skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Florida was hit way earlier. You can see that from the excess mortality graphs here [1].

Here's a cumulative death per capita graph for 5 states that illustrate 5 different patterns [2]. Most states followed one of these patterns.

There is the "New York" pattern: densely populated states with a large elderly population. Hit very hard very early with a very high death rate, but after a couple of months got a handle on it and from then on was about average.

There is the "Washington" pattern: a fairly steady rise in deaths per capita, never quite under control but never really out of hand either.

The "Florida": like Washington for the first 3 or 4 months, then shifts to a more rapid growth, and pretty much stays there.

The "California": 3 or 4 months like Washington, the starts to Florida but gets the rate back down, then spends another 3 or 4 months like Washington (but shifted up because of the burp at 3 or 4 months), but then loses it in the third wave almost catching up to Florida.

The "South Dakota": low population low density state that with reasonable precautions should do better than Washington, but by working really hard to ignore it manage to end up with high numbers.

Use the drop down to flip that graph from total deaths to total cases, and South Dakota is even more striking.

Flip to new cases or new deaths 1 week averages to compare how they all are doing currently. Florida's currently running about 3-4 times the new cases as California, and about 50% more new deaths. (Change the highlight dropdown from "All Highlight & All Current" to "All Current" to make it easier to see the latest values).

It will be interesting to see how vaccination will affect this. With the more easily transmittable variants becoming more common, which also seem to hit younger people more, I've seen the estimates from what we need for herd immunity go up to 80-90% from the early 70% estimates for the original variant.

Overall, there are enough people who say that they will not get vaccinated to make it unlikely that the US can reach that, especially if it turns out to be 90% needed. However, those people are not uniformly distributed among the states. I would not be surprised if in a half a year we end up with two kinds of states: those where it is fully under control due to herd immunity and life has largely returned to normal, and those where it is still sickening and killing a lot of people.

[1] https://www.usmortality.com/

[2] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...
Maybe this makes it easier to develop things like Terraform using Rust?
Is this in a big city? In the UK 50k GBP is a pretty normative rate for a mid tier developer in much of the country.
I know quite a few cloud administrators that are systems programmers. They love to work in languages that they can lean on their compiler and not runtime to find a lot of mistakes.
Algorithmic trading and quant finance count as pure finance in my book
I was just talking to someone today about what the programming might look like in 20 years. He was hoping for something more graphical.

I told him that HyperCard was the only graphical programming environment that I ever loved. My first real job had me making stacks and XFCNs.
Reminds me of, "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

https://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-yogi-berra...
Housing prices are going through the roof pretty much all over the country/planet. That's what happens when it becomes an investment vehicle.
I see, thanks for the info. In case you'll need to implement a Vulkan driver and pass the conformance tests, email me (iamvfx@gmail.com), I'm a long-time C, C++ GPU programmer. (https://github.com/procedural)
> Apple (and I’m pretty sure ARM as well) does not want you writing programs that rely on its proprietary extensions to the ISA.

Well, but at least some people at Apple do. Kind of. They built a mechanism for loading alternate kernels while knowing full well that it would require reverse engineering in order to use. A former engineer said as much. https://twitter.com/XenoKovah/status/1339914716454526979

In a way, Apple has done this for years. Their Mail app contains a third-party plugin API (which dates back to at least Tiger, so it's not some unfinished feature they forgot to remove), but it's completely undocumented. You can't use it unless you reverse engineer it.

I don't quite get it, really.
> while Smithy is just an idl used to describe services

What's the use of such descriptions aside from diagrams? I realize there's e.g. terraform that use similar kind of language to describe what to create/destroy.
Fields where tech is not at least seen as a key differentiator can be very frustrating. Expect to work in a culture where basic best practices aren’t used or even known. Expect decision makers not to understand how good software can speed up or empower research, and allocate resources accordingly. Expect salary and career growth to reflect that you are viewed as a commodity.

Your enjoyment of it hinges on whether you can be happy collecting a paycheck doing the bare minimum and satisfying your tech itch outside of work (FOSS, side hustles). For some, that is perfectly acceptable or even ideal, especially if you can get away with working fully remote.
I don't suggest anything other than what I wrote. Specifically, that comparing the crime rate of a rural American state that has no major metropolitan centers to the crime rate of Scandinavian countries which do have major metropolitan centers is not apt.

Switzerland has a ton of guns but not a ton of ready access to ammunition. Also according to this article [1] the U.S. has far more guns per person than Switzerland.

