skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the downvotes interesting. Do you think the web page is actually well done? Or do you disagree with the observation that the drop between weeks 6 and 7 in 2020 (in the midst of a bad flu season) looks different?

% ch in flu cases between weeks 6 and 7 in NYS

2017: -8%
2018: +9%
2019: +9%
2020: -17%
2021: -31% (really low absolute numbers)

What caused flu cases to start falling in mid-February _before_ so called "public health measures"?[1]

> The acceleration phase of a pandemic is complex and requires a multifaceted and rapidly adapting public health response. During a 3-week period in late February to early March, the number of U.S. COVID-19 cases increased more than 1,000-fold. Various community mitigation interventions were implemented with the aim of reducing further spread and controlling the impact on health care capacity.

So, between CDC weeks 7 to 10, the a bad flu season disappears while COVID-19 cases increase 1,000-fold. What are the "public health measures" that explain this divergence?

March 21, 2020[2]:

> "To be clear, the state has the legal authority to overrule any locality's decision to issue an order of mass quarantine or shut down. No locality will be closing down. The mass transit system is not shutting down. These rumors, caused by undue anxiety, are just that - rumors."

March 7, 2020[3]:

> During a briefing on the novel coronavirus, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today declared a state of emergency to help New York more quickly and effectively contain the spread of the virus.

February 29, 2020[4]:

> "We'll start testing immediately here in New York, so we can handle more tests, more volume, turn them around faster, and we are ready to go and literally we can start testing immediately We have mobilized for emergencies before, and we're going to do it again."

February 27, 2020[5]:

> Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the total number of flu cases in New York State has eclipsed the record number of seasonal cases since the New York State Department of Health began tracking flu cases during the 1998-99 season.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6918e2.htm

[2]: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/statement-secretary-governo...

[3]: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/novel-coronavirus-briefing-...

[4]: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/video-audio-rush-transcript...

[5]: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-re...
Doesn't SELinux provide some of that?

Tightly enclose all running software with a beyond-root, kernel-level authority/sandbox, so even vulnerabilities only we know can't harm us if they're discovered?
The biggest factor for me was having kids. After I moved out of my parents' (my mom was an administrator of a preschool, so I think she brought home lots of fun germs), I didn't even get a cold for 3-4 years. I wouldn't say I did anything other than basic hygiene (hand washing after bathroom breaks, etc) to prevent getting sick during that time.

Then I started having kids. I've spent most of the cooler seasons with at least mild cold symptoms ever since. It's been like clockwork that every year for the last 8 years, everyone in the house gets a "stomach bug" around February; including 2020.

No surprise to me, this past year no one in the house (of five) has had anything besides allergy symptoms. This February was the first in 8 years that I didn't find myself spending an evening on the toilet with constant diarrhea. I don't want to go back to normal.
Building a GraphQL to SQL Compiler on Postgres, MS SQL and MySQL
With Farage, the phrase "empty vessels make the most noise" comes to mind.

Apparently he was a loud mouthed joker at school too, who just wanted to say something that would grab people's attention. I'm somewhat thankful for him highlighting the racist, xenophobic streak in certain parts of the UK - it just happened to be the topic that got him the most attention.

Honestly, if he thought supporting immigrants would get him the most controversy/support/attention, he'd be doing that in a hurry.
Besides the fact that they'd lose some money from the publishers, I will never understand any single argument from Apple about Spotify/Netflix and the rest being prevented from adding their own billing services, even if it means just letting the devs add a link to take them to a web page.

This, especially when Apple is trying to compete in the same field and has an unfair advantage on their own turf.

And yes, every other Store should do the same although from my personal experience and from that of the company I work for, we've only had issues dealing with Apple so far.
Who benefits from this are UK banks and ultra wealthy that don’t want to follow incoming EU regulations on money laundering and tax avoidance that were a reaction the The Panama Papers leak.
EC Antitrust Objections to Apple on App Store Rules for Music Streaming
from the beginning I was convinced that Cameron was playing to lose, however it now is conceivable that our then Prime Minister was merely gullible enough to be manipulated into failing to present his case, by using the oldest trick for conning Old Estonian schoolboys: telling them that they are perfectly correct and everything is just how it ought to be with the world with them in charge nothing can go wrong. Seriously I have some experience with bailing out of financial doom a Old Etonian's online business no less than three times in as many years. And I went to the school which Pitt the Younger declared "there shall be no peace in this country until that place is no more ". The death blow was dealt when the working capital was squandered on crack and prostitutes and alcohol. In itself that wasn't unpleasant but you have to imagine the atmosphere of ugliness created by a impetulant man child discovering impotence upon finding so many incredibly rare edge cases when the application of social privilege failed to magically resuscitate his fortunes. Apparently all my fault for not doing the job I wasn't even hired to do longer than the original times I never got paid for. People wouldn't believe me if I told stories. People usually don't. I grew up surrounded by some incredibly privileged kids none of whom were a millionth part of a millionth of this man's odorous malificence.
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"There was nothing for money to trickle down to."

