skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to this Statista data, they’re roughly in the middle for Western Europe, not precisely but they certainly aren’t ahead of the pack: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1111779/coronavirus-deat...

Just because your bordering countries do better, is a possible indicator there methods worked better but there’s a lot more confounding variables that would need to be isolated, as I mention in another comment. For example perhaps the Nordic countries have similar age distributions (or not). They do have what seems to about 1/3 more immigrants than the other nordics per capita (https://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/artikler-og-publikasjoner/_...). Immigrants aren’t bad, just this particular virus hits elderly people more severely so having more elderly living in stratified homes means more elderly exposed.

Certainly stricter and government enforced lockdowns slow down progression rate of the disease for a while, but other factors also appear to have a larger cumulative effect. Timing, population composition, age distribution. It’s more akin to anti-depressants, as in clinical studies of many potential anti-depressants show they have similar rates of effect as placebos. The degree of the covid deaths per capita has as much to do with societal, geographical, and even luck in many countries.

I grant that well executed lockdowns have better success, especially in as in New Zealand, but they’re more of an anomaly I’d say. Now presuming, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy weren’t completely incompetent in their governmental lockdowns then other factors appear to be as big a factor as those policies. France from the Statista data only has a per capita mortality rate that 25% larger, which isn’t a large effect given the uncertainty of the data, and especially for epidemics which generally follow exponential curves (e.g. a tiny initial difference in starting conditions can lead to large differences very quickly). Take this (older graph) and it’d difficult to statistically say which countries have lockdowns or not. Again just including nearest neighbors isn’t sufficient since other neighboring countries like Germany, Belgium, and Netherlands have pretty big variations between them as large as Sweden to Norway. So do say the US and Canada.

I don’t believe the absolute number of COVID-19 cases matters as much given a virus where 5-80% of cases are mild or asymptotic (https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-what-proportion-are-a...). Many serological studies point to 10x the number of cases, which if so, all the cases numbers are off by an order of magnitude (https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/antibody-surveys-sug...). A bit callous perhaps, but the more cases of sars-cov-2 overall with the same number of fatalities means the less deadly it is overall. Also, the countries that had/have stricter lockdowns will likely continue having larger waves of deaths until their overall numbers look more like Sweden (your point of achieving herd immunity sooner).
The other major thread here as of writing is too focused on comparisons. I'll avoid that all together by saying this:

This poetry is not a worthwhile effort, and the analysis of it is even less worthwhile.

Maybe Aram Saroyan can be praised for convincing people that his poetry is meaningful and deep, when in reality he probably just spent 2 minutes writing "crickets" however many times on the page while laughing to himself that people were going to pay money for it.
Slack was free before Teams was free. They thought they had won the war before the first battle took place. Slack could have been Zoom, but instead it was just a pretty web client to IRC
I doubt that’s it. Ireland’s positive rate was about 0.2% for a few weeks, now back up to 1.6%.
> (No more than 250,000 deaths from COVID-19 worldwide within a quarter of a year, compared to 1.5 million deaths during the flu wave in 2017/18).

Interesting weasel-words and cherry-picking. First, comparing a quarter of a year of Covid deaths against a whole year (or two?) of normal flu, and then subtly shifting between deaths from Covid and deaths during a flu wave (so not caused by the flu?).

For a more accurate comparison: "between 291,000 and 646,000 people worldwide die from seasonal influenza-related respiratory illnesses each year"[0] and 907,917 have died from Covid so far this year[1], despite all the extra measures taken to limit its spread and mortality rate.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/p1213-flu-death-esti...

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
He's a de facto controlling shareholder due to how comfortably secure his plurality is, absolutely. And he's got a significant amount of de jure control by being Amazon's President, CEO, and Chairman of its Board of Directors. It's under his control in many real senses.

But he's not a majority shareholder, since his percentage of ownership does not exceed 50%.
Apparently you must reside in an area of the country that still cares about their upstanding, law abiding citizens, their right to protection from people who have no regard for the law, and where law enforcement is actually allowed and expected to enforce the laws citizens are expected to live by...

Therefore, you are clearly not from the west coast...and you should thank your lucky stars for that.
Just because they were pragmatic about points they disagreed on, does not mean that they weren't ideologues about the points they agreed on. Ideologues can have internal dissent.

> The way to tell an ideologue apart from a pragmatist is to look at their actions when faced like a choice like "Hundreds of thousands of people need to die, but it's for the greater good." The ideologue will choose the greater good; the pragmatist will choose the people.

In this case, the founding fathers were absolutely, unabashedly ideologues. They started a revolutionary war for their idea of the greater good. In an age of hereditary absolute monarchs and colonies and authoritarian rulers, their ideas were completely ideologically motivated (And batshit bonkers, in the world of the 18th century - but rather old-fashioned and uninteresting in the world of the 21st century.)

