skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it also seems that it prevented close to 100% of deaths and very serious illness too though, which is a big win in itself.
If you want a solution for this today: put up a sign, with a google maps logo on it saying "wrong way" in big letters, below it explain that google have wrongly marked this trail as a road.
The art of diplomacy is to let other people have your way
> But legally, we must hold accountable organizations who are breached

Parent comment is also insisting on the imature idea that we must generically hold organizations accountable when breached. I say immature because this idea keeps popping up once in a while from people who didn't yet realize that it's been debated repeatedly in the past and it didn't get applied so generically for good reason.

There are so many nuances OP has ignored, and so many ways this is not only impossible, it's also a bad way of dealing with the situation. When a private citizen gets breached due to an insecure ISP router, is it just the ISP to blame or also the user for not buying a better one even though the ISP allowed it? Who's responsible when a company user gets tricked by fishing even after the regulation training? Personally liable for the breach? When a company Linux server vulnerability is exploited who gets the blame? The user? The admin? The distro maintainer? The developer who pushed the code? This would kick OSS software to the curb because most of it does not have an "organization" behind it to take the blame for every vulnerability.

Organizations will be breached. Most of them can't even afford the defenses that an averagely determined attacker can afford to penetrate. Where do you draw the line between who's to blame, attacker or victim? With real world crime we did a good job of fine tuning that threshold over centuries.

Best you can do (and we should do) is come up with a set of rules, regulations, and best practices that are enforced by law, and I think this is coming one way or another. For example "patch any CVSS 9 or higher within 14 days of publishing", "implement 2FA for x and y access". But even these rules will always be behind the times and never enough to thwart attacks. It raises the bar for a successful attack and creates a clearer (not clear) threshold for responsibility.

Sure, some cases are clear cut, you haven't patched for 2 years and have no leg to stand on. But the solution is certainly not blanket blaming the victim because you can fit it in an HN comment.
We test code. We don't do destructive code tests in production.

Normal vaccine trials is like normal software testing. Challenge testing is like running dangerous tests in production. Its faster at detecting a problem than normal tests, but ultimately not needed and can blow up badly. The argument for doing it during covid is that time was of the essence and its faster than normal testing procedures. Instead we opted for the safer slower normal testing procedure.
There are already numerous documented examples of COVID-19 spreading in care homes. Nurses some times get sick. Then you have admin staff, deliveries and their drivers, visitors, other engineers brought on site like electricians or cable guys.

You only need one person to badly wash their hands or forget to wipe down their deliveries for the whole care home to become a petri dish.
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I like what you're doing here. I'm the author of a tool that utilises an opus encoder and decoder in the browser to emulate something like modern live streaming. I followed similar ideas to yours but ultimately found that the icecast route was a little bit limited. If you're interested, the code is here: https://github.com/gaxge and is in the process of being refactored/ updated. You can play around with the original prototype here: https://low.show/noisecrypt/app. I use the streaming tools mainly for doing stuff with jamming in combination with randomness but they can be repurposed for normal linear real-time streaming.

I'm also based in Germany, and you're welcome to reach out if you want to talk about this kind of stuff further.
I recently evaluated a bunch and https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith covered our needs. For building internal tools seems like a great alternative.
Once again i'm amazed what ALSO has a processor in it. I'm wondering if at some point I'll just see it as normal that nearly every device, no matter how static it may seem, has more processing power than my first computer.
>Autoimmune reactions should happen in the short run, right?

I believe Pandermix took 6 months for narcolepsy to develop.
> And slowly but surely, the natural tendency of government to try and impose their policy through force is taking over.

What else can they do when people just plain won't listen to the science and common sense?
Genetic code is highly redundant. A few flipped characters will therefore probably not affect the produced protein much.
> A lot of the comments are looking to find ways to get around the fact that entering text on a phone is a pain.

Years ago I bought a small, pricey bluetooth keyboard. It's been my companion in travels since then. Connecting takes a second and amount of time and hassle saved is enormous. Some people would call me strange ('oh, oh, nobody does that, you must be strange'). I couldn't care less. It's wonderful when flow strikes you... wherever.
Introducing the counter-strike drone. Analysing the streamed data of the surveilance drone, triangulating the source of the control signal and launching a projectile to take it out. Never has been peace & quiet more easy.
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The aim of the economy before the covid is to produce things and this production is no longer synonymous with increased comfort. For example, Spain has many more houses than families but these families have more difficulty in paying rents.
However this production has to exist in order to maintain a profit of a few and above all to give work to the rest.
But what we have to do to avoid anthropocene is not compatible with this economy and so we have to think of a post-work society.
> the vast majority of academics are not motivated by money. If that was the case they would move into industry where they could earn significantly more.