According to the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey, there are about 89 civilian-owned guns for every 100 people who live in the United States. Switzerland ranks third in terms of gun ownership, the Survey estimates, with 3.4 million guns among its population of nearly eight million.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21379912
The Soviets also imposed (badly needed) reforms on the alphabet and spelling of Russian itself (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforms_of_Russian_orthography...), getting rid of two pairs and one trio of phonetically redundant letters and the totally unnecessary appending of hard signs to the end of many but not all words that had previously been required.
Why Warren Buffet is a better investor than you, and why I'm holding $ETH
Does GDPR prevent you from incentivizing/strong-arming/etc your users? I haven't heard anything about it if so (but I'm not particularly fluent in it). Obviously (hopefully?) it'll be bad to trick them into approving, but do this or GTFO seems fine, I'd be surprised if it somehow required companies to keep user accounts, or require identical features in-GDPR and out.
I feel like it hinders readability. Sometimes the end of a line isn't that important and can mostly be inferred from the start of the line or only occasionally needs to be inspected, meanwhile being able to see more of the whole file on screen at once can be really beneficial.
I wouldn't bother with chiropractors. Whilst most are well-meaning, and some have tried to modernise their practice. chiropracty is anti-scientific, and its core principles have been thoroughly disproven.
I'm saying that their automated tools can't tell the difference between 'normal' and 'fake' use. And the fact that I'm still using my dummy account is proof
gRPC to my knowledge uses protocol buffers to define services. But it's more of a framework for doing RPC.

Smithy is a much more abstract notation for defining services independent of any implementation details, and it is resource based rather than message based.
He's a distraction and drop in the ocean compared to the volume of misinformation, fear mongering and propaganda coming from the news business every day.
biotech != computing

There are some important differences that are often overlooked by those coming from the world of computing...
Power Apps in Office365 are darned close. I never had a deep experience with HyperCard, so I'd actually love to hear folks with deeper experience contrast the two.
Looks great! I love the ergonomics of having migrations built in and a declarative schema.

There honestly should be a lot more excitement for this... it looks like a much more ergonomic querying language.

Would love to use it for projects once it has graphql mutations connected to edgepl and access control.
Honestly though, that trade-off seems quite fair to me. I mean, the big ah-hah I had after I spent about half a decade in software management roles is that the management track pays more because the jobs suck more. That is, the jobs themselves are actually quite undesirable for your average person. A job that is more rewarding naturally has more competition and thus pays less.
It is as strong as the binding agent... Why wouldn't you use 100% glue instead of sprinkling some wood dust in it? Sounds like Ikea furniture.
I sincerely hope this post gets traction. Every time Apple makes the claim about the App Store “being better than brick and mortar distribution” it makes my blood start to heat up. They are presenting a known-incomplete argument and misrepresenting the past/facts.

Then, similarly, my hackles go up every time someone says “Apple has the right to make money off their platform” and no one remembers to bring up that, in fact, Apple does: $99/year per developer account. I recall digging through the stats a while back and estimating the total sum is hundreds of millions of dollars per year for Apple - whether or not a dev actually makes a cent from a customer.
In absolute numbers, California has a population of ~39.51M, so 182k isn't significant enough.

Personally, I left for a multitude of reasons, but whoever takes these statistics and concludes that "California is dying" is delusional in my opinion, at least for the foreseable future.
True of any group in any industry chasing the bottom dollar and/or managed by bureaucracy.
> Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates LOVE This Secret Asset Class

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We’re not even building enough housing to sustain the children of the people who already live here.
is there a data set that has cumulative totals for each nation?
Doesn't this book offer advice like smiling at everyone all the time and saying their name?

I frequently cringe when I see this playing out with people I meet. It makes me so uncomfortable that they're following a ruleset when communicating with people.
Anyone have a non paywalled version?
It wouldn't be the first time. I believe whitening agents were also common in white bread in the late 1800s ("alum" and the like).
The uncontrolled 21 ton China debris fallen back to earth this weekend
Aren't both of these examples just stylistic though?

The swords sort of materialise in a "digital" manner that I feel helps to convey that the androids aren't humans. It also enables a lot of the flashy moves that involve attacking with the weapon while not touching it.

