skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I learned from this that some people are always going to see you like they first saw you.

Yup.

> Your mother is going to always see you as the adolescent with the messy bedroom, even when you're 40.

Nope. She's going to keep seeing you just the same way she saw you when you were the adolescent with the messy bedroom, namely as her little baby.

Even when you're 60.
What strikes me is Asia. If I'm reading this right they have relatively low official Covid deaths, but off the charts excess deaths. What's up with that?
that's nothing, back in my day we had to manually carve the website layout into clay tablets
17% excess mortality (and that’s assuming this 1% baseline we pulled out of the air, remember) doesn’t mean that the pandemic is only responsible for those excess deaths – a bunch of people who might have otherwise been expected to get hit by a car worked from home all year, or died from COVID instead, etc.

So the pandemic is responsible for the 17% (in this scenario) uplift above baseline plus an unknown portion of that baseline itself.

To be honest one cause, which changed a lot of behaviour that rolls into the baseline, pushing the global baseline up that much seems pretty impressive to me.

Would be also interesting to consider distribution of that excess and how China fared in the excess mortality department. After the early days they seemed to keep it tightly under control, and they contain an enormous portion of the world’s population. That might suggest that excess mortality elsewhere was even further above baseline and the excess mortality only looks this good because 1.2 billion people mostly stuck to baseline?
why wouldn't it sound as good? I don't care if the phone takes a million pictures of me, as long as the data doesn't get transmitted without my explicit permission.
They forced developers to develop for iOS?
I think Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky already put the “rational market participant” myth to bed for good.
Signing in a distributed environment with a (sometimes required) hardware based key is really annoying. You basically have to build your own system for it. I've actually wanted inexpensive signing as a service (for Windows) for some time. Haven't been actively watching for it though.
Right, that is highly probable and the fact that it's likely to happen will drive nefarious operators to illegally change IMSI numbers,etc., that is, if it's not already happening on a grand scale. This could lead to a technology war between law enforcement and crooks where the main victims will be innocent people.

The bigger and more important issues are that (a) our police forces are becoming more militaristic and are acting more like invading armies without themselves conforming to the law not to mention the fact that they are also acting underhandedly and by stealth (which leads the citizenry to distrust them), and (b) the issue of citizens' right to privacy has not been properly or adequately addressed by legislators.

The fact that our governments have precious little oversight of and exercise even less control over their various agencies is also of great concern.
s/if/when/

By new management, broke developers, advertisers, data brokers, criminals in government, etc.
The data comes from healthdata.gov[1] and sources[2] at the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Kaiser Family Foundation, Ballotpedia, Editorial Projects in Education, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Restaurant Association, Littler Mendelson, Husch Blackwell and Ogletree Deakins.

How is this garbage data? Maybe it is, but I think you may need to do more work here than just calling him names. Everyone seems to feel very strongly about this on both sides, but I get the sense he made a good-faith effort with legitimate data. Perhaps you could do the same if you feel his conclusions were incorrect?

[1] https://healthdata.gov/dataset/COVID-19-Reported-Patient-Imp...

[2] https://wallethub.com/edu/states-coronavirus-restrictions/73...
Molten lead, maybe? It doesn't need to be a liquid on Earth.
not if it's a really long table, grid fails at 1000ish rows in chrome
For people who think that is low, this is with the precautions taken, imagine if nobody did anything
Glad to hear that, tried my best to present it in a clear and concise way. Quite the task in itself.
I'm curious what would have been if Archegos Capital hadn't been margin called. I suspect this merger would have seen things swing the other way.
That was my point. If you want stability, look for someone who is no longer funding a substantial development team to work on the software.
The question is how much less death will there be in the years to come.
Especially the older people who died earlier because of covid. We should see a decline in death from all kinds of diseases that these people had and would have died from/with.
The argument is the following: Should people be deciding for other people on what CO2 should and should not be expended on?

If so, anything you like could be banned with the same rationale and you would just have to accept it.

If you were a little bit more principled, you would argue that if the CO2 emission has been paid for, it shouldn't matter how frivolous the use is.
Is that an embedded Datalog then, that runs on microcontrollers?

I'm researching approaches that learn Datalog programs from examples for my PhD. In practice, the algorithms I study can learn Prolog programs but Datalog is a nice, decidable subset of Prolog that also has the advantage that clause ordering doesn't matter so a learner only needs to learn the clauses in a program, without also learning to order them.

There's a bunch of work from the program synthesis community on learning Datalog programs from examples. Here's a recent-ish paper I found interesting (and whose authors I'm not affiliated with):

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Syntax-guided-synthesi...
Please don’t look at 7m-13m number and compare it to 7 billion population and say oh it’s only 0.1-0.2%.

