skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a guy tries to kill you and your family. the policr stop him. i guess we let him go free, since you don't see a problem. this just applirs to you though. cool?
Twitter has a far wider reach than the large majority of email accounts, and is very public.
Actually it makes sense to background check from an ethical point of view. There's a reason you are supposed to disclose your affiliation, source of funding, conflict of interest, human subject consent statements etc when publishing any bio paper.
This seems like just a PR blog, there is no information here that everyone already does not know.
Should we go by the crude fatality rate since the data around COVID-19 isn't rock solid yet right? Shouldn't we measure COVID-19's virulence by the IFR aka infection fatality rate instead? As of today with 14,194,795 cases and 599,438 deaths, COVID-19's infection fatality rate is 4.23%. By comparison, SARS only had 8,098 cases and only 774 deaths, giving it an IFR of 9.56%.
night time bruxism has a high correlation with all sorts of sleep disorders, from apnea to REM-sleep disorders
> (e.g. the Bay Area), about 0.1% of the population is infected weekly

I don't know if your 0.1% number is accurate, but let's assume that it is. If somehow cases remain completely level for the rest of the school year (which is far from a given, but for the sake of argument ...) over the course of 40 weeks, a randomly-chosen person has roughly a 40 * 0.1% = 4% chance of getting infected. But that is a randomly-chosen person, whereas it's not hard to imagine that a teacher exposed for hours daily to multiple young kids who aren't good at keeping their germs to themselves is (ballpark) maybe 6x as likely to get infected as a random person [1]. So then we arrive at an estimate of perhaps 24% odds of a teacher getting infected during the 2020-2021 school year using my assumptions (which you are free to disagree with).

Is 24% "almost certain"? No, but by highlighting the tiny 0.1% number, I think you are potentially seriously misrepresenting the true risk to an individual teacher. Hopefully, all of the measures that school districts might put into place will make my 6x-elevated risk estimate incorrect, but it's really hard to know. It's also possible that kids just don't transmit the virus very often. There's some evidence that that's the case, but I don't think we have really solid data on the question.

[1] "Teachers had six times more germs in their workspace than accountants, the second-place finisher ..." https://abcnews.go.com/Health/ColdandFluNews/dirty-ten-germy...
I blame auto-correct
I have seen people taking the easy way out setting up dev environments where these security holes are ignored. Hopefully in some near future, everyone would use something like tailscale[1] or nebula[2] instead of taking the easy way out and leaving it all open.

[1] https://tailscale.com/

[2] https://github.com/slackhq/nebula
I think it's possible. Not everyone think rationally all the time. Perhaps this employee was blackmailed, perhaps s•he was soon fired from Twitter and wanted to get more money without thinking about the consequences.

Most people in jail didn't think or care about what could go wrong.
I would just consider that it's about $30/mo per student. Cheap enough to roll into the tuition costs for most schools I imagine.

Prices would come down fast as this scaled up too
You probably installed from some app store?

You need to install from the github repository. Youtube changes interface every once in a while, this is really isnt any app's fault, but youtube's. Same thing happens to youtube-dl all the time.
Agree with you, I would associate Silicon Valley with Greed and Hypocrisy though.
Fecal transplants are not currently an approved treatment for IBS but there has been some recent research indicating it could potentially be helpful in some cases: https://www.jwatch.org/na50649/2020/01/09/fecal-microbiota-t...
Still, I don't mind the excuse to get a 128 core dual EPYC with a terabyte of RAM and wide PCIe flash storage.

But I would rather not have proprietary GPU drivers.
November 17 in China?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/first-covid-19...

Possibly in October..

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/coronavirus-...

as early as September?

https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-outbreak-september-not-...

I'm getting tired of Googling fake news
The interesting places you could take it!
Funny that you mention DMCA because the beginning of your comment immediately reminded me of that shit show.

It is already a shame on Youtube, it would be so much worse on google search.
Can we stop with these posts where we dig through someone's post history and accuse them of shilling/being paid trolls if they hold a constant view that differs from our own? If you disagree with something you can debate it without having to resort to such nasty, underhanded tactics.
> This guy or girl managed to get a job at Twitter...

The employee was likely a customer service rep. Incidents like this have happened before at Twitter, in 2017 a customer service rep at their San Francisco office deleted Trump's account:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-01/trump-twitter-employe...

> When the hackers were instructing the employee to post these tweets...

The employee didn't post the tweets, their involvement was changing the email addresses on the accounts they were told to (which bypasses 2FA). The Krebs article shows screenshots of the Twitter customer support dashboard for an account:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-e...
I'll add to the chorus of other AMAB trans folks here and say thank you for being so receptive to this suggestion (and thank you to odomojuli for bringing it up so eloquently).

