skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno, I've posted two quotes from your WHO sources that are both instructions by the WHO to governments to advocate cloth mask usage to prevent transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in community-based environments where ideal social distancing isn't possible. They do seem to be advocating it, not discouraging it.

The first paper you linked to does not look at respiratory droplet transmission with a mask on.

The second paper only has the abstract in English. I can't read Korean, but based on the abstract they're looking at pressure drops across a cloth filter.

Again, it's not about direct filtration. It's about disrupting the stream of viral particles from one person's airway directly into another person's airway.

I'm 100% open to criticism on why my model doesn't make sense, but my foundational premise is that masks function primarily by disrupting direct stream of viral particles from one person's airway to another primarily when facing each other and vocalizing.

This paper shows the change in dispersion of respiratory droplets when placing a surgical mask on a coughing patient (surgical mask being very similar to the cloth masks people are using).

Exhaled Air Dispersion during Coughing with and without Wearing a Surgical or N95 Mask

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3516468/

"During normal cough, exhaled air dispersion distances along the median sagittal plane was significantly reduced to ≤ 30 cm when the HPS wore either a surgical mask or a N95 mask."

Figure 3. really shows this in a graphical form.

Here's another cool paper.

Textile Masks and Surface Covers—A Spray Simulation Method and a “Universal Droplet Reduction Model” Against Respiratory Pandemics

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2020.00260...

"Using a bacterial-suspension spray simulation model of droplet ejection (mimicking a sneeze), we quantified the extent by which widely available clothing fabrics reduce the dispersion of droplets onto surfaces within 1.8 m, the minimum distance recommended for COVID-19 “social distancing.” All textiles reduced the number of droplets reaching surfaces, restricting their dispersion to <30 cm, when used as single layers."
I remember 90% of the time which flag I want to use, but the other 10% sends me into a rage! =)

I gave up and added this to my .bashrc:

function extract()
{
if [ -f $1 ] ; then
case $1 in
*.tar.bz2) tar xvjf $1 ;;
*.tar.gz) tar xvzf $1 ;;
*.bz2) bunzip2 $1 ;;
*.rar) unrar x $1 ;;
*.gz) gunzip $1 ;;
*.tar) tar xvf $1 ;;
*.tbz2) tar xvjf $1 ;;
*.tgz) tar xvzf $1 ;;
*.zip) unzip $1 ;;
*.Z) uncompress $1 ;;
*.7z) 7z x $1 ;;
*.zst) zstd -d $1 ;;
*.xz) unxz $1 ;;
*) echo "'$1' cannot be extracted via >extract<" ;;
esac
else
echo "'$1' is not a valid file"
fi
}
I just left my Elite x3 behind this year. Best phone I've ever owned. But I consider security updates a must-have, so I dropped it when Microsoft finally stopped pushing updates.
For context, when Alyssa Rosenzweig initially started this reverse engineering effort, she published releases via TOR out of fear of retribution from ARM. This was in response to the mysterious firing of the main person driving earlier reverse engineering efforts with clear hints at pressure from ARM. All allegedly of course, please don't sue me.
Imagine the naming conventions on the software side :)
If it was an informed suggestion, where are we on injecting disinfectant into bodies?
Global greenhouse gas emissions by sector
Reading more into the story - the hospital became a hostage to its own IT system. Basically they can not provide emergency services. Somehow I think it is a problem on its own. I do not have enough info but we are becoming more and more dependent on IT systems and up to what point? Are there any limits? Those systems are fragile...
The French verlan is a prime demonstration that, in point of fact, King Canute cannot stop the tide from turning.
Did you miss the part where Apple and the judge said that Epic could remove the “offending” code and they’d be let back on without the case being dismissed?
You need two parts instead of one. I'd need a microsd just to boot. And most people would then use a usb drive because they're usually faster, especially with USB 3.0.

So, the microsd is an unnecessary hassle and additional component. That's why people are so happy

(and it used to work on rpi3 since years).
All of the articles on this topic are one sided.

