skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This part of the US perspective on covid-19 I don't understand.

Everywhere I keep reading comments that suggest you pretty much deserved what you got and americans only have themselves to blame because 'if everyone just wore masks' it 'could have been contained'. Literally nothing suggests that, no other country in the world shows any statistics to back this up, and the situation is pretty much as bad as or worse in many parts of the world that did mandate masks and had lock-downs, while it is much better in other parts of the world that did none of these things. Europe is the prime example of this, there's so much variation in the measures that different countries took, but I literally see zero correlation with infection rates or deaths, not up until the point where countries go into lock-downs that dramatically limit the movement of people and the chance of getting in contact with 'strangers' that you would never get in contact with if you worked from home, did not go to bars or restaurants, did not use public transport, etc. But these measures are not sustainable long-term, so sooner or later they are relaxed and the infections start to go up again, with or without face masks, with or without people doing 'everything in their power to stop the virus' because they are traumatised by the first wave. Just look at Italy, one of the hardest hit countries in Europe in the first wave, and the place they are now in again. If anything, the countries that were the first to issue mask mandates and kept expanding them (Italy, France, Spain, Belgium) are now all at the bottom of the list in terms of covid infections and deaths in the second wave.

I'll probably get downvoted into oblivion by saying as much because it's already clear to me that in the US wearing face masks is more like a religion or a political statement, but alas... The main point I wanted to make is that blaming yourself and others for the situation you are in because it 'would have been easy to contain, if only...' is not backed up by any evidence, and IMO just a form of self-torture.
The Malaysian government is very far from legitimate.

It's run by the party who got dramatically voted out at the last election. Even their supporters call it a "backdoor" government.

The former PM who stole billions and was found guilty of all charges was sentenced to 12 years in prison yet still sits in Parliament while getting friendly media interviews, he gave a speech on the budget just the other day representing all of the backbench.

I always find the South China Sea discussions interesting because I'd love to hear who people actually think deserves ownership of it?

The Philippines is run by a proud mass murdering nutjob, Vietnam is China-lite, Brunei just tried to roll out the death penalty for gay people. Malaysia is steadily gaining more extreme Islamists in power who bizarrely blame the Jews for everything that goes wrong like it's a country run by 4chan.

Who exactly deserves all that oil and fish? It's none of the above in my opinion.
That's a way to see it. Here is another:

We are complicated pieces of biochemical machines. Atoms, molecules, cells interacting with each other. No magic, nothing special. Just nice, repeating patterns in infinity.
I honestly don't see how SOLID avoids the problem I mentioned, but let me clarify this:

When I say dependency, I mean it in a general sense, i.e. if a stateful object A uses a stateful object B, e.g. by composition, then A depends on B. So the behaviour of A does not only depend on the state of A, but also on the state of B. It does not matter if A or B are defined as abstractions, because in the end all object instances are concrete. These dependencies will always form a directed graph in some way.

You are correct that the principle of single responsibility prevents two objects working on the same data. However, as I wrote earlier, this means that the dependency graph must be a perfect hierarchy, also known as an arborescence or out-tree. A perfect hierarchy does not allow shortcuts, so if A depends on B and B depends on C and A wants to know something about C, we always have to go through B, regardless of whether we are actually interested in B or not. This is what I mean when I say that data access is baked into the dependency graph, making it difficult to adapt OO programs to new requirements.
Before undertaking his craft, the artisan first sharpens his tools.
An alternative I use is http://captive.apple.com (other OS vendors have their own). Which may have a higher chance of being detected by the portal (more likely to be white-listed) and triggering the prompt correctly.
Stay strong. Hope you sort it out.
This is more of a rural versus urban thing, and just an example of cultural differences. Canadian ones, FYI.

As per my example, it is rude to not wave, stranger or not, at least where I grew up. Yet when I moved to the city, entirely different! Same language, country, region. Just urban vs rural.

So it is not surprising to see nation-wide cultural differences.
Gitlab Command Line
Do you can create a GitLab merge request with your latest commit on the current branch with `glab mr create --fill` ??

You can also create a merge request for an issue with `glab mr for <issue-id>` ; this will create the source branch using the issue title and mark it as draft just as it is done on the UI.

You can then checkout to the merge request branch with `glab mr checkout <id>`.

To mark it as ready for review use `glab mr update --ready`. (ID is not required when already checked out to that branch).

Approve with `glab mr approve` and merge with `glab mr merge`

Check it out at https://github.com/profclems/glab.
Mirror at https://gitlab.com/profclems/glab
For me at least it warns me very blatantly and I have to asked to go to an insecure site if it's HTTP only. Perhaps we don't have the same configuration.
Algorithmic questions are not about the algorithms per se. They’re basically an IQ test.
Wait till you are in an age like that and some dork thoughtlessly shrugs, pushing you over tve cliff...
I would suggest it's far better to understand the data structures inherent in git and how those data structure changes are tracked and merged. Then almost all operations in git become clear.

