skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question. It's reported as pressure from store owners and the local religious community. Returning vacationers are also against it. Legally, it has to be a temporary measure, so it has to be a hard deadline for reconsideration - perhaps, they might actually extend it.
Bubble tea shops have become pretty ubiquitous in London in recent years. There must be hundreds of them across the city! There's one ('CUPP') opened up around the corner from me recently and there always seems to be a long queue outside in the evening, both regular customers and deliveroo riders picking up orders...
Quicksy is made to be as easy as you say to get an XMPP account and automatically recognize contacts :

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.quicksy.cli...

https://quicksy.im/
Finally, there was a solid "all of government" pandemic plan. Although it got tidied up and dressed up a bit for the public, the basic structure was already in place (in 2017) well before Covid-19 occurred.

This ensured that the right people had the right terminology when a nationwide mobilization was required.

https://www.health.govt.nz/your-health/healthy-living/emerge...
Wayland has proper scaling support as a first-class thing, so you just configure it once and forget about it. This includes per-output scaling.

I was actually surprised when using a 2020 Mac that macOS doesn't actually support scaling on external displays. It seems that Linux/Wayland is on the lead here.
Patrimonial voting and twin study in Sweden
I hate to see original recipes bastardized by sugar and artificial coloring marketed towards kids and sold in malls.
Becoming a millionaire is easy with right start in life:

- slightly above average intelligence

- stable home

- fancy degree

- modicum of work ethic

- first world passport

But these things put you into the wealthiest 10% of the world as a starting point.
Do you have a link to the story? That sounds both hilarious and disappointing.
The UK one is strong on paper, but enforcement is beyond poor. No company has been sanctioned for breaking workplace COVID rules and the on the streets in some areas you wouldn’t know there was supposed to be a lockdown. And they still haven’t got quarantine for international arrivals - seems that a year ago it was deemed too disruptive.
4. Verification
> - Make tests free (fully subsidized)

Florida has free tests. I tried two places (giant parks filled with hundreds of cars waiting), the cops told me 3+ hours wait each, I went to a private clinic and was done in 20 min. But yeah, they have free and fully subsidized tests.

Apparently the logistics of it is not that simple.
ReviewMeta warning: It's not remotely accurate (2018)
Amazing stuff.

I really wish old phones would have unlockable bootloaders and upstream hardware support.

Millions of devices which could be reused consigned to the dustbin.
They're selling them on eBay.

Part 2 of their blog had a link to one of their listings:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Raspberry-pi-model-b-x2/274658053...
Lorry drivers should only live in one city. Anywhere else, they need to "self isolate" - contact-less reception of food, hand-off of documents etc.

On return home, they need to assume they became infected en-route and use PPE suitable for that reality.

Medical staff already know how to avoid taking disease home. They just need the funding and support to access the right PPE, facilites and reasonable hours. If they are in transit, the need a good reason and well thought out measures.

Quarantines don't need to stop all people, just those who are likely to spread the disease.
Honestly, django is the only thing that keeps me on python for backend service. With microservice being all the rage these days, I don't see any battery-included framework that can rival django emerging in golang, rust, swift and other new and hip languages.
I'm annoyed that the comments here pile on the "ease of use" part, while largely ignoring what is more original here. (I don't know what I expected.)

The critiques of p2p identity leaking and big hungry servers are valid and I'm glad they are raised. As a Matrix user, I could respond to the first point that yes, it's a tradeoff depending on your threat model. I think that having a tractable identity is less bad than having one point of failure and moderation, on the broad social scale. If you are more concerned about very strong security now, you may decide differently. I think in the future, you could use an unfederated server of Matrix if you want something like Signal for sensitive connections. And yes, maybe pure p2p with no server nodes will never be viable for some use cases, with some threat models.

I do hope that in the future there will be an optimized Matrix server implementation in a faster language. (I'm saying Matrix, but of course my "loyalty" is ultimately more to the type of vision than some specific project.) I'm willing to cut some slack (pun unintended) to people having to iron out their big visions in an easier, more lenient language first. It's more important to have the features people want first.

As to the difficulty part, again, this is a legitimate concern, but I feel in HN comments and similar places it degenerated into a complete meme. All technology is "hard" for most/some people. I know older folks who drive to a clerk in a store to ask them to show how to do stuff on IPhone. There is always some greasing and other people having to tell you how to use it, not everything can be intuited. But you can simplify: point folks to a specific client (Element), which will point them to one server (Matrix.org). (Or, say, a random wallet like Ethereum does it?) I've done it with success with a bunch of "non-technical" people. No decisions needed on their part, but they could make them if they wanted to research (and not everyone has to want to!). It was no different in the era of email expansion and Outlook.
Firejail uses Xpra as a sandboxing X proxy to the real server.

