skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you can call it "re-writing" when the implementation has to handle a lot of the details that you can
and should ignore on the specification.

Trying to compile a specification from the implementation would be equivalent to trying to do "top-down" via "bottom-up".
This comment lacks a knowledge of epidemiologic methods and is relying on knocking forum posting, while ignoring the real scientific procedure being cited in the article.

Have you read the studies linked? How would you even suggest control groups are used for the studies mentioned -- they are case-series, which is a legitimate form of scientific research that doesn't use controls. These are COVID-19 patients who were hospitalized who continue to have symptoms for months. There is not a treatment we are testing here, which would be an RCT and would include a control-arm.

If you're thinking of case-control study, that'd be nice here, however it requires a retrospective lookback where you find cases like the above case-series reports have just done, but you then have to find a bunch of other COVID-19 patients from the same hospital/demographic group to then compare over time with the cases. This sort of study takes time and there's no way it could've been completed yet, as we are just uncovering the phenomenon now with case series. So, if these scientists are doing their job, they will follow-up and do the case-control lookback studies, though they won't be out for 6-12 months.

The science here is working as intended. Case series are always going to be the first out of the gate, it was that way with HIV/AIDS in SF, and it appears that it's that way with COVID-19 long term complications. It's not just "forums" as you stated it, there are real case-series articles published on this phenomenon.
At some point when the amount is in multi millions, it becomes a call to the a real person at Apple - negotiations are on the table.

I see absolutely nothing wrong with this. Unless we see this wrong across the board including the peanut business. Any other argument is hypocrisy unless the App Store is something different than normal business dealings?
Thanks for confirming that. I assumed that the downturn was supposed to be part of the shape too, by analogy with earlier(?) terms like "V-shaped recovery", but I guess not.

If I can suggest an alternative, what about "Y-shape" where you tilt your head a little bit so that the bottom of the Y points slightly to the right? (Edit: after googling this it seems I'm not the first to propose this.)
The article is not available unless you submit to subscribing to Medium. Yes, it's free (free as in paying by feeding them with your data), but thanks, no thanks.
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> I agree all of these are horrible. GMail is still a slow piece of shit. I recently tried Thunderbird, and .. it slowed down too. Wtf. Slack is slow too. Typing has become slow for some reason in a lot of "apps", maybe too fancy fonts?

Possibly because more companies are moving desktop apps to Electron so they can run JS everywhere.
How would you even know? People won't be telling you they're overstretching themselves. Or they've got huge credit card bills. Or got a ton of loans.

The other thing that's avoiding forcing these sort of problems into the light is low interest rates and a lack of a housing market bubble pop. In the UK they've used all sorts of tricks to make sure the housing market doesn't pop.

If those change, that brings out all the people who over-stretched themselves on things they couldn't really afford.

But it seems to be general policy around the world to penalize savers and reward spenders. That's good for growth, but could potentially cause some serious problems.
That has elements of truth but is not really the whole story. First, terrorism is a problem in many countries. Bangladesh and India aren’t dictatorships, but face significant terror threats. The idea that a pan-Islamic state should replace the existing nation states is a real thing. Second, don’t overlook the hatred of Israel. Attitudes ranging from anti-Zionism to outright anti-semitism are nearly universal in the Muslim world. America’s support of Israel is a huge recruiting tool.

Third, you’re conflating fundamentalism with terrorism. Though the former often leads to the latter, the two are a bit different. Saudi isn’t funding terrorists that want to overthrow the Kingdom. That would make no sense. But they do want to promote and export their fundamentalism brand of Islam to make the Muslim world more cohesive (with themselves at the head of it). And insofar as there is funding of terrorism, at least the intention isn’t for it to be directed back at themselves.

Fourth, everyone, even people who intensely dislike these governments, fear what would replace them if they fell. Syria is a good example. Assad might have been a dictator, but he was propped up by the west for a long time because what was waiting to replace him was ISIS.

The Howard Zinn-style “blame America for everything” approach is illuminating to a degree because our involvement really is a key factor. But these countries also have vast and complex politics that have nothing to do with us. Overlooking the factors behind American involvement encourages magical thinking—that if only we would disengage, these problems would sort themselves out.
I like how the slug in the url omits the word "not" that's in the actual page headline. This is a word that really changes the meaning of a statement.
Absolutely, 100%.
I think its becoming increasingly apparent that college is not the right/best model for educating(as in gaining useful knowledge) people.
I think you knew what you were getting into when you brought up the autism issue. It's an extremely controversial topic. FWIW even with the down-votes, I read your comment.
For anyone looking to get better in CP/algorithms, I'd highly recommend watching Algorithms Live:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBLr7ISa_YDy5qeATupf26w
"many people are saying"

The state of conservative truthiness.
> 1. Has there ever been a nasty shock to economic systems or unforeseen circumstances that do not affect the poor disproportionately?

