skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the sender should just add non-repudiation to it in the form of a signature that's intended for that. Simple.

Ok, but this does not magically happen if Google publishes and rotates their DKIM keys. People will continue to use email for everything, but now emails can no longer be authenticated by third parties.
Anyone remember hydroxychloroquine?
At least once I feel that the MacOs version on my MBP is too old to risk putting it online I can just replace the OS with Windows 10 and get a few more years out of it.
#paywall
I know a ton of people using Strava. They use it entirely for socializing runs/rides/swims. Friendly pressure, kudos, complaints about the humidity, etc.
Literally none of them pay attention to the 'KOM/QOM' more than a 'haha, check that out' bit.
It's a hardware vendor neutral (looking at you GarminConnect) way of socializing with fellow athletes, and is super popular for that.
See charts comparing overall death rates over time, by country: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores...

It appears that since September 2020, Sweden’s death rate has been about 5-10% LOWER than average, which would push overall yearly rate down a bit.
Test positivity in Sweden has been rising steadily and is now over 10%. So no, it's not "broader access to testing" --- in fact they aren't testing nearly enough and the rise in case numbers is probably even steeper than reported.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/positive-rate-daily-smoot...

Lag effects are complicated. In many places young people are the main spreaders of the virus but don't get very sick, and it takes multiple cycles of infection for the virus to reach more vulnerable people (e.g. via care workers who are pretty careful but will inevitably get infected when they live in a COVID-saturated environment). So yes, we shall see.
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Because the lockdowns aren’t about a virus
> Because without suppressing Covid dissent someone might say you have completely screwed up your response to the issue.

1. there is oodles of dissent re: COVID19. Some of it is from idiots, some of it is from people cynically trying to make money, some of it is from people worth listening to (even if they are wrong).

2. there are millions of people saying that you (for various definitions of "you") have completely screwed up

So in the end, your cynical and selectively-drawn account finishes without explaining anything at all.
Work started in _January_, as the dude was being impeached over nothing, and Nancy Pelosi was calling him a xenophobic bigot, while inviting people to party in Chinatown.

https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1328324970854948866
> In March 2004, Yahoo launched a paid inclusion program whereby commercial websites were guaranteed listings on the Yahoo search engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!

I vaguely recall paying something like $20 for that back in the day. It's not technically a paid search engine I guess, but I wonder what the effect would be currently if there were some type of nominal fee required for all search placement. I think it would make it more difficult to generate massive amounts of blogspam.
I love these die shot RE walkthroughs. This is such a weird choice though; almost no one used this chip for production hardware. The WD 17xx series was the king of floppy controllers in the 70's and early 80's (well, if you ignore Woz's masterpiece, which was discrete logic).

Seems like if you're going to reverse an obscure chip, something with a more exotic application would have been more fun?
One could make a similar argument, but you then run up against a major WHO policy document on public health measures to combat influenza, which states:

"Ten RCTs were included in the meta-analysis, and there was no evidence that face masks are effective in reducing transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza."

and

"According to the GRADE approach, there was moderate quality of evidence involving >6000 participants that face masks are ineffective in reducing influenza transmission in the community."

and

"Reusable cloth face masks are not recommended. Medical face masks are generally not reusable, and an adequate supply would be essential if the use of face masks was recommended. If worn by a symptomatic case, that person might require multiple masks per day for multiple days of illness."

https://www.who.int/influenza/publications/public_health_mea...
How much does people dying disrupt our lives every year? Not at all, basically. Two times "not at all" still isn't much.
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> the response to COVID is very 'political'.

I see people on walks in a suburban neighborhood wearing masks. Even if you can't keep 6 feet of distance, the likelihood of contracting it from 3 seconds of outdoor exposure is negligible. CDC guidelines for when someone is exposed are closer than 6 feet for 15 minutes. Clearly people are wearing masks in some situations to make a point, not to make a difference.
Still works, and I love that it's "100% flash-free." :D Those were the days.
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Yes I really doubt the law cares about which commit some code is available on, as long as it is available.

> This makes it especially obvious that the RIAA's problem with youtube-dl was never really the tests.

