skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Public transport emits far less per passenger.

Untrue. You're thinking of CO2, where this is debatable (for my city I ran the numbers, our diesel buses fare much worse than my EV per passenger).

A modern EV will always beat a diesel bus at total emissions per passenger, simply because it doesn't emit most of the harmful stuff.

> As for long haul delivery—take the Tesla Semi and add a small diesel electric generator. Now it can go all day and still emit far less than regular trucks.

Most trucks in cities cover only small distances.
So would that 5 people be the 1% or the 5.4% (5 out of 92)
I like this, it suits my needs.

I noticed that VOO (Vanguard S&P 500 ETF) has a -10.56% dividend percentage listed (although it is the YTD performance) which causes the expected annual dividend to go negative. The yield is currently listed at 1.98% on Yahoo Finance.
You need a space after the '%', which always confused and annoyed me. But TIL: the special character doesn't need to be a prefix! It only needs to be separated from other characters using a space. Makes much more sense now.
Me and my sister were raised without much trouble despite not having a car. The trick is living a city that is not built for cars with humans as an afterthought.
I think kids are told one thing and taught another. Schools may tell kids to rock the boat and that they can change the world, but it’s pretty clear you can only do it within their boundaries. And honestly, that’s not a bad thing. I don’t think you can have schools or other cultural institutions that really train and encourage the kind of change that Steve is referencing here. Almost by definition, radical change requires being anti-establishment in a way that no lasting institution can really foment.
Most people don't, and that's the sad truth.
> “they do not speak any English, but they are sure from this presentation that you are very, very intelligent”

I kind of hope there's some nuance to this story and it didn't quite happened in the way you described.

If they think it's "polite" to let a person talk for an hour without understanding a word of it (while nodding and smiling), and then have the nerve to call it "intelligent", that's an insult to both the presentor and the concept of intelligence.

Cultural differences notwithstanding, the idea of "completely wasting someone's time while pretending to pay attention" shouldn't be too difficult to empathise with.
Why do you compare almost an entire continent to one country ? why not compare Sweden to NYC ?

Sweden is handling it, not great but not terrible and so is the US and many other countries.

On top of that there is a lot that we don't understand, for example why do many Mediterranean countries has low death rate even though the sick count is not low ?
I think the actual values of the upvotes should be hidden, but the different upvote types should just be names - informative vs funny, vs analytic, etc...

I enjoyed the say Slashdot did it.
I've starten writing a series of articles on getting started with data science form an organisational perspective, in my own native language (Danish).
Of interest might also be Erjang, Kresten Krab's port of BEAM to JVM. https://github.com/trifork/erjang

As I understand it, it is feature complete and actually runs Erlang pretty well. Could be interesting to see some benchmark testing.
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Discuss the message. The messenger is irrelevant.
Note that Deno started out as Typescript runtime, it was it's tagline, they added the JavaScript later there.

> TS is pretty dang popular, but what if something else comes along and scoops it?

Earth is rather small, type inferencing dynamic language is really hard. There is simply no other language or team that has achived anything like TS. It's very unlikely that anyone else will do it for JS again. You can just look at amount of work in TS already.

Only thing that can "scoop it" is another language entirely taking off and leaving JS developers in the history. In that case the point becomes useless, it can happen to any runtime for any given language.
That is my exact habit now - DDG for the easy/lazy stuff, google for more obscure. I'm still giving them some search info to profile me, but hopefully it's skewed enough that it's value is lower. And I'm definitely giving them less ad views.

I actually prefer DDG in a few fronts, like configuration of language and region.
Unless you're worth more than $500M, you're wasting your time. (And on this forum, hey, maybe you hit the startup vestment goldmine, and actually are!)

Years ago, when the Slashdot/Reddit crowd got up in arms about some other terrible law, I actually took the time to look up my Senators' numbers, and call their offices. The aides I talked to acted like I was an insurance telemarketer, and wouldn't/couldn't even tell me their positions on the bill. Needless to say, I became disillusioned with the process.

I've heard a lot of people say that "if enough people bug them," but it's simply not true. Unless you're a campaign donor, and writing checks large enough to stick out from the crowd, you literally don't exist in the US law-making process. I'm sorry, but you just don't.
If you're serious about spending a lot on the cloud it's reasonable to expect a taste. Just like an ice cream store.
Firefox also has a drop-down at the end of the tab bar that lists all the tabs in the window. I used to use TST, but have fallen away as the native functionality (between the drop-down and the awesome bar) suffices.

Currently on 304 tabs over 4 windows :).
What piano software was your favorite? And what device do you connect your piano to?
I really like those. Thanks for the link.

At the other end of this same spectrum, there’s Troy Paiva, who has gotten quite a bit of press for nighttime “light painting” of abandoned aircraft, cars, rural buildings, etc.

https://lostamerica.com/photo-items/the-mojave-airport-boney...
I’m also picking up deep learning with a focus on computer vision.