I think The Blitz might be an example of this. When you drop bombs on a city, you destroy a lot of physical property which preferentially harms those who own the most capital.
Thank you for the perspective! I remember back in the day I would rig a photo resistor to an Arduino so I could flash instructions to it with an LED without needing to reprogram.
One data point, I had immense quality of life improvements in reduced hip and knee pain by buy new $130 sneakers every 6 months, rather than keeping them for 2-3 years.
Rather a platform, isn't it? Matches founders with VC for a stake of 7% as fee.

Platforms thrive if you match supply and demand in a highly relevant way, and once they thrive, they generate network effects.

So PG & Jessica were sort of the equivalent of the seller terms and conditions on the Amazon marketplace platform haha. They were able to spot and shape promising founding teams.
Came here to say exactly the same thing. Video is a poor medium for many topics but especially for programming.

It's so god damn slow.

To be honest - it's the speech bit more than the video bit. Reading is better than listening to someone talk in nearly every way.
Well I suppose it's possible to have a drone that doesn't need internet access as long as all the maps are pre-loaded. But since new airports are built and restricted areas are updated, most drones require internet to update the maps.
The chart on low income spending is fascinating. The stimulus payments yielded increased customer spending in the low-income demographic whereas the relatively unaffected high-income demographic has reduced spending by nearly 10%.

This seems like the first large-scale data conclusively showing that increasing income at the bottom of the payscale will stimulate the economy more than on the top of the payscale.

( A semi-obvious conclusion, but one that hasn't been proven in data before, or embraced by US govt policy ).
Sorry, I’m not sure I’m understanding your point here. Are you claiming that variable length arrays have been removed from C in recent standards after they were added in C99? Or is your objection that some compilers are very slow to support language features even after they have been standardised? Or something else?
I imagine there is 100% a good medium sized market for disconnect smart home technology but no one cares about medium markets anymore? The BIG players are in on this space and they know if they make a cheap and ubiquitous enough product the next treasure trove of data is theirs.

So, any company in that space is competing against FAANG which is pretty daunting...
My only thought for practical use would be to checkup on a pet while you are away from home. Since if the pet has feel roam of the house you can't necessarily see if from a stationary camera.
Well that's remarkable; this is one of those demos that makes me think maybe I should go learn this tech stack just so I could do this. (Another is org mode in emacs.) Looks like rr is flexible enough that I can use it without having to pick up Julia, which is an easier on-ramp even if this post makes me think that maybe I should learn Julia...
the usual counterargument would be that there is more dignity in petitioning the government to consider it an entitlement/right than in begging for money on facebook.
I call BS on your claim about everyone being in. For anything to work only a particular type of people must be in especially at the start. To be honest most of PGs writings are dedicated to defining that, including your quote.

At least that's what I take from it. Cultism is just something that follows success.
That feature is on its way! I personally hate feeling nagged by my To Do list, so we're going to make an optional reminders system.

When would you like reminders? Would you want reminders for "This Week" to show up every day, or just Mondays?
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> There's no way to copy

Like physical books?
_the_ best youtube programming channel i have found is webdev simplified:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFbNIlppjAuEX4znoulh0Cw

the dude knows his stuff and explains everything like your 5 years old which is _exactly_ what i want when viewing a tutorial site.

as an example... his flexbox video is awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYq5PXgSsbE
It's not rewriting, it's modeling. And that's a critical distinction. You're able to elide many, if not most, of the details and distill the effort to the critical algorithms and design elements. I don't care how the memory is stored, or even how big, just that it exists (as an example). If I do care, I can add that to the model.

And in the case of the example with Go as the implementation language (in the linked article), many of the details (like how channels work) can be reused between specs. This permits analysis of Go programs generally, without needing to respecify Go's concurrency mechanisms every. single. time.
It's an often repeated fact that steel swords and the like were quite valuable during the middle ages, but it is a revelation that the reason they are so expensive is that they required hundreds or thousands of man hours chopping trees, managing slow burning fires, carting ore and wood around, etc... Modern media always just focuses on the last step (and usually gets it completely wrong to boot) while ignoring the small army of peasants needed to produce the raw materials for that smith to work into the sword/axe/helmet/etc...
Depends a lot on where you are.

