skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We know (from RKI) that 86% of the fatalities in german ICUs were people with an age of larger than 70. Compare that to the distribution of smokers vs age in germany. 80% of the smokers are younger than 70.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Percenta...

https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus...
I wonder if this could help standardize some vectorized code as well.
I believe it won't look worse than owning an Raspberry Pi with antenna.
Feeling cynical today. Perhaps folks in Paris don't tell their doctor that they've been smoking?
They are similar in price to the Raptor POWER9 systems.
>Not really. That is exactly the point the article is trying to make. Developers need to care about these things - _enough to know who to go get help from_.

That isn't it. They aren't telling you to learn about database details for the sole purpose of "DBA handles databases. Go ask the DBA database questions".

It's more than that. They're offloading specific knowledge onto the dev and then making them accountable for it. It's a reaction to common questions and an attempt to answer them all at once by teaching devs answers to common questions. This is a noble goal, but it's problematic in aggregate from multiple perspectives.

The aggregate goal of all of these areas trying to teach developers their own specialties is to make developers the masters of low-hanging fruit.
Life imitating art... or art imitating life... or something like that!

Also, fun fact: The Liberty Bell cracked some time ago in history (between 1752 and 1846), when exactly is debated by historians, but "The last big crack happened on Washington’s Birthday. The Liberty Bell cracked up, literally, in February 1846, when it was rung on President’s Day, celebrated on Washington’s birthday, and then stopped ringing because of damage from a major crack."

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/10-fascinating-facts-abo...

So what that means exactly, I don't claim to know...
Part of the issue is that a complicated database can handle the same SQL query many different ways based on indexes and other configurations.

This kind of "magic" isn't always clear when programmers are mostly used to working with data structures and procedural code.

The other problem, IMO, is that programming languages are very poor at bridging the difference between the SQL domain and the language domain. We really need plugins for compilers because ORM libraries often are harder to learn than the database itself.
It's a list of old cities. Of course it's not going to mention a people who didn't have cities. It doesn't mention stone age European or Asian nomads either.

I'm also confused at your 14,000 years comment... this isn't the age of any particular polity or ethnic group; just the amount of time since people settled North America. Across the old world, comparable tribes lived for much, much longer. And in Africa you can go back even further.

What exactly do you think should have happened here? Simply not allow lists of old cities? Or perhaps put in special entries for nomad tribes even though they're not, you know, cities? What's the goal that would have made sense but also made you happy?
Gotta ask whether the banking system makes sense in its current form.

- Part of it is actually a utility. Payments, sending money from one place to another, making sure there's an account at the other end of that number. Everyone needs this, yet being a huge international network there isn't a whole lot that one bank offers that another cannot.

- Part of it is deciding who to lend money to. Makes sense for the bank to decide this with its own money.

- Part of it is regulatory. We don't want money laundering. Have to ask whether this really ought to be up to law enforcement to do, or as it is now a massive burden on the banks, which also have bad incentives.

What if we had the central bank give everyone an account that was interoperable with the rest of the banking system? Then if you want to hand out money, you just do it. If you want to borrow money, find a lender.
I hope so too, so at least it is in the limelight of what the heck goes on.
About a third are functioning (albeit not very productive) "collector's items". Anything from Intel and AMD, to PowerPC and SPARC. The productive ones are mostly Intel because I acquired them before AMD's resurgence. Also plenty of AMD, and even ARM. They run Linux, Windows, MacOS, BSD, ESX, or dedicated appliance OSes. All on 1, 10, or 40G network, plus WiFi. I usually buy everything second hand, the most expensive stuff usually from companies that upgraded.

To be clear, most of the stuff I didn't buy because I need it but because I wanted to play and experiment with it. I test and play with everything I can imagine, time permitting. Then I sell most of it before it loses the resell value and top it up a bit to buy the next "big thing".

But if I told even most of my fellow HNers that "they're cheap" and "everyone should have this" they'd think I fell on my head one too many times. :)
On another tangent: there are also collectors of WW2 (and older) combat rations, and some people open their contents for review and sometimes consumption today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA6u-sYhFi0
That's just bad application design to have sensitive info in the URL.
yeah but I would argue that today most people benefiting from these effects are smokers, so it stays true?
If we're going to compare those terms and conditions, then also consider this: the people who normally give those kinds of endowments are donating at orders of magntitude larger amounts. The size of those endowments gives the donors the leverage to attach those terms and conditions. What's ridiculous to me is expecting that a micro-endownment of $10 is going to give the donor the same kind of leverage.
Hey Mr. Strawman! I just made an observation - there are many older stable populations, than older stable named cities. Keep your owly comments to yourself.
Key Metrics of Successful Robotic Process Automation
I was being glib about the vaping. Getting sick was awful and honestly I didn't even think about my nicotine addiction for the 14 days we were ill. I definitely didn't draw any conclusions about vaping being good for me. If this hypothesis does turn out to be correct... I just don't even know. God has a sense of humor or something.
Parents of pregnant daughters are probably more likely to end up raising their grandkid than parents whose sons get others’ daughters pregnant. The various stressful situations and financial strain that result can wreck people.
Planet Money has an excellent podcast on this
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/10/832149266/episode-990-the-big...
What interests me the most is not so much the #1 oldest, but more those cities where the past is still visible, or the city is similar to the same one that stood there thousands of years ago.

