skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lets start with "Lets be precautious until hospitals stop triage of care". Maybe we should be precautious until hospitalization levels return to something looking like normal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08/16/joel-valdez...

> Man shot 6 times waits more than a week for surgery after hospital is overwhelmed by covid

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When our hospitals are full, we should be cautious. When our hospitals empty out, we can open up a bit more. This obviously is location-dependent (and higher-vaccinated areas can afford to open up more).

But the absolute goal in every location is to keep hospitals functioning, and the relative stress levels of doctors / nurses at a reasonable level. I know in my state, we've been having to employ student nurses before they've graduated, so that there's enough staff around.

As long as hospitals feel the need for emergency measures, we need to be precautious and doing what we can to clamp down on the sickness.
Yeah, but right now it looks like they're complying. It's not like they're posting beheading videos. They're trying to project an image (largely hollow, imho) of a stable, reasonable government.

So if Twitter bans them, it'll essentially be because they're an armed group the US doesn't like, and not much more.

Wouldn't be nearly very surprising, though.
Sounds like the Atari 8-bits (except for the Ethernet).

Oh, except the Atari peripheral port was actually better than USB; Atari peripherals could be daisy-chained.
Watch out, it's 100% possible to do long ranges over WiFi but the speed tradeoff at long distances can be significant. Devices made for long-range use will either autoselect or allow you to manually select an encoding, which will need to be lower-rate as the range increases.

Documentation often gives radio performance values for different encodings, e.g. the Mikrotik DISC Lite5 gives Tx and Rx specs starting from 6Mbps (essentially 802.11a) up to MCS9 (256 QAM) which can do well over a gigabit. We can do some naive calculations to estimate that MCS9 is achievable at up to 5km (really pushing it) while 6Mbps works out to 50km or more! In practice there are other factors that will limit these because you start getting into fresnel zones and such, especially as you get over a few km.

The Ubiquiti devices are a bit more expensive but are easier to work with than Mikrotik. They also have higher-end options available for very long range use, 50-100km type scenarios, although the data rate gets very low.
Yes, thats integral to the point I'm making. Cat populations aren't being modulated by prey specie availability but they are still killing. A healthy ecosystem maintains a balance between predator and prey because their population numbers depend on each other. But cat populations that are being maintained by humans don't have that feature, hence the outsized impact of their predation.
To their credit they did not.
Like I've pointed out to others, I have nothing to say about other companies. I speak only about this one company where Rachel claimed that it would cause turmoil if you attempted to transfer your number out.

Rachel didn't actually raise a request for number transfer, so this was conjecture. I've gone through the process, and it was smooth. That's why I think it's a mole hill.

Everyone is saying "yes but at other companies...". Sure. I concede that. Just not at this one company.
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It's not as easy as just retuning camera settings. Due to physical limitations (at least with our current state of technology) camera sensors have a very limited dynamic range compared to the human eye. Increasing the exposure to better image darker surfaces will overexpose the rest of the image.

We can be hopeful though that this will become less of an issue in the future due to camera technology advancements (like HDR exposure stacks).
IdentityServer is not closed source, it is still Apache 2.0.
> The disease is spreading primarily among the unvaccinated.

What is the evidence for this? Vaccinated people are capable of spreading the disease just as easily as those who aren't. And since they're much more likely to be asymptomatic, may be more likely to spread the disease unknowingly.

Those without the vaccination are more likely to end up in hospital, but that says nothing about how the disease is actually being transmitted.
On the long run, they'll hopefully solve these problems with SSO.
You’re viewing “fixing” from the wrong lens. There are infinite bits of information about a person that could potentially be used in a model to calculate a credit score. At all times in every model you’re choosing a subset of one’s facets and can build statistically unbiased models based on the data you make available.

But when you talking actually fixing models like this you’re actually forced to correct the final result, not filter the data. Being blind to ethnicity doesn’t work because one’s ethnicity permeates (to different degrees, sure) every part of their lives. All the data is bad, everything is a statistically detectable proxy for ethnicity.
Because OP specifically mentioned Google Voice, my guess is that it was a phone number "ownership" code, rather than a 2FA code per se.

The attacker was probably trying to create a new Google Voice account forwarding to OP's phone number. They could then use the new GV account as its own "legitimate" phone number in order to engage in other scams.

