skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good thing you posted a comparison graph then, too bad that the covid-19 numbers in your graph are old and outdated.

The Nature article has risk of death for 0-19yo at about 0%, while your graph has flu deaths at 0.01% for that group.

Which means the flu is more dangerous for kids than covid-19.

The Nature article has risk of death for 20-40yo at ~0.02%, same as your graph, so it's probably on par in that age group. Which means that my original point stands, if you're not scared of dying of the flu, you should not be scared of dying of covid-19.

Unfortunately, humans have some crazy biases when it comes to evaluating risk. We're very bad at weighing the risk of rare events (<1% probability), we tend to overestimate them, and we're extremely bad at weighing new and previously not encountered risks, we severely overestimate them. The same bias also causes us to underestimate known risks, which is why some people are afraid of flying, but not of driving to the airport, even though risk analysis says it should be the other way around.

And this is why people think covid-19 is super-duper scary, while no-one cares about the flu, even though for most of us we should value them about the same.
The Debian site makes hard to find the operating system images containing binary firmware for various devices, but they're all there. Another poster published the right link, however should you some day not have it handy, a search for "debian firmware image" will lead you to it both on DuckDuckGo and Google.
Here is the original github issue: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/5072#issuecommen...

And here is the transaction: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transaction/ef600c380a239d9b9...
I'm slightly confused. First, PlayerClass is not a trait. And the methods would have to be edited when you add a case to the enum. Is that what you're asking?

It's different than if you were implementing those methods on a trait and just had several types that implemented the trait. But the article does show the potential complications that sometimes arise with Rust traits.

The difference is that a trait is "open" and an enum is "closed". So the enum's methods can/must account for all variants. A trait method calls to the implementor for work, much like inheritance in other languages.
I'd advise to set a classic rate limiting on the front load balancers, something like 6k requests per minute per IP.

This works really well to stop clients from doing this sort of things in the first place. Client devs get 429 errors for spamming the shit out of your server, they add some sleep to spread out the requests a bit. Everybody wins.

You will never hear any complaint about it, it's infinitely easier for the customer to add a sleep than to figure out how to contact your support.
> Dynamically typed languages, for example, might always be popular with technical, but not comp-sci type users.

Some of the most hardcore "comp-sci" theorists I've ever encountered work only in Scheme, a dynamically typed language.
Delegating to myself
Apple Approved Malware: malicious code now notarized?
Coronavirus: One in eight hospital cases were 'caught on-site'
The biggest swing in support of gay marriage was actually among the silent generation, with support nearly doubling from 2003 to 2013: https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/20...
For my own clarification, are financial instruments "money"? I think common people, like me, have a hard time to distinguish money from cash and cash-equivalents.

A bond from an AAA corporate might not be money, but it's so liquid that it's as good as cash to me. :D
Sometimes they are systems problems. Static typing vs dynamic typing is a good example. The data you are dealing with may very well be dynamic in nature. You could have a strongly typed entity for dealing with it, e.g. hashset, but you really gain nothing from it being strongly typed. You still have to check for missing keys and handle the dynamic nature of it. Using a dynamically typed language where everything is a hashset saves a lot of boilerplate code and can make the code easier to read.

That's really what it's all about. Readable code. Different languages allow different levels of expression. You mention English as the business language that everyone speaks. Most programming languages can interface with C, and C has the largest ecosystem of libraries. Why don't we all just program in C? Because it's not very expressive. You used the words 'static', 'dynamic', and 'gradual' when discussing type systems. What if you couldn't use those words? What if you had to explain in painstaking detail what 'static' means because there wasn't a word for it? That's what it would be like if we all had to program in C.
Can you give an example of a significant power, any time in history, that did have a lot of qualms with using repression for political ends?

Even the Athenians had slaves.
Deep-Sea Mining: How to Balance Need for Metals with Ecological Impacts
Why can't they have a rematch though? At least the Russian player should have a say if they wanted a rematch.
Sometimes. Usually just URLS with tutorials or something I need real quick. Firefox has a great little button on the hamburger menu on the search bar that pulls up your email client with the url in the body and the page title in the title of the email.
No, it's like saying the owners of aerospace engineering companies don't deserve credit for the designs the aerospace engineers working at them produce.

It's not a statement I agree 100% with, but it's definitely the case these days that individual workers are not given enough credit. It's also the case that the owners, executives, and other high-ranking management types are given far too much credit for successes and far too little blame for the failures.
I was sure this was the etymology, but apparently "mode" in statistics is quite a modern use, from a work by Pearson in 1895 in English. Whether he was influenced by the Romance languages is not clear, but there certainly isn't a direct path from Latin or French as one might have expected.

https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/7675/what-is-the-ety...
They probably mean button not div.
Motivation – Keli Language
> Do you guys think there is in theory, the best programming language, or will this always be subjective

This is like asking for "what is the best music". Do you want to dance? Relax? Party? Feel Happy?

