skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's not forget Germany:

"A report on the coronavirus by the German Ministry of the Interior was leaked on May 9th 2020 by officer Stephan Kohn to the magazine Tichys Einblick, one of the most popular alternative media in Germany. The report, on which a dozen or so doctors and professors from various universities in Germany have worked, states that “the state has failed in the coronavirus crisis in an almost grotesque way.” In a press release, the scientists concerned stated that “the observable effects and consequences of COVID-19 do not provide sufficient evidence that it is more than a false alarm in terms of health effects on society as a whole. The new virus has probably never posed a risk to the population in excess of normal levels […]. The people dying from corona are mainly those who are statistically dying this year because they have reached the end of their lives and their weakened bodies are no longer able to withstand random daily exposure (including to the approximately 150 viruses currently in circulation). The danger of COVID-19 has been overestimated. (No more than 250,000 deaths from COVID-19 worldwide within a quarter of a year, compared to 1.5 million deaths during the flu wave in 2017/18). Of course, the risk is no greater than that of many other viruses. In all likelihood, we are dealing with a global false alarm that has gone unnoticed for a long time.”

They also didn’t have anything positive to say about the ‘protective’ measures of the German criminal government. “The collateral damage [because of the measures] is now enormous and far greater than any observable benefit. […] Just a comparison of previous deaths due to the virus with deaths due to the protective measures prescribed by the State […] supports this finding. Much of this damage will continue to manifest itself even in the near and distant future. This can no longer be prevented but can only be minimized. […] The shortcomings and failures in crisis management have consequently led to the dissemination of unsubstantiated information, and thus disinformation, to the public. […] The State turned out to be one of the biggest fake-news producers in the coronacrisis.”"

https://www.achgut.com/artikel/das_corona_papier_wissenschaf...

https://www.ichbinanderermeinung.de/Dokument93.pdf
I don't know what the cost/benefit ratio is with WHO but as a non-expert, I found the WHO's leadership during this unprecedented times as weak, un-authoritative and frankly misguided/misinformed. Without stirring up conspiracy theories, everyone should watch this WHO official who just hangs up when they're asked about Taiwan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlCYFh8U2xM

That makes me think that the whole organization has been bought out and sold off. But, that's just my knee-jerk reaction and a gut feeling.

That said, what's there to pay to be a member? Why not just stay in there like everyone else?
> A person's right to even exist in society shouldn't be up for debate.

But she isn't saying anything like that. No where has she ever said that trans people don't have a right to exist.

> Because of who she is, and her massive audience, this does real damage.

But this is the only reason she is able to speak at all. Another author got fired just for tweeting that she supported JKR. If JKR wasn't so famous, she would have been fired and cancelled long ago.

> against a group of people who are extremely oppressed, and using outdated / debunked info to do so

I have no expertise on the information JKR and her opponents are tweeting, but I agree she might be incorrect in several. But is it so wrong for her as a woman to say that she doesn't feel comfortable if any man who self identifies as a woman is allowed access to women spaces, because this is what a lot of her opponents reply with. Please note that women also have been oppressed for not centuries, but millennium.
The cost to the environment should be borne upfront, with the benefit from recycling refunded at delivery (like bottle taxes)

A good start would be a carbon tax, but crucially it would have to apply to imports too
If I can, I never use the classical singleton pattern because of testability. On the other hand I use one single instance of a class if I can make use of a dependency injection framework. I prefer that over static classes which have the bad habit of getting in the way of testing.
>it’s become clear that the virus doesn’t have much affect on younger populations

That was something expected before the lockdowns. The lockdowns were sold as a way to buy hospitals time, by flattening and slowing down the spread.

How can you even compare Swedens rate until the whole thing is over, everywhere? A flattened curve will take longer. Sweden purposely chose the frontloaded, higher initial rate.
> The logic of why people may feel offended by master/slave or white/blacklist is trivially obvious. One can have doubts about the intensity of it, but not the basic mechanism.

