skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bad choices in rural areas for Google Maps seems to be a recent thing. My guess is that it's a result of a new approach of combining computer vision of satellite imagery with phone location data from ranchers driving on their private dirt roads.
Is aging inevitable?
One thing that's not mentionned: a lockdown means you're constantly spending time with the people you live with. That means almost no more moments where you're alone in your home. I know that I get irritable after some time when we go for a family vacation and spend all our time together, because I need some time for myself and some control over my actions. I've never heard about agency in the context of introvert/extrovert, but I think it matters a lot. I value being able to make my own decisions a lot, and having long periods where all decisions have to be taken in group exhausts me.
Symbols and math are two completely different things. Symbols are just something you attach concepts and ideas to. I believe that with words and labels instead of obscure symbols and surnames of mathematicians, teaching math could be more efficient. Even with set theory being a branch of mathematics, categorizing things seems to be very shooting from the hip.

All I'm seeking here is how to improve communicating math without having to go through the credentialism of higher education.

edit: Why you didn't understand my comment on reading papers: some computer science papers require heavy math background. A lot of math is actually applied math.
I consider Apple maps to be trash most everywhere I use it, which is the American midwest. Last time i searched for "lawnmower repair" in my area it netted one result. I believe there's more than a dozen within ten minutes of me though. I normally have to look something up in Google Maps (where i keep location services disabled), then copy and paste the address into Apple Maps for Carplay.

The other day when watching a Silicon Valley rerun I couldn't help but laugh because they said "is it Apple maps bad?" and i thought "THAT JOKE HASN'T AGED BECAUSE IT'S STILL TERRIBLE."
This isn't very HN friendly content and certainly is not meant to be taken at face value, but here's a vid that kind of captures the zeitgeist of the introvert trend:

https://youtu.be/ikw4V_x-CFI
The majority of the world is not vaccinated. Hell, in some US states the majority is not vaccinated.
long covid lmao
SQL is a COBOL-era language — though there are 15 years between them, language theory was quite rudimentary at that time.

But it exists and is adequate. And, as Gabriel’s famous essay says, Worse is Better.
Houston does it. They have bluetooth trackers on all the highways. They use it for determining congestion based on how often you can ping the same address. Keeps pinging? Gridlock. Pings once, traffic moving.
Well, it's a bit of a stereotyping joke to begin with. Introverts aren't necessarily a solid bloc of total introverts - many just need to measure or limit their social interaction, and may simply prefer a small amount.

Absolutely NO interaction at all, is fairly rare, and more of a feature of people with schizoaffective disorder, and pretty much falls outside the "normal" spectrum of introversion.
That makes sense, an introvert might be fine with isolation & content with their introvert nature, but there are going to be plenty who are not, and losing the little bit of socializing they had takes them to a worse place in terms of mental health.

For my part, I'm introverted, but pretty content with where I'm at. My socialization comes primarily from my family, and there's a few of us living within a few blocks that all observed strict social distancing, were fortunate enough to have jobs we could do from home and enough money to pay a premium on grocery delivery etc.

Very little changed for me except that I got to see my kids more, spent less time in meetings, and didn't waste an hour getting back & forth to an office.

Certainly many other people, introvert or not, were not in nearly as fortunate of a position as I was.
You're right. It's not fair to the creators. They have done an awesome job at creating a very useful thing...but they did it for the wrong company.

This should be a massive warning to anybody who cares about what they create: don't do it for an unethical company that will use your work to fuck over their customers.
Australian here, in Sydney, we just entered our harshest lockdown days ago. We have achieved more or less zero COVID cases until Delta came.

Fully vaccinated rate: 6%

Ability for under 40s to get a vaccine: Only if you lie.
> the prevalence of Long COVID and other longer lasting changes.

That, and it will also be interesting to discover how different it is from the ordinary flu. I remember the last time I had a proper flu (well before COVID) it was months before I felt like I'd gotten over it even though the visible symptoms cleared up in a week or so.

The background rate of life-altering disease always seemed rather high to me. Life is far messier than what a "healthy/sick" binary can capture.
* self employment 20 yrs.+

* none-smoker

* none-alcohol drinker

* programmer

* autist

* hard service user (food delivery, Amazon, etc.)

I go out for the dentist or a small walk. One day holiday in a year. The pandemic changes nothing to me.
Maybe, I don’t know, but it doesn’t mean we should just give up on protecting our data everywhere else.

A GPS or Bluetooth signal would be far more precise as a mass surveillance tool, so let’s not give that up
Fractional Art Ownership
EO is a big deal, hopefully it will be implemented as regulations that have some teeth, not like USB vs Apple in EU.

