skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Vaccines cut down the hospitalization and death rate 20 to 60-fold.

Yes, for very specific groups of people. For the majority though it did practically nothing which makes forced vaccination of that majority immoral and illegal.

>They reduce transmission by a substantial amount.

No. As the numbers and the link I provided show.

>literally avoided tens of millions of deaths?

Forced vaccination of the very low risk majority has nothing to do with it. Even more - if those wasted vaccine doses were instead used to vaccinate high-risk people in poor countries then even more lives would have been saved.
Also, he’s criticized the Russian government many times before.

Which makes his current silence all the more telling.
You can say that the government is taxing people against their will only if you can say that Amazon is charging the agreed price on your card on every purchase against my will. I prefer free services but my money is still being confiscated on every purchase.

Anyway, let's not pretend that the governments are aliens that you may choose to vote for or not. You can also participate in the government, population and the government are not different entities even in places like Cuba or DPRK(but their participation frameworks are really shitty, requiring stuff like obedience and close relationship).
Trudeau is a tyrant and corrupt leader like his father....it's going to end poorly for him
Oftentimes things that are common-sense at the macro level are really hard to implement or remember day-to-day, and as you mention stories like this can be good reminders to keep perspective.

I.e. when investing in the stock market it's almost common knowledge that silently putting money in an ETF every month will outperform almost everyone, even professional traders.

Overreactions to day-to-day things like corrections or a 1-in-a-million hiring situation break the obvious macro strategy
What extreme countermeasures were done in BC? Closing Yoga studios for 4 weeks? Our economy has done pretty well during the pandemic. Is it all fun and games, nope.

As a vaccinated person I flat out blame the people that didn't get vaccinated for making the last year much worse than it'd had to be. If we had better vaccine coverage we wouldn't need the restrictions that we had to put in place. They don't only put burden on the healthcare system (which they do), preventing people that need care from getting it (which they do), but they also mean the rest of us have to do more because they're not willing to do their share. I guess the bright side is that this is a tiny minority around these parts.
Apple did it in 1983 (Lisa).

Oddly, Jobs' next venture, NeXT, went with a sharp-cornered rectangular UI.

I guess I still prefer the former to the latter.
A protest is a sign of disagreement, and a signal for change... not a "We are a small, non-representative but loud group. Now give us what we want."

If the point of a protect is go 'get your way', it's essentially a crappy "Might makes right" play. Might as well not vote, ignore all the rules etc. Society doesn't work if you pick-and-choose at scale.
It's been working great for me on mtik hardware. See my comment above.
Didn't they take over a massive section of Seattle for a month?
Why not audio?
No Canadians are barred from entry, nor have they been. You'll still be getting into the country, just with testing and quarantine requirements. Working cross border isn't a right
Going through the same journey and hitting 40 this year, I've learned problems are an illusion. It doesn't get systemically better. Nothing ever is really solved, and the industry is constantly seeing an influx of people in their early 20s who think technology can solve all of our problems.
dedinitely the piece of the cloud most in need of open source mainstream-ization. google even helped get a solution in this space going, knative-eventing. diy clous glue still has such a long way to go though.
Automating stuff or finding creative ways to solve voluminous problems. E.g. contract to port many lines of Java to C++: parse the program with ANTLR, spit out the C++ code with some simple errors corrected manually. How to deal with no GC? return reference values copied up one stack-frame at a time, or pass down mutable structures. Another one was switching from Swift to Java (or the reverse I forget) but it had a huge test suite that also needed porting. Write a grammar, parse, translate the ASTs, unparse. Do it for the program and tests. Fixup all the compiler errors. Sure the parser, AST transforms and unparser could maybe only handle 40% of the language, but Pareto principle applies.
I hope this is indexable by Google/Duck so it can be found when needed...
> What Java framework(Swing, FX etc) would you recommend for a desktop Java app?

Up to you. Swing is old faithful. JavaFX will result in something that is "cooler" and more modern. Both are supported. If you select "JavaFX" in JRE requirements, it will automatically use a VM with JavaFX to run your app so there's no penalty in app size for using JavaFX.

If you are looking to target mobile, and also want to deploy to Desktop, you might want to check out Codename One. (Full disclosure: I work there).

JavaFX and Swing aren't the only games in town either. jDeploy is part of my desire to make Java a more compelling choice for desktop app development. I still think it is too complex and overwhelming for new comers who just want to make a desktop app. I have some thoughts on how to simplify this, but I'll save that for another thread.
What would they gain by lying to people about the relative efficiency of marathon runners versus race walkers, or ways to burn more energy when walking? How would those lies (if lies) lead to more sales for them (that's the only benefit I can imagine)?
> Depend on Concrete Classes - Tie things down to concrete classes - avoid interfaces wherever possible.

