skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Death counts are important, but only part of the story.

Hospitalizations are still extremely problematic because there is permanent health harm. There is also a massive cost to being in the hospital for an American. COVID hospitalizations seem to take between 1-3+ weeks, which costs more than the net worth of the average American.

Also, the economic impact is severe and has yet to fully show itself. Lots of employees are still "employed" but indefinitely furloughed. They will show up as unemployed when their company finally falls into bankruptcy or takes decisive headcount steps. In September, the PPP strings for employment expire and there will be an employment rate cliff unless Congress acts. 20% of Americans are behind on their rent/mortgage and are worried about an eviction/foreclosure in the next 6 months. This is both bad for the obvious reason and because a consumer-driven economy shrinks quickly when consumers are more judicious about spending.

We still don't understand why deaths per case are dropping yet. Until we know the variables (perhaps the weakest already died off, perhaps the colder weather amplified the worst symptoms, etc) I don't think it's safe to assume the death rate will be monotonically decreasing.
That's a myth which keeps getting repeated. I posted multiple studies which debunk it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23825646
I'm not sure that's a very helpful analogy.

In these cases, the notion that there is something to be reverse engineered was obtained by illegal means.
Python is very versatile from a malware perspective, especially toward anything *nix since python is always pre-installed. There are tons of pip packages that can be used to the bad guy's advantage that they don't have to rewrite themselves (e.g. keyloggers, video camera related packages. All they need to do is have a way to deploy it and receive the data, then it's just a matter of hiding the communication. Building loaders, reverse shells and bypassing AV is hell of a lot easier in Python as well.

See PupyRAT, a full-on multi-os admin tool mainly written in Python (2 unfortunately, also it's buggy and outdated), it's a great example. They use a C wrapper around their remote admin tool that is written in Python. Their (C) loader downloads the provided Python payload from an http link, stores it in a specific memory address that gets executed right after. Because it's in memory, it doesn't touch the disk, Unless you are using the Windows payload (which provides multiple options to hide the program using a set of windows' exploits).
Hey! DVC maintainer and co-founder here. First of all, congrats and let me know if we can help you or you have some collaboration in mind! A few questions - how does workflow look like - do you expect users to upload all data to your service? How can data then be consumed from the platform?
Aren’t you assuming that users are only navigating to HTTPS sites and entering information? That’s unfortunately not the case. That also ignores the fact that having information about general activity can in itself be a privacy concern, whether or not that information is readable.
Yes, but what if the cameras are not illegally placed, but in fact put there with a warrant. Then there is nothing illegal going on at all, but it would still be in LE interest to parallel how they know about the drugs, so that they can continue using the camera and maybe find out where the next shipment is going to be as well.
Only when there's a blatantly obvious reason to. The example that immediately comes to mind is GUI elements: there's both a lot of code that many similar-but-different class instances share, and a strong "is-a" semantic. Even then, most of the hierarchy is only 1 level deep (Button -> Element).

Flat is better than nested.
i can't tell how much sarcasm to read into the zip tie comment, but no power company is going to allow the use of zip ties. the twisting of the fibre cable around the host tension cable is for safety. just attaching a cable to a suspension cable will affect how the cable behave in the wind.
This idea has been going on for literally decades, with no real progress. Iran started allowing Euro trades for oil (keep in mind the EU imports way way more oil than the US) in 2003. Result = everyone still trades oil in dollars.
The places that had the drop in deaths aren't the places that are having the exponential increase in cases now.

It makes no sense to say that deaths have plummeted in NY, as cases have too, and therefore Arizona or Florida doesn't have to worry about deaths increasing as cases skyrocket.
I recently got a quote to hook up to CenturyLink business fiber for a church in a suburb of Minneapolis (on an industrial road). I believe the distance was around 700 feet to their termination point. With a 5 year contract, it was going to be at least $700/month. They told me the cost was due to getting all the permits needed and then doing the actual run of fiber (digging). Oh, and it would take 3 months to get done. They also told me I could bring that cost down if I recruited other businesses between the church and the termination point.
But this is just human. With or without school it's the same.

We shouldn't blame the innate response of natural human emotions on schooling, or anything else.
The best explanation for the timings of the bubbles that I know of is the stock to flow model by PlanB (which suggests that the next one is coming soon, as Bitcoin is getting almost as valuable as gold, and in 5 years more valuable as a scarce store of value).

Regarding Tether I think the amount of Tether is really manipulated (and not 100% backed by real USD), but that Bitcoin's 2017 bubble has nothing to do with that. To me it was similar to previous bubbles that I experienced, with similar rollercoaster feelings (though I was much calmer and was much more used to it).
It's already happened...kind of.

