skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a fascinating chart. I think the first wave in the springtime killed a lot of vulnerable populations in nursing homes and assisted living. I'm surprised the "third" wave we are currently experiencing hasn't led to more excessive mortality, but I think we will be seeing that data spike once this chart gets updated in a few weeks.

Suffice to say, if we had been more responsive, more cooperative, and more on top of our response earlier in the year, many thousands of lives could've been saved.
They build a huge mirror on society and then are shocked, shocked to find that it reflects all the ugly parts as well as the good.
Five things the November data says about Covid-19
Okay, that's dodging the object instantiation/destruction thing but it's still doing all the reference counting on them isn't it?
Let's make some concrete claims then

On partisanship: "The extremist-related murders of 2019 [in the US] were overwhelmingly (90%) linked to right-wing extremists. All but one of the incidents had ties to right-wing extremism...Almost all of the 2019 extremist-related murders were committed by white supremacists"

On weapons: "In the past 10 years, 315 of the 435 people (72%) killed in the U.S. by domestic extremists were shot to death."

Source: ADL Report on Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2019
(https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2019)
That article literally shows less than 100% of people getting Covid.
I agree with your first point. With the second one, I'm less convinced. Perhaps I'm being a pedantic here, but you can always refuse an order. There may be consequences (like being court martialed) which you can avoid by resigning, but then you're resigning to protect yourself. I wonder if refusing is ever a more effective option, but my suspicion is no...
https://www.ventrachicago.com/how-to/mobile-wallet-apps/ This claims PAYG works with transfers now, although I thought it always did for me (but I don't have an iDevice).
The majority of people I see in public every day aren't wearing masks. (If I see them in the business I manage, I show them the door. Thankfully this hasn't been a big problem.) I have spoken to some of these people whose family members have both died and suffered major health consequences. Idiot talk radio/Q-anon mind control is strong.
I have a Surface Pro 3 with Ubuntu and not only sleep is not working, when turning the screen on again the WiFi stops working...
If 1 in 1000 posts contain hate speech, Facebook has a big problem. They didn't create that problem. Hate speech is mainstream now.

Maybe they need to double down on "real names". To post to more than your personal friends, you need a Real ID or your national equivalent.
I stopped using FB 6 months ago, not by cancelling or suspending my account, just by not going there.

I'm happier. I have more time. I have less adversarial interactions and stress in my thoughts.

At first I wondered how I could do this, since it would mean losing contact with friends. But a surprising number of friends contacted me via messenger to ask how I'm doing, and now we just interact one to one, like in the old days.

I find the interaction I get on HN far more satisfying and challenging than FB. The HN guidelines make it so.

It's not rocket science.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

With guidelines like these, and a community mod system that works, there is no need for sisyphean AI or data scientists.

What concerns me for the future is that HN is dependent for its discussions on the existence of independent journalism to provide the articles on which the HN community comments. If the economic and political trends that gave FB its power continue, what will HN readers have left to discuss? Tech news? That might not be enough.

I understand why HN excludes political discussion, and that makes sense in isolation. But outside of HN, this article about FB highlights that quality civics requires informed, civil discourse. How is that going to happen?
The Problem with (Personal) Productivity
The years before covid, unemployment was at historic lows.
I think the point being made was that using this ad-hoc channel perpetuates it and prevents an actual way to contact people at Apple from forming.
There are just too many fun things to teach.

More recent paper: yarpgen

https://github.com/intel/yarpgen/blob/main/papers/yarpgen-oo...
If you're first programming job is in COBOL, then getting that second job will be a problem.

The technology stack you choose early on is pretty vital to your career growth. A common way of growing your salary early on is to switch jobs every few years. And to do that successfully, you'll want to have a valuable skill-set that hiring managers are looking for.

For all the talk around here about "fundamentals" being what makes you employable, my experience shows that is not the case. For example, my company doesn't interview candidates without Javascript on their resume because they want people who know and have worked with it. I think it's a dumb policy, but I have no control to change it.
> If I had a Core Solo, I'd likely have dumped it.

I do note that there was never a Core Solo desktop CPU. There were handful of single-core Conroe Celerons released, but all main "Core" series parts were at least dual-core (i.e. Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Quad)
I've been reading "Modern Compiler Design" currently, not too sure how beginner friendly it is though.

