skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi! Are you open to having data science/research engineering/data visualization interns this summer or fall? CCV looks really neat and would love to contribute!
I'm arguing that you can't name something like what you described.
That, or the top 100 companies have to be held responsible.

One of these seems more dishonest than the other.
I can't provide an answer but I can provide a little more info about my tests.

I tried this in Microsoft Edge. They show up as blocked in that "Cookies in use" popup but when you open the inspector and go to the Application tab the cookies are there, not blocked. In Firefox's inspector in the Storage tab those domains don't show any cookies unless explicitly allowed.
Thanks Biden.
> for now we assume that total COVID-19 deaths equal excess mortality.

This seems reasonable, although I'd suggest it's an underestimate of COVID-19 deaths.

Excess deaths counts have been consistently showing negative in countries during periods of time where they have coronavirus under control.

Other significant causes of death (including suicide, influenza, road traffic accidents) appear to be down.

As such, I'd assume that COVID-19 deaths are likely somewhat higher than excess mortality figures. I'm prepared to accept the assumption that they're approximately the same.

[Edited to note: the linked article discusses this with further detail and evidence]
I am struggling to understand what you're trying to say. Technically what you said is perfectly correct, but in a "the sun goes up in the morning and comes down in the evening" kind of a way. I doubt there are many people on Hacker News who don't realize that most VC backed ventures fail.

What would have been more insightful is a conversation around relative benchmarks. For example, "do YC companies fail at a higher rate than the cohort of equally funded companies?" (hint: no).

Or perhaps, if you're trying to criticize the VC industry, perhaps ask, "if a VC put in money in every YC company since the beginning of YC, what would their IRR be today?" (hint: massive).
The relevant question is whether the person would have died anyway, without covid. If not, that's a covid death.

Put another way, people in perfect health shouldn't be the only ones whose covid deaths are counted.
I wonder if that measure should be used for criminal justice as well. As well as showing that killing an old person is less harmful, it also excludes babies. Both these groups seem to have lives that are worth less even to themselves and so it's (however distasteful) not as bad if they die. We already do that with abortion by valuing an unborn baby's life less.
there are two topologies - one is a global spanning tree, similar to yggdrasil. but then the chain (or snake) simply orders the nodes which are close on the spanning tree numerically based on their public key, and routes via them even if the spanning tree topology changes. So you’re basically swapping between the two topos based on what works best.

(This is based on word of mouth tho so I may have it totally wrong :)
Do you care about memory leaks on a Lambda? I don't think they can live long enough to even invoke the GC. I guess if you're going through a lot of data you could blow your memory budget and have it terminated?
Ah, you are right! Thanks for the edit. I didn't click through on the presented options to see if they offered additional upgrades.
The threshold to join the top 10% of global wealth (the measure used in this study) is a net worth of $93,170 USD. To join the top 1%, it's $871,230. (Both numbers from a 2018 Credit Suisse study)

Most HN readers are likely in the global top 10% or will be within a few years of a tech-related career. Many will be in the global 1% simply by saving for retirement over time.

This study refers to the "global rich", but that means it's referring to most of us.
You mentioned Apple & Google remotely installing something, so the only logical conclusion is that you're talking about Exposure Notifications (which btw are opt-in, not opt-out, so remotely installed is a mischaracterization here). If someone built their own solution and put it on the app store, then it doesn't really have much to do at all with Apple or Google outside of being distributed on their platforms, and certainly would never be remotely installed (at least on Apple platforms... I have no idea what Oppo might do in China for example, but whatever they'd be doing would likely be because some country law dictated it).
> If you dont know problem exists, it means you’re not on the edge, so you must first grow to be on the edge of some fields, only then you have a chance to see new opportunities there.

This is some great advice I'm going to take on board. If you're not surfing the tip (or edge as you call it) of the wave, you're just padding behind with everyone else and not seeing anything. Fabulous.
BS journalism (i.e. typical). Of course, it begins with a false premise: "Researchers have long known that carbon emissions are closely tied to income.". Really? What about poor, developing countries with little or no policy over factory emissions don't count?

The narrative conveniently shifts from focus on countries' industrial activities and ecological policies to ... of course, a focus on individual wealth and "inequality". I guess the inequality angle sells more ads these days; plus, it's so Trump-like to criticize nations, so let's not do that, right?
How can you retrospectively test the people who died prior to April? How can you confirm any of the data that was generated by guesswork?

