skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you do a google search on mobility, you'll find papers that say a whole lot of different things - some that say it's gotten worse, some that say it's gotten better.

The biggest problem is data. It's not that great.
Being offended by things is dangerous to our culture.

You can stand up for the rights and freedoms of others without turning your nose.

Showing that something doesn't bother you reduces the power bullies and oppressors have over you.

You can even reframe it. Make America Socialist Again. See what I did there?
> books

Most books don't pan out and if I don't turn myself into a marketing personality good luck. I say this as someone who's marketed books professionally as a web product across all major publishing platforms. I'm a nobody and prefer to focus on my engineering.

> teaching

Sure - because there's tons of money in teaching? Uhhh...?

> consulting

I've made a killing here and am likely going into my next 1099 tomorrow so yea. No arguments here. It DOES take a solid network though to do consulting so if you're not sociable you're likely screwed in this arena. I have two sales people who are my guardian angels hawking my services for top-dollar so I'm incredibly blessed in this department.

> bootstrapped SAAS app

Currently working out licensing with two corps on one of these myself as well. Finding the foot in the door for industry, then collecting user data on problems to solve, then pushing through solving them, and then gambling on the problem you solved is INCREDIBLY risky.

Plus - if you're the startup engineer things fall near-100% on your shoulders unless you're willing to play the outsourcing game. Which I have and my god that's a FT job itself even for the most menial of applications.

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All-in-all I am actually the guy who pulled myself up by the bootstraps to probably 10x what my parents made in small town Iowa. So yea. But all of my original comment absolutely stands. It was hell on earth and I worked my entire 20's away hustling my BUTT off to get out of the trailer park and out to California.

I still absolutely posit that my story of "just pull yourself up by the bootstraps" is the exception and shouldn't be sold as "anyone can do this if they work hard enough!!!" Most people can't.

Your list makes it seem like those things are easy - and as someone who has experience in them (minus teaching)... it absolutely isn't. Those are all serious endeavors that take time, commitment, failure, getting back on the horse, and ultimately years of pursuit/work.
"PET" isn't jargon, it's a designation/name, much like "relational database" or "Phoenix framework". It's a name and type of a plastic, and to replace it with "plastic" alone makes the headline wildly inaccurate, like if I said "this new medicine cures cancer in 90 percent of patients" but it was just about some rare cancer that only 100 people get a year and couldn't be applied to other cancers.

Depolemerize is jargon, admittedly.
You have misunderstood what R0 and R_effective mean. R0 certainly can, and often does, go below 1. The only difference between R0 and R_effective is that R0 assumes everyone in the population is suaceptible to the virus.
I might have the numbers off a bit, but it's something like...

If you have a patient at your hospital and you are able to give them a covid diagnosis, you get $8k from the federal government. If you can put them on a ventilator for a few minutes, you get $35k from the federal government. This is intended to help offset the costs of care for covid patients to healthcare providers. You can get a covid diagnosis by having some of the sympoms... like coughing, weakness, shortness of breath, etc. I imagine it's difficult to die from anything without some weakness or shortness of breath. So it is very easy to say the patient had "covid-like" symptoms, and put covid as the cause of death.

Now, keep in mind that at the same time, healthcare providers are furloughing and laying off workers. Since "non-essential" care is on hold, there's not enough work for people to do in most places in the country. This places healthcare providers in a difficult moral position where they can inflate a number and keep their employees on payroll, or strictly follow it and lay everyone off.

One easy way to help with this data issue is to simply differentiate the deaths where a person had covid-like symptoms vs a death where a person actually tested positive for covid.
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It really depends on the resources your service will consume: cpu, memory, storage, bandwidth, etc.
FWIW, pihole is not tied to any particular hardware. For example:

https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole
I'd love it if we'd re-allocate some defense spending, but I find this argument pretty disingenuous.

The LHC cost about 4.75 billion during construction, and requires a yearly operating budget of around 1 billion dollars.

The total cost estimate for finding the Higgs was about 13.25 billion.

The B-2 bomber program cost 44 Billion (or an average cost of 2.1 billion per unit), but it resulted in considerably MORE jobs over a much longer time span, also led to several innovations in manufacturing/radar/ECS/Material science, and it costs LESS to maintain per year at ~850 million a year for all 21 units.

This all for a program that had immediate and obvious applicability (we got a physical object out the other side with clear purpose), and it was STILL the object of intense budgetary concerns.

Basically - It was a costs DISASTER and it was only 4 times the cost.

