skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the spirit of your comment, but I would also like to see some hard (not projected) numbers to take it beyond speculation.

Where I currently live in BC (Canada), there have been more overdose deaths than coronavirus deaths in 2020[0]. It might be the case that the overdoses have increased precisely because of lockdown. It might also not be the case. That remains to be investigated.

I think it's superficially easy to blame suicide, overdose, domestic violence etc on the lockdown, but that's hard to prove, because who's to say it's not a reaction to the overall situation of people dying of a brand new disease?

Personally, I really resent lockdown/movement restrictions and I think it's a garbage policy, right back from when I lived in China during the initial outbreak. However, I also have to admit that the countries that locked down seem to have successfully knocked this virus on the head, whereas those that didn't are still suffering the effects. Perhaps a lengthier lockdown pain at the beginning is better than this drawn-out shitshow of half-assed measures that other countries are going through? I dunno.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/overdose-dea...
SMR is based upon well-known technology that we have spent decades working on and improving. Other than pumped hydro and batteries there is no potential grid-scale energy storage mechanism that exists beyond desktop models and toy pilots.

Battery prices are dropping but the easy low-hanging fruit has been plucked so now the rate of price decline is dropping -- 83% last decade but only 33% predicted over next five years. Production is also a long way off from where it would need to be. There are a couple of GWh plants coming online, but that is still only a fraction of what is needed if battery is going to scale up to handle grid storage.

Lots of hand-waving examples you have there, very little in production. A more likely long-term outcome will be to push the storage burden on to the renewable production plants -- only accept power from a producer at a rate they can provide over the next 24 hours with the grid only needing a small surge capacity built into it to smooth out demand spikes.
UK is polarised by age - a minority of people under the age of 60 voted to leave te eu or voted Tory, yet we are leaving with a massive Tory majority.

Labour’s last leader was magic grandpa boomer. The new one is slightly younger, come the next election he’ll only be in his early 60s.

Lib Dems had a young leader who (aged 39) managed to convert from being second in the June elections (led by a 70+ year old) to losing her seat in December, with a 7 year old and a baby.

There are relatively young leaders - Finland and New Zealand come to mind, but leaders tend to be reflections of the population. When the UK Labour Party was taken over by hundreds of thousands of young socialists via momentum in 2015, they didn’t chose the 45 year old (since christened king of he north), or the 46 year old with teenage kids, or even the 44 year old with no experience.

They chose the OAP career politician.
> Almost nobody chooses a cameraman, truck driver, or supermarket cashier jobs if they actually had a legitimate choice between that and a well paid tech job.

The world beyond a chair in front of a computer is a lot more interesting to most people. I know more than a few in tech who dream of having a job where they get to interact with reality in a more direct way. And I guarantee you if the pay was closer, you'd see a lot more people adjusting their lifestyle and ditching the tech grind.
That's a beautiful, committed, and complete fantasy.
You said that it would be easier for a vendor if it could expect to monopolise its customers.

Whilst that is doubtless true, that does not make anything better for customers.
Last I heard, adding a hardware counter for failed SCs may help work around this on ARM–presumably RISC-V could do the same thing here?
Just a reminder that Microsoft also owns many popular authentication services, including GitHub, LinkedIn and Hotmail/Outlook, not to mention Azure AD.
> The level of skill and automation potential aren't related.

I never claimed they were? I said that when a job is automated away, any that replace it inevitably require a higher skill level. Thus the skill floor rises over time.

> requiring human interaction

That's the key. That's a specific task that we can't (yet) automate.
Any direct evidence that Zoom is giving full access to the NSA now?
Sometimes works well, depending on the structure and content of the PDF. Other times it's hopeless.

Certainly not a general solution. Indeed, there isn't one, because the design of PDF allows far too many things that can't be reliably deciphered back to the source data.

That's why Adobe is throwing all their ML at it, to try and come up with something that guesses near enough right more of the time.
The subnet prefix is a /64. Out of the remaining 64 bits, 16 bits are reserved to be FFFE. The remaining 48 bits used to be your MAC, and with privacy extensions are random.

I don't know how SLAAC works if the gateway's subnet is smaller than a /64. But I doubt any ISP would give you anything smaller than a /64; it'll create problems on their end with no benefit due to larger routing tables (which is the reason NDP exists for routing within a subnet in the first place).

It's not "collide and fix it up later". IIRC NDP is used to check for anything using the new address at the moment, and if it isn't then the device starts using it. NDP is already a core part of IPv6 (it's the only way to route within a subnet) so I don't think you have to worry about perf.
I've seen plenty of posters or whatnot suggesting that constructive (negative) feedback be surrounded by complements.

