skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, the increase in excess mortality is almost certainly covid-19 related, and the potential for overcount is relatively small (and will probably be accounted for reasonably). By comparison not counting these will result in a large undercount, a much more significant effect.
The purpose of academic publication is to communicate with others in the same field, where the terminology of art is shared among all. Not having acquainted yourself with a given field's specific lexicon, why would you expect to understand without effort the meaning of titles that make heavy use of it?

For that matter, not being a participant in the work of which these publications constitute a part, why insist that those who do participate in it to talk with one another in the same language they'd use to make their work understandable to a lay audience such as yourself?

None of this seems very reasonable to me. You've done a splendid job of making clear that you value your own opinion in such matters quite highly, but you've left much to be desired in explaining why anyone else should do the same.
I think so, and it seems this is very recent; I found that: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-europe...
I hope France will follow.
Flight. Apparently "air flows faster on the top side of the wing, lowering the pressure" is an incomplete explanation; I even heard we don't completely understand why it works (?!?).
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Thanks! Posting the case study here for more information: https://pingcap.com/success-stories/lesson-learned-from-quer...
Huh? AmazonBasics cabling is significantly cheaper than Best Buy's white label brand Insignia 99% of the time.
You'd see Mount Everest.
The article mentions the 15-20 tweet roll as being cumbersome, and it is.

But a bigger issue is at work here - censorship. Twitter is being pulled in two opposite directions. It's a platform in which authoritative content is hosted. For example, the president conducts foreign policy through Twitter. And Twitter is also a platform where bots try to influence elections, people post images of dubious taste, and plain old lies are told.

Twitter has been leaning ever-harder into the role of curating authoritative content. The idea of verified identities as a prerequisite to post has been floated, and will no doubt resurface.

All of this leads to a dead-end. Twitter won't be able to afford to host anything remotely controversial (i.e., interesting) for fear of upsetting the thought police.

The same problem applies to Facebook, Medium, and all the others.

The reason to blog is simple. Because sooner or later a rational human exploring the bounds of human knowledge through writing will post something that will make one or more powerful people scared, angry, or offended. A blog makes retaliatory deplatforming much more difficult to pull off.
Does this randomize the Bluetooth address too? I saw the README (from the dissection) mention a function that hides the name "so the other side only gets the address", which would defeat the entire purpose of rotating identifiers.

If it does randomize the Bluetooth address, does it use a separate identifier, and if so, does it rotate both at the same time? Otherwise, you can use an identifier that changes at time 1 to link the other identifier with its new version when it changes at a different time.
If that was the case, would they have to be many, or just one with a script and a catchall mailbox ?
On a related note, a while ago I read a little about how ancient families coped with the deaths of their children. My takeaway, pretty much cribbed from this article [1], was that such deaths produced less trauma than they would today because:

(1) More families lost children. This lessened the trauma because a family could talk to other nearby families who had experienced the same thing. Those families would also be able to give advice. In contrast, losing a child is extremely rare (in developed countries) today. This rarity breeds isolation, which makes everything worse.

(2) There were established societal and religious ways to deal specifically with the death of a child. Think prescribed ceremonies that grant a form of closure and which pretty much all of your friends and neighbors subscribe to. Nothing like this exists today.

To me, this is very similar to the suggested explanation in the featured article for why war used to cause less PTSD: there was less stigma around war, a much larger chunk of society fought in wars, and there were universal and well-defined rituals for processing the experience.

The whole thing raises interesting questions about our modern understanding of trauma. I think the most common modern statement on grief is that it's intensely personal and people should never feel that their grieving process is "wrong", at least not for a long time (years?) after the event. That at least seems different than past practice.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/642999?seq=1
Mach's principle. Why is there a "preferred" rotational frame of reference in the universe? Or as stated in this Wikipedia article,

"You are standing in a field looking at the stars. Your arms are resting freely at your side, and you see that the distant stars are not moving. Now start spinning. The stars are whirling around you and your arms are pulled away from your body. Why should your arms be pulled away when the stars are whirling? Why should they be dangling freely when the stars don't move?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach%27s_principle
No EV is largely pointless because it relies on humans and it's fascinating how few people understand that.

For every single HTTPS transaction (and there may be dozens involved in even fairly mundane seeming activities) the browser is able to compare the SAN dnsName (or rarely ipAddress) to the host named in the HTTPS URL. It does this unblinkingly every single time, and if it fails then (in the best case) the transaction just fails entirely or (in the less good legacy case) there's some sort of "Oops, something bad happened, don't trust this" behaviour.

But whereas SAN dnsNames and ipAddresses are something a machine can compare to the host in a URL, the EV identity is something only humans have opinions about and humans don't want to make dozens of such decisions when they click on a funny video of a cat.

