skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The calculation I reference is the average remaining lifespan for people who die of COVID-19. The additional context doesn't make any difference, it just provides two additional (different) calculations:

average remaining lifespan across the entire population:

> we calculate that the 2020 American population of 330 million people has on average 45.8 y of remaining life expectancy, totaling 14.9 billion person years.

reduction in remaining lifespan in the 70-89 age group:

> Older individuals ages 70 to 89 y, taking those who die and those who survive together, would on average lose about 0.2 y of remaining life, and younger individuals would lose far less.

I did not include these calculations because they are not comparable to the number to which I was responding.
What are the opportunities for a UI/UX designer, willing to work on improving ROS? It semms to be in pretty terrible state tbh.
California's last non-fire brownouts were caused by too much solar in the generation mix without long term storage.
I loved Target. As a single dad, I loved the variety of kids clothes they had. They still carried the brands that Zellers did but they had their own from the US too. I was so disappointed when I heard they were leaving. I didn’t believe it at first but sadly it turned out to be true.
Knowing that you could be wrong, is very different to thinking it is impossible to know what is right. The latter in my opinion is the great poison of modern philosophy. It seems to be that it is often used as a way to excuse lazy reasoning and irrational behaviour. Better to pretend that truth can't be known, than earnestly seek it out, etc. The irony of course, is that people who don't think truth can be known, often act with a great deal of certainty about things they believe to be right.
True. The concern is that new development will no longer be in California.
Glad that she is moving.

Few more things that I came up with. Service accounts. Social engineering call centers is evergreen. If he knows her bank, he can extract info from them. Check if she can switch accounts or that the address is not up to date. Not sure if he can find/buy her spending patterns from an info brokerage firm.

Also, her parents location data and call history is precious. Sooner or later they will want to visit her and they will insist on talking to her every day. So, no phone calls, voip only. No phones on visits plus ensuring they are not followed.
Wouldn't a plasma lamp (or whatever they are called) provide the same thing at a lower power cost? They work faster as well, meaning you could probably sample more often.
There are a few stuff that are missing from core preact that can be added via preact/compat package namely:
memo, forwardRef, PureComponent, Event listener modifications similar to react, etc.,
Its not really feasible to have a standard policy of fining organizations and then forcing them to go to a court for an exception. One of the favorite targets of crypto ransomware groups is hospitals because if they infect the right systems operations are impacted to the point where peoples' health can be endangered.

Courts are slow.

IMO, as the government, if you prevent people from helping themselves you have an ethical obligation to provide a suitable remedy to the problem.

Its usually a bad idea to pay a ransom, however, some organizations in specific situations don't have viable alternatives. In some cases they pay and still don't get their data back. However, the attackers generally do have a vested interest in decrypting data when they get paid. Its actually a pretty interesting ecosystem because some attackers set up proper customer support channels and in some cases are very cordial and helpful as they are extorting you. Some of them are trolls but I've seen chat logs where broke college students were able to negotiate the release of their homework for free.

Having a robust and well thought out system of backups is the best defense. However, that still doesn't always make the problem reliably fixable fast enough to ensure that no one will ever find a valid reason to pay a ransom.

Source: I'm a security analyst but there are some in the industry that disagree with my opinion.
At my job I inherited a codebase which was completely both untested and undocumented aside from a general consensus from the backend guys on how it should behave. Cypress was instrumental in black boxing the behavior of the ui and then testing our refactors and changes against it. It has its worts. The chaining is not intuitive or consistent, the documentation never indicates fully return types or any types for that matter. Also you can only mock xhr requests and not the more modern fetch which is a bit hokey. You have to roll your own. But it’s free and offers a heck of a lot more in stability and features than what’s out there.
No I'm not (overselling). It's really that easy to understand my comment, not everything is a literal logical response.
Different metric: they own ~2.558% of all the available ipv4 addresses.
> See more of a question
When you have selected a SO question, you can press enter or click on its title to display the full question with all the answers. Then you can press ESC to go back. Given you feedback, we didn't make that obvious enough.

> Context
Yes. We want to release a VSCode (and other IDEs+editors will follow) extension that will understand your current working context. The goal is to eliminate browser as much as possible. This way, for example, we would be able to extract errors from your terminal and offer you answers even before you start searching.

> Unauthenticated search
Unfortunately, GitHub let you do only 10 searches per minute as an unauthenticated user. We seemed to go over that limit fairly often from our internal testing. Once you authenticate yourself you get limit of 30 searches/minute. Eventually, we want to build our own index and use our API.

