skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Either the Yahoo article misinterpreted the oxford study or the oxford study is bunk.

Because nationwide we are seeing hundreds of thousands of deaths more than we had seen by this time in previous years.

So if covid isn't responsible, then what mysterious thing had killed hundreds of thousands of more people this year vs last year?

Take one of the examples from that article, that some people may have died primarily from pneumonia rather than covid. I hope that wasn't from the oxford study, because pneumonia is an infection of the lungs. The infection can be bacterial, viral, or even fungal. It just means an infection of the lungs. And guess what, covid infects the lungs.

So you will commonly see pneumonia listed alongside covid.

You will also see cardio pulmonary arrest as a common cause of death listed along with covid.

Which means your heart and lungs stopped working. Which of course doesn't just happen and doesn't mean that covid wasn't the primary cause of death.
I'm not much of a Spring fan (overengineering) but that's how a mature stack looks like. There were plenty alternatives 10-20 years ago. What's a bit more surprising IMO is the prevalence of Spring MVC in 2020 which doesn't mix well with modern JS-centric frontend approaches, just as splitting frontend and backend work between JS and Java is flying in the face of agile job rotation.
"EasyList Cookie" is the name of that list.
> a hodge-podge of technologies, Microwave, FTTx, Wi-fi repeaters - and mixtures of those and more

Most of which is being falsely advertised as fibre and peppered with bullshit marketing terms like "superfast" or "ultrafast" which means consumers have a very hard time comparing the different offers and understanding what they're actually getting.
Rather than watching the goats movie which is pretty bullshit, search the CIA library for "CENTER LANE SPECIAL ACCESS PROGRAM" which was the DIA's remote viewing, remote influence program utilizing psychoenergetics.

It resulted in at least "3 intelligence community firsts", was rated by Joint Chiefs of Staff as producing intelligence qualitatively the same as other sources, and (even tho it continued long after) until 1983 50% of the collection missions produced actionable intelligence while 85% had accurate target information.

So it's neither "silly", nor for "crazies" nor disparagingly "New Age". But it requires critical and unbiased thinking to engage with it without falling into the "feel good" trap of baseless ridicule.

The program developed methods and training for remote collection and influence, and the CIA reading room has an abundance of formerly SAP classified information about this, which I think is just crazy that it has been released, but it has.

To people reacting like this is made up...you can sit there in your armchair and feel better by telling yourself this has to be bogus, because that's what you've been told to think, or you can discover the information that's been put in front of you but not widely publicized if you can escape your trained bias. This is an incredible story.
> - Podcasts (and RSS more generally)

Podcasts exactly exhibit what I fear for with federated systems. As podcasters move to "Spotify exclusive", Spotify still calling those podcasts, and those podcasts not being available through your general podcast subscription app, could lead to most podcasts being de facto centralised again.

The same could happen to the Fediverse: some player adds some feature that makes large swaths of people migrate there, those features are not interoperable, and then that service turns off federation altogether...
From government perspective the prosecution with jailtime will mean lengthy court processes with an army of lawyers. Lots of costs for government and headache for the government officials.

Instead if you just impose a fine, the government will actually get lots of money with little work and headache, and everyone involved will be moderately happy.
Considering that the defence lawyers are representing a real estate company this isn't entirely surprising. The firm would be looking up such records every day.
I enjoyed xcom2 much more than the reboot. Constraints of all kinds ($$$ and other resources) made much more sense for a resistance fighter of a humanity that had lost the war. It added the sense of urgency and danger.
> But the diagnostic procedure had nothing to do whether it's an old TV or something else. It was caused by EMI and is detectable with readily-available test equipment which indeed detected it immediately.

They concluded that something is fishy because normal procedures didn't fix anything. I'm not sure that this is a problem they diagnose 5 times a week.

> But the ISP should be able to tell whether their uplink is saturated (and actually upgrade it if it happens too often), so if they're consistently getting complaints around a certain timeframe and the uplink is not saturated during those timeframes then it must be something else.

Good luck escalating this problem from a village to correct people in a big-shiny-ISP(TM). They're too busy(!) to look for 10 customers' problem. I accept that 18 months in unacceptable but, this is the reality we're in. Support and Ops teams are always overworked because management thinks that "the load just doesn't justify more hands in that department".

> This is a problem then and should be addressed.

The backbone operators and ISPs doesn't monitor SNR levels because they're transient and doesn't provide meaningful data. If you want to do it, it's millions of connections. Also, Not everyone use the standard equipment provided by the ISP so, they cannot get info from all devices (e.g.: from mine). So, endpoint ops are complex if you're working on a WAN with random equipment.

Instead, using bandwidth graphs to find problems is more practical and reliable. Since the problem starts at 07:00, it shows like "They're not using their connections much, eh?" in the said graphs.

