skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And then you get Tree(3) which when compared means "[Graham's number] might as well be 1".

https://joshkerr.com/tree3-is-a-big-number-i-mean-really-big...

Maths is wacky.
It all depends on how well you use git I guess. Imagine you developed a feature on a branch, then merged it into main. Later you have to change something at that feature, from the commit message you can find the commit, then you can see which parts of code is effected by that.

Then you are working on a subset of code, and can see of your change is effecting something else, or where else you need to make changes.

Or maybe someone fixed a bug there, then from commit message you can go to related bug, see their intentions more clearly.
I bought a 2nd hand hp i5 to run Blue Iris, poe switch and a couple of dahua cams. The set up was pretty straightforward, there is info on the insanely toxic ipcamtalk site on recommended Blue Iris settings. Basically you need an Intel CPU to support hardware encoding and use less power, and specific setting to save the vids without reencoding.
SARS-CoV-2 has an IFR that's ~5x that of regular flu and spreads significantly faster.

It's worth pointing out that it's killed more people than all natural disasters and terrorist attacks in the US combined. So if COVID-19 is a poor killer, so were Osama bin Laden and Hurricane Katrina.

And that's with the lockdowns. Without them, we'd probably be at half a million deaths by now. The lockdowns also bought us time to develop more effective treatment strategies.
Perhaps. I mean, it is certainly true that everyone needs to eat.

OTOH, thinking of these as a chain of events is what I am calling the orthodox view. IE, new food sources (maybe because new food production/gathering methods) lead to larger groups and other complexity.

Gobekli Tepeh, for example, gives us a somewhat reversed picture. Preceding grain cultivation and other neolithic elements, we find a major cultural site. Acres of statuary, stone structures. But if we are going to narrate a chain of events... it can't be agriculture first, then large group sizes, then more. Complex religious, politics or whatever the Gobeklin Tepens were up to preceded agriculture. Their agriculture grew from a culture that already had large group sizes, and the religious/political/cultural machinery that comes with it.

Maybe pre existing group sizes demonstrated by the scale of the site created the demand for agriculture. Maybe large group sizes are necessary for discoveries like grain cultivation methods to spread.
Na. It's not against the rules, and it would be too much work for the mods if it was. Just point it out, and/or use the buttons. It's also a great source of prediction/assumption data... atleast for non-throwaway accts.
I don't really buy the analogy.

Writing software is a bit like playing multiple sports. You can be good at one thing and poor at another, and as a result do great work on one project and be mediocre on another.

Writing code in the small, optimizing; architecting for change; architecting for scale in development; architecting for scale under load; architecting for scaling out vs up; all different skills.

Writing code functionally, vs procedurally, vs message oriented. Writing code with control flow vs data flow, and toggling between them. Crafting abstractions vs composing them. Many small parts put together elegantly vs one straightforward transparent monolith. Some skills are alternates, you can go either way and get as good results.

There are people who only know a few things. But on a suitably scoped project, that may be fine.
Yeah. I shouldn't be using experiential or anecdotal evidence to inform my understanding of geographic borders!

System 1 thinking in action.
Apart from the massive list of broken bookmarks, am also wondering what is the risk of the new owners attempting some kind of phishing fraud on unsuspecting non-technical users?

Really surprised by Google dropping the ball like this...
You can consider Europe and Asia the same portion of land, aka a continent, hence Euroasia as a continent, because it is, there is no big amounts of water in between.

This is used in Archeology because humans could travel easily across the same pieces of land. E.g 10.000 years ago humans could cross easily the English channel because it did not exist as the water level was way lower.

There are barriers that isolate parts of Europe and Asia, like desserts and mountains, but very early there were determined humans that crossed them.
The argument was made that "avoiding unnecessary death > fun/comfort things to do". The counter argument was "if that was true, we'd ban lots of things" and that it's more of a question of how many deaths vs how much fun/comfort.

One death a year vs permanent lockdown? We won't lock down. 99% of society dying vs washing your hands once a day? We'll make hand-washing mandatory. The deaths from Covid-19 and the responses to it are somewhere between those extremes.

