skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With IFR of 0.5-1% that is really hard choice to make.

I'm getting the sense that there's little public appetite for waiting another 6-9 months for a new vaccine. This might change as more people get the virus, but there's a good chance 10-15% of Americans have already had or currently have the virus, so if that didn't scare people already, I'm not sure if another month of full ICUs will.
Is this comparing to the new reddit interface, or the old one? The old one is just as fast, although the page size might be slightly smaller.
The cops love issuing jaywalking tickets in DC, it's a tradition. Quick story: about 10 years ago I walked over to the Library of Congress with two friends from Virginia, and we walked across the street in the middle of the block. There was an officer way down on the corner and he screamed at us "HEY! No jaywalking!" and we hustled across as quickly as we could and went inside the library, looking at each other with puzzled glances. It never occurred to any of us that we simply couldn't walk across the street, and all of us are from the northeast US corridor. I'm a US citizen and that was the first time and the last time that anyone has scolded me for jaywalking (just so the EU people reading this understand: it's not usually enforced here except in the biggest cities).
Yeah, that's still going on, dammit -- my new D780 has the 30 min. limit.
Just wanted to plug some of my favorite ambient albums: Ambient for Airports (1 is my favorite, there are four I think.) and The Haxans Cloaks Execution. I don't listen to a lot of ambient, but theyre quite good.
Startups are by definition 'dynamic'.

If you are going to a startup and doing a very rote, repetitive thing, then you're not very lucky, but most startup jobs are definitely not that.

The risk is that there is 'too much dynamism' and people and up spinning their wheels, over pivoting, crashing. But that's definitely 'dynamic'.
Okay, but the way governments perpetuate income inequality isn't at all fake like Flat Earth conspiracies.
Not addressing your main points, but that is a seriously prejudiced view of people struggling with mental illness. Mentally ill people aren’t “psychos”, many people in all walks of life struggle with anxiety, depression or something else. That’s not to say violent people don’t have underlying mental health issues. It’s quite an outdated view that mentally ill people are distinct from “normal” people, and aren’t just people who’ve suffered trauma. What happens if you find yourself dealing with these issues, are you going to shame yourself into not seeking treatment?
I think every Apple derivative product built since the iPhone is proof they don’t need to reinvent the initial market conditions of the iphone to yield high ROI. Half of Apples success is just understanding their own customer base and building a car for them. If you are in this group you already know it (i am). You could say at least 10% of existing US car owners would already own one if it existed. Apple just needs to show up and build a car for them and its sold. Same is true for headphones. For TVs. Etc. it is all coming.
> That's under 3% inflation which is a not breathtaking.

Perhaps it is better to say that I am caught off-guard by the power of compound interest.

> The Fed targets 2%, which helps avoid deflationary spirals and helps both stability and lowers unemployment, two of their mandates.

I am generally skeptical of the Fed, but that's an entirely different discussion, so I'll just nod my head and move along.

> Wages have surpassed inflation in just about every income bracket for the past 100 years. And when you factor in total remuneration, returns to workers are even higher. Here's 50+ years of data [1]

That is good to see, thanks!

> No one in their right mind holds cash savings for 35 years. It's a ludicrously long time to simply hold your savings in a cash pile.

True, but people do usually place their money in a savings account. And while in theory the interest from the savings account should exceed inflation, it seems to me the mere fact of inflation means that people who have primarily cash savings are needlessly penalized.

But while it is absurd to store you money in a coffee can in the shed for 30+ years, I'm not sure it should be.
I’ve seriously considered it! It seems like it would probably be a pretty big endeavor, but it would certainly be cool to have.
I've never seen it happen in a college town. See comment above. Usually the only place jaywalking in enforced is in the really big cities, especially Washington, DC.
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> We don't know whether we can even stop the growth

I think extreme lockdown measures could, but they'd almost have to be indefinite, and there's no appetite for that.
Maybe, but I think its debatable and not exactly black and white. We were terrified of communism and communist countries haven't exactly turned out to be a bastion of humanity. Again, I think it was a shit situation with shit choices. They were our allies. Russia was invading and slaughtering them. Would the "right" thing to do really be to let it continue and not help them?
Facebook child abuse detection hit by new EU rules
Relying primarily on relational modeling reminds me of Out of the Tar Pit[0]. The well known paper suggests a combination of functional programming and relational data modeling.

[0] http://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf
I visited once out of curiosity, and was just shocked to see how overtly racist people were. It wasn't just "immigrants should stay in their countries" (which I was expecting), it was full on "I don't see why I shouldn't be able to kill me a n*gger if I feel like it" speech (censorship mine). Truly disgusting.
I’m... not allowing anything? I’m not facebook nor do I work for them, in case that wasn’t clear.
Affordable reverse-osmosis water purifier like sold in the US. In Japan, it's around x4-x10 expensive (maybe due to lower demand thanks to water supply).

