skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, that is exactly what people like the OP fail to grasp.

Based on NZ's past actions I would bet they come out of total lockdown sometime in mid 2022 or about 2 years from now. If the people of NZ are fine living this way for the next 2 years while their economy and lively hoods crumble then that is their business.

No way in hell I would let that silently happen to me.
This is not what I was looking for, but NYT had a similar experience: https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2019/01/20/dont-...
If you were to inspect the Mullvad client and how it works on Linux, you'd find that it uses nftables to ensure that traffic only flows through the tunnel.
The issue here is that a similar OS provided construct doesn't do that on Windows.
Amazing, the science and random section is a great touch... Bolt v Gravity
Incidentally, for anyone who works in consumer hardware, is there usually any stock in the "I'll wait a few months for a later batch in case they fix some hardware problems" approach some people take?
It's dependent on the jurisdiction, but in the US: yes
Practical aspects aside, having issue tracking in the repo prevents lock-in of that data - in the way that the github platform works, for example.
Isn't that just one particular color close to black serving as mask for the dvd renderer overlay?
Is Nespresso the Apple of coffee? You must not like coffee :)
This isn't a flagship cost. It is $700 for the Pixel 5 vs. $1,000+ for an iPhone.
Actually, only somewhat. One of the "tricks" to get the whole thing to build was to replace some of the missing files with production, already-compiled versions from Windows.

Thus, even though a few files are missing, you just need to include the few official missing ones, and the thing boots.
Chromecast is still a hit with anyone who torrents or streams live TV from local sources, and VLC users.
Same in Brazil. Google Nest Mini and Chromecast.
Agreed. I'd love to have integrated bug-tracking, and some of the other features, but Fossil is also trying to drive particular opinions about version control that are incompatible with how many people want to work.

It's already hard to move people away from a system that has huge network effects. This makes it much harder.
Not a Toy App
It's somewhat unintuitive that a virtualized guest can circumvent the host's firewall/network stack when the guest doesn't have an explicitly bridged or passthrough'd physical adapter.
It seems like every time I read about radio repair, one of the very first things I see is "watch out for old capacitors."

Electricity seems like one of those topics you really don't want to learn through experimentation with old hardware.
I'm quite tech savvy, but I vastly prefer using a remote control that I don't need to look at to control the TV that I'm already looking at.
"There are many unbanked and underbanked people in the world who have no ability to get a loan to buy a home, or start a business, so this kind of technology has enormous potential to improve the world over time, even if it is still early days."

- Brian Armstrong, 2 weeks ago

Seems to me that's not at all a hard right-libertarian stance.
Again, some people are prepared to sacrifice both some portion of elderly in care homes, and some (much smaller even in Sweden) amount of other people across younger generations. As a top-rated comment points out, one of the aims with which a broad segment of the public sympathizes is “flattening the curve“, not trying to prevent any and all deaths whatsoever at any cost.
IT-centric orgs definitely care. In my second (post-college, full-time) job I got to see the effect of this directly as truck loads of old server equipment were replaced with about 1/10th the hardware. In their case, predominantly by making good use of virtualization so that applications could share hardware. They cut their power consumption by more than 90% by upgrading to newer machines as well (which were more efficient, while still being faster than the old ones).

This broad brush view that the IT industry doesn't care is absurd, they have to pay bills too and efficiency reduces those. They may not be motivated by environmental concerns, but the costs are very much obvious to them and they do address it with improved efficiencies where possible.
It's so valuable because it's not about ads at all. It's how it started but not where is headed.

See how Cambridge Analytica literally seated public opinion with this data. And that wasn't even targeted at individual users.
Thank you for posting a link to your site. It's really nice to see a live demonstration of Fossil. I notice that your page is using https - does Fossil do that or do you have something else in between (nginx, etc) that provides the https?
I dont think people catch the virus through contaminated surfaces. It s almost always airborne transmission
There is an idea many hold that we all knew how to fight COVID and for various reasons simply failed to implement it. The reality is that we didn't know much about it, there was no overt strategy forward, and like all good science, we need controls to understand what happened and what the affect of various policies are.

There are lots of variables at play here, and understand the affects of different policy is important.

Countries that did the exact same thing have a natural control for activity, meaning differences in outcome should be environmental, Milan vs Rome, structural, Norway vs Sweden, and/or genetic differences, Norway vs Vietnam. Things like population density, multi-generational homes can be better understood, as can racial and environmental differences (theories that some countries had a COVID-19 precursor that provided some immunity). This is also true for regions within a country, e.g. Milan vs Rome.

Where responses vary, we get a data point for the response's effectiveness. This is true right down to specifics e.g. a 50 person group limit vs 25.

Sweden is a different data point, and that is extremely valuable, not just short term but longer term as well. In 2-10 years, the death rate for COVID in Scandinavia vs GDP growth will be useful to compare.

