skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You wrote: <<The things some guys are doing on really shoestring budgets with FTTH aerial drop cables across roofs and low cost GPON things in cities like Dhaka, Bangladesh show that it doesn't have to be super expensive.>>

This sounds very, very specific. Do you have a link you can share about it?
I recall a few times, googling found me one result quickly

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-01-18-did-nintendo-d...

As far as I know they have repeatedly packaged open source emulation code in their work without notice. Guessing it hasn't become a big deal since nobody in the scene wants to anger Nintendo
Writing Better Regular Expressions in PHP
> * manually classifying 10,000 images or documents *

Ah, the 50's era sweatshop mentality! Most excellent. I would fire a person who wasted days doing such a stupid operation. Take 10 minutes, do some research, find a better way. Spend some company money to get it done today. If you can't figure a good way, start asking up the chain.
... you trust Google ?
The critical components are in the shade of the dish.
> I have an app that can save your life, trust me. And give me your email so I can send it to you ;)

Great, send me the source code, I’ll get it released on f-droid and then I’ll install the f-droid version of it, just like I’ve got the f-droid and microG version of the Corona Warn App installed :)
Mass production and factories had already been a thing for almost a century when Ford started his factories. It is like saying that the new innovation "computers" was behind Facebooks success.
Yes, that is it. I did notice it's not the case anymore, but do you know if they admitted error with the change, or gave any kind of motivation?

I think that in this context, this previous issue is relevant.
Thanks for the feedback I'll take a look into rebalancing the powers and why the happened with the other question
> In my case, inserting a SIM card from ALDI’s carrier used to auto-install some weather, news, and similar stuff. Luckily that stopped recently.

Surely there is a prompt. I never had apps silently auto-install in my phone. If that is true, one more reason to go with the custom rom way.

> The only risk is governments not returning the power they got during this pandemic, but that’s more of a worry in 3rd-world-dictatorships.

In my life I've seen a lot of just-for-emergency-temporary-only laws that become permanent once the outrage subsides. In supposedly first world countries
You can install apps from your browser on the PC since years. I think this also works on apple?
> 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.

I would sometimes worry about that. At some point internet privacy will be completely erased, not by malicious or greedy corporate practices but by algorithms scraping all of big data on the internet. This will ultimately be inevitable, almost everything you've ever posted on the internet will at some point be retroactively traced back to you.

The upside is that this isn't what's going to happen to your data, nor to my data. This is what's going to happen to _everyone's_ data. As long as the whole world bites the dust together, I can see the actual damage being minimized.

Of course, this does not take into account living within governments that don't care about human rights and that you happen to disagree with or be critical of.
There is a handy feature to do so https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/remotely-install-apps...
> Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft, but not on Windows (and I deal with a SaaS at MSFT). I am a FreeBSD committer and help maintain FreeBSD's GNOME packages and (very recently) the graphics drivers.

Completely unrelated and a shot in the dark, but if you’re both a Microsoftie and a FreeBSD user/committer, the FreeBSD .NET port is stumbling/regressing somewhat and could definitely use a little help:

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/14537

(Better start at the end of that thread, rather than the start)

Anything you could do to help (if only pushing the right buttons/people internally), I’m sure would be greatly appreciated.
> Surely there is a prompt. I never had apps silently auto-install in my phone. If that is true, one more reason to go with the custom rom way.

Nope, Google Play Services does this all in the background. The same happens if Google thinks you’ve reinstalled your device (e.g. by wiping the Play Services data) and it starts installing some of Google’s default apps again, without prompts
It is a power user feature which most users won't will not appreciate. I am using Mac for about 7 years now, and almost never use tabs in Finder.
Everyone running android play services on their phone has to trust Google, right?
For the first half I thought it was sarcasm.
Now that the technology is so inexpensive, we need to have them in cars!
Similar to UIDAI contact being added in India with consent
Even in Northern Europe, a car parked in direct sunlight can easily get to 70C (160F) inside. In winter the same car may be expected to start up straight away without issues at -30C (-22F).
Nothing is a graph
Not exactly. On the Android store you can choose exactly which device to install an application on.

For Apple as far as I know the most you can do is buy the app on desktop and, if the device is configured that way, it will receive the new app. This means it’s limited to new purchases and by the device’s settings.
I can't find those ads, but most likely the ads were uninformative so people did not find them to be instructive. Suggestion without reference to fact is the norm with those campaigns.
If Microsoft were a person; they would be a rich, lucky, lazy, easily distracted person who takes zero pride in their work, content to leave inconsistent garbage littering a product used by hundreds of millions because they are just too bored by the whole thing to bother fixing it.
How is this different from any update program, like windows update or Ubuntu update, installing software/upgrades whenever you get updates?
Thank you, I've even used this functionality some years ago but didn't remember it existed.

