skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's plenty of null hypothesis societies to compare with. You'll find a very clear correlation between the outcomes in similar societies that used differing degrees of preventive measures.

It's hard to find a society that took no measures, as the measures so obviously work and no one wants an uncontrolled epidemic, but there's plenty of societies that had differing degrees of catastrophe up to the point where they realized this or started being serious about it. Czech Republic, Peru, Brazil, Bergamo (the latter just being unaware) +++.

Covid initially had a reproductive number between 3 and 6 in the absence of measures - higher for the latest mutations. A cumulative reduction of R of 80% + 40% would make this an R of ~0.25-0.50, but that's assuming 100% compliance everywhere and always.

Indeed, this is what you see in societies that were serious enough but didn't eradicate the virus altogether -- largely no significant epidemic, but wildfire-like eruptions of disease in local communities that don't strictly follow the measures. E.g. classrooms, public transport, homes, pubs/concerts and so on. Norway, as a case in point, currently has an R of 1.33, with measures that kept R cleanly below zero until the British mutation became dominant (through initial seeding through import and then a few almost-inevitable cases). Cities where measures can almost always be followed have almost no disease, the illness only spreads in areas where many people live close together and have children/teenagers in school. This alone is enough to threaten the capacity of intensive care.

Personally I don't really think this merits much debate anymore, if the objective is to seek the truth rather than some ulterior motive (e.g. politicians who wouldn't mind if the pension liabilities fell). It's not subtle if you actually dig into the details.
That describes most "journalism" in the last year ...
Define the "user" in the scenario where it is "my" gRPC server but "your" client affecting "my" SLA.
The ends justify the deceit?
> Focus on media literacy, critical thinking and digital literacy.

1. That is not the easy solution for the politicians

2. That is not the easy solution for the individual (needs to question himself)

= Not gonna happen

I believe “The hard way” does only appeal to a small minority (maybe not in HN :D )
Everyone running their own tile servers is in theory a good idea, but in practice (at least last time I looked) it’s a nightmare to set up. If they want to push people in that direction, they could learn something from “certbot” from LetsEncrypt for example: if you give people a good enough wrapper that makes it relatively easy to self host and contribute to the network, they will. If they don’t understand how, they’ll just use a tile server from somewhere else.
Under "Still doing much technical work":

> Focusing on your team’s health and growth will pay much higher dividends than still being half an engineer.

This logic is completely flawed as it assumes that the manager has reached a point in their career when they have nothing else to teach and nothing else to learn about coding.
I'm an excellent coder and manager but I'm still learning all the time, even after 15 years. My team greatly benefits from me still being in touch with the code. Also, it helps me to make stronger arguments about why we should avoid using certain tools or blindly following hype.

The best engineering managers I've ever had were coding alongside the developers. The worst ones were not. This point about "Still doing much technical work" being a problem could not be further from the truth.
I see. So this is Hari Seldon's all along.
Of course.

The person who suffers in this scenario is not the Scots speaking subject matter expert who chooses not to contribute their time for free, but the Scots speaking child who doesn’t have the resources to learn.
Language changes over time. A word that used to mean "knife" now means "flatware". That's linguistic description.

> It shouldn't be done.

That's linguistic prescription. "This word means what it means and if you change it you're incorrect".
How we scaled inlets to thousands of tunnels with Kubernetes
The report points out that even moderate meditation (more than 30 minutes per day) can have an objective negative effect on sleep quality, contraditionary to the fact that subjects often report a positive effect. (I have not found the scientific report where the statement is based on yet.)
Patched this week, not anymore pal.
PCEngines APU for DIY, or Mikrotik for a provided solution. If you need more ports or throughput, extend with a dedicated switch. Any stupid unmanaged switch is good enough for most SOHO use-cases, unless you want to get serious with segmenting your network with VLANs and ACLs.

As for what DIY OS/dist, I have used VyOS, IPFire, pfSense, OPNSense, and a handful of various xx-WRT derivatives. OpenWrt is still my recommendation without a doubt. I'm still not at all a fan of the update and package management of OpenWRT, but it's the best out there unless you configure a vanilla debian install yourself.

Keep WiFi APs as separate devices, regardless of if you mesh or not.
Watching the doc, all I see is LARP.

Why do we consider those seriously while making fun of LaVey's rituals?
A lot of apps can do substantial changes to functionality with just serverside changes. App developers are already used to a good chunk of users having updates disabled. Those users update every 1 or 2 years whenever they get a new phone and reinstall your app.
As a new eng manager with about a year under my belt, #1 really hits the nail on the head. I couldn’t step away from the code because I was so used to IC.

