skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's moronic to get the vaccine if you've recovered from COVID. The reinfection rate is 1 in 1,000, and even then it's all mild cases. (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.06.21253051v...)
Some banks now offer proper APIs, allowing Mint to redirect you to their OAuth flow-equivalent. So it's slowly improving.
It’s not that Malaysia isn’t a threat (there has been sabre-rattling too, e.g. in 1991 when the army was mobilised in response to a Malaysian exercise)—just that it’s not only or most important one. Merely geographically Indonesia is probably in a broadly comparable position to try to blockade Singapore to that of Malaysia. There are fewer e.g. Javanese citizens of Singapore, and many Indonesians assimilated to a Malay community principally associated with Malaysia and not Indonesia if anything, so fears of dual loyalty do not tend to focus on Indonesia; for example many Malays will have Javanese ancestry.

Changi is not, as you point out, really a big US base, but I imagine that putting strategically important thingums for the US Navy at risk would not be regarded well in DC which, (inter alia!), would deter Malaysia and Indonesia. It would also hurt US economic interests regardless because of the port and various investments, so I suppose the US Navy might not even be terribly important.
> > I can interact with anybody with an e-mail address

> Why is that a good thing?

Because it is useful to have a communication mechanism which is universal. It is a standard and not owned or controlled (censored) by anyone. Sure there a dozens, possibly hundreds, of fragmented chat protocols that can't talk to anything other than their own proprietary clients. But only email is universally available.

> only friends I've chosen to let in

You could configure your email client the same way and then you have the same behavior.
> Why are there no laws preventing/outlawing video based resume's until we have decided whether they are okay and in what capability they are allowed.

Oh wow. I cannot believe you seriously said that.
Congratulations to Katherine for this amazing project. I do believe this will improve the overall developer experience.

I was so excited I made a video about it and shared my thoughts on why and how GitHub should integrate this.
https://youtu.be/kfOimInsnr4
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There is no universal right to immigrate to the US, or anywhere else generally, so immigrants can be subject to whatever requirements the local govt decides at any given time. The discussion here was about a supposed "free travel" zone where citizens of member countries are giving up much of their autonomy in return for travel and trade freedoms.

But this kind of arguments are precisely the point when it comes to concern about precedents. It becomes less of a barrier to adding new rules just because the law already has vaguely similar rules.
Schengen has been deteriorating for a long time. Denmark has totally ignored it and has road checks at the border for more than 5 years now and other nations have done similar (although to a less extreme extent).
Presumably the curators of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault [1] regularly test (or at least intend to as it is fairly new) the efficacy of their storage for different types of seeds?

1. https://www.regjeringen.no/en/topics/food-fisheries-and-agri...
> There's no limits to that, because there's no U.S. Constitutional protection for non-U.S. citizens

The fourteenth amendment plainly says “people” not citizens. There are others, but this is the most obvious one.

> nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
Yodlee (used by Mint and likely others) has been around for over a decade, and AFAIK nothing happened to them.
That’s exactly what is being pitched! Sounds pretty great to me. Just move auth upstream, like eduroam/ cellular. Doesn’t preclude people from making their own separate access points, but would make doing so antiquated for most people.
You could just hide an old iPhone with Find My enabled in the car. Or a $20 GPS tracker from Aliexpress.

Much more reliable and accurate, zero chance to be found if you hide the device well.

People are inventing the weirdest scenarios to make AirTags be some kind of super stalking tool. =)
> You can't say it's the better tool in this case when it makes no attempt to compete with that feature

Sure I can. Something isn't better just because it has more features. Easy ability to be spammed with nothing more than a widely shared string ID is not a positive feature.

Even if I used FB auth to log into all of my various internet accounts, my Messenger still won't get spammed. It's a better tool (at least for me).

My email inbox just annoys me while Messenger is so good I haven't deleted my FB account.
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Great point I don’t know
Thinking of The Scream reminded me of the man from the 'Supa Hot Fire' meme. Very similar expressions with different intentions highlight how difficult this problem is.
Interac e-transfer seem fraught with scams and fraud. There were a few Reddit threads on how to protect transfers from being intercepted.
Wow. Thank you for sharing #2.

"Yes, you should be vaccinated regardless of whether you already had COVID-19. That’s because experts do not yet know how long you are protected from getting sick again after recovering from COVID-19."

This is downright false. Someone should seriously sue the CDC. I don't understand how they can get away with this anti science, anti math, illogerate bullsh*t. We know far more about the long term protective effects from recovering than we do from the vaccine (1 in 1,000 long term reinfection rate so far—https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.06.21253051v...).

