skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for summing up the relevant numbers, it's helpful in putting all this in context.

.1% isn't nothing, but it isn't really a disaster either. The Black Death was 30-50% of the population in Europe. The "Spanish" Flu of 1918 killed about .64% of the US population. Things could still get worse of course. But barring that, and considering the absolute disaster that Covid has revealed our political system and interlocking health and government bureaucracies to be, I think we got off lucky. If this had been a "real" plague, of the kind humanity has faced repeatedly in the past (and has been expected for some time now), we would have been totally and utterly screwed.

Will this serve as a wake-up call? For the most part, probably not. The best we can hope for is that some of the new thinking and systems created for this situation will still be around when the other shoe drops and we really, really need them.
tbf, if you have a 1000 row table in html - you might have other problems.
Is it actually worse than the flu pandemics in the 50s and 60s?
It's also interesting that (well, like copper) fiber speeds have been upgraded again and again using different transcievers (the gbic thing)
There was another one in f-droid (or at least it was named differently at the time) that I had installed and running by curiosity a few years ago. I more or less forgot it until one day while I was driving on the highway and got forcibly directed out because of a blockade set by protesters (nation-wide protests by farmers occurring at that time). Once in the vicinity of said blockade I got notified unequivocally that something weird was happening to the cellular network. I guess law enforcement people were using IMSI catchers to monitor protesters.

Just anecdotal evidence, however, while I almost never got false positive alerts from this app (once at the arrival of an international flight), the one time it triggered a notification, it was in a highly probable situation.

Communication between our devices and these base stations being so opaque (closed-source baseband processors/OS not helping there) and sensible, I'm glad these projects exist and I just installed this one, blaming myself for not doing so earlier.
This is what reproducible builds try to fix: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
Like "x% of crypto runs on green energy" this is a irrelevant argument.

The energy could have been put to better uses.
no.

People love centralized private finance, they hate centralized public decision making on the money supply and interest rates
It's kind of up to you to enumerate those possibilities and give examples of them working.
It is fun to see something with $5.5B market cap being called "esoteric" and "barely used". I wish I had a side project with similar market cap :P
Deaths don't actually vary that much year to year. Increase/decrease over time? Yes. Swing by 10 million in a year? No.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-number-of-deaths-b...
Thank you for the comment. The site already has RSS, and I'd agree there are good technical grounds for preferring it, but I get the impression that its use among users is declining, which is why I was considering other mechanisms. I find it an interesting point of view to consider a feature which alternatively allows users to opt-in to email notifications - but which doesn't disadvantage them at all if they don't - as "user-hostile". (But of course I've seen sites which want to coerce visitors to hand over an email address to be able to access the content they were expecting, and depending on context, I can see cases where that could be considered aggressive.)
I don’t have anything to add except that California is huge and very unevenly applied “lockdown” - there are many towns a where businesses remained open or reopened frequently, but the big cities did have large shelter in place efforts. It would be interesting to compare on the municipal level if the data was that granular.
Nope, because the delivered bundle is going to be different from the APK the developer uploaded. This is the actual goal of this system. And when used for good, it allows much smaller app downloads.

However, it also makes developer signing harder (so google decided to eliminate it) because every app bundle is going to be a different file. As a side effect, this also kills 'reproducible builds', unless the bundling process by google is itself reproducible.
Sounds like my life's story :(
“Huge” is very relative. 20% increase of a number that is very low by historical standards is still really low.
This is literally just your opinion and you have zero to base this on. Stop spreading misinformation.
"Funnily" the error appears after the page has started to display correctly and doesn't appear if you block the correct anti-adblock script that erase the correct page and replace the content by a fake technical error message.

I find this behavior quite disgusting and sadly seen it on many sites.
> "we discovered, which we already knew..."

This sounds incoherent and conspirationist, but also pascalian: a religious experience. ("You wouldn't be looking for Me if you hadn't already found Me".)
Your altruism is laudable but don't think this can't hurt you. I know a healthy, athletic 25 year old who has needed an inhaler every day for the last year because of her moderate, non-hospitalized Covid case. Her lung damage will probably not heal any further at this point.

I would get vaccinated ASAP. You're as deserving as anyone else. You don't want to risk spending the rest of your life with impaired breathing.
That is a long article only to end up with a website that looks like every other website. Could as well be wordpress or a facebook page.
Disclaimer: you own bitcoin
Chill. It should just give pause for thought, not stop thought.
There might be something deeply interesting in that news actually. 'initialised = true' is obviously a bad pattern, now people cant argue about it anymore. Why is it bad? Obviously, if you forgot the line then... BOOM. So instead I check whatever main variable the initialisation initialised before the initialisation starts - even when it looks a bit awkward cause it does sometimes. Also, the whole concept of initialisation is a bad pattern. You dont want to have an initialisation whenever you can avoid it, you want to perform the whole calculation every time. 'initialisation' implies a state machine. You dont want state machines, you want stateless machines, as much as possible. So yeah, 'initialisation' is a good optimisation some of the time and most of it a bad compulsive-caching habit.