My partner and I knew we were done having kids before I started transition earlier this year, but if that had not been the case, a service that was more private, especially one that was specifically inclusive, would have been invaluable. I've had negative experiences in other areas of healthcare, and I really would have felt hesitant to go to a sperm bank in person, for the same reasons others here have mentioned.
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The perils of being the reference implementation.
The problem is not that ads are too relevant. It's the tracking itself.

It is possible to do targeted advertising without surreptitious tracking. I listen to podcasts and often buy through their promo links. I'm happy to tell the advertiser where I heard the ad, because I like the content. And it's all explicit - no spying required.
That’s also a thing on Azure, but you can actually deploy certificates for mutual authentication as well. That way if somehow the network layer is pierced, you have another layer of protection.
Is there any real reason you created this account solely for this post?

I find it hard to believe you're an epidemiologist trying to stay anonymous here.
The idea that someone would opt out of downloading Elon masks or Jeff bezos’ DMs is insane. Completely and perfectly insane. Not to mention the other people. Even if just in terms of profit, clearly the dms of the richest man in the world have enough value to just click download. It seems like the probability of this guy passing it up due to lack of interest is very small. Slightly more likely is that he was overwhelmed by the massive implications of having this access and simply didn’t think to do it in the rush to do something before his source chickened out or realized what was going on. And most likely to me is that he simply couldn’t do it because of a higher level of security associated with verified accounts, hence why none of the accounts were verified. He wasn’t able to do anything with trumps twitter so I suspect that for certain high profile accounts, there is a much higher level of security that this guys source couldn’t override.
We have hundreds of services, mostly written in Scala, instrumented with Kamon for tracing. In a complex distributed architecture
with many teams and changes happening multiple times per hour, distributed tracing is vital for troubleshooting and understanding what is happening.
They used an Nvidia 2080 TI, which is expensive today, but rumours are that the entry level 3XXX series will be similar to the 2080 TI in performance. That should be dropping in about a month!
Only slightly related, but back when GDPR was first enacted I mentioned that it would inadvertently open up some vulnerabilities and that it should have been reviewed by white hat security researchers.

- "Download all my data" was mandated by GDPR (article 20)

- Right to delete, right to access made it so that there is up to a ten million dollar fine if you refuse it, so you are more prone to social engineering attacks. Meaning if some user requests access or deletion, (e.g. having forgotten their password or username) you might not be 100% sure that it's him but arguing with him or asking too personal a verification proof can get you in hot water and you'd rather not get dragged into a fight with the European committee.

- While our users could initially create an account without e-mails and be relatively anonymous, a couple of "right to access" requests from "users who have forgotten their username" means you are basically forced to require e-mail, thereby carrying even more PII unnecessarily.

It probably wouldn't have slowed the hackers down much here though.
Frowning on self-promotion got us in those silos.
The President's account might also have extra safe guards against hacks.
That's fine, Google rehosts them all on AMP anyway and often people don't even click through past the search results page.
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Developers aren't invited to those meetings.
Ancient human ancestors carved handaxe from a hippo femur 1.4M years ago: study
Yes maybe. I got to go with the maybe.
I do acknowledge that Youtube is a service provider as well as a surveillance company, but I don't agree with the terms on which they operate, so I elect not to use all of their service.

I'm not "entitled" to anything, but the content is accessible to me without being spied on, so this is the way I will consume it until the creator uses an alternative, non-surveillance company to distribute their content.

The onus is on the content creator to provide the alternative - not force me to be spied on.
Why do we assume it's a young person doing the hacking?
I assume you're referring to "Section 4. Can my employer require me to take medical tests in order to keep my job?"

But that section explicitly states, "... unless they are related to your job and necessary for the conduct of your employer's business.

I think there's a pretty strong case that the health and safety of fellow employees and/or customers during a pandemic qualifies.
How would it be a disservice, exactly? "We help families have children" covers that case. (Well, it covers the surrogacy case -- this company's services presumably wouldn't be needed by someone looking to adopt.)
Vue 3 introduces breaking changes, e.g. filters and event bus ($emit, $on, $off) are removed as far as I know. The Vue documentation team will release a migration guide when Vue 3 is released.
Isn't there often a trade-off between virulence and infectiousness in viral transmission?

See "A transmission-virulence evolutionary trade-off explains attenuation of HIV-1 in Uganda" https://elifesciences.org/articles/20492
If a child is caught trying to steal from the cookie jar, you don't just let them off because no cookie was actually stolen?
https://archive.is/O9fBP
I think there is a real market need here for Business Intelligence analysts, looking for new tools along with their new datawarehouse (ie. Snowflake).

