skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not unusual for deaths to take weeks to be reported.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/report001.pdf

(See, in particular, figure #2 on page #2.)
I called this a couple of times[1][2] so it is nice to finally see someone else make this argument. It seems obvious to me.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25006577

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24997072
(a) I wasn't aware of this.

(b) Thanks for the link!

(c) The IETF is such a shitshow for cryptography.
Would you prefer we use fax machines instead?
What data is this based on? Can I see the source? I would hate to think you are suggesting actions that would lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people based off nothing but an ignorant opinion.
I've done almost nothing to promote it. I just mention it once in a while (like now) when the topic of shorteners comes up.

I also sent a notice to all rsync.net customers, years ago, when we launched it.

That's it.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09600...

Vitamin D levels in summer months are associated with 25% lower mortality rates for all causes. Vitamin D almost certainly influences the immune system to fight off Covid in the same way it does the seasonal flu and other pneumonia. There's hundreds more studies on Vitamin D. Read up when you get a chance.

Hell even if it was a 5% reduction we're talking an abundant vitamin that costs pennies to manufacture.
"After using vast amounts of money to completely tear apart the civic fabric of this nation I think I may have done an oopsie" is not really going to cut it. The only real mistake here is that these guys weren't Ceausescued when America could have still been saved from them.
Is this Peter Turchin a very iconic person such as Chomsky or Zizek? I don’t believe so, and in that case I also believe this article’s title is plain bad writing.

I came in thinking of Valentin Turchin the cyberneticist, although to be fair he is dead and thus the tense in the title wouldn’t fit anyway.
Or they just start to use Wildvine protection for their videos
You're right; I certainly could've delved deeper into those case studies.

I suppose at this point in the article, if you're not yet convinced that distribution is half the battle, you won't care about the rest of the article.
Yeah. The way I understand it GitHub is really putting their money where their mouth is. The easy way out is to push the liability onto the user by making them file a counter-notice. This way GitHub is taking on some liability.

I'm guessing youtube-dl might be a really strong case for GitHub if they'd happen to get sued, so it makes a lot of business sense to take a stand on it. The get much needed goodwill from the developer community and get to send a strong message they're not interested in being the messenger for weak DMCA claims.

GitHub/Microsoft management deserve credit for recognizing the long term value (to them) of pushing back hard against frivolous DMCA claims.
It doesn't at all. You're misunderstanding. Or, are you using the word "literally" in the modern sense of "not literally"?
Since Big Sur is macOS 11, this is definitely so.
Assuming the numbers are correct and taking the headline as it is, what is an actionable takeaway from this?

Sweden did nothing to prevent Covid and had very few deaths. Some other countries had lockdowns, face coverings and had a lot of deaths.

What is the correlation then? Sweden has less dense population for one, maybe healthier overall too? Younger?

Is there any takeaway from this?
It is on us to make moral choices. You are suggesting we do so by making email repudiatable in order to protect a hypothetical person from being outed via stolen email verified with dkim.

So far as I can tell this has never happened in history and logically neither blackmail nor public harm via exposure of sexual orientation particularly requires dkim verification.

It looks like you are asking us to give up DKIM verification which could and has aided us to verify politicians leaked emails in search of a purely hypothetical gain that may never materialize by suggesting that we both must and must not make moral determinations.
While working with MySQL I can't stop wondering, why the mysql CLI interface is neglected for decades?..

It's so inconvenient compared to psql, that it makes me cringe every time I have to work with MySQL. Garbled formatting of long statements, almost non-working history, editing long statements is cumbersome, etc.

Does MySQL authors use something else to communicate with the database?
Quite a lot of medium format cameras were fixed lens. Pretty much all the TLR’s (except some Mamiya’s). All the folders (to a first approximation), the Brownies, and even today all those Holgas.
Maybe Google should fix that. If you Google a restaurant, your intent is to visit that restaurant website.

If you add “reviews” after the query, then the intent is to read reviews about that restaurant.

It’s trivial for Google to prioritize the actual website over agreegators. Most restaurants already have the ability to set up and “claim” their business on Google. Why not simply surface the “claimed” result first.

A better experience for everyone.
Lawsuits that tried to disrupt Biden's wins in four states are withdrawn
> what's to stop Seamless (for example) from winning the SEO race against a non-trivial chunk of small restaurant websites? This would mean that there are plenty of cases in which you search for a restaurant and end up on Seamless, even though that's not the "right" search result.

This is exactly what Slice does. They create a plausible sounding url and outrank small pizza shops. They also replace the phone number so orders get routed through their call center. They end up charging more for both phone and online orders through their site. They also encourage users to install the Slice app.

