skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't prove anything about lockdowns given that the UK has plenty of healthcare capacity and in fact like elsewhere its hospitals are nearly empty right now. If fewer British people survive in their hospitals all it may show is those hospitals aren't very good, but it wouldn't be due to being "too late" as that would require deaths due to overload.

If you look at the huge drop in cardiac ER admissions it's clear that people are dying because they are having heart attacks and not going to hospital when they should. There's actually a severe problem with hospital underload right now. Governments, supposedly following the science, have built emergency field hospitals and shut down other medical work to protect hospitals that are now nearly empty. This was not predicted by anyone pushing lockdowns and is a grotesque mis-prediction with deadly consequences.

Nobody will talk about it at the moment, but I suspect when all this is studied in years to come the UK will be seen to have done worse partly because its population over-reacted to government extortions to "stay home, save the NHS". People are going to die just because they aren't going to hospitals they've been told they need to "protect" as some sort of moral mission. The NHS is often called a national religion, which isn't quite right - it's a religion to some and unfortunately those people aggressively attack anyone who points out what an institutional failure it is. It's easily believable that people will be avoiding hospitals in the UK in greater numbers than elsewhere right now.

We need to watch out for a lot of retroactive nonsense in the coming months. People will claim epidemiologists predicted all this (they didn't), that the lack of lockdown explains differing death rates (already disproven completely by the case of Sweden). Cold logic is all that will clear the fog.
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Cranelift: A possible new back end for Rust
My father-in-law has FTD. I was just a few paragraphs into the article before I started wondering.

Search the NYTimes for "Frontotemporal Dementia", and you'll find several stories, all similar :-(
I come from a family of extremely gifted visual thinkers (PhDs from MIT/Stanford/etc) and in the last year one of us had a heart issue that coincided with a month long bout of psychosis, where dream-like real visualizations were overlaid onto the real world.

I’m convinced that the genetic effects that provide us with extreme visualization and problem solving skills are related to this particular failure mode, where schizophrenia is also common in the family tree.
Sorry, what I mean was ASCII wasn't an encoding of the English language, just an encoding of the English alphabet and some other symbols.

You're quite right that, uh, meta-linguistic symbols are also in there and that does kind of complicate my argument.
> You simply can't replace great optics with software (at least, not yet).

The lens quality and software quality should be complementary ways to improve the image. My DSLR has much better lenses than my phone. My phone has Night Sight, which is an amazing software solution for getting the best out of its relatively poor optics. (IIUC, it aligns multiple short exposures to minimize motion blue in an overall long exposure, as well as denoising/color-enhancing/stuff with ML.) I'd love to use them together.
Is it weird that we're in 2020 and I still keep assuming that phones have a headphone jack by default... Until I check the spec sheet and realise there's no headphone jack :(
And also a similar study in Germany with similar results [1]. The result is of course to mechanically reduce the fatality rate to a number close to that of the flu (the problem for hospitals being not so much the fatality rate than the high number of infections), and well within the 0.1-1% range that US health authorities have been advertising for a while.

Regarding models, it seems 0.15% is the new basis [2].

Even on the optimistic end of the range (0.1% fatality), with 13k deaths, that's 20% of the UK population infected, a long way from achieving herd immunity.

The other thing is that I invite people on hackernews to better control their anxiety. It is not so long ago that pointing that case fatality ratios in jurisdictions that didn't do mass testing and where there seemed to be many unreported cases with mild symptom was overestimating the fatality rate would get you treated of conspirary theorist. South Korea had been measuring a fatality ratio in that range (~0.6%) over a month ago and that was probably already an upper bound (due to not testing 100% of the population).

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/AmeshAA/status/124944656101010637...

[2] https://mobile.twitter.com/AmeshAA/status/124902067755179622...
The main reason I haven't dumped my XZ2 Compact for a Palm Palm is my paranoia around owning a Chinese designed device.

Largely the same story for those waves of Android Lollipop "smart watches".

I'm very unhappy with the market for mobiles, it seems manufacturers have no balls, and are clueless about what I want / sensitive to what carriers are willing to sell en masse.

In a phrase, the stupid shitty financing options carriers provide seem to define the market for devices (supply, credit, marketing), not what actually makes a good device.

Shame all around.
EOS is the framework my company uses to keep every department rowing in the same direction. It's been an interesting experience, especially for me with a background in engineering in learning to put my business management hat on and having to focus a lot more on non technical initiatives. You can find out more about it here if you're interested https://www.eosworldwide.com/

One of my favorites quotes in the book "The 5 dysfunctions of a team" is

> A friend of mine, the founder of a company that grew to a billion dollars in annual revenue, best expressed the power of teamwork when he once told me, “If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.”
It's my opinion that coordinate-work-among-the-team and communicate-work-to-management should not be functions performed by or in the same tool, and that most of the team should never need to touch the latter tool.
Ping – By Terry Slattery
All the HQC results other than the heart problems (a known side effect) were slightly better, just not enough so to be statistically significant, I guess.
Judging by the reaction to Amazon's response, I'm not sure I can connect the dots that make the French government more knowledgeable of Amazon's internal complexities than I am, to be totally honest. That is why I am asserting that giving them a 24-hour deadline to make changes is going to do more harm than good to the citizens of France.