Good point, becoming an academic may already represent enough of a hoop, though that’s just the CS perspective. In other fields there may not be much of a lucrative industry, so I’m not sure whether this will hold generally.
I don't know what kind of economic books you've read, but mine had terms such as "hyperinflation" in them :-)

If anything, stuff like global currencies ($, €) bail out their respective owners because they're world reserve currencies. Some of the smaller Eurozone countries would have definitely defaulted, had hyperinflation, etc, without the Euro. Now they're in recession instead, which sucks a lot but still less than the alternative.
UK cases have surpassed the first wave (with obvious caveats about far more testing now).

The hospitalised patients per day is probably a more reliable measure - that has not surpassed the first wave yet on either patients per day or patients in hospital, but it does look like it might surpass it in January.

UK deaths are nowhere near the first wave yet, though it may approach it in the coming weeks, however at present deaths are trending down as stricter measures were finally put in place again in December and we may be starting to see the impact of that. We will then of course in a few weeks see the impact of the government attempt to 'Save Christmas' so things will probably get worse again in January.

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths
Too much Gran Hermano watching. You can't both not value money (avoiding work), and value money (complaining about your economic disadvantage), at the same time.
X comes with its own blockchain.
> Keep them away from vulnerable people (who could be put into some of the unused hotels for example)

Depending on how you define it, there's something like 15 million vulnerable people in the UK. There's fewer than 1 million hotel rooms.

What happens to school-age children of people who are vulnerable? Do they have to isolate in the hotel rooms too?

What happens to the carers of some of these vulnerable people? Do they have to isolate? What about their families?

People who are "vulnerable" need by the far the most medical care. How do you do that safely? We can't avoid people picking up infections in hospitals at the moment. Surely it would be far worse if we let the virus go wild?

Wouldn't having lots of vulnerable people who need lots of personal care packed into hotels be at high risk for the virus spreading between them? Isn't that the problem we currently have with care homes?

As soon as you start looking into this as a solution it looks far easier to try to suppress the virus across the entire population.
Just build something you need (or just a simple To Do app) and use a modern library / framework that uses the “new” stuff. I can highly recommend to give FastAPI a try. Even just going through the examples in the docs (amazing docs) should get you started.
Worrying development, if they plan to share this data across the EU means Spain and probably other governments will try to force some sort of legislative agreements about this. And it's only a matter of time before we are going to have other patient data shared union-wide and leaked on the internet because of incompetence.
Coinbase is the easiest to buy. But, I suggest you try another option. Coinbase's whole goal is to make money (surprise!) by selling many "coins" easily. Swanbitcoin or kraken are my suggestions. DYR.
Extracting profit under the guise of environmental activism, which actually ends up causing the opposite effect? I mean, the charger fiasco just happened...

Likewise there are many examples of how Apple works against the public interest.
Social dilemma – Removing suggested content to solve the filter bubbles?
Filter bubbles are one of the bad side effects of social medias. You see a youtube videos and you enter the rabbit hole: a world of youtube videos sharing the same "ideology" and creating a world totally different to what other people close to you see. You can't agree on anything since you are part of two bubbles - different storytellings of the world - and none of you sees anything else than that bubble.
In the meanwhile, YT says they're not responsible of published content such as a newspaper is, since they leave users free to publish. I agree with this position but while they don't moderate, they do suggest content. I'd say that if you're suggesting what to see next, you're responsible of that suggestion.

So I'd say, what if YT (and al the others) could only suggest videos ranking next from the search which you performed and/or from the same youtube channel? Within a same channel, the publisher is responsible.

This way they keep you in the path you were, without targeting you with catchy videos to keep you engaged
California nurse tests positive over a week after receiving Pfizer vaccine
That’s the genius of Jobs. You get a woman pregnant then deny the child is yours. Afterwards you acknowledge your error and have a great relationship with the kid and name a product after them.

That’s true genius.
^ This. Although it is better than nothing. However, whatever I am offered, I am taking.
https://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-azure-breach-left-t...
Cases can't really be compared with the first wave because of significantly higher testing (450k per day now vs 60k per day in May, or 20k per day in April at the peak of hospitalisations).
The thing we see with image features is that early layers of a convnet learn almost the same thing that specific engineered features that we used to implement, but better - the earlier feature engineering used "clean" human-designed structures, but DL automatically got to the same point and also tweaked the coefficients to be slightly better, and once you can do that, there's no reason to go back to what we manually engineered. For example, why would you explicitly use a Sobel edge detector in preprocessing if you could use (for that same preprocessing) a set of convnet kernels that include (among other things) edge detector kernels that are very similar to Sobel but slightly better?

