skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are constitutional questions as well. The US Constitution has no clauses which allow for its suspension in an emergency. Executive branches have some ability for short periods of time. There are some instances & cases (like the Japanese internment camps in the US during WW2) that are interesting to consider in context with this.
my sister and her husband lived out of an over an over cab camper for, literally, years. From San Diego to Montana to Alaska. She was working medical jobs in San Diego and parking in the RV parks. Saved a ton of money.
I'm exhausted of the pandemic situation as well, but working from home is not the main driver. The enormous reductions in social interaction, random and intentional, is my primary driver.

No gyms, clubs, bars, libraries, etc., and now I find that whenever I get even short social interactions I'm extremely delighted. I think that these social interactions is one of the main drivers of the desire to work in the office, not productivity or any other metric.
This is not equivalent, though.

Here are some questions I don't have the answer to, but would be relevant:

- Are these SIMs always active?

- Do they communicate broadly with the internet, or just specific servers?

- If they communicate with specific servers, where does an attacker have to be exploit these communications?

- Does this technology allow for the arbitrary execution of code, or can it only wipe the hard drive?

There are probably more contraints here, but the basic point I'm driving at is that the challenge here is not equivalent to the challenge of exploiting an old android or iOS device. Is there some risk, yes, but it really doesn't seem to be the same amount of risk.
Am I alone in thinking that video conferencing (i.e. you can see people's faces) is totally useless?
Screen sharing is fine, but seeing random people's faces is distracting at best and reduces my tolerance for meetings.
That's one way to look at it. I'd say those changes were at least a decade late, and yes Ballmer's fault.
all publicly traded companies are amoral and they don't rehabilitate like a person might. Microsoft is simply following the money, they haven't changed, and neither has google really. the behaviour may have changed, but it makes no sense to attribute it in the same way you would to a person
This is a very good point, but sadly in reality it seems these goals are purposely hidden or obscured for subjective gain or unpopluar ideological reasons.

Initially the pandemic response was about "not overwhelming the hospitals", but it seems some politicians disagree on the fundamental direction. I'd just be happy if my government had a clear policy on their goal. Do they want to reduce infections or do they want to prevent overwhelming emergency services?

Obviously my knowledge on facts is very limitted, I simply don't have time for that, but the news still report lots of capacity in hospitals.
yes, the Portofino M does have back seats, although they are limited somewhat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_Portofino#/media/File:...
I agree there is no existential proof for dog machines that can fool humans yet. But it seems entirely within reason that within the next 50 years, both mechanical robots and their intelligences will improve to the point where they pass every visible test. Certainly chatbots and deepfakes are reaching a point where it's hard for non-experts to tell.
Kill your cell phone.
Is this sarcasm? I can’t tell.
Pretty much the entire leadership from that era has cycled out. Ship of Theseus.

Is Microsoft still a 800lbs gorilla that does 800lbs gorilla things? Yes. But let's not pretend they employ the same strategies today that made them the bad guys at the turn of the millennium.
The printing press lowered the cost of making copies considerably but it was still not cheap. Options for widespread distribution of the copies you made were very limited. On top of that the literacy rate was only around 30%.

You have to get rid of those kinds of barriers before you can get anything like what we are seeing today, where some crazy idea with no evidence to support it can quickly spread far and wide.
So it fails both the "I don't want to create an account to use it" and the "I want my privacy" requirements.
It depends what we mean by "Linux" or the "Linux Desktop."

Chromebooks aren't going away, non-Chrome OS Linux desktop usage has seen quite a large uptick in recent years (likely due to ease of installation and compatibility tools like Proton.) Linux, even Ubuntu, has over the years been a headache, however Pop!_OS is the best OS for software development today in my opinion. Regardless of distro, hardware support has greatly increased (as opposed to 2010, where getting a Wi-Fi driver or trackpad to work appropriately on Ubuntu was a chore.)