One thing I haven’t seen is any reporting as to whether TenCent was involved in developing Epic’s strategy.

Given the 40% ownership stake it’s hard to imagine they were not.
I believe there's still another failure: Uber's systems didn't ensure that the backup driver was paying attention, when it was highly foreseeable that their attention would lapse (although granted watching a show on your phone is more than a lapse of attention).
It doesn’t help that the protocols are all proprietary and/or encumbered with patents. An open source version of Brandmeister would go a long, long, way.
No. Social networks are a mass persuasive tools. If you control the information flow, you can control public opinion. Or even worse, if it is unchecked these darn people can even start to organize and think for themselves.

Remember that this all started when a bunch a kids used TikTok to play a prank and sank a Trump rally: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/style/tiktok-trump-rally-...
"The strong do what they can and the weak do what they must." If Taiwan cannot repel an invasion, then it will be invaded. The CCP has the political will.
I quoted a CDC press release from 2 days ago, not sure why I got down voted for that. The WHO lied about masks for months. They're a political organization more than a public health advocate
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Is this the world we want?
I looked at it but everything you do on the free version is public facing and that's an automatic no from me. I would the option to make a final product "public"/open to all but all my fuckups? no thanks. Also it's just a general matter of privacy.
> For example after an announcement or company meeting where they announce the number of new customers

Nothing like this ever happened, AFAICT

> I would see some red flags and I would like to think I would be smart enough to start looking for something new but I haven't been in such a situation thankfully.

"Brazen fraud" is not where Occam's Razor leads in this case. "Transparency growing pains" seems much more likely. Specifically - if working for this company I would raise concerns that there aren't KPIs being regularly tracked across all functions. I'm sure it's possible that some of the newly hired senior management was working on this.
Valve is not able to port it - and likely never will be - simply because as a low end headset, the quest cant handle it. From what i read, oculus link leads to latency and compression quality losses so it cant really he played via cable either.
Very interesting it looks for the serial number and not the MAC address!
Taiwan should go nuclear. It is the only true deterrent against a totalitarian nationalist power like China. Something like the minutemen missiles the UK had would be an effective deterrent.
So we pay, and other countries gain?
On other projects, we solved this by incorporating virustotal checking. Sure, a 0day or custom malware may get through, but thats a small number at the end of the day.
Did you even click on the link ? The first paragraph is about how a lot of energy is used outside the household and how it’s rapidly growing.

Sure your phone is using almost no power, but the network infrastructure and the servers you are using use a ridiculous amount of power.
What's actually "open source" about what they have made themselves, as possibly opposed to modifying existing stuff? There's a significant effect of being proprietary in that people like me can't distribute packages using it for Fedora, Debian, SUSE, etc.
And it seems difficult to find a professional tattoo design, But not anymore
I didn't think about exfiltration - good point. I guess they could just host their own instance on <insert compromised server here> like the good old days.
'Prioritizing to not do harm' is an ethical consideration, and ethics are subjective, so I didn't consider them 'incentives'. If the question had been about 'motives' or 'considerations', I would have included 'potential ethical beliefs'.
To be fair, hydrogen is one of those "mythical" power sources. It just happens to be the one that is becoming viable in the short-term and is not dependent on some future discovery.
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Ok, that depends on the docker images; things like pihole are relatively small (300 MB, including all layers); I would be more afraid of running containers over NFS slowed down by rpi ethernet, than downloading the images themselves.
Except for ceiling cabling, which i personally dont need as i usually play seated games, i agree with everything else. What i meant tho (sorry for my phrasing) is that their _specs_ are the future. Less cables is great and indeed oculus is pretty straightforward. So i suppose once they cut the number of cables (or make htc’s wifi addon cheaper), make trackers remotely manageable and drop the price, i would see increased adoption.
The main difference I see is that smartphones are built as playthings, stuffed with features that encourage addiction, but a real desktop operating system is built as a tool to help you work, and gives you all the access and power you need.

