skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Countries are reporting in-practice death rates as high at 0.6%, worst case, slight outlier [0]. So even if it were possible for somehow no-one to get medical care (which is difficult to see happening, it takes a while for a wave to burn through and most people don't catch it so there is a lot of potential to beef up the response short-term) and the death rate multiplied 10-fold (which is also open to challenge, depends on a lot of factors and assumptions about how effectively community care could be provided) it still wouldn't reach 10%. That 0.6% might even be a country where the hospital system fell apart, I don't know what healthcare looks like in Peru.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rates_...
Yeap! As a developer, having a well described bug, with clear steps and conditions, is sometimes 90% of the work needed to fix it.
And: scrolling in Grafana.

The scrollbars are tiny so you can't really grab on to them and drag.

OK, so you use the mouse wheel or trackpad instead. If you've got lots of lines on a graph the key area itself has a little mini-scrollbar. So as you're scrolling down, all of a sudden your mouse is over that little area and it starts scrolling instead. It probably doesn't have much content to scroll but it doesn't matter, the page won't scroll while you're over that area so you have to move your mouse to some other part of the screen and try again.

OK, so you think you'll put your mouse in the navigation area on the left or something and use the trackpad there, as there won't be any little scrollable areas going by there. But if you place your mouse on the left-hand navigation pane, that doesn't scroll the window. So you really have to place your mouse in the actual content area to scroll using the trackpad, and just deal with the above "sticking" effect.

Infuriating. (Using macOS Chrome with a mouse with a scroll wheel and trackpad)
For me it's Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

The essay in the the beginning of the book gave me a profound epiphany back then.
You basically just explained why dollar bills are not perfectly fungible either. Nothing is truly mathematically fungible in the real world.
Maybe I should have been clearer with me follow on paragraph where I talk about parsing of JavaScript and downloading of that - rather than all other assets. I agree with you that the web is broken and that we send way too much to the client in the first place.

However, there are many ways of mitigating additional assets getting in the way of both being able to interact the site and see it within a reasonable amount of time. We look at this through the lense of performance, where downloading some assets in the background might not necessarily harming your experience.

That's not to say we shouldn't be optimising for the smallest amount of network requests a site should make and think carefully about when to load images in. Your examples are what bad looks like and it's a shame, but there are now more and more sites that do a stellar job (or starting to) of giving you a great experience with less downloaded.

However if you were to download a 5mb image asynchronously that isn't part of your initial above the fold, Vs a 5mb payload of react that's needed to run the site... I know which one is going to make your browser a very unhappy bunny.
Written by the authors of sicp:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/software-design-flexibility

Organization is just a name for a group of methodologies. Ultimately what we want is the right way to organize programs for maximum flexibility.
I live here, people are upset and talking about it. The article I linked to also covers what you’re asking about, going over the perspective of the citizens concerned with breaking the promise as well as the perspective of the mayor and companies who believe they can do it safely.
What about "width" and "higth"? And "topp" and "left"?
Hm, government commissioned research says this isn't happening. I may be forced to eat my words.

https://www.motu.nz/assets/Documents/our-work/population-and...

That said: "Larger rent increases were observed among those who received larger increases in accommodation payments."
You're either Luthor or you're not. That's the precedent that is set.

I don't understand the imperative defense, but I can guarantee you, it sees you as a stone breaker.

That's how sociopaths work.
Definitely not for me. Amazon was the first corporation that let me buy books from around the world cheaply. They were shipping from US back then and it was way faster and cheaper to get books in English from them than from any other retailer. In my country I could maybe get some abridged stuff for learners from a very limited selection. Amazon improved my life so much I don't think any European company comes close. I've learnt English and many other things thanks to them.

Google for all it flows were the first with amazingly good search, first very good web based email and first very good maps with turn by turn navigation. It saved me and all of Europe so much time and money I don't think the whole of EU budget with all of the programs would ever come close to it.

