skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who get a test are those who have covid symptoms or those who have been exposed to known cases. There are a few exceptions around the edges, but that's the basic idea.

The reason people track the "positive test rate" isn't to make deductions about the population directly, it's to provide data on how well testing and tracing is working. In NYC right now, positive tests are coming back at about 1%. That is, almost everyone who they think "might" have covid actually doesn't (they have the flu, or if they're a contact they didn't get infected). That's good, because it means the test and trace control is working and the probability of a person who does not get tested being infected is very low.

In FL, things are out of control. Getting back a 30% positive rate means that you're really only catching the cases that come in the door. It means that there are probably a ton that you aren't catching, because you can't test enough to keep up.
It's also hardly a surge in building. It's still well below the pre-pandemic rate. It's just an increase from the sharp decline caused by the pandemic.
I believe Gmail switched at that time to pushing you to use effectively a Gmail-proprietary method to authorize access to a Gmail account. Nobody else was doing it at the time, I think official OAuth scopes actually came later.

And bear in mind, OAuth to authorize mail access is weird. Generally speaking, mail clients use IMAP or POP3 and SMTP. One of the more popular open source Android mail clients, K-9 mail, still doesn't support it: https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/655

But the biggest issue is that, like the "unknown sources" checkbox in Android, Google uses scare tactics to discourage non-Google-proprietary apps and protocols. Use Google apps on Google devices only, otherwise you'll have to authorize "less secure" things.
> 2. Most Apple users use google maps.

The stats I've seen don't back this up. Maybe in some countries? Certainly not "Most" overall, and Google doesn't even have a third of iOS users in the US.

> Apple need to release a good search/maps product before complaining.

Duck Duck Go does just fine 99% of the time. Apple Maps likewise in most regions at this point. Google Search has gotten worse over the years as they've chased revenue while its competitors (DDG primarily) have gotten better. Likewise, Apple Maps have improved at a much faster pace over the past few years and closed the gap. Where Apple Maps used to lag quite a bit, they are now extremely close in functionality. A lot of people prefer the Apple Maps interface.

> If they are honest then they can remove the default search engine from Google to DDG or whatever.

While this is a ding against Apple's privacy policy, it isn't a great argument when you consider the worst "Privacy issue" Apple has is the fact that in one place they touch Google by default. If Google is bad for privacy as you suggest here, then by default, having a platform which only touches Google in one easily swappable place is vastly better than a platform that is neck deep in Google's anti-privacy Shit. You can't have it both ways here.
"New employees, who were screened for empathy in job interviews, were welcomed “home” and told: “You belong here.”" - What a distrubing quote, was it a cult?!?!
Great. Your link to element ui on the attribution page is broken btw. Looks like it is adding the base url of shoelace to the element ui url. So the link is showing as "shoelace.style/element.eleme.io"
The general consensus within the AdTech industry is that everything is going to be going back to the basic 'context-level' targeting. This will be very akin to the web 1.0 based targeting philosophies.

Still will be relevant to what you're doing and where you're spending your digital time but will lack the cross-site personalization and hyper-detailed targeting layers currently available to advertisers.
Show HN: A calculator for coronavirus exposure risk in groups
RFC: Promote Rust's aarch64-unknown-Linux-gnu target to Tier-1
Engineers from Arm and the Rust language core team have been collaborating on improving Rust support on Arm AArch64 systems running Linux. This RFC submission is a key step to formal inclusion of this target triplet into Rust's extensive CI infrastructure.
The Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (Preview)
Our Time of Dread
Airtable also gets my vote, but not having webhooks or even a way to delete an entire base's set of items really grinds my gears as the workarounds are so inelegant (currently I have a script that deletes several thousand rows in batches which works well but seems inane).
Don’t Share Commented-Out Code
This meme just won't die. It's a pandemic. It doesn't matter whether any given individual is at risk directly, becuase everyone can get this. Everyone sick, whether they live or die, means more people sick.

This conflation between individual risk and aggregate risk is just pathological at this point. It won't stop.
New Pine64 phones with upgraded hardware begin shipping in August
> The only thing you can say for sure is that 1/3 of the population that have children also probably have it.

No, you can't say that, because this isn't a random sampling.
The Encrypted Homelab
Computer programming used to have a natural barrier of entry. The need for thoughtful action and quiet study pushed the world away. As accessibility removes the barrier, bad people appear. Best jobs for felons today? Mobile app developer.