I see clear lines between things like smartphones and tablets, desktop operating systems, game consoles, and kindles. There's many different types of screens. I'm comfortable handing a non-networked laptop to my kid for her to play with, but wouldn't hand her a tablet or game console.
They were on SO (Stack Overflow) jobs too, one of the postings was for up to $250k remote IIRC. It was for a principal engineer position with experience in java & k8s. Their lower engineering titles on SO jobs were decent salaries too (mid-late 100s I think).
what hardware does the netboot server run on?
I never said it did cost that much. I just said that they implied a 30% savings but that was without counting the new hardware. It is disingenuous to say that it is ~100% efficient just by moving the management cost elsewhere.

I agree it was probably a win for them, I'm just pointing out that the way it was presented in the article was misleading.
OutWatch – A polyglot purely functional and reactive UI framework for Scala
If that's the case then just to clarify: I think ransomware is like a digital protection racket. You either pay up or they try their best to burn your business down. But it's even worse, because even if you have every intention to pay (which you shouldn't), it still causes you downtime that's probably worse than the ransom itself. It's not something I would wish on anybody, and it's a drag on the entire economy. We should prosecute the perpetrators wherever we can.

But if I had to assign jail sentences, a ransomware author would get a decade or two (add another decade in this case for manslaughter), a murderer would get a life sentence. Life over property.
That's most of it: the most common exploits are where someone would shove a quote into a query parameter (e.g. http://example.org/foo/bar/?id=%27%3BINSERT%20INTO%E2%80%A6) to see if you were just concatenating strings.

You can go further by actually validating types (e.g. “id should be a number between 1 and 20 digits”) but I'd class that more as general input validation since you want to do that everywhere even if you don't have SQL database.
You haven't backed up a single claim, so get off your high horse.

> actually a power source with an extremely good safety record.

Sure... there are lies, damn lies as statistics. Read this e.g.
https://www.euronews.com/2019/06/07/hit-series-chernobyl-has...

It captures part of the story hidden by your "statistics" about nuclear power.

Chernobyl was so full of lies and coverups that it is hard to know the full truth. What we know is that this accident has enormous cost and psychological impact all over the world.

In my home country Norway 37 municipalities still struggle with radioactive fallout from Chernobyl 33 years later. It is affecting the agricultural sector. That is just my home country. This kind of issues exist all over Europe. I remember what this was like in the aftermath because I lived through it.

But there is always some young punk who thinks he is a smart ass and knows everything, but never actually lived through it. You read some statistics years later, which doesn't capture of fraction of what it was like.

Fukushima is the same lie. People are like, nobody died so it was all cool... yeah.... except the cleanup is a crazy complicated an massive job which by some estimates could cost up to 660 billion dollars.

A smaller country experiencing such a disaster would have their whole economy destroyed by such an expense.

I am a reasonable guy. I say we can keep the safest reactors. The rest we close down. Perhaps we build new reactors if they can prove the design sufficiently safe. This guys might be okay: https://usnc.com

But really I don't see the point. It is a risky power source, we don't really need more of given that we have excellent alternatives.
Thanks for the link. Very interesting.

Fortunately, Scott is wrong on this. Crypto does not only subvert old forms of coordination, it also allows new forms of coordination. Whether this will is a net win remains to be seen.
Dom Hofmann, one of the cofounders of Vine launched Byte which is basically a new Vine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_(app). I don't know if it's catching on though. I guess if TikTok does get banned we'll see a mass migration somewhere.
It doesn't ignore standards.

The imperial system of measurement is quite as exact as SI.

It's... wacky, I'll grant you. But it is in fact a standard, promulgated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
do you have a blog about this, or willing to share any more info? This sounds like something I'd like to start working towards
Only allowing one time downloads seemed reasonable to stop 1 and 2 stage payloads. Doesn't help exfiltration, but theres so many options for that anyway. One time downloads may be annoying for non-web savvy people, but seemed like a reasonable tradeoff.
First, UV light also casts a shadow. So if there is a small piece of dirt on the dish, viruses under that dirt are protected from the light. Two dishes on top of each other, the viruses on the lower one are protected. Also, the lower part of the dish, and the table under the dish. Ultimately, you could only use the UV light to sterilize an empty table, assuming you cleaned it up first.

