skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you be a bit more specific? My backup plan for what? The economy failing to recover (or falling further apart)? Getting Covid? Losing my job? AI making programming obsolete? Nuclear war? Alien invasion? Zombie apocalypse?

One backup plan doesn't cover all possible scenarios...
Nothing stopping you from recording your screen a la a 1980s VCR
That feels like a lie considering I keep seeing articles about young people dying from covid.
It seems Bash on Mac doesn't work quite the same as Linux.

Try this instead. It works for me. Let me know.

Copy it to your ~/.bash_aliases. And source it.

alias jim='
function _jim() {
journaldir="$HOME/journal"
year=`date "+%Y"`
today=`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`
yearpath="$journaldir/$year"
[[ -d "$yearpath" ]] || mkdir -p $yearpath
jfile="log_$today.md"
jfilepath="$journaldir/$year/$jfile"
header="# Log: $today\n\n# Highlights:\n\n"
[[ -f "$jfilepath" ]] && echo "Opening log: $jfilepath" || { echo "Creating new log: $jfilepath" ; echo -e "$header" > $jfilepath ; }
vi "$jfilepath"
}; _jim'
Where are these rates coming from? They seem absolutely absurd. Are you suggesting that 17% of the US population is going to have permanent heart damage, and that 3% of the population is going to have a stroke, from contracting covid? That seems completely disconnected from reality.

3.5MM people in the US (at least) have already tested positive. Are you trying to imply that over 100,000 of these people have had a stroke?

More related to the article - isn't the latest IFR estimate from the CDC even less than 1%?
(The iPod touch was released after the iPhone.)
Actually, if you look at the figure at the end, amongst slow walkers, it makes no discernible difference whether they are normal weight, overweight, or obese (of course a difference might be evident if there were more data). So the known risk is:

normal & slow = obese & slow > obese & brisk > normal & brisk

The last two > comparisons are a bit uncertain individually, though the combined one (obese & slow > normal & brisk) is statistically significant.
Yes. I am not sure what it is like where you are from, but in Australia and the UK, there is a period of time (usually 3 months) where you're on probation and either side can terminate employment on the spot. You've already made up your mind in my opinion and should move on.
Show HN: Buttery, a DSL/runtime for defining HTTP APIs
Alternatively: every bittorrent client I have used (at least on macOS) is really, really bad. I used to use Deluge, which was buggy and slow to begin with. Then they stopped distributing an installer for it, so you had to install it with pip (!) and run it from the command line. God forbid I `brew upgrade python` or my bittorrent client will probably break.

Transmission crashes for me, and has little activity. Sometimes it just can't open torrent files.

The web doesn't break. You can load a URL, get some decent software with an easily-improvable UI—and assuming you're on a modern browser—expect it to work with no installation, in seconds. And if a site pushes an update, I hit refresh and get the update without needing to run a 45-minute `pip install` command.
Even if you count those it will still round to zero
You write this in a way that implicitly dismisses the Cause of various social justice movements as indistinguishable from any group with leaders. Are you claiming that there's no difference between Black Lives Matters and Jim Jones' church?
I believe they were originally made with waxed paper. I'm not sure if wax is much better in those regards.
None of the large cloud providers will let you do this. You’d need to rent a box on a service that turns a blind eye to this sort of activity.
Only about 1% of the people dying from covid are under 35. That's the big monkey wrench. If it was kids dying, I think the perception would be very different. There's other factors even more difficult to discuss than age.

The state is powerless to shape policy in a way that adequately fits the risk due to Western culture's focus on individual rights. It's up to us to shape our behavior. Are we adult enough to have that kind of conversation? I am doubtful.
Not if they have no funding for those things...
Can there be inflation if people save and don't spend enough?

It seems there's a split among economists, and it seems many are forecasting stagnation and they're skeptical of inflation.

Then there are those saying that inflation is imminent.
A quick google search will show many studies for covid mortality by age. The news media likes to tug on heart strings by pointing to kids or LGBT or black or whatever people affected by covid even though the numbers are miniscule.
FWIW, massive side effects and increased fatality risks for vulnerable populations are also true of going on a Space Shuttle mission :(.
If all Apple wanted was TSMC goodness, it would've been cheaper and easier for them to buy CPUs from AMD.
> Three million people dead would monkey wrench the economy no matter what.

Wouldn't that largely depend on the age of the victims? If the majority of victims are over retirement age, then this isn't likely to be true.

We've had nearly 1% of our population killed or wounded in a short period of time before, it's impact on the economy doesn't seem that obvious.

> 18 of those will have permanent heart damage for the rest of their lives.
> 10 will have permanent lung damage.

The extent of these doesn't seem clear either, looking back to the previous SARS epidemic, there was significant ARDS recovery after diagnoses over a period of several years; however, with other certain pre-existing conditions the organ damage was permanent.