Specifically, I find Yerevan very interesting. If someone from 2,000 years ago stood there today, they'd certainly realize it was the same city: the same Mount Ararat towering over the city, the same river Hrazdan running by the city, the name is pronounced very similar (pronounced Erebuni vs. now pronounced Erevan.) If you traveled a bit forward in time, to 400-something CE, then a modern inhabitant of Yerevan could even read the ancient writing in the city!

Compare that with cities like Puning, China (to quote Wikipedia: "The history of human settlement in Puning can be traced back to the Neolithic Age".) Rich history, but I guarantee that someone from 2,000 years ago would have no idea where they are. (That's certainly not all of China, though, many places haven't experienced that much change.)

Anyone know more of these cities, where it'd be obvious to the ancient inhabitants that it was the same city?
HN isn't the place to go for conservative opinions on compilers :)
So shareholders are the problem. Gotcha.
Why wouldn't it? The alternative is to cease operations in that country and lose access to all of its citizens.
I only listen to music when I'm working on, and on spotify there is only a few "Workout" playlist created by spotify that never really get updated. When I search for Workout playlist for user created playlist, there's a huge range of music that doesn't even feel like workout music. Curious if anyone has found a good workout playlist that gets updated with new music.
It works in practice as well. That is what junior college is all about. About a third of Berkeley graduates came from JCs. Transferring in at the JC level is competitive and hard and getting out is always hard.
Note that the spec[1] requires that this tops at an implementation-defined size of integers, so you're likely not getting out of writing bignum code yourself (and even fifimplemented, the bignum operations may likely be variable-time and thus unsuitable for any kind of cryptography). Making the size completely implementation-defined also sounds like it'll be unreliable in practice, I feel like making it at least match the bit size of int would be a worthwhile trade-off between predictability for the programmer aiming for portability and simplicity of implementation.

[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2472.pdf
>If they're not able to understand or decide they don't want to, they'll stop asking.

And they'll only stop asking for a very short while (if they're like all the kids I've talked with). Children are people and value honesty and attention like everyone else. If you try, they'll be back.

Plus, I enjoy it even when they don't understand and leave halfway through the answer. They make the best faces to show they're done.
Where in Russia?

Level of school while it is supposed to be same is night and day. The special Math/Physics school is one thing, but under that there are “good” schools in the city, ok, shitty then you have countryside etc

Same thing applies to other countries. Depending on where you went to school in same city you experience can be vastly different. Some school in let’s say Toronto have A- Math in high school average, other 20mins by bicycle can be C-. In Moscow you can have an awesome school, take metro for 30 mins and only thing you are learning is how to not get shit beaten out of you during a class break.

I went to a very good city school in Kyiv till grade 8, then specialized Math/Physics school from then on(I was bottom of the barrel at the new school in Math ouch). I used to come to my old school sometimes to hangout, level was absolutely different as in nobody there could solve a single problem in my home work. University exam at KGU in physics I took 1 hours instead of 3. But this is a trick. Once you get in second round of weeding out starts, I remember the breakdown people had after first couple tests. People who had 5 on all subjects their whole life, but they went to normal school. I think more then half of them did not make it through first semester.

I then left to Canada and went to middle of the road University there for Comp Sci. Honestly I liked it far more. It was more fun and flexible in terms of what you could take and learn, I could do a minor in Economics half way through because I liked it. I could work as research assistant in later and actually get my name on a paper and then go to a conference in Vegas :)
It’s odd that London isn’t listed yet there are a bunch that are only a couple of hundred years old
My family uses Netflix via Chromecast, so our UI is a phone or tablet app. Search is literally the second button after Home and works fine.

One consideration, maybe your TV app is the problem. Personally, this is why I don't use TV apps.
This is partly why I love LINQ: it's a more C# flavoured way of expressing queries. And it works on objects as well as databases.

Most ORMs are bad for queries (pull over all the objects and look at their properties!), but LINQ will actually turn your code into SQL under the hood with some remarkable machinery.
> I don't know what to do with the anger I'm feeling. Any thoughts on where this energy should go?

