skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they can identify individual people breaking curfew, then yes that's way out of line. If they can estimate the percentage of people breaking curfew within an entire large city, that seems like important policy input. And there's a huge gray area in between.

In actual fact, I'm not entirely comfortable with the "large city" granularity either. I don't want a city that is majority black to be treated differently using the excuse of their aggregated health data, for instance. I think these types of data collections need to be treated very seriously, requiring justification for specific uses, tracking where it lives and enforcing penalties when it shows up elsewhere. Because these data are going to be out there and used. If they aren't managed responsibly, they'll be sold on the black market and used in completely uncontrolled ways.
>"The CDC used the data for monitoring curfews, with the documents saying that SafeGraph’s data “has been critical for ongoing response efforts, such as hourly monitoring of activity in curfew zones or detailed counts of visits to participating pharmacies for vaccine monitoring.” The documents date from 2021."

What business does the CDC have with Monitoring for local curfews? Wouldn't curfew monitoring be more the purview of local law enforcement more so than the remit of national health agency. Further did the US actually have hard curfews anywhere?
Yeah, he seems to have been complaining about it for 40 years...
You forgot major ties with big Pharma. Beyond the point of corruption.
Home Depot Launches $150M Venture Capital Fund
Here is the part where I admit that I am an idiot and don't actually know.

All I do know is that in Java I cannot create this many threads and in the talks given about Project Loom this is given as the explanation as to why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO9oMiL1fFo @ ~4:00

Is it maybe not the actual spawning but some "switch" that flips once you start using the thread?

I'll update the post or leave a comment with a correction once I understand exactly what you mean
Cheap microcontrollers are beefy these days. You can run Python on them; plug it into your workstation, open "code.py" on the drive, write your program, enjoy. Yes, there's the REPL too!
update: they added it and with EU vpn you can press the reject button!
A. will other websites follow? (its so stupid that we had accept all or "more information" button, but never reject and its crazy)
B. does it do anything really? i never save cookies in the first place.
UseStateValidation: Functional Programming UseState
So are the 3 US carriers all selling customer location data to SafeGraph then? I'm assuming that's the only source of SafeGraph’s data? I'm guessing there is no opt-out for this either just like the other sleazy data brokers.
Rainbow CSV in VSCode makes it a lot easier to deal with.
Despite your closing sentences, I fear you might not be being remotely cynical enough here.

>Only in art are experts thrown on the garbage heap while moneyed interests court the brains of those more easily duped simply due to less experience.

The entire multidisciplinary world of Academia in general, would like a word. In particular the sciences. Try telling a PhD candidate fishing for research funding for a potentially climate-saving data/technology that experts are respected :-)
I can add this to those that gained a bit of weight, and have a sewing machine, or just a needle and thread.

Most pants, even the cheap pants at Costco, have about a 1" to 2" at the back seam of excess fabric.

Be it cheap, or expensive, most brands have a bit of material to make the waist bigger.

Use a razor, or sewing thread cutter (I don't know the name, but you guys have seen the tool before. They are everywhere, including Safeaway).

You carefully cut the fabric from the backside of the trousers.

Use a magnifying glass, or I use a stereoscope, in order to not tear the delicate fabric, cut the thread.

Then sew the elongated pieces together. You don't need to worry about serging the material in most cases.

In the end, if you are a 38w you can go to a 40w in an hour.

(This does not work with most jeans though. Just slacks. I'm very interested in the technique this family uses to repair fabric. I kinda know what they are doing in their repairs, but I would like to know more. If anyone knows more about this technique, I'd appreciate any instruction, or further information on this technique of weaving. I need extra income, and I'm in the Bay Area.)
Same. Every bathroom in my house has that. Though the kitchen sink does not, now that I think about it (I'm in Australia).
As far as I know the cdc hasn’t dropped radiation in anyones tea or put a deadly poison on the door knob of anyone’s front door.
but wouldn't it be easy to catch people with lot of near expiry far OTM put options for instance?

Or are these people going on r/wallstreetbets to write long DD upvoted by bots, purchased accounts, awards, under VPN to make their purchases seem organic?

Still wouldn't it be obvious somebody doing that routinely and establishing a pattern of unusually high win rates before earnings?

Sort of like how poker companies catch cheaters, simply by knowing the average win rate to be within a specific distribution, even the slightest deviation or outlier would send its risk management scrutinizing play by play to determine a pattern.

Wouldn't large state actors with web of shell companies be able to obfuscate and get away with impunity? Literally printing money and also weaponizing a foreign financial market.
ten fingers and both eyeballs ... we can do it!
Data is code that prints/evaluates to itself.
Oh wow, I'm definitely alarmed by this whole situation.

