skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are COVID deaths preventable? They generally haven't been and still aren't. Especially given that so many deaths labelled COVID deaths are of people who were about to die anyway and the COVID label took priority over other causes.

All lockdowns were ever meant to do originally was temporarily delay the inevitable to ensure everyone got a hospital bed if they needed one, to give their bodies a better chance. But hospitals were never overwhelmed or even at any risk of being overwhelmed: the places that didn't lock down and saw incidence curves the same as everywhere else have now proven that. So in the end they had no real health impact in the positive direction, yet they've definitely killed people. In the UK about half of all excess death in the first wave wasn't even COVID related, let alone COVID caused. That's the human price of government mandates.
The FTC, FCC, and Fed

DHS, CPB, USCIS

The NBA, NFL, and NHL

MLB, MLS
I would say a fully exposed piece of film is not really a photograph any more, or perhaps we can discard it as a "trivial" case.

On the other hand, there is certainly a surveillance camera somewhere quietly humming along for way longer than this, and you could make a photograph by simply averaging all the video frames.
>The Maghreb followed Abrahamic religion for 1600 years, more or less, actually. The god we prayed to didn't change from Rome, the Vandals, Byzantium, Arabs, and Turks.

Most European languages stem from the same base Indo Euroupean language. And a still a German can't understand a Frenchman or a Slav. Even though Islam has the same roots as christianity it is a totally different religion with an even more different set cultural norms.

>The language didn't change either. Most people spoke Berber languages for 2000 years. Even now there are towns where you can't get by with Arabic well.

I would say the arabic language, which is the dominant language of the area (72%), is quite different from the berber language(27%).

>It's fine if you don't know the difference between
pre-modern invasions and colonization, and it's fine if you don't really understand the history of the region, but by god don't use that to justify imperialism which killed tens of millions of people."

I'm disappointed and expected more from you than lowly accusations of me supporting colonialism.

>In any case, ask yourself this. Why is it that two Africans became emperors of Rome, but that Africans never led modern European powers, nor were even allowed to vote? Ask yourself that, and you will understand the distinction between the two.

Septimius Severus was half Roman and half Punic, so not Berber. Also his successor, his son Caracalla has even less to do with the people of Northern Africa. By the time Severus became roman emperor, some parts of North Africa have been under the roman empire for 300 years. France has a lot of citizens of North African descent today who have the same rights as any other citizen with a different origin.

>Not only that, but almost half of the Maghreb was never even invaded by the Ottomans, and even then it was De Jure, and not De Facto, mostly. Same for the Vandals and the Byzantines.

>So no, your analysis is incorrect. Additionally, it's very well known that pre-modern war was much less bloody.

Hacking somebody apart with a sword is not something I would call less bloody. You seem to be under impression that the rulers always changed peacefully without any wars, battles, destruction of cities, persecutions, etc. I'm sure that after 200 years of any new ruler things settled down and life when on, maybe even better that before, but before that things were pretty bad and ugly.
> Puzzling that ecommerce sites have not set up proper CSP on their checkouts

CSP is usually added as an afterthought and after the fact of an attack. Yes, it's great at weeding out XSS, but it's a grossly underused and underimplemented feature.
Take advantage of the fact that, right now, all (software engineering) jobs are remote, for (pretty much) all companies. Even when the pandemic is over, many companies will keep the remote model as they had the chance to see its advantages -- or at the very least they will be open to be flexible when hiring remote engineers.

In other words, keep applying using the traditional methods (LinkedIn, standard job sites), and during interviews try to explore what are the company's long-term views on remote work.
Can you be more specific as to what workloads you arecomparing? I find methodical comparisons quite scant. Anandtech has one page that includes the Ryzen 7 4800U and Ryzen 9 4900HS[0] for some synthetic integer/floating point benchmarks. In many cases the Apple Silicon M1 outperforms the Ryzen 7 4800U and in several it outperforms the Ryzen 9 4900HS. It's a bit difficult to extract from that how well they compete across all workloads, but it looks like they are quite comparable.

(And this is from someone who spends a lot of time trying to correct the misconception that the M1 outperforms all competitive processors.)

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...
The budget to win is the cost of the game.

If you're an aesthetics whore, welp.
I'm not very familiar with Dropbox, but I would not be surprised if both were in fact wrong.

In the closest strategy to what slack did, one would define a main product and then optimize away any prototype bloat. As far as I observed, Slack's clients stayed pretty awful and they were trying to do Dropbox's strategy without success.
Remember that scripting in CSS actually used to be a thing - IE used to have 'behavior' and 'expression' properties that would load external scripting code or execute inline JavaScript.

