skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not as familiar with Taiwan's measures, but the biggest difference between mainland China and New Zealand, in my view, is that China does mass testing.

When the outbreak began in Auckland last year, New Zealand was testing about 20k people a day. At that rate, it would take months just to test the population of Auckland.

In contrast, when a Chinese city has an outbreak, it will test the entire population of the affected neighborhood or city within days. That will be repeated every few days, until the public health authorities are confident that they have identified all of the clusters of infection.

What happened in New Zealand is that the public health authorities were never able to identify all of the infection clusters. They did a lot of contact tracing, but cases kept showing up that they couldn't trace back to previously identified cases. There was a low level of cryptic spread in the population that they never got a handle of. Mass testing would have addressed that problem, but New Zealand doesn't do it (and probably doesn't have the capacity in place to do it).
I think the title was changed correctly, I tried to follow HN's guideline of having the same headline as the source, but this is more accurate.
It's creeping forward. It seems Republicans are a captive audience, Corporate Democrats are on their way, and Progressives and Libertarians are about the only ones pushing against it.
Both old-school webhosting and modern cloud hosting commonly have data caps. Unlimited data is common only on mid-to-high-end VPS or dedicated servers and unlimited bandwidth doesn't really exist.
Interesting, didn't know about PostGraphile. Having recently learned about EdgeDB [1] launch here in HN [2], seems the latter is going to each the former's lunch.

[1] https://www.edgedb.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30290225
What I need is some perfume that doesn’t make me break out in hives.
I put it to you that the OOP concept of a factory exists because in OOP your factory is often (though not always) a type, and types tend to need names.

In e.g. FP there are no objects and therefore no instantiation but you can separate this kind of logic all the same, except you wouldn't call it anything, or would name it like any other function.

For the record I've been doing mainly OOP and have dabbled in F# so I'm happy to learn something today.
Can you share a study showing where Covid is responsible for such rises in this particular age bracket? As far as I understand, 18-49 yr olds are not a high risk group for covid, so is it not worth properly investigating the vaccines and other stress factors (lockdowns etc)?

It is only delusional to start with something outside Covid if the data on Covid reflects the 40% clearly already.
Now the seed is planted, one of us is going to talk about JSON Webb Telescopes in a development meeting.
I’m the project leader for Homebrew and have been maintaining it for 12 years. I have no planned dramatic changes for it or expectations I’ll radically improve it in any way. I just try to keep all parts of the project ticking along and I still enjoy doing so, despite feeling no real obligation to continue.
This is brilliant. I'm doing this for my personal site. I have a gig uplink and no data caps.
For the past two years I have been building and maintaining https://webcamplus.app

It is a free app that allows people to use their iPhone as a webcam for their Mac.
I think it s more important to investigate the collusion between advertisers and google. You rarely read about advertisers and why they give all their inventory to google, which is the reason why there is no competition in the space.

Fines were never to going to work, they are not just "cost of doing business", they are the cost of buying a monopoly
Last week I asked gpt3 (through philosopher ai) “why don’t irrational numbers fit neatly in our number system?”

And I got back this bad answer:

<<<

Would you tell me what an irrational number is? Is it a number that cannot be written as a fraction, like pi or e? Or is it something else?

Okay, I see. Thanks for clarifying that.

Then what is an irrational number? It is a number that cannot be written as a fraction, correct?

Okay, I understand.
Then what is a number that can be written as a fraction? It must be a rational number, right?

But aren't all numbers irrational, since it is impossible to write them as a fraction? And any rational number must be irrational, right?

>>>

FYI the pseudo dialogue format of the answer was more surprising than the wrong answer
Because those who hold money, power, and control, are not idiots when it comes to key resources under their control. It doesn't matter if you're smarter than a clerk, if a doctor or lawyer fall for a scam, or if an executive paid a small fortune for a trivial item.
In addition to cables and backplanes that have been mentioned, the entire path from RAM to PCIe to disk controller has non zero risks of errors. That said I'm pretty sure that the BTRFS errors I've seen from SSDs have all been the fault of the SSDs in question.

Also note that hard drives have had internal error detection and correction codes for decades, so SSDs doesn't change things much. Probably most checksum errors are misplaced writes and missing writes.
I need to counter the argument that you can not write complex systems without OOP.

