skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> these kinds of things won’t happen unless you’re trying something new.

Unfortunately, that's probably not going to be what occurs. Even today, there are constantly bugs discovered and fixed, some critical, that have been latent in systems for decades - as in since the last century.

The recent FragAttacks against WiFi systems come to mind.
Mincemeat is (was) a way to preserve meat using sour, salty, alcoholic preserves and sweet flavoring.
This actually looks like core wars but for money...
Florida didn't lock down (EDIT: except a few weeks at the beginning), and their death numbers are middle-of-the-pack[1], just marginally worse than California, which did heavy lockdowns.

We should probably assume that, in addition to not following some practices we should have, we also did a lot that we didn't have to.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html list the states by "of all time" and "deaths" which shows FL with 168 deaths per 100k and CA with 159, only two slots apart.
This is from earlier:
https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/excess-mortality-across-countr...
Interestingly Sweden that got famous for defying lockdowns saw an uptick of 1.5% excess mortality per 100K people compared to 12.9% for the US that was relatively more locked down. I'm not sure what to make of it, but it sure is an interesting data point.
This is a sign that market caps are irrelevant, the whole crypto scene is crazy, or both.
Call me crazy but I trust a website that has to operate under rules and regulations (albeit pretty lax rules) more than a random stranger I don't know on the Internet.
> typing # will create a header, text will make your text italic, etc.

CTRL + NUMPAD 1...6 will convert paragraph to a header.
CTRL + I - will apply <em> to the selection.

These are common shortcuts for all specialized markdown editors. And I believe shortcuts are better - more reliable and explicit.
I can tell from the downvotes that people heavily disagree with me. But if no one is able to work, and one person ( the automation owner ) now has all the money. I don't see that as a good thing. But, we'll see how that plays out.
And do they link to those stores from their amazon product descriptions?
It’s probably closer to 1 or 2 years, on average.
You would likely need to look at county by county data. Austin TX is probably closer to Albany NY behaviorally, than it is to Kent County TX. Schoharie County NY is probably closer to your average TX county. America isn't red state vs blue state, it's rural vs urban.
I recall in Nevada (Pacific time), there's one city right near the utah border that observes mountain time. I don't think my electronics figured it out.

edit: it is West Wendover NV

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Wendover,_Nevada
Just to tack on to this - the growth of the virus can be exponential. Seychelles (small island country) was at a high vaccination count but is currently experiencing an outbreak of covid. On the one hand, their case counts are up which sounds bad. On the other hand, they're not seeing the exponential growth in hospitalizations nor deaths - i.e. the vaccines are doing their jobs.

Edit-But the effects of the vaccine aren't exponential. You really need to get a good population coverage to axe the thing. And outbreaks can still occur (though less deadly) when/if outsiders come in from populations less vaccinated.
Okay, Thanks!
https://pomp.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-bitcoin-when-el...

> Let us first cover the elephant in the room: the Elon dump. Firstly, there were 19,259 BTC moved onto exchanges before Elon’s tweet and ensuing price dump. I do not think this is coincidence and was likely someone with insider information.

Regulations may not apply but it would be interesting if Musk told one of his rich friends before posting the tweet. That could look bad for him if something like that was discovered.
I'm an infectious disease epidemiologist, and there absolutely will be decades spend unravelling this.

To address the parent question - one thing to keep in mind is that states are extremely heterogeneous, and "Did or did not lock down/mask mandate/etc." isn't actually a binary variable, but a very difficult to measure continuous response of both policy and compliance.
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I'm still a fan of Lance. I still enjoy watching some of his classic races up Alpe d'Huez, and I still have a lot of respect for his competitiveness as a rider. Even though I know an inseparable part of those legendary performances is the EPO.

I also recognize that he's not a good person. I listen to his podcast from time to time and he comes across as a total narcissist. It literally makes me cringe sometimes. He's not someone that I would wish to emulate or I would want my kids to emulate.

That actually kind of makes me like him more, though. He's not just some legend. He's a real, flawed human being who also happens to have the most interesting career in all of cycling (in my opinion).
Full disclosure, I do work for VMWare on the DDlog project

If you want a sort of FRP-backed datalog, I highly recommend Differential Datalog https://github.com/vmware/differential-datalog
It's a datalog flavor/variant that's based on the Timely Dataflow and Differential Dataflow libraries, it's focused on incremental computation over streaming data. Coincidentally it's also used on network switches if that's relevant to your need for deploying on micro-controllers
I share the general skepticism, but I am open to the idea that (much like other electronic commerce), the smart contracts might make 99% of transactions much more efficient; so the expensive manual interventions are only used on a small proportion.

