skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's just me, but it feels like this is trying to scare people into thinking that the VPNs mentioned are doing this tracking on the sites you visit while using their VPN, when it's really only about the VPN's own website (which people usually visit only when they sign up). It doesn't explicitly say the tracking is happening while using the VPNs in question, but I would bet a large portion of readers assume that's what they're saying.

It really doesn't bother me if a VPN company uses trackers and other tools to optimize their own website, other than the fact that some third parties may have good reason to believe that a visitor uses a VPN if the person visited the VPN's website. That says nothing (or very little) about how private you are when actually using the VPN.
He's dead from the virus. Nobody murdered him.
Didn't know about @dataclass until now. Thank you.
It doesn't matter. The point still stands. So far he's been worse off when getting the shot than when not. But who's to say what would have happened those two years without the shot? Perhaps it saved him from a severe flu case or even death.
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Your edit says:

> I'm very much aware of evidence and studies stating that its "impossible" to get the actual flu from the flu shot, yet I am walking proof of contrary evidence.

This is the famous "anti-tiger rock" argument from the Simpsons. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Much_Apu_About_Nothing)

You have evidence you got the flu.

You do NOT have evidence you got it from the shot.

> My GP is the one that has specifically told me to avoid the shot.

Anti-vaccine cranks exist even amongst medical professionals. Hell, the whole movement was started by one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield

> the flu shot is not 100% effective or 100% side effect free

This is a strawman. Vaccine proponents agree with these specific statements. It's well known that the effectiveness varies from year to year, and that side effects are possible.
Services offering privacy in 2020? I guess it’s your own fault if you still get hooked on that.
It's an interesting wonder if now that Unicode is much more ubiquitous, and people grow used to (and fond of) complex IMEs such as "emoji keyboards" and intricate ligatures of digraphs and trigraphs (fonts like Fira Code, Cascadia Code), if there will be an interesting APL resurgence or perhaps a modern Unicode "native" successor.
I've been using it exclusively for months, and it's great. Fast server. Great features. But most importantly, good leadership whose incentives I feel align with mine.
The amount of intensive care units (and their type) and their location is more important than the total number of hospitals.
This is messing up charts so much that maybe in a couple years we will be removing 2020 from the data just to have a chart that doesn't have a crazy x-axis.
I'll take the bait. It's 2020, is the NYT still considered highly reputable? Or is it just a "loveable brand name" at this point?
Wow! You commented just as I did.

I'd echo what others have said about it-- Interface is an under-appreciated book. I am going to be really interested read The 480 having really enjoyed Interface.
Thank you for your feedback. Yes, the search results are not 100% accurate and are being improved upon on every iteration. Will make sure we include more for the description.
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The 2017/18 flu season was the worst in decades. Here in Germany it increased overall mortality rate by about 40% in March 2018. Italy has a similar increase due to COVID-19 right now, but in the most affected regions mortality is a lot higher. And this is with serious measures in place that were not done in 2017/18.
Unemployment benefits are handled by the states, not by the federal government.
I have Spectrum cable Internet. I use their modem, but I supply my own router, and they've never given me any trouble. In fact, they recently upgraded my modem (from a Scientific Atlanta 2203C to a Ubee E31U2V1) and they didn't send me a router. The Ubee E31U2V1, like the Scientific Atlanta 2203C before it, only has one Ethernet port, and their official guide to getting the new modem working involved rebooting an external router, so there's no possible way they have a problem with customer-owned routers.

Which works out great for me. I can use OpenWRT with no hassle.

More to the point, I see the cable stuff as "ISP land" in that it's directly interfacing with their internal hardware, and so has to dance to their tune very directly, whereas Ethernet and TCP/IP are common, and so will obey my rules in my home. I don't expect my modem to perform adblocking, which is why my router does it, and I'm not going to be stupid and try to "uncap" my modem to get more speed, so I don't see a point to being able to provide my own cable modem. As long as I can own the router which provides the only path in and out of my LAN, I can do everything I'm capable of doing anyway, as far as I can see.
> ...during JFK times...

Not "during JFK times", but in the JFK campaign. Not so much shaping campaigns around beliefs, but assessing who matters to your campaign as a pure technical pursuit.

As for your jab, if you think that the President has somehow foisted his campaign on the electorate, rather than the other way around, that is the sort of profound misapprehension that doomed his opponent.

The fact that voters can be convinced to agree or disagree with the candidate is more or less orthogonal. Do you think that JFK never influenced a voter by speaking?
To make the analogy work I have to imagine that the two hammers cause horrible problems when used at the same time, and that they're both free with 5 minute shipping.