And as a side bonus it will probably make you a better coder.
> Literally nothing suggests that, no other country in the world has any statistics to back this up

New Zealand. Taiwan. Vietnam. South Korea.
This was a pretty interesting explanation, thanks!
New Explainable AI Algorithms
I've been writing new Explainable AI algorithms in my spare time. Always interested to hear what people think.
IIRC HTTPS Everywhere works by having a whitelist of domains that are also accessible over https, and switches to https for those.

So if a site isn't in the whitelist, it won't modify the request in any way.
Supervolcanoes and asteroid collisions are good reasons to support nuclear power, not just solar, as a diverse energy source. What happens if the sun gets blocked out?
I consider them to be more of a "do you have a general understanding of computer science" when done correctly.
I have been using HTTPS Everywhere for many years: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Arguments against git being 'too hard' seem to fall into these categories:

* It's not actually hard.

** You don't understand it. Everyone else is fine with it. You just haven't spent the time to understand it like everyone else has.
** Ok maybe lots of people don't understand it. They just haven't spent the time to understand it like I and others have.

* It is actually hard.

** You're not intelligent enough to understand it, but everyone else is.
** Ok maybe lots of people aren't intelligent enough to understand it, but that doesn't matter because I am and so are others.

IMHO the more intelligent response is:

* If people think it's hard, that's a problem, and we can use our understanding / intelligence to help make a version control system (layered on git if that works) that doesn't require the depth of understanding or intelligence to work with - for everyone.

I've worked with thousands of developers and my experience is that even the brightest still make mistakes when given sharp tools, and when you're just trying to get your job done but you've tied yourself into a knot with distributed tools that try to help you deal with merges of turing-complete text, you can have a bad afternoon.

I'm hoping darcs / pijul / something else a bit more 'friendly' becomes popular and those who want to concentrate on their code and not their tools can get some time back.
Fully support this argument and Mozilla's initiative.

I work for a firewall co and we had taken a strategic decision to not allow plaintext traffic onto the internet (from cloud deployments). It's just lazy on the client or server operator's part to not have it so.
When you signup for an account for the Indian railways, you are explicitly prohibited from making money off of the service in any form.

This is because there is a black market for railway tickets, where agents charge a high free for booking tickets online for many illetrate buyers, especially in rural areas.
I’m at Stage 9, on one of my projects. Chances are good, that it will do well for many years.

Most of the rest, I’m at Stage 4, with ambivalence towards moving past that.

A couple of projects didn’t make it past Stage 2.

I keep a lot of irons in the fire.
when i visited india, i found the "next generation" booking system to be a bit of a joke, so i don't blame this guy for trying to make it better (whether or not he was profiting).

My favourite part was the "maintenance" window the website would go through every night. Which was never really indicated on the website other than vague messages/errors - but everybody knew that's what it was.
I still find it's an interesting aspect of using GCP. For instance I am no Postgres expert, and while I don't directly do anything fancy with it, I have no guarantee that some library I use doesn't rely on some "at your own risk" feature.

What this means is, while thorough testing can give confidence it works at some point, there is no real guarantee it will continue working even without any changes on our end.
DoH changes who gets all your DNS traffic from your ISP and your router to (in practice) a single central DoH provider. Which of those you trust least depends on who you are.
Tatkal tickets are special tickets that are opened two days before date of travel at 9 in morning. These are important tickets as a last chance for some urgent travel because usually trains are full long back. To prevent abuse there are lots of restrictions, including not available on any third party.

It was a lame app that prefilled the form in Railway app and charged money for this feature. This must have triggered some TnC breach. Similar things exist as browser plugin/scripts, but they are free and stay under the radar.
The 2.2 million number was the projected number (In March) of deaths with no mitigation taken. 200,000 is what Dr. Birx said then, in March.

We're in November now, and it's surging again. Less people are dying as we've learned how to best treat it, but the biggest risks are with overwhelming healthcare resources and that's exactly what is starting to happen as cases begin to surge, once again.

We could have done better as a country. It's hard to see how anyone could argue against that. Regardless of how you feel politically, the response in the US has been poorly coordinated at best.
> especially the case in the 90s

You're in for a shock, we're still in the "blind leading the blind" phase as GitHub stars and Twitter followers currently dictate who's a "leader" in the software engineering world. With the invention of social media and their likes, our work and "innovation" is driven by hype more than ever before.
EA6 build of Java 2D Metal rendering pipeline for macOS is now posted
I'm self-hosting a VPN server on Digital Ocean, and whenever I'm using it, some websites notice that my IP address belongs to a hosting provider, so I start to get lots of CAPTCHAs. So yes, at least Google and Cloudflare detect that.
Yeah, these claims are FUD. Yes, there are theoretical concerns; as with all new things, there is no complete certainty. But we should be absolutely clear that immunity usually reduces transmission. That that's at least very common is trivially observable in the real world too; no need for fancy statistics: just note that anything we have effective vaccines for has dramatically reduces spread in societies using those vaccines broadly.

