skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least for Sweden, it is still true that the worst flus have killed more people than corona on a per capita basis. And we don't have to go back very far at all to find cases of this. 1993 and 2000 where particularly bad and topped corona.

But that is corona with social distancing and very widespread working from home, so it isn't really an apples to apples comparison.
If I remember correctly most developers could only afford such systems after slowly establishing themselves, and they weren't cheap for 80's money.

So preservance using what the 8bit systems offered was a must anyway.
Fine, but how does that explain disparities in outcome between European countries?
> Germany and Italy, which are neighbours.

I think Austria and Switzerland would like to have a word with you.
Ah, I loved that trick, building concrete roadway with towers right in front of enemy production buildings!
You are allowed to travel everywhere in Norway now if you are a resident, even if you are from Oslo. However, there was a couple of weeks where that was not allowed.

Norway is actually almost back to normal,except you can't have gatherings of over 200 people. It has been this way for almost a month now, and there have not been any increase in confirmed covid cases yet, which is surprising.
> Yes, and pjreddie seems to have concluded computer vision is mostly (or too often for their liking) used for the digital equivalent of those bad things.

Indeed, there are many nefarious applications of computer vision. But applications to the medical industry are plentiful too.

I see weighing up the net benefit as a tricky and a personal matter.
> great feelings

I also remember the panic after "warning, wormsign", trying to locate and move my harvesters.
Something I didn't make clear in the original proposal was that the "please treat me with respect" fee would have to be paid before any dispute.

Or the far more radical point of view that people who are economically dependent on Google are employees .. although that is probably impossible to define and unworkable.
No need to replace them. My grandparents shrugged when first introduced to garbage bags as they were used (from soviet times) to carry the trash out with the bin, empty it to the trash container and be done. Seems easier and also one less thing to worry about. You do have to wash the trash can regularly, but that's the case even with garbage bags, albeit not as big.
The author needs the React-rails.
https://www.hungerforwords.com/post/teaching-my-dog-to-talk-...

This is a fascinating summary of training process and accomplished results. Author is speech therapist for children and applies similar approach instead of rewarding dog for just pressing buttons. Most of comments here are too dismissive of methods and results.
To quote the Manic Street Preachers:

"And if you tolerate this, then your children will be next"

And in a more serious note, from "First they came.." [1]. It is about the cowardice of German intellectuals and certain clergy (including, by his own admission, Niemöller himself) following the Nazis' rise to power and subsequent incremental purging of their chosen targets, group after group.:

First they came for the Communists - And I did not speak out - Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists - And I did not speak out - Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists - And I did not speak out - Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews - And I did not speak out - Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me - And there was no one left - To speak out for me

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
I get it that this metric sounds to be the only good one, but lockdowns surely have minimized certain other deaths (car accidents, etc.). Thoughts? (Haven't read the links, or articles, so it might be mentioned there)
Show HN: Django-lgi – interpret HTTP API requests sent to Django app in Lambda
The Entrepreneur’s Unsung Superpower: Forwardable Emails
I feel like that article took way too long to get to the actual point of it then unfortunately abruptly ended as soon as it got interesting.
They are, but many of them have people only seated outside, and in places where it was almost impossible to get a table, nowadays it is relatively easy to get one.

Also plenty of them have decided to just stay closed as the measures to put in place were too much for their usual business costs.
yeah, i think the cultural aspect can not be ignored!

The stereotypes of some cultures being more cold and wanting to keep their distances is grounded in reality. In e.g. france or italy having very close contact for example when greeting is the norm. I can imagine that it helps to spread the virus.

Others don't have to adjust too much.
There's even big differences on Covid death rates within Switzerland's German-speaking, Italian-speaking, and French-speaking regions. Much higher death rates in the Italian and French parts than the German part [0].

One explanation could be different cultures, or just geographical proxomit to Italy and France that were harder hit than Germany and Austria. This would also explain that Germany has higher rates in states that are close to the French border.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Switzerla...
This looks great. Thanks for sharing.
Also, Firefox for Android has Google AdMob integration and uses firebase as a hosting service for some scripts.

I lately started to use Appwarden [1] to check some apps, and I'm amazed how messed up the App ecosystem is in terms of advertising trackers and abusive CDNs - even if you use only AOSP builds, no gapps, and only f-droid, you can get compromised very easily.

