skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the 7 day average of daily deaths: in Lithuania since Nov 21 it oscillated between 15 and 16, and that started exactly two weeks after the introduction of the measures the growth in the number of deaths stopped. We also know that the deaths are lagging indicator of measures: before people die they have to pass the incubation phase, get sick, get worse and die, which should take a few weeks at least.

Based on that data, I can conclude that the measures do show some effect.

The effect is less observable in the "cases" data, where the daily number of cases indeed grew since 7th, but even there there should be a lag of a little less than a week from the point the measures start (it takes time for the people who were infected before measures to incubate and be able to be tested positive or get sick). Interestingly, that is what we see there: there was growth in 7-day average daily cases until Nov 13, then only on Nov 21 that number gets higher again. Which indeed points to the possibility of measures working less from that point on, but at least the growth since Nov 7 is also obviously lower than it was before, which is also what can be expected if the factor that the newer measures bring is low enough that the speed of the spread is reduced, but not high enough to reverse it.

So there are signs that the measures, as much as they are followed, have some effect, but sadly not enough to reverse the trend.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/lithuania/

Slovenia, on another side, has practically the same amount of daily cases for the last 30 days, when 7 day moving average is calculated, but the equvalent calculation of deaths show flattening only between 17th and 26th, and then there's growth of daily deaths again. As the average number of daily deaths is the statistics which is less influenced by the number of tests performed and it's independent on the success of contact tracing, that shows that in Slovenia the spread is still not under control, and additionally, that the month long flattening of the daily cases could mean that there's a bottleneck in health system -- that relatively fixed number of persons could be processed daily, but that due to the priorities those who are processed are, through the time, the patients with worse conditions, resulting in continuous growth of deaths (and the last is just a hypothesis which can be verified or rejected based on the exact related information from Slovenia).

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/slovenia/
Yes, as far as I've seen the issue explained. I'm not sure though so I'm asking if someone knows for a side-channel that would invalidate my solution.
firefox

options -> language and appearance -> advanced -> uncheck 'Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above'
Mid-August was also half way into "Eat out to help out"[1].

1 - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/get-a-discount-with-the-eat-out-...
If your website has visitors from China, that's one more reason to not use Google Fonts directly - it's blocked for them so your site will look wrong.
Both Firefox and Chrome use their own font rendering, regardless of whether you're using system fonts or not.
True the BNF grammar is easier to read but using lex/yacc doesn't mean easier to read: https://sites.ualberta.ca/dept/chemeng/AIX-43/share/man/info...

I much prefer parser combinators over anything else I've tried that generates code.
I don't see realistic clothing working well for this sort of TV show. Suppose a male lead wore a wig, fine silken cloths, and high heels. That's certainly something you may once have seen in Europe, but I'd assume it would come across as clownish rather than elegant.

There's also some real danger of appearing to parody some culture, particularly with the Dothraki. You're probably safest staying well in the realm of fantasy.
That might be the right approach, thanks for the tip. Maybe somebody else will do a better testing. I just wanted to draw attention to the fact non-smartphones / carriers might / perhaps spy in the same way than apps.
An idealised race to the bottom which just eats into excessive profits would be great. But typically companies want to maintain their margins, so it's the staff that get squeezed, or the service, or the ethics, or all of the above.

And it often ends up warping the market so that choice is removed, a premium economy does not always spring up. To take your TV example, modern mainstream TVs now bundle spyware/malware/adware. Yes the hardware is better than it was, but it is being invisibly subsidised by the reduction in ethical standards. And now none of the major players can now afford not to do it if they want to compete. Is this exactly what people wanted? The market no longer offers allows them to choose and they aren't being fully informed about the implications.

It's really a failing of marketing - being unable to continue to justify the price of a product (whether it was warranted or not).
In my experience it's not about a website being "heavily web-centric" (which I'm not sure I understand to be honest - surely websites are by definition "web-centric"?) it's more about being able to match brand fonts. If sites didn't do that they'd end up feeling pretty weird because the crossover of installed desktop fonts is pretty low: http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html (There used to be a better site with fonts listed by what percentage of Windows and MacOS systems had them installed, but the last time I saw it was a while ago and I can't seem to find it again.)
I do the same. What a sad state the web is such that it is completely worth it to spend a week or two building a whitelist just to make it palatable.
Which epidemiologists are you referring too? It seems even Scientific American can't get information from them.

"One epidemiologist told us the environment was “too toxic” to talk to us, even anonymously."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-covid-science...
That seems a little weird, given that a large Danish study says that masks doesn't reduce your risk of infection in a significant way.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817
>Ideally in my mind: - Employees get convertible debt that is either as senior as investor debt or pays a 5% dividend.

