skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current solution is to sacrifice the jobs, opportunities, mental health, education, and futures of the young, where the young is anyone not retired. Why should new graduates lose their offers and join a massively setback economy with 40 mil unemployed, millions of families lose labor income, pupils lose a year of education while forcing their parents into a difficult situation of trying to work while their children are home alone all day, businesses shutter and many shutdown, all compounded with the mental health effects of vast isolation, loss of social events, and outings - because the elderly, relatively rich retiree can't stay home for a few months instead while we make a vaccine and slide checks under their door?

In the same breath: "Yeah let's sacrifice out old for the economy!", you simultaneously encourage the current situation: sacrificing the current and future prospects of the entire rest of the population for no other reason than you believe the old can't quarantine without taking everyone else with them? The economy isn't just some GDP numbers and the DOW - that crap helps the hefty 401(k)s of the retirees anyway, it's people's jobs, savings, ability to afford food, rent, and vacations, and so on.
Oh my! You found me a rabbit hole.
Yeah, I've read your other posts here. Note that I did not argue for a complete lockdown in my post but a grounded discussion of effective measures. This "but Sweden" argument is exactly how much of this discussion reads like a bunch of political nonsense.

The UK tried a Sweden, saw it wasn't working, and switched policies. Sweden itself didn't have a full on lockdown but it's had other measures put in place (e.g. restriction of public gatherings that last I checked were now more restrictive than Germany) and we have plenty of places were heavier local outbreaks clearly led to the negative implications we want to avoid going forward (e.g. NYC, Italy). You're free to call that anti science but absolutism in the face of many unknowns isn't scientific either.
Only if you don't care about your fiber consumption.
Those aren't either/or decisions. Appropriate responses and better safety nets could have minimized both issues.
You would not have been able to make these points without knowing what the article states and the point of it is that a lot of people do not.

It is true that we could do better and should do better - the pendulum of progress has swung too far away from working with nature to forcing it to conform to our standards during the industrial revolution.

But still your comment has a very pessimistic view of the world.

The easiest rebuttal is that I like my engineering management job. It really is more fun than doing housework - and I can tell this from experience. I've built a house with my own hands and lived in one where you had to carry in the water and build a fire in the stove when you wanted food or warmth.
It mostly sucked.

Thanks to my car, or a rental car, I've seen things that I could never have seen otherwise and it has enriched my life in so many ways I can't even count. Also, I got my driving license at age 28. So I know how living without the ability to drive was like. It was possible, but not great.

The ability to use plastic tools in hospitals probably saved the life of one of my kids. Although on this one I do admit, the need to pack every single thing in it is excessive and we should cut down on the usage of plastic in many areas.

Finally, about fertilizers and monocultures - please read up on Norman Borlaug and the Green Revoluton before saying that things would be fine without them. Maybe in the US or other countries that have lots of space and great soil they would be. But in India, Pakistan and other countries, the ability to have crops that produce vastly more product per area has given a better life for millions of people.

Finally, the percentage of the population that gets to enjoy a better lifestyle has never been higher. Health has never been better.
Of course, that shouldn't be an argument to stop progress, but saying that things are terrible isn't true either.
Just because it has bread in its name does not mean anything. Or you consider shortbread a bread? Certainly the Irish won't. Pleased stop taking things literally.
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable is a reference I'm very familiar with. I used to keep a copy under my bed as a kid and if I wasn't sleepy I'd pick it up and read it in bed as if it was not a reference book. A great resource to have if you're a writer.
man, mccabe's snarky response to that first guy who immediately replies "references?" to his initial post (ah yes, classic HN "citation needed" guy in the flesh) is hilarious. i want to tell a bunch of google engineers who unrepentantly stole my programming language's name to go "google (sic)" the book i already wrote on it too =`(. i'm sure that went wayyyy over that dude's head, but i'm here for your 11 year-old snark, mr. mccabe =)

oh man, just noticed that the bug was immediately closed and marked "unfortunate"... how douchey is that? unfortunate for mr. mccabe, i guess, that he got in the flight path of the google Dont Be Evil TM 747 jumbo jet (lol).
good question

VR goggles?
True. But Apple TV/Apple TV+ are cutting it pretty close.
My opinion is that this is a bad policy.

We could just tax it all equally (plenty of folks making good money eat at Subway) and ensure that the people have enough money to get by. But instead, governments around the world create these Rube Goldberg machines that require a court to define what bread is.
I have a hypothesis that most of the students causing problems at today's public schools are the result of problems at home; be that a lack of resources, parents whom society hasn't given the time to be parents, or a lack of knowledge about how to be a good parent.

