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> Sweden might have taken a better or a worse approach than, say, France but it is clearly not catastrophic

The only countries worse off than Sweden are significantly poorer - besides Belgium, which seems to be the only country counting correctly (e.g. untested excess deaths in Covid proximity are included).

The most similar countries to Sweden, regarding political structure and wealth, are Denmark and Norway, which have 20% and less than 10% of Swedens death rate, respectively. I'd say it's safe to assume that at least 80% of Swedish deaths could have been avoided with a conventional approach.
I was mostly joking in my previous comment, but i know students (including myself) that have occasionally submitted assignments as a single commit passing all test cases using “novel” constructs…of course, we can readily modify it if asked to.
There's a lot more to crypto than overnight moonshots, and this is a perfect example :claps:
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This is a problem for our generation actually. The two generations before us became rent seekers about everything and from what I can see %90 of current population is unable to acquire significant income to buy anything meaningful. We are going back to feudal times, with minority of population owning everything and others paying for the privilege of using them.
They actually managed to upstream support on kernel 5.1, but break it on kernel 5.2, and IIRC only kernel >5.5 has the fix, which ubuntu still doesn't have support for.

I expect Canonical or Lenovo or both to test all release candidates of all kernel versions after release and make sure that the hardware actually works, and if it doesn't, prevent the release of a broken Linux kernel version.

That would be the minimum level of QA acceptable for a "certified" laptop.
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You’re absolutely right, that is a large part of why I keep using iOS. It’s also a very common exciting part of switching from android based on my own social circle.
Who exactly promised an apocalypse?

The early estimates for the IFR from February turned ouf to be quite accurate.
One reason is because the burden to manufacture crimes is far higher. Every violent crime necessarily has a victim and if the victim survived the encounter they can identify affirmatively the characteristics of their assailant.

The problem with non-violent crimes is that they could be tainted by biases since there isn't always as concrete/reliable an eyewitness.

Someone attacks me and it's a lot easier to trust what I report. I see someone steal something at a distance, and my eyewitness account is less trustworthy.
As someone coming from a political environment that doesn't use the term, I seem to periodically forget what is meant by liberal. Your concise definition is very useful.
Nobody's paying street price for an iphone in that demo. They get it with their contract
> easily avoided

Not always. Don't forget about this, arrow functions and the fact that popular mocking frameworks can automatically mock regular class methods but not arrow methods.
I was going to say "what about Matomo". But then Matomo are still lurking around in the dark ages of Python 2 and are not worthy of recommendation until they pull their finger out and sort out their analytics scripts that rely on that obsolete thing (https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo-log-analytics/pull/242, https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo-log-analytics/issues/3 etc. etc.)
it is completely wrong. Investments should be made on possible outcome and the background of the founders is one of them but not the decisive one.

but softbank has already lost billions of cash due to the we work debacle. This does not really matter in the end just politcs
Go with goroutines and channels is a nice way to handle concurrency.

At least it was the one that was easiest for me to wrap my head around and actually improved the performance of my code without weird race conditions or bugs.
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I'm in Switzerland and have 25 hops, which can be broken into:

- 1-7: Hops within my ISP's in-country network (~4ms total latency)

- 8-10: Hops within my ISP's in-Europe network (~28ms total latency)

- 11: London -> New York (~93ms total latency)

- 12: New York -> Los Angeles (~160ms total latency)

- 13: Transfer in LA from my ISP to AARNet (about the same latency)

- 14: LA to somewhere in NSW (guessing Sydney, 305ms total latency)

- 15-25: Routing within AARNet and Unimelb (319ms total latency)

So most of the latency looks to be attributed to large hops across oceans rather than internal switching. Even if you could narrow it down to London -> NY -> LA -> NSW you'd have 277ms.
Heh is there a better canary to do a 180 and run away than SoftBank investing in something?
I see a lot of companies using Node on the backend for no real reason where a different language would've had frameworks (Rails or Django) that would allow them to be more productive by taking care of the boilerplate.

I am not sure however that it's the fault of JS developers alone. Usually it's someone high-up in the company that wants to use a hyped-up, new technology instead of a "boring" but battle-tested one.
The example on permission isn't great.
It said the library you used cannot access your database password from env and send it over the internet unless you allow so.

When you're putting database password in the env, most likely you need to permit env var and network access for your database client library. Then at the same time, the library in example can do that malicious thing.