I've spent enough time looking at the data to know that France is well past their peak infection rate (by over a week). The bigger concern in the coming weeks, in my opinion, is timely delivery of goods to those French citizens who need them, and this new mandate goes against that concern.
Very cheap _x86_ hardware, to be specific.

I'm not sure if it's actually more expensive to find VIA et al based systems for cheaper than NUCs?
Pentagon Watchdog Clears Microsoft’s $10B Win over Amazon
Totally out of my depth here. I've been following Dr. Chris Martenson's daily covid-19 updates since late January. He is adamant this treatment is only effective in combination with zinc supplements.
According to Dr. Raoul - If the virus is no longer active indeed it doesn't help, but they already know that.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22851998
And/or give them chores and pay them an allowance. Offer a free phone of your choice, or they can save money for whichever one they want.

May or may not work though. I have a friend that does this, and one of his kids simply cannot save money. So when there's something he knows that they all want, he buys it for all of them rather than make them save for it.
While they are fixing this, could they please roll out a feature to allow me to assign users to only specific domains? Biggest complaint about Cloudflare, heck even GoDaddy lets you do that at no cost.
What is really missing from the C "aliasing" rules is a recognition that an access to a pointer/lvalue which is visibly freshly derived from another is, depending upon the form of derivation, either a definite or potential access to the former [in the former case, anything that couldn't be accessed by the original couldn't be accessed by the derived pointer/lvalue; in the latter case, the derived pointer/lvalue might access things the original could not].

I think the authors of C89 most likely thought that principle was sufficiently obvious that there was no need to expressly state it. Were it not for the Standard's rule forbidding it, an implementation might plausibly have ignored the possibility of an `int` being accessed via an `unsigned`, but I don't think the authors of the Standard imagined that a non-obtuse compiler writer wouldn't allow for the possibility that something like:

void inc_float_bits(float *f)
{
((unsigned*)f)+=1;
}

might affect the stored value of a `float`.

The present rules, as written, have absurd corner cases. Given something like:

union U { float f[2]; unsigned ui[2]; } uu;

the Standard would, so far as I can tell, treat as identical the functions test1, test2, and test3 below:

float test1(int i, int j)
{
uu.f[i] = 1.0f;
uu.ui[j] += 1;
return uu.f[i];
}

float test2(int i, int j)
{
*(uu.f+i) = 1.0f;
*(uu.ui+j) += 1;
return *(uu.f+i);
}

float evil(unsigned *ui, float *f)
{ *f = 1.0f; *ui += 1; return *f; }

int test2(int i, int j)
{
evil(uu.f+i, uu.ui+j);
}

If a dereferenced pointer to union member type isn't allowed to access the union, the first example would be UB regardless of i and j, but that would imply that non-character arrays within unions are meaningless. If such pointers are allowed to access union objects, then test2 (and the evil function within it) would have defined behavior even when i and j are both zero.

BTW, I think any quality compiler should recognize the possiblity of type punning in the first two, though the Standard doesn't actually require either. Neither clang or gcc, however, recognizes the possibility of type punning in the second even though the behavior of the [] operators in the first are defined* as equivalent to the second.
Viva El Xavi
The first two statements of your BASH script should be
Some of my local restaurants are doing this - effectively becoming concierge grocers who will break down bulk quantities for their customers. Call an order in and pick it up in ~24 hours. They have and can get almost anything the grocery stores are out of including TP (in jumbo commercial rolls), flour, eggs, meats, etc.
Something happened between 1984 and 1992 where imagining a virtual world had to include large numbers of everyday people.
> Should you lose your account over that?

Once you attach an email you don't control to the account--like your work email that your employer controls--then it isn't "your" account any more. You have given someone else a means of controlling it. The solution is to not do that.
On the flip side, my phone does have a headphone jack and it's been a perennial weak spot. Debris gets in there far too easily to the extent that it doesn't even allow me to use a standard headphone cable.

I'm not an audiophile, so wireless headphones and streamed music is more than good enough for me - but as someone who has a headphone jack and would be more than willing to use it, it's not exactly been a bed of roses after a couple of years of use.

Am sure a manufacturer with better QA than OnePlus might be better, or if I'd have wrapped my phone in bubble-wrap every time I place it in a pocket it wouldn't have got stuff in there. But that's the anecdata from someone with one.
Thats not really it. US company (Apple, Google, Amazon, ...) understood the EU more than anybody an exploited every flaw they could find to pay as less tax as possible.