I've went ahead and just deleted the whole account - it's at the point where I don't want to do business with this company, full stop.
That wasn't my conclusion, I just pasted what the author of the code said.
https://harrlawfirm.com/news/how-frequently-are-medical-malp....

> About 37% of plaintiffs are successful.

Also, bonus science articles about the rise of mental health risks with abortion:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6207970/

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-...
oh wow that's very impressive

How did you deal with keeping yourself hydrated and filled?
Did you drink caffeine to keep yourself awake?

I would love to try something similar when I'm in a new city once
I checked out the website listed, and it was no where on the front page about mental health.
Where can one read more about this last bit?
I’m a big fan of walking. Most days I walk my dog anywhere from 2-4 miles a day. I’m no extreme walker.

I have a day job. That said, it’s my favorite part of my day. If I need to think about things. Either personal or work related, I work it out. If not, I listen to podcasts, and learn more about the world or current events.
Does this standard prevent unsigned portions, a la Dropbox/Chrome telemetry with Authenticode?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ieinternals/c...

> the signature blocks themselves can contain data. This data isn’t validated by the hash verification process, and while it isn’t code per-se, an executable with such data could examine itself, find the data, and make use of it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8203164 (2014)
The only people who care about Fauci, or even say his name, are the people who need an effigy to burn and a boogeyman to pin all their fears and conspiracies on. To most Americans, he is a semi-remarkable bureaucrat who had a couple of weeks time on TV and managed to get a tiny bit of name recognition out of it. To the right, he's the central puppet master, solely holding the strings of a shadowy global conspiracy by the Deep State to use 5G and vaccines to mind control the world into the New World Order. Look at their forums, he's somehow become this terrifying Bond Villain to these guys. It used to be Hillary, now it's Fauci. They need an evil mastermind to focus on.
Per the article, he was born in Brazil (Brusque, a small town in Santa Catarina).
There’s even preact which is similar to react but a different org.
Weird that you think it's learned helplessness when I'm advocating on the behalf of others.
Vim Mode State Diagram
Even if your mental model is as simple as "CPU processing + L1 cache is infinitely fast, having to fetch data from anywhere else is dog slow" you'll be able to optimize code pretty well given the characteristics of modern processors.
Waffle House, or maybe lower class, but it’s enjoyed by a lot of middle class.
No, the risks is not clear from foreign experience alone:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6207970/
That's a perfectly pointless and tautological argument, then. Because anything anybody ever did was considered by that person to be useful to themselves at that point of time.

It has nothing to do with the cliché about "good intentions", which rests on a theory of using some universally accepted "good" as cover or argument for some action, or even as the true motivation for actions that end up having unwanted side effects.

The Nazis did not use anything like that to advertise the Holocaust. In fact they did not advertise the Holocaust at all: while any thinking German had an inkling, official communications only ever spoke of "resettlements".

There was very little virtue signaling with the Nazis, in other words. Much like their brethren today, they very much knew they were the baddies and embraced that status with a certain sense of "so what?", hence skulls as insignia: it's an open acknowledgement that you reject common concepts of virtue with full knowledge, and that you enjoy using raw power to do so. "Owning the libs" 1.0, so to speak.
> a very political corporation

Not saying the retreat was a wholesale bad idea, but it sounds to me like part of the reason it's political could be because there's an in-group and out-group derived from the retreat.
LINQPad
Ask HN: S: Thinking of moving to Florida or Texas? What city and why?
Loved Graal growing up! Thank you!
Even on large web apps I almost never reach for the react or redux specific dev tools. Just the normal debugger is more than sufficient.
Maybe it’s just me, but I found flux to be poorly documented, incredibly slow, and I find their landing page marketing a bit misleading. They almost imply you can simulate microcontroller behavior + other circuitry all on their tool, which would be an enormous undertaking. It’s what led me to sign up. But in the end it’s just a tool that barely makes any sense. The learning curve for their simulator assumes hardware folks are going to spend hours figuring out how to code up the sim instead of graphically laying out an LTSpice sim and hitting run.
That reminds me of my parents putting my recently-died laptop in a particular place in my bedroom and pouring some water on it, after our hot water cylinder broke and leaked its contents above my bedroom destroying the roof (when I was a young teen).
I know. He could have switched jobs and doubled his TC a long time ago.
:vomit:
>> If you want to maximize privacy here, then let's pass laws to prevent doctors from knowing the gender, age, and weight of any of their patients.

> I am fine with my doctor knowing this about me. I am not fine with any doctor who does not see me as a patient knowing anything at all about me.

I am ok with my doctor knowing there was a 12% chance that I broke curfew during a pandemic lockdown, given my zip code or whatever. I don't think it's a black and white thing. Especially since you can't have the extreme of no data—the data is already out there, in massive quantities, and mostly uncontrolled.

>> a terrifying demonstration that we need to grow the hell up with respect to data privacy

> I don't genuinely don't know that we can have both (informed consent) and (quality data).

