skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is heartbreaking, and by no means anomalous. I know a number of people that have committed suicide during the lock downs.

Do you have any basis for that assertion?

I've seen that argument being made since lockdowns started to be declared but there is never a single shred of data or source or evidence substantiating any of those claims.
He guys, first up I’m the guy who found the image of him holding a beer.
It was barely simple I used the webpage https://pimeyes.com/en uploaded the image from the card, cropped it a little to hide the Japanese characters etc. The first two result where the same that I scanned. The third was the image holding the beer. I saw some resemblance, but didn’t think it would work. PimEys let’s you search for free but you have to pay for the full url. So I took the fraction of the url figured out the full one. Found the original image on the webpage. And then posted my findings to Reddit. I and also other users found new pictures of him the following days. On the 28th of December we found an image with him wearing a bib from a half marathon through the results I found the name and it was Satoshi.
Europe is not ahead of us in progress. They are behind us in entropy. What you are witnessing here, as ugly as it is, is the future of all westernized countries, for it is implicit in our shared value systems.

And if you really dig into it, modern healthcare, regardless of who pays for it, is a scam. They harm nearly as often as they heal. By many accounts, medical error is the 3rd leading cause of death in developed countries. Prescription opiates in the US were blamed for the recent reduction in our life expectancy. Statisticians (good ones, at least) will verify that the 20th century leap in life expectancy was primarily due to hygiene (distantly followed by antibiotics). All of the other interventions are noise in comparison.

Don't even get me started on oncology. Ivan Illich wrote a book decades ago detailing many of their swindles. Most of it still rings true today.
Baldur's Gate 2 demo running on WebAssembly
then what should we use? MQTT?
This is a port of the classic Baldur's Gate 2 game in demo format, to WebGL/WASM.
I am talking about the cost of the software for Washington State. Added a link.
Even in the use of "containers", generics are the complete opposite of how to use templates.

Java / C#'s concept of "Everything derives from Object" is outright rejected in C++. Templates are part of this culture: how can we provide extendibility when nothing is an Object?

Well, look at iterators in C++. All C++ iterators extend from all collections WITHOUT the use of OOP-derivations. That's thanks to the magic of Templates.

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What's going on? C++ templates allow the creation of new iterator classes. It invokes the compile-time language to create a new class at compile time.

In Java / C#: vector<MyClass> is the same old vector as all other vectors.

In C++: vector<MyClass> is a custom-made, completely separate class from all other vectors. vector<MyClass>::iterator is a 2nd, custom-made completely separate class from all other iterators.

And yet, all of these different classes can be used the same, thanks to the use of auto, or other compile-time structures in C++.
This confuses me... If I get paid less to work less hours, I expect that I need to complete proportionately less.

Working 4/5 of a standard week and getting paid 4/5 of standard salary would not be a win for me unless I only needed to complete 4/5 as much work.

This does not sound like winning.
You are spreading misinformation. First, the vast vast majority of transmission in the united states was not from visitors, but from community spread, even in highly visited cities like NYC.

The 2 million number from the imperial paper everyone likes to quote is explicitly

> In the (unlikely) absence of any control measures or spontaneous changes in individual behaviour

Where specifically voluntary quarantine (50% compliance) and case isolation (70% compliance), and closure of schools are exanples of interventions discussed. In what world do the current death totals (340k in the United states) disprove the idea that interventions saved lives, and more effectively managed interventions would have saved more lives (as they did in other countries).
A link to a repo of the actual code would be nice too for inspiration
Ray Dalio Says He ‘Might Be Missing Something’ About Bitcoin
This guide https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand was written for OSS maintainers, but it could still give you ideas on how to monetize your project.

Good luck!
> I will acknowledge that owning a house is sometimes like having an extra part time job. I'm forever fixing little things or gardening or changing things about the house. I consider this to be a new hobby, but if you consider it work then that's something else to consider.