It's a sucky situation to be in, but we should probably get everyone on the same hammer.

(If we want a somewhat less nonsensical analogy, replace hammer with screwdriver. Two incompatible screw head patterns and you can only use one driver on any particular object.)

So sure don't nitpick a toy project, but if someone's writing significant code in python 2... it's not ideal.

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But all of this is a dumb tangent, and we should just appreciate how funny it is to ask that this nonsensical pointless quasi-OS-breaking code be done in python 3 instead.
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Oh, it definitely happens in government-run healthcare systems. Remember how proponents of single-payer government healthcare in the US used to point to the amount of money that the UK spends on the NHS and argue that the US would save money by switching? One of the ways the NHS keeps costs down is by not maintaining excess capacity, meaning that even a moderately bad flu season is a major struggle.
>He's a smart guy, but

Your expertise is in "accessibility" and "online marketing".

Your father's expertise is in surgery and ran his own private practice.

Maybe you should take a step back before assessing the intellect of people's political takes.
When were these programmes shown on regular British TV? '72 here and don't remember it at all.

We had a classroom full of BBC Micros at school but for the most part they were used to play games. My introduction to computing was through the ZX Spectrum home computer and the electronics magazines of the time. By the time I chose my GCSEs I don't recall a single hour of computer instruction given by the school so I question how useful The BBC Micro project really was.

Given that the GCSE Computer Science syllabus (or whatever it was called in the 80's) didn't cover anything I hadn't already self-taught myself I skipped and continued to learn on my own time. It didn't help that the GCSE was in BBC basic (even at 15 I knew this wasn't something used by 'real' computer programmers) and the math teacher who taught that class was barely computer literate.

Turns out Electronics GCSE was largely filled with metalwork kids throwing components at each other but the teacher was enthusiastic and knowledgable.

Side note - I had initially thought that Systems Analyst was a good career path to pursue only to be told by my secondary (high) school careers councilor that software was a dead end because 5th generation languages would make programming obsolete within 10 years. I'm still waiting.
So it was originally designed by a Harvard Math professor (Kenneth Iverson) as just that. A new mathematical notation to write down. He didn't get tenure (although later got the Turing award for some of that work) so he went to IBM and they actually implemented it. Aaron Hsu has done some blog posts on how he sometimes code using a nice calligraphic pen and paper with APL.

https://www.sacrideo.us/paper-is-dead-long-live-paper-progra...
Thank you for this detailed and insightful comment!

In Europe (or at least in my country), health authorities have been saying for several weeks that we need to stop people from needing ventilators, rather than get more ventilators. I think most people here get it, and overall the population has been compliant even with the quite drastic measures that have been taken in most places.
The government does have stockpiles for emergencies, mandated buffers will guarantee overproduction and affect market equilibrium
The difference is that non-updated routers can cause global problems. At the very least as an ISP I'd want to say you can look after updates yourself, but we will disable your access to the internet (other than to get the update from us) whenever we try to push an update to you and you reject it.
Thanks - I run ublock origin but haven't really played with options like that. Worked great!
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Looks like a huge # of Google Services are down including GCP. Some services that appear to be impacted - Gmail, YouTube, and Cloud Firestore.

https://downdetector.com/status/google/
People are probably going to take the bailouts and not think at all that their "free-market" and unbridled capitalism approach is wrong. We know this because it happened in 2008. In reality it isn't unbridled capitalism because if it was it would result in massive bankruptcy and people hurting bad as they did in the depression. But since neither 2008 and today has been show to deliver the hurt that 1929 did yet, I don't think we will see the appetite for massive social programs that FDR enjoyed. Those people saw what it was like to be penniless and nearly starving.
Major telcos will hand over phone location data to the EU to help track Covid-19
What data we have indicates that the US is going to have by far the largest outbreak of COVID-19 in the world, larger even than in China, a country with something like four times our population. So the unique way we do healthcare here is not looking particularly good.
In a (more) perfect world, they would've paid a reasonable license fee to use the sample and been done with it.
If the quality is poor people have the right to say so, regardless of the cost.

If the projects existence is causing issues for some people, they have a right to complain, even if it is creating a free benefit for someone else.

Why would someone contribute to a project they think is inferior?

Basically, I don’t understand your objection.
Something similar in thought (but less generic), was the concept of "datatypes" in AmigaOS. It meant software could seamlessly import and export data in formats even though it had no knowledge of its internal representation.