The primary way people interact with the internet today isn't through a system running Windows, it is through an Android or iOS device. If I have a budget of $200 for a laptop for school, it seems improbable that I'm going to go for a Windows system over Chrome OS unless there is some custom software I can't live without.

I'm sort of outta my lane here, but it seems to me that Microsoft's cloud offerings are going to be far more lucrative and important than revenue earned from desktop OS licensing at some point. Tools like VS Code integrate well with Azure for a reason. Linux dominating the server space isn't something Microsoft is ignoring either.
Your article does not support your assertion:

> Because the suspected drug dealer, Wanis Thonetheva, had a previous weapons charge, officers were issued a "no-knock warrant" for the residence, Terrell said.

> Thonetheva, 30, was not at the home at the time of the raid, but the toddler's mother and father and their other three children were inside.

Not only was the raid unannounced, but the suspected drug dealer wasn't even home at the time.
Microsoft's monopoly now is over Office, not Windows.
It's unclear whether the law only applies to collecting them in person or if these unofficial boxes are ok too.
What, you expect jchw to just come up with the other $7 out of their own pocket?
The act of having to book a meeting also just makes it feel so transactional.

I have booked social meetings with other folks at work, and sometimes you have energy for it and sometimes you don't. The fact that the meeting is for a fixed time in your calendar and that you're on camera, makes it feel so formal too.
Ian from Forgotten Weapons had a great video on improvised firearms with the National Firearms Centre collection at the Royal Armouries, including 3-D printed firearms. The collection is used for historical reference, international terrorism deterrence, and police work. The firearms greatly range in complexity and expense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TMrunbZLJw

Here's another one on 1920/30s Chinese 'mystery' guns:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HNaB7l2GQk

His videos on Khyber Pass firearms are also fascinating.

Ian's channel is some amazing stuff for anyone with passing interest in firearms, and it's largely free of politics. Well, as much as it can be.
That's... not true.

It's often impossible to schedule a meeting with 5 people where there is a no-conflict time for anyone.

The person scheduling (ideally) looks at people's calendars, guesses which meetings a person will be able to move (20-person OKR review no, 1-1 with peer yes), and tries to schedule at a time like that.

So yes, anywhere I've worked, blocking your calendar doesn't magically get you out of meetings.
Should you put TODOs in the source code?
The legality is still in question, because the precedent is only for in person collection.
I feel the same, but actually far prefer Windows 10 to MacOS (I've been a Windows user far longer than a MacOS user tho).

For server, I'm all-in on Linux - it's the perfect server OS.

But for desktop, I reckon Windows 10 is the best desktop OS by a stretch, and everything "just works" - whereas even on MacOS I have constant issues with multiple monitor and hi-DPI support, never mind Linux.

I prefer bash to the Windows command prompt or Powershell, and Git Bash fulfils pretty much all of my needs there. Otherwise I have WSL available.

For backend services used during development (postgres, rabbitmq, redis, whatever), there is Docker Desktop, which was a bit dodgy in the early years, but has worked marvellously for a long time now.

TBH, I'm struggling to think of anything Linux or MacOS has that Windows 10 doesn't...
Meanwhile, here I am thinking, "Only 0.5%? Where were you when I sold my house?"
> Are you suggesting that news organizations should no longer broadcast false statements made by word leaders, such as Trump

That would be helpful or, if they need to, to point where exactly the so-called leader is incorrect.

In fact, abusing elected office to provide materially false and misleading information should be an impeachable offense and a crime similar to perjury.
I would have assumed YouTube. Facebook may or may not show it's very large audience your posts in other people's feeds. Also, YT is searchable on site and via web search.
Running Linux GUI apps under macOS using Docker
I'm not at all sure why simply being an atheist would be a hate group.

