skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the statistics from Sweden and Germany, 2020 deaths are tracking the same as prior years, and the death spike in Sweden from COVID is about the same as the 2009 Swine flu pandemic.

So in regions with reasonably healthy people, its not clear that COVID is actually more deadly than the regular seasonal viruses we have been dealing with for the past few decades.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...

https://swprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sweden-monthly-...
I thought the Civil War was about States’ Rights.

The right for each State to decide to have slaves, and to classify black people as subhumans that must be whipped and lynched regularly.
This is true; nobody wants to give up free money or a competitive advantage.

But this isn't to say subsidies are bad in and of themselves; rather it means you need strong leadership willing to make tough or even unpopular decisions. The recipient's opinion should have very little bearing on whether the subsidy is an overall good.
I imagine they are not, I imagine they are presented with a neverending series of captcha like screens.

Content at the top, buttons down below to classify why it needs to be banned or if it's ok.

If more context is needed i'd still be hiding user information from the moderators but maybe pulling up some number of posts 'around' the suspect post.
2007 was a different time. (A time when almost nobody had smartphones - how foreign is that from today's perspective?) Have a look at the plan available in the US for the iPhone at the time: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2007/06/26AT-T-and-Apple-Anno...

200 SMS messages (MMS counts here too), unlimited data. Now look at today's: https://www.att.com/plans/wireless/

Even the cheapest plan has unlimited SMS and effectively unlimited MMS as a result. Whether it's used more because it's included or whether it's included because it's used more (probably a bit of both)... I don't think 2007 is a useful reference point for what people expect from their phones today.
> it was about doing this without notice, and having internal tooling that would deny a replacement (even at full retail price) if the battery was above an arbitrary health threshold (but still low enough to cause throttling).

Do you have a source for that? This would change my opinion on this story.

Reminds me of hot coffee where it sounded a bit ridiculous until you got the full story.
The thing is, what if something slips through?

My principle concern would be, no matter the employment relationship, you can't contract away criminal liability. (At least, not in the US.) So here you opened something while working from home, that maybe your state's child sex trafficking task force was tracking. It could just get messy. I'm not sure I would even want to do that kind of work from home.
I believe it wasn't slowing down the phones to extend battery life, it was slowing down the phone's power draw because as the LiPo battery wore out it could no longer give the peak power like it used to. The only real fix was to throttle the phone, which apple did a horrible job communicating on.
Isn't that what Epic tried to do?
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I think we need to add "nobody ever talks about.." to the list of trope fallacies.
Or possibly that alchemy has nothing to do with motion and gravitation.

Chemistry isn't a sub-field of Physics either.
It's a real shit situation. The fact that we cannot agree on facts in politics is truly frightening and I cannot see an easy way out of it.

Perhaps in 20-30 years we will see social media as something akin to smoking. Something super dangerous, addictive and a mind virus. That's my most optimist hope.

Around the time of Snowden leaks, I decided to cancel my Facebook, Instagram, etc. accounts. I am still a YouTube junkie, it's hard to give up. But right now I think that's my only "AI algorithm curated wormhole" type of content that I consume. Even partly doing a "social media diet" has significantly improved my well-being. I was really surprised to see how much my mentality changed from the experiment. Haven't looked back since.
As a full time employee (9-5 job) in an MNC and father of new born do you think it is still doable?
How many hours do you have to dedicate on a weekly based?

PS: Already have a Bachelors in Computer Science
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I'm a non-designer developer who nonetheless does some frontend work, so with that grain of salt, here's my take:

What everyone said to avoid was actually just wrong. Semantic CSS failed. Tailwind (or utility classes in general) is the best way to implement a reasonably-maintainable and properly-specified version of putting things in the style attribute.
> But as a dev in the government sector, I'm disappointed in the way they just whimsically dump Internet Explorer 11

As a dev in the government sector, working for a large public agency, that's pretty much our attitude to IE 11. I mean, sure, staff in our agency need to keep it around for some legacy apps that haven't yet been migrated or replaced, but its being phased out and we're not supporting it beyond making sure that we detect it and put up a banner explaining that its not supported for some of our current (internal and external) apps.
It could be a mistake, not an intentional lie.
But they weren’t a monopoly. Buy a Mac.
Lots of space to do the work does seem like the most reasonable, and obvious, solution to the problem.
Right, but if deaths are the same even with extra precautions in place, don't you think it would be much worse without?
That is a fun trailer. I laughed
I experienced similar topics in curriculum here in the US in English and history classes in middle/high school as well as the English class I took in college (part of the liberal arts requirement for basically every degree at my school).
Do you have a source of what specific stuff you're referring to? I want to read more and learn about some of that cause with sounds interesting to look at the US in that light.
You should read the rules
However this result does rely on a very questionable interpretation of a gravitational path integral.
If you don’t like the way they sell you a device, start a company that sells the kind of device you want. Or buy a pine phone.
Sorry, I don't use a mac -- could you clarify about ctrl-click to accept? Can you bypass the approved developer check box in system preferences with a right click on the `.app` folder?
This doesn't take away too much from your general point, which I agree with, but I think this is important to mention in itself:

