skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Notion has similarities to a tool I created for my own personal note taking 6 years ago, I should turn it into a platform and release it.
Restating the figures isn't necessarily bad. The issue with mortality revisions is that they're always revised upward; whereas the economic revisions can go either way.

Using date-of-death introduces a consistent bias where recent deaths are undercounted compared to earlier deaths. People care about whether deaths are currently slowing or increasing. Date-of-report may be inaccurate, but it doesn't bias the trajectory of deaths consistently in either direction.
Another DLL? Does it matter?
I’ve read that it’s common in Germany to drink a liter of beer or so at work, even in manufacturing.

Besides the drinking thing one of my friends said they were trying to ban swearing as well?
They're a bit crippled on both main platforms, but quite a bit less all the time. and the more average consumer learns about them, the less the friction will be of Menu->Add to homescreen (if you missed the prompt/dismissed it without reading).
> In the west, we take fungibility for granted. [...] The fact that a dollar is worth the same in Los Angeles as it is in New York, or Vancouver as it is in Halifax, is worth celebrating.

I've experienced the opposite here in Brazil: someone who had leftover US dollar banknotes from a trip to Disney in the 90s decided to exchange them back to the Brazilian currency. Since they were old banknotes, the bank would only exchange them at a heavy discount (I don't recall how much, but it was at least 10%); if they were new banknotes, there would be no discount. So here we have the opposite of the situation in this article: new US dollar banknotes are worth more than old USD banknotes (this is not an isolated case, a quick web search shows that often old US dollar bank notes aren't even accepted for exchange).
> predecessor products go right in the memory hole

I think this phenomena is an artifact of how well they enter a market. Pre-iPhone smartphones were really bad. They all instantly felt 10 years old the day the iPhone released. That's probably the most extreme example, though.
Just got "girlfriendtape.com", can't decide between revenge porn and amateur porn.
Does anyone use Dokuwiki at their company? Or, in other words is it a good replacement for Confluence?
The Holloway Platform and Two New Books
Rewrites have probably saved Dropbox 10's of millions of dollars. They just have to be done well. They've rewritten many critical components in the last few years (magic pocket is a big one, nucleus) to great success.

Where rewrites are bad are when someone comes to a codebase, goes "wow this sucks I Can do this better", and starts from scratch. This is worth calling out because it's quite common, but it's very easy to avoid.

I'm a fan of Python for what it's good for. I use it professionally, and built a product around it. I'd be happy to see Python perf wins, but I'm never going to expect it to compete with other languages.
didn’t read the story - but a tough case deserves an upvote!
I doubt that what you quote is full story, however and I would really like if somebody would be able to investigate what is actually happening.

Let's take a trivial example: everybody has their own router at home, typically with the address of the DNS server visible in the local network as the address of the router, and their computers are seeing only that address.

If Chrome would keep that, nobody's router would "provide DNS-over-HTTPS" and nothing would happen. That means that Chrome will try to avoid using the router as a DNS, and instead try to "guess" if the local router is "changing something" or "using a provider" (whatever they define as that). And then the Chrome will contact that guessed provider.

As far as I understand, exactly the only device we can fully control is being actively avoided, and instead some "guessed" provider is contacted using HTTPS.

So what is actually going on there?

