skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would much prefer my longer, cushier life today than dying for some "noble cause" a hundred years ago. Most people probably share this sentiment.
Governments around the world have already started to pilfer data collected from these apps, as was predictable. [1]

[1] https://www.9news.com.au/national/wa-police-stand-by-decisio...
> The app was criticised from all sides due to lack of effectiveness.

That’s because not enough users use it. About 10% of Germans have the app installed.

Massachusetts deciding to auto-install the app on every device is the logical conclusion if you consider those statistics.
This is pretty old at this point. I hadn’t moved to iOS yet but did soon after. I certainly don’t miss having another computer in my pocket to maintain and can’t imagine supporting Android that long.
They bundled bluetooth and location permissions not long ago. Claimed their users were too ill-informed to know the difference.
Alcohol Consumption and Aging, Bioprinting Organs, Long Term Thinking
What about 1 developer and >250 computers in a different part of the organization? The VS Community license doesn't permit this case. The discontinued VS Express did.
There are three Aeron sizes (for slim, normal and overweight people) and having the right size is very important for comfort.
Repetitive boilerplate isn't just "wrapper spaghetti code".
Repetitive boilerplate is what builds systems.

If I can make a model that has 50 lines and will generate 50 different classes, 50 files and 600 methods where I only need to fill out the expressions, that is writing code.

If I am going to say how it's all boilerplate and write it by hand, chances are I will have something nobody else will understand with bugs I cant remember or will have to rewrite the above by hand into a boiler-plate-like way again, which to me, makes no sense to do manually.
Her person is a vet, and she acknowledges in various places[1] that it's unclear whether Billi pushes the buttons to form meaningful sentences, or simply because she knows something happens when she presses them (like she'll get some sort of attention).

I can imagine there are some buttons where she might associate the button press with a specific outcome (like, she knows that when she pushes her "food" button, there's a good chance of her getting fed). But whether Billi understands that her getting fed is because she's intentionally communicating with her person is unclear.

Either way, I think the channel is mostly for fun, and my partner and I have appreciated it a lot during the pandemic. Billi had a scary health crisis a couple of weeks ago but looks to be mostly recovered now, thankfully

[1] One of those places is this FAQ page https://www.billispeaks.com/faq
“… and I still haven’t found what I’m looking for on your phone …”
That’s called a MacBook Pro, I think.
yep...
It now have about 3 or 4 dawn places for you to configure.

The wifi and hotspots are in metro ui setting app.

Interfaces are in its own standalone app. (win7 style)

However... The firewall are in a xp style standalone app.

Can't they combine them into one app or at least make a folder that contains link to them?
Indeed, children need love in order to be able to give it (and be able to receive it). It seems better to me to keep them in the “circle of love” than to send them off to the well known circle of abuse.
It doesn’t. All it can do is request Google Play Services to enable distributed covid exposure notifications, which in turn means the app itself doesn’t even get bluetooth beacon data.

Your calculator app has more tracking than this.
Aspiring to build a reserve currency? A reserve currency is something for banks to use. Bitcoin's excitement was as a p2p cash that needs no banks and no reserve.

A reserve is something held by a political state. Bitcoin is exciting becauee it exists beyond politics and nation-states.

If this is news for you, go read the original bitcoin paper. Its title is "Bitcoin: a peer-to-peer electronic cash."
I love hearing about all the cool stuff coming out, but I still have a major concern that these might be the same as highly processed food that we have now and are pretty bad for you. The idea of shifting to vegan only to pour processed food into myself is unappealing. Anyone here with more knowledge able to shed light on this?
> There’s nothing worrying about that. You get tons of apps installed without consent (including whatever spam your network provider pushes on you).

That is different. They are pre-installed and I can list them and disable them. They do not install suddenly by themselves months after buying the device. If they did so, there would be an outrage.

> This app can actually save lives without sacrificing any privacy, pushing it to users is something that has no drawbacks.

Yeah, "for our own good". Next time it would be an app that sends an alarm when an excon is near you. And next time it would be an app that sends an alarm when someone who shows dangerous opinions (ie. against government) is near you. No thanks, please unsubscribe me of this Chinese dystopia.
The person who suggested this was elected: voted into their position by a majority.

