skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And it seems that if that point holds, as Smith never actually challenges the point that the population beneath that line has actually gone up while "extreme poverty" has gone down (a point both agree on), then Smith isn't left with much of a position.

One of the points that Smith is making is simply that using a fixed threshold for deciding on whether there has been meaningful progress in alleviating poverty is somewhat meaningless and misses what is actually going on. In the article, he shows how the distribution of per-capita income has changed, with larger parts of the population having more income than before, which seems to indicate that we are making progress in alleviating poverty.

If you were to look at the fixed threshold, you would miss this "shift" in distribution and thus conclude that hardly any progress has been made.

I think this is a meaningful argument, in that it points to us that we are "doing something right".
You will be extremely lowballed at any offer you get, with the company not willing to budge. I've personally seen this happen to several colleagues of mine. Even their recruiters just shrugged and said it was all they could get for them.

Definitely start interviewing, but in order to do so you will have to stop working unpaid overtime for your company. Since you're already leaving anyway, promotions or looking to get ahead of your peers is out the window, so focus on yourself, and not your work. That's the most important step! Keep it 9-5.
I have a daughter in kindergarten this year (and a son in 3rd grade), so I think I have a pretty decent experience with remote vs in-person kindergarten.

Zoom bores my daughter. She doodles through class. The classes are deliberately short (30 min sessions) because good luck keeping two dozen kids engaged for longer through zoom. As the article mentioned, the social aspect is definitely missing. My 3rd grader gets a bit of it through breakout rooms with a couple classmates, but kindergarteners are too young for that, so most of classes is just sitting waiting for your turn to blurt out 3 words.

Academically, I'll be honest, school is a lowest common denominator. School is going over spelling sight words and counting to 100. My daughter has early 2nd grader reading skills and knows multiplication from playing games.

The same iPad that sucks so badly for zoom sessions is also a portal to the largest educational resource in the world. At this day and age of data abundance, academic success is what you make of it.

The social aspect is still largely missing, but since we're all stuck at home, my kids get to spend a great deal of time together. This means they fight a lot, but I suppose learning to handle conflict is also part of developing social skills, so </shrug>
Is quid pro quo for sexual favors from students legal?

Is change payment schedule after unionization legal?
at the crossroads of everything (machine learning, graphics, constraint optimization, cryptography, simulations) I've wanted to do with coding beyond basic crudapps is linear algebra. I'd recommend learning it well enough to implement the operations in code.
Indeed. Even more terrifying is using an unsafe language like C rather than Rust or C++ for systems development. shudders
OP asks about what's required, not what makes sense. Everyone needs to be required to get vaccines like measles and Covid because the vaccine doesn't work on everyone so we need herd immunity to ensure safety. HIV does not require herd immunity in the same way as there is no way to get it if you are in a monogamous relationship/not sexually active and don't share needles. Therefore the vaccine isn't required to ensure the safety of everyone that desires it.
Yup, this is more or less how “cyber security” policies work.
> ~10% of GDP from a single country

The 'single' nation you mentioned has many times the GDP of others. 2.15 trillion is most (over 70%) of the fifth largest economy.
English isn't my first language so I might be asking something obvious here, but what's a deprecency?
Please correct the title: it was sold for 200 ETH, not $411,000.

These are not the same things, and it is (to my understanding) actually very difficult to convert large volumes of ETH into actual money.

One bunch of crypto coins was swapped for another, that’s all.
Dear IMGUI is like the React of game dev/graphics demo UI. Shows up everywhere now
In most surveys of trust and support Amazon is still one of if not the most liked tech company in the US. Above Microsoft, Google, Apple and WAY above Facebook.
Thats not how people buy cars.

