skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, sure highly dense urban areas at the beginning of the pandemic got hit hard when testing was barely possible.

But if you filter data from before June if last year (approx. 90 days from WHO pandemic declaration), the story is very different. There is an absolute trend based on political leadership in performance, and educational attainment level. It’s even worse since vaccination started.

As of right now:

The 25 of 27 of worst states or territories per capita right now in CoViD cases are all GOP leglislated and governed. These regions also have between 2 and 5x the per-capita cases of the rest of the states and territories.

What’s worse is it’s not necessarily the legislators or governors at fault (ignoring a couple high profile idiots from both parties), but the politicization of science and reality.

638,000 Americans are dead, nearly everyone in America personally lost a friend, acquaintance, or family member to this disease.

Out of every person I know myself who got it and didn’t die it was due to their either being a front-line worker (EMT, Nurse, Doctors), or not taking precautions such as social distancing, mask wearing, or avoiding crowds (usually all 3).

If somehow you believe that essentially all (over 95%) professionals in microbiology, pharmaceuticals, bioinformatics, virology, and internal medicine, immunology, and biotechnology are somehow “wrong” you’re more likely to believe this rubbish.

I have several publications in biotech, bacteria/bio sensing/growth modeling mostly. I will rip the CDC a new one for abject leadership failures that resulted in piss poor information for the populace, but I also know enough of the science and math to know that the vaccines work, social distancing works, masks work (honestly we didn’t know how well they would at the beginning), and shutdowns worked.

These are not new methods, quarantine procedures for hundreds of years have been far more draconian — there shouldn’t even have to be mask mandates because we should care about our fellow citizens. But right now, only democrats seem to be even trying to listen to scientists and doctors.

This makes it very clear that there is a rhyme and reason to the impact of CoViD-19, and this article is more “both sides” bullshit.

Make no mistake, this former Republican, off-road truck owning, gun owner, libertarian-minded, pro-nuclear, scientist, entrepreneur, and capitalist will vote for the Democrats every time going forward because of it’s a choice between killing my family by ignoring reality and voting for a Democrat, than it isn’t a god damned choice.
Thank you for the info! That's really cool.

Sounds almost like you can have containers like profiles.

Where one tab is opened in a container signed in to an account and another signed into a different account.

Will containers save your session when you close them?
That's not how it works in my experience. If it costs more than 0 but less than 10k, the pencil pushers at procurement wont even answer your emails...
ExRobotos: Old phishing kit resurfaces with new life
If someone suggests a tool that costs $1k/yr over a free tool that costs $5k/year in extra work, I’m going to die on the free tool hill. Because the $1k/yr tool will disappear when the company goes defunct, or it won’t interoperate with something else and there is no way of fixing it. Or it can’t migrate to the next tool. Or we need to upgrade to an enterprise license because we become 21 developers instead of 20. Or they just bump
the cost to
$20k for whatever reason. Or the tool won’t work on CI servers because it only works after entering a key in an attended install (yes this is still a thing).

Free tools have a predictable and stable cost.

I have probably been burned more times from free tools over the years, but the scars aren’t as deep. It’s just a shrug and hoping the other project works when the first doesn’t.
The El Salvador government created a Bitcoin commercial
Were Irons replaced when Dry Cleaners were invented?
Join the bureaucracy executing it. Make the experience of being surveiled as onerous and intrusive as possible so that the fever can break sooner.
Anyone know if we already have a proper docker-compose alternativa for podman? podman-compose seems like a toy now ;(
OK, Zoomer
I used to have Nessus installed on a NUC that I would just drop into a customer's network closet for a weekend, and monitor remotely.

I hosted the Nessus UI as a Tor Hidden Service, and it worked great. We just cycled the key every quarter for added security, and so that ex-employees wouldn't know where to find it.
My parents did hit me and I did turn out fine.

They did their best with the tools and knowledge they had available to them.

