skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buy a farm, preferably one with enough forest to keep the place warm and build a barn or 2. Start small by growing something or other for your own use while building or renovating the run-down house on the property. Maybe you can help out on a neighbouring farm, say that one where the farmer nearly cut off his hand due to a bit of stupidity with a large angled grinder without a protective cover. Keep at it, get some animals if you want, maybe some sheep, maybe a few cows. Your wife and children are probably going to get some horses so be prepared for that eventuality , you'll end up building not one but several stables, shelters, feeders and more of such. Once you've been doing this for a number of years you'll have a good grasp of what you could do to improve life on the farm so you start developing hard- and software to make things happen. A wood-gas powered CHP system might be a good start? That way those farmers who heat their house and water (for cleaning the stables, milking equipment, etc - lots of hot water...) using wood chips get both heat and electricity for the same amount of fuel, all the long Swedish winter long. Those PV panels don't do that much when the sun hardly shows itself after all...

This is where I am now, more or less.
The US Surgeon General went a step further and literally said "You can increase your risk of getting it by wearing a mask if you are not a health care provider"
Very well put. I wish I had included that phrase in my essay.
You were probably downvoted for using the F word, but outside of that that, I tend to agree that camera init is slow AF.

In fact, by playing privacy-advocate games, Apple is inevitably punishing every app except their own because while they will show "This app is using your camera," I wonder if the same rules apply to their own camera usage.

We will know soon.
Quantization aware training with TensorFlow 2.2
I still fail to see why anyone thinks this is relevant. I agree health law exists for the purpose you cite - and this fact is not related to why patrons in the study give bad reviews of restaurants that are actively operating with permission of the health department.
Apple, Anticompetition, and Censorship
Delayed test results, an administration actively spreading misinformation and telling people that the experts are lying to them, anti-vax/anti-mask/etc conspiracy theories spreading like wildfire, CDC suddenly telling people they can stop self-isolating without testing negative, public television broadcasters giving nation-wide air time to conspiracy "documentaries" telling people Dr. Fauci created the virus and vaccines will kill them, idiots pushing for schools and businesses to reopen regardless of the infection rate, etc.

We're fucked. I fear that it's going to be a very long time before I'm able to travel outside of the US again, and I really can't blame the countries who don't want us within their borders right now.
I don't know how these are sleaze emails. These are marketing emails. If you are using a free version of something, they will try to push you to a paid or enterprise version. I bought an iPhone but still get emails from them to get the Apple TV or the Apple News or the Apple Card service. How is this any different.
Indeed, and it's early days yet.

From the article:

> It also reveals that, whatever the people of Ireland have been told, their app is collecting centralised data on them.

The signup flow has a very obvious and well written opt-in for collection of anonymised data to help track how well the app is working, which was mentioned by the BBC article linked. I don't think people are being mislead.

I personally decided not to enable that, but did give the app my phone number to be shared in the event I'm a close contact.

> it has been in use, it is claimed to have resulted in 91 “close contact exposure alerts”, which is remarkably few.

That they know of, as those users either opted in to the anonymous tracking or (possibly) gave their phone number. It'd be useful to know how the install base per the usual Android/iOS stats compare with the anonymous tracking enablement, but those numbers haven't been shared as far as I'm aware.

Right now our overall case numbers are low enough (around 20 per day) that it's likely hard to tell how effective the app is. However our R is currently estimated at 1.1, so even a little help from the app could help keep us below 1.
> If they're employed in an at-will state, they can be fired for something like that. No sense needed.

Exactly, that's the whole argument here. When you are talking about destroying people's lives, harming society, harming innocent people, I think sense should be needed.

I get your argument, I used to be more libertarian than I am now, things have changed.
If a cryptographic hash function is used, the security of this scheme doesn't rely on keeping the algorithm secret, though. Therefore, it's not security through obscurity. Of course, weaknesses could still exist (e. g. a too small input space because the ID that is hashed has too little entropy).
> Maybe they have now what Picasa did 7 years ago.

I hear ya, brother! I still have the final version of Picasa for Windows and Linux. What a shame it's proprietary.
Not really, I'm pretty awesome, most writers today aren't. But don't sell yourself short, I have no doubt there's a movement that would be interested in using you.
The onramp for finance is accounting. There is no other right answer. This is also essential for general business administration.

Accounting is a huge topic; being able to read financial statements is a good, first tangible exercise.

Best book I have found for this is Thomas Ittelson, Financial Statements.

Using double-entry accounting methods for your own financials with a tool like Beancount is super helpful from a practice perspective, and appealing to an engineering mind:

http://furius.ca/beancount/

"Being able to level with CEOs and CFOs" is less about administering a business and more about being able to communicate with executives. This is essential for all technical people, whether or not they have management or executive ambitions themselves.