Well, yes, if those classes are implementation details why would you want otherwise?

Just to write “unit” tests with mocks all over the place that later will be broken after the first refactor?
The presence of the vehicles themselves is an act of intimidation. This could be a reason why Ottawa police have been so timid. Not hard at all to drive forward and injure and kill someone. There's video footage from the Vancouver protest that shows a truck attempting this, and the counter protestor attempting to block the truck had to step aside.

This novel use of trucks for protest has been enormously effective and I expect we'll see this replicated all over from now on.

Whereas in the past it took a mass movement of thousand upon thousands to block a bridge, now a few dozen people in trucks can do the same thing.

Trucks enable a protest to be incredibly paralyzing with a fraction of the amount of protestors.
BLM blocks intersection, police protest them: https://www.the-sun.com/news/2850067/blm-protesters-clash-fu...

BLM march on highway in California: https://abc7news.com/los-gatos-black-lives-matter-protest-hi...

2 women were killed in Seattle when BLM and police shutdown a highway for a protest: https://www.fox5dc.com/news/police-2-women-hit-by-car-on-clo...
>Protesters had shut down the interstate for 19 days in a row, Mead said at a press conference. The State Patrol responded by closing sections of the interstate to keep drivers and protesters safe.
While I disagree with the freeze, do note, corporate accounts are to be frozen. The distinction is important.
What you described isn't even manipulation, it's exactly equivalent to the exchange keeping a big limit buy order on the book at all times. If the exchange decides to take the other side of your trade, and they offer you a better price then you asked for, great! Your costs were reduced. Do they let you withdraw? If yes then they have no more ability to "manipulate" via this mechanism than anyone else. They are paying for it with their finite funds. It's no different than anyone else putting big orders at 1$. The exchange could discount their own fees, but that's just a disadvantage for other traders, not anything guaranteed to keep a price.

There's no trust or blind faith here, just knowledge of how order books and exchanges actually work.
When that device is hundreds of miles away, it's double handy.
Monospace fonts are used mainly because vertical alignment is desirable, and because characters such as ! and . are too narrow to easily read in proportional fonts. Monospace, then, improves clarity. Turning a => into a ⇒ does not affect the vertical alignment nor make anything too narrow to read. It just turns a combination of symbols into its semantic meaning. It allows you to parse a meaningful glyph rather than using a hacky workaround to represent meaning via ascii. This is also the point of emojis: (-_-) is fine, but most people find <expressionless face emoji> to be more clear as to the meaning. Nobody is getting confused about what these ligatures mean. They installed the fonts and selected the fonts in their IDE; they have already been coding; they are not going to see ⇒ where a => used to be and have a brain meltdown.
The list of protest organizers reads like a who-who of the far right in Canada.
Sure but that was in a very liberal city. The USA is a very large country with a full spectrum of reactions. If they would have tried that in say a large city in Texas or Montana the state police would have busted it up within a couple days.
The legislature in my home province is closed to the public due to threats: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/security-risk-clo...

Several MPs and MLAs have received suspicious packages: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/mike-kelloway-sus...

"Protesters" tried to break into a federal MP's constituency office: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/covid-19-protests...

And that's just Nova Scotia. This isn't as bad as the October Crisis, but it's still quite serious. It's not small potatoes.
It is rightfully yours. your government put in the work to develop and produce these vaccines on your behalf. You can always put in more work to make more vaccines to get to others if you think they should also have vaccines
I just want to point out that this is part of the premise of the original article:

> Harvard’s admissions policies make me especially queasy, because the burden rests so heavily on Asian Americans. Still, it advances the important goals of exposing students to a somewhat broader range of colleagues and helping to lift more underrepresented minorities into positions in the power elite, which remains heavily white.

Generally, going to prestigious schools benefits under represented minorities more than it benefits Asian Americans to an extent that affirmative action can be effective at addressing systemic inequalities, but it's still discriminatory against Asian americans to do so. It's a matter of opinion whether it's a good tradeoff or not
True story. Happened over the last couple of weeks.

Me: Kraken, I'd like to recover my old account I created years ago.
Kraken support: Sure, just login from the same computer and IP.
Me: I can't, I no longer have either of those things.
Kraken: How did our customer service go?
Me: It didn't.
Kraken: We can fix it, just login to zoom from the same computer and IP...

Ad nauseam, ad infinitum.
I am not deliberately using unfamiliarity with the term to suggest the truckers are calling for overthrow of the governing institutions of the country - they are in fact calling for exactly that, they published an MOU that didn't call for the government to resign but rather called for the Governor General and the Senate to declare the parliament illegitimate.

