skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
50 years ago was 1970. I agree that just comparing last year's death rate directly to rates from the past 50 years would be a bad analysis, but I think this is some hyperbole too.
I do like burndown chart showing code as layers over time https://github.com/src-d/hercules#project-burndown

Like other stats, it is not to be taken too seriously on early projects where re-linting or moving lines around may show as dropping all old code...
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In addition to my full-time job, I work on two projects.

One is already incorporated, but we COVID-19 messed our plans and we needed to go back to square one at the beginning of the year. The workload is divided between 3 people so it's not too bad yet.

Other one is currently me and my co-founder figuring out new product ideas to validate, and moving on to validate those next.

Definitely can get hectic at times but then I just work on less on the project that is not yet gone anywhere.
Maybe a dumb question on standalone authorization services: does the authorization service end up having a representation for every single object in all of the rest of your datastores? (e.g. every document, every blob of storage, every user in every org).

If so, does that become a chokepoint in a distributed microservice architecture? Or can that be avoided with an in-process or sidecar architecture in which a given microservice's objects are not separately referenced in auth persistence? If not, how do folks determine which objects to register with the auth service and which to handle independently?
>The Biden administration is perceived as weak gobally, which is unacceptable for a superpower - that gets millions of people killed until the US demonstrates dominance again.

>Russia decided to nuke Beijing because they wouldn't take no for an answer, but the US foolishly told them not to.

>So here we are, on the brink of war

There seem to be some wildly conflicting points here? Are you advocating for the use of nukes and also complaining about warmongers?
Reminds me of that TNG episode where they try to terraform a planet inhabited by sentient crystals, ignorant of the delicate and mousy life already present.
This is not the only San Francisco CEO that I've seen follow this playbook almost word for word. Even using the same phraseology.. e.g. "I blame myself. It's my fault we had to do this", a bit about how "We're shifting the way we build products" so we can "Help creators grow their business", and "The $company will be stronger for this decision".

I am a bit burnt out when it comes to the industry at the moment and perhaps jaded, but my guess is these CEOs have outsourced their apology to the same local reputation-management consultants, and that's why they all sound identical. If the leadership really cared about employees they would write the apology themselves, have some backbone and admit they terminated people due to cost cutting or performance reasons. Offer severance privately and move on. The rest of this is theater.
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You’re missing the argument.

Right now I have confidence that anything that can run on my device is signed off and approved by Apple.

That gives me a sense of security and privacy. I don’t have to worry about something being approved or not approved. If there’s an app, I rely on Apple to have signed off on it.

That’s why I buy iPhone.

And all it really comes down to is that Apple has customers who repeatedly give them business each year simply because they like the app ecosystem not being a flea market where anything goes.
"Anyone can farm" is clearly only going to be a thing while the project stays small.

It will always be more cost efficient to assemble tens of thousands of the most optimal hard drives/CPU's/ASICS in a big room, bulk ordering them all cheaply, than it will be to DIY it yourself at home.

Any kind of mining will always end up costing exactly the same as the revenue. And that means you and I will make a loss at home.

You could claim "but I'm using unused hard drive space, so it's free", but really you should be thinking "I bought a hard drive bigger than I needed, but I can partially recover the cost with Chia". And besides, in a few months, the 200GB free on your hard drive won't even be worth the effort of installing the software.
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Its distribution is sparse and on the surface. Its been forming for a billion years. Conclusion: it's sublimating all the time and being replaced.

If there's any danger, its from the billions of cubic meters under the ocean floor (the source of the nodules, seeping from underneath). More carbon than all the oil we ever burned in our civilization so far.

Is that in any danger of accelerated release? I've not heard of that.
Well, there is only a couple of oceans.
I believe they are constantly working on optimizing their infrastructure, and we will see improved versions of gVisor and Firecracker soon.
Which apple country? Here in central New York there are a ton of orchards that will grow a few rows of a bunch of different varieties. You have to go out a few times in the fall, as different varieties ripen at different times, but you can easily find dozens of different options in the area.
It's the best way to get truly acquainted with the repeated deaths of life forms you care for.
TBH, I've consistently found that "average people" have a better intuitive understanding of costs/profit than the average engineer. That may sound strange, at least it does to me, but I've noticed it for as long as I've been in this profession.
But they're not getting Amex or Discover.

Plus, thanks to all the ads they might be pulling out that Visa or Mastercard when they pay for something, rather than using cash. Or they might use the Visa or Mastercard online rather than Paypal. etc etc...
I can see pressure if the woman (or any first-of) is one of the first in their role/job to do well and represent their subgroup. This of course implies that there is a stereotype to overcome, which I see as a very small minority sentiment today. I didn't notice any stereotyping related to women in my classes. Also, in my masters courses the gender mix was probably 60% male 40% female.

