skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a lot of discussion in the early days of the pandemic about “immunity passports” (also called “immunity certificates”), which would allow individuals who had recovered from COVID-19 to live with fewer restrictions than others. Some proposals were limited to more high-risk situations--for example, an eldercare facility might require immunity certificates for its employees.[1]

That conversation was derailed because it was initially unclear whether recovering actually yielded immunity from further disease and infection[2]. The scientific consensus is now that at least some degree of immunity will be conferred[3], so this conversation could re-emerge, as in a report produced by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and backed by former UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt[4]

Assuming that the various technical and scientific hurdles could be overcome, there would still be one fuzzier objection---that such passports would create a perverse incentive for some folks to intentionally seek out infection so as to obtain these privileges.

We wondered if that objection was well-founded. So we surveyed 1,000 Americans, asking them whether they’d seek out infection in order to be granted certain privileges, like the ability to attend large gatherings or be employed at an eldercare facility.

A quick report of a few findings is in this footnote[5]. But, at least to me, just as interesting as the top-level finding is the why, the correlates of that willingness.

We put the data into Stats iQ (formerly Statwing, YC S12), an easy-to-use, cloud-based statistical analysis tool, so anyone can analyze it. It’s a fascinating dataset, and it contains some interesting findings that we didn’t actually set out to learn about (e.g., it turns out that about as many people were happy as sad to have been stuck at home for a few months, and that sentiment was associated with gender and parenthood).

We hope you find it to be as interesting as we have, even if some of the findings are, frankly, a bit dark.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765836
[2] https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/immunity-p...
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/16/health/coronavirus-immuni...
[4] https://institute.global/policy/taking-uk-testing-strategy-n... (The report advocates for health passports generally, in which antibody testing would supplement mass testing generally)
[5] https://www.qualtrics.com/blog/americans-seek-covid-infectio...
> Data is only transferred

The privacy concern is that it'd be trivial for someone to use amazon's firmware keys to sign a new firmware and flash the device remotely that would indeed make it upload continuously. Normally that'd be far fetched, but, with Amazon's connections to intelligence agencies, it's more of a valid threat than it appears on its face.

Such a thing would be trivial to detect with proper network monitoring because an audio stream is pretty simple to trigger an alert on, but, almost nobody is doing that because typically if you're worried about something like that you're not going to buy a device like this.
(Putting this in a separate comment because it’s a bit meta, and not about the dataset itself)

This “here’s an interesting dataset to play with” approach might ring a bell with some folks here. Statwing was a YC S12 company, and we were acquired by Qualtrics in 2016. We used to try to find interesting datasets and stick them into Statwing, like the Stack Overflow survey of software developers discussed on this HN thread[1].

It’s 2020, and @lejohnq and I (and a team of other socially-minded engineers) are still working on Statwing (now called Stats iQ). We were looking for a way that we could do something (anything!) useful to help with COVID-19, and realized that we could apply that old approach to interesting public health-related questions.

So, yes, there is an element of “we hope people play with Stats iQ, like it, and then sign up to use it professionally on their data or want to work with us (we’re hiring)” But I can assure you that we personally stand almost nothing to gain financially from this, and that the primary reason we care about ROI on this is so we can justify doing more work like this in the future.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7874289
would any devs want to start a book club for books like this? the article mentions SICP, which is on my to-read list. it just seems so daunting. i'm currently reading practical object oriented design in ruby by sandi metz. would love to have somebody to discuss some books like this.
First of all, sorry to hear about going through hard times in your personal life. We are not machines, all facets of our lives related to each other. My first advice is: be kind to yourself. You are not alone, we are all broke one way or another.

As for the job, I used to be a director in a large global financial institution, and every now and then an younger colleague would approach on tips to be a leader. I will give you the short version answer: if you want to be a leader, someone that does work that matters, that is emotionally engaged on the work at hand, then just be it. Leadership is not given, it is taken, it is an attitude.

Seems like you have the potential to be and want to be a leader, but was derailed for one reason or another.

Rethink where you want to go. Set your priorities right. You are the CEO of YOU (https://sowhat.substack.com/p/hiring-the-ceo-of-you)

Best of luck!
Oooh I can't wait: my first test for any Apple //e emulator is to see if it can run the Ultima IV and Wizardry I disk images that are floating around out there. If it can't, its a fail.
>Does anyone else have this?

Everyone has this. It's called IMAP.
Most people's answer: buy a new device.
Earning sufficient income to be eligible to pay federal taxes is not based on merit either.
That's so awesome lol
"I use proton mail just for the privacy guarantees enforced by social pressure on their brand."