Yes, it makes it more likely to be heard, but it's also a policy saying everyone here is touchy and thin-skinned.
Building a Homemade Sun [video]
I up vote that. Just like there was real estate investing advice to go and visit 100 units firs and then buy your first one. Now you are talking about serious time investment before doing anything.

I think law of diminishing returns hits after around 20 units, because you still will buy something with issues, there are no units without some kind of issues. The same with going through all those articles. Summary would help or just not going through all of them.
What kind of jobs are those?

In my country, except janitors and people working cafeteria, pretty much any job in healthcare requires some kind of degree (exception is taking care of old folks in private homes, but even those require a substancial amount of staff with some kind of schooling in it)
Neither for FF 81.0.1 on macOS Catalina
Yeah, IDK about the RISC ISAs–they seem to be designed around being architecturally simple (and I guess easy to teach?) but they really don't seem to map back to actual code at all, nor do they seem particularly grounded in hardware design either. (Or sometimes they're too close to the hardware and burn themselves…)
He didn't say anything about other punishment. There are many traditional punishments that have been used for thousands of years, some of which are still in use today. For example, the problem of shoplifting in Saudi Arabia is handled without incarceration. Maybe that is what he prefers.

If there isn't punishment, then nothing stops anybody from getting a group of friends together to dish out punishment. It'd be like Somalia. Eventually, if the group gets big and well-organized, it might be recognized internationally as the legitimate government.
4. will (literally) kill you because your metabolism slows down as you age and you have to choose between obesity and eating much, much less. Exercise helps but will only get you so far.

In my 20s I would eat ~1000 calorie meals with an entire pizza, salad, rich dressing, and a big slab of chocolate fudge cake. I was never slim, but I wasn't obese either.

If I tried that today I'd be breaking the scales in a few months.

Having to cut down on food a lot has been one of the hardest adjustments to make. Quite a few of my friends have never managed it and they're now dangerously beyond a reasonable weight.
These can result in crossness amongst mathematicians: everyone uses them on the blackboard (they are called blackboard-bold after all) but half use them in printed matter and the other half insist on actual bold. Discussions on the matter lead to cold stares and the poking of fingers in the chest.
You've only postponed the inevitable though. Virus is gonna virus - it's not going anywhere, ever. I'm not downplaying. I really hope you've used this time to prepare and didn't just sit on your behind hoping it'd go away.
It is, but it's a bit leaky simply because it's such a late addition. Img tags aren't subject to CORS (you can display images from anywhere). Access to the loaded image data is CORS controlled, but the onload and onerror handlers or the dimensions of the final img tag aren't restricted.

If you know for example the path of the netgear logo on a router, you can try loading it and determine success/failure. Existing CORS isn't strict enough to prevent this, and it's debatable whether it should be
If you look at someone from eye level it is rather hard to mistake their head for a football. You need a certain amount of elevation before it actually starts to look like a sphere.
My comment was based on deaths per capita[0], which in most countries of South America are far higher than Australia and New Zealand.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...
If that suicide prediction was made it must have been early on in the pandemic when no one really what was going to happen. If there was an increase of 4000-7000 that'd mean 2-3 times the ~3,000 suicides that occurred in Australia last year.
It worked for me after reloading and turning off uBlock. Maybe you also need to reload a few times.
Honestly, windows XP is still a better interface than windows 10.
My daughter is jealous of the new life my ex is posting on Instagram
>At least in Victoria, it seems like these predictions were unfounded.

I specifically said Australia, and your claim is incorrect according to the Australian Medical Association which forecasts 750-1,000 additional suicides for 5 years. [1] I can't find my original source for that figure but the AMA source still proves my point.

>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7312512

Belgium did not have a Melbourne-tier lockdown at any stage. Why would it be comparable?

>But the specific points you're making are very dubious and also very recognisable as the effect of consuming specific kinds of media.

Ah yes, "specific kinds of media" like the Australian Medical Association. Those darned far right Murdoch-leaning doctors.

Your own source proves my point in fact. [2]

>"We still think we're going to see, over the course of a 12-month period … and then subsequent years, in the order of 30 per cent increase [in] suicide rates," he said.

30% of 3,048 is 914. 5 years of that is 4,572 additional suicides. I got the 5 years data point from the Australian Medical Association. [1]

[1] https://ama.com.au/media/joint-statement-covid-19-impact-lik...

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-27/no-spike-in-suicide-r...
Not necessarily, it needs to allow trap on failures.
No, I was specifically talking about load time which is instant (compared to the majority of the internet which is not).

