skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Daily case are meaningless when vast majority are asymptotic or only have mild symptom. How many that are actually require hospitalization ? How many death (death as in due to covid not with covid) ? Then there is false positive from the test.
well has the pilot told you to turn off all electronic devices yet?
In Illinois, it's pretty cut and dry:

""If you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live, and then you also were found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death. It means technically even if you died of a clear alternate cause, but you had COVID at the same time, it's still listed as a COVID death. So, everyone who's listed as a COVID death doesn't mean that that was the cause of the death, but they had COVID at the time of the death." Dr. Ezike outlined." -- Dr. Ngozi Ezike, Director of Illinois Department of Public Health
Proposal to make CPython 5x faster
But that's because it was such a niche until just recently - basically only playing with docker/k8 on Raspberry PI and the likes. With AWS Graviton instances and these new Macs it will quickly change.
A bigger question is whether anyone would pay attention if it turns out some method has a notable improvement.

I remember reading a bunch of code quality studies a few years back. A bunch of them were DoD studies from the 1980/1990's, and the one thing that stuck out were a couple of studies that looked at style issues with ada/c and noted that the matched brace style significantly lowered a couple different defect types.

Yet today, particularly in the opensource world matched brace style is almost completely non-existant, since its a religious war thing, and some of the early opensource projects were run by people who didn't like it.
It definitely helps.

It de-risk the changes. If you are tracking beta, latest or pre-release you know immediately what is ahead of you.

You will know ahead of time, that you will need to investigate this performance regression before to migrate.

In a big organizations where resources and time are limited, knowing a bit of what is ahead of you is invaluable.
I am wondering if this marks the death of Safari on the web tbh. That and most OS X apps.

If a user can download and run the Amazon Prime app, why bother supporting Safari? The App version supports detection of VPNs, supports analytics etc...

Same applies with Netflix, Disney+ etc...

Then there are the devs which have OS X and iOS apps. Why would they maintain two code bases when now they can just support the iOS app and work on both? The app itself will be more optimal because it's designed for ARM/mobile so is likely newer with a cleaner architecture.
San Francisco Bans Natural Gas for All New Construction
They showed both Windows and Debian, and I'm pretty sure said nothing about the architecture of the Debian, but the Windows was amd64.
what if the SSL issuer simply disables your certificate
I have been using it for many months and prefer it to DDG.
Haven't used Goo in years!
Not OP, but in the first half of this year (not sure if this is still the case, I have heard they have attempted to fix this): Anyone in Sweden who had been either diagnosed with Covid 19 and died of any cause, e.g. a traffic incident would be counted as a Covid death. Or if they died of any cause and the autopsy revealed Covid 19 it would also be counted as a Covid death.

Edit, source: https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/smittskydd-beredskap/utb...

In the link "Ingång för Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox m.fl." it says:

> Statistiken visar antalet personer med bekräftad covid-19 som avlidit, oavsett dödsorsak.

Translated:

> The stats shows the number of deaths with confirmed Covid-19, regardless of cause of death.
AdoptOpenJDK 8u275 and 11.0.9.1 Available
This is why court fees exist, there’s always a losing side so almost any case could be interpreted as the losing side “wasting the court’s time”.
Not a great download experience so far. It has already failed twice partway through (2nd time after 9.0 GB out of 12.0 GB). And since this is Apple, who has somehow never figured out how to implement resumable downloads, it just starts from scratch again.
Does it have anything like Firefox containers and NoScript?

The first is a must for privacy reasons and I would be very shocked if FF without javascript running didn't beat the pants of Safari with it for almost all sites.
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8255963?jql=project...
One interesting link buried in the middle of that thread: the drama of Kenneth Reitz "fund raisers":

https://vorpus.org/blog/why-im-not-collaborating-with-kennet...
I did as well, and we've remained debt free for a while. We're now in that cash poor phase since I seem to love pre-IPO companies :) Was it worth it? To some degree, but at the same time there are some big things on the list that we will probably have to defer for a while now that we have a school-aged child, a pet, etc. All I can say is, do some of those things, and don't fixate too badly on sacrificing everything to retire early. Family, friends, relationships matter, and so on.
I would suggest Linux Mint. I have been using the same installation since 2015 without problems. I'm currently one version behind the latest and I only upgrade when its absolutely necessary (e.g. a new GPU doesn't have drivers). I do keep it updated too, due to the LTS nature of the distro. Its a very stable distro to use if you don't need bleeding edge software from the repos. I use it for all my stuff, including gaming (mostly Steam) and development.

Just something you need to know tho, these little issues/teaks you describe, I consider that they are part of the Linux experience and no distro will be completely free from them. Sometimes things will break and you'll have to fix them, that's not a problem, its just different from what people are used to on other Operating Systems (as things break differently). With time and experience using Linux their frequency will drop (you'll know what parts of the system are more prone to break and how to avoid it) or will be less annoying (you'll know how to fix stuff without losing hours searching on the net).

