skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People don't usually use these tests to prevent transmission, but to have a formal negative test result, as this is the entry ticket to many shops and services. A proof of vaccination provides the same, while also reducing transmission.
That doesn't work with the Mercator projection, which Windy uses, as the distortion is specific to the latitude, regardless of where the map is centred.

Contrast:

Orthographic: https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/08/11/0100Z/chem/surface/...

Equirectangular (closely resembles Mercator): https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/08/11/0100Z/chem/surface/...

Patterson (less distorted than Mercator): https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/08/11/0100Z/chem/surface/...

Waterman Butterfly (minimal area distortion over land): https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/08/11/0100Z/chem/surface/...

Winkel-Tripel (spherical variant, minimal distortion): https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/08/11/0100Z/chem/surface/...

An equirectangular projection distorts the scale considerably at high latitudes, increasing apparent size, as does Patterson But even with non-distorted projections, the Siberian wildfires dwarf North America's.
Oh, ok. I disagree, since we all know there are no fallacy police and you can legally do it but it's considered a source of error.
> You cant just plot and build every house in town at the start, and you cant expect that things wont change as things pan out.

I wonder if you have ever talked with actual urbanist, as I have, and this definitely not how they think.

Urbanism can actually be very ‘agile’, with a difference that you have a vision for the outcome you want to reach (which good agile in sw development is adding as well).
What is the role of Software Architect (in your company)?
I think that assumes we're in a state where people are buying coins for their supposed use. But at the moment, demand is mostly speculative.

There's also a very crowded market for coins right now. Most will not take off. Even if coin X has perfect fundamentals, there's a self-fulfilling equilibrium where nobody buys it but instead buys coin Y which is slightly worse.

My argument is that in the long run, a very inflationary coin would not be attractive. Using it for transactions would rely on greater fool theory. You buy it so you can sell it immediately. But that means you must sell it to either (a) someone who holds it and loses half his money, or (b) someone who buys it and sells it immediately, again to either (a) or (b)....
yeah, ik its kinda irrational, but he is a very academic and scientific type of guy.

oh, and for the record I dont have a degree either.
Funny how with fully representative democracy, coercion is done passive aggressively
> vaccination does not prevent transmission

I keep hearing this but I don't understand where it comes from. IIUC, it doesn't matter that you're as contagious when sick and vaccinated as unvaccinated. When vaccinated you are less likely to contract the disease in the first place and therefore reduce overall transmission.
Typically deduplication is more like clean, standartize and match (using relatively simple match approaches). Our process was much more complex (more along the lines of what another commenter linked https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/12/14/entity-resolution/) with more rich resulting functionality, and, yes, marketing was the segment where it started though i'd say it was only about 3rd of the business at the peak of it. Yep, performance for most of the solutions is an issue. We had to do significant re-engineering at one point to parallelize at much finer granularity and thus were able to scale much more. Our biggest number of entities counting across all the sources in the largest implementation was just under 200M. It was right pre-Nehalem hardware.

The batch mode had naturally orders of magnitude higher throughput. We did have real-time single-record mode which was pretty fast as long as the stream of the incoming single-records wouldn't saturate the worker array capacity (here is the difference from serverless as the worker array was limited by whatever was statically configured at the moment as adding/removing nodes wasn't an instant on the fly operation)

Couple years later i worked at another company on a similar, though somewhat simpler, project when it was in the process of total rewrite for performance reason - the old version was really slow - that rewrite failed spectacularly for a lot of reasons. So, yes, performance is a kind of a noticeable factor in the domain.
> Yeah this is largely expected as the world shifts to "living with COVID" like we do with the flu.

At least now, with working from home, idiots would not come over to my desk to cough all over me with their plague only because they felt pressure to be present.
A friend of mine just moved across the US to Portland because of all the hype and immediately left after being put off by what they described as a very public homelessness and hard drug problem.
Honestly, I don't use it but my gf uses it and it's far and away better than any other social media I've seen. At least half the content I see when we scroll through together is good.
Children in Germany are currently tested twice a week in school. Not sure whether this continues after summer break, but if it does those test certificates can be used outside of school too (when so requested at least).

Suspending tests for free though will mean many testing sites closing down, making it logistically harder for families to do certain things during vacation. But that is dependent on whether or not tests are required.
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But if you want Software Engineers that will take up DevOps skills and responsibilities, surely you'd want to advertise this DevOps culture instead of a role? Advertising this as culture is likely to attract people that want to work in a place without a DevOps/SE stratification.

I think the only reason to advertise for it as a role, is when your tooling is too complex and you've given up looking for Software Engineers that could do it on the side. Which is fair enough, I guess, though providing a Golden Path nowadays is probably more popularly done by hiring Platform Engineers.
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> Unfortunately, the masses don't seem to care.