Is it OK that this funny cat video is from "Alphabet Inc." ? How about "XXVI Holdings Inc." ? Why is that OK but "Funny Cat Videos Ltd." isn't? How about "You Tube" of Austin, Texas, is that OK? How do I know? More importantly why is it suddenly my problem when the computer was previously able to get this stuff right?

One of the most obvious things to do if you suppose that well, any fool can get the DV certificate for realbank.example but that's fine because only the Real Bank can get an EV certificate for Real Bank and that'll protect you is this:

Mallory gets an account with Real Bank and watches protocol flow. They don't care about most actions but are very interested in login timing. Mallory obtains one of these certs for realbank.example but for an organisation name they control like "Mallory Inc."

Now Mallory MITMs a valuable customer of Real Bank. During login they passively pass back and forth every step until the POST where the customer's password and OTP code are supplied. For that POST Mallory interposes supplying that Mallory Inc. certificate. The browser has no idea what "Real Bank" is but it can see this is a realbank.example certificate, so that's fine, the password and OTP code are delivered to Mallory.

Probably this works seamlessly, and Mallory steals the customer's money with no evidence of how it happened.

BUT if the customer was really trying hard to obey this crazy "Check EV because that's secure" they will see this - but only when their page renders, which is after their password and OTP code were delivered to Mallory.

They get to excitedly tell their bank that they've detected a successful attack - after it worked. If they're lucky the bank might even give them the money back, but probably not because it looks exactly like they're committing fraud.
Elon Musk Wants to Put Up 40k Satellites, Bring Internet to the Whole World
Do you have a source for the change of course? The CCC published an open letter[0] 2 days ago and I doubt anything changed over the weekend.

[0] https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2020/corona-tracing-app-offene...
this made me laugh!
Sharing on those sites is pretty hit or miss. I posted a blog post I wrote here once, went pretty much ignored. Someone else posted it (big company engineering blog) same link and it was on the front page for awhile with some interesting discussion. I almost missed all of it too.
This post is a summary of such a book? Are software developers unqualified to summarize books as they read them?
>> We can argue on the "necessity" of 2-day shipping, but it is still a massive differentiator.

I don't understand how commenters on this site constantly miss this point and argue over a few dollars in savings. If you live in Seattle, you get same-day shipping for free w/ Prime on a lot of items, one-day shipping for most, and two-day shipping on everything else.

Small businesses don't even ship products out 6 days a week with a 1 day handling time, much less provide reasonable rates.

Speed is king.
Every analytical function, like f(x)=x^2-log(x+1), or signal, like a radio signal, can be rewritten as as infinite sum of sines and cosines. The Fourier transform helps you break down these components for you
Yes but in the time-reversed version, the planet would be moving the opposite direction so you'd be doing a "reverse gravity assist" which slows you down.
Windows 10 Search ads tempt users to give new Edge a spin
The original Deus-Ex is still one of my all-time favorites and a top 10 video game ever, right up there with Half-Life and others.

What's especially crazy is how much of that story line has become true.
The older I get the more I'm convinced that having kids young is the right decision.

I had my first daughter when I was 24 and now that I'm entering my prime earning years I don't have to worry about child care or being around 24/7 the same way I did when my kids were babies. I also have less "free time" now than when I was in college and I had way less than most college kids.

It sounds counterintutive in this day and age but I think having kids at the tail end of high school or early college might be the best way to do it.
$2M was roughly based on a decent house and a comfortable pension. For most this is a pipe dream anyway.

Young people don't have money because the balance between return on labour and return on capital have shifted in the favour of capital. Near zero interest rates with consequent asset inflation is one mechanism by which this has been achieved.

Eventually the people actually doing the work will say enough is enough (or hit the opiates), and society starts to crumble. Go have a look at the nearest bridge or highway (in the US), you will see what I mean.
The issue is that spammers will just have someone who is not a post officer deliver their spam.

There was a similar method for email spam, hashcash where you needed to include some string derived from the message and recipient and some random characters you choose such that it will gag to some number with some amount of 0s at the start. Like bitcoin, the idea was that the cost of computing all the hashes would be prohibitive for mass spamming. It never caught on and I guess webmail would have been more expensive to set up if it had.

A system I would like would be one where there is a mechanism to return post if you don’t want it (rather than if it was sent to the wrong address) and the sender must cover the cost of recycling the material and some extra fee to make them not want their post to be unwanted. This would have to apply regardless of how the post was delivered.
First principle reasoning in real life examples.
Got in a quick trip to the gym though.
Came here to write about ClusterKnoppix! It was amazing and I had 7 small form factor PC's running a mini cluster. It was great for moving things around. Problem was it fell behind in releases and it became hard to get applications to run on it. Knoppix was how I got into Linux, it still ranks as my favorite distro. Thanks Klaus Knopper for your work in setting that up!