Of course, it is not necessarily obvious that blockchain-powered smart contracts are the only way — or the best way — to achieve that automation and efficiency!
Let's remember that every function call that can return an error normally takes these three extra lines:

if err != nil {
return err
}
I agree that you could place the condition on reproduction number - you really intend that the virus becomes extinct.

But your 'less than 100% infected/vaccinated' is an assumption, not a guarantee. There's an ongoing possibility of immune escape.
> But the one thing that still really pisses me off about systemd-the-project was the fact that they ate udev-the-project. In my view, that decision was unnecessary and was done for purely anti-competitive reasons.

Such are all the common criticisms on systemd.

It was never a technical objection; it was a political objection to the fact that systemd unnecessarily coupled things that could and should be separated, but were coupled not for technical reasons, but for anticompetitive ones, and this goes beyond systemd.

Many Red Hat projects have a way of finding themselves to be dependent on one another in ways that are often hard to justify from a technical standpoint, and often even use unstable, undocumented interfaces that they make available for one another.
Same question. I’m a lifelong NYer, and a metro card has never failed in me in use or in structural integrity. I tend to replace them every five years or so for eventually /losing/ them, but that’s it. What more could you ask for?
I would not typify the US as "mostly locked down"
IGN is a video game news website. Not everything needs to focus on the political issues of the time. Video games offer a great way to escape, and seems to be a perfect example of an industry that does best when ignoring such issues.

Just like this site. dang often mentions how certain topics or forms of communication shouldn't be discussed here not because they're unimportant, but because they're not the focus of this site.
One last try: NASA Wallops final attempt to launch KiNET-X from Virginia
Kleros Digital Courts, if their story holds through.
A related angle I haven't seen much investigation on is to what degree we'll see negative excess deaths (surely there's a better term, but I'm at a loss) in the coming years due to how much covid impacted older folks.
There are a lot of spaces where I see this. Standup comedy (in France at least, can't speak about the US because it's older) have seen a lot of new people due to a booming scene, but after a few years people are all saying the same thing, its hard to keep going. Life is not what it seems and ease of doing doesn't guarantee long term.

I wanted to make blogs but it was not the right spirit, also it distracts you from doing 'actual' things. Anyway time will settle things out.
I think this is exactly right. I have separately used Go for more system-level code that pretty much directly wires together the standard library. Exec, x509, tar, gzip, flag, os, io, various encodings... here there is no contest. Go is a killer language for networked UNIXy stuff.

These tools also compose really well, despite the absence of generics, because they speak the common language of byte arrays. Now that I think about it, Go is a language for processing byte arrays in the same way that LISP is a language for processing lists. Go is just more subtle about this specialization, and invites you to use it for other things it is less good at.
Another way to look at this is that if the Black Death had broken out in 2019, we’d have expected the excess mortality to be pretty close to zero (in truth some remote regions with poor access to antibiotics still experience it, but it’s essentially a non-issue in the modern world).

Which is to say, comparing deaths across centuries is hard. It’s hard to say how many people COVID would have killed without oxygen and intubation in the time period of the Black Plague. That it killed as many as it did even given our medical advances may indicate that it is in some absolute sense much worse, not better.
Wondering how overstretched his financials are if he’s turning to btc pump and dump schemes.
> "I really wish the people who self-identify as free speech advocates would speak out about this."

It's the other way around, really. Why aren't the progressives acknowledging that this is the dark side of "corporations aren't required to host speech they don't want to" which we have heard all too often on HN? They knew full well (or darned well should have) that corporations care about PR and profits, not progressivism or social justice, and that the people who run them have their own agendas. They rejected the importance of freedom of speech, denied the possibility for neutrality in political issues, and sneered at liberals who tried to remind them of the consequences.

Why are we being asked to rescue progressives from their own folly? They've never been shy about activism; let's see if they truly have the influence they claim to wield.
"The Black Death was 30-50% of the population in Europe. The "Spanish" Flu of 1918 killed about .64% of the US population."

The populations were much lower back then. Also, the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, so there are probably many more deaths to come.
You might like the "small b blogging" ethos :) https://tomcritchlow.com/2018/02/23/small-b-blogging/
>The incumbent ISP would have eventually had to upgrade to gigabit anyway

My cynicism does not let me agree with you.
Small b blogging (2018)
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I think the answer is simple. If it was easy to advertise to the user other payment options, then what would stop developers from making free apps [0] that are unlocked in the developers website? Bypassing the Apple's cut.

I don't agree with this but I think it would be a good argument by Apple.

[0] Assuming that these free apps would be functional but very limited so they don't have the same problem as the Hey app.
Yeah! And let's ban water, too! And sewers!
I will never forget the New York daily death count a year ago.