That worries me far more than the prospect of anyone actually trying to implement this spectacularly stupid idea.
Why do this at this late date? A year ago it would have been useful. Now, 59% of Massachusetts's population has been fully vaccinated. About 70% have at least one shot. A bit more pushing and they'll hit 80%, which seems to be about where the epidemic dies out for lack of new carriers.
Or, maybe they got abusive bootcamp at the point that they needed love the most.
I don't get why only tiny sample size trials are being conducted on ivermectin, I mean this is a generic drug which can easily be produced anywhere and is known to be safe drug for humans plus the circumstantial evidence if not conclusive is definitely worth looking into
1) https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/epide...

i think there ought to be a bigger study on this if even there are marginal benefits we should employ them against the pandemic

2)https://covid19criticalcare.com/videos-and-press/flccc-relea...

here is a podcast where doctor Kory talks about this with Eric Weinstein
What market share is left there to gain? Ok 17% Mac OS, maybe 5% would switch to Windows?
If it works like all the other covid tracking apps it just records randomized bluetooth beacons emitted by all the phones near you.

You can get location in a ton of ways, but I doubt the OS will let you without the proper permission.
I have a different idea, I think it is coming from our oldest mammalian ancestors.

Mammals have very good eyesight, and night vision in comparison to most non-mammals.

A lot of mammals, and especially primates, and relatives, like to seek out good vistas, and vantage points.

People after all pay higher prices for top floors in highrises
It may be related to the horizontal eye movement, or the scanning of the environment. I heard this in Huberman Lab podcast, and iirc it's related to neuroplasticity. I wish I recalled more details, or at least in which episode he discussed this. If I do, I'll return and post more.
Easy.
They never design their system with compactibility in mind. Also, since they own their own software and only allow to be installed in their own hardware, they have full control on everything.
Surely at least the old bitmap graphics could be updated without breaking backwards compatibility?
Run a water pipeline from Miami to Phoenix. We do such things for oil. Both problems solved.
The app was recently evaluated for effectiveness.[1] 110-230k people were tested positive as a result of a warning and therefore isolated. They found that it had about the same effect as the tracing efforts by all public health authorities combined.

[1] article in German about it https://www.heise.de/news/RKI-Schaetzung-Warn-App-hat-mehr-a...
From article:

HTML is structured and easy for computers and bots to understand, but they don’t necessarily understand JavaScript. While there are plenty of articles that debate whether or not Google’s crawler executes JavaScript when crawling a website, my experience was that it did not.
People just will worry about apps which suddenly appear on their phones without their action. And this is totally justified, as the chance that this could be something malicious is much higher than being something non-malicious.

Having said that, I totally agree that German government should have done more to push the Corona Warn App - but only in public relation terms. I totally think Corona Warn App does not live to its full potential in Germany because it is not installed widely enough. But you just cannot do this by force.
That's some seriously flawed logic, and a much bigger issue, if you are correct. They should have tried an information campaign first. If that didn't work then clearly people voted against it, and they have no business going against that. If they think they know better than the people they undermine democracy.
Me installing a custom rom without google play, and with aurora app store is the logical conclusion.
Out of fear for a new, dangerous strain, perhaps?
The RKI estimates the contribution that the Corona-Warn-App makes to containment to be roughly as high as that of all health authorities together. [1]

I'm surprised your brother has not received any notifications. My partner is a doctor at a major university hospital and has been warned repeatedly to say the least. During the second wave, the Corona Warn App showed low or high risk warnings pretty much every week.

[1] https://www.heise.de/news/RKI-Schaetzung-Warn-App-hat-mehr-a... (German)
For US Median ~63k vs mean ~73k: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_Unit...

Germany (typically used as an example of a wealthy country in EU) is ~49k mean (average), so US has higher median and mean income than Germany. One can get into services, etc, but still US is a rich country.

Once you get much past north west of EU, things get decidedly poor. While situation is not ideal in the US, most Americans have considerably more luxuries in their lives (in other words higher consumption of goods and services). Whether we are consuming and prioritizing the wrong things is a different question, and I suspect your criticism is more aimed at what do we actually get in return for this wealth/consumption.
If it works and is expensive, governments will be forced to nationalize it.

There are precisely zero nations on this planet whose citizens would accept death should a true cure become available. Governments would be faced with either total destruction or producing the cure themselves.
SpaceX is known for using less than ideal products during test phases and working in parallel for the improved/final versions. it depends on what they are trying to test. and in this phase they are trying to test the network and will use the cheapest dishes that can do for this purpose.

