skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Combined" is AFAIK not well defined. You are taking it as the (weighted) average, while I'm taking it as the sum.

As which of the two you take it is obviously very context dependent. If someone would ask you what the combined output of two factories per hour is, would you tell them the average?

I think it's a very meaningful comparison, as it highlights that there is a severely increased risk of dying of murder in Detroit. To put the same in a different framing: You could live one year in Chicago, one year in LA, one year in NYC and run a lower risk of being murdered than if you were living in Detroit for just one year. Of course this is just one small piece in the overall puzzle of mortality statistics, and might not have a big impact even at elevated levels, but that's a different topic.

Such "combined number of second, third, ... places" (= sum) figures are good at quickly highlighting that there must be something out of the ordinary happening, because a smallish deviation of a few percent can not be expressed as a sum of e.g. second and third place. There are of course some other problems with this method of comparing figures (e.g. bias - as a foreigner, I would have assumed a much higher murder rate for NYC), but there is nothing inherently wrong with comparing numbers this way.
I've expressed this wish on HN a few times in the past as well. One downside to it that I can think of (off the top of my head) is that there may be a lot of small, personal websites that are hosted on a free blogging platform which injects ads into every page. These websites may be very valuable (and not SEO garbage link farms) but would get blocked nevertheless.
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An Inhibitor is a cure, like convalescent plasma. You could maybe use these for passive immunity, but this is clearly pitched as a therapy, not a preventative, with the idea if stopping disease progression by stopping viral replication. And I dont think antibodies can be administered nasally, they're usually injected or intravenous
Looks great, thanks for creating this!
Put your bitmap screen under it.
Since the underlying DB driver exists, you could probably fork one existing node one, or even submit a pull-request for demo support in your favorite node ORM.
Yes, I read that the web story of iOS isn't that great. :/
Curious, Why do you think it will be "notoriously" difficult?
Thanks for doing this. I have a few questions regarding packages/dependencies, and TypeScript in general.

I tried installing Deno, and I tried including a package, and immediately the TypeScript typechecking in my IDE (VSCode) failed, of course. The IDE doesn't know what to do with a URL as a dependency. Is this something Deno will be able to handle?

The next question is that TypeScript packages I have written in the past use `baseUrl` and `paths` in their own configs to allow for absolute import paths. When I look at third-party Deno repositories, I didn't see any that were building out to JS/declaration files, and were instead just meant to be included as the original TypeScript source code. Won't this break things like absolute import paths and other behaviors of the dependency's own tsconfig file, or does this work fine with Deno/TS?
Which in turn links to a topic on Cloudy Nights that is his build log!
There is a plan9 and acme demo on YouTube which is eye opening. One idea that has captured me is the idea that end users ought to be able to create custom UIs. This appears to be a foundational principle of plan9, the way all text is able to be executed. Another avenue for this idea are ZUIs as originally envisioned. Individual clipboard state can be reified as buttons in the UI, any formatting or pens or fonts can also be manifested in the interface and selected with something along the lines of the "eyedropper" tool present in many applications.

edit: video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M
"A Tour of the Acme Editor" by Russ Cox
Important note: this was an unofficial, student-run (but still university affiliated-ish) "graduation".

