skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
40% of all deaths in the US have been nursing home residents.
> Unlike Medium, however, it's attracted some quality writing.

IIRC Medium was like this too in the beginning. There was a time where I wanted to read articles on Medium because they were higher quality than average. I agree that it's hard to see Substack turning out differently. Although if the company isn't acquired / doesn't IPO then it's also true that these things can vary based on who is running the company.
For me this had a David Sedaris, obsessive-compulsive writing style that I ended up hugely enjoying, though I admit I didn't get it at first and almost gave up reading. The fact that she opened a Freedom of Information request with the FDA about noodles while acknowledging that the agency was most likely preoccupied with the pandemic made me laugh out loud.

If this were just a matter-of-fact reportage on a particular type of pasta shortage I doubt it'd hold much interest for anyone. The whole enjoyment for me was the gonzo reporting style of someone going off the rails about the shortage of a particular type of noodle.
Is government guaranteeing safety a necessary tenet of libertarianism? I thought security would be privatized on the open market.
Does the Brookings poverty rate adjust for cost of living? I can't find a source.

The core of the argument OP is making is that you can have a more comfortable lifestyle in a rural area on a lower income.
Flykit – The Weather App for Professional Drone Pilots
I gave the paper a quick read and there's an impressive amount of context awareness. However one particular thing it seems like it wouldn't handle well would be ideosyncratic speech that is particular to a specific character.

examples:

- a character who uses clunky or outdated forms of Japanese

- a character meant to have a rural account

- a character with a speech affectation, like adding a cutesy -nyo to the end of their words/sentences

- etc

Perhaps these could be improved if the model was trained on human translations for that specific character and weighted appropriately. With some manga running for dozens or hundreds of volumes that would feasible.

It also definitely wouldn't help with puns, cultural references or other subtleties!

BUT, this could still be really useful as an aid to human translators.
lol from my experience reading comments here most of HN thinks all drugs should be legal!
Sample size would pretty much guarantee more than 0
Not really. People rarely if ever choose a browser because of their rendering engine these days. All current browsers seem to be limited by actual network speed than anything else.

E.g.: Apple and Google always tout how safari and chrome are fast, and maybe they are, but the truth is that the upstream from most websites is really slow, so the actual rendering speed does not matter.
> For whatever reason I can never see the street name I want to see anymore.

It's been this way for years, and it's my #1 gripe with Maps. It's particularly bad in a dense grid like NYC, where some streets only appear for a block or two. If Maps doesn't decide to print the name on that block...I guess I'm not allowed to know what street that is?
> During this mission, he became the first person to throw a boomerang in space that had been specifically designed for use in microgravity.

Okay, you've won me over. This is awesome.
Nuclear plant operators clear $100k/year, easily. Homer drives an older car in rough shape. They have a plain house in a suburb of Springfield.

Is the lack of new nuclear plants preventing this from being attainable?
It's much easier to repackage data from Reddit/Wikipedia in a nicer format than to generate your own.
> Inflation and stagnant wages have led to a rise in two-income households

I often see it phrased this way, but I always wonder how much of the effect is actually "A rise in two-income households has led to inflation and stagnant wages"?

Certainly, there's a positive feedback mechanism at play, but it always seems to be presented as "A causes B" rather than "A and B reinforce each other".
> Which we really need to stop this elitist bull-shit of degrading community college as something "beneath us".

I call BS on you!

It's almost assuredly the overrefined and effete that would argue this; they've got theirs and they'll justify whatever tragedy befalls a person with a certain sanctimonious, boundless, superior empathy.

You go to community college first.
Well, there is just about zero government regulation of personal morality.
Even if a phone is made 100% in US or Europe, the raw materials for it like Cobalt is probably not immune to other types of human rights abuse: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/dec/16/a...

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/oct/12/p...
How does the US government perceive cryptocurrency from a global political POV? Is it a threat? Can it be harnessed? etc..
BTW, I have ZERO problem with game teams using engines. If I were to start making a game now as an indie developer I'd almost certainly use Unity too.

I was more making the point that starting by building an engine is a huge commitment and you need the skills and times (and the reason) to do that.
The charitable interpretation is that the people who insisted that it would be better for Britain to leave the onerous regulatory regime of the EU have put their country in a position where the best option is to intentionally copy/paste 20-year-old EU regulations into a binding treaty?
Collaborative Thinking
Interesting how you keep emphasizing the word responsible, as if saying that word loudly enough is sufficient to make up for structural racism and sexism, a legacy of racially skewed criminal records, uneven economic growth in different towns/regions and unpredictable, life-altering medical debt (to name a few concerns).
Object oriented programming (the good parts) also enables enforcing complex data invariants that make it easier to have narrow function contracts since rather than having a function take a type that encodes its invariants directly rather than indirectly.
Simpsons and Roseanne don't have that much different house size. It is kind of the same. Simpsons house is cleaner while Roseanne has a lot of clutter everywhere. Which could be personality difference from Marge plus fact that you don't have to draw clutter.

