skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pretty print is far, far from the original. Function names, variable names, comments, structure like if turning into ?:, etc. You indeed need to provide map files and that's often not done. Given how marginal the gains are, I can see the author's point.
I once read an article about how the US spread misinformation about spectacularly expensive programs they were pretending to work on, hoping that the Russians would follow suit and waste govt money.

Over the years as I have read about the F-35 and its, uh, challenges, I've wondered if it's a revenge project. ;)
Not to be grim but seems to me that a country that suffered lots of casualties of their oldest, weakest and most infirm and the least economic disaster is probably well suited to be successful in the future.
I missed the Google Scholar part, indeed less likely there but you can never be sure
It is of immense value to say this when you have people in this very thread saying we might as well count everyone who had COVID as a death from COVID.

Also one of us is confused, and I don't think it is me. From what I've gleaned from this article, the 900,000 figure is not (as you say) "determining if contracting COVID was the direct cause of someone's death", but rather trying to figure out how many people would have died if this had been a "normal" year, i.e. if we could go to a parallel universe and make COVID never exist. This is absolutely not the same thing, as such a scenario will also count deaths as a result of our response to the virus as a death "due to the virus". This is my impression as they seem to be including things like suicide (criteria "c") and people who died because people with actual COVID were taking up hospital beds (criteria "b").
Indeed those are super cool! I might go out to see one of those once the curfew is lifted here.
Apple’s App Store ads are keyword-based not based on user behavior.
> through the growing of insanely water-needy crops like almonds[1]

Deal with beef and dairy first, then we can talk about almonds: https://www.truthordrought.com/almond-milk-myths
Having never worked in a work-from-home company, just exactly what do the managers do?
That graph shows results for Chrome 55. According to https://v8.dev/blog/cost-of-javascript-2019, parse times in Chrome have improved significantly over the years.
I only worked in Scala briefly so maybe it's coming from Java habits, but implicits were huge pain. When first reading through code you don't really know if that function call you eyed over really has the params you think it does. It makes it WAY harder to track what's derived from what.

Either way, the local Scala guru there said the Scala community was starting to get over implicits.
Ask HN: Where can I find a community of bootstrapped founders?
I've stumbled across a few Discord/Slack servers and browsed them a bit, but most of the ones I've found are just full of people that don't actually run a business (but want to). Not really what I'm looking for.

I'm looking for a community of like-minded business owners to chat with, talk about challenges/growth, and maybe where I can find mentors. It doesn't strictly have to be bootstrapped founders.
Even if all that were true, it still does not explain the high costs. There are countless examples in other countries proving it's possible.
Perhaps actually keep their team on the same page and trajectory, and actively working toward a common goal.
I honestly can't believe Starlink is allowed to do this. It's an absolute travesty, polluting the view of the sky for ALL people on Earth to an absolutely unprecedented degree, for profit of an American corporation. Absolutely despise it, wish all countries of the world came together and demanded the deployments to stop.
Beef and dairy are by far worse than almonds, in every conceivable way, yet we don't hear people bitching about production of those in California: https://www.truthordrought.com/almond-milk-myths
Yes. If you're talking about the bioweapon/artificial virus hypothesis, I am not suggesting that the virus was intentionally constructed. The lab was researching human transmissibility of bat coronaviruses and I believe there was likely some sort of accident.
If someone is deceptive, don't believe them next time. Someone who lies for you will also lie to you.

Be generous to everyone except the manipulative. It's a little "manipulative" because the generous ones will give you more than you gave them. But it also identifies the impostors.

Manipulative people are often lazy, so make it painful for them.

Put up a fight if you're in a bad spot. Treat it as a war, with an actual battle plan and allocate resources to win. End it quick.

Don't hold grudges. You can become friends with former enemies. But bear in mind that a dishonest person will stay dishonest, even if you marry them.

If the situation is too bad, change your environment. Plenty of companies, especially in tech, who are happy to treat you well and want to see you happy.
No review system would be even worse as you cannot even tell if people are getting crap. There is already ceasesless whining about false positives being an abuse of power and in the same breath complaining about not doing enough.

The "do nothing ever without the foresight of a precog or else you are EVIL!" school of ethics never made any sense. It is just an excuse to be outraged and pin all of the world's problems on the tall poppy.
It won't be nukes.

It'll be the biggest naval / air / amphibious battle since the Pacific theater of WW2.

Just resolved a LOT faster.
For the Android users (or the cross platform ios+android like my wife and I), Paprika is worth checking out. I found out about it in a previous HN discussion and my wife and I have been sharing our recipes using it for about the last year.

