skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was created by a Koch "economic policy think tank"[2], who regularly argues against climate change[3], the minimum wage, and social safety nets, and isn't focused on medical arguments, but rather economic well-being. It stretches credibility to suggest their primary interests are for the poor all of a sudden.

The argument is also predicated on there never being a working vaccine, and herd immunity being the primary mechanism of eventually ending the COVID-19 pandemic/lockdown[0].

> [0]Sunetra Gupta, an infectious disease epidemiologist, has been a critic of the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic lockdown strategy, arguing that the cost is too high for the poorest in society.

That's an economic argument, not a medical one.

Considering at least two vaccines are coming out of stage III trials[1] and may be widely available as early as summer 2021, I'd prefer to wait for that, rather than a scheme hatched by economically interested individuals who want to sacrifice a lot of people for essentially more wealth.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington_Declaration

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine#Vaccine_candi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Institute_for_Economi...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Institute_for_Economi...
Soulfly: Lyric Video for New Song 'Sodomites'
The designer's personal site, and the clock site are both now gone, so I am assuming he never got to production stages... still an amazing idea, and an inspiration for anyone that would like to try building one on their own...
You need a stamp to mail most ballots. You do not need a stamp to put ballots in a dropbox.
Correct. In every way.

Deming process people call this "one way flow" of information.

Paraphrasing, mostly to continue my rant:

Versions are just labels (tags, aliases) you share with clients, users. Semver is no worse than any other scheme. And fretting about semver gives scrum masters something to do.

Build numbers are used for internal processes. Like the "found", "fixed", "closed" fields that QA tools should have (but rarely do).

As you said, version is annointed AFTER an artifact is accepted, moments before release. Like an imprint. (For all workflows prior to "Test Into Prod", so ymmv.)

Then everyone can also precognitively divine a future version, so stuff like press releases can be front loaded. Genius!

Few things drive me more nucking futts than teams which predetermine version before attempting a build. Oops, build failed. Manually increment semver. Try again. Rinse, lather, repeat. Then ferret all wiki references to semver and update those JIRAs.

Trying to explain this to noobs is harder than advocating using knives for cutting to someone who's only ever seen spoons. People get it when they see it, but can't imagine it, so the push back is exhausting.
Taxhub – Platform to give CPA tax access to startups
Someone please make these great people a great wallpaper!
How does "protect and serve" not include removing dangerous, violent criminals from society?. To do so you need efficient weaponry and tactics that differ from conventional warfare. Does every police officer need to be equipped with such firepower? No, but police forces around the world facing these threats tend to have an intermediate (or more) group for dealing with threats that fall between petty thievery and terrorist organizations/nation-state level actors.
In California all ballots are postage paid.
https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/10/10/report-microsoft-ma...
HTTP/3 – HTTP over QUIC is the next generation by Daniel Stenberg (2019)
A short film based on the novel “Blindsight” by Peter Watts
I wouldn't suggest doing it as a direct call, but if you write a script that has a few methods of verifying that it actually is an image and then even converts it to a new image, it might be a little more safe. Sure, it might slow things down, but it's for dev, right? But that slowdown might be a good thing. Do you really need all of those images?
Ergonomic and usability considerations are rarely valued because they do not have a cell on a spreadsheet. What is measured tends to improve. What does not tends to worsen.

Programmers have been driven to obsess about features to the exclusion of other criteria (security being a category with many examples) will not have had the freedom to experiment and come up with easier, more consideration workflows and interactions. This also means that they are not practiced at it. It follows that so-called (in the article) unicorn programmers are rare, perhaps because the environments in which they can get better are rare.