Those companies offer tremendous value for hundreds of millions of people in Europe every day. Honestly I would rather have the whole German economy with their polluting cheating cars and idiotic EU programs that got snatched by grant seeking industries at the cost of bigger taxes for real business go bust than Google or Amazon.

I am still waiting for an EU company to come up with anything remotely as useful.
wow I am just utterly surprised how the politicians in US are trying to pass the bill via CSAM just like the politicians in korea. Korea already has a DNS surveilance on porn related websites because it may contain sexually abusive material that may harm teenagers' mental health (it is called children and teenangers act). They even passed a bill to monitor the videos shared in online chatroom because people may share sexually abusive material via messengers. They have a very strong ethical reason in that they are trying to protect children and teenagers, and it is difficult to overcome that by making a case for privacy protection.
How is Bezos destroying the local economy in the Netherlands by ordering a $500M yacht?
I think you underestimate how rich some are. I think the process is much more like everyone else, trying to buy something slightly more exciting each time. After the sixth smartphone you buy it becomes much more like a chore and less like a fun buy. So when you're bored with real estate you start shopping boats and when you're bored with boats you start with aeronautic/spatial.
Buy now your rotten eggs six-pack with free shipping only 39,99$ in Amazon
that's just an absurd analogy
Consider this: it is not possible to make rules that appear sensible in every possible situation, yet if you don't have any rules, you also get no effect.
Why does inkscape in Debian depend on libx11-6?
A Quick Introduction to R
I feel strong survivorship bias in this theme.

What about them, who embraced the grind, spent unreasonable amount of time, money and effort, but were not successful? Doesn't that look so obviously incorrect in retrospect that we make jokes about those people?
I'm using iCloud a as well right now as a stopgap until I find something more adequate.

Their IMAP is very slow (in true iCloud spirit). People will find it difficult to migrate larger mailboxes. I don't get why they can't just fetch my mail directly from Google.

3 email addresses without at least a catch-all option is not enough.

Their spam filter is rubbish. Even emails sent between members of the same family sharing group go to spam in spite of never leaving Apple's own infrastructure.

Many of my messages show up with an incorrect date, because they were moved between other email providers at some point, adding a more recent "Received" header. I don't blame Apple for this but it's definitely inconvenient having to preprocess the mbox file before uploading.

Apple Mail is highly unreliable and buggy. It deleted all my emails before. There doesn't appear to be any way to cancel a copy/move operation, which is particularly annoying when migrating a lot of email. But fine, there are other email clients (none that I like though).

Unfortunately, the rest of iCloud is really second rate as well. iCloud Drive has no versioning or ransomware protection whatsoever. You can't upload or download a folder from iCloud drive via the web interface. Sharing is crippled, insecure or impossible unless everyone involved uses Apple devices for absolutely everything.

So this is just not an adequate solution for any sort of professional use.

I'm trying Microsoft 365 right now. My experience started with an outage of the main admin site lasting for hours. But it can do a lot of things and it's fast. The downside is that you have to use their unbelievably sprawling, inconsistent, redundant set of admin interfaces that only make sense if you have been a Windows sysadmin since the (previous) .com bubble.
Back of a napkin calculation: showing OP 100 ads of blinds probably costs 0.1$ in the US. The cost of a blind is 100$ (I have no idea, don't live in the US). So if the probability of buying a second blind is at least 0.1% it was worth running the campaign.

The fact is, online ads are super cheap.
Yes watercraft have another saying: the best days of owning a boat are the day you get it and the day the insurance pays out after it sinks
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Are you a Tolkien dwarf? Lon is crawling, lat is climbing on regular human maps.
The workers who produce the wealth could benefit in folds.

This is the contention.
This really seems like the kind of a subject that would benefit hugely from good quality opinion polling.