This also is a huge topic, I would suggest starting with concise definitions of what managing is, and what being an executive is about. When you understand the concerns of the people you are communicating with, you can do so more efficiently and effectively.

From a mindset perspective I would start with Peter Drucker, The Effective Executive, and since everyone is their own CEO, his book Managing Oneself is very valuable.

These are all classic texts, still valuable and relevant, as these topics are as old as the hills.

Good luck.
> Surely you should be backing up in an append only fashion initiated from the backup server

The key idea is assuming everything is compromised. Whether you use append or whatever, is not helpful if the functionality to change that configuration exists, because that gets changed, backup server is gone, backup storage is gone, etc.

You have to design a system where even a rogue IT admin with full access to everything can’t screw you. Usually that involves third parties where there is no mechanism for a rogue IT person or other attacker to delete your offline backups. So some people have Iron Mountain pick up disks in a lock box daily, or use an online backup service that specifically has features for this, where they keep extra copies of your backups completely offline and provide no mechanism for the customer to delete them.
There are loads of teachers, librarians, sports coaches, parks employees, etc, etc that can’t do their jobs due to COVID. Those people could be doing contact tracing.
My wife, on me telling her about this, pointed the most obvious way Instagram could be using this, without storing, recording, or transmitting anything.

As you scroll your feed, they analyze your face, and use your expressions to see how you feel about a particular post. It’s like “likes” on steroids.

They already have the face detection, expression detection, etc code built into their app through the filters and those act in real time and locally. It would be super easy to redirect that towards analyzing user expressions in response to posts they may be reading at the time.
I work for a big institution that includes a massively funded hospital network. I don’t actually work for the medical part of the institution. I am technically deemed an essential worker because we have servers on-site.

Recently I had some minor symptoms and wanted to get a test. By going through my employer’s employee testing process I

A) got a test scheduled for the same day I called
B) got my negative result under 12 hours later

This was a transformative moment for me in recognizing that there is an intentional, and centralized project to stress testing capacity in the United States. There is no shortage of materials or staff, just funding for lab capacity. This is an incredibly solvable problem that our leaders are choosing not to solve.

I truly believe the future historical narrative of this moment will cast our elected leaders as the orchestrators of mass genocide. It’s hard to consider living, breathing, contemporary people who hold esteemed positions to be on the level of evil as historical Nazis. But as time passes and we consider the impact their choices are having, it will both become easier to cast them in such a light, and to question the passivity of a population that accepts their decisions. It has never been more clear to me how such atrocities can happen and at the same time become normalized.
Agreed, timings are not too hard to address in C. Though I confess I gave up on multiplication. Monocypher's manual warns users about that, but I can't avoid it without incurring unacceptable slowdowns on most platforms.

The other side channels however I gave up on them: only custom silicon can meaningfully squash the energy consumption side channel for instance. Software approaches are in my opinion brittle mitigations at best.

About Twitter, I may have overplayed it: I don't use it, so I mostly don't see these things, which in reality are really infrequent. The worst I got was at the time I disclosed the signature vulnerability. It was like a dozen tweets, and only a couple were openly mocking (for the anecdote, I only saw those tweets a year later). In any case, I don't give them much weight: writing this kind of drivel requires some degree of ignorance about my work.
> Moreover, the claim that GPT-3 is a good tool for astroturfing is unproven so far and I am extremely skeptical.

Fully agreed. These great "I've only clicked next ten times" examples are nice and all, but usually are still going nowhere. On the other hand, GPT-3 _is_ pretty good, even when it needs some form of human curation. At some GPT-n we _will_ have this problem (at least with a high probability), so the point still stands.

> I don't think even the limit on the ability of individual, "real" people to spout Trollish garbage has been the limit.

That's probably true, though.
Searching for SARS-CoV-2 Along Mekong/Lancang R. Basin
If anyone is interested in example of a reversible operation, the simplest one is logical negation of a single bit. The second-simplest is CNOT, or controlled-not, where one bit is the "control" bit and another bit is the "target" bit. If the control bit is 1, the target bit is flipped. If the control bit is 0, the target bit is unchanged. The control bit is always left unchanged.

A very important reversible gate is the CCNOT gate (also called a Toffoli gate) which has two control bits that only flip the target bit if both are 1. This is a universal gate: any reversible logical operation can be constructed from a series of Toffoli gates.

The article refers to reversible computers as "quantum computing's practical cousin" because all operations on a quantum computer are reversible (except for measurement). You may recall the recent pop science headline "scientists reverse time using a quantum computer"[1], which was a hideous mangling of this concept.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2019-03-physicists-reverse-quantum.htm...
Thanks for clarifying. I agree that Datomic is expensive to run and that open sourcing it would not improve this overnight, a lightweight and cost-effective alternative would be great.

