skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tegnell has quickly become a rather controversial figure in Sweden with a large host of detractors on one side and a fanclub on the other side. There have been several calls from experts in the field for Sweden to change its policy [1, 2, 3], the latest of which saw 22 professors, researchers and doctors call for politicians to step in and take control. While it undoubtedly is interesting to hear Tegnell speak about his strategy you need to keep in mind that there are many experts in the field who disagree with the way Folkhälsomyndigheten deals with the pandemic.

[1] https://lakartidningen.se/Opinion/Debatt/2020/03/Sverige-bor...

[2] https://www.dn.se/debatt/folkhalsomyndigheten-har-misslyckat...

[3] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/forskare-kritiska-til-fhm...
>I really don't get why they push for these centralised solutions when clearly defined decentralised models exist.

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Do you even check your numbers? Sweden has over 1500 deaths to date.

Your just cherry picking numbers and extrapolating to fit your conclusions. Their CFR is 10% now. 10%. That's extraordinary. You can't dismiss their current stats and then say they don't have a genpop testing regimen as a means of supporting your claims.

And even if you get "lucky" with a crude CFR of 1%, that's disastrous. If just 50% become infected, that's 50K deaths, not 500. And another 250-500K hospitalizations with long lasting effects.
> They also risk losing that entire market as well. Let's be honest, nobody loves F or G. If a decent competitor stands up people will gladly switch, even more if they market it as "by Australians for Australians".

Are Australians really so nationalistic? I thought they would mostly choose whatever tool allows them to do what they want as quick as possible.

> SV companies are big and great and all that, but to think they are above state jurisdictions is delusional.

Google can follow the law by simply not indexing Australians sites anymore, or they don't have to service Australians. If they are told to share revenue, they can choose to simply shut down the revenue source instead, especially if the cost of revenue sharing exceeds the revenue they are generating. FB/G aren't charities.

When GDRP came online, many web sites in the states found that blocking out EU viewers was cheaper than complying. That isn't going against EU law.
Yup. Wasn't there a PET with a 6809 in it? I want one of those.
> Yes, clearly.

Unfortunately, the C Standard doesn't specify an abstraction model that is amenable to the optimization of usable programs.

> In that case, I'm not sure what we're even arguing about; the language standard might or might not standardize a way of specifying said waiver, but as long as it's not lumped in with -On or -std=blah that are necessary to get a proper compiler, it has no bearing on real-world programmers that're just trying get working code. Hell, I'd welcome a -Ounsafe or whatever, just to see what sort of horrible mess it makes, as long -Ono-unsafe exists and is the default.

The only reason for contention between compiler writers and programmers is a desire to allow compilers to optimized based upon the assumption that a program won't do certain things. The solution to that contention would be to have a means of inviting optimizations in cases where they would be safe and useful, analogous to what `restrict` would be if the definition of "based upon" wasn't so heinously broken.
I see a lot of the "Sweden is sacrificing the elderly for money"-arguments in media. But of course that's not the intent.

What options do countries have? Any vaccine or cure is at least one year away, if not more. There is no miracle cure (Tweets don't count).

Let's say you are a country with SARS-CoV-2.

So, your goals are A. stop the spread, and B. protect the most vulnerable and C. try to keep the number of hospital visits low enough to not collapse the healthcare system, so that people ending up in hospitals have a chance of making it out alive.

Do you 1. lock down the country hard; or 2. keep the country (semi) open, reaching for herd immunity, or 3. do nothing?

If you do #1: prepare to be locked down until a vaccine/cure exists and gets deployed. This is at least 1.5 years. Are you ready for this? Sure, this keeps the death rate low. If you open the lockdown early, people start dying again. Prolonged lockdown hurts the economy, and the healthcare system will also suffer greatly. If the economy collapses, things go to shit really fast, and don't expect help from the hospitals. And, in general, any immunization within the population will proceed slowly if at all.

