skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Comparing, Florida did substantially better than New York for the first 10% of the time since the pandemic started. For the second half of 2020 New York had less than half the death rate of Florida. In the first half of 2021 they were close.

That's unique to New York, which had a particularly skewed distribution. Compare to Illinois (which also had severe restrictions), where most of the mortality was in winter 2020:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/illinois/

Or to California (same pattern), which has a higher age-adjusted mortality rate than FL, despite some of the most ridiculously over-the-top restrictions in the country:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/california/

Or to Pennsylvania, which is similar overall:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/pennsylvania/

You really have to cherry-pick the data to make the argument that this is because of policy decisions around NPIs. The patterns being described here have as much to do with seasonality as anything else, and if you don't control for that fact, then any argument is simply pointless. That's all I'm saying.

These simple narratives that "Florida didn't do $my_preferred_intervention, and look how that turned out!" are far more heat than light. If $preferred_intervention were really as effective as claimed, then it would be simply unambiguous that they're doing worse. Instead, they're about mid-pack for overall mortality. In the big natural experiment of Covid responses, there's no clear signal that anything works, other than vaccination.

> Then, in the era of widespread vaccine availability New York has dropped an order of magnitude from where they were in the first half of 2021 whereas Florida has merely dropped about 20%.

OK. I'm not entirely sure what point you're trying to make with this. Is it that Florida isn't vaccinating people, and that's why the mortality rate is higher in summer 2021? Florida is at 66% partial vaccination, vs. New York's 69.9%:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/vaccine-trac...

Again, seasonality plays a huge role here, and the media narrative is hyperbolic. I expect that the northeastern states will see a mortality increase in the fall, because they always do, even before SARS-CoV2. Meanwhile, Florida's wave will probably fall.
Neutrinos mainly come from the sun, and the sun is massively larger than the earth. You can't draw any conclusions from measurements at two points at a distance that is much smaller than the size of the source itself.
Well you could also stop paying rent and not get evicted, so there's that.
> Put http:// as the protocol prefix instead of various https://, ipfs://, or ipns://. The most universal format is http://, since transport-level security (TLS) is not yet fully adopted in dWeb systems (neither it is essential for our applications where a domain name resides on a blockchain and SSL traffic encryption is employed further on)

I understand that this isn't really their fault because they'd have to get a CA to issue a cert for the non-standard .crypto TLD, but has to be untrue, assuming I understand correctly that the HTTP version is just hosting a JS IPFS client? And therefore the non-IPFS link is suceptible to MITM attacks if I understand correctly.
The Secret Diary of a 'Sustainable Investor'
So I should have been clear - afaik the fintechs are "banks" but as "small banks" are regulated more lightly. One such issue is the amount they can charge the merchant in a debit card transaction. There in lies the arbitrage.
There are many instances and they take many forms. It's a subject too big to do full justice here so I'll give a few instances/headings to start things off.

- Treaties between nations that either extended copyright law or force the nation with the most liberal copyright laws into doing a back flip over copyright liberalization.

- Changing copyright law as in the US where stuff in the public domain went back into copyright (complicated, read Wiki, etc.) This was the result of corporate lobbying.

- The recent scouring of stuff that was effectively in the public domain and clearly reclassifing it into a copyrighted domain. For example manufacturer service manuals that were once made readily available
were withdrawn, or restricted to authoritized service personnel only, or were reissued after being heavily redacted. This is part of the Right to Repair argument in that an unstated right to repair had always been in existence but when manufacturers withdrew once freely available information about products we now have to fight for a new right that not long ago no one would ever have thought as a right.

- Copyright owners lobbying government to tighten/change the law on ophan works - those ones where there's no known copyright owner so they would have less competition. If I recall about 70% of all works fall into this category. BTW, there's a lot more to this than I'm mentioning here.

- Iteas and stuff that's been common practice and thus not documented gatherered up and put into the private (now-copyrighted) domain by unscrupulous carpetbaggers.