How will you handle security when accessing a Datahike backend from the browser?
I've used Datomic from the browser indirectly in the past for internal tools, using a custom rest api to run the queries, but for external access it was not clear how to limit the queries to the parts of the database the user had permission to view.

What are your plans for IOT development?
I found that Datomic is not a good fit for timeseries data, does Datahike offer any advantages?
Ungated Web Archive [1] of The hunt for the origins of SARS-CoV-2 will look beyond China. Horseshoe bats in Yunnan Province are found near the Lancang River, the northern section of the Mekong [2] in Southeast Asia.

Some horseshoe bats practice nighttime perch feeding [3] which places their guano in close proximity to the nocturnal arboreal animals [4][5][6] known to be good candidates for a natural recombinant event [7].

[1] http://archive.is/8CRuh#selection-583.0-583.61

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mekong

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_bat#Diet_and_foragin...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin#Behavior

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_palm_civet#Behaviour_and...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon_dog

[7] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.10.942748v2
Emugaming – Windows 10 on Docker (+QEMU) with GPU Passthrough
I think it’s a little unfair compared to letting people put their orders on exchanges directly
Anecdotally during a period of 3 or 4 months when I had gone to numerous Ayahuasca ceremonies here in Canada, I saw the progression of a self-proclaimed alcoholic who felt like she was going to die soon from the illness - and physically she was very pale and unwell looking; so much so that she was seeking and willing to try anything including Ayahuasca, which is an entheogen similar to but different than LSD - and arguably being done in a ceremony setting provides a different container as well.

There's an opportunity after a ceremony to share during a talking circle. I can't remember if the woman shared during then or to me afterward, however she told me in the morning that she could feel like alcohol no longer had a hold over her. I saw her 3 or 4 more times over a 3 to 4 month period at ceremonies - and by the end she looked very healthy, her skin had a healthy pink tone to it - and she was beaming with energy compared to before.

Another experience to share related to alcohol and Ayahuasca: an ex-girlfriend of mine had gone to a few ceremonies with me. After her first ceremony she shared two notable things. The first was an insight from her family dynamics that she could see from a holistic level looking down at the structure, which seemed to give her great comfort, reducing her baseline stress. The second was she was presented or saw simultaneously two separate "objects": she saw alcohol and she saw social situations. She's Russian so perhaps the deep cultural aspect of alcohol that seems to go with her background, along with her family always immediately offering a drink to her as their greeting when she'd visit are examples of how deeply engrained alcohol and socializing were for her. After her experiencing that division separating alcohol consumption and social situations, she roughly said she no longer felt the need to drink when socializing - though she never had a problem with alcohol - she felt like whatever association and connection to alcohol simply diminished, arguably due to the clear division of the contexts; unlinking the healthy engagement of socializing from alcohol consumption.
As someone already responded, you ducked, dodged, and dived out of answering my question.

A group of people in camo come running up. It doesn’t say POLICE or DHS or SWAT or anything in giant letters on their front, back, or helmet. What are people supposed to do? Ask? They refuse to identify themselves.

Are you going to let yourself be restrained and taken away by people you don’t know?

Impersonation of a law enforcement officer is a huge crime. Because citizens need to know. I would fight tooth n nail any added on “resisting arrest” or “assault of an officer” in these circumstances.

Look at the Breonna Taylor incident. Police executed a no knock warrant close it midnight. Ms. Taylor’s, not knowing what was happening, boyfriend opened fire. Police returned fire. She got killed. The boyfriend is charge with crimes against the police. Worse is the fact the cops were at the wrong house.
State and local governments are allowed to borrow and they do quite a lot of it. The difference is they don’t have a guaranteed buyer for their debt like the federal government does with the federal reserve.
Well if you know anyone in New York I’d be happy to take a recommendation for a WC teacher. I tested positive for the sars-cov-2 antibodies already, so I’m not as worried about being around people at this point of the pandemic (within reason).
None of what you mentioned requires a lot of effort on Windows. Exploits in LSASS are no different from exploits in Linux kernel, and if you stay up to date and configure everything correctly you should be fine.
I think your generalisation doesn't work once you get to sites with advanced staff and budget. For example this will stop all but extremely targeted attacks: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro... but it requires a lot of time managing and the more varied things you do, the more annoying it will be to manage. (+ It's probably impossible for devs)
Where’s the national campaign to dump Instagram like there is Tik Tok?
Walt Disney and the Quest for Community
I didn't design patchbay to scale. I think of it more as a hammer, or maybe a Swiss army knife. Things can be useful without scaling.
Short-term, global warming is set to increase the amount of moisture in the air, meaning that high elevation places will likely see more snow until the warming hits a threshold where most of the moisture will fall as rain.
This post was scraped from my old technical blog: http://web.archive.org/web/20100423003857/http://mmcgrana.gi...

