skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Participant families were recruited through “a large north-western city” beginning in 2007 (Wave 1) via telephone directories and required to complete questionnaires. 65% were Caucasian, 12% black and 19% multi-ethnic, 4% other. Families of lower socioeconomic status were underrepresented as part of the initial sample group and therefore needed recruitment via referrals and fliers to add and diversify the sample group."

The sample size of the study in the article is way too small in my opinion to apply to the whole US population, I wish they didn't put it behind a paywall because they still might have some interesting insights on the local/regional scale :(. They mention the only city used in the study is "a large north-western city". Doing some back of the envelope math I just used Seattle as an example.

- Seattle has ~800k people today and ~610k people 10 years ago. Source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/seattle-wa-popul...
- Today there are ~2.5 billion gamers in the world. ~27% of those gamers are under 18 (all genders) so ~650 million kids play video games. Source(Not sure how accurate but assuming on the same order of magnitude): https://techjury.net/blog/video-game-demographics/

At best if their sample size was the entire city of Seattle that would be ~1% of kid gamers. Their real sample size is probably at least an order of magnitude less than the size of the city so < ~0.1%.

I am interested in the study though just not $60 interested :(.
> Who did more harm to "liberal democracy", J. Edgar Hoover (who tried to extort MLK into suicide), or KGB?

I get this is supposed to be a debate, but the FBI never rolled tanks into Poland or Czechoslovakia. The FBI never annexed the peninsula of a foreign country, then set up fraud elections to make it look organic.

Most importantly, the US largely ended it's support of anti-democratic forces post-cold war. The KGB has no such intention.
I think Dan has braggadoccio'd his time estimates, or his task is somewhat different from what he describes. I mean, the guy talks fast, like really fast, so I suppose he's quick but mere minutes for something like this doesn't seem realistic unless it's extremely routine. Instead, it seems ad-hoc-ish and exploratory to me, it seems like something that needs to be considered and planned out rather than done between 2 sips of coffee. (I am considering his whole task here, not just the scp'ing of files).

He's talking about log files from a few hundred THOUSAND servers that results in several terabytes of data that have to be parsed. He doesn't say exactly what he's looking for, but the point is he's trying to answer some questions about performance for more than a few different applications. Are these simple questions, or involved ones which spawn other questions? We don't know, but even if they're easy questions, there's many applications involved and many servers.

Right off the bat, for something THAT BIG, I think it's reasonable to figure out what you're going to do with a sample of logs before downloading "home depot" onto your hard-drive. So this is definitely a multi-pass kind of job: start with a survey, then try a bigger chunk, if everything's OK do the rest.

Next, I think it's advisable to consider factors about the servers themselves: the application versions, whether or not the applications were running (and why not), the hardware, the role of the server, whether or not the server was up (and why not). Is this metadata about each server available (can you trust it?) or is it something that has to be queried each time on each server? Dan says this supposed to be a couple of years of data, has each server been through upgrades? when? Is that relevant? We don't know any of these, but they would have to at least be considered for someone doing this task.

After the data is parsed there's slicing and dicing to do for the purpose of graphs. That takes lotsa of time-- I am assuming he's not just talking about extracting one figure for each application and plotting it.

For someone that is all set-up and on top of things, this seems like something that is a day's work and easily more, not counting follow-up work and validation to further investigate the additional questions that would inevitably (in my opinion) be raised on such a big dataset.
> I find that a law specifying in exact numbers what a product should contain in order to qualify for a label to be a very good law.

Good in theory. But it's also likely to slow down innovation or even kill it in its tracks. Maybe a producer wants to mix up the ingredients because they're making a substandard product. But maybe they discovered a way to deliver higher quality or lower price with an iteration on the original. In the long run, consumers will mostly discover the shitty products and stop buying them anyway.

For example if such a law was in place for desktop computers, it almost assuredly would have required x86-compatible CPUs. It's highly unlikely that Apple would made the investment to produce the incredible gains in the M1, if it was forced to market the MacBook Air as "not legally a laptop"
This is from the summer, but at least we know they are working on native ratings.

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/26/apple-maps-new-ratings-...
Because sex is something that most people are going to engage in at one point or another, it's part of human nature. Killing and murdering isn't acceptable.
And Apple are also the highest rated tech company by Greenpeace for environmental issues after Fairphone.
Yup. When I switch to DDG, the quality of local results is a huge discriminating factor that pushes me back to Google. Google Maps adds great value to the "one stop search" of Google Search.
I appreciate you having a look! I totally understand if it's not enough to make a switch, but I'm glad you were able to see that it's not so bad on this side of things. There's definitely not enough niceties for the average computer user (GUI editing and installing) and some missing for any user (package manager). I will stand by piping as a matter of taste (the biggest benefit for me is it allows for using the tools I'm already familiar with, awk and grep or plain c/zig).