- Programmers using public domain information, modifying it in trivial ways then claiming copyright over it. Obfuscation through copmliation makes it difficult to unravel these tricks.

There's much more, here's a link I've just found that adds a few more: https://blog.kitware.com/stealing-from-the-public-domain/
Async sendfile is also an advantage for FreeBSD. It is specific to FreeBSD. It allows an nginx worker to send from a file that's cold on disk without blocking, and without resorting to threadpools using a thread-per-file.

The gist is that the sendfile() call stages the pages waiting to be read in the socket buffer, and marks the mbufs with M_NOTREADY (so they cannot be sent by TCP). When the disk read completes, a sendfile callback happens in the context of the disk ithread. This clears the M_NOTREADY flag and tells TCP they are ready to be sent. See https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-and-netflix-contribute-new-...
Android is not a JVM platform. Android uses Dalvik as VM.
The Rust community is by a wide margin the most welcoming and positive Internet community I've personally seen.

In no small part because they don't make comments like this one.
They're probably still tracking me even though I pay right?
The downside is that curried functions make default, optional, and keyword parameters difficult to implement.

For defaults/optionals, given "fn f(x, y, z=10)", if "f(1, 2)" evaluates to "f(1)(2)", does that return a function or the result of "f(1)(2)(10)"? What if you have "fn f(x, y = 10, z)"? All of this is a lot easier if you can evaluate the full argument list at the time of function invocation.

As for keyword arguments, they just don't play well with any kind of enforced ordering.
Anyone knows a similar ressource and/or recommendations for writing technical (IT) documentation?
It's once a year. And the idea is to fight back against stigmas that have made such behavior illegal, or grounds for being fired, or having your kids taken away.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but having gay sex in the privacy of your home while you're tied up in a leather harness should not result in those consequences. Display of similar behaviors at Pride are intended to tell the larger world that they aren't going to stop being themselves. People need to grow a thicker skin and get used to the idea, so that Pride isn't necessary any longer.
This is happening in software too. Office 365 is functions like car insurance for business activity. The products change pretty glacially, with most enhancements focused on increasing stickiness and upsell (PowerBI).

I was talking to a customer, a tax policy guru about some of the challenges with corporate taxation. My suggestion to him was to implement an excise tax on O365 and GSuite, as those products are probably more reliable metrics of business activity than payroll and other measures. Plus, Microsoft is better at compliance than most tax authorities.
This blog post is so long, but it’s important to note that it’s hobbyists producing these results, using either open source models released by OpenAI or calling their API. Big tech didn’t set out to replace artists, but it may be a side effect of the useful models they produce.
The good Vs bad thing is a point that I can't seem to get across to my friends who enjoy a certain type of movies. I want to be challenged and choose what is good or evil (preferably neither, reality is rarely so absolute) not just be dictated to.

Same with video games, in Fallout New Vegas you march into the bad guys (they are objectively bad people regardless) camp expecting some boss fight but if you listen he will make a reasoned and historically contextualised argument against democracy and liberalism.

Compare and contrast with a call of duty game where I run around in an "apolitical" simulation (read: simulacra) of war shooting anything that moves.
I wonder if the banking laws in China, India, and the US may be so different as to be incomparable in this regard. The vast majority of the difficulty appears to be regulatory in nature, and I imagine that each nation has its own unique regulatory flavor.
> 1. Reliable childcare still isn't a thing.

I think lack of reliable & economical childcare drives a series of tradeoffs that are in many cases strange to think about.

A - I have good / economical childcare, or supportive spouse, and I can do a demanding professional job

B - I have good childcare but it is too expensive. Considering the cost and tax burder of two workers, best I quit and let my husband/wife/partner/etc work only, and I stay home with the kids

C - I have neither good, nor economical childcare, or cannot afford it. I'm trapped into a bad situation. I don't have a spouse. Welfare/WIC/foodstamps/Section 8 is better than starving. I'll take that.

