skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an Indian watching these events, it refreshes my memories of flooding in Indian cities(Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore etc). Which are almost of the same scale if not more or less.

I wonder if the entirety of the Indian subcontinent suffers from the same long standing issues of governance, disdain for law, corruption and in general total apathy towards one's surroundings.

As a native Bangalorean. I've seen the city shredded to literal garbage, there are tall housing complexes in places where there were lakes, and there are real estate developments in natural valleys. Existing lakes have been long encroached upon, and turned into cesspools receiving sewage from nearby apartments. These flats sell for premium rates as they are ironically called 'lakeview'.

Every few months a famous lake called Bellandur lake catches fire, due to methane emissions. Also there is just unimaginable amount of dust and pollution, to a point you can feel the dust in your mouth. Dengue outbreaks are common here. What's shocking in all of this people continue to buy these 'lakeview' flats. Continue to buy properties in lands which are encroaching lakes.

I remember during the Chennai floods, some one had posted how the velachery lake had been transformed into a rectangle after years of encroachment, the whole area was flooded.

This is above and beyond the fact that plastic littering, and garbage disposal in general is so bad that it clogs the whatever little drains exist.

Didn't know that Pakistan hasn't changed all that much since partition. May be some one from Pakistan can talk about how it is there.
Note that this video was apparently partly staged, with cars circling around to come by the camera again, so it’s probably not entirely representative of actual traffic patterns at the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_Down_Market_Street

(The Wikipedia article also has an original scan of the video, without the AI confabulation and added sound effects, or a higher quality version with added sound here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2u4J7Dbouo)
> I still can't customize swiping left and right to move forward and backwards in my email box, which really seems like a pretty basic feature that all the other clients use.

I just updated the app on Android today and got a notification that they added this feature
Strange they would bring up Kyle Rittenhouse, but not mention that Facebook is blocking links to donate to his legal defense, effectively impeding him in getting a fair trial (and censoring support pages, so his public perception is likewise under attack): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24397246

Now why would a reporter choose to omit that?
Can you please try a simple web search[0] instead of choosing to spread misinformation by couching it in a question? The CDC did not “correct down” anything; this bad faith argument is like saying that someone who was hit by a car didn’t die from getting hit by a car because the death certificate says they died from “brain haemorrhage”.

(Direct links to fact checking sites: [1] [2])

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=covid+6%25

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cdc-mortality-statistics/

[2] https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/cdc-did-not-admit-only-6-o...
Exactly. That’s the point —- it’s all about assumptions being made for the other 94%. And it’s easy to come up with assumptions. And it’s hard to understand the truth.
iOS in its first year was only 20% of EPIC's overall Fortnite revenue that year.

I'm not comparing iOS to Android - i'm comparing iOS to every platform EPIC makes money on. 20% is a big chunk yes, but 2 billion instead of 2.5 billion is still a ton of money, and they're obviously willing to sacrifice in order to get to their real goal - bringing the EPIC game store to iOS
Please provide the link for the Sony SDK, and Microsoft's XDK.

In Microsoft's case, UWP on XBox doesn't count as it is castrated to the actual OS capabilities, and hasn't been updated for a while and most likely it won't.
Remarkable, isn’t it? A bit like paying for cable and getting more ads than content. Puts that recent post on auto play videos in new light, too.

It really sickens me how advertisers are allowed to tell us whatever they want if they just pay. Not surprisingly, the CCP took out a full page ad in my country’s most prominent newspaper to spread propaganda about the Hongkong protests.
Nor do I have to use Docker.
> Paradox games

One brand!

Look at Jon Shafer's experience with At the Gates. A Civilization designer. Changed too much, and got 3/5 star averages. A one-man show, a literal indie game, comparable in resources to Civilization 1. This is what Meier is talking about. Tossed out of Paradox, for that matter.

