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The design of Michael Jackson's gravity defying shoes
Literally no way this holds up in court. If it does, we have bigger problems than this EO.
I'm somewhat reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

I know it wasn't the exact same playbook being used, but I think from the author's perspective, it very much feels like it.
That depends on the scale and other particulars that are only shared/known inside the company.

In my experience, beyond a certain scale it simply doesn't make any sense to use managed services anymore. There is a high initial upfront cost in development hours and hardware that is amortized over a very long time after, and this upfront cost is partially paid for by the reduced cloud bill.
I'm trying Jennifer!
Some people want to feel good about not wearing a mask, damn the consequences, damn the people hurt.

If 80% of Americans wore masks infections would plummet https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/masks-covid-19-infec...

If people are too selfish to wear a mask I have no problem with a mandate.
In order for a UBI to be viable it means others must pay. Where one person must pay, they will then in turn work to offset that cost by raising prices or cutting costs elsewhere. The only way the UBI works is an a theoretical model, once it’s put in the actual practice, it fails. Just like Finland did.
Awesome! I’ve been here for 8 years and love it. There are plenty of startups, a large public research university with tons of CS kids coming out, and lots of offices for typical tech companies.

Email or tweet me and I can point you in the right direction. I’m part of a Clojure meetup here that has some startup people that come often.
Isn’t a company closing to to promote content for someone else their own right to free speech?

If a company has an obligation to promote something against their will, violating their own right to free speech, how could a company like Hobby Lobby get away with an exemption on the same grounds?

I don’t see this getting past federal courts, even with a heavily conservative judiciary. The fallout would be far too great.
Another point of caution here is that CDC adjusts flu mortality rates for under-reporting in an attempt to estimate how many people actually died of the flu, as opposed to how many people have influenza listed on their death certificates.

COVID-19 mortality rates, however, are almost always reported according to narrower inclusion criteria (either positive COVID-19 dx or "presumptive COVID-19"), so there is a risk of an apples-to-oranges comparison here. One ought either count death certificates or estimate the total mortality burden, but not both.
The logo seems very similar to Hashicorp’s Packer.
Not at all [1][2][3]. Why do you think the surrounding tributary city-states allied with the Spanish? Though human sacrifice was common in Mesoamerica at the time, under the Aztecs it took place at an unprecedented scale.

I'm curious, though, about why you'd make such an implausible claim without backing it up with any evidence.

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/feeding-gods-hundred...

[2] https://www.history.com/news/aztec-human-sacrifice-religion

[3] https://www.ancient.eu/Aztec_Sacrifice/
I don't personally use it, but many of my coworkers and friends use Evernote for keeping their information organized.
As far as I can see the main screw up was the American and British governments ignoring expert advice. I live in Germany which happens to have a responsible adult in charge & this country fared great in this crisis so far.
So that right there, that to me seems like you want US not for just "raw materials" but their expertise in building that stuff. I'm really ignorant to the whole war/oppression thing. I get dividing people by race/controlling media and all that is bad. Are "we" just in the way from what they want. Our freedom ideals goes against their wish, etc... Go Google haha(to me).
Yea exactly and unless you are FB scale you can just run a single docker container and never really have to worry (granted you know how to use Docker).

Most small startups are actually the ones who don’t really need SaaS services.
Probably fine in some use cases. But another reason on top of what's already been said: Because you might be sending the data back to a non-browser client such as a mobile application.
That’s actually really cool
The fact that it’s online to begin with.
It still stings to be treated like that. Especially when you acted in good faith at all times with MS. Sorry this happened to you buds.
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I'm convinced that SUA system only exists so Windows can claim "POSIX compliance" as required for various government contracts.
> the Spanish sacrificed millions.

Source?
It was pretty easy to modify the Bedstead code, all fonts are available for download. Let me know if there are any issues!
How did a professor of Internet law get a hold of a draft EO? Are these things widely circulated before signing?
It's true because desktop linux was not a major platform. Windows 98/ME were a bigger desktop platform than Linux back then and Microsoft Silverlight didn't support them either. Because they were not major platforms.
You really don’t see the incentive to underreport?

Just being open for business is one thing, getting workers and consumers to fulfill their roles in the system is another.

