skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our understanding of the effectiveness of masks has progressed substantially since May.

That study is not the CDC's current stance (and a single study on their site isn't a stance), nor does it reflect more recent research.

Here's July, for example: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p0714-americans-to-w...

> In an editorial published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), CDC reviewed the latest science and affirms that cloth face coverings are a critical tool in the fight against COVID-19 that could reduce the spread of the disease, particularly when used universally within communities. There is increasing evidence that cloth face coverings help prevent people who have COVID-19 from spreading the virus to others.

> This review included two case studies out today, one from JAMA, showing that adherence to universal masking policies reduced SARS-CoV-2 transmission within a Boston hospital system, and one from CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), showing that wearing a mask prevented the spread of infection from two hair stylists to their customers in Missouri.
Because there used to be a single coherent narrative of "conventional truth" called "mainstream media". Sure it had a lot of propaganda in it, and was fairly heavily controlled politically, but it took a long time for that propaganda to be discovered and acknowledged. By the time it was enough time had passed to say "oh sure, back then there were lies but only other countries put lies in their papers now".

Then the internet fragmented that, providing real time alternative narratives, around the same time that 9/11 and the wars afterwards happened. So people got very interested in the news and it was very obvious that the mainstream news was lying right now.

Now your entire worldview start falling apart, how do you know what's true and who's trying to kill you? You need to find someone else who can tell you what's happening. You aren't quite sure how this whole "critical reading" thing is supposed to work, never learned that stuff in school, but you did find some trustworthy folks who are a lot like you online who seem very confident about what's happening. Even more like you than the old people at the newspapers, and more certain about things, which means they are more likely to be right! This is great, now you will be safe and you actually understand what's happening, unlike those people who keep making things so bad.
You can move other windows without losing focus by holding command and move window's title.
The procedure to get an iphone battery replaced is to make an appointment at the apple store and they swap it out as you wait.
Word of mouth and published literature.
This is an argument in bad faith. Someone choosing to eat
a lot of sugar won't give you health problems, but someone that's sick and not wearing a mask could put you in the grave.
I don't have a problem with artists, lol. I just think this pressure is going to come from AI, and it will change how we think about art. It will be the first time where we can test whether you need to be human to create art.

If you look at history, art has been transformed more than once. First, when we managed to make enough food that some people could be full time artists. Second, when we invented mass media, which made most village artists unemployed while elevating a select few.
the docker installation that rhel uses carries small patches that enable one to build containers that run with systemd as init with ease, without the user having to do anything special (or run with privilege), its runtime sets everything up for you correctly. I've built and run them, so I know they work.

RedHat wanted docker to take them, but Docker refused. <shrug>
As a community, it's susceptible to community effects.

You can say what you want (within community standards), but that doesn't mean you can say what you want without reaction from the community.
> and stripping of for-profit status will be way better than splitting it.

The US can't just make a company suddenly a non-proft. The current shareholders would have, in the case of Google, about a trillion reasons to complain.
I believe that's a good point. Most times I talked to someone that I found to be "out there" (and I have somewhat of a tolerance in that regard), they seemed to go from obvious-ish lies/corrupt deals etc of politicians to "now they and their apparatus have zero trustworthiness". Essentially they jump from "Iraq's WMD were a lie" to "everything the federal government says is most likely a lie".
There were some QAnon believers on here that weren't even downvoted. Not to mention a lot of misinformation about the need for Covid lockdowns.
Tesla is probably ok since the car is a platform auto updated over the air if China steals the design and can build the exact physical machine and even a version of the firmware it will soon be an inferior version of the product without updates. Kind of like how android phones that don’t get updated are inferior to those that do.
Funny, jut a couple days ago I started using dotnet's System.CommandLine.DragonFruit which is similar in design philosophy to this - a main function with typed parameters and extra annotations. I would have never thought about this type of approach, or if I did I likely would have rejected it outright in favor of more typical classes / functions to do it, but I admit it's convenient for a quick tool.
> I'm a lefty, and that pretty much guarantees sloppy handwriting.

Is that true? Why would being lefty mean sloppier handwriting? Smudgier maybe because of left-to-right writing system, but sloppier?
The part I don’t understand is:

> Apart from the fact that the keyboard is quite unpleasant to type on, I'd say this project was mostly a success. [...] I think my mistake was optimising for reliability instead of feel.

Existing switches are extremely reliable (if their reliability isn’t satisfactory, find some used Alps switches from the late 1980s, or some Honeywell switches, or ...), so the only reasons I can think of to make your own are to fit in some unusual spatial condition where an off-the-shelf switch won’t work, or for a better feel.
Some people benefit from subjugating a minority. It isn’t necessarily economic. If you believe you are above others then you will push back against being told that you are not. Taking away those privileges by giving equal rights to the minorities is a zero sum game.
Didn't the 9/11 hijackers communicate by uploading images of basketball players to sports discussion boards?
This removal is a conspiracy in a literal sense. The decision to interrupt the communications of 200,000 people was made in secret by an unknown group of Facebook personnel.