The "real" graduation is indefinitely postponed.
The Edmunds Scientific and Barnes & Noble catalogs were two of the highlights of my youth. I never ordered anything from them, don’t know if my parents ever did, but it was such a pleasure to peruse them.
If something is notoriously difficult, it isn't up to what one individual thinks. That's what makes it notorious.
Maybe also defense production act to swap other production lines to produce either this antibody or one of the many other candidates also announced. Although obviously I think the people taking humira or an anticancer antibody or any of the other antibodues might have some thoughts on their drug not being available so a covid drug can be made available...
Look at their consumption habits as compared to your country too, though.
You spent the time signing up just for this?
The thing I miss most is LiveJournal. Sure, over time it kind of failed, and later having data owned by possibly nefarious new owners didn't help reputationally, but what I loved was having a small, approved set of people who could read, and getting to know other people in long form, where writing was the primary draw, rather than links, brags, and ads, like social media has become. I miss the very internal nature that the platform allowed, but it was a more naive time, where the idea that whatever was there would inevitably become public wasn't a barrier to intimacy.
I have. It seems pretty neat, but .NET is not for me.
“Authorship Attribution” is an active field of research. Even if you manage to solve the problem of anonymously publishing a bunch of content under distinct anonymous pseudonyms (or completely anonymously), there’s a non-negligible probability that, as soon as the author of one work is identified, the entire body of work can be attributed to that person.
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Thanks for the comment, I came back to TabNine after your previous comment, and I am glad that the issues (mostly performance) looks to be resolved, yet I need to play more with it.

Edit: OS: mac os 15.4.2 Editor: Vim and VScode
FYI - you can host this yourself in a docker container using https://github.com/cdr/code-server .

I recently set this up on a server running from my home (only accessible via WireGuard) precisely so I can code anywhere from my iPhone. Combined with a folding bluetooth keyboard (because typing code on an iPhone screen is terrible), it's turning out to be a pretty useful portable dev environment.
I agree that _normalized_ is a more precise term for what I'm describing, I only used relational because contemporary discourse seems to favor that term in these kinds of discussions and seems to imply a high degree of normalization.

>Assuming you are talking about data in normalized form, that's orthogonal to the domain.

I don't agree with this though. Nothing about a software architecture is _ever_ orthogonal to the domain.
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> Imagine, thinking you want a message bus as your primary database.

I've built (and sold) an entire company around this architecture, and am working on the next. It can be incredibly powerful, and is what you _have_ to do if you want to mitigate the significant downsides of a Lambda architecture. We successfully used it to power graph building, reporting [1], and data exports, all in real-time and at scale.

But, we didn't use Kafka for two key reasons (as evaluated back in 2014):

* We wanted vanilla files in cloud storage to be the source-of-truth for historical log segments.

This was really important, because it makes the data _accessible_. Applications that don't require streaming (Spark, Snowflake, etc) can trivially consume the log as a hierarchy of JSON/protobuf/etc files in cloud storage. Plus, who the heck wants to manage disk allocations these days?

* We wanted read/write IO isolation of logs.

This architecture is only useful if new applications can fearlessly back-fill at scale without putting your incoming writes at risk. Cloud storage is a great fit here: brokers keep an index and re-direct streaming readers to the next chunks of data, without moving any bytes themselves. Cloud read IOPs also scale elastically with stored data.

Operational concerns were certainly a consideration: we were building in Go, targeting CoreOS and then Kubernetes, had no interest in Zookeeper, wanted broker instances to be ephemeral & disposable (cattle, not pets), etc, but those two requirements are pretty tough to bolt on after the fact.

The result, Gazette, is now OSS (https://gazette.dev) and has blossomed to provide a bunch of other benefits, but serves those core needs really well.

[1] https://github.com/liveramp/factable
I love this sort of "Historical Fiction" where interactions and conversations between The Great People of Science are imagined and portrayed. A great example of this is Louisa Gilder's wonderful book _The_Age_Of_Entanglement:_When_Quantum_Physics_was_Reborn

https://www.amazon.com/Age-Entanglement-Quantum-Physics-Rebo...
This seems more in certain cultures than others - American and Japanese from my anecdotal experience. I worked with Europeans (French especially), they don’t seem to wear long hours as a badge of honor.

My American boss regularly feels proud that he puts in 12-14 hour days. In my opinion, that amount of hours makes sense if I am working on my own business or something that truly benefits humanity (like a vaccine for COVID-19 for example). It is hard to do good work more than 6-7 hours per day anyway and much harder to sustain it for long periods of time
Sorry, yes, you're right. I'm being dumb.
Nice. Big fan of Andrew Scott, so I'll try this reading for a while. Thank you.

