skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typical misleading headline. Reading the article it's quite clear that comparing Sweden to other countries in Europe that while higher than normal aren't really any different from the other countries.

Many people predicted that Sweden's policies would result in black death levels of mortality and it's clear that's not the case at all.
If many restaurants, event spaces, etc. fail then it’s possible many people will have to liquidate their savings. This sell pressure would push down prices and likely cascade. The market thus far has been protected by stimulus funds, generous ui benefits, etc. Could that slack be taken up? Sure but it seems unlikely, especially with a second wave of shutdowns. Trying to predict the bottom or top is a fool’s errand. I’m also not sure how ETF/Index funds dispose of assets when they’re sold. They may be a dam holding back a flood.
Half Life: Alyx on Ubuntu 20.04
Americans prefer live action high school depiction when they get older, and see animation for older kids as for the stoner population.
Here is some background information I found in English: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/04/01/surrender-everything
So much this.

I work primarily in JS and PHP.

They are both deeply, deeply flawed (though I have learned to love JS's good parts, while I still hate PHP).

I have programmed in many languages - Java, Python, Scheme, and Bash are all ones I've worked in professionally, and I've spent plenty of time in Emacs Lisp. This doesn't touch on the ones I've tinkered with for fun.

JS and PHP are not the best languages, but they work, they're everywhere, and they're usually what your client already has in place.

Changing languages rarely delivers any actual business or end user value.

So, I work in what the client has.

JS will long outlast PHP, because it's such a massively deployed language and browsers can effectively never remove support for it.

PHP may slowly die out, since it's strictly on the backend, where you can choose your language.

JS is eternal.
Especially if you’re focussing on evergreen information, there’s no reason why people can’t have their own personalized crawler and index— I’ve occasionally thought about rolling my own with a browser extension that lets me add seeds at the click of a button.
> it is political suicide ...

Politicians have different time horizons than the cities, provinces and nations that they govern.

It's not political suicide if the politician enriched himself at the expense of the public and is out of office when the consequences are realized.
I'm intrigued by actual use-cases for it except exploring, i.e. where it would give better result for a query than the common search engines.

Anyone reading this, please post if you find any
The strength and problem of Jira is that you can model the most absurd organisational processes with it.

There are a bunch of oddities in the UI that don’t help it much (like having 4 different interaction patterns for sorting list items), but the biggest issue by far is needless complexity and foot guns added by the org/admins. For this, I wouldn’t blame Jira/Atlassian.

I’ve managed Jira workflows for 3/4-digit users on even larger instances and I run my own self-hosted Jira as a private task manager (If you’re already concerned about waste of resources and bloat in Electron apps, better not try this at home). When configured properly, I prefer Jira over all the other tools* in it’s domain that I administered at some point in time.

* Bugzilla, Gitlab, Github, OTRS
There used to be java applet embedded in altavista.com's website that could be run against search results. It would do semantic processing on the results and present a list of generated terms, each with a checkbox. Checking a box would pull any returns which contained the topic from the remaining search results.

This was fire. If a topic were being discussed on the web, you could find it with this tool. Unfortunately, it did not fit the vision of the parasitic overlords who bred us to produce and consume for their benefit.
Using the OS to invert the whole screen can easily be put within easy reach by keystroke or notification-area-button on Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, and Ubuntu. It doesn't require installing any new software (it's usually somewhere in "accessibility"), and, most importantly, it's consistent. When you have a "dark mode" for one site or app, it fights with the surrounding browser chrome bring light, and switching to other apps is jarring. And when you try to enable a dark UI theme in the OS, inevitably there will be elements that missed the restyling, and so retain black-on-white, or even worse, are now black-on-black.

I get that a "dark mode", done properly, requires more than just inverting colors, but this consistency is really nice.
In a rush to prove intellectual superiority often times people forget the things actually being spoken about.
Handy feature. I think their implication was that you can't use it as an eraser either, which is a bummer since no Bluetooth support
Privatize profits and socialize costs
Same question but what about trademark or registered symbols? You see them on even store signs and I've always wondered if they're the least bit helpful. Is Kellogg's really worried you'll try to steal their logo if they don't put (tm) after it?
You do realize that gold crashed along with everything else in March, right?
Upvote and downvote buttons become invisible.

Edit: my fault. I have too many dark mode addons/stylesheets enabled at the same time.
Oh no you’re perfectly right about the “stolen demand”. I just think it’s a feature and not a bug.

