skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the start the only person trying to say it was a gompertz curve was Nobel Prize winner Professor Levitt. Everyone was using the Imperial College model which did say exponential growth and of which the governments around the world used to make policy. So to turn around and say now the models were unfounded is not useful as they were the models that were followed to make huge policy decisions. So it wasn't just people driving clicks, but governments making drastic changes to peoples lives based on these flawed models.

https://unherd.com/thepost/nobel-prize-winning-scientist-the...
>There are many UI controls (including in dialogs) that just need a mouse or keyboard.

Dialogs can be activated by using cmd+the letter of the first action. e.g "File already exists, replace / cancel" cmd+R and cmd+C would work.

This is far superior than tabbing around IMHO, but you can do that too, it's an option in settings.

>Of course, I'd like to know how something like this can be done faster using the keyboard.

- cmd+space

- sys <return>

- keyb <down> <return>

- tab

then left and right arrows to choose which tab you want

I think this request is a poor workflow example for keyboard shortcuts. Better examples would be workflows that are a chain of repetitive actions in a sequence.
I'm sure they must have had a conversation on the trade-off of having a "known name" attached to their investigative journalism wing and that very "known name" causing them to be negatively associated with vacuous listicles. Maybe once Buzzfeed News becomes a brand strong enough to stand on its own it'll be spun off as a separate organization altogether.
Julia follows semantic versioning [1] and is now on version 1.5, which means there been five non-breaking releases introducing new features (and dozens of bugfix only patch releases). Code that worked on 1.0 also works on 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 and will keep working in 1.6, etc. until such a time as a breaking 2.0 release is made. Even then breaking changes will be kept minimal and only made to enable worthwhile language features.

[1] https://semver.org
This is so true.

I find Google/Gmail also have advanced shortcuts that stem from unix style, and I could not imagine not being able to use J/K to rapidly select lots of email messages for bulk actions.

I enabled this on my parents account, and years later they still are mousing through each message individually, as if I never showed them how to do it.

Even copy/paste shortcuts elude them.
Look at what city slums were like before widespread motorized transporation. The ability to live in a different area than the coal plant where you worked was a massive improvement to health. Even today, with COVID, the ability to live in suburbs vs high-density inner city biuldings is a benifit.

Then there are the knock-on social mobility benifits such as being able to switch jobs without having to move your family. Or, at a lower level, not having to rent your house/appartment/shack from your employer. Many people see cars as evil today, but realize that today is not yesturday.
tell me more please!
How many parked "fibers" do you think a 32-bit JVM might be able to handle once loom is ready for prime time? A thousand? A million? Somewhere in between?
> and most of them were spending their time talking about completely unrelated US political matters and petty drama 99% of the time and very little actual programming stuff.

And that was one of the brilliant things about Google+:

You could post under different topics so people could read my programming or local posts without having to cope with my religious or political posts (just examples, I never got around to the two last ones I think).

Another thing was - after Google lost the nym wars their ux for using pseudonym accounts became one of the best I was aware of (no, it is not the same as the multiple-logged-in-accounts ux which I find rather unsatisfactory, but I guess parts of it lives on in YouTube were I can still see my pseudonym(s) when I log in.)
What is the state of data frame support in Julia?
Thank you for taking the time to write out a detailed response.
I don't know the details (~20 years ago), but pretty sure you hit the nail on the head. I think one of the boxes I saw were a hybrid -- Xeons with some sort of custom memory controller.

It was my first exposure to this sort of thing, and I was taken aback by the costs of this stuff, which made the Sun gear I worked with look extremely cheap :)
Also, Command-Shift-1 and -2 force eject the first and second floppy, respectively, so you don't have to go find a paper clip.
> Electrification won't change that

True for tires and road, but EVs wear brake pads much slower, due to regenerative breaking.
Ask HN: Does the Y Combinator logo look like the Skynet logo to anyone else?
I just saw the Skynet logo[0] for the first time in years, from the Terminator 2, I think, and it just jumped out at me, the black Y in the void space was reminiscent of the white Y. Am I the only one?

Happy Friday, all!

[0] https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/Skynet
Oh jeez you’re not supposed to write this shit down. Learn from the Wall Street guys and send emails that say “call me”
Honestly, to a cooperation, any feudal or totalitarian system is much closer in nature then a democracy, with libertarian or even anarchistic organizational forms. Thats just how it is. I would be suprised if there was any cooperation whos ruling class is not secretly rooting for the dictators of this earth.
One of my covid projects is improving my nearsightedness, I'm 20/200+. I've been spending 20 minutes a day doing techniques called Eqyptian Black Dot and Egyptian Letter Gazing plus other techniques I got from a book called The Art of Cosmic Vision by Mantak Chia, a well known Taiji master. I've been doing it now for 7 weeks and have noticed significant improvement in my vision. I'm not going to be driving without glasses any time soon, however, I am increasingly able to function without glasses, which was my main goal.

