skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar in some ways, but also very different. HIV/AIDS had a much higher mortality.

Covid-19 is interesting in that it's on the margin for death rates, and its long-term health effects are more varied and subtle than those for, say, polio.
I'm not disagreeing with you on the good calories, bad calories concept. Simply that calories in/out is, when applied as a chronic deficiency, effective at reducing weight over long periods of time. No, you should not eat 750 calories of cupcakes and cupcakes alone.
> I'd love to know what world you live in. Software development is nothing but a huge heap of limiting trade-offs based on limitation of all kinds. Money, time, quality, reusability, maintainability, and many more. I'm ready to bet there is no other job out there that is as complex and bound by so many parameters than software development. Maybe hardware development but I put them into the same category personally.

Theoretical physics?

Car manufacturing?

Rocket building?

Some other forms of engineering?

Just brainstorming, I have no clue. What do you think?
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He's not wrong. Look further down thread, you can find people pointing out examples of domains where there is a dearth of software, and a definite need to keep writing it. All due respect to the expertise shown in articles posted on HN (it's part of the reason I keep coming back), but the Dunning-Kruger effect hits hard. As Einstein put it, "the horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view."
That's a different argument that what most people in the thread are making and in my opinion, a reasonable one.
You report the unauthorized card charges to the credit card company. They credit your account and investigate. You get a new card. It takes a few minutes. That’s how it works with all credit cards and merchants in the US. It’s not the merchant’s responsibility to investigate misuse or fraud, or to “care for your well-being.”
I'm not arguing doing anything more than letting it play out and reporting accurately on what's going on. You seem to think we shouldn't be discussing it as such. I think it's important to talk about what they're doing, because it's poisonous to our democracy.
Sure, and that's pretty much exactly why Angular seems to refuse to commit. The EventEmitter in Angular's core is a really odd BehaviorSubject duck, and it shows. That says everything about their commitment to RxJS purity, and that behavior "from the top" leads to how much Angular pushes everyone to want to abuse BehaviorSubject, to do a lot of bad RxJS and never learn to do it right, because it's that rotten to the core. That impression that RxJS is too difficult for mortals becomes the self-fulfilling prophecy that Angular is right not to do RxJS right or commit to it, because it makes doing RxJS right in Angular harder.

Half the component examples I see in the wild use RxJS wrong or badly, and of course that stuff gets copied and pasted everywhere.

I've already sent patches to at least a few documentation examples that are supposed to be "best practice" that failed to actually live up to best practices because Angular failed them in setting a good example to live by.

Angular has created the worst of both worlds that makes RxJS harder than it should be by failing to use it properly (providing too many bad habit escape hatches and failing to commit to it), but also making it almost impossible to avoid and subsequently polluting the entire ecosystem with bad examples, worse documentation, and terrible habits (all of which goes right back up to the top and terrible design decisions such as Angular core's EventEmitter).

If Angular committed to being an AOT change detection only system it would probably be much more like Svelte. If Angular committed fully to RxJS it would be something different entirely [0] and maybe sure it would be harder for a lot of devs to grasp at first, but instead of the pit of failure that currently awaits devs trying to learn RxJS in place in Angular, maybe they'd have a pit of success that a lot more devs would learn RxJS given a safe place to do it with fewer papercuts and bad examples to learn from.

[0] It probably wouldn't be CycleJS either, as they'd still probably avoid Virtual DOM techniques. This thread has me picturing what you could do with a compile-time template Observable pipeline and I'm almost curious enough now to build a prototype of it just to show Angular how dumb it is and what it could be.
Their presence is in itself counterprotest if you're able to figure out they're right-wing in the first place. I'm not sure what type of arbitrary behaviour you're looking for here.
yep, it looks to be the case. Actually I was fully on board with the whole static typing and compiler stuff until I opened up a React project and saw all of the benefits being touted are already there. All variables in the view are already referenced from TS/JS so you don't need any additional tooling. I suppose when TS started supporting JSX/TSX it was no longer a problem
Wow, this guy has a whole conglomerate of hype companies.[1] Things he was hyping in 2012:

- Dean Kamen’s "Slingshot," a technology which can transform polluted water, salt water or even raw sewage into incredibly high-quality drinking water for less than one cent a liter.

Units actually cost hundreds of thousands of dollars at first. They became somewhat cheaper, but never cost-effective. Coca-Cola bought about 150 of them so they could clean up local water for use in beverage dispensers.

- Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE which promises a low-cost, handheld medical device that allows anyone to diagnose themselves better than a board certified doctor.

