skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What changed? It's the same number of dead people, right?

Aside from general aviation concerns, that 747-400 will have young families, infants and children on board, whereas exposing everyone on that 747-400 to COVID-19 would mostly result in the deaths of the elderly and the infirm.

If we had an outbreak of Spanish flu with the same overall death rate it would not be as bad. It would be much worse. The deaths of the young who have their whole life ahead of them is a much worse outcome than someone who statistically would be dead anyway from old age or other disease in a few years.

This is intuitively understandable to every human being. If a 95 year old dies in their sleep we mourn them but think "wow, they made it to 95!". If an infant dies in their sleep it's a tragedy.

I genuinely don't understand why everyone has insisted on talking about COVID-19 in terms of absolute deaths. For everything else like heart disease etc. we talk about statistically "losing X years of life".

The median age of death for COVID-19 has been at or above the statistical life expectancy.

In the worst case we could have an outbreak of another strain of Coronavirus next year that'll kill 1/2 as many as COVID-19, but disproportionately target those under 10 years of age. Because of this nonsensical messaging people will think "oh, only half as bad as COVID-19".
> I reduced my cleaning visits to once a year because there's usually nothing there for the hygienist to remove.

I've never been to an oral hygienist; I go to the dentist once every 12-18 months on his advice. (Though currently almost two years due to the pandemic; emergency appointments only.)

> Perhaps you tried the wrong kind of toothbrush?

Yeah, there'd always be someone's preferred brand that I didn't try and would be better even if I was saying I liked the one I did - I just don't feel the need to try multiple expensive electric ones when manual seems fine to me, and in adult life at least check-ups have just been 'all good, see you in 12mo'.

> https://www.deltadentalins.com/oral_health/overbrushing.html

Perhaps I do brush too hard, I'll try (not doing) that. But that's surely an orthogonal issue, one could (I probably did) brush 'too hard' regardless of whether it's manual or electric.
Show HN: Benchmark – Mezon Router is up to 658 times faster than Coffee Router
Something as simple as an IP address (which you're implicitly leaking by just loading any resource from the third-party domain) is considered PII under the GDPR.
I mean in the context of this prescribed toothbrush - was the intention of the doctor to track and improve OPs oral hygiene with this app or app happened to be included by accident, while main idea was to maneuver OP into buying the device and give dentist a cut from some Philips affiliate sales program.
Global shortage of computer chips could last two years, says IBM boss
A week later - and an HN discussion about ads on google that impersonate government web sites.. reminded me of a few more things where people get hurt by big surv-ad-capitalism -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27152524

via (Ads Are Impersonating Government Websites in Google Results, Despite Ban - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27150407 )
A person may be free from guilt, but a nation is not. I can, with absolute certainty, tell you that the educational system of the Uk does not go into details on the horrific acts of their empire, they do not get into details of how they pitted communities against each other and orchestrated coups all around the world that resulted in 'interventions', all premeditated, they do not go into details on the torturing they committed.
> even third-party cookies couldn't be used to tie the request to your identity

Google has enough visibility on the internet to be able to correlate mere IP addresses with high accuracy. IP addresses are also still considered PII under the GDPR.
I think TS's typesystem still stays stronger than Scala's in some areas (and vice versa). But I believe the links you posted (like https://github.com/aws-amplify/amplify-js/blob/dedd5641dfcfc...) can now done in Scala 3, mostly to the introduction of match types.

In general, Scala focusses a bit more on theoretical foundation and sound features (which makes progress slower), whereas TS focusses more on practicality. That's pretty exciting because it also means that TS leads to more "experimentation" and if something works out well (and can be proven to scale into the future and interops well with other features) then it can be added to Scala in a more general/abstract way - which also makes it easier for other languages (like Java) to pick it up.
Uh, this chart looks surprisingly good. Does it matter it tether is partially backed by "cash equivalents" such as t-bills? If those aren't good for cash, believe me, tether is the least of your worries.

I'm more interested in the other 25%. Does anyone know what it is?
Was silent for me on macOS Big Sur Safari as well, except for the fact that it opened Apple Music without any warning. The author might want to remove the iTunes check, not sure how much entropy it adds anyways given that it is automatically installed on all Macs.
That's only if you equate the value of life-that-lives-now and life-that-hasn't-been-born-yet. The majority of us value them differently: it's a lot worse to murder than to decline to give birth. Consequently, you can hold the opinion "Don't turn Mars into another biosphere" and nevertheless be against omnicide on Earth.
To me I read it as a physical representation of what is going on online. People assuming other peoples beliefs based on if they are wearing a mask. The striation would be people's biases towards people wearing mask and not wearing mask. Despite the actual health risk now/ in the future.
Even if you are going to advocate that view, there is more science to rockets than just the rocket equation.