Lengthy transition animations can make movement more realistic but it also can degrade gameplay by making the characters feel slow or clunky when responding to input. This works well for games like gears of war or where the character's motion should obviously be restricted but not so well when the combat is meant to feel fast paced and fluid.
Are you talking about illegal immigration?
What about the voice command “Turn on windshield wipers” ?
Closely related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Format-preserving_encryption
What do you actually want in your future? Mid-level developer sounds good to me!
Vietnam: Deaths caused by Covid, 1 by vaccine shot
> The climate doesn’t care about per capita though

The climate doesn't care for borders and sovereignty either. "China" is just an arbitrary set of people and businesses- you could as well calculate the emissions of the US + Europe + Middle East, or that of companies with a name starting by a letter from a to k, or that of bald people.

If you want to talk about responsibility, instead, then you need to take in account population, and there the US are much worse offenders.
I understand that we all have to keep up but how on earth is patient an "archaic term" when compared to client?

Both words are derived from Latin and have seen some service. Patiens - "sufferer" seems appropriate for someone who is suffering - they tend to gravitate towards Doctors. A client "cliens" is more of a legal term - it was used to denote someone who had a lawyer or was "protected" by a patron.

I think that patient is the more appropriate term for your customers (originates from Latin - "tax gatherer.") 8)
so you left Utah?
> When is it actually desirable to imperatively program your cloud provider rather than using something like Terraform?

One place I've done is when your infra needs to dynamically scale up/down based on load.
I think it is not the debris. Like the virus experiment they can do it and nothing one can do anything about it. As the defence secretary said we can only hope. Are we?
I mean you can probably fix this with autohotkey.

Whether this is a good idea is a whole different matter.
Reminds me a lot of this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6ow-UemzBc

I think it's a really powerful paradigm. I think an org adopting such patterns widespread leads to some really rad capabilities. GDPR compliance, for example, is really tough in SOA architectures in companies without a ton of engineering capacity, but this sort of data/api introspection could do a lot to change that.

Any plans to open source projection for languages other than Java?

edit: I see that typescript and rust are available on github as well
Paradise on Earth and home to the world’s brightest-future industry; California could easily grow to 100M residents if it simply allowed housing to be built to accommodate all the people who want to live here. And it would be a net win for the climate, because most of them would be coming from much less eco-friendly places.
The process was highly politicized and one party and the one in power while the census was administered stood to gain from sowing doubt, fear and confusion. I think the actual results gathering was handled normally but the idea of course was to depress census response rates.
3000-Year-Old Submerged Settlement Discovered in Switzerland
Someone ported Doom to a pregnancy tester!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1gcoyo5Ssk
Just wait till you hear about 'eggshell client' in a court of law.
“ They promise to make finance work better but also to shift power from individuals to the state…”

Just what we need. More power given to the state and taken from individuals.
The “painting” is taking place either in additional context or in assumptions the reader is bringing into the interpretation. It is not present in the bare text.

It’s an ungenerous interpretation to suggest that people using “Surprisingly,” are immodest/imprecise/etc.. I could as easily hold the interpretation that “To our surprise…,” is the author trading my time in an attempt to get himself some goodwill from readers. However, that would be equally ungenerous.
Why would they downvote your fair comment??
I think 80/20 is useful (to an extent) in thinking about how to spend your time not so much as formal model and not as an excuse to ignore details, cut corners, or avoid tasks that need to be done.

Used informally it’s a way of avoiding busy work and focusing your limited time and resources on the most important tasks, hang out more with the 20% (maybe it’s 10% or 70%) of friends that have the most fun with, and so on.

There are a lot of people who get trapped in the roughly 80% of effort that leads to the 20% of benefit, spinning their wheels, doing tasks that have little benefit. We’ve all wasted time unecessarily

There are many ways to think about this general idea of focusing on what’s important. Steven Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People talks about four quadrants:
1.urgent and important
2. Urgent but not important
3. Important but not urgent (he notes that it’s common to neglect this quadrant)
4. Not important and not urgent.

Ideally, we’d spend most of our effort, maybe it’s 80%, on 1 and 3.

A trite and possibly gag worthy way of way of saying it is, “work smart, not hard,” which I’d amend to try to work smart and hard.

Anyway, it’s useful to take a look at these ideas but not as an excuse to do shoddy work.
It sucks being a designer and being told your X design looks like Y. A field that seems to never garner any respect. Too many Homers.
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The English language without nongermanic influences (a great essay in its own right):

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> He adds that when they first submitted the paper to a journal, they knew it needed stronger data, which they hoped to add during the review process.

That's a terrible way to go about publishing your work.

> And what of the original journal submission? “They rejected it,” Jaenisch says.

I wonder why!