The problem here is, deno request the permission per process, not per library import
> rent seldom covers the mortgage on a property

Don't forget that "covering the mortgage" involves building the landlord's equity, so it's not as if this portion is lost to the bank while the landlord has to depend on appreciation. If I "only just cover the mortgage" while renting for the entire term of the mortgage on a house that doesn't appreciate above inflation, the landlord still goes from owning 20% of a house to 100% of a house over that term.
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Because the term "[free] people of colour" is a direct translation of the French phrase "gens de couleur [libres]" used in the French West Indies during slavery times to refer to free people of mixed African and European ancestry.

Of course its now its just virtue signalling to describe some imagined unified faction of the rest of the planet opposing white people.

IMHO, it will end once American-born Chinese and Indian mothers realise they aren't part of it and that their kids bear the largest brunt of the interventions.
But there are programs that focus on access to resources based around class, and to the extent that there are factors besides class that matter (like race), exclusively-class-oriented programs fail to fully level the playing field. That this program exists to help combat bias doesn't stop someone else from starting a different program aimed at attacking a different angle with different eligibility criteria. The more the merrier.
First, it was not "promised" as an apocalypse (for an apocalypse, the death rate would have to be much higher) - the intention behind the restrictions was simply to not overwhelm the medical system, so that everyone that needs treatment should be able to get it. Second, the restrictions are the reason why the situation didn't turn out (even) worse than it did, but some people just fail to see that (or intentionally ignore it)...
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Providing a place to live for people has no value?

What a ridiculous assertion.
It makes sense to me. Its possible the poster is a person of color who simply never sees discrimination, but its more likely they are a white person who does not notice discrimination against people of color.

When the James Damore essay swept google, I briefly asked my female friends if they could simply tell me what discrimination they experience. But they were too worn out from every male colleague asking them the same thing to explain it all to each one.

What I realized I needed to do was start listening to women's stories more, and start believing things even when they don't make sense to me. I needed to be curious and look for problems that I had previously been blissfully unaware of. And with that change in mindset I started to see them.

We have to do the same with people of color. We need to listen to their stories and believe them. It's hard to give you a bulleted list which would clearly explain discrimination just as it was hard (and tiring) for women to explain their discrimination to me. But if you take "there are things you are not seeing about racism at the workplace" to be true, you can begin to cultivate a mindset that allows you to learn what is happening.
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Well, what does that say about you?
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I’m a bit confused. Is this really a lawsuit about Incognito mode not being 100% anonymous (which is not even its goal, all the porn-modes are for hiding your activity on your local device) and not including an adblocker?

Or is this really just a cheap ad from this snap search company for their mobile browser?
I've used dvorak & vim for 15 years with mostly default vim bindings. I don't think there's any problem. (I also use emacs with evil)
I had some issues with Ubuntu too.
Fedora 32 -- zero issues.
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I don't think you can compare strategies in Sweden and France. Scandinavia, Japan, etc. are known to be places where people are civic-minded, responsible adults, where wallets left on benches make their way back to their owners with the money still inside. You can count on Swedish or Japanese people to do the responsible, advised, thing without a police officer standing behind them with a nightstick. That's not true of other countries and that's why those other countries have had to take heavy-handed approaches and still found little success in them.
LLVM is one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure out there. And yet you can modify master without actually passing any tests.

I build LLVM from source a lot, and master not even building because somebody made a change that doesn't even compiler is astonishing.

FWIW, LLVM has a pretty big test suite. But... to catch errors... you actually... have to... run it...

It is often the case that Rust, which does have a policy of "master always passes all tests" catches bugs in LLVM before LLVM does.
Many reasons, some of which Dart fixes. Too bad it hasn't catched on. Now it's a language to build mobile apps with. Maybe it will be usable for cross platform desktop GUIs as well. And hopefully some of its sane language features will be ported to future versions of ES.

https://medium.com/flutter-community/the-ultimate-javascript...
Why can’t they become permanent residents? Is that just a quirk of H1Bs or is the US immigration system really that bad?

I’ve seen posts on Reddit where it’s like “Just got my citizenship after 20 years here”, but to not even be able to get PR seems pretty crazy
Except that gcc and clang are nondeterministic, to an extent

Sometimes the compiler needs to generate a random value and base part of the compilation on that value. Thins like trying to predict which is the best branch, or things done at compile time.