That turned into a wearable vital signs monitor for people recovering from surgery.[3]

- Dickson Despommier’s "vertical farms"

Other than for very high value crops, this seems to be going nowhere.

[1] https://www.diamandis.com/

[2] https://www.diamandis.com/abundance

[3] https://wefunder.com/updates/114506-vitaliti-makes-a-differe...
Is it? For few things yes (OpenGL or 32-bit depreciation); other things are simply not found in the new releases (Kerberos Ticket Viewer, TWAIN). Then there's a middle ground, where there is a window of few months to make significant architectural changes to your product (see VPNs and personal firewalls).

So excuse me, I'm going to look for a new release of Cisco VPN that works with Big Sur. Of course, it is customer's VPN, and they don't care that their vendors might use Mac, so no help from them, it is my problem now.
This is largely achievable, http://songseed.org/post/20201113.aa.simple.launch.menu.html
I always have complaints about my Linux system, until I realize that my Windows colleagues do the same. It shit here, shit there, shit anywhere I imagine. I personally had good luck so far, each of my machines worked well with Linux out of the box, and I have to realize that I had around the same amount of issues as I did in my Windows days.
It's astounding that a supposedly free country won't even allow Apple to tell us how many illegal and unconstitutional warrantless data seizures the US government has compelled them to comply with.

Abridging the 4th amendment rights of users wasn't enough: they had to abridge Apple's 1st amendment rights to even say how many times it happened.

These are the people who voted to suspend the constitution and due process in the USA:

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/115-2018/s12
Disclaimer: I haven't read the article.

My understanding is sometimes companies fudge the numbers though. If a $40 order has a $5 discount, they might consider $40 as revenue and put the $5 discount under a marketing expense
Oh cool, that's way worse than I thought it'd be in 2015. No doubt it's gotten way worse since then.
Assuming the data is available, we should prefer to normalize by # of active customers rather than population. The average German consumer is more likely to buy an Apple device than, say, the average Mexican consumer.
Workers actually can run WebAssembly [1], so any language which can target WASM works. I think the rust toolchain is best supported, but there's a fun example with Haskell [2].

[1] - https://blog.cloudflare.com/webassembly-on-cloudflare-worker...

[2] - https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-worker-with-webassemb...
I think with an automatic you will need to always keep the electric motor running in order to keep the hydraulic fluids pumping. So to me it seems that the worst is an automatic transmission. With a manual, you get a way to play around with torque levels which I suppose can be fun, as another commenter here mentioned you can probably just take off in 3rd and leave it there.
Now, be nice.

I live in a very, very real world. I suspect that it may even be the same world that you live in.

It was really a rhetorical exercise. Of course there's all kinds of constraints and whatnot, but, in my case, I started as an EE, working at a company that made fairly advanced microwave equipment, and, there, the laws of physics made it quite difficult to do what we wanted.

Software was like walking out of a tunnel, into a sunlit field. I could go in any direction I wanted.

It really is quite amusing how we like to sling aspersions at each other. I'm not here to compete with anyone. In fact, I find the fact that so many people are so much better at stuff than I am, to be quite comforting.

I love learning.

> but once you do something with impact that is used extensively to help people

You have no idea...
Here's a few places you could try: /r/retrobattlestations on reddit, @foone and associated accounts on Twitter, archive.org (they have a lot of old equipment to aid in preservation and restoration), or Electronic Arts Intermix (https://www.eai.org/about-eai-faq/) which is an arts organization with a focus on media preservation.
Yes, you're right, I was clinically obese. (I'm also 6'2 - 50lb lost at that height is very different from someone of average height)

But thanks for that clarification :)
Been wondering if "free market economy" still works the way we expect when other nations might not share the same core principles in governance ... checks & balances ... etc
One could argue that the electoral college (and in the past, Senators elected by state legislatures) was intended to be a circuit breaker or hurdle to prevent grossly unqualified candidates from reaching office. I challenge you to find a candidate that was less qualified and more dangerous than Trump.
Fair criticisms but it's not like Fast UI Draw is any different on any of those. Unless you're calling its API stable because the library has been abandoned, but in that case you could also just never update your copy of Skia, too.
This is a red herring and a non-sequitur.
>an iOS Time Capsule would surely be a great product

or just use itunes backup?
Things related to shopping and widespread embedding of chips/networking are very much already coming in. Having an Alexa-alike in common toys is probably only a few years out.

The high end medical therapies are probably also going to be a thing.

The more funky computing-shell and AI predictions are a flop IMO.

