who is likely to use the tech support it is likely one of the best deals available.

https://www.freegeek.org/
> That helps make my point, though, that the legal framework for handling encryption already exists and just needs to be clarified a little bit, instead of making new, far-reaching laws with serious implications on the landscape.

I think this can be a reasonable argument, but it depends on whether criminal suspects generally comply with decryption orders. If most don't, then it is understandable that the government also wants the keys to reside with parties that almost certainly will comply: OEMs and service providers.

> It will get abused. Just like wire tapping got abused, just like NSA surveillance got abused.

Yes, warrants get abused, but they're necessary for the criminal justice system to function.

I think we need to be careful not to conflate this issue with warrantless surveillance, which is a different beast.

> Furthermore, having a master key floating around means that at some point, inevitably, a foreign government or organization will get ahold of it.

I don't see why this is necessarily true, and many Internet services are premised on it not being true. HTTPS requires that you trust the ability of CAs to keep their master keys secret. Gmail and Outlook require that you trust that Google and Microsoft will keep their master keys secret.

> But the issue with bills like the EARN IT Act is that they make end-to-end encryption completely infeasible for any company to implement.

I realize that. My point was that there's an argument to be made that in practice, most people don't use E2EE or even need it in the first place.

E2EE is probably necessary in certain cases -- for example, if you're a dissident in an authoritarian regime. But that doesn't mean it needs to come standard on every iPhone.

To be honest, I'm undecided on this issue. Maybe the security benefits of standard E2EE are worth making it more difficult for law enforcement to execute lawful search warrants. But to me the answer isn't obvious.
Guess the “we’re cool like apple” play didn’t work out
Not everyone's. The majority, probably, sure, but it's not at all required or anything.

And "hacker news thinks collecting demographic data is a bad thing" is uncharitably broad.
Apple store sales per square foot beat even Tiffany's and it doesn't take much room to display diamonds.

https://chainstoreage.com/news/most-profitable-retailers-sal....
This feels like a really (legitimately) good idea. I expect a lot of money could be made! haha
https://medium.com/thedailylemming/nyc-marathon-vanity-bibs-...
Yes, that was my point, we are still "suffering" from it.
To me, it seems someone from Zoox wrote the article.

There are many tech and non-tech press which didn't believe in anything posted on the "master plans" published by Tesla, and they are still in denial.

Meanwhile, Tesla has been making huge leaps of progress and collecting billions of miles worth of data to improve their systems. What is available right now, and has been so for a couple of years, is unmatched by any of their competitors.

I am interested to see how Zoox and others will compete against massive amounts of data on corner case scenarios and real-world driving.
Show HN: No-code, AI/ML time-series predictions
that's essentially the same thing! congrats!!
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht pens column on Ethereum platform MakerDAO
> vested interests with a great deal to lose if no counter narrative to the origin of the virus turns up

Guess I'm under the rock here—what are those interests? To my knowledge, Trump does the most, ahem, novel hypothesizing, which is pretty much expected routine by now.
So they copied 1 plan in the 60s and now they are conjoined twins?
While criminal botherders are in a sense "more" responsible for the damage, Microsoft also has some liability in their negligence when then wrote vulnerable software. But it's relatively easy to hold MS accountable for their part than to extract damages from botherders. So MS either covers their butts by locking down the software or pays out the nose for damages.
Doesn’t have anything to do with “having to sell out.” Often management gets rollover equity and participates in the upside of the deal.
> Is there any evidence that someone dying in a car crash with COVID19 is being labeled as a COVID19 death?

No. But that's why I bring it up as a hypothetical. This is the hypothetical everyone is supposed to agree with... Because the simple "COVID19 in the system when they die" is clearly not a proper definition.

In practice: The big question is the consistency of the "heart attack" case. What each individual doctor determines to be a COVID19 death isn't really consistent in that situation. It can't be, every medical scenario is different.
It's great that you get to keep in touch with your family! Is there not any other product, owned by a more ethical organization, which could do the job? Also, more generall, is it even possible today to have such a product developed, if FB will just use its lobbyists and power to ensure it can buy that competitor and bend it to Zuckerberg's will?

How do we weight and balance the damage done by FB to our social discourse and elections, vs the benefits your family and many others have enjoyed?