Oh, we can't, not anywhere near the optimal balance anyway. Because people. (And therefore governments, and laws, and everything else.) But I guess I still think that whatever crappy balance we can come up with is better than organizations that can make good use out of collections like this sticking their fingers in their ears and pretending there's no way to know certain things that all the bad actors already know because they're willing to buy this stuff on the black market. It leads to dogs and cats living together and people writing really bad run-on sentences like the previous one.
We're all gonna be debugging wordpress apps in the metaverse while our self-driving cars whisk us down the freeway.
I assumed that was a phishing email and didn't proceed.
Do you have any scientific references to back this up? I agree that there could be something to your theory.

References make sense to me as well, but I also agree with the conclusion of this article, that memories are distributed. If you put the two together, then I think it works well. Those could be distributed references, that when fired together, activate a specific memory somewhere else in space-time.
I suppose my comment is more supportive than constructive, but I really like this concept; everything from the site design to the art itself is A+. I wasn't at all familiar with p5.js but the explanation you make is pretty accessible and gets me thinking. I'd love to have a slow-running b&w orb being drawn in a framed e-ink display. Thanks for sharing.
South America in general was a somewhat popular destination for German immigrants in the 19th and early 20th century so it's probably not that surprising to see a German family in Brazil by 1938 when he started at the company.
Speaking of that I think we're all aware of the purity issues with Chinese drugs.
Portable Magic by Emma Smith review – a love letter to reading
Google [0] and GitHub [1] both released blog posts recently describing how to use Sigstore with GitHub Actions to sign build artifacts.

[0]: https://security.googleblog.com/2022/04/improving-software-s...

[1]: https://github.blog/2022-04-07-slsa-3-compliance-with-github...
Yeah, I remember being a proud NPR listener back before they went off the deep end. I’m still hoping it’s a phase they grow out of.
Widespread misperceptions of long-term attitude change [pdf]
Just adding a "me too" to this thread. I just saw in my inbox my warning. I haven't used Heroku in roughly a decade. My last activity was circa early 2014, but mostly 2013.
I just received an email back from an Incident Handler at Salesforce. I wrote:

> A statement that confirms whether or not config variables and secrets were accessed, or that you're not sure, needs to be sent out.

To which they replied:

> We currently have no evidence that Heroku customers’ secrets stored in config Var were accessed. If we find any evidence of unauthorized access to customer secrets, we will notify affected customers without undue delay.

Take that as you will, but it doesn't fill me with confidence.
> How can I concretely convey this concept to friends & family panicing about AI from crap they read in NYT/Economist/WSJ etc.?

What are the arguments brought forth by NYT/etc concerning AI? I haven't really looked, but I haven't seen anything from the NYT or mainstream news about the perils of general AI.

I have seen articles about the risk that AI could put people out of jobs, though, and about potential bias and inaccuracies, too.
it’s an implication he’s a nazi
Hypothetically there is a version of "static Java" that could start to encroach upon Go's domain. This may or may not come out of Project Leyden, but I think for the reason the other commenter gave GraalVM isn't exactly it.

Still closer though, and GraalVM native images are pretty cool.

https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2020-April/0...
There was a time when everyone I knew had a rails app on heroku, and I mean everyone. Now it's just one guy left. I don't know if this translates outside of my small social circle, but they all seemed to fade hand in hand, rails, and heroku in my local group.
My first ever programming gig was converting a small business's back-office MS Access database into a CRUD web application. Sure, I made it look all pretty, but if this had been available back then, I would've been out of a job! Super impressive work!
No, reductio ad absurdum is showing a position is correct because the opposite would be impossible/ridiculous. You take the opposing position to its logical conclusion, not a made up one (straw man).
No one would do that, why would they do that? Next you'll be talking about poisoned underwear or some other random nonsense.
> why the downvotes? I genuinely don’t understand. Why not just comment below your thoughts instead.

Ok, sure:

I downvoted because you’re complaining about downvotes. Have a nice day!
Can you explain this further? My recollection of the past 2 years is quite different, and my understanding of the US government structure is that our elected representatives could overrule the CDC at any time.
Pretty cool to see: amazing how much 6502 assembler I still remember after 36 years of not using it. I do wonder about the copyright issues here. I doubt that Apple would be all that concerned about this being released (back in the day there were printed books with disassemblies of a lot of the ROM code which were published openly), but technically, this is all still under copyright and there’s no indication that permission has been given to distribute the software in any form.

