skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As timer notes in another post below, the episode
"Special Episode: Masks and Science"

talks about the history of masks vis-a-vis Covid-19:

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/podcasts-webinars/specia...

In this episode, Dr. Osterholm and host Chris Dall discuss the current science on COVID-19 and cloth masks.

Transcript available at

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/revised-mask-transcript-6220
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Exactly. If they can't expect to hear hard truths from their friends, who can they expect to hear them from?
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I have been reading a bit of local history, and I came across an interesting mail exchange in 1500-1600 between the church of Como (far north, large mountain territory, witch trials) and the central authorities of Rome. Basically Como was going "Please help! witches are taking over." and Rome was trying to do damage control by replying "You bunch of clowns cannot possibly believe that.". Of course in very polite and legalistic church Latin, but this was the gist of it.
I don't think the public would've acted like adults though, but I don't think it would've changed anything either. Even with them saying that masks don't work, there was a mask shortage almost everywhere.
I didn't know about it, AMP site lists only Google, Bing. But I know for a fact that cloudflare has no issues caching AMP sites like any other sites though.
When 130k Americans have died due to gross ignorance and selfishness, it should be no surprise that those who are following sensible precautions have dwindling patience. Sooner or later, the US is going to have to actually buckle down and work to confront COVID-19.
Not everybody will see that email though and they are probably relying on that. I am sure, given the choice to opt in, most users would not (regardless of the cause) - Similar to Apples new anti-tracking in iOS 14

Few people just opt in to having their rights violated
More information is better, so the URL shown in the browser should include the protocol. Consistent behavior is better, so copy/paste should only include text that is actually highlighted.
Nice, although if you want to explore networking with ad hoc tracing tools, please try bpftrace[0]. Only use BCC once you need argparse and other python libraries.

Here's my bpftrace SYN backlog tool from BPF Performance Tools (2019 book, tools are online[1]):

# tcpsynbl.bt
Attaching 4 probes...
Tracing SYN backlog size. Ctrl-C to end.
^C
@backlog[backlog limit]: histogram of backlog size

@backlog[128]:
[0] 2 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@|

@backlog[500]:
[0] 2783 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@|
[1] 9 | |
[2, 4) 4 | |
[4, 8) 1 | |

The source:

#!/usr/local/bin/bpftrace

#include <net/sock.h>

BEGIN
{
printf("Tracing SYN backlog size. Ctrl-C to end.\n");
}

kprobe:tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock,
kprobe:tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock
{
$sock = (struct sock *)arg0;
@backlog[$sock->sk_max_ack_backlog & 0xffffffff] =
hist($sock->sk_ack_backlog);
if ($sock->sk_ack_backlog > $sock->sk_max_ack_backlog) {
time("%H:%M:%S dropping a SYN.\n");
}
}

END
{
printf("\n@backlog[backlog limit]: histogram of backlog size\n");
}

This bpftrace tool is only 24 lines. The BCC tools in this post are >200 lines (and complex: needing to worry about bpf_probe_read() etc). The bpftrace version can also be easily modified to include extra details. I'm summarizing backlog length as a histogram since our prod hosts can accept thousands of connections per second.

[0] https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace
[1] https://github.com/brendangregg/bpf-perf-tools-book
You’re right, maybe historians really do take this person seriously.
The same could be said of any CDN hosted javascript library. For example: jquery. There is an open intent to implement support for publishers self-hosting the AMP library as well.
I mean, I don't think that was the intention. I'm sure Page and Brin really wanted to be different when they started. But as a company grows, the vision of the founders is excised and replaced with the same shit found in all large corporations.

To be clear, I don't think Google or any other large company is evil. It's just the way things turn on, how the incentives are structured.
Then the worst case: Still a shortage and no misinformation (aka lying) to undo.

Still a major win over our current situation.
There are things which might be under my control or should be under my control, about which I am in doubt. These are painful to consider; if they aren't truly my failures, then other people might consider them such.