HN commentary: Is anything I'm writing downvote worthy? Do you think my original comment (or this one) is incendiary or doesn't make the dialogue more nuanced and developed?
The best way to support an artist you really like is to purchase merchandise, buy their music on Bandcamp, and see them live. For bands I really like, I buy the album on Bandcamp and then just listen to it on Spotify for convenience.

Besides, who doesn't love a good tee with your favorite band's lyrics on it?
These kind of oddball claims does seem to belong on such a website in the unlikely case other data points arrive later agreeing with it. But not fit for a broader audience.
What Do the Hohenzollerns Deserve?
What was the most technically challenging part of the project for you? And do you do any tricks for handling failures during very large downloads or uploads (Eg ranges)
Probably easier to get it via match.com and their subsidiaries.
A formula for collective inaction. This argument 'pay higher taxes, vote accordingly' is probably also what many CEO's are believing in, while saying "I still have my army of accountants and lobbyists to design my tax evasion schemes, in order to pay as little as possible. I do not think this is hypocritical, but a natural part of the game.". These accountants and lobbyists - all doing legal work - ensure sweeping government action will never occur.

It is not about one-sidedly upending your life, and also not about waiting until society collectively does the right thing. We need to start acting, and every tiny little bit by every person counts. By doing that tiny bit - and maybe gradually a little more here and there - together with 1,000's of others doing so too, a pressure is created, culture changes and movement in the right direction ensues.
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I think this is pretty accurate, and a closely related variation on the theme is the idea that most of the proposals to fight climate change sound like they’ll make “ordinary life” more difficult and expensive.

Poorer countries see richer countries say “no more fossil fuels” and could easily think “gee it’s convenient that you built the whole world economy around fossil fuels then try to stop their use just as we’re catching up.”

In the same way, in the US a lot of folks react to climate policy things with: “so rich folks will still be able to fly cross-country for 10x the price in an ‘eco plane’ but regular people will be cut off from that freedom.”

At the end of the day people are pretty much not willing to accept a quality of life cut voluntarily, especially not a significant one. Thus you see people say: okay so the oceans will rise, but I don’t live within an hour of the ocean so I’m fine. Yep, not willing to sacrifice my personal luxuries and freedoms for that. Folks should just move as the waters rise.

I think the far scarier issue is the second Order effects we can’t predict. But because we can’t predict it, the people who aren’t inclined to want to give up their quality of life (almost everyone), are even less likely to want to make preventative changes.
Why did you leave out the remainder of that paragraph?

"But while GGO’s are common, the ones that are turning up among Covid-19 patients are distinctive. “If we see this very round shape and peripheral distribution, that’s atypical of other types of infections but it’s something we frequently see with [Covid-19],” he explains."
unfortunately consumers have been pre-conditioned to pricing structures and behaviors that completely discard all externalities.

it would be a rude wake-up call for most if suddenly this stuff had to be produced responsibly, without planned obsolecense or presumption of free landfill storage.

however, this is exactly what needs to happen. and it needs to happen via regulation of the giant producers, because capitalism is not compatible with anything but maximizing profits and minimizing costs. individual action is mostly meaningless - if people had to personally kill the cattle they eat many would likely swear off meat. without direct involvement in the damaging process of production consumers are fsr too removed to stop consuming ethically-compromised, cheap goods.
Hi Adam, hope you don't take it personally. If it was a FOSS project you'd probably get away with it (see: GIMP, Mastodon), and it'd be funny but might attract "the wrong crowd". For a commercial product I'd definitely think about a rename.
Do you want to move faster or do you exclusively want to excercise?
Looking for better customer engagement value? Be more strategic on social media
In some European countries, your money on the bank was taken by the government due to the crisis. It's a bit worse than ups and downs in bitcoin, where you have a chance to get it back.
> The biggest thing to me was that I learned that motivation was something that could come after you force yourself to wake up early and just get started

I had a similar experience doing a podcast [1] with a group of 6 others, each putting out one episode per day. It felt like failing the group if anyone had to skip their day, as we came close to a year without a break. I'd spend hours researching and scripting my episodes while riding the bus, waiting for a friend at a bar, or just winding down before bed. It was peak creativity for me and I'm happy with how it all turned out.

But after a while we got burned out and decided to stop, with the idea that we'd keep making our own podcasts. But without that mutual duty to release daily, no one to date has actually put anything out. The deadline/responsibility was the only way to make it happen–at least for me.