A lot of work has been done to reduce the nondeterminism, and some of it can only be reduced by using things like "-frandom-seed=$your_git_commit" for example

build determinism also goes deeper than that, for example static libraries are archives that include the date of the archive creation, and so on

The simplest programs might generate the same hash, but don't expect all code to generate the same-hash binary by default
It's not correct. They orbit low enough that unresponsive Starlink satellite will fall out within a coupe of years.
You're almost certainly reading that correctly, that pMem is a pointer to a pointer to a block of memory, plus some metadata for that block of memory, and sqlite3VdbeMemRelease either releases the memory back to the application-level pool, frees it back to the memory allocator (glibc malloc/jremalloc/tcmalloc/dmaloc/etc.), or directly brk()/mummap()s it directly back to the OS.

I have no experience with sqlite internals, but it's pretty clearly doing some application-level accounting on top of the normal memory management.
Absolutely a good point. You can’t have “FaceTime” parties in the same way you can on zoom.
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Sorry you feel this way - but the story is 100% genuine.
Note that back then he only acknowledged that there has been more deaths than they thought. But he did not back then think having adopted a different strategy would have necessarily saved any lives, because many of the deaths were in elderly homes.

In yesterday's press meeting, he admitted that given what they know now Sweden would have actually adopted a different strategy. It was at perceived as the first actual admission that the adopted policy was in fact too open.

Given that the policy mistake might have at this point lead to thousands of preventable deaths, he understandably treads very carefully.
Depending on who's holding the hammer, I do fear the hammer.
So in this case “Getting killed by a cop in the street” vs “freedom for the police to murder people in cold blood “?
Based on past threads, I think that a majority of HN views startup funding as competitive, and acknowledges the risks from a lack of funding - some from first hand experience, and that adversity is not evenly distributed among non-minorities, and that for technology product adoption nobody looks at the team just the usefulness, so anything other than a level playing field will be frowned upon here.

I am an immigrant where I live, so i will take the liberty to ask:

- Do the behaviors we have been seeing on television from law enforcement in the US extend to offline business relationships in the US in more subtle ways? For example would a minority with a new product be given a lower preference to demo their stuff at a technology meetup? Would they be passed up for a promotion at work because the boss preferred someone who looked like him?

- Is there a systemic variation in the quality and accessability of human relationships for some groups? (vital for recruiting, selling, partnering, fund raising, launching, ecosystem and user community building). For example would it be harder to sign up beta users for an enterprise product?

Those are the core issues they could face, and they are very real in some places in the UK.

If this is a case, perhaps it is warranted or you will have capable people unable to contribute.
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Good investors don't rely on P/E ratios. At this point, GAAP earnings are basically becoming smoke and mirrors:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2018/11/19/pe...
On K - there are now two "real" implementations, one by Kx Systems (i.e. the version under the hood of kdb+) and one by Shakti (new company from Arthur Whitney, original author of k). The Kx one is k4, Shakti is k9. Having said that, k9 is still quite a "work in progress", don't think it's considered production ready yet.

May also be worth nothing that k4 is essentially "undocumented" and Kx encourage to use q instead of writing any code in k directly. Most functionality can be pieced together using docs from other versions of k (I think k2 manual is floating around online) & the docs from q.
"The looming demise of macOS as a developer platform".

There's some sentiment these days on HN about this but personally I think it's hogwash. No platform is perfect, but macOS to me is as close as you can get to a developer's dream workstation / laptop.

Remember all those years when we dreamed of a Unix with a proper UI? Well, it exists. Windows doesn't even come close.

I'd rather go Linux before Windows as a developer and hacker.

I know this varies based on industry and countries, but about 95% of developers I work with on a daily basis use Macs. These are everything from Go devs, JS devs to people working on ancient Java EE codebases.

A disclaimer; I haven't actually tried Catalina yet, all my Macs are still on Mojave.
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You say that you do not see racism in the tech world. If it isn't happening to you, it can be very hard to see. Just as I did not see the sexism in the tech world until the James Damore essay blew up at google and we finally prioritized listening to women's stories. And then (after a lot of personal work I did with the help from my caring female friends) it became clear.