> ["foreign interference"] fairly obviously got us our "free trade" policies which gutted the US manufacturing capabilities [...] (thanks, China).

'free trade' is definitely not a product of outside interference, it is a product of American company owners' interests - the easier it is to own manufacturing plants in other countries without giving up your IP (the key items of most 'free trade' agreements), the easier it becomes for corporations to manufacture everything where labor is cheapest.
I seem to remember them saying the same thing after the Nest acquisition in 2014 (“Nest data will stay with Nest”) but that didn’t last long.

https://archive.is/Aue14
Yes I assume that's the same. What I mean is '0' obviously looks bad, '2007' as it was when I commented sounds good (to me anyway).

If you knew you wanted to have that copy on day zero, you probably wouldn't launch with it, because it doesn't look good, so I just wonder at what point people think it starts to be positive, or at least not negative.
I use Google Pay for touchless payments with my phone. I like it for that. I use other solutions for tracking spending and organizing finances.

If these features help somebody gain personal insights or build some financial literacy, I view that as a good thing.
>There are just legal requirements around certain types of porn for example. Or videos of illegal activities up to and sometimes even including murder.

If I understand your point, it is law enforcement doesn't allow moderation of these items outside of a certain environment? If so, can you suggest further reading of the laws for this area? I have never heard of them.
Measuring a Tor Hidden Service's Idle Traffic
At a minimum you should be considering organizational change fatigue. It takes expenditure of political capital to enact these changes even if you don’t see it right away. Spending it on this does mean you’re less able to spend it on others. So asking “is this the most important thing to spend that capital on?” doesn’t seem like a bad question. Additionally, if someone perceives you as being wasteful in how you choose to spend that capital they may be even more resistant in the future to changes that are far less cosmetic.
Neat concept but I've been burned too many times already by Google killing or deprecating products.
The resources are limited. What is better, employ more people with a smaller pay or less people with a higher pay. I understand that this kind of job is not for everyone. And I assume the potential employees are well informed about it. And if it is worse than they expected they may look for another job? I just think there is enough people able to do that kind of job without experiencing any significant mental ill effects.
the Internet golden age of freedom won't be back for the mainstream, it was an artefact of its rapid explosion and the inability of large State players to react in time. We've seen the window between the period when it was below the radar and the period when its threat was recognised but counter-measures were not developed - but that is pretty much over

of course there will always be spaces of freedom but they won't be so easily accessible for the average person - or else there will be draconian measures to "correct" that situation

the big revelation is that the majority of the people in the "free world" (also euphemistically called "the West") are clamouring for these freedoms to be ended, which is a societal phenomenon one wouldn't have expected 10, 20 years ago... but these changes were coming regardless
We are. Just don’t buy an iPhone.

You never seem to explain why that freedom doesn’t suffice.
this result does rely on a very questionable interpretation of a gravitational path integral
OK, fair. The goal should be to make models like Apple's app store, regardless of the corporation, against public policy.
Petition them or switch to Android. No one’s forcing you to buy it.
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While some good and unique homebrew stuff certainly exists, I'm willing to bet the VAST majority of side loading and 3rd party stores on consoles would overwhelmingly be used for piracy if available.
This is why I am not a philosophical adherent to capitalism.
Exactly! And it's a bad kind of duopoly. It's not like I'm customer and I only have two choices. Here, I only two choices and I pretty much to use them both since if I drop one I loose a lot of potential customers.
You can do whatever you want with your phone, that doesn't mean Apple has to support it.
You can just distribute it yourself. Just pick a different platform.
Not for iOS realistically speaking. You have to switch to Android, your only other choice, and suddenly all your other Apple devices don't really work that well.
Weird assumption. There is new evidence showing masks don't seem to really have that significant an impact on getting infections:

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

..may still prevent transmission based on the new CDC guidelines, but I don't think they based those on any actual studies.

