skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> treating their citizens like adults

For most society level problems we are OK as long as most people behave responsibly most of the time, so this approach is great. We can inform our citizens and they can enforce good behaviour amongst themselves by tutting and grumbling in a disapproving way.

This is not true of a contagion. Occasional "just this once won't hurt" violations are enough to break containment.

That's why the countries that enforced strict measures early — suspending individual freedoms — have had better outcomes for their health and economy.

Fighting a contagion is like hygeine in a kitchen. You know which surfaces and utensils are clean or dirty, and you don't put the dirty things back with the clean things until they've been cleaned and dried.

In the same way, you try to establish regions where a contagion is/may exist/is not, and then expand the clean regions. If people have their inalienable human rights, then you can't do the basic containment strategy, because your clean regions keep getting contaminated.
I think you are drawing the wrong conclusions here... Microservices is not the boogyman here. It more likely has to do with speed of development, developer turnover and a plethora of other things that result in insufficient knowledge transfer.

Microservices (like just about anything) can be implemented well or poorly. There's a reason we have sophisticated orchestration solutions like Kubernetes... it exists to tame large scale deployments that has sensible failover processes.

The benefits you get are services that can be scaled independently, deployments that only affect isolated pieces of code, horizontal scaling, dockerized environemnts, etc. All of these advantages should exist in well designed systems, but systems that have been executed hastily will likely have critical problems crop up at some point.
When the hopium that wall street is smoking runs out. Probably the end of November.
I've always sort of wished I could go back and get my CS degree after I had a few years experience in industry, instead of getting it before. I feel like I would have appreciated what I was learning a lot more.
That logic doesn’t quite work.
You cannot say that everything that exists needs to have been created but then make an arbitrary exception for a creator. In other words, if you believe there is a creator that wasn’t created, you already believe that not everything needs a creator.

So then the question: why do you think the universe was created?
Presumably the optimal solution would be to prepare fake but easily executed plans (tuned to appeal to whoever's on the committee) to go with your fake numbers. But probably no amount of regulating police will help if your regulators are also chasing metrics (say, to make themselves look better than their opponent for voters).

Random sampling is one effective (if adversarial) way to validate numbers. For policing I guess that looks like "secret citizens" reporting crimes and sending the results back up the chain? But that doesn't solve the second half of the problem.
"Impose their own view" comes from the comment I was responding to, and the commenter did not seem to be suggesting an imposition where "those that wield power" would have a choice in the matter.
You mean PowerPC. Motorola->Power switch is mid-1990s.
Obviously it was intended to combat the virus. That doesn't mean it's the only, let alone the best, course of action.
Hmm, in formal German "you"s can be capitalized. The "give" could just be noise.
You can read the discussion on the bug page itself: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134486

This is an awful move by TDF. The wording ("The Personal edition is supported by volunteers and intended for individual use") is egregious: People who use LibreOffice on their work laptops because they don't want to use Word may find higher-ups scared by that that wording prohibiting that practice. If the point of contention is that companies that can afford it shouldn't use free community support, there are much better ways to put that. However, TDF says this is a part of their "marketing plan" for the next 5 years[1], so I don't see that changing.

[1]: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/07/06/board-st...
She 200% does NOT write science fiction as her books have nothing based on reality and no author wins the Hugo 3 years in a row!!! Like Hugo thought they could make up for there being so few black scifi writers they gave the award three years in a row to a black fantasy author. This country and society is f'ed beyond repair.
Whoops. That was a mistake I made from copying that section from another project. Corrected it to per month now.
Eradicating it? Really? It's crazy valuable, our response made it more so. It's only getting easier to engineer viruses.

"some benefit"

So do helmets. And banning smoking as you mentioned, kinda. And mandatory exercise. Heck fasting would offset the death stats in spades. Should I go on? What's your point? From the examples you listed, I must assume you are not for making these masks not desinged for viruses legally required. I dont think it will even remotely withstandand a Constutional challenge, but lets talk in the theoritical. Are you pro forced-medical procedures? If so, will you advocate using violence to do it?

A _really_ interesting angle is when you consider the set intersection of the authortarians with the socalized medicine proponents.

Why not talk about that CDC pdf? This is prob the last comment before I hit my limit, but I'll reply if given the chance when it resets.
> There were other technologies that were similarly indicative, such as mention of ‘microservices

I will never mention microservices on my CV. Except maybe as an anti-pattern that I can assist with avoiding.
I'm saddened to see people on HN selectively represent facts to try and spread the narrative that SARS-CoV2 isn't very dangerous. Which as far as I can tell is just completely false.

The reality is that it is in fact dangerous. People try to point to the idea that it only kills a low percent of the population and not putting into perspective that a disease killing around 1% or so of all humans would be a rather big deal.
> Assuming you mean well and all, this specific wording could nevertheless be interpreted as a dog whistle. It triggers some peoples' political immune system.