(Alternatively, OP's password might have already been compromised, and this was the last stage of a targeted attack by someone trying to get into their account.)
IdentityServer is still Apache 2.0, that has not changed.
Why get the flu vaccine anymore? If you believe official reports, it’s basically been eliminated by virtue of simple mask mandates that everyone swears no one is following.
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What fight, and what voracity?
the fact that is exactly what the writer did.... and they refused?
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It also was not realistic to expect 100% to take a vaccine. Intelligent people realized this months ago but that became policy.
Interesting thing is how they fail in a human way.
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Maybe they were hoping that the scanner would try to recursively scan the returned image, and trigger some sort of buffer overflow or denial-of-service. This still seems like an unnecessarily painful way to carry out such an attack though.

The attack would make a little more sense if it was a response to the increasing prevalence of biometric-scanning public surveillance, but in which case the mark shouldn't be on his upper arm and instead be on his right hand or forehead.

Anyway, if the domain ever does expire, I'm sure someone could write some software which does a brute force search for alternative QA codes that are unchanged when (visually?) XORed with the existing design, but which point to a domain that hasn't been registered yet. He should perhaps work out what the minimum such change needed is and register the corresponding domain now, just in case.
I think tech isn't really suffering that much in comparison to other sectors.
Shipping is a small cost factor, just think about how much money a container full of laptops costs compared to a container full of some cheap plastic crap.
Great interview, one of my faves.

It's also appropriate, though possibly not for the reasons you'd chosen it.

Max Allen, Nelson's interviewer, struggled to be able to think far enough forward to comprehend how a tool he thought of as a glorified calculator might possibly be of use to the average person. The problem of course was that he was mis-categorising the tool, and greatly underestimating its capabilities and applications.

The issue I'm seeing in this thread, and amongst communications device and software designers, is a similar failure of comprehension and imagination, of being unable to look back in time and understand how a glorified bit of papyrus and leaky grease tube (pen and paper) could possibly serve the functions modern smartphones do. Again, it's a misunderstanding of the capabilities, workflow, possibilities, and affordances.

Thanks for illustrating the point so clearly!
It's the year of the Linux desktop!
The heatwave last year was pretty bad, and with climate change the heat waves are supposed to get worse so the article seems intuitive to me.
That's how OOP (but not Python) is taught sometimes
There's not a single heart disease, and a lot of cardiovascular issues are caused by bad habits rather than infectious pathogens.
Close encounters are a proxy for risk of collisions. Such as correctable bitflips are a proxy for the risk of corrupted data in ECC RAM.
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why does ATT have your SSN? Sounds like a lawsuit to me :)
That's because the poster probably thought that `tr` works like `sed`, replacing the string "spam" with the string "du" to produce their email address, du@50km.com.

That's not what `tr` does. It replaces each letter S-P-A-M with the letter in the same position in the string D-U. Because "du" is shorter than "spam," `tr` just reuses U for letters 3 and 4. So the mapping is S->D, P->U, A->U, M->U, making "spam@50km.com" into "duuu@50ku.cou," and the -s flag then compresses multiple repeated U's into one.

Lesson: don't be too clever.
None of that matters if house prices inflate outside of the income multiple that a bank will lend and you can't get a mortgage to begin with.
> Compulsory mass vaccination using the current vaccines poses a serious public health risk [1][2][3]

None of your references say this or anything remotely implying this. Backing up a provocative claim with a snowblind of irrelevant references is a shameful misinformation tactic and you should stop doing it immediately. Doing it in a public health context is particularly dangerous and frankly disgusting.
> which parses at about 4GB/sec.

That's a weird thing to say. Doesn't that depend on what hardware it's running on?
And how then are they going to make an image that is visually indistinguishable from the original?

Remember: the hash collision is only the first step in the process. You also need to convince the Apple reviewers that the image is pornographic, and convince the NCMEC reviewers that the image is in fact the same as the one that it met a hash match with (apparently by magic, since you're imagining that the original image that you have to make a visually-indistinguishable match to isn't available).

I ask again: how is this process any more potent than any regular old fashioned pornography framing?
McSweeneys is an internet writing/parody site. Their lists section is always amusing: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/lists
"It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones."

From _The Prince_ by Machiavelli
The point in my sharing this as 'anecdotal' is that this is my subjective view, and that from where I sit, these conclusions might follow but the correlation might be coincidental too. I.e maybe I avoided serious illness for some other reason; maybe I have no antibodies and the vaccine didn't trigger a response in me but I'm one of many who had it mildly. There are any number of other possible explanations. I'm not making any scientific logically bullet proof statements here, I'm speaking as an armchair pundit thinking "hmm, seems like a lot of vaccinated people I know have the virus all of a sudden. Seems like vaccines might be helping with the severity of the illness, maybe I was one of them. However, I wonder if all this means we should exercise just a bit more caution until we're sure this high infection rate isn't a problem in the overall fight we're engaged in".

