skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was reading a scientific paper on the efficiency of face masks based on a meta-study of other papers. My perosnal conclusion was a lot more uncertain than the conclusion that the paper came to.

Most of the evidence came from n95 respirators in hospital settings, while the "normal" medical mask evidence was a lot weaker. Yet their conclusion was to advise mask use for the general public (which is gong to be the normal masks, or cloth masks in the majority of cases) based mainly on n95 evidence.
Delivery Workers, Trapped in the System
The Nintendo Switch has been the US’s bestselling console for 23 straight months
I can't vote with my feet (nor do I really want to), because there's no alternative I enjoy using as a desktop OS.

Windows is no better for telemetry, and the user experience doesn't at all fit well with how I work.

Linux I prefer to Windows but generally find the desktop experience lacking.
I emailed you the key, please report if you are banned so we can all learn the answer
Probably best to read this to understand better what happened. TLDR The problem was due to a hung network connection. So the notarisation check thought it could go because it had network but then it hung because the connection to oscp was getting stalled. Hence why turning off network made the problem go away. I experienced a weird slowdown for about 20mins, then everything went back to normal.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/macos-big-sur-launch...
Roughly the same in the UK, at least in my experience.

In Romania, getting blood work is very common, even for trivial things. A few years back it was also very cheap, about 20-30 euros for the basics.
Sure, why not both?

They deleted/locked accounts for less during the G+ real name frenzy.
Plant Inspired: Printing Self-Folding Paper Structures for Future Mechatronics
If silicon flops I wonder how long they will drag it out before converting back?
Caddy 2, open source web server with automatic HTTPS written in Go
Norway’s Wealth Tax Is Uncommon. Here’s What America Could Learn from It
> Norway is the rare country where the rich pay taxes on their wealth. A new study could boost similar proposals in the U.S.
Private torrent trackers have them all. I’ve contacted multiple members and asked them for their secrets and none replied.

I’ve requested several Amazon and Netflix shows and got the pure, not reencoded, unencrypted files.
Ok, let's pray presidents don't start beheading their political opponents then. Let's pray for sanity and rational discourse to prevail!
> where the fuck will the world store 20-30000 mton of nuclear waste every year

well, that's about a cubic meter of plutonium, so...
Maybe retitle this "Your Mac Isnt Yours"?
I followed OP's advice and blocked trustd from connecting to these servers. I noticed that there's also a process named ocspd that's whitelisted by default in Little Snitch. Can someone explain how these things are related?
To start, you put it in warehouses. Nuclear is an extremely dense fuel, so you don't need much space. I expect that for the same energy produced, you'll have orders of magnitude less waste than, for example, windmill blades, which also can't be recycled.

The biggest problem is radioactive concrete from old plants, but it isn't highly radioactive.
If someone acts on that idea, the speech may not be protected.
You can play PC GTA San Andreas at >60 fps on a 10 year old laptop pulled from a dumpster.
As someone outside of the US, luckily it seems most US companies think that US law applies globally.

I've got quite a few DMCA notices from rights holders, but never anything actually relevant to the country of my citizenship, where I live, or where the server is based.

So, naturally, I can just ignore them.
I think you'll be fine with Azure then. You should use the pricing calculator beforehand to not be surprised by the costs and figure out how to reduce them but this applies to any cloud provider.
In this case the whole Docker universe needs to be ported, including gazillion packages? I am glad if most of the datascience packages compile successfully on x86. Much fun it seems.
> Sorry, but please can you point to any real evidence that Apple allows state-level actors access? From what I can see it is exactly the opposite.

> Sorry, but there are no details about how PRISM works.

> I personally think that PRISM works by externally intercepting data communication lines running to / from the unwitting companies.

Unless you can prove you're ex-NSA or worked in SIGINT, sharing your opinion is not proof. Snowden's leaks are proof.

