skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Melbourne, the city that had the worst outbreak in Australia, and I have followed the news and scientific discussion across the political spectrum very closely from when the virus was first identified in early 2020.

Melbourne really did suppress the virus, after it started spreading wildly in July/August (mid winter – Melbourne is the only large Australian city that has a cool winter climate comparable to Europe and Northern US) last year, particularly in aged care homes. By November we were getting zero daily cases, and it has mostly remained that way until the past few weeks, when winter weather and hotel quarantine leaks have led to another small outbreak, which is again successfully being suppressed.

The measures used to achieve suppression: lockdowns of varying severity, masks, and smartphone-based contact-tracing.

That said, Australia's isolation from other countries, spread out geography, lower population density and climate absolutely make it easier to achieve suppression. I don't believe what we've done would have been possible in the Europe or the US, though I believe the evidence that these measures slow the spread anywhere they're implemented.
>IIUC, this is no longer true, and hasn't been for years.

Their privacy policy says otherwise.

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en#infocollect (This is the "Privacy" link in GMail's footer.)

>We want you to understand the types of information we collect as you use our services

>We collect information to provide better services to all our users — from figuring out basic stuff like which language you speak, to more complex things like which ads you’ll find most useful, the people who matter most to you online, or which YouTube videos you might like.

>[...]

>Things you create or provide to us

>[...]

>We also collect the content you create, upload, or receive from others when using our services. This includes things like email you write and receive, photos and videos you save, docs and spreadsheets you create, and comments you make on YouTube videos.
I just have an RPi 4. The protocol that can turn off and on the tv there is just called CEC and you can make simple scripts with cec-client to trigger it. (Kodi also already uses it.)
Sure, but what exactly do you expect here though? Telecom operators (your own most likely among them) have decided to lobby and block any kind of E2E messaging and have also been directly dragging their feet at implementing even the unsecure RCS protocol.

The pretty much only choice left is to give you messages to proprietary services - either Apple, Facebook, Google or Signal. If you can get anyone to use the last one.
They stopped scanning emails for ads years ago: https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...

Of course, computers are very complicated and it's effectively impossible to personally verify all the software you use, but:

1. They'd be exposing themselves to large legal liability

2. to enable scanning they don't really need (they have lots of other ad targeting methods)

3. on an application likely to be examined by other security researchers to verify Google's statements

4. while also risking any employees who feel this is an ethical violation leaking this (Sure, not all employees would, but you would have to form a secret group of employees to scan, process, and utilize this data while vetting that nobody would leak this, in a company which ostensibly promotes itself externally and internally as ethical.)
I use it a bit on windows servers because it integrates well with other microsoft tools.

On linux...it seems both redundant and just plain weird for weirds sake. There are literally dozens of alternatives on linux that have a sane syntax and are likely preinstalled.
Vanced is also really good. Supports YT Music too.
It looks like this is using multiple threads to copy files. That's fine for NVMe which tends to achieve more throughput with higher queue depths. But it will degrade performance when copying large files on spinning rust.
New Ukrainian Attack Drone Concept Has Russian UAVs, Tanks in Its Sights
After 6 years, Google itself (which has all the lawyers and engineers it needs) has resorted to the same f-ing ugly cookie popup everyone else is using.

The problem is the law. It's a crappy law.
What he wrote was transparent trolling. Reading his intentions out of his writing is a foolish thing to do. Especially when it results in ascribing to him having such a noble goal as gun control.
Vaclav Smil view on managing the biosphere
Another related American tradition that I think is really wrong is the "Perp Walk". For the police to purposely work with the media to cause as much public humiliation for a presumed innocent suspect as a form of pre-conviction punishment is really twisted in my opinion.
The title is the actual value of the title html tag on the page
> So, it's in employers' interest to make the salaries transparent, isn't it? I bet the model is incomplete.

Not necessarily - without transparency, an employer might decide to hire Dr Super Engineer, and might be happy to pay her 2× the mean wage of their existing engineering team.

With transparency, they might choose not to hire her, because they are only happy to pay her 2× if the existing engineering team are not aware, and she might refuse to take the job if they won't give her 2×.
> Who determined it was the right thing?

Everybody in pretty much the whole freaking world except US guns manufacturers and people they bought of duped.
Yeah, RCS is also broken on my Samsung phone and keeps deregistering itself. The dual-SIM support is also non-existent (which shows how every single of our comms services are built by Americans where dualSIM phones have been blocked by carriers for years).

In general it's a completely trash fire situation where we're pretty much forced to use proprietary services without APIs to communicate.
By analysed I mean processed to transmit information.

