skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, a better number when looking at the impact would be in life-years lost when looking at the cost of covid.

That's about $130k per quality-adjusted life-year, or $60k per year for dialysis paitents. [0]

US Covid Deaths by age
85+: 63,864
75-85: 55,089
65-75: 45,015
55-65: 26,525
45-55: 11,093
35-45: 4,206
25-35: 1,628
<25: 462

Lets assume a 2:1 male:female death ratio and mid points for all groups except 85+ (which will use 85). Just an approximation

Life expectency [2], woman, man, combined

85: 7y, 5+10m, 6
80: 9+8m, 8, 9
70: 16+6, 14+3, 15
60: 24+6, 21+6, 22
50: 33+2, 29+8, 31
40: 42+6, 38+7, 40
30: 52+1, 48, 49
20: 61+9, 57+3, 59

So years saved
85+: 383k
75-85: 825k
65-75: 990k
55-65: 580k
45-55: 340k
35-45: 170k
25-35: 80k
<25: 27k

So total years: 3.4 million, an average of 16 years per death.

At $60k a year that's $200b.

At $130k a year that's $440b

As the cost to the US economy is estimated in the 10T range, it seems a poor use of funds.

However that assumes more intervention would save more lives.

With an IFR of 0.9% (even assuming no collapse in health system, but IFR estimates also overread) you'd be looking at 2.5-3 million dead overall depending how many got it. That still would come out at 5T tops, so on a financial basis better to just let it rip.

However the big assumption is that there would be no cost to economy without intervention as many people decide to stay at home, as confidence is lost and people stop spending, and that runs into a recession anyway. The 2008 recession cost $70k per person [3], that's 23T.

It also assumes that the 5T could be spent elsewhere in saving lives.

[0] https://www.valueinhealthjournal.com/article/S1098-3015(10)6...
[1] https://www.heritage.org/data-visualizations/public-health/c...
[2] https://coolconversion.com/heath/life-expectancy-calculator-...
[3] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-much-the-2008-financial-cri...
You do not need to make it end-user serviceable to make it environmentally friendly. You can make it serviceable with the tools and skills available at a mobile phone repair shop, which almost everyone has access to.
> How is an Excel table different from a dictionary?

Dictionary is an indexed key-value store, tables are not?
I do agree that a safety net is a useful thing to have.

But I disagree with the impression from your post that a safety net would have been the preferred solution to this merchant's woes. It would only keep him slightly afloat, compared to being careful about his business, where he could have kept a significant portion of it.

The line between being careless and blaming the victim is blurry, so I'm not going to discuss it.

However, building a successful startup is fundamentally different from running a sustainable business: in the former case, you deliberately make a high-risk, high-reward bet, while in the latter you want to take only enough risk to keep going. I had the impression that the story was about a business trying to be sustainable getting ruined.
I guess you could describe all science as "mental gymnastics". And all we humans have is common sense.

"The simple truth is you've already made up your mind about climate change in general, and now you're just looking for tiny crumbs of evidence that researchers are slipping up somewhere, and criticizing anything that doesn't fit your notion of how this should play out. "

That exact line could be handed back to yourself, except that you are sucking up all evidence that confirms your point of view.
It's very simple. One requires the good graces of an unaccountable and opaque corporate review process. The other requires nothing more than a simple webserver using open standards hosted anywhere in the world.
I was homeless for nearly six years. I got myself off the street by moving into an SRO. I still live in an SRO more than three years later.

Most people in developed countries on planet earth today have completely decadent levels of wealth compared to literally billions of the people alive today, much less historic kings and queens. Yet many of us spend far too much time, money and effort on having walk-in closets full of clothes, getting cosmetic surgeries and similar.

I mean the Kardashians basically make millions off of playing to the crowd and sharing their lifestyles of the rich and shameless lives with people who are paying their bills and have zero hope of ever living that way. It is mind boggling and pointless and I am appalled the world is okay with that while also being okay with widespread poverty.

There are some incredibly perverse things going on in the world today and if people like the Kardashians did anything that was one tenth as interesting and useful as this experiment, the world would be a vastly better place. Instead, they sell clothes and makeup as if dressing up like them will make you a millionaire like them instead of just keeping them in comfort.

Edit: which is to say my idea of decadent wealth, connections, etc is different from yours and I'm not apologizing for that and I don't feel compelled to agree with your set point for "decadence." This was like some kind of movie Quest where you gather rare and ancient artifacts to make magic. He literally did that and you're dismissing it as merely bread.

