skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not having vulnerable people close to you is not the only way you can hold my position/view. I have three grandparents who I love dearly in their 80s - one with diabetes, one with rheumatoid arthritis, and the other with lung scarring from tuberculosis. My parents are approaching 60. My wife's parents are in their 70s (both have had covid already). And I have several of my own children. My position is that, yes covid sucks. In my personal view/opinion, the danger/risk levels of covid don't warrant anything nearly so severe as what has been going on all over the world. Let people live. Don't treat them like babies that need to forced to take their medicine. We've long since crossed the liberty/safety threshold I'm comfortable with.
Is DE (or AoE in general) available on Mac and/or Linux?
The point was that you pointed out a use case for some sort of cryptographic signing, not for (ab-) using DKIM for this purpose rather than what it was designed for.

I don't understand enough about all the issue to really know how I feel about it, but clearly there are trade-offs here that at least argue against expanding the scope.
Probably less to do with standing up for the developer and more to do with the fact that if github starts DMCAing legit projects then open source developers are going to look at creating a decentralized hosting solution for their repos.
There's also a pretty big opportunity/time/effort cost to contacting Apple support, describing your problem, fighting with them over whether the defect is covered under warranty, actually packaging the thing and shipping it to them, waiting for the fix/replacement, hoping the replacement isn't similarly screwed up, and setting up all your programs and files again when they 'fix' the problem by wiping your machine or giving you a new one.
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We actually had a milkman for a period when I was growing up.

Certainly, as you go back in time, there was a lot of local delivery especially in urban areas. Mail order, Sears catalog notwithstanding, less so. Just to pick one random example, ordering music, movies, or books pre-Amazon was really pretty limited.
He clickbaited me but good on that one, but it delivered the goods.
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Leica Q is one of the best selling camera for Leica, infact they raised the price 3/4 years ago. Also the Q2 had a 200€ price increase in EU (https://www.macfilos.com/2019/08/01/leica-q2-price-rises-in-...).

Leica has already a medium format camera (S) with interchangeable lenses, its super expansive but a medium format Leica with fixed lens for (example) 9000$ I think would sell really a lot.

Also a Sony medium format for 7/8000€ would sell a lot (more than Leica surely). We’ll see...
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Maybe the easiest way to get vitamin d out there would be to politely ask manufacturers to fortify butter.
This makes sense to me as a way of summarizing the second point--say things directly without characterizing it one way or the other.
> Action/inaction, advice or advice withheld, you are constantly setting the environment that will shape your child’s entire life.

I don't want to believe this is entirely true. I want to outgrow the coping mechanisms my upbringing forced me to learn in order to adapt, which are now actively harming me. If some things we impart on children truly are irreversible, then it's as if I'm trapped consciously aware of how my parents influenced my life and still there isn't enough I can do to move on. And I didn't choose my parents, so I could not consent to being raised in the ways they chose.
The current discussion here seems to be about Vitamin D in general, and ignoring the study itself.

In my reading, this study is weak evidence. This was not a randomized, controlled trial, but historical analyses of a natural experiment. In itself, that's not a problem: we can learn a lot from natural experiments. But I don't think this instance is much of an "experiment."

As I understand it, all of the residents (96 in total) of a particular nursing home receive regular Vitamin D supplementation. Of the total residents, 66 got COVID-19. Among that group, they realized that 57 of them had received their Vitamin D supplementation either within a week of being diagnosed with COVID-19, or one month prior. That is the intervention group. The remaining 9 people are the "comparator" group. They found the intervention group had better survivability.

The main three reasons I consider this study weak evidence is that the number of people in the "comparator" group is very small (9!), and they - as far as I can tell - do not explain why these people did not receive their normal Vitamin D supplementation. The "comparator" group is supposed to have had a similar baseline, but there's still, to me, a strong possibility of a confounding factor. Finally, there were four total interventions: corticosteroids, hydroxychloroquine, "dedicated antibiotics" and the observation about Vitamin D. The more things you try, the less surprising it should be that there is a correlation along one of them.
Dockerhub is a drop in an ocean, no central repository can hold windows software, it's that big.
Why didn't they start with youtube-dl though? They will defend developers and err on their side "going forward" but no not that one?

