skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The higher income people in Indianapolis with children tend to gather in the northern suburbs of Carmel/Zionsville, etc. Those house prices ($500k+) are similar to the higher income suburbs of many other higher cost of living cities.
> In the meantime, I'm in the process of building my own "alternate prelude"

I'm thinking more and more about doing the same. But – there is always a but – I also dislike some other things:

Fix procedure signatures → Why is there 'remove' and 'delete'? Scheme is not statically typed, but strangely enough, this fact in not exploited often. There should be only one word with the meaning "delete" in the programming language.

Fix argument positioning → The order should always be: proc-name, main-object, arguments... Ideally one should be able to guess the name and arguments of a procedure.

Fix procedure names → Some procedure names are too long or have strange names. List procedures should have a list- prefix, only Transducers or generic procedures should have no prefix.

Also maybe stop supporting a :key argument and design everything to use lenses to target sub-structures.

Some handy general purpose procedures are missing here and there, so an improved prelude should come with them, too. I don't want to import multiple string/list/whatever-libraries to handle a task. The nice thing about Scheme is, all of this is doable.
Maybe because not everyone is a brainwashed victim of jumped-up consumer society. Maybe you don't care about the new ramen place, and maybe you don't care about other people's ideas of "world class:". Maybe you'd rather spend time with your family.

If you go to Madison WI and want to "blow your brains out" maybe the problem is not Madison WI. Some of us do like the peace and quiet. Different strokes for different folks.
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I recommend starting up a side project to learn a language. That's how I learned Ruby, and consequently Ruby on Rails 15 years ago.
I don't mean to be negative, but there are so many multi-user whiteboards, screen sharing, video conferencing, and etc projects that they all blur together and more often than not don't take off. Definitely the underlying frameworks are nice though to roll into higher level projects.

Much respect for all your hard work regardless.
Is there anyway to compare visits from today to yesterday, or today to last week?

I was thinking that it could be a filter on a segment, but it doesn't look possible when I tried the demo. Otherwise, I really like the look of usertrack.
This isn't a study, and scientists have been paying increasing attention to "long COVID" for several months now. See, for example, this feature from The BMJ from July: https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2815
Alternatively, data from the UK in June suggests that 10% of people with COVID have symptoms that last for more than three weeks: https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/covid-long-term

If the number really is 10%, that's significant. This letter is merely suggesting further research; I think it's far from fear-mongering.
This has been exactly my experience. 'Where are you from, where were you raised?' are the first questions after 'where do you work, what do you do for a living?'
The question, to my mind, is how.

So let's say Amazon declares their business is e-commerce, and they can't manufacture things they sell.

And now there's ADiapers, that happens to make diapers.

And Amazon Holdings, which owns ADiapers and Amazon.

What stops ADiapers from optimizing their product to sell well on Amazon, Amazon building algorithms that preference ADiapers, and Amazon Holdings profiting off of this on both sides?
You're right, but I personally don't count Chicago. A distinction needs to be made between "big city" and "midwestern city" - they aren't mutually exclusive like some are alluding to (probably not on purpose). I think that it actually goes against the trend, since I'd consider it a "big city". It is interesting that so many people are moving there, considering the hot thing these days is moving away from big cities. Of course part of that is the fact that it has a good COL, and a lot of big city perks
Putting aside that Prince and the LGBT capital of the midwest make Minneapolis the coolest of cool, Chicago is the real dark horse in all of this.

The costs there, especially for apartments, and in really interesting areas(as in actually interesting to a NYC person), are honestly no slouch. Add in legit fintech jobs and salaries, it sounds like only the state politics and city challenges are keeping people away.
Looks nice! Especially this bit "All Spinach workers are part of the system that schedules periodic jobs, there is no need to have a pet in the cattle farm.". The fact that you can only have one celery-beat running is one of the main reasons I chose something other than Celery.
yeah all the privacy regulations make it difficult to do all the tracking that some businesses are used to. it's clear from testing that if they actually enforced things such as GDPR and asked for consent, majority of visitors will say no which would make their current strategy difficult. Plausible was built with all these regulations in mind so we're more a solution for businesses that want to comply with the regulations but still get some useful data.
Chicago is vibrant (lots of restaurants, theaters, etc), easy to get around (great, safe transit and often dense neighborhoods), and cheapish (really solid places to live for just about any budget >$700/month).

This article is misleading about tech jobs, though. They're tech roles at non-tech companies. Even our local unicorns are companies like ShipBob (great co, to be clear, just not that _sexy_).
Maybe this is possible instead with homomorphic encryption.
Although the game remained good afterwards, you pretty much quit at the peek.