The "magic fine" were not random and unjustified. Those country were already borderline, if not fully crossing the border, with a lot of regulation here. Country like France and Germany were sick of seeing a lot of profit made within their border while tax revenue flee elsewhere.

The fine they given were not from vague plan, they were within the strict boundary of the law that those company keep playing with.
Those same company are pushing for stricter and clearer regulation but are being faced with the opposition of other EU member who kind of profit from the practice of these company.
China didn’t warn public of likely pandemic for 6 key days
a 5.4" iPhone has been consistently rumored for this fall, would have an "6/7/8 Plus" screen in your 5-series form factor.
I’d look at clinical trials for zinc in other drug combinations and also alone. They’re not promising unless your population has a zinc deficiency.
It really depends on sunglasses,

Doesn’t work:

- Ray-Ban wayfarers

Works:

- Ray-Ban aviators

- Maui Jim Waterways
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos adds $24bn to fortune
There's a scene early in "Halt and Catch Fire" (IMO the best tech-focused fiction show, basically a Mad Men take on the early breakthroughs in computing from personal computers through to the internet) where Joe the salesman tells Gordon the engineer, "Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing."

That's been my motto since I heard it there.
Rose gold for me! But I might have to settle.
I think it depends on what you want - I have some pricier headphones myself & I used to own monitor speakers too, but I never think to use any of it with a phone. I use a phone to be on the go, and having big headphones don't go with that well unless I'm sitting for a long time like an airplane.

So far I've been dealing with being on the go with the PowerBeats Pro - it's good enough for my purposes (light, good battery life, sound is good enough, somewhat compact), although I have it mainly because the AirPod Pros were not out then.
Solution: Any other virtualization platform.
Would you give up health or location data to return to work?
> The odd thing about Emacs is that its vastly superior customizability (or malleabilty, as the article says) tend to be a trap, for one can spend hours, and days, getting lost in its huge universe and falling into rabbit hole after rabbit hole instead of actually getting stuff done, but I've not yet decided if that's a bad thing or a good one.

I 100% agree with this. The customizability of Emacs is another double-edged sword.

On one hand you can do whatever you want within Emacs. On the other hand if you're not careful your configuration could become a gigantic mess of code that is hard to get through and debug.

You can also run into situations where you need to do a particular $thing. Sometimes that $thing are 1-2 lines of elisp, requiring a package, or just copy-pasting some lines of elsip. Other times that $thing will take hours or days to get working.

You can also find yourself in a situation where you were knee-deep in elisp customizing Emacs and then you take a break or want to switch over to a different task. Depending on what state you left your customization in Emacs could end up being broken or hard to work with until you finish your customization.

(These are all things I've personally run into).
Will it have an on-ramp?
Rents have killed many small businesses. The next step in this progression is chain stores. Hopefully, Covid-19 can rein the leveraged real estate.
A fast f-stop is better only if it allows you to use a lower ISO or a faster shutter speed in a context where you need a fast shutter. And even then, with modern cameras with good IS and strong low-light performance, you might still be better off with a slower f-stop.

Everywhere else, most lenses are sharped stopped down to the f/5.6–f/8 range, and depth-of-field is an entirely stylistic choice — e.g. shallow dof is popular with portraits, but largely undesirable for landscape photography.
Point is that the study is done at the wrong stage, too late.
> has a 5.9 inch display

That is not a compact phone.

I know I'm in the minority here, but the iPhone4, in my view, was the ideal form factor (3.5", I think). At least half of the time I glance at my phone, the informational payload is not even a full sentence and requires no interaction. Otherwise, I check mail and sometimes use maps. More or less, my phone occupies the niche that I'm supposed to want a digital watch for, but don't.

If I need more screen, there are a plethora of options. I really don't want a tablet in my pocket. And I don't keep it with me like anywhere nearly like I used to - it has turned in to more of a 'desk phone' that I check when I think about it.
I am currently using the original iPhone SE and for my purposes it works just fine. I use it for texting, Google Maps, checking stock prices, occasional photo/movie, email, WhatsApp, bank apps, NYTimes app, Apple Pay. I had the battery replaced last year and plan to use it for the next 3 years or until Apple adds a compelling new feature to the iPhone (which they haven't for several years). I dislike the newer iPhones because they are too big to be comfortable in my jeans pocket.
That image they include is disingenuous since the left sides of the two phones aren't aligned.
I'm American too (and not the French person you were responding to). IMO it's just an accidental quirk of language. Laws are just as important in other developed nations too.
They have made a calculation based completely on productivity and effect on GDP. The USA lost 1 month of "critical" productivity and we only have time with children, a resurgence of baking and netflix watched lists to show for it. That you and your family weren't part of the "dead" statistics didn't even factor into their equations.
Is the image, purportedly of a search of the codebase, in this post falsified?
https://tgstation13.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=26318#p554...
More early Starlink satellites likely being deorbited
Python Package Index now has automatic malware checks on board
Parts of Africa Bracing for Locust Swarm 20 Times Larger Than the Last Swarm
given react is a dependency its a lot more
So get AirPod Pros and be done with it. Watching a show in bed, you won’t have cables tangling up. You won’t be frustrated with trying to listen to music while charging your phone on a train. You’ll have a much better experience overall. Futurama isn’t streaming at some audiophile deluxe level of audio quality, so whatever wired headphones you are using aren’t going to beat AirPods Pro for the purposes you’ve mentioned.
I never understood watching stuff on a phone given tablets, laptops, PCs, smartTVs and even VR headsets. But then again, I take my laptop everywhere and use it for everything when there's a choice between the two.
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> this is so hard to track over such a long period of time.