USA's Fair Use would probably let you sample these sounds for use in developing your music even without the license.

In the UK there aren't anything like personal use exceptions so sampling if its allowed by the license would be fine, but if you play back the track and anyone hears it then strictly that's a performance and likely to be infringing (yes, UK law is that restrictive; for example UK schools have to have music performance licenses to watch TV in class in case a program includes copyright music, it's pretty ludicrous).
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While I still love/docker and containerization and use them (judiciously), this article does describe a couple of situations I've witnessed.

One way to describe it, and I forgot where I read it, is that one advantage of interpreted languages used to be that you no longer had to grab a cup of coffee every hour while your work compiled. With containerization, things are even now: everyone gets to wait while the images get built.

Of course, I've also worked at places where the environments are set correctly and take advantage of the tech the team is using, instead of having to rebuild all the time. Which is why I don't hate containerization on its own. Everything can be badly applied or used.
> Very different approaches can be reasonably proposed to solve the same issues by people with very different perspectives on the world. People who don't support - or even directly oppose - the actions you believe should be taken don't necessarily not care about the same things that you care about.

Sure, but we have a system where individual's earning potential is pitted against the general welfare of communities. When the state needs to generate tax revenue for social programs and infrastructure corporations will fight it. As a country the US has been hollowed out by this conflict. The issue isn't _how_ these problems get solved, but _if_.

Libertarianism as an ideology is born out of this dichotomy, sold as small-government means big individual. In reality small government just means big corporations.
>The upper classes cannot defy economic gravity indefinitely

I used to think so too, but I'm not so sure anymore. Modern tech
companies can operate with very few employees, and by relying on income streams like ads and selling personal information, they don't even rely directly on consumers. So with that in mind, I can now imagine a cloud city of the 1% floating above the exploited masses.
Software has n^2 as many paths a piece of code can take depending on how it branches. Also, you cannot simulate the rest of the world (externalities).

If I design a bracket for a TV mount, do you blame the bracket when someone hangs a 3000 kg bookcase on it?

You’re expect software to be perfect, yet ignore the massive limits everything in the world has.

Not saying there aren’t quality issues with software. I’m saying software development is really difficult.
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On the other hand, the larger the bureaucracy, and the further removed from where the rubber meets the road, the more money it spends on managing itself.

Circumstances are unique in most cities, dealing with on location is usually more efficient than a one-size-fits-all approach that cannot consider local reality (or it would lose any and all efficiency).
There is such a thing as imagined symptoms and there is such a thing as real symptoms dismissed. It is more comfortable to tell patient it's imagining it then anything that we don't know.
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Congrats to Apple!

$15 billion less from Apple here, $20 billion less from the UK there and pretty soon you're talking big holes in the EU budget...

Seriously, this victory against the EU should be celebrated. How could anyone think that governments could possibly make better use of that money than individuals who earned it?
Something's going on with California, the Covid-numbers are so high, it must be the laid-back attitude
Could be. Maybe the Amish are living the peak human experience. I'm not going to find out but you can.
How about we go back to where we were in the beginning:

Apps can be free or cost money. If they cost money, Apple can take a cut.

Apps can sell anything they want that’s part of the app (game levels) and must then use in-app purchases.

All other sales both physical and non-physical (media, tickets, parking, ...) you can sell how you want.

Are these terms really that absurd?
Their products are manufactured by literal slaves in concentration camps.

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-forced-uighur-labor-ip...
I'm not sure how your measuring "dirty" but in many places, its the electric cars which are "dirty". Modern gas/petrol car's exhaust is only really adding CO2+H2O to the intake air. When you look at things like

https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/fossil-fuels/coal...

(which is slightly dated, but only a small portion of the coal has been replaced with NG, and the wind+solar is negligible) its not really a pretty picture.

So, yes, once all the power sources are C02 free, or at least lower than traditional petol, its a net win, but its a mistake to think that moving to electric cars by itself is anykind of win. Particularly, in the current climate where your just moving to NG for the majority of the additional load despite the claims of wind/etc.

Put another way, for every KW of wind/solar being installed your also getting a KW of NG. So best case if you live in a nuke/hydro/coal free area, your shifting to ~30% NG. Which isn't any way to solve the climate problem, its a feel good measure for ignorant people.
I don't mind restricting apps I download from an app store. What I don't want is for it to restrict apps I compile myself.
I'm largely reading novels or technical text as epubs on e-ink devices and the only time I've ever had issues like those you mention is when publishers have included "arty" css. I wouldn't tend to read magazines in that format, probably pdf on a tablet or desktop if I needed to.

