skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People keep saying this but it's misleading.

Swedish authorities have issued many directives that weren't legally enforceable but which they expected Swedes to follow, and most Swedes did follow them. Surely whether or not a directive formally has legal backing is not that important to whether we call a measure "a lockdown"; what is important is the impact on behavior. For example Swedes in many regions have been asked to refrain from social contact outside their household for the last month. When that happens in other countries it's called a "lockdown".

From April to October no visitors to rest homes were permitted; regardless of the legal status that seems like a kind of lockdown.

Anyway the "no legally enforced lockdown" era just ended in Sweden. They have introduced law-backed restrictions:
https://www.thelocal.se/20201116/breaking-sweden-introduces-...
No need to read sci-pop, here's the source w/o any paywall: [0]

[0] https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13...
even after spending countless hours configuring SMTP, SSL, TLS, SPF, DMARC, DKIM, IP address pools, white/blacklists, etc. there is still a 99% chance secure, authorised, authenticated, "signed", sealed email will be delivered to a spam folder

so what's the point?
In spite of what that graph might lead you to believe, there were no new COVID deaths today in Sweden, and the number has remained approximately zero. You should not goal them on number of infections as they aren't really trying to control them, but rather by deaths. Death counts are flat around zero. They've asked to be goaled on harm and I think it's only fair to do so, rather than imposing a metric.
> Ok, my GPG example was wrong. And yes, you got me, I'm not a professional cryptographer. But can you address the point? You said "once counterparties have authenticated each other's messages, the legitimate need for authentication is gone". I provided a counter-example ...

I think the person you're talking to thinks this is very obvious and thus isn't stating it explicitly, but in the special case where you want an email to include non-repudiation, such as for a purchase receipt, the sender should just add non-repudiation to it in the form of a signature that's intended for that. Simple.
You completely ignored the current situation in Europe, which is what I was referring to.
The question wasn't based on time, but rather not knowing that the y axis is inverted from what many people would consider normal.
Thanks for your answer. I'm aware of these systems (my office workstation is an EliteDesk) however, these systems are not suitable for me for various reasons.

I make staggered updates and these systems are not very receptive for that. I wouldn't want to change my case just to upgrade the motherboard and the CPU. Also, I'm not sure that a small EliteDesk tower can accommodate all my disks (2HDDs plus 2SSDs) neither space, nor power-wise. I also use a PCIe sound card (for sound quality reasons) which needs a PSU connection via floppy connector.

At the end of the day, these systems are very nice as-is, but I need to get them as a package and they're not very flexible. My desktop usage scenario and update path is not very suitable for that.

Last but, not the least; I like to build my own desktop computers.
This does not necessarily mean that there are no Covid deaths. It could as well mean that despite lower overall deaths from other causes (e.g. because people actually do less stuff that could get them killed), they arrive at a similar number because of additional deaths caused by Covid.
My first idea would be to try a difference-in-differences approach with other countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_in_differences
If you have auto updates enabled it nags you every day with a popup notification window asking to update, exactly the same way Windows does it (at least on my machines).
This sounds incredibly powerful. Wondering if c-span is on youtube and properly close captioned.
Assuming it's an Air or Pro, a better option would be to buy any NVMe drive, and an adapter.

Here's a forum thread for more info: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/upgrading-2013-2014-mac...
Being interviewed on CNN is considered pretty amazing for most people. If you have to make something up that fits the overall narrative and is unlikely to be fact checked by "legitimate" news sources, few obvious/immediate downsides.

Of course, if her employer comes out and says "her statement doesn't match reality" and decides she can't be trusted and gets fired, that changes things. Some will see it as "justified" because she made it up while others will see it as a "coverup to hide the facts!" and again, few obvious/immediate downsides.

sigh
I'm guessing they'd rather fight a battle over youtube-dl than something like popcorn time. Maybe the intentionally pushed the limits a bit.
What data would be required? A betting slip? (-:
Scott Atlas: “The only way this stops is if people rise up.”
That's exactly Schaeffer's strength, that he has a philosophical and intellectual approach, but he fits the pieces into a coherent narrative.
No one benefits from painting vaccines as invincible magic. We don't want to give the actual crazies any more fuel then we have to. Realism is important for restoring the "credibility of science" after the flailing contradictory guidance we got from official sources early in the pandemic.
That's right, we need more travel and in-person meetings now.
Why the downvotes? This is a factual description of the current situation in Europe, i.e. what is happening right now.
You can also do it easily with an APFS container now.
A few people seemed to have missed an important step in the argument:

Mechanical systems used to be simple enough to be (mostly) auditable.

For instance, if you have a wind up clock on the wall and a chalkboard schedule in an office, you can be sure it tells the same time and the same schedule, regardless of who looks at it.