A word processor could include for instance PNG images even though PNG was not even invented when the word processor was created!
this is a really good point. much easier to do than mass testing.
Assuming you're talking about the US, I think this situation exposes a not well known fact that the federal government doesn't really control the inside of the country. The response has to come at the state and local level, which it is, slowly. e.g. : https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/03/coronavi...

Here in our county in rural Montana (based on info from the local medical establishment, who I know fairly well), we have been conducting much more testing than you'd expect based on reports from around the country, and we have never had a shortage of tests, and our small hospital lab will shortly have in-house testing deployed.
Its effectiveness has on average been less than 50% in the past decades, sometimes far lower. There's just too many strains and to much seasonal variability.
I got my first taste of programming thanks to this!

Around age 8, my school had BBC Micros and they taught us to solve picture-drawing puzzles using the LOGO language.
> It’s very possible to get the shot every year and still get sick.

haha so I wasn't the only one who interpreted it wrong. comment means "I get sick everytime from flu shot"
To be clear - some people can feel a bit rough after the flu shot for a day or so. Still much MUCH better than getting flu
They could, they just don't want to pay for it. The government has no interest in being known for easily handling a huge spike of traffic during a crisis. They can just take the lower road and get by with less and saying 'try again later'. There's no repercussions here because it's the government.

Hence mainframe maintainers should really move to charging $1 million/year in a decade or two.
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Honest question, given the tens of thousands of years of humans cooperating to form groups of increasingly large size and interdependence, what makes you think there is more competition than cooperation happening?
...able to detect antibodies only not virus...This test is only useful in the later part of infection

Actually, getting a sense of the penetration of infection into the general population, among asymptomatic people and mild cases would be very valuable information! Antibody tests could be used to sample test the public at large.
Keep extrapolating and you'll find 2.5 trillion people will be dead just a week after that.
This becomes a tarpit. Whatever metric you think to measure for this may itself become a source of false positives in the field. Whatever things you choose to try to avoid that becomes another source of falseness in the system. This tends to cascade as people apply patch upon patch until you have a system that basically randomly fails and nobody can tell you why. This is not a theoretical report; in theory this approach can work, if you get it perfect enough. This is a practical report, both of systems I've built myself and of many other such cases I've witnessed, including some things around process management and supervision.

In the end, you really have little choice but to trust what the OS is telling you, and if the OS is lying for whatever reason, to fix the OS. As hard as that last bit may be as a solution, it still turns out to be the easiest, most-effective fix. And it may not be a perfect fix, either... but it'll still be the best.
Search or another google service? G Suite is reporting some issues, but i'm connecting to search fine https://twitter.com/gsuite/status/1243203000195256320
Yep, USDS and 18F folks would have to agree with you here. The arcane crap that we have to deal with in payment and government information systems is beyond frustrating and makes it extremely tough. I read an article about having to fix a multi-decade Cisco router bug to get CI/CD and automated deployments working after USDS / 18F started setting up faster deployments but still needed to figure out how to deal with legacy stateful DB connections.

The reality of government paperwork systems on the backend is much, much closer to this hell and is part of why so many like myself ran screaming from public sector because when you see so many peers doing so well at FAANGS, why would you subject yourself to something that resists change and wants to keep it the same way? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2014/03/2...
The bats will fly away but the Pangolins will be massacred now that BBC has officially pinned the blame on this otherwise harmless (at a distance) and beautiful animal. I don't know how to feel about this scientific note now.
No "horrible problems" arise from Python 2 being used on the same system that Python 3 is on. The only problems are trivial, which was highlighted in the analogy.
> I'm only obligated to help co-workers if it costs me less time than it saves them. if a manager in your tree asks you a dumb question, they are squandering their own resources. I'm not obligated to stop them.

Wow such a team player! You must be a joy to work with. Helping your team is an “obligation” but only if a certain math equation is a positive number..

When my manager asks a question, I don’t treat it with hostility. It isn’t a “dumb” question, because for some reason that’s what he needed to know. I could bet that you have asked a few dumb questions in your day.

And with other teammates, why the contempt? You are a team. It isn’t all about “your productivity,” it’s about the team accomplishing the goal. You probably aren’t a Nobel winning physicist sitting around dreaming up theories that change the earth, but it certainly seems like it.

Be helpful and compassionate with your team. If you really can’t be bothered, activate Do Not Disturb. If you actually think your boss is asking dumb questions, perhaps you should ask them why. Or perhaps you should ask to be the boss. Or perhaps you should just be helpful and friendly and not such an entitled grump. Or perhaps get better at your job so interruptions aren’t so horrible for you. Perhaps your hatred of interruption is due to insecurity or anxiety about your abilities. If that’s the case, work on boosting your capabilities.

