skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The COVID IFR is very strongly dependent on age. The U.S. median age is 38, the UK median age is 40, and the world median age is 30.

8-10 years difference in median age is an enormous difference in the proportion of 70+ in the population, and an even bigger difference in 80+. This is a huge part of the reason that you haven't seen the death toll be nearly as high in developing countries as in developed countries. In general, developing countries have a much younger population.
Square makes most of its money granting pay day loans to small businesses.
It's a big tent ... there's some people that want to push social justice, living wage and political equity in the program. I think that's utter folly.

Then it just becomes the DSA agenda under a cape labeled "renewable energy" and it's a political non-starter. There's no way.

The advocates show that each of the issues separately have broad support so they think that by putting it all together you'll get the union as a coalition.

I think they'll more likely get somewhere from the intersection to practically nobody.

It'd be as if Republicans were trying to overturn Roe v. Wade, end obamacare, and ban gay marriage as a single package. Good luck!

I'd almost cynically claim it's only political theater to be leveraged in their reelection campaign. The DSA has a pretty solid ground game but you need to toss them red meat to get them to come out for you.

People like say, hamburgers and ice cream, but not on the same plate. I don't think the AOC GND is good politics. And as we've seen, the support seems to be leveling out.

That's why I side on the mostly-libertarian GND camp which was closer to what Jill Stein was advocating for 8 years ago. Remove all protections, remove all subsidies, open up a market, give consumers choice.

Then they can fight for a living wage if they please, but separately, not together.

I think it's far more politically feasible and achievable.
You’re trying awful hard to save your point.

Target heart rate declining and blood pressure rising with age in no way implies that most people who later die of heart disease are somehow less reproductively fit when they are younger.
The issue is that the baby Bells were allowed to reconsolidate at all, or allowed to avoid competing in other provider's coverage areas. I agree some good came of the breakup, but the hands off position taken by subsequent administrations has allowed most of the Good to get undone.
The only difference between a 'scripting task' and a 'serious programing task' as far as I can see is what you perceive as the scope of the project as you embark on it.

I have had small 'scripting' tasks that are successful accrue enough feature creep over time and turn into a 10000 line behemoth (as far as quick and dirty scripts go). And at that point, you start hoping you hadn't slapped it together with the haste that you did and miss the easy refactorability that Rust gives you.
That's fair :)

I don't think the name was super carefully considered, to be honest, it just kinda happened.
I relate to this (and upvoted), but it’s worth acknowledging that some people have more energy in evenings or even the dark of night. The key, if you’re trying to best utilize your time:

1. Your point: don’t give your most productive time to someone who uses you as a resource.

2. Try to structure your schedule so that you can best utilize your most effective energy without it being solely devoted to the obligations outside of being a profit center for someone else.
Wouldn't McCarthyism 2.0 be, for example, the ongoing efforts to stigmatize Communism and Socialism in the States? The administration recently banned visas for anyone affiliated with a Communist Party.

Socialism, meanwhile, is very much a dirty word in American politics. Biden and Warren, for instance, went to great lengths to distance themselves from 'Socialism'.

Yes, labeling a business as racist could be misused and is potentially very problematic, but it hardly rises to the level of McCarthyism.
Isn’t the playlist the ussr‘s product, not Spotify’s?
My hearing is not even that great in some ways, but I can easily hear the old CRT whine. It blows my mind that not everyone can hear it.
While I hope they'll keep the pace of improving the JIT lag (perhaps even adding a fast optional interpreter or AoT compilation of parts of code), the benchmarks are fine considering compilation is a one time paid ticket, while runtime is paid by usage. It's not just high compute, if I set up a website in Julia on a docker after the "cold start" (which can be handled before using packagecompiler if I don't want any client to feel the slow JIT compilation, as I obviously should) then it should run at the benchmarked runtime speed even if each request is very short (as the compilation price was paid already). That applies to most services in general, and even during development Julia programmers eventually learn not to cold start all the times (keeping the session open until you stop programming, so you again only pay the cost once).

Of course, any short task that must cold start like a bash script isn't convenient at all (and packagecompiler will generate a fat binary that runs fast, but it's still inconveniently fat if it's for something simple). And Julia's first impression is really important, which the "time to first plot" seems to affect the most (as you need to go deeper on the language to adapt to it's unusual workflow), so I agree that it's a UX priority.
OpenNEM is pulling rooftop solar behind the meter generation data from aggregation sources, I’m unsure if ElectricityMap is also polling this distributed rooftop solar generation data.
It's very similar to what is being implemented in Europe. The European Green Deal is a government-, union-, and activist-led (inter)national mobilization. They summarize the plan as a "Europ[ean] growth strategy" with a primary goal of "no person and no place is left behind".

