skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The calculation you are asking to do is not a realistic scenario."

Yes - with the original lock down, with extensive social distancing measures - the 'end result' will be in the same order of magnitude as 'smoking' (actually much more) - but without suppressive measures it would be apocalyptic.

It's entirely plausible to estimate: it's in the order of millions of dead in a short period. It would probably be the 'worst disaster in US history by a long shot'. Probably worse than all wars in including Civil War and WW1 + WW2 combined.

FYI The UK and Sweden were estimating 60-80% of the population infected in order to get 'herd immunity' - so given the IFR/CFRs stated above ... that's millions of Americans dead, and just as many with lingering effects.
When I find something annoying in an open source tool that I use or missing some functionality that would be helpful for me, then I consider contributing, but only to get the things I need and nothing more. Once I get the PR through, I don't have any more interest in contributing unless I face another issue that bothers me enough.
Yes, psychological harm is one of the most powerful arguments against privacy invasion as I see it. The other being the potential for social or even physical harm, i.e. misuse of that data by people who are able to gain access to it.
I used to like the v loud VT100 key clicks but a bit distracting for others - not as much noise as a dual head daisy wheel printer or a real line printer
I think that you are mostly correct for those who has the correct soldering iron and skills.

One thing that I have found is PTH is much more forgiving than SMD. The copper tracks and pads are typically much heavier and can tolerate a lot more abuse from the less skilled.
If they had resources to throw at a quantum computer they have probably been throwing resources at trying to optimize for a while now and I'd assume lots of people have scratched their head trying to improve it on their own and get a promotion / applause / bonus.

It's either a problem that is hard to optimize or people lack the skills... though if they've managed to migrate to a quantum computer they probably have the skills necessary.

1500x is a impressive speedup (1500 min to 2 min)

Also - MYSQL SELECT is a I/O problem, bash scripts usually are not CPU problems... not the kind of things a quantum computer would even apply...
> Play games on Stadia / Coming in 2021

https://store.google.com/us/product/chromecast_google_tv_com...
Blender [1] and [2]

[1] https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/File_Structure

[2] https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/
Because consumption isn't necessarily what makes America great, there are externalization effects which make it a 'bad thing' - and you're not going to 'out consume' 2 nations (India and China) of 1 Billion each.

Time for a different strategy.

Notably one of working with EU/UK/Canada/Mexico/Brazil/SKorea/Japan etc. towards stabilizing things, making sure China+Russia don't get out of hand, dealing with climate change, and hopefully not having to suffer a reduction in quality of life.
I have 5 good old macbook airs without the problematic butterfly keyboard and they all became unusable with some dead keys after around 5 years. For 1 or 2 keys you can workaround it, but then you can throw it away.

Does not happen with proper keyboards. Esp. thinkpads.
the few I've seen of mafalda hints at slightly larger reflections than calvin & hobbes, I think it does ring a bell with banksy's groove
Annoying things in Scala 2 that’ll be (mostly) gone in Scala 3
You can get pcbs made for peanuts and soldering through hole components requires hardly any coordination at all. People who have been soldering their whole life find it easy to solder SMD because they have the coordination to do it and the temperature controlled station too.

I can solder qfps and tssop no problem but it's still easier to solder a dip package, they can go in breadboards or perf board and you can bang together a circuit without temperature controlled stations or cad software
That will just splinter society further into divisive religious and other ideological tribes who can’t understand each other or even get along. We have some of this now but vouchers make it worse and drain the budgets of public schools. The money has to come from somewhere and it ends up coming from taxpayers. So then less taxpayer money is available to do actual helpful things.
Well, there is a variety of choices, there is a good selection of excellent coworking places in Wien, Salzburg, Graz. I used to live in Vienna, so found a few interesting places her https://www.matchoffice.at/mieten/coworking/wien-city
If you can get a shell and it has some sort of network connection I've had success with just moving /dev/mtdblockX off with tftp/ftp/curl/wget etc.

Then you can just extract what you need with binwalk or your preferred tool.
Because with HTML you would use HTML to structure your elements. Javascript was never designed to structure element s we get things like JSX, to compensate, adding further complexity. HTML Imports was an attempt to keep with the existing platform.
I had the same problem, including the deteriorating performance when it used to be reliable (I don't know if the timing is the same but sounds about right), and the router fixed it for me as well. Maybe there were protocol / firmware changes that increased the demand on the router?

I went from a bargain router to a nicer mesh setup this spring and the problem just vanished overnight.
It starts with concepts as a "good part", but they're actually terrible in their current state. Concepts are a convention, there's no insight that the compiler has into any of it, and the compiler error messages that you get are very hard to comprehend.

Resist the urge to write this kind of code, at least for now. It is not worth it. Being generic isn't valuable when it slows you down because of longer compile times and because you can't make sense of some trivial error that is obfuscated by several pages of template error messages.