Being violent or angry is a mental disability of it's own, the worst. Who cares for skill if the world dies and decays around it? Much more than "this just isn't for you" the world needs to be protected from awful people capable of much destruction. The world is full of these people, more than one would think, who look and act just like you but only bring ugliness and death.
I built my first site in the 90's too (before CSS)! I've been in higher education lately, but have a YouTube channel with mostly CSS related content (both beginner & advanced). Check that out if you're interested in some great starter learning content for CSS and you prefer video format: https://www.youtube.com/followandrew
How did he benefit from the increased share price? He sold his shares before he came to power.
I don’t understand the second-degree murder charge. Surely this was premeditated and planned, wasn’t it?
That's what killed off Falcon Pro. The author released a version of the APP with a secret way of putting in your own API keys and I used that for a bit. Then he released a new version, but couldn't just grant the old people access because it would quickly reach the rate limit.

It was about that time I just totally abandoned Twitter.

Use Mastodon/Pleroma/Misskey. Fuck lock-ins. ActivyPub forever!
I'm broadly aware that this stuff exists, but where does it say that this can produce enough output to rival current methods?
well, even so, at population scale, you're going to find people. Even if you're right that MOST people aren't going to test their kid...
As to GDP numbers being reassuring, economies slow down when they reach near parity with developed nations. Japan’s famous for rapid growth hitting the wall when they approached parity with first world countries. China for example already built the three gorges dam, they can’t benefit by simply building another a few feet down stream.

Per person data is therefore important from a technology standpoint not an environmental standpoint. Existing infrastructure slows the transition for developed economies, but developing economies are far more agile because their infrastructure ends up using newer technology as they build it. Many countries effectively skipped landlines because cellphone infrastructure is cheaper to build out. Bangladesh is simply never going to see the same investment in IC cars that the US did. It’s not even aiming for the US’s 2020 numbers it’s aiming for the best tech available when they hit the wall.
How much can you save by refinancing? It sounds like you don’t want this house for much longer. 5/1 ARMs are 2.7%, and the rate is fixed for 5 years. Think of it as renting for 5 years, and it seems less scary.

Of course if the house goes way down in value, and interest rates go up, you end up losing a bunch of equity. However, the house you buy next will probably be discounted too, so the real risk is that you’ll get stuck with a higher rate on the next loan.

Your rental plan is also risky: if prices skyrocket while you rent, you lose out on a lot of appreciated equity, and you still have the interest rate risk when you buy again.

Edit: With the rental plan, you can throw all the equity into a roboadvisor or something. Those have 5-7% real returns in “normal” years, but this isn’t a normal year. (Though your equity in the house is effectively leveraged because of
your mortgage. If you own 50% of the house, it only has to appreciate 2.5-3.5% (after inflation) to beat the stocks.
If Twitter is 20% American users, how can that be considered "US-centric?" The vast majority of Twitter's users are not in the US...
Good catch. I'll get that fixed!
My wife is a teacher so I understand the situation intimately.

I do not see how saying "no one is allowed to wear as mask" as a policy is OK when someone can provider their own PPE.
It would be nice to also have more research on the effects of hormonal contraception on personality. There's many studies showing it affects mood, and anecdotal reports that it suppresses the desire for offspring [1]. Unfortunately the studies I could find don't measure desire to have kids, but only things like libido, moodiness, and depression.

[1] https://apracticalwedding.com/birth-control-kids/
For me, the term ad-tech has become synonymous with the modern-day scummy data hoarders and surveillance corporations, maybe that's the same for others? It could make for a lot of misunderstandings.

I guess most people would agree that advertisement in general can fulfill an important function, if done responsibly – but not like that. These tracking excesses really must die.
"Keep in mind that Amazon does dynamic pricing already so it's already commonplace to not always get the same price."

(from https://jika.ai/faq/ )

"Amazon also does something" doesn't mean that's right. As one of the biggest cloud providers, AWS is widely recognized for its complicated pricing model. Does it make a complicated price model good, welcomed, encouraged or well reputed?

(Why I'm still standing to object this even when this thing seems to make sense? Because I'm a customer.)
Serious answer: non-personalized until they figure out a real, safe way of me to post my interests that doesn't involve tracking, and I think that's highly improbable to happen, so non-personalized. I don't see a way of me personalizing ads without sacrificing things I'd prefer to have - my privacy around the Internet.

> it is inefficient use of money in this world

That's the advertiser's problem, not mine, and their choice to spend money just as it's mine to buy what they're selling. Advertising is already largely a guessing game of how to appeal to people and where to do it, and the only way to make it easier /today/ is by violating our privacy. They could spend the money however they want and choose to advertise.
Chickenpox is a retrovirus, which is why it can linger in your body for decades, as it transcribes itself into selected portions of your genome to hide and then later re-emerge. SARS-CoV-2 is not a retrovirus.
Tesla, China, the “Tech Cold-War”
Apparently Chase Rounds the Points You Earn, Sorta
I open a lot of issues but don't really commit code and I didn't get the badge.
Many of the comments note a number of highly suspicious irregularities which point towards this being some kind of asset extraction, as opposed to a genuine arrest.
You seem almost to be deliberately fabricating problems. In this case the solution seems rather obvious: you would put the label as the value, and resolve the label back to an ID on the backend. Just as you’d be checking the ID on the backend anyway, to make sure it’s valid.

