skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The numbers you want are out there

The long term cost numbers will become known. But let's say that over a 3 year period there are 600,000 excess deaths, of which 80% are due to covid, so that would be 1.4 million life years, and then after that it goes back to normal (I'm not claiming these are the numbers -- in the future we will know the numbers). Assuming that one battle death in a war reduces 40 life years, then this would be 35,000 military deaths, in terms of life years. You would need 14 million life years to get 350K ~ WW2 deaths. And 28 million life years to get ~ Civil War.

But the relevant number is how many more life years would be lost if we didn't adopt these measures. And here, it's not clear at all what the covid life years saved as a result of the lockdowns would be. I do think in the future we will get estimates of this, but we certainly don't have that data today, so merely arguing that many are dying today is not a good justification for the today's policies. I am really confused by how any criticism of today's policies is responded by how many have died under those policies, as if that was some kind of defense for the efficacy of the policies.

On the other side, start counting the costs of the policies, which will continue for many years, and compare to the number of life years saved if some of these measures weren't taken. Measures that resulted in perhaps 10 million people losing their career, millions of small businesses going bankrupt, tens of millions of children losing 1 year of schooling, etc. Then look at mortality effects of these things.

It's not at all clear that a less strict lockdown would have cost more lives than it would have saved. In fact it's hard to ascribe lifeyears saved to any specific policy profile. At least not to me. Unlike the other side, I am not making strident claims that because a lot of people are dying with lockdowns, that the lockdowns are necessary.

But again time will tell -- people insisting the answer is obvious don't make any sense to me.
"Viewing a site in English" misunderstands the problem. Mixed-language content is a reality. Not all websites are a single language, because they can host user-generated content or snippets of content in other languages (commentary on translated material, live translations, instructional material, etc.)
Starlink raises the speed from 2/3*c to 1*c, but IP addresses are still anchored to a location... otherwise the latency would suck.

You can geolocate any fast internet connection by measuring its latency to various points on Earth.
I don't follow how it would lower the renter's taxes?
Well, for someone interested in languages conlanging can just be fun! I don't think most people are under the impression that their language will be popular.

It also serves as an interesting "what-if," i.e. what would a language look like if it were designed from the ground up to be as logical as possible. No idea if this is interesting to the average person, but it is to me.

However (and I'm not saying this is or will be the case with Ithkuil) there are several constructed languages that do indeed have sizeable communities (the internet has made this easier): esperanto, toki pona, lojban, even klingon has multiple speakers.
There were several iterations of commercialization that took away the quaintness of the internet, little by little. But some innovations along the way also counterbalanced it with new ways for content producers to express themselves.

When Flash was originally released (by Macromedia), there were so many unique sites with really great interfaces. Nowadays, everything seems to follow the long, scrolling mono design. I loved what people could create in those early days of Flash without the restrictions of html. There are some sites I wish I could go back and revisit because they would be impressive by today's standards.

Before MySpace, there was some personalization with Angelfire and Geocities. Every once in a while, you'd find a really interesting site that someone had created.

That era around '95, '96 is probably what I miss the most.
An algebraic effects library: https://github.com/digital-fabric/affect

He has great taste!
I didn’t find that to be the case at all. In the beginning it was ok but once the days and shifts start to blend into a large unmemorable mess of tedium my mental state very quickly made me find other lines of work. I couldn’t shake the feeling that I’m wasting my time away as some kind of a almost literal cog.

Some manual labor you actually produce somewhat unique things in the end but some you just do the same thing every day and nothing ever changes or matters in any way.
The opposite is true. Privacy and anonymity are the best protection for the weak and marginalized. They are very closely correlated to the concept of free speech. And it is the ability to think and speak freely and work through matters that differentiates a civilized free society from the barbarians.

