skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to know if the impact of COVID you could look at a metric like excess mortality which there's pretty good data on, then compare the excess to the total mortality. Usually it's calculated so that any excess deaths is pretty rare which is what makes it a good metric.

With year on year increase in deaths I'm not sure I could convince myself it was significant unless I had a chart and a calculator in front of me. A year over year death increase, even a large one, seems like it would occur pretty often. Even a large increase in the increase doesn't sound like it would be significant -- wouldn't that be pretty sensitive to the shape of the population relative to age? And I'm not sure what that looks like off the top of my head. There's a lot to adjust for, and you need to be sure you're not just rolling dice at the end with the numbers.

My point is it's not really a good metric. There's plenty of reasons why it would jump around, and I'm not smart enough to adjust for all the necessary variables in my head. It's not obvious how much we should expect it to jump around. But maybe others here just know their US demographic data better than me.
You leave him alone, he is a renowned Field Marshal, though as OP, also known to suck a lot of #!@%

P.S. 9gag in-joke, you wouldn't get it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513074

Capitalism is failing these people. There’s statistics all around. If you want to bury your head in the sand and lash out at random people on the internet, I feel sorry for you.
Your point is truthful but not completely relevant: Bezos, at least, did receive a considerable amount of money as funding for Amazon from his family. My point is that the money received from parents most often is, in fact, an advantage. Now that I wrote it down explicitly, I wonder why is it that I have to argue this, seems quite obvious.

(Note: I'm not saying the funding from parents was sufficient, or even necessary in Bezos' case.)
I think you can still own both. The bazooka will need a tax stamp for each round if I’m not mistaken. I believe there are still transferable m79 grenade launchers and there are definitely M16 under barrel attachments you can buy.
This varies on how important the action is.

Optimistic updates are great for inconsequential stuff like an HN upvote. The user likely doesn't even want to see an error message if their upvote timed out.

But it definitely is "lying to the user", or better phrased "breaking user expectations". It's just that the user isn't likely to care except for important actions.

For example, imagine applying optimistic update to sending an email. The user would expect to be able to close their laptop after sending an email and seeing the UI transition. It would be catastrophic if the email was never actually sent.

Optimistic updates are best relegated to micro-polish imo. Frankly, I think it's overused especially in combination with autosave UI.
With digital encoding, you have a defined bandwidth you have to care about (the audible range of frequencies), which puts a limit on how often you need to represent the state of the wave.

Also, digital transmission does fancy things with phase, amplitude, and frequency combined to represent multiple bits at once.
Europe has cap of 0.3%, Australia is 0.5% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee#European_Union
A client of mine has an entire internal Line of Business application built on that mechanic: backend returns javascript to shove HTML somewhere. The trick is that the js is built automatically based on components. Devs rarely have to touch js.

It's lightweight on the frontend and a pleasure to develop for since forms are entirely coded on the backend with components. On rare exceptions more complex pages have some sprinkled lodash.js.

They have around 400 CRUD pages with complex business validations. Up to 1.5k concurrent users. At that point MySQL starts to sweat a bit and p95 increases above 200ms. All running on 2 machines: a nginx+phpfpm and a MariaDB.

The instant no-compilation feedback loop of edit-save-refresh is orgasmic. That system opened my eyes to a lot of preconceptions and buzzwords I once held sacred.
I would assume they lived off campus...
He said maybe, so it's a hypothesis.
More importantly: parking illegally often endangers or harms other people (e.g. by blocking fire hydrants that might be needed in an emergency, or by impeding the flow of traffic).
Well things are way worse about this in europe than in the US. US justice system is selectively varied compared to others. Europe you just pay the flat fee. In the US you can get a little popular/street justice into it.
CSS is not as traditional an experience but is so fundamental to succeeding as a front-end developer. I really love that this is a Zine as well!
> The article also states "How different is 400ms from 200ms?" Well that could be a huge difference on a typical user device (and possibly more like 1s+ vs 400ms).

Absolutely correct. Usability tests repeatedly show people perceive slowness at about 100ms.
Again, I am not commenting on the general skill of a child...
doing it at the huge expense for other people

Begs the question.

You build in the assumption that policy responses to a pandemic will harm the economy, and then don't do any work to establish that policy responses in this pandemic have prioritized lives over the economy, or to demonstrate that policy responses that weren't used would have been similar, etc.
Anduril is an open-source firmware for flashlights
If you are okay with a GUI on Windows, Mac or Linux, I can recommend Hozz. https://blog.zhangruipeng.me/Hozz/ No longer under development but works just fine.
Wasn't that the result of a unique world order where the USA was the only industrialized country not recovering from huge war damage?