Also, haven't made it too far into the book so can't really give a recommendation either way.
I take your broader point, but I don't think it's 50/50 as much as it is a vocal 10% on either side with the majority remaining pretty moderate and reasonable. I don't personally cross the divide, I'm a political liberal (earning me the 'socialist' brand from the right) but I don't dabble in the tribalism and try to be charitable toward those I disagree with (thus I'm a nazi to the 10% on the far left) but there's still a huge swath of people in the middle.
Jim Cramer was hilarious when talking about Tesla stock during Doordash's IPO. He said he was talking to a young person about Tesla and was asking them why they bought the stock. And they said "because it goes up! and I want to be rich!". He threw up his hands and said "how do you argue with that?".
Theres a chrome plugin that fixes the pricing you mention such that the search page shows the true combined price.
That's interesting to know! Yes, MRR allows us to budget things for the long term whereas credits felt like more liabilities to honor.

Sent you an email (julien at serpapi.com). I am sure we can figure something.
Nope not at all it's open source here!
https://github.com/dasveloper/Scrambly

It's essentially just a Fisher-Yates shuffling algorithm.
Fly it anyway and do a DiRT (pun intended).
And why exactly do you have to dislodge Russian and Turkish forces from their positions which are 10 000 km from the US borders and in Russian and Turkish neighborhood? Just to "secure the oil" [0]? Because stabilization, development, and prosperity of the affected countries is certainly not on the US agenda list if are to judge by the numerous outcomes.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U10p3Tn9V5Y
Yes, but how many mega-corporations would become less profitable as a result? No mega-corp left behind I say.
Well said, this point can not be stated enough!
I feel like "teach you to learn" vs "teach you useful skills"is a false dichotomy, and often just an excuse for poor teaching. They can and should do both. The reasom they don't is because they're so research focussed, which is fine as an option but a problem because there are no or vert few good options for high level academic courses that are more practically focussed.
Remove taxes and bureaucracy and you'll see small ownership and meritocracy going up.
Remove corruptible figure of powers as well and the market will slowly digest and dismantle big and inefficient companies.
Sorry I don't speak to U3 clowns.
> a ton of coal

At least.
Ads load for me on mobile. There's a banner at the bottom of the screen.
A Marvelous Marble Machine for Making Music
"Every day, around 40,000 thunderstorms crackle around the world, collectively turning Earth’s atmosphere into a giant electrical circuit. The upper reaches of the atmosphere have a positive charge, and the planet’s surface has a negative one. Even on sunny days with cloudless skies, the air carries a voltage of around 100 volts for every meter above the ground. In foggy or stormy conditions, that gradient might increase to tens of thousands of volts per meter.

Ballooning spiders operate within this planetary electric field."
I have just spent the last 13 months significantly reworking a compiler that turns Excel-like formulas into JavaScript. The compiler is used by an app designer, and the formula language is meant to be easy to pick up for people used to spreadsheets. A significant difference compared to Excel is that our compiler features static typing, enabling helpful error messages to be produced at build-time.

(Spreadsheets, on the other hand, tend to try very hard to make sense of types at runtime, using type coercion to turn values of the wrong type into something of the expected type they can work with. That produces surprising results and confuses users. =IF(2, 3, 4) will generally produce 3, because 2 -- which should be a logical/boolean value -- is interpreted as TRUE. We think it's a better idea to warn the user that the first parameter is wrong, and to do that as soon as possible.)

By far the largest challenge with reworking the compiler has been the type system. I have expanded our type system from the four standard spreadsheet types to encompass more than 80, as well as added support for lambdas (for use with functions like SUMIF and FILTER), type inference, parameterized types and union types. The biggest addition is probably an imperative mode, that executes formulas with side-effects in response to events being fired. This is all in service of features we have wanted to add for years, that have been held back by our (previously) simplistic type system.

I did take a compiler class at university, more than 15 years ago, but while that proved very useful when writing the formula parser (an operator-precedence parser, initially straight out of a textbook), type theory was not part of the class. I had to pick up bits and pieces by reading the Java Language Specification (JLS) and by experimenting.

The Cornell class doesn't seem to feature type theory either, which I think is unfortunate. Now that the pendulum has swung, yet again, firmly in the direction of static typing, perhaps static typing will become a bigger part of CS compiler curriculums.
Yeah and Relativity and the Spaceship Company and several others. There is a huge talent base in SoCal, between LA/Long Beach and Mojave.
Stop Dissing Electric-Car Companies Already
FIFO unless something catches my eye that needs immediate attention.
A cool advance in thermoelectric conversion
In my experience, shallow social interactions and the processes for building connections are tedious for some people. (introverts?)

However, I have found that even the most solitary person really enjoys the company of someone they are in tune with and can have meaningful conversations with.

Does your claim of finding interactions tedious hold for these type of pre-existing intimate connections too ?

Just curious
bug report: you beep using the word "bad" when I think you meant to say "amazing"
Plotting assassinations of governors.
I am not endangering others by choosing to eat a cheeseburger.