Pretty much ever country has seen a 15-20% increase in excess mortality rates (20% more people dying than averages in the past), this is huge.

This is one of the best up to date visualizations on this topic, scroll down and see breakdowns by country - https://www.ft.com/content/a2901ce8-5eb7-4633-b89c-cbdf5b386...
System having "both views" -- software view (where "i" might be on key L) and hardware view (of physical key placements) -- is very useful. For example, when using Colemak on Windows, I can play using WASD physical keys, but many games correctly name them WARS.
An extra death for every 6 deaths seems pretty substantial to me, especially considering the skewed morbidity across age groups.
Mincemeat used to contain beef. Now, typically, it doesn't, although I recall having mince pie with beef and brandy in Swindon in another life.

So maybe this is not good example of English being like a Mark Twain's German schizo language. Gastro-culture changed on it and the folks at Merriem-Webster didn't get the email, that's all.
This. You sometimes have to reroll the dice a few times before you find a place with a good culture.

Personally I've found that I'm most comfortable at a place where people have a deep discipline they have specialized into. Companies doing robotics or genomics or machine learning are great. There's more respect for software engineers. Companies doing an "app" or a "SaaS" aren't my favorite. You meet a lot of perpetual beginner "experts" who warp the culture into a respect being based on who can cargo cult fastest.
What about if Amazon prevented a seller from advertising “direct to sale at a discount” and bypassing Amazon on their product page?
@elonmusk – Perfect troll is when people don't know whether it's a troll or not
> In steady state, miners will dump energy into mining a coin until the cost of energy = the value of the coins coming out.

Exactly, that's why if you're using this list to somehow decide coin X is more "efficient" than coin Y, then it's a foolhardy exercise.

For proof of work to actually work, the cost of the electricity has to be proportional to the total market cap of the coin. Otherwise, if the amount of work was low compared to the value of the network, it would be a strong incentive for someone to try to attack it.
Sad. Really sad.
Are there disadvantages to open source? What about security? Isn't it easier to find vulnerabilities if you have the source code?
If you're talking about a 7 billion population, the deaths of which will vary from year to year, this seems like a number in the noise range which would be very hard to distinguish from background variation.

If everyone of the 7b people lived 100 years, we would expect about 70 million deaths a year, and we know they don't live 100 years on average. Any reasonable range of assumptions puts this in the range of too-small-to-detect. Which doesn't mean it doesn't matter or isn't important, but it does mean that this is not a good method for estimating it.
oh the good old app hell in which we live.
17% increase seems kind of big, no?

If plane crashes increased 17% in a single year, it would be bit. If cancer deaths increased 17% in a year, it would be pretty remarkable.
seems like they already did
Still in the process but: a software renderer, a cross-platform gfx / audio api, a scripting language, code editor, sprite editor, ... (libs are all written in C for portability and easy scripting integration) Totally meaningless (to others) wheel reinventing, but it makes me 100x happier when making games and apps!

DIY everything is my path to programming happiness (in any field in fact). Tools should be extensions of your body, tools made by others are unlikely to be that.
> They control the UI that shows you the certificates too.

Sure, but if they lied about that isn't it an open-and-shut case of fraud? What they're doing here instead is obfuscating away everything behind an announcement, so there is no legal recourse for the consumer against their bullshit. The best we can do is hope an anti-trust suit is brought against Google (I have approximately zero hope of it happening because of this, though).
These are historically separate characters, and they're meaningful, but it's relatively unlikely that you can use them as a way of learning Japanese or Chinese characters that you don't already know (as opposed to maybe as a way of helping to remember ones that you do know).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_(Chinese_characters)

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

Also, in the Japanese case, they were borrowed from Chinese centuries ago and commonly given one pronunciation based on what the Chinese word sounded like to Japanese people at that time, and another based on the Japanese translation of the Chinese word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji#Readings

So yes, all of this is super-meaningful at an etymological level, but not transparent or reliable, and even trickier with Japanese rather than Chinese, because extra layers like kunyomi were added on top.
So, in your opinion, it should be legal to sell yourself into slavery? How about debt peonage?

Society has determined that certain things are not allowed because they are inherently abusive, "legal contracts" or not.
COVID mortality rate (deaths / closed cases) is ~2.5%

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
> reasonably competitive price

I would suggest that this is a lower price, but not a price you would get with robust competition.
The logical next step is for the developers of Signal, etc, to
begin bundling instrumentation code that checks and monitors app execution. I wonder if Google will allow that level of runtime profiling, or if it will become against the Play store rules?
Definitely, for the consumer. I think the idea that "rational market participant emerges when you get the average of a lot of people (ie. the firm) together to make a decision" still remains alive and well. There is sort of a Darwinian argument there, that in the long-run only the rational market participant remains in business and functioning as a firm.

