skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While these numbers might be inaccurate, what is actually going on right now is starting to look very grim.

Every nurse & Dr I know is getting massive bonuses (200-400 a DAY + hazard pay) to pick up 1-2 extra shifts. Recruiters are offering contract jobs at smaller hospitals north of $100 an hour for 12 weeks, with housing. We are weeks away from Doctors & Nurses working 48+ hours a week. (Do you really want to be treated by someone on their last 12 hour shift on overtime?)

There is not much staff left to deploy to help with the rising case load. Florida hospitals will soon be overwhelmed.

I hope we peak here soon and learn a valuable lesson going into winter, where we will have to deal with both corona virus and influenza.
Slavishly neoliberal is not the same as free trade.

Adam Smith, whom they model themselves after, was against rentier activity, The Economist is not.

The UK is presently embroiled in negotiating all kinds of trade agreements as part of Brexit, and none of the countries will be signing a reciprocal "free trade" agreement between the two, it's a pipe dream.

In addition, Smith would have been appalled at the UK running a huge deficit ad-infinitum, selling off land to pay for it, and generally making very little. The Economist has very little to do with classic liberals. What The Economist supports now is lunacy, and we've seen in the response to Covid in the UK and the USA that both countries are on their knees.

Again: I find it slavishly neo-liberal.
It's important to bear in mind that this article isn't primarily about global fossil fuel consumption, it's almost entirely about the economic issues affecting petrostates.

Two things are hitting oil states right now. One is that developing countries, which pay the best rates for oil, are consuming less of it. The remaining increases in demand are from developing countries, but they are following the same arc as developed countries, and on a relatively accelerated time frame. Their consumption will also decline. One thing TE doesn't address is that another factor is the diversification and increase in global oil supplies from new suppliers, including frackers. That's probably having a bigger impact on the traditional petrostates right now. Hoverver the article is mainly looking at where the puck is going, not where it is now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/nyregion/fahim-saleh-susp...

What? You guys got hysterical and blamed the Saudis based on no facts and you were completely wrong? Who would of guessed? Oh wait, I did.
> Why hasn't it been deployed thus far?

For three straightforward reasons:

(1) Wind and (especially) solar have only recently become cheap enough for this case to be made. Utility scale solar fell in cost by a factor of 5 in just the last decade,

(2) The point I made was for an apples-to-apples comparison in which all the capital costs are considered. But in this transition time the renewables are competing against existing capacity, in which the capital costs are sunk,

(3) Fossil fuel sources are not being charged for their CO2 emissions. The point I made was for a CO2-free grid, which requires that fossil fuel sources not be allowed to emit CO2. Nowhere have CO2 taxes or regulations yet put us into this situation.

Today, there are very few, if any, places in the world where it would make economic sense to build a new nuclear power plant.

> All the components for solar roadways and hyperloop exist and are proven, doesn't mean either of those are viable.

Electrolyzers exist, and are being made and sold in rapidly increasing numbers. Hydrogen valves, compressors, turbines, pipelines, and underground storage caverns exist. This is integration of existing technologies, some with track records going back more than a century. The comparison you make there is silly in the extreme. It would be more appropriate if applied to the current hype about thorium and Hail Mary Reactors.
I blame bad developers for this. Marketers will always pull this shit, but a conscientious developer will ensure the browser's "Do Not Track" setting is respected.

Take note, developers; it's as simple as this:

if (!navigator.doNotTrack) { // Tracking code }
I read a comment on another forum that made a big deal of the briefcase in particular. If they were just memeing/shitposting on the story that's one thing, but a lot of people seemed to sincerely believe that briefcase or suit ownership was actual evidence of being a contract killer.

The professional coordinated murderers of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh were caught on surveillance cameras wearing totally unremarkable clothing. In real life, contract killers don't have uniforms. However I think it's interesting to consider the possibility that the killer in this case was essentially role-playing as a contract killer as portrayed by popular media.
The ads are delivered separately for now. You bring up an interesting idea; I guess they aren't able to store the ads in the video stream for now.
We did it, Reddit.
You can already use it in any/every field that Java is used in (which is pretty much all of them).

There are also libraries written in Kotlin itself for a wide variety of areas now too.
Non-personalized, because it's less likely to work on me. I don't want to be manipulated.

If I decide on my own to buy something, it won't be hard to find. I don't need to tell advertisers what I'm in the market for. I can just tell Google or Amazon what I want and I'll find it immediately, even though I'm blocking the ads.
The only component I want to see in a demo of any UX framework - be it desktop or web - is the almighty tree table. I‘d like to see sorting, filtering, column resizing and -reordering, including save / restore of the above. Row (multi-)selection, striping, hover. Inline editing. Show me all other components inside a row.
>But being the most popular mobile ecosystem

I keep seeing quote similar to this about Apple's iOS being so popular, yet the numbers clearly show that Android devices/users out number iOS. Are they saying that even with those numbers, Android is unpopular and people would rather be an iOS user? Is the price point whats preventing them?
It was crystal clear by 2005 that it was all going to pop.

