skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Umm...why not? You can't just hand-wave that away.

Sorry, I should have elaborated. It's a city state with unusually high levels of both social compliance and government control, population is fairly wealthy and fairly evenly distributed. So - small population is a very small area simplifies logistics a ton. Especially ignoring problems related to migrant workers (it's own set of problems), most people have both high social support and some financial depth, there is also little to no housing insecurity.

It's basically unclear if you can successfully scale the Singapore model, nobody has tried. As against, e.g. , the several universal models that are outperforming the US currently, with more comparable populations etc.
This is a bit simpler as:

let var = {
let mut var = ...

var
};

that is, you can assign the result of the block directly. That way you don't need two variables with the _ name as the second.
I don't see Iran on that list. Seems like mainly developed countries. Also, the US has a large amount of geographic cost-of-living disparity, and I am having trouble identifying whether these numbers are controlled for that.
I have a degree in Software Engineering and NOT CS. I had to teach myself a lot of core CS, largely for interviewing in the industry which is full of CS majors and people with myriad unrelated degrees (or no degrees).

You can't call yourselves 'hackers' and 'engineers' at the same time. (I mean, you _can_, but talk is cheap)

That's not a bad thing by a long shot. There's a time and place for hacking as there is for engineering.
Her actual complaint about the data [1]:

Now a private citizen, Jones continues to take issue with the way the state is calculating its coronavirus positivity rate. The official Florida site says there are more than 1.3 million "total people tested" in Florida, of which about 73,500 were positive, resulting in an "overall percent positive" rate of 5.4%.
But Jones says that figure is misleading.
"I actually wrote the script to create that data, so I know exactly what it looks like," she says, adding that she's audited it and checked it with several other statisticians to make sure it's correct.
She says that on the state's dashboard, any person who tests positive will be counted as a positive test only once, no matter how many times they test positive. But a person who tests negative will be counted over and over again each time they test negative for the coronavirus.
Jones says that because many residents, such as health care workers, require repeated testing, the state's dashboard is artificially deflating the true positivity rate.

[1] http://npr.org/2020/06/14/876584284/fired-florida-data-scien...
Furthermore the belief that I, a smart and well informed person, am immune to manipulation is a vulnerability those seeking to manipulate you can exploit.
Some words to counter our current trend of selfish social decline
But this is exactly the kind of thing I called a bothersome corner case. Needing to redefine a global function in order to use fairly intuitive behavior is not great developer experience.
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."

- Mao Zedong
But there is NO criticism at all... credible or not.
Not arbitrage in the literal sense. The article claims only a small edge over thousands of equal risk positions which means no trade, or pair of trades, is risk free.
> The difference between a paternalistic and non-paternalistic state, is basically that a paternalistic state tries to actively prevent you, while a non-paternalistic state merely punishes you

Paternalistic: I truely hate PC shit, but that seems like a terribly misogynistic word, I guess someone needs to discipline our forebears. And my own cultural stereotypes are that mothers have rules, and punishment is something a father does (in complete opposition to that definition?!).

> non-paternalistic

Now I wonder how often we think of a man as maternalistic, however not being maternalistic is mostly pretty bad: https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-opposite-of/maternalis...
> "complete" means every single item the customer wants to see in the product,

Ah, but the customer does not know everything they want, due to the fractal nature of reality. The closer you get to the end product, the more detail is resolved, and more work is added.
Uncompensated care (includes unpaid and forgiven charges) is in the ballpark of 5% of costs, according to hospitals themselves.
To start with, full disclosure : this is a controversial topic. The majority of eye surgeons are still convinced that there is a genetic predisposition to keratoconus, and that eye rubbing is an optional trigger. Other (a growing number) think that this is the sole responsible of keratoconus.

My mentor is the main proponent of the eye rubbing theory. I was a skeptic, and became convinced by learning with him how to properly interview patients on this subject, how to prevent eye rubbing, and by seeing the absence of progression after full awareness of the patients (without cross-linking. We don't do any CXL in my department, ever. KC screening and care is one of our main activity: not doing CXL is a financial loss).
My mentor's website : https://www.gatinel.com/recherche-formation/keratocone-2/no-...
(No conflict of interest except loyalty).

The main difficulty is that it is almost impossible to design an experiment to prove the theory (if someone has a genius idea, please don't hesitate). Usually other surgeons or students become convinced after visiting the department and spread the good practices back home : still a long way to go.