The import of behavioral econ. definitely remains understated today. I am also interested in philosophical thinkers, like Elizabeth Anderson or Michael Sandel, that take questions like these and explore the implications that they might have for how we ought to structure society.
Go may be more polarizing than a lot of languages. It makes tradeoffs that aren't as exciting, which turns people against it, I think.

There are plenty of legitimate reasons to choose a different language, so it makes sense to figure out what's important for oneself and go from there. The only problem is that it's hard to know all of the aspects that may be important without trying a tool out... so we do, quite reasonably, turn to blog posts with other people's opinions.

I do think it's good to differentiate the opinions of people who have really worked with the tool vs. those who are just e.g. complaining about Go's error handling because they're used to exceptions but they haven't done any significant work with Go.

For deciding on whether or not to learn a language: I'd say it depends on _why_ you want to learn a language. If it's for getting a different job, then look at the kinds of jobs you want and learn the languages/skills to do that. If it's for pure knowledge, then learning languages that teach you something new are useful. Go's concurrency might be interesting in that regard. Rust's borrow checker is certainly interesting.
I hated on JS a lot when I was writing.NET until I tried it. After some love-hate moments I really respect the genesis of the language and the use in the modern Web Development.
That doesn't work if there's a large and possibly growing matrix of hardware/OS/whatever combinations they're trying to optimize for.
USDT does not run solely on Ethereum. Currently it's about 50:50 Ethereum and Tron (of all things!). https://wallet.tether.to/transparency

USDC is likewise a multichain stablecoin (Ethereum, Stellar, Algorand, and Solana) but I couldn't find information on how much is on each chain.
This is mostly about updates (TOFU): If the OS installs the update, then you know it comes from the same developer.
Not questioning the numbers but genuinely curious how the exponential math works in this case. Thanks
The government can hide information easier than it can hide bodies.
Yes, Loom is an exploratory project to enable this, as far as I know, it is not a part of the mainstream Java release yet.
kevin powell on youtube makes good videos, it's how i finally jumped into flexbox and grid a while back. I think for something like CSS videos really are a good medium for teaching
That's almost true - there often is also some out-of-bounds communication about that code before the smart contract is implemented, which can help establish intent, which matters a lot in resolving disputes about a contract.

But the actual contract terms between the parties and facts like is this contract valid at all, who owns what and who owes what to whom are ultimately determined by contract law, not by the smart contract, like it or not. The smart contract may determine possession of certain things, and in many cases it would be uncontested and there it has a purpose of just doing the contract settlement automatically, but as soon as there's a dispute, then the legal ownership and any claims would be settled according to contract law, not according to what the code says.
No, but considering iOS is roughly 50% or more of the mobile market in the U.S, U.K, Japan, etc. any developer choosing to forgo iOS is essentially shitting away half the market in some very lucrative places.
China has been lying about many things since day 1.
Nothing in your comment is on topic? This is about app developers implementing something in their own app. Not Apple.
I made a JS framework for Android to quickly prototype IoT and apps in general. It started as a tool for teaching my students back in the day. Then changed the purpose multiple times :)

https://phonk.app
> If the SDK was backdoored it would show up on everyone's downloads, which greatly increases the chances of detection.

I think you have far too much confidence in this. How exactly would the average Android developer check to see if the SDK they downloaded from Android Studio doesn't have a targeted exploit in it? Or Android Studio itself for that matter?
Man I love when stories like this go down. Not because I have any interest either way, but because it will silently be deleted from thousands of management "how to ideation" slide decks, to be replaced by something equally as bite-sized.

If only the "McDonald's Milkshake Job to Be Done" would be next.

https://www.concurate.com/how-jtbd-job-to-be-done-theory-hel...
(Checks calendar.) Oh. That's... quite a while. Longer than the entire history of high-level languages, in fact.

Not sure you're wrong, though...
Great work in the Libya guys - 10 years later country is still at war, 10s of thousands dead (and counting), people are worse in every possible way than during Gadaffi rule... Can't wait to see more similar interventions in the future.
uhhh....this happens all the time already. Lots of Amazon sellers maintain web stores and purchasing options outside of Amazon.
That platform will not doubt be infested with malware.
I think those daily numbers are very helpful, because they show the relative change in infections.

And thats a helpful (if not the only one) indicator on whether there will be enough ICU beds one month from now. If not, we should consider lockdowning.
With google play store, an _update_ to an app needs to be signed with the same keys as the original app.