The last decade has been nothing but Activision-Blizzard abusing a captive audience.
Similar experience here in suburban southern California public schools around the 2010s, except for one class on digital art, which was 90% packet work (funnily enough almost the equivalent of just copying out novels, but for Illustrator/Photoshop. Today I use them regularly and adeptly.)
Here's one I find doesn't get enough credit: Reading comprehension.

That can be interpreted as reading someone else's code, but even more importantly: Just being able to understand plain English (or whatever human language).

I've seen so much code that used an API incorrectly, or misunderstood (or simply ignored) documentation. Being able to RTFM, imo, is essential. See also: Understanding what your boss wants and delivering it.
The rate was 1:100. It was done in 1958 but many prople were counting in the old currency until at latest the franc changed to euro.

Now we still have here and there monetary values given in francs (next to euros). I guess this must be a legal thing but come on, it is time to really move ahead and not keep backward compatibility forever here as well.

An interesting denomination was in Poland where the money was denominated by 1:10000
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Broadcast classes never went away. There are thousands of radio and television stations in the United States today that are still owned by local school districts and other quangos, and still broadcast classes and class material.

The COVID pandemic has expanded the use of broadcast classes in a number of cities, including San Diego and Las Vegas.
We launched Papercups back in August [0], and wanted to share some of the metrics and learnings from the experience, along with expressing our appreciation for the HN community's support!

Also included some updates on what we've been working on since then :)

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Me neither, I was just clarifying the stance on the topic of people whom HN crowd has very little interaction with or understanding of.
Granting that there is a lot of fuzziness in all of these definitions, Buffalo and even Rochester can be included in "Rust Belt" but are not Midwestern.
If you’re searching for terrible terrible captchas though, it’s the undisputed champion.
One of the things that is different is the matter of Moral Rights such as the right to be attributed as the author of the copyrighted work. In some jurisdictions those rights cannot be waived. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights
You need a few skills to be a good programmer:

1) Literacy. You have to know how to read (and ideally write in) your native language at a relatively high level. So much of our craft's knowledge is written down, in technical if not arcane terms, that in order to learn you really have to read.

2) The ability to reason about causes and effects, that is, to envision in your head what the computer will do when it evaluates a statement in your program. Also, the ability to back-reason which statements will produce a desired effect. You need to be able to predict what will happen before you write the code and test it out after the code is written. You'd be surprised how few people have this ability developed and how hard programming is for the general population as a consequence.

3) The ability to be humble and stay focused. Your program will take much longer to write than you think it will, and there will be more bugs. You have to have the diligence and passion to see it through.
Hello! I'm kind of trying to keep copyrighted text off the servers -- though I am planning on adding a feature where you can add your own text and then immediately type it. Probably more work on the teacher and student's part, but maybe it would accomplish the same thing.
looks cool will try
I am so glad to see this. I was looking to deploy an app and the choice is either Heroku or manage your own server which I don't want to do.

Heroku gives instant deployment for the most common types of apps (python/java/ruby). It's PaaS done right, it's fantastic. You should really have a look if you're not aware of it, it's only $7 for a starter app.

Problem is, scaling up is about $50 per gigabyte of memory which makes it a dead end for anything non trivial. You're forced to go to digital ocean / Linode / OVH instead to have something affordable.

That leaves Digital Ocean as the only alternative (don't trust Linode) and it sucks because it only gives me a server to manage. I don't want to manage a server I want to run a (python) application. It's 2020 this sort of things should auto deploy from GitHub without bothering me to manage an operating system.
Got it, that helps me understand it more.

But again, your paper ought to be an advertisement, no? That makes it clear why it matters? That's why there's an abstract, an intro, a conclusion.

I have read a lot of writing where I wonder, "yes but what's the point? why does this matter? what's the actual impact here?" So to have that clearly stated is incredibly helpful for all readers -- not just what it does but how much it matters, why and for whom.

Writing for a public audience isn't a place for false modesty -- it confuses rather than helps.
Indeed, as the article states:

> ... the contagiousness of the virus isn’t a fixed biological constant. It’s the result of the biology of the virus interacting with human biology, with our environments, with our society. As seasons change, as our behavior changes, so can the transmissibility of the virus. The herd immunity threshold is not one fixed target.

The following article (also meant for a general audience) in the Atlantic makes many of the same points regarding the impact of dynamism and heterogeneity:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/herd-immu...

