skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are many ways of mitigating the harmful effects of the lock down. State aid targeted directly towards individuals (and not corporations) is a good idea, I think. The same goes for a freeze on mortgage payments, rents, evictions etc.

I think it's a bad idea to have people with little understanding of economics, but a high sense of moral superiority, fix the problems they create through their incompetence. Politicians are the last people you want doing this.

Freeze evictions? Landlords go bust. Freeze mortgages? Mortgage servicers go bust. Now what? Mortgages when created are aggregated into securities with guaranteed contractual payments. No payments? What happens to the securities and the organizations that own them? Banks, pensions, retirement accounts, etc? What happens to the mortgage market and the young family who needs to buy their first home?

Actions have consequences. It's nice to have ideas over the internet, but reality is a bit more complicated.
Article talks a lot about policy violations, but very little about the policy itself. Anyone know: what is the policy?
Part of the trouble so many folks are having with modeling this disease is that there are several "tiers" of geographic division that are involved and different densities of community spread at each tier. There's spread at the level of countries/nations, at the level of states or provinces, and all the way down to the level of neighborhoods. A few cases in a country is very different from a few cases in a household in terms of density of cases, likelihood of spread, and mortality rates.

Without knowing those distributional statistics at different levels, all you get are lies and damned lies, not statistics.

About 50% of the deaths in Sweden have occurred in Stockholm per the Financial Times[1], which has a population under a million. Just by looking at a smaller geographic division - a city/metro area - we get near an order of magnitude higher per capita case rate and mortality rate.

At the same time, San Francisco County - comparable population to Stockholm - has had 4023 confirmed cases and 50 deaths. Alameda County has a population about 60% larger, and has had 6,991 confirmed cases and 140 deaths. So, it is possible to have a comparable population and a comparable density to Stockholm, Sweden and yet have many times fewer cases and deaths.

We could go back and forth until we're blue with why that might be the case, but I can tell you empirically, looking at some Bay Area counties versus Detroit or Stockholm, it is possible to have many times fewer cases and deaths than they've experienced. And that is a tragedy that is unfolding every day in those places.

[1] - https://www.ft.com/content/a26fbf7e-48f8-11ea-aeb3-955839e06...
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The time to naturalize in Switzerland is now 10 years (it used to be a bit longer) unless married to a Swiss citizen, in which case it's shorter. Include that plus the processing time and assuming your friends were in one of the right residence status categories during their entire time in Switzerland, it would have taken them at least 11 years or so.
The monarchy is founded on "the grace of God" so it makes a kind of twisted sense that they should collect the license fee to peddle God's book.

Given that God himself is credited as author of at least parts of the Bible, the "life of the author plus 70 years" doctrine of copyright should help keep the Bible out of the public domain for the foreseeable future.
coooool! going to try this out :)
The jury is still out on "economic failure." The evidence cited on the economy is thin at best.

The main piece of evidence is that "Sweden’s central bank expects its economy to contract by 4.5 percent this year, a revision from a previously expected gain of 1.3 percent." Economic forecasts are ridiculously unreliable. In the US, economists forecast (on average) that 8 million jobs would be lost in May. Instead there was a 2.5 million gain in jobs. Not a single economist surveyed by Bloomberg though there would be any gain at all (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-06/may-jo...). The hard data we have on GDP so far: Sweden's GDP grew by 0.1% in Q1 2020 (0.4% annualized), Germany and the UK's GDP fell.

The other evidence is that unemployment has risen in Sweden and spending in Denmark has only fallen 4 percentage points more than Sweden. But Denmark has propped up employment by "covering 75 to 90 percent of all worker salaries over the next three months, provided that companies refrain from layoffs."(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/business/nordic-way-econo...). And from the numbers in the article, Denmark's unemployment rate has still risen proportionally more. Granted, Sweden has very generous unemployment benefits, but I'm not aware of a similar layoff prevention program.
> A centre-right candidate doesn't become "left" just because there's a far-right candidate.