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My interest in neatroff is mostly the code itself. A tiny and opinionated project with readable source that still achieves quite a lot (all that I need anyways). But it's definitely not for everyone! The author doesn't use a windowing system, for example, and instead uses the framebuffer for pdf viewing and editing (both custom implementations). It is ISC, by the way. It's included in the bottom of the readme.
Homer's job is a joke about nuclear safety being really bad.
They do not say ethics outweighs science. Dooling simply ignores the science[0] (slide 23) and gives equal "maximize benefits and minimize harms" merit (3 pluses) to vaccinating 65+ and vaccinating essential workers, despite recognizing on slide 21 that with a disease-blocking vaccine, "Initially vaccinating age ≥65 in Phase 1b averts approximately 2–6.5% more deaths, compared to targeting high-risk adults or essential workers".

The tipping point then comes from the equal-weighted (why?) metric of "Mitigate health inequities", where she gives essential workers three pluses but 65+ only one plus. This gives "essential workers" 9 pluses total, greater than the 6 pluses for 65+.

It is frankly shocking that a person can recognize one course of action will clearly save the most lives, then assign an arbitrary score that puts that course of action as equally beneficial as the "woke" course of action--for no reason--and then invent another arbitrary category of equal importance that gives more weight to the "woke" course of action because there aren't enough brown people in the 65+ bucket.

It's even more shocking that this fundamentally irrational and (poorly) racially-motivated reasoning was unanimously approved[1] by the committee.

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-...
[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6950e2-H.pdf
So I was just talking smack, but I think it might be possible.

Remember when we could do 64Kb/s reliably over the web? Then you could do 'voice'. And after that threshold was crossed, you could basically do unlimited voice very quickly.

So Wikipedia - text only - is ballpark 50G - which is to say it would fit on a single mobile phone.

That is bigger than the first Google index!

I don't know how old you are, but the notion that you could walk around with this massive database, literally the size of all of Google right in their pockets in 1999 - would have blown people's minds. It was basically unthinkable.

The rate of growth of storage has slowed down a little in the last decade but there are still jumps to be had, and it's not inconceivable that we get 100-500TB storage in the nex1 10-15 years in regular devices, meaning 10-100x that in a slightly large storage device.

While video data is expanding (4K is much bigger than original HD) it can't go on forever, meaning, just like voice and text, once we cross a certain threshold, then it becomes irrelevantly small relative to storage as well.

So I think there's some value in my point:

In 10-20 years from now, as video storage becomes 'trivial' just as text is today (aka all of wiki text on your phone) - then huge amounts of data become available, instantly.

Though some data sources change a lot - others do not.

It's not inconceivable that we put the 'entire western canon' in everyone's homes.

The other thing no so evident in my comment is that there's only so much use for all of this data.

We are getting massively smaller marginal returns for all this 'big data' we store, frankly, I question in many cases if it's worth it at all. I think a lot of companies have been duped into saving every mouse click or whatever concerning every customer. The world is just not that complicated.

What this means - is as computers miniturize - and storage as well - we may see regular data centers shift away from the cloud back to 'on premise'.

If you can fit 'infinite computing power' in a little closet, and the parts are easily replaced ... then I can see companies doing that.

The promise of cloud computing today largely rests on the economies of scale of physicality: parts take up space, cables, power, heating/cooling, you want a lot of flex/headspace, configurations.

I don't see why in 20 years from no, you can buy 'off the shelf' a 'box' that has the equivalent of 100Ec2s, 500TB of storage and multiple G/s networking cards.

You could run an entire corporate office of 1000 people from just a single box.

The 'physicality' of it all would be mundane and irrelevant. Obviously, it would be 'super complex' and still need 200 IT people to admin all of the software, but physically it could be small and cheap.

'Big maybe' of course, but there are some possibilities in there I think.
Battery tech. Smartphones almost all components has come a long way from processor, RAM and storage. Battery tech has not improved much.
> But AFAIK OSM doesn't have anything remotely like that level of sidewalk shape data.

Yes, for now only tiny part of sidewalks has area info. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:area:highway

> I don't think outdoor building stairs are mapped.

It can be mapped, also not done in most of places
It's not really backed up if you haven't proven you can read the "backup".
> So what Cosmopolitan does for memcpy() and many other frequently-called core library leaf functions, is defining a simple macro wrapper, which tells the compiler the correct subset of the abi that's actually needed

By not marking all memory as clobbered for a call to memcpy, couldn't the memcpy overwrite a local variable, in which case reads post memcpy could miss the updated value?

> The above two compiles used the same gcc flags

Why does the before have frame pointers and post does not?
Latent heat of vaporization of LNG is 512 kJ/kg vs 2257 kJ/kg for water. Which is basically irrelevant when your talking into the million’s of kg of the stuff.

