skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but who gets to choose what attributes of populations are the right ones to group together into districts?

Let the voters decide. Allow them to group themselves into self-selecting affinity groups, i.e. have proportional representation.
It seems like this kind of information would be trivially available in a democracy because not knowing it is an impediment to informed voting. Especially when people are on various committees and lobby groups are involved.

Speaks to bias, vested interests etc. Modern democracies should have more data about who is doing what and why.

This goes beyond just tax. But it would certainly be informative.
Almost all of that (3.8 million) is indoor air pollution caused by cooking: https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/topics/topic-detail...
$16,000 is 4x what I paid for my last car, a big comfortable Volvo.
Harder than last time
If you're aiming for code reuse don't rewrite. Refactor.
Well, they clearly at least commissioned them from someone else, since they are the ones distributing them.
Here's some older explanations:

Clay Shirky: http://web.archive.org/web/20060214180624/http://www.openp2p...

Andrew Odlyzko:
http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/case.against.micropaymen...

Nick Szabo:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080514172459/http://szabo.best....
My jeans are part elastane too, but I honestly feel more comfortable in properly sized straight cut 100% cotton twill or wool(-blend) pants with no stretch, preferably with pleats. Elastane lets you get away with a fit that's really too tight.

But none those are even close to being as comfortable as pajama pants or sweatpants. When I'm lounging at home, I want nothing to bind or sit tightly, comfort is king.

Wearing a belt while sitting down puts a lot of pressure on your midsection, but even wearing suspenders (which I highly recommend), you still feel the waistband. Of course you get used to it, but why not just go straight for comfort?
I’ve played with graviton instances and compiled a few bits of C I use for benchmarking. Not a scientific test but I found them to be good but nowhere near the performance per core as the intel offerings. As a comparison they are nowhere near the Apple M1 either. But that doesn’t mean they’re a bad option.

I think they end up close to same price/performance as the Intel offerings as well once you invoke the compiler optimiser. The main benefit is better core scalability and lower energy usage which may work out as a net gain for database workloads.

As always it’s best to measure these things yourself with your expected workload.
BeInc launched BeOS R3 in the era of Win95/98 and MacOS classic, both were commercially successful and had no multiuser support and poor TCP/IP stacks.
Fiddling around on an M1 MBA it felt faster than my 2020 16" MBP. It's half the weight, seems to get double the battery life, and costs less than 1/3.

I just can't even imagine what the gap is going to look like when Apple really refines this down.
General comment about the Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-based_programming : given all the interesting discussion on the 'Net, including this thread, it might be time to update the Wikipedia article.

The most substantive addition in recent years is Akaigoro's comment about Actors, added Jan. 2020 (@guitarvydas, care to jump in?!), preceeded, I think, by Joe Witt's reference to NiFi in mid-2018. This general lack of activity I feel might lead readers to assume that FBP is an outdated concept, whereas this thread proves it's definitely alive and kicking! I, personally, am not allowed to update the article, due to the WP ban on self-promotion, so I would like to encourage people to add topics, controversies, anything, to the WP article... Freshen it up a bit, as it were! Thanks, and stay safe, everyone!
I'd say something like becoming a plumber satisfies that: it's hard, gross work, but it pays well and absent a breakthrough in robotics, I think has a low risk of disappearing as a career.
Your average kindergartener could draw up districts which are more fair than the current ones.

The problem has never been finding a fair way to do it. The problem is that the people in power aren't at all interested in doing it fairly.
Hopefully I’m not stepping on anyones toes here, but as a hobby project I have been building an app that lets you use your iPhone as a webcam for your Mac. It will be completely free for anyone to use!

I am currently running a beta and if you would like to help me test it then you can apply here:

https://webcamplus.app/beta

For reference, I have had a thread up on MacRumors Forum for a few weeks:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-as-a-webcam-for-...
Are geographic districts required by the Constitution? State and Federal laws certainly follow from this assumption, but could a state simply assign registered voters at random (per election, roughly in line with ballots being finalized) to each of its districts? Single-seated states already enjoy this luxury.
> when a technology becomes convenient enough so we don't have to think about it while it fulfills it's purpose,

Is a tragically limited view of what computers are.

Programmable computers are fundamentally different from steam engines. A steam engine will never be anything except a steam engine. Most of the manufactured objects we encounter in everyday life are similar: single- (or occasionally multi-) purpose goods that do what they were designed to do.

A general-purpose computer is not like this. It can be made to serve virtually infinite purposes. It can be made to do things the manufacturers never imagined anyone doing, and things the manufacturers wished it couldn't do.[0] Almost nothing else has that kind of raw potential for human expression. Perhaps a blank notepad and pen might be analogous.