I'm fairly sure there is no tissue available to test from any of those bodies

The situation was ripe for fraud, and there is no way to prove it didn't happen en masse. Human nature suggests it did happen. The evidence of what caused those deaths is destroyed shortly after the paperwork is filled out. The whole thing is set up in such a manner that suggests inflation of the numbers, and to have no way to counter the claims as all evidence is gone
Depending on the language, getters and setters may not be source and/or binary compatible with fields from the client side, so if you might ever need to refactor to a nontrivial getter or setter (whether because you are changing representation or for other reasons), starting with trivial getters/setters instead of fields limits future breakage.
You can see why Apple have done this.

a) it’s great PR.

b) it may reduce the quantity of low-quality apps on the App Store

c) most importantly by far, and almost certainly why they went through with it, this will push apps away from making money from Ads, and towards making money from payments, which Apple can then take happily take their 15-30% cut of and profit

As usual, it’s Apple abusing their dominant market position to boost profits. In this case, I don’t mind because it’s a general win for consumer choice, but it’s a symptom of a larger problem.
Roblox Throws a Wrench in Apple’s Case versus Epic
You may be underestimating the 'carbon footprint' of retail shopping; I have never seen a clear comparison of the two, but I am not sure one would be significantly 'better' than the other.
Would cutting the trees before they can mature won't solve these problems? Plant new trees and use the cut trees to build stuff and store co2.
But you pay for requests.
It has overlap, but it's not a 1:1 mapping. Genpop in most women's prisons has a machismo-driven culture, despite there being little masculinity involved.

Machismo is kind of just an expected output of certain game-theoretic conditions.

Street gangs, for example, are effectively corporation-like entities enacting machismo as an output of the organization — where the public face / "PR department" of the gang enacts domination/intimidation tactics upon symbolic representatives of other gangs in a way that can only be described as "machismo-driven." The same Nash equilibrium that gives rise to street gangs, also makes it so that it's [economically] Pareto-optimal for them to interact with each-other this way.

And this is despite no individual member of the gang necessarily being machismo-driven themselves. Gang members can "give rise to" corporate machismo entirely dispassionately, as an output of "just serving their role", in the same way that employees of a corporation can "give rise to" corporate profit-seeking entirely dispassionately, as an output of "just doing their job." No cog in the machine necessarily approves of what the machine as a whole is doing, but the machine does it all the same.
I don’t know. You should contact Apple support maybe?
To my surprise you used you're instead of your in a comment about precise language.
You are chasing nanoseconds with a garbage collected language?
I smell a series of pull requests...
That's not what they do at all.

Just a few sentences later, they break down changes in death rates into 6 categories -- 3 that are increases but also 3 that are decreases.

But in any case, it's a pretty reasonable first-order assumption that excess deaths are from COVID, that can then be analyzed in more detail per-population to see if it continues to be plausible, e.g. whether excess deaths were also correlated in time and place with COVID, etc.

And isn't this precisely the kind of double-checking of official numbers that is valuable? Official statistics don't always tell the truth -- witness Cuomo specifically undercounting nursing home deaths. The shenanigans we should be concerned with aren't this -- it's shenanigans in official reporting. Thank goodness we live in a democracy with free speech where these kinds of things can be questioned.

Challenging findings to produce stronger, more trustworthy final results ultimately increases faith in science, don't you think? It sounds like you're arguing findings should never be challenged, which isn't science at all.
If you don't preload the folder contents and index it then type-ahead will also be arbitrarily slow there too. I don't know of any Linux filesystem that stores the files sorted and indexed on disk.

>And how does that support your argument that re-instroducing Type Ahead would de-prioritize search for them?

The idea I got from reading the GNOME HIG is that if users accidentally type into the window, the behavior should be consistent and predictable with what the user was really trying to do (search). Doing a strange and inconsistent matching behavior that is not available through any other means and is essentially hidden functionality is only going to cause confusion.
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Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. This is a noticeable step in the wrong direction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Nowadays I mostly feed the e-herd with cables like these:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001139641708.html

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001524934944.html

A small plug stays with the device that moves about, the cables stay put with the charger, "mag-safe" for all the things ...
So what you're saying is that it's impossible to stop global warming. Wouldn't it be more productive to just give up and start thinking about how to survive in the apocalypse you've been predicting?
This is sometimes required if the company is publicly traded or a subsidiary thereof. To do so otherwise could be construed as stock manipulation.
" I have a difficult time understanding why they would have been arresting doctors who were talking about the virus if it were natural."

Oh that's easy: an authoritarian state would be arresting irrespective of the origin. They want to control the message , no matter what. The truth is a distraction in that case.

Once things flip, and the public becomes aware, then they can re-write history and make them national hero's. Chinese citizens are apparently skeptical of their own government, and get pissed off a lot, I suggest the Doctor who made the discovery is a little bit of a populist hero already.