If you do #2: some people in the risk groups will die because the virus is everywhere. And, for this choice to work, immunization must be a possibility, so that herd immunity can develop in the first place. Over time, the population may resist the virus.

If you do #3: many people in the risk groups die, the healthcare system collapses and you'll be in a really bad place. The population may become resistent, though.

Option #3 is not really good.

Assume you choose #1, i.e. total lockdown. Once you open up the lockdown, you'll be in situation #2. So why not do #2 directly?

If you don't believe that immunization through exposure to the virus can happen, then #1 is the only choice -- hope for a vaccine and be prepared for economic carnage.

But, in all other cases #2 is the saner alternative. I think this is why Sweden is doing what it's doing.
I am confused why his diagnosis makes any difference... this isn't a fatal disease, so he has no fewer years to live than the rest of us.

If he thought being a software engineer was what he wanted to do to live a fulfilling life before his diagnosis, why would that change now?
Contrast that with the chorus of "the fake news media is blowing everything out of proportion"...
Oh,we used to play this at high school. We tried to be as nasty and bizzare as possible, and when unveiling the result we would usually break out in hysterical laughter. Later I once played it at a Christian party - people were not amused...
I have wondered why Tile here in the U.S. doesn’t do exactly this. Tile “cards” are about the thickness of a credit card. I have one in my wallet so I can “beep” my wallet when I can’t find it.

The power needs must be miniscule, I assume.

Anyway I think its technical feasability is established vis a vis powering electronics in that form factor.

And gathering a lot of recorded contacts is exactly what the goal is, so that’s not a bad thing.
This looks like it could do with a video - the description and screenshots appear to give a sense of what's going on in the app but actually showing people would be much better - unless you want to rely purely on the kind of people who'll just install something they don't know, which seems limiting (eg if I can't use it as I'm not on Apple but if I saw how it worked and figured it was good I could hypothetically recommend it to people in education or I could give feedback on whether I'd be interested if only you targeted some other platform)
What you're imagining is that if Google shuts down Google News in Australia, the government will threaten to shut down all their other unrelated business ventures, unless they put it back up?

The concept of forcing a foreign business to run a business it doesn't want to is a bit bizarre, and I doubt a court would support the concept, let alone the idea of holding the rest of the company hostage.
In your sample images, why do you get some aliasing just on the white skylight sort of rectangles and seemingly nowhere else?
> I am with you. Haskell is an brick wall of monads and other really hard words...

I understand the feeling, that's why it's very necessary to either find a very good teaching resource.

I'm currently reading "A Type of Programming" for fun and it kind of reminds me of "Why's poignant guide to Ruby in presentation (sadly sans artful illustrations)":

https://atypeofprogramming.com/ (do yourself a favor and at least click to read the well-written intro ;) )

The caveat (because there usually is one) being that it's 720 pages long. That's another tradeoff though.. you either get something that gets you all the way from point A to point B and it's very long or you get something very dense that requires lots of hammock time to derive the intuition yourself.

> I often wonder if Haskell is useful for anything

Also, I'll note that I write Haskell for my day job to combat your though of "wonder if Haskell is useful for anything".

> someone must be using it.

Yep :)
The article is not suggesting these people to avoid college as such, it's suggesting them to skip a year. Your college prospects won't be worse with a year of working experience, if anything, it really helps learning if you have a bit of context working in the direction of your studies.
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If one reads this comment literally, it looks as if you are completely oblivious to the constraints and realities of other people’s lives. I’m sure your real attitude isn’t so extreme (though if it is then I guess I should congratulate on being so prescient and good at planning).

For the record:

- lots of people make decisions they later regret. Sometimes they make these based on assumptions that later turn out to be incorrect, sometimes on incomplete information, sometimes based on stress or strong emotion, sometimes in line with advice, and sometimes against advice. Sometimes the effects are small, sometimes they are large, sometimes they ought not be regretted.