I'd like a honest technical description.
With Amazon this exact chain of events happened to me. And also confirmed that they don't really give you that status unless you click through the app. In the end, it took five days to get something I ordered as same day delivery.
Any of those will be good the only difference is what tools you can get. I bought Dewalt because a local store carries their chainsaw, and either Milwaukee doesn't have a chainsaw or my local store doesn't carry it. Local store is important because more than once I've needed a new tool for a job today. I'm a fan of makita tools but I can't find them on my small town so I only have plug in tools that I bought well in advance.
Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal
Is it just me or was that the most hippy non-value product ever? Like printing with antique printing press seems as mumbo jumbo as gwyneth paltrow's selling stones to me
What is the difference between wayland + libinput and X + libinput precisely?
What is the impact for an organization utilizing a BYOD policy that performs DNS filtering? What about home users filtering via PiHole or pfSense or parents that use local DNS filtering? Will every device's browser need to be changed? Will Chrome revert in the presence of a network signal to use local DNS (as is the case with FF)?
Powers Interview
Your content is great. I think blogging will never be dead
You have this weird assumption than making lots of money is the measure of being a genius, maybe it is a cultural thing, but I would consider Einstein, Godel, Turing, Grothendiek, Kafka geniuses and Steve Jobs, Rockefeller, Sam Walton et al not in that category, and it seems you will think the opposite.
"Cities: Skylines" is one of the free PlayStation plus games this month. I've had as much fun playing it as I did with SimCity 2000
I'm not sure how you can come to that conclusion...

Telecommunications investment per capita is higher in the US than all other OECD countries, and by a lot[1]. The gap in telecom investment between the US and the EU is similar[2].

The robust and enduring gap in American telecommunication investment really paid off as COVID began to take over the world. American internet was the most well positioned to withstand the lockdown-induced surge in internet load. Meanwhile, internet speeds in Italy and many other European nations were slowed down to less than half what’s standard in the US, partially due to older infrastructure[3]. In Europe, Netflix actually reduced its traffic there by 25 percent and YouTube promised to limit quality in order to to free up bandwidth for other services. None of this was necessary in the US.

The fixed broadband speed in the US is higher than that of Portugal, Poland, Germany, Belgium, South Korea (!!), Austria, and Italy [4].

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVHQddtUcAElcjq?format=jpg&name=...

[2] https://www.orange.com/fr/content/download/47277/1372866/ver...

[3] https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/3/25/21188391/internet-surge...

[4] https://www.speedtest.net/global-index#fixed
Core issue is this defines life by what life is like on Earth, which would be like super intelligent species of fish on a planet completely covered in water attempting to define what life would be like on another planet.
> "it does not seem plausible that people were spinning deaths reported May 5 as being due to the May 4 reopening."

You've got to be kidding. Here on Hacker News people were buying the very same sort of spin from an article about the 1918 flu epidemic and San Francisco (I think that was the city). I've seen lots of people on either "side" of this issue buy into absolutely outrageous claims that are clearly just spin.

For example, weeks ago somebody on the "open up now" side graphed the data from the CDC showing that deaths around the country weren't increasing, but in fact plummeting. The page with the data is explicit in multiple places that the data is incomplete for many weeks into the past. Then, weeks later I heard that the official death toll from Covid-19 had been cut by 50%. When I asked for a source, it was that same page with data that lags by up to 8 weeks.

Another example: somebody on the "panic now" side reported (in the news, IIRC) that Michigan's positive test ratio was skyrocketing and had reached 47%. The only table that contained positive vs negative test results clearly had not been reporting the negative tests at all. They should have just gone ahead and claimed that 100% of the tests in MI were positive, since that was what the table showed for the previous 5 days.

The fake news around Covid-19 has been driving me absolutely crazy on both sides.
That sounds like he won't be on YouTube anymore. Shame. I don't really like using Spotify.
What's New in Lighthouse 6.0
The amount of software available has been my only gripe for scoop vs chocolately - but I find scoop superior in every other way.

But someone else here mentioned scoop-extras[0], which I hadn't heard of before, and contains over 1,000 apps (including Chrome, Firefox, notepad++, Irfanview, Skype, Sysinternals).

