skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For all of the weird things my country Sweden has done (and perhaps more importantly - not done) in the past year, shaming and financially punishing people with covid is not one of them.

The flu didn't happen here either according to the long standing sentinel testing program.

https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/folkhalsorapportering-st... (Swedish, published today)

Summary: 145k people were tested (1.4% of the total population), 29 people tested positive for an influenza variant during the winter season 2020/2021. Typical numbers for previous years are in the thousands.

Graph comparing winter seasons: https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/contentassets/a9433fcecd...

(X-axis: week number, Y-axis: number of cases.)
Actual intent differs from presented intent. As in "not negotiating in good faith"—carrying on negotiations only to extract information, with no intention of making a deal, might be an example of this.
In most developed countries, some sort of flu surveillance is operated. In some countries, those surveillance operations are seeing _no positive cases at all_. They are, however, seeing some flu-like symptoms and picking up some rhinovirus (and covid).
Too many, such that all of them get neglected xD
I'm happier working this way, but if one were to get lucky I'd allocate more effort on it.

[1] https://fdg.gg [2] https://rosetta.cards [3] several other projects not yet public
> They think by not letting those features be available on other platforms they are creating the best product.

No, they don't think that. Their refusal to extend iMessage to Android, to not even provide an iMessage API that would allow Google or third-parties to extend iMessage to other platforms has nothing to do with creating the best product. It's coercion, just as I quoted Federighi writing.

Just above that line he wrote "to get users to switch social networks we’d need more than a marginally better app."

Well then, make it insanely better. I happen to disagree with him though. I think he sold Apple short. I think even a marginally better messaging app would be sufficient.

Ultimately what I would like of Apple is for them to provide the best experience on their own devices, but also to provide interoperability with their services for third parties to extend to non-Apple devices.

BTW, it's interesting to see that they are extending to non-Apple hardware with AppleTV+. They've even paid Roku recently to get an AppleTV+ button on the Roku remote.
Anglo Saxons did not go extinct any more than dinosaurs; they evolved.

“Anglo-Saxons” is a common term to refer to all descendants of the British Empire where English became the majority language.

There are several cultural commonalities of Anglo-Saxon nations; one of them would be it's aversion to swearwords on television and strict adherence to social protocol reflected in it's “p.c. culture”.
I think their strategy is to launch fully driverless taxi service in a restricted region and then gradually expand, depending on the acceptance and improvement of the system.

Comparatively, Tesla wants its autonomous driving feature to be usable anytime/anywhere with the condition that it might disengage and still rely on human judgement in early versions.

Which is more viable? I don’t know.
rkhunter and samhain are two other similar tools. Both are available in the regular Debian repositories.
"No one is mislabeing the flu as covid".

There have been 33 million positive coronavirus cases and 444 million tests-- are you sure you want to assert the following is true 100% of the time:

1) all covid diagnoses are ONLY covid

2) all flu occurrences are diagnosed, and when they are diagnosed, they are always ONLY diagnosed as flu
Looks like the site might have received the hug of death. Last time it loaded for me the site produced a 504 error.
Ditto. I've got a 12-year-old Honda with only about 40K miles on it. Planning to run it into the ground or into obsolescence and then get an EV or plug-in hybrid once we need to replace it. Might be waiting a while, it should have another 100K+ miles left, but I figure I'll at least get to around 2023-2025, see what sort of electrics are on the market, whether our family situation requires a new car anyway, and then this'll be the last of our gas-powered cars.
Short 'em through a resistor, it's easy enough to fully discharge them. You damage them if they're left discharged for too long, but for short periods, it might be fine. Unfortunately, they also tend to swell when fully discharged.

"Disassembling lithium batteries without destroying them or your workshop" is depressingly hard.
The worst part is how this kind of "anti-racism" is itself promoting racism by focusing way too much on skin color.
> I'm pretty sure plenty of people addicted to MMORPGs don't forget leveling up their character

I've been this person - I spent almost two years playing Everquest to the detriment of my own goals and wellbeing.

MMOs are a special class of hazard in that area, IMO. I feel like I'm particularly apt to getting "sucked into" games, there is always a point where it becomes significantly less fun and I lose interest. In most games that's around 20-50 hours. For "good" games, it's around 200 hours. For MMOs... I don't know because I've never found it. With EQ I only stopped playing because my PC finally died and I couldn't afford to replace it (because I couldn't hold down a job). With others I stopped because I saw the feedback loop had begun that would lead to that sort of issue and forced myself to do so.

> "Play Factorio, it has benefits for you that help you be productive" in response to someone dealing with procrastination? If that isn't absurd, I don't know what is.

