skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That >100% of beds can be occupied with COVID should raise some questions about those stats.

ICU beds are flexible, it's more of a designation than a hard constant. Sweden doubled their ICU capacity in a few weeks without much difficulty back in March. So it's normal for ICU to run near "capacity" because it'd be kind of wasteful if it didn't.

Remember also that "COVID patient" means "patient who tested positive for COVID", it doesn't mean that's the primary thing wrong with them. Hospitals are super-spreading sites, lots of patients turn up for something uninfected and pick up COVID in hospital. So the stats have to be interpreted carefully, even if you accept the premise that poor planning in the hospital system is justification to tell people they can't go outside. Also consider that COVID spreads inside, not out!
2020’s surprising top three marketing trends (TV is up, smartphones are down)
I've used Android for the past decade, but I'm very strongly considering switching to iPhone because of Apple's pro-privacy moves in iOS over the past year (and also because they are the only manufacturer to make a phone that fits the human hand).
> So you need to understand how it is different. And you need to be disciplined about quoting

Or I can use a sane language that let's me get my stuff done faster and with less opportunities to shoot myself in the foot.
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Making an EV is easy. I can buy a Power Wheels EV for $400.

Making a good EV is hard. The set of technologies required is still unknown -- bear with me for a little bit.

In the early days of the PC; anyone competent could make a perfectly competitive computer in their own garage in a few months, buying chips, etching PCBs, and coding up a basic operating system. Wozniak did that, as did a few others. It seemed like it'd be simple forever, but it wasn't. Today, the tech tree to make something like a MacBook is long, wide, and extensive. There's a massive engineering team for the mechanical design alone, let alone the OS or the CPU. I can still make a computer, but it won't be competitive.

Same thing happened with airplanes; shortly after the Wright Brothers, all sorts of amateurs made basic planes on their farms. It's still possible to do that, but you won't be competitive with an Airbus jetliner.

Early radios were a few vacuum tubes. Compare that to making a modern cell phone.

Part of the reason ICE vehicles are complex are the same process. The first mass-produced ICE vehicle, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, was pretty simple. It cost under $5000 in today's dollars ($150 at the time), and looked like a glorified tricycle with an engine.

If you throw engineers at tech, it goes up in sophistication. People figure out how to do things better. Anyone can make an EV. I'm confident, though, that we'll see the same progression as we did in every other fields. If Tesla has enough of a head start making things cheaper and better -- and they seem to -- it's unlikely the established players will be able to compete.
Indeed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415052

Is an example of a self-fullfilling prophecy. Bad words aren't used because they are bad. They are not used to game the system and hence become bad words....

...Sorry, English is not my native tongue.

The industry described here is heavily degraded and removed from reality, it is a sorry mix of gambling, lying and posing. It was predictable they would swallow AI systems for their "work" like their lives depend on it. This is blind faith, you could use a prophet to do the same.

There would be no net negative effect if it vanished overnight aside from slower price building. Regulation could do so much here compared to rules for advertisement or AI itself.

This is actually a topic about bias, since people use tech for self-validation to a large degree.
Kate isn't a particularly good editor and it's scripting language is quite lacking.

The reasons both Emacs and Vim have a Qt version as well instead of purely relying on a terminal protocol are obvious:

- ability to have fonts of different sizes

- ability to listen to more complicated keyboard shortcuts

- cleaner ways of opening popups

- ability to combine multiple fonts

- support for more colors

The downside of such a more complex protocol is that it's more involved to tunnel it over a network and doing attaching to X11 is also quite a bit more complicated than doing it to a terminal program.
If my memory does not fail me, you can do by night train: Bucharest (underrated!)-budapest-vienna-prague
All are nice cities.
Or even six years ago if chaperoned by her parents.
Cute bezel, but for not much more you can get a full Android 10 tablet with an eink screen.

And for like $220 less you can get a whiteboard and take 30 seconds to write your meeting times on it.
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Communication is key. Once you've started working on something and it looks like it might not work out or take a lot longer than expected, discuss this with your manager and find out how they would like you to proceed.

My approach is to make my case for why I should keep working on a particular thing (especially if I feel strongly about it and/or confident I can make it work given enough time), but ultimately respecting their decision. I find this works well.

The cases where I've spent weeks/months on something are either where I was in charge of the project (during grad school, and later as an indie developer), or as an employee where my manager considered the task to be of sufficient importance to the business to continue down the path, even if it means spending more time or trying a few different approaches until I find one that works. This is especially the case with research-oriented projects where you don't know where a path is going to lead until you go down it.
Yet that's exactly what happens. No one is "on" or at 100% intensity all the time. Ditch diggers take breaks, so do people in cubicles. It's OK.
Your first comment was certainly implying that its the norm:

> I can tell you right now, police in rural areas absolutely _are_ looking for any and every excuse in the book to pull you over, search your vehicle, and question you far more intensely than the situation warrants.

