skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple seems to me, if not perfect, at least a couple of levels up from google or amazon.
Going to need a citation for that claim. I'll assume you meant "in WW1 operations". Otherwise, whilst I don't have data for total US deaths 1914-1918, even given the much smaller population I'd expect > 1M per year, far in excess of suspected US covid deaths. The main complicating factor is, of course, 1918 saw the Spanish Flu.

Also, the US declared war in 1917. Spool through the main battles of WW1, when and where they occurred and who was in them.

Also, put bluntly, age matters. Wars are fought mainly between young men, and women and children don't exactly get off lightly. France lost ten percent of its active male population. Death, eventually, is inevitable. Death in a field, often over a period of days, when you should have lived another 40, because some ####### ##### of ######### ##### with the collective brains of a ######### #### couldn't do their jobs right, isn't.

In summary, you may not be wrong but its utterly sensationalist to compare the toll of WW1 to covid.
I wrote my thoughts on this sort of thing in a blog post: https://gavinhoward.com/2019/11/recommendations-and-radicali... .
To avoid this type of thing I start Chromium via a script that replaces all settings with their defaults when I quit Chromium:

chromium-browser \
--password-store=basic \
--enable-dom-distiller \
%U
rm -r ~/.cache/chromium
rm -r ~/.config/chromium/Default
cp -r ~/chromiumDefault \
~/.config/chromium/Default

~/chromiumDefault is the dir as it was created when I started Chromium for the first time and set all settings the way I like it. I update it every once in a while when I tweak a setting.
Because foreign languages have a community of native speakers whose way of speaking is ultimately authoritative.
Haha - there’s a strong cultural rule in the UK that you can’t change the team you support after a certain amount of time. No matter how much you’d like to - you’re stuck with the terrible team until the end of time
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I am sorry but it really depends on the games you are playing.

1) Alt-tab out of a game without the game crashing.
2) Random Stuttering on Framerate.
3) Games crash at random
4) Can't stream games to discord without significant performance drop (I have a 3950X and a 1080Ti and a Unity game is struggling).

IME if it is a Unity Game the game will work fine but with significant performance issues.

The ProtonDB they have I find to be practically uselss as a lot of games that work "perfectly" don't.
Agree. But this would mean: follow the China approach.

- close the market
- limits or ban American products. there is no reason why Amazon or Google cannot be copied and made better.

2 main objectives i see there:

- protectionism and ban of American stuff speaks against our "transatlanic"""friendship""" and our "common" values meme
- we have a terrible fragmented market. chinese have a 1.4bn people population, Americans do have almost 400m. Try to make an app here in Europe for 20 languages, 20 law systems. it's a nightmare.
This will be such a huge waste of money. Most of the work will be outsourced to private companies that will make sure that the project will cost 10x as planned and will never be delivered. Time to found a new company?
100ms is generally considered to be the lower bound for a valid start, i.e. 99 would be considered a jump start in F1 iirc
Feels like it would make more sense to simply insist that European companies must house sensitive data in EU-owned providers, and use this money to subsidise the cost difference. That said, Asian Tigers have shown directed economy can work
I agree and IMO a project like this would probably work better if the rules stipulated that it can only be used to fund startups. Eg: only companies younger than 3-5 years old, with fewer than 200 employees, and less than 100M in market cap. Such rules could help prevent established players from grabbing all the money.
Yes, i remember seeing the rasp-type butter knife in the '80s or '90s in the UK.
Other posters have already pointed at some examples, it boils down to that you are taking in a relatively very large attack surface and one that is rather difficult to validate effectively and exhaustively.
Making email more efficient – Would you use this?
I've been stuck with this idea for a while so, I thought I would post it here to get constructive and honest feedback.

Problem: Email has become a frustrating experience and we waste a lot of time when it comes to finding the emails we need to pay attention to and then later sorting them.

Solution: An email client that is based around self-organizing folders.

This is a rough image of the main page: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11N0RGgYCs8juNKZxrDiEh1N3t9CItVn6/view?usp=sharing

How it works:
- In the pic above, the emails are sorted automatically into the folders as you receive them.

- You can drag and drop the email in any folder and the folder will learn your preferences and adjust accordingly.

- Emails are shown according to the vertical order of the folder arrangement under "Inbox" and NOT in chronological order for each day. This way, you can organize the folders in the order that is important for you to see the emails as they arrive.

- „Clear" means, that it just clears those emails from what you are seeing there (emails are still stored in folders) so there is less clutter.