It would be nice if it worked on Raspberry Pi, or if there was a simple way to set OpenMOSIX up on Pi's
In response to that previous comment, it should be noted that by using Anki daily, you will increase blood flow and connectivity in the hippocampus region. In turn, this will increase the amount of things that you can learn in a time period. I've been able to increase my new card count and review count over time without too much drain, and I answer questions far more quickly than I did when I started.

It's my daily gym activity for my brain.
Flight is EXACTLY like swimming except in air and without any component of floating. You're welcome.
I think it is best to start from the basics but you just have to find a "basics" book that is not aimed at beginners. Let's say you come from any OOP language and read up on JavaScript - you might just skip the chapter on Functions because heck - I know what function are. But you would miss out a lot of the interesting aspects of the language. See
https://eloquentjavascript.net/05_higher_order.html
It really doesn't mess with any workflow. It's asking them to write the copyright information at the top of the file when they copy something from Github or whatever. The tool can do it in an automated fashion and ensure you do it right before check-in. It's good practice to do this when contributing something upstream too. You'll usually want the engineer to add your company's name and copyright info if they do it on company time.

I would actually raise an eyebrow if your engineers were resistant to keeping a written log of copyright information based on workflow grounds. That could indicate that there is a lot more copy-pasting going on that they don't want you to know about — when the code is 100% written by the same team without copy-pasting then there is a lot less question on who owns what. And I don't mean that to discourage teams from reusing open source components, but rather to help them understand that there are associated bookkeeping costs that can potentially be reduced with the right workflow.
You're right that this is glossed over in popular explanations, but the point you make is exactly the starting point for all formal courses and textbooks.

The first part of the argument is that for single point particles falling, the effect of gravity is the same for all particles. This suggests that we should model gravity as something intrinsic to spacetime itself, rather than as a field living on top of spacetime, which could couple to different particles with different strengths.

The second part of the argument, which is what you point out, is that gravity can have nontrivial tidal effects. (This had better be true, because if all gravitational effects were just equivalent to a trivial uniform acceleration, then it would be so boring that we wouldn't need a theory of gravity at all!) This suggests that whatever property of spacetime we use to model gravity, it should reduce in the Newtonian limit to something that looks like a tidal effect, i.e. a gradient of the Newtonian gravitational field. That leads directly to the idea of describing gravity as the curvature of spacetime.

So both parts of the argument give important information (both historically and pedagogically). Both parts are typically presented in good courses, but only the first half makes it to the popular explanations, probably out of simplification.
In Germany, tap water has super high quality but people still buy 1 liter bottles, because fancy name or sparkling. I appreciate the pro-nature advertisement!
Apparently, you are not familiar with Trader Joes. Some (all?) of their stores regularly rearrange the entire store. My assumption has been that they are hoping for you to serendipitously discover new products/categories and purchase them. The produce section generally seems to remain fixed.
The definition of capitalism: an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.

I wish I could edit my first comment to include the definition. I hate inequality and people hurting others through abusive practices too.
Maybe if you specifically address it there, but I think the USPS has a more formalized process to handle those in Anchorage now:

https://about.usps.com/holidaynews/letters-from-santa.htm
I will be going to work tomorrow and baking this into our email test suite.
I've been informed that I'm part of the problem. Comment removed, sorry for the trouble, folks!
deleted in the interest of a fellow hacker.
This is a very good playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBh2i93oe2qvMVqAzsX1K...

Starts from basic concepts and builds up a nice overview.
Thanks for the recommendation good sir!
> I am something you could consider smart

Oh boy.

> 90% people have brain fog for some stupid fixable reason

[citation needed]

> avoid relationship until your life is in order. Huge time sink and ruins concentration.

A healthy social/romantic life is never a time-sink, unless you're extremely short-sighted.
With some minor work you can set up Wordpress to automatically update itself on a 5 USD shared hosting. Just get a no-nonsense theme and keep the plugins to an absolute minimum.
Minute Physics and 3brown1blue did a two part collab that simplifies some of it down to a counting problem that'd be suitable for grade school.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcqZHYo7ONs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzRCDLre1b4
In this case, a country that isn't the US trying to push a "pirated" version of an app against the will of the country that originally developed it would likely be hindered by DMCA takedowns directed at the app store operators.
The economy cannot be modelled as a linear system; it is a pseudo-chaotic system.

