skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The New Yorker has cast a merciless spotlight on governments' early actions (and inactions) against the pandemic.

As a New Yorker myself, the article in the May 4 issue [1], contrasting the responses of Seattle/WA and NYC/NY was a gut-wrenching read.

We should be grateful that journalism like this exists, to boldly contradict the political spin-jobs.

If your opinion even slant rhymes with "it was rough in the beginning, but we did as much as we could as early as we could, thanks to the courage/leadership of Mr. Cuomo / De Blasio", and you care about the truth, I encourage you to read.

[1]: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/04/seattles-leade...
Out of curiosity, did you move outside VFX and if yes to what industry, have you been enjoying and what motivated you?

Cheers
Stonebwoy and His Bodyguards Arrested
The marines come with an individual cost that is frequently less valued than service in the army or airforce.
tl;dr I think the tech industry doesn't like to be criticized.

That's a good point about renewable energy sources.

I'd still argue it's reasonable to assume that ML will consume more power as use-cases for it grow (i.e. more and more models are trained), and, therefore, I don't think it's unreasonable to consider the energy usage.

Honestly - I think what you may have heard is "ML is bad/evil." And yeah some folks probably feel/vibe that.

That's different from "Like any other technology the full context of ML deserves to be considered, and since it's so hyped by billion-dollar companies right now, maybe a bit of pushback on all the hype isn't a terrible idea."

And yeah we should definitely look at the airline industry; pretty sure Mother Jones does, and there's no reason we can't look at the energy impact of multiple industries.
VoLTE configuration on phones requires a carrier configuration profile which specifies the right setting for that specific carrier - this is technical configuration based on the carrier's voice network. This can either be shipped as part of the firmware, part of the OS, or delivered as an OTA update.
Another thing about HN patriots patrons is that they worship 'Thinking fast and slow,' the book, and I can tell you; evvery page of that book is laced in L S D ( !)

it's virtually dripping in it!
Hi acdha,

Thank you for the advice - how about on the page load side? Our biggest problem is probably the variance issue (mentioned in other subthreads) -> we can't easily tell what is the difference between a slow and a fast load in many cases.

Even if we compare things that are available from the metrics like CPU, Mem, and Network speed, those are not very granular metrics (for example, to understand someone with 16 threads was actually at 95% Mem used during that page load), and have little correlation at a wide level with page load speed.
I meant to include "that I know of" but was too lazy to edit. Anyway, it's still a bad sign IMO. Signaling desperation instead of concern for user experience.
Open street map is great for hiking trails, particularly around urban areas where the US government maps (USFS, USGS) are way too out of date and don't cover new trails. I routinely update OSM for trails around the SF Bay area as I hike/bike them. I like the TF outdoors product accessible via the Caltopo and Gaia GPS apps, particularly the ability to easily download the maps for offline use.
Well written, thanks for making your case here.
What if he's not dead?

It's not contrived to receive money from your family, it is in fact the most common way on this side of the ocean.

It is contrived to help the citizens of your country in needs and then ask for the money back!

My parents don't have to worry that in their 80s they would have to pay because one of their nephews was born with some condition or preterm.

They only have think about being good grandparents.

When I was born I was put in the incubator for 16 days and have been in hospital for 24 days total. how much would
that havee costed to my family?

My parents were nurses, they weren't completely poor so they surely had to pay for it, but not rich either.

Between me and my brother my mom stayed home, in payed sick leave, full salary, all expenses covered, for 36 months.

If they were in USA they'd have bankrupted or given up on having children.

My mom had a pre condition, she already had two miscarriages, I'm quite sure the insurance company would have used that notion to not pay.

Do you realise how ridiculous that system is?

What are the benefits of having such a system, when in the end USA life expectancy is only one year longer than China?

Look at this study.

If the system is so good, why USA ranks so badly?