Certainly, things like free speech, the right to a fair trial, privacy and anonymity also somewhat benefit "bad people". But unless you live a very boring life indeed, from time to time perhaps you will be the one who is going against the grain of society. (Or some small but significant segment thereof). And then you'll be glad that you have a safe harbor to fall back on.
"At trial his lawyer argued that the gun was already randomly lying on the ground when the police threw him down. The jury acquitted him"

Blackstone's ratio is the commonly accepted benchmark: "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer"

It's job of the prosecution to make sure their proof is "beyond reasonable doubt", which is obviously in the eye of the beholder.
The guns you own with your second amendment rights will not protect you from riot cops in a helicopter with rifles or driving around in a tank. To even go toe to toe with militarized police you'd need things that are incredibly illegal to own like RPGs, and you'd need training to use them.

The second amendment basically lets you shoot a cop if they infringe on your rights. Then you get hunted down and either convicted without a fair trial or shot in the back. Naturally I would not advise pulling your gun on a police officer.

The only counter example I can think of is the recent case where a guy returned fire at a van full of cops (they were blindly spraying 'less-lethal' munitions at civilians from an unmarked van) after they shot at him. He got off because his defense was able to prove he had no way to know he was shooting at cops, otherwise he was gonna spend his life in prison.
> so we know that a primarily agrarian society CAN resist a militaristic society

America did not invade, or go to war with Afghanistan - it was attempting to liberate it, not annihilate it.
I didn’t know you could be put to death for non-violent crimes. Article says he was only charged with drug possession. This happened in Singapore, but according to Wikipedia “large-scale drug trafficking” is a capital crime in the US, too. Transporting 42g of heroin doesn’t sound even close to large-scale, but I can imagine getting swallowed up by a legal labyrinth anyhow, especially if you’re disadvantaged.

I don’t understand why more lawyers aren’t up in arms about the severe sentencing happening in the US. Guess it’s a similar situation to engineers being paid through the nose while pretending Big Tech is working for the greater good.
No, that would be JAPL.
Five Laws of Library Science
> I think there are. But it may be so automatic that they don't actively think about them.

That is, unfortunately for someone trying to learn, the entire goal of learning to play piano in a way. To turn the entire process from looking at a sheet (or hearing it in your head) to sounds happening to become essentially instinct.

The best way to do this is repetition. This is what scales and arpeggios and excercises are for. By internalizing the scales you build up what feels correct, based on your hands, the length of your fingers, the different strengths and weaknesses of every single joint and bone and muscle and tendon. You have to use the repetition to find out what each transition and different motions feel like, and interpolate that to what's in front of you.
$100k stolen in 60 minutes. Ethereum livestream scam on YouTube
edit: updated his wallet: https://etherscan.io/address/0x1065d87094f8A2498D4beeD80915e... (20k)

old wallet https://etherscan.io/address/0x1e8a23B17e0248F9155B7BdA70e75... ($120k)

I have never seen anything like this. It makes even Walter White's fictitious drug empire seem like a amateur hour by comparison in terms of net profit and just the massive scale of this operation. Even hollywood cannot create a better crime than this.

90% of the victim wallets in these scams are Coinbase wallets. I do not know why lawmakers and attorney generals are not taking this more seriously given that Coinbase is an American company and Americans are being defrauded to the tune of millions of dollars a week. Crypto crime is bigger than drug crime given that crypto is worth $2 trillion. It should be taken as seriosly as such.
Dogs being able to identify the scent of illicit substances is not the question at hand. The issue is that it's all too easy to manipulate the dog into signalling whatever the handler wants. A neutral handler would probably show that the dog can identify presence or absence of some drug with much better than a coin flip odds.

