skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about all the other big EU countries that have comparable death rates?

The US actually is fairly unique in that excess mortality never returned to baseline.

For example, Belgium is one of the European countries that was hit hardest: Mid-April, twice the number of people died per week than the average of 2015-19. The numbers were back to normal a month later (until the next wave hit in August).

In the US, deaths also peaked mid-April. But while deaths were up by a factor of 'only' 1.5, excess mortality never went back to normal for all of 2020.
Facebook acts as an identity provider similar to gmail. That is pretty different from Fortnite, losing your account could mean you lose access to tons of important sites.
Seems like a good situation for an Oversight Board appeal.
Well, they have an office in Montreal, no more no less.
If you're wondering why there's a "drunken bishop" reference: There's a little story in the intro to our paper to explain the OpenSSH fingerprint visualization algorithm. http://dirk-loss.de/sshvis/drunken_bishop.pdf
Phone in the left pocket, cash in the shirts pocket. Nothing else really!
Not a good example, sorry. I'm asked for a distinct piece of software, not a set of protocols.
This is fixed. Thanks for the input :)
This reminds me of one of my favorite Futurama lines as their ship is going underwater:

"Dear lord! That's over 150 atm of pressure!"

"How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?"

"We'll, it's a spaceship, so I'd say anywhere between 0 and 1."

https://youtu.be/Ewu-zHH5Qwg
Java bytecode allows for Debug attributes, which are produced by default in most build engines, and say which field maps to which item on the stack and for how long. Even if that information is removed, the fact that you have the return value of an invokedynamic called `object.getName` means that you can often have a much better chance of redeeming the information than in other compiled languages.

The key difference is that fields and methods maintain all their names in the bytecode; in C, non-public symbols are usually stripped leaving only the calls to libraries present.
The guy's actions after getting professionals involved may have guaranteed that even if they're was a chance he completely eliminated it. He'd better avoid any actual legal trouble because he's clearly shown that he's incapable of SHUTTING THE F UP and letting paid counsel work.

On a related note re: Lincoln Cannon's Twitter thread, there was at least one response saying '[yeah they banned me for no reason as well]' where just looking at the profile pic with a QAnon quote was enough to give some indication of why...
It’s getting smaller and tighter. I think it’s on purpose.
You are assuming everyone has their sh*t together, which is often not the case.
> The ergonomics of Java kind of sucked until IntelliJ IDEA came out.

IntelliJ was first released in 2001. Those days it was a closed-source paid product. It competed with JBuilder, Visual Age (which became Eclipse), Forte (which became Netbeans) etc.
There is another consideration: composing an inquiry designed for asynchronous comms requires a lot more effort than synchronous. If I know the exchange is going to be synchronous I can be a lot more sloppy in my formulation because I know I'll be there to clarify ambiguities, provide missing info, etc. in real time. If it's going to be asynchronous I have to put a lot more effort into making sure that the inquiry is self-contained, unambiguous, etc.
Notebook and pen https://jakeseliger.com/2013/01/05/product-review-rhodia-web...
> How exactly does a pay-at-the-pump gas station function without internet?

I realize that there are gas stations where you can't pay at the pump, but that's not the claim I was responding to in the PC.

Regardless, if you are using your credit card to pay for your gas (which I am certain you can do in Oregon gas stations), the gas station is utilizing internet in order to give you gas.
Booting Windows XP, or Not
Cat Cosplay (Free Android Game)
Sure, I'm not disputing that they can fulfil a role, I'm noting that [i] they're not remotely close to being a solution to the sort of problems parties use escrow for (except where the goods are digital to the extent fulfilment can be encoded into some sort of smart contract) and [ii] a distributed ledger only has value over and above a non-distributed one if other parties worry about the centralised database manager tampering with records [without leaving obvious evidence behind], which has got to be so far down the list of potential issues with most supply chains (even with respect to record keeping) it's barely a consideration. Another vendor's good old fashioned cloud datastore might be equally suitable as far as parties not being able to update records without leaving an audit trail goes, and quite possibly with a shinier front end and easier to use API.
>The surface is too slick