Even Ma Bell, in its most powerful and abusive days as a monopolist, would never have dreamed of enacting such hostility towards its users.

It's worth asking, for how long will people tolerate an increasingly unreliable communications infrastructure?
Ah, so Facebook has no moral obligation to control posts on whether or not they are true - just on whether or not they get paid to show them?

I shudder to think of what a world will look like, where the only things known to the public are things that their authors paid for. That'll certainly be a great improvement to the status quo.

People wring their hands over the fifty cent army, but I suppose the five-hundred-thousand-dollar-a-day political ad spend is just something we get to shrug our shoulders at.
But it doesn’t. For what I’m looking for, it offers less. Far less. Less stability, less support from app developers, less support from manufacturers, less support from the vendor, less polish, a lesser tablet ecosystem, less cross-device functionality.

The Android ecosystem “offers strictly more” in the same way a restaurant’s trash can offers more food choice. Technically true, but I don’t want to eat any of it. I’d rather order off the limited-but-actually-desirable menu.
Fanzines and online BBS's hosted a lot of conspiracy-themed urban legends. That, plus word-of-mouth would generally do the trick. Obviously, the spread was a bit slower than what you'd get today with the Internet, but the cultural traits were the same.
Can you give me an example of crazy conspiracy theory that some of your highly educated friends succumbed? Just curious, thanks.
I wonder if that’s how they implemented smart playlists for iTunes.
Weaving is not what critics do. Critics try to tear things apart and see if they hold up.
What does 1.5 lines of code mean?
> There is not even a category to report them because Facebook only has limited options (nudity, harassment, hate speech, unauthorized sales, violence)

It is the same on Twitter and YouTube, and probably on every other social networking site. There is an unending stream of blatant misinformation spread by accounts ranging from ‘misinformed loudmouth’ to ‘obvious troll’, and no options to report these posts or users. It is frustrating.

If these companies really want to tackle misinformation, the very least they could do is have a mechanism that collects reports for analysis.
I've seen at least 20 comments saying that "this is a good step". Good step to what? Full censorship?
Pamphlets. Even graffiti.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of... (famous 1903 example)
But if you are not beginner some of these boards are really great. Combination of large and fast Kintex-7 FPGA, SO-DIMM, PCIe and Gigabit Ethernet is really cool. For a price of Zybo Z7-10!!! Compile time and tooling is another issue. Naked ZynQ project with ZynQ alone takes few minutes even on decent machine.
Multiple Kernel Vulnerabilities Affecting All Qualcomm Devices (2020)

https://blog.zimperium.com/multiple-kernel-vulnerabilities-a...

The Road to Qualcomm TrustZone Apps Fuzzing (2019)

https://research.checkpoint.com/2019/the-road-to-qualcomm-tr...

QualPwn - Exploiting Qualcomm WLAN and Modem Over The Air (2019)

https://blade.tencent.com/en/advisories/qualpwn/

QuadRooter: New Android Vulnerabilities in Over 900 Million Devices (2016)

https://blog.checkpoint.com/2016/08/07/quadrooter/
> anymore

There never was. Don't limit yourself to the concept of a single objective truth.
Exactly. QAnon is almost exclusively a "I am not happy with my life" support group.
> It isnt the kiddos who are getting sucked into this stuff, and I say this as an early stage graybeard.

I would hesitate to say this. There have been emergences of qanon adjacent conspiracies popping up out of tiktok, the Wayfair one being the most obvious example.
Does it help to remember the points are made up and have no value?
We talk about how bad censorship is in China and North Korea but now we're applauding it within our own country?

To be clear, I'm against everything QAnon has done and have had numerous debates to disprove their theories and it is _exhausting_.

But it everyone's right to have their own beliefs. This _is_ a form of censorship. Facebook is a private platform and so has the right to do as they please, and we have the right to choose another platform -- but we shouldn't mistake what we're doing as some sort of noble act.

The right to freedom of thought isn't about defending your right when you agree with it, it's about defending the right even when you _don't agree_ with it.
Lol. These logos look nothing alike. What a waste of legal fees.
> Look no further than the use of masks and hydroxychloroquine in the United States.

Masks work to help stop the spread and hydroxychloroquine has no evidence that it helps anyone who is sick.

There, was that so hard?
I am guessing you are talking about https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=batman+insignia which is a 2D silhouette, but this website is for 3D geometry, so I am not sure what the goal is here.
>Should you also ban NYT for the Russian interference conspiracy theory? If the legacy media deal in conspiracy, you should expect a reaction on the periphery of the political spectrum.