'behavior' was commonly used to fix some PNG-transparancy issues in early IE versions (pngfix.htc) and 'expression' was a much more powerful (and dangerous) version of current 'calc'.
Perhaps people should refrain from using the term "un-American" for a while. That term didn't age well during the last 4 years. It doesn't mean anything right now.
https://nitter.net/rebecca_vincent/status/133744813184425574...
If reducing emissions is good for economic growth, then why is government action necessary to enforce it?
The point of QALYS analysis is that yes, even though it sounds harsh we should in fact care less about a 90 year old with multiple severe problems who's going to die in the next few months no matter what mountains are moved for them, than a healthy 25 year old working in a flagship tower who was looking forward to a full and happy life.
Coming from another language that uses articles to English, I don't generally find the rules that difficult. It's probably a case of it being very hard to internalize a grammatical category that just doesn't exist in your native language(s) .

For example, for me it was very hard initially to get used to always explicitly putting in the subject of a sentence, because i my native language the subject is often implied (our verbs vary a lot more than in English, so saying 'I wash the dishes' - 'eu spăl vasele' instead of 'wash the dishes' - 'spăl vasele' is redundant, the verb form already tells you it's me who is doing the washing).
The article is essentially nonsense. Entanglement cannot transmit arbitrary information. At best, it can provide remote synchronization. E.g. my photon collapsed to a 0, therefore I know my partner's photon is a 1. We will execute Playbook A.

Also, nothing teleported. The photon in question was sent via a laser.
It's funny to me there is a dead comment answering you question. Wish I could unflag it. EDIT: Found out how to. Why flag a comment that's answering a question?
Very insightful post.

Just want to add that trying to analyse away any fear, uncertainty, and doubt one feels is a mugs game.

If you find something you enjoy working on, keep doing it.

If you don't, still keep doing stuff and enjoy the act of "doing stuff".

To pause is the little death that leads to total obliteration (with apologies to Frank Herbert)
Richard Feynman's famous conclusion to his report on the shuttle Challenger accident, which arose again in the Columbia accident: "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
This isn't a contradiction at all. GP is saying it isn't proven to protect others. Your CDC quote says it "may" protect others.

I don't know the actual science here - but they could very well have zero evidence that it protects others and still correctly say that getting the flu vaccine may protect others.
It's always good for a VPN to deny any information about the customer to a server, I would imagine that's not what was referred to as sketchy. Making a user indistinguishable from a typical user from country X is just the VPN doing its job correctly.

It seems, however, that at least some VPN providers use their customers' bandwidth without their knowledge to route other customers through it. I'd say that qualifies as sketchy.

Although on an entirely personal level, I'm not a fan of stuff like going through VPN to use Disney+. I think people should ideally either not watch or pirate geoblocked content. Consuming geoblocked content through VPNs is basically letting such companies get away with discrimination and still get your money.
couldn’t find a reference to laser in the article; where did you read this?
> You mean: spend untold hours scripting and recording interactions that give you about 10% of capabilities of a modern IDE.

For information, not all vim users are trying to reimplement the capabilities of a modern IDE in vim.

Some of us are just fine with vanilla vim/vi (and derivatives) because we are comfortable enough with the *nix environment [1] and don't need IDEs' fancy GUIs and integrations with stuff such as code completers, repls, debuggers, tag browsers, linters, etc.

In my opinion if one needs the full capabilities of a modern IDE right in their editor one should go with a modern IDE.

Trying to turn vim into a modern IDE with a zillion of plugins and glue scripts is a leisure activity and a time sink. Or just for the people who want to look cool [2].

I think this is the mindset you are criticizing.

[1]: Read: Already "spent untold hours" in the past, for better or worse

[2]: This is not bad per se. How are we going to impress nerdy girls otherwise? Your development environment doesn't always have to be about "work". Some people are also understandably after a certain kind of "hacker aesthetics". I mean looking at Idea's interface you can't feel like Neo entering the Matrix. Who cares about productivity??
I picked 80 because it was 4 times the 20% we already got. I wasn't really trying to be accurate, I think we'd need to look at an exponential as the R value drops as the already infected rate goes up? Not sure... :)

Isn't the R0 for "no restrictions" something like 15? So I'd guess we'd need 93%? But I also have seen figures from 50 to 95% quoted for herd immunity so who knows?
would you say that a significant fraction of people in any culture agree that there are many activities for which drinking and then doing that activity would be considered risky?
There’s an interesting technique to spy for key presses. Basically you have to use a custom font where each character loads from a different font URL. Browser will issue corresponding requests as you press your buttons. It won’t detect identical characters but it might steal enough to brute force the rest. And it works with no JS.
Masks don't work at all so your whole premise is false, and there's a lot of lying about this unfortunately. Here's just one example:

https://twitter.com/uncivengin/status/1337536854753595399/ph...