Both Marge and Roseanne are stay at home moms. Both have multiple kids. Both have working class husbands.
hah! but perhaps closer to reality:

npm run brexit; npm install comprehensive_multilaterial_free_trade_agreement
Okay cool thanks!
Actually, the claim was that 20M doses would be available, not administered. And just over 11M have been distributed, with 2.5 days remaining in the year. That's pretty good considering that quote was from three weeks ago.

We can always do better, but I'm shocked at how well this has gone over the last month.
When I read the article I was surprised that Frank Grimes wasn’t mentioned at all. He appeared in 1997 so after just 8 seasons the premise had collapsed.
How is Bob from Bob's Burgers doing right now? Hopefully his state hasn't shut down dine-in restaurants.
Writing a BitTorrent engine in Rust
It is good to have options. It's just that using an off-the-shelf engine means fitting your idea into that square hole. Or else you'll spend time fighting it. And for games imagined with a distinct visual style that may be a lot more or less work depending on which one you choose.
Is Hindsight Still 2020? Reviewing the Cloud Native Year
IPv6 is basically on mobile providers shoulders right now, in my opinion. At some point it will go from opt-in to required, and later from required to the only option.

And while it's not like mobile users use old sites much, but if you want them to have the ability to access yours, then you'll make sure it has IPv6 as well.
It's hard to suspend belief on those shows given the shenanigans they do.

Unlike prior shows like, say, The Brady Bunch, which were almost a reality show. I mean, you grew up with a live-in maid, right?

It's TV; if it were realistic, no one would watch it, including the "reality" shows.
I think it's a reasonable fine, considering that he has endangered a great number of human lives.

It is clear that he failed to understand the gravity of his recklessness prior to this fine, I am sure he understands now.

All things considered, his punishment was more or less a slap on the wrist:

> Interfering with the operation of an aircraft is a crime punishable by a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

(Source: fbi.gov)
I worked at a company that heavily used the maps API in 2018. The 1,400% price hike really was an eye opener. It wasn't just the money involved, which was large, but the fact that it came so suddenly and with so much magnitude.

Google's choice to bump these prices made me realize that they could do the same thing with their compute cloud pricing or other APIs, again with little notice. That, in turn, led to the realization that we needed to remove our reliance on Google's entire stack, and quickly, or we'd be in a terrible bargaining position later.

This one choice by the maps team likely cost Google significantly in the medium to long term, if any other companies realized the same things we did.
The comment did say that prudence would be warranted regardless of the site (their last sentence).

It would also be reasonable, albeit somewhat presumptuous, to assume that there are a number of black hat "hackers" on a site that shares a camaraderie around the hacking spirit and shares many security related stories/vulnerabilities.

I think your statement is also somewhat presumptuous. Sure there are software devs with a hackathon mindset. But what about the white hat hackers or technology managers who are not devs?
1) Is there a shortage of labour in China?
2) Why do you setup a factory in areas far away from other factory and transport the components far away to Shenzhen assemble and export?
3) Were these workers paid? And were they paid fairly?

I can understand the situation. The Chinese government is trying to improve the economy in Xinjiang and encouraged companies to setup factories there. Ruled by a communist government, these companies had to comply and provide jobs to those areas, which is far from port and industry, whose workers are less trained and educated. China is hoping that by improving the economy, people can forget about independence maybe?

Evil? Kind of. Very practical plan though.

Edit:
Distance from Xinjiang to Shenzhen: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi,+Xinjiang,+...

4k+ kms, 6+hr flight

One of the reason south China is more developed to northern China is that the south has most factories, it is close to port.
There is no wrong side of the line. A manichean dichotomy between winners and losers is an unproductive way to look at the world. You can both be successful while trying to carry everybody up. Life is not a zero sum game.

The end game of rising inequality is not a few living good lives while most suffer. It is chaos and instability.
Gmail isn’t there because they want to search your email. It’s there because they want you to sign in.
Otoh there are studies carried out by Stanford, iirc, demonstrating the opposite. I guess the studies that support the conclusion I like are the correct studies.
Because as long as it’s legal and the consumer is willing to buy at the rate they have been, Apple/etc. has very little incentive to change
For the same reason a storage company shouldn't be able to burn all the stuff in your unit if they evict you.
> They/we lived in houses without switchplates over the outlets

What's the significance of this? I think this is a nuance of American wiring that is lost on me, i'm afraid.
Russian Scientists Announce Six-Month Delay In Carving New Space Station: https://www.theonion.com/russian-scientists-announce-six-mon...
Emphasis on the word "fans". Analogy: I hate Google's business model, but I still have to use their products for lack of better alternatives.