It doesn't, because the RAII were not involved in youtube-dl's restoration at all.
Did I mention Voat? Completely unrelated. And using your prediction to say one thing will become another is also useless.
Long time Veritasium subscriber here. He actually made a great video a while ago explaining why professional Youtubers don't have much of a choice when it comes to clickbaiting with titles and thumbnails, because it's the only way to reliably get lots of impressions and views and grow their channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHsa9DqmId8

It made me gain a bit of empathy for creators using these tactics on Youtube and tolerate it as long as it's not being used to promote content that's devoid of any substance, which is pretty much never the case for Veritasium videos or any of the other educational channels I subscribe to.
And by my example you don't see the flaw in your logic?

Plus, you are now switching to free speech. That is a false equivalent because your speech cannot inherently harm someone (we aren't talking about hurt feelings here, I mean physically injuring/killing someone).

To sum: supporting 100% free speech no matter what is "fine" because it does not affect anyone else (aside from hurt feelings, so let's ignore that). Supporting 100% free movement no matter what cannot be compared to freedom of speech because you can literally harm/kill other people by your actions.
> And with machine learning we're building our biases into the algorithms explicitly; see all those "resume parsers are racist" articles.

It's even worse than that, because it's so hard to tell if this is even happening.

Suppose guidance counselors in predominantly black schools are telling kids to focus on athletics and the ones in predominantly white schools tell them to focus on intellectual extracurriculars. Then a resume parser sorts people with athletics listed into physical jobs and people with intellectual pursuits listed into intellectual jobs, which of course results in the black applicants getting callbacks for the lower paying jobs.

This is pretty clearly the guidance counselors causing the disparity rather than the algorithm, but we only know that because it was stipulated in the hypothetical. In real life you may not have enough data to be able to discern the underlying cause. In other words, you don't know what the baseline racial disparity is based on all of the non-racial factors that correlate with race, so you don't know if the problem is in the algorithm or was caused somewhere upstream and the algorithm is only producing the accurate outputs for its inputs.

In theory you can evaluate this by checking up on how the candidates hired do compared to how the algorithm predicted they would do, but that's a noisy signal (what does "doing well" mean?), you might not have a large enough sample size to get meaningful results, and it has a lag time of potentially several years, by which point you may already be using a different algorithm. It's a hard problem.
> The D3 produced in your body because of sun exposure doesn't have to go through the liver.

Most people don’t have access to that much sunlight, whether it’s because they have to spend most of the day working indoors, or, like me, they live in a polar region where you literally can’t get sun most of the year.

While it may be better for your liver not to have more to process, I highly doubt taking vitamin supplements is worse than living with a deficiency.

Also, in polar cultures, eating large amounts of vitamin D rich foods is exactly what people have been doing for thousands of years, without it causing health problems. And I can tell you from experience, that failing to get that vitamin D WILL cause health problems.
Strava does have a curated list of complete routes for selected cities.

https://www.strava.com/local
I'm not concerned what scientists think about meat. This is not a theoretical problem for me and cutting out red meat has kept my uric acid levels nominal.
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The less restrictions in place, the faster the pandemic and all its effects are over.
Oh great, capitalism at it's best: there's an acute crisis, we might have the solution, but if we don't solve it vertically integrated we would have to share the spoils with a cooperation partner. This can't happen, quick! Bring in the investors!
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Somewhat deceptive submission title ("No Excess Deaths in Sweden Compared to the Last the Years") and presentation, which might lead the inattentive to think 2020 is on a pace for fewer total deaths in Sweden than all or most previous years.

Chart declares itself to be data "as of November 6". That's the 311th day of our 365-day leap-year 2020. Thus naively scaling the 77,300 number to the full year would predict ((365/311) * 77300 =) 90,721 deaths in 2020. That's higher than 5 of the shown previous 10 years.

But also, the deaths as of November 6 may not be a complete total: often such data series continue to be updated (increased) for a few weeks after the calendar date.

And further: looking at US figures for 2017, November tends to have about an average number of daily deaths, but December is one of the deadliest months, with about 15% more deaths-per-day than is typical in the lowest-deaths Summer months of June-July-August.

So even my extrapolation to 90,721 is likely to be a floor on the true end-of year number, if lagged reporting or a typical December death acceleration means these November 6 numbers aren't an accurate sample for the full year. (And that's not even counting the Covid-19 case surge happening now in Sweden as with most of Europe.)

Everyone trying to draw final conclusions from Sweden is making a call too soon based on incomplete data. We probably won't truly understand whether Sweden is on-net a Covid-19 success or disaster until retrospective analyses balancing all factors in late 2022 or 2023.
Physicians recommend many drugs that end up proving to have dangerous side effects. The anti-inflamatory Vioxx is just one that comes to mind without doing any research.
wtf? it happens all the time.

