skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t understand this article’s claim that she was fired. It seems to agree that Gebru resigned and then complains about her being fired.

> “Dr. Gebru’s dismissal has been framed as a resignation, but in Dr. Gebru’s own words, she did not resign,” the letter says. It notes that Gebru asked for certain conditions to be met in order for her to stay at Google, including transparency around who wanted her paper retracted. Ultimately, the leaders of the ethical AI team said they could not meet these conditions and preemptively accepted her resignation. Her own manager said he was “stunned.”

Saying “I quit unless you do these things” and then the company saying “We won’t do those things” is very different from firing someone.

I can’t find a list of her demands, but it seems to me that making any ultimatums to a company is usually a bad idea. Being upset when my ultimatum isn’t met seems irrational.
There's not even any plans to offer vaccines privately in the UK yet. The NHS isn't going to offer it to travellers.
If you do only one thing then following the "functional core, imperative shell" idea of application development will set you up nicely for easy refactors in the future.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...

In short. Keep mutations to the edges of your application and keep your business logic purely functional.

Day 1 may be too soon to introduce queues etc, but having a clean separation between application logic and attached resources (like your storage layer) will greatly help with maintainability, testability and extensibility from the get go
Asymptomatic individuals never develop any symptoms.

And the viral load is high two days before the symptoms onset. If you want a proper RCT about it, good luck approving it in an ethics committee.
American gun culture has little to do with this case. Cops behave like this because behind door number one there could be a guy with an assault rifle ready to take them down. In 99% of the cases there isn't, but if you do 100 of these raids without taking risks, it becomes more likely than not that your own children will become orphans.

It's hypocritical to attack the cops that (literally) fight to stay alive without saying anything about the root cause.
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Is the first part of the course (Concurrency part) available online too ?
The depth of the voice matters also:
https://www.ricemedia.co/the-science-behind-hating-someone-f...
My TV Organizer names it Mayday, hence I use that name.
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... not to mention use of a nsfw domain name which is its own form of poor UX and non-accessibility.
Accuracy as you have noticed has been getting better, and keeps improving with their newer iterations, which include e.g. dual read heads in the nanopore.

> Anyone have an idea of a market or research project where this thing is a first-choice tool?

Plants. They often have huge genomes with sections that are hard to sequence with traditional methods with shorter read lengths.
You do realize 6 months is not "long term"?
The Mac (classic) version is how I first played the game as a kid and it was definitely the better version. Higher resolution and multiplayer over AppleTalk. Sadly the only Mac emulator I know of that can even attempt to do AppleTalk networking is Basilisk II, but it only works for posix OSs. The state of Mac emulation is still sad in 2020.
> I'm not sure what the cops think this person did but whatever she was accused of this is an absolutely unacceptable way to handle it in the US.

If you asked me this is exactly how I would assume this sort of thing is handled in the US
I am aware that it is possible to download this app from other EU countries then Germany.
You can also apply hyperbole to the victim’s account of the story. Doesn’t make it a valid reason to discard it.
Agreed. There are much worse things happening right now.
>There's an important detail missing from your abbreviated account and that is the individual refused to open the door for the warrant and apparently used the time to 'alter' her situation.

Proof? This sounds an awful lot like something a police department who refused to publish video evidence themselves would make up out of thin air to save face.
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I believe you, and apologize for the hyperbole. I also think Rich Hickey is intelligent and wish him and his project the best.
vaccination doesn't mean you cannot get the virus and spread it around. it protects you from the effects of Covid-19, the disease, caused by your body's reaction to the virus.

Those vaccinated, because they have less symptoms, less coughing basically, might not spread it around as much, but we don't know that yet. Remember asymptomatic spreading is a big concern for this virus.
I don’t understand the political motivation here. Let’s say theres actually something to hide. This very public action is certain to have the opposite affect and bring even more attention to Rebekah and her data (Streisand effect).
>should you really be disclosing how bunker ventilation operates, and the additional protection mechanisms etc.

No problem, even civil bunkers works like that, you can make tours and even buy some. However there are some bunkers which are used as "control-centers" and those locations are kind of ~secret, but then again i'm really sure that Russia and the US already know much more about them as i do.

That's a typical over-pressure vent (seen from the inside):

http://www.bochumer-bunker.de/Spellna2.jpg

And a filter-system for civil use (with hand-crank in case of power-outage):

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Fi...

And one for big Bunkers/Fortresses:

http://www.vorbei-ev.de/wwwa/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/bunk...