The smart home is pretty dumb. Cameras, lights, roomba, lawnmower, watering. It's not smart. It's a cron job OR'd with voice recognition. It's an automated home - useful in its own right, but let's not hype it inappropriately.
Anybody can label anybody as a terrorist group. I’m not sure that says anything useful. The shooting does count though, as far as I know.
"And if there are legitimate problems to be found, they will be, the coalition declared. Its statement said that all of the states with close results have paper records, which allow for the recounting of each ballot, if necessary, and for “the identification and correction of any mistakes or errors. ... Right now, across the country, election officials are reviewing and double checking the entire election process prior to finalizing the result.”
Canada: 24 device requests

Canada Population: 37M

Australia: 1694 device requests (~70x)

Australia Population: 25M

Why such a big difference between both of these safe countries? The crime rates are pretty similar, Australia definitely doesn't have 70x more crime than Canada, and there aren't simply way more iPhones in Australia. Very different police/prosecuting strategies I guess.
>(11) The insurance industry transforms from “recovery after risk” to “prevention of risk:”... health insurance (which is really sick insurance) pays only after you get sick.

In the US, health insurance plans will almost always have prevention measures. They give discounts for annual wellness screenings, they arrange transportation to checkups, they pay for cancer screening.

But health insurance is an oddity among insurance types. I don't use my fire insurance to pay for routine things. The fire insurance company can do pretty well playing the odds of disasters. But my health insurer also has to pay for the boring stuff like lifelong medications and annual checkups. So they need to drive down the risk of an emergency enough to still be profitable.

Also, the government really pushes prevention. Hard to say no to the entity with the biggest sticks and tastiest carrots.
> They still made choices to get in close contact with people who did go to the party, without having vetted them sufficiently.

Please, read the article.

Neither the residents of the long-term care facility nor the inmates at the jail are likely to have had any meaningful ability to vet their contacts.
Agreed, this was a great book. One element it traces is the evolution of neon sign design in Vegas. Many casinos were essentially designed around their signs, which often dwarfed the buildings.
It's intimidating to be walking around with guns drawn. That's what I'm trying to get at.
The world outside of Linux has moved on from people needing experts to set up computers.

Today we just tell auntie to buy an iPad.
I wrote about GOP/Fox news because to me it was clear who was trying to demonize whom. A commenter even said Obama seemed obsessed with his legacy, and he wanted that legacy to be that he was who brought the country back together, so he was very willing to compromise with the GOP, who in turn would take the compromised bill/etc and call it extremistic and vote it down.

I think your conclusions are still wrong, and you're calling people who criticize them "looking for enemies" to protect your fragile ego.
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Because we live in an imperfect world and it takes time for public opinion to adapt to change.

Also, we do have BAC limits for driving, and public intoxication prohibitions.
Not surprising.
Our Agency to protect Computers and such will also soonish be forced to buy or code 0-days for iPhone et al data extraction.
Denying that you have made a mistake is likely to piss off the people who would otherwise be willing to move on. As the "mob", which may or may not exist in any given situation, is not going to be swayed by protests of innocence, the former are the only people you should care about.
That, and Google's products are all data mines, so the Google stuff is probably much juicier.
They definitely will, but I think it's always worth keeping in mind before firing off a "how to be more clever than your computer/OS manufacturer" piece.
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The world needs less optimism and idealism. They lead to disappointment, burnout, and bitterness. In healthcare doctors-to-be now often receive training and education that encourages thinking in terms of small victories and approaching treatment from a palliative care perspective, specifically when doing certain rotations. The more you expect a cure or a triumph or the achievement of some utopian fantasy, the faster you will exit many specialties.
I wish the industry was art/craft oriented. I cannot count the amount of wounds I got due to the business mindset.
See also the Slate Star Codex book review: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/24/book-review-red-plenty...
It was super frustrating until I got used to the Linux way of handling, and then the other system was the weird one. Companies don't mind this effect at all I think, it increases their retention.
Beta invites are definitely flowing now, but I'd recommend pinging someone on Twitter or elsewhere with a quick description of what you're going to build. I think they had so many signups they're worried about opening the floodgates, but on a case-by-case basis there's plenty of room. Maybe?
This is one of the better poker game UIs I've seen. I also like the chat/handlog, looks great.
Don't you think Uber giving out peoples contact information like that would be a gross violation of riders privacy? If the driver wants they can ask the rider for their contact info (although I would find that kinda creepy).
The facility employees should never go to work with Covid-19 symptoms, including “fever, chills, cough, myalgia, runny nose, and headache”, regardless of the wedding.
This is why I am, for once, glad for the massive ewaste disaster that is old cell phones.

They are perfect for protests. If you are not coordinating or worried about realtime Twitter, but instead documenting, you don't even need a cheapo prepaid SIM.

