skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an actor myself, I was very impressed. They played chess like chess players. Each move had a meaning to them. They told a story just with the way they touched the pieces. The emotions were both powerful and tightly contained, which I find more exciting than the kind of big, showy acting that usually attracts the most attention.

It was an exercise in intention and specificity, things that get drilled into you in acting classes but rarely so clear.
What we need is a capability based security system implemented in the OS, which is not easy to implement. iOS is going in the right direction.
And abandoned quite quickly, like most Rust projects.
I curated 80 practical tips to launch on Product Hunt
Article One:

>After retrieving data on the CDC website, Briand compiled a graph representing percentages of total deaths per age category from early February to early September

Addendum:

> This claim is incorrect and does not take into account the spike in raw death count from all causes compared to previous years.

Am I the only person confused with the language here? What is the difference between "Total deaths per age category" and "total raw death count"?
There are so many factors. I agree a 10 minutes walk might be considered far. Me though, for example, according to Google Maps I'm 20 mins from the 3 different stations (so not sure which one is closest) but I live just off a major street with 12 bus lines and I only live 2 mins from the bus stop. There's a bus every ~2 min so I can get to the station they're all going to usually in 6-8 minutes total travel time (though I haven't ridden train or taken the bus since March). Many stations also have bike parking garages and you can get a monthly space so your 10-20 minute walk could be a 5-10 minute bike ride.
Nothing fundamentally different. Just a well done one.
Not sure what he means but possibly that there isn't much accentism there. A businessman, prime minister, actor or a real estate agent can have any accent and still be taken as seriously as anyone else. There may be some exceptions where arrogant urban people from the capital (Oslo) will pretend they don't understand someone from say a rural place of Western Norway, but I doubt that really happens a lot.
I use 80col/8space tabs with Python code. I don't recommend it. I use it because when I started a project on which I'm still working I was using it and it's lead to very ugly code though much of the blame is mine rather than the format's.
The link goes in detail, but the main point is that deaths were attributed to covid even if the underlying cause for the death was heat disease. In some states you actually received a discount on medical expenses if you said your loved one died from covid
I shouldn't speak for everyone. For me personally, I was happyish during my career but I'm definitely much, much happier now that I'm wealthy and retired. And it's not a short term buzz, I've been retired for 2 years and the feeling hasn't worn off. I know it sucks we don't have unlimited resources for everyone in society to be free and 100% happy. Maybe someday we will with full automation.

In the meantime, most people tend to agree with me that at least to a degree more money = more happiness, it's the reason that capitalism works afterall, and it raises the standard of living - or choice of not working - for all of us over time
Would you say either framework has much over the other on each of these points (besides point 5 - of course)?

That's kind of more what I'm wondering about.
I've used Processing extensively, including toxilibs, and follow the creative coding community relatively closely. When I look at projects like openFrameworks or libcinder or Processing/p5.js, it's pretty clear to me both what those project are and how to get started with them.

I've kept an eye on thi.ng for years. I like the visuals on the former and current homepage and it seems like something that I would like to understand better. However, exactly what thi.ng is or how I am supposed to use it -- that always remains ever so slightly out of reach to me. The messaging is so focused on cobbling micro-libraries together that it feels like it is left to the reader to understand the possibility space of what you can achieve by doing so. For me, at least, that introduces enough friction to trying the tools that I feel tired and move on to something else.

If you can, I'd consider creating a few very straightforward Shiffman-esque tutorials (a la Nature of Code or something) that drop the discussion of why things are structured how they are and focus instead on helping the reader create something. I feel like if you help draw the line between the capabilities of the libraries and using them in production that the entire project will be more accessible.
This seems like it would be great to release as a library. That might increase adoption.
There was a terrific article on Techcrunch this weekend about Rivers Cuomos' experience using CS50 to manage his creative output. Migrating his music spreadsheets to dedicated database-backed Python apps: "Hey, show me all the ideas I have at 126 BPM in the key of A flat that start with a third degree of the scale and the melody and are in Dorian mode and that my manager has given three stars or more to." ;)

https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/25/rock-star-programmer-river...
It depends. What kills the batteries is fast charging or discharging and to an extent, leaving them sitting around fully charged or discharged. If the batteries are retired to do grid storage (or home storage), I would expect the charge and discharge rates to be fairly sedate, and charge levels to be managed so as not to have the battery level too low or too high for very long. I can easily imagine the batteries lasting a long time under such conditions.
It's pretty misleading to call this Johns Hopkins when it was a student newsletter and also retracted.
> They are a premium brand.

How can they be a "premium" brand if they already own a large percentage of the market?

Premium, by definition, is only for a small group of people.

Am I missing something?
Iverson's famous paper introducing APL.