Do some math and even just a single 35,000 gallon tanker load is going to flow around like a liquid for quite some time.
> Citymapper is so much better in Paris where Google Maps is very poor for public transport. I'm extremely impressed.
> It can not only tell you which exit you need to take (extremely important in Paris) but also which car to board to be the closest to the proper exit or line change

Google Maps has been doing both of these for at least a year now.

> Multimodal routing is also extremely impressive. They properly implement the city bike sharing system including how much bikes and empty spots they are available at each station

That one is pretty cool. If only the service wasn't massacred and rendered almost unusable :( ( used it regularly but had to buy a bike due to how often there would be broken bikes or bugs in their system. I think they lost a lot of customers with the provider switch, it was a complete disaster for more than a year and still isn't great).
You're thinking in the right direction in terms of having infrastructure support during your first multi-day hike. My first was the Laugavegur trail in Iceland a few years ago, and it helped tremendously that I was staying in huts each night and not camping, both because of the weight, and also because the screwups my first-time self made in what I packed were lessened by the fact I had a roof over my head each night, a place to cook my food, and other strangers in my "cohort" I got to know over the course of the 4 nights who had started at the same time to share advice.

So, hut supported, you could try the Iceland trail, the Kungsleden in Sweden is moderate difficulty and the huts are wonderful, the huts in the U.S. on segments of the Appalachian trail are quite nice (and they even cook you dinner at some!) and there are a few others you can search for. Then once you've picked a specific hike, quite a few people write about their experiences on that particular trail and you can hone in on the specific equipment you'll need to bring.

My biggest piece of advice: be absolutely ruthless about the stuff you decide to bring so you can keep your pack as light as possible for that first multi-day hike. A bunch of extra clothes? No. The very low probability emergency situation that your hut won't have working gas so you have to bring your own stove? No. etc. etc.
Because if you set the poverty line so that everyone not in the 1% is poor you'd get a rich state with 98.93% poverty and a poor state with 99.52% poverty or some other asinine result that requires more post-processing to actually make sense of.

The closer the rate is set to the real definition of poor (however you define that) is the less adjustment you need to do to know how many people are "actually" poor, you just multiply by the population of the area that has that rate.

But like I said, the problem is you can't use one federal number and apply it across areas (be those areas states or subsections of states) with very different economic conditions without adjustment. Trying to do so is like trying to compare salaries across countries without taking into account exchange rates.

With the single federal rate you can do some rough comparisons. For example we can compare Ohio, a fairly blue collar, not totally rural but also not urban dominated state, with Massachusetts, a state that has all its stats dominated by the Boston area in order to tease out the difference between what it's like living in middle America. But even than it's kind of limiting because the next obvious question is what are the county poverty rates and that gets real messy and inaccurate real fast.

Think of the federal poverty rate like U3 unemployment, better than nothing but not good for much if you really want to understand what's going on
We are in a time when parliamentary scrutiny means “vote whichever way your party whips tell you under any circumstances”. This is no doubt partly owing to the generally low abilities of contemporary members of Parliament, but also because it’s almost always the case that a majority government can get whatever it wants through parliament by definition of the numbers.
> The way DHS and local police specifically targeted journalists?

How many of them were killed/disappeared? If you can't cite a number in the hundreds (or even one case), your comparison is false.
Similarly, the Japanese Type 91 aerial torpedo was sometimes equipped with wooden aerodynamic stabilizers (which broke off when they hit the water.)
Because I personally (with many collaborators, of course) wrote that feature.
It's interesting that we find links between environment, habits, and behavior in every other facet of life, but--somehow, repeated simulations of visceral violence (violent video games) are an exception.

This isn't a simple thing to measure. Players of violent video games have diverse environments, social supports, and other factors. These mitigate the effects of playing these kinds of games; in other words, while the games may encourage violent behavior, person A with a stable environment and strong social supports may not be effected in the same way (or enough to measure). Person B with a different environment and fewer supports may exhibit violent behavior. Some studies may claim to account for these, but that should be met with skepticism and rigorous discussion.
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Yes. Plus they can lobby governments for increased standards so their competition doesn't benefit from their higher standards.
This is a two part problem. One you need a better input capabilities than what a normal touchscreen keyboard provides. For this there are only a few options that are mobile. Either whip out a blue tooth keyboard, which is hardly applicable if you're standing, or use a chording keyboard such as the twiddler[0]. The later take some time to learn, and are still somewhat awkward, in that you look like you're carrying a detonator device in your hand at all time.

The second problem is that most mobile devices are walled gardens that don't allow you full access to your pocket computer's sensors and filesystem. This makes piping the output of one program into another (even say an editor, to email or a compiler) difficult, to say the least. In this case you really need to jailbreak your phone, or purchase an open option such as a PinePhone.