(this is only one of many, all the international institutions, including WHO, agree that USA healthcare standards are lower than the average western standards and much worse than the highest western standards, despite how much money they pure into it)

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/quality...
Sure, if all you need is a watch that only shows you the time, can support a couple of skins and maybe comes with a basic heart rate monitor, then you probably don't need more. But I wouldn't advertise it (like Pine does) as "you can install any OS on it". I wouldn't even advertise it as a smartwatch TBH. It's more like a tiny embedded device to be worn on a wrist, with specs much more comparable to those of an ESP8266 or a modern Arduino rather than (even the cheapest) RaspberryPi.
It is, but also worth keeping in mind that vulnerability triage is just an annoying, resource-intensive process. Putting aside the "named vulnerability" thing, the most common prompt for a triage process is "new vulnerability discovered in a dependency"; that will happen several times a week in most significant products. Almost all of those vulnerabilities are marginal, and even the ones that aren't are usually not exposed in a typical use of the dependency. It's just an annoying problem.
Thanks!

Its also much better for your health to focus on helping people who support you then, to worry about what a few bad apples might do without you ever noticing.
To give an idea how bad it is, building Firefox on a Threadripper 3970X on Windows takes slightly over 12 minutes if you don't disable Defender and somewhere around 7 minutes if you do.
Come to the dark side or how I waste 4 hours for an inessential feature
This law isn't just for money launderers, it's for people hiding assets. For example, there are many criminals and despots that steal huge sums of money and then form shell companies in the US and buy real estate or other assets.

If the beneficial owner is falsified, then if that property comes under investigation, they stand to lose it. There are currently multiple $50m+ homes in places like BelAir or Beverly Hills that are owned by anonymous shell companies and they sit vacant year round. Some, after much investigation were found to be owned by foreign politicians. I suspect a large percentage of these properties are also from ill gotten gains.
OTOH:
'A Continent Where the Dead Aren't Counted'

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/02/world/africa/africa-coron...

Tl;dr: Reporting of deaths is incredibly irregular across Africa, and counting excess deaths is likely impossible as a result. The population is younger on average, which likely helps, but we probably don't know the real numbers there.
Well at the very least it starts to balance out the F35 propaganda the military seeds out to trade publications and social media... you should take anything you read about military tech with a grain of salt.
That sounds crazy, but multiple times I've been party to multi million dollar software contracts being clinched with a few lines of css to fit the clients corporate theme.
The standard zip tools in Java should be fine. I regularly compress gigs of data in an aws lambda environment. Streaming from and to s3.
Can you actually see a difference? I have slightly better than 20/20 vision with glasses and don't see a difference between 4k @ 14", 27" or 32".

At this point 32" 4k is perfect for me, the only thing I'd wish for is improved panel. I have not seen the Apple 6k, but just picked up an M1 Macbook Air, it has best display I've seen (quite a bit better than my work 16")
I looked up the Zoe in Australia: it was withdrawn due to poor sales, despite being one of the cheapest EVs on the market at about $47k AUD.

https://www.caradvice.com.au/869447/plug-pulled-on-renault-z...
No notifications on the lock screen is also one that I use.
And just as logical as saying taking a pill, or getting a medical procedure violates the Catholic Church's "sincerely-held religious beliefs."
I have a text file in a known location. It's backed up on git.

I can open and edit that file quickly using bash. From within VIM I can quickly commit to reduce the # keystrokes. More details: https://github.com/jodavaho/bashlog#git-integration

(Really though, you can just save as an environment variable your file location)

The text file is structured with space-delimited text, like this: https://github.com/dkogan/vnlog

My current structure for tracking a contribution to an OKR item (e.g. "meditate") by date (e.g., 2020-01-15) and amount (e.g., "1") is simply:

"# date item amount"

Easy to open, easy to plop down today's date and the item / amount. Save multiple date/item entries and add them inscripts ... Easy to save. Done.

The work came in building stuff to plot it:

I have other files that link "items" to goals or other metadata like categories, etc. Like a relational database, but easily edited in text.

