skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have much sympathy for anybody who helped Google and Apple into the monopoly position by making their products available on those platforms. If we all banded together and made sure that all the best apps were only available on a truly open phone platform then everybody would buy a phone on that platform.

Epic could pump a few million into making sure their games ran well on Linux platforms, then partner with Asus, Razer, and others to make Gaming Phones a real thing with support for Linux on those phones. (or a Google free Android if that will lower the bar).

I think the railways and airports are not a good analogy because those are physical things that need a lot of land. (and investment)
We are just talking about software, and what we can and cannot run on our phones.
But their original argument, that anyone with COVID gets marked as a COVID death and therefore you can't trust that statistics, feels pretty weak - there's no way that we're having a sudden surge in all those causes of death to lead to the excess mortality we're seeing. It's a big leap to assume there have been enough COVID adjacent bus accidents that we can use to in any way explain away COVID's effect on mortality.
What do people think of Marginal Revolution? I get quite a lot of value from the link roundups, but find that the original content (the non-roundup posts) are about praising their ability to make predictions and their own opinion pieces (“recommended throughout”), brushing away criticism, regurgitating opinions of other experts on things they have no clue about, taking low-brow jabs at “the left“, etc.

Case in point: MR authors spent the last months arguing for the herd immunity approach, and bringing up Sweden once a week, and now apparently they were just waiting for data.

I just don’t get why they get so much readership and are seen to be similar to Slate Star Codex, Gwern, etc. (which have their own shortcomings, but are on a different level in terms of their reasoning ability).
Oh, trust me, I've definitely drank deeply of the pleasures of life and plan to continue down that road, just on a smaller scale. Seven course meal with wine pairings at Chez TJ in Mountain View when I did my Google on-site interview was definitely worth it.

I'm also in my early 40's. I've been working nearly 20 years, I'm just looking at another 10 years in this job, and I don't think I can take it. The being stuck behind a desk for a majority of my waking hours during my 20's and 30's definitely resonates, and despite my passion for software, I (relatively) recently re-learned just how good physical exertion feels.

So yeah, I cut back on a number of things to reduce my monthly burn rate, but I'm not suffering by any means. If anything, I'm happier now with less, and seriously considering if I need to continue working, or maybe I can coastFIRE. The possibility has not escaped me that maybe it's just not the right job for me, and perhaps I'd be better off consulting or even trying micropreneurship, but on a more relaxed schedule.

I do wish that when I was laid off in 2001 (my early 20's) I had hiked the PCT instead of trying to start a consulting business. Burned through my savings, and I probably would have just as much money at the end of the PCT through-hike, and definitely been happier.
> Now if Apple could find inroads into the server market.

That would be catastrophic
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That's the example everyone always brings up, and even if it's true, do you think there are a huge portion of people with COVID who are dying in car accidents? That seems very unlikely to make a significant difference in the figures, and for a new virus that is spreading very quickly and isn't yet well-understood, it's probably worth using a definition that errs slightly (but probably not significantly) on the inclusive side.
Honestly - My non-polite, personal impression of all the complaints is that they're borne from a very specific development environment. One that includes lots of dependencies similar to "npm", wants "docker style" local development, and the devs seem to think dependency-management is hard and you need complicated "semantic" versioning and version operators... but really it's just because they're working in a complex ecosystem of microservices.

But, for the other 99% projects though: Most of their dependencies won't break compatibility, you'll never uncover a hard version dependency that the package manager can't solve, you'll never need to "freeze" your dependency versions and you can pretty much just rely on a semi-persistent environment with all your necessary packages installed and semi-regularly updated. Essentially smooth-sailing.
haha we had a similar story with a company (not payment tough) all they said was AI, we are better, so we charge more.
but who cares if you charge 10x more than your competitor, with 10x more you need to be at least 100x better.
Kubernetes-native Ambassador API Gateway 1.9 released
Clever joke :) not wrong.
> The IDE can be the “Swiss Army Knife of features” and I’m glad it’s there, just like the Victorinox I keep in my backpack.

