skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really get these excess death calculations.

Surely just looking at the past 5 years is not enough.

Wouldn't you at least have to take into account generations? (ageing populations) (So maybe 60 years of data?)

The linked graphs could easily just represent an older generation dying off. (Even the humps could just be regular flu seasons for an ageing population)

Then you have to choose a range for your generation 50-80 year olds etc

If Covid kills a large proportion over 80, and your range for generations is 50-79, the data would be completely off yet again.

There must be a lot more facets to take into consideration.

I feel like those graphs quite statistically weak. What am I missing?

It would be nice to put my money where my mouth is and actually just do my own study. But can't think of a country who would have reliable stats going back 60 years on death tallies.

(Semi relevant paper on looking at ageing population stats -> https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/494025)
Unlimited vacation is such an obvious lie, I'm surprised so many people see it as a perk.

It's like claiming to have flat structure. Nope, there is still a hierarchy, just like there is still a limit to the "unlimited" vacation days you can take. You just took something explicit and made it implicit to the detriment of your company.

It's a red flag when I see either of these advertised as perks and it makes me less likely to work for the company.
I work on a personal project split into multiple packages totaling about 60k lines.

The end result are two web applications that work as a backend and frontend for an ActivityPub link aggregator (similar to HN and old redddit).

I mostly develop in Goland as I use the debugger extensively, and I didn't want to spend the time to learn to use delve in the command line.

I tried to keep as much as possible a handmade approach, so I'm making use of the standard library over more fancy packages or frameworks.

In my specific case the biggest issue I had was with the protocol itself (ActivityPub) which allows for a large degree of flexibility in the structure of the JSON objects it passes around, a lot more than the default encoder in go allows for. I had to implement my own functionality for encoding/decoding JSON objects, and I'm currently working on adding similar functionality for binary encoding.

Links to the projects you can find in my bio.
Yet we use it to reason about things, so formalizing and finding inconsistencies leaves less space for exploiting it.

Also even though math is backed by a formal system in theory, in practice no one has time to completely verify mathematicians' work bottom-up from axioms (at least until we become better at proof assistants). Ultimately it comes down to intuition and trust, i.e. these people understand the proof, and I trust them, so I think the proposition holds.
And similarly in principle a large group of people can decide that they don't trust the axioms (they are arbitrary in a sense, just like laws), yet it formal methods in math are still useful.
The UK is basically 'at will' for the first two years. I've never worried about getting fired in that period. Just pick who you work for carefully and make yourself valuable.
In Spanish as well, because the other meaning of the English "free" (as in free beer) is translated as "gratis", which comes straight from Latin.
Well the interesting thing is that the Euromono data shows a similar trend as the US data, especially if including the 2018 data. The 15-44 year olds while essentially not affected by the 2018 flu did see a spike for covid. I think it would be interesting if the group could be further split up into 15-24 and 25-44 year olds, like the US data.

Regarding the 2018 flu spike, putting things into perspective. I would say yes it does, because it shows how significantly bigger the spike for covid was/is.
No-Code is what they look for :)
In that case I apologise.

The nuance that I think you are missing is that the OP is talking about how the experience shouldn't be generalised and turned into a rule: The person responded to said that sitting at the girl's table should be an indicator that starts consideration of "maybe this is gender dysphoria". The OP thinks this is dangerous and harmful to children in it's proposed form.

I'm missing a lot of cultural context here (What is a "girl's table"?), but I can definitely see the point OP is trying to make. I'll agree with you it was worded problematically.
I think the whole Linux-on-the-phone experience would (have) profit(ed) a lot from focussing on real (e.g. mainline) Linux tablets.

It is easier to use the programs which are already available on the desktop due to the fact that GNOME (and probably KDE) already support touch screens. The usage of a tablet only slightly shifts from using a desktop. So it is a more gradual change.

So by rolling out tablets first, development time could be spent on smoothing out hardware acceleration, supporting cameras, responsive UI, optimizing touch, etc.
And then we could tackle phones.

For me as a PinePhone owner, the biggest problem is not apps but overall speed. The OS feels very sluggish. And although I know that it is really old hardware, doing basic things should be much faster. This holds me back from really using it. The other big problem is battery consumption. Any distro I tried drains the battery so fast that I always have to shut off the phone when I am not using it. Even if I don't do anything. On a fresh Manjaro+KDE, I can see the battery drop by 10% after picking it up and using the browser for a few minutes.

And wrt to linux tablets: The PineTab[0] is sadly having really bad resolution (one thing that is excellent on the PinePhone btw.) and it is too heavy. It is a far less attractive package compared to the PinePhone which has "pretty ok" specs througout. So I am really excited for things like the cutiepie[1] or the jingos tablet[2] (if it is not a scam). Although the latter will come with a custom linux kernel which kinda makes the advantage of a (mainline) linux tablet worthless since one still depends on some people maintaining some old linux fork.