This is good to know and confirms what I've noticed about homeowners. I hate maintaining stuff, whether it's my car or my furniture or whatever, and I only do it if the time/money tradeoff is worth it. Some homeowners seem delighted by it though, crafting their own castle and the like. Do you have time for other hobbies that are "big" with these tasks?
The landing page would benefit from a bit more information on what the app does without having to watch the video. My lizard brain lost interest at about 14s in, when the video was still going through logistics.
Definitely maybe, but I won't be drawn further, especially since I just made another comment elsewhere in this thread about how much I hate the company :D

From my other post, you should easily be able to narrow it down to about 5 (which includes the horrible company you mentioned), and TBH, they are all about equally horrible.
End of 2020 – Domain Sale
A civil war.
Why do random non-experts always think they have poked holes in the most fleshed out scientific theories?
I'm sorry to read. Mine doesn't, I'm lucky.

flancian is a pseudonym but many people know my real name, it's no secret.
This is very neat but gamepad mapping can't be configured and the browser default "standard" mapping doesn't work very well (at least with my Xbox one controller).

If you visit chrome://flags you can enable "Restrict gamepad access" which will disable the default controller's mapping.

Incidentally, I recently wrote a small crossplatform gamepad mapper you can use: https://github.com/framp/joystick-mapper/releases/tag/0.3.0

Configuration for psxparty here:
https://github.com/framp/joystick-mapper/blob/master/example...
Most people I know would just come in late, leave early, or take a "long lunch" to get their errands done. Now that everyone is "working from home", you can basically do whatever, whenever.
Theres analogous failure mode I've come across in gaming (board games, tabletop RPGs, etc) called analysis paralysis. Some people spend so long thinking about the best possible actions they could take that they sometimes find it very difficult to do anything useful.
That's true, but where in my comment does it suggest that keeping coins on an exchange account is a good idea? If you're a bitcoin whale, there's invariably going to be a decent amount of coins worth stealing on an exchange account somewhere. The only reason exchange accounts were brought up is that's the only conceivable way a domain compromise can lead to coins being stolen.
I run all potential Amazon purchases through fakespot.com. It’s definitely caused me to change my mind on multiple occasions.
Out of curiosity, how is it that you see their products as "disposable"?

At least, for me, Apple's hardware has been the least disposable of any that I've purchased (phones, laptops, tablets, desktops). My iPhone 7 would still work if I hadn't broken it so badly with an unlucky drop (landed wrong, thought of repairing, but found a good 2-for-1 deal on the iPhone X and my wife wanted an upgrade). My 2012 MBP is still in use, my 2011 Mac Mini is still in use, my 2014 iPad (Air 2) is still in use.

Disposable devices: Anything from Amazon. Kindle Fire tablets are useful, but cheap. Anything Nexus and (IMHO) Pixel from Google. Everything HP I've ever owned that wasn't a calculator made before 2000.
Yap it was what I used!
It was a boondoggle that cost taxpayers ~$50mm.

If I recall correctly it is also a third party solution provided by a private company. Oregon plans to adopt the same software after not being able to make payments at all for quite some time due to their own antiquated software [0].

From an article I read at the time:

Keiser said Fast Enterprises has since blamed ESD for the lack of fraud protection because the ESD “didn’t purchase additional security” that Fast Enterprises could have offered. [1]

Seems unbelievable given the expense. At the time I wrote OPB and said.

While I think it is a good thing to choose readymade software rather than developing something new and potentially fail to deliver anything, I feel that Oregon is not paying attention to what is happening on the other side of the Columbia river and is potentially making the same mistakes as Washington.

[0] https://www.opb.org/article/2020/09/10/oregon-employment-dep...

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technical-error-helped...
I do not, just anecdata, so take my declaration as opinion extrapolated from lived experience. I've seen a few interesting links but haven't studied them yet. I'll add a note to the post.
Forgive me ...

I have zero knowledge of (current) Nintendo hardware and architecture and what tinkerers and reverse engineers are capable of doing with them.