Additionally, vaccine transmission reduction worries can be conflated with direct vaccine risk worries. There are risks to untested vaccine candidates, and some can even cause more severe illness. That's why we test, surely? And though I can't find the citation off the top of my head, there are even cases where a vaccine might enhance spread in extremely peculiar circumstances; I found a paper documenting such effect when vaccinating animals vs. an otherwise generally fatal disease; the vaccine simply delayed the inevitable and that delay caused a measurable increase in spread - but that's not at all like covid 19, which is not usually fatal. These theoretical concerns do not appear likely to be a factor this time, and most remaining doubt will clear up once phase 3 trials are complete: in particular, you'll know before you're vaccinated.

Whether the vaccines will reduce spread is obviously we don't know for absolutely sure; but reduced transmission does appear to be the most likely outcome. We should definitely act and plan as if it will (while measuring and hedging to detect if we're wrong). If new data appears that undermines this assumption, then we should adapt - but that's not likely. Much more likely is that the exact details of how much spread is reduced is unknown (so a 90% effective vaccine might reduce spread by less than 90%; or even by more; and we don't know those numbers).

So for example, when a paper like this https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... points out the limitations of currently knowledge, you should interpret that as just that - a limitation of current knowledge, not that it's very likely that a vaccine will leave spread mostly unaffected.

The final nail in the coffin for this FUD is that it's not actionable. Attempts to vaccinate - with the hope of reducing transmission - won't be ill-advised in retrospect in the unlikely event it turns out not to; it still reduces severity safely. So in terms of policy after phase 3 trials are complete and before mass-rollout: who cares? At worst vaccines will reduce disease impact with a good chance to reduce spread too. But if people start thinking the vaccine is likely useless, uptake could drop, which is throwing away such a great chance. This is classic FUD: doubt that's simply undermining rational action, without cause.
IMHO, you should look at this video, where water droplet at macro scale «exists in two places at once» (demonstrates self interference when passing two slits).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsaUX48t0w8
The US does do this. I’m always asked where I’m staying when I cross into the US. I have to write it on my landing card and they ask me about it at the border. And this is someone who doesn’t need a visa, even.
United States FDA did not approve of neither so this is just a fluff editorial that doesn't fact check some of us call that fake news
Gsuite is serving new calendar logo unsecure via HTTP
Splash 2020 conf is happening this week
One factor speeding up the phase 3 trials is the high rate of infections. Since the evaluation is done at a set number of confirmed cases among the test subjects, this happens much sooner for covid than it would be for just about anything else at this time.

Another factor is money. The covid vaccine trials have done some testing steps in parallel that would normally be done sequentially to avoid wasting money should it fail along the way. So yes, more risks are being taken, but they are financial, not clinical.
That's pretty much a given that you'll get downvoted. I mean yeah, masks seem like a good idea regardless, and they aren't too onerous. People should wear them. They should wash their hands, too, and take vitamin D, and try to lose some weight. Same with outdoor dining or reduced occupancy. But everything else is COVID theater pretty much, and our politicians are known to make idiotic decisions under the circumstances. That's why some of our states (such as NY and NJ) have some of the highest death rates in the world - the politicians there had the bright idea to send COVID patients straight to the nursing homes, even though it was clear from the very beginning of the spread in the US that this was an extremely bad idea. The outbreak _started_ in the nursing homes in the Washington state. These same people are still there, and they're still in charge of whatever passes for "COVID response" in their states. The results are quite predictable.
Nobody's talking about the world moving away from google. We're talking about the world simply not having non-repudiation built into email. A sender of an email doesn't owe you non-repudiation as a feature. Sorry if you think otherwise. Senders can add non-repudiation as a feature if they want to, which satisfies your purchase receipt scenario.
I don't think buying stuff from someone who sells to the public is abusive. I don't think scraping is abusive. I do think workers' rights are important, but the restaurant industry (especially the mon-and-pop end of it) hardly has a great reputation on that front, so I don't think ordering directly rather than DoorDash sends a message there.

I guess if that story works for you, you better stick with it as long as you can.

Some software developers it seems go to work each day thinking how can I put other, poorer, people out of work, and erode the pay and conditions of those that I can't?
TLDR

iMac Pro vs Apple M1 Macbook Pro FCPX summary:

Exporting H.264 Sony 10 bit 422 footage with just one rec709 lut: 11"30' vs 10"20'

30 seconds long H.265 canon 10-bit 422 footage at 100fps: 1"20' vs 45'

10bit 422 canon h265 8k ipb footage for 30 seconds with one rec709lut: 2"47' vs 1"02'
You don't need a Microsoft account, you can just click "Cancel" when it asks you to sign in and it still works :)
How to grow a $6.6k MRR user feedback tool
America is even more extreme - there the state asks you for your political affiliation in many cases. That’s absolutely crazy to me.
Thanks for sharing this, I had no idea! I'm not sure whether it's for me since I'm pretty locked into the outlining style and while open source is always better no cloud dependency is definitely great (and essential for work).