The harmful eye rubbing is made with the hard parts of the hand (knuckles). It is frequently nocturnal and almost everytime ignored. Awareness comes when the patient has been informed and told to look for this habit. At the second consultation, the eye rubbing is reported in the vast majority of cases. I count the keratoconus patients that deny eye rubbing after 2-3 consultations on one hand. We prescribe a transparent eye shell to sleep with when the patient denies eye rubbing : it allows them to realize that they rub during the night. We prescribe eye drops to ease the eye irritation which triggers rubbing, and instruct to rub the inner part of the eyelid, against the nose (no eye deformation) if necessary. Sleep position is frequently pathological too (eye vs hand or arm contact. In those cases the KC is very asymetrical).

Doctors in our team can predict the eye rubbing habit frequency and intensity by looking at a corneal topography. It is incredible that the role of this habit was ignored so long. I suppose that we doctors don't talk enough with our patients. The financial incentive of performing CXL and surgeries is so clearly detrimental the the adoption of those practices.
Reminds me of the excellent 2010 talk, “What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True”:

https://vimeo.com/9270320

Bit long, but well-presented and worth a listen for any practicing software developer (or person who manages developers).
A Solution for Social Media?
With everyone filming everything all the time, I've always wondered just how fully we can capture all that is happening in a given place. Capitol events shows that in a situation like that, you can almost pick any person, and with enough effort, perhaps find everything that happened to them at any given time.
" Japan is not built around cars. There are more trains. You get to walk more."

I hear this a lot, but what does this really amount to? I live in a city without a car, and all my walking on my daily commute (during non-covid times) burns 125 calories or so. That's nothing. Eating two oreo cookies is more calories than that.

Moreover, consider that America is no more car centric than it was in 1970 or 1980, but people are much larger now than then.
The most useful piece of advice I have gotten for estimates is that they are all junk until someone sits down and tries to do the work. For big jobs, 20% of it, small jobs pushing 50% of the work.

In every single case when you've done that much work, I seem to wind up with a reasonable estimate.

If we've done the job before and have data on it, also reasonable.

Double or triple anything else.
Right, so what's your solution then?
Then perhaps a shorter summary in the form of the 8 fallacies of distributed computing would be clearer. https://arnon.me/wp-content/uploads/Files/fallacies.pdf
> For example: an 65+ year-old patient comes in with a specific complaint. It could be cause A or the more rare but serious cause B. It takes imaging to determine whether it's A or B. Elsewhere in the world, they just assume it's A as the patient is "old" because it's financially impractical to test for B. My wife on the other had has no constraints from ordering the imaging test even though 9/10 times it's not needed. But the other 10% of the time, it saves the life.

This just plain isn't true in general. I grew up in the US with probably the best insurance of anyone I've ever known. I've also lived in Sweden with the state-run insurance (without any private addition). I've had great care in the US. I've had great care in Sweden. In fact, my care in Sweden has honestly probably been better in my cases including where I had overuse injury to my knee due to sports where they really could just say "well quit running so much and let your body rest and leave the healthcare system to those not actively inducing their own injury", but they did not. Fast MRIs, fast diagnosis, fast help, fast everything. I understand this is entirely anecdotal, but the fact is there are many much cheaper systems out there run by governments that actually function _better_ than the US system even for those in the US with good insurance.
That is not collective parenting at all. That is extended familly. And as bonus, Brooks idealize past to fit point he wants to make.
Ask HN: Anyone wants to do a hackathon with me?
Hello Hackers :)

I tried co-founder match on SUS. It is difficult to find the right person to work with given the type of recommendation from the platform I am getting.

So I thought I will post here a hackathon buddy request. It is more specific as I want to work with more specific skill-sets so that we can get something done quickly.

Here is what I am looking for from a hackathon partner:

Should know C++ well. Should know or be comfortable picking-up JavaScript and some web front-end development.

That's it. Anyone willing to join, bounce ideas and work on something cool using C++ and JavaScript?
I mean... it was an improvement, and certainly did enable coverage for a lot of people who otherwise would have gone without. But it was such a lost opportunity, and I wish the Dems could just own up to that and push for something more. The problem is that both sides are so deep in the industry’s pockets, that I don’t think real reform is even possible.
Read some SWE job postings at the companies you’re interested in and isolate the keywords you’re less familiar with. Start researching those skills/topics in books, google and on YouTube.
The US has killed in excess of a million people in the Middle East. Around 650 000 people died as a result of the Iraq War, around 50 000 in Afghanistan, around 400 000 in Syria and around 20 000 in Lybia.

Of course, neither were purely by the US but rather by a Coalition, but none of them would have happened if it wasn't for the US.