The important point here is: it's not a matter of moral principles, it's a matter of where on those scales you put the deaths/counter measures. Pretending that it's a moral argument (as in "you're immoral if you accept any amount of unnecessary deaths for non-essential things like going to festivals or having pineapple delivered to your door") is simply not working unless you (demand to) ban plenty of things.
Well, TBF I grasped it quite quickly (although I viewed it on my MBP). The demonstration video on the top was quite useful to understand what it is (although I guess I leaved the tab long enough for the mp4 to load, they should compress the video - seems you couldn't see it due to load times), and the explanation that it works on any kind of terminal (including Terminal.app) implied that it's not another terminal but an add-on.

I guess they're not that polished yet as they were planing to do a Show HN...
An ad hominem side note: the author should try probiotics
Hmmm.. works in Chrome but not Firefox for me. Firefox plays the live stream but not recorded videos.
Opens the temptation to write essays. One liners forced a certain brevity
A list of pylint errors with examples of erroneous and correct code (+dummy CLI)
> lower per capita death rate than the best EU member states (Germany, Denmark).

You repeat that a couple of times in your posts, I am curious where do you get that from? Germany and Denmark are not "the best", they are both above the median in the EU.
There was this concept of objectives and counter objectives which was meant to combat Goodhart’s law.

Metrics and counter-metrics, IIRC originally coined by Julie Zhuo.

It’s a great framework for making sure that you consider Goodhart’s law, but it’s also only as good as the person thinking about it.

The problem I have seen in practice is that the same person whose job it is to think of the counter-metric (usually the PM) often looks better and gets promoted/paid more when the real costs of chasing the KPI stay hidden. PM leadership doesn’t have the bandwidth to make sure every PM is being rigorous.

I’ve felt this pressure as a PM (I don’t think I gave into the temptation but that’s not for me to judge) and as a developer I’ve seen my PM invest only nominal time on the counter-metric, where arguably you should be spending more time thinking about it than the metric itself. In practice, that resulted in things like security-through-annoyance-and-unreliability.

I’ve been in those shoes, so I know defining metrics to track business goals is really hard. But I do think people on the ground can tell when it’s a matter of difficulty as opposed to a matter of cutting corners or storytelling spin.
If I was a large, sparsely populated country that shared a border with China, I’d be more than a little worried about Chinese territorial ambitions. If they’re willing to rattle sabres with India over some Godforsaken rocks, imagine what they’d be willing to do for the territorial riches that lie North.
My first 2 years bootstrapping a SaaS to $75k ARR
Exactly! Short-term panicking is the worst thing to do.
I definitely think the climate change is man-made. I also think it is impossible to realy predict its environmental, ecological and social consequences on a global scale.

By listening to those, who try to nudge us into panic mode, we neglect calm long-term strategies that would improve our lives over time.

Imho, this applies to every "immediate threats" that are regulary propagated by (social) media.
I've been called multiple times by my bank and asked if I wanted their credit card. I always declined.

Last call I answered a bit more colorfully: "I already don't want to spend money I have, why would I want to spend money I don't have?"

They stopped calling.
I’d like to add, squashing is important in this workflow.

A string of commit messages on a branch saying, “add x”, “typo”, say a lot less than a single commit along the lines of “TICKET-XXX new feature”.
When you know the commands by memory, the terminal is hands-down the fastest way of interfacing with a computer. The trouble is when you're using a new command or toolchain and don't know the commands by heart.

