skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neoconservatives genuinely wanted regime change in the middle east, and I think GWB was a genuine neoconservative. Certainly most of the people who voted for GWB and who expressed support for the wars in polls were true believers, in the sense that they weren't doing so in order to enrich chief executives of military contractors. At some point the electorate takes responsibility for the course of the nation, no?
woah, i just looked up excess deaths in my city vs covid19 diagnosed deaths and it is freaking me out even more.
Not even linked in the blogpost or pdf. No traces on Google. Seems unfortunate.

Edit: Removed slander.
Here everybody rides bikes, and E-bikes have - if that was still possible - driven adoption higher still. The number of people that cycle to and from work/school is very large, parents, office workers and children here cycle up to 30 km round trip daily to just get to where they're going. High school age kids from Monnickendam/Marken/Edam go to school in Amsterdam-Noord and quite a few of them make the trip by bike.

Requiring high school age kids to get a license for a bicycle would make absolutely no sense because there is nothing that such a license would give them that they didn't already have. Traffic lessons start pretty early at school here and by the time kids are 10-12 depending on how good they are at this they go to school on their bikes by themselves.

What really helps is that bike traffic here gets prioritized in many places over vehicles, that hitting a cyclist with a car is going to get you into a lot of trouble and that most vehicle drivers are also cyclists. Those things more than anything else helps to keep cyclists safe.
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> How’s this possible?

Software is insecure.

> Anyway this can be prevented?

Stop using insecure software.
A blue spark to shine on the origin of the universe
ACE arbitrary code execution

RCE remote code execution

ROP return-oriented programming, which I understand to be using code already on the target and manipulating code flow in order to piece together the boots of programme to execute a routine of the attackers choosing (like cutting letters out of a newspaper to make a ransom note!), https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return-oriented_programming
I don't think anybody is confused that Deluge and PicoTorrent are both Torrent clients.

(and I also think PicoTorrent will get more downloads because it's easier to Google for)
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People have suggested extensions here, which is fine, but Firefox also supports this natively via custom css files that it can load for you on startup. They can be used for both styling Firefox itself and for modifying websites' styling.

https://superuser.com/a/319322/1173126
(be sure to read the comments of that answer too, these days you need to switch a flag in Ff settings to enable this feature)
Often they're just security guards to escort people at night or break up loud parties in the dorms. They call real cops for crime things.
Tracking (especially first party) is not some shadowy value extraction scheme. You need at least some data to improve your service and understand what brings traffic to your page.
The Open Goldberg Variations were recorded on a piano that has a self-playing function. When nearby construction interrupted the recording process with outside noise, we had the piano repeat the takes so that we would still have them, and here's a video of that happening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHipuHxYfjU
I'll arrange something
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/15/new-york-cit...

> The soaring death toll has been fueled by the adding of 3,778 people who were not tested for Covid-19 but are presumed to have died from it.

Singapore’s organised approach is clearly going to produce much more reliable statistics than NYs presumption based approach.
I vaguely remember this existing from the early 2000s.

That said, I recently decided to look into the fax machine protocol because there's a surprisingly large amount of legacy use in Japan and it seems like there's a good market to replace it with an app. You wouldn't even need to use VoIP because the hardware literally has a phone connection. In my research I found an early stack overflow thread from the 2010s where I learned that the thing protecting the fax industry is a ton of obtuse standards that require payment to access. What little documentation I did find came from an obscure public information server on the ITU website. Apparently there are 3 generations of protocol. The first generation worked like scan lines in a television except the carrier frequency was audible and it was very slow scan (a few min per frame/page). The later revisions were digital in nature and from what I understood they compress the scan into continuous regions of white and dark. The exact compression scheme was very obtuse so that's where I gave up. I also could not figure out the handshake part of the protocol which happens when the call first connects. Good luck to anyone who wants to pick up where I left off.
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Hospitals routinely pretend that a procedure is 10x more than e.g. they accept from (certain) insurance companies for the same work. Then, when they don't get it, they report the difference as a loss against profits.
they needed to embrace dorkiness!
Fun (or sad) fact: they apparently lost a lot of the source code and assets. Looks like they were able to recover most of the code, but not the assets [1]

[1] https://www.gamespot.com/articles/how-diablo-2-was-almost-lo...
The black lives matter protest -- which are primarily a reaction to police violence and racial profiling -- have been a on the news here every day for weeks.

I also know of the Rodney King Riots, just to name another similar incident off the top of my head.

I live in Australia. Name one incident with our police that made the national news in the US, off the top of your head. (Using Google is cheating!)