Why not give weight to the arguments and proof put forth by Edward Snowden? There have been no attempts by the US govt. or the NSA to disprove his leaks. No counter-evidence presented.

My question is: what do you benefit from continuing to deny and refuse to accept Snowden's whistleblowing?
They render differently in different visual cortices.
You can build turbines that produce a few kW out of wood.
Actually I did.

You make sure everyone uses the same Python version by setting it as a dependency. I mentioned I only set the dependencies on minor version (e.g. 2.7) rather than path version (e.g. 2.7.3), but the latter is supported - for the python version as well as for any other package.

You make sure the exact versions you want are in use by editing and curating the requirements.txt rather than freezing it. It really is that simple, but somehow that's not a common workflow.

prod vs. dev is the only one I didn't address because I don't have experience with that - but I know people who manage "requirements_prod.txt" vs "requirements_dev.txt" and it seems to work for them.
They would do it so their developers can use Macbooks.
> is it good for the long-term health of an OSS project if it has sponsored developer(s) from a single company?

Surely, the answer is "no" in absolute terms. In relative terms, however, the answer is "better than none" most of the time.
Funny thing about that is that she is a politician because her father was, no other reason than nepotism really. They are also a very rich family, I'd really like to see this hag live by her words.
As long as we don't forget how to build renewables we could skip the fossil fuel stage. Bootstrap solar panels and wind turbines using some biomass as fuel and continue from there.
I have not experienced any difficulties in installing or running apps from outside the Mac app store (if that’s what you mean by paying Apple a tithe).
And when you're done eating those waffles, you can have a free toothbrush delivered so you can freshen up before sending it on its way to the next lucky recipient.

Owning things has advantages beyond accumulating wealth.
I thought this was going to be about the Intel Management Engine or something. Well, I don't use a Mac. I never have and never will. I run a general-purpose x86-64 computer with Gentoo GNU/Linux on it. It's mine. I know other people don't own their computers. I've known that for years. Other people don't own their cars or houses either.
Yes this has always annoyed me; having it centred under the keyboard makes no sense except in some weird universe where everybody uses only their thumbs to operate the trackpad. Trackpad alignment was one of the major causes of my RSI due to the horrible bend in the wrist it causes.

I haven't used a Mac in years but the one thing they always nailed was the trackpad. It's big and actually centred on the laptop body.
> Big Sur delivers a spacious new design that makes navigation easier, while putting more controls at users’ fingertips.

First step forward a touch enabled/optimized MacOS? From screenshots many UI elements looks like iOS/iPadOS now.
macOS Big Sur launch appears to cause slowdown in even non-Big Sur Macs
True, but in the context of computer science, isn't having encyclopedic knowledge a trivial problem? I mean, if you look at it that way, wikipedia itself "transcends" the limits of the human brain, and it's just a database. And a way more efficient one at that, at 50GB vs. 700GB.

In the context of AI, Bert already had knowledge embedded into it [1], and it's not considered a VLP model afaik. So it's more of a quantitative improvement, contrary to the claim of the author that there's a qualitative difference between VLP models and everything else.

[1] https://syncedreview.com/2020/08/12/how-smart-is-bert-evalua...
Linux Mint is a good start Linux Distro : https://linuxmint.com/
If all humans aren't eradicated by nuclear war, I don't see why all memory, books, hard drives, other archives, computers, power plants, machinery, or even all contraceptives would be.
It is extremely interesting to me that they’re using this to solve the brewed chocolate problem. I tried so hard years ago to make Choffy work in home brewing but I could never get the balance of factors right. I hope I can visit the Bay Area someday to try it at Dandelion.
Wow, color me impressed /s.

You found a bug report for a problem specifically on fish on MacOS, which can be resolved by "deactivate / reactivate" according to the discussion.