I want to import the purifier with pump, but it seems that it's hard to find a product that supports 100V/50Hz power.
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I'm actually fascinated to understand more about how these things arise, as well as cases of scientific fraud (like the Schoen research scandal:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6n_scandal. I tend to imagine (without data) that many of these situations arise as you suggest - someone gets squeezed, whether for money or research results, and turns to fraud to make ends meet - which becomes a vicious cycle.
I disagree. I think the central thesis of Clean Code still holds up. You should never mix layers of abstraction in a single function.

That more than anything is what kills readability, because context switching imposes a huge cognitive load. Isolating layers of abstraction almost always means small, isolated, single-purpose functions.
Yes, you clever person, you caught me! I'm just a hypocrite who believes moral absolutism is objectively evil, in complete opposition to what I've been saying so far!

Or maybe I believe it's dangerous because of what I've seen and experienced, but I don't believe it's objectively bad because that would be extremely silly. No, it's not bad and you're not bad, I just don't agree, I just don't see things the same way.
Man, it's very difficult, and very humbling to try and wrap your head around just how big the universe is. I don't think human brains are capable of thinking at that scale.
That's always been the case. Thousands of people die every year from influenza spread by asymptomatic carriers. COVID-19 is more deadly, but that's just a difference in degree. Where do we draw the line?
I don't see this. There is right-wing content hitting front-page reddit constantly, and a lot of the most popular sub-reddits like "change my view" are just soap-boxes for right-wing talking points.
> A more cynical person might say that one of Apple’s strengths is marketing commoditised capabilities as something special.

The Apple Card is easily the best card I've ever had. Its not just about touch-less payments (which doesn't actually require the Apple Card), it's the way you are notified, legibility of bills, convenience and immediacy of cash back, nicely integrated and payment options plus a bunch of other great features. Notably, Apple was the only card company which notified me in a conspicuous way that I had the option to skip payments during COVID.

Nothing is specifically amazing about the Apple Card, but collectively it's easily the best credit card I've had. The only time I use my other cards at all is when they have significantly better cash back programs. (Amazon card for example)

Your comment is close to the truth though. Apple's strength is in creating polished/ well integrated products. Often those products don't need bleeding edge tech, just someone integrating them better than existing players. The credit card is kind of a classic example. It's not fundamentally different, just a better experience all around.
I've used it exclusively for years without once looking to Google, which may well be better (I honestly wouldn't know) but DDG isn't a problem.
There are other constraints in physics than the speed of light.
I don't think GOPATH is poorly thought out at all. Dependency-environment-locating is a PITA. Off the top of my head, I can't think of a single package management system that doesn't use universal installs, FOO_PATH or "giant local dump per project".

Universal:

- apt, yum, brew

Team PATH:

- GOPATH

- CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH

- PYTHONPATH (which Conda, virtualenv, etc modify)

- CARGO_HOME

Team redundant local blob:

- Node

- pipenv

Rust is probably the least-half-assed (most full-assed?) model, with both a sane user-wide default for cache (~/.local/cargo), a way to edit that default, and project location flexibility.

But I actually love the Go notation that I've opted to organize most of my code around the ~/namespace/src/domain/repo scheme. I never lose track of where a folder is :)
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I've been to business hotels in the USA in my travels that literally don't have pedestrian access. There's a road without a pedestrian sidewalk up to the front of the hotel, and that's it. You CANNOT get in or out without a car. It is crazy.
Devils advocate: how many of those suicides are caused directly by the restrictions and not the pandemic, how many extra would have lost their sanity due to a stricter lockdown?

Truth is we're not taking much time to measure the non-covid, non economic outcomes
The way things were announced in the UK, they just set up for what India did: a no-notice lockdown that causes people to disperse on crowded trains. Oops.
At French gas stations, I saw "GPL" pumps. I was expecting free gas, in return for an obligation to give rides to hitchhikers, but apparently it was merely liquid propane.
Don't write functions bigger than your co-workers' heads, either.
> and it would launch an investigation for murder

manslaughter, I assume?
But light only travels at c in a vacuum, if I remember correctly. So the journey isn't instantaneous, but still very very short. :)
> Iphone 1 was far from a commercial success.

