skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in NZ, which has taken the opposite approach.

We locked down early and hard, and there was a definite hit to the economy (although not as bad as some had feared).

We eliminated Covid in the country. There was a tiny second wave which forced our largest city back into lockdown, but that has been lifted.

Aside from international travel, Covid now has basically zero impact on my day to day life. Because there is effectly 0 chance of communitry transmission at the moment, life has essentially returned to normal. Bars, restaurants, etc are open and buzzing.

All this and our case numbers are lower than almost any other countries death numbers.

There is no way I would rather live in Sweden.
Very cool, i love to see things like this
very strange shilling considering mullvad doesn't know how the windows networking stack works and this bug exposes them as such. edit: to be clear, it's the responsibility of a VPN provider to fully understand the platform they're selling a VPN solution for. the fact that a virtual machines on windows do not use the host's NDIS stack/firewall is well-known.
IMO, they both are just horrible. My Mac fan starts buzzing soon after I open any of them, as a bonus to the shitty UX. But yes, Apple one is done much better.
That's because it's now a religious fervor rather than politics.
Well, generally you want something with better performance characteristics, which increasingly is not the case (see e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1208-y%C2%A0). Though, even if your stuff is implemented in Fortran or C or C++ or on a GPU, Python is still a natural scripting language that is often the primary interface to some other piece of code, thanks to swig or boost::python or cppyy. But Python's fast rate of change and lack of backwards compatibility makes it problematic for this use. Our HPC cluster recently forced everyone to upgrade to Python 3 and that caused all sorts of problems for everyone. I understand there isn't really a choice with the lack of Python 2.7 support, but this has not been a great experience for anybody.
You might think so, but you might also be surprised.

Monthly costs for a million dollar house are probably in the $7000 range at the moment. While the cost of tuition (not including room and board) for a single kid at the private school we wish we could send our kids to is $40,000 a year payable in two installments. To be clear this is for a primary school, not a college/university.

We have 3 kids, so for us that would be 120k yearly for private education (no room and board just tuitions) vs 85K in yearly housing costs.

There are plenty of places in the US where a million does not buy you much of a house. A while back I was offered a job in the Santa Barbara area. A nice little two bedroom until at the end of the international airport runway was a million dollars. To get something there in the range of our current house was going to cost 3 to 15 million.

Needless to say, I did not accept their offer to take a radical reduction in our standard of living.
You cannot trust a damn word coming out of Belarus, or almost anywhere in ex-USSR. You can safely assume that death rate in Belarus is 2x-3x of reported.
"Doing nothing" is, alas, overly generous.

Putting infectious covid patients back into nursing homes isn't nothing. It was a baffling and callous decision, which happened to kill the mother of a good friend, so I'm not exactly neutral on the subject.
Roger, Rodger.
It's also bizarre. No one thinks that the rich are suffering other than the rich. Poor people don't think that the drifting of numbers on paper that don't affect a person's physical health or quality of life in the slightest count as suffering.

Of course they don't. For a poor person, either jobless or reporting to a low-paid job that exposes them to potentially bankrupting covid infections, with their kids at home, to worry about the upset of the perpetually bailed-out wealthy is like a beaten, starved dog outside on a winter night worrying that its owner might miss their favorite TV show.
I hate pulling the I've been around for a long time card. But I'll pull it now.

What I noticed is the time out for having children doesn't really interrupt a woman's working career that much. Not to mention women typically work up till the 7 to 8th month of pregnancy. So what gone for six months, two years? Out of 40-45 years of working? That's a couple of percent.

But boy does the system punish them for it.
A few comments:

* We already have good PK/PD models, PBTK, human physiology models based on differential equations, and toxicity prediction servers. If it was integrated in a smart and easy to use software suite, it would do a lot to reduce the cost of clinical trials. We could even incrementally improve this with toxicicity prediction servers that would be aware of physiology [0].

* You can certainly try to make a good model of mice physiology, as dr Guyton did for humans 50 years ago. But how can you answer a medical question with this model? Let say you want to create a drug for type II diabetes. How can any kind of biology model help you in this task? You would need to run some kind of genetic algorithm on this model, so it would be extremely slow and costly.

* Instead of scaling with mice, you can use organoids, it will be much more realistic, and you will not have the effect that drugs work on mice model but not on humans. Which brings this question: To design organoids you need to have a very good understanding of their biology, but this is what you want to discover!

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28522333/
We haven't published the sources yet, it will appear on https://github.com/okdb-io soon.
Why do you want to run VSCode from inside WSL?

The Windows version can be fully integrated with WSL. Windows handles the GUI, Linux handles the CLI and all that. [1]

I have not found any need that it does not meet this way, but as I mentioned in another comment, I have a very narrow focus. So would not be surprised if I was missing something.

