skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A fraction of European regions account for a majority of Covid deaths
I'm using it for cross server auth
This is the WHO's current advice:

> Non-medical, fabric masks are being used by many people in public areas, but there has been limited evidence on their effectiveness and WHO does not recommend their widespread use among the public for control of COVID-19. However, for areas of widespread transmission, with limited capacity for implementing control measures and especially in settings where physical distancing of at least 1 metre is not possible – such as on public transport, in shops or in other confined or crowded environments – WHO advises governments to encourage the general public to use non-medical fabric masks.

This is confusing advice.

Why don't they say "WHO has no recommendation about their widespread use" instead of "does not recommend." Are they really advising against masks?

This is especially confusing combined with the rest of the paragraph. What is considered an area of widespread transmission?

https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-on-covid-19-and...

Unfortunately, you then have Fox News run an article like this: "WHO guidance: Healthy people should wear masks only when 'taking care of' coronavirus patients"

https://www.foxnews.com/world/who-guidance-healthy-people-we...

Then you have the CDC recommending masks, while the POTUS refuses to do so.

"CDC is additionally advising the use of simple cloth face coverings to slow the spread of the virus and help people who may have the virus and do not know it from transmitting it to others."

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-si...

So yeah, there's tribalism, but there's also conflicting advice from authorities.

In my family, we wear masks when we're out among other people. I don't see how it does any harm, the argument for how it can slow the spread of my germs to others intuitively makes sense, is consistent with surgeons wearing masks to prevent infecting patients, and there's anecdotal and initial research that it helps.

What is the WHO's problem?
Voat explicitly branded itself like that.

In comparison, a large source of Fediverse users (Mastodon etc) are people that leave Twitter because they think it isn't moderated well enough.
I used to be a little obsessed over maximizing my own personal metrics. I'd track the number of hours I'd worked, the number of days I'd hit the gym, and even the number of hours I'd spent on hobbies.

Then I got burned out and took a 3 month sabbatical in November last year. And just when I hit the desk again in February, the pandemic stuck. All those elaborate plans and spreadsheets - out of the window.

All this has made me realize that's it's futile to try and optimize existence. It actively kills creativity and joy. And things completely outside your control will toy with your elaborate plans anyway.
> So companies can't even look at their own data now? I'm pretty sure most people are okay with that.

people start caring when those companies own half the world.

Apple owns tons of media groups. I don't want to participate in a pseudo market-testing-group just by virtue of owning an iPhone.

We're not talking about data and analytics being collected on phones for phones, we're talking about data and analytics being collected on phones and then sat on for a future project, likely not phone related.

I'm a people, and i'm not okay with that.
You cannot after a while. You have to rely on that service not being blocked for registration and i would also need the anonymous email service to not require email,cc payments or phone number. Either way, they dont need email to provide a service and the karma/voting system stops bots. If I can easily register anonymous email and signup,so can bots so whats the point? To make me jump over many hoops and hope i make a mistake? Just to prove a point ? Make privacy a difficult task so normal people wont bother and leak enough info to be used against them? No thanks, you don't have my support.
Zynga made a profit in 2019. They appear to be a sustainable business which can keep operating at roughly break-even levels while hoping for another big breakout hit that makes a lot of money. Not a great investment, but certainly not a money pit.
I think the strategy you describe works to an extent, but eventually leads to echo chamber effect.

I think, perhaps arrogantly, that RC would have benefited from my pollination.

We'll both be fine on our own, too.
I wonder whether E2 is actually enforceable? How on earth are you supposed to know the license is no longer valid without notice?
It's been done!

Scunthorpe Sans censors out profanity: https://vole.wtf/scunthorpe-sans/

Seen censors "spook" words: http://projectseen.com/
When I look at that animation, I see brown bands. My girlfriend sees dark blue. Why?
I set out to read most if not all of the annual reports of small public companies, an awful lot of which are drug/biotech startups, and the odd thing I've noticed is that many of them, if not a majority, seem to be focusing on rare diseases, and not only that, but there's more overlap than you'd think (you'd think there would be a huge number of different rare diseases by definition).

I have a vague sense of the rationalizations of that, there's less competition, more chance of discovering something revolutionary, but...

I couldn't help thinking, where are the companies trying to change the world with moonshots that address common diseases? My kneejerk reaction is that incentives must be screwed up at some level of regulation.
Ask HN: Parents on HN, was parenthood a conscious choice of yours?
If yes, how did you make that choice?
If not, could you share some thoughts about how parenthood is turning out?
Ludonarrative Dissonance in Bioshock (2007)
How much money have you personally made with this approach?
I think he donated his own money to an organization lobbying against gay marriage, so it doesn't seem like a huge leap. In any event, the article was about people who had much more abstract and ambiguous actions interpreted by an internet mob as them having ingrained bigoted beliefs, so I think there is a very wide gap.
Fair enough, I gave it a skim. I still feel that's a pretty big difference and deserves more time than just a few seconds out of a 30 minute video.
I know! But I wanted to write something very clear, and I chose the clearest word in my mind to convey my idea. That word is steeped in old tech, it so happens.