Warren Buffet has had a near monopoly on new mobile home construction, sales and leasing.

https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/w...
The AirPods Pro “Rattlegate”
India's potential is limited only by the incompetence of Indian government (irrespective of who is in power). Too many shady powers being involved here pulling the string. India's data localization law was in fact lobbied for by the real estate firms as they wanted foreign companies to be arm twisted into investing in real estate in India. You can search news for who benefits from this sort of wasteful expenditure.
No decentralized stablecoin actually makes economic sense. Several have collapsed. https://cointelegraph.com/news/breaking-the-peg-every-stable...
It might be worth coming up with an example that doesn’t illustrate an end that may justify precisely the means you describe. In your hypothetical scenario, the system would be working as intended according to many people, because the drug dealer would have otherwise gotten away with illegal activity that those people perceive as harmful.
The unbundling of Harvard has begun
> I think the argument that doing fake reviews on Amazon is 'bad behavior' or something to feel guilty about is laughable.

People don't think that it's bad behavior because it sullies Amazon's good name. People think that it's bad behavior because it's scamming other regular people so that you can make a quick buck. That's like the definition of anti-social behavior.

> I think siphoning off value from the Moloch of Bezos's empire is probably a net societal good.

"And who cares about all the other fools I'm personally scamming anyway! They should have been born me!" Maybe we could try to think of any other way to contribute to the decline of Amazon that _isn't_ directly scamming our neighbors.
again... what are your suggestions then? that whole response was not "calling things what they are", it deflecting from actually answering the question. if you don't have good idea of the terms to use, you can just say that you don't know.
This seems like a majorly contrived line of reasoning to me.

A person does not spend their entire lives training to succeed at one particular task on one particular day. The career of a specialist will comprise decades worth of accomplishments and failures, both big and small.

Such a career will also be only one portion of a persons life. If a person were to derive their entire reason for existing from their career, then they’re going to have a shallow and unfulfilling life. No matter whether they specialize or not, or whether they’re successful or not.

The critique that specialists lack the broader contextual knowledge/skills required to apply their speciality also seems invalid to me. Such people are simply skilled ICs, who are instructed on how to apply their skills by others. A highly skilled programmer may not know what programs to write, or what problems they should try and solve. But that’s fine if they work with a skilled product manager who can tell them what to do. Why would it be necessary for all of the roles required to solve a problem to be performed by a single person?

A world without specialists would simply be a world where nothing that requires specialist skills/knowledge can be accomplished. Aside from the obvious problems that would cause, I don’t see how that would actually solve any of the problems that are purportedly being attributed to specialization.
My father worked IT with a medical record imaging system that is very similar to what you're describing. They called them platters, and they were like CDs except the size of a dinner plate or so if I remember correctly. And there was basically a giant jukebox system to switch them out.
If you shorted BTC halfway to its peak, and managed not to get closed out, you’d be breaking even right now.
In the US, the NSF and NIH both have public access policies requiring that published papers resulting from taxpayer-funded research be made available free of charge no more than 12 months after publication.

It should be available immediately, of course, particularly since the official "publication date" can be delayed many months after the article is actually available. But taxpayers do get what they paid for in a somewhat reasonable time frame. The part where academic institutions provide publishers with content for free, then buy the same content back, is the insane part.

https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16009/nsf16009.jsp#q1
https://publicaccess.nih.gov/faq.htm#753
Honestly this argument has run before and can run in many different ways

Let me try and count a few

- Subsistence vs agricultural revolution : with a subsistence culture everyone lives on the and by the land, and that is the biggest driving force in your culture. The differences between Chinese village and French village C1000AD would be tiny compared to that of Chinese village 1000AD / 1900.

- subsistence and mono-crops : the European agricultural revolution was arguably less about productivity in a single crop, and more about resilience to crop failure - ie adding potato farming to a wheat culture put a stop to famines every few years (I mean few - one a decade or so).
Rice tended to fail less often (technically growing different kinds of rice I suppose rather entire species).

- Politics - China created political stability early on across a vast area - and that massively helped avoid famine. While there are many counter examples, a singular political authority able to move food around to offset famine for best part of a millennia was the peak of human civilisation and for all the faults, you would choose to live there if you travelled back in time.

- finally we come to the bread vs rice - once rice leaves a farm, it is storable and needs no further professional processing - you just cook it. But wheat needs grinding and usually baking was a specialty procession. This actually argues a bit against the collectivism thread I think - it it could go either way. But to my mind it's a weak force in culture setting.