https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/euro...
On HN, a simple show of affection and emotional recognition for something personal someone shared is a Bad Contribution. Y’all this is ridiculous.
The US does have higher labor costs than most of Europe, but lax regulation of special access service (backhaul) is probably more of a factor.
Thanks for the comment. I struggled with giving it a title that fits and still shows outsiders what the package does. Now nobody knows what Javis is and maybe thinks it manipulates the future
On my blog I attracted more the people who are already familiar with Julia and Javis.
It was a solvable problem though, right? A bunch of different OpenSolaris distributions exist now.
I think you have a point. But essentially what you're saying boils down to unmaintainable, untestable, unrefactorable, obsolete code being a liability. I don't think anyone disagrees with that and I personally have been involved with a (semi-popular public cloud) service deprecation myself precisely because it was legacy and simply had to be rewritten to be moved to a shiny new home that used new-age systems owned by another team that was doing a stellar job at upkeeping and innovating on those (though one could easily classify their "innovation" as NIH). The code that they wrote wasn't a liability at all, but in fact, it kept seeing active investment from all engineering and product management angles.
If you subscribe to Spotify Premium and change few default settings, the sound quality is the same as Tidal's.
Not about trusts but about too much capitalism on US (like pharmaceutical industry?)
It is possible to detect but it’s not necessarily detected by most OS features or most apps.
Carriers pay to port numbers to a neutral third party that maintains the Number Portability service. In the US, that used to be $6 per number port (which is basically just a DB row update operation) but a new vendor has reduced it by more than half. Carriers view that expense as pocket change as subscriber acquisition cost is well over $100 in total.

Without a legislative mandate and a third party integration partner that assures the port is successful, seems unlikely that a market leader like Spotify would ever allow them to exist.
I think you just gave me a new project idea!
I design products for living so I do a lot of thinking. I plan things in my head. I could be swimming for an hour in the lake and thinking about how to solve this or that situation. Overall thinking takes more of my time then the actual coding which I normally do very fast.

Distracting one's mind from the immediate task can also be beneficial for the end result.

All this does not make me inferior. Rather the other way around. Luckily I've been my own boss for the last 20 years so I do not have to explain how I do things. I am only responsible for end results /time frame and overall cost.

Granted there are situations when loads of code needs to be written that does not require much thinking. For this I usually hire subcontractors. Sometimes do it myself but it does not come very often.
Corexit
That video is great, it was linked on HN a while ago and I watched the whole thing even though it's not my area at all. Really interesting :)
Yes, normally takes two days, and can see the reason why they want you to call them beside the client binding :)
I chalk up this feeling to the God is dead mentality. Except here its all interesting ideas are done.

It's more of a question of work and why we do so. Most are left burn out at the end of their week.

After all it's a job, because someone has to pay you to do it.

Programming is just the process of abstraction and automation of work. At what point does it end?
I spent today walking around a gorgeous park I didn't know existed in a city I've lived in for almost thirty years total, then hung out in a cafe discussing the interpretation of a favorite piece of fiction online, and drawing a goofy Halloween image.

Sunday is what you make of it. Get the hell out of the house and you're less likely to sit on your ass scrolling all the endless scrolls. It helps if you forgot to charge your phone last night so you have barely enough battery for stuff you actually need, too.
As a mechanical engineer, I want to convert tables in pdf to Excel. Basically import a .pdf and export a .xlsx with a sheet for each table in the document.
Very cute! Congratulations on a fine job of hosting a virtual conference using the visual style of roguelikes.
From https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2... (2020-09-29)

> To summarise, false-positive COVID-19 swab test results might be increasingly likely in the current epidemiological climate in the UK, with substantial consequences at the personal, health system, and societal levels.

Some examples from the article:

- Unnecessary treatment cancellation or postponement
- Potential exposure to infection following a wrong pathway in hospital settings as an in-patient
- Financial losses related to self-isolation, income losses, and cancelled travel
- Psychological damage due to misdiagnosis or fear of infecting others, isolation, or stigmatisation
- Misspent funding (often originating from taxpayers) and human resources for test and trace
- Funding replacements in the workplace
- Increased depression and domestic violence
- Misdirection of policies regarding lockdowns and school closures
Diversity of experience seems orthogonal to whether one codes outside of work. If I spend all day coding X widgets and then go home on the weekend and code more X widgets, I’m not gaining any diversity of experience. (I might be gaining depth of knowledge, which is oddly not valued in the way you’ve framed the issue.)

Additionally, doing things other than coding also provides diversity of experience which may be relevant and/or offer a wider perspective.

So, I don’t think you’ve really made your case here.
Yes, actually we also verified that all the hashes were exactly what we expected, because we were using this for content based addressing. "The hash has unexpectedly changed" was a fatal build error.