"Don't hate the player, hate the game."
Why? They've basically given up on non-linux server now (in the large scale battle), but if Linux wasn't GPL do you think they wouldn't be EEE-ing?
In California all ballots do not require a stamp AFAIK. Mine didn't. Even if you do drop it in a drop box, you still have to seal it in the provided postage paid envelope.
Mainstream doesn't use Linux because of no gaming ecosystem. There have been some attempts at getting games running, but for average user it seems too limited. Still in 2020 the Linux desktop experience isn't smooth - you often need to dig into configuration files and it is too easy to mess it up. Then you have Google purposefully turning off GPU acceleration in Chrome so people think that Linux is just slower than Windows.
I think Linux is missing proper UX team dedicated to making basic user problems easy to solve without the need of PhD in computer science.
> Some years back, one criticism I heard against Microsoft was that they threatened to assert patent infringement against Linux, but refused to tell the alleged offenders which particular patents Microsoft considered to be violated. And the end result was Microsoft (imho) legally extorting some Linux vendors for licensing fees.

How would this work in court?

"We're charging you with breaking some laws, but we're not going to tell you which ones. How do you plead?"
> The macros enable users to write C/C++ Vector Length Agnostic (VLA) loops,

What a great idea to use VLA to mean something else than it does for ISO C99.
> I'm guessing you would argue that this is immoral and harmful behavior

I do not. I argue that the public putting pressure on individuals who spread bad ideas to stop doing that---up to and including looping their employer in, up to and including the employer terminating that employment relationship---is part of the healthy public immune system to bad ideas and antisocial behavior. "We live in a society" and all that. The government is constrained from doing it because the machinery of government can be co-opted by tyrants, so people need the right to call tyrants what they are. Not because it's the obligation of every individual to feed those who seek their destruction.

In US history, unpopular politicians used to have their houses torn down brick by brick by an angry mob and tossed in a river. We've come quite a long way in expressing disagreement in a civilized way, but there's no expectation that someone should keep paying you money (or, in the concrete case of Facebook and what content they host, giving you an open "billboard along the highway" of their community communication service) so you can spend it on denying their history or their right to exist (or the history and right to exist of their customers).
> well considering those types of weapons didn't exist and weren't even a possibility for another like 70 years

At the time the Second Amendment was ratified, private individuals could, and did, own field artillery pieces and fully-armed and -crewed ships of war.

When it comes to inducing a mass-casualty event, a 32-pounder full of grapeshot is going to beat the hell out of an AR-15.

Edit: an AR-15 bullet masses somewhere around 4 grams, depending, so a 32-pounder would fire roughly the equivalent of 3,500 AR-15 rounds in one shot.

>I should be able to have my own nuclear weapon for hunting

The Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting.

> The second amendment makes no mention of it, thus I should get one.

I strongly suspect than anyone with the financial resources, technical infrastructure, and desire to own a nuclear weapon already has one, laws or no laws.
Wouldn't this imply that they can track who voted for whom by seeing which IPs are visiting to check on which ballots?
Citation? I'm finding nothing on their site more recently than August that could even be characterized as criticism, and to call that "harsh" would be wildly overstating the case.
> “It hinges on how many deaths we are going to tolerate before we get to a level of herd immunity where we stop transmission,” Rutherford said. “I have to come down on the side of preventing mortality.”

I must say I find this perspective difficult to understand - how can this person believe he's on the side of preventing mortality?

It appears certain at this point that there is no remaining mathematical possibility for the population-wide mortality rate in the US to end up as low as Sweden, which of course did not close primary schools or engage in any lockdown at all.

Sweden is by no means a model response - they did many things wrong. But at a minimum, it's a baseline count, no? If the USA mortality rate is higher, without even accounting for second-order mortality from the lockdowns themselves, then how can the US policy possibly be defended as anti-mortality?
There has been something very strange going on at Stanford since this began. Tons of really really bad stats, stuff that should destroy a person's career, even if it wasn't during a global pandemic and the bad stats resulted in the death of people.

