skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> from the results itself :

Again, taken from the "Limitations" section:

"no assessment of whether masks could decrease disease transmission from mask wearers to others."

I never said that masks greatly help protect the individual, I said they help slow the spread of the pandemic.

> She is a medical professional

Any chance you could link me to here credentials then? Has she authored any peer reviewed papers?

Actually, I'll look her up. Presuming this [0] is her, she appears to have participated in... no peer reviewed research. In addition, on this [1] website, she both claims to be non political, and to have appeared on this list of shows... "The Tucker Carlson Show, The Ingraham Angle, The Glenn Beck Show, The Charlie Kirk Show, The Dennis Prager Show, Day Star Television"

So, despite her being an obvious liar, at least she is an emergency medical professional, I'll give her that. A shame she's not a virologist.

> What is the evidence that mask can reduce this death ?

We've been over this as well. Masks reduce pandemic reduces death.

Do you have any other sources?

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[0] https://www.docinfo.org/search/docprofile?docid=CA796BDA-28F...

[1] https://www.americasfrontlinedoctors.com/mission-statement/
> that's just capitalism.

Sure, it's a consequence of (unrestrained) capitalism, but it's not a requirement for capitalism. One can send people to jail for financial crimes, like monopolies, and still have capitalism.

> it's the people who were supposed to regulate these companies to stop them from getting to this point

Well that would be the politicians (and their weakening of regulation). Which is kind of out of the scope of "ideally X", because any such change would by necessity require changing politicians.

Also they are, in a (poor) way, being regulated by this suit. Being caught for a crime and regulation are sorta two different things though. Sort of like health care, regulation is preventative, often healthier and cheaper in the long run. Prosecution is emergency care, an expensive last resort.

> The world has missed out on 10 years of potential competition and innovation because of that.

Or, you know, the actions google took to exploit the capitalist system. If anything this is just a demonstration of the need for more socialist economic solutions.
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One, it might be totally fine to run macOS binaries! If your code is portable to macOS and Windows, you might still want to use Docker for dependency management, network isolation, orchestration of multiple processes, etc., but you might not care what the actual host OS is. (Just like how people are interested in running ARM binaries, even though Docker started out as x86-64.) At my day job, all the stuff we put in Docker is either Python (generally portable), Java (generally portable), or Go (built-in cross-compilation support). It's absolutely sensible to do local dev on a Mac and then deploy on Linux in prod - it's perfectly sensible to do so without Docker in the picture, and plenty of people do just that.

So, maybe all the people you're yelling at understand the concept you think they don't, and they're okay with it.

Two, it's not at all true that to run Linux binaries on non-Linux, you need a Linux VM. WSL1 is an existence proof against this on Windows, as is the Linuxulator on FreeBSD, as are LX-branded zones on SmartOS. Linux itself has a "personality" mechanism for running code from non-Linux UNIXes. You could do the same thing on macOS, and teach the kernel to handle a good-enough subset of the Linux system call interface - it would be far less work than adding containerization (namespacing and resource isolation) in the first place, so I'm not sure why you're so hung up about this.
Blitz and even bullet are great for tactics and pattern recognition, especially for < 2000 rated players.
In a first, Air Force uses AI on military jet
It is definitely one of the internet's great rabbit holes.

> how has this been accomplished?

I always assumed it was user-driven like Wikipedia or Stack Overflow and that appears to be the case:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization?a...

I think the wiki is one of the modern world's most underrated -- and underexploited -- innovations.
What you just described would outlaw security cameras which is clearly not what the actual law said.
So it makes a graph out of `git log`? If so, that’s pretty cool.
Not quite the same thing (adult seats vs car seats, and it's possible they were just faulty from the factory rather than expired), but the last time I was rear-ended the seats snapped behind me. Quite the experience really -- to stop you from going forward you have seat belts, air bags, and all kinds of fancy engineering. Inertia is a cruel mistress when the car moves forward out from under you though, and the only things ensuring your forward motion are a couple of broken seats (thankfully there weren't any passengers or children in car seats for me to smash into) and the 2-ton metal projectile poking through the ass end of your car.
So no livestreaming my trek down the Virgin River in Zion or hunting lizards in the Virgin Mountains of the Mojave, huh?
The track record of cryptographic standards is one of pretty much unbroken failure; it's like the cryptography engineering version of "I'm from the government and I'm here to help".