That's a difficult statement to support. It set the stage for everything that came after, and it knocked the industry back on its heels. I'm not sure of the margin or unit numbers but for lots of values of "commercial success", that alone is hard to ignore.
Major deja-vu moment for me. I've been carrying that headline around (as a quote) for a few months at least as an expression of a sentiment I've had for years, and thought I've seen it in a few places (and on HN), yet Google only shows me this blog as a source (which obviously isn't possible and almost feels like gaslighting). Does someone have an older reference for this?
I love this. It is (or will be) "the street" from Snow Crash come to life.
For fine art photography a fast lens is still desirable, but for almost anything else it matters less than it used to. The sensor itself is worth about 2 stops.
That's one reason I do tend to grab my Sony E mount fairly often these days... I just wish there were a lens close to the quality and weight of the PF 300 for the Sony system.
The consensus is not always correct, but unless one becomes an expert in the field, betting on the consensus being right is probably the way to go.
At the root, Ponzi schemes stem from dishonesty, an unwillingness to tell people that your vision did not align with consensus reality. It is a manifestation of imposter syndrome and an unwillingness to align expectations with reality.

This is why everyone who is smart about raising money for ventures underpromises and overdelivers. The opposite, overpromising and underdelivering, is a road to hell.
Several BioWare Veterans Return for New Mass Effect Game
>I don't see this. There is right-wing content hitting front-page reddit constantly

front page as in "/r/all", or your front page? At least on /r/all there isn't much "right wing content", aside from some posts from /r/greentext and /r/PoliticalCompassMemes.
if a car hits a pedestrian, the car doesn't get destroyed but the pedestrian's body does

other than that, sure, you're right
This article is absolute garbage. It’s embarrassing that it got this high on the front page.

It has zero information. It’s a paean to smug, unconsidered mediocrity.

Not only is the premise of the tenuous analogy likely completely wrong (the preponderance of evidence suggests eating “mostly plants” is, in fact, anywhere from bad to terrible for you, depending on your choice of plants), but the way in which it’s presented is absurd as well; paying lip service to “incontrovertible scientific research” and then writing an article completely free of any references to such research.

The only thing of value I took away from this article is that the author posted it 3 times this week, and it only got popular on the 3rd try. So if you want to get something to the front page of HN, post it a bunch of times!
Trickle-Down Economics Fails a Sophisticated Statistical Test
I don’t know how you would do it yourself as a layman, but the musicians in circles I follow use a vendor like HAAWK to manage their content ID related stuff.
I use .NET for server-side rendering of components. I also use vanilla DOM APIs to manage changes in a component's state.

Why get all complicated with React?
Isn't this sort of an argument in favor of an apple car?

With tesla the over all build quality for price range isn't great (they are getting better), but the software integration and UX is really good.

Apple is really good at both those things, if it translates to cars that could be compelling.
If not Bernie Madoff, maybe inspired by Bernie Ebbers.

One of the most morally warped Canadian businessmen ever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Ebbers
I think Apple is smart enough to do marker research on this. Tesla used a big tablet to cheap out. Apple is not going to cheap out
1400 years Quranic verse: " And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander. "
- Quran 51:47
Out of several thousand hours (close to 10K?) of late-night walking in urban areas (such as from working into the wee hours, then walking home all the way across town), I've been held up at gunpoint twice, discouraged or thwarted countless other approaches by muggers, and several times had bottles thrown at me.

Two of the locations that were memorably the most dangerous-seeming were some of the best-lit, and they weren't lit because they were high-crime.

Some other factors to consider in what's safe and/or feels safe:

* The presence of houses on the sidewalk (with people in them who might hear you, and doors you could go bang on), even if the street is dark except for the occasional porch light or glow through the drapes.

* Presence of open businesses (restaurants, hotels, cafes, hospitals, donut shops), which are pretty obviously places you can run into, where there will be other people.

* On the other side of open businesses being good... people outside of nightlife businesses can be risky, and sometimes feel risky. (Usually innocuous here, but walk enough, and you'll eventually encounter drunk people looking to fight, and also see people looking to prey upon someone from the concentration of candidates out late at night. And you'll read news reports of criminal score-settling with gunshots, outside some of the bars/clubs you walk past every night.)

* Office buildings with visible security guard desk in the lobby. In practice, I think they could only phone the police while you're getting stabbed against their glass wall, but the witness will discourage some attackers, and it seemed much more reassuring than an empty skyscraper lobby on a completely deserted downtown street.

* Possibly: Unlocked lobby/vestibule front doors of apartment buildings, which aren't obviously reassuring like an open business with people inside, but (if you paired this info with tips) can be used by walkers to thwart attackers.

* Street crime data.

(I should add that I'm white and male, and I know other groups of people face additional threats on the street, but I don't know how my experience applies to that.)
Photos That Bear Witness to Modern Slavery
Photographer Lisa Kristine travels the world documenting the unbearably harsh realities of modern-day slavery. She shares hauntingly beautiful images -- miners in the Congo, bricklayers in Nepal -- that illuminate the plight of the 27 million souls enslaved worldwide.
That antenna was a misstep, sure. And they had others. But for the most part over that period, they were defining the product category, and competitors were reacting to it.
The automobile, today the scourge of the environment, heating the earth and blackening the buildings, was once hailed as the saviour of cities by bringing cleanliness and purity to roads and the air.