Politics have overtaken some people's scientific sensibilities. Fortunately there are still lots of great people at Stanford, but they aren't the ones who are going on mass media.
>Holocaust denial is banned in Germany (same as swastikas by the way). It works really well

In what way does it "work"? What do you actually gain by silencing those people? It seems like you're lending them credibility. As in "these things that I'm saying are so dangerous that the government wants to shut me up!" You can't control what people actually believe, you can only control whether or not you hear about it. Using the state to do this for you instead of a block button is dangerous and inefficient.

>Free speech has limits.

No it doesn't. Free speech with limits isn't free speech. The simple expression of an idea w/o the intent to cause harm to another party, and the sole intention of discourse should be protected no matter what. No matter how distasteful it is, holocaust denial falls into this category.
I'm kind of skeptical of that. Do you specifically mean location metadata (I'm aware that happens), or do you actually mean AT&T sells access to datasets which map semantic content in the call to specific brands and products?

Credit card transaction data has a much higher signal for the same purpose and is just easier to work with.
OpenBSD 6.8 Changelog
Linux gaming is a non-market, 0.59% according to Steam. Providing Linux support is fan service so folks can pat themselves on the back, not to mention bad business, considering the cost vs. reward.

I love Linux, but lets stop pretending desktop is a gaming platform when it's not.
If you haven't tried Live Share in VS Code, it might be worth a shot. It's not the same as a "perfect" pairing set up but it's certainly better than two people sitting at one keyboard/mouse or screensharing over Zoom.
You do not need a stamp in California.

https://www.sos.ca.gov/administration/news-releases-and-advi...
Git Commands You Might Not Know
They're collecting them to turn in en mass. They're putting them in places Republican voters are more likely to already be going to make it easier for Republicans to vote.

This is arguably legal under California's ballot harvesting law.
Parts of GDPR is difficult to implement. And if your business model involves those parts then it would be costly, ie. costing you business.

Other parts are infosec best practices, anyone who is security conscious could look at it and say, "yeah, that makes sense."
Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-12/world-health-organiza...
Microsoft Seeks to Defend U.S. Election in Botnet Takedown
https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/coronavirus...
I feel like a lot of scientists have been saying this. Maybe not as explicitly, though, which can be part of the problem. Even Fauci keeps talking about how we didn't really lock down hard enough.

It makes sense. If individuals are supposed to quarantine for two weeks when they're exposed, then if everyone quarantined for the same two weeks, it would be gone.

Obviously you can't do a true, 100%, lockdown like that, but the logic is there: the harder the lockdown, the shorter it needs to be; the looser the lockdown, the longer it'll be before this thing gets better.
You shouldn't get rid of a vital tool in a riot or active shooter situation because they look scary to you. And I have yet to see anyone use an MRAP/Bearcat to run over anyone (though I have seen quite a few patrol cars hit active shooters - quite justifiably)
ModelOps Is Just the Beginning of Enterprise AI
No, haven’t done any perf testing. I’m pretty sure Vue is moving to use Poxies, so I think it’s somewhat safe. You can still use useState where you need it.
They can and they do.
The ballot drop boxes exist largely because certain government officials have worked to undermine faith in the postal service: Both with rhetoric suggesting postal balloting is susceptible to fraud and through active steps to make the post office slower and less efficient, so it might in fact struggle to deliver mail-in ballots by election day.
Zuckerberg: We're updating our hate speech policy to ban Holocaust denial
If I told you a year ago that you'd describe a position as "overwhelming consensus", but that Ioannidis, Katz, Levitt, and Gupta had a different opinion, do you think you'd raise an eyebrow at that?

How can it be consensus when most of the top echelon of experts disagree?
You look at yourself and see a developer. I look at you and see someone with their head lodged so far up their rectum that they can't tell whether their posts make them sound like a moron.

I bet you're a rust dev.
Absolutely not the case. A 5 point harness is best. A car seat converts two or three point harness to a 5 point. Which is great, because those soft little bodies need as many touch points as is possible to spread the load of force. We know for a fact that the 5 point harness is the best, that is why race car drivers use 5 point harnesses instead of lap belts.

