skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the impracticality of the borders is purposeful, a suggestion that you might want to leave room for some cultural differentiation here and there, but not really have border checks or any other limiting elements that give them any kind of practical importance.
Unlike COVID-19 which is spreading a lot in the US (due to lack of coordinated government action) and which other countries have more or less stamped out and are controlling (Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan etc.), a vaccine will actually be given to something like 80-90% of the population.

So whereas the US has currently had a total of about ~10 million cases to date, this represents about 3.3% of the total population. There have been about 200,000 deaths so far, so the US case-fatality rate is about 2% - note, the mortality rate is most likely quite a bit lower overall since it's spreading so much. This is simply deaths vs. observed cases.

EDITED(got the math off by a factor of 10 here previously - at 0.01% fatality it's not 360,000 - that said, see comments below, actually establishing that in clinical trials is not easy): Let's suppose we rush through a vaccine that turns out to cause fatal complications in 0.01% of the population, and we give it 90% of the population. Straight up - we've just killed 36,000 people. But that's assuming that the complications are binary - but COVID-19's complications aren't binary, and neither would negative side-effects be. So we might kill a bunch of people, and injure tens of thousands more seriously. Or we might have inadequately diverse trials and miss a whole population of potential negative side-effects (a classic problem in a lot of trials: university aged students with the distribution of whichever university developed the product are over-represented in samples).

You cannot rush clinical trials. To even stand a hope of getting to 0.01% risks you need a population of at least several thousand in your trial. You need to monitor them aggressively because hopefully you have good data that whatever can go wrong will be slow enough you can intervene, but...there are always risks. Clinical trials can and do go badly wrong and people involved in them are taking a selfless risk for the betterment of the rest of us - and that's a very different proposition to declaring "this'll probably be fine" and not collecting the data.
Author here—yup, it’s based on the Italian word.
The fundamental problem of the entitled left is unchecked imagination of other people experiences completely divorced from daily realities of those people.
You have someone from a minority describing his experience to you and you feel the need to put him in his place immediately because there is an unknown number of people who have it worse. The entitled right at least donates a lot of money to charities (more than anybody else in the world) and helps a lot of people through various kinds of organizations. But hey if you say they can't image other people's experiences than it must be so.
Generating iOS App Previews for the App Store
Show HN: How Distant – Quiz to establish rules for in-person meetings with COVID
I've spent months and sleepless nights trying to get a product through the EMC certification. It's certainly possible but it's time consuming and expensive. With a shoestring engineering budget and a product that needs to be on the shelves in a month? Not really.

I'm sure many devices on the market are not compliant. I follow lists of products removed from market for non-compliance and there are plenty each week. But the fact is that, if you're not in one of the categories that are under special scrutiny (aerospace, automobile, medical, etc.) or do something grossly incompetent (e.g. interfere with a mobile operator or someone else with a similar power to put you into the regulatory spotlight) you're unlikely to get into trouble for shipping a non-compliant device.

Make someone's Wi-Fi a bit slower and a bit more packet-lossy? Chances are nobody will care. It's a sad state of affairs really because pervasive radio interference is just making things worse for everyone.
If you watch most of those old documentaries though TV is 50% filler 30% recap 20% content.
It's never safe to bank from a computer you can't control. I would always consider a phone to be compromised. These are the richest targets going for exploits so why risk it.
I'll take that as a sarcastic response and that you doubt that reducing the influence of nations would promote peace.

Tribalism (Nationalism) is the cause or justification for most wars, no? Us against Them. Whether it's Nations or Religions or Races. I think tribalism is so deeply rooted in most of our cultures, that ideas that challenge it are hard to process for most people. I think there's a lot of value in challenging assumptions. This specific proposal has a whole host of problems with it, but there is still merit in the idea of dealing with the cultural forces of nationalism.
Idagio looks pretty awesome. Do you know who's behind it?

My only complaint so far is that they claim that one of the reasons for creating Idagio is that the main streaming services are track/album-oriented, implying that Idagio does this better. But if I go to an Idagio album (here [1] is a random example), there are just tracks. If I view the same album at Apple Music, the album is nicely divided into works [2], and also annotates each track with the composer.

I do love the ability to browse by work and find matching recordings, though.

[1] https://app.idagio.com/albums/r-strauss-and-brahms-orchestra...

[2] https://i.imgur.com/d3sNrnc.jpg
FWIW Fedora (which uses the RPM package format) is an easy distributions to get going with these days (mostly as a result of the tight integration/testing done by the QA team and maturing foundation), so it's worth trying Fedora Workstation IMHO.
That is still not clear. Not everyone need to sign in so it could not be essential. It should ask when you want to login if you want to store a cookie or not.
Yeah, I’ve beaten Sekiro and run through a season of F1 2018 in Linux. I’ve also played through The Outer Worlds from the Epic store in Lutris with no problems.