[0] https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
Depends on your definition of `cool';
here's a multi-zone Smart thermostat...
https://joetruncale.medium.com/thermos-d089e1c4974b
a smart cat flap...
https://github.com/gerrito333/mousehunter-edge/blob/master/R...
and a meteor detector!
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/diy/raspberry-pi-m...
The best choice is always what the team has the most confidence with their skill set on delivering. Your framing is unhelpful. You can build amazing things with both React and .Net patterns. If you're on a deadline, you should probably stick with what you know. Every language and framework has different tradeoffs.
I’m curious how they managed to make it happen so slowly. If that crystal had grown to 100 molecules in 10 seconds it would take roughly the age of the universe to form a grain of table salt.
Unilateralism != innovation.
Mass Vaccine Rollout Is a Cover for the Global Extermination Agenda
I'm still kind of stuck on the fact that they brought a team of .NET devs on to do a React project. What did they think was doing to happen when they used a team with no experience in the technology stack chosen? The conversation should have started with "What skills do the implementation team have?" before tech was chosen.
I use it with RDS. If something fucks up, you can always blame AWS. Otherwise have had no issues with it.
It's obvious whoever designed that, did it so that they could do fun things with it; very flexible PIO and DMA with lots of neat corners; and mention of fun things like 8080 bus interfacing and the like.
> At the same time, they could make particular pages almost unreadable.

That's part of the fun of having your own page. Your aesthetic can be whatever you want, including "borderline unreadable".

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ooer/ is a great example of prioritizing form over function ad absurdum.
Nothing is stopping the payment provider from taking a percentage. I pay 0.5 cents for an article and service provider takes 0.1 cents. Still $4 RPM for the news site after a 20% fee!
Show HN: Ethical Product Alternatives – An ethical product per new tab
I personally think it goes beyond simply access to resources. Isn't having the financial freedom to pursue your interests for large portions of your life a common trait of many intelligent/polymath/achieved types?
Can you add a Copy SVG button to them? HeroIcons [1] has this and I didn't know what I was missing until I started using it. I can basically just copy and paste directly into html pages rather than download the icon and either view the xml or have to do an img tag.

Sure, if there is an icon that is used all the time, I will save it, but its really nice for prototyping.

[1] HeroIcons: https://heroicons.com/
Ipad isn't general computing device, it's a smart gadget, same as Smart TV same as IoT lightbulb.

This article explains it well:
https://hisham.hm/2020/12/10/smart-tech-%e2%80%94-smart-for-...
Another popular resource that is often shared is the explorable explanation "To Build A Better Ballot" by Nicky Case here:

https://ncase.me/ballot/

It's a great way to get to grips with some of the theory of different voting systems, and has some links at the bottom to various relevant groups.
Works on mobile, doesn't work on PC.
By promoting or demoting, or removing content (without some form of due process) the platform expresses an opinion, making it the act of a publisher, which should be an act they are liable for.

>would be forcing people and corporations to carry content on their websites that those people or corporations do not agree with

If you choose to build/host a public square, you must provide equal opportunity and access to it. Limiting access thereafter would involve police for criminal acts, or court / restraining orders for civil. Both are performed by govt, within the government's constitutional limits. Due process.

If you want to control content and be a publisher, then fine, but now we're talking about assumed liability for content, and an entirely different relationship with content creators. Just as the owners of a private venue are responsible for the actions of entertainers they might hire.
How do you explain paywalls then?
Tesla superchargers take about 40 minutes to deliver an 80% charge. Call that a "full" tank. A gas pump can do the same in about 5 minutes (probably less). So to charge/fill the same number of cars per hour as one gas pump you need 8 superchargers. That's a significant increase in real estate area needed.

Another approach: A top-end Tesla supercharger delivers around 250kW. So eight of those would be 2000kW or 2 Megawatt, or around 20,000 amps, to give the equivalent number of fills/charges per hour as ONE gas pump.

I filled my tank at a medium-sized station this morning that had 8 pumps (4 islands, double-sided). So the drop-in electric replacement would be 8x the numbers above.
You just moved the goalposts. The UX for setting this up is terrible, but as approximately zero people have a Red camera hooked up to their computer and a dedicated fiber connection to multiple people, so presumably the setup is a one-time cost.
> If anything, the entire team seemed to do far more due diligence in decision making than pretty much 90% of the move-fast and break things (TM) SV startups.

The author did not convince me that they had above average due diligence. It's common to go through the motions of required processes/procedures like:

"create decision criteria, do research, validate findings by creating a proof of concept, present findings, document everything in the decision log"

and not generate much value from the process as a result.
This really does nail it. Despite React having a somewhat OOP approach to a lot of things (and Class Components being the de facto for years), React best practices have evolved to be a very functional approach.