Would you pay a monthly subscription fee of $5-10 for a service like this?
If not, please tell me why.
The same thing happens in the US when we have cash giveaways. See the recent stimulus. It’s pretty difficult to avoid.
If you aren't, try using the Firefox Beta version, or Firefox Nightly which I'm using to be on the bleeding edge.
the app doesn't store location information by design for privacy reasons
how do you know the app is working? because we value privacy SO much, we don't even know if the app has ANY effect - taking all the anecdotes aside.
Yes, they are. If people don't want democracy then they should not have it.
The German federal government had past bad experiences with the company contracted to collect car/truck tolls on federal roadways. The product launch was delayed due to the contractor and thus the government lost lots of revenue from tolls. A 15 year long fight with the owners of the company ensued. Maybe they wanted to avoid that by just putting a large pile of cash onto the table, ensuring that SAP+DTG put their best people behind it. Delays in COVID-App deployment cost real lives instead of just revenue.

It's great that it worked nice in Italy, but giving the contract to a random startup is more of a gamble I think.
You forget that unlike the US, innovators in the EU will have to fend off the bigwig corporates. And the country-level governments are firmly in the pockets of these few corporates. One could argue the same for the US, but the US is moving into the position where the EU is right now.
If you were interested in intelligence, and you wanted to maintain that pipeline of intelligence, would you give up that information?

Act in plain sight and do good, and you’ll be ok.
Multiplayer is pretty much the only area Linux falls down due to anticheat.

With that said Titanfall 2 works and I can get pretty sweaty in that, csgo also works natively though I've not played for years. I used to play R6: Seige a lot before ditching my dual boot which I miss but dualbooting gets old when you have to shut down everything just to switch OS.

There is work to get anticheat working in Linux but it's kinda a pipedream as Linux is still seen as a haven for cheaters by anticheat developers so it feels like a never ending arms race rather than something that seems likely to happen any time soon.
As a GA pilot I know people that had accidents with planes and I know that in most cases what is the the official report and what really happened are not the same, so any book would have to rely on inaccurate or unreal data. For airliners it is easy because there are flight recorders, for GA it is still a bit of Wild West.
It's super interesting how Java got into the top 5 in the energy usage chart since the JVM is JIT compiling the code and running the code. It's doing more work than the other compiled languages so its budget to come in using less watts is really strict (Pascal, Chapel, Ocaml, Haskell, ). It's something worth exploring further.

In fact in the updated version with Julia added[1] , Julia takes very long to do anything since the Julia warmup is so awful. But somehow even though Julia takes 2.57 times longer to compute results (357%) than Rust and 93x more memory for fannkuch-redux, it's using only 23% more energy. All the while doing tracing JIT and rewriting memory segments to set for execution.

[1] https://sites.google.com/view/energy-efficiency-languages/up...
I think this test should be performed when you logged out from
the Chrome profile. Youtube, Google Docs and Google search automatically pick it when you logged in.
An military or university network is probably much easier to administrate as the university or regiment administrators can be relied on to disable malicious users. www is more of an almost anarchy that works suprisingly well.
Did you intentional link to "Population pyramid of Germany in 1933"? This is the most recent chart and it doesn't look that much better than Italy's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany#/media...
I don't see the utility of a tool like this that doesn't have editorial input. A list of alternative tools doesn't really tell me what tool would be better for my needs.

Ableton is an alternative to Logic Pro. But only a pro can tell me that Ableton works best as a performance + production tool while Logic is mostly only for production
You can get a sense for how much bullshit this is from looking at the wildly varying results for Javascript (4.45) and Typescript (21.50). They should be basically identical.

This is because they used the source from the language benchmark game, which measures some combination of how fast a language is, and how much effort its fans are willing to put in to micro-optimise the programs for the benchmark. In the case Javascript developers have clearly spent more time on it than Typescript developers.
Political issues: the coal lobby is strong in Germany despite its "green" image.
It’s pretty similar here in the US. What do you think the solution is? I don’t like the consolidation and regulatory capture I see everywhere.
Ask HN: I want to build a digital bank startup. How do I start?
Hi HN,

I just graduated last June and has been working on this idea since last year. I have made some research on the topic and could not find anything substantial on building a digital banking startup. Currently, there is a huge opportunity where I live and there are only one or two digital bank startups that are already in the market.

Assuming I have enough capital and already has the license from the local central bank, how do I go about building the MVP? The MVP that I have in mind is a simple mobile app where users can:

- Transfer and receive money
- Pay bills

I know this is a difficult endeavour and many will be sceptical, but 2020 has been a difficult year for me. At the moment, I have nothing to lose and I would rather work on this idea and fail rather than not trying at all. Thank you so much!
America has a lot of legacy.