People buy BMW but they are not the most cost-efficient cars. People buy cars in London , using public transport is cheaper. Cars are prestiege, a point of pride, 'Freedom', an obsession, a place to have sex, and more to all kinds of people.
I guess that’s the question: does “attempted rape” really expose one to risk of HIV infection? What fraction of attempted rape victims go on to contract HIV compared to those who were actually raped? What gets counted as “attempted rape”? If the victim escapes before anyone’s clothes are off, does that get recorded as attempted rape? Presumably in that scenario omens risk of contracting HIV isn’t meaningfully increased?
> You can flip peoples' tribal affiliations on this topic by changing the disease to COVID. Do red-state antimaskers deserve treatment? Should responsible Americans pay for their reckless lifestyle?

Personally, I'm not sure. As I said above, I'm conflicted on the issue.

Regarding anti-maskers, I think it depends on the particular reason a person is anti-mask.

I'm working on the assumption that a lifelong smoker or someone who intentionally eschews safe-sex practices is generally aware of the risk they're courting. In my mind, this is "privatization of reward, socialization of risk" is similar to what we on HN often complain about regarding corporate bailouts.

In contrast, I could believe that at least some anti-maskers are genuinely misinformed about the risk posted by their behavior. I have less trouble feeling empathy for someone who's working from wrong beliefs, than someone who's knowingly being selfish.
Basically any viral infection bears the risk of extended symptoms of fatigue/malaise - see the whole ME/CFS literature (note: there's considerable controversy as to whether it's "real" or not - I don't take a side in that fight).

Almost all "research" I've seen of so-called "long COVID" has been self-reported surveys from self-select internet populations; hopefully it's obvious why such "research" will end up dramatically overstating the prevalence. (Edit: Re-reading this the tone doesn't come across quite how I want it so to be clear I'm criticizing the research itself not denying that anyone experiences these symptoms)

Lastly, I do very much worry that the widespread culture of fear and stress - which has been actively encouraged rather than calmed down by health "experts" around the globe - is contributing to a type of psychogenic / psychosomatic illness. To be explicit, psychosomatic illness is a real illness, but it does mean that the underlying mechanism is not of physiological origin but rather psychoemotional stress/belief systems that ultimately culminate in physical symptoms.

Very sorry to hear that you're actively suffering from long COVID. I hope things get better for you. I struggle with a sort of chronic fatigue myself (not anywhere as severe as the ME/CFS type horror stories I hear about, but still) so I know how shitty it can be. I've always got a bunch of ideas bouncing around my head of new research directions, articles I want to write, etc, and it many times feels out of my control whether I'm going to have the energy to pursue those goals or not.
If it means anything to you, your expression is offensive to a lot of people. If you only meant to offend capitalists, you might want to reword that.
This will turn out badly. Corporate landlords won't be able to lobby quite so fiercely against new construction, upzoning and rent controls. Otoh, their cost of capital is lower, and they are more efficient managers than individual homeowners, so this might be a more efficient way of providing housing.

One useful thing though is that corporate owners dont need to sell, so transaction and mtg taxes will be lower over the long term
Websites for giant retailers like Walmart, Home Depot, etc are shit, and it blows my mind. How much are these developers getting paid to make the modern web so unusable?
I think PDFs are also less distracting since they tend to have very minimal navigation elements, very few advertisements if any, rarely ever have animation or video content, etc.
Did I miss something here? I run a Unifi network with a local account and don‘t recall being forced to create a cloud account.
Typo of "discrepancy".
His point is not free market capitalism.

Industrial government controlled policy based capitalism is how all Asian Tigers became rich. Big Chinese companies grow in in government controlled financial environment that supports them.
There is now a lot more than just anecdotal data on ivermectin. This site has an index of the latest studies. Some show positive results, others show no effect or were inconclusive. Research continues.

https://c19ivermectin.com/
Sure, but that's just as true of most other years of school. The experts don't want to admit that 6th grade is babysitting and they don't want to admit that kindergarten is babysitting either.
It's totally valid to see it as meaningful, but it doesn't really belong in a polemic titled "Against Hickelism" if it isn't what the target even believes. From the cited rebuttal:

> Smith says we need to recognize increases in income that happen below $7.40. Such increases improve the lives of the poor, he points out, and we shouldn’t let that get obscured. I absolutely agree. Once again, I have not argued that we shouldn’t pay attention to low-level increases in income.
There were Arabs living in eastern Egypt for centuries before the Islamic conquest
I've always taken "server side is slower" to mean "slower to host" in context of web pages. Sure it may blow chunks to parse 10 MB of JS to click a button and leave on the client side but that's 10 MB of static JS served via dirt cheap anycast style CDN and it doesn't matter if you have 1 client or 100,000 clients you could host it on a single server's worth of CDN which doesn't have to worry about any client state ever (and for the tiny percentage of client state you do need to manage it might be hosted on a much smaller solution that handles just that logic).

I'm more of the classic take that the "problem" is performance has continued to grow meaning we get more stuff made faster but the tradeoff is it runs at the same speed. Client side or server side there is no reason the app needs 10 MB of JS logic to do its job it just made it quicker and easier to deploy to have it use 10 MB of JS logic. For some things like required government services this is a real problem but for most things this is just reality - how fast a piece of software is isn't the only benchmark software is made against, often not even in the top 3 things it's checked against.
> Is there evidence that psychosomatic effects can be so strong as to account for a measurable 10% drop in resting heart rate?

Yes, meditation. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333930474_Efficacy_...

Also panic attacks can mess up your heart rate quite a bit.
The article covers that quite convincingly, there's even charts that are basically 'pick your poverty line'
i've been programming for 15 years
Regardless of where you focus your attention on next, you might want to consider filling in your understanding of really low-level foundations with books like “Code” be Charles Petzold and “The Elements of Computing Systems” by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken.
> The only major change in the last decade was Obamacare which is remarkably similar to the system passed under a the Republican Governorship of Mitt Romney.

Which itself was a state level implementation of a program the insurance industry and national Republicans were talking up as an alternative in the 90s when, i the wake of the failure of Clinton’s healthcare reform, it seemed there was enough residual demand for something to be done in that regard nationally that they thought they needed to bring something to the table.
As I recall, OneDrive for Business had absolutely nothing in common with OneDrive except that marketing in all their wisdom decided to throw that name on it for maximum confusion (a very popular technique at Microsoft - see also Skype for Business). I don't know its history, but assuming it evolved out of some Sharepoint product it wouldn't surprise me if it had some Groove DNA.
I went to a Waldorf kindergarten which I didn't mind.

My mother hated it; they told her it was not appropriate that I was already able to read.
I really believe it's a case of resume driven development. I'm sure there are counter-examples, but the whole move to SPAs, from my vantage point, has been driven by tech people and not leaders. Self-inflicted.
A pasha of Albanian origin
How do you search by name?
How did he invade employees' rights?
Does this cause you concern or make you curious?
Prepaid burner numbers don't work, only postpaid.

What does the email-only flow look like? Every time I've tried that I've been redirected to various kinds of "additional authorization" or "proof of identity" barriers and haven't been able to find a flow around them.
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I feel you.

I was often told I wouldn't live to see 20, and at some point began internalizing it, and thus living as such. It's unbreakable now. Every hour I work I think of friends who are no longer here, and the last thing I want to think of as I die is 'I should have taken more time for myself'. It seems like absolute madness that we give away so much of our lives when tomorrow is not a given. And if we take the dollar earned per hour worked of life, we learn that those with money and who earn more have lives with more 'value'.

Fuck that.

Do you, the rat race isn't for all of us, and maybe you will find a path to happiness somewhere out there. Success is not objective, you don't have to hold yourself to a broken society's standards.
Not exactly.

“Copt” means Egyptian and was used by the Turkish decedents ruling class to refer to Egyptians regardless of religion.

So all Egyptians are Copts. Some Copts are Christian

The church, sometimes referred to as the Coptic church literally meant “the Egyptian church” and played a key role and maybe to this day, for example with a bishop sent to Ethiopia.

