skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should I Risk Getting Covid?
I built “Should I get COVID” as a casual way to help people decide how long to isolate, because there’s always a debate about whether it’s worth it to lock yourself in your home for a few months or whether the decrease in quality of life for that time justifies taking your chances.

It’s a simple calculator with reductive assumptions that spits out how many quality-adjusted life years you risk by being reckless/cautious (or lose by hiding away). Also if my math is wrong, please let me know, I definitely didn’t have this peer reviewed.
I feel like a lot of games optimize their UI for TVs, but at that size scaled down the touch targets would be too small to not fat-finger.
Nifty, reminds me of https://github.com/backtrace-labs/verneuil or possibly https://litestream.io/
By "killer app" I meant a really amazing game made with the engine that makes people stand up and say "oh hey Godot is legit".

Being a viable console target will attract more creators and increase the chances of that happening. As laid out in the blog post from my original comment, while Steam is a hotbed for indie games most of them toil in obscurity. Most of the money in indie games is on consoles now.
Recently signed up for patreon but couldn't figure out a payment method. The only option available, paypal, would succeed and I'd be redirected back to the merchant (patreon) but then neither show up in my patreon account nor on the paypal side - and I'd rather avoid giving paypal a cut so this was already a last resort. Open source liberapay was a no brainer (for K9 and F-Droid iirc) but very few creators have a liberapay. Surely there's more going on than this, but the news doesn't surprise me with this amount of friction and very handful of payment methods available. It'll work for the 90% or they'd not be in business at all, but still.
> Only once the feds stepped in, though.

What's that got to do with the actual point here, which is privacy that's infeasible through purely physical means can be implemented through legal means?

As an aside, tech people can be annoying black and white sometimes, and do things like misinterpret imperfect solutions as literally no solution at all. DNA is not going to be protected by all the buzzwords we use to describe encryption systems, but that doesn't mean it can't be protected.
The concern with something like this is that chucking the early adopters under the bus once they were established is unlikely to be viewed as a mistake given it likely didn't affect the investors or owners
SMS and voice code systems are super simple.

User inputs number and requests code.
System generates code, saves in database, sends code.
User returns wirh code.
System checks if code matches the code in the database and takes appropriate action.

With USSD the flow would be different --- as I understand it, the user requests come in a session context where the carrier provides the subscriber identity; but if this is for app verification purposes, you've got to connect the USSD session up somehow to an app session you have.
Twitter can't afford a 1:1 replica for sure, and it would be meaningless without globally distributed production load anyway.

A 1:10 replica is fine, but also astronomically expensive. What's better about it than 1:100? Or 1:10000?

Once you give up on 1:1 (which is reasonable), you're either testing in production or not really testing at all. You'll have many lines of code that will only apply to the 1:1 scale.
Yes, you can. The whole point of white collar work is to escape Little's Law. Automation, outsourcing, better processes etc..
This is what a layoff means no? My understanding was "Fired = Your Fault" and "Laid Off = Your Employer's Fault".

Is it possible to be "laid off" for performance reasons?
*I* take responsibility by having *you* be unemployed. It makes sense if you don't think about it.
Irony, meet thyself.
The victim of this policy was not the (hypothetical, I have no idea about the actual case) person who was both the victim of a crime and perpetrator of another crime, it's the much larger number of people who did not commit a crime but are being "investigated" every time a suspect's DNA is run through the system because they reported being raped.

They are subjected to the possibility of false positives or misleading true positives (it is their DNA but they didn't do the crime). These are low probability events but the population is fairly large and the number of suspect samples is also large and one images both will only grow in the future.

But I think the real problem is that it shows a certain lack of thoughtfulness when it comes to data use and governance. It doesn't seem like they considered themselves stewards of the most sensitive data possible from people who have suffered horribly. It's possible they weren't aware of the ethical quandary here or they didn't have the technological sophistication to develop a nuanced solution. Either case argues for more restriction in how the data are used while we as a society catch up to the implications of this evolving technology.
Nice. I'm doing something similar with a BOOX Mira 13.3" touch screen, Raspberry Pi Zero and a Gioui app for the user interface.

I'm building an expedition vehicle on the back of a Mercedes Actros 6x6 semi-truck. I'm using M5Stack ESP32 devices (flashed with esphome) to read all the sensors and control everything. I'm using a MQTT server as the messaging hub: the UI will read/write from that, and the ESP32 devices will subscribe to that for controls.

Here's my notes on getting the e-ink screen working full-screen with a Gioui app (without a desktop linux environment): https://github.com/dave/iot/tree/main/ui

It would be great to find a cheaper alternative (the BOOX Mira is $800 ouch!)
Twitter shareholders approve $44bn Musk deal
I'd say that, particularly in modern genre terms, "Metroidvania" refers to a game involving gathering abilities that unlock new areas, with either mandatory or optional-for-bonuses backtracking to previously blocked paths. (This is distinct from just flipping switches or finding keys -- you have to find things that change your character's moveset, and the new capabilities are what let you pass through.)