Better social safety nets and support for everyone should be an real investment in the future for everyone.
IBM i would be the 5250 line, IIRC. They used a similar font.
I don't want to parse code, I want a list of changes to my system and to be assured of an uninstall method.
No, that's what I mean. I can't do anything about this. I can't make tools that fit into what's left after they spend all their money. They have to do something else somewhere else. I can't help.

Not claiming they don't have any money.
If you were to do this today - would you use twilio as part of the automation? Awesome concept that you tried to solve ahead of its time.
quite the contrary, i was calling it out in the person i was responding to. but now you have accused me of being racist, i am unable to continue the conversation. have a nice day.
It’s intended for people who are in meetings or doing work to have a disjointed brief conversation that may span a half hour or more - eg, feature support.
"Sweet bread" and "sweetbread" are two different things.

Yay English.
Dividing by zero, result is (ba)NaN(a)
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"The goal posts were not changed. Once the curve was flattend, the lockdowns were lifted, and measures relaxed."

I think you should tell that to the residents of New York City, who only today got back the privilege of eating indoors (and only at 25% capacity). The governor wouldn't have granted that, had he not been sued (twice). The case count has been flat since June:

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page
Most people eat white bread anyway which has little fibre.
It is actually hard even to make sense out of hospitalization numbers. In my country, hospitalized people are counted as "positive hospitalized" even if they are positive (due to mandatory test prior to admission) but had to go to the hospital for a completely different reason.

Likewise, a region during August mandated mandatory hospitalization for most of the people positive to the virus, therefore inflating hospitalization numbers.

Unless reporting is either standardized (unlikely) or harmonized (possible) it is always going to be hard to make sense of the numbers.
Agreed. I was trying to imply that you could almost do something like a very simplified wireframe, if the prebaked images happened to be close enough to the layout of your intended pages on your site. But part of the point of a wireframe is to show the hierarchy and layout of elements on the page, and how they connect. You have no control over any of that other than choosing the closest diagram, and connecting whole pages. I’m sure there is still some value to the tool, but the description is not accurate.
The effect of those things on github are minuscule comparing to that of medium and twitter. I never even looked at anyone else's github profile. Most of the time it's medium and twitter that take me to their projects and I only evaluate the project with the context of who they are on twitter or what they've written on medium.
> Subway's "wheat" bread also used to be white bread with caramel coloring.

That's hilarious. And also a total indictment of US mass market food culture.
Was it really even political? GP saying that alternatives exist[1] seems about as political to me as observing that water will wet us, as surely as fire will burn.

[1] and there may be an implicit claim they may be better in some sense but there's certainly no explicit claim these alternatives are better in the GDP sense.

Edit: apparently some HN'ers disagree. Not knowing the specific nature of their disagreement, may I humbly suggest that just as with nationalism:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23847087

IMX here, a heterodox-for-HN truth is that other ways of being, beyond a unique Whiggish Consensus, exist.
I had a spare account hijacked and banned, recovery took about a day from memory using their contact form. This was sometime last year.
The history behind this is fascinating.

A fun file format for a font would contain not just the foundry but also fields explaining the family tree and design affiliation of the face.

Where the design came from. What the influences were. What the goals should be, for any type which is set in
the font. Other foundries that have made this typeface before.

Do any formats support this rich lore?
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Double-clicking Chrome opens a new Windows process. The homestay family kids I live with won't wait for Chrome to open after one double-click, but keep on clicking until it comes up. There's 15 processes in the taskbar now, all saying "New Tab" except the frontmost. These background processes waste RAM and clutter the taskbar. Other apps (e.g. Worms Armageddon) show a loading screen, so this isn't a problem.

Is there a tool for Windows (7 and/or XP) to stop repeated app opening? Could this be implemented as a browser extension, or should it be a background process monitor?

If it doesn't already exist, I could build it, but I'd like to know if other people have this problem, and how best to tell people about a solution.
I wonder if the Covid-19 lockdown actually harmed many (non-hospital) doctors financially, people can't make an appointment with them. Of course there is online but you can't charge much for no operations performed
Isn't Rust dependent on LLVM for its optimizations? Also, do you imagine that C++ and Fortran compiler developers have stopped optimizing?
It is.
All states would have to be in that range.
Better is call-back to your calling number; often my time is somewhat fungible so I don’t mind being called an hour or three later so I can skip the wait.
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It didn’t bother me so much when I finally understood that the duration perceived by an observer is simply equal to the path integral of distance along their worldline.

When you think about it, you will realise there’s almost nothing else it could reasonably be.
They are good points, but they aren’t offsetting.
I mean, it doesn't take a car seat to tell you kids are expensive. You're saving 50% on child care costs already by not having a third child
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This reminds me of the Mitch Hedberg bit about Subway in Ireland:

In Kilkenny Ireland, they don't have anything American over there, it's very cool. But they did have a Subway sandwich shop. That was the one thing they had American, and that became the American Embassy to me. I would go out to a bar and piss off an Irish dude and have him chase me to the Subway. I said, "Dude, I'm sorry, but you're out of your jurisdiction. But you can have a cold cut combo, though."
Agree. Generally it kind of stabiles around lower than that. For example for cloudflare[1] it is around 110%, while this[2] points to 109 being kind of standard.

1. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477333/000119312519... ( see dollar based retention rate)

2. https://medium.com/@sammyabdullah/109-net-dollar-retention-i...
Author here. The work started by tracing over bitmaps from x3270's fonts, which were originally created by copying pixels from a physical 3278-2 terminal screen.

I tried to remain accurate, but allowed significant deviations for accented characters, which, in the originals, had letters vertically compressed to make room for the accent.

There are also lots of glyphs that were never in a 3270 terminal.
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European countries vary vastly in regards to bread. German bread is not comparable to what the Dutch or French call bread. I might biased as a German, though.
Why did you choose to use Postgres firsthand as opposed to other SQL/NoSQL solutions?
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for pre-K: music - singing songs with her class, also dancing/gymnastics (project to a bigger screen). story-time after lunch.

for kindergarten: actually a lot of classes: art, second language (most kids in school are bi-lingual En+Ru), basic reading and math, also music, dance, gymnastics (again bigger screen helps here).

I would say it was actually pretty good and easy on us (parents) for kindergaten. But, yes, it is still tough for pre-K kid as she needed much more attention from us.
Also, the glycemic index is bullshit, as it won't predict the blood glucose response of an individual to a meal, because that depends on the person's health (diabetic or not), time of day (e.g glycogen stores depleted or not), or food combinations.

Also, eating sugar in a healthy person (non-diabetic) is only bad when it leads to overeating calories, not because of the blood sugar response, which is perfectly normal.

There's nothing wrong with getting some sugar in your blood, and avoiding foods on such meaningless criteria is a recipe for eating disorders (orthorexia). The carbohydrate-insulin model is complete bullshit.
It is a real property, but misleading. It is a mobile home, so the 90K price does not include any land ownership. One must rent that separately ($760/month).

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/8282-Murra...
ok by that logic you could also say cars were the original contraception because not more than 3 kids can fit even without car seats lol
"healthy" is a spectrum. Everything isn't either healthy or unhealthy and what's healthy depends on the rest of your diet.
I’m trying to remember. I believe his premise was that post and beam are the load bearing elements. The skin can be its own structure, instead of being built into the outside of the wall, and therefore you aren’t puncturing it every eighteen inches. And your insulation isn’t similarly transited by a conductor.

He was calling for preformed exterior segments you bolt together.
50%? I can't come up with any remotely plausible formula that gives anything too far from ~33%.
I think about the marginal safety improvement vs the economic costs of car seats a lot since having kids. The biggest improvement, the initial car seat laws probably made things better. At some point though it has direct costs with things like booster seats running until kids are big enough (probably 3rd or 4th grade), and indirect cost like you may have to miss work because you can’t have someone without a seat pick the kid up.

All in all it’s different than it was 30 years ago, and more expensive to do relatively mundane tasks with your kids.
Yes I lived in a Spanish-speaking neighborhood when I was in college, and there was the cheapest supermarket in town there, and great Mexican food joints that were open 24 hours and extremely cheap. I never understood why people line up at McDonalds at lunchtime when there's so much better food around.
That’s a fair point, but even a rough estimate would be interesting.

Say all increased gov’t spending to support people who lost their jobs during the shutdown. It’s a known number.

Sure it would be very rough, but just knowing the relative magnitude would be interesting. Is it $1,000 per QALY or $100,000 per QALY?
This is a research paper proposing a causal link between child seat regulations and family size.

It is not about procreation in cars, such as the song by Cake - Stick Shifts and Safety Belts. "I need you to be here with me,
Not way over in a bucket seat.
But when we're driving in my Malibu,
It's easy to get right next to you."
I don't get what this means at all. Can you try to Eli5
One feature I REALLY miss in Node is a great REPL like irb/rails c
My apologies, I meant ONLYOFFICE, not WPS Office. I got them mixed up. 'ONLYOFFICE' is FOSS and the one I meant to recommend!
> Given that most of the computationally expensive work in Python is usually offloaded to C extensions

That only works if your application's hotspots are in a few, decoupled parts of your code – good examples are FFTs, data compression, or encryption. It doesn't work if you can't cleanly separate your hotspots from the rest of your logic. E.g., if you write a parser and analyzer for a programming language, what part do you want to offload to C? Even if you could identify a small part that takes up the majority of execution time, it would have a complex interface, and it would take a lot of work implementing and testing that interface.
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I see that the effect is concentrated in households with a car, but I wonder how much of this is due to the car seats themselves, and how much is due to the vast array of things designed for a “family of 4.” Restaurants take twice as long to seat a table of 5 vs. 4, venues have policies like “one free child per adult,” etc.... when we became a family of 5 everything immediately got much higher-friction. And we knew it was going to happen, and strongly considered not having a third kid because of it. Interestingly we are now considering a fourth kid because we’ve already eaten the cost of going to this high-friction lifestyle like getting the minivan.
Kind of a web browser in the late 60's ;-)
I think it's 2*1.5 = 3 (3rd kid is 50% more expensive)
How does this work with the Civil Rights act of 1964?