But don’t treat your teammates like some kind of fungus that need avoidance.
I think you greatly overestimate the margins on restaurants. The death of many small businesses due to cash flow problems was predicted.
snap. what about express? i don't see it on the list?
So, you had a flu shot and you were confined to bed for over a week?
Another thing is NodeJS. Ever tried using nvm to install a specific nodejs version (lts/carbon for example) in an Alpine CI image? It won't work and worse, it doesn't even show what doesn't work - the error message will simply be "node: file not found".

That this message implies that not the node binary was not found but libc.so is missing, is just mind boggling. Furthermore, installing libc-compat doesn't help, you will actually have to set NVM to download nodejs from the "unofficial-builds" repository. What a load of bollocks.
I can't connect to search. I get a 500 error page.
ceejayoz, I generally respect most everything you write on this site, but I'm amazed how dismissive you are of this.

Can you point me to a study stating that the flu vaccine is 100% safe and effective? Not mostly effective, or mostly safe, but 100% honest-to-god safe for 100% of the population to get?

edit: really? calling my GP an anti vaccine crank? fuck you.
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We're a gsuite customer and just noticed some interruptions here as well. GMail is flaky, chat is down, and the app status page is unavailable as well. https://www.google.com/appsstatus Not very useful :P
That's so weirdly American: a top-voted post about flu shots. On EU forums literally nobody brings this up somehow.
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A lot of people like cigarettes and McDonald’s. A lot of people have a low IQ and nothing more than a HS education... point being that figures like this only compound the obvious, most people are not very smart or educated...
The medical establishment is already encouraging people to stay home and not seek medical care if it isn't overly severe. This is making people very upset, and understandably so, because it boils down to a big fat "fuck you."

What we actually need is a list of medically approved home care options to empower people to deal with this on their own to some degree. We mostly aren't getting that.

If you don't give people actual solutions for how to cope effectively without seeing a doctor, then everyone wants to see a doctor because it's their only hope. Duh.
Isn't Clojure a relative newcomer for it to influence language design in general?

A stepping stone to more mainstream languages perhaps? I hardly saw a Clojure program so please elaborate.
It's already the most trafficked animal in the world. Murdered by the millions in the name of psuedo-scientific traditional medicine. Hopefully after this world governments put a strict ban on its trade.
No, I just learned about it today while reading a guide on putting together my own git server and wondered what the opinion was about it - they offer testimonials that make it sound wonderful but what landing page wouldn't do so.
> Can you point me to a study stating that the flu vaccine is 100% safe and effective?

No, because that's a totally different claim.

The flu shot can't give you the flu.

The flu shot can have side effects, and no one with any knowledge claims it's 100% effective.

> edit: really? calling my GP an anti vaccine crank? fuck you.

I'm saying "my GP says so" isn't sufficient to contest the wealth of scientific evidence we have on the safety and efficacy of the flu shot.

edit: You've since edited it to say he recommended due to complications, which is fine, but doesn't sound like the same claim you made originally. There are absolutely people who can't take the shot for various reasons (egg allergies, for example!) and depend on herd immunity as a result. I simply contested the claim that you can get flu from the shot, as every bit of scientific data we have disputes that particular claim.
It seems likely that anything that can be expressed in "any programming language" is isomorphic to something that exists in math and can be expressed in that language (automata theory, type theory, category theory, pick your poison).
If we applied this reasoning a week or 10 days ago, when there were ~4000 cases in the United States ("we're looking at a worst case of 800 people across all the hospitals in the country"), would we not reach this conclusion:

"Bad situation in Italy. No need to say it's like that in the United States."

And should that not make us concerned about this thought process?
I think you want https://pypi.org/project/fuse-python/ instead. That python packages can and often do have different names than their corresponding distributables is ... not great.
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I didn’t get the flu until well into my 20s. Never got vaccinated, either. Ditto strep throat and sinus infections. Get all of them now. My diet and lifestyle are vastly healthier now than then and I have less exposure, so I guess HGH and massive amounts of testosterone are just a hell of a drug.
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I mean, normally, it's hyperbole. But that Texas Lieutenant governor going on about how old people would be happy to lay down their lives for the economy was definitely getting into actual death cult territory.
That's what I mean by a simple model.

Like a dead stupid one would be to compare to historical data for fevers/week per thermometer.

That is barely a model at all and it manages to ignore how many readings are done and accounts for multiple readings during a period of illness and readings for multiple sick members of a household and so on.