I totally understand and respect your point here, but I didn't come to the article through the series. As a result, I didn't make any connections to trying to see Factorio as a tool to combat procrastination.

Instead, I saw the article as advocating Factorio as a means of developing your problem-solving skills. For that purpose... honestly, it's pretty good. The article makes a good case for this and my own experience aligns with it.

I would have no issues encouraging my daughters to play Factorio (or similar games like Satisfactory), because I believe there are important skills that can be learned there. Like most things, the Pareto Principle applies: you're going to learn a lot more on your first playthrough than your forty-second. Even so... as a software engineer, I see many parallels in building and maintaining complex systems in the real world that can be drawn from the game.

For example - and I'm playing Satisfactory these days, so the items come from that, not Factorio - in the early game you need a ton of iron plates and iron rods. Mid-game you need reinforced iron plates, screws, and modular frames, all of which are made from iron plates and iron rods. Even though you know you'll shortly need several multiples of the number of iron plates and rods that you need in the beginning, it doesn't make sense to build a massive factory to create them in bulk yet. Doing so means that it takes you longer to get through the early game, and invariably your needs change as you progress: maybe you need fewer iron plates and rods than you thought; maybe you need more; maybe you need them halfway across the map. You just don't know enough in the early game to accurately predict what you're going to need and where.

This has strong corollaries with software engineering, both within a single application and when building more complex systems. It's almost always better to build the minimal structures necessary to deliver what you need at the time. There are a few cases where it makes sense to optimize early, but those cases all require experience in building the thing you're working on and the burden of early optimization is much more difficult to justify than it may seem.
This is called the "RAS Syndrome" (where "RAS" stands for "redundant acronym syndrome"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome
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Transmissibility (or Basic Reproduction Number - R0) is an intrinsic characteristic of a disease.

Measles is at least 3 times more transmissible than flu [1].

We have a very effective vaccine against measles and a mildly effective one against flu, so people get flu and not measles but let them circulate among people without any protection and measles will get them sooner than flu. And it's also much deadlier [2]

[1] https://transportgeography.org/contents/applications/transpo...

[2] https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/189/Supplement_1/S4/823...
The symposium certainly sounds interesting. Looking at the talks, I am struck by the major separation between talks about tropical algebra and talks about railway optimization.

But the point of our comments is that this is a new research field, with very little proven application, and chastising railway middle managers for not following these deeply technical and somewhat esoteric developments is silly. It’s like getting on to a manger at Intel because they are unfamiliar with the architecture of photonic quantum computers.
ethics is mostly self-regulated; when you apply for grants, the University ensures you're not proposing to do anything illegal (risk protection for the U), but subsequently doesn't actively monitor most researchers to ensure they are being ethical. Same for publications. In those cases, the response is entirely reactive, doing investigations and actions after the problem hits the press.
Seems more ethical and positive experiment to have the students to work with historical data, you can find a metric on how easy it is to slip a bug into the kernel, maybe they could identify problematic trends like time of day/year when bugs can slip in, or time before a release.

Do we really need someone to prove that a malicious backdoor can be added? since real bugs happen then it is clear that the system is not perfect,

Imagine this would be allowed, then all contributions would need to be checked not for the regular kind of problems but for all those stealthy tricks, so instead of working on the kernel you would need to attempt to find on how each commit is truing to trick you , or maybe this is fine on it's own but is part of a bigger plan.
I used to work on three or four at a time, usually being distrated by a new one as the old one becomes a tiresome grind. It would be one or two serious projects and some floating toy projects (which could be experimental, seeing if something might work). I learned there are certain aspects I like and dislike of the common project process, and as the grind part kicks in my attention would wander elsewhere seeking out what I prefer to be doing. I had to learn to force myself to push through that part of it (which involves a small bit of mental suffering that you just accept as part of it; you have to do this, to get that; accepting that it's a requirement is important to limiting your brain thinking you can avoid aspects you dislike).

Lack of very narrow focus was always a mistake in hindsight. One or two projects is the max now, anything more than that is too much splitting of focus which is a killer. And two projects might almost always be one too many, frankly. It's extraordinarily difficult to build a successful business or project, there is a strong argument that on average to do so will take every bit of focus you have to give and diverting any of that focus to other projects dramatically increases the odds of failure (odds which are already very highly tilted toward failure by default).
If I caught the flu, how would the government/scientists studying this stuff even know I got it? If you're anything like me you probably just take some time off and get over the illness without ever seeing a doctor or taking a flu-test. How do they measure such things? I suspect they use some elaborate statistical model to try and generalize the results to the whole population.
Will flu season be back at some point ?
> Beeper has two ways of enabling Android, Windows and Linux users to use iMessage: we send each user a Jailbroken iPhone with the Beeper app installed which bridges to iMessage

How do they make money doing this?
I sorely miss it - other sites may provide similar pricing information, but none even come close to match the lovely loading animation that was the joy of using Hipmunk.
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This seems very similar to https://layerci.com/

LayerCI seems to have some “secret sauce” in the caching mechanisms to speed up builds.