Wasn't the money reinvested to create those jobs in the first place?
It's on gitlab. But a lot stuff isn't on it yet/changes a lot, and I take my time :)

https://gitlab.com/zen_core/zen_core
And u need assets from the original game to use it

I made a small example clip to show how I use livebook to simulate player load(they use exactly the same genserver as real players, just that the packets are already deserialzed )

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/819516082154242048/83...
They only got 20% of what they wanted on free trade, there is nothing on services which make up most of the UK economy. Goods is only 20% and we are a net importer.

I don't understand the issues about state aid, we were already at the bottom of the league table interns of doling out aid to business. We had plenty of room to expand that already if we wanted.

Right now the most likely outcome of the whole thing is the break up of the United Kingdom. The whole thing was a mess from beginning to end (not that it has ended yet).
There is gpick[1] for Linux users

[1] http://www.gpick.org/
> but it got watered down which was a real shame. I'm not sure why.

I think (and this might just be an old wive's tale) it was related to the browser connection limits being per domain, and so subdomains + looser cookie origins was a band aid for it.
Thanks for the correction in contexts. I still wouldn't recommend state machines to a newcomer.
In a first, FDA cites violation of clinical trials reporting law
3. VPS at bahnhof.se
2. IntelliJ Ultimate
1. Cocaine
No, you can do it blindly. For example, if you have a web page that has an <img> tag pointing to a specific domain, then you can assume the client will perform a DNS lookup, so you can send fake replies blindly, hoping it will match a lookup request that you don't see.

Adding mixed case matching makes it more difficult to make a lucky guess when sending a fake reply blindly.
Entirely agreed the loss of simplicity is a shame. I do wonder though if the current "APFS subvolume" approach is an acceptable alternative.

What I don't understand is why the apple installer and updater seems to do a lengthy installation, when it seems to be effectively creating a "sealed image". Does anyone know of a good resource explaining the modern MacOS installer?

It strikes me Apple could ship a delta image for the system subvolume, and just ensure the hash is correct before rebooting. That seems to not be what's being done, given the length of time an update takes. I wonder why they don't do this though, given it seems nothing can edit the system volume, so it ought to be shipped as an image?
Looks like commercial cameras will rule imaging/video from satellites
Britain had an outsized influence in the EU, so in fact the strategy was to extract EU-internal horsetrading on the 'negotiating mandate' strong demands for their own position which then became the EU position backed by the EU's entire weight.

Also the last time UK had to negotiate on their own it's economy was still bigger than China's. The world has changed and Brexiteers hadn't noticed that their lack of influence was not the EU's fault but rather a general shift of power to Asia.
By design it's hard to work out the cost/performance ratio of many consumer items. Why pay for the brand name item if the consumer knew it's actual value.

Just tracking down what an item really is to find reviews can be hard, and then you really never know if the underling product has changed in the meantime.

It feels so anti consumer.
Indeed, and if that is what makes the industry rediscover Ada and Modula-2, more the better, however care need to be taken how it is sold, and also be understood this is going to take several decades.

Anyone that cares about memory safety for userspace applications has already moved on into other languages, the problem is the foundation and those that resist no matter what.

Also the data races prevented by Rust type system only apply to multihreaded code accessing in-memory data structures, there plenty of other data races in multiprocessing scenarios.
No, the denominator should not be fully-vaccinated people - how could that possibly account for cases of blood clots after the first dose?

It's not sobering, it's scientific or clinical. It's what doctors do on a daily basis even without a pandemic.
yeah, now that you put some context around it, I understand I was a bit off. Thx :-)
But you can just buy an android. What you can’t do, is break Apple and then still have an Apple option for those of us who really don’t want an android phone.
You actually can have a single queue that handles the different cases. You want dynamic dispatch for that, the syntax looks like this (quick addition to the playground sample): https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
Reason I will never buy a Tesla. But everyone else is jumping into the touchscreen mania too sadly. A touchscreen in a car jeez.
UK fishing rights are owned by a handful of people anyway. I never understood where people came to think that these rights mattered on the bigger scale of things.

https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/10/11/fishing-quota-uk...
‘A Perfect Positive Storm’ and Bonkers Dollars for Big Tech
Yeah covid is a soft-power strategy though the majority of people are cowards that try to suppress the obvious.
It doesn't yet exist, and the old world is gone, same with so many professional magazines (RIP Dr. Dobb's). Enjoy the transitory period.
> How could std::is_same be implemented?