I would send a pull request but the CDC is not on Git. What a sorry excuse for an organization they are.
Yep. Exactly like I said. They're both terrorist states. Israel is just better at it.
I've recently given up on running my own email server and changed to postmark. The deliverability has gone up, but most importantly I spend less time managing it.
Just let them know you're not comfortable in an office setting due to health concerns.
It indeed creates more employment !
> Its amusing that less than 24 hours ago on the 'how to write a resume that converts' thread many people commented that "Resumes are completely outdated", and now here we are with more negativity on this modern approach.

Don't you know? Recruiter supposed to hire you by using their mind tricks, duh.
Seriously? THIS is the scenario you came up with? How does your mind work, really?
Nice army of straw men. You're trying to redefine literally existing in public as recklessness.

Self-centered? The people demanding the nonvaccinated cease existing in society because of their fears are the selfish ones. I'm saying nothing about anyone else's choices or activities whatsoever. Restricting someone else's behavior and bodily autonomy is the selfish act.

100 people forcibly removing 1 person from society who has done nothing wrong? That's a concentration camp. This is mob rule, you're just okay with it because you're part of the mob.
The problem is Whatsapp has strong network effects unlike Facebook itself. Most people would be able to quit Facebook and it wouldn't make much of a difference to their lives, whereas cutting off Whatsapp would mean a daily inconvenience when you want to talk to the people closest to you.
Paying the ransom creates a financial incentive to keep doing ransomware attacks which could hurt more people in the future.
Sure, but no matter what the geometry/bump maps/etc. are on the road, they're not going to render out as anything but an aliased, badly-lit mess unless you're heavily supersampling them (and then doing ray-tracing to the supersampled image.) We're talking about "objects" where the crucial detail-features of their meshes for getting correct color math out (e.g. the normal+reflectance maps) would be, on average, scaled to be smaller than a pixel from the viewing distance+angle, with potentially many objects contributing to the final color of each pixel.

So, rather than rendering the road at 8x-16x and then downsampling it, in order to get a pile of leaves to appear to have ~1.5x LoD at the projection plane, you can just achieve that 1.5x LoD pixel by pixel at the projection plane.

Or, to put that another way: when a digital artist is painting a landscape, they don't have to zoom in by 8x, paint every individual blade of grass, and then zoom out. They can just use an artistic technique at 1x zoom that approximates the texture that would have been created by downsampling "photographic" detail painted in at 8x to your screen resolution.

Here, the ML model is playing the role of the digital artist, "painting" on the projection plane.
Not that I'm defending it.

but, a rapist hurt (in theory) 1 person.

A "Hacker" can hurt hundreds or thousands or millions of people...

I'm honestly not sure how to equate fair punishment in that space.
Out of ~61,000 cases in Singapore, that would be a reinfection rate of 1 in 2,500. And of those, I'd bet all are mild cases.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
> Signal is an open protocol and supports E2E encrypted text, voice and video.

It's open in name but proprietary. How many competing open source clients exist? Right.

Also, it's extremely limited like every other proprietary system, by the fact that the client is proprietary and thus can only do what they feel like supporting.

How do I pipe incoming signal messages to a script which will process it in ways I like? How do I programmatically send messages based on the output of other scripts? And so on.

All this is trivially easy functionality with email because it is an open protocol.
> I imagine if one uses any IM service to enroll into dozens of services / products / subscriptions / websites / etc... Spam will come regardless of medium :)

Not if I use FB auth. My Messenger would remain spam free. Because ability to authn someone and ability to send someone a message were decoupled, which is just better than email.
> I am curious to know the reasons behind the @as() syntax. What's wrong with "i32 y = (i32) x;"?

Built-ins in Zig are functions beginning with `@`. Your cast operator would be a new syntax construct, something Zig tries to limit as much as possible (keeping the parser simple).

> What type is "b"? i32?

That's easy, i32. Integer literals are of type comptime_int, which may coerce into other integer types if possible without loss of information, and since the only typed expression is the @as, every other integer in the line will coerce to its type.
But it's such a nonsense strategy, there is no way that this will provide eradication, covid is just too virulent and not deadly enough, it will remain in small pockets, remember there will be many countries that won't be able to afford this on going pharmaceutical tax. If it does provide protection vaccinate the at risk and be done.
Here's a counterpoint by an immunologist:

https://theconversation.com/why-you-should-get-a-covid-19-va...
Ah yes, the perennial HN "secret inflation" theory
Nobody in the infectious medicine field actually said it will be over in 2 weeks and the travel ban proposal under trump was xenophobic theater because it made a point of banning only some travel after we had community spread and didn't even stop a lot of travel after that. It was the worst of both worlds.
I will never believe or respect Microsoft's supposed "open source" renaissance until they do something about reading and writing proper HTML/CSS in Outlook-Windows. The damage from the last 15 years of WordHTML has been irreversible.
My favorite pop culture reference to it is Lazy Sunday: https://youtu.be/sRhTeaa_B98?t=97
> Yup, that’s the point.

