skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to be on a different planet to define Sweden's mortality numbers to be "great". They are 5-10x worse than the other Nordics, have one of the highest death rates in the world, and it's not obvious that they will have a long-run advantage despite all the propagandizing for it.

Their approach is highly experimental, which makes it all the more bizarre that they aren't testing very much. They have a "developing world" or "overwhelmed country" cases:deaths ratio (about 1:8) which suggests that they have a huge number of cases they don't know about. It's not clear why a country taking a radically experimental approach to COVID-19 would also test so lightly - it suggests that they don't want to know what's going on.

It's possible that they don't want to have embarrassingly high case numbers, but it's just as possible that their numbers are embarrassing in the other direction - i.e. while they've killed a huge bunch of oldies, they also haven't got nearly enough cases to have herd immunity.

We will also get to see, long term, what the morbidity effects of taking this approach are. They will not look super-intelligent if there is any kind of effective treatment or vaccine developed in the next 6-12 months.

They only look good when you compare them with hard-hit countries. The difference is that Belgians and Spaniards aren't patrolling every goddamn social media site announcing how well they've done with the virus.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-deaths-per-mi...
Hmm. Aspect ratio on the Go2 looks not right.
Future Man reference.
> e.g. with many people getting it as children due to careless parents/extended family

Puhleeze. HSV is present in the majority of the population. Branding parents as "careless" because their children get it is ridiculous.
I suspect until there’s a proven vaccine.

NZ has always been the best place in the world to survive the end of days.
Maybe. The effects of a weakened economy often mean a switch from caring about the environment to caring about bottom lines. It's harder to push green regulation when compliance costs will cause job losses.
There are already several mutations in circulation, so we know it does mutate. The questions remaining are:

* how much does it mutate?

* does exposure to one mutation lend immunity to another mutation?

* does exposure to one mutation lend immunity to the same mutation?
It would be cool for the Readme to explain (without having to click through to the website) what a sparkline is for those like me who have no idea :)
Microsoft To Do gets new features as Wunderlist goes offline
Too late.

Which reminds me of another tool I left years ago. Google Keep. Are there any recent updates there, apart from the dark theme?
teledildonics made my day!
If you ever find one, let me know. I'd love to have a sonicare that just lets me use its power button as a simple on/off toggle. No timers, no 30-second stutters. Not even joking.
> "It’s been an amazing project with tremendous impact that I’m proud to keep leading... More than just a typeface, it’s become our foremost brand ambassador."

One would think YouTube's foremost ambassador is Mehdi Sadaghdar, who runs the channel "Electroboom".
The Turkey City Lexicon described in the article can be found here: https://www.sfwa.org/2009/06/18/turkey-city-lexicon-a-primer...
It is an interesting collection of problems that can arise in science fiction writing.
This is what happens when the price of labor is artificially increased (minimum wage).
Hi, I think you do a service to the world, I am a seller of toys, as shop owner, but was/am reluctant to sell teledildonics just because of security problems, I will keep a close look on your project to decide if and when I will start selling them and point my customers to your project. Any chance of using golang in the future?
I haven't tried it yet, but I came across Staticman which seems really cool: https://staticman.net/

Netlify also provides support for forms which could be used to accomplish this.

Can't speak to the GDPR aspect, but I don't imagine it would be much of an issue for just saving and displaying comments.
Yev here -> make sure you ping our b2feedback@backblaze.com address and let us know about that experience, we're writing it all down and keeping tabs on what's not working as intended.
It feels deeply wrong to cold-heartedly choose a course of action that will result in the death of many people and the resulting suffering of those who survive their loved ones.

But people are resilient. People face death from other causes all the time. Yes, there will be a measurable increase due to covid-19 but in countries that are already ravaged by poverty, crime, disease, wars, etc, it might not significantly alter the emotional balance of those who survive. That's particularly true in those countries whose authorities successfully downplay the effects of covid-19, e.g. by not doing much testing.

From that POV, all other things being equal, one could expect that those countries might grow their economies while the rest of the world loses opportunities.

I'm not sure I buy that argument though. World economy is not entirely a zero sum game
> dashboards for managers with all sort of stats on developers: code quality with arbitrary rules, productivity (number of lines of codes), number of stars from other developers, etc.

How does GitHub Codespaces allow for any of this? All of this was already possible with plain git, no?
Gmail is decreasingly an email client an increasingly a protocol. Gmail-to-gmail messages get treated quite differently, and ultimately OPs conclusion that gmail intercepted their email because it determined that CVs are suspicious is correct.

