skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Belgium, compared to sept 2nd 2020:

Cases: 5x

Deaths: 2x

Hospitalizations: 2.5x

ICU: 2.5x

Tiny compared to winter? Yes. But this is a seasonal respiratory virus and this season is worse than last year same time.

Now, the theory is you can go back to normal, massively increase viral doses in the air, and not see a rise through winter. Because of immunity. But, breakthroughs seem to happen more easily at high viral doses.

The other thing is, antibodies wane. Israel had to do boosters, they found greater susceptibility the further people got from their vax date. Boosters have reversed severe disease trends for now, and is optimistic. But they also have restrictions.

I don’t know which way the future goes. My point is just that it is terribly premature to declare victory over a respiratory virus in summer. Europe made exactly the same mistake last year. You won’t know till winter.

The other thing people forget is that efficacy is a relative measure, but hospitalizations are absolute. Ok, so, 95% efficacy in reducing hospitalizations compared to unvaccinated. Great! I got the vaccines myself, but that is a great result.

So, on absolute terms, you have 20x less risk of hospitalization from the wild type variant at case levels at a given point.

But….Delta is associated with a 2x increase in hosp risk compared to wild type. Oops ok so we have only a 10x absolute reduction in hospitalization risk.

And cases are 5x higher than this time last year. Oops, ok, compared to sept 2nd 2020 a vaccinated Belgian has only a 2x absolute reduced risk of hospitalization compared to same time last year. (An unvaccinated Belgian with no prior infection has a 10x higher risk, efficacy vs severe disease still 95%)

If cases go high enough you still see severe disease, even with vaccines. Maybe impossible for cases to hit 100,000 a day in Belgium, 5x winter peak. But Israel already 60% higher than winter peak, in summer, with boosters, and restrictions. So what happens without restrictions, in winter? (I’m assuming Belgium will get boosters)
Show HN: Fit Owl. The game that tricks you into excercising
Prestige masks parasitism
Home Quarantine Australian orwelian app
from:
https://www.covid-19.sa.gov.au/home-quarantine-app/home-quar...

"
Home Quarantine SA uses geolocation and live face recognition check-ins as a key component of ensuring your safety, as well as the safety of the community.

The check-ins are on a randomised schedule and confirm that you are at your approved address and ensures you are compliant with your home quarantine direction.

The app performs several geolocation and live face recognition check-ins at random intervals each day and you will have 15 minutes to respond.
"
I too feel this is the wrong direction, from the fundamental aspect that trained algorithms contain no comprehension of what they are doing. They are the classic idiot savant. In a technological economy, comprehension of the environment is everything. I do not see how comprehension can be achieved without the elusive General AI, so I do not see this as anything other than a new area of research exposing how vitally important it is to have comprehension.
Having worked in Operations in some form or another for the past ~20 years this articulates so well the feelings I have been increasingly having over the past few of those 20 years.
Now I manage a small operations team and we experience pretty much all of the issues highlighted in the article.

There needs to be a rethink of how infrastructure, development and deployment is handled.. maybe the solution is to slow things down and insert a little carefully thought out bureaucracy between the layers (can't believe I'm advocating for more bureaucracy!)
So what? Copilot isn't intended to replace humans, just help them out and maybe reduce typing.
> I'd define consciousness as something like "subjective experience". You have consciousness if you can experience the experiencing of things

> However: it is not testable, and it's not obvious that it could be.