As was the root comment in this thread:

> In these towns, if you have out-of-state plates, you will regularly be pulled over for doing 5mph below the speed limit. You can expect a dog to sniff around your car if the patrol has one.

That's what I'm disputing here, not the injustice of CAF when it happens. Even people who oppose civil asset forfeiture (including me) still feel comfortable traveling throughout the nation.
> But I'm sure heating can be accomplished without chopping down trees at all. Through solar, for instance.

In a perfect world, yes.

But this is the problem with conservation work in poor countries. 1.7% of US energy generation comes from solar [1], so going to Madagascar and saying "hey, you should be using solar instead of chopping down trees" rings a little hollow.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
Perhaps a content blocker decided to hide it for you? I see a visible, default-unchecked checkbox with the label “I want to receive email updates about Mozilla’s campaigns”, directly above the “Add My Name” button.
The bar associations around the country almost always focus on financial improprieties - think comingling or mishandling client money, all the way to straight up swindling. The most reliable way to get disbarred isn't being an incompetent lawyer but to simply screw with your firm's finances. That's because financial misdealings are at least more or less objective and can be recorded and traced. There really isn't a good way to measure a lawyer's actual competency, considering that some of the best lawyers I know lose most of their cases and get the most bar complaints - because they are county public defenders in a system that is massively tilted against them. In fact I would hesitate to judge the frivolity of any particular case without all of the facts and evidence being presented, by nature of the work, and ultimately the courts, not the bar association, are the more responsive gatekeeper here, with the power to act as such if necessary (https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_11). The reason they don't do it more is because courts tend to recognize that lawyers ultimately aren't independent actors but rather driven by their client's interests, which they ethically must zealously represent.

Onus is really on the clients bringing the suit. Anti-SLAPP laws have at least been somewhat effective on an individual level in states that enacted them, so laws can disincentivize client intentions in some cases at least. I have no idea what would actually work in the case at hand though.
IMO Pine64 is more privacy respecting than Apple. I don't have to send them an email address to install software and I don't have to send them my drivers license to be allowed to compile it.
The most important thing about this story is the fact that there is in this world a man called Jacques Vroom.
Is SwiftUI open source?
Second that. I hear back my own voice, it drains the battery and the connection is almost always choppy.

I wanted to be able to use Signal to replace whatsapp, telegram and FB messenger. I've convinced some of my friends to install it, but none of them are happy with it.

On both mobile and desktop sometimes messages take hours to appear and on mobile it reserves ~2GB of storage for no apparent reason.

I trust that people behind Signal are brilliant got the security right, but the UX is simply not there yet.
Client side is the first answer, but is there a second? Is there a way to peer review a piece of code that can run in a 3rd party container (peer review and cryptographically signed), such that the actual container running the code is encrypted itself and can run anywhere?

I am imagining you download the "container", put the data in, encrypt the container with the data inside, and have that run anywhere.

But I have no idea if that is possible.
Consider: my team owns a public-facing website for AWS and relies on a number of back-end services to support it. We occasionally face DoS attacks. And sometimes, they can get past our various security measures to prevent them.

By everyone else having quotas on how often I can call their systems, they protect every other client they have. They protect customers who are using anything other than my website. Otherwise, someone could take down all of AWS by spamming just one system. I want them to throttle me, quota me, because I want to protect other customers if I get compromised.

And even if it's one internal system calling another, it's better to have protection at every layer than to try to only have it on the outer layer.

This can burn us, of course. We're always growing, and quotas need to be managed (automatically or manually). It all has to be done carefully.

Edit: as always, I speak for myself and not for AWS in any official capacity. I'm mabbo, not jeffbar :)
How do you propose to target ads without mining peoples' data?
Indeed, so that’s why it’s basically a nation state venture even if private corporations are part of it. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea, but socialized risk should mean socialized profits too.
Thanks for sharing your exp, very valuable. You could actually write a book maybe.
From what I can tell 70% of drug marketing budget is about persuading doctors and not consumers so I don't see how your example applies. In fact it just shows that companies will find a way to spend marketing money to influence people given enough ROI even if they can't target consumers directly.
Anyone else find the link underline CSS to be distracting? My brain sees it as a strikethrough due to it being high up like that, sort of messes with the reading flow.
It should be pushd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" >/dev/null 2>&1

not cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" >/dev/null 2>&1

with a matching popd at the end

Otherwise it can screw up parent scripts
Wow, having a business in Russia for 6 years I can attest.