Unfortunately the messiness of reality makes it difficult to give clear answers to questions of public health policy and a roadmap for people who really just want a simpler and more certain timeline than the science allows.
First time I'm hearing of this thing. It looks like another take on Dokku?
I wish ShutUp10 was open source, considering it pokes around with the registry and system files.

Which is why I like Linux. I just don’t have to worry about telemetry at all.

Edit: Here’s a comparison of Windows 10 privacy tools. I wish there was one with a “yes” in all three columns.

https://www.ghacks.net/2015/08/14/comparison-of-windows-10-p...
Yeah I mean I was trying to convey that I understand why SOME people would like that, and maybe I failed at that. Though, to be fair, I don't think wanting to enjoy a good bowl of noodles as often as possible is as bad as a thing as you're making it out to be lol. I don't think there's anything objectively wrong with Madison. I'm just surprised that it seems like 99.999% of people would prefer that lifestyle to one in a bigger city. Family is something that throws a wrench into my whole comment lol, I understand I'm in the minority when it comes to that
Nonsense, the number of deaths without co-morbidities in the UK was 300 and something. That hardly counts as plenty.
On AWS I tie high billing threshold alerts with PagerDuty so it wakes me up at night.
It's remarkable to see Detroit on this list, and I'd love to learn how they gathered these numbers. Years ago, I heard the quip that "the janitor at Apple is counted as a tech worker, but the supercomputer engineer at Ford is counted as an auto worker".

Clearly this analysis has solved that. Why have so others missed it?
Your comments indicated that such an explanation was necessary to improve your understanding.
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I build https://sourcespy.com to achieve the same goal - automated layout, drilldown but also ability to pull up the diagram contents from the code.
> And why public transportation exists.

But in many places it doesn't. Or is basically unusable for all kinds of reasons (e.g. you having night shift, being a woman and no security at all in public transport).

Furthermore public transport doesn't fix the problem of losing the job for all people.

There are enough jobs where you normally will never drive but you need a driver license for "emergencies" (whatever that means is job dependent).
Does anybody have a recommendation for a benchmarking suite that in app shows where your bottlenecks are?

eg as simple as CPU utilization, GPU utilization, RAM speed utilization?
There arent any modern tech books in the public domain, but there are plenty with open licenses.
Can you add famous speeches? For the same reason Hunter S. Thompson chose to re-write famous books, I'd like to re-write a famous political speech every morning. Also, how about pulling in song lyrics from your favorite band? The option to load your own content would be cool. But the speeches would be my fav option.
The best way I could summarize it is that coding is the easiest part of my job (unless I have to touch CSS). Working with people is by far the hardest part.
These jobs are tech roles in non-tech companies. Boeing, United, McDonalds, Koch Industries... all are big in the midwest, all need lots of tech folks, none are particularly techy companies.

All the really good tech people I've met either (1) leave for SV/NY or (2) work for quant trading shops.

For context, FAANG job postings in the midwest are all satellite-office positions: they'll hire good engineers here, but you're kinda working remote in the downtown office at a certain point.
Governments benefited because they learned how easily people will turn on each other and support sweeping restrictions with no end date. Any time someone questioned the lockdowns back in Spring, people would claim that they were being selfish and leading to the death of millions by not blindly giving away their freedom. I've seen much more animosity based on party lines, than towards the government at large.
Computers have never used FPGA memory controllers that are upgradeable to newer DRAM standards so there's really no reason to say that's the "proper" solution. And memory standards overlap for 4-5 years which also happens to be the lifetime of a PC so the price/performance benefit of future-proofing really isn't there.
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Oh, the name Elastic Beanstalk didn't make it obvious???

/s
As you well know, it's more the how than the what.
0.2% of cold viruses are coronaviruses. Only off by a factor of 100x. You quote scientific literature then say it’s lacking any rigor. Kinda hard to listen to the rest of the post.

Do other respiratory viruses attack the blood and kidneys?Genuinely curious. My mother has Leukemia leading to kidney damage. Definitely some fear of contracting it and passing it to her.

I have a friend in the “long hauler” group that is 38yo. Of the people I am one or two steps from, 45% are dead, 45% had mild issues, and 10% long hauler.