The “stolen” demand is a function of the fact that other restaurants refuse to stop using the platform, ostensibly because they also see value in continuing to use it. Consumers will only use the app if there is sufficient supply on the other end. Some restaurants have seen more value than others since the inception of these platforms. There is a spectrum of outcomes, which you would expect in a competitive market.

The “structural change” here is that restaurants have become commoditized and are now competing with each other. There will be some restaurants that emerge as winners, and some as losers. I don’t personally care about the losers if, in the aggregate, the restaurant industry is made more efficient, and consumers are better off.

I’m not being disingenuous, I’m being rhetorical.
Indeed, despite all criticisms Java as a technology is one of the best things that has happened to the software industry, next to Linux.
It does. It has been able to for some time now. A team I’ve worked with used it to build a cross-platform library. Swift wasn’t the first choice but the short story was they didn’t choose C++ because they didn’t want to hire C++ devs to maintain it.
In the past my research has overlapped a fair bit with alpha taxonomy. Actually, whimsically or unconventionally named species are fairly common. Here are three examples that come to mind.

[1] Forget Twitter, when it comes to species literally "discovered on the internet" I don't think you can top this one. In 2005 or so, specimens of a beautiful and striking sea urchin test, in the genus Coelopleurus, started cropping up on eBay as collectors' items. They were eventually confirmed as a new species. No, they were not named after eBay (the eventual choice of species epithet, 'exquisitus', was entirely fitting), but their status as the first new species determined directly from eBay specimens is pretty interesting, especially in bioconservation terms.

[2] Spongiforma squarepantsii is a fungus described in 2011. If you've ever eaten a bolete (a cep, or porcini, in foodie speak), then you'll know there are mushrooms where the gills are replaced with a spongey layer of tightly-packed tubes. In its extremely wet habitat, S. squarepantsii has become specialized from bolete ancestors to disperse its spores locally, by rainwater or animal transport, rather than by air, and so the entire fruiting body is reduced to a mass of convoluted sponge.
From the Wiki article: "The surface of the fruit body has deep ridges and folds somewhat resembling a brain. It is sponge-like and rubbery — if water is squeezed out, it will resume its original shape... when viewed with scanning electron microscopy, [the spore producing-tissue] somewhat resembles a seafloor covered with tube sponges, reminiscent of the fictitious home of SpongeBob... Although the epithet was originally rejected by the editors of Mycologia as "frivolous", Desjardin and colleagues insisted that "we could name it whatever we liked"."

[3] In Borneo the other year I photographed a large, very hairy spider with bright red fangs that turned out to be a male color morph of a species named in 2008 as Heteropoda davidbowie. The linked Nat Geo article has more examples like that.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/aug/17/uknews.taxon...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spongiforma_squarepantsii

[3] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/10/explore-...
For me, after retiring at 33, I just turned my existence into an adventure playground. For me, getting there was very little fun - I accidentally built a successful business that I ended up hating like a prison sentence, so getting out was a huge relief.

I live off grid in the middle of nowhere, and I am busy and engaged, all day, every day, doing and learning. I’ve become an infrastructure engineer, a construction engineer and labourer, a farmer, an arboriculturist, and at night I’m an astronomer, an author, and an automation coder. Right now I’m putting together a multi-stage solar and hydro dump heating setup. All sorts of interesting challenges, and I’m experimenting with welding and (safely) testing large pressure vessels, which is a first for me.

Am I contributing to society? Not really - but I’m not taking anything from it either, other than passive income. My portfolio just sits there and grows for my dotage, the rental properties provide an income, and I do a tiny bit of tech consulting, both paid and pro bono, because it’s fun.

So, motivation? Do something you enjoy. That’s pretty much all there is to it. I like screwing around with matter and information and learning and making things, so I do that.
You’re moving the goalposts. This article doesn’t say big tech is the most harmful monopoly in the USA. You made a top level comment so you weren’t responding to anyone, either.

This is an article about the justice department potentially bringing antitrust charges against Google and you made a top level comment saying “what about this other industry?”

This is whataboutism. As clear as the day is long.
When Larry and Sergey stopped caring about Google, the company lost true north. Now it drifts about, pulled by mercenary winds.
We may be conflating "asset inflation" with "consumer product inflation"

But for the later, it will come from the reduced value of the dollar. Which (for more than a decade) has been muted by the reserve currency status of the USD.
When it comes to books, Amazon didn't abuse their power. The big fights were because Amazon wanted to set their own prices in their own store, something that is pretty standard in most markets.
Well I expect it's not the Māori performance art [1], but that's the first thing New Zealanders will think of.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poi_(performance_art)
As they mentioned, if the ship is worth more as scrap than as a ship, they would have happened with or without a bailout.
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Is there some kind of requirement that this gets posted below every article about the stock market?
unherd’s LockdownTV series — see “Interviews” section in main page — is balanced (in terms of view points) and highly recommended.