Disclosure: My workplace also happens to be the national academic network operator. I'm two hops away from a country-wide core router.
Counter-counter-point, from the same newspaper:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...

Uk, like California and some, but not all other places, appears to be undercounting deaths when judged against excess deaths.
Which is too bad since arguably 787 is a more advanced aircraft, while A350 is more conservative. Too bad Boeing management is bent on screwing Boeing engineers and their achievements.
What I believe is inevitable is that we'll see mass migrations and wars due to the climate in the next 50 years. North America, Europe and the northern countries in Asia are going to see hundreds of millions of people moving away from the equator in the second half of the century. If you have children now their life is going to change dramatically when they're middle-aged.

Whether or not that'll be enough to make humanity serious about climate change is still debatable though.
Are you implying that the only valid use case for liking specific types of videos is sexual gratification?
New Research Reveals Alarming Drop in Farmer Incomes in Uganda
Your assumption is that hosting is way more difficult than posting. What if it weren't?

I research in that direction: http://mro.name/ShaarliGo#install--update
The analysis that _where_ a programming language is used is more important that its features or aesthetics is a point of view worth paying attention to.

By the same logic it could be argued that the next leap forward in programming languages will be visual/simple languages accessible to the lay-person with a it-just-works runtime. A lot of modern languages represent incremental improvements and optimizations but there are still huge breakthroughs to be made in accessible end-user programming. A language and runtime that is simple, accessible and open (so as to be able to become ubiquitous) would have my bet on what will win the language wars of 2025.
That's why formal logic was invented(started by Aristotle!). There are computerized rules for checking that the formula is valid given proof.
I think the reason it's called "mainline" is due to the fact that it's based on vanilla Linux kernel even if you need to recompile the mainline kernel with the modified kernel modules. It is not based on something of different kernel branch or fork, for examples OpenWRT or Linux Switching Appliance (LISA) that it's not from the mainline [1].

If by any chance that Jonathan is reading this, mainline Linux kernel that can be run on the cheap Banana Pi router (BPI-R64 price USD$64) will be very handy and useful [2].

[1]http://lisa.mindbit.ro/

[2]http://www.banana-pi.org/r64.html
My uninformed guess would be that many head injuries in cars would not be helped by wearing a helmet. G-force related injuries, like whiplash, and being hit by the airbag.

It’s a hard line to draw. I remember reading a comment on HN a while ago. In it the commenter said that whenever he left the house he wore earplugs, and protective glasses. Earplugs because he got a bit of tinnitus once, and the glasses, because once he almost walked into a tree branch and almost lost an eye. He’d probably say that we should wear a helmet no matter where we are or what we’re doing.
S/MIME does not protect from phishing.
> Yeah, funny how ISPs in rich countries can't afford infrastructure upgrades.

Yeah, you're right. I'm writing my answers with pure naivety. There's also "Meh, we're earning enough money, no need to make customers happier" mentality which I find really, really wrong.
"The Capital" is the key here - I bet service to small remote villages not so much.
Thanks. For me the big things are:

- Journalists and individuals need to use FOIA actions against their state and local governments to see e-mails to see what the true numbers are. That Nashville situation is absurd and we all know it's happening at a bunch of other places.

- Middle class / "regular people" need to start speaking openly and questioning and discussing the lifestyle restrictions and closures.

- A message of safety indirectly spreads a message of fear. Stop with all of the unnecessary post-Covid new normal "safety" things.

- It's about choice and we are pro choice.
> In the UK we've got two levels: the ISPs (who don't put cable or fibre in the ground) and the network (who don't provide ISP services but do maintain the cables / fibre).

Mostly true, I believe Virgin put their own cables in the ground, and younger companies like hyperoptic.
Youtube mostly suggests already seen videos, hence i wouldn't classify it as a good recommender. I agree with your comment on instagram.

In general, there are multiple approaches on recommender systems, to name but a few:
-suggest content with similar features with what you watched
-suggest content that similar users already watched
-suggest completely new and/or different content

I haven't used tik tok, but you might fall into category #2 and #3. And to be honest, if i owned such an app i would pursue users to be recommended new and popular content to keep them in the platform.
Hacker Noon: The Social Dilemma on Netflix Is the Wake-Up Call We've Waited For
Actually, it isn't!

While commercial fiber is usually point-to-point, consumer-grade fiber commonly uses a Passive Optical Network. Basically, a single fiber is split to multiple devices, and the upstream device allocates time slots to devices in which they can transmit. Just like what's happening with cable internet.

