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I find value in essays like that even if they don't make me write completely different code tomorrow. Having design consideration clearly laid out and discussed is really helpful, imo. (Of course that varies with how effective the essay is at conveying its points and how relevant the points are to me to begin with.)

Maybe I've been thinking about similar things myself but never got around to thinking it all the way through or formulating actionable conclusions. Then reading the essay is just like having bits and pieces fall into place in my mind and having disorganized thoughts finally make sense, like a shortcut through the whole mental bureaucracy of forming opinions.

Maybe I've been having a disagreement with coworkers about something the essay discusses. Then reading the essay may open up a new perspective on the issue, or introduce terminology that helps us discuss things more clearly, or at least validate that we're discussing something meaningful that other people have also had to think about.

Maybe I've already been doing exactly what the hypothetical essay advocates for! But I've always felt kind of bad about it because I couldn't convince myself that I'm doing it for a good reason, and now the essay is making me feel better about myself.

Maybe the essay is completely wrong, but it's wrong enough that it provokes an expert into writing an enlightening comment on the details on why and how it's wrong, and how to be less wrong.

More people should write more essays, even if they don't end up as seminal blogposts that are cited for decades to come.
For some background on how legal it is to obtain (your own) data dumps, Leonard Bailey (US DOJ) did a great talk at RSA Conference 2020 (I attended this talk in person) on "Human Dimensions of Active Defense":

https://www.rsaconference.com/usa/us-2020/agenda/human-dimen...

His talk covers a lot of active defense techniques, and goes over some legal points in this area.

Link to the specific section, "Reacquiring Stolen Data": https://youtu.be/CNonofF0_lw?t=2177
You might be impressed by the things some kids make with Scratch. I understand that Flash was ultimately a more powerful tool, but in terms of Flash games that a child could have made, they're definitely pretty similar.

It's impossible to tell which games were made by kids, but take a look at this:

https://scratch.mit.edu/explore/projects/games/
The choice of murder weapon obviously has more to it than whether bullets are available. The US has the most guns amongst its citizenry than any other on the planet yet a large percentage of homicides there are stabbings.

Availability, ease of use, likelihood of success/failure, and ability to be detected prior to and hence defended from, and for it to be detected after the act (who wants to be caught?) would all be considerations that may make it far more viable and attractive as a method, let alone the cost - bullets may be cheap but guns aren't.
I wonder if an 'independent' report from a firm thats hired by a company has ever produced negative results for said company.
Speaking of misleading cybersecurity language, note how you used the term "nation-state", which is a word that indicates a specific subset of countries and is not just a fancy synonym for "country".
“fired” means being terminated for cause, such as you stole something. “laid off” is the term used for no longer being employed for other reasons, like the company can’t afford to keep your position around.
I share that information when it benefits me. That's the basis of ACH. Next?
In California, yes.[1]

Instacart has not yet reported this breach to the California attorney general, like they're supposed to.[2] There's a long list of companies with data breaches there.

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

[2] https://www.oag.ca.gov/privacy/databreach/list
No reason to discard it, better sequencers are always around the corner
There was an article here a bit ago that proposed this.

Test to find asymptomatic people and track outcomes to find very mild strains. Then spread it. Glossing over some points here, but that was the idea.
Where Matrix needs competition most is in homeserver implementations. There are partial Go, C++/RockDB(?!), Rust, Elixir, and Java projects, but none full-featured.

It's nice that the full-featured Python one can use Postgres, and succeed at operating Matrix.org, but it's not nice that you have to frequently "restart its synchrotrons" for users to be able to adjust their notification preferences. Python is a capable language for smaller systems, but at >120K lines, it worries me.

It also worries me that there is no way to split traffic to an overloaded system out to two not-overloaded systems. Is that fundamental to the architecture? That seems like the top priority to fix. Can it be done without breaking the five other server implementation projects too badly?
"Hair loss is on the precipice of being effectively solved "

They have been saying this for 50 years. Even the technology we use today is sketchy.

"Skin is also a largely solved problem: "

This is ridiculously false.

>70% of women do many or most of those things, and they still mostly look their age. Those things help, but very mildly. There are no 55 year old women who look 30 without airbrushing + tons of makeup + facelifts.

And 80 year old women mostly look 80.

The amount of money and effort, especially women spend on this is breathtaking, considering that most of it doesn't work better than the cheaper products.