It just occurred to me that my hangup might be fiction vs non-fiction. Fictional readings might bug me in the same way the cartoons of Garfield and Dilbert bug me; their voices don't align with my imagination.

I've powered thru a handful of biographies (eg Robert Caro's The Power Broker) and got a lot out of them. I only cringed when someone affects a different voice for written quotes.

Whereas each time I tried a Mark Twain audio book, I wanted to kick a puppy.

I used to read a lot to my kid (and other relations). But I really didn't like those books on tape. (Maybe because no one ever read to me, sniff.)

Thanks again. I love this (being uncomfortable). Now I'm gonna push myself to finish some fiction audiobooks. See if I can get into the proper frame of mind.
Polygon offers 1 second bars (https://polygon.io/sockets) for $200/mo.
This could be "improved" to make it get a sound "Hello World" instead of a visual one. I mean it's still "Hello World" and I feel sound gets too little credit versus graphics.
For a libertarian take on Georgism, see Geolibertarianism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism
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A Few of My favorites That I've Read (or Re-Read) This Week:

- Esports & The Danger of Serving a King [0]

- Founder at Work: Steve Wozniak [1]

- Dark Horse Discord [2]

[0]https://www.matthewball.vc/all/esportsrisks

[1] http://www.foundersatwork.com/steve-wozniak.html

[2] https://mule.substack.com/p/dark-horse-discord
I think it's being properly accounted for. On March 23, nobody had any real idea how severe lockdowns would be or how long they'd last; reasonable estimates had 20-30% unemployment rates, and there were serious arguments from knowledgeable people that we should keep lockdowns in place for 2/3 of the next 18 months. It makes sense for the markets to rally as we discover that unemployment isn't quite that bad and lockdowns won't last nearly that long.

More generally, it's not surprising that a forwards-looking metric and a backwards-looking metric don't move together over the course of a month.
My college did a school wide seminar on RSVP. I remember we did a before and after reading speed test where the presenter had everyone raise thier hand and then lower it as he read said thier reading speed. I was in one the earlier batches of people to put thier hand down (the slowest readers)

After the RSVP training we checked improvement. I was also in the slowest batch. By myself. It turns out that if you have certain underlying learning disabilities then RSVP is ineffective. Huge let down, because I love reading and would love to read substantially faster.

Moral of the story- RSVP works for many, does not for a few, but don't get discouraged because I'm still happy and successful in my own terms.
The place with universal healthcare?
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Buy cheap land in the rainy tropics that needs reforestation (~$500-$3000/ha), then plant trees. Labour at ~$15/day per worker is abundant and comes with much valuable local knowledge about the best trees etc. Interplanting the hardwoods with leguminous inga edulis trees to shade out the weeds and fertilize the soil is a preferred method, as per https://www.rainforestsaver.org/advice-for-farmers

This year we'll have planted another 7 hectares of Guazuma ulmifolia at a density of 2mx3m or ~1700 trees/hectare using the Inga alley cropping method. They should have an average trunk section at least one foot square and 26' tall in 10 years. (ie 1x1x26x12= 312 board ft) so if you do the math at just $1/board ft then it's about $150/day/hectare. (ie 1700x312x1/10/365= ~$145). So 7 hectares makes your net worth increase by about $1000/day. The nice thing about these type of trees is that they re-sprout after harvest so no need to replant, ie continuous harvest indefinitely by cutting blocks only 1/10th of your trees per year, so the first cut trees are ready to cut again when the last, much bigger, are harvested.

(I've got some teak & mahogany planted too but not a big fan, too slow. I'm not a fan of non-native pines nor eucalyptus either.)

Those numbers go way up if you process the lumber and make furniture, flooring etc.

