skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they are implying that blood sampling is not a random sample of people (more likely to be from someone who is sick), not that it is inaccurate.
Note that publicly-searchable AP databases such as https://wigle.net/ operate on the BSSID MAC address (serial number, effectively) of the base station/AP.

Packets are transmitted with this information unencrypted at all times. This means that when you move your AP from your old house to your new, your move is publicly visible unless you replace your AP when moving.
Plot twist: this post is a smokescreen for this person working remotely from home and needing to automate their U2F key pressing
Repo: https://github.com/neuralchen/SimSwap
Are you aware of any ICOs that have raised a cool $21B?
Its not presented in a very clear way from the charts alone -- Here the goal was to reduce/optimize the amount of unnecessary 'work' done. There is an implied cost of handling more work where contention is the root cause of extra (unnecessary) work. We're basically saying "I'd rather have a little more latency vs handle X times higher load".

One common real world situation where this comes into play are things like thundering herd scenarios. Rather than trying to cope with huge bursts of traffic, we want to spread the load out in time.
Thank you for those excellent questions!

The entire tech is open source and can be used on-premise, in the cloud, or in any kind of hybrid. Today, we are offering Nebula which is an integrated engine and viewer with no outside dependencies, but everything is there for anyone to deploy it on a server and separate the parts. It's designed for that.

Coming very shortly are MSL Notebook and MSL.js which are UI components and a Typescript library for working with MSL and adding it to your own apps, wherever they live. We also have a "headless" MSL engine that lives in the cloud which will soon be public so you can play with it through MSL Notebook or use it to test and develop your own apps.

We are not using Bitcoin or any component of it. Our idea is based on the old skool meaning of "blockchain" in that it is a chain of records whose order can be proved by hashing. That is the only component of the blockchain concept that applies here. We use it to hash individual edits within a document, as opposed to hashing entire documents.
The point is to weigh whether the mass collection of personal data is justified. The reason why it is being done matters - if the data is easy to collect and is merely being format shifted by a curious person, then there clearly isn't much of a barrier to anyone doing the same. Meanwhile a company investing a significant amount to create a proprietary database for their own purposes has much different incentives - cf Google's sorry excuse for an opt out. Furthermore, a published dataset is transparent in that it allows individuals to see exactly what data has been collected about them, act to remove themselves, complain politically, etc, whereas most people will never become aware of the proprietary database.
A route like that presumably doesn't run on a tight arrival time. The departure time will be set, but arrival time varies according to weather, traffic, road conditions and so on.

You certainly wouldn't book any kind of meeting based on the expected arrival time, a healthy amount of buffer time would need to be calculated in, and that just gives you time to go to a local cafe before your meeting.
The only reason I like this idea is that we know a certain political segment of society would of been killed off by dumb decisions in this area via hydroxychloroquine.
You may disagree, but “nonsense” sounds a bit excessive. An Italian or Spanish software developer earning 30K euros per annum would likely go to the US if they were offered an American salary. Many of those who went to the UK or to Germany (me included) would have crossed the Atlantic for the right offer.
I am interested in something like this out of the loop with pc building. Do you have any more info about your rig online?
Pugs were bred to be lap dogs and they are very good it. They are small (poop less, less food, easier to handle) short fur, small jaws (less threatening)
I'd rather experience more stress than believe dumb shit. Editing lest I seem glib: I have tried spirituality. The amount of work I feel I must do to maintain anything but a relaxed materialist worldview is not worth the promise that believing in some silly cosmology will reduce my anxiety about death or whatever.
Oh, good, FreeCAD is catching up. It's been a few years since I tried it.
Maybe because on average the US citizens are more gullible and paranoid than those of other countries.

(To be fair there have been UFO reports from other countries, but the US has an order of magnitude more)
> Google/Microsoft Listening Post _optout_nomap

FTFY
There is a dark pattern in Android that is tangentially related only, but I need to share it:

The service in Android using (B)SSID for "a better experience" is configured off on my phone, and I explicitly turn off all location services when I don't actively need it.
Every time I turn on location, then open Google Maps, Maps prompts me to turn on the "enhanced experience". Picture yourself in a bit of a rush, needing to do some quick navigation using your phone and Maps, and how easy it is to quickly dismiss that prompt without realizing you just offered Google more data.

Note: My default behavior regarding Google is to give them the absolute minimum amount of data.
> but they seem to have dozens if not hundreds of phone numbers they’re using from all different area codes

They don't have hundreds of numbers they are calling from. Those numbers you see are all fake. Caller-ID is trivial to fake, as it basically (before shaken/stir finally get deployed) is just passing along to your phone a value defined by the scammer.

As far as how to stop, you can't.