[0]: https://www.pine64.org/pinetab/
[1]: https://cutiepi.io/
[2]: https://en.jingos.com/jingpad-a1/
I'm a Node guy and don't know anything about Go, what's the recommended route to get started on Go for the web? Any specific framework in mind? I need WebSockets and I'm guessing Go can provide some good performance improvement over Node there.
This is how the end looks...
walrus01 linked a video here yesterday [0] of a ship transit. For a ship it takes 11 to 16 hours, including stop on Great Bitter Lake in the middle of the canal.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26561816
I wondered if this could be useful for open source journalism stuff like bellingcat does. Essentially combing through tons of photos online to figure out where / when they were taken and Put together an understanding of an incident
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I'm a bit disheartened not to see the word "commons" appear once in the discussion (although admittedly, it can be used interchangeably with "public" most of the time).

I'm not familiar enough with the history of the free software movement to participate in the debate as framed by the article (edit: OP's), but I thought the author had a narrow focus on individual freedoms. I always thought of the GPL and related licenses as a useful means of building and safeguarding a type of commons.
Presumably, neutrum in Germanic languages comes from Proto-Indoeuropean, just like in Slavic languages or indeed Latin itself. Is there any reason to believe that it came to modern German by way of Latin?
Wonder if we are going to have people in future who would marry chat bots.
For example passing down a function which is not memoized can trigger a bunch of non-obvious side effects lower in the component tree when your component re-renders. I feel like with hooks/functional components I need to think way more about stuff like that.

Which comes down to your point: cognitive exhaustion. The promise of hooks and functional components was that it would make things 'easier to reason about' (among other things). But we all know now that this is just not the case in practice.
What about lte connections? I live 40km from Berlin and I get 5G. 4G would be quite decent too.
> we're supposed to be good at logic, reasoning, and detecting bias.

And that's why you don't understand at all what's going on.

It's very simple. RMS is somewhere in the pig, bore, masher triad especially towards women. And he was protected for decades by people that are either dead, like the rapist Marvin Minsky. Or who's reputations and power were incinerated by their association with Epstein.

With no one left to protect him he got run out on a rail.
I've only seen someone else play it but it's crazy how serious he was about it. Apart from the basic things like narrowing down based on languages in sign posts, he'd also use techniques like deriving latitude based on trees. This is gorgc on twitch, but I'm sure there are other streamers who play this game.
Don't forget our biggest crop: Golf courses!
I’d like to think that most employers that have spent the time and effort to make this work would have policies that cater for the cost of working from home, rather than just saying “you’re saving money on your commute, deal with it”; but this may be naive!

I know that at Spotify this is the case. When choosing to work from home you receive Wi-Fi allowance, as well as being allowed to expense a standing desk, monitor, desk lamp etc. You are also allowed to claim for coworking space fees, but only if you are > 50 miles from the office. Since working from home has begun all employees have been given a prepaid food card for lunch expenses, and after the pandemic this will be available to both home and office workers. The other benefit for a multinational like Spotify is you can work from any country that they are legally registered. I don’t know how other companies will approach this.
There's a whole new world of opportunities for co-working, mixed-working out there and they'll explode after this pandemic is over.

I had to cancel my co-work subscription when no client would accept my proposal to work remote. When the world reopens I'll never go back.

In your case, imagine yourself pleasantly walking to your local co-working space or to any of the urban entertainment facilities that will inevitably proliferate in the effort to capture all the time freed from lousy daily commutes.
Why did this post get downvoted? they are fair enough questions to "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", especially for browser plugins.
Looks nice and I've been looking for something similar, although as another person has said $9.99 per month is fairly steep compared to bigger names that do "similar". I also use a zero-based app that costs ~$4-5 per month.

Might be good for an "early adopters" type of thing. Otherwise looks nice overall and congrats. :-)
Robert, the author, has a very twisty tongue. Twisting meanings, and (his) intents.
I just listened to some of the music you mention in your post, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Do you have any other recommendations? Especially where you see connections between modern musicians / electronic artists and classical? I've listened to a lot of electronic music, especially at parties, but I'm still fumbling around in the classical world.
I think it’s a way to learn English.
an anecdotal example: a relative of mine is an electrical engineer, and has worked on satellite on-board software for the last 34 years or so.

she used to loathe working from home during the lockdown, but when the restrictions were eased she started enjoying it a lot.

if anything, she says, she's getting at least one hour and a half more sleep in the morning and she's skipping the commute on the way back, so that's another hour saved.

she still has to go in the office on friday, but according to her that's more of a management wish that anything really useful.
But it spies on you. And transmits data about you to Google. And has pre-installed apps you cannot fully uninstall. And it changes your privacy settings without you knowing when new features are added.
> US Mean income is much much higher - various sources show something around $70K

that's per household, not per capita.
It won't be for everyone but there has still been a huge revolution. Many businesses didn't even have laptops for employees before. Having the technical infrastructure makes it much easier to allow 1-2 days per week from home.