I was complaining in another comment about the ink refill that came with a Waterman pen I was given not working well. And, yes, it was specifically on the Moleskins I use that I was having a problem. I'd have to get the pen "started" on another piece of paper to write reliably. (The Uni-ball gel pens are fine.)
Outside of absolute no-name crap I haven't seen much of fake numbers on PSUs?
Reminds me of the slow downfall of the Laguna Seca race track.

https://jalopnik.com/the-absurd-community-fight-that-could-c...

Short version: People move in next to an established race track and learn they don't like the sound of race tracks. You'll be shocked at what happens next!
I follow a (very) wide spectrum of accounts on Twitter and the following seemed true for the accounts I follow which scored highly likely to be bots:

- it's 50/50 accurate picking actual bots I know I follow

- the more simple the reading level, the higher it scored

- however, extremely heady accounts also score high

- the farther right/left the account goes seems to up the score a little

- accounts that quote authors frequently score very high, even if they're human behind them

- everything from Chinese state media scored higher than anything

- everything that was frequently highly critical of China scored extremely high

- most Trumpers and Antifa I follow had very low scores (but most are high-up/origin accounts)

- most news organizations from both sides scored middle range, including known propagandists and "reputable" organizations

- accounts from both sides of the COVID discussion were mostly low

Hard to say, but my best guess is "low effort" is the defining factor. Only exception is the pro/anti-Chinese stuff, which is definitely a mix of real people and bots.

I keep pretty good tabs on the accounts I follow and I think I'm pretty good at determining who is "a real person with real feelings saying real things they really think" and bots, and from this analysis, I have zero faith that this tool has any modicum of reliability in a research setting.

I think it's possibly accurate enough to say "yes, this is definitely a human", but totally fails to identify bots. Thus, any research that uses this tool as a measure of bot influence is way off, because there are way too many false positives. Which I guess is a good thing for anyone who wants to say, "look at all these people being suckered by all these bots!" which is pretty unscrupulous.

YMMV
> if I have instances A, B, C, D: B can decide (through whatever process it uses for such things) they don’t like A’s content and ban it without affecting users on C and D.

Yes, but this isn't really analogous to the complaint being presented. In the Mastadon world this article would have been titled "A Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them". The author is still free to use B, C, D etc, just like with http websites.

> Either way, the Mastodon model seems better because it allows policy to be specified at the “local” level rather than requiring a uniform policy across the network.

To be clear, I do think an ActivityPub-like architecture is preferable for social networking, but federation doesn't obviate the concept of popularity, it only seems that way now because the fediverse isn't popular, if it ever did become popular then we'd see the exact same complaints when people get banned from popular instances.
Ruby,
mainly because coders should enjoy coding, while computer should follow (and not the other way around) :)
Get a good fountain pen and high quality paper. This is a) fun and b) forces you to write properly.
https://archive.is/knuGk
Is your Ubiquiti box doing Deep Packet Inspection over your home network?

It might be frantically trying to look at every packet flying by.
When I was at a left-wing university in the early 90's, it was mostly full of posh kids trying to upset their parents.
"Thus, Java has the potential, at least, to break the hold that the hardware and operating system monoliths have on the computer world, and could make hardware and software tycoons like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates as obsolete in the 21st century as railway barons have become in the 20th."

The author had an idea that while we laugh today, had a glimmer of truth - it was open source, and not Java itself, that ensured that "tycoons" didn't a have a stranglehold on the industry.
Here ya go: https://archive.vn/Zfw4P
Too bad lockdown means you can't go for haircut when you need that help on account of the lockdown itself.

Why can't barbershops switch to an appointment based system where they only have one person in the shop at the time?