We all live in bubbles, there are always things that seem huge on social media that nobody walking down the street cares about.
Whats u r reference point
To be fair, neither does web 2. If you want privacy you should take your computer offline.
The term IngSoc in 1984 is a parody of Nazi, that is to say that 1984 is about the dangers of fascism masquerading as socialism or otherwise cosying up to the working class to gain enough popular support to implement a totalitarian state, not about the dangers of socialism.
> Nobody has ever threatened my rights as profoundly as my strong government.

Nobody has ever betrayed my trust quite like my own Government, either.

I live in the UK, which (for now) has Boris Johnson as its Prime Minister. This means that while they were fining people for having Christmas parties, going outside, and forcing people to stay indoors, he had a string of parties (12) which did not follow the COVID rules.

It's honestly sickening to watch (the Jacob Rees-Mogg video, too), and it's a great example of how the Government really doesn't stand by the people who put them in power. How would you even go about fixing this?
I would argue the OP is correct gmail's implementation of labels is a proprietary extension of the IMAP standard. Now you are correct that it's not so relevant when exporting to mbox.

It should also be noted that placing labels into the message headers is a solution that can lead to information leaks, and one should be careful with it

The headers are kept (at least in some email apps) when you reply to those emails so the receiver will know your label for that message. So if you label email from your boss as "from idiot" he will know (and there are obviously more serious examples).

Regarding the Gmail labels in IMAP, I'm not sure why you talk about headers. The page you linked to is about the IMAP extension commands, AFAIK the labels do not end up in the headers in that case.
Next-gen USPS mail trucks are only capable of 8.6 mpg, EPA says
Could you explain your comment to me, a northern European, because I don’t really understand what you mean.

How does the GP reflect a typical american mentality? How does that differ from a typical European mentality?

How is he wrong?
I think the build must have been outsourced to software developers :)
Agreed, it will also be debated by our elected representatives next week.

In the end Dutch people tend to be pragmatic and I suspect it will be dismantled again, but we will see. At the same time, there is a strong sense of societal fairness and that being rich shouldn’t be able to buy you exceptions. In the meantime it is a real discussion that is happening, not anti-billionaire propaganda that no actual citizens care about.
Isn't that something the exemployee would be able to sue over? Like, it's clearly fraudulently done to steal their equity.
> Germany have to gain in keeping its neighbors poor?

Cheap labor that's also close? I don't know how big the impact would be if they were to go away, but e.g. agriculture relies on eastern europeans as farmhands, and the construction industry as well.
Alternate History: Robert Capa on D-Day (2019)
AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English
I think you speak for a vanishingly small minority of Europeans.
Can VR art help us see the real world differently?
Jokes not being welcomed is one of the reasons I love this site.

When jokes are fully accepted they tend to be lower effort than a comment that is thoughtful, and in reddit they tend to get more upvotes than the thoughtful one. This incentives people to write low effort jokes in order to get more fake points. The tendency thus created alienates rational discussion and doesn't bring much information.

There are already places in where you can be witty instead of wise, but this is not one of them.
This is becoming a meme. Anyone can post a comment containing the words web3, ponzi, scam, hype and add literally no value but still get upvoted.

My take on crypto at this point is very simple: At least we have the transparency. There are so many scams going on in the financial industry. But it's hard to undercover, because all is opaque.

It is the same with energy costs. Has anyone dared to calculate the CO2 release of traditional core banking systems or even running a large network of physical branches. No, because it's difficult and opaque. With the public blockchain these things actually can be calculated, which is a good thing I believe.

Same with art. Is the broad public aware of the crazy price tags paid in the art scene over the last two decades? NFTs make this public.

If more people would embrace the transparency created instead of complaining about the space all the time, we would create a better world.
I’m also fairly bitter about the handling of 1.0 on Windows. I reported various problems at the first beta in moderate detail, my report was more or less ignored and they went ahead with various significant regressions in performance and UI, largely because no developer was interested enough in Windows, and I and others evidently failed to convince them of just how bad it was on Windows; GTK+ 3 in general has shown a general disdain for doing Windows well, whereas GTK+ 2 had been worked over until it wasn’t too bad. Yes, Inkscape is done by volunteers, but I reckon that some of these issues should have been considered blockers to at least recommending 1.0 for Windows, if not its release. So I also stuck with 0.92 while on Windows.