I feel like it's the opposite, vim is my swiss army knife for working with rust or cpp or python whenever I want whereas the IDE is something I open to work on specific, more complex projects where I just care about getting something done (like my homework).
> Managing recurring billing is a significant engineering problem

It's not. Sure it's a problem and it requires thought and engineering skills. But overall it is not one of the complicated problems and quite standard work for an engineer.

Sometimes I feel that people have become so used to have a third party API for everything so that they are scared of doing actual engineering work... ;)

That said, of course weighing the cost of dev and maintenance in-house versus paying a surcharge is a very valid consideration. At the same time one should not underestimate the risk/cost of getting tied to a provider for anything critical (and payments are obviously critical).
It has been pretty interesting (that's a euphemism) to see people say over and over again that Sweden has got it figured out. But countries' fortunes have shifted back and forth over time, those who seemed to be doing worse than everyone reversed course, and vice versa. There are exceptions, Vietnam appears to be one.

My thought on Sweden was not so much "wait until the fall", but to note that even though they didn't shut down, the economic impact was broadly similar to that of neighboring counties who did.

So from my view this all seems very "pick your poison". I suspect the correlations we keep implying between shutdowns and the economy may actually have more to do with the fact of the pandemic itself. I don't care if the movie theaters are shut down or not, I'm not going to one.
Span can be used via nuget also in .NET framework. It’s slower than in Core because of lacking runtime support, but not by that much. SIMD also was already available since 4.6 and unsafe was always there.

I think what really changed was the mentality. Before low level stuff was tried to be contained and used mostly for interop. Now the value of the performance of safe low level primitives is seen.
I think we can make our own decisions on that provided we can get US data on deaths in a simple csv file with age, gender, race, state and comorbidities.

Does anyone know where to find a dataset like this?
Is that relevant? How many people happen to have some other acute terminal illness/accident AND Covid at the same time?

Also, do you imagine this is different for Influenza deaths or TB deaths? If anything, Covid-19 deaths are much more accurately counted than deaths from any other major disease, which are often just estimates.
I wonder if the newly enabled safari extension capabilities paired with pihole largely cover for what is missing from what Chrome can do.
Anyone wanting to learn vim should probably start off by learning how to use vi, and then get into vim configuration. For learning vi, you can't do better than Linda Lamb's book, which you can pick up for peanuts: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Editor-Nutshell-Linda-Lamb...
I answered like that because of what looked like a snarky comment.
I love matching braces, if for no other reason than because they make transversing code easier. If you ever find yourself at the bottom of an awful function with multiple screenfuls of code, matching braces makes it trivial to jump to the top if that function even when your editor has no special knowledge of that language. No LSP/etc needed. Barebones vanilla Vi is actually a viable editor for Lisp because of this, relative to Vi with languages like Python.
The problem is that Apple considers users of their hardware as their clients. In reality they're Epic's customers, not Apple's.

It would be as silly as asking website owners to pay Apple, just because of the fact, that visitors came in with Safari browser.
Google built its AI-powered Hum to Search feature
I installed GrapheneOS a few weeks ago. The first thing I said to someone that asked about it is "for the first time my phone isn't my enemy".

OK the second thing was "but I can't do almost anything with it :D "
Just ship a container to the server.
I recently saw Gary Bernhardt's video on Typescript(so not related to Vim) but I was astounded at his Vimfoo skills. Looks like magic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrnBXhsr0ng
I can boil my preferences for Vim down to a single thing that I can't find anywhere else: it's fast. I can open stupidly large files and not worry, or mash page down and have no lag. It's a pretty much invisible part of my daily workflow and any time I have tried another editor the speed is the first difference I notice and find immediately frustrating. Every other editor I have tried, even including Emacs (sorry), has at least a slight, but perceptible, difference in speed.