I don't know what "militant atheism" is though.
Transactional microservices with open source Vitess – coordination without state
Not as remote, but on the same general topic of small, very low population islands:

A Glance at Daily Life Among the Caretakers of Britain’s Small Islands [https://nyti.ms/2IlfSgu]
It never deleted partitions to my knowledge. But it would wipe out the boot loader. EFI probably avoids that these days however.
> Yes, it's about as useful as couples bringing up two-decade old issues in fights they're having today.

VSCode, Edge, .NET Core, WSL, DX12, deliberately crippling cross-platform Vulkan drivers, ...

And then you have the stereotypically anti-user bullshit, like the telemetry and enforced upgrades.
Microsoft doesn't provide instructions or support for this but yes, it is possible to keep an existing Linux partition intact when installing windows, it will definitely wipe the EFI partition though.
I know it's not what they're going for, but sometimes I wish HN would follow FB's example.
Google gives police IPs of people that searched particular keywords or addresses
I think a clear distinction needs to be made between normative and descriptive claims: the former, everyone has the right to make and hold their own opinion to, including both politicians and scientists; the latter, should only be entertained by policy-makers when supported by evidence-based scientific research.

For example, a politician has every right to say "I think schools should re-open immediately under X procedures," if that is what he truly feels reflects the best outcome for his constituents. Of course, it would be wrong to say this only for political posturing, corrupt influences, etc.

On the other hand, it is completely unacceptable for a politician (or anyone) to say, "Children are immune to the virus," "COVID is not a serious illness," (okay, technically that is normative but only insofar as the definition of seriousness is normative), "same as the flu," "masks cause oxygen lack," etc. Likewise, asserting these claims in an argument, "Children are immune -> we should open schools," is not right.

But, making a philosophical/policy and/or medical argument based off true, evidence-backed descriptive claims--even if the scientific community does not tend to share that normative opinion, is completely fine. So there is nothing wrong with arguing against a given measure that the majority of doctors support, so long as you aren't distorting the underlying facts.

As a practical matter, of course, this shuts down many arguments. Ex. admitting that masks pose no health risk to the wearer, cost very little, do not substantially limit any right or activity, and have at least a fair probability of public health benefit, it would be hard to argue against requiring them. But if you feel otherwise, make your case by all means. The only thing that is morally wrong is corrupting intellectual discourse by adding FUD and confusing people as to the underlying evidence and data.
People in public health have made a lot of bad calls and predictions as well. That's the nature of the virus. We just don't know.
They did explore that possibility:

> The newspaper’s analysis used the military’s database and paired it with a database of fatal police shootings from across the state, controlling for statistical variables like community income, rural-urban differences, racial makeup, and violent crime rates.
Hey, do you have any sources for that to read?
We don't actually know the true figure of how many people have been infected with SARS-CoV-2. The antibody assays used in most population studies miss many of the mild cases. This is naturally difficult to quantify.

https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3364
>bidders can submit different package bids which are all taken into account with the winner determined by a SAT solver

Is anyone doing this for elections?
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By astonishing coincidence, I happen to be reading that right now!

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-trial-25
Herd immunity letter signed by fake experts including 'Dr Johnny Bananas'
Never trust big companies.
The driving force is always money and if the could get away with it they screw their customers.
MS just changed it's leverage a bit.
VS Code, Github, Edge based on Chromium. There is a pattern.
Sourdough tips and resources from a former skeptic
Linux isn't good for making Windows users happy.
Thanks for a comprehensive post. I hope you can find work. From all that you've done you should be in a better position than many. Good luck!
Would like to hear Ferrari's perspective on this. I already read the owner and various other commenters perceptions. I expect Ferrari have a dongle or similar to reset, although they probably wouldn't want to talk about specifics
I read Searle's argument as boiling down to: you cannot tell the difference between a "truly conscious" (in terms of experiencing the subjective experience of consciousness), and a machine that emulates behavior well enough to fool people into believing that it is conscious.