As for “who think of themselves as a descendant of those mummies?” Pretty much all Egyptians do, the national soccer team is often referred to in Africa as “the pharaohs”. Of course some Arabs Turks Greeks Armenians British and French stayed over the 1000s of years but given the population was already well established over confined space(3% of Egypt is populated, mainly around the Nile and coast) the influx couldn’t overtake the indigenous population.

This is not just some fantasy / wishful thinking either. If you observe farming habits, certain traditions, specific tools, fishing, sailing etc, you can see a very long and continuous way of being. It is called “maat”

Some studies concluded 98% genetic makeup overlap between the ancient and modern Egyptians. There is such a thing as “Egyptian ethnic group”. Travel through the streets and you will see the resemblance. TV shows? Not so much.

With that said, the Egyptian constitution of 1920s declared “the Egyptian is anyone who wishes to declare themselves Egyptian”.
For many people yes, if you're dealing with straight-up text.

But so much content has images, diagrams, footnotes, sidebars, meaningful indentation, and so forth, that text reflow often mangles or scrambles or relegates to the end of the chapter/document. And not to mention that reading on a phone sometimes freezes the zoom so you can't even zoom into images when necessary.

When I read a published PDF I'm usually getting a presentation that was carefully thought out for legibility, scale, etc. The locations of images, footnotes, sidebars, etc. all make sense.

And I find that reading PDF's on a phone is actually no problem at all, even on my small iPhone SE 2. Just hold your phone in landscape and zoom so the width of the phone is the width of the text column. Generally it works perfectly well.

So as a reader, when an author/publisher takes responsibility for well-organized and legible layout and aesthetics, I appreciate it greatly.
Frank Zappa once said: "The crux of the biscuit is: If it entertains you, fine. Enjoy it. If it doesn't, then blow it out your ass. I do it to amuse myself. If I like it, I release it. If somebody else likes it, that's a bonus."

If you are good at getting inanimate objects ("computers") to do something useful, and you still enjoy it, then do that. Turn off the comments. Turn off the bug reports. Torvards said, "Real men don't back up. They upload on ftp and let the world mirror it."

Dealing with people can be a pain in the ass. So don't.

Find other things to do to provide some balance. Cooking. Sailing. Gardening. Nand2tetris. Whatever!

My bottom line: the universe is fascinating and awesome. What's it all about? So, I do physics.
> What exactly would you consider a non-mild respiratory virus?

SARS-1 is an example of a non-mild respiratory virus. We don't know quite as much about it since it never became a massive global phenomenon the way SARS-2 did, but the research I've read basically indicates that a "run-of-the-mill" SARS-1 infection is much like a severe COVID-19 case.

People seem to really be taking issue with my statement, and I think it comes down to them conflating "mild respiratory virus for the majority of the population" with "mild respiratory virus for everyone". Here's one simple way to put it: if "asymptomatic COVID-19" (which is an oxymoron but I'll spare you that rant) is as common as they say it is, that's an indication that it is a mild respiratory virus in many people.
I found it on some sketchy download site that I had to use jdownloader for and solve many captchas based on a tip from a past HN story.

After that, you'll find that the data is poorly and inconsistently encoded (lots of ugly BOMs), a bunch of files are split in weird ways (that I had to concatenate then give sensible names to). Figuring out what order they go in (they're not all split on a record boundary!) may take some translation, too. After that, a bunch of them have bad, broken CVS headers and you have to find something that can manage huge files to edit the first couple of lines.

Then you find that all of them use different delimiters (colon or comma), some of them quote each entry, and they each have a different set of data that doesn't match up at all. I'm still trying to figure out what the data in each file is and see if it can be normalized into one schema.

So it's about like downloading a phonebook for half the world with some extra mystery data that has no description where you have to guess what it even means.