Yes I probably shouldn't open massive log files and hold page down, but it's nice to know that I can.
The response to COVID. Delayed treatment for heart conditions being a major source of death. Alzheimer's deaths are up a lot this year as well, and isolation exacerbates Alzheimer's. Suicides are up, as are overdoses and murders.

Yes, COVID has killed a _lot_ of people, but so has the response to COVID. We focused all resources on one enemy while other allies of Death stalked in the back door.
That's either naïve or just delusional.
> What I've found is that each time I install an update - or more likely, install a new tool - there's a chance it will be blocked by something or cause a problem with something else, and I'll have to debug it for an hour or two before I can get back to what I was doing

Ah, I understand where you're coming from now. For myself, I can usually install most things I need directly from apt-get using the OS's built-in repositories. This route seems to take care of any dependency issues without manual intervention. Although if you're using third-party repos, or installing software outside a package manager context, I can see how that would increase the chance of niggles. My only remark there would be to focus on distros which emphasise a well-curated set of reliable packages out of the box, designed to be compatible with one another (LTS releases, or even BSD if you are open to it).
Going to keep my eyes peeled for reviews here in the next few weeks. Hopefully this is a more stable release than Catalina.

I had several problems with the early releases of Catalina, including my Apple-made USB keyboard not being recognized.

Even after it seemingly was fixed, a dot release would break it again. I did at least two clean installs to resolve the problem once a stable version of Catalina was released.

It's completely different with Big Sur. I upgraded my work machine to Big Sur. After the Spotlight indexing was done, everything was working as it was previously, except I had the latest and greatest operating system.

It's still only been a few days but so far, I have no complaints about Big Sur.

Loving the new desktop dynamic illustrations and how much faster Safari is, even compared to Catalina.

Obviously YMMV but so far, it's been smooth sailing with Big Sur.
New York Central Railroad's share of worldwide rail miles and freight terminals was probably comparable to 14% too.
I'm pretty sure most people who disapprove just don't like giving Google insights to their users, privacy concerns.

I personally have a grudge because it goes from TOTALLY FREE to $150,000 a year overnight, based on number of users - and when your product is on the low end of the income-per-user scale that can be a problem.

We license based on location rather than user, so $150k for 10m users was … a bad joke we could not afford.
There's always this classic [0].

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-mos...
Why do you describe them as “logos” as opposed to just graphics? Are they intended to be a design system, maybe like the MIT Media Lab brand[1]? Or are you suggesting that people should grab one to use as a logo for their project or company?

1: https://www.pentagram.com/work/mit-media-lab
I think the war on nonsensical marketing speak has long since been lost
Agreed.

It does allow you to send the takeouts regularly to google drive, but the amount of data I have is too much for that / fills my drive.
Using apps designed for touch inputs without a touchscreen must be frustrating.
The numbers of hospitalizations and deaths unfortunately are quite proportional to the number of positive tests. Depending on the testing regime the exact factor varies a bit, but unfortunately, not very much. By now we really have enough international data to show that.

And the positive tests are leading hospitalisation and deaths by a couple of weeks. So they are a good indicator about what to expect. And obviously, during an epedemic, raising infection numbers mean even higher numbers following until something reduces further infections.
I second this recommendation. I read that book a few months ago, and think very highly of it.
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I think this should put you concerns to rest:

Excess deaths in the United States were at 299K as of October 15. What’s your explanation for this, if it isn’t Covid?

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6942e2.htm?s_cid=mm...
Everything they said!
Rendering is shockingly bad at times. Try running some transforms on SVG with CSS or WAAPI and it’s laughably bad.
The dev tools are all but useless. Just simple things like adding a new prop/value to a selector declaration is horrid and often inadvertently removed a different declaration.
The JS perf is great but the debugging stepper is virtually opaque with buttons with no labels and the like.
Let’s not even get started on the raft of web platform features it either doesn’t have yet or has no intention of adding.