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...
This seemed comparatively unspectacular at first. But I'm not savvy enough to make out terms such as ‘RSLS abort’ in the dialogue (let alone knowing what they mean); luckily I quickly found a noob-friendly write-up that filled me in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-41-D#Launch_attempts

> While evacuating the shuttle, the crew was doused with water from the pad deluge system, which was activated due to a hydrogen fire on the launch pad caused by the free hydrogen (fuel) that had collected around the engine nozzles following the shutdown and engine anomaly. Because the fire was invisible to humans, had the astronauts used the normal emergency escape procedure across the service arm to the slidewire escape baskets, they would have run into the fire.

Whoa ◎﹏⊙. Not quite what I'd call ‘neat’.
The new Android TV interface premieres on the Chromecast with Google TV. It’s coming to third-party set-top boxes and TVs as well, although you’ll have to wait until 2021 before it reaches non-Google hardware. This doesn’t replace Android TV, to be clear — it sits on top. Google is just separating the ‘skin’ for Android TV from its underlying platform.
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-tv-android-tv-116260...
Congrats!

Now what, without marketing speak, does it do?
Didn't you do a talk on YouTube? I recall watching it when you went over the computational requirements of doing something with molecules maybe? I don't work in that field, but remember it being interesting enough to watch the full thing.
not really a fair comparison since erlang is a fully fledged operating system (joke).

in general functional languages do worse due to the abstraction, and then VM languages do worse still, and then dynamically typed languages are less efficient than statically typed. Erlang is all the above.

F# fits the first 2 (functional lang on a VM) and has a pretty bad energy rating despite being a fast language.
It's not just about ICU capacity though. If we opened everything up, then everywhere would get overwhelmed. We need to R0 down below 1 before we reopen everything.
I'm very curious, what do you expect to get out of a 35% faster cpu? Are you running cpu intense programs on your phone regularly?
That's a good point. But then you're not benchmarking C++ as a distinct language. So what would sufficiently distinguish a C++ program from a C program? Let's assume it's not just minor incompatibilities introduced to prevent compilation by a C compiler.

There must have used some definition that is not explicit in the paper, but you can see in this code sample that the author used various C++ standard data types (std::string, std::array), iterators, classes, concurrency (std::thread). I'm no judge of C++ style, but perhaps it's "C++ as a C++ developer circa 1997 would have written it".

https://github.com/greensoftwarelab/Energy-Languages/blob/ma...
Isn’t this just a proprietary wikipedia?
Thanks for attending my talk and the comment! I hope you've had a chance to run some BPF tools and get some performance wins. :)
SBCL is an amazing implementation and it has an amazing compiler. I would argue that it is one of the best compilers around. Javascript compilers in browsers are pretty impressive - but given the far fewer resources that SBCL development has had, SBCL is remarkable. It's a fast compiler that generates fast code. I would be using it (and do for some applications) if I didn't also need my own large C++ computational chemistry code written over decades.
I don't know anything about Snowflake but in general they are fortunate to go public in this time. The tech market is in a bubble and investors are frothy at the mouth for tech stocks. Pessimism started to creep in for some of the already sky high tech stocks. Snowflake IPO'd right at that time and people just flocked to it.
It's refreshing not seeing a single line of YAML.
In SDK docs for the GameBoy Advance there was a note along the lines of

"Even if your game is so simple that it does not require the full speed of the (16.78 MHz) machine, please put effort into optimizing it anyway so that it can spend more time sleeping in the low-power PAUSE instruction. Your players will notice the difference in battery drain and they will tell their friends."
There's a difference between value and price. The parent was putting a price on her sexuality (marriage and a house). I'm saying that you shouldn't put any price on it.

A thing isn't valuable just because it has a price; and conversely something valuable doesn't need to have a price.
Talking about gen pop. Obviously Coinbase is aware of it, and their stance makes a lot more sense when analyzed that way.
> per-capita

Sad that every comment explaining how numbers work is strongly downvoted.

Per-capita is the only way comparisons are made by the intellectually honest. And that's without even getting into the author's false equivalence of homicide (rebel fighting) and illness (Covid).
From the standpoint of climate change I guess I don't feel so bad about this. There was much too much flying going on pre-pandemic. Now we've realized we can get by without so much. This will help reduce CO2 emissions significantly if we can sustain it longterm.
> I think the problem we have is that destroying a human body with mindless repetitive tasks is often still "cheaper" than engineering an automated solutions.

But this is the majority of jobs that humans have right now globally. There's a reason why it's called "backbreaking labor", it literally breaks down your back.

Everything from agriculture to mining to construction to manufacturing to logistics. The world is full of intrinsically unergonomic jobs that slowly grind human bodies down.

It's just that we've decided that one set of these jobs we arbitrarily care about and the rest, we give a collective shrug to.