I guess I am trying to say that "culture" is a tough thing to define and find drivers for - it is ultimately what the people do. And for most of history what they did was grow crops, and pray they did not fail. Getting past that mattered more than the species of crop

Edit: rereading i think i got a clearer grasp of their idea - i would fall it commitment - rice needs more labour and dedicates land just to rice (it's much easier to keep a paddy a paddy than grow maize or soy next year).
And this commitment then rewards people who commit together thus creating _culture_.

it's a nice idea, but watch out for those pesky wheat growing puritans and other co-operative well glued societies humans make :-)
His resume has that place of work listed. Of course it could be part of the joke too, but thats elaborate.
Page doesn't appear to be usable for me. I get a white screen with yellow text and lines in Firefox.
Why can’t they trial this in US ? There are literally thousands of cities without fiber and locked into crappy cable connections.
Yep, while the general shortcoming of the population described is true, it's not schools fault.

Humans are not infinitely malleable, in fact, most are not malleable by much. To blame the shortcoming of biological human on institution that tries to correct them (but largely fails to achieve the high bar he's aiming for) is idiotic.
Introduction to Druid
I'd wager they're doing crop rotation with corn and soybeans, which is pretty popular in some parts of the US. Soybeans are good for putting nitrogen back in the soil.
Police spying is discoverable, to a point, in the U.S. by following the money disclosed in public records and targeted employment of FOIA requests.

You might be able to glean sources like court records for evidence of things like corporate data sources used at trial, or perhaps other secondary sources. Finding and compiling that data is much less straightforward than that which is manadated, at least in theory, to be in the public record.

The EFF has always been aimed at the government anyway, and its taken decades of pressure to reveal what it does. A different organisation is probably necessary to dedicate itself to corporate overreach.
Read that like "Primoso" and immediately thought of "Aviato"
I thought "hmm, this seems a lot like Pika[0]!", only to find out it is Pika:

> Skypack (Previously: Pika CDN) has already served over 2,000,000+ JavaScript packages across 4,000 unique domains, powering websites around the world.

[0]: https://www.pika.dev/
I am struggling to imagine a bitcoin mining operation going anywhere without connecting at least once per minute, lest its tiny share of global hashpower is entirely wasted on futile progress on outdated side chains.
Glad my first gen still work super fine - even with Android. :)
In my experience python gives the best results when you add a little bit of computer science to the mix. It is well within reason to use state machines[0] and constraint programming[1] libraries all from within python, no real need for an extra language.

[0] https://github.com/pytransitions/transitions

[1] https://pypi.org/project/python-constraint
Meanwhile - “They make it so easy for people that don’t know anything about stocks,” he said. “Then you go there and you start to lose money.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/technology/robinhood-risk...

I wonder at what stage regulators come and start destroying the simplicity? Like Zoom initially unsecure but user-friendly has recently become an enterprise-grade confusing-to-use tool.
> Access to digital goods was restricted further than physical goods

You only have two choices as a rights holder when it comes to digital works; much less sharing or much more. There's no workable digital equivalent of the kind of sharing limits imposed by having to move a physical thing from one place to another. In order for sharing to be viable with digital versions the DRM would need to be much more sophisticated, or the prices would need to be much higher.

Edit: if you want a concrete example of the harm caused by this attitude, go look into why there's no HD remaster of DS9 or Babylon 5. The studio broke down sales figures for previous SciFi remakes and then the degree to which those shows are torrented. If even an appreciable fraction of the freeloaders ever actually bought the discs, then it would be worth it to make one. You don't, so they don't.
Here is an interesting video by Numberphile on the Enigma machine, for anyone curious on the details of its inner workings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2_Q9FoD-oQ
Escaping your competition by blowing past them is a fundamentally different concept than finding problems to solve that don't already have solutions and existing competition though...
People expect workers to be paid at least minimum wage, but they don't want to pay the price and buy from China... That is a pinnacle of hypocrisy in our world.
Much of that came from Lewis Mumford's works on Technics from the 1930s!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technics_and_Civilization
I was talking to a coworker earlier today (who is starting a community WISP), and it seems most of the effort/time for an ISP is about real estate negotiations, not technology.
Michael Glickman – Wrote about mathematical sophistication of crop circles
The enterprise networks I’ve been on don’t give endpoints direct internet access. You can only access the web through an authenticated proxy. This forbids SSH, unless you set up additional infrastructure to tunnel it in HTTP.
I'm assuming that they are allowing service loops to be added to the system just for the purpose of allowing for cuts in the line to be fixed. Of course, this was just a puff piece for marketing/PR, so there's lots of details left out. However, now, instead of just the regular crew of linesmen to install/repair cables, you also have to have a robotics crew along.
But ham radio is independent of infrastructure, in a way that internet technologies are not.