When I turn on the evening news here, I see US police violence against our journalists: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-02/channel-7-journalists...

I see our citizens being outright murdered by police, despite being white and blonde: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Justine_Damond

The last local police killing that I'm aware of was this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindt_Cafe_siege

There was also some incident in the last year or so that looked like suicide by police. I felt bad for the officer involved, and apparently they had to get counselling because they were so distraught afterwards.

Meanwhile we're hearing about US police forces killing people roughly weekly during the protests against excessive police violence.

It's flabbergasting that you think these facts are hate speech. This criticism is warranted. Certainly, many hundreds of thousands of your countrymen agree, loudly.
This is a super cool project, but downloading the tracks require giving an email address and subscribing to a newsletter. Fortunately, as the work is public domain, we can all re-host it as we want. :) In case that's helpful, here's a direct download link to the FLAC version (1.3 GB) downloaded from Bandcamp: http://dl.free.fr/lZnLnrdJ9

(The link is re-hosted on a free service by a French ISP. The link will expire after 30 days without any download.)
Two things in combination help me fairly well in that regard.

1. Keep It Super Simple (KISS).

Implement the solution which works the easiest first. Copy-pasting code is ok at this point. So if an "if" will do it, use an "if". (Don't start with a BaseClass with an empty default method and a specialized class which overrides it).

Once you have something working (hopefully with some automated tests?) you are allowed to refactor and abstract. But see next point.

2. The Power of Three!

You are only allowed to abstract code once you have copy-pasted it in at least three places. If you only have two, you must resist the urge and move on. Maybe add a comment saying "this is very similar to this other part, consider abstracting if a new case appears".

After abstracting stuff, run tests again (even if they are manual) to make sure you have not broken anything.

Be warned that this method is not guaranteed to produce the "best possible code for future you". If you keep doing this long enough, you might get stuck at "local maxima" in design. Future you might need to do big refactors. Or not. That is the nature of programming IMHO.
Same thing for enterprise solutions. How does Redshift stack up against Snowflake? What about choosing a dashboard tool within the various ones that exist today? Etc.
The study also completely ignores suicide attempts and counts only completed suicides. Of course an attempt is more likely to be "successful" with a firearm than most other means.
ScummVM contains almost 80 game engines (and a lot of sub-engines) supporting hundreds of games. Most of them are made by straight reverse engineering of the original executables.

In the early days we did have a lengthy back-and-forth with a tenacious lawyer from LucasLegal but they backed off when we convinced them that we didn't support piracy.

It is not uncommon for rereleases of older games to use the ScummVM engine instead of the original engine, see for instance the recent rerelease of Westwood's Blade Runner on GOG.com, which wouldn't have happened without ScummVM.
On top of the hat: Safe, fast compile times, takes care of memory management for you, powerful stdlib, fast and lean execution, straightforward readable code, portability, static compilation, swiss army knife tooling.

Potential downsides: Golang/libs maybe a bit immature for non-system/microservices projects.
What problems does serverless solve?
I've seen this software since it's advent in Windows vista, but I could never ever do anything useful with it. It could not even take a simple TWAIN scan. And if it did, it was impossible to export the image in a suitable format. Something which virtually every image editor on Windows with TWAIN functionality (even Paint, IIRC) could do easily.
There has been very good progress on filling in the gaps to officially get Rust's AArch64 Linux toolchain triple to Tier-1 this year. We have CI for the Rust compiler test suites on native AArch64 silicon in a joint collaboration between Arm and the Rust lang core team and are converging on zero compiler test failures. Overall, we are pretty close to attaining Tier-1!
Amazing music. Been listening to it on repeat for a while now... After you posted the link I went and googled her, found her own compositions and I absolutely love them.

If you have time: please research Friedrich Gulda and if Kimiko isn't aware of him yet please introduce her to his music, he went through a similar path, originally classically trained eventually went for his own style. Here is a sample:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua11GSiTPXg

Lots of jazz from him as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrphQPtjWJw

Maybe she will like it (or maybe you will :) ). Thank you again!
Software Entropy
Why that? To ease political persecution maybe? The system is good as is.
Someone is hotlinking there and sometimes it gets overwhelmed
If you don't like hero's journey, you're probably going to struggle to like fantasy; on the other hand, both of Tolkein's most popular works embed the moral journey in a very literal, physical journey and do just fine.

UKLG's Earthsea is the series that I hear most often loved by other authors, although I'm not familiar with it myself.