A lot of stuff was built out post-WW2 when everything was still green fields. Now, several decades later, all of this infrastructure still (mostly) "works" so everyone is not enthusiastic about spending money to make it 'better'.

I'm guessing that during those same decades many/most Communist countries did not have awesome infrastructure, and so when they became more open, there was a lot of catching up to do. So in many ways you are in a country that is (relatively speaking) like the US was during the 1950s and 1960s. In some ways you 'skipped' a generation and so leap-frogged America a bit.

Also, it seems that Romania has a population bulge of people our 40 years of age:

* https://www.indexmundi.com/romania/age_structure.html

When those people hit their 60s, like the Baby Boomers in the US now are, then you may find economic growth to be more of a struggle (see Japan).

* https://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/age_structure.html

* https://www.indexmundi.com/japan/age_structure.html
It seems difficult to be protectionist when it comes to online services... And do you really want to live in that world? Do you want your government to build a great firewall and limit your access to content from outside of your country?
Wow, that UI looks deceptive. Maybe if an organization like the FTC “nudged” Google with fines, or DOJ looked at other options, the smart folks at Google would get better at these sort of things once they’d had the proper incentives given to them.
I feel like the fastest growing and most dominant area for C++ is scientific computing and AI/ML. Although many people write these programs in more user-friendly languages like Python and R, most of these programs call through to C++ frameworks (which many people use directly too), so in a way C++ has latched itself to the growth of such languages. Furthermore many major accelerated computing platforms (frameworks?) such as CUDA, Intel's oneAPI and Khronos' SYCL are focused on and committed to the C++ language and ecosystem and I don't really see much competition in this space for the time being.
Apple is the one looking to expand into health and wellness. The data Apple can harvest is going to become more and more valuable. They're rolling out home speakers and the Apple Watch is increasingly becoming a DYI diagnostic tool. I think it's a bit naive to think that Apple is somehow more altruistic than any other big tech company.
But it's just a side-project and I will continue late night coding with a glass of wine.

Normally, this would be fine. But, it appears the site has paying members. Presumably, it's not "just a side-project" to them. You owe them better than tinkering with prod while tipsy.
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I had several notifications of low risk exposures, so the app is fed with some data. This doesn't happen in the Italian version of the app if you are living in some regions, for example.

If the app is useful, this is another topic, but it was not the point of this thread.
Along with sign-in-to-sync, AMP, URL hiding, upcoming manifest v3, Google is doing their best to benefit advertising and data collection. As the market leader in ads, it is textbook anti-competitive behavior, but the courts will have to decide if it is legally.
As an aside, this seems to use the Benchmark Games for their testing, which has seen a lot of criticism for the exercises being more or less 1:1 ported, rather than writing them idiomatically or efficiently in the different languages. Lua, in particular, gets dogged out and doesn't even offer LuaJIT as an option.
They do work. Old installer is marked as legacy but still works.
Try programming an Arduino with interrupt handlers, sending the main loop into deep sleep.

Of course this won't work for every program. And with current tech you're unlikely to drive FB with a warehouse full of arduinos ;)

First DDG hit, only skimmed it, but it seems to cover the idea pretty well:
https://circuitdigest.com/microcontroller-projects/arduino-s...

For my Tasmota based devices, increasing the sleep time in the main loop to 250ms decreases power draw by 40%.
They now might miss button presses (seems Tasmota polls?), but that's a non-issue for pure actors.
I would stop when walking to stare at them too.
In my experience letters A-Z doesn't capture the whole gamut of utterances used in the language. Most languages use more sounds than 26 letters can capture. I don't know about Turkish or Romanian so can't say. As an example my mother tongue Hindi and Sanskrit maps the most of utterances of hard, soft, and nasal varieties originating from throat, palate, cerebral, dental, and lips into specific symbols. This reduces the friction between writing and speaking.

One can still speak wrong if they learn to speak the letters wrong but chances are reduced. Are Romanian and Turkish similar?
I would be curious how chrome engineers rationalize this one away.
if you ask normal people, they will hate this - only some data fanatics want this feature.

people die. the economy is suffering. millions lose jobs. still, some guys making 140k in their it engineering jobs working from home and relaxing are telling me sth about "data privacy as priority". i disagree. people disagree.

Taiwan did a FANTASTIC job leveraging data.

we are either not capable of that or just fanatic.... maybe both.
There has been a similar project developed in Poland already. (https://en.media.pkobp.pl/78483-strategic-partnership-betwee...) In practice it's not much more than government-branded version of Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. So far it serves well as a marketing vehicle for a handful of the biggest corporations, but it's barely used by anyone.