The best you can do is what you've done. Adjust phone settings so that only caller ID's found in your phonebook ring through. That will mean most of the fakes don't ring your phone (although they will junk up your voicemail). But should the scammer happen to randomly pick a number that is already in your phonebook, their call will ring through.
> Total strangers can find my address by looking up ... my address.

Is there a global open address book with everyone's addresses?
Not broadcasting your SSID doesn't offer any real privacy benefit. If you're using the wifi, every packet sent out by the AP or the clients includes the permanent (and usually unchangeable) hardware serial number (BSSID MAC) of the access point.
> A 13 inch screen Ipad pro with a keyboard and 2TB of memory is $2500.

The 2TB memory is accounting for like half the cost there. You can get a model with less built-in memory and just use an external drive and the price drops down to like $1400.
> I think we more specifically know something emerged that was much more deadly and contagious around January/February.

This is from late last year, an article that attempted to group the mutations into "L", "G", "S", "O", etc, strains: https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/EVOLUTION/yx...

You can see where it compares infections to proportion of strain that they only spiked when "L" disappeared and one or more of the "G" ones became dominant. There's only 7 countries listed here, but I think I remember a different article that had more, and the pattern was pretty consistent.
Would it be better to store these as binary blobs in a database?
I agree, that's why I've never really considered it was covid. It was just coincidental timing and strange symptoms. It wouldn't be my first 'weird cold'. I haven't even really thought about it much until I seen the comment thread here. Seeing other people's stories reminded me of it. It was just more of an anecdote to add than anything.
It's easier, faster, and has more default features than setting up Webpack by yourself.
White collar law enforcement picks easy targets. They know these guys will outspend their legal budgets.
> Somehow they made you feel like you were part of the group

This is a great point, so maybe they were also among the first to attract the sort of parasocial relationships that also emerged with the rise of social media.
Have you ever used an iPad? I get the feeling you don't really know how it actually works.
The worst, though, is when a comment tells you the valid input range, but it's wrong, because someone later changed the code and didn't update the comment. While this doesn't happen frequently, I've gotten bit by it enough that I will generally at least take a cursory look over the function body to verify that the comment is still correct.

I wouldn't say this makes the comment useless, but it does reduce the usefulness. And this might end up biting someone who has decided to trust the comments.
> Every time I turn on location

> give them the absolute minimum amount of data

Contradiction, Mannie!

PS: Offline GPS turn-by-turn navigation devices from China are about $50 now. I use them myself ever since I decided I wanted to stop leaking my realtime location to Apple and Google.
There are other approaches to profitability besides committing billing fraud.
Here's a simple one: do we really trust a government agency (or hell, anyone really) to collect intimate and identifiable data about our bodies all while preserving anonymity and securing the data from nation state attackers? Do we trust nameless data scientists to run SQL queries over us that aren't intended to determine which ones of us will be smarter, stronger, more violent, etc? Do we trust politicians that have not yet been elected to office to use this data for benevolent purposes like our current politicians would (if we trust our current politicians)?

Maybe there is some benefit to running such a program, but it would be outweighed by the vulgar distrust that would fester inside of concerned populations and spread to non-controversial parts of the government such as the post office and the voting process. Concerned populations here are not just conspiracy nuts; it would include undocumented immigrants, Black and Hispanic minorities, and probably a good chunk of Jews.
For those eager to begin learning Emacs, I would like to share that Emacs has a very friendly and fun community at #emacs on irc.libera.chat as well as on r/emacs on Reddit.

If you have never been on IRC before, you can quickly try it out via Libera Chat's web interface at https://web.libera.chat/#emacs. If you are worried about missing conversations when you log out but do not want to set up an IRC bouncer (the typical solution), there is a Matrix bridge to the IRC channel at https://app.element.io/#/room/#emacs:libera.chat that you can use to stay connected even after you turn off your computer.
It’s not clear to me what settings change this, or where I’ve agreed to them. I’ll investigate.

edit: on my pixel this setting for 'google location' was hidden beneath a 'more settings' dropdown in the location setting page. I had no idea it was there. Definitely dark patterns of hiding settings they don't want you to know about. Thanks.
lazy attempt for meshed networks: leaf_erikson_nomap
some people are recovering through other responses, including t-cell response, etc. I don't have the academic experience, the clinic experience, or his specific medical history, so I can't speak specifically. I do recall lots of papers at the beginning of Covid talking about high t-cell responses in patients without a lingering anti-body response. That all could have been early science based on poor data as well though.
You should do the research. First, check with a local bank within your state. Then check out of state lenders.

While you are doing that, see if you can get a Naca loan.

https://www.naca.com/purchase/
Using and Mixing Hugging Face Models
Lol don't worry, HN spends a lot more time complaining about web.dev than praising it.
I still think an awesome use case would be a public blockchain for tracking inventions and patents. You could have a searchable index of inventions that anyone could add onto, and every article would be hashed and the signature recorded on the blockchain to serve as independent historical proof. The inventor would then be the only person with the cryptographic key to prove they are the owner of the patent. There could also be a whole other sidechain for tracking licensing agreements, for example.