Oh and by the way, I was shopping for a cheap laptop for a non-profit this week, and I still had to be careful to pick a laptop with an SSD. Those spinning horrors are still jammed into laptop cases to this day.
it is very strange to read someone claiming with extreme confidence that all fairness and explainability research is completely bogus.

of course there are a lot of papers of questionable value, but that's a problem with machine learning more broadly -- probably all academic science, really.

lots of institutions (banks, medicine, etc.) really do need explainable models. in practice this often means linear models with simple coefficients or shallow decision trees. there is plenty of useful work on learning these while maintaining performance, or "distilling" them from more complicated models. i know for a fact some explainable models learned with these techniques do actually get used in real life.

likewise with fairness -- end-users actually do care about fairer models in all kinds of areas, especially lending and insurance. there's a ton of frustrating debate about how to operationalize fairness in different settings but it seems like there is actually progress on this front.

what do you find to be bogus about these research areas?
> then internet platforms shouldn't get a free pass simply because they're internet platforms.

Internet platforms cannot exist if they're liable for individual things that users put on their platforms.
I wonder what a better term for disk storage would be. Block storage, in the way that cloud services refer to it? Just plain "storage"?
how is this different from reddit governance where subreddits are already responsible for self-moderation? I don't think a lot of users care whether the instances are technically separated, in the case of Mastodon this is probably what stops people from using it because it's not intuitive to understand.
Why do you assume that all alternatives have to be "free speech = allowing abuse" alternatives?

E.g. a large subset of Fediverse (Mastodon etc) communities are communities that avoid Twitter because they don't feel Twitter is doing enough to be safe for them. And instances have a varying policies about how they handle instances with different moderation standards.
Love the name, love Motorhead. Here's a Lemmy quote:
"Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. "
Definitely my 24". I'd have to sit too far from the 50" TV. But I wasn't really clear in my post. I don't actually have 2 4K monitors.

What I have is 1 24" 4K screen in the middle (fairly cheap LG one), and on each side I've got 2 old Eizo L568's, 17" 1280x1024 in 4:3 format. They're almost as tall as the 24" widescreen, but they're low-DPI. macOS deals with this the best by far, on Windows I have scaling issues.

This works well for me as I can have the main content I'm working on in the middle without a split, and on the sides I put stuff I'm monitoring. Like stuff installing on a VM, home assistant, sometimes whatsapp etc. And if I want to focus on something I can just turn them off (each one of them actually uses more power than the one 4K thanks to their CCFL backlights)

But I'm just not a big phone user. I spend a good number of hours at the PC/Mac (and Linux - I use all 3) every day, and much less time on my phone.
I highly recommend his other movies too - I love Solaris and Andrey Rublev, but others are great too.

And I think currently in his steps is following another great Russian director, Andrey Zvyagintsev. The Return was mindblowing.
If Google does it, they'll end up like Microsoft: encouraging device manufacturers to produce crappy drivers. It's mostly a money pit with no upside for Google that can justify the cost.
Maybe someone can make it work, but it's such a terrible idea that everyone else which doesn't use this oddball architecture will be running circles around them.
To be slightly fair, the policies of the journals have a lot to do with this. I'll try and explain:

This paper was submitted to Nature as it would be fairly high profile, and Nature does now allow you to put in on the arXiv at submission, which was done in January. Since then it has been going through peer review, and being queued up to get published in the journal which finally happened on June 17th. However, during that whole time there is a press embargo. So although you may have seen it back in January, that was because a few outlets picked it up by scanning the arXiv themselves, and no one within the collaboration has been allowed to talk about it to the press, and no universities to publicise it in the intervening time. That embargo has presumably just been lifted which is why this is all coming out now.

Because of the embargo you wouldn't have seen quotes and comments from people involved in the initial coverage back in January, and even if I'd noticed it getting posted to HN back in January I would have not been allowed to comment on it like I'm doing now.
Yeah. Thinking of them as a starting point is a good way to think of the approach.

I had some code that was slower than I intuitively expected it to be. I looked around for approaches and came across cache oblivious algorithms. In my case I was thinking of RAM as a cache and some of the inputs would fit in RAM and some were larger than RAM. All inputs and outputs were in network drives. The final output was 4.5 GB.
Using cache obvious algorithms as a inspiration I managed to get my runtime down from 5 mins to 20 seconds (numbers are approximate as this was nearly ten years ago now).