He's the more left candidate for purposes of this comparison, which is to compare where the U.S. is relative to France. So if Macron is to the right of Trump on muslim immigrants (and I think it's fair to say he is), and 45% of French support a candidate that is even further right, I think it's fair to say the U.S. is well to the left of France on the issue.

I was citing a head-to-head matchup in the second round: https://www.ft.com/content/6d8b9c7a-412c-11ea-a047-eae9bd51c...

> A recent Ifop opinion poll put Ms Le Pen narrowly ahead of Mr Macron for an assumed first round of the 2022 election, and within a few percentage points of victory in the second round (45 per cent to his 55 per cent)
Why would there be outrage at the government handing billions of taxpayer dollars to people who are already billionaires while only giving $1200 to everyone else? My guess is because the government is handing billions of dollars to people who are already billionaires while only giving $1200 to everyone else.
Easy things can look hard when typeset in LaTeX.

Hard things can look easy when typeset in monospace.
Tesla Model 3 SR+ were originally sold without rear seat heating. Later it became possible to enable it for a fee, via the Tesla app. Few clicks and voilá, suddenly you have rear seat heating.

So every car already had the hardware, obviously because it would be more expensive for Tesla to produce two variants of seat elements.
Urlgrab – Golang utility to spider through a website searching for links
Can they also refuse to pay taxes for programs they disagree with? If not, it seems disingenuous to say they should pay for programs, then avoid them.

By that logic, anyone who unsuccessfully campaigns against tax cuts should continue to pay the previous (higher) tax rate.
Why is the date set to 2077 in your video? Fallout fan?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Irish_sentiment brings up more points
Scrutinizing SpaceX, NASA Overlooked Some Boeing Software Problems
I think this type of non-rational intuition shows a combination of intelligence and experience. “It was obvious” gets said by a smart person for things that are opaque to someone that lacks a correctly functioning intuition.
what if you die next year (of a different cause) and the quarantine robbed you from your last year, would you make the same trade?
At that point I wouldn't leave bash. I feel like argparse allows for better documentation, error handling and input validation.
Oh, right, hence the customization options. Defaulting to no tracking is likely a sane choice.

Let me insist that I am okay with statistics, but against tracking. GA is tracking. I do opt-in into statistics in software like Mozilla Firefox, etc. I just don't want to be tracked. I'm fine with giving away some information about myself so that websites know my 1680x1050 resolution is still being used, or that someone still uses Firefox, or on which page I landed, if I visited a few more pages. But nobody needs to know exactly what websites I visited today, where I ate, when I woke up, etc. It's my business and only mine. Would you be interested in such data about me? If not, why would you help Google achieve that very goal?

Other trackers (twitter, facebook, most other social networks, analytics companies and advertiser networks) are just the same to me. But maybe some people boycott Google specifically.
"Have a good time, all the time!" -Viv Savage
Sweden also has an private sector extremely dependent on exporting stuff, so when global trade is down so is the Swedish economy.
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Ex-UN envoy: UNSC members stabbed us in the back to stop Libya peace efforts
Here's the original motivation for the project:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ladies-and-gentlemen-cloudflare-...
I remember the origins of Dropbox! Are you maybe thinking that anything that becomes a successful product must be considered an MVP?

The summary section of that article and the elaboration is correct and the portion you pulled out is just an explanation of a non-normative minority practice. The same goes for the other end that reserves the term for an essentially mature product, although for different reasons, since the minimum to actually put features in the hands of paying users can be debated whereas users cannot use a lack of features.
The Government Can Make You Legally “Dead,” Even When You’re Much Alive /
I wouldn't know, but there is no reason for me to be thinking something like that. "Samizdat" is not really a name or something, it's a transliteration of "самиздат", which is a short/colloquial for "самостоятельное издательство", which literally means "self-publishing" (this was a thing during the USSR, where "self-publishing" was basically opposed to "real, official government-approved publishing"). I believe it's just a "clever" domain somebody was able to acquire, nothing more.
This is an important point and should not be downvoted.

