skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not everyone within earshot of your roof is "the general public". It matters to people on lower-bandwidth connections. It matters in terms of carbon footprints.

And just as someone who grew up horrified if individual pages got over 100kb (or whatever the company rule was), the idea of not caring at all about "page" weight is how my old company wound up passing 20+ megs of JSON around just because it was a little easier.
Content Restart
hey ho, hey ho, adblock push my dinghy boat.
And this unity destroyed them because one set of rules for all groups just doesn't work, ever. So now the forums move there, then lose all content as the people actually involved get pushed out of reddit by increasing gentrification and facebookization.
Apple, ARM and Open Platforms
Looked at one record as an example and sure enough, the same meeting ID and password is found in 709 different cases in Cleveland, OH.
Similarly, in Australia ABC kids (live and streaming on iView) has more content than any kid could ever consume in a lifetime.
If you don't want to watch ads you can always do something else. There's no shortage of things to do, and YouTube need not be high on your list.
It should be something like 100kb compressed, not 1MB uncompressed
When I worked as a publisher AMP pages were slower to render than our web pages, though faster with the head start Google gives them.

Google could introduce rewards for fast web pages too, but chose not to.
How about this, then. From https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-hidden-long-term-cog... :

> There is one inevitable conclusion from these studies: COVID infection frequently leads to brain damage — particularly in those over 70. While sometimes the brain damage is obvious and leads to major cognitive impairment, more frequently the damage is mild, leading to difficulties with sustained attention.

> Although many people who have recovered from COVID can resume their daily lives without difficulty — even if they have some deficits in attention — there are a number of people who may experience difficulty now or later. One recently published paper from a group of German and American doctors concluded that the combination of direct effects of the virus, systemic inflammation, strokes, and damage to bodily organs (like lungs and liver) could even make COVID survivors at high risk for Alzheimer’s disease in the future. Individuals whose professions involve medical care, legal advice, financial planning, or leadership — including political leaders — may need to be carefully evaluated with formal neuropsychological testing, including measures of sustained attention, to assure that their cognition has not been compromised.

I think brain damage counts as "long-term damage," don't you?
I've never seen that on HN. Reddit intentionally changed their website to prevent you from seeing comments after a couple replies without logging in.
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>"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
>"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
>"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
>"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the >wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"

This view isn't new, right now half the US is celebrating that we have elected a career politician because he is better then the millionaire that was previously elected...

People in the streets are angry because the media is telling them to be angry. How many riots and demonstrations occurred after Snowden revealed that the government was breaking the law and spying on it's citizens? Or when the telecom companies were given retroactive immunity for doing so?
Is it productivity, or is the work to mine new "knowledge coins" just harder now that we've done some of the easier work?
>I feel like Reddit has replaced many niche forums

It assuredly has, but I think we're just now leaving the honeymoon phase where we are realizing that consolidating everything into Reddit hasn't actually improved the communities.

I think/hope that in the next 10 years we will see a quiet resurgence of niche communities again. In fact I think we're already seeing that with Discord.
How do you explain that this forum format is becoming less and less common if it's superior in your book?
Taiwanese healthcare workers needed masks too. You know what the government there advised? Everyone should be masked.

Taiwan: 609 cases (7 deaths)

US: 12 million cases (250k deaths)

Their metro stayed open while we're telling people to not go sit in the park.

Taiwan was hit earlier, Taiwan is closer and denser, Taiwan has many travelers to and from Mainland China. There was one right answer. None of this "they were trying to avoid" shit. They just solved the problem. This is the sort of thing it's not good enough to try. You have to be good enough to do it. Clearly what we did is we put a bunch of Pee Wee Leaguers in the MLB and we got the socks knocked out of us. The lesson isn't "they tried". The lesson is "next time, get the A players".

The one thing that this has taught us is that the Anna Karenina Principle applies pretty well to national organizations. All the guys who did well did it the same way. Everyone who sucked, sucked in their own way.
This is one of the things I love about Mathematica, it has a lot of documentation about every keyword and function that you can open with F1.
Of course I could, but why should I? Ad blockers work fine.
https://www.courtlistener.com has more useful features and is part of the Free Law Project.
That is true in many situations, like a remote server. That's why we have top on the commandline, or iStat Menus. But I'm not sure if iStat Menus actually works on the new machines.

https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
You may also be interested in a simple tool I'm building that works in concert with source control to store, version, and reproduce large data: https://github.com/kevin-hanselman/dud

My project is in its infancy (open-sourced less than a month ago), but I'm pleased with its UX thus far. There's lots to add in terms of documentation, but Dud currently uses Rclone[1] for remote syncing.