So no, I would not expect the currently known engineered image features to show up in preprocessing again - they simply do not add any value whatsoever (which can be experimentally verified) over the "learned preprocessing features". Perhaps someone will engineer a new substantially different type of feature that can't be currently learned from data, and that would get used and cited - but it won't bring citations to the old engineered features.
Easy: say its name into a mirror tree times to unsubscribe
>Always have a local backup of anything on the Internet that is important to you

Also would be a nice service to others to create a backup on archive.today and archive.org, and similar sites.
I wonder how "educated" one need to be before they can believe that.
The latest evidence I know of of the new UK variant claims there is no evidence of increased re-infectivity: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

I've also heard conflicting data on the natural immunity duration - many sources claim at least 3 months of protection, but I can't quickly find any that suggest immunity lasts no more than 3 months. Indirect evidence suggests immunity lasts longer, namely the persistently low re-infection rate - since the first wave is so long ago, you'd assume there was more reinfection by now if immunity lasted just 3 months, right? But maybe I'm reading this wrong; do you have a citation to back this surprising estimate?
No. That’s just coverage bias. The leaders who are successful but aren’t dicks don’t have a ton of stories about them in the media about being brilliant dicks.
Yes, that’s true, but neither can deaths as more is known about how to treat severe cases.
Thesis: Boston Dynamics is an entertainment company
I wonder which "modern" theory this comes from...

Some debt is a good thing because, like for a business or individual, it is generally a good thing to borrow in order to invest for the future (leveraging effect).

But too much debt is not a good thing. Debt must be serviced and one need to find creditors willing to lend.

Infinite borrowing based on "full control of currency" only means that the value of the currency decreases towards zero and creates hyperinflation: can Zimbabwe support a debt of trillions of Zimbabwean dollars? Sure... But how much is a Zimbabwean dollar worth? Close to nothing and people need a wheelbarrow full of cash to buy a loaf of bread.
A 'tree mortgage' scheme could turn an Indian town carbon neutral
Sweden initially tried to achieve herd immunity. It failed because it is impossible to stop the virus from spreading to the vulnerable population.
Double blind trials are the standard for establishing efficacy. Unfortunately, there is no ethical way of getting around the problem you mentioned.
Any particular reason someone couldn't build a steerable mortar? It wouldn't take much in the way of gas jets to do the job.
Today You, Tomorrow Me
people who are affected are not just 90yo that need a nurse, there's a ton of people in their 60s and 70s (>2% chance of death by covid) who live a normal life and don't want to be locked in a room and cut from everyone else.

The lockdown helps because it protects people who don't care too, by relying on those who do _just a bit_.

Sadly, the option of segregating all at-risk people is not reasonably feasible.
It's not about science or common sense. Not arguing that anti-vaccination movement is a force of good but such drastic measures are only going to produce more trouble than it's worth.
Having seen quite a few EU funded software projects going no where for years and years, its hard to believe they have the capacity to pull off anything complex. Lots of good people and intentions but idk how it all fizzles.

They are good at organizing conferences and barbeques though.
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I didn't find this at all - it's great to be able to pin a bunch of dashboards to the main page that users see when logging in, and to allow them to drill down from the dashboard by filtering their own data, or downloading a CSV.

The UI for creating dashboards isn't the best, but it's really nice to be able to drop down to SQL so easily and share or embed results.
In addition to the above, which I agree with, you might also view money not as a resource, but a vote in economy. If we assume that people are motivated by money, they will still work even on UBI, because what UBI shifts is just who is voting (who is making the decisions to produce stuff).

So having an UBI is not really that different than change in demand from one set of products to another, which the economy should be able to handle even according to classical theories. But people are still rewarded for useful work even in the system with UBI, as usual. In fact, if many people decide not to work with UBI, and you do a useful job, your salary might go up, since demand from all these people for your work has gone up.
No, this can be done in the loadbalancer before any application. You can load balance on L7. This would be a trivial thing.
The problem with that is logic doesn’t provide goals, priorities or motivation to achieve them.

I was thinking about this recently while watching Raised By Wolves. The Androids express feelings and emotions, but this isn’t necessarily unrealistic. That could be a useful way to encode goals and evaluate priorities.
It's almost like EU countries tend to trust the joint efforts and don't generally go at it alone.

Well, with the obvious exception that happened this year (Brexit).
Note that the official data on deaths only includes those confirmed (through a positive test) to have COVID-19; this almost certainly understates the total number of deaths in the first wave due to lack of testing capacity.
I found that the "one right way" python's mantra fall apart when it comes to pandas and numpy. Those libraries must be seen as DSL on top of the language IMHO.
I think the insight is that designing and manufacturing bespoke silicon logic is much harder than slapping an off the shelf ARM core into a design.
Supposedly it would help with #3, because you'd need to tax something to get the money no?