It get worse when you take a close look at the standards process and see how standards bodies metabolize input from actual cryptographers. For a good time, check out how the IETF did with Phil Rogaway and IPSEC.
Yeah... They aren't the same Google of 20 or even 10 years ago...
And sickness, long term side effects, in addition to the threat to vulnerable loved ones. They have to keep talking about dangerous it is, because people keep insisting it isn't. It's not about just you, it's about the community-wide effect. But to be clear 30 year olds have been killed by covid 19 and people of all ages report long term after effects like shortness of breath, tiredness, and pain. And some people just can't afford to take the time off-- even a week of missed work can result in not making rent. It's happening as we speak-- homelessness is skyrocketing. These are real effects of the virus, it changes peoples lives
I once saw a motorbike with two people and a cow in western Kenya. It wasn't a /big/ cow, but still.
At least for Google, it would be interesting how much technical effort that would require. I don't work at Google, but lets say some large subset of their systems runs on Borg. The cost of separating out GCP and Gmail for example could be quite large. Not that that's necessarily a legal defense, but the technical ramifications of a breakup are interesting.
Does anyone here actually use tig to interact with Git repositories, rather than simply as a repository viewer?

I've been a user for 8 years, but I only use it for viewing. Editing a repository remains a task exclusively for the CLI (or, occasionally, with magit).
Larry and Sergey
I also recently got a Quest 2 and it's changed everything for me. I'm usually that jaded person but today's VR tech really has me gushing. This is the first time I've been truly excited about video games since I was a teenager 15 years ago (despite playing a lot of games in that time).

The feeling of vertigo and momentum in games like Jet Island that makes you weak in the knees, looking out your cockpit and being awestruck by planets and stations in Star Wars Squadrons or Elite Dangerous, dodging bullets in Pistol Whip and Superhot. The dream of the 90's is alive - the technology is here! It's so good and I can't wait until quarantine is over to share this with more people.

Previously I'd used a friend's Oculus DK1 (not good) and then later a friend's HTC Vive (getting there). The Quest 2 is a major improvement and I look forward to the next generation of headsets.
> if your house on fire, the fire brigade will come and help, free of charge

Unless you're in a "no pay, no spray" area and haven't paid your fire subscription fee. Wish I wasn't being serious.
> We’ve been talking about virtual reality for decades, but it’s gone pretty much nowhere.

What? Going from essentially zero consumer sales to 5m/year is 'nothing'? It's not smartphone or even console numbers yet, but it's not some tiny insignificant niche anymore (now it's a significant niche).
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Back then, Multics was designed to run on expensive and specialized proprietary hardware where as Unix could run on a variety of cheap computers.

One can say the philosophy behind Unix was new. I'm sure that's why modular and micro kernel designs caught on.
> “no you can’t just take a SQLServer query and run it on anything that vaguely knows “SQL”.

Not with that attitude you can't. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/want-more-postgresql...

The world depends on people who don't take "no you can't" for an answer.
The problem here is that they are cultivating a creepy authoritarian vibe that they will censor anything that is unpopular or disagreeable to a certain class of privileged blue check-marked "influencer" at the expense of everyone else - whether they are correct or incorrect in their truth claim. This would probably be fine on a small forum, but is reckless and borderline dangerous when exercised by an enormous gatekeeping media platform. And I know people strongly feel that a non-governmental company can set whatever policies they like, but it doesn't change the dystopian big brother tone that "wrongthink" can get you cancelled on Twitter. I will not enumerate the many hypocrisies others have pointed out of how other bold, unscientific tweets go completely unenforced.

In this case, I personally happen to agree that the vaccine is not a mass microchipping conspiracy. But do I trust them to get it right each and every time they decide to censor? No.
it's huge in india. a phone that did not support it would definitely be a non-starter.
I also think that we should collectively fight back against Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple.

Not handing them data for free would be a start (Analytics & Gmail)
Commercial beef feedlots vs commercial dairy feedlots are a mile apart, but unfortunately most dairy cows end up at the former after they hit declining milk production.

I'd recommend checking if you can go tour a local dairy, I've found that any quality dairy will let you do that and you can judge for yourself about the welfare of the animals. You're gonna to pay more but the nutritional value of a gallon of milk at $8 vs $2 is still well worth it imo.

I'd also really recommend looking into the health impacts of vegetable oils. Most milk substitutes are, at their core, emulsified vegetable oils. I found that the trade-offs were higher glycemic load(oat/rice), increased vegetable oils(soy/almond) or something that tastes nothing like milk (unsweetened coconut milk).
Very heavy fitness games no, but something moderate like Beat Saber is pretty great. There are ways you can deal with the sweatiness too.
This is an even bigger problem to solve when you factor in that:

- Different countries have different standards, so car seats vary accordingly

- Models change over the years

So finding out if you can get three car seats into a car is a massive headache.
I wonder if an AI controlled fighter jet might take out a speed camera thinking its an adversary locking onto it
The law appears to be this one[1], which bans secretly recording "wire" communications or "oral" communications, the latter specifically meaning speech. So it sounds like, in addition to secrecy, it's the audio that's at issue; a pure video recording wouldn't fall under this law even if done without knowledge or consent.