(Also also: How many people could start with an argument on Twitter and end up with "So help me make bread that hasn't been made in 2000 years."? This is "decadent" for reasons having nothing to do with financial cost, though there is real cost involved. Not everyone has a backyard to bury pots in and try to figure out how you bake like they did in ancient Egypt.

Etc.)
Sounds like the movie Brazil.
If chrome advances it does not matter. The lowest common denominator would be safari specifically ios safari. Until it adopts we would have to code to it's standard.
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Cool good to hear! Your comment makes me thinks of ScrumBut. Where you use a large part of something, but add a twist to make sure in fits your team or use case. Makes perfect sense.
The German subsidiaries of those companies, in Germany run by German citizens, still traded in Germany yes.
Doesn't Buddhism say you can never day and you'll re-emerge in somebody else's body?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebirth_(Buddhism)
You don't need an ecosystem with lisp.

Is the implication here that people build on top of ecosystems because they're incapable of implementing things themselves in plain JS, and that lisp will make them capable?

That's not the reality I see as a developer. The team I work with are entirely capable of building all the things we need, but we build on an existing ecosystem of open source code because that way we can do more with the available resources. Ecosystems are as much about efficiency as they are about ability.
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Safari only matters in 10% of the world, plenty of countries don't need to worry with customers using Safari, as no one uses any kind of Apple product and those companies have more than enough to do with their local markets.
The issue is not whether the end-user has to pay, the issue is that this kills incentives for free software tools. gcc and BSD were initially developed on machines costing hundreds of thousands of dollar, that didn't stop them.
Why does the difference in ordering imply a significance in difference?
Advice about healthy sun exposure to ensure adequate Vitamin D production generally notes that more exposure is required if you have Melanin in your skin (i.e darker skin).

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamins-and-minerals/vitamin-...

"If you have dark skin – for example you have an African, African-Caribbean or south Asian background – you may also not get enough vitamin D from sunlight."
Accessibility features are used by people regardless of whether they have visual accessibility issues. For example, I (and many others–watch some WWDC presentations closely and you'll see this) use the "display zoom" feature during presentations and when doing UI work to focus on things. The feature where you wiggle the mouse cursor to make it big? That's an accessibility feature, but it got a prime spot at the keynote when it was announced. I have subtitles enabled all the time since it helps me catch things in videos if I miss what someone said. macOS has text-to-speech, which is quite useful to read me back things I write for grammatical errors or typos. Accessibility features can and are used by everyone. (Disclaimer: I have partial colorblindness and wear glasses.)
May have been grey market goods, which is bound to be problematic on Amazon for branded high end fashion.
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Actually in Clojure I tend to distinguish:

Anonymous function:

(fn [a] ... a)

And lambda:

#(... %)

I don't think this is official nomenclature, but I've been using that to distinguish between both syntaxes.

In truth though, anonymous functions is the more accurate terminology, because lambdas are actually not functions, they're supposed to curry and use term substitution. Where as most programming languages use anonymous functions, which support multi-arity and sometime even variadic arity, and don't use term substitution, but more common argument binding.
Adobe XD does all these things and has Miro integration for seamless collaboration and works in windows and Mac. Any reason why I would use Figma instead?
Hitler was not opposed and defeated because of the Holocaust.

If Hitler had somehow conquered Europe and installed a stable power, the Holocaust probably would be a footnote.
That was a setting and not on by default iirc. I had a 6-digit UID (edit: UIN, dammit), and I clearly remember activating it because I found it cool.

Edit: googling it I found someone else that remembered it: https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/2w4evp/comme...

Edit2: https://liferay.dev/blogs/-/blogs/10-reasons-to-switch-forwa... number 4
No you dont have to be ashamed. If they run without any problems in your macbook pro then great. But they are massive resource hogs in my brother's PC where the RAM is limited to 8GB. Of course he complains that the slack app is quite heavy because he is not able to run a couple of other apps in parallel.

The solution we settled on is to run an android emulator and run slack and spotify in that. This restricts the usage to 500Mb and his PC is able to breathe a bit now
Quote of the day: "[...] if you wait long enough by the river, the bodies of your favorite Google products will float by. Better not to get attached."

