skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, It all depends how you look at the statistics. Consider the below:

* Sweden had c14k deaths. Average age of death was in the eighty's - let's say Covid shortened life expectancy by 10 years on average (seems a conservative figure). Total life lost is c140k life-years.

* If Sweden locked down like other countries for a year, this would have been 10m people * 1 year = 10 million years of lockdown. Let's say that people had a life that was 10% worse during that time because of the restrictions of lockdown, that's 1 million quality-adjusted life years lost.

If you are trying to optimise for "total quality-adjusted life years" as a society across the full population rather than just 'save lives' - Sweden's approach looks absolutely valid and correct.

If your measure of success is 'minimise the absolute number of lives lost to Covid, no matter what the cost' then it looks poor.
If your phone is elsewhere you might not even be interesting enough to be questioned in the first place.

Unless the police have reason to suspect specific people then casting drag nets (phone location data, ALPR data, etc) and then sifting through the list of people they get for the most probable suspects is SOP.
Ivy may be great, but if it isn't native then it can be bad for the local ecosystem. I've got some in my backyard and it smothers everything else except the pine trees (and even those three ivy would eventually take down) I just finished removing the blackberries. The ivy is next and then maybe the holly
Start with "The Value of Everything" [1], then "The Entrepreneurial State".

[1]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23890312
Would that apply to a warrantless search?
Optiver works in a vastly different and super tiny sector (in employee count) which is renowned for having higher salaries than any other sector (including tech) and is a massive outlier.
This may indeed work as an analogy to an extent, but I think its failing is when it comes to the idea of life from non-life.
US working culture is a cargo cult. Cover letters, anodyne non-descriptions of "challenges", "going offline" and "touching base", cookie-cutter Scrum methodologies... hence why we just call it "culture".
They will not be able to steal enough technology, nor will they be able to manage the organization that reproduces it.
You've seen this right? https://www.wired.com/2007/06/st-cia/ There was a more detailed presentation about it from Defcon or somewhere, and one of the details that apparently gave them away was that the cellphones used only communicated with each other and not with anyone outside the group, aside from the odd screw-up.
The US has taxes too (and their government does plenty of throwing money at things.) And many companies there still pay for health insurance. I think this argument doesn’t really make sense: taxes or other costs of doing business don’t sufficiently explain the difference in pay.
But do you need a great idea to get funding?
I'd love that feature (android 9+) if it allowed me to install some of the gazillion apps (e.g. every bloody fast food place that only has deals via their app) but restricts them from accessing my real user contacts, emails, msgs, gps/location, etc.

Blackberry phones had this feature and it was pretty bulletproof.
From context i assume the poster meant object caching, since the cgi model wouldnt affect client caching or cdn style front-end caching.
there are still no autonomous drones either. I posted long time ago that before autonomous ground vehicles we should see autonomous airborne vehicles because of that task being much simpler. And of course the military would be the starting point here too.

>tanks exist is to protect the operators

operators of a large gun quite close to the target. If one can do without such a gun in such a role on the battlefield, then the need for tanks become less. We do see that in the recent wars - like Azerbajan/Armenia - the high-precision stand-off weapons fired from drones did that job perfectly. There were no countermeasures though, like say electronic communication and positioning blocking which would have necessitated autonomous capabilities for the drones.
This created immense social divisions in cities like New Orleans, and opponents of "immunity passports" are wary of this.
"most people do x" -> "I do x"
P.G.Wodehouse cites “for a lark” which is correct. He does not cite “as a lark” nor does your other source.
Yes. What if your auto insurance company went to Ford and struck a deal, then you went to Ford to get a car and they said 'we don't know the price until you submit a claim'; you buy a car and submit a claim. It turns out your insurance company did a pretty lousy job negotiating and now you're stuck with the bill without any recourse. Ford makes out with a ton of money, so does your insurance company, and you lose.
I’m sure you’re not alone in that, but I recommend giving non-fiction a chance too! There’s some great stuff out there, sometimes as entertaining and memorable as fiction.

Carlo Rovelli (whose new book is reviewed here) is well worth a try; his writing is really poetic and striking.

Another really interesting kind of semi-fictionalised history I recommend is Francis Spufford’s Red Plenty.
I mean but under the example that the author is doing they are working with standard integers (integrals). So this appears to me to still be the standard addition and subtraction. And with standard R1 subtraction it is the same as inverse of addition.

I mean if we move into different coordinates and different fields, then yeah things change, but I don't see what the issue is with the example given here.
Working in a .NET shop, I use Visual Studio with its integrated debugger. It's pretty powerful, but 99% of the time I could probably use print debugging just as well.
As you have learned, setting up 2fa for an important service isn’t something to be done lightly.

