skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Victoria took 110 days of lockdown to get back to "normal" in lockdown number 2. We are now on lockdown number 6 and have spent over 200 days in lockdown. Can't go more than 5km at current have a 9pm curfew. I would not say it is working well.
> I think that causes people to perceive their attacks as “punching up” against more powerful people who are being willfully malicious.

You still haven't said who these public health people are, publicly berating the white, less educated rural people for not being vaccinated.

Right now it sounds a lot more like you're summing up someone's twitter trending section, not public health officials, so I'll throw up the old [Citation needed].
I'm in the process of putting together a scripting language where everything has its own scope [0].

Just to scratch my own itch, and it's stringly so I could throw it together in about 3 days.

If that is mildly interesting to you.

[0] https://git.sr.ht/~shakna/scriptlang
I don't think that was clear. You mentioned the Bosch system had a patent issue and immediately mentioned it didn't even use a break. While it's possible to read that as the Bosch system being superior because it lacks a break, the main topic was the patent issue, so it's more natural to read it as being related to that.

Meanwhile there wasn't even a mention of the sensing technology.
I most often hear "hacks" and "hacky code" to refer to unmaintainable shortcuts and/or "clever" tricks, these days. So in that sense a "hacker" would not be something I would want to be called or call a coworker considering the modern usage.
heart warming
High-end complete ebikes cost as much as a car.

So do high-end non-e bikes.
Can you please link to datasheets that verify this because I haven't seen these discrepancies in smaller (split) systems.
> Sweden, specifically, is held up by a certain political faction as a poster child to advocate for certain set of policies

Interestingly, from inside the country it seems to be held up by the right as the worst handling possible, and from outside the country it is held up by the right as the only reasonable handling.

The truth, as always, is somewhere in between. I think it is important to look at the data without left/right tinted glasses.
I mean don’t most people use private driveways and milled roads on a near daily basis?
sousvideance?
My wife is a doctor specialized in obesity management and works in a hospital daily where patients come in with BMIs well over 40. Besides semaglutide, which isn’t availble in this part of the world yet, they also prescribe liraglutide.

I’d say that if someone is extremely obese, it’s unlikely they’ll be able to bring their weight down just through medication and counseling because most people lack the motivation or self-awareness to turn it into a lifestyle, which is KEY to keeping the weight off. In most cases, bariatric surgery would be their only option.
It’s also very easy for folks to fall off the bandwagon while going on a weight loss journey - I’ve always had periods of being overweight to the point of obese since I was young and it’s been a yo-yo of getting fit and then slowly slumping back into being unhealthy over the years until I had the mental shift that it’s a lifestyle change. Getting people to this state through telemedicine may be difficult. It’s a hard space to be in but definitely one that will have an unending supply of patients due to the way the world eats these days.
Let me know if I can help in any way. Best of luck!
Google called me wanting to confirm my business address and asked me a bunch of personal details, as well as a 6 digit code that was going to be sent to my number (the one they called me on?). I refused and told them to give me a number to call them back on and they said they didn't have that facility. I then asked if they could email me or point me to a form and they said they could only do it on that same call.

After 10 minutes in a verification tug-of-war, the rep escalated me to someone who did provide proof they were actually Google (using a field I updated in my account). All up it took 15 minutes and felt very fraudulent until they finally gave me some helpful context.
Yes, and empire building is what people do in hierarchical organizations.
Just read any headline after a collision and weep. For instance if a driver fails to yield and causes a cyclist to drive into it, the headline will most likely read any of:
Cyclist hits car (implicitly blaming the cyclist). Car and cyclist involved in accident (an accident, nothing anyone could do, nothing to learn here). Cyclist hurt after car failed to yield (at least getting the story straight, but still the driver isn't mentioned, as if the car is acting on its own and the driver is a passive innocent person). Cyclist hit by car (no, again it's making the active part passive, it should read Car hits cyclist if so).

https://www.camcycle.org.uk/magazine/newsletter110/article8/
That tweet, and the whole thread, only speak of the Display Controller and Linux render/framebuffer management. Graphics drivers are another separate topic, which as the parent noted, aren't usable yet.
The mysterious origins of Universe's biggest black holes
The issues with the non-AZ vaccines was that they didn't lock in early supply dates soon enough. For example, in June (which was already late for what was needed) Australia only had 1.7M Pfizer doses available[1] and now the PM is putting out press releases about obtaining extra supply from Poland[2].

Australia needed the doses in April/May, not September/October.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-09/australia-to-get-pfiz...