A key takeaway for me is that computers make it possible to have unambiguous notation. Quoting from Iverson's paper: "The thesis of the present paper is that the advantages of executability and universality found in programming languages can be effectively combined, in a single coherent language, with the advantages offered by mathematical notation."

Ambiguity is a real problem with much of conventional mathematical notation, which has evolved in fits and starts throughout history. Mathematical symbols are used, reused, and overloaded with different meanings again and again, in so many ways, that context is often necessary for understanding. Ambiguity hampers the use of mathematical notation as a tool for thought.

The other big takeaway from this paper, for me, is that succinctness makes it easier to reason. That is, programming languages that enable us to express more with less code make it easier for us to reason about -- and with -- code.
> elimination of corporations as special legal entities would make governments more directly controlled by people rather than wealthy megacorps

Unlikely. Prior to incorporation, families were the operating unit of commercial and thus military and political activity. This pattern would resurrect itself: families, like corporations, can be immortal. That means they can plan and be trusted for the long term.

Note, too, that incorporation gives rise to charities, unions and independent lobbying groups like the Sierra Club. You lose those when you wipe out legal personhood.
How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have?
Way back I remember when everyone knew newspapers were dying. Some people thought it was new competition with tv news. Other people thought bullshit sales tactics by newspapers pushed people away.

Then I saw the aggregated news feeds of google. I learnt exactly why journalism was dying. They outright publish known lies. https://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/794617569823064068

Anyone who has ever been in the news will tell you that the news always gets the story wrong. The scale of the news is vast. if you analyze every instance of journalism you will find it's entirely false. Whether or not this is intentional is unclear. Hanlon's razor suggests that journalists are probably just stupid. Which is quite true.

You might ask, why is journalism so bad in the last 10 years? STEM. We have pulled talent out of social sciences leaving the bottom of the barrel in journalism.
I started playing this year and the first game I won (after playing about 30) was after I watched this video[1]. I made nearly every mistake he advised against. My openings are fairly good now for a beginner, working on tactics now. I'd recommend watching the whole playlist. Also doing puzzles daily really helps you to spot stuff faster when playing.

TL;DW - Develop your pieces, you need your whole team to play effectively.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21L45Qo6EIY
What about LineageOS + MicroG? It seems sustainable to me
You will always naturally prioritize the things that you love, so you should not feel guilty if you also love spending time with your friends or family or walking your dog to the pub on a sunny day. That’s why it’s called work-life balance. I read somewhere that Pink Floyd would stop everything in the studio to watch Monty Python, and I think decompression is a normal and healthy part of work. I often find that elusive solutions present themselves when I have changed gears for a while, but I suppose the real chore is finding the time for the things that you do not love but cannot avoid.
In as few words: Yes
Sorry, can't help there as I don't need it, therefore never tried to get it to work. I think the microg subreddit [0] is your best bet for pointers

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/MicroG/
It displays as sans-serif on my machine with GNU-Icecat.
I think one big problem in society is that it is becoming more apparent that news are often of very low quality. A lot of it is either sensationalism that is detached from reality, selective reporting or just copied from PR. And it’s not even just news but also politics. I’m from Germany and also here they told the public
In the beginning that it’s not worse than the flu and later that masks don’t work. Being transparent about worries of not enough masks for medical personell would have been so much better and probably led to far fewer anti-mask people.

All this gives alternative news sources/politicians that are even worse a lot of credibility.
Eclipse Dirigible – SAP’s Open Source Project for Low-Code Development
> I don’t understand why people are expecting day one support for applications like Homebrew.

I'm not paying the Homebrew developers anything so I've got no right to expect anything or criticise whatever they choose to do with their time and their project.

But if they did want compatibility it's not true that they're 'at the start of Apples two year transition to ARM CPUs' - you have been able to access development machines for many months. I got one and I don't maintain anything nearly as important as Homebrew.

The reason Apple do developer previews, betas, and early access to hardware is so that you can have day-one support, if you want it.
I've been remote for 12 years, and with the exception of the last year, I was in the habit of napping for an hour a day in the middle of the day, every day. Kids has thrown a wrench into the works on the weekends, but I've just started to get back to that and feel at my best once again. YMMV
It refuses to install when there are conflicts now.

$ pip install "six<1.12" "virtualenv==20.0.2" -q
ERROR: Cannot install six<1.12 and virtualenv==20.0.2
because these package versions have conflicting
dependencies.

ERROR: ResolutionImpossible: for help visit
https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/user_guide/#fixing-conflicting-dependencies
I hand wrote my journal from about 1987 to when I moved online. I flirted with the idea of maintaining both, but that did not last long.