Focusing on things which are obviously not under my control seems like an instinctive displacement mechanism that's fairly generally applicable. It's futile from the perspective of actually changing anything, but serves a purpose.

So I try not to tell other people to fix themselves, because it may be an illusion that they try to escape from through "silly" behavior; I'd question logically/philosophically whether anything can operate on itself.
Seems it was not random which is a minus, but

>The combination of hydroxychloroquine + azithromycin was reserved for selected patients with severe COVID-19 and with minimal cardiac risk factors.

This group still saw improvement over no treatment, which is a huge plus(unless cardiac function is correlated with covid susceptibility).
Or from a different timeline where its 1999 and you can create electron apps by bundling them with ActiveX and Internet Explorer 6 ~shivers~
Actually, it is a property of graphite. You may be surprised.

http://nucleargreen.blogspot.com/2011/03/does-nuclear-grade-...
The witch hunt as a means of enforcing female subservience in the context of an emergent capitalism is a just-so story that is driven more by a desire to demonize capitalism than anything else.

Gender roles have remained pretty static throughout European history so it doesn't make sense to pin down witch paranoia on a changing of gender roles or attitudes that never changed in the first place.

The better explanation is the one offered by the OP, that a pre-existing desire by religious authorities to root out heresy found fertile ground in the fervor of the reformation era. The result was witch hysteria.
Users don't see DNS records. In the old world they click on a nytimes.com link and get something served from a Fastly server, but in the future AMP world they click on nytimes.com and get it served from a Google server. It isn't different.
Archive.org makes it clear you are on archive.org. The URL shows archive.org. The page content shows archive.org at the top. [1]

Google AMP doesn't show Google on the page. Google is pushing for the URL to show the origin site's URL instead of Google[2].

If an attacker poisons a nytimes.com article served by Google AMP, how does a browser's domain blacklisting help? Block google? Block nytimes.com? Neither makes sense.

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20050401090916/http://www.google...

2. https://9to5google.com/2019/04/18/apple-mozilla-google-amp-s...
It’s late, and I can’t give this the effort it deserves, but there’s really a huge conflict when you’re saying “only narcissists use Twitter” in a discussion about how to be kind and productive on the Internet.

There’s tons of crap on Twitter, but it’s just absurd to say only narcissists use Twitter.

Disclaimer: I use Twitter, I may be biased against the claim that this makes a narcissist.
When I bought my N95 masks in mid february, every Home Depot has already been cleared out and the masks sent to China where they were valuable. I had to visit 5 stores to buy a few leftover.

That was well before the CDC and surgeon general were telling people masks are bad for you don’t buy them. The masks were long gone by then.
Children’s game accounts hacked to support Donald Trump
We need to be careful about the narrative that human beings are responsible for all that is wrong with the world.

Let's talk about cancel culture. The PhD Susan Crockford, one of the world's renown experts on polar bears, was fired from her position at the University of Victoria for going against the narrative that polar bear populations are collapsing. The reality is they are thriving:

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/20/susan-crockfo...

Either we care about truth or everything we're doing is for naught. It is very easy to fool yourself, even if you're an expert on a subject. The scientific method demands skepticism and careful control of variables to determine the cause of something.

So, we should debate arguments on merit, and leave it at that. If elephants are dying suddenly in large groups, it's unlikely that climate is the cause. Temperatures change more in a day than they do from year to year. It is highly likely that disease is a culprit if there is no evidence of physical impalement.

I'm well aware of the overhunting of elephants, and that's always something to be mindful of, but this does not look to be the case here. Deadly outbreaks will still occur in nature as a natural part of life and there is not always something we can do about it.
Oh I think some people on HN are great. The person suggesting that the issue with saying the n word on social media was poor operational security, like racism is an intelligence operation, that wasn't something I respect. Same with you misinterpreting my words, and trolling me above.
The "science" of mask wearing is plagued by redundant and irrelevant abstract mathematical concepts.

