skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't know for sure. But several hypotheses are being thrown around:

- when the virus hit the first time, the age group of those affected was higher, hence the high initial mortality.

- hospitals have better protocols now to deal with the disease. They learned a lot over the past months wrt to treatment. For example not putting people on ventilators that fast.

- through natural selection, a milder strain has managed to be more contagious but less lethal overall.

- some of the mask ordinances were effective in reducing the viral load
>I might suppose that a lot of people in the US are batshit-insane, but there has to be a reason for all that lunacy.

Peter Medawar addressed this[0] quite some time ago:

"The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobbledygook than the rest of the world put together."

That sort of stuff just breeds magical thinking, conspiracy theories and all manner of other sorts of malarkey, hogwash, balderdash and hooey.

[0] https://www.quotetab.com/quote/by-peter-medawar/the-usa-is-s...
Yeah, last time I had the flu it sucked. And I'm relatively young.
Sometimes a GUI is faster for me, especially when I'm not 100% sure where things are or there are many files to select.

A terminal file manager has a GUI that works everywhere, including over SSH sessions (OK, technically could use X forwarding, but it's slow).
I literally have an application I cannot compile in 16 GB.
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No they didn't.

There is simply too much complex, professional software that will take time to be ported to ARM versus the relative straightforward needs of entry-level users e.g. Go, Photoshop, Docker.

And they need a large install base to push developers to invest the necessary resources.
Nope. It's best to think of the rM just as a slightly digital notebook instead of as a computer. It handles PDFs, EPUBs, and its own notebook format wonderfully, but that's it.
I was until I tried doing the test myself. It takes 82 seconds to compile on my i5-4200M.

I'm not sure this test is deserving of the breathless headline and commentary, especially since the original tweeter later follows up with:

> Extra info: The M1 macbooks (air/pro) can't drive 2 external screens, and the air throttles a bit after 3+ minutes sustained compute (20-30%)

https://twitter.com/rikarends/status/1328753176552632321

I'll be more interested if the M1 can compile something 2x quicker than the i9 when the compile time on the M1 exceeds 30-60 minutes rather than being less than a minute.

EDIT: to be clear, I expect the M1 to feel faster than the i9 for the vast majority of users, however the headline is "in a real world Rust compile", implying that this is a more valid test than synthetic benchmarks. I take issue with that, as I don't really consider something that compiles in less than 2 minutes on 6 year old hardware to be a much more useful test than the benchmarks.

We already know the A-series of chips performs incredibly in short workloads. We have no information yet on how it performs under sustained workloads.
Beliefs don't exist in a vacuum - hoax memes spread much like COVID itself. Media literacy is scarily low among most people, even those who are brilliant in other ways. Metaphorically we are failing to vaccinate against misinformation in primary education, leaving tech giants the impossible task of policing misinformation on their platforms designed to maximize engagement for profitability. 'The Social Dilemma' documentary (Netflix) dips into this if you haven't seen it.
I'm a couple of days late to this, but no, I cannot provide a reference (anymore). DDG used to have a page that described in pretty great detail how the results were sourced and ranked, but it seems the current page is buried pretty deep and has less information specific to ranking. IIRC, the Bing results (and previously Yahoo/Verizon Media) rankings were augmented by their own crawler (DDBot) and aggregated usage of their search. I believe they also pull the results that their "instant answers" are derived from higher up based on the search. If, for example, you did a technical search and their "instant answer" was from a stackoverflow post, that particular post would be pulled higher up the list (but not necessarily to the top) even if it was lower on Bing.
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Language features are a secondary consideration when compared to ecosystem and library availability as far as getting actual stuff done.

I never claimed those languages don't exist, but a language is a full package, and right now I'm not seeing even ascending languages as supporting trivial structural return types as an idiom. Granted, this is mostly a personal pet peeve given my observations and usage of code.
Lots of folks about to find out that #TweetFleet has a lot of EVE online content
I consider myself a male fashion fan, not bleeding edge but I spend a few hundred to a few thousand on clothes per year. Generally I think the interface is good (other than the latency that others have pointed out). But the outfit recommendations seem quite bad/nonsensical (sorry for bluntness):

For a denim trucker jacket (a fairly common outerwear in many menswear lines/people's closets) it recommended:
One outfit with Sand colored shoes + Khakis (no contrast between shoes/pants...)
Two outfits that had no shirts but another jacket (eg a red track jacket...)

Its not all bad, one example outfit generated from a plain white crwwneck sweater was clever - olive flight jacket + orange trousers + white mocassins.

I wonder how you've built the recommendation engine. Is it using a dataset to generate these (maybe include a real photo of the look?) Or is it generating them based on color/style rules? Or (what Id hope) a combination (learn rules from a lookbook dataset that can give general tips then also fall vs spring tips).