Furthermore, even if the error messages weren't that awful, even if compile times didn't blow up, writing this kind of code is likely not a productive use of your time. More likely, it's masturbation, and C++ already has more than enough of that.
I was confused by the "men", I think it's should be read as "humans" rather than "males".

Regardless it still doesn't sound very scientific.
Webpack generates code which might be loaded by users and additionally it's very common to run it on a CI server (which can sometimes have network access out to other machines at a firm).

In general, it's quite strange to me that vulnerabilities in `devDependencies` are considered less important than those in `dependencies`. These dependencies are generally for tools that are run within your company network, and contrary to what people insist, that seems quite risky to me.
I have an occasional issue where the chromecast just doesn't show up on wifi. You have to power it off and then on again. Has happened with a couple of different ones in a couple of different houses (i.e. different wifi networks).
> The SUV trend for families is a weird one.

I once heard SUVs described as station wagons for people who didn't want to admit they'd turned into their parents.
If your proposed system ended up leading to large amounts of suffering, worse than the current system, would that convince you it was less moral?
Stellar Explosion in Earth's Proximity
Agree completely, It's extremely jarring.
Am I missing something? I didn't see a single mention of reasons why PHP was not supported in the current version of CodeQL.
I recently read that the number is €2.6 million euro for the Netherlands.
"because it's not a standard language"
Every language was a "non-standard language" at it's beginning... Including C, C++ and Lisp...
I've had multiple examples of "spam" from Indian and Chinese students who scraped an email from GitHub repos, wanting endorsement or to fill questionnaires or somesuch.
The group of websites that cause me the most frustration is fancy restaurants. The trend seems to be ending now thankfully, but so many of them have animations, massive graphics and other bits and pieces that make them slow to load, a pain to use and not work on mobile. I just want to look at a menu and then book a table.
Dude, I'm totally with you on the broader point (that things that seem normal today will seem bizarre in the future).

However, I note that I didn't refer to HN as one of these "right-wing forums", rather I was speaking about financial news, which I would naively have expected to be more anti-taxation than a forum populated by people working on the fruits of a massive forty year defence project (the Internet/WWW).

Like, I personally disagree with you that taxation will be seen in those terms, but given that both of us will (probably) be dead before such a matter compiler exists, it's probably a moot point.

And by the way, my comment was not a rant (I don't think I've ever ranted on HN, to be honest, as tone doesn't come through well on the internet).

Maybe someday we'll meet in person, and you can actually listen to a rant of mine (normally entertaining, even if you disagree).

Anyway, taxation is liberty!
I absolutely agree with the article in the sense that this sort of "industrial literacy", or rather just "system awareness" is necessary to make proper judgments about the techno/societal mechanisms that we utilize and wish to modify, but I absolutely disagree with its tone of holier-than-thou justification of the current mode of industrial civilization.

It does the classic naive-libertarian pirouette of pointing at the state of the world as it is, justifying it in terms of its historical determinants, and thus claiming it as inherently natural and unavoidable. There's a whole lot of hidden assumptions behind every single statement in the article that are left unclarified (for obvious reasons, which the rest of this comment section has already dug into).

So yes, proper understanding the functioning of the civilization we live in is absolutely crucial, and at present, sorely lacking. But let's not stop there and think of it as the end goal.
Well, you might not want your ids to be sortable by time (you don't want it possible to see which thing was created before which).
So the unsortable nature of UUIDs can be a feature.
some Fourier Optics

Intro to Fourier Optics and the 4F correlator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcRB3TWIAXE
What would be a use case for using type_traits? It feels to me that most cases for it would be frowned upon in Rust, but that's just my gut feeling, not knowing what they are useful for in C++-
OK so I saw this when people started jumping on bashing the Calibre author. They posted this[1] link as a reference.

Couple of things to note here:

1. I'm pretty certain that when he says he can maintain python 2 he doesn't mean python 2 but rather the python 2 version of calibre. Note that he is not a native English speaker.

2. He never actually said he wouldn't merge python 3 code. Apparently people never read past comment #2 up until comment #4:

> Kovid has stated numerous times that any patches which work towards python3 compatibility without hurting python2 functionality or performance would be happily accepted. Oddly enough, no one has ever taken him up on that, though a number of people have insisted it is very important that he himself do that work.

3. There are plenty of people in this planet that actually don't want a UI. I've been happily using rxvt-unicode for ages because of its perl scriptability. Kitty works well and has python scritability. It's way faster at rendering new windows than alacritty and has some other features that rxvt-unicode had and other terminals don't have.

There have been plenty tiling WMs spawning left and right with a pretty significant but also niche following. Not everyone wants bloated GUI's.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1714107
For what it's worth, I was only pointing out that a guy transporting 1 gram of heroin would be a lower priority for investigation compared to a guy transporting a larger quantity of the same product. So a social media platform that's worse but less popular would not be on anyones radar for a ban, precisely because its on nobodies radar to begin with.

