skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sweden's COVID response was excellent.

First of all, the comparison to other Nordic countries is inappropriate. Its population-weighted density is closer to the UK, and closest to Austria:

https://swprs.org/judgment-day-sweden-vindicated/

This Nordic cross-comparison is lazy and agenda-driven.

Secondly, Sweden had 20 times fewer deaths than initially projected without a lockdown:

https://medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.11.20062133v1.fu...

The initial calls to lockdown were justified with these projections, not with how many COVID deaths Sweden would have relative to neighboring countries.

Thirdly, not instituting a lockdown meant Sweden had far fewer limitations of civil liberties, and fewer adverse lockdown-related health and socioeconomic damage. For example, forcing a million young people to forego in-person schooling for a year would have done enormous damage to education:

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/coronavirus-leadi...

Not to mention the harm to development from foregoing summer jobs, in-person social interaction, etc for one or two years.

The claim that lockdowns were appropriate doesn't even begin to contend with the harm from lockdowns. It focuses on COVID deaths single-mindedly, when it's a policy that affects every facet of society and daily life.
Because it's halfway to having a vasectomy. Disgusting manipulation of flesh.
Because of sheep effects and state of things: Big&Powerful want all to be web, to be hosted on their datacenters, with the maximum lock-in possible, so they push desktops toward classic mainframe dumb terminals.

The outcome of such push is:

- we do not have anything really cross platform, at least in look&feel terms, there are classic, old, and nearly ignored by most (T)Tk but not much more. Windows have it's own GUI, OSX it's own as well, Qt have derailed long time ago toward a bloated monster with an uncertain future, GTk have derailed since GTk3, and both still do not have a real "native look&feel" on all platforms;

- developers fear having invested a big amount of time and resources on something and then being forced to reinvest time and effort just because at a certain point in time a dependency they used vanish or substantially changing imposing a almost total rewrite of the UI.

WebUI then seems to be the "safest" way to go, at least they can "float" between various platforms as needed and people know them and like their colored style... However chosen a classic local server for a localhost webapp is longer than just grabbing something already made and then...

IMVHO the real alternative is say STOP. Witch means for now ok-ish to develop locally served WebUIs or classic Tk/fltk/OpenGL (depending on the kind of GUI) but certainly not in the Electron/node sauce, only the UI and as much detached as possible from the core logic for the narrow target. For the broad target push back toward a real desktop model. Push networked applications that are not web thing, like pushing again emails with a local MUA, not a webmail, a local maildir not on a remote IMAP, locally indexed to have GMail like search (notmuch/mu for instance), file sharing apps like SyncThing/Retroshare, Jami for audio/video communications etc.
SAP chair’s charity emerges as top investor in software giant spinout
If I had the option to kill myself off once I hit the point that I'm no longer able to look after myself then I'd be pretty happy with that. And frankly with what I've seen of last the years of my elderly relatives lives even with care, I rather hope that I do have that option. Dementia looks no fun at all.
Western Europe, the US and China are already below replacement. If you have bought into this line of thinking then you should be saying:

>> Right now the absolute worst thing you can do for the environment is to have a child as an African. [0]

Because today's African babies are tomorrow's European migrants, who will bolster the ranks of the polluting global elite.

But we don't want to go here do we?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...
Show HN: GUI Applications in Podman on Wayland
The snap thing makes me want to switch distro (for work) from ubuntu. Unfortunately we have some benefits from using ubuntu as the common platform for less divergence from each other
Making Monolithic Telescopes [video]
If this didn’t happen in pharmaceuticals it wouldn’t happen in gene editing.
I guess a bit of sarcasm but nevertheless.

Excerpt from Kani doc :
Kani is especially useful for verifying unsafe code in Rust.

and regarding loom and shuttle :
Excerpt from The Rustonomicon :
Safe Rust guarantees an absence of data races, which are defined as:
1) two or more threads concurrently accessing a location of memory
2) one or more of them is a write
3) one or more of them is unsynchronized
However Rust does not prevent general race conditions.
This is pretty fundamentally impossible, and probably honestly undesirable.
> I just read an article about how immigrants (to the us) working in elder care were more culturally suited than Americans to the work

Immigrants to the US are more financially suited than Americans to the work. Same goes for immigrants in almost any country, or women, or minorities, or anyone who is willing to take a small amount of money for a lot of work. They have various and diverse cultures, just like native-born Americans do.
Given that different teams tend to work on different projects, can onboarding really be scaled across the company like that? Maybe the HR stuff, but your team might maintain a repo all on its own.
What ramblings.

Optane is the best performing SSD but the worst performing RAM you ever had. It is too expensive at any speed, even if Intel is losing money on it. HP memristors are vaporware.