The three point harness is a good compromise between the uselessness of a lap belt and the incovinience of a 5 point harness. But its certainly not as good as a 5. Point harness.
Unfortunately lockdowns are how governments can most easily be "seen to do the right thing"

And so they do them so that, at a future date, they can say, "well we did the lockdown, so you can't complain about the present state of affairs".
> The other difference with sports is you don't have a fixed team size. You found a 10x guy, good for you. Now with the 999 other people you have 1009 people's worth of productivity. In a sports team, you absolutely want CR7 or Messi, you aren't splitting the pie 1000 ways.

Other comments have started to point out how wrong this is, but to put the final nail in the coffin, I just want to point out that "9 women can't have a baby in 1 month" is a principle that applies to software development generally. To think that one can casually split a project 1000 ways is assuming the mythical man month.
One of the most notable changes is wg(4), an in-kernel driver for Wireguard vpn communication. It is a complete reimplementation of wireguard so there's nothing gnu licensed in it.
Deploying IPv6 is nice, but it doesn't impact the value of IPv4 at all.

Any internet service you want to be widely available will need to be dual-stack as long as we are alive.
>Politics have overtaken some people's scientific sensibilities. Fortunately there are still lots of great people at Stanford, but they aren't the ones who are going on mass media.

They've always leaned far more conservative than almost any other academic institution I can think of. Probably it's to do with the pervading influence of big business there. The Hoover Institution is one of the oldest conservative think tanks in the US.
Welcome to social media, where the facts don't matter.

Ballot harvesting is not only legal but standard procedure... for the Democratic Party. The only difference wish these boxes is social distancing. But because ballot harvesting mostly happened in... different neighborhoods than the typical HN reader live in, therefore it's strange and unfamiliar and this didn't really happen, apparently. So naturally when the wrong team does the same thing (but with social distancing) it's the end of the world. And you can bet your last dollar that if the wrong team had collected the ballots in person, that would have been evidence that they're endangering peoples' lives with COVID.

This sickens me.
IANAL but that seems like something that may genuinely be a legal liability, even hating AT&T I feel a bit skeptical.
No. Verifying that your ballot was counted doesn't say anything about which boxes were marked on that ballot.
You may want to check out the Indian supreme court opinion on the topic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_India
Yes, I think "software" works better.
I am okay with qualified medical professionals having a good-faith debate about the broad physical and mental health impacts of lockdowns as it pertains to this particular virus. It is a fair discussion to have.

I am not okay with unqualified politicians making inaccurate claims about the virus, and prioritizing economic health in the absence of good governance.

I believe there are obvious risks to mental health of adults and children in being isolated from others, unable to socialize with other humans in person. I read recently too, that things like kids in school in person allow teachers and members of the community to be a safe space for children to be seen and essentially monitored for child abuse/poor living conditions. People may go to the doctor less because of fear of the disease, rather than get treatment.

It is certainly a balance - we cannot go full "save every possible life" - thus the term "flatten the curve", where the metric for success was not to have absolute minimum deaths, but to preserve the integrity of the health system to best serve all who need emergency care for any reason.

There was an article in February called "The Hammer and the Dance" that predicted a cycle of shutdowns and reopenings to balance social interaction and jobs with overriding systemic medical concerns. We are in that now.
In business, science, philosophy - the first objective is to define your goals. I find these kinds of papers and the general discussion surrounding lock-downs seem to miss this first step.

If the goal is to preserve the maximum number of human lives, lock-downs are probably reasonable (particularly since lives saved keeping the highways closed alone meets or exceeds lives saved from COVID) - this logic also would have probably kept it out of WW2, kept us from sending humans to the moon, etc.

If the goal is prevent the maximum damage to the economy possible, then lock-downs should probably be extremely brief and extremely intense.

If the goal is maximum human freedom, again, the choices are obvious.