Alteryx has been around this space for forever and has had great (really astounding) success with their UI. So, I think your idea of keeping the UI but using SQL (to version to control, etc.) makes sense. In the future, it seems totally possible that you add more drag-and-drop functionality that allows non-SQL capable analysts to make queries, join things, filter, etc. (like in Alteryx) but that then actually generates SQL.

From a company building perspective, I think there is an open question whether you need to reinvent the framework yourself or use dbt under the hood (already huge community & permissive license) and simply offer a better/alternative UI targeted at a different audience.
Neither Metal nor USDZ is buggy nor something like undesired software, though. On the contrary, both are exemplar and well-performing propositions.
> What assumptions are you talking about? I’m talking about welfare.

Welfare takes resources, takes people agreeing on what resources are acceptable for welfare and what is not, resources people have to produce and distrubute at some cost, takes people who may be better at managing such costs or inflating them to outsized proportions… any country that has deficits growing larger and larger every year can not continue to provide welfare indefinitely without making hard decisions that not all people will be ok with.

Some people may decide to leave for countries that are willing to make those hard decisions, rather than stay in those that want to punt on it until they face an analogous dynamic that Chinua Achebe has described pretty well.
You are completely misunderstanding what i'm saying! What i want to say is that if a service requires you to pay to use it, then you have to pay if you want to use it; if a service is free but requires you to see commercials to be used then you have to see them if you want to use it. If a software requires you to pay a one shot payment then you have to pay it once, if another requires you to pay a subscription then you have to pay a recurrent subscription.

I'm just saying that you have to accept the rules or terms of service if you want to use a non-vital private-company owned service otherwise you can simply stop using that service.

You are not compelled to watch YT even if it has a predominant position.
And you still have the right to complain (like i do too) about the horrible privacy issues with today's advertisment but that is a completely different topic
> Schools across Europe have opened.

I’ve never understood this argument. Places in Europe are opening because they think they’ve got the virus under control. It’s an outcome, not a cause.
That trade off is made by evolution. I don't see why scientists in a lab would make that trade off in a gain of function analysis - you can just make it more infectious and keep (likely increase) the level of virulence.

Since evolution isn't involved in the proposed mechanism, I see no reason why such a trade-off would occur.
NSA/CIA intelligence catching them red handed discussing how it happened. Of course, with the Iraq fiasco still in our collective memory, who knows if the public would believe it.
Yes, there are still people arguing that this is no big deal. I’m baffled by it.
The Web Component APIs don't aim to be easy to use by application developers. That is simply not a goal of the spec. They're low level APIs which expose behavour and hooks on which libraries and frameworks can be built. As an application developer you are supposed to use those friendly libraries.
What I meant, is that in the eyes/ears of those RECEIVING the information (and believing it uncritically), there's no difference. People have always had a predisposition to uncritically accepting information from those "in the tribe", whether that be extended family, or an internet echo chamber. Presumably this was a survival optimisation. Trust those "close", and distrust "others".
From an open source, mexican "top cop" turns out crooked, mexico advises US to check his stateside counterparts: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-usa-corruption/mex...

Anyone know if there have been any resulting probes, north of the border? (I didn't pick up much english just now in a quick news search, and this is not very relevant to my interests.)
Vimeo Blocked by Indian ISP
DNS queries for vimeo.com are being blocked by Airtel, a major Indian ISP. Possibly an overzealous response to an order blocking a particular video.
NYPD sergeants union chief appeared on Fox News with a QAnon mug
Check out 'The psychology of effective studying' by Paul Penn. Thought it was going to be dry but actually pretty helpful.

He goes through study techniques and backs up their effectiveness by discussing research experiments conducted around them.

Chapter 3 is on academic reading and note taking. It's very good.

Penn recommends the read, recite, review method. @Yvonne_McQ comment gave you some really cool ways to do this like The Cornell note-taking system.

Penn's main point is your memory doesn’t work like a camera, so stop studying as if it did. He says you don’t reproduce information with your memory, you reconstruct it.

Penn also argues that repetition is not the most effective means of committing information to memory. Thinking is the key to memory so he says if you want to remember something, work on explaining it.

He cautions the reader with how we summarise. Not all summaries are equal. He gives an example by asking you to try summarise the story of batman the dark night. You could talk about Harvey Dent and the Joker being the pillars of good and evil and how Harvey becomes two face or you can summarise the film as 'Wealthy man assaults the mentally ill'.

