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I also believe it was idiotic.

Focusing too much on negative aspect of thing will lead you nowhere.

Manhattan project gave >500 research papers. Gave us Iodine 131 and other radio nucleotide which we use in medicine. And gave us lasting peace. So was it bad or not?

Is gene editing bad? was the internet bad? Was the dude who invented round wheel bad?
To my knowledge all modern nation states have some sort of stat like that; it’s either relevant for healthcare expense planning, or disability/life insurance schemes. I believe the US rates it down to the value of each limb for the latter; and my private AD&D insurance does the same.
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This seems needlessly pedantic.
No worries, in retrospect it was an incorrect assumption on my part. That said, glad to hear your life wasn't completely destroyed! Definitely sounds like it wasn't pleasant.

For what it's worth, I've a similar story with respect to recently identifying casein in my diet as potentially problematic. My whole life I've simply ate moderate amounts of cheese sans any milk, until earlier this year I started consuming milk on a regular basis. Eventually consumption would result in an immediate mucosal reaction, which was usually followed by terrible effects on cognition and mood. It may explain why I was pretty much in the worst mental health state I've ever been in at the time.

Discontinued all milk/cheese a couple months ago, and now I've no more crippling panic attacks, with dramatically less hypomanic periods. Unfortunately there's multiple factors and dimensions at play, so I can't categorically say that was it, but it almost certainly played a considerable role.

It's really crazy the effect diet can have in some situations. Things you think nothing of can ruin you.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1399-5618....
To a degree, they did a sane thing: listened to the advice of an expert. Now if you look at the other side of the ocean where the orange man didn't listen to the advice of an expert, look what happened.

I don't know how these things work in government, but relying on the opinion of just a single expert might not be the best strategy to win here. It's unlikely though that policy makers will come out in the worse shape here than they were before because even though they might have failed (a big if in the long run), they've relied on the advice of the experts rather than their beliefs.
Maybe try Bern? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pedestrians-speed-study/w...

A Berliner arrives at the Bern train station, and wants to get a haircut and shave. "Make it snappy, I have a transfer to catch," he tells the local barber. "All right sir, of course we can do that, but may I please ask the gnädige Herr ... what is your blood type?"

The Berner would agree with the Geordies that "a gentleman will walk but never run."
Yup I found the overwhelmingly negative tone of this article off-putting. It doesn't quote any opposing viewpoints. It doesn't quote anybody actually living in Sweden, or any sort of public opinion polls on how Swedish people feel their government is handling things. It only compares Sweden's death rate to countries with lower rates (when countries with higher rates exist). And it seems to paint a straw man argument about what Sweden's reasons are for not implementing lockdowns (I don't think it was just about the economy).

It also doesn't delve very deeply into why Sweden's fatality rate is higher than average. It seems to imply that it's all because Sweden didn't implement forced lockdowns. But I am living in an area that also didn't implement forced lockdowns, and we have experienced virtually no deaths from covid in my city thus far. What measures specifically could Sweden have taken to save lives? And is there anything that they did well?

I have found a lot of the coverage on covid to be fairly sensationalist (ranging from "it's all a big hoax" to "the world as we know it has ended"). Does anyone have any suggestions for more rational, honest, and detailed coverage of covid?
I've posted elsewhere but my wife (40yo and in great health) has been suffering from a range of issues since her infection over 100 days ago. She cant climb stairs without getting out of breath. Her covid symptoms for the first two weeks was relatively mild. She is in a Slack group with over 7000 others. Predominantly women over 40 or men 2o to 50. All with serious long term issues after getting covid. It is a small number, but not small enough to wave away.
>This is India, a system that is notoriously reliant on rote memorisation and turning out employees who crumble under pressure and cannot operate without very specific instructions.

This is a pretty biased view, bordering on racist. If Indian employees can't work without detailed instructions then how come large percentage of FAANG (full time) employees are Indians? Let's not forget that both Google and Microsoft CEOs did their undergrads in India.
it still takes more time than one children. even if it's ten minutes for things that can't be parallel like changing nappies, it contradict the claim that one children takes all of one's time

it's simple hard logic, wouldn't have expected to have to explain it or getting downvoted for it on hacker news.
This is a very misleading article. Compare Japan (no lockdown) with Norway, Finland, and Denmark. Or we can compare some areas of Sweden with Norway. Sweden has high death rate for the same reason that many of the lockdown countries have hight death rate: Elderly care centers in some areas where not properly protected! 20 years of policies for cost reduction of care homes is the reason for the failure).
I think it’s the pear emoji https://www.iemoji.com/view/emoji/602/food-drink/pear
| And gave us lasting peace

I think the jury is still out on that. Or rather the trial is still underway.
What if? Revision control systems did not have merge
There are numerous examples of community developed software where they simply add something along "Professional support available for corporate use", without the inevitable negative impact of "supported by volunteers and intended for individual use". They could make money without ruining the product's perception, but apparently they don't care.