SAPs ERP system is arguably one of the biggest, if not the biggest software system on the planet. It is written in ABAP and ABAP is a procedural/imperative language. SAP is open source and the code is fairly easy to read. Reusability of functions an procedures provided is fairly easy and groundwork for every developer working with SAP to modifiy, enhance functionality or writing add ons.

Or more specifically it was. ABAP got OOP extensions about 10 years ago and since then the code became more and more inflexible and less maintainable for people other than the original authors.

But maybe the main point about ABAP is that despite its procedural nature it allows data centric programming. You take a line of data, transform this line and return the transformed line. No need for abstractions, inheritances and complex design patterns, concerns with mutability etc. Just plain and simple solving domain problems instead of problems caused from abstraction.
Could this just be that people didn't generally go to doctors in 2020 so this is really 2020 and 2021?
Tap the AA button next to the url field and zoom off using the bottom left button.
The business revolves around bedbanks contracting hotels and selling them to retailers and aggregators. There are exchanges, there are hybrid models and what not. That's why "2 rooms left" kind if messages are almost always total BS because every hotel can have more than one bedbank contract or the contract can be flexible and you can't know exactly how many rooms are left but you can query if the number of room you want to book is doable.

At the end of the day, what you have is multiple networks that somewhat overlap and provide API for finding and booking and Web interfaces for the high street retailers etc.

Making an aggregator means, you getting an access to these API and therefore there are many aggregators out there. The problem is, the margins are really tight at that point and you can hardly do anything about it. The money used to be in the high street retail where you can have fat margins and sell extra services like city tours, paragliding - that also have fat margins.

The industry have seen quite a bit of squeeze both because of AirBnB and the aggregators.

A good way to make a lot of money is to contract all the hotels in an area and sell the company to a bedbank like Hotelbeds. Now hotels are opening every day, things change every day so there's quite bit of people on the ground chasing hotels making deals and getting paid handsomely for it.
This report raises so many red flags it looks like a Chinese Communist Party congress.

To begin with, they conflate two different reports.
The interviewed doctor is using words as "bombshell report" to describe statistical uncorrelated analysis.
They claim the report comes from unspecified military doctors.

Then I stopped watching. I'm all for researching anomalies like these, but boy, there's also no way to understand how many of the people in these stats were vaccinated or not!

I call BS, because if it wasn't there would be no reason to dress this up this way.
I just sat through 3 hours of meetings. I wish this had been read before we started.
Welcome to the 21st century. It’s a lot like the 19th.
Osmf: A simple command-line tool to explore OSM data (2020)
Not to say you’re lying but I find this extremely unlikely. Speaking as somebody who works in fintech but despises booking.com.

The reason they wanted your bank statements is legitimate: you’re claiming you didn’t receive money they are convinced they refunded.

Did you yourself look at your bank statements? A refund doesn’t always show up as a refund, it sometimes shows up as a cancelled charge. A bank might not notify you of that. I have even used a bank which straight up would show a mathematically incorrect calculation in its app when this type of refund came through, and the only way to get to the bottom of it was by trawling through the statements.
I built a game called Angularis, which is similar to Tetris, but based on triangles instead of squares. The new part is that it also allows and encourages diagonal movements.

https://angularis.mondaybits.com
I think the current reported inflation is related to notable supply (eg ICs) or demand (eg home improvement) changes, as a first order cause. But why do so many have excessive money to burn on increasing demand? Because asset prices are propped up with Fed dollars and no-interest loans.
I don't suppose you know how to search your own comments do you? I could find it for you if you really wanted because I commented on it the last time it was on the front page (quite a long time ago). I would need instructions on how to search though, no way I could scroll that far back.
Parapluies de Cherbourg are definively worth the deal.

https://parapluiedecherbourg.com/en/
>Inflation is never out of control, the only thing that is out of control is our desire to deny reality.

This is great news for commie countries like Venezuela and Cuba whose currencies have collapsed and are worthless.

>You can stop inflation at any point with a negative interest rate. The moment you do that you can start increasing reserve requirements, if you are ambitious you can go all the way to 100%.

