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I believe Tegnell is brilliant, but that is where my accolades stop.

Scientists (which Tegnell is, effectively) are not meant to be politicians, and them getting into political matters is an excellent way to corrupt science. Although Sweden is not a place where one would look to think of corruption, there are still serious ethical issues with this. This is also a form of experimentation in COVID-19 that is among the riskiest and most dangerous in the world.

Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, the significant differences in death rates in developed countries for COVID-19 were attributed mostly to whether COVID-19 severely penetrated care homes, mostly designed for the elderly. We know that Sweden did not have proper PPE protection in these care homes to protect their most vulnerable, and it still does not. Sure, the death rates worldwide have been going down, at least in developed countries, because, perhaps we have become smarter at treating it, despite having no effective treatment for it.

Still, it is not prudent to expose people needlessly to a virus that we know is deadly--and we know little about. A lot of these deaths could have been prevented, with relatively little pain, although it takes a lot of sacrifice.

One of the countries I am sovereign to, Croatia, (the other being the USA) has not had any COVID-19 cases for 3 days in a row [1]. You know, a former war-torn Yugoslav country that is up and rising and just became part of the EU in 2013. This kind of stuff is not rocket science. Even war-torn, economically suffering countries can be successful at these sorts of endeavors. It just requires brave political leaders (along with a strong emphasis on public health--which a lot of ex-Yugoslav countries actually have) who can deal with crises (which Croatia has legitimately dealt with before).

[1] https://koronavirus.hr/en
Yeah being nice is all well and good but the results more or less speak for themselves. I hope they at least got some echo economic benefit out of it. It surprised me to see a country where politicians don't make this call. More surprising to see that the result turned out like this.
Depends on how much more they have, if their hospital is not overwhelmed, its acceptable.

>Norway, meanwhile, hasn't had a single death in 9 days

But Norway has lockdown ? of course its a trade off
Invented languages are overwhelmingly boring in their likeness to English, Spanish and other Western languages.

What if we tried to create, say, a language with a logographic written system that is pure WYSIWYM (as opposed to “what you see is how you pronounce”) and synthetic to boot?

Make it use vocal cords differently.

Instead of borrowing around, use a random seed in generating a minimum set of unique basic “native” words according to language rules and build on top of that (borrowing for meanings outside of that set).

This could be so much more fun!
Is it just me or is it missing arrows entirely?
Altair – A declarative statistical visualization library for Python
Last time this was mandated for me it was Eclipse. Slow as molasses and gets in the way (way back in 2008 that is).
IDEs should keep up with your typing, not just eventually catch up to it, IN ALL CASES! A slow editor kills performance for me
Vendor lock is real, but would that not be rendered moot of other players could offer a superior user experience? Especially when you consider that Facebook, Google and others have a far larger base of potential users than iMessage. As far as I understand, the only iMessage feature that competitors couldn't emulate due to first-party entitlements is the SMS fallback functionality, which while nice, is definitely a feature that people could live without.

Unfortunately, for whatever reason, every other messaging app I've used just has't lived up to the UX provided by iMessage. Spam is a major issue on all non-iMessage messaging platforms I've used. No messaging app I've used on any platform has performance as fast and fluid as iMessage on iOS. Competing products are often full with ads and useless features that clutter the user interface and degrade performance. And these platforms often have annoying restrictions on media quality. Facebook Messenger, for instance, has garbage quality images and video compression, while iMessage appears to apply no further compression on media files. Using any other messaging app, either on iOS or Android, has consistently been way more of a headache than its worth for me.
Unfortunately it's not a question of one or the other, but of nuclear or both.
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I like the concept of Deno, and especially love the shift away from NPM. NPM was probably the main reason I never fully embraced node.js. I truly hated the bloat of the modules folder, and the impending fragility the dependencies would bring.

I like the idea of a standard library. This will hopefully only improve with time. It sort of brings the ease of use factor of PHP to a server side JavaScript environment.

I'll be watching Deno very closely these next few months!
100% agree that typescript has it quirks and definitely agree about import maps most likely going to be the way you use deno.

However there are tradeoffs with everything you use.