I was quite pleased.
Five Tips to Describe Your Project in 50 Characters or Less
Crysis shipped with a full blow SDK that included most of its source code. You could actually rebuild the game from it, the 50MB dll that controlled the whole game.

Old players maybe remember that the crysis multiplayer was the most cheated game in its era. It was totally unplayable due to all the cheating and that killed the game.

One way to make cheats. You could load up the SDK in visual studio. Find the code that's removing -1 ammo when shooting and edit it to not do that (most of the physics and game logic was editable that way). Compile the DLL. Replace the original DLL in the game directory.
I believe that his async code would have been far more maintainable / readable / expressive if it had used a reactive streams implementation such as colorless kotlin coroutines + flow. Sadly rust doesn't yet have one.

What are your thoughts on this topic @raphlinus ?
Emphasis on "like that." At-will employment is unnecessarily cruel, particularly in a country without a strong safety net. A person's ability to feed, clothe, and house themselves should not be determined by their employer's whims.
Or this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acerinox_accident

In May 1998, a caesium-137 source managed to pass through the monitoring equipment in an Acerinox scrap metal reprocessing plant in Los Barrios, Spain. When melted, the caesium-137 caused the release of a radioactive cloud. The Acerinox chimney detectors failed to detect it, but it was eventually detected in France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Austria. The radioactive levels measured were up to 1000 times higher than normal.
Is a similar service available for yubikeys connected to linux machines?
> Critics of the big tech companies are often told, “If you don’t like the company, don’t use its products.” I did this experiment to find out if that is possible, and I found out that it’s not—with the exception of Apple.
Gosh, I could press that button all day.
>sanitize their inputs ever did.

was even escaping input viable strategy?

if you escape thing, then your data in db is broken

parametrization seems like the only strategy out of those 2
Moderation should be similar to a database view. I would love a browser extension and backend store like Lemmy that posts to both the site I’m on but also Lemmy (each site would be a distinct “namespace”). What is a forum but a collection of post identifiers with a corresponding tree of comments.

If a mod removes, hides, or takes other mod action on a comment or post, the browser extension and federated storage system still allows me to see and interact with that content and it’s writer (“showdead” globally). You could subscribe to “mod actions” (which is just curation) by mod, which would govern your experience of the content.

I appreciate the mod work here, for example, but I also want to be able to bypass that “filter opinion” so I can still interact with folks and content out of band if I so choose (one person’s “flame war” is another person’s vigorous debate).
It's not only about the smallest unit but every cache level unit size. Imagine if the packed structure was on SSD and mapped to linear memory addresses. Certainly at the smallest scale the cache line is what matters. But there's also benefits of having likely to be accessed data be contiguous at other scales, e.g. os memory page, SSD i/o unit.
XZ1 Compact dimensions with an edge to edge screen makes a lot of sense to me. I need some screen real estate to read stuff. For you maybe a Nokia N9 with edge to edge screen would work because it's smaller. I read and wrote this from Opera on XZ1C.
Yes it's actully like that. Those services get blocked but why do I have to use a third party when you can just make emails optional. If many users dont feel comfortable giving up their email, just make it optinal. You cant expect my support when you don't care about forcing me to jump through hoops because you don't care about my privacy preferences.
Race and Cultural Diversity in American Life and History
But I already see many "subreddits" (here called communities) on the main website: https://dev.lemmy.ml/communities

Also you have a big "create community" button at the top. Surely that doesn't spin a completely new instance of the application every time? And if not, how can we tell which instance a community belongs to?

Honestly I don't really understand the need for something like that to be federated. In the olden days you had a bunch of forums/BBS/IRC network/Whatever that served various niches but didn't communicate with each other.

For instance, what would we gain if we decided to turn HN into a Lemmy federated service?

If anything it seems like in the long run it would be a disservice, as very large communities with lower standards would end up spilling and wrecking niches where the community is more tightly knit and post higher quality content.

This fediverse thing makes some sense for IM and similar applications where you want to be able to connect easily with anybody. For forums however, it feels rather pointless to me.
Is paying in crypto that much of a feature for you? Honestly curious about it.

I have been working on hosted Mastodon/XMPP/Matrix and I would definitely consider adding Lemmy to my list of supported services. If I can get authentication via LDAP for it, even better and quicker.