Either way, thanks for sharing - this is a fun tool to play with but it feels like I'm searching for needles in a haystack right now.
China needs to quit trying to abuse all their neighbor's boarders and destroying coral reefs to make bases to trump up their claims.
I've posted this elsewhere, but mask compliance in the United States is ~80%. This is of course subject to error, but both where I live and in my travels, most everyone wears a mask. This includes urban and rural areas, some with mandates some without.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/10/06/pandemic...
Copyright protects more than just the specific expression, they also protect collections of ideas. If I publish a novel about a magical wizard who can control things with his mind, flies around the galaxy in a spaceship shaped like an X, carries a laser sword, and battles his cyborg father who wears all black, I bet I would get a call from Disney's lawyers. That is because my work could be deemed substantially similar to Disney's IP even if it is a different expression.
I would consider my writing a failure if I didn't have at least one paragraph with at least one highlight under these rules.

I can't imagine reading more than a page or two of text that passes these rules; the flat writing style encouraged by this is the sort that will cause me to lose attention rapidly.
it does not matter under what port including 443 you are running the service, deep packet inspection (DPI) can sniff out VPN traffic, perhaps you may not encountered this type of firewall as it somewhat more expensive to run both computationally and licensing wise.

It is not possible to sniff out DoH traffic via DPI as looks exactly the same as regular traffic

While running flash servers for media use in corporate environment (when flash was still a thing) back I used to run into similar problems with RTMP/ RTMPS constantly.
Thank you, great explanation - I didn't think of it this way either.
> 16G ought to be enough for anyone
I've heard that argument, not sure how much I buy it. Seems the drugs that get developed tend towards niche applications, while common diseases that affect mostly uninsured people are addressed by places like the Gates foundation.
It's getting the hug of death...I'm upping the resources
Honestly, one of the biggest tools I think is in-person school. Which lets the kids get their own space and cultivate their own lives away from parents in a supportive place. Sadly that's been taken from us until Covid is resolved. It multiplies the anxiety quite a bit for everyone: kids & parents. It's hard for us not to be overbearing to our 9 year old about virtual school. It's hard on him, and he's frustrated. It's hard on us because it's time consuming...

Other than that, I strongly believe in paying well for good childcare and babysitting so you can take breaks.

I also believe in sharing your passions with your kids, and focusing on quality time rather than quantity or things that don't interest either of you. This can be surprising. My kids love camping, which surprised me. I love camping - my wife doesn't. My kids are meh on coding, they do it, but it doesn't grab them like it grabs me...

Focus your career choices carefully as your time on them is limited. I have found having kids, due to time crunch, has caused me to really focus more on what I really care about from work. Don't let others take advantage of you to do BS work, focus on what you want to do on a day-to-day basis that's fulfilling for you if you're able. I think sometimes parents fall into the trap of only focusing on $$ when really it's a good idea to focus on how much value you yourself are getting out of your more limited time investment
Trump is such an idiot.

There are lots of ways to make drilling and exploiting this wildlife area unprofitable.
And that is specifically why it's "tone deaf". The misinformation issues around social networks are neither limited to USA nor to people who follow politics, they are far more widespread.

Imagine there's a Fire Department in your city and most people are happy with it as they put out the fires, but it turns out a small subset of the houses are kept getting broken into by firefighters on duty. Wouldn’t people be concerned why the hell is Fire Department not getting act together and looking into the matter? Soon they might be the next ones that get broken into.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...

Basically, the people who politically lean the other way. Nowadays the debate has become so toxic that "the other side" will be against whatever your side wants, just because it's what your side wants.
Servo already has a C embedding API in https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/ports/libsimplese....
I installed updates a few days ago and the release notes say "support for Apple Silicon"...
Honestly, that's the high tech end of what happens.

Most compromises are credential stuffing.
The true difference is that Servo is more modular than WebKit.
TBH, I value Brain.fm as a productive part of my work day.

Some days it helps focus on the endless housework and kid needs.

Other days it helps focus while coding.

As a polyphasic sleeper less than 2 mins of quiet relaxing music puts me to sleep.
The article tries to explain the difference between primary, final and useful energy to justify why moving to renewables would be easier than at first glance. But I just don't feel like I got convinced in the end. If anything I'm more confused now than before. In special this part about air conditioners being 300% efficient sounds to me like maybe they don't know what they are talking about.

“Electrical devices can sometimes offer higher than 100% efficiency,” said BNEF analyst Matthias Kimmel. That might seem odd. How can there be more energy as output than input? But that’s exactly what heat pumps and air conditioners do. They use electricity to shift heat from the outside to inside, or vice-versa, and typically provide three units of energy service for one unit of energy input, meaning an efficiency of 300%.
How do you explain certain states and cities doing so much better, even within the US? And other western countries, such as NZ, Canada, and Germany really beating the US in every metric possible? Experience is not the key here. Quality of leadership is
I hope so. I'm sitting at 68% memory utilization on a 16GB MBP _without_ any VMs running.