Yes, this could be a problem if the label is not unique. But if that could happen you already had problems, because how was the user supposed to tell which “ACME Inc.” they were supposed to click on?
>I work at FB. Can't speak for other teams, but this does not match the culture I've seen in 3+ years.

I'm an Eng Manager at FB and my experience matches fbanon9876's.

In the rating calibration sessions I've been a part of, stats come into play as a data point in the overall package and usually as factors IN SUPPORT of improving someone's rating. i.e. This higher level person wasn't really driving a lot of cross-function efforts, but man were they shipping code...and vice versa.

I'm over 20 years into my career and have been around the block a few times at companies large and small. Overall, I feel that FB's performance process is, by a massively wide margin, the most fair process I've been a part of.

Also, one of the reasons for high pressure at FB is that there is a serious financial incentive for top performance. We're talking 25%-300% multiplier to your bonus AND stock refresh. For those at levels where RSU is a big part of your compensation, that can literally mean a 6 figure bump for 4 years. Contrast that at other companies I've been at, where I've received top ratings that resulted in a pay increase of 4% instead of the standard 2% and an extra 1-5% on my annual bonus.
The thief did not appear to be too sophisticated. Obviously sophisticated enough to pull off the twitter hack, but we don't really know how much sophistication that required just yet (the exploit may have been trivial). But, they didn't disseminate this message anywhere other than twitter? That seems very shortsighted.

They used different approaches on different twitter accounts, some suggested a coin return, others suggested a charitable donation match, etc. But, they all used the same bitcoin address. If they were sophisticated, they would have used a different bitcoin address for each to evaluate the more profitable messages for a future scam.
Using Design Alternatives to Learn About Data Organizations [pdf]
Much of what this article covers could be described by the term 'decisive moment'. It is only one school of thought, that is debated, but it may be an interesting concept for some people.

http://truecenterpublishing.com/photopsy/decisive_moment.htm
Sure, but without remembering what repos existed when or had how many stars when, that'll be easy to forget or be hard to verify. Rather than a stupid profile badge, I'd rather see like, a repo badge, maybe linking to the latest commit that made it into the code vault.
Fun! https://shelly.dev/p/0ecb4ea6c4ef
It can't go beyond level 5 as it has a cap of 50k instructions.
As opposed to what? PowerShell windows?
A friend of mine did a blog post on deleting favs recently:

https://tom.eastman.nz/2020/06/what-it-took-to-delete-my-lik...
Apparently my single rule addition to HTTPS Everywhere got me the badge. Not entirely sure what I'm supposed to do with that.
In theory personalized would be better. In practice I have seen several ads targeted just based on "living in large geographical area" and is "any gender aged 15 to 50".

The ones that were personalized where insulting. Like Facebook showing me ads for healing stones when I have my religion marked as atheists.

Facebook needs a lot less data and to force their adbuyers to actually target their ads. Probably though they don't because then the ad buyers will find out how little they actually gain from the ads.
> The judgment was based, among other things, on the opinion of expert Klaus Leipziger from Bayreuth, who attested to Mollath's paranoid delusions of a "black money complex"

> The first medical specialist statement on Mollath's mental health was created solely from information provided by his wife; the doctor in question, Gabriele Krach, consultant psychiatrist at the Klinikum am Europakanal, had not seen Mollath even once.

> In contrast, Hans Simmerl, the consultant commissioned by the local court of Straubing to assess Mollath's mental health during a trial pertaining to his guardianship/health care, conversed with him for several hours in 2007 and did not find any evidence of mental disorders;

> On 19 February 2013, Strate applied for a trial de novo based on evidence that the presiding judge had committed numerous instances of perversion of justice against Mollath in the case. According to Strate, the judge was responsible for Mollath's detention for almost three weeks without disclosure of the charges or presentation to a judge, failure to respond to Mollath's complaints or forward them to the higher court that should have decided them, manipulation of the court's composition, obvious misrepresentations in the reasons for the judgment, and unconscionable refusal to discharge Mollath's assigned counsel in spite of many petitions to do so, followed by use of said counsel as a witness against his own client.

> On 18 March 2013, in a very unusual move, the prosecution also applied for a trial de novo, based on exculpating evidence that had surfaced only after the original trial.

> Judge Otto Brixner had to admit before the committee that he hadn't read Mollath's written defense which he claimed to be irrelevant in his judgment. In June 2013 Mollath testified before the committee, repeating his claim that he wasn't allowed to give evidence during his trial.