I too would like to use Safari but it’s so far behind evergreen browsers like FF and Chrome I just can’t rely on it.
Post author here. Original title was "Stripe is now charging 0.5% more for recurring charges". Which I agree is a bit clickbait. But the current title is definitely a well-made boring PR title.
What I'm describing as the "opt" behavior is the classic maximizing behavior on both Mac and Windows (except Windows doesn't have a top bar).

If you don't hide the dock/start bar it maxes to its limit, if you hide it goes to the bottom. Maybe it was unclear when I didn't mention it'll max side to side too if the bar is on the bottom. If bar is on the side it'll leave a gutter on the side.

TL;DR it's a normal maximize--doesn't cover the doc or menu bar and you can float windows in front of it since it's not full screen mode.
This is not a proposal for users, it's a tool for network administrators and programmers. "Yeah but I have a home LAN, too" isn't relevant here, unless your home network has high-value targets on it and all the other technologies this applies to, in which case maybe you're not in "the vast majority of users".
I just spent an hour and a half watching this talk and it was surprisingly interesting! As a portal to a different world, as a bit of early '90s kitsch, as an advanced echo of the coming of the cloud, and as a vision of a future that never was.
Of course. I just wasn't sure which bin that bit belonged to.
plus, opting out will set hundreds of "no thank you" cookies with all their 3rd party tracker, if I understand correctly.

I closed the page without reading/viewing, and came here to rant about it. Thanks for being first. :)
There's GrapheneOS if you have a Pixel 2+ or /e/ os for other phones.
Can you clarify what you mean by Go style channels? Not sure what that refers to in .NET
A lot of clinics are doing "video only" visits. These are not nearly sufficient to accurately diagnose a patient. A good deal of clinical visits is assessing the overall manner and appearance of a patient. This can't be done remotely. Nor can BP, EKG, O2 or any other basic diagnostic tools be done remotely. Minor things that could be detected in a normal office visit are missed and turn into things which can kill.
What’s the manipulation? I’m not being a wiseass, I genuinely can’t see it.
> I don't see why we've suddenly decided to take a microscope to the stats.

Because this is the first time that these sorts of stats have been used to curtail everyone's freedom so much.
I understand what an analogy is, I also understand that not all analogies are valid, usually when the pretence is so heavily flawed that the analogy crumples. The analogy must be coherent, but a country and company are as alike as a fish sandwich and a turd. The usefulness of the analogy is stretched to the point of uselessness as it is here.
> Many people have chosen to promote the lie that the vast majority of COVID deaths can be dismissed using this reasoning, rather than a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction.

This is comically illustrated by the examples being used... Hit by a bus? Hospice patients with weeks to live?

The truth is that the typical comorbidities, that have a noticeable effect on the actual total number of deaths, are things like obesity, hyptertension, and diabetes... Things that literally will not kill an otherwise healthy adult in the same time period as COVID-19.
Car accidents were just the clearest example I could think of.

At https://www.socialstyrelsen.se/statistik-och-data/statistik/... they do calculate the difference:

> Av dessa har 90 procent (5 514 av 6 128) laboratoriebekräftad covid-19 enligt Folkhälsomyndighetens databas över smittade.

90% are due to Covid 19. 10% not.

Edit: I misunderstood, tsimionescu has corrected me, thanks!
Everything Old Is New Again

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/691091
Maybe they have to run enterprise software which does not get updated every year so they can't use MacOS. Or perhaps they want a fully featured copy of Office? Maybe they want to run an Active Directory network? Maybe they like having ports on their laptop
New cases are not meaningless. They might just not be 1:1 comparable in numeric values to the numbers a couple of months before. But if you are an an exponential raise, even pretty large factors are caught up with literally within a couple of days.
Apple has 60% of revenue on phone marketplaces even if it only sell 14% of phones. Let alone that changing between phones has friction and can have significant costs.