For HF radio over large distances (hundreds of kms at least), all you need is for the physical properties of the ionosphere to remain constant, and a smallish amount of electrical power.
“Warfighter” is one of the more recent of a series of invented terms for members of the American military. “Soldier” strictly implies a member of the Army, and since we have four going on five branches of the military now, simply listing them all (soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and...spacemen?) is awkward. The previous catch-all term of “servicemen” is considered sexist, on top of not sounding nearly as macho for whatever that’s worth.
>I literally shared multiple studies which state "There is limited evidence for their effectiveness in preventing influenza virus transmission either when worn by the infected person for source control or when worn by uninfected persons to reduce exposure."

It's the first half that I would take issue with, and I don't see anything you quoted as convincingly supporting it.

Garden variety masks are not suitable for healthcare professionals; that's why N95 masks are reserved for them. But the ordinary masks are vital to reduce the odds of transmission where the proportions of infected to not-infected are inverted.

It's fundamentally different whether you have one (potentially) infected person surrounded by non-infected people, or one (presumably) non-infected person surrounded by infected people. The latter needs an N95 and maybe more, and the former needs anything as long as it deflects exhalations a little.
Honestly that's the most convincing thing about Marxism - economics drives everything else, because if you ain't got the money you can't do anything else in the game.
+1 People are not mathematical spheres.
When the 1% own the majority of the market and use it to control the other 99% into making them richer, what would you call that?
This is a really innovative technology from Facebook that has a lot of potential. Props and hat tip to everyone involved in making it work.

Using existing powerlines is a double-edged sword. That infrastructure really does exist everywhere in the world. At the same time, if a powerline is cut or severed, requiring special machinery (or robotics?) to replace the fiber line is going to be a real challenge and can keep people offline for a very long time. Hopefully they're thinking of that scenario.
What's not so easy to understand that the looks matter?

I've gone through a list of wiki apps a few months ago as DokuWiki was showing its age, every time the demo page looked like some web from the 90's, I don't care what features it has but closed it instantly.

I do full stack web but I make sure it's also visually pleasing for anything I build because there's no reason to give users eye pain.

I'd rather think that anything that doesn't look good means the author had no time for visual adjustment as the internals still has a lot to be desired.
So once there are bundler plugins, what is going to happen here?

You will deploy ES5, ES6, and ESM and then Skypack will decide what to deliver to the browser?
I deliberately omitted the distribution from my comment in order to avoid having the discussion head down this path. Now that I see that it was unavoidable, I will mention that Arch was my distribution of choice throughout the bulk of my time with Linux (it’s still installed on my desktop), apart from some brief forays into NixOS.

I think this is just more evidence of the problem. There is so much infighting between the distributions that the community is unable to come together to create a solution. Linux is a tool for developers, not users, and its values put the convenience of developers ahead of the needs of users.
Tell HN: I'm Leaving HN
This may get flagged, or I may be mocked or scolded for posting it. I dont really care. I'm posting mostly because I'm curious if anyone else notices the same thing.

HN has generally had great content. I have read some fascinating articles, had great discussion and learned a lot, but it feels like its just gone downhill. Nowadays the front page always has at least one, if not many political, or tangentially political articles. Generally, politics are off topic on HN, but the ways the rules are written, they can technically be loosely considered on topic, especially in the current climate.

Some of these submissions may be very interesting, but the quality of discussion on these threads is trash. I have yet to see one that doesnt violate at least half of the guidelines. They're ripe with bad faith arguing, strawmanning, ad hominem, and all sorts of other arguments. In fact looking back, of the comment guidelines, the only ones I don't see regularly violated are the one about broken site features or reddit. It seems common now for day old accounts to post a bunch of "hot takes" and dip. I see more flagging on comments that dont break rules than I do on legitimate trolls and antagonizers, who now seem to be lauded as free-thinkers and victims of censorship. Even worse, a lot of this this manages to seep into the better, not political threads. I do think the moderators do a decent job of stomping out threads that get out of control, but it's a large site and I assume its difficult to keep up.

As it stands, it seems HN, much like other social sites, is something I should eschew for my own mental health. So I probably wont be visiting this site anymore. I might return again eventually, as I've left the site once before. I'm not a famous user or anything, so I dont expect this to mean anything to anyone, but I suppose if it gets any traction before fading off or getting flagged. I can hear from other people as to of they agree, disagree, or if I'm just an idiot.
> Funny how the EFF only cares about police spying and not any other spying by the corporate mega corporations

https://www.eff.org/wp/behind-the-one-way-mirror

"Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Deep Dive Into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance".

It should also be noted that the police (along with governments) have a lot more power to affect your life in ways that even "corporate mega corporations" cannot. This can be read as it being more important to affect change and keep people accountable who can have more of an impact on your life.

Another useful article: https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying