skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you wanted to check if port 42 is open, have a

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://127.0.0.1:42">

followed by an

<img src="http://example.org/?port=42">

The <img> won't be requested until the stylesheet has failed to load, which takes a different amount of time depending on whether there was something listening on that port, or not.

uMatrix won't allow the request to the local machine to go through.
> COVID-19 will continue to hurt us economically until there is a vaccin

That’s hardly going to be true. Only because we’re told that we might get a vaccine people like the author make it sound like that this is the obvious thing to happen, but that is really no different than someone hoping to win the lottery. Realistically we need to consider that currently there is no vaccine and theoretically there might never be one. If the above statement is true then theoretically we will never recover from COVID until eternity which is obviously quite ridiculous to say.

I think we should be planning for a way to live alongside COVID with the prospect of never having a vaccine and come up with a way of life that the population can get onboard with. Obviously we all hope that there will be a vaccine and we’ll get an easy way out, but it’s irresponsible to take hard damaging hits now with the outlook that this is a temporary hit only until the magic solution will follow shortly. We don’t know this. We should take actions which allow us to live in a worst case scenario, not the best case. Taking huge short term pains under the assumption of a magic way out doesn’t feel particularly smart. I think we need to consider more measured and balanced forms of dealing with this pandemic because we might be in this for a very long time.
> We would not experience time if there was no motion

> whereas time is an emergent property not of spatial dimensions alone, but motion in that space.

Is that proven true generally? I have often really wondered this myself, but Ive not had anyone to ask for a fundamental proof of this. I appreciate your thorough answers could you please explain or point me in the right direction?
Not going to comment on whether their strategy was effective or worth the cost in human toll, just going to say Sweden seems to be one of the few countries with no detectable signs of a second wave.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

EDIT: Before I start a flamewar, I guess I have to comment on whether I think Sweden's strategy was effective, so...

1. They might get a second wave in the future. But so far they seem to have avoided it.

2. It's too early to tell whether the cumulative loss in life and the cumulative economic damages will be better than those of other countries. So far, they do seem to have had more loss in life with less economic damage than their neighbors, but if they don't get a second wave, they might end up in a much better spot economically.

So yeah, in conclusion, we should keep watching them to see how things play out but not draw conclusions like "they had more loss in life" or "they had less damage to the economy", because it's still too early.
This is something I can't find... how safe is being outdoor in close proximity? So I'll take your story.

How close were you to your friends/others and did you go inside the bar at all? Did either of your friends test positive?
I guess the thought behind using an ORM here was as an abstraction over the database/storage layer, so theoretically you could change switch out the database easily.

In practice though, real projects often have to sidestep the ORM and handwrite SQL, sometimes using database-specific features.
Awesome, I agree! Wish you the same. Everybody wins. :)

Well except for those roosters, they're in bird heaven now.

I got curious about your nick by the way, does it refer to rutabaga?
I think there are official tensorflow bindings for Rust, add well as for pytorch C++ API.

But, adding auto differentiation to match the Swift for tensorflow behaviour, sounds like a serious undertaking, and I doubt is on anyone's radar.

But yeah, I've been wanting this for a while. Shoehorning Rust everywhere is the endgame.
You are "proving" we are wrong by "assuming" the existence of a solution. This is a falacy.

I would also argue that contextual awareness of a computer will never resemble the contextual awareness of a human being. That is because contextual awareness can only be derrived by actively participating in a culture, inherent attribute of human beings and not a thing computers can do.

However, even if computers came to have contextual awareness as a human (again, i don't believe this is possible) that is something we would not want. Cultural differences produce different interpretations out of the same input. Example: Is it ok for a guy to get married with 10 women? Depending on your location on this world, the answer WILL be dofferent. Do you really want computers to interpret and (more importantly) act on their own based on some sort of contextual awareness they came up with? I'd say not.
Well, only a rational manager knows how hard it is to replace a good programmer...
My argument is supported by crime statistics that show lots of drug dealers are convicted of other crimes.

I would like to point out that I used the word lots and not many, not most, not all. I specifically used the word lots. So counter statements like yours couldn't be used.

And if we're going to be pedantic, I guess it's my turn.

> Other types of crime require crimes against people.

There area many crimes where you don't commit it againit a person. Selling counterfeit goods, the victim is a company. Creating fake currency. Selling illegal weapons. Smuggling people in to countries (many do commit crimes againist people, but it is not required, just taking money and getting someone across a border hurts no-one). Shoplifting. Insurance fraud. The list goes on and on.
A huge loss but thank you gorhill for developing this awesome extension! Like many others I'll probably keep using it while it still works.

