skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I said, I'm a layman, but several things jump out to me.

The first thing I think of is that the meta-study you linked is for influenza. Obviously covid and influenza are similar but I think there are important differences (we did not, for instance, have as many cases of influenza in any of the last fifty years as we have of covid this year). In particular, I know that the asymptomatic transmission of covid is unusual and is not something that happens in influenza[0].

The studies that support mask wearing in my link are on mask mandates (though there are also case studies that suggest masks have been effective). I believe that mandating masks reduces transmission of the virus and I don't think it's necessary to reconcile that fact with the fact that masks don't reduce the spread of influenza.

The version of the study you linked is formatted oddly and the tables are on another page. A pdf of their article is easier to read, I think [3]. From Table 2 (and the discussion around it) I take that they are hoping to catalog open questions and are not seeking to make a recommendation about proper procedure. Therefore I think it's perfectly in keeping with Jingyi Xiao, et. al. to recommend wearing masks based on the covid-specific studies while recognizing we have no evidence that masks prevent influenza.

[0] While you can transmit influenza when you're not showing symptoms, my understanding is that covid is different enough that we shouldn't compare them. That could be wrong and if you have anything to contribute I'd be interested to see it.

[1] https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00818

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342198360_Associati...
+++. Went to a state University. Got offers from some FAANG's after 2 years-ish of full time work at a smaller company.

My route: Linkedin. Just setting my profile to "open to work" or whatever it is has worked in landing me some interviews.

After you get an interview (completely luck based) you need to study leetcode. IMO if you can do 200 in 1-2 months focusing heavily on medium, you will be prepared. At that point you need to ace your onsite interview by doing very well in 4/5 or so of the sessions (slightly luck based). Then you wait forever until google decides to finally give you an offer :)
Ok, most of those do seem reasonable to me. That said, I still wonder where all this motivation comes from? Have we really shown that big tech is harmful? And exactly to what kind of harm? And how we know alternatives arn't more harmful?
A good shortcut is hiring from high fame startups. Not foolproof, but marketing people at uber outclass the average marketing person that might answer an ad.

Another shortcut is ask other business owners who are similar to you. Hopefully you have a small network or community. If you don't, it's worth finding 2-3 people who run businesses similar to yours to regularly connect with.

You might not even need to find a marketing "person" - there are agencies that do full service. You can talk to a few, listen to the pitch, and ask them for references. Few people do this, but you can and should, and its a great way to meet other business owners like you.
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> And the rest of the world, essentially all of the Americas including the immensely plastic polluting central American rivers, Australia, and all of Europe only contribute 10% of ocean plastic pollution.

That's probably not entirely fair, given that the west exports their recycling overseas.

https://theconversation.com/heres-what-happens-to-our-plasti...

> Since then Southeast Asia has become the new destination for Australia’s recycled plastics, with 80-87% going to Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. Other countries have also begun to accept Australia’s plastics, including the Philippines and Myanmar.

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/20/750864036/u-s-recycling-indus...

> The U.S. used to send a lot of its plastic waste to China to get recycled. But last year, China put the kibosh on imports of the world's waste. The policy, called National Sword, freaked out people in the U.S. — a huge market for plastic waste had just dried up.

It was a pretty open secret that it frequently just wound up dumped by unscrupulous companies that claimed to be processing it.
It doesn’t guarantee that they can execute, only that they can easily do so with that much money. Not everything needs to be conquered nor makes sense to do so at that scale.
> You brought up the 'third party vs government' dynamic

No, “third-party” contrasts with the parties involved in the transaction (mostly the source, which may exercise self-censorship, which does not restrict the freedom of the participants the way third-party censorship does.)

The government would be an example of a third-party censor, not something distinct from it.
But this assumes some level of knowledge/understanding of the subject at hand. If I read research papers about Covid (assuming I have the time) I doubt I'd be able to follow the arguments or understand the nuances of conclusions, caveats and so on... Time is also a problem as I mentioned above. This approach essentially duplicates the effort needed to analyse and distill the research.

To me it kind of reads as "all documentation is bad documentation, just read the code".
Same here except I use the default scripting shell on the UNIX-like OS, instead of bash. On Debian Linux and derivatives, it is known as dash:

"Debian Almquist shell. A small POSIX-compliant shell that is faster than bash."
Look at it this way: it's probably better to keep to a mindset aiming at a society where people don't get nickel-and-dimed every second of every day. In-app purchases are just one of many traps; they are obvious but they compensate for that by sheer numbers. There is only so much willpower to check every incoming scam.