Like an evil secretary, meeting room scheduling tablets could be configured to gaslight particular employee by telling them they have a room reservation when they don’t, making them late/early, steering them to embarrassing interactions with upper management, etc. until they’re fired.
Really don't think being less tolerant is the answer here. It certainly doesn't help change minds, you're not going to force your beliefs on them.
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It's not false at all. The key words are "right now". You are including numbers from months ago.
The phone book.

It's a public mapping of people and businesses with how to contact them. Any dishonesty would be noticed, because everyone has the same phone book.

Contrast with getting a phone number from $large-company, be it Yelp, Google or otherwise. The only thing stopping them from selling this privilege to an intermediary is their reputation, and clearly where Yelp is concerned, this isn't enough.

One could argue that Google has been exploiting this since the creation of AdWords: they will happily sell the right to advertise on a search for your exact company name to a competitor, a nice income stream which verges on extortion.

It's even possible to deliver personalized dishonest results; applications including search engines know who you are, and can lie to you and only you.

It's certainly possible to be 'mechanically dishonest', but no question that contemporary technology makes it easier and more lucrative.
I don't think the implication that only "bad" people can be blackmailed is valid. You could be blackmailed for being a homosexual in many parts of the US still or doubting the existence of god or having unacceptably conservative political views. We do all sorts of things that are not at all wrong but may carry a significant social or economic cost if they were to be exposed publicly.
I don't know about your country, but in mine (The Netherlands), it is a completely and utterly valid way to enter a contract.

Actually, you are free to enter a contract in any way possible. It is vormvrij (translated: form-free). Excluded is the purchase of a house, as far as I know. But for the rest, you are free to come to an agreement via WhatsApp, Facebook, email, or a scrawl on a piece of paper.
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QAnon proves internet companies aren't up to the task of defending democracy
So Microsoft sent a bogus DMCA takedown request to Microsoft, and the non-profit EFF had to respond to keep Microsoft from suing Microsoft?

Microsoft also has a program for matching employee donations to non-profits, so its likely Microsoft has also given money to the EFF as well.
The tail at the end of the reporting period graph looks like lag, not a sudden drop in death rate.
I reluctantly still use it as my main training log- since about early 2012. The network effects are real, if it's not on Strava it didn't happen.

That said, the segment leaderboards are complete garbage. I really wish they'd make an effort to clean them up. There are sooo many feature requests that have been outstanding for many years.

I guess they have the metrics to back up the "stickiness" and don't feel the need to improve the platform beyond making it more "social". sigh.

Edit: I do also have a TrainingPeaks account for deeper data dives. I just wish Strava would address some of the concerns of it's most passionate users.

Edit2: OMG, did they get rid of the feature request forum??
https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/36007356...
This is great news.

Slightly off topic but its interesting that Moderna's market cap is $38bn and Zoom's market cap is $113bn. Obviously Moderna's vaccination directly saves life's and has much more impact than Zoom. A sign of the times/market we live in.
Western Civilization would not have made it to where it is today without the Scientific Method. Full Stop.

Science™, as it exists today, is a deified Organization, filling the vacuum of religion in the secular West.

Corruption grows under the guise of purity. Be it the Catholic Church, be it Sumo Wrestling. What sentence spoke to the HNer's ear is more unquestionably swallowed than one prefaced with "Scientists report..." ? As if Scientists don't have mortgages to pay. As if funding was entirely detached from motives. Full throated acceptance.
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I think the total cost ended up at around $600, but I really tried to cut down the costs, bought a second hand screen, arcade buttons/joysticks from Aliexpress etc. I also have access to a really nice workshop which of course helped a lot.

Ohh, I don't know, but that sounds like a really interesting project! Mount IR sensors in the cabinet and connect them to the RPi. But I'm not sure about the integration with RetroPie or similar softwares.
Because we don't trust the government agents to provide such guarantees, or to honor them if they do?
Yes, I've been saying for years that there's a fundamental contradiction in the paid search model. If the best content moves to the top organically, it doesn't need to pay, so only the not-best content will pay, which degrades search results. So, Google has perverse incentive to put the best content not at the top so it can force them to pay go get to the top. (The same dynamic applies on FB feeds, although the definition of "best" there is fuzzier.)

The solution is that advertising against algorithmically moderated content should be illegal. It breaks the contradiction because now users will have to pay to get the top content, instead of content providers paying for visibility.
Moderna has the same setup. They just happened to be able and willing to raise huge amounts of money (and play ball with the .gov) to produce it themselves. It's also why Pfizer is claiming they can produce a billion vaccines over the next year while Moderna is only saying they can do 100 million.
QAnon, Pizzagate, Coronavirus is caused by 5G originated from where ???.
IQ tests are universally accepted in psychology as the most robust psychometric ever developed. The idea that IQ tests are "bullshit" is nonsense pop psychology. Some people might try to over-interpret IQ tests as meaning more than what they do, but they are very good at measuring what they measure, and they predict a lot of things.