But I very much like what I’m seeing in the draft release notes for 1.2: as well as some really nice-looking functionality improvements, they mention various performance improvements in approximately the areas that had the worst regressions in 1.0 (such as zooming and panning), and UI adjustments to reduce space consumed. I haven’t tried 1.2 alpha 1 out just yet, but I probably will in the next few days and I’m really looking forward to it. (Incidentally, I’ve been back on Linux for the last ten months, and using the latest releases, since it works better under Linux, though Adwaita is still horrifically wasteful of space given Inkscape’s habit of stacking many buttons side-by-side, so I installed Minwaita which reduces that problem a lot.)
Another Dutch one I know :

Koop een boot, werk je dood.

translates loosely to :

Buy a boat and work on it will be a deathmarch.

Except in Duch, it rhymes.
> I'm curious what the process is for rich people wanting to buy a yacht.

Most likely you tell your PA to organise it.

But otherwise there seem to be a few companies making large custom yachts - you can see them in some seaside towns. The most obnoxious "we'll build anything for cash" I've seen was Sunseeker in Poole, UK (see https://maps.app.goo.gl/TCcRnqkCFKWLY6WF8) - they have a large number of multi-deck absurdly big boats on display all the time.

> than some inconvenient boat on the water

The inconvenient yacht designed to your desires and containing any equipment you want, that you hire the crew and a good chef for and just say where you want to get on / off? Yeah can't imagine enjoying that either ;)
I found this one very good: A Philosophy of Software Design

https://www.amazon.com/dp/173210221X
Why isn't he in jail, if he's guilty of tax evasion?
> jo normally treats value as a literal string value, unless it begins with one of the following characters:
> value action
> @file substitute the contents of file as-is
> %file substitute the contents of file in base64-encoded form
> :file interpret the contents of file as JSON, and substitute the result

This is convenient but also very dangerous. This feature will cause the content of an arbitrary file to be embed in the JSON if any value starts with a `@`, `%`, or `:`.

This will be a source of bugs or security issues for any script generating json with dynamic values.
My comment was light-hearted and I was surprised it was downvoted. I mean obviously Unix can so this simple function, but the ls command can't I don't think, which is my only claim. And many people don't realise that the MS-DOS equivalent to ls can do it.
Cool.. So now I can finally remember. Longitude is LONGer because it goes all the way around.. LATitude I dunno.. is like a latte filling up?
Coca-Cola's advertising is so good, the sugar water literally tastes better if you know it's Coke, compared with a blind taste test.
They can certainly, say, ban Apple and Google from hosting such P2P apps in their app stores, then any such apps are useless to most people. They could also go after developers, forcing them to either install backdoors or shut down - see what kind of laws Australia passed about that, as an example.

Remember they only care about most people, they don't need to get every last one of us. Their point is to make default methods of communication unencrypted.
Ashamed Belgian here.

I understand this will sound grumpy and humorless.

The new passport design seems to be very popular in my home country. Mostly - I can only suppose - to the immense majority of my compatriots who do not travel outside of the occasional guided-tour charter flight to an all-inclusive beach resort.

A few counterpoints:

- Border agents, like me you could say, are not exactly famous for their sense of humor. I foresee a few unfunny hiccups at the beginning of the transition period. A particular 50-state country immediately comes to mind.

- While admittedly most pages' designs are thankfully subdued, the first one features a bright-red-and-white rocket that looks like a childish toy.

- The childish toy interpretation is the charitable comparison. In reality, its design was inspired by Werner Von Braun's "V2" rocket. This is the weapon that devastated London during WW2 and would have erased it completely save for some cunning British intelligence.

