skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem is that cyclists get more efficient over time on their bike and on the kind of course they are familiar with. In this study, they didn't even have clip-in pedals: "Because not all of the runners were familiar with cycling shoes, all participants cycled in their own running
shoes on flat pedals without toe clips or straps."

On a constant-speed training bike without clip-in pedals, a road cyclist will be pretty far out of their element. A lot of the efficiency gain in cycling comes from adding rigidity to the power train between the foot and the road, and from the continuous power application that clip-in pedals and shoes enable.
> Most countries aren't the first world, most countries don't have the resources to test and quarantine properly, most countries can't afford lockdowns.

The United States meets all these criteria, and has the highest number of cases and deaths in the world. (And near the top in per-capita measures, too.)
I don't actually have to draw pictures in my mind. It's more akin to remembering in the dark where the coffee table is so I don't bark my shin.

But I know that other people do not work this way, so 'draw myself a picture' is still a gating condition on writing the code.
I know. I just wanted a reality check on where erros originate from.

Best. Typo. Evar.
"op-ed" derived from "opposite the editorial page", i.e. recto to the editorial page's verso. In general, the op-eds do not vary that much from editorials. The NY Times always has conservative columnists that it runs, but they are not necessarily that far right.
Yeah, this sucks. It's (unfortunately) not surprising.

My wife had a citation that affected our liberties. The cop even knew that he didn't have probable cause but let the charge stand for more than a month. Nobody in the system cares. The magistrates and judges don't care, even though the new charge should be dismissed with prejudice over this and other rights violations. The supervisors and IA for the state police don't care and even cover some of the stuff up. The DA's office doesn't care either.

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY
It makes sense in a “game theory” kind of way. Writers/influencers will want a pulpit and a huge chunk of the population wants to read political rhetoric rather than dry news. I think I prefer this approach to something like NYT or (esp) WaPo where the news is so intermixed with the agenda that they are almost indistinguishable.

BBC with more extensive coverage (more than just the breaking news) would be my ideal model.
Yep, this is it. There has been a graduation from toy to tool. And...there is also rising demand for lower overheads to get the same functionality, which means there is serious competition for good tech now. If BTC and ETH are examples of "worse is better", there are some Right Things just around the corner.
I ditched all my social media after being a lifelong user.

The biggest noticeable change for me is I suddenly forgot most of these random 'online' friends and don't think about them at all anymore! If I'm not willing to pick up the phone or text somebody, I don't interact with them - that's it.

I find I have more boredom, which is a good thing. I was quite bored as a kid and had to make do with my own devices. So I've been reading more, I even picked up some hobby programming outside of my job which I haven't done in years!

The only place I still comment is actually hacker news!
The way the author described the case of Yélî Dnye ("A Language Where Colors Are Metaphors") makes it seem a bit underwhelming to me, and unfortunately the link to the research paper is broken. When she says:

>For example, to describe something as red, islanders say “mtyemtye,” which is derived from “mtye,” or “red parrot species.” Another example is “mgîdîmgîdî,” which can be used to say something is black, but is directly derived from the word for night, “mgîdî.”

...all I get is the impression that the names of colours in Yélî Dnye are derived from known objects which happen to be of that colour—an interesting bit of trivia, but nothing shocking. Then:

>Not only that, writes Levinson, but the islander’s grammar reinforces this metaphorical slant, saying, “The skin of the man is white like the parrot,” rather than “He is white.”

...I am confused by what is supposed to be that surprising in this way of expressing themselves. Does "is white like the parrot" stand for a literal mention of both the word for white parrot and a word derived from it? Or is it a stand-in for the fact that they don't refer to things being a colour but rather being like specific coloured things? I feel like something has been lost in translation, both literally from Yélî Dnye and metaphorically from the field of linguistics.
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From a fund perspective doesn't this eventually lead to the softbank model? where winners are made through overwhelming capital.
I kind of agree with what I interpret the article as saying - It was fun to work in the Ethereum space when people where there to have fun and there wasn’t so much money involved.

It’s certainly not fun to contribute to Geth nowadays when every bug can have huge consequences, and the community constantly demands more performance so they can have lower costs. Peter was very clear about the burnout this causes.

You can simplify that to - It’s fun to work on things when there isn’t pressure to work on them.