If mask mandates worked, they'd have a clear impact on incidence graphs. Many such graphs exist, none show any impact whatsoever - not even a small one.

https://rationalground.com/mask-charts/

Nobody wants to throw up their hands and admit defeat. But the people who don't wear masks aren't "insane" as you put it. Rather ironically, the cliché definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over whilst expecting different results, isn't it? Mask mandates have been implemented everywhere and there are no results to show for it, which makes continuing them the insane act. It's certainly not immoral or unethical for people to not wear a mask, any more than it is for someone not to wear a cross around their neck.
Yes I remember people coding their whole website using expression()
But you still need an ipv4 address even if it’s only 10% of people who are ipv4 only.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EEyUeCyXl1Q
old click bait and i fell for it! thanks
The public interest is that interoperability standards should not require patented technology at all to implement. The point of an interoperability standard is to allow a broad ecosystem with many producers and many consumers. Here many producers of videos, many producers of video-processing and video-displaying technology, many consumers of these videos and associated technology. The public interest is that the ecosystem should be vibrant, with easy access to new participants and low barriers to entry.

So, in the public interest, go Lenovo! Especially considering the slime-ball tactics that Nokia apparently used here.
You're completely ignoring the second half of my comment.
The HP-35
I want to make my own but where can i get photographic paper?
It's probably the actual physical metal laryngoscope that is the cause of the throat pain, and not the tube itself. The laryngoscope is used to pry open the throat so the vocal chords can be clearly sen. It's not violent but there is significant force involved and a slight mistake can get a tooth knicked. This visibility is needed so that an air tube can be inserted between the vocal chords to secure the airway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laryngoscopy#/media/File:Macin...
Fibonacci numbers as sum of binomial coefficients
My father independently discovers that Fibonacci numbers can be calculated with sum of binomial coefficients. I went online and find that it was already discovered in 19th century by Édouard Lucas :)
His discovery is just as original as Lucas's.
Life expectancy at birth and life expectancy at 70 are two completely different things.
The current strain is very common. If you haven't noticed, it's actually a pretty big problem.
Because the quantum teleportation protocol requires the transmission of classical information in order to complete it. It's really a bogus label. Nothing physical is being teleported. It's just a way of using two classical bits to move a qbit from A to B.
> Wonder if there could be a shell tool to just dump the first stackoverflow hit for a search.

There should be. I think `curl cheat.sh/programming+question` does that. There might also be a way to do that with surfraw. I just use DuckDuckGo, it almost always pops up an Stack Exchange answer in the sidebar when I search for something relevant to an SE.
The only benefit that quantum entanglement provides is the agreement of a key over a distance. Communication itself would be "normal", i.e. EM.
Given a limited supply of vaccine and the order it will be administered, I don't understand how airlines can entertain this policy.
Since FB isn't a porn website I'd assume they do. A similar question would be, does facebook remove defamation/libel/videos (or profiles) of you or impersonating you etc.
That is exactly what it is. The only reason it's a thing at all is that the state being moved is a quantum state and quantum states can't be copied.
Well it's a stupid point. Why argue on here if you think there's no path forward? You're not contributing anything.
I work with low code aka Salesforce. Have been doing it for nearly 6 years. Apart from some abstractions on integrations( eg. Dell Boomi, Mulesoft), anything a bit more complicated requires proper development. After a year of using low code only options I was like "screw this,I need to learn programming", to do all the complex stuff I want to do. There a lots of ready baked UI components that can be used to build stuff but we are nowhere close to what some less technical people may think. It's still lots of JS, Python,or Java behind all those fancy abstractions.
Yep, literally! Programmer's Workbench...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PWB/UNIX
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Tests show why QuantumScape solid-state battery has serious backing
On the bright side it’s still possible to make a living shipping professional code with simple script dev tags, for now.
A better way to look at it is that a key is agreed upon, but not known, when the particles are entangled. When it collapses, you can read the key. The information, the key itself, still travels bounded by light speed from the point of entanglement. You cannot "write" over the entangled particles so this does not provide instantaneous communication.
I appreciate your enthusiasm but we're still not there. The videos look almost perfect, with "almost" still oscillating around the uncanny valley. Self-driving cars are almost totally self-driving and are almost not killing people. GPT3 uses fluent English and can be used to generate almost meaningful content in most contexts. Speech recognition progressed enormously and can be used to transcribe most well-pronouncing native English speakers in favorable circumstances. It seems like we're slowly getting there, but the last mile is the hardest to finish.