>Title VII of the Act, codified as Subchapter VI of Chapter 21 of title 42 of the United States Code, prohibits discrimination by covered employers on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin

Also what if a board member is LGBT but has only come out to close friends or co-workers, or simply doesn't want to announce it to the world, wouldn't they face unfair pressure to go public with their sexuality?
Don't get bogged down with process, jargon etc. Spend as much time as possible with your potential customers trying to understand the problem and understanding their work. 90% listening and 10 % nudging them to tell u more. Once u understand the problem you then start exploring solutions in partnership with them, that might solve their problem - help them do their job better, meet their objectives. The goal is convince them that you understand their problems and you and they can jointly create a solution that meets their needs.

Once you have success with early customers then you can think about formal sales process etc.
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Fundamental problem speed wise appears to mostly be an issue with the limited 65C02 arch. Quote from article "The X register has to be adjusted to make room on the data stack each time a function is called. It takes 7 cycles to save the X register to the hardware stack at the beginning of the function and restore it at the end. It takes 2 more cycles for DEX for each byte of local variable used to adjust the data stack pointer."
>It is close to impossible to evaluate (and fire bad) teachers in public schools

So this. They have no accountability. In Florida, a teacher can't be fired unless they break an actual law.
>>It is that my current thinking is that the extractive-value paradigm of the industrial processes has done far more harm than good.

Not for humanity. The rate of extreme poverty has declined at its fastest in human history over the last 30 years.

I don't know if you've ever had close contact with people living at or close to extreme poverty. It's hard for me to imagine anyone having such a familiarity, and not believing industrial civilization has done more good than harm, at least when measured in terms of the quality of life of people.
Note that the starches in flour turn to sugar in your mouth when they come into contact with enzymes in saliva.

Just because it doesn’t taste sweet doesn’t mean it’s not basically equivalent to eating raw sugar, nutritionally.
If only the cost of having children were linear
That applies to anywhere in the EU
If you build slightly up (let's say 20 units) then the share of land would drop to less than 1/30th of development cost.
How do you feel about it vs leap seconds vs leap smears? I really wish timestamps were tied to TAI instead of UTC time (and therefore subject to leap seconds).
Not at all. I'd highly recommend CMU's 15-445/645 Intro to Database Systems course (sponsored by Snowflake lol) because they put all their lectures online on YouTube [1]! Here's what's involved in making fast databases from the syllabus [2]:

This course is on the design and implementation of database management systems. Topics include data models (relational, document, key/value), storage models (n-ary, decomposition), query languages (SQL, stored procedures), storage architectures (heaps, log-structured), indexing (order preserving trees, hash tables), transaction processing (ACID, concurrency control), recovery (logging, checkpoints), query processing (joins, sorting, aggregation, optimization), and parallel architectures (multi-core, distributed). Case studies on open-source and commercial database systems are used to illustrate these techniques and trade-offs. The course is appropriate for students that are prepared to flex their strong systems programming skills.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjbohkNBWQs_...

[2] https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2020/syllabus.html
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Interesting, all of the transactions with Coinbase as contributor have memo fields like

x.yyyzzz BITCOIN SOLD VIA COINBASE - PURCHASER UNKNOWN

and are followed subsequently by transactions with an (apparent) natural person as contributor with memo fields like

x.yyyzzz Bitcoins, Contributions Previously Disclosed

So it looks like those PACs reported contributions twice, once naming the actual contributor, and once naming Coinbase. I'm not sure why they'd do that - perhaps to head off FEC questions about deposits from Coinbase?

Regardless, those don't seem to be contributions directly from Coinbase, but rather artifacts of campaign finance reporting.

On an aside, there are some transactions that jump out e.g. line B of [1] where the PAC appears to have netted $5665 for 7.49 BTC in the closing days of 2017(!).

Looking further, it seems like their reporting occasionally exchanged BTC for ETH, and the contribution reported makes sense for latter. Still, for a moment it was fun to imagine that someone got a screaming deal on a heap of BTC the day after Christmas 2017

[1]: https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?201801319091289865
Speaking of fertility, we need to provide stimulus and incentives to encourage more childbirth. We also need to become more pro-immigration.

America won't be the top consumer economy for much longer, and we won't be producing the same volume of talent.