The actual hard logic and policy I'll leave to the scientists and policy makers but, in the UK, at least the latter have a chequered history.
Your C compiler is probably a very large C++ program written over many years and with millions of dollars worth of time poured into it. The C compiler I use takes up hundreds of megabytes of space in a minimal build.

So in my opinion it's interesting if someone can write something original with 80% of the useful functionality on their own, or achieve it in a different way. And their code might be more approachable/educational to people than the behemoth.
Interesting! I’d always assumed it was a grassroots thing. Thanks for taking the time to teach me otherwise!
> Can't we do both the hard and easy? Neither precludes the other. How are you helping by obstructing either?

Probably not? That would assume people have infinite time and energy, and unlimited political and social capital to urge other people and organizations to change, which I don't think is true
I'd venture a guess that the average "normal person" is better at picking out clothing than I am, so I don't see the problem with this. Vanishingly few people who choose clothes for others, whether it's a Stitch Fix, Nordstrom, or styling celebrities, are "trained stylists." It's about taste, not training.
> all these systems support interoperability when money is on the line

Can confirm, worked at an EHR vendor, and we didn't see enhancements to our aging interfaces until Meaningful Use measures came into play.
> Well, I can't know if you're invoking it properly, but it's true of modern browsers.

No it isn’t.

> There's a lot of subtlety in technology. :)

Agreed. Perhaps you are missing something.

> The full article is indeed returned upon your request and hidden by your browser after the fact. You can prove this to yourself …

This is irrelevant to whether private browsing solves the problem or not.
There's probably an IP theft joke in there, because this is basically GDPR.

Good on the Chinese government to implement it, though. I assume the government itself isn't concerned, but at least they're acknowledging that privacy is valuable.
“Trust” is pretty much my central issue with Apple now. I posted this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28250157) earlier that addresses the CSAM issue specifically, but I think this article demonstrates that it’s a broader issue than any single feature or announcement.
Tesla bot is another marketing gimmick, but if someone going to invest in making better robotic arms, mimicking the mechanics of animal movement or inventing new flexible & light-weight materials and batteries, than regardless of the state of "AI" it has immediate applications.

By the time actual AI will be developed (by neuroscientists building a model of animal cognition) we will have a realistic android body to plug it into with all the mechanics, motor controls and materials science worked out.

AI and robotic engineering/biomechanics are largely orthogonal and can develop in parallel.
In many countries, a pre-paid phone costs almost nothing to keep active.

I keep a UK number for some 2FA systems, it costs about £0.10 per year. I just have to send an SMS every 6 months to keep the line active.
I really don’t think anyone is really going to disagree with you that data is truth and actions are what matters but you run into two problems.

* If you draw any conclusion from the data it will reflect the biases in the data.

* If you take any action from the data it will reflect the biases in the data.

So you’re going to be “correcting” at some point if you want to avoid that bias which is what really matters.
That’s not really true.

Say you want to know if you should approve someone for insurance.

SELECT AVG(profit)
WHERE feature == $user_feature;

Say “feature” is education level and then suppose education level is correlated with race or gender. Then you implicitly are writing a query to filter by race or gender. Humans often don’t consider these implicit correlations.

An AI would do the same. When it’s human face detection, then sure, humans would find the mistakes quickly. But SQL data is very easy to implicitly bias, and like I said, you can slice the pie millions of ways for various reasons.

On the other hand, if we had a simple definition, then the database could raise an exception when the condition for the query failed.
Why does digitization affect breathing sound?
Isn't that because of the position of mic of landline phones?
He is the worst presenter ever, but his narcissistic personality demands that he does these things although he always sucks at them.
With the exception of truly defective panels, this is a pretty long range issue. Panels just degrade fairly linearly over a very long period of time. In 20 years they may still produce 75 percent of their rated output…. I’m pretty sure they will find homes where space is not at a premium for another 20 to 40 years after that. Then, yes, most will need to be recycled.
What is the point of setting up a hardware or Google Authenticator-type 2FA solution when most companies will fallback to SMS? Is there a way to prevent the SMS fallback (last I checked it was 'No' for most sites except maybe Google if I remember, and then you still had to go in and manually delete it)?

Does a master list exist of companies that don't use SMS, or allow the user to exclude it? Otherwise it seems like most 2FA is just opening up a much easier attack vector (social engineering a phone number port) vs guessing a long, random, unique password. A password manager with browser plugin (or iCloud Keychain) mostly solves the phishing issue if you stop a second to think on the rare occasions when you need to manually copy/paste because of a weird subdomain or partner domain.

I've been 'about to' set up 2FA for over a decade now, but it always seems like a bad idea.