Also by comparison consider the statement: "The New York Central Railroad's 'monopoly' of railway access between 14% of the worlds cities doesn't stop anyone traveling by road or doing business between any of the other cities in the world so clearly it' not a monopoly".

Having said that of course Apple is no where near as egregious a monopoly. However you'd have to agree any profit focused mobile app simply must (if it can) be available on iPhone and that does give Apple a monopoly position. It's only a question of if Apple is abusing that position.
10%, see my other reply.

Which is why I think excess mortality seems like the best high-level number to look at.
Seems it's to allow implicit and explicit use of arguments passed to alias. Git does the following to the alias string[1]:

argv_array_pushf(out, "%s \"$@\"", argv[0]);

So, you can have aliases like `!grep foobar` to automatically accept arguments or aliases like yours that use arguments explicitly.

I've done aliases like `!bash -c 'foo $1' sh` before, but on seeing yours, I see that it was unnecessary to re-wrap with bash.

[1] https://github.com/git/git/blob/e31aba42fb12bdeb0f850829e008...
People keep buying I guess? `\_(:))_/`
An overgrown masters level project, eh? You could probably say the same thing about the founding of the United States!

"The US constitution is like an overgrown enlightenment dissertation. The founding fathers did a good job at growing the United States, and this is a great achievement! It requires certain personal traits not everyone has. But at a technical level, they made many beginner's mistakes when drafting the constitution, which the country tried to fix later, but not always successfully."

:-P
I've had consistent UX bugs in the past with very basic pieces of functionality, like "search won't show any results until you do it twice" or "Play Later actually does the same thing as Play Next". Core functionality, trivially reproducible, really inexcusable.
The tweet says the Swedish rate is more than 40% OF the US rate, which the blogger appeared to misinterpret as "more than 40% GREATER than the US rate"
Not quite true. Python import mechanics are quite hackable and controllable programmatically and externally via controlling the relevant PATH env variables. It's just that no one bothers with it and instead seems to rely on the set of global folder-path lookup mechanics that are standard.

But nothing stops you from masking global-libraries with local library versions (similar to node_modules). Why hasn't anyone done this you may ask? I don't know the answer to that.
Why not tax the corporations who stand to gain from long-term WFH? They will save millions on office space. Let's take that surplus rather than squeezing the employees yet again.
Runs outstanding on both of my Broadwell based devices.

MacBook Air (11-inch, Early 2015) and iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2015).
What is it about Safari that leads to it performing better than the competitors, and why can't they seem to figure it out? Is it because Safari is using undocumented APIs that only Apple is allowed to use?

If so, that's a deal breaker for me right there.
Netlify also has lambdas and coupled with firebase or faunadb, its pretty good.
Many many people die every day. If Covid is widespread, some are bound to have been infected with Covid.

Are you sure car accidents are not recorded as Covid, because I've read claims to the otherwise several times. It may not matter what the doctors think, if there are policies in place, or financial incentives (extra money for treatment of Covid patients).
Couldn't a person A submit feedback to my personal link simulating that he is in reality person B, maybe to his own benefit?

Also I'm sad to admit that some feedback requires pinpointing specific examples of things that have actually happened, so I would use this tool as a complement, but not a sustitute.

Otherwise, sounds like a great idea, I agree that all feedback without anonymity is wrapped into layers and layers of "kindness" to not sound too harsh, which can make you miss the point the feedback wanted to address.
The "new Microsoft" is useful for the time being. Once they are positioned to, they'll drop the hammer.
I think even if Google does not do anything particular to gain, truth is it will earn money when people will click a Google Play game or YouTube video than a link to some random website like Wikipedia.

We should not expect business to not do what makes money. The problem is that sometimes it goes against some other values like freedom, safety, innovation.

Than it is the time to take action. This is the time when action should be taken
White House actively trying to destabilize the country to limit what Biden is able to do? Very confusing.