Do the first lesson of Fastai’s Practical Deep Learning for Coders — https://course.fast.ai/

It explains that trying to use your own GPU takes a lot of energy that you should focus elsewhere when you’re getting started.

Paperspace Gradient (referenced in the link) offers free Jupyter Notebooks with GPU’s you can use for 6 hours at a time (and re-start when they expire). You can get a classifier that distinguishes dog breeds up and running in less than a day and probably a few hours if you just watch the video and follow along with the notebook.
Good, that is already half the battle. Not jumping to the conclusion that the others must be incompetent can be more difficult than it sounds, and judging by your comment it looks like you have that down.

Were you able to ask the devs directly about their reasoning? Asking them about certain decisions, or trying to get them to explain the thought process and repeating it back to them in your own words is an incredibly important step. You might not agree with them at all, but the part of what your own ideas are is parked at that stage. Then, once you've confirmed their thought process, and they agree to your version of it, is the point to ask about improvements or different strategies that you see. 'Would there be any drawbacks to [your approach], because I think it would provide benefit [x], [y], and [z]' is a great point to start off from once you have that confirmation on your version of their thought process.

Now, if you don't have any access to the original devs it will become much more difficult to try this process. Best you can probably do is try and see if you can find a person that is willing to play devils advocate, or working backwards from your reasoning to see if there is any knowledge that when eliminated from the thought process will make you arrive to the conclusion of the original devs.
I suspect it's about pushing paid content as part of a revenue mechanism.

All advertising platforms consolidate over time.
I come from a field where it would be unthinkable to draw conclusions about application performance by running it on a developer's laptop instead of the target platform.

Judging by the comments here this is not as obvious as I previously thought.
It’s about negating security mechanisms that rely on the request/target "origin".
Is this relevant to the current conversation or just a whataboutism?
Yes, that's why the work has to start ASAP.

There is currently a project to abstract the C-API with HPy: https://speakerdeck.com/antocuni/hpy-a-future-proof-way-of-e...

The idea is to (very slowly) remove access to direct CPython internals and give a handle to important low-level behavior through a standardized API hidding implementation details.

It's a lot of work, and going to affect a huge part of the ecosystem, but I'm hopeful this is something the extensions authors will actually want to be part of because it promises to solve a lot of problems:

- on the long run, this will make maintaining a c-extension much easier: more stability no matter the evolution of upstream, more certainty.

- there will be a clear way to do things, which means better documentation and conventions, potentially libs to do common things. Right now creating extensions is more a set of receipes people found out to work.

- because of this, scrutiny will be given to common patterns, which will be abstracted and optimized, and given the security of an API contract

- extensions using this API will work out of the box, or faster if they already did, on alternative python implementations like pypy

Of course, the end goal is to free the python core devs to experiment with breaking changes at the c level, such as changing the memory management model, and eventually maybe remove the GIL or allow for a JIT.
Well, the goal of an economy is to (1) Keep people working productively (2) To distributes the fruits of production equitably.

What constitutes productive work is disputed, of course. Most people agree growing food and teaching kids is productive work. Most people agree selling narcotics or a crime ring is not productive. A lot of work (advertising, the financial sector, many types of legal work, some types of management, drilling for oil, prostitution, etc.) are areas where reasonable people disagree.

There is a lot of stuff to definition of equitable too: Who plays the capitalist game best? Who produces the most value? Based on need? Who works the hardest?

Capitalism and money is an accounting scheme to make that happen. It's far from optimal, but it's the best algorithm we've got.

A reset could mean:

(1) We forget all debt. We give everyone the means of production they're currently using. We start all bank accounts back at a common value. We resume from there.

(2) We put a new system in place to replace capitalism, and we pray it works better.

(3) We unwind debts and bank accounts to where they were in January 2020. We start from there. It's just bits on computers.

(4) Etc.

I don't think the recovery model ever had legs. The suspend/restart model could have worked in March, perfectly cleanly, but we're past that point now. We've gone to where we'll either have major problems for a few years, or some kind of major out-of-the-box solution like a reset.
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I'm building a Jackbox-like web app [0] to support audience participation in live improv shows - OBS/projector overlay and audience suggestion management to begin, with future interactivity planned.

[0] https://improv.plus
And especially among immigrants, that's a big "Apart" but still something that could have been done differently relatively easily if we only knew
I made a Spotify playlist that is automatically updated with songs recently played on BBC 6 Music.

Built with basic node server, puppeteer and the Spotify API.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0xft9w8N7FUe23a4G4YzvG?si=...
The core ideas are kind of interesting, but in my experience where cool new language ideas come apart at the seams is when they are built out to completeness with libraries, packaging, configuration management and the rest.