As a side not, I like that the fact sheet starts with "The economy is booming under President Biden’s leadership". Cmon man, you're merely 6 month behind the wheel, none of what's currently happening is your achievement (or fault).
The C++ code is running on webassembly, which is no more at risk of buffer overflow attacks than vanilla javascript. Worst-case scenario, you could have memory leaks in the C++ code or in the wasm-javascript interface (since javascript doesn't support finalizers for webassembly objects). But this is a usability issue, not a security issue
Was thinking about that as I wrote it.

Just hoping it will keep me around as a pet, or that either the governator or Emilia Clarke come barging in telling me to come with them if I want to live.
> That seems like a no-brainer, to build the externalities into the cost of goods.

The real estate business is so profitable in the West that I doubt that even adding an extra zero to the price of concrete will make them to even scratch in the end.
I'm extremely introverted and wanted to work from home for years because of it, but lockdown still sucked for me because:

1. There was no choice in the matter, which felt suffocating rather than liberating. Being able to do something just hits differently than being forced to, regardless of how much you 'enjoy' what you're being forced to do.

2. Being stuck inside without any other options means every day felt like an extension of the same endless one, which means you lose track of time and feel kinda meaningless.

3. And as I realised, while I was introverted, I wasn't introverted 'enough' that complete isolation would be perfectly fine for me. Everyone is different in how introverted/extroverted they are, and while some people can likely do well in complete isolation for decades at a time, most people can't. If you couldn't do well like that, lockdown was hell.
I’m actually wondering why you would release such a product as it seems like a path to software developers unionizing.
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/183103
Obviously they have a creaky WTF-filled unsubscribe mechanism because they have no incentive to build a better one, regardless of how much simpler and cheaper it would be.
Please state your caste of suffering level before speaking. Adhere to the standard, to ease the parsing of your statement :I'm a <skincolour, ethnicity, religion, gender>.
> About zero for children.

That's not what the study says. They found that the seropositive group of 6 to 16 year olds was more likely to report a symptom beyond 12 weeks than the seronegative group. 4% of the seropositive students versus only 2% for the control group.

The study authors conclude that the prevalence is low, but they do not conclude that it's about zero.

For comparison, Polio is estimated to be asymptomatic or extremely mild in 90% or 95% of cases. Polio only moves to the central nervous system in about 0.5% of cases, and only about 2-5% of children with CNS infection die (15-30% of adults with CNS involvement). That's a relatively small percentage, but at scale it's a devastating number of people impacted. At epidemic scales, you can't simply waive away small percentages in the 2% range as inconsequential when it translates to millions of people impacted.
I have a HomeKit power plug that is able to measure the power usage. It sits before most of my living room devices including:

2x OG HomePods (Standby)
- 55" Philips OLED (Standby)
- Hue Bridge 2. Gen (Running)
- ATV 4K 1.Gen (Standby)
- Netatmo Weather Station (Running)
- Linksys MR8300 OpenWrt 21.02 (Running)
- Home Server (i5-6600, 16GB DDR3, 2x 256GB 850 EVO, 1Gb USB3 Ethernet Adapter as second NIC, Running)

Reading with all devices combined is 35-40W.
"9% versus 10% reported at least one symptom beyond 4 weeks, and 4% versus 2% at least one symptom beyond 12 weeks"

That's not low for a virus which is infectious as Delta, and it's certainly not "about zero".
Radix sort wouldn’t allow for the “possible to sort any other data type” part.

I do wonder about not enabling inlining structs. I don’t know where the crossover happens, and it certainly varies with hardware characteristics, but I’m sure a data structure made up of say an int and two longs would better be sorted in contiguous memory rather than as an array of pointers to random places in the heap.
Landing page, below the 'Get Earthly' buttons (they have a few):

> Free and open
> You can choose to use that server or not

If you're not using DoH, a malicious network will just redirect your requests to legitimate DNS servers to instead go to its own.
I don't think it is so much attachment to labels, but rather that people use these articles to deny our preferences.

"Humans are social creatures, so you will be happier" is what people reply whenever I choose to work at a hackathon alone, or prefer to skip all the social events at the office, or contemplate working remotely on a permanent basis, or back when I was in school and would go to the library to read rather than play with other children.
I'll preface this comment by saying that whilst I've always worked in technical fields I've always thought of myself as just one of the pack and nothing special so my comment comes from this perspective.

It's interesting you juxtaposed your first words 'non technical client' with your last sentence given that a neuroscientist is a highly technical field so I sense your frustration with your client. I've experienced similar situations throughout my career and I'm always taken aback when it happens. Often these people are more highly trained than me, they often have higher paying jobs with seemingly more responsibility but somehow they're essentially clueless outside their specific area of expertise.