D - I have neither good, nor economical childcare, or cannot afford it. I'm trapped into a bad situation. I don't have a spouse. Jobs in my local area offer me nothing over Welfare/WIC/foodstamps/Section 8, so I will stay with that.

C & D both provide a strong argument for UBI. Although I am against communism, I do think that if we are going to do transfer payments, UBI is the least evil / most righteous approach, but I am concerned about the potential inflationary effects.
> It could also work on BCH if some default limits were lifted

Can you list what those default limits are, and how big the needed changes are?
Quite a lot of conspiracy theories are "exactly wrong"; that is, they resemble something that happened or is happening, but the persons involved are wrong and the motives are wrong. Even weirder, the conspiracists don't cite the true events as support of their theories.

"big pharma" => see Purdue

"pizzagate" => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Nolan_(politician) "is an American registered sex offender and former state district court judge, a former leader in the Republican Party and a former chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign in Campbell County, Kentucky. On February 9, 2018, he pleaded guilty to 19 counts of child sex trafficking and human trafficking; on February 11, 2018 he was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison"

and so on.

> Tuskeegee siphilis study

And a lot of conspiracy theories are "what if this thing the US did to black people it also did to white people"
Storing diffs is not a great idea since then it requires that you apply them all to get the latest version. Notably, git does not store files as diffs [1] which is one of the reasons it’s so much faster than older diff-based VCSes.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/43364484
I recall that simple transmits from offset 0..N in a file worked. But range requests of the form N..N+2MB lead to corrupt data. Its been 2+ years, and I heard it was later fixed in Linux.
I really dislike the conflation of the many different meanings of “elite”. It’s such an emotionally overloaded word. If you define elite status as a top X percentile of income or wealth, then just use the words “rich people”, “wealthy people”, or even better, “high income people”. Using these more specific words get to the core of the matter.

The “anti-elite” sentiment, when it becomes overloaded with education status or domain expertise, really pushes my buttons for getting causality wrong in the world’s problems.

I digress here, but in other words: yes, it’s a problem that rich folks have more opportunities to become educated and to become experts in their fields, and that regular folks don’t have the same opportunities to do so. But the world’s injustices and problems are not caused by “elites” in the sense of “people who have expertise and authority in their fields”.

As an analogy, you can blame (in part) society and government for your lack of maths skills, but you can’t blame “mathematics” (the pure science) or even “mathematicians” for your problems. Pointing the finger in the right direction is super important if you care about accountability and justice.
For many people 1 click (or even an entire screen scroll-down) is too much. If PeerTube is supposed to be an YouTube alternative, you need to see videos and a search right away.

I know it's not an instance and blah-blah-blah, but those are technical details that (possible) users don't give a single F.
The first actually, I'll change it, thanks!
I think consent here is trivial to understand when you talk about a kink most everyone understands: naked skin.

Being naked isn't per se a sexual act, obviously. I don't need anyone's consent exposing my body e.g. going swimming in a lake.

On the other hand, someone getting off exposing theirselves to strangers is involving unconsenting strangers sexually.

Wearing a harness or demonstrating the lifestyle perfomatively does not include strangers in a scene.

Playing in public for e.g. public humiliation on the other hand, is involving unconsenting strangers sexually.

It's really not that hard. These concern trolls have an agenda.
Thanks. During this discussion I found the OpenJDK source code, cloned the repo, and build a fully-functional JDK [1]. Presumably the license forces me to share modifications to the JDK code itself, but not to any application I run on the JDK.

If I wanted to distribute my JDK (I don't, BTW) what limits are there? Do I need to get certified? Run compatibility tests? Pay a fee to Oracle? Or do I just need to plop a binary on Github or S3 and call it a day?

1 - https://openjdk.java.net/groups/build/doc/building.html
There's tons on science talking about the immune system response from a covid infection. From what I've seen the protection conferred from the immune system response to the virus is at least as good as vaccine immunity and perhaps better, given that it is a more broad based immune system response not targeting just the spike protein like the vaccines.