[0] https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop-extras
If you measure interest in the currency you're lending, like everyone else does, then it's exactly 0% interest. Interest rates advertised by banks aren't adjusted for inflation either.
>"Whenever looted cultural property is found in this country, the United States government will do all it can to preserve heritage by returning such artifacts where they belong"

So what is the definition of "looted" here? Museums are full of things that fit various definitions of that word.
I've been pondering this comment, and I'm not sure I agree that C++ Templates + Concepts are really equivalent to Lisp macros. They're about enabling generic programming with type constraints (when you add concepts, in particular). This seems more akin to Common Lisp's defgeneric and defmethod, where you can specialize your implementation based on the type. Like, assuming some class hierarchy of foo (base) -> bar -> baz:

(defgeneric do-something (object))
(defmethod do-something ((object foo))
(something every foo can do))
;; bar is the same as foo
(defmethod do-something ((object baz))
(something only bazzes should do))

Templates and concepts are certainly a powerful tool, and I personally like them (as I've come back to C++ after a long break). But macros let you do something else entirely. You can create entirely new syntactic structures, or modify existing functions (see Norvig's PAIP, chapter 9, where macros are used to memoize recursive functions), or any number of other things.
Yes, the COVID-19 subject has generated way more controversy than I ever expected. I'm sure if she was fired for refusing to cover up say, some sort of mass privacy invasion, the general opinion here would be much more unanimous.
Bigger cities need booth more in-game electricity and real-world electricity, it seems.
The announcement video https://www.instagram.com/p/CAYSqQLFP_l/
I think this is probably the reason they're switching to 1st party ads. The ad revenue in 2015 was still very substantial. They won't want to give that up without a fight.
Amazon's "also bought" recommendations are usually pretty good in my experience. e.g. "people who bought replacement roomba filters also bought replacement roomba brushes" Usually I find these recommendations fairly sensible.
Even with equal paternity leave, I think we all know that it will be used at a much lower rate than maternity leave. And so will employers. It will still be much riskier to hire young women than men if turnover is costly.
> have to restart the server every 20 days because of some memory leak

Hmm this seems like something super specific to their async setup, rather than 'common lisp leaks memory'
Semi-related: I'm working on agent-based simulations for coronavirus, exploring our individual actions affect outcomes.

In the first simulation, I take a look at single/dual shopper households and explore how choice affects viral spread on a societal level, and then on am individual household level.

You can check them out at https://coronavirus.simrnd.com/shopping_solo/
he should go back to making people eat bugs on TV
I probably will never watch it now since I don’t have a Spotify subscription and don’t need one. Is Spotify free for Podcasts?
Just use notqmail. They didn't refuse to fix it, it's actively maintained. This one was fixed long time ago.

https://github.com/notqmail/notqmail/pull/37
Peacock Data Inc
Does anyone know what became of this company? They used to offer some data products such as pdNickname, which was a comprehensive database mapping nicknames to full names. There don't seem to be any products out there that match what they offered in terms of completeness.

I purchased their product a few years ago and then they seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth, even their domain registration has lapsed. I've been searching for an equivalent ever since, curious if anyone in the community knows of a good alternative or has access to the original pdNickname database.
wow that is a great news
FWIW you can access your Apple Notes through icloud.com.
Not completely lost! In some sections of industry, Rete-based rules engines are used pretty extensively. A very interesting take is Clara, implemented in Clojure: www.clara-rules.org
This might be Europe’s answer to YouTube.
They knew. Their own expert lawyer warned them in 2010. It's also their MO apparently. A second case involves Egyptian papyri. They also mis-declare things to get them into the country (ie calling them "tiles" in customs declarations). So, lying and stealing.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/nyregion/hobby-lobby-arti...

2. https://www.thedailybeast.com/hobby-lobby-scandal-widens-as-...

3. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/jan/09/a-scandal-in-ox...
You can even just boot Linux, or dual boot.
Jobs was canned after John Sculley joined Apple. According to Jobs, Sculley was a snake who effectively used internal politics to oust him. One can say there's a reason why his own company kicked him out, but what about the fact that he was brought back to once again lead the company?