- some people have children without planning to beforehand (for various reasons)

- most people can’t take extreme worst case scenarios into account when making big life decisions (eg “If I become unemployed or unable to work in 5 years I wouldn’t be able to afford any mortgage therefore I shouldn’t buy a house”)

- some people are constrained by other factors (eg “I’d like to have more space but I can’t afford a larger house which is sufficiently close to my work”)

- It’s reasonably natural for people to want to have children and sometimes they this even if they know it will be hard.
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> However, I offer that the sentiment behind it is honest.

No doubt about that. I think the sentiment behind it is that you love your kids greatly.

> I propose that common assumption leads to no beneficial outcome

I agree, but your principle is pretty similar to the one you are criticizing. They are two sides of the same coin. Neither principle is grounded in empirical reality. Both can lead to bad outcomes.

> If there's fault in my overall reasoning, this is where I'd recommend you look.

I mean, to be clear, I think the fault in your reasoning is to try to create a universal moral imperative based on an emotion you feel about your own kids. There is a gap there. That is not a justified move. Universal moral imperatives would have to be better grounded than that (just like scientific claims have to).
Unorthodox suggestion: build up lots of capital ASAP, so that you don’t struggle later commuting to terms with loss of vision as well as potential loss of revenue.

Some approaches to consider: Algo trading , creating and selling off products, creating stuff for startups for a stake in the profits.
Right now, you may want to consider all options rather than regretting not doing so later.

I have seen two blind persons in my work life: one is a guru with emacs and gnome programming and today runs his own Python training and also sells an accounting package ( called GNU Khata). He was born blind.

Another is an architect and advisor at a consulting company. He lost his vision to an accident. He was fortunate to have already built up capital, and used that as a buffer to take a year off to learn how to cope and to continue.

Until I’d met them both, I’d thought that suicide might be the only feasible approach were I to go blind. I am now completely positive about living even after blindness, but I do understand the benefits of having a capital base and being financially independent.

All the best.
The Royal Society's policy briefing report on Green Ammonia goes into all this in detail, and makes the case pretty well:

https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/low-carbon-e...
https://web.archive.org/web/20200419230250/https://joshbersi...
I just saw a teddy bear make an appearance in a neighbor's window and I thought it was a one-off. No idea this is a larger-scale scavenger hunt.

It's nice to see a positive story every and now then -- and the UI on the iOS app looks great!
A Prius, on the other hand is close to the weight of a light truck.

I was real confused by this. Wiki says Prius is in the range of 3,000 lbs. Much lighter than a truck of any sort.

Perhaps you meant to say Tesla Model X instead of Prius? That the closest comparison to an SUV. It weighs in at well over 5,000 lbs, which closer to the range of a light truck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Prius_(XW50)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_X
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I was thinking the other direction. I'm sure companies will start insisting they are not news organizations if laws like this keep popping up, because people won't want to pay the costs involved in linking to news.
Be that as it may, I'm sick and tired of the "we're all gonna die" rhetoric. It is simply not helpful, at all, even as a precaution. Find a way to channel this crisis into something productive. Find new ways to work. Find new treatments, vaccines, healthcare solutions. Adapt, overcome. Encourage and enable others to adapt and overcome. If we have to stay further apart to make it work, let's find a way to make it work. Support local businesses. Get that delivered takeout. Buy that appliance. Spend that cash if you have it - it keeps people employed. It'll be over, as inevitably as the change of seasons. Optimists win every time.
If you discount those 1/3rd (why should you? it's still a policy failure) it would still be 2x the rate of germany.
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>> I think Google and Facebook have more power in this relationship, which might say something about the tech giants.

IMO decisions like that require power to be concentrated in limited hands.
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I think you'd only be looking for a significantly low reading anyway. So if you get a low reading try again until it goes up or it's time to go to the hospital.
When I went to the Maker Faire 5+ years ago, there was one small group of exhibits about making flint tools and other Stone Age implements (fiber cord, then you can make a bow drill and make beads, etc.). They were really trying to revive the ideas and methods hat you are talking about. I don’t have any contact info, but it should be on google somewhere.

