jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My take on it is that the government may think that under an elimination strategy any community transmission events would be perceived as failures.

The other possibility might be that earlier on in the pandemic they may have thought that a suppression strategy was possible, but it turned out that it's infectious enough and behaves randomly enough (eg. occasionally huge clusters, many cases asymptomatic) that it really doesn't allow much room for suppression strategies & elimination strategies to be much different from each other.
I accept that my original sentence was unclear. I mentioned more punctuation characters in the context of conciseness, which obviously takes the amount of characters into account. Other than that, I don’t dispute Erlang has less syntax and I hope it is clear that Erlang is noisier (assuming the definition of noise is punctuation / character).

Regarding the compiler, most compilers have ambiguity. It is the reason why you have to put a space between = and binaries in Erlang. The question is if the compiler is going to pick a side or require the developer to be explicit. Modern compilers prefer to fail early in such cases, rather than letting a syntax error pop up later on.

Furthermore, the use of do/end vs do: is completely up to you. My original draft had only the first, which reduced the amount of punctuation in Elixir further, but I decided to include both styles because you will find both in practice. But if you want to stay consistent, you have the option.

Finally, happy to disagree on the “agglomeration of characters” in the Elixir example. The Elixir code has less punctuation and is clearer, despite the use of “do:” (which, as I said above, is optional).
Well worth looking at Troy Hunt's views on this (from 2017)

https://www.troyhunt.com/data-breach-disclosure-101-how-to-s...
Yeah! (only an aspiring 'scener here) but I think "you really just code all of it" is a very nice summary of one of the core ideas of the demoscene.

In "full size" demos there are often many exceptions to that: Non-procedural assets (some exported from other software) like soundtrack, models, textures, animation and so on, which really expands the possibilities, it's really just the tiny size categories that squeezes them out (maybe also that compression ends up slightly less interesting/useful than creative reconstruction?). There's also strong respects paid for achieving something that previously required a large blob of data, using a tiny amount of code, like all the cool voice synth stuff that was used to add lyrics to 64kb intros years ago (eg: Candytron by Farbrausch that was released at Breakpoint in 2003!).
Ohh now I see it, thanks. I was looking at the bottom of the picture and I didn't see it connected. I completely missed that there is stuff connected to solid ground under the bridge.
Is there any cloud provider that actually implements a hard cap on billing?
> Bayesian statistics can inform hypotheses at any level of evidence

This is wrong. You probably can employ bayesian causal inference if you know that two observed variables have a causal relationship and want to know about the direction. But if you already know that, most of the riddle has been solved a priori. Double-blind RCTs are the gold standard.
The Google analysis is pretty good, even if their proposed solutions are between weak and non-existing.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/05/google-p...

Basically, the problem is that newspapers make most of their money on ads from "bundled" content, e.g. lifestyle, cars, sport, and almost no money on hard news.

But today people go to specialized web sites for all the economically lucrative content, leaving only the hard news for the newspaper. And the newspapers can't really get people to pay for it, because most news stories are a commodity (it is the same story everywhere).
Should be only a momentary lapse. The poor thing is only on an m1.small. :-)
People skills? I didn't get into Linux until much latter but from what I understand Linux as written by Linus wasn't that great. It was submissions and work by people better than himself that made Linux what it is today. His ability to code may have grown since then but his super wonder coding powers aren't what got Linux off the ground.
nginx as a load balancer, security layer and reverse proxy cache.

Apache on the back end as I'm comfortable tuning it.
I really liked the article, and I think the Maximum Viable Product is a great concept. From reading some people's descriptions of MVP it seems like they expect their users to tell them exactly what to do. However, comparing user feedback to a bigger vision seems like the most important part of an MVP.
This is probably generally true, provided that you reside in the property long enough to recoup the rather high transaction costs. I did the math on purchasing recently and given how long I expect to be in my current area, the math doesn't add up, even assuming relatively low upkeep costs.

I'm not sure how long you have to stay somewhere to hit the break even point.
Please provide an example of a free market.

Why do the existing single payer systems outperform the USA's private health plan system, measured in both cost per capita and life expectancy?
If the side length isn't constrained to integers, the expected volume is 39 inches cubed.

In a bit more detail: take the integral of x^3 (the volume function) from 1 to 5 and you get 5^4/4 - 1^4/4 = 624/4 = 156. Then we divide by the length of the line segment (4) to get 39.

If the side lengths have to be integers, then it's just (1 + 8 + 27 + 64 + 125)/5 = 45 inches.

Edit: corrected division mistake, thanks to dxbydt

Edit 2: and corrected a second mistake thanks to tzs.
Well, the first person that commented on it anyway. I made the connection as well. :-)
Deaths in Sweden are only 6% higher in 2020 than in 2018:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...

