skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suppose someone offered, say, ten million dollars to the first team that could write code to discern, from the outcome data, which areas had locked down and had mask mandates, and which hadn't. Would anyone be able to claim it?

If the answer is no, is it possible that most of what governments did in response to this outbreak was inferior to what they did on previous similar outbreaks, i.e., basically nothing? (Was there anything like a lockdown or a mask mandate during the HK flu in 1968?)
They're using zero so far [0], and until they need it for something else it wouldn't make sense not to use it for this. The CPU tunables aren't fuses or anything, the OS configures them (m1n1 in our case)

[0] https://github.com/AsahiLinux/m1n1/blob/main/src/chickens.c
I know the sales pitch, spare me.

> ...the name for which, is, by the way, just sysadmin

No, because some time in the past "IT support" (you know, the guys setting up Windows and Wi-Fi routers in your office) got upgraded in name to "sysadmins", and so the old "sysadmins" who knew Unix and how to code some Perl needed a new, untarnished name. Hence, "DevOps".
I don't have the solution. When do forgive and when do we take action so no one else is hurt like we were? Both are emphatic and compassionate but the latter makes one feel as an aggressor instead of a defender like one truly is. It's confusing.
I wasn't sure if it was that, I had my doubts so. What I saw from that "discussion" so far is enough for me to stay as far away from it as possible.
To me, the most important Q is what is a tech's staying power, is it a skill you can still make a living in years to come. In my experience, general skills that can be applied, win here. e:g In 1992 I learned vi (what vim was at the time basically) and shell (csh on Solaris and HP-UX machines). 29 yrs later these skills are still totally relevant e:g bash on AWS EC2, or inside Dockerfiles. Much of what Microsoft had at the time is unrecognisable now. At the same time I learned lots of niche telecomms, which is no use now. I'd go for depth in general skills, rather than niche, unless you're really sure the niche stuff is here to stay. Perhaps some niche academic science solving real challenges, is worth investing in. The fundamental issue is that so many software skills have a short shelf life, compared to other fields of work, and if we don't watch out we get bitten by that
This is the one real (and legal) reason why people should actually use OS UI. To replicate this functionality is a tall order.

The 'looks native' thing is mostly noise
Here's the arxiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0206022

(for anyone who shares my pet hatred for researchgate)
A PCR test indicates the presence of viral genetic material but that isn't sufficient to diagnose an active infection. A patient who has recovered from infection can continue to test positive for an extended period, especially if a high number of cycles are used.
I guess like other services of stripe, it does NOT support developers from China mainland, right?
It's telling that mere links to factual information on Wikipedia can still garner downvotes on HN.
COM/UWP doesn't do class inheritance, only interfaces. It also provides delegation mechanisms.

Just like Win32 object model, is based on message dispatch across windows classes, not necessarly inheritance.

Just like game engines based on component architectures.
> gc

you could maybe try the two lines here (set the megabyte count, the third number, to your own liking): https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/34342/is-there-any...
Impossible to say definitely. North Korea military spending has been around 25% of its GDP, which is said to be one of the top reasons why its economy plateaud in the 70s. Would it have needed to be so high if they had annexed the whole peninsula, and would they had closed up like they did if they had decisively won the war? Perhaps not: Vietnam certainly did better.
Although the FT is paywalled, from a web search the same topic is covered at https://digitpatrox.com/englands-nhs-plans-to-share-patient-... (I have no idea how reputable that site is though).
Quoting the start of it:
“””
England’s NHS is making ready to scrape the medical histories of 55m sufferers, together with delicate info relating to psychological and sexual well being, prison information and the abuse of adults and youngsters, right into a database it is going to share with third events.
The info assortment venture, which is the primary of its form, has triggered an uproar amongst privateness campaigners, who say it’s “legally problematic”, particularly as sufferers solely have a couple of weeks to decide out of the plan.
NHS Digital, which runs the well being service’s IT techniques, confirmed the plan to pool collectively medical information from each affected person in England who’s registered with a GP clinic right into a single lake that can be obtainable to educational and business third events for analysis and planning functions.
“””