There is a lot at play, and there is plenty of variation by location and other factors.
Enforcement went down to basically zero in my area. Now that the officers are vaccinated, they have started aggressively enforcing moving violations.
Fourier transform, more exactly DFT, is a special case of matrix multiplication, when seen as a linear operator. The fact that you can do operations faster than the usual N*2 matrix / vector operation is due to the specific form of the underlying matrix (Van Der Mont matrix).

So they are not that different: the specific structure of the Fourier basis allows for more efficient matrix * vector operation.
I'm not. Fruit isn't apple. Apple is fruit with massive amounts of fructose.
> every recent white-cop-shot-a-black-person incident in the U.S. Not only is there widespread assumption of racism being the motivation (despite little or no evidence of that), you can't even /talk/ about parts of the problem without being labeled a racist.

What I thought was even more interesting was that racism was never a charge raised in the George Floyd case yet it was one parroted by many individuals as completely 'obvious' guilt in.

The discussion that happens outside of these circles seems to be entirely different approach too and I would dare not even mention facts like this among work colleagues, even though he is plainly guilty of other charges as it does not fit the narrative they hold.
Whoa, calm down and show some respect. Parent post is right. That is one of the narratives you hear quite frequently. Your addition is also valid.
>We don't really need those minerals, we just want to make money.

They're battery materials. Batteries are important to ensuring the success of intermittent renewable energy sources.
> The environment would be in much worse shape if industrialization had been fueled with wood rather than coal.

No, there would have been no industrialization without fossil fuels. The carbon density of wood is insufficient.
> I find using decimals places (like 16.1% and 21.1%) in human experiments pretty irritating. It feels like false precision.

Whether you say 21.1%, 21%, or 20%, you still have a single number. You could make an argument that decimal places like 21.147258% add clutter, but without an actual measure of uncertainty, all you're doing is reporting a summary of the data in the sample with different amounts of arbitrary rounding. That's not particularly helpful as a substitute for the full distribution.
> and can be controlled by unfair external factors

Are you sure about that?

In Sweden, society is very gender-equal: they have paternity leave, very small paygap, about 50% of women in leadership position. Yet only 13% of Swedish engineers are women.

I think if you eliminate all the external factors you’re talking about, you still won’t get anywhere close to 50% of female engineers, or 50% of male pediatricians, as long as people are free to choose a profession.
I did not expect to find a link to hör on hn news today. Interesting overlap
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You are right, my bad! Thanks for catching that in the comment above, I've updated it
Saw a post asking for a Dark Mode and I thought that would be nice to have, I'm on an iPhone so I didn't know of any easy to implement solutions to get a Dark Mode so I whipped up this: https://github.com/mrferos/darkmodehn

It's just an nginx reverse proxy, there is a publicly available version at https://hn.galindo.io (if its somehow abused I'll make it private)

Note: It doesn't allow anything but GET requests and will strip the Cookie header.
MBA vs. Master's in Cybersecurity – which is better for career advancement?
This feels like an elaborate joke that I didn't get.
Oh. Thanks for that. I’ll have to repost both questions.
This video doesn't seem to be monetized. Refreshing multiple times doesn't give me any ads.
This is nonsense. Suicides are down in 2020. It was a virus that killed people, the deaths were reported. Conspiracy theories are so exhausting
Decentralization was the key. There was no central server then. It was all data sync from one server to another on request and it worked well.
I also immediately think of the Brunner book
Humans are never going to destroy the environment, only themselves.
The article is very confusing on this front.

> People said they were 14.2% more likely to buy this chocolate bar when they were shown the version with a cost breakdown

Surely that cannot be correct. Possibly 14.2% of the people who were asked said that they would be "somewhat" more likely to buy X with more data stuck to its label (does any data improve sales? Did they A/B the label by adding random info?). This is very different from them acting upon it though.
An EEG-equipped set of headphones aims to monitor how well you focus
tl;dr

- If you're an individual contributor (IC) today who wants to be more technical, go the master's in cybersecurity route, but there's many other non-degree ways to get more technical.

- If you're a people manager today, go the MBA route if you're trying to lead functions or become a CISO.
1918 was also during WWI. While they mark that with the pandemic, are they including US service member deaths during the war in death totals? I'm trying to find a breakdown by year, but the total US deaths from the war was around 100k.

Even taking them as evenly distributed over 1914-1918 (inaccurate) that's 20k extra deaths in each of those years.
They work when everybody is on the same page. Once things return to normal, it causes a prisoners dilemma. If a company is too cheap to send somebody to speak to you face to face, what else are they going to cheap out on?
You can't just point at things and call them 'a neural network'.