Programming languages have target audiences: people with a certain mindest and problems to solve. A Golang hacker will be disgusted by Haskell, and vice versa, yet both languages have merit and their own fan base, working in different domains.

That said, controversial opinion incoming: I think Zig is clearly better than C, but that is the only example I can think of.

> its not like computers need cultures

Languages (really all big projects) absolutely need cultures, and in practice they all have one. Cultures is how humans cooperate, as shared values, idioms and concepts make it much more effective to do so.
> implies causation, which contradicts their intent.

“affects”, as stated in the intent, is the same as causation, so, no, it doesn't “contradict” the intent.

You may believe that their results only properly support correlation and not causation, but causation was clearly within the stated intended scope of the research.
Yes, and I'm sure there are Unix admins that love statically typed languages. They were examples, and not absolutes.
In Polish it's common to use "deko" (ang. deca) especially for weight of groceries. So it's perfectly normal to buy "20 deko sera" instead of "200 gram sera" (both means 200g of cheese)
> the Navy has never had a nuclear accident. We've proven it's doable

Ehem... Where the USS Thresher and the USS Scorpion sailing under Mauritanian flag?

Nope. The US navy has never had a nuclear accident, they just lost two whole nuclear submarines that sank near Azores and Massachussets (but only 220 people were killed so it seems that the army forgot all about it yet).
I've seen this map several times, but never really looked at it closely. What a devastating march!
Meteorite study suggests Earth may have been wet since it formed
No, that dictionary has lost all its authority with this, and no, I would not take texts related to IT as reference: those give the worst examples of bad translations.

Take a look at this
http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/difetto/

The only use of "per difetto" that existed before a translation of "by default" was ever needed is in the expression "approssimazione per difetto", and the new meaning forcefully attached to "per difetto" makes sense only in the worst nightmares after a "peperonata co' e cozze".

Picchi probably is only witness of a niche neologism, that was probably bred from a bad technical translation. But it was a bad neologism in the first place, it was incorrect right from the start.

EDIT
Nevertheless I take your point: you did your research before you wrote "correctly".
But the one I replied to said that he/she would "almost" be willing to give all that up, except something-something-sandbox.
To develop native apps for UBports (Ubuntu Touch) you can use https://clickable-ut.dev/en/latest/

About Android apps, there's the Anbox project but it needs a lot of work yet.
Pokerstars was not operating like a fractional reserve bank, because it had segregated player funds to separate bank accounts. As in, it didn't have a "fraction" of reserves for the money players saw in their accounts, it had "full" reserves. It didn't have to go out and sell illiquid assets in order to pay players. It already had the money at hand.

If you want to characterize Full Tilt Poker's operation as a ponzi scheme, I have no problem with that. Full Tilt Poker was operating as a fractional reserve bank, and in addition to this it was siphoning assets of the bank to its owners.
Exactly. Also this:

> Avoid skipping heading levels: always start from <h1>, next use <h2>, and so on.

Isn't quite correct. For longer documents it is sometimes appropriate to skip a level if it is warranted. For example, an online book may have an <h1> for a chapter heading, then some text introducing the chapter, then a minor point that doesn't deserve as much prominence as a proceeding section. So under a chapter called "Introducing Python" (an <h1>) there may be a heading immediately following the <p> text after the <h1> called "Python Runtimes" that isn't really an important part of the document, but deserves to be covered before any <h2> is called. It's ok to label it <h3> so that it shows up in the table of contents appropriately as a minor section.

It also makes more semantic sense and is better for screen readers too. If "Python Runtimes" were a <h2> a reader / lister could reasonably assume that this is a semi-major part of "Introducing Python" when it is not. It's just a quick interlude that says "There are many types of python, you should probably use CPython, since that is what this book is going to assume" or something like that.

But like you say, this is geared towards junior devs, so it's ok to generalize a bit.
button provides free accessibility, using div is terrible.
I believe that jedd was characterizing both non-metric systems, Elizabethan and before, as broken.

That's true, but not for the reason that people usually think.

The common misunderstanding of the history here is that the world went straight from measuring things with bodyparts to metric. It did not. Even if we count Charlemagne as having done that (which he didn't; he having received physical standards from Harun al-Rashid), there were nine centuries of mucking about between that and the invention of the metric system, during which time physical standards were used, lost, stolen, forged, damaged, cunningly altered, eroded, deformed, and replaced. Furthermore, people did various gymnastics to account for the results, such as changing the number of onces to the livre or to the marc.

England was one part of a wider world, and that world was a Hell of a mess.