Your point about the outdoors is also made in the book. We are spending our time in near focus on screens and not using our far vision, as in nature. I now make sure to take time during the day to get outside and do distance gazing and expose my eyes to sunlight.
That’s technically what everyone is doing. You don’t really own your property. You pay property taxes to keep it.
> I doubt Google kills those products because it can't spin them off because of secret sauce.

If Google were actually killing off products for this reason alone, you'd think they'd start building products on GCP so spinning them off would be easy.
Recently I've really been enjoying Vue. It feels lightweight and I feel like I have finer control over application state, flow, and UI. I like React too but I feel like the component lifecycle is a little more opaque and some bugs slip through. React hooks have certainly alleviated some of this.
Looking at it from this angle is a very interesting idea. Languages like Go have to avoid a lot of abstractions to avoid increasing compile time. If we can narrow down the specific optimizations required, we can make better decisions about the abstractions that could be supported.
It make difference to your country's companies to make business there.
Well, cry me a river for the casino, which could afford to pay a living / more competitive wage, but I see your point about the other ones.

Maybe then it says more about our current economic system as a whole.

But my point was it seems like if $600 / week is enough for folks to choose not to work, that says more about the work not being meaningful or the employer being unable to (or choosing not to) pay the worker well.
the $600/month is already gone and businesses still can't get employees. It's not the boogeyman you're looking for, you need to take a deeper look at why that might be.

two of your three examples are plague-pit jobs that will involve the employee interfacing with the public and getting sick, probably bankrupting themselves with medical bills. that's the real problem.

it's a free market, and if you can't retain employees that's because you're not offering enough. Offer someone $1m a year to work in your casino, they'll take it (even during a pandemic) and you know it. Now we're just negotiating over the price.

Start offering $60k, maybe $70k, and full health coverage to balance out, you know, risking your life and long term financial health so Karen can get her gyro, and people will take it.

The real underlying problem is that a lot of these businesses are essentially bankrupt already, they are the walking dead, their business model will no longer work due to the pandemic (they relied on not paying for their employees' health care and that's no longer a viable scheme with the pandemic on) and they're demanding what amount to subsidies (artificial reductions on the cost of labor, for which the clearing price has risen due to increased personal risk) in order to stay afloat.

taking away unemployment benefits isn't going to bring customers back to your subway, it's over for a significant number of businesses and the owners are pleading to delay the inevitable. This is the economic impact that people wanted to pretend didn't exist, there is no reason the stock market should be bouncing against an all-time high when our economy dived 33% annualized rate this quarter and the pandemic is spreading faster than ever.
> China has a large, modern and highly capable navy. They are perfectly able to protect their own shipping against piracy or any state-level actor that would be insane enough to start a naval war. In the event of a direct conflict, the American navy is largely defenceless against the Chinese ASBM capability.

Lmao. The US Navy has roughly 3x the strength of all the other navies in the world combined. If the US and China went to war, the US would control the seas in about a month.
I think that is because he can't tell you what the new idea is, but suggest the old ideas the new idea might replace. So relativity replaced aether. Some new idea could maybe replace dark matter, but he can't know what it is.
Is your confusion around the verb tense in the headline? I.e. "renters did expect to miss" (past) vs. "renters are expected to miss" (present)?

In either case it doesn't make much difference. It was a survey done in July for August rent. One-third of renters DID EXPECT to miss August rent; and now, August rent being past due, we EXPECT that one-third of August rent was missed (lacking actual data around August rent payments made).

You tried to add in a bit of non sequitur / additional unsubstantiated info in your interpretation which was about the "scraping together" - there's nothing about that in the data
default design is horrible

Good. That will encourage people to change it.
I agree regarding the title after reading the article. I had assumed that the tests weren't accurate. Also, it actually hurts the viewpoint in the article, as Gates has found his actionable advice is ignored in the wake of social media conspiracy theories and the administration's unwillingness to listen to anything.
I think the major difference is that with OpenBSD it's quite clear what it is, an OS so secure that it sacrifices comfort. That's not an option for most people using a Client and probably neither on the Server because those are usually deployed at work places where standardization is usually more important than sophistication. But I agree, it's not clear what NODE is for, although I get the impression it's a remake of 90s credit card sized "PDAs" (not sure if they ever had a real name).
My windows install has been failing to make newly installed programs available through search, rendering it entirely useless.
The EU protects all sorts of industries, glaringly agriculture with CAP. I can see a case why we should have regulated social media, search and shopping platforms (which are highly monopolistic) a decade ago. The EU did not do any of that, and it's left with virtually zero digital footprint. Considering the importance of the digital economy for growth, it's quite logical to regulate itself to the the creation of a local market.
I perceived MacOS as the most keyboard-hostile OS. So many actions are mouse/gesture only.
I think this should honestly be higher. I'm not sure if jc is THE tool -- the Python dependency irks me slightly -- but I like the simplicity of the idea, wrapping around what is already available and functional, while improving my experience. I plan to play around with this idea.
Highly disappointed that this isn't a convention for Julia Roberts fans.
Exploiting Android Messengers with WebRTC
Good point. But because being arrogant is more fun ...

