skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The phrasing "assumed to have caused" is key here and it suggests that at least some deaths were assumed to be COVID-caused even without explicit confirmation (via a PCR test).

Not so much - while the _suggestion_ may be there, I grant you, it doesn't negate the PCR testing. "COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate" refers to co-morbidities, not (necessarily) cause of death. However, if COVID-19 _is_ considered the cause of death, it should a) be reported, and b) be confirmed by PCR testing.

I'll grant you that the wording may not be clear in inference (particularly read separately, and piecemeal). But one of these statements doesn't and hasn't "supplanted" the other. AND, not OR, in programming parlance.

My understanding of this comes from being involved at a practitioner level working with my County's Public Health, Medic One, and the state DOH. I'm not a physician, but I have been privy to these discussions.

> This literally just came out today. These counties have been asking for this variance for at least a couple weeks

From the article: "This includes Spokane, Adams, Thurston, Mason, Lewis, Clark, Kitsap, Clallam, San Juan and Island counties." With the exception of Spokane and Adams, all those Eastern counties were already in Phase 2.
Walmart is shutting down Jet.com 4 years after buying the company for $3.3B
Check out zerotier; I've been looking at similar p2p techniques and ZT does a good job of packaging them all up with a relaying fallback.
This was bound to happen. Signal is a non-federated messenger controlled by a single organization hostile to alternative clients. It isn't much better than WhatsApp/Facebook.
The Mainframe Is a Modern Platform
4 of the 5 listed board members work for King today, and King (as a company) has a seat on the board.
The “Right to Free Speech” just means the government can’t impede. Nobody is required to give him a platform, though.
https://xkcd.com/2305/
Individuals use them to communicate. Personal messages ("Happy birthday to Root Axis!") are passed around by ordinary people. FedEx, T-Mobile, Google, and Facebook are all similar in this way.

Individuals who decide to run news segment on Fox News get denied, just the same as they would if they decide to run an article in Slate or Salon or The Atlantic. To communicate on a platform in that category, one must get hired or convince an employee that an interview (which would be tightly controlled) is beneficial to the employee.
I personally don't care for this podcast, but imagine if a popular website (say HN) were to sign a deal to be available exclusively through a walled garden (say Facebook). The open internet loses overall.
I think putting both viewpoints down basically implied he was impartial and and talking of those who had an agenda.

It helps reduce verbiage.
> The Target experience is great even if they don’t have the same selection Amazon does.

Sometimes this is nice. If I'm buying paper towels, I don't need to be overwhelmed with 800 options.
There are a few people pushing micropayments as a means to support independent content creators etc., but most are pushing them because it's well-known that people will spend more if you charge them small amounts many times. See the 99c app plus 99c more for each small thing model. That's the reason why I don't like them: because they're bad for me as a consumer.
Micropayments have already taken off. They're extensively used in Steam (loot boxes, even c2c sales) and on Reddit. Implementations are simple and straightforward: pay someone who keeps your credit a larger amount and spend fractions of it with 1-2 clicks whenever you want. The confusion stems from the fact that people want to sell uninteresting stuff (and items of unknown quality, the "cat in the sack" as we say in German) on the Web and wrongly blame microtransactions.
Regarding the timing I'd say it's rather the $50m USD they got as investment in April.
I remember when computers were faster than me. Those numbers barely keep up with my standard issue brain, which is 40-year-old tech and can just about read the newspaper and carry on intermittent conversation at the same time.
It supports multiple methods of sync with banks, although I don't know how common these methods are in various parts of the world.
I am totally connected enough within the beer industry to make this happen. Shoot me an email, would love to talk.
Uber Talent Directory
I really like the jetbrains solution to this problem.
https://www.jetbrains.com/space/
Dualities are what you’re thinking about.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duality_(mathematics)
Node.js – v14.3.0
If I understand the settings correctly (just opened Signal on my phone to explore this), you can require the PIN for re-registering (like after losing a device) and set up a 7-day lockout for failed PIN entries (not sure the number of permitted failures before lockout). This would greatly reduce the speed of brute force, though could also be used for a nice denial of service.
I used to do work kind of like this stuff on enterprise storage arrays that ran a modified BSD. We didn't lock the system down much, so customers could go and set whatever system guts stuff they wanted. We had a tool on-system that would basically tar up all the system configs and phone home with them when the customer hit a button. You'd better believe that one of my first steps investigating anything was diffing the crap out of any relevant configs against a clean base version.

As another commenter mentioned, this was the result of customers never actually mentioning their weird sysctl tuning in the original issue description. It's not like they're trying to screw you over or anything - there's just an awful lot of config options in an entire system that does anything interesting, and in the case of a big enterprise appliance, it's likely that dozens of people have had admin on it at one point or another.
By that same token, why do we have any faith in Kentucky citizens to not vote for a Republican?