Would I hit my kids? Probably not, I can see some value in it, but I think ultimately your parenting style shouldn't deviate too much from their own surroundings - that is what causes more harm IMO.

YMMV

So what does this statement reveal about me?
So I guess I officially don't use any New York Times sites.
US mortality rates to stay high, births to lag through 2023 because of pandemic
> The ones asking for a credit card will drop in ratings and search results.

Ratings and general search are already useless in appstores, dominated by apps filled with pay2win dark patterns and optimized/gamed to be higher in ratings. The times where you could go to top games section and find a genuine good app are over more than a decade ago. So you can find the app you need only be it's exact name or via link from external source.

So now appstore is nothing more than a very restrictive guardian/censor. No value lost.
Podman doesn't do what docker desktop does.
They are not the same thing at all.
Nice JSON pretty printing with Python
One of the main GCC rs devs wrote, I quote (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28366445):

> And if you disagree with the unilateral decisions of the rustc developers? "Go fork it or write your own"? Yeah that's what we're doing.

I think that the main value of implementing a new Rust frontend, is discovering issues in the Rust spec.

They seem to, however, disagree with some Rust specification issues, and creating an incompatible frontend, not with the intent of making the spec better, but rather just doing something different.

They are calling this different thing "Rust", which I believe is a misleading, and unethical thing to do. (Its as if I make my own language, and call it C++). I think this could also be illegal, since Rust is a trademark of the Rust foundation, which if they don't defend, e.g., in cases like these, makes the trademark irrelevant, e.g., allowing corporations to fork Rust, change the language, and still use the Rust name, cause they did not enforce it here. But as mentioned IANAL, my only point is that you probably want to be very careful in most juristictions in the world about using a trademark in this way.

Others seem to also believe that finding issues in the Rust spec is one of the most valuable things for Rust that can come out of this project. But the main devs haven't been able to point at issues they have filled about it in Rust upstream (as opposed to other projects like have implemented rust frontends before, like mrustc, rust-analyzer, rustc_codegen_gcc, etc. which have found many bugs and filled many issues that have been fixed, submitted patches, etc.).

> I've been reading comments in this thread and i wonder what actual arguments you have against gccrs,

I don't have any arguments against gccrs.

I've been looking for arguments in favor of gccrs, but was not able to find any.

Most arguments mentioned here are incorrect, e.g., gcc-rs being necessary to get rustc access to more targets (incorrect since rustc_codegen_gcc is a thing), gcc-rs resulting in Rust spec improvements (incorrect since they aren't filling any bugs / helping in improving the spec), etc.

If you have an argument in favor of gccrs, please go ahead, I am all ears.
For B2B, after years of software subscriptions with sudden 10x or 100x price increases, there is a bit of fatigue and companies are a bit more wary than they were 5-10 years ago. The expectation of price increases are now baked into the cost forecasts. Getting approval for $250/mo is actually a harder sell in many companies than getting a one-time approval for $25,000.
building a new computer. want to be able to trust it 100% for at least a moment. i can't figure out how to "buy" a trusted copy of any linux and don't have any machines i have 100% trust in (who does), so can't burn it. current plan is to buy a chromebook solely for the purpose of downloading and burning ubuntu. alternatively, buy MSWindows, install on the new machine, burn, and then replace

but this mental exercise has convinced me that security is almost impossible in this day and age
Apple can still keep it by lowering the fee to a more reasonable level (like 10%) and convincing app developers that the cost is worth paying for. I'm pretty sure they will do if the UX is a priority over instant revenue. Not sure if this reflects the reality though.
Your comment is very well put and reminds me of this quote from Boethius:

>It's my belief that history is a wheel. "Inconsistency is my very essence" -says the wheel- "Rise up on my spokes if you like, but don't complain when you are cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it is also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away".
> when I was doing contracting in the UK contracting roles could earn me almost twice as much as permanent roles

Sadly this is not the case any more; with the new IR35 rules it's common to get a contract that is taxed as salary, except it does not include any benefits. Contracts outside IR35 exist, but they are very rare and pay even less.
If you can close containers and restart/reopen the container tab and have all of the session information still saved in that container...