For aspiring journalers, always write the full date, including year. Probably write the time of day and maybe day of week to help give context to future readers. Do not worry about backtracking if you skip a day or decades. Just write starting now, otherwise the backlog will paralyze you.

That reminds me I haven't written about today yet.

https://www.robnugen.com/journal/

https://www.robnugen.com/journal/2020/11/30/japanese-work-hn...
It's a bit more complicated than that. When somebody's only goal/pleasure is to make money, it's very easy to lose sight of ethics/empathy, in particular of things in the grey areas.

And note that with "grey areas", I mean things that would be repulsive to ordinary people, e.g. patent trolling (is it illegal? no! does it make lots of money? yes! is it unethical? what do you mean? :-)).
I swear... it is so incredibly frustrating that I want to punch my computer when I see that message at this point. I think I had to finally shut it up via https://stackoverflow.com/a/64853362 to get my blood pressure to finally drop.
All the money in the world ain't gonna by you meaning.

But pursuing it might distract you from that fact.

For a while.
I was just about to comment this.
DISCLAIMER: I initially did not have access to the original presentation. The original presentation is far better from what I can tell compared to how it has been represented in both right wing and left wing media at presenting their claims with nuance that has largely been left out of other reports.

Many of the conclusions drawn in the paper and in articles reporting on it are overblown or misleading on their own. There was good reason John Hopkins added a five paragraph disclaimer and a "RETRACTED" watermark to this on their own site.

If you doubt me or disagree, look at the claim of the paper that has been reported on by various media outlets. It essentially states that looking at cdc data there is drop in other forms of death that was replaced with covid deaths, meaning that there was no actual increase in deaths. Now, go pull up the cdc data that breaks down how many people died of each cause per week for 2019 and 2020 [1]. Using either the on-website graph creator, python notebooks, excel, or your data scientist tool of choice try to recreate a graph showing all causes of death by week that supports this paper. I quickly got a graph that showed a simple reality, compared to 2019 there has been an increase in deaths per week that almost precisely corresponds with the numbers of covid deaths per week.

If you want to argue the number of covid deaths is too low to worry about or it was handled well, go for it. Just don't get sheeped into believing that covid deaths aren't real.

[1] https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Weekly-Counts-of-Deaths-by-State-a...

EDIT: Apparently the video presentation this paper is based on is out there at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TKJN61aflI . Since I have not finished it I've amended the post considerably and added a disclaimer since I used some strong words originally. Many thanks to the commenter who pointed me to the youtube presentation.
One thing I find very interesting is the effect of other factors on the total number of deaths. For example, the 2008 recession was linked with over 260,000 excess deaths from cancer alone [0]. All of the things associated with a lockdown - high stress, decreased social contact, less movement, less economic activity - are also associated with serious increases in other deaths. At what point does a lockdown have negative EV in terms of general public health?

To copy a previous comment of mine - regardless of the actual effect of lockdowns, I think this has become such a political issue in the US that the American left would be very hard pressed to publicly change course.

I really hope that statisticians are able to look past their own personal convictions and look at possible ways our assumptions may have been incorrect. (Personally speaking, I wear a mask, I don't think the coronavirus is a giant conspiracy by the lizard people etc. but I do recognize that the modern scientific community has a tendency to think one way, and then remain cemented in that way for a while.)

[0] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/economic-do...
Just emphasizing those are round trip numbers. I started to comment on how unbelievably long those were for “averages” before realizing you meant the round trip :)
Arm-chair psychologist response below :)

Good self awareness on the part of the author. Next step is action. When you realize a deficiency in character (judging everything by monetary ROI), there's a concept of "Agere contra" meaning to act against. You choose to do something directly in contrast to the deficiency.

So in this case, I'd recommend definitely need to start helping people. For free. In as inefficient way as possible. Something like cutting your elderly neighbors lawn with scissors.

Taking a step back, this is the result of (1) insulation from real hardship, (2) capitalist/consumerist brainwashing esp. of the entrepreneurship-fetish of software startups.
I'm extremely surprised that creating 2k threads makes mac os reboot. Sure that's a lot for one application but not a totally crazy amount.
Isn't this true of any job - If the world was all software engineers it'd be missing lots of stuff too. I get the point you're making about nomads being (more) dependent on others, but I honestly think that's true for everyone now.
Thank you!!!! I have been looking for information about this. I knew about their Alexa inference chip but this is new to me. Thanks :)
20 minutes is plenty to perk you up in the afternoon (different parts of the brain rest in different ways), and it's not a sign of an unhealthy sleep schedule. This stigma has got to stop.
And at that point it'll cheaper to "mine" those batteries for their cobalt, nickel and lithium than it will be to pull it out of the ground. At that point recycling will be viable because they'll have a large amount of fairly homogeneous batteries to recycle rather than the random hodge-podge of tiny batteries they have to deal with now.
ServiceNow to Acquire Canadian AI Pioneer Element AI
Hadean Zircon
Bull fucking shit. Conspiratorial garbage.
Methylphenidate and nicotine also work fairly well.