If it isn’t testable, do you really have a definition rather than a tautology? What does it mean to have “subjective experience”? One instance of a game AI is subject to different inputs than another instance of the same AI, which you reject (as would I: I listed it as an example of how bad the definitions have been and definitely not as a claim they’re sentient).
Is this how you would say it in English though? I think "If raining use umbrella else wear shades" is closer to regular English.
Apple is the one company out there that does not need to care one way or the other what Nvidia does. ARM was created as a joint effort between Acorn, VLSI, and Apple. Apple has a perpetual license and can basically do whatever they want with the architecture for their own products. The strangest thing about this is trying to imagine a use case where Risc-V makes sense but a low-end ARM chip does not...
Similar with Polish - blue is "niebieski", light-blue is "błękit" or, more rarely, "lazur"
Although the screenshots are indeed uncluttered, they're definitely not simple. There are many clickable items, unnecessarily large windows with wasted empty space, icons that are hard to read unless you have experience with them redundant information, rarely used bars and text fields...

Windows UI became just too busy starting with xp. The last sober windows UI was windows 2000.
My Algorithms professor in uni used to say something like "back in my days, we only got one shot at completing our exercise lists, because you had to physically walk down to the computer room and hand over your program in a punch card, and then as a student you were low priority in the compilation queue, so the whole thing could take weeks."

I had several mostly pen and paper courses because the professors preferred that to lab assignments. This was 2009.

They have a point. If you don't have an instantaneuos REPL, you'll probably think harder about what you are writing.
Bluetooth BrakTooth bugs could affect billions of devices
This isn't something where we need to rely on experience, we can just look it up. E.g. https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org vs https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/it.wikipedia.org vs https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/de.wikipedia.org
From the article: ”Often they have not even bothered to do basic troubleshooting, things like read the documentation on what the error message is attempting to tell you.”

This has been the bane of my work happiness for a while now. I keep having to tell junior devs to actually _read_ the fine error message, just in case it actually _contains information about the error_, you know. Not that it seems to help much, it’s like they can’t get the concept into their heads.

This is 100% a problem with younger, bootcamp-”educated” devs, in my experience. I know the common wisdom on social media is ”no one reads text anymore”, but if that includes aspiring developers, it might be tough to replace the current workforce when that day comes…
> For comparison, what percentage of human-generated code is secure?

Yeah how did they measure? Did static and dynamic analysis find design bugs too?

Maybe - as part of a Copilot-assisted DevSecOps workflow involving static and dynamic analysis run by GitHub Actions CI - create Issues with CWE "Common Weakness Enumeration" URLs from e.g. the CWE Top 25 in order to train the team, and Pull Requests to fix each issue?: https://cwe.mitre.org/top25/

Which bots send PRs?
Vaccination status has nothing to do with digitization or Social Media it's an issue of public health. It's a more complicated question for the law and health authorities, not really an issue of privacy between you and Amazon or Twitter.
It seems reasonable to want Copilot to help you produce code of a reasonable quality.

If it’s just helping you crank out the same bad code more quickly, without learning anything in the process, that’s useful to know. Some people might still want a tool like that, I wouldn’t.
To my the line between dev and ops is where we put it. And I like to make it very explicit.

In shared hosting times. Ops maintained Puppet definitions, create new "deploy environments" (using Puppet), gave/revoked server access the employees, monitored servers. Devs maintained the source repos and deployed to the environments provided by ops.

Now we live in virtual machine times (docker). Ops does the cloud infra (terraform), monitors the services, gives/revokes access to cloud services. Devs maintaines the source repos and deploys to the cloud clusters provided by ops.
If you like this stuff, I recommend the Coding Secrets YouTube channel, where a developer shows off his past work and secrets to how a game came about, Eg https://youtu.be/Z0S92Fs5gOg and https://youtu.be/iEQLbbyToxw
We’re a small company so we sometimes do many things, but it’s taught me a lot of networking fault finding.

There’s some very clever ppl that know all about how networks/vm stuff work, and I’ve learnt enough from them that I can fix most of my own infra related things - or at least give them a run down of what I’ve done first to save them some time.

It got me back into hardware and networky stuff, so now I’ve got a MikroTik at home, some proxmox machines, Tailscale network etc - more fun than just spin up a box on DO and be done with it.