The analysis from a journal that purports to be about economics should have come in the build up to the crisis, not when the first huge cracks appear in the damn, having spent the prior decade shouting "put more water in".
I've rewrote the frontend of one of my personal apps from react to webcomponents lately. For me, the most interesting aspect was that it's part of standards, requiring no dependency, so it means that I can use this app for decades without having to maintain it.

For the same reason, only the first example in this page would do for me (the one based on standard without using any library). But I suppose that for actually publishing something, such library would be needed, if anything for polyfills for older browsers (but then again, we don't expect published work to stand for decades without changes, so maybe the call for standardized technology is not as strong there).
Well... Most of my Linux software looks better than this. You can file a bug with your concerns and the team responsible will address it. Also, looking at the Windows version of Process Monitor, I wouldn't call it a beautiful UI: it's a grid of values with a little bit of drill-down ability and a couple colorful buttons on a toolbar. I assume they prefered to make it a text user interface because it's much easier to get to a remote machine and run it there than it'd be with a GUI tool without having to either split the app into remote and local parts or install an X client on the server and pipe it over X to the user's workstation (and relying on an X server on the graphical side).

I would have chosen different colors though, but I also imagine they wanted to restrain themselves to the base ANSI color palette for compatibility reasons.
I do not know. If you have a CDN or DNS account with them, then that is probably the best way. Otherwise, just have multiple resolvers in your DNS config so you do not have a single point of success.
At Last, a 2.5Gbps Consumer Network Switch: QNAP QSW-1105-5T 5-Port Switch
Radio firmwares having full RAM access is an urban legend, at least on phones from the last 10 years. The baseband interface is actually done through a USB like protocol. The legend ticks all the boxes of privacy minded/distrusting people and so remains popular, but it's not substantiated by any facts, at least not facts that pertain to modern smartphones from the past 10 years.
If someone actually paid $275k for your home, then it definitely is worth $275k. But right now that value is just theoretical (maybe real for purposes of taxation, but that doesn't always reflect what a buyer will pay). The moment money changes hands, it becomes real.
So you're assuming a Mars colony would have a nuclear reactor(s). Setting aside for a moment what a Herculean task that would be, how would you expect a nuclear reactor work on Mars? They require massive amounts of cooling, most of a nuclear power plant is essentially the core's cooling system. There's no ready sources of water to use and the atmospheric density is a tiny fraction of Earth's. A Martian cooling tower would have to be enormous. A cooling system might have other configurations but it would still be enormous.

Dust storms on Mars can last for months. While the overall wind energy isn't as high as on Earth thanks to much lower atmospheric density, Martian dust still gets everywhere.

So your Martian reactors would have their cooling systems constantly covered in insulating dust. While Reactor Cooling Maintenance Technician would be an in-demand job, a long or particularly bad dust storm would doom the colony.

Building a second sewage system, or any other infrastructure, isn't always practical or even possible. The problem with infrastructure on Mars is it must always work or people will die. If an infrastructure problem kills or disables enough Reactor Cooling Maintenance Technicians the colony is doomed.

A broken sewer line on Earth is inconvenient to dangerous but rarely an existential problem. A broken sewer line anywhere but Earth is an existential threat at best.
If you booted single-user or didn't have a graphical login manager, you'd see this on the console on SunOS 4 and earlier (80s and 90s, pre-Solaris). I think by the time Solaris (or even open look) rolled around, it had a graphical user login.
I actually helped contribute to this list. If you look at the React, Svelte, and Vue, examples, they are specifically being wrapped as standard web components.
This is only true for people who live close to sea level. At higher altitudes, saturation even down into the high 80s can be normal: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-1...
> * Dark mode (though I actually don't get why a GTK application should do this; well-behaved GTK integration should respect dark GTK themes already)

Maybe that has changed recently, but the UI of Thundebird, like Firefox, used to be primarily based on XUL, only relying on GTK for drawing certain "native" elements, so it wouldn't implicitly inherit the GTK theming.
This made me think of BoringSSL and LibreSSL again.

Looking up on Wikipedia it seems that LibreSSL is focused on OpenBSD and removed lots of legacy code. BoringSSL (Google) got renamed to Tink but I couldn't not find much more.

It's sad to see that duplication of effort but it's also the force of open source
Is it though ?

Privacy has relied on the good-nature of service-providers for so long, that we don't know half the things that shady operators were upto (fingerprinting etc.).