Doesn't seem like something you could replicate worldwide. Not all countries can be winners all the time.
We need something like XMLHttpRequest right now. Google should integrate Dart into Chrome.
> can also explain a lot of it as well

What do you mean by "a lot"? There are statistics here if you want to dig in more:

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Weekly-counts-of-death-by-jurisdic...
> Follow up many times | You won’t make people mad if you’re polite.

I am getting lots of emails from outsourcing companies. I ignore them. I find their follow up emails extremely frustrating.

"Thanks for taking the time to read this email. After I sent my previous email (See below) I had put a reminder in to check-in with you to see how things were going with the need of a Data Engineering."

Why should I care about your reminder?
The headline oversells what this guy actually did and was probably penned by an editor interested in views and not the author. The HN admins seem to have agreed with me that the headline is bad and came up with their own much more accurate one.
Nice! Didn't knew postMarketOS. This[1] is mostly what I'm trying to do and their wiki make me think I might have underestimated the task. haha.. This seems to be a good place to try to contribute!

If I can convince myself to not fall into the rabbit hole of rebuilding my blog first, I'll definitely write about my porting efforts :)

[1] https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Mainlining
Or for simple human presence as forcing function https://focusmate.com
I didn't downvote, but it's probably because every time talk about covid related deaths comes up, there is someone that tries to downplay it, and almost always with the same line of reasoning.

Problem is it ignores all the actual reports of covid deaths, overwhelmed hospitals and lack of stats on significant increases (or at least significant enough to account for the extra deaths) from other causes. The implication is almost always something along the lines of Covid is just a flu, it's not that deadly and we shouldn't have taken the measures we have.
Probably we will see more than usual, from other causes that benefit from early detection such as cancer. People avoiding hospitals during the pandemic is probably going to have a bit of an aftereffect.
I love that there are 2 Ontario, CA. And I love that Los Angeles could also be described as “freaking huge.”I have driven across both Ontarios so I realize it’s a different order of magnitude.
.. which is about 14% more deaths in 2020.
This is clearly directed at people with some amount of disposable income. Also many may value their time and money differently. I used fancyhands for a bit when I was on a grad student salary and I thought it was worth my time even then.
Last year I saw a C level exec in a mid size startup spend 20 min on hold with a credit card company to dispute some booking. I was wondering why they would not offload that.
That argument could be applied to anything

What you're really looking for is the fact that Apple shares have an intrinsic value related to the company's assets and future cash flows. Bitcoin, on the other hand, has an intrinsic value of zero, so it could theoretically plummet all the way to zero. Same goes for some companies' stocks
That title could have been used on a post or article published in any of the last 200 years around Xmas. Is there a way to moderate away titles with “could”, “may”, “up to”, “as many as”...the title is content-free and the article is behind a paywall...thx
Macro-analyses like this aren't particularly representative of any relevant point. For one thing GDP is a poor measure of the general increases of wealth. The US's pivot to services isn't represented in GDP since it only accurately measures physical production (Microsoft/Google/Facebook etc. aren't accurately represented). The actual increases that wind up going into salaries (particularly at the top half) are heavily impacted by these intangible aspects of the economy (so if you isolated this report to just Mark Zuckerberg you'd see billions in wealth but no growth to account for it). At the lower end of the income spectrum, you'd miss the growth of surplus labor. Only 25% of people in the US have an undergraduate degree or higher, and of the people that don't, labor participation is only around 49%. So seeing limited gains in the people who still have jobs isn't that shocking. Whatever general idea of "inequality" this shallow report is meant to convey isn't particularly instructive. Enough data is available to make more interesting analyses.

*edited for clarity
This is another entry for the “things you can do” list...

Contest unjust fines.

I’ve received 4 parking fines in my life, all were for parking somewhere that had no signage or had signage that permitted my behaviour.

All 4 were successfully contested with photo evidence and a minimum of fuss.
If the firefighters need to get to a hydrant, they will get to it, car or no car. I think we should do away with fines and just let people assume the risk that if there's a fire, your car windows might be smashed to run a hose through it.

Likewise, if the car is impeding traffic, tow it out of there. The fine does nothing to fix the problem.
They dont have buildings there? or no trees?
On the other hand there are plenty of examples of pitbull dogs killing or mauling the family's cat, dog, child, or grandparent completely randomly with no prior warning.