Frankly, they're both "lost causes" from the majority of possible vectors. I would wager equally so, forgetting ideology and just going off the momentum of incumbency. Unfortunately, the situation is so dire that any victory that's even remotely possible is crucial. Don't throw anything out, because we might need everything. We'll just have to throw our weight behind whatever we can until all our options are exhausted.
Windows 10 May 2020 update brings DoH support but chrome and Firefox are not using the Api for it to the best of my knowledge.
Framer is “just” HTML/CSS/JavaScript. This means you can also do things like embed (moving) GIFs, videos and use (almost) all browser APIs in Code Components.
If "tortuous" didn't already have a completely different useful meaning, I wouldn't object. Calling harmful behavior "tortious" shouldn't be ambiguous. I'm not sure what happened in olden times, but over the last decade "tortuous" has dominated because of clueless spellcheck.
Online quotes is fairly easy to set up. First you set up the ticker symbol in the prices menu, then you set an account for the stock, make the type "Stock" and set the currency to the symbol in question. From then on, you can just 'get new data' and stuff mostly updates automatically.

However, stock symbol APIs break on the regular, so there can be times when this process is broken until a fix is published and you upgrade.
This is one of the crazy things to me. The U.S attacked a foreign country. Then, that country fearing it was being attacked launched a missile at something it thought was a threat. The U.S. caused Iran to take a defensive posture and be fearful of flying objects. How is the U.S. not directly responsible for that downed plane?
> few tech companies as good at copy, defeat, repeat as Microsoft.

It was called Embrace, Extend, Extinguish internally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
What is life changing about it?
I don't really mean anything special by intelligence, but let's flatter ourselves that humans are born with some measure of it. I personally find it more likely than not that our particular form of intelligence is able to then _learn_ various rules of logical inference as a kind of metapattern. When I say 'emulate' I mean that we can, if we want, sit down with a pencil and paper and _force_ ourselves to evaluate things exactly via these rules, even if we don't instinctively follow them (or do so fuzzily).

Obviously I could very easily be wrong, and we could possess hard coded rules of logical inference which form part of the basis for all the other things we do that you might call intelligence. But I'm not sure that anyone should claim "a general artificial intelligence would require a logical inference engine similar to Prolog".
I'd argue that Graham's comment about succinctness being power is correct, but him saying Lisp is more powerful than Python is too much of a blanket statement.

Furthermore, ecosystems are more important than the language itself. If Python has an easier onboarding experience and it is easy to read others code, and the community is friendly and active...after some time, it becomes a 1-stop shop for everything. A lot of things I do have a library for Python and nothing for Common Lisp. Sure lisp is waaay better for writing a compiler (I would assume) and has more power on the upper end of the spectrum, but I think Python has a lot more power in the low to medium part of the spectrum where you have a lot of simple scripting/data science/CRUD apps.
Facebook details the AI behind its shopping experiences
Because that's where the customers are. Above all the Prime customers. And customers can have a lot more trust in Amazon's shipping speed and returns policy, than when ordering from an unknown.

A ton of people, when they want to buy something, put it into Amazon's search box. If a product doesn't show up there, it might as well not exist.

Also, Amazon reviews. I can't count the number of times I've chosen not to buy a product because Amazon's reviews warned me away. Ordering something from a small shop where there are no reviews, or the reviews seem fake or too positive? I feel like there's a much greater chance of being taken advantage of with a shoddy product.

End of the day, on Amazon I generally know exactly the quality I should expect, that it will arrive on time, and that I can return it if there are any issues.
(not the author, but I'm an Urbit core developer, so I can read this pretty easily)

You're pretty much correct. lib/server.hoon doesn't "set up" the server exactly, that's built into Urbit. In general, apps communicate by sending commands ("poke") and subscribing to data ("watch"). A normal HTTP request is just a poke of type "handle-http-request". The js frontend can also subscribe to your app.

lib/server.hoon is a (mostly standard) library of helper functions that mostly convert from various internal types to HTTP responses, so they add the the HTTP response code, mimetype, octet-stream length, etc. There's also a function that wraps an HTTP response handler to redirect to the login page if they're not logged in. Most apps that have a web interface use these functions, though I think the author may have added a few more filetypes.

app/canvas.hoon, as you guessed, manages the main state of the app and syncs it to other urbits. An app's commands can be seen in +on-poke, which in this case calls +handle-canvas-action, where you can see all the different commands this app takes. For example, %join subscribes to the "canvas" app on another urbit on path /canvas/foo where "foo" is the name of the image. The rest of the commands can be traced in the same away. +process-remote-paint is the part that actually processes a new list of strokes from either another ship or the %paint poke; it updates its own state and gives updates on /canvas/foo.

app/canvas-view.hoon is the app that serves the html/cs/jss and handles browser requests. It has a similar set of pokes, and most of them are just forwarded to app/canvas.hoon, but some of them are handled directly. This is a different app from canvas.hoon to keep separate the essential logic of the app from the work needed to serve it to a browser. One could imagine writing a command-line app which used canvas.hoon, and it wouldn't need to talk to canvas-view.hoon.
It's a bit of a stupid concept though, isn't it? A man bought a domain name called "shippingsupplies.com" so he decided to get into shipping supplies and now he's a zillionaire?