Now as a result, I’m having very difficult discussions about promotions (or lack thereof), because I didn’t give my team the chance to grow.
That's what we're doing. We're leaving both App Stores.
> Though I initially sympathized with the name change from master to main (cause I don't care what it is called)

It seems you don't have any bash/zsh/fish scripts which assume that the most important branch is named "master"...
I only love google, not apple.
While I agree with you, most countries charge that and more in unavoidable taxes.

The difference being that you can choose not to partecipate in their private stores (eg. develop on the web) but it's much harder to escape taxes.
Thanks for this.

I always held the opinion the "perfect" leader would be a hybrid of leading + devving, flexible enough to switch to 100% leading if need be, yet perfectly capable of picking up any technical work required, therefore never landing in the above situation out of inability.

I've never seen the problem "we don't have enough management capacity". On the other hand, I've seen plenty of non-/low-technical people become engineer managers, flailing their arms when there is too much work and not enough time. Only making the situation worse by stressing everyone out and taking up additional time in communication.
I don't have strong feelings about mastodon or this specific app, but the credo of "It's a private company" is just lazy reasoning and thrown around blindly far too often.

Being banned by big tech (whether apps, social media accounts, major payment processors for receiving donations) is in some cases almost equivalent to being shut down ; "it's a private company" : if the company has a monopoly and there's not a significant number of healthy alternatives for people to use (be it out of convenience and lack of skill, doesn't matter), then how about we take that into account?

It's sad and frustrating we wanted an open internet and companies took over a huge share of it and are not stopping amassing influence and control. I wish this wasn't so, but it is, and we have to open our eyes to it when we're debating such topics.

"You can still distribute your app when not being on the Play Store or Apple Store right?" "In theory yes" "Case closed" ; things aren't so simple! In a perfectly 'libertarian' world, I would be more inclined to be on your side. But we don't live in such a world. We live in a world of politics, extreme lobbying, complicated tax codes, one million parties with various interests locked into a power struggle for political / social control and influence.
I run @oldtechadverts on Twitter so I see my fair share of folks talking about their passion for the Atari computers (as well as other retro computers).

The majority of them seems to really enjoy playing the games, repairing them, enhancing them, writing new games for them. The fact that these computers are old does not matter to them, the retro crowd enjoy these computers just because.
D-Wave demonstrates performance advantage in quantum simulation
I'm working on something similar (Airtable-based finances), though it stopped being a side-project when dozens of people started signing up and I got carried away. Very modest income still, but ramen-profitable -- I have no other source of income. Extremely satisfying to eat from the work of my own hands.

https://fintable.io/
Create WhatsApp Chatbots for your business
If you think NFTs are stupid or a scam. I think you must reasonably conclude that paying money for anything digital is also the same.
Githubs actions are manufactured outrage/racism.

By declaring a gray area word as forbidden it loses its legitimate meanings and only the undesireable meanings remain. The forbidden word becomes a slur because its potential to become a neutral or positive word has been removed.
It's not safer if SMS can be used as a recovery method.
>If you'd like to help Chari pay for her procedure, click here.

That's just appalling, she should not have to pay out of pocket to cover damage the hospital staff inflicted on her.
So, when signing up for the app, how do I know what's being done with any personal information that's being collected?
What is nft?
Please don't use Reactive in Java. Stick to plain imperative - and you'll be compatible with Project Loom in the future.
Wealth distribution is exponential, meaning almost nobody will fall in the small revenue gap you mentioned.
When you "don't get it" in crypto (and startups in general) it's because the person explaining is either incompetent or trying to confuse you so that you can't analyze.

If someone can't explain something simply, walk away and don't give them your money.
That title seems more relevant as well.
Why is there a ban on sexual content? Why is there not a ban on violent content?
> capped maximum spend at $100

They would need 100,000 advertisers to earn $10 million, which seems impractical.

For comparison, they earned $120 million in contributions in 2020.

That said, Facebook has 8-10 million advertisers, many probably running low budget campaigns. But low budget campaigns typically only work when they're hyper-targeted / personalized (something I assume we don't want Wikipedia to do)
In the Zen-tradition it's almost expected at some point during meditation to have hallucinations (sometimes severe)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maky%C5%8D
Here is a relevant blog post f-droid published in 2019 on Tusky and Fedilab:

https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html

They do seem to ague in favor of free software. .. at least as long as app developers do not advertise shunned instances. Power-statements like "sometimes, staying neutral isn’t an option" suggest that they are probably not an ally of those wanting to leave it to the user to decide what hosts to access.