For example, to make a link from daily items to Key Results

"# item okr"

The OKR categories are usually Fighting (I box), Tech, Mental health, and Social, but YMMV

Another example is "workout-mapping.vnl" with structure:
"# item muscle-group factor"

etc etc.

vnlog has nice vnl-join commands that quickly build the table and all linked metadata and output formatted text (one command). Then reading that in R is easy ...

```
data <- read.table('../2020-Q4-OKR.vnl',skip=2,stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
```

Aggregating by date is easy:

```
data.agg<- aggregate(x=data$Amount,by=list(data$Date),FUN=sum)
```

Then plot using ggplot2.

Examples from 2020 Q4 (just ran the numbers yesterday!)

https://josh.vanderhook.info/media/okr.png

https://josh.vanderhook.info/media/workouts.png

https://josh.vanderhook.info/media/mood.png
Some ideas on this topic:

1. Inconvenience based solutions don't address the problem: using apps to restrict phone use, physically hiding the phone etc. Once you leave those carefully constrained conditions, you are more vulnerable than ever. Not to mention the contradiction with the core issue that it's a symptom rather than a cause.

2. Turning abstinence as an ongoing status condition (e.g. "X days since I did Y") is a trap. It sets you up for later failure by burdening you with a perpetually unfinished objective with psychological consequences that only increase as the 'highscore' increases. This could work with things that are less easily accessible like heroin, but it's not going to work with something as easily accessible as a phone or computer.

3. The solution that works with 1 and 2 is probably urge surfing as it tackles the issue directly

4. It's easier to think of it as an addiction to browsing rather than an addiction to the phone itself. You have to catch yourself during any browsing moment in any context to eventually make progress. Be intentional in almost every action instead of going on auto-pilot, although obviously resting at the end of the day is fine. It's more a general philosophy than a hard rule meant to exhaust you.

5. The eventual goal is a rich life where you no longer feel the need to distract yourself
> people like Kyle Rittenhouse

Don't forget the people that shot at him and tried to stomp his head in.
I do a bunch of this stuff, too. Notifications are a big one and I highly encourage people to be ruthless in disabling them. There is no use case for receiving an instant notification when somebody happens to mention you on social media that won’t make your life worse.

One quibble: I also uninstalled most apps, but there isn’t a single one of them with a mobile website that’s better. It really is a far worse experience to have to use the website.
If there was nobody immediately behind you waiting for the pump, would you wander off to the office to work for a few hours then come back to move your car?
+1 on this one. It really is the best monitor I’ve found.
I got an iPhone 12 about a month ago in the US, and noticed my town has 5g. My town is < 1 square mile, and a population of just 600, so I fired up a speedtest and was astounded... I was getting 560kbps, at 6am, on a Saturday.

It is actually very difficult to even send iMessages at those speeds, and forget about sending a photo to someone. If I'm not on my wifi at home, my phone is almost useless as anything but a phone.
I have very limited understanding of what the OpenWorm project is doing, but it sounds like they're trying to simulate the real worm in a bottom-up manner by simulating its cells / neurons?

The fact that they're struggling to do this would indicate that we're nowhere near being able to simulate a human brain bottom up. But there are other approaches being tried to implement strong AI that don't involve brain simulation - for example, machine learning approaches that don't involve any human-brain data.
Python now supports type annotations. With mypy those types can be checked. Any python shop worth it's salt should be switching or has switched.
What good is 1100mbit if you run out of data after a little over 10 minutes?
Solved easily enough with a usb switch behind the display, no?
Covid-19 vaccine distribution algorithms may cement health care inequalities
I use my DNS blocker pi-hole to help with this. Whenever I find myself getting hooked into a website, it just gets blacklisted network-wide. One example I've done this with is Reddit. The majority of the Reddit community is really off-putting to me, but the endless content feeds my ADHD like nothing else.
To summarize, in august and again in september, very large numbers of migratory birds suddenly died. It looks like ~80% of them died of starvation.
The article gives a lot more detail on the situations leading to mass bird starvation.
> I've had several conversations over the years with members of Atlassian technical teams. They always wanted to work on performance, but never allowed (priorities).