- The rocket drawing comes from the Tintin comic books. The beloved hero, Tintin, is mostly harmless. Except for his extremely racist adventures in Congo (a Belgian colony at the time), his rather racist adventures in China, and his very racist depictions of Jews. The author has been very appreciated in Belgium, to such an extent that he had no issue continuing his work and publishing it, even when the country was not exactly autonomous between 1940 and 1945.

- While most of the comic books honored in the passport are respectable, let me just state the following. Other countries put national heroes on their passports. Think Beethoven, Shakespeare, Marie Curie, Gandhi. Or national treasures. Pyramids, parilament houses, symbols of democracy, of peace, or of greatness. In Belgium, besides the Smurfs, we also put Natasha the air hostess, and Largo Winch. Look them up if you don't know them. Their appeal is not only the quality of the scenario. I think there was confusion here, between "humility" and sheer lack of gravitas.

Yeah, it's not a big deal. I love my home country. But I can't bring myself to endorse this.
is this the Microsoft lowcode offering?
> The thing is, if you own a good IP in a mixed block with some bad ones, that's no reason for you to be blacklisted. It's pure laziness.

Yes, in that situation it's laziness, but on the part of your ISP. ISPs already spend huge amounts of time and money dealing with spam, hacking attempts, phishing attacks, etc. If your ISP is irresponsible and isn't doing their job keeping those things from leaving their network then your ISP is gong to find their entire IP space blocked and that's 100% reasonable. Why should we ever accept traffic from an ISP that refuses to keep their corner of the network clean when it's just going to cause problems for us and our users?

That's the situation for every ISP on the internet. Keep your users in line, keep trash off your network or else no one is going to accept traffic from you. You could call it laziness, but it simply isn't worth it. We'd rather spend our time cleaning up abuse on our own network and working with ISPs who are doing their job than dealing with the problems we get from bad actors.

If you own an IP surrounded by a bunch of spammers and it's giving you trouble step 1 should be to contact your ISP and tell them to get their shit in order or you'll take your business to an ISP who does their job. Step two is to switch to a new ISP if they don't. No one has the right to force us to accept traffic from anyone else. It's every ISPs responsibility to make sure the traffic leaving their network isn't more trouble than it's worth. Good ISPs are rewarded because users will give them their business and stay and bad ISPs are punished because users will drop their service when they see they are blocked.

The goal isn't to punish the poor sucker who signed on with an irresponsible host, but to cut down on the number of bad ISPs on the internet and the amount of work we have to deal with coming from them.
https://www.oceancoyacht.com/approach/
Yeah, can't remember if I've seen that in the wild either before. Just as a disclaimer, the idea is off-the-cuff and I'm not 100% it would work in practice or be beneficial beyond containing less parenthesizes. You wouldn't be able to have multiple forms that gets evaluated for example, without having to wrap it in something like `do`, is the first argument against it. But maybe multiple forms in the body is less common than one in the first place.

Many questions arise, for a small amount of benefit (imo), so not sure it's worth it.
Huh, always wondered why my LG TV never got ads and just remembered my entire house is under NextDNS's blocking.
Broad and long? Not self-explanatory.
>I don't even understand why a company would decide to build a boat in a location where it's impossible to transport it from there to the sea.

It’s obviously not impossible to transport the boat to the sea.

> This seems far more sensible than removing a bridge.

Opening up the bridge is trivial, just look at it.

There’s little chance they won’t open it up, as that’d just screw the local industry by placing a permanent limit on what they can build inland of the bridge.

Instead they will most likely find a reasonable solution to safely and quickly dismantle the bridge and put it back together. This isn’t a hard problem to solve, and a lot of money is at stake.
I work on the engineering side of ads.

Yes, targeted advertising consistently produces higher conversion rates. Your personal experience might have been "poor", but in aggregate it works.