I don't think this is financially realistic. Most employees (especially non C-suite executive employees) do not want to loan money to a startup to receive a "convertible note/debt". Even if employees wanted to loan money, most don't have the discretionary play money in their bank account to risk on a startup.

It's the investors that have the money and risk appetite to pay for convertible notes.

If you meant that employees should receive convertible notes even without paying anything (no loan)... then I think "convertible debt" is the wrong label to describe this transaction that you're proposing.
The timebox has to be enforced on the company side, meaning that you have e.g. 2h to submit your answer once you've opened their link (which you should be free to open at any time, so that you're sure you have the time allotted).
One thing I noticed with nearly everyone, both in the real world and in tv, is that people still don't seem to understand a simple issue: wearing a mask 90% of the time is more or less as good as wearing no mask at all. If you're sitting in a room or flight with a mask but open it to drink water and eat food, you've mostly ruined all the protection you tried to gain with the mask. You only need one drop of yogurt to spoil a vat of milk, this is no different.
I thought it was a bat? Never heard of a pangolin wrt to covid either.
I'm in the same boat (mobile + desktop), and agree.
One needs to overcome the initial setup of the 80% most used sites. When that is done you get way less tweaking uMatrix. Improves speed, responsiveness, privacy, data usage and battery drain for me on my mobile. For quick one off article reads i load the page in Firefox Focus.
Take a look at the data from RKI dashboard for Jena. The number of actively infectious people in April that were not already quarantined is pathetic.

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/478220a4c454480e823...
Many cultures? Where outside of Spain?

Also, I’d associate the bull with anger and power on the bull’s part, because of the breeding and/or natural selection to favor it. The bull is also angry at being penned and possibly maltreated, before being killed.
> My MBP's touchpad is not so bad until I need to drag something, I've noticed I avoid interactions such as resizing that I do all the time with a mouse or a touchpad that has dedicated buttons.

Did you know that you could use a macbook touchpad like it has buttons? I've noticed it with my mother and my girlfriend (separate entities for the record) when I got them a macbook when their windows-based laptops almost died: they couldn't get used to clicking and pointing with the same finger, and fell back to their old habits of having a finger on the bottom left of the pad, and clicking that finger if they wanted to click/drag something.

So it kind-of knows what to ignore and what not to ignore / recognise intent of the user trying to do this.

When you combine this with "bottom right click = right mouse button" you basically have what you want!
12 milllion are set to lose UI after Christmas.

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/02/940695103/millions-face-bitte...
Something like this is really popular, covers most cases and older systems/browsers and even emojis:
`ui-sans-serif,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Segoe UI,Roboto,Helvetica Neue,Arial,Noto Sans,sans-serif,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Noto Color Emoji`

For brand-specific fonts though, I highly recommend cleaning the font files from any characters/features you don't need, and then just serve the (now in many cases MUCH smaller) file directly.
In Firefox, setting gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled to false seems to do the trick. You can verify by visiting https://fonts.google.com/, which looks a bit dull after disabling.
This was my first thought too
What's the advantage of this over existing OCaml parser-combinator libraries? The "Why Use Reparse?" section really sells parser-combinator libraries in general; as far as I can tell, it applies equally to all of angstrom, mparser, opal, and planck.
It was July the lockdown was lifted and pubs and restaurants were reopened. I think that counts as major.
Most free fonts are rather poor quality. Most font designers seem to publish web fonts for free as an advertisement for their services or print font products they sell. As a consequence, while the sample sentence might look great, the feeling when reading is poor. Especially screen optimisation is lacking, which is what distinguishes the usual fonts you get with your OS (like Arial or Roboto) from stuff you would buy for print (like Helvetica). Also, people tend to pick more fancy fonts to set themselves apart, which of course decreases readability even with very good fonts: you can just read fonts faster if you are used to them, uncommon ones slow you down and feel uncomfortable for long texts.
I have a complete opposite experience. I recently switched from Thinkpad t490s to macbook pro 16". I tend to work outside in the mornings and the glare has been driving me crazy. I'd rather have slightly less bright screen but actually see the content instead of my own morning bed-hair!
>>> It is an odd artifact of history that private markets have zero liquidity

This is formally true, but in practice, not so.

I have invested in a bunch of private equities funds over the last 8-10 years and the average life of an operation is about 3 years, which is about what they are aiming for:

>>> They would only have to hold positions for 2–3 years, instead of ten, and could recycle their cash back into early stage startups.