Even in those cases, the rates are significantly lower than this suggests. It seems like a lot of small sample size studies were used to generate these numbers. I don't doubt COVID is horrific and requires special care to address, but I don't see any benefit in exaggeration.. particularly if your goal is to address an already skeptical audience.
The traditional reminder that the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which built this atlas, is only able to do do thanks to the donations of individuals like you:

https://eff.org/30
I do like Arch and use it on my desktop, but the fact is there are so many great productivity apps on OSX that I'm not willing to give it up. Eg; Things.
become a youtuber

become a farmer
I wish getting bank credit was that easy (made bad choices in my twenties, paid well into my thirties for that)...

I could easily just buy up some account that has good credit since it's all anonymous, no way to know if the original 'good credit' actor is the same person now applying for the loan.
Looks interesting! How about models that require dictionaries - e.g. tf-idf to convert text into a feature vector? Does it allow for some preprocessing?
> (out of a sample of 100 people) For every one person who dies:
* 19 more require hospitalization.
* 18 of those will have permanent heart damage for the rest of their lives.

> One study published in March found that out of 416 hospitalized Covid-19 patients, 19% showed signs of heart damage.

Assuming 19 in 100 require hospitalization, according to the study: 19% of 19 will have heart damage or 3.61. Similar breakdown for other points.

Disclaimer: shutdown was the right call and the point is still valid with smaller numbers (they’re still huge). Just pointing it out.
Absolutely agree.

My list of questions that begin with “no idea why Apple, one of the richest companies in the world...” is quite long.

Most recently posed here https://jborichevskiy.com/posts/spending-electronics/
I think, mostly, if you didn’t automate yourself out of your job, you didn’t embody the programmer.

If they need you to make every little change, if they still need you, you weren’t the programmer.

It’s a tragic job ultimately, if you do it right.
> It might be worth coming up with an example that doesn’t illustrate an end that may justify precisely the means you describe

Agreed.

And a lot of people will miss an important point: for every dealer caught using 'parallel construction', countless of innocent citizens would have to be surveyed to score a "hit".
Ok, but it's still unfair to assume that yacht builders are as good for society as farmers, simply because both food and yachts are purchased with money.
Resilio sync is delivered from BitTorrent and it works great
That's interesting. I didn't get to touch a 601 until the 604 were common, side by side in a commercial environment, the older machines gunked with more use (old installs) and more users over time, thus my opinion is biased and worthless. Thank you for posting.
Reminds me of the book on professional jobs called Disciplined Minds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Schmidt_(writer)
TaxProper (YC S19) Is Hiring a Software Engineer (Growth)
I don't know what it is, but Kara Swisher annoys me. I feel her questions are usually of poor quality and I'm just not a fan of her interviewing style. Can someone fill me in on what has made her so successful? I think I may be missing something.
Is the query actually slower, or is it just not using an index you want it to use?

Often times PG won’t bother with an index for a variety of reasons (sequential scans can be legitimately faster in some scenarios), especially when the number of rows is small.
I agree but would also add that at least in my experience difficulty with decoding is the root cause where fluency is a symptom.
The 1918 pandemic was 2.5%

Just wanted to point that out since the way you worded your comment could lead people to believe that it was closer to 0.5%
> "if you're being investigated, you probably did something wrong".

Yeah, like being born a Jew in Germany a little over a century ago.

The meaning of "something wrong" can change over time.
"Basically at 0%" doesn't cut it with a national population of 330M.

0.02% of school age children ... yeah, that indeed rounds to zero ... it also rounds to 14-15k dead children.
I like working on legacy systems too, but not to rewrite them wholesale, as that just tends to cause more problems --- instead, to carefully maintain and extend them.
Whoops, forgot to take that off from an earlier version that was intended to be paid. But I do have a couple ideas for getting funding without artificially limiting the product - the most immediate being corporate sponsors & enterprise support.
I think words like 'masterclass' will not change. "Mastery" of a skill or topic is largely different than being a 'master' of a set of nodes.

Saddens me that you got downvoted for asking an earnest question, I guess people are scared of what this topic will devolve into.
Not sure Apple could legally buy Arm Holdings.. Or if they do it would most certainly be denied by the fed.
The bay is the IT capital but it’s probably a close contender for the NIMBY capital as well. Most of the South Bay is a low density sprawling suburbia where nearly all of the homeowners are focused 100% on property value and block any development that’s not more commercial (which brings in more jobs boosting housing).
$5 can be the difference between eating that day or going without food for some.
> It is no fun being an internet referee.