I am, however, doing so by choosing not wear a mask.

Your right to swing your fists ends where my nose begins.
Exhibit A', flame thrower.
Peter Norvig's answer to “Why didn't Common Lisp fix the world?” (2016)
Doesn't the new Raspberry Pi 400 fit this role pretty perfectly?
That's not the point. It's very hard to appreciate the scale of a difference between two elements on a graph if the graph's scale does not start at zero.
> I have encountered the same problem with the tunnelbana in Stockholm.

It took me a second to realize you weren't talking about the NFC chip, which is codenamed Stockholm ;)
"Mueller is untrustworthy therefore his investigation's conclusions are untrustworthy" is what you're saying.

But at the same time you linked me to an NPR article about the initial summary of Mueller report that said "No collusion", which you believed. But then the actual report came out and it said "Quite possibly collusion" and therefore Mueller's a liar? That's some pretty impressive doublethink.

It's clear no amount of evidence matters to you so I won't try any more.

What makes you so sure you aren't the one being psyops-ed by whichever media source you trust?

You hold diametrically opposing opinions simulataneously ("No collusion!" && "Mueller's a liar!") to fit your image of a charismatic leader. You believe in some amorphous "they" who are silently manipulating everyone behind the scenes. These are all classic signs of being psypops-ed.
Zapit Family – Winners of Best Concept at Fintech Hackathon 2015
> Momentum / current market share for enterprise and gaming is strongly in the x86 / Windows space.

Sure, but they're not just going to sacrifice the consumer market entirely. The industry as a whole will need to respond.

> There are other cases where "M1 for x" doesn't exist yet - high-end workstations, for example.

For now. In a year, I wouldn't bet on it.

> AMD is at something like 20% of Windows notebook share after about one year of having dominate mobile chips.

AMD beat Intel by a little in efficiency over the last year (and for the mainstream laptop market, after a certain point, that's mostly what people care about). M1 is a _dramatic_ jump forward, there. "Here's an AMD and an Intel laptop for 1k each, the AMD one is a bit faster and has slightly better battery life" is a different proposition to "Here's the same AMD laptop from earlier, plus a $1k MacBook Air. The MacBook Air's a bit faster, and has twice the battery life".
It's a conspiracy TO sell ads. Conspiracy just means there's some subset of people that aren't "let in" on what's happening, so they don't fully understand the mechanism of what's going on.
The problem is that we do not have a standard "output unit."

> Productivity: the effectiveness of productive effort, especially in industry, as measured in terms of the rate of output per unit of input.

We can all agree "lines of code" is a shit metric, and we can't say "# of bugs closed," because each will have variable difficulty and value. Programmers employed by a business are in charge of automating repetitive tasks, not performing them (the classic measure of productivity).

I perform UX research on APIs. Here, we standardize the "output unit" and therefore can get a better idea of a developer's productivity. Every developer performs the same task, so we can simply measure time spent.

There will never be an ethical solution to measure developer productivity during the workday; this isn't Ford's assembly line.
Is Andrew Yang Running for NYC Mayor? All Signs Point to Yes
I'll actually blame the internet for this.

In the 1980s if you wanted to meet someone you had to build a social circle and do things. Even though I don't like clubs, my friends would pull me to them , and occasionally I'd meet someone.

I'm not on social media/ online dating because I found it to be a stressful time suck.

Now you have an entire generation who see social circles as optional. So they sit inside all day swipping right , and when they find they've been chatting with Bots all day, they lash out on Reddit.

The best part of going out with my friends was always spending time with them. It wasn't a matter of go to club 3 times == find partner. Chilling with your friends, even just the Uber home , is its own reward.

At the same time you definitely can invest time in real social activities. A colleague of mine, who's married casually remarked all the guys in her tennis class have phds. You want to be a PhD, or another high income individual who spends his or her free time in tennis class, not an angry net citizen who complains about liberals all day on Reddit.
I had a similar situation. I was very weary at first, but it was one of the best trips I had in a while. I still keep in touch with the hostess.
Google Has a Color Picker
I'm a huge fan of open source and open standards, in fact I always push for and expect portability and avoid proprietary systems where possible. Abstractions like Kubernetes are a fantastic middle ground to provide portability across platforms whilst taking advantage of cloud provider services where they exist. The same for apps and frameworks built on open standards like Kubeflow and Apache Beam.

The supporting services and systems come when you run services that require strong guarantees for reliability and resiliency, and meeting the needs of different lines of business.