It seems to me their true expertise comes their ability to learn their specific profession rather than having an a priori interest in science and tech per se, thus they don't instinctively pick up ideas or nuances from other technical professions. As a neuroscientist, your client would have had both high school and some undergraduate physics behind him, so from my perspective it takes a bit of imagining to figure out how he could not have heard of Feynman somewhere along the way. Similarly, even if he didn't know much about JavaScript, it's rather odd that he couldn't have extrapolated concepts from other languages which he must have come across in the pursuit of his profession.

I'm not saying for a moment that as a rule someone skilled in one profession should have a wide knowledge of another (I only have to look at my own limitations in this regard), but your client's limited knowledge does seems strange to me. Almost by definition, a neuroscientist should have a broad interest in other areas of science simply because neuroscience involves so many other scientific disciplines. That's what makes the point of your post all the more interesting. (BTW, it seems to me you were correct in screening the video so I'm not surprised you were kind of bugged off—knowing your client's profession.)

Nevertheless, Feynman is right, sometimes explaining some process or idea to someone who has so little notion or understanding of even conceptually similar ideas means that one cannot fall back to analogies, thus providing a simplified explanation is nigh on impossible. A trite example would be a pianist trying to explain how he/she plays the piano to someone who'd never seen the instrument beforehand.

Your post got me thinking about whether people like your client are more common in professions than I'd have previously thought.

Incidentally, I mentioned in my earlier post that I'd not previously seen this Feynman video as over the years I'd thought I'd seen most of them (and I'm glad to have seen it). Whilst I didn't mention it in my post, I couldn't help but compare Feynman's expansive flamboyant explanation with that of Wilczek's almost dismissive one-liner that a 'field is type of matrix'. Given the complexity of subject matter, perhaps both approaches are apt in the circumstances.
> Corporations need to be more accountable to their workers welfare and not solely stockholder's welfare.

there's no incentive for doing so. As far as the owner of the company is concerned, ensuring there
s a pay-cheque is the end of the company's responsibility.
There is this whole culture of people who like to “shake up” and intentionally cause distress to others. It is generally targeted at people that they see as “weaker” than them.

It is disgusting and endemic to our culture here in the USA.
Yep, local conditions matter a lot, like what the rules are and how well existing companies learn from what's happening elsewhere.

Abstract, universal arguments only go so far.
If you want to draw diagram easily, why not use (electric) pen & paper? I use OneNote with apple pencil, and I am happy with them.
I wouldn’t go so extreme with this. Sometimes stories do choose us. I don’t know anyone who got to choose the circumstances of their birth, for example, or the lucky breaks and unlucky breaks that happen along the way of living. Sometimes they drastically affect our story.
The actual website: https://www.edgedb.com/

Apache 2 license: https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb
If their use of GPL'd code is fair use, then they are probably not required to respect any restrictions the licenses places on the use of that code.
Kind of surprised there wasn't much attention paid to the software. My understanding is that with stuff like DPDK and fd.io you can get much better performance without going to extremes with your hardware. Netgate TNSR is one product that puts all the opensource pieces together to make it easy but it is all opensource software so should be usable by the average home user.
I've had those same months, and didn't feel different. Once that turns into something like 18 months, I started feeling it.
If someone is poisoning and obfuscating their own code base, they become the only person who can contribute to it, defeating the point of being FOSS and benefiting from community contributions and review.
I might try Google Translate on the German article :)

I have always wondered why electrolysis didn't get more attention as a storage option for renewables. How hard can it be to store a bunch of hydrogen gas? Or, apparently, convert it to synthetic fuels that we already know how to store.

Also, you suck CO2 out of the atmosphere while generating the gas, right? And eventually you burn it, which could release that CO2 back, but suppose instead you capture it. Wouldn't this then be negative carbon electricity? And if you scaled it up enough, could it actually put a dent in rising CO2 levels and even allow us to regulate CO2 levels to stabilize climate?
Yes we should stop chastising people like that. You have long hair, you use more water, shampoo and drying. You drink coffee how many wh for that cup and its content. We could always find something in others where they consume more. My neighbors keep all their lights on almost all the time in every room. The other one has AC on all day to full power even when it is cooler outside... So complaining that someone uses a 50w/70w device for their hobby... meh . However I still believe we and the manufacturers should work to reduce idle power and consumption in general.
Right, a closer British analogue for the NYT would probably be the daily mail.
Parsing India's Tech IPOs
> Then the loneliness becomes unbearable and I retreat.

I don't understand how this goes. Could you describe your experience with more details ?

> I built a desk a couple of years ago and I'm still waiting to show it off to somebody.

Well, you could paste a picture here :).
https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2021... is a good summary of Australia's vaccine rollout.
You're not supposed to pay them. Sticking to something else is the entire point.

Think about interest rates as the rental price of money. When you put your money into the bank account you are basically a landlord for money. You must be on the lookout for people who want to use your money. Negative interest rates imply that there is a surplus and no demand and no way to store money (similar to renewables having a negative price when there is a surplus).