Like, if you look at the image at the top of this article: https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-12-29/what-it-s-be-rice-far... this is the reality for hundreds of millions of rice farmers across the globe right now and our collective response ranges somewhere between cringey romanticism of the task to a shrug of "whaddayagonnado?"
Using that heuristic with the current sales page for the iPad Pro, don't consider upgrading.
There is also the question as to whether people can safely use masks without infecting themselves. If masks help at the margin they can also hurt at the margin. They can also cause the public to neglect physical distancing and hand washing based on a false sense of security.

It's puzzling why many have assumed a positive or neutral effect for something so untested. It's clear physical distancing has had the most effect as evidenced by Google mobility reports.
you know that GCC had support for 68k and it's a modern compiler, not ?
I'm very tempted to look up and download that bundle, but it sounds like something that could potentially cause me a lot of legal problems.
Na, they also want the em spectrum not the physical space. The problem for them isn't that the satellites take up too much space (they don't - physically they obscure basically nothing even for astronomers) but that they're too "bright".
> The Python environment directories shouldn't be writable anyway.

Yeah, except people start putting together their own Python environments in their home directories because that's what third-party packages suggest and asking admins to install random packages globally for random one-off tasks is not really sustainable. I'm sure there are workarounds, but it would be nice if virtualenv had some automatic way of figuring this out.
> There are different kinds of left. California is not economically extreme left.

I see. This is a confusion of the economic "left/right" axis with the social "progressive/regressive" axis. Mainstream media does tend to collapse those axes, along with the "authoritarian/libertarian" axis, but this is intellectual laziness that doesn't even represent american bipartisan politics faithfully. We can do better.
To be clear, I'm talking about HTML5 mobile apps. Apps that you add to your home screen from the web, where none of the Safari chrome is visible to interfere with things. You rarely encounter this kind of thing precisely because notifications aren't supported, as I've been saying. Chat apps? Most users want notifications. Forum apps (like Reddit)? Most users want notifications. Calendar apps? Shopping apps? Podcast apps? Weather apps? Almost every user wants to have the option of notifications for these apps. Video games? Most companies want notifications to drive user re-engagement... even if a lot of users don't allow games to spam them with notifications. Virtually every kind of app benefits from or completely requires being able to alert you that things have happened.

There's very little reason for good tools to exist right now, when notifications don't, and this seems intentional on Apple's part. Great tooling could definitely exist for HTML5 mobile apps to make it a good experience to build great apps that way... except for the lack of notification support on iOS. Historically, the Google Play Store is so lax about things that there's no reason not to just submit apps there. You don't even have to give Google a 30% cut on a lot of things, if you provide your own payment mechanisms. So, making HTML5 mobile apps for an Android audience has never been that appealing. But, that might be changing soon. On iOS, there have always been a lot of motivating reasons for companies to release apps as HTML5 Mobile Apps, but the lack of notifications just completely stops the idea flat.

For HTML5 mobile websites, a hamburger menu is often an unfortunate reality, but I think having the most frequently used links always clickable at the top of the page is better than stuffing absolutely everything into the hamburger menu. HN does a great job with this.
Yeah, there are some issues with some corporate VPNs and WSL2 right now (disclosure: I work at Microsoft but not on WSL2 but I’ve been in touch with that team regarding some of the issues) that are actively being worked on.

I think that’s a bit different than this, though it’s possibly related. As you said, the situation there is traffic is blocked.

WSL and WSL2 are fundamentally different in how they work. In fact, the poor I/O performance (caused in part by Windows Defender) in WSL is part of what led to the Hyper-V based approach to begin with.

My guess is that something might need to change either in the way VPNs use the firewall rules in Windows when passing on to WSL2 or in WSL2 to make for more granular control over how that stuff is passed on - to address the Mullvad. Because as it stands now, the way Mullvad performs under WSL2 seems to be by design (by WSL2 design, if not Mullvad’s design).

Obviously, many users who enable a VPN in Windows will want that connection to persist when they use WSL2 — but I can also think of plenty of scenarios where that might not be the case, which I imagine makes coming up with a solution more difficult.

I will say, the WSL2 team is incredibly responsive to feedback. You can file issues on GitHub and the team is very active on Twitter. If this is something that can be fixed on the WSL2 side, I feel confident the team will work to do it.
Palantir insiders struggled to sell because of trading platform
1. Hopper was a teenager at the time, learning how to paint.

2. “[A Hopper expert] admitted that the discovery did not come to him as much of a surprise, given that, before the advent of modern art and its freedoms, artists almost always got their start by copying.“

What a silly article.
Every nuclear accident was completely avoidable, but it’s not clear if future plant operators can avoid making similar mistakes.