So, assuming, as the article suggests that people buy a catchy domain name first and then build a business round it, which isn't one they're already involved in or know anything about, how does that conversation go?:

----

MAN: Hi. I've decided to get into the shipping supplies business. I need to borrow £250,000 to buy some trucks, containers, a crane and lease a premises down by the harbour

BANK MANAGER: I see. Hmmm. A quarter of a million is quite a lot of money. Have you any experience in shipping supplies?

MAN: Well.. not exactly..

BANK MANAGER: And have you any of your own money or any startup equipment, that you can bring to the business?

MAN: Well... not exactly...

BANK MANAGER: I'm sorry. But, under the circumstances, I really don't think the bank can take the risk...

MAN: But I've registered the domain name "shippingsupplies.com"!

BANK MANAGER: Why didn't you say so? [rolls wheelbarrow full of cash out from behind his desk] Used notes OK?

MAN: Thanks very much [exits stage left]

[Bank Manager's secretary pops her head round the door]

SECRETARY: Your two-thirty, Mr. Jones is here.

MR JONES: [walking in and shaking hands] I've just snapped up the domain name "executive-airline.travel" and I wanted to ask you about a loan...
You mean if the government forced people to house each other.
Why not take a look at Kotlin? High level, statically typed, fast iteration, good runtime performance, great support for parallelism (via Java's APIs for it).
I'm not sure it will be just "users checking off boxes that describe themselves".

I don't see in the article any mention of how they will collect data. While some will definitely come from users, I suspect they will build profiles based on what a user reads.
Access is my favorite Microsoft product. A web-based Access has always been a great idea.

Alas. I'm still angry Microsoft reneged on the promised migration path from workgroup to client/server.

Like the people burned by Google's abandonment of beloved product & projects, I will never again trust Microsoft enough to actually use their stuff voluntarily. I'm fresh out of goodwill. (Much as I like SQL/Server, my projects have always had a Plan B.)
That's the intended humor, they stop being Python users if they outgrow it. The language and ecosystem is growing, regardless. I've been using it professionally since 2007, and some tasks I know it is not good at, and thats when I know to use another tool. The point is that it is a tool that has its uses, and I consider it the best tool for certain categories. It doesn't need to be the best tool for all categories. That seems pretty "absolutist".
Honestly, I hate the Apple touchpad experience. I love Linux touchpad experience, except for when there are multiple drivers available and depending on which one is being used, my settings change.

Oh, and, 'tap to click' should be default.
They don't block third party clients ala WhatsApp, but going on GitHub and arguing with people isn't a good thing either :/
And Delphi
Or maybe, the model is actually just rather complex and a good API cannot be just a bunch of random methods on some losely related entities.

Or maybe the non-functional aspects of the implementation need to be carefully considered before releasing an API that makes safety, correctness, security, or performance impossible.

Or maybe the developers have an inconsistent specification and delivering piece A now makes it logically impossible to ever deliver piece B, which is arguably more important, but got lower priority because noone took the time to understand the whole thing.
Whenever the engineering support steps in, the problem gets solved fast or the issue gets acknowledged. However, over the last 15 months, ~50% of times our GCP support cases end up in frustration with no resolution. We have more success finding issues in the corresponding GitHub repo and opening an issue there.

We have the expensive off-the-shelve support option (I think 450/seat/month) for 1h response.

In most cases, we spend more time back and forth with support than it would take you to figure it out. I'm talking about issues that span over weeks with tens of hours spent. We end up reiterating the original support case problem (i.e. the support engineer doesn't bother reading the actual problem) whenever the engineer changes.

We've had:
P1s where the support engineer told us we'll get an update the following day, only to figure out that there was a breaking release on their side that exactly matched our description.
While investigating a load balancer issue, the support engineer looked at the LB logs, saw a ton of logs coming from penetration scans (e.g. GET /phpmyadmin), and suggested that the solution was to open up those addresses.
"Steve Lucco looked at it from the fundamental level of 'What if we built every experience on top of a data structure that was inherently distributed?'"