That said, I agree if you brag about your IQ you're a moron.
Maybe it's due to the fact that most of HN'ers have indoor jobs(or education) and typically work long hours, leading to endemic Vitamin D deficiency.
If they are shutting down, releasing server sources (or the protocol docs) is the least they can do. What's the use of not releasing a codebase for a game that's dead anyway?
Tried WSL2 for webdev, had high expectations for it, but I got disappointed. Docker support is bad and the whole subsystem feels sluggish. All on latest windows build, on a Samsung 970 ssd. I get it, Windows got better i agree, but it's miles away from a Unix experience
> Question is how this gets resolved by Apple

Old Apple would just replace the machines if there was no easy fix. Warranty or not. Not sure if new Apple is still that way.
> It was a comment on the the author's apparent lack of awareness.

I think the author was very aware of what they were doing when they put those two sentences next to each other.
Are you just nitpicking my choice of words or are you going to explain how auto-disappearing messages aren't potentially destroying evidence in the exact same way you've described? As for encrypted messaging, yes it is not the same as "literally" destroying evidence. But it is hiding evidence (based on your logic).

The end result is the same in the context of the claims you previously made. That is: justice is potentially being subverted.
Homosexuality is considered a crime in quite a few countries.
Correct me if I'm wrong, is that not just that this year's total is only 10.25 months of data as compared to prior year's full 12 months?
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How would they actually manufacture this? Camera sensors are basically chips, so they are made out of silicon wafers, right?

If so, can curved wafers be made? Or start with a flat wafer and build up enough layers on top of it so that the surface is curved? Or make several tiny sensor pieces out of flat wafers, put them on a curved surface, and seamlessly connect them together? All of these ideas seem crazy, but they must have some way.
IQ tests don't even attempt to measure any knowledge or skill domains at all. I don't think you understand what an IQ test even measures.
I see this all over the place where companies have outsourced their support to the community and give out levels like this. Netgear and Evernote have similar forums. You get high-level "community helpers" who respond with non-helpful and toxic comments.
The EFF is probably more qualified to respond to this, actually, since they have some of the most experienced lawyers there are when it comes to defending fair-use/free-as-in-freedom works from malicious DMCA notices. Microsoft's best play is just paying them, which other comments indicate they are doing.

The EFF isn't just some non-profit, it's the premier legal entity defending internet freedom. This is squarely in their wheelhouse.
I'm not Alex, but I would assume he means scanning cold data will not evict all the hot data from the cache. This is a common problem with cache eviction algorithms.
I agree with you for the most part, but unless you are organized with a very large group of people, voting with your wallet doesn't really accomplish anything.
Ask HN: Best Development Laptop?
I own a 2016 13" MacBook Pro and I've had endless problems with the keys quite literally falling off the laptop. I had been holding out for Apple to announce their latest lineup of MacBook Pros, but I've been disappointed for numerous reasons.

I'm now beginning to look at other options other than Apple. I quite like the look of the Microsoft 13.5" Surface Laptop as well as the Dell XPS 13, but does HN have any recommendations so far as non Apple laptops go?

Ideally I'm looking for something with SSD storage, 16GB-32GB RAM and ideally a core i7, but all recommendations are welcome.
And a bunch of oil drillers wouldn't be the best people to send to an astroid headed for earth. Since when does Hollywood have to be realistic to be entertaining or good? In fact, making it unrealistic often makes it more entertaining.
Imagine being a mobile developer. Unless you develop exclusively for Android, you're FORCED to own an iOS device.

I'm seriously considering changing my daily driver to a Linux machine, and getting a mac mini strictly for running iOS builds.

Would need to do some work to kick off a build from the Linux machine which deploys the app to the iOS device, but it should totally be possible with xcodebuild command line tool...

I think the general workflow would be:

1) Develop on the Linux machine in Flutter or React Native.
2) Primary day-to-day / hour-to-hour testing device = Pixel.
3) When ready to build on iOS device, network request is made to the Mac Mini, which then kicks of xcodebuild to deploy the build to the device.

Would need some sort of fast file replication tool. And debugging would be a chore.

Uhg.
In a way their value is inversely proportional. Or may turn out to be.
Hey! One of our main goals is to provide a solution that requires minimal setup. It'll be meant more for users who want a better solution than what they get out the box but aren't necessarily looking to take the time to implement the ELK stack.
Zoom allowed Moderna to continue to work during covid. Things are interconnected.
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They're improving the situation on developer certificate revocation checks, but they do still exempt their own apps from the app-specific content filter and VPN extensions, so you won't be able to block those with Little Snitch or similar firewalls.

System-wide VPNs should still tunnel everything, so it's not as much of a security disaster as it sounded like, but I still don't like that. It's my computer, I should be able to firewall whatever I want.
Financial times has been doing this exact analysis country by country / city by city:

https://www.ft.com/content/a2901ce8-5eb7-4633-b89c-cbdf5b386...