Also many trees are valuable medicinals. For example a water extract (ie tea) from the bark of the G. Ulmifolia tree (bolaina negra, not blanca) kills virus, lowers fever and reduces pain. See https://www.rain-tree.com/mutamba.htm

Along with bark from uña de gato with lemon (immune system stimulus), chanca piedra (other antivirus & more), tumeric with black pepper (anti-inflammatory), ginger, moringa and matico leaves (antibacterial). Is our anti-virus go-to, much better than what is available in pharmacies.
Does this play well with Turbolinks?
That's pretty much how the Video Privacy Protection Act[0] was passed.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act
My eye balls hurt after looking at the final version of hell world. But a job very well done I must say. Could go even more insane with inline assembly but I’ll wait for part two for that :)
Fascinating topic and read.

You can see it in their smile and hear it in their tone...these people take a rare sense of pride in their work. Dabbawalas appear to be a happy, grateful, and fulfilled workforce that do a sufficient job. Add in the cultural prestige and this model strikes me as very tough to compete with. So why?

What aspect of this current approach is broken or inefficient like to the point of justifying the time, money and effort to compete with as a startup? (I didn't gather that part from the article). Is it marginal food cost?

Is it merely because it's a big market operating the old-school way and therefore easy money is being thrown at trying to capture share or supplant using apps? No wonder these ventures are having a tough go at things...seems to me as a solution seeking a problem.
> Where is the lasting contribution of this? How can others reuse these students' work?

The Minecraft format is well understood, and you're free to convert worlds to whatever other format you want.

It's like making a PDF in Adobe Reader. Yes, it's proprietary (was?)- but it's so well understood it might as well not be.

Also, Minecraft is both easy to use and familiar. If we used something else, this project would probably never have gotten as big as it did. I think that's more important.
How about "drunk driving puts others at risk and you shouldn't drive a car when you're drunk."
The district court ruled that brown recluse spiders are insects [pdf]
Well, if you tax potential capital (like house prices), then gentrification is the consequence. Think somebody living in a modest house mixed neighbourhood. Rich ppl buying houses there, property tax shoot so high (because the small house is now worth millions) that the person has to sell. As far as I understand that happened in Vancouver.

Not sure if it leads to a fairer society. (of course one could argue it is fair for a not so rich person not to live in a rich area :-) )
Ah, yes, standards set by society - you mean laws?

I'm a big Facebook detractor generally but this illustrates why their problems are hard. In the case of the US, most of the calls to "respect society's standards" seem to mean "listen to me and mine as the sole arbiters of what society wants" instead of anything to do with actual objective standards, turning public policy from a matter of established process of law into a circus where loudness wins. If you want speech banned, campaign to change actual law rather than trying to use platforms like FB as an end-run around legal protections.

Honestly, the whole mess is why having massive centralized platforms at all is a mistake. Moderation is so hilariously fractal that comminutes placed close to the sources of local standards, who do not attempt to be accountable to nobody and everybody at once, and content-agnostic protocols, which defer the hard decisions around moderation to those nodes, are better-placed to deal with the complexities of reality.
Anthony Zee's Quantum Field Theory textbook takes a similar tone.
The tell-tell is the isolated drip from the coffee mug handle.
I've done this after scouring the documentation and being unable to find an answer. When there isn't a newsgroup or email list setup it's often really the only way to get in touch with a developer or maintainer. Suboptimal for sure, but if a library seems like it may solve your problem, it's worth a shot.
The code that was released already heavily altered for a month as I recall. And in that state it contained several severe flaws. If you look at it it's painfully obvious that it's just not fit for anything critical. I applaud that they published it. But I also want the consequences: No funding for this quality of work. Also do the opposite of what they say.
> Re the 'long game' discussion for finance and machinisation. The firm has literally been doing this for a few centuries so this hasn't been the original goal. I don't think it's come up yet as a current goal, although in all honesty I can see the appeal from a finance perspective. The farmer is the middleman we can cut out and replace by machines. First thought then is - what does it matter what the background of the owner doing the machinisation is?