It can also be configured to use Xephyr.
As an EV owner, I can say that the maintenance cost savings are being hyped up, at least if you buy a new car every 5 years. About 70% of the expenses I had for my recently sold ICE car are relevant for EVs, too: Yearly inspection (yes it’s cheaper with the EV, but still necessary for most brands; pollen filters need changing and AC needs cleaning), new brakes because they were rusty (a problem even worse for EVs), new tires and seasonal tire rotation, new 12V battery (every EV has one too), new wipers, and cleaning. You’ll probably spend a bit less time at the mechanic with an EV, but the difference won’t be that big.

If you keep your car for longer, an EV will require less expenses for moving parts, but it might offset this by requiring a new battery after 8-12 years (right now, batteries retail for $12k and more, let’s hope this goes down soon).

Given that, fuel savings are really great. With my old ICE car a round trip to the big city cost €10, while with my Ioniq it’s only €3 in summer, when charged at home (even though we pay €0.20/kWh). Maybe €4.50 in winter. So on average we’re looking at something like 60% savings in fuel costs even with our expensive middle european electricity plans.
Before you judge the book, why not pick it up? You can get it for $5.48 from Amazon. You can get it for $0.00 at the local public library around here.

The book basically lays out common strategies ordinary people employ to become millionaires. It's well worth your time.
High density, you say. Relative to the rest of the world, you say.

Sidney - 423/km2
Melbourne - 508/km2
Brisbane - 155/km2

Paris - 20,000/km2
Berlin - 4,206/km2
London - 5,666/km2
NYC - 27,755/km2

You are effectively out of touch with reality.

edit:

NYC - 27,755/km2 to NYC - 10,716/km2 (27,755 is in mi2 units)

sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin
I was in the market recently for an EV but ended up buying ICE instead because of the price difference. The EV cost around 27k Euros, the ICE equivalent cost 17k Euros (both new). I really wanted the EV but even with maintenance costs and gas it would take many years to justify it.
Yeah, it's common when the title has been changed by the editor.
>> Google has to have a method of determining whether a search query originates from a manual request, or if its a link to the results

The issue was about how it could be risky to one's reputation by linking from a NYT article to a disparaging page.

My parent asked how such a risk might arise. I assumed they could not imagine how one's browser, NYT and the target site could conspire to affect rankings.

I explained how this might happen. So Google knows there's traffic. Some traffic ranks higher than none, and much traffic ranks higher than some.

So, to allow Google to be aware that a well-trafficked site is slating you, is riskier than if it's a site with few visitors because that site will now rank higher.
> Nope, complete propaganda by the Indian govt.

So you are claiming that the video in the comment above is fake? That the sword was photoshopped in as part of a misinformation exercise? If you are claiming this, then it sounds something straight out of an Indian QAnon conspiracy theory.

> I have family there so I can confirm.

I happen to live there myself. So I can confirm that these sword wielding protesters were attacking policemen armed with sticks (Indian policemen are not armed with lethal weapons). I saw this happening from my own window with my own eyes.
I've posted this story because of the general interest of this kind of analysis; the evaluation of ReviewMeta presumably is already out-of-date, and since the owner plans on passing on the business, we can epect things to change in the near future [1].

[1]: https://reviewmeta.com/blog/successor-to-reviewmeta/
There's little to no standardization in East Asia either...
If the AZ vaccine actually better with longer delays, that's great, but it does not change the fact that the political decision to increase the interval was made at a point where the UK was starting to give second jabs of the Pfizer vaccine, and second round vaccinations with the Pfizer vaccine were cancelled for a lot of people as a result, prompting Pfizer to warn they didn't have data on what that would do.

As such the decision was very clearly made on the basis of getting more people some protection, whether or not they could be confident of the effect of the long term protection across the various vaccines.0

It's a reasonable gamble to take given the amount of spread, and is not a criticism (though the way the change was communicated was absolutely awful), but if it had been a decision taken based on available data one would expect the schedules actually tested by the manufacturers to be adhered to, even if different between the vaccine.
Yes they are from what I understood. Clever strategy if you are dealing with a client who doesn't see further than the next move.
You can't have just one measure. You really need all the measures mentioned in the grandparent comment.

Kind of no point having the population get tested now in the US. Without contact tracing and quarantine a positive result arrives too late to help anyone.

First you need to lock down the entire state until the daily infected is only 1% of the testing capacity. 4 weeks of level 4 lock-down would do that. Then with contact-tracing you can start to get ahead of the virus by quarantining infected people (close contacts of the positive test) before they even transmit Covid further.

Also, I'm sorry that you are experiencing life in a state as infected as Florida. It sounds terrifying. I hope you get well soon and stay safe.
I'd rather say Electron is the new Java.

