skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are more recent versions of the dataset. We used the february/march snapshot from this year and the April snapshot just came out (https://commoncrawl.org/2021/04/april-2021-crawl-archive-now...).
WHO has been consistent about being anti-lockdown during all of Covid.

There's limited evidence they work more than a short-term delay tactic and cause tremendous harm.
That's what's confusing. It's really not clear what works and what doesn't. Germany and India did well until they didn't. Maybe all hell will break loose in Florida soon.

What I don't get that people who don't want lockdowns also oppose masking and other measures. Why not try to keep things open but also strongly support masking just to be sure?
Yes, there are advantages to taking the job such as if the job has prospects for promotions and you have fewer competing for them, and also you gain more experience and so on, but if your marketable skills are dead-end jobs, there isn't much to incentivize you.
Proper type safe Java scripts are nice too :)

https://jbang.dev
Excess deaths doesn't work either. Gun violence has increased everywhere. So have suicides in my region of the world. I don't know who or why this comment got flagged, it doesn't change reality
This is true, until you're writing a library that's pulled from a repository and used in several projects.

If you can't guarantee you're not going to break someone else's code by changing:

foo.x to foo.getX();

then you should stick with properties. Now, for staying inside a single package, or a single compiled unit, then what you say is reasonable enough. I'd still prefer to write the getters and setters, though, especially in cases where it's free, like Kotlin.
What's your estimate of the relative prevalence of an FCS among the likely space of lab-created SARS-like coronaviruses vs. among natural, SARS-like coronaviruses? My understanding is that adding an FCS is a very common method of lab gain of function, but rare among such viruses in nature.

I don't think the FCS is determinative, and I agree Wade's article overstates its significance. In a Bayesian analysis, it still seems to me like it points weakly (at least 3x prevalence?) towards lab origin, though.
I haven't written a Cobol program since the 1980s, and I am hopeful I never will. Still, Cobol had many significant advances.

1. It popularized the notion of program portability, in that a Cobol program was expected to run, nearly unchanged, on any machine with a Cobol compiler.

2. It popularized the notion of data portability, in that DISPLAY data (though not COMPUTATIONAL data) should be the same, and produce the same results, on machines of disparate architectures.

3. It popularized record data types.

4. It emphasized the idea of program readability, even though we would now (I hope) reject “pseudo-English” as a solution.

The fact that it fell (far!) short of these ideals should not blind us to Cobol's significant contribution to programming languages.
One of the people I know who died, did so after traveling to Florida where they did catch covid, return home and died 40 some days later on a ventilator.

Maybe travel in and out of Florida is fluid enough to explain it to some degree.
Other than legacy software, is there a reason to use Power at all?
I had no idea about HIV deaths, I would have guessed it would be 2x-3x COVID deaths. I don't think that means "HIV had a smaller impact than I thought", I think that means COVID is bigger than I thought. We get desensitized to the numbers. Thanks for the perspective.
Usenet, email, http, XMPP, IRC, et c. Yes, just like those. In combination, that bunch is already not too far off. The trouble is that anything trying to do that is competing with "free" spyvertising services, which have no incentive to integrate with them (i.e. implement the protocol), unless it's to do it temporarily to eat their meager market share before cutting them off. IMO that dynamic is why protocols have stagnated for decades. Working on a client or server for some new protocol is thankless when you know it'll be niche at best, and more likely DOA. Making a go at a business with one is insane in this market. So they stagnate. No new ones catch hold, and old ones make slow progress at best, or gradually die.
That's actually perfect! I know 3 people in Boise right now with college degrees looking for work like that. Do you hav specifics so I can forward to them?
There are two images you could be referring to.

Figure 5: The (estimated) ratio of reported versus total deaths. It appears from it that FL was more accurate in their reported numbers than CA. That has absolutely nothing to do with lockdowns.

Figure 7: The cumulative deaths, where FL and CA are the same color (that is, in the same range of cumulative deaths).

Either way, neither indicates that FL's death rate was better than CA's.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi...

Shows that FL has a higher death rate than CA. Though if you take the adjustment from this paper into consideration, then CA's would be worse.
* The documents were not classified, they were export-controlled.

* Honeywell voluntarily reported their violations.

I was an ITAR Empowered Official. What they did was bad, especially in light of the fact that at least one other time they got nailed for something I would consider a willful violation, but this isn't on the order of disclosing the manufacturing secrets behind a turbine blade or the composition of various coatings on the F-35.

That $5M likely goes into web-based training hell for all their employees, where they spend a few hours clicking through a refresher on ITAR and various export control acts.
I'm actually surprised at how low those numbers are. Only 1322 millionaires in Canada? Really? I know most people get a mortgage, but there are a ton of houses in Toronto and Vancouver that are over $1m.
You can't compare stats unfortunatly. Every state had different policies.