It looks like you know enough to hate it without using it.

What's up with the sense of superiority here?

The "masses" do care, but if you were an active user of the platform, you'd know that nothing comes even close to what TikTok brings to the table.

E.g.: do I care that TikTok censors LGBTQ+ crowd? Absolutely.

But guess which platform allows me to connect with that demographic the most. Yup, that's still TikTok. And what I learned on that platform changed my life for the better like a magic wand.

What you say is a prime example of throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Focusing only on the obvious and known downsides means being blind as to why it is the most downloaded app, which is what I try to illuminate by my comments.

And it's the #1 app not because "the masses" are stupid.
Open directories with direct links to mp3 files. You can try replacing mp3 with movies, shows, etc.
Luxembourg made all public transit free.

Including commuter rail.

And it all runs pretty regularly (bus, tram, train)
Just looking at the graphs, dew point temperature tends to be a bit lower than the wet bulb temperature (when humidity is equal).
yep, but you can be dispensed if you have a medical condition. And those vaccines have been tested for 5+ years and on the market for 20+.

In France we are refusing entry to hospitals for people with frickin cancer,
even though we are supposed to vaccinate to protect people who cannot (or at least that was the "Science" up until now).

We left logic and science at the door.
Australia's participation in the "War on Terror" was seen to make it a target, and we were always told about "narrowly thwarted" attacks, though they pretty much always turned out to be deadbeat kids with no idea what they were doing. But that was sufficient to keep the fear level up. As others have said, these days China is held up as the big threat.
As incompetent as Australia's current leadership is, I still have reservations that they would be naive enough to get involved in a war with their greatest trading partner.
The STIKO is the only organization that I currently trust. The have proven to be a stronhold of reason so far.
You get sent to the gulag where they make you code CRUD apps with JavaScript and ever changing frameworks.
They are a problem. But they also break down pretty quickly, just like methane. Unlike CO2, which can stay in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. That means they are much less of an issue than that number suggests unless we start mass dumping all of that into the air as opposed to recycling it. That is btw. happening with methane, which is leaking into the air from e.g. melting permafrost in Siberia, intensive farming and soil tilling, etc.

Also, some heat pumps use alternate fluids. So, we might clean that up further. But compared to the massive scale with which we are producing CO2 currently, that's a minor issue.
you know what's hilarious?

An article talking about surveillance states that immediately pops up a request for a bunch of personal information.
For a website, probably you want to try this example at https://mfcc64.github.io/html5-showcqtbar/
I think if children are not vaccinated against measles, they're not allowed to go to a public school.

That's one example of existing mandatory vaccinations and it's for the greater good of everybody. Nobody cares about that.
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A great post! Thanks. For me, it is the meta issue of how we think about the examples that is most interesting rather than the examples. One contribution I have is that we humans are biased toward action as we must be. And biased toward results. These are survival skills. If acting requires me to adopt some belief, I do so - even if that belief is incomplete or even false. And if acting on that belief produces some result it is grows stronger.

Long, long ago I had a friend who had an old car and not much much money. The car would often not start on the first try, so he would get out, open the hood and wrap some exposed wires in electrical tape, then get back in the car and it would usually start right up. I offered to replace the exposed wires. I was bewildered to find that the wires were not connected at either end! I had watched the process where wrapping the wires fixed the problems, yet one had to be insane to accept that as the cause. I finally understood that the float on the carburetor was defective (acting like the float in a toilet). The time delay in wrapping the wire allowed the gas in the flooded engine to evaporate enough to start. I replaced the float and that fixed the problem.

At least that is what I now tell myself, but perhaps my own belief system is as flawed as wrapping the wires? Perhaps it was not the float but a gasket or that it fixed an interaction between some unknown type of subatomic particles which in the future will be used for near instantaneous space travel?

So in answer to the question "Am I stuck in a local maximum" the answer is "always".

(edit for clarity)
But it's mostly true. Trust the compiler. They are very, very good. They have a better understanding of the performance characteristics of the current platform with the current code than the programmer. Another benefit is you do not need to maintain and update the manual optimisations once one assumption has changed. __force_inline does more bad than good.

(some compilers these days have whole programm optimisation and outlining, things that make the decision when to inline and when not to inline even harder for humans)
The significantly reduce heat from solar radiation - you might still need AC units, but they need to do less work and be on less often.
I don't think people are saying it'll get worse, but rather that it's already bad, and over time we'll learn to what extent that is.

If you know that and continue to use it, thats fine. I still used Facebook long after all the malarky about that came out (and as is this case, a lot of people, myself included, were already seeing the signs of it way before it came out). You need to pick your battles, in a world where everyone has their no #1 important issue you MUST act on, you need to decide where you can spare the mental energy.