If I think of a mid-size company that wants to run these kind of workloads and demands minimal downtime, resilience against local disaster and minimal data loss:
- Customer facing applications in a reasonable scalable manner to meet peaks and troughs of demand without needing to size of peak demand

- CRM/ERP systems to manage customer data, payments, sales processes and inventory that CANNOT have corrupted or lost data

- Data platforms for running reasonable scale analytics and analysis on reasonable size volumes of data (say a few Petabytes online accessible, analyse 10s of Terabytes per quer)

- Capability for mid-level machine learning and access to modern acceleration hardware, up to date GPUs and maybe some NVIDIA Ampere type equipment

- Tools and platforms for operations and security that can capture, store and analyse all the logs produced by all those systems, plus some half decent cyber services - network level netflow analysis, maybe IDS if you are feeling fancy, endpoint scanning and analysis, threat intelligence capabilities to correlate against all of that data

- Tooling and platforms for developers - source control, artifact repositories, container registries, CI platforms like Jenkins ideally with automated security scanning integrated, CD for deployments like Spinnaker to canary and deploy your releases safely

- Networking for all of that equipment, ideally private backbones, leased Ethernet or MPLS - and that all needs to be resilience, redundant and duplicated

- Storage for all of the above that meets performance and cost needs, replicated, and backed up offline

Yes, you can do all of that yourself! But let's be clear, buying a server on eBay is not even a fraction of 1% of the reality of running real infrastructure for real systems for real businesses. There ARE reasons why you might do this but that is increasingly the exception due to either extreme scale, regulatory and privacy requirements typically from data sovereignty or very unique hardware requirements.
Dude the courts looked at whatever "evidence" was presented and rejected it. Multiple times. And we've listened to you here. Now fuck off.

What you're really saying is that there is election fraud and Biden's win is illegitimate. Which is just another way of saying, "I don't believe in democracy, I'm an authoritarian and I'm going to go out and undermine democracy because I want America to be an authoritarian state."

You should be banned from HN and I think that anyone who doesn't believe that the election was legitimate - i.e. that no meaningful fraud occurred - should be banned from the HN community.

Enough is enough. It's clearly dangerous to allow these views the shroud of legitimacy by giving them space in the public square. Otherwise HN is just enabling them.

You're full of shit and all this pseudo-philosophical pseudo-analytical pseudo-objective cant you're spewing is nonsense.

You're acting exactly like one of those crypto-racists who knows that their true belief would be deemed unpalatable or unacceptable by the community so they'll blow as much smoke around as possible without ever stepping out to say what they're actually driving towards.
Both seem giddy about abridging individual rights and liberal values.

Invite debate, look for commonality and move forward.
"will say"?

They ARE trying to remove abortion, in many states including no exemption for rape/incest/threat to mother's life.

You have militia groups patrolling the southern border.
Musk isn't purely a self-made success story. He was born into emerald mines, got a first class education, and used that inherited wealth to start companies, sell, and then buy stakes in growing companies other people founded (inc. Tesla, incidentally).

So is the lesson here to be born rich rather than try to get an education? Or just that when you are born rich education is optional? It is notable that the other founders in companies he'd later buy actually had to get an education, he just used wealth to stand on their shoulders.
I've had a lot of bad experiences with what I think of as MBA types. Lots of lack of experience, naive about what they're managing and etc. They have often seemed heavily metric focused to the point that only the given metrics matter.

I've worked with managers and executives that I thought were great, but the folks who sort of step into a role seemingly because they have an MBA, it just seems like a recipe for just another layer of bureaucracy / hurdle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcoDV0dhWPA

I assume that I've had bad luck to some extent, but otherwise I'm really lost at what value an MBA should provide.
To be fair, it was basically the history of early military nuclear technology. US, France and USSR irradiated many of their own people to develop their first nuclear bombs. Civil nuclear heavily benefited from those advances.
Still, I rather not be irradiated to make science go faster.
Not everyone has the option to stay at home. Essential workers, for example. Making them choose between forced exposure to COVID vectors and joblessness is not much of a choice.
If only the UK had had some way of influencing the EU's policies.
I think the host caliber was much different then too. The professional AirBNB people had not setup shop.
I've never heard that about [1], and would be interested in hearing people's reasons as well. I've used it for many years now and have had few problems. The only other version I've used is Mitsuharu Yamamoto's emacs-mac (https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/src/master/). For my use case (except for tasks requiring a web browser, I spend almost all my time in Emacs, but I don't use many gui features) the two are essentially equivalent.
I use emacsforosx and am perfectly happy with it. Seriously man, don’t worry about it just go for it. If you find out that you really need something that doesn’t have then you can always compile yourself. It’ll be trivial to transfer your set up, so don’t succumb to analysis paralysis.