Non-linearity and ability-acquisition are the only essential elements. There's often platforming, a certain isolation-vibe, and a large single map, but those aren't mandatory to get the label.
Strange Stories fodder
Very much so. I've had to explain that some of them were just contracts, some of them cease to exist anymore, and some went through layoffs. The reality is it's more like 13 companies but yeah.
Easier said than done, I've found. "Check the logs." is a statement I have to utter far too often.

Admittedly, when I started at the present company, I also remarked "this logging tool [Sumologic] is pretty difficult to use". The response from my senior engineer at the time was "it really isn't that hard." and then she didn't answer the question I had and made me figure it out on my own. It felt a bit brusque at the time, but it was very useful in the long run. I did end up figuring out how to query Sumo (I still maintain that its UI is gawd awful), and that's enabled so much debugging.

I think I also ended up authoring our internal documentation's page on how to effectively query in Sumo, which I feel has been read never.
> If you were born 1980-ish and you haven't been laid off 3 times, congrats!

This depends on where you worked. Most of the developers I know were around for the dotcom bust, but only 2 have experienced a layoff. But none were working for dotcom companies.
No, I saw that a month and a half ago. From the article:
"The federal indictment announced by Attorney General Merrick Garland accuses the four of civil rights offences, unlawful conspiracy, unconstitutional use of force and obstruction."

None of them have been charged with breaking into her house or shooting her.
A better bad tech analogy would be slurping up SSIDs like Google does for location data.
Linux, windows, Mac all work. The mic works too (on windows at least), so they make a good backup if you don’t have a headset for a teams/etc call.
> It's more about testing the right stuff.

This is the important point.

Anyone talking about code coverage percentages is already making a mistake. percentage of coverage isn't nearly as important as WHAT is covered, and it's not a good proxy for it either.
> Paper ballot design can tip elections -- most famously in 2000, and elsewhere.

Voting machines also suffer from myriad issues - e.g. unresponsive touchscreens. And there are countless paper voting systems without the issues of the 2000 election - in fact they are the norm. Framing this as an inherent problem of paper that can only be solved by computers is dishonest.

> Physical security is standard practice for computer systems. It's widely understood that somebody with physical access can make changes far beyond what anybody can do remotely.

My point exactly. No black box can be trusted.

> Is it worth the tradeoff?

Let me remind you that the tradeoff is having elections silently and near-undetectably [1] stolen, and sow enough justifiable doubt to destabilize a democracy.

[1] Exit polls have been as much as 30% off, especially in smaller elections through which nearly all politicians must pass, and that just passes the buck to securing polls. To dispel any naive ideas that polls would tell us about tampering. And that's in countries where people can answer those polls with relatively little worry. Imagine the disparity if they feared a militia would find they voted wrong and execute them. That's not a hypothetical. Voting systems must be resistant to such circumstances, because they may befall your country as well.
> These social media posts gather open-source information from multiple plane tracking websites that can access unencrypted aircraft transponder data

> Adversaries no longer need to rely on expensive radars to find U.S. military aircraft.

Wait… so which one is it? Can you get this information from public websites, or only with expensive radar equipment? Clearly, it’s the former and even if it were the latter, it’ll only stop the poorest adversaries. Twitter is just the bull horn.
How do you plan to keep the list up to date and especially reliably accurate? (providers change, bot nets get cleaned, ASN especially in 3rd world countries are very unreliable, crawlers might scrap weird things etc.)

Disclaimer: I work for a company that operates in a similar space so don't go into too much secret sauce if you don't want to :)
I think WARN is 60 days at the federal level and some states like CA and NY extend it to 90 days.
Their lead UI guy was previously the UI lead at Stripe. I think of him as someone who appreciates and understands the importance of well-thought-out UI so I'm looking forward to how Increase pans out for that reason in particular.
That was fun :) spent 38minutes.. 571 bones left, 8 dead

Too many buttons IMO for a keyboard
Former PS Vita owner here, still burns me up thinking about it. It was the absolute perfect form factor and had "just enough" processing power to play some really interesting games, sort of like the Nintendo Switch today (but much smaller). Up until I sold my device to a collector in 2020 it was still my preferred platform for Stardew Valley.
An incredible piece of work. Shaped my life trajectory in many ways. Introduced me to thinkers like Daniel Dennett and Stanislaw Lem.

Every generation or so a book comes along that, in retrospect, seems almost clairvoyant. This is one of those books.
Transponders make radar much easier. No need for active radar
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They are not a full-fledged bank, they partner with banks to provide the FDIC insurance, etc.