I would add that I think it's a bit fickle and unkind for internet strangers to pass judgement on a person's ability to do their job based on a post like this. This individual did not ask for our opinion on their ability to do a job, but instead gave (a useful) warning about how the gmail client handles CVs.
Codeberg[1] also recently had some conversations here.[2]

[1] https://codeberg.org/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22795930
It's likely going to be the opposite as recent tests in Korea seem to show immunity does happen. The countries that did little to stop the spread will have or be close to immune while the countries that aggressively locked down will not be able to interact with most of the world.
So I'm currently a todoist user, I tried to check out Microsoft Todo since we're an Outlook shop and it doesn't seem that Outlook (the app or web version) todos are at all tied to the Todos product.

I think I may have missed something, any links or pointers there? It'd be great to have those minor savings on my todoist pro subscription, and work more efficiently by being able to rapidly log and work todo items in one less app, since much of my workflow is inbox driven.

Willing to try it again since the "Today, tomorrow, this week" feature is without question the most used view of mine in Todoist, even though things are neatly bucketed between projects and labels.
> As the images are generated by an AI, they are non-copyrightable and are therefore public domain. Feel free to use them any way you see fit. Just don't try to pass them off as your own art or sell them or anything.

The furry fandom is extremely touchy about "art theft." Considering how many of these images clearly resemble individual artists' styles, I'd tread a little more carefully.
I couldn't get through the blog post.

Here's why.

Nearly every thought is a separate paragraph.

Throw in center alignment and it's enough to drive me batty.

Decent blog post content, though.
Is there a forcing function in your life that totally transformed your life? If so, what was it?
I'd definitely encourage everyone to git GL a try - our teams switched over from GH + Jira about a year ago, and haven't looked back. The integrated CI and project management features are a game changer.
I looked into it a little more, and it's even more dubious than I originally thought.

To first address your questions: they claim they only get the document signer certificate from the security object in the document. This in itself isn't dangerous but if they can read this file, they can also read files which do contain privacy sensitive information. More than enough to be very worried about identity theft.

Even more more worrying is that they treat having the document signer certificate as proof of holding a passport. This is not in any way a proof of you holding a specific passport. Document signer certificates are not unique to a document, and even if they were it doesn't prove in any way you're not using a copy.
Herd immunity hasn't been achieved anywhere and with around a half percent infection fatality rate that doesn't seem like something you would like to get to.
How do they pay that many people giving away software?

This is amazing I just don't understand how they do it?
If somebody created a chat-app based on this, perhaps it could push WhatsApp out of the market (cf. VHS versus Betamax)
Yev here -> No there's no minimum charges for downloads, it's just $0.01/GB down and $0.005/GB/Mo for storage, but everything is calculated on a byte hour level :)
That's entirely the reason Pizza 73 became my goto pizza place - it rolled out online delivery in the mid 2000's and kept me from ever having to phone again.
Not directly, no. Very indirectly? Maybe. But I think American style social credit will happen via corporations (eg. Facebook).
Retconning the data? That's highly unpopular among a vocal minority. Typically these sorts of things show the raw data and allow people to extrapolate 'real' infection rates etc for themselves. Changing all data from before there was a change in the measurement standard would be putting extrapolation right into the data feed. I think the responsible thing to do might be to show error bars, then it would be more intuitive what happened.
C++/CLI is a necessary evil for operating on the CLR where are object lifetimes may be managed by the CLR and others follow standard C++ memory management. Ultimately it’s raison d'etre is to bridge native code to the CLR where P/Invoke or COM isn’t sufficient (lot of reasons that could be the case), so we deal with it.

C++/CX on the other hand only exists because Windows Runtime Components, while based on COM, is still a superset with new features that couldn’t be supported with C++98 and MSVC lacked the necessary C++11/17 features to implement it without needing compiler extensions.

Syntax highlighting and Intellisense being absent for MIDL 3 does indeed cause annoyance, however.
Starting the car takes a lot of power from the battery (the battery has to run the starter motor to crank the engine), so if you don't drive the car long enough to recharge the battery to at least where it was before the trip, you'll have less charge than you had before. If you repeat that cycle enough times, the battery will eventually die.
While Beyond and Impossible meats are great alternatives, I don't think artificial meat will truly take off until "lab grown" actual meat becomes mass-produceable and sustainable.

I know it's far off, but I really look forward to that world.
Thanks for mentioning this. Bogleheads Wiki [1] is a goldmine of index investing and asset allocation insights for every stage of an individual investor's lifecycle. Highly recommended.

[1] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page
I think you are talking about wait staff not kitchen staff.

The thing is, wait staff need to use pens/keyboards to do their job. It's part of what it is to be a waiter or waitress.

GDPR doesn't make website owners ask people if they can use cookies, you can use cookies just fine without asking people. You have to ask people when you want to collect or process more data than is required to provide the service.

The point of the analogy was to make a comparison between being clean with data and being clean with food.
Note that the law only requires this banners for cookies which e.g. track you.
(Which by now require far more opt in than a cookie banner, thanks to GDPR).