Were you trying to say something?
I am a dane and I agree with you completely. Just go to the danish subreddit and see how the average dane has been subverted into being a conformist who redicules anyone who dares ask questions that oppose the official talking points. (Argue against the handling of the mink scandal, the mask enforcement etc and you get ousted and rediculed even though there really is no counter arguements to whatever you say. Its just easier to redicule than address arguements).
While I agree with some of your arguments, I think your main mistake is calling it "factory" work - because IMO it isn't a valid analogy (and analogies are powerful! :) ).

"Factory" work implies a far more constrained and monotone environment.

Craft work is more apt, I think.

I mean, to illustrate: Most of the work might be seen as just connecting pipes, but I'll be damned if a highly skilled and experienced plumber isn't worth their weight in gold. :)
> The only relevant math I need is that humans have done fine with animal fats for thousands of years.

That's true, however, humans have been spending days mostly inside, both living and working, for much, much less time than that, which dramatically affects how much natural D they are getting from the sun.

I'd love to see some research on the overall exposure to sunlight, on average, a person has received over the last century. My guess is that in very recent decades, especially the last couple, as working remotely and not needing to leave the house even to commute, sunlight exposure has plummeted.

Also, the risks of sun exposure have been widely reported over recent decades and advances in powerful sunblock have made even those who do spend time outdoors less likely to absorb the sun's rays.

So to place it in the context of how humans have lived for thousands of years ignores the realities of modern times.
On the first part - I agree - and it's exactly this (MS's overwhelming influence on forcing direction) that keeps the .NET ecosystem back.

For ex, AFAIK, there was no community participation on DI Design and community feedback on DI design was rejected. Then it was made the default in ASP.NET.

https://blog.simpleinjector.org/2016/06/whats-wrong-with-the...
"a world where a certain subset of people with the technical knowledge have computing freedom"

Even that is optimistic.
It's interesting to see that there are still opportunities for further improvements in raft. Thanks for the reply!
"It didn't take long for some Mac users to note that trustd—a macOS process responsible for checking with Apple's servers to confirm that an app is notarized—was attempting to contact a host named oscp.apple.com but failing repeatedly. This resulted in systemwide slowdowns as apps attempted to launch, among other things."
> And even though I just bought an MBP16,

Look into what state law protections you have. High ticket mail order items can usually be returned for a full refund for a fairly long time.

Finding out that it's phoning home about every binary you run is absolutely a good justification to return it. I would sooner throw out a computer that did that rather than use it.
I'm not sure which comments you are reading: one of the top threads that almost fills the whole first page is a long discussion about alternatives to macbooks...
Surely it's against copyright law
Microsoft saw that Macs were eating their lunch regarding developers and researchers when e.g. nearly everyone doing AI was on a MacBook or Ubuntu. You had a hard time getting Tensorflow to run on Windows because no one in the community really cared.

Also everyone developing applications in the cloud was eventually targeting Linux as the production OS, which is a pain if your development OS is pretty much hostile do anything command line.

MS then put a lot of money into getting a Linux like command line and support into Windows with WSL.

They also got a bunch of influencers and devs do their thing with improving that kind of developer's experience.

Apple, however, has been sitting on their hands in this regard. They are moving exactly the opposite direction with this crowd.

I have no idea what rationale is behind that. Did they come to a different conclusion than Microsoft or are they just failing to execute on the strategy?
https://github.com/github/dmca/pull/8283
added widevine decryptor to dmca
idk if theyll take it down
You do know that "heads on a pike" is a figure of speech?

The phrase can be used in two contexts, one as a figure of speech. The figure of speech context does NOT have any threats involved.

Now, here is Bannon's statement:

"I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England, I’d put the heads on pikes, right, I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. You either get with the program or you’re gone – time to stop playing games."

In this context, Bannon does not seem to use it as a figure of speech, it is a threat - maybe not literally - but a threat nonetheless. That's what's wrong, and why people are angry. Not because they don't like his "ideas".
It looks more like Fauci that has been trashing hyrdoxychloroquine studies to promote vaccines that don't yet exist to me.