But yes, this is how UV light is sometimes actually used. Shining on an empty table in a lab, for one hour. Even then, you don't take it as a 100% guarantee that there are no viruses left.

Second, UV light hurts humans, too. Ignore the safety and remain in the room when the UV light is turned on, you get cancer. In the lab, people are careful. In an average household, it would be a question of time before someone gets exposed to the UV light.

If you are careful, you can use the UV light on your room, or kitchen, and it is "better than nothing". (Not sure if you even need to cover your windows, because I think glass already reduces the UV part of light, plus the intensity is reduced by square of distance so you probably wouldn't hurt random people on the street.) But it takes a lot of time, and it only reduces the number of viruses by some fraction.

Considering that COVID-19 is usually spread by air, not by touching surfaces, opening your windows probably achieves much more than using the UV light in your room or kitchen. For some other viruses, the numbers could be different.

Also, the dishwasher already kills a lot of viruses by using higher temperature than when you wash dishes by hand.
Every principle of the CCP demands annexation of Taiwan. The existence of the CCP is predicated by what they call "One China Consensus".
Classic case of the Scunthorpe Problem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
I keep seeing the word "Oasis" being mentioned on the recent Oculus threads. What does it refer to? Some company? Some meme I'm missing?
Odroid series come with a wide variety of chips. The Amlogic S905X3 has good upstream support (largely via a very active volunteer community) & is on their Odroid-C4.

If performance is your top concern, you should stick with x86. There's no ARM gear with anywhere near the bang/$ of an Odroid H2+, which is an rpi-like $120 x86 single-board system. It is fantastically well supported by the cpu vendor.
Even when the actions of this administration seem facially justified, I always assume they are acting in bad faith.
At some point you just accept that hydrogen is a battery technology with the highest possible energy density and give up on silly in-between ideas.
Remember when Steve Jobs threatened IP lawsuits against Palm for poaching his employees? Of course, he had to back off because the iPhone (along with every other smart phone today) uses almost all of Palm's IP. Getting involved in spats is part of Apple's DNA, originating in its founder.
The same is also true of the author's previous engine [1], written in C99. Would love to get the author's take on the costs and benefits of switching to Rust on the basis of what's effectively a reasonably sized real world case study, at least as far as individual projects go.

[1] https://github.com/mrDIMAS/DmitrysEngine
Gym? Just the gym, no music. Walking? The same, enjoying my surrounding. I quit music streaming (tried Amazon, Google) after some trials and concentrate on a selection of music, which I can listen to again and again. I do use a tablet with a 256GB SD card, so have space to store a variety of things.

While my musical taste is eclectic (i.e. from classic over techno to glitch) I mostly prefer to either listen to music or do other things, instead of mixing those activities. I do listen to music on commutes, and sometimes while doing certain chores in the kitchen though. But otherwise either or, not both.
It is not so simple. China has declared that a Taiwanese nuclear weapons program would trigger their immediate invasion. The political calculus is too risky. There are not many simple solutions to the problem generally.
As a pi noob: does this make it more reliable/feasible to use a pi to run a home server/application/etc? I've read in the past that SD cards aren't good with repeated read/writes, which makes it somewhat unreliable in the long run. If a pi is configured to run via USB, does that make it as reliable as other consumer hardware like a pc/laptop?
From the github page (https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/28) you can see that this needs an updated firmware which you can install via rpi-update. Never used Ubuntu on the Pi only raspbian, but I am sure they also have those rpi tools.
How does Ubuntu run on the Pi work? I never got passed installation, because after install the first boot just hangs. It seems to me it wants to install additional stuff via ethernet which in my case is not attached and I never had the option to configure wifi....
I like the simpleness of the idea here, but don't like HTML-redirects (v/s 302s).. Wondering if you could just do this via Netlify redirects?