It's not possible to accurately argue "she would have received a better/more efficient education in a free market society" because that's a counterfactual.

In fact, it's probably more likely that she dedicated her whole life to overreacting against socialist economics in her writing precisely because she had been exposed to Stalinism/communism.
>If I buy gift cards in New York, there's zero reason someone in Bangalore, India should immediately be able to redeem those gift cards.

According to the article, that is not what happens; instead, the gift cards are redeemed in the US:
'Once the scammers obtain gift card numbers from a victim, they transfer them to a group of US-based “runners,”'

The runners described above would probably have some kind of presence in most major US cities, and they could just pick a runner in the nearest major city to the victim without raising any location-based red flags. Note that neither Safeway, nor Target have retail stores in Bangalore (or anywhere else in India), only offices.
We don't need more interchangeable standards. We need standards for different things.

The point in having standards is not to have the one ultimate standard that everyone uses, but to have a documented way to interoperate at all without interrogating the author or reverse-engineering.
Business activity and profits don't matter here. You don't have to prove you actually need the money to receive a loan.
Besides the technical arguments, there are the philosophical ones. Linux is open source, it is not controlled by one company, it usually doesn't send your data to some server which then sells it to advertisers, you have access to the source code of mostly everything if you ever feel the need to dig deeper in its understanding or modification, etc.

But for game dev specifically, Linux may lack some of the specific tools you guys use. While GL/Vulkan debuggers and utilities do exist, some proprietary Windows stuff may be difficult to emulate in the Linux environment. I do know some of the game dev tools also work on Linux, and Mesa gives you a lot of power in debugging shaders, but that's all I know. You can also GDB your Mesa calls to know exactly where you application is failing if you need to.
Look at the revealed preferences.

A grandparent might accept a 20% chance of dying, if it means regularly taking their grandchild to the park in the last few good years of life they have left. Most of the people at great risk of CORVID only have a few good years left.

Or, look at things like obesity or smoking or drinking (all of which might be getting worse - will people develop bad habits in quarantine?). People are willing to take risks (and overburden the health system) over lots of things, and we accept that the government shouldn't make it illegal.

Actually, why don't we just create quarantine safe old people's homes, and force them all into it? Then we can protect old people in quarantine, and let young people risk CORVID to build up herd immunity, then plunge the country into a brief elimination lockdown. It would be kinda inhumane to the old people we would be locking up (though people seem willing to take extreme measures anyway) but at least it would be quick.
That's kind of the case most of times. Books rule. I mean, movies from script-scripts are OK, but, you know, movies from Books is a different thing. I can't knock on the so called movie, but, yeah, the books are allright, yeah, don't watch the movie, try the books, the books, is where it's at, fellas.
Is the era of cloud credits over? It's been a while since I cared, but back in the olden days I had GCP/AWS credits to the tune of $100,000.
This site is full of levels extracted from games: https://noclip.website/

The full Subnautica map is probably bigger than any of those though. There are lots of options out there for streaming large 3D models in WebGL. One I'm familiar with is Cesium Ion 3D tiles: https://cesium.com/blog/2018/10/09/ion-3d-tiles-pipeline/
is a year in the life of an 82 year old (median age of covid death) the same as a year in the life of a 10, 20 or 30 year old?

I sure think not. So the comparisons are a bit moot.

trading 60 years of 30 year olds for 1 year of an 82 year old is a trade that probably no 82 year old would want.
What do you want me to take away from it?
The visual indicator is only in beta right now, but it will be coming to all iPhones 6s and newer in the fall.
Sweden didn't lock down, that is the typical worst case you would get. So lives saved is the deaths per pop in Sweden compared to deaths per pop where you are.
The only bummer is that a lot of this amounts to expecting the young to pay for this the rest of their lives.

