skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people are talking about excess mortality, or all cause mortality.

Here's the EU version: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps#excess-mortality

There's some lag in these figures. The CDC will have something eventually.
Have you seen TimescaleDB? https://www.timescale.com/
Better scaffolding leads to bigger, better buildings. Don't knock the auxiliary and ancillary techniques; they're still necessary for this sort of work to be understandable.

Also, from my perspective, the exact real arithmetic isn't super-interesting because it's not new; Turing was doing this sort of thing when he first got access to computers. Legend has that one of Turing's first recreational programs was computation of zeros of the Riemann zeta function, and ever since, there's been a tradition of exploring exact real arithmetic with computers and programming languages. MarshallB is one more incremental step forward in a big research programme of overcoming the inconvenient fact that we can't test real numbers for interesting properties with computers alone.

At no point have I advocated only category theory. Categories are always composed of some collection of arrows (and objects, but I prefer object-free presentations!), and those arrows are always homogeneous, if not homoousios, composed of a single substance. We can study that substance on its own. Perhaps an analogy to materials science would be appropriate. We ought to study both each building material, be it sets, vector spaces, relations, graphs, or type theories; but also the architectural principles used to make buildings, like abstract algebra and category theory.
Dismissing the advice of biologists and doing nothing for years about it, until it was too late was definitely a Sarkozy major fiasco. The first two years it token french by surprise, it was understandable, but the lack of measures and comptempt by the conservationist voices after that, was unjustifiable. Spanish politicians didn't practically anything for almost 10 years about it of course, until a politician relative was killed at 32 Yo.

Now is in most France, half of Spain and some locations in Portugal and Germany, and is causing economical damage by millions and killing several people each year. For a decade I didn't hear none of those holy cow economists just mention the problem
This could probably be extrapolated further to say all programming on von Neumann architecture is fundamentally similar.
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> I wanted to see what did they guy wanted to say if it was not offensive :\

Enable showdead in your HN profile, then you can read flagged/dead comments.
> The most aggressive strains of Sars-CoV-2 could generate 270 times as much viral load as the least potent type

> New York may have a deadlier strain imported from Europe, compared to less deadly viruses elsewhere in the United States
Absolutely. I just focused in finding good weight allocations for the given risk, but changing the objective function given to the negative of the sharpe ratio should get you good allocations that maximize the sharpe ratio.

You'll notice I am returning the expected return and variance of the returns. I didn't talk about it too much (besides a high level risk vs. returns at the end) because I didn't want to introduce another concept, but you can readily compare the sharpe ratio using those.

I did a quick analysis (which I had put here but I can't properly format it) here: https://gist.github.com/scast/d7ab3a0f5c5458c11d8624cc73806d...
> 𝔒𝔶𝔢𝔷!, 𝔒𝔶𝔢𝔷!, 𝔒𝔶𝔢𝔷! 𝔄𝔫𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔤𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱 ℜ𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔧𝔢𝔠𝔱!

What the hell are those? I looked at each letter (Unicode 1D5{12,36,22,37}), and apparently it spells out Oyez?
https://github.com/go-delve/delve

That's an older page, check out delve, it's like GDB specific to go!
Both are true, but usually that means the latter. Clojure was designed to make it as easy as possible to rub a little bit of parens on an existing (JVM, though now also other platforms) project. That means being a hosted language that embraces interop very closely, and shipping the language as just a jar.
The early estimates for how lethal the virus would be were basically spot on. E.g. the Imperial model, which drove the policy changes in UK was based on an IFR estimate of 0.9% based on the UK population structure. The best available evidence we have right now suggests the IFR will be around 0.5-1%.
Indeed, I was playing with Dyalog some months ago, and the most painful point was I/O. I have implemented the MAL (make a lisp) interpreter in APL but I cannot seem to make the tests for the self hosting interpreter run correctly because of the way standard error and standard output are treated :-/
Imagine backing up those 50-100 gigabites of actually essential data you have and using google normally. They even allow you to backup your email via outlook or whatever and just download your photos and drive. You don't really need RAW images of your birthday from 15 years ago. Google's Photos compression seems perfect to me for all "memories" photos
Well, any given holiday keeps workers from working. I don't value that as much as some folks. We all got a day off!

But it was certainly a wake-up call. And such a simple trick, to fool the world in a day.
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One idea I had in my own modular emulators a while ago was to reduce the "state that's passed around" to the input/output pins of the microchip emulators the higher level system emulator is built from. This pin-state often fits into a single 64-bit integer (at least for typical 8-bit home computers), and another advantage is that the emulator's code structure can be kept very close to the schematics of the real hardware (the wiring between chips can be mapped 1:1 to bits in 64-bit integers).