How can that be different from supermarkets which have dozens if not hundreds of people in them at atime.
I really appreciate this article actually. I am very picky about my pens and have very specific criteria before buying a pen. I like the detail here. There are so many factors into buying the right pen.
How about we all make an agreement to reply with the clown emoji

and its purpose being to laugh at them for not getting to the point
Great quote.

Leonard Cohen's Anthem is about something similar:

Ah, the wars they will be fought again /
The holy dove, she will be caught again /
Bought and sold, and bought again /
The dove is never free

Ring the bells that still can ring /
Forget your perfect offering. /
There is a crack, a crack in everything /
That's how the light gets

George Martin quotes a William Faulkner all the time about fictional subject matter.
“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself.”

It's why his fantasy stories have that gritty realism. The knights of Gondor riding against the evil horde of Sauron meme becomes parody. Good and evil is more subtle, cuts through the heart of every human being... regularly. The fantasy element is just about scale. It might be a choice between being kinda jerky and nice. Most people can be both. Novels get into a character's head. Stories where good and evil is a conflict within that head feel more real, because that's what it's like inside our heads.
Phabricator has been doing that for years (but more extreme - you can't even submit it comment on bugs without paying) and I think they're the only open source project my company gives money to. Definitely a reasonable option.
Bullying by false reporting is a common event. Sex workers are a common target for bullying. It stands to reason that bullying by claiming CP is probably not uncommon.
> Your explanation is one popular view of QM

If you want to call the "Standard Model" merely one among many "popular views" then you can, but that's not what I'd call accurate. No one really disagrees with it. They just have different "interpretations" of why it holds true.

Regarding your claim that electrons "interact with themselves", that's actually kind of misleading too. When electrons are "in the cloud" (pre-wave-collapse) they're pure probability and so none of them have an actual location in spacetime even if you had some infinitely fast camera to look. They simply don't exist at specific locations. They are genuinely everywhere at once, or stated even more correctly: they don't exist. Only the energy exists.

The "Bohr Model" of the atom is correct insofar as a way to track energies in a classically relevant way, but in no way at all is it actually "real". There's no electrons flying around. Only electrons that have already stopped. They don't exist until measured.
fargate with 0.25 vcpu 1gb m (lowest option) is ~$10/m ((0.01012 + 0.004445) * 24 * 30), article states it's $3 which is wrong + $16 ALB (that you need with fargate) that is $26/m for the lowest option.
100%. I find this incredibly interesting and I'd love to understand more about what topics they post about. I bet many hot topics, especially ones about politics, have a fair share of bots commenting.

I think their purpose is equally interesting. I'd guess a lot of them are there to polarise discussions and drive people apart, but there are probably ones that have an agenda to drive a specific opinion as well.

I think this isn't just on Twitter, but other platforms as well.
At least where I live in the US, this isn't an issue. In fact I wouldn't mind seeing some constraints added where I am. A neighbor on a 1/3 acre plot with a rooster is no big deal. That same neighbor with 8 roosters crowing more or less all day long is a major headache.

Not something I'm taking anyone to court over.
I have tried many pens and this is the one for me: https://www.pentel.com/collections/energel/products/energel-...

With good paper it writes like a dream.
Hudson Yards?

Because I was always wondering how that would go
The way I read that whole situation with Fauci, it seemed like there was a presidential order not to encourage mask wearing. The CDC should've know better; in fact, I think they did. I'm by no means involved in the medical field, but simple physics tells me that a layer of stuff between me and another person means less of my gems get to them. If you're a professional in that area of study, I imagine there's zero doubt that masks are the right choice. No downside, only upside. By similar logic, Fauci knew. Then at some point it seemed like he realized he would probably get fired no matter what he said, so he grew a pair and started speaking truth.
SMS cards: The technology inside IBM's 1960s mainframes
"IBM's mainframes of the 1960s are based on an interesting technology - Standard Modular System cards or SMS cards. These cards, created in the early years of transistorized computing, each implement a simple circuit on a board about the size of a playing card. You probably think of silicon as the basis for computers, but SMS cards use earlier transistors based on a semiconductor called germanium[1]. Eventually, of course, silicon took over, but in the early 1960s it was germanium not silicon that ran computers."
These days, I work from home, so most days the only thing that ends up in my pockets at any time is my phone (or my hands, and trivially some air).