Write once, debug everywhere, consume all the a RAM, have poor integration in all desktop, full of glitches in Linux.
I mentor school kids, trying to get them to build interesting stuff and choose engineering as a career. They haven’t been to school in basically a year, they’re stuck at home missing their friends, everything’s upside down, but despite that - they still want to go the extra mile, show up to their Zoom calls, and work together to build a cool robot. It’s rewarding to know that people don’t give up, despite such a difficult situation.
Same. The only issue I had with virtualenv was when I copied one to a different directory and it didn't work. It turns out you can't do that. Everything else has always worked fine, and I've been using it professionally for 10 years.
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But your examples are slightly different. In those, the person changing their mind has suffered the consequences of holding a particular opinion. Have a billionaire live on the streets for a year and he will change his opinions about homelessness, subject a bully to bullying and he might stop bullying others, an anti-feminist dad with a few daughters might become a feminist, and so on.

If John McCain only had heard about others experiences being POWs had he become a life-long advocate against torture? Probably not. This has been explored in the context of political conflicts; between Boers and coloreds in South Africa, between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland, and between Israel and the Palestinians. The research indicates that merely talking to someone suffering from oppression or injustice does not change one's opinion about that oppression or injustice.
I was never able to nap in the afternoon, unless I was really tired, but I would not call that a nap.

Even when I was not drinking coffee, I was still not napping. While my wife would just nap every day between 1-2pm or 20 minutes like a clockwork.
There's also no western nation that tried NZ/Aus's "go early, go hard" policy of lockdowns and didn't reach 0 local cases.

Maybe the real difference is that we're an island. But much more likely is our different public policies. And if you need evidence, the UK is an island (like Aus/NZ) with policies more like the US and - surprise! They have case numbers more similar to the US than similar to Aus/NZ.

If you really think the island / continent thing is relevant, I'm excited to hear the story of why the US's covid disaster is somehow actually canada and mexico's fault.
H1b's again no doubt. Do the needful.
For a lab environment I would look at

https://www.picotech.com/oscilloscope/2000/picoscope-2000-sp...

or

https://redpitaya.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developerGuide/12...
> 2) Tests taking 3:30 min to run with docker vs 30 secs without.

This is not a problem with docker, but your environment. Tests should run at the same speed and initial time with or without docker (with an exception for changes that update dependency list - that will take the time for the initial build).

Things to check: Are you installing dependencies before adding the app? For development are you mounting the app instead of building a new image each time?
The book is about opportunity in America, and how ordinary middle class people can and do become wealthy.
It's not tedious at all and it saves potentially blowing up your system with crap splattered all over your filesystem. We have tons of WSL2 devs and Linux people and it takes care of the, "it works on my machine" problem once and for all.

This insistent push that the old way was good and why did we expend all this effort to make a new thing that I don't want to bother learning the five new invocations to just doesn't line up with the needs of today.

Docker pull, docker exec, docker ps, docker logs and you've pretty much got what you need for ninety percent of your job.

This stuff is not hard. You make it hard for yourself by digging in.
>you get the worst of both worlds. Inefficiency and rigidity of the government, combined with opacity and greed of the private companies.

This is what is being referred to when a politician used the words "public/private partnership.'
Xiaomi introduces remote wireless charging
The title of the graph misleading, but they plainly say underneath:

"The world’s 10 richest billionaires, according to Forbes, own $801 billion in combined wealth, a sum greater than the total goods and services most nations produce on an annual basis, according to the International Monetary Fund"
> Software is not like Construction where the costs can at least be well estimated and you don't need geniuses.

Construction is notorious for cost overruns?
By that logic they should ban Chrome for allowing people to be able access all sorts of content hosted on someone else's server/deployment.
I think SIMD referred to Intel SSE*/AVX/etc., where the vectors are of fixed length. That meant new instructions had to keep getting introduced for new sizes of vectors.
I think if you're using Htmx/Intercooler with Golang, you'd probably want to take a different approach from Django anyway. The backend design approach has to change slightly. You're focused less on whole pages and more on individual user interactions.

There's room for a tool that will scaffold a Go backend from an Htmx-ified web page IMHO.
I believe the uniform nationwide response, free tests and healthcare and the rapid 80% wage subsidy were a huge part of this.

Apart from sectors like tourism, there wasn't anyone who truly felt "screwed over" by arbitrary rules.
Alexis de Tocqueville Institution
isn't llvm 11 able to build old llvm 2.7 software ?
> The average person can not run a matrix server.

Please don't repeat falsehoods like this. The average person can not run anything because software is black magic to them. If you meant the average knowledgeable computer engineer (or similar, as opposed to a large org), then you are simply wrong.

I'm running a Synapse instance for ~25 people (friends and family). We are federated and joined to many large rooms. Synapse is using about 400-600M memory (RSS, varies depending on circumstances) and about 8-10% CPU. This is all on a 2 core Hetzner VPS which costs less than 20 USD per month.
> You can run everything without Docker to remove an extra level of indirection.