Wipe them first, and don't leave them anything other than pictures of their own abusive behavior for them to find, unless you'd also like to gift them a copy of the Constitution or perhaps some personal musings on the role of policing in modern culture.
Computational complexity was one of 6 reasons the author listed at why the optimization problem was infeasible. I read the article in its entirety, and I saw a claim that the number of calculations scaled in polynomial time, but I didn't see any claims of problems that are verifiable in polynomial time with no known polynomial time solutions.

Then there's the other 5 criteria, which show that this is not a computer science problem. Coming up with an objective function is entirely a subjective matter. It depends entirely on what the ruling party wants. Communist countries don't act to the benefit of all, they act to the benefit of the chosen few, just those few are chosen differently.
Can you imagine a world made better with more software? I can. We should continue.
It's a cool idea that a car could be autonomous without a thorough definition of the landscape. It makes sense that programmers expect a "controllable" environment, which is why having a 41 TB file of map data and mailbox locations is tempting, but the writer is correct in saying we likely will not need all that. Plus, imagine if a tree falls, or there is a storm, the car better be able to avoid new hazards.
But that's not enough. Since a person can be infected without having any symptoms, they can operate as a vector and infect the nursing home residents -- all without violating the policy.
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That graph is only as good as the "contribution profit" metric, which is basically a thing made up by DoorDash to make the financials look better. It is not "profitable" in any standard metric.

Look at how many things are excluded in contribution profits:

"We define Contribution Profit (Loss) as our gross profit (loss) less sales and marketing expense plus (i) depreciation and amortization expense related to cost of revenue, (ii) stock-based compensation expense included in cost of revenue and sales and marketing expenses, and (iii) allocated overhead included in cost of revenue and sales and marketing expenses. "

So basically if you don't count any indirect COGS, you don't count the RSUs you're paying the engineers and you don't count the capitalized costs of your infrastructure, you can eek out an operating profit. In my view, that's not a "profit."
Yes, use per-user domains to make sure that things like localStorage, which is domain-associated, is not leaked from one script to another.
Is there room for a position of liking wearing a mask, liking other people wearing a mask, but also supporting people's personal choice to not wear one..?

Surely obvious, but there are people who will think that you make bad personal choices and need to make better ones. If those people also wield extraordinary power, well, it becomes less fun to find yourself suddenly having wrongthink.
All solid advice.

I would add:

If this mistake happens in the business context, commit to a root cause analysis, perform such with all involved parties and stakeholders, use a methodology such as Toyota’s Five Whys, identify areas for improvement, share your report, and resolve issues in a timely manner.

The above will not only improve your processes so failures are less likely, it will also demonstrate a commitment to quality and improvement to all observers.
How close to the current shoreline was the location? As in Scandinavia, the land rise is quite significant in places, it would be interesting to know.
> No pesky laws of physics.

Unfortunately many software projects seem to be limited more by pesky psychology, and while natural laws are reasonably universal and consistent, the diversityof human insanity/stupidity is incredible
The Israel-Palestine wars of that time were quite something and probably deterred a good amount of people who could have produced suitable content. The conflict was handled ineptly and way too late. No surprise that many academics still won't go near Wikipedia, especially in areas involving geopolitical conflicts.
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you're going to need software for devices and gadgets that you can't even imagine yet, it's not going anywhere anytime soon
Thank you for that book recommendation. Over the last year or two, I have independently started to piece together many of the things Reinertsen has collected in that book. Except, of course, Reinertsen has done a much more thorough job and the book points out some glaring holes in my understanding of the topic. I suspect this will be one I'll devour over the next few days.

Brilliant stuff. Thanks again.
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Not surprising at all.

Contrary to what most people I know think, I think Xi Jinping and company are really scared. And the more scared they are, the more authoritarian they become.

They are afraid of Taiwan because Taiwan is the living example that China can prosper without the CCP.

They are afraid of Hong Kong because it's an example of resistance to the regime.

They are afraid of religions because no matter how much you punish someone, you won't be able to make them worship you instead.

They are afraid of wealthy people because they can taste freedom and they can vision a China without the CCP.

And so on...
It has nothing to do with absolutism, we are talking about basic human rights for privacy, massively disrespected recently. That fact though doesn't make them less valueable, relevant or required for the free society to function.

May be for you it's not even crazy to regulate what kind of paper person uses for own notes because who knows, may be he will bring those notes to the public one day. But for me this communist and totalitarian way of disrespect to personal rights and freedoms is crossing the red line. I've been in such situations and I saw in person the results of such disrespect therefore I think those who are willing to attack personal freedoms should learn some history and shouldn't be surprised about what people can do to protect their freedoms when words do not work.