From combustion instability, to materials and design of closed cycle engines to behaviour of materials in space it touches on many areas of science where the answer can not be off by 3% or the thing explodes.
I'm sure there's gotta be something new here, but what the title and intro describe could apply to induction motors, which date back to the 19th century. That makes the whole thing sound rather silly.
The situation in India is the result of all the things you mentioned + recklessness of people. You have to see it first hand that how reckless people acted in large cities. They were acting like this covid thing doesn't even exist and that is one crucial point.
Java has not picked up a single feature from Kotlin yet (maybe nullability types someday?), and, in fact, opted for very different ones (e.g. contrast records vs. data classes, virtual threads vs. syntactic couroutines), although I guess Scala has provided some inspiration for some features, as Java's are closer to Scala's than to Kotlin's. ML is probably the biggest influence, with some Haskell flavour. But I find it amusing that people think that Java is trying to compete with other languages on the Java platform, no matter how small, rather than with bigger, more relevant competitors.
It's long in the context of how much mental health treatment they can have provided him over that time.

If 7 years is how long it took to be sure he wouldn't reoffend, why go longer? It would be a waste of taxpayer money, it would worsen his life for no benefit, it wouldn't solve anything for society, and it wouldn't even be useful as a deterrent because I'm pretty sure he wasn't thinking about ROI of crime vs. potential punishment when committing the crime considering he believed God was ordering him to do it, and he didn't deny having done it.

If mental health treatment were so far advanced that his problems could have been 100% cured within a month, I would have supported his being released after a month.
> Scala is not perfect but it’s very good.

I like to refer to it as Haskell with an extra chromosome: slow, hard to comprehend, and incredibly strong.

I'm lucky enough to write it in my day job and I feel like I'm living life on easy mode because of it. It'd take a lot of money to lure me back to garbage like Python/JS at this point.
The rape charges were falsified. The alleged victim simply asked the police whether he could be forced to do a Std test
I also recommend ‘The Green Flame’ by Andrew Dequasie. It’s the fascinating personal story of a chemist embarking on a new career and ending up working with borane fuels.
One of the greatest things about Scala is that you can just start if you know Java and be productive. Just write your code like you would in Java, with a slightly different syntax. Then, when you use libraries, you will pick up new concepts step by step. And if you want it so, you can write pure functional code in Scala, similar to Haskell code.

If you start with Haskell, you are forced to do pure functional programming. That is much more intimidating and less productive, but also better if you want to force yourself to learn it.
Everything points at Wuhan currently. That’s not even a question at this point
Pet idea. All ads must lead to landing pages which lists name and address of ad broker, buyer, what the product is supposed to do and option to flag. Lots of people can't tell whats ad and whats content. Won't happen voluntarily, when Youtube ads directly leads to Play Store.
You're correct

This lesson should have been learned at school. If you give in to the bully you get exploited more.

Sure it's more work to fight. But it makes sure you're not abused so much.
Programming and Writing
They can't enter visa free to "look for jobs" though. Per the guidelines, unless I'm missing something, they are allowed "to attend meetings, conferences and interviews". Interviewing is a very different status from looking for employment, and one that is documented too.
Programs are already cyclic trees. It's just that code is a somewhat cumbersome representation. Or rather, it's not a very natural one.

At first I actually thought you meant human languages, which are already 3d to a large extent, because they're full of movement metaphors.
The mistrust runs in both directions (although the timbre is different). I believe that the CDC has had nothing but the best of intentions throughout the pandemic, but it's clear that they don't really trust US citizens enough to say what they really think. They see us through the lens of management; e.g., "How do we manage these people?"

Now, it's perhaps inevitable that they would use that lens, but it seems like it's the only lens they use.

Perhaps they're even right -- perhaps the average US citizen really is selfish and lacking in independent critical thinking skills, and perhaps we can't be trusted with the truth. But it means that anyone who knows better is constantly trying to read between the lines.

I blame the pervasive PR culture in the US, as well as basic stuff like a shit education system.
And then when things go downhill and you want to redeem your USDT, they'll hand you a bunch of IOUs from Binance. Good luck redeeming those.
Newtonian model gets you a rocket in a vacuum without atmosphere or vibrations made of indestructivle materials.