Not saying I'd rather have more bombers than another collider, but this is not the argument I would make...
The first big project I had as a professional SWE was to rebuild a checkout page to use React. Seems like overkill for a single checkout page to be its own React app? It wasn’t. There was a lot of edge cases. It needed to handle different countries (some have states, some have zip codes, Brazil has a crazy tax scheme), different SKUs, different payment methods (including resellers), free trials, etc. The original template + jQuery rendered version was nearly impossible to work with. Any sort of change would take forever and would lead to bugs whose patch would only increase complexity.

React substantially simplified the page, and it actually looked and performed much better since there wasn’t any jankiness from HTML rendering before JS could correctly format the page. We were then able to experiment on the page to optimize the experience and drive conversions.

TL;DR, more often than you would expect, the tiny performance costs you face from using a SPA is more than made up for by being able to develop quickly and more confidently.
I didn't even think about the possible similarity until you pointed it out.

Perhaps it's just that I'm not letting politics take over my life.
Study: Microsoft Saw Bugs Decrease 60-90% From TDD With 15-35% Time Cost (2008)
Curious if you (or anyone else) have used the ios and/or Android adapter for mobile? Seems like the repos are getting stale.

Getting SPAness on web and mobile apps for free would be the holy grail. Basecamp claims it works great for their mobile app.
If you have efficient testing, contact tracing and quarantine measures in place, you may be able to quell any resurfacing outbreaks.
Once again: if you are writing an article about LLVM performance, and you have the choice between the title "Make LLVM fast again" and something else, you will likely have more success with your article if you pick something else.

Do you disagree with the advice I'm giving here?
Or Stalin, the Scheme compiler that "brutally optimizes".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_(Scheme_implementation)
This idea comes up often. I think it's a bad idea for many reasons, so rather than repeat myself I wrote them down here: https://robert.ocallahan.org/2020/05/why-forking-html-into-s...
>We can eradicate like New Zealand did.

Respectfully, I do not agree. New Zealand went on lockdown March 23 when they jumped overnight from 66 to 102 confirmed cases. They have 1144 as of yesterday.

There are now 1.3 million cases in the U.S., almost that many in Western Europe. There are not even enough tests to know the real number. Antibody tests are indicating that a couple tens of millions of people may have already been exposed.

I know of no precedent for using quarantines to eradicating a disease that is already so widespread. There is no evidence that such a thing is possible. It would have been at some point in the past, when there were some hundreds of known cases, but not any more.

What to do from this moment forward? Did you mean to imply that you thought we could stay locked down until this is eradicated?

I wonder if there are models that can give us covid predictions based on continuing the existing lockdowns versus easing of lockdowns, with a vaccine in 12 months versus a vaccine in 4 years, and estimated economic and social costs of lockdowns. I don't think it's responsible to make these big decisions without objectively weighing all the data, and the data is fuzzy, refined over time. (Although I am pleased at how much data is publicly available.)
How can Waze iOS app hijack my audio in CarPlay?
How is that any different from the proposition offered by your local Mafia muscle?
This isn't correct. Tests aren't given randomly. They're rationed and given only to the most at risk people. As testing capacity increases, tests can be given to groups who are less likely to be infected.

So at first tests were basically only given to people who had multiple symptoms, to be sure. Now you can get a test in my area if you're asymptomatic but working at a job that requires you to come into contact with other people.

If the percent positive of all tests is constant even as you test more people, that means that even as you test less obviously symptomatic people, the number of infected is constant, which could mean the infection rate is going up. Or not, but it's not certain that it's complex.

> Generally under 10% is considered under control or manageable by experts.

Can you cite this?
In addition to everything else said in this thread -- all good stuff -- it's worth noting that there's often an upfront expense that's hard to overcome in order to invest in the stock market in any sort of meaningful way. For example, some of the stocks recommended by the likes of Mr Money Mustache require a $3,000 minimum first-time investment. That's a big hurdle for some, myself included. I'm in music and media, not tech, and while my income is pretty solid, my overhead is absurdly high relative to it. Putting aside $3k on top of doing the financially responsible things like maintaining rainy day funds, saving for retirement, etc, is just tough.
My guess is government and corporate spending.
"If you want people to read your content, conform." The borg are looking for recruits.
I love TypeScript. But let's not use it to excuse our present situation. OCaml shares many properties with TypeScript, especially when TypeScript is used in a functional way with inferred types propagating through the system. And the tooling for OCaml has run for a long time on vastly less powerful machines.

Just yesterday, VSCode had a UI lock for a good 5-10 seconds in a pretty small typescript project. It easily could have been some extension I had installed somewhere. But our current ecosystem solves for the combination of satisfying business managers (fast iteration) and developer enjoyment over producing long term stable and reliable programs that can run on minimal hardware.
If it wasn't clear, I'm saying that making the behavior defined is nice, but personally I think defining it to wrap is not the best way it could have been done. IMO a consistent trap would have been nicer.
How many people do you think working the counter FT at Taco Smell can save enough money to afford their own franchise location?