This link is also relevant for people registered with the NHS: https://www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters/manage-your-choice/
Flat rates sell better than pay-per-use
Apple Via del Corso opens Thursday, May 27, in Rome
I was actually planning to pick up a new Mac today and I’ve been on the fence over M1 or Intel for months. My biggest con for the M1 is how proprietary it is. With Intel, you know it’s been battle-tested for years. Things like this (at best, is an oversight, at worst, it’s the tip of the iceberg) make the decision a little bit easier…
It can be real but unimportant. An extra drink every week might increase my liver cancer risk by 4%, but that's negligible if it's the difference between a 1 in 1 million chance and a 1 in 960,000 chance.
As someone who has been on IRC since ~95 and still uses it, I view Discord as several self-hosted IRC servers (with voice/video features on top), and in that way it compares more favorably.

I wont speak to the privacy issues/data issues, but as a user, Discord has honestly been fantastic and beyond my expectations. Its' API for making integrations has been great too.
Sorry to hear that... May I ask how you lost the other 5?

(My inner Asberger's could not resist.)
It only failed because no one was willing to spend the money it requires to make it happen.

See how much money might already been spent into Flutter development.
I'm not saying the entire book taken literally is how everything must be done. I was trying to say that the general ideas make sense such as keeping a function at the same level of abstraction and keeping them small.

I agree with you that having all functions be one liners is not useful. Keeping all functions to within just a few lines or double digits at most makes sense however. Single digit could be 9. That's a whole algorithm right there! For example quicksort (quoted from the Wikipedia article)

algorithm quicksort(A, lo, hi) is
if lo < hi then
p := partition(A, lo, hi)
quicksort(A, lo, p - 1)
quicksort(A, p + 1, hi)

This totally fits the single digit of lines rule and it describes the algorithm on a high enough level of abstraction that you get the idea of the whole algorithm easily. Do you think that inlining the partition function would make this easier or harder to read?

algorithm quicksort(A, lo, hi) is
if lo < hi then
pivot := A[hi]
i := lo
for j := lo to hi do
if A[j] < pivot then
swap A[i] with A[j]
i := i + 1
swap A[i] with A[hi]

quicksort(A, lo, i - 1)
quicksort(A, i + 1, hi)

(I hope I didn't mix up the indentation - on the phone here and it's hard to see lol)

Now some stuff might require 11 or 21 lines. But as we get closer to 100 lines I doubt that it's more understandable and readable to have it all in one big blob of code.
> it defeated the USSR

Very arguably: no, it didn't.

The USSR defeated itself. It overspent and was rife with corruption. They don't call it "the collapse of the USSR" for no reason. It couldn't maintain its own weight and fell in on itself.
I don't disagree with you, just want to mention that people on Facebook are very dumb if they think 98% survivability is a good rate, given how easily this disease is transmitted without stringent measures.

Luckily, the estimated fatality rate with modern medical care is much lower.
I mean venture capital money.
The core question that the author doesn't touch because he only deals with the absolute number of cases is: what happens with long covid? With prior epidemics, people were dead and that's it or they were alive and healthy soon-ish, the rate of survivors with horrible, lasting after effects always was low (such as with polio which left only ~1200 people in 1959 with an iron lung).

Coronavirus in contrast is much, much more evil - even in young, healthy people such as athletes, there are numerous reports of a wide variety of symptoms: permanent lung damage due to scarring first and foremost, but also neural symptoms (ME/CFS), GI issues or mental health issues.

Unfortunately, this isn't talked about much and - unlike an iron lung or scars - most symptoms can't be seen from just looking at a corona survivor, which leads to a widespread ignorance in just how immensely dangerous this virus is.
> in violation of the ARM architecture specification

> Apple decided to break the ARM spec by removing a mandatory feature

Is there a page documenting all incompatibilities / violations of the ARM architecture specification by the M1?
> Did this one get to the end of the process and result in a real fine or other penalty?