A mask is a membrane (not perfect, of course) and this is how it must be properly modelled.

It is that simple - just use proper (right) abstractions.

All the sophisticated statistical extrapolations is just flawed bullshit.
Oracle also reported similar incident https://archive.vn/XTZ5f

Caste matters everywhere: schools, jobs or life at large in India https://archive.vn/tj8tI

And Casteism is worse than Racism;

Casteism = Racism + Slavery https://archive.vn/mPsqz
They both report performance on WikiTableQuestions (called WikiTQ in the TAPAS paper).

Wang, et.al. (previous SOTA): 44.5

TAPAS: 48.8

TaBERT: 52.3
> This data is only used for identifying acceptance rate disparity.

Isn't that going to make it basically impossible to investigate false positives? This is already a huge problem with racial disparity numbers in general. If you don't account for things like income or education level you see huge racial disparities everywhere, but if you do they either get a lot smaller or go away entirely. It would be naive not to expect similar factors affecting housing determinations.

You also have the problem that the average guest is going to stay for a few days, so even a listing that stays fully booked is going to have maybe a hundred guests a year. ~12% of the population is black, so that's about 12 people. How are they expecting to draw any meaningful conclusions from a sample size that small?
And this is why in 1932 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_Award British recommended a separate country to Lower castes where Upper caste/Brahmin/Bania/Kshatriya can live on a Visa;
Why do they need a special extension though? What's wrong with DNS?
So like Fred Trump
The good news is that everyone puts their life story before you get to the recipe, so you'll know if they're American or not.
>2 minutes and change to boil the water as the reviewers found

The bottom line for me is that (in the UK where maybe small appliances can draw more) it takes 2-4 minutes, so as a pessimist, I wouldn't count on one that I can buy being faster than 3 minutes.

I suppose I might do another test with 1L since I only used half that. But half a liter is plenty for one cup.

It's possible that my setup works better than most because my kettle is almost a perfect hemisphere that exactly covers a large burner.
I have not read it, but Ezra says in his interview that reading it now makes him feel foolish that he was dismissive of the book(‘s argument) when it came out.
I believe most attempts to counter racism involve shaming racists and therefore result in the concealment of racism rather than lack of racism, unfortunately. Just as teaching a kid to stop picking his nose or similar activities results in concealment more often than stoppage.
According to http://hydra.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/packing/scu/scu.html a cube of side 9.01 can fit 27 balls of diameter 3, but 100 balls of diameter 2. Since 27×3^3 = 729 and 8×2^3 = 800, the balls of diameter 2 are more efficient in this case.
Sanjoy Mahajan's The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering (available online, https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-insight-science-and-engin...). Takes a very pragmatic look to doing mathematics, while not pulling many punches on how advanced the mathematics gets. Would have appreciated this a lot, math books are usually split into dry theory where you have to already know math to be able to properly read them and books that are simplified to death for people who are forced to study math and don't want to.

Tim Gowers' Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction is a popular book on doing mathematics. Not a textbook that teaches you mathematics, so wouldn't give this as the only book, but popular "what's the field like" books could be very interesting to a high schooler.

Also, not suitable for the only book, Penrose's The Road to Reality. It gets very advanced and probably can't be fully tackled without additional mathematical education, but it tries to be an honest exposition of the math needed for modern physics from the ground up without explicitly resorting to external knowledge. I would have loved a "this will teach you all of the math if you can get through it" book like this even if I never did manage to get through it.
that’s an interesting idea.. the analog to real life would be if someone turned around and walked away, effectively muting your speech to their ears. I’m working on a new public chat app sqwok.im, actively thinking about these issues, and may consider this, thank you
With Signed HTTP Exchanges, for Google to modify the content that is served, Google would need access to a private key for a certificate for nytimes.com, no? Either nytimes.com has handed over that key or Google would have to create a key/certificate for nytimes.com. Believing Google would maliciously issue certificates seems a stretch to me.