If people see the death rates are still quickly growing, they’ll be less likely to resume working and spending.
I wonder how this platforms that use community moderation might be held liable under this.
This is true, but I'm referring to the "copy your files and rename them with a date" or "FINALrev.FromJoe-20200105-Updated-NEW-27" in the filename, not the bad implementations of tools (the GP comment didn't talk about implementing git, just about how git works).
Increasingly, social media companies are trying to shape the news and public opinion through user manipulation. It’s time for them to be regulated like a publication.
I used Gatsby about a year ago for a personal blog, but ended up abandoning it for the following reasons:

- Very slow build times. It took me over a minute to build a personal blog.
- Weird forced implementation of GraphQL. To display something as simple as an image I was forced to use GraphQL. Also your GraphQL can't be dynamically generated, meaning it's hard to make anything modular. And the GraphQL paths has a ton of extraneous nested fields (eg. `data.file.childImageSharp.fixed`)
- Version upgrades were a pain in the ass and would often break my site.
- My site actually seemed slow. For example, links don't work until the entire JS loads and executes, so if your internet isn't fast then your website basically isn't functional for the first 2-5 seconds despite the page being visible.
- Very few themes (maybe be better now, but at the time the selection was awful, especially compared to Jekyll). No real concept of themes in the first place, switching from one theme to another requires an entire code rewrite.
- Limited functionality built-in. For example, want tagging? You'll need to code that in.

Gatsby sits in an odd spot of not being simple enough to save you a lot of time or empower a non-technical person to manage (eg. like WordPress), but not flexible enough to do anything you want since it's an opinionated SSG framework. It's like you're getting all the complexity of a React/GraphQL application, without any of the flexibility of being able to pick your own stack.

Sure it has a nice plugin system, but beyond that since you need a developer to set up and maintain a Gatsby site anyways, I don't see any reason not to just use Next.js (which can export to static) since all Gatsby really does beyond that is converting markdown to HTML, which is just done through an npm library anyways. If writing a Next.js website is overkill, then why do you need to be devoting engineering resources to this in the first place? Why not just use some no-code solution like WordPress? Or if you really want a separate headless CMS, then Jekyll felt easier and faster to me with more theme options (though again it's been a year since I touched these, so I imagine things have improved).

Don't get me wrong I love SSGs as nothing beats the performance, ease of deployment, and low cost of static sites. But if I'm going to use a SSG framework, it better be dead simple and/or easy to customize, otherwise I might as well just use some off-the-shelf "no-code" solution (eg. WordPress, Wix, Squarespace), or use a framework like Next.js that let's me customize my stack instead of being locked into Gatsby's. Gatsby's $200m valuation makes absolutely no sense to me unless they're planning some drastic changes I'm not aware of.
So this is exactly it. Reading this 'I get it'.

A variation of what you wrote that should be on the landing page.
This is a publisher vs platform issue.

Platforms were given a free pass, provided they act in "good faith".

Publishers weren't given a free pass.

Hobby Lobby's case was not related to platform vs publisher issue.
If I'm reading this right, platforms must act in "good faith" to restrict access to content that is "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable".

That seems quite broad and doesn't seem to do anything to stop the current deluge of censorship.
Sure, all I said is that getting the email is better than not getting it. Obviously his case was worse than mine, the one just reminded me of the other - partly the lack of credit, and partly because the company in my case was owned by Microsoft.
This reminds me of the old ham shack’s I’d come across hiking in the mountains
Well hello there fellow Massassi Temple member!

It's already kind of weird to regularly get comments from or interact with geek 'celebrities' both big and small, (saurik, Alan Kay, etc.). Sometimes it bleeds over into the real world where I mention so and so said something to me about whatever topic we're on, and then I have to explain that it was a comment on a badly-styled website and try not to out myself at the same time.

But even weirder is how likely it is that many people that I used to know from various internet places (Massassi Temple, Something Awful, TTLG, IRC channels) are also active here. Not to mention that I know for sure that some techies I know are on here too.

I think what makes it feel weird is that HN is both relatively well-known and small at the same time. The places I frequented growing up were obscure enough that I wouldn't know anyone from 'somewhere else', whereas a site like Reddit is so pervasive that any comment I post gets lost in the noise (probably half of the thirty-something-and-under crowd I know is on Reddit).

EDIT: I think the weirdest 'celebrity' encounter I had was the time I had dinner guy who created CSS Zen Garden. That website was one of the resources that got me started on my web developer career.
> The only rational option I see is Americans must be some of the healthiest people. Kidding aside

The US was fortunate to have considerable ICU capacity. That has kept the mortality rate far lower than it otherwise would have been had the US been overloaded to the extent that some other nations were. Immense ICU capacity is one of the reasons Germany faired so well compared to most other nations in Europe.

By the time Italy and Spain were reporting a mere 20,000 cases, their healthcare systems were already crashing and they were forced to let older patients die because they didn't have the capacity to treat everyone. The same thing quickly happened in France and Britain as well, producing high mortality rates.