Hint for recruits/active military: In military bunkers the outlets are also very important so that the "enemy" cannot smell your kitchen or see the warm air (infrared), which makes it a excellent place to smoke some green stuff ;)
You’ve seen the GOP right? Not exactly thinking two or three chess moves ahead, those guys.
No you cannot make that up because the body can naturaly fight it as it's naturaly designed for that: but when you artificaly induce something in the body there is no guarantee that you won't just break the natural protection.

And no modern medicine cannot predict anything on a global level of the body: if it could then we could've simulate billion of virtual humans using supercomputers and go for real human trials only after that. But such simulations would be innacurate just like how weather prediction is innacurate for more than a few days in the future: the problem is that the body (just like the weather) is a complex system where the butterfly effects becaomes a real thing. So it's not a question of "models" or "compute power": even the slightest devition in the model will break all predictions results in a cascading manner over time.
That was my first flight sim as well. I remember playing it on an amber monochrome monitor. I then recall watching a TV show where they were playing the game in color and thinking "wow, that game has colors?!".
Those actions are helpful. The question read to me as whether the mandate to do them was the maximally effective course.

Education, facts, and increasing public consciousness seem like they’d be more effective than mandates for private gatherings. People who would follow the mandate in private would likely also follow educational campaigns. Voluntary compliance based on understanding works everywhere. Mandates only work where you can be seen.
Require proof of vaccine to come to Austraila. Native population mostly vaccinated. Even if someone did manage to get in with covid, it might not spread particularly easily.

Sure covid will probably continue to exist, just like H1N1 exists
I'm basically doing the same thing with Hasura, but instead of using their Events webhooks, listening to the WAL for changes with Elixir (I stole the listening code from Supabase realtime: https://github.com/supabase/realtime).

I've never written so little backend code for such high performance in so little time. If I were starting today, I'd probably use Supabase for the API as well (which is PostgREST under the hood).
> On my phone is every communication I have ever had with someone who works with the state

Why? This information should be stored, encrypted, and be almost impossible to decrypt. You need a dead mans switch (which is tried and tested) to destroy any and all data. In fact, you could have a system where if you don't visit a URL within a few hours, it destroys a part of the method to access the decryption mechanism (or something similar to this, which works in "real time" and acts a nuke. If you're in jail for 24+ hours you have the safety to know your system will work and destroy password.txt/keyfile on a server somewhere and make it harder to access your records).

Storing this data in plain text, on a partition that can be decrypted within seconds is negligent and both parties are at fault. You need to ensure both systems meet strict requirements before you start communicating in any medium (digital, face to face etc)

Snowden knew what was going to happen to him, so he had the good sense to somewhat plan ahead. These people are not your friends, and you should assume as much.

You make the wrong person angry and you will end up in a ditch somewhere. Make preparations, retain a lawyer and for gods sake practice good sec ops; if you have privileged information it's vital you make it as hard as possible for both you and the state to access it.
The problem with scaling is that visitor count often goes exponentially. So while in the beginning everything seems calm and quiet, suddenly you can see a massive spike in interest. And if you didn't take the right measures, you might lose all that interest.
Lovely! Thanks.
That's just dismissing all of us who like Tailwind /and/ have a decade+ of experience doing all of this 'the right way' without bothering to properly argue. It's a very cheap comment.

(but not out of line with your general conduct here, I suppose. I often wonder what people such as yourself get out of it...)
So the alternative is to artificaly induce something in the body and assume that it won't break any existing protection in the body?
With Starship all he only has to contend with the laws of Physics. With the subway system he has to contend with government regulations.
> At the same time some of those market disruptions need to happen and the incumbents were probably never going to get there.

It is always a question: is this "disruption" worth the cost - minorities and the poor cut off from taxis, illegal hotel operations robbing people (again, in many cases poor and working class) of their sleep, and trust in democracy as a whole?
> Cops behave like this because behind door number one there could be a guy with an assault rifle ready to take them down.

> American gun culture has little to do with this case.

non sequitur.
When will investors learn to separate hype from what's possible - Augmented reality, blockchain, self-driving cars, AI?
The reality on the ground is a lot different than all these startup peddlers have you believe.
This makes it a lot difficult for people who are actually building useful things raise money.
Yea it was very weird. I think most people realized that his way wasn't the right way.
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> With that in mind, he has decided to leave the profession before becoming a practicing doctor, and may move into equities investing next.

Prediction: this is going to end badly.
There is no doubt on the issue of chicken-and-egg problem with the app ecosystem, but wouldn't it be the only problem or even say the major problem to address if the manufacturers get on to supporting mainline Linux for smartphones instead of developing a completely new operating system from the scratch.
This! I was thinking about this recently. How the politicians have failed to implement such simple policies?
SF has had 30% of the deaths per 100K as the US average? That is shockingly good and worthy of deeper study if true.
i think you're looking for the principle agent problem aka middle management wrecking everything
I'm wondering if this is meant to be satire, but I'll assume not.