[1] https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AppWarden
Disagree, it was incredibly reckless. We still don’t fully understand the virus’ transmission vectors, R-values, etc. It very easily could have had a higher fatality rate or transmission rate potentially killing many more people. Claiming it’s a model of pragmatism is a post-hoc rationalization of poor policy.
Nice. Over at #pypy on IRC we would love to hear about the use case since we rarely get to showcase positive results
The data shows that these two do not balance each other out. Otherwise there would be no excess mortality, or it would be negative, i.e., less deaths. From just looking at this metric, we can't tell - but other metrics like car accidents per month per capita do show that this is the case.

One interesting thing is that COVID-19 lowers the mortality rate in the mid-to-long term. It disproportionately targets the weakest, so in the next couple of months and years, less people than the expected average will die, because the weakest are already dead, and that will lower the mortality rate per capita for one generation at least. At some point, it will hopefully raise again, and that too will be due to COVID-19, because the reason for that will be that we wouldn't have a recent-enough COVID-19-like event.

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Point being, one should be careful when comparing mortality rates and absolute death counts. One needs to factor in both to get the full picture, and for rate, the period over which the rate is computed is very relevant.
Ah its first in a series, the first time Next up links hasn't just been completely irrelevant articles.
no? you just need to have safe spaces, it's not like they going anywhere anyway.
This, and we have to look at the sum of all deaths when Covid19 dies out. Maybe they did just go through it faster than other countries, but also gain group immunity faster and have faster economic recovery. Too early to tell I think.

Edit: A flattened curve may still have the same surface below it. Did Sweden keep it below critical IC capacity (are they keeping it there)? I guess that is an important thing to know.
> All so that 75 year olds can have an extra month or two of average life expectancy?

One study found the average loss of life per COVID-19 death is 11 years for men and 13 for women.

https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-75

It's potentially a lot more if you let the virus get out of control. The hospitalisation rate is difficult to pin down, but could be something like 4% for people in their 40s. That proportion starts to get closer to the overall death rate if your health system is overwhelmed.
I agree and would say that normally dispatch comes in handy for things like `+`, `length` and of course your own functions where the meaning is the same but the implementation must be different depending on the type.
The entire idea behind the policy is that people do not take care of their trash. Each plastic bag causes harm and getting rid of the plastic isn't something that can be fixed with money. People are willing to spend a little bit more money to prevent an intractable problem. So the answer is to simply not use single use plastic bags.
Well you can argue the same and say that football sucks because it privileges athleticism which is at its peak for 20-something people.
What happens if you can't deliver?
> countries that didn't do very much (e.g. Japan)

They already had masks on when others questioned their effectiveness and to this day, 95% people wear masks outside.

They have hand sanitizers on pretty much every shop entrance and chairs are placed with certain distances apart.

They don't wear shoes at home and public spaces don't have litters all over.

They don't hug and kiss frequently like some countries do.

Some stop visiting restaurants when they read news that daily infection count goes over 100. (Not 10,000.)

Apparently they don't riot shouting in the middle of the outbreak.

How about that they have been acting clean before covid happened and government not exactly handling the situation strictly wasn't really the cause of the difference in death rates?

Also interesting is that they have a train system with packs of people squashed in a cabin but the infection rate is still low and someone needs to prove/disprove the BCG vaccine theory.
The organization didn't create the slogan. The people who created the slogan created the organization 3 years later.[1]

[1] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/17/candace-ow...
What the go team fails to realize is that they haven't actually reduced complexity in their design of go; they've simply MOVED it. And it's been moved in unintuitive ways as they've painted themselves into corners that should have been avoidable with some careful planning.

We now have:

- magic file names

- magic directory names

- magic comments

- magic env vars

- API design requires gymnastics and juggling since recursive imports are disallowed

- A ton of useful code in the standard library remains unlayered and unexposed for no good reason (pprof, for example)

- Requiring full paths rather than relative imports complicates everything when you're fetching it from a different source location (replace directives and magic ENV vars).

- Slice implementation means that you need to do double pointer storage to keep track of the same slice from multiple places

- Creating arrays with a dynamically defined length is horribly overcomplicated

- Their policy on warnings and instead calling every little thing an error is terrible and wastes a ton of developer time.

- Lack of runtime const value support is just sloppy.

- Why do go source files even need a package declaration? It serves no useful purpose since the compiler already knows enough to spit out an error if you get it wrong.

- Refactoring across packages is nearly impossible to automate because there's no way to declare adherence to an interface.

- No importing of test code from other test code (which means that the import code in the compiler has increased complexity to enforce this silly rule).

- Stack overflows are STILL impossible to track down (after a DECADE!) because it only prints the top of the stack, which is useless in such a case.

- Linting is too opinionated and is all-or-nothing.

