skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know the details here, but in the Israel vs Sweden comparison, absolute numbers favor Israel (7000 vs 14000 dead) but age normalized are the same (Sweden has about twice as many >60), and in European normalized excess death measures from Oxford, Sweden is at 2% and Israel at 6%

Personally, I try to only use excess death figures, because case counts are not comparable due to local policies. E.g. once vaccination started, Israel categorically stopped testing vaccinees unless they show clear covid symptoms; whereas it demands weekly test from many unvaccinated even though they have no symptoms.
Just select it and you'll see an option to upgrade to 16G (which adds a whooping $180 to the price): https://www.apple.com/us-hed/shop/buy-mac/macbook-air/space-...
Virtual vernier caliper simulator in millimeter: Be skilled in measuring at here
Let's stop confusing the two. Free software is also open source, but open source does not mean free software.
To start understanding open source, here's a nice article: https://matteoguadrini.github.io/posts/zen-of-open-source/
Never had this issue with bspwm or sway.
Is this a recent change or something that's not visible to people outside? I'm asking while seemingly recalling some bizarre VC investments (say, MoviePass) from the past decade or so.
Now your car is a cybersecurity risk, too
Ossec – Open-Source HIDS
Here's a simple way to understand the situation. Imagine you have a room of uniform pressure. Air particles are bouncing around at random speeds but its chaotic and uniform.

The randomness means that there will be moments where the rooms pressure is not EXACTLY uniform.

Now image you have a demon that can divide the room at one of those times. The demon does not work on the particles in the room. It simply divides the room. ...But now you have two rooms with a pressure differential. You can use that difference to do work and it will only return the rooms to uniform pressure again.

You get work for free. How can this be? This is the paradox.
Really nice work Victor!
What bothers me is, we derive entropy --a blind, involuntary physical law--, from observation of inanimate systems.

So, for example, a very big box full of hot hydrogen will eventually cool off. But, there's a tiny chance it may actually coalesce into life bearing stars. Such life may intentionally work towards increasing order, like Maxwell's demon.

So we try to extend entropy to life too and strenuously prove that it'll increase even when aware biological organisms work against it, while still excluding the same organisms from the observations entropy is derived from.
I tried to do a college end of year project in Symbian, and couldn't get anything to work for months. This was likely a combination of lack of ability as much as the SDKs problem, but it definitely was not novice friendly.

I pivoted to J2ME with about a week to go in the project and managed to get an MVP working in time, after 3 months of wrestling with Symbian.
> The smell causes me to immediately change my clothes. It's not a fecal smell. I can't begin to describe it, but once you smell it you'll never forget.

I'm sorry to put this in your head but... fish sauce.
If Long Pepper is anything like Black Pepper, then quality will vary greatly depending on where you get it from.

Great, now I need to order at least two bags...
Interest rates can rise, which would increase the mortgage. Also, buyer's income could fall at some point in the next 30 years.
I think GP was actually saying that with any luck the editor devs get their shit together and make their apps load fast even on older hardware.
Entangled particles are stored in the same quantum register. When there are two references and it’s read, the systems says nope can’t do that and it unlinks them.
*sigh*

Here we go again.

The GDPR has no problem AT ALL with cookies. Use as many as you like with no need for popups. However, if you are using cookies to track or personally identify me, then you need to ask my permission to do so. And so you should.

The amount of misinformation (some of it wilful) circulating about the GDPR on HN (a technical forum!) is shocking. If you consider yourself a professional developer then I strongly suggest you read a GDPR primer. There is no excuse not to. Following the GDPR will simply make your code safer when handling personal data.
Just do it.

There are so many jobs available in tech that if you put your mind into it, you will likely have more opportunities than in law or finance.

But I'd advise against doing a PhD. You've studied just for too long.

Do a bootcamp, study a lot by yourself and make a name for you... and get a job as a software engineer.

I have a terrible time understanding that one person could afford to study for that long.
Can anyone recommend a good area in Texas far from manufacturing, military bases, or other sources of pollution?

Bonus if far enough North to avoid freeze issues!
The Third Thumb Project
You seem to be repeating this in several comments, but that's just not true. CA's total per-capita case counts and recent new-case rate is lower than, say, both Texas and Florida.

NYC is not a state, so you can't directly compare it.
The article however does mention,

>I’m tempted to wonder if people are misclassifying suicides as overdoses

Which would not surprise me in the least given the data is coming from CDC. Everyone from all sides seem to agree that CDC lost lots of credibility with coronavirus.
A few bizzare investments doesn't give good insight into what the majority of investments look like.
If we believe in the conservation of energy, wouldn’t the universe itself likely be a version of Maxwell’s Demon? Could black holes/white holes be the membrane driving such a perpetual motion machine?
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Bacteria and viruses behave differently. It’s possible, even likely, that a measure against one will be ineffective against the other.