Aside from the controversies that surround Jobs as a leader at Apple, there is one asshole move that sticks out in memory -- Jobs cheated Wozniak (who was his business partner and friend) out of his due compensation by lying to him about how much they earned from Breakout.
I find it a little funny that you're picking on NYT for that one. They were one of the first to offer digital-only subscriptions and their numbers have been climbing steadily since around 2011 when the introduced their metered paywall.

https://www.statista.com/chart/3755/digital-subscribers-of-t...

It's not that users don't expect to see ads that revenue is down. It's that the ad-sell business has been effectively taken over by a few large actors who promise all kinds of growth because of their targeted/tracking ad networks.

And presently ad revenue is down even further because many businesses first spending cuts were in advertising for Q2/Q3 since they aren't operating anyway. That said, this last point is only speaking from my own present industry experience.
Its a good article
> Hobby Lobby bought the tablet in a private sale, after a Hobby Lobby representative viewed the tablet in London. The auction house shipped the tablet to its New York office and, from there, hand-carried it to Hobby Lobby's headquarters in Oklahoma City, "so that Hobby Lobby could avoid incurring a New York sales tax," according to prosecutors.

Oy vey. I don't know how serious this is but it's not a great look. Is this kind of thing common in the art world?

I find old clay tablets, and ancient writings in general, absolutely fascinating - particularly the randomness of the information that we can get from them. The oldest person whose name we know is from a signature on a receipt for some oil or some other merchandise.[1] It's slightly incredible when you realize that you have no idea who the ruler at the time was, or what he (or she did) but you can pinpoint precisely which goods exchanged hands on a specific date.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushim_(individual)
"I'm looking at De Walt/Makita and leaning towards Makita."

I went with Dewalt solely because this device exists:

https://www.dewalt.com/products/storage-and-gear/generators-...

So, you've already got the batteries, and you already need a place to charge the batteries - why not get the added bonus of a true 15-amp portable generator while you're at it ?

It's not true sine wave, but it's quite robust - I have powered decent sized compressors, etc. with it.
I wonder how many FOIA requests turn up useful information. I've heard horror stories of people becoming victims of targeted harassment from agencies they attempted to get of FOIA request from.
I don’t export - when a transaction is made I open the YNAB app and quickly add it.

I resisted doing this for a long time because I thought it would be awful, but it’s actually easier than dealing with import issues and reconciling later.
until you hit something like "bug reports should be subitted to here, not there and filled out with appropriate information, matching triplicate documents and make sure to CC the grand puba, also CLOSED-WONTFIX" enough times and you just stop submitting requests.
Last week, Notion leaked this pricing change accidentally on their dev instance. [0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23186295
I use ledger to document my personal finances, and I've been using it for about a year.

I do it less for budgeting, and more for a method of centralizing information. I have 4 credit cards that I use regularly, from 3 banks, I'm a w-2 employee with a 401k and benefits, and I file my own taxes. It's hard to keep track of everything, when the relevant data is behind login walls, in occasionally proprietary formats.

I wrote a bunch of scrapers and parsers for obtaining this data, and translating it into a ledger transaction format. Once it's there, I can do all the reporting and whatnot to my heart's content. Writing all of the infrastructure has been a labor of love, with a non-trivial emphasis on labor. I balance out about once a month, but since automating the various transformers, I pretty much never have to debug balances any more, which is a godsend.

It tracks down to a pretty excruciating level of detail, enough that I compute (for example) how much it costs my employer to employ me, my average monthly spread in my checking accounts (between when cc bills, rent are due and when income comes in), average costs of travel-vacation-days, and how that's changed over seasons.

At this point, it mostly "just works", and it's easy to append to my records. The next fun part will be getting useful and actionable insights out of it, and applying them to my life and decisions.