The killer feature is you can be on a recipe web page and click "share to" and select "Paprika", and it'll 95% of the time extract the recipe and instructions out of the "Let me tell you about my nana and her favorite recipe" prose. :-)
Only 3 millions dead worldwide in about a year - not as many as WWII's 50M in 6 or 8 years but on the order. So yes, one of the most difficult.
Yep, sorry & thanks for your polite post in response to my basically unhinged ramblings (late night after a tough week, always a bad time to try to do anything).

The poster jmull above basically wrote[1] what I was trying to say much more succinctly; this other post[2] is also more clear.

Really I was just being snarky about the idea of shell scripting where you have to type 'await' in front of every command you want to run in a three-line file, like in the examples presented for this tool.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27080734

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27077752
You are ignorant though. The whole point of EN is that you CAN'T be tracked.
In terms of death toll for my family, more people died in the last year due to Covid than all of those events combined. So yeah, I would put Covid right up there at the top.
The linked article seems to be including suicide as a death resulting from COVID, when the increase in suicides is far more likely to be caused by our response to COVID, not having COVID.

It is definitely not only looking at whether people would have died sans covid in their system.
Easy to say when you're probably sitting in a rich city somewhere with a perfectly good internet connection
I guess the lesson of this and Gawker is: Don’t mess with the personal lives of billionaires. If you piss them off enough, they have the resources to cause a media organization a world of pain.
Such a great concept. Community building by sharing books and promoting the habit of reading books. Love it.
And the harmful effect of missed screening and treatment will go on for many years.
>>> I'm not sure which part of the core value proposition of coil has anything to do with blockchain?

>> The question you have could easy be answer by yourself if you just go to the official page and read for 5 minutes what they are doing and how.

From coil.com:

> Get your Coil Membership for $5 per month.

> Install the Coil Extension or the Puma Browser app.

> Log in to Coil and enjoy web monetized content and features across the internet.

So the same model as patron?

The original question was about if the companies product could work without the blockchain. I would be happy to see an open standard for transactions - but no one will pay coil.com for that. They make money as middlemen. That's what they are selling.

So, again - how is blockchain essential to what coil are doing (as a business)? Is their business model not being a payment provider, collecting legal tender ("real money") from consumers and funelling it to producers? Do users not depend on coil for the client code and platform?

Certainly creating an open protocol, is a way to build the product - but it does not appear to be quicker or easier than a more traditional, centralized solution?
I've seen the same list elsewhere in social media. I think it's a copy-pasted text that's in frequent use. Examples pulled from a search:

https://twitter.com/_SAWI__/status/1299096866789834754

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/mpabvz/serious_r...
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Are you just ignoring all the wars with more than a million casualties, all the famines with many millions of casualties etc, during the past 100 years? 2020 doesn't even make it to the top 10 possibly not even top 20. Maybe it was one of the worst for USA, but not if you take the world overall.
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Right, but that's where you can split my response into two:
either you minify by removing comments and whitespaces - then pretty print is enough. The other option is that you also mangle the code and obfuscate it, remove variable names etc. and that's when source maps comes into play
rufus is good for preparing a windows bootable usb with uefi boot (so you can later enable secure boot, after install), so stick to that. ventoy is great, might be better than rufus, when you want multiple os's on a stick, but for the average person it's also way more complex than rufus. (rufus only works on windows tough)
I changed to AnyDesk looong ago, more OS's supported and the "no commercial" version does not kill your connection after 10 minutes. When i start to smell greed i change as fast as i can.
Just because we don't know exactly doesn't mean we aren't able to create good estimates. We don't know how many people die of any disease. But if you have a large enough dataset, and analyze it well, you can make good determinations of the approximate scale of each factor. The paper linked in this article does that, and concludes approximately 900,000 died of COVID who would not otherwise.
The "21,000" in the title is a future projection from one source in the article estimating how many deaths will occur in the next decade. Deeply dishonest to use the past tense here
Not cancer but MS here. Went through a toxic event of unknown origin, lost 18 kilos in a month - as i regained strength, and managed to actually snapped back inti reality and crawl out of my room to seek help, hospital sent me back home.

In their defense, i couldnt communicate what was wrong with me well.

Health system is a joke and still incapable of dealing with global catastrophes.

Its scary as fuck and may none of you ever need this.
> and most foods require as much if not more water per calorie.

Yup. Beef and dairy are far worse, yet almonds get shit on: https://www.truthordrought.com/almond-milk-myths
As New Evidence Emerges for Covid “Lab-Leak” Theory
I think the issue is that, as has been widely reported, the pandemic effects have been so vastly different from person to person.