But denying it because you want to have your cake and eat it too probably isn't healthy
> philosophy

that's not math

The "logic" that most people use for reasoning comes from philosophy, not formal logic.
Another great batch. I see many companies are targeting "Latin America". I'm not that familiar with the markets there, but are they are all the same? The services can operate without any major changes between countries. If someone will target "Europe" it's going to be very different in terms of languages, business culture, market needs and regulations.
If anyone can share some insights on this, it would be great.
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Yeah I saw that. I guess my point is it's a dangerous path to go down, using access to care that has a public health benefit as a punishment to some. It just ends up hurting everyone in the end.

I wish everyone would get vaccinated. But they're not, and there's breakthrough cases (this has happened to multiple people I know personally).

I guess I see this in the opposite way as intended: why should an adult who's been vaccinated be punished in trying to get tested, as a side effect of trying to punish someone who hasn't?

This virus is a moving target. The test doesn't just benefit the person tested.
Generally the principle is that we should do this “Because additional flexibility with how small businesses are run allows them a greater chance to grow to become bigger businesses. “ but other than that… it’s also just the normal thing in many countries that certain regulations only kick in once your business grows to a certain size. I can thing if several USA and Australian laws like this.
The market has not efficiently determined that though.

_Objectively_ better alternatives to Bitcoin are around for at least the last five years.

No one can realistically argue that it's better to have a system use 6 million times more energy, cost infinitely more, and require waiting 16 minutes for a confirmation compared to less than a second.

"The market" is chock-full of inertia, vested interests, propaganda, sunk costs, and technical ignorance. There are literally thousands of cryptocurrencies - and the majority are scams. What has "the market" done to protect people?

I say all this to do my part to improve "the market", but my estimation of the market's ability to efficiently determine its arse from a hole in the ground is low.

Other examples of "the market's efficiency" include tobacco companies responsible for killing millions making bank for decades by fudding science, energy companies fudding data for decades to burn the planet while making billions, monopolies, duopolies, externalised costs, racketeering, collusion, collateral damage, etc etc etc.
It passed squint survey.
It's not about obscene secrets, I was just a different person at 18 than I am at 40. Having what I said back then persist forever serves no purpose. Same for things I said months ago, what's the use?
My point was the gov can already track everything because they are hooked into WeChat. So yeah… they don’t care what Apple do, cause as soon as it’s on WeChat they can see it.

That’s why I mentioned Messages… because that’d be the alternative.

Literally the OP said: “it’s China that is causing Apple to do this”… so in answer to your question: the OP.

Not apologising for the Chinese government. Do you call Biden administration a regime?
>The problem, at least speaking as a US citizen, is that children cannot be vaccinated and are subject to testing requirements if they become ill

similar problem here in Denmark, in my case since my child is autistic it is difficult to test or vaccinate him.

Furthermore since I can have the disease despite being vaccinated I would like to get tested when it makes sense to do so.

on edit: the problem I mean is the higher level one of 'are subject to testing requirements if they become ill'.
> My main chat platforms are IRC, Telegram and Discord. None of them are E2E encrypted and don't sell themselves as such.

Telegram's initial marketing heavily emphasised privacy. If I search for Telegram then the very first search result blurb starts "Telegram messages are heavily encrypted". Maybe they don't explicitly claim to be E2E, but they absolutely are selling themselves as an encrypted, privacy-friendly messenger.

> If I want to start doing something shady, I can pick up something else than Signal, since I don't want my phone number ending up on random people's phones.

Completely agreed, I dislike the Signal hype as much as anyone. But I trust Telegram even less.
In my case it is to a large degree because I don't care.

Disappearing messages are to prevent my kids reading the messages between me and their mother ;-)

If NSA actually read my messages that would be kind of funny.

If they have such a hack I'm sure they won't spend it on me or any other Joe Sixpack.

Maybe ФСБ reads it but I have a hard time believing that too.

My threat model consists of (not in any particular order):

- my kids,

- random internet strangers,

- Facebook (who'll sell you to whoever pays),

- Google or a Google-like entity with runaway "AI" and arrogant customer support[1] (who can lock out from my accounts for no reason)

Besides, despite all the talk about E2E-encryption being so important, Signal (which I cheer for) IIRC has had a nasty XSS-exploit in their desktop allowing remote control of the pc, their phone client has been sending pictures to others than the recipient and probably a couple more.

Ad I and others have pointed out repeatedly:

There is more to security than encryption. It doesn't matter if it is E2E-encrypted if it is delivered to the wrong contact. And it doesn't matter if it is E2E-encrypted if whoever knows the secret can send you a specially crafted message and take control over your machine.