[1] - https://www.podcastdotcom.net/early-bird-news/2018/8/5/8-5-1...
> planned obsolescence

Oh boy.

iOS 14 supports iPhone 6s. What’s the oldest phone supported by the latest Android?
Link should be changed to https://reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/_/fmuko1m/?conte...
>I’m sure there are probably copyright or patent reasons that Adobe can’t easily release flash’s source code, but I really wish they would.

Time to reread what Steve Jobs wrote about it a decade ago!
https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
You're missing the point, again.

It's not about actual role in climate change. It's about your image, as an activist, in a public eye.

Publuc eye is stupid. It's certainly guilty of logical errors you accuse it off – you're right about that. However, you will not be able to actually convince this public eye that he makes these mistakes, exactly because it's pretty dumb.

So, if you actually want to convince people en masse about something, you have to play by the rules of this PR game, even though you may very well understand that the rules are stupid and people make logical mistakes.
> police omertà business

IDK I consider blanket generalizations about policing in the US as the mafia or something to be trolling...
Totally naive question: Would Unity + WASM cover the game space Flash used to well?
Do you feel like you are typing a lot more for simple things like this?
It seems to me a low resource virtual machine running flash whether in chrome or by itself would work well enough similar to blue stacks. I mean flash still runs on Linux.
The date is very very unlikely to stand up to scrutiny. As others in the thread have pointed out, the data doesn't make much sense, it lacks consistency, they don't show their statistics, and it's very very likely to be a false positive finding that for some reason the authors decided to go ahead and use as the basis for a very out-there claim. Peer review isn't perfect, but it's generally good enough to at least catch something as sloppy as this paper. I'd be very very surprised if it stood up to scrutiny.
During COVID, we've seen drastic changes to the economy and individual behavior. I recall reading articles saying it all amounted to only a 5% change in emissions or something like that. I can't help but thing the real problem is simply that we have too many humans. Or at least, too many humans at a quality of life standard that is too high. We can institute population control standards (cap and trade permits?) or we can decide that it doesn't make sense to base our lives around consumerism and shipping things from long distances. But the latter notion - which might look like forming localized circular economies - feels as impractical an idea as those pushing for extreme restructuring of societal structures. And everything else, like technological innovation, seems either like a gamble or like noise.
Maybe they achieved hard immunity? The spike there was much taller / narrower than elsewhere, leading to the ironic situation where the worst handling of the disease leads to great numbers once past the peak. Compare to CA where the curve was flattened and then leveled out - had we allowed exponential growth here we would also likely see fewer cases today.
I'm pretty sure 90% of the changes won't impact anyone's lifestyle. Moving to renewable energy and phasing out ICE cars allow for the exact same lifestyle. The only things that might have to change are things that require carbon emissions, like plane trips or meat production (although this one also might not require carbon emissions in 20 years). I guess you could argue that slightly more expensive manufactured goods impact a person's lifestyle, but that's a pretty minor change, and if you do a carbon tax and dividend, that's going to be moot for all but maybe 10% of the population.
I disagree that they look better. They certainly look sharper but that's not necessarily what you want.
Having more data on the nuanced problems than any of the competitors is Tesla's most significant advantage, IMHO.
I'd suggest you watch the Prisma Day talks when they are published or give it a try.

If you are a grumpy HN troll, then Prisma might not be for you, and that's okay. SQL is great for many cases, and you might not need to expand your horizon.

If you do choose to look into Prisma and have serious thoughts on how we could improve, then I would love to get on a call to talk about it (contact info in bio).
"If consumers were beating down car dealership doors to buy every EV they could, car manufacturers would shift heavily towards EVs. If everyone buying a house were looping in a solar panel installation into their loan, we'd probably see more competition and faster price drops in solar panels."

this logic is part of the problem. you live in a privileged bubble where people buy electric cars and install solar panels on their houses. Median American household has only $10K saved up, many below that and live paycheck to paycheck. What EV/What homes/ solar panels? First we have to solve socio-economic wealth gap issue THEN address climate change.
Well... the difficult part with this argument is that on an individual level we don't contribute nearly as much carbon as say, the transportation industry as a whole which represents some 18% of emissions?

I do as much as I can as an individual because I believe, morally, that it's true: I'd feel like a fraud if I was seriously concerned about climate and didn't become a vegetarian, refused to own a car, and stopped international travel.

I try to buy only what I need, second hand if I can, to avoid putting more technology in the waste system. I avoid buying plastic. I do everything I can on an individual level.