While I have mixed feelings about the article, it is well worth a read, no matter where readers stand on the issue.
Well, we know that the rich will pay $$ and have burning gasoline fountains - if they are allowed? Even there will be illegal fires. No? The rich killed off the Rhino via economic routes, Chinese and Arab richmen were sure it would enhance their erections. Even in the face of laws, this trade persisted.
I believe killing endangered species should be a capital crime = death, as the perp is committing the ultimate crime = species death.
So taxes will not deter the richmen - imprison the guiding hand, so a rich man can not escape by blaming hit chauffer = the guiding mind who pays gets the punishment. Punishment can not be vitiated by paying fine, they must be locked up.
That's only servers - they still need developers, managers, reviewers etc.. Apple surely does not make a loss, but the server bill is probably a negligible part of the cost.
Yeah. This is a point I've been hammering for a long time now. The problems here are not technology related and it's a mistake to look for technological fixes. The same companies that can ban apps from an app store can also ban websites at the drop of a hat, and do. However their behaviour currently when banning websites is considered to be a legitimate use of power, so it attracts no attention.

There is nothing anywhere that would stop Google just adding websites it doesn't like to the SafeBrowsing blacklist. It's just a social convention that they don't. Yet, social conventions have been repeatedly ripped up over the last 10 years or so by political activists who abuse the word "safe" to mean "ideologically acceptable to us". SafeBrowsing is thus a very dangerous thing because Google's management has shown no ability so far to get a grip on the activist wing of their workforce.

Fortunately, there are two mitigating factors.

One is that Chrome at least on desktop lets you disable SafeBrowsing. Of course, they can change that just as easily as they can change the social norms around how it's used.

Another is that Microsoft has built a successful fork of Chromium. I'm using new Edge on macOS right now. It's not merely using Blink, it's actually Chrome but modified and is very serviceable indeed. In fact they just added vertical tabs. Microsoft seems, at least so far, to have avoided the worst of the culture wars and suspicions of bias. If Google did start to abuse Chrome, people who understood what was happening could quickly switch to Edge. Of course, iOS users are out of luck, as always.

However it may be too fatalistic to assume Android apps cannot be distributed outside the store. I've been hearing "people don't install apps anymore" for years now and it's never motivated with real data, just intuitions and anecdotes. People install apps all the time. The biggest breakout hit of the last decade was Minecraft which violated every aspect of hacker groupthink at once: desktop-first, no mobile version, distributed outside app stores, written in Java, no VC backing. I think people talk themselves into believing this isn't possible, but if people want to install an app, they'll do it. Companies that believe they can't survive without app store distribution are typically offering something completely undifferentiated. I don't know how many dating services there are for the polyamorous but I guess there can't be that many. All it takes on Android is to tick a single box and you can install apps (I'm not sure how they can self-update, but nothing stops you dynamically downloading code into your app on Android).
I think they could meet the store policy by having a message in-app that says "I agree to abide by the terms of whichever server I connect to"
The only awareness it generates is awareness to do the same language policing in other places that never asked for it.
This would be absolutely horrible for me. Ads are designed to distract us and manipulate our emotions or identities in order to get us to spend more money than we need to spend. Wikipedia as it is now is a counter to those distractive, manipulative forces.
Hashtag Editor, https://rusinov.me/hashtag-editor - niche app for organizing social media hashtags. You create campaigns, add your own hashtags (no creepy APIs used), and copy result to clipboard.
Citations needed to back your claim. Research literature seem to support the opposite.
Considering the costs of Wikipedia, I wonder if switching to something like IPFS or Sia would make sense in future?
I don't know almost anything about cobol, but from what I understand, there are more intricacies than language in cobol, so yes, it takes long to learn it.
+1 for Merlin, I use it in a household of four people for QoS and it's great!
These fake-detector tools will only pave the way for flawless deepfakes.

Im not sure what the solutions are to the societal problem it opens up. Media will get a lot stranger.
Except the drivers are always closed, so you cannot run any OS that you like or have long-term support.
and even pointing out even that overlapping similarity will get you ostracized from ..... both sides

(but neither side seems to know the other has even that little bit in common)
‘Science superpower’ ambitions risk being undermined by lack of investment
Presumably they leak or heat up though to some degree?
How do you use a non-Google oidc idp though?
That's the main thing keeping me away from it.
You have the non-choice of using Google Auth or include the token in every request outside of credentials
In my town, the police stop and search old white ladies. So far they have not found any guns or drugs.
It's kind of ridiculous for a company to 'expect' 50% engineering and 50% people management. It should be fluid and vary depending on the skill level of the team and the complexity and criticality of various projects over time. It shouldn't be fixed at 50% like some magic number.
Saying that the left spends too much effort on rhetoric might be valid criticism, but focusing on it as reasons to "walk away from the left" (which not too many black Americans are doing, BTW) is disingenuous. Sure, the left talks about rhetoric, but it also fights for higher wages, civil liberties, healthcare, affirmative action, investment in education, workers' rights, and voting rights. It's fine not to like everything a certain political camp does, but presenting things as if that's where all or even most of the effort is is just factually wrong. Of course, knowing that this aspect is less popular, media organisations like Fox News have chosen to focus on Dr. Seuss for the past couple of weeks rather than the debate on minimum wage, so really this aspect is more of the right's focus than the left's. "Wokeism" (and the even more made-up "cancel culture") is the new War on Christmas. Sure, there are enough instances to turn into hysteria if that's in your interest, but the actual work is elsewhere.
I am absolutely implying that blockchain tech is fundamentally useless, and cryptocurrencies doubly so.
What if we just buried carbon emissions underground, forever?
I'm not so sure about that. If that were the case then he wouldn't consistently have a top ranking podcast.
> SQLAlchemy 1.4 establishes itself as the starting point for the SQLAlchemy 2.0 project, which will move fully to Python 3