I have seen studies showing good effects of HCQ as well as other studies showing little effect but potential problems when combined with other medications (dosage seems to be a factor, low dosage seems to be where the benefits lie). But because Trump suggested it, it was poo-pooed by Fauci and the media.

The Lancet study used to discredit Hydroxychloroquine needed to be retracted because the data was crap. Surely it deserves a second look.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092485792...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/05/lancet...
But also Windows phones home.m and Linux desktop is still a shitshow (pardon the French) arguing over and over again about the same melange of disputes that should have been settled a decade ago...

Not sure if it’s a sign of aging, but I’m losing hope and interest in most of these pantomimes /s
Yep "Voting with your wallet" doesn't work, bad practices need regulation and/or penalties.
Not a bit deal. Building ARM images from Dockerfiles is trivial. And it has the benefit of not having to trust an upstream image content.
If you want to go the extra mile, contribute to the project to provide multi arch images support.
A video on "what happens if we pile up all the nukes and set them off":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyECrGp-Sw8
Ok I see now (if someone was to act "due to" speech like this, it might be used as "justification" for more censorship - if I'm not misunderstanding).

But I don't see what that has to do with what I wrote, which was regarding the pattern of "dishonesty" when it comes to the discussion of reality.

I consider this to be a very dangerous break from our cultural history. There are many examples in history of where this road can lead, but not only are we not exhibiting caution, the overwhelming sense I get is enthusiasm at this development. One probably shouldn't judge the general public in this regard too harshly, but thinking is what the HN crowd is supposed to be good at.
This is hardly about choices and more about shared resources and interaction. You can do whatever you want, but you can't do it to whatever/whoever you want.
You're clearly not looking in the right places :)
That is so obvious! But For those of us who has a Mac we dont think about these issues as we can test Chrome and Firefox.

How are Windows Dev suppose to test with Safari when they dont have access to it?
Give me, the owner of the computer, over the keystore for the root certificates I trust, and code signing is great.

> I'm mostly libertarian, but if I ever become a president, this would be one of the first things I'd make illegal, right after shortening the copyright term to like 3 years.

As a libertarian I can see the argument for getting rid of presumptive copyright (and tanking the US economy), but the government preventing people from entering into contracts that you don't like? That's just hypocritical.
Democracy is probably fine, it's the fact that we allowed politicians anywhere near it that's the problem...
There's no debate - at least, I can't find where Michigan's Voter Information site says there is or is not evidence in 2020. So the AP wins the credibility competition by forfeit.

Perhaps you meant to write "Are we to believe anonymous claims about votes purported to come from dead people or the Associated Press Fact Check that there is no evidence in 2020? "

The referenced AP article, at https://apnews.com/article/ap-fact-check-election-dead-voter... , writes:

> After social media users circulated videos that purportedly showed the names of dead voters in Michigan, The AP contacted one of the people named. She was very much alive and had just beaten her husband at cribbage.

> According to experts, seeing strange birthdates on voter rolls that appear to belong to deceased registrants isn’t evidence of voter fraud, and there are multiple reasons why it can occur.

> ... False claims about dead people voting in Michigan also arose during the Michigan primary election on August 4. Michigan election authorities at the time said that there was also no evidence that votes were cast on behalf of dead people.

This HN posting links to a list, yes. But how many of those are actually votes cast in the name of dead people? Vs. clerical errors?

Or duplicate names? David Jones is a popular name, and there could easily be two people with that name, born in the same month year, who lived in the same ZIP code.

To be sure, people do try to cast ballots in the name of dead people, eg, https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/11/12/john-fetterman-el... .

But the number of actually illegal votes like this are pitifully small.
I liked this one:

Q: Why do you want to end the world?