A century from now will our descendants be cursing batteries and silicon PV panels? I suspect so.
Nobody wants the punch the monkey ads to come back.
What I said:

he's clearly been prepared to upend his own ideological leanings

What you said:

[nothing to do with him upending his ideological leanings].

Your bafflement would arguably be less if you took more care in reading the comments before you respond.
Apple Targets Autonomous Car for Consumers by 2024
This is just one of the reasons why I found FB infrastructure to be great. I used to work at Amazon before moving to FB and the difference in internal tool quality is night and day.

FB approaches internal code development with the same data driven rigor as their business decisions. Everything is measured, so I knew for example that the slow build times I was experiencing were slower than 99% of everyone else. Easiest hardware request ever.

So it should be no wonder that even tests are measured. Flaky tests get disabled. That's nice and keeps trust high in the test framework. The downside is that you are likely to forget to fix the disabled test, so now some functionality that was important enough to test in the first place becomes untested and leaves room for others to introduce regressions. This has happened in my team, but the pace at FB is so quick that there is no way to tie up all these loose ends without giving up your personal time. Or maybe it requires someone more diligent than me.

Either way, I just wanted to share that I personally found the idea of measuring test runs and acting on insights from thise measurements really powerful. It's a theme that can be found at all levels of FB infrastructure.
I think Apple is doing car exactly because we should be looking at the road. I am sure their AR technology will be incorporated into windshield head up display
I think it's more that bad programmers focus on surface details like code style. All too often I've seen a code review of a complex feature get derailed by nitpicking of inconsequential things like variable names, formatting, etc.

I rarely comment on code style for this reason. I want the review to focus on functionality, not style. I don't really believe the notion "imperfect code style is a code smell" anyway.
I don't think I entirely understand the question, is $othercommand doing something with all of the lines together?
I get very excited every time I write in Go like I don't in any other language.
This is a great point. Connection process should be an array of the founder's faces with chat blurbs welcoming them to connect their camera with your avatar in the middle with a preview of your camera!
There is an often cited quote from Seymour Cray when asked about Apple using Cray computers to design the next Apple: "That's interesting, because I'm designing the next Cray with an Apple!"

https://wiki.c2.com/?AppleCrayComputer
Thank you! That's very interesting.
Making a concrete argument like that is inconsistent with the passive principle-free bromide of the post, so you’ll have to find demands like that elsewhere.
It's not enough to have the best hardware, software, and vertical integration. You also have to know when to apply it and when not to. A capacitive touch screen makes for a terrible driving experience. Apple doesn't simply add touch to every product it can. Note how the Airpods Max have a huge surface that looks almost like a Magic Mouse, but volume is controlled by the tactile Digital Crown instead. I expect Apple to make better choices than Tesla overall.
(Almost) Everything is "possible" - but looks pretty inefficient to do this. So are MS relevant/appropriate when you are trying to push stuff through the door at a very fast pace, but have to go back to something more "monolithic" sooner or later? Just like the article is suggesting?
My state has an Rt as high as London and people are running around like there is no epidemic at all. It's very frustrating.

https://rt.live/
This is the kind of blog you feel good about it, but you know you don't really understand it. It will require some reading and understanding of the libraries first. Anyone thinks otherwise is fooling himself.
The quote is based on one from Michael Pollan’s book In Defense of Food, around 2007. The original is "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." It’s been reworded into at least a few things since then.
Popper is a retarded pseud and if you take “the tolerance paradox” seriously you should stop trying to make philosophical or political arguments. All it means if you think it’s relevant is that your personal philosophy is internally inconsistent and unstable.
> But car and cdr in Lisp and Scheme only retrieve values; they do not copy any aggregate object.

That's because lists are mutable in Python.

Do it on tuples and they retrieve and do not copy.

Of course in C, one can simply do `ptr[0]` or `ptr+1` which also only retrieves.

> When was the last time you saw recursion on list[0] and list[1:] in a production Python program, or even a tutorial?

That is purely a difference of culture, not of what the language facilities, both Scheme and Python allow either style.
Maximum entropy merely implies that the temperature everywhere is the same (any other situation would necessarily have a lower entropy). You could in theory have maximum entropy at 1000K. Our universe has a ton of empty space, and not all that much energy, so the temperature at which it equilibriates is very low. It's also expanding, so the hypothetical equilibrium temperature is decreasing all the time.

It's also worth noting that the entropy can be very large, even if the temperature is absolute zero. (You just need a system with a lot of different ground-states that all have the same energy.)
> There are forms of speech that infringe on the freedoms of other people.

This is a nonsense authoritarian meme that I wish would die off.