skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! The final two frontiers (or, among the final two frontiers, anyway) of proprietary software are firmware and EDA software. I am (as you noted!) very bullish about both, and I think that open firmware + open EDA will lead to a new golden age of HW/SW co-design -- it's a great time to be a software engineer, and it's only going to get better!
is the origin really known?
That's exactly it. Usually the usage fee goes down with an increase in revenue. So if I buy services/goods from someone in bulk, they give me a discount. But with Google and Apple it is the opposite. If you cross $1M revenue you pay double rate to them! It shows the absolute monopolistic hold they have over the mobile market.

They could have tried being reasonable, but instead they did everything they shouldn't have done. I hope something good comes out of this.
$1.5M ‘women-led’ NFT project was run by Russian dudes
Tools to Gather Better Software Requirements
I don’t have data or evidence to back this up, but my hunch is that vaccinated people are less likely to take precautions and more likely engage in the “riskiest” (for others) behaviors like attending packed indoor gatherings. That’s why I think it’s so important this message gets out, and even then only a percentage of people will care.
> Reddit was a bastion of free speech

Big emphasis on "was".
What's the recommended way to manage git clones on shared computers now?

In the past, multiple people would use these computers, and would push and pull using their own github credentials. I'm talking lab computers in a research context, where there is a shared login to the computer, but where we use our own github credentials to access a shared repo we all have commit rights to.

Now what are we supposed to do? I don't want to put my ssh key, or an access token or whatever, on a shared computer. My colleagues using that computer should not be able to access my other github repos. I should be entering a password, something I can keep in my head.
> This CSAM Prevention initiative by Apple is a 180 degress change of their general message around privacy.

yes, but at least they are telling the truth now...
If the worry is that a government can order Apple to do something, they could do that before or after this system was added just the same.

Again I’m not in favor of this system but I think a lot of the criticism misses the mark.
Some people believe that government issued ID in conjunction with a government that implemented a UBI scheme would indeed improve poverty. Andrew Yang wrote a reasonable book about the idea.

sybil-proofing in blockchain systems opens the possibility for any person or community to take a shot at implementing UBI. Could someone succeed in creating a token that retains some level of value long term and also consistently tops up at some rate in everyone's wallet? Beats me. But sybil-proofing is absolutely blocking issue on that front.
I have doubts about your statement that all Americans accounts were closed. The US State department says otherwise and provides links and resources.

https://ch.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-services/local-resource...
I am upset with the CDC too but even if we were perfect from Jan 2020 through Aug 2020 (or whatever) we'd still be getting hit with delta now.

The US just ordered 200M booster shots. Making these is pretty much cutting into the capacity of other countries to get their first shots. I am for this - they are American companies and the US should happily pay for them for its citizens. But when there 7.5B other people in the world its not really up to us when the next variant hits.
I don't know about headaches, but I do find this font decidedly less readable. The letters are too spaced. It does something to my brain that makes me have to slow down while reading.
Plus it's just creepy that my phone will be scanning my pictures. I use iCloud Photos now and understand anything I put on someone else's servers is subject to search. With it on my phone, it feels radioactive to me and needs to be disposed of promptly.

It's just icky.
Makes me think you are uptight. It's just a side project
You can use an access token (and not store it), or you can use one unique ssh key per machine.

But yeah, it looks like for your use case this is not a great change.
Here's my question. Current CFR for vaccinated individuals is under 0.05%. At that point does it matter if Covid's endemic?

I think the problem is we're all anchored to Covid from early 2020, which was definitely a huge danger. So we hear that there's still community spread, and fly into a panic shutting everything down. But at 0.05% CFR, it's barely more dangerous than seasonal flu. If Covid in February 2020 had 0.05% would we even have done anything about it?
All of the anti-vaxxers were right this time around. What a complete clusterfuck.
I can’t read the article because of the pay wall. But the claims I’ve seen elsewhere basically say even with a perfect vaccine, you’d need something like 90% coverage to try and snuff out delta with vaccines alone because it is so incredibly contagious. So to a certain extent you can’t just fix the problem with a new vaccine.
You can wrap an ssh key with a password.
If Apple wished to distance itself from checking users' data, then it could stop collecting users' data in its data centers. This is the highest valued company in the world. It would not put them out of business. Would it even cause any decline in revenue. Lets be honest here. Apple wants user data.

(NB There is no reason to "sell user data". For example, Facebook does not "sell user data". Apple and Facebook provide access to consumers. These consumers are ad targets. In the case of Apple, they expected to purchase more stuff after they purchase an Apple computer. Apple intends to be an intermediary in those transactions.)
“Free Market” was a term coined to refer to a market free of rent-seeking gatekeepers.