It never occurred to me that that rayiner might have been using some kind of dog whistle in his reply to me. It would be rather out of character, and yours seems like a needlessly uncharitable interpretation of his comment.
No, considering that the past 6 months also mean my parents and grandparents stayed safe, which I actually care about a little bit. Not to mention my God-parents, uncles, and the well-being of my friends' relatives.

We live in a society, and Covid19 is not just a question of personal choices.

Not to mention, people who have defied quarantine orders and have spread this to their loved ones can become depressed and suicidal, so quality of life for many who would spread this disease will become abysmal.
Suffusion: Playing with Filesystems
Interesting article. Definitely something to think about.
I would be careful comparing Covid deaths across countries.

A good example is the child mortality statistics - the US counts babies born alive, but then die, but other countries just count them as stillbirths if the death happens with X period of time.

Not saying Taiwan is hiding tens of thousands of deaths, but you have to assume some wiggle room in the numbers.
An N95 mask doesn't meet OSHA's deadspace oxygen and carbon dioxide level requirements:

"The FFR dead-space oxygen and carbon dioxide levels did not meet the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s ambient workplace standards. CONCLUSIONS: In healthy
healthcare workers, FFR did not impose any important physiological burden during 1 hour of use, at
realistic clinical work rates, but the FFR dead-space carbon dioxide and oxygen levels were significantly
above and below, respectively, the ambient workplace standards, and elevated PCO2 is a possibility." [1]

1. http://www.rcjournal.com/contents/05.10/05.10.0569.pdf
It seems like this convention invites us to create this sort of issue more times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6060351
To be totally honest. How much depth can it be in articles that focus on which groups you have sex with?
How do you get many younger ones disabled, when younger ones are barely getting ill? It is a desease that affects the older ones much more.
It’s hard for me to appreciate Scott’s daily dose of misanthropy. By the time I get to the comics page, I’ve already been dosed with the pure, uncut stuff on the front page, spoken by our American President.
Agreed that it certainly can feel "fluked" or random which areas are overwhelmed and which recover, but I have to disagree with the idea that Vietnam didn't take it particularly seriously.

I was there in February, for around a month.

As a foreigner, I was regularly receiving SMS updates about covid infections. There was a website which detailed exactly when and where people were testing positive. Hotels and guest houses, if allowed to remain open, were being closed for deep-cleaning.

Buses and trains were stopped and my temperature checked, towns and islands were quarantined where someone tested positive, contact tracing appeared to be in full force and foreigners were requested to register their movements and check in daily(iirc) to a web portal.

Again, this was in mid-February.

Luck and climate seem to be factors, but Vietnam acted when they had a low caseload and handled outbreaks sufficiently well to keep R below 1. It wouldn't be all that surprising to me if there really were no covid deaths there.
To me the logo looks like a pear instead of a fig
ما هو ضغط الهواء المناسب لإطارات السيارة؟
I've messed around with it a bit, and it's actually pretty great for agent based modelling & Monte Carlo simulations. It does have nice visualizations, but not so much geared toward representing complex relationships, but rather showing realtime/step-by-step representations of simple relationships. But, I have only played around with it for a bit - I may very well be grossly underselling it.
That is significant when the average monthly pay is ~$200.
It's not a free-rider problem if you were the one that released the open source infrastructure, or if you use it, need to change it, and send the patches back in. (That's why the GPL is a good license.)
Sysdig: What It Is and How to Use It
Yes, and no.

Yes, in the sense of you need a list of everything you need to do, then you need to delegate because that's too many things for one person.

No, I think that keeping your list written down/stored somewhere offloads your brain to focus more on your task at hand then remembering all you need to do.
Even if Ghz haven't changed, IPC is much higher so you'll still see huge increases in single-thread performance!
I agree with this to some extent. The aesthetics, even if it does almost nothing for functionality, unfortunately does influence people's impression and opinion, and ultimately, their decision to open their wallet. When the SaaS world is filled with players who each bring something to the table, aesthetics sometimes becomes a tie-breaker, so to speak.
I do not see an advantage over socat, which can listen on _TCP_-sockets (among 20 other „socket“ inputs) and forward them into unix-sockets. Please tell me? :-/
There is actually a bit of a similar thing in Sweden where the government steps in and pays a large portion (roughly 90% maybe? a bit unsure since none in my immediate circle is affected), but only on the condition that you have taken some specific other measures. For example Volvo had to end the contract for like 5000 contractors to be able to get the benefits. source in swedish: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vast/5-000-konsulter-och-b...