I’ve run into this multiple times in my life, including in the blockchain space, but it isn’t really anything specific to Ethereum. Though I do feel like the author has a limited view and is attributing this to be something Ethereum specific.
I don't think you can do this without recompiling, since the grammars get translated into C code before use. But the built-in command line tools (‘tree-sitter parse’, etc) all support a mode where they will detect local changes to a checked-out grammar definition, and recompile on the fly if needed. (This happens each time the CLI program is started up; it doesn't happen during a long-running process.)
Reminds of the opening scene from the 1985 movie "Brazil." Computer misprints the name on an arrest warrant as the result of a (literal) bug, and nightmarish tragicomedy ensures:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzFmPFLIH5s

Highly underrated movie, with ever more contemporary relevance.
Personally I doubt it. Look at the market volumes -- everyone who wants to trade shitcoins just does it with BTC pairs, and most of the big boy exchanges support USD-BTC directly.. tether was a good idea when exchanges didn't want to mess with USD but that's not really the case anymore.
Sounds like they re-mastered or even re-recored touch at the end, really beautifully remixed. I'm gonna miss DP a lot, huge huge fan. Thankfully Kistune is still putting out a lot of good music.
This is really short sighted thinking. The web had no "killer app" in the first 10+ years. It was obscure technology with thousands of naysayers laughing at us "web nerds" because we thought it would change everything.

Cryptocurrency is very young. While its hard to say if BTC or ETH or something yet to be invented will be part of the digital money future, it is absolutely reasonable to expect this technology will have a role in the world. Of course people will make and lose "quick dough" but that's like saying the web failed because some idiot made or lost money on Pets.com or AOL stock.

Trade volume just means that the idea is in circulation, people of many walks of life are seeing what is there. Feel free to ignore those people, but to write off the entire concept as "about making quick dough" is asinine.
For me SMS work reliably. And when it does not work, it usually indicates huge overload which means that Internet is long gone. May be different hardware with different cellular operators.
This is horrifically BAD advice. Shopping a TS to a few folks is not an unwise thing to do, but running a full-blown auction absolutely is!

Founders: If you want to ONLY optimize for max price + max check size, the “partners” you bring into your business are bankers.
As someone who’s spent a lot of time working on data pipelines, I think this is a great breakdown of the complexity most data engineers are facing. However, I think there’s two more keys to tidying up messy pipelines in practice:

1. You need to colocate both stream processing for the data pipeline and real-time materialized view serving for the results.

2. You need one paradigm for expressing both of these things.

Let me try to describe a bit why that is.

1. You virtually always need both stream processing and view serving in practice. In the real-world, you ingest data streams from across the company and generally don’t have a say about how the data arrives. Before you can do the sort of materialization the author describes, you need to rearrange things a bit.

2. Building off of (1), if these two aren’t conceptually close, it becomes hard to make the whole system hang together. You still effectively have the same mess—it’s just spread over more components.

This is something we’re working really hard on solving at Confluent. We build ksqlDB (https://ksqldb.io/), an event streaming database over Kafka that:

1. Let’s you write programs that do stream processing and real-time materialized views in one place.

2. Let’s you write all of it in SQL. I see a lot of people on this post longing for bash scripting, and I get it. These frameworks are way too complicated today. But to me, SQL is the ideal medium. It’s both concise and deeply expressive. Way more people are competent with SQL, too.

3. Has built-in support for connecting to external systems. One other, more mundane part of the puzzle is just integrating with other systems. ksqlDB leverages the Kafka Connect ecosystem to plug into 120+ data systems.

You can read more about how the materialization pieces works in a recent blog I did. https://www.confluent.io/blog/how-real-time-materialized-vie...
Three weeks ago I ordered a 1 TB/16GB MBA and picked it up the same day (!)

It was a pleasant shock. I ended up returning it as it turns out I really do need at least 32GB of RAM, but it was VERY difficult to take it back.

Even if this rumor is way overhyped, I still can't wait for a MBP that can take at least 32GB of RAM. I'll be there with bells on!
This is a somewhat horrific argument for draconian imprisonment.

Maybe we'd have better results if inmates could file paperwork to receive the payments that would normally go to the prison for their imprisonment, starting on the date they should have been released.
Sorry but this is just a question of balance.

Sure, it sounds like a public-sector employee gives better value but if you want to produce commercial quality then you still need management, consultancy and high quality HR with competitive salaries, otherwise you usually get mediocre developers with mediocre results.

Sometimes it really is better to pay a premium on the "day rate" to get something more quickly and to a higher standard. You also often have access to better support and maintenance.

You pays your money and takes your choice.
Thanks for confirming. All the best as you turn this new page! You have my heart (if not my wallet).
I didn't know Discord was written in Go to begin with. I thought it was written using electron or something like that.
I wouldn't be so quick to condemn the value of people we underpay. We routinely underpay people who do work that's critical to the function of our society.

In the case of teachers, we take advantage of their passion for helping children, even to their own detriment (i.e. buying their own school supplies).
This comment made the thread for me.
The VLF land stations are on 24.8 kHz, which is 7.4miles wavelength. The two mile antenna is probably a 1/4 wave dipole.
> That's kind of what I'm saying. Rich people making their own dream cities is probably as old as rich people and cities. Ig I could see an explosion of home automation tech giving more people a reason to try, though

Not all rich people, though. It might be interesting to characterize the one's that have built a utopian city, and see if they conform to some common type. Maybe they share important characteristics with modern-day "tech moguls"?
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I would have expected even lower hospital admission numbers for the 60+ population, I mean taking into consideration that almost 80% of them have already been vaccinated.
Why would seasonality be coming up now when we're a year into this thing?