I was being overly generous in my language by implying that they were just calling for the government to voluntarily resign when in fact they are asking for a non-constitutional coup. I was trying to err on the side of being too fair to their position.
> The act also allows for the military to be used as police,

Say what now? Which part of the act allows that? I skimmed through it and didn't see anything relevant.
> You mean surveillance footage like this, of a protestor trying to lock the doors to an apartmnent building and start a fire?

You do know that they were NOT the protestors right? And even the Ottawa Deputy Police Chief has debunked it. The supposed "arsonist" was someone who was wearing face masks, had purple hair was was in his early 20s as max. You really think that's a trucker protester?

> Ottawa Deputy Police Chief on the alleged arson in Ottawa: “We don’t have any direct linkage between the occupation—the demonstrators—and that act.”

https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/1491152362253451265

Like I said, somehow the "homeless shelter" has zero videos of anything happening. We are living in 2022, not 1950s. Everyone has a video camera phone now a days and somehow not a single person captured such thing?

Your instagram link has not a single video of violence. You really are stretching your narrative.

Honking injunction was ONLY for continuous honking. Despite that, when I was there on Saturday after 9pm, there was no honking. Even if there were, you really think honking is violence?
I'm also a fan of Viddy which looks to be the same thing written in Go.

https://github.com/sachaos/viddy
I'd suggest looking into Pratt parsers.

- Pratt Parsers: Expression Parsing Made Easy (2011) by Bob Nystrom - http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2011/03/19/pratt-parsers-e...

- How Desmos Uses Pratt Parsers (2018) - https://engineering.desmos.com/articles/pratt-parser/

- Simple But Powerful Pratt Parsing (2020) - https://matklad.github.io/2020/04/13/simple-but-powerful-pra...
I could be wrong, but I think that such questions are pretty rare with complex products - most issues are about features, bugs, outages, etc.

My favorite answer to this question is actually "they would just send an email to their customer success rep" :-)
"hell yeah, fuck authoritarianism, here's what I would've spent on a #6 from Wendy's"

"ah shit now I'm a nazi terrorist foreign influencer white supremacist doxxed by click bait"

not how I expected things to work out when I was young and idealistic
Interesting.

I think rounded is what sharp corners will look like over time. A woodworker takes a block plane and chamfers the edge of the furniture they are working on so that it isn't instantly dinged up within days of being in the buyer's home.

At the same time then, a sharp-edged piece of furniture shows that either the material itself is extremely strong, resilient, or shows that the owner is fastidious in the care of their furniture. The sharp edge is perhaps a subtle status-symbol.
It was farmers from mostly two states only.. nowhere close to 90%, thats ridiculous
We already have civil forfeiture in the US. The police can just claim the money is linked to criminal activity and seize it.
> No its not. This is pointing out hypocrisy

I think it's worth reading the page - the definition is:

> Whataboutism ... is a ... logical fallacy, which attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving the argument

You've charged hypocrisy, I don't see a direct refutation of the argument. Given that, it seems like this situation exactly fits the definition of 'whataboutism'?
Like I said, we live in 2022. Everyone has a phone with video camera. How come such "violence" never gets captured on camera despite thousands of people there and several live streams?
That I am, but I have 12 years of post secondary education (and research experience) in life science, mostly in biochem.
The number 1 way to write untestable code - is to build your entire project without writing tests at all. Adding tests after the fact will make you want to kill yourself, whereas when you write tests either before or at the time of writing you will generally take the path of least resistance for writing code that can pass those tests.
Yet this is exactly what was being done to these truckers prior to their actions.
I am not a north American so I just catch glimpses of what is happening in articles that pop up like this. So I am not taking sides here. Just making an observation about protests in general.

With that being said, how do you get noticed? I remember there was a Wall Street protest of some kind right after the crash. They sat quietly in parks and protested because people got annoyed when they were "inconvenienced" when they protested outside buildings. Their protests fizzled out and was forgotten. Even though large swathes of people were pissed off with Wall Street.

Back in college, we had a protest. Few people from the media were there and we were protesting on campus, doing it "right". The media people were like "go do something...we cannot cover a bunch of college kids sitting around!"

Unfortunately protests(the ones you agree with and the ones your disagree with) run by smaller groups are going to get noticed only when they do "illegal" things.
I like how I didn’t think review history was a big deal but seeing your comment made me realize it is… yes that is a lot of power, being able to rank the new app into oblivion.

I don’t share the thinking that we can immediately conclude this is their goal, but I can see how some might think it is.
MLPP: Revitalize C++ as a machine learning front end
You are right. When tools are not being friendly to indentation based syntax, the code with indentations would be a mess. Parentheses and curly braces are lot like "defensive programming" against unfriendly tools.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/what-the-truckers-want-and-...

From the article:

A Memorandum of Understanding posted to the group’s website sets out a framework to effectively dissolve the federal government in favour of a “Citizens of Canada Committee” composed of the Senate, the Governor General and whoever else Canada Unity selects.

