skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Running your own VPN provides no privacy, since you're the only user.

Of course other VPNs don't provide privacy either. The belief that they do is due to marketing, and misunderstanding what the "Private" part of VPN means: it means that two non-publicly routable IP networks (10/8, 172.16/12, 192.168/16) are virtually joined into one network. VPN companies took advantage of this (and that the connection is usually encrypted) to imply that they offer a privacy product.

The main use of a commercial VPN is to bypass region locks and other legal controls that depend on location. Pick a VPN provider (or VPS host) in a jurisdiction that won't cooperate with your home law enforcement. Assume the VPN provider spies on all your traffic.
Despite this, they claim to be working on a way to verify their privacy claims. I don’t understand how, but if they succeed it will be noteworthy and might redeem them a fair bit
I believe, based on conversations I've had, that the target audience of NewPipe overlaps with the target audience of solutions such as PeerTube, Mastodon, and other FOSS, privacy-centric alternatives.
I wouldn't count on Keemstar as a reliable source of cyber-attack coverage
There aren't a tonne of environments on the internet today, though: there's effectively one.

It's generally: normal people thrown into a garbage dump with a few psychotic basket cases, some attention-seeking ten-year-olds, some bots, viral-marketers, narcissistic grifters... all with pseudonymity, and scant moderation.

If you were to lock twenty Tom-Hanks-level-affable people, into a room with three people who continually rant, push buttons, interrupt you, tell obvious lies, and spout inanities, eventually you'll have 23 badly behaved people.

The design of the internet, especially its current incarnation, incentivizes stupidity and vitriol.
How about to find out if it’s possible to artificially start a pandemic ?
"Gain of function" is regularly done to make various viruses "better" so as to study then how to defend against that potential mutation happening naturally.

See the big scandal from some years ago when the H5N1 virus was modified in a lab to be airborne, and the accusations that such research on such a dangerous virus is just reckless.
How do you think food gets made and distributed?
Piggybacking on this, can anyone comment on Mozilla’s new VPN service?
Galileo says, no it wasn't always like this.
The financial damage is completely self inflicted. There is plenty of food, housing, and other necessities of all kinds except some items specific to treating the pandemic itself (which is important, but not the goal of "reopen it the economy").

Closing restaurants and football stadiums doesn't deprive anyone of the necessities of life and health. We can watch TV for entertainment. People doing essential work haven't stopped.

The only economic-related suffering are people being pushed out of their homes by landlords, or refused food (of which there is plenty) by the controllers of the food supply.

Government officals, corporation managers, billionaires and few others are simply unwilling to let go of their obsession with hoarding money, an imaginary social invention (which is of course useful in easier times), for a few months while we fight the commmonest real enemy the world has ever faced.
This is great, I've wrapped react-inspector in the past into a webcomponent for this, but shipping React and ReactDOM just for this functionality always felt a bit wrong, although from what I understand this requires Vue instead?

I am still hoping for someone to wrap the chromium dev tools in an easy to use webcomponent
Island.
Not sure he has any options there. The normal approach would need to be overwhelming to be taken seriously without the protection of some political language. You’ll need to defend your reasoning just for people to hear you out once there are political implications. And that’s on top of the normal work. I can’t interpret this though so I cannot say myself.
depends on what you mean by always, but looking back at how this was handled re: tobacco, leaded gasoline, and climate change (pre 2000) should give you some idea.

As far as I personally can see, it's been like this for a large portion of the 1900s at least.
The US get their share of criticism too.
This is at most a conflation, not a misconstrual.

I prefer to think of these words as points in a spectrum, rather than definitional prisons with tight boundaries.

Allowing school districts to do what they are constituted to do, is more democratic than delegating it to the State governments, which is more authoritarian.

Authoritarian is also not an antonym of democratic. They correlate, but not as strongly as any advocate for democracy would prefer.
> Saleh showed compassion

Or Salah thought that he probably wouldn't get his money back if Haspil was arrested, so he made a deal with him.
My main problem with Vue 3 was succinctly summarized in the RFC:

"More Flexibility Requires More Discipline

Many users have pointed out that while the Composition API provides more flexibility in code organization, it also requires more discipline from the developer to "do it right". Some worry that the API will lead to spaghetti code in inexperienced hands. In other words, while the Composition API raises the upper bound of code quality, it also lowers the lower bound. We agree with that to a certain extent."

Vue 3 has committed several cardinal sins of software projects:

1) Splitting the API, allowing several different ways of doing the same thing. Call it "basic" and "advanced". Every developer thinks they're smart enough to use the advanced method, and egocentric devs will shame others to do it that way because it's "better" (this is already happening). This is a community killer.

2) Most orgs don't have the discipline required to keep code from turning into a mess if a library or API will let them. Time constraints, miscommunications, refactoring gone wrong, and general ignorance or outright stupidity always rears their ugly heads. If Vue 3 was a gun, it'd be a shotgun fired at your foot in an enclosed space.