Who wants to help me build it?
If people could avoid as much as possible suncreams, that'd be great (using natural protections, clothes, ...), just for their plastic wrapping at least, I know some are said to be environment-safe, but still
Extinction Isn’t an End: Mining Ancient Innovation for Future Solutions
> I set up a parallel group of keystrokes using super where the Mac had used command. This meant that her existing muscle memory (and mine!)

this is fundamental to me, it's things like this that make me use linux and prefer KDE, but the way he talks about this (along other comments in this discussion and generalized software trends) has got me worried that this level of customization (and its associated mindset) are an 'endangered species' even among software engineers.
That doesn't really make any sense. Prices will always correlate as long as there's any connection between asset prices whether it's a supply chain or shared customer base or shared economic conditions. Businesses don't live in an isolated bubble. Index funds are nothing but arbitrary groupings of assets enabling diversification along whatever lines the fund chooses.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make but the argument is poor.
This sort of confounder is common, but we have in the US a population that, over the decades, is (pre-exposure) no more pale/susceptible-to-burns.

The public has been bombarded for decades with the health message to avoid the sun, and a deep tan has become less fashionable. (My younger friends, especially, treat minimizing tans/exposure as an almost religious obligation.)

Sunscreens have broadened the wavelengths they block – they used to mostly skip UVA, thinking it harmless – and upped their SPF factors. (In the 1980s, I recall SPF15 as the max - now it's SPF30, SPF80, SPF100.) Sales & usage of sunscreen keep growing.

But melanoma case rates are still on a long-term rising trend. Deaths have finally improved slightly in the last few years - likely from earlier detection & better treatment.

If the population's generally the same, but slathering on far more sunscreen every decade – but cases still go up & mortality barely budges – there's little hint of effective protection.
> there are no other programs out there like Emacs

Emacs is the most organic feeling software I've used- it really feels like it has evolved like something in the natural world, with all sorts of warts and wrinkles. Kinda like a piece of DNA with large portions seemingly unused and occasionally dropped or upgraded, but at the end of the day it's all about functionality and adaptability. May it live forever
It used to be called White Pages...
In programmer's terms, an (arbitrary) constant is a parameter. (A variable is, well, a variable.)
Yea, just not the ones we should want to support.

Accepting that there are bad actors and actively supporting them are 2 different activities.
Anything with a capacitive touch sensor can easily be automated.
Another use for comments: to document the strategies you tried and why they failed.

In other words not just the "why" but the "why not".

Many times I've gone back to code I'd written previously, it seemed overly complicated, I replaced it with a simpler version... that failed... that reminded me that was what I'd tried originally and then replaced it with the more complicated version for a good reason.

So now I have a new rule: every time I try a simple approach and it fails and I replace it with a more complicated one that works, I add a comment explaining the previous strategy and why it didn't work.

Hilariously, some of these have grown to several failed attempts. "Tried A library but it has a critical bug where B happens. Then tried C function but it also has a bug where D happens. Using external command E doesn't work because F..."

But hey -- neither I nor anyone else will try to reprogram something simpler. Or we can check if the library mentioned still has the bug in question.
I don't have an SSID I'm Jewish...
It depends on what you're doing and what your budget is. Shoot & edit on one device, plus an excellent drawing experience, is pretty compelling when you're talking about a device for a kid to learn on, and the main things it'll be used for are video & drawing. You don't need 2TB of built-in storage for that, either.

Only way I can see that not being the option to beat, is if your goal is to learn the UI (not the concepts or techniques) for pro-tier desktop editing software. Then, yes, of course you have to have a desktop. I think "non-starter" is overstating the case against the iPad, for the particular tasks and user-profile stated.

> video editing desktop with two large 27" monitors for $1k

I need to know where you're buying monitors.
cough Heartbleed cough
And that is the root of the confusion. Democracies may be less prone to corruption, but they're certainly not immune to it.
As someone with formal training and experience in video production with Final Cut Pro and Premiere...I find editing on iPad to be an utterly infuriating experience.

I gave it a sincere try, but the UX is so utterly subpar that it's simply not worth the time or effort anymore. The file management on iOS is atrocious: support by various editing apps is questionable at best, and even if it wasn't, it's incredibly slow. Waiting while importing high-res videos off SD media to the file system, then turning around to wait an equally long time for the media to get imported into your editor is extremely irritating. There's also not a lot of serious competition in terms of quality editing apps. It seems like everything other than Luma Fusion is gimped to the point of near-uselessness for anything but the most basic of cut-and-crop type workflows.

iPad did have a slight edge in terms of render performance and efficiency versus ultraportable notebooks like the MacBook Air for a brief period between the A12x-based Pro release in 2018 and the release of the M1 MacBook Air in 2020, but now that the M1 Air is on the table, it's well worth the few extra ounces to go with a M1 MBA for mobile video editing.
Johnny Knoxville was 29 when Jackass 1 came out- wow!
I see your edit so let me address that also. Yes, our use for the blockchain is to provide verifiable information to untrusted parties. Instead of information about transactions and balances, it's information about text edits.