I don't understand.

If we know that people who recovered from covid are effectively as if they were vaccinated, why do they have to wait until they have the privilege to be in the lucky age group to receive the vaccine before they can go visit a loved one they don't see for more than one year?

Are you assuming that everyone in the world is living in a privileged country where people as young as 30 can already access vaccines?

I read a lot from Americans complaining how bad their country was and all that, but hey, all my American coworkers got vaccinated and I can't visit my mom in Switzerland because she aged 68 just got her first shot yesterday. That's right, Switzerland not some third world country. Switzerland with all its pharma industry can't get the same vaccine production capacity and rollout throughput as your "utterly unorganized federal state that totally botched covid", as I often read Americans.
I wouldn't. A humble, untalented (I'd rather say "unskilled" here) programmer is one who knows they're unskilled and wants to learn. I'll take someone who knows they have a lot to learn over someone who thinks they already know it all, any day.
I clarified this down-thread but let me say it again here: I don't mean to suggest anyone make anything up, I meant to suggest that being afraid of getting covid is a reasonable reason to want to wfh.
> white people tends to have more followers

Citation needed.
I remember your original article. Those images in this one are directly taken from your page aren’t they?
How would you know they're lying?
Depends on your definition of "large": https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32639620194.html That's about the size of a matchbox. Add a 18650 battery on that and you're good for days.

If you live in a world where it's "easy to jam GPS", you shouldn't be worrying about BTLE trackers or cellphones either. You do know that GPS jamming is highly illegal pretty much everywhere?

If your threat model includes enabling a GPS jammer, I think it also includes other methods to prevent tracking too.
At first I was impressed, but then I realize they also work on (raw) G-buffers, depth maps, normals, etc. grabbed directly from the engine. I mean if we're already doing all of that, why not just pass it through 3DSMax and get an actual photorealistic rendering? Ray tracing is already starting to be a thing in consumer products, so we're bound to get photorealism at interactive framerates in the next decade or so. No neural networks needed.

There might also be a misconception that GTAV couldn't make their game more murky/realistic-looking, but more often than not, saturation and contrast is purposefully cranked up in games (particularly driving ones). I will say that the lush background mountains look cool though.
Actors are for communicating with each other.
There could easily be billions of Actors communicating with each other in a system.

"One Actor is no Actor."

The fact that "there are no variable races in an Actor" is a
side-effect of Actor concurrency.
One thing I am still confused about is how the blockchain is supposed to make such ransom payments easily traceable. That apparently must not be the case if organizations keep falling victim to these attacks.
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I don't know, my grand parents (80+ years) get along well with Signal. We have been using it actively over the past years and they can text, call, videocall and share pictures without issues. I am sure the UI can be improved, but it's not unusable at all.
If it's under NDA then don't talk specifics, but during the interview you can talk about difficulties you overcame or lessons you learned during the process. The key is to show that you are equipped to solve their problems.

If they're pushing for you to break NDA, then you probably don't want to work there anyway.
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Personally, I'm already blocking Facebook through nextdns.
> So your messenger app read your mind?

No it just read my pre-existing social network graph. And then very accurately predicts who I might want to add to that graph. But practically speaking it comes out to the same thing - I have never had to create a messaging whitelist.

While email and email tooling is completely ignorant of my multiple social network graphs that are stored in various places on the Internet.
> Pay more. Stop asking people to give up their physical health to compete on the job. Give them a career.

Wow! What an insightful suggestion! If you aren't paying enough, just pay enough, duh.
Actually, they do. Being vaccinated from an infectious disease is part of your civic duties, to help protect those who can't be vaccinated for various reasons.

There is even a ECHR decision to this effect.
To have access to (or sense to use) better tools for given task is good. To be smug about it is bad. Actually, drop everything about technology in this discussion: being prideful is just bad.
They could be tracked for exactly three days. Then the tag would start beeping. (This setting can be adjusted by Apple, it's not an on-device setting)

You do know that this exact same tracking can be done with a dozen other devices, which are not made by Apple? If you're tracking a car, AirTags are pretty much the shittiest option and not even the cheapest. You can slap a $20 tracker with a magnet under the fender while walking past and get 1 meter realtime tracking.
> On the other hand, he's a billionaire,

So he keeps saying. And somehow people keep taking that at face value, despite the "not known to pay such bills" part.
Is there any data on the strength of the current ring size of 11? Is it sufficient to prevent tracking?
You can't walk naked on the street, despite it "doing no harm", because of other people's sensitivities. You need to adapt to the society, it's not the society's duty to adapt to you.