There are a number of competitors in this "Banking as a Service" API space like Treasury Prime and Galileo.
All of those platforms are supported by Godot. Steam is supported through a developed and advanced module. We have a very small amount of custom platform specific code for iOS and Android.

Consoles on Godot are the hard part and thats what W4 is going to offer. I think Switch would be easy as it supports OpenGLES. Xbox and playstation would be harder, but I havent looked into it.
Unless this is the police just grasping at straws to arrest someone and DNA evidence provided some link (no-one identified her at the scene), which is just wrong, the police knows it, but they have a connection and thus, maybe, a conviction ...
This is really neat. It looks like it's using a similar trick to https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-database... from last year - querying SQLite databases hosted as static files using the HTTP range header to fetch back just the pages from the database file that are needed by a specific query.
The progressive thing is 10-year option exercise, and the more progressive thing has been 1-month cliff which some of big tech does now

This is "mid", as my friends have started to say
This exists, its called the Организация Договора о коллективной безопасности or Collective Security Treaty Organization. Its member states include Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan. It used to include Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Uzbekistan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Security_Treaty_Org...
I think the reason why hydrogen (or derivatives such as ammonia or methanol) will become a very widespread carrier of energy in the long term is: seasonal storage of energy.

There doesn't appear to be a promising solution for seasonal storage of energy other than hydrogen.

Pumped hydro power is limited to certain areas and also doesn't scale in the same way that hydrogen does. Compressed air is sometimes mentioned but doesn't appear to make much progress.

Since the world is going to need massive amounts of seasonal storage for the sake of the stability of the energy system (which is the backbone of society), as more and more renewables are built, there just has to be a solution. And if there's only one that scales to demand, then that's what will be built.

Hydrogen (and derivatives and generally all chemical energy carriers) also have this triple synergy of huge capacity for transmission plus flexibility plus buffering.

Transmission capacity of a pipeline is massively larger than any cable.

Flexibility is given through the fact that hydrogen can spontaneously be transported to almost any location. Compare that to "spontaneously" building a new power line to an arbitrary location.

Buffering is a byproduct. As soon as the hydrogen is produced, it acts like a buffer, whether it's inside a pipeline or some tank. Compare that to electric energy transmitted via cable .. as soon as the power plant is shut down, the lights will go out.

A chemical based energy system is inherently more stable and resilient than an electrical grid, IMO.
Looks more like a Bond, Unit, Synapse.
Maybe one day I'll try reading it again and actually finish it, but so far I couldn't do it. Everything is fascinating and mind blowing don't get me wrong, but I feel like there is always this weird pretentious atmosphere going on. I don't know how to describe it, but by the end of the first half reading GEB was not fun anymore.
It can vary. Part of land can be rented and part sold. There might be clauses for buying the land outright. Even partially.

On other hand the funding model of local governments in China is entirely different than in west. Main source of revenue has been selling land use rights for development.
> US-style absolutism about freedom of speech comes from hard earned lessons about the other options being much worse.

I'm German. My ancestors should have shown the world just enough on where not restricting hate speech and conspiracy crap leads: into murder, into genocide, into the dissolution of democracy itself.

It's astonishing that the US hasn't realized this as well after Jan 6th. You all don't realize just how fucking close you came and how thin the edge is you all are standing on.
Stories are all about stirring emotions.

From two paths the story may take one will be less emotionally impactful than the other. Therefore, it will be suboptimal.

It also spoils the element of surprise. If you know exactly what is going to happen, it becomes less interesting. It also takes away from the character.

If you want user choice, create a video game.
No it isn't, full stop.

What you mean to say is you don't like the way the history looks. That's fine, it's a valid criticism. Calling it a necessity is over the line.
This is easily solved by having 'suggested content' (ads) once every (eg.) 10 posts from friends. 28 ads in a row is a total overkill
At one point I had a director of engineering who had something like 6 months of engineering experience; predictably … they weren't great at the engineering. I wouldn't put too much stock in it just because your manager is younger than you. Now, if they're climbing the ladder because they're actually amazing, by all means, try to learn from it, but I've seen people on runs of the ladder just inexplicably.
We're semi-open to new writers but it's one of those things where we'd have to get to know you. :) We're just a handful of folks in their 40s and 50s that use it as a low-key writing group, some of us attend a weekly discord video chat to read aloud our chapters, make comments, and joke around. New authors would need to submit a chapter to one of the junk stories so we can get a sense of writing style and then figure out which of the invite-only stories they could collaborate in. Submissions are technically owned by the site but authorship credit is retained. If anyone's interested feel free to contact me through my profile.
Do you really think you might get great deals by reading emails that you did not ask for? Just remember that the one who sent you the email did it for their own profit. So it's a good thing you thrash them. Most such emails have an unsubscribe link that works. If not, simply mark them as spam.
So far for the filtering.
The rest of the emails most likely contain good communication with people you know, who mostly do not bother adding bitmaps in their signature; but they might use other paragraph options like bold, italics, in-line photographs or diagrams, code snippets in monospaced font or other features that make the email more readable or informative.
So that is why i do not agree with 'html killed email'.
Working in an office, I never considered it a secret that I was not productive 100% of the time. I didn't have to lie to my boss about checking some amount of social media, or taking a long coffee break, or checking HackerNews when my brain needed a break (which I consider part of my job to some extent), or chatting with co-workers about how our weekends were. None of this was a secret, open or not, it was all entirely revealed.

