skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
here is another indicator of bad faith from Economist since you are all in on thinking critically. Since it it paywalled , I have outlined it
https://outline.com/mumxhq

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True, the official death toll has fallen steadily for the past month, to half its peak of over 4,000 a day in mid-May. But evidence continues to accumulate that the government’s numbers represent a disturbingly small fraction of the real figure. This discrepancy does not just mean that the true level of India’s suffering has been glossed over. It has made the crisis worse, for instance by causing authorities to underestimate demand for oxygen and drugs.

News organisations including The Economist, as well as independent epidemiologists, have speculated that India has suffered perhaps five-to-seven times more “excess deaths” than the official number of covid-19 fatalities, currently just over 355,000.
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The GoI press release has said that the methodology used by Christopher Leffler is not used anywhere else to estimate deaths.

You disagree and back it. Can you point out where this is accepted practice.

Using occam's razor. If cases & Deaths as 5-7 times, then this would be easily detectable, especially as the second wave dies down as per official figures.

So at peak the cases were 350,000 per day officially, as per economist it is over 2 million. This week the cases are 65k, so then it must be 380k cases as per economist. Same for deaths, officially 500 deaths and should be 3000 deaths as per economist.

Where are all these invisible cases & deaths?

If as per economist there were all these 5-7 times extra cases/deaths, the need for O2 would be far greater. There has been no crisi on that side for weeks now. Only for a 2 week period did capital Delhi have shortage due to the mismanagement of the state govt there that was pulled up by the courts.

So you are willing to consider opinion polling and patchy insurance claims( in a country that has minimal insurance coverage) that compared India with US figures over official figures that are collated by heath authorities.

It is far more believable that US media that has persistently painted India in negative light wants to continue the practice even when there are reasons to state facts as is and risk India being shown in a positive light.

I have already give you one data point where NPR pushed a untruth that you conceded. That was not even bad faith, direct fakery.

Is this how one thinks critically?

I have no problem if you want to believe fake news but lets drop the charade that you have no option other than trusting Economist or that they have a good track record. Information is easy to get in this day and age.

It is your laziness that lets such media spread fake news by appealing to your biases.
Billions of people have never held a console controller. For them, VR will be far more intuitive than controllers. VR is intuitive for all humans.

I invite you to watch this extremely enlightening video: https://youtu.be/nyJUza39ELE (it's also a good channel in general)
>Doubtful... it seems neither party is interested in breaking up monopolies. They'd both rather bend them to their interests is some selfish power move.

Except reality[0] doesn't comport with your statement. That's not to say that the bills proposed are perfect, but they are from one party (and not the one trying to block municipal broadband in OH).

Just some food for thought.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/five-new-bills-a...
I quite enjoy working with paper when it’s convenient and fun. From what I read, much of the paperwork in Japan is handwritten, which sounds a lot better than sending Word docs all day.
Can you share some examples? I'm very interested in a typesafe alternative to python, but low friction is also necessary.
That was my read as well when I saw them referencing 'self-sustaining'. I was simply pointing out that it doesn't seem limited to free apps.
I haven't used it yet, but https://github.com/semi-technologies/weaviate is a vector search engine that does embeddings and search. I don't know if they have succeeded, but the goal seems to be to make embedding and searching vectors easy enough to not need to be an ML expert.
Twitter account is @ProfCarlHewitt and blog is

https://professorhewitt.blogspot.com/

See following for a simple ActorScript program that cannot be

implemented using a Nondeterministic Turing Machine:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021
Most police in major US cities receive high pay and lavish retirement plans. However, they rarely live where they work, which should change.
> Map and reduce are not obscure. They’re the basic building blocks!

Conceptually basic != basic for humans. The more basic and "simple" the maths, the harder it becomes for human beings to understand (otherwise most people wouldn't fail first years of higher education maths that often).
Now that you mention it, it is kind of strange that Renaissance is capitalized in the title of the HN submission, when it isn't in the article. Oh well.

When I think of an artistic renaissance (lower-case), I think of emerging from a fallow period into a new, productive, innovative period. The article makes the case that this is what happened in Argentina as a result of these netbooks. I can't say if that's true or not, but the word choice is reasonable to me.
Observations of the Lindy Effect
The major similarities of Ruby and Smalltalk are semantic much more than syntactic (except perhaps for the existence of singleton classes). And as far as Rails is concerned, well, it probably wasn't written by a Smalltalker, but I fail to see how the existence of some specific framework changes how Ruby should be perceived as a language of its own.
One of the best features of AR is going to be the ability to detect real world ads and cover them up with a black box, or some nice wallpaper.
This article, from 2019, suggests that it is Zoom itself that would do the tracing. https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/22/zoom-is-bringing-ultrason...
Perhaps as an enterprise service?
Jyutping was not taught in school, most definitely not the case when I studied primary school in Colonial HK. Wasn't the case when I went back and worked a few years, watching little cousins type their school work with something other than Jyutping. So I'm not even sure how much uptake a jyutping keyboard there would be.