LISP machines, Java machines, and similar architectures specialized for complex language runtimes are a notorious dead end. They just can’t keep up with performance-optimized RISC, pipelined, superscalar, SIMD, etc. architectures paired with compilers and runtimes that implement efficient abstractions (e.g. garbage collection, hotspot compilers) on top of those very fast primitives.
The Best Image Yet Of Mysterious ORCs In Space
Here's an interesting Reddit post from a IT worker in Ukraine regarding Azov: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/ti35ls/ukrainian_t...

This is not meant to support or refute any part of this HN discussion, I just found it interesting and wanted to link it.
If new members join the scheme at the rate that old members die, and the average member expects to get out what they put in, then it is a very sustainable Ponzi scheme.

In theory you'd have the problem of inflation if each generation put all their contributions into a dedicated fund which was later used to pay their expenses in old age, but fortunately the current contributors can pay for the current beneficiaries, which mitigates that problem.
The Swedish government does not consider that it followed significantly different policies from most other developed countries. They just implemented various policies at different times, which is true of every country depending on their phase of the pandemic. There were a lot of unknowns early on, and even countries that followed very similar policies often had very different outcomes depending on their demographics, geography, etc. The early differences in approach in Sweden are greatly overblown.
"Lead by example."

Yes. Can you tell me more about your set up and what you do to minimize your foot print and consumption?

I live in a minivan on $2600 per month and still manage to save money. But I still. feel like I am not doing enough. I would like to get rid of my van altogether one day and just have all my belongings in a modified push cart. Kinda of like this guy but without the goats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U54HRmglYEA

EDIT: I see that people might be thinking that I said this all sarcastically because of the down votes. But what I said is all true. That is how I live right now. And yes, I feel like I am not doing enough because I appreciate the calamity that our actions are causing.
Well... There is also anal sex.
As far as I'm aware no male mouse has ever become pregnant
Sure, there was and is political posturing with regard to pandemic countermeasures.

The reassessments haven't been about learning how masks work but about how a particular virus spreads and the efficacy of various types of masks in various settings between parties of varying contagion levels. The advice also has to be grounded in practicality given current circumstances (supply constraints, rate of asymptomatic spread among vaccinated populations, etc)
ORC - Odd Radio Circle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd_radio_circle

‘WTF?’: newly discovered ghostly circles in the sky can’t be explained by current theories, and astronomers are excited (2020)

https://theconversation.com/wtf-newly-discovered-ghostly-cir...
Maybe look at Mint?
Would be cool if some members of Tool visited him when they're in the country.
Minor correction: it's not your (i.e. the camera's) XYZ position what you input, but the position of the point whose RGBA you're trying to render.
If the economy doesn't grow, but productivity keeps growing then people must either work less or they must find increasingly less productive work so that they can work the same amount.

Since people insist outcompeting their peers in how hard they work (protestant work ethic) it means people don't work less. They work more and then they have the option to retire early. However, what if it actually isn't possible for everyone to retire early due to demographic reasons? If the boomers retire and the millenials retire early, who is going to do all the work? At some point people will realize that they have to go back to work and that all the extra work they did in their youth was of no use to anyone.

Working extra long hours in your youth doesn't work. Imagine building a stockpile of 70s cars in your 20s and then driving them in 2020. It just doesn't work. You are dependent on young workers in 2020 to produce brand new cars.
Never used a snap. Never will.
Thank you for sharing. That’s helpful perspective for me, as a manager, to consider.

One thing I try very hard to do for my new onboarders is to establish trust and open dialogue with them, as quickly as I can, to make it easier for personal concerns to surface. And then listen to those concerns in full sincerity and confidence.

Do you think having something like that established would help? If you had any feedback for how your manager may have helped further, what would you tell them?
EU, US agree on data transfer deal to replace defunct Privacy Shield
When does it end? First we make generations of long-living old people, now we need generations of young people to care for them?

We are close to making fully functional life support and robotic nurses. It's more ethical to have robots do this labour than force young people out of their happiest days.
If that's all you want it's easier to use systemd-run and start your process as a service.

I do this to put many of my resource hungry apps like FF in slices.
That's why I said measurable. The type of sand at the beach generally has a composition that doesn't pose a risk because there isn't enough of the fine particles to be inhaled. There's no measurable amount as it's too low. If it were measurable, that would be a problem as silicosis damage is cumulative (mall doses over a lifetime).
Is that the case of powder toothpaste, too?
Nice article.

ps. you know, for some people it's very hard to read bright text on black background. Especially if you're flipping from opposite contrast.
Because it's the Atlantic. I was half expecting the same thing.
You could do some powerful things with LISP machines but I think the underlying assumption is that everything is written in LISP, or compiles to LISP (or its underlying bytecode). That places restrictions on what you can do. For example, does it do high-performance multithreading and SIMD right?