Metric was not just decimalization, it was consolidation on a single standard, which was particularly pressing in 18th century France, by which time the Carolingian system had shattered into hundreds of thousands of different systems in France alone. (Lookup tables of the time also included conversion factors for towns in France's neighbours. The mess wasn't limited to France by any means.)

Modern stuff like the last few official users of the pint in the world not agreeing on how big it is, is in fact peanuts compared to the mess that the metric system replaced.
In my industry (research), we still have a strong line of business. Some commercial clients have killed their contracts with us to save money during the COVID era, but government contracts are still going strong. In areas where there's a clear use case I think there is still work to go around.
I wonder if anyone has tried to measure repression's "drag coefficient" effect on creativity.
I like Nim. Quickest possible description - it sits between Go and Rust. If you find Go boring or missing features, but Rust has too steep a learning curve - Nim. I found it strangely intuitive to get going with - easier than Go. With a smaller community still, there's plenty of room to contribute too.
1. Angular
This makes total sense because humans are inherently lazy. Hurd would be out in production in 199x if not for Linux. But it's still being worked on in 2020.
I use the “saved messages” feature of Telegram, which syncs across my devices.
It's easier to carry beer and milk in those sizes and they're about the right amount for use. A cup of beer is too small, a litre too big as you'll end up with a flat beer by the end. A pint of milk will give 2 people their breakfast and enough left over to add for tea for the day. Rare to find some off milk in the bottom of a pint bottle.

I'm guessing that why they were sold in those amounts vs some other choice. It's just my experience though.
Lisp Flavored Erlang: real-time messenger example in 100 LOC
Yes, it's the same hardware with a different distro pre-installed, and a different back cover.
Revenue according to the article $272 million in Q2 (with a $100.7 million loss in the quarter).
Facebook executive who shared anti-Muslim post apologises: Report
Ankhi Das apologised to company staff for post that dubbed Muslims in India a 'degenerate community', BuzzFeed reports.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/facebook-executive-sh...

Facebook & Twitter is a disease.
Not OP but I find I’d easily get a game because I empathize with its creator in some way. It’s more likely what they make may align with me, though even the act of choosing to acquire a game makes it more likely I would enjoy it (mere-exposure and you can’t enjoy a game you wouldn’t buy). I’m hardly a gamer at all, but that’s how I ended up getting Disco Elysium—and it didn’t disappoint.

I think Patreon takes it to the extreme—you can literally support a game developer, and get whatever they make without knowing what it will be.

(Related: buying merch of your favorite band, even if you don’t really need those T-shirts and rarely wear them.)

With X-Plane it’s different; I got it for state-of-the-art flight model simulation (surprisingly low price point pushed me) and only recently started paying attention to who makes it. It’s really cool: I reckon they must make most profit from selling FAA-certified version for professional pilot training, but they still choose to offer pretty much the same program (sans some really specialized hardware support) for peanuts to enthusiasts. Supporting non-enterprise consumers must cost them, though I suppose they get bug reports in return.

Liking the creator doesn’t only cause one to buy a product, but significantly increases the chances they will champion it to support the creator further.
It is the speed of cause and effect.
If something changes at location X, that cannot cause anything to change at location Y faster than the distance between X and Y divided by the speed of light.

Light (in a vacuum) goes as fast as the speed of cause and effect. And it just so happens that the speed of light is pretty easy to measure (as compared to other possible things).

So if we were all blind, we would still be affected by this speed.
> that German has (some) roots in the English language.

More accurately, English, like German, is a Germanic language. German doesn't have roots in English.
I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment. But, I'm a pilot and we fly for roadtrips!
Can Flutter like framework developed on top of Nim ? It would be great.
Artificial pancreas effectively controls type 1 diabetes in children age 6
Also, let's not forget a lot of people use and love Pinterest and do great things with it, even if Google created bad UX for its image search

Either way, "Oh, $bigco is in the title? Let me just react to that!" is one of the worst parts of the HN comments section.
When I had done the presentation at Facebook's @Scale NYC conference last summer, I talked the powers that be into using more specific numbers, and they allowed it for the paper too.
Julia was hyped, and now is used in production by several well known institutions.

https://juliacomputing.com/case-studies/

Most of those libraries are Python bindings to libraries written in Fortran, C, and C++, whereas on Julia's case many libraries are pure Julia code.
In my experience every language sits between Go and Rust, apart from C++.
I'm having Vietnam-style flashbacks right now, courtesy of Excel's localization.

Please don't ever use it in production, ever.
> I noticed that there were entities moving perpendicular to our concept of time, treating our X-axis as their conveyor belt moving them along at a constant rate.

Those entities exist: We call them photons (and a few other things). Photons move through space at a constant rate, c, and their clocks never move. If a photon were conscious it might ask "What is this time you speak of?"