There are no such guarantees. Social pressure on their brand did not stop Enron or Madoff from committing fraud. Nor did it stop millions of others from committing various crimes, atrocities, and other unethical acts throughout history.

In the realm of email providers, the case of Hushmail[1] serves as an instructive example.

Hushmail is an email provider that provides a service similar to ProtonMail, but:

"Developments in November 2007 led to doubts, amongst security-conscious users, about Hushmail's security, specifically, concern over a backdoor. The issue originated with the non-Java version of the Hush system. It performed the encrypt/decrypt steps on Hush's servers, and then used SSL to transmit the data to the user. The data is available as cleartext during this small window of time; the passphrase can be captured at this point, facilitating the decryption of all stored messages and future messages using this passphrase. Hushmail stated that the Java version is also vulnerable, in that they may be compelled to deliver a compromised java applet to a user."

and

"Hushmail supplied cleartext copies of private email messages associated with several addresses at the request of law enforcement agencies under a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with the United States.; e.g. in the case of United States v. Stumbo. In addition, the contents of emails between Hushmail addresses were analyzed, and 12 CDs were supplied to U.S. authorities."

Incidentally, despite all this, and what you'd expect to be "damage to their brand", Hushmail is still around, and I'd expect many of their users have never even heard of any of this.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hushmail#Compromises_to_email_...
I am looking for a world where email does not exist.
Yes it would be inflation - and you would most likely see inflation happen in only those asset purchases...

People incorrectly assume inflation means "the price of everything goes up".

Why is this incorrect assumption to make? Well because prices aren't merely dictated by supply, but rather supply & demand. Comparing inflated money supply to the total good supply is naïve, as this sort of analysis fails to consider the different demand between different goods.

As so, for a dumb example, if the FED just printed tons of money, enough to give each American $10m dollars, and each American said "I'm going to take this $10m in stimulus money, and invest it in Amazon stock", Amazon's stock price would inflate crazy! However, in this scenario meat prices wouldn't change at all, as none of this extra money spurred extra demand for meat - it only spurred demand in amazon stock...

This is predominantly why CPI is a garbage metric of inflation. It does not measure asset prices (such as stocks / real estate), and hence does not measure the inflation that is happening around us (the inflation we're seeing in assets like stocks & real estate).

And the end result is inequality. Those who own the inflated assets benefit from the inflated prices, while non-owners of the inflated assets are at a disadvantage. In this particular case, banks are benefitting from those who want to own a house, but don't already own one.
I withheld an opinion until I saw the recording of the zoom recording. There have been cases where people are being wise-asses (like using the word "nigardly" in front of a black audience, when the word doesn't appear in modern conversational English.)

After watching the zoom recording, seeing and hearing the context he used it, and the pronunciation (both vowels are different from the slur, and it's missing the final "r" sound) I don't think the professor did anything wrong, either intentionally or unintentionally. It's a shame the school administrators don't have enough of a backbone to stand up for the professor.
That's a laser specifically designed for transmitting sound, not a laser microphone.
You just proved my point. You are placing yourself in a situation where you get to be the judge of my schedule. If that situation happened, we would not be two equally leveled adults trying to find a solution that is balanced for everyone - like doing one week for each person. We would be two adults entering a power play where you immediately use the child card and I would have to find a better excuse to justify having as much right to organise my schedule as you have. And you would probably immediately start gauging if my reasons are "good enough". If "my reasons" are more important than "your child". There is no way to ever compete. Because your child is your number 1 priority, it should almost be mine too - or at least it should definitely be higher on my prio list than any activity I plan on doing in my free time. Because if it doesn't, I must be a selfish bas

There are unfortunate life circumstance that falls upon you. These do exist and I would also definitely be more flexible to help someone undergoing them. Your child is not an unfortunate life circumstance. He is the consequence of a choice you made. Just like my schedule is the consequences of choices that I made. There is no reason to consider that your choices matter more than mine.
This is describing the sieve of eratosthenes! Very cool.
The compromise for bore size is convenience in fitting things in it vs homogeneity of field, field strength, and cost. This is why standard bore 7T clinical imaging systems are pretty niche, but 9-12T mouse imaging systems aren't.

To get a good high resolution signal you need field homogeneity (and/or accurate mapping), high quality gradients, and good SNR. Field strength helps with the last part.

There are other trade offs too, for example imaging artifacts due to implants (or even being able to image them), susceptibility, etc. vary with main field strength.
Same as any other exchange. The new entity will either have to meet the listing standards or be de-listed.
A lot of people are forgetting that those companies have full control over what the wake word is or how the wake word mechanism works and can change it remotely.
The majority is at mm wave? Citation? I think only Verizon in the US went this path.
Did I miss something, or are they talking about this and not showing a picture of it?

