skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn’t prove the people doing these voluntary lockdowns had any different of an outcome than if they did nothing at all.

Way to many people just blindly assume these interventions worked. The fact is we have zero clue if they did anything or the outcomes experienced by different regions was a result of a bunch of stuff that is completely out of our control.

If I was gonna bet, my money would be on the lockdowns not doing anything. The virus did what it did no matter how hard humans tried to control it. We had as little control over covid as we have control over other natural disasters like tornadoes and hurricanes.
> Hash collisions alone don’t cause the system to detect CSM, even if they are generated intentionally.

> If you don’t know this, then you simply don’t understand how the system works.

Here's what I know:

- filter was very easily defeated. (took 1 week at most)

- actual CP can be made to hash the same as anything else.

So it's actually useless for catching CP, its stated goal...

Now, here's how its weaponized by other parties:

Make child porn hash the same as pictures of Trump or Biden for example, witness half of america being acused of porn once hash enters database.

Since you seem to be an expert, care to explain how this cannot happen?

> Does it not? Can you explain why it doesn’t?

2 insecure hashes are equivalent to a somewhat longer original insecure hash MxN matrix vs 2Mx2N with independent determinants. You defeat it the same as it was done here. It took 1 week to defeat the current one, so say 4 weeks for 2 hashes?

> I have to assume you don’t know the difference between a cryptographic hash and a perceptual hash otherwise you wouldn’t have quoted this

And the rest of the comment are a lot of words that add no value. Care to lecture me how things are secure so i can revisit this in a year and see who was right?
I think the more people we educate on critical thinking, the less effective click bait will be.

Today though, if a used car salesman has some truly great cars that people really need but nobody buys them because Donald down the street is pulling people in to buy lemons with bald faced lies...well, that's sort of the conundrum we find ourselves in, isn't it?
Actually it depends on the signal, whether WiFi is turned on, etc. I used to build mobile apps for luxury clubs who wanted to know which members were arriving at the club (e.g. to go ahead and start getting their golf clubs ready. First world problems, I know). The GPS data we get access to for both Google and Apple includes lat/lng plus a radius in meters that represents the accuracy of the measurement. Depending on the different factors it can be over 100m or as little as about 5m.
Exactly. It would be great to have a secondary pin (or my middle finger fingerprint, for example) in my phone to enter in a dummy environment with a few games, some family pics and so.
> We have plenty of examples of censorship being effective. Take opposition to the US invasions of Iraq, for instance. Anyone who opposed it - even the Dixie Chicks, famously - was deplatformed and attacked in the media. There was no reasonable debate about whether it was a good idea. And it turned out it was not a good idea, and there were no WMDs, and it was a quagmire. But because opposition was pushed underground, it had no political power.

Decades later, the most common position among Americans is increasingly that the invasion of Iraq was a bad idea. Censorship did not work in the medium-run.
Mainly garbage collection. If you've got garbage collection performance is not going to be better than Java.

Goroutines, channels and all of that are cute but I see go as Java--. Opinionated approaches to concurrency go so far and then they run out of steam.

We are living in the deep multi-core age and it is quite mainstream to have 8 or more cores, Java gives you primitives that are sufficient to keep those cores almost fully utilized doing real work. To do so you have to understand what those primitives are and what their characteristics are: attempts to solve parallelism and concurrency that don't do that (like the work-stealing mechanism behind JDK 8 parallel streams) might keep 3 cores on an 8 core machine busy with real work if you're lucky. Tune up an appropriate Executor with the right thread count and and you can get 7.8 cores worth of real work barely trying...

But you have to understand what an Executor does and what your toolbox of concurrency primitive does. There is this promise that "channels solve everything" and it's just not true... I mean with channels you might always get forward progress but you won't unleash the multicore beast inside your phone, never mind desktop or server.
It's incredible to me that they let this thing on the road. It could not pass a driver's test!
Policy wise, I prefer hard data to parables.
The market is hot (in the US) measured by salaries, as noted upthread. It's easy to make tons of money.

But finding a place with European levels of vacation? Impossible. I'd give anything to work 25% of my hours for 25% of the pay, but such jobs don't exist.

And US healthcare problems of course can't be changed by changing jobs (I've had the exact same Blue Shield PPO plan across 7 employers in the previous decade+).
Telegraph has an anti-lockdown agenda to push in the UK; it is not an impartial source here.

In the UK the praise for the "Sweden model" comes particularly from the conservative-aligned pro-business anti-lockdown lobby; who are producing PR for their proposition that "lockdowns do more (economic) harm than they do (public health) good". Right or wrong, it's certainly not impartial reporting on a foreign country, it's selling the idea that this should be policy at home.