Honestly the rules are all dumb, random and arbitrary at this point. People keep yelling "science" when it's really just new superstition.
Oh man you would not like the accessories for a BMW or Audi then. Because what you're describing is not unique to Apple, it's a defining feature of being a luxury brand. They want price conscious consumers to choose another brand.
Bandwidth for app distribution is cheap. Marginal cost of developing App Store is nearly zero per app.

99.999% of apps don't get any marketing from Apple at all. Apps get lost in the crowd and the poor search that still struggles with obvious keyword spamming and rip-offs. Actual app ads are charged separately.

Apple doesn't increase your reach. They merely let you through an artificial barrier they themselves have created. I hate it that as an iOS user, I'm sold to you as Apple's product.

I can see manual app review getting costly, but Apple somehow doesn't wage war against free-to-user apps, nor they put limits or fees on excessive app releases. They're only upset when someone else makes money without giving them a cut. It's not about recouping Apple's costs, but increasing Apple's profit.
And many people matching that description are also running corporations. And the wheel turns.
> Also, 150MB is not really that scary of a size in today's world

That very much depends on where you live.
CrossOver/Wine Runs Windows Apps on Apple Silicon
If you need the user code to execute on the main thread, then unfortunately I am aware of none besides bundling your own tailored system.

Pyret used to use its own runtime system [0] but Stopify was created in part to replace it due to the maintenance burden and complexity of "vanilla" JS interoperability.

[0] https://www.pyret.org/docs/latest/s_running.html
> You're not doing anything even remotely close to the features offered by cloud providers or even managed hosting providers.

So what?

Who in their right mind believes in, say, you need to operate and maintain half a dozen types of RDBMS in three flavors along with two or four or eight different message brokers and your own convoluted infrastructure-as-code multiplied by three along with a repackaged FLOSS offering... And a ground station?

Let's not be mad, here. There are proper, full-blown, popular, global-scale cloud service providers. That. Only. Offer. VMs.

Are we so drunk with corporate kool-aid to believe that we are missing out because we are missing... What do you believe you're missing, actually?

I repeat: there are popular professional cloud service providers whose business consists of providing either VMs or access to bare metal. That's where real-world companies run their real-world businesses. Why are we supposed to believe that you need more to operate your own stuff?
This isn't the only cost. There was also another $500 million us settlement, a $27 million dollar fine from France, and probably others, and probably more outstanding liability.
Hey - I'm trying to get into health tech (EHR integrations, HL7, FHIR etc), do you have any additional "required reading" suggestions beyond Hacking Healthcare?
> both sides of the political spectrum have no idea what the other is claiming.

I'm not sure that's true. As your post about Michigan voter database points out, one side is making up facts they themselves don't believe in order to push the perception the results are invalid. The objective is not to reverse the results, which it's very unlikely they'll be able to do, but to use the perception to justify moves you allude to on the first post.

All in all, this is dangerous territory here in HN, as most of the debates around these end up in shouting matches.

Presenting multiple sides of an argument is only productive if all sides are engaging the debate honestly.
The tactics in the Cold War were based essentially on preventing the enemy from knowing to a good level of certainty the position of the Cold War, for long enough to send submarinesm.

This is not a viable technique in 2020.
Hi Duff! Apologies for the mixup, should have seen that in your handle. No, I'm not part of CHL/TXR.

While not open source by any stretch, I see the personal EHR space being ushered along by companies following Apple's lead. Aside from complex patients, I think the generally healthy/mild-chronic person is uninterested in owning/managing their health data unfortunately. Apple is contributing useful tools to understand fundamental determinants of health including cardiovascular, sleep, fitness at massive scale. It just happens to come with your watch and phone, and their vision for health is starting to come into focus. This puts the patient in the position of generating the primary data (sensors, etc.) and sharing it with their care team on their terms (more or less). As telehealth becomes more prominent, I suspect the patient will be required to engage with their data more often as it will be the means of conveying a shared understanding vs. observations recorded in the clinical setting and stashed away in centralized EHRs.

Furthermore, if labs and other diagnostics are available directly to consumers it puts the individual in a position of ownership. I think the default position is whoever generates the data owns it, and determines how easy/hard it is to share with others. If the individual is empowered to generate information about themselves- this will start to swing toward "patient owned." I too look forward to more of this, but it will have to come with more direct to consumer and digital offerings.