But you created the problem in the first place by adding your work email to an account that had your personal boards in it. By doing that you gave your employer a means of controlling that account. You basically planted a time bomb that could go off at some unpredictable time in the future. And it went off.
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How Coronavirus is going to affect your travel business
Yeah, good. "A Mind is Born" is an intangible world cultural heritage IMO: https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/
I'm sorry you had to watch that happen to someone on the long decline. Occuring alongside a number of other conditions, my mother's dementia only ran a brief course before she passed away. That brief window was terrifying and heartbreaking. I understand some of the relief you mentioned. It felt like a war had ended.
Partly because Mozilla is continuing to iterate/experiment on the container UI and leaving that to extensions is a way to keep that laboratory open. They seem worried the UI may be too confusing if it was on by default for a lot of users. (Like the era decades ago when -ProfileManager was on-by-default in some installs.)

Mozilla even has two official extensions, trying to explore the space of ease of use/user expectations. In addition to the main multi-container extension they offer Facebook Container which is an extension designed to be more entry level but for folks worried about privacy. (It does what it says on a tin, creates only one additional container, names it Facebook, and automatically moves all Facebook tabs and pretty much only Facebook tabs into it.)
Tangential: Does anyone know how to generate HTML docs such as this? It looks like a page in a book - with a header/footer and page number. And, surprisingly no one in 1991 imaged we would be reading it on a 4k widescreen - and here I am, and it is extremely readable (using SF Mono on macOS). I would love to know what tools can be used to generate almost paper-like HTML docs.

Edit: I found the answer, tiny link at the bottom: https://tools.ietf.org/tools/rfcmarkup/
Because this is Apple's bargain device, they probably don't want to keep tooling machinery around that's specifically geared toward creating that older shape and size of iPhone.

I'd assume the iPhone SE is always going to follow the look and feel of the higher-end iPhones, maybe lagging behind a generation or so.
> doesn't push her to make unneccessary database calls for each request when business logic becomes significantly complex.

Are you objecting to holding all state in a database, or something else? If so, the only real alternative is to have individual servers hold state, which seems like a poor choice; one way or another you're going to hit the CAP theorem, and databases are well-optimized for getting you the best results from CAP that you're going to.
OTOH fingerprint sensors don't work with latex gloves. Hard to come up with PPE-friendly security!
On one hand you avoid frustration, on the other hand you miss out on greater enjoyment.
You are missing my likely poorly made point, WD seems to have different view of what non-enterprise "NAS use" entails than those users having problems.
One real con imho, no Night Mode.
They could've at least some of this logic (with the A13 included).
The new iPhone SE definitely doesn’t have any 5G.

5G is extremely overrated. LTE is easily capable of 200Mbps. I’ve personally seen it... but very few people have. Have you? (relevant link that demonstrates over 500Mbps on LTE: https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/iphone-11-pro-max-lte-spe...)

Until our towers have enough network backhaul to consistently max out LTE to a phone when that phone needs it, 5G has exactly one benefit: less signal congestion at major sporting / concert events with high densities of people. The carriers would say “marketing” is another benefit, probably.

Just having 5G won’t make the internet any faster in most situations, since the towers are backhaul limited... they aren’t limited by LTE.

Even 200Mbps is more than enough for 99% of people's phones for the next 5 years, especially since that's like double the average home internet speed in the US. The 537Mbps seen in the article I linked to is just excessive by today's standards... and that just requires current LTE.

“5G” also refers to two completely different technologies, which most people probably don’t realize. One of them doesn’t even seem very different from LTE, and the other requires towers for almost every single city block.
The year you saw that must have been when Assembly was still held at a school?

I was one year too late to be there, but saw it at the next Assembly when someone I met there was in disbelief upon hearing that I hadn't seen it and insisted he show it to me immediately.
Precisely.

In their case, they're also trying to host the various communities rather than simply being a tool that anyone can use to run a buy.