jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Specifically: no lockdown.

Why it has better outcome?

From the data we know that for vast majority of people who get infected it will be either asymptomatic or only have mild symptoms and the serious case/death is skewed towards the elderly.

Lockdown cause harm.
The virus cause harm.

More people suffer from lockdown than the virus.

At the minimum doing nothing different than the government already done in the past would lead better outcome than what we currently have.

If you want to do something, then there are many ways that are not lockdown, that can be done such as:

- increasing healthcare capacity/funding when needed

- accelerate development of better treatment

- accelerate vaccine development

- do not test everyone, so much wasted resource spent on this.

- media campaign to educate people about the actual risk of covid

- increase campaign on exercise, healthy diet, outdoor activities.

That's pretty much what I would do if I'm in power.
Probably won't be around for long as the lead actor seems to be set to exit [1]. Also I don't think Doctor Who pulls in the audiences it used to.

[1] https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/scifi/2021-01-03/jodie-wh...
Ouch! Doing business is tough. Thanks for sharing.
>was relevant in 2006, when the novelty of OS X was that it was a UNIX that you could actually use as a daily driver. This is what initially got developers to move to Mac. But it's been fifteen years

My anecdata for this is that I bought a MacBook in 2020 for precisely this reason. I am not a programmer, mostly my use case is bioinformatics and processing large datasets. Native terminal is better than WSL (although WSL is good now) and macOS is much more reliable than linux ever has been for me.
They could offer an equivalent to Nvidia's PTX ISA for compute, and possibly documentation like Intel and AMD offer for their GPUs. Offcourse, the first thing the latter would do is undermine Metal, so I don't think that's likely.

Nvidia PTX-level openness for GPU-compute would be nice though.
I started in October.
The pandemic wasn't the cause, it was the last straw.
You don't need to backup to the cloud, have people forgotten about physical hard drives?
> So you want the government to force private companies to continue doing business with someone they no longer wish to provide services to?

Yes.

> We aren't talking protected class here

That's besides the point. There are many limitations on private companies picking and choosing who to do business with that apply beyond protected classes, including common carrier regulations[1], regulation of (some) private property as a public square[2], and requiring broadcasters to run political ads[3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

[3]: https://www.broadcastlawblog.com/2012/01/articles/why-broadc...
If you really want to travel cheaply, don't use airlines.

If want to cross oceans you can work your way on merchant ships or pay a little bit if you want to just chill. Train is good in many parts of the world. And of course, if you have a solid bike, then there are few limits.
Going fast is perfectly fine. Just make sure you slow down to think it through every now and then.

I know people who are trying to get multiple degrees within four years of undergrad and are taking 7-8 credits when most are only taking 5. I admire them for the hard work they put in, but I feel like some of them are clueless as to why they are doing it, except the fact that they want to just do really well and look good.

I remember in high school I used to do the same. Now I keep on asking myself the same question over and over again. Is this really want I want to do? Things have changed drastically as well for me. Much slower, but more efficiently. Although, I really wish I had more time for my side projects.

And I totally agree - trusting your gut is probably the most important thing you can do. Just be sure to keep it in check from time to time.
And some computation.
In that case you probably said "get me a bowl of chili if you can get served in a minute, otherwise don't bother". Or at least it was implicit.
That's not what I said and your logic makes no sense.

A few months ago we had security X. We now have security Y, which is more expensive and more intrusive. Is that change justifiable? The TSA has not really justified this, which is easy to see from the Government Accountability Office reports.

A decade ago we had security A. We now have security Y (still). The same argument holds - are flights more secure, and which security factors are beneficial and which are not? Quite clearly the secure doors and rejection of the policy to agree to hijacker demands are effective against a broad range of attacks meant to use airplanes as a directed weapon. This is a security change I would not drop.

But since the GAO has shown that it's as easy to smuggle in "bomb parts" into an airport during periods A and Y, there is quite clearly limited improvement in the effectiveness of preventing people from blowing up planes. Note that this is a different security threat than in the previous paragraph.

How here does this equal to a logical conclusion that we should drop all security checks? That only makes sense if you think that none of the security screenings work, which I quite clearly did not say.

Oh, and in your original post you said you "found 95% of the TSA to be good humored and responsible." If you deal with 3 TSA people each trip then every 5 trips you'll be dealing with a non-good humored or non-responsible TSA member. If in a 1990s-era airport you found that only 90% of the staff was the same, but you only needed to deal with a single magnetometer staff, then you would have problems only every 7 trips. More professional staff doesn't necessarily mean a better experience.
Earlier post, on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8799572
Unfortunately this is not a problem limited to VCs. It is everywhere apparent. Confidence, imo, is one of the top five worst words of this decade. "Girls like confident men," "Boss wants a confident problem solver," "the coach wants a confident lead player."