Surely they already had the legal manpower when the youtube-dl removal started making waves. The fact that they did nothing for over three weeks and are publishing this blog post right after the issue was fixed by someone else (EFF) makes it hard to believe their "changes".
For one, there are many variations of geographical redundancy where there is no single machine that touches all of the traffic. Having everything behind a pair of redundant load balancers is somewhat antiquated.
It's also quite possible that they simply deleted the private keys after cycling to new keys.
Who is the customer in this case?
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I was sure this was going to use Actions, using Issues is... More elegant I suppose.

Babel though? Packages? JavaScript? This could just be a single HTML file, surely?
I had a failure to boot on a MBP 2019 after Big Sur upgrade. I disconnected my ethernet and hdmi adapers and it booted. It gave me a message about kernel modules being disabled.
Yeah it’s true, the back side of the island is all McMansions, we were thinking about moving there in 2014 but I haven’t checked prices since then.
This is the company started by ex-NSA and Amazon guys, right? Think TechCrunch ran an article earlier this year too https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/20/gretel-nsa-amazon-github-d...
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Not sure this is true everywhere. Maybe in the northeast, but I grew up in a fishing village in Alaska and pretty much all of our coastal towns are fishing-dominated with many, many small boats in addition to the bigger trawler/processors.

We have a similar thing with the licensing. I inherited a limited entry permit from my father. It's like getting a taxi medallion in NYC. Being young and stupid I sold it to my best friend on zero percent interest and he paid me about 1% of the total price of the thing, then stopped paying. Never had the heart to chase him for it.
If you lived in, say, Illinois, what would be the best way to get onto a boat for the summer in Maine?
Like any corporation, we'll be the first to admit that this mistake should never have happened, we should have communicated it differently, and we're very sorry that we got caught.

Going forward, we can promise a quick return to business as usual as we work to regain your confidence, starting today with the announcement of several meaningless token gestures alongside a new and more effective PR and marketing campaign.
We shouldn't applaud that it turned out to be possible to fix this thing after grueling effort (and the company trying to push purchasing a replacement) when the security chip was an unnecessary user-hostile blight in the first place.
I get where you're coming from, and this past decade has certainly been a masterclass in cynicism, but maybe take a step back.

Yes, the author is well-to-do, born to academic parents, through no fault of her own. What obligations does she have by virtue of that? Is the rule you propose that she should be prohibited from ever taking a blue collar job? Or only if she does so for a sufficiently long time?

Would the world or her perspective on it be improved if instead of spending her summer on a lobster boat she had spent it working at Starbucks?

Or is it just that she should be able to do these things but be prohibited from writing about them and sharing that? Would we be better off if we hadn't read this?

Sure, maybe she's viewing this through rose-colored glasses. But those are her glasses and that is her authentic perspective. Doesn't she have the right to experience it and share it? Or does one need to be born into a certain level of misery and poverty before they earn the right to write?
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Hey, I donated a kidney and didn't get a ride in a luxury sports car. I feel cheated.
Well if you are going to say he has to use a cheap Android phone and a gmail account, then obviously he can’t avoid Google, but that’s not much of an argument.

Nobody is really restricted in that way.

It’s obviously much easier to buy an iPhone and install an ad-blocker than it is to get a new job in Switzerland or Norway if you don’t already live there.

Have you actually looked at at what it takes to emigrate to Switzerland?

As for your list, of course you can’t stop other people from using Google. We’re talking about not using Google yourself.
I'm a huge believer in alternative energy, but it's just nonsense to blame natural disasters across-the-board on climate change. It almost implies that the climate would be docile without human-introduced CO2. Plenty of bad weather events happened before climate change. The most deadly Atlantic Ocean hurricane on record was in 1780. The Dust Bowl droughts were the worst in American History.
Even if the upgrade was smooth they could end up with a ton of support calls asking how to change it back or how to turn off Bluetooth.
I think there needs to be baseline levels yes - Inwoukd argue that one of these things is that if a platform enables public publishing (still to be defined!) it must have some rebuttal mechanism, and implement some level of censorship (at the criminal level). This means for example I cannot post (in the UK) child porm or threats or hate speech. Dang would have to delete it. But additionally if i post for example that Democrats stole votes from Kent County, HN should have a means for you to flag it, and link that flag to some useful site about how correlations actually work.

It would change the nature of HN slightly yes, but it could be done with little impact - I think. But having some floor level of debate seems like a social necessity.

PS The Indian issue with WhatsApp a couple of years back makes defining "publish" quite difficult if you can manage to create murderous mobs with opt in messaging systems....
? Its mid November and cat. 5 hurricane Iota! is about to smash Central America.