Linear regression's just learning an affine transform but I think it's misleading and unhelpful to call that a neural network either.
That's only true of the property actually is siezed (or taxed) and put to good use, which it isn't, because it's not nation vs nation so much as it's global ultra wealthy vs global everyone else.
No. They decreed that the respective currencies stopped being legal tender (against the will of the people in many cases, btw) and so the people had no choice but to swap their money for Euros. The exchange rate was fixed and the currency was never bought on a free market. They couldn't have because many people would not have sold and then you'd have ended up with multiple competing currencies. The government has a monopoly on national currency, it's very different from gold and cryptocurrencies that are properly decentralized and freely traded.

The name cryptocurrency is a misnomer for many of the new generation blockchains. They are not just currencies and they're also not a commodity like gold. You can think of a currency like Ethereum more like a decentralized company offering infrastructure services. It also has aspects of a currency and of a commodity. It's a bit of everything.
I mean, we do kinda have that now, people just like it a lot less: notifications
Why the table? Just place the tablet on your laps and use both hands (vigoriously ;).
There are many techniques - the advanced players use most of their fingers constantly. Touch controls could be very elaborate and precise.
I agree it's far from perfect.

The whole employment services provider model is a weird frankenstein pseudo-market which operates according to bureaucratic rules and artificial 'prices'. And this model requires the bureaucracy to monitor the pseudo-bureaucracy (employment service providers) to ensure they're delivering employment services appropriately. The thinking behind this model is similar to arguments made in favour of privatisation - that private firms will always be more efficient than direct government service provision.

Lots of policy trade-offs to consider: Should government directly provide employment services or is a pseudo-private market more efficient? Should we just drop mutual obligation entirely at the cost of potentially higher structural and hardcore unemployment (and so higher government outlays on transfer payments)?
Women were banned from being priests in the Church of England before 1994. The same Church of England sends 26 bishops - until 2015, all men - to sit in the house of Lords.

Personally I have worked in a small company where the owner wouldn't have hired a woman regardless of ability.
Seems like these freaking huge tracks will treat deep-sea coral nicely
Look, I'll be the first one to say there is a lot of corporate double-speak in this and the guy has a habit of rambling. I don't like the content of the video.

But I am surprised to see so many people saying a YouTube video is a bad way to communicate this.

Would people really prefer a small news article about how they are "Restructuring for the future" or a small Twitter thread started by an ex-employee?

The fact that this is a video makes it incredibly easy for us to judge his statements as humans, and easily decipher that _he is using corporate double-speak_ and judge him on that.

I don't like the video. I don't like the situation. I don't like the lack of concrete transparency about why.

But I do like the fact that it is communicated by a person in a video, easy for all to judge what is being said.
I'm not trolling. There's a giant wave of misinformation all of a sudden scaremongering around another ingredient, sugar. And the individuals boast on how this was previously done for fat and how epidemiology makes everything cancerous.

Both approaches entirely missing the diet and lifestyle connection and just scare people into restrictive and orthorexic diets and behavior.
Global warming is causing undersea methane to be released much faster than it has in the past.

> For the second year in a row, his team have found crater-like pockmarks in the shallower parts of the Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea that are discharging bubble jets of methane, which is reaching the sea surface at levels tens to hundreds of times higher than normal.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/oct/27/sleeping-gia...
Assuming it's not just noise, could be that technology developed or cultural norms changed because of the pandemic saved some lives down the line.

Also, weren't deaths in the first year of life much more common back then? Maybe there were just significantly less people having kids right after the pandemic.
The health impacts due to social/psychological effects alone of lockdown may be substantial. As an analogue, the annual spike of deaths around the holiday period increases “somewhere between 3% and 9% depending on the demographic group you look at, and between 1% and 10%, depending on the cause of death analyzed.”

https://www.us-funerals.com/deaths-spike-on-christmas-day/
You don’t see value in it because you don’t have any money you need to launder.
Taxes go up in nominal money :)
Thanks for the reference! That looks like a great game indeed.

> Card game wasn't a good choice of words.

Well yes, it was: “Card Crawl is a solitaire-style dungeon crawler game played with a modified deck of standard cards.”

Funnily, it’s even advertised as a solitaire game ^^
Yes, I read that line, the third suggestion after leadership woes and a lack of local resources, and one that points at European protectionism generally.

Elsewhere in the article in mentions that Egypt herself didn't have an entirely unified stance about embracing industrialisation and it doesn't take much to note a vast gulf between the national psyches of Japan and Egypt, Japan also having been treated somewhat shoddily by Western powers.
> Do you have any idea the amount of effort it takes to train 36 people?

Two weeks?

Certainly less time than it'll take to restaff and onboard their replacements.

It's a website. Web stacks are mayflys. Pivoting to today's new hotness is part of the gig.
Here in Europe we have multiple parties, all of them full of liars who eventually implement the same old ideas anyway when in power. Our politicians and multi-party systems are there just to give an illusion of choice.