If there was something that would make 50 year olds actually look 30 it would be would have 'infinity' market value.
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This is super cool! I'd love to get this working for my home servers as well one day (priority number one is making them accessible outside my LAN again).
No, it is not. That argument is about what should be legal. We are discussing what is personally risky. These are completely different concepts.
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You might have responded to the wrong comment -- hopefully OP will see it here, but agreed.

In the ideal situation the team of 10 produces the components/style decisions and the resulting components that the whole company uses and then you never see a weirdly styled/non-standard part of their offerings every again. In practice, it can get really messy as that team can become a bottleneck for various parts of the org trying to move in very different directions and management gets difficult.

In the near future, once one of the design tools really nails generating (probably React) components that devs don't hate, I think it will be much easier for the teams of UX/Design and UI (devs putting react components on pages and dealing with technical feasibility) to work together. It feels like design has only recently started to receive the automation/tooling love that devs have (tools that intelligently manage iteration, sharing designs, "branches", etc), so once someone bridges that gap hopefully tooling gets rid of some back and forth.
I wonder if there's some way to do testing on a walk-in basis, in a way that would allow transparency re the lack of sample and data retention.

So a customer walks in, provides a sample, and walks out with data on a thumb drive. And perhaps also with the module that was used for the analysis.
Looks nice. I would prefer a 4K display like my Precision 5530.
It fails to explain why countries like Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia have so few deaths.

There are 470 million people between those three Asian nations, and fewer deaths than in Canada (which has done a very sound job against the virus).

Indonesia has as many deaths as Sweden, with ~26 times the population. The Philippines has 1,846 deaths vs Brazil which has 82,771. Bangladesh has 2,751 deaths, 30% of what Germany has, despite Bangladesh having nearly twice as many people. The Germans responded in extraordinary fashion to the virus. Bangladesh has so few deaths because their response was vastly superior, better funded, better organized, technologically superior in its testing and tracing? Comeon.

The Philippines had an amazing response to the virus compared to Germany or Canada or Brazil or Switzerland? No way. There's definitely more going on there, including an impact from the different climates. It's entirely reasonable that some parts of Asia could have greater immune protection due to past virus exposures.
The benefits of personal DNA tests are learning about your health and your genealogy.
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You need to publicly shame them on twitter. That is a massive breach likely happening to other users as well. HN has a decent audience but twitter has an enormous audience.

Tag some tech reporters as well for extra fun.
Note that this is a general tendency and not a rule. Act 1 benefits from an AOE card for the sentry elite and the slime boss, damage scaling will help against most bosses at any time, and so on through act 2.

For the ironclad, you might take a cleave, or a whirlwind, or a spot weakness, or an inflame in act 1. The first two give you AOE, and the last two will help scale damage if you find a limit later on.
I can read the English, I can Google the lingo, but I'm just a software guy still, and this only parses to me as "there's a bunch of memory management hardware on a CPU that is really important to efficient virtualization, some of it standardized by ARM, some which might make it trivial to support virtualization, but no one knows which standards Apple has settled upon in their silicon".

Is there a more ELI5'ish accessible walk through the context and why's behind this part of the discussion? It sounds really fascinating to me, but I'm not yet equipped to understand it well.
Many of our products also support third party extensibility, so the main business reason we pitched internally was making this easier for external developers. This helped us convince the bosses to invest in the project and let us open source and maintain it. And hopefully with React Aria, we provide value beyond the standard "look at our fancy components".
What is the “banned users” statistic on your homepage?
I stopped reading at the first use of emojis. It may be harsh, but I am not a 3-year-old. I don’t need a picture book, so I am clearly not the target audience.
Also medicine and magic used to be synonymous until quite recently. See for example the American Indian medicine men.
> Cancel culture is merely a large number of people deciding to excersize that freedom to not support things.

No, Cancel Culture is the deliberate attempt to destroy people who disagree. "Not supporting" would be an avoidance of the person or business. You don't give them any of your money.

That is the middle ground, by the way, and like nearly all the rest of real life it isn't a binary situation. Actively tearing down someone's life is not the same as "not supporting" them. Unless one lives in some sort of philosophical bubble where one's actions must always have the approval of the group or else be prevented, non-support is simply lack of encouragement.

What we're really talking about is intolerance. Now we have something to sink our teeth into. Karl Popper's "paradox of tolerance" is that in a tolerant society, there would necessarily be some intolerance. The primary thing to oppose? We must not tolerate attacking people whose ideas differ from ours. After that, I think we can come to some agreements on what social behaviors cannot be tolerated (violence, racism, theft...).

There's one other thing missing from this whole notion of cancelling. No one is ever actually allowed to change their ways and gain forgiveness. It provides no room for mercy or growth. It only hands out condemnation, replacing one set of unreasonable biases with a different set.