Everytime a manufacturer limits a new model in 2020 to a max of 16GB, I wonder if they really understand with high end work laptops or desktop are really being used for.
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The graphs I linked use the Covid Tracking Project API. The data is not manipulated in any way.
If I wanted to tick boxes when it comes to audits, TBH I would migrate from Ansible to something else where changes get pushed to source control first (before push) and nobody has root access during normal operations. I’m using Ansible specifically because I can push directly from my personal machine.

I strongly prefer NOT to have passwordless sudo. Disabling root login and then enabling passwordless sudo seems like a pointless exercise in ticking the boxes—any benefit from disabling root login is undone by enabling passwordless sudo.
>You can be just as evasive in the active voice. Someone made a mistake.

Yes, but by explicitly adding the word "someone [...]", the hiding/concealment is calling attention to itself. It's an unusual and awkward construction of a sentence -- or -- the writer was trying to write a mystery/crime novel.

On the other hand, if the writer doesn't want to name the agent without drawing attention to the writing style, the overuse of passive "to be" verbs instead of active verbs is the way to do it. Passive voice is the hallmark of government bureaucratic reports and they're boring and lack punch.

>Most uses of the passive have nothing to do with being evasive.

I agree.
Normally liquid mirror telescopes depend on having some amount of gravity to work correctly (the liquid needs to pool in a certain way). There's workarounds to do this in space but it gets really complicated.

Other issues with space based telescopes:

They need fuel + thrusters to go where you want them to be (or just to maintain their orbit!)

Heat dissipation is a big problem. Being able to use the whole moon as a thermal flywheel could help out a lot. In space you can use things like cryocoolers to regulate temps, but they cause vibrations which can be problematic if you need your telescope to remain steady. If this requires refrigeration, you can put the vibrating parts far enough away from the telescope that they don't move it. Putting the thing in a crater probably helps regulate temps too (less direct sun)

Humanity in general is better at building and maintaining things on solid ground. If you drop a bolt on the moon, you lean over and pick it up. If you drop a bolt in orbit, you have to worry about it damaging your spacecraft at the next conjunction.
To be fair, kinda yes actually
So we will see something like Flutter but from JetBrains and Kotlin (native/jvm) based?
Tip, instead of amending, it's also straightforward to "uncommit" a temporary commit when you come back to it. `git reset HEAD~` and the state of the commit becomes the state of your working tree instead.
Sorry, that means they're not smart. They might be a good programmer and a family man, but they're not smart. If you are able to fall for "Covid19 was a hoax perpetrated by China to help Joe Biden get elected" in the modern day, then you are not smart.

It's one thing when you're not able to get information, like way back in the day when we had no real world explanations for lots of things, and had to work with what you've heard from word of mouth. But now? There's no excuse.
Yeah, I figure the only realistic solution for my work needs (running a bunch of x86/x64 Windows VMs) is to do that remotely on a Windows workstation.

I probably won't buy an M1 anyway, but I'll be extremely interested to see what everything looks like when the M2 rolls around.
But renting implies you are continuing to pay money and will some day need to return it.
Does something like Gitless (https://gitless.com/) help?
> Great, it has expensive royalties and it betrays the user.

Your cell phone also sends out photons that can be spied on. Worse yet they're multicast so multiple parties can receive them at the same time.

Seriously though, this is an absurd concern, and I say that as someone who is very privacy minded if not actually paranoid.

I still don't trust that cell phones aren't sending back keywords picked up on the microphone, but I guarantee you that right now no one is listening to your digitizer's rf output, much less that the device itself is somehow "betraying the user" by exfiltrating anything over it.
I understand 'fake it til you make it' but this just seems absurd
The effect is strong as the seasonal flu. She is saying it's not real because we are over reacting.
... just a reminder, that quote is apocryphal. Lies don't just travel faster than the truth, they've also got alarming staying power.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2534312/the--640k--quo...
If you have to cd/ls around a lot, it's simply faster once you get used to it.
In Sweden, where there's little mandated, so far only some 6000 out of 10 million died of COVID-19. That is significant (in the statistical sense), but hardly mass death (given that in the relevant time frame some 40000 died of unrelated causes).