That means you can almost implement google profiles with containers.

Except it's kinda per tab instead of per window.

And that's really cool.

Am I conceptualizing that right?
It does matter. These are serious matters and judges need respect for the court and the proceedings.
This is hitting our customer environments. The first alert came in at 11:14am PDT, and the most recent one at 12:05pm. Since then, though, things have been quiet.
Do you think that over time you could "re-tune" yourself to different pitches, e.g. if you listened to a ton of music that's detuned by half a semitone that eventually you'd think that that's the new normal? Or maybe it's something that gets hardwired at a young age and then you're stuck with it?
that was beautiful. thanks for sharing
The simple answer is that "whatever metrics you prefer to use" include qualifications that overseas engineers often cannot satisfy.

Great engineers are human members of a team, and there's more to a team member than their LeetCode score (seriously?) and/or how many GitHub stars they've obtained.

Just some examples off the top of my head:

If you're building products to target US-based consumers, you don't need to provide as much contextual information to a US-based engineer. They will have a stronger intuitive understanding of the product, and there's a better chance that they'll know when it's appropriate to push back and question something. There's a reduced cognitive load in communicating with them. And of course, there's a better chance you're going to enjoy spending hours working with them.
Well yes, so you start out by not publishing either party's address. If and when someone is convicted as a sex offender, it's reasonable to publish their address at that point, and continue to protect the victim's identity.
"1,000,000 journal entries per second on consumer-grade hardware." Of cause you could just add a few cents more per device hardware to not get a rock bottom clock.

Or add a temperature Sensor and start modeling a drift compensation:
https://blog.dan.drown.org/rtc-comparison/

Or why reinvent a homebrew version of what looks like PTP IEEE 1588:

https://blog.meinbergglobal.com/2013/09/14/ieee-1588-accurat...
Nice!

If you are not on a budget, you can use a mirrorless camera with a big aperture (say f1.6), wide angle lens as a "webcam" by connecting the HDMI out of the camera to the computer using an Elgato Camlink. That will also get you a nicely blurred background.

I do this, and a lot of people do a double take whenever I enter a zoom call. Best commment so far was "What is happening? Are you in a movie?".
Hmm, sounds like you've got lucky with your pans - everyone I've ever mentioned this too has had the same problem with non-stick pans! Lifetime of 6-12 months tops :/

I never did use metal utensils with them; it might be I overheated some, but certainly not all, and a pan isn't much use if you can't get it hot!
I used to feel the same. Then I was with my 8 year old son, me running alongside him cycling on a path in a green be grassy park. He lost his balance and slowly rolled over and banged his head on the only damn rock in the entire path. Fortunately he had his helmet on.
Is there anywhere where you aren’t being watched now?
The implementation shouldn't be the spec. Rust has a reference.
I would estimate that well over half of Silicon Valley engineers are foreign born. If you add the non local US engineers, you are probably at over 90%.

Those equally or more qualified overseas people working for little were in short supply. Why would they work for you for pennies when they could move to Silicon Valley, make tons more, and have potential for much, much more?

With remote work, what makes you think that the market will be inefficient? The overseas equally or more qualified will demand more money and look for more opportunities.