You would perform manual static context-sensitive text expansion, just like the C++ template expander does. In this case, you end up just manually expanding it all the way out to a true or false by hand.

I'm just saying that the C++ template expander only performs static context-sensitive text replacements, ending in valid template-free C++ code. The template engine doesn't introduce any magic that can't be done more tediously in template-free C++ by hand, so you can do the same tricks in Java by hand.

Now, Java doesn't have non-primitive value types, so you'd have to manually flatten some classes in order to get the same layout without the class boundary forcing an indirection. Java also doesn't allow interior references while C++ absolutely does, but that's outside the C++ template expander / template sub-language.
The sniffing relies on people trading files using p2p connections (and exposing their IPs) and lawyers getting the user of the IP at that time from internet providers, either via court order or some other back channel. There is no deep packet inspection.

Some lawyers are even using sites similar to https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/

It probably costs less to pay the amount than fighting it in court. I think it's capped at 450 Euro or something? But I know some people who got scot free by merely having a lawyer send a response.
> This is bad of course, and it’s exactly what they were told would happen, but it’s also just 32 million pounds. Compare that to the 300 billion worth of exports and wonder why fishing was ever a part of the debate at all.

Part of these 300bn are made of small $30m industries. Some exports are valuable to other countries (can't produce themselves) and thus wouldn't require negotiations. Some exports or deals can affect a large number of people who can't change jobs easily and now become a liability. You don't want to have a bunch of angry fishermen.

EU-UK negotiations didn't revolve around the fisheries only, that's part of why it took them long time and still haven't resolved all of the issues. It'd be good if someone pull up all negotiations and all industries that are going to be affected and make a interactive site/report out of it.
"You might have figured out that Safari on iOS STILL has no support for the Web Push API."

The STILL there makes it sound like Apple is just slow to implement it.
How is this different from glitch.me? I am genuinely curious. Looks like a static Next.js app. I am a regular replit user, I want to know if the support of node/deno is complete (it hasn't been really responsive so far).
This is like saying YC should give their money to the poor instead of investing it in privileged entrepreneurs from Ivy League universities
Due to an high amount of work I have to do I was only able to skim through the memo.

It seams as if the memo was written in a good intention. What I took away from the text is that he mostly considers people different, not inferior, because of their gender. It would be dumb to completly disagree with that. I think rational and follow science, therefore I agree on some off his points. I disagree with the extend of his conclusions and imo he sometimes mixes up correlation and causality.

But those are all things one could discuss. He sounds like reasonable guy.
What exactly are you thinking in terms of latency becoming an issue under LiveView but not on normal requests?

Do you mean when websites just need a full refresh because they lost their requests on some callback and no-one implemented recovery across the 5 levels of callbacks or something more specific?
Indeed, as long as it makes sense in the long run.

If we can have Singularity/Midori back, with a microkernel in Rust, it would be quite nice, but yeah, I guess that is more of wishful thinking.
Germany first to hand back Benin bronzes looted by British
‘Congratulations, You Killed Osama Bin Laden’
If the burger is all about toppings and condiments, you are not eating good burgers, sir.
Its worth noting that the UK fishing industry is dominated by a handful of mega-trawlers that are under largely international ownership, and therefore its not clear that the UK _should_ be using its diplomatic power to seek concessions on behalf of these interests.

See also "Brexit trade deal: Who really owns UK fishing quotas?" -> https://www.bbc.com/news/52420116
Partially agree. A good hiring process can boost your odds of finding the “right” people, but my personal experience has been that firing well is at least as important as hiring well. Firing well is also something that most companies do very poorly.
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How about using (experimental) Go on the Game Boy :)

https://github.com/pokemium/gbdk-go
FWIW there have been vodka pipelines across the Russia-Estonia border at Narva, and from Belarus to Poland.
> Britain had an outsized influence in the EU

Something which large parts of the British public and reportedly even of the politicians didn't really realize or appreciate, because Brussels was always a derided side-show, to a higher degree than for most other countries.
> high mid-century tax rates was targeted towards a small handful of billionaires and left most people untouched

Tax evasion was much simpler pre modern computing, the internet, credit cards, etc. The rate of tax is high on paper but the effective rate of tax was much lower. Not only that the tax code was (and is) riddled with loopholes. I'd say they had a high rate of tax for honest millionaires and millionaires who aren't friendly with some congressmen.
Hmm, this article doesn't really spell out the balance. So, why is it a disgrace? because brits like Arctic fish? Also, "UK fleets landed fish worth £32m in Norwegian waters" - how much (£m) in fish where landed in UK waters by foreign boats as part of the quota trade?

The quote about how terrible this is comes from "UK Fisheries chief executive Jane Sandell", but later is reveals Sandell owns a business that "catches around 10% of all the fish sold in the UK's chip shops" which I assume to be those arctic fish - another [1]article reveals:

One trawler, which catches 10% of fish sold in chip shops, will be tied up for a year following the collapse in talks.