This year has the most named storms on record and we still have 3 weeks left.
That is true. That being said, there is a renaissance in third party lenses, and their quality as well as their autofocus performance is increasing, fast.

If you are willing to buy third party, maybe even Chinese lenses, they are getting cheaper. If we ever get a true variable curvature sensor, designing lenses will get so much easier and cheaper that I can see even more third party lenses of even higher quality, at an even *lower price.

In any case, I agree with the point about plastic lenses.
>Quite a jaded view of the world.

I grew up in one of these sorts of tourism places. Just because some people make a living doing Actual Things(TM) doesn't mean that having a large portion of the economy be tourism related does not have negative effects for pretty much everyone.

>this is how a lot of our food makes it to our tables;

And someone dicking around fixing heavy equipment in the mud is how the table became your table but you don't see people romanticizing the timber industry because for the most part it isn't associated with tourism the way waterfront communities (and by extension, their industries) are.

The fishing industry exists as much to give the tourists something to look at so the captains' wives/friends/relatives can run successful restaurants and bars (and fish the tourists wallets) as it does to pull edible animals out of the water. On a community level this is all pretty soul crushing because your existence is predicated on your ability to basically put on a show for others (i.e. look quaint) but pretend that you're just this quaint naturally.
gitlab.com has their DMCA processing workflow online (as they do most of their policies and workflow documents, which is awesome and few if any other companies are as transparent).

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/security/opera...

My reading of it is that under that gitlab workflow youtube-dl would still be down. Unless/until "there was a valid counter-notice and no response has been received from the plaintiff within 10 days of the counter-notice being forwarded". (Unclear what happens if there is a valid counter-notice and a response from plaintiff HAS been received, the workflow stop there!). This did not happen here, github reinstated without either a formal counter-notice (that EFF letter is not formatted like one), and definitely without waiting 10 days for a response from plaintiff.

Gitlab's workflow there is a totally typical DMCA workflow, it's not bad it's just normal. It's the workflow more or less spelled out in the DMCA itself, arguably what the DMCA requires for the host to get "safe harbor" status. (I don't entirely understand how Github can get away with what they have done and say they are doing going forward, honestly. It's think it's a potentially risky move for them opening them up to lawsuits from the copyright holders; of course they know they have deep pockets to defend themselves too).

The DMCA is actually pretty terrible in it's real-world contemporary effects. That's general, not about github, or github's fault. You are right to think it's awful. But it's not about github. People seem to be really chomping at the bit to assume that github has somehow acted especially poorly (for those who want to protect people against DMCA takedowns) -- to me the reverse seems to be true.

I think both github's actual current actions and most especially their proposed new workflow go way beyond what most of their peers (including gitlab) do to resist/slow down/stop DMCA takedowns.

I'm not sure how github garnered so much bad will, that people are so eager to paint them in a bad light. They clearly have garnered a lot of bad will from developers though, at least on HN; every thread about github has people piling on to suggest extreme levels of unethical behavior from github.

I do not believe it is justified here.
Your diction is outstanding.
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But the EFF was already there and already doing that work.
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Yes. We are saying the same thing.
Just look at Android, iPhone, Chrome OS.

No compatibility with Windows, hardly anyone changes OS. Have not heard much complains about MS Office, Photoshop or Enterprise Architect. People use browser 99% of the time.
SSL certificates, which require you to trust someone you’ve never met with the entirety of your digital life. From your social connections to your bank account and everything in between, you’re putting your faith not only in their honesty, but in their ability to limit mistakes.

Not that there’s a better solution yet, but technical solutions like SSL certificates still boil down to trust, and in whom you place your.
Content with a certain age threshold triggers login. The last time I looked at this, embedding these videos was still possible without logging in. So there are definitely ways in accessing the content without authentication.
Overall you could posit that a single gig worker doing the shopping for 20 households is safer for everyone that 20 individuals doing the shopping for 20 households. The gig workers are often shopping for multiple clients at once - fewer trips, fewer people, fewer chances of infection.

The delivery person could have a higher risk due to visiting all the households, but my experience is that they are all hands off. The gig worker drops the groceries at the door and leaves.
Agreed. To support what you said: the phrase "was associated with" is not a causative claim. You cannot go from that phrase to "improves."
The consumer should always be protected above all else.