It's tempting to blame individuals and they certainly do deserve it like in this case but the general worldview spawned by that only increases the control of large multinationals on our lives.
Apple doesn't have much choice when it comes to governments. They have resisted data collection efforts where they have legal ground to do so. If you want them to stop handing anything over to your government, you need to fix that with legislation.
That sounds like a good experience. I'll have to try it someday.
At least VS Code means we'll have options for a half-decent IDE in the browser. (Not that there's anything wrong with vim or emacs over SSH-in-a-browser, but...)
You might want to check out Oasis' Parcel SDK: https://www.oasislabs.com/parcelsdk.
To be fair, the Atari 2600 supports sprite multiplexing.[0] And you can drive a BBC Micro's floppy drive from its screen output lines…[1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_multiplexing

[1]: https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2020/07/turning-400-...
Love this! Thanks, it was a casual idea of mine that I didn’t really think through before.

Here’s a slightly different approach to this. Let’s instead assume that the set of “memorable” strings is constant (say of size N/M where N is the number of all strings) and the user hits as many retries as needed to get a string from the memorable set. If the number of retries is a random variable X, then if we know the distribution of X we know M. Since the number of bits lost is something like \log_2(M), we just want to find out how X relates to M.

EX = \sum_{i\geq 0}i(1-1/M)^i(1/M)
= WolframAlpha :) = M - 1

So it matches: if your average number of tries is M - 1, you lose something like \log_2(M) bits of entropy.

Makes me feel better about all those times when I hit retry a dozen times.
Slightly tangent, this reminds me of the story of the game developer that would allocate a few tens or hundreds of megs of RAM early on in the project and not touch it. He knew that as the project was nearing completion, they would get squeezed on available RAM. Then he could just go and delete a single line of code and, bam, tons of free RAM.

This seems like a slight variant of SDD: dickhead-driven-development. Clever, but your coworkers still hate your guts.
Wow, downvoted hard just for bringing this information to light. This forum is going downhill and its not because of an "authoritarian" trend in this thread.
TorchScript JIT (torch.jit.script) is similar for PyTorch.
Judgement is important of course. I wear masks around people but not when I’m driving or outdoors by myself. I think for a lot of people, it’s just easier not to put it on and take it off. For me for instance if I’m out hiking I just put it on and leave it on. Where as my partner will remove it when there is no one around and put it back on when someone is coming close by. I see the same thing with people driving short distances.

People getting infected at home may be a large vector, but the virus got in the home some how in the first place. It’s just easier to spread from that point onwards once it’s in.
I agree. The Tab interface is unusable. new FF opens lots more new tabs than the old one. But the list is less readable, less usable, and closing tabs is a chore (!) because there is a list-slide-animation that makes you miss the next X to close and you have to wait for the f-ing animation to finish. Bookmarks are inaccessible, you only see a few on the new-tab-page or in an unordered mess as search results when typing something in the address bar. A loading indicator is missing and loading often hangs for a long time or clicks don't register. I'm seriously researching alternatives, the status quo is hell.
Here we go again. The unicorn-detecting crystal ball never goes out of fashion.
I think we'll gradually evolve from a social species like chimpanzees to a solitary one like tigers and orangutans.
I want to integrate email management and routing services as part of my client service package.

My clients have a lot of hourly employees that they need to communicate with but for privacy reasons, they don't necessarily want to use a corporate or private email address.

For example, a manager may want to use his private phone to send an email to a group of employees. Any replies would be routed to his secretary at the office --- with all addresses remaining semi-anonymous. My software will handle all this with the help of your service.

I currently have several hundred clients with a total of over 20,000 employees.

In other words, this all strictly opt in --- no marketing.
Plus (sometimes but not always) lower input and display latency. MacVim is noticeably snappier than running Vim in iTerm2 or Terminal for me.
CO2 isn't the problem with cattle, its methane, which is a byproduct of their digestion. Methane is a greenhouse gas.

The other issue is that grassland absorbs less CO2 than forests, and lots of forests have been cut down in favor grassland suitable for grazing animals.
There is a bug report filed here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=115840...
Apple charges about the same price for processing IAPs as the Play store, Steam, PlayStation Network, and Xbox Live. Which storefront are you thinking of that only charges a 3% commission?
I'd posit the of issue is wanting both an online world and offline game as is the problem. There are still non-world online included with games with significant offline content that have no MTX (although some does have MTX too).

And there is still plenty of offline only games not infested with MTX, often with no paid DLC, or only sensible expansions that are very much optional purchases.

But online worlds that are not designed to continuously extract money from people seem to have become pretty infrequent, whether shipped with an offline game or not. And to be honest, I'm not surprised. Unlike matchmaking and the like, the online world type multiplayer tend to require a lot more server resources.

