skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it feels like this suggests a design flaw. You should probably be creating a new local `total_count` variable for each run that goes out of scope at the end of the run, rather than reusing the same variable over and over again in different contexts
And the Notéa ! Looks like it's full android under the hood. And it's french https://bookeen.com/pages/notea-bloc-notes-numerique
I met the founder of Grabcad when he made a trip to Shenzhen China around 2012. I took away that he was trying to build the "github for CAD". We tried the Grabcad system out in our office for a while and it was useful but didn't really meet that vision. I haven't tried it since the company was acquired by Stratasys in like 2014 but a quick login looks like it hasn't changed much.
I don’t deny that lots of people rely on Facebook.

However what the GDPR demands seems absolutely reasonable. All it requires is that the company must be transparent with what data it collects, how it uses it and gives each individual control of whether they want to allow Facebook to collect and use their data for specific purposes.

If Facebook can’t sustain itself without stalking everyone, it’s a problem with Facebook, not with the GDPR.
I'm in no way cool or carry moleskins, but for some dumb reason I thought doing a second Masters in an area unrelated to anything I do - my first is in computer engineering, this new one is GeoEngineering - would be a good idea. I'm someone that needs to write thoughts and notes on paper and then construct a doc around such. I have a Remarkable2 and it was great for note taking, it was also great for hand writing out some advanced math courses / problems I had to revisit.

In some classes where we used Excel, I would do a mix of an iPad Pro (with pencil) and on the computer excel.

I like the simplicity of the Remarkable2, but it doesn't handle all my needs, but it does many.
Shelby Houlihan’s Suspension Is a Track and Field Tragedy
Tell me about it.

Some of my colleagues are pushing hard for it. It seems like nice tech, but when you build an enterprise web app behind a login page, I see no need for server side rendering.

Our users open up the app in the morning, work on it a whole day, and do the same thing the next day.

I absolutely see no point in trying to optimize this with server side rendering.

But it seems some front-enders want to use the latest best thing, even when it's not really necessary.

But what do you do? Do you make these developers unhappy because they are not using the latest cool thing, or do you make them happy but end up with an inferior solution?

Oh boy, these youngsters... ;)
what's the homeless rate in Sweden ? Netherlands? France? I'll leave out Germany since thats a little unfair.
It's a combination of weak social safety net and people living paycheck-to-paycheck (or worse). Roughly 1/3 of US households have a hard time covering monthly expenses, and another ~1/3 are a paycheck away from disaster.

If you lose a job in the US, you lose your healthcare (COBRA is way to expensive to be an option). Minimal housing protections in most states means you're one missed payment away from homelessness. Food banks are critically short-staffed and under-stocked across the US. Jobless benefits can take weeks or months to receive and even then they're usually well below what a person needs to survive.

There was such a stigma against moochers and "welfare queens" in the 80s and 90s that politicians would rather cut funding to all benefits than let one person abuse the system. Florida even spent $178 million on drug tests to save from paying out $60k in welfare because addicts don't deserve to eat for some reason.
Why do big things need to be done?

Also, it's not like the US is doing a good job at getting big things done. 30 years for 50 miles of Seattle-area subway?
With the recent front-page discussion of a sunburn calculator under various latitude/weather/sunscreen assumptions (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27517956), the long-running controversy over the net effects of sun & sunscreen has again visited HN.

I wanted to re-post this 2019 rundown of recent reasons to doubt the health benefits of sunscreens – https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure... – but it had already appeared too recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23086211).

So instead, check out this 28-year-old article from Mother Jones. While partially outdated – modern sunscreens do block UVA, too – it still has relevance documenting that very similar concerns have remained unrefuted for decades.

Now, in 2021, there's still inadequate safety testing of sunscreen active ingredients. There's still rising melanoma rates despite ubiquitous use of ever-"stronger" sunscreens, And there's still more correlation of overall longevity with sun exposure, rather than with sun avoidance or sunscreen usage.
If you have really good test coverage that might be okay, but otherwise, how do you know if the code is doing what it's intended to do?

If I see a line that looks like it might be a bug, or an unnecessary duplication, how do I know if it's a mistake or not?
Yes? Like donating money to a well-established project is very different than sending a t-shirt to whoever creates a repo with 2 commits or what..
* this comment is at risk of offending some Disney fans
Well, lets look at society.

We have the rich who use the govt to oppress the people and preserve their wealth.

We have the poor who think the govt will help them

We have a large group of people who just want to work to survive

What rules would you put in place and how would you go about doing that to ensure the rich / powerful didnt corrupt the system ?

The US was designed with a constitution defining the rules a govt could work within and the bill of rights was added to ensure the govt didnt enroach on the peoples rights so they could control the govt

This design failed as did all the rest... why ?