This means that, theoretically, a rogue end-user device could ignore the timeslot allocation and disrupt the signals sent by other devices. But because every user ends up using exactly the same equipment, I highly doubt this ever happens in practice. There's nobody connecting ancient analogue devices to fiberoptic cables, after all.
What Is Java – History of Java – Java vs. C#
Exactly. (5..0) is almost surely a developer that expects the range 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
I assume they are constructive and have a different proposal on how to manage the southern border of the country?
request a ‘temporary’ change of address. i think it can last up to 6 months, but can also be renewed.
It's cool and all but... wasn't it made to be a project to show off at Olympics? The project seems to be fairly delayed if that's the case.

In any case, I really hope this project didn't receive ridiculous amount of funding. Japan used to be the absolute no 1 when it comes to robotics about 20 years ago, and have then been losing ground since. I hope the policy maker and people holding the money realize that it is far more valuable to take that lead back than create a big moving totem pole of the past that people can dance around.
Lol, that sounds like such a weird case :D no wonder it took so long...
Is it really true that you can buy a Boeing instantly? I have read that both manufacturers have order queues for years ahead, but I can be mistaken.
It kind of depends on what you want to build but I tend to always write my own apps natively, I do cross platform for clients from time to time though as they request it. I think if you have some existing service you want to provide a simple app in the app store for then React Native etc can make sense. If you want to build an app that is itself a product to sell then you're better off going native for a variety of reasons. As others have pointed out cross platform just always comes with its own set of problems by design, there isn't any way around that. SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose are lowering the barrier to entry by providing a much faster and easier UI development workflow.
Java is perfectly usable without an IDE. Just like any other language is usable without one.

The question is: why? Why would you not use an IDE? Looking at refactoring capabilities alone you'd want those for any language [1] And on the fly actionable code analysis [2]? Why would you not want that for a programming language?

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/refactoring-source-code....

[2] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/list-of-java-inspections...
Probably has more to do with the fact that it is the only bank that operates pretty much everywhere on the planet. Even large international banks only have licenses in a handful of countries and post 2008 financial regulations have applied pressure to reduce that number.
I think the "feed" aspect needs to be considered also.

The power of Facebook, Twitter and such is largely their feed. The feed is an answer to point #1: grandpa simplicity. The feed is the thing that needs to be protected from points #2 & 3: identity and culture.

The feed is that will motivate participants, content creators, etc. IE, many will create content for the feed. Reddit/Digg/HN upvoting were a simple way of doing the feed that proved this point and paved the way for Facebook & Twitter. A lot of mass adoption services created after went extreme. Feed only. The Tinder UX is a feed of datable people, for example. Spotify's importance is being solidified by being a feed. Importance in spotify's context is largely "being the place where music gets popular."

One way or another, the feed issue must be addressed. New content UIs will either have a successful feed or transcend the feed some way.

I'm not sure how this relates to federation. A feed seems a centralizing element by nature. Successful federated systems of the past (the the WWW) tended to leave the feed ("discovery," in a pre-feed context) to someone else... which turned out to be google, fb, etc.

However the labyrinth is is designed, what matters is how the feed works.
Well, if we could restrict new Skyrim-editions to the Xbox platform then I'm all for it!
Yes, it’s called iMazing :)

Features:

https://imazing.com/

License purchase page:

https://imazing.com/store
I quite enjoy lowtech magazine, even though I disagree with some of their conclusions.

Ironically, I mentally lump the people who want nuclear powered steam generators as the only power source into the same general bracket. It all seems a bit quaint and inefficient compared with PV.
Sure, get is like [] but without panic.

I.e. slice.get(5..0) == None
Lol, you're probably not far off :D
Unusable? I wrote java with a text editor for three years and got a lot done. I wrote C++ for about 10 years with a text editor (It was called an IDE but it was a text editor with a debugger).

But having a language that enables the functions of an IDE is a big advantage. A good text editor that manipulates characters efficiently is absolutely valid. But an IDE that treats code as an AST gives you a lot. After all when you think of code you think of it in trees/graphs: You go to fix a bug, one of the first things you will probably ask is "what calls this code?". Being able to do that, right up to the top of the call hierarchy, instantly, without having to run the system is a huge advantage.

An IDE gives you the tools to reverse engineer the design (or lack of it) from the code.
> Java developers seem to habitually use metaprogramming facilities make it impossible to determine what code is calling what other code by hand

I assume you mean reflection - this would be very untypical for normal business logic code and would get smashed very quickly in any code review. It's also far from nice and easy code. You can program "dynamically" in Java, but it gets ugly quickly which in itself discourages you from doing that habitually.

Reflection is used mostly in frameworks only.

> When not doing this, they are usually creating interfaces with a dozen implementations that wrap and delegate to one another.

Sure, Java devs have so much time that they don't implement the business logic once, they create dozen different implementations just for the fun of it. Again, this situation (one interface, many implementations) happens mostly in frameworks and rarely in business code.