Many people (like me) believe that in the process of making such a fake, it's entirely possible (and even likely) that a mind would emerge as a spontaneous outcome.
I also don't have to agree that lockdowns are essentially harder on the poor, which is concerning where it has happened but could be dealt with instead via better protections for people.

It's the same argument as 'restrictions on car-use are unfair on the poor' - an argument that you only hear from wealthy car owners.
Cases like this: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/three-tubs-of-ballot...
do a lot to "undermine the faith". In experiments - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-vote-by-mail-ballot-co... - 3% to whopping 21% of mailed test "ballots" - didn't arrive in time or not at all. That's not just "rhetoric".
It's so hard to get attention in October 2020. Great promotional idea.
> He started saying that syscalls are stable and that it's a gtk/GUI library problem and that if you were to, say, if you somehow loaded all the old libraries, it would work.

That's because no single organization can be blamed for the mess that is "GNU/Linux" ;-) Binary compatibility is very important for the kernel folks, but apparently much less so for maintainers of glibc and other libraries.

As a workaround, binaries can be statically compiled, or bundled with all their dependencies. Flatpak and Snappy are two projects addressing this issue by packaging applications as containers.
The most important thing to understand about Cloudflare One is that the name is marketing fluff. It does a bunch of things with a number of confusingly similar products. (Some of its features are provided by third-party "partners.")

The products are designed to be compatible, which is what the name "Cloudflare One" is designed to reflect, but there isn't just one product/feature being offered here. It's more of a vision statement than anything else.

What they're announcing is the compatibility of three previously released features:

1. Cloudflare WARP, their public VPN product for end users https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/

Note that despite being a "VPN," when WARP launched, it wasn't designed to connect to any company's internal corporate network. WARP is/was a "public VPN," the sort of thing an ordinary user would use to hide their IP address from web sites for privacy reasons. (Cloudflare claimed that WARP would also improve your network performance.)

2. Cloudflare Magic Transit, which is basically a reverse VPN product for on-premise datacenters, providing DDOS protection and packet filtering.

Magic Transit is kinda like Cloudflare's HTTP CDN product, but for all of a datacenter's traffic, geared toward IT professionals.

3. Cloudflare Network Interconnect (CNI), which lets you connect corporate offices to each other over Cloudflare's backbone infrastructure. Like Magic Transit, it was designed to allow IT staff to do traffic management and packet filtering.

Perhaps you'd have thought that these products would work together in some way, but they didn't, and now they kinda do.

Another bit of fluff that may have confused you is that they refer to this as a "Zero Trust" architecture, which sounds a little bit like BeyondCorp. IMO, this is basically a lie. BeyondCorp lets users connect to corporate resources behind a proxy, without a VPN.

If you squint and think of a VPN as a giant proxy, even traditional VPN solutions can seem like "Zero Trust," but that is not at all what anybody meant by that term.

What they are hoping to mitigate is the problem where anybody inside your VPN can access anything else they want inside your VPN, which is how most corporate VPNs work today. That sucks, but they're fixing this with a centralized configurable cloud-based VPN solution, in which you have to trust.
Yes, it was something along the lines of this:

http://www.bobatkins.com/photography/tutorials/mirror.html

I'm not saying you're incorrect, I'm saying that a more generic term may be acceptable, possibly even superior in conveying the idea to a wider audience, even if imprecise.
You should ask your reps for GDPR because it'll be negotiated down to GDPR-lite during passage. If GDPR-lite is your opening position, you're not gonna get jack.
> Interviews are filled with posturing, political correctness, and socially convenient falsehoods that have everything to do with large company recruiting constraints and nothing to do with you.

Hard to believe this is satire.
I fell for it. I thought it was genuine as many interviewers think similarly.
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If the reverse is true, you are positing that American society, the most wealthy society in the history of Earth, is so dangerous that we need jackboots and APCs in the streets. I don't buy it for a second. I think cops should be unarmed, and if they are armed, they should at least pretend to be as brave as their propaganda portrays them as and resist shooting people even if it puts them in danger.