I'd personally direct it towards the realization that the US in these difficult times looks more like a plutocracy than a healthy society (I live here). Socialism for the rich, "capitalism" for everyone else. Thinking of creative ways to convince your fellow citizens that this is nowhere near "the best" a society can offer to its constituents would be a good use of extra anger / energy.
It was functional and clear, unlike modern "hide everything" UIs?
Short Trip
Their IRS form 990 names three directors, an exec director, a CTO, and an engineer as of 2018.
https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/473017917_201812_990_...

Only one of those people, Dean Drako, is also listed on permanent.org:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Drako

The address on the permanent.org contact page and the Form 990 matches one of his other companies.
I agree. It seems extraordinarily risky to let another disease spread among the world population.

- What if there are long term effects?

- What if it becomes a seasonal disease?

- What if the next mutation is more severe?

Each country should b a good global citizen, and put in its best effort to make sure the spread is as limited as possible.
It’s not whining if you’re taking action.

Push back on the employer. You bring value regardless of location. They desperately need your services. If you make the cut, you have the leverage in the negotiation.

Quit being “Midwest nice” and you will probably get much more than you thought.
So shareholders are the problem. Let's abolish them and see what else interferes with good ethical choices and fix that and keep going. That's how things get better.
As a Tunisian, I'm confused by why Carthage is not on the list. Yes, it was destroyed and rebuilt by the Romans, but the general vicinity has been continuously inhabited ever since.

Actually, a few other Tunisian cities are missing that trace their origins back to late B.C./early A.D., such as Monastir, Mahdia, and El Jem.

Any thoughts on this?
An old college buddy is a CPA, his advisory to all his clients applying for this program was to draw down their _entire_ existing revolver, and then submit their application to the bank. Last I'd talked to him he had 100% success rate.
Qt apps can have lots of features.. Did you never use KDE3?
The system is broken because people don't vote. There are plenty of votes out there to override the powerful, but people who give up and say it's hopeless are part of the problem.
Totalitarian China hasn't made any efforts to close its wet markets, which are the claimed source. They also have not blanketly denied the lab's involvement with the virus. They've only hinted in non-scientific language that they didn't directly manipulate the genome (with CRISPR or something).

The conspiracy is by the media Cathedral for suggesting racism is the source of the demand for answers. I have no idea where the virus came from. But we're definitely not getting accurate info in this area.
Basically yes, that is what the games evolved in to.
Very good article - mentoring Julia over the last 5 years, I've run into a lot of these things.
You're still not providing evidence for. There is evidence against:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-covid-19-not...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200317175442.h...

You do understand that the scientific method is couched entirely in current best understanding, right? We assume the theory of gravity is how gravity works up and can assume it's probably true until a better theory comes up. You'll notice they didn't mention the animal - can we then safely assume it's a moose flu? That's even better supported as they did confirm in the affirmative it was an animal.

And the other lies you posted were said with 100% certainty - how is the use of probable more evidence of a lie?
I disagree. Accurate reasoning under uncertainty is highly non-trivial (as current events with covid-19 are making clear) and is I suspect one of the most important skills a clinician could have for making rational diagnoses and treatment decisions.

Whether currently available statistics training is even adequate to the task of teaching this skill is a separate question, the answer to which is unclear to me.
Initiatives like this need more love:
http://www.echopen.org/

Why don't have a much more active/thriving medical hackers community?
Maybe it needs to be framed in the way that it is an additional bailout for their own companies and interests. Most of that money makes it back into banks, larger companies, wealth, top end etc.

If consumers have purchasing power and small companies buy up their services, supply them, and are where they make their money broadly, maybe their self-interest will align with the actual market.

Our policies already downplay the importance of wages, consumer base purchasing power and just keep piling on the backs of a finite resource. How long do can the wealth extraction keep happening before there is none left and stagnation takes over in a big way? Rich people and large companies can only buy so much, the long tail of small businesses and consumer purchasing power is America, it is under attack.

Real wages and purchasing power have barely budged in 40 years [1].

Worker share of GDP being on a long dwindle down [2] and velocity of money is off a cliff [3], that is why we are so stagnant.

Richest 1% of Americans Close to Surpassing Wealth of Middle Class [4]

Money trickles up and down and all around, but money only trickles where other money is found.

If there isn't purchasing power or demand, that is hard to create. Why are we widdling it down day by day, year by year, decade by decade?

What happens when The Giving Tree is a stump?

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W270RE1A156NBEA

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V

[4] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-09/one-perce...
I'm not saying there's no effect I'm saying that weddings aren't special in that regard.