It’s surprising that AAA games on Linux work better than ever these days even without native support.
YOU PUT THE SIMPSON IN SIMPSON'S.
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This works exactly the same way on iOS or any device that supports Bluetooth low energy, since it allows very fine grained location detection. Try it yourself.

This has caused some issues for covid apps since, to use BLE on Android, you need to request the location permission - which people were naturally afraid to do.
Can you please answer instead of trying to manoeuver away from it with a lame distraction?
This would be cool, but it can be done with a single set of heads if the utilization is less than 100%.

Multiple sets of heads would be useful if the limiting factor is positioning.

BTW, I don't know how a multi platter drive records its disk blocks. Is a block contained in a single platter or does it spread across all platters and read/writes from all heads at the same time?

Dual arms would be handy if the drive had a RAID-like checksumming scheme between platters. If a platter is corrupted but is still readable/writable (it wasn't a head malfunction), the drive could rebuild itself without the help of a computer.

Even if it is a head malfunction, the data could be redistributed between the other platters, reducing the drive capacity.
Are there any banks that provide EUR accounts that do the same (Monzo is GBP only)?
I created a tool exactly for that: https://metado.app

You can use it to have a board with several to-do lists from different providers.
> The first advantage to just copy-pasting is that the snippet author might update it (e.g. if he finds a faster/safer way to do the one thing his package does), and you don't have to do anything.

First, please don't copy paste solutions. Understand them and implement correctly. Stackoverflow is not a magic library you should take books from without understanding.

> Imagine finding a solution on Stackoverflow and just being able to import foo from stackoverflow/a/12345, and when the community finds a better way to do it, your software is automatically using the new version!

Wow, I've just imagined it. Props for the great horror story, but... it's a security nightmare. You basically surrender all control over your project for almost nothing.

> The second advantage is that it's basically built-in refactoring: Code from these micropackages will not litter your code, there is a clean separation between what is your business logic vs where you just need some generic functionality.

Writing this utility in a separate code unit (namespace, project, whatever) gives exactly the same advantage.
And micropackages will litter my building process / dependency tree.
Writing tutorials is a common use for screenshots. Suppose I want to write an app that makes it easier to create tutorials. It could have companion software on my desktop computer so that when I hit the enter key, it captures a screenshot and transfers it to the computer. This would eliminate tedious steps and streamline the process.

It might seem like a niche application, but it seems there is tutorial creation software for other platforms already. It's probably pretty useful for people working in IT departments.
Steam itself works pretty well, but I've had many games just inexplicably segfault on startup. It's weird because I get the same segfault:
- using steam-run
- in a FHS user environment
- in an LXD container (on this NixOS host) running Debian 10

The same games run fine on a Debian 10 host, all of the libraries the link to are bit-identical to the ones in the LXD container, and I've even tried running the exact same kernel.

I'm lost here, as I feel like I've made everything match (at least in the LXD container): the kernel is bit-identical, the games are bit-identical, the libraries they link to are bit-identical. There must be something I'm missing.
Using Alfred to open your GitHub repositories in the browser
It is part of standard up to date JS. This library is for supporting older browsers and Node versions.
It’s still around, saved by crowdfunding, though its apps haven’t been optimized for newer phone screen sizes.

I haven’t used it regularly for years now though, but the idea’s always stuck with me.
I think you’re underestimating the power of filter bubbles. I’m very left, mostly live in SF and LA, and browse r politics. I’ve never seen what you’re talking about. R politics has an strong point of view but if anything is posted along those lines it gets downvoted to oblivion.

I think you need to reassess how your feeds are being filtered because they appear to have zeroed in on ultra extreme pockets. Either your clicks or the algorithms have put your feeds in a skewed place. It sounds like you’re being shown the right wing caricature of the left. Of course that makes them look insane.
First they block the sd card and now screenshots because they dont trust their app review process?
This is in Kenya where Safaricom's M-Pesa is widely used for mobile money/payments. From the article:

> the app was developed by them in partnership with a Kenyan carrier, Safaricom. A spokesperson from Google told XDA that the app was developed to help Safaricom with their new “Lipa Mdogo Mdogo” (Pay Bit by Bit) financing plan which lets customers get an Android Go device with monthly financing. However, if the customer could not pay an installment after four days of its due date, Safaricom locks the device with this Google app.