'initialised = true' just costed people $10M. I really like those DeFi things cause at first glance.. I think they might actually teach people how to code!
They will still work.
A tax on CO2 emission would reduce the incentive to mine with expensive coal without affecting price at all. Moreover, it would reduce the incentive to do all sorts of inefficient things that aren't even on your radar, because it's not the moral panic of the day. It would also increase the incentive to develop carbon capture and CO2-neutral solutions.
Erlang, doesn't has json rpc tho, but a whole cluster technology and rpc if u really wanted it
>> Danish, for instance, does not have a word for “wood”; it just uses “tree” (trae).

> Danish does have a word for wood...it's just the same as the word for tree. This is like saying English is weird because we say "he likes to fish" and "he eats fish" (or "he fishes" and "the fishes are swimming"). Fish is a noun and a verb, how weird! No, it's not weird at all, though it proves that context is important in understanding (no kidding).

Usually the same word is used for wood and tree, but we do have the word "ved", which refers specifically to the woody part of a plant, not the entirety of it. So you would call it "kerneved" for heartwood and "splintved" for sapwood.

It's not really in common everyday use, but very commonly used in the forestry and woodworking trades.
They forced people to use subpar options within their environment - just like Microsoft forced IE to be used on theirs.

If you want to reach millions of customers, you are restricted to the Apple Payment options... even when better options exist. Same for Ad and other subpar options.

Why? Because they are better options? No... because Apple FORCES you to use those options.

"but you don't have to develop for Apple" is a copout that ignores the anti-competitive and monopolistic behavior Apple is using to force people into subpar options for a 30% gateway tax.

Similarly, others can't put good browsers onto Apple because of restrictions... why? because webkit is the REQUIRED base... despite the fact that its restrictions mean you can't use webapps as real alternatives because of limitations with controllers, bluetooth, etc.

Google can make better alternatives to Safari? Firefox can? Microsoft can? doesn't matter... Apple FORCES you to use their subpar options because if there was real competition, they wouldn't get a 30% tax.

Spread that decision to email clients and all other corners of the Apple "ecosystem" and you have a company using monopolistic practices to limit competition to increase prices.

"but don't do business on their platform" doesn't change the fact that they are using monopolistic practices to fleece their customers.

I don't like EA and think they are an equally horrible company - and should be judged equally poorly for many bad practices... but EA (and netflix, steam, etc) should have the ability to not use Apples gated options and not pay for a service that isn't worth 30% - especially when they can host their own payment and ad services.

Stop with the bad arguments to defend a company using monopolistic practices to fleece their customers.

I say this as an iPhone owner and a programmer.
It has been supported for at least the last 9 years now, I don't see why they would have any reason to break it.

>The main reason why they haven't yet is most likely that their attempts to integrate dbus into the kernel and systemd more tightly were rejected by the kernel devs; if I remember rightly that was expected to be the point at which you could not use it without systemd.

That seems quite dubious, udev has never depended on dbus, and there really would be no reason for it to ever do that.

>Using the kernel interfaces that udev relies on without using udev itself is also unsupported and the developers consider it within their rights to break those as well.

This I know is true, the netlink stuff varies really wildly from driver to driver. The alternative would be to put udevd and the other userspace bits into the kernel, which I really doubt anyone wants to do.
This ship has sailed long time ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lessepsian_migrant_spe...

Wider could have a major effect on terrestrial non flying mammals but zero effect on aquatic animals (except maybe for the biggest whales). Deeper yes, would made a difference for aquatic species.

Maybe would be a good chance to made two roads separated by a chain of islands instead. More expensive but not without extra benefits. By the way reduces the ever present risk of too long ships. With two isolated lanes you can rely always in the other to keep the road opened.

Those chain of islands in the middle could easily hold infrastructures or attract tourism. And would be a great opportunity to became a sanctuary for migrant birds and fishes without blocking so much the migrant mammals.

And if in the future they need to wide even the channel they could just keep the old docks and remove one island in strategic points to connect both lanes and make space.

And could be done in several steps without blocking the activity or income in the old channel.
How strong is anti vaccine / anti mask movement in the US?