Woa. How does this even work, do they ship a py2 engine to run the old code since hosts don't have it installed anymore?
Example number 89894758934 in "Brexit is a complete mess".
R&D happens on every product. Sometimes only the D occurs without the R.
That’s what they said about AT&T and the railroad monopolies. By breaking them up and restoring competition, our economy thrived.

There is no creative destruction under monopoly capitalism. It is only suffocating and dominance.
What should I ask Daniel Carpenter?
Sandboxing and permissioned APIs for accessing data is what prevents that, not the half-assed vetting that Google does.
Indeed, most politicians don't really want you to focus on critical thinking. It would solve some of their problems, and create lots more problems for them.

But for yourself, it is becoming more and more important to really think through what is being presented to you in whatever media form and analyze whether it is credible.

The print form of a deep fake is plain old well constructed word-lies, which is why we have had the phrase "don't believe everything you read on the internet" for awhile. There are people who do, but we live better lives if we don't.

Deep fakes aren't really a new problem, they are just a different form of an old problem.
D&I is a coverage against lawsuits for discrimination. It’s a dog and pony show.
That’s actually the post that inspired me! (I even commented on that original posting[0])

Please let me know if you run into any issues along the way.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26328399
Don't know why you're being downvoted. This is an obvious solution.
Or, perhaps you’re just wrong? You can’t even be bothered to answer the simple question of when socialism has been attempted.
Oops, you're right, I should have researched that a bit...

Still, apparently the origin of the name seems to have more to do with the idea of a "black day" (a day when a disaster occurs), according to Wikipedia:

> The earliest evidence of the phrase Black Friday originated in Philadelphia, where it was used by police to describe the heavy pedestrian and vehicular traffic that would occur on the day after Thanksgiving. This usage dates to at least 1961.
Seems so much work for something already implemented with messaging brokers, though.

In my opinion, clients themselves shouldn't worry about if the server is ready or not, only handle if the server does not respond in x seconds and then simply crash or error out. It is the same you would to with any other external service call.

I think the biggest change to gRPC is to the way I thought. Dumb clients was always something that I chose because it was an order of magnitude simpler to reason about. gRPC comes in and changes this by making the clients smart and the servers smarter, which brings allot of complexity to the table.

Also, indeed the configurations are so obscure.
How exactly would I go about avoiding consumer routers when every provider in my area forces me to get some kind of modem with built in router and wifi?
I wish we could in iOS. Apple's intentional crippling of PWAs should be illegal (push notifications supported on desktop Safari but not iOS?).
I agree with you. People in the West want to feel and look good and have an obsession with "healing themselves", hence meditation and psychedelics are sold as ways to achieve that. However, if you study the origins of meditation and psychedelics, they have nothing to do with feeling good! These practices were closely guarded by a few select practitioners or shamans and normal people would not engage in them at all. However, in the case of meditation some teachers shared some of their learnings to householders, albeit in a very different way. They certainly did not advise laymen to go on intense meditation retreats to get in touch with their childhood trauma and heal themselves!

For those who are willing to really commit their lives to it, meditation - or to be more precise the spiritual path that leads to it and merges with it - can absolutely cure many neurotic issues. This happens when people stop pretending to feel great and honestly accept that they feel bad, anxious or whatever. By learning to befriend your "bad" emotions slowly and whilst nourishing "good" emotions (through e.g. loving kindness or compassion meditation), you start to slowly unravel some of your milder neurotic issues. But it should be communicated very clearly that you can't sprinkle a bit of mindfulness over your messed up life and expect to be enlightened...
Until you’re that somebody, and then you make a post about it and it blows up on HN.
Funnily enough I just recalled this quote recently when casually looking over this page about WinUI3 : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/winui/winui3/x...

The whole XAML/WPF thing just seem to me a bit of a dig's dinner.
At least people think I'm smart for once.

We are just jabbing and negotiating the lines of personal freedom vs. common good.
"incentivizing" is such an anodyne word for this cruelty.
A few active users but these are largely unpaid, no revenue as of yet. Very early stage.
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