Firaxis's Beyond Earth has barely 1 person who played at least 1 minute for every 10 that bought the game. 9/10 buyers just handed over money out of nostalgia, never playing a minute, nostalgia was and remained the only compelling association with that product.

Okay, was it a bad game? Who knows, hardly anyone played it. That's the crux of what he's saying.

We've barely covered just Civilization-adjacent products.

Anyway, it's preposterous - that Sid Meier has never heard of Paradox, that he's unaware of their success, and that he hasn't contemplated it. It isn't about strategy games as a whole, it's about new games, about new experiences and changing 30% of the formula every year instead of 3% of it.
Actually, your 25% delinquency rate seems unreasonable. During the financial crisis, the subprime delinquency rate peaked at 26% [1] but the overall (whole US market) rate was just over 9%.

Delinquency is also mostly just about being a leading predictor of foreclosure or some sort of renegotiated payment structure. The same stat suggests that foreclosures overall peaked at just over 2% (but up to 15% subprime) [1 again, but also 2 which is more clear on 2.23%].

So I’d assume something closer to 2-5% foreclosure, depending on your estimates of benefits policy. Even in foreclosure, there’s still recovery (financially).

In fact, Goldman Sachs might even make a profit re-selling the mortgages it bought off of Fannie / Freddie as part of its $1.8B court-mandated “consumer relief” program [3]. It’s unlikely the Fed would be as “good” at this as Goldman, but a likely unwinding strategy would be to sell them to similar investor groups. Either way, not going to $0 :).

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/205959/us-mortage-delinq...

[2] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.statista.com/chart/amp/1546...

[3] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/a...
But PGP doesn't offer forward encryption, does it?
> The video has a few problems: there's no indication of where in china this is;

Someone actually figured out the exact train station and approximate date of when the video was shot. He even showed his work, if you want to check it:

https://observers.france24.com/en/20190925-drone-video-shows...

> there's no indication that these are uighurs; there's no indication that these are any particular kind of prisoner (i.e. political vs criminal); and last this doesn't provide any evidence of more than a few dozen or hundred prisoners.

> The BuzzFeed article has problems as well. They extrapolate too much from scant or vague evidence. The satellite photos and maps don't provide any solid evidence for their claims. Just pictures of buildings.

This isn't skepticism, it's denialism. There are hundreds of original reports circulated in reputable journals and news outlets that assemble testimony, documents, and circumstantial evidence that paint a pretty indisputable picture there is some kind of ethnicity-based mass imprisonment program going on in Xinjiang. The attempts of the Chinese government to suppress fact-gathering in the region add even more credibility to picture. Sure, you're not going to find some single piece of evidence that proves it all (e.g. a single satellite image of a vast field of prisons capable of holding one million inmates with a sign legible from space that says "Uyghur forced re-education through labor prison complex, population 1,000,000. Don't tell the foreigners!" and has all the inmates standing outside being counted), but to expect something like that is unreasonable. Each article usually presents just one new piece of the larger puzzle, which has been assembled well enough that it's pretty clear what it's of.
The article starts by mentioning single quotes but never says where they are coming from
Samsung Will Stop Providing Mobile Phone Chips to Huawei Under U.S. Sanctions
Can the Fed actually make money on all those mortgages?
Can you please elaborate on "you never get the expression"?

When you input the variable values into a symbolic derivative you just get a value at the end. d/dx x^2 = 2x. If x = 0.5 then d/dx = 1. The same is true for symbolic integrals. For most practical applications, we don't really care about the full symbolic expression. We just want the answer, or at least a good approximation. This post uses a specific example of the difference between two Beta distributions. We want to get that 0.71. It is very hard to "automatically" make that happen.
Yet if those same Journalists saw that same story they dismissed, suddenly trending upon social media - they would be all over it.

So in many ways, social media attention has become a sudo voting system for news items. Though equally, the news feeds into social media - so the potential for feed-back loops is not zero.

