skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CDC has an excellent visualization for this. 2020 is a major outlier in the last few years in terms of excess deaths. If you drill down into the local data, you can see some really stark visualizations: for example, the tremendous increase in deaths in New York City in spring of 2020.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Just nuclear waste?
So? The weather also happens every day but it's still news.
Usually resigning doesn't get you severance but being fired without cause does, but I think this is typically a convention, not a law. I'm unsure about the laws around unemployment in these situations.

I doubt the wording used here will matter when it comes to legal brass tacks. Whatever contracts Google and Gebru actually sign will be authoritative there, not the public wording.
I'm writing this from a Ryzen-powered Thinkpad connected to a 4K display via USB-C. That Ideapad doesn't seem to support USB-C video output, so the probable reason is market segmentation. They probably want to make the people who want external displays buy a Thinkpad or a Legion.
Maybe outside London. I recently left London but took my salary with me. If I needed to get a new job where I am I'd probably be looking at a 40-50% pay cut.
keyword is Treasury eg handling all the payment operations tasks that an in-house corporate treasury team that’s responsible for moving money in and out of the company’s bank accounts might complete
Sure, but on the other hand many countries are. And Korea is still light years ahead of the US on controlling the virus.
I was happy to see that they added payouts as this is something I queried before.

However, it seems linked to Connect, which makes it very expensive at £2 per month per active account.

I realise that there are plenty of regulations that they take care of, but really what I want is an API to send money to an account or card and that's it.
Progress Bars I Have Loved:

* Tells people what stage we're on. "Downloading", "Installing", "Cleaning Up".

* Can make bar for each step or guesstimated across all steps, either is ok.

* Do not show sub-step time estimates. If you show time estimates at all, do it for the whole process.

* Bar represents definite knowable progress: files moved, MB downloaded, etc. It thus never moves backward. If the stage has nothing knowable, make the bar full-width and stripey as a spinner equivalent.

* Able to open a verbose view that shows log stuff: actual numbers and filenames. The MacOS installer has this and good lord it was important when the MacTeX bug hit

Does this surface information that unempowered users don't need? Sure. Their eyes will just glaze over and it'll be fine.
"I'm surprised that she opted to publicly put the blame on someone and link to their Twitter."

Because public division creates sides, and taking one of those sides gives you favour with one group.

A pragmatic, mild mannered person who works on such issues behind the scenes is not going to be popular.

But division makes enemies in one camp, allies in the other.

Now we all know someone's name whereas we wouldn't have before.

So one can make a career out championing said allies.

I think a lot of people have this instinct, just expressed in different ways.
PlayKids opens Afterverse division to make social games for all ages
This is equal parts sad and hilarious if true. I have a sudden urge to watch Deadwood again.
Then they wouldn't be transcripts...
Why are you assuming that the GP comment talks about people they see outside & distancing?

And no, wearing a mask outside is not automatically "virtue signaling".
I guess that's true, but I must say that in my direct vicinity there is a lot of anti-US sentiment, especially on their politics and culture "indoctrination" of other west countries.
I'm a student in the NL
I mean, they’re the most recognized name because they’re the best at it.
The justification that 16GB is "enough" from the Apple blogger clique like Gruber is ridiculous. Even if it is "enough" it's still what my MacBook Pro I bought 6 years ago shipped with for several hundred dollars less than this one.

Why are we giving Apple a pass on RAM being stuck at 8GB and SSD being stuck at 128GB (only very recently bumping to 256) for almost a decade. Not to mention some of us get stuck on 8GB 128GB machines because our workplaces only buy the base "Pro" machines, refusing the drop the extra few hundred to make it what Gruber considers the base level.

SSDs are no longer expensive, go on Amazon and see how much 1TB M2s cost these days.
Thanks for all the details.
The one I prefer is the Anaëlle's one :D
> We went from 300-450ms in release mode with Scala with fewer parsing rules implemented, to 25-30ms in Rust with more parsing rules implemented!

Interesting to see 1500% performance increases from Scala to Rust! Is there a specific reason that Scala was slow at parsing tests?
With Covid-19 Rates Rising Adding an Air Purifier To Your Home is the Single Most Important Thing You Can Do to Improve Your Health [1]

[1] https://kylebenzle.medium.com/adding-an-air-purifier-to-your...
The levels of corporate greed in the world today are making me give up on humanity.
When platforms carry float or help issue loans, do they make money?
The US will probably never recover from this pandemic. The sociological harm done by this virus (normalizing anti-expert sentiment) is far greater than the physical harm in the long run.
I agree on that actually, I’m generally annoyed by these HN comments like « this JS lib is shit because it’s more than 12kb, and why do you need JS anyway »
You're right, thanks for the correction. Either way, the fact is still that we're at nearly 280k thousand deaths in just the US, and are very likely to hit 400k or more, and people are still out there saying we're overreacting. It's absurd.
(Disclaimer: I work at Stripe, but commenting purely in my personal capacity.)