Seeing 600 a day is something I hope we never see again.
This is an interesting app, but the English on the landing page needs some editing by a native speaker/writer. It doesn't look like English is the first language of whoever wrote that text.
It’s not like they are better it’s just repeating everything a million times and talking the whole day without shame of making a mistake is more fun when you are 6.

The fact that vocabulary of a 6 year old child is much smaller and takes less time to remember of course helps

On the other hand, when you are adult , you can actually understand abstract concepts of grammar. It’s just too boring to repeat everything enough times to train your neural network to get it right without thinking.

What children are actually really good at are sounds of language.
Vitalik just burned a lot of $SHIB (~6B USD). Also included a message
It's always a pleasure to read Sanglard's posts.
Best known for his 3dfx dissertation.
You wanted to know how many udev events and therefore dynamic behaviour a server could have at boot. I told you my experience.

And of course the underlying system may fail, but actually it is more common to have udev, lvm and systemd fail. Just google cryptsetup, udev, boot, lvm, raid and problem in arbitrary combinations. Most of what you will find are bugs in udev, lvm or systemd.

urandom is a workaround for stupid behaviour from systemd. Of course /dev/random isn't necessary, but that is beside the point, systemd again broke something by being boneheaded.
Yes, but more often that means one of your users protects themselves by fixing the vulnerability and sending the fix to you.
Indeed, and Sweden also had the benefit of the lockdowns in the rest of Europe. I don't think you can compare Sweden to the entirety of the US. A single state maybe.
You should work "lough" in there somewhere. It has a completely different pronunciation.
You’re in a thread that starts with the premise that this is a vehicle that the fbi/cia are going to use to distribute backfired versions of apps like signal, in which case no, it’s not an open and shut case of fraud.
I've been there. It's a bunch of casinos literally a foot over the state border. It's less than 2 hours west of Salt Lake City. Wendover is a tiny town in Utah but West Wendover in Nevada is completely different just a foot over the border.

They probably want to stay on Mountain time because 99% of their visitors/customers are from Salt Lake City on mountain time and their TV stations are also probably from Salt Lake City
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This is a silly.comment unless you know the application and the domain. Excellent answer on all the things the go into an Internet facing app. Plus Education is a tricky area because the outcomes are complex - what are the paths to a certificate, diploma, certificate. Khan Academy probably wound up writing the original Python code themselves instead of a COTS product.

I'm not a big fan of LOC as a metric. You certainly can't compare languages. But the point that this is a large app and the builders are happy with their product and choice says a lot.

YMMV
It's super important. Most people don't use RSS, and social media doesn't give you a direct relationship with your readers, you're at the whims of the algorithm, so even if they want to keep up with your content, it may not be surfaced to them.
It's the kind of thing where if it fails, it's going to fail explosively and unexpectedly.

Proof-of-stake is vulnerable to various miner collusion attacks that Bitcoin is not vulnerable to. The gist of it is that casting multiple conflicting votes (sometimes way after you cast your original vote) doesn't require any additional resources in a proof-of-stake system, whereas casting additional votes in a proof-of-work system is very expensive.
Egypt has a big aquaculture sector. Largest from all African countries and ranking among the top ten countries in the planet. Is a seriously strategic sector for they.
If Apple is not offering a rate that is competitive to whatever the developers use on their own site, then it means their policy is anti-competitive and costing users money. There's no law that says Apple and only apple must make the maximum amount of profit.

If apple continues by complaining that they need the extra money to operate their app store then well, they are free to allow alternative app stores.
exactly. the measures were always about keeping us simultaneously busy and anxious and not about their actual effectiveness. it’s been so frustrating to see discussion after discussion about the minutiae of masking when they’re so minor to the overall picture. what mattered above all was indoor, familiar social proximity (where we’d be most likely to be exchanging spit for prolonged periods), exactly where our strong social norms dictate the least amount of vigilance.
I would really like to know where to look to MOVE TO as a result of new ISP competition making compelling offerings for a well connected future.
Devil’s advocate, but doesn’t the customer already have choice not to choose iOS?
>If it was easy to advertise to the user other payment options, then what would stop developers from making free apps [0] that are unlocked in the developers website? Bypassing the Apple's cut.

Allow users to install app stores then.

"How dare you bypass the App Store!"

"Alright, can we make our own app store?"

"No!"
Where is ogg frog, buddy?
indeed. agreed. the reason why I share it is now being run in rolling stones. it might catch a few eyes but I don't expect it to change many minds. people are more or less locked into the spheres in which they are in.
Again, though, in that case, as with many use cases where people like to yell "blockchain!!", just use some code running on top of a database.

