skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nancy Messonnier put out a warning at the end of February 2020. This must be what Michael Lewis was referring to when he said they denied then said it was too late.

"It's not so much a question of if this will happen anymore but rather more a question of exactly when this will happen and how many people in this country will have severe illness," Dr. Nancy Messonnier, the head of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a media briefing Tuesday
He's mistaken that NAT always requires TURN. Consumer NAT typically still allows incoming UDP, using STUN/punch-through, or TCP with uPNP support. He maybe meant to talk about only about more restrictive NAT situations or campus/corporate/ISP/nation-state/scientology-compound firewalls.
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There is a theory that addiction works by learning some behavioral patterns so good that you can execute them without any effort whatsoever. Like on autopilot.

If that theory is true, you could see an effect by forcing you to use your weak hand on it. This should force you to concentrate much more on every task and thus disrupt your habit.
By garbage time, I mean I can't productively use the time I'm spending being responsible for the kid to do any involved task.

I'm not saying I interact with the kid the whole time, but I have to keep an eye on the toddler to make sure they're not hurting themselves, or more likely, the toddler is pestering me to play with them. They play with their own toys and pots and pans for a few minutes, but it's not long before they see you on the laptop or whatever and want to get up in your lap.

It's easier if there are other toddlers to play with and how a daycare can watch multiple toddlers with one adult.
Sortable IDs have pleasant properties on insertion in traditional btree indexes as all the new values are on one edge of the tree. Truly random IDs end up with random I/O on the index tree.

With a database like postgres with full page writes enabled, it can blow out quite quickly at scale.
Shopify joins the Open Invention Network Linux patent protection group
If people stop using Facebook products yes the investors will lose 900,000,000,000 dollars.
It's more like we shouldn't pay for things that don't benefit us... no one is owed economic development.

Also the marginal value of forests and wildlife have changed significantly over time as they have been depleted. The tradeoffs that made sense then don't make as much sense now.
Part of that is because we hear so many successful business people portrayed as also being great parents. I have seen so many of those that I knew first-hand to be fabrications that I just assume them to be false now.
I am not sure if the recyclable or biodegradable plastics are the best way forward.

I'd think that if your goal is to get rid of plastic contamination, a biodegradable plastic (which might decompose in 5-15 years for example) will be more effective, as it would not rely on entire world being responsible and recycling all the plastics.
The data could also be misleading. You could look at the numbers of women in the workplace in the 50s and conclude that women generally aren’t interested in the world of work. But this would completely overlook the barriers they faced - such as gendered stereotypes of the kind the author seems to subscribe to.
When I look at the link you provided, my conclusion is that US among the worst in deaths/capita, and about an order of magnitude above the median...
What can you do with the technology that you could not before, that benefits our civilization?

I once heard this example using coffee beans. If you buy coffee beans, and you have to brew it, that's a commodity. When you go to a coffee shop, and the server brews it for you and brings it to you, that's a service. When you have one of those single-server instant coffee that you pop into the machine, and it brews it for you, that's a product.

The distance between you and the original commodity can be defined as the number of transformations from the coffee plant to your cup. Raw beans that you have to process yourself is closer to the original plant. A service provider inserts themselves into that process of brewing a coffee, and charge you for it. Productizing it so you don't even have to wait on someone else to do it for you inserts additional steps -- packaging, technology, etc.

We call this "value-added", meaning that some merchant captures the value from transformational steps that you would have otherwise have to do yourself.

However, I am talking about "value-adding". The key difference here is that the transformation changes the commodity in a way that contributes something beyond what you could have done yourself, not simply capturing existing value in the value chain.

I think most use of technology and automation are attempting to capture existing value rather than creating value that was not there before.

Network effect of the internet might be value-adding, but we have also seen the same network-effect used to aggregate and capture large swaths of the market without contributing anything back (Facebook, for example). Is the network effect of Amazon's logistics prowess value-adding? And if it is, what unintended consequences have we seen from it?

It may also be that, for computing, we would have to look at older generations of our software and look for the forks not taken. As an example, Apple's Hypercard enabled individuals to create their own computing experience, something that could not have been done before without it and other systems like it ... and it was deliberately dropped so that all design came from Apple (iPhones, iPads, etc.). By the metric of return on shareholder value, that decision was wildly successful. But in terms of adding value for our civilization, was it?

AlphaGo and AlphaGo Zero demonstrated that humans can no longer beat AI Go players. If you are willing to spend energy to power all those TPUs, they can play far beyond the best human players.