A: CAE is devoted to practical, pragmatic solutions. We’re interested in the how, not the why.
Microsoft: 'Please don't blow vape smoke into your Xbox Series X'
More preventive care -- specifically screenings -- isn't always better. Humans are piles of goo, each person is different and totally normal, healthy baseline values are frequently quite different for different people. There is no such thing as a "normal" person.

The negative effects of false positives can easily outweigh the benefits of early screenings. For example, an NHS study shows that PSA antigen testing for prostate cancer is actually net harmful. [1]

Of course this isn't a blanket statement against testing in general, I'm just cautioning you against pre-judging the Dutch system as somehow less effective on the basis of "lack of preventive care" in general based on your personal experiences. It could well be that the other systems you participated in were less effective but attempting to placate anxious humans wanting to feel like they're 'doing something.'

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/17/prostate-cancer-...
What is IU compared to micrograms? (Is it international units? My girlfriend mentioned this measure to me this morning when I gave her a vitamin tabled measured in micrograms, I don't know much about it).
What I tried to say is that the framing by OP is hypocritical fear-mongering which benefits US & Eurocentric Imperialism.

Of course I do not endorse China's human rights violations.
What's worse is the number of other posts with the top comments being vociferous defenses of these companies as if they needed these people to defend them or cared one iota for their welfare. It feels like it's Stockholm Syndrome on a mass scale.

I worry for Gen Z because they're tiny-mobile-device native. And the only usable tiny mobile devices are walled gardens. They scream outrage when they're not allowed their tiny little dance-jig operators provided courtesy of an abusive regime.

Sure, I reflect that I may be now nearing the curve of an obsolescent person attached to such silly outmoded principles like "ethics" but if we're all just selling ourselves out constantly to the angry god-machine of the id, is this really the future we want for our daughters and sons?
Why should you choose between freedom and convenience? They are not mutually exclusive.
>I guess a court ruling could be turned later but why not give criminals the option to choose between life imprisonment and death sentence?

Why not just let any depressed person commit suicide efficiently so they're not around bringing us down!

>A motivating factor could be giving money to the family for cost of inmate in prison up to his life expectancy or re-shifting the savings back into societal reforms to stop these crimes by working on to remove poverty.

yeah, so when it turns out that a poor person who was innocent opted for death to give his starving family some money (remember, we're talking about America here) what's the clever response going to be then?

I have a hard time believing you're not joking, because these ideas seem monstrous enough I must assume they are meant to be taken in the Swiftian manner.
Why do Covid-19 deaths in Sweden always appear to decrease in the last 10 days?
This is, in essence, a decade-long investigation into how to fairly tax vehicles for the road wear they cause in California, with a specific focus on minimal-effort user experience for vehicle operators. I participated in the previous phase and I wish I could with the current phase. I would specifically encourage vehicle-operating HN folks who are still in California to sign up for this.
> This is the same sort of logic that some people have that people shouldn't be allowed to make choices in life because they "might get it wrong".

No, it's not at all the same sort of logic. We are talking about technology here, not overall life experience. Everyone starts out life on the same footing, with zero experience, and has the innate potential to learn how to live it. But computers are a very specific, highly specialized machinery that the vast parts of the population will never be able to directly understand or fix. I can drive a car but I don't know the first thing about fixing it.

You could claim that no one should own technology if they don't understand it intimately, but that is a different kind of logic and argument. It's silly to conflate the two.
> These companies have repeatedly shown that they don't respect people's privacy

I mean, this is just plainly not true.

Apple has done many things, things they did not at all need to do, in order to protect user's privacy. They have shown, repeatedly, that they do in fact care.
It may come to you as a surprise, but for an outside observer, who hasn't been indoctrinated at school by the religion of American exceptionalism, the US might not be a very good example. Think of American military-industrial complex that apparently defines the country's foreign policy.
> Fauci said he takes 10,000IU per day.

Source please?

I find Fauci said 6,000IU

https://vitamindwiki.com/Dr.+Fauci+takes+6%2C000+IU+of+Vitam...