[2] https://www.health.gov.au/news/vaccine-operations-centre-wee...
In my experience historians are quite interested in politics and many end up going into politics. Studying history is almost like a macro study in politics.
He also writes for naval news. https://www.navalnews.com/author/hisutton/
Use different phone numbers with all of them and don't use a mobile phone number, get a bunch of cheap virtual numbers.
How does it make it more difficult to enter the market?
Generate Random Avatars in React
I literally said "flesh detection technology" in my original comment.
I work in a company where ML has made a considerable difference to our bottom line (search component of an e-commerce site). When I joined the company, search was so bad, it was easier to just use google and include 'inurl:' to actually find products on the site. Now, years later, the builtin search actually gives you what you're looking for better than google does. (This is important because if you can't find something quickly you're more likely to shop elsewhere).

If you've seen "ML done right", you wouldn't use the word "crumbling".

That said - I won't deny ML is over-hyped. It works for very specific problems and in many cases the best solution is a non-ML one. Knowing when NOT to use ML is just as important as knowing when to use it.
I type "palindromic rheumatism" and I get no results.
> no one cares to know the private details of the powerless

I think you may want to reevaluate your thoughts on that.

Both times democracy was birthed, it happened so because the elite (cultural, political and economic) of society agreed that a majority rule that protected its minorities was the best way to secure long term stability and welfare. Because giving everyone (this hasn’t actually included everyone in most of of the history of democracy) a voice was the most efficient way of nobody getting their head cut off by angry mobs (to variating success).

Sure you could have a dictatorships but from the Roman Empire up until modern day China, that wasn’t exactly a great idea if you wanted your society to prosper. Not because dictatorships don’t work, but because they take immense and unopposed structure of governance that isn’t too bogged down by corruption to pull of successfully.

The Romans did it by making each providence rely on the others. One producing weapons, another tools and trade and a third food. Along with a massive standing army this made rebellion hard, and having very few external enemies meant the oligarchy was “free” to fuck around during their long periods of competent leadership. This is very simplified and not completely accurate, but it’s a good enough picture of what made the last prominent dictatorship work.

Until modern day China rose to power, but how did it move from Maos cultural revolution to what modern day China is today? I’d argue that control and information are the key answers.

Because how do you control all those powerless people, who are actually the real power of your society if they ever join together? Where “western” communism and socialism from Marx to Lenin always focused on the time after the revolution where the proletariat would have taken control and redistributed the wealth of society, Maos take was always that the revolution never ended. His doctrine was one of information control, and while that obviously didn’t work so well 50 years ago, it works really well in a works where the elite knows everything about you at all times.

You can’t assemble in secret. You can’t spread dissent. You can’t have the wrong religion. You can’t even jaywalk without society knowing and being able of intervening before they have to resort to the more drastic measures of their North Korean neighbours.

This is what total surveillance gets you. A society for people who fit in to have prosperous lives, and, the capability to weed out anyone who doesn’t early enough that you don’t need to “sanitise” the whole field in which they grow.
Looks like we'll have to brace for yet another government crisis
I’m pretty sure if you’re not signed into iCloud, you’re of no use to Apple. They’d probably prefer folks not buy their hardware just to wipe it.
If eating red meat was causing the ICUs to fill up, then I think the public health concerns should take precedence. And then we should be talking about a nationwide ban of the practice.

Likewise with smoking.

But neither of those activities has that level of impact on public health. So, the measures to be taken to curtail that kind of activity likewise should not be as strong.

But COVID is that bad. So, yes — vaccinations should be mandatory. Masking in public should be mandatory. At least, until the pandemic is over and we have sterilizing vaccines as well as medications that are proven to help cure the disease. And yes, this period could last years.

And if you don’t want to be vaccinated and you don’t want to wear a mask in public, then you don’t have to go out into public. You can stay home. And if you want to violate that rule too, then we should be able to lock you up in a COVID hotspot jail.
Wait a couple of minutes or call back from a different phone. In the UK it may still be possible for an attacker to hold the line open after you hang up - and then simulate the dial tone.
>also an infamous introvert

...and a person who likely had ASD[1][2][3][4] (aka Asperger's, being on the spectrum, etc).

As did Charles Darwin (see my other comment in this thread).

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539373/

[2] https://www.quora.com/Did-Paul-Dirac-have-Asperger-syndrome

[3]https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2009/jan/07/autism-...

[4]https://www.newstatesman.com/society/2010/11/dirac-autism-au...
Not all good players have the messy-haired musician energy, and not all great programmers have the stereotypical hacker personality
> but there's no entity that I'm aware of that has a monopoly in residential real estate or anything close to it.