It did end with a judgement that it was in breach but the court didn't fine the company because they barely used Mailchimp and they stopped using it before it got to trial.
Well, maybe. It's amusing to picture this article being written, in some variant, after each of those peaks with a different choice of x- and y-axis cutoffs.

Comprehensive vaccination seems to be working, and I'm not one of those "amazing new variant" doomsayers who imagines that every variant is going to overcome vaccine resistance. The idea that we have a large pool of unvaccinated people coupled with a lot of cases seems like a neat way to exert selection pressure towards the creation of strains that are at least quite virulent, if not necessarily dangerous-to-vaccinated-people.

But I'd say the air of celebration in these articles is premature, and the cliche that "oh, it will become endemic and we'll learn to live with it" tends to overlook that "endemic" covers a huge range of outcomes, including some unacceptably bad ones.
I can confirm this, as an iOS developer.
Well, I think it is no surprise that in the beginning things change.
Everytime you do something new and big - you do find things that do not work out as designed. So you change the design. Which is allright for me, with a prerelease.

But now with the official release - I do expect some stability.
To see or not to see the problem that we have in Health Care
Being solutions-oriented, looking at solutions proposed by each party, is one way to cut through bullshit. But if you think about it, if everyone already has a solution coming to the table and just argue for them, they will come away having learned nothing.
Finl is not LaTeX
Can Canonical get involved on this person's behalf?
> Because of the sudden surge in demand for medical oxygen, currently most of the industrial oxygen in India is undergoing an additional purification step, and then being diverted for medical use. A major challenge is getting this oxygen from factories in eastern and southern states to the northern and western states which are most struggling with supply. It takes hours to fill a tanker with the highly flammable liquid oxygen, and once on the road, these vehicles must follow a strict speed limit of no more than 25 mph as well as not travelling at night, to avoid road accidents.

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/why-indian-hospitals-are-r...

(Readers who paid attention in school may recall oxygen isn't actually flammable - but it does considerably increase fire risks)
One of the bits of good news recently has been that vaccination apparently helps with long COVID too. But I agree with the idea of not being blasé about COVID due to the long-term morbidity effects. It will be interesting to see what sort of hangover Sweden has from their frankly idiotic policies.
We become what we behold
Faxes? Letterheads? To me, those sound almost like the "proof of work" idea behind some blockchain technologies. Essentially: "Prove to us that you're a legitimate entity, because clearly you have bothered to set up support for such legacy solutions."

Personally, i'd be more comfortable with the modern approach being something more along the lines of:

You should put the token that we'll provide you with under your corporate website's page: https://<YOUR_DOMAIN>/.well-known/identity-challenge/<TOKEN>

A bit like what is done by Let's Encrypt for providing HTTPS (though there could be additional technical details).

Of course, this does almost nothing for the website being compromised, but still feels less nonsensical than using fax and using letterheads and such.
Lazier (1FA) U2F Login
> Sure, I'd love any and all feedback:

Here's one: you wasted a perfect opportunity to feast on that sweet investor's money.
> It feels like there should have been other species along the evolutionary road with culture, basic agriculture and arithmetic etc.

There were, other hominids. We exterminated them/added their diversity to our own. Tibetans have adaptations to high altitude that pre-date the emergence of Homo Sapiens because a small part of their ancestry is Denisovan.

> Why did something click and suddenly we're smart enough to build rockets, fly to other planets, split the atom, and reason about the very nature of reality?