The difference is that I won't go around evangelizing (i.e. marketing) their products as a consumer, pumping up demand if I knew the negative costs associated with it. On the corporate side is Apple's hypocrisy PR- i.e. don't drink their koolaid.
Will they remove Moxie videos then because he makes cybersecurity videos funny and points out the inherent failures in SSL?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UawS3_iuHoA
I wonder when your collective breakdown comes...
What would “invalidating stocks” even mean?
> Equating forced labour as a whole with slavery, which is frequently used to refer to what existed in the US (HN audience is to large degree US-based) before 1865, may seem inconsiderate to those whose ancestors had to endure the latter.

I don't see this as a reason to cut off the discussion. Trying to distance forced labor from slavery may seem incosiderate to those who had to endure the former.

There's no escaping the inconsideration considerations, so I prefer to discuss the topic at hand without that baggage.
I strongly suspect that poverty where I live, in a county of 34k people and a median family income of <$30k, is qualitatively different from poverty in a large city.
(Hoax) 500k graphics cards found in an abandoned container
So what happens if the second dose arrives very (eg. many months) late? Can you start again and give 3?

And is there any chance all the partial immunities will catalyze resistant mutations?
I would go even further: Always have a local backup of anything on the Internet that is important to you, whether you made it or not, unless you know there are many other accessible versions of it for redundancy. You never know when a large company will delete it without notice.

(Is this feasible? Perhaps not, but given how cheap storage is, if this could be even semi-automated, it would easily save a lot of heartache for some at many points in their life, especially in the worst cases of things like their Google accounts being banned)
There are many losses in the funnel to conversion, poor targeting is probably not even the biggest.

At the end of the day if you can spend $1 in advertising and make $2 in sales, who wouldn’t press that button again and again and again?
You can buy Fairphone without any Google stuff: https://esolutions.shop/shop/e-os-fairphone-3/.
The Manning leaks were hugely irresponsible. While whistleblowing is a vital activity, the data dumps Manning pulled from the military network and State Department were unredacted raw dumps. They catalyzed Arab Spring by pushing the delicate realm of international diplomacy into the eyes of the public, leading to hundreds of deaths and, fundamentally, no real change. Possibly setting back democracy in the Middle East by a generation or so.

I like Manning as a person, but state secrets exist for a reason and she deserved to be imprisoned for her crimes.
I don't get how people can write so much about nothing.
I think that games with optional violence are more contentious. If violence is the only way, you are putting yourself in soldier mindset pretty quicky. You kill to defend yourself or your objectives. And this makes everything ok because our culture sucks and if you have to kill because that's the rules, suddenly everything is ok and you are absolved.
Apparently I am paid in S&P index fund shares because my company gives me a direct deposit, and then behind the scenes TDAmeritrade magically swaps dollars for SPY. Yikes.

On the plus side, if we butcher definitions like this then it's finally possible to be paid in Trident Layers.
Author wants bucatini, Bowen Yang also wants bucatini.

Author contacts lots of people, gets caught up in a potential bucatini conspiracy. Maybe too many millennials used it as straws. Maybe competitors pushed De Cecco out of the country using the FDA guidelines, for reasons to be determined.

Most likely, pasta makers cut production of specialty pasta (bucatini being one) in favour of ramping up production of your run of the mill macaronis, spaghettis, etc. due to COVID and pasta hoarding.

Wait a bit, they'll come back.
I can't stop thinking about the concept of "policy-based innovation" a new startup could build off of to disrupt an industry, but I feel like it violates one of the primary tenets of Starting a Startup because a big player can theoretically "just change their policy" to eat your lunch.

For example (given enough capital), is there genuinely an opportunity to build a YouTube-like platform that simply doesn't have the policies YouTube has (e.g. shares revenue more fairly, has a more-sane copyright law enforcement, explains their moderation actions)?

The idea here is that while it's true, in theory, that YouTube could make those policy changes and your YouTube alternative would then be pointless, the reality is they never will, even if it begins to cost them.

I really wish I could talk to someone more about this, or if there was targeted reading, but I haven't really found much, because I think most folks dismiss this as a viable strategy.
> Rising educational standards mean that for a lot of jobs a high school degree is not good enough anymore.

I’d argue it’s more about _lowered_ educational standards. A high school education ain’t what it used to be and colleges are trying their damnedest to get every single person they can through the doors (and keep the cash flowing). Pretty soon a bachelor’s degree is going to be worthless as well.
It's a generalization on my part - countries like India and Pakistan (as I am sure others as well) have a very competitive lifestyle (more so than in North America) if you were to look at their major Cities (Karachi, Mumbai, etc.).