Also not sure LISP machines solved security as well as modern-day Linux does. I think it was just less of a concern back then, because you knew most of the people who were on the network.
"without side effects" is a hyper-bold statement, to be really sure about side effect any drug demand around 10 years after a certain level of adoption...

For instance vasectomy for years was considered "safe" even if "definitive" know we know, at least many suggest that vasectomy increase risk of prostate and testicular cancers.

So far the only "permanent" (well, for a certain number of years) contraceptive method we have is the copper IUD, it have menstrual cycle side effect but nothing irreversible or really dangerous.
Pop!_OS is a solid Ubuntu-based distro that uses Flatpak in place of Snap (among many other great decisions).
Referring to the Russian government and military as "the Russians" isn't racist. I can't think of a more appropriate group to refer to as "the Russians."
> We had a large number of employees with serious medical conditions or other personal issues that prevented them from holding down normal jobs and really appreciated not having to go on video.

This is the reason I treasure my current company. The work I do works around my disability perfectly, they don't demand I have video on, they're very understanding of my health issues, ... I got seriously lucky and hope I don't have to leave this position for a long time.
Cloud services regularly make deals with customers. In fact it would be considered unusual for a non trivial customer to pay list price.

The people who pay full cost are the customers who are so small that its not worth the cloud vendors time to care about.
> The issue that makes us resist the idea of simply disabling updates altogether is that very often that will mean never update rather than update at someone’s discretion, and then we’re getting back to some of the problems that got us here in the first place.

I’m sorry, who owns the machine here?
the map member used for the lookups is a tsl::hopscotch_map (https://github.com/Tessil/hopscotch-map), which is a proper hash map. so it seems to be the latter, that the API is wrong, but from what I can tell it is only a wrongly named class. i don't see where the API makes guarantees about iteration order, which is where the implementation difference would be noticeable (beyond performance for lookup).
Population density (on a national scale) is not relevant. Sweden is an urbanized country, like most (all?) of the western world. More than 85% of Swedes live in urban environments: https://www.statista.com/statistics/455935/urbanization-in-s...
Wonderful to see my own sentiment reflected here.

Let me add, that to embrace the darkness, instead of pushing it away, is where we will find answers. I wish more people could see how frenetic knowledge makes them. I found forgetting helps me the most.

And I agree with your [2].
Part of the hype and hope of the "OLPC" laptops was that it would generate a "Python machine" userland, if not entire OS.
There are Chromium debs for Ubuntu 20.04 available from the Linux Mint repo.

To get it Chromium under docker, I'm using the following params:

--headless --no-sandbox --disable-gpu --window-size=1920,1080 --disable-dev-shm-usage
I use matrix-appservice-irc, mautrix-{googlechat,telegram,whatsapp} and mx-puppet-discord.

I don't use Discord all that much and I just bridge a few specific rooms I'm interested in, but I think you can bridge entire servers at once as well.
Elon Musk's Starlink arrives in Ukraine but what next?
And for others it's the opposite and some women have long lasting side-effects after quitting taking the pill (unregular menstruation is a common one).
Classic deploy with system-provided "insulation" (GNU/Linux cgroups (firejail/bublewrap) or FreeBSD capsicum etc) reduce far more the size and the overhead...
You can use Lazarus IDE/Free Pascal to build small efficient executables on most platforms. A small GUI built without debug information clocks in at less than 3 megabytes on Windows.

To get to the non Mac/Linux/Windows end users, Free Pascal is working on a WebAssembly back end, which should allow you to run in a browser. Here's their RoadMap/Status page - https://wiki.freepascal.org/WebAssembly/Roadmap
Not sure if you want to go where honest approach to this takes you.

To make as little impact as possible you should use as little resources as possible, so you should always choose cheapest, most artificial, mass produced versions of everything, including food, never travel, work as little as possible and only remotely. Basically be poor or at least act poor in every aspect of your life. Wear cheapest clothes and don't buy a new pair until they literally fall apart to the point that parts of you are sticking out that are illegal to stick out.

You might say that it's not a healthy way to live. That's even better, the sooner you die, the less resources you'll use. Don't breed of course.

If you are afraid you might have trouble sticking to your resolutions, then donate all of your wealth to something environmental and just move out of US into some poor country. It will do the bulk of your impact saving for you.
Good point, although your algorithm sounds more like it measures a lower bound on miner revenue, since it doesn’t account for miners who avoid selling their proceeds when they perceive the exchange rate to be too low. It also doesn’t account for future transactions of the same coins, so it doesn’t really address the entire market, only mining revenue.