Because people are inherently lazy and dont want to be bothered. So you think its better to simply feed these folks and ensure they are ok will somehow motivate them to work ?

Capitalism works better than most systems and in fact many of the so called socialist countries arent. They are capitalist countries that have strong social programs funded by said capitalism

Perhaps instead of letting the govt get away with violating the rules it was bound by we start enforcing the rules ?
Are you talking about them silencing leakers?
TikTok changed the shape of some people’s faces without asking
Why is it funny? They combined us and Canadian answers, and the us population represents 90%. With this questionable methodology the Canadian answers aren’t relevant.
Yeah, totally, it’s a reasonable question and not necessarily clear, especially when there are political voices in this arena distributing some degree of misinformation.

Even though that older Fed article is warning that for some people the “wealth premium” of a college degree is waning, it does talk about the stability and causation of the “income premium” that people with degrees enjoy, and since some of the reasons identified for the income premium have to do with social signaling and employer selection bias (as in, many high paying jobs require a degree in the first place), I believe it lands much more closely to the causal eat healthy for a longer life correlation. The more recent Fed link I posted above agrees in the sense that they’ve concluded after many studies on this subject that taking loans in order to go to school is absolutely worth the cost, that the financial returns are very very likely to pay off. At least for now...
I'm not Patrick Collison, but if I were then I might say that there are already a bunch of impressively plausible-looking carbon capture and sequestration technologies, they look like our best bet on the margin, and what they mostly need is a large enough early customer base to let them scale up and reduce cost.

As it happens, there's a program called Stripe Climate which aims to do exactly this! Money comes from Stripe and from businesses that would like to be able to truthfully say that they donate a percentage of purchases to fight climate change. It looks well thought-out and credible, at least to my eye. They elaborate more on the rationale here:

https://stripe.com/climate
I remembered that Apple has such a database too, and interestingly, here's a project that reverse-engineered queries to Apple's Wi-Fi geolocation service: https://github.com/zadewg/GS-LOC
I have never cursed an author for having too many comments. There are many cursed developers out there after my long career.
> It would be better to start in corporate at Walmart

Not everyone has the opportunity to do that.
He's saying his employees are a commodity and not a valuable asset.
The hard back makes it like a clipboard so you could use it on a couch or sitting anywhere really, but I mostly use it for writing while at a table or my desk. I’d rather take notes by hand than type though. Previous attempts to type notes never worked out for long. Too many distractions on the computer for me.

If you’re already heavily invested in taking notes in OneNote then this probably won’t help much due to the overhead required to sync back and forth.

Getting OneNote on the Remarkable would be awesome though, I hope this will happen in some future version.
Personally I'm in love with the fact that Apple found a business model selling privacy and safety, while I'm also torn on the idea that Apple has been using their weight to bludgeon the competition into giving up a massive share of revenue.

At the same time, the weighing of leverage is precisely how the market has and still works to this day. Thus if you send me out there to negotiate with Popeye's (which really wants you to create an account), or Walmart, Facebook, or even a small company making todo apps, I will simply not win, and neither will my family members. I love that cross-app tracking is now opt-in, because that's not something I'd ever imagine negotiating with any company, ever. I love the fact that all subscription-based services purchased through the iOS platform can be managed in a centralized place.

And I will of course resent in my tiny, futile, pathetic way, those voices which say "Well, you as a free agent made these concessions in the marketplace. Didn't you get what you deserve?"

Why can't there be a consumer choice to throw your weight behind a mega-giant who intercedes forcefully on your behalf, in a marketplace that is all about the weighing of leverage?
So many people, even here, read the article and are like "I knew I had covid that December, I had the weirdest cold".

But actually this should make you suspicious of such anecdotes.

There's just much too many of them for them all to be covid.

So they really count as evidence that people just get weird colds and flus.

And hence that the weird cold you had in November 2019 was just a weird non-covid cold.
There are dozens of hardware platforms running hundreds (if not thousands) of software stacks that a user can play with that aren't Apple's ecosystem. Everything from a Raspberry Pi to a Lenovo ThinkPad. It's a color-wheel of hardware and software out there.
>That's literally how it's marketed - "Writing, reading, and visualizing only".

>Not core to writing and annotating. You're looking for a document-navigation system, which the rm2 is not.

Document navigation is absolutely a core part of reading. When I read a book, I page around it because that's how books work. When I reference a book I've already read, I want to look in the index or the table of contents and go there.

There are 6 things that reMarkable claims the device does on their homepage. "All your notes, organized and accessible on all devices" and "Take handwritten notes, read, and review documents" are two of them. Reading and searching are core scenarios.
The technology may have been fine. The advertising was insanely ubiquitous, in a way rarely seen since. Maybe Evony?
It depends. I would call Splunk and Tableau low code. I think they did a good job. I think many other products tend to screw it up.