Good luck, I think its worth the time spent learning, as Linux gives you a great amount of power over the system and what you can do with it.
It's not the allowance of time, it's the motivation (for me and probably 100s of millions of others??). I was walking 80 minutes a day prior to Covid lockdown, now I'm lucky to do that in a week. Principle change is motivation.
I've been thinking of making sure that my age is clear on my LinkedIn/resume/etc., for just this reason. Even then, it's clear that quite a few interviews I've gone on have been "fake", in the sense of being useful for EEOC stats, but with no bona fide intention to hire. Which is frustrating, because at the end of the day, interviews are themselves unpaid work.

These days, I've "solved" the problem by just taking lower-paying jobs. No one I work with really understands what I do--they just know that when they bring me the harder problems, they generally get solved. It's kind of nice in a way to be king, even if it is in a puddle.

Fair or not, the market always wins. And if the market tells you that you're not wanted, best to go elsewhere.
Stripe still doesn’t support settling USD payments into a USD bank account on an Australian Stripe account, instead forcing their 2% currency conversion fee on top.

So my fee for every subscription charge is increasing to a an even more ridiculous A0.30 + 5.4%.

Our users have been asking for PayPal for years, and I had always put off integrating because of how frustrating their API was. But it feels like the Stripe developer dream is over. Fine, I’m adding PayPal support. :(
I use radio (nrf24l01) instead of wifi for talking between the arduinos and the centralized rpi, to save power and for convenience. I also use the standard atmega328 microcontroller chip. Atmega runs on a coin cell for well over 8 months.
Infrastructure is still a type of UX
I have 3 lovely coffee mugs to prove it. Luckily my wife likes coffee.
0.5% is immaterial for subscription-based businesses where profit margins are typically the highest.

But... it adds up.

For example, just looking at the last $39 USD transaction in my Stripe dashboard which gets converted to $53.72 AUD (I charge in USD but receive AUD)

Stripe currency conversion fee: $0.88
Stripe processing fees: $1.69
Total: $2.57

That's 4.78% fee. Now add this new 0.5% and we are over 5% fee on transaction processing.

Is this expensive enough for me to consider alternatives? No.
> My vim config is 600 lines. I have fixes for small annoyances. I have a bookmarking system set up in 45 lines. I have extra syntax highlighting for code snippets that are important to me because I’m doing things the original syntax maintainers never even considered. I create impromptu keyboard mappings and abbreviations and autocommands as needed for given tasks. I can move around in the design space at will.

I use VIM on and off, but I wanted to post the above because I think it exemplifies who might like using VIM.

VIM is ideal for people who find it worthwhile to spend the time building their configuration out. VIM is the productivity tool that gets better as you put the time and effort into building it out. If you aren't the kind of person who wants to put that time and effort in, it is still decent as a basic editor, but it doesn't really shine.
ESP32 and soil sensor combo.

Battery powered but rigging a solar panel might be possible.

https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/11/10/ttgo-t-higrow-is-a-w...
Trivial: you need to look something up, you follow a trail on wikipedia and you pretty quickly have 100 tabs.

I have OneTab for Firefox, which allows me to convert active tabs into a bookmark list. This helps the problem a lot because I can now park my active tabs.
> Writing quality tests is often much harder than writing quality software

I personally believe that tests are how you prove you understand the code you’re writing, and the changes you’re making. If they’re harder to write than the software, you probably need to further clarify the behavior being tested, but they’re going to be hard sometimes, just as some software is hard.

> if I can only write software for which I can also write quality unit tests, I am greatly reducing the space of quality software I can write.

I follow TDD, so indeed I only ever write code that I know how to write unit tests for. I haven’t found that TDD restricts the kind of software that I can write, but sometimes it does mean I’m slower to get started in a particular domain. I do find that once over the initial hump my unit tests are a constant companion that make me more comfortable and productive in developing new software.

Realistically we both agree that testing software is important, we just disagree in the details. The problems I see with end to end testing are that good patterns for building extensible and loosely coupled end to end testing suites are not as widespread in the industry as they are for unit and even integration tests.

My theory as to why is that we assume that end to end tests are going to be slow to run and “heavy” in some sense, and that as such we aren’t running them often enough to force the improvements we need in those suites.