In practice there's a terrible accuracy problem with drug sniffing dogs. In theory there's a somewhat reasonable accuracy of drug sniffing dogs. The judicial system likes to plug their ears and pretend that drug dogs are accurate and ignore the obvious fact that dogs are fallible social creatures that first and foremost are trying to do what their handlers want them to do. If the handler wants them to check for drugs, great, but when the handler doesn't care about accuracy and just wants them to "find" drugs, it should not be shocking that the dogs behavior reflects the handler's wishes.

https://reason.com/2021/05/13/the-police-dog-who-cried-drugs...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_v._Harris
Carriers Must Move 60K Containers Out of Los Angeles/Long Beach by Halloween
The Maia engine seems promising. I've never really looked into it myself. But my understanding is that unlike AlphaZero or similar engines which use convolutional neural networks to predict a position's objective value and a probability distribution over legal moves and are trained by self-play which allows them to "learn" objectively best strategies, Maia's networks are trained on human moves taking rating into consideration.

So humans typically don't gain much from playing traiditional engines, since they play at levels beyond mortal comprehension and make too deep moves from outer-space, Maia would be more down-to-earth.

https://lichess.org/blog/X9PUixUAANCqFRSh/introducing-maia-a...
I’m an adult student. Started at 33 - just turned 38. Practicing 3-4 hours daily. Don’t get this book. Take music theory classes, learn harmony, and get an excellent teacher. Mine is from the Russian school and changed the way I approach the instrument. Also - you can become a good pianist if you start as an adult. You just won’t be attending Julliard as an instrumentalist. But who cares? Neither did Beethoven. My #1 advice: practice in perfect time. Build a natural sense of pulse. The dirty secret is it’s easier to play a piece in time than the converse, especially at high velocity.
I hate videos.

HEY GUYS WELCOME TO ANOTHER EPISODE OF $ASPIRING_INFLUENCER_BLOG

<60 second intro movie/theme song>

<2 minutes of content>

THANKS FOR WATCHING AND DONT FORGET TO HIT THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON
The reason why is kinda silly: so a couple of years ago the Windows org made yet another locked-down, "mobile-first" SKU of desktop Windows designed for larger phablets and ARM devices (which never materialized - though imagine if the Microsoft Surface Duo[1] was expanded to a much wider range of Microsoft and partner-branded devices) - and this included a somewhat simplified shell user-experience - and it ended up as "Windows 10X" and was promoed at the start of this year (look familiar? https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10x ).

Then something happened in the late-spring 2021 when the shell team all suddenly disappeared - around the same time as Bill Gates' divorce announcement (coincidence? I think not!) and the Windows org's leadership decided to make the bold move of copying-and-pasting Windows 10X#'s cut-down shell, intended for mobile devices, into the full-fat enterprise and desktop SKUs of Windows 11 and call it a day.

My sources and former work-colleague friends at MS tell me that the current shell team (they should call it a fossil team at this point considering it seems there's nothing left of it) is very, very aware of the huge backlash over the removal of essential features like repositioning the taskbar and having individual taskbar buttons, but don't expect a quick-fix - I get the feeling some hotshot PMs will try to use this occasion to pitch their own unique new (and unproven...) concepts on how the shell should work, instead of doing the big fat `git reset HEAD` back to a late-2019 commit that they should be doing... le sigh...

[1] (which runs Android... which is further evidence something went really wrong with the wave-function collapse around 2016)
> Carriers don't go anywhere alone, and they never stop moving except when in port. They are part of a carrier strike group which includes extensive anti-missile capabilities, both from escorting ships and patrol aircraft (LAMPS.)

That sounds very nice but I think whatever is on the land side can store more missile than anti-missile missile on ships.

The reality is that the protection of the ship came from the desire to not have a full out war with the US. Once that is out of the picture, and given the adversary is not a punching bag like Iraq, all of them have the potential to rapidly sink on a massive attack. Though if it comes to that, the survivability of the fleet isn't the very first concern...
Oh my a shtml file in the wild. That's like spotting bigfoot or a payphone
Ask HN: Where are secular source of crypto space knowledge?
As history record shows that a bunch of religions have been survived for thousand years, a lot of church and temple, along with modern technology and government of secular and non-secular states.