The opinion itself is here[2]. In fact the first two sentences of the opinion mention that expectation of privacy is irrelevant to this case:

> Massachusetts, like other states concerned about the threat to privacy that commercially available electronic eavesdropping devices pose, makes it a crime to record another person's words secretly and without consent. But, unlike other concerned states, Massachusetts does not recognize any exceptions based on whether that person has an expectation of privacy in what is recorded.

[1] https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Cha...

[2] http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/19-1586P-01A.pdf
Not quite. SpaceX isn't just throwing random designs at the wall and using some gradient descent to find a good rocket design.

They are starting with competent designs and well thought out systems. The most interesting aspects to their rockets is how boring they are. The Falcon 9 basically uses a Beowulf cluster of Merlin engines. The second stage uses yet another Merlin engine. All use RP-1/LOX so there's minimal cryogenics involved in fueling and defueling the rocket on the launchpad. The Falcon Heavy is a Beowulf cluster of Falcon 9s.

They didn't happen into any of those designs. They've existed from the beginning. Where SpaceX accepts "failure" is in their integration tests, these are their more visible "failures". All of their subcomponents have been bench tested before their integration tests and are known to work correctly. Their integration tests are literally testing their large scale integration, the things that can't be bench tested.

Their process is waterfall AF. They might take iterative steps in the process but they're not stumbling around looking for good designs.
If the accusations have merit, then they didn't just "take advantage of market conditions" but actually broke the law to their own benefit and to the detriment of consumers.

So they should face the consequences.

I just don't think the consequences fit the crime. It's just a slap on the wrist, and these people will just continue screwing the rest of us over because there are no personal consequences for them.

Any fines that Google and Facebook pay will just be extracted from the consumer. Breaking up the companies won't actually keep them from doing the same in the future, nor will it actually penalize anyone who was involved.

So, yeah, I do think jail time and asset forfeiture from those responsible (if they are guilty) is fair and just.
Part of what made the iPhone take off is that it was good UX and everyone uses their phone every day multiple times a day.

For VR to succeed at that level it needs: better UX (Quest is close but needs to be 2x resolution and content richness / latency) and ease of use needs to be 100.

I.e., it needs to replace people’s glasses and/or be as easy as turning on the tv. I.e., very lightweight. Again Quest is the closest but still I’d say 25% of the way there.
I mostly go to /fit/ for lifting advice. I'll have to check out /big/ because i really just want to get cow-huge in 2021.
Oftentimes, regulatory bodies make companies immune to lawsuits in exchange for compliance. That leads to there being no incentive against creating products that are compliant, yet dangerous. It might be a good idea to reform the system so that harm is the ultimate decider.
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Qlib – an AI-oriented quantitative investment platform
That's about one order of magnitude smaller than Electron. Good to know.

My gtk-rs project is intended to replace a small, self contained win32 application. The application is 132KB. So although 5MB is small it's an oom larger than my benchmark.

However, my gtk-rs hello, world GUI application is 14.6MB in release mode and that does not include the GTK DLLs that are also needed. Yikes. That's crazy.

Perhaps 5MB is a reasonable price to pay for cross platform GUI. Not taking 7+ seconds to build a GUI hello, world would be nice as well.
Google, the company that funded Steve King's election campaign, is left leaning?
I'm not saying they don't. I'm saying they're wrong to do so. [1]

The amount of links you can shove into a page before it makes any negative impact is very high.

1. https://www.rebootonline.com/blog/long-term-outgoing-link-ex...
One point: Transforming an already incorrect file into a correct one is the hardest job of all.

Plus some further information:

ABBY has had months to support Big Sur but still haven’t.

That makes it seem like they either don’t care about supporting MacOS users, or they have a very low engineering budget.

Either way, that makes it seem more likely to me that they have a bug, than Apple.

But, regardless of the balance of probabilities, the point is that the original piece blames Apple entirely.

And yet nobody here really seems to dispute the idea that ABBY, a professional PDF generator could be producing a buggy file.
Yep, if we can distinguish between who it does and does not work as intended. How do you verify a false positive? By performing a better test, but then you have to do it for everyone and we're back to square one. However I agree with other comments that even with false results, it's still very useful, just that frequent testing won't necessarily overcome all false results.
Honestly, it feels like they're just trying to monetize the shit out if it.