For what it's worth, it's a pretty significant company priority now. I recently had my project (dark mode) cancelled[1] so we could dedicate engineering effort to performance.

[1] https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-63150?focusedComm...
How do you propose to design physical gates that would handle ternary logic, in a way that is more efficient than the current boolean implementation?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55518248

Coronavirus: No increase in severe child cases, paediatricians say

2nd January
The only rules being observed here in East London are that bars and restaurants are takeaway only.

People aren't wearing masks in super markets or on public transport (staff included). People continue visiting each other en-mass. Non essential work places remain open. They still haven't confirmed which schools will reopen on Monday. Until yesterday the government were adamant it would be all of them.

There is no lockdown here.
I don't think I've ever acquired deep knowledge or insight via my phone. It's all shallow junk food.
Catastrophically? Not quite, but it is definitely dangerous. We are approaching the per capita domestic death toll of a world war. It ain’t airborne Ebola but it isn’t harmless, a hoax, or “just a bad flu.”

A mask is such a cheap and trivial precaution I don’t get the resistance. Masks are not even close to 100% effective, but the goal is to shave as many points off the viral R-factor as possible.

As for police state tactics, I don’t think they’d be considered if people were just smart and took precautions. They’re on the table because too many people insist on refusing to do simple things.
Couldn't agree more with this (and the OP). Life changes. All the time. What about your plan for Q2/Q3 2020 to finally do that world cruise you had been waiting to do all your life? Riiiiight.

Now having some sort of principles you live by and to keep yourself honest maybe write them down somewhere (read The 7 habits of highly successful people), sure. Quarterly goals with OKRs? Sorry that already doesn't work at work as no higher up or HR person ever has used them for good if you ask me. Bringing that to my personal life? Lol? 'Increase happiness of my family by 50% in Q1 2021'? Well duh, I don't need OKRs to know Covid sucks and I should try to make the kids life as normal and happy as I can without trying to even measure happiness. I had no personal OKRs ever and I built a tobogganing hill in the front yard (the slope helps) and I'm working on the skating ring (yes ring, like circles, not hockey rink :)) in the backyard. Yes I was keeping this in my head just fine.
pdfinfo in poppler does this
#4 is so on the money. Well put.
same. no issues
While we're correcting facts, we should also note that over 70 million people died in WW2.[1] COVID doesn't come close, not even on a yearly basis.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
What do you mean less valued? My impression is that the Marines are the most respected of the services. (I am not serving nor a veteran of any armed service).
Incredible — the effect was present even when the phone was turned off. I would think that a phone that is off but nearby would be less of a distraction than a phone that is on but in the next room. It would take longer for me to turn on my phone than walk to the next room to get it.
Myself, from ten years ago, would agree.

Today, between balancing life goals, family responsibilities, and professional obligations, I need organizational systems to hold it together. In another twenty years I don't think I'll need the same structures again.

For me, an organizational framework is the difference between reactive and pro-active. It need not be elaborate, but I need one to augment my own weakness and ensure that everything that needs doing gets done.
Well, that's exactly my point when I speak of compromises. If you want to be nude and pure then you go for the A72/A53, well aware that you're selling hardware that is almost a decade old and can't be used as a daily driver today.

Otherwise, as unpleasant as it can be, you have to make a deal with Broadcom/Qualcomm, or get some other vendors to license their ARM chipset to you.

The latter doesn't seem like the end of the world to me TBH. Of course I'd love an ideal world where open architectures like RISC V have taken over and are actually usable, but until we get there usability remains more important than purity - unless you're RMS of course - even if it involves a small "deal with the devil".