3) Fad chasing. Emulating React hooks was a premature decision. Hooks are a hack (and it is a hack, without any question) to help some of React's more painful points. It's not a general solution. Trying to emulate that function-first way of doing things (fighting against JavaScript to do it) isn't something Vue needed to do, and just makes Vue seem like a React-clone instead of a project in its own right.
In other words, you could hire Accenture and pay some big cat a lot of money, or you could pay 10 startups that money and let 90% of them fail and let someone to become big again.
Looking forward to the writeup- were these IGP routes?
I do think more or less any other leader likely would have done at least a little better. But if the same events in late 2019/early 2020 had happened under President Obama in 2015/2016 instead, I think it likely that many people in the opposing party would have ended up taking the same anti-science positions we see now. Federal action would have made the pandemic less bad but individuals and other levels of government could still have caused problems.
I really thought "LVNR®" was some The Onion meets RoboCop level sarcasm.

What's wrong with these people?
Accused are presumed innocent. It might ultimately be that the "early speculation" proves correct.
Did beaches make a difference? They did that in Florida during spring break in March, but Florida has low cases until just recently.
A very long time ago, I ported Smalltalk to Windows and had to map Smalltalk BitBlt to Win32 BitBlt.
>It's because normal people are not equipped to deal with the cherrypicking and manipulative narrative that these kinds of "evidence" papers show

I'm pretty sure this is the exact attitude that the poster was describing. You're just blanket dismissing out of mainstream science with accusations of bad faith.
They have good slides.
It's a good analogy. In particular, GPUs completely broke the trajectory of benefitting from carefully-managed compute granularity. One could say that CS/EE is now back-filling harder problems that didn't demand to be solved over the last decade because of GPUs.

Optimizing for cache management and branch prediction is very difficult. And most programming is done a level of abstraction that isn't amenable to staying portable (i.e. staying nimble) after optimization.

Plug: Staying algorithmically nimble after optimization is a problem we've "solved for" at our startup (monument.ai)
Because its not worth it to make millions other people suffer due to lockdown.
I have a frontend project coming up myself. I’m investigating which new platform to use, Vue or React. I’m not sure about Angular.

How do you rate each platform’s ability to get someone up to speed?
Blood tests are not particularly useful for detecting magnesium deficiency. Deficiency is in the cells, not the blood, and blood levels are fairly transient.

That said, it is definitely something to discuss with a doctor. I've had good luck recently working with a naturopath who is highly knowledgeable about nutrition and has far more time to discuss such things as diet and supplements than any general practitioner I've ever visited.
Yes, exactly.

But Australia is also an island, in the relevant sense for this discussion, and didn't succeed in eradication.

Hawaii also had considerable success, albeit recently undermined. Much to my chagrin, since I live here.

My conclusion is that eradicating this virus is very difficult, even with all the advantages.

But again, not impossible.
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See way it is now, by essential workers wearing masks. Not by packing halls with protesters holding coughing parties.
Yes for use WebRTC is mandatory have https either for browsers based on Chromium, Gecko and Webkit. (Chrome, Firefox, Safari).

I'm completely agree with you because I'm tried on iOS Safari and I got a poor performance over the video call.
You can legally buy grenades as a civilian, not as easily as ammo but still possible.
USSR/Russia back then, probably today too - at the end of the quarter, all unexpended ammo which had been budgeted for the quarter had to be expended, otherwise the ammo budget for the next quarter may be cut. So, load up the guns and the ammo and off to the range...
The one national level thing Trump could and should have done, but didn’t, is ban international and interstate travel.
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You don’t think it is important to understand the root cause of COVID-19 ?

It is going to kill millions of people, potentially reduce the life expectancy of tens of millions more and severely impact everyone on this planet.
No one is saying to shut down essential workers.
Just to push pause on the silly luxuries we've come to expect.
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> "your arguments better agree with the established consensus unless you have overwhelming evidence that you are right."

Isn't that the whole point of science? Big claims require big proof. What standard are you proposing be used instead?

Or are you leaning on the "better" in that sentence in the sense of coercion? As in, you're saying that arguments without overwhelming evidence that contradict established consensus are being suppressed?

If so, how? This garbage is being circulated endlessly. There's not a virologist in the world who isn't aware of it. It's not suppressed. It's just wrong.
That’s interesting but I still don’t understand the motivation. There are plenty of currently successful viruses for research that making one airborne seems like it should be taboo. But again I’m not part of that community so maybe it’s just natural for virologists you want to play with viruses.
This is a silly article. I'm a sport shooter and hunter in Canada, and I can personally expend 500-1000 rounds in one trip to the range. 60,000 rounds would only be newsworthy in a country with some very puritanical notions about guns.
Tests per 1mm/pop:
US - 140k
Chile - 71k
Kuwait - 106k
Singapore - 172k (most definitely not a 2nd or 3rd world country. HDI 7th in the world and GDP/pc 8th in the world. Both higher than the U.S.)

src: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

You're stacking your numbers and assuming a worst and numerically impossible scenario. When you take into account asymptomatic cases that are extrapolated via serology samples and not just the positive PCR tests you get a fatality rate of 0.24% (and falling) with a huge age gradient down to less than 0.008% for those under 40.