The cops were sent to the house of a middle-aged scientist who was reporting on COVID data. The idea that you need to charge in with guns is far beyond ludicrous.
These are very cool. Especially the ones that appear to be natural features.

Unfortunately, my first though upon seeing military installations camouflaged as cabins, barns, homes - that gives an invading enemy a good excuse to target civilian structures...
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> American gun culture has little to do with this case. Cops behave like this because behind door number one there could be a guy with an assault rifle ready to take them down

i'm struggling to understand this -- are you saying there is no link between 'American gun culture' and the probability of 'there could be a guy with an assault rifle ready to take them down'? in what other 1st world country would the said probability be even close?
One problem with this is that formatting now becomes a multi-file thing. You have now have to figure out what names actually refer to, which depends on building a project model to correctly resolve imports, etc....

Compare this with traditional formatters, which you can run on each single file individually, this is much more complex and also harder to parallelise.
Why is this comment getting downvoted? seems like a fair question. I've seen this now in several threads where even questioning side effects of the vaccine gets downvoted and looked down upon like they did something illegal. This is not HN I used to know.
Wow. George Carlin was correct about "rights"!
Hear hear.

This is really important wisdom being shared.

And with a single monolith you can comfortably handle several thousand concurrent users, not just several hundred.

From my humble experience I've found that it is also relatively easier to migrate an established monolith to a semi-distributed system, than it is to build and scale a distributed system from the ground up whilst at the same time trying to figure out all its kinks before it too becomes an established system.
FWIW, Apple has backdoored iMessage's end-to-end encryption via iCloud Backup plaintext/key escrow, automatically on by default, so if people did quit or threaten to quit, it didn't actually stop or change anything.

Apparently Apple was going to fix this glaring hole in their cryptosystem, but Apple Legal killed it as a favor to the FBI.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
Policing in the US is undoubtedly risky - but thats not the issue here. It is very likely that they were sent to intimidate and terrify a scientist who has done nothing except cause embarrassment to a politician. It is legitimate to criticise the police for allowing themselves to be used in this way.
I suppose, but it also means that the conclusion above (that lockdowns excluding schools works) isn't based on any evidence.
Might be a very stupid question, but when you saw "lost", do you mean they were destroyed somehow, or do you literally mean lost as in "couldn't find them"?
This vulnerability exists for all email hosts. There is no way for a provider to prove to you they didn't silently escrow your plaintext.
Maybe I missed it but I do not understand why injecting a null byte allowed you to bypass Angukar's protections. Is that a bug in Angular and if do is it fixed?
That could apply if they were raiding the house of some violent gang member, not a scientist from which they only wanted some electronics.
How else would they talk during an emergency? Do you think they'd shout and panic? Why?
A Startling Link Between Neanderthals and Covid-19
You just said american gun culture has little to do with this and then you contradict yourself the next sentence.

In Europe the risk of having someone greet you with an assault rifle is non-existent, because people just can't buy them.

It's also weird that you speak as if being a cop is the most dangerous job when it's not even in the first 10 most dangerous jobs[0].

I never see people that worry about cops lives worry about logging workers' safety, yet they risk much more than a cop.

- [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/27/the-10-most-dangerous-jobs-i...
The Irish government kept schools open, moved almost all universities online, and encouraged/required workers to work from home.

From our data, it doesn't appear that schools were a massive driver of transmission.

We know that kids don't spread it as much as they do the flu, so on balance, keeping schools open seems like the better course of action as long as it's not a major driver of infection rates.
You shouldn't be trading if you don't know how...tsk tsk. Most folks know zero about trading...better off gambling in Vegas.
I can't quite articulate why, but this reminds me of cryptocurrency.
1. Most nursing homes have more than one elderly resident, living in close contact. Your 90 year old woman can spread it to them.

2. By what mechanism do you imagine it got into the nursing home without that mechanism also working to spread it to outside?
I don't know much about the details of how things like this go down but it also seems like maybe admitting that wasn't such a great idea for that poor person...Can that admission alone be enough for a judge to compel she unlock the phone for law enforcement?
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She's a data scientist, not a security expert. Holding her to this standard is unfair and very much blaming the victim.
In this specific instance, you're probably right that there will be paperwork.

However, in general, acute healthcare in free in the UK and does not even require ID. I don't know if that's how it's "meant" to be, but that's how it is; if you're on vacation in the UK and something bad happens, you can just turn up at the nearest hospital and it will get sorted out, no bill no fuss.
I followed the New Zealand press conferences very closely and so often the initial story was this person had no symptoms, total surprise to them that they had the virus, and then a day later oh, well, actually they did have some symptoms but they didn't realise it was COVID-19...