For instance, code signing and notarizing a Mac app is a huge pain. It's not the kind of thing I do all the time, but it took quite a while to figure it out. I spent a few hours piecing together StackOverflow answers, assorted blog posts, and the threads on Apple's Developer Forum before I got it to work. It would be great if this workflow could be encapsulated an app.
I asked about this, they’re working on making them available on demand :)

src: https://twitter.com/cloudflarehelp/status/127293910658317107...
Possibly, but I think it's equally if not more likely a result of "agile" and teams not communicating due to product owners and the like not wanting other teams to work together etc.
Sounds like annoying to get no feedback about one's changes

Thanks for explaining
Obviously he means boogeyman. Even on your page, it suggests another spelling. What a useless comment.
Someone in Google going to have a very hard day that's for sure.
I'm not sure I've _ever_ used the -m flag to write a commit message. Naked `git commit` defaults to vim for me, and that's how I like it. Multiline messages, text turns from yellow to white when you go over 80 characters, summary of changes when you're writing the message, the ability to abort with :q! — I can't say the number of times I've realized I left a bug or forgot to tweak something or stage a change while writing a commit message, and bailed out to fix that before committing — the list of advantages goes on and on. I'll never not write my commit messages in vim, and I encourage everyone to do the same.
My point was "it's not gonna disappear next year".

But for sure, brand safety is an important KPI and clearly, unlawful content is definitely being removed, and certain kinds of content get demonetized.
It would be interesting to recreate the full 1980s Spectrum development experience. Emulating a 1980s 16 bit machine on a modern PC, which runs a development system running, presumably, a Spectrum emulator!
>But some of these chiefs started to figure out, wait a minute, the person who's in charge of actually keeping track of the crime in my neighborhood is me. And so if they couldn’t make crime go down, they just would stop reporting crime. And they found all these different ways to do it. You could refuse to take crime reports from victims, you could write down different things than what had actually happened. You could literally just throw paperwork away. And so that guy would survive that CompStat meeting, he’d get his promotion, and then when the next guy showed up, the number that he had to beat was the number that a cheater had set. And so he had to cheat a little bit more.

Why does the story end here? Why not put someone else in charge of taking crime reports?
I've spent about 3 years in India, through a combination of work and family, and rarely see anything called "curry" on menus. Part of what this author seems to be getting at is that "curry" reflects a colonial viewpoint that homogenizes groups outsite the west. Thus, Indians, Thais and Japanese food has "curries" (even though these curries are very different from one another). In contrast Hungarians have "Goulash."
CDC Influenza and pneumonia deaths by influenza season and age: United States, 2008–2015: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/health_policy/influenza-and-pn... (these are not estimates, see the footnote)

2015-2016
Flu: 7,961
Pneumonia: 131,858
All: 1,769,940

Excess deaths are all that really matters. Why not talk about those instead?
And I've had senior candidates (with 10+ years experience) do the same thing, even after throwing them a lifeline. This isn't a trait of junior-ity (is that a word?), it's a behaviour.

I suspect if you interviewed those 7 or 8 juniors in 10-15 years, many of them will continue to bolster.
I would say start small. Find a hiking trail - a real hiking trail - withing 10-30 minutes drive, and walk it weekly or so. Once you're comfortable with that trail, broaden your horizons for where you want to hike.

Eventually, you may want to do more/go on a hike further out then is a reasonable drive. At that point, find a campground near where you want to hike. If they offer rentals of some sort, great! If not, you may want to purchase a tent. If you do this, be sure to test it for a night by your house. Nothing quite as miserable as trying to figure out new gear in production (Yeah, the phrasings weird, but I couldn't figure out the right way to say it).

Most of this I kinda rephrased from my time in scouting, so my apologies if I translated it to words badly.
The app could probably benefit from a "are you still there?" type message when the app has been in the background for an hour. Alternatively, there should be a way to "host" a meeting, similar to in Zoom, which gives you the option to end the meeting for everyone.
> do it at the same time you'd schedule regular maintenance ... SLA ... SLO

I'll do that (some day), thanks
> Every year, about 1% of the population in the US dies. > The median age of COVID deaths is above life expectancy. If you are elderly, death from pneumonia is quite likely even without COVID.

People using the "they were going to die anyway" argument need to explain why they didn't die last year, or next year, but died this year, and died in huge numbers. Excess mortality is pretty high.