.NET wakes up every morning to have OOP pancakes OOP eggs and OOP coffee and it can't possibly allow even a hint of that beatnik functional style near it.
> Has anyone here made the jump?

Waiting for the t4 instances.
At least in my own experience, when I do not do things consistently, real long-term progress is difficult to achieve. And that is what makes me obsess over things like OP.
Or a third party decides to enter the market and go for position number 2. Apple could probably do it with the cash they roll - but they don't want to do so. A country could. It sure seems like chips are important enough to warrant a national supply - so international pressures can't weigh on you politically through chip supply.
Since Chevy killed the Volt, it looks like they're focusing on just going straight electric. Which I find unfortunate, I was hoping more manufacturers would take the series hybrid approach.
DeLorean was entrapped by the government.
The SSD is clearly different. Are there other differences, or are people just assuming?
I think to understand the M1, you have to be a Mac laptop user. For years, Mac laptop performance lagged years behind high-end desktop performance -- they have been stuck on 14nm+ process chips with a mobile power budget, while desktop users have had 7nm chips that can draw 500W with no trouble. As a result, what M1 users tell you is fast is what PC desktop users have had for ages. A Threadripper and 3090 will blow the M1 out of the water in raw performance (but use a kilowatt while doing it, which a laptop obviously can't do).

At my last job, they issued us 2012-era Macbooks. I eventually got so frustrated with the performance that I went out and bought everyone on my team an 8th generation NUC. It was night and day. I couldn't believe how much faster everything was. The M1 is a similar revelation for people that have stayed inside the Mac ecosystem all these years.
Apparently it wasn't hard.
We have a private local package repo at my company. Some developers set up their npm registry, or had it set up for them, with registry=https://.. Others have registry=http://...

Regardless of whether or not Strict-Transport-Security is enabled on the server, npm will still record the protocol as-is in the package-lock.json file.

Half the time a PR will include a package-lock.json with every "resolved" field having the protocol gratuitously changed to the other protocol.
Everyone hates paywalls
> Just not the browser

Most backend frameworks need literal compilation - all that's different here is that the target is a specific JS version, not machine code. Additionally, there's a bit of "naivety" here - browser vendors are the ones that implement native features, and that's clearly not a domain that a random developer can impact. Instead it's JS frameworks and associated tooling, which is all very strong now. The idea that Angular or Vue are somehow going to work in the browser directly is, once again, absurd, and please stop saying it.

> What's the churn on Pandas

I find it silly that you'll cite Pandas as not having churn when its parent language just underwent a large, painful, poorly received transition.

> It will be surprising if React is around in 5 more years

You are saying the same things people said 5 years ago about React. My React code from 2016 still compiles against the newest version of React, and works correctly.

Honestly, you're a classic example of this - you started developing not in JS, you felt some warts of JS, and now you hate JS and are ready to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

I'll be more surprised if "native web components" or "webassembly" are actually supporting production use cases in 5 years than if React is.
Of course, by not by the amounts we saw in 2020. I suspect we'll move back to the previous trend line by 2022.
Because it’s a pain in the butt. You end up keeping track of who’s charged you what. You end up being a full time accountant and adding a value judgement to every little thing you do. It’s just another thing chipping away at you constantly. Another distraction and another treadmill.
I doubt that any transaction costs some percentage of the transaction's value. The true cost shouldn't differ whether I charge $1 or $10 (maybe large transactions incur extra costs for security measures). It's just a convenient way of pricing for the credit card company.
Now This Is Patience
> They've been counting any flu related illness as COVID

What you're claiming doesn't pass any sniff test what-so-ever. Low tens of thousands of people die in a typical year from the flu (in the US). The US is seeing that many deaths from Covid every ten days now.

There's no evidence the US is close to herd immunity. Deaths just hit a new daily record high two days ago. Daily case numbers have been raging at present high levels for over six weeks with zero sign of stopping naturally. The vaccines are clearly the only thing that's going to slow it during this season.
PIO feels like a lateral progression from the arm+fpga socs that have been floating around for awhile. So you could already get socs with even more powerful configurable logic behind their IO. Most FPGAs support partial reconfiguration so they can be reconfigured dynamically as well.

PIO is still pretty cool from an ease of use and cost perspective though.
Because a lot of news sites know you're not loading them intentionally in your browser, but landing on them because of shares or search. Meaning you may only see their pages 10x a month or similar even without a paywall.

The hope with the paywall is if you keep seeing it, you'll go ahead and pay to unlock it, and the amount you're paying offsets the transaction fees.

1000 users each paying 20 cents for ten articles (so assuming -double- the rate you propose, and charging only at the end of the monthly billing cycle) is still a loss of likely around 1/4th the revenue even with a cut rate payment provider (due to the large fixed cost of 2-4%). So might make $50. It's -negative- if using something pleasant to integrate with (because they will charge for that convenience with a larger fixed cost, like Stripe, who will charge $.30 + small percentage per charge), unless you work with them to design a new pricing model for you.