And I'm doing precisely this. Recycling my cash into private equity.
What is the maintenance status of uMatrix? I haven't checked recently, my most up to date info is that Gorhill left it due to too many bogus issues filed on Github.
We'd love to see that project. This past year we introduced a control package:

https://docs.sympy.org/dev/modules/physics/control/

We'd love for this to be improved and grow.
This looks great. Tried it out with two videos and the resulting text seems to cut off around 3500 words.
This is also the Bootstrap approach, they call it the Native font stack.

https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/content/reboot/#native-fon...
A trick I used to get the mask of least significant set bit in a bit mask: `flag = bitmask & (-bitmask)`. Works with two's complement numbers only of course. (and modern architectures have a dedicated command for this)
I'm pretty sure 90% of the people wearing masks don't do it because they're worried about themselves. They do it either plainly for legal reasons or because they believe it help protect others.

If I were that concerned about my own health, I wouldn't be wearing the same unwashed cloth mask for weeks. (I'm vaccinated against a whole bunch of pneumococcus and respiratory diseases)
As a (mediocre) Senior engineer at a London startup i'm on 75k per year + up to 20% annual bonus.

FB/Google/Microsoft seem to be in the 80-100k ballpark for senior engineers.
Isn't that what's already happening in every OS for a very long time?

The problem that web fonts are addressing is that you have the same font across all platforms, so if some OS ship with additional fonts we'd be in the same position as before: Not everyone will have this package as part of the OS and you have an inconsistent look again.
The only real (but small) downside (and just for some of us) is that you can't daisy chain two external monitors to the new M1 laptops. It's true that the mini can use two external monitors connected to separate ports or that you can jump through hoops and use more than two external monitors and that is why it's not such a big deal.
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To be fair that document number 9 doesn't really shows me anything special.
A observable person might see how the west do exactly that same by containing Chinese influences in the anglo-sphere.
You had pompeo calling for a Clean network initiative(potential for western variant of the Great fire wall) banning hardware from "outsiders".
Then you have the formation of the Democracies-10 group you would almost say a modern rendition of the eight nation alliance.

But yeah lets be honest China will usurp the US in Asia, and most probably in central and west Asia with the help from Russia and Iran.
Its kinda hard to hide your strength and bide your time when your building multiple carrier fleets, Can't really unsee that.

Its not for Taiwan to say its a sovereign state, nobody maybe except some in the Anglo-sphere will risk their trade relations with China.
If that is possible for region to proclaim itself as a sovereign state, it will unleash some chaos in the west giving precedence for Scotland, Catalonia,
the donbas region etc to also seperate from their current configuration.
Well, TIL about it being a container. But do they really contain an identical amount of information for font rendering? I'm no font expert, but I do know that you can have more or less information in a font file that affects how it's rendered.
The disadvantage of that is that i3 is not aware of a window's
contents. A terminal multiplexer however knows what the current
working directory in each terminal pane is, and if you open a
new split it can be automatically set to the same path. This
makes the whole process a little bit smoother.
I love text, and I love IPC.

I hate what 1970s terminal culture does to both.

Why can’t we have modern text-driven interfaces* that are both parsimonious and elegant? The mighty Knuth gave us TeX 40 years ago, and our hardware has long since passed the point where doing the job right demands a significant number of cycles (even with the clattery mess that is Unicode standard), so there really isn’t any excuse for such awful regressive primitivism now.

Because I don’t care that OP’s workflow works well for OP; I care about workflows that work better. For everyone.

/cynical idealist

--

* Traditionally “text-driven interface” means keyboard-driven, but if you aren’t paying attention to the rise of spoken words then you’re missing the next great opportunity to open up computing to all 8Bn of your fellow humans.
But published authors don't have control over who gets to see their work -- only who gets to profit from it (distribution rights, not use rights).
>If you replace a big party with 100 people, with ten smaller parties with ten people, you probably end with a similar amount of infections

I don't think that is a correct conclusion. It doesn't behave linearly.

"We can think of disease patterns as leaning deterministic or stochastic: In the former, an outbreak’s distribution is more linear and predictable; in the latter, randomness plays a much larger role and predictions are hard, if not impossible, to make. In deterministic trajectories, we expect what happened yesterday to give us a good sense of what to expect tomorrow. Stochastic phenomena, however, don’t operate like that—the same inputs don’t always produce the same outputs, and things can tip over quickly from one state to the other."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k-overloo...
After exactly year of using it, I moved back to Notion, even though I have Roam for free. Thanks to Roam's hype they have backlinks now (+ it's possible now to create new page in another page/db with "[[", that will leave only link/mention to that new page), which means both structured and flat zettelkasten-style notes (done in some master notes DB) are possible, plus regular DBs and all of the other cool stuff. This is a complete solution for me, all of my notes are much better organised now. And yes, I know, Roam has much more features than backlinks, I was using all of them, queries and block references, and sidebar, and ..., but for real work I'm not missing anything else than a sidebar. Sidebar is the best part of Roam IMO, even Obsidian with their multipane can't compete with that. With Notion I can open new tab in browser or new window in desktop app and keep it side-by-side and it's ok too, not as good and fast experience as with Roam, but good enough.
Blind peer review should be pretty obvious to anyone from an academic background anyway. Asking for reviewers names from a publisher would be an outrageous request.
Keep in mind that these are two slightly different things. Masks might not reduce your personal risk of infection, but they might reduce the risk of you infecting others. In either case, you would see a reduction in the total amount of transmission.
Categorically not true in Firefox in default settings, usually disabled by websites in Chrome by using the CSS property "text-rendering: optimizeLegibility" (unless you are somehow in macOS which in this case the default preference is to optimize for precision systemwide anyway).
Why was this not implemented as a smartphone app ? Even if it is meant to used in kiosk mode, cost should not be a factor as < 50$ phones are available.
The first time I was realizing the phone listens to the conversations was Christmas eve, when talking about gifts. One gift came from a global brand. Next day I saw the ads. I didn't googled for sure for that brand on my end nor posted anything on social media. And on my parents' end, who received the gift, I'm pretty sure their internet skills are not enough for a brand search.