In this case that means getting a full refund if you ask for one.
This is the kind of thing you can do if you have Microsoft to back you up. Deep pockets to fight for what you think is right because unfortunately legal battles are really expensive.
Agreed. I think vaccines are generally a good idea, but that there are risks involved in beta testing them.

Also, there are some interesting treatments targeting the ACE2 receptors that SARS-CoV-2 binds to which looks like they are reducing mortality rates, and perhaps long-term scarring in the lungs. Among these are Vitamin-D (which people are probably nutritionally-deficient anyways), and human recombinant soluable ACE2 (basically, injecting a form of ACE2 into the body so that the virus binds to that, instead of to cells with a lot of ACE2 receptors, thus short-circuiting the replication pathway). I would be interested to see if nutritionally-sufficient vitamin-d is better at preventing severe cases of covid-19 than masking or social distancing.

My own opinion is that it is foolish to pin all the hopes on a single strategy (prevention, via vaccination), which is not guaranteed to work or guaranteed to be safe. To add forced vaccination is folly. I think it is better to see a depth of prevention and treatment options (including vaccination).
I'm not sure about the combination of covid + vitamin D. But you can also overdose on vitamin D since it's fat soluble.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/vitamin-d-side-effects#...
The problem is per-app firewalls used to be able to block all apps/traffic equally. Apple then deprecated/discouraged the KEXT mechanism these firewalls used in favour of NEFilterDataProvider which, as you described, is clearly an inferior solution.

You can't claim that these apps were not meant to do the very thing they used to do until Apple made such operation effectively impossible.
I Googled a local Indian restaurant I wanted to order from this weekend. The top result had the restaurant name and looked like their site. Online ordering sent me to MealHi5, which didn't seem to think there are any restaurants in our area. So I called, ordered, and asked about online order when I picked up the food. It turns out they have a different domain that is setup (I think, and/or Google is good at recognizing restaurants) to show an "Order Online" button under the Google business summary. That takes me to a different online ordering site that isn't MealHi5 that I'm assuming works.

I'm assuming either a service did the "register a domain for all the local restaurants" trick, or they switched restaurant hosting providers and the domain changed but not the top result in Google, or something else.
I'm a huge Linux fan and used Linux natively on several laptops for nearly 20 years.

Even with all that experience and care picking good laptops, and even after Ubuntu and Xorg autoconfig made the driver situation much better, I found myself having to: Fix kernel graphics driver bugs (spans of random pixels occasionally drawn on the screen due to something extremely subtle deep in the Intel driver), sound driver bugs, and being annoyed that nothing worked right with Nvidia on one of them (neither Nvidia's driver nor Nouveau worked properly), and debugging unreliable suspend.

Now I run Linux in a VM, and that's been perfect for userspace development. On a Mac, the four-finger swipe switches beautifully between Mac and Linux full-screen desktops, as if neither OS is really in charge. It feels more like running Xen, two OSes side by side, with Apple-quality GUI for switching and organising OSes.

Of course, not so good when the Apple device bricks.

The symptoms people are reporting now are very similar to what I saw when upgrading to Catalina - hours stuck on "about a minute remaining", many reboots and with what looked like glitchy display errors and "starting from scratch" progress bars, leading to a worrying feeling it was stuck in a reboot cycle or just bricked. I was immensely relieved when it eventually finished after hours of doing whatever it was doing, as I didn't have a spare working computer (all my old Linux laptops have broken :-/) And that was after leaving it for nearly a year (I installed Catalina this summer), so the problems should have been "ironed out" by then.

I'm really glad I haven't follow the system notification's prompt to update to Big Sur. From the Catalina experience, I suspect I'd be one of the brickage victims, and I can't afford that right now.

If it were always possible to restore from backup (as it generally is with Linux and Windows) that would be fine, I'd take the risk. But when Apple updates go wrong, it can be more serious as you can't necessarily boot at all, even to restore from backup.
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> [...] research published this week by The BMJ [...] finds that the government procured an antibody test that in real world tests falls well short of performance claims made by its manufacturers. Researchers from Public Health England and collaborating institutions sensibly pushed to publish their study findings before the government committed to buying a million of these tests but were blocked by the health department and the prime minister’s office. Why was it important to procure this product without due scrutiny? Prior publication of research on a preprint server or a government website is compatible with The BMJ’s publication policy. As if to prove a point, Public Health England then unsuccessfully attempted to block The BMJ’s press release about the research paper.