People will say to themselves well, it's just a cough right? Just a cough. I can't have COVID-19 that's something other people get, those people are sick but I'm healthy, this is just a cough. And that allows the virus to spread.
According to the article, they didn't loose them, the Minister of Defense just pretended they were suddenly found again.
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Doesn't matter. If you don't have covid, and nobody comes in, you won't get covid.

But that's not feasible in most countries.

Austrailia and NZ don't rely on a just-in-time cross border economy like the US and Europe. Goods arrive after being on boats which have been off shore for days or weeks.

Compare with the US-Canada "border closure", where thousands of trucks, and their drivers, have crossed each way every day all year.
There was explosives, but they've all been taken out ~10 years ago
It's even worse; the customers have no real choice of anyone else to leave _to_.
Can confirm. I live on the Toblerone trail. Have a bunker up the road from me. Very cool engineering.
This is solid advice.

She shouldn't have to do that. Regardless, it would have been a good thing if she did.
Wow, this is cool. I must have read about this somewhere else, but attributed it to the book. I last read the book in the late 80's, and now I am really curious what other memories have shifted in my head over the years.

As an adjacent comment mentions - this is why I love HN. Thanks for fact checking me and giving me a whole new list of things to ponder.
Related reading for anyone who wants to learn more about this stuff

http://www.bldgblog.com/2012/06/
>Unless Australia is willing to keep screening all arrivals and containing outbreaks indefinitely

It's possible. There is no rabies in the UK, for exactly this reason.
12 months in, I'd say we can already claim it more than "reeks": it is full-blown intellectual dishonesty. Viral load peeks before symptoms onset, we have quite a few case studies of transmission, but these people apparently want some dozens of RCTs before admitting it.
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She's quoted in the article as saying "I’m not that tech savvy". The degree of operations security you're describing presumably needs extensive training and familiarity. She's a scientist not a spy.
The tanks were thought to be destroyed (they weren't in use anymore) but while cleaning up a bunker/ tunnel system (idk) the reappeared. So they were lost (couldn't find them) somewhere in the process, instead of destroyed.
I was shocked how well even tripple A games work out of the box when I installed Metro Exodus recently. I get 60fps+ on 4k at max settings on my 1080TI on Manjaro Gnome. Here is a screenshot: https://twitter.com/m5blum/status/1312878889711079426

I still keep Windows around as a dual boot option for games that don't work well with Proton though, but I barely need to use it.
List of professions more dangerous then being a police officer in 2018 [1]: supervisor of mechanics or repairers, construction, agricultural work, grounds maintenance, electrical line-workers, landscaping supervisors, construction supervisors, steel workers, agricultural managers, sales workers, truck drivers, garbage man, roofers, aircraft pilot, fisherman, logging.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-23/how-da...

And straight BS on the whole "going into dangerous situations" thing - plenty of professions get required to do that (paramedics, firemen) and manage to be both unarmed and not shoot people all the time.
While such stories and the pictures posted here are rather interesting, as a Swiss, I also find it at the same time quite depressing. The Swiss army is a bottomless barrel when it comes to funding; always requiring & demanding money, while preparing for scenarios that were maybe somewhat plausible during the height of the cold war but are nowadays obviously antiquated, plain for anyone to see who doesn't wear the nostalgia-tinged glasses.

It provides cool pictures such as the ones posted here and some nice stories, but apart from that - the billions currently going to the army could be used so much better.
That doesn't at all answer GPs question though. That they're isolated LANs doesn't at all answer what WAN address they use. If no other indication it probably uses the same.

I have multiple VLANs at home, and I only have one WAN IP.
People don't care. It's one scandal amongst many and people stop keeping track, so they just keep on voting for the same people.

Even if there were a website that kept track of all a politician's misdeeds, the majority wouldn't use it or know about it.
SFFPC is still too much hassle for an average builder, plus "ITX tax" is not very attractive too. I have built my first SFF last winter and I had to read that sub for a long time to find out all compatibility issues, and even then I ran into incompatible cooler mount and MB, I had to use a bit of force to set CPU cooler on a crooked mount.
And latest trend of AIB GPU manufacturers to abandon 2-slot format is also not good for SFF.

Another issue are thermals. I can find out that my SSD is overheating to 105* in the nice looking ITX case and mitigate that a little (I have to hope now that 82-83* on a working SSD won't kill it too fast). Average user will see this by a blue smoke coming out of the case :)

I wish there was more initiative from big manufacturers in that area.
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Very misleading article. No - platforms do not mean app market places. App market places are platforms - but not the other way round. Author is just trying to improve his offline SEO. Not worth Hackernews stature.