Anyway, I don't want to convince anybody here, I might be pretty wrong. Just helping others who might have the job to verify all these findings.
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Many fonts really do look nice. I have shamelessly "stolen" .woff-files wherever I could find them and the license allowed it. I think Google fonts are all free to download, but don't quote me on that.

I am usually inclined to vendor dependencies on the web. Not an ideal solution but I don't like dependencies on CDNs, even if they are indeed very reliable. But apart from making sure the set has symbols for special characters you might need, it is pretty safe to do so in case of fonts and maybe even advantageous.

Also bought some fonts from other services as there are quite cheap compared to the huge amount of work going into their creation.
They just want people to be annoyed to the point where they click "Accept All" button, which they conveniently highlighted several times next to near invisible "Reject All" button, without thinking.

We need a law to make dark patterns like this illegal.
They also don't work with, well, Chinese or most of the Asian languages for that matter. Also most of the population in Asia don't consume the web in English. So you are definitely not missing 1/5th of the world just because your fonts don't render the same, you are missing them because of no localization.
I think this concept is overblown. Even when floppy disks were common, the depiction of a floppy disk as an icon on a button required a bit of thought (or experience/training) to understand that it meant “save this file somewhere (maybe on a floppy disk).” It’s not like the icon automatically meant “save this file somewhere that you will choose” simply because people were more familiar with floppy disks.
The packages in SymPy that help you do this are:

sympy.physics.vector (https://docs.sympy.org/dev/modules/physics/vector/index.html

and

sympy.physics.mechanics (https://docs.sympy.org/dev/modules/physics/mechanics/index.h...)

You can ultimately simulate and visualize dynamical systems:

https://pydy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/multidof-holo...
> facemasks were plentiful in China but almost impossible to get in the US

That wasn't a coincidence.

> Just after the lockdown of Wuhan in January, the same week the U.S. confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus, Chinese civic organizations in dozens of countries on five continents began buying masks and other personal protective equipment.

> In Nagoya, Japan, volunteers drove to pharmacies and bought 520,000 masks in three days, according to an account carried by Xinhua, China’s official news agency. By Jan. 26, the head of a Chinese chamber of commerce in Toronto, just back from a trip to Beijing, started making calls to members telling them they needed to join the effort, the report said. Almost 100 people drove to Toronto—some overnight, on icy roads—and were dispatched to buy supplies. Planes out of Kenya and Milan were packed with boxes and suitcases filled with PPE bound for China. An overseas Chinese association in Argentina sent some 25,000 masks within a week of receiving the request.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-17/behind-ch...
> SPARC is supposedly alive under the OpenSPARC project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSPARC).

My impression is that OpenSPARC is dead. Nobody is working on it any more. (Someone tell me if I'm wrong.)

There is also the open-source SPARC-based LEON radiation-hardened processor line favoured by the European Space Agency, but I think they are looking at moving to RISC-V in the future.

Not only is OpenSPARC dead, I get the impression that "ClosedSPARC" is pretty dead too. After M8, Oracle laid off their CPU design team, there will be no successor to SPARC M8. Fujitsu was going to continue on, but, rumour has it, that they tried to buy SPARC off Oracle but couldn't reach a deal (probably Oracle was asking for too much money) and after that they've decided to move away from SPARC towards ARM. So I doubt their latest SPARC CPU (SPARC64 XII) is going to have a successor either.

POWER/AIX is a different situation from SPARC/Solaris. Unlike Oracle, IBM is continuing to invest and we can expect new iterations in the future.

(I used to work for Oracle, but not in the Systems area, and this isn't any non-public info, just stuff I've heard since I left.)
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Sadly, pip 20.3 seems to have broken docker builds in one of my projects. The symptom is that the pip install seems to hang indefinitely (>40000 seconds). I switched back to 20.2 for now.
Cuba and EU.