It really comes down to which tradeoffs are the right ones for you, which may not be the same for someone else.
It only takes a tiny number of people to turn a city block into a war zone.
I'm big on read/write segregation and explicit mutation. With simple signals you have this naturally. Once you move to a nested tree you can lose this. Keeping this control allows us to adopt immutability patterns and enforce unidirectional flow. To me this is the most sane way to deal complex reactivity.
Deno's sandbox security is somewhat similar to Mandatory Access Control (MAC) implemented by SELinux and AppArmor. But it looks like not as fine-grained as MAC. In the example:

deno run --allow-net myWebserver.ts

With SELinux, one can specify the port range and network interface that the application is allowed to access. It also provides audit log that can be examined by the admin. Maybe there is no need to reinvent the wheel but just use some form of MAC if you really care about security.
Doesn't the Mac Pro get real close though?

2 built-in USB C ports on the top, the I/O card has 2x USB-C and 2x USB 3, and each GPU has 4x USB-C.

So with dual GPUs that's 14 USB ports. Maybe some are implemented via internal hubs?
Author here.

I think most of the criticism on random data compression is too far sweeping and absurd. For example saying that it's impossible to compress random data because if it were possible you could compress data forever and make any file a single bit... is basically reductio ad absurdum.

I don't see anyone making that claim (and I certainly didn't in my article where I specified a limit of 1k.) People like to bring up the pigeonhole principle as if it's a mathematical proof that there can never be a practical algorithm for compressing random data. But the truth is if there's so many different ways to represent data then we might never run into a situation where it's actually relevant.

The other fault I see in these comments is the knee-jerk reaction over using a PoW-inspired algorithm for set reduction. Why is that? Could it be because blockchain technology is no longer in your favourite hype cycle and you need to signal to all your tech buddies that you're in the know by bandwagoning like everyone else? PoW is far superior to other ways to reduce the sets and has the added bonus that nonces are more compressible.

The point that I got to with this research is having 14 bits left over per set to save offsets after filtering results. I was running some code yesterday and noticed that using 3 x 3 bit fields to save the number of zero bit information in the hashes produced low offsets. I think that this could be compressed with the same simple quotient idea I already wrote about to fit in the 14 bits so that you could quickly filter and recover the sets and dereference the original data.

This would reduce 1024 bytes to around 1015~ which would be more than enough to solve the 20+ year compression challenge and refute claims that random data can't be compressed. Of course, the cluster that I built to run my code is too slow and I'm getting tired of waiting. So I will need a break from this. In the mean time you can stick to the insults and other predictions in the comments. As we all know from experience: hacker news is a positive and constructive community that is excellent at predicting the future.
I don't think there's any information on how long level 1 would last. I am just wondering what the strategy on borders would be if you are going for elimination.

Surely once you have opened the borders it is only a matter of time for a new case to be imported (if you look at NSW right now, we've had a week of no local transmission but near-daily new cases for returned travellers, who are luckily in forced quarantine).

You could force-quarantine everyone for 14 days but I would not call that an 'open' border and it wouldn't do much to help the tourism industry.
Few people might be walking on foot to Sweden (though in Tornio/Haparanda, some do walk over the border), but Sweden has land borders with two countries and a bridge to a third. Traffic has continued to move over those border crossings during the time of the pandemic. In fact, there has been a steady flow of traffic over most European border crossings along major motorways, though that traffic has consisted of only drivers and passengers who could show they are moving around for work purposes etc.

The only common way into New Zealand is a flight or an occasional ship. NZ has no immediately neighboring countries that it runs freight trucks to and from day in and day out, and it doesn't need to move large numbers of agricultural workers around internationally. Therefore, for New Zealand traffic is obviously going to be smaller and easier to control than European countries.
Yes people could organize their own protective forces. The shopkeepers could even pool their money and require that you pay in to be protected. We could call this a police force.....
This was exactly what they did in the novel Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy.
Clean URL without the utm campaign garbage:

https://outsideplatoscave.substack.com/p/outside-platos-cave...
The violence in Seattle on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday was started by police. There's numerous videos, both from the ground, and from the air, that quite clearly demonstrate this.

On Tuesday night, the violence was started by a water bottle thrown into the police line. In response, the police gassed four city blocks, including residential apartments. People in those apartments were trapped between gas pouring into their rooms from the streets, the police, and the curfew. There's a baby in intensive care, because

If you want to reduce violence, don't issue a curfew. Disarm the police, instead. They've started violence on three out of the four days. Or, alternatively, protect the protesters from it. [1]

It should be noted that Seattle's protesters have done a remarkable job of preventing instigation and vandalism, but they can't do that, when they are running from flashbangs and gas.