If we wanted to change how the hash is calculated all extant instances of the system need to dump to backups, then be painstakingly restored after updating. Possible, but certainly not something you'd be doing for giggles.
In fact there is a very nice tool for visualizing and analyzing a netlist taken from an FPGA called HAL[0]. In school we used this tool to e.g. modify S-Box output to retrieve an AES key when encryption was implemented within the netlist.

[0] https://github.com/emsec/hal
Yes, normally, these trades heavily depend the currency pair, and the client, quantity, etc. And least that was the case at the bank I worked in the past
As a regular video creator and consumer who tethers mobile data, I'm using about 100GB/month.

My total mobile bill is 700 Taiwan dollars a month, which is about 25 USD.
Reliability and Security concern mentioned in the posts could also happen with or without using CDN.

Another issue with modern web apps is, they update almost every day.

Imagine bundle and reload the whole js file with only small changes is not a great idea
I really hate when people complain about too much "screen time at work". You also had too much breathing time at work. Maybe you should stop breathing when outside of work. You read things on that screen so I guess you "got enough reading at work". If your allowed headphones at work and listen to music while working then I bet you "got enough music at work" and don't listen to music outside of work.

I'm totally for your right to do whatever you want outside of work. Me, I continue to use "the screen" because I like gaming, I like movies, I like channels on youtube, I like video chat with friends and family.

The computer it just a tool. The fact that I happen to use one at work is no different than I might use books, a chair, a table, and other tools at work. That doesn't give me some ridiculous notion that I got too much book time, chair time, table time, pen time, etc...
Encode your message as a hostname, like “the-answer-is-42.yourdomain.com”

Buy or request a SSL certificate for that CN. it’ll be from a notarized source, with a date on it, proving you knew that info at least as early as that, and recorded in the certificate transparency streams.

Also encode today’s lottery numbers to prove you knew the info after that date.
There are 3 different phases:

1. Precompilation time: Only once when you install or upgrade a package.

2. First running time (that includes compilation time): When you call a function like `plot` the first time in a session

3. Second and subsequent running times: The compiled code is now in the cache, and what you see is the actual running time.

Thus what you are reporting here as precompilation (1) is not something that a user will see every time. What they will see is (2) for the first time in a session and (3) on subsequent plots. Could you confirm this is what you see - to ensure that those following along understand the terminology?

Here are the usage times I see when I use Plots on a daily basis in a Julia session:

~ exec '/Users/viral/Desktop/Julia_Releases/Julia-1.5.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin/julia'
_
_ _ _(_)_ | Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
(_) | (_) (_) |
_ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
| | | | | | |/ _` | |
| | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 1.5.2 (2020-09-23)
_/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Official https://julialang.org/ release

|__/ |

julia> @time using Plots
11.341632 seconds (20.21 M allocations: 1.108 GiB, 2.87% gc time)

julia> @time plot(1:10,1:10)
2.291147 seconds (3.24 M allocations: 165.569 MiB, 7.80% gc time)
(Another 2 seconds for the window to be drawn the first time on mac)

julia> @time plot(1:10,1:10)
0.000763 seconds (2.80 k allocations: 166.023 KiB)
Syntax highlighting is too important to me to use this.
Meanwhile, checked just out of curiosity, I used 640 GB in past 30 days. That's just my PC. Then there is wife's laptop and cell & kids laptops & cells. I suspect my household "eats" every month 1 TB of data. Not that we care anyway.
One notable difference is that software developers are in the category of "builders" while the other professions you mentioned aren't generally accepted as such.
Julia gets alot of hate nowadays that's for sure https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1315407713430458368?s=19
I absolutely love Unity, and it's what I reach for as my default for new projects, despite several years working in the games industry.

It's easy to get started, iterate on ideas, there are tons of examples of things online.

That said, it's not without its warts -- APIs change constantly, which means many of the examples or assets you find are no longer functional or need to poking to get working. Sometimes things just... behave oddly... in the editor. And the story around collaborating with friends is still not great (though a free tier for Unity Collaborate has helped with this a bit.)

If you haven't messed around with Unity, I encourage folks to give it a try. The new Universal Render Pipeline stuff they've been building is really nice for a solo/small team project.
Exactly! I was wondering about that. It seems like it's so rare as not to matter, but that's no guarantee it won't matter.
An issue that concerns me is the necessity for an understanding of racial blindness. This is the inability to distinguish between subtle facial differences, such as seen in siblings and near age cousins of an ethnicity other than one's own ethnicity. It is becoming clear the human operators of FR systems need to be screened for racial blindness. I work in FR myself, and from my perspective the management of and operators of FR systems are simply unaware this is an issue and the obvious solution.
I'm curious, how does a phone know the WiFi is metered?
This is a really detailed writeup and a huge amount of effort clearly went into the post.