Before I realized what was happening, I ordered through Slice twice (one online and one phone order) and both times they sent my order to a completely wrong address 15 minutes away from me. That’s what made me dig a little bit and discover their shady practices.
I had a long response typed out, but you said it better than I could. I think humans have a desire to work with their hands and see the fruits of those labor. As more and more of us push paper and sling 1's and 0's, we're losing that connection and seeing the outcome in things like "Experience" tourism and the romanticizing of hard work.

Look at what is popular on Youtube - 'mustie1' fixes junk with his hands in 30 minute videos for nearly 500k subscribers. 'Primitive Technology' replicate(d) societal development for 10.3M subscribers. Nobody is arguing that this work is hard. Sorry if the "theatre" of it bothers you, but I think it's a net societal benefit to help reconnect people back to "artisan" and "boutique" ways of living. We still need those people - think of tourism as a recruiting tool.
This might be worth a read as well[1].

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25104828
> VMware Fusion (now changed name to VMware Player).

It's still called VMware Fusion but is now available in the variants Player and Pro: https://www.vmware.com/se/products/fusion/fusion-evaluation....
If you're looking for tactics trainer (and free!), there's no better one than ChessTempo.com.
The normal safe harbor protections and takedown procedure specified by law does not apply to claims under section 1201 like this one was. This also means no safe harbor protections against being sued for redistributing section 1201 infringing works either. There is instead an "innocent violation" clause that offers extremely limited defense that could apply to sites like GitHub or gitlab, but which would become void upon being informed of serving up a work that infringes section 1201, which practically means if such a site is so informed, it will take down the work immediately, as otherwise they become liable.

GitHub has voluntarily instituted its own takedown procedures for violations of that section, and therefore do not actually need to strictly follow the procedure outlined in the law. Instead they can chose their own procedures for handling these claims based upon percieved likelyhood of being sued and being found liable.

Mircosoft is likely fairly confident that the RIAA will not sue them over this, since the other RIAA members (the Labels) all know that if Microsoft chose to enforce their huge pool of rarely enforced software patents against the labels and distribution mechanisms (like Spotify) the harm to their bottom lines would be many thousands of times larger than any harm to their bottom line from youtube-dl could ever be. Heck even just a more thorough than typical Mircosoft Software audit would likely be more costly to the labels than youtube-dl.
We've backed into a particular default, more via path-dependencies than conscious choice, that:

* emails between major email providers have this lingering semi-authenticity indicator that authors didn't explicitly choose

* to the extent the providers keep their DKIM keys non-public, only those providers (or those who exfiltrate such keys) can forge old emails

Both of these have problems if considered from 1st principles:

* Users should be able to control if they're creating non-repudiable messages.

* No one, not even Google, should have the power to create authentic-seeming forgeries.

This article's author, Matthew Green, suggests rapid expiration & disclosure of DKIM keys to narrow the window of time the user is subject to a non-repudiation they didn't choose. (Green here only specifically requests disclosure of years-old keys to invalidate older message archives, but conceivably a rigorous expiration-and-disclosure schedule could be chosen to limit the risk to weeks or days.)

And via public disclosure, Green intends to indirectly address the risk of privileged parties forging emails, by giving everyone the same power-to-forge older emails - so no particular forgery can be too convincing.

But these new defaults are nearly as ad-hoc – reactive without conscious design – as the DKIM problem they purport to solve.

Many would prefer that their emails, or at least some of them, be non-repudiable for a while or indefinitely. Many recipients would like to maintain their own private authenticity records – which as Green notes, can be bootstrapped into existence (even with rapid-expiring DKIM keys) by secure-timestamping messages & current DKIM keys at the time they're received.

(To the extent Google & other providers have internally-trusted tamper-proof logs, they may already have de facto secure timestamping happening on all inbound/outbound email. Thus any amount of DKIM key fouling wouldn't stop their unique internal ability to authenticate older messages, for their own forensic or political purposes.)

I'd prefer users be given some visibility into, and choice over, how much durable authentication is added to their email messages – before adopting either Green's quick fix (publish old keys ASAP), or defaulting all users to his potential longer-term solution of explicitly "non-attributable email" (per his KeyForge paper or other schemes).
Twitter follower growth for realDonaldTrump vs. JoeBiden
Drug paraphernalia has a specific use (or at least, let's assume that for the sake of argument), but youtube-dl is more like a crowbar that has legal and illegal uses.

If I have a crowbar I can legally use it all day long for construction purposes. As soon as I'm caught breaking into a house with a crowbar, it's classified as burglar's tools. At no point is the hardware store or crowbar manufacturer liable for a burglary for selling me a crowbar.
Because the DKIM keys were not made public, and a message sent from their account could be confirmed to be authentic.