I've found using txtd.io as a URL-shortener a much simpler approach.

Or lightsaber, which does the exact same thing, but with Ruby (and allows some wildcards): https://github.com/captn3m0/lightsaber
There's a reason I started that time period with 2012.
Organized crime like... complaining about the government? Free speech?

I'm not going to defend thr Tiktok thing, but its basically equally dumb, its just that here teens dunking on the government isn't a crime.
The Non-Voter
You can get the moons of Jupiter with a cellphone held up to a small telescope or binoculars.
Playing devil's advocate:

The death counts are what they are, but on the other hand, Sweden is extremely unlikely to experience a 2nd/3rd wave, which is experienced now by the countries you listed - it's not even halftime yet fighting the virus, it's too early to say who did better.

The "any way you slice the data" is not so clear either. As someone pointed out, Sweden had fewer deaths (in the thousands!) in previous flu seasons, I've read the hypothesis put forward that part of the reason Denmark has done so much better is that their weakest already succumbed to the flu in 2017/2018, whereas Sweden's were spared. Nearly impossible to prove or disprove, but there ARE ways to slice the data that make the attribution to policy less convincing.

> Now Sweden has a population slightly less than Finland and Norway combined, and figures can be difficult to compare, but still it's hard to avoid the conclusion that so far, around 4000 people in Sweden have died because of differences in policy compared to its neighbours.

Another way to slice the data that is important: Sweden has, by far, more black skinned immigrants than Norway (and I think Finland too) -- which are faring worth everywhere, likely some sort of sunlight/vit-D related process. A significant number of those who died in Sweden are immigrants.

If you compare Sweden to Belgium (which had strict lockdown, but similar immigration patterns), the policy argument is less convincing again.
What's more pathetic is…

I'm sorry, the cost/performance ratio makes complete sense.

The Bundeswehr is culturally frowned upon in large parts of our society since at least the 1970s so it is no wonder that policies enacted breathe that spirit.

Thus we are a country whose military openly admits it can't defend the country. For a couple of years now. There is close to zero outcry about that, certainly less outcry than the "Berateraffaire" got.

So clearly she hasn't done a good job

Not saying she did in general, but blaming an army depleted and frowned upon for decades on her six years as Secretary of Defense (SoD) is deceitful (not saying that you do).

On the contrary: Turning this shipwreck around affords even more expenditures. So expect the cost/performance ratio to become even worse.

she's been rewarded with the presidency of the EU, which is corruption in itself.

Since von der Leyen clearly hasn't proved herself to be included in the realms of sinister masterminds (she got ousted from her SoD job for a non-scandal) the curruption-part lies within the EU itself, for nullifing an election result, and how they've chosen her.
You didn't address the argument I made AT ALL.

And, actually, in a zero fossil fuel world, solar is going to be better (at CO2 production) than nuclear, since you can build solar fields with no concrete. Concrete manufacture produces CO2 even if entirely non-fossil energy is used.
Spatial audio is also a huge thing for conferences. If you want a good virtual conference experience, you need a hallway track - for the meaningful conversations which happen outside of sessions. And there are some noble attempts but it's really hard to replicate that in a system where everyone is speaking through the same pipe.

So, add a 3d space with spatial audio, and it's natural to form groups. Add really good spatial audio, and the system can handle the different unconscious movements we do to pick up snippets of activity around us and figure out which conversations we want to be closer to. (You still can't replicate the free food, though, so it's probably doomed anyway, but it's worth exploring).

His bit about how you can't really control volume in that kind of experience was really interesting to me.
The message you're replying to argues that a car that refuses to go on certain roads is exactly equivalent to a car that does, because its owners are free to buy the other car. This is a complete non-sequitur, and I am surprised someone is debating it seriously.
How was it odd?
As if the establishment and/or deep-state reports are credible?

What happened to the time that the people actually were wise enough to see those with suspicion?