However, I find myself strongly compelled to stand up to this ridiculous behavior on the part of Nintendo and I have the time and resources to do so.

With that in mind, I am going to purchase, on ebay ... what ? A plain old retail Nintendo Switch ?

Then I will send that switch (or two, or three) to ... who ? Let's say I have a budget of USD $10,000 - who can I pay to do original, clean-room reverse engineering of this device ?

The goal here would be to publish everything that I can pay people to find.

Suggestions ? Who should I be in contact with ?
1. Are the cruise ships isolated?

2. Why are the crews forced to stay on the ships?

3. If the ships are themselves isolated, why are the crews isolated? If they aren't, why can't the crews leave?

I am strangely reminded of the airline flight that sat parked on the airport (at Chicago?) ramp, full of passengers, for over 24 hours years ago.
I spent 2-3 months in the hospital over the course of 2 years with a family member. Shift changes were always stressful...lots of commotion, doing the introductions, getting the entering staff up to speed, making sure that issues/incidents during the previous shift were communicated, etc. etc. I personally think 12 hours is the sweet spot as long as there aren't too many in a row. Even if the error rates are slightly higher, I personally would not be surprised to see better patient outcomes overall than with shorter shifts.
Note that those are called hostels. I don't remember seeing shared bathrooms in hotels.
>Are we essentially saying a company's success entitles the government to take over ownership?

This implies that the company is creating wealth all on its own, with no help from the local environment. In reality, we could turn the argument around and ask why these large companies aren't paying their fair share in light of all the pre-existing effort and wealth they benefit from and the negative externalities they disseminate.
No, but I bought the M1 MacBook Air and a 4K monitor with 7GPU/16GB/512GB configuration for full-time web-dev work with Laravel.

PHPStorm and VSCode have Beta/RC versions and run fine, and Laravel Valet's entire suite runs fine under Homebrew Rosetta. Everything is very fast, and the fact that this machine is completely silent and doesn't get hot is phenomenal.

Right now, I've downloaded the Parallels Desktop preview and installed Windows 10 ARM on the machine. Amazingly, I was able to play some video games through Steam this way. My family likes playing Lego Lord of the Rings, which is a 32-bit Windows game. Runs at 1080p Medium-ish settings on Windows 10 ARM through Parallels fine, which is incredible for how much virtualization and translation is going on.

(For anyone else installing Lego LOTR, I had to install DirectX 9 because Windows 10 ARM doesn't come with it, but then it worked fine.)

Also, this whole virtualization thing works so well, I completely forgot just now that I was replying on HN using Microsoft Edge... on Windows 10 ARM on my Mac. :)

EDIT: My Windows 10 ARM install had a new build to install, and to my shock it installed the entire new build of Windows 10 in less than 4 minutes. Complete build. At the beginning, it even went 0%->30% followed by a reboot in 5 seconds flat, which caused my jaw to nearly fall off.
I bought the 16gb M1 Mac Mini and so far great. I have a work laptop though (provided by work/required) which I use for my paid work, so there's less pressure for everything to be bug-free out of the box. If it's your main work machine then (depending on what you do) it might be worth waiting a couple of months or so.
The thing that really annoys me is that when you go to report problems with a listing, none of the options you're given really match this. "Problem with item description" is the closest. Considering that this is one of the top three problems turning Amazon shopping into a garbage-fest, you'd think they'd have a clearer way to report it. That they don't shows that they just don't care.
Isn't this just a micro optimization? At what level does one need to care about this?
It's possible to find specific hospitals that are at/near capacity at nearly any time of year. Right now, hospitals across Florida appear to be at about 80% capacity, with individual hospitals ranging from 0% to 100% available:

https://bi.ahca.myflorida.com/t/ABICC/views/Public/HospitalB...