A lot of ppl just aren’t interested though, they just want to code (and maybe learn a new language) but because a lot of stuff is now PaaS and it’s super easy, there is no need to learn it (in their eyes)
> That lead to a "we can add more features or we can make it fast" pick one and the business always picks more features.

Is this really true though? In my estimation the number of features for any given piece of software since the 90s has gone up a little in some cases, down in others (looking at you GNOME), leading to net average of 0.

The software with the most gain in features seem to be high end games and AV editing, which also seem to be performing really well because they aren't typically made in electron.

What does seem to be true is that developers use frameworks like electron because they believe it saves them a lot of time and their time is more valuable than the user's. Well, that and the rampant complexity fetishism.
Because anyone else is not fit for this job. At least he stands for something and does not rapes every device that you own, extracting every piece of information from it and then selling it.
Interesting, half my lawn is St. Augustine and with a simple mulching mower I have never had to collect clippings. (Coastal NC)
Off-topic:

I was wondering how the author managed to get the "web.app" domain, but it turns out it's owned by Google (Firebase). Because of course it is.
That's great but you're unusual. From https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/stress/2021/one-year... :

> A majority of adults (61%) reported experiencing undesired weight changes since the start of the pandemic, with more than 2 in 5 (42%) saying they gained more weight than they intended. Of this group, adults reported gaining an average of 29 pounds (with a typical gain of 15 pounds, which is the median).
I mean, it /is/ always DNS :)
> This is a thing of the past.

Is it? In highly regulated environments, silos are practically a requirement. Security access controls are intentionally put in place to limit access to systems and their respective pieces. If you need repo access, or access to the CI pipeline, or access to the database, you have to go to the appropriate channel.
I think incentive for developer is to be relevant. If you don't do it, someone else will. And that becomes the new norm. Like how DevOps has become the new norm.
Boycott AWS!
Don't forget the evergreen "Unfortunately peanut butter!".
That is why a proper engineering degree should cover all levels.
Dude, RDP is amazing. I'll take it any day over the typical *nix alternatives.
You say that as if fairness has anything to do with it. It doesn’t. Programming languages need to let people install packages on all the major platforms. End of story. Any approach that doesn’t make that practical and scalable is dead in the water regardless of fairness. Even just on Linuxes, there’s enough package manager variation to kill that idea for installing language-level packages with all the different system-level package managers. If you want to lobby all the Linux distros and Apple and Microsoft to adopt a common package installation standard, that would be great but until that happens, that’s just not a feasible way for languages to install packages.
Personally speaking, I think people nannying each other on communication is a real drag. Whether it's language, tone, or body language policing it's highly subjective, rarely constructive, and fairly useless outside of filling some imaginary mold society would like us to fill at a given moment in time.
Not a problem if you use a CDN.
Does anyone know the name of that wind instrument is?
I'm building a community of people to replace lawns with food growing systems, using high moral ethics regarding inputs, process, and outputs and using permaculture principles collected scientifically though analysis and observation.

The industrial lawn is a monoculture which doesn't exist in nature, as such it is inherently less efficient because it doesn't stack functions or yields.

For more info: https://youtube.com/c/RussellBallestrini

I'm talking small scale food systems you may set into motion on a plot of land 1/3 or less!

The best thing you can do right now is to raise your mower blade deck up as high as possible and only mow one or twice per quarter.

My channel nickname is "unturf", and ill give you hundreds of ways and reasons to build a natural food producing systems at your house!

I look to a future of one guided by permaculture, using technology as a means to increase yield of natural systems. Let's build a solar punk future together, one where we build systems which not only sustain but regenerate!
How to Fix Problem: “SD Card Won’t Format”
You are the free labor copilot to train Microsoft GitHub's Copilot tool. You are responsible for any of those insecure code errors and the diligence require. You will be on the hook for resulting problems. But Microsoft and their home-phoning, tracking-embedded editor will get real people to correct and train their machine for free—with their stated plan of later selling that machine back to us later.