I also include deaths from destruction of infrastructure and subsequent power vacuums, as is customary for crimes against humanity.
Types of Innovation – From the Prosperity Paradox
The best thing to do, to help a child, is to help the family.

But the family is often very unattractive. Adults can be such reprobates: Drug addicted, "lazy", wasteful....

So the state tends to remove the child and inject them into what they know is at best a failing system and at worst a fertile training ground for child abusers.

Better to help the families, never mind that they will have lifestyles you disapprove of. It costs a lot of money. A huge amount.

But it is cheaper in the long run to put aside the moral panic about the behaviour of the grown us....
If it can't be done upfront it's largely useless for business folks ("so you have an estimate but can't translate it into time? so why do it? go away" :).

If it assumes remaining work is equivalent in time to done work (notion of velocity), it's (in my view) very optimistic. People learn the nature of the beast as time progresses. Collective learning happens slowly. A lot of important work is usually only discovered and planned in the second half of the actual (not original) timeline. A lot of important stakeholders are naturally only introduced into projects close to its finalization, which creates a flurry of new activity and discoveries. This makes projects late.

But where that real halftime is - most people I worked with rarely know. I was no better, I also rarely knew.

The only way to manage this I found was the basic rule: build, demo, decide what to do next. Don't get attached to original backlog and grand plans for the future. It won't work that way. Just build and make it work, launch ASAP, get decisions on a ~weekly basis done. Ignore long term planning. It's not helpful.

Sadly, few business folks want that of course :)
And, she is moving in a hurry. Like if you showed that to me without context and asked "what do you think she's doing?" I would likely think she is trying to carry something away by how she's holding the bag close to her midsection. Is the correct term for this "conspicuous af"?
Your 10yo GPU can blit and scroll pixels faster than your CPU, which can deal with layouts and other things in the meantime. Using GPU by itself is not slowing down your apps.

If the app is badly optimised it's going to be slow regardless of the rendering method.
Why do you have to be so obtuse? Everyone with some common sense knows that in a political context, “the Russians” means the Russian state. Any support from the general Russian populace is secondary (though not entirely unrelated since the state is generally a product of its society). I refuse to believe that you don’t understand this to be the case.
I'm not defending any megacorp, but looking at where each corp gets their revenue is probably a reasonable way to determine who the corp is trying to make happy.

If most of your revenue is from advertisers, you're going to try to make advertisers happy. Advertisers are happier when they have more user data for ad targeting.

Apple seems to be getting most revenue from hardware sales, so they're going to prioritize keeping people within their ecosystem, and making sure hardware needs to be re-purchased at regular intervals, either through innovation or through designed obsolescence.
pop pop jump jump oh what a crunch it is.

(sung to this tune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iENQXIQ8wH0 )

Side note: It really is incredible what happened in the early days of computing when memory and computation were limited. How much care was taken in the precise layout of memory or even the timing of a calculation was insane.
I'm a professional music engraver so I always view these programs in a different light than your average musician. MuseScore has always been the inferior option based on features and quality of output. I'm glad they are actually focusing on engraving improvements though, as it is really the core point of a program like this, to make the notation accurate and beautiful. Whether this new font lives up to the hype we'll see. Dorico's new font (Bravura) has certainly seen a lot of usage in the professional space, even if Dorico itself is struggling to capture that market.
I'd disagree

People that are unhinged in their view of reality enough to think that they're going to just

- Take a week off work

- Book a hotel room

- Board a plane

- Take down the government

- Fly home

- Go back to work

People who think that can be integrated into "just another day" are likely unhinged enough that they'd become violent when "challenged" at home on much smaller issues
My own concept is rather simpler I would say: apply the 80-20 rule; that is, 80% of your time, use the tool set you know best that get you paid and the remainder 20%, invest it in learning things that interest you.

Of course, when it's off or weekend days, feel free to swap the rule to 80% learning and 20% to anything else you must do.

Obviously it's just a suggestion, not a mandatory task, but hey; whatever works for you, isn't that right?
I want a danganronpa version too.
It's interesting to see the only comments defending this startup are from newly created accounts.

The article you shared appears to conflict with what this startup is offering.

> It's being called a "temporary protocol" that so far, has only been used once on April 5. Nassoura said the process starts by the victim calling law enforcement and then, "The officer goes to the victim's residence, places it (the sexual assault test) on the front door step, waits in the vehicle. The victim then goes to the front door gets the sample and they begin a zoom video call." That zoom video call involves a forensic nurse, the detective and a victim advocate. Once the victim's statement is taken by the officer, the nurse is the only one that remains on the call. The victim then self-collects the sample under the nurse's guidance and direction.