I was pointing more towards relatively wealthy countries where the Governments are still subsidizing various aspects of life AND they are still classified as 'not first world yet'. They definitely have it easy to a large extent (Citizens of GCC for example) -- but even the sands of time are also shifting the tide over there, in socio-economic aspects, that is.
dang, I messed up the URL, would you mind fixing this?
Marketed to kids or not, we watched it.
Influenza can cause all kinds of serious and long term health problems. So can most STDs any given bacterial infection if they are left unobserved/untreated for long enough. Most pathogens have some chance of causing serious problems, they are just usually rare, just like with COVID-19.
> I disagree strongly with this. Numerical facilities should not be in the stdlib, they should be in the language itself,

Overloading the language with features that have limited use for most of their users would tie their release cycles and end up a disservice to both users of the language in general and those who use it for heavy number crunching.

As for @, my guess is that Python is running out of ASCII symbols for operators (and unwilling to go full APL with operators). I would imagine that, if NumPy arrays don't support @ (don't they?!), it'd be a desire to be compatible with pre 3.5, which is when the @ infix operator was introduced. It shouldn't be much trouble to implement __matmul__ and __rmatmul__ for them, assuming NumPy's own interfaces are sane.
As I remember Grandpa helped Homer and Marge buy the house when they were first starting out.
To me, Apple Maps still doesn't feel as good for searching obscure things as Google Maps did 5 years ago, but neither does Google Maps.

An example: I recently searched for "photography repair" in my area and Apple gave me film developing places and local event photographers, Google gave me (I kid you not, first result) McDonalds and Best Buy. The latter I can understand, they sell photography equipment and they do repair things (I don't think photo gear?..) but McD? McD pin is also always visible in Google Maps for me now.

Neither result set was helpful, though I guess that's because what I was looking for probably doesn't even exist in the area. Apples results were more useful, I could at least call those places and ask for advice and they're local businesses. Google on the other hand was just irrelevant paid advertising basically. They are regressing.

I should say too I've been trying to main Apple Maps for 5 years and it has gotten a lot better as a mapping/navigation tool, it has been my main navigator for 3 years but I still bounce to Google for search variety.
But aren’t they? Maybe not literally burn, but aren’t there multiple reality TV shows about repossessed storage units?
This could be good for games, but I think any manga/prose that's simplistic enough to be boiled down to purely functional phrases like "wear the amulet to fight the dragon" would probably not be worth a read...
Yeah, I suppose the title of hacker is really something that is required to be given by others in that group, similar to how a callsign is recieved.

I guess I'm not a hacker.
Very few on the coasts have $200k college debt, either. Average student loan debt is around $30-40k, and median is around $17.

Generally to get up in the $200k range, you need medical/dental/pharmacy/veterinary/law school debt.
I'd call it halfway between cult of personality and idealistic belief that maximizing free flow of information maximizes beneficial outcomes without attention to measuring whether that assumption is true.

It turns out some secrets are harmful, and some are helpful to the stable function of a society. Practically speaking, I believe it is hard to make a case that Wikileaks has been a net positive, unless one can see a president Trump as part of a net positive story. On the flip side, history is also dotted with obvious examples of secret keeping resulting in long-term damage.

The truth, I think, is that the beneficial nature of secrets is something you can only evaluate situationally.
Are RL Agents More Humanlike When Not Seeking Rewards?
Right. If you look at the distribution of savings [0] you realize very few people are in a strong finical position.

[0 https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/research/average-savings-acc...
id argue there is a difference. i know im wrong though and there are many types of slavery. the reason i choose to make a difference between them is because ive seen both and i cannot to this day process what i saw, and the attitude of people. a slave from my experience is seen as subhuman. and when religion is used to justify it, its to me different from china. but i mean chinese citizens cannot leave their country and start a new life somewere else. so i think in the context of china you might be even further correct.
The cat is out of the bag. Without public policy declaring no more tipping, any business that moves away from it to higher sticker prices will be immediately punished by the market.

What Grubhub is doing here is a calculated, likely-temporary cash grab that they know for a fact will come at the expense of the drivers. By the time enough outrage builds that they have to change the UX again, they’ll be that much closer to balancing their own books.
this one is also good https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...
Those aren't the kind that are abandoned.

The kind to carry natural gas goes from A to B. The ones that are typically abandoned go from B to hamlet-near-B, or to factory-near-B, or were obsoleted due to a change in the network.

I see all three where I live. A new express route was built and bypasses some stations, so fewer trains stop at those stations, which makes local connections to those stations less valuable, and some X-to-hamlet tracks will probably be closed in the end. A new tunnel is being built and when it's done freight traffic will be routed differently than it is now, and it seems likely that one old route will be closed.
What is GCC?