Thank you for trying out the app!
Excellent comparison. These agencies shouldn’t blindly accept what the private sector puts out.
This isn't a voter poll, bud. It's an informal survey of a text editor's userbase. It can be pretty imprecise and still usefully inform the project.
Can I work with you?
Not currently. It wouldn't make sense. We use Google search API and GitHub API to give you results.
Overuse of gestures. Apps that have both swipe left/right and swipe up/down gestures drive me mad.

It feels like walking on banana peels. I am always accidentally activating somewhere with errant swipes. In fact, I just did it while typing up this comment.

I'm either seriously uncoordinated, the touch sensors are too sensitive, or its just plain bad UX.
How do you measure? I’d love to see large renders and complex top level state updates that hit hundreds of components.
> It sounded like an old-timey telephone.

Again check the codec mac is using for this. I've had no issues with them, you either had a defective device or Mac is forcing the SBC codec. On windows there's a headset audio device for every bluetooth device that sounds garbage too (regardless of what the device actually is).
More and more, I realize that I've been fed a warped view of the past. Here in the USA, history book authors and history instructors are almost exclusively on one side of the political spectrum. The people that they glorify and vilify are chosen with extreme partisan bias.

Joe McCarthy wasn't the terrible person he is made out to be. Information discovered later, long after his censure, proves that he was correct in many of the cases where he was thought wrong.

Today's lies and censorship will become the supposed "facts" that are taught to future generations. All sorts of falsehoods will be used to created graded test questions.
This isn’t as reliable of a signal as you might hope. It’s also context dependent. Here’s an example: I’ve presented my research to FDA researchers, and one of my dissertation committee members worked at the FDA twice in her career before coming back to academia. Note that in one sentence I managed to use both options, and I am certainly a pro in this context. And even if you won’t accept that I’m a pro for some reason, the previously mentioned dissertation committee member happens to be the dean of a school of public health and she inserts “the“ or not however she damn well pleases, and she’s a stickler for proper style is most cases. Here’s an example from the FDA itself that uses both options: https://www.fda.gov/safety/fdas-sentinel-initiative
If I were a foreign actor with malign intent towards the US, I would be very pleased with how things are playing out.

1. Corrosion of formerly stalwart American Institutions
2. The majority of Americans being habituated to mistrust their fellow American
3. The ability for a few entities with concentrated power to harness and control the nervous systems of millions of Americans
This is 2.5% of the total adress space - not usable, total. It's about the equivalent of 6.25 class A (/8) prefixes. Quite impressive.
That wasn’t my prediction. It was from another poster.
Quoting Joel Spolsky: "The cult of MBA makes you think you can manage the businesses that do things you don't understand"

The problem is in thinking of MBA cult itself. If I was an MBA without software engineering experience I would also not understand intricacies but would think I can manage it anyway.
We actually use Google's Search API under the hood. It might be possible that Google is giving you different results in a browser based on your search history.

Can't really speak on integrations with Alfred and similar app right now. The idea is to build a separate app just for developers when they are searching for information.
> YouTube is not silencing anyone. These people are free to espouse these views espouse these views anyway they please just not on YouTube's private property.

Its dangerous to democracy for oligarchs to have this much control over the discourse.
Using Emacs and using org-mode daily is like using an IDE and using code navigation daily, or like using Gimp or Photoshop and using quick mask mode daily, or using MS Word and using the style system daily, etc.

It's one of the best parts, it's built-in, using it is one of the reasons you chose that software at all.
Do note that US v Alvarez did hold that false statements are not a sufficient basis to restrict speech--there needs to be something else to justify restriction of speech.

Or, a better quote from the syllabus:

> Although the Court has frequently said or implied that false factual statements enjoy little First Amendment protection, see, e.g., Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U. S. 323, 340, those statements cannot be read to mean “no protection at all.”
> If someone wanted to take three weeks to analyze an experiment with these kinds of stakes, you’d fire them?!

I would absolutely need to start a performance improvement process. They are definitionally 1/3 as productive as they should be. Also in terms of stakes, please show me even a modicum of work that suggests the downside risk of approval is greater than the delayed vaccinations. What reason have I to believe there is great risk in approval? Again, the UK approved this over a week ago.

> And are you suggesting that it’s easier because the data isn’t as extensive as what the rest of us deal with? That only makes it harder.

No, I'm mocking the idea of it being extensive data. It's not.

> but this is a vaccine the whole fucking world has been waiting for for most of the year.

And that's reason to go slower!? There's no need for this delay!!! https://thedispatch.com/p/fda-career-staff-are-delaying-the
This is relevant, though it is 2 years old: https://medium.com/@ajmeyghani/javascript-frameworks-perform...
Yes, I think it would. Because despite the obvious business advantage they have, any would-be competitor would need IPs at a similar scale. That will either cost a ton more than Amazon has, or they simply won’t be available.