The emulators are written in C, not Rust, but I bet this approach would also work perfectly with Rust's borrow checker (since there's no shared state in memory the borrow checker shouldn't even "activate"). An emulator is essentially built from functions which take a 64-bit integer as input, and return another 64-bit integer.

https://github.com/floooh/chips
The many facets of carrying capacity population dynamics--

"The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation. They are the precursors in the great army of destruction, and often finish the dreadful work themselves. But should they fail in this war of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence, and plague advance in terrific array, and sweep off their thousands and tens of thousands. Should success be still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one mighty blow levels the population with the food of the world." — Thomas Malthus, 1798. An Essay on the Principle of Population
Hi all, this was this weekend's little project I made to take a break from some other bigger stuff.

Basically it takes a youtube playlist and wraps it around a nicer streaming page - good to leave on the monitor at parties, or to send to friends and such.

On the home page, just paste the youtube link of a video contained in the playlist. Or you can build the link yourself: https://playlistradio.live/?&list={playlist_id}

Some examples:

- https://playlistradio.live/?&list=PL8F6B0753B2CCA128 / A classic jazz playlist, the default example on the site

- https://playlistradio.live/?&list=PLVHGe9JLVncHBqqcT9Xc7P9l_... / some good future funk

- https://playlistradio.live/?&list=PLD61626F6813F6C5F / The GOAT soundtrack
I have nothing against crazy expensive and experienced, and, once I can afford it, I will definitely choose it.

However, a general trend to deselect candidates because on an expectation of them being crazy expensive does not sound ageist to me. Hence, if this whole "let's fight ageism in tech" trend is to be taken seriously, the phenomenon needs to be better described and understood.
It isn’t a question of reusable type - you need to have fuel and oxidizer to burn things. A truck can use atmospheric oxygen for the oxidizer; a rocket can’t.

I also imagine that the extra weight of the aluminum pucks would tank your Isp (though I suppose you might be able to make back some tank weight).
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Yes, the link is broken because the file was updated to a newer version. Here is the directory with the newer file:

https://github.com/PDP-10/its/tree/master/src/aplogo
This post says a lot more about the javascript ecosystem than Docker. Multi-stage image builds are nothing new or extraordinary, and in fact it's Docker 101. However, being forced to install 500MB worth of tooling and dependencies just to deploy a measly 30MB static website on nginx is something unbelievable.
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> Again

The GP asked for nontrivial insights from applied category theory, not a recipe for use in everyday problems. I do not think every insight immediately leads to basic recipes that are used in day to day tasks. I haven't digested enough if the papers in the field yet to have a good answer for the GP, but I think you are not asking a fair question of a field as young as ACT.
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The original K design was laid out in the 1980s when the constraints were even tighter than what they are today. The utilization of very short operators means not only the interpreter easily fits into cache but also the custom function definitions you have written will as well.

When dealing with high performance computing or real time processing of high volumes of data, any fetch to RAM for loading a function call to dispatch is going to have _some_ impact in a tight loop. Add that up for all the libraries you have loaded for your application verses a ground up implementation in K... Does that whole thing live in L3 along with the VM or intepreter + dependencies underneath it? It's doubtful.

My experience was simply using their Kx's free Developer IDE and experiencing the performance differential on datasets myself. YMMV but my (admittedly limited) experience leads me to believe that there is a serious case to be made for the performance advantages of having all your computational logic living as close to your computational cores as possible.

See also the PhD by author of the OP article where he presents language where:

"The entire source code to the compiler written in this method requires only 17 lines of simple code compared to roughly 1000 lines of equivalent code in the domain-specific compiler construction framework, Nanopass, and requires no domain specific techniques, libraries, or infrastructure support."

Linked from the article, available here: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/24749
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We can spend all the taxpayer money on creating 17k highly skilled jobs that actually do something.

NASA does some useful stuff, but we could be doing much more useful stuff with the same money, while still having 17k+ jobs and good military technology and weather satellites etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyez

Oyez (/oʊˈjɛz/, /oʊˈjeɪ/, /oʊˈjɛs/, more rarely with the word stress at the beginning) is a traditional interjection said two or three times in succession to introduce the opening of a court of law, especially in Great Britain. The interjection is also traditionally used by town criers to attract the attention of the public to public proclamations.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyez?wprov=sfla1
Thanks for sharing. It's true that the numbers are reasonably close there. I wonder if this results on the type of property, because my experience looking at this was that the business was banking on appreciation more than cashflow. Even real estate companies have decided to ignore SF (Open door, Unison, etc)