From their page at https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/professional-support/

"The Document Foundation does not provide professional support services for LibreOffice. It does, however, develop and maintain a certification system for professionals of various kinds who deliver and sell services around LibreOffice."

There is where the problem lies, and where they should do something. Don't touch the product, just build a business around it.
The submission is an implementation of a core task in computer vision. Your response is an appeal to vividness unrelated to the submission except in its recruitment of computer vision to sell the FUD.

If researchers getting good at something is sufficient priming to cause you to direct your imagination toward hyperbolically negative outcomes, the problem on your hands is a constitutional resistance to further progress in the research area.

In that case, challenging readers to produce arguments on the finer details of the narrative you've painted in support of the technopessimism is bad faith rhetoric.
Anyone here familiar with or have a link for a *nix friendly solution?

Thanks!
100%. satvikpendem is doing wordplay. A video of a nonexistent piece of software is a useful tool, but a viable product it is not.

That he's denying this proves your point.
Yes but competing in a cooperation is different than cooperating in a competition.
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It's not "preconditions." It's one condition. That the user wants to visit a website that uses the camera. The rest are details of that one condition. He might as well have said things like "turn on phone" "install the firefox app" "short-press the firefox icon" (to launch it).
Wow, very sad to hear this. I am a big fan of Professor Graham. I owned many of his books - Magical Mathematics, Rudiments of Ramsey Theory, Concrete Mathematics, Handbook of Combinatorics. I attended an AMS conference in San Diego a while back and asked him to sign my Erdos on Graphs book after listening to his talk. Professor Chung happened to be around and he waved her over to sign my book too.
Well, academia pretty has to study AI applications.

AI is not a field like physics, which can be roughly separated into theoretical tools and applications of those tools.

AI is creating heuristics, approximations to data that "generalize" while keep how that generalization works vague. Essentially it's a very leaky abstraction so researchers need to be concerned how that leaking happens, what it's implications are.
You seem to be implying that stroke can be psychosomatic. That's certainly a novel take.
So, there's the solution then: massively file false claims until each and every channel is taken down forcing Google to deal with the problem.
So this is basically just an Electron terminal emulator with some shortcuts included? You can already do all this in a fair few existing terminal emulators, not to mention shell aliases et al. I mean I get the problem space they’re trying to solve but the landing page is so hyperbolic I’m put off investing any time to see if this actually has usability gains over what the team already do use
Ice Lake's also great
> mandibular advancement device

Those things are in the basic apnea treatment palet over here (Netherlands), actually more common than PAP machines. Why do you think they are alternative?
That isn't really how terrorism works though is it? 'they' want the population to be fearful doing normal things - it isn't just the life lost but the changes in behaviour people have to make.

Similarly if I died of covid now, it isn't just the 40ish years of life ahead I lose, but the impact on my wife, children and wider family. I've seen friends lose 72 yo grandfathers - who could have provided years ahead of fun and good memories with their grandkids.
There's a standard way of looking at this, and in the US the answer is yes, the life of everyone is worth the same, and that's how other economic decisions are made in the US (e.g. safety regulations need to meet this same standard). Suddenly changing the way you value lives to suit a particular outcome for a particular decision doesn't seem right. If you are going to look into the economics you should consider not only deaths but costs of all other hospitalizations, long term effects and various other second order effects. (check out the recent Planet Money episode about the value of lives in the US and their discussion of whether or not the US should lock down, tl;dr economically yes by orders of magnitude).
What went wrong in Sweden? I genuinely don't understand that.

The news keeps showing Swedes walking in parks and down streets, but that's not how people catch the novel coronavirus. Meanwhile, people were working from home and mass gatherings were banned; the public were trusted to figure out the details, but they're not idiots. It could have worked.