Finally he says to treat everything your trying to learn like 50 shades of grey.

As in people picked up the book with an idea of what they want to get out if it before they started. They skiped over the content that didn't match what they were looking for. They extracted the good bits. When they put the book down it's the good bits they remembered.

Read, recite, review. Check out the Cornell note-taking system mentioned by Yvonne_McQ and Check out 'The psychology of effective studying' by Paul Penn.
X is distributed as p(y) where p is a probability distribution parameterized by y
Css is getting better not harder.

Back then, you had to put some image to make a fake border-radius.

Or some weird hack because table layout doesn't wrap.

And using a different technology that is flash because css couldn't animate.

Not to mention the existence of transpilers like stylus that make writing far easier and we no longer have IE6 that behaved on its own rule.
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Yeah, no. There is no clause in the Constitution that says "except in a pandemic". We've had far worse pandemics than Covid-19, from tuberculosis to smallpox to Spanish flu, and no such provision was ever required. So if you want to get an amendment to the Constitution, start collecting signatures.
Where does it say you have to follow through with data or erasure of users who can’t prove they are who they say they are? Both of those seem like the opposite of what you are supposed to do. I just checked the first result, and even the ICO [0] says

> [Your full name and address and any other details such as account number to help identify you]

[0] https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/your-right-to-get-your-...
I read the spain paper. They don’t report the false positive rate of the test they used, but if it was one that was commonly available, that paper’s P-value is something like 0.5. They don’t compute a P value.

Until the others make it through peer review, I wouldn’t read anything into their results.
One comment that stood out to me in that thread was the accusation of casteism in connection with Sundars leadership style - an extreme (but pecurliarly specific) claim for sure. I hope that accusation is groundless. If you feel it is, please refute it in the thread as it's currently uncontested.
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That's why you need a phishing-resistant method of 2FA. U2F is phishing resistant. Any type of OTP, or anything that doesn't bind the user action to the url bar is susceptible to phishing. U2F has the computer verify the url bar so it's phishing-resistant.
Aaand that's the problem with the API. The question was, how is API atrocious. Once an answer is received, it's immediately diverted to "the API is not for devs, you have to use libraries".

This doesn't make the API any less atrocious. And it would be nice if the platform didn't rely on libraries to make it usable.
It’s almost like human behavior is really really complicated, and resists being boiled down to a single number.
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> Microsoft was I intrigued and worked closely with that vendor to design the next-generation Direct3D API.

I've heard "accusations" that it was actually the inverse.

Microsoft and that vendor were working together on next gen consoles, including the new D3D12 API. But Microsoft weren't planning to release it on windows until long after the xbox one released.

The vendor wanted something to show off now, so they pulled together Mantel in a reasonably short time-frame and announced/launched it before D3D12 was even in an announceable state.

I have idea if these "accusations" are true, it's just what I've heard.
A good portion of the SDK usage in mobile apps is not nefarious. They're embedding it for advertising conversion tracking which would respect the "limit ad tracking" setting in your device's settings.

The problem is that beyond whatever functionality the developer of the app intended to use the SDK for, it also does its own thing of stalking the user even if the app doesn't end up using any SDK features at all.
> They slung some mud not long ago...

Oh, at whom?
The support for WebTorrent protocol (alongside BitTorrent) is also huge as this allows people to seed torrents that can be fetched by browsers.

Though your point is partially valid now that libtorrent has recently added support for WebTorrent protocol.
I'm sure the folks shorting TSLA would disagree on Elon's DMs.

Maybe Kanye's DMs would reveal he's really just fucking with everyone and hasn't actually completely lost it.

Well... Maybe just the former.
Preventative measures are often orders of magnitude cheaper than whatever it costs to clean up later.
Is this actually the case? This paper [1] seems to indicate that there are multiple types of gain-of-function research, not just an increase in virulence. In fact, the paper specifically discusses “transmissibility”, which would seem to support the argument of the paper under discussion: “In short, SARS-CoV-2 is possessed of dual action capability. In this paper we argue that the likelihood of this being the result of natural processes is very small”

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK285579/
What's the definition of gender presentation?

>Depending on the basis on which gender is acribed, it could well be the other way around.

How is it possible to have a concept of gender presentation without having a concept of gender? The definition of gender presentation to me seems to rely on the fact that there's a thing gender. Whereas you could imagine a world where gender exists but no gender presentation exists. Therefore I believe gender does not depend on gender presentation.
Found this comment really strange, I work at a far smaller company and not only would they ask that they'd be laughing at me the whole time while doing it. These aren't the sort of things even nimble companies take lightly and without a lot of discussion and review.
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