[*] I doubt that you can rent such a unit at 4,500. Its well above market, so it either has high rotation or high closing costs. Also really hope the US cleans up their act with their tax policies on housing.
Irrational actions based on an apples-oranges comparison fallacy by ignorant, impulsive people who lack delayed gratification is why advisory and legal mandates are necessary. Loosening up the lockdowns without evidence (good testing) and a vaccine or infected carriers reduced to zero just restarts the pandemic curve all over again and the pain becomes all for nothing. Easily-distracted, angsty, confused, selfish, short-term-focused, un-empathetic people who lack critical thinking skills and proper perspective can't anticipate the consequences of their actions or self-reflect. If some people are going to be dangerous assholes or clueless liabilities to others, the government has to step-in and prevent undue permanent harm. Otherwise, there will be another 100k deaths. If officials in all states acted with complete negligence and denial, they would've lost their next elections and there would've been somewhere between 500k-1m additional deaths. These are deaths can still happen since few % of the overall population is immune, and there's a possibility of importing a deadlier Italian strain to supplant the weaker West Coast US strain.
Would highly recommend Tailwind if you don't like the boxed-in nature of most frameworks. Tailwind is more of a design system than a CSS framework. It simply gives you guidance on establishing proper constraints of your design system and then a nice set of utilities to get started with. There is no "can't be handled" scenario in Tailwind.

EDIT: And the book by the same author, Refactoring UI, is also a fantastic primer on the philosophy behind Tailwind.
I have heard that while the virus may spread via microparticles, that's probably not the main method of transmission or else it would have spread much more already. Therefore it seems reasonable to believe that homemade masks might help.
Oyez means “Here ye!” Town criers used to say it.
This is not an area of my expertise, so I can't say.
it seems obvious that the military “needs improvement” primarily because it’s got tons of funding and no good way to waste it.
> It cannot yet be used extensively in Firefox for what it was designed

Here's an extensive list of Rust components within Firefox - shipped, in progress, and proposed:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation#Shipped
I suspect I share your frustration; the academics who teach math tend not to have a very good grasp on why it might be useful.

The point is (probably, maybe) that nothing in programming is intuitive; all the abstractions have to be learned for a first time somewhere. A lot of math education is about cataloguing common patterns, naming them and providing an environment where students can check if they have internalised the obvious pattern or not.

This allows incremental building of knowledge between different people. So for example if someone is trying to build a Something with [Property Z] and person B points out "this is a [mathematical object X] therefore [theory Y] says the Something won't have [Property Z]" then the builder can understand the implications immediately and abandon the effort, or identify what needs to change to make the Something not an [object X]. Saves a lot of discussion, enables a lot of coordinating. You can ask an expert to check your work for [Object X]s if you never quite got confident in the concept.

A bit like how an engineer might look over another's design and say "the tensile stresses on that beam will be huge!" and the designer will be able to make a lot of assessments in an instant that would need a good half hour if the concept of tensile stresses wasn't part of a common language and the mistake-finder had to explain stress & strain from first principles.

So yeah; a lot of it probably is trivial but it saves hours of discussion and explaining out in the real world. And there is benefit in moving the explaining up early where it is dealt with in a 30:1 classroom setting and it doesn't slow down design work.
>> “Thus I would probably add about 15% or so to the known death toll,” she wrote to two city officials.

There's a few different numbers and it's important to keep them clear.

The main number that people know is "died after being tested positive with covid-19 from a covid-19 like illness". For a while this number only included people who died in hospital.

The next number (which the 40% to 60% refers to) is "died from a covid-19 related cause after testing positive, or after being suspected of being covid-19 positive". This includes all the frail people in nursing homes where tests were not carried out (they weren't being tested because it wasn't going to affect their treatment).

The 15% appears to refer to all the people who live alone at home.

> Interestingly per the https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm, we see something like 647,000 heart disease deaths per year. So, I haven't done the napkin math, but could the 20%-odd spike of cardiac arrest events they mentioned have more to do with postponed surgeries?

I agree that cancelled surgeries, and also people delaying seeking help when they start to have heart problems, is really worrying and has caused some of this excess death.
The thing which I wish was easy is having ssh pass enough things forward (and backward) that you can ssh somewhere, run emacsclient on a file and have that file show up (via tramp) in your emacs.