But you know what?

Global politics don't seem to be moving nearly as fast or with any urgency to the matter. In the US the EPA has been practically gutted. In my own country the local government is using the pandemic as a cover to move on gutting our own environmental protections.

We still need collective policy action on a global scale like we've seen with the pandemic.

Unfortunately we're already decades too late to stop it. Even if we could turn off the carbon switch right now, we'll still have to suffer through some of the worst IPCC predictions.
I have no idea why people would upvote a junk article like this.

It has two cheap rhetorical ploys.

First, a crude and disgusting analogy with rape, of all things. (There's a much better analogy to the governmental action that stopped CFCs, and actually worked.)

Second, an accusation of hypocrisy that is completely without actual facts.

And more important: so what if some elites who profess to care about climate change fly too much? It's deeply un-serious to demand pure motives on the part of everyone who professes a certain policy, before taking action.

Counterpoint, organized by a climate researcher: https://noflyclimatesci.org
How to create your own Terraform plugin provider
How was this data collected? They bought it, but how was it collected in the first place? Random apps with shady privacy policies?
Thanks, I was wondering why Mozilla stopped developing Shumway few years ago.
On the other hand if you update the camera per frame you'll end up with the shotgun bug in Deus Ex: The Fall when running with vsync turned off (see Total Biscuit's video on the game as an example for all sorts of bugs that exist because of timing issues from updating stuff per frame - note that TB didn't realize that).

If you want to follow a character in a fancy way (ie. not locked), update the camera's target position in fixed steps and perform smooth interpolation between the last position and the current position for the frames between the updates.
Climate change will not be stopped because asking people anywhere to take a significant decrease in their standard of living will be a political diaster and there is no silver bullet solution that allows people to maintain their lifestyles and curb climate change.
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> That you would call them shady says more about you than them.

You may be right there. I was pretty miserable when I worked for SS and see most things from that period in a negative light. I don't mean to sound adversarial, but what would it be saying about me?

I think my issue here is that is feels more like a direct steal of a business idea and less like competition. I don't see any changes, differences, innovation, or rebranding.

It's a fine line, and everyone sees the line differently. For example, an outsider stealing a business idea is better in my mind. They could have very well been working on the same idea concurrently like Leibniz and Newton. They will also have a different perspective and take on the situation. When a previous employee steals an idea without improvement, it doesn't sit well with me.

I think I'd be fine with it even if they just shifted focus. As a direct improvement on SS they could say they are focusing on transparency and security, pushing users towards 2FA and secure practices while being open with some of the risks involved. They could focus on local small businesses within X km or maybe some new attempt to quantify risk and match investors to businesses based on risk profiles. They did none of that. They took the exact same "Main Street" motif and just changed the color. Competition is good, but cookie cutter companies like this with no innovation only hurt each other. And then when these companies fail, everyone that that pulled in to invest and the small businesses involved suffer.
Previous discussions:

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I'm building a SaaS app in Rails and might be interested in something like this. Not interested enough to give you my email to get trickled some samples and then, presumably, spammed for the rest of time.
Click the link and you'll see that yes, as opposed to appearing on your public activity feed. Perfectly reasonable name for the feature. Not sure what's Freudian about it.
I improved a small game I have created a few years ago https://www.freememorygame.com . added a few features and it became very popular during quarantine time for kids and pre-school to play online with their tutors and teachers. It is a memory and matching card game you can build and create using your own uploaded photos.
This is amazing. Not only it completely blows JPEG and BPG out of the water in efficiency, but it makes some images look better than the original! It seems to reduce local contrast which works well for skin (photos 1, 2 and 5), and what it does for repeating patterns is quite pleasant to the eyes (1 and 4).

The only downside I see is the introduction of artifacts like you can see on the right-side face of the clock tower.
This is untrue: https://3v4l.org/PLcj1

I mean, if you stick enough 9s, it'll probably become true, but that's true in most languages (ignoring the implicit type coercion, but if you don't want that, then use ===, same as JS).
The original post is likely referring to Docker containers running qemu-user, not Rosetta running x86 VMs.
A meth addict telling you never do meth -- does not amount to 'policy'.

I think that a better comparison would be "a still-active meth addict who advocates for government action that would likely deprive them of the ability to continue using meth."

In this scenario the addict actually has some 'skin in the game' as opposed to just preaching.