> I wish I could buy stock.

Something I wish I'd internalized much earlier in my life: if you're a programmer or otherwise have skills relevant to a startup (many HN participants fit this bill!) then you do have access to stock in companies like Stripe. In exchange for your time and expertise, they will pay you in both stock and cash.

My contact information is in my profile and I would love to help anyone I can in this endeavor.
"Pinkerton operatives were inserted into an Amazon warehouse in Wroclaw, Poland, to investigate an allegation that warehouse workers were circumventing sort of the application process for applying to warehouse jobs"

How does this match the title of the piece. Then,

"So I imagine that in the U.S., they're tracking labor organizing activity but not union members yet."

So they have no proof and this is all speculation. Another Amazon hit piece, real quality journalism here.

Amazon used some people to catch people cheesing their job application process and then because the US doesn't have strong unions and they know they look at labor stats for people joining Unions this "journalist" has extrapolated they are definitely "surveiling" people. This is really low quality.

Edit: I'm fine with the allegations being true, the point I'm making is this isn't the article that we should be discussing because it's lazy journalism -- another poster below me linked much more well thought out and written posts on the subject being discussed by this article.
Finally, a tool with which to manage my private life just as I manage my corporate existence and my business customers. Amazing!
It’s a very minor point but this article makes it sound like the generic term for a union buster is Pinkerton agent. Pinkerton is a private company who does security work these days, but has a long history of doing exactly this. Fascinating Wikipedia read if you’re curious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_(detective_agency)
Is there a way I can submit an article that might be worth incorporating in your newsletter?
They wouldn't be transcripts, then. They would be editorialized.

Original transcripts are powerful in that they are difficult to refute.
Fair enough.
But if you're comparing single threaded performance, there isn't a reason to split the workload into two threads for AMD/Intel and have it as a single thread for Apple.

If I had a single threaded application or a single threaded critical path of a multithreaded application.

I don't see a scenario where SMT will help

AnandTech have done a comparison here:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16261/investigating-performan...

You can see it's all within 1% with it on and off for single threaded.
I agree re: the kid in TFA; college at 12 is absolutely an outlier.

For my family the problem with gifted & talented programs was money. I did end up taking some courses at the local community college. But e.g. when the opportunity to participate in the Johns Hopkins CTY program came up, my parents couldn't afford it so I did not do so.

(In fact in adulthood I ended up teaching at CTY for three years. It is absolutely a program I would have benefited from as a youth, but very much skewed toward children of wealthy parents. I distinctly remember one session I taught, how much trouble the one public school kid had fitting in. The kid who flew in on a private jet found more in common with his classmates.)
What will those rooting for Google to fire James Damore have to say now? I bet there is a significant overlap of those supporting her now with those rooting for Damore's firing. And Damore didn't make any demand, just a memo.

I see many support her (from a justified? knee jerk reaction?) that being fired from a corporation for questioning it's bottom line is due to the power dynamics. The support to Timnit Gebru (provided her demands are provably good, but only hurts google's bottom line) would be more powerful/rational if the same people will vocally support Damore.

Even if supporting a worker being fired without complete information is a justified position to take based on corporate dynamics, some have started making this into ugly race issue. Some are `supporting` her in the lines of "She was black and hence was fired". If people are judging others as racist just based on tweets now, Jeff Dean seems the opposite of such smear. Even if Dean was a corporate zombie pulling the trigger to save the company bottomline, calling him racist for that without evidence for the latter is insane.

There seems to be a sick trend in progressive politics in US to move away from supporting workers and start making everything into a race issue with no justification.
The Zeroshell Botnet Returns
If those most at risk from the virus can be protected by the vaccine, why would there be any need for continued lockdowns and closures?
It is a postgresql extension that you install on top of a normal postgresql server, so it is not worse in any way.