Research tells us people are dying more than 10 years early.

https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-75

> Results: Using the standard WHO life tables, YLL per COVID-19 death was 14 for men and 12 for women. After adjustment for number and type of LTCs, the mean YLL was slightly lower, but remained high (13 and 11 years for men and women, respectively). The number and type of LTCs led to wide variability in the estimated YLL at a given age (e.g. at ≥80 years, YLL was >10 years for people with 0 LTCs, and <3 years for people with ≥6).

> Conclusions: Deaths from COVID-19 represent a substantial burden in terms of per-person YLL, more than a decade, even after adjusting for the typical number and type of LTCs found in people dying of COVID-19. The extent of multimorbidity heavily influences the estimated YLL at a given age. More comprehensive and standardised collection of data on LTCs is needed to better understand and quantify the global burden of COVID-19 and to guide policy-making and interventions.
After a few months of country walking, going back to city walking felt like a shock. So many people around, forcing me to make myself smaller, more brisk, more tense.

There are ways to regain relaxed movement even in a city, though. Shooting hoops / rebounds / jumpshots for half an hour every day is amazing. It changed my whole way of moving and being in a space.
I love essays in commit messages! They can be very useful, especially when they describe why the change is being applied, instead of what is being done, which is usually the case.

Many high-profile projects have essays in their commits; I'm familiar with those of Go, e.g. https://github.com/golang/go/commit/5779bb4e92911271583faa13... (picked one at random).
Polars: Rust DataFrames Based on Apache Arrow
As a hobby project I tried to build a DataFrame library in Rust. I got excited about the Apache Arrow project and wondered if this would succeed.

After two months of development it is faster than pandas for groupby's and left and inner joins. I still got some ideas for the join algorithms. Eventually I'd also want to add a query planner for lazy evaluation.
I'd assumed people only used -m for commits they're planning on discarding later. A single line is rarely descriptive enough for real work.

Brevity is a virtue. Failing to write a descriptive commit message, is not.
No, not that at all.

Has anyone online ever done a “so what you mean is..” and got it right?
South African developed Covid-19 ventilators
This is one of the main reasons I tried garnering interest around a blogging app idea I had: If you blog with a third party service, eventually your blog will go away due to an acquihire, company shutdown, merger, or whatever happened in this instance (google forgot to renew a domain?). If you want to write seriously with a multi-decade perspective, you need to host it yourself, and I wanted to make that easy to manage for an average Joe. Unfortunately I haven't had any luck gathering interest! Technical people understand the idea but just roll their own using eg Jekyll; and Non-technical people don't get the idea, or dont seem to care.

The idea is here: http://www.splinter.com.au/2020/06/07/chalkinator/

Anyway if anyone has advice i'm all ears :)
How about Vietnam. Extensive contact tracing during each new flare up. Only 400 cases or so. It is extremely cheap to control it early.
The implication is that Sweden is doing a great job with the reporting. I think the whole point of OP's comment was that the statistics are meaningless because many countries skew the reporting, while Sweden does not.

> The statistics are likely completely wrong because different countries use different definitions of "Covid deaths" and different reporting procedures.
Yeah the NDI stuff works for me. I get a virual webcam that I can use in Zoom, that connects to the NDI app on my phone. And it also works in OBS too.

Nice high quality and a reasonable amount of control in the app.
Pretty sure all video apps on iOS do this? Normally the status bar changes to put a coloured pill around the time.

WhatsApp, FaceTime, and Zoom do this but they will pause video while in the background.

Personally I would be annoyed if calls were killed while swapping to other apps.
I'm very happy to see it's a Swift/native app! One request, I would love to see an API (JS or a native bundle or anything) so that I can write native UIs, not just ones in WKWebViews as I personally think having native UIs are important.

Also, (I've already written this on the TypeForm, but) I would like if Fig spits out information that can be useful to stdout/stderr. For example, user interaction can go to stderr and the result (I guess user commands?) can go to stdout. I understand this might be a bit hard as I guess Fig is working asynchronously - but maybe changing so that people can build on Fig with shell scripts might be better.