This seems to take a wider approach offer environments outside of just CI.

Any other notable differentiators?
And explain to me how private debt, and wealth, isn't also enforced by a threat of violence? Why I can't just walk into a store and take a car? Also a threat of violence. Why can't I just tell the bank to shove it when I've moved in? Threat of violence. When big business poisons a river, or puts forced arbitration clauses in their contracts, or mistreats their workers, more threats of violence should you try and seek redress.

You're a hypocrite, picking and choosing your argument to suit your position.

The same thing will happen to you if you don't pay your taxes or don't pay back your credit card debt.

And the extremely unlikely end result, jail, is exactly the same for both public and civil debt.

And that's the trouble with these stupid arguments. Not only are they childish extremes, anyone using them are all just massive hypocrites who want to pillage the commons for their own gain and have the rules always work in their favour, conveniently different when it comes to reining in monopolies, or using their excessive wealth to force others out of business, it all depends on which side they stand to gain most money out.

Then they just flip their argument on its head to justify their privileged position, which is maintained by a threat of violence.
"rustc" is the facebook ad. They've linked themselves to the name.
> I tried factorio for 5 minutes.

> sleep deprivation I felt the day after

Yep. I've had a more than my share of "five minute" gaming sessions like that :)
Maybe more to the point:

> With clean sampling techniques and accurate ages for dust deposits, the researchers calculated around 5,200 metric tons of micrometeorites fall to Earth every year.
> Great now let's figure out how to measure BFP across the entire population the way we can with BMI

I never said that. I said the opposite.
This is why a tiny fringe of epidemologists has been calling for social distancing to continue for the next several years at least, even after COVID, because they see this as a chance to wipe out other common illnesses. If a person hyperspecializes in a field like epidemology, there is the risk of the person expecting all government policy to revolve around their specific concerns. Sometimes in interviews those epidemologists simply seem oblivious to the effect this will have on live music, theatre, cafes and restaurants, etc., other times they say that we simply cannot allow ourselves those things any more, because saving lives is more important.
I'll say it: boxing these days is boring.

I used to watch it as a kid also. Admittedly I don't follow it as I used to, but I don't know of anyone with explosiveness like say, Tyson. Or young Holyfield. Somewhere along the way I guess people learned they could win just as well on points. Mayweather, probably the most famous boxer of this era, and certainly the most well paid, has some of the most absolutely boring fights one could imagine. At least compared to the slugfests of before.
In France a small claims request is free (a couple forms to fill), do not require a lawyer and you have virtually no need to go to court. Small claims court are also pretty fast, though in that specific case it's pretty much a given that it would be appealed and escalated to higher court on the first such trial.

It does NOT costs impractical amount of time and money to assert your right. It's simply that EU citizen are much less used to go to court over what they consider trivial things, eg for a 20€ steam game.
Behavioral change. Flu is generally less infectious than covid, so it will take less voluntary behavioral change to get the flu R-number below 1 than the covid one.

Also, the whole hand-sanitiser-everywhere thing, while in retrospect probably not super effective against covid, would be expected to be quite effective for the flu.
I wonder if bed bug infestations also declined with less travel.
Sorry I was unclear, I meant "cutting fingers" as an example of torture meant to extract passwords, not in the sense that they'd use the finger to unlock the phone.
Face-ID and fingerprints share the same issues compared to a password.
I read somewhere (I think Bill Bryson's "At Home") that they were almost wiped out at one point in the 20th century, but have recently started making a comeback which seems to correlate with the rise of energy saving low temp wash cycles that aren't as effective at killing them.
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Many things have been deprecated formally. If not formally, they've been phased out culturally - as in I haven't seen a lot of this syntax complaints in 10 years.
My preference is to have a main project, and 2 or 3 side projects with relaxed schedules. When I get tired on the main I shift. Usually the main is no fun, but the side ones are, so it takes a bit to shift back during the day. I usually shift back the next morning.

That said the reality is I have like 3 main projects and a solid dozen minor ones. Of the minor ones 3 are fun. Did I mention I hate my job? Will be looking for a new one soon.
There were tons of electronic dance tunes during that period of time. Blue Monday was a great tune and had some great original ideas, but it at the peak of synth pop.

