skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most infuriating thing about the Sweden situation to me is that Anders Tegnell has claimed that no country has managed to stop or slow down the spread of the virus. Even if you dismiss China's claims due to government meddling (fair enough), Tegnell was being ignorant of a number of other Asian countries at the time he said this.

I know that I'm somewhat jumping to conclusions, but this feels so much like typical Eurocentric ignorance of other parts of the world whenever the latter manages to handle something better than them that it makes my blood boil. Just swallow your pride and acknowledge the findings of others, dammit.

In general there are multiple Asian countries with recent experiences with these kinds of outbreaks - you know, SARS? Would it be so hard to look at their conclusions of which methods of handling past outbreaks worked and didn't work? To learn from their mistakes so we don't have to repeat them in our arrogance?
This should surprise nobody. I live in a blue state. My vote is practically meaningless because of the electoral college system. Yes, there's some signalling to be done, but on affecting the short term outcome? Nada.

MLK has a great quote, "“Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will." That's exactly what our current presidential race offers to many young people. Trump is perceived as the guy with absolute misunderstanding and ill will with corrupt greed. But Joe Biden's a turd. He was pro segregation in the 70s. That should be an absolute non-starter to many people, but here he is as the "best option" with a healthy political career 40 years later. I don't especially believe he's a racist individual but his recent comments show he has grossly shallow understanding of race relations, among other things.

The only thing that could disenfranchise me more would be concern that the actual voting process had been compromised.
The vitamin d connection might partially also explain why Sweden has a higher mortality rate than its neighboring countries, because Sweden has accepted more immigrants
Its divisive because it attempts to dismiss as invalid the notion that one racial group suffers a disproportionate targeting by police. It denies that racism is a problem or at best equates the problems faced by police to the problems created by police violence toward black people. When you say all lives matter, you're basically looking at these millions of people who are working toward making the world less hostile toward black people and saying "you're stupid, you're the racists."
Why do people even need to register to vote? In Sweden every eligible voter receive their "voting card" by mail a couple of weeks before an election.
Virtual reality could help solve the problem of consciousness
What do you back it with though? If the global economy was still linked to gold the the price of gold would be astronomical and cause similar problems to oil. Any country that happened to sit on a gold reserve is suddenly a potential world power.

Although if I remember the price of gold was actually regulated while it was linked to the dollar and after the gold standard was removed the price per ounce went up fast. That sort of control feels like a fiat currency anyway.

Changing the mechanics of the economy will not fix inequality, it is born from corruption in the ruling class. They more they are held to account the more equal society will be.

The real problem now is more and more power lies with entities that are detached from government, and the peoples vote (such as it is) has even less effect on those global entities.
I agree. On the other side, some might argue that kids shouldn't be given tablets or phones if hey don't need them.
There's a lot of discussion about it and, although not complete consensus, most pediatricians seem to discourage so early access to screens.
Btw, I'm a father too.
Vietnam's political system is the same as China's. The starting point ought to be as cautious with Vietnamese numbers as with Chinese numbers.

If the massive differences with see among countries turn out to be accurate I suspect that natural causes will be found quite apart from governments' performances in managing the virus. Age, climate, genetic susceptibility, or other natural factors seem to be playing a big role.
And this isn't an idea that Trump came up with himself, he's just said the quiet part out loud. So, if we take it as given that Republican politicians and strategists are motivated to restrict the franchise by the same belief this means they believe they cannot obtain power under a properly administered democracy yet they believe they have a right to govern. There are an awful lot of people in the US with only a very transactional relationship to the idea of democracy.
> You seem to think incomprehensibility is a bad thing

I do, but specifically, I would have thought that incomprehensibility is bad for spreading ideas. In order for ideas to spread, someone has to be willing to read these texts, overcome the hurdles of the dense language, and recognise something new, interesting and important; something they agree with. Incomprehensibility stands in the way of this process.
I read it putting all of myself into it (even caught a couple of typos/bugs). I also read Iverson's.

These languages (APL, J, K) promote a programming paradigm that sits somewhere in between the continuous spectrum between imperative and functional paradigms.

There is lot of good to absorb from J, and not little of it has fortunately permeated into the famous Python's numpy library. Many people have been inadvertently using APL/J deepest concepts thanks to it.

I do think that, even if they are beautiful, they are still generations away from a community Zeitgeist that would render as widely spread as, for example, Haskell.
Voting is a citizen act and never meaningless.
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My experience with engineers who made too much money in an IPO (not at MSFT) was the opposite - they mostly wanted to sit in the corner and play with whatever cool toys and have no clear job description. They didn't need to threaten leaving because they were furniture.
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According to their last earnings - 50% of their revenue was outside of the iPhone.