How far language has shifted, that it has instead become a term to refer to a market where nobody removes them.
That would be the best case scenario, but then why wouldn’t they come out and say that?

They could have announced this all in one shot and saved themselves a lot of blowback.

I believe they have to understand that, which makes me think the theory of them planning to add E2E may not be true.
"Security vs privacy" is unfortunately the most common mistake made about privacy discussions.
Yep. This is what Ubuntu does, roughly. Version 2020.04 is LTS and will get security updates until 2030 April (04)
Same here, its not based on anything concrete. Its just bullshit.
Reddit should just shift to a paid model where there are no adds across the entire site and the subs you sub to get a portion of your revenue to manage the sub.
Why Carbon Credits for Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing (2019)
A JPEG is a "visual derivative". It's also a "mathematical fingerprint" of an image.
> It's unfortunate that Commodore shipped BASIC 2.0 on the 64

There are many things that are unfortunate about the way the C64 was shipped. For Commodore, the entire point of the C64 was to slap it together and shove it out the door as quickly and cheaply as possible, to try and capitalize on the unexpected success of the VIC-20, which was itself slapped together when the VIC graphics chip didn't sell.

What's fascinating about the C64 is just how right that "slap it together and shove it out the door" strategy was.

Market price and timing were absolutely key to the C64's early success. All those bugs and missing features? The 3rd party developers would quickly take care of that.

The products that Commodore tried to make good, better than "shove it out the door" quality, like the Plus/4 and C128, were complete duds. Much better design, much better software, and irrelevant.
Doesn't Big Sur on M1 already do this? I thought that was one of the major selling points?
I don't know why people are so shocked about this. Apple has always been the shopping mall of personal computing with brand prestige coming ahead of all other considerations.
Counterpoint: represented by two Republicans, alas.
Actually, herd immunity works if it reduces the R0 to less than 1.

Obviously, the extinction happens a lot faster wit a vaccine as you describe that reduces R0 to zero, but an exponential decline will still result in extinction (barring other reservoirs).
I’m going to upgrade my camera by 10x by moving to Samsung galaxy s21 ultra
Since the vaccines don’t seem to stop transmission their only use is to protect the ones who take it. So there is no need anymore for vaccine passports and forcing people to take it.

Unless I’m missing something?
> Youtube is an entertainment site...

That is a self-refuting statement. If Youtube was just an entertainment site: then they wouldn't be deleting legal content, with apparent public interest, provided to them for free.
Either way, Youtube didn't ban him, which contradicts the premise that they were just looking for an excuse to ban him because they loathed him. If that were the case, his content wouldn't exist on the platform anywhere.

It doesn't seem like much of a slippery slope if it goes down then comes back up again.
San Diego man, only place it can truly be called a Cali Burrito. That shit in LA is gross.

Most places have gone up about $3 since start of the pandemic.
I would not say the slippery slope take doesn't make sense. It is perfectly possible that had no one cried out about this change then the next change would have been:

Large government to Apple: "Please now also create a hash on each photo metadata field including date/time and location. Let us query these. AND BTW, this change must be kept secret. Thanks."
I am serious that it is straightforward to create a token where everyone on earth gets X/day in a sybil proof system.

Making this token retain some sort of value is of course an entirely different problem, and I don't have strong opinions on whether someone might pull it off.
The tweet that referenced the YouTube video explicitly stated that there was one disengagement. A review of the video shows at least two disengagements.

Something like 90% of the driving was on highways -- which is no different than the Tesla Autopilot from 5 years ago.

So, by my math, you have 2 disengagements in the roughly 1 hour of 'city streets' driving. This is what passes for journalism today.
You could also make the argument that letting the initial variant of the virus run its course may have been wiser than society wide mandates that prolonged it. Given the low infection fatality rate, if everyone under 50 in the US caught it, we would have around 30,000 deaths (or same order of magnitude if my estimate is off) because the IFR for those under 50 is so incredibly low. Then the rest of society would be well protected as well and we would have a high natural immunity against new variants that developed. If enacted worldwide, perhaps the reduced transmission may have avoided the delta surge altogether. Note that the CDC’s projections show that a higher natural immunity would mean reducing cases for delta even with limited masking.

Also the first SARS was far less transmissible. Generally speaking as viruses mutate, they tradeoff R0 and severity. It is unlikely the first SARS would have evolved a variant that was more transmissible and equally fatal.

EDIT: Note that even though increased transmissions can mean more mutations leading to dangerous variants anyways, if the alpha variant were spreading broadly before something like delta was broadly spreading, then the delta variant would contend with a higher natural immunity in the global population, which would make it difficult for delta to take hold in the same way. The CDC’s own presentations show that even a limited increased natural immunity of 35% would mean that delta cases would reduce without new masking mandates or restrictions.
Read up on the history of smaller wireless providers in Canada..