As I see there's very little of it "on the american side of the internet", meanwhile "here" they tend to cause a lot of disruption and shitton of missinformation
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also if you can, set up your logging to output JSON/GELF.
This is an effect referred to as "mortality displacement" -- it tends to happen with bad flu years, heat waves, etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_displacement
I suspect there’ll be decades worth of study of this. Hopefully it’ll help the next time.
agreed. To be fair in my case it was a 500+-row table that i was trying to split into 2 rows each on small screens. Still arguably way more than reasonable, but this was a situation where it's legacy code and I could only change the html/css. I ended up doing each row as it's own flex, which is slightly annoying since it can't adapt to the contents being displayed, and I had to just stipulate widths for each column, but I guess it's not hard to see why dynamically calculating the widths would be a bit laggy.

Firefox handled arbitrarily big grids like a champ though
Though the article (lightly) suggests the articles were taken down due to corporate influence, with a "hiding the truth" style bent.

The comments at this stage also suggest that this is a free-speech issue, or an issue of raising money for humanitarian issues.

I think the simplest explanation may be that game sites don't feel the need to get involved in political issues. Just like HN also doesn't get involved. There are many other and better sources to be informed of the issues, and places where you can be directed to charities.

Why should every site on the internet become a focal point for the Israeli/Palestinian conflict? What about the Uighurs? Where is their coverage? Or the Rohingya? The list goes on and on.

I expect to get downvoted for this comment, but keen to hear what the actual opposing view is. Please comment if you feel I'm wrong.
somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-15% increase in deaths
The approach is an iterative deduction with strict call-conventions. In some cases I compile the rules as-is into a C-Program, but if the used memory is provably bounded, I compile to a finite state machine + some registers. Had to ditch the extensional database for that. Not strictly necessary, as it turns out.

You can read it here (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68446-4_11, behind paywall) or hit me up on researchgate for that paper. Or as a short overview: https://dbs.informatik.uni-halle.de/microlog/

The main problem, which I claim to solve, is the handling of side-effects. For the microcontroller (or a robot) it is vitally important to not have side-effects or at least have them explicit for the developer and the language semantics. I believe this is where most approaches fail, that they model effectful input-gathering just as input-relations, but you need to control your input as well as your output in an interactive application.
Thank you for your contributions. I am super excited about Hotwire - and spending less time doing more.
Thanks for your comments! Posting directly to Instagram is already on my backlog because, as you say, it’ll be useful for the tool to automate the process, but I wanted to make a first iteration of the tool that did the design work I was looking for before tackling the harder stuff like social media integrations. The RSS feed is a great idea so I’m going to add that to my to-do list - totally agree with your point that people expect a lot from a subscribed service so I hope to live up to that.
That Apple's trying to control the narrative, that you can't even tell people what $ of their payment is going to Apple, is a problem; this is a problem with food ordering-delivery service apps too, it should be law so people can make informed choices of what app they want to use.
Chips are recycled, at least the valuable ones. Go on AliExpress and you'll find lots of expensive FPGAs reballed, iPhone chips for repair, classic computer chips that are no longer made, etc.
San Francisco had some of the heaviest lockdowns in the country, yet 100 miles east in Modesto the mayor actively defied the statewide lockdowns. California is a big state.
To really understand it you’d need to look at cultural, geographic, climate, demographic, etc differences that apply to transmission rates. I’d be curious to see it though, and a similar one for other illnesses.
I'm not quite sure what your point is. The absolute number is the number, and zooming in to make it a relative number for dramatic effect doesn't change that.

It's kind of like zooming in to a stock market graph so the spikes look bigger.
>But then I look back at what was actually accomplished in that time and it feels pathetic.

Surely that must depend on the problem space you're working in.

My impression is exactly the opposite of yours, though I must confess it took me a bit of time to build up an armamentarium of patterns that I could apply to a problem. This seems like the flip-side of the "go is a simple language" coin.
> You most often cannot guess the gender of a noun in quite a lot of languages

That's far from true. In Spanish it's quite easy most of the time:

Female form (-a):
casa (House)
taza (cup)
armadura (armour)
luna (moon)
leona (lioness)
escritora (female writer)

Male form (-o/-or/-on):
camión (truck)
sillón (sofa)
león (lion)
escritor (male writer)

You don't even need the article to guess which one is which one.
Are you sure about that? Has there been recent polling that shows low support? The linked wikipedia article shows some support among Israelis and a high support among Palestinians. I would imagine that support would skyrocket among both nations if two state solution were to be taken off the table (which is increasingly likely).
It’s not going to happen. That’s not the way that distribution works at scale.
Just like the “kids are starving in $country/continent” lines that were often said when I was a kid, it’s horrible and I wish it wasn’t true but whether I clean my plate or not has little to do to help their situation.
Whether you personally take a vaccine dose or a tax credit or whatever that you quality for, it has been allocated and will not be given to anyone else.
That's the CFR, the OP is probably referring to the IFR, which is likely <0.35%
Very low? You mean not that many people die, of any cause, typically? Not sure what you are getting at here.
> Regardless of the behavior of selecting "Epic direct payment," this is a flagrant violation of App Store rules.