I've also seen WFH advertised much more in job ads. That in turn probably means that more candidates ask for partial WFH as part of their decision to join the company. In the end, that will drive change even if some managers object it.
I actually think the 'no natural disasters' thing is good for IT... Why put a DR site someplace an earthquake or tornado could take it out?
> Build a highly vertical and optimized city from scratch

Are you aware that continuing to build tall buildings murders the planet, and thus humanity? [1] [2]

Does your proposal include any sort of mitigation for the environmental impacts of building tall buildings and using cement (as revealed by researchers in the articles below), or is this Silicon Valley "technological solutionism" [3] together with a belief in "The Californian Ideology" (both of which posit that any problem can be solved with a technological innovation, instead of by actually addressing the underlying socio-economic of the previous solutionist strategy), by someone who has unfortunately fallen victim to the fallacy of transferable expertise?

[1] https://theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/25/concrete-the-most...

[2] https://theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jul/11/skyscrapers...

[3] https://technofilosofie.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Cours...
> where ASCII or a bag of bytes is good enough...

You are definitely misunderstanding both Zig's stance on this, and how unicode works in a more general sense.
> Well, some do but I‘m sick of taking any additional video call beyond the 4h I’m enduring every day.

Looks to me like that is the root problem you're having...
I hadn’t thought about this before, but the reason vegans don’t eat honey is basically because it is forced animal labor, right?

But isn’t industrial scale pollination also forced labor of bees?

How do those two square up?
How are you not able to spend time at a park?
Work is also not the only place that is shut right now. In a lot of cities, it's not easy to go to meetups or bars to meet people and socialise.
Is that a theorem?
OECD published a report[1] on EVs lately. I haven't read it but according to various press sources it claims that EVs might make things worse, e.g.[2]:

"The report assumes that diesel and gasoline-powered cars are going to be replaced with electric vehicles, eliminating tailpipe emissions, but that problematic PM emissions will remain or even increase."

[1] https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/environment/non-exhaust-partic...

[2] https://www.treehugger.com/electric-cars-wont-save-us-from-p...
I vaguely remember one music player having support for SQL queries for playlist building, seemed novel at the time, but now I cannot find the name of it.
Makes sense, I was picturing more of a diagonal boundary but you're right the paradox doesn't specify the shape of the boundary. Thanks!
It’s not black or white. OP’s point is still true regardless - as time progresses, things do become more and more mapped. Be it a scientific field, a territory, etc.
> Which basically ensures no one will start a shooting war.

And seeing men thinking so again, 100 years after, only tells that Raymond Poincaré was right.
Cool design + polymer, but they should probably just abolish the £50 already. Very few places accept them. Never mind the £100 notes you can get in some parts of the UK. I would say they should encourage better acceptance of these denominations, but cash seems to be dying in general.

I look to Switzerland with envy, where as far as I can tell you can stroll into the supermarket and drop a 1000-franc note without issue.
And, interestingly, das Mädchen (the girl).
Yes that’s all part of the same discussion. Was your magic word really interest costs being too burdensome? Because it was unsaid everything is a red flag? That’s ridiculous, drop the pedantic mess, the discussion of debt amount is an indicator of watching or being alarmed about how debt costs will be serviced. It’s saying: “that particular potential weakness that could lurk in any sector was not something we studied, but since that’s what always happens let’s pay attention to the abstraction and not assume that we’ve gotten it sustainable this time for the first time in history“
I think they complain about the fact that the file dialog is collapsed by default, going to some length to hide the browse functionality (Apple probably wants you to save everything in Documents and be done with it).

The save dialog can be expanded by default by tweaking it though:
https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos...
The browser is just a generalised client implementation where the application is streamed and sandboxed. It's similar to a native app written on Kotlin/Swift or desktop application written in C#/wpf.

The same logic could be applied to those client application technologies, too.
I'd want one so I can run some Python scripts in the background. Where I can use apt and install whatever I want from the repositories. Use ffmpeg to record audio and video and stream it in the LAN or even over the mobile network.

Some of these devices already have 12 GB RAM and octacore processors, that's more than a Raspberry Pi.