The one thing stopping me from a bigger announcement is that I am yet to finish my crypto payment integration. If you are indeed interesting in something like this, can I reach out to you once it's ready?
Again, it is not in the interest of anti-racism to have people unjustly fired for no reason. Suggesting that such outliers represent "bloodthirst" in the wider movement is a great example of fear-mongering and blowing things out of proportion.
TikTok is no different to any social media apps out there when it comes to tracking and telemetry. However, the protection mechanisms in their API is interesting if true.

Perhaps they got Arxan Technologies to do the heavy-lifting for them to audit and obfuscate their private API just like how Snapchat and Niantic (Pokemon Go) did.

This ultimately sounds like typical white-box cryptography again.
Bots cant use anonymous email? Seriously?
dlopen is useless in static linked programs when the idea is to provide plugins after the fact.

The idea of using plugins is exactly that various parts are able to ship them at various times during the lifetime of the applications.

Patching files compiled statically is obviously not what one wants from plugins.

Incidently plugins support is exactly why Go added support for dynamic linking into their toolchain.
And fortunately, it's easy to understand the mechanism of action that explains the positive impact of masks: the primary means of covid spread is virus conveyed not individually but in large water droplets. Any filter that impedes the flow of these droplets is very likely to diminish the spread of the contagion. Therefore, anyone who is physically within the field of oral spray of an infected person should benefit from BOTH parties wearing masks.

If all scientific explanations also came with strong and plausible proposals of causation, science-based advice would be much harder to dismiss, whether that dismissal is motivated by mechanism-free (and evidence-free) theories like tribalism or not.
>rarely talking about the hard things like logout

Why hard?

You can always black list them
What makes it easy to distinguish disposable emails belonging to bots from those belonging to humans?
If you're writing an application in C or C++ and want to embed a scripting language, and you think Lua is kinda weird and would prefer a more straightforwardly object-oriented language, then Wren may be worth trying.

But I think there is only one active maintainer so you should be prepared to write your own patches if you need to fix something.
What do you see as the need?
I haven't played LOU2 so I'm missing out on something, but there's nothing this article mentions about its treatment of violence that isnt already in other games.

For instance, can author really not think of any other game that has a big shooting component but also has nonviolent story elements (GTA)? Or games where you shoot things and then later wags a finger at you for shooting those things (CoD)?
Before figuring out what rates are fair you should take all the variables into account, the big one is probably the default rate. If enough of these small businesses go out of business the survivors will have a more difficult situation as well because their loans will have to make up the shortfall. A typical default rate for these kind of loans is 5 to 10%, that's a lot of principal losses.
>All that's special about it (and not that special) is that the president is there in person

I cannot fathom how you think this is "not that special". Of _course_ it's a bigger deal to be allowed to roast the president to his face and an audience consisting of his strongest supporters than to be critical of the government to a (probably smaller audience) of people who already agree with you.

If this happened in the current administration it would be met with a severe character assassination by the president, Fox News, OAN, etc. His ego is simply too fragile to handle any sort of criticism.

Of course the only way it could happen in the first place would be to trick them into thinking it wasn't going to be a roast in the first place.
Thank you! Everyone wants to lecture about anonymous emails, I think they havn't tried to use them for anything serious.
One thing that stands out to me is lemmy has public modlogs[1], this is a great feature in my opinion. Something that should be more common.

Quite a few people on reddit are frustrated by how opaque moderation is, but looking at the meta community of power users that seems to mod the bigger subs, I doubt the devs will ever copy this feature.

[1]: https://dev.lemmy.ml/modlog
On any given turn there really isn't that many possible moves. https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/4490/maximum-possi...
It was intended as a joke, like the parent.
I am quite disturbed to find that this is not a zero level base rate.

I remember the "CIA Whole Earth" from Snow Crash. I always thought that Google Earth would be something like that - some cross between a weather station and wikipedia.
All good alternatives will have rule, thus moderation.

Where does the line between "free speech" and moderation exists?
What happens when illegal content is posted? Is it stuck on the blockchain forever?
For anyone not aware, you can use macOS's keychain to store ssh key passwords and have them unlock at login. This way you can have the benefits and convenience of password managers in the command line for SSH certificates.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/48502/how-can-i-pe...
> Similar is the pretense that the race protests wouldn’t explode the transmission of COVID — how could they not?

Well, so far its looking like they did not. There seem to be three reasons:

1. High rate of mask wearing,

2. They were outdoor events where people were moving about a great deal, and

3. Only 1-2% of the attendees were infected.

You need to get a certain amount of a given virus to actually get infected. For most respiratory viruses if you are just briefly near an infected person and they do not do something to emit a large number of viruses at one (such as cough or sneeze right near you) you won't get enough viruses from them to become infected.

Here's an article about this for the Minnesota protests [1].

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/what-minnesotas-protests-are-rev...