What was everyone doing in Sweden that people weren't doing in Finland and Australia? Or were there less visible differences, in surveillance and contact tracing maybe, that haven't been so widely reported?
Autofocus can be for anything - Phone cameras, Surveillance cameras, Drone missile targeting systems, etc.
You can even change the foreach to for if you seek more brevity in your Perl life (don't we all?).
How does the claim that it's a great fit reconcile with the fact that the project which was supposed to prove the said great fit was shut down? In the end real world is the only yardstick by which projects can be reasonably measured.

However if we want to remain positive, we could say like Edison that this project did not fail and is merely attempt 1 of 10000 at learning how not to build UI apps with Rust. :)

> Where do you reach the conclusion that Rust is bad for UI-intensive apps?
I've reached that conclusion by applying logic and looking at the state of Rust and its capabilities as a language and the scarcity of UI apps built in Rust.
I expect H.266 patent fee is not so much expensive like you worried.
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I live in Vietnam.

> if you fail to self isolate, you go to a gov’t camp

There are a few instances of this, which of course the govt made sure were widely reported. It's very unlikely in general that they would know, though.

> all int’l flight have been stopped; only repatriation flights are happening

This is completely false, as you can verify on any public flight tracker website. The number of flights is greatly reduced, but they never stopped. Also, extra charter flights were put on for (at least) Samsung and LG employees to come from Korea, regularly, even in the middle of the lockdown. The "all international flights stopped" line was repeated many times in the local media, and most people here believe it, despite it being untrue.

> for those foreigners who made it in before the flights stopped, they all went to gov't facilities

Not true at all, I know many people who did not have to.

> if someone tests positive, they will lock down all the people around them for 24hr, disinfect common areas and test

They notify the people around them and tell them to self-isolate. They spray some bleach around. They do not test unless symptoms are shown.
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Wow, 100MFlop’s. That could run real time on a $5 dsp.
The nation produces hope. Hope is worth something.
> A few months of not going to festivals and the cinema is by no measure a catastrophe.

Do you have any data to support that? For many people their mental health has a great effect on their physical health, and in a country like Sweden where a lot of people have mental issues already (including stress, loneliness, various forms of depression etc.), yes you could make a case that making people even more isolated by sitting at home would increase their stress and loneliness which has an effect on the health.
To me, I like to describe my role as mommy & daddy rolled into one. I need to take the time to comfort the group as I need the time to correct them.

Since I have had the opportunity to raise my kids, I have grown tremendously as a manager: I have learned to forgive and to stand fast. To allow for slack and to demand relentlessness. To treat people as individuals (you might have guessed I work in IT where rather exquisite characters seem to flourish) and learn them to enjoy the results of our efforts as a team.

Loads of seemingly contradictional qualities that are required from parents and very easily translate to people management.

Basically I see my role as a temporary one: you are here with me since we need each other to reach some goal, and then we will both move on. This might be short-term or long, but we will separate and I will do my utmost best to become a better person / employee / employer over time, as I will do my utmost best to let you grow and fore fill yourself.

Oh and I will try to be having a good time while doing that, since I have ran out of time to suffer for no reason but suffering.
Because small models of face detection software would be released on github?
It looks like the 'complain to HN' method of customer support for YT worked its magic again.
Little bit too early to proclaim this kind of conclusions, isn't it?
If talking about physically going to university or college, take a class online.

If you don’t want classes in general, go to course sites for universities and check the textbooks they use/reference.
So regular Google Hangouts / Meet and Jitsi Meet users then?
Yes, the mask's dead space has CO2 above OSHA ambient workplace standards. To wit, they were about 3000 ppm. That's because the mask dead space contains your exhaled breath.

However, an N95 mask's dead space is 100-150ml. The tidal volumes they measured were about 1000ml. That means that only 10-15% of the air you're breathing in is from inside the mask. So, for example, if you're outside at 400ppm, you'd see an increase of net CO2 to 660ppm. If you're indoors at say 800ppm, you'd see an increase to 1020ppm.

This is well within OSHA limits and is very unlikely to be noticeable. Crucially, the study did not see a significant increase in blood CO2.
Cars can be used for anything - moving people from home to work, robbing banks, running people over, etc.
Ethical, high-caliber, genuinely nice with a high degree of empathy. Bonus points if they've lived without the benefit of a silver spoon their entire life.

Unfortunately you can't really determine these quickly, you pretty much have to know the person first. Public or second-hand reputation unfortunately isn't always trustworthy.
I didn't say they weren't taking it seriously. I made a few specific claims, none of which you've discredited or even mentioned.
> loss of taste and smell

Not necessarily neurological and this is the first I heard that the loss of smell is neurological as opposed to physical[1]. But I guess everybody is a doctor now so go right ahead and say anything you like without any evidence. I mean what is the worse that could happen by spreading misinformation as long as it makes people more afraid?