In an attempt to fights a specific virus, namely sarscov2 - no, we don’t know that masks work. The cdc numbers I saw talk about 2% reduction in vivo.
Although I ~never used Apple products, a good ten-fifteen years ago I ran through a quite expensive "Apple Human Interface Design"[1] book. After that, whenever another "book" / blog series / etc came out about "UI", I was discarding them saying "and now what, that's just common sense".

It. Is. Not.

The more companies and people I had been working with, the more I started to see that most of the UI design (or for that matter, displaying information on a UI / document / advertisement) what I thought had become "common sense", hadn't. Most of my colleagues cannot properly position / color a button. Cannot structure a document (headers, tables, bulletpoints) to be easily comprehensible, consumable. Struggle to summarize information in an email.

This 50 UI tips is great! Thanks for this. I will share as a baseline with my team.

[1]: I can't find which one. Maybe its title was something different.
Carbon loss from forest degradation exceed that from deforestation in the Amazon
> Why does then the states with the highest mask use (CA, NYC) have much higher covid positive rates than states with some of the lowest mask use (Florida, NYC)?

They don't. Stop spreading misinformation. (Also I love that in this repeat of your misinformation, you accidentally typed "NYC" where you meant to say "Texas". And it would behoove you to learn the difference between a city and a state.)
The maintainer in that thread believes that the memory reporting is wrong.
Trusting users means trusting all users. All 100.0000000% of them.

But there’s a small percentage of users out there who can’t be trusted. And a single bad apple really can ruin the whole batch. Or, at least ruin it for everyone else.

So, we must instead take the default “users are untrustworthy” approach, until demonstrated otherwise or until we are forcibly reconfigured to do otherwise.

The key is in striking the right balance, and having fine-grained enough control that even when we end up giving more trust to a particular user in one context, this doesn’t cause excessive risk increase elsewhere, in case we were tricked into giving the trust when we shouldn’t.

Google for “trusting trust”. This rabbit hole goes all the way down, and it’s turtles all the way.
I am not an expert but you shall have my take either way. The most important question here is "Am I executing arbitrary untrusted code?". HTTP servers will parse the incoming requests so they are executed to some extent. But I would not worry about it unless there is some backend application doing more involved processing with the data. repl.it should not disable mitigations.
That is what you are testing!

Equipoise demands you don't assume one outcome.

Otherwise every single pharmaceutical trial would be impossible since "we can't knowingly give humans a placebo"

If the effect is large and significant we will see it quickly and can halt asap.
Look, I installed it in the company. We have a lot of problems with postgresql integration, it doesn't rotate log files well (EOF missing). The latest commit is from February and the last release a year ago ...
I switched to Wazuh: https://wazuh.com/
Much better
Robotic hand augmentation drives changes to neural body representation
PHP uses libcurl for http requests.
When I look at a brilliant, highly optimised piece of code, my first thought isn't "wow, I wonder how long and how many iterations of natural selection it look, to get this code snippet working just right". I do however, usually look at the Git blame.
> Wayland anything for a while

According to this : https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/WebRender_Where that is not true. Or is it out of date?
Isn't Amazon's Ring exactly that, or do I misunderstand something?
Anecdata: I work at a uk startup and quite a lot of our product development has been funded by HMG. It’s worked really well for helping us work through technical challenges and has enabled us to reach product/market fit for our key products.
A lot of useful tips for sure, and it's good work. However, as a UI designer who has read (too many!) books on the topic, I wouldn't call this a book. It's 50 web design tips combined in a PDF. Probably better defined as a "quick guide" than a book.
Who offers those puts? I would imagine that no credible financial institution would do that and hence there would be significant counter-party risk with those puts.
"proxy for how serious the wearer takes Covid as a threat." I would suggest that this now law in some countries and that would be the reason for wearing facemasks.
wow, i had wondered about pinning in the cloud. this is a fantastic tip - thank you!
Not to mention, it's not really the governor's call to make. It'd have to make it through the Idaho legislature first, and I get the feeling they'd be less keen, particularly once numbers and figures start getting talked about. The proposed counties to secede, for example, don't have a great connection to Idaho proper that stays in-state.

Also, Boise is farther from these counties than Salem, so it's not especially clear that representation would be significantly better.
AFAIK SSDs are generally replaceable, even in MacBooks. If you can replace it, I wouldn't worry too much
What reasons do you need the types of cookies you need to ask permission for under the GDPR?
We angels love to exploit what VCs won't touch with a ten-foot pole ;-)

If you are a founder—any industry—hit me up and hopefully I'll fund you! Email m@zorinaq.com

I don't care if I don't know an industry. I look mostly for qualities and unique characteristics in the founders themselves.
You need to a background check on the founders. If they had already exited successfully, then anything gets funded.
This appears to be a variation of the "who would build the roads" argument.
How about: Don't do a routine mammogramm in the weeks following any (!) vaccination in the arm. Problem solved!
Ask HN: Can you share your experience when you bombed an interview badly?
Any detail such as the company you were interviewing at, what happened next etc would help. Thanks.
There doesn’t seem to be any evidence specific to this pandemic that masks work. The CDC study released recently puts it at 2% or so. And there was no new evidence in March that caused the reversal from “masks don’t work” to “you must mask up” to “two masks are better”.