I remember seeing a proposal that copyrights should require a periodic renewal fee after some base period of time that could be paid indefinitely. This would guarantee that anything without commercial value would likely fall into the public domain while also satisfying the house of mouse’s desire to keep Steamboat Willie under copyright. For software, I could see that base period of time being relatively short to allow abandonware to be freely distributed and modified without fear of legal repercussions.
Reframing the Tin Book
I wonder if there some way of specifying the important properties of the part, say the voltage rating, capacitance, etc of a capacitor, and have it choose the best capacitor from digikey or if sold out, the next best and do that all automatically. You can even specify a marking in the PCB like C6 and have the digikey BOM reference that so your little parts bag will have that printed when it arrives.
>> I think the problem with India is the people in charge

There is a subliminal sentiment in India - whatever it has achieved/achieves is despite the people in charge.
> The next step is nobody is going to use web applications anymore.

Well, we should certainly be wary of falling into the trap known as "Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS)"[0], but in principle it is possible for a web app to work entirely on the client side and be distributed under a Free licence (and for the browser to enforce that, if the web developer is careful).[1]

> You can't trust package maintainers any more than you can trust companies.

The point is, if you have the source code, you don't have to trust the package maintainers. Instead you can trust whoever you choose to audit the source code for you, which might be yourself (if you're very skilled, and very untrusting), or it could be the community.

I admit that "trust the community" usually means "Assume that someone somewhere will find any critical bugs before they affect you, and assume that developers won't destroy their reputation when they know they'll eventually get caught", but we are slowly moving towards a system of community code reviews for all Free software[2]. (Obviously reproducible builds, and boostrappable builds, are necessary steps to take full advantage of this).

> But wait, your entire computer is a black box with no schematics whatsoever. Rinse and repeat.

Nope, that's the final step (unless you think the aliens that built this simulation put backdoors into the laws of physics). As for how we trust hardware, fortunately there are projects to make computers out of chips that can be safely reasoned about. You have to ask yourself what your threat model is.

Do you think the NSA is hiding a hardware backdoor in every FPGA, which detects when someone is running a compilation process and makes sure to install a software backdoor in any compiler or kernel it detects? What if multiple people on multiple homebrew computers all carried out the same build process and hashed the results, and all the hashes agreed? What if you ran these processes in virtual machines that implement custom architectures that have never been seen before? Eventually you start to run into information-theoretic problems trying explain how such a backdoor can remain hidden and effective.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/index.html

[2] https://github.com/crev-dev/crev
Was looking for someone who went for the moral heart, had to get past 50 comments hung up on definitions.

This whole thing is missing a trick and inverting genuine empathy. Empathy is being someone else, and this whole deal is "what if someone else was actually me". If you "steelman" someone else's stated position, you're filtering it through your values to make it more palatable to you. It's marking with a red pen, emotionally hollow.

I read a bit of the leaked supreme court roe v wade article yesterday, and had a moment of vertigo when it made sense for a second. There's a moral core there, something about consequence and family values and nosy neighbours and, yes, restricting women's freedom. Like, liberals try to make everything easy, but some things are supposed to be hard.
Is there an npm story yet? How about Deno?
Many IC manufacturers already have reference PCB designs (or they have them for their EVMs) that you can look at for guidance. Personally I would rather adapt that for my design than modify a pre-made section in the EDA tools.

I've also found that the choices made in the reference PCB may not always be the best choice for your design. For example the reference may have a 802 cap but you'd rather use a 603. Same for routing, the reference may be a 2-layer board but you're doing a 4-layer. You may have other ICs that may be able to share certain components. And so on. Part stock and pricing also fluctuates quite often, so a manufacturer-provided BOM (which BTW exists for some EVMs) may not always work assuming that those are the exact components you want.

I haven't designed a PCB in a while but from when I did it the reasons above were why people weren't really keen on pre-made "libraries" of building blocks.
Opto: A compact modular synthesiser system
A Patent Lie: How Yahoo Weaponized My Work (2012)
I think they meant that the main cost of a new thread that you'd like to create is the time it takes to spawn (i.e., the time it takes to set up the new thread and get it ready to run) and NOT the memory that gets allocated for it, nor the operating system overhead of keeping it around afterwards, etc, etc.

(I'm not agreeing or disagreeing; I'm only trying to helpfully clarify)
The CDC gave its pronouncements and state and local governments acted as they saw fit. They were a glorified informational pamphlet. They exercised virtually no real power whatsoever - that was mostly governors and mayors. I'm constantly bewildered when people try to paint a toothless bureaucracy as some sort of Orwellian ministry.
Yeah, it just seems like a peculiar choice to turn a thunderbolt 4 port into a single type a port. I get that it's modular so you can just swap it out whenever you like, but then again, you can also just carry a dongle with you that has a whole plethora of ports. The expansion card options that exist right now don't really seem to fully utilize it (though I really like the full sized displayport expansion card).

There's certainly a lot of potential for more interesting expansion cards like an hdmi capture card, 10gb ethernet, or perhaps even some older serial ports or vga for compatibility with older equipment. I just hope that they survive to see some more iterations.