EDIT: To be even more clear, when you are not literally in a state of existential civil war, deploying militarized police is a political judgement not an evidence based one. It is a tool of para-military force used against the less powerful by the more powerful. I would argue that paramilitaries are never appropriate in civil society, even in a state of war.
This is not "opposition", this is hate.
The serology studies in Italy are unfortunately underpowered because of a dumb decision: any person positive with IgG (which appear after or very close to the end of the infectious period) would have to quarantine then wait for a double negative PCR test. Thanks to this, only half of the expected people participated.
Sure, but maybe this has better PR than scrapping stuff. Or having it show up in Isis videos.

Mostly I don't think it's clear that "subsidize domestic police forces" need be the main goal.
In Europe too.

I was born in a small city in Spain where most people still need a car to go to work, do groceries, go to a restaurant, etc.
It's a very well defined, legally biding process that is monitored by members of both parties.

So basically yes, you have to trust that the law will be upheld and that the Democrats and Republicans who monitor the process together won't be corrupted at the same time.
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Purism has just announced AweSIM

https://puri.sm/products/librem-awesim/

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24653252
Green Eggs and Ham, as told from the pig's perspective.
Yes, it seems to me that total lockdown is the last resort of the unprepared.
Microsoft: New action to combat ransomware ahead of U.S. elections
Both are free speech, right?

Also, I asked a very clear question and requested a clear yes/no. What is your answer?
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Links for the lazy:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nick+zentner

Supervolcanoes in the Pacific Northwest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcreTTI9Rew

Great Earthquakes of the Pacific Northwest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ7Qc3bsxjI

Supercontinents and the Pacific Northwest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg69QbPxHsA
To Make Fairer AI, Physicists Peer Inside Its Black Box
Most of the buildings I spent time in for the last 7 years didn't have private offices any longer. Studios A-D had hybrid models where leads and the most senior engineers often had very small glass offices and teams sat in bays (I think some of those might have reverted to all small glass offices). 16,17,18,40,41,42,43, some of the buildings in the 30s as well had all moved to open. Many of the newest buildings (which I forget the numbers of were open) and IIRC , the new campus when complete was to be open. There were still to be sure many many buildings with offices but as buildings were remodeled they were mostly converted to open offices.
There's a difference in someone giving their ballot to a trusted person that will drop it off (and having signed the ballot over to that person to execute it) and having unofficial ballot boxes that the persons running can wholesale tamper with by say cross referencing the names with some other demographic information to disenfranchise some parts of society. these particular boxes might be operated without ill intent but that's not to say this practice should be allowed... especially since you can just put it in the mail now.
I do agree their scientific positions are tenuous, but having worked in a few scientific fields where the mainstream ultimately was proved completely and totally wrong (RNA can be an enzyme, the ribosome is an RNA machine) I've learned that even scientists who appear to be "not good faith" may be as ethical and as intelligent as the people they were disagreeing with.

I wouldn't classify Bhattacharya in the same bin as Peter Deusberg (well known virologist who insisteted that HIV transmission did not cause AIDS).
You can read about their investments here:

https://www.ampr.org/about/legal/

At the bottom of the page are the audited financial statement and tax return for 2019.
That is a silly measure. Companies make products if they think there is good profit to be made there.

Look at games. Civ wasn't released on Linux till Civ 5, that too because of Steam OS, four years after the Windows version came out.

Apple released Safari for Windows but never bothered with Linux.
You should actually hold off for longer

> In 2018, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released new recommendations for car seat safety. As part of these recommendations, they removed their previous age-based recommendation that children remain rear facing in car seats until the age of 2.

> The AAP now suggests that children remain rear facing until they reach their rear-facing car seat’s weight/height limits which, for most children, will leave them rear-facing beyond the previous age recommendation.

Source: https://www.healthline.com/health/childrens-health/forward-f...