It would seem unlikely that the population would notice a 6% increase against the base annual death rate. We previously tolerated hospital overcrowding and death spikes from influenza waves.

Most other countries around the world are showing a 4-6% increase. There seems to be a correlation to severity of lockdown and increased number of deaths, presumably due to factors like interruptions to regular medical treatments, and individual health deteriorating during lockdown.
I've used them in production before inside of AWS beanstalk (.ebextensions). Was pretty much a static django site on top of a solr index. There was a hidden django where the content team would work on the content. When it was ready, we would dumpdata on the backend server and upload to S3. New beanstalks would grab the file from S3 and loaddata.
thats an interesting take

I don't know that that doesn't happen at real schools too though

while I'm sure college works as a smoothing function

but it seems to me that certain (almost always UMC) kids show up and immediately get what the valuable connections to make at the school are

they get what sorts of fraternities are worth trying to get into, what sort of extracirricular activities are likely to prove valuable in the future, what sort of internships are worth angling for, that sort of thing

while alot of the less clued in students sort of fumble around almost at random

it strikes me that the degree of clued in'ness' usually breaks down along class lines

(this might be more of a finance, politics, business thing than a tech thing)
You've hinted on a few things in your comment that are taken care of with your 5-8% surcharge that bitcoin certainly does not.

1) Chargebacks, there is a way to dispute a charge after-the-fact, without the merchant's approval.

2) Stolen plastic means I don't lose my money.

These two things (probably others) are reasons I have trouble believing bitcoin is the new thing we'll all use eventually. Never mind that I can't see anyone I know using it. Good luck securing coins (they would never be able to do it themselves, and third-party services usually need some kind of private key. How is this better than a normal bank account??)

Also, it's not exactly easy to get. Sure, there are sites that verify your identity and allow you to buy with credit card, but then, why use the middle-man? I can buy what I want directly with credit card. I have yet to try a bitcoin ATM, this may work.
> 1. Safety: drones - multirotors, specifically - are very safe devices, inherently.

Aside from that whole thing where they have a dozen or so whirling knife blades that could take off a body appendage, or the fact that one small power failure or an inflight impact with a bird or a wire turns them into 30 pound falling lethal skull crushing objects.
Happy to help. Remember to be careful, everyone's body works differently.
Which is totally not how you recruit a source - sounds like some FBI officers think that acting like an OTT cop from TV show (Constable Savage for UK HN's of a certain age.) is how it works.

The way malwarebytes was handled is another example great the FBI has just alienated a large potential group of sources and this FBI idiot by bullying Mr Chebli has alienated a lot of Lebanese Americans who might provide information in future.
Address Sanitizer isn't a tool that solves every problem. But it solves well the problems it's intended.

I'm assuming you're still talking about Firefox running Opus [0]? I'm not familiar with it. But I do think that any platform that can run Firefox and wants to listen to audio should have a lot more than 128k lying around. Otherwise your user isn't using the right tool for the job.

I understand memory constraints can be tight and it feels like there's 128k of space right there that you can use. And to achieve that you've written it in C and manually calculated the stack space needed. It feels awesome to have that kind of knowledge and experience with opportunity to leverage it! It's great that you've helped design a media format and implement something to process it!

But Firefox wastes tons of megabytes just to load, store, and transmit telemetry, preferences, search providers... the list can go on. Do you really want to try to convince me that a 128k slab for audio that the user specifically loaded is too expensive in the face of all of the telemetry loaded by Firefox these days?

Why add all the maintenance headache when you can instead allocate a single slab for your own use? If I were to write it and manually optimize then I'd use an allocated slab. And, as a bonus, the slab's ownership can move to any other thread if needed. And it would make it clean in Address Sanitizer. And, even more important, I wouldn't have to worry about what happens if the frames before my entrypoint changes. For example, Firefox's software design could change and adds a couple of wrappers around the manually-sized stack. What happens if I want to compile Firefox on a different platform which doesn't permit a manually-sized thread stack?

So it sounds like you've written something that's going to be very difficult to maintain if you were to vanish. And you've written it for a software product where that level of optimization is, perhaps, better done automatically by tools available to you.

If you build a standalone media player specifically for Opus then that'd be pretty cool. But Firefox shouldn't have pieces that are difficult to maintain.

[0]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/introducing-opus-1-3/
This is true. But I would suggest your operational security has bigger issues than this potential vulnerability if you are using WhatsApp.

Regardless - you still haven't given a source for you original claim. "not deserving benefit of the doubt" does not qualify. If the linked article is in fact you source then in the future please do not exaggerate such claims as you have done. I would have expected a claim from the article to read (along with a link to the source!):

> WhatsApp have modified the protocol slightly auspiciously for user experience but this allows a third party attacker to intercept messages sent offline only alerting the sender after they have been disclosed.
This is very much in the right direction, but to expand on it a little with my 2c...