I am thankful Sweden chose a different path. It took courage, as choosing a safe middle of the road path would teach us little, and given how little we know about pandemic response, the long term value of better understanding could potentially save millions over the next 100 or so years of human existence.
Reading through some of the articles linked in the comments, I'm very hesitant to use something whose creator is so opinionated and vocally against another piece of software. Maybe its just the style of writing, and isn't actually reflected in Fossil's development, but this kind of attitude doesn't inspire confidence.
Contrary to that article, squashing aids bisection rather than hurts it.

One simple example:

commit 1: things work

commit 2: Feature X, regress

commit 4: Feature Y, break things by accident

commit 5: oops, fix commit #4

...

You land on commit 4 breaking your commit, but if #5 and #4 had been squashed then you would find commit #3 much more easily.

With a tiny history like this it's not a big deal, but with a larger one, it becomes an issue.
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Germany is introducing a fine for providing incorrect contact details to restaurants. Former East Germans have living experience with "papers please".

We need all test statistics to be normalized, e.g. with transparency on PCR cycle threshold used by the test vendor and laboratory.

Given Bluetooth security weaknesses, it's only a matter of time before a legal challenge occurs against an iOS proximity assertion which has a large economic consequence, e.g. person returns to country B with PCR CT30 after being near a person in country A with PCR CT40 "positive" test result.

Should Person B be quarantined (e.g. they are expected to perform in a high-value sporting event) if they have no symptoms and there's a broad discrepancy in PCR cycle thresholds? Lawyers will sort this out after enough money is at stake to justify thorough collection of scientific evidence to challenge local policy assumptions syndicated by global iOS.
If you are looking at human cost, it is not just death that matters. The people who have long term consequences matter too. It is that if you dont die you walk away scott free.

It is that there is range of consequences from absolutely nothing to death through "sick for months" and through "maybe lifelong consequences but we dont know yet".
We're jealously watching from across the water in Melbourne :(
> Kitty

Not gputty? OK, I will call it gpussy, then.
Or instead of that, people can engage in the entirely legal act of both purchasing it, and the entirely legal act of hacking it.

Customers have a legal right to do basically anything they want with something that they own.
It's not sold in NL
Not surreptitiously (at least to my knowledge, but of course that would be an oxymoron anyways), but the moderators do have the ability to edit comments and do so on occasion.
Isn't calculus a prerequisite for statistics? Areas and density intuitions from calculus are very helpful.
> Aside from international travel, Covid now has basically zero impact on my day to day life. Because there is effectly 0 chance of communitry transmission at the moment, life has essentially returned to normal. Bars, restaurants, etc are open and buzzing.
All this and our case numbers are lower than almost any other countries death numbers.

Doesn't sound like "total lockdown" is what's happening there right now.
Thought exercise:

Do you want Covid-positive people rounded up and isolated in order to stop the spread?

Sure, Trump can do that. And he will start with Democrats and Liberals because it's not practical do to everyone at the same time. And there will be limited space so it will mostly be Liberals and Democrats in the Covid Ghettos.

You sure you want a national lockdown?
That's the breeding option, making tritium from lithium. Lithium can absorb a neutron and become helium and tritium.
I swear I've read this comment like five times, because you seem to actually know what's going on... but it's left me only more confused.

What is a launcher?

If Android TV is an OS, then what is a launcher for an OS?

And I guess you're as confused as I am as to also what this has to do with the previous Play Movies and TV app.
> As for the fingerprint reader that's weird, they had both on the Pixel 3 (at least the XL version I have), don't know what would have changed to make it not possible on the 4

My guess is that with the 4, they wanted to try to move in the same direction as Apple with facial unlock and therefore didn't think it was worth the cost to add a fingerprint reader, but then COVID happened and it turns out that unlocking with your face is impossible when wearing a mask, so they've realized that a fingerprint sensor is still useful.

(This is coming from a Pixel 4 XL user who has been frustrated with the lack of fingerprint sensor since shortly after getting it but doubly so since wearing a mask has become a mainstay of my daily life).
That was you! Thank you so much! I still use iTunes 10, with the coloured icons.

I just can't move on from the mini player, 18 years of play counts/last played, AppleScript, offline USB sync with an iPhone 4S, and of course your coloured icons. I even had to make my own RSRC edits with Themepark to show the icons correctly on Retina, based on your work. I'm not mad at you; I'm grateful for keeping the best music player (in my opinion) looking beautiful.