[1]: https://rclone.org/
People are upset that YouTube is charging a hosting fee? Just put your video someplace else. They aren't a monopoly and if people talk with their "feet" then YT will try something else.
> Tree-style comments are not the best format for every type of discussion.

I've found that they work well for discussions where there are several subtopics. Under what scenerio would this format not be considered the best format?
I spend a lot of money on music - a lot more per year than a Spotify subscription - and none of it goes to people like Kanye West. I really like that.

I also like not paying Spotify. I resent them for giving people the idea that 10 bucks per month is all you should pay for having access to all the world's music. They're a bad company.
>A bit melodramatic

It might seem so, but I'd say it's accurate, for exmaple:

“Their last dying words are, ‘This can’t be happening. It’s not real,’” Doering said, adding that some patients prefer to believe that they have pneumonia or other diseases rather than covid-19, despite seeing their positive test results.[1]

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/11/16/south-dakot...
I had a very similar experience during undergrad. I loved most of my classes through Linear Algebra but developing proofs felt like trying to learn a new language. Unfortunately, it never really clicked for me.

I'd love to know how to develop an intuition for writing proofs from scratch.
You have a typo ($1) and the income requirement isn't really expressed clearly - It's $200k for individuals or $300k joint income with a spouse. Also it's that limit for 2 previous years, with a "reasonable expectation" for the current year.
No. The brain is an organ, not a span of time.
Primary discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25151342
There is a problem I’ve wrestled with at pretty much every webapp job I’ve had.

People decide it’s more economical to add more stuff to existing pages than it is to introduce a new page. As time progresses the number of pages goes up logarithmic to the amount of functionality.

This hits on two fronts. One is pressure from the non technical people, who want the cost of new stuff to be O(1). “This is so simple. Why do you have to make it a big deal?” Makes sense the first time. Makes no sense at all the 58th time.

The other one is that we don’t have an easy way to carve up functionality and move it around efficiently. Webpack and friends try to solve this problem, but it leaves a lot to be desired. It’s easier logistically to have the same giant couple of JS bundles where almost every bit of logic is available everywhere. Which makes it more tempting to expose all functionality everywhere.

I discovered at one point that the quite effective strategy I used for maintaining mature wikis is essentially applying the B-Tree algorithm by hand, with depth weighted by recency (eventually all outdated documentation is relegated to the leaves, or updated in order to avoid relegation).

I have a hunch you could do much the same for websites, but I haven’t worked out how to do it in a spirit of refactoring (stability is the first word, but progress has the final say).

There’s a related issue with Conway’s law, where the links on the main page or in the footer are always proportional to the number of divisions in the organization, and the number of initiatives currently in progress or recently finished. This vastly increases the decision tree even when you avoid having a giant landing page. I’ve only seen one solution to this and that is to treat these links as what they are: ads. Ads are either short lived or get rotated frequently to avoid overwhelming the audience.
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Sweden basically did a lockdown - it just wasn't state-mandated.

If you look at the mobility data [1], you'll see that Sweden followed a very similar trend to its neighbors, and actually maintained lower mobility after other state-mandated lockdowns let up.

[1] https://www.teliacompany.com/sv/om-foretaget/uppdatering/mob...
From what I have seen it is actually of the same order or sometimes more. In one of the region/zone we add few hundreds hosts every week but that is after telling them we plan to upscale this in this region upto some big X number.
China Uses Microwave Weapons Against India to Retake Mountain
Agreed. 1MB seems more reasonable as a per-site threshold. Or, alternatively, somewhere between 10kB and 100kB as a per-page threshold.

For context, 1MB is the same order of magnitude as the original Doom which was about 2.4MB in size. [1]

[1]: https://www.wired.com/2016/04/average-webpage-now-size-origi...
I've noted CourtListener on the info page:
https://www.judyrecords.com/info

"PACER notwithstanding, CourtListener is the most powerful case law research tool available online — and in many ways is much more powerful."

This is based on CourtListener's 4 million+ written court opinions, which judyrecords has recently integrated. But you're right, CourtListener has more case law research features.
Right, not saying anything about your situation or pretending to know the details. But the phrasing was reminding me of people I have been close to who take antipsychotics. Medication compliance is a huge issue with those, a good doctor will be extremely cautious.
2016 had a few more viable 3rd party candidates that did particularly well in certain areas (like McMullin in Utah)
what these numbers and the media and your average joe terrified of dying seem to miss is something thats qualitative, not quantitative: quality of life. length of life could be enhanced for many, safe and securely shackled to a bed in a quasi-coma with a feeding tube down your throat. such a person may very well ask to die. it pains me to see ederly and terminally ill people saying goodbye to loved ones on zoom connections. to me, that is a crime against humanity, in the name of safety and security. there are others. we are in a difficult place, to be sure, but how we live matters. but nobody talks about this very basic concept without fear of being labelled a "covidiot".
>It would still require moving parts though (unless it's only used as a ramjet), since a jet engine has to compress the air before heating it.