Yep, because they needed to flagrantly violate the rules if they thought the rules were not something that would stand up to legal scrutiny. The US court systems (particularly on the civil side) try not to rule on hypotheticals. They want to be discussing actual damages. Because of that, flagrantly violating the app store rules (to then get taken off the store) is the first step towards getting a judge to rule on if they were legal in the first place.
Those will still work.
https://twitter.com/IAmTheActualET/status/139036896599463117...
Google could publish the code they're going to use to do the transformation step (as e.g. a Docker image), and the developer could audit the result by optionally independently running the same code themselves, at any time after publication. As long as the code Google published was deterministic, the developer should be able to use it to reproduce a binary with the same the SHA as the one offered centrally.

This is the same process that package maintainers (e.g. Debian, Mozilla, Tor) go through to produce reproducible (i.e. verifiable, deterministic) binary packages: they enable arbitrary users to run a copy of the packaging + distribution infrastructure on their own machine, such that they can watch it all go and see that it spits out the same thing the remote server does.
No doubt. But it's 2021 and rural communities are catching up to where urban centers were 10 years ago. Not perfect, but better.
I'm not necessarily arguing that smart contracts shouldn't exist in the first place - perhaps they have a valid future role in effectively and cheaply adjudicating small claims where currently it might not be worth to enforce a contract due to the effort and costs of the legal process; something vaguely like what arbitration was intended to be.

This use case would IMHO have a quite large market, and it would be perfectly compatible with those smart contracts having a proper (non-code) appeals process explicitly designed in the system - the benefit would be that the third party (arbiters, or state, or whatever) is not used in most cases, because that would be costly.
> i don't think dependency management is great in any language. Ruby is terrible!

If you use bundler and Gemfile.lock everything 'just works' in Ruby.

Node/npm/yarn is a nightmare
Did you read the post? Ripple is a company ofc its centralized.

The XRPL is the "blockchain" and its NOT controlled by Ripple. They maintain the open source code that does not give any control over the running network at all.

>Ripple-sanctioned set of transactions

Thats a made up thing. There is not a single Tx that has ever been "sanctioned" on the XRPL Its also simply not possible. You are completely misinformed or intentionally spreading FUD.
The time when Ripple ran the whole network is long gone.
It’s not a small project...
In Australia we use white out :)
You would need to look at everything from ages to whether the lockdowns where enforced to how people lived (high or low density) to how deaths were counted. It would be an interesting study.
What monopoly when their mobile OS is only 18% of the mobile market?

You all want these corporations to learn a lesson? Stop giving them attention.

There are more useful political conversations to be had. This is more David v Goliath crap bros use to seek Valhalla
The Website Obesity Crisis [video]
Your being vaccinated is important for protecting those who can’t be vaccinated. Plus, what’s most likely to drive governments to exports of vaccines is hitting/exceeding their own vaccination targets. The most effective way to lobby for exports is to get vaccinated.
Count of covid cases and deaths has been highly politicized and manipulated in Florida to the point of firing people for reporting them.

Not sure how possible it is to get accurate info in this environment.
But they already allow third party payment processors in physical goods retail apps e.g the Amazon app for example (and many other much smaller retailers). Is fraud a much bigger concern in digital only apps? Why should I trust a small retailer with an app over a big development house like EA?
I feel like the more logical take is that our healthcare technology, policy, etc prevented the deaths from being on a scale closer to previous plagues. It may have been closer to 1918 but we stopped that from happening.
>this is a flagrant violation of App Store rules.

Rules that many believe are unjust, hence this making it to court.

>I do think that it's reasonable to restrict third party payment processors, though. It's inconvenient

Paying for goods has never been easier especially with all the payment app integrations like paypal, cash app, venmo, etc.

I want choice and I want Apple to compete by being a better product not by being the only game in town. If Apple opened up they would gain me as a customer.
Are you sure that is it? Meat[1] used to mean food in general. In Swedish, the cognate would be “mat”, and that still means meat, much like hund (hound) means dog, and djyr (deer) means animal. I rather thought that meat in mincemeat was from “minced [sweet]meat”. Or, just “minced food”.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meat#English
Has it occurred to you that people taking payday loans don’t have a lot of options?

This isn’t someone deciding between 15% monthly and a nice 4% annual personal loan. This is someone deciding between 15% monthly and homelessness. Choosing the interest rate is rational.
Pretty sure that is not enabled by default. I can't recall disabling it, and I looked now in Settings to find it disabled.