We can do better than that.
> At some point Beijing is going to fire back. They have a lot of leverage over our global corporations.

Umm what? They have almost no leverage what-so-ever. China needs those corporations in China to survive. Those are pieces of leverage against China, not something that China can leverage for themselves against others. The reason they're not striking back is because they're already scared of the corporate flight that's occurring from the tariffs. They don't want to do anything that would exacerbate that.
Of course the inherent meaning in the statement is that a large portion of these things do suck, for most people.

I find it telling that most people who start an online course never finish them - why? The experience isn't worth it.

Just like a video call hasn't replaced person-person interaction, nor can an online course truly replace an in-person class - so many more things happen in the classroom or at a university than at home. There is intelligence in human interaction. This is what silicon valley misses.
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And do read to the end, including the follow-up correspondence.
I want too much. I need a 4k oled display and I'd buy AMD so fast.
the point is that the vast majority of people able to have that sort of success do have the soft landing and it is that advantage that enables them to create the successes they do.
> They also verified another strange prediction of quantum mechanics: the lower the energy, or slower the movement, of a tunneling particle, the less time it spends in the barrier. This result is counterintuitive, because in our everyday notion of how the world works, a slower particle would be expected to remain in the barrier for a longer stretch of time.

This seems to make intuitive sense to me, given the “peak of the wave function” explanation offered earlier in the article for why particles arrive faster if they tunnel. For a higher-energy particle, it is more determined which way (and with which velocity) it's headed, so its future is more certain (the space of possible states is narrower). IANAQP
I've been wanting something like this for so long...
Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

The DNA records aren't the type that can be used to clone you, or frame you with some kind of non-existent DNA copying machine.

They are autosomal records. (or similar genealogical, or non-medical, types)

The people spinning fantastic fairytales about how the jackbooted thug of big brother is going to crush your throat probably don't even know what autosomal means and no amount of eduction will convince them.

I encourage everyone to submit their Autosomal DNA to public databases. You may bring closure to someone who has been or known a victim of a horrific crime and there is no risk to you.

You have at least one reply about insurance companies using this information to screw you.

1. This type of information is practically useless, actuarially, and

2. It has been illegal for them to do so for many years.
The best reference for learning quantum computing that I know is Watrous's notes: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~watrous/LectureNotes/CPSC519.Winter...
fetch isn't universally supported.
strange that it needs to be said, but you can admire someone even if they’re successful, and even wish them future success
Nobody on earth is going to switch to slack office.
Well, as a non-criminal thinking about it for a few seconds, various types of blackmail come to mind:

- you are the biological parent of this person who's looking for you, and if you want to stay anonymous…

- your husband isn't the father of his children, and if you don't want him to find out… (follow-up: both parents know but don't want the kids to.)

- you've been living under someone else's identity or a fake name…

- your ancestor was a slave-owner or Nazi or something and if you don't want the people you care about to know…

- your sibling isn't actually a blood relative, and so now the inheritance is in question…

These are all probably extremely rare cases, and were likely already known before or immediately after the test, but it's cheap to spam out the emails to see who's still trying to hide it. In a large enough population, it's still a worthwhile criminal enterprise. And their rarity makes them all the more vulnerable to blackmail. Where before it would have taken real legwork to find them, now it's just some data processing and emailing.

A similar concept is like those annoying ads for semi-legal websites where you can look up someone's criminal history, there could be a similar thing to look up someone's biological records. There might be a dating app in there too: filter for infertility or rare diseases?

There are plenty of other things, from the mundane to the exotic:

- having your medical care made more expensive or being denied insurance.

- being wrongly accused (and even convicted) because crime scene DNA was close to yours or a relative's.

- hiring based on genetic factors as in Gattaca.

- individually targeted attacks like the peach allergy from Parasite.

And again, that's off the top of my head; criminals are much more creative.

The key point that makes DNA (and other biometrics) even worse of a breach than credit cards or bank statements is it cannot be "reset."
I don't think it is clear at this point that there are unexpected antibody titer drops in comparison to other viruses, Florian Krammer's work looks solid to me:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1285618977654407169.html
and original preprint: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.14.20151126v...
You got a point, but from a different angle is it ethical to hide your medical data from a company that may end up paying all your medical bills? It's almost like how people hide finances, you hide it because you want to do something unethical.

If I was jewish, I feel that right now I would just be slightly worried for myself. In general I wouldn't be too worried at all. I would, however, be more worried for my jewish kids, they may have to deal with that stuff in the future.

