skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also here Finland I am paying 22 euros for unlimited 150mbit/s 4g connection and population density is pretty similar to Ontario.
The big value of the visual representation is if it is dynamic. That is, it gets updated while you are running the code and can use it during debugging. Otherwise, the novelty wears off quickly.

Static graphs are still useful to understand a new piece of code, see Source Trail[1]
[1]: https://www.sourcetrail.com/
> could one day be useful in advanced electronics

We're still waiting for graphene.
Australia is similar as well, most of the population is in few cities with huge empty outback. The rates here are around 25 USD for unlimited text and calls with around 30 gigs of data.
I didn't want to sound dismissive, but:

>It feels like if you’re using Reddit for politics and news you’re doing it wrong. It’s a dumpster fire in that respect.

99.999% of Reddit users use it for that (just look at the front page). If you invent a tool and when you start testing it you see an overwhelming amount of the testers use it wrong, you can hardly blame the testers. The problem is your tool.
A bit irrelevant in this particular case. Not sure if it's mentioned in the Bloomberg version of the interview, but the Swedish interview focuses on the regret over the high death count, not the economic falloff (as Tegnell is a epidemiologist, not economist).
There are additional relevant aspects:

1. A main aspect of the response, i.e., the issuing of "recommendations" instead the implementation of outright restrictions seem to have been caused by legal concerns, which means this is probably not something that Tegnell and his team decided.

2. Norway can rely on its natural resources and on the resulting "oil fund" to mitigate an economic crisis, Sweden lacks such resources, at least to the Norwegian extent.

3. The Norwegian government is "right-wing" from a Scandinavian perspective. Many of its policies would be considered socialist in the US.

4. Most deaths in Sweden are related to elderly care and the lack of preemptive efforts to prevent covid-19 spread in elderly care homes, which was certainly a big mistake, but somewhat unrelated to many of the measures that Sweden is scrutinized for.
> That would be like "I sent out 4999 random messages to 4999 random people and 1 encrypted message to Alice. Now Bob can't work out I sent my encrypted message to Alice".

Sounds exactly like I2P darknet.
Ten years on, search auto-complete still suggests slander and disinformation
A late response. They do not have a corporate venture arm.
Go is nice, but when you have to deal with some of the real life architectures like as400 or AIX, it silently retreats to the bushes.
And in Romania you get 50GB for 2 EUR (basically the plan is unlimited data, but with speed limited to 256kbps after 50GiB.). The speeds are quite good too, I personally reached 100Mbps on 4G on my phone in some places.

The 5G plan includes 80GB traffic for the same package.

++++++++++

I'm actually using this 2EUR plan as my main internet service at the moment, as I temporarily moved to the country side. I could get a 1Gbps FTTH connection for around 10 EUR per month ( or cheaper for lower bandwidth), but so far I decided not to bother.

50GB did last me for 20 days, with a lot of video content, some repos downloaded, arch package updates etc. The 256kbps limit I'm experiencing now is more than ok for anything text-based but YouTube only works seamlessly/without buffering in 240p.
Nice! Is it a bit laggy to control?
If someone is choosing between bombing people and blowing up the Buddhas of Bamyan you'd have to be a monster to say the Buddahs are more important.

My advice to you if you argue this with anyone else is pick a different hill to make your stand. I'm not sure how this ended up being a discussion of the cultural heritage vs life or death matters as that was never a real issue here. Mines don't move very quickly, there would have been plenty of time for Rio to do the wrong thing and be critiqued between archaeologists being on the site and the shot being loaded.

The difference between "shot is loaded therefore the caves are condemned" vs "shot is fired therefore caves are condemned" isn't important.
> but I do think there's a strong argument for trying to build and maintaining one's own infrastructure whenever possible

I agree. Europe should not depend on (and funnel money to) The US with Microsoft licenses for government and CPUs.

All the tech we depend on comes from the US, almost nothing is home grown.

Would you agree that we should have our own or are you coming from a position of North American protectionism?
I see no evidence to support that claim.

They could have imposed much stricter measures to limit public gatherings and do it faster, even more public messaging, clearer guidelines, working to make sure that everyone was inline with the guidelines.

Yes it would have helped with massive amount of testing, which they said wasn't possible, and tracing and more effective quarantine.
The restaurant then should ask what number the customer was calling and offer a callback if it wasn't a direct call.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Woolson
Did you consider encryption? Issue is that it adds one step at the start and at the end, which probably isn't negligible on 80gb of data.
> Why just HK, why not for all former colonies which UK is responsible for

Prior to (and because of) a bunch of HK residents fleeing to the UK when china first started trying to assimilate it, it was much easier to get out of there and into the UK. (anything involving politics in the UK is never a single thing, it's probably about 40 interacting things, spread out over about 800 non-consecutive years.)