> The cost of opening a new Taco Bell restaurant is between $1.2 million and $2.6 million. Taco Bell also charges a $45,000 franchise fee, an ongoing royalty fee equal to 5.5% of gross sales, and a marketing fee equal to 4.25% of gross sales.

https://www.businessinsider.com/what-it-costs-to-open-a-taco...

Give ME a break man. LOL.
I'm agreeing with you that the "modern web" is too complex, but the "make a folder and sync it to a Linux box" solution doesn't work very well for real-world use. It's easier and a lot faster to sync your static site to something like S3 or Google Cloud Storage and serve it from there. Now you don't need to secure and update your Linux box or be responsible for its uptime.
The heartwarming world of Hot Wheels collecting
Archive for anyone stuck with paywall:

https://archive.is/4Xwma
Maybe the real opportunity is in tiny robot bee drones, a la Black Mirror.
One's missing out on a lot of advantages though, if one does not apply the paradigm quite broadly in a code base. Mostly referential transparency, how do you test your code, if you cannot be sure, that something is without side effects and have to check every single procedure? It takes away a lot of the appeal. If I write a program in functional style, I want some guarantees in return, which I don't get from half baked things. Easy testability, simple parallelization, composability of functions.
That's were contact tracing and testing are key. If when a person is identified as having COVID you can identify who they have had contact with and test them you can reduce or ideally totally prevent onward infections. Effectively breaking the chain.
This is super interesting to me and I would actually love to learn the origins of this... do you have any resources you may be able link? Books, articles etc.
No reason it can’t continue after, it’s a balance right?
We should create a better division in web standards between the "document web" and the "application web." I think there are valid use cases to both, and we shouldn't rule out either. Wikipedia has to be the greatest realization of the initial spirit of the web: an endless interconnected network of articles of varying topics. That's a real use case, but it's not the use case of _every_ application.

Some applications really want to make use of a richer UX, one that doesn't need to re-render the entire page from scratch on every button click. Maybe Gmail is the best example of using the SPA experience to drive a rich UX. The web browser was not meant to build such applications, that's something we don't acknowledge enough. The web browser was designed, since day one, to render and link between text documents. We've been trying to play UX catch-up for 20 years at this point, and it's finally converged with lots of support for treating the web as an application platform as well (React, Angular, etc.)

So we've taken years to arrive at SPA's, but I think they're completely justified. They absolutely have tradeoffs, but they're not pointless tradeoffs. That doesn't mean that all applications should be SPA's, but I also think it's completely wrong to say that all applications should be simple documents too.
LLVM has devolved into complete garbage in Xcode for large Swift projects. Slowless aside, at least half the time it won't display values for variables after hitting a breakpoint, and my team has to resort to using print statements to debug issues.
Landfill costs (understandably) vary between countries. Got a lot of empty space? Cheap. Crowded? Not cheap at all.
We know much more about the virus than before. Even without a vaccine, gaining as many time as possible until we catch it, can make a huge difference.
This is an argument. How is it not? But I'm not sure what you're arguing for or even against at this point.
Military spending (eg USA, Russia, China), politically motivated public works (eg Japan), propping up failing industries for political reasons (eg car industry in Australia or USA), not to mention all the money that gets wasted on consultants, starting projects and not finishing them, poorly thought out stimulus packages...

There is a huge double standard where some things undergo a stringent cost/benefit analysis and other things are not scrutinised at all. Also the upside or benefit of scientific investment can be astronomically and unpredictably high. How can you compare building more public housing to inventing the semiconductor industry?
My mind did not immediately jump to MAGA, and I'm an American. It's not a significant issue for most people.
It's something like Codex Seraphinianus
What I dislike the most about the modern web and the unnecessary use of SPA technologies is how unreliable and error-prone it has made sites that really need to be simple and reliable. For example, banking websites, utility websites, government websites (like DMV, unemployment, and others), anything where failure or mistakes have a high cost.

These sites should stick to reliable, tried and true, pre-SPA technologies. But now that's "boring" and "not-modern" so they rebuild using React (or whatever is the popular SPA framework this month) and the result is often a huge degradation in site quality.
It’s a joke. Good grief, people on this site have no sense of humour.
I empathize with the author but client-side technologies like React have a pretty clear advantage that explains why they're popular: for the people that are tasked to make websites (i.e. us, HN readers), they're easier to work with and they save us time. It outweighs all the end-user-facing cons by a lot, because companies need us, and our salaries are expensive.

It's true that they are largely more complex than O.G. web technologies, and it worries me that they create a sort of gatekeeping effect on the industry, but I think it's disingenuous to outright claim React & co. are bad from a development perspective. I sometimes wonder if the people claiming to hate client-side technologies or disable JS in their browsers have actually ever had to build a complex website to put food on their table. My bet is the answer is often no, or they are a contrarian in general.