Any suggestions for other media management software is welcome, but I don't know if I'll ever be able to leave my beloved iTunes 10.6.3. More likely I'll run a 10.5 emulator just to keep it going through future decades.
Their PO modulars (https://teenage.engineering/products/po/modular) are so great looking I have almost bought one on impulse several times. Then I get to the checkout page and I realize I don't want it that badly.
Maybe now, but that was not at all a sanctioned idea at the time, if we only listened to health experts as you suggest. [0][1][2]

[0] https://www.who.int/news-room/articles-detail/updated-who-re...

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/31/as-far-right-calls-for-c...

[2] https://euobserver.com/coronavirus/147576
It's sort of the reverse side of The Greater Fool Theory in economics. Not sure if there is a term specifically for this, but it definitely causes a lot of irrational business decisions even outside of creatives.

I used to have a pretty successful business buying products at the monthly USPS lost mail auctions and reselling them online.

But a bunch of bloggers picked up on the opportunity and started hawking it as a get rich quick scheme. So people started showing up and way overpaying for things because there was so much competition. People were paying more for things like Macbooks than you could buy them new at Best Buy.

The first few times I saw it happen, I thought, well, this won't last, these fools will lose their shirts on all this and never come back. And I was right, people rarely came back a second time. But for months and months, new fools would show up and repeat the same exercise and never come back. After more than a year of that, we couldn't afford to keep going regularly. But for years kept checking back periodically and I saw no sign of prices going back to anything reasonable.

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
It's telling that the only concrete example in english, though only from two of you, is the same one.

It seems like there aren't a lot of examples to choose from.

I have personally never heard of this concern, and as you mention it doesn't seem particularly taxing. I would like to understand better the consequence of misusing (or using) blacklist/whitelist. I very much doubt the fallout would be severe.
But it might not be the best overall strategy when they are simultaneously begging for another government bailout.
Except pay TV still comes with ads.

Even Amazon prime plays stupid ads. Paid DVDs come with unskippable crap. Pay to remove ads never really worked.
Rather we need to realign expectations of what college means. College as a means of preparing students for grad school accomplish those means perfectly. College as a means to train folks for the workforce, that's less perfect.

I'd argue that we _shouldn't_ alter the purpose of college, but find new ways to fill the gap in the market for professional jobs that aren't research-focused (i.e. academia) or vocational. There's a very real middle-of-the-market segment of education/job training that's missing.

Programming bootcamps are a good example of filling the middle-of-the-market, but they're probably too short and too simplistic to bring a graduate up to the real entry-level, junior developer. It illustrates, in my opinion, that something needs to exist between vocational schools and colleges to fill professional needs.
"WSL2 uses Hyper-V virtual networking and therein lies the problem"

Pretty much sums it up.
DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source
> Java was the first mainstream language with automatic memory management and garbage collection

Wouldn't this be Lisp?
I didn't understand Golden's value prop when they raised last year, and wrote a post explaining why [1]. I don't understand it now either.

[1] https://medium.com/bloated-mvp/golden-is-a-bloated-mvp-27971...
> no offense but nz and other islands are extremely easy to control. as long as you close your border early and don’t allow it to take root in the first place, you don’t have to worry.

I'm not sure there's actually much of a difference in ability to "close the border" between a island country like NZ and one with land borders like the US. The US probably has equal control over arrivals by air, and most land traffic comes via controlled border crossings.

The main difference is basically the greater amount of illegal immigration and other kinds of smuggling. I don't know what the ratio of legal international travel vs. illegal immigration is, but I'd strongly suspect there's orders of magnitude more of the former than the later (at least during normal times). IIRC, the rates of illegal immigration have also dropped significantly during the pandemic.
I think the parent comment is just quite typical of modern political extremism. Where every actor must take a position on every issue, where failure to take the correct position is heresy, and where failure to take any position amounts to taking a position against the one of the extremist who is demanding that you take one (and is therefor also heresy).

The role of an employee is to deliver value to the employer during their working hours. The role of the employer is to provide an income to the employee. It’s insane to think that the role of the employer should be to further the political objectives of the employees. By that rationale, having any interaction with any party who’s politics are different from yours in any way is conformism.
You've moved from saying that NZ's policies couldn't be implemented in other countries because they wouldn't be effective to saying that NZ's policies couldn't be implemented in other countries because other countries refused to implement NZ's policies. The first is meaningful, the second is tautological.
Is that true? If I download Visual Basic right now, could I make a sensible visual app vs React?

I’m tempted to see if the truth is really out there.
I believe there is an explicit goal to remove pagination once the site can handle it. There was a couple days earlier this year where pagination was turned off.
I don't own a Roku, just a Chromecast
> The Interstate Highway System, while technically impressive, essentially entrenched the US as a car-centric society from the top-down.

Its been effective. It achieve the goals it set out to do. We discovered that focusing on highways and cars was ultimately not very good. But it achieved the goal it set out to do, so I don't get what your point is.

> The vast majority of our healthcare problems can be attributed to the fact that it's tied to employment, which was caused by Federal policies.