For me, as someone who don't type Chinese enough that I'd struggle badly to use an IME based on strokes, I actually use a pinyin keyboard, because:
a) pinyin can be found as first class citizen on any OS;
b) for someone like me, who speaks Cantonese, and could butcher Mandarin enough to order food, and have no formal education in either pinyin or jyutping, I find it a lot easier for me to guess in pinyin than in jyutping. Most of the Cantonese jyutping (or "cantonese pinyin" keyboards) have a specific transliteration of Cantonese sounds to the English alphabet in a way that I can't grasp easily. The only exception was the Google Cantonese Pinyin IME, which was decently good at taking various transliteration that someone might try, and return a list of reasonable words. But it has since been discontinued, I couldn't find install it. To expand to why there's an inconsistency with transliterating Cantonese sounds... It's not taught in a standardize, formal manner in school, and you can see that with the author's name here, 阿擇. He has Chaaak, which to me is a transliteration pretty far off from the actual pronunciation. http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/scripts/wordsearch.php?leve... suggests "zaak", while I might have attempted "zhak", or "zhaak", or "jak" with the Google Cantonese pinyin IME, with the latter a closer map to the actual sound of the word IMO. I wouldn't associate z with the start of the sound. I've seen some older methods uses "ts" instead.
c) for someone like me who struggles with writing / typing the word based on strokes, and find that IMEs like jyutping is not a great choice either, a last resort is for me to look up a word from English, and lo and behold, pinyin is most likely to show along side with a Chinese word when you try to translate from English to Chinese. This provides a convenient way for me to mentally retain a pinyin mapping to the word. Given pinyin is standardized a lot better than jyutping ever has, and the sound to letter mapping is definitely more understood to me, it's far more convenient.

I type Chinese, to my family, in pinyin. It would actually be quite nice have Cantonese word that's accessible via pinyin. It's a fucking mess to try to look up a primarily Cantonese word for someone like me, because again, there wasn't a standardized version taught consistently. And I don't find jyutping taught now.

All this just seems to me a tempest in a fucking teacup. As a matter of practicality, I'd welcome it.
COVID is a permanent fixture of the Earth now. It's like measles or malaria. You'll never have a day in your life where COVID doesn't exist.

Ten years from now, COVID will still be a problem - an active, pressing problem that kills people - for the USA. The exact strain causing the problem then probably won't be one that exists today, but a strain will exist and it will be a problem.

COVID will be in your routine inoculations. Babies will get it at 6 months, 12 months and 18 months.

Other countries will be much worse. The poor countries of the world won't have real vaccinations until 2022 or 2023.

If a breakthrough strain that mostly resists existing vaccines happens, we basically have to start over. Anyone with an approved vaccine that DOES work against a breakthrough strain gains an immediate license to print money.

There continues to be a tremendous market opportunity for providing COVID vaccines, and will be for the foreseeable future.
It is not that state-run enterprises are always less efficient, but they usually are especially in the long run, and often have unfair advantages that block market competition (direct subsidies or advantages from connection to political power).

While it is possible that some cities would have great municipal ISPs, it is also likely that some cities would just outsource network operation to some shitty ISP who has good connections to townhall and people would pay much more (indirectly through taxes) and would not have alternative (who would compete against subsidised service?).
Hi, would the downvoter mind adding a comment explaining why? What I said is technically correct so it's unclear what the objection is.
I was thinking more about the people driving $2k-$5k cars.

The last thing they need is their insurer jacking their rates because they're ending too many trips in bad zip codes.

You can "incentivize them onto public transit" all you want but most of those people would already be on public transit if there was even a $40/mo difference.
Source?

I know a cop outside of Redding, CA (not near any major cities), and he has more money than he knows what to do with.
True! That's an easy way to get away with lying just feign ignorance. No one can prove otherwise.

The consequences for being a dumbass are way less than the consequences for outright lying.

Since there's not way to prove one way or another it comes down to PRINCIPLES instilled in people to value the truth, principles from my limited observations that seem to be viewed as less important nowadays.

The truth is an obstacle to forcing ones values on the world.

Hence, why it seems to me like we're entering a 'post-truth society'.

Interesting side note however, according to the legal system, ignorance of the law is not an acceptable way out of crime, because the law, by necessity, places as high a value as possible on finding the truth.
Yep. It's an interesting dichotomy with new hires.

They can write some of the tersest code once they learn some new thing ("Wait, C# lets me use LINQ and lambdas. I can turn this entire thing into 3 lines of code!") and some of the most convoluted messes when they run into an issue.

