skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's crazy how many things they predicted. Love it
Awesome! many thanks
Because the UK is the worst bastion of social classism?
2020 deaths in Germany were 985,145, only 4.85% higher than 2019, and only 3.2% higher than 2018. In line with the comment above - sicker and older population and weaker flu season.

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bevoel...

Please find us the total deaths for 2020 vs 2019 and 2018, for Brazil and other non-lockdown countries. The FT article cherry-picks the data, comparing inconsistent parts of the year. There's basically just too much noise when looking at weekly deaths.
George Klir
This is an advertisement for a service disguised as an informative article. The info it provides is pretty basic and it's just farming clicks for signups from HN.
A majority of credit card fees goes to the issuing bank. Like a huge percentage of it. Visa and credit card processors take a much smaller percentage relative to the banks.
There could be a case made for educated people paying more taxes over the years, so in that respect there could be some "externalities" to support a zero interest rate.

That and the fact that large institutions are paying very little to borrow money nowadays.

So maybe there is an argument for a "wholesale" interest rate.

I thought it is also impossible to default on student loans.
GJS has a new book! I really hope this would be more doable in R7RS instead of MITScheme only (classical mechanics and differential geometry uses scmutils that only runs on MITScheme).
They can outbid the local companies if they want to. The whole point is that Ghana wants to move up the rung from a producer of raw goods to more value add to their exports
Not sure if in Reddit you may, but it's not what I am looking for exactly ...
Is it? If you take a loan from the government or a bank in order to buy a car, the car turns out to be a pile of trash and the seller defrauded you, should the loan be forgiven?
Using Serverless Redis with Next.js
> family-friendly

The most successful AAA title of all time is GTAV. Fun for the whole family ^_^

https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/gta-5-now-profitable-ent...
If I was a game developer, doors would be binary objects.

Sort of pocket doors (or even pocket universe doors)
Neither one will get you a job in VR dev. Just use a static site generator or some template, host it on github pages.
I don’t use the triz stuff often but sometimes if a design issue is vexing I will look through the 40 principles (and software-engineering variants of them) for inspiration. Mostly I apply cards to everyday issues for fun and for the immediacy you mentioned. It only takes a minute and sometimes I free-associate my way into an interesting idea.
You can incentivize the creation of certain types of businesses that aid in the economic development of the country though. Many countries, especially in Asia, have "decided" to become successful producers of industrial goods. For example, the automotive and electronics industry in South Korea were heavily supported by national policy, after the government decided that these areas were critical for the development of the country [0]. This actually worked incredibly well - many companies are still around today (e.g. Hyundai, Samsung, LG).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-Year_Plans_of_South_Korea
You might want to aim your comment bot more accurately next time. I offered a definition which your copypasta conspicuously fails to address, and your geopolitical tangent has no relevance.
The sweet irony, read the comment you just replied to

> Literally there was an aside that used "20 years" and that's it.

Which aside do you think I was referring to? An aside about a different crop in a different period of time, which might I add didn't involve a global pandemic?

Saying someone said something they didn't is... a lie. Or would you rather I just interpret it as you breaking HN rules and assuming poor intent on their part?
> Trans exclusionary people advocate excluding trans women from women's shelters. This leads to trans women being excluded from women's shelters.

Yes, but being allowed into women’s shelters is not the only solution to violence against trans people.

> Most trans exclusionary people say trans women are men.

Do they? And if they see them as men, isn’t that their business?

I am not aware of TERFs arguing against services being provided for trans people.

> Some say they should be treated like cis men in all respects including imprisonment.

So TERFs in general do not.

> Others accept keeping them apart from cis women means putting them with cis men in practice.

Yes, agreed, and this is a terrible outcome but lack of services for trans people is not a consequence of TERFs.

> It shouldn't surprise you politically active people have opinions about tax and how it's spent.

This irrelevant statement to anything either of us have said so far.

> I've seen it myself. Even people who say they support separate but equal facilities start hedging when asked about funding.

What do you mean by ‘start hedging’?

> Cis women and trans women being categories of women isn't just a trans perspective.

Of course not, but that doesn’t make it universal.

As far as I can see your argument is just based on there not being enough money for trans services.

That’s absolutely correct, but has nothing to do with TERFs.
Fellow Romanian here, a person very close to me died of heart-failure in the middle of the street in downtown Bucharest 10+ years ago, not a block away from her employer's HQs at the time. She was in her early 40s, her employer was BCR (the bank that had just been acquired by Erste), and said close person had had a few fights with the new Austrian rulers to be, she was part of the bank's trade-union body, she didn't want her colleagues' jobs to go away after the purchase. The jobs did go away after the purchase, in droves.