I mean they practically used a water tower to test their starship engines. while in parallel they worked for rocket design just to test the first flight/landing and yet in parallel another deisgn for orbital flight tests etc.
It seems a waste but this aproach has allowed them to be years ahead of ULA in rocket design.
In this case I think they have demonstrated how they work and it's fair to assume that these problems are not engineering miscalculations but deliberate "go with the fastest thing you can test" decisions.
But they're very clear - they said so twice!
Exactly. Is that even legal?
Under any circumstances it is nefarious. Please allow me into your home and let me put up a painting of my choosing.
For business users, unfortunately none on hand at the moment. That being said, one of the biggest issues companies seem to encounter is that forecasting requires logging of at least several years of business operations, especially if the target variable is highly seasonal. The need for sufficient historical data can make it difficult to commit to a new forecasting initiative at the drop of a hat. There first needs to be a culture of retaining as much data possible, since even external variables from other business areas may be useful in making predictions. You can get around this somewhat with synthetic data and piecing together alternative data sources, but it's not ideal.

I would also say the ease of implementing a forecasting solution on a given dataset is inversely proportional to the value it provides. They're mainly useful for situations in which there are either too many independent time series for a group of human business analysts to track, or for situations in which the target variable is unruly for some reason. For forecasting problems that are simple enough to be modeled by state space methods or BSTS, those methods won't be able to provide results that are all that superior to what an experienced analyst could produce, since the series data itself is already quite predictable.

Edit: Also, there is no one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to time series, and anyone who tells you differently is trying to sell you something. Time series is weird within ML because each dataset has unique properties that necessitates the use of potentially wildly different modeling techniques.
You're the first I've heard of. FANG was the original designation for the group of high-growth tech stocks, and the A stood for Amazon. This is pretty well known and verifiable.

Are you sure you didn't just assume the A was for Apple when you read it? I don't know how you could possibly know what people were referring to from the acronym.
So the German government isn't happy with just fucking everything up locally and is now spreading globally? Did they run out of toxic masks to buy, fake tests to pay for and success statistics to falsify (by removing the leading 20 countries)? There are currently investigations against several members of the government over quite visible corruption while paying themselves with money meant to fight corona and more than enough reports around misuse of government funds because nobody checked how the money would be used.

If there is anything corona related from the German government on your phone you probably should nuke it just to be sure. The mixture of corruption and stupid involved in making it is not something you want anywhere near you.
IIUC the dosages trialed are far smaller than what is used for transplants. Let's wait and see how this plays out.
No idea, I'm not from there. Some interesting facts:

1. this is not active unless activated.

2. Apple too.

3. Not communicated to the users, especially, that a os level update is served as an app install.
Are you sure about that? Previously they required the location permission to scan for nearby bluetooth devices (because of the obvious implications). Recenly they've split that into it's own separate permission. It that what you're thinking of?
To keep the power users happy, I guess!
No I'm serious, happy to have a conversation and will consider your arguments.

I should point out that I also think there may be some value in cross border remittance (something like XRPs use case). I do think smart contracts are largely useless though (oracle problem mainly).

I think it's very telling that Ethereum seems to only really have been used for crypto kitties and NFTs (I think we can all agree both are stupid). On the other hand way back when I first encountered the space (2014ish I think) I succesfully (and very easily) ordered high quality class A drugs (with BTC) with really good customer service and without having to deal in person with unsavory peoples (gang adjacent etc...).

EDIT: grammar
Fake story. This is an untracked token and Coinbase doesn’t have RocketBunny. This journalist should be removed permanently from all websites and media channels.
The USA of today could easily have ended as more than three states

- Texas could have ended independent or as part of Mexico

- The southern states could have "won" the civil war and gained sustained sovereignty

- The West & California in particular could have become an independent entity.

- Alsaka might have been retained by the Russians or grabbed by the Canadians

Why did this not happen - one argument is that the Federal Government of the USA gained and held control of the Californian gold fields for the decades before secession, transforming it's power and capability and the structure of the US economy. Northern industry was capitalised and the investment and market opportunity created power and capability that founded an empire, the population of New England went west anchoring the USA's presence on the west coast. If the south had seceded 20 or 25 years earlier the story would likely have been very different.

With the USA split Mexico could have grabbed Texas, or parts of it - potentially the oil fields before oil was a thing. Perhaps the southern states would have managed to win and maintain territorial integrity - the USA smashed Mexico in the war in the 1840's but this would not be the USA vs Mexico.

My point is that this is not inevitable - there are many reasons why the USA could have been radically different from the USA of today - that it emerged as it did was a matter of luck, as many have observed in the past:

"There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. ... " Otto Von Bismarck
Reminded me of Orwell's account of his education (Such, Such Were The Joys) which contains one of my favourite quotes ("It was not only money that mattered: there were also strength, beauty, charm, athleticism and something called ‘guts’ or ‘character’, which in reality meant the power to impose your will on others.").

https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/joys/english/e_joys
For casual users these UIs are catastrophic. Casual users just straight don't change settings - they tend to live with the most insane easily fixable problems.