Also, most European nations are dominated in terms of population by one or two cities, as a percentage share of the overall population. You can see this in the list of primate cities [1]. So if your national population is 50 million and you have a primate city the size of NYC, and it gets hit hard by the virus, it's going to produce an extreme mortality rate nationally. With the US, you see a far more spread out context because NYC as one example doesn't represent nearly so large a share of the national population, with the US having few hyper dense cities vs its 330m population and few major cities in the climate zone that was ideal for SARS-CoV-2 to spread. If Los Angeles had NYC's climate, it would have produced a horrific outcome.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate_city
Wow, for once Mark said something rational.
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Swift, like Objective C, is irrelevant outside of the Mac. If SwiftUI is opensourced, that could change, but server-side Swift is done unless Apple goes into competition with AWS, Azure and GCP.
I had a great experience using PetitParser (https://github.com/petitparser) in Dart, though it turned out my use case was a bit hairy for combinatorial parsing: I made a parser for org-mode (https://orgmode.org/) markup, which is similar to Markdown.

Markdown-like formats are quite line-oriented and sometimes context-sensitive in ways that make rules hard to express.

I did get something usable, but I had to make some new primitives and break some efficiency rules (copying substrings).

The result is here:
https://github.com/amake/org_parser

(Shameless plug) It’s used in my FOSS mobile org-mode viewer app Orgro:
https://orgro.org
America, when are you going to give up on this idiot?

I’m genuinely curious, what’s the last straw? He takes a dump on the Whitehouse lawn in order to show how powerful he is?

My view of America has forever changed, no matter who comes next.
If I know anything about Trump, then his team leaked it on purpose to get an initial feedback. If it turns out to have a bad reaction then they would repudiate this copy and release some other watered down version.
> like a publication

Sincere question: How would you define “publications” - and what regulation do you believe that publications are subject to that social-media companies are not?
Yes. I’ve found that the amount you have to learn to use a managed service often equals or exceeds the amount you have to learn to run something on EC2 or on-prem. The automation/management costs of AWS or equivalent are a lot higher than people think and not significantly different from the costs to learn Linux and enough networking to do an “old-fashioned” deploy.
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I don’t think he understands free speech. If you tell lies, I’m allowed to call it out.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/klonick/status/126585020639607603...
There appear to be other recipients of this draft doc besides Klonick. Same document, from all appearances. Probably same source sending it out.

https://mobile.twitter.com/mmasnick/status/12658684528346357...
Such as destroying minarets? The Swedish haven’t exactly shown a good record of making positive decisions.
really cool to hear insights from package creators, thanks for sharing
> These actions feel vaguely like fascism.

I begin to suspect that you don't know what the last word in that sentence means in regards to this particular action.
What? Depression changed who I was. Anxiety changed who I was. I didn't lose who I was as a result of medication, I regained what I had lost.
There is a coherent distinction between the two cases (it's entirely fair not to think it's a distinction that you care about, but it's worth presenting the other side's argument right). The argument against Masterpiece Cakeshop was that gay people are a protected class in state anti-discrimination laws, and that the constitutional right to free speech (and free exercise of religion) does not include the ability to treat gay customers differently. "Being the president" is not a protected class.

(If you want to argue that a platform is treating people differently because of political affiliation, then yes, I'd agree that the argument about Masterpiece Cakeshop would apply - but it's far from obvious that any platform is in fact treating people differently because of political affiliation.)
>Isn’t a company closing to to promote content for someone else their own right to free speech?

Yes, take it from the conservative folks at CATO

"Patreon is and should remain free to disassociate itself from whomever it wants. Like all companies that have guidelines and content‐ moderation policies, Patreon is open to accusations of hypocrisy and inconsistently applying its speech standards. Anyone looking for a company that has been entirely consistent with its own content guidelines will be persistently disappointed.[...]

Classical liberals and other supporters of free association and free speech should indeed be concerned when the government undertakes initiatives such as the Department of Justice’s Operation Choke Point, which investigated banks doing business with firearms dealers (among others). But there is a world of difference between a government cracking down on peaceful citizens’ legal behaviour and a private company choosing to sever a business relationship.[...]

But it’s a mistake to portray the ongoing debate about content moderation as one in which supporters of a ‘closed’ and a ‘free’ internet fight it out for supremacy. You’re not less free if a private company won’t host your speech, and an internet where those companies discriminate is not ‘closed’. Those who want a maximally tolerant venue for speech on the internet are welcome to build one. "

https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/patreon-not-wag...
I'm ok with regulation to change the status quo. But not an edict from a emotionally unstable toddler is not the path.
Same here. I am so disappointed by all the crazy things this so called president did in the last few years.The word "President" use to carry a lot of respect.
Microsoft is now a OpenJDK contributor has bought jClarity, Java has had several talks at Build and has parity with .NET on Azure SDKs, Office doesn't dictate all business lines.