As far as I can see we're not so different from Japan, other than the fact we have more crime and our cities are dirtier because individualistic Westerners are too lazy to use rubbish bins.
They could also release the same skin without any token even after someone paid for it, the token means nothing. The token is a gesture.
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Ownership of a Fortnite skin guarantees that only the owner can wear the skin. Owning an NFT doesn't guarantee exclusive use, as anyone can view the digital image/video/etc that the NFT has wrapped.

I'm interested to know how prices for tradable goods changed as they are obsoleted by newer, shinier things, or by the game being abandoned altogether.
Another method is uBlock if your mobile browser allows it. In My Filters you can override CSS for any site.
Swedish techno... That brings me back. If you like Adam Beyer, check out Cari Lekebusch and Jasper Dahlback too.

His style is a bit less minimal, but Boris Brejcha is absolutely sick.
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Weird, the first result when I did a search claimed it went up to 14.8 per 100,000 this year, from 13.9 per 100,000 last year according to the Google summary, but the actual page doesn't seem to actually have that data: https://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/annual/measur...

Looks like the CDC data is still preliminary? So I guess we'll have to wait and see what the actual number is.

EDIT: Looking through the charts on that link it does list a 14.8 for 2020 suicides but doesn't seem to have a source?
I've seen a few people post details like this. Did employees talk about it already?
Which NFTs do literally nothing to solve.
Just wanted to say thank you for writing this Michael. You've been putting lots of great content on your blog! Really enjoying the real world examples you include.
I was pointing to the trend of curbing down on skyscrappers instead of a direct comparison.

250m is the limit for strict regulation. Newer buildings tend to be around 100m.
That just sounds like bad parenting and poor social adjustment. Actually, most of the problems in this entire thread could probably be tracked to bad parenting.
FWIW, an economist published this paper recently estimating "the cost/benefit ratio of lockdowns in Canada, in terms of life-years saved, is between 3.6–282":

> Generally speaking, the ineffectiveness of lockdown stems from voluntary changes in behavior. Lockdown jurisdictions were not able to prevent noncompliance, and non-lockdown jurisdictions benefited from voluntary changes in behavior that mimicked lockdowns. The limited effectiveness of lockdowns explains why, after one year, the unconditional cumulative deaths per million, and the pattern of daily deaths per million, is not negatively correlated with the stringency of lockdown across countries. Using a cost/benefit method proposed by Professor Bryan Caplan, and using two extreme assumptions of lockdown effectiveness, the cost/benefit ratio of lockdowns in Canada, in terms of life-years saved, is between 3.6–282. That is, it is possible that lockdown will go down as one of the greatest peacetime policy failures in Canada’s history.

http://www.sfu.ca/~allen/LockdownReport.pdf
Why do we expect that in general the availability of pornography is hugely negatively correlated with sexual crimes but in this subset the opposite is true? Do we have studies about it?
You know, I'll go out on the limb and say (unhelpfully) that a FFT is more efficient than any general dense matvec.
Lots of graduate students are employed by the university they attend. When I was a graduate student I was employed to teach classes. I also was a client of the university since I paid some tuition/fees to attend classes there. I presume they’d be going on strike as employees and the graduate students that are not employed would not be going on strike.
I'd say that's a rather charitable interpretation. "Not necessarily good"? Come on, this is the comment we are talking about:

> I don't trust this article. The phrase "Losing viewpoint diversity" is of course crafted to make it sound like a chilling trend. Pretty clear what they want you to think about it. But if you drill into what that's referring to, whether you think it's a bad thing is entirely up to what you think of how the viewpoints are changing. "Fewer racists than ever" also maps to "less viewpoint diversity" but is totally a good thing.
Try any Samsung Sx product. You won't even have to replace their battery after only 4 years.
Your suicide statistic link doesn't have any data for the 2020 year. And in my region suicides are down. https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/suicide-deaths-in-alberta-in-2020...
But by the standards set down by their post at the top of this tree, callamdelaney wouldn't hire them.
They could also ignore the tokens too. This is another off chain issue, there’s no guarantee that something outside the blockchains is obligated to respect what the blockchain says reality should be.
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Given the range of values over 5 years it seems pretty unlikely for most states, but might not be out of the question for say Hawaii or Vermont say. Unlikely, but not impossible.

One factor to bear in mind is the 5 year period includes a particularly nasty flu season in 2017-18 so the last 5 year period includes a high outlier.

The thing is over the long term all kinds of outlier events pop up, like this one, but it's hard to think of any with this magnitude. 9/11 killed 3k people in one go, but that's only one tenth of the excess deaths in New York from Covid in a single month. Even the 1906 Earthquake that devastated San Francisco only killed less than 1% of the city's population. World War 2 had an appreciable effect of course at 300k deaths over about 3 years.

If we're including other pandemics of course there's the Spanish Flu which also killed about half a million Americans or more, against a population a third the size.