My most recent defunct Google product: the Google Play Music app. A perfectly serviceable ad-free app to play my MP3 file collection - I'm an old-skool kind of guy, I was using the app only in "offline mode", without a subscription to the streaming service. I got some nag screens to subscribe from time to time, but other than that, it was great. Until Google decided to cancel the service in favor of an abomination called YouTube Music. And, of course, it couldn't just let the app work in offline mode without the service, it had to disable it via an update. Fortunately you can still use it by installing an old (hopefully unmodified) APK downloaded from one of the various (hopefully trustworthy) sites and disabling updates for the app. But let's see the bright side: maybe this will give the various music players created by individual developers a boost...
Not in the way Cocoa is, but it had a PLAF coming from Apple at the time.
This reminds me of Brian Will's "Object-orientation is Bad" where he makes the case that most decoupling tends to be more confusing than long-form code that's got sufficient comments.

https://youtu.be/QM1iUe6IofM?t=2235
There's a pandemic on. Up to a third of Americans can't pay their rent/mortgage this year.

Some people are taking risks because of the general climate around them. Living steeped in craziness can impair your judgment by making it genuinely difficult to figure out what strategy is actually sensible while the world is a case of "Please, stop this merry go round. I would like to get off now."
First off, AC is a heat pump, and heat pumps are always much more efficient than direct heating. A well designed AC system can be up to 500% efficient, since it only needs to move heat and not generate it.

Secondly, municipal heat is pretty rare in the US; few cities have it and the number keeps getting smaller each year. What few municipal heat systems that do exist are largely for business districts too, unless if you live in NYC as an American you most likely will be using either AC or forced air natural gas heat. Given the choice between the two[0], AC would be the best possible one from an efficiency perspective.

0: Heat pumps can be used to heat too, which is even better. Its my hope that heat pumps will become more common in the coming decades to assist in electrification.
Figured. Its webassembly
We've been using Slite for a while; it's pretty great.
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If that is a simple 10 line script, I agree. But if that is part of an application, you will not be able to properly test it - so you either have to do time consuming manual tests or time consuming integration tests. Splitting it into different parts allows to write unit tests and smaller integration tests. Then, when you only change the "pure" parts, you only have to verify the unit tests. That gives a HUGE productivity boost in bigger applications.
I’ll believe the story that these will be any good when Catalyst apps will start behaving like native apps. If developers can’t bother making a native experience with frameworks that are meant to do this, I don’t think they will with an even simpler paradigm.

My canary in the coal mine: Apple’s own SF Symbols.
I'm not native so sorry for the weird question, but is "y'all" a common idiom? It sounds weird, is it something I could use or does it imply something particular?
How many small retail businesses keep multiple bricks and mortar locations solely as a backup in case one location becomes unusable? How many retail businesses have two locations just in case the street outside their premises is permanently removed without notice by the owning municipality?

There is a limit to how much risk individuals and small businesses can realistically hedge against. Insurance can cover many risks, but it doesn't necessarily cover the impacts of legal, but arbitrary, abuses by business partners. Unpredictable, uninsurable, risks should not be offloaded onto people who are unable to withstand them.
When Microsoft insists everybody is up to standard.
> "There is not much left for a Web browser to cover" - this reminded me of the famous "physics is mostly complete at this point."

Reminded me of microsoft saying they would no longer develop IE6 because browsers were done (i.e. netscape had gone bust)
I love his series. Eye opener for beginner coders.
None of those includes human resources like programmers as a part of software architecture.
wow, I had forgotten all about UIDs completely, and as soon as you said that, my 6-digit UID came right back to me like yesterday (260388). bizarre!
Adding Interactive Visual Syntax to Textual Code
I use an alternate version on SQL: when running any modification on any kind of sensible database (which is a bad practice in itself, obviously, but sometimes you don't have a choice), always type in the WHERE clause before the table name (added bonus: do a SELECT first with that clause to see what you are modifying).

That way, if you accidentally send it, the command fails and nothing happens.
Check out Adobe XD, it supports simultaneously editing by a team right out of the box.
> We say African Americans have higher rates of Vitamin D deficiency, but this is based on the assumption that their average levels of Vitamin D should equal those of European whites, not on an assessment of when they experience problems.

Couldn't you just survey average vitamin D levels in native West African populations, and compare it with African Americans?

Even if there was a difference in the requirements between native Africans and native Europeans, many African Americans also have varying levels of European heritage that would complicate the picture.
When Microsoft insists everyone is standard.
Notebag isn't open-source https://alternativeto.net/software/notebag/
Indications are that that particular PM is not the buffoon he plays, but an extremely cynical man who has always got tremendous mileage from pretending to be it.