This is QAnon's very first post.

https://i.imgur.com/ycdpCmS.png

Can you point me to any NY Times article that is even remotely close to this level of BS?
There is no reason to believe Qualcomm is more broken than competitors wrt this class of vulns.

(read the article or the original blog, q: "The more than 400 distinct bugs")
QAnon popularity is definitely not exaggerated. It is a conspiracy theory that hit the popularity-lottery jackpot. It's a lot of potential energy that could be manipulated.
This is the definition of bullshit work applied to Apple legal teams. Busywork to justify their costs and pay.
I think aircraft ventilation is designed so you have laminar flow from the ceiling to the floor. And the air filtered. Consider that people used to smoke on planes.
Mapping gene flow between ancient hominins
Thanks for the thorough answer, it was very helpful!
Criminal liability is inappropriate for people spreading disease unless you can really prove intent. And, frankly, trying to prosecute 200k people is infeasible.
Well, if deadmau5 can win against Disney, I don't think it's impossible.
It should be Stationery. At least it was back in System 7.
Lawyers are paid to defend their clients. Every politician is a lawyer by trade. What do they do? Defend the sectional interests of their sponsors. That's what we see in the West: general interests are subordinated to the corporatist/sectional interests. This is the expected result, anyway; it is just a matter of how long does it take to reach the state of "sectional interests taking over general interests".
Now Apple Inc. is literally com-pear-ing Apples to Pears.

...

Going to need you to get your things and come with me.

But also as another commenter said I think/hope Deadmau5 v Disney comes up in arguments because I agree: this is seriously petty of Apple’s legal team but I’d love to read their actual complaint if anyone finds it (personal pet peeve of mine when outlets report on “someone is taking legal action against someone else” with nothing but a few quotes and statements from someone party to the action. Could we at least see the demand letter?)
Your consumption of sugar does not have the ability to get me killed.
The narrative arc: Revealing core narrative structures through text analysis
Who would see those two logos and think that they're from the same company? The only 2 similarities is that the logos are representations of fruit, and that they both have a little oval shaped leaf on them.
Conspiracies are fun. Might be why?

Anecdote: I am in a privacy group where everyone likes to talk about the three letter agencies and big companies in a grand manner. Some of it is possible, other seems plausible and some part is a joke. I don't think everyone knows which part is which though.
This is QAnon's very first post.

https://i.imgur.com/ycdpCmS.png

Can you point me to WaPo articles that are even similar to that level of BS?
I knew I would spend some time without an internet device and beyond reliable communication. I wrote us a private chat website that was something like 2kb so that I could load it up on stranger's phones over 2G and still get messages from, and out to my partner.
Disclaimer: I had to lookup to see what QAnon was. Maybe there was more to the group other than conspiracy theories but theories are only that until supporting evidence is uncovered. How many scientific theories were just that until proven?

Also while theories political in nature are most likely believed by those they benefit the same but opposite holds true for those who would not like them to be true.

Allowing someone like Facebook to be an ‘unbiased’ ‘arbiter of truth’ is laughable.
You can lead in (2) with good enough (1).

Being a leader in (1) does not mean you'll be good at (2), and vice versa.

There's also a difference between limited data and good enough data.

If you train on good enough data, you can have good enough models.

If people believe the focus of AI/ML should just be precision/recall, or other measures of accuracy, and having tons of data, they're missing many other areas and elements for what make AI/ML successful in application.
I have had the same experience when drafting SO questions.
Not saying this is what happened, but it occurs to me that just saying this is happening is a pretty good PR splash.

This came to mind since neither the story or petition has a screenshot of a threatening email or letter from Apple.

Edit: Appears Apple is opposing it. Found this by trawling around myself: https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=91254886&pty=OPP

You can start there and find links to download the legal letters from Apple.
Baraka. The most accurate interpretation of the human experience and our current human culture. One of my all time favorites.
How, why doesn't a judge throw out apple's case in the first hearing itself. What legal blackmagic can make such a one sided case drag out
A self-reinforcing one, too.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwnjx4/people-tell-us-how...
Well, I could vote with my dollars, but I guess I already do - never bought an Apple product...
>IMHO the weakest security link is always the human

Agreed, and thanks for links!
I would be interested why this comment gets downvoted.

Because of language? hating “anti-maskers”?

Because it assumes that there’s still something to discuss about covid?
Look further up the thread. The bandwidth required to transport such data has not been observed. I don't think anyone would argue that these companies wouldn't have the ability to build a device that streamed everything home. It's that to do so would mean there'd be some observable effect in the device's network usage that has not been observed.
It is an upsetting development for several separate reasons.

1. FB can do what it wants on its platform, but by cancelling this particular group it becomes a truth arbiter and/or censor, which is a scary proposition ( maybe not proposition, they have already been acting in this manner; QAnon is only significant, because of its size and overlap with R party ). I dislike censorship, but the fact that US population draws information from FB is scary to me.