I'll volunteer myself. I work for a tech company, stuff was hard for me originally when pretty much everything shut down (e.g. office, my gym, school where I took evening classes, etc.), but beyond that I don't have kids so I don't have to worry about home school, things actually opened up for the most part many months ago, I still have a good paying job, etc.

Compare that with someone that lost family to Covid, or who was working in the ICU throughout, or who was working in a grocery store and got sick, etc.

Yes, the pandemic has been a huge, gargantuan event, but I'm not about to pretend that my typing from home on my couch in my underwear is remotely comparable to a relative who had to worry about how to home school her kids while she worked in a hospital the past year.
Got a link to more reading on this? Super interested.
Lockdowns have a huge cost. I wish more people would see that.
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Ask HN: How do I make rows of a table look more clickable on mobile?
I have this webpage which is a table, and if you click / tap on each row, more information comes up. To people who are seeing it for the first time, they may not know that the rows are clickable, how do I make the rows appear more clickable?

About 80% of our traffic is mobile, so I would like it to appear more clickable on mobile most importantly.

Any suggestions / links to resources would be great! Thank you!
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Pointing the phone at a QR code doesn't do anything on my Pixel 5 using the built-in camera app.

Further, I can't even scan the colourful QR codes in the video even with a dedicated barcode scanning app.

Seems like a useless concept.
I’ve seen a doctor for this and he mentioned stress and foods containing tyramine (pickled and fermented foods, preserved meats and aged cheeses, asparagus, red wine, chocolate) as possible triggers.

See: https://www.webmd.com/migraines-headaches/tyramine-and-migra...
but it could be used to essentially manipulate you to stay at home if someone went around town and then told the app that they have covid, which is nefarious enough
Even this syndrome (not an actual allergy but sensitization via tick vector) - is extremely rare. few cases per million.

10% of the mediterranean basin is allergic to some sort of plant food (and that prevalence is growing).

Primary allergy is to LTPs, lipid transfer proteins - which means those people be likely allergic to at least one of many components of this burger. In 70-80% cases such reactions are usually systemic and often severe.

In short: this burger can put 5-10% of the population in Spain, Italy, Greece on an ambulance.
That's rather cynical. If an employer says I'm fine to talk about the company in public forums, but they only request I give a disclosure, then that's why I give a disclosure. Not some pointless brag. You can argue that legally or ethically I'm not required, but it seems a minor thing to do.

Also, if you _don't_ disclose, there's a non-zero chance someone goes through your post history and finds you work at the company of interest, and what follows could be an accusation of shilling and attempting to deceive people by not making the connection apparent. Just as with a journalist, putting your biases upfront allows you and the reader to have a chance at a trustworthy dialogue.
Whoa, I had no idea they'd fixed the inlining-by-size - thanks for pointing that out!
i think going in a field where they'll pay you plenty without noticing you barely spend time working is the play

the brightest don't spend their time & energy making others wealthy
I thought the site was pretty cool. What's your take on using Blockstud.io over Snap or Scratch?
I saw these outside in 2 suburban towns and a lot in Boston. I had no idea there was a website and map and there's about 20 of them in the town where I am right now.
I am interested to learn about fields where software engineers can help to bring about innovation and push those fields forward, providing some of the tech that is missing there. I would like to apply my skills in a transdisciplinary manner and work on projects that are not just B2B SaaS products.

One option is research software engineering, where SWEs team up with researchers to produce better code for models and simulations. Are there any research fields where synthesis of domain knowledge, programming skills, and computational thinking could bring great benefits?
Two different ideas are being conflated here.

One is the OP's idea, "deaths due to COVID". This idea is "how many people would have died if COVID had never existed". However, what a lot of people hear when you say "deaths due to COVID" is "this is the number of people that died as either a direct or indirect result of having COVID in their system". But that is not the 900,000 number being cited.

It is made even worse by the HN headline, which is "death toll from COVID", which even more strongly implies the above.
>If we could be using that land for high-value crops, we probably would — look at the land values for cropland vs rangeland and you'll see all the incentive needed to allocate more cropland.

I doubt this. The "think of the farmers" argument against increasing plant food production often goes a little something like "farmers don't want to change from what they've already specialized in". The market is never as efficient as people want it to be.

You also suggest that what is currently used as rangeland is rangeland because it can only be used as such. The truth is that neither of us really knows the true capabilities of the 654 million acres of rangeland. The difference here is that I don't suggest all of that land should have a single use. Rather, I argued that it's unlikely that all 654 million acres can only be used for grazing.

>But it's misleading to just point out how much land gets used for what without considering the capability of the land in question.