My companies black systems architect just finished a whitelist feature and delivered it this morning. Should I, as a dutiful white frontend dev, inform him:

a) that this was in fact a racist decision and he may be a racist or rationally motivated.

b) that he's been oppressed by the whiteman for so long that he doesn't even know how racist this is, thus awakening his mind to the countless micro-aggressions around him

c) do nothing, because this is stupid virtue signaling by marketing teams fueled by white guilt ridding the wave of a woke-movement that, at worse, will get them a neutral "whatever" response or some scoffs, and at best, a pat on the shoulder from the woke twitter-verse?

Please let me know of your selection by reply and I will carry out the appropriate action and report back.
This part is enough to mark the test as exploratory and not usable for a guide on the real world:

> The experiment was conducted on “live” projects that the teams were developing at that moment.

There are plenty of experiments on those conditions. If they had consistent results, we could trust those, but they are all over the place, what means that confounding factors are more relevant than the thing being studied.
Does that mean they would cover all parts/labor expenses to replace a broken steering wheel heater?
On Father's Day
Commercial games benefit way less than other code from being open source, since they are very short-lived projects once released.

Further, games would be very easy to copy for users, to develop cheats for multiplayer, to duplicate by competitors, etc.
My own observeration from Stockholm is: beaches crowded during heatwave, public transit is crowded as usual. Lots of movement of people, travel within Sweden etc. Practically nobody is wearing a mask. People are still generally careful, washing hands, keeping the distance in lines etc, but I don't think this can explain the cases going down. In March-April, I think people were the most careful, when hundreds were dying every day. Since then people have gradually become more relaxed, but the numbers keep going down.

Of course, it could be that these rather small measures have pushed r0 a bit under 1 ever since March. But there have also been reports that for each person tested with antibodies, two more are actually immune, which would put the immunity at maybe 30% two weeks ago. At least it's in the right ball-park, as some have proposed that herd immunity could be reached at much lower percentages than previously thought.
This is an important piece of digital communication history, and a fun read! README has a great background section. Most of this stuff is still important today, RTP is the backbone of interview video and is from the 90s.

If you want to learn more Ron Frederick also did a fantastic interview about this https://town.hall.org/radio/Geek/060394_geek_ITR.html
You might be mixing up access to GMail APIs with general access to Google APIs? Reading people's emails comes with tons of red tape, other things not so much.
Author here, I also made a small post on the three.js discourse with a little more background: https://discourse.threejs.org/t/map33-js-v0-1-a-library-to-b...

By the way you can add missing tiles by double clicking on the grid. Auto-loading everything as you move can be hard on some computers / phones.
Well all other countries in the EU closed their borders to them, so it’s effectively the same thing.
Can anything really be done by a single-threaded, GIL-laden, dynamic language trying to compete with a modern, natively parallel, JIT-ed language like Julia? That's a bit apples to oranges, no? Once other languages like Go, Swift, Kotlin, Rust and Julia catch-up with Python's range of data science libraries I'd say Python's days are numbered. Python is the Betmax of programming languages and FP is where the shallowness of its design really shows.
comma.ai have also released a blogpost of their research team [0]

https://medium.com/@comma_ai/towards-a-superhuman-driving-ag...
Painting a house that is getting rotten is easier than doing a proper renovation.

These are feel good measure, done to tap themselves on their backs and make it seem like work has been done. But no one is fooled.
If someone is feeling sick, are they encouraged to go out, but with a mask, elsewhere?
If you can help a business stay afloat, then people get to keep their jobs long term. Many businesses are on a threshold, especially a place like a restaurant. They might be still doing take out, people are still working, but business isn't as good as it was previously.

If you do nothing and let tons of businesses close, then there's a huge chunk of the machinery of the economy missing once you start loosening the health regulations.
Handy! Now, can it author the help text as well? ;)
Sweden and Michigan have about an equal number of cases (~74k) but Sweden has a better survival rate so far.