But I see the point you're making. I'd say that, in the case of hemp vs heroin, the guy transporting 1 ton of industrial hemp would be subject to close scrutiny since the product could be used for illicit purposes (turning into heroin). If there was any evidence or suspicion of foul play, his capability to transport industrial hemp would be removed and he would face investigation. I'd apply the same logic to software too.

But the difference is that it's hard to scrutinise closed-source software and it's also difficult to "trace" data and know that data isn't being harvested for re-use by the CCP for other nefarious purposes. We do have suspicion of foul play though – TikTok routinely blocks anything anti-China and we're aware of the massive data gathering that the CCP performs to monitor its own citizens. We also know they (and others) are manipulating western social media using the data they've gathered.

Your subsequent argument that TikTok is just full of people doing stupid things is, I think, a bit disingenuous to the potential for harm that TikTok is capable of. The top level commenters link (https://stratechery.com/2020/the-tiktok-war/) explains it quite well. It's also worth noting that the same argument could be made for any social media platform when they first got started. Example, facebook = "just a bunch of teens socialising online". Obviously if you're one of the people who doesn't think facebook has become a problem then this debate is pointless. But if you do see the harm that facebook has caused globally, I personally believe that TikTok has even greater potential for harm.
As a DIY'er SMDs are a massive pain as they are hard to impossible to solder and need special PCBs, which I think is what DoingIsLearning is getting at.

Holes are already drilled in your veroboard, that's what they are for, your job is to solder and you want it to be easy and simple.
TIL. I'd say he reminds me of Sergio Aragonés and Antonio Prohías.

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An important point about the technical meaning of "quantum supremacy": It is only the claim that a problem exists that can be solved on existing quantum computers and not on existing classical computers.
The problem that Google used to demonstrate quantum supremacy has no practical uses, and no useful problem is known that can act as a witness for quantum supremacy.
The practical implication: "Getting you problem solved" cannot be the motivation for buying quantum compute power from D-wave (unless you have no clue). Possible valid motations: "learning to work with quantum computers", "seeming cool", "donating money to companies that may build useful quantum computers in the future".
>While PHP is classified as the 5th most active programming language on Github, it’s not supported by the new security code scanning feature.

Fyi constructive criticism... both your blog post and your HN comment do not directly answer the title's question of "Why not for PHP?"

The indirect answer seems to be: "because the CodeQL feature is based on the Semmle acquisition and that technology never analyzed PHP code -- and Microsoft/Github also didn't add PHP to this new rollout."

Also see comment from a Github employee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24648281
I m always surprise by the amount of effort a lot of people can put into winning so little. I mean, some people do SPAM pull request to get a free t-shirt ?
Show HN: Useful scripts and environment setup for coding in VPS
it's not just a US specific thing, it's a generation specific thing.

The scenarios described in the GP link is a very late 70s-80s (Gen X) thing. 90s and early 00s high-schoolers had somewhat different experiences, but they know the trope since that's what was in movies. Schools today have a different concept of a "pecking order" - it's not that nerds aren't at the bottom anymore, it's that the whole concept changed.
The way it seems to work is that direct replies to highly rated comments need to 'do more work' to stay unfolded (i.e. it needs to gain a higher amount of upvotes-per-view). This burden is similarly increased the deeper nested comments get, and possibly the more replies already exist to the parent.

It is a deterrence to posting a direct reply to the top comment, since there is a higher chance that the reply gets folded, unless it is high quality.

I like this idea that comments have to earn their keep, in a weighted ratio to how visible a space they are trying to claim.
>try getting it shipped to Cartagena, Colombia, or Maxixe, Mozambique and then tell me how cheap they get.

Sure, but components and all of your other equipment also have to be shipped.

>That is a 'cheap' under $100 setup in a lot of places, but $100 is also the monthly paycheck for a lot of people.

I'm fully aware of that, but you at least need a decent soldering iron whatever kind of components you're using. The hot air station is optional if you avoid QFN. These days you only save a little by getting a non-temperature-controlled iron, and it's a massive reduction in utility.
I get a distinct feeling that this is a language translated article. There are a number of odd phrases. The concluding line seems to start a new subject, even.
... with infinite pockets at the helm and cronies to spin product to which can support the notion of growth far enough in to the hype cycle to secure returns.

Perhaps their CEO will have the moral fiber to sign a commitment guaranteeing a nontrivial (eg. double digit percentage) of annual expenses (not earnings, I'd wager this is a long way from generating profit) going directly to open source database projects they draw from. I'd wager not.
For an additional comparison:

Xiaomi Mi 10T Pro 5G[1], which was announced on the same day and with the similar price tag as Pixel 5, comes with Snapdragon 865 processor, 5000mAh battery, 6.67" display size, and wireless charging, but lacks an OLED display, a dedicated security chip, a water resistance rating, and a "zero-bloatware" Android experience.