If you're reading such an article from a UK publication and you're not in the UK, then you are not the target of this marketing exercise. You are informational Bycatch.
It's unusable today, more so than it was a decade ago:

- modern frameworks have a much higher startup time (see Python imports, Java VM and other). CGI was fine to run a perl script with no dependencies.

- it prevents any form of caching. caching is very important for many use cases.

- it requires to open a fresh connection with every request, to the database and elsewhere (too bad if you thought you could use redis for caching).

- SSL is everywhere and it has a notable overhead on initialization, meaning you really wish you could reuse connections. (Not just the databases but to other API services)

Speaking from experience, I've inherited the CGI platform at JP Morgan (the largest US bank), that went back to 2006 and approached a thousand running applications at some point. It works and it was still the easiest way to deploy any application in 5 minutes 2 decades later but the drawback are real. It's only for short scripts that can tolerate a 5 second startup time and zero caching.

https://thehftguy.com/2020/07/09/the-most-remarkable-legacy-...
I don't know how it is in other fields; I'm a linguist, who made the transition to computational linguistics back when you had to be a linguist to be a computational linguist (the 1980s). Slow forward to statistical (and now neural) comp ling; I find it incredibly boring. But the data work still needs to be done, and there are still linguists. And even more than me, they find computational linguistics (of whatever type) less interesting that "real" linguistics. So they will do data work, and willingly.
For this reason, arguably it is the treasury that truly creates money these days, especially with a great excess of reserves. And there has certainly been plenty of “treasury printing” in the last year.
Its probably redundant for the HN audience, but some people are shocked to see the location data google has. See for yourself:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/timeline
My HOA recently approved an environmental stewardship policy and plan. Among the requirements: plant natives first. You'd have thought the people supporting the plan were proposing to kill members' grandchildren. The rhetoric was unreal for such an issue that no one had ever really thought about.

It doesn't help that local hardware stores and the biggies sell fewer natives than non-natives.

Both the policy and the plant sales significantly matter here: we are in Virginia a stone's throw from the Chesapeake Bay. Doing right by the environment (plants, wildlife, water) is important in its own right but the beauty of the environment is also why so many people moved here to retire.
I find the beorg UI ugly. I would really love an Orgzly for iPad.
I know a lot of right-wing types like to point to Sweden as an example. But I'd argue whether what they did was right or wrong the Swedish population was better prepared. Compared to the USA the Swedish socialized medical system would mean that most of their citizens probably started off healthier.
IMAP is read/write and holds the mail on the server (unlike POP).

If you go into your internet accounts settings and tick "notes". Notes will surface it and stores notes in folders on the mail server. (Not all of notes functionality is available in the notes stored in those folders.)
The most important thing to say about this "definitive guide" is that it delays to the end presenting the overwhelmingly most important detail about Concepts: how to use them.

The right place to put a concept name, in production code, is in place of "typename" in a template definition, or even better in place of "T" in the function argument declaration. That is, instead of

template<typename T>
T add(T a, T b)
requires addable<T> (
return a + b;
)

say

template <addable T>
T add(T a, T b) {
return a + b;
}

or

auto add(
addable auto a,
addable auto b) {
return a + b;
}

according as whether you want to enforce a and b to have the same type (which is another omission).

Most often it is not necessary, and not wanted, to enforce a and b having the same type.
> Other invasive species being sold include Japanese barberry, Chinese privet, whitetop, Norway maple, Brazilian peppertree, Russian olive, garlic mustard, yellow star thistle, Canada thistle

Who are these people who want to own a thistle, yet alone pay for one?
A Seattle mecca for running goes dark; city falls short on homelessness
I can't remember which department, but I remember the local SF/Bay news many years ago talking about some supervisor at that department somehow making $1.5 million the year before (or something insane like that.) They explained how it was all possible, which to me seemed like he had just been with them for so long, he knew exactly the optimal way to play the system and exploit all the loopholes in it.

As for your second part, I guess it would seem unlikely for some positions, but I know a doctor who made like 3x his base salary each year through all sorts of absolutely legal, ethical, and hospital-sanctioned means. Taking every single weekend he could on call (even offering to "relieve" other doctors who had been assigned that weekend) for example allowed him to make much more than you would ever think possible.
First Edition Unix Manual 'Miscellaneous' Section (1971) [pdf]
There’s an app called Exporter on the MAS that will export all your notes as markdown (with images in a side folder) just FYI. I believe it’s free.
Fuel cells for drones are a thing with about 3x endurance https://www.intelligent-energy.com/our-products/uavs/
I think VeraCrypt already enables this. It's called Hidden OS or something like that.
Are those floats actually distinct? I mean you could represent 3.0 + 4.0 = 7.0 as well. Are "-0.0" and "0.0" actually different?