Looks like the site has a few other scraped posts as well.

FWIW I no longer use this exact noprocrast(1) approach to avoiding procrastination, but do apply the same basic idea.
This discussion thread is in response to an article called "What's the point of Covid-19 test that takes 19 days for results?" If the contents are to be believed, that seems pretty far behind to me...
Their statements were worded to state they were probably ineffective for healthy people to wear for their own protection in the general environment. That is probably true in that the point of masks is mostly to protect others. So if you don't have enough masks (for total coverage,) a higher risk group using them all was not going to be effective in protecting the high risk individuals unless they tend to cluster.
You're mainly taking offense with the lack of a citation, I think, but I might be able to at least explain the timeframe mentioned here. I'm neither a doctor nor working in this field, so take everything with a grain of salt:

The incubation period is usually five days or more, while patients can already be infectious two days before symptoms show. That means there is a window of opportunity of 2-3 days to find contacts of the current case and put them into quarantine before they start infecting even more people.

Where the percentage comes from, I do not know but I would assume that it is meant to push the number of new infections per case (R = reproduction number) to 1 or even better well below it (R < 1 means it would eventually fizzle out). Super sketchy math: if the reproduction number is ~2.5 and you trace and quarantine 90% of the contacts (1 - 0.9) * 2.5 ~= 0.25 new cases will slip through. They might be aiming at such a high number to compensate for other cases where no tracing is done (e.g. because it was not known that the patient was Covid-19 positive) to keep the overall reproduction number low.

Once again - I am not a professional and just offering some thoughts about the problem (and happy to be corrected / to learn more).
so you are saying that test results are intentionally being delayed?

i am not a fan of this administration and feel there is plenty of blame to go around but i would love for more insight on why you think there is some intentional malice happening...
Other “philanthropy”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Shaw#Political_and_ph...
Ask HN: How to get a job without degree?
I dropped out of college. Now I am looking for a job but I'm struggling with approach. What is your advice on getting a job without a degree ?

Mostly I have problems with making CVs and I get anxious if I get question about my education.

Areas I'm looking to work in are incident response, malware analysis and system administration.
For the record, he replied: https://twitter.com/jayriverlong/status/1287153385427226624
I know what marginal cost means. Yeah, there are a good portion of GPT-3 costs that are fixed costs. But also I would wager there's a large portion of costs that are roughly proportional to the scope of your astroturfing campaign. It's not zero marginal cost, and even though the marginal cost might be smaller than hiring people, the fixed costs are probably higher.

I disagree with the premise that GPT-3 will greatly decrease the power of individual speech; I just don't think it will be as impactful as some people think, and I believe the burden of proof is on those people. It's probably going to have a marginal effect, though. But also I thought I gave some reasons for protecting anonymity in my first comment, and the last paragraph hints at the problem with banning anonymity: it necessarily centralizes control over the Internet.
Google reportedly spying on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok users on Android
The state aggregated data for California doesn't make much sense. San Diego county is still contact tracing at 90% (was 98% earlier) https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/dam/sdc/hhsa/programs... Since this stat is monitored state wide as a reopenning criterion other populous counties should be comparable.
Do you plan on living and paying taxes for a substantial amount of time in your target country?
Just a nitpick: Hubble is at a much higher altitude than Starlink and as such would never be interfered with.
Dancing is one activity I’ve always struggled with. I did musical theater all through school, have gone to dance parties, different music clubs all my life, and I have just always disliked dancing and found it to be tiresome and boring.

I even figured in my early 20s it was one of those things where I had to just keep trying more until I found the right style, but I took adult classes in swing, ballroom, disco, various fitness dance and modern dance and just universally hated it all. I am amazed and wowed by watching professional dancers, but I find the act of doing any kind of dancing for myself is just a deeply mentally disinteresting, grating, boring slog that I can’t get into.
I really like projects like this since it feels true to the vision of the Internet as a distributed network of peer nodes, instead of the modern incarnation of centralized servers vs. consumer clients. Email was notably absent which makes sense given the challenges of self-hosting a mail server [1] but I hope someday that too will become easier.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22789401
Without knowing the base rate for a community isn’t specificity and sensitivity like a numerator without a denominator?

“Roche’s SARS-CoV2 antibody test, which has a specificity greater than 99.8% and 100% sensitivity3 (14 Days post-PCR confirmation), can help assess patients’ immune response to the virus.”

https://www.roche.com/media/releases/med-cor-2020-05-03.htm
Some galaxies have stars in the trillions. Even the Milky way is at something like quarter of a trillion. It's mind-boggling.