That trawler appears to be owned by Sandells company:

her firm having only 40% of the fishing opportunities of previous years

Unless the entire British fishing industry fishes exclusively outside British waters, it seems a pretty big bias to proclaim the opinion of someone with such a massive stake in access to Norwegian fish.

And here's another [2]article revealing a little of the British water side:

£160m worth of England's fishing quota is in the hands of vessels owned by companies based in Iceland, Spain and the Netherlands

Well, maybe we should freely trade our respective fishes, rather than have UK based trawlers travel all the way to the Arctic? There might even be a reduced emissions benefit somewhere in there.

Edit:

Here's a site some more answers:

https://ukfisheries.net/about-distant-fishing/qsas

I was unsatisfied to the answer about why cod fishing isn't done locally, so here's an interesting [3]article:

In 2019, 70% of the UK’s seafood was exported to Europe and Asia with an end value of over $2bn. .. over 90% of the cod consumed by the UK’s domestic market is imported

cod from Iceland, the largest importer into the UK, is 38% more expensive than cod exported from the UK.

the UK is exporting an unsustainable cod catch because British waters have been overfished for decades

So, why not fix this by matching tariff on imported cod with tariffs on exported seafood (if necessary), and then learn to either fish sustainably, or learn how to trade with Norway and live with the price of (good) fish.

What I do find strange, is how Britain apparently lacks the fishing industry capable of fishing their own waters, but cod is overfished in them, very selective. But again, why isn't this fixed in trade rather than quotas?

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-56940914

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/52420116

[3] https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2020/11/16/Fishy-busin...
True. You can hold the drive for a couple decades and then decrypt it with your shiny new MacBook based on the newly released Q1 quantum processors. ;-)
gen_statem is a real gem. I've mostly stopped using raw genservers now, and build almost everything using it.
I have always had a hard time understanding the British fishing industry's position on Brexit.

It seems to be summed up as such: (1) Industry decline is due to foreign fishing boats in British water (2) solution is thus to get rid of foreign fishing boats in British waters.

I don't know if (1) is a correct premise but in any case it ignores important points: First, British fishing boats also fish in foreign waters. Tit-for-tat suggests these countries will retaliate if you ban their fishing boats in your waters (can't have your cake and eating it, too).
Second, most fish caught in British waters are exported (and in majority to the EU) and most fish consumed in the UK are imported. So, again, it would seem in their interest to be able to continue export to the EU as painlessly as possible.

My take is that emotions and symbolism of sovereignty over national waters in an island nation that used to "rule the waves" have clouded judgements to the point where people do not think rationally anymore.
European Commission says Apple is in breach of EU competition law
when I stumbled upon a vast fraud involving the highest reaches of political power I was imprisoned for a order the final judge declared "this order does not exist. in fact this order never existed " neither did the very power exist to arrest me. I was mocked in court by a senior judge for merely seeking to point out that very lack of power. I won't go on but I will happily substantiate the facts that are material. the heart of the UK has been usurped and subordinated. the man who threatened me over this was the first port of call for the Japanese Prime Minister who went straight to this man ignoring Tony Blair and anyone else on I think it was the first such state visit since the war and the papers erupted the following day explaining how Japanese protocol always paid respect to the back room power as priority, before falling deathly silent.
This post and the Leetcode post both today in HN are in the totally different extremes at hiring. Try to get to dissect the person's psyche or try to find the best algorithm-maker? Totally different ways of hiring. Is the right formula in between?
It's a great hack actually.
Did that help you reframe your hiring strategy for the future? Curious what qualities in the second engineer both made them better and could have been revealed in an interview.
When you're at it why not extend it to everyone? We will pay you peanuts and make it impossible to leave so you don't have other options. This is known as Cuban healthcare model. It works great as long as you use guns to keep your now cheap qualified workforce in place.
Along those lines, I have plans to purchase a Matias Ergo Pro as my first foray into mechanical. I can't type on a non-ergo keyboard (I've been using the Microsoft Natural for over a decade), and I'm thrilled at the idea of going mechanical, but the noise bothers me.

I heard a side-by-side of a silenced topre (realforce 87u) vs Matias quiet click, the the silenced topre is much quieter.

Are there any ergo topre keyboards out there?
It’s interesting you mention this, as I (somebody who has always used basic keyboards) just recently bought a split ortholinear mechanical keyboard for this exact reason. Curious to see what the experience is like.

The ideals of improved ergonomics and typing efficiency were much more interesting to me than fancy keycaps... but looking cross-sectionally at the keyboard space while researching my purchase, I found that the opposite was mostly true in terms of what attracted the most attention. Strange.