CRDTs under the hood?
As someone who moved between red and blue states in high school I like to say that the blue states refuse to teach history and the red states refuse to teach science though history of the middle east isn't usually what I'm referring to.
Actually, Moore's law says nothing about speed, just the number of transistors you can stuff into the thing. Plus progress has been leveling off.
> Even having to pick and choose what portion of some pool of funds one wants to give to which creator creates cognitive friction that I don't think we've seen solved yet.

Humble Bundle would probably have good stats on that: how many people bother to alter the default proportions of the devs/charity/HumbleBundle split?
Not every game is Crysis for sure, but for instance, a lot of AAA games right now require 8 GB of memory minimum. The $400 Surface Go 2 that came yesterday has only 4 GB of memory in the base config, and such specs aren't isn't particularly uncommon. Not that you'd be playing AAA games on that machine even if it had more memory, but hence my point.
Is the presentation this was delivered to recorded? I'd watch whatever lecture this was from.
Yep, Kobo is now "Rakuten Kobo". I haven't yet seen this on OverDrive, which they also own. To my ear, the names don't go together quite as well, since one sounds very American/English, and the other sounds very non-English (and Americans seem to have difficulty figuring out how to pronounce it).
> If people's feelings matter, why don't mine?

Of course your feelings matter. I'm sure there are plenty of situations where your feelings are the most important factor to consider. But this is not one of those situations. Your feelings of minor inconvenience from being asked to use different words are less relevant than others' feelings of oppression from decades/centuries of societal biases.
Are you tracking my conversions by IP - to keep me on wait for an hour?
Color me stunned that people are so dissatisfied with their touchpads in Linux. 0-3 lines of options in my config have made me perfectly content with every touchpad I've ever used in Linux.
And of course I screwed up the warmup parameter...
attracting VC suckers of Softbank caliber
How are you doing this? The OFX import tool has a bayesian matcher that will update and reconcile existing records, and classify them based on past behavior.

The big challenge IMO is that each transaction has a date, but sometimes the ends disagree on when it happened. E.g. you transfer money from checking to a brokerage, it takes multiple days but you have to choose one date for that transaction.
easy to move your files to another cloud storage drive. OP was talking not being tied in at the software level.
If Microsoft could have subsumed "all of this activity", it would have by now. This all goes in cycles and there's always room for disruption.
But do you sell the data at all? Just because you do not sell the data to insurance companies directly doesn't the data is safe. could easily sell the data to data aggregators who sell to insurance companies.
If I'm programming in Lisp, I actually want the same venerable Lisp-based IDE that I use for other languages.
Are you working for booking.com?
This seem smart but I have a bad feeling about the success rate. The article seem to imply a lot of survivorship bias by only talking about success.
Big tech's high-stakes race for quantum supremacy
ledger-mode in Emacs.
The scalp is cut in a crescent shape and peeled open for the operation, and then folded back down and sewn back in place, so the hole is covered by the scalp.
> It also has an "online banking" integration thing, but I have no idea what kind of bank has username/password logins that would work with this.

That stuff is the OFX/QFX setup. Basically it logs in and fetches those files for you. Banks are notoriously bad at this however.
Any idea why the elderly voter bloc in Florida hasn’t been able to successfully lobby for total and long term shutdown? I thought their voting power was very high.
Head of NASA's Human Spaceflight Program Resigns a Week Before Crucial Launch
Huh, so either you have the micropayments rate on for all payments or none. Interesting!

0.05x + 0.05 = 0.029x + 0.30 : x=$11.90

Fees would be:

$0.10 vs $0.33 on $1

$0.15 vs $0.36 on $2

$0.30 vs $0.45 on $5

$0.55 vs $0.59 on $10

$1.55 vs $1.17 on $30
Agree 100 percent about Catmull and Pixar ignoring and enabling John Lasseter's sexual harassment/abuse of women at the company.

Appreciate you bringing it up and contrasting with the "small ugly pettiness" of the MJ/Jobs/Musk ilk.
Healthinsurance.com sounds super fishy to me and I would be hesitant to do business with a company that hides who they are. My expectation is that a company's domain is the name. So unless it is "Health Inusrance, Inc.", this seems shady.
Probably. But after all virus movies we wathed for years and what we currently experience, one cannot be so sure.
The Lost Generation? Scarring After the Great Recession [pdf]
> ... every Credit Card processor charges a roughly similar rate for processing payments ... 2.9% + 30c of the fixed cost.

In Europe, this is not the case. The EU introduced a cap of 0.2% of the transaction value for consumer debit cards, and 0.3% for credit cards for the amount that banks can charge each other. So as a retailer, you can get 1.6% or better rates here, with no 30c minimum. People use credit cards every day to get bus tickets worth around $1-2 - that would be like 25% of revenue if there was a fixed 30c amount or similar.
For your use case I believe the standard is to write in Matlab, and then use a tool that converts Matlab code to C.