Putin orders hit jobs with ease and arrests anyone he pleases.
they also don't encrypt when laws actually enables to encrypt...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

Besides, haven't facebook and google got ban from China because for not compiling with Chinese law?
Well yes, but to compare law degrees and computer science degrees: if a big legal battle is corporate pen-testers trying to hack an internal team’s security, my legal knowledge is someone who knows that CDs are different from USB sticks but can’t tell the difference between CDs and DVDs.

To put it another way: imagine all you knew about computers came from watching films and CSI? That’s basically where I’m at with law.
Honestly, your cheapest bet is to buy a used Kindle. Serve your information as a web page over your WiFi and access it using the built in web browser.
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Agreed, we should be careful not to champion them as the saviours of consumer privacy just because they have lately been marketing themselves as an improvement over Google and Microsoft.
Exactly. Or even stricter. I've finally made a self-contained helper for that: https://gist.github.com/fillest/8d64f8fa0cdb1745bfc9c683cf39...
Pure Bash is really not needed since we have Python 3.
Well, there's the entire field of databroking (likely completely illegal under GDPR, not to mention unethical from the start) and real time bidding related to this.

Given the sorry state of privacy-compliance in general (whether that's ignorance of the law or consciously taking a risk) I seriously doubt that the field of adtech is much better.
You can limit the damage though; in theory there’s no reason why authentication needs to be centralised. You could split the backend up into multiple authentication services and “bucket” the auth requests per email address or something. So essentially make a bunch of different authentication services that can fail independently. I’m sure they have good reasons for not doing that though.
C++ is a lot more than defer, obviously. There’s nothing wrong with extending the language for common use cases.
Direct link to binder. https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/TuanaCelik/BrilliantCiphers/maste... Then click on the .ipynb filename.
You don't understand. When you get a question like this as an interviewee, they want to see how you arrive at your answer regardless of what the answer is. The answer by itself is less important than what made you pick it in the first place.

For example, possible takeaways from your answers:

* Lacks critical thinking, takes things for granted, doesn't show initiative or not comfortable with it.

* Elevated smartassness, possibly as a defense mechanism or due to inability to read between the lines. Maybe just nervous at the moment.

* Better. At least this solves some specific problem based on one's personal experience. It's possible to discuss that and see what else surfaces.

* Also good. Miraculous even if you'd managed to produce all that in the early 90s. Again, this also opens things up for further discussion.

See the point? It's a meta question.
Alternatively, problems with OpenJDK on ARM64. Given the limited target market for it (basically just Graviton2, which is also pretty new), I can't imagine that huge amounts of work has been put into it so far.
On Vim, ":set mouse" enables the use of the rodent inside the application. See ":help mouse" for more information.

If it's set to "n" (for "normal mode") or "a" (for "all modes"), it pretty much does what you're mentioning: one can instantly move the cursor to a given spot; use the scroll wheel to scroll the document, and (via netrw or any other file explorer or side-bar plugin) double-click to open a different file.
To an extent this seems to be related to more general automated detection of refactor targets/"code smells" (ironically) for which there exist tools already (e.g. linters indicated in the article) - I like this simple "list" approach though.
whitespace in path names

And more generally, the arcane rules for quoting, substitutions, parameter parsing, running other processes, and how all of these interact.
You don’t collect vacuum cleaners? That’s funny, I don’t collect headphones but get put in the “suspected headphone collector” bin every couple years or so when I buy a pair.
1-2 out of 10 office hours are actual coding. In the remaining time I do random stuff like reading HN comments.
Excerpted summary from here [0]

Difficulties of Prediction
Ultimately, our world and future are unknowable and unpredictable because of various factors, including:

• The role of chance and luck in inventions and game-changing discoveries

• The inherently unpredictable nature of dynamical systems and variables that behave in inconsistent or nonlinear ways

• We can’t make accurate predictions with flawed and incomplete information.

The combination of the 2 sets of factors above means that: humans are terrible at prediction, yet we keep making predictions without realizing how frequently we’re off the mark. Taleb calls this the “scandal of prediction”.

[0] - https://readingraphics.com/book-summary-the-black-swan/
But this is a misunderstanding. The “compiler changing behavior” isn’t actually happening in those cases. The program’s behavior never changed. We just have a wrong understanding of the program’s behavior as humans reading the source. If we were to codify and write down all of the expectations we might have about what behavior a source file might represent so that the compiler can match it exactly.... that’d be the standard and we are back where we started.
that's what I thought.
I think it would better work with a system of extendable config parsers to always show relevant nondefault shortcuts
The on-package RAM is probably more aimed at reducing power consumption; it's not particularly low-latency. This obviously wouldn't be an issue for an MBP.
Everything dates back to post-ww2. One of the key people was Ancel Keys. He falsified data and excluded significant data from his studies in order to push a narrative that saturated fats were bad for you. That eating plants was the only healthy way forward. Then the governments around the world pushed out their food pyramids that reinforced this idea.