How does that work? You want to remove our fractional banking reserve? I want to know much more!
> As for the other removed words, I think it's fortunate for the Wardle guy that that list was not publicized before it got bought. That would have created a firestorm and possibly eliminated his chance of the sale.

The word lists were (and are) in the site's javascript, readable for anyone who cares to look.
I think Japanese takes the cake, here. If you can hear the syllables you can spell the word, period.
Flutter does handle accessibility on the web, but not very well. You need to press a button hidden from non-screenreader users and then Flutter will make a tree of dummy elements with aria attributes that let you use the app. You can see this if you use a screenreader or your browser of choice's accessibility tree inspector on the demo app.
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To be fair, 100% of software problems were created by the person in front of the keyboard. An empty source file has no bugs.
While I'm in general not a fan of wildcard certificates, yours doesn't work for the bare domain: https://i.imgur.com/uKVK5xd.png

I was hitting it plaintext first, so a simple redirect to some subdomain instead of a bare redirect to https would probably work fine.
There are robots which follow robots.txt but which site operators prefer to block or content-restrict, for various reasons. See eg the annotated wikipedia robots.txt me tioned upthread.
I wrote this! Of all the easter eggs I've hidden its still my favourite.

Wired even wrote an awful article about it at the time: https://www.wired.com/2010/08/robot-laws/

Absolutely delighted people remember it 12 years later.
Sure, but GPT-3 doesn't attach semantics to text, it just learns how to produce text patterns that are similar to text patterns it has seen before.
>this article from the main left-wing news site in Australia

Honestly, I read the ABC all the time and the editorial position is very clearly anti-CCP. Stan Grant in particular is one of the most ardent and consistent critics of Xi Jinping, posting articles about their military expansion and increasing concentration of power even when nothing in particular has happened that week to prompt it.

Stating that one particular party, or any reputable media organisation (ABC and The Guardian are two I read) supports the CCP or apologises for them is ridiculous.
Do you really have a plan if you lack the requisite skills?
> As far as I understand, 18-49 yr olds are not a high risk group for covid

When people say things like "not a high risk group for covid" it's shorthand for "not at immediate risk of serious respiratory covid symptoms should they contract the virus." It doesn't say anything about longer-term impacts (nor, confusingly for some people I guess, transmission); for that you need, well, studies like this. (But without the antivax scam noise around it.)
I have explained why I stated that 'setup of [Tailscale] typically requires administrative intervention'.

I appreciate that your approach is the more secure standard practice, yet want to make others aware of the edge cases here on a site called Hacker News rather than something like StackOverflow, where 'this is the way' reigns supreme.
we need to send out a probe now before it's too late
We know that:

1. A SARSCov2 infection can have all kinds of side effects affecting you even if you have a seemingly asymptotic infection, or post infection. Many of which have the chance to increase the chance of death through other causes.

2. An infection has the chance to weaken your immune system increasing your risk of death due to other reasons

3. People didn't took care (or couldn't) of other health issues as a side effect of the pandemic, fare and the pandemic measurements, increasing risk of death again by a small bit.

This is also not limited to medical death, for example non COVID specific: Sickness can cause you to have reduced reaction time or concentration which slightly increases you risk of dying by e.g. an car accident (if you drive).

...

So what I'm trying to say is, I would say a non-small "all cause deaths" increase is expected, even if we would have had side effect free vaccines.

I.e. it's not a factual good basis for creating a conspiracy theory on.

Which doesn't mean that some increase might not be from vaccines, noting is perfect.

But most of it should be due to implicit side effects from covid, the pandemic, fare, delayed operations/healthcare etc.
Elon Musk's greatest contribution to humankind will be to end war. In a few short years from now, the Reagan era brilliant pebbles will be economically feasible. Which means nobody will be able to keep the nuclear gun pointed at America's head anymore. At which point the US will make Russia and China (and maybe Pakistan and India) an offer they can't refuse: give up all your nukes, please. We'll denuclearize ourselves too, but a bit later.

If you don't like trillion dollar annual defense spendings, here's the cheapest way to get rid of that: make sure you're the only guy with nukes.

In which case, you will stop seeing things like Russia wanting to invade Ukraine.
There seems to be some confusion about the meaning of "within the habitable zone".