The CCP's actions demonstrate they are fully authoritarian, that's about it.
I consider the fundamental issue being a paradox between trusting lessons learned from past experiences and adopting to new circumstances.

When you grow older, you gain more experience, and if you're intelligent, probably gain some wisdom along the way. You either trust that inherently imperfect knowledge, or you throw it away and learn everything anew together with the younger generation.

We're mostly trained to treasure knowledge and experience, even if the errors accumulate and times change.
You know you want to do Y, but you don't tell others that you actually want to do X, and Y seems like a reasonable thing (to you) to do to reach X.
I'm not a linguist, but I think they could have done better with the Plosive "P" sound. It's too close to the "B". In Standard American English the P is more obvious than this.
In ARM you do have pop/push (and call/ret) instructions that can go in either direction, and most platforms I know still have a stack that grows to 0.

TBH, dunno where the difficulty is.
>This year's economic shutdowns have done little to reduce the world's carbon emissions.

This is misleading. 2020 saw a 7 percent drop from fossil emission levels in 2019 [1]. That is a huge number YoY which only exposed mass consumerism as the true culprit for the increase in CO2 emissions. Not to mention that China and India are the number one polluters and as usual the UN and other supranational organization will look the other way. Goes to show how our central planners are simultaneously waving the contradictory specters of global warming and deflationary economics.

[1] https://earth.stanford.edu/news/covid-lockdown-causes-record...
Correct, all valid points. But we can assign numbers to all these things and the error bars are sufficiently large that there is ample room for debate. As for 2. is it obvious? My niece doesn't know that there are other humans like her, I would gladly take a year at the end of my life to give that gift to her. Given the current vaccination rates, many people will not see normal until 2022. For 3. it cuts both ways, how many new alcoholic parents and child abuse that ruins an entire lifetime?
All available data is showing that this past year has been detrimental to poor students.

Imagine trying to learn on an old phone, using a cellular internet connection in a bedroom you share with your sister.

So, while I'm glad you enjoyed your year at home -- the focus here was on the impact on students.
Yes, because many of those comorbidities are conditions that people could otherwise live with for decades... and furthermore, at least a couple of those comorbidities listed in that table are caused by COVID-19: pneumonia and respiratory failure.

If an obese person is in a car accident and immediately dies, we say that they died due to the more immediate health event: the car accident. -- even though we know that obese people are more susceptible to death in car accidents.
Well, if you're an "average Joe" in a Western country, you're already likely to be in the top 10% globally, wealth-wise. An average HN reader? Probably closer to the top 5%.
You'll notice a great deal of those are from jefftk, who discloses who he works for in almost every comment.

But in general, I think it's just that certain tech companies are big -- so they get discussed a lot on HN, and also employ a lot of HN users, thus requiring more disclosures.
When you set up an iPhone or other Apple device, you're prompted and asked if you want to share you data with Apple, which makes sense because they make the device and OS.
Holding the 'top 100 companies' 'responsible' would just be a boon to less efficient, slightly smaller companies. If you want to reduce carbon footprints, you need to re-shape the processes (of production and consumption) which cause the emissions.
I had the same question -- why accessor methods instead of making the fields public, but final. If anything, it seems like a layer of indirection.

The only answer that makes any sense is this one from Brian Goetz.[1] Namely, that it's a workaround to support mutable fields of otherwise immutable objects.

To be honest, allowing you to override the methods on an immutable, auto-generated class to inject custom accessor logic feels like an immediate retreat from the conceptual goal of providing an immutable record implementation in the first place.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66702223/why-do-java-rec...
Depends what the tax is used for.

Using it to transition our economy to carbon neutral and bringing back manufacturing? Sure. Financing ever ballooning bureaucrats pension funds? No thanks.
It is strange for sure, but does the house size matter that much? If he uses renewable energy etc (I don’t know if he does), then it should be ok, no?
Most people who are in favor of a carbon tax are also in favor of a carbon dividend, where most of the carbon tax money is paid out again. Since poor people usually emit below average amounts of carbon, they'd come out ahead in such a scheme.
Everyone knows that online shopping is much worse in terms of footprint. First, think of all the items that are returned. Second, think of the incentive it creates to buy more stuff.

EDIT: of course reality is more nuanced:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.9b06252

This study is about fast-moving consumer goods, but (quote):

> Hiselius et al. argued that consumers who frequently shop online make the same total number of trips to shops as consumers who do not
There were plenty of greybeards making claims about FB tracking etc, they just got written off as crackpots. The below link describes the history of some of FBs tracking and includes publicised examples from 2010 and 2011.
To me it’s just that we believed FB back then when they claimed ‘it’s a bug’, ‘a limited number of users were affected’ or ‘we don’t don’t do that’.

https://www.propublica.org/article/its-complicated-facebooks...
It does indeed, with the big difference that C++ community cares to reduce the amount of UB on the standard, and pushes for language features that improve safety.