I don't like AMP nor much of how Google has behaved with it (http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2020/05/05/the-shape-of-the-mach... largely matches my thoughts), but let's stick to what's actually happening with SXG.
I used to enjoy taking/debating/joking around with my co-workers while I worked in the office. We used to spend hours talking about football or politics or stock market.

Now that I am home, I found other things to do. Like staring out of the window, reading reddit/HN, taking a quick nap or cook something to eat.

It's not so bad. I don't miss people, I don't miss co-workers.
There's a stereotype that witch hunts were “mass hysteria” (as Wikipedia calls them) affecting stupid backwards people (another common stereotype) or stupid believers (a stereotype with a militant atheism flavour). In these cases, we would see more witch hunts the earlier the age is or the stronger the church is. People weren't much more stupid than people today are. Moreover, it's a fairly recent era, I'd even say that the amount of significant differences between city dweller of that time and traditional peasant of that time might be bigger that between city dweller of that time and city dweller of today.

Witch hunts were guided by individuals feeling the opportunity, and, like in more recent purges, bureaucratic and societal structures were abused for some ends. Similarly, there was little resistance to the runaway machine because of the lack of alternative structures and ideas. In a way, they are early examples of dystopian stories realized.

Believing that nowadays we live in a different time and witch hunts are impossible is an extreme shortsightedness.
I would note that bandanas aren't necessarily the best material for DIY masks. Still better then nothing, but folks may want to take a look at https://www.huffpost.com/entry/best-materials-diy-face-masks...
> There are those within the LGBTQ+ community that are seeking retribution. They are seeking to establish their own courts in the public discourse to revile those who took their forefathers to legal ones.

When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. There are those within almost every community who seek extreme aims. It's foolish to judge any community by the behavior of its most extreme members. I certainly don't judge conservatives by the actions of the small minority of the many far-right ideologues whose voices are being amplified by people in power these days. How about judging the LGBTQ+ community by its mainstream goals? Like, for instance, equality?

> To deny the children entry on these grounds is to say they have no value.

How is that the case? Plenty of college applicants are denied entry every year, for a variety of reasons. You've so far failed to prove that denying someone admission on the grounds of their racist conduct is tantamount to saying they have no value, whereas denying them admission on other grounds makes no such equivalency. Maybe tone down the hyperbole a bit.

> They will take this with them into life. They will raise their children in the soil of animosity.

It sounds like you're saying that their plan is to raise their kids to be racists out of spite, because they themselves faced the inconvenience of actual consequences for their own racist behavior at some point in the past. If that's the case, that only bolsters my point that any self-respecting academic institution would be wise to deny admission to a person as petty as that.

> To destroy a young man or woman’s future because of foolish indiscretions in their teens is unconscionable.

Barring someone from admission to a specific university is hardly the same as "destroying their future". Plenty of people have gone on to successful careers and happy lives despite being denied admission to their university of choice.

Having said that, were you equally vocal about the shooting death of Michael Brown? That's an example of an 18-year-old's future being literally taken away, as opposed to figuratively via a denial of admission to a specific university. If you're not at least as outraged by one outcome as you are by the other, I really don't know what else to tell you.
Your argument doesn't hold water because simply put there are hundreds of more applicants w/ just as sad background as any other kid. I mean the only way it wouldn't is if they completely did away w/ applications altogether and just went w/ a blind lottery.

What you did in high school matters. If you got straight F's you're not getting into Harvard, but using racial slurs w/ a 4.0 should? Just give their seat to the next person who worked just almost as hard as they did. I'm sure there's long lines of people just as deserving (more so probably) waiting to get in, why should their accomplishments not be rewarded also?
> It would be a birthday gift, so ideally something that is more than a plain textbook, but which also has depth, and maybe broadens their view

> What would you have appreciated having been given at that age?