Without MTX or subscriptions, I bet a lot of online worlds would get shut down by 24 months after game release, simply due to exhausting the portion of the game sales allocated to running the servers by that point.
And how they are going to prevent millions of websites from using Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel etc. in their websites?
Yeah and I don't care if people down vote me. That won't make me change my mind or change the things I have personally witnessed. If people wish to believe the MSM reporting then fine, but I won't be bullied into changing my mind.

There are bad guys on both sides, but the ones I've seen being most violent are attacking cops and people that are expressing their freedom of speech while staying within the law...all while crying poor me the cops used teargas (some were even caught on video setting fires before this).
the free speech in the usa is also something out of a dystopian terror novel. Writers (e.g. in the atlantic) like to say that our time is less like 1984 and more like brave new world in that all the noise that is allowed through free speech leads to bad results (trump, brexit, anti-social media etc.) that are not necessarily better than what the EU is trying to avert with its free speech agenda.
I'd argue some regulation is necessary since the popularity contests that thrive within the current media environment do not lead to enlightened people (since it's not necessarily the smartest/most empathetic argument that wins/gets all the attention). However, it's a slippery road, that's for sure (and you CAN deconstruct my arguments in that way) - but let's be honest: allowing ALL free speech and letting the loudmouth that makes fun about the out-group win all the arguments is not a solution either.
Disclosure: I work for AWS

Free for some to use under certain restrictions. Therefore not Open Source (which is totally OK, I just want to make sure there's no confusion).
True, the property tax rates are higher in TX. But since house prices are much less, in absolute terms you pay less property tax than CA. Combine this with 0% income tax, your tax load is a lot less in TX than CA.
I dont completely agree with the pricing, dont get me wrong, but i can see why they do it... You are not just paying for bandwidth. You are paying for the rest of the infrastructure. So, for example, in Azure's case (which is what we use in $dayjob) we get VNETs, NSGs (basic firewalls), Routes, DNS, IP Addressing, etc, plus then bandwidth. Yes, i would like the bandwidth bill to be cheaper, but you also need to look, again, in the case of Azure, of the rest of what they are offering in a global network and number of POPs around the world...
> autoconfig.js and firefox.cfg to disable telemetry

You can change this in the configuration dialog, and once disabled, that setting will be preserved through Firefox upgrades. You shouldn't need to change this repeatedly.

> legacyUserProfileCustomizations to use userChrome.css to get anything like a proper menu system.

By "proper menu system", do you mean having the menu bar always visible? You can enable that with View->Toolbars->Menu Bar.

> you have to edit policies.json to get updates stopped

Doing so would result in running an outdated and potentially insecure browser.
RAW is supposed to be the data that the sensor captures (well, today that's more or less true). The actual images saved on phone/SD (JPEG or HEIC or whatever) are just processed RAWs with some destructive presets (WB, contrast curve, sharpening, color tone-mapping, ...) applied and written out to storage. Some of these presets are destructive (gamma curves, bit-depth reduction for JPEG) and cannot be undone.

So of course RAW doesn't make for better photos, but for original input data to do your own edit on. If you don't know how to edit, you're probably better off with the experience/work that the manufacturer put into the in-camera presets.

In my opinion the main advantage is that RAW files save the full color-depth info _and_ RAW files are not gamma-mapped (i.e. linear encoded), that enables all of your use-cases above. You would still get 90% of that advantage if you were to demosaic, color correct to a profile-connection-space but keep the linear encoding and original 12-16 bit depth, even if you were to compress that data via DCT/JPEG to save space. That's sort of what ProRAW is.
Seems like there’s no trade off to over-engineering health and safety in the context. N100 would be adequate but the P100 additionally provides a broader spectrum of air pollution exposure reduction which in the context of infection control helps protect the mucosal barriers from damage and preserves immune fitness, preventing T-cell depletion caused by inhalation of vehicular pollution and industrial/commercial combustion emissions, smoke, and so on.
Hey! Secretary for Clojurists Together Foundation here. This is roughly correct. It's not a strict 50/50 split from quarter to quarter as it depends on applications and what our members are looking for, but we try to fund a mix of established and experimental projects.

This quarter we funded Calva and clj-kondo which are more established, and O'Doyle Rules and ClojisR which are more experimental.
It’s a commodity feature that now even Youtube has so I don’t think there’s much to leverage a brand into.

Kind of like how I’ve never seen someone call Periscope by name as people just say they’ll be streaming on Twitter.

Similarly I doubt I’ll ever see someone use Fleet to refer to a Twitter Story.
hope to do the same myself some day! And really hope businesses who do benefit and have the means, also support.
Fair enough, I misunderstood your meaning; thanks for clarifying. The "'freedom to listen' vs 'freedom to speak'" concern still stands (i.e., no, restricting private citizens' speech on social media platforms doesn't have exactly the same effect as limiting the content that broadcast media corps can publish on the airwaves).
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Alan Kay on declarative programming
> which means they aren't rolling their own crypto

I will point out that BoringSSL is also mainly developed by Google, so...kinda?