My perception of the Dynalist devs' coolness seems just about right.

Random thing I think is cool about Dynalist: A full backup is one get-request to dynalist.io/backup with the right cookies away.

That said it does feel a bit like abandonware. Obsidian would explain that.
While there are studies on 25-OH-D metabolism impacting melatonin production, I can only find studies done with Multiple Sclerosis patients [1]. There are also studies showing that LOW levels of 25-OH-D may have negative impact on sleep [2][3][4]. While I am unable to present scentific evidence, I would like to state that for me - personally - taking vitamin D3 in the afternoon has similar effects to ingesting caffeine. I have no reason to believe that I might be suffering from Multiple Sclerosis. Without evidence you are free to ignore it as a placebo/nocebo effect. YMMV based on age, ethnicity, sunlight etc.

The "take with meal" instruction is common with substances requiring fat for absorption/bioavailability. Dietary fat increases vitamin D3 absorption [5].

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23665342/ The influence of vitamin D supplementation on melatonin status in patients with multiple sclerosis

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4507736/ 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentration and Sleep Duration and Continuity: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28652922/ The relationship between serum vitamin D levels and sleep quality in fixed day indoor field workers in the electronics manufacturing industry in Korea

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5331570/ Association between Serum Vitamin D Levels and Sleep Disturbance in Hemodialysis Patients

[5] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25441954/ Dietary fat increases vitamin D-3 absorption
I was specifically talking about QBasic here. Given how much the user base of that language has shrinked in the last 20 years, there's less blind leaders. :) If you are still working with QBasic these days, then it's probably either because that's what you have always been doing (and you are probably "blind" in that regard), or you are exploring retro tech that you grew up with as a teenager and are highly experienced now, like the writer of this blog post.
>And not only Sweden didn't do particularly bad, but it's done better than many major European countries like France, Italy, Spain or the UK.

It also still had people social distancing, wearing masks and disinfecting, a very low population density, a robust healthcare system which at no point in time got overwhelmed unlike let's say northern Italy.

Covid just never really blew up there but at the same time one can't exactly argue that the lack of certain policies contributed to that.
People are dying at a much lower rate, we have the highest testing throughput in the world (and still growing), and if mainstream press is to be believed, we're a month or two from deploying a "95% effective" vaccine. We'll be fine.
When they come up with a vaccine to cure tobacco cancer it kills more people than corvid I'll take that
I remember years ago when Facebook wasn’t using https and a bunch of articles came out with how to access someone’s account if you’re both on unencrypted public wifi. Since then I’ve been a fan of https everywhere
Yep. He circumvented rate-limiters that ensured that you couldn't game the booking system. The regulations very clearly prohibit this to ensure fair access.

Now, one can absolutely argue about whether this form of rate limiting is the right approach, but to circumvent something that is clearly prohibited & charge money to do that is illegal.

This does not mean that I think the current system is perfect OR that there aren't other players who also have backdoors into the process; just that the action is not as egregious as 'BUREAUCRATS STIFILING INNOVATION'. There is more nuance needed here [1].

"According to the sources, the apps enabled users to book Tatkal tickets bypassing security checks on the IRCTC portal. His mobile applications were unauthorized and had features to bypasses Completely Automated Public Turing Test (CAPTCHA), a security measure that users must fill in while logging in to IRCTC. As per reports the apps also bypassed other security measures installed by the IRCTC."
...
"However, railway officials clarified Yuvrajaa bypassed the railway system and made money illegally which is a crime. He wasn’t event an authorized agent registered with IRCTC to book tickets. RPF has registered a case under section 143 (2) of the Railways Act (penalty for unauthorised carrying on of the business of procuring and supplying of railway tickets).

Developing an unauthorised software bypassing e-ticketing system is an offence. Such applications defeated the purpose of having a first-come-first-serve system and benefit only a few who use the software."

This govt., like most Indian govts, has a stupidly archaic & top-down / low-trust / risk-averse / bean-counter approach to innovation and transparency (case in point, the Covid tracking app Arogya Setu's sordid development & transparency issues), but this specific incident isn't the right stick, IMO. :)

[1] https://www.the420.in/conman-or-genius-arrest-of-iit-kharagp...
Seems similar to segment.io
If it's real time travel, then that wouldn't show that free will doesn't exist. It would just show that there are different timelines, and the universe is forked every time a decision is made.
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