Somewhat related for the Bronze Age is the Clickspeing YouTube channel where the guy create bronze-working tools by hand and then uses them to re-create the Antikythera Mechanism. It is surprisingly complex, but he is meticulous and perfectionist with incredible results. Unfortunatel, he stopped posting halfway through, so I’m not sure what happened.
I cannot empathize with what the author is feeling at all. Whatever the reason, it feels like the author lives in a completely different reality. We'll become "resentful for people who have it worse than we do"? I mean, I enjoy philosophical meanderings as much as any curious human being, but did this person read what he wrote?
I have heard anecdotally that Apple in particular does hire a lot of blind software engineers - in large part to help make its products accessible to the blind.
The question is whether they had children when they began their ambitious project. Bill Gates was definitely childless when he started Microsoft. He met his wife Melinda through Microsoft; she was an employee. I don't know about Musk but the question is whether he had kids when founding Paypal.
Your comment about proof reading and errors not sounding right reminds me of the "proper/best" way to learn Morse code for ham radio. Most everyone is familiar with the charts that show A=.- B=-... etc. Lots of beginners try to actually interpret the sounds in their ears and convert that to a letter and then convert a bunch of those to a word. Obviously, that is very processor intensive and has a high failure rate. The best way is to treat each audio pattern as a letter in a new language and skip the conversion process. Eventually, you recognize entire words just from the sounds.
Yes. It's done during compile time and trivial to do.

Changing the function signature is significantly harder. You'd either have to inline the function, evaluate the code, run optimizations to remove the Either wrapping or you can have a more specialize simple check and have two version of the function. One with the standard signature and one that doesn't use Either and modifies the function to not use it.

Having one function signature which you don't need to modify is significantly more simple than applying several optimizations to undo wrapping and not break anything
I wonder if a significant amount of that is drug money. I have long wondered whether the core 'value' of cryptocurrency is that it facilitates illegal commerce.
Everybody has their pet peeves. Mine is upgradeability.

You can't get a Mac laptop where everything isn't soldered in.
You can't get a Mac desktop with built-in expansion options under $6k.

I don't begrudge Apple their design choices. I'm even willing to pay a substantial markup for their hardware. But deliberately crippling systems to prevent them from remaining useful over the long-haul is really unfortunate and wasteful.
If i went blind tomorrow I would invest heavily in:

1. Emacs and Emacsspeak in particular. Emacs is the richest text-based user experience out there; imagine if all Terminal apps were configurable and scriptable under the same coherent framework. This is why Emacsspeak is an incredibly valuable asset that I would lean heavily on in the event of vision loss.

2. I would invest heavily in making sure that I have a very trivial way to deploy Chrome user extensions or similar such that I could write my own screen readers, document explorers, etc. tailored to my own liking. The only thing close to Emacs is the DOM with JavaScript as it’s Elisp. A lot of people gripe about the web, but the fact that almost all my apps come under the same pliable DOM means I can manipulate without vision almost everything. See e.g. vimperator.

These two things mean that you could do most of your job as-is, with assistance from colleagues.

As you’re a full stack developer, you’ll find point 2 easy. And point 1 is hard but a worthy investment. Emacs is older than the web and will probably outlive it.

I would probably also look at using tree sitter to make screenreading code more efficient at the AST level, because code is parsed linearly but we read it with random access.

I’d start working with my screen turned off or covered with paper if I knew ahead of time, that way I could start training. Honestly, computing-wise I wouldn’t be that worried about losing my vision. It’s the rest of life that’s harder.

Best of luck to you! Drop me a PM if you’d like some pointers on my two bullet points.
Fujitsu announced new GS21 mainframe models in 2018 [1]. (GS21 is partially IBM compatible at hardware and software level, mainly survives in Japan.)