In a simple scenario, every edit you make to a document is recorded individually and hashed with the hash of the previous edit. This forms the chain. The chain itself can be stored anywhere. It's useless if you don't have the document. But if you do have the document or any fragment, you can instantly tell what version you have and if it has any differences from the original -- without seeing the original.
as a european, this has not been my experience at all.

> It's a combination of requirements specific to markets (EU mandates like GDPR are easier train a support team on and build an escalation process), cultural expectations around handholding, not wanting to hear no for an answer unless it is delivered by an exec.

in my opinion, very little european teams (mostly italian, czech and german teams) care about hearing the answer from an executive. Also, what do you mean about handholding?
Where are you that suncream packaging is the most concerning litter?
Reliance of keyboard chording is seriously un-ergonomic. But Emacs provides a number of escape hatches (evil, kakoune.el, god-mode), much more than almost any other computer program.
No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air (2020)
> we can rely on human decency...

you've got a bug here.
Certainly seems every Intel CPU has been compromised for decades, right? I’ve not followed it super closely so maybe I’m missing something. We don’t necessarily have exploits “in the wild” but someone in secret partnership with Intel could have gotten access to all kinds of things, it seems.
Diffie-Helman Key Exchange
The constant conflation of block chain and bitcoin makes the article tiresome. Furthermore the author seems only to propose "everyone uses it" use cases. Imo the most useful use cases are distributed ledgers used between companies who know each other...
Digital goods are less costly to manufacture on a per-item basis than widgets.
So you are claiming that the only reason European developers don’t cross en mass is due to non-open borders?
OMG, that 520 hill, absolutely brutal.
> _most_ of the time

This is the thing that annoys me with arguments about all this. I will generally say "document the 'why' and not the 'what'; if the 'what' isn't clear from the code, fix the code to make it clear". And people will say "that's invalid because sometimes you really do need to do something clever and the 'what' needs to be documented" or whatever. And yes, that's fine! Stop taking everything people say as if it's an absolute, 100%-of-the-time statement! Obviously there are exceptions. That doesn't make the common-case rule useless or uninteresting. People should assume "most of the time" is the default implication about these sorts of "rules" unless otherwise noted.
How did the US aid Nazis during the war?

All of these incidents are bad, but none still compare to the mass deaths under Stalin and Mao
Joseph George Strutt's Sylva Britannica (1822/1830)
where someone says, "Normal thing A is fine, therefore it must be fine if we scale it by a factor of 100,000,000"

Why are we to assume that it isn't fine just because there's more of it?

Scale matters!

For all the "scale matters!" in this topic, no one seems to be able to articulate why. Were laws broken? Hell, were unspoken rules broken? What is $BAD_THING that will happen if $X "at scale!"? But instead what I read are broken analogies that don't stand up to scrutiny.
The New York City subway hack referenced in the article is interesting. Unlike the many ransomware attacks targeting public infrastructure, The New York Times reported that economic espionage was a possible goal:

It is unclear why the M.T.A. was a target of the campaign, but investigators have several theories. One focuses on China’s push to dominate the multibillion-dollar market for rail cars — an effort that could benefit from knowing more about the inner workings of a transit system that awards lucrative contracts.

However, the article also said it's possible "hackers mistakenly entered the M.T.A.’s system and discovered it was of little interest, which cybersecurity experts say is not unusual."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/nyregion/mta-cyber-attack...
I understand this sentiment, but preventing cancer and pain is a pretty good reason to generate some trash, in my experience. there's a lot of truly wasteful plastic use out there, but I would not say this is one of them.
Here's my theory of bubbles:

You have an asset (doesn't matter what it is). It's going up because the fundamentals improved, or because favorable press, or whatever. That's not a bubble. Stuff goes up all the time.

So people start buying it, because it's going up, and they want in on the action. That's still not a bubble. People buy stuff that's going up all the time.

Now there's new money flowing into that asset. So now the price goes up because of the new money flowing in, and the new money was flowing in because the price was going up. Now it's a bubble. But it's not dangerous yet. People can lose their shirts, but it won't hurt the overall economy.

It becomes a dangerous bubble when (lots of) people invest in the asset with borrowed money. Now if it crashes, it can take banks with it. If that happens at a large enough scale, you damage the economy as a whole.
why is all this 'new information' the same information that was around last year?....like it's all about a year old.....I was reading articles about this last year in June...