For purly functional cookies like they are used for CSRF prevention or login cookies do not require any user notifications as far as I know.

(Be aware that this is only true for login cookies which are just used to handle a active login, which means they must set the right flags to not be send to a different domain, etc.)
thank you, it had to be done before or after...
good job!
The big 96W ones come unplugged pretty easily from their weight alone. If you have an old house it won't even plug into the wall without falling out immediately. Less of an issue with the 61W, or if you get a GaN charger from another manufacturer.
No, it didn't. It worked horrible for television. Every hour of television was filled with over 15 minutes of ads. It was horrible for the consumer.
Spotify is testing video podcasts with two YouTube stars
I'd imagine that, much like running off of a UPS during a power failure, nothing obvious would happen until warehouses and other reserves are depleted.
You're right, it's reasonable to be dismayed, but imho not so reasonable to want to keep the metrics hidden.

Feels like we, as an industry, already had this conversation in infosec - abot security by obfuscation - which has some parallels here. The conclusion was that hiding things is generally a bad solution to the underlying problems.
Exactly what I'm getting at. They tend to use similar mechanisms, though vaccine being the more or less completely safe path.

What could alter the course though is if some treatment is found which makes it essentially harmless, even if immunity would be impossible.
As much as I enjoy DFW's way with words (and I do mean that in a complimentary manner), I think his approach mostly serves as a warning as to what can happen when you get too deeply stuck in your own head with no pressure release valve to viewpoints other than your own.
Some of these have designs that are so... specific? holistic? Not sure what I'm shooting for.

But, I am wondering if you ran an image similarity search on them vs. the training set would you find matches or are they actually unique?

https://thisfursonadoesnotexist.com/v2/jpgs-2x/seed09985.jpg
https://thisfursonadoesnotexist.com/v2/jpgs-2x/seed13901.jpg
https://thisfursonadoesnotexist.com/v2/jpgs-2x/seed31957.jpg
https://thisfursonadoesnotexist.com/v2/jpgs-2x/seed25075.jpg
VScode is lightyears ahead of Atom in nearly every way. It would make no sense to choose Atom over VScode for something like this.
What advantage?

More likely unintended consequences and costs will keep mounting. And at some point cross covid costs. After that political tunes will change.

It's not like the ant hill can just build a border around itself and survive for ever.
-I think it is hard to rank bands like this, but surely Einstürzende Neubauten could give Rammstein a run for their money?

(Or is Rammstein a much bigger and the Neubauten a much less significant act than I think? ;))
Well, no, because for each VC portfolio, it's either profitable off the survivors, or it isn't.

The point is that from the perspective of investors, the survival of an individual startup is an irrelevant metric. What they're interested in is the profitability of the whole portfolio.

And so far, a 90% failure rate with <5% wild success is a profitable formula. As long as that remains true, they have no reason to change it.
There have been a few (tried Trello and ZenHub), and they've all turned into a mess, so I recently hit the reset button again and am just trying a github project now:

https://github.com/orgs/buttplugio/projects/1

tl;dr - Right now I'm trying to standardize our logic on Rust (I'm also the ex-device interfaces lead on firefox at Mozilla, so I love some rust :) ), then extend back out to other languages and platforms through FFI to the Rust base.

The Rust work has also ended up creating other libraries, including:

- systray, a library for building simple systray apps with rust: https://github.com/qdot/systray-rs
- btleplug, a cross-platform host side Bluetooth LE library in Rust, mostly via copypasta but hoping to unify soon: https://github.com/deviceplug/btleplug

In the end, Buttplug is just a hardware abstraction layer, think of it like the USB HID or Bluetooth Profile model, except outside of the protocol specification space. I'd like to abstract the back end a bit more and allow other projects to use it, so you could have, say, a library that abstracts health device protocols or something.
How can tech employers use this technology to optimize workplaces for comfort and productivity?

Also, can teledildonics be applied to improve online shopping experiences and social media? I am thinking that buttplug scripts could be the new emojis or css dazzle.

Lastly, there seems to be some asymmetry in the development of these technologies: Passive reception of dildonic signals is emphasized, active transmission of signals that originate as muscle contractions (and such) gets the short shrift. Is this simply a reflection of the generally submissive tendencies of tech workers or is there a larger force at work here?
There is sentiment that goals are bullshit and somewhat destructive. My take is, it comes down to setting the right goals.

I've bootstrapped a moderately successful SaaS and have enjoyed many revenue milestones along the way but those were milestones not goals. The goals are lifestyle based. Things like "I want to never have another traditional job" or "I want to be debt free" are much more powerful than "I want to hit $2000 MRR".