Do you think we got a break at the beginning that we didn't identify in the numbers?
This can really screw up your cache hit ratio.
The authors are currently working on the next iteration of the model which will hopefully come with a few improvements.

AFAIK, they are keen on getting their hands on data that proved difficult for the model -- I suggest you get in touch with them if you think you could help!
I agree with “Start with a niche”, but pretty much all of the examples given aren’t niche products..,, they were some of the most revolutionary products in history. I’m just saying they don’t really illustrate the concept of a “niche start”.
I'd have to put a lot of effort into walking around the inevitable tone that is given off by calling the majority of people mimics. I know how that would have to come across. I don't think it's worth taking that long of a stroll to reach that outcome, the people that are going to disagree and instantly downvote due to outrage are never going to agree with the mimic premise no matter what I say or how I tone it.

I don't view the premise as bad at all, or negative. It makes sense, it's a very reasonable biological system of replicating/copying what works and passing it along; it's very energy efficient for a species, and historically we've had to conserve energy, our evolution would strongly favor a mimic what works system. As a concept it also doesn't elevate us above other biological systems that operate on this planet, we're not that special; whereas to pretend that everyone can be da Vinci is to falsify what humans are, to pretend every person is a creativity giant in waiting if only they got the right encouragement. It's just more of everyone gets a trophy culture in action.
Django REST Framework has this built in, and is very easy to turn on. I always turn it on even though my users almost exclusively use json. I had one user use xml once, because they didnt know how to use json in whatever it was they were using. Noone has ever used yaml, but i leave it there just in case.

if you do it right, using the standard html content type returns a human browseable representation of your api with forms for posts and whatnot.
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AZ had 100% efficacy against severe disease in their 3rd phase interim readout. 0 hospitalization in vaccinated arm, 8 hospitalizations 1 severe and 1 death in the control arm.

In contrast, with pfizer, there were 0 covid deaths in the entire trial (vaccinated or unvaccinated).
It includes home purchases, so that would not be a factor.

As per the earlier link:

> Personal saving is equal to personal income less personal outlays and personal taxes; it may generally be viewed as the portion of personal income that is used either to provide funds to capital markets or to invest in real assets such as residences.(https://www.bea.gov/national/pdf/all-chapters.pdf)
> When starting a new project or software component, we consider using Rust. Of course, we only use it where it makes sense.

Big takeaway here for those who are married to their tools. Rust happens to be just another tool for this company, and it works well for them; where it makes sense of course.
> Taiwanese warnings

The disease originated in Wuhan, mainland China, not Taiwan.

The emergency was communicated in China (as well as Taiwan):

http://py.cnhubei.com/py_news/2019/1231/3290.shtml

Sure, listening to any official source would've been better than what happened... But shutting down travel to/from the whole of China (since otherwise you'd have to trust every passenger to declare if they had been in Wuhan) while there were less then 30/40 cases of pneumonia, and not a single death would've been a really difficult measure to sell
To continue the payment processor example, if there are 10 different reasons for declining a transaction, how do you propose mapping those onto 4xx codes? Would you just choose 10 at random? Or would you just return, e.g., E_INSUFFICIENT_FUNDS?
Whatever your opinions on Signal, I'd be a little miffed if someone installed an app on my phone without my permission.

(Although, I'm also pretty sure iOS won't even let you do that without my fingerprint...)
It just depends on your sports and desires. I use the classic 920XT, but I'd really love something like the 920XT (classic fav among triathletes) but with wrist-based HRM (in addition to chest strap compatibility).

The Garmin Instinct is pretty decent, but its going to depend on your list of desires.
Ahh my mistake! :-)

To be fair, we're cheating a little bit because the Ruby grammar relies so heavily on an external scannar, which is just under 1,000 lines of C++: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-ruby/blob/master/...
A personal blog is not social media and HN arguably is not social media either, as it doesn't even have basic social networking functionality like private messages.
It's such a hard question to answer, because software doesn't exist in a vacuum. Hopefully this example is relevant:

You're a software developer maintaining an eCommerce platform, on the one hand your platform helps perpetuate low margin and wasteful consumerism, on the other hand your software enables small businesses to compete in the new online world.

Consumerism is bad, but commerce is as old as civilization and supports all of our lifestyles, so on a macro level you're in a tough spot. You're a talented developer putting their skills to work building something the community needs, I personally think that means you're doing good work in the context of your society, but it is difficult to say if it's making the world a better place.