Thanks!
Phase 3 is normally where most medicines fail.

Covid (any vaccine based treatment really) is even more difficult as you need to wait for six months to assess transmission.
Who's Hiring in the UK
Hmm I'd guess they have DNS cnames like api1.x.com and api2 and 3, 4

And then the client picks one, and if that server is offline, picks another

Seems as simple as DNS based? And works with broken server(s)
$ git commit -m ‘
> Bugfix #94
>
> Help I’\’’m trapped
> in a bug fixing
> factory
> ‘
I genuinely wasn't trying to be dismissive, I was just looking for some other confirming (or disconfirming) evidence. There is a thing called the "Clever Hans Effect" (see other comment) which can mislead people to thinking that they are communicating with animals. I'm not suggesting that this is what is happening here, only that it could be a possibility. I would very much like for this to be actually what is happening as I'd love nothing more than to be able to communicate in a sophisticated way with my own dog! That would be brilliant. I appreciate that the owner is a speech therapist, so does she have any published, peer-reviewed material on what she has achieved? If this were to be repeatable, I can imagine a lot of people wanting to enrol their dogs into "communications school" so that they could replicate the behaviour.
I absolutely love the GitLens extension for Visual Studio Code: It shows you the current line annotated with `git blame` by default: https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens/tree/master/#curre...

I even like this in my personal projects: It shows me how good both my commit messages and granularity are.
I actuallly did, even drew nice street maps in my notebook.

But once I was there, simply asking someone in the street turned out to be a much better idea.
The reason people not using your product
More Features = More Complexity.

More friction.
Less user activation.
More chances of failure.
Messed up UX.

UX is like a puzzle. When you add more features. You get more pieces of puzzle. So more work is required and more complexity.

Solution

Get a top notch UX guy to fix it for you.

Let me know if it helps or DM me on Twitter that this isn't true.

@im_usamakhalid
Thats super awesome! Hopefully it will spread around. Thanks for creating this adapter!
> a detailed account of neurological symptoms of 43 people

The sample size is extremely small, and there is already selection bias because of pre-screening for neurological symptoms

> who had either confirmed or suspected Covid-19

really, they couldn't test the 43 people for covid that they were doing a study on?
Honestly this is really useful feedback. I think the page might be broken on mobile. There should be a large video demonstrating the product at the top.(https://withfig.com/video/final.mp4)

You're exactly the type of person we're trying to help, so we clearly need to communicate our value prop better!

If you have some time to chat, I'd love to talk. My email is matt [at] withfig.com
Bows are interesting because they allow time-shifting. An atlatl helps impedance match between human biomechanical force generation and spear inertia, but a bow allows a pull over a relatively long period of time to be stored, then used to accelerate an arrow over a relatively short period.
Looks cool! Is there a way to export the mesh & the texture?
I hope to be proven wrong, but I have my doubts that Apple will support Intel beyond a year or at best two after the hardware transition is complete.
source: https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/2402711?hl=en

but other country specific URLs current redirect to .com
Because information throughput was much lower.

Sending a letter would take weeks, so it was important to make it count. Newspapers with long articles made more sense when anything written was much more expensive.
Yup it's like an address with detail up to room number
but missing city / country

We might be able to guess the missing city via street name search but impossible for dates
Thanks for that. I don't understand the discrepancy between the article and the link you posted, however from your cite of 7,961 flu deaths (in the US) agrees with what the sciam article said.

> Excess deaths are all that really matters. Why not talk about those instead?

Good point, but I don't have them. What my and your posts seem to show is that flu is a heck of a lot less mortal than this covid. Which is the point.
The problem is that a lot of modern ones do not. My past 4 or 5 Android phones did not have LEDs. My second to last, a Oneplus 7T Pro had a pop-up camera which was great for knowing when something was accessing camera without your knowledge (it happened a few times). I'm now on a Oneplus 8 Pro and no popup and no LED so it's a step back in that regard.
But it would almost have to be, or your feed / suggestions would be 99% trash and porn.