Timescale works by creating a 'hypertable', which is an aggregate of a lot of smaller 'chunk' tables. These chunk tables are automatically split by date or incrementing id. This means that for queries that specify IDs or a date range within a certain range, you only have to query results within a few chunks, instead of looking through all the contents of the entire 'hypertable.' [1]

Timescale also offers some other things like compression which can save you up to ~96% disk space while also improving query performance in some cases. [2][3]

It also has something they call 'continuous aggregates' [4], which are similar to postgresql's materialized views, but do not require manual refreshing - they instead update periodically through an automatic background job. There is also a feature which builds on this called 'realtime aggregates' that allows you to combine the data within a continuous aggregate with the raw data in the tables that has yet to be materialized.

There are a lot more things besides that, but I think that's a decent overview of the major features it brings to the table. From a dev perspective these things all make the data and the database easier to work with (especially targeting timeseries data). There is an api reference [5] that has some of the other commands timescale adds, if you want to see some of the other things it can help you do.

[1] https://docs.timescale.com/latest/using-timescaledb/hypertab...
[2] https://docs.timescale.com/latest/using-timescaledb/compress...
[3] https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-columnar-compressio...
[4] https://docs.timescale.com/latest/using-timescaledb/continuo...
[5] https://docs.timescale.com/latest/api
The world-dominating is largely a negative from my perspective: it pushes it's smaller competitors out of business which decreases the competitiveness of the market and extracts profits/wealth out of local communities where it would likely be spent productively into the pockets of Jeff Bezos and Amazon investors where it is not nearly so useful.
To me, the lengths Amazon goes to discourage unionization hints at how vulnerable they feel they are to certain aspects of unionization (probably strikes).

This isn't that much of a surprise though. The more we automate stuff (excluding complete automation), the more important the squishy humans that keep everything running are.
that may be true on retail CPU channels, but the vast majority of intel sales are to OEMs
I'm not sure your data rhymes with your interpretation. Having 0.5%~1% of people having a positive corona test in the last two weeks means that every week 3.2~1.6 million people are walking around with Corona. I would not call that a handful of people. (This is even the lower bound as it excludes untested people which are positive)

With a fatality rate of 2% (source: https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid?country=~USA) that means 64~32 thousand die every two weeks. This translates to 1.7~0.8 million people dying every year. With that I'm obviously ignoring the large spectrum between 'no lasting symptoms' and 'death'.

With one of the most lax responses in the western world I cannot see how you conclude from this that the US's response is 'overblown and hysterical'
I'm not downvoting, but you're limiting what OP is saying. They never limited themselves to "out for a walk and... social distancing".

I wear a mask outside while walking and social distancing and I'm not virtue signaling. I simply personally find it harder to futz w/ a mask when coming up on people or going inside a building.

Please be a little less reflexive when it comes to this stuff. I'm sure people are "virtue signaling" by wearing masks. But coincidentally they're also limiting the spread of COVID-19. Let's focus on the latter here.
Build a cross platform application with CouchDB and Powershell
Why would they care? The stories of how Amazon is a bad employer keep coming and yet people keep buying.
The TOS is about what you can do, not what the company can do.
I have no much use for a 4K display, I don't own any (I'm both myopic and old anyway). in fact for me the worst point is that it could have a 1920x1200 panel, but carries a FHD one instead, with a large useless black band below, too bad.
We are single cloud (effectively) and have been bitten by data transfer costs multiple times, so we're always looking out for it.
> Obviously, the main alternative is having someone slice it at the deli counter for you, but that means you could only ever buy prosciutto at places with a staffed deli counter, including the 15-minute wait for the deli counter if you're going grocery shopping at the end of a regular workday...

This and a million other small inconveniences hardly seem too great a price to pay to avoid filling the planet's air and water (and by consequence our bodies) with plastic waste
We are letting amazon going way too far. This is unacceptable. A global coalition of trade-unions is mobilizing against amazon, https://makeamazonpay.com/

Also legislators should get more aware of companies undermining workers right. But I feel legislators to be part of the problem.
Even if your use a dumb phone with no real operating system or applications if you carry an operating cell phone your location is tracked and stored. In the US this data is stored for 2-5 years minimum depending on which Telco you use. It is used and sold just like in this article.

Tracking is how cell phones and cell basestations work. You cannot have one without the other. The better the clocks in the base stations the better the multilateration accuracy. It's already well under <100m. That you turn off GPS positioning does not matter in the slightest.

As for listening to you to provide context for what ads to show, I find that supremely unlikely. Probably other aspects of your digital life are also monitored to inform this kind of thing.
(I am not a scientist)

My interpretation is that your gut bacteria are vital for metabolizing Vitamin D and that you can take a lot of supplements but if your gut aint right it won't help.