It went from being a navigation tool too being the "how do I get to consumption" tool.
I think that is sound advice. I think it's very unlikely however that all people will happen upon that advice and agree that it is sound. Especially unlikely with an entire industry of financial sales people who have a vested interest in selling all kind of financial products.
All this will do is make police react to someone bringing up a phone to record video similar to someone pulling out a knife or a gun. Beat the shit out of them quickly before they can start recording, put em in cuffs.
glad to know I'm not the only one, I guess.
Work is a function of people and problem solving. A balance between the two provides an effective and productive environment for producing good work. I wouldn't praise or idolize the notion that work is always about people.
I linked the law in my other comment — to this non-lawyer's reading, it forbids security cameras that capture audio, but not video-only surveillance cameras.
Zoom is using experimental API in production. Just another on a list of their cowboy tricks.

I haven’t tried using Citrix for years. It used to work fine in Firefox, but given the quality of it I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve broken something.
Meaningless. The right is meaningless in practice. You will be threatened with arrest and likely arrested for resisting arrest if you actually are in danger of videoing anything that's important. The actual act will likely be obscured by policemen who will stand in between, block the view, or shine their flashlights into your camera.

If I see the cops doing something obviously insane, I will turn and walk away. I didn't see anything. When you engage with power, you know not to threaten it.
do you have an audible subscription or something? do you thing it's worth it?
I would edit your initial comment because to many it will read as if you understood it as Google’s perspective, and still Okayed
This affects the whole online ad market, not just Google's competitors. That's a whole lot of "the public" that's directly affected.

How do you quantify it? I don't know, how about we look at how much money Google is making?
Facebook has already released two mass market targeted VR headsets with moderate success. It's not console numbers yet, but then again, there's still plenty of low-hanging fruit to grab when it comes to technical improvements (and unlike early video game consoles, the market always has plenty of mature ecosystems for interactive games).
Wow! I used to ride that model (Honda Metropolitan) scooter to work at Harvard years ago when I lived in Boston.

The guy who owned it before me removed the restrictor so it would zip right up to ~40mph and I thought THAT was a bit too fast for such a little ride.

...can't even imagine what this beast would be like!
Dutch prosecutors: Trump’s Twitter hacked by guessing password: maga2020
People still go out. Enough to spread infection. But not enough to maintain the economy.
The design of it was discussed in https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/3133. It wasn't done nefariously. AMP prioritizes the page content and verified elements first over non-AMP content (including non-AMP ads).
Bedtime and commuting. When the demands on my time fell off, it was hard to get out of the habit of leaving books under the bed.
I said it 10 years ago and I'll say it again, putting a screen and lenses on your face is not "virtual reality". It's just a gimmick (although fun in it's own way). The real VR revolution will not come until we have true BCIs that can hijack and isolate your vision and all attempted actions. Neuralink is on the right track but not even close to working. We'll need 50 more years maybe.
Hey, all that's missing in the deal is a crypto offering [sic] . . .
Hmm... I’ve never identified as “high maintenance” — quite the opposite, in fact — but reading this gave me pause. On occasion, I exhibit many of the traits outlined in this article on projects at work. (I haven’t threatened to quit yet, but it’s on my mind as a possibility. One that I would follow through on, rather than using as an ultimatum.)

I never felt it was because of ego; rather that I have high standards that I wish to maintain. I don’t think I come across as “whiny” about them and am generally pretty accommodating in trying to help people attain them. If I can pass on good (imo) habits, then all the better, but one only has so much time and patience. Reading this makes me feel remorseful; that maybe others don’t see me as a helpful or approachable colleague, despite my intentions.

It’s definitely possible to be both humble and demanding; I’ve known many people like this (they’re often senior academics, but that may be a self-selected sample). What’s their secret?
I found a WA law against recording private communications unless you first announce (or it's apparent) that you're recording it ... or you're a 'frequently-published' media employee (in which case consent can't be withdrawn).

https://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=9.73.030

(I didn't find one, but I suspect that any public-recording law would be more restrictive.)

"The Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals first acknowledged the First Amendment right of citizens to film police officers carrying out their duties in public in the case Fordyce v. City of Seattle, 55 F.3d 436 (1995). Later, in Lewis v. State, Dept. of Licensing, 157 Wash.2d 446 (2006), the Washington State Supreme Court also ruled in favor of recording public police activity in the context of a traffic stop."

http://mrsc.org/Home/Stay-Informed/MRSC-Insight/August-2019/... <== "Rights and Limits on Filming in Public Facilities"
> You can't create an SSH key with select role permissions like you can with a Personal Access Token.

The ssh-keygen manpage has a section under the heading CERTIFICATES that describes the permissions that are configurable when generating the certificate (though those permissions are ssh specific as opposed to the permissions for API access).
If you like ratpoison, you should check out StumpWM. It's by the same guy, but takes the whole customization thing to a whole next level. It's written in Common Lisp so you can connect to the window mananger while it is running and make changes.
While Reddit has a definite left bend, HN is more economically right-leaning - that shouldn't be surprising as HN is run by capitalists who invest in startups and risky new ventures.
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Ironically the same badass developers