That shook up a lot of the pros. Some of the top players have quit. However, other players got more excited. They saw Go being played in ways they had never seen before. People who made their living tutoring Go to other people have lost their livelihood. On the other hand, Isee discussion at the high amateur ranks now uses Leela Zero, or Katago to learn and explore the game. That's a positive contribution that could not be done before. (And the shadowside: it is easier for people to cheat; though if you are using Go to develop your own intellectual ability to evaluate and make decisions, using an AI to play competitively is kinda cheating yourself).
Classic let's solve the problem by creating a database.
Just curious, how so?
It's like with flu in 1918.

The danger will be over as soon as COVID becomes nothing to be worried about. As soon as everyone who wants to can get vaccinated and as soon as everyone who can't be vaccinated don't have to worry about it due to herd immunity.

It's very simple.
I'm extremely unsurprised about this. Even with the current administration, they're not doing much to stop the spread. Right now it's all about trying to get people to accept shots (fair.. but you still have other things about the pandemic to account for) If you consider the spread of new variants and where the numbers are: They're not dropping, they're pretty high. (Illinois is still at high 2k-low 3k new cases a day and is staying steady)

They've refused to accept the other nation's work for citizen certified stronger masks. They're still in the "wear a t-shirt" as a mask days. In fact they've tried to enhance that with double masking. (Note: Their statement is that that involves laying a cloth mask over a surgeon mask and that is only how they make that recommendation) The media took that statement and has modified that to double mask always. I've sent the CDC examples of articles where their message has been changed, I've gotten back nothing but form responses about "wear a mask".

Additionally, they've outright ignored findings from other nations about the spread patterns found in restaurants (In Korea it was identified to have traveled 18m in a restaurant), the asymptomatic spread in kids, ignoring long COVID, and spread in long haul flights. Instead they let things run rampant.

Many health organizations even force you to downgrade your mask for their weak surgeon mask to be seen by them.

On masks:

Korea has the KF94

China has the KN95s (however, those certs on those have been faked)

Europe has the FFP2 standard (Germany did the right thing and require it)

For the numbers on effectiveness see Aaron Collin's work: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3fF_rzkmZD0ufN685YE7lg
Bill and Melinda Gates are ending their marriage after 27 years
A neighbor of mine recently posted on Nextdoor about his bike being stolen from the Safeway in Menlo Park. Apparently two men looked on from their Teslas and did nothing while the thief used bolt cutters to remove the lock. A nearby woman did go after the thief, but unsuccessfully. The bike was worth several thousand dollars.

I am thinking of getting a Boosted Rev (escooter, $1,600) and have wondered how I would secure it when going into stores. It seems as if any lock under $120 can be snapped by 3-foot bolt cutters (and the more expensive ones can still be easily picked).

I think I would probably get a decent u-lock and also a lock that makes noise and is triggered by even slight motion (to draw attention if someone is fiddling with it.
Everything in this article can be said about certain dads as well. I know, I’m one of them. Before I had kids I started a company, raised VC, and sold it.

The fact is that there are 24 hours in a day. If you put 4 into your kids that’s great, but there’s someone else putting those 4 into the company. Success is not all about time invested — Elon Musk at 1 hour a day will outperform me with 8 hours a day — but people make their choices in life and I don’t think it’s fair for my group putting in 8 hours a day to ask for the same outcomes from the market as the group putting in 12+.
That sounds incredibly hard. I have trouble with them in my native language!
Thanks for this. I've been using Zeh Fernando's "Perfect DOS VGA 473" (and derivatives like http://laemeur.sdf.org/fonts/) for ages but have been looking for a replacement since those only cover CP473/Windows-1252.

Also very happy to see an outline version on your site since BDF fonts aren't very usable after Pango 1.44 broke support for them: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/issues/386
Our population concentration is similar. New York by itself host as much people as London while being much smaller.

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-city-vs-london-comp...
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This looks neat! I think you really need a gallery page that shows all the kinds of things that are possible.

Is there a way to make the background transparent, so you just see the page background behind the plot? I have a project that needs that, and for 2D plots we're doing it with JSXGraph, but for 3D we've been using GeoGebra so far, and the figures look like something else embedded rather than an intrinsic part of the page.
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Look at the full table, not the small chart on top.
friction

sharing a snapshot is guaranteed to be easy to do in two clicks

sharing text is less so, selection is more work, finding a host is more work
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Pretty please, tell me how to compile static binaries and I’ll do that forever. I always end up with certain external libraries still being required.
I wonder how many PS5's could've been produced with that money instead of improving social integration.

Kind of difficult to engage with friends socially on your platform if nobody can buy your platform.
Be brave. What's your actual problem with the above? Have I tacitly condoned a false equivalency? You're appalled at rude words, but cheering for physical violence? Is it the unscientific supplement recommendation? Gender war stories have a fixed plot?