I wish there were a “robots.txt” file for Git to disallow certain bots from training on anything I have written.
Do even English speakers know what "indigo" is?
Yes to both questions. Neither question is really relevant though. In the hierarchy of needs it’s easier to fill the lower level ones in the U.S. than in El Salvador. People move to the U.S. for ease of meeting needs, to experience the U.S., etc. This doesn’t mean than in comparison to Japan, UK, or Germany that life is freer here.

Eight percent of European migrants live in the U.S. and five percent in Kazakhstan. Is this evidence that Kazakhstan is comparable to the U.S?

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/european-immigrants-...
While true, it also depends pretty much on the quality of what the university was teaching during those 3 to 5 years of engineering degree.
I had a similar experience: the boss want to have a diversity environment then they decide to hire a Chinese engineer. The CV was not really in line with what we was looking for, but the boss don't listen us. When he come from the interview, he was barely not able to speak in Italian or English. Then he decide to hire a woman and the one that he hire was terrible (she come at the technical interview half naked and she clearly told us that she would like to work in sales instead that in a technical position).
He also hire a senior sales manager fired from a big company, just to drop the name around. He was completely useless and spend 8 hours/day watching hunting video on YouTube.

We was evaluating a new technology to replace the old one that had some problems and he told me: "You don't need to use brain to take this decision, you just need to listen your soul".

He also sometimes come out with crazy ideas and CTO need to spend days to convince him about craziness.
Actually me and friends made fun of windows user when windows 7 was released. Most of those effects were things we had on compiz for a few years but with MUCH more power.
Read the posts replies from OP and immediately lost interest…
Does this website hold anyone else hostage with the back button?
You get downvoted but I also have that little voice in my head. I keep thinking about hitting a point of no return with my dependency on Microsoft. But I'm not there yet, I could untangle fairly quickly, fairly painlessly. Moreover, many of MS' recent stuff is FOSS, they can change it, but we can fork it. And competitors like GitLab are still alive and kicking, not suffering by the looks of it.

But the little voice indeed remains.
Germany to invest €3Bs to bring semiconductor production back to Europe
Most likely depends on the kind of person you are, since obesity definitely was not curbed during the pandemic.

But yes, as someone who has been working remote even before the pandemic, I have had a similar experience. It's great being able to exercise between tasks, fast for most of the day, and overall have more control over my schedule. If I ever have to work in an office again, I know I will gain a minimum of 10 lbs. Group lunches, the desire of management to have you be there even if there's no meetings, no real ability to exercise during the day without being a weirdo, and commute time would take its toll. For me, that environment is evil.
But with opensource software I can run it on any server I want (AWS, Azure, my own). I'm still in control.

I do this for all sorts of applications.
I have! SymbiFlow is very good for being a FOSS hardware toolchain, sometimes it has trouble with peculiar FPGA primitives but it's nothing you can't work around.

I've hacked around with my EOS S3 board less than my other boards (mostly because if I need a CPU I'll just add a VexRiscv soft-core in a regular FPGA), but I can definitely see it's use case if you'd like to accelerate sections of your software without building the entire design on an FPGA.
”We’ll just rewrite that microservice from scratch and the error probably goes away. Preferably with the newest framework du jour”
Years ago, everyone working in tech was an IT generalist. They did everything (DB design, systems, applications, algorithms, code, networking, etc.). Today, the field has matured and people are able to specialize.

Sometimes, when old IT generalists work with new IT specialists, these sort of misunderstandings occur.
Nope, I am just dragged into it for workflows where there are no options, I rather stay on IDEs and native editors otherwise.

Still have some hope that eventually it gets redone in React Native or something.
It should be.

But in the cruft of legacy systems it probably won't be for a long time, probably never.

I'm a freelancer. I "use" the project managers of my clients, I don't hire them myself.