The NFS maintainer seems to agree that this was a bug worth fixing. But I think I'm missing something - doesn't the specification say that the observed behavior (the file handle having gone stale) is acceptable, based on this snippet:

> A filehandle may or may not become stale or expire on a rename. However, server implementors are strongly encouraged to attempt to keep file handles from becoming stale or expiring in this fashion.

So, is it more of a 'the specification isn't sufficient for real world usage' kind of fix, or was something actually broken?
You can hedge your currency risk but the U.S. dollar is the world currency. For example in Canada in 96 when you were making USD it was killing you until about 2003 but if you didn't dip into it that money doubled on its own as the USD is much stronger today.
The green lobby would rather have a new coal plant (with no pollution control at all) than a nuclear power plant.
Don't misunderstand that I'm a First Amendment absolutist.

Indeed, I mean exactly what I said: the questions you raise call the First Amendment into question.
If only learn Julia in 2029 you will miss out on top notch productivity for another 9 years! Please reconsider for Ur own sake. If not that then for your whisky.
We're killing our planet because we externalise cost.
CO2, deforestation, habitat destruction, species extinction, overfishing, ocean pollution are proximate problems arising from that deeper ultimate problem.
Nuclear is an adequate response to the proximate problem of global heating, it the worst possible response to ultimate problem of externalising cost.
To advocate nuclear in good faith it is essential to acknowledge this tension, and the complex social and philosophical challenges to resolving that tension.
I just made one of those online speed tests and it came up at ~45mb/s. Not sure if that's representative, but the important answer is that it's good enough that I never feel it's a bottleneck.

As for price, I've got 3 mobile lines with infinite data plus my home wifi at 600mbps and the whole thing costs 100€/month.
Are there actually any benefits though? I saw an article a few years back about how when loading jquery from Google's cdn there was about a 1% chance the user had it cached already. Since you have to have, the same library, the same cdn source and the same version of the library, it almost never is the case that the user has already grabbed this recently enough that it hasn't been kicked out.

Plus the trend now is to use webpack and have all of your deps bundled in and served from the same server.
I live in Singapore and estimate my monthly data usage is around 20 GB / mo.

I pay about 15 USD/mo.
I do the same thing with emails, I just wish there was a similar solution for phone numbers.

It's would be ideal for privacy as well, as phone numbers are frequently used to combine datasets across companies.
I'd say just the opposite. I worked on a 10-million LoC codebase where third-party libraries had to be individually brought in by an internal owner. I suspect most of those 10 million lines of code ended up being ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementations of half of some external library.
This is so cool. Thanks for sharing! I wish it allowed I liked figures, though.
I thought this was my superpower too as a kid. I don't really notice it anymore with all the digital equipment, but analog was noticeable.
It raises significant questions on mechanism, to be sure.
Sounds like Spotify is trying to make is as hard as possible for the coming exodus to Apple One as there is more perceived value in the Apple bundles than just paying for a single Spotify music subscription.
My understanding is that MomentJs is “done”, which means it’s stable and feature complete. New projects which require moment’s functionality should absolutely use it!
It is desirable however impractical given currently available technology. We need significant developments in energy storage to make it work. We could have zero carbon now using nuclear with no new technologies.
And yet the net result super bad: 256g/kWh to 500g/kWh.

Gas is absolutely not “low emissions”. It’s actually the second worst offender after coal (400gCO2eq/kWh vs 1000 for coal).
PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python
I was using my 24 inch sun monitor for a long long time when LCD's came out, wouldnt want to downgrade to a 17 or 19. Also It was running at 1920x1200, going to a 4:3 lcd with smaller display seemed wrong.

Funny, I bought first 24inch LCD, a dell, color matched, and they gave me a free pc. Put a nvidia 8800GT in and gamed for quiet a while, it came with a pentium D 820, after a few years put a 960 in it. Think I got 5+ years of gaming on it.

Still using the LCD as my 2nd monitor net to my 27 inch 1440p wide screen gsync gaming monitor.
Makes sense when you're refactoring an existing function with one numeric argument, and which evaluates rapidly.
Eight-Legged Essay
I work 3, 12 hour days with 4 days off. If you can get it, it's amazing.
Me. TSLA and AAPL get in those until we get some signals in a few years.
Using PIV Cards for Every Business
I'm skeptical that Apple is imposing this on them. Many apps (Reeder, Reddit, Discord, Toot!) have an option to toggle between opening links in an in-app webview or Safari.

Reeder's options are "In-app browser," "Safari," and "Firefox" on my device.
As soon as you add something to JS you have to support it forever. Its better to let sites pick what they need and scrap what they no longer need. JS has already added most of the useful stuff from jQuery. If browsers included a built in version of React it would pretty much lock in the design as it is now without room to remove and replace bad ideas.
everything gets deleted when you first enable it, its still site specific afterwards

https://imgur.com/vmnozjV.png