If I'm going out, wallet, keys, and a rigging knife (folding pocket knife with a marlinespike.)

If I'm going into my company's office, a folding lockpick set (from Multipick) because the key for my filing cabinet was lost before I was hired. It's easy to just rock it open with an L rake, it's just a wafer lock, but it can keep anything mildly sensitive safe from accidental exposure.
There is something very wrong with the web which has become a cesspool of trackers and surveillance capitalism and every waking moment is pregnant with monetization options from the powerful players in the attention economy.

I mostly prefer to watch DVDs and employ an ad blocker so that every day existence doesn't require my brain to edit ads out of reality because it's been trained by 25 years of abuse from the internet that this is necessary to just be able pretend like I exist independent of my eyeballs' worth to some goddamn shysters halfway across the world. You know, like most of 400,000 years of human existence.

Come to think of it, maybe I'll sign off now.
That makes the similarity to physical social interactions stronger, not weaker. Most people live their offline lives under their true identities.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. You've got options available to you. One I didn't mention (though likely unappealing to you given you don't want to use a custom extension) is to hire someone to write it for you. (I suspect if you reached out to Crunchy Data, the host of this submission, they could do the work, or put you in touch with someone who could.) There's also the possibility of successfully getting the extension included in the core distribution. Some current features started as extensions. That's a longer process of course.

Choosing any of these options is more likely to actually solve your issue.
No, but thx for the pointer. AFAICT the difference in the sync protocol is a block (syncthing) vs file based (owncloud) protocol. There are several reasons why we prefer the file based protocol.

Currently, all our clients sync using webdav. Changing the protocol would require rewriting that part of every client.

Another reason is that ownCloud as well as ocis are used to access files that resides in other existing storages, eg. S3 or CEPH. Translating those protocols to a file based sync is a lot easier than adapting syncthing (just my gut feeling).

Another aspect is that the file based sync is also state based. We can use the etag to detect changes and immediately start syncing in a breadth first approach. We are not doing that, yet. But the windows cloud vfs we implemented for the desktop clients makes this one of the next steps.

The sync in ownCloud feels slow because the clients are polling. There is currently no persistent connection that the server could use to push changes. But to be honest we have been bitten by firewalls between server and client so often that I doubt we can do real push notifications. Which is why I personally am aiming for long polling. For mobile devices we have to rely on the existing notification infrastructure from Google and apple anyway. Anyway, there are ways to speed up sync. Which switching to go made a lot more implementable. But one step after another.

We already implemented TUS for uploading files in ocis and all clients. It is a well designed extendable upload protocol that covers a lot of corner cases we have experienced first hand with all our clients. We contributed our experiences and are planning a batch extension that we would use to group lots of small files in a single upload. Delta sync should be a TUS extension as well, IMO. But that is mostly in my head.

First, we want to get the basic file sync and share features fully implemented.

So ... Yeah ... Changing the language and the architecture kind of made a knot disappear and we are moving forward.

In that regard, I personally have an eye on the Microsoft graph api which we could use for file management. Input welcome.
In Corporate America, Facebook cancels you!
The opposite also happens: the approach to London Heathrow gives wonderful views over London, but at least a million people suffer from more-or-less constant aircraft noise and pollution, except for a few hours overnight.

Further expansion was approved in 2018, when one of the local MPs — Boris Johnson, who had promised to "lie down in front of bulldozers" to prevent expansion ­­— was conveniently on a trip abroad during the vote it Parliament.