On another note, how does uMatrix even work internally? I guess the bulk of its functionality is based on the webRequest API and I think it uses some kind of CSP hack for inline scripts and workers? (And is it only my perception or does uMatrix have to resort to a lot of hacky workarounds to implement some of its features?)
As a side note: it’s really annoying that the scroll bar is hidden on that page (Safari/iPhone).
> It might not sound like it, but this is nothing but a tautology.

Quite the opposite. Focusing on the substance instead of the medical condition is part of the war on drugs and essential for the propaganda to work.
I don't understand people excusing this. Subdomains can be controlled by completely different entities.
The Technology of Terry Towel Production [pdf]
Trademarks must be defended and may be lost.

https://blogs.findlaw.com/free_enterprise/2017/05/4-defenses...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverherzfeld/2013/02/28/failu...
What about Sweden then?
It’s very strange in the UK- we all know it’s coming, and have known for quite some time now, but the government still doesn’t enforce masks, doesn’t have enough tests and spent the entire of August convincing everyone to go out and eat in restaurants/bars (they gave half price meals), thousands of people were eating out several times a week during the period we should have been suppressing the virus.

I don’t get it.
> The war on drugs makes no sense, it should in fact be called the war on some drugs.

I prefer the war on some drugs when consumed by some people
They also make spa boiled eggs in Japan (温泉卵)

https://www.seriouseats.com/2016/08/how-to-make-onsen-tamago...
I read this post as well and while I respect this person his claim is hugely anecdotal. What if some decision far above his pay grade resulted in COVID patients being rerouted from other NYC hospitals to his? That could easily explain his experience without the idea that COVID is rising again in NYC. I’ll wait for the data to come in personally. The data you linked does not show a material change.
Cursive can be faster, if you have a slanted desk, ideally can slant the paper a bit and that you use a fountain pen.
You mean this Sweden?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-03/man-behin...
Holy God! --talk about having been beaten by the Ugly Stick. What the hell where they thinking?
The unrealized potential of federation
It difficult to even start talking about decriminalizing all drugs because it immediately turns into hypothetical situations about "buy heroin at 7-11 across from a school". Nobody is advocating that position, no need to bring it up.
I think your hope is misguided.

People dreamed of an Internet where sharing of information was free (as in freedom). Then DRM happened. And even if DRM cannot be 100% reliable, being broken by design, it's reliable enough, plus in the US at least it's a felony to break it. And as years go by, we see more DRM, not less. This happens, because the practice is normalized, and because small inconveniences are taken care of (usually by monopolies winning the market—e.g. you stop complaining that alternative e-book readers don't work, when everybody is using the Kindle or the Audible apps).

Similarly, for the open web — the action has been moving on mobile devices. A majority of people now consume content via mobile devices. So what do you see? More websites? Or more apps? And for all ad-blocking happening at the DNS level (e.g. Pi-hole), how long do you think it is before apps start doing DNS over HTTPS on their own, bypassing the OS's stack?

This is a wack-a-mole game, and the big publishers have enough resources to push for both technical and legal changes for outlawing ad-blocking. I'm actually surprised that content blockers remained legal thus far. But the writing is on the wall IMO.

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There's also another side of this coin. I see more and more people on HN complaining that articles are submitted from publications that are setting up paywalls.

People also hate paying for content. And even those that pay for content, they don't recognize what an incredible privilege it is to afford it.

Either content is monetized somehow, or the only content that we get will be content created by hobbyists, in their spare time, for free, while working a regular job.

Well I for one don't want a world in which the poor don't get access to online resources, or a world in which people can't make ends meet doing what they love.
Nonsense, and also irrelevant. You're picking out one predictive model that got it wrong. I'd like to see this model, by the way. I've seen numerous models that got it right, and in any case I was talking about the advice experts gave. Nobody doubts that Sweden's death toll would be much lower if they had done a lockdown like almost every other country. In fact, the Swedish lead epidemiologist admitted that mistakes were made and that they failed to protect the elderly.

The WHO advice was much better than what Swedish advisors came up with.

Besides that, I was not talking about WHO experts but about experts in general. Every country has them, and they supply the data to WHO.

Last but not least, you cannot evaluate a model on the basis of a singular prediction.
That is the thing -- mild symptoms is suuuuch a misleasing term -- sure, they were mild, but 20 days later and still tired, still caughing, stressing if that pain I feel is just a muscle tiree from caughing or I'm actually getting lung fibrosis? That never happened before; my wife was alone at home with out 2.5 year old daughter unable to get up from the floor.
My daughter started having a fever 2 days after I returned from hospital, 12 days after I started having symptoms, wave 3 of stress and worry.

I barely slept during this time.

I saw and heard a lot of examples of how quickly things can turn south in the hospital.

How do you dispose of the trash when you're quarantined in a flat?