... and add questions like: are all paths correct for this machine, are binary lib dependencies the same as in production, are the OS versions compatible between dev and prod, is my local runtime version compiled with same options?

The great example where the indirection adds value is: every developer has the same environment and the CI is the same, regardless of personal preferences in systems.
I prefer my system for running youtube-dl in an isolated environment without having to install all of its dependencies on the host. Ansible writes a bash script at ~/bin/youtube-dl containing:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e

IMAGE_NAME="grepular/youtube-dl"

# Build the image if it does not exist
if [[ $(podman images --filter "reference=$IMAGE_NAME" -q) == "" ]]; then
podman build -t "$IMAGE_NAME" -<<EOF >&2
FROM python:3-slim
RUN python3 -m pip --no-cache-dir install youtube_dl
ENTRYPOINT ["youtube-dl"]
EOF
fi

podman run --net host -i --rm -v "$PWD:/app" -w /app "$IMAGE_NAME" "$@"
Also some related discussion on LWN.net from 2004:

https://lwn.net/Articles/85415/
Interesting to see sport on the list, I never thought about it this way. If anyone else is interested: https://aeon.co/ideas/how-people-with-sports-addiction-are-l...
Yes it can, not sure how complete its web platform is but most apps should work without changes.

https://flutter.dev/web
> The reason why freedom of speech is important, is because we want ideas that are counter to mainstream narratives to be able to set root in society.

We want ideas that have value to take root in society, irregardless of their relationship to the mainstream. Not all ideas that are counter to mainstream narratives have positive societal value, nor do all ideas have equivalent value to all others. Alchemy does not have equivalent value to chemistry. The belief that the earth is flat is not equivalent to the belief that it is round, even if neither is perfectly accurate. The Nazis were certainly outside the mainstream, but were also wrong, and evil, and and having their ideas take root again now that they're no longer mainstream is never going to be a good idea.

Marjorie Taylor Greene (to pick an extreme topical example) has the right to believe in QAnon and Jewish space lasers, but everyone else has the right to call out her racist paranoid BS, and one force of speech must inevitably consequence the other. Freedom of speech that doesn't allow the freedom to discern quality of speech isn't really freedom, that's just having society act as a dumb terminal for whatever noise comes its way.
Augmented Collective Intelligence [pdf]
Also its less spectacular but more long term, "revolving door".
> Basic democratic rights were not hampered, also right of assembly.

False. The government has repeatedly used Section 144 to deny the right to assemble and protest. During Hathras gangrape, not only did the government deny such rights to those who wanted to express solidarity with the victim and victims family by using Section 144. It turned a blind eye when the perpetrators milleu openly violated the section to assemble to show support on behalf of the accused. Why, because those are BJP's (the ruling party's) vote base.

The party IT cell head (Malviya) divulged the identity of the victim of rape although this is against the law. No charges have brought against Malviya or those who assembled in support of the gangrape accused in violation of Section 144.
The USA has a route to being wealthy, but with 2 caveats - for those in the know, and at the expense of others.

This wider world, into which every person and thus potential millionaire is born, is, alas, not a level playing field.

This is why global inequality must be addressed. It will result in more innovation, less violence, more choice, less corruption.

But even more generally - the situation is a lot more complicated.
I wouldn't hold any celebs too high in mind. Dave is a funny comedian but who knows what he's like in his personal life? Lots of celebs are either assholes or terrible people. Rule of thumb: if you don't know them personally, never put them on a pedestal. Even then, don't do it.
Twitter and Reddit where used as well, chrome, internet ... even electricity ... None of them where shutdown.
So IMHO shooting element was too much.
Misleading and flat out wrong, as this link shows: https://jacobinmag.com/2017/10/inheritance-wealthy-one-perce...

What motivates you to defend and apologize for inequality anyway?
Hardcore fans of media have always fawned over the technical aspects. We've seen it in photography, film-making, music, and now gaming.
Oh my sweet summer child, thou has not seen the internal working of government contracts.

In order to qualify to even bid on a contract there is a pretty high entry barrier. The amount of time it will take you to cross that barrier would be more than amount of time it will take you to start a real business. Bidding is another expensive process which costs money. If you bid on 10 contracts in a year and win one the cost of bidding on rest 9 contracts must be covered to the won contract.

Then comes the compliance costs of various government regulations. In a startup world you can take up accessibility as a P2 item but in government contracts it is a P0. So there are all these complexities involved which bloat the contract. Government has passed probably thousand regulations on whom you can hire and how you work, where the data is stored and what kind of background verification you have done on your employees.

Of course if you and I were to develop a similar website we could do it for $4M and spare some cash to buy couple of Ferraris.

PS. There is also bribes. Of course these are never called so but you have to spend good amount of time golfing with right people, throwing parties, offering front row seats to NBA finals and those sort of things to get your files moving.