In the real world there is the atmosphere, fluid dynamics of the fuel, combustion stability, material science as engines have to withstand hot and chemically aggressive exhaust, etc.
May I ask, what do you mean and why do you say so? What is wrong with golang in monorepos?
because you like them. they see you do but you don't accept it yet. trust the ai
Simply not true. I have been using Firefox Focus and 1Blocker on iOS for years and ads are not significantly more noticeable than on desktop Firefox with uBlock Origin. I think you quite misinformed on this subject.
For those who are curious and not familiar with Monarch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mw12B7W7RI

https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol13/p3181-adams.pdf
At this kind of scale, I don't think there's such a thing as plain "cash" free of any counterparty risk - even just holding it in a bank account has risk attached (and most banks probably don't want an account with that much money in it because that would pose risks to them - they have the exact same problems finding somewhere to put it). US treasuries and AAA-rated bonds and commercial paper are about the best you can do.
> "it takes forever to get into the content of the article."

I've found this is the style of American long-format journalism in general. Just look at something like The New Yorker: not to dispute the quality of their writing, but the word counts certainly skew high. Articles in comparable British publications tend to be a lot more succinct.
Not parent but although i disagree with them, i kinda get where they're coming from.

Some businesses give in to security theater and it is immensely frustrating. For example here in Belgium some shops force you to take a trolley even if you just want to buy a single item and have your own bag. They do this "because COVID". So what happens? A pile up of people at the entrance trying to move caddies over, leading to far more risk there than there otherwise would be if you left people to their own device.

Our swimming pools are open, but they closed the showers "because COVID". So what happens? People are gross, get in the water right away, don't soap up or whatever, and it's far less clean/healthy than it would be for no good reason.

Overabundance of caution is not always a good excuse.
Hence my point about using measurements from historic actuals to give a forecast instead of asking for explicit estimates. Sitting some devs down and asking them for gut feels is far less accurate than comparing to previous increments.
I'm not sure how many Windows users RtAudio has, and the kind of machines people are using with it, and their expectations, but in Firefox, the answer is hundreds of millions and "any kind of machine that has existed", such as single or dual-core machines that are running dozens of modern web apps in parallel, so load is high. That might well explain why it was reported so quickly. It's quite noticeable with a standard load testing procedures (e.g. "how many parallel oscillators can this computer/OS/driver do at this latency and be glitch-less under load").

It is acceptable to do audio work off the main thread (as long as buffering is in place to prevent glitches from scheduling delays, and it's prioritized appropriately), but maybe you mean "on the main thread". In this case, it's not really recommended, but sometimes, it's what you need to do, for example when emulating an old console where everything is synchronous in the render loop.

Locks and allocations are best avoided, but modern locks and allocators are amazing. If the lock is _not contended_, it's very fast, and it's fine. If the allocation comes from a thread-local pool (some allocators do that), it's also very fast and fine, but that needs to be true across OSes, etc. for us. In other case, which is most of the time, it's best to avoid those.

We're not allocation nor lock-free entirely in Firefox though, but it's been thoroughly profiled - when know what we'll optimize when it's time to do so, but for now it's fine under extremely heavy load in a normal situation (we have locks when the audio devices are unplugged for an example of a "non-normal" situation). This is largely due to legacy (the Web Audio API, for example, is about 10 years old).
I somewhat feel the same way: I expect I'll continue to wear a mask in public until social signals start telling me it's ok to leave it off. I don't fear any kind of social retribution, but continuing to wear a mask is a very small, easy thing I can do to help make others feel comfortable, others who have no idea if I'm vaccinated or not.
Yes, if you don't know the rules of the game you will often lose because you did not see some (legal) move coming. Investing is the biggest game in the world and big boy rules apply. People who are unable or unwilling to learn how options and startup equity work should not take payment in equity, because they will get cleaned out as predictably as a drunk guy at a poker table.
If you’re in the ‘I just don’t know?’ category, how is it defensible to force others to adhere to your apparently unfounded strategies?
You’re not worried about neoliberalism than Trumpism? Lol
Maybe the followers know he's doing a pump and dump. Know the issues with that, but don't care since they can likely make decent profit of they follow him closely and act fast in the same way he does.
yeah I'm not sure if I could work effectively if I wasn't imagining a list interface like an actual list, a hashmap like a pigeonhole cabinet etc. Not literally in the sense of imagining those physical manifestations, but in the sense of relating to objects by their metaphorical interface.
They actually have firefox focus app with integrated adblock, at least on apple devices.
A straightforward explanation is that cases are going down even in places that had large recent outbreaks like Michigan and the communication about masking is frequently cited by people that are on the fence about getting vaccinated.
>I think you’re hand waving away that money is a store of value, and indirectly of time spent.

Not if it's as a result of natural capital gain, dividend on shareholdings, interest, inheritance or rent.

In those cases it does materialize independently of time.

Taxes are typically lower if you didn't labor for your money too. Probably because large political donations are not typically made by people who worked for their money.
It has one advantage compared to Haskell though: as a Java/Kotlin (or even Python or javascript) developer, you can start with it an be productive immediately. You can then slowly absorb new concepts until you are pretty much ready to write full-fledged Haskell.