Now if people choose to ignore the tools available to them, just like they enjoy ignoring lint since 1979, well there is little the doctor can do to save patients that refuse help.
And that's really a shame. It has the power to make an even larger dent in the epidemic. This is the cult of ignorance at play, where mistrust of all institutions (heavily fueled by need to get clicks to serve ads) means we can't have nice things.
Part of this discussion has got me thinking. If I were setting up a laboratory that does research on infective diseases I would definitely set it up as a small separate company, which would then apply for a research grant from the government, rather than as a wholly-owned part of some government department/ministry. Just in case, you know, some stupid employee slipped up and caused USD 10^N damages worldwide and there were to be a legal claim against the employer.

I wonder how the Wuhan laboratory was set up, legally. I wonder how other similar laboratories around the world are set up.

Another thought: I have so many times seen people write that if COVID was the result of an accident in a laboratory then "China" would be to blame. Would people blaim "Germany" for an accident in a German laboratory? I don't think so, at least not to the same extent. People seem to subconsciously think that China is the borg, or something.
This seems obvious though; a lot of people assert that Covid isn't "that serious" - if it affected a larger swath of the population with more consistently negative outcomes, of course they would have taken it more seriously and responded more in line with that. I feel like that was their entire point?
You should use child_process.execFile or the execve equiv in your language. Shell has expansion issues but rigorous quoting helped by shellcheck make it safe.

And zx's `$` could make better use of tagged template literals.

Something like this, tho it isn't correct

function $(strings, ...args) {
const cmd = [];
for (const part of strings) {
cmd.push(...part.split(/\s+/));
if (args.length > 0) {
cmd.push(args.shift());
}
}
return child_process.execFile(cmd[0], cmd.slice(1));
}

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
I personally find the Chromium shell too busy and distracting in screenshots of websites. Usually opt for a standard Safari shell for such things.
When Company X has an active program of producing and researching offensive ransomware, and a long track record of suppression, then it’s plausible that they are producing ransomware. Not proof, but still plausibility. To disregard the potential that they are producing ransomware is foolish. Going out of your way to assert that they would never do such a thing makes you a shill for Company X and destroys credibility.
Not sure why you're downvoted, that's what the math says. The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere needs to go down, not "up but at a slower rate".
>What about poor, developing countries with little or no policy over factory emissions don't count?

Can you name a developed country with strong policy about factory CO2 emissions?
Why do you think it's impossible to stop burning fossil fuels? We already have the necessary technology, we just don't want to spend the money to build enough of it.
> Then the bottom 50% who collectively emit 7% could triple their emissions.

> Is it me, or is 100% - 15 + 7*3 > 100?

You're counting the 7% too many times.

If the 7% were tripled it would be 21%, which is an increase of 14%, which roughly corresponds to the reduction of 15%.

100% - 15 + 7*2 = 99.
If you define any amount of discrimination as a failure to provide an appropriate professional service, then, mathematically, any amount of racism will become 'systemic' or 'institutional' so long as there is an uneven population distribution:

Let's say there are 3 groups. One group is 60% of the population, another is 30%, and the last is 10%. If all three groups have the exact same predisposition to favoring members over outsiders, the 60% group will experience prejudice from 40% of the population. The 10% population will experience it from 90% of the population. The 10% group will experience >10X the incidence of prejudice unless group favoritism is <= 0, which is literally impossible.

If that's what you mean when you say systemic/institutional, it feels like a completely useless thought to me. I, and I think many other people, hear 'systemic', and think 'coming from processes, rules, or procedures defined as part of a system', not from the people operating it. To make a better analogy, when I hear systemic car problem, I think the engine, transmission, or some other component of the car, not the driver.
Fields of an object should typically not change. But yes, I had to make a field of a class immutable some time ago. There was a bug and I could not read the code to figure out were the object was changed. Still, caused by bad code. Same object sent around pretty much everywhere.
Veganism is never about absolutism. Veganism is about striving to do the best possible. Can every single human being go vegan? Probably not. But that vast majority can, while living full, healthy, happy lives.

Where is the absolutism?
At the very least this has no way to distinguish directly between direct and indirect effects of the epidemic. The average person has put on weight, gets less exercise and is less likely to go visit a doctor. I think the distinction is important if this type of statistics are used to consider e.g. the easing of outdoor restrictions.