Is it possible Sweden just has a healthier population than Michigan? Life expectancy in Sweden is about 4 years higher than Michigan. This also means their population skews older, but means people are healthier on average.
"Viber sees opportunity for free publicity."
IQ tests aren’t biological the way height is, thus my confusion. Additionally, we can’t know that tech/VC have significantly higher IQs. My inquiry is genuinely asking if this persons rhetoric had any merit whatsoever since on its face it looks dumb
you mean has been greatly exaggerated ?
Indeed. The brand-new fancy Blue & White Power Mac G3's from early 1999 were the first Macs that shipped with a DVD drive, and they could play video DVD's but they had an obvious (and strange) additional decoder mezzanine card on the already unusual Rage128 PCI video card.

By the end of that year the G4 Power Macs were just barely fast enough to play DVD's with software decoding and assistance from the PCI or later AGP video card. And after a while (perhaps ~ 2002?), even the Blue G3's could do it in software even if you got a different video card, as long as you also upgraded to a G4 CPU (they were all in ZIF sockets).

It was very taxing on computers at y2k!

Later autumn 2000 G3 iMacs could also play DVD's but I think they needed special help from a video co-processor.
There are also other non-EU countries that are following this directive, Canada and Wales, it's a nice global movement.
Show HN: PerfBeacon – Measure Site Speed via API or Schedule
> 10mm^2 so kinda 3.3mm x 3.3mm

3.16mm x 3.16mm?
Short, well-written, and interesting.

One question that popped in my mind as I was reading this was, how about alpha, correlation, and volatility in financial markets? Has the behavior of markets changed over time as alpha, correlation, and volatility have become dominant metrics to be chased?
I like the idea of combining the header with the help documentation to reduce the number of areas to maintain in smaller scripts. For larger scripts though, I think I'd still prefer to have a separate function, so that the help documentation doesn't overwhelm the initial viewing of the actual code.

I also like to feed a heredoc directly into man, which allows you to achieve nicer formatting for the help documentation. Something like this...

man -l - << EOF
.\" Manpage for encpass.sh.
.\" Email contact@plyint.com to correct errors or typos.
.TH man 8 "06 March 2020" "1.0" "encpass.sh man page"
.SH NAME
encpass.sh \- Use encrypted passwords in shell scripts
...
EOF

See encpass.sh for a working example of this -> https://github.com/plyint/encpass.sh/blob/master/encpass.sh
It depends™ on your (human and computer) workloads, but in my experience you need ops people to keep everything working smoothly, and once you have them it's easy to have them do this stuff without taking away from other areas. YMMV.
Plastic bags were of this kind as long as I can remember where I live. I use them as trash bags and it turns out I need about the same amount of trash bags as I do shopping bags. So none of it ends up in nature (other than as the rest from incineration).

If I brought multiple use bags to buy groceries I’d have to buy plastic bags to use for trash.
Are you flat out saying that some races and sexes are not intelligent enough to be in the tech industry?
I thought so too, Xiaomi Mi 9T here with a popup camera mechanism. But then again, wouldn't the website have to ask for camera permissions? Or is there some permission-less approach like the one for evaluating MIDI devices which is used for fingerprinting?
Hi HN, I'm Max - I built PerfBeacon as an automated wrapper around Google Lighthouse to automate a repetitive part of my job as a frontend developer. With the API set up to run at the end of CI/CD, it makes it fast to iterate on performance tweaks.

It's build with React and GraphQL, with Google Lighthouse running in isolated containers.

Happy to answer any questions!
>By 1880, Langley's bolometer was refined enough to detect thermal radiation from a cow a quarter of a mile away.