I've since de-googled my phone and sacrificed some apps that require google services, but this whole thing shows (to me) that it was the right decision.
It is obvious that we need better legislation to deal with all the new possibilities that technologies have opened.

The installation of this app, even done with good intent, open a lot of questions on what should be possible or not to be done by government and corporations.

When you get a device with pre-installed, uninstallable, or auto-installed apps. What are the rules?

> "By enabling this service, you can be quickly notified if you’ve likely been exposed to the virus by another MassNotify user, allowing you to reduce risk to your loved ones, seek medical attention, and slow the spread in your community."

In this case it seems that the same goal could have been better achieved by SMS that do not depend on the brand of your phone. The dependency on proprietary app stores and OSs seems a risk for the continuation of a free and reliable communications.

The only thing that is impossible to achieve without an app is to allow the user to select contacts to whom send a notification. Corporations like Google, and Apple know the list of all your contacts. So, it seems that the intention of the app is to reduce friction and send notifications as easy and effortlessly as possible to avoid that procrastination causes people to delay the warning.

But, instead of the silent install the government could have spend money in advertisement campaigns to assure a correct amount of installations. It costs money, but, people pay taxes so the government can engage on this type of initiative at a scale. This could have been a very good alternative, even if it means increasing the budged. Medical emergencies are worth the investing.
I would love to see you try! Even if you fail to capture what you meant, sometimes the attempt conveys just as much :)
> Is that still the case, or has it been updated in the meantime?

It's been updated. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27553728
The last sentences about uploading data to the cloud had not struck me before. It is such an obvious development, if not to replace so to complement. But perhaps there are challenges around it that are not obvious?
Many might not have a choice. If you need a SmartPhone and can’t afford an iPhone, you’re out of options. Most of the apps people actually need has to be installed via the Play Store.

You basically get a (more) privacy focus OS from a luxury brand or you get your OS from an advertising company.
If they ever end up outside, they're defenceless.
Children need loving care and nurture. They also don't need to be dictated to at all times.
> But also, youth of today are incredibly soft, condescending and not ready to take responsibility for themselves.

Where's the evidence for this?
If you're a BBC fan have a listen to Alexi Sayle reminisce about the 'good old days', it's sadly not what it used to be... https://audioboom.com/channels/5038428
Historic tracklistings for the Essentials Selection are still online: https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/petetong/tracklistings2002.shtm...
Even if you can replace the workers high rates of attrition and loss of trust in senior management is still likely to cause significant problems.
UI and logic are probably not as decoupled as we’d like to think.
Ok but what is Deno?
Nice! They really are great chairs :-)
> One guy, who I think was genuinely evil, took psychology as a minor subject.

He is very determined.
Arguably, I can't really blame funding bodies for being turned off by "we may have found an elixir for eternal life, do you want to give us money ?"

Anyway, good fortune to them.
> I guess you can have a conversation with that person, but it's often as fruitful as replying to a bot.

That's precisely one of the reasons why it's not real. Conversing in "meatspace" makes it more difficult to just tune out the other side, a "real" conversation is one where leaving the conversation is either tacitly permitted by the other side (by not following the person leaving) and at least bookended by simple social ritual ("I gotta go", "Nice meeting you", etc.). Baudrillard's point is that the simulacra (the discussion online) is no longer showing you that reality, but that too many people have lost the ability to differentiate between reality and what is a convincing simulation of reality.
Bitsy Is Beautiful
Ok, but my point was that on Android and iOS it is possible to install apps without touching your phone. This qualifies as remote code execution. You need your credentials for doing this, but google and Apple apparently don't need them.
...android security/version updates??

yes, I understand - bring on the downvotes
LinkedIn is older than facebook.
In one of the reviews[0]
The permission modal says this though:

- view network connections

- pair with Bluetooth devices

- full network access

- run at startup

- prevent device from sleeping

[0]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.ma.covid19...
Benefits of Automation in Healthcare Industry
It is not peer-reviewed. Literally the title:

Peer Review Request: Depression

Give me feedback on my take on fighting depression

There are comments from people on the internet on his first draft, but "peer-reviewed" implies that feedback from relevant experts has been incorporated.
No different than, say, "Windows Update".

The entire "updates" culture is essentially RCE backdoor (botnet) functionality for "trusted" tech companies.