A person even closer to me used to work for OMV immediately after they had purchased Petrom (our former State-run oil company). The stories I could hear back then could fill many pages, I still remember seeing the papers with hundreds of people's names on them, people who were supposed to be laid off the following days. And that was just from one company division. To say nothing of the fact that the Austrians had no oil drilling operations, no oil drilling specialists, nothing of the sorts, while Petrom had been in the oil drilling business for decades. Or how OMV had (I think it still has) as its major shareholder the Austrian State, so in fact we managed to sell our oil state company to basically another state.
You skipped the example.

They said if your device measures 1.00, it is three significant digits. If it measures 0.01, it is one significant digit. From the same measuring device.

So it is counter intuitive that the measurement just going down below 1 somehow causes it to "lose" significant digits. It didn't lost precision, though. Just the number of digits that are significant.
In support of the platform:

* I've never had zero options for solving a problem. Ten years ago, I needed to build a customer login system on top of Shopify. (Like, before Shopify had one of its own.) I had enough room to do that in javascript, and it became an app called Gatekeeper. (Today's spiritual successor: Locksmith.)

* Whoever works on patterns at Shopify does a really, really good job. They think through things slowly and thoroughly, resulting in resource models that that are usually refined over time, instead of remodeled entirely. This is a good sign.

* This is a second bullet point to underscore the previous point about Shopify's pattern-making. I've been on this platform for a decade straight, and I don't deal with systemic inconsistency. I'm only here because Shopify is really, really good at patterns.

* This is a third pattern-related point to observe that Shopify usually defers solving a problem, rather than putting forward a fragile or brittle solution. (How long did it take for order editing to arrive?) By my reading, they'd rather take a while to land on and deliver a solution that will create a broader future, than more quickly deliver a solution that will limit the future.

* Yes, there are occasionally major/breaking API changes. Honestly, I love this. For me, it forces the whole system to stay engaged, and stay alive. Yes, I know the counter-arguments to this. :)

This is why I'm still here, ten years later. Yes, some things are short-term hard. But the things that are long-term important are all locked in.

---

Also yeah, building and sustaining an app is work. This is part of why I made https://apps.shopify.com/mechanic. I love the Shopify platform, so, so much, and also I needed a way to solve really specific problems more quickly, and keep those solutions running more sustainably. So: platform within a platform. Lots of nested similarity here, in the way that Shopify thinks about solving problems and the way Mechanic thinks about solving problems within Shopify.
It literally is
What happens in the event a question is answered incorrectly, and the company loses a contract because if it? Does Stacksi assume the liability, or provide some sort of insurance in this case?
Bill Gates's Ask Me Anything
This is huge - and annoying. I like to avoid Amazon when I can, but if I can't figure out what shipping is going to cost until the cart is almost finished being checked out, I'll bounce.
I believe that’s training target. They getting lost during an Air Force training all the time.

Update: This is practice target drone BQM-167A according to responses to the OP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_Engineering_BQM-167_...
I see one more opportunity for this.. to use in programming courses when sharing code with students.
Depends how much I want to use the website. More than I want to keep my nose?
Why does a webpage get to know how many CPU cores I have?
This is not the first time Cairo had a planned city. They have lots of them, and they have been relatively successful in attracting upper middle-class and keeping them there. The city is unlikely to fail, mainly due to the large number of civil servants / military Egypt already has (they are a 100m nation after all). So it'll get a boost, and if policies are well implemented, they can attract a few other millions.
It is played by kids, teens and adults, so yes. Family friendly.
Deep man. Deep.

Should be quite easy to test in a multiplayer game.
window.history.length

would be my guess.
This is your brain on javascript :)

Guessing it's bc one-liners are easier to write than for loops in the console.
It would be quite funny to make a "facebook" that automatically transforms everyones photos in a similar way. Such that everybody becomes attractive.
probably legaly i am wrong. but apple cables and figdet spinners.. not much intelectual property there. there should be separate term for brand infrigment.
In bankruptcy the lender already factored in that possibility when creating the loan, and the Government and taxpayers aren’t left holding the bag.
What are the chances of this being ported to Jetbrains IDEs?

Thank you for your hard work! I use both at work, so I'll still get some use out of this I'm sure.
The only thing that I want to point out is that the federal government should prosecute these for profit "universities" to receive the loan back, since there is good evidence that they were practicing fraud against students.
System Shock had audio logs too. But System Shock 2 used them really well.
How are these two different? They even have the same post as soon as I follow both links.
I've found Wikipedia quite hit or miss. Sometimes it's straight to the point, other times it's impenetrable and I've had to do more research.
Student loans should be dischargeable in bankruptcy. This would provide balance in the college lending business, and a check on the ever increasing price of college tuition.
We on the same page. My current rough draft blocks every thing by default and has a an accept_list.