Masks alone don't cause the widespread panic, mass media did their part.
I have to make code work in Cobalt as part of my job. You?
Would the M1 with more cores be able to beat the threadripper at the same wattage? Right now the M1 stands at a score of 8000 Vs Threadripper's 25000. The comparison I am sure is not just about comparing benchmark scores, but is there a prediction possible given that the M1 is at a 24W TDP whereas the threadripper has a 280W TDP (A 3x change in the benchmarks alongside a 10x change in TDP)

Does Qualcomm or Samsung have a M1 beater in their kitty?
aside from the lifetime annotations, how is that worse than C to an unfamiliar reader? the format specifiers for printf and friends are way worse than anything in your rust example.
JavaFX also has much better emoji support IIRC
The picture I'm seeing is that it would seem that they're in the same ballpark, and v8 may even be a smidge faster, for general purpose business object flogging type stuff, but Java is significantly faster for straight-up number crunching. The one where there's the starkest difference, k-nucleotide, Java gets to take advantage of a fastutil collection. I don't think an equivalent to that hash map could be built in JavaScript.

Those benchmarks don't cover this, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to discover that Electron can does actual UI drawing more efficiently than Java can. In Electron, that whole layer is a bunch of (presumably) carefully optimized C++ code, while in Java the bulk of it's still going to either be managed code, or be taking a lot of marshalling hits if it's calling into OS APIs.

Long story short, it would appear that, based on those benchmarks (which, we all realize benchmarks are a lie, but still) the only spot Java clearly beats JavaScript is in applications where someone who cares all that much about performance would choose neither Java nor JavaScript, anyway.
Plus I would like to remind people that there were points where PowerPC Macs were extremely impressive, and that didn't magically reorder the world because existing software and OS ecosystems mean a hell of a lot more than just straight performance.
Admittedly not. But I still hear lots of horror stories about nVidia drivers.
I looked for a list of projects currently embedding Servo, or planning to, but didn't find one.

Is any software embedding it now?
Is that a 5% increase in mortality from a disease that didn’t exist a year ago?

Looking at it another way: I don’t smoke because I don’t want to risk pulmonary disease. Am I hurting the economy?

I don’t expect everyone to care about my life (maybe I’ll cause a blip in some chart) - but I do above almost everything else.
And D. It works so well that the compiler has betterC mode: https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html
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US astronauts found that static charge made the regolith stick to everything that came near it. Basically anything that moved across the surface got quickly coated. And because there is no weathering on the moon, the particles could be extremely small and sharp, which made it difficult to exclude or expel them. Apollo suits at the Smithsonian are still gray with embedded regolith. Conservators try to minimize flexing as the embedded sharp particles chew up the fabric fibers over time.
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Hello,

I’ve had this idea in mind to build an app that notifies you via email of when a youtube channel that you’re subscribed to puts out a new content . I’m still undecided of if the notifications will be daily or when the channel puts out new content. This idea steams from me discovering that YouTube cancelled email notifications 3 months ago .

Also , I’m sure that the YouTube api has a limit of resource to be consumed by one API key . Any ideas of how to automatically enable a new user’s api key to make the call , instead of my api key ?

I'll appreciate any feedback on this idea or suggestions for ideas I can add on to this current idea.

Thanks in advance.
This reminds me of an old /g/ post:

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The thing people don't realize about the 'nothing to hide' mantra is that it only makes sense if someone looks at your whole life. If you really did have someone examining everything you ever did, watching a playback of your entire life, through your eyes - and this was the only form that anyone would get your data in, by watching everything - then yeah, you probably wouldn't need to hide anything. That person would see everything you do, and understand you pretty well by the end of it. All the things you did, even the seemingly weird things, would make sense in context. They'd sympathize with you.

But that isn't what happens. What does happen is huge amounts of data are recorded, but only little pieces are looked at at a time. And suddenly you do have something to hide, because the people looking at the data on you won't have the full story, and will therefore jump to conclusions based on what they have - and because you won't know when and where this is happening, and what specifically they're looking at, you won't be able to set them straight. Suddenly your every action has to look innocent on its own, you can't do anything that is justifiable given prior events or knowledge. Your wife has been treating you like shit for months, and finally you snap and yell at her? If they only see the end of it then you look like the bad guy. You're researching bombs because you're interested in the historical development of technology, including explosive technology? Tough shit, you don't get to explain that, to them it will just look like you're a big bad terrorist wanting to blow up the government.

You might say that they will have all your information so they can fact-check. This is wrong, they have neither the incentive or the time to trawl through your whole life working out your motivations for everything. It's easiest to just jump to conclusions. And employers will look at this and make judgments on you - without you having any idea what they're seeing and what they're concluding from it.

In public, people carefully monitor their behavior so they appear normal to anyone who only sees them for a second. They're only willing to show their weirder sides to people who know them, who won't make big judgments on them based on minor quirks. With total surveillance, everyone will be in public, all the time.

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I wonder how much a version of the fundamental attribution error is responsible for "nothing to hide" kind of thinking.
That CS6 issue was a major faux pas and a reason why many people stay with Mojave or are forced to use VMs.