Any discussion that doesn't first define the goals is useless with this topic.
Couldn't it also be that Microsoft is no longer concerned that the year of Linux as a desktop is never going to happen. Consumer use of Linux OS as a daily driver is never going to be a threat to Microsoft's strangle hold. They know this now. They did not 100% know this in the 90s.
Brain Fog Plagues Covid-19 Survivors
It is deeply frustrating to me that there doesn't even seem to be agreement on basic facts about sars-cov-2/covid19 yet. Death rate? They're still arguing. Risk of serious complications by age group or complications? Still arguing. Negative impacts of social distancing/lockdown measures? Still arguing.

I think it's great that there is an argument about this, but it still feels disappointing that it will still clearly take a lot longer then 10 months to clarify these points to a level where no serious high level medical professional disagrees.

In the meantime, I'd also appreciate it if we could get back to a lot more talk of "flatten the curve" in our public discourse. Nobody seems to seriously doubt that at some point almost all humans will be exposed to the virus. The question is how rapidly that happens, and the concomittant impact on health care and the economy if it happens too fast.
This is satire at it’s worst.
> Nothing stops them from being a good citizen

Considering they gave the world DX which has been a net win for gamers, yeah definitely not a good citizen.
> suffocate the virus completely.

Literally impossible
Yes, Sunetra Gupta, that rabid death cult capitalist.
Not exactly, surplus weapons are really popular among civilians.
> Obviously you can't do a true, 100%, lockdown like that

If you're willing to ration food and other resources, a lot of options open up. Nobody wants to rip the bandaid off, though, so we're stuck in limbo.
If two weeks lasts for eight months, how long is "brief"?
Yes, assuming you have enough empty disk space for the Windows partition, you can do this. I haven't done it in a bit, but I think when you get to the disk partitioning step, you need to click "custom", which then shows your disk layout, and you can have it create the partitions in the empty space. The installer will make the Windows bootloader the default that loads after a reboot, but this can be easily switched back either in your BIOS or using a tool like efibootmgr.
Interestingly, I have not found the same to be true at all. I suspect this varies from org to org.

I've noticed a marked increase in meeting pre-amble:

- General checkins about how people are doing / holding up (mostly a positive thing)

- Chitchat about the latest thing: new COVID restrictions, or a favorite restaurant closing, or "I finally braved a haircut"

- Fires

- The usual small chitchat about the weather, etc.

I've interpreted this as folks feeling desperate for connection. Connection they'd usually get by being in the office.

When I started typing this comment, I was trying to categorize the type of meeting where I've seen this happen, but it's actually pretty universal, ranging from:

- Daily standups and other standing meetings with immediate team

- Broader planning discussions

- I've even seen this "personal interest" chatter from execs who are usually a bit more private.

At times, it's nice to indulge in this. Over time, it's had a negative impact on productivity. It's hard to know how to react to it - on the one hand, it feels like people are in need, and this is their way of staying sane. On the flip side, there aren't very many hours in a day.

Could be a company culture thing.
On first glance I didn't like the sound of it either. But then I thought, it really does give you a choice you wouldn't otherwise have.

If surge pricing doesn't exist and all cars are taken, you're simply SOL, period.
That's the literal quote in the article, you know.
TOPIKS
Hello peeps,
we have a relatively new social app and would like to get awesome beta adopters/users to the platform. You'd be an OG user as we grow and things gain more traction.
If you'd like to help, that'd be an amazing human quality we need as of now, especially with the social scale filled with sharks. So counting on awesome people is all we can hope for.

Many thanks
Adam, co-founder
Tried it! It's cool, it works, though I may not be the target user because I don't often do deep-dives on one web topic and take notes. Who're you expecting to use this?
To the file system, all files are instances of the same type. Google's notion of "file type" is likely based on the extension, which is only a naming convention. If they're peeking inside at the contents to discern a signature, that's a security problem.