[1]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-covid-19-make...
Hard to say already since many small businesses will close but haven't done so officially yet.
> Would you build a livelihood on that?

Yes? Google is notorious for deprecating and changing things, so I would have a backup plan but companies like Streak have built large businesses on much more restricted APIs like Gmail.

> kind of loophole

This is not a loophole, this is 2-legged Oauth. This is much safer than the typical 3-legged Oauth where the user gives blanket permission to read and write from their Google Drive. The user has to explicitly share the sheet with this service account email. Google is trying to protect people from clicking a phishing link and getting all their email and drive content stolen or hijacked.

Yes, Google can shut this down tomorrow or demand thousands of dollars to use it. It's a inherent risk building on top of someone's platform, the trade off being you get the scaffolding and user base the platform already has.
Right, I didn't want to be a killjoy other, but the goal of postmortems is honestly appraising what happened.

Not mentioning Rust as a cause for failure at all is mildly disappointing but at the same time mostly expected given the lack of self-reflection in the community. I would have also liked to see some thoughts on how this debacle could have been avoided. What were the mental processes that made the author(s) ignore some pretty serious alarm signs about the design? How can these be better controlled?
I don't think you're reading their comment charitably. They're using "impose" in the context of politics being a contest.

Winning a democratic election necessarily "imposes" upon the losers some decisions of the winners, eg. higher taxes. That's not authoritarianism, that's just politics.
I’m just getting into turn based RPGs (and don’t mind older graphics or having to run emulators). I also like to take the time to plan between moves and find the pressure of real-time unenjoyable.

Can you recommend a few of your favourites please? :)
What is "soon"?

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta... suggests "A report by the U.S. Census Bureau projects a decrease in the ratio of Whites between 2010 and 2050, from 79.5% to 74.0%")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rising_Tide_of_Color_Again... was almost exactly a century ago. Might be worth a read before we go stampede cattle through the Vatican.
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And as in wartime, the propaganda machine is running at full capacity.
>A preprint I was reading yesterday noted an 8 fold increase in risk of stroke in COVID patients vs severe flu patients.

The problem I have with these statement is the lack of context. Does the additional risk of stroke in COVID patients meaningfully impact the overall risk profile? If an elderly person has say a X% chance of death from COVID, and a 0.00X% of stroke, news reporting on this for public consumption is just fear mongering.
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That's what like, 10 gigs of data transfer on AWS? :p
> to do around 1500 banner ads. ... We got 6 products in 5 colors and the aim was to create ad banners for 3 countries. The goal was to create 15 formats of each banner ad

Such product exists: Alibaba Luban. It was announced back in 2016 and here's a real world generated example of it:

https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv59884/

There's few demo GIFs show how text and picture align differently in position with different size of layout.

Product page (in Chinese):

https://luban.aliyun.com/

some blogs

https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/alibaba-luban-ai-based-gra...

https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/the-evolution-of-luban-in-...
I think it works the other way: display won't turn on if something is blocking the proximity sensor, so you won't accidentally dial someone, but if I place the phone in pocket while the display is on, it stays on.
There was no need, they had optimised natively compiled versions for Intel so why deal with the Rosetta overhead?
One thing I don't see discussed and it's an unbacked intuition is that all the different government strategies seem to revolve around differences in 'group' trust levels.

Both the Swedish 'no-lockdown' and the Dutch 'intelligent' lockdown are government policies that actually work locally because the government trusts that the population will follow the guidelines given (which they do for the majority).

Equally when I discussed with Dutch and Swedish people (anecdata) they all believed their national strategy was correct because they trusted their governaments competence and the science advisors that were being consulted.

I think many of these strategies cannot be translated to other countries were there isn't a shared trust level, i.e. population trusting the government's competence, and equally the government trusting civil society (biggest example being the US).
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consuming electricity isn't a problem. doing things defined as "work" is a problem.

work is in quotes, as it doesn't mean doing a job. it also doesn't mean the physics meanin.

As the simplest example: take rabbis in a synagogue. They are doing their jobs.

Another more complicated example: there's no fundamental difference between what an individual can do to prepare a meal they are serving on the sabbath and what caterers can do. Both can't do things defined as "work", but obviously the caterers are doing their job.

Then there's is the whole interplay between biblical law and rabbinic law