My current setup is two yubikeys (one in storage, one in my computer) and OTP on my phone. Failure is still possible but it’s unlikely enough for me.
It was The Times that fired Boris Johnson for lying, The Telegraph hired him after that.

They have gone off the deep end though. Some good coverage of The Telegraph's fall in standards is Peter Oborne's resignation letter: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/why-i-have-...
Well, yeah, but it's a quiet electric motorcycle. Once you get used to just a hand throttle and zero pedalling (keep that as a backup and for legality on bike lanes), you may not want to go back heh.
I lost a number of shrubs planted under one before I thought to look that up. I am plotting its demise even now.
As much as it is manipulative per se, and might likely seem unnatural ("false"/"calculated"), it's at the same time quite effective. This form of communication accomplishes its stated goals, and being a natural, ummm, bloke is not it.
This can explain why pollsters get things wrong so often.
Navigating is more difficult than just not crashing.
The wealth gap is a lot bigger in the US and here you can walk into a hospital even when you’re homeless and leave debt free. Anyone can apply for social security of about 1000 eur/month. People are only homeless when they have mental issues preventing them from following the steps to get them out and they can get help at any point. This is pretty different from the US.
That is a gunpoint scenario.
I think ebike is a misnomer. These things are really e-(motor)cycles. This confusion is making it really hard for me to search for what I need. All I want is an assist to take the edge off of hills. Don't need to cruise at 30mph for an hour.
Energy consumption is a factor of both distance and efficiency: this is why trains are so much more efficient than semi-trucks which are more efficient than personal vehicles even if they’re traveling between the same points: steel on steel rails have less friction and the first two have better engine to cargo ratios. My comment was specifically focused on the latter since a huge fraction of vehicle pollution comes from affluent people driving in urban areas, not farmers.

Also note that I’m not disagreeing that mobility is important but that we literally cannot afford to continue polluting the way we have. You tried to make this emotional with the “super bad evil cars” phrasing but it’s a simple engineering question: right now, people have built lifestyles based on low subsidized fossil fuel prices and being allowed to ignore externalities. I’m aware of what that lifestyle is like – and how often it’s not “all you can afford” but “where you can afford to buy the house as big you think you deserve”, too - the latter being far less sympathetic when asking everyone else to subsidize it.

When energy is cheap and you can ignore pollution, you can drive an overpowered vehicle on frequent trips with minimal use of the total cargo capacity. If the cost goes up, those calculations all change: people pay attention to fuel efficiency when buying vehicles and combine / reduce trips, invest in household efficiency, etc. Cost-constrained American rural dwellers and those I’ve met in other countries with higher fuel costs don’t drive a vehicle designed to haul livestock to pick up groceries because it’s overkill.

That extends to things like zoning: the majority of people living in exurbs for financial reasons are doing so because closer in development was low density, often required by code, and significant amounts of land were required to be used for car storage.

Part of climate change mitigation will be reversing those problems, and that kind of thing seems like a more fruitful area for us to be spending time than trying to make high-pollution commuting more appealing.
If China invaded Taiwan then US companies would have a hard time moving manufacturing outside of China so maybe demand for semiconductors would go down. The problem would just be the supply of everything downstream falling off a cliff.
> Veritasium also tested different versions of the thumbnail

Pretty sure there automated tools that A/B test thumbs and titles and most big youtubers use them and then just add a bunch of titles and thumbs that are automatically tested.
This is false. This would be true for "invasive weed", but adding the "most" qualifier without another modifier indicates a specific member, not any member of a set.
Giant Hogweed: https://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/39809.html
That's a great hack. But I'm a big guy, bordering on 285lbs. That kind of low power traction doesn't seem enough to move me. I know European 250w motors are never enough for me.

I've build my first ebike a few months ago. I went for a 1000w Bafang mid drive geared motor with a 48v 20a battery, on an old used Peugeot mountain bike. Adding some new/used bike parts (wheels, tires, chain and rear gear), total project cost arrived at C$1800, less than half the price of a new ebike with similar specs.

Considering my weight, 20 to 23 kph is my speed of choice in pedal assist mode, which is quite safe. It does extends my range a lot compared to other use cases.
His ministry lost a no-confidence vote in parliament, but no-one else was able to form a new government so he was asked to form a new one.

This latest announcement is that he will be stepping down as the leader of the Social Democrats. There's a new election in Sep 2022, and to me (a Swede) it looks as if no-one is interested in an extra snap election right now (the regular election will be held in Sep 2022 as planned anyway).
Didnt someone post something about twitter being awful a couple of days ago? Is op a twitter shill or what
Spiked! is not a left-wing outlet, libertarian or otherwise. They're a group of former doctrinaire Marxists who swung to the equally-doctrinaire libertarian right after the fall of the Soviet Union. There's a whole nexus of organisations around them, and they have made a good living out of being professional contrarians. Their influence in British politics has been nearly wholly malign, both when they were on the left and now they're on the right. They are excellent self-publicists. Their funding is probably the same US right-libertarian dark money pools as the Tufton Street groups, though it's hard to be sure as their finances are characteristically opaque.