> ... The current focus of the Bosque project is core language design. As a result there is no support for packaging, deployment, lifecycle management, etc. ...

So there is nothing solid there yet and thus significant risk that like many other languages this offering will suffer metastasis, bloat, and conflicts as it grows to be useful for solving real problems.
I don't think thats very accurate.
You really need to gi watch the first Deno video made by Ryan Dahl at JSConf.
If you are feeling tired while reading this short article
Too late to look into Perl 6 :-) It has been renamed to Raku (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media).
What is your best tip to promote your MVP Landing page?
Hello,

So, I have been wondering what is your best tip to promote your MVP landing page, which you think is something people should do.

I know the most usual but important one is to share your products with your "potential audience" or where they hangout. It could be Facebook, Twitter or forums.

Let us know your thoughts.
A government cannot violate its own rules by declaring an event unprecedented and that is what many officials have been doing.

I am all for lawful precautions but you have to give the people some credit. The lock downs and restrictions are incredibly arbitrary and in many cases nonsensical. you can have similar businesses and one is non essential or one has rules applied that don't apply to the other. this is what frustrates people the most, the vast majority know what to do. those who don't have always been there and always been a problem but it was easy to ignore them prior
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Thank you so for much for #1!
The debt forgiveness can happen here too. That's the critical piece now.

A month ago, a debt freeze would have done it.
Nice! Do you know if it would be possible to automatically get the recipe list into something AH, Jumbo or picnic delivery?
If the FBI had nothing to hide.

They wouldn't push for warrantless surveillance.
Moderators aren't paid. ...which means they must seek other employment.

One way to do that is to push paid content (or remove content).

Ultimately, these channels of revenue become more profitable and those folks buy more and more subs.
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Management has to be ok with reducing headcount. You would think that all managers would be incentivized to made their groups more efficient but there is a high correlation between headcount and political power within an organization and people don't like to give that up for free.
> I personally would welcome a new language that gives me full-spectrum dependent types with great tooling and moderate performance.

I'd propose to have a look at Swift. It is very similar to Rust in many aspects (particularly the type system), with slower performance (due to some of the abstractions). The tooling on macOS is already really good, on Linux it is getting there, and on Windows the next release will add official support.
They are at almost every intersection in my state. I’ve heard people in bikes complaining about having hard time getting detected sometimes. I suppose it depends on how the light is programmed if it has a max time before it cycles, but I’ve had to go through intersections on a red light because I waited minutes and it didn’t turn green.
I would recommend Lode Runner as well!
What do you mean the cancel method doesn't cancel ? It does cancel with a CancellationException stored in the future and an optional interrupt send to the thread running the blocking operation.
I created Ruby API lib named Joshua, out of frustration with Grape

https://github.com/dux/joshua

* Can work in REST or JSON RPC mode.

* Automatic routing + can be mounted as a Rack app, without framework, for unmatched speed and low memory usage

* Automatic documentation builder & Postman import link

* Nearly nothing to learn, pure Ruby classes

* Consistent and predictable request and response flow

* Errors and messages are localized
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23156224
In English "bosque" is a specific type of forest/woods ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosque, could be named for that too. (Bosque is a generic "woods" in Spanish/Portuguese.)
This is really interesting, and rings a lot of bells for myself as well. Are you in the US?

I think it is time for a lot of people for a relocation to somewhere with better-larger living arrangements, and better access to childcare (private or public).

And it also should give rise to gig economy around private tutors/babysitters/nannys - which is very useful, and actually could be fun for a lot of people.
I have a kindergartener and left my job at the end of March to volunteer on COVID efforts. Now, a month and a half into it, I work from ~6a-12p ET, then take over homeschooling while my wife works from 1-6p. When working, we're in the attic and not to be disturbed, and we keep pretty strict about that.

I've always said that working parents know how to make the most of their 8-hour days in the office, and that's only been amplified. In general, I'm pedal-to-the-metal for my 5-6 hours a day, and then have our family lunch hour to recover before the not-really-relaxing homeschooling begins. We'll get a spot of work in most evenings, half-an-hour of TV, and then it's to bed to start it again the next day.

As for my wife and I, we're both mostly exhausted and guilty – guilty that we're not getting more done at work (even though I'm volunteering!), not doing a better job on homeschooling, etc.

When it's time to get a new job on my end, I'm really nervous about how it's going to go. I'd typically be doing 10-plus-hour days as I ramp up on new teams and material, but that's just impossible these days. In a normal world, I had lots of arguments for why a business should want to hire working parents, but right now it's really tough to justify.

My kid is great, and certainly not a "tough" child by any real measure, but still... Camps and schools can't open up soon enough.
hm, interesting, though I'd worry that running a server on localhost might be a little more than most people would bargain for
There's also the similar problem where a developer usually has a much better laptop, phone, internet or lte connection, etc, than the average end user.
Try to give a C developer a C compiler without support for inline assembly to see how they will appreciate it.