... first a nitpick:

Exponential growth is a mathematics term and it's misused a lot by programmers and HN users (to mean "growing really fast.").

... then a wider sweeping comment:

Thanks to COVID-19, the understanding of what exponential growth means has probably increased a lot in the general population. It was quite funny to see people saying things like "Not only are the cases growing exponentially, but the daily increase is also growing exponentially."

Well, you can show them
wolframalpha.com/input/?i=derivative+of+e%5Ex
or there 10th class math books with all the content they knew they would never need once they left school.
Trade is basically the opposite of a prisoner's dilemma, though. Cooperation dominates defection.
> that another, only 12800 years ago, killed off most American megafauna

Hopefully his children or grandchildren don't experience another one of these.
Engineers are forced by management to make changes to their creations anyway. What’s the difference between management telling an engineer to do something and the government telling management to tell an engineer to do something?
The whole point of the 'loans' though is that they don't need to be paid back if used for the purposes they are supposed to be used for.
I agree. In fact, the line about was one of the least interesting things discussed. Ironically, misinformation via social media is a huge part of this interview.
good. maybe we can get back to doing work that brings meaning to people's lives.
"it uses a user-facing camera to ensure drivers are paying attention."

What's the point? Who's the target market for something like this?
It's not a theoretical situation for most of the world, though.
Just for fun let's try a few:

Memo line: "Women, on average, have more Openness directed towards feelings and aesthetics rather than ideas. Women generally
also have a stronger interest in people rather than things, relative to men"

Research summary: "I summarize data from two meta‐analyses and three cross‐cultural studies on gender differences in personality and interests. Results show that gender differences in Big Five personality traits are ‘small’ to ‘moderate,’ with the largest differences occurring for agreeableness and neuroticism (respective d s = 0.40 and 0.34; women higher than men). In contrast, gender differences on the people–things dimension of interests are ‘very large’ (d = 1.18), with women more people‐oriented and less thing‐oriented than men."
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1751-9004...

Wow.. totally misrepresented the research there...

Memo: "Women on average look for more work-life balance while men have a higher drive for
status on average"

Research: "There are no sex differences in cognitive ability but enduring sex differences in competitiveness, life goals, the relative emphasis on agency versus "connection."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0306988060076911...

Omg how misogynistic...

Memo: "Women, on average, have more Neuroticism (higher anxiety, lower stress tolerance)."

Research: "Secondary analyses of Revised NEO Personality inventory data from 26 cultures (N =23,031) suggest that gender differences are small relative to individual variation within genders; differences are replicated across cultures for both college-age and adult samples, and differences are broadly consistent with gender stereotypes: Women reported themselves to be higher in Neuroticism, Agreeableness, Warmth, and Openness to Feelings, whereas men were higher in Assertiveness and Openness to Ideas"
https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F0022-3514.81.2....

Omg he totally misrepresented the research there...
If it were for me I would go for the G14. The Ryzen 4900H is very powerful and the laptop is pretty light weight (compared to other gaming laptops).
That's a great example. Also, JuliaBox.com (discontinued service) ran on Julia in production for 3 years, and has now been replaced by JuliaHub.com, which is also largely written in Julia.

Several Julia Computing customers also run long running Julia jobs in production, and some are discussed in our Case Studies (https://juliacomputing.com/case-studies/).
Planet has hundreds of cube sats in orbit already. Low and medium resolution data is not suitable for most commercial use cases. The only way to get high res data is from big lenses = big satellites = big costs. I agree that cubes sats are exciting especially for non-optical use cases like blanketing the earth with internet or GPS-RO or Synthetic Aperture Radar. But they are not a game-changer for visible-spectrum earth observation data in my opinion.
Logo link that is clickable:

https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/Skynet
> So, effectively Nike is paying Google (a lot) to get the result they would have if there were no ads

Yes, but we live in a world with ads, so what they're actually paying for is making sure a competitor doesn't show up. That's why I consider branded keywords a racket.
I think whether one finds this kind of newspeak shocking depends on how you view this:

Lens #1: This jumping through terminology hoops is a burden one has to undergo because of living in a litigious society. Having to resort to newspeak is not your fault, it's the government's, for creating all these rules and regulations.