To my kids, I will teach Courage, instead.
I think with embedded systems that has no physical constraint can be mutable and I think this is why software can get so complicated to put a simple process through. Rather it seems like a collection of developer experiences and practices that are mutually beneficial to the stability of their jobs, if a developer's experience and views negatively impacts their stability or enjoyability of their development job, it is incorrect by whoever is paid the most. Rather when software fail, it's actually because the social dynamics have failed in that environment.
I enjoy programming, and making things, but my side projects are the only code I write which really lets me be creative. So I keep going because I want to like what I do.

Also,sometimes the only thing keeping me going is the sunk cost fallacy. I don't want to just give up on something I spent months or years on.

But one think that did help me out was learning to recognize the difference between moving forward and moving in circles. Not wasting a lot of time refactoring stuff - especially if a lot of time has passed - because your tastes or mood has changed. I have one project (a web project, nothing anyone would care about) that I literally rebuilt from the ground up at least three times already, just because I got sick of the current framework I was using. I wasted a lot of time moving in circles because I didn't actually want to finish the project, but I did want to keep working on it.
And then we dropped two atomic bombs on the next guys to attack American soil. Now everyone knows, one, what nuclear arms are capable of, and two, that the US will use them.
But "If Truth was self evident, Eloquence would not be needed."
I own Lumix GF1 since 2010, best purchase so far.

No photoshop, just use whatever the camera provides (my apology for the lame URLs :)):

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-15qdzEgp2qc/T4sjy6QubzI/AAAAAAAAF5...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-o9yvao54n9w/T4skHvTnz_I/AAAAAAAAF6...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r4fvqPFKEDA/T4skXAsPPlI/AAAAAAAAF6...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zfu1XPoYZxg/T4skPi0M8-I/AAAAAAAAF6...
> Even AWS was a fake product-- they claimed it was "the infrastructure that ran Amazon.com", which was a straight up lie. (I worked for the company at the time.) All they had was S3. This product stuck to the wall and grew and became a real product over time, and so they backfilled.

Citation for this lie please. Because parts of your statement here do not really make sense. For instance that S3 was at one point they only service they had.
Drones that don't accidentally kill toddlers and pets and create liability nightmares? Yes, considerably more expensive than a minimum wage delivery human.
Skype has some security issues that have yet to be resolved and knowing Microsoft's history with MSN Messenger, issues that will likely never be resolved. Also it is plenty unstable under Linux, sadly. I've found Viber to be easiest, only gotcha is you need it on your phone first before you use it elsewhere. Otherwise it's pretty spot on. It also looks and feels the same across platforms.
My take is that you must learn to pay attention to details to be good at anything. As many others have pointed out, and from my own experience, this is a skill that grows with practice. What level of abstraction you focus on is a separate issue -- details exist at every level. In other words, to design a sound high-level architecture, you must pay attention to details in the architecture.
> Enter the multitude of companies whose entire business model is selling products that emulate IBM platforms on top of commodity UNIX hardware and RDBMS.

As I understand it, the big selling point of Big Iron has always been the idea that it's more stable at the hardware level than other kinds of computer. Is that actually true? If it is, can a company get similar uptime with non-Big Iron hardware? Because it seems like that would be a hard prerequisite for replacing those systems.
> Why are you mooching off american web/forums instead of developing your own german websites?

What's wrong with american websites? Please explain.

> when there are people going to bed hungry in your "Germany"

Here, as in most parts of Europe (maybe I should have written Europe in my first comment, to avoid people Godwining me), there is a working social system that prevents this. The government pays for whatever you need, currently I think about 1200 Euros per month, for free.
Sooo... Windows? :-D
I've been meaning to try KDE several times, but I can never get over its look, or the silly names for everything, like "Kontact" and "Kdenlive".

I wish there was a project like elementary OS, which takes the tech of GNOME and applies its own theme, naming etc., but for KDE/Qt. (I know, I know, elementary is doing way more than just that.)

If something like this exists, I'd love to try it out.
I'm up over 120% (bought around $30.) Yay.
Better understanding of self (emotional/motivational factors). Loneliness would turn into solitudeness. Better attention span.
No need for such a perverted privacy violation, the shop could just install a door step counter like they are commonly used already. Then you would have the information how many people are currently in the store.
Protectionism and free trade are loaded terms. The real issue is the balance of power between the public and private sectors. For several decades the power has shifted more and more toward the private sector. Is it a coincidence that inequality has grown in lockstep? Probably not.
Is this the first Google property not to have their characteristic design?
Note that the study was written by an American.
At one place I worked we didn't have badges but we did have a live leaderboard showing the top bug stats (top fixers of the day, people with the most bugs, etc.). It didn't take long before people found it meaningless. Why? Because it always showed the same people.