If the keys were public, they could claim forgery. Regardless they could claim their account was hacked, but they couldn't deny the message was sent from their account.
There is a rhetorical war by the GOP which is to misuse Democrat as an adjective instead of Democratic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)

When I see someone misuse the word, I cannot know if it was a harmless mistake, or whether they are intentionally engaging in the war, but I assume it was a harmless mistake.

At no point have I accused anyone in this thread of malfeasance. I have not attempted to shame anyone. I simply let jwond know that they had used the wrong word, and as a courtesy, I let them know of the on-going rhetorical war.

Again, if I misused a word, I'd want to know. If my misuse was often used as insult (even if by others but not by me), I'd especially want to know.

This is no longer a productive conversation, so this is my final reply.
> I'm struggling to find compelling and valid reasons why we can't pursue a general solution that involves us giving all this "private" data to a government entity for legitimate investigations, fraud prevention and crime-solving whilst keeping that data free from abuse.

Because that's not logically possible. It would be nice if it were, but just think about it: if you give data to the government, humans can look at it. Can we ensure that the humans who look at it are good humans? No. Is there some mathematical way of signing and encrypting such that only good humans can look at it? No.

Okay, so it's logically impossible to keep bad people out mathematically, but maybe it's a practical problem and it doesn't matter in practice? Except no, there are tons of evil governments (CCP being the most obvious, but pick your poison), and even good governments are subject to the problem that people can bribed and secrets can be stolen if there is sufficient motivation. It's just not compatible with human nature to say "collect all this information on people, but only use it For Good Purposes."
I'm in the exact same boat as you. I have a mid 2014 macbook running 10.12.6. It's way better than my work laptop.

The work laptop is a maxed 15" macbook a year or two old, and it can barley handle video conferences, let alone bazel compilations or debugging in vscode. Keyboard and touchbar are a mess as expected. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

I'm going go straight to a Linux/windows desktop, since I'm working from home anyways. More ram, cpu and a real modern video card is basically what I want, and I won't get that with a mac.
I'm getting tired of all the anti-vaccine pessimism.

Don't listen to the fearmongering. There may have been a handful of outliers in the world who got reinfected, but there's data showing that immunity seems to last for over six months in 100 out of 100 people tested[1]. There have also been multiple studies showing that some people exposed to the original SARS virus in ~2003 have cross-immunity to COVID. There's also evidence of pre-existing immunity from other coronaviruses[2].

When the vaccine becomes available to you, get vaccinated. In the meantime, wear a mask and keep being careful, but we have legitimate reasons to be hopeful. We have two vaccines showing efficacy, more to come in the following months. There's also a synthetic antibody therapy that just got FDA emergency approval[3]. This is going to save a lot of lives. All of the serious data points to the fact that this is going to make a huge dent in the number of new cases and fatalities.

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.01.362319v1

[2] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/11/05/scie...

[3] https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavi...
He was the first to see the promise, but it was discovered by Katalin Kariko who actually works at BioNTech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Kariko
If it generates clicks and reactions, they're doing their jobs well.
The same way X direction can can be arbitrarily defined in space, the time can be arbitrarily defined in spacetime (so called "frame of reference"). Other 3 directions parallel to time are called space.
> relativity does away with the alternative, that of a universally accessible “now”

Relativity does away with "now" period--"now" is a frame-dependent concept in relativity, and frame-dependent concepts, in relativity, have no physical meaning.

As I noted in the article I linked to upthread, the physically meaningful division of spacetime, at some particular event "here and now" (like you sitting in your chair reading this), is into three parts, not two: the past light cone, the future light cone, and the spacelike separated region (what Roger Penrose, in the very same book where he presents the Andromeda scenario, calls "elsewhere"). The past light cone behaves like our intuitive concept of "past", and the future light cone behaves like our intuitive concept of "future", but the spacelike separated region does not behave like anything our intuition is familiar with. The whole "Andromeda paradox" argument is based on failing to recognize that the spacelike separated region exists in relativity and doesn't match up with our intuitions about either "past" or "future".
Developer advocates have a lot to teach marketers
You're right that this isn't new, but that's only because it's just as weak as all the other "evidence" on this topic.

The reality is, there is a very weak body of evidence that maybe vitamin D provides a slight benefit. And yet, its proponents engage in the same hyperbole as the medical marijuana crowd.

Take it if you want, it's not going to hurt you at any kind of reasonable dose, but it's not some miracle cure that is going to solve everyone's health issues.
Context (free article, no registration required): [0]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7188410/
>and they - as far as I can tell - do not explain why these people did not receive their normal Vitamin D supplementation

Under subheading 2.2: "All residents in the nursing-home receive chronic vitamin D supplementation with regular maintenance boluses (single oral dose of 80,000 IU vitamin D3 every 2–3 months),"

The comparator (not recent supplement) group was on a different schedule, and had received a supplement probably two months ago.