If one poorly-chosen element is labelled as a "non-essential business", it can cause all the other metaphorical Jenga blocks to collapse.
For organizations infested with unconscious incentives, heroism signals empire building:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21872355
We have quite a lot of mortality data from different countries around the world at this point so I am a bit disappointed that people are still spreading these unsubstantiated claims. I seem to be posting this link a lot lately, but here are the latest Italian stats on their deceased:

https://www.epicentro.iss.it/en/coronavirus/bollettino/Repor...

Over 23,000 deaths and deaths under 30 have not even passed double digits yet. Only 1.1% of all deaths were people under 50; and that's deaths, not infected.
There's no content to check out at all between here and the download link, primarily. Therefore it can't be for anything other than specifically to get downloads.
The LIGO detector. I've never heard a logical explanation for it. If your explanation is that gravitational waves stretch and squash spacetime so light takes different amount of time to bounce from an emitter back to a measurer, then you don't have even a slight understanding of how it works. If your explanation doesn't involve higher spatial dimensions (not time) then you don't understand it. If you haven't even considered higher spatial dimensions when explaining LIGO then you shouldn't even try for the incorrect explanation above because you don't have any of the pieces of the puzzle.
> you’d see them move closer because of tidal effects dictated by the fact that they’re each falling towards the earth’s centre of gravity, and therefore at (very slightly) different angles.

This point isn't raised anywhere because it's mostly a pedantic point that has nothing to do with the thought experiment. You shouldn't try and decompose thought experiments literally, otherwise you'll get caught up in unimportant details like this. Just assume the elevator is close enough to the earth such that the field lines are effectively parallel, or better yet, just pretend the elevator is in an infinite plate field.
I think this wave may have been started by Arduino, but I mean... Raspberry Pi? Teensy? MBED? Any microcontroller manufacturers' dozens of reference designs?

How much more open hardware do you want? I'll be thrilled once reasonably sized phones and laptops are reasonably straightforward to get with open hardware of course, but there is lots and lots of open source hardware.
> The usernames could be from a variety of locales. If showing them in that form is seen as valuable, they'll each have to be decoded in their appropriate locale.

You realize that locales and encodings are different right? En.utf8, c.utf8, and fr.utf8 are all different locales, but are all utf-8 encoded. They'll all work correctly when printed on a machine with any other utf8 locale. The differences arise in things like sort order and regex, where c.utf-8 might be best for a server if you want C or ASCII like functionality.

> Using LANG=C doesn't prevent this, it encourages it.

Well no, because you don't know what encoding each person is using. Either you guess which is error prone, or you have to control the other endpoint so that they include the encoding. But if you control the client, just use utf-8.

Pretty much no software does what you suggest. Go and rust, for example, go further and entirely ignore the system locale and just always use utf-8 for everything. People don't complain.
> And the thing is, of course customers ask for a variety things that imply complexity.

That's a claim one could make. If you're going to make it, you need to be ready to defend it. "A implies B" is typically not the case in the sense of "gravity causes objects to fall towards the ground".
What is the point? ideas free of authority
It’s for people who haven’t heard of it or think it’s a good idea to remind everyone about it.
Congress is the House and the Senate combined.
When done well, swap can be pretty useful. I have a Fall 2019 MacBook Pro maxed out on CPU (8 cores) and RAM (64 GB) - MacOS still regularly compresses (highest I've seen so far: 12 GB) and/or swaps (highest I've seen so far: 16 GB) relatively unused memory to make more space for other applications and hot caches (which are still useful even with an PCIe SSD).

Keep in mind that everything feels fully snappy and responsive while this is all happening.
That's the one! It's really interesting, there was a company in the 70's trying to do what I am doing but aspartame was coming out at the same time. Searle found it so threatening, they did some dirty work to sabotage the company and get ahead.

N00b question but, why does my link not hyperlink :P Plz halp
> If your explanation is that gravitational waves stretch and squash spacetime so light takes different amount of time to bounce from an emitter back to a measurer, then you don't have even a slight understanding of how it works.

Well, I'll bite. I'm a physicist and I understand LIGO. What's your alternative explanation?
If it were up to me I would remove my entire garden.
GitLand: A Multiplayer game controlled using GitHub
Reactance.
SQL is indeed pretty crufty. After all, it dates back to the 70's, and is generally regarded as an 'entry level' language for analysts.

It's nowhere near as crazy as Javascript (and, arguably, Ruby):

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
That's why you have to design your environment instead.

For example, this family-size package of Double Stuf Oreos was designed to be eaten, so I will stoically consume every last one of them.
The connection between elementary particles and group representations. I get the math, I just don't see in what way it corresponds to reality (i.e. in addition to being a bijection).