They estimate about a 20% increase in deaths so far this year for Sweden.
> Google is fundmentally broken, and has fundamentally broken the web.

Total hyperbole. Google's handling of SEO at worst breaks a web experience that Google created.

> In the old days we had paid search engines

I've been using TCP/IP since 1985. I have been "on the Internet" since 1986. I created the first open website in the Pacific Northwest in 1993. I don't remember ever, not even once, using a paid search engine.
Battery management is in Catalina too JFYI
Sure, I use this one https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/save-webp-as-...
youtube-dl is a networked multimedia swiss army knife supporting many operations and manipulations of audio, video, metadata, and auxiliary content from many video and audio hosting sites and platforms, as well as serving as an access layer for several playback tools, including mps-youtube, mpv, and VLC.
There are efforts to make libinput compete, but maybe a majority of GNU users just don’t care because keyboard-centric workflows (using tiling WMs, etc. so you never have to leave the home row) just feel so much more efficient and ergonomic.
Oh! I see... well... my bad... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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If you look at Sweden in Euromomo, there is a clear spike in mortality in the spring.

https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/#z-scores-by-country
I live in one of those "shitshow" states. And the vast majority of the population here is completely fine with how things are panning out - except maybe the reduced restaurant capacity and part-time schooling - those are pretty annoying. You can't force people to care about things they just do not care about. I acknowledge that some people (legitimately) have different values w.r.t. tradeoffs of dealing with covid. They don't have to be stupid or uniformed or brainwashed to think differently than me. And neither do I or many of those shitshow makers have to be brainwashed or uniformed to think/feel differently than you.
Deaths are a very lagging indicator. Cases are rising in Sweden, assuming some of the new cases tomorrow eventually sadly die, it probably won't be for a month.

https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=gbr&are...
Well, then if you live in one of those countries or plan on traveling through them, you're probably at risk if you're an open homosexual.

If you live in one of those countries and secretly a homosexual, do not send emails indicating that you're a homosexual.

You wouldn't tape your key to your front door.
So, now that the repo is back up, how many of you have pulled a fresh clone of it?
The problem with nuclear energy is that it's 3-4x the price of solar/wind per unit energy[1], and it takes 10+ years to build most reactors.

If you want to cut carbon emissions ASAP it's important to pick the fastest, cheapest zero-carbon solution.

1: https://www.lazard.com/media/451445/grphx_lcoe-02-02.jpg
Is it accurate to say more than 90% of HN readers have seen that movie?
If you want to learn special relativity, I highly recommend this course from Brian Greene:

https://worldscienceu.com/courses/special-relativity-world-s...
Not necessarily. Take in mind that lots of the deaths happened in nursing homes, where tobacco is restricted or frowned upon.
Done right, being less tolerant of speech/behavior that can be detrimental to the common good does change minds for the better. Any "code of conduct" is precisely this: directly calling out detrimental behavior as vile with no tolerance for it. The fact that nearly half of voters in the United States support Trump does not change this.
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[0]: https://i.imgur.com/XGNJumm.png
"X in pi" is an interesting thought experiment, but practically speaking, the least efficient way to do anything, since finding a string of N digits in pi will require a search space exponentially much larger than N on average, so it ends up just being an extremely inefficient encoding. A huffman coding + base32/base64 is a better "databaseless" short URL system.
"Show HN" is for sharing your personal work: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. Is that the case here? If so, please let me know at hn@ycombinator.com and I'll be happy to restore "Show HN" and delete this comment.

I took it out for now because there are other Show HNs in your submission history which make it look like there might have been a misunderstanding of the category.
It is a stereotype, certainly, as a "grouping of people" to define characteristics, is.

Is it offensive? Well, maybe, but that's tact. However, is it true? Bear in mind that an excessively gregious society, and yes there are differences in societies, cultures, might view a more reserved culture as such.

And the real reason I'm responding is, how many "people there are on the streets" is irrelevant, in terms of being 'social' or not. People going places != social. It can equal work, needing supplies, traveling, etc.

I grew up in a small town, population < 1000, in a massively large county (>1000 square km), with barely 15,000 people in it at the time. When I first moved to the city, I would walk down the street and wave at people. People reacted, to my perspective, quite oddly. Some actually shied away, others looked at me as if was a lunatic.

Yet where I grew up, not waving would have been beyond rude. In the city, it was seen as absurd behaviour.

I guess what I'm saying is, Sweden could be quite anti-social, without it being "mean" to say so. It's all perspective.
They’re correcting a wrong because their reputation took a big hit in the dev community. Now there’s big talk of the dangers of not self-hosting your repo and the monoculture of using GitHub.

Although it probably has good intent, this is largely PR.