Wind Mobile (now Freedom Mobile, eventually bought by Shaw who then got - tentatively - bought by Rogers) is a good example of an actual attempt at establishing an independent telco to compete with the big 3.

If you can find articles on the uphill battle they faced, even with billions in investments, you'll understand what you're up against.

For better or worse telecom is an extremely locked up and highly regulated field in Canada, and the incumbents have pretty much complete control of the market through regulatory capture.
It's really not about politics, the vaccine simply didn't roll out fast enough to the entire population of the planet. What happened in the US is actually not that relevant as the US is only about 5% of the population of the planet, i.e. it's only 5% responsible for mutations, as the rate of mutations is proportional to the size of the susceptible population.

This is actually a "shortcoming" of tech. In quotes because the tech of the mRNA vaccines is actually stunning, but it just wasn't fast enough to test and manufacture (development was pretty much instant, the vaccines were ready in January 2020).
> Example why is it considered a crime to yell “fire” in a crowded theater?

Is it?

https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...
Do you really think Google is going out of business “overnight” or are you just thinking YouTube is an independent company?
> It’s not too late to reject technology that’s not on your side.

Oh, but it is. I have yet to see any convincing argument for how we get “back” (if we were ever there) to a time when technology was on our sides.

Vote with your wallet, they say, but when hostile technology is far cheaper than friendly technology, and the vast majority of the population couldn’t care less, how could we possibly make a dent? And this is before even considering that governments around the world are on the side of hostile technology.

Write to your representative, they say, but when our “democratic” representatives couldn’t care less about the needs of their constituents, yet term after term get re-elected regardless, who will hear us? And again, before considering that a) they’re voted in by the same careless majority, and b) that they are empowered by the very hostile technology we want them to combat?

I just don’t see a future that isn’t plagued by the overbearing influence of soulless tech companies and the corrupt scumbags that enable them.
Seasonal flu typically passes and has no lasting or permanent effects, in most cases.

What % of people get Covid and are noticeably operating at less than 100% thereafter? What % are operating at less than 70% thereafter?

Low CFR merely means you didn't die. It doesn't mean Covid didn't break you.
They don’t stop transmission but reduce its likelihood significantly. It seems someone who is vaccinated and very ill can be very infectious but generally vaccinated people are unlikely to infect others (reduced observed R0).
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I agree with your criticism but also firmly believe that once COVID started spreading beyond a few handfuls of individuals, its fate as a human endemic disease was locked in. No difference in policy by any or all countries would have changed that eventuality, other than at most modify the timeline slightly.
Apple’s whole marketing scheme was that they protected privacy. That was their market differentiation. So no, it wasn’t like this before and this is why so many people like myself feel betrayed by Apple. This is what most of the outrage is about. The largest most profitable company in the world was selling their products saying they believed in privacy and now created a Trojan horse wrapped around CSAM that can be used by governments to spy on whatever is in our phones and I guess our laptops too. Maybe not today. But in 10 years? Yes definitely. They have already bent to government pressure since 2016 what would stop them going forward? Nothing. Tim Cook doesn’t want to go to Guantanamo for defying a government order.
No. SEV is supposed to protect from root.
YouTube is really the poster child for reforming Section 230. Has anyone considered suing Google for violating 230??
The primary fuel for evolution of new variants is the spread of infection. Every time the virus copies itself is a chance for a new mutation, another roll of the roulette wheel for the creation of a stronger sARS-CoV-2.

So by letting infections spread as far as they did, we gave the raw evolutionary fuel to create new, more contagious, variants.

If we had cut the number of global infections in half, we might be living in a timeline where a delta-like variant never evolved.

We developed vaccines in record time, but if we had a way to distribute them more quickly, maybe it would have been prevented.

It's a global fight, and every government that let it get out of control worsened our chances at containment.
How is it that you are going to "wait and see how good their neural hashing is"? Do you think there is going to be any shred of transparency about the operation of this system? It is completely unaccountable - starting with Apple and going on to NCMEC and the FBI.
indeed the virtuous cycle of our times
That's probably because police are incredibly undereducated for the power they wield.
Have you filed an issue on it? We'd be happy to investigate. https://github.com/microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-Core/iss...
Vaccines definitely reduce transmission, just to a slightly smaller extent for the Delta variant. The CDC's messaging on this issue has been atrociously bad.
I first read this delightful story (and the Heinlien story) about 1968 (my 7th grade year) in a Clifton Fadiman anthology entitled “Fantasia Mathematica.” He also edited another anthology, “The Mathematical Magpie.” I’ve always been terrible at math, but loved stories about mathematics. This book, at least, was heavy on the topology stories.
How has it came back up again? Are you saying that some social media site that banned Trump has since unbanned him?
Delta’s rapid evolution and plausible defeat of the vaccine which was rolled out incredibly fast, on the back of unprecedented economic lockdowns implies to me we didn’t stand a chance absent a global totalitarian regime just imprisoning everyone in their homes for a year by force.
The vaccines don't stop transmission, but they still radically reduce it. Pfizer is 94% effective [1] in reducing transmissions of the original strain. Even with the delta variant it is still 64% effective:

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com.au/israel-may-reimpose-coron...
They could just keep scanning the data stored on their servers like everyone else does (Google, Etc) and leave it at that.
That was one example everyone knows about. Talk about Ivermectin, or previously, WIV lab release hypothesis... all censored at the time. (now they have allowed some discussion again, but the damage is done and agenda realized).
The problem is the network effect. Unless a ton of people move to some other platform at the same time, you're worse off individually for leaving.
Well, they are kind of failing at their job in a big way, likely costing the company billions of dollars in the process. I don’t feel that bad for them. 5% of other socials in revenue per user is comically bad.
My wife and I are both fully vaccinated for covid but there is no chance in hell I’m injecting my 4 year old son with essentially an experimental drug when there is practically zero risk to him from said illness.
It took me a few minutes to figure this out since I hadn't RTFA yet, but in this context,

CMA = Competition and Markets Authority (a UK regulatory body)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_and_Markets_Author...
And yet, the way Apple openly operates iCloud in China is infinitely worse than Google's Dragonfly ever could have been. Apple's reputation for privacy is entirely undeserved.
I sold all the Netflix stock I had purchased when they announced Qwikster. Woe is me!
`git pull --rebase` usually is what I need to do. To save local changes and rebase to the git remote's branch:

# git branch -av;
# git remote -v;
# git reflog; git help reflog; man git-reflog
# git show HEAD@{0}
# git log -n5 --graph;
git add -A; git status;
git stash; git stash list;
git pull --rebase;
#git pull --rebase origin develop
# git fetch origin develop
# git rebase origin/develop
git stash pop;
git stash list;
git status;
# git commit
# git rebase -i HEAD~5 # squash
# git push

HubFlow does branch merging correctly because I never can. Even when it's just me and I don't remember how I was handling tags of releases on which branch, I just reach for HubFlow now and it's pretty much good.

There's a way to default to --rebase for pulls: is there a reason not to set that in a global gitconfig?
Edit: From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13846300/how-to-make-git... :

> There are now 3 different levels of configuration for default pull behaviour. From most general to most fine grained they are: […]

git config --global pull.rebase true
This is an absolutely bizarre proposal. You want moderators to willingly pollute their subreddit with ads in exchange for personally getting a kickback from reddit? Users would either migrate en masse to competing subreddits with decent mods, or they'd stay due the same old problems with moderator inertia...
The do vastly lower the rate of transmission. That could translate into lower peak hospital utilization (even not accounting for their ability to prevent illness) which is good for everyone.

I do agree that this thing is going to spread in an unbounded manner regardless of what we do now though.
> why is this noteworthy?

It's not and other companies (maybe even Tesla itself?) have been able to do this since at least the early 2010's. Tesla gets a lot of marketing bang for their buck by letting a couple dozen Youtubers pay for and test their autonomous driving software instead of paid safety drivers. It make it feels more like something anyone can buy now unlike the competitions self-driving cars... and you can pay for it now! just it doesn't come with the features you expect from watching the videos or seeing the name of the product.
I still don't understand the entire premise here. Who cares if a driver can deliberately defeat these things? That's not the threat model!

A driver nag is an attentiveness reminder. You're driving a car. You're expected to be paying attention. No one else is responsible for safety. So the car wants (for both safety and liability reasons) to make sure you're doing what you're supposed to do. And it works. The car nags me and I tug the wheel to prove I'm there. Most of the time I'm paying attention anyway, but sometimes it's because I got distracted. It works.

If a driver deliberately wants to behave unsafely, there's no way to stop that, because there's an infinite number of ways drivers can behave unsafely. Do we want a system to detect when drivers speed up on yellow? Tesla could absolutely implement that. Why aren't we demanding it? Prevent drivers from approaching cars in adjacent lanes with higher than a 30mph speed delta? Could do that too.
Prevent accelerating in the wrong direction on a road?
Possible.

But no, all that stuff would be dumb, because it doesn't correspond to an actual safety problem with the hardware. We recognize it's driver behavior at fault, and we don't want our cars regulating behavior.

Why is this different?

I submit it's different because "Actually Elon Musk is an Asshole and TSLA went to the moon". Which isn't a very good premise for automobile safety designs.