I also remember that the government made it easier for people to join the A-Kassa, the state unemployment insurance. Normally you have to have been paying the insurance fee for half a year or something before you're eligible for payout but I believe that requirement was scrapped.
It is strange that they don't link to the pro versions on their page.

Feature Comparison: https://www.kinoni.com/support-and-instructions/#Provsfreeve...

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/epoccam-webcamera-for-computer...

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kinoni.web...
Congratulations, you're one of the lucky 10,000!

Don't be a sourpuss because you were exposed to a new meme, that's how echo chambers form.
I stayed in Dublin for a couple of months and I loved it. I was able to go shopping, restaurants, parks, bars or anywhere by walking. I learned I’m a slow walker, at list compared to the standard walk speed of a walkable city (I had to consciously increase my speed just to not slow everyone). I’m 100% sure my extra pounds would disappear if I’d lived in a city like that.
Yeah, I'm not sure what are they thinking... i have some calendar reminders popup from time-to-time on an interesting _broadcast_, but not once i actually sit down to watch it. Shame, as there're 4-5 programs every week i would be happy to watch on-demand
In my country less than 80 people have died because of the COVID-19. One can argue that many more have died because of lack of access to the medical help. Not because the health care system was overwhelmed—far from it. But the access was very limited for the sake of "preparation" to deal with COVID.
Hong Kong hotel transformed into national security office
A preprint I was reading yesterday noted an 8 fold increase in risk of stroke in COVID patients vs severe flu patients. COVID is dangerous, it’s not the flu, but nor is it the Black Death. It’s far more dangerous for the elderly than flu. But more importantly for everyone else, Lock downs are a response not to the individual risk of the disease but to the collective risk of not having a functioning healthcare system.
Christianity teaches that a Jesus is God and God created the entire universe.
I have not run across this issue before. How are you accessing the sheets though? Cloud Sheets API, or the json-in-script endpoint?
Honestly, no idea. I didn't mind enough to check. Our costs are low.
LGBTQ+ content is not limited to that.
How does it compare to sage math? I used sage math today and was pleasantly surprised. Even has a latex option. If you name your variables correctly, it even outputs Greek symbols and subscript correctly!
I really want Julia to succeed and take place of Python/R/other. But Python has lots of packages and tutorials/book. You can do lots of things in Python. It will be very hard to replace it because of the need to rewrite lots of things and need to learn other language. Many people do not want to learn new language if current one provides solution for a problem that they are facing today.
Not only that, but if you have a patient in a hospice with stage 4 lung cancer who dies and tests positive for Covid, does that go in the "Covid death" bucket?

Honest question. I don't know the answer. I assume it's left up the physician's judgement?
Thanks, this worked well on Mac.
There is no substantiation provided in the article for this assertion. You are simply repeating an unsupported claim.
What was the name of the book?
What was the name of the blog post?
I find it stupidly fascinating how notation compressed a quantity so large in so few.
Instant live branching and switching MySQL databases
> It's as if we have no idea how to hire developers. ;-)

Indeed.
The fraction of people in AI working on problems that need to consider diversity/fairness/etc. is rather small. Yes, those people, these specific applications, should be designed with care, should be overseen properly and in the best of all worlds should be unbiased. However, the recent discussion around this topic is framed like AI research in general is somehow unethical and should be informed more by minority populations. While this is something to strive for, for the sake of having a more just society, the impact of diversity on an AI system that say classifies mitochondria in yeast is not clear to me. I’d argue the majority of problems in AI right now are of this form and not of the form addressed by the author. If you want to push quotes, increase minority representation for occupations, do so. If you want to address specific biases in very specific applications then do that. Don’t use the latter to make an argument for the former though. These are two different issues and while I recognize the author sees a link here I’m not so certain about that. To be clear I think that both are worthy goals. But it’s somewhat disingenuous to make an inherent political argument, people may disagree with, and justify it by overgeneralizing a specific, niche technological ethics question to an entire field.
Of course some countries have dramatically different demographics, geography and medical systems than others which can have a huge effect. As has been pointed out in a parallel thread Vietnam locked down all international travel very early, and demographically has a far younger population than most nations which has a huge effect on relative mortality rates.

For New Zealand they have an extremely widely geographically dispersed population, which you can think of as built-in demographic social distancing. They also locked down early and there was strong popular support for the lockdown.

It's really pretty ridiculous to expect radically different countries with completely different geography, demographics, medical systems and lockdown policies as though they're all assumed to be equivalent as a default. Specific local conditions can have a massive effect. But anyway I'm not even sure I understand what your point is Why do you think these countries outcomes were so radically different from, say, that in New York, or Lombardy? Or what's happening right now in Texas?
I don't follow. Isn't there pretty clearly an overlap between the YC crowd and the SSC crowd? Former YC partners were among the first people to light my Twitter TL up about SSC. SSC have long been routinely featured on HN. Among the first signatures on the "DontDoxScottAlexander" petition are Paul Graham and Sam Altman.