And new BS2000 mainframe models in October 2019 [2]. (BS2000 is partially IBM compatible at instruction set level, but the OS is incompatible with any IBM OS; low end models are actually x86 servers running Linux with software emulation of the 390 instructions, while high end models have S/390-compatible CPUs.)

Atos (who own Groupe Bull) uploaded a brochure to their website in October last year [3] advertising their GCOS7/GCOS8 mainframes. The mainframes are actually Intel Xeon Windows servers running the legacy mainframe architecture under a software emulator. However, while in principle the software emulator could run on any Windows server, they only license it to run on their own hardware.

[1] https://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-re...

[2] https://www.fujitsu.com/emeia/about/resources/news/press-rel...

[3] https://atos.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/BullSequana_M_BR...
Going blind doesn't preclude OP from having to make a living, right? We'd all rather be optimizing for other matters than employment, but most of us don't seem to have that luxury.
CloudFlare tested various ways of dropping packets, such as iptables, nftables, and xdp.[1]

They could drop 1.8 Mpps (million packets per second) with tc, which was the best, until they tested xdp.

XDP handled 10.1 Mpps.

[1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-drop-10-million-packets/
It looks like an addendum to (or part of) "Wall Street & the Financial Crisis-Anatomy of a Financial Collapse"

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/PSI%20REPORT%20-%...

Yep, there's a reference on page 289.

1119 2/2007 “Shorting Home Equity Mezzanine Tranches,” Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.,

and there was an earlier version, from 2005.

1314 See, e.g., 2/2007 presentation, “Shorting Home Equity Mezzanine Tranches,” prepared by Mr. Lippmann,
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edmundsauto nailed it in the unpresidential comment.

I wasn't complaining about the gatekeepers failing, just trying to share their perspective for those who might not understand.

FWIW, I think the best outcome would have been to deny Trump at the gate, and instead find a candidate who could get those policies done without being a danger to democracy.
Ask HN: Why are there so few part-time jobs?
A developer/sysadmin friend of mine has been job hunting for a while now. He told me that he doesn't want to work his entire life away and as such he's only looking for part-time work, but that it has been impossible to find something.

Why are all companies only using full-time employment?

Why are there so little flexibility? It's like everyone is "brain washed" into this robot way of working eight hours a day.

I must admit, I'm only really productive the first 4 hours, after that I just want to go home!
Thanks for reminding me about this. His whole website is practically a reference text for RF engineering, now is the perfect time to dive back in.
How to drop 10M packets/second (2018)
It occurs to me that part of your objection may stem from an notion that I'm proposing a rule or some sort of absolute guideline.

If so, my response is that rules too often suck at promoting positive behaviors and that absolute guidelines suck even more.
This "right-wing trolley-problem exercise" is something that we do all the time. Work at a union job and in your first week they'll give you a spreadsheet telling how much your arms, your legs, and your life are worth. When people decide to work in dangerous jobs like logging and petroleum extraction, they're putting a value on their own lives. If we ever institute government-run healthcare we'll also have to put a value on life. How much money will the government spend on the elderly for expensive medication? At what age do we let cancer patients forego therapy and instead get palliative care? This isn't social Darwinism, putting a value on life is something we do every day.

Some countries are engaging in social isolation. Others, like South Korea, Japan, and Sweden are not - or at least conducting much less restrictive isolation. In time, we'll see how well those countries fare as compared to the ones that did isolate and then we can get a sense of whether shutting down much of the economy was worth it.
This is about bitstream encryption, so there is an expectation of confidentiality. The keys needed to decrypt the bitstream are stored in nonvolatile memory on the FPGA itself. Assuming that it is implemented correctly (evidently not in this case), it is impossible to decrypt the bitstream without analyzing the FPGA die itself, using tools that are usually beyond what a casual attacker might have. It probably won't stop a nation-state from figuring out how to read out your FPGA design, but it will probably slow down your competitors.