Slightly related: I keep trying to identifty the recent report that essentially demonstrated a big calculation error in our societal wisdom regarding Vitamin D amounts - and that we need a LOT more than most people think. 2,000 - 5,000 IUD is like a fraction of it.

Edit, found it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5541280/

A statistical error in the estimation of the recommended dietary allowance
(RDA) for vitamin D was recently discovered; in a correct analysis of the data
used by the Institute of Medicine, it was found that 8895 IU/d was needed for 97.5%
of individuals to achieve values ≥50 nmol/L.

and

....we call all responsible public health authorities to consider designating
as the recommended dietary allowance (i.e., the average daily level of intake
sufficient to meet the nutrient requirements of nearly all healthy people,
presuming minimal sun exposure) intake levels corresponding to those proposed
by the Endocrine Society Expert Committee (2011) as safe upper tolerable daily
intake doses for patients at risk for vitamin D deficiency (<50 nmol/L):

2000 IU for those <1 year of age,
4000 IU for those aged 1-18 years,
and 10 000 IU for those aged >18 years.

I wonder how these two concepts could relate. Do you need more Vit-D or do you just need a healthier environment for it to be metabolized?

I have been taking 10,000 IU every night for a week or so - going to keep cruising on it for a while to see how I feel.
I think some of the comments so far here and in the artice might be missing the point - not helped by the use of word UX or the common interpreation as meaning UI.

I think the author is advocating that you start with understanding the expectations of the product, what should the user be able to do, what do they need to do, what does the market expect. From that you then work out what tradeoffs need to be made in different areas and how to make them.

In that sense I completely agree - starting with anything else is just going to impose restrictions and limitations that are likely to go against what you want to acheive.
Global warming solved. Check.

Next crisis please.
Amazon Is Building Its Own Quantum Computer
Both Sony and Microsoft were on a PowerPC base for the PS3/Xbox360 generation. Sony was on a MIPS before that. While there's definitely value in knowing you basically own the console market for the next few years, consoles have a much easier time jumping ship on architectures than PCs do, so having such a large portion of your revenue tied to two customers, both of whom are capable of jumping ship quite easily on the 4-5 year timeframe is maybe not great from a strategic point of view.
This wouldn't be so awful, if it wasn't painfully obvious that American Black people are some of the most racist people on the planet. Many of them treat acting white or being around white people as something akin to treason. This is just another piece of evidence that they cannot hold themselves to the standards of everyone else and so they must be given special treatment since their culture is so intolerance. Corporations are too happy to oblige since they don't want to kick Black people off their platforms.
This is it. I'm excited because Apple just showed what is possible. Other companies are going to have to try to match it.

I have wanted a powerful "enough" fanless laptop for many years. I got excited about 4 years ago with Intel's short-lived M line and I bought an Asus ux305. It served me well for front end web dev (had to use a cooler stand under sustained high load though). Great Linux support and battery life (after installing tlp). I remember feeling a bit of awe that it was reasonably snappy with no fan, but it was not quite there. I can only imagine the feeling is an order of magnitude greater with the M1.

I don't own any Apple products, but I still hope that raising the bar will benefit me later on. I'll be pretty pumped when this level of hardware can run a mainline kernel.
Does this allow me to basically create my own bank? Like could I make my own version of Simple, and use this as the back end? I'm confused because I thought there were a lot of legal requirements to banking and not just the actual services they provide, which this seems to commoditize.
Truth isn’t really a “narrative”
I built a way to enable users to index the cryptocurrency market via exchange APIs and have been operating it for about 3 years now.

We've done about 100M in transactions. Some of the indices we built were a top 20 by market cap (10% cap), top 30 by squared root market cap.

If you guys want to check it out: https://www.hodlbot.io
Rates of entrepreneurship are higher in Scandinavian countries.
A literal fire? Sounds like a good story. Tell?
Would have been nice if stripe actually got into the consumer banking business instead of using existing big bank infrastructure. Probably could have spun off a separate entity for consumer banking and hook their treasury api into that system.

Partnering with companies such as Goldman Sachs is typically not a good look from an optics perspective - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs_controversies
Really disappointing to see the "Well, what did you expect?" comments already. Just because companies have been trying to prevent organization of their labor for over a century doesn't mean it isn't still messed up now. It's easy to say that it's just the way the world works from your desk, the people who are forced to work in Amazon's warehouses with terrible working conditions don't have that luxury.
I see. I have Teams installed through the app store; my company doesn't have much guidance on mobile usage so I guess I'm safe.