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I could go on. I really wanted to like go, and many parts of it do actually feel nice. But even after a decade it's a huge mess. I've spent more time writing workarounds for go than for any other language in my 25 year career. Hell, I even modified the damn compiler out of frustration! [1]

[1] https://github.com/kstenerud/go#the-go-programming-language
Most valuation methods aren't accurate. Here's why ours is
Read the article, you can learn something :)
Your cosmopolitan “values” of celebrating global human labor trafficking are simply a means to exploit the global working class.

For most working Americans, and effectively many foreigners as well, global human labor trafficking is an objectively bad thing.
Apparently Marco from ATP fame did just that.
Implementing HTTPS in .NET Core 3.1
We hired another engineer so I haven't done any work with C# in the last couple of years. But maybe 5-7 years ago compiled a Windows Forms application with Xamarin under Linux and it worked with a couple of fixes.

I suspect that given that it's Microsoft if it works it'll just work.
Apps: Netflix, Notability, MindNode (discontinued), Memrise (discontinued)

IaaS/ PaaS/ SaaS: Digital Ocean for VPS, Stripe for subscription billing, GoDaddy for domains, Dropbox for online storage and file sharing, Google Voice for phone number porting.

Recently, I have been thinking about setting up a blog based site, not sure whether to setup my own on DigitalOcean or go with something like Wordpress.com. I just see too many attempts of WP exploits on my non-WP site, and haven’t come across any decent non-WP based blog driven site CMS.
It doesn't make a lot of sense to lump these groups together in my opinion. LGB seems quite different to T.
The Dutch think of their healthcare as the Brits think of their NHS. It's more faith than fact.

I find it impossible to have a reasonable discussion on the subject, even people in healthcare (I worked in a famous Dutch hospital). People are dug in, evidence-based medicine is a tool to improve statistics first, patient care second, and nobody knows what anything actually costs, despite the national DBC-accounting system which was invented for insurers. Hint: not even the Dutch statistics bureau can tell you what the total cost of Dutch healthcare is. I've heard this is very politicized issue, all behind the scenes of course.
Really interesting find.

An old theme in archeology has been the importance of invention, in a chain of events leading to modernity. A pretty orthodox interpretation of neolithic cultural changes was: (1) surpluses from agriculture (2) division of labour (3) specialisation (4) invention (5) economic revolution (6) cities, castes, religion, complex society etc.

I don't think anyone meant this totally literally and linearly but, it was thought of as a chain of events.

Increasingly, neolithic and mesolithic finds seem to contradict it. In Gobeklli Tepeh, for example, #6 happened several millennia before #1. The bow seems to have been invented many times, and bow using culture use grew and receded many times.

The one concept I enjoyed most in "Sapiens" was a different concept of human progress: group size. The literal size of closely cooperative groups, but also federation and cultural supergroups that can exchange memes (and genes) fluidly.

The truth of it is an empirical question that we can't easily answer. As a speculative theory, I enjoy its indirectness. The path forward isn't defined a chain of milestones. It puts group psychology and cultural elements ahead of technological ones. Much of archeology seems parsimonious to it.
Lightbulb: GUI applications traditionally exchange data between each other (like CLI piping) by saving to disk or offering data via a drag and drop protocol. I wonder if there would be value in having an application that visually allows you to construct a pipeline from application to application.

Something like an application called "Flow" where you drag the 1-window GIMP into Box A, then a photo-cataloguing app into Box B.

I could also see this being something doable from a system menu. You see a list of open applications and create a visual linkage/workflow between them.

I've also wanted a Wayland compositor feature where you drag data from 1 application to another, and the compositor jumps in to offer how to transform the data between them. Say if App-A only offers MP3s, and App-B only accepts FLAC, the compositor could trigger an app to negotiate transforming/re-encoding that data between apps (and then offer to App-B).

I have some bad, contrived examples here.
Ashley Appletree is a webcomic that reminded me very much of Calvin & Hobbes.
Git commit accepts several message flags (-m) to allow multiline commits
Yeah, we've heard all of that. However, is it really true?
How many lifes could be saved if we directed 50% of world wide military budget towards ending hunger?
Let that sink for a while, and let me know if you still think the "we are just protecting you" narrative is really honest.
It's not strongly related to any of those things. The situation would be very bad in Norway/Denmark too if we didn't react like we did.

Compared to both Sweden and Britain, Norway reacted quicker and harder, with way more testing than most other countries. As it got out of hand, even more restrictions like shutting down a lot of business types, public transportation, schools and travel was added. Working from home was also recommended and used by basically everyone who could. Long after this happened in Norway, things where mostly as usual in both Sweden and Britain, despite the number of infections climbing fast.
TDF could've avoided all this by not doing it in the first place. They sure would've known what the community's reaction was going to be.