Does the lock also prevent M-Pesa payments? That would effectively be a telco kill switch for digital money wallets.
> Question: if there's no website, how TF are you supposed to use Monzo or Revolut from a proper computer?

You can't. That's why you don't use them for serious work.

> why did you even open an account

Different use cases, different circumstances. I don't depend on them but they give good exchange rates and zero fees when transferring or spending money abroad. It's the "it just works" and "fast and cheap" effect that the traditional banks don't have. And opening an account is done online, and you get access to your account in hours, compared to Barclays which took 2 months of ping pong, when I first moved into the UK (since I did not have a bill issued in my name at my UK address I could not open an account, so I could not pay my landlord rent so I could get an address to open an account, fun times). Without that Monzo account I could have not been paid in my first 2 months.

But if you want to know how crap Revolut really is, try contacting their support to report a bug in their app, they don't have an email, but instead ask you to get in touch with them on Facebook.
Years ago calling and immediately hanging up was immensely popular among teenagers/young adults as a way to ping someone. Used as a way of flirting, telling something was ready, arrived at home.
I'm not saying it's right or "good", but the very same problem applies to people who have their phone line cut off because they've not paid the bill.
This is moot at this point. Resolve has had fairlight for some time and have made it their own.

It does an incredible job. We use it with Universal Audio’s Apollo units which contain external DSP and industry leading emulation and it integrates beautifully. Amazing to be able to emulate Ocean Way Studios room sound for a film track, for example.

I’d encourage podcasters to look at Resolve as an audio only workflow option.
This does not magically increase the power radiated by an ethernet cable or somehow change the base frequency of the interference. Furthermore, the power levels are very low. If you check the link at the bottom, he is using a directional (Moxon) antenna to receive this faint signal. If this could somehow pose an issue with anything, it would have been caught in EMI testing of all network equipment sold
Had to look it up, but the purpose of .nomedia is to tell apps not to scan that directory for content. It's basically a suggestion, but say you have a dir with a bunch of cached web assets; it would be useful to drop a .nomedia file in there. So really this seems like a bug in the screenshot tool for being too strict (it isn't supposed to prevent writing, only reading). Like the screenshot tool tries to create the dir when it already exists (but can't be seen), fails, and gives the wrong error message.
> companies with shareholders are legally obliged to.

Can we please stop with this meme? No, they are not "legally responsible" to keep pushing. Saying this removes the moral responsibility from the people making these terrible decisions.
except that -1: there's nothing illegal about not asking for consent when cookies are not related to, in the cookie itself, personally identifiable information.

You don't need permission to set cookies, every server with session management relies on them. You do need permission to set cookie that may leak PII.

This person should try again, but this time actually look at the content of the cookies to see whether their complaint even makes sense.
> I have heard banks will take back a car if not paid in full.

I can only speak anecdotally, several years ago, I was in a financial pinch, and I called up my car's finance people. I told them about my problem, and that I didn't expect to be able to continue paying for my car, and that I'd heard that they would take the car back, null the credit agreement (if car value > remaining amount owed), and sell on the car. The nice lady on the phone told me that no, that's not what they do. They'll just wait until I default on X number of payments and then take me to court. Here I was trying to be helpful, and they gave zero shits.
Facebook engineer guides San Antonio Trump team to victory, realizes the gravity of what he has done, goes soul searching in Peru and undoubtedly does Ayahuasca, then leaves Facebook and resolves to defeat his old partners.

Someone needs to contact this guy for the movie rights. It’s the perfect modern redemption arc, and peak Silicon Valley.
Of course, on the RPI there is the good ole GPIO4 abuse:
https://tutorials-raspberrypi.com/build-raspberry-pi-radio-t...
Works a lot better and has been around a long time.
I also interpreted as banking apps having the ability to lock your phone (for security reasons).

I don’t know how you think that this is fine - it is not how financing works. You borrow the money to purchase the device, and go into debt with the lender. They don’t own the phone and shouldn’t have any kind of access to it - it is purely a financial dispute the moment you stop paying.
“Google paid Biden only about a tenth what his campaign paid Google”

And yet Biden is somehow indebted to Google. Not to mention theres no list of corporate donations, and somehow $6M in employee donations (pretty light showing imho) means they wield some control over him.
Biden was already ultimately declared the victor.
It is indeed not a 1 on 1 copy of words but it was the contents, and trying to shy away with 'that's not what he said' is just dishonest and wilful dissonance.
Even if this was propaganda (in the pejorative sense), I doubt any other medium or outlet will be taking this Sunday off.