Put so simple makes it a fascinating puzzle that I will need to ponder for years to come. Why is it the case, what can be done, who is up for it, what will they turn into, what happens with the subjects if done right/wrong?
Interesting analysis. I think text to speech could help many people review their writings in this way. Sometimes things just have to 'sound' right.
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The third line’s emoji is conciliatory false embarrassment masking amusement, e.g. the emotion on your face after you intentionally lose in arm-wrestling to a five-year-old.

That’s a pretty standard meaning for that emoji, despite the subtle shade of its meaning, because it’s quite common on Twitter or Instagram that you want to humble-brag about “what they missed out on”, but you also want to make it explicit that you realize that you’re doing so (a bit like sarcasm-flagging.)

The fourth line’s emoji is presumably a substitute for a “refresh” (or more precisely, “recompute”) icon, since we don’t actually have one of those.

...which is rather uncommon usage; but the proper emotion (“knowing but non-judgemental stare, as if a parent waiting for their child to figure out that they’re supposed to close the fridge after taking something from it”) isn’t a standard Unicode emoji... yet. (But nearly every Discord group I’m in has a custom one for that purpose!)
> Heck, you can buy pretty much any movie from Amazon digitally.

Not really, I pay for Amazon prime, tho in Germany, as such the content is very limited and often only exists dubbed, granted: They've been getting better with this.

But delivery of certain shows sometimes is days and weeks late compared to US release, streaming quality has also been spotty for me with no real way to fix anything.

I also have shared access to Netflix, but once again: It's German Netflix, as such it does not have the same offerings as what's current in the US, for example no second season of Twilight Zone.

With Netflix I could use a VPN to get access to the US version, but finding a free VPN with enough bandwidth to stream Full HD content is easier said than done and finding a good paid one seems like quite a bothersome task.

Meanwhile, none of that matters with the warez scene, which also covers everything, not just specific IP. Meaning that I don't run the risk missing out on something interesting or a new season due to not having properly kept up with the news or checked dozens of different services.

No weird issues with streaming, just a handy *.mkv file, add whatever language subtitles I want/need because unlike the entertainment industry, the warez scene actually has been extremely good and consistent about setting and keeping standards [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_(warez)
In many jurisdictions this isn’t theft either, and often the police can’t do much about it. Technically it counts as non payment of debt, which would have to be recovered by a civil action.

In practice they’ll just bar you from the premises.
Green account, no other comments; almost certainly not.
Have you seen the infrastructure of the Bay Area? It's ancient. I've had more power outages in 18 months of living here than I did in 20 years of living in San Diego(in a 70's tract. SD also has lots of old infrastructure.).

The bay area needs to be torn down and rebuilt, but the NIMBYs won't even let adequate housing be built so the chances of that happening are about zero.
College students fume over full tuition for dubious online learning
Why does the Bay have such bad housing and transit? Fiber deployment is, first and foremost, a municipal issue. Municipal governments have almost total control over the process. Some cities make it easier to build it than others: https://broadbandnow.com/research/fiber-friendly-cities. I’ve got two fiber lines to my house a few miles outside Annapolis. Verizon, which covers the vast majority of the population of Maryland, plus Comcast. I had fiber at both of my precious addresses (DC and Baltimore). My parents had fiber since 2005 back in their Virginia house, and now in their Maryland house. (They don’t even have public sewer and water.)

Whatever the big picture national issues are, there is no reason the Bay Area should be lagging even compared to the rest of the US. Rich suburbs of tightly packed single family homes are prime fiber territory. Those are the very first places Verizon wired up with FiOS 15 years ago.
Not that I agree with the article, but a most of those numbers are the same people...

but yeah. US population, approx 330M, 59M of which are likely to be permanently fucked up by this virus and 3M permanently dead. not to mention the amount of people that died or got permanently damaged due to the fact that the hospitals were overloaded. They may not have been Covid patients but bleeding out from a undiscovered brain hemorrhage because the hospital was packed and the dr's overworked is still just as dead as 1% of covid sufferers...
Right then. But that doesn’t have anything to do with what I said.

And no, they are not ‘like the Torah’ or New Testament.
No one has talked about quantities here, and general statements like "code is a liability" are usually made by talkers.
> I don't really think the Flash decision had anything to do with "better products," and simply ecosystem control.

The original iPhone was super resource constrained (battery, ram, cpu) which required rethinking how apps were handled, including that they could be killed anytime. This was very much against conventional wisdom at the time. Apps (and websites) also needed significant redesign to fit within the touch UX paradigm.

Flash's fate was likely first and foremost a byproduct of these constraints and the changes they necessitated. While I agree control always mattered to Jobs & Apple, so too did user expectations, which at the time meant flash on web. My strong suspicion is engineering realities (resources) and user experience practicalities (need for flash to adapt to mobile UX) drove the decision, which was then easier to justify from the perspective of control.
When put in microwave, my iPhone X loses all but one cell bar and all but one wi-fi . Then switches to 5G wi-fi for full bars.