Given that you've cited both FDR and Lincoln as examples of ideologues, but the founding fathers as not, I postulate that your definition of an ideologue might be predicated on how orthodox and uninteresting their policies are to you.

The way you phrase this dilemma is telling - the implication is that people will die as a result of a deviation from the status quo, without quantifying what the greater good is. What if people will be saved as a result of a deviation from the status quo? Is someone who looks at an ongoing injustice, and acts in response to it an ideologue?

What about someone who adopts an ideology of tolerance towards slave states? Does that person become a pragmatist, because they've weighed hundreds of thousands of deaths, against millions of people enslaved for their entire lives, and decides that actually, the greater good requires those millions to continue to be slaves? [1] What if they decide that the greater good would be to actually go to war, but they choose the greater evil, instead? Is whether or not they are ideologues predicated on which of the two options they believe the greater good to be?

These sorts of questions, of course, lead to truly absurd responses. It's why the ideologue test isn't actually a good one.

Your other metric (Trust and obligation) for determining the quality of a leader is much better, because it does not try to give answers to difficult moral problems, without having any context of what those moral problems are. It's not a guiding principle that a leader must follow - it is a quality that they must express, so that they can make a correct decision.

[1] Is there a formula that determines how many slaves the death of a freeman can buy? And if you pay too dearly for the freedom of a slave, you become an ideologue? [2]

[2] As I said, any guiding principle that seeks to give a one-size-fits-all answer this question, without even knowing what the question is, on 'pragmatic' grounds (Where determining which side is pragmatic is completely subjective!) leads to truly absurd outcomes.
Just offering my personal opinions (by which I mean biases), Eric is also great. Andrew Lock and Steve Gordon are also great choices. Personally, I prefer nuts and bolts .NET writers since there is so much (and much of it good!) DDD/SOLID type content out there.
Not to be a shill but you should look into Mazdas. They feel similar to you and have removed touch screens, and the since you don't need to reach it they then moved the infotainment screen further back and higher up so you don't have to take your eyes off the road as much.
Right. Doesn’t need to be in every ambulance, only those fitted for stroke response. Don’t constrain response times just because you need to make the vehicle a larger than usual.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_stroke_unit
In the gender that the transitioning person identifies with.
> Instead of using the IMAP protocol, Mimestream utilizes the Gmail API

That's sadly a step in the wrong direction. JMAP (https://jmap.io/) has been around for a while and it is a shame google refuses to adopt it.
Asking for discussion: Is there a point at which imposing a specific set of left-wing American cultural values upon functionally autonomous communities elsewhere around the world becomes a form of cultural imperialism?

To leave a more positive comment, I'm glad that the scourge of deletionism is addressed in here.
What are you basing your statement on? have you actually done the math?
It could be that the radiating efficiency of the hardware is only 60%, ie lost to heat or in some other phenomena in the circuitry.

I'd imagine they'd never get approved blasting 400w per kW erratically.
Signs Your Team Is Suffering from 'Burnout Debt'
Performance is actually great, considering needed overhead.
Oh, you just can't compare Marathahalli or Silk Board with the 101, 680, 280 or 880. None of the latter even come close. They're both horrible in their own way, but I'd say Bangalore is worse. You don't often find ambulances stranded in traffic in SV, for instance. This is (was, until the pandemic?) a daily occurrence out here.
Not in this price range. The only parts from that family left in production are the ColdFire series, which are more expensive (starting at around $1.60@1k) and have unimpressive characteristics compared to other options (50 MHz with poor IPC, limited memory size, minimal peripherals). And even those are on their way out -- the product line hasn't been updated in ages, and NXP has shifted its focus to ARM.
Sync vs. Async Python: What Is the Difference?
The government has used Big Tech forever. Oracle, Microsoft, Apple products have been used by NSA+CIA for about as long as those companies have had products. Yes, those companies sell to the government. They want to make money and the government has money.
Joe Biden is also "accused" of rape. Doesn't mean shit.
How is it not copyright infringement to simply reproduce a copy of the article on your own site?
You really just need to get it to say "Morgan Freeman" over and over again.
You can use all truth and still deliberately drive people to come to a very false conclusion. The dude is the CEO of a cybersecurity firm and has a wealth of experience.
To be fair, very few companies have rolled out JMAP support, AFAIK. It's unsurprising Google would hesitate to replace their proprietary API/advantage with an open standard while it's not well-used. Presumably if enough other mail services use it, Google will eventually follow suit.
If only there were technological progress to take advantage of! "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."
One of society's purposes is also to ensure that all of its members are provided for. That's basically the exchange: contribute to society and society will make sure that your needs are met.