I didn't know Gmail stopped reading the emails to suggest ads. But my point is that we can't trust your work company to respect privacy.
Using the shell is difficult to learn for 99% of Android phone owners. We nerds here are not a representative crowd.
Well, you have Matrix and XMPP (+OMEMO), but obviously the adoption for those is even lower than Signal. It's just sad is all.
Fixated Folk
not OP but the two features of fish that stood out for me so much that I make it my default shell on remote servers are

1) the autocomplete suggestion as you type a command [1]

2) scrolling thru commands after partially writing one only shows entries that match the written text

3) knowing if a command will work before pressing enter -- saves from a lot of gotchas.

all of these read like features nice to have but not essential, but when you're using something every day, it's worth it :)

[1]: https://fishshell.com/docs/current/tutorial.html#autosuggest...
There's just so much we don't know about our bodies and how they behave. Adolescents are extra difficult because there's just so much going on. That doesn't mean every theory out there is correct.

Even without any subject matter knowledge, I can't help but to note that if you have a bunch of kids with strange symptoms, and put them on any cure for a number of months and even years, you would expect to see a few miraculous recoveries. That type of data is completely absent in the article, we're just given a few anecdotes, which would otherwise have helped us understand the reactions from the medical establishment.

The named person seems to have been constantly on antibiotics for over four years, and still has remissions sometimes as often as monthly. How that is interpreted as proof that an highly atypical strep infection is causing the symptoms remains unexplained.
I don't know LLVM well enough, but you can play with godbolt

By example, with
https://godbolt.org/z/9Kv7oo9oK
you can see that values goes into registers (and that thank to 'lea' there is not many registers used).

And if you remove the option -O2, values are spilled on stack.
How not to take things personally? Frederik Imbo (2020)
Wind turbine that fits in a backpack
> When I had a Samsung galaxy I had to go pretty far out of my way to install google's messenger and use it instead of the Samsung SMS client. I'm pretty sure that' will be similar for the vast majority of android users. This would only be the default SMS application on google's Pixel phones. However, maybe carriers' and OEM's SMS applications are now integrating RCS protocol as well.

Samsung does support RCS and interoperates with carrier and Google RCS servers (that is, "it should just work" if your carrier didn't deliberately try to block it). However it's not clear if they're implement the E2E encryption part of the spec.

The big difference in practice is that carriers can mess up your ability so send those messages - something that Apple rightly never allowed with iMessage.
Or to put it more succinctly: Code is the what, comments are the why/why not.
You don't need a button for that, and I don't find that an acceptable excuse anyway since I don't care about that as a user.
Betting on the horses is a very Irish thing to do grin

You'd rather have illegal off course betting ala Peaky Blinders or like IRL my Great Great Great Uncle ran in Birmingham (does make watching peaky Blinders interesting)
GDPR doesn't spell out anything. It's the most vague f-ing BS I have ever seen. There are no definitions, no guidelines.

6 years later there is no consensus on simple questions like website analytics which is probably the most common usage scenario for the kind of data GDPR covers.

This law is beyond bad.
Yes and no.

Yes, obviously the drug development process is very complex and a lot of thought goes into interactions at the N=1 level.

However, we are hardly at the point where drugs are developed for individuals, based on their genetic makeup. The best we can do (with exceptions) is design drugs for women/men, and this is a very recent development. In addition, per definition, a drug can only be effective/safe at the population level.

To make a very simple example, we think caffeine sensitivity has two distinct high/low genotypes. As a result, all recommendations of caffeine consumption will either be too high or too low.
Short-term efficiency is there all the time. Shocks are not. If the space you're competing in has enough competition then the margins will be low. The companies that focus on short-term efficiency could end up outcompeting the companies that keep large buffers.
These links are useful even if they don't have a discussion:

1. It's interesting to see that a story has been submitted many times, for instance. This can be seen by clicking on the domain name in brackets after the story

E.g., a few days ago I posted a link to Heidi Howard & Ittai Abraham's 'Raft does not Guarantee Liveness in the face of Network Faults'

It was the fourth time this 6-month-old link had been posted, each time attracting upvotes but not enough to get on the front page. (I think it usually takes about five upvotes for a story still on the first page of 'new').

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=decentralizedthoughts...

2. Given that your newsletter mostly contains links that are less than a week old, the discussion link will still be live. You seem to think discussion is most likely to happen on a resubmitted link: I'm guessing your newsletter's readership is unlikely to be large enough to get the regular kind of front-page HN discussion going for many of the stories in your newsletter, but the opportunity to comment can still have value even if only a couple of comments are posted.

3. If a story is well-written, I generally like to glance at other things the author has written, and looking at stories that have been upvoted here on HN is often a good place to start.
Anything Google and messaging makes me smile. Any bets on how long this one will live?
The idea of a justice system is that we can have a system more just than ad hoc reactions of the public.