I've done lots of native development on Desktop and Mobile and I can sort of see how you get there if that's your point of reference, but if you work on web apps daily it's clear why the popular technologies are popular, and it's not hype.
Yeah check the rates on I-bonds right now, they went down 1% this month. It's not even worth it anymore. I was earning 2.55% APY now it's barely 1.5%. You can get the same return in an AMEX savings account.
Have a look at minikanren : )
I personally don't disagree (and don't like that you're being downvoted for making a point), I just think the delta between the two is so small that it's not even worth discussing, let alone self-censoring for.
4 months ago this would have been the biggest joke. Now it looks like a killer idea. How fast things have changed.
Actually, women tend to use more paper. Not only do they use more, but they use it on a mucus membrane (think that's the right word).
That would be the LLDB Swift integration specifically.
I think people overestimate how "open" Sweden really is. It's not particularly more open than many states, it's just that businesses and individuals have chosen to take individual responsibility to protect society[0], as opposed to fighting it as a danger to the economy and an infringement on rights.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2020/apr/21/...
Gunboat is an awesome version of the boardgame -- no messages other than the moves on the board. There's plenty of diplomacy and careful deception involved.
"Our patience has its limits: improving LLVM performance"
Perhaps you should try using JetBrains AppCode, from the company that employs the author of this article.
> Companies don't even get the money from secondary stock purchases, so the invested money is doing absolutely nothing.

There would be no IPO market without a secondary market. Almost nobody is interested in buying a stock at IPO and holding it forever without being able to sell it.
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This of course extends to software. I’m a engineer and consultant and have been turned down on some projects a few times due to them finding what they believe is a better deal. Software (like shoes) is one of the absolute cases of “you get what you pay for.” Sure enough after hiring a dirt cheap offshore that promises the world for a fraction of the cost, they come crawling back with a buggy mess, asking me if I’m still available. My rates are what they are because I’ve been in this game for over ten years and I know what I can do.

For anyone reading this that’s currently in this position. You are not saving money. You’re increasing both cost and development time in the long run.
I agree with this. In my experience, adding React or friends doubles the size and complexity of your application and in a lot of cases, the benefits accrued are not worth it. You essentially end up having two applications to maintain and therefore two places to manage state and make sure they sync correctly.

I commented below that I hope frameworks like Phoenix LiveView will be the future. Seems like the best of both worlds, the simplicity of server side html rendering with SPAlike interactivity. Of course not perfectly. There are tradeoffs no matter what decisions you make.
You might find android annotations interesting, or https://android.jlelse.eu/the-ultimate-android-development-f...

Came across this (and remembered about Android annotations, which made life a bit less painful) and thought it might help you if you were trying to build the app equivalent of some basic CRUD stuff, and fetch some data into a view etc.
Did you read the link that created this thread? UBI won't solve anything. I hate to burst your bubble, but you're just ignoring facts. "Old farts" have nothing to do with it.
Running, yoga, gardening and self care :)
Housing is arguably an investment, or at least the people doing it think it is.
It's certainly technically possible for Apple to encrypt iCloud backups the same way that they do with Keychain and iMessage (when backups are disabled).
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There are certain people for whom “balance” and “moderation” are nothing but fleeting and elusive ideals (I am one of them). Usually it is much easier to just draw a red line around certain activities altogether.
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How much of the terrain is interpolated out to 3d structures? I believe they are using a combination of aircraft photography and photogrammetry for cities, but at some point they have to go back to satellite imagery for sparsely populated areas
It is an interesting approach to drawing - it’s almost like what you do is, you make the tool understand the meaning of what you want to draw, and the tool is expected to do an optimal job at getting it done.
> So this means that the ad blocker will query "definitely-not-an-ad-subdomain.dastx.me" and realize that it actually points to "terribleads.adgiant.com", right?

Right
I expect about 0% of people to go from the bottom level position at Taco Bell directly to owning one. But I'm sure you're smart enough to have known that. So why did you feel it would be useful to frame the scenario in such a disingenuous way?
> But there are also a lot of problems for which I can’t see any concrete benefit to using React. Those are things like blogs, shopping-cart-websites, mostly-CRUD-and-forms-websites.

If "React" is used loosely here to mean a modern frontend framework, then at least one concrete benefit is the ease of splitting web pages into components, and the ease of co-locating CSS with these components.

I have tried Eleventy with nunjucks, but compared to the way React (Vue, Svelte, whatever) allow you to organize your code, it felt really awkward. Even Google dev rels, such as Jake Archibald, admit that they love the developer experience of something like Next.js [0]

[0] https://developers.google.com/web/shows/http203/podcast/soci...