In Florida, where a vast amount of people go to vacation, out of town covid cases were not counted.
The universe is simpler than we think
Java gRPC implemenation beats Rust, C++, C#, Golang in throughput
You know that you can blackhole all facebook domains and enjoy facebook-free internet today?
I can relate and it depends.

I find that if I am searching about programming topics, especially in option, DDG does great. If I am searching about more general things, like say a list of smoke points for various cooking oils (last night), google seems to do better.
Given with how the conversation went in the Bugzilla ticket[0] that Daniel Micay linked, I can't say that I blame him.

Make sure to scroll all the way down to comment #26 where the devs say:

> This bug is closed and this patch rejected […] Adding keyboard selection to vte will be done inside vte, see bug 78291 [1]

– a bug which is 19 (in words: nineteen) years old.

[0]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679658

[1]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78291
I'm curious, does Apple's App Store policy allow apps like Facebook to "unlock" "premium" features if the user enables tracking?

I'm assuming/hoping not, or that the app can't even detect it.

Because while FB would never charge for the base experience, I could absolutely see them trying to charge in some way, and ultimately that's going to depend on what Apple even allows them to do.
Indeed; thanks. I do appreciate knowing that <tgmath.h> does this for all the math functions in one fell swoop.

speaking of FP-precision genericity, I really wish there was a format specification for printf that would reliably print a floating-point number with just enough digits to recover the bits of the given value (float or double), but the given value will already have been promoted to double since printf is variadic.
Thanks! You are totally right. For the demo, we have even banned a few words like "the" because the inverted list contains almost all doc ids...
I thought super hard, but localized and short term work the best? Seems most countries made only half hearted efforts.
The headline is editorialized, and very inaccurately at that.
Can we also have one for "Europe does X better" where Europe really just means France, Scandinavia the wealthy half of Germany, and maybe UK, and not the more irreputable countries like Belarus or Serbia?
That way also makes reading/writing a buffer go from top to bottom, similar to reading/writing normally.
Is there any reliable evidence that wearing masks on beaches even impacts the case count? Data from actual contact tracing seems to indicate that outdoor transmission is close to zero.
Many tallies in the US were adjusted after this specific criticism over 8 months ago. But I guess the talking point won't be updated, oh well.

My main issue with this criticism is that tallies of other illnesses have the same issues. So if an actual flu season said 20,000 people died, it had the same reporting issues and distribution of reporting issues.

This means a direct comparison to two ailments with the same distribution of reporting issues gives you an accurate view of the affect.

So even without going back and fixing the records - which I'm not sure you or other people even know happened - this means Covid deaths are more accurate and actually proves how it is much much worse.

Anybody see the irony there? Given that the point of bringing attention to this would be to downplay the severity or response (or that there is a 100% correlation between the people that subscribe to these talking points and want a dramatically different response or no mitigation response at all), so, thanks for keeping healthcare authorities accountable, I guess.
>The State Department alleged some of the transmissions harmed national security, which Honeywell acknowledges with the caveat that the technology involved “is commercially available throughout the world. No detailed manufacturing or engineering expertise was shared.”

If the engines and electronics are used in commercial applications as well as military then does it matter?
Prop 47 and 57 turned most of California cities into slums. Now you can steal up to $950 a day and use drugs openly and camp anywhere you want--a great foundation for any functioning society.

Almost every large city in California has a few streets of blocks where they just push all the homeless and trash piles up, you see open bike chop shops pop up, there are super sketchy pimps/prostitutes. I just think we are allowing someone who has a drug addiction to descend to an even deeper downward spiral. I think Neo-liberals tell themselves that they have to not further harm these marginalized folks, but really it's just the the further soft bigotry of low expectations.

My dad was a drug addict and the only time I saw him get sober was after he was incarcerated. I don't think the people out there sleeping under bridges and pushing carts full of trash are getting help, society is just letting them rot until they die off and neoliberals like Nancy Pelosi can just ignore them like a meaningless statistic. Republicans straight up don't care either, but I've never seen lower levels of human despair and drug addiction than in San Francisco or other deeply blue democrat run states.
Good code doesn’t have concepts like “typically doesn’t mutate”. It’s either mutable or immutable.
Yep, and it's a suspect one at best. Personally I wouldn't trust a stastical model from someone who advertises that they own the book "how to lie with statistics" and obviously used it
We'll have to wait 20+yr for the controversy to simmer down but I bet when you run the numbers using a metric like YPLL (which is the typical metric used for these sorts of comparisons) the difference between Covid and other big pandemic outbreaks over history is going to be more minor.
Remember that life expectancy went from 60 -> 80 over the last century.