Deep math is cool and all, but right now I'm working through a used copy of the Freedman, Pisani and Purves Statistics textbook https://amzn.to/2YVvU6o It's chock full of actual examples from real research and statistics, complete with citations. I just worked through some problem sets today, analyzing some twin studies establishing the link between smoking and cancer. Other topics I can recall: robbery trials, discrimination lawsuits, and coronary bypass surgery.

That said, it's an actual textbook, and expects the learning to come from engaging in problem sets. And it's far less technical than the Stats for Engineers course I barely passed. If you're looking for something less textbooky, Super Crunchers (https://amzn.to/3eTz5RL) is sort of a layman's book on the subject of prediction and statistics.
The aircraft shown is a Hawker 800, it can accommodate 10 people but would need a multi-stop itinerary to make that flight.

More likely the actual aircraft involved was a Gulfstream G650 or Global Express.

There have been many private jet flights from the USA to the EU in the past week so it's hard to pin down without further details.
Education/Employment was 100% 'reserved' to Brahmin for 2000+ years as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigveda in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Indian_history
This is nice to see.

This also makes me wish that sarsaparilla and birch beer were more prevalent compared to other soft drinks you can find in the US. Living near Amish and Mennonite communities, I used to always have an abundance of flavorful drinks and snacks.

Having also lived in the South and in California, there's variety but I feel not as much. It feels as if the defaults are Coke or Fanta (whether from the US or imported).
I mean we only need to look back as far as the red scare to find a modern example of witch-hunting being used for political gain.
How to Read Excel File in Selenium with Apache POI(With Latest Version)
Sure. It would be cool if it read the URL's JSON-LD / OpenGraph structured data then displayed a thumbnail image. Maybe show a summary of outgoing links and incoming links for SEO analysis.
These don't even equate, one is literally destroying a life, and one is just slapping them on the hand and making them go to 'oh no community college' the horror.
I don't consider that selfish. It's like Triage. Healthy doctors and other medical professionals are of special importance in a pandemic, and preserving supplies of protective equipment for them was especially important.
An advertisement to hire Upper caste/Brahmin/Bania/Kshatriya to clean toilets in India https://archive.vn/sJ7nO
I am sure tons of people here know Google history better than I. What was the year they fully turned on the advertising spigot?

I feel like in the first few years it was not yet an advertising giant. Wikipedia says they had small text ads in 2000, but seems to imply that the advertising didn't get really huge for them until after IPO. Correct me if I am wrong, I was not following super closely in those years. But that would provide a few years of "not being evil".
> Remember when Google's mantra was "Don't be evil" ???

Meh, they preserved 2/3rds of it.
those people are just mad that they are poor, disregard
Because those are the values specified in the simulator's .ini file?

I suppose they probably upgraded to a .yml file recently..
As much as a smack my lips at a supported non-XML, S-exp language for markup, isn't this what Brotli's dictionary of all the bloated XML tags, et. al. sets out to solve with its compression?
In general, Linux does favor automatic defaults over fixed static settings, if there's a reasonable heuristic to produce those defaults. But suppose, for instance, that you can't actually handle that many connections? There are two possibilities here: one is that you are processing connections fast enough to keep up, and the other is that you're not keeping up at all. In the former case, scaling the backlog up may help you keep up, though you may already have unacceptable latency. In the latter case, no amount of backlog will help you, and the backlog may make an attacker's job easier.

That said, there might well be a case for automatic backlog scaling. Or, for that matter, for increasing the default.
> Another way of looking at it is: they absolutely are self-regulating.

If they do that, it's not really visible, I don't see any regulation with how Google is behaving regarding search & web, if anything it looks like anti-competitive monopoly behaviours.
> Last time I tried to create e-mail address via Tor, ProtonMail worked flawlessly.

I got the silent treatment. They say nothing and just don't create the address.
Yeah- it's not a pleasant thought. It's like some horrible episode of twilight zone made just for developers.