Thanks for the write-up!
Long-time player here. Strangely enough, the hardest part of these exercises is the uncomfortable brief moment of getting acquainted with (or being teleported to) a random board position.
Driver support will never arrive. The reverse engineering effort without specs from apple would be gigantic. And during that period the floss software would be running much worse than the benchmarks we see and want right now. All that for a moving target that Apple can also lock down with a random update at any time.

It's just not worth it.
I wonder if all it would take is a change to how consumption taxes work. Sales tax and value added tax don't really discriminate between resource consumption and value added from workmanship. But one could at least imagine a taxation scheme that instead focuses on material inputs (including fuel). And that would hypothetically economically favor higher-quality, more durable goods over things like planned obsolescence and fast fashion.

Might be technically tricky to accomplish in a world where most manufacturing happens overseas, though.
Modern Search Engines: from full-text to natural language
Stack Canary Podcast Special
Wow, when I first saw the link, it was at above 340 bytes. it has shrunk in almost half...
Lack of sun, vitamin D and exercised causes the fatigue feeling.
Big Match: matching open source code in binaries for fun and profit
I'm guessing that this didn't come out of Microsoft Research?
> 20 versions are no joke.

Versions ≥ 18 refer to the years 2018+; they don't refer to the number of versions released anymore.
Have equal weighted indexes outperformed market cap weighted indexes in the last decade?

Morningstar shows VOO with a greater total return than RSP for past 5 years and since inception. I didn’t see past 10 years at a quick glance, but I imagine it’s the same.
Curiously, I have the opposite experience as yours between matlab and octave. I have used both, and I find matlab clunky and slow to start, while octave is very lean and responsive. My way of using them is probably not very representative though. I never do plotting, it's mostly saving the computed solutions into files and looking at them with other programs. In the rare cases I need to plot something, I write the data into a file and call gnuplot separately. Also, I do not run the interactive interpreter, but I write scripts that launch a new interpreter for each run. Matlab seems to be extremely ill-suited for this usage. For example, it takes about 3 seconds just for launching (!). Also, there are bizarre problems (apart from ridiculous memory usage), when running several matlab instances in parallel.
Stop using imprecise language to imply unproven conspiracies. Tell us what you really mean. Are you saying that there is widespread fraud in hospitals' reporting of Cause of Death? Why is this more likely than the many other possible explanations for heart disease death reduction?
AWS Step Functions Error Handling
I found this, courtesy of quietbritishjim¹:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-many...

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16037465
how is it possible to save 2.5 mil from salary? I am from upper 5% in germany in terms of salary, and I can only manage to save ~10kEur/year, while maintaining decent lifestyle. An order of magnitude lower than you'd need to retire with such a sum after 20 years or so.
How do you do that? Genuine question
What's your plan for moving around when our limited supply of fossil fuels are depleted?
Space and weight are also much less of a concern. A stationary infrastructure battery with less than half its original capacity wouldn't be unusable the way it would be for a car.
I would be curious to know more about your firm and what customers you are serving? I feel like I have a lot of experience translating or communicating with weird things to MATLAB but I'm not sure who values this outside Academia.
A regulation to this effect has already been voted for in EU parliament just last week [1].

[1]: https://repair.eu/
What scraping tool did you use? How do you handle forms?
> One of the things that feels a bit problematic here - the webpage is avoiding mention of the fact that this is still Android.

I think they legally can't call it "Android" in this case so it's not really their fault that they aren't mentioning this.
Sure, you wouldn't necessarily get OTA updates for stock firmware, but doesn't LineageOS provides its own OTA updates?
Well, I'd start with assuming the majority of visitors will expect a framework, and countering that with explicitly saying THIS IS NOT A FRAMEWORK! very early on on the website. Expectation management will go a long way.

Maybe a search box with "what topic would you like to play around with?", with some optional checkboxes to refine the search query (for example, maybe I want to work in the browser and limit my results to TypeScript and ClojureScript. That would also help a bit with getting the "toolbox" aspect across.

Another idea is to have example projects made with thing (the portfolio part) that also clearly demonstrate which of the libraries were used.
Advent of Code (2020)
I meant to reply to you but replied as a sibling. Thank you for inspiring me to write an entry for today!
even if numbers were inflated due to the monetary incentive, this would only account for numbers in the USA. look at the excess deaths world wide and you can see the average is up everywhere.