There might be a better way.
I'm old enough to remember Trump's COVID response being met with calls of racism and xenophobia.... no thanks on this whitewashing of history.
Australia had about 1/4 of that. Granted it’s an island but I don’t think illegal entry into the United States was a big factor. They locked down the borders and we never did.
Why would it destroy payday lending?
ESBuild and SWC build tools give fifteen times speed-up for JavaScript builds
Your bank will take it at least. Not so with a 500 EUR note even in Europe.
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Apollo will bleed them dry.
The problem with this thesis that the CDC has been "politicized" is that the level of precaution merited in the face of a novel virus is very much a question of policy, not science. All science can do is illuminate certain imperfect information. And as we saw at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, different people interpret those data in very different ways, and with an eye toward different priorities. Always taking the most precautious position in matters of public health is not a scientific position. It's a very expensive policy position that needs to be weighed against other priorities.
We (the EU) have of course a CDC: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en
Yeah, but that's the thing: in case of dynamic dispatch in OOP, the function is tied to the argument you're passing. In a typical OOP language, your object carries an extra pointer that's hidden from your view - a pointer to a table of pointers to functions, specific for that object's class. Dynamic dispatch goes through that pointer on the object.

Doing what you describe with a struct would require at least keeping explicit function pointers on the structure; the OOP mechanism described above is a generalization of that.

(There are other, neater approach too, allowing late binding dispatched on the types of more than one argument - see e.g. methods in Common Lisp.)
WebRTC is complicated, its been around for a while and support in browsers have not been great in the past, which might be why Zoom first used WebSockets for video. They use WebRTC now though, and WebRTC is fine now, it is the standard, but potential is not the right word.

Have a look at WebTransport to see a future alternative with potential.

For those who are interested, the technical term is signalling (not negotiation), and there are many providers that will help with that (ably.com, pubnub.com, pusher.com), you don't need to build your own infrastructure. WebSockets is also just one option.

Using a SFU/ MCU is almost a requirement for multi person calls, becoming more important for bigger groups.

I had a look at yown.it, I don't know what it does, your description of it is a bit vague. Those problems you mention are not hard to solve: "device signature"? You just set a cookie. Connection dropped? Cookie got you covered. New tab? Cookie got you covered. Refresh? Cookie you got covered.

Other interesting technologies are:

Twilio's network traversal service: https://www.twilio.com/stun-turn

Agora's higher level products (e.g. video call, voice call) https://www.agora.io/en
Potentially, family dinners with grand kids can be lovely
Theres nothing stopping the border from creating this restriction for entry. It's an emergency situation, and there are other medical requirements for entry into the US.
unless it's gonna hug-of-death them, we should promote termbin and similar hosts
Sure we do that before every release as well. But a rollback is a much less invasive surgical fix compared to a full database restore. You're down while the new db instance spins up and any writes in the meantime will be lost.

You can also test migrations against a restored prod database snapshot but again there's no guarantee some incompatible data hasn't been inserted in the meantime.
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If I look how much time I spent in front of a PC or smartphone, I wouldn't worry about being 90 and having nothing to do.
No, that would not have been the headline, and even if it were, when did a bad headline ever stop Trump from doing something?
"the designers at Apple apparently believe that text is ugly, so it should either be eliminated entirely or made as invisible as possible."

I think the push for icons was partially to ease the pain of localization (German, I'm looking at you), but I 100% agree with the criticism of interfaces here. There is a subset of icons that most people who use computers regularly understand, but it's pretty small. Nobody seems to agree on what the icon for "share" should be.
FTR Fessenheim has been shut down in 2020. As for Cattenom, it's still operating.
Melinda and Bill Gates are divorcing
I am looking forward to actual studies of masks and social distancing in 5 years because right now independent studies are certainly suppressed.
specifically, 'john' is american slang for a toilet; the corresponding british slang is 'loo'. 'ringo' is an example of a very well known englishman, so 'to ringo' is an acceptable indicator to clue 'to an englishman'.
This looks cool! But really needs "before" and "after" comparison images -- lo-res vs hi-res.

Seeing the hi-res images only gives me no idea what kind of improvement this is showing...

@gbh444g Hope you could maybe add some lo-res versions :)

(Would also be cool to have audio clips next to each image as well, but that's less important.)
it's also a textbook example of how to announce such news in a positive way (together and without dragging each other to hell).
One odd thing about the Firefox Send shutdown is that the security community repeatedly asked Mozilla to add a "Report abuse" button to help take down known malware links. Instead Mozilla shut down the whole service, which was a bit extreme. So I think abuse was, at least in part, a convenient cover story for the planned shutdowns/layoffs/refocusing that took place at Mozilla at the end of 2020.

We think it's encouraging that other products that offer end-to-end encryption like Signal and WhatsApp have managed to handle abuse, malware, and other threats.