One of the coolest examples I've seen of individuals taking ownership in open source med tech is openaps.org . I'm not one, but T1D's are some of the most resourceful and resilient folks around. Good on them for building a community to solve real problems together. Shout out to the #wearenotwaiting crew.
How did the librem 13 pan out?
Depends on the kind of work, for me, in the kind of long-running web software I make HTML is actually maintained or refactored.
Disinformation assumes the average person is stupid though. Whose to say the inherent undisputable (because you can't prove or deny) conspiracy theory someone believes is true? Why is the onus on media companies to police how we want to live our lives and believe in whatever nonsense we want to? I play videogames and watch tv shows, because it inspires me to think a particular way outside of the norm, should it be banned? This is literally the same argument about banning and burning books.
I was never an atheist, but one of my favorite writers was until his 30s: C. S. Lewis. You might try some of his slim books: The Problem of Pain or Mere Christianity.
> It’s not just about hosting, they also provide basically the entire software stack you’re using. Pricing that is difficult but I don’t think it should be disregarded.

What if I don't want to use their "software stack"? Frankly, as developer, I'd rather spend my time developing than learning Apple specific ecosystem. Heck, React Native and Flutter do me just fine. Develop once and run everywhere.

In the end what does that $99/year license get me? A fancy certificate to publish on their only app store?
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Hence the hard pass.
It's not like they are providing it for free and need to make money somehow.

"Do the right thing."
HN really needs a way to force people to have at least clicked on the article before posting. Maybe something where the article has to be clicked on, and then a X minute timer is started so that people will be strongly incentivized to read the article before commenting.
The frontend / client app, yes. The backend DBMS and business logic called Chronicles is still written in M aka MUMPS.
This is the right answer. Apple’s not going to arrest you for jailbreaking your phone and running your own software. But they’re not obligated to go out of their way to support it either.
Ooof. This is almost useful.

There is a simple mechanism to model multiplication of vectors represented using elements of an orthonormal basis. Each (multi)vector is a linear combination of terms, and each term is an ordered sequence of basis elements. Multiplication of (multi)vectors works as usual. Multiplication of terms simply concatenates the 2 terms, then canonicalizes using identities vv = |v|^2 and uv = -vu. There is a cost, the number of terms in a (multi)vector is O(2^n) for an n dimensional space, but that's OK.

And then I'm lost. How does this map back to geometry? What does '2 + 3xy + 5yz - 7xyz' mean geometrically speaking? What does multiplication mean geometrically speaking? Can't build an intuition, not even for R^2 or R^3 :(
Has any consumer ever been adequately compensated by a class action suit?
No, in the US phone market they do not have anything like Microsoft’s share of the PC market.

And if you don’t feel Apple gives you sufficient ownership, why not just buy something else?

It’s a boring question to keep asking, but nobody actually seems to want to answer it.
The ol' theory vs. practice…that all sounds fine in theory, but all it means in the end is you've taken a giant wad of dig/span tag soup with 30 utility classes and broken it up into reusable bits of tag soup with utility classes. Or you move everything over to @apply…but now you have a bunch of stylesheets which are completely incompatible with every other CSS framework/build system. It's not a panacea.
> You needed to provide your signature which was matched against voting records.

This is not correct in many cases.

> “We conclude that the Election Code does not authorize or require county election boards to reject absentee or mail-in ballots during the canvassing process based on an analysis of a voter’s signature,” the state Supreme Court wrote in an opinion

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/23/pennsylvania-court-...

> it's very difficult to exploit it in the volumes you need to swing an election

When the margins of victory in several states are so small, this seems to be merely conjecture.
This is a perfect example of why end-users shouldn't buy into the idea that all of this invasive tracking is getting them better/ more relevant advertising. That Google and Facebook were able to pedal this lie for so long and so effectively is the biggest scam of modern times.
I will believe that the market is truly free when I see multiple start-ups attempt to upend Apple's business model and fail to do so.
A while back it was not possible to get to the Pirate Bay from Ireland. Not sure how it is now.
Interesting that you're getting downvoted with a comment that touches on the core of capitalism, or at least points out one of its main pitfalls.
I remember writing a hash join in awk at my first job because I got tired of waiting hours for python to finish. Was probably two orders of magnitude faster in awk.
Not fine by me regardless of monopoly status, and I believe it should be not fine by public policy either.
> It lets you move all of those excessive class attributes into your CSS

If only CSS had thought to include such a feature.
Preach inclusivity and respect, and in the same breath take a cheap out-of-the-blue jab at fucking white males. Truly amazing what it’s come to.
Okay now I'm growing curious, where in hell do you regularly find HTML sources that weigh tens of MBs?
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I'm Polish and I am not aware of any website blocking. While censorship on government website may occur, and the pro-government media may omit certain facts, I don't think any websites were actually blocked.
I'm unfortunately familiar with goatse, but what do you mean by "Rotten"?
Next level: It's actually the AI defending itself.