Blockchain adds a ton of cost and complexity precisely because it is completely "autonomous" with no enhanced trust relationship for anyone. The second you have some people with an enhanced trust relationship, then the whole reason for using blockchain falls apart.
Um, not if the user signed up for it? Believe it or not lots of people sign up for email lists — especially editorial ones but also commercial ones — on purpose. Not just normies either, I bet there are plenty of people on HN who've subscribed to a bunch of bloggers' lists. I certainly have.
There are weird externalities though.

Specifically homeless people. They all become deposit bottle entrepreneurs. They will often go places they probably shouldn't go and rifle through people's dumpsters and trash cans.

I'm not sure what to think.
The majority of people who died from covid were counted, the vast majority of people who got covid were never tested. You can't use this number as an estimate of your odds of dying if you get covid, it's not that simple.
> Unfortunately, the term "Datalog" has been used inflationary to mean anything to anyone as an attempt to market proprietary DBs at this point.

Is it? You have any specific examples? The only one mentioned in the website is Datomic, and it is using Datalog. The very second link on the website is also the Datalog Wikipedia page.
And what's wrong with this? If developers think Apples frictionless payment system is worth their cut then they'd still keep it. Otherwise consumers and developers now have choice. What marginal benefit does apple provide on the purchase of "v-bucks" to justify a 30% cut when processing costs are far lower?
Glad to see BSV finally getting noticed by HN
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So what, all Tether cannot be redeemed at once, like every other asset in existence. The market obviously tolerates that with the entire bankng sector, with the entire gold surrogate sector. Tether’s disclosures says they are not backed with dollars one to one, and some irrelevant portion of their audience cares. Tether simply hasnt given their own audit at the same standard of banks or ETFs, everyone knows what they're getting into. The irony isnt lost on anyone that the crypto market has systemic risks from leverage and rehypothecation, but also its like every other market and will function for hundreds of years then and have some spectacular busts on occasion. Not different enough for me to care about singling it out. Did I cover all the bases for you or did I miss anything?
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It isn't coincidental most words for men and male animals are masculine and most words for women and female animals are feminine.

It's the people who complain about "SJWs" who say sex and gender are the same.
Using SystemD to manage your services easier if that's what you want is nice (aka, if your SystemD setup depends on a service, that's fine).

It's not great if the service depends on SystemD, because then it can't be used with other init systems (without patching / forking, at least).
This or that state government's mandate or lack thereof really can't stand in for actual behaviors.

For one thing, regardless of state mandates, you can bet your buttons that a huge number of residential/nursing facilities for seniors in Florida did lock down, and thereby protected those most likely to increase Florida's numbers.

If you want to see the effects of policy, don't compare states (especially big diverse ones like California). Compare, for example, San Francisco (with peak 7-day-average new cases of 363, total cases 36.7k, and population of 874k) and Miami (peak 7-day-average new cases of 3240, total cases 494k, and population of 2710k). Per capita, Miami was about four times worse.

SF: https://www.google.com/search?q=san+francisco+covid+numbers

Miami: https://www.google.com/search?q=miami+covid+numbers
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Not really. Excess deaths certainly are not entirely caused by the virus, so you still need to try to subdivide them somehow, which is once again a ripe opportunity for "gaming" / creative statistics.
Agreed. But now the bar is set. Hyperbole and data abuse have longer term consequences. Eventually, we'll face something more deadly. But plenty of citizens will be sceptical, as they should be. That's the problem.

Some call this a test run. I'm not so sure crying wolf qualifies.
I can accept that the initial worst case mortality claims turned out to be too high. But I can’t accept this claim:

> a disease that, for the vast majority who get it, just makes it so you can't taste or smell anything for a few days along with fatigue and flu-like symptoms

People who’ve been sick and survived, even with minimal symptoms, are experiencing long term health issues. It’s one thing to recognize that the early estimates overstated mortality. It’s another thing to minimize what people who’ve survived infection are experiencing.
RIM used to do the same thing for Blackberry development. It never worked very well and the signing server was often offline. After one of their rounds of layoffs, it was offline for over a week, perhaps two weeks (it's been a while). I'm not sure if they laid off the person responsible for that server and it happened to go down or if they knocked it offline as a parting gift. Either way, we couldn't make even spelling corrections in our apps until it came back up. Absolutely terrible process.
It's never just adding a field to a structure. That data is going to be there for a reason, and someone is going to write the code to do whatever that is.

And to parse the data arriving in a request from the front end.

And to validate the parsed value.

And to perform the necessary security checks. Wait, shouldn't they have been done already?

Where do we keep the validation logic in this design, anyway?

Hang on, what type is this field? Is there a native way to represent that in this back-end language, or some convention we've adopted? Did the parser already handle that?

It's never just adding a field to a structure.
But not toward disbanding a protest coordinated by cell phone.
> Of course, I'm not an epidemiologist

and no geographer either apparently :D