(The areas of London overflown are a mix of wealthy, average and poor-ish, left-voting and right-voting, it's far too large an area to wave away as X group of people complaining.)
> overuse of annotations, xml/yaml/whatever configurations and late-binding (effectively assembling the app at runtime) eliminates quite a lot of advantages of a statically typed language

Just avoid Spring. That's been my motto and I've been Spring free for 7 years now. Doctors say I should live out a happy life.
Hi! Maker here. So glad you liked it! We aspire to create a resource that is useful to all people, regardless of political viewpoint, who are interested in following this administration.

Here are the FAQs on how it works and how it's updated.
https://trackbiden.com/faq/
With the caveat that I've only travelled in the Western world, credit cards really are almost universally accepted, Germany aside. Obviously, the smaller the merchant, and the smaller the country/town, the less likely.

As an American, a particularly odd experience was at a shop in Peru, where they only accepted MasterCard and not Visa. These days we're so used to them being interchangeable, it had never even crossed my mind. Between my wife and I, we had 5 or 6 Visa debit/credit cards, and 0 MasterCard.
Not so much in Ag. We are not getting any meaningful robotic innovations. We are so far automating mechanical processes whose primary function is to collect data that is used to control cost of food, stock market indices and then sell more inputs and seeds and data back to the farmers based on the data collected from the farmers in the first place.

I want robots that grow food.
There were cheaper and better quality analog cameras up to around 2003. By 2005 DSLR was a gold standard.
It won't go down like that, unfortunately; it'll be a blanket set of restrictions that are selectively enforced, mostly to harass the Hispanic families who have moved into the neighborhood
X96 even has an LED clock display, so you can make it blink 12:00 all the time, just like the real machines.
I carried a Kershaw Vapor II for about ten years until the handle fell apart. Was a great knife for everyday use, and it looked really stylish. I have a Buck with a tanto blade now , it’s useful and looks nice but it’s not the highest quality blade I could have bought.
Yes. It is possible to believe in law enforcement and the curbing of privacy-invading legislation at the same time.
Bloomberg should probably do more research.
Wadler stated in a talk somewhere that he was inspired by that book, but thought Agda may be more approachable.
And the messaging app they often use belongs to FB.
Yes, of course I can, but that's not a perfect solution. Suppose it turns out that I was mistaken in my belief that the person I'm asking knows the answer off the top of their head. They see my chat which by now is (say) an hour old and start to work on finding an answer because they think it's important. Half an hour later they've figured it out, come back to answer, and see that my original inquiry has been deleted. At best they would be puzzled, at worst annoyed that I've wasted their time.

Human communications are laden with subtleties. Synchronous comms are fundamentally different from async, and it's important to know which one you're actually engaged in so you can adjust your behavior appropriately.
It depends on your location and market.
How do you verify there is enough balance in the account, etc?

Pin+chip just verifies that the card is yours, not that the card can actually pay for anything.

For example, you could use a VISA gift card with $0 balance to pay for things if you had a system that was accepting transactions while offline.
Why Aren’t More Businesses Using SaaS Components?
Auth0 report reveals that despite budget barrier removal, adoption remains immature #SaaS #Components
Apple dropping Lightning port would create 'unprecedented amount of e-waste'
Sunnyside.

Hudson Yards completely caps the yard over with buildings so I don’t think you can hear it at all.
Is IRMA still going to be relevant for healthcare in the Netherlands with the Wet Digitale Overheid law making authentication by means of the government issued DigiD credentials mandatory and all but making access via the ToegangsVerleningsService (TVS) authentication platform offered by the government a requirement for any citizen accessing their medical data?

It seems only a matter of time before municipalities will face the same requirement for authentication. Where does that leave IRMA?
> they’re so dumb as they cannot tell reality from fiction

Ya know, here in the US we just found out that nearly have of our population and our last president have this problem. Maybe they should move into trading commodities?
This is highly dependent on your location and social circle. For example in many countries, not having Whatsapp is like not having SMS/iMessage in the US.