2. It further undermines freedom of speech and association. It only pushes those voices further into.. not fringe exactly, but it does seem to amplify their determination and allows them to claim they are being repressed by the powers that be.

3. It implies that as humans we cannot survive sufficiently dangerous thoughts. This, to me, is horrifying. I believe we can. I believe the only way to allow humans to deal with the level of Qanon idiocy is to keep it in the light and not throw it into darkness where it only grows stronger. Just like with any disease we need to be able to build healthy immune system, our mind has to build healthy firewall to protect against idiotic ideas. It is not up to FB/gvmt. It is up to us and maybe parents. I would also accept critical thinking class as an answer.
Maybe Julia would be the more natural language for music theory, as both are one-based indexed.
NASA: The Impact of Science on Society (Burke, Bergman, Asimov 1985) [pdf]
>Note that parsing and conversion takes up just 0.5 lines of fired_main().
The existence of the term "Polocaust" would like to disagree with you.

A lot of this, I think, is driven by people badly wanting or not wanting things to be true. Religious history is another good spot where you can see highly-trained researchers buy into their community's biases, but in the last many years, we've gotten better as a society at acknowledging that religion is the sort of thing that can go sour like this. We haven't gotten good at acknowledging this about other forms of allegiance to a community. Most of the QAnon stuff is driven by patriotism gone sour, and with the benefit of hindsight, we've absolutely seen historians write to fit their worldviews, but we're not as good at seeing it in real time, when it matters.
Nice! This reminded me of when a friend showed me his collection of early 20th century paper theatre dioramas.
Fascinating stuff.

I think I'll try to create an actual set-design using the generator/plotter.

Thanks for sharing this!
It hadn't occurred to me that PATA/IDE could be so simple to speak. Now I'm excited about the possibility of being able to dump a 25 or 30-year-old IDE drive I have that my USB adapter doesn't want to talk to (via another SATA-to-IDE adapter).

The README says this option relies on the kernel's "ATA framework" (presumably for the protocol/non-interfacing logic?). Is that part of the "talking to a drive" stack very much to have to implement? Or do you know of any existing code for microcontrollers?
This is in bad taste from Apple.
Living in a household with many people who view their gender in nonstandard ways has really opened my eyes to the ways in which most people are completely and blindly entrenched in gender expression. Especially men.

The other day I overheard someone in a park saying “I could never wear a dress because I am a man”, and it made me do a mental double-take. Sure you might not think a dress is flattering, and it might not be how you want to express yourself to the world, but surely you’d still be a man if you put the dress on. Masculinity in our culture is seemingly defined only by a series of negative statements, an outline only defined as the negative space of what is considered feminine.

Women experience this too, but not nearly in the same way. A woman can wear a suit and have a serious job and talk about cars but no one will deny her femininity. She’s “one of the guys” but in a bar she’ll still get lewd sexual attention and be seen generally as a woman. If a man wears flowers in his hair and puts on makeup and is preoccupied with domestic tasks then his masculinity is on the line. Ironically this person will still mostly get unwanted attention from other men (both sexual and downright aggressive in nature), who seem mostly unable to confront that which confuses and potentially arouses them.

I think part of the problem is that women know that the world is made for and by men, so amongst themselves they don’t see taking on “masculine” traits as being threatening to femininity, they are just trying to get by in the world. On the other hand, most men think the world is just rationally masculine so it is confusing or even aggressive to see other males flouting what they see as the only obvious way for male-bodied people to act.
I think 1 line to modify the function sig, and .5 to call the library

Its purely marketing math, I think.
I think it's more that "question everything" mainly becomes "question everything that doesn't line up directly with my beliefs". And then you also get a feeling of superiority, of having secret knowledge/understanding, when the things that you are questioning are widely held to be true.
Losing 4% is quite a lot actually but probably the actual number of people that watch HBO on a Linux desktop is a lot lower than that.
What I never see mentioned are cheap FPGA dev boards that don't come with any peripherals. I guess those aren't worth the pain of adding the peripherals back on?
There is no waste of legal fees if you are a lawyer.
HBO Max also does not have apps for Roku and Amazon Fire devices. They like to make their supported clients feel exclusive.
That theory was popularized by Westworld and is highly debated. But you can’t separate the two: you believe in things like money and corporations and ownership of property and transfer of property right? Those ar exist as fictitious and god or satan. You might believe in things like capitalism or communism: both are simply types of religion. You might believe in destiny or free will: both artificial constructs.

The point is that there is subjective reality (I feel anxious), objective reality (a tiger is chasing me), and intersubjective (I am a part of a village and we share communal property). The latter is what enables us to do things like build anything that requires more than one person. Beliefs in things like money are as real as a hammer and cannot be separated from their real world effects. The book Sapiens goes into a lot of detail about this and does a much better job explaining it than I can.