I would still pick any Pixel smartphone over any Xiaomi smartphone, if they were available in my country. But at least there is an open-source tool on Github for safely removing most of the Chinese bloatware that comes with Xiaomi devices[2].

[1] https://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_mi_10t_pro_5g-10437.php

[2] https://github.com/Szaki/XiaomiADBFastbootTools
> Yes, this is true.

So what happened to the "it's actually just biological" argument?

> how extending the leave of someone who is already on one is much easier than setting up two leave-of-absences

So your argument relies on that it's more of a hassle for managers to arrange two parental leaves rather than one even though they have ~6 months to prepare? This might be the weakest rationalization I've ever heard.

This is blatantly sexist also. "Well, it's easier to just extend one, and whoops, this just happens to always be the mother". The result of this strange rationalization is of course a deep skew to mothers being home and bearing the brunt of the negative effects of it.

This "well, it's more of a hassle to managers" when it's usually entirely different workplaces, different managers and 6 months to prepare it is frankly laughable. How could you think that that is of even remotely proportional importance to the negative effects of always extending the mother's leave?
Those are finalizes thought and are a bit different.
Then you don't need to do anything. Just use the default.
god, this is really bad side effect :( please be mindful
It’s not a static site.

Type “dir” in the header (or other activities in the “cool-stuff” post).

Moreover, I can build anything I want very quickly - with great engineering - and still get performance comparable to a static site.
Do you have a link to that? Google is failing me.
Reign of Terror during the French revolution was neither secular nor atheistic. They have state religion 'Cult of the Supreme Being', which was deistic. Robespierre himself was deist and opposed to atheism.
Sadly, WA no longer allows digits on vanity plates at all. I was hoping to get 6835 MHz, but no such luck...
Ghost in Action: The Specter Botnet
By the way, it seems that statlect focuses a lot on probability and so has quite an overlap with Feller. If you had to choose a primary text you'd read, which one of those two would you take?
No, the effect of gravitational waves is far too small. Those have to be detected by watching for actual movement.
I have a big beard and thick black framed glasses, often image recognition can't find my face either. And I'm also happy about it. :)

I'm extremely nearsighted so through the glasses my face looks smaller than it actually is. The outlines of my face are shifted.

Whenever my gfs daughter wanted to play with snapchat and me I had to take off the glasses for it to work.
Because I was once a five year old who didn't know how to stop when someone told me no, and it brings back shameful memories when I see the same behavior from grown men.
If the vaccines are not very effective in older people then they may not make as much of a difference as you think.
Open+Standards+–+Overview
While they don’t make economic sense perhaps, they make strong functional sense. I was always proud of my ability to back into spots, but even I have to admit they make backing up a million times easier. I don’t want one for the safety, I want it for the convenience.
To be fair, sliced bread (the square stuff that's used to make sarnies and toasties) should not be called bread. Never mind the legal definition. It's a mess of supplements and emulsifiers and stabilisers and whatever. Yet, you can make perfectly good, delicious bread with only flour and water (not even salt, let alone sugar).

Why are all that other stuff in sliced "bread", then? Probably because they improve shelf life or make the product resemble some ideal of "bread" that has been created by marketing teams and promoted by advertisements showing fake bread behaving in a certain way in different cooking conditions (oooh, look at how crisp those bread slices are as they pop out of the toaster!) (wait, why does your toaster have a strobing red light slit?).

In short, that sliced "bread" is not bread, it's a product that masquerades as bread for the purpose of being sold to people who want to buy actual bread. It's like a, a, a mimetic parasite that pretends to be one kind of animal when it is another so that it can more easily approach its host. It's like a cookoo egg that will hatch to a cookoo fledgling that will throw all other eggs outside the nest so it can hogg their parents' attention. It's like a synthetic hormone, or protein, that binds onto the receptors that are meant for the real thing and inhibits the real thing's action. It replaces true bread in the baskets and the bellies and the minds of people, until nobody buys true bread anymore becase it looks ...weird and not like what they're now used to call bread, and everybody buys that fake bread shit instead, that the fake bread makers prefer to sell over true bread, because it makes them more money.

Sure, that sort of stuff should not be allowed to be sold as bread in the first place. It should be forced to have big, red labels on its packaging stating clearly "THIS IS NOT REAL BREAD". When consumer goes to supermarket to buy bread, because they want to buy bread, they should be informed that what they are about to buy is not bread- then they can make their choice whether to buy it or not.
That just means many people will never start.
Why Europeans no longer dream of America
Once again, you don't have to. The phone out of the box comes with default launcher which is completely functional.