When I need a break from the propaganda I always switch on [streaming service] and watch [latest hip series starring biracial protagonist with quirky LGBTIQ best friend in semi-fictional borderless country].
This ^ 100%. Sure the election process may be democratic but the way bills and laws are passed are not. The power is in a handful of people who don’t represent the will of people. Instead we’ll see painful 4 years where things get blocked on the merit of “Democrats wrote this bill therefore it must be rejected and vice versa”.
This worries me. Not because of the current usecase - this is already a common practice with cars from used-car dealers (at least in the US). It’s the “what’s next” usecase, where this is included by default, with other quasi-legal triggers.

Some potential triggers:

Attempts to root your phone. (For example, via a honeypot root mechanism released by the manufacturer)

Using an app store not approved by the manufacturer.

Visiting “blacklisted” websites.

etc.

We might not see these kinds of applications for months or years, but there’s no reason we wouldn’t see them, other than relying on Google’s good will.
Link to the statement: https://youtu.be/ARS5sh9Ut7M

I don't think the kitchen/chef analogy is questioning if Tesla can make a car. He's questioning if the company can scale to compete in all markets Toyota currently dominates.
RSS: https://wundergraph.com/blog/rss.xml
Atom: https://wundergraph.com/blog/atom.xml
Question: Does inserting themselves as a henchman to enforce claims made by one party of a contract between third parties result in a legal risk for google (in your jurisdiction)?

Does google have to verify the claim triggering the feature reduction?
Our disagreement is not in reasoning but in axioms. Your deduction based on the dictionary definition of "criminal" is valid (I say dictionary definition and not legal definition because, afaik, "criminal" is not a legal term).

But I don't accept dictionaries as the ultimate authority of the meaning of words, just a handy guide. The meaning of a word is whatever people tend to understand that word as. I cannot prove this on the spot, since I'd have to invest time into organizing a survey, but I'm fairly confident that, if you ask a thousand people whether someone who drives over the speed limit is a criminal, a majority of them would say "no" (phrasing of the question will matter probably though).

You can insist on the dictionary being the ultimate source of truth, that is fine. But all that achieves is setting yourself up for gratuitous, avoidable miscommunications. If your theory of language makes communication harder, it seems to undermine the point of language.
Thanks for clarifying. You may be right -- again, I'm far from an expert. The distinction I've seen is essential vs. nonessential. Remembering that I dismissed that banner seems more like non-essential to me. Seems more along the lines of saving my preferred font size. That said, the sources I'm finding about this are maaaybe not the most reliable.

Is there a difference between remembering this "for the current session" vs. "for several weeks"? (The idea of a session is awfully vague given how HTTP works, but seems like one we use anyway.)

> I think that the fact that a lot of websites nag you with endless lists of cookie consent checkboxes, even for functional cookies, is not entirely innocent, and contributes to the idea that cookie notices are terribly annoying and pointless.

One thing I can add is that when I searched for info about the law, I got a bunch of results from cookieyes.com, which told me 1. that I need a cookie banner for any cookies at all and 2. we'll provide you with a cookie banner if you pay us.

So there's definitely some incentives to push unnecessary cookie banners going on. :-)
Well there’s an associated journal publication about the technology - Disney Research is hardly keeping this under wraps, and they publish many of their findings and technologies. And in general this is a demo like we might see with Marvel/Lucasfilm demonstrating special effects, etc, and not really a spoiler about a Disney World attraction.

And from a Corporate Disney perspective this is good PR, particularly for the labor market (I am not sure many engineers think of Disney as a major tech employer).
EMI testing only tests a product during typical use.

It's very possible to transmit illegal power levels with software mods, or even carefully crafted data packets in some cases.
Don't know about the actual cookies, but I'm pretty sure the "click a simple button to accept all but go through a long and slow process to reject"-pattern is not compliant with GDPR.
I worked for one such company early in my career. I was the first hire of a batch that made the IT department 2.5x bigger.

Some of the initial red flags were all the empty desks with readily available computers and multiple monitor setups, and the fact the IT manager was a guy who struggled to communicate in English or the local language.

Long story short, one year after I joined all the IT department (including me) had left, with the manager being the only exception. We found out the hard way the company had a long story of hiring batches of developers and struggling to make payroll in the following months, which the CEO "fixed" by having the IT manager create a very toxic environment where people blamed each other for all sorts of things, thus distracting themselves from the elephant in the room (the company was broke and the CEO didn't care, and our manager was little more than a puppet).

My main takeaways were:

- Financially unsound companies are likely to have a toxic work environment.

- You should look for signs of high, recent employee turnover the first time you visit your employer's offices.