There's so much more than the symptoms that will screw with you for this disease.
Sweden also has one of the highest per capita COVID-19 mortality rates in the world, yet still suffered economically from the virus same as anyone else. This should always be in the conversation every time we're talking about the Sweden response.
I haven’t substantively changed my routine since lockdown started.
Economy slow down is absolutely not a problem, it's a solution, for the environment, which is the most important thing on this planet.

Also humans are not an especially endangered species, so there is not much to fear on that side
A few lines down from there:

"Even today it is not guaranteed that a useful vaccine will be developed at all"
Yes there’s been a lot of treating doctors front line anecdotes as though they’re the product of epidemiological research studies.

You’re asking a person tasked with tending a single tree in their back yard about what the state of the forest looks like.

Especially since the linked raw data there is completely flat.
What do you mean? Do they have a vaccine? I don’t think so, and Sweden did not lockdown because they know they have to find a way to possibly live with it for longer so if anything Sweden is a great example to support my statement.
Ah yes, the sufficiently smart compiler.
Interesting given some of the renowned names using it, probably with more revenue than plenty of Rust unicorns.
Dynamic DNS hosts could have thousands of subdomains under an individual domain, can be registered for free, and those credentials could get an attacker right into people's home networks. An attacker could hide a bunch of iframes in a page and cover lots of bases in one go.
What I meant more specifically was a database-independent RBDMS ORM (e.g EF Core, sqlalchemy) - for cases when there aren't resources or need for separate db driver implementations.
implement a casino game, roulette or blackjack or guess the weight of the pound cake
And we still don't seem to understand the long term damage that even mild COVID causes. I remember reading about people getting blood clots for instance
I'm not sure if I'm surprised that dang didn't touch on to mention downvotes as an even more rapid "contrarian dynamic" mechanism; wouldn't it be nice if downvotes had a little more friction, effort required for the action - like qualitative text from the downvoter as to why a comment is being downvoted to then allow OP the opportunity to clarify or expand on their comment - "to be more reflective and therefore better written"? The downvote-comment doesn't have to be identified as being a downvote-comment, showing up as a regular reply.

That added cost/friction may also act as a filter for lazy readers/skimmers or those misinterpreting what's said at first glance, and therefore if forced to include some critical text response along with their downvote then OP and other readers can begin to get to the bottom/foundation of the distaste, giving OP at least some guidance as to why someone/people are downvoting - arguably a valuable learning/crowdsourcing moderation tool/mechanism.

I feel the added cost of time and mental effort for downvotes would add a great balance.
> You still go to prison in Switzerland for selling heroine on the street.

And yet it was widely available on the streets back when it was illegal, and now it's hard to find on the streets and it's still illegal. So what changed? Clearly it was not the law that fixed things, right?

> Also there still is a heroine problem though arguably smaller than it used to be.

A tiny fraction of what it used to be. Since I would consider that success, I don't get your point? I very much doubt anyone is expecting addiction to disappear? The point is that it costs tax payers far less when you fix the actual problem instead of trying to treat medical problems as if they are a legal problem.
I didn't have any "gifted child" thing as a young kid (was homeschooled until high school, did quite well but not astronomically in high school).

However, thanks to scoring a 1510/1600 on the SAT and having good grades, I did get placed in a fairly prestigious cohort in college. My takeaway from that is that the person's natural talent is just one factor, and not even a particularly important one. It still takes a mix of actual work and capitalizing on good connections (in our case, we got hooked up with good connections thanks to being in this cohort) to get ahead. Maybe half of those kids that entered the cohort washed out or decided to go into other fields unrelated to the cohort (which I did). Some others got very normal jobs of no particular prestige. I know a handful that leveraged it into fairly prestigious jobs in our field.

My brother's another data point. He moved through grades in math at about 2x the rate of the rest of us, so clearly had a gift for it. He was tutoring college kids by high school and from then on has been making his living from math tutoring, including some gifted children of the early-college variety. What's a little strange to me is that he seems to have no natural ambition. It's like he's totally dialed into math tutoring to the exclusion of considering anything else. But if that's really his thing as it seems to be, then more power to him.
It took me six months to get anywhere near my normal energy levels. I too would say I had a 'mild' case, still I was out for about 3 weeks completely.
Have you actually visited one?

I've been a couple times to one of the SF locations with coworkers. We definitely tried to trick system by passing items between us, and putting items down in random locations and then picking them back up later. When we left the store everyone got charged for the items they had on them.

I think you are too dismissive in saying its "just careful placement of the items and weight sensing".
Did you forget about the aspect of the store that knows who picked up what? You focused completely on the irrelevant aspect. The store tracks every customer to those dumb sensors and then keeps a running tally of their cart. The dumb sensors are used as double confirmation to handle occlusion.
Looks like a bug, likely related to an optimizer since adding count(*) does produce the correct result. I will have a better look after the weekend. The demo runs a relatively old version so it’s possible it has already been fixed in the meantime. Thanks for the report!
> [...] only makes sense when you're solving a problem that is naturally expressed in terms of those features, but in my mind the majority of problems are not.