Converting 50 of those thousand (so just 5%) of those people to paid users at $5 each is going to be north of $200 you keep, even if you use Stripe and don't negotiate anything.

And for those users that -will- load up a news site intentionally, the economics are even starker; a subscription means you'll likely go to their site, and stay there. Pay-as-you-go pricing incentivizes you to not visit the site, and instead find other, cheaper news sources.

AWS pricing works because of the scale of the resources people tend to use, and that for businesses, using those resources = additional revenue. It is spending money to make money.
Jony Ive*

Fair point, but Apple isn't the only company selling laptops with ho-hum webcams.
You could see the same with a quick Ctrl+U, Outline is just nicely formatted.
Yes, or at the very least "Does the team have interest in learning this new tech or are they going to force their own notions onto it"
Very interesting to hear your experiences. I have long suspected some sort of autoimmune condition (specifically undifferentiated spondyloarthropathy) resulting in me having similar symptoms. My first symptom was tendonitis, but I was 22 back then (37 now) and very physically active so doctors just attributed it to overuse. Then both elbows tricep tendons developed enthesis and ossified at the insertion point. I have similar enthesis in basically every major joint now, and they still think it's from the exercise. I did push my limits with weights when younger but it's difficult to imagine that being the cause of all the issues I've had.

Similar to you, CRP tests were fine and bloodwork was all good, however they did find I was positive for the HLA-B27 antigen which is a known marker for autoimmune conditions and only present in about 5% of the population, but present in 90-95% of those with spondylitis, so there's one red flag. The issue is as you mention, there is no definitive diagnoses until they see joint damage on X-ray, and by then you've missed years of potential intervening treatment.

Eventually I developed brain fog like you describe, but it was gradual and difficult to tell if the symptoms were related. It's not always debilitating but I'd say 4/5 days I'm foggy to varying degree, and then one day where I'm about 3x sharper. I've learned to just ride the productivity wave those days and do mundane stuff other days.

I thought it may be sleep related, and although getting more sleep does seem to give me a higher probability of a "good" day, it's not a panacea. There are days where even after 10 hours I'm still foggy, and I can tell immediately upon waking up how the day will go.

While I'm sympathetic to those who say googling your way to diagnoses can be harmful (and no doubt it may frustrate some doctors), I don't entirely agree. You have to live with your body and mind 24/7, and you have one and only one patient to care for - yourself. You will always be more motivated to find the answer than your doctor. A doctor cannot read your mind or feel your pain, and simply pattern matching symptoms is something anybody can do. It can never hurt IMO to go into the discussion informed and ask pointed questions.

The medical field is an evolving science, they don't have all the answers, they don't even have most of the answers.
Text visibility? IIRC, Windows 9x would allow you set text and the background to the same color.
interestingly, polestar is half owned by volvo and half owned by geely, volvos parent company. polestar was an independent company until 2015. [0]

0: http://zgh.com/our-brands/polestar/?lang=en
Terrence Tao's notes are a great resource:

https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/resource/general/115a.3.02f/w...

Unlike most texts I've seen, he focuses on the algebraic properties of linear objects first. Others seem to prefer to start with the algorithms of matrix operations. Of course you need to understand both so it's a matter of style/preference etc.

Also take a look at Shilov's Linear Algebra. Two things it has going for it is that it's a lot cheaper and more compact than most books. On the other hand, it's dense, and doesn't really lean on geometry to explain anything. The 3blue1brown videos make a great compliment to it (or to any book).
Paywalls typically ask you to get a subscription, not to pay for that particular article.
Any desktop PC, even with the beefiest Threadripper, won't run the fan at full speed when you're just browsing the web or watching videos.

Heck, if you're not squeezing the absolute maximum performance from a chip by overclocking (I am :P) you can run a 5950X on a regular tower cooler with the fan curve never coming close to 100% and it will still be incredibly fast.
>I’m not really sure why I am this way, but I do know that the periods in my life when I have tried to not be this way have been some of the most miserable

After getting diagnosed with ADHD last year at 32 a lot of things in my life made sense, including why I tend to focus on whatever I'm interested to the exclusion of almost all other things and just get into things way, way too intensely. There is no getting a little bit interested in something and just engaging with things casually for me. If I get into something it gets extreme. That can last 3 days, 3 weeks, 3 months, or 3 years. I tend to like it when it's 3 years as the short duration hyperfocus tends to lead to a lot of impulse buys related to the obsession that then become useless once I'm no longer interested. The times when it goes for years I wind up outstripping my peers as most noone can match the time and intensity I put in.
And at the same time modern ui have much bigger element to accommodate touchscreens.