Interestingly, I checked for a family member who deleted their FB a few years ago and they're not in there. It'd be interesting to see if there are any accounts that deleted before 2019 in the data or not. I suspect not, but this isn't enough of a test to prove it.
>I see a pattern and I feel the older generation is way more capable and knowledgeable when it comes to Computer Science in general. I am pretty sure a lot of people are or were in the same boat as me.

The older generation are in this place because back then none of the technologies you listed existed and so they had to know the more low level things.

A book that might help some of your knowledge gaps (at least directionally) is The Imposter's Handbook[1] by Rob Conery.

If you're specifically aiming to get away from CRUD take a look at the various Domain Driven Design books by Eric Evans[2] and others. This is the opposite direction to your ask though (more high level than low level).

If you want to go deeper in Java, read Effective Java[3] and Java Concurrency in Practice (JCIP)[4]

Lastly, if you want to experience the reasons why some of that early comp-sci stuff happened the way it did, playing with expensive hardware is the least effective way to find understanding of constraints. Instead consider grabbing devices with significant limitations like an Arduino, ESP32, or similar (I'm partial to the Wio Terminal[5] and M5Stack[6] as interesting easy to get started devices, but others would suggest various Arduinos or Raspberry Pi devices). Realistically you're going to learn much more by coming up with a self-challenging project and completing it than just by learning it for the sake of learning.

[1]: https://bigmachine.io/products/the-imposters-handbook/

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Domain-Driven-Design-Tackling-Complex...

[3]: https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Java-Joshua-Bloch/dp/013468...

[4]: https://www.amazon.com/Java-Concurrency-Practice-CONCURRENCY...

[5]: https://www.seeedstudio.com/Wio-Terminal-p-4509.html

[6]: https://m5stack.com/
Depends on if the tech is something you do to an embryo and have to wait for, or if it's something you can do to someone who is already alive.

If you apply the process to someone who is already 100 and they hit 160 with no further degradation, it would be, at the very least, a pretty good indicator your process had worked.
Taking a third or sixth without a repeating decimal. I believe the ancient Mayans used base 60 for similar reasons.

Edit: I misremembered. It was the Babylonians that used base 60.
This is still one of my favorites: https://ultra64.ca/files/other/Game-Developer-Magazine/GDM_S... detailing how Resident Evil 2 N64 was able to fit in a 64MB cart despite the PSX version needing two CDs.
Hi dang, hope you are well. May I kindly ask why not? I spent two weeks writing the CSS / HTML / JavaScript, and did well documented code - in fact the output serves as both documentation of the code and also output from it (in my own stupid way, I was thinking I was following Donald Knuth’s Literate Programming Approach :D).

The repo (https://github.com/ashok-khanna/pdf) contains all the necessary code and is intended for others to reuse in their projects. Some of it isn’t straightforward, despite the guide looking easy - I had to figure out how CSS selectors and counters work for example, how MathJax interacted with Paged.Js.

I think the confusion comes from it being labeled as a “guide”, in fact it’s a full set of code to give the required functionality for high quality PDFs from HTML, using paged.js, the guide is just the self documentation as I figured I might as well use documentation for the sample output. Otherwise, I’d be genuinely curious on what constitutes Show HN vs normal posts?

I think the repo description and the way the output is confusing / unclear - the primary goal is very much meant to be a code base for people to reuse as I’ve noticed for many programmers, the design side can be a bit more elusive.

Separately, would it be possible to add beautiful back to the title - it’s not really about producing PDFs from html as browsers can already do that, and there are many other tools. The main aim is to have the functionality to produce very high quality typeset PDFs from HTML, which until now, I only felt PrinceXML did well and that’s a paid solution. Maybe we could say the title is “High quality PDFs from HTML using Paged.JS”? I know there has been a separate discussion on another thread on the overuse of the word beautiful in describing code - my view is that it has its place when it relates to output / UI.

Thanks for reading, and no issues otherwise (no need to reply).
That was never intended as a threat and was clarified years ago: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/999415738967277568 TL;DR of the thread: he was warning that UAW would get rid of the stock options, following their track record with other automakers.