So I don't think I have any opinion on "low code", but would evaluate the product on a case by case basis.
What exactly is your point?

That it is worth it that people go bankrupt due to medical issues because it means that certain professions can earn 6 figures?

I’m really curious. What do you think you are saying? How do you think those two statements correspond? Do you genuinely believe that if the majority of Europe were to ditch its public health services that salaries would go up and that that would be a good thing?
You hire non hipsters.
I love how it picks up in-flight WiFi.
Bucket shops have historically offered high leverage, something that is not possible when buying equities outright.

There's a whole gamut of different kinds of bucket shops, some being on the less shady side others on the outright take your money and don't let you withdraw it side.
Reaplying to my own comment - if I were you I would relocate to a VERY cold states in US if I had options (and I don't) Good luck either way
Isn't there a response code for no change?

Saying you did something doesn't help the user know that DNT was followed
Humans wouldn't care so much about semicolons, but I do want the compiler to understand my code, too.
Actually yes! I found it surprising and thought it deserved a conversation. Thanks for posting the link in the other discussion. I've actually changed my SSID because of this ... though it may have the opposite effect of drawing more attention to my SSID because prettyflyforawifi_nomap doesn't have the same ring as the original.
Many countries around the world have an "untouchable" class. I'm most familiar with the burakumin in Japan (disclosure: lived next to a burakumin community while teaching there). These untouchable classes function in society as a way to keep the lowest rungs of the "official" social classes in line. If you don't do your terrible job we can always cast you down there.

The United States has untouchable classes as well, they're just called "homeless" or "undocumented" and we are taught to believe that "it's their own fault" rather than the result of a shitty traditional caste system.

The last couple decades have expanded this class and made it more visible. I don't think this was a conspiracy, but the existence of this class is certainly advantageous to corporations that want to keep people down.
That's true in general for all integrals. Method A solves this formidable looking integral nicely and simply. Make one small change, method A completely fails and now you'd need method B to solve it, which is not at all related to method A.
The CIA has one motivation: To do whatever was decided was in the interests of the USA at a given moment.

Never fall for the PR that the CIA (or any similar agency in other countries) has any altruistic goals like freedom and democracy. Their are simply a tool of the geopolitical power struggle. Sometimes they are best friends with the worst dictators, sometimes they overthrow democratic governments. It does not matter as long as it was decided that the result would be better for the USA (again, that's the same in every country, I'm not attacking the USA specifically)
None of that is stored. Knock it off with your all caps strawman.
"Next.js has two forms of pre-rendering: Static Generation and Server-side Rendering. The difference is in when it generates the HTML for a page."

https://nextjs.org/docs/basic-features/pages
Check out FreeBSD or OpenBSD. Worth looking into, many ppl use these as their daily driver desktop OS.
I feel like it's just been a shortage of everything going on - the shortage of housing, traffic throughput, the shortage of physical space in the national parks, the shortage of good schools, good jobs. There are many more people, but no more infrastructure than before. And this naturally breeds competitiveness on the already fertile soil of American individualism.
The authentic 28.8k modem experience.
I don't really understand the part from how did the author jumps from -pi*(1+a^2)/(1-a^2) to df/da = 2pi/a. Anyone knows how the author did it?
Fox to Invest $100M USD in Making NFTs Despite Market Crash
interesting, a company I worked for always allowed moving, but they did do salary adjustments based on where you moved to.
My younger self agrees so much with this. I've found little or negative correlation between pushing myself past 50 hours and career success. I even used to joke to a colleague - "the less I work, the more they tell me how well I'm doing".

I think it's because less work gives more time to think through strategy. Strategy will usually beat tactics.
I think the most startling fact is that she's already remarried - that's not a lot of time to recuperate from a 26 yr marriage, start dating and remarry. Hope it all works out.
Even a line Googler doesn't normally have domestic staff do they? Or am I completely out of touch with how most of tech live?
You can estimate the date of the outbreak's origin with phylodynamics, using the diversity of circulating SARS-CoV-2 and its mutation rate to estimate the time to most recent common ancestor (TMRCA) as 27.11.2019 [CI 07.11.2019 - 11.12.2019]. "Considerably earlier" doesn't fit the evidence

https://virological.org/t/update-2-evolutionary-epidemiologi...
what about the significantly higher homelessness rates?
And being able to move text around once you write it!
If there were no UI changes then designers and product managers would be out of a job.

This is why I enjoy owning my own small software business. I can just build something great at the start, and sell it forever, without needing to worry about continuous improvement nonsense.
>Presumably the only reason they picked this strategy is that they know it is such an absolutely ridiculous step that nobody does it.