Yet, inline assembly is not part of ISO C.

Or one that generates lousy machine without full advantage of the CPU vector units.

Yet, vector instructions are not part of ISO C.
This is interesting, but I'd love to see a different take on the idea of binary "this is wrong" and "this is right".

Take [1] for example, it lists the source as [2]. However, the source as claimed in [2] is reported as:

"Department of Health and Human Services confirmed".

You might not want to turn it into a "wikipedia", but it would be nice to offer the following:

1) Wrong reports and right reports - a list of sources that suggest whether the claim is factually sound or not (this could be news reports like CNN). You can pull together many sources in a given topic to support a claim

2) "Authority sources", for example, DoJ or other official information distributors that are claimed in an article.

3) "Linked news sources" - These days, many news sources are rehashes of rehashes, sometimes there are 4/5 chains before you get to the "authority" source (reported by the Verge which was detailed by Tech Crunch which was first outlined by AReallyCoolBlog). It would be nice to have a "trail" of where the news/source/information came from, and how many links there are in the chain.

[1]: https://ontherecord.live/17

[2]: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/31/politics/drive-thru-coron...
Lots of people get advice on what to buy. Imagine if company’s are able to manipulate buyitforlife, HomeKit, personalfinance, babybumps, travel subreddits etc.

Probably the best form of advertising. Have people just insert your products in random stories.

“I remember back when I was a kid and mom would make a cake with Betty Crocker icing”

I’m automatically suspect of any post mentioning products. Probably happens on hacker news too. And instagram. And everywhere else. We have ad blockers, but now the ads will move into the content itself.
Yet moderate smokers of 40+ years have no higher risk than non smokers... Strange (just ask my 96yo grandmother who smoked for 42yrs and is still sharp as a pin mentally)

There are a lot of other bad things that the people in Mexico city are exposed to. Why blame Alzheimer's on air pollution???

Oh, wait... thought Herpes got in the brain and caused it...

Scientists don't have a clue what really causes it (yet they have many clues). Probably 1,000 different things which affect 1,000 different people , well differently.
> It doesn't make more homes available

In fact it does when kills elder people that lived in their own house, and some places are still unsuitable to normal human activities since WWII, but I understand the subjacent idea.

If debt (specially of the artificially inflated kind, with generations of people paying interests totalling decens of times the amount borrowed) is a menace for the recovery, at some time we eventually will need to agree to forgive it, or to make a law to enforce a limit. If copyright can't be applied for an unlimited time, maybe debt shouldn't be allowed to extend over an unlimited time.

And of course a lot of debt will dissapear itself naturally after covid killing the debtor. I assume that the models include that possibility.
Is that for UE4 or UE5? In any case, thanks for the reply.
the character is still quite unconvincing
You live and die by the quality of your data...
I think it is naive to assume they can 'catch' these cases. BTLE radio ranging, which can be manipulated by numerous factors outside the phone, and actual infection risks can easily be decoupled (and correlation is even strenuous at best). So just acting as one of the 20% of people that are completely callous and oblivious to the consequences of their actions, just wearing proper PPE, would be sufficient cover.

Besides, the public is led to believe that no location identification (direct or derived) is possible, so on the basis of that 'sitting outside the hospital all day' should not be identifiable, right?

As for taking out a directed 'hit', that will certainly not show.
24/7 childcare is an unexpected "side project".
How about we compare Wisconsin to Sweden? The article is about Wisconsin.

Wisconsin (pop 5.8 mil, 10.6k cases, 418 deaths).
Sweden (pop 10.2 mil, 27.9k cases, 3460 deaths).
You are a brand selling soda:

* /r/aww -> cat playing with a toy with your brand

* /r/HumansBeingBros -> a guy helping poor people by bringing free pizza and free soda to a shelter.

* /r/Fitness -> how about a gif of a clever workout then the main character drink a sip of your soda. After the effort the comfort.

* /r/DIY -> look what I achieve with 7919 cans!
I only use old.reddit.com since I hate the new design and https://old.reddit.com/vault redirects me to some random post.
You can make a difference in people’s lives
> There seems to be a myth going around that Europe is handling this better than the US and the statistics don't really support that claim.

Do you mind showing your work? What do the statistics say about Europe vs. US? I see you mentioned Sweden and Germany but Europe has many more countries than those two.
I've been building a product for automating the collection and production of customer testimonial & review videos - https://verifiablee.com/

Actually started just pre-pandemic, so the timing has been quite interesting.

And yes, also lots of bread.
It works better in my opinion. My ESL friends can re-read the words and use a dictionary. They don’t miss things if the conversation is too fast. And you can still video/audio chat if you want. It is the best of both worlds