We then had obvious paradoxes where in neighbours like France and Italy were the complete opposite reality. France with high fat had very low coronary heart disease and Italy which was low fat had high coronary heart disease.

There was no paradox, the science was fraudulent. Over the last several decades they have debunked and disproven this several times.

The fix for bad science is better science. this is over. We know all the health risks are from carbohydrates. This has been a fact for decades. Yet we sit here and grocery stores are 90% carbs. If we eliminate carbs from society, the food industry collapses >90%. Millions upon millions of jobs are headed to unemployment. worse yet, the majority of these people have no other skills.

We as a society basically cannot afford to stop eating carbs. Nobody will be cutting carbs out of their diet.
Updated it so that people get it ready for 2021
Nobody really cares about Biden, they just want to get rid of Trump.
Really glad to see this project continuing on. I do have concerns about being limited to Markdown syntax though. While Markdown has its place on small to medium sized projects, its simplicity quickly becomes a hindrance, and you end up falling back to html in Markdown. I could see something like ReStructuredText or Asciidoc being a better fit, if not a full blown enterprise style Docbooks or DITA system.

Not a big fan of the logo, it is cool, but doesn't really inspire my inner web documentation.
(edit) Actually no, I think its the size and style of the logo. Singling out the top of the spear and using that would be cool, but it reminds me too much of a fighting game character as is.
Yeah, I definitely felt the pull of the first thing, and after a while resented it, because I felt like I was being manipulated.

I definitely think there's value in the second thing, though. Basically, I used to tell people that I play video games "socially" -- until a few months ago (when I decided to actually skill up on Starcraft 2), I almost never played video games unless it was with a group of other people.
You are all different!

I'm not.
For me, kate and kdevelop are the best editors/ide.

I'm using them even on non kde desktops..

Sure, there are a few bugs and features that could be added. But it is a no match for other editors when you compare with the criterions: open source, free, lightweight to use.
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They're pivoting to selling services now. That's why iCloud is so integrated into the phone while the free version is so crappy.
Does anyone have a good summary of arguments/evidence for and against MMT? I have a hard time finding things that are don’t seem polemic in tone.
Why blockchain is the most important invention in that decade?
Not free!
Thats true, a poorly chosen description on my part.

Very cool, had read about homomorphic systems.
For fully homomorphic systems has there been successful SAAS like offering allowing use of such a systems? Or do you think its still in the research oriented phase?
As I recall, Kate is quite similar to Windows editors. It should be more familiar to users that have switched over to Linux from Windows, while still being quite feature rich. It is definitely a valuable editor in the Linux ecosystem
The Studio tool appears to be a showcase for their paid graphic library (https://polotno.dev/). As a designer/dev the library is definitely addressing a hole in the market where libraries like fabric.js and konva aren’t serving: customer support (esp enterprise) and feature requests.

Coming from Teespring and recently at Figma, I’ve seen both sides of this problem: home rolling a teeshirt maker in canvas and also trying to use parts of an editor at Figma for marketing (wasn’t decoupled enough). I’m excited to see where this team takes this and grows.
I second the comments saying you should write a memoir. What a set of yarns.
Note that, from what leaked from peoples' NDAs, it seems like performance by the A12Z in the devkits (made on TSMC's 7nm process, half the cores, two year old core design) was also very good. 5nm will be contributing somewhere, but probably not so much.

The A12 and A13 (also 7nm) also did very well vs Qualcomm chips on the same process.
If signed integer overflow is implementation defined rather than undefined then it isn’t an error and we cannot make compiler features that warn or reject when we can prove it will occur. In your case we’ve managed to get the worst of both worlds (a buggy program and no capacity for the compiler to stop you).
Not to mention pressing 100 pills out of their strips is a lot more work than taking a fistful out of a jar.
User-scalable=no and suppressing zoom suppression
What Does 45Drives Think of Red Hat's Decision to Kill CentOS
Each Tuesday, we will be releasing a tech tip video that will give users information on various topics relating to our data storage solutions.

This week, we focus on a major piece of tech news with Red Hat killing off CentOS Linux. What does this mean for open-source going forward? Brett explains why all hope is not lost as this poses a new problem that forces developers to be more creative.
I've been using telegram for a while and only now found out that there are good communities on it. Which ones do you recommend? How does one get invited?