I call the latter the epicycle approach [0]. A simple model that doesn't quite work, but they can't let go of, is complicated by adding more and more "simple" extensions but it produces a convoluted mess that is nigh impossible to maintain or sustain.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferent_and_epicycle#/media/F... : Demonstrating the complexity needed to maintain a geocentric model and account for the movement of celestial bodies.
Given that their apps are not full nodes, it must be sharing them with some backend to check balances and previous transactions.

However that might well be that of a third party, or their own but without any unique/linkable identifier being transmitted with the requests.
Sure, but a program like jq will essentially throw a type error if you try to pipe it stuff that isn't in a format it can do something with. Generally speaking you're not going to get silent errors when you try to extract formatted data from plain text content.

And at the point that you need types, maybe the shell isn't the place to be doing that data manipulation?
Hey HN, we're building a platform to help you share your rating of articles, podcasts, restaurants with friends and family - would love to hear thoughts!
Or "Sleep, sleep dear America...".

Also reading all this thread make me thinking: this is rich country problem.

I could put here examples from eg. Africa where kids do not go to school becouse no cents for bus or they need to take care for younger siblings. Or no sweater. But this will not really help. Looks like it's advanced civilisation problem. Pretty much like in sci-fi movies: overcrowd, no money, health problems... But no worry, just like in 60's abundance of drugs will help ! \s

Would be nice to have something to help USAmerica (and others, becouse same problems are in other places too) but most likely any real help needs time and good society consciousnes.

One thing, I belive, could immediately help is peace in heart and mind which cames from God.
How does economy deal with it? If there is no internet there is no banking, no card payments. Most offices will be shut down. How do emergency services operate? Companies can't order goods, or receive orders. It must be even worse than complete lock down because of COVID.
What happens when the query string gets too long?
One step further, I was doing text processing and my very western education taught me that characters were the smallest relevant construct when dealing with text.

Except that's simply not true for most eastern languages. Devanagari, Arabic, Bengla, Thai and so many other languages are packed with diacritics and graphemes, conditional rendering based on surrounding letters and much more that force you to completely rethink your approach.
I would caution against just jumping into this and trying to be a real ISP if your experience is in software development, sysadmin stuff, or something kind of tech industry adjacent but you've never worked for an ISP in a NOC environment, as a junior network engineer or similar for somebody else's medium to large sized ISP. There's a lot of missteps that can be made without experience.

In general I would recommend thinking of starting a small ISP as a depth and breadth of knowledge base you need to develop, similar to how an apprentice electrician is expected to work under some more senior/experienced persons in their field for a number of years before being able to operate independently.

I do not want to discourage anyone but I've seen a myriad of 'oh my god why did they do that' small WISPs with anywhere from 50 to 1500 customers. Going down the wrong network architecture/topology/business plan path can be very costly later on if you're 100% learning as you go.

Overall I think a site like this is a great idea, but the sheer scope of things that would need to be written down in a wiki-like format for everything to start your own ISP, and what systems/subsystems/technologies you will want to be familiar with, could fill thousands of pages if printed in book form. It's a gargantuan task to make a website that has everything needed to start an ISP from scratch, assuming the reader hasn't been involved in somebody else's ISP operations first.
Learning about Smalltalk has fundamentally changed the way I think about computing.

Looking at what Smalltalkers have done and what their tooling can do (and has been able to do for decades) is inspiring and quite mind-blowing.

But despite that, I don't see a modern Smalltalk community that I'd like to be part of or Smalltalk tooling that I'd like to actually use.

(Pharo or Cuis comes the closest though)

(I should probably declare my Lisp envy as well while I'm at it....
(and my bucket list item of dropping a few months on Forth)
Even a talented developer who can't get along with others even on a minimal basis ... may as well be the moron.

At some point you've got a job, and code alone is not the whole job. Can't do part of it, then you're not doing a good job.

A job is almost never just code.
>> I think that's an inaccurate assessment of 'people who don't want to see ads'

They made a statement about people who are willing to PAY not to see ads. People don't want to pay for anything. Give me free content! And then when they don't like the ads - give me a free ad-blocker!

For me, I'm happy to pay a reasonable price for most things as long as I'm convinced I'll like it. But that's a problem with most content - uncertainty.
Isn't the argument that fair markets are what allow all that stuff to get done? In other words they are better for the group over the long term. Unfair (via corruption or whatever have you) markets tend to stagnate and are good for the individual in the short term (eg within their own lifetime).