Then there is Pratchett, who set out to do simple parody of high fantasy and ended up creating a deeply humanist character-driven universe.
They have tried in the past [0]

It's also worth bearing in mind the rather low number of terrorist attacks that involve planes.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindawi_affair
The slate structure and even size is significantly different.
Yep, I mean there were a lot of good things about the U.S. and I'd like to go back someday but stories like this would give me pause even if COVID-19 wasn't running rampant and social unrest amplifying.

Also Firefly, though.
> Has it ever gone through a simplification cycle in the past?

Not as a whole, but there have been some significant attempts. Maybe the most radical one I can think of is Chuck Moore's Forth systems. Every new version is simpler than the previous one. Arthur Whitney has done something similar with APL, A+ and k, constantly trying to remove non-essential features. A more mainstream example is Unix and Plan 9, the 7th version of Unix was simpler than previous ones, and Plan 9 was much simpler than Unix. There are also initiatives like suckless, which try to write simpler software.

I am sure there are many more similar examples. Trying to remove bloat and complexity is a very important goal for many developers. Unfortunately, the real world usually gets in the way (colorForth has quite limited hardware support, Plan 9 never included a full-featured web browser, suckless software is not too friendly for novice users...).
These type of studies focus on a couple of data points, ignore all others and then come up with conclusions such as these. It's impossible that the infection rate was this much less lethal as if that was the case Lombardy could not sustain the numbers it had, it would have been over 100% infected months ago.

In the article they mention that New York had 9% infection rate at the end of March. With the doubling rate they specified (3 days), New York would be fully infected by April 10th.
Wow, that's one very nice tool. Here is my variation on that theme, output only: https://jacquesmattheij.com/midi-fied-baby-grand-piano/ The input side is 'work in progress'. Not quite a Bosendorfer, but then again that would be totally wasted on me anyway.

Do you allow those midi files to be downloaded as well? That would be a priceless resource.
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> Strangely, when I shave I get through fine.

You forgot about wearing glasses. For some reason Airport security sees no danger in people wearing glasses. Shaving, wearing bland clothes and glasses (fake, because my vision is fine) are part of my travel strategy. And i am not joking.
I responded to your claim _"It significantly slows down a webpage rendering"_, and provided 3rd-party evaluation to the contrary when actual real world web pages are used.

You counter with a just-trust-me claim that AdGuard not-the-extension is fastest, no objective evaluation provided -- despite AdGuard the-extension not faring the best among the bunch in actual real-world, independent evaluations.
I agree that a trial by jury isn’t always required. But when punishing individuals, there should always be due process. In any case, any action taken should be evidence based and properly investigated.
Use Drain3 (OSS log-template mining) to monitor for network outages
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Lately there has been a slurry of new (and pretty good) note taking applications like Notion, Roam, Obsidian, Slite etc. I have found Roam and Obsidian great for maintaining a graph of connected notes easily.

But they don't scale very well for a team - specifically a Software Product Team.

The use case is a bit different for software. You need to map everything to a feature - or a feature set. And soon you need to prioritise a collection of features - a super critical decision.

How do you manage it? How would you improve it?
At no point did he mention cancel culture or 'the norm'. In fact, his argument entirely revolved around his relationship with his patients and that has little bearing on what he believes about the IQ of black people, since, as he says, his patients run the full gamut of the political spectrum (so any opinion would be controversial to some of them). It's more about the fact that psychiatrists are apparently supposed to act as blank slates to their patients and his blog contains a lot of deeply personal stuff. Even without the politics stuff it'd be a problem.
> Facebook posts not showing up on the search engines

I'm conflicted about this one. Personally, I wish that Pinterest content would not show up in search engine results; I've yet to see one that was useful in any way to me. I could imagine that FB results would be similarly clogging up search results with little value.
There's also not enough discussion about what happens after recovery.

I was pretty ill in March (and, to a lesser extent, in April), which necessitated some time off work. Testing availability in my country was useless at the time, so I have no formal confirmation as to what it actually was. The govt also intervened, preventing my order of a private sector antibody test being fulfilled, so who knows.

The experience after recovery for me, though, was anything but straightforward and I really struggled with lasting fatigue, breathlessness and just general exhaustion. I was only able to work half-days for a decent chunk of time. I still don't feel 100% now. My GP thinks it was likely Covid-19 and offered a diagnosis of post-viral fatigue after some tests.

I'm 23. Statistically, this should have barely affected folks in my age group.

It's not an isolated case: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-she...
This is obvious; just wondering what exactly they used.
> And that all ignores one of the major issues which Yann entirely skips, but which Timnit covers in some of her work: training on data, even "representative data" encodes the biases that are present in the world today.