HK is really a special case, because it was doing so very well with "european-levels of freedom", and then china strong-armed them into giving it up. (I won't make a moral judgement on that, it's just worth point out how complicated the issue is.)
Clearly that is wrong too, but you know, two wrongs don't make a right. And a major difference is that violence against police actually is prosecuted unlike the opposite.
It's relevant because the article mentioned a 7% contraction.
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In the UK having lots of nursing homes also caused a massive problem. They're usually responsible for their own PPE, but that obviously became infeasible since the government could both seize shipments and outbid them on behalf of the NHS. So the government had to stand up a network to get PPE to thousands of care homes as well as all the hospitals and clearly didn't have an existing plan to do that quickly.
Oh yeah they definitely should, after all they will also have a lot of domain knowledge which new developers have to relearn (I'm in that situation myself at the moment).

But, they need to have actually learned since then. They need to prove that if given another shot, they can do better.

I've been able to do that, we built an application in BackboneJS, then Angular became big; we used that in a separate application, then decided to gradually rewrite the original in Angular (we were able to ship it to customers during the rewrite, rewriting things on a per-page basis without doing much with the design). It took a lot longer than the original, but also because new features were added and we were doing things much neater, with proper unit tests and the like.

We learned that we had underestimated the complexity of a single page application, that it's not just a matter of "show whatever the back-end is returning so make sure the back-end is tested, front-end doesn't really matter much".
On the topic of toy JVMs, my Metascala project is a JVM implemented in ~4000 lines of Scala that is complete enough to interpret itself!

- https://github.com/lihaoyi/Metascala

Interpreting code in Metascala is about 100x slower than just running it, and interpreting code in Metascala interpreted by Metascala is about 10,000x slower than just running it. Not going to win any performance benchmarks, but it's a cool demonstration of how a JVM works.

All the runtime data structures, memory allocation and garbage collection, method dispatch logic, stack trace management, exceptions, inheritance, object layouts, etc. are all implemented in a relatively small amount of relatively simple code.

For example, here is the implementation of the heap, which allocates the VM's objects inside a big byte array and has a simple copying semispace garbage collector to clean them up:

- https://github.com/lihaoyi/Metascala/blob/master/src/main/sc...
I think the point is to find a point.

I.e. I was watching with some degree of unease how some of our official in Czech Republic seem to have had a bit of a power trip with closing the borders, e.t.c.

Fortunately that seems to be over, with restrictions on travel to bordering countries being slowly lifted.

Now it seems, that just wearing masks in shops and public transport should be enough? Accompanied with remoting where possible? I.e. there are no more spikes, and we have had preschools and pubs open for two weeks already.
Ordering food via telephone is, to me, the equivalent of trying to use a command line interface without knowing any of the options, and instead of "help" being automated, you have to bother a person who is probably already extremely busy and overworked to clarify the menu. It's also much easier to pay with a credit card via an app or website than over the phone.
Democrats removed the requirement for lower court nominations. Republicans removed the supreme court requirement to appoint Brett Kavanaugh, which is a seat they stole from a sitting Democratic president, even though said president nominated a moderate Republican for said seat.

It is true that the Democrats opened this can of worms, but the Republicans then taking advantage of it instead of setting a better example does not exonerate them. They're all bad actors now.
My point is that it isn't black and white scenario. Make no mistakes, there are policemen who are nothing more than organic waste, I've had encounters with such: I was pulled out of a car by the neck, tossed on the ground by 4 heavily armed policemen while they completely thrashed my car. Did I get a "We're sorry" after they figured out that I was not the guy they were after? No, I literally got "GTFO NOW". But... Let's stick to the math.

You've provided the theory, but you didn't answer my practical question: you have 1000 people representing authority and 100,000 people crowd. Let's say 4% of that crowd is violent. That is still 4 times your capacity. All while a large number of the remaining 96k are shouting at you. Put yourself in the shoes of those 1000 and your task being "restore order". In which case, the ball is in the crowd's yard. As an outside spectator(and someone who literally grew up in the epicenter of daily protests as a child), what I'm seeing here is the recent South Park episode turning into a documentary.