I've raised VC money based on emailed contracts, bought businesses based on them, bought domain names.

It is incredibly standard and legal (in almost all of the jurisdictions I've worked in, which is a lot).)
Was there anything in particular that was bad about Docker? Was it network access? What was sluggish - disk access across the Windows/Linux divide? I've just tried WSL2 out for a few minutes on a new Dell XPS and it seemed kinda neat. Clearly I've not had time to run into problems.
SEO is a racket. Google controls >90% of the search engine market, globally.

That means you're always doing the cargo cult dance to appease the black box that is Google. Always on the verge of success, but never quite making it. Always suspicious of Google favoring advertisers in the organic results. Whether or not that is true is beside the point. Once you lose trust and once you're stuck in the land of abstractions and mirages, the conspiracy theory floodgates open.

The cure is brutal transparency. But we'll never get that. Bitcoin's blockchain is that. The minute price fluctuations on Amazon? Not so much. You're always going to get screwed. That's the internet today. People complain about Twitter putting badges on Trump's tweets and cry "censorship" but ignore the fact that Facebook won't even show your posts to your friends (or vice versa) due to the engagement algorithms. Algorithms which you have zero insight into. Nudges and manipulation, everywhere.
I'm also not a fan of lichess's puzzles, especially on mobile.

Over the years I've been bitten for weeks at a time by a bug that fetches a batch of puzzles at a time on mobile, and then loops through those 50 puzzles repeatedly instead of fetching more.

Even when not bugged, this behavior of 'fetch N puzzles at once' heavily encourages rating ping pong, you get a batch of easy puzzles, get them all right so your rating jumps more than it should, then a batch of hard puzzles and get crushed. I found I only ever progressed on lichess after grinding meaningful improvement slowly on chess.com, then coming back to lichess to 'catch up my rating'.

I also quite like Chess.com's Puzzle Rush.
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COVID-19 immunity isn't permanent
This pretty much. I think people get a little too into dunking on general anti-vaxxers, and want to extend it to ridiculing any skepticism at all. I don't really want to be first in line for something rushed through full-scale trials to fight a disease with a >99% survival rate.

Fortunately, it seems unlikely this will be an issue. It'll take a while to ramp up production and distribution, and the first doses will likely go to some combination of those most vulnerable to the disease, and those most worried about it. I think we'll be able to be a lot more confident about it by the time there are even doses available for those who are reluctant, much less before anyone starts thinking about the more coercive methods being floated.
Having zero cases all the time is remarkably hard but it's also not that important. A lockdown-to-elimination strategy is working well if you can keep driving the number down to zero with low restrictions in place. In NZ it is working well.
Does this mean that MacOS packet filtering does work as expected, and can block any/all traffic, including traffic to Apple? That's good, and what I would hope, but then I'm a little confused about what nastiness Apple is doing in Big Sur related to firewalls.

Time to dig in, I guess.
How much testing is enough before releasing a product to market?

Look, I'm sure they've tested. And I'm sure they've done enough to satisfy their regulatory burden.

Just saying I'm not going to be the first over the wall - I'll leave that to the eager.
The thing is, Microsoft can actually afford a LOT of risk of legal bills in return of developer goodwill, apart from how strong a case it is. Especially since Github somehow seems to have been losing developer goodwill lately.

This is not a dig -- few companies can afford to take a legal risk that Microsoft can (even on a strong case, most companies couldn't afford the legal bills of standing up to RIAA), and it's GREAT that they are choosing to, setting a standard.

It will in fact be really hard for gitlab to do similar though, they can not afford a lawsuit from the RIAA like MS can. (And the RIAA is really unlikely to sue MS unless they really think they have to, cause they know they're outgunned_.
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I think the entire point is that non-repudiation shouldn't just magically happen unless intended, so yes, this is by design, and anyone who wants to send a signed email should explicitly send a signed email.
For the vast majority of people, that chance is significantly lower.
super useful, thank you
I will have to do some searching to grab a screen cap, but I can tell you that Yelp explicitly advertised a paid "feature" to small businesses like mine to hide competitors from top search results in exchange for a fee. I don't know that empirical proof of systemic abusive behavior and antitrust violations would necessarily be useful here. They are clearly employing tactics that actively damage open competition and informed consumer choice, and even anecdotal evidence of that is justification for regulatory movement to stop it.
Thanks for submitting that. I find this kind of list quite useful. I think I've read about a quarter of them.
This is not intended as sarcastic, but you solve the theoretical problem by making it a practical problem?