Some people had lots and lots of tiny bugs as the nature of their job. They were always the top fixers. Others always had two or three big tasks and they were never on the board.

Some people had a large number of tasks to see to but didn't get many more bugs over the whole length of the project. These people showed up on the board as continually having the most bugs until 3-4 days before the ship date, when they'd finally whittled their stack down to zero bugs.
$3k or even $10k (as another commenter suggested) to bail out on a company that you just started at, is a way of making the people who really don't like the company not feel bad about leaving. Even at great companies, there are people who join who hate the environment, culture, or whatever. They are miserable. But they stay because they need a job. The walking money of $3k is a matter of getting rid of them, which is a great investment for the company.

For people who like a company, or who really want the job, a quick $3k isn't worthwhile. And in the case of Zappos, I'm sure that they've generally had people stay longer, lower attrition rate, etc., primarily because they've gotten rid of the people who would generally be a drag on the company, because they've already bought them out.
How much of clickthrough were because of the desire to donate, and how many were people misssing the tiny X close button?
And I'm more likely to ignore useless studies.
At the moment i am doing a side product but i don't think my BOSS would say anything on it, i am sure he will be delighted
After working with Tailwind, I’m very happy to not go back to any other traditional CSS framework.

The value of Bootstrap is within teams where CSS knowledge nor the uniqueness of your site is not the top prio. But if you want to build a personal (in the sense of unique) looking site with modern tooling, Tailwind is an awesome choice.
As long as the id is okay the user name of a link does not matter

https://twitter.com/flurdy/status/1199290001143582721
They can't remove the nazis, because apparently if they did, it would remove too many Republican accounts[0].

Also because the nazis are, unfortunately, quite active.

[0]https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3xgq5/why-wont-twitter-t...
I really like this and surprisingly clean CSS.

It makes you realise how far the web has come on building beautiful components
Why is it bad? Why should dead people take up usernames? What will happen in 50 years, half of good usernames will be taken by graveyard dwellers?
It may be possible, but I haven't seen such a tool. I have seen tools where you edited the syntax tree via a GUI and it was terrible for writing code. It may work better for tree modifications.

Text programs are pretty efficent when writing, editing code, because you can access a large number of elements quickly with the syntax.

E.g. writing let a = 3 can be much quicker than starting some command palette from the keyboard, choosing the "declare variable" action and then fill some dialog with the name and value of the variable.

I have doubts it can be made as efficient as typing, otherwise we would have seen such prototypes already. Have you?
Compiler bugs to happen - it's especially pronounced with JITs and optimize/deoptimize/OSR, etc.

In most cases the application is not meant to crash with any fault.
Don't rely on append-only mode in Borg, it does not work really as advertised. Every transaction in that mode is recorded in a log, which if you are very careful you can go back into (but even reading or monitoring it is a PITA, the "interface" requires you to carefully track id's of files and check with dates etc).

And being careful is difficult, because in Borg, once you do any other backup command from a full access account (for example to do pruning) - it will automatically, no warning, go through the log and apply it. You should really really read up on that functionality first before relying on it, the way Borg has implemented it is close to anti-feature.

Regarding compromisation of strictly the server itself, I believe there are commands to check the state of the repository? Isn't that enough?
How do I store global state (if at all)?
Not to be rude, but I'm baffled why a professional programmer could be "wary" of using a VCS. Or is it just git in particular? (More understandable, there's a learning curve, but nearly every major project is using it. Git's proven itself.)
Similarly, we've been using lighting and depth effects with text on the web forever. Not everyone subscribes to the everything-must-be-flat-and-boring aesthetic, and if you want these kinds of effects you can do much more with a good graphics package and 16 million colours than you can in any monochrome font design, enough if it does have an elegant underlying form and it was made using some clever algorithms. It's seems a pretty enough and well constructed font, as with much of their work, but I'm just not sure when I'd use it.
> ** is really really nice for writing code then upping the performance as you go.

We do need better scientific programming libraries, however.

This is pretty much a rephrasing to few of the main goals of Julia. You start prototyping using the dynamic python/lispy, and add some typing or some optimization to got C/Fortran performance. It is really finding it's space in scientific computing. Check out Flux.jl, DifferentialEquations.jl, and SciML.jl for a preview of the cool projects Dynamic Dispatch is enabling.

Bonus points for excellent Macros: MLstyle.jl
Still getting a unique finger print when I open a "private" browsing window. Might as well skip hard hats and use paper bags instead, the effectiveness is similar.
I am, just by a couple of years!
Employees can't control their own wage increases though..but it explains why job hopping is prevalent and understandable nowadays as the only realistic way to keep up.