(This is a serious question I honestly don't know.)
Steve Jobs and Apple (auction result)
Malware Slows Your Computer According to Local Covid-19 Infection Rates
TSMC and Samsung are two companies that have competitive technology node in EUV (Intel struggling).

It means they have invented ways to use these machines to print extremely small transistors and that are fast, energy efficient and have good yield (less failures in the process).
> In NZ (a LHS system), I've heard that turning right across traffic has priority over oncoming traffic.

This is incorrect and would be utterly chaotic. You may be thinking of an outdated rule in NZ where right-turning traffic takes precedence over left-turning coming in the opposite direction to the same side road. This was the case for a long time but was reversed[0] in 2012, overnight, almost without a hitch.

[0] https://www.nzta.govt.nz/driver-licences/getting-a-licence/r...
You are right. I am wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_urban_area

I find ~4200 on Wikipedia but your point stands.
yeah there's that one guy who tried to cross the border from canada and got blocked for having scruff on his phone

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/02/22/canadian-man-custom...

5 years on we're somehow all managing our own crypto keys, the phone is the key to unlock our digital lives, so we're all in the counterintelligence game. more tools like this.
Ah, no wonder!
I’m reading the readme of your project, and got to the part where it says

> for example a mail could be automatically sent from his computer to a rescuer, a script could delete sensitive files in his hard-disk or a certain Rick Astley song could be appropriately played

And I’m just imagining someone having set two duress passwords; one for kidnapping situations and one that they put there as a joke. And then they get kidnapped and they try to input the one supposed to call for help, but they misremember so they input the rickroll trigger instead.

And the kidnappers are like “hey what the hell, you think this is funny man? turn that off” and the kidnapped person cries for having messed up their one chance at calling for help.
Merriam-Webster and Cambridge both use "as a lark" in their online dictionaries:

> on/as a lark idiom

> US, informal

> just as a way to have fun

> She entered the race on/as a lark.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20a%20lark

> lark noun [C] (ACTIVITY)

> an activity done for enjoyment or amusement:

> He started hang-gliding years ago as a lark.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/lark (definition from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary)
> very big difference between competency in mechanical device/metal working/plastic moulds etc and ramping up electrical / battery / material science / control systems

1. Tesla uses Panasonic batteries. Japan already has quite a lot of domestic industry manufacturing those parts and the quality is also top notch.

2. Dunno about batteries, probably with proper management they can last long, but if you maximize performance they'll degrade just like horsepower pumped low capacity engines.

3. Remember Japan had the Fukushima nuclear accident and it has turned off nuclear powerplants and replaced the capacity with coal for almost 10 years. I don't know if the nuclear capacity they have left is even 100% back online.
I was thinking distance—if the object emitting the yellow light is 240K miles away from your car, it can be assumed that it isn’t a traffic signal, right?
Consensus versus Consent
Wouldn't max( x,-x ) cover everything ?
For #1, Currently the response uses your custom email address as the Reply-To address, but the email comes from a hubdesk.io email address. It's on my list to add support for custom domains.

For #2, yes. You can go back a forth with the user just using commments.

For #3, that's also on my list to add.

Thanks for the feedback!
No one knows for sure. I’ve seen a study or two that found that reading and writing generic code is a lot harder, while using a generic library is relatively easy.
What's the definition of "lockdown" anyways? Because I can't name that many COVID-19 restrictions that have been enacted in Finland.
An interesting companion may be althttpd, that runs the Sqlite website:

https://sqlite.org/althttpd/doc/trunk/althttpd.md

Heard about it in the Changelog podcast the other day.
Yes, it's https://tailwindui.com/.
Hope that offsets the excess 10k dead.
-7 is the reference for .47 std deviations but those who managed at home without respitory symptoms had much less than that (.02 std Dev). See fig two which has been replicated in basically every paper I've read on this.

If (big if) the severity of symptoms of covid is associated with immune response from it being a novel pathogen, then the long term outlook isn't so bad as long as everyone gets vaccinated. That's my hope at least. Otherwise we're stuck living forever with a disease that is extremely contagious and extremely feared.
I used to believe in the self driving hype. Then I learned ML and started working in related areas. Now I know full self driving is not happening, not with the technology/algorithms we have. So what ever anyone does is just an approximation and we will never be able to trust the car will handle any situation thrown at it. So its always going to be a souped up cruise control, the likes of which Tesla and others are selling. We need some kind of breakthrough to get fully autonomous self driving where we can sleep in the car while it takes us to the destination.

I would, of course, love to hear if folks here think I am wrong.
The autograph one.
If only the rejects from other platforms congregate on gab, they can’t mainstream their toxic views with the general public. That’s an example of deplatforming working.
"... if you're concerned about security problems from giving the DNS API access to your main domain..."