[1] The national guard is there, unarmed, standing behind the police line. It has behaved with dignity, restraint, and respect - but it should be deployed on the protest side of the police line. The police is completely out of control.
Do these have googleable model numbers, if I wanted to see pictures of them ("oh that's what my packets go through")?
If that were the end of it, I'd agree. Except for the massive amounts of NIMBYism strangling the market by preventing new supply from entering the market to meet the demand.
> Plenty of great people around

No offense but bullshit.

In my experience most people serve their own interests. Commercial enterprises in fact select for those who serve their own interests over morality because those parties are most likely to succeed.

In America you are lucky if your interests coincide sufficiently with the owner class that you can both get along productively. Expecting beneficence as well is unproductive.
I don't get it. I don't see how this mission would work. The f-117 was/is slow. Getting one within sidewinder range of a russian mainstay would not have been easy. Mainstays loiter well behind enemy lines. With the F-117's range (1000miles) just getting in and out would not have been easy. And mainstays are moving targets.
Much as I applaud the effort and ideal to make something open, I guess you acknowledge that it's crazy to think Apple will ever cooperate.

iMessage, plus pressure on your friends to not break the text thread with green non-Apple bubbles, Facetime, tie-ins to the Apple hardware, Find my Friends, etc. are among the most important loyalty factors and moats against people leaving the Apple ecosystem.

Especially with people getting (as you admit) less satisfied with the hardware, they would be fools to open this up and let people leave.
That's BS, damage due to wind when nobody was occupying the vehicle is clearly an act of god and in no way was due to your control of the vehicle.
Cable TV is required. The KKK ran a show on a NYC public access channel back in the 90’s.

Of course I could go cut the data lines running through the right-of-way on my property. I don’t agree with how these big data companies are censoring, so maybe I will censor them.
Yeah, but police units and private security firms are a form of "gang", just with different pay masters and accountability.
Lies greater lies and statistics... Belgium counts people who die in nursing homes as covid 19 deaths. They say Belgiums figure would be twice as small if they counted the way others did. Removing that anomaly the only countries higher are Spain, Italy and UK. The first two were hit very hard very early and the last had similar issues as Sweden, reacting very late.
> iMessage motivates people to people buy iPhones instead of Android

Why, though? Does your average iPhone user actually care if the bubbles they see in their chats are blue or green? If so, why?

Note that I'm talking about average users. Sure, there are likely a bunch of privacy-conscious users who believe in Apple's commitment to security and privacy and prefer iMessage on those grounds. But otherwise, why?

> It would in fact disappoint many people as now they can't use their phone to distance themselves from the people who don't have that blue circle.

If that's truly the case, I don't think I'd want to be friends with people who place importance on such superficial, trivial things.

Full disclosure: I've been an Android user for 10 years and the closest I ever got to owning an iPhone was an iPod Touch I stopped using in 2012 or so. SMS is fine for my needs most of the time, though MMS for group texting is ridiculously unreliable so I try to funnel people to Signal or WhatsApp for those use-cases.

I guess I just don't see a closed iMessage as that huge of a competitive advantage for Apple. But presumably they know better as to what drives sales.
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Google and Facebook may have a larger user base but it is not the in the same realm, e.g. I use iMessage to talk to my family, my close friends, parents from my daughter's preschool, co-workers, people I've only interacted with professionally - vendors etc - all it takes to connect is a phone number which is universal, and like you say it falls back to SMS. Compare that to Facebook where you have to add someone as a friend - which I don't do often because it just feels odd, or Google where messaging ecosystem is a bit fragmented with Allo, Duo, Hangout, Hangout Chat etc. Signal and WhatsApp are actually viable options but compared to iMessage feel heavy and not native, however I do use them both.

And like you mentioned - spam - I have yet to receive an iMessage spam message. That is pretty amazing.
Society has a role in meeting needs. If society burns whenever there are unmet needs, it will never get its act together to meet them.
Yes, everyone knows this but you're not supposed to mention it. If you have green bubbles, you risk being a social pariah. Android use among teenagers, who are most susceptible to peer pressure, is >80%. Also I know several guys who switched to iPhones and suddenly had a much better sex life. It is what it is. Think of Apple buy-in like a tribal tattoo or rite of passage for young people.

If Apple released iMessage for Android or made it compatible with another protocol like RCS/WhatsApp/Signal/etc., then Apple would lose half of its market cap. I'm not exaggerating.
Extremely well said point. I think a lot of people in our profession have come from more privileged backgrounds. This causes them to not really encounter the kinds of people that you are talking about at least not in a way that they know the people are psychopathic. I realize now that I was probably quite damaged by having a childhood like I did. I suspect that I have a warped view of the world in many ways but one thing I do know is the capacity for evil in some people that will come out as soon as they get the opportunity and a little bit of power.
It is useless to have a conversation with those who will not listen. Doubly so if they want to use you to prove that their view is the only reasonable one, held by all right-thinking people.