Politicians keep kicking the can down the road and it is not fair to future generations. Nobody seems to be talking about that.
Could You Make a Snowball of Neutrinos?
The NYT has fallen into the bad habit of writing to a narrative, conscious or unconscious, rather than investigating more honestly.

In this case they want to paint the alternative path as wrongheaded and foolhardy. I’m glad someone tried something different in light of a lack of hard evidence. Time will tell if one or the other was better, but at least we’ll have baselines to compare against.
MSDN Subscriptions still have them - but of course you’re still paying thousands of USD/year for the subscription and the credits you get included are a tiny fraction of that - and it’s not like it’s costing Microsoft anything to provide that either.
Here is a relevant paragraph from investopedia:

Proving that fraud has taken place requires the perpetrator to have committed specific acts. First, the perpetrator has to provide a false statement as a material fact. Second, the perpetrator had to have known that the statement was untrue. Third, the perpetrator had to have intended to deceive the victim. Fourth, the victim has to demonstrate that it relied on the false statement. And fifth, the victim had to have suffered damages as a result of acting on the intentionally false statement.
Let alone when someone starts providing some key information in a thread 3 pages up.
No, that would be like moving Luke vs Darth Vader fight to the beginning of episode VI.

This actually reminded me of a colossal mistake made by Hobbit pt.2 movie, when they ended the part with a dragon flying away to burn the city after the cringiest of chase scenes.

They could have easily end the part with slaying a dragon, and then show it again in part 3. All they needed was to find a different POV character!! One dragon kill, shown twice.
> you cannot meta-dot syntax

I don't understand this? Besides the macrostep expander, meta-dot works on the macro name: reader macros _are_ harder to debug, but they're generally discouraged.
I think Americans should be scrutinizing a lot more of it's incumbent institutions/companies. They probably don't deserve the steady funding/regulatory capture they receive.
As of a couple months ago, deck.gl was transferred to the Urban Computing Foundation (part of the Linux Foundation) and is now under open governance.

There's a 3D terrain example in the deck.gl docs that uses Martini to create the mesh in the browser: https://deck.gl/examples/terrain-layer/
Analysis – The complex relationship Facebook has with online speech
Through the mixing pot of America we can come together and overcome our natural tendency towards division. This is part of what makes America a great nation.

Again, the racially-oriented thinkers often just exacerbate division.
I'm curious what limitations you see in WebGL, and whether they are fixed in WebGL 2 or in WebGPU.
I think they think it's cute and they're attempting to trivialize their loss.
I liked the code examples/snippets.

I use the Hy language (hylang) when I want a Lisp syntax for Python and I also wrote a book on Hy [1] that can be read for free online.

The Python ecosystem, especially for deep learning, is awesome but some of us troublemakers don’t much like Python’s syntax.

[1] https://leanpub.com/hy-lisp-python/
Reference to Cyberpunk 2077....maybe?
I know my Kia fob doesn't have a remote start _button_ on it, but if I press lock then trunk, it activates remote start. Perhaps that's an option on Hyundai fobs? After all, Kia is owned by Hyundai.
>For $20,000/year we'll put you up in a spartanly furnished apartment and with a servicable car and you'll get your staple foods and toiletries delivered every other week.

This would be amazing, and I would subscribe. It sounds like Basic Income.
I worked in the 70's as a professional programmer using punched "Hollerith" cards. Some of this article is a bit off. You don't just start programming one day. In those days you would take a two-week course at the vendor or at a University.

You don't discover that you have to compile your program after you have written it. You are taught that in advance.

The keypunch operator knew this was source code, and would never give you an uninterpreted deck. That was only for data.

I maintained a 4,000+ card program. I used two special metal trays, with a tab that pressed and locked in the cards securely. There was no "2,000-card" limitation. The operators were trained to feed thousands of cards in the card reader. Our master file was 40,000 cards, read through twice a day.