There was no click. There was nothing terribly sudden about it on any human timescale. 200,000 years ago we were anatomically modern. There were almost certainly some individuals then who could be acculturated to now, if transport was possible. It took over 150,000 years to develop settled agriculture. All that time those people were smart enough to reason. What eventually happened was cultural accumulation more than any genetic change. We are the dumbest possible species that is capable of what we do. Otherwise we’d have done it earlier.
Modern C for C++ Peeps (2019)
Building a Serverless Web App on AWS with Amplify, CDK(Python) and Nuxt(Part 1)
Similar story. I own a half-dozen relatively recently-registered three-letter domains at two-letter ccTLDs. I’m surprised every time one turns out to be available at normal rates.
Dive-bombing (no clue whether that tactic was/is still in use) and strafing aircraft fly a lot lower when attacking ground targets. The danger is so great that ground-attack planes like the A-10 Thunderbolt are designed with survivability in mind and carry a lot of armor.
I believe that only significant difference between A14 and M1 (apart from package) is number of cores.
WhatsApp a facebook company, in midst of changing their terms to reduce user privacy is suing to defend privacy.
that’s funny!
I'm wary of memorizing lists of biases and fallacies, ever since reading Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AdYdLP2sRqPMoe8fb/knowing-ab...

This is not the way to develop your truthseeking, in fact it may make you worse at it. The unbiased way to check validity of others' statements is to be able to check validity of your own beliefs. If you can do that then you have nothing to worry about: even if you get convinced by a flawed argument, you'll soon debug it out of yourself.

To take a software metaphor, you reuse the same libraries. Work on that self-skepticism, because this ability translates into the ability to be skeptical of thoughts coming from others.
It's not. Good quality codebases do exist, and generally are fairly well self-documented.

Typings, well-named functions and variables, consistent APIs and once in a while, a comment to summarize rationales and point out edge cases, and a README file to explain the setup and entry points.

That is generally all you need in terms of documentation. I've dealt with plenty of codebases like these and they're a delight to learn.
well, that's a relief.
Why there is no light on space Sci Fi series or movies?.

I find it extremely hard to believe that people that master ships at the speed of light, that have nuclear and possible antimatter engines just can't effort proper lighting, like they don't know LED lights, fluorescent lights everywhere.

All films just look like submerged nuclear submarines on red alert,but all the time. On nuclear submarines you have way more light most of the time.

We know that we need strong light exposure in order not the develop illnesses like myopia. Mood is affected badly by lack of light.

I can understand it in games,it was the first trick for hiding a bad 3D engine, make everything dark, but it is not necessary anymore.
> We will never sell data.

You can start by allowing to download the app without asking for email.
It's interesting how history differs in perspectives. Great read!
Ok, let's try to say "the glass is already 20% full, not 80% empty" - there are still lots of things missing, but hey, it's still early days...

My pet peeve with most "home-grown" GUI frameworks is relatively subtle and probably hard to implement, but it's an example why developing a GUI framework (especially a platform-independent one) from scratch is hard: no subpixel rendering for text (only "classic" antialiasing). This makes these UIs look strange on a "normal-DPI" monitor (which are getting rarer these days, but I still have some and I'm not gonna throw them away anytime soon).
NFTs are racing to digitize (and monetize) the value exchange
Hi! You can copy the branch name at the bottom of the right sidebar with one click: https://i.imgur.com/O3StMBA.png

Or in the merge request widget, below the description: https://i.imgur.com/V72v9jj.png
That's a really long term bet, at least 50 years from now. By that time wealth in the current sense of the word might become meaningless (or might not).
I've given up on REST and I build all my new APIs with JSON-RPC. https://www.jsonrpc.org/specification Super simple.

I'm not a fan of the complexity things like gRPC introduce to most languages (the PHP tooling is horrible for example), and I really don't like the limitations of HTTP verbs and the box that trying to confirm to CRUD puts you in.
Ｉ＇ｍ ａｗａｒｅ ｏｆ ｔｈｅｍ． I don't have any particular use for them, though. Do you use them?
Yeah, on the first glance looks like the obligatory first chapter in a textbook one normally skips :)

Luckily there are more on-the-topic ones under the masterclass tabs, including kinematics, dynamics, vision etc.
Yeah, I call these types of APIs "JSON over HTTP". More syllables than "RESTful API", but everyone knows what I'm talking about.
I'm pretty sure that anti-slavery was always taken to mean we don't want people to have slaves, not that we want you to have slaves but not get extra votes because of it.
The job title is too broad to generalise in this way. Many data scientists never touch a dashboard at all, for many others it's a very small part of their job.
Rats are not capable to force social and financial hierarchy, where the rich have all the space they need in their penthouses. So any comparison to human society fails.
What you say makes sense, and one sign that you are right is the fact that no one has chimed in here to say that they saw one of the ads.
The manufacturing jobs actually don't matter, it's the investment rate that must go up to match the savings rate.