It’s just about possible but hard and hacks and not really supported by ssh.
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I tend to assume that with no accompanying response on an otherwise uninflammatory post, a downvote is just a 'disagree' from one of the minority that use them that way. (Of course sometimes it just means I said something inflammatory, but usually it's pretty clear if I have.)
Ha ha! I've tried to answer this question a few times tonight, but alas I find that I am not able to do so :-) It's a good question and I think the answer is much more deep than it appears. Maybe one day I'll be able to answer it.
I upvote minor Rust releases when I like something in the blog post/release notes, certainly not just because it is Rust. Maybe other people do the same.
> That is the most aggressive form of marketing I have ever seen for a programming language

_Oracle has entered the chat_

Yeah the Rust hype machine is a bit zealous, but I don't think it's entirely unfounded. Rust genuinely solves (or tries way better to that past langs) many problems that plague programmers and computer systems.

I myself have barely used it and yet despite the steep learning curve (boy is it steep) I already enjoy it way more than C++ (let alone java, ick), and I'm sure it'll be more fun once I grok ownership.

Go is more fun though ;)
That's right. My "go-to" obnoxious assembly language program I could type in from memory was an infinite loop that screeched the speaker by loading my favorite io address $C030 at an ultrasonic rate.

!0: LDA $C030
! JMP $0
I appreciate the effort in improving CSS dev tools. I rely on them a lot, and just looking at those slides you can see how difficult of a problem it is to solve.

Flexbox and CSS Grid have introduced another level of complexity, in that, the display value of an element turns its direct children into flexbox/grid elements, making their display value irrelevant. It also makes their flex-* properties effective. You'd have to parse the DOM tree to detect such dependencies.

Also, pruning innefective properties isn't that easy because you need to take into account the context. Let's say you have a blue button with white text. This button is in dark navbar that also has white text. Apparently, the button's color is ineffective because inheriting its value from the navbar would suffice. But that same button in a dark text context would make the color property effective again. Since the button would have the same CSS class, you can't prune the color for all instances.

Definitely a hard problem to tackle.
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Believe me, I've been aware for my whole life that I'm a "contrarian" but not in the way that gets upvotes and likes on the internet. I guess that's why I have no friends and nobody wants to be associated with me.

I used to think HN was a place where you could talk about the reality of the world, not the sensationalized or BS version. Maybe it once was, but it really isn't anymore. Nowadays YC uses HN as a way to shill their companies, and the average IQ of commenters seems to have reverted to the mean.

At least there's lobste.rs, which is a much better community now.
I'm not sure that's a solution. The problem is verifying that the three 'n's are equal, not that 'a', 'b', and 'c' are equal. Solving this cannot be done in a context free grammar [0].

[0]: https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/33153/is-an-bn-cn-con...
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Hi, please shoot us an email to hello@prodcamp.com, this is something we’re discussing at the moment and would love you to weight in. Thanks
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Occasionally all these features would be quite useful if it was documented and accessible for mere mortals.
The product kept evolving too. (Updates, new features, etc)
I think people started to value it more once the price doubled. Most new features were in response to their feedback.
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I can relate. I don't work in IT, and I've been using <firstname><lastname>.com as my main email for years. But in practice I have another email address that I can give around when I feel that using my own domain would look pretentious.

I've pondered buying a domain that's not my name just to make it look like it's a normal email service, so it wouldn't look pretentious. But now it seems to me that a better solution would be to migrate all to Fastmail or Mailbox.org and have an alias ready for that use.
Postfix has flexible configuration system with many knobs. I would say though, that official documentation is nice and detailed. Last time I checked Debian defaults looked pretty good, so you don't need fiddle too much to get reasonably useful and secure setup.
True that we have a lot of traffic there but also it's not that bad as in other cities I have lived in.

What I think Vilnius needs is a metro.
Since you can not just create new road lanes in the old town.
I'd suggest that generally the grammar should be context-free, but that a few features = can be non-context-free. Formatting like this should specifically be a separate check IMO.
So after lisp and smalltalk, we can add yet another blissful silo to the list :)
Only Github has a MUCH better track record than Google on these matters.
Fair enough, but I'd argue being able to move said addresses, without needing cooperation of the mail hoster, at any point is pretty good along the control axis. (Don't forget to have an independent backup of your inbox though if you want to be safe!)
Do you have any plans of georeferencing the images so you can see your own GPS position on the map?
A Man Who Built a 40-Foot Spite Fence Around His Neighbor’s Home
Apparently this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EyveyqLQKDg
Of course it wouldn't. Why would women suddenly find a man attractive just because some app brings up a match? The matching algorithms are not there to show you who you find attractive, they are there to filter out the 95% (for women), or 50% (for men) of people you definitely don't find attractive.
Is this the best you can come up with? This is not Russia demonizing the US. This is conspiracy theory coming out of tinfoil hat public from everywhere including US.