Obviously there was a reason for them to change their recommendations, but it is not evidence, and might not even be health related - I know someone who was involved with a recommendation in a national organization, and a big part of it was “instilling a feeling of pandemic”.
I feel you both are right. The specs for web-related technologies become more and more bloated everyday, and the barrier to entry is already too high (even for a software monster such as Microsoft!). From this point of view, it can be seen as obstructing the open web.

However, there should be no harm in adding optional specs for the interested parties, especially for niche uses. So this actually favors open web as it's better to have open standards rather than ad-hoc custom solutions.
I'm constantly looking for good priced SBC with cellular connectivity - that chart shows only 2/3 with modems and all appear to be via external modules.

Anyone know of any?
My thoughts about the Principal role
I love Sublime Text. Like many have said already it is indeed really performant. What I like the most is that I can open large files (say 600Mb files) and do stuff like regex search and replace with great performance. This would be pretty much impossible with Atom, or Bracket , or Vscode. I also found ST UI really simple and not bloated.
The problem is ecosystems like UNIX based platforms, that will never move to something else.

The only solution is to throw them away, e.g. Android style.
Browsers and other players will generally be fine, as they render the image progressively. However, editors /processing tools which attempt to load it as a series of frames or a video will usually break, as memory consumption explodes, unless they have a smart disk buffer system to handle it.

I wouldn't be surprised if some poorly implemented players were built on top of abstraction layers that end up flattening the whole thing too and also break, but browsers at least generally do it right.
If it's 'generously covered by the CDN' then I suppose it must be list price, what else would they do? 'We'd probably agree to a 30% discount if you negotiate hard with this load, so that comes to..'?
The only thing I can think of is "tabling" something, which means to put on the agenda in most places but to remove from the agenda in the US.
My GIMP process reached 278MB (93MB of which was shared). According to the Dashboard tab, 60MB of that was cache, including layer thumbnails and mipmaps. It's definitely not inflating the memory footprint more than expected. It's hard to count the total pixels, since every frame has different dimensions.
Ask HN: Is BitClout the future of social media?
What is your view?
Is BitClout a scam or the future of social media?
I just got a ROK Espresso (also a manual espresso machine) and I love it.

The good thing is that this summer I can take it with me on vacation and I don't have to drink my awful in-laws coffee.
Alternate theory. In its core, the universe is a giant one-dimensional loop, which starts "curling" to form multidimensional forms as energy lowers and it's insufficient to keep the string straight (think about small magnets forming a line, but if not strong enough you can form looped shapes with them).

The universe has potentially infinite dimensions defined as n-dimensional Lorenz space: a space where every next dimension is perpendicular to all previous dimensions. The number of spatial dimensions depends on the overall energy level of the Universe, as well as local energy topology.

Black holes represent these inflectional shifts of spatial dimensionality. The surface of a black hole encodes a closed (no beginning, no end) space of a 2D universe, and inside that 2D universe, high-energy regions form two-dimensional black holes, circles, on the surface of the 3D blackhole. The surface (circumference) of those circles is just the original 1D string unentangled, and this is where the set of nested black holes end.

Our own universe is the surface of a 4D blackhole.

We mathematically determine black hole is just a point through which structure doesn't survive, and truly there's nothing at the center of a black hole (i.e. the black hole itself as we define it), but hovering just above the Schwarzschild radius is a whole another set of nested universes, nested in one another, and each of those nested universe is rich with emergent structures, just like in ours 3D+time universe.

We simply can't access it, because the building blocks are of a different category. Basically the building blocks for our particles are made up of what is the particles in a 2D universe (refer to string theory and how vibrating 1D strings in N dimensions form our perception of particles).

So maybe black holes aren't just "we give up, nothing happens" here. Maybe they're rather "we give up, let's unravel one spatial dimension here in order to find new energy-stable configuration".

This actually doesn't contradict your simulation theory, but it adds some unexpected twists to it. Because what looks like just spacetime eating holes may in fact be brimming with life, and maybe our entire universe is one, as well.
nope. pippili (Indian long pepper) is a vine/creeper and a completely different family from Peepal (sacred fig)
Who is Leighton Woodhouse?
People touch their faces all the time, mask or not. And some non-physical effects of masks may be useful. If nothing else, fumbling around with masks is repeated reminder for all other measures.