I can see it could make sense as a solution to some particular problems though – European regulations often forbid banks from processing/storing customer data in other countries, so even though the tech is provided by the American tech giants, having everything hosted locally makes it possible for local financial services to finally move away from hosting everything on premises.
Nah, it's a statistical artefact caused by testing policies.

In March, you needed multiple symptoms to get a test, which meant that conditional on having a test, your illness was much more serious.

Because this isn't an issue right now, it looks like the mortality rates have dropped when it's more likely that we are capturing a larger proportion of mild cases.
I totally agree with your points. Currently, Stealth reuses existing Webviews in order to get to the MVP as fast as possible.

Later on, there probably will be a custom Browser Engine fork that only contains the necessary features.

Thanks for the hints, I'm gonna read through the README again and update it to be fully transparent.
Python and C++ are joined at the hip now primarily due to scientific computing and AI/ML adjacent fields. I feel the growth of Python has helped C++ grow too.
Gardening is something of an exception specifically--although even there, there are landscaping projects that aren't necessarily "gardening." But, while some people do just like an excuse to get of the house and do some outside work, generally people are happy to have their lawns cut, leaved raked, brush cut, trees trimmed, etc.
Half? Really?
> DYI diagnostic tool

I'm not familiar with that term. Does it mean a "Do Yourself In" diagnostic tool?
by spending a lot of time in the confluence editor doing things the confluence way.
yes. i do want that.

i do not like American products at all. i would love to see alternatives that actually work and are competitive.
Seems like an interesting method but at this point why not just use Firefox?
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So, honest question, because I'm genuinely bewildered: why would you bother doing this, when Firefox exists, is perfectly functional, and isn't made by Google?
The raison d'être of a safer C++ would be to enable staged, tool-assisted migration for the many hundreds of millions (billions?) of lines of C++ code in the world.

I think that's plenty of reason all by itself.
Imagine if we paid programmers like teachers so only the dedicated and thoughtful ones stuck around.
All the work stuff is running RHEL, so Centos is closer when it comes to all the software I'd run. I'm tempted to say Centos 8 Streams is Fedora... but I had a couple packages where it was tricky to get that to work, so currently doing the normal Centos 8 release. Everything else was Centos, so thus picking that when setting up the XPS.

As personal workstation OS, I all my JetBrain (GoLand, IntelliJ) development tools, VMWare Workstation, a mess of databases, and... Steam on my home desktop. Getting video drivers set to work nicely with proton is really what drives the laptop and I sorted that last year with the AMD cards on my threadripper last year. (now, it is silly easy, but last December...ye gods) If I can ever get my hands on a 3080, I assume the driver setup for NVidia will be similar for the 2060 in the laptop.
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As easy as setting up Emacs.

It seema like a losing battle trying to make Google products not act as malware when they are designed for that purpose. It is so much easier to just use Firefox.
To avoid this type of thing I start firefox.

Seriously, if you care about the internet don't use any webkit browser.
A 1hour/week service is not a servant. A full-time person is. and a single servant that enables a second working parent is a rather minor example, showing specialization more than income inequality.
Apologies for the stupid question, as I feel like I’m missing something obvious: why is that? Is it the regulatory environment?
I actually like JavaScript, with a few changes it can become a good language, safe for a novice programmer.
I recently tried out Hetzner Cloud, after using their dedicated servers for years, and have come away positively surprised.

It works well, and the pricing is very appealing. But it's not even remotely in the same league as AWS/GC/Azure.

All you get is DNS, private networks, load balancers VMs and storage volumes. That's it.

Sure, you can self-host Kubernetes, and they even have a CSI driver for mounting volumes and an official Terraform provider. Which is great.

But you miss out on the incredibly rich service offerings you get from the others.

It's a great start though, and I hope they keep expanding their offerings.
It's not altruism, it's just their business model happens to be more compatible with people's rights: Apple sells hardware at a premium price. Google monetizes data to push ads. Ads aren't a big part of premium experiences, Apple recognizes nobody likes them.

Which is why Apple devices generally only have ads in third party experiences, and Google shoves ads right in the default mail app.
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So you believe in information that Chinese communist party is providing. A totalitarian regime with mass violation of human rights?! I love China and Chinese people but people suffer a lot under the rule of CCP. They are faking their financial data and they are faking their COVID data as well.
What methodology do you envision for this project?
I'm being dense, I don't understand what you're saying. Could you give a bit more detail please?
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Yeah, that's always the right answer. I've gone through this mental exercise multiple times before -- I want to get a parrot! But they live a long time and are extremely intelligent. They're very independent and when they are unhappy can become destructive. Am I a good enough beast-keeper to pull that off? Not really. I agree with you that parrot sitting is a smart idea.