Two clicks farther in to get to: https://www.hyperfine.io/
Thanks! IMAP account support is something I would really like to add (and Mimestream already uses IMAP for some specific operations where it is a better fit), but from past experience I know that it is complicated ;)

I'm also really keen on adding support for JMAP and Office 365 I the future.
> Those animal/shape hierarchies are indeed very easy to grasp, and they are also useless.

That's a wonderful description.
This is the only correct response to this problem, and it needs to be seen more prominently.

E-mail in 2020 is not secure against a motivated attacker. It doesn't matter how secure and woke your provider is, when:

1. Everyone you talk on an e-mail thread gets a copy of the entire e-mail thread, to do whatever they want with.

2. You can't control the present and future security of other people's providers, or the present and future security of the computing devices they use to read the e-mail you send them.

Now, if you want to LARP, you can try setting up a mailing list for your friends who only use secure providers (For whatever definition of secure you want to use), and only limit your use of a single e-mail address to that mailing list. Great. Go for it. Write a blog post about it, even. But that's not going to solve the fundamental problems of #1 and #2 for the rest of the world.

Now, if you actually want security (as opposed to 'I want to LARP at security'), take a page from conspiracies in the financial sector, and don't use e-mail for any conversations that you'd like to remain secure.

Securing e-mail is a waste of time. It can't be secured, because of 50 years of social expectations about how e-mail should behave. (Other people retain copies of your e-mails, and other people can choose which provider services their address.) You can spend that effort on trying to secure a different communication protocol, which does not have those 50 years of social expectations, and that will probably lose to e-mail (Because those two security holes provide users with value, and when it comes to value versus security, security will lose every time.)
> The world is really a sad place. :-(

I'm not a personal trainer, or motivational speaker, but brighten up.

As a mathematician, everything since the 1960s has to me been this cycle, and I think the key way to approach this is from the perspective of knowledge.

Don't look at software or data, but look at fundamental science, and you'll have less of this sort of burn out.

I read papers from 1950, and I pretend that I could have a coffee with the author later that day, and savour the fact that you can't take people's discoveries away from them, even if history or humanity has.
How could experts fail 500 times in a row in clinical trials for ALS?
I don't understand this criticism. We are actively trading stocks today: https://markets.cboe.com/us/equities/market_share/

You can call your broker right now and ask them to direct your orders to a specific exchange, including "L" on the SIP.
> If China is really doing this stuff, show me hard evidence.

What exactly is "hard evidence" to you?

The point of evidence is to get at the truth, and standards that are either too low or too high both fail to achieve that. The former admits lies; the latter denies truth, which can be thought of another kind of lie.
I'm not a vegan or food/animal activist or whatever... But something that stands out about this comment is that humans kill a lot more chickens, and at scale, than raccoons.
2020 has taken a toll on everyone.
Amethyst – Legion ECS v0.3
Just an idea - put a link to longtermstockexchange.com into your blog post, preferably at the top, with how people can use or buy into it
Is it possible to configure Fastmail's web client to connect to an arbitrary CardDAV and CalDAV server?

Partner is a die-hard webmail user who detests native desktop clients. I'd like them to be able to use Fastmail webmail with my self-hosted calendar and contacts.
Unintentional genetic engineering – grafted plants trade genes (2009)
Well someone needs to buy Qualcom's chips.
Why Jeff Bezos Is the Richest Politician in the World
"I feel like if I was this bad at my job I'd be fired in an instant..."

Yes! I look at these other jobs and think how great it would be to work in a position that had no accountability.
Don't some IoT devices use static parameters?

Like while claiming an ephemeral ECDH key, it is actually only generated once when the device is provisioned? (Or worse, the same on every device of that series)
Just installed Linux on my Mac; it felt like freedom.
C# and .Net are multi-platform, and have been for at least a decade.

Javascript is useful for websites. And outside of the tech bubble, that's basically all it's good for.

Yes, you can use Javascript for non-website stuff. But nobody is doing that because there are many cheaper and more efficient languages out there for doing all that other stuff.
Show HN: A hackable feedback plugin for your website
Our team had an idea for building a feedback plugin (https://www.easywidgets.co) that is easy to customize, integrate with your existing products and manage user response how you prefer.

We've added customizable color options to match your brand and targeting based on webpage routes.