On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMxiv15iK_MFayY_3fU9loQ
Experimentally, you don't need luck to set up ~200 dedicated hardware nodes in minutes in an HPC cluster, for instance. (They do have to be connected up, with known or discoverable MAC addresses.)
I no longer think that saying is helpful.

The problem is that every problem is caused by a multitude of causes, and there’s usually no clear way to distinguish issues caused by lack of discipline from issues caused by the wrong coding approach or style.

Different styles make different demands on how disciplined a programmer must be in order to write correct code. My experience in well-managed large code base with decent-size teams is that the recommended approaches and coding styles will evolve to address problems that could be solved by asking programmers to be more disciplined.

So that’s the problem with saying “no coding approach will ever solve an issue caused by lack of discipline”—it only makes sense if you already have a good idea of which issues are caused by a lack of discipline, and if you already understand that, then the saying doesn’t help you. The key insight here is to understand when changing your coding approach may allow you to write correct code with less effort (and discipline). But this can’t be distilled into an aphorism, so it won’t get quoted.

An example is holding a lock to access a certain field. If you’re “disciplined” you can just leave a comment on the field that lock X must be held to access it. But in practice, you want to solve that with code analysis. Another issue is using scoped locks so early returns don’t screw you. You can easily argue that these issues aren’t caused by lack of discipline—but if you travel back in time 20 years or so, “discipline” might be the only tool you have to solve them.
There’s no inflation when the fed buys corporate bonds or bails out failed corporations. It is just propping up the market.

If the fed had given that money directly to consumers we might have inflation problems. They’ll never do that. Socialism only exists in America for corporations.
A copy-paste of the bio from Wikipedia would be more helpful than a DDG search link.
It's funny that I learned this right as bitcoin approached $17,000... and was treated to sitting in a bathroom taking a poop while one of the low level managers came in on the phone telling his wife he was buying $50,000 worth of Bitcoin that day.
Nobody except the author seems to understand "path semantics".

https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/bn5eoz/since_some_peo...
I will not defend his study. Pretty sure there are enough holes in it.

I am not sure why we think the IFR would be constant by region, though. Just doing an age banded calculation is enough to show that it is variable for populations. Such that it seems safe to assume other things could cause variation, as well.

An early thought I had was age being a proxy to lung damage from long term exposure to air pollution. This still holds for the population in NYC, as many of them are from there. Same for Italy. Many elderly are retired locals. Notable that both places have some of the worst air in the world. Contrast with California, which has been very progressive with emissions. I don't have data on age ranges in California. And I confess I have stopped following the news on this. (Peek in the occasional story that makes it here. Starting to pay more attention again.)
We just have to get their cronies in the SEC and DOJ to step up and chastize their former / future coworkers. Q.E.D.
They might not be required to remove it globally.

But if it's against EU law they get into trouble if they refuse to remove it there after being made aware of it.

Also what I'm wondering recently is how far Google can be held responsible for knowingly not removing apps which brake the app store term of services, especially if they have that Google protect/verified mark.

Like e.g. tick tock did at least in the past belong into that category.
Money's already meaningless. Indeed, printing more of it is what's going to happen, but it won't help most of those who lost their jobs.
DEVONagent is a highly configurable search utility which can be used to combine and de-duplicate results from multiple search engines at once, exclude sites or keywords from a blacklist, follow deep links within search pages, and perform some filtering logic on the text of results.

Before I knew about DEVONagent I would often just search multiple engines and sources trying to find something particular (e.g. a particular PDF) or unique results.

https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/devonagent
It's just too contagious and countries are opening up that still have quite a large number of infections. Seems like a very tricky balancing act to keep R under 1.
I've found that you get far better results for many queries on YouTube now since it's tougher to mass spam YouTube with low quality content (compared to churning out a $5 article).
> Am I contributing to society? Not really - but I’m not taking anything from it either, other than passive income. My portfolio just sits there and grows for my dotage, the __rental properties__ provide an income,

You are taking from society through rentier activity

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Reply to the dollar guy below as hacker news soft censors anti landlord replies

This is so, so wrong. Perhaps you are a java dev?