When these devices reach their EOL as a phone/tablet, they would make wonderful SBCs with integrated touchscreen, camera and microphone, and in the future also good AI co-processors for good on-device speech or face recognition. All this with an up-to-date OS, and not an Android version which is over 4 years old.

Whatever I try with Android, sooner or later the processes get killed.

What's worst is that when Chrome gets updated, any app using a WebView gets killed. Why not just let it continue running and make it use the new WebView after it gets started again manually?
The mistake those beginner make is listening to some evagelists that will tell them they need everything, from React, TypeScript to Redux, routers, thunks/sagas etc.

As a beginner, you should start with plain JS/TS. When you dealt with the hell of manipulating DOM elements all over the place and untraceable UI updates after hours of debugging, you should move on to some UI library. Only then will you understand and see what problem it solves. Then you should go with React, but not hooks or redux. Use plain old classes. When you felt the pain of distributed mutable state all over place, you will be open to hooks or redux etc. Still, do not add a library for thunks. Only after you realize how much boiler plate code you write to deal with async stuff, you will see a value in the added abstraction.

A beginner should start simple, and really feel the pain. Only then will there be an "a-ha!" moment where you can judge if a library/framework actually helps you and provides value.

The biggest issue in FE world is people proclaiming some given conglomerate of a library/framework soup as the silver bullet to all problems.
To expand on that: -chen is usually indicating a diminutive form of another word. Some examples (also observe how that affects the vowel in the first syllable):

die Wurst, das Würstchen (the sausage, the small sausage)

der Mann, das Männchen (the man, the little man)

der Becher, das Becherchen (the cup, the small cup; this is an example in which the first vowel is phonetically close enough to the following "e" in "-chen" that no vowel change occurs (we do not even have umlauts for "i" or "e" in german)).
to get to even lower particule levels nothing else
Finally, a better way to recognise him - instead of Benedict Cumberbatch's criminally inaccurate 2014 portrayal - or that renamed road on the MS campus - or the great British tradition of a park bench...
"managing by walking around"

Always reminds me of meth lab enforcers walking around and intimidating illegal immigrant meth cooks on a meth assembly line.
What's amazing about hentai-kana (hentai as "alternative form", not pervert) is that governments and town registrars still allow using them as an official name in their electronic registry. I recently got a copy of my family register, and found out that my grandma's name was officially in hentai kana. Apparently they made special fonts for each unique character, but I don't know how they're encoded on their database. It was kinda awe-inspiring how much they care the details like that. They could replace it with a regular kana but they didn't. Names are serious business!
In an ideal scenario, non-washing to gain non-odorous, healthy, skin microbes is a workable, sound, theory, and, depending on your diet will 'work'. However, in this covid-age, or for refuge, fish, coal, and bio-med industry workers, it simply cannot.
We have an open slack chat during the day.

Looking forward to going to the pub with colleagues when it reopens in a couple of weeks, but nobody wants to go to an office to sit around.
Interns and junior employees will suffer because of this.
> They're paying the bills and your salary

That's the whole issue - it's not the case anymorez now it's the ads that pay
40km from Berlin isn't really rural though. Try going 100km further. I recently drove through rural Brandenburg & Saxony close to the border to Poland. Some villages had 2G, I also encountered (tiny) villages with basically no mobile connection at all. I can understand why people are forced to leave for bigger cities if you cannot even get reliable 4G or decent internet at home.
What’s an example of software that is free (speech) but not free (beer) excluding TiVo style
This is because it is a diminutive, cf. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminutiv#Grammatisches_Geschl...
I start small: vim, makefile, bare Go with no dependencies. I add things only if they improve the end product from the consumer perspective (either FRs or NFRs).
I even used to deploy things as systemd services, unless containers make things easier to more scalable.
For the frontend I couldn't be happier since I discovered "esbuild", which is written in Go and has unbelievable performance.

I tried to describe my humble workflow here with a few code snippets: https://zserge.com/posts/go-web-services/
The implication is that they have an extreme agenda and bias, so everything they say should be scrutinised extra carefully and examined for twisted or distorted truths.
I need a little fewer apps, but yes. It's not really a question about what operating system I want, there's currently only two supported by at least two or three of the apps I need. An I only trust one of the companies behind those two operating systems.

Personally I don't really care if there's a browser, email, any messaging beyond SMS, maps are nice to have, but not required. I can even do without banking, but I do have a few special apps for work and interacting with the government.

Depending on where you live, we reached a point where you can choose to not have a SmartPhone, but good luck interacting with society, every new thing is "App first". I a few weeks we'll have Covid-19 passports, on our phones. Don't have a smartphone? I would count on the government having planned for that scenario.
Yet areas that have been able to limit their use always seem so vibrant.
I haven't used or seen a £50 note for more than 15 years. In a cashless society who is still using these?