Also, who wants to haggle over strawberries every single time you shop? There's a definite time cost to having to "discover" the price on every single transaction.
>300Mbps symmetrical speeds for $55/month

Eye watering. Broadband pricing is consistent in most places throughout the country and the aggressive asymmetry of upload feels like nothing short of rent seeking. In places where you can get fiber (barring the few communities that already have it fully deployed) costs $300/mo. for symmetrical gig. The next option down is broadband with 35 Mbps upload at $120/mo.
The problem is that I bought a machine and several games and at no point were any ads involved. Only after they money has changed hands, I’m then told that I need to allow ads into my system.
You can't eat internet access, or use internet access for shelter or self-defense, so it's probably not important for a lot of people.
Clicked through to the ledger page to get more information. Their cookie “opt out” modal indicates that all cookies are “always active” (including “tracking” cookies). What the hell good is a cookie banner if you can’t actually opt out of any of it?!

Not surprising that given the lack of interest in protecting their customers privacy that their marketing databases were poorly protected as well.
> We were talking about video streaming services though

Were we? I read "on-line video providers," which could as easily be the BBC or YouTube as Netflix. It seems like your most recent comment is the first one to mention streaming.
Did you happen to upload this?
> I currently have over 5 different python versions installed to be able to test against them

That's absurd. Five versions of the same language. Each with their own package folders. That's at least 15 GB.

This is a luxury and consequence of infinite compute resources.
> The developers seem to have been earnest in their attempt to create a new kind of stablecoin , one that was only partially collateralized by a “real” stablecoin.

This space is a giant house of cards.
A JIT has runtime information that makes it a bit easier to optimize a highly dynamic language like Python.
1. This here project is based on the paper I mentioned. Therefore it is of utmost relevance.

2. Differential Relational Calculus is an even older theory https://doi.org/10.1109/69.683760 and is is a kind of derivative on Relations using delta-sets. No need for continuous functions. Using this name is fine and describes the problem really well.

3. Dynamic Programming on the other hand does not describe the problem well. It is about re-use of computation but usually not on the side of a changing input.

Edit: Boolean Differential Calculus is from 1959. I don't remember the booleans being continuous.
> the sad truth is that many times cases like this are rare exceptions.

Well, giving a computer to someone doesn't turn them into a Bill Gates or Steve Jobs just because they own it. Depends on the attitude of whom receive it.

You could say that most of the people will use it for fun and you entertainment.

On the other side there are people who will use to uplift themselves and that's something that has to be appreciated.

The truth is that these young man, without a computer wouldn't be in this situation today. So even if is an exception is still good to see that.
Children should have been educated in handling cryptography and keys 20 years ago. People more toward the authoritarian side of things probably wouldn't like the idea of kids being told that "open source is a baseline requirement for security" though so here we are, surrounded by all kinds of interesting scams.
You know, I'm not so mad at them for lying. It's a useful tool... what really gets me is when they charge/imprison people for lying --not under oath. Like the FBI did to mrs. Stewart. They could not get her on their original charge, so they got her for "lying to a federal agent". That's bullshit.
That would probably depend on the use case no?
There’s actually a setting to choose
I note it is quite common with rule of thumbs in programming and that they are misused to sillyness.

One way to write less code is to in practice code golf. To follow DRY add deeply nested abstractions. To not have to plan out what you do, use YAGNI or "no premature optimizations". Etc.

Edit: My personal favourite is "code should be self-documenting", i.e. comments are a failure.
Portuguese seems to have held onto a lot of medieval spellings and pronounciations as I notice Spanish and Portuguese use to pronounce Juan/João similiarly at some point in the middle ages, is this accurate?
I don’t always know what I want to buy. Faster horses and all that…
Yeah good point, they need to at least be making requests containing the public addresses. I'd guess not with any identifiable information beyond IP address, and not sure if the law would force them to store the specific requests associated with an IP address..seems crazy but possible.

Certainly these endpoint have no authentication / user accounts though, and I don't think it'd be easy for some low level hacker to associate an IP address with a specific person.
> The question isn’t really what “we” should tear down, it’s what the specific country wants to do. And I don’t think most people would agree with your designation of what “good values”

I'm not saying what the good values are, this is purely your invention. The only thing I assume is that maybe people want to be led by some coherent logic in what they do, regardless of the specific values that they have. Aside from pointing out that destruction, well, destroys things.

The old architecture wasn't built because it was just "pretty" either. If you don't see oppressive politics and an ideological program that was forced upon the country in tsar Peter I's works it just means that you 1) are forgetting some history, 2) aren't reading the architecture close enough (as mainly art historians are taught its deeper idioms) or 3) just care less about things than happened a sufficiently long time ago. Which is what will also happen with people's perception in the future, sadly or not.

edit: I didn't see your last paragraph when writing my response, and maybe wouldn't be prompted to write if I did. All I can say is, maybe.
Because it has been a common trend in computing to split consumer and development devices.