You could use a tesla valve for an electric pulse jet, that would make for no moving parts.
I wonder if YouTube is getting too big for Google to handle or not. I pay for YouTube premium but find YouTube slow and buggy most of time. YouTube's latest app often break existing functionality. And all features of YouTube premium are available in other free YouTube apps too where you pay nothing.

I pay for YouTube premium because it's only 120₹(2$) in my country and I like to spend a lot of time on YouTube, a lot more than Twitch or Netflix or any other streaming app.

As such I am in favour of this move it it means that YouTube will perform better but I am not sure anymore.
The Algorithm Design Manual 3rd edition (2020)
Information overload helps fake news spread
This does happen but I think the reason for that is that Reddit's effective SSO across forums means that there is much easier access to niche communities which means that the mops take over the geeks quite easily.

Reddit is pretty good about letting arbitrary rules prevail so I don't think it's the unification of rules.
Is YouTube profitable yet? They now have those ads. Lots of them. Youtube Premium and YT music.
Spot the sniper in these photos (2014)
Formula that gives rate of transition from one state to a set of many other states, as function of perturbation strength and density of final states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%27s_golden_rule
Those upper division math classes are pretty painful regardless. The material is just innately hard in a way that's dissimilar to most other hard things.
> The rural-urban divide comes down to the understanding that death is the price for life, which has vanished in the urban millieu, but it's still visceral to those living closer to nature and its ubiquitous birth-life-death cycle.

This is a thought provoking viewpoint that could be explored better.

Beyond that though, the point of the first paragraph seems to be that "everybody is going to get it... those that will die will die". I disagree.

You anticipate one of the most concrete rebuttals to the first paragraph, vaccines, and then proceed to argue that vaccines are bad because they disrupt natural selection. This is an absurd argument. Are you opposed to children's hospitals because they disrupt natural selection? Your rebuttal is not relevant. What you have argued is a small and theoretical downside to vaccines, but it is not a rebuttal. Vaccines have completely eliminated multiple diseases. They will help with Covid and save lives, and the fact that they have a small downside by disrupting natural selection does not change the fact that they will help and save lives.

You only address vaccines while ignoring other counterpoints: I live in an area where our hospitals are at capacity. There are dozens (dozens!) of ICU bed available for millions of people. Only a couple dozen ICU beds for the entire state, and these beds need to serve not only the worst Covid cases but all other patients who have had heart attacks or any other health issues. I strongly disagree that "those that will die will die", but instead say that "those that don't have to die will die" if we don't wear masks and follow community guidelines.

You then close by asking for more charity. After having said "everybody is going to get it... those that will die will die... life goes on" you ask for others to have more charity...
Sure, but maybe there aren't many rare meteorite identification and pricing resources in Indonesian or the Malay-dialect he speaks? Or maybe his phone was out of data for the month? Personally I'm not sure I'd be able to identify a meteorite that fell on my house by googling it, I'd likely need to find an appraiser, which I'm assuming is much easier here in NYC than a village in North Sumatra. Clearly he wasn't aware of its worth if he sold it for $16k and it got flipped for $1+ million.

This coincidentally came in to my inbox two hours ago, which encapsulates my thought: "We cannot succeed if we only pursue our own success and prosperity, and not the well-being of others." - Thich Nhat Hanh
Ask HN: What's your personal blog link?
No not your side project or your business' blog!

I'm looking to build up a few more interesting folks in my RSS reader so looking for opinion-based content rather than tech tutorials or whatever we're all seeding our blogs' SEO with these days.

What ye got and why's it interesting? :)
Equal access to private investments should face no wealth tests larger than those required for playing the state lottery, taking out a 30-year mortgage, or trading securities/currencies on margin.
My top result is a blog format recipe — recipe at end of page, though this one has a “jump to” button.

https://joyfoodsunshine.com/the-most-amazing-chocolate-chip-...

The second recipe result is Betty Crocker and as you’d expect — recipe at top, steps with photos after.

I personally find more of the former than the latter when looking for specific recipes (Red wine chocolate cake was my most recent search)
A whole week of data!?
As an early contributer to Urbit before I knew about the founders, I wish I could take back the work I did for them.
I've read that the rapid (antigen) testing is not as accurate as the tests that are processed in a lab. I've seen figures of up to 37% false negatives. I would have looked into it more, but I've decided that I would personally not trust a rapid test if a lab test was available, except in the most urgent of scenarios.
Also, they didn't write the standard deviation, so that 14% is kind of useless
There might be an opportunity to write minimalist web clients for popular services.
Building a Scalable ML Feature Store with Redis
Youtube Music's handling of my uploaded music is really poor compared to GPM (sectioned off from everything else), so that alone was enough to make me dump my subscription when GPM was shut down.