I always find it weird when discussions about unit tests become discussions about other kinds of testing, though. I think high (though not necessarily 100%, as that’s arbitrary) and increasing unit test coverage are an empirical sign of code that is being properly maintained. They are not the last word in testing and software QA, they’re closer to being an indicator like using CI and a proper build system instead of a thousand line shell script, and having quality well-maintained documentation. As I said in another comment, I am not going to say that unit tests are the only way to write good software. They’re a powerful tool that I have found helps me and my teams a lot. That’s as far as I will go.
The functionality needs to be written into every product. Every PM would be aware of it, every software engineer would see the code. The story would leak and articles would get written about the “pervasive privacy back doors written into everything at Google”
I think we made couple of expedient design decisions early on in our build process at work that is going to make producing multi-platform docker images a bit of a chore. I'm not looking forward to what happens on the next machine upgrade cycle. Probably we will end up with most people on the final generation of Intel Macbooks so we have a while to figure it out.
Isn't this exactly how all death statistics of all diseases and conditions work? People with other conditions are presumably more likely to die from some given condition. And, of course, every cause of death is really just causing the person to die earlier than they would have otherwise died.
If the benchmarks from the other front-page post are true, then not releasing a MBP version would have left them in a position where the AS MBA outperforms their entire MBP line.
At this point it's becoming pretty clear that the world will not see such a definition. It is in the interest of governments to exercise control over people by calling anything and anything a Covid "case" and a Covid "fatality." The numbers go up and down and up again at the convenience of government policymakers. LIBERATE MICHIGAN!
CVE-2020-13954: Apache CXF Reflected XSS in the services listing page via
Good news: WebGL 2 support is now enabled by default in Safari Technology Preview, as of September. Please give it a try now before it goes out in a Safari release and file bugs if you see any issues.
It’s exceedingly creepy that so many powerful people buy into this creepy utopian crap.

https://time.com/collection/great-reset/
I'd travel. I mean, we travel now, but not way off the beaten path. And we're mostly working around the school calendar (I'm ok being a little looser with that than my wife is). I'd also spend some time learning something that doesn't translate to money - get better at golf, work on my skating, etc. I'd also do enough nothing to be ready to go back to work by the end of it!
You might be misunderstanding the point. 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.

They ignore the overwhelming "excess deaths" number and pretend that unless a person had COVID and COVID alone listed, with no co-morbidity, it doesn't count, and therefore 99+% of COVID deaths aren't COVID at all.

This is, of course, not true, as the excess deaths numbers clearly demonstrate. If anything, we're under-counting COVID.
The average time people live in care homes for elderly with extra care needs ("särskilt boende") is between six and nine months[0]. That's where most of the deaths happened at least in the spring. So most of the people in those homes would be dead now anyway, and if they died from covid or from something else while they had covid is up for debate.

Edit: Maybe hospice is the best translation for särskilt boende.

According to one investigation [1] among people who died outside of hospitals 15% died directly from covid, 70% had other comorbidities, and 15% died from something else while they had covid.

[0] https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/2077/40037/1/gupea_2077_400...

[1] https://lakartidningen.se/aktuellt/nyheter/2020/08/covid-19-...
If you're a stickler for keeping your windows neat and orderly like I am, you may want to check out Yabai (+ skhd):

https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

I used to use BetterTouchTool and Stay to do this, but after a co-worker tipped me off on yabai+skhd, I've been extremely pleased and rarely have to think about window placement (took me a while to get the config "just right", of course).

I haven't tried it on Big Sur, but because of the way yabai can assign windows to spaces, I don't believe you'd face this issue.
My argument is not disingenuous at all. Rather, I think you're being assumptive.

I'm not talking about the case where a person's prospects are that they'll live for quite some time. I'm talking about the case where somebody is already essentially on their death bed for cancer, for heart problems, for fatal car injuries or shootings, or even other viruses, who are going to die imminently anyway.
While this is clearly a second wave, "New cases" are kind of meaningless as it is very much tied to the amount of testing performed.

Here are the stats for number of deaths and also patients in ICU which gives a different picture. Still alarming but not as crazy as this "New cases"-graph might make you believe.

(two links to the same image on separate image hosting services)

https://postimg.cc/rzyCv57W
https://imgbox.com/zI14ri2b

Sources: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6...
Public Health Agency of Sweden
I assume and hope

It's sad we got the the point the customers are afraid their devices are selling them this badly, because you can't even tell if your settings have the effect you think they should have.
Here's some of the ways to deploy Python code:

- `curl -L https://app.example.com/install | sh` that downloads installer and runs for instance: apt/yum install <your-package>

- in CI environment on a VM: `git checkout` & `pipenv install --deploy`

- `pipx install glances` on a home computer

- just `pip install` e.g., in a docker container [possibly in a virtualenv]. For pure Python packages, it can work even in Pythonista for iOS (iphone/ipad)

- just copy a python module/archive (PyInstaller and the like)

- give a link to a web app (deployed somewhere via e.g., git push)

- for education: there are python in the browser options e.g., brython, repl.it, trinket.io, pythontutor.com

- just write a snippet in my favourite editor for literate devops tasks/research (jupyter-emacs + tramp + Org Babel) or give a link to a Jupyter notebook

- a useful work can be done even in a REPL (e.g., Python as a powerful calculator)
Do we not consider this a solved problem? The idea of dying of an illness is not a new one. I don't see why we need to reinvent the wheel. Presumably the folks who tabulate deaths already know how to do this; I don't see why we've suddenly decided to take a microscope to the stats.
Is it significantly different, controlling for factors like Vit.D? Do you know of a relevant study/study review?
Preface: I believe the pandemic is real and covid is deadly.