Sounds an awful lot like deskilling, so hopefully the labour concerned has an exit strategy.
This seems disingenuous. Are you implying that the consumption habits of America's poor are a leading cause of their poverty? To me this smells of victim-blaming, especially given that their consumption habits tend to be a result of their poverty, not a cause.
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The Constitution is an amendable law. Perhaps the mega-networks that are defacto utilities should have clearer social contracts with our government.
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How does their user base want them to be stricter as it applies to private communications? They censor posts on private pages and private messages. How is anything beyond what the law requires in that case not the policing of thought?
You're misunderstanding, what is the use-case of that specific package? like I've never found myself needing to pad text on the left, just trying to understand why this was such an important package.
Which one is easier? Adding a few lines of GC configuration or rewriting a service in C++ using Seastar and binding processes to cores?

What sort of performance measurement uses default configurations? What is even the point of not tuning the GC to your application workload?

I have spent the last 15 years on running Java apps in production and to optimize for the p99 latency is really not that hard. Optimize p99.99999 is a whole different subject though. I don't understand what is the point of comparing a default GC setting that is for hello world applications to a software that is optimized every way possible. Apples to oranges. It is a grat marketing gimmick though. Look ma no performance! Look here, so much faster. We live in a single dimension word, yay!
Surprised OP have overlooked the importance of adding Amazon Linux 2.

That opens the door to seamless and full supported AWS Lambda functions in Swift.
3.4 mistakes/million (also known as 3.4 DPMO = defects per million opportunities) is just a a statistic from a normal distribution. It comes from the Six-Sigma literature [1].

It's the number of rejects in a 6σ process, assuming a 1.5σ mean shift (1.5σ is an arbitrary assumption for a shift in a long-term process).

You can get a reasonable estimate through random sampling -- which is the basis for most of inferential statistics -- so it's not that flexible. If an adequately powered study was conducted (with a large enough sample size and sufficiently randomized sample), I don't see why the results can't be trusted [2]. A mistake is not that hard to classify (in logistics there are failure reason codes -- wrong address, wrong order, missed delivery, etc. and typically certain categories dominate -- the others are noise).

That said, 3.4 DPMO is kind of a magic number (sort of like 95% confidence intervals -- why 95%? Because Pearson or someone decided it and it stuck).

[1] https://www.qualitygurus.com/why-is-6-sigma-equal-to-3-4-dpm...

[2] Side: Systematic misreporting might be an issue of course, and there's not much that can be done there except design a system of incentives and penalties around it. Customer complaints and lost clients are often visible in such systems.
Do I have the right to not be killed by people who are illegally disregarding stay-at-home orders? Doesn't someone killing me violate my right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
You might be joking but I'd say using k8s when you don't need to, is definitely a mistake.
I so agree with the author. Less effort it takes to retrieve documents, the less it will mean to you, which means that you’ll less likely consume it.
There's an awesome film that interestingly uses this food delivery network - The Lunchbox (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2350496/).

It stars recently passed away actor Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur (she's in Homeland), and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. They are among the finest from here. It has Max Richter's music and is on Indian Netflix (not sure about rest of the world).
But there are a lot of usecases where ACID is not needed and we can do with eventually consistent states. Btw, you do get C and D.
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Kids make you happy, but only when they move out as as long as they don’t break the bank. Truth is having kids is a kiss of death for your creative and professional career.

E: Of course downvotes. Truth hurts. Let’s see how grey my comment gets.
Timelapse of the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA
Child pornography is different than astroturfed political views in that there is direct harm done in its production vs. consumption.

Child porn isn't banned in the US because it's creepy or mentally damaging to the consumer, it is banned because making it is a clear violation of children. IIRC, animated underage depictions are still legal in the US for this reason.

That is to say, your example is invalid.