That is not to indicate he is not, in fact, a different kind of buffoon. But if he is, we don't know what kind.
Would a minimalist framework like mithril.js fill that gap? I've had a pretty good experience when using it for some small to mid sized projects. Since its on the simple side, the updates are infrequent and have been pretty painless to keep up with.
often fakes (in fashion at least) are just overquota items produced from the same sweatshop that produce the legit items, which the sweatshops sell on the side to earn that dollar more per month.

brands thus moved to control counterfeit pursuing anything that isn't coming off their sales chain end to end, even if the fake is virtually identical to the legit product.
I've changed to the management track about a year ago, and this post resonates a lot with me. It has been one of the hardest jobs I've done.
On top of all this, the thing that gets me is that the feedback cycles get much longer, and you're never sure if changes are having the right effect until much later.
Winter is coming - if memory serves, rates of vitamin D deficiency double at northern latitudes during winter.
> Adobe is is a creative powerhouse and has an army of devs and unlimited resources to steal the best features and workflow across all design apps from what I've seen since it first was referred to as project Comet.

It really depends who is on the project. Excellence in execution varies so widely even among top companies. e.g. Microsoft can produce Azure but also run Skype into the ground. They can make Visual Studio Code but also Teams.
And WHATWG (and CSS WG) rejects the idea of HTML profiles (defining reasonable subsets) and even versions, or anything forward-compatibility for that matter, with supporters standing by and cheering.
The menus in Swing aren't native but are in Electron.
This is the real nightmare scenario...
"I do a copy once in a while of the whole folder to a different place."

Yeah, that is a backup.

But I totally agree, it becomes much easier when stuff is plain text files!
That's what I thought of immediately as well! I've seen that pattern in a few other places too, and I always think it's a really good UX choice.
That's bad direction indeed, I wasn't aware of this change, thanks.
If it was easy why don't you just implement the solution directly instead of spending time in meetings discussing how to implement the solution? The reason we spend time caring about software architecture is because writing software is hard and anything that can make it simpler is very helpful, like structuring its architecture beforehand.
QuantumRNG-aaS – Making use of Quantum Algorithms
Some high-end asymmetric cable internet packages in the US don’t even have 30Mbps. My gigabit only has 40Mbps and I got the gigabit for the upload speed.
What you've listed resonates with me yet 10 years in I just can't break into management. I'm a high performer and am compensated super well. I've been told by others to "shut up and do your job, your pay is fantastic" but there is an inner yearning to help others be the best they can be and also compound the skills of a group to accomplish greater business goals, many of which I'm suffering to complete now under the tremendous stresses that seem unfair for one person.

This isn't the first time I've been in this or seen this situation play out. Businesses stacking an impossible list of responsibilities on one person until they burn out and leave, then get replaced by a manager and 2-3 others.

So I ask, for those of you who have intentionally made the move, how did you do it? I feel like I can't be any more transparent with the business that it's the direction I'm looking for and that I will leave soon if it doesn't happen. But then what, do I keep playing this game into perpetuity until my luck changes?
This depends on which O/S one considers primary, and which are their requirements.

For example, this architecture prevents other hypervisors from running¹.

If one wants to run, say, a fancy filesystem that is native (to Linux) and/or stable, again, one can't.

If one considers Linux the primary O/S, they could give a shot at VGA passthrough - I assume that if the system supports ESXi, it should support VGA passthrough as well. I personally prefer it to a native Windows - besides not having to perform reboots (which is minor), I like to have a snapshottable system. The caveat is that if one wants a very stable guest, they should reserve the GPU for that purpose (I do).

[¹] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-faq
I use Protonmail and now Hey for mail.

Protonmail is classic email and now has a calendar. And Hey is wonderful if you think of emails as mainly an annoyance.
As far as I understood it, Hyper-V is a native hypervisor like Xen or ESXi. So if you're using Hyper-V even your Windows is running as Guest alongside any other Hyper-V VMs and WSL2.
Adobe XD does everything Figma does from what I can tell and is cross platform and you can use Miro to get seamless collaboration via the web to share your Art boards. What is Figma's killer features?
Also put much longer in the form of the Tolkien books. Elves have non-bound lives but Men got the gift of a bounded lifespan by the creater. The Elves think that is a strange gift, but some come to realise just that, we have a chance to live not someone elses, but our own lives, made precious by its scarcity.
By and far the scariest thing about Hitler’s rise to power is not the small minority of true believers, but rather the large masses of the population that weren’t true believers but went along with it for one reason or another. Perhaps they wanted career advancement, perhaps they feared communists and trade unionists more, or maybe they thought they could do more good on the inside. Whatever the personal reason, tons and tons of perfectly reasonable, nice Germans voted for, joined, or stood by as the Nazis took power and plunged the world into war and committed mass murder.