There is nothing misleading about what I've said. I said we use a lot of land for animal agriculture and that I doubt all of it can only be used for rangeland.

>Ending the corn and soy subsidy regime would help a lot right off the top.

Sure sounds good. You know we subsidize meat and dairy too? How does that factor into the incentive to allocate more cropland?
Why is this flagged [dead]? Please "vouch" for this. It's important to get the truth out.
I don't want to detract from the images, or the work that went into this, but, er, there are a lot of types of birds. Just among passerines (songbirds), we're talking over 6,000 species.

So any sweeping statement like "birds don’t seem to bother to create a complex multi-layered harmonics pattern" is practically guaranteed to be wrong. And so it is. Lots and lots of birds sing incredibly harmonically complex songs. Browse any of these (https://www.remoteenvironmentalassessmentlaboratory.com/expl...) if you're interested - it's a tiny sample of birds, and many, many of them do in fact have harmonically complex songs.
Some butchers definitely have better meat, you can taste the difference, and the colour/texture of the flesh is notably different.

Some are Mennonites and often you can even pick up the meat at their farm, if you are willing to make the drive.

It was the same meat.
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Wow, I must have just been a dense reader when i read it the first time!

I like it better the way I read it even though it apparently wasn't written that way, ha!

There still is something to say maybe about how the book still tells different parts by describing the person as "Fred" or "Bob" depending on what role he's playing, something you lose in a movie that doesn't have textual narration like that. Maybe it at least made it more clear that Bob doesn't realize he's both people, even if the reader does? I forget how/how early this was clear in the movie. I should both read and watch it again!
The point is those optimizations are not here now, and haven't been there for the last 25 years. Hand-waving them away as theoretically possible is dishonest. We're 25 years into the most popular programming language's lifetime and the most advanced VM available only recently learned good escape analysis. It isn't easy.

> which, I'd be curious to see how .NET supports an array of struts (that are presumably changing over the lifetime of the array) that is allocated as a global.

Very easy. An array-of-structs (which can still be on the heap mind you) will just be a continuous block of memory. This is totally independent of any locking and synchronization.

For example in a class with 2 32-bit fields, and an array of objects a b object-ref array will look like: [p_ap_b], p being a pointer to [a_0a_1] or [b_0b_1]. A struct-array will look like [a_0a_1b_0b_1].
That's... actually a brilliant idea, in my opinion. Overengineered? Idk, seems like something you'd have to implement once with like 100 lines of glue code for different libraries and then it could just work. And it could seriously benefit mobile viewers. Personally I read a lot of programming blogposts on my phone while commuting etc.
The company turned itself on its head by shutting down all discussion on the topic.

I haven’t seen any evidence that anyone was calling for singers job before nor during the meeting. All that happened was that a bunch of employees formed a committee that brought a bunch of issues to the fore. They took issue with singers behavior, and the company responded with “cease all of this discussion or take a buyout” and so they took the buyout.

All this amounted to the company backing up a senior employees behavior reflexively at the expense of lower level employees objections.
Unpopular opinion - is the CEO really threatening her employees? Or talking more abstractly about the downsides and ramifications of people deciding to work remotely? Ie, downsides that people would face at many/most companies, not just her own. I read the original article with a more charitable assumption, and the latter is how it came across to me.

"If you park in my driveway again, I will have your car towed" - very clear threat.

"If you go around parking in people's driveways, you run the risk of having your car towed" - maybe a threat, maybe not, depending on how the person says it

"I understand that you parked in my driveway yesterday, because of an emergency. No problem. But if you continue doing it regularly, please be aware that I might need to have your car towed, if I urgently need to use the driveway myself" - I suppose this is a threat too, but probably justifiable.

Maybe others would consider this to be cynical, but I've always considered compensation and job stability to be directly correlated to the amount of value you provide as an employee. If an employer thinks that remote-working will reduce the amount of value I bring to the company, I would certainly expect that to have an impact on my career growth. If my manager tells me this directly, I would thank him for the upfront feedback. I would also consider working for a different company that has a different perspective on this topic... the exact same way I shop around for employers that offer the best work-life balance. But either way, there wouldn't be any hard feelings on my side, and I'm puzzled by the outrage around this article.
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I'm be more upset about light pollution than tiny satellites.
Didn't work for me. I think it's easy to come up with a pet theory ("migraines are caused by X, and therefore prevented by Y"), especially when there is some science to support you. But when you dig into it, you learn that while some treatments are wildly effective for a few people, no treatment is widely effective. If it were, migraines wouldn't be such a thing in the developed world.

So by all means, let people know that Riboflavin might help them, but be wary of prescribing it to all and sundry when in truth, it will only help a minority.