Same goes for my applications. I use the cloud, managed services and such. The providers hire operations people, I don't.
This is agenda 2030 goal. Anti-human pro-elite plan
“ This is the only time in my entire programming life that I've debugged a problem caused by quantum mechanics “

Who knows, we may be running into this more literally in our lifetime.
Meaning 40% of the code on GitHub is insecure
it is called full-stack today?
China bans men it sees as not masculine enough
In the context of Wikipedia articles about the Western US city commonly called "San Francisco", the concept of "mayor" is sufficiently well defined that there is a single answer to it.

The concerns voiced here sound a little like "What if in a hundred years, GPT-255 has subjugated all of humanity into a hive-mind and the terms 'San Francisco' and 'mayor' are meaningless?"

Yes, well. One thing at a time.
It’s like script kiddies showing you all of the innocuous stuff they found with Google, they are illiterate and so their imaginations run wild.
Honestly given the situation, I think the disruptions we are experiencing are actually quite small. I'm surprised, impressed even, by the reliability of our house of cards.
If you don't like awkward ugly clunky syntax, you probably shouldn't program in Python. And, for that matter, if you like correctness checking, you also shouldn't program in Python...
This is a pretty unpleasant response. Your app very strongly fits my interests but your replies have put a bad taste in my mouth.
2017 cheap keyboards, interesting the difference in latency rating between his setup and rting's

https://www.rtings.com/keyboard/reviews/razer/ornata-chroma
There have been multiple peer reviewed studies that show that violent video games increase aggressive behavior. Here's a meta-analysis:

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/40/9882.full.pdf
I wish i had more questions :)

I haven't looked into "software used to process Hubble images" since that was `xv`; I assume they've gotten a bit more involved now?
They are pushing Azure Cloud OS, Microsoft's timesharing platform. :)
I'm ambivalent about most of the suggestions but please, for the love of all that is good, don't break people's expectations about what links look like.
I think you underestimate the value that creating the cards individually provides. For me the first learning step is the way I create and structure the card, think about mnemonics, add a photo e.t.c.

Mochi is a great help there, since it provides a lot of small conveniences especially for language learning.
The ability to automatically add a translation and spoken pronunciations is super nice and built in a way that it seamlessly integrates into the keyboard-centric markdown flow of the app.

IIRC Mochi is written in ClojureScript and it shows, it's a really simple, yet composable and powerful tool.

The author also keeps polishing it continuously, which I found to really streamline everything.

It's my absolutely most favourite tool for learning languages, because it does its job beautifully, efficiently, and doesn't get in my way, and that's a property that's hard to come by in software these days.
The tension between individual well-being and that of the peer group is the basic human condition.

After all, your interests and that of the group compete for limited resources.

Individuals cannot calibrate the balance between these interests in their internal models without feedback from the social environment.

Without communication, misunderstandings naturally occur because these models do not match reality well enough.

Unbiased communication would be the solution if it were possible without negative consequences.

But risk-free communication does not exist.

Another point is the conviction that one's inner model is correct and does not need correction.

Not realizing that the things in one's own head are all just models, including the idea of oneself, does not make it any easier.

Especially when this realization is not wanted at all, in order to maintain the status quo.

...

Putin made a mistake.
A pupil corrected him.
A school principal tried to social coherence

https://www.b92.net/eng/news/world.php?nav_id=111609
I use Copilot mostly as replacement for intellisense and macros. It helps me automating repetitive tasks. I would never trust Copilot for an algorithm or a snippet, I mean I would treat the code just like anything taken from StackOverflow or Github.
Poorly devised regulation lets firms pollute with abandon
I think more people complain about the implementation of the GDPR rather than its aims and philosophy. Those cookie popups for example are an absolute UX plague, anyone who'd heard the words "alarm fatigue" and vaguely comprehended what it meant could have told them it was a rubbish idea that papers over a yawning chasm. All that particular part of it achieved was making the Web worse.

I block them all, and I've heard the British government is getting shot of them soon. They will not be missed.