80% of the deaths have been from folks aged 65+. So, it is arguable that the Spanish flu would have killed a lot more if the average lifespan was higher.
That's a TOTALLY different story than not being able to find people at $80k my guy.

Also $17.50 is an incomplete picture. How many hours per week? Any benefits? I would bet a years salary that it is <40 and no benefits. Would you take that job?
How is going to be 'cataclysmic' for FB? They can still serve up ads. The ads won't be as targeted as before, but they still have billions of users. Advertisers will spend money on the platform. Perhaps they'll have to spend more since they can't fine-tune the ads as much.
Yeah, I didn't feel like getting into that particular battle, but should have been more explicit; wearing masks outdoors has 0 impact on anything.
Arm64 Support for RedoxOS
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>the discrepancy between reported deaths and analyses of death rates compared to expected death rates, sometimes referred to as “excess mortality,” suggests that the total COVID-19 death rate is many multiples larger than official reports.

So...not as many people died as we thought were going to so we're now just going to arbitrarily say any excess death was a covid death just to make sure the numbers look like what we think they should?

These are the kinds of statistical shenanigans that have been going on all year and people wonder why people question 'the science.'
So, perhaps we see fewer than expected deaths in the next 2-3 years?
Well, you could use it to answer questions of interest to you.

I certainly tried my current projects on it, and found some useful stuff (most of which I've seen before).
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I'm not sure where I read about this but Florida also did better in prisons.
Phase three clinical trials for the Pfizer vaccine ran ~16 weeks.

You need a minimum of 5 weeks before you can begin your challenge trials, starting from the same point, for the 3 weeks between doses and the 2 weeks after the second dose where immunity is being tested.

If you run three 2-week rounds of challenge trials after that, you're already up to 11 weeks to finish your challenge trials and begin administering the vaccines to the population at large, versus the 16 weeks for a regular-old phase 3 trial.

Now, five weeks is nothing to sneeze at -- given the other parameters, it's not unreasonable to think that on the order of a thousand deaths could have been prevented by using what vaccine supply we had available earlier -- but it's also patently not the case that we would be five weeks ahead of where we are now if we had started vaccinating earlier: we spent most of the last five months in the US supply constrained, and we didn't wait to start building out our capacity, so we'd probably be at the same point we are now in terms of total vaccinated today regardless of whether we started vaccinating 5 weeks earlier or 5 weeks later.
Well, if you pass around objects and change their state records will not help. People who does this are already using immutable frameworks in Java to clone and change some field and then pass it along.
It takes two seconds in a hello world demo. It takes probably more in a millions of lines project.
What don’t you trust about Apple that equates them to Google or Facebook? I trust them more than Google and FB, but that is certainly a very low bar.

I trust that Apple isn’t profiting off my data. It isn’t even close to their business model so it allows them to give their users privacy G and F can’t.
I see this argument made often on HN, but it's not clear to me how an internet protocol would make social networks more accountable towards their users. Do you mind explaining your reasoning here? Specifically, how would a protocol prevent motivated companies from tracking your personal information?
Peer review should always be unpaid. Some journals will give you a $100 discount voucher, but I've never heard of anyone being directly compensated.

My own rule of thumb is that I have to to three peer-reviews for every one paper I publish, since my paper will have three reviewers (usually). That way I can stay at review/submission equilibrium!
For the former, if someone is actually willing to listen to evidence, you can cite them numbers of average years of life lost per covid death (~15).
> over the last year of UBI

There hasn't been any UBI the past year. UBI means you can work without losing your benefits. What we have now discourages work because it's effectively an 80-100% tax rate on earnings.
It seems somewhat similar, but I don't see mention of method traces (similar to a profile view in figure 7 in the blog post I listed).
To be fair, I thought the dev’s response was adequate here. Just posting on the issue section that the “colors are wrong” while comparing with uxrvt, without any explanation or self-investigation as to why this could be a problem, has ample potential to be regarded as rude to the devs (I’m using this another terminal app and have better colors, why aren’t you fixing this?)

And please note that Mac OS is NOTORIOUS for having bad/buggy/outdated support for OpenGL (which alacritty extensively uses), and this is a legitimate frustration that many developers in the low-level graphics domain have. It’s already really maddening for the devs, the contributors shouldn’t nag too much about it (I understand people outside the domain might genuinely not know this - but it’s always good to read some of the previous Github issues before filing your own, to learn the general “vive” among the core contributors)
I also read some of their interactions with people having issues on Gnome Wayland.
I recently switched to Tilix. I realized multiplexing makes me a lot faster than gpu powered terminal. and if I'm supposed to use tmux, then alacritty is a lot slower with tmux and loses it's "speed" (it's another issue on their page that I had fun reading all the way through)
That blog is hard to read for some reason.
trying to implement it first seems sensible to me as you want to ensure you have a concept that works in practice before you put it into an official specification
Just to be pedantic, what happened is the original founder sold it to some skeezy guys who wanted to cash in on the digital currency crazy, and those skeezy guys added XRP as a way to cash in.