That's why some call it Haskellator. :)

This also means that many codebases have different styles though, whereas in Haskell you have one style (FP).
The level of detail they have given for "Commercial Paper" means that it is worthless.

Commercial paper makes up about 50% of Tether's balance book.
this is a bad-faith argument:

> It's baseless to believe that the home office would target something in Sturgeons constituency on some particular day, especially when there's no political advantage to be drawn by said act.

Judging by #10's behavior as a predictor for future behavior there is every reason to believe it was very much on purpose (and far from "baseless"). And even it wasn't on purpose it would now be on them to apologize and try to straighten things out - which ofc they don't.
No, because ultimately the lie will be exposed and then your credibility is (rightly!) done for.
What are you implying, that people can't immigrate without a degree? Of course they can; I'm an American without a degree that came to work in the EU.
Analog Devices Announces 16-Channel direct RF sampling transceivers platform
Slow from a performance perspective, or to read and write code?
The article mentions a person coming "looking for work" being detained.

The article also mentions a French woman who was detained for attending an interview for an internship, so I think there's that too.

Imo, it's obviously very unclear as to why they're being detained, but in the case of Eugenia (Spanish woman arriving to "look for work"), it was clearly illegal per the new law.
Kant had the same "confusion" which is why he considered space and time "forms of intuition", a slightly misleading translation from the German word Anschauungsformen. These Anschauungsformen in his view a part of the conditions for mathematical thinking and together with the categories make it possible.

I'm not writing that under the assumption that Kant was right, his philosophy is based on something like "inner intuitions" that are dubious and in my opinion do not match modern mathematics very well which deals with objects that go far beyond our visual imaginative capabilities and what we might check with some kind of "inner intuition" (innere Anschauung) or geometrical insights. I just wanted to point out you're not alone and if you're confused, then in an elaborate way.
Not to accuse spaceX of anything, but I've witnessed companies sell 'hyper-localised weather" where they take public weather information and average the nearest two datapoints to you.

So I always take 'secret' 'proprietary' data and algorythms with a bit of salt, as almost every time I dug into them, it was all spin on previous public stuff.
Now I like Fly even more. I used to be an SRE for AMZN and I 100% on board with replacing shell scripts and init with types configuration files (like Dhall for example) and a system that is written in Rust for parsing and understanding those files. I think this is the best part of SystemD. There are other projects like S6 for example. I need to understand more about Fly's implementation of init, I am very curious.
> And quite a few exchanges are offering crazy interest rates (up to 10%) for USDT deposits, which strongly implies they're getting some for free

I'd think the 10% is due to the high risk of default. (Someone else receives it, but usually only gives a crypto collateral, there's a fairly high chance of default since if the lender gets wiped there's a high chance the collateral won't be sufficient and it might snowball from there as all the lending platform try to liquidate at the same time)

It's comparable to investing in junk bonds (but since it's call "savings/interests" most users won't realize the default risk.
> No floating table of contents.

I built a browser extension which does this plus many more customizations like full width for all pages, scroll to top button etc.

Notion Boost: https://gourav.io/notion-boost
Image classification algorithms at Apple, Google still push racist tropes
Unless you are putting the "emergency money" under your mattress, the money is still going to a bank and it is still going to be invested somewhere.
Is it? Commercial paper is short term (<9mo), and tether is a long term project. So, unless the composition of tether's backing has changed substantially in the last few years (and I remember them stating years ago that it was mostly these "cash equivalents"), then I'm not really worried because it sounds like their borrowers* have been paying them back.
Ask HN: Can a senior dev help me structure my POC code base properly?
I started developing a full-stack web app 6 months ago after quitting my finance career, and trying to bring an idea to life.

Last week I demo'ed it, and 3 companies tried to acquire me in 2 days! I was shocked and my head is still quite spinning. Yesterday I agreed to a deal, so now I am no longer an indie hacker ;) this means I need to grow my POC into a real scalable app quite fast and I need help!

A friend suggested I find a really good developer to help setup the code properly now, before I start hiring people. Get the foundations right first before pouring more people into the mix, especially since I hacked most of the code myself with zero experience.

Is there someone here willing to have a chat with me about this and the idea around setting up my web app architecture and initial code foundations?

I love programming, creating applications, and helping people by creating technology; feels like I just got thrown in the deep end now and am reaching out for some help to make sure my idea has a chance to survive.

My tech-stack:

- Python Flask
- PostgreSQL
- vanilla frontend
- Google App Engine

Thanks in advance!
Google doesn't care. Just having one FTE proactively blacklisting scams would clean up most of the mess. It is way easier to clean high ranking scam/SEO sites then to make a new one.

But Google are getting money of scams so ...