I own 2048 IPv4’s myself and their value is ever increasing. Like digital real estate, without the fluctuation of crypto. But I would prefer it if IPv6 would take over IPv4, and fast, because it will become a problem that will stifle competitors at some point. If most IPv4’s are owned by big corporations, that’s essentially.. them owning the current internet.

IPv6 is practically free.

I would love to see a breakdown of IPv4 FAANG ownership!
The more they own the more scarce they are outside of AWS.
I said nothing about your preferences, that was the generic "you".

My point is good headphones are neutral and versatile enough that they can do both, just like a good screen can make all sorts of different pictures look good.

It's about versatility and quality in different dimensions, and headphones/speaker that impart too much color to music tend to be very one-dimensional which would limit what you can do with them.
Yeah this setup is the biggest advantage I see to the cloud vs self hosted - the possibility of far more efficient resource usage due to things like cloud run, lambda, etc.

I dream of a day when the underlying “cloud” is completely commoditized and interoperable, and your code will run wherever is cheapest, and the cost actually becomes less than self hosting.
> Well, I think here you point out to one, really, of the basic defects of our system: that the individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making. And I think that, in itself, leads to a good deal of political lethargy and stupidity. It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.

-- Erich Fromm

He said that 1958, in an interview with Mike Wallace. Since then the gap between rich and poor (and between rich and mega-rich) kept exploding, media have been consolidated further, people have been uprooted even more, have been shit on and lied to even more, and have even less stakes in the outcome. Just doing more of the same will never lead to different results, yet by now many use current the state of things to argue for exactly that.
Ask HN: What personal checking account are you using?
I saw the discussion on the best bank for startups https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23682511
and was wonder what people use as a personal checking account.

There are many financial products out there, but I don't think any consumer checking account having an API.
I never understood this. I took the compilers class at CMU, and I loved it. I went on to take a follow-up class implementing a compiler with higher-order types. Meanwhile, most of my classmates avoided compilers altogether.

I've worked in the industry since undergrad, and I've implemented several interpreters for DSLs. Sometimes I was asked to make it, but other times I had the flexibility to dream up a DSL on my own, and it ended up becoming indispensable to users. I've always loved building them, but to this day, parsing is still the most boring part to me.

I recently went through Bob Nystrom's Crafting Interpreters, and it was great fun. I implemented an interpreter in Rust. Material about compiling for GPUs would be interesting. But for me, personally, I really wish there were something updated for how IDEs use languages nowadays, in particular, walking through a good way to implement the language server protocol.

The calculator language that every compiler book starts with should be LSP-first.

A MOOC would be great, but I'd also be happy with a series of blog posts.

Does anyone know of good material bridging the gap between traditional compiler architecture and the LSP?
I feel like none of you have taken into account that every single color way is sold out and won’t be available for at least 12 weeks.

So, without a doubt, people will pay for these. And I don’t know what sources that other guy has, but all the early impressions I’ve seen mention much better ANC than the competition
there is more than one vaccine. also the first wave of vaccines are focused on reducing symptoms and deaths. the vaccines that actually prevent viral infection altogether, are still in development.
Inherited wealth is already taxed at source. Taxing it again is double taxation. What is being levied is basically a death tax. You are taxed because you died.

Your statement is a gross misunderstanding of tax codes. Inheritance should not only be protected from excessive taxation, it shouldn’t be taxed at all in the first place. It is literally taxing Death.
The App Store has more than 30k releases every month. The GeoForce Now entire catalogue is only a couple of thousand. Apple would cope fine.
Keep up with the topics and trends you care about
> Compare to ~22000 dosed in trials; two of the vaccinated died from causes that don't look related to the vaccine, and four of the placebo group died. This mostly lets us exclude a high death rate from the vaccine. Several in the placebo group ended up hospitalized from severe COVID; none in the vaccine group ended up hospitalized from COVID or vaccine related side effects.

How frequently are vaccine side effects measured 1-3 years out? How frequently do vaccines present side effects on the 1-3 year timeframe?

> Indeed, the entire judgment call made in emergency use authorization is exactly that: the benefits of the vaccines appear to conclusively outweigh the risks.

Had that judgement call not been made in one of the least competent governments in US history, I think it might carry more weight, no?

> the benefits of the vaccines appear to conclusively outweigh the risks.

I would challenge this statement in that I don't believe it possible to fully understand the risks yet. Is 22000 over ~three months the normal amount of time a vaccine trial runs (I am asking somewhat rhetorically, in that we've heard time and time again that this is not the case)
I've seen some VM providers charge more to get an instance with IPv4 connectivity. Amazon doesn't charge extra for that (last I looked anyway), so that's a potential advantage.