However, those who do social media are perhaps not the clearest insight into the public as a whole and how much weight upon that the various news outlets use will vary.
You mean that's going to surely happen, because the server CPU market has traditionally been easy to enter due to low R&D costs, steady avaibility of qualified engineers, cheap manufacturing equipment and customers eager to adopt unknown brands? /s
Biggest problem with SaaS who target SMBs is they’re not getting enough trials
In automatic differentiation we depend on the fact that a closed form elementary solution exists even if we don't calculate it directly.

For integration we need to prove that such a object exists for each expression we want to integrate before we try integrating. Which as far as I'm aware is a problem equivalent to that solved by the Risch algorithm.
I don’t miss my commute, but working from home has negatively impacted my job happiness, physical health, and mental health. This morning I started working at 9:15AM. I finally closed my Macbook and turned off the monitor around 8:30PM. I got less done than I wanted. I’m struggling to concentrate and focus on specific tasks. People ping me on my company’s multiple messaging and video conferencing systems throughout the day. People now set up meetings at unreasonable hours. My job is to resolve ambiguity. My job has gotten much harder because communication is more difficult.

I’m sure many an engineer who gets assigned specific coding tasks or very focused design problems loves working for home, but for some of us who’s bread and better is resolving complexity, disambiguating problems, etc., it’s an expensive tax.
It is mathematically impossible for the "rest of the world" to dump US treasuries. If someone is selling then someone else is buying.
> This argument is like saying that a storm knocked down your neighbor's house, but not yours.

It’s not the same though. Having a so called “act of god” result in property damage is just chance. Having children (in most cases) isn’t chance. It’s a conscious decision.

Even though no one could guess the pandemic would happen, I’d hope people getting children are conscious that they’re getting into a 18–20 years commitment to support them at the expense of their finances and leisure time (to some extent)

I think the smoking analogy applies well, it’s also a choice and not due to chance.
> The rest of the world buys US treasuries cause we buy their goods. China buys treasuries because we buy goods with dollars. China has to do something with the dollars.

It strikes me as extremely odd that it's become so normalized that the U.S.'s role in trade is simply as a buyer of goods.

In any transaction, both parties are typically better off after having made the transaction, else one party would refuse.

The U.S. clearly benefits by acquiring goods, but is China really left scratching their heads with what to do with the dollars (and then throwing a dart and purchasing treasuries with their overflowing dollars)?

If China (in aggregate) is never interested in buying our goods, why would they want to compound the number of tokens that can be redeemed for future goods (by buying bonds)? Do they simply not want to buy goods now, but know they will want to in the future? Are they entirely interested only in the assets, but think the goods are not valuable, or at least not valuable for them, but maybe are for others? Doesn't that put into question the value of any assets the country might have to offer if the goods that the country provides are seemingly undesirable?

Clearly, the value the U.S. is providing can't simply be as the purchaser of a good. The U.S. is trading future obligations for current goods, and the trading partner must have some belief that they will eventually execute that option on future obligations, or trade the future obligation to someone else who will want to execute it, else this token clearly has no value.

However, I do also wonder how much of the demand of U.S. dollar is simply a system of inertia. At some point the trading partners may realize they have no interest in acquiring tokens that they will never redeem, even if this token can be compounded further for more tokens that will never be redeemed. Currently, it seems China is interested in acquiring these tokens because of the reserve currency status, as they trade with other partners in.

The other possibility is this entire narrative is incorrect, and there are other benefits to running massive trade surpluses beyond the future token redemption. Skill building could be one these benefits - the deficit trading partner (U.S.) is shaping the development of labor markets in an journeyman-like form.
Taxpayers don’t need to bail out the Fed. The Fed literally creates money ex nihilo.
How is the backend done? I built something similar as an iOS app.
I don't think there's a disagreement here: notdonspaulding's advice was for "anyone who has a little spare time at work and is looking for how to improve their company", not for "anyone who mostly cares about promotions/pay hikes/bonuses".
So what is microG baked into? AOSP?
I would be curious to know if you actually do get to the NYtimes by being a great local reporter.