So, I am adjusting my attitude to live with cryptocurrency stuff because I think it is not going anywhere and could still exist for my lifespan. Cryptocurrency/blockchain knowledge like religions, there are good concept applicable and useful in life, there are also tons of bullshit, scam, even violence. I would like to collect sources of knowledge that is not related to any cult non-sense.

Knowledge in crypto/blockchain stuff I would like to know, for example, what's top 5 coins, overall promising regarding transaction rate, fee, market cap, suitable for application (e.g. dapp), technical and philosophical limitation. I have pretty good exploring skills, read a lot of data, but when it comes to knowledge around cult, it takes a lot of energy to filter out greed based statement.

Where are secular sources of crypto space knowledge?

Thanks.
Sure, MS is also in a good position(?)
I wonder when Firefox will support MIDI 2.0, since they still haven't supported MIDI 1.0. (chromium and other browser engines have had MIDI support since maybe 2014) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836897

Yes, cool things can be done with MIDI in browser, some that can't easily be done outside of browsers (such as synchronizing and overlaying on top of 3rd party videos, such as from YouTube). Here's some of the stuff I've been working on, mostly targeted at my kid, but adults love it too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khU5A6Y1dk4

(this one doesn't play on youtube because contentId flags it, but the app itself overlays on 3rd party YouTube videos and it is not a problem)
https://www.karmatics.com/video/pianoplydemo.mp4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1TcyDZiuyI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj2rlytbDsY
If the computer was discarded, I wouldn't consider it stealing. However would I feel like I had a duty to return it to it's previous owner or heirs? It depends on the circumstances. I have not taken/stolen significant sums of money in the past for moral reasons.

I don't think your comment should have been downvoted as it is thought-provoking, but it might have been downvoted since I said "discarded", and thus taking it wouldn't be stealing.
Why embedded software development is harder
I miss organization too. Every time I use Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, etc I feel at the mercy of the website as it shows me rocks one by one and I shake my virtual head "no.. no.. no.." until by chance something looks interesting. They have the metadata, why can't I browse by year or filter by director or actors, or any arbitrary combination of the available data?

And this is the same for news sites, where there should be a 20+ year history of articles but I can't browse it. And obviously social media where information is ephemeral and you only need to see what's happening right now. Shopping is ok on smaller sites, where inventory is static and items are either in stock or not. But earlier this year I could have snapped my keyboard in half trying to find a specific piece of hardware on the Lowes/Home Depot/Amazon website. There's no clear answer like "we don't carry that item" instead the search box vomits back all kinds of misinformation. Web Search itself might be the worst, only giving the most shallow corporate results, I'm not surprised it feels like there are few personal website when our index to the internet is so polluted.
I wish Google News would stop prioritizing cable news sources. They already provide links to other articles covering the same story if you click "View Full Coverage," all they need to do is stop making the cable news outlets the main ones.
I would say that there is no longer a viable GM-like concept.

Take a look at the libraries released by Spitfire Audio. You won't find anything remotely like a GM-style collection.

There's a buzz word of the day - "cinematic" - that has been defining new sample library releases for a while now. They are definitely not focused on "here's a sort of complete set of sounds corresponding to traditional instruments".

People generally want more unique sounds. Maybe a GM bank is a good starting point for people who will work with fairly traditional instrumentation (even they eventually switch away from the GM bank itself). But it's not much use for people wanting more distinctive timbres and textures, and for "cinematic" work (read: games, films, soundscapes), that's normally the goal. It's also where, for now, the money is.
Geolocation of IP blocks is basically all Google et al's fault. Once you go around wardriving to map all the infrastructure.... Well.. you get what they paid for.
Huh. So I wonder where my box of original PCMCIA wifi cards from 2000 went? You know, that first batch of cards that were commercially available?
It's not only about personal consequences. I just don't want companies I don't trust to own my data. Because their goals are totally not aligned with my own, at all.