The article spells it out, whether any of these results apply to the real world is speculation at this point.
The US government data for software engineers says that the median wage across the us is $110k/year. Importantly though that doesn’t include bonuses or stock, which appear to be reasonably common even outside the tech hubs. I suspect the “real” number is closer to $115-120k one those are taken into account. Software engineers really do get paid very well across most of the US, it’s just most pronounced in the tech hubs.

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151256.htm#st

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
I don't know what everyone use (feel free to provide a source but until then I'll treat it as an anecdote) but I live in Northern Europe (Denmark) and the only person I know that use WhatsApp regularly is my 63 year old British uncle (to keep up with his family in the UK). Everyone else use SMS, old and young (well actually more and more of the younger contacts in my phone doesn't even own a smartphone and refuse to use MMS. Hipsters I say!).

I can't see a single thing WhatsApp or Facebook messenger can do for me that signal can't do better because I simply don't need SoMe on my phone. I need encrypted SMS. Anything more than that is worse than what I already got.

To paraphrase someone young from my family: "Facebook is for old people". So is WhatsApp and Facebook messenger. But of course it's just an anecdote that covers 100% of the people I happen to know. So from my bubble I don't believe for a second that they have a future. Signal might. As encrypted SMS but not otherwise.
The main use case is to auto generate clients for services and even create stubs for service implementations.

AWS sdks need to be implemented in dozens of languages so something like Smithy helps in code gen for multiple languages, avoiding the massively manual task of creating client apis.
honest question: what's with all the signal spam? are you guys getting paid?
We'd all be here bitching about how our stupid e-commerce stacks still need to have backwards support for 512x342 1bpp monochrome graphics.
ABI Is Probably Wrong
The grievances shared in this thread re biotech salaries are certainly valid, no doubt. But the field is slowly going through a generational change. There are more and more companies that organize themselves around engineering (software or not) as their main mission. These workplaces then have to grapple with the fact that in order to attract engineering talent, the historical wage suppression of biotech needs to go.

Shameless plug: I'm CTO at Streamline Genomics, a Canadian biotech startup, and tech is our limit. We're remote-first and we're hiring for a bunch of positions: https://www.streamlinegenomics.com/careers
I thought that it was a good idea to sell my house and rent for a few years when it tripled in value.... we'll see in 1.5 years if that was a good choice.
One of my biggest problems with Telegram is that they demand your phone number before you can use the service.

This is a problem with Signal as well.

My phone number and my identity is none of their business.
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Sorry for being afk and replying once in a while :/
Parent probably has a copy constructor Parent(const Parent& p)

Parent p = Child(); calls it by implicitly casting Child& to const Parent&. That’s what happens.

I see that you must have meant this casting step, so indeed the constructor has no control over the rejigging.
Tell HN: I wastes my time living someone else's life
Not only I'm living the life of someone else and making him wealthy, and at the same time this person is dead.

I'm captivated by this engineer, philosopher and artist of our History but I feel guilty to not spending time on my own things instead of studying his life.

Unfortunately my side projects are too ambitious to move enough and I don't access yet to any capital or support.
Edit: The Wikipedia phonology article says it's /ʉ/ However, I stand by the fact that the IPA symbols do not always reflect exactly what a speaker produces, so you may be picking up on that (or the speaker in the IPA chart recording isn't quite capable of producing the requisite sound as it's probably not in his native inventory).

IIRC, Swedish /u/ is somewhat fronted, but not quite /ʉ/. It's somewhere inbetween those two. There isn't an IPA symbol for every possible sound, just the most common among languages, but there are diacritics for special cases or more precision.

See the "Advanced" diacritic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabe...

The diacritics are also used for _phonetic_ rather than _phonemic_ renderings as the surrounding sounds in a word, etc. affect the exact outcome of an individual sound. Phonemic renderings in the IPA are typically enclosed in slashes and phonetic in square brackets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabe...
I am not a doctor, but if I start to get one of those I chug a coke or two. Reading the paper, it seems this was one of their findings (one coke is 39g of caffeine). It says you need caffeine and glucose:

"Corticosteroids that stimulate gluconeogenesis, are amongst the most effective drugs for abortion of prolonged migraine attacks and status migrainosus148. Caffeine (>100 mg), on the other hand, has a beneficial (though small) analgesic effect, at least when used in conjunction with common analgesics149. Besides its suppression of transient receptor potential A1 (TRPA1) activity150, caffeine also stimulates cortisol secretion151,152 and, consequently, gluconeogenesis153. In addition, caffeine increases levels of free fatty acids and decreases insulin responses152, effects that are similar to the metabolic changes that occur during a migraine attack81."
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