If it bothers enough people, you can't do it. Call it law, call it mob rule, call it whatever you wish - it's just how the world works.
ELI5, if someone is not vaccinated isn't the only person being put at risk themselves? I have heard speculation of how this could cause more variants to arise which seems to be mostly just that: speculation. Or how this can be problematic for at-risk (elderly, immuno-compromised etc) but how frequently does that happen? I am 100% confident I have not encountered any such people in the last 6 months (or well atleast for any amount of time that would actually be harmful). FWIW I'm fully vaccinated, I'm genuinely curious about this.
Impressive, but I think that photorealism is not necessarily what you would want to strive for in games, as it is not true realism. It emulates the deficiencies of the camera that we perceive it as realistic, because we are trained on thousands of photo images and video footage. I prefer visionrealism instead of photorealism in my games and don't really find that lens effects like flares, chromatic aberration, and depth of field enhances the experience of realism. It feels like I'm looking through a camera rather than being there myself. For me it breaks immersion instead of enhancing it.
Full article:
https://outline.com/HwjtG8

Full email (too long to quote directly):
https://pastebin.com/7hd0XKcZ
Smart home networking standard Project CHIP rebrands as 'Matter'
10 years ago. Outside of pol threads, Internet was largely focused on producing content and was about escaping from real life politics madness.
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But how is it better for Grandma? Does she really care on her own or did you talk to her until she accepted that she cannot receive messages from you unless she uses Signal?
I'm gonna go with "not resellable". It's a 99% certainty that the device is backed by a SaaS backend with a monthly subscription per device.

You won't be owning the device at any point.
I describe what I do in different ways, depending on who I'm talking to and how I feel about work. Sometimes, when I'm feeling good about things, I say "I make the internet," or "I tell computers what to do, and they do it." Other times, I say stuff like "I let a computer tell me I'm a fucking idiot for 8 hours a day," or, "I tell computers what to do, and they do it." :P

The truth is really somewhere in between the two extremes.

Another thing I often say is that most of the real hard problems in software development these days are social problems. What I mean by that is that you have to account for the characteristics and limitations of not only yourself, but the users of the software, the rest of your team, and your organization as a whole, when writing code or designing systems. In other words, don't get in over your head, make it usable, document what you've done, think about the consequences of what you're about to do (and write that down), and many other things. This is inherently a humble perspective, because, if you notice, you are the smallest thing that needs to be considered in all this.
You can make a reasonable utilitarian argument for some kind of redistribution, progressive tax, welfare, etc., based on poorer people having greater marginal utility of money. The book's reply, in the "Robin Hood Sells Out" section (starting on page 15), is -- and I'm making way too short a summary here -- that in practice the system we have doesn't really do this overall. Governments help poor people and hurt poor people, and the author argues that (at least in 1970's USA) the poor are overall more hurt than helped.
You have a lot of down votes with no comments
> A Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate

> The Babuk group said on its website late Monday

I don't think they care about it being untraceable, they can dump it on a non-US exchange, they probably care about it being un-censorable.

That said, the article doesn't mention if they want the payment in crypto (presumably they do).
Build better walls. Don't try to outlaw people "looking at you", no matter what frequency they use.

I find it equally ridiculous to try to outlaw software radio that might listen to "unapproved" radio bands, or listening to clear-text WiFi, baby monitors and cell phones.

It's almost as stupid as people who would want brain implant computers to implement DRM so people can't record and share their own memory of a movie.

Another analogy would be a country of blind people trying to legislate sighted people wearing blindfolds, because all of their privacy fences have huge holes in them.

Technology improves people's abilities. Adapt.
> any action which boosts the relative exchange price of an asset can be claimed to create value, even if the action is purely destructive

Usually, only actions which increase (price * quantity) are claimed to create value.

For example, no one is claiming that the current US gasoline pipeline shutdown is creating value. Price increases, quantity decreases, everyone is sad except maybe a few margin traders who got lucky.
Interesting project! I like the config file. The readme also has a good example.

Can you go a bit more into detail as to why I would pick this over functional.lru_cache?
Did anyone else find it a bit ironic that the person talking about the importance of humility has a large "Microsoft MVP" logo on his blog?

Doesn't take away from the validity of his points, but it made me chuckle a bit.
A truly nefarious person has dozens of other ways of tracking you. Not being able to do it with an AirTag is the least of their worries.
You don't actually have a birth-given right to enter all other countries - which might be a surprise to people with good passports that effectively used to let them travel anywhere (try entering the USA with a passport from Pakistan or Iraq and see how it compares with a Swiss passport!).

This is about what other countries want to restrict in terms of non-citizen's entering the country without isolation.

These are countries which have had a significant portion of their economy shut down for more than a year, so unsurprisingly they might want to ensure non-citizens who travel in have done something to limit the risk (even if that is isolating for 2 weeks).
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