Speaking as someone is is on the libertarian end of the British left, these guys are not our allies.
#1 rule people forget is: how fast can you stop. You see it with young car guys vs old ones. Old dudes upgrade the brakes before the turbo and visa versa
This would happen inside the TCM no?
The telegraph has pretty much become the raving loony of the right in the UK, not just because of this.

It's not a good news source anymore, if you want a rational right-wing paper in the UK these days, read The Times.

Used to be the other way around.
This is something TPMs are good for I guess.
Can JSON compare with line-based data, which many original UNIX utilities seem to target. JSON's design assumes the user can read the entire file into memory. It's really easy to exhaust resources with JSON. And fast, crash-proof JSON parsers become more challenging to write.

Whereas it's not nearly as easy to exhaust memory with line-based data processing nor to crash utilities that read line-by-line, e.g., sed. If lines are too long, I can chop them down to a reasonable size on some sentinel.

IMO, JSON, like Javascript, is web/browser centric. For someone who rarely uses a browser or Javascript and is comfortable with UNIX, e.g., yours truly, JSON is not particularly advantageous. For large data, line-based is more robust (and memory-efficient) than JSON, IME.

Better than JSON is netstrings or bencode.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode
Nice font but it doesn't work.
Golden handcuffs are enough to rationalize anything eh
Why not NZ?

We're in our 2nd 'level 4' lockdown in 18 months. The economy is doing fine and for most of that 18 months we were living completely normally. We have record low case numbers and deaths.
Could you please share some of the technical challenges about the migration?
How are public schools paid in the UK? Does that mean private schools are the free schools? Or do they call free public schools something else?
Why wouldn’t you just plant some trees. You don’t need any fancy pavement if it is below a tree..
European cities are filled with trees to cool the streets below them.
Obviously, you’d need smaller streets that fit pedestrians and bicycles instead of massive urban highways for trees to be effective.
The problem is that it causes those people to become more extreme because they get put into an echo chamber.

It’s like putting a petty thief in with hardened criminals. They’re not coming out better than they went in, they’re coming out much, much worse.

It’s the difference between seeing people say racist things on Twitter, and having someone shoot up a church. Extremists aren’t created out in public.
If you look on US NPR website you will see transcripts of audio programs.
PlsExplain: A small dynamic programming language where every value is explained
Also Alexander. I've stayed in a castle in Helmand that I was told was either built by Alexander or built to fight Alexander.
I'm an Atheist for what it worth but..

> making policy on the assumption that Jesus is coming back is a form of Nihilism imo

If someone longs for and welcomes the end times. And wants to push it forward into their own life time. They ain't playing on the team they think they are.
That's a technical term, because it's incredibly difficult for an Appeals court to overturn findings of fact. It would require finding the Judge clearly erroneous, and they didn't need to go through the hassle.

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/28/business/us-appeals-court...

"In a 125-page unanimous ruling brimming with palpable derision and frustration, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit nullified all three parts of Judge Jackson's ruling in the case and removed the restrictions he placed on the company's business practices, even as it made reference to many of his conclusions."
>if everyone in an area gets rid of all their invasive plants, then it'll be vastly easier to keep them from coming back.

I think this is a denial of what "invasive species" are, and even evolution itself.

An invasive species is something that thrives in many environments and outcompetes natives.

Since humans have become concerned about such things, loopholes in human thinking, behavior and social institutions are necessarily part of the fitness function that makes something invasive.

People can target something specific on a micro level, but at a high level, "invasive" will itself evolve to whatever works because people are psychologically or institutionally blind to it.

Have you ever tried to mow thistles or vetch?
I see no reason why disembodied brains wouldn’t find a need for social agreements as well, it’s not like the absence of élan vital would cause them to cease being social. The content and mode of expression of those agreements might be quite different, of course.

(We fleshbags could probably use more widespread application and understanding of formal language and notation as well—the most cumbersome description of linear interpolation I’ve ever seen was in the section on a real estate tax hike in the tax code; it had paragraphs! I mean, I feel for those who didn’t have a good time in high-school algebra, but I don’t see how they could reasonably deal with that monstrosity either.)
>The Swedish CDC also says they believe they've fared worse than Norway and Denmark because the last few flu seasons were very mild in the country.