My gut feeling is that it would be that you'd sooner make it to the big leagues by leveraging an internship from an Ivy League credential.

But, I'm no journalist. Anyone know from where these outlets pull talent?
You also can't compare the effort in writing a novel, which involves a huge amount of time planning the story and narrative structure, researching, editing dialogue, multiple re-writes and more, with writing a walkthorough which just involves describing what you see as you play the game.

The difficult bit of writing isn't the physical act of typing, it's all the time spent working out what to write. There's orders of magnitude less time needed for that in these.
> People can have children without congratulating themselves for a sacrifice well delivered ... Kinship for species only extends so far and not much at all when there is parental entitlement.

This, 1000%.
If you print money, but only give it to the top 10% who use it to prop up the stock market, does that cause inflation? I don't understand how America can pump a couple trillion dollars into the economy and it doesn't seem to have any impact. If the average person is getting any of that it should cause inflation, shouldn't it?
Internet is full of bullshit these days. “Doing a simple/quick search” is NOT leading to a true understanding of things in 2020.
Well, Sony, at least. Finally a comeback from the Walkman!
Can you elaborate on the Ad part? What kinds of ads should one be thinking of? What do you think about content marketing (technical blogs etc.)?
Replying to my own comment, I found the paper where they got the 11k from, it's page 7 on this link: http://ftp.iza.org/dp13632.pdf.

This analysis is complete, utter, and total bullshit. They took a "value per statistical life" number of $11 million, then pulled a semi random 0.3% out of their ass to account for an $11k cost per asymptomatic case. At no point did they actually attempt to account anywhere for the true cost of treating (or, in this case not treating) an asymptomatic case.

These numbers are complete garbage.
I'm wondering why we don't use hydrolysis -> store hydrogen -> burn hydrogen -> run a steam turbine for energy storage.

Efficiency would be low, at about 70% * 60% ~= 40% but capacity would be huge. 1 kg of hydrogen has specific energy of over 140 MW.

We could even capture CO2 as well with that energy and make methan and use normal gas powerplants for retrieving the power :)

Just build double the number of solar panels to account for efficiency loses. Should be cheaper than grid-scale energy storage with 90%+ efficiency.
Collected some suggestions here: https://www.gkogan.co/blog/consulting-advice/

Read: Million Dollar Consulting, by Alan Weiss.

Do: Build your visibility and credibility. Fish where the fish are. Where are your target buyers spending their time and getting their information? Find a way to publish there.

Figure out who are the best connected people in your network or vicinity and talk to them, let them know you're taking on projects and be clear in what kind of projects you can help with. Make it easy for them to refer you.
Probably time, place, and manner regulations for expression in airports.

https://www.lawa.org/news-releases/2002/news-release-5

(very many U.S. airports now have free expression booths requiring a permit, and forbid some kinds of expressive conduct or solicitation elsewhere in the airport, which I think the courts are OK with)
Yeah. I think gaming market and the technology are doing just fine since it produced Hollow Knight. I really think it is one of the best games in history, and one of the greatest storytelling in an interactive, electric media. Such exquisite balance between simplicity and detail, music and visual, story line and game play, characters and background, etc.

Waiting for Silksong...
This is a real phenomenon. When my son was first born I blew through about five jobs in five years because I had to leave at 4:45pm - 5:15pm to pick him up from daycare or school. Before that I tended to remain in the same position for 5-6 years. Then I got into a position where most of my peers and superiors had kids, "got it" and I've been in that position for close to five years now.

Especially annoying when your peers are coming in drunk or stoned, passed out at their desks half the time, and you are the one getting grief because you have a parent/teacher conference to attend. If my peers wanted to WFH because they were hung over, mo problem. If I needed to WFH because I was feeling ill, no problem. If I needed to WFH to watch my child I would have to do video calls with my boss every two hours to show what I had done. Eventually I wised up and just said I was sick instead of mentioning my son.
Banks lending to people who cannot pay, and then selling the bonds to the fed. This becomes a handout both to banks, and anyone with lending access.