The Chernobyl exclusion zone is 1,000 square miles. Fukushima had a much smaller exclusion zone but Estimates of radioactivity released ranged from 10–40%[163][164][165][166] of that of Chernobyl. The significantly contaminated area was 10[163]-12%[164] of that of Chernobyl.[163][167][168]

On 12 October 2012, TEPCO admitted for the first time that it had failed to take necessary measures for fear of inviting lawsuits or protests against its nuclear plants. That’s the core issue not physics.* ... A 2008 in-house study identified an immediate need to better protect the facility from flooding by seawater. This study mentioned the possibility of tsunami-waves up to 10.2 meters (33 ft). Headquarters officials insisted that such a risk was unrealistic and did not take the prediction seriously. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission warned of a risk of losing emergency power in 1991 (NUREG-1150) and NISA referred to that report in 2004, but took no action to mitigate the risk.[149] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...

France and the US have a solid nuclear track record, but so did Japan.
It is my perception that Swedes don't enjoy agglomerations much.

e.g.: the Swedish bus stop meme shows that social distancing has been the standard for years before COVID-19.
It depends on how you define success. How about happiness and freedom of movement?
Because I can't feel the buttons with my thumb and have to look down, unlock my phone, switch to the right app, and then tap. It's a horrible experience.
Can you put a program written in typescript between <script> tags and have it run natively in the browser?
Agree with this 100%. It's called Web Components since it's best used for writing individual components that be dropped into larger apps. I did a side project with LitElement recently, and just could not find the value add over React. That's when I realized that was never the intention anyways.

I think the desire to make Web Components a React competitor also comes in part from the movement towards 100% static sites, i.e. no server HTML generation. So if I'm building a shopping app, I would never create an HTML file with the following with proper declarative HTML:

<shop-app>
<shop-item name="Nike Air Force 1" price="85" currency="dollars"></shop-item>
<shop-item name="Nike Lebron 18" price="130" currency="dollars"></shop-item>
<shop-item name="Nike Kobe 8" price="145" currency="dollars"></shop-item>
</shop-app>

Then, you can add interactivity with JS events or a JS framework. Instead, you'll just see:

<shop-app></shop-app>

where the data to render the child elements is dependent on an AJAX request that gets the initial data. Creating standalone, declarative, and well-scoped components is just not necessary in this case, since everything is done in JS anyways.
y'know that's too bad, isn't it.

As soon as you described that statistic I realized that normalized population density is a really interesting fact about countries and states, and it isn't one I've seen laid out that way.
> There are lots of other moderation features -- e.g. shadow bans and automatic vote penalties -- that are completely opaque but turn HN into a strong echo chamber.

Every time I click "vouch" I wonder if a counter is being incremented on my account, or if a record of things I've vouched is being kept for moderator perusal. A chilling effect which certainly exists outside of HN, of course.
Vertica was too expensive, their licensing fees were terrible at our scale. Operations were also awful, if we had two nodes go down we were always in trouble. We built an EBS solution that made it a little better, but it still wasn’t tenable long term.
Cases are increasing everywhere due to increased testing. Increases in hospitalizations and deaths are much lower or nonexistent, even after taking into account the expected delay between infection and hospitalization.
Something I've been thinking a lot about lately is environmental friendliness in software, given that data centers contribute 3% of global greenhouse emissions (same amount as the entire airline indistry).

I'm thinking along the lines of using interpreted languages less server side because of efficiency, but also relying on JS less client side and using WASM where it makes sense.

This has stemmed from me leaning Go last year and being moved by actually how much faster it is than Node for my use cases (API development and data processing).

Where I am curious to see the total impact is how we can take advantage of economies of scale to save money and increase efficiency. I'm thinking along the lines of scale to zero, event driven architectures.

Google Cloud, for example, claims they operate their data centers with industry leading efficiency while also being powered by renewable energy. At scale, do services like Cloud Run or Cloud Functions actually make a difference?
Can't you run VPN client on the Linux guest? I think it is good that the Linux subsystem bypasses Windows firewall.
My iPhone 7 is a tool. It does its job, I don't feel any need to hack it, mod it or change it or upgrade every year. I text people, call people, take pics, browse the web, install other apps for things like ordering food, maybe play a game, etc.

In my opinion, most features that have come out in recent years for smart phones don't really matter to users. They are marketing checklists.
I would love to see the one where they do CRUD'y things or do data transformations which seem to occupy a large part of compute power.
When modern people discuss machines, that's not what we are talking about. None of those are practical for modern travel. We're talking trains, planes, and automobiles.
I suspect the "benchmarks are stupid" comments will die down the moment people start running desktop software on these chips, because it will cease to be a convenient excuse. While benchmarks may occasionally be slightly misleading, they are usually a good indicator of performance if done well–and if you've ever actually run desktop-class software on one of these chips you'll see that the divergence is just not there.
I wouldn't consider compile time to be a useful metric here, as you will generally compile once (for the final release candidate(s)) and execute many times.