Although I would worry, I would question whether my worry is based on ethical grounds as that part is not clear.
Yandex seem to give even more precise matches than Google. Maybe image of someone less popular would work better.
Well, targets are also victims to some degree, but I get your gist. I would take it a step further: for identity theft the company that fails to verify your identity before reporting false info to a credit agency is at fault - for libel with damages. My SSN is not a form of authentication and using it as such should be a crime.
That's what they're trying to do. In Mormon theology everyone who dies without a chance to be baptized must be given a proxy baptism by someone living, so they have a chance to accept the gospel in the afterlife. The goal is that this will eventually happen for everyone who ever lived. (Source: former Mormon.)
I finally beat defect using, among other things, darkness plus recursion. It never occurred to me that recursion would retain the power generated by the dark orb you just evoked. All for One to pull upgraded 0 cost recursions to hand.
That's a new wrinkle on the old formula.
Reminded me of the DARPA Shredding Challenge.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Shredder_Challenge_201...
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Except that the x in ajax stands for xml
people said this kind of thing about computers, the web, etc at some point; blockchains solve previously intractable coordination problems, we ain’t seen nothin yet
The Pfizer/Biontech mRNA vaccine did quite well on stimulating T-cell responses. https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/pfizer-reports-strong-...
Absolutely fine grain access control is a must have
Organ theft and the holocaust? If that's what you're worried about your problems are already much much much more severe than what we're discussing here.
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For a country with 1 billion people, India is handling the situation better than most countries from a numbers perspective.

As of today, India has around 1.19 million cases with 28,732 deaths and more importantly, 753k recoveries.

Comparatively, the US has around 4.04 million cases with 145k deaths and only 1.2 million recoveries.

What is missing from most conversations around COVID is how to strengthen your immune system to resist the more deadly symptoms of the virus.

The Indian diet, based on Ayurvedic principles, emphasizes the use of spices and other ingredients that are naturally anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-bacterial. It is common in many Indian families to treat seasonal illnesses through home remedies rather than immediately resorting to medication. Doctors in India are recommending COVID-positive patients to do the same. These home remedies include eating "soonth goli" (a mix of ginger, piprimul jaggery, almonds, and ghee), drinking turmeric milk, and various forms of steam therapy, to name a few.

When almost 75% of COVID patients are recovering, clearly India must be doing something right.
How do you actually plot the dataframe? mathplotlib?
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This is the same level as having a breach of biometric data.

With password/payment/location breaches you have the ability to change what you entered as to invalidate/outdate the data which was stored.

Having your biometric/genome authentication data stolen or made public will be a nightmare.
Do you live here in Seattle, Larry? Some smashed windows and graffiti are not "trying to burn down the community". 12 officers got some bruises on their knuckles as they punched someone, and the media runs with it. Meanwhile hundreds of people have been beaten or gassed or hit with "non-lethal" weapons over the past few weeks. KOMO news won't spend time reporting on that because it doesn't fit their narrative.
I think insurance companies aren't above doing anything illegal, especially if it can not insure you/drive you away with a high quote if it saves them many years and millions and millions of dollars covering someone's care for Huntington's or chemo for breast cancer or some other terrible disease for which someone is genetically predisposed.

The punishment for violations of the Genetic Information NonDiscrimination Act can be up to a million dollars in fines and some jail time. It is exceedingly rare for corporate officers to go to jail for acts of corporations, so likely violations would simply be fines. Cancer is expensive to cover (less so for insurance companies working with hospitals, much more for you and I), and the fines are relatively small, with the chance of jail time exceedingly small. I am unaware of anyone who has been prosecuted under this Act at all. I did a cursory search and didn't see anything.

The forgoing leads me to believe that like many crimes that have low rates of prosecution and relatively small fines, it would probably make sense for a corporate board (or series of employees acting under mutual light peer pressure) to use DNA information as an input into their actuarial tables.

Additionally, it would be difficult to spot clusters of people who are otherwise healthy with high insurance quotes. Even if you had the actual insurance quotes, getting peoples' medical information, especially in bulk, is extremely difficult because the aggregators of such information are typically bound by HIPAA.

All that to say, I think this is an extremely reasonable concerned and I would be shocked if companies didn't already use DNA information in some form, even if that form is as some input to a machine learning model, but I'll demurr on that subject because I know little about it.
I currently still work on YoVille/YoWorld. I definitely understand the pain.
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Great introduction to GPT-3 and machine learning for non-technical people. Interesting implications/possible use cases described at the end, including therapy and regulatory capture.