Social media is the same. On the one hand, it connects family and friends, on the other it drives narcissisms, consumerism and misinformation.

You almost have to try and calculate the "Net Good" or "Net Bad" of a type of software and see how the cards fall. For social media I would suggest that it's currently in a "Net Bad" situation, causing more harm than good for example.
Come on. Evaluating the merit of a source is critical thinking 101.
No, but nice strawman, congrats. According to my logic , if A does something wrong and it is heavily criticized in the press, when B does the same I expect the same level of criticism and that does not happen at all. Then it is obvious the press is responding to many incentives (political , economical, tribal) which make it not really that free.
Hey Millenials, or Gen-Z'ers:

A world existed before you came around.

1986-1992: BBS's, newsgroups
1992-today: IRC, NNTP, and IM clients

There existed ways to be social long before FaceBook/IG/Reddit/et al. were around. And if you squint you can even see the skeleton of those other platforms in the things you use today.

If I were to live today like I did in 1999:
My (online) social groups were a close knit family of people that shared similar interests. Half of whom lived on the other side of the planet. I typed with them daily, and had close relationships.

Everything I see on Facebook/IG is vapid, and meaningless. Nothing but fakeness and trying to impress strangers.

FFS 1999 is post 'Eternal September'.
Had the article been dated 1979 I might have tolerance for this intentional ignorance.
Heaven forbid the manufacturers actually, you know, increase production to meet the demand for their hardware.
Agreed. ASICs have really destroyed the spirit of mining, and may hint that the Bitcoin style PoW algorithms are in fact not a senible type of proof.

Memory-hard PoW algorithms, rather than computational ones, might be one way to reduce the amount of energy. Memory is expensive regardless of whether you make ASICs or use regular PCs.
Leaning a new language might change your perception of the world in different ways too.

If you live in a country where several languages are spoken, you might realize some media will happily say two different things on the same subject in different languages! Politicians too!
Time to watch idiocracy again..
Not trying to defend anyone, but I'm sure we can find many other reasons why there are so many bugs here unrelated to QA :)
Ditto. My "home" venue is Red Rocks. I got invited but I didn't feel like it and didn't want to spend the $50.

Oof.
They are like teenage children or young dogs.

The sub r/newzealand has a thing for birds and it cycles though species. It’s mid/tail end of a Kea blitz and this one had me laughing. The behaviour is so unlike any other bird I’ve ever seen. The way it lies there at the end.

https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/lijrju/since_ev...
Contained vs uncontained turbine failures relate to the damage from the blades being contained, which in this case they were. Contained failures still result in engine parts exiting the engine, but not through the engine case, which is reinforced to contain the turbine blades in a failure. The unexpected issue here is that the cowling was knocked off, which is not supposed to happen, but in recent years it seems to be happening.
You can still buy the Intel Mini for a reason. I don't think it's an unreasonable assumption to expect a mini that takes more than 16GB of RAM.

They just started the Apple Silicon transition. A bit early for the doom and gloom, no?
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So the killer use case is a scheme to avoid capital gains taxes? Sounds about right.
It's a country specific thing. I find that my clients in the US generally prefer email, Slack, and Zoom/Google Meet. Clients in India, South East Asia and Africa, and some parts of Europe (Italy comes to mind) very strongly prefer WhatsApp even for business communications.
If they were design and requirements then fine, but you cannot consider something that was not asked or paid for as a bug. As with many cock-ups, somebody did not know enough to ask for the right thing.

On top of that, someone should have been in the room to tell the State Governor that their proposed change was not supported in software and needed something out-of-band to manage it.
Again, the only people saying masks are magic are people like you who took an anti-science position and haven’t been willing to admit being wrong. They reduce cases but they’re not perfect, which is why some activities like indoor dining are inherently risky until we have widespread vaccination.

Currently, South Korea is showing 9 cases per million versus hundreds in most of Europe, the US, etc. so we’re still talking about many thousands of deaths avoided by keeping spread 1-2 orders of magnitude lower. If you only care about the economy, ask how much money in treatment that’s saved or the lifetime economic output of the people who died early.

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/south-korea
The client is electron, I believe Go/Rust is used in the backend systems.
haha yeah, 100% I'm sure someone is already considering it... (looking at my co-founder eric, he loves motorcycles)

We have received significant interest for high performance ground and marine applications, which we plan to leverage in the short-term as a way of getting lots of in-situ run-time for our technology without the hurdles of certification. We will be pursuing the long road to certification in parallel.
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Yeah, it sure shounds like a CityPlace
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We're currently working on a more precise version of the Code Nav that's shipped on github.com, which is very similar in spirit to this!
What do you mean? In this scenario of 4 days heating per charge that makes 10k days which is 27 years, and that seems a reasonable sort of lifetime for a product - probably beyond any warranty period it has.