And to your point:

> Moreover, further research will show you that the startup explicitly encourages survivors to visit a hospital or contact law enforcement if at all possible.

The problem is, this startup's business model specifically relies on victims not visiting the hospital.

> Ask sexual assault survivors what they would like to see instead.

They would probably want their evidence to be admitted in court, rather than raise reasonable doubt.
For sure, the moderation comments are tedious. If it helps at all, they're even more tedious to write than to read [1].

However, even though they look the same as regular HN comments, they play a different role—they are out-of-band feedback signals which help the system regulate itself. Without them, the site guidelines would have negligible effect and HN would melt down into a hot core of rage and sensationalism.

One way to think of them is like a medicine which is toxic in its own right, but which you take when the alternative is worse. It would be wonderful if we could drop them altogether and have the site stay as good or better, but alas that's not an option.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Ah, yes, that makes sense. I can see how this could have been misread.
While I agree that everyone can be manipulated and we should never consider us immune to manipulation, I would still argue that certain groups of people are more easily manipulated.
It’s absolutely not. Making testable hypotheses and then running experiments to try to prove them wrong is how science is done. Making untestable hypotheses is by definition the realm of philosophy.
There is a distinction https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossiyane
The media will make every possible excuse for leftists.
From what I've read, Matrix servers are significantly harder to run compared to XMPP.
Police aren't usually personally targeted, these politicians were. And the rioters brought rope and plastic handcuffs into the capitol building, which looks a lot like wanting to take hostages.
It already works with smart TV's, I've tested it, but you need to install a chrome browser on it and type in address manually.

In future I thought to add a simple 6 digit pass when connecting to computer running Deskreen, kind of a chromecast experience, but this is more a commercial use case, because it requires load balancing and a fleet of cloud machines running on the background. Besides you will be Forced to use it with internet only.

So for now there is no better alternative to just using a web browser on your smart tv and typing address in manually.

...

Note that in future a feature to remember a previously connected device will be added, so you will have to type baffling address in browser only once :)

Cheers
Recently I switched from Proton to Tutanota.
https://privacy-watchdog.io/truth-about-protonmail/
FTA: "intended to send the computer device to a friend in Russia, who then planned to sell the device to SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service"
Let me be explicit: so many Americans, including many here on this very post, are tearing down are institutions with as much vigor as they can, all in the service of their partisan cause.

With Team Red, it's our election system is corrupt, and our judicial system is corrupt because it ruled the election system wasn't corrupt. Oh, and Congress is corrupt because it's dominated by Team Blue and Team Red traitors.

With Team Blue, it's our judicial system is corrupt, for reasons X, Y, and Z. In fact, all our insitutions are corrupt because of systemic Foo or Bar. Oh, and by the way, we're more or less the same as China.

With these kinds of attitudes, how can we expect to come out of this with our country intact? Because let me assure you, there are plenty of groups itching for a conflict to break out so that they can rebuild society in their image from the rubble.

Many of you have no conception of what it's like to live in a conflict or post-conflict zone. We're all privileged as Americans. Not because we're perfect as a country, but because we're a functioning, developed country, or at least we were before this great partisan insanity took hold:

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/interactives/political-... (click "Animate Data")
What sort of food did you and your wife eat in japan?
And yet, China, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam have managed to stop the virus. Weird how that works.
I think it's because inexperienced programmers don't think about the "soft" costs of programming.

Requirements gathering, general communication, testing, production rollout, coordination, research, final approval - it all adds up. For a 2 week project you might only actually spend a day of ass-in-seat coding. And that ass-in-seat coding is what they tend to estimate.
One cool way of de-orbiting satellites is to brake against the Earth's magnetic field with a conducting wire. This is actually already a product.

https://www.tethers.com/deorbit-systems/
I forgot to add this to my other comment. Yes, a multiplier works wonders. (I typically added 30% to my own estimates, which covers all the little incidentals that trip you up, and coffee breaks).
I've not been forced to work longer than an 8hr day since the 90's.
While I agree in general, the nuance is that certain people are in fact more susceptible than others.

Hypnotists bring up a bunch of people on stage just to find the one most susceptible to their tricks.

On the other hand, well designed manipulation like YouTube’s recommended videos can keep even the least ignorant people enthralled in videos.
I wonder how popular this trend is going to be? I don't like audio books/podcasts, etc. and prefer text-only content.