So it's not quite that the original founder felt pressure to create the token, but he did feel some pressure to make money, and eventually that led to a token.
Great to see Records come to Java, although without the "with" feature they are pretty half-baked.

I give it 5-10 years before we've tricked everyone into writing OCaml / F#!
The other dev chiming in at the end with "I've heard only good things about Alacritty's default colorscheme so far" was also frustrating. Saying "well nobody else complained" is an awful reason to dismiss an issue.
> The app store is just wget and an install command.

This is absurdly false.

> The permissions settings are in the OS.
They could have all the same levels of security without the need to prevent competition.

This is also completely false.

OS hardening can’t prevent fingerprinting or cross app tracking toolkits.

Those are prevented by policy and contract.
Facebook surely needs to figure out a way to break the duopoly of application walled gardens otherwise it will remain at the mercy of Google and Apple who are only going to tighten the screws going forward.
I was in Florida for a good part last year, and it was pretty similar to how things were in Illinois, as a lot of response was left to the local authorities and a lot of people distanced themselves without needing laws to tell them to do so. The biggest difference was that there was more indoor dining and some public schools were in person.
I don't. Do you think it's likely that obligate carnivores will be able to live full, healthy lives without eating meat? I don't. But you can, and I can.

I hold anyone who can live that way to do so, as I see it as a moral obligation to reduce suffering when possible, regardless of species.

Do you seriously think I'm proposing that we force these animals to survive on plants alone?
It's an interesting point. Spanish Flu hit younger people, so having more older people might not have affected the numbers much. On the other hand, maybe having so many old people with covid affected which variant traveled around.
Remembering the Lusitania: One passenger's remarkable story of survival
I gave up creating anything with scribble or pollen, not sure which one it was, when I had the nagging urge to change the font and could not figure out how to do that. Composing different parts of the document was OK, but I simply could not find anything about changing the font. I am sure, if I had asked, I would have gotten an answer, but in that moment, it killed my motivation to get into it further.
How do (relatively) smaller marketplaces avoid these problems? ex: steam allows reviews from people who got the product for free, and all the reviews tend to be far more trustworthy IMO, both in detail and aggregate. Is this because the economics of the market's products is different (plus easy to refund)?
It actually happens a lot for me.
> a vast majority of the users don't care about privacy and that they are tracked.

But a vast majority of those same users are still replying "no" to tracking on the dialog when explicitly asked.

[edit: tweaked for clarity]
I'm not trying to downplay it, I believe the official CDC counts, but some additional considerations are:
Is the high total death count related directly to our response(or lack thereof), or to our higher population of people pre-disposed/vulnerable to this virus? For the past few months the focus has been on people ignoring lockdowns, ignoring bans on gatherings, vaccine hesitance etc. but it seems that, based on the co-morbidities, we were an already largely unhealthy population to begin with.

We shouldn't downplay the progress we've made while we're at it. 100 million vaccinations is quite an accomplishment. If we're going to beat ourselves up for having the top total deaths(while not being in the top 20 per capita), we should pat ourselves on the back for that one. Getting 100 million people to do anything is hard.
Parts can be commercially available but still export controlled, which appears to be what's going on here
> on a sonogram, they appear as a single line.

Which is akin to dragging a single finger across different piano keys. Only a single frequency, or note, played at a time. This is common among songbirds.

Contrast that with the sound of a crow. The sonogram is much more broadband in signature. This is akin to mashing a bunch of keys on a piano all at the same time. Many frequencies present at simultaneously.
Look up what the Apple's tracking-prevention policy prevents for users that don't opt-in to tracking. You cannot ban generating device or user identifiers with OS permissions alone. Prevent using the built-in ones, sure, but fingerprinting or otherwise creating device or user IDs to share with 3rd parties and other apps? I'd love to see what a permissions model would look like that could do that automatically, at the OS level. I don't think such a thing exists. Not for any app with enough access to the system to do anything remotely useful in the first place.
We knew what Facebook was doing in 2008-2012 era as well but nobody parroted these old and tired narratives then.

We didn't know that Facebook was compiling dossiers on every human being on the planet, even the ones without Facebook accounts.
Obviously it’s not the end of the world for technical people who are in the habit of looking inside all new applications’ settings and reading their privacy policies, but it means I could never recommend this app to anyone in good conscience knowing they will probably skip all of that and get spied on.