Also, I've always wondered, if unemployment is so high, is it because the work just isn't needed? Does spain already produce and provide services in a way that scale to all its population?
Thank HN: All of you, this place, gives me hope
It's been... a year, and the world trends disturbingly. Thank you to this wonderful community for providing an optimistic counterpoint to the gloom-for-clicks deluge parts of the 'net have become.

No matter what's going on, or what new catastrophe those around me are discussing, I know I can come to HN and find hopeful people, creative people, sane people, rational, intelligent, insightful, compassionate, careful people.

This place is special; a daily n=1 proof that healthy communities can exist and thrive, that ideas are discussed deeply and enthusiastically, and that at least some percent of humanity are engaged in building better things, for profit, for the world, or just for the sheer joy of hacking and finding things out.

At the end of a very long year, thank you.
Yeah, that does sound reasonable. At least if they don't add any additional sugar into the smoothie.
Not who you are responding to, but really interesting comment, thanks!

I am not too knowledgeable on the topic, may I ask you what sort of confidence is required for a well working contact tracing application? A naiv those-who-live-together is so utterly useless that it was rejected?
And do I get it right, you meant to real-time track everyone and if someone turns out to be infected, everyone gets quarantined who they met in the preceding days? What percentage of contacts can “slip through” so that it is still effective? Isn’t there a working trade-off like counting people who work together and family or is it still subject to unimplementable exponential explosion?

Or am I asking the wrong questions as these are epidemiologic ones rather than technical? If so, excuse my lack of knowledge on the topic.
> that has not surpassed the first wave yet on either patients per day or patients in hospital

In England (and probably the rest of the UK) more patients are in hospital compared to the first peak.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/england-hospitals-...
Freezers, vials, and syringes are all easily mass produceable and already available in large quantities.
And not really worst that the rest of Europe...
That’s problematic. You don’t just move your residence on a whim like it’s picking a different pair of socks on an online store. In EU at least, people tend to hold onto their network more strongly and uprooting is a highly stressful and somewhat traumatic experience. Not to mention that moving in a “cheaper area” reduces opportunities and becomes an income local minimum you can’t escape that easily.

I don’t have an answer or know better...
I read that as picking one battle at a time.

Also: who says they do decide what’s scientific research and debate?
Just make it up. This will never go to trial. Google's lawyers will see that the plaintiff is correct and make the change in maps.
What a terrible terrible thing to say. Not expecting people like you on Hackernews.

"Keep them away from vulnerable people (who could be put into some of the unused hotels for example)"

Lock up our vulnerable and our old! Lock millions away for years! collyw wants to 'live life as normal!'
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I don't know why the first port was flagged, probably because it was on the news post. Anyway, I think the show section is more appropriate.

We created a free tool that can be used to emulate browsers and devices either for privacy or for testing web apps rendering.
That's why Boston Dynamics should put on a live show.

Cirque du Robots
In 1936 the UK was already consolidated down to 4 companies (IIRC). The big abandonment was deliberate government policy in the 60s, and the logic was exactly last-mile truck (or bus) delivery with rail for the trunk. But it turned out that once you put things on a truck, they tended to stay there the whole way, since changing modes has significant friction and the country isn't vast.
> It's amazing to me that a tiny creature like that can learn to adapt in that way with so few days of life under his belt.

I work at a raptor conservancy. The young birds can fly as soon as their wings/muscles are suitably developed, but learning to master the air takes a lot longer. E.g. they initially fail downwind landings on a gusty day.
Reading the journal paper from AstraZeneca[1]. I don't think AZ can claim anything about preventing asymptomatic infections. You're right in that they're the only ones with that data, but that data is practically identical between control (37/2760) and vaccinated (34/2751) groups.

Side note, the more I read about the AZ trials in detail, the more it becomes obvious how messy their trial was compared to the Pfizer/Moderna ones. They have so many more methodologies and outcomes and much smaller samples.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Yeah it’s designed for the battlefield so amongst all the bangs it’ll most definitely go unnoticed
Where have you heard that theory? I've wondered about it myself, but other than some songwriter-specific conversation, I'm not sure I'm familiar with other people talking about it, and I'd like to be.
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'Cancel Culture' is just a redefinition of terms.

This is mobbing, 100%. Most modern cultures have adopted measures to repair the damage of mobbing on their societies - it is happening in the technological realm just as it happened, for example, in other older cultures.