I wish servo was in a better place to fork
Rip out the clipboard API along with all the other functions that allow sites to manipulate text selection semantics, sticky overlays, and all of the other UX garbage that has accumulated over the years.
Lowering population is not how cities become better. Building more floors and more public transit is.
It took me to the end of your post to realize that an additional Department of Education debt forgiveness criteria is the same as any debt forgiveness to you.

So you think we are at the top of a slippery slope and not realizing we've been at the bottom of it for a long time. So this isn't really about the university system its about the entire fabric of society, not realizing how society already functions.

Fascinating.
Every cyclist is inherently more well-behaved than anyone driving a dangerous, noisy and polluting machine driving through a populated area.
This question always gets asked. I'm hoping for an answer one day too!
Dealing with fraud that ends up costing the federal government money will probably fall under another agency’s jurisdiction and there probably won’t be a blanket announcement that everyone who did some fraud is being investigated.
Yes and no. The issue here is presenting as "dev friendly" and not being true to that. Wix, Webflow, Squrespace don't do that. They're not.

But Shopify wants to say one thing but do another. Why do devs subject themselves to a platform with well known limitations.

Note: I like Shopify. But only for cases that are within its sweet spot.
No magic, it's automating and hooking into existing open-source tools. For Python its poetry (https://python-poetry.org/), not requirements.txt because UPM needs to present strong guarantees on reproducibility -- otherwise things like content-addressable caching wouldn't be possible. Poetry is open-source and UPM is too: https://github.com/replit/upm

Every Replit Python project can be downloaded and you'll have the spec file and the lock file so you can install the same dependencies locally.
University of Phoenix is paying $191 million in fines:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/12/ftc-o...
Oh my that’s some incredibly nice stuff right there. Thank you very much for the link! Definitely going to be influenced a lot in the thing I am working on now from having read this :D
Surfacing Required Knowledge
Huh, nevermind, I honestly did not know that definition of paternalistic. My bad, sorry
If the processes of an institution can't be explained to a real, qualified software engineer, the issue runs much deeper than just resisting to change.
I explained regexp to my mum as a "single character string, which has the power to describe an amount of various, different character strings".

And then an example like "Look, you have your Word document and you are looking for ..."
window.navigator.hardwareConcurrency

[edit: well this is more of a 'how' than a 'why']
I'm not sure I understand - could you elaborate on what you mean?
Is that actually the best way to do ranges on JS?
If interested, here's a discussion from a submission in 2019:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20974405
Surely not the first appearance?
> Human Sexual Intercourse

That’s not the Waterloo that I know
Svalbad University has an, AFAIK mandatory, course that includes learning hot to shoot a rifle: https://www.unis.no/course/as-101-arctic-survival-and-safety...

In most of Svalbad you need to carry a rifle to defend yourself against polar bears.
While I agree in theory that would be nice, in practice what’s to stop someone from borrowing 100k and declaring bankruptcy on graduation day? Why would anyone lend to someone with this kind of adverse selection risk?

College tuition just needs to be paid for by the state without the lending facilities, IMO. As evidenced here the state just gets left with the bag anyways.
> either accept 'free trade' (allow foreign investors to buy up the local industry, commit to IP laws, don't apply tariffs) or no one will be allowed to trade with you or send you aid.

Do multi-national trade agreements (which I believe are the core mechanism for this) actually penalize signatories for trading with non-signatories? Or is it more that trade between signatories is so advantaged that no company within a signatory state would be competitive were it to trade with a counterpart in a non-signatory state?
They wanted to make System Shock 3 but couldn't get the rights.
I have been there before.

1) talk with your manager/higher up. Believe it or not, sometimes they understand your point of view. I had a manager admit they were being quite unsensitive to some of my personal hangs during these things

2) if 1 doesn't pan out, depending on how you feel about the company, either quit, or sabotage as much as possible to show how stupid the mandatory activities are. Want to play music? just play some hardcore, cursing music, jesus hating, muslim degrating metal (or whatever) and say it is your jam. Cooking? Just keep saying everything needs more garlic and say any other recipe needs more garlic. GARLIC!!!!! didn't use a full clove? MORE GARLIC!!!!! Fuck... put 3 buds of garlic in everything, including herbal tea. GAAAAARLIC!!

3) Just mute everyone, turn video off and do your thing. That is what I do for most of my 'social meetings' anyway. I go, cook my dinner, walk my dog, and when everyone is saying goodbye, I just throw a 'wave' emoji or something
Reported by the browser but not always accurate. Used in browser fingerprinting btw
> Under RAID 0, the odds are 50% that two independent reads are on the same drive.