It's very nice to feel "in control" about these things; I don't really worry about money any more.
It's about 3-4x faster with the initial implementation:

foreach(range(1,20) as $j)
foreach(range(1,1000000) as $i)
strval($i);

Running on my low-end EC2 box:

php7.3 py.php == 1.258s
python2 py.py == 3.714s
python3 py.py == 4.530s
Syncing my YT account now. I think I bounced from all the federated Peertube instances due to their upload limits. Started my account on YouPorn, they have absolutely great paid video features. No descriptions though and no audience there.

My feature wishlist would be if you can have paid videos or reasonable user access control and an API, set up some sort of shop to sell merch, and have course style organization. I use playlists for organization on YT, but it could be better. YT has a lot of that stuff, but you need to have a shit ton of subs or view hours to get access to it, so I don't have access to it.

I'll give it a shot. If you want to get in touch with me, email and Twitter in profile. I'll probably have more feedback in a month when I'm back to my recording setup and actually upload something.
I'm not convinced that it would have been any more obvious to the person who made the error that the variable could overflow if it were unsigned.

It's also much easier, IMO, to accidentally underflow an unsigned integer; it's so much more common to work with 0 than it is to work with +/- 2 billion.
They've worked out well considering the extremely limited scope of what they can do. They can't, for example, brush the dust off their solar panels. Or even the simplest repair. Or dig a hole with a pickaxe.
One of the outcomes of the US-Iraq war was Iraq's national heritage of antiquities getting plundered and sold illegally.[1]

The burning of the Library of Alexandria is a potent symbol in Western culture, but the world has repeatedly suffered massive losses of cultural and historical artifacts in the last few decades. The public quickly develops historical amnesia for recent events. Compare, for example, the loss of Brazil's National Museum to a fire two years ago.[2]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/03/ir...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/03/fire-engulfs-b...

edited: clarity and link formatting
It's pretty common for women to decide to become a full time stay at home mom after having a kid. But naturally, you would use up all of your maternity leave before making that final decision.
Seems like a win to me... They get to diversify and they can handle payments etc... so you get that 1-click experience. I am not sure how they will handle shady vendors / returns though... Amazon invests a lot in the customer experience but will FB?
Can't grow perpetually, can you? So why should we try to hit the max before we stabilize?

Basing an economy on an ever-growing population is foolish. We should plan better than that.
> Those however are a small portion of total comments. When you see a comment, it's unlikely there is any motive behind it beyond expressing an idea.

I haven't read or seen any studies. I'm really curious what percentage of the average reddit thread's comments are from companies, nation states, and paid for power users.

> Now imagine the world where every comment is also some kind of ad or invitation to buy or subscribe to something. Hell.

That would be product reviews!
Essentially, if it happened in modern times we have to account to modern governments for it. It's just a property of current real life. If local people put pressure on their government over it, the government has to put pressure on America over it, and America may want to preserve relations by making a gesture that's ultimately strategically zero cost to preserve a strategic relationship.

No one with any power seriously wants the Kohinoor back so it's not going to go back. But having an artifact taken from your country during a war of invasion is going to create lots of pressure on you.

It's just realpolitik.
> "Whenever looted cultural property is found in this country, the United States government will do all it can to preserve heritage by returning such artifacts where they belong,"

How does this tablet differ from any other artifact in a museum? Couldn't it be argued that any ancient artifact from another culture is stolen?
CSS library makes it easy to design Windows XP-inspired UIs
Microsoft has been continuously developing the same XAML UI framework since Windows 8, and now with the WinUI 3 preview [1], the latest version of that framework is available for both UWP and desktop apps, in both native code and .NET, on Windows 10 versions back to 1803 (the April 2018 update).

Edit: My main point is that this framework isn't short-lived. Whether it's mediocre is naturally a matter of opinion.

Disclosure: I work at Microsoft, but not in the Windows dev platform group. (I'm on the Windows accessibility team.)

[1]: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2020/05/19/introd...
Unlike the web, Microsoft can distribute "polyfills" efficiently and without silly bundling: either preemptively as Windows updates and/or by downloading them and making them permanently available the first time the user installs or runs an application that needs them.