For some of these things - like ragged right and kerning - I think you have to almost train yourself to notice them, I've been reading a long time and can't recall ever being bothered by either.
It's better to force somebody to give you what you want, than to agreeably do so?
Citation? I believe this is a pretty active and contested area of research, so I'm a little skeptical of the problematic behaviors that you claim are incentivized.
Isn't that the very definition of a "trust"?
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Point the camera at the food dish.

When I go away, I put my old launch-day iPhone on a dock and aim it at the food dish. I has an app that polls that camera and checks for movement. If movement is detected, it sends a series of stills to me by e-mail.

The app is no longer available on the App Store, but it keeps working because the iPhone is too old to connect to the App Store and be told that the app no longer exists. But I should think that there's a modern equivalent out there somewhere.
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But they're not; they're one specific implementation of BT with some proprietary secret sauce for the multi-device pairing etc.
Ahah, extra points for the helium filled balloon. I'm installing cameras tomorrow, but I really got to try the zeppelin method at some point :)

Thanks for the suggestions!
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It wouldn't surprise me if this was a goal but they should really figure out basic recommendations first.

I just bought a power washer. I bought it on Amazon. Amazon easily knows I now own a power washer. And yet Amazon is giving me a ton of recommendations for power washers.

This is a constant problem with recommendations and everyone I know has the same experience.

And unless there's some sort of data regulation preventing them from applying my purchase history to their recommendations it's ridiculously easy to fix. Tag item categories as "1 per household over x months" and when someone purchase amount goes beyond the threshold stop recommending products from that category until x months has passed.
There is a lot of data that we could study from everyone given the unique expressions of our immune systems. And with many variables that exist, we measure a miniscule few and therefore cannot often get a good picture of chronic health issues. As to your comment downvote, it may rise again. Sometimes trolls and/or people who don't like new ideas will readily dismiss things (here and elsewhere).
That’s a 3300 line cpp file, care to cite a specific example?
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> the pause on fees for online events by Apple is happening for all developers
It's possible, maybe not very likely but possible. Depends what happens to FF.
Great news for MS, but doesn't myelin also play an important role in learning in general? If a safer drug can be found I wonder what role this could play in treating some intellectual disabilities? Or, if one tends toward a more dystopian outlook, a role in widening the gap between the "haves" and "have-nots".

Also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon#Synopsis
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Thanks! Fixing now.
He doesn't HAVE to be, but he is. Isn't that a good thing?

> It could be that while a small number of users are helped by his personal attention on the forum, a much larger number of users are left frustrated by the UI.

This is just speculation. Without data to back it up, I can say the reverse is true too.

Since there isn't a large number of users that are posting about how terrible the UI is(on the Calibre forum), it's probably functional enough and people can navigate it.
>as there ever been a nasty shock to economic systems or unforeseen circumstances that do not affect the poor disproportionately?

It probably depends on the metrics. The dead in WW2 were mostly from the uncomfortable classes, but wealth inequality was dramatically improved after that crisis was over.
The 'socialist' argument is always thrown against any attempt to correct the system. I suspect this view is so prevalent due to media manipulation by politicians and the elite to keep the status quo.

Many developed countries by your definition are 'socialist', yet fare far better than the US.
Is that not the entire point of society? I sacrifice some of my independence so that I can enjoy the infrastructure of civilization? None of us are an island.
We saw a failure case like this with a microwave in the workplace kitchen. It somehow got into a mode where it only turned on when the door opened. Needless to say we threw it out shortly after that was discovered. We didn't bother debugging it, but my guess is it was a hardware problem because the interlock should have obviously made it work the opposite of how it was and you'd hope that a software glitch couldn't get it into a mode like that!
I think though impact is just delayed (like it was in 2008).

Most of the businesses often rely on income generated by providing service to those that are affected.
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> “We’ve experienced so much medical gaslighting, basically doctors telling us, ‘That’s not what you have. It’s just anxiety,’”

Welcome to the last 5 years of my life. I spent a good chunk of money seeing a psychologist and a therapist, both of which have debunked this "it's in your head" BS doctors like to throw around these days when they don't have an answer. It's an easy out for them. They're swamped and you're no longer easy money, so they grasp for something that can't really be disproved like anxiety.

I know it sounds awful, but I'm glad these long haulers exist and are getting so much attention. It might actually light a fire under doctor's asses to look for answers beyond the typical text-book answers when a diagnosis can't be reached for mysterious neurological symptoms.
Ah, sending the frames to a server for analysis, good idea! Thanks :)