I didn't really know much about pits or have any opinion until one of my buddies adopted one and it killed his two cats with him trying to pry its mouth open. I started to look into the issue after that.
I think it's in that genre, but also has some fresh ideas. I actually really like this line of thinking. It seems "wrong" on the surface but really is just non-normative. If you can buy dinner for 2, you can also hire somone for a small job off fiver. One is seen as normal and the other as elitist and out of reach. I hired a genealogist once and absolutely got my money's worth and they were a world expert on records in that particular geography.
Audi, BMW, GM, Ford dedicate entire teams to lighting, so no, a random engineer could not handle it solo.
Is there any service which allows you to share a personal assistant among many people? I would love to offload many of my menial tasks but I don't have enough to cover the time of a decent assistant. And anyone who is okay with sitting with their twiddling thumbs turns out to be not that good!
You're right. When I think about it now, it's clear I'm really comparing these two states:

1. uBO defaults + uMatrix which is mostly in "allow all mode"

2. uBO in medium mode (as defined by the above video) w/o uMatrix installed

I think (2) is safer than (1). I've been in (1) mode pretty much since I started using uMatrix (2 years?).
“We all love Elon Musk”?

lol
I read the parent comment, and thought that it was a matzo joke.
Well, one possible case scenario is that OP’s contract does not allow his cofounder to fire him, or fully vests if he does. He can this tell his cofounder to pound sand and his cofounder will have to realize that his options are 40% or 0%. If he believes the company has a bright future, he’ll take the deal. There’s a very real chance OP gets much more than 3% or 6%.

Or there’s something better that I can’t think of because I’m not a lawyer who deals in this and don’t know the specifics.

It’s just bad to give really any advice here, which is part OP’s fault really because he should not be asking a lawyer rather than Internet randos.
I agree. You can get full employment and a respectable standard of living floor through stuff like a negative income tax and universal health coverage. But making it illegal to work for what YOU consider a low wage and permitting labor cartels is counter productive.
Depending on how far up the ladder the people behind Epstein are, all education institutions in the US maybe are vulnerable as long as Washington has any control over them. Which would really mean every current and potential institution in the US would be at risk from asymmetrical shadowy maneuvering.

i.e. if there truly were folks pulling Epstein’s strings through the CIA/Mossad/etc., then they will do anything to preserve and expand their capabilities including tolerating a boundless amount of corruption within academia. Since it’s very likely they’ve already been intimidating federal judges, offing journalists, undermining NIST, undermining the NSF, etc., disrupting newMIT would be peanuts compared to that.

If all that turns out to be the case, the US won’t be able to support such a genuine organization without very powerful backers to shield it behind-the-scenes. Maybe if all the influential tech folks combined and really were motivated to resist those sorts of influences.

For complete protection from a motivated Epstein+ level of intrigue from Washington, I can only think of Russia and China, which aren’t very promising either. They can hardly be expected to be more open to intellectual freedom this century, in practice, unless there were some geopolitical goals they could achieve through it.

That leaves only a decentralized and anonymous option if you want to be able to completely ignore political maneuvering.
Perhaps some sort of blockchain+ combined with some sort of trust network scoring to make anonymity workable.

A neutral middle power option with a minimal amount of careful maneuvering is also possible. Though of course Canada/Australia/Japan/Norway/Switzerland/etc. are not immune to these things, they certainly increase the bar, at least from forces outside their borders, such that with only a bit of precaution and vigilance situations like this can be avoided without calling in favors from power brokers. As middle sized countries they don’t have nearly as motivation to play these shadow games themselves.

In all likelihood a newMIT based in the US would need some seriously powerful backers to run proactive interference if the wrong crowd really wants to undermine it. Which suggests why current MIT may have fallen into the quagmire they’re in. In this light the decision makers at MIT, of those at any of the big research schools, are tragic actors; they have no hope without playing the same game, or reforming the whole of society.
You link a pitbull lobbying group as defense?

There are plenty of pit bull lobbies. Most of them come from no-kill background because pitbulls are the most common dogs in shelters.

There is no national register for dog bites. You can see how coronavirus tracking goes to show how much of a feat that would be. All you can do is track evidence in newspapers and in online media. Interview ER docs, plastic surgeons, etc.
The US government (Fed?) could create a micropayment system for the US dollar with that charges little to nothing for transactions. This would allow another whole way of pay for things on the web. Have a browser wallet with a bit of cash in it and one can pay very small amounts for things on the web as one uses it. I would love this as a consumer and creator.
Considering that, then the fine should be the monetary equivalent to the worst thing that happened or could happen because of the infraction.

Parking illegally in a specific spot could result in the death of 8 people? then the fine should be 8 * value of life. the value of life is ~ $9M in the US, so the fine should be 72 million dollars.
Yeah I think a better bullet would be “choose your SO carefully”.

Most people seem to choose their SO for bad reasons and then stay in it due to sunk costs.
Upwork lets you hire people for stuff like this. Some people may have 2-5 clients.
Highly unlikely. Productivity growth engendered higher incomes, not the other way around. The 70's is when that growth came to an end.
Love how you robbed the Intercom content and css 1:1 and still being upvoted. Well, all the best with sales.

[0] https://www.intercom.com/help/en/articles/294-what-is-interc...