Whereas for me, person who has to give phone support, every version of Windows has made important settings harder to get too, which means I can't muscle memory train casual users about what setting they need to review if the problem recurs.

The new UIs are all attempted flash over substance, and idiom breaking - buttons and interactive controls are not clearly highlighted and information density is low.
Just in case you wasn't aware of this book and his research and studies: https://www.amazon.com/Longevity-Diet-Discover-Activation-Re...
> They do not install suddenly by themselves months after buying the device. If they did so, there would be an outrage.

They absolute can do that, and do that. For example, if you switch SIM cards, the phone can (and in some situations will) install whatever crap the ISP chooses.

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.

This can happen at any time, actually.

> Yeah, "for our own good".

Sometimes it is actually for your own good. I agree that it can be a slippery slope, but using the available means to save lives is sometimes necessary.

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.
Just the thought of Google being able to do something like this scares the $&@*#% out of me. How on earth can you trust a company that does something like this?
I think the real question is what mechanism allows them to push a random app to some phones? google play services is actively listening for remote installation requests?

that's essentially a remote-code-execution backdoor to all android phones?
A recession is a great time for vast infrastructure projects.
> Yeah, >250 developers or >1mill revenue and _not_ being willing to pay for developer tools would be an enormous red flag :)

The cutoff for Community is >5 VS Community users (not developers, either, as VS is also intended for testers, etc.), not 250, or >250 PCs in the org (not “developers” or “using VS Community”, just PCs existing in the org.)
Germany had a massive ad campaign for months without much success. The issue remains that people are lazy. That’s part of why microsoft bundling IE was banned, because 90%+ of users won’t go out of their way to install something.
I think people setting these up get their inspiration from the agoge, the boy rearing system in Sparta. The same methods are used to raise children soldiers in Africa.

https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p...

Also, you might be interesting in Cult of the Badass:

https://acoup.blog/2021/02/19/collections-the-universal-warr...
> You get tons of apps installed without consent (including whatever spam your network provider pushes on you).

So you are putting this app in the same category as spam, at least that's good.

> This app can actually save lives without sacrificing any privacy, pushing it to users is something that has no drawbacks.

I have an app that can save your life, trust me. And give me your email so I can send it to you ;)
Because that’s when the developers finally shipped?
I agree. For me, when I'm working with something where I can get functionality like Differential Datalog [1] is when I move over to a reactive-ish paradigm. It's half the answer, and there is a lot of state-related stuff in the other half.

There are probably other ways to provide the rest of the pieces, rules engines, some of those DSLs that describe stream graphs with composable nodes, other incremental querying stuff I can't remember right now ...

[1] https://github.com/vmware/differential-datalog
Sorry to hear you went through that. I went to a UK military boarding school (by choice) for A-levels and I agree with the above, in our case the issues were always caused by student on student. There was stories of what it used to be like “in the old days” and how the college was softer now and would produce weaker officers in the long run. I have no idea if it was true or just internal rumours but the leadership at the time was very focussed on pastoral care, academic excellence and ingraining the foundations of leadership and integrity with (looking back) not that much military-ness to it. I look back with very fond memories, it was tough but not in a nasty way, more just a “high expectations and packed schedule” way.

I was the last year to be Army only, after that they opened it up to all three military services and civil service along with moving to a new purpose build facility - leaving behind the old abbey it had been based at for 50 years. I imagine that that cleared out any remaining vestiges of a less pleasant past.
Everything is a graph
A refrigerator for a kitchen has drastically different constraints. The outside temp will always be something between 15-30 °C, the inside temperature will usually stay relatively constant unless you dump hot stuff in there.

Cooling for active outdoor technology has extremely variable outside temperatures (basically anything from -20 to 60 °C, or more if you take direct sunshine into account) and a constant generation of heat to be taken away.
"... Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
The different volumes could reflect that folks have started to lose trust in Tether vs USDC, and so Tether is used as a big liquidity pool to move between different positions, but no one's endeavoring to hold big Tether positions for longer than necessary. Whereas USDC might be the preferred parking place when folks actually want to spend some time out of market without fully leaving the casino.

I don't know if that's actually true.
Can you give more detail about the intense challenges and in what way they developed your critical thinking and mindset? Interesting to hear that learning is possible even in such a traumatic environment.
Luckily neither Scheuer nor Spahn were involved with the CWA. Check the source code, it’s actually really neat.

Doesn’t help with the rest of the fuckups, obviously. Significantly worse is that now everyone has started switching to the luca app, which actually is a dystopian nightmare as it stores everything on its servers, forever, and sells everything to ad partners.