You also have to remember even the Mac by itself brought in higher revenue than all but the top 100 companies in the US and it’s only 10% of Apple’s revenue. The watch is a bigger revenue generator than the iPod ever was.
The US also lacks a broad based workers party like a Labour Party in UK or Australia. The people that don’t vote probably would vote for such a party.
What would be the "realistic" potential use cases?
If he's like a lot of Americans, he's "upside down" on the truck - as in, he still owes more on the loan than he could realistically sell the truck for. That would leave him still in debt, but now without a vehicle, even if he could be content with a 10 year old Civic or Corolla.

The wisdom of having purchased such a large vehicle on credit to begin with is another discussion entirely. Americans are, on average, far more relaxed about owing a lot of money on a vehicle than, say, Germans. I grew up assuming a car payment was just part of adult life; my husband, a German, was raised to believe that borrowing for anything other than property was foolish. I've since come around to his point of view, and am the reasonably content co-owner of a 12 year old Fiesta, though considering our upgrade options as we have a baby on the way.

Why a large truck in the first place? A lot of American men, especially in the South (where this guy is), consider small sedans to be unmanly. If they're overweight like most Americans, they also think they're going to sit more comfortably in a larger vehicle. Plus, SUVs and trucks are less expensive in the US than they are over here - for what I'd have to pay for a new Corolla hybrid station wagon (my current coveted car) in Germany, I could get a Toyota Highlander mid-sized SUV in the US, which Toyota doesn't even bother trying to sell here.
Don't get me started on that. However the two circuits are sold as a fully resilient pair (different tails from different DCs arrive into the building in Washington different directions with guaranteed different paths to the DCs, then in contract it's guaranteed neither circuit will run via the same equipment or on the same submarine circuit. In the UK they arrive in two separate cities)

However I know reality and contracts never meet, unfortunately in a large disfunctional organization there are other considerations in circuit procurement than technical requirements.

As for internet circuits, I had two ISPs in NY on two separate paths, which is great. Something went wrong about a month ago, and the routing from one of the ISPs changed, meaning that we were back to a single point of failure who we have no business relationship with
It is because early postmodernists found a "Truth". And by that i mean a postmodern version: a reality from their point of view. Their critics of power, art and knowledge were right... Half a century before they made them for physics, and decades ago for biology, but for other fields (except maybe philosophy that turned around a bit before).

This did not take in scientific fields because they did their revolution early XXth century. And while postmodern critics were right, their proposed solution (relativism and/or nihilism) weren't. Everybody now knows that when you have a valid critic, your solution will likely be viewed as "more valid", even though this is absolutely untrue. That's probably what happened in social studies.

Also i follow subects in humanities (history and linguistic, and some consciousness philosophy) and those follow the same epistemological methods. Sadly you can only find the papers in academia and at least in France, know "historians" (TV historian) are not following those methods at all.

ps: The only postmodern i read was foucault, so everything i've said on postmordernist only apply to my understanding of him.
No comments, but duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23402316
Would it be possible to unbundle the police? Why are the highway patrol and the narcotics divison even remotely part of the same organization? Having "fight crime" as your mandate is much too broad.
Same in Germany, always astonished about the US system.
> They are about the size of an extra-large pizza, so you won't be able to get a Starlink phone.

I'll be surprised if this doesn't shrink. I worked for a company in the mid-2000s that had some pretty cool IP which effectively shrank a briefcase-sized BGAN terminal down to a Pocket PC (pre iPhone days!) with Pocket PC-sized antenna strapped on the back.
Parental controls and a list of allowed websites and apps would have solved this.

There is no way you can police every site on the internet, so it's best not to even try. Just pick a few you trust and whitelist those.
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Mistrust about the vietnam numbers comes up every time this is discussed. But I have not yet seen any evidence that they're forged.

I admit I find it hard to believe that a country bordering china could handle this so well. But I am more inclined to believe the numbers are real than that the numbers are completely fake and nobody has produced any evidence of this.

Vietnam isn't North Korea. It's a country well connected to the world, plenty of people work there that have international connections or come from other countries.
The entire reason kids and adults should write in plaintext is in order to focus on the content of their message.

Markdown is excellent because it prevents the writer from formatting except where that has semantic meaning (headers, lists, etc).

I’m teaching my son (14) how to use the best tools: The first assignment I gave him was to write a short essay in markdown, using vscode, and commit and push the answer in a pull request on github. I can do a code review, pointing out changes or even add my own content in a commit of my own.