Stop attempting to lump wealth creators in with rentiers via inheritance.
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Ask HN: Are you thinking about forming a startup now, or not?
& if you're thinking, do you feel pain on finding some early team members?
The tool is only as good as the one who uses it.
Copyright is automatic. A copyright notice will not protect you in case anyone copies your work.

If you want to protect your work, submit it to a timestamping service with your name/signature in it. Then you can at least show that at the given instant you were in possession of the work. If another party can't do the same for the same work at an earlier timepoint, then you have a stronger case.
Has anyone ever interacted with a chat bot to which they did not just type “agent” until they got a human?
> Also every bad pointer access will require a reboot, wouldn't it?

Hm, isn’t reboot just slightly more complicated than restarting your application? And most of the today’s apps would still require “rebooting” be it a container or a virtual machine
Nobody Does It Alone, Jack
Continuously ramping land prices ahead of real growth is national suicide.
I think the opportunity is particularly on how SwiftUI has been implemented in iOS, iPadOS and macOS, by relying on the native UI of each platform and providing a common abstraction for developers.

Instead of providing the same UI that works badly on every device, SwiftUI interprets each concept differently according to the platform.

For example, a Toggle in an iOS and iPadOS app looks like a on/off switch, while on macOS it's rendered as a checkbox. A Picker has is scrolling wheel on iOS but it's shown as radio boxes or a drop-down menu on macOS.

Navigation is also the same. On iOS, a NavigationView offers the drill-down navigation common to iPhone apps, while on macOS it creates a split master-detail interface.

Each implementation does so by using the native UI framework of each platform under the hood, UIKit on iOS, and AppKit on macOS. I don't know how UI development works on Windows, but my speculation is that a SwiftUI implementation would work the same way.
Tail call optimization is appealing. Sometimes recursion is the cleanest implementation, but call depth is not known up front.
I talk to the author a bunch and I believe some of this work is based on our convos. I don't fully understand path semantics however, I can tell that it's similar to my pet theories.

Path semantics is still very much a work in progress so it's hard for outsiders to really get into it.
I am the son, and the heir....
of an apocolypse that is criminally vulgar.
I am the son and heir....
of nothing in particular.

It actually kind of fits.
Hmm. I find it hard to believe that whether a given block of code executes on a single OS-level thread or yields and is rescheduled across multiple OS-level threads is never semantically important (to resort to an extreme example, one kind of function can be used in a callback that's invoked by native code and the other can't) - particularly given how many languages (including Java!) started with a green threading model only to later abandon it. And so I'm very dubious about erasing that distinction in low level functions, even if it's not relevant in the vast majority of cases, because once you erase it it's impossible to ever recover it at higher level.
Building a Modern Bank Back End
It's a great insecticide. Same as caffeine.
Tradeoffs for Locomotion in Air and Water
My company just switched from a home rolled system to JIRA. It's been an interesting but welcomed transition.
Yeah, the author seems to rewrite history quite heavily. There is even arguments here that the Linux kernel is OOP, in case we need to have a clear definition of what OOP is, because right now this HN-discussion is quite "fluffy".
Right. Can someone explain? One of the circles has a white dot in the middle that looks like it could be just dust. The other a faint dark dot in the middle again that looks like maybe just dust or dirt. Nothing really in them that doesn’t just look exactly like what’s around them.
...but only for stores using Shopify as their ecom platform. That misses A LOT of what's out there, probably 75% or more.
It sounds like the gambling axiom of “cut your losses before they run”. I wonder, though, if salary and debt trajectory were not a factor, would the author have preferred being a researcher than being a programmer?
> that seem mispriced like Chipotle, which is still up YTD

Chipotle has bought some good will in the past and probably is making decent cash on deliveries.
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The catalyst to a crash is when those 30 million people take to the streets and demand change.

Unfortunately media has everyone misdirected to worry about guns/race instead of demanding the government serve the people instead of corporations.
The first ~25 minutes of D-Sol Mix October 2018 aren't bad.

Disclaimer: I listen to a lot of underground EDM semi-professionally so my tolerance might be too high.
I feel that most of the problems with debuggability is tooling (still). No, I do not want to debug the standard library most of the time, please let me optimize that, while I keep my part unoptimized.

Hopefully modules will allow mixed optimization levels for template headers.

Metaprogramming also lacks a good debugging story, but I would be happy to be proven wrong.

In my opinion these are not language problems, but tooling problems.
I like the bit where (and maybe it's in the same scene), he says:

> You still believe in the system, don't you
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