It's really easy to quote laws and rules, but in the real world, they are not always applicable. And in the case of mass gatherings, they are hardly ever applicable. Are you seriously suggesting that you were never put in a position where your only course of action was to grossly break the rules? If so, I envy you, I really do. No one hates breaking the rules more than I do but on many occasions in life, I've had to. It doesn't have to do with how rules and laws are defined or implemented. It's simple math: you have two bricks and three holes to fill, otherwise your house will flood. It's the same story with the pandemic - no one wants lockdowns or businesses crashing but it's either that or the death of millions.
Reply by Alex Stamos:

https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1268062452123496450
While this is certainly a classic example of appeal to authority, I don't think the data backs it up. As of May 29, there have been 44k deaths in Sweden from all causes. If you extrapolate that out for the year, you get 105k. That's about 15% more than a typical year in that country [1]. Obviously bad, but all countries are experiencing increased mortality. It's not clear how much lockdown would have reduced that.

Additionally, there may be some death harvesting going on, where future deaths are pulled forward due to Covid. We are seeing this in the US [2], so possibly their incremental deaths will be lower than 15%.

Finally, if we are doing appeals to authority, the Prime Minister of neighboring Norway says she closed schools "out of fear" and seems to regret that action [3].

I'm a parent, and the last point is personal for me. There is enormous cost to lockdowns that close schools, especially for working parents, especially if both parents work, especially if your home is cramped or small, and so on.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...

[2] https://i.imgur.com/2HsNN54.png from https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/gvfep9/..., see also https://imgur.com/RQiEIku from the same thread

[3] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8373857/Norways-PM-...
The article missed the details of what he said in the interview, located here: https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=83&arti...

In the last paragraph in a very academic tone, what Sweden did was to add more and more restrictions as they were shown to be needed, while most other country shut down everything to open up later. In order to figure out which restrictions works and which didn't, the approach to shutdown everything and sort things out later may be a better strategy in the future.

The bloomberg article also goes a bit beyond the interview in its commentary. It mention specific restrictions like "visit restaurants, go shopping, attend gyms and send children under 16 to school". The interview does not, and there are good reasons. Doing comparison between nations like Sweden and Denmark gives one type of numbers, but doing regional comparisons gives an other. If we compare Copenhagen and the city on the Swedish side of the bridge called Malmö, we find that Malmö has less cases and deaths while not having any of those specific restrictions. Why? We don't know for sure, but the main suspect are the number of elderly people living in care homes. When it come to Sweden more than half of all death comes from elderly care in the area around Stockholm, and Malmö does not have as many as Copenhagen and much fewer than Stockholm.

From there we can speculate all day long on what kind of restrictions do help. Maybe keeping children under 16 at home forces the typical demographic that are employed at elderly care to also stay home. Maybe Sweden, or Stockholm, use a different strategy in handling elderly care than other countries/regions and that is the culprit. Maybe other countries did more to prevent the virus from getting a hold in the elderly care system by providing employees more equipment and more time. When more nations are lifting restrictions, maybe the answer will be known.
Good point about context. Are these looters stealing bread for survival? I see them looting jewelers and high end retailers, like Gucci then torching the place. What is the motive?

If you believe these looters are doing so for justice, then know that the people who killed Floyd will be tried for their crimes and that you can not cast all law enforcement officers with the same stone. The people that pinned down Floyd all should be punished, but if you believe all of america’s officers are the same, isn’t that like condemning all blacks when one commits murder? However, if you believe that there is systematic racism in law enforcement, wouldn’t it be healthier to petition for change peacefully and specifically instead of fucking up the city because someone was murdered?

People are more important than property, I‘m sure you‘ll say, so then I can rob you and torch your home? Of course not. If these recent flashes of theft and vandalism can be justified, please enlighten me.

Also, a new bill is being introduced to end Qualified Immunity. What are the reasons for protest at the moment?
Pharo is now bootstrapped entirely from the text source files. To do it, you need already working Pharo, so there is a chicken-egg problem...
Thanks a lot @jv22222 for sharing your own perspective apart from highlighting @genedangelo 's reply.

Just to clarify, I am also not going through a crisis as such, thankfully. Just a doubt on future continued ability lingers on occasions.

What you say, makes sense to me. After a few decades, we just see some patterns repeating with different names - RPC -> CORBA -> RMI -> Web servcies (based on SOAP) -> REST (based on JSON) -> Google RPC (going again to binary style) ... and so on. Not being cynical. Things progress in a way, but also have echos of the past.
Regarding Mormons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism_for_the_dead#Genealogy...