>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.

Are you referring to these lines: "use of corticosteroids and/or hydroxychloroquine and/or antibiotics (i.e., azithromycin or rovamycin), and hospitalization for COVID-19 were used as potential confounders."

You only run up against ( https://xkcd.com/882/ ) when you perform multiple statistical tests, not when you merely have a heterogeneous study population. Unless they were also testing these other interventions, that critique does not apply.
Not to mention the undo button. "Oh no!"
Gmail (and other email providers) could also protect these billions by making the header-stripping change at the server level for everyone.

After all, Green is proposing for them to change their servers anyway, so either way it requires some kind of server change.

The advantage of Green's approach is it gets results quickly because with one change they can protect a lot of emails. But, while quick results are nice, is this problem really so urgent that only the fastest solution should be considered?

Another difference is the set of users who are protected. If you rotate DKIM keys, you protect Gmail users against non-repudiation risks because their outgoing emails become more deniable. But if you strip headers from Gmail users' inboxes, you protect Gmail users against hacking, because now hacking a Gmail account gets you less-valuable data.

Also, publishing old DKIM secret keys will require some distribution method. Where do you actually put them? For a given email provider, where do you go look to find them? It's a solvable problem but it's one that doesn't exist with the header-stripping approach.
For a complementary point of view, please read my essay titled "My Horrifying Summer as a Maine Lobster."
Apple switched to ARM CPUs. Your 2008 MBP now has an expiration date, where it will not be capable of any more OS updates after a certain date. All Intel Macs will not be supported after a certain date. We don't know what date that is yet, but it is coming.
Too bad no agency, DARPA included, ...
Also the 3600X has an 80W TDP
They talk about this being entirely self-funded.
I wonder about the lack of a cold vaccine - presumably the value would be enormous in terms of avoiding lost productivity. I’ve always been under the impression that a vaccine for the “common cold” is very difficult because of its rapid mutations, mRNA or not. I’m curious why COVID is going to be much different.

Early on I remember an epidemiologist/virologist interviewed on JRE saying that building a point-in-time vaccine isn’t difficult, building a human-safe vaccine with long term efficacy is what’s difficult.
My reaction was the same. Maybe Google Maps? Not that I want to send more of my data to Google, but this is totally unacceptable.

Especially during COVID, I'm trying to make sure that as much of my money goes to the restaurant as possible when I call in a takeout order. It would be one thing if Yelp showed me an advertisement and I clicked through and placed an order. But when I'm using Yelp just to look up a phone number, there's absolutely no reason for a commission.
Apple hypervisor framework supports nested virtualization only on Xeon CPUs
> Pfizer is bascially responsible for the oxycontin epidemic. Their reps bribe doctors into pushing their drugs.

That was Purdue Pharma, not Pfizer.
It's "fine" for imperative programming if you never make a mistake: the problem is that it is extremely permissive and won't stop execution on errors. I usually add my own error checking and default cases to cause programs to halt, and these help a lot, but there are still a number of footguns.

One example is what happens if you map a function f over a list lst: f /@ list. Oh, the variable was called lst and not list? Mathematica will happily evaluate this and result in list, assuming list has not been defined. This is because what /@ does is apply f to each part of the expression, and a Symbol has no parts. If Mathematica had a way to declare which global symbols can be used in local expressions, it might help prevent this class of bugs.
Or there are too many people and groups seeking it?

What is the scale of funding over time ? My guess is that there is more money in fundamental research than ever before....
That's because the system hasn't collapsed.
I think it's still more technical than business... corners have been an issue for many cameras (especially digital) and curvature is one way to solve that problem. In fact this tends to be -more- of a problem using Legacy glass on Mirrorless systems today.

I also doubt it will prevent the use of 'legacy glass'. If there's one thing my experience with Sony mounts has taught me, -somebody- will make an adapter. Yes, it may involve another element or two in the path to rectify. But I would be -shocked- if Sony didn't have a path here; a decent amount of e-mount adoption has been thanks to the adaptability of the system, and my guess is they can easily price this in a product where they can make money without worrying about attach rate (how many lenses the consumer buys).
> To me, it follows from determinism

I think it follows from just determinism; you don't even need Occam's Razor.

The reason it isn't logically required by relativity is that relativity does not logically require determinism.
I anticipated somebody would mention this, it's a fair point and I don't mind you asking. Mild self-deprecation is a tool I use to combat self-delusion. I've lost some weight but still have more to lose. The name also somewhat reflects the way I perceive myself as an outsider in this industry; 'big bubba' sounds like a nickname for a long-haul trucker, not a west coast programmer (which I am, but have never really felt comfortable as.)