If 2 clocks are out synch, but only to a small amount that doesn't affect my ability to meet someone for dinner, that doesn't mean they are in sync.

I agree that if you go down this route everything becomes impossible, because at some point you're talking about Planck time, which thankfully we don't need to meetup for dinner.
Or just use Windows with WSL2/Linux VM.
Ages ago, the Internet was in awe Apple is worth more than entire medical industry.
One of the biggest part of the slowdown is communication between private companies which want to bring vaccines to the market and public agencies which want to make sure that it is safe.

To make sure that this is done most effectively, the US government announced "Operation Warp Speed" back in May which has helped private and public organizations work very effectively.
It just feels like the baseline expected behavior of a communications system to me that makes no explicit claims otherwise.

Legal signatures are heavily ritualized (blue/black ink only, initial here and sign there etc.) in most societies for good reason – it makes the signer stop for a moment and reconsider what they are doing, if the document they are signing is truly aligned with their intentions and so on.

As another analogy/food for thought: We have the technical means to record every conversation we ever have, digital or analog, public or private. Should we? If not, why not?
DataClassFrames also takes the approach of storing lists of dataclasses as a “dataclass of arrays” - know as data orientated design:
https://gitHub.com/joshlk/dataclassframe

(Full disclosure I’m the author of the project)
Yeah, definitely not deluding myself that it's anywhere close to the full cofounder experience, haha.

But sounds a lot better than the alternative of just building things completely in a silo like I have been doing.
Neither pfizer or moderna has released the full analysis of the phase 3 data, but both interim data releases have been basically identical in terms of efficacy. It's good to be skeptical, but phase 3 trials are pretty tightly controlled and subject to independent analysis. I don't think there's really anyway you can read this data as being manipulated. Unless there's massive fraud in both studies.
> there were no new COVID deaths today in Sweden

That is misleading. Sweden is currently averaging at about 20 covid deaths per day. Some days they report 0, some days 40, but the weekly average now is about 20 deaths per day.

https://c19.se/en
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I like mine better :P

https://github.com/wesleytodd/short
With 20/20 2020 hindsight I don't lock down my own country, I lock China in.
My old D3100 and its kit, plastic 18-55 lens have been through hell and back. It's knocked into more things than I can count hanging over my shoulder or around my torso. I recently sold the system to a friend and had the chance to test it out, it still works great

I would say Nikon lenses are pretty sturdy
What's end-to-end latency for a local cluster like? What's your business model?

I'm a big fan of kafka as an abstract building block, but not so much the actual implementation, which is as painful to setup as a consultancy-based business model might make you suspect it would be, especially if you need reliability. The other problem is that performance kind of sucks, apart from potential latency spikes due to GC pauses I found even the average latencies for reliable end to end (in a fast local network and on decent sized hardware) not in right order of magnitude ballpark.
> If the Post had it, they'd surely have released it.

It's extremely rare for journalists in traditional media to publish email headers, even when people are accusing messages of being inauthentic and the DKIM would go a long way towards certifying them and when people are begging for them. I think I'm aware of only one other instance, though I've personally begged journalists for headers multiple times even in some cases where I was a subject of the article and not some random nobody.

From the perspective of protecting sources it's probably good advice to avoid publishing any kind of opaque header-stuff. But also, most readers wouldn't know what to do with the information and -- less charitably-- publishing evidence moves away from the framework where readers accept the reporters word on blind faith.

Your position was entirely understandable: I declined to link to the repo or the two flagged HN threads about it, though I considered it, because I thought it would increase the risk that my comment would get flagged. I think your reply had the surprising consequence of making a really good example at how effective the suppression of info like this is at distorting the public discourse.
The above is not true with the actual data showing that the mean time is 7.5 years for production¹ as I wrote (and sourced) in another comment in the thread.

France is also the world leader in nuclear power and is investing even more resources towards it (France today produced an excess of power and exported 12GW of power to other countries²). They have the lowest carbon emissions, and lowest electricity costs.

¹ http://euanmearns.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-build-a-nucle...

² https://www.electricitymap.org/