Hence, google play store cannot just give my an updated backdoored version of signal or whatsapp unless they can get those developers to sign it. With this new system google could unilaterally decide to push such an update. Either to everyone, or just to a few select people.

> Who signs what doesn’t change the threat models.

It very VERY much does. He who signs is he who is able to modify code. If it did not, what value do signatures even have?
It seems you are arguing that, since google already controls android, they already control this data anyway. Thing is, the OS on my phone is already on there. Updates need to go through the manufacturer, and are hard to target. The play-store itself cannot read my signal messages.

Hence, for google to read my signal messages, right now, they would need to have a pre-existing backdoor in android, or run an exploit through the play-store.
With the new system, they could just push an update to my signal app. (If signal were to use the new system).
That, in my opinion, warrants changing the threat model quite a bit.
Linear search through a slice is almost always going to be faster than a map operation, because N is almost always small and slices have great cache locality.

If your slice has a million entries, it's definitely a different story.
Yeah, I only use it for things where the context wouldn't matter. For example grabbing an account number from a document.

I've been experimenting w/ CoreImage detectors (mainly for categorisation of scanned documents based on QR codes).

When I clean things up today, I'll see what can be used.
This has me a bit confused: I look at the stats on cases and deaths per capita across various U.S. states, including California (which was very locked down, at least in theory) and Florida (which was flippant towards risks of contagion), and many states in between. The per capita cases+deaths are nearly identical across many states with very different approaches. This left me really wondering which measures were and weren't necessary. Anyone seen good studies or analysis on this?

Legitimate question, please no political commentary.
Yes, I’m aware of DiskCache. Wonderful library and also very useful, I enjoyed reading the source code too. I have taken a few ideas from it that I would like to implement in the future.
Sadly, there is no way for you to install an older version of the app on iOS.
Had to lookup pillock - it's a real word!

Why do you think he's a pillock?

Don't you think he's got some merit considering he's climbed the ladder with successful exit after successful exit and now is #1/#2 richest person on Earth? Do you think his decision making is all fluke?
That seller almost certainly signed a contract with amazon saying that they would give amazon most-favored nation status with regards to product prices. So they could absolutely say such a thing, but in the end they couldn't contractually offer anything at a cheaper rate than what they list it for on amazon.
Many kanji are composed of symbols that are also kanji in themselves; there are also radicals which are not kanji in isolation but appear in the same form in many characters.

That being said, the meaning (or meanings...) of a kanji cannot be derived from its parts, just like the meaning of an English word cannot be derived from the letters that appear in it.

Also, as a rule, the same character will be read differently in different contexts. E.g. 生きる _i_kiru "to live", 生まれる _uma_reru "to be born", 学生 gaku_sei_ "student".
Regardless of the behavior of selecting "Epic direct payment," this is a flagrant violation of App Store rules.

I agree, it seems sensical to allow an app to mention that buying direct from their website might be cheaper than going through in-app purchases. It might even be reasonable to open that link automatically.

I do think that it's reasonable to restrict third party payment processors, though. It's inconvenient, dangerous, and provides little in the way of antifraud measures if you're dealing with every app's purchase processor (assuming they don't all just use Stripe).

I actually think Apple's, "only our payment system can be used," system is reasonable. The percentage is maybe steep and would be better served by a progressive scale. But I also don't think Apple should be able to prevent an app from advertising their own payment system out of the app.
I had so many domain names being un-used and I hated all domain parking solutions, so I created a tool to build an automatic content aggregator. Of course along the way, I found people who had the same need.

https://www.newsy.co
> Of course, this only works when the smart contracts perfectly meet a correctly defined spec and have no bugs.

In practice, if using a smart contract as a contract, the way you'd use a paper contract, then two parties would sit down and negotiate; draft the negotiated agreement into the form of a smart contract; and then agree (signatures, handshake, multi-sig deployment, whatever) that "what the smart contract does — as executed by the network-consensus abstract machine — is our explicit mutual intent, and damn any statement by either of us to the contrary."

This is the same thing you're doing with a paper contract: by both signing it, you're agreeing that "what the paper contract says — as interpreted by a judge — is our explicit mutual intent, and damn any statement by either of us to the contrary."

Of course, nobody's actually using smart contracts as contracts. They're just using them as trusts/agents. For now.

But a smart contract used as a contract wouldn't have "bugs." It's a negotiated agreement; negotiated agreements have loopholes. And loopholes are perfectly legal. If you left one in, and your counterparty exploits it? Too bad for you. You should have run your contract through a better (code) lawyer.