Singapore might come close.[0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Singapore -- "The majority of the residential housing developments in Singapore are publicly governed and developed, and home to approximately 78.7% of the resident population."
Why are these fake mobile ads even allowed?
Yeah I'm merely showing there is a way of answering this question in terms of "purpose" as defined in the article. The blue sky example clearly isn't the zinger OP intended it to be.
It turns out that wasn't an e-bike, it was an electric motorcycle capable of 60 mph.
AgTech Innovations for Future Sustainable Farming
If anyone is curious I built some brushless linear motors in 2011 and I have recently put some relevant code and background docs on GitHub.

https://github.com/tlalexander/open_linear_motor
Seems more like the EU is flexing its “oversight” to pressure the US into other demands. Concerns like these don’t just pop up a year later with no real change in either company.
I’m so worried this project will get 95% of the way there, and then all the fun issues will run out and the M1 will be just another MacBook with WiFi, Bluetooth and sleep issues.

The obvious issue is to pay someone to do the work, and I am, but I still can’t shake the fear.
I've said in my other comment here that "walking-helps-thinking" is a well-known symptom of ADHD and ASD.

Was surprised to see my comment initially downvoted a lot.

For all who feel like they need walk to think about things, looking into ADHD/ASD could improve y'all's lives.
> The excess mortality graph you link to only goes back 19 months, not a few years.

The excess mortality graph only goes back 19 months, because that's when COVID start. It uses excess mortality, so those numbers are based on numbers in the previous years.

It's like looking at a chart showing inflation over the past year and saying "this says nothing about the prices two years ago!" They're used to compute the numbers on the chart, not be shown on the chart.
Walking does a surprising amount of good for fitness too, if you can do enough of it. When I worked in a grocery store I was in great shape.
> If you have nothing good to say - don't say anything.

I can't describe how incredibly stupid this is. This is peak dystopia. An absurd example from history - "maybe we should rethink the Inquisition, no? They are kidnapping and torturing people based on no evidence" "Don't be a downer!".... "Let's brainstorm on this religion thing a bit with its pointless wars, flying airplanes into buildings and killing people?" "If you don't have anything good to say, don't."

Now - Matrix and Signal exists, but it takes two to tango. If you have no one to message there, because everybody uses iMessage/WhatsApp/Messenger, you are screwed.

Open source phones and PCs exist, but they are much more expensive for the same configuration and the open source software has its own problems. Just look at the whole Linux landscape. I just looked up System76 laptop with i7, 8 GB RAM and 240 GB SSD - it comes out at 1300 dollars. That's more than the brutto average wage in my country for the same configuration that costs about 700 dollars if you buy from mainstream brands.

I got disillusioned with open source when I tried connecting an iPhone to Linux. This is what it looks like in 2021 - https://itsfoss.com/iphone-antergos-linux/ . Full of esoteric terminal commands which operate a program written by some dude from who knows where with no guarantees what it really does, because I am not gonna bother learning about iPhone+Linux+USB delicacies enough to understand that code.

So in my opinion, it's easier to actually regulate the big corp overlords.
I think it's worse! Social media creates a bubble effect where nonsense gets amplified more efficiently and reaches a wider audience. It's having quite a detrimental effect on society right now.
Hope you've found a company that values output rather than presence. I run a small company but given the last 18 months have had to come to grips with the idea that I might have to return to normal employment. Losing my freedom to go for a walk - or go to the gym to work through a problem - is a huge fear of mine.

I'm utterly convinced that long walks in the woods is my secret sauce and that without it I'll degrade as an engineer massively.
I also enjoy digging holes since I was a child. The sense of space and control over that space might be part of why?
Writing generic code is indeed harder than writing non-generic code, but what I wanted to point out is that you can't compare generic code to a non-generic piece that handles only one type (which is often what people do), because the functionality is not the same, it is apples to oranges. What you should compare is non-generic code that handles the same cases as the generic one. So the non-generic code would also get a lot of additional complexity due to that - e.g. instance-of checks or repetition that would be absent in the generic one.

I think genericity is like any other abstraction e.g. functions or interfaces. Applying it blindly can lead to more complexity, but in hands of someone who knows what they are doing it can be a great tool for reducing complexity.
> No need to play it on hard mode.

I love this sentiment. Thanks for this - I'm definitely going to use it going forward.
The implication is that a company where a substantial proportion of employees had that view would be more successful, but how does that translate to a good career for those employees?
I too have that feeling, but it still feels somewhat misguided... I can't quite place why.

Perhaps I'm just being too pessimistic, that things could in fact be better again.

I wonder...

Many common narratives are themselves hoxes or scams. Many regulations exist to simply protect the scammers. So I'm not quite sure I agree with your implication. I do however agree that culture was more uniform which could cause the illusion of being taken for a ride a bit more appealing.

As for today, I'm amazed at how few people I know even half as pissed off as I am, so maybe they're all still happily on the ferris wheel too?
To what degree is this benefit due to increased oxygen from breathing?
My mistake, I shouldn't have included a parenthetical coach in a discussion which was about buses.
Which manufacturer is Tesla using for their dojo chips?
The impression I get as an internet observer from the West Island is that on the whole the NZ government has done a much better job of public communications, maintaining social cohesion, and not trying to police their way out of a pandemic than Australia has. But we'll see whether that lasts. The political environment can change - see NSW - and if level 4 restrictions last more than a few weeks I think you might see the protests start up.
Well, first of all it's 10x compared to Norway and 3X compared to Denmark.