[0](https://twiddler.tekgear.com/)
Is there an Emacs package which does something similar to the "Smalltalk Style" navigation view? It looks like it can be implemented in a very similar way to imenu

Should be interesting, especially if it can leverage lsp for the code analysis.
Love it! Awesome article!
They should have included DOS, BASIC and MARIO.
Would you make the same argument about a war film? Violence is a necessity there, but it doesn't mean people want to commit or see real violence, or be in a war.

Also, you could just as easily transpose it to something tame in reality. Kids like to put on capes and swing sticks around like swords, not because they want to kill stuff, but because it's fun to play pretend. Turns out grown ups like to do this too, we just call it cosplay and video games.
Here it is in German from Deutsche Welle itself: https://dw.com/de/wie-t%C3%BCbingen-seine-alten-vor-corona-s...

I think your take is mistaken, since their measures are not an alternative way to avoid a lockdown. (Lockdowns certainly weren't seen as the only feasible strategy if you consider that the government waited through 3 months of growing case numbers before finally locking down a second time.)

They're just additional measures that Tübingen has implemented earlier than the rest of Germany, e.g. handing out free FFP2 masks to the elderly in November instead of December.

The reason this is a bigger story in American media than in Germany is that the US government blundered worse than almost everyone else, so they're looking for role models elsewhere.
The absolute most egregious example of this (imo) is Colin Kaepernick.

He is literally paid by slavers. He is a multi-millionaire off of the profits of slave labor. It's disgusting that Nike is somehow putting forth a "woke" face while literally using slaves to build their products.

Slavery is not woke. And Colin Kaepernick is a particular sort of disgusting that he is happy to accept millions of dollars from slavers, while also shaming people who don't adhere to some hypocritical fight for racial justice, which he himself does not adhere to, and is in fact in on the profits of.
I feel you. I have a newborn and a two-year-old. It can be frustrating not being able to get into the flow, but I'm just trying to enjoy this time with the kids knowing that they're growing fast.
No. The write method also internally creates a borrow from the pointer.
Apple loses copyright battle against security startup Corellium
How many people have been arrested correctly based on this tech? How does that compare to people looking at photos/suspects? If it's better, this is an improvement even if its not perfect...

>The detective compared Mr. Parks’s New Jersey state I.D. to the fake Tennessee driver’s license and agreed it was the same person

So there was also some human error in the ID then...

Interestingly London police (The Met) have a special group of people who do this job manually and are considered very good. I wonder how the AI vs them vs the average panes out...
According to the Census Bureau the poverty rate of New Mexico or Mississippi drops by more than three percent when you factor in cost of living, household unit sizes, poverty alleviation programs, and other things.

With that in mind, the answer seems to be that in twenty-five states the straightforward calculation based on income exaggerates real poverty. You'll find aggregate numbers, and methodological details, at the link above.

I hope that answers your question.
In Polish: "flamaster" (thin marker for writing) vs "marker" (thick semitransparent marker for highlighting text).

And pencil is "ołówek" (ołów = lead).
Awesome start to what could be a useful resource. In v1.1, would love to see some more granularity in your accommodation category, i.e. on-trail huts, primitive camping, nearby town inns, etc.
As many have been saying, optimizing to minimize case count has been where the entire handling of the pandemic has gone wrong. Let's not repeat this mistake yet again.

We need to optimize to minimize long term effects: death, disabilities, mental health, etc. These are things that actually matter.
If the Guardian were caught laundering Russian-hacked materials to attack an American election, then yes. Otherwise, no.
Hey he added his pronouns on Twitter and is gay, so that should make up for everything right?

/s
I would be more interested to see a study on whether there is a correlation between violent video games and police violence.
If a patient would have likely survived that flu “but for” AIDS, it seems to me that AIDS had quite a bit to do with that untimely death.
The modern approach is decriminalize small amounts, and treat addiction as a disease instead of a crime. The results speak for themselves.

Very few people believe "all drugs should be legal", that's a complete misrepresentation.
This doesn't sound like they are using skilled labor.

> It suggests that iPhone glass supplier Lens Technology has been using Muslim minority Uighurs, who were given the stark choice of working in the company’s plant or being sent to detention centers which have been likened to concentration camps
It isn't mentioned and I don't expect much other then inertia of the device itself. There is a servo mechanism assuring the head follows the tracks on tape. Improvements on that are mentioned. I don't think it matters whether the tape (necessarily) or the environment vibrates or whether that distinction is meaningful.
Apple Hits Record After December Surge Sends It Past Amazon
I hope so. But, frankly, most national and local responses to this outbreak have been subpar. I do not take it for granted that we (the US) can pull off this major logistical challenge smoothly or on an aggressive timeline.