Also, as far as hardware is concerned, I am comparing a 14 year gap between a desktop computer of 2001 to a 2015 iPhone 6s - a 5 year old phone that still runs on battery for about 6 hours.

But that has nothing to do with load time and why most websites today can’t load in under 1 second (or even 10 seconds).

I’ve heard many complain about React performance, yet I have seen React with ssr or static rendering perform amazingly well.

My site for example loads as fast as hacker news on first page load, and then faster because of static rendering and pre-fetching, yet it has unlimited interaction.

I imagine if I profiled the performance of this demo, it would be similar.
IF we can and should spread from our solar system, we're going to have to do that, and many many expeditions will have to fail and die. Just like the trillions of our ancestors' competitors that were not fit to survive.

Everything we do is survivorship bias. On Earth we may be the gardeners, but in space we're just the seeds.
Did anyone else ran into read-only or disk full issues after updating iMac to Catalina? Is this related to new volume layout?
CMIIW, undefined only exists on dynamic typed language. You can't access undefined property in static typed, unless using reflection.

So if anything, you should not set something as undefined, but you can update something as null.
I didn't have time before to go through your case study. But after looking at it for a bit, it doesn't look that much different from the mvc example I linked.

It seems that you are leveraging the built-in event system for observers and using the dom for referencing your components. Personally, I don't feel that mvc for the web is inventing a whole lot more, just patterns and some utilities.

Having events that bubble from the child component up to the app component is an interesting approach. It simplifies the code by not having to pass controllers into views, but makes the child components less reusable in other contexts.

Btw, this structure also reminds me of backbone(1) and that riotjs 1kb blog post from ages ago(2).

I love the effort and thank you for making it.

(1) https://backbonejs.org/#View

(2) https://muut.com/blog/technology/riotjs-the-1kb-mvp-framewor....
More like the PLA
https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/
Exactly that is mentioned in the article.
Make professional profile pics from any photo
Hey everyone, we've spent the last few weeks bootstrapping our new web app that helps anyone create an awesome profile pic with AI. It is completely free and is finally live

Studies show that having a good profile picture increases the chances of receiving a message by 36x and profile views by 14x while a lot of people still overlook this!

We thought that there MUST be a tool like PFPMaker but couldn't find it... aaand we have made one ourselves :)
There are mini XLR connectors too. I've seen them used in devices like wireless microphone transmitters.
If you assign copyright to the other entity (the hypothetical under consideration) they have no obligation to follow the GPL and release sources for their later proprietary additions.
I realised I should have added that. It's 3am DST, so it is a bit easier for me now that time changed.
Anatomy of an Email
> You've only postponed the inevitable though.

You mean "only" given most people another year or two with their elderly?
... that's not at all how copyright law or the AGPL works.

I think you accidentally read some old Microsoft or new Google propaganda somewhere.
Had never asked myself the question - how does Gmail know which emails belong to the same thread. I just assumed it happened automatically. Thanks for writing this!
For anyone confused like me, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-link/store-conditional
I had the issue, was related to how APFS keeps deleted data around until it's forced to flush it. It didn't flush it... Had to do a full reinstall to get rid of the issue.
7GUIs
It's not going away, we are actively getting rid of it.
I went to Joderell bank (before covid) with my kids, Id been there myself as a kid a few times in the early 90s.

We saw the display on exoplanets - it has a counter of the thousands that had been discovered. When I was my kids age that counter was on zero, it’s amazing how much has been done in 30 years.
I remember IBM donated ( or released ) an OpenPOWER 14nm CPU design ( with 7nm design coming in a few years time ). I wonder how far are we from having CoreBoot, mostly opened hardware Router and Appliances.
This is a ridiculous comparison. There are around 500 NBA players during a given season. Amazon alone just passed one million workers. You're going to have odd results if your sample size of society is absurdly tiny.

Also, going straight to comparisons of athletic ability and ethnicity is basically a hundred year old argument made by people you probably don't want to associate with.
Counterforce is a strategy for pre-emptive nuclear strike aka starting a nuclear war when retaliation could occur during transit. Even at the peak of our nuclear capacity we had zero ability to prevent retaliation or a first strike. Thus MAD was the still the core defensive strategy.

At best it was a fig leaf enabling ~10 Trillion dollars in pork spending, but counterforce was hardly a useful military doctrine.
How can they do it?
What are the arguments against?
Undefined occurs for example when you don’t pass a parameter, or when a function doesn’t return a value (but you read/store it anyway). Null comes for example from JSON, from nullable SQL columns, and it is passed explicitly to say „this value is empty“ very commonly in libraries.
It definitely takes up a good chunk of time, but it's worth it! It's not that bad once you learn the keyboard shortcuts.