Maybe I had unusually tolerant bosses or different than yours. But those very same bosses, who certainly did not expect productivity 100%, if they knew I was only working 4-hour days routinely and spending the other 4 hours on personal matters, would think, hm, it sounds like you don't have enough work to do.

It doesn't seem the same to me, cause if I'm only working 4-hour days, and riding my bike the remainer of the 4 hours -- I'm probably not 100% productive those 4 hours I'm working either!

I mean, I don't begrudge anyone what they do to survive. But it makes me deeply uncomfortable to mislead my bosses like that (like, I have to make sure to keep my personal life entirely secret to make sure I don't slip up and let them know I didn't work at all on Tuesday but went on a hike instead), and I also would feel weird about pushing back when they give me too much work. If they give me so much work that I can't do it in my ordinary work week, I push back -- we can only get so much done in a week. But I'm going to push back because they're assigning so much work that it eats into my daily 4-hour bike ride?
Zelda, Metal Gear, Wizardry, Faxanadu, Rygar, Ys, Mother/Earth Bound. The list goes on and on. The element of revisiting previous stages/locations to unlock portions you couldn't access earlier on was a basic ingredient of old adventure games.
Linux LXC and LXD: a different container story
Yes, I do, and given that he never even bothered to answer the question with your plan (not his), he did too. In typical libertarian fashion, he just plugged his ears and pretended he wasn't listening while praying the benevolent hand of the market would fix the glaring holes in his plan. Almost 40% of Americans are considered high risk, and very nearly zero percent of them were in the nursing homes his plan accounted for. He never planned to forcibly separate high risk people from their low risk spouses, children, or parents. https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/how-man...

The society-wide isolation orders allowed elderly people and those at risk as well as those who live with them to work from home without employer retaliation, reducing spread and saving lives until vaccine availability.
They've been pretty adamant about not chasing after business/enterprise sales and I bet this is a big reason why.

Enterprise pays the big bucks but also has way higher demands from support, higher expectations about downtime, and all the third party integration requests. It has to integrate with Jira, it has to integrate with Google Calendar, it has to integrate with this niche service that changes their API every month and doesn't care your contract with Dairy Queen relies on this integration working.
Adobe Thinks It Can Solve Netflix’s Password ‘Piracy’ Problem
> Twitter demonstrates the problem in an eye-catching way.

To the populace, sure it’s “visible” now. But adversaries are just doing what they’ve always done - why rely on Twitter, which could be censored by the USA.
Nigeria? Heh... I give you Cuba. Monthly average salary 3902 pesos which, converted to USD, yield 31.2. It would take, what? 50 months?
If you are tracking then you know this has changed dramatically in the last few years. In the US the FAA ruled that local / state / federal orgs can turn it off in the case of sensitive operations.
>They choose not to, presumably because they believe they won't make as much money.

They choose not to because Monsanto famously sues the hell out of farmers who have patented seeds in up in their farms.
Discord has completely displaced the need for other social media in my experience. And they get hundreds of dollars per year from me. If this isn’t a winning model, I don’t know what is.
Maybe that depends on your location? I can use card (debit/credit) and also PayPal. You don't see "add card" in the payment methods page?
I've been through hundreds of one-on-ones, and I hate them to this day. They're the sort of meeting I dread the most.

Mostly because I never know what the the executive is wanting to get out of the meeting, and have never figured out how to find that out.
When a corporation has an obvious monopoly and the government does not intervene, they are signalling the status quo is allowed to continue
Country-level security works out of an assumption that everything may be used against it, even if it's unclear how exactly. Take everything, give nothing. FSB guys have an old joke: "We don't hire atheists. Why? In case God exists". They're basically professional paranoics on all sides, I wouldn't think too much of it.
I loved these books, however the hacker in me quickly spotted that if you chose the page number which was highest (or lowest I forget which one it was, but it was constant) then it would always lead to the most optimal path.

The books gave the illusion of being branching, open worlds, but were often actually linear. Good story to play through, and really evoked the setting.
Sure, but I can still envy and admire someone for succeeding according to my standards, regardless of what society says about them.
JS is an interpreted language that isn't really a fair comparison
oh sure, The Shop in Go By Street http://fullonlinebook.com/poems/a-shop-in-go-by-street/ftpz....