That same year, Phuture released Acid Tracks which influenced Hawtin to make Spastik.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igNBeo3QSqc
Exactly right. After all engineers are just working for salary, eating free meals, cashing their RSUs. They have no clue or hand in how Facebook makes money today. Moreover they promise to learn about FB's business and write a strongly worded letter on "Why I left Facebook" when leaving after vesting most of company stocks
They actually tease you by pretending to show results on their website [0] but when you click on any of the flights it just takes you to their homepage.

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> It doesn't need to be like the current situation, with Apple in full control over everything.

Yes it does. Because otherwise you will need to install tons of app stores to install all the apps you currently use.

For instance, I would have to install the Epic store to install Fortnite. Now that’s two apps (the store app plus Fortnite app) and then I’d be less confident about the level of quality and security that the added store provides.

It is this particular situation that seems very hard to overcome from a regulatory perspective. So one you allow multiple app stores, the specialness that people like me have for our trusted devices disappears.
I have no desire or plans to return to the office. Everyone's experience is different, but for me remote work is a net positive.

- Instead of commuting for two or more hours a day to travel a mere sixteen miles, I use that time for weight training. I'm now stronger than I have ever been and no longer experience back, neck and shoulder pain.

- I can keep my office at a temperature that is comfortable for me. Usually offices are far too warm in the winter and far too cool in the summer.

- I can actually understand people in meetings. I am hearing impaired and in person meetings are difficult for me because many people mumble or are low talkers and I can't understand them. For some reason people always like to ask if I have hearing aids. Of course I do but they aren't like wearing glasses. It is fatiguing to use hearing aids and they are uncomfortable to wear even though they are fitted for your ears.

- No more office drama. For years I was subjected to daily passive-agressive slack messages in the general channel about not leaving dishes in the sink. They were never mine. I always brought my own, but I had to hear about it nonetheless. For a while I had a co-worker who was apparently allergic to green bell peppers and had to do listen to an onslaught of complaints and warnings about not eating green bell peppers in the office. I didn't eat a green bell pepper for two years. I felt for them, but it was exhausting to hear about because even though I didn't do anything wrong I still had to hear about it. I really can't stand that kind of stuff.

- I can actually get stuff done at home. Offices are places of non-stop distraction. One time my desk was by the restrooms and I was constantly distracted by a stream of people going to the bathroom. The air moved by the walking by also had the effect of blowing all the papers on my desk around. Some people had streams so forceful even I could hear them. For over a year the office above us was being renovated. Once the renovation was done the city started work on the street below. On the flip side, I don't have to worry about being a distraction to others. I have a loud voice and can't play the whispering game because I can't hear people when the whisper. If someone wants to have a conversation with me it has to be a full volume.

- When I need to take a break I can take my dog for a walk. He's the real winner here.

- I eat much better at home and have time to cook.

There are some things I miss:

- Quarterly all company meetings can sometimes be fun and informative. I would not mind attending those in person again.

- Happy hours and team lunches are always fun. I don't buy in to the narrative that co-workers aren't really your friends any more than I buy into the narrative that they are your family and you need to see them every day. I don't see my family every day. I also have remained friends with plenty of former co-workers.
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> A lot of experts are optimistic than the mRNA vaccine technology will lead to more effective flu shots.

We will see. Influenza is unusual in its ability to evolve new variants that resist existing antibodies. It's also not clear that we even can give people repeated mRNA vaccine shots year after year. People quite often develop antibodies to glycol, which makes up the nanospheres used to get the mRNA into cells. Repeated shots may lead to severe side effects, and/or the nanospheres being destroyed before the mRNA can be delivered, rendering the vaccines ineffective.

Incidentally, this is also a problem with the new adenovirus technology used in the Astra Zeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines: your immune system develops antibodies to the carrier virus as well as the target proteins. Subsequent shots with the same adenovirus can be destroyed prior to being able to get into cells and express the desired protein; there isn't an infinite supply of suitable adenovirus strains. The Sputnik V vaccine actually uses a different adenovirus for the first and second shots for this reason.
> I think sites like Reddit are the modern version of Usenet.

Closed, propiatary, with separate ux/client for every silo? They are not usenet in any meaningful way.

They're more like bbs forums in a world were there was no improvements made, and the internet never happened.

The only thing (most) have, is that for traffic purposes they allow spiders like Google and Bing to enable federated search.

But there are variants like Instagram that allow search, but force login - and things like Facebook groups, that are opaque.

The ux of most forums (including hn) is terrible. HNs one saving grâce is that it's simple (as it should be).

I don't mean to jump on you; I get that things like reddit is a place were all people can exchange messages - but I don't think that makes it modern usenet. Just like mailing lists were/are not usenet.
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