So, low number of N is definitely a problem, for both my experience and the paper.
I don’t think there’s all that much more money to be pulled out of Android, since (a) it’s available under a very permissive license and (b) it’s used all over the world by people who don’t have much more money to spend on their phone. Google already barely has influence over the OEM’s that choose to use it, case in point their recent spat with Samsung over the fact that Samsung keeps patching the kernel in ways that introduce security vulnerabilities. Samsung hasn’t stopped, Google has just started publishing the vulnerabilities to shame Samsung into maybe doing something about it. Is this a scenario where it looks like Google is leaving money on the table? And if this is all the money available from Android that spells bad news for an independent company, since we know from the Google v Oracle filings that Android has made Google something like $10B total over all the years it’s been operating. Android might break even, but I assume it’s operating at a loss so that Google can benefit in a bunch of less direct ways from the fact that it exists.
A well known instance supporting your case:
https://www.ndi.org/e-voting-guide/examples/constitutionalit...
I guess not all people had a computer and internet connection in Australia

It's still the case in much of the world. On HN, we don't realize how lucky we are to have internet connections.

In the mid-sized American city where I lived recently, the most recent numbers show almost 200,000 people with NO internet access at all. Not at home. Not at work. Not even on their phones. That number expands to over 400,000 when the rest of the county is included.
If you never move on to constructive action, that's a problem, for sure.

However, telling a sad or difficult truth and stopping there is still a big improvement on pretending there was no issue in the first place.
I ran into 3 feral pigs on a walk in San Jose last weekend. They were pretty chill, though, rooting around and ignoring everyone 10 feet away from them on the path.
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This looks fantastic. I'm a big fan of DigitalOcean and their ongoing efforts to provide simpler, cheaper alternatives to the cloud giants.

Their managed Kubernetes offering is a bargain compared to EKS.
Containers are definitely making this conversation more irrelevant for sure
On the one hand no reaches for MySQL because it has robust types you can use for the columns. On the other hand not having a robust useful Interval type does not speak well of MySQL in this day and age.
Only for new users - existing customers can stay at 12$/month unlimited until they adjust their plan.
At 5ghz, the signals travel only 4 cm each cycle (signal speed in copper is around 60% lightspeed).

Moving stuff further away means waiting multiple cycles for a reply.
thank you! what would you like improved in the UI?
> depress wages

Which is not even close to OP's extreme claims.
And before this there was correspondence learning (i.e. learning via snail mail). Many technologies have been pitched as being transformational for education. Often they have some impact but don't live up to the hype.
Love the idea, love the interface!

How much do I have to type to get the WPM and ACC to start showing up? I did a whole page and it was still just showing --.
That region gets overwhelmed at flu season every year apparently.

And just for some perspective the flu season was filling hospitals in the US a couple of years ago. But it barely made the news.

https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...
There's the small talk version of that, but then there's the following question of "where are you really from?" if you give them a less exotic answer than they were expecting.

Edit: wording
I don't get the sudden press on this bill. It was introduced in March, and it was added to the Senate calendar in July. There was one hearing back in March, yes, but there isn't even a companion bill in the House at this point. Don't get me wrong, it's bad legislation, but is there some imminent action planned?

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/339...
Flu mortality rate is down in same period though
Contract work pays around 2x the equivalent salary, and maybe around 1.5x after you account for lack of paid holidays, sick days, employer pension contributions, and downtime between contracts (although this can vary a lot depending on your particular circumstances)
Good point. I don't know that this explains everything, but it would be silly to think that this isn't at least part of it
"What you will find is that people are friendly, as long as you look like them (white)."

should be

"What you will find is that most people are friendly, as long as you look like them (white)."

So you are correct in noting the statements are not equivalent.

By leaving out the word ‘most’ for whatever reason (typo, bias, etc.), the communication efficiency of the comment was reduced. Good catch.
https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...
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Jetskis in summer, snowmobiles in winter.

Bass boat in the summer, ice-fishing shanty in winter.

Hiking in summer, hiking wearing more layers in winter.

We do just fine. :)
America is largely a nation of producers, and our current state of malaise (or whatever you want to call it) seems to be strongly correlated to being re-branded as consumers, and being forced into a system that treats us as such. There is a higher good than low prices for consumers.

Consolidation destroys small business and the ability of the average American to support themselves through independent, private enterprise. All 5 of the FAANG companies have caused consolidation in tech, retail and other verticals, and they are acting as private regulators to manipulate the markets. I don't want 5 companies controlling my destiny, and I can't figure why any rational person would, even if you genuinely see yourself as a consumer.
Hasn't the DRAM industry gotten in trouble with regulators multiple times for fixing prices?
Excel is not a database, it is a spreadsheet. They are different beasts.

This link will explain the difference between two of them. https://365datascience.com/explainer-video/database-vs-sprea...
I found this CGP Grey video about the trouble with tumbleweeds really good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsWr_JWTZss