That said, look, building and selling things is amazing and I suggest everybody do it. If you only have a little time, build small things and sell them cheaply. But there is a self empowerment that comes from creating your own income that has an impact far beyond the actual dollars themselves.

Congrats Alex, good goal or not, it's a notable achievement.
Oh, that's a good idea:) And org-mode is compelling enough to entice me in... Thanks, I think I'll try that:)
Kraftwerk Co-Founder Florian Schneider Dies at Age 73
One known case. There is definitely some time between when it first infects a human and the point at which time humans notice it... especially when:

* most cases are asymptomatic

* most people with respiratory infections (outside of a known pandemic) are never tested for anything

* most people who are tested for infections are tested with standard panels, not studied for novel viruses
> Choice B is not actually an option if you want to change human behavior and actually benefit from economies of scale.

But there's little or no economies of scale in the delivery business. A citywide delivery service would be equally efficient whether operated by a local company or a multinational. The local company may even have an advantage in terms of knowing their customers better. The only economy of scale I see is access to cheap VC capital.
(BlenderBot original developer here) You can read the paper here, which contains much more technical details of how we built it: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13637
> As the images are generated by an AI, they are non-copyrightable and are therefore public domain.

I find this claim on the "about page" quite interesting. Some of those images might be so close to the training data that the copyright protection for fictional characters becomes relevant, even if the image is not identical. This is visible in this topic as people recognize characters from popular-culture (video-games or movies), because the training data seems to also contain fanart.
yes, we’d all be zombies.
That's absurd. Why do you think that a particular smallpox or measles epidemic dies out? Because enough people have been infected in a given population that it can no longer spread in that population.

That doesn't mean the disease will go extinct, but the epidemic will end in that population. Flare ups can still happen among sub groups of people in the population who aren't immune but the disease won't spread rapidly through the population as a whole until the number of people who are immune drops below the herd immunity threshold for that particular disease/community.
Now we just need an IDE integration plugin for github repos

"you'll get more pleasure when you make a commit that gets this test suite passing..."

Could be a great mechanism to encourage open source contributions ;)
U.S. lags behind 7 leading 5G countries in download speeds
This looks like a Zoom meeting with 4chan.
Pretty much the human condition. Seneca was writing about it in the first century, Buddhists were talking about it from the inception of their religion.
It makes sense if you follow the modding scene surrounding those games.
Not exactly on-premise but we rent 2 big dedicated server (ovh) + install VMWare ESXi on them.
Going to the cloud would cost more, the price would be unpredictable, only to solve a scale problem we won't have.
And customers love to know their data are hosted in France by a French company, not by Google or Amazon :)
A source for what? For people not tipping delivery drivers? I live in the UK and I have never heard about anyone tipping delivery drivers - you are literally the very first person I've read about that tips delivery drivers in the UK. So no, no source, personal experience.
This isn't about stupid users but about companies deliberately "misunderstanding" while going out of their way to exactly what the law said they shouldn't do and hoping they'll get away with it line they did with the old "cookie law".

Edit: also, another observation from the field: Often the users aren't as clueless as certain lazy admins claim. And I am a sysadmin :-)
I have a project due in about 2 weeks and genuinely have no viable options to build anything on core 3.1.

Just found these links, 2nd one especially looks interesting.

https://blog.stevensanderson.com/2019/11/01/exploring-lighte...

https://blog.stevensanderson.com/2019/11/18/2019-11-18-webwi...
SMB3 not at 1 is a travesty.
> Human: hi

> AI: I can't connect to the wifi.
I mean you could just draw a furry avatar before, it's not that different.
Whether or not "herd immunity" is the right term, Europeans were sure a lot better protected against smallpox than the inhabitants of the Americas were when said Europeans arrived and started spreading the disease.
As if herd immunity is the only way. Note that Australians and New Zealanders don't have immunity to a lot of things.

We're don't have herd immunity to Ebola. Instead we just don't let it take hold.
We have 0 cases of rabies. It no longer exists in any animals.
Cholera is almost non-existent. Occasionally a flight will come in that causes some alarm but that's it.
Malaria only comes from people who traveled abroad.
Our cows aren't immune to mad cow disease. But we don't have any cases here.

It's amazing what a bit of distance and quarantine can achieve. The two nations are also close to eliminating COVID-19 internally. Sure international travel will have to remain restricted but it's really not a big deal. Trade is still happening, just not tourism.
When I opened your "about" page, the first thing I see is "If one of these terms is present in text : [nothing]" and "If it comes from these domains : [Nothing]" It's because I built an FF add-on for myself that hides elements based on a regular expression matching on text and/or element attribute values. Since you have several text and domains I already had in my personal filter list, I couldn't see those blocks of text :)
NPR Cuts Pay and Benefits After the Outbreak Widens Its Deficit
Many of those features are Vim features and not Vi correct?