Of course there's a balance to strike and if public has no influence on justice system it may end up as bad as no justice system or worse.
Ctrl-f "winforms" - 0 results. Really?
Heh, that's interesting: When you're logged in, the title tag changes to drop the "GitHub -" prefix.
It kinda work. I remeber the event but I have no idea what this asshole was named.
You know, I'm not saying that Google is evil or that it behaves with bad intentions. And I have no problem with targeted ads as a product. It's a pretty efficient product that helps a lot of business to have their chance. I acknowledge that. But at what cost ?

For me, Google is "evil" for what it is, not what it does. And I think that Google is an utterly dangerous company with such unbelievable amount of precious data that could change the course of the history in a really bad way if it falls into the wrong hands in the future.

Who knows who will control Google in 5, 10 or 50 years ? Nobody knows. But we can be sure that in 50 years, the data that Google collects about us today will be lying on some hard disk drive, ready to be used for who knows what.

Google is able to define and store indefinitely "who you are". And the human history is full of times where "who you are" or even "who you were" were some really dangerous information that threatened your liberty or your life.
Doesn't seem to work for CEO pay :-)
37-13! Thinking about it a bit, I realize the main uncertainty is which parts are "in danger" - which will switch color or "hardness" next turn with no influence?
It's not an issue on the device, I asked my carrier, Google won't let them interconnect RCS to Jibe.

To my understanding, carriers were encouraged to either implement Universal Profile on their own or use a Google-operated "Jibe as a service" infrastructure. The former are now completely isolated from Google's network.

To me it looks like British carriers are simply using Jibe.
But, be born into US is already 5%. Maybe not top 5%.
Cars are very high cost items. They probably have substantial margins on them. On the other hand, a product that has very low margins is going to find it much more difficult to stockpile.
I think the "nushell/nushell" part makes it clear which repo it is talking about.
Then you must like Safari more than you despise ads.
India says Twitter knowingly not complying with local laws
Republicans propose $125M more for broadband
A movie scene played out repeatedly- “A person dying and his last moments aka for a cigarette”. There are so many of these that go back to manufacturing consent.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Informat...
Battery recycling firm to expand operations in Nevada
Last time I checked there are temporary work visas and immigrants are not citizens, so I don't think I am confusing them.
The only straightforward thing about this law is how ignorant were its creators.

The cost of implementing it was in the billions. The human time cost paid for all those damn cookie popups we keep having to click on is probably already in the thousands of life-times wasted, and it keeps on growing.
I would argue that ADHD presents as a disability in a post-industrial society. ADHD Institute suggests that the diagnosis is commonly associated with substance abuse, major depression and a wide range of other conditions, in higher frequency than baseline populations[0]

[0]: https://adhd-institute.com/burden-of-adhd/comorbidities/
It's one of the few religious/philosophical systems that offers actual practical answers to real world problems. You can't blame people for rehashing it, branding it and selling it. Well, you can, and I sort of do, but it's better to just accept that that is what happens (like bottled water)...
Suggestions:

* Visually show which tiles will lock or unlock next turn

* Show a total influence growth per player as a running score - useful to help beginners learn strategies
Quest to save Appalachia’s lost heirloom apples (2019)
Yeah it's called YouTube Premium. Think like a Netflix subscription but for YouTube. Google probably A/B tested different versions of YouTube to see which one generated more YouTube Premium subscribers. It turns out that the higher $$$-generating code (i.e. driving Premium subscriptions) is the one that bypasses Safari's adblocking engine.
This introduces a global namespace for all modules and scripts, with potential for collisions.
Spain hopes to jumpstart electric car industry with EU funds
One more messaging solution from Google. I guess they didn't release (and abandon) enough of them ;)

Anyways, I trust Google my messages even less than Facebook.
> we need to make coding more enjoyable and figure out ways to make it more interactive.

Honestly, this isn't the reason. The reason for the nocode movement is that businesses are sick of constantly trying to find technology talent for big salaries, and want to DIY. I cast no judgement on whether that's going to be a disaster or not, or for whom.
That's absolutely true for sure, and I'd go so far as to argue that it's one of (if not the) primary driving forces behind development tooling decisions. Whereas some changes are well suited to e.g. unit testing (and where a passing suite of tests provides that instant feedback), when working on the design or interactions of an interface it's very important to actually "see" and/or play with the result of each minor tweak, so the faster you can make that loop the more pleasurable the development experience will be.
I have mixed feelings about this, and especially about the google application: it's nearly 300MB.

In comparison, Conversations, which is a full-fledged XMPP client with voice and video included, is ~70MB.

Beyond this, any use of the google app comes with lengthy Terms & Conditions, which is not something I really want in my SMS application.