These companies that adjust pay based on location remind me of the wage fixing scheme led by Steve Jobs. Once Mark Zuckerberg refused to play along, compensation exploded. Companies that pay the best for remote workers will have their pick of the best.
Many big companies do exactly that, and have done since long before Covid. I work with IT dev, support, and QA groups in India and the Philippines and it definitely can be made to work. There are the usual frustrations though, mostly around timezones and some cultural differences.
We're actually tracking a bunch of follow ups from that whole discussion. The big ol' list is under https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%..., though the most specific thread is https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10461. The prototype was fairly promising!
Are you releasing an Amiga powered by the Apple M1?
Does PSN use AWS? From the reports on twitter, it looks like it's more than just USA that's down. I'm in Canada, but see some reports of it not working in Europe as well.
Same as the op, switched from self-hosted to fastmail.
A hot shower can achieve similar results: https://www.reddit.com/r/ShowerScience/comments/302aqp/showe...
If you knew you were in trouble at work, would you show up to your disciplinary hearing/meeting/whathaveyou with "Buttfucker 3000" written over your name on your badge in plain sight?

The same thing generally applies to the courtroom - it's showing a lack of respect for, and understanding of, the situation one is in. Were a judge to think they may want to give an individual a lenient sentence, they may change their mind were they to find out that that individual is basically saying, "Fuck you and fuck all of this, I don't care."
I’ve worked both and micromanaging is never good. For one, it doesn’t scale. It’s also indicative of poor process, communication and documentation.
“Kids these days” came to mind too.
Yeah, I've found there's two kinds of programmers: those who consistently deliver value, and those who pontificate over which algorithm to use and miss deadlines! :)

99.9% of the time it makes no difference whatsoever and when it does, Stack Overflow is only a click away!
I am stuck with my M1 MacBook Pro because it is so fast and has all of my dev tools installed and working. (I know that Linux and BSD is starting to work on M1).

I love my heavy System 76 laptop with a GPU but the UI is not quite there for me. It is too heavy to travel with but good for at-home deep learning work because for the GPU.

A possible sweet spot for you to look at: Chromebook's because the UI is pretty good and the Linux container support is pretty good. I just bought a super cheap, super portable Lenovo Duet that is surprisingly useful. However, the cheap price entails slower performance and the USB-C port will not drive a hires external monitor. Something twice as expensive with better performance and better external monitor support might meet your needs.
I think that's fair criticism.

I've enough friends who work for the Canadian government or university administration to know that there is a coveted and illusive middle ground where vital regulation doesn't grind all it touches to a hapless stand-still.

Hot take: I think the HN software dev crowd might not be the worst equipped to help towards addressing these sorts of problem. From the horror stories I hear, disciplined approaches to tooling could solve a class of problems that appear to be pervasive.
> Oh, you say, we'll just add features to cover those use cases. Now Chrome will have features A,B,C, Firefox, A,B,D, Safari B,E.

Yay! OpenGL with extensions all over again
Brain waves, atleast for now.
What reason do we have to believe that there will be a point in the future with less COVID risk than there is today? By what mechanism will that arise?
It's not the manager, it's some department somewhere else that'll take weeks to respond and then you'll have to chat with them about it and they'll be like "i don't see why this is necessary"
Why are the top line numbers shown from 2018 to 2020? If I had to guess, it would be because 2018-2019 showed the most growth while 2019-2020 showed less, and they want to show good % changes.
It is an interesting thought experiment to imagine how things might have played out if Rust had kept green threads.

I don't know if it would have changed the Rust vs Go story much. There'd still be the learning curve of the borrow checker, and many people using Go aren't necessarily doing a ton of concurrency.

The Rust vs C/C++ story on the other hand... If Rust had a bunch of extra runtime stuff and limited interop, I suspect it would not have been perceived as a serious replacement, which may have hindered adoption. At least when I selected a language for my highly concurrent network server, I only considered C, C++, and Rust.