This is consistent with the CDC link my previous post. Of course, it's not possible to tell how this compares to any normal year, because we don't have that data.
Can someone educate me about which of the two approaches mentioned below is better, Snowflake's separated compute from storage or ElasticSearch's aggressive sharding? Thanks in advance!
His point on protobuf-java library adding nontrivial bloat to his Java app is definitely valid. However, his other argument about protobuf wire format being inefficient is hard to square with decades of practical experience Google had with protobufs, which are used for literally everything, including telemetry, and high throughput, low latency applications. Sure, having to recursively precompute lengths before serialization is a bit of a hassle, but I wouldn’t call it expensive.
Can you provide more info about people being terrified of automatic elevators? I searched around and everything I found seems to cite one NPR article from 2015.[1] The interviewee's book is out of print and costs $100[2], so that's where that trail stops. If public sentiment against automatic elevators was as strong as described, it seems like there would be more historical evidence available. It's easier for me to find articles disparaging self-checkout systems than for automated elevators. I realize the change in elevators happened long ago, making articles harder to find, but you'd think at least one of them would have gotten digitized and indexed.

1. https://www.npr.org/2015/07/31/427990392/remembering-when-dr...

2. https://www.amazon.com/Ascending-Rooms-Express-Elevators-Pas...
I wonder if a similar moment of reckoning will ever come for modern macroeconomics. I remember working on differential equations on the economy one night and having the sudden insight that the data was far too skimpy and uncontrolled to be at all pretending to do science. and yet there I was going through the motions of doing math on the economy.

ditto, of course, goes to holding accountable the economic beliefs of politicians and talking heads of all persuasion. the people conscious of how much we don't know get drowned out by the people who don't care.
Thanks for the kind words and you're welcome!
As a C++ developer, I see things entirely the other way. Java templates are much less powerful than C++ templates. In Java, templates were basically just a convenient way to do type erasure. That's better than nothing, but the inability to specialize templates makes them quite limited. In C++, you can define a common base class if you need one, but being able to optimize based on the template type is very useful.

Function templates are great for writing concise, efficient math that handles half-precision, single-precision, double-precision, single-precision complex numbers and double-precision complex numbers (and more) with minimal duplication.

Templates are also what make interfaces like std::format efficient and easy to use.
From Trotsky to Gödel: The Life of Jean van Heijenoort
Depends how you count. Being is 5x less accidents might be unreasonably hard. But causing 5x less accidents seems reasonable, especially since most humans are that safe.

I don't have the stats, but I believe the worst 20% of drivers cause a large fraction of the accidents. That 20% often includes the uninsured, the unlicensed, the drunk, high, emotionally distressed, and the physically compromised (senile, low blood sugar, tired, etc)
> Godot - doesn't work

Godot has been working well for me under Rosetta (though just a small 2D project using GDScript). Godot 3.2.3 actually supports Apple Silicon[1] although there's no binary build just yet. I've recently submit a patch to MacPorts to enable native Apple Silicon[2] and have been using it since without any issues (so far).

[1]: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/development/compiling...

[2]: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/9552
There’s a lot you get for free from things like SwiftUI, such as accessibility, support for right to left locales, portability all the way from the Apple Watch to the TV, etc.

I am also currently writing an app using SDL on Linux, which I have previously written in SwiftUI and it’s a lot of fun, but it’s just not comparable.

My SwiftUI version runs on the watch, the iPhone the TV and even in widgets with barely any modification. (And with much better fonts!)

The Linux version is fun, but it’s just not comparable in terms of the work the platform is doing for me.
The elation.
I switched back to linux from mac simply because docker runs so much better on linux than in ios with the vm.
We already have FlatBuffers, which allow you to send structs on the wire without reinventing anything. It sounds like it's a good match here. Protobuf is better if you care about the byte count on the wire and less about the CPU time to pack and unpack it.
Out of interest; what dock are you using with it? I just want something that outputs HDMI 4K@60Hz but have struggled to find one.
What if in 1920 someone told you that looking back 100 (or even 200) years, you needed a strong agrarian society with a lot of service age men and horses to win wars?