Programming something to produce an expected output is for the most part a very achievable goal when you have no constraints. You can do it however you want, take as long as you want and no-one else will complain how you do it.

The more layers of constraints you add in the more challenging it becomes to the point where you could say "programming well" is indeed very challenging and the majority of working devs can't achieve it reliably.

I think over time it's a fundamentally impossible task with respect to a certain piece of software because the trifecta of 1) changing industry/aging tech, 2) everyone who contributed to the codebase at a time they didn't understand the system, the domain or programming all that well, and 3) accumulating mistakes in architecture or implementation that you don't have or ever get the budget to fix.

So in the end even if you're a stellar dev, you're always working with people who aren't and most likely on a system that is not pristine.

Getting a computer to do _something_ is not so hard. Consistently getting the computer to do what you want over time in a way that is easy for your colleagues to grok such that they don't introduce mistakes and also to do it in such a way that's amenable to unforseen future requirements that may or may not arrive? It's ultra challenging.

I've learnt to not care so much. Software is an organic thing that will be born, grow, get old and die.
Exactly. GPL is not free software in the real sense of the word.
> If the kid's that smart then presumably they'll have a top GPA as well.

I definitely wouldn’t make that assumption.

> If they're lucky enough not to be in Texas, well, there's nothing wrong with state schools in any of the other several states, and furthermore there's no shame in going to a community college first if you have to.

Oh no doubt. I went to two public state universities and I believe my education was just as good as I’d find anywhere. Though there are differences (opportunities), the education is pretty good overall. But! That doesn’t tell the whole story. Many of the kids I went to school with in undergrad had taken classes like AP Physics, or AP Chemistry, or math beyond geometry. I didn’t. So I had to work much harder in some classes. I failed Calculus I twice before getting an A (maybe a B+? Don’t remember) and moving on with my life. For other students this could send them out of engineering, or maybe out of school altogether, and I’d argue it’s not really an intellect thing more so than it is not being on a level playing field to start with. This is an issue even at state schools. Maybe more so if they lack enough resources to cover tuition and room and board. People growing up in poverty (not that I did myself but much of my family did) think debt == bad or maybe they’re afraid to ask for help.

I guess that’s to say, I think it’s a problem in the entire system, all the way down to elementary school (Lebron James Family Foundation is doing a good job in my view of trying to address this).

My main issue with Ivy League schools is the perception and recruiting exclusivity. Wanna work at Goldman? Yale. Google? Harvard. Netflix? CMU. Etc.

Not a whole lot of tech recruiting going on at, say, Ohio University where I did my undergrad. Fuck those kids. Not in our recruiting footprint. Not one of our “target schools”. As if you need to go recruit at Duke to hire a BA?

In my personal life I do a lot of work to try and get more employers and recruiters down there and find ways to help. It’s tough sledding. Sometimes I wonder why I bother when it seems like so few others care.

I fantasize like damn if I had a ton of money or a huge grant there are so many things I’d love to try and do. It’s just too hard to quit my full time work. I’ll have to wait until I’m older and financially secure.
Because even if you aren't working on the same area of code right now, previous experience in the area can potentially help your teammates.
Yeah, its not like the same entity that pumps dollars into the economy to boost employment and prevent deflation when it slows down also might take dollars out to restrain inflation as the economy speeds back up.
What tribe do you think I belong to? I was pointing out that anyone can be negligent.

And seriously: "Yeah, I was being patronising, but don't be defensive about it"? If you can't handle being called on your own behaviour, don't do it to others.
It would be good to have a rigid specification for this kind of thing, same as for the colour and blink frequency of signal lights, road sign designs and number plate fonts. Predictability and standardisation is super valuable on the road.

However, I see no reason why the specification can't specify a particular electronic burbling noise from The Jetsons.
think about that for a few minutes. you're advocating censorship and ostracism. who's uncivil now?

No, I'm saying that uncivil speech has consequences, and that's a desirable feature of existing in a society. In order for the predictions in my post to not come true, you would have to somehow prevent people from discussing Linus's incivility. What mechanism do you propose?