For many companies this is not a problem because they can afford not to care. When you operate at the scale of Google, you can not afford not to use some form of ML to detect abuse, and you don't care about false positives because they're meaningless at this scale - you just get a couple of grumpy folks complaining they lost their accounts. But when you do something more meaningful, for example translation, you can't depend on machine translation - you can very well use it for the first draft, but if you delivered it to your client in that form, you'd be laughed at and you'd quickly be out of business. So yes, great advancements, still far from being there.
I tend to use Keyboard Maestro to automate stuff like this, or Puppet if I can be bothered. I’m not seeing how this has much benefit over those approaches (although I’m aware this may sound like a “why use DropBox when you can just use rsync and and a Linux server” type of comment.)
This has been observed long ago, and is known as Brooks's Law [0].

Building software is a knowledge business, and there are three types of knowledge involved:

1. Subject knowledge: understanding of the subject the software is about (e.g. accounting when building accountancy software).
2. Platform knowledge: understanding of the platform used to build the software (e.g. Python, SQL, React etc).
3. Architecture knowledge, which is what the parent is talking about: understanding of the specific choices made in the development, being aware of all the Chesterton's Fences [1] etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...
How to Reliably Scale Your Data Platform for High Volumes
Thanks for the encouragement! I think I found your username in our DB, and I've added extra bandwidth credits to your account :)
How to Build a Global Network That Complies with Local Law
Simplo batteries breaking MacBook logic boards?
With many millions of people intentionally disregarding simple low-cost precautions and unecessarily exposing themselves now, the population doesn't seem a good case for rolling out an experimental vaccine en masse.
Exactly. ELI5 is that quantum teleportation is (sadly) a marketing phrase. It is 2020 and such phrases as "teleported an object" are simply a mischief.
Previous submissions and discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25397833

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25397787

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25397630

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25396760

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25396056

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25393783

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25392966

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25392695

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25391797

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25391450

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25391319 (3 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25391065

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25390960

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25390941 (129 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25389209 (3 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25389164 (2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25387216 (8 comments)

There will probably be others that I've missed.
Information is the result of an interpretation, not the data you try to share with a distant interpreter.

As current widely admitted interpretation of red shift tell us, there are star moving away from us at a pace faster than speed of light, due to time-space inflation.

And finally, one possible interpretation of quantic intrication is that the change reflected on two distant objects is that there are actually the same object on some dimension which we can't grab with our tools.

None of these invalidate the idea of a maximum speed for all objects along a given dimension of a stable space.
I find it very interesting though
The Christchurch shooter and YouTube’s radicalization trap
"Seriously, just look at videos of people bullying "defaults" on Fortnite"

Well, but thats the beauty of a shooter game. If theres some moron fixed on style trying to bully, you can just shoot him and enjoy his whining. Knowing that cosmetics are no match for skills.

And about spending in general:

I believe that is a valuable skill to be learned as early as possible, don't you think?

So if a kid spends all his pocket money for the month on day 1. There is opportunity to learn.

(and if he spends all his parents money, then there is opportinity for the parents to learn)
This person specifically said it was the pfizer vaccine.
Lasers are mentioned in the linked arXiv paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00934
Accidental Observations
This is kinda hilarious.

EA could very well be responsible, but I can equally imagine poor sports taking "this game is rigged" so far as to sue the gaming company just to sooth their egos.
Sid Meier also worked with the Firaxis folks on the recent XCOM reboot and this is well known and documented now how the stats work out in the game and how the game will cheat for the player eventually on lower difficulties.

Nothing more frustrating than lining up shots perfectly and missing a 98% point blank shot from 2 feet away. I’ve always wondered what that 2% could be - gun jams, the character slips on a banana peel, who knows?
Maybe during the "flash" era, but as a consistent user of elinks, it has always made the web much more readable to me.
Ex-Cisco employee who crippled WebEx conferences gets 2 years
This is going to start to change: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25395278
It’s worse than that. You have a pair of photons. You have no idea what state they are in because they aren’t. You send me one. You cannot influence if I’ll get it in the 1 or the 0 state. All you can do is later measure your photon and see what state it’s in and that will tell you what state my photon is in. It won’t let you transmit information IIUC and it won’t let you travel faster than light. It might help with time sync (when I measure my photon yours collapses instantly so we can synchronize an event), or synchronize some arbitrary key material: you send me a bunch of photons and then measure yours. I now know exactly what bits you have because they are the opposite of mine and we can use that for cryptography. I know that nobody snooped on this because any measurement would have collapsed the photons.
Is there an alternative to Electron that uses Gecko instead of Blink/WebKit?
I wouldn't call LoL unfair. If you're in elo hell means you're bad. If they match you with slightly better players, you'll drag them down, if you are matched with players way better than you, you'll be carried to victory without doing anything.