At most it's 1%. That is the highest of any estimate I've seen. Here are a few dozen https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01738-2

Knowing that the vast majority of cases are asymptomatic dramatically lowers the scary numbers you just threw out. And you must know by now the prevalence of asymptomatic cases.

Also [5] has a sample size of 36 from May, can't tell if it's peer reviewed.

[6] is a mish-mash of CDC numbers so not sure what you're pointing to.

[2] Though worth noting, I don't think 19.7% is indicative of anything out of the range of ordinary when you consider the at-risk group for covid. You would need to control this by age and all-cause mortality. Same for [4] and [5]

The question of "with" vs "from" covid is very real. Now, I'm not saying that covid is benign. It can do damage. What I'm saying that it is significantly less dangerous than people that want to remain in lock down would lead you to believe.
A tweet from Cloudflare's CEO:

> Appears that the router in Atlanta announced bad routes (effectively a route leak). Only impacted our backbone. Not all of our PoPs are connected to our backbone, so some would not have seen an issue. Appears to have impacted about 50% of our traffic for a bit over 20 min.

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1284259895475236865
Read "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions."

Always how it has been, since beginning of the thing we call "science."
Giving up on one approach vetsus another, because the incentive balance has shifted. From a consequentalist point of view, the impetus is secondary- if you think people would be better off being less reliant on the state, then any time they take actions towards that, it's good.
At least if it was someone's "fault" we could push for reparations
NYT is a US newspaper, and for US readers an unqualified ‘state’ is a subdivision of the US.
consider Foam: https://github.com/foambubble/foam
or TiddlyRoam: https://joekroese.github.io/tiddlyroam/
I believe you are underestimating the negative drag low level corruption has on the economy. It means setting up businesses or conducting any commercial activity is slow and fraught with hidden costs and risks. Information isn't usually freely available and solving problems usually involes "knowing someone" and going through backchannels.
I remember when I saw a headline that said gene researchers say there is no way the virus was made in a lab.

I'm like oh this should be interesting, they must have done some sort of dating on the mutations. maybe there are markings biologists can look at that are telling signs of natural vs man-made. or compared genomes to ... And there 100% undeniable argument: the virus effects bats and people researching bio weapons would -only- look at virus that effects humans.

I'm like really? are you really that narrow minded and completely devoid of imagination? you think labs are only for making bio-weapons? you think someone making a bio-weapon would limit themselves to just virus that effects humans? that's your full proof thinking?

I'm like wow. wow.
Thanks for the detailed reply, but FYI the github stuff is from xilinx, they just make it open source.

In 2015 vivado was pretty new, it's come a long way, so I'd give it another look. There has been a strong push as you can see to make the developer experience much better, so hopefully if you give it another chance you may come to appreciate it as much as I do.
well an m5ad.24xlarge is 96 threads and 384G with your own 2xSSD (saves on EBS bandwidth costs). So fewer threads but a bit more memory. (we'll guess that is a 48 core EPYC 7642 equivalent with 96 threads since there is no 96 core version)

That bad boy costs $0.96/hr on the current spot prices (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/pricing/)
As long as you keep framing your country's problems in terms of D vs R, things will not improve.
> The Times was initially put in touch with the hackers by a security researcher in California, Haseeb Awan, who was communicating with them because, he said, a number of them had previously targeted him and a Bitcoin-related company he once owned. They also unsuccessfully targeted his current company...

I'm not sure what you mean. The story continues after that point. Maybe you hit the paywall?
this is a non-issue. the way, way bigger issue is the Bundeswher's obesity problem. last time I looked, with the exception of the KSK, most units wouldn't last a week in a combat scenario, they can barely run around the block.
Why can't we look at JavaScript as the solution instead of as the workaround
There are two camps causing trouble preventing COVID-19 mitigation: the Radical Right where they are in office (Trump, Arizona, Florida,...), and the Radical Right where the Left or moderate Right are in office (Michigan).
The really funny thing would have been to send a single, incendiary but not obviously fake message from the account of someone whose tweets often cross the line of acceptability. I am thinking of Trump or Elon Musk.

For example, a tweet by Musk saying that he's seriously considering leaving Tesla "because it's not going in the right direction".

Of course the tweet would be denied and deleted soon after, but who's gonna believe entirely that it was a hack, given Musk's history and a single tweet? It's "Inception", by tweet.