This is an absurd argument. What are you even trying to convey? That the Federal Government should take charge of providing healthcare? OK then.

Medicare/Medicaid/ACA are all Federal policies and provide healthcare to millions who wouldn't get that otherwise.

> DARPA falls under "organize national defense". The EU also has EU-level agencies that work on space research (ESA). Advanced research can also be organized among the States in a CERN-like model.

Again not sure what your point is. EU has Federal agencies too, yeah, so what?

> Insofar as "localities" are ill-suited to governing, the States are a sufficient mechanism for top-down control.

Hard disagree. While States have been great for introducing and experimenting with new ideas, spreading those ideas across the country requires Federal Investment and oversight. Obamacare traces its origins to Romneycare in Mass, but it required Federal dollars to bring it to the rest of the country.
> Because the outbreak slowed without any strong controls.

Maybe not mandatory, but Sweden had/has voluntary controls in place. People there seem to actually listen to their government and try to do the right thing. The US could be in a similar situation, but we all know how that has gone.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2251615-is-swedens-coro...

While it is sometimes implied that Sweden didn’t have a lockdown, it did. It was just largely voluntary, with only a few legal measures such as a ban on gatherings of more than 50 people.

“Voluntary restrictions work as well as legal ones,” says the architect of Sweden’s strategy, chief epidemiologist Anders Tegnell.

This appears to be true, in Sweden at least. The measures did work nearly as well in getting people to change their behaviour. Adam Sheridan at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, for instance, has used data from a bank to compare spending patterns up to April in Sweden and Denmark. Denmark introduced a compulsory lockdown on 11 March, one of the first in Europe.
I think this is a reasonable prediction. To paraphrase something I saw on here recently: "in the long run, business model trumps culture". I think there are hundreds of directions the business could go (Freebase being one, the next Bloomberg another, a simple shutdown being the most likely route in VC startups). But I agree with your skepticism that in the long-run the "we're here to help humanity" ethos will take a back seat to the profit motive.

But all that being said, there's always at least a chance that the organization somehow bucks the trend. Or, even if the organization eventually becomes dominated by the profit motive in the long run, that's not to say that it won't build really beneficial things before that happens. Freebase eventually sold and stopped maintaining it, but it built a free database that anyone in the world could use (and still could use). It pioneered a concept. I don't know what Rap Genius is up to these days, but I thought their annotations ux was really innovative and I'm sure pioneered a whole lot of other sites. So even if an organization's mission eventually takes a back seat to profit, it can create ton of value along the way.

Personally I find this startup very interesting and am excited to see where they go.
This was a good chance for google to cancel something before they actually launched, rather than after ~2-3 years of ignoring it.
I am still using a Pixel 1, and I am completely happy with it, aside from the degraded battery life. If the Pixel 1 was still receiving security updates, I would be happy to stick with it. I would just replace the battery. However, I think security updates are somewhat important, so I will probably end up buying a new-model phone.

It would be nice if my phone could be like my computer (running Debian). I can always install a new OS version on it. It never gets permanently cut off from receiving security updates.
Ent by Facebook: Entity Framework for Go Now Supports GraphQL
So when will we start getting pull requests against it?
I dont like their approach in the issue of "Kitty Only uses Dark colors"[1]

1. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/197
Unclear what goes into calculating the visa transactions. Is it just the literal cost of sending the bits over the wire? Does it include the cost of servers, man-power, real estate, etc?
it’s because their economy is heavily deflationary with lack of growth. so the printing just works to cancel the deflation
Good info -- thanks.

Their Eon mode product is very similar to Snowflake, with S3 storage and semi-dynamic compute nodes, but they may not be as slick at marketing it or providing a UI.
This article is tailored to attract the web components haters. IMO it does not foster a constructive thread of discussion, and some of the critique just as easily applies to the JavaScript ecosystem overall.

Web components have some distance to go before they are ideal for all of their envisioned use cases. In particular, I am awaiting declarative shadow roots, declarative custom elements and template instantiation ("data binding").

That said, the work that has been done so far on them is impressive. Web components by and large have survived the needless antagonism they have received from some corners and proved themselves in production scenarios from companies big and small. If you have interacted with a Salesforce application, you have used web components. If you have visited Github, you have used web components. If you watch videos on YouTube, you have used web components.

The ground truth is that web components are solving problems and making headway. They only stand to get better as new capabilities begin to land. I'm excited for what the future holds.
Have you tried running a x11 server on wsl? I heard that it works with a bit of linux-foo, might work for kitty
If you work in the Salesforce ecosystem, you know they are doubling down on their use of web components in their "modern" development process. This has lead to a very poorly designed ecosystem. It's infuriating they continue to double down on a system that the rest of us are rightfully abandoning.