I'm also not clear on what's problematic about the claim. Affiliation with YC legitimizes SSC (though: that might not be commutative); it doesn't threaten SSC.
If you want to see the tremendous mental gymnastics that go into it, check this out:

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/bibli...
Useful Networking Commands You Should Know
> There have been plenty of times of censorship and social strife in history.

Sure, but the notions of "re-education", "self-criticism" and the struggle-session as a form of public humiliation where someone is forced to admit their "crimes" before the "people" are a distinctive part of leftist social strife and oppression. And it seems quite relevant to point out that these social practices have led to mass murder in at least one instance that we know about, where they were promoted in an extensive "grassroots" campaign and thereby became widespread. We're not talking about willful and intentional physical purges of intellectuals ala Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, where your contention that mass murder is the defining element of it all would be far more on point.
Has something changed such that adding an exported field to a struct is now safe in the case of clients who are using struct embedding? Previously: https://blog.merovius.de/2015/07/29/backwards-compatibility-...
What’s wrong with FactoryProducerProxy? /jk
Ask HN: Any marketers here? Suggest some marketing books?
Nope that is illegal too.

Basically anything that makes you want to just rage close it is illegal.

The trick noone seems to understand is that this is not about getting your consent.

It is about making things that cannot get your consent in "good" ways illegal. Anything that needs to be big and visible means that they are doing things that are too much for informed consent to be given.
Why Do People Think Mystery and Magic Are a Good Idea
"Dr. Raji said, "Gray matter volume is a key marker of brain health. Larger gray matter volume means a healthier brain. Shrinking volume is seen in Alzheimer's disease. Gray matter includes neurons that function in cognition and higher order cognitive processes. The areas of the brain that benefited from an active lifestyle are the ones that consume the most energy and are very sensitive to damage." [1]

But you can experience bad brain health from inactivity.

1. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201...
I've been saying this since QE1. A nation cannot continuously devalue it's currency forever while producing less and less of value. The collapse has already happened and we're just running on fumes.
It is going to get worst. If you think carefully and quoting Feynman "There is plenty of room at the bottom".

Do you want examples?

A Simon Bolivar statue was vandalized in Florida, now Bolivar was no saint but he is a South-American hero he died in 1830 and now he has been tarnished just by being a "White Slaver"(He was not). Well, let's see you can come now after the name Bolivia, named after him, you can also include Colombia, America, The Philippines, El Salvador, Dominican Republic and many many more. I have seen several prominent people just shy of outright requesting that.

The Oscars are going to change their eligibility criteria and it will be based supposedly on the British awards, quoting from a NYT article "All entries in two British film categories, outstanding British film and outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer, are now required to increase representation to meet at least two of four diversity standards, like 'onscreen representation, themes and narratives,' and 'industry access and opportunities.' among others." Do you know what this means for art? Bye Celine, by Kafka,bye Joyce, bye Kurosawa, bye Kubrick, bye Lynch, bye Tarantino and so on. Only wholesome, clean , politically conscious entertainment will be recognized. Now, what does this remind you of?

None of the current power-holders will be affected for all these changes, so no essential change. The big traditional companies are already on-board, Silicon Valley is on board, the savvy political parties are on-board, Hollywood is on-board , the media too. What this will do is to disenfranchise and silence any dissenting, dissonant voice and create a moralist culture which will dictate in a top-down form the "correct way" to do things and interpret the world. You disagree? No Facebook for you, No youtube, no mastercard, no visa, no Stanford, no Netflix, no New York Times, no BBC, nothing for you.
You don't have to firewall the superfluous open IP socket any more.
Not sure where you get 70,000. On average it's 16,000 - 40,000 per year, there was a really bad flu on 2017-2018, which killed about 61,000 people, but on 2018-2019 it killed 34,000[1].

Anyway, your point stands, but there are people who think covid deaths are no higher than a bad flu, and your numbers seem to mislead in that direction.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html
> Passion is overrated

"Passionate employees" seems to be code for "compliant human robots willing to sacrifice their personal lives, health and sanity for the company's bottom line, and to work extensive overtime without compensation while we recruit their cheaper replacements."
There's one crisis in this set that's real and we're doing way too little about it (climate crisis). Probably the biggest harm from short term panickng about these smaller things is taking away attention from it.
Unfortunately, it's gotten to the point where adding anything proprietary to the workflow is a liability.
Could you elaborate? What is the problem with the linked project? Training a slightly faster, smaller and less accurate version of an existing model?
Maybe someone else is also interested in some backgrounds on this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22390093
Like most of the goings on in the world?