Sidenote: that sounds like even F-22/35 should be visible half a globe away in IR
1. Honesty / integrity / transparency
2. Grit / persistence
3. Openness to feedback / help / learning / collaboration
4. Ability to adapt to changing circumstances
5. Communicates effectively - listens, conveys ideas well in writing and when speaking
6. Kindness / empathy / reasonable expectations about projects / companies / start ups, customers, you, themselves, etc.
7. Reliability
8. Complements your weaknesses and key strengths. Is valuable to the business you're trying to build together at an early stage. Knows the space, how to build companies, how to code, design, sell, something valuable early - or, they can learn fast.
If you check a dictionary, the top definition for "woman" is typically something like "an adult female person" or "an adult female human." So the claim that woman/man is a totally different thing from male/female is pretty novel.
> I think the pipeline argument is a little biased, it implies that only certain kinds of people can learn "the skills".

Not at all. It only implies that certain groups of people actually do learn “the skills” at different proportions than their overall share of the population. “Can” and “actually do, in the context of society”, are two very different concepts.

The pipeline argument is basically, “you can’t have a society that fundamentally fails certain groups of people throughout their entire childhood and early adult education and then expect them to magically develop the same skills and qualifications as people who didn’t have those barriers”.

It’s crazy that people see pipeline arguments as excuses for social injustice because the most damaging aspects of social injustice manifest themselves as pipeline problems. For instance, the risk of childhood lead exposure has a huge correlation with race in the United States. That’s a horrifying and disgusting fact and it needs to be fixed. But if childhood lead exposure was the only fundamental racial disparity left, you’d still see other statistical disparities arise from that.
It’s really not fair to criticize Big Tech for not having demographics that mirror the US population as a whole. There’s so many large, societal factors standing in the way of black people and people of color from being able to even consider pursuing a career in tech that putting all the blame on discrimination or prejudice means your not talking about the real issues.

If Big Tech/Big Tech Media want to help those communities, they should lobby the government to stop mass incarcerating and start educating their future engineers.
Evidence, not exactly. It's more like society standing up against it.

Instead of government censorships, platforms are taking matters into their own hands.

While there was a lot of protest to "not act against Trump".

There seems to be no protest of acting against Trump. So, objectively, it would mean a big majority is anti-Trump.

And the voters that remain are probably used to switching platforms because of hate-speech. That's why it probably goes unnoticed and they don't focus on it too much.

Just a sentiment though. But I see no evidence/logic against it
When it comes to economic growth, Nigeria is so far behind policy wise. Sadly, there is nothing I can offer you around policies that can or should be replicated.

On the individual level, I have seen people transform the lives of their families by learning to code.

This is one https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-i-went-from-programmin...
>Whether the open or not has no bearing if they will remain in business.

It very much does. Amazing how much harder it's to stay in business when your revenue is 0.
If you want people to write mostly CRUD apps, sure.

If you want people to develop programming languages, algorithms, models etc., not really. Computer Science is a subfield of math and trying to "lure" people into the field with flashy graphics and instant gratification will only frustrate them when it gets to the basics. In theory you can complete a Computer Science degree without ever programming a physical computer. To complete my Masters in CS I only had to take an introductionary course for Java, everything else programming related was optional.
These reports were more unsubstantiated then I originally realized, sorry for not noting that.

The news is based on leaked benchmarks from upcoming tiger lake mobile socs with markedly higher graphics scores. I suppose it is possible that these tests were done with a discrete GPU hooked up. Hard to say for now. But it seems like a logical step for intel to upgrade their anemic integrated graphics with their next generation stuff.
So six months? Nine months? And at the end, you have an asset. You can always sell it and replace it with the newer model.
Unable to use Signal, which is hijacked by “Introducing PINs” view
A year ago I read a very well written article linked trough HN that broke down wikipedia's total est traffic and active data and made several cost analysis that aired on the side of caution. It didn't match wikimedia's allocation at all. However I cannot for the life of me find the article on ddg or google. It comes down to this, Wikipedia being mostly text based means that the size of their library isn't as big as you'd think. Compressed, their english articles amount to 16GB. You can download the entire thing on your laptop and see for yourself, its all there. even adding all history and languages on top, you're not exactly reaching petabytes just yet. most of their costs come from traffic. but the website is still text. I tried finding good bandwidth estimates but dont have time. I want to give wikipedia the benefit of doubt but they are just wastefull.