If you can build factories and nobody has to work in those then you should just keep building factories. It would be even better if those factories produced solar panels or wind turbines.
> if you walk into any research center or academic environment

If they use their institution's infrastructure, it's managed by the dedicated system admins. No way they're going to allow this tool to be installed.
I try to, but it's really hard. The initial "take-over" was because he felt entitled to do so (feeling an agression (that mostly didn't happen and was a misunderstanding) on his property). But what he's been doing ever since is weird, and could also make think of another motive for the original actions as well...
This covers most of the listed features.

https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab
I Work Near the Largest Open-Air Heroin Market on the East Coast
> some of its fundamental assumptions (that the world is not zero sum) are dubious at best.

???

The world is very decidedly not zero sum, you don't need economics to tell you that. Zero-sum games are a particular case.
I whole-heartedly agree with basically everything but feel compelled to point out that it's extremely hard to predict future needs.

Nobody thinks their house is going to burn down until it does.

Also, DALs are IMHO best practice for anything but the most rudimentary and not solely -- or even mainly -- for facilitating switching database.
Rubygems uses 'uninstall' too
I mean I was shocked when the closure of Maya bay was announced. As a country still lifting itself out of poverty, environmental concerns are often not the first priority of the Thai government.

However, now that Maya bay is closed, the unintended side effect is that the boats now take the tourists to other locations. There is zero interest on the side of the tour operators to limit the tourists impact on the marine ecosystem. Instead of telling tourists to not touch corals, tour operators sell plastic shoes so the tourists don't cut their feet.

I think a lot of education is needed on all sides, otherwise the masses of tourists will just move on to another place and destroy the ecosystem there.

I mean often the Thai government has their heart in the right place, for example by placing large fines on tourists that destroy corals, but for every case that makes the news many more are unnoticed.
You're playing devil's advocate.

If someone has access to your password and 2FA method, they can impersonate you and destroy your reputation, buy things in your name, consult all your old photos and learn everything about you, etc, and no platform will ever ask them a EU id at any point in the process.

The idea that a platform asks for a EU id for any reason other than making the GDPR request process more painful is laughable.
Sweden have had fewer infections than a lot of other regions. If longcovid is a problem, I would be more worried about places like New York and London.
I would assume the number of cycles is pre-determined. Not that I checked, so. But again, how is that a bad thing? You check for the virus by looking fo viral DNA. Good, you found it in suffcient numbers to conclude the person is infected. Solid approach. A lot of stuff is checked for indirectly. Reading too much into that just shows an incredible degree of ignorance.
It looks way cooler.
First results from UK experiment point to a solution for fusion’s heat problems
Lets say, based on your nick, you are teaching two classes. Both consist of individuals.

If we were to count the classes, we would say that one class consist of 2 people, and the other of 20000.

But those are just numbers.

My point is that numbers are useful for us in understanding how to interact with the world. If you don't plan to interact with the trees, you probably don't need to count them. But if you are going to use them for firewood or building materials, the knowing the difference between 2 trees and 20000 is useful.
Adding to the confusion is this often-cited article: https://medium.com/@Rich_Harris/tree-shaking-versus-dead-cod...

That article claims that "tree shaking" is different because:

> Rather than excluding dead code, we’re including live code.

That's a misunderstanding of the term "dead code elimination". Classic dead code elimination techniques have always worked by first identifying potentially live code and then eliminating the rest.
Cross-core communication without going through the kernel seems like a very useful performance feature for games.

Am I missing something or is it somewhat likely this will be "abused" by games?