In the real economy it means that people will start -EV (negative expected value) projects. Because heads you win, and tails you default.
This is testing my memory but I think WordStar from the early to mid 80s had something similar. Codes all started with a ^ (again from memory) and their visibility could be toggled on and off.
Not even bricks as by time they will become garbage and yet another recycling issue. We would need to dump it back deep underground into mineshafts and oil wells.
Are you familiar with automatic differentiation? https://blog.demofox.org/2014/12/30/dual-numbers-automatic-d... note that you get f(x) and f'(x) for some x without getting the derived function.
Just to get my take out in the open: I do not have kids yet. People are going to have kids and I like kids. Raging against that is like whipping the ocean. Of course we should support families as much as we can as a society, they are our future. ( And maybe we should cut workers some slack across the board...)

However, I feel like people are creating this narrative where society is persecuting them for having children, and they feel judged and persecuted.

Most people have children. Where is this boogeyman coming from? I agree that it is hard to have children in this political and economic climate.

But to assert "People don't get how hard it is to have kids!" BULLSHIT! Most people fucking HAVE kids! And even people who do not have kids understand how hard it is!

This persecution complex natalists have is completely unfounded. Society is VERY positive of having children. Now, support from the government/place of work is another story. But to suggest that society is "hostile" to people with children is absurd.
One of the many reason I stick with Wayland.
On ios Protonmail I use search regularly and it appears to work. Which platform were you on?
> Sony and MS games can be programmed without licenses or devkits (which make it much easier to debug games by providing debug access not available on retail consoles).

Xbox developer mode [1] appears to require a valid, current Partner Center app developer account [2]. Individual accounts are $19 and "With a developer account, you can submit apps and games to Microsoft marketplaces, including the Microsoft Store."

so you dont need a devkit but would need an Xbox and you do need an account to publish. so yes, while you dont need a xbox dev account to program, you dont need an apple dev account to program either. you just need a dev account on either platform to publish.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xbox-apps/devki...
[2] https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/store/register/
The "discussion paper" cites https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3680348 which in turn uses the vague "VSL" cited as DOT's $11 million per life.

> Using standard assumptions provided by the CDC, we estimate that as of July 27, 2020, the actual number of cumulative Covid-19 cases in the U.S. is about 47 million with almost 1 million involving hospitalizations. Applying value per statistical life (VSL) and relative severity/injury estimates from the Department of Transportation (DOT), we estimate an overall non-fatal unadjusted valuation of $2.2 trillion for the U.S. with a weighted average value of about $46,000 per case.

Note that they're not saying the health care or direct costs are $46,000 but instead that it is a statistically useful value -- and it only applies to non-fatal cases of COVID-19, so it actually excludes the "worst case" outcome. As a result, it's an alarming number, but it's meant to illustrate how much the government might consider reasonable to spend to prevent folks from getting COVID-19 -- its impact to the economy, and it has to be balanced against the significant economic impact that other COVID mitigations have already had, particularly for those who have not been at risk of getting or spreading COVID-19 but still are economically disadvantaged by the mitigations.

It's kind of a brutal way of thinking about it. How much is one life worth, in dollars, for regulation and decision-making purposes? I haven't read it, but https://muse.jhu.edu/book/64735 came up in Google searches and looks moderately interesting and relevant here.
Replace iPhone with Wii, Switch, Vita, PSP, PS4, XBox, XBox 360....
You can see the (preserved) system in action in this video ("Absolute History" YT channel) together with a bit of backstory on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeMkOruNht8
Trump Promotes Decoupling from China with No Clue as to How It Can Work
Measuring Multitask Language Understanding
You have to do more than just hit 'Y', you have to navigate in a file chooser and pick the file to save, or write.