Anyone contributing "a lot" (financial & technical), either Enterprise or individual, doesn't mean they can pull the project in their direction. If the project is community driven, then it stays that way.

Tired of Enterprises hijacking FLOSS projects, just because they contributed more in terms of development & finance. They still should be considered volunteers & thank them for their support, that's it. If they think that they aren't getting their deserved cut, then they no longer have to volunteer. If the project development wouldn't go at an accelerated pace, because enterprises weren't involved, so be it.
Right, I compared COVID-19 to the worst strains of the flu, not to the common cold. I found that the worst strains of the flu killed more people.

But even that simple statement of fact is suppressed, even here on HN, because this issue is so heavily politicized.
I've had good experience with Closure's cautious approach to parentheses.

It's not radical, in that it's still basically parentheses but their nesting is greatly reduced by combination of tricks:

Flattening, if reversible. E.g. if something's always a list of pairs, then it's represented as a flat list with pairing inferred.

Having shorthands in syntax, i.e. [a b c] is (vec '(a b c)).
Many contributors are volunteer, not under mozilla payroll. I doubt they would stay quiet if they notice something like this happen.
Game of Life Made with Particles
Exactly. CV is interesting and can be completely harmless. But the benefits of the technology for the average person are extremely small relatively to the benefits it brings to any potential oppressive power. Mass surveillance tech can be convenient but it's a deal with the devil and I think we sometimes willfully ignore that under the guise of a perceived amorality of progress. "it's just science, it's neutral and you can also use it for good" can sound like a good argument that I usually even agree with.

But in this case it's very simple:

"Good guys" using of CV gets them things like good auto sorting in Google photos

"Bad guys" using CV can reduce the complexity of creating a fully Orwellian, big brother like surveillance state from "absurdly complex to implement and impossible to maintain" to "we can already put in place a solid implementation today and it will get better by the day".

Now I used to work in CV and as you said,I get how great and exciting the underlying tech is. But I definitely lean more towards fear than excitement these days. I also realize that it's already everywhere, with heavy research efforts and that you can't ever stop it at this point. But that really goes to show that the Yolo creator was right.

Think about it, what does the chinese people gain from CV or face recognitio right now? Maybe cool filters. The chinese government? Unimaginable levels of surveillance and control over it's entire population and it's just getting started.
>through authorized sources

That can be just God's bookshelf itself right?

>Copyright is exercised as a means of quality control

Is that God too, or another 'authorized source' like the Vatican? ;)
GPT-3 ?
Counter Metrics?
At least one phase 3 clinical trial is about to start this month. I too am surprised that the one year estimate is not complete nonsense, but it seems it's not. (Of course the mRNA vector might simply not pan out, but there are still others currently undergoing phase 2.)

Efficacy is always a question, sure, yet it seems the spike protein is stable (conserved across mutations).

If the mRNA stuff works well then it'll likely work for the flu too. (It be easy to pack one shot full if flu strains.)
Why use "Eurasia" instead of Asia? Sri Lanka is nowhere near Europe...
New Earn IT Act Creates an Insane New Dilemma: Either Encrypt All or Spy on All
MPW (Macintosh Programmer’s Workshop) had a feature like that, called commandos IIRC, over 30 years ago. It did not set the world afire.

Furthermore, a closed-source solution is a non-starter.

The fish shell has an interesting feature where it parses man pages to autocomplete commands.
As far as I know, Firefox still allows you to play video in the background from the lock screen. It's probably YouTube that changed (because they want you to pay them for the feature, because people use YouTube for background music).

You can keep it from pausing by requesting the desktop site in Firefox. The mobile site pauses, the desktop site just keeps playing.
I should have closed the tab when I saw the boast of Facebook/Google/Microsoft logos and the words "trusted by". But I thought I'd join the waiting list to see the product in action. So I give my email, I'm then whisked away to TypeForm's website and I have to fill out a fucking form which starts by demanding my full name. I'm not giving an "online survey service" any of my details just to join a waiting list.
> and yet we haven't necessarily devolved into a big brother state.

Well this is damn close. It just needs an executive apparatus which is where drones surely come in handy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...
It might not be directly related to this, but I think it's way better for learners to actually read the docs/manpage and then try to craft the command themselves (getting it wrong a couple of times as well). This is kind of like copy/pasting the answer, which solves the immediate problem but is terrible for learning what's going on or how it works.
You know who else can recognize faces? Humans! I guess we should cancel humans because of ethical concerns.