It may feel silly to wear a mask if you belief that this is the only effect. But you cannot deny that it is a causal effect, e.g. it would not happen without wearing the masks.
For the same reason that it came into the standard in first place.

No compiler vendor wanted to give up their own C variant "features".
Sublime is awesome, thanks! I've purchased an upgrade straight away.

Can you pretty please fix the issue where files deleted/renamed outside sublime are shown as unsaved? It often ends up with a lot of wasted debugging time until I realise I'm working on the wrong file

Please show "filename (deleted)" on the title, instead of "filename •". Thanks!
This pretty cool stuff.
I am wondering about another use case for this type of thing.

We have a CLI tool built with node.js, could we build one of these containers with with the CLI tool setup and expose just a terminal with access to the local file system?
> and let the community pick up maintenance / forks if there’s enough interest.

This almost never happen, even when the interest is very high...
I love open source and free software, but we should face that this point is more a fantasy than a real thing.
Your Spaltmaß Is Killing My Software
Yeah, you need kerberos. OTOH it's not as difficult as people seem to think. Maybe if you insist on DIY rather than getting started with FreeIPA or even whisper it Active Directory...
I understand that from an external POV things that fall into a black hole never seem to reach the event horizon, but there must be material that is inside the event horizon. When the original star collapsed and the black hole formed, there was material inside the volume enveloped by the new event horizon. Also as more matter accumulates in the accretion disc of the black hole the event horizon will expand. With these enormous super-massive black holes, with event horizons the size of earth's orbit, there must be something inside the event horizon.

Or is that wrong, and everything just smears out even more finely as the event horizon grows?
Hi Clove, Is there some essential product feature missing which made you said that ?
Many of my colleagues openly despise aggressive virtue signalling displayed by many companies. I guess it's no more optional, they simply don't have a choice. They are either with (the current social issue) or perceived as being against it. Trying to be neutral and just do business is no longer an option.
https://github.com/schappim/macocr
Encrypting the volume the database is stored is pretty much equivalent in security offered to TDE and satisfies all of the security requirements that I have encountered.

For field level encryption you should implement it in the application layer.
Being polite to the compiler, but not overly polite.
This is great! Have you considered an html version of it? I can see myself sending links to people pointing them to a specific tip.

Love it! Thanks for sharing!
Only an encrypted version of the password right ?
anything improved for Rust?
For what kind of files? On windows code once opened in a workspace context opens normal source files of a project almost instantly.

Are you talking about cold boot or huge log files?

The only place for me code breaks down is with long jsons/js files that haven't beet prettified and are a long long string.
There are a number of improvements to the rust syntax.
At least in Physics a big issue isn't so much the pay (you won't get rich, but you won't starve..) but rather the instability and uncertainty.

Due to the way Academia is structured there simply aren't enough jobs, and the more senior people can get stuck just writing grant applications instead of doing actual science.

I'd massively expand the number of National Labs and research institutes so it isn't such a pyramid scheme - and allow budget for some sort of "scrum master" figure to deal with the non-science bureaucratic stuff.

Expanding the grants budget would also help make it less desperate so scientists can focus on doing science and not begging for funds.
You just need to simulate a bunch of Keith Frankishes and Daniel Dennetts (illusionism theory of consciousness).
Not in practice. Running multiple OSes requires virtualizing the hardware, which is where most of the complexity is.

You can run multiple OSes with a rather dumb hypervisor iff, say, you dedicate specific bits of hardware and CPU cores to each. You don't even need a hypervisor for that, even. But that's a pretty limited use case. At that point it's not a VM, it's just partitioning existing hardware between OSes. How practical this is depends on stuff like whether the IRQ controllers are per core; anything behind shared buses and IRQ controllers that aren't just transparent is going to be hard to share.
> but not about the gif, it's about editing the gif.

That sounds like it's about the gif. I don't see the word "viewing" in the title.
Ruby 3 JIT can make Rails faster
This is actually something Japan got right earlier than others. A lot of European and American train stations are rudown and surrounded by shady activity, whereas Japanese stations are effectively high-level shopping malls.
From a tech perspective, here are a few ideas that are part of the accepted orthodoxy that often go completely unquestioned:

- Worse is Better

- Many contributors make open source projects higher quality

- Modern programming languages should always be Turing complete

- Kubernetes

- AI is a very powerful hammer and every problem can be framed as a nail

- All novel and popular technology represents progress

- Programming is (and should be) hard

- End-users care about Software Freedoms

- Open Source projects always benefit end-users (perhaps indirectly)

- Collecting user data for unknown future use is acceptable and even prudent

- Governments always tend to get in the way of tech progress

- Innovation is always distributed from producers to consumers (and occasionally augmented by "prosumers")
Depends on what you mean, there is no real reason to blank memory just because a program is exited.