I moved to Simple SMS Messenger[^1], which doesn't support anything beyond basic SMS & MMS, but it's small, fast, and open source.

[^1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobi...
I'm getting 3 ads for short (3 minutes) videos, and a dozen for 1 hour videos. Last time before I ditched the Youtube app, many of the ads can't be skipped and some of them were actually two successive ads.

And for some reason, I can't pay for Youtube from my country.
I was not directing my comment to your coworkers. I was just arguing that a documentation can only be out of sync if the method's intention is changed. And if an existing method intention is changed, your problem is not the out of sync documentation, but the fact you probably broke something in your existing code, not in the years to come, but today.
I would classify this as a variant of the Virus game (where you change all neighbouring enemy colours into your own). If I remember right the first version I played of that would have been in The 7th Guest.
Apple Struggles in Push to Make Healthcare Its Greatest Legacy
https://nextjs.org/telemetry

What's the catch here? You can opt out if set an environment variable. You can surely do that on CI as well, if that's your concern.
It's also the result of culture. Some groups just value education more than others.
I think natural transmission is the default theory unless someone has very strong evidence of something else.

However, there's a push to reverse this and have the lab leak theory as the 'obvious' one. What is obvious is that this is orchestrated.
30-20. My strategy tips:

* first stone is weak, it’s ok to play it near a corner so their response is not in a strong place

* Y-shape to kill and gain territory is much stronger than playing opposite to pincer

* Always be growing passively

* If you are growing passively faster than the opponent, start a fight. If you are not, don’t.
RCH4, New ALS Drug?
It's useful, until you realize you have this on 90% of your code.
And that is not true in the US? I don't know but it takes a lot of effort in countries we did it outside of the EU. US banks are generally more gung ho on money laundering prevention and such so it seems hard to believe complexity will narrow the gap.
Pay transparency exists in Sweden? You mean like taxable income being part of public records?
Are you planning to expose the JSX editing capabilities as a library, so that it could be used for e.g. non-web-UI editing?

I've been working on a React/JSX wrapper for OpenJSCAD (a solid CAD library), where the "viewer" (that shows the rendered model) offers simple interactivity that is decoupeled from the code. It would be amazing if that could be extended to allow for editing the code when you interact with parts of the model in the viewer (as you would do in traditional CAD programs).
“You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once fruitful and barren and uncertain: imagine to yourselves INDIFFERENCE as a power—how COULD you live in accordance with such indifference? To live—is not that just endeavouring to be otherwise than this Nature? Is not living valuing, preferring, being unjust, being limited, endeavouring to be different? And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"—how could you do DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be? In reality, however, it is quite otherwise with you: while you pretend to read with rapture the canon of your law in Nature, you want something quite the contrary, you extraordinary stage-players and self-deluders! In your pride you wish to dictate your morals and ideals to Nature, to Nature herself, and to incorporate them therein; you insist that it shall be Nature "according to the Stoa," and would like everything to be made after your own image, as a vast, eternal glorification and generalism of Stoicism! With all your love for truth, you have forced yourselves so long, so persistently, and with such hypnotic rigidity to see Nature FALSELY, that is to say, Stoically, that you are no longer able to see it otherwise—and to crown all, some unfathomable superciliousness gives you the Bedlamite hope that BECAUSE you are able to tyrannize over yourselves—Stoicism is self-tyranny—Nature will also allow herself to be tyrannized over: is not the Stoic a PART of Nature?... But this is an old and everlasting story: what happened in old times with the Stoics still happens today, as soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical impulse itself, the most spiritual Will to Power, the will to "creation of the world," the will to the causa prima.”
- Nietzsche
Addictive, fun, quick, yet interesting and subtle if you're into strategy games. I think you have a potential winner on your hands. Some polish and tweak may be needed based on feedback here, but a mobile app could make a killing
Software Engineer here who loves to draw/sketch. The biggest difference is stroke consistency and handling weight. So an ideal handling weight will let you exert more control over your strokes; your straights are cleaner, your curves are more fluid. Think of how some gaming mouses are weighted.

If you find the right mechanical pencil (i.e., not a cheap plastic one), it wins in both aspects. Plus a mechanical pencil never becomes too short that it does not rest stably on your grip.

But still, there is a certain charm to a drawing produced with the variable stroke widths of a wooden pencil. So I guess it depends what you're going for.
> Google itself (which has all the lawyers and engineers it needs) has resorted to the same f-ing ugly cookie popup

Because Google is in the business of dark patterns and wholesale data collection. They couldn't care less about user privacy.

Besides, their entire system is built on the premise of wholesale data collection. Their own engineers admit that they don't know how and where the data is collected and de-google their phones. [1]

> The problem is the law. It's a crappy law.

As I'm saying, you are a part of the problem.

[1] https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1398353211220807682