I don't understand your comment. We were talking about herd immunity at the moment, and that natural immunity and not just vaccine immunity counts towards that.

Why did you bring up cowardly? Is that in reference to the woman who had to be hospitalized for anaphylactic shock after her first vaccination?
Mask-Free AOC and Her Boyfriend Attended to by a Team of Masked Servants [video]
> pizzagate

Both parties and beyond, everyone must stop the partisan squabbling.

No, I don't care about the psyop you read on reddit.
Afaik, android has its own VM. It compiles Java the language into bytecode for that VM. Android didn't even include the standard Java library, instead providing its own.
i found this resource for google, which suggests that google does offer any kind of whitelisting, but it contains a bunch of things to look into that may help to get mails accepted.

https://support.google.com/mail/thread/5166415/my-domain-ema...
I mean, that's a pretty interesting choice for pizzagate, you could easily have dropped it on Jeffery Epstein, to be charitable to the conspiracy theorists, is known to be associated with Bill Clinton.

edit: removed joke about "epstein not killing himself" because it distracted from the main point by introducing a second conspiracy theory.
I forgot where I read this, but I think it's true: With Gradle to do anything you have to understand everything.

(Not a fan of Gradle)
I'm not GP; Hurricane Electric ipv6 always had Netflix think I was on a VPN, but now I have real ipv6 through the same ISP, I just pay more money so Netflix doesn't complain anymore.
No. Humans need accomplishments and doing pointless work (dig and refill holes) is a drag on the soul no matter how much you pay. Look at all the programmers that get mad when doing dumb work.

The yacht is a tangible item that will last and can be pointed to with pride by the workers. Pointless work damages us.
Ruqqus: The Open-Source Platform for Independent Internet Communities
Residential connections have much lower upload speeds than their download speed. That can impact web browsing speeds because outgoing packets can saturate the bandwidth and delay TCP handshake packets. This is a problem I've been having constantly with my Comcast internet connection. If the net feels slow, I check if something's doing some large upload despite that it's gigabit. I've tried QoS, managed switches etc, none helped the situation. P2P is a no-no from that perspective, in addition to other valid points until same up/down speeds become a norm (miss you Sonic!).
I agree, maybe my wording about the situation could have been better. I fully support them in their handling of the attacks. Paying the ransom would in no way guarantee the attacks would stop, now or in the future.

My phone's 4G hotspot works (via another provider), but it does have limits of course. I don't mind paying a bit for extra data, but there is a limit to the amount of extra time and effort I can spend on this problem. I can't keep apologising indefinitely to my clients about bad audio/video calls if none of my coworkers have the same problems with their ISP.

Sibling comment did have a good idea: to tunnel my traffic through an OVH instance. A great opportunity to try out Wireguard.
Hilarious to see all the attempts at “but why not Linux”.

I wonder how many will read this and consider trying out FreeBSD. It’s a rather dope OS but I am a bit biased.
Please don't. Yellowstone is a pristine nature reserve. There's many other areas in nearby Idaho you probably could tap into similar thermal energy without ruining the first National Park. Yellowstone is also in one of the least densely populated areas in the country so it's very difficult to transport without massive energy loss by resistance.
Most languages allow a variable called "i", but it is for the programmer to choose when that is appropriate.

!^ might be useful, if the code implements an algorithm which uses this notation in the literature.
That Easter egg was in the original Microsoft pipes too
Yes. We already live in a panopticon, but I think we should at least resist making it larger.

My reaction to the trend is that while I'm forced into an intimate relationship with an established bank in order to function in society, there's no way that I'm willing to take on additional intimate relationships with the likes of FAANGs and Walmarts.