Apple appears to pushing industry in a direction that's going to change things for the better.
I'm glad there have been changes to the project. Heartbleed was certainly bad, but I personally never understood getting behind LibreSSL. Seeing one bad vulnerability from an established project and immediately jumping ship to a brand new one with less eyes and reputation seemed hasty to me.
I agree, or at least turn this into a 10-page blog post. I'll forgive you the clickbait title.
Because the conversation was about Americans taking Twitter too seriously, not Twitter's discourse being dominated by Americans. The relevant metric seems to be the percentage of each population using twitter.
Honestly i'm just amazed. It's just so, so poor.

Who works on this software? Who wants to go to an interview with "workflow and usability lead on service now, 5 years" on their CV!
But all the evidence from European countries tells us a lot about non-lockdown spread following a proper lockdown.
I unsubscribed from Bloomberg. Their articles are only relevant for finance professionals. The FT has things like personal finance and general news too - although both are of questionable political neutrality.
This is what I question about Hanlon's razor, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity/incompetence."

In practice, when such "incompetence" involves millions (of Euro, dollars, etc.) - and those involved stand to gain from it - we ought to scrutinize it as a possible symptom of "malicious competence".

For me, "incompetence" sounds like an excuse or smokescreen, when there are those who profited from it. After all, numerous real-life cases suggest that corruption is endemic, if not inherent, in our institutions of politics, business, and public decision-making process.
It is by no means only just now starting to look grim.
It's just a PDF link. The paper mentions the existence of LibreSSL but that is pretty much it; the focus of the paper is on the extensive efforts to improve OpenSSL.
Delivering Value and Reducing Risk
Every journey is a compromise between value and risk. Each individual has his own evaluation grid and decides to travel or not. And pretty much any decision in life is about making tradeoffs between risk and value. Products do not escape this rule. Onboard with us on a two and a half months journey and we did to add value to a product by actually de-risking it.
Every increase in the percentage of people with immunity reduces R0. At some point, even absent any other measures, the R0 would be below 1 just due to the number of people that are immune; herd immunity.

But in any case, the immunity level of the population reduces the need for other measures in order to stay below an R0 of 1.

There’s a massive spectrum of efficacy in the dozens of different suppression or containment policies that can be applied, combined with demographics and geography of the location being studied.

But in any case, the immunity level of the population is a downward force on R0 that, for example, will naturally keep daily cases lower in New York vs. Florida regardless of policy.
Fun fact: Claude Shannon tinkered in artificial intelligence and board games back in the day. He built many devices to play against human players, and one to play against another machine.

https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/143233/claude-shannon-man...
Well how would that have helped the perpetrator? He'd be the first person the police would look at. In most cases, retaliating for this kind of thing is not the rational thing to do. That doesn't mean it won't happen, but it's unlikely.

When people retaliate against victims for reporting them, it's generally because there's a long game that they're concerned about. It could be an organized crime outfit that's concerned about it's future, it's reputation etc. Or an abusive partner who expects to be able to continue the abuse long term, so they want to "nip it in the bud" when someone talks to the police. So even though they may get in more trouble for the retaliation, they think it's worth it in the long term. The victims in these cases are usually captive in some sense.

Imo, generally when you're the victim of an unexpected crime, you're safer reporting to the authorities than you would be keeping quiet about it.
> the only game that gave me a similar feeling was The Raven Legacy of a Master Thief

Just bought it because of your comment. Thank you.
I don’t see anyone out there with widespread praise of the violence you are talking about.
Covid is only the single biggest cause of death in the US for the past few months, so safe!
A protest sign I saw is an apt response to the situation:

"Why should we go to school if you won't listen to the educated?"
What do you use Airtable for? I use it for personal projects and tasks but don’t have any idea of the uses for enterprise.
Money. What else?
Nope, your thoughts are all essentially correct. The answer is “yes” to all of them; even the ones where it seems that “yes” would be contradictory.

Bundle everything? Yep. Self contained? Yep. 10 components that open connections to 10 different severs? Yep.

The web is so massive that there is a way for pretty much everything (though for some reason webdevs try not to admit this).
> This is all true, but the thing to note is that actual bad-faith participants are not so common.

One of the unnerving things about the world today is that we really don't know how common bad-faith participation is in online spaces. We do know that state-sponsored and corporate-sponsored trolling and astroturfing happens. We can infer that those organizations wouldn't spend money on that if they didn't more than recoup their investment. That implies that there is enough bad-faith participation to affect real-world outcomes.

But we really don't know how much. It's even hard to draw the line between bad-faith actors and good-faith ones. If a concerted trolling campaign persuades some to genuinely change their belief and then that person goes on to parrot those beliefs, are they acting in good faith or bad?