Isn't that just too obvious to have to be stated? Any model will learn from the data it's presented, and if we have biased data the model will be biased, just like Yann says in the tweet you link;

"People are biased. Data is biased, in part because people are biased. Algorithms trained on biased data are biased."

If he talked about 'representative data' somewhere as a solution to all problems, then please link to that.
In an ideal world D2 would have been open source from the start.
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They're capable of movement, I wouldn't say they have knowledge of it though. It can take them a while to even figure out suckling, and deliberate directed movements can take a month or two. Until then they're pretty much flailing randomly and gathering training data.
Do you realize how many of those people would have perished this year anyway? Do you realize how many hundreds of millions of people die every year and that covid barely registers as a blip? Do you realize the enormous human cost of quarantine has to be weighed against this?
Thanks for the list. In my case, when I started doing ML/DL projects, I was looking for many many tools that could help me organize/train/deploy my model. I remembered looking at Kedro for days which looks great, or MetaFlow from Netflix.

But at the end, I did my own project's structure with a enough Docker monolith that includes MLFlow as well. This is the only tool I use (with sklearn) for something else that training and serving my model.

I think it's nice to do all of these by yourself at first and later use some of the tools listed there to enhance our workflow. It was really hard for me to get started with Kedro when your project is not as simple as MNIST or CIFAR.
It doesn't sound like they are doing much separation though maybe they should for a secondary income stream. I wonder how the scale of this compares to traditional cryogenic ASUs.
I mostly agree, but there is nuance to these types of things. For example, is everyone who worked in Nazi Germany a criminal?
I've been around a fair bit including a few trips across borders at which you'd expect a bit of a grilling, such as the Eastern Bloc before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Israel; but nothing prepared me for the absolute aggressive rudeness of US immigration.
I was about to write the same thing. The perfect puzzle for a programmer.
Maybe it's just me but I couldn't tell the difference between the comparison images in the article without zooming in a bunch.
Sounds more like "if you get caught using this then you'll need to use a third-party to purchase it and we're going to charge you extra", but perhaps that's too cynical.
This. JPEG has way too many artefacts on naturally smooth areas (like sky) to be ever considered a pinnacle of lossy image compression. WebP or not, but some adaptive technique must be the future, if there is any space for lossy compression in the future at all.
> What I'm curious is about is the percentage of people (younger or otherwise) who either develop no symptoms or develop symptoms so mild as to not be attributed to the virus. Do such people exist?

Yes, absolutely. Many countries such as England do community infection studies. Essentially they pick a random sample of people and test them every week to see many people have the disease, even if they don't know it.

In the England study, they report that ~70% of positive tests involve people who didn't report any symptoms ever. That implies there are lots of people who had it who didn't know they had it.

> Out of those people that tested positive for COVID-19 over the study period, only 23% (95% confidence interval: 15% to 32%) reported experiencing one or more of the various symptoms at the time of their test. Out of those who reported testing positive, 33% (95% confidence interval: 23% to 44%) reported experiencing symptoms at any point in the period around testing positive. This was at the time of the visit, or at either the preceding or following visits.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

Of course, the question is do these people get counted later in other ways - i.e. what percentage of them would show up in antibody surveys? That is currently a difficult question to answer with a high level of certainty for several reasons. Right now, we don't know for sure what level of infection causes you to develop detectable immunoglobulins, we don't know how long those stick around, and we don't know how much our immune system leans on T cells instead to fight COVID which don't show up in the existing antibody tests at all and are much more difficult to test for.

And it's also worth pointing out that it's not clear that asymptomatic infections are as infectious as symptomatic infections. So don't assume they are equal. A recent study showed that asymptomatic people could shed the virus for 3 weeks, but it's really hard to know if that's active virus that could infect someone or not. There's a lot more research to be done.

See https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/06/22/th...
Personally this is not my experience. Plenty of seniors spitballing not useful solutions, premature optimization of sort etc...

The mid-career is perfectly fine, give you are also good at refactoring if needed.

Also, another thing that I'm not seeing stressed enough on this topic is: measure.
For now. They will have second/third waves. We’re not going to cure this before we reach herd immunity. New Zealand just delayed the inevitable (which is what flattening the curve is all about: delay infections enough so that we can reasonably treat)
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I'm tired just thinking about this.
We have pretty good ideas of what normal death rates are like, and we see huge numbers of excess mortality.

> that covid barely registers as a blip?

What figures are you looking at for all cause mortality please?