So perhaps you do not see racism because you've assumed its not happening, and because it's not happening to you? From what I know about racism (as a white person), it must be impossible that the tech world is simply free of racism. It's just hard to see when you are not the victim. The answer I've found is to listen to people of color when they say they experience racism. Don't challenge each assertion, take it to be true and then look further for corroborating stories. You will find them.
Good thoughts, thanks!
AWS is a bad example. They keep things running ridiculously long as long as customers are paying them.
The thing that nobody can tell if it works or not? What about it?
Embedded in IOS & OSX, but one of the few that's easy to get a build of (or compile) in Linux, Windows, Android

Chakra also easily builds on osx, ios, embedded in windows.

V8 is a PITA to build & get a build of. (Wish it wasn't)
Here’s a thought experiment:

A black man and an Asian man rob a bank together. They are caught, charged, and found guilty of the same crime.

The black man is set free because his race is over-represented at the local jail, but the Asian man serves 8 years in prison.

Because nobody is saying someone is superior to another person here, the above example is not racist and totally fine, in your definition of racism. Even though it is obviously deeply unethical and unfair.
Genuinely curious: any idea what the carbon footprint of this number of launches would be, as a ballpark?
I don't have any claims to make, the unfair angle of the parent comment motivated me to invite people to simply read into it themselves, so thanks for the vox link. Surely there is a middle ground between no police and military-grade policing.
I have a question, just because I don't know if there is data on this.

I've seen a bunch of studies on things like "stereotypically-african-american-name" vs "stereotypically-white-name", which are good evidence as to why a good hiring process should remove personally-identifying details from resumes.

Not just the name of the applicant, either -- school names and locations can also introduce unfair biases. Company names are unavoidable, I think: there are only so many companies that fit the description of "Social Network, Global, >10k employees, uses lots of Javascript" or "Privatized Intelligence Service, Global, >100k employees, uses lots of Go".

Buuuuuuut... is there research on what happens when you expand the number of dimensions?

E.g., add in a mix of broad cultural backgrounds (Pan-European, Latin, Arab, Chinese, African, etc.), test different raraties ("Smith" is common, "Chaucer" is rare, both are Anglo)

Does "Victoria Henderson" garner a statistically different response to "Vitalija Herrera" (Anglo vs Lithuanian)? What about "Nyala Aregawi" vs "Nadya Ahane" (Mixed Russian-Japanese)?

What happens when we mix in popular fictional names?

Solid bet there are boys out there named "Thor" and "Bilbo" by parents that are fans of Star Wars.

No idea what actual outcomes might be, the data could yield interesting results on hiring biases.
> I'm sick of the hypocrisy of people saying "Black people aren't more likely/less likely to x, it's their education/family/etc. that affects them" ... and then immediately turning around and giving help to people based on their skin color, rather than these other traits.

In your imaginary world we should stop considering race all together. Logically that'd be "fair" right? But what about the million of POC who have been denied jobs, education, houses, etc who exist NOW today and have been set back from centuries of disenfranchisement. Is it fair to them? We don't get to turn back time, so initiatives like this at least attempt to help a group of people who've sorely been needed from the evolution of startups. This is a GOOD thing. More diverse folks means change. If you feel like it's "taking away" from your opportunity, maybe you should examine that a bit.

> While not a majority, many POC work for FAANG companies. Are they eligible for this money purely because of their skin color, but disadvantaged people of any color are not?

oh no, you found an edge case - better throw in the towel. If it can't be simplified into a single test then the whole thing shouldn't exist right? /s

Consider how hard you have to work to justify your line of thinking. Maybe the simplest answer is that you're wrong.
Risk profile and time horizon are central considerations for investors, absolutely.

Sometimes a fast, go-big-or-go-home trajectory is what they're looking to invest in.

The way to put ethics in a language investors understand is to price in externalities.
> Societies don't have the right to decide for others what their choices should be.

If an AGI starts inventing new and wonderful ways in which we can destroy ourselves, and we are taken in by it, we will have to restrict that, it's non optional.

You can make the argument that, say, current hard drugs should be legal - but I don't think there's a way to defend the position that any possible future 'thing' should always be legal/permitted regardless of negative effect.
It is certainly not trivial, and definitely out of reach of most nation states out there.

I'm sure U.S. at least tries to keep track of Russian mobile launchers, but to which degree it is successful we wouldn't know for sure. And pretty certain Russia would have problems live tracking launch vehicles (if the USA had any).
There should be programs that endeavor to compensate for the inequities between socioeconomic background, family situations, etc. And indeed there are such programs. That’s not mutually exclusive with the need for programs like this one. They should all exist.
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