Realized Cap isn’t perfect but it seems like one of the most useful attempts at measuring market cap so far. Of course “usefulness” depends on the question you’re trying to answer. Other factors can be taken into account, like the Free Float Supply: https://coinmetrics.io/introducing-free-float-supply/

Also keep in mind most of these calculations only consider on-chain transactions. Funds could be sitting unmoved on chain for years while being transacted many times per day on a second layer: Lightning Network, “wrapped” on another chain like Ethereum, or traded between participants on the same exchange.
I use it only for Spotify
The complexity of a whole protocol and running a client for it (which is effectively what you are doing when running bridges locally) is much higher than just doing the necessary part (e2ee) on the client.
Also, you might be unable to run such bridge in a web client because the protocol is not based on cors-enabled http/websocket APIs.
I’ve only had success with CGO_ENABLED. If you depend on a C library, then obviously it won’t work, but mercifully few ago programs depend on C libraries (not having straight C ABI compatibility is a real blessing since virtually none of the ecosystem depends on C and its jerry rigged build tooling).
C-Plus-Equality
If we want tackle those, then we also have to look at trade policies. We've shipped most of the primary and secondary industries to developing nations, where these concerns are largely ignored. Some politicians talk a big environmental game, but they won't dare touch on this subject. It's a shell game.
That might not apply to Monsanto.

Monsanto is infamous for contaminating non-GMO crops on neighbour farms then suing the neighbour for growing the GMO variety, and for "drift" of their special herbicide which happens to destroy neighbour farm crops - for which the only solution is, you guessed it, buy Monsanto GMO varieties to grow instead of the non-GMO varieties you wanted to grow.
Only if you work in the industry and located in a specific region.
At the risk of us getting too abstract here, the trouble with said loop being weak is that it is difficult to link our actions and their impact on our environment. It is weak because the forces in question operate on a very long time scale, and the system hasn’t self corrected as early as one would hope.

We are indeed very adaptive! It’s simply a case of us adapting our behaviour to mitigate the consequences, rather than just adapting to live with them.
That's a good question, I never tried so I don't know either.
This is geo-political version of a wife beater demanding his ex not date better looking men who treat her well then saying it's now her fault she has black eye, a fat lip & broken ribs.
They forgot the web: interop with noscript/basic (x)html browsers (browsers which are _not_ google(blink/geeko) or apple(webkit) based).
For me, "my people" are at home. The transactional work relationships do nothing for me on a human or social level. It's like when a pretty waitress is nice to you, it means little since she is paid to be nice.
Yep. I am trying my best to boycott Canonical and their closed source Snap which is akin to Apple Store or Play Store, but for desktop... for... LINUX. Goes against the philosophy in every way imaginable.
We switched over to Fedora, way better
That's interesting. Thanks for the link.

However, social distancing and quarantine was recommended by the Swedish health authority in the early stages of the pandemic. I refered to the society wide lockdowns, those kinds of measures were not applied (could not have been applied) in 1918.
I suggest a different anecdotal study: asking how WFH is done. I mean, on one side how the worker's home is organized (dedicated room, with proper furniture etc vs a craptop in the bathroom) on the other how the company organize the remote part (VDI vs real remote collaboration, for instance).

That's IMVHO and without tangible proof give the best feedback witch is: IF the worker have a good place (and a calm family situation) AND the company is organized for real remote work nearly 100% want to be remote. If not...
Sure, why would we not? It is widely used in consumer products. We cook our food in Teflon.

But I'm very far from convinced that PFOA will turn out to be any health risk at all, at the levels the general population is exposed to.

Even for the mid-Ohio valley cohorts, where you have tens of thousands of people who had occupational exposure over decades at up to 1000x the dose any of us will receive, it has been very challenging to clearly demonstrate any adverse health effects.

In the end, we are talking about an extremely inert chemical substance. If it doesn't react with anything, it's hard to see how it should cause significant harm.
"the gene-edited cattle are the same—as far as a consumer is concerned."

For me, that statement invokes thoughts of "counterfeit cattle". By that logic, there's no harm to the consumer when someone sells a knock-off purse or watch, as long as it functions the same as the original. Taken a step further, there's no harm in stealing from someone if the victim doesn't know they've been robbed.

I'm not against using advances in technology to feed more people. I believe the suffering of a hungry human outweighs the suffering of that human's potential next meal. I don't think it's wrong or immoral for a lion to eat an antelope.

But I do believe honesty and openness are important. I want consumers to be able to make educated decisions on what they consume. It should be easy for someone who can afford an all-organic diet to purchase products that are in fact organic.
The US has Dolly-Parton-esque chickens too, it's not a new phenomenon.
This is why I don't use it anymore: https://support.system76.com/articles/enable-hibernation/