IPv6 penetration is growing, but Akamai reports that even the most IPv6 networks only go to ~ 92% IPv6. So if you want to have full reach, you need IPv4, but you don't really need IPv6 (although, you may want it, some of the CGNAT systems that users are behind are pretty bad, avoiding that is nice)
The first of that cohort hit 70 in 2015--they're already right about at average life expectancy. The last of that cohort to hit 70 occurs just after 2030.

And the boomers may pull stocks for other reasons--having to pay for dementia or Alzheimer's care, for instance.
>The point is that more effort isn't likely to dramatically change things on the margin.

Citation needed; I think is completely possible to modify nerve communication in real time and its within our reach but the resources to do all the research and experiments just aren't there; the causes with the big bucks are things like cancer research (nothing worng with that, just pointing it out); plus many artificial obstacles to make lab-grown nerves such as religious organizations against stem cell research.
Thanks - really appreciate it!
Speech, Neural lace, AR or VR.

I imagine the next revolution in UI will be because our computers change form and present in a completely different way, for example a virtual assistant that lives in the cloud and talks to you via AR visualisations and plain old speech.

Revolutions are not usually a reworking of the dominant mode but a displacement to another medium - e.g. iphone replacing computers for many people.
> The latter in my opinion is the great poison of modern philosophy.

Gettier problems are an example of the difficulties in knowing conclusively that you are right. More generally, humans are prone to cognitive error. I'm not sure its possible to have 100% justified certainty about many real world issues. This goes back to Descartes (perhaps further, my education is incomplete).

> It seems to be that it is often used as a way to excuse lazy reasoning and irrational behaviour.

I can agree with that!

> The irony of course, is that people who don't think truth can be known, often act with a great deal of certainty about things they believe to be right.

That is a tragic level of hypocrisy.
You certainly don't.
> The idea that banning certain information will somehow result in it disappearing has been shown repeatedly to not work.

The goal is not to make it disappear, it's to make the knowledge have a social cost. Normal people won't touch it, and they provide the 80M votes you need to win control of the government.

It's a strategy that works exceedingly well.
> Human brains are hackable, more so if you can control their inputs. Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, they all found the attack vector.

(I hate this but...)

...and Hitler before them.
>As a culture we have to figure out a better way that allows everyone independence & freedom to either work or stay-at-home parent, while providing a support network.

Do we, though?

It seems the past generation had a very nice thing going about 30-40 years ago. Fast forward and our societies are literally crumbling around us, what once took one man going to an average job to provide is now taking two full-time people on skilled labour to do the same. Happiness is down. Stress is up. Planet is rotting.

So do we really need to keep beating down a path that has, quite obviously, served us very fucking poorly?
That’s an interesting conclusion to draw from that.
I really can’t think of anything more alien to the hacker ethos than, “A group of unknown people at a technology corporation should be the ultimate authority on what I’m allowed to say, read, or share with my friends.”

Disinformation is indeed a difficult problem, but there are enough smart people in the world to figure it out without resorting to authoritarianism. We can do better.
You can upload videos to them and share them freely. Doing so draws views away from YouTube that they may have otherwise enjoyed, and may expose more users to the competition.

Demanding that YouTube be regulated to be forced to carry content when a healthy marketplace of competitors exists is hilariously un-American.
What kind of pro-communism content do you see that proliferates on Youtube? And no, the kind of politics Sanders and AOC preach for are not it.
There is a difference between "allowed to" and "ought to". It's a question of ethics, not law.

In my opinion it feels immoral for someone who has this much control over human interaction to act in a way that undermines free discourse so blatantly. To see an American company ignore the value of free speech is disheartening to me. YouTube is so popular and I wish they took a different stance on these issues.
I certainly read Nietzsche differently to this author (and probably Kierkegaard too by the sound of it). I think a point both of them made was that truth can only exist within the context of an agreed upon set of axioms. If you accept that you can’t prove your axioms, then your not accepting that all beliefs about truth are equally valid, you’re only accepting that all beliefs about truth are equally capable of being proven (as in, equally not capable at all). From that perspective it’s easy to see why you might reject dogmatism.
The startup needs an exit (eventually) I’m sure if the deal was good enough John Deere could buy them
How are we not out of IPv4 addresses already? Aren't there a billion phones out there? And probably the same number of PCs and god knows how many servers?
I agree with the main thrust of the article. However, I don't think this is a particularly new idea. AI has always been this vague, amorphous idea in people's minds. Whenever it becomes concrete progress it generally stops being called AI and gets given a more specific and useful name.
https://github.com/seligman/aws-ip-ranges

Regardless of how you calculate the %, it's doubled in a few years.

I still would love to know what they were thinking when they added 252.0.0.0/10 to their list.