That's just as easily (or not!) answered the same as:

> So what about all the workers that cannot pay their mortgages now?
Normally I'd say go for it. If it really is that bad, sometimes you just need to recover your mental health before you can begin to figure out what's next. Sounds like you have savings and are in a generally decent position to do so.

Right now, though, with the current situation, it's not as clear-cut. Personally I'd be really nervous to have to navigate the job market within the next 6 months, or to be relying on my savings to eat when I could end up needing them for a big medical bill (though maybe the latter isn't a problem where you live).

I would say: definitely quit. The question is whether or not to hold out for another few months. That's something I don't have an answer for.

FWIW I did something very similar a few years ago. Quit my first job out of college, after a year and a half, because I hated it. My plan was to "freelance" which I didn't have much of a clear plan for. But I had savings, and I found a few odd jobs over the next 9 months, and while I ended up having to find a new "real" job, overall I was very glad to have gotten out of that first one.
> The source is dead. I thought wikipedia would be better about that

You could have fixed it instead of writing such comment. Wikipedia is nothing without the thousands of volunteers writing (and fixing!) content on it.
Wish I lived in a world where $10 billion in graft got someone arrested. Jailed, if I’m recklessly ambitious.
If you're writing a CRUD application, an ORM saves a lot of headaches.

If you're doing complex reporting queries, an ORM is strictly worse. And yes, I've seen developers, architects, and authors of ORMs that believed otherwise. They are wrong.

As an example, very, very few ORMs can make the distinction between

SELECT ...
FROM foo
LEFT JOIN bar
ON foo.id = bar.foo_id
AND bar.category_id = 5
LEFT JOIN baz
ON bar.id = baz.bar_id
...

and

SELECT ...
FROM foo
LEFT JOIN bar
ON foo.id = bar.foo_id
LEFT JOIN baz
ON bar.id = baz.bar_id
AND bar.category_id = 5
...

(And if you get into things like analytic queries, just forget about it.)
Except it's been true for a couple decades now. We throw away enough food to feed the world. You been under a rock?
First of all you're just misquoting the article, it says 74% of the loans went to small businesses and here's the quote:

"The vast majority of these loans — 74 percent of them — were for under $150,000"

But whatever the figure the analogy is still nonsensical. The program was designed for the companies it was designed for. The plain language letter of the law explains who was supposed to get it.

The better analogy for what you're saying was "Imagine if the government send 26 cents of every $1 to people that were plainly eligible for Medicare, but who I don't think should have been" which is another thing entirely. There's no allegations of fraud here.

And as someone with direct first hand experience of being involved with tiny businesses for whom this program was an utter lifesaver, I start out naturally skeptical of this narrative.

The problem with the program has been that it wasn't funded enough. And that it was a mess at first and banks were bad a communication about it.

But frankly I think we should be expanding and extending the program, not pretending it's something that it plainly is not.
Has the D community been growing or shrinking over the past decade or so? Staying relatively the same size?
Yes, if you focus on that imagery, sure.

Human tears also have antibacterial properties that have been explored for antibiotic purposes. The tears of grieving parents used to save future children from death!

Or, you know, it’s just a protein, and the tear is just the fluid where it was initially found, and you’re adding all the extra meaning yourself, which is a reflection strictly on you.
Hong Kong has a large financial sector. IIRC, Vietnam did not have a derivatives market until a few years ago, and a few months in only had $20 million in trading volume.
Genetically engineered plants turn red when growing over a mine (2014)
Well, you were apparently too far from that ruling minority. At the level of the shopkeepers/teachers/etc.

For the positions like for example even drivers for the high party members it starts getting unequal.

And about the nineties: inequality in the nineties is weird because very large amount of the criminals who got rich didn't bother to educate their children. Of course, some part of them opted for expensive teachers/schools or for sending children to the Western schools, but the "getting by force" attitude of the parents didn't really mesh well with learning.
Not doubting there are bad ORMs but none of the ones I've dived into is quite that bad (SQL Alchemy and Django's ORM).

I sometimes wonder if the debate about ORM is mainly driven by some traumatic horror witnessed at some point in every developer's career. If we judged programming languages by the same metric... Oh... Actually we kind often do that too!
ROBERT: ROBust and privacy-presERving proximity Tracing protocol
There have been suggestions over the years for the post office to offer banking services. They have branches literally everywhere, they're independent yet still a government agency, and have no profit motive.
I think we start seeing that in the U.S. with younger congress members not being satisfied with lumping them all together with more traditional politicians. Who knows, maybe we will get that here too.

EDIT: Also, if the system tries to equalize at two parties, why we do not see a similar process inside parties themselves?