These are powerful tools that everyone should be learning for writing intellectual content. The diff tools and being able to navigate change history lead to improved quality. In the same way that git gives me confidence to delete bad code, when writing an essay, I can delete low quality content. While rewriting I can see the diff changes for reference.

Of course, once you are ready to “deploy”, you will have a suitable style transformation so that the final result is a perfectly formatted document (with emphasis on excellent content).
> Also, I'll make it opt-out, and the opt-out process will be in a shrink wrap license.

I do not understand this point.
I have been using this since last it featured at the frontpage. It's great for jumping to different projects etc.
> Science demands an honesty that few politicians can afford, which the current discussion about Anders Tegnell so well demonstrates.

This varies across cultures though. Scandinavian countries have a bit of a different approach to many thing, the most recent example I stumbled across was Danish zoos honestly and explicitly saying that they can't keep all the animals, that they will kill some, and that they will feed them to e.g. the lions. They even make it a public thing where somebody will chop up the animal and explain stuff.

Those things generate outcries - in other countries. We're very used to hide "how the meat is made" from the general population, but that's not necessarily the same in all countries. I find it very refreshing for politicians to not have "a public and a private opinion", and I wish it was more common.
This frankly stupid meme needs to die. Not testing can hide the disaster only for a maximum of 3 weeks, after which the dead start piling up.

Considering that the dead have not being piling up anywhere in India, I'd say India has succeeded in managing it all.
There is no baseline requirement.

It is only the worker ants that can't comprehend that there can be other ways to meaningfully live this life.

Have you not heard of monks? Have you not heard of travelling musicians? Maybe not, maybe you don't get it, but I can assure you, a higher calling has nothing to do with resources and many of those who do find meaning in working, will be happy to break bread with a travelling monk or hear a musician's tune and tale of adventure.

It's the many colors of the rainbow that make it beautiful. How awful it'd be if we all wanted to work, so that our children could work, so that their children could work, until we've populated this planet and sucked it dry, with our boring diligence.
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Only a matter of time I'm sure. Is that still a problem with Chatroulette? They really should deploy measures against that shit. Maybe shadowban perverts so they end up together (which probably happens a lot anyway).
Well a scale model would be just the earth, you basically would never even see a satellite because they are so small.
I think they added this in v4 within the last year. Altair is developing really quickly, and I like that. JVP has been really responsive and it’s amazing how quickly the project is adding features.
You can find regionwise data here.

https://www.covid19india.org/
> The ssh key vulnerability was as much a fault of the upstream as it was Debian: the Debian maintainer who made the patch explicitly asked the OpenSSL mailing list if it was okay, and they indicated at least acquiescence in the change.

IIRC they asked a list that was not the main project list and not intended for security-critical questions. Code that actually goes in to OpenSSL gets a lot more scrutiny from the OpenSSL side, and other big-name distributions either have dedicated security teams that review changes to security-critical packages, or don't modify upstream sources for them. Debian is both unusually aggressive in its patching (not just for OpenSSL; look at e.g. the cdrecord drama) and unusually lax in its security review.

> Given that upstream OpenSSL itself would have the Heartbleed bug revealed a decade later, with all the revelations of its source code quality made more notable as a result, I'm willing to place more blame on OpenSSL than Debian here.

Heartbleed was a much more "normal"/defensible bug IMO. Buffer overflows are a normal/expected part of using memory-unsafe languages; every major C/C++ project has had them. Not using random numbers to generate your cryptographic key is just hilariously awful.
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No, this captures carbon dioxide. Turning carbon dioxide back into carbon is not part of the process. You still need a way to store the CO2 permanently.
Here’s one idea. Don’t reward anything. Just find a way to remind people that newest exist and send them there more often. Perhaps by putting a link such as “HN new: Please curate new submissions” randomly in place of one normal story on the HN, some percentage of times.
I also dont benefit much from thr majority of reccomendations but I think you might just be underestimating how bad humans are at it.
My explanation for swiss voter turnout: if it ain't broke don't fix it.

Two anecdotes:

- the presidency rotates among members of the executive committee, on a yearly basis. Cynically, the president exists so if a foreign head of state wants to have dinner, they have someone with whom to do it.

- when a referendum comes to the ballot, we don't just have to vote it up or down. The government gets a chance to say "yes, we agree this is a problem, but we'd suggest solving it this other way". Those are two options. The third (and I believe this is most popular) is "meh, it's working fine as it is".

Anyway, compared to US politics[1], swiss politics is wonderfully sedate. I'd like to think that's because the politicians are here to make the country run more smoothly, so the rest of us have better things to do.

Edit: and yes, we receive all balloting material by mail, and return it by mail. No problem. It works.

[1] is this because there are no center parties?