I thought about going the "declarative / adhoc tool" way but I make lots of different diagram types, so I would probably spend forever bikeshedding it instead of writing the actual article.
I think it's somewhat easier to accomplish that when both countries are islands and the majority of incoming traffic is by air.
Applying Theory of Constraints to the software delivery pipeline
Could it be because of some patents that made it impossible to do it properly?
Sounds like Boston. The roads are torn up on a perpetual basis and made worse. These are what I call “brother in law contracts”
Consider that FB's business is advertising, not groups. Attempts to unbundle that have failed because they can't sustain themselves. FB and google just gatekeep too much of the advertising pie. Things like substack attempt to use alternative models, but that is limited imho, their market size is not that big. If someone could unbundle advertising, we already have had the unbundled version of FB groups before: forums, communities etc.
Awesome, the UX is beautiful.

I’ve got a couple Saas ideas for building as side projects but as the common startup advice goes - I need to validate the idea first. Would you like to share how did you validate the idea, or was it a project for a customer which was later productised? thanks!
Personally, I think the biggest factor is a primarily sedentary lifestyle, which could be the exacerbating factor that multiplies the negative effects of sugar and saturated fats intake.

We're spending more collective time as a society sitting on our butts than ever before, so many people drive everywhere instead of walking or riding a bike. We can get everything delivered to our homes instead of having to go to a store, walk around and pick it out ourselves. So much more happens purely online now, even something as simple as going to the corner store to rent a movie is a thing of the past.

All of these things used to add up to at least some physical exercise. Perhaps not ideal amounts, but it got people moving at least. Obviously this is not universal, a lot of people still do get their movement and fresh air, but my thinking is that it's less than ever before, combined with access to high-calorie food that is also easier than ever before.

So in that sense, physical activity, or the lack of it, is the force multiplier in regards to one's diet. I try to get at least 30 minutes of some sort of activity in every day, and preferably more. Just a walk outside or cleaning the apartment or doing a project. Most days I walk to the stores to shop, as a conscious choice to get my physical activity covered.
The spiral bound manual for Red Baron was great, learned a lot of of WW1 history from it
Platform native UI conventions are very often sub-optimal, if only because they're old. But sub-optimal standards are very often preferable to unpredictable

The reason that junk like flat design and derivatives like Material Design are awful for usability has nothing to do with being old and everything to do with being unpredictable. Often, a user literally can't tell what parts of an interface are interactive or how they work, because affordances barely exist. It's like the old mystery meat navigation meme for web sites, except they actually did it seriously and thought it was good.

But it still sounds like you're using worthless methodology by focusing only on your one app at a time and ignoring how it fits into its environment and the user's broader workflow. Is that correct, or have you actually quantified the overall productivity loss an app introduces by violating the user's expectations and habits?

Well, firstly, a testing methodology is literally the opposite of worthless if it gives you an objective measure of the increased financial value generated by a change under consideration.

Secondly, you assert without evidence that the kind of change we're talking about does violate the user's expectations and habits, and you further imply that this causes a loss of productivity. As I have argued in earlier comments, the assumption that the user's expectations are governed primarily by their native platform's conventions is not necessarily valid any more, because users spend so much of their time inside a browser using online facilities instead of other native applications.

Moreover, the answer to your other question is yes, we have done many tests over the years that compared options including the native approach on various platforms with some other options we were considering. In the nature of such tests, the outcomes varied. In some cases, we did end up going with presentation similar to the native conventions on one or more platforms; often this coincided with cases where the native conventions across major platforms were similar as well. In other cases, we went with a completely different presentation style, as performance with the native conventions was significantly worse.

The point of all of this is still that ideally you don't want to make UI decisions based on assumptions or dogma if you could try different possibilities with real users and make your decisions based on objective evidence instead.
How good are you at creating fake news (Get Bad News)
> I remember hearing that same talk in the 1990's: you don't want linked lists: think of the pointer chasing and cache misses, and the storage overhead for the pointers that wastes your precious little cache space (8K in an 80486).

in a 2020 machine with a normal workload I have yet to see a list outperform a contiguous array outside of pathological cases

> The point of ropes is to handle very long strings. Scanning a long string, many kilobytes or even megabytes long

I mean, my 2016 CPU has 20 megabytes of L3 cache, you can fit a fair amount of text in that, likely more than 99.9% of average text editor usage