Technology has changed so much since 1920 I somehow doubt it's useful to look that far back for specific strategies.

If you don't care to boss around non-nuclear states, you just need a credible mutually assured destruction scenario.
Thank you for your reply. I think getting no-cost healthcare for children would be the thin edge of a wedge. Once people realize the savings, they will be demanding it for all. Chinks in the armour is how it starts.
This would be difficult to make meaningful because projects vary by orders of magnitude in performance-relevant metrics, as does user behavior.

IntelliJ has an enormous number of features and people use their own subset of them. Not to mention things like plugins and other options for customization. It's a huge space.
Are You Ready for Your New Bank Account?
Why? I loved obj-c, but Swift seems better in almost every way.

You can just program using obj compatible objects in Swift if you like.

What’s so bad about it?
Why do you think it would be a UX nightmare? You can already schedule rides and algorithms to find rides already exist.
The parent's info is out of date. There was a big fuss a week or so ago about how the CDC's draft recommendations for how states should distribute vaccines prioritized "essential workers" instead of the elderly, which would've increased the total number of deaths, but these ended up not being the final recommendation. A large number of uninformed people are still raging about it though.
She can't legaly take kids away from him, he has right to demand 50% custody. In cases where she allege violence, it can be pretty difficult to make courts believe that and approve zero contact.
Writing, probably...
What did you use as a payment processor? Really hard to process cards for gambling.
Children are incredibly cheap to insure. That's why we have medicaid (no-cost) and CHIP (very low cost).
What are you selling? Job posts?

I hear monster charges something like $300 for a job post for 1 month. And $400 for 2 months.

I would think at this rate, that there would be a lot of competition.

Craigslist ran for years just on job posting fees in San Francisco alone.
In the contrary, I find Poetry is pretty buggy comparing to pipenv. I am a casual Python coder for fun and ran into issues with Poetry following their intro document. With pipenv, I have not encountered any of the issues so far.
> "Szaller’s face and arms were blue"

It actually sounds more like one of the mysterious covid deaths that seem to not get reporting anymore.
Pretty sure that the RAM is not part of the same wafer, i.e., the RAM is a chiplet that is subsequently integrated into the SOC. So yield shouldn’t be an issue here.
I've spent a few minutes googling for the topic, and I've stumbled in this link:

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide.shtml

Taken from the page:

> During that 20-year period, the total suicide rate in the United States increased 35% from 10.5 per 100,000 in 1999 to 14.2 per 100,000 in 2018.

It seems that suicide rates in the us have been constantly increasing for the past two decades, and there is no break in the trend during the past year.
Writing a technical book with Manning in 2020
The King 5 article says that the WA project was led by Hewlett-Packard and then Microsoft helped out at the end.
I attend a weekly simracing event. That is, I race online with a group of now friends I have been interacting with since March.

I can say that our activity also has increased our mental health. I even feel better than previous years.

So may be it's more about human interaction and less about beliefs.
It's not something I'm familiar with but I saw a similar question [1] on r/lisp a few days ago. u/digikar mentioned the Teddy library [2] which itself refers to numcl [3] in its readme. Both are available on Quicklisp.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/kburda/is_there_a_goo...
[2] https://github.com/40ants/teddy
[3] https://github.com/numcl/numcl
> 'the DMV' seems an even popular day out!(?)

Definitely not.

It's often said along the same lines of "I need to go to the mechanic", where it's something that you need to do, but is miserable.

The DVLA does appear to fill the same role, but more efficiently. Many of the things it appears you can do online require you to go in in person (Well, pre-covid at least. I don't know about now.), even better, the DMV got caught selling data about people who had to use it.

For a comparison, last time I got a license change I waited in line 10. freaking. hours. On a Saturday.
MQTT doesn’t specify the payload format. You can easily have a topic with the data in protobuf and another with json.
Why is it important to you?

Everything you want exists already - it’s just not provided by Apple.

Why do you care about what they do?