The problem domain that is naturally expressed in terms of OOP is GUI development (windows, toolbars, buttons, forms, and so on).

The tendency to entangle the actual problem you're trying to solve with the problem of developing a user interface for your solution seems to be the main driver of the growth and extension of OOP languages over the past several decades. Various patterns (MVC, MVVC, etc.) for disentangling these while still using the same programming language have become popular, as have multi-paradigm / mixed-paradigm languages. Perhaps what was needed instead were multilingual programs, which is sort of where we ended up anyway, in an ad hoc manner (eg. HTML+CSS+JS+SQL+Python, etc.).
Haha, I was referring to the app server that's still running 2008. I guess maybe my comment wasn't relevant, as it's not a DC. Just thought I'd throw my frustration out there. :)
/me sniffles in sadness.
> "The argument that associating linking the properties to 'good' and 'bad' could make people feel uncomfortable makes sense to me. "

Then advocates of this should also be campaigning to stop using yellow as the color to indicate warnings, since it's insensitive to Asian-Americans.

But we all know they aren't going to.
Well, I know I just want to be able to poll futures from a system.

There's a rust FRP library called futures-signals that would be really useful for taking input from a controller and transforming it into high level, meaningful streams. I'd like to react to those streams. I don't think they'd take multiple frames to poll, but even if they did I wouldn't mind too much.

(I'm new to both rust and ECS so if you have a suggestion for how to approach this problem differently, I'd love to hear it)
I don't think you're alone in being perplexed. I've seen neighbors take risks that strike me as insane. It's been a real eye-opener for me regarding differences in how people assess risk, make risk/reward tradeoffs, deal with stress, etc.
A Syntax for Self-Tracking
When that interview was done, Sweden was in a pretty bad spot. Today their strategy is looking much more successful. Do you have anything more recent from him?
As far as I can tell Bitwarden is using that and pulling that info here:

https://github.com/bitwarden/server/blob/0f1efdd18b879ccdf41...
Yeah, I've heard that 1st gen Apple Pencil wasn't very good. I can't speak to that myself. I have an iPad Pro 2018 and an Apple Pencil gen2, it's my first iPad, and I love it.
> That is the thing -- mild symptoms is suuuuch a misleasing term -- sure, they were mild, but 20 days later and still tired, still caughing, stressing if that pain I feel is just a muscle tiree from caughing or I'm actually getting lung fibrosis?

You can get the exact same thing from the flu. I had a flu a few years ago that kept me coughing for 8 weeks.
uMatrix extends the notion of uBlock (DNS-based content blocking) to a matrix of domains, subdomains, and sites (the vertical column) against specific Web capabilities; content, images, CSS, JS, XSR, and other elements. It affords fine-grained control over what sites are permitted to do on your browser.

There are numerous explainer videos on YouTube:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=TVozpo3zUBk

Search: https://youtube.com/results?search_query=umatrix
I had TC at 27. A few notes for people reading:

* Mine was discovered super super early, on a scan related for something else

* This was actually so early that it didn’t make sense to operate. The main treatment for testicular cancer is orchiectomy, i.e. total removal of testicle

* If you find a lump, it is by definition much bigger than mine was, and the above doesn’t apply. But if you find a marginal, tiny spot on an incidental ultrasound, ask a doctor about what sizes are risky and consider a second opinion.

* I had something called a frozen section sample. They take the testicle out of the body, but leave it attached. They quickly biopsy part of it. If cancer, remove. If not cancer, put back in. I had this, it was cancer, but I’m nonetheless glad I did. My lesion was so small even then that it plausibly wasn’t cancer

* I had a seminoma. They grow slow, and are benign. It took three years to have a notable changes. If yours is growing faster than that, the odds are much higher it is cancer and a worse kind. Most benign masses are stable and tiny.

* Bank sperm before the operation! You may find fertility significantly impaired. My FSH went through the roof after the operation and my sperm count is like 0.01% of normal. Probably still viable with IVF, but almost zero. I likely had viable sperm before based on the normal fsh

Please don’t be pigheaded about this with your doctor. I did have cancer after all. But I plausibly didn’t, and my urologist recommended waiting + a frozen section sample. This is common in big centers for incidental detection, less common in hospitals that don’t see too many orchiectomies.
But that was my exact thought -- would I do it again?

Day 7 of mild symptoms and my relatives starting to get sick one by one -- NO!

Day 20 -- still no!

For 2-4 weeks after my daughter's symptoms I'll stress about kawasaki signs in her.

Perhaps I'll change my time later, but I don't see the risks worth the rewards.
Its highly possible that the anxiety and stress would cause you more trouble then the virus itself.

Then again, I had flu/cold before that is mild but feel horrible as I experienced it.