Edit: Also, who's to say customer service agents won't/don't fallback to sending an SMS reset code even if the account supposedly requires a dongle or app for 2FA.
Wait wasn't the whole point of computer driving that animals sucks at driving and get killed at an alarming rate while operating machinery?
That's a very uncharitable (and in my judgement inaccurate) characterization of GP's argument - the usage of the MaB fallacy as you've done neglects the principle of steelmanning your opponent's position, and shifts the discussion from a fact-finding mission to "winning an argument", both things that are anathema to good discourse. The article you linked expands on this criticism of the MaB fallacy in the 'Criticism' section.

GP took advantage of an analogy to counter the claim that ethics is only about shaming and calling people out. Analogical reasoning is a powerful philosophical tool that can lead to important insights and discovering new questions. In this case, GP used the analogy where we apply ethics (relatively uncontroversial) in a scientific context. If the comparison is successful, it counters the claim that ethics is only a fashionable way of shaming people.

Lastly, GP never claimed to 'win' the argument with the analogy (even if it were a motte-and-bailey). It's entirely possible that GP has more work to do after getting a response to the analogy.
Interstitial pages are pages that pop up when you intend to go somewhere else, but need to complete an approval process, like the “I agree to the EULA” page

Edit: an 18+ interstitial would just be one that asks if the person is 18+
> who are the "white people"?

I think I know what you're getting at - these concepts evolved over time. Irish and Italians didn't used to be considered "white". They do now.

But the answer is statistics. Broadly speaking, in western society, "White people" are the ones that have privilege to be not discriminated against in the court system, with housing, with job applications, with police brutality, etc.

We are the ones that get treated as the "default". This is why "white-passing" is a term that exists.

> Justice is built on the principle of individual responsibility for a reason, collective punishments don't have a place in just society.

That's the whole point - we still do have collective punishments that need to be negated. Black people DO get disproportionately higher prison sentences for the same crimes. Black people DO experience disproportionately more police brutality for the same behaviour. etc.

> But I'll indulge the thought that white owe collectively some kind of reparations... So, what's the amount, and to whom do I pay to be free of the burden? Do I get a certificate after I pay? After wich percentage of payment from the whites can we start removing poc subsidies in job and education?

Since I didn't bring up actual financial reparations, let's leave that discussion for another day.

Fixing injustices and issues of privilege doesn't require those with privilege to pay anything. For those used to privilege equality can feel like oppression, but it doesn't have to.

The goal is to build society based on merit, not racial assumptions. When black people get beat by the police the same amount as white people, that's when we're done, for example.

Your white responsibility for example, is that when you hear about an instance of police brutality is not to have the first question you ask be "What did the victim do to deserve it?"
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Nothing makes a country better than another, in absolute. Although, some aspects of life may be more enjoyable in one or another, depending on your taste.

I think most of us can agree living in an abundance of resources (waste!) with some mild political freedom where you're allowed to say anything as long as you don't try to change anything (see: COINTELPRO, Julian Assange, etc) like in the Global North, is more pleasant to live on a daily basis than a hunger-ridden autocracy like North Korea. But even that is debatable and i'm sure many north koreans would disagree.

What can we do about it? Attack the system, day by day and bits by bits. Steal what you can from the rich to redistribute to the poor. Make cooperatives, whether as employees or volunteers, so that more and more people can quit wage exploitation and start to live again, "from each according to their capabilities, to each according to their needs" (old anarchist saying). Form collectives for all kinds of struggles affecting you and your loved ones: anti-patriarchy, anti-racism, accessibility...

Don't accept anyone claiming they're above you. We're all in this together, and those who claim to seek authority to find solutions will create more problems than they will solve, no matter their good intentions. We need to build "power to the people", not "power over the people", as anyone who has studied some history of political repression in the early Soviet Union (and other "dictatorships of the proletariat") can learn. See also Emma Goldman's "Trotsky protests too much" or "There is no communism in Russia" on this topic.

Organize. Organize. Organize.
No, they probably just aren't making headway against the established players like Epic
I would start by presenting the Ancient Giant with a gift to earn their favor first. Some nice cheeses or chocolates, but snails and lasers are cool too.
> You can pick groups within "Black" who are more closely related to a random "White" person than they are to a random person from some other "Black" group.

Sure, for an arbitrarily restricted definition of "subgroup", you can do that. Worst case of cherrypicking, you pick some two specific individuals who would satisfy your scenario (since a one-person group is also a group). Likewise you could claim that West Berlin was more similar to East Berlin because Frankfurt was much further away from both than they were to each other. Not quite sure how cherrypicking matters, though.
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