This committee of entirely unelected figures would then “instruct all levels of the Federal, Provincial, Territorial, and Municipal governments to immediately cease and desist all unconstitutional human rights, discriminatory and segregated actions.”

If enacted, the MOU would represent an unprecedented dissolution of the federal system and put an abrupt end to 155 years of continuous parliamentary rule (a record that happens to rank us as one of the world’s oldest democracies).
The police are happy to beat up environmentalists and the homeless, but they don't want to beat up their drinking buddies.
None of us are happy with masks and restrictions. We all want them to end. That doesn't mean we're in a hurry to cull the weak, the elderly, and the infirm rapidly by exposing them to this virus a quickly and easily, which is what would still happen at this point in the pandemic.
For personal analytics the desktop version is free. The web service has different pricing tiers (which can be very expensive)

Edit...just to add to this. I personally pay for it and it's $5/mth. Premium capacity can be a lot more...but if the Data Scientist needed a license, it may have only been $5/mth, paltry compared to a data scientist salary.
QALYs and DALYs are how you measure the burden of health.

Quality-Adjusted Life Years, and Disability Affected Life Years, respectively. Without an understanding of them, you can't actually have an objective conversation about measuring the impact of any kind of illness.
Where does it say "critical"? It seems to me like you replaced the word "essential" with "critical".
Hard to maintain though.

You can generally make a rounded edge/corner rounder, much harder to re-plane a whole surface to restore the edge.
Firefox should stop taking money from Google. Instead get a consortium of FAANG companies to bid and pay for traffic and rotate the benefits on a regular basis. Attract best in breed developers by advertising their contributions in the webpage.Lobby government to have Firefox included in all operating systems shipped with OS
I get the sense you aren't familiar with BLM Canada. They aren't dissimilar.
right on.

i hope we can establish better socialized collective defenses. send up a visible flare when we run across bad content, & have digital juries of peers come weigh the situation. rely on overlay networks to share & reinforce trust & mistrust.

so many possibilities. but they seemingly only are going to be able to evolve & survive if they work across sites, & arent governed by sites nor states. society must own it's own sense, otherwise we're forever being babysat.
Without QALYs and DALYs, any comparison or weighing of dollars and health outcomes are meaningless. Wiki has enough to point you in the right general direction!
I'm starting with Language Implementation Patterns [0], which is more practice focused than the Dragon's book [1]. Most of the examples are in Java, which you can then convert into your current implementation language.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Language-Implementation-Patterns-Doma...

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Compilers-Principles-Techniques-Tools...
Majority of farmers. India’s govt has backed and supported small farmers for decades. Also agriculture is like 80% of jobs for ppl in India, unlike the US. Farmers protested for ~1 year and prime minister Modi heard their concerns and repealed the new laws. This vox report is a summary https://youtu.be/iHpZV7ro7lU
> the best project I ever lead, I barely 'lead'

Your post literally describes leading. All that stuff is exactly what good managers do. You manage "up" so your team can get work done.
In this case you should probably use the "here" or the "rprojroot" packages (libraries in conventional R parlance). They both simplify the usage of relative paths inside a project/repository.

If you have a project root with the folders code, data, etc and are running a project on /path/root/code, you can then just call data_dir <- here::here("data") for the data folder, as the here package uses several always to find the root of a project (e.g., looking for a .git folder).
Still waiting for brushed metal to come back.

Tide goes out, tide stays out?
The main purpose of E2E test is to verify the integration and data integrity of the system under test and its components by simulating real user scenarios, so as to expand the testing scope, ensure the health and stability of the system, and reduce testing workload and costs to a certain extent . Therefore, the community decided to conduct E2E automated testing.

For more details, please refer to https://medium.com/@ApacheDolphinScheduler/this-is-an-apache...
Do earplugs work? I ask because the truckers arrived in Toronto and I worried about 24 hour noise, but then the TPS did their job, and I never needed to find out.

As an aside, I actually had a lot of respect for Sloly when he was in TO, so I am completely baffled why he didn’t keep this under control. Any ideas why this went so badly in Ottawa?
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I have some sweet memories of rounded corners in HTML/CSS from my early days in Development. Rounded corners were nice, subtle, and pleases the eye but it was hard before CSS supported it.

The idea was to use Photoshop to round the corners and "slice" those elements and used them as background images in CSS. In Photoshop, one has to know the trick to "feather" (I hope I'm using the right term) the corners for a smoothly rounded corner, else you get pixelated ones.

This happens pretty often and is a monotonous boring task after a while for the team. My team and I created a 9-Splicer tool in Flash, wrapped in a Windows Program (forgotten the name of the paid tool). Now any front-end developer could use different styles of rounded corners from the varieties of rounded corner graphics that the designer creates in her spare time.