I'll admit it's a fine line. I'm using async Rust, with an executor/reactor and all that jazz, and the end result may not be much different than if Rust had made those decisions for me. Having the power to make my own decisions is very appealing though. It's possible Go could have been a contender for my project if it wasn't such a limited language. And Mozilla's backing of Rust helped it vs other fringe options.
if you hike more than 6 miles from any given trail-head, there will still be people but they usually aren't the kind to have their phone out.

if you start from a place without reception, doubly so.
Wish they fixed the issue where it uses all available RAM even when running no containers yet.
> explaining Bitcoin script in his Bitcoin theory series

i watched a lot of this, gotta say it's pretty good cringe-entertainment, mostly comprised of self-aggrandizing statements and explorations of trivial comp-sci topics.

these videos used to be even more entertaining when ryan x charles was asking for details and specifics in response to craig's vague hand-waving, but recent videos no longer have ryan. wonder why.

> before the grand finalé

grand finale will be craig pleading for insanity/illness that makes him pathological liar. he already started laying ground by claiming to be autistic.

> BSV reached 100K transactions a sec with terra node

i can reach million tps on my laptop, everybody knows this number in isolation is meaningless.
No the UI was really poor when I tried about:profiles.
Note: kids also often chafe at learning new things, if it feels like someone is telling them what to do. Source: My kids are 2.5 and 5, and I hang out with a lot of other small kids and their parents these days.
I feel it's a bit disingenuous to tell people how easy packaging Electron apps is when you skip the hard parts.
It’s open source, you could probably port it yourself.

I somewhat agree with your viewpoint, but given Windows 10 is generally just Windows 10 , OSX is OSX… But Linux could be anything from Redhat to Alpine to a raspberry pi , I understand why devs wouldn’t support it
Will definitely have a look at it once someone gets around to packaging it for Arch Linux...
I don't see why zero-growth has to be zero-sum.

If not all the "labor" inputs are eaten up by society-wide subsistence, some value will continue to accumulate, somewhere. To the degree that owners allow the workers to retain any of their "surplus value of labor," everybody's lot will continually improve.
Not at all, there was nothing inevitable about Apple's success, many analysts, pundits and their competitors have been adamant Apple would fail for the first decade or so of the iPhone. After that these claims started looking a bit thin.

You're presuming that market abuse has occurred and that market abuse is the only way to get popular, but I don't see that's a given. Maybe people simply genuinely like iPhones just the way they are, and maybe network effects just legitimately lead to the most popular platforms dominating.

Apple don't have a monopoly on the phone market anyway, they only have 27% of the South Korean phone market. In the US it's 65%, high but not a monopoly, but it only went over 50% in 2020.

What changed to make them a market abuser and when did it happen, as you allege? That's the question OP is asking.
Some modern smart watches from vendors like Garmin and Apple also have blood oxygen sensors. They're generally less accurate than dedicated fingertip sensors, but good enough to catch significant decreases. Both types can sometimes read way off depending on skin tone.
Yep this is a neat trick too. Also I must say (as a hobbyist photographer myself) that even if you're on a budget, if you want to go the optical route, you can easily grab a cheap used DSLR like a Canon 60D which often goes for <$200 used, and slap on an old M42 Russian lens with a conversion adapter and get fantastic bokeh for video calls.

The mildly annoying part is most DSLRs don't have an AC adapter input to allow them to be constantly on, but you can buy a "fake" Canon battery that sits in the battery compartment and wires in AC adapter input.
Wireguard is a great technology, and if latency and file transfers are important you should use it, but a Tor hidden service is way easier to set up, and way more reliable.
Several cuts of the video are available here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zoom+hearing+co...
Still. The biggest hurdle is building what people want.
30% was highway robbery from the start. Pure and simple.

It was merely a less awful deal than most other indie commission models, with sites like Kongregate and their ilk demanding >80%. Against that kind of flaying and skinning, 30% was an improvement!

I've said it before. A very good agent, who actually works for their client and arranges them with repeat lucrative contracts, gets 15%. App stores, as gatekeepers to their walled gardens, extort twice that.

Btw - if they want to get into recurring payment scene, let them compete with payment processor fee structures. For the privilege of arranging trusted, mostly secured payments and handling the back office accounting, 3% should be a damn good ceiling. The payment industry is making money hand over fist with that kind of cut.