Now I run my own Plex server on a Raspberry Pi with an external drive and get a better experience than I had before, minus discovery.
Please accept email suggestions， I'd like to avoid needing github
So make more. Reuse. Remove price limits. Taiwan was producing one per capita every 3 days in March.

I'm sure we can come up with infinite hypotheticals. But East Asia beat this. So we don't have to hypothesize. We know what the right approach is and they showed us in freaking February!
Even if you are able to get palatable speeds, bandwidth caps are an issue for some people.

For example, I'm stuck with 40GB/month in rural Ontario (ie, 5 minutes outside of a city), which means I share roughly 1300mb per day with my household. I'm constantly watching the bandwidth meter tick up in my menu bar.
Have you ever actually worn out an SSD using personal workloads (ie, not on a server)? I haven't yet and I own machines/SSDs from 12 years ago - benchmarks are still roughly equivalent to what I had to start.
Have you looked into using eBPF instead of writing a kernel module?

http://ebpf.io for some more insights.

At the very least, it'll provide some useful tooling for you to debug problems in kernel-space.
Notable changes in the new edition: colored diagrams, two new chapters: 1. Hashing and randomized algorithms. 2. Divide and conquer.
Thanks. That makes sense.

When does it make sense to have a family office? I would guess, when you want to employ at least one financial professional full time? Is that right?
This has nothing to do with VLC, just a clickbait.
> I am wondering why humanity was able to learn from two world wars to never have one again...

Nuclear bombs?

It became too costly to engage in large-scale warfare after they were invented.
> the first thing it comes to my mind is "so why should I bother learning Rust" for embedded.

Generics alone are a huge time saver compared to C, even if you use hacks like macros in the latter to do something similar already.
I used to work for a major e-commerce company and will back this up. The importance of performance, of course, depends on the use case.

In e-commerce, the biggest factors (that come to mind) to compete on are—SEO and brand aside—price, offerings, and convenience. Convenience has two dimensions: UX and performance.

If a user has a very clear idea of what they want from your site, they'll probably be patient. If a user is channel surfing (and the vast majority are when it comes to shopping, comparing options, etc.), then every millisecond matters. Every millisecond spent loading is a millisecond not spent selling/convincing.
How would you say it stands up to splunk these days?
I think the better analogy, if we want to use alcohol, is a headline saying "If you drink and drive get ready to crash or be arrested."

Of course there are plenty of people that will drink and drive and not crash or be arrested. Not a great warning / deterrent though.

"Drink and drive and statistically increase your chances of crashing or being caught by law enforcement" is technically more correct, but I don't think we would be having an argument over the signs on the highway that simplify the message.
> Aggressive moderation on some subs makes it hard to post. Posts might be deleted for arbitrary reasons. Sometimes questions are sent to a generic 'Ask a Question' thread, which isn't great for finding questions later via search.

This is my biggest problem with the site, and the reason I don't use it. Each community is at the mercy of a small number of moderators who are free to shape the conversation in any way they wish.

There's also a small number of people that control what is posted and commented on in all the main, default subreddits (news, politics, technology, etc). Browsing reddit is just ingesting the information diet of a small number of ideological moderators.
Per TFA;

> Yes, it would be very noisy.
NPR has one on the list. I don't know about any others.
I share this sentiment, however

>they observed with their own eyes (sickness and death)
that's maybe not true with Covid-19.

The perceived risk might be just too low in order to reach emergency protocols in many people. Apparently it's not enough to show trains filled with dead people in Italy.

This assumes that people would act differently if the death was visible with their own eyes, e.g. with Ebola. But at this moment 2020 made me so pessimistic that I believe somebody here will post a study how even Ebola didn't bring up the change in people we would like to see.

I don't know yet how to deal with the fact that apparently my whole view on the world and the nature of humans was wrong my whole life.
I am not fond exposing this kind of info. Don't we all have enough prying eyes
Reordering Models – Building SaaS #80 · Matt Layman
Data Lake cheap, dimensionless and low resistance design
Is it an ideal location though? From an astrophysics perspective I bet it's ideal, but from a structural perspective it's still a large steel structure in the tropics that's also simultaneously in both a hurricane and earthquake zone, which to me seems closer to a worst case scenario than a perfect spot to build.

Ignoring geopolitical matters I wonder if an installation on the same latitude in the mexican mountains would be better spot to build such a thing.
I've noticed that, lately, YT recommends mostly based on my last week/days of video history with them. Which is ok-ish, but certainly some content that I haven't been following lately gets relegated to oblivion.
And Youtube TV. And payed channel subscriptions. And all the indirect money they make off of harvesting user data.