Last point I want to make, Internet Archive has a complete copy of wikipedia. ( though not fully up to date ofc)

if wikipedia fails due to incompetence or bad leadership, Internet archive will be first in line to pick up the hot potato of the approximate human knowledge register.

https://www.theregister.com/2012/12/20/cash_rich_wikipedia_c...

Links to help yo on your way
https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics
That is the same as "no strategy". Without coordination of the lockdowns, travel monitoring, national testing and contact tracing, you're just going to have shifting hotspots of infection. This also leaves behind an embittered population whose lockdown sacrifices were for nothing.
Fabulous story, thanks.

FWIW, the David Eisenbud mentioned there is one of the other authors on the paper I co-authored with Ron, and via which I got my Erdos number (of the first kind) of 2.

But that piece by Brady exactly reflects the kind of person Ron was. Enthusiastic, engaging, personable.
I’d love to see this
>Arguably, paper bags are "better" because they don't require petroleum to produce

Is using petroleum intrinsically bad? There are externalities with oil extraction, but growing a monoculture of trees for paper isn't stellar for the environment either. Also, plastic is stronger than paper (on a mass basis), hence plastic bags can be thinner than paper bags, which also carry advantages. I feel people irrationally like paper bags because it's more "natural" than plastic. It's insufficient to judge whether plastic or paper is better for the environment just by coming up a list of bullet points. A total lifecycle cost analysis is needed. Of the literature I've seen, paper bags are not better for the environment overall than plastic.

>Failing all of the above, it is unlikely used paper bags end up on barges destined for the developing world for recycling, only to be dumped into the ocean.

addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23763885
I remember Dune 2 fit on two floppies (2x 1.44MB). That is impressive. It was compressed and decompressed itself on install, but still.
Mpv drops GNOME support, stops short of making it exit when running under GNOME
> But it's a world where the biosphere and humanity are not threatened with existential destruction.

That's unfortunately false. The technology stack needed to divert asteroids is significant; bringing humanity to a pre-industrial revolution doesn't guarantee the safety of the biosphere, it guarantees the biosphere is unmodifiable by human activity. That leaves the biosphere vulnerable to threats that humans could use technology to intervene against but will be unable to.

> No need to "ignore" anything.

If one doesn't ignore the death and suffering but instead condemns humanity to it purposefully, with the flip response "But in a technological society, people will die anyway," that's misanthropic, and that's the part where his philosophy demands humans act other than they will. Fewer humans are suffering and dying---even with the threat of climate change---in a world where we have a technology stack that can move vast resources around.

Avoiding the death of billions of people by crashing the industrial infrastructure so billions of people die is a non-solution. Practically, nobody will go for it. Philosophically, nobody should go for it; it's the solution of throwing up one's hands and saying "into Nature's good graces we should go," and Nature's graces have never been good. "Red in tooth and claw" is the moniker she tends to carry.

There's no guarantee that if we keep the industrial society, billions die to climate change. Technology gave us the power to shape the climate and (if we choose to invest the time and effort) it can give us the power to shape the climate beneficially. If we pull the technological society up by its roots and return to the pre-industrial society, billions die from starvation, disease, and natural disaster, as we are no longer able to move resources to help them.
Microsoft was born as a developer tooling company that accidentally ended up in OSes because early OSes were developer tools. (BASIC was the first OS for the IBM PC, just as it was for the Commodore 64.) Microsoft's strategy to buy GitHub is clearly a developer tooling choice, nothing to do with the failure in phones. Microsoft's original strategy was always to transcend hardware (early Microsoft products were notoriously cross-platform in an age where cross-platform was much harder), they've always been a software company first (hence their name), and a hardware company begrudgingly.