Oh absolutely.

But to play devil's advocate, your wifi device is basically an always broadcasting radio antenna that rarely moves or changes. And SSIDs are broadcast by design.

It's a digital landmark.

I bet there are a lot of other companies other than google using it too. And even if you used google's opt out, they're not going to care. So opting out is pretty pointless anyway. So while it feels invasive because we lack a sensory organ for radio, your router is constantly broadcasting (advertising?) itself as a part of normal operations. SSIDs aren't private information. It's more akin to an amateur radio callsign, except you can change it at will.

And since they're no consistent convention for naming your wifi there are probably 10,000 "FBI surveillance van"s. The only useful data to an outsider is location.

This was going to be utilized by someone, and probably already is by the NSA. So google doing it is no big surprise.

Again, devil's advocate here, but SSIDs are broadcast on purpose. Sacrificing security for convenience as always when people are involved.
going between discrete and continuous really helped me too. i think such a thing, using computers even, could do wonders for ug math education.

some kind of awesome integrated class where kids work with robot toy cars comes to mind as an interesting way it could be presented. (start by measuring their behavior and collecting data, computing crude integrals on the computer, moving into analysis using the reals)
This is great thanks for sharing
look bad in front of whom? Other clueless socialists?

I'd rather he compound his wealth and build space platforms, invest in large climate science than try to look good in front of woke social justice warriors
And yet, interestingly, developers removing their own apps is also Apple's fault in the end, for two reasons: one proximal, and the other ultimate. I work on an app that helps you bypass firewalls, and so it is illegal in China. I am pretty sure I would get in trouble with Apple if I allowed it to be downloaded in China, so I turn off the ability to download it in counties where I know I am not allowed to market it... if you thereby told me that every one of these apps was turned off by the developer, I would not be surprised.

However, more fundamentally: I also think we turn off the ability to download our app in some countries on Android... and yet I know that users can and do still install my app in those countries (hell: I want them to!!!) because Android almost always supports sideloading (and hell: the Google Play Store is often blocked in the most egregious counties anyway).

The real, underlying, ultimate issue is that, driven primarily by their greed, Apple has decided to create a centralized bottleneck on the deployment of applications to their platform, and so has--100% predictably: like this was ridiculously obvious when they started doing it what would happen, and they certainly are not so stupid to not now know in hindsight... they just don't care--become a tool of oppressive regimes to block and enforce the installation of software they dislike on people who happen to own an Apple device.

For a much wider and more general analysis of what is going on here, I highly recommend watching a talk I was giving a few years back called That's How You Get a Dystopia--the best version of which I did at Mozilla Privacy Lab (recording link below)--wherein I look at not only Apple, but the harms put upon users from centralization across the software industry, as well as discuss all the ways this also screws us even in counties that supposedly are quite liberal (as if nothing else, Apple is specifically extra-puritan, which causes a weird aftertaste of misogyny in their curation choices, such as causing Instagram to ban photos of people breastfeeding).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsazo-Gs7ms
My mother-in-law got a weird cold at around October where she lost her sense of smell for a few days.
I'm really skeptical of the "I had a bad cough in late 2019, must have been COVID claims". I saw quite a number of them on social media last year. It seemed like people were eager to grab some sort of celebrity or a part of a conspiracy. Some of the people got really angry with me when I confronted their claims with skepticism. It's like they felt personally insulted.

The truth is, people get upper respiratory illnesses quite often. I had a nasty upper respiratory illness in late 2016 after a trip to London. I was miserable for weeks. If it had been late 2019, I could have joined in on the chorus of people claiming to have had something that "surely might have been COVID".
It's on an older thinkpad. I can't remember the model. When linux blew up and I tried three different variants of linux and they all had different, annoying, time-consuming issues after about a week of use, I threw it in a drawer and got the ad blocker on my router working (which was the main thing I was trying to use linux for on my home network).
The fact that you think it was okay for the US to support former SS officers illegally operating in countries and later used to train South American death squads in torture techniques, all because 'commies are bad', shows how deranged you are.

What the US has done in the name of anticommunism dwarfs any evils done by communism.
Sure, but is betfair a scam too? Or what about an OTC desk? Both of these are similar to bucket shops wrt who's the CP.
How is this at all a privacy issue for the SSID owner? Are you putting PII in your SSID?
Why Don't We Acknowledge How Astonishing Human Progress Is?
In Mathematica 12.3:
Integrate[Log[1 - 2 a Cos[x] + a^2], {x, 0, Pi},
Assumptions -> Abs[a] >= 1 && a \[Element] Reals]
gives the correct answer -\[Pi] Log[1/a^2]