Q. Why is US politics like the Cupid Shuffle?

A. To the right, to the right, to the right, to the right /
To the left, to the left, to the left, to the left
You know that not to be true so why bring it up? It is difficult enough to discuss this subject as it is without this type of commentary.
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The economy is more than dollars. There is a global supply chain of things and services that create an unbelievably complex graph of dependencies. Want your farmer to be able to put crops out? John Deere's entire supply chain needs to be operational. I have no way to vet this list but it looks perfectly reasonable to me:

https://csimarket.com/stocks/suppliers_glance.php?code=DE#mo...

If there's a material interruption in this network, including suppliers of all of those suppliers, John Deere can't put out equipment or new parts. No equipment and no parts? You start impacting food security.

You think shits popping off now?
Never understood this argument. My parents from a 3rd world country who barely understand English are able to use 3rd party apps like Whatsapp, Duo, Skype just fine. And Duo works directly from your contacts app too (at least in Pixel and Samsung phones), in fact you can see options like "Video call xxx Message XXX with a logo of the apps that support it right in the contacts apps.
It’s what we all know: current GOP ideals do not line up with majority representation. The GOP would be forced to change its policy to fall in line with the people’s will: a true tragedy, I know. We currently have a tyranny of minority.
I don't know if Asian countries should be patting themselves on the backs yet. Here in India, it seemed like we had everything under control in the first 6 weeks of the lockdown.

But now, our cases and deaths are rising fast, just as we're winding down the lockdowns.

Bangalore avoided infections since much of the country was locked down. The real litmus test will be to see how the infection rate holds after the lockdowns end.
>I'm not sure what you're referring to here. This isn't an issue of planning, and it doesn't have much to do with inequality either. A major economic depression is going to hurt the poor more than the rich.

> it doesn't have much to do with inequality either

> hurt the poor more than the rich.

...seems like the poor and rich, are quite inequal. Possibly the rich could have rigged the rules in their favor using their wealth. One could then say, that is an issue of planning, as the rich should not hold greater political sway than the majority.
The first stepping stone is probably drones based on UPS and FedEx trucks helping by making small package deliveries while the driver is dropping off packages in each neighborhood.

This was from a few years ago.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/21/ups-tests-show-delivery-dr...
You can look at extra deaths and miscategorization is not a a giant problem.
Did you find anything with those features already?
I have a very similar scenario and I'm currently exploring what is available.
Yes I have. It was called the 1980's.
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I did it for about 3 months while backpacking around South America in 2007 (before smartphones). I occasionally use the internet via 'internet cafes' to send a few emails and to research destinations. I kept a hand-written journal every day.
He and his team at Civic Ventures have a podcast called Pitchfork Economics which is worth listening to:

https://pitchforkeconomics.com/episodes/
> Also, it's from Switzerland, a country respects your privacy more than the USA

Well gouv.ch might, but Crypto AG was an NSA front for decades so I wouldn't be so certain about the companies.

If I wanted to lure people in on the pretence of security and privacy, Being Swiss would be good bait.
Here in Delhi, the streets were completely empty during the lockdown. But now, it seems like everyone has forgotten it already. Saw people mingling, sniffing, touching the same fruit at the vegetable market yesterday.

Everyone is wearing masks but that's about it.
I don't think you can "drown out" noise with more noise. It just gets louder overall. (With the exception of active noise cancelling of course.)
Brazil is actually an interesting example, considering that the police inside thee favelas has been accused of extrajudicial killings and killing with impunity and form militias to extort locals(even their logo looks like a gang insignia) [1,2,3].

This actually highlights the different experiences between middle class white (or Brazilian) and a black person (or someone living in the favelas).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_police_militias
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalh%C3%A3o_de_Opera%C3%A7%C...
[3] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xweavd/police-are-killing...
Depends of your definition of science, but historical science definitely changed in the 70s. Was it under the inflence of postmodernists or skeptics? Was it by comparison to other scientific fields? Was it because historian now had real formations?
Can this be used to create automatic interactive tutorials for e.g. open source projects?
You can still submit .txt documents
I've been experimenting with Xmodmap on Linux for this reason. I remapped my capslock key to a symbol modifier, and then put all of my symbols in different places based on ergonomics and easy to remember mnemonics. Here's a small sample:

<caps-p> plus sign
<caps-t> tilde
<caps-a> at symbol
<caps-d> delete
<caps-x> exclamation mark
<caps-hjkl> vim movement

After filling out the keyboard with mnemonics I found the few remaining gaps in the layer with two empty keys next to each other and put my brackets braces and parenthesis there. The final move in training yourself to use your new symbols is to remove them from their original keybinding. I recommend trying it out, I've found the process enjoyable.