Increasing minimum wage would definitely increase money spent throughout the economy, but I think business owners would offset that cost by creatively reducing/stagnating pay and benefits for middle-class type roles. And the resulting extra demand (without extra supply) would prob lead to higher prices for common goods/services (even more inflation), therefore compounding the issue we are discussing now. On top of that, a big chunk of the extra minimum-wage money spent (by the employees) will end up in the pockets of the richest as they "reinvest profits back into the business". IMO this is essentially transferring wealth from the middle-class to the upper-class via extra money paid to the lower-class.
It is not good or right, but non-binary people are probably not going to have a good time at FedEx or Dewey Pest Control.
Seems like those companies may already know that and they were using the knobs they were given.

They are spending money on impressions, why waste them?

Of course, the better idea to not allow them to ignore those interested and eventually hire them and move slowly forward past the the present culture at those places.
This is it, and the Jan update and then the end of Jan update too. All of which has wiped a lot of traffic for others out there all with solid sites.

Right now getting links indexed is a 15 day+ affair for some, some have no luck at all. From search results that I have been getting, it's almost like nothing makes sense anymore. Pure garbage content is at the top, or worst of all content from 3+ years ago and content freshness is considered a key ranking factor.
I think they mean no GUI for that.
To manually (rather than programatically) do this.
Yes, sorry.

I was talking about performance.
Bitcoin isn't money
K-9 Mail never had a PR or marketing person. But help in that area would certainly be welcome.

What information would you like to find on the website exactly?
http://archive.is/BYOgG
And he mispronounces "Thabo".
He seems to say more like "Tsabo"
I remember when GTA 3 came out on PC and I found just a simple human-readable text file you could edit to modify all the settings for all the cars.

We turned the Karuma into a physics defying monster. It was 1000x heavier than the tank, so as you drove down the road other cars just bounced off and flew over the horizon, or exploded on impact.

Yet it still did 0-100 in 0.1 seconds and could drive up walls.

One time we jumped it from the third island, over the middle island and landed on a skyscraper roof on the 1st island.

From there we spent about an hour dropping grenades on police cars and the army who had no way to reach us up there.

Fun times. Shame Twitch or YouTube didn’t exist back then to tell anyone about it!
A large part of intentionally building a community is removing barriers to entry. If you have a large following some barriers can improve the average quality, but starting out they do slow down growth. Fossil is cool. I've used it for some projects of my own in the past, but it's not a common tool, so it will limit who will check out the development of a project. I know with some tooling I have preferences which increase the barrier to entry, but I try to acknowledge that some personal preferences do limit community growth.

It's 100% fine to develop things which are openly available, but not try to build a community. That seems to match your description with your current setup.
Yeah, I don't get it.

Why doesn't an account automatically come with, let's say, a $100/mo default cap. And also a $25/day default cap. Someone playing around would just leave those defaults alone and thereby not wind up looking like a total fool.

Using Wikipedia for a guide, a micro instance only costs $0.013 per hour. An instance with 30 GiB memory and 8 cores only costs $1.00 per hour. So the cap numbers I suggested would work fine for many people.

For some reason Amazon allows people to shoot themselves in the foot too easily. Yes, they usually? waive the charges, but it seems like such a waste of resources, overall. It wouldn't be so bad if bitcoin mining were more profitable. But $1000 spent at Amazon probably mines $10 or less in bitcoin. What a waste of energy.
That's really more of an implementation detail though. You'll want a file to specify these environment variables, so you can actually have services start on boot, so that means you need a config file (whether it's used for setting the environ, or read directly by the application is the implementation detail). What's really needed is to correctly separate and secure important configuration options outside of source, and designing for that from the beginning. Using environment variables in a way forces this, which is good, but it doesn't help if there's just a startup script that specifies those variables and it gets accidentally committed to the repo.
In a former life as a corporate software developer, I distinctly remember having to get up at graveyard-shift hours to infrequently coordinate with some of our Indian team members.

Some minimal time-zone overlap is never overrated. I think it is hard to beat real-time communication over chat or voice - asynchronous delays break up any flow in collaboration and turn it more into throw the requirement over the wall and listen for an echo the next morning.
You pretty much hit the nail on the head. As a Carmack fanboy I have really only been reading things dealing with him. Glad to hear my misgivings are hopefully false.
Boinc has mobile app. The current version isn't working on Android 5.x, but the developers are working on it.

Source : http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Quick note: These ranges probably assume a 100% charge. Although this should be obvious, it should be noted that the Model S does not charge to 100% by default.

By default it charges to 80%. This can be overridden by the user (in preparation for long trips), though after a few days it reverts back to the 80%. This is the improve the overall durability of the battery -- that is, the maximum capacity remains higher for longer if the battery is not fully charged every cycle.