If you own a property but the market is so saturated that nobody wants to rent it, your property is worthless because nobody wants it. You're not supposed to build another unit and let that one sit empty too.

If interest rates are negative it means each additional unit of money is also worthless as the money is not being used for an investment in the real world. This isn't the same thing as the entire dollar being worthless. There is a portion that is invested and there is a portion that isn't. Inflation or negative interest rates reduce the uninvested portion until there are no more uninvested dollars. In other words, they are adjusting the value of each individual dollar back to its real value. This is generally why deflation or low inflation is bad. There is a risk that the perceived and the real value diverge and you see a huge crash at the end when they converge immediately. The good news is that persistent hyperinflation is unlikely because the problem is the exact opposite. The economy is running below its capacity and has room to grow.

The logical conclusion is that either you must increase debt artificially through the government as investor of last resort or we must prevent savings to exceed debt and thereby maintain savings = investment. A lot of countries actually refuse to do so, they chose a different route: Export debts to the US and let them deal with the problem. This is especially bad with Germany vs the rest of the EU. You aren't supposed to beggar thy neighbour. This is directly leading to widespread right wing populism in those nations. Just think about how unfair it is to shove difficult problems onto weaker nations that can't deal with them. The US is a hero from this perspective, it's strong enough to shoulder the problem.

It would be better if we had a wealth tax on money (investments don't cause macroeconomic problems so there is no practical need to tax them), we could then introduce negative income taxes and distribute the wealth tax revenue to people who will spend their money.
I don't think there's a focus on electric cars so much as there are high-school kids (which now includes college undergrads, unfortunately) who just like to show off. There have been significant increases in diesel technology for decades now, as reflected not only in things like winners at LeMans but also the low-rpm power you don't get from a gasoline motor. This is completely new and interesting to some people, and they are the ones trying to either smoke or race other cars.
Yeah - I’m guessing American.

The pandemic is over in America (for now), definitely not true for all of the rest of the world though.

I do suspect while there are long term complications from particularly bad covid cases (lung damage, etc.) - the OP is probably right that the more generic “long covid” symptoms (fatigue, brain fog, heart rate) sound a lot like physical symptoms of anxiety - I’d expect probably those numbers to go down.
This article just showed me an ad with my exact last name embroidered on a t-shirt... Bit ironic
On the contrary — this solution banks on the human in the loop growing frustrated at copilot’s inability to produce working code.
It's been years and Google maps still recommends an illegal/suicidal/likely impossible u-turn near my parent's place in NYC. Might be time to switch to Apple Maps for driving directions.
Would it be efficient to store power when price is low?
Looks like they are reporting on multiple studies. There is a second paper that includes hospitalization rates linked under the “Hospital stays are rare” section.
So 9% of seropositive and 10% of seronegative reported at least one symptom beyond 4 weeks. I.e. the background level is around 10% and the seronegative had "more" long covid than the ones who actually had covid in that group. Although this is pure randomness with such close measurements.
I mean, dark patterns are all the rage nowadays in "good" marketing teams.
We don't know how this affect their KPI as it is most likely different for every mailing list, depending on customer base and other factors.

Using KPIs is a wonderful way of justifying neglecting common sense.
> My understanding is that the author is effectively booby-trapping the entrypoints into their applications

Not just. The linked example is booby-trapping a function.
It's time build an open source free co-pilot. When people are actively contributing to an AI system, my guess is that it will fare good against rot scanned ones.
I think you’re talking past each other. Is the virus still with us (your point)? Yes. Do we have a potent and effective vaccine which, for vaccinated persons means the virus is no longer a threat (the other person’s point)? Yes.
So while I don't count myself as a winner in this, it does seem to be a substantial win to not be one of the

Same. I was extremely fortunate that this disaster and my work, family, and financial setup meant things had little impact on me. It hit my kids harder socially, but educationally they ended up much better because they had a highly educated retired family member as a neighbor. They did and did their remote schooling there, with help available at all times to extent far beyond what 1 teacher with 25 kids can do in a classroom.

That was extremely fortunate, especially seeing other kids in the school whose families basically had no choice but to lose a year of school-- but the way things are functioning, they're still moving up a grade and schools all over the country are going to be having problems with a significant % of students who not only didn't learn anything, but are 1.5 years away from the last time they were even in the habit of having to learn.

"Not a loser" is indeed winning in this case.
For the average American, Trump's description is probably more understandable and meaningful than a precise definition.

There's a reason why half of America (~1 in 2 voters) voted for Trump, twice, you know.

I for one don't give a crap about the precise definition of immunity when communicating in everyday conversations; the same way I don't argue with a family relative using a computer science term colloquially. Children are almost immune to covid.
I welcome this attack, to me all code should be free of any restrictions, like WTFPL.

Information want to be free.