Therefore, I would say that taking a portion from those who have an excess and giving it to those who do not have enough is within the legitimate role of society.
It is. The requirements of the MR environment make it a lot more difficult than CT though. For example a tubed patient is harder to manage in MR than CT, and while this is done regularly it isn't as easily done as CT.
Collecting on a US person without a warrant likely would have been illegal and not viable evidence.
> sideloading is allowed, but requires you pay Apple their yearly developer tax.

You can sideload apps with a free dev account for several years now. The only condition is that you have to resign the binary every seven days. There are even desktop apps that automate it.
I'm curious. What people exactly are "apathetic docile don't cares here", and why?
Last year's discussion of this article[1] is the 7th most favorited Hacker News submission ever[2].

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19851744
2: https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/hacker-favourites-an...
The new async Razor engine in .NET Core is ridiculous. They threw out view helper functions and support for functional/monadic control flow for what, so you can asynchronously render a string? Insane.

I suspect the actual motivation is that async is virtually required to address performance problems associated with the new tag helpers - which are themselves a terrible, terrible idea. Slow, brittle, surprising, wholly reliant on syntax highlighting, and then redundant because you can implement the same functionality using the existing C# syntax.
Is the Rf exposure to the bird significant?
> The difference is the death doesn't cause chaos or total economy collapse.

Citation needed.
Can Wikipedia really be a fair, neutral, and global resource if its code of conduct includes political and cultural positions? For example this code of conduct mentions gender identities and pronouns, a topic that is the subject of significant debate and also very much a product of the American progressive perspective rather than universal. Whether a trans woman is actually a woman is not only controversial (rather than decided), but also a political war over a definition change in one language and culture. There are other cultures where there are instead three categories of gender identities, and the existence of these concepts predates western civilizations even. Given there is this diversity of opinions, it seems strange to require participants in Wikimedia adhere to one set of views.
Specialized or not, if you're looking at fleeting, grainy CCTV footage then you are extrapolating a pattern over the missing information. Any extrapolation that works on less information must come at the cost of higher error. I concede it is possible that this brain difference is restricted to one specific lobe that does one specific task, but what are the odds of such a freakishly specific mutation?

I have a uncle with schizophrenia. He frequently opens the door before you ring the bell. He draws the conclusion that someone is there from very subtle sound cues on the other side of the wall. This all sounds very impressive until you realize how many times a day he opens the door and no one is on the other side. The ability to draw remarkable conclusions from scant evidence comes at the cost of high false positives to the point where he hears voices in background sounds. It would not surprise me if the biological mechanism of being a "super recognizer" is similar.
Launching Product Playlists
We've created product playlists, a new way to find and share the products you love just like how you make Spotify playlists and we are working towards building a TikTok like shopping platform.
Haskell Curses and Conundrums
Some simplified exercises of isomorphic equivalence in data structures.

Haskell experts may now commence their superior mocking ;)
Maybe they don't need consumer harm for their one per se claim, but what about the other 9 claims? They need it for more than just PR reasons. I don't know if standing is considered separately per claim, but if not then it's an issue of terminology, not substance. Feel free to substitute the appropriate legal terminology for the ability to bring a claim.
And sabotaged Vulkan support on their systems as well.
He will be getting the same at GPZ, trust me.
You’re dead-on about humility. I meant it was nothing more than my idle speculation based on my shallow understanding of physics. I was just so excited to see there’s an entire theory around it! Thanks for sharing more resources. Cosmology continues to fascinate me.
Elvish and PowerShell shares one big thing: let command outputs carry structured value. Everything else is quite different:

* Elvish is a more minimalist language influenced by the Lisp tradition, whereas PowerShell is a much larger language with its own distinct "flavor" (in a good way; the language has some quirks but seems decent overall).

* PowerShell has a lot of integration with the .NET ecosystem and Windows APIs. Elvish obviously has none of those.

* Elvish has a pretty sophisticated UI, whereas PowerShell seems to lag behind a bit in UI features.

Getting back to philosophy, it seems to me that the development PowerShell is largely driven by facilitating common Windows sysadmin tasks, and the team seems to have some very concrete use cases in mind.

On the other hand, the design of Elvish has two main tenets, one theoretical and one practical: make a good programming language that is still "shell like", and make a powerful flexible UI suitable for daily use.
> Asking for discussion: Is there a point at which imposing a specific set of left-wing American cultural values

Which "left-wing american values" are those specificly (I'm not american, i'm honestly not sure which values you think are american left wing ones)?

Whether or not its appropriate for WMF to centerally impose behavioural standards has been argued back and forth for probsbly about a decade at this point. (Not saying either side is right or "won", just that both sides have yelled at each other a lot)

> To leave a more positive comment, I'm glad that the scourge of deletionism is addressed in here.

How so? I don't see anything related to that in this document.
How much of that is context, though? I certainly wouldn't (and haven't) recognize my mom or my wife or anyone else, really, in the wrong context when I wasn't expecting to see them.
Have you seen any of his movies prior to Arrival and Sicario?