People argue that increases in death could also be attributed to suicide, deteriorating health from mental hardship of stress and quarantine, and people not seeking medical treatment they need because they are scared of covid or because they cannot afford it with so much unemployment.

I think the last one holds some water. I know of one person in my hometown who chose not to go to the hospital because he was scared of covid and ended up dying of a heart attack.
Long live emacs!

Still use it more than any other program.
I just had a look at the pricing, and I'm a bit confused. Take the base plan for example, £199/month - it doesn't mention any other charges, and is apparently all-inclusive; or do you have to pay card processing fees on top?
Age is decisive for positive or negative effects of the diabetes drug metformin
> M4V Converter for Win is currently not compatible with iTunes 12.10.2 and later

> M4V Converter for Mac is currently not compatible with macOS 10.13 or above.
Apache Log4j 2.14.0 Released
> To me, the percentage makes little sense. You could be running 1,000,000 $10/mo subs, or 1,000 $1,000/mo subs and the cost is the same. This pricing model hits high value subscription companies significantly harder, even though Stripe's costs are lower.

While this is true on some level, the challenge is that we'd have to set pricing at an inefficient point (i.e. we'd end up charging more than some businesses can afford to pay and less than others are willing to pay). If we charged $1/sub/mo (say), $5/mo subscriptions would be prohibitively expensive. At the other extreme, if we charged $0.02/sub/mo per month, it just wouldn't make sense to invest as much in improving the product, which would indirectly hurt businesses by depriving them of a counterfactual product that they'd like to be able to buy. Pricing is obviously always an exercise in trying to find a reasonable trade-off between simplicity / optimality and this is our best effort.
Yeah, I don't find myself doing it as much as I felt like I did in react aka prop-drilling. React has context API and state to deal with it, angular you would probably use a service or dependency injection.
> intriguing and fun

ఠ_ఠ
Archaeologists uncover 1k-year-old Viking ship burial site in Norway
It's the lower tier MBP though - it replaces the "two port" one. The "four port" one is still Intel.
Does anyone know how TSMCs and Samsungs fabs compare? Are there other players in this space?
Unfortunately no, It was never communicated to us. we were told stripe billing would be free to use. The very least that Stripe needs to do is to grandfather the existing revenue for old customers, and put in the charge for only newly created subscriptions.
Of course they are counted as Covid hospitalizations, because they requires the same special care as all other Covid cases - you can't just put a Covid-infected patient in the regular orthopedics ward, you need to quarantine them and all the staff that comes into contact with them.

Also, I doubt the amount of people suffering from broken legs are really skewing those Covid numbers. Most people sick enough to require hospitalization while also infected with Covid will have much higher risks of Covid-related symptoms as well.
I specifically stated outside HN bubble and AMD is worthless without access to Intel patents.
I think the point is that the comorbidities aren't mentioned when talking about COVID deaths. The statistics are being presented as though it's random chance who dies from it, instead of it being reported as something that primarily kills people who already have other health issues, like obesity. It would probably make people less anxious if we were told that people without existing issues have a lower chance of dying or hospitilization.
Almost! WebGL 2 is now enabled by default in Safari Technology Preview, as of September. Please give it a try now before it goes out in a Safari release and file bugs if you see any issues.
TFA says the current recommendation is to bury the whale.
Could it be that a batch of CPUs that should have had subpar performance ended up having good performance due to luck?
Microsoft "Loves" Linux and open source the same way a tapeworm loves a healthy digestive system.
PostgreSQL 13.1, 12.5, 11.10, 10.15, 9.6.20, and 9.5.24 Released
As a developer who makes an app that specifically places windows on external displays, i have to disagree with you(r level of confidence). MacOS's APIs have become unreliable on external displays in 11.0.1
I don't know any definite benchmarks, but anecdote, the unit tests of a bigger library[1] I am writing run in 10s on net5 vs 12s on dotnet 3.1 (core) vs 17s on .net48 (framework), on the same machine with warm caches, of course. That's a sizable difference. YMMV

[1] not web stuff, "plain" C# essentially. It has some compute-bound things like encryption and compression and some fancy tree structures, uses a lot of linq in certain parts.
Same as most everything else.

`vimtutor` is the official starter guide

:help is an inbuilt manual, with a section for every topic you could think of