In a perfect world this wouldn't be necessary. In the real world we have Cambridge Analytica manipulating elections. Volkswagen cheating regulators. Boeing deciding their bottom line is more important than lives.

And you can't prevent all disease with data alone. Most of us have some vices that we know are bad for our health but we do them anyway. And sometimes rightly so. Physical health isn't the only thing that matters in life. We make trade-offs and there's more than just data driving them. We're creatures of emotion :)

I definitely wouldn't trade off perfect health for having no privacy.
Yes those magical bouncing chlorine bombs were another fake story that immediately failed the cui bono? test for anyone who pays attention... so, like, 5% of Americans.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/18/at-un-aaron-mate-debunks-...
What about 13 years ago? 10 years ago was nadir of the global financial crisis and housing crash (~13, bubble peak).
This is a band-aid on top of the searching issue you described, but it's a godsend when a youtube video is nicely subtitled, so you can open up the transcription and ctrl+f to find exactly when a specific word/phrase was said. Youtube also has limited speed controls at this point. I think the fact that those features exist highlight your second point. Searchability and fixed speed make video content less accessible.
Freebsd runs on .net?

Better title would have ".net support for FreeBSD" somewhere in it for clarity.
Hemingway Editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25125302 - Nov 2020 (248 comments)

We mark submissions as dupes when the story has had significant attention in the last year or so. After that, reposts are ok. (it's best if it's a bit longer than a year though)
What was the name of the officer beaten to death? Are you talking about Brian Sicknick, the man who died of natural causes? Since you just browse HN, here's a link you may enjoy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26867634

My criticism of your posts is that you are basing this off of an extreme minority of people. The media would like you to believe they exist in great numbers, to keep you afraid and engaged with their product. You are certainly correct that they do exist; however I firmly do not believe they exist in the numbers that you suggest.
In DHCP-PD you get a subnet instead of a single IP.
My ultimate toolkit for writing -- Grammarly, Hemingway, and iA Writer. I stumbled on Hemingway few years back and have never looked back.

I start in iA Writer (pick other alternatives, not much significance of a particular tool). Then run it quickly with Grammarly. If the content is for others to consume, then I tweak in Hemingway.

It is part of an ever changing minimal ecosystem that I'm trying to maintain - https://oinam.fyi/devices/apple-ecosystem/
Not to mention that you can copy and paste from a text site, while a video leaves you laboriously retyping everything.
For 2 reasons:

1. US warned every country in both Europe and South America said to be considering shelter for Snowden of grave consequences should they offer asylum to the whistleblower. Without his US passport, Snowden couldn't go anywhere and Ecuador reversed their safe passage.

2. This also gave political fodder for the establishment cronies to call and label anyone who would defend Snowden a "Russian Agent".

I would recommend reading these two by Glenn Greenwald (he was the journalist who worked with Snowden to publish the docs):

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/ben-rhodes-book-proves-obam...

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/as-anger-toward-belarus-mou...

> Led by then-Vice President Joe Biden, U.S. officials warned every country in both Europe and South America said to be considering shelter for Snowden of grave consequences should they offer asylum to the whistleblower. Threats to Havana caused the Cuban government to rescind its commitment of safe passage they had issued to Snowden's lawyer. Under Biden's pressure, Ecuador also reversed itself by proclaiming the safe passage document issued to Snowden was a mistake.

I would also recommend the Citizen Four documentary:

https://youtu.be/EDhB-A23IUk
You've missed one that's flown under my radar until lately, Discord servers. And you might say "well yeah but that's just IRC, nothing new" and to some degree that's true, but I feel Discord also attracts people that wouldn't have been willing to use IRC.
Isn't that exactly what he/she is also saying?
Where I live, CNN has lots of ads for Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed, Northrop, etc.
“ But this was only possible due to the history of Harvard within the advent of the internet and the fact that they had such an excess of addresses that Zuck could bind to a public IP address.”

This sounds interesting. Can you ELI5?
I'm a he. No offense taken, thanks for the kind words!