It all changes when I turn on my microwave with phone inside it.
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Is this supposed to be a hoax?

Just tried my home Internet, static IP, secure WiFi, in COVID lockdown, so no visitors.

Myself and my wife only (besides a toddler and baby). Wife doesn't normally use a computer (just mobile) and has no clue how to torrent. Site claims we torrented some MP3 three days ago; I had to Google the name of the artist.

If it's not a hoax then my best bet is some seriously impressive JS malware on a site my wife visited.

Does seem extraordinarily unlikely though.
Just installed tiptop(1) to play around locally and it seems to work - neat.
Alex: An Updatable Adaptive Learned Index [pdf]
> Unfortunately COVID is also a major cause of obesity (or at least increased weight and loss of physical fitness).

Citation, please.

For every Covid Fifteen Plus I also know a Covid Fifteen Minus. This may, of course, be limited to tech folks.

> We really need to find a real solution soon so we can pick up our lives again.

New York (and other countries) demonstrated the solution and will be back to a semblance of normal probably by September/October.

Places like Texas and California didn't have to be hugely locked down because it wasn't circulating like New York. Basic precautions would have sufficed to run the R0 below 1.0 and wipe Covid out.

But noooooooOOOOOOooooooo ... the rest of the US was to fsking stupid to do basic things like not have parties with 30 people so now they either need to go full-on New York or they're going to be in a shitty state indefinitely.
people think it's the social networks that are toxic. It's not. It's people. People are.
Awesome, can't wait to hear how it goes. There's probably a lot of variations you can experiment with. If nothing else, it will be an amusing distraction from the incompetence you have to deal with.
Amen, I've seen so many failed attempt to automate a process that hadn't even been attempted the "slow" "unscalable" way first. Doing a task manually a few (dozen?) times will reveal a disproportionate amount of information about what actually needs to be done.
> 20% more

Where did this number come from? At 4% compounding over 40 years, you will have at least 130% again over what you put in.
That's interesting!

The ones I personally prefer are the ones that have been proven over decades, or better centuries. Pretty much any city center in most small/medium towns in Europe, for example.

Jan Gehl's Strøget in Copenhagen is, AFAIK, the best example of readapting a large city to a proven, older model.

[0]: https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/urbanism-planning/j...
Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan.
Are you claiming that ‘linguistic analysis’ by non Indians/Hindus at the university of Texas supersedes knowledge that was orally transmitted for aeons before linguistics as a term was even coined?
In tech at least, the word "master" isn't by itself a problem, as much as the term "master/slave" in systems architecture.

Or at least... I hope that the word "master" is not completely verboten now.
It means it is due for a rewrite next year to keep that modern adtag.
Investing and lending are both voluntary transactions entered into by consenting adults. Neither one is coercive.

Why would one be exploitative and the other not?
Yea and glass is recyclable too
Not really. It shows what people using my current VPN exit have downloaded. And seriously, TPB warns people to use VPN services.
Downvoted by anonymous cowards yet again. Is it because

- the idea of injecting money into a lame economy causing inflation is preposterous

- comparing historic stock market prices w/o inflation data is perfectly sensible

or

- that inflation data is readily available to everyone and doesn't need to be dragged into the discussion here?

Well, I'm afraid, we'll never know.
I can't edit my comment now, but I also just noticed that the CDC recently revised the IFR upwards from 0.26% to 0.65% (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...), apparently as of a few days ago. Our death rate estimates were too low, if anything.
Good talkers inevitably sum it down, or good anything usually do.

Conciseness can be a product of prolificness too.
This kind of thing is the reasons why I do like ORMs. Even if you can see the SQL, that doesn't mean you can tell what it's doing: you don't know what indices will be used or not used, you don't know why the query planner will do things one way or another, you're not actually "close to the metal" at all. So might as well have the convenience of an ORM; sure, you'll have to do some fiddly profiling as and when you have performance problems, but even if you were using hand-written SQL you'd still have to do that.
Last time I heard mention of the first quote, it was used as an example of how a non expert could figure out if someone was full of it.
They're renting a developer transition kit that's basically a mac mini with an ipad pro chip until the end of the year for $500
Lisp Resources
> Apparently it's hateful to want overweight and obese people to change their behavior so that they are better able to fight off deadly viruses in the future.

Yes, it is, in that it is in practice simply a way to discard their humanity and value by blaming them for having a condition which is medically highly intractable, not well understood, and has been the subject of intensive focus for decades with little success in treatment or mitigation.

Any time someone trots out the "I wish people with X would just exercise some personal responsibility" they have done this.
hey Billy. I run CDNs @ Optimizely. If you ever see something, please reach out. (My Twitter is in my profile if you want to DM.)

edit to add: I don't disagree with anything you wrote. :)