Tying the security of the dns records of your website and the security of TLS certificates of your website into one shared fate setup is a terrible idea.
> If I was gonna bet, my money would be on the lockdowns not doing anything. The virus did what it did no matter how hard humans tried to control it

Tell that to New Zealand, who have had less than 3,000 cases in a population of 5 million. They did this with strict border controls (people on inbound flights must isolate for 2 weeks) and quick response to community transmission (several lockdowns totalling 40 days).
Social media can't be a common carrier without destroying social media's business model.

We already had a "common carrier" model in the form of usenet, which turned into an absolute shithole when the average person was given access to post whatever he wanted.
> It should be noted that no country are planning to ban fossil fuel-burning power plants.

We need a bit more nuance than this. Ontario, Canada hasn’t strictly banned fuel-burning plants, but they’ve come damn near close to it. Their electric grid is 96% emissions free.
They've had regular city-wide/regional lockdowns all throughout. If someone in your apartment complex tests positive SURPRISE you cant leave for two weeks. Normal is gone, it's not coming back. When you move the goal post from "not overwhelming our medical system" to attempting "covid zero" this is the new normal you end up with, somewhere between China and Australia.

August 2021
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/02/millions-under...

June 2021
https://www.scmp.com/coronavirus/greater-china/article/31380...

January 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/world/asia/china-covid-lo...
With the lights and the app and all the little figures?
I cope with long haul driving better than nearly anyone I know. I still find the gas stop every 3.5 hours or so essential. I get out of the car, walk around a bit, get something to drink and a snack to eat, and it makes a huge impact in how I feel and how alert I am. I have no problem doing 18 hour days multiple days in a row so long as I do this.
Like writing C in a simple console-based editor and compiling it with cc on the command line, writing raw CGI scripts like this is a great way to start and learn underlying principles. You can build some simple, even useful things and understand every bit of what is happening.

It doesn't scale to what we do on the web today, of course.

It's a good place to start. Not a good place to stay.
I don't know anything about Chinese surnames, but their paucity cannot be due to a limited set of possible sounds. First, I would interpret "sounds" as phonemes (including tones), and there are far fewer of those than 400. More likely what you mean is the number of combinations of phonemes into valid Chinese Mandarin monosyllables, of which I cannot imagine there being only 400. In any case, there are (from what little I've heard) lots of bisyllabic Chinese words. Can't they be represented by single (or double) characters? There are thousands of commonly used Chinese characters, and tens of thousands more uncommonly used characters.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28266156
Banks record deposits as liabilities because they're owed to someone. Law enforcement with sufficient pretense to get a judge to sign a warrant is owed any data Google holds. Data is a liability.
Its proven. It’s physics. I can’t catch covid from you because we’re probably on different continents. Living across the street works as well if I don’t open the door. This has been tested for every transmissible disease every organism has had that we’ve managed to witness. Similarly, fewer interactions result in fewer opportunities for transmission. Reduce transmission and the numbers go down. What’s to prove here?

Didn’t vote you down.
Maybe try pomodoro[0]? And lots of caffeine :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
Governments are basically asking for extortion data for allowing and encouraging google to collect data.
Do you really think most educated people in PRC don't know about 1989? They know, they just think it would be deeply unreasonable to raise this kind of controversy in public when the government is making the average Chinese's lives so much better. It's a very complicated game, and there are multiple sides pushing opposition underground.

Opposition to the Iraq war was a very similar story, where many and perhaps most people were hopeful that promoting democratic values in the Middle East would actually work, and nip the root causes of Islamofascist terrorism in the bud. Of course the reality was very different.
As someone who lives in Stockholm and who has visited Milan multiple times I would say both cities have a pretty similar population density and any difference you might see will be due to how the city borders are selected. Neither city is particularly dense or particularly sparse.
I have certainly accepted some large inefficiencies in a purchase including the house I live in now.

This was a case where the seller had mowed back the bamboo and placed weed barrier and fresh soil to hide it. There hadn't been any visible bamboo during the viewing that precipitated our offer. About 3 days later we inspected and found pervasive multi-inch long shoots of bamboo throughout the yard including big shoots going into a supporting shared wall with the neighbor and into the neighbor's yard as well as into the house foundation and siding.

To completely remove the bamboo we would have had a large excavation that included tearing out and rebuilding the entry walkway disrupting our use of the home. To pay someone to do the labor, guarantee removal (there are specialist companies), and perform the geo-engineering work was estimated to cost 25-30K here in Seattle.

To be clear, we did ask the seller to reduce their price to accommodate that work because we felt we had offered a generous (and competitive above many competing offers) price for the house. That price did not include removing the hidden-at-the-time-of-offer bamboo. The seller didn't like that which was their right. They rejected our counter and months later sold the house for less than our offer minus the cost of the bamboo removal.

[edit: planting invasive bamboo in your yard literally reduces the value of your home]