If you want to hate on Java, use some real arguments ...
This is openretch (openreach) not Virgin so not sure where you get shared medium from

I do know people who worked in radio interference and they told me one time they traced a fault to a Budgie cage.

The Budgie had a swing and when it was in use it caused a short which effected the subs (customer) line.
This is because tuples like `(T, U)` implement `PartialOrd` - this is actually useful. If you are going to implement `PartialOrd` for tuples, it makes sense to implement it for 0-tuple too.
> I think the author doesn't know what VSCode can deliver.

Here's refactoring and code inspection in IDEA [1], [2]. VSCode is just that: a code editor with some features tacked on.

> “Analysis and refactoring and everything” isn't something VSCode overlooked developers interest in

This is somenthing most VSCode developers (and emacs and vi developers, too) aren't even aware exists.

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/refactoring-source-code....

[2] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/list-of-java-inspections...
Yes, it is actually. It sounds counter intuitive right? But all classified means if that the president (or someone under him) does NOT want something published. So if publishing something classified is not free speech then what is? You don't need the first ammendment to publish things the government does not mind you publishing, you already have their permission. The whole point of the first amendment is to protect publishing things the government doesn't want published.

If the government could actually prevent publishing of anything it classified, the US would still be fighting the Vietnam war and we would all consider Nixon to be a stand up guy who fairly won re-election...
Not necessarily. Some infrastructure providers build P2MP (point-to-multipoint) fibre topologies with passive splitters. Which means that there's a shared medium once again for some part of the way to the next switch/router. As I understand it, if one device does not honour the assigned timings and sends constantly, then this would result in the same problem as with the malfunctioning TV.
See e.g. https://www.tutorialspoint.com/ftth/ftth_epon.htm to learn more on the P2MP topic.
This is something I've wondered about, too.

Will people rightly realise "we all did this to the world"?

Sadly history would tell us that most of the folks already resident in those parts of the world furthest from the equator will just complain about and intimidate what they see as "filthy immigrants" trying to steal their country.

Realistically, we need to fundamentally change how the educational system works from the age of about four years old to tackle the worst of our problems. Guiding children to value science above things like celebrity/entertainment/money at a young age would help them understand how things have gotten to the stage they have and likely go a long way to helping us turn this around.

I don't want to say that people have gotten steadily less intelligent over time, but I see very little interest left in objective truth among the public at large.

Science, being at it's core the pursuit of objective, provable truth, would correlate with us advancing as a species. Not to go nauseatingly Will McAvoy, but we did used to revere intelligence and the advancement of our understanding - at least as I remember it.
"There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcUs5X9glCc
Is it possible that the word idleness is meant differently here?

It sounds to me as a way to prevent associated societal problems, real or otherwise: criminality, alcohol abuse, homelessness

In today’s context we read being idle as leisure time - and we have way more options to be idle with games and movies while still having a nice life with food and safety for everyone

Back then bring idle might simply mean being one step away from moving to the woods and stealing from the rich like Robin hood
I remember back when I worked support for a broadband supplier, long-term "unsolvable" problems were almost always related to dodgy electronic devices in the house. Most common of all was Christmas lights! (you would be surprised how many people put them up in October!)
Invite-only with a chain of responsibility. That is, if I invite you, I'm responsible for you behavior; if you screw up and get banned, I may lose privileges or get banned with you.

Perhaps extend that one or two levels into the graph, with exponential decay. So if you invite someone, and that someone turns out to be a spammer, they get banned, you get banned, and I lose posting privileges for a week. And the person who invited me loses some privileges for a day. Etc. Add some level of manual review and algorithmic detection of clusters of accounts that exist only to invite other accounts that invite spammers, and...

... well, did anyone ever try this out? What are the obvious holes in this system that I'm missing?
I do exactly that and it works reasonably (I'm routing with pfSense, which does not support multiple IPs per interface very well, though).
If you're running network over coax alongside cable TV, it's shared medium.

I'm not in the UK or US though, so regardless of their name, every ISP is equal and is indeed a bog standard ISP from my vantage point.
If you want to play the classic X-COM today, make sure to grab the latest community patches.

I really liked the old X-COM games and had anticipated that I would not like the reboot very much.

However, while I wouldn't want to miss the originals for the reboot, the reboots are done very solidly and in most instances I even find myself agreeing with the streamlining the new authors chose.

If you want a tactical squad-level game that goes beyond what the original X-COM did, I suggest having a look at Frozen Synapse. Frozen Synapse has much fewer elements than X-COM, but its major innovation is that each turn both you and your opponent plan your turns concurrently at your leisure and then the turn plays out over 5 seconds in continuous time.

In contrast, I always felt the serialising that X-COM enforced to be an artificial limitation.
What do you expect every out of the way place has its own challenges.
Not everyone has the luxury to say no to unethical work, especially during a time when job security isn't easy to find.