[1]: I originally wrote employees but I don't think the average Google employee is more arrogant than others, they just come across that way because of policies created far above them.
New tabs are terrible, They all merge into one it was much better with the curved tabs or even version 90 which in black had a white line to seperate the tabs
> I think you're proposing that inline functions should have a single definition? This breaks header-only libraries, and also gets sticky with shared libs; whose symbol wins?

You can have the definition in as many translation units as you like, it's just that only one of the definitions can have extern linkage. This works right now, today, both with header-only libraries and across shared library boundaries. If you take the address of an inline function defined this way, you just get the address of the extern linkage definition. The C compiler will do the right thing, as long as you keep in mind the limitations:

- Anything static will get duplicated in each translation unit. (Regardless of whether something is inline--the "inline" keyword isn't relevant here.)

- No two translation units have an extern definition for the same symbol. (Again, regardless of whether the symbol is an inline function.)

All "inline" lets you do is two things:

- You can define a function without creating an extern linkage symbol.

- Static inline functions do not cause warnings if not used.

So, with your shared library, you have to pick one translation unit in one library which gets the extern definition. This is the same restriction you have with non-inline functions--if you are linking a static library into two different shared libraries, and then combining these shared libraries, you will run into problems regardless of "inline".

Or put another way... none of these issues are related to the "inline" keyword in C. The "inline" keyword does not create any new problems.
Not as severely as the GP suggested.

It seems to be extremely common in govt now. To the point where actively requiring surveillance of personal devices of government officials seems pretty reasonable.
Not necessarily a Robert Martin fan, but he is writing Clojure (functional Lisp) as his primary language these days.
Defaults are set on your phone I think, so unless your phone is compromised (in which case the default setting for disappearing messages really isn't the thing you should be worrying about), it doesn't really provide a signal in large-scale blanket surveillance.
> How many hardforks has the core bitcoin project seen in the last five years?

Can you elaborate on this - why would the core project care how many times it's forked? The forks shouldn't affect the core project at all, that's the whole point of having a fork in the first place. Or alternatively, if you like and use the fork, then you aren't on the core bitcoin chain anymore. Either way the main BTC chain doesn't care.
If you are looking for someone who is very versitile in AWS and will also work on proposing architectural decisions:

Look for CloudOps, we often also have multiple certificates from Azure/AWS/DigitalOcean/Alibaba etc.

We not only keep infrastructure in code, but also make sure you are not ripped off by cloud provider and your architecture makes sense..
It's amazing to see how easy it's going to pass all these laws. All you had to do was to conjure an invisible enemy, spread the panic that everyone you encounter can be a threat (so better stay home, avoid contact and listen to what the nicely dressed person on TV tells you).
There’s still opportunity to make a project called Zag, which would be a scripting language implemented in Zig.
The solution seems simple though: do not publish in a language you do not master. Get a co-author or fellow researcher who does.

Isn't that what journals are supposed to be for? To help you reach a wider audience?
I suppose that's why:

> We’ve also added the ability to set custom timer durations on your conversations, so that some content can be gone in 60 seconds and others can exist for 18 minutes or 4 weeks.
Google employees could lose money if they stay at google.
Great chance for other companies.
The entire family is like a bunch of Darwin's finches. The predators of fish and squid have four big fangs. The eaters of tiny crustaceans and algae eaters have a comb of needles, and the predators of limpets and clams have incisors and molars (Take a look also to the grinding teeth like cobblestones at the bottom of the mouth).
Poking through Windy's data channels, there's a "fire intensity" (W/m^3), which confirms that the actual combustion seems to be over a much smaller area than the high CO concentrations Nullschool are showing.

See: https://www.windy.com/-Fire-intensity-fires?fires,63.276,129...

Contrast:

PM2.5: https://www.windy.com/-PM2-5-pm2p5?cams,pm2p5,63.276,129.639...

CO concentration: https://www.windy.com/-CO-concentration-cosc?cosc,63.276,129...
Not sure whether this continues after summer break,

Yes, it will continue and they are also required to wear masks all the time. Where I live school has started again and nothing has changed. The treatment of school children during the pandemic in Germany is a disgrace.
When do you ever go back to double-check something someone has said, without them claiming they said something different?

If you only do it to prove you were right, stop doing that, it's not a good look.
ETH2 is going to happen sooner or later… The beacon chain already works in production so it seems inevitable the devs will merge mainnet onto it. Not completely convinced about their 2021/2022 timeframe.

All the validator deposits are public data; how would they be destroyed? The funds will have to be unlocked at some point, people will demand it.
Interesting.
I've heard before of Fakery[1], what made you choose to make your own rather than use it?

[1] https://github.com/vadymmarkov/Fakery