We used a binary image technique, allowing us to store 240 4-bit digits (3 x 80) per card.
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/uploads/2019/01/4389428.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzkatU6XAAARHNP.jpg

And obligatory https://i.imgur.com/Q77xhLp.jpg
The issue with this line of thinking is that it doesn't end...until it does. Neither you nor I will likely be alive, but our children may very well be :/
Be careful of that inverse square law—it's a doozy!
While Sweden did not have a mandatory lockdown, it wasn't like they stood by and did nothing either. They actually implemented many measures to reduce the spread of the virus:

- Closed high schools and universities.

- Banned gatherings of over 50 people.

- Banned visits to nursing homes.

- Reduced restaurant capacity and required social distancing in restaurants.

- Recommended social distancing, working from home, and avoiding unnecessary travel.

If you look at mobility data you'll see that even in the absence of official lockdown policies people were already changing their behavior to protect themselves, and the difference between Sweden and other places is not actually as big as people think.
Hi , I have Your GetArtemis App starred on GitHub. The question is how do You reach out to Your potential audience before You make a sale to them? Where do You find them and how do You convince them to Give out their email address? I am trying real hard to network over LinkedIn and I seem to get a measley 1% connection rate. Not at all scalable.
I was assuming the $5k would be like a certain amount of credit towards S3, a certain amount towards RDS, a certain amount towards load balancers, a certain amount towards video transcoding, etc. so if you don't use video transcoding, then you can't access the credit earmarked for that service.

but is it literally just a dollar amount that offsets your AWS bill, and you get some variable amount? This post doesn't actually seem to include any information about "what you actually get" other than to say you don't get $5k.
The way I've seen it distinguished in colleges is as a separate "Software Engineering" track within the compsci department.
> They are specifically saying that the fact that the epidemic has ripped through the country is because the government intervened too much

You're conflating things. You are making it sound like they are blaming the spread of the virus on the lockdown. It does not say that in the article. In fact, the article laments "America’s unpreparedness, the slowness of our response, and the byzantine maze of regulations." To the extent that it does blame the government for the spread, it doesn't blame it on the quarantine but on regulations preventing the medical industry from working efficiently. It does criticize the "entire nation under house arrest," but only as an outcome, distinct from part of the problems spreading the virus.
> I think it was implied that we try to reduce deaths as much as is reasonably possible

But this is just a tautology now, as the entire question is what constitutes "reasonable."
Solid8 CEO Michael Lofthouse was caught on camera giving the family the finger and shouting, "Trump's gonna f--- you. You f------ Asian piece of s----."
I wonder how many people ever get to work with equipment that has the same name as they do!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
Yes, it can be used defensively. If you breach the GPLv3 then in effect you also lose your patent license. The GPLv3 also forbids you making an opposing patent claim, so in effect it is defensive.
Landing an interview almost every-time you apply
looks like that nurse has a fb page of anti vaxx and lots of beaseless claims,wasted my time dammit :(
none of that mask wearing is done at the scale and in the manner forced upon the population

nurses change their masks all the time, nobody skis every day for eight hours, (FWIW the vast majority of people skiing don't wear masks over their mouths)

> I wash my mask every time I use it and I rotate through several of them

Like every hour? If not good luck with that, it is a pit of infection, a wet and warm substrate for bacteria and fungi.
>"How terrifying that people like this get so powerful in a super state like the USA"

How powerful do you think the Ayn Rand Institute is? From what I can see they are a marginally influential think-tank.
43% according to NYT (includes residents and workers):
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-nurs...

55k+ deaths, 296k+ cases, staggering numbers. Out of a 1.3M nursing home population
(https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/nursing-home-care.htm), which makes you wonder if the recent decrease in deaths is driven by the fact that the majority of the susceptible nursing home population has already been affected.
Interesting... Care to elaborate? Which type of company are you working at? What kind of job do you do there?