I still trust it, just a kinda interesting fact
Yeah, Chrome doesn't seem to do it with any site for me. I wasn't sure if it was a Chrome thing or just my machine.
Sure, it's not the same as Google/Facebook but you get my point. I spent 8 and a half years developing a CRM for mobile applications and it's not like I haven't poked my nose into the petabytes of data. The reality is that people(understand companies) are fighting for app time, that is how much time you spend in their app. Personally I've never used and never will use a dating app for a million and one reasons but I know plenty of people that do and have wasted money on them. Having spoken to them, they do spend most of their time on tinder/okcupid. As far as minutes in app goes, the Match group is unmatched(no pun intended). I'm sure it would raise some eyebrows, if people knew they were spending that much money on one company. I have a friend who has subscription to all of those. I wonder if he realizes that he is spending more on somewhat twisted services offered by a single company than I am on the countless gcp services I use for my personal projects.
One of the more memorable projects in my career had me sticking pens in fans for months on end, because it tickled an error-handling edge case.
If you need some evidence of what is actually happening, then I recommend following Andy Ngo on Twitter. It's certainly only one view point of the protests that are going on, but its a side you won't see covered anywhere else.
Yeah, it's probably relative, I've rarely used disks larger than the 8" floppies so would never call them diskettes, the 5 1/4" were commonly called that in my circles. In IBM circles of the time they'd have a different default scale.

Like I remember being surprised the first time I heard someone refer to AA batteries as the big kind.
There used to be an MIT CISAL research project I find no more traces which had as a project goal to establish FHE as a service.

Apparently it failed.
Seems to me humans are really good at 'catching up' based on what we perceive as possible.

For example when a new world record is set in a sport often the idea of such a performance is possible raises the bar for the entire field rapidly. Within months multiple competitors are nipping at the heels of the record.

I also see this in video game speed running. When a new breakthrough record is set suddenly the competitors begin to catch up to the new record now that they see it is indeed possible. Even new people playing the game don't take 10 years to catch up skill wise when they can learn from previous attempts from the 'old masters.'

It seems like even in the arena of AI breakthroughs as soon as some paper gets published others quickly catch up. I do agree there is no replacement for 10 years of research and work, but future people studying in the field can and do catch up.
Yes, there is some in my fridge right now! Its the best I've had, but still not as good as the real thing to me.

In general, I think Violife does the best job with imitation cheeses.
Cut up surgical mask and duct tape it around the exterior vent.
We'll see if people trust them more than https://rockylinux.org/ I'm surprised they'd start their own project after original CentOS people created Rocky.
Literally instead of having to hire potentially dozens of software engineers to reinvent the wheel, they are able to use open-source software, and this altruism is peanuts compared to what the former would cost.
Even "as scale" (whatever that means) arrests can't really be meaningful in this context. If the contention is that police are unjustly targeting journalists, arrests are one tool they can unilaterally employee. It would be interesting to see rates of arrest vs. charges files vs. convictions I suppose.
The Internet Watch Foundation has made questionable calls in the past, like the one where they blocked Wikipedia for having a controversial (yet legal and historically relevant) image of a naked child.

Despite this, the IWF might be one of the more reputable "trusted flaggers", and this system may open the door for far worse ones to enter into the scene.
It is extremely offensive to compare chattel slavery with living in a society that requires you to pay taxes.
iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause millions in damages
>A interesting point missing from the BBC article is that they have different levels of expectations between small to medium businesses and large ones, to avoid regulatory capture ? :

Yes that does seem like it could be bumpy. I like the UK approach https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55230704
which seems to be that they will have more flexibility - hopefully not over-flex, but a set of rules catering for the large companies, which at the scale is maybe a more manageable approach without culling all the middle/small growing companies with some solid rule that is less fiscally impacting upon the large players.

However, a final thought for all - countries been doing their own TAX laws for ages and the companies that always manage to play that game better than those who write the rules are....large companies of the type these are targeting. So I don't think it will improve overnight, but does seem that the right direction would be a good place to start.

> The road is still long before ratification, but it looks like a step in the good direction.

Yes and with the EU, just one country could hold the whole thing up and Ireland may have more of a vested interest in the large tech firms than many others, so may or may not be more suitable to corporate lobbying factors.
https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT211975
Notion is free. Not exactly the same product, of course. (But in the US, Evernote costs $96/year.)

I think that Evernote's more or less elimination of the free plan will kill the company. There's no reason in 2020 for new users to starting paying money to Evernote. They seem to know they can't compete for new users any longer, so they're going to force as many current users as possible to upgrade from the free plan.