They believe the dead can be baptized, which is a driving force behind their mission trips to other countries - if they convert one person with a very different family tree, they not only save one soul, but they enable all of that person's dead ancestors to make it into heaven as well.
They did not rob or loot. They destroyed the tea, and only the tea, which belonged to the East India Company, a defacto arm of the UK government. They did not steal any tea. They did not break anything else.
Let's not get hung up on details, if you have the resources to consider 51%ing Bitcoin for presumably nefarious purposes, you're probably a government/big finance/oligarch actor and you're probably not penny pinching.
Where are you getting information about the UK trial? I don't think I've heard the finding you said from ministers, they just seem to say it's all great and refuse to engage on it. I don't think they've even admitted developing the second app actually.
I keep wondering what pushes people to stay in the ecosystem of the forked chain that quote unquote lost the fight.
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Definitely true for Smalltalk but not for Lisp in my experience. The latter has its fair share of haters even on HN.
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All white male police officers on deal duty for six months

After that ensure they are chaperoned by a black person.

All costs for “bad apples” come out if the departments pension fund.
The lack of static typing does not make refactoring incredibly hard or difficult. In fact, I would argue it's even easier due to the way dynamically-typed languages pass around data. Really, as long as you follow some basic rules and don't propagate complexity into your system too-much, refactoring is a breeze. When I do it, the types are inconsequential almost.

The things I do worry about when refactoring is developer-induced complexity. E.g. "This random corner case in this function returns a null, but I don't see the consumer handling nulls." At that point, it's hard to tell their intention and whether that null's explosion is handled way further down the line in some unrelated function as part of normal execution flow. I.e. Sometimes that behavior is expected, and my "fixing" of it would introduce a bug. That is what causes regression bugs when refactoring, not the types. Sure, one or two "type typos" do slip through the cracks, but that's inevitable and one quick run-through of the system picks that up relatively easily.

Trust me, once you spend a non insignificant amount of time developing, refactoring and debugging software in a dynamically typed language, you start realizing that static-types are more of a crutch for the compiler than they are to assist the developer. Especially in more object-orientated languages with complex types and inheritance hierarchies. Think C#, Java, et al with their "abstract base classes", interfaces, interface-inheritance, virtual override methods, method overloading, type casting, etc.
Here's a 2016 Nokia blog article about it: https://www.nokia.com/blog/water-cool-new-way-take-heat-base...

Besides the video being totally cute I remember Ben Krasnow (Applied Science) mentioning in his video about making liquid air that this was frequently used in mobile base stations. I thought it would perhaps be used for super conductivity, but pretty definitely for cooling (dude in the video says other stations are air cooled). Am I thinking of something else?
The full transcript might be better than this article - and offers a better headline, too.

https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2020/06/03/zo...
Take a look at "Input Sans Narrow Light".

Example/demo: https://input.fontbureau.com/preview/?size=14&language=xml&t...
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What did you expect them to do? Nearly every time Obama spoke publicly about GOP obstruction he was laughed at.

You gonna just blame Democrats every time the GOP takes another step towards destroying democracy in the USA?
AES GCM will still exist for free users.

> ... this is in reference to end-to-end encryption, but simply ran out of space in the tweet. ...

https://twitter.com/nicoagrant/status/1268020841054269440
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I'm not in an at risk group but like everyone my life has been restricted greatly these last three months. These mass gatherings of selfish, self regarding, moral guardians risks extending this thing further and deeper for an extremely nebulous benefit.
Right, both parties are only the same when it meets your agenda.
Meanwhile the other nordic countries are covid free.
Reddit is nigh unusable without the RES pluggin.

I use Reddit daily and every time I see suspicious users / subs I add them to my RES filter.

It's now hundreds of names long, but my front page of the internet gets to be the way I like it.
Join the Authors Alliance, they have ideas.
https://www.authorsalliance.org/

Authors should ideally never give exclusive rights to publishers, because publishers invariably abuse them (as in this lawsuit). There are some countermeasures.
https://www.authorsalliance.org/resources/rights-reversion-p...
https://sparcopen.org/our-work/author-rights/
So much signalling on here...
Originally only two person chats were e2e encrypted, then the added e2e to group chats, but last time I checked (admittedly a year or more back) if one participant in a group chat had an old version of the app, the entire group chat was unencrypted, without an obvious user interface indication of that.

I use (and trust) Signal. I believe Wickr is trusted by people who have resources behind them to know whether it's trustworthy (though it's closed source, so :shrug:).

If you need "used by the masses", then you're gonna be stuck with, I dunno - Facebook public posts? Gmail? Slack? Smoke signals? Nothing that's fit for purpose" if you value privacy...