When someone is putting you on the spot, you have two options: Say very little, or shut them down. If you try to say very little, they may keep pushing, and force you to either (pretend to) agree, or to oppose them.

If it's not someone who has power over you (like a boss, say), I'd be inclined to tell them to take their limited, black-and-white, extremist view and get lost.
Social media sites should also feel free to apply the same content standards (no calls for violence or fake news) to all users regardless of their political status. Politicians aren’t entitled to use Facebook or twitter. They can start their own social media site where racism and false statements are allowed
A number of them are. Especially when you get out of first world countries. The problem is that folks who deploy them really hate scaling them up. They believed in IPv6 and the transition isn't going fast enough (sup hosters and cloud providers - stop treating IPv6 as a "customers aren't asking for it" problem and realize this is infrastructure you have to do on their behalf). So now they are stuck paying for v6 CGNAT upgrades or in some cases: running them congested.
... which appears to be explicitly incorrect.
They're only announcing a single /24 currently: https://ipinfo.io/AS14593
I’m at FB (throwaway account for good measure).

It’s impossible to tell, especially working remotely. It’s not like you can ask these kinds of questions over Workplace chat unless you’re close with other team members.

But the perspective that there are people who agree with Zuck’s decision and aren’t speaking up is valid. I’m one of them despite generally agreeing with BLM _and_ being a person of color.

You have people changing their profile pics to BLM icons which makes it ever so apparent that a non-negligible percent (20%-30% maybe) of co-workers in each group chat support the cause.

During Q&As, 95% of the comments are from BLM supporters making quite blunt remarks about Zuck’s decision making.

Director+ levels are also vocally against Zuck’s decision (although they accept that they can’t change his mind). I’m not willing to torpedo my career progression here, and imagine others feel the same.

So yeah, I’ll be keeping my mouth shut and silently nodding along with the rest while Zuck gets rocks thrown at him.
Wow! Thank you so much!
No API for airmessage?
Oh the greeks! Great application of the quote.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_vacui_(physics)
Makes a ton of sense. I’ve experienced and dealt with a lot of customer confusion with Facebook, Google etc sign in where they lose access to that account & then it’s just a cascading failure of whack a mole trying to have them get their account setup etc.

I can imagine how awful it feels to be at the stadium gates (I’ve ran into this on TicketMaster’s lovely app where it can’t pull up the ticket) and you can’t figure out the login while you/your kid/friends wait on you awkwardly. Customer support has to love this decision.
This. It would quickly devolve into a power struggle of who could amass the most strength. You only have to sample the mob era to see what would happen, where shop owners for example were paying for protection. In the absense of any form of control there will always be people that will take advantage and sway others to their cause.
> RIP every other engine, I guess?

In practice, pretty much :(
I just avoid it because I don't want to have to find a new app when Google shuts Firebase down.
FT goes up to 32 participants now I think. Well before that you're into 1-many kind of mode vs a 1-few, they're very different experiences and different use cases.
Because tying your company to one product is an economic disaster. It's very clear that drop in iPhone sales causes a very direct impact on Apple and the reason why they started moving towards SaaS model. But their SaaS isn't big enough yet. If today China retaliates with ban on Apple, the company is pretty much dead because no other country is capable of manufacturing at the scale Apple needs it to.
You’re missing several important details:

1. Insurance only pays some fraction of what can be very high bills, and providers notoriously send bill-like invoices trying to get you to pay for things which were paid in full by your insurance company. Many people will be pressured to pay things and uncomfortable standing up to a huge provider’s legal department.

2. Many employers have favored plans which increase deductibles, and the people with the worst plans are also paid the least and so will struggle to have enough cash in reserve for those larger payments.

3. Hospitals commonly have unrelated specialists show up for a couple minutes to add billable consultation hours. If one of those doctors isn’t covered by your plan, you get the bill even if the hospital itself is in network or you were, say, unconscious at the time or unaware that you could turn down their “help”.

4. Insurance is tied to employment: if you have a medical emergency which affects your ability to work, guess what happens to your coverage?
> What if we tried to create, say, a language with a logographic written system that is pure WYSIWYM (as opposed to “what you see is how you pronounce”) and synthetic to boot?

So Hangul?