Consent, where it is actually explicitly obtained, never rises to the level of "informed". That's because even if a user "consents", she still cannot see what is in each update.
Here’s the original that’s being remixed:

I Don't Wanna Be Touched - Meredith Bull FULL SONG OUT NOW
https://youtu.be/H3Y-A4Ahkto

Channel: Meredith Bull

Published on May 2, 2021
funny thing is that California also had something like this but was disabled during this week.
I don't know what the right to freely interact is, where is this defined somewhere? An employer is a collection of people, so is a union. Why is only one of those allowed to "freely interact"?
That’s a game I played WAY too much as a kid. It really helped kick off my interest in computer programming.
Yes exactly my question. How does the bloody thing work?
> They expected the camera not to drop frames [...] That is what's being discussed here

It isn't, actually. The comment I responded to, and the one it linked to, are broadly criticizing the sensor fusion/control loop implementation--the thing that saved Ingenuity after the optical flow subsystem started returning bad data. That's what's being discussed here, in the context of this subthread where I entered it.

The dropped frame thing is much more cut and dried, and it's obviously a bonehead mistake. It's also the kind of thing that's always going to happen, as you say. Many of the commenters here seem to be generally at odds with that reality--I don't believe the state of the art in software development has yet achieved guaranteed bug-free implementation of diverse real world applications, but you wouldn't think that from reading some of these comments (e.g. the one you linked above).
I suspect you might be reading a little bit too much into people's skepticism about anti aging research.

Sure, death and aging are hard topics.

But not having any more data about what funding bodies have to say, I would go for the sad and simpler explanation : all proposed "cure for aging" in the history of mandkind have turned out to be ineffective (either disappointing or scams)

(Whereas "cure for fatal disease" have kind of a track record.)

This, I believe, will end the day we have a tech that's "promising enough", but "enough" will be hard to reach.

I don't find it unfair to have a higher bar to clear for "elixir of youth" than for "covid-19 vaccine".
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27555013
I thought this was well-known, Android is not private at all until you degoogle. Unlock your bootloader then install a ROM without Google Play Services such as GrapheneOS, CalyxOS or LineageOS.

You can consider installing microG also as an open-source minimal implementation of Google Play Services if some of it's functionality is absolutely necessary for you to keep.
These ads were on every single billboard, bus station, etc in the country https://www.dfb.de/fileadmin/_processed_/202007/csm_224709-D...

And the TV ad was shown as preroll ad for youtube videos for months, and on TV during every ad break on every channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4fCbuZqo6M

Just the ad budget for this app dwarfed the budgets of some hollywood blockbusters, and yet it still didn’t reach more than 10% of the population
That is simply not true. The majority of Wirecard has been sold in the insolvency proceedings, e.g. the payments platform is still in use today! (Interestingly still using the domain wirecard.de!)

The liquidation price was nowhere near its market value and their technology was nowhere near as innovative - both points that are also true for Tesla.

Again, don't be led astray by the fact that Tesla is making physical products that you can see.

On a different note I don't think of corporate fraud as something that brings you from 0 to 1 - it's more akin to cheating in sports. It will give you a competitive edge, an unfair advantage.

If you are interested there is an interview with the CFO of Enron about legal fraud on Youtube - highly fascinating.
The irony is on e of the guys of the’Man Show’, Jimmy Kimmel, is a super woke late night host.

It is all about audiences and the $$. Th thing is that mainstream tv, as it has lost spice, and has become sanitized, it has also lost users in mass.
So, tv networks have to compete for a smaller audience
Myspace let people track everyone who visited their page, that it wasn't a default doesn't matter when everyone just installed their own trackers. Same thing with live journal. They didn't try to stop the practice, instead they encouraged it and had guides how to do it. Facebook was the first to ban all sorts of tracking.
> They could have prioritized websites with fewer tracking/ads/scripts.

The downside comes down to the end user experience if those websites being prioritized have lower quality material, which in turn might force those users to use a different search engine that might not care about that if it means they're getting more users.
I think you raise important points, that are useful more generally in understanding the process of science and scientific review of papers.

However, the correct answer to a non-significant study is not to assume that there is no difference, rather that we have not been able to detect a difference.

The results section:

A total of 3030 participants were randomly assigned to the recommendation to wear masks, and 2994 were assigned to control; 4862 completed the study. Infection with SARS-CoV-2 occurred in 42 participants recommended masks (1.8%) and 53 control participants (2.1%). The between-group difference was −0.3 percentage point (95% CI, −1.2 to 0.4 percentage point; P = 0.38) (odds ratio, 0.82 [CI, 0.54 to 1.23]; P = 0.33). Multiple imputation accounting for loss to follow-up yielded similar results. Although the difference observed was not statistically significant, the 95% CIs are compatible with a 46% reduction to a 23% increase in infection.

So, overall there were 95 participants who got a Covid diagnosis, of the 6k enrolled, and the 4.8k who completed the study.

This is basically noise. My personal prior is that had this study taken place in the US or Brazil, we would have been able to detect an effect. However, clearly I don't have any evidence for this.

tl;dr that study gives us very little information, because the baseline prevalance of Covid was so low that we don't have enough power to detect a difference between the two groups. This is consistent with a finding of masks don't work, and masks work (but we can't detect the difference in this study).
I worked for a company with an excellent mission but poor engineering growth opportunities for way too long.