I believe that most of the geeks out there love open-source products not much because they work daily with kernels and drivers (if that's the case then the argument for a pure open hardware without hex bloats makes sense), but because of the flexibility that they offer. Because they can install anything that they want on them and aren't prone to abandonware/planned deprecation like many products powered by Google or Apple. But if you don't give them products that they can use as main daily drivers, you'll rarely get enough momentum outside of the small tinker-and-show-off circles.
So you want to wait until we get a series of proper RCTs?
It's all drugs in psychiatry, the good ones and the bad ones. We don't know which are the good ones unless we conduct proper research.
So... the real question is, why are CVEs that are just packages of software being accepted to the CVE database anyways? If its in a Docker image, it should be immediately rejected: report the CVE for the precise upstream project instead.
I think you are making broad statements because you don't like facebook, this is fine, but its fails to add anything.

So here's the thing, Facebook has a few big issues they can see:

1) the FB brand is toxic

2) the Facebook app/site is being seen as a ghetto for extremists and arseholes

3) instagram is a fragile cashcow.

4) AR is the next platform, which they have to nail stay in the game, which requires trust.

We all know that facebook proper is full of arseholes. Its profitable for now, but if it continues to be a ghetto for karens and racist kevs (or is seen to be) then people won't advertise. They also know that content moderation is fucking hard.

However, those are the excuses. They have good, clear, well written content guidelines. The issue is, they are not enforced equally. Trump broke the rules, he should have had his pubic hair pulled out. However because he's a politician they don't want to be accused of editorialising content.

This is because The management team are moral cowards. They want to do the right thing, but they are scared of the blowback from politicians. As they have the power to really shit on their parade. Add to this mix, a strong hysterical bunch of activists shouting at them, inside and out.

This causes the management team to withdraw into their shell. They see themselves as an island of reasonableness. the oversight committee is a step to being a useful tool to measure policy change. However it requires trust.

The bottom line is this, being a mirror of society is tough, because society has a whole bunch of toxic noise shitbags. Modelling your self on free expression means allowing these dicks to tarnish you.
State of the Metaverse 2021
Oh, interesting!

I’ve also sat a comparable amount of ceremony — and so of course there’s strictness about SSRIs...but I have never thought about the mechanisms like this. It just wouldn’t have occurred to me to explore in this way.

If you do find the succinct, detailed write up I’d love to see. Thank you for finding the YouTube link, I want to check it out!
I don't think Vancouver is as bad as you make it out to be. No, you will not make the same money here as in Seattle, it's often something like a 1/3rd pay cut. That is not a bad income however, it is easily enough to rent and whilst real estate in Vancouver proper may be expensive there is reliable transit and property in the other cities such as Burnaby, Richmond, Coquitlam etc is significantly less expensive.

I'm also not quite sure what you mean with your point about healthcare. MSP premiums were eliminated last year [0], there is now no charge to access medical care. Prescriptions, dental and eye care are all still chargeable, though prescriptions at least are essentially capped through BC Fair Pharmacare [1].

Compared to the US, Canada is much easier for immigration as a tech worker. One can get PR (equivalent of a green card) before landing if they have a sufficient points score, in BC that's fairly easy through the tech PNP [2] and a willing employer.

Additionally Vancouver consistently ranks among the top 10 most liveable cities [3].

[0] - https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/health-drug-covera...

[1] - https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/health-drug-covera...

[2] - https://www.welcomebc.ca/Immigrate-to-B-C/B-C-Provincial-Nom...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Liveability_Ranking
Maybe try to learn why people make them? Why do you think people down play it?
Or you know, this current internet generation where no one has the slightest clue what the logical fallacies are allows unhealthy ideas and unhealthy habits to spread like wildfire.
I'm only 50 and been messing around with them for about 40 years.

My point was that even on a precariously supported platform (my Arch Linux computers), the software works fine - ie as proscribed. MS Teams is used by a vast number of people and has a habit of working OK for them.