Incendies, Enemy, and Prisoners are all quite emotional in distinct ways. Although, I personally feel Arrival was definitely emotional in its own way.
Awesome work! I think you saved me many hours, as I was going to tackle this over the weekend. Props for making those suggested security changes right away. I was just looking at my DNS cache last night and was appalled at the number of ad and telemetry requests are happening.
Have you tried Spark? It's the spiritual successor to Sparrow, I use it on phone and laptop and really like it. The only downside is that it's on a freemium model...

[1] https://sparkmailapp.com/
Can we have a link based on the email, e.g: "View Pull Request" if it's PR email? This has been implemented in Canary Mail.

You can expand it further for JIRA, GitLab and others. Just a suggestion to create unique selling spoint for Mimestream
> doesn't linger in the beam path.

You cannot guarantee this. The bird could decide to fly directly down the beam path and there's nothing you can do.

Directly from the article:

> The system uses a net of lasers surrounding the beam to detect obstructions, like a bird or person, and it automatically shuts off transmission until the obstruction has moved on.

Since there are so many possible obstructions that could occur, I suspect that the link will continuously turn on and off. This will be worse than before so you'll need local storage or generation to account for these unplanned outages.
That definition from google is not wrong, but they sure did word it in a difficult way.

It literally means looking at the whole picture -- "whole-istic" would be a misspelling, but makes the meaning more clear. See all parts of a system as a pieces of a bigger entity, and recognize that what impacts one part will impact the whole.
This seems like an impossible task unless you have a European Facebook and a US Facebook and a user of one can’t interact with the other.

If a US-based user interacts with data posted by the European user, is that not considered “Sending data to the US?”
You are correct.

There is no cell reception, we have satellite, the ISP here in Canada is called Xplornet, which I believe uses Hughesnet. Download speed is pretty good, streaming services typically work fine with SD, voice comms. can be a bit of pain with the 700ms latency. Since covid-19 with many more people working from home etc. I have noticed a significant drop in bandwidth and how spikey latency can get at times
Except labels does work via IMAP: https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/imap-extensions#acc...
Here are the relevant paragraphs:

> However, a key drawback of this “power-to-gas-to-power” route, if electrolysis is used for hydrogen production, is the round-trip efficiency, which is “around 45%,” it says. The report provides an example to illustrate the cost penalty per MWh associated with the power-to-gas-to-power route: “Hydrogen generation from low-cost renewables at $25/MWh with a capacity factor of 50% yields a cost of $1.70/kg of hydrogen produced. Storing this hydrogen underground will add about another $0.30/kg, thus the hydrogen costs $2/kg. If this hydrogen is used to generate power, the resulting cost is $100 to $200/MWh. In ideal conditions (e.g. a CCGT turbine at 60% utilisation), the cost is $100/MWh, while simple-cycle turbines at 25% utilisation would deliver power at $200/MWh.”

> Still, the report is optimistic. Because hydrogen production costs will drive up to 80% of total power generation costs (Figure 3), if the technical feasibility of a 100% hydrogen turbine is proven, the capital expense of hydrogen turbines could “rival that of natural gas turbines by 2030,” it says. For now, however, “companies should use hydrogen-based power for high-value flexible generation first, and two, hydrogen baseload power generation for deep decarbonisation in situations with constrained renewables potential will require strong policy support.”
> If folks want to help, it would be great to have a "youtube-dl for open access papers".

Zotero has an existing set of "translators".

And somewhat related to this request: I scratched out some notes last year about how to get more out of "zero-obligation communities" (like the pool of prospective contributors in open source) <https://www.colbyrussell.com/2019/02/15/what-happened-in-jan.... The long and short of it is that instead of saying something like "if folks want to help, it would be great[...]", you should provide a place for people to sign up, take them at their word that they're willing to help, and then lay out a concrete set of tasks/deliverables. People get weird about trying to avoid being seen as not gentle enough with volunteers, but the end result is a lot of unharnessed human potential. You've got a pool of mechanical turks at your disposal. Take a break from polishing the arrangement of instructions you give to the computer and focus some energy on writing the "programs" that you want to be executed by meatbags.
Sentinel Playground
Hostile is way too strong a word. Maybe user unfriendly since it is is built-in to the browser instead of an extension?

But again, if you don't like it, don't use it. You don't have to go to Chrome where you have much worse user-hostile crap hidden under the hood.
What does any of that have to do with cT as it relates to accurate COVID-19 detection as discussed in the article?
This is cool... but a tape deck? Or a pen and paper you scribble in the dark?
Each principle requires a corresponding policy enactment / which must be verifiable and enforceable
Jon Skeet, Mark Seemann, Jeff Richter too
To boost book sales, the celebrity journalist concealed a tape of Donald Trump that contained information about the pandemic that may have prevented thousands of deaths.