I paid little to no attention to how my engineering efforts benefited the business.

I spent few years doing frontend while i hated it.
I would like to take a moment to pour vitriol on marketing targeting consumers, because the over-abundance of envy-inducing ads leads people to rank status and by association attractiveness by worldly possessions.

Ads with pale-skin models targeting darker-skinned communities have to stop.

This is relevant because people take a lot better to being approached by people they believe are attractive.
It is a bit more than that, and I bet with Windows 11 announcement we will get a more clear picture on it.

It is also a way to bring into Win32 side most of the API that really matter on the UWP side of the fence, most likely (although they are yet to confirm this) as migration path to UWP developers.

.NET Native, C++/CX are pretty much dead, and C++/WinRT keeps missing many of the tooling available on C++/CX for XAML applications.

So I expect them to migrate the APIs into an OS version independent layer, and then give the mercy shot on UWP apps.
Atheism and agnosticism are increasing every year. Deaths due to war have been decreasing steadily since World War 2. Some people argue that younger people are becoming less materialistic (https://www.econlib.org/archives/2016/10/non-materialist.htm...).

I’m not sure what you mean by “make us grow more mature”, but there could conceivably be some major technological advancement that would give us enough time to deal with the sociological effects of increased longevity. For example, electric cars are taking over, CRISPR gene editing exists, fusion is moving forward with the ITER project and various start-ups, space rockets are now reusable, etc.

I would say we have more objective reasons to be optimistic about our future prospects than not. Things are getting better, and it might just be that train wrecks and car crashes are more interesting to focus on. No one writes stories about the days that someone gets home on time safely.
In a talk he admitted that Erlang is the unification of OO and FP, although he didn’t realize it when he created the language.

He also mentioned Hoare‘s CSP as an inspiration with the caveat that he didn’t agree with the lock-step synchronization as messages should be async. Makes sense from a physicist‘s perspective.
Google and apple install tons of software basically without consent (os updates) , so an app being pushed like that is not surprising. It is worrying however that tech people dont seem to realize how great their tools are for totalitarian states , which push apps and spying much worse than this to their subjects. We really need to talk about users owning their devices and their software rather than leasing them. There is no device that allows users to control what it does , that's scary
I’ve worked in federal government.

With respect, I think you’re giving legislators way too much credit.
Pride in Tech: How Lotus Championed Gay Rights During the AIDS Crisis
For one, I don't. But since having a smartphone is mandatory, I have one.
Is that plane temperature, or air temperature in the shade? Probably the latter?

In the case of Starlink's dish, it's not clear which temperature they mean.
Ah yeah, true, we don't let out cat outside, or if we're going to, we don't trim her nails for a few weeks beforehand.
Your link #3 was an amazing listen! Thank you to share.
RFSoC is an fpga with high speed ADCs and DACs integrated, 8 5Gsps ADC, and 16 10 GSPS DACs in a single device, and less than 1000 bucks IIRC, though not sure on volume (i.e. If you can buy single parts)
I don't doubt that dogs are smarter than cats, but dogs are far more social and are motivated to learn by that social connection. Cats can also be trained, but it's a lot more work to keep them motivated.

Cats do communicate a lot, but it's physical and sometimes subtle; eye contact, body rubbing, head butting, contextual waiting, and so on. Our cats very rarely meow unless they haven't been noticed, or, with the Norwegian, when she wants attention and she has a toy in her mouth she wants to play with - she loves playing fetch with toy mice.
UNIX is older than Windows, and most people still expect to run their UNIX CLI applications on APIs that exist since UNIX V6.
Yeah :/. I was sent the Vitalik article by someone, and (despite other people liking it) found it somewhat poorly written (as did another friend of mine in the same group chat, who was left with similar questions) and then searched around trying to find more information and came across the original paper--the abstract for which was way way better than Vitalik's article :D--that hadn't been linked anywhere in the various internal cluster of references and documentation by any of the Ethereum people, near far as I could tell :(.
This is a good case of the prisoners dilemma. If the groups of attackers don’t hit the same victims twice, it would increase their chances of getting paid for each attack.
Whilst also everyone is tempted to re-hit a victim who has already proved their willingness to pay, but this decreases the willingness for each victim to pay because they have seen that it won’t actually protect against a new attack.
This isn't nationalism, it's a reference to the laws in a particular country.
In reality, the discussion never even gets that far with potential funding bodies. A big problem with longevity research is that most people simply refuse to think about death. They both reflexively and purposefully avoid any and all thought about it.

In any case, these organizations never promote something so radical as a potential elixir of life, but rather incremental improvements.