The next feature is adding personalization, targeting and retargeting based on previous response.
I have nothing wrong with that. But again, besides the point that this path is always, necessarily beneficial to all users and all developers. It isn't.
What Gmail data do you believe is used for advertising? What would convince you that it was not?
So you see this smartphones as just different kind of consoles. Maybe you just play games on them but reality is more diverse. For example in real world you are forced to own a smartphone by work or society , like parking,banking, different activities are this days setup for phone users and if you don't own one you are forced to do a lot of extra work.

A few years ago some money exchanges were abusing the users by having large commissions rates, then a law was passed so this commissions will be printed in large fonts outside the exchange, this worked so maybe we can force Apple to print with large fonts on the box "30% of all future transactions go to Apple" (Apple can add with smaller fonts that they have some special exceptions) or "Apple decides what can you install and can change it's mind at any moment".
Those devs do still need a Mac and (most likely) an iOS device too. There's your dev kit.

Edit:

It's even worse than with consoles as every dev needs at least a Mac. When developing for consoles most work is not done on the dev kit itself.
By comparison for head imaging, the Synaptive folks have pretty decent images at 0.5T, and can do DTI etc. Bulkier than this unit but still small, and much better IQ.
This is something many people feared might happen, and now, it's become a reality:

Apple can, at will, remove your entire foundation or business, your (their) customers and your existence on iOS is just gone.

Apple is a company that needs to be brought down a peg or two, it's far too 'valuable' in terms of its market worth, and needs a huge kick up the ass as Microsoft once had to show them some respect.

And the EU will levy the world's biggest fine at Apple, I predict north of $5 billion if not $10 billion for abusing their status with this being a notable case.

Certainly, for public opinion, it means you now have to "tow the line", no protesting allowed. If you dare challenge us, we WILL REMOVE YOU.

Horrible company.
This sounds awesome.
Solar Closing in on “Practical” Hydrogen Production
> Remember that Google has to convince OEMs to get behind their experimental free OS instead of Windows.

I think this argument held for the first year or two of Android, where they were a small player in the market.

...It simply doesn't hold today, where Google is a monopoly in mobile and one of the largest platforms in the education laptop space. OEMs live or die on Google working with them. Sales reps from major PC OEMs try to convince me to buy Chromebooks when I call them about Windows machines I need to buy.

There's no realistic claim today that Google doesn't have the clout or leverage to ensure their OS is supported properly. It's a choice.
What your saying is just not true. I'm as certain as a third party can be that neither of them want Trump to be president. They follow where the media goes and take exception to the way much of the media bends the truth when they report on Trump and also spend all their time losing their minds about the tweets that he puts out rather than actually reporting about important issues. And here is the important part. They don't do this because they like or want to defend Trump, they do it because they want to point out the dishonesty in a lot of what passes for journalism these days. Their coverage is not all about Trump, they talk about all sorts of current events.
I can give you SF Bay Area perspective, where Ruby and especially Rails is quite popular. With the arrival of Docker and Kubernetes, immutable infrastructure patterns dramatically reduce costs, and the need for a centralized change management solution is nullified. At deploy time, some config and templating is useful, but Chef becomes overkill. People would want to use Chef-Zero, but Ansible in this scope have become wildly popular.

Chef tried to adapt with Chef Workstation to do push-based config, but has inability to extract state from the system configured. The target system would have to update state to a server, which is fetched indirectly. This doesn't scale, so this is another reason why Ansible and Salt are popular.

Puppet also experiences some of the same issues with Ansible eating their lunch and popularity of push-based config for immutable infra. They attempted to respond with Bolt, but Bolt is based on static hostnames or DNS names, which won't scale given dynamic nature of cloud native and transient ephemeral systems.

In the case of managing fleets of systems that are not atomic stateless nodes, where you need to maintain a state across nodes within a set, both Puppet/Chef do not scale, and create outages (though window is small), because they have to synchronously push state to a server, and rely on eventual convergence. This doesn't scale in cloud computing. With push based config, you can set the cluster into the proper state, and then use service discovery (asynchronous updates) to maintain the state of the cluster. In K8S, kubectl/helm would fill the push role, and etcd used to maintain state. Outside of K8S, such as lambda in cloud, pulumi/terraform could push state, and discovery through cloud metadata (labels, tags, etc) or service discovery like consul to maintain the state.

Chef and Puppet could have responded, but couldn't see past their own platforms that are based on managing desired state for groups of individual atomic systems. They also failed to monetize on things like inventory management that enterprises fork over a lot for such things.
This isn’t just a problem with scientific journals, but also niche research/enthusiast journals. When a magazine goes under, and the copyright holder is of a murky/unknown status, still too dangerous to digitize and make available, which is a shame.