But I also know that most people don't have the same reservation.
The Democrats are trying to kill republicans with corona
The Ascent of Money
The reference predates that, it's a 3d modelling easter egg that's included in a lot of older 3d animated movies
One of the biggest reasons that have kept me away from terraform apart from the esoteric language is that terraform modules are always a few steps being from the upstream public cloud offerings.

In the sense that whenever there’s a new API or service available in any of public clouds and their official SDKs there will always be a delay before this new service/feature/API will become available in terraform.

First time I encountered it with GKE private clusters 3 or 4 years ago. Now it is AWS Keyspaces.

The second biggest reason is whenever you have a requirement for a hybrid or multicloud then well you are left with rigidity if HCL. It is probably doable but for what sake?

Solution: get a real language, write a STATELESS configuration management(IaC) system for your own needs and maintain it. The majority of public and private cloud providers ship SDKs in most popular languages that will help you build your own software solution and reduce your dependence on a third party which I would put under progressing operational risk category. Yaml/json/cue/toml for end user configs would suffice.

Example: for one of my previous projects were built a tool for a hybrid AWS-openstack setup, and were managing a dozen of busy environments.
Sentinel Hub – Cloud API for Satellite Imagery
EO Browser: https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/
Just to help out, since the URL above isn’t a complete clickable link, here’s a link to the details of the experiment and reward model:
https://noodler.substack.com/p/the-ball-and-chain-letter
That is why they don't want to eliminate the penny....
Even where it is not strictly necessary for women to work having women in the workforce can be an economic advantage. For instance it is plausible that the increasing proportion of women in work since the 1950s has contributed as much to Norway's economy as the oil.
So, are you claiming a 3x-10x performance improvement...

* Within the same system?

* Over close-by systems on a LAN segment?

* To typical far machines over the Internet?
That's what ruined it for me. Some time after AirBnB started, no one wanted to host my girlfriend and me as a pair. It seemed like all the people who just wanted to host travelers left for AirBnB and only the hookup-seekers remained.
Yes Minister is fiction. The problem with conspiracy theories is that they read as fiction and fail to engage adequately with actual evidence. Things happen like they do in Yes Minister (or more recently, The Thick Of It), but not in identical ways.

On the other hand ..

> What this says is that, even in a democracy, the ~90th percentile rich have the most influence, business interest groups have about half as much, and mass interest groups have about a third as much. We less rich folks only get what we want, to the extent we do, because these elites mostly agree with us, and because we sometimes influence mass interest groups.

.. this is Marxism 101, the most basic set of observations about how classes work made over a century ago. I don't thing any sensible person would deny that there is such a thing as an elite, or that the elite have their agendas, but if you want to make specific claims about specific real people then you need evidence.
For exactly this reason, US financial regulators recognize Bank Holding Company (BHC) as a separate category from chartered banks. BHCs are subject to a more limited form of the examination banks receive, in order to ensure that they are not in danger of going insolvent (leading to the insolvency of their bank subsidiary). But the examination for BHCs is nonetheless much lighterweight.

Interestingly, all BHCs are regulated by the Federal Reserve (which is not true of banks proper, which may "choose" their regulator within certain limits from the FRS, OCC, and FDIC, occasionally others). There are some advantages that come from the FRS's approach to BHCs, including better access to FRS lending. As a result, many "banks" today, in terms of consumer branding, are actually BHCs that do all of their actual banking (depository financial institution/DFI) within a subsidiary.

"Bancorp" is a somewhat informal term for BHCs, so "banks" with bancorp in the name are often (but not always, the term has older uses) actually BHCs.
The experience is fine, but PeerTube by definition is decentralized, so measurements won't always be indicative of usefulness...
> And every gigajoule you take from Yellowstone is one less gigajoule for the next supervolcano eruption.'

What if it disturbs whatever equilibrium the caldera's maintained and causes it to erupt sooner than it would have?

This is a genuine question, I know next to nothing about this.
I mean... Maybe? I don't think I ever saw evidence that they moved that needle. And to your previous point, a ton of damage came from politicizing the issue.