It gets weirder: Because photons don't experience time they can't "remember" being in Place A "before" they were in Place B, so they might also ask "What is this space you speak of?" Photons are always everywhere they need to be, from their point of view.
> I see people using Ubuntu, I always wondered why? It is so interesting how people in tech just fall into the fashion trap.

I would rather attribute it to advertising, and probably some contracts with the right people. Canonical did a lot of advertising in the past years, and contracts can mean a school mandates the installation of Ubuntu, which translates in hundreds of students becoming accustomed to it, together with some of their parents and friends, and so on.
This is something completely out of the reach for a community supported distribution like Debian; attempting to change it would mean putting a corporation behind it, which would be a recipe for destruction of its principles.
If you want objective data, look at obesity levels, that is fairly well studied. Instagram is popular (and, I think, contributes to the culture of self) but does not seem to have had a statistically significant effect on exercise habits.
Female chromosomes offer resilience to Alzheimer's
Star Trek TNG, especially scenes with Data in command.
Cost and type of capital.

Office buildings are funded with mountains of cheap debt.

Pinterest is funded mostly with equity. Maybe debt later when the growth is more stable but mostly equity.

Financially, equity is jet fuel. It's expensive and you use it to build startups, movies, and other intangible-heavy things.

Real estate debt is more like gasoline or diesel. There's a lot more of it than jet fuel, it's cheaper, and lower-quality/energy.

If you try to run a gasoline engine (office space) on jet fuel, you'd likely destroy it and would definitely waste money putting something of too high a "grade" into the engine. Likewise, you can't run a jet engine (startup) on diesel. It won't run.

Getting back to the question at hand, it's more efficient to run the offices on cheap real estate funding, and have the Pinterest operating company lease the asset, than have it own the office directly. Sometimes companies will buy offices themselves (like Apple) but it's something investors put up with, not encourage.
Why You Should Start Hacking Android
Porting KHTML to macOS and honoring its license to keep it open is very different than contributing to the HTML5 standard and implementing cutting edge features quickly. The latter helps with killing Flash more than declaring we are not going to support it.
Here in the UK I can get eggs in packs of 6, 10, 12, and 15. Make of that what you will :-)
That is covered in the article.
Tesla was the target of failed cyberattack, Elon Musk confirms
Lessons Learned from Writing 38 Programming Books
I have a spare phone which I would like to flash but I have not been able to find any device specific information on how to do it.

I checked XDA but they don't have any device specific info. Google returns sketchy pages wanting to install software. The phone is not on the list of supported devices on lineage OS website. And I have been unable to find a how-to do it yourself guide.

I followed a guide on how to do it over a decade ago and that is as far as my knowledge goes. I suspect things have changed since???

I would appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction. The device, a blu G5 plus (which when I search on XDA it returns Moto G5 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Edit: Nevermind, I believe I've got it.
NCR confirms malware in lab environment, says clients not at risk
As far as metric angular units go, there's the gradian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradian) of which there are 100 in a right angle. I'm not sure where they're in common use, but they're the reason that most scientific calculators let you switch units between degrees/radians/gradians.
Elon Musk to show off working brain-hacking device
> Do people expect google to be run by Magic?

I would argue, that most people actually do. They don't understand how search engines work. Its just a box, where you put what you search for and they provide answers. How do google gets those answers? They have no idea. Currently, I have only a remote idea how google provides those answers and I've implemented some searching myself back in the day, so how your nontechnical people could even understand this? They don't even want to, they have better things to do than to find out how their technology works, they just want it to work.
Still doesn’t make sense. The car is correctly configured (for safety purposes), and it would also make sense to be able to write to storage faster than your network speeds (no database writes exactly what it receives from the network, it adds metadata and structuring).
Not to mention ChromeOS. Why was the above comment downvoted?
You can disable Windows Update by changing the states of all its services in the registry to "disabled". To my knowledge, this doesn't have any side effects. Updating just no longer works unless you turn the services back on, plain and simple.
> there was no way to do offline maps for example

That's not true, you can use https://open-store.io/app/pure-maps.jonnius

Offline mapping is possible by installing OSM Scout Server https://open-store.io/app/osmscout-server.jonnius

About the apps, you can help developing native apps using https://clickable-ut.dev/en/latest/
Cisco warns of actively exploited iOS XR zero-day
Interchange in Houston is the same size as an entire city center in Italy
Not a coincidence, this article doesn't seem to mention it, but in the Times (London) write-up it states the training data was similar-looking celebrities, and names Craig for Augustus.
It's over. There will also be no appetite for another lockdown.
FYI, your last three comments were dead. I've vouched for them, but it could be worth contacting HN moderation to see what's up because none of your comments looked hellban-worthy.