There are huge differences in demographics between the Scandinavian countries. Over 20% of the Swedish population have been born outside of the country, mostly in the Middle East or Africa. This group has been hit disproportionately by Covid. The risk of needing intensive care for Middle Eastern immigrants in Sweden is 6 times higher than for people with Swedish ancestry, and the risk of dying is 2.8 higher [0].

There are also pretty big differences in how elderly care is organized and run.

I'm not saying we did a good job in Sweden, but I definitely think that there are more factors than lockdown in play.

[0] https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/contentassets/2dddee08a4...
Limiting it to immediate neighbors leaves you with comparisons which have similar environment, socio-economic status, and culture/lifestyle. When doing statistical analysis you first try to control for as many potential confounding variables as possible. By limiting the comparisons to like vs like on many different variables you end up being able to make stronger claims about the consequences of active choices.
You're not taking into account the misery caused by covid. Death is far from the only bad consequence of an unchecked pandemic
I really don't understand this way of thinking
I'm not saying the Australian rollout has been good. I'm just saying it's been better than New Zealand.
Well if your car breaks there's not going to be any wi-fi coming along.
SUVs are possibly safer if you collide with a smaller vehicle. But they are not safer in general. And they are especially not safer for pedestrians as the OP's URL says. Here's another earlier URL on that topic:

https://www.treehugger.com/nhtsa-keeps-blaming-victims-inste...

SUVs roll over and, when they do, their occupants brains are often smashed. Not good for your next Google interview.

SUVs are less maneuverable and can be unstable if one attempts to change course, especially at higher speed such as freeway driving. This is even more serious in rain and ridiculously obvious in ice/snow.

Sedans are safer b/c

- they are designed to be safer (sedan safety standards are more demanding than those of SUVs),

- they are more maneuverable and brake better and

- they protect you from front/rear/side impacts and from rollovers.

Sure, the sedan is destroyed, but it did it's job, which is to protect you. You can always get a new car but you can't get a new brain if yours is pancaked.
It would be easier to take that seriously if other predictable consequences the next generation will have to deal with were given a tiny a fraction of that deference. Like a back breaking national debt, the razing of civil liberties, ever diminishing prospects of a quality of life comparable to their progenitors, etc.
Do you need to use a synchrotron? Is the radiation generated coherent or something? Otherwise why not use a liniac or cyclotron?
There could be many reasons for having an injunction against using code.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28251396
And NZ is having outbreaks from hotel quarantine in the middle of major cities too, exactly like us.
> Wouldn't the ideal be if the school system stayed largely apolitical.

The textbooks themselves are political. If you are approaching anything like history or sociology, your politics and worldview matter. And you cant strip it entirely out, because it affects what you teach.
They used to be what Samsung or LG is today, but couldn't keep up after the 90s. They invented the CD and DVD but after that went into decline.

They have a consumer side that still does lightning (Philips Hue is pretty big) but mostly focus on healthcare such as MRIs and Ventilators.
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Jerry Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy

https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
I can appreciate some of the sentiment here, but, how do you start the startup without an idea.. you have nothing to actually sell to your customers. No idea of what to do for them for money.
My understanding is that, with veracrypt (which implements something similar to the linked system), if you enter the duress password, the hidden areas appear to simply be unallocated disc space.
I suppose it's more proof I'm a bad person for laughing so hard that this just showed up directly below the 'On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking' article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28268136
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Plato's ideas were also rooted in the times he lived in. He lived in ancient Greece, in the city-state of Athens - the birth place of democracy. And the word "citizen" does a lot of heavy lifting...

At the time, roughly 3% of the population were citizens. You had to be landed, wealthy and/or politically influental to qualify. Incidentally, only citizens had a vote. The other 97% were riff-raff, poor, slaves or otherwise unsuitable to be allowed to have a voice in the nation's decisions. Hence their opinion didn't matter.
Apparently, they zap the tin droplet with a soft pulse first to flatten it before hitting it with a big pulse to make the plasma.

A former colleague of mine worked on tuning the laser-hitting -droplet process. Happens inside a vacuum of course, but after some time the vacuum would always drop. Turns out that when you miss the droplet often enough and thus hit the steel walls of the chamber, eventually you'll punch through the walls. And not be able to hold a vacuum this way.

Not sure of just a tall story or true...
You made me feel old, Stephen Wolfram is now known for launching WolframAlpha rather than for creating Wolfram Mathematica.

Truly a sign of the passing of time.