Now imagine what you could do with Trump's account.
I'm not so certain. There is extreme political polarization, yes, but I don't think we can honestly look at the situation at hand and not see the giant Trump shaped elephant in the room. He hasn't ever governed as a "unity" president. That has worked for him when things were generally humming along but it fails catastrophically in times of crisis. Lots of people (myself included) simply don't believe he can put aside partisanship and his own ambition to do what is in the best interest of the country. I feel like my mistrust has been proven correct.

Remember, at the start of this crisis Trump did start holding regular Covid briefings, there were big actions taken, and his approval numbers went up quite a bit. But then he backed away from all that, and started actively undermining things. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
I'm honestly baffled by it because he doesn't even have to really succeed to get good approval numbers, he just has to look like he cares, but he can't manage even that.

Contrast this with Andrew Cuomo of New York, who by any objective measure totally screwed things up. It didn't matter though - he was decisive, held daily briefings, and at least looked like he was putting in effort to fix things. Now his popularity is up a ton.
https://buffalonews.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/public-...

That's really the core of my entire thesis. The public doesn't expect perfection in the face of something like this - I don't. But I do expect the politician to give a damn, or at least put in the effort of looking like they giving a damn.
A crisis like this is exactly the sort of thing you can rally the country around. There was a brief two week period in late March where it actually happened! It was a choice by Trump, which then filtered down into Trump leaning local politicians, to turn it into a proxy war.

Believe me, I'm cynical about politics too, but I think you're engaging in the worse kind of "both-sidesism" with this. Is your contention really that if Hilary was president, Republicans would have all locked down, and Democrats would not? I just don't see it. We only truly know about the timeline we are in right now, shrugging your shoulders and saying things wouldn't be better anyway in another timeline you don't know anything about isn't helpful.
Construction and manufacturing are usually about cookie cutter replicas, with log degrees of customisation. There isn't a feedback loop in the manufacturing line to product development once you have a stable product.

This is roughly analogous to corporate IT operations. There's a set of standard services which everyone uses, and there's no innovation on the desktop by most users.

On the other hand, with software and R&D, the feedback loops are primary drivers of generating information (and value). This is why so many of us preach about "testing in production" for web services.

The core of these two philosophies is pretty much summarised by two books:
The Goal, by E. Goldratt (ISBN: 9780884271956 ).
The Principles of Product Development Flow, by D. Reinertsen (ISBN: 9781935401001).
Interesting premise.

How to sell your work when all you know is a backend.
At least in the recent literature, that retail corruption is called "market corruption"--this is what we hear about the most when we talk about corruption in India, Nigeria, etc. There is another variety, more pernicious form of corruption, it is called "network corruption": here, corruption is a product of collusion between various groups over the long term. In the developed world, that's what we see, and it is hard to prevent collusive corruption, since there is no money trail. People leave their jobs as staffers to powerful politicians, and then join the k-street.
It also wasn't completely voluntary, they closed high schools, they banned gatherings with more than 50 people, they limited how many people could visit bars and restaurants and made them sit at a table. The government didn't sit back and do nothing like many people seem to think.

These restrictions with some give or take are what the world will have to adopt until it's either eliminated or we get a vaccine.
Its all accounted for - https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/pent...
Whether a corporation tells people to do something or not is not a direct mapping to whether something is ethical or not.

It wouldn't be wack-a-mole if they just had proper authentication instead of using the freemium model. It's their choice to open up their APIs to unauthenticated anonymous users due to their shady advertising revenue model, and the costs are calculated in their models.

BTW, I've never once read or signed any agreement with YouTube, so I have no idea what you are talking about when you say "the service tells you not to do it".

Even if there was more prominent messaging of the sort, it's not the job of the user to twist themselves in knots to assist wealthy rent seekers' desires to apply ancient business models based on physical property to modern information systems.
Can't be coincidence

https://medium.com/@yurideigin/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-throu...

https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan...
San Francisco County is now flooded with homes for sale
How? I mean how do you measure VPN services?
I never understood why people working in tech would ever trust a VPN service? A VPN is seeing all your traffic, and you have to take their word that they do not log any of it?
I use free tier AWS servers across the globe with wireguard. It might not be perfect, but I still prefer that than using a VPN service.
That's pretty standard corruption. But the Bush administration, as rotten as it was, would at least provide schools with resources to open.

Right now that's not happening. Why? Because there is no money in it. You can't get a kickback from a school, you can't get a lobbying gig, you can't get a board seat. There is nothing to gain.
Because we don't do tech work anymore. We put in a credit card and click "Buy Now." Also, nobody got fired for using Cloudflare.
Panoramic shots, knitting things together, doesn't work with trees. They are always moving. You need a single instance where all the pixels are captured at once. One shutter in one camera. Film still has the edge there.