[1] https://sites.hyperlyst.com/public/p01FhT1RGeepopO02nEyOjWmj...
Cool! With covid I haven't had the chance to work on any races lately, so I don't have an immediate need for this right now.

heroku/app engine/lambda/cloud run all replace CGI in one way or another, but none of them can replace inetd.
I get the feeling you want to believe, you'll just take a lot of convincing. Because believing this is such a big thing, so your skepticism is an understandable defense to protect you from investing in a belief you can't rely on. I will make a reply to your comment, I'm just figuring out how I should say it.

In the meantime, take a look at this (I acquired it from Mr Puthoff himself just now, especially for you)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R8Kop6mFSmjm1gWCxiPotUtgtGT...
> There were regular phone numbers, you had to call these numbers with the phone (no dialer on the minitel).

That's incorrect.
There was a dialer on later versions of Minitel.
And while you could technically set up a V23 BBS-like server behind a regular phone line to talk to Minitel terminals, the whole business model relied on the use of premium short numbers (361X) whose revenue was shared between France Telecom and service providers.

It was absolutely an App Store model and fortunes were made at that time.
My findings:

Sleep until noon every day.

Work only as much as you need.

Work from home, or anywhere else for that matter.

Have multiple romantic partners in parallel.

Have platonic friends of the opposite sex.

Share multiple flats with multiple people (i.e. live in multiple places, but cheap)

Study 10 years.

Make your own iced tea in the fridge.

Buy food in bulk.

Drink tap water.

Create your own dishes by mixing ingredients.

Cook/fry/bake food you would usually eat raw.

Eat food raw that you would usually cook/fry/bake.

Sleep everywhere in your home.

Learn languages, instruments, or sports after you turned 30.

Drink no alcohol at a party and still have fun.

Start/stop smoking and drinking after 30.

Found a company like you would buy a game console.

Take no VC money.

Take muliple years and tries to create a good product.

Write music/give concerts for yourself or your friends only.

Don't wear shoes outside.

Don't have an opinion on a topic.

Overall:

Don't play pre-defined games in your life, but ask if they make you happy. You only have one life, make the most out of it.

Sometimes you have to play by some rules made up by other people to get into a better place, but look at them closely, it could very well be that they are more open to interpretation than they first seem.
Visual Studio already runs on arm64 Windows.
Homes were affordable, but interest rates were like 13%.
I googled “Illinois prairie path rape” and your comment is the third result. That’s how hard it is to back up what you vaguely “claimed.”

The other results don’t even talk about rapes happening on the Illinois prairie path. Bodies being dumped there which is tragic sure, but your comment is essentially saying something maybe bad happened once? Idk? I can’t find it! Even if it happened once does it happen at a regular occurrence?

And to top it all off here I am, frustrated with the vapidity and negativity of your comment- and you ask me to look it up myself- and there’s nothing there and you’re angry at me for some reason.

Like I said, I’m not trying to be a dick, but maybe you should put some more thought into what you put out into the world.
Banks have been making out like bandits this past year in IPOs, something needed to change and I'm surprised it happened this quickly
No less odd than the antarctic ramming-vessel bearing his name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MY_Bob_Barker
Where else can one read end-to-end discovery articles as such? Anything better than regex title filters "* how by "
Pithy TLDR: Language is a virus.
Is it possible the investor is in cahoots with your cofounder? If so, then you may not have a strong position. Are you sure your cofounder is not screwing you over at the investor's behest? If it's not something that's (technically) complicated, your cofounder may be thinking of hiring in help to replace whatever value you are providing (i.e., you are fungible, he's not).
Another couple for your list–

Moving a device from Wifi to wired marginally helps all your other wifi devices. Overall it can improve performance enough to not need another access point.

Even better is PoE which can let you put an AP in places that would otherwise require an electrician to install mains power outlets. Remote power-cycle is good too, even if you already have mains power for the AP.
I’ve never understood this. The number of parking spaces that can’t be used because of fire hydrants is enormous, most of those hydrants will never be used, and it seems like a car in front of a hydrant would only be a very small delay for firefighters.
This would be super useful.

Based on this thread, the comparison should include

* metaflow (model training on AWS Batch)
* polyaxon (model training on kubernetes)
* pachyderm (experimentation)
* hopsworks (model training/serving/ and more, mostly on kubernetes)
* cortex (model serving on kubernetes)
* seldon-core (model serving and monitoring on kubernetes)

and likely more that I missed.

I can see why it would be so hard to put together this comparison.

Even with all these tools, there is still a lot of manual work for data scientists or DevOps engineers the data scientists pass their models off to.

It also seems there is yet to be a fully open source DevOps stack. Most companies still build custom software to glue together manual processes (like integrations between different tools for training, deploying, monitoring, etc). This could be one factor why more comparisons of these tools and stack discussions have not been more popular - they can't share them yet.
I have. I’m also allowed to recognize that most people don’t have that luxury.
Neither of those things is true. You might have to mess with it a little bit in truly dark rooms, but if you can read comfortably you'll be just fine. And far better than any webcam.