Lens #2: If monopolies are bad for capitalism, then companies should not just in word but also in deed refrain from pursuing monopolization. Resorting to newspeak is hypocrisy: an attempt to continue monopolistic actions in practice while disclaiming them in speech.
In order to protect life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, you have to address those that infringe upon it.
I set up shortcuts in magnet app[1]. Cmd+Ctrl+(left/right) moves the window to that half of the current scree, and Cmd+Ctrl+(up/down) moves it across monitors.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/magnet/id441258766?mt=12
The only way that UBI can work is if you have a very strong labour market with high levels of flexibility.

This is one of the tricky things about economic policy. If you are proposing UBI, you are likely to be the worst person possible to implement it. All the proponents see are upsides without the deep understanding of the downsides.

A country which manages this well is Denmark. They have high levels of union membership, they have a true contributory unemployment insurance scheme that functions like UBI but they are also very savvy about capitalism/markets, and have one of the most flexible labour markets in the world (one of the few places on par with the US, maybe even ahead of). They understand that capitalism is the way you pay for all this stuff, it is the solution, not the problem. Very few political systems can make this leap.

The same applies to the discussion around restarting. Lots of countries went hard on the lockdown rhetoric...and now, it is pretty hard to roll back.

It is very concerning though. I don't think this is going to be some huge decade long disaster, things will get better. But there is a real possibility that a lot of supply gets destroyed in the meantime as the middle-class cocoons themselves at home out of fear.
I love it when taking a position to its logical conclusion sometimes results in the best possible scenario.
Some say that if you fix that problem first, almost everything else will just shake out
This idea has me curious. What religions believe that the independent actions of others can cause you eternal harm? If I unilaterally declare every person who has ever lived to be adopted into my religion (founded 30 seconds ago), does the religion that a person conscientiously chose for themselves now declare them to be harmed by my action? If so, does a second individual or institution claiming them posthumously add to the harm?

I would be very interested to be educated on such beliefs.
For services we deploy at Julia Computing, we use docker containers since that's just the way devops is done these days, but we also use manifest files to pin all our dependencies which almost makes dockerizing things redundant. It doesn't hurt to have a couple of layers ensuring reproducibility.
At Talkspace, Startup Culture Collides with Mental Health Concerns
Performance was critical to all projects 25 years ago when software had to run on a 100 MHz CPU with 16 MB of memory.
NASA Sounding Rocket Finds Helium Structures in Sun’s Atmosphere
Does the lists used in adblockers like UBlock Origin whitelist Ads from this company, are there any other advertising companies with similar philosophies?
That's based on one month (January 2020) with clear political motivations directly discussed by NYT in the article If you look at NYC crime YTD, it's down 3% [1]. I don't see how thats a drastic or even minor change to public safety.

Per your own link:

> "Law enforcement experts say crime statistics can rise or fall in any given month for numerous reasons and explain that it is far more important to track trends over longer periods of time."

One month just isn't representative of if a policy worked or not. Take March 2020 [2]. Crime down overall, including for assaults, something the NYPD blamed the bail law on in January. I specifically cherry-picked March on purpose - you can see if you look around that months go up and down. I'm not saying it's an open and shut case in either direction, but there's no macro rise as again evidenced on the YTD stats in the first source.

[1] https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statist...

[2] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/p0402b/nypd-citywide-cri...
Certainly a fire produces light in this wavelength, but also in many other wavelengths nearby, so since a narrow band seems to be the requirement for the eyesight improvement, it's probably not optimal.
Yes because everyone is rich and can choose not to work, so let's force immunocompromised Americans to go back to work. Excellent idea.
New shells seem unlikely to catch fire unless they:

* Preserve compatibility with popular shells like bash.

* Address some of the broken parts in a way that makes the world better. Quote handling is the original sin of *nix shells. If somebody fixed that you would have my full attention.

Otherwise I can just stick with Bash + Python3.
I think it’s not obvious that you can directly apply the logic of tariffs to (largely free) internet services provided by companies in other countries. You could make the argument that they should be treated the same, but I think the argument needs to be explicit rather than assumed.

Also, this entire mode of argument doesn’t address the idea that this is a national security or privacy issue.
Start something. Start something stupid
Ah, you're referring to that time when 100 idiots out of a country of 320 million people dressed up like nazis three years ago?
Use Ctrl+y instead ;)
React - the era of Hooks.

Vue - not very used to the template syntax.
The minority group is probably louder but if you've paid attention to demographics it's actually become smaller. But it should tell you a lot about your society that people are grudgingly treated with a little more respect only after they become "big and loud enough."