Also, I can't downvote you because it's a reply to a post of mine (this is how HN works). I generally don't downvote posts I reply to either.
Executive team is/was a group of tech insiders with connections. Think they are career Pelago-ists? 1st big lucrative buy out not a surprise. Its a lovely MBA inspired model.
The best way I can describe taste is a gestalt quality where "every part of the thing jells." It's the ability to discriminate what is included vs. excluded. Often those with the most taste do not make these decisions obvious, this gives well thought out pieces an 'effortless' quality. As anything subjective, people have different opinions on it (I think Jobs makes a lot of tacky design decisions) but there is a universal thread of "thinking through the details."
Loving that full scholarship at a competing school
I'm not convinced this is a meaningful distinction in this context. Assuming a developer consciously creates a race which turns out to be a bug, how does it matter whether it was a data race or some other kind of race condition?
You can have perfect equality by lowering everyone to the lowest denominator. yay
> If you found out that 100,000 additional people were exposed to the flu but had no symptoms and by any definition had no flu illness would that change your outlook on whether the flu vaccine or hand washing is worth it?

Yes, of course my outlook would change. Not on the binary scale--i wouldn't suddenly think it's not worth it to wash hands-- but I would want to know when deciding on measures.

The mortality rate is a specific figure, it's not whatever figure makes your reaction most appropriate.

If some people get the virus and have no symptoms, that's an incredibly important piece of the puzzle when deciding how to proceed.

Using your exaggerated examples, what if 99% of the population didn't suffer any adverse effects? Wouldn't you reevaluate the current response in light of that?
Seems like the Qt5 front-end is just set as the default one, and the GTK front-end will be deprecated. There wasn't really any noticeable difference between both from the usability comparison in my opinion.
It's not ok to turn this thread into yet another argument about immigration. The trouble is that the larger, heated controversies take over everything else if you let them—they are like black holes that suck everything that comes by into their gravitational fields. Unless we want a site that is only about the hottest flamewar topics—which we don't—the only solution is to avoid the black holes. Then we can discuss the much smaller and more specific topics that are more likely to gratify intellectual curiosity.

That doesn't mean immigration isn't important—it's obviously much more important than most topics on the site, which is part of why we have to moderate it this way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
More importantly, who cares? You’re describing an insanely rare edge case.
I've had the exact same experience... There were a few early, illegal Real Books that had songs you couldn't get ahold of from the licensed versions.
It may be fake, but it is possible. All televisions have a number of local oscillators for super-heterodyne reception. With sensitive equipment, the radiation from these oscillators can be detected because they are not well-shielded.
Alternately for the $20,000 he could get an old cessna 172, learn how to maintain it and get his A&P mechanic license and have a safe and reliable way to fly during nice weather.
Still would need an "airport car" to get to work from the airport though.
Sorry, but where in the article do you read that?

The article says: "...the Google Latitude app will run on the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad, and iPod touch (3rd/4th generation)...."
Idiot. Won't let me view it with the browser installed on this system! Disables the back button!
Personally I trust the endpoint less than the route in this case.
Sites like that tend to mislead you by dancing around the biggest most important aspect of browser compatibility.

HTML and CSS so perfect and beautiful, right until the point where your website looks like it's melted in Opera, Firefox, Safari, Chrome or IE.

There are some HTML and CSS cookbooks that do all right, but it's borderline impossible to get a grasp over the whole thing.
Son: hey dad, can I borrow some money?

Dad: son you're going to have to learn how to be "Gettin' Paid, Makin' Money." here's the best C programming book i know.

Son: thanks dad. how much can i get for it?

Dad: uhhhh...
Wait, you're under an NDA from Amazon? :s
That's cool. I was looking at using MixPanel for some personal projects. This makes it that much easier.
No. You aren't doing anything illegal unless you demodulate the signal.
> that kwh will not be cost competitive with anything else on the spot market

Maybe capitalism isn't the right model for energy? Or, if you are a die hard capitalist, maybe we aren't costing externalities correctly and we should get some folks in power who will ensure that the right options are also the cost competitive options?
As long as there are bicycles, pedestrians, pets, weird one-off accidents, there will always be a need for situational awareness.
That'd be my guess too. I'm not sure if we'd be able to do 100% of off highway driving, but I imagine we'll be able to go cross country by then.
Using that same source shows that after tax incomes increased from $56k to $67k over the exact same period. So housing expenditures actually grew at a slightly slower rate than income (17% vs. 19%). That proves the opposite: housing is actually become more affordable.

Moreover, according to the source shelter only made up about half the increase in expenditures in the category. Expenditures on shelter grew even slower than housing as a whole, 16%.

From the source, Americans spent 32% more on furniture and appliances (including a whooping 50% increase on major appliances), 28% more on housekeeping services, 30% more on their cell phone bill (which is weirdly part of of the housing category), 23% more on household products, and 20% more on their water bill. In other words Americans are splurging on smart fridges, maid service, mobile data plans, organic cleaners and long showers.

That doesn't really sound consistent with the story of cash-strapped workers struggling in an overpriced housing market. That sounds a lot more consistent with the macroeconomic data, which is tells us that since 2013, the economy has been booming and unemployment is at post-war lows.