From the paper (Introduction and Conclusions, respectively) [1]:

The habitability conditions of Proxima b, which orbits within
the HZ of the star, have been extensively studied (e.g. Barnes
et al. 2017; Ribas et al. 2016; Turbet et al. 2016; Meadows &
Barnes 2018). On the other hand, the candidate Proxima d orbits
much closer to the star and outside the HZ range.

In particular, the discovery of an Earth-mass planet orbiting Proxima Centauri (Anglada-Escudé et al. 2016), our closest stellar neighbour, was one of the most significant results in the field, in part because the planet orbits inside the habitable zone (HZ) of the star (e.g. Kopparapu et al. 2013).

So, Proxima d is too close to the star to be inside the HZ; it's within the HZ in the sense that the HZ is further out from the star.

The author of the Nature commentary, which claims that "it could have oceans of liquid water that can potentially harbour life", apparently didn't read the paper.

[1] https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/e...
A combination of customer support chat (Intercom), customer relationship management / sales (Streak, NetHunt), and customer payments tracking.

So basically, the stack that is needed to handle B2B customers as a startup.

Currently these tools are very isolated, and where integrations exist, they are poor. We have to manage customers in 3 different systems that don't know about each other. When making sales progress on Intercom, it doesn't reflect as conversations in NetHunt.

Open-source would be excellent because Intercom is currently problematic with GDPR and high-security systems that don't like to embed third-party Javascript. The ability to self-host solves that. Most people will still use the hosted service you can offer if reasonably priced.

I hope that https://www.chatwoot.com will do this, but they are currently focused on only the Intercom part.

The services also don't necessarily have to be fully vertically integrated in 1 product as long as they interact well. For example, and add-on to Chatwoot that does the equivalent of Streak/Nethunt, something with good API integration, might also do the trick.
Consensus on Demand (2022)
I'd love a solid open source version of calendly.
Adding this link: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-08-05/hiroshima-a...
The Case Against Serverless
I think this should be researched further. There are countries that are more or less unvaccinated and can serve as a control group. Without that you simply cannot answer the question.
Most of the answers are going to be products that do extensive lock in as a service. So its easy to replace quickbooks with dozens if not hundreds of old or current accounting software but only quickbooks has the integration with seemingly every financial service out there. Another example is Slack, when people ask for a replacement for Slack they don't mean "IRC in a GUI" but they mean chat with maybe a thousand integrations to every other service and product, so no matter how you configure IRC it'll never had a thousand one click integrations.

The next most popular answer will be defining user friendly and capable as being a bug for bug compatible identical clone with the current industry leader, despite the fact that the industry leader changes their app completely every two years as a moving target yet the users don't care at all, and the industry leader is rarely user friendly because they don't need to be once they have lock in. What they mean is the transfer will be visually seamless to end users and they somehow don't think that writing a clone would have any legal repercussions to the author and writing a clone would be significantly cheaper than just writing something original. So despite "MS Office" being a continuously moving target for 30 years there will never be a FOSS replacement for it, because it would be legal and labor impossible to make an exact bug for bug clone of todays current version and then maintain it tomorrow. Despite the fact that Google Workspace makes end users considerably more productive and its easier to use and easier to learn, its not bug for bug compatible with Excel so its worthless.

The next most popular answer after that will be UpdatesAsAService where last year's product is pretty much worthless today and you're paying for this years product to work. See TurboTax, and as much as no one wants to admit it publicly, almost all security software that only protects you tomorrow, if they even get to it that soon, from yesterday's threats.
As long as my basic needs are met, I do not care about gaining excessive material possessions.
I think most conversations are each person waiting for the other person’s mouth to stop moving so they can make their own point. I.e. no listening, just talking. Worse in larger groups.
for some reason, a great many people on the internet don't seem to understand that it is not "his book". It was written after his death by his friend.
> 2Gb of garbage

I serve my robots.txt files with Transfer-Encoding: gzip and Content-Encoding: gzip, chunked and then just serve a two layered 10G gzip bomb (240kB file size) instead.

Can recommend. Works pretty often.
POSIX is not restricted to a fork/exec model, there's also posix_spawn(). Additionally it may be possible to somehow rely on COW to avoid double accounting after fork, provided that the new process execs "soon after". This would cover cases where posix_spawn() cannot be directly used, because some fixup needs to occur before the new process exec's.
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