It's called the 'dry tinder' hypothesis, and it isn't born out when researchers look at the data, e.g.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34213362/
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/03/22/175076784/epis...
They're leaving welfare rolls, and getting onto disability
Strong agree. Similarly, the OP’s jocular use of the word “canceled” when referring to Soviet assassinations during the Stalin years. No, Stalinist political execution is not comparable to losing your job because you have groped women at work.
Exactly. TFA is disingenuous since the author repurposes a battery from their lawnmower. A basic standard ebike conversion kit, with battery and a central motor, starts at €400.
They require water, which requires irrigation (may not already be in place and of course has logistical problems), trees also root systems can lift and crack sidewalks/pipes/other things, you now have biological contaminants, there's bugs and fungus and things that can spread, and so much more.

I'm not saying we shouldn't do this. I really like seeing plant life in cities and I think it really makes a psychological difference (I _love_ living in a city with a lot of green spaces and trees everywhere). But it is nowhere near as simple as placing a tree in the ground and cleaning the leaves.
That's such a dumb limitation imo. Wish there was a system API apps could use to allow it.
You can push the lock button many time (when pulling you phone from the pocket for example) and it will require lock the phone and require to use your passcode
PlsNo …
> Take opposition to the US invasions of Iraq, for instance. Anyone who opposed it - even the Dixie Chicks, famously - was deplatformed and attacked in the media.

I know of lots of people who participated quite vocally on protests against that war. None of the were fired or kicked out of any organization. I don't think I would consider that opposition "underground".

> But could any argument be made that the PRC has made a tactical mistake in pushing these movements underground, that they're thriving because they were underground and would be less successful above ground?

I think it is a tactical mistake. I think that trying to censor such a widely known and iconic event made the rest of their censorship and propaganda less effective because it makes the censorship so much more obvious.

I do think censorship can be effective, especially against ideas and knowledge that are just starting to spread. I think the more brutal and authoritarian you can be, the more effectively you can censor things.

However,I also think that there is clearly truth to the concerns about censorship with high personal consequences pushing widely spread ideas under ground. I think whether underground ideologies grow or shrink has a complicated dependency on network topology and state of spread. I think it's pretty clear that underground ideologies tend to become more extreme and harder to reconcile without violence.
Yeah that's a safe bet.

Also: my recalling that series is NOT a recommendation. Even as a bored 12-year-old I'm pretty sure I knew it was dross. Yes I read all of them...
It's possible to have a truly "hidden container" with LUKS/cryptsetup, but it's not exactly a "supported" setup. Here's some information: https://blog.linuxbrujo.net/posts/plausible-deniability-with...
They're also 15% bigger than they were 20 years ago for no apparent reason.
The people who are worried about the risk of covid can take a vaccine and be safe
Covid deaths aren't the same as "excess deaths". It's just one of many causes of deaths over a year. Excess deaths is the difference between expected (typically an average of the past 5 years) and actual number of deaths in a year. IOW, due to the circumstances, excess deaths can be 0 despite Covid deaths being > 0.
My personal experience as a developer and owner is that it is very difficult and time consuming to understand the risks and to comprehend the *GPL licences.

For example, using an LGPL based JavaScript library just leaves me confused every time. I read the LGPL 3.0, read some stack overflow answers, and read the GNU website. Yet I am left without being 100% certain that I can minify the LGPL JavaScript into a single file with my own source code (because JavaScript is not object code, and because sending JavaScript to the browser is distribution).

With BSD/MIT licences everything is clear and less ambiguous, and if I get something wrong then it is usually something easy to fix.

If I were a general counsel, I wouldn’t trust all my developers to follow the GPL licenses properly nor would I trust developers to correctly avoid simple mistakes. A default ban limits liability, reduces risks of negative publicity, and anyone that needs an exception has to justify it.

Idealistically, I love the GPL, and I truely believe in the goal of share and share alike.

Practically I understand why following the *GPL licences is difficult and that it involves multiple risks for a business, and so many commercial businesses sensibly prefer to avoid the costs.
Search for a 750 watt motor. That is the upper limit in many countries for a standard commercial ebike. Bafang and Tongsheng both produce popular motors.
> more and more restaurants see this as a business opportunity to offer charging while eating.

In the US, the infrastructure costs to get fast chargers next to most good restaurants is prohibitive. Especially good restaurants that are between major cities.

> As a German...

No wonder you are so opposed to the idea of a 6 hour journey without taking a break. In the US, a road trip usually involves planning to minimize total stops. It's not uncommon to bring snacks/drinks/coffee with you in thermoses/coolers.

(Also, nitpick, the word you want to use is "horrible" not "horrend" if you want to sound correct to the widest group of English speakers)
What is the CSAM version of SWATting going to be called?
And there's zero possible way self-driving cars are going to handle country roads that are sometime dirt in the snow during a blizzard.

Humans absolutely can do that. But the very architectural basis via ML that's being used never will. Different architecture? Maybe. Maybe in 50-100 years.