If you have a single sequential stream, then no. You'll either have parallel reads across the two drives, or you'll have alternating reads that the aforementioned semi-smart storage system can turn into parallel reads with buffering. If you have multiple sequential streams, then it's practically going to be like random access, which you already put out of scope. So there's no relevant case where RAID-0 is worse than RAID-1 for reads.

But you know what will be worse? Dual actuator drives. Why? Because of what dragontamer (who was right) mentioned, which you overlooked: the two actuators serve disjoint sets of blocks. They even present as separate SAS LUNs[1] just like separate disks would, so you would literally still need RAID on top to make them look like one device to most of the OS and above. But here's the kicker: they still share some resources that are subject to contention - most notably the external interface. Truly separate drives duplicate those resources, enabling both better performance and better fault isolation. Doubled performance is an absolute best case which is never achieved in practice, and I say that because I've seen it. If Seagate could cite something more realistic than IOMeter they would have, but they can't because the results weren't that good.

The only way dual actuators can really compete with separate drives is to duplicate all of the resources that change behavior based on the request stream - interfaces, controllers, etc. Basically everything but the spindle motor and some environmentals, as I already suggested now two days ago. You'd give up fault isolation, but at least you'd get the same performance. That's not what Seagate is offering, though.

[1] https://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/solutions/mach-2-m...
puerto rico?
> there are plenty of non-profit schools that offer useless degrees in the forms of useless/impractical majors.

Ugh. This again. College != vocational school. You don’t go to college to learn a trade or gain skills to get your first job. You’re building skills that you’ll use through the entirety of your career. Communication and critical thinking skills will never become obsolete.
Can save more bits by doing:

Array.from({ length: 10000 }, button.click);
Toniebox – HackieboxNG – A custom bootloader with in memory patching
The description looks like it's about competition, not just safety, akin to a class on poker. Perhaps the title is a bit of spin for defensive reasons.
What benefit to society comes from people being shackled with debts for decades that they cannot possibly pay back? We're not talking about someone being able to get any possible debt discharged after a year without making any effort to pay it back, here.

Student loans that were basically stolen by fraudulent schools, such that the borrower gained no education they can use to possibly pay the loan back - who benefits from saddling them with that forever? Their only possible options at that point are to labor in poverty forever (the loan's still not getting paid back), or somehow take on more loans to try to get an education again, now slowly paying down two student loans instead of one. Who benefits here?

In the end if lenders are somehow irreparably harmed by debt forgiveness in corner cases like this, perhaps they should be responsible and not issue loans to people who can't pay them back. It's always about "personal responsibility" until consequences come calling for financiers who make unbelievably stupid decisions and they want the taxpayer to foot the bill and bail them out.
I don't think education is the spot for making people take responsibility for their actions - fundamentally, they're taking this education because they don't know better yet.
Make a screen+mobo+speakers+... (the top 1/3 of a phone), give it an SD slot, and make it a unit that clicks onto a generic battery. Case makers will fill in the rest.
The other great thing about using Typinator is you can use the typo correction libraries instead of macOS' overly aggressive Autocorrect and get most of the benefit without all the annoyances.
I leaned on Typinator heavily to get through my day when I was in a support role. Nowadays, somewhat less so, but I still have a lot of tricks up my sleeve. The ability to paste and match style using a shortcut is pretty useful.
I’d think medical imaging is exactly where you wouldn’t want to use this technique. If something isn’t clear on an X-ray, you don’t want to fill in the details by guessing like this software does.
This false dichotomy of authoritarian governance or 'cesspool' keeps coming up.

There exist other options.

Just let the people filter and set their own rules for engagement.

Of course that would eliminate these creepy company's ability to insert ads and other trash into your life, so no one does it.

Facebook had a perfectly fine and working news feed, but then they wanted to insert ads, so they made an 'algorithmic' feed that decides you want to see ads instead. Convenient.

These platforms pretending they can't solve the issues of idiot speech and outright law violations without acting like Stalin is laughable.
I worry that the norm is moving more towards specialist and away from generalist. Things have been pretty stable for a while. And people who invest ridiculous amounts of energy in stuff like the stock market or social media tend to get serious returns.

Those are not truly useful skills anywhere except this one ecosystem.
Do you honestly believe all the debt in the world can be repaid?
Ugh, slightly creepy. Thanks for your answer !
Come over to VBA! We do both! Option base 1/0
You lost me on this one. :(

There is the odd case of trailing zeroes in non decimal numbers, but otherwise if a number is written, when is that not assumed to be significant?

That is, there are fairly standard rules for conveying significant digits, I thought?
"An uncle" is just a way to refer to someone mature, unrelated to family connections. Kind of like the popular "Uncle Roger" https://www.youtube.com/c/mrnigelng (usually I'd expect a "generic uncle" to have no family of his own)
So I can know how many worker threads to create before it's just a waste of thread scheduling