> On 6 August 2013 the Oberlandesgericht Nuremberg (higher regional court) ordered the reopening of Mollath's case. He was released from mental hospital immediately. The court found that the medical certificate documenting the alleged abuse of his wife was a "fictitious document", because it appeared to be written and signed by Dr. Madeleine Reichel, who never had examined Mollath's wife. Instead the author of the report was her son, then a doctor in training.

> Mollath's 2018 action for damages by the unlawful custody has been concluded in November 2019 by an ex gratia payment of €600,000 by the defendant Free State of Bavaria.

> Ultimately, the court considered the aggravated assault proven, but fully acquitted him on the other charges citing insufficient proof. Criminal insanity was also considered unproven; Mollath was held in a psychiatric ward unlawfully and was entitled to a compensation. The acquittal from the first trial could not be overturned though, and Mollath was acquitted on all charges.
Yes, although some can not, the vulnerability which Checkra1n [1] exploits being an example of such. In this case I consider this to be a good thing since it makes it possible to circumvent vendor-imposed restrictions. I like to be the one who gets to decide what runs on my hardware, I see no need to hand off this responsibility to any vendor no matter how virtuous they portray themselves (or are portrayed as such by others).

I really don't understand the fawning over Apple Inc. when it comes to their claims of supporting privacy, I trust them no more nor less than I trust other similar companies. I know I can keep my devices ad-free because I am the one who decides what gets to run and what does not, which software gets network access and which does not, what goes through the firewall and what not. I also know what software gets access to which OS features and what does not. Can this veil of security be circumvented by a serious opponent? Sure, there are likely to be bugs in the software and holes in the veil, no more or less than there are such bugs and holes in other systems. I deem the chance of a serious opponent singling out me and my devices as slim so for now I assume I can use my devices without being mined by the ad-tech industry.

I don't get ads on any of them.

[1] https://cydia-app.com/checkrain/
I read the article and I don't see how it contradicts my point. Kids are getting sick, as we expected. Soon they will be immune. Then it won't be an issue.
[NBER Working Paper No. 27021] The Subways Seeded the Massive Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City https://www.nber.org/papers/w27021.pdf
You can make query size non snoopable if you include padding, and say, always pad to 512 bytes. I didn't read the article closely, but if this is via TLS, TLS 1.3 includes optional padding in all application data, so should be doable (depending on tls api design).
Their economy is basically broken, as is common for a rentier economy. I think the most alarming stat is that for the most part, the Saudi economy doesn’t actually involve Saudis; 90% of non-oil jobs in Saudi Arabia are held by non-Saudis, and only 30-40% of Saudis have or want a job. To a massive degree the Saudi economy is run by expats and migrant labor, and the important question is this: “Does Saudi have the ability to retain this labor once the oil money is gone?”
I understand their have their reasons.. But I don't like them taking that choice away from me.

The problem is, right now we have only 2 choices. Living in the open world but getting all our information sucked dry by advertisers. Or live in Apple's protected little garden but not be allowed to leave it. And pay much more for hardware specs.

Neither are very appealing.
This is unlikely as they have the advantage of neither cheap labor, nor a highly intelligent workforce: https://www.worlddata.info/iq-by-country.php

They are limited by an ideology/culture which discourages women from participating in the workforce or receiving an education, and also encourages cousin marriage (60-70% of marriages in Saudi Arabia) which lowers IQ and leads to birth defects https://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/art-and-culture/...

I think its more likely that Arab leaders will siphon off as much wealth as possible then flee to London and other tax havens. The survivors will be left to fight over the scraps and places like Saudi Arabia will come to resemble Yemen (which is a country which simply exhausted its oil reserves faster than the rest).
Goodbye Java
Thank you for the link. That's some scary stuff.
Hmmm.... I wonder why? [0]

> Exposing #BlackLivesMatter: It's just reverse-racism.

> Why Black Lives Matter is a scam #BlackLivesMatter.

> Growing up Asian American... racism, discrimination, and why I deserve more.

Of course. Banned on suspicion of wrongthink. No Redemption.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_us_hH43AJtU_A-iXCLmqw
I felt this wonder as a kid in a science museum looking through a microscope at tiny bacteria swimming around.

I was already a computer hacker at the time, but seeing little state machines that worked in the real world was a revelation.

I spent the next 20 years doing a deep dive into molecular machines and indeed, it's marvelous. Viruses, motor proteins, enzymes, all these things do amazing things that humans working in computer science and physics have replicated (often inspired by biology; see What is Life by Schrodinger), demonstrating the universality of information processing.

It was a fun excursion, but actually doing engineering on these systems is a nightmare.
How do you explain the rise in deaths about 3 weeks after the rise in cases?
With this feature, is the information not tracked at all or only tracked by Apple and then made anonymous when given to apps?
Yup. The interesting thing is that this 2FA exploit was posted to hacker news two days before the twitter hack. It's possible someone seized the opportunity before it was fixed.