It's also important to remember that the blast radius of even a single bad-faith actor is quite large. It doesn't take much malice to harm an entire community.
I know I replied to a different comment of yours, but this paper also illustrates how this point, while matching common medical wisdom, is not necessarily correct when accounting for altitude: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-1...

(Summary: Healthy children at higher altitude breathe more rapidly.)
Reddit really is one of the worst places on the internet.
Isn't goalseeking the serious allegation here that requires proof?
Eyes doesn't make a project, but the development process
All that is happened is that the bulk of industrial production has been pushed overseas. Yes, personal emissions in automobiles has gone down and in many places the electricity grid is pretty green, but net emissions have gone up massively nonetheless.
The amount of public money you can funnel out or funnel in by cash in hand is limited to actual cash in hand. The level of corruption at the highest levels are on the order of a billion euros. I am not sure if you can get even close to billions of euros in corruption using only cash.
as a former developer at a marketing agency, that ain't happening
So where do you think you caught it? Seems strange that some people take all precautions and still end up getting it.
I expect those are all "last straw" incidents. If it were not for one <whatever-trivial-incident> another would have ignited the war instead.

We are very far from a stray remark triggering a war unless either/both sides are already heavily primed and itching for one in the first place.
Indeed. I have the same complaint about linux now.
Unfortunately it's the reality of capitalism that industrial production was moved to areas with poor environmental standards on purpose _because_ of poor environmental (and labour) standards there.
Actually the implication from this recall is that they're manufacturing about 12 new F6 bodies per month.
As long as you keep this in mind while you read it, I think even people who disagree with that will get a lot of value out of it. Personally I’ve found many of their foreign policy positions disgusting (and found their slandering of Corbyn as an anti Semite particularly disappointing) but at the same time they still have some of the best foreign policy coverage out of any source I’ve been exposed to.

Outside of foreign policy and politics I’ve found them to be pretty exemplary
This is an intended side effect of using a shadow DOM. I tried to outline the advantages in the Customizing section of the docs [1] and I think these three points will answer your question.

- Customizations can be made to components with explicit selectors, such as ::part(icon), rather than implicit selectors, such as .button > div > span + .icon, that are much more fragile.

- The internal structure of a component will likely change as it evolves. By exposing component parts through an API, the internals can be reworked without fear of breaking customizations as long as its parts remain intact.

- It encourages us to think more about how components are designed and how customizations should be allowed before users can take advantage of them. Once we opt a part into the component's API, it's guaranteed to be supported and can't be removed until a major version of the library is released.

1. https://shoelace.style/getting-started/customizing?id=compon...
Hospital are frequently overwhelmed in the past, nothing new, at least at current situation is no more overwhelmed than what has frequently happen in the past.
The whole float-based layout thing was a hack. Floats make perfect sense if you only ever use them as floats: box-outs to run text around.

The fact you could use them to build all sorts of header/column/footer layouts was both very helpful and entirely confusing.

It became the default way to use CSS, for good reason. Yet, I always felt it was a shame it wasn’t often described as the hack it was.
Are you sure you understand it? Insider trading is not limited to employees, that's a common misconception.

I don't know the German law on the matter, but I would wager that the prosecution was warranted, even when the court ends up determining that the charge doesn't hold.
I'd be more interested in a comparison in the strategies used to harden the codebase in the forks like BoringSSL and LibreSSL, and how well those strategies have panned out.

There has historically been some crowing from the LibreSSL crowd about how their work avoided CVE's later discovered in OpenSSL: https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150319145126
Byju's and Google Playstore dark pattern – what to do?
The alleged killer won first place (along with another person) for website design in a Future Business Leaders of America competition held in Rochester. [1]

Stunning, sad and macabre. Nothing else to say.

[1] http://www.vschsd.org/News/Story.aspx?id=35361
Thanks for this recommendation. I just bought the book. Years ago, I read Poundstone's "The Recursive Universe" and loved it so his writing combined with this subject should be great.
This remains a killer app for me on Android. I don't know if anything equivalent exists on iOS, to enable background playing and video downloads (and you can choose whether to download them as audio files).
"health experts fear it can cause potential lifelong damage in children."

Which health experts? Why do they fear this?

"Alina Alonso, the health department director of Palm Beach County, reportedly told county commissioners on Tuesday that the long-term consequences of coronavirus in children are unknown."

That doesn't sound like fear to me, and in some respects the article comes off on me as though the author is attempting to elicit fear where there should be none. I am not a parent myself, but if there's one thing I know about them it's that they tend to be VERY fearful when it comes to their children's safety. If the author is deliberately toying with that then the ought to be ashamed.