And I bet you weren't reverse engineering Office to discover which ActiveX were implemented in J++ instead of VB 6.
Oh come on, Jack Dorsey isn’t that bad.
Tech and policy are kind of like two different roads running in parallel. Drivers who can drive on one of those roads only, but not both, cannot effectively solve problems on that other road. The policy people get activated because of issues they perceive on the tech road, and their answer is: Write policy!

For that reason I fully expect the tech experts in question to solve this new policy problem with some technology. Maybe a new categorization and preference-indication system, giving users yet another way to ignore their in-laws' award political voice, or whatever it is that routes around this latest missive.
Good idea bad implementation crosstalk
IIRC prime video also used it for a while. Both because of some msft developed streaming tech in silverlight
Keep your ear to the grindstone, bud...

https://youtu.be/OHSYWIAAY2o
If death rates are still quickly growing, people are going to see that regardless of what the official statistics say.
I think we should set Italian stats aside.

It turns out that they used nursing homes to bed corona patients, so the residents were wiped out.

I'm curious why NY had such a bad time compared to SF. Was it because in a cold climate central heating circulated the corona virus droplets?
Most ETL processes should be declarative and configured in text files like you configure a CloudFormation or Terraform. Once you have that, the execution piece is relatively straightforward. I think a lot of issues and costs with ETL come from poor architecture decisions. For instance, we all made the mistake of running Extract processes with too many transformations. An extract should be an extract, transformation should come later.
The issue isn't you or me calling him out, it's whether Twitter is acting as a platform or publisher by annotating the tweet. The document here alleges that they are like a publisher, and will lose vital protection. This has serious implications.
... or a more extreme one.

My sense is that they use leaks as a way to ferret out who is disloyal, not get feedback from the Press, which they hate.
Honestly whether it ultimately holds up in court or not is hardly the point - the disruptive theater of the EO and the subsequent muddying discourse unfortunately ends up being victory enough.
Just curious, does anyone know of anything like this but for flash?
> REST API shouldn't be returning HTML, which is true.

No, it isn't. REST implies HATEOAS, and JSON isn't a hypertext.

Calling JSON APIs REST-ful was always a mistake.

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.ht...
It seems the best way to do this is to move away from in-person voting.

As has been demonstrated at DEFCON for years now, voting machines used in dozens of states are laughably insecure and easily tampered with. Mail-in ballots would be much more difficult to pull off large scale voting fraud with due to their distributed nature.
I can’t imagine how deeply upset you must feel over this.

> I didn’t even have to explain to her how the core mechanics, terminology, the manifest format and structure, even the package repository’s folder structure, are very inspired by AppGet.

I read “inspired” as “blatantly copied”. Not shocked at this from Microsoft. But not giving due credit is just a rip off. Seems like Andrew and whoever else corresponded with you were arm twisted by jerks (or had more jerks in their teams).

If anyone in the Winget team is reading this, your organization sucks. It seems to be showing signs of Microsoft from the ‘90s.
The article did say that the motivation for doing so was because AWS credits were running out .. why prematurely optimize a free resource? :)
>I’m genuinely curious, what’s the last straw?

i don't think it will be a final straw - i think it could be a confluence of things though

>As anti-government protesters demonstrated in Timișoara in December 1989, he perceived the demonstrations as a political threat and ordered military forces to open fire on 17 December, causing many deaths and injuries. The revelation that Ceaușescu was responsible resulted in a massive spread of rioting and civil unrest across the country.[4] The demonstrations, which reached Bucharest, became known as the Romanian Revolution—the only violent overthrow of a communist government in the turn of the Revolutions of 1989.[

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu
I've looked into this a little bit, actually.

There are two parts of flu/covid IFR: fatalities and infections.

For flu fatalities, the CDC does indeed upward adjust the count. They do this by looking at how many people died of pneumonia, and multiplying that by a number. The number is the estimated percent of pneumonia deaths that are from the flu, which they base on historical data.

For flu infections, it's a bit more obtuse. The best I was able to find was this paper from the CDC [1], which says they use a Monte Carlo model to estimate the number of infections.

For Covid, the deaths are based on diagnoses, not necessarily tests. Diagnoses are from symptoms, so it is not completely accurate. Some flu cases could be misdiagnosed as covid cases if you don't do a test. For infections, the numbers are typically based on the results from antibody tests (not Monte Carlo models).

I agree that it's definitely not apples-to-apples comparison, but it's hard to say if the comparison is in favor of flu being more deadly, or covid being